1928-1929 The Militant Complete Contents 1928 1 Nov 11, 1928 THE MILITANT Published twice a month by the Opposition Group in the Workers (Communist) Party of America Editor: James P. Cannon Associate Editors: Martin Abern Max Shachtman For the Russian Opposition! -Against Opportunism and Bureaucracy in the Workers Communist Party of America! -A Statement to American Communists by James P. Cannon, Martin Abern and Max Shachtman Trotsky and Radek Seriously Ill M. Spector Expelled in Canada Trade Union Questions Pamphlets Coming Concerning Our Expulsion -A Letter to a Comrade by James P. Cannon The Draft Program of the Comintern -A Criticism of Fundamentals by Leon Trotsky A Program of International Revolution or a Program of Socialism i One Country General Structure of the Program The United States of Europe More Open, More Ruthless, Than in the Period of Boom Slogan of a Soviet United States of Europe The Criterion of Internationalism Foreword (To article above) The Right Danger in the American Party (Submitted by the delegation of the Opposition in the American Party to the Sixth World Congress of the Communist International in July 1928 and signed by James P. Cannon, William Z. Foster, William F. Dunne, Alex Bittelman, J.W. Johnstone, Manuel Gomez and George Siskind) Overestimation of the Reserve Powers of American Imperialism Underestimation of the Leftward Drift of the Masses Lack of Perspective of Struggle Our Next Issue The Fortress of the World Revolution Slogans for Today by m.s. [Max Shachtman] The "Outlook" Expose Subscribe! 2 Dec 1, 1928 The Party "Discussion" Opens! by James P. Cannon Swabeck, Glotzer Join Opposition; Expelled Wholesale Expulsions from the Party Begin Minneapolis Kansas City Philadelphia Y.W.(C.)L. Canada New York City The "Ideological" Campaign The Results of the Election by Max Shachtman The Draft Program of the Comintern -A Criticism of Fundamentals by Leon Trotsky (Continued from last issue) The Theoretical Traditions of the Party Foreword (To article above) Spector's Statement to the Canadian Party by Maurice Spector In the Next Issue -"The July Plenum and the Right Danger" by Leon Trotsky The Right Danger in the American Party submitted by the delegation of the Opposition in the American Party to the Sixth World Congress of the Communist International in July 1928 and signed by James P. Cannon, William Z. Foster, William F. Dunne, Alex Bittelman, J.W. Johnstone, Manuel Gomez and George Siskind (Continued from last issue) Failure to Orientate Towards New Unions and the Organization of the Unorganized Resistance to Orientation of Active Struggle Against Lewis Machine and for Building New Union in Mining Industry Help Publish the Suppressed Documents of the Russian Opposition! Trotsky's Book and its Bourgeois Critics -The Real Situation In Russia by Leon Trotsky translated by Max Eastman reviewed by James P. Cannon Trotsky, Wolfe and The Forward 3 Dec 15, 1928 THE MILITANT Published twice a month by the Opposition Group in the Workers (Communist) Party of America Editor: James P. Cannon Associate Editors: Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector The July Plenum and the Right Danger by Leon Trotsky T.J. O'Flaherty for the Opposition Whither Foster? Gangsterism! The Draft Program of the Comintern -A Criticism oif Fundamentals by Leon Trotsky (Continued from Last Issue) Where is the "Social Democratic Deviation" The Dependence of the U.S.S.R. on World Economy The Antagonism Between the Productive Forces and the National Boundaries as the Cause of the Reactionary Utopian Theory of Socialism in One Country Foreword (To article above) The Struggle in the Y.W.L. by S. Lovestone Smashes the Right Danger Notice (Maurice Spector has joined the staff of "The Militant" as Associate Editor) The Right Danger in the American Party submitted by the delegation of the Opposition in the American Party to the Sixth World Congress of the Communist International in July 1928 and signed by James P. Cannon, William Z. Foster, William F. Dunne, Alex Bittelman, J.W. Johnstone, Manuel Gomez and George Siskind (Continued from last issue) Insufficient Appreciation of Leading Role of Party and Failure to Build It Opportunist Application of United Front Policy It Can and Will Be Done ("The Militant" will publish despite the doubts of opponents) Letters from the Militants * Kansas City by A.A. Buehler * Vincent Dunne by Vincent R. Dunne * From a Young Coal Miner by Gerry Allard * From the First Communist Legislator by A.C. Miller * The Cleveland Expulsions by Elmer Boich * "You Are Worse Than Fascists" by John Minella "Singing Jailbirds" The Expelled Central Executive Committee Canada New York Philadelphia Cleveland Detroit Chicago Twin Cities (Minneapolis and St. Paul) Kansas City New Haven 1929 1 Jan 1, 1929 Our Appeal to the Party Members (Speech of James P. Cannon at the Plenary Session of the Central Executive Committee, Workers (Communist) Party, Monday, December 17, 1928) Pepper Reports Against Us For the Russian Opposition Bureaucracy and Gangsterism The De-Proletarianization of the Party The Issue of the Party Democracy The Basis of Party Unity A Burglary - Its Political Meaning A National Organization Tour The Draft Program of the Comintern - A Criticism of Fundamentals by Leon Trotsky (Continued from last issue) The Fundamental Differences Between National Reformism and Revolutionary Internationalism The Theory of Socialism in One Country as a Source of Inevitable Social Patriotic Blunders Cleveland by John Foley Karl Radek's Appeal for Trotsky -To the Central Committee C.P.S.U. by Karl Radek Vindicating the Trotsky Platform by Martin Abern The Right Danger in the American Party (Submitted by the delegation of the Opposition in the American Party to the Sixth World Congress of the Communist International in July 1928 and signed by James P. Cannon, William Z. Foster, William F. Dunne, Alex Bittelman, J.W. Johnstone, Manuel Gomez and George Siskind (Continued from last issue) The Opportunist Mistakes in the Election Campaign Opportunist Mistakes in Labor Party Work Failure to Build the T.U.E.L. Pacifist and Petty-Bourgeois Liberal Tendencies in the Anti-War and Anti-Imperialist Work Underestimation and False Conception of Work Among Negro Masses Letters from the Militants * New Haven by Samuel Gendelman * A Reaction to Gangsterism by John Justin * A Worker Talks to the Bureaucrats by M.L. Malken * The Affair on Union Square by Pauline Gutringer The Expelled New Expulsions Canada Philadelphia Cleveland Chicago Springfield, Illinois Who Are the Expelled Communists James P. Cannon Martin Abern 2 Jan 15, 1929 Lenin Day Cleveland Meeting Great Success The Platform of the Communist Opposition The Central Committee Orders Another Burglary! Malkin and Franklin Go to Prison Farewell Note From Comrade Malkin by M.L. Malkin [Maurice L. Malkin] Photograph of Maurice L. Malkin Malkin's Statement by Maurice L. Malkin Arrest Philly Comrades The Crisis in the German Party by M.S. [Max Shachtman] A Muddler on an American Scale by A. Lozovsky The Draft Program of the Comintern -A Criticism of Fundamentals by Leon Trotsky (Continued from last issue) The Results and Prospects of the Chinese Revolution--Its Lessons for the Eastern Countries and for the Whole of the Comintern On the Nature of the Colonial Bourgeoisie Lenin's Last Words to the Party -The Testament of Lenin Sent to the Central Committee of the Communist Party and Suppressed by the Stalin Regime by Vladimir Ilyitch Lenin The New Needle Trades Workers' Union Appeal to the Convention -To the Central Executive Committee Workers (Communist ) Party of America by James P. Cannon, Martin Abern, Arne Swabeck and Max Shachtman "William Randolph" Lovestone and "Abe" Pepper Expose Us The Letter the Daily Worker Did Not Print by Frederick N. Sard Towards a Weekly The Right Danger in the American Party (Submitted by the delegation of the Opposition in the American Party to the Sixth World Congress of the Communist International in July 1928 and signed by James P. Cannon, William Z. Foster, William F. Dunne, Alex Bittelman, J.W. Johnstone, Manuel Gomez and George Siskind (Continued from last issue) Opportunist Errors in Cooperative Work Denial of Right Danger and Militant Attack Against Left The Rejection of Self-Criticism Right Wing Internal Factional Regime The Social Composition of Lovestone Group Summary and Proposals An International Conference For the Expelled Oppositionists Henry Corbishly Released! Letters from the Militants * A Letter From a Miners' Leader by Joe Angelo * Our N.Y. Mass Meeting * A Revolutionist Against Gangsterism by Giovanni Pippan * "Hot Spur Harry" George Opposition Meeting in Boston The Expelled Canada New York Philadelphia St, Louis Who Are the Expelled Communists Maurice Spector Max Shachtman 3 Feb 1, 1929 Trotsky's Deportation by M.S. [Max Shachtman] A Letter From Trotsky's Wife by Natalia Ivanovna The Struggle in the Coal Fields by Arne Swabeck The Miners' Fighting Spirit Gambling With the Workers' Interests The New Union Must Lead Struggles On the Eve of the Party Convention The Fake Discussion A Factional Excrescence The Role of the Foster Group Opposition Meeting in Boston On the Situation in Russia -A Letter to a Comrade by Leon Trotsky The Method of Stalin The Position of the Right Wing The Threat of Bonapartism The "Advice" of the Capitulators Applying the Opposition Platform The Masses at the Crossroads The Slogan of the Secret Ballot Perspectives of the Struggle Historic Mission of the Opposition Foreword (To the above article) by the editor [James P. Cannon] Miners Protest the Expulsions signed by George Voyzey, Joseph Angelo, Roy Jones, Stanley Horbut, Leone Michelangeli, Domenico Domini and A. Shimkous The Minneapolis Meetings by Vincent R. Dunne The Mink Curtis Arrested in St. Louis Trotsky's Criticism of the Draft Program to be Continued Letters From the Militants * From Sing Sing Prison by Maurice L. Malkin * From a Non-Party Militant by Walter F. Sukut * An Expelled Miner by Gerry Allard * For Open Discussion of Issues by Jos. E. Kucher Fight the Splitters with a Weekly Militant The Expelled Canada Chicago Colorado New York City Cleveland Who Are the Expelled Communists Carl Skoglund 4 Feb 15, 1929 The Platform of the Communist Opposition -Addressed to the Sixth National Convention of the Workers (Communist) Party by James P. Cannon, Arne Swabeck, Martin Abern and Max Shachtman The Position of the Russian Revolution Revision of Leninism and the Crisis in the Comintern The Smoke-screen of "Trotskyism" War Danger and the Defense of U.S.S.R. The Role of American Imperialism The Present Economic Situation and the Working-class Results of the Elections Struggle for a Class Movement of the American Workers Trade Union Policy The Perspective of a Labor Party Work Among Negroes The Stalinization of the American Party Self-Criticism Party Democracy Americanization in the Bolshevist Sense The Party, the Groups and our Perspectives Lovestone Gangsters Stage Riot at New York Meeting to Protest Against the Deportation of L.D. Trotsky Other Meetings of the Opposition 5 Mar 1, 1929 War, Kellogg Pact and the Soviet Union by Max Shachtman Protest Trotsky's Deportation Who Supports Trotsky? Hail to the New Chief? The Communists and the "Progressives" by James P. Cannon Where to Buy The Militant On the Legend of "Trotskyism" * Dear Comrades! by Leon Trotsky * Letter from Preobrazhensky by A.E. Preobrazhensky * Letter from Piatakov * Letter from Elzin by E. Elzin * Letter from Radek by Karl Radek * Letter from Trotsky (Commenting on Radek's Letter) by Leon Trotsky Epitaph for a Scoundrel -Pages from the Record of John Pepper by Ladislaus Rudas, President of the International Lenin School of Moscow Pepper Before the War Pepper During the War Pepper the Social Democrat Pepper and the Bolsheviks Pepper Imprisons Bela Kun Pepper Turns Commissar! The Communists Force Pepper's Resignation Pepper Wants a Second Party Chicago Comrades Protest The Draft Program of the Comintern -A Criticism of Fundamentals by Leon Trotsky (Continued from Previous Issue) Join the Campaign for a Weekly Militant Platform of the Communist Opposition (Continued from previous issue) The Party Organization Trade Union Factions Agrarian Work Young Workers League Philadelphia Meeting Cannon Meetings in Boston Letters from the Militants * A Voice from Prison by Maurice L. Malkin * A League Member on the New York Meeting by Paul Green * From a Detroit Communist by Alex Schriber * A Minneapolis Militant by Oscar Coover Picture of Oscar Coover with the caption "Slugged by Lovestone-Foster gangsters at Minneapolis meeting) * Proletarian Youth Against Gangsterism -A Statement to Down-Town Unit No. 2, Young Workers League of N.Y. signed by Joe Burton, Mac Kudler, Irving Spreiregen. Joseph Fox, Harold Robins and Jean Tishman Copies of First Issue of Militant Wanted New Expulsions Boston New York St. Louis Detroit Richmond, California Williston, N. Dakota Birmingham, Alabama Toronto, Canada Who Are the Expelled Communists Vincent R. Dunne Helen Judd 6 Mar 15, 1929 The Results of the Party Convention by James P. Cannon The "Issue" at the Convention The Mobilization Against Foster A Free-For-All Fight The Open Letter of the E.C.C.I. The Question of "Americanization" "Methods of the Bourgeois Parties" New York Workers Protest Trotsky's Exile -Stalinists Plan Pogrom -- and Stage Fizzle Who Supports Trotsky? -More on Counter-revolution's United Front with Trotsky Youngstown Meeting Minneapolis is Leading in the Weekly Drive The Civil War in Mexico by Max Shachtman Some Remarks on the Sixth Congress by Leon Trotsky Activity in Cleveland by Elmer Boich The Draft Program of the Comintern -A Criticism of Fundamentals by Leon Trotsky Stages of the Chinese Revolution Stalin Versus Bucharin -The New Struggle in the Russian Communist Party Where to Buy THE MILITANT New Material From Comrade Trotsky Call for a National Conference of the Opposition from The National Action Committee by J.P. Cannon [James P. Cannon] New Pamphlet Soon Letters from the Militants * From a Minnesota "Renegade" by C.R. Hedlund * The "Organizers" Who Disorganize by Martin C. Payer, Sec'y Local Opposition New Expulsions New York City Springfield, Ill. Cleveland Who Are the Expelled Arne Swabeck Albert M. Glotzer 7 Apr 1, 1929 Trotsky's Reply to Stalin -To the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union - To the Executive Committee of the Communist International by Leon Trotsky Comrade Trotsky to the American Opposition Next Steps in the Struggle -Material for the National Conference Discussion by James P. Cannon Boston Works for a Weekly Militant Fund A New Dawes Plan for the Old by Max Shachtman An Opposition in England Read Now -The Draft Program of the Communist International by L.D. Trotsky With an Introduction by James P. Cannon Industrialization and the Peasantry by Martin Abern Two Meetings in Chicago After the Dress Strike Will Hoover Recognize Russia? Il Duce Speaks up for Stalin The Draft Program of the Comintern -A Criticism of Fundamentals by Leon Trotsky (Continued from previous issue) Democratic Dictatorship or a Dictatorship of the Proletariat Stalin Gains a New Friend A Comrade for Minor Where to Buy THE MILITANT What! No Unity? Letters from the Militants * A Letter From a Communist Farmer by A.C. Miller * Activity in Kansas City by A.A. Buehler * Kruse Crushes Trotsky in Chicago by Walter P. Sukut * The Work in St. Louis by Elmer McMillan * He Writes What Many Think * To All Esthonian Communists! by P. Schwalbe, Secretary, Esthonian Group ("Esthonian is a variant spelling of "Estonian.") * Another Boston Meeting Who Are the Expelled Communists Joseph Keller Anthony Refugee B. Morgenstern 8 Apr 15, 1929 Four Days With Trotsky -An Interview with the Bolshevik Leader who Was Exiled to Constantinople by Maurice Paz -- Paris Another Stalinist Pogrom in New York Stalinites Begin the Attack The Organization of the Pogrom Let the Workers Judge Them The Labor Revolt in the South Native Americans in Revolt Tactics of the Communists Philadelphia in Campaign for Weekly The Coming Election in Great Britain by Maurice Spector The Loyal Oppositions England's Economic Position Weakness of Communist Party The Anglo-Russian Committee Trotsky on England Organize the Unorganized Communists by James P. Cannon Some Membership Figures Loss of the Revolutionary Syndicalists Revolutionary Workers With Us The Illinois Miners Convention by Arne Swabeck The Weak Opposition The Status of the Left Wing The Task at Present The Splitters at Work -The I.L.D. and the T.U.E.L. Removed from the I.L.D. Attempt to Remove Voyzey What Will Be the Result? Mass Meeting in Trenton The Draft Program of the Comintern -A Criticism of Fundamentals by Leon Trotsky (Continued from previous issue) Adventurism as a Product of Opportunism Canada's Protest Against the Deportation To the Y.W.L. Convention -A Statement of the Expelled Communist Youth The Struggle of the Opposition The Situation in the American League The "Accomplishments" of the Present Leadership The Capitulators in the Minority For the Opposition Platform! Where to Buy THE MILITANT A Page of Letters from the Militants * "Have Backbone in Principle" by K. Czapko * The Situation in Youngstown by Charlie Byrne * From a Non-Party Rebel by Arvid S. Carlson * Greets Progress of Youth by Gerry Allard * An Answer to Gangsterism by Helen Horn * From an Iowa Fighter by I.A. Blasutch The Expelled New York City Wilmington, Del. Toronto, Canada The Opposition in Cleveland Sixty-three Bolsheviks on Hunger Strike in Russian Prison Gangsterism in Philadelphia Trotsky Cannot Enter Germany New Material from Trotsky 9 May 1-11, 1929 Letter to the Russian Workers by Leon Trotsky The "Armed Struggle" Slander The Strength of the Soviet Power The Banishment from Russia Lenin's Testament The "American Dollars" The War Against the Leninists Com. Trotsky on Jay Lovestone, Foster, Pepper and Our Tasks Today! -In the Next Issue May Day -- and After American Imperialism The American Labor Leaders The Fight for a Class Movement For Unity and Solidarity The Tasks of the Communists Our Conference and the Trade Unions by James P. Cannon The Importance of our Conference The Trade Union Question Our Conference and the Progressives Our May Day Meetings The Minneapolis Elections -Comrade C.R. Hedlund Is Our Candidate for Mayor by Vincent R. Dunne In Spite of the Split Shady Proposals of the Lovestoneites Our Candidate The Lost Leader Uniting the Textile Struggles by M.S. [Max Shachtman] The Successes Achieved The Task of the Militants A Letter to International Labor Defense by James P. Cannon, Max Shachtman and Rose Karsner Stalin Praised by Labor's Foe The Draft Program of the Comintern -A Criticism of Fundamentals by Leon Trotsky (Continued from previous issue) Soviets and Revolution The Stalin-Rykov Wage Policy -A Leaflet of the Russian Leninists-Bolsheviks Comrades! Workers! In the Next Issue More about the T.U.E.L. Form Opposition Group in China Two Fables A Fable by Krylov A Fable by Moissaye J. Olgin A Page of Letters from the Militants * An Illinois Coal Miner by Joseph Angelo * A Worker on an Oppositionist by M.B * A Pittsburgh Worker by James Sifakis * From a Steel Worker by Denis Plarinos The Expelled New York City Boston Chicago Who Are the Expelled Communists O.R. Votaw Julius Rosen Sol Lankin Joseph Friedman An Appropriate Appointment.... The Splitters in St. Louis Trotsky and the Fascisti 10 June 1, 1929 Conference of the Opposition Communists -Formation of the Communist League of America {Opposition} by James P. Cannon Disputed Questions General Summary Opposition Progress in Minneapolis Vote Tasks of the American Opposition -A Letter from Comrade Trotsky -To the American Bolshevik-Leninists (The Opposition) -Editors of "The Militant" by Leon Trotsky The Party is "United" Again! -Latest "Open Address" of the E.C.C.I. The Motive of the Decision The New Leadership Another Factional War The Duty of the Opposition What the T.U.E.L. Conference Should Do by M.S. [Max Shachtman] Bittelman on the Cross -A Hard Luck Story Stalin in the Canadian Communist Party by Maurice Spector The Draft Program of the Comintern -A Criticism of Fundamentals by Leon Trotsky (Continued from previous issue) Max Comes Clean The Expelled Guelph, Ontario Chicago Detroit Boston Mass Meeting in Boston The Building Trades Situation by M.A. [Martin Abern] Reasons for Decline The Public Works Illusion Fight for Mooney and Billings Twelve Years in Prison Only the Workers Can Free Them In Jewish -The Real Situation in Russia by Leon Trotsky Help the Imprisoned Bolshevik-Leninists! by T.T. 11 Jul 1, 1929 Gastonia New Split Begins -Lovestone is Expelled Banquet for Balbo -Exile for Trotsky Party Members Protest Balbo's Reception A Letter on the Capitulators by Leon Trotsky What Capitulation Means The Use of the Bourgeois Press The Progressives Meet Socialists at the Conference Role of Progressive Leaders False Tactics of the Party Plain Talk Needed Note The British Labor Government by Maurice Spector The MacDonald Program The Defeat of the Communists Revolutionary Perspectives in India -A Letter to Trotsky by F. Dingelstaedt The Nature of Indian Industry Proletariat Independent Small Producers Groups "Outside the Classes" Bourgeoisie Grand Total Proletariat Must Lead the Struggle The Draft Program of the Comintern -A Criticism of Fundamentals by Leon Trotsky (Continued from previous issue) The Question of the Character of the Chinese Revolution On the Reactionary Idea of Workers' and Peasants' Parties for the East Behind the Scenes in the Russian Party Bucharin's Air Journey Bucharin and Tomsky Resign Bucharin's Platform and Kamenev's Whom Piatakov Will Obey! The Capitulators and the Deportation Zinoviev and Stalin The Rights Dare to Criticize the Master! by G.G. The Daily Worker Eats Crow Putschism and May Day in Berlin by Max Shachtman Into a Putschist Swamp Into Zoergiebel's Trap The Attack by the Police The Party Continues With Self Delusions The Collapse of the Protest Strike The Defeat in Saxony The "Left" Zig-Zag of Centrism Losovsky Versus Losovsky The Losovsky of Yesterday The "New Line" in the United States The "United Front With One's Self" The Needle Trades Situation The Young Plan How German Workers Must Be Squeezed A Center for World Exchange False Hopes for Stabilization Trotsky the Millionaire 12 Aug 1, 1929 War Clouds in the East -China Provokes Russia First of August! -What Will "International Red Day" Bring (This document has been prepared and signed by the editors of the new international magazine "Opposition" soon to appear) Comintern Policy in England Germany and China False Estimate of the Situation A New Growth of Reformism "Red Day" Condemned to Failure Irresponsible Slogans What is to be Done? Gastonia in Danger England Bars Trotsky The End of the Cloakmakers Strike by M.S. [Max Shachtman] Facts About the Settlement Organizing the Bosses Errors of the Left Wing Prepare for the Future War in the Indep't Workmen's Circle by L. Schlosberg, Ex-National Executive Committee, Independent Workmen's Circle The Crisis in the Communist Party by James P. Cannon The Stalinists and the Right Wing The Opposition and the Right Wing Failure of New Leadership Strengthening the Right Wing The Way Out of the Crisis Karl Radek and the Opposition by Leon Trotsky Radek's Impulsiveness Radek's Right-About-Face The Theses of Comrade Radek by Leon Trotsky The Anti-Kulak Agitation Fraudulent Self-Criticism Problem of the Comintern The "Value" of the C.I. Program The Chinese Revolution The Draft Program of the Comintern by Leon Trotsky The Benefits Obtained from the Farmers' and Peasants' International Must Be Probed The Secret Resolution Against Bucharin adopted by the last Plenum of the C.C. of C.P.S.U. Foreword Stabilization and the Right Wing The Right and the Party Regime The Organization Removals Remember Comrade Malkin The New Progressive Movement by Arne Swabeck New Spirit in Old Unions Beginning of Revolt Left Wing Tactics Vincent St. John (Obituary) Tempus Fugit 13 Aug 15, 1929 United Front for Gastonia -Fight the Frame-up! Defend the Right to Organize and Strike! by the National Committee, The Communist League of America (Opposition) Danger Signals in the East Where Is the Left Wing Going? -An Answer to William Z, Foster with a Footnote on his Political Biography by James P. Cannon The Real Differences The Progressives The Slogan of Unity Foster's Zig-Zag Record 2 Years After Sacco and Vanzetti The Lesson of Class Justice The Movement Must Be Revived Bucharin Formally Ousted Peace Talk -Smoke-screen for War A World Armed to the Teeth America's "Pacifism" in Europe Who Is Leading the Comintern Today? by Leon Trotsky Theoretical Dishonesty Bela Kun and Pepper Varga Manuilsky Valetsky Summing Up the Fur Strike The Failure to Estimate the Defeat Foster On Retreats New Unions and the Communists From Gompers to Stalin (The evolution of William Z, Foster) Foster and Gompers Foster and the War On the International Right Wing -A Letter to Boris Souvarine by Leon Trotsky Position of the Brandler Group Thalheimer on the Russian Discussion The Secret Ballot The Vacillators The Rumor Factory Lovestones Appeal to Party by Max Shachtman The "Speculation" on Bucharin and Stalin Lovestone's Cablegram Bedacht on Goldfarb-Bennett All Quiet on the Unity Front I.L.D. Reorganized Again Chicago Gets a Graduate The Aftermath of "Red Day" The Masses and "Red Day" The Phrasemongers Rant A Stalinist Provocation 14 Sep 15, 1929 The T.U.E.L. Conference at Cleveland -A Forecast of the Work of the "New Trade Unio Center" by M.S. [Max Shachtman] No Illusions on the Gastonia Trial Lovestone's Burglaries An Apologetic Progressivism Party Splitters and Gastonia Another Rumor Nailed Piatnisky's Figures A Weekly by Nov. 7 Wicks Speaks Up -A Warrior Against Trotsky Bares Underhand "Red" Plot to Use Unions to Ruin United States Government Breaks With Party Work for American Legion No Use for "Reds" Expelled for Defeat United Front is Broadened 2 New Opposition Papers A Victory for Us in Austria Words Forgot -Yaroslavsky on Trotsky How Yaroslavsky Once Wrote A "Leader of the Revolution" The Sino-Russian Conflict and the Opposition by Leon Trotsky The Industrial Situation by Arne Swabeck The Textile Workers On the Railroads Building and Automobiles The Ripening Movement The "New Line" and Leninism A Gangster Assault -An Oppositionist Beaten in the Union Office Who is Leading the Comintern Today by Leon Trotsky Warski Klara Zetkin Smeral Kolaraov Kuusinen Petrovsky-Bennett Hey! What's This? Plenum Coming Bulletin of the Opposition (Bolshevik-Leninists) -In Russian The Cult of the "Third Period" by Maurice Spector The Fifth Congress Juggling With "Periods" Slogans for Gastonia I the Next Issue The Party's Election Program in New York Party Progress -The 3rd Period Hits St. Louis by Martin C. Payer Two Letters From Afar * A Letter From Alfred Rosmer by A. Rosmer [Alfred Rosmer] * From the Chinese Opposition by P. for the Action Committee of the Chinese Opposition The Sacco-Vanzetti Meetings Communist League Activities New York City Chicago, Ill. Minneapolis, Minn. St. Louis, Mo. Birmingham, Ala. Richmond, Ca. Boston, Mass. Kansas City, Mo. Williston, N.D. 15 Oct 1, 1929 The Drive for the Weekly Lynch Law in Gastonia Chiang Kai-Shek's War Drive Mass Meeting -The Crisis in the American Communist Movement (Speakers James P. Cannon, Martin Abern and Max Shachtman The T.U.U.L. Conference by S. The Delegation at Cleveland A Forum Against the Opposition A New Federation of Labor The "Leftists" as Opportunists Cleveland and Unorganized Labor by James Young A Lovestone Paper Coming "Burglary Bolshevism" At Last! News of Bucharin.... The 5-Year Plan -How Stalin Builds Socialism Once Again: On Brandler and Thallheimer by Leon Trotsky Malkin's "Statement" Palestine -- Pogrom or Revolution? by Max Shachtman Palestine and the Empire The Nationalist Misleaders The Arab Congress The Role of the Forward The Arab Leaders The Freheit's Zig-Zag Who is Leading the Comintern Today? by Leon Trotsky (Continued from last issue) Martinov 10th Plenum of the Communist International How Not to Build New Unions The Cult of the "Third Period" by Maurice Spector (Continued from last issue) The Comintern Rights Ultra-Left Adventurism of Centrists "Class Against Class" All's Well in the Party, Says the Daily Worker! Good-By Pepper! -The Passing of an Adventurer Letters from the Argentine and from England * To Martin Abern by R. Guinney from Buenos Aires * From Helston, Cornwall, England by M.S. Communist League Activities Toronto, Canada New Haven, Conn. Philadelphia, Pa. Springfield, Ill. Minneapolis, Minn. Chicago, Ill. Kansas City, Mo. New York, N.Y. Boston, Mass. 16 Oct 15, 1929 THE MILITANT Published twice a month by the Communist League of America (opposition) Editorial Board: Martin Abern James P. Cannon Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck The Massacres at Marion * The Trial at Charlotte * 5 Workers Murdered The "Impossible" Weekly Vote Communist! from the National Committee, Communist League of America (Opposition) Holland Bars Trotsky Party Plenum Opens Hoot! MacDonald Briand's Plan for a United States of Europe by Arne Swabeck Briand's Proposal Trotsky and the Slogan The Soviet U.S. of Europe Lovestone Issues a Dishonest Document Beg Pardon! Who is Leading the Comintern Today? by Leon Trotsky (Continued from last issue) Lenzner Losovsky Raskolnikov Roy Katayama The Mine Battle -Corruption in Illinois Battle by Joseph Angelo New Opposition -Among the Russian Youth The R.R. Unions -A Split-up Labor Movement by C .R. Hedlund The Removal of Bucharin by Maurice Spector The "Infallible Old Guard" The Centrists and the Right The Conflict in the Muste Group The Sentiment in the Ranks The Fear of Green by M.S. [Max Shachtman] Thaelmann on the Toboggan A Lecture in Boston -"Pogrom or Revolution in Palestine" by Max Shachtman Unemployment in the Auto Industry by Barney Mass A Bad Habit We Made A Little Mistake A New Opposition Paper The Clothing Strike in Minneapolis by Carl Cowl Letters From the Militants * The T.U.U.L. Conference by Rebecca Sacharow * Activities in Minneapolis by Vincent R. Dunne * The Strike in K.C. by Charles Curtis * The Party in Pittsburgh by James Sifakis Communist League Activities Minneapolis, Minn. Boston, Mass. Toronto, Canada Pittsburgh. Pa. Chicago, Ill. New York, N.Y. St. Louis, Mo. Philadelphia, Pa. Kansas City, Mo. Richmond, Calif. Working for Gastonia letter from Communist League of America (Opposition) Chicago Branch, Per Arne Swabeck 17 Nov 1, 1929 12 Years of Red Russia! Class Justice and Revenge in the South Next Number of the Paper Is the First Issue of the Weekly Militant The A.F. of L. Convention by Maurice Spector Comrade Rakovsky's Appeal -- Stalin's Reply (A letter by N.B. and a report on subsequent developments) Our Russian Organ Minneapolis Meeting What MacDonald "Accomplished" here by Max Shachtman Three Conferences for Defense of Gastonia Who is Leading the Comintern Today? by Leon Trotsky (Continued from last issue) The "Rallies" Bucharin Stalin Once Again--Palestine! The Coming Dress Strike -A Talk with the Left-wing Needle Trades Union Members A Cowardly Paper Wicks at Large Again "Let Not Thy First Page Know What the Second Page Sayeth" Next Steps in the Textile Field The Left Wing and the Workmen's Circle A Party Plenum of Cliques -The Mechanics of the Coming Struggle within the Party Nadir Khan, Liberator of Afghanistan, Will Convoke a National Assembly The Real Situation in Russia Letters From the Militants * The Lewis-Farrington Fight by Joseph Angelo * Purging the Canadian Sportsmen by Maurice Quarter * From an American in Berlin by S. Gordon [Sam Gordon?] Communist League Activities * Suspension of O. Carlson from the Communist League * St. Louis Meeting 18 Nov 30, 1929 The Illinois Miners' Struggle * Crash in the Stock Market The Causes of the Crash Where the U.S. Will Press * The Conference at Belleville by Joseph Angelo A Convention of Speeches Watt's Speech Angelo Urges Bolters Return Stalinism and Union Democracy Trotsky Greets the Weekly Militant The N.Y. Vote - A Warning Sign S.L.P. Beats C.P. Why the Falling Vote? What's Happening in China? -A Question That Every Communist Must Ask Himself and Answer by Leon Trotsky Zinoviev's Analogy The Perspective of the Adventure Schlesinger Prepares His Dress Strike -While Foster Almost Changes the Line--With the Help of a Cable from Losovsky The Class Struggle is Over! Yesterday's Wisdom Now a Trap A New Address Throughout the World of Labor * The Czecho-Slovakian Elections by H. Lenorovich Bulletin * The E.C.C.I. Plays with the Life of the Austrian Party by Kurt Landau * The Labor Movement in Greece by M. Klados * The Chinese Communists and the Sino-Russian Conflict On the Twelfth Anniversary of the Russian October by Leon Trotsky The New Unions and the Communists by James P. Cannon The Foster Wrecking Crew The Need for Workers Democracy The Mechanical Control Disease Minneapolis for Gastonia Hedlund Speaks on Case Minneapolis Classes Open The Next Issue Who is Leading the Comintern Today? by Leon Trotsky (Continued from last issue) Stalin and the Emigrants The Three Basic Lines The Stalinist Defeat in Staunton by Albert Glotzer Protest Daily Worker Lies Watt Declares Position The Daily Worker Lies Like Hell -A Letter Sent by the Staunton Miners' Conference to the Poison Pen Artists by Edw. C. Morgan, Sec'y Sub-District Conference, National Miners Union Demands Retraction Daily Worker Falsehoods An Authorized Statement Letters From the Militants * The Belleville Conference by Elmer McMillan * Party Progress in Boston by L. Schlossberg * Amter's Shop Bulletin by Charlie Bryne * Stalinist Destruction by John Mihelic Where to Buy The Militant 19 Dec 7, 1929 THE MILITANT Published Weekly by the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: Martin Abern James P. Cannon Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Hoover's Building Plan Swindle -Lots of Promises to the Jobless by Martin Abern Hoover "Stabilizes Capitalism" How About the Unemployed? The Public Works Panacea` Organize to Fight! Congress Opens -For the Master A Christmas Gift to the Boss The Wage Cut Drive U.S. Intervenes in Sino-Russ Conflict Disarmament and the U.S. of Europe by Leon Trotsky How Can Europe Be United? Disarmament a la American The Imperialist Dictatorship of America The Soviet United States of Europe Stalinists Raid the Co-ops -The Party Wins Another "Victory" in Superior! by Vincent R. Dunne The Hi-Jackers at Work Reckless Party Adventure No Turning from the Left! The Thieves Fall Out in the Miners Union by Arne Swabeck Wrecking a Great Union Possibilities of New Union What Kind of a New Union Throughout the World of Labor * Before the Capitulation of Bucharin by R., update by P. * The Conference of the German Right Wing by F. ST. The Aftermath in Palestine by J. Pera * Quotes From Moscow Worker (No. 209, September 11) Moscow Worker (No. 208, September 10) Moscow Worker (No. 210, September 12) Youth Pravda (August 25) Browder's Dazzling "Logic" A Most Remarkable Corpse Is the A.F. of L. Becoming Progressive by Arne Swabeck Lewis and Woll to the Rear The Scripps Editorial The Convention and the South Furuseth Bursts Out The Next Issue The Communist Defeat in Czecho-Slovakia by H. Lenorovics The Shift in Class Relations The Fascists Gain A Stalinist "Mass Party" "The Party Masses Are to Blame" Where the Fault Lies The Capitulation of Bucharin -What Are the Prospects of the Right Wing Now? by Max Shachtman Bucharin Will Fight the Right! The Roots of the Right Wing How the Right Can Fight A New Right-Center Bloc The Party's Adventure in the I.W.C. A Reaction Sets In Left Wing Workers vs. C.P. Where to Buy The Militant 20 Dec 14, 1929 Illinois Miners Out on Strike Bill Green's Pledge to Hoover Five New Cruisers by 1933 Accorsi Trial Opens Haiti in Revolt! -5 Killed, 20 Wounded by U.S. Marines in First Encounter Hoover the Peace Lover Enter: the Nat'l City Bank Chiang Kai-Shek's Collapse Schlesinger's Bright ideas -He "Abolishes" the Class Struggle; the Stalinists are Still Deciding "the Line" Schlesinger Praises Tammany A Strike--But Not For Wages An Imperative Question "The Freest Country in the World" (Examples of that "freedom" at work) Wilson's Siberian Adventure Ends The Textile Union -The Party Chops Off Another Head Throughout the World of Labor * The Real Victor in the German Elections by Kurt Landau * A Letter from Stalinist Exile by A.B, A Letter to the Bulletin of the Russian Opposition * Tardieu, the Man of the Hour by P. Naville Communism and Syndicalism by Leon Trotsky The Party and the Trade Unions Revolutionary Syndicalism and Communism The False Principles of Syndicalism The Real Autonomy of the Trade Unions Is Not Assailed by Party Leadership The Character of the Party's Direction Depends Upon Specific Conditions The Political Independence of the Trade Unions is a Myth The Syndicalist League, Embryo of a Party The Proletariat Does Not Demand the "Autonomy" of the Trade Unions but a Correct Leadership The Fetich of Trade Union Unity ("fetich" is a variant or misspelling of "fetish") The Character of the Trade Union Opposition The Policy of the Communist Party The Tasks of the Communist Left To Be Sure! To Be Sure! But That Was in the Second Period! (From a speech of Stalin at the 14th Congress of the Russian Communist Party, December 1925) Greetings Sent to the Weekly From Chicago From Minneapolis by Vincent R. Dunne From Kansas City by A.A. Buehler From Boston by Antoinette Konikow "Hoover Brings You Peace and Plenty" by Max Shachtman What Price Kellogg Pact? U.S. Naval Progress For Workers at Home Build! But How? Hoover Offers No Solution The Struggle For Markets Why We Publish The Militant A Rallying Point Party Defeated in the I.W.C. -Stalinist Policy in Independent Workmen's Circle Ends in Bad Retreat Boston The Progress in the Past The Punitive Expedition! The Latest Agreement Against Fake "Impartiality" The Party Cliques Are Still Busy A Report on the Russian Situation by the Moscow Correspondent of the Daily Worker Prosperity As Usual Letters From the Militants * 3rd Period Hits Daily Worker by K. Wilkes * Moving Ahead in Minneapolis by Carl Skoglund * Daily Worker Expert by R.G. * The Sports Movement in Canada by Maurice Quarter Constitution of the Communist League Name Purpose Membership Organization Administration Dues & Initiation Discipline Conferences Where to Buy The Militant 21 Dec 21, 1929 Accorsi Frame-Up is Smashed Evidence is Too Shabby Prosperity As Usual Pea-ce Soup A La Hoover (Political Cartoon Labor Fakers Sold Out Mooney Mooney the "Trouble-Maker" The Fakers' Private Opinion Illinois Miners on the March! -Cossacks Used, but the Miners Don't Scab by Arne Swabeck Capitalist Solidarity Strike Shortcomings Rally All Support! The Auto Show and the Auto Slaves by Peter Hansen Cars for the Leisure Class Ford's "Paradise" for Labor Opposition Group Formed in Argentina! by R. Guinney Hoover's Building Panacea America's Record in Haiti -Extracts from Dr. Ernest Gruening's Senate Testimony on Haiti in 1925 U.S. Wants Haitian Customs Haitian Revenues Seized Slave Laws by U.S. Marines "Unanimous!" -A Meeting of a Party Conference by Michael Kozlov How Time Does Fly in the Russian Party! The Defense of the Soviet Union and the Opposition by Leon Trotsky Groupings in the Left Opposition Formalism Instead of Marxism Revolutionary Aid or Imperialist Intervention Pacifism instead of Bolshevism Throughout the World of Labor * The State of Mind of the Capitulators * Hugenberg's Victory at Kassel by Volkswille * The Movement in South America by R. Guinney Lovestone and the Russian Revolution by M.S. [Max Shachtman] The Revolution and the International "A Tail to a Russian Kite" Lovestone Wants "Information" The Choice Must Be Made Friendly Advice to an Unfriendly Critic Remember Mr. Bessedovsky Hail the Weekly Militant! The Russian Opposition Replies to the Capitulators by Christian Rakovsky Between Two Fires Defects in the Opposition Arguments of the Capitulators Radek is "Always Ready!" What Radek & Co. Overlooked Letters From the Militants * An Oppositionist in Berlin by S. Gordon [Sam Gordon?] * Stalinist Progress in K.C. by John Mihelic * Working In Grand Rapids by Fred Wedler The Fight of the Chicago Cleaning Shop Workers The Bosses' Anti-Union Drive Bosses Declare a Lockout 22 Dec 28, 1929 Marion Killers Freed -Acquit Deputies Who Murdered Six Strikers Naval Conclave Sure to Crash France Wants Submarines Thieves Cannot Agree Unemployment Grows with Business Decline by Harvey O' Conner Heavy Business Decline The Mooney Frame-Up -Governor Passes Buck Again The Real "Risks in Industry" -More Mine Deaths in W. Va. Miners of Illinois Fought Big Odds by Arne Swabeck Was Strike a Mistake? A Communist Scare Coming Foster on Strike Strategy! Fishwick's "Progressivism" A Community Chest Drive -Hi-jacking Labor in Texas The McAlester Mine Disaster Poor Scabs! -Coal Co. Raises Rent More Hoover Prosperity -Southern Sawmills Shut Down by Jack Mette Industrial Accidents Mount Did y' renew your sub? Naval Conference Farce -Japanese Delegation Visit Indicates the "Disarmament" Prospects "Disarmament": A Farce Japan's Demands Whom Japan Fears The British Viewpoint The French Become Pious! On Hooliganism -- (Today and Yesterday) Auto Wage Cuts -Pontiac Workers Seriously Affected Can't Make Room and Board Fifty Percent Wage Cuts The Defense of the Soviet Union and the Opposition by Leon Trotsky (Continued from Last Issue) Why Doesn't Louzon Decide to Go the Whole Way? Are Socialist "Concessions" Admissible? Mistake in Principle in Estimating the Chinese and Russian Revolutions The Question of the Permanent Revolution in China Throughout the World of Labor * Christmas for the German Workers by Ed Falkowski * Native Resentment in South Africa by S.B. * Tardieu's Attack on Humanite from Verite The Theory at the Root of Lovestoneism Spurious vs. Real Internationalism A Nationalist Theory Trotsky's Warning What Now? -The Bolshevik Opposition and the C.P.S.U. -By the Editors of the Bulletin of the Russian Opposition The Intentions of the Declaration A Regime of Systematic Deception Stalin -The "Second Lenin's" 50th Year` Semi-Social Patriotism Conflicts with Lenin Lenin's Bomb Against Stalin The Hero of the Period of Reaction How Many Times Can a Dead "ism" Die? Browder -The New Defender of Stalinism by Mih (Mihelic?, rest of signature illegible) The Party's Don Quixote Fifteen Well Spent Years Mass Speaks at Open Forum in Detroit Ingratitude Lovestone's Useful Work Morons Wanted--Not Workers! Christmas for Labor by Grace Hutchins A Publicity Stunt Starvation Conditions Too Hungry to Move Louisiana Standard Oil Signs Contract with Itself Chain Gang for Jobless Where Sacco and Vanzetti Were Murdered Greetings to Weekly Militant by John Mihelic Where to Buy The Militant link to John Mihelic archive collection: http://archives.library.wcsu.edu/findingaids/mihelic.xml (at Western Connecticut State University) The Militant 1930 Volume 3 January 1 Jan 4, 1930 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editor: James P. Cannon Associate Editors: Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Industrial Depression Growing -Anti-Labor Drive Now Under Way Exports Increase The Austrian Crisis And Communism by Leon Trotsky The Strength of the Social Democracy As Important Instrument of Capitalism Fascism, Bolshevism and Social Democracy Hundreds Killed by Marines in Haiti Illinois Miners Urgently Need Relief Lost Fliers and Hoover Refuse 6-Hour Day Concede Cleveland Unemployment Hoover Prosperity French Aim Blow at U.S. -Raise Tariff on American Autos Plan High Auto Tariff U.S. Will Fight Back Another Haymarket Cop Dead by T. P. Lewis Suppress Mooney Report -Young Hid Evidence Stalinist Repression -Hound Trotsky's Kin Ford's Treatment of Labor Swedish Workers Protest Barbarity in Carolina Mellon's Pa. Domain Rises -Workers Squeezed for Profits by Arthur G. McDowell Workers Make His Wealth Mellon Advances in New York Open Forum of the New York Communist League Naval Bases and Imperialism -The Struggle for Position at the Coming Conference in London by Albert Glotzer The New Economic Center of Gravity The Conflict in Ratios England's Naval Bases England's Favored Position New Methods of Sea Struggle A Proposed Party Questionnaire No Work in San Antonio -Labor Warned to Stay Clear by Esther Lowell Strangers to Rock Pile Merry Christmas -Starvation in North Carolina The Defense of the Soviet Union and the Opposition by Leon Trotsky (Continued from last issue) Thermidor or Party Rehearsal of Thermidor? Urbahn's Mistake in the Question of Thermidor Throughout the World of Labor * The Leninbund on the Wrong Road by Kurt Landau * The Betrayal in Austria * In France: A la Americaine by Pierre Naville What Now? -The Bolshevik Opposition and the C.P.S.U. by the Editors of the Bulletin of the Russian Opposition (Continued from last issue) The Question of Unity The Pot of Gold for Unemployed by Robert L. Cruden Convention of the Textile Workers Union The Problem of the South A Workers Convention Shortcomings of Conference The Daily Worker Gasps for Arguments Centrism Out of Its Element Letters from The Militants * The New York Building Trades by Jack Sprague * Two Kinds of Corrupted Press by James Economou * Merry Christmas in Youngstown by Charlie Byrne * Nationalism vs. Internationalism by Pauline Gutringer * Greetings from Alabama by Sarah F. J. Linn Where to Buy The Militant 2 Jan 11, 1930 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editor: James P. Cannon Associate Editors: Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Karl Liebknecht Day -At the Martyr's Grave-side by Karl Radek -Murdered January 15, 1919 by the German Junkers and their Socialist Allies At Liebknecht's Cradle Imbued with Revolutionary Traditions The Imperialist War Comes Workers Stand by Liebknecht Fallen in Battle A.F. of L. Opens Up in the South Remember Passaic! Velvet Words Conceal U.S. Arms Growth by Scott Nearing 1930 to Be "Lean Tough" Year What About the Workers? Profits Rise Poverty Spreads in St. Louis Export Industries Will Be Hit Heavily Pullman Co. Absorbs Notorious Union Foe A Company Town Boy Scout Movement Anti-Strike Free Meals Pass Out in Yuma Racketeer is Pal of Matty Woll by Harvey O'Connor Matty Woll's Pal Notorious Gangster 12 Lynchings Known in 1929 Philadelphia: Meeting in Philadelphia Philly Class N.C. Wants Anti-Labor Law, Too The Defense of the Soviet Union and the Opposition by Leon Trotsky (Continued from last issue) Not Centrism in General, but a Certain Kind of Centrism "A Kerenskyism Upside Down" Proletarian or Bourgeois State? What Would the Policy Have to Be if Thermidor Were Now Accomplished? For Proletarian or for Bourgeois Democracy? Throughout the World of Labor * The Split Danger in the French C.G.T.U. by A. Rosmer * New Turn in the German Trade Union Tactics by Kurt Landau * The 11th Congress of the British Communist Party by S.B. The Austrian Crisis And Communism by Leon Trotsky (Continued from last issue) Bauer's Juridicial Formula Austrian "Democracy" Condemned What is Social-Fascism? The Danger in the Stalinist Theory Church Reports Marion Hell -But All that Preachers Offer Are Empty Promises and Pious Prayers Worked More Than 64 Hours a Week Workers Shun Church Pontiac Has "Novel" Way to Cut Wages No Pay for Make Ready Unemployment Raises Mortgage Shut-downs by Joseph Hutter Lumber Camps Aren't Hit by Prosperity by Harold R. Johnson A Bit of Olgin's Infamy Letters from The Militants * Another "Victory" in the Independent by C.C. [Charles Curtis] * Diary of An Unemployed Plumber by P. * Who Supports the Stalinists by Max Kaufman * Peonage on the High Seas * Daily Worker and Illinois Strike by Joseph Angelo * On Trotsky Where to Buy The Militant 3 Jan 18, 1930 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editor: James P. Cannon Associate Editors: Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Heavy Decline in N. Y. Jobs -Every Industry Reports Slump Mill Bosses Plan Company Unions -To Counteract Trade Union Drive "Selling" Labor New Chain 1500 Unemployed Demonstrate in St. Louis -Mayor Answers the Demand for Work or Relief by Arresting Two Leaders by H.L. Goldberg Tear Gas is "Popular" Weapon against Labor by Harvey O'Conner Chicago Building Takes Sharp Drop; Thousands Jobless by T. P. Lewis 35 Electricians Will Burn to Death in 1930 Massachusetts Building Trade Workers Severely Hit 5,000 Fewer Jobs in Boston Police Called Out for Jobless Birmingham Big Open Shop Center -Unemployment Rife in South by T. S. Rawlings Acute Unemployment Sixty-Hour Week Attempt new Frame-up in Gastonia Bishop Demands Catholic Unions in Canada by John Robur Company Union Established in Elizabethton Chicago Opposition Active Fear Soviet Invasion in Arizona 60 Hours a Week for Women in Kentucky -Negro Workers the Worst Off Louisville's Labor Budget The Minnesota F. L. P. -Six Years of Confusion and Disappointment in a Two-Class Party by Vincent R. Dunne F.L.P. Policy Benefits Officialdom Farmers Outvote Workers "Unity" in a Two Class Party Pepper's Bold Plan Workers Used by Farmers Gertrude Duell Joins the Opposition A Real Red ILD -And Hell Hath No Fury Like an Engdahl Enraged. 150 Workers Laid Off Rosa Luxemburg -- 11 years After by Max Shachtman The Communist fight Against Imperialist War by Charles Curtiss The Role of the Socialists From Bosses' War to Class War Throughout the World of Labor * The British Miners and the Labour Party by S.B. * Opposition Progress in Spain by Fernando Salvatierra * A New "Workers' and Peasants' Party" in France from "La Verite" The Defense of the Soviet Union and the Opposition by Leon Trotsky (Continued from last issue) Even While Retreating Before the Marxist Criticism, Urbahns Combats not Korschists but Marxists Practical Tasks in Case of War Does the Defense of the U.S.S.R. Mean Reconciliation with Centrism? How Has the Discussion Been Conducted? Lash is What Convicts Need An Economic Analysis? Or Factional Demagogy & Forgery "Trotskyism" Dead Again The Professor's Nightmare -A Story of the Great American Worker-Boss that Never Existed Karakhan Takes a Pleasant Trip to Turkey -But, Unlike Trotsky, He is not Confined on an Island by Friend Kemal Pasha Hutchison Expels Militant -Louis A. Roseland Removed from Minneapolis Carpenters Union Rank and File Opposes Move..... Officials Want No "Interference" The Struggle of the Miners in Taylorville, Ill. by Fritz Bode Sr. Bessedovsky -Trotsky on the "Revelations" by Leon Trotsky 4 Jan 28, 1930 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editor: James P. Cannon Associate Editors: Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Leninism Lives! -The Opposition Carries It Forward by Max Shachtman -Lenin's Work Lives in the Opposition! The Great Men of the Proletariat A Party--Not a Sect Exceptionalist or Internationalist? From Hillquit to Lovestone Mass Unemployment Continues Enormous Profits in Southern Tobacco Enormous Company Profits Virtual Famine for Workers A Step Down by the International Right A Break with Communism The Right Wing Doesn't "Intervene" Roy's Nationalism Trotsky (Discussion of the writings by Trotsky published in The Militant and planned future publications of his writing) The Struggle for the South -Green's Plea to the Bosses, the Progressives and the Communists by James P. Cannon The A. F. of L. Program The Bosses' Program and the A.F. of L. Program Mistakes of the Party Leaders The Removal of Weisbord Prospect Bad for Builders by T. P. Lewis Peak Reached in 1928 Burden Workers with Losses The "Third Period" of the Comintern's Mistakes by Leon Trotsky What is Radicalization of the Masses? The Strike Curve in France What do the Data of the Statistics Show? Facts and Phrases Throughout the World of Labor * The New Udral Government in Czecho-Slovakia by H. Lenorovics * Fascism Still Alive in United States The Defense of the Soviet Union and the Opposition by Leon Trotsky (Continued from last issue) The Danger of Sectarianism and National Limitedness Conclusions A Letter from the Chinese Oppositions by P. $2,500,000 in Profits in 1929 Carry Out Lenin's Will! -Lenin's Last Words to the Party, Still Suppressed by the Stalinists by V.I. Lenin Ford's Parts Factories Drive Workers by Robert L. Cruden The Depression and Labor -Prospects for the Approaching Struggles in the United States by Arne Swabeck The Role of the A.F. of L. The Pressure of the Banks A False Assumption The St. Louis Unemployment Demonstration St. Louis Hard Hit Demands Proposed Cops Break Up the Meeting February 5 Feb 1, 1930 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editor: James P. Cannon Associate Editors: Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Police Murder Steve Katovis -Communist Worker Shot Down in Cold Blood Savage Attack on Demonstrations United Front Against Police Terror Naval Conclave Shows No Unity Italo-French Conflict Merchantmen Limitation Hits England Green Stabs Marion and Gastonia Mexico Breaks with Soviet Union After the Miner's Strike -Operators and Reactionary Union Leaders vs. the Illinois Miners by Joseph Angelo Labor Bosses As Operators' Tools Trial Served Good Purpose Stalinists Retreat Partially Prospects for New Struggles in New Bedford by Frank Bromley The Indian Revolution at the Cross-roads by Max Shachtman A Keystone in the British Empire Loss of India a Fatal Blow The Nationalist Bourgeoisie Gandhi's Record At the Cross-Roads Stalinists Disrupt Minneapolis T.U.U.L Conference $81,000,000 Corporation Refuses to Pay 37 Cents an Hour N.Y. Telephone Grabs $14,000,000 More The "Third Period" of the Comintern's Mistakes by Leon Trotsky Crisis of Conjuncture and the Revolutionary Crisis in Capitalism Economic Conjuncture and the Radicalization of the Masses Fake Revolutionaries Fear Economic Processes Throughout the World of Labor * the Developments in Germany by Sam Gordon * Communist Injunctions... by M.Q. On the Chinese Revolution -Trotsky's Reply to the Letter of the Chinese Opposition Group by Leon Trotsky The Constituent Assembly in China Stalinist Impotence and Violence Hoover Prosperity Invisible in State of Illinois Mummery in Labor Unions by C.R. Hedlund Bosses are Wiser Militant Twice Expelled Young Vanguard -- A Section Devoted to Problems of Working Class Youth * The Last Plenary Session of the Y.C.L. by R. The Cause for the Situation Is -- The Situation Confusion on Right and Left Danger * The Disruption of the Canadian Youth League by M. Quarter Responsibilities With Y.C.L. The Hypocrisy of the Stalinists The Curse of Mining Accidents by Fritz Bode Sr. Speed-up Causes Accidents U.M.W. Officials Delinquent The New Industrial Unions -The Mass Organizations of the Workers or Narrow Party Sects? by Arne Swabeck Revolutionizing the Unions The Third C.I. Congress on Trade Unions New Unions Everywhere? The Responsibility of the Right Wing Cleveland Labor News by John Foley Where to Buy the Militant 6 Feb 8, 1930 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editor: James P. Cannon Associate Editors: Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Dress Strike On -Schlesinger and Bosses Cooperate -Left Wing Can Win Workers by Quitting its Isolationist Attitude Workers Need Left Wing Left Wing Errors What's Happened to Blumkin? -Let Stalin and the American Party Leaders Answer! City of Chicago Goes Bankrupt by Arne Swabeck The "Poor Policemen" Tax Valuation Cut Enormous Profits in U.S. Steel Hoover and the Farmers by Peter Hansen The Capitalist "Solution" The Communist Answer A Repast of Wild Beasts -French Communist Viewpoint on the London Naval Conference by Paul Sizoff The Importance of Naval Transport "Humanizing Warfare" The Washington Conference New Kind of Trade Union Work by Carl Skoglund United Front in Boston in the New Style by Charlotte Shechet Everything is "Properly" Arranged Opposition on Side of Union The "Third Period" of the Comintern's Mistakes by Leon Trotsky What are the Symptoms of the Political Radicalization of the Masses? What Are the Immediate Perspectives? Throughout the World of Labor * A Step Backward by French Syndicalism by Pierre Naville * Lovestone's German Friends by Roman Well The Results of the Soviet-China Conflict by Leon Trotsky The Proletariat and Peasantry in the Indian Revolution by Max Shachtman The Indian Proletariat The Spoilation of the Peasantry Peasantry and National Bourgeoisie The Absence of a Communist Party Where Roy is Right and Wrong Roy's Line Was Stalin's Line Foster's Return and the "New Wind" in the Comintern by Leon Trotsky The "Leftism of the 5th Congress The Change in the Russian Situation Manuilsky Warns the Apparatus! The Right Wing Approves New Attitude Towards Right Wing Leadership in the Coming Struggles by Arne Swabeck The Workers in the Basic Industries Communist and Conservative Unions Problem of the United Front Practical Strike Demands 7 Feb 15, 1930 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editor: James P. Cannon Associate Editors: Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Dressmakers Again Betrayed -"Impartial Commission" Formed to Sell Out Workers No Militancy Displayed Working Conditions Unchanged Left Wing Failed to Propose United Front Imperialist Powers Quarrel at London America Spreads Her Wings Yes or No! Has Blumkin Been Assassinated? -More Facts on the Disappearance of the Fighter for the Russian Bolshevik Revolution Unemployment Stalks the Middle West Only 44% Work in Toledo "Welfare" Dept. Jammed Man versus Machines 35,000 Jobless in New Jersey Industrial Center Taxi Maintenance Men Join Strikers Reports Bode Ill for Auto Slaves Birmingham Wages Miserly by T. S. Rawlings Weavers Walk Out in Carolina Mill Help Us sustain The Militant The Socialist Party and Radicalization of the Masses by James P. Cannon A Period of Communist Growth The Course of Lovestone's Faction The Strike Barometer The Fosterite Contribution to the S.P. American Labor and Reformism The Fundamental Principle Errors of Syndicalism -To Serve in the Discussion with Monatte and the Pure Syndicalists in General by Leon Trotsky Lenin and the Syndicalists Monatte's Fetishisms The Dangers of State-ism Throughout the World of Labor * The Crisis in the Spanish Labor Movement by Henri Lacroix * The League Against Imperialism by Kurt Landau * The British Daily Worker by S.B. Low Wages for Unorganized Miners in W. Va. by August Valentine The "Third Period" of the Comintern's Mistakes by Leon Trotsky The Art of Orientation Molotov "Enters With Both Feet" Are Economic Strikes Called Forth By Crises or Rises? The Rise of the U.S.S.R. as a Factor in the "Third Period" The Slogan of the General Strike "The Conquest of the Street" For an International Conference of the Left -The Need for Organizing the World Opposition by Martin Abern Opposition Problems Need Elaboration Opposition Growing An International Opposition Organ Anthracite Takes Heavy Toll in Accidents The Strike of the Toronto Cloakmakers by M. Quarter Right Wing Leaders Sabotage Pittsburg Cab Drivers on Strike by James Sifakis Minneapolis Stalinists Disrupt the Ladies Auxiliary by Clara Kaufman Minneapolis Workers School Quaker city Knitters Revolt on Wage Cuts 8 Feb 22, 1930 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editor: James P. Cannon Associate Editors: Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Unite in Struggle for the Jobless! -Unite Forces on March 6th Demonstrations! U.S. Capitalism Offers No Relief Councils of Unemployed All Out on March 6th The Party "Answers" on Blumkin -But It Fails to Make a Straightforward Reply to the Questions We Have Raised Naval conference at a Standstill N.Y. Times is Cynical Thomas Apologizes for MacDonald Illinois Jobs Declined Building Trades Hit in D.C. The Anti-Soviet Crusaders The Crime of the Soviets Detroit Prosperity Help Us Sustain The Militant Passaic Strike Anniversary -Some Lessons in Militant Labor Leadership for the Future by James P. Cannon The "Right to Think" by George Ray No Discussion, Say Lovestone-Foster $200,000 Profits and--Unemployment Can Monopoly Capitalism Be Organized? by Arne Swabeck Opposition Platform Forecast Present Crisis Hoover's Program Capitalism Can Only Intensify Anarchic Production Lenin and Trotsky Combat Bucharin's and Stalin's Economic Theories Lovestone and Bucharin Approach Social-Democracy's Views The Centrist Phrases and the Results An Opposition Group in Mexico Formed Gastonia Stoolpigeon Got His American Plan Means 55 Cents for Machinists Miners Would Like to See Part of Steel Trust Gold They Produced Throughout the World of Labor * The Stalinization of the Mexican Party by Rosalio Negrete * Mondism and Unemployment Grow in England by S.D. * After the French Socialist Congress from "La Verite" The "Third Period" of the Comintern's Mistakes by Leon Trotsky "No Agreements with the Reformists" Do Not Forget Your Own Yesterday Once More on War Danger Groupings in Communism Letter from Moscow: How Stalin Murdered Blumkin: Radek's Judas Role by N. The Russian Opposition Knows Its Path! -Note by the Editorial Board of the Bulletin of the Russian Opposition Ludlow Killer Rewarded Billions Made by Big Industrialists General Motors Heads Lists Enormous Profits Continue The Situation in the Mining Industry Typos Defeat Salary Boost Gain 40-Hour Night Week "The Great Disciple of Lenin" by Denis Plarinos St. Louis Fakers Try Militant Painter Machinist Unemployment Worst Since 1921 60,000 Unemployed in K. C. Rail Workers Discuss Mergers Our Youth Section March 9 Mar 1, 1930 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editor: James P. Cannon Associate Editors: Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck The Murder of Blumkin is an Act Against the Russian Revolution Opposition Pressure Forces Stalin to the Left Stalinists Politically and Morally Bankrupt Trotsky on Stalin and Blumkin by Leon Trotsky Build a Broad Movement to Aid the Unemployed by Martin Abern Organize the Unemployed on Elementary Issues New York T.U.U.L. Conference a Talkfest How Not to Aid the Unemployed Develop a United Front Movement 40 Percent Jobless in Bay State Snow Fails to Bring Jobs to Jobless Equal Opportunity Mocked by Income Report Mass. Employment Continues Down Too Many Labor Officials by C. R. Hedlund Breeding Bureaucracy Prepare for Convention Long Hours in Steel Mills More than Half Work over 48 Hours The New Bedford Textile Workers and Stalinist "Politics" by Frank Bromley Factionalism Hurts Development Conditions of Metal Scrappers Steady Work Need Union Rank and File for Labor Party The Mining Situation and the Tasks of the Left Wing -Statement of the National Committee of the Communist League of America (Opposition) The N.M.U. Strike in Illinois The Fishwick-Howat-Brophy Convention The Coming Convention of the N.M.U. What is "Permanent Revolution"? by Leon Trotsky Opposition Serves the Bolshevik Revolution by Leon Trotsky Quarter Million Jobless in N.C. Throughout the World of Labor * The Fall of Primo De Rivera and its Consequences by Gorkin Bourgeoisie Desert Primo Financial Crisis in Spain The Growing Republican Movement The Need of a Communist Party * German Unemployed Defy Tyrannous Laws * German Unemployed and the First of February Wherein Lies the Defeat of the 1st of February Why was the Defeat Inevitable? by Kurt Landau La Verite and The Militant Actors Equity Deprecates Company Union Plan St. Louis Jobless Swamp Charities Imperialist Development and its Inevitable Doom by Arne Swabeck The Imperialist Struggle for Market Control American Expansion Will Bring Revolutionary Disturbances Capitalism Can't Harmonize Contradictions Finance Capitalists Direct Government The Petty Capitalists are Ground Under The Increase of Bankruptcies The Growth of Communism World Textile Situation Bodes Workers Ill by Robert W. Dunn Young Vanguard: A Section Devoted to Problems of the Working Class Youth * The Decline of the Y. C. I. by Joseph Friedman Y.C.I. Follows the False Path of the C.I. The May Day and August First Fiascoes Big Loss in Membership Manuilsky Passes the Buck The Opposition Youth is Taking Hold * Lovestone's Whining Baby by A. M. G. Present Disintegration of the League Needs of the League Foodless Mother Tries Suicide Operators Speed-Up Illinois Coal Diggers War's Glory by Peter Hansen 10 Mar 8, 1930 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editor: James P. Cannon Associate Editors: Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Demonstrate on March 6th As Unemployment Grows Immediate Needs of Miners Stalin Persecutes Rakovksy Miners! Build Left Wing at Springfield Immediate Needs of Miners Send Delegates to March 10th Convention Flood Control Contractors Gyp Negro Laborers Over 8,000,000 Women Toil at Low Wages Long Hours for Women Night Shifts in Auto Plants The Coming Paterson Strike by Frank Bromley Better Preparations Are Needed Sailors Face Jobless Problem Registration of Aliens Fought Miner's Death Toll Mounts (From Federated Press) Cab men Reject Scab Terms by Arthur G. McDowell The Proletarian Revolution and the Shooting of Blumkin by Martin Abern The Five Year Plan The Bureaucracy and the Working Class Stalin Splits the Communist Movement Lenin Rejects Stalin The Daily Worker "Answers" Rakovsky and the Centrists What is to be Done? "In the Name of God" The Sick War-horse of Religion The Opium of the People The Policy of the Leadership and the Party Regime by Christian Rakovsky The Changes in Class Relations Industrialization and the Classes The Five Year Plan Centrists Fear Workers and Poor Peasants The Party Regime The Stalinist Bureaucracy What Road? The Political Situation in Germany and the Crisis in the Communist Party by Kurt Landau The Legend of the New Revolutionary Wave Toward the New 1923? Radicalization of the Workers, Political Mass Strike, and Struggle for the Streets Is the Party Threatened by Illegality The Struggle for a New Left Wing in the Party Workers Nail Employment Lie Polish Conditions Grow Rapidly Worse Long Hours, Low Wages, for Foundry Workers Mass Unemployment in Rochester Building on the Chute in Pennsy Reveals Crime of Archangel Expedition (From Federated Press) No Murder Charge Against This Judge by Frank L. Palmer Stalinism in Chicago I. L. D. Young Vanguard - A Section Devoted to Problems of the Working Class Youth * Whither the American League by George Ray * The Militarization of the American Youth by A.M.G. Wage Cuts in Oil Fields Rail Telegraphers Add New Members Trade Union Membership at Standstill The Class Character of the Constitution by Peter Hansen The Exploitation of Labor and the Law Abolish Capitalism My Part in the October by Leon Trotsky A Supplementary Insertion A Letter from England by Millicent Shooter 11 Mar 15, 1930 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editor: James P. Cannon Associate Editors: Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck March 6 and After Unemployment--a Permanent Phenomenon The Failure of the "General Strike" The Reformists Step In The United Front Tactics Unite the Left Wing Forces London Naval Debacle by Albert Glotzer Issues at the Conference The Lineup Against the Soviet Union Conference Can Offer No Solution Gold and God United Against Soviets Haitians Demand End of Wall St. Rule Amalgamate Engineers and Firemen by C.R. Hedlund Bureaucrats Hinder Progress Northwestern Shuts Down Roundhouse Baldwin Locomotive Lays Off 1,200 Labor Party in Kenosha Miners Not Consulted in Drawing Up Agreement The Paris Commune and the Proletarian Revolution by Maurice Spector The War and the Misery of the Workers The Proletariat Struggles for Power The Shortcomings of the Commune The Triumph of the Bourgeoisie The Lessons of the Commune Auto Industry Moves South by Robert L. Cruden Sacco-Vanzetti Case Reopened in Boston The New Course in the Economy of the Soviet Union -Adventure in Economics and Its Danger by Leon Trotsky The Meaning of the Stalinist Zig-zag How Stalin Handles the Five Year Plan The Bureaucracy and the Kulaks The Basis for Collective Agricultural Economy The Bureaucrats About-Face The Kulaks and Industrialization The Class Character of the Collectives The Kulaks in Masquerade The Panicky Retreat of Stalin What the Bureaucrats Will Say Our Estimates for Industrialization The Restoration of the Right-Center Bloc What to Do? Save the Party and the Proletarian Dictatorship Restore the Comintern Next Steps of the American Worker by Arne Swabeck Unemployment--A Spur to Class Action Some Labor History and Struggles The Political Action of Labor The Rising Struggles The Labor Party and the Communists Hoover Speeds the Postal Clerks Throughout the World of Labor * From Moscow by R.R. * The Struggle Against Unemployment in Europe and Its Conduct Unemployment and the Workers' Morale by K.L. Civil Liberties Union Charts Labor Danger Zones Hosiery Scabs Kill Striker, Wound Two Open Shop Paper Approves A.F. of L. Ella May Lynching O.K.'D Where to Buy the Militant 12 Mar 22, 1930 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Unite for the Unemployed! -Resist Attack of Bosses and Government by Martin Abern The Proposed Frameups and Police Brutality The Labor Spy and Blacklist of Militants The Drive Against the Foreign Born Workers and Civil Liberties Revival of Criminal Syndicalism Laws The Bosses Organize Mass Unemployment Remains Create United Front Defense Movement United Front for the Unemployed The Springfield and Indianapolis Miners Conventions Split in Miners Deepens Progressive Measures Brought Forward Communists Adopt Isolation Policy Heavy Unemployment Among Clothing Workers The Aberle Mill Strike in Philly by M. K. Whitten Militancy of Strikers Outstanding Philadelphia's Labor Record Left Wing Isolated; Fakers Pleased Establish Roots Among the Workers Monarchist Spain Refuses Entry to Trotsky Business Men Jeer Parade of Jobless Destitution Fall Over Northeast Philadelphia Cold Comfort for Workers in Loan Society Report Big Profits for Loan Sharks Reveals Workers Extreme Poverty Pittsburg Papers Incomplete on Westinghouse Records N.Y. State Job Figures Continue to Decline Says Music Wasted on Future Wage Slaves Workers Help Jobless Where to Buy the Militant Rail Clerks Ask Six Hour Day in New Pact Salvation Army Bread Line Long Fight Registration of Foreign-Born Capitalists Aim to Establish Spy System A Letter to the Italian Left Communists (To the Adherents of Comrade Bordiga) by Leon Trotsky The Nature of the Party Theoretical Perversions of Stalinism The Class Character of the U.S.S.R. The Analogy of Thermidor What is Thermidor? The Stalinist Leadership of Italy Letters from the Soviet Union * The Five Year Plan and the Kulaks * Stalin Endangers the Proletarian Dictatorship by S. Morale of Opposition Excellent The Struggles of the Opposition Employment Sharks Exposed (by Federated Press) Employers in on Gypping Game Half Million Strikers in India in 1929 Jobless Costs on Charity Mount Pittsburgh Cabmen fight Traitors Naval Conference Talks On Milwaukee Cops Abuse Children in Jail Marion Workers Discuss New Strike With Lenin Against Stalin by Leon Trotsky Women Suffer in Present Era Marriage Increases Burden A Seaman on Conditions by James Russell Seamen Disorganized A Narrow Policy 13 Mar 29, 1930 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Cubans Strike -Defy Machado -Demand Unemployment Relief The Bloody Rule of Machado Wall Street Continues Cuban Penetration Mass Unemployment Continues by Martin Abern Iron and Steel Production Slow Bosses Cutting Wages Socialists Propose Unemployment Census by Police Repressive Acts Against Workers Don't Solve Unemployment Crisis Trotsky Seriously Ill Haiti Struggles -Demands Independence from Wall Street Rule by Albert Glotzer Election of Roy-- A Sham St. Louis Bus Drivers on Strike for Union Kansas City Building Trades win Five-Day Week The National Textile Union -Sectarian Policy Hindering Organization by Frank Bromley Role of the Reactionaries Need of Systematic Work in the Mills Dynomite in "Dynamic" Detroit Anthracite Miners Hit by Unemployment Hoover's Prosperity Racket Fades in Middle West The Shooting of Blumkin -Stalin's Story in Process of Preparation Running Away from the Facts Stalin Prepares His Story The Dictatorship of Stalin and its Consequences Suffering Among Jobless Grows An Open Letter to All Members of the Leninbund by Leon Trotsky Has the Urbahns Faction Any Adherents? Do Not Forget the International Opposition The Urbahns Block, Treint and Paz It is Indispensable to Obtain Unity of the Opposition True and False Internationalism A Choice Must Be Made Throughout the World of Labor * Conditions of the German Workers and the Communists by Sam Gordon Bourgeoisie on the Offensive Social Democrats Continue to Sell Out Workers The Attack on Workers' Organizations The Opportunism of the Brandlerites The Need for a Clear Left Communist Opposition * The Labor Movement in South Africa by C. Frank Glass The Working Class in South Africa The Comintern Policy The Labor Party and the Tasks of the Communists by Arne Swabeck Status of the New Unions The Labor Struggles in Recent Years Perspectives in the A.F. of L. Some Labor Party History The Sectarian Party Policy Role of Labor Fakers and Socialists The Labor Party--A Perspective Milwaukee Communists Appeal Workhouse Sentences Unifying the Left Opposition by the Editorial Board of the Russian Bulletin of the Opposition (Bolshevik-Leninists) An International Organ Unity Upon Principle Agreement Injunction Judge Halts Union Taxi Service Attention, Boston! The Struggle in the I. W. C. Buffalo Charity Outlay Climbs Steadily Building Trades Drop in Mass. Shopmen Work Five Days to Avoid Layoffs Sportswear Workers Win Strike Independent Workmen's Circle Confronted by a Split by L. Schlosberg At the Chicago Convention The "Left Wing" Branches Again a Split Policy Naval Parley Sinking Possibilities for Continuation Slim Pre-Conference Situation Remains April 14 Apr 5, 1930 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Pittsburg -Taxi Men Solid on 12th Week Building Workers Ask Mooney-Billing's Release Sharp Decline In Illinois Construction In the Next Issue Relieve Unemployment -Demand Large-Scale Credits to Soviet Union by Martin Abern Wm. Green's Report on Unemployment Bosses and Government Ignore Needs of Workers Workers Begin to See Capitalism as Cause of Unemployment To Aid Unemployed, Demand Credits for Soviet Government Unite Forces on Behalf of Jobless Demand Communist Party Change Its Isolation Policy Methods in the Unemployed Movement Tasks of the Communists Yellow-Dog Judge -Hoover Nominee for Supreme Court Polishing the Guns for the Next War Only Soviet Union for Peace The A. F. of L. in the South by Arne Swabeck Green Meets the Bosses The Wage-Cutting Campaign and the Strikers Southern Workers Show Militancy Left Wing Must Adopt United Front Policy Auto Bosses in Struggle for World Markets European Capitalists, Resist American Penetration No Compensation for Fingerless Boys Type Men Meet in September Labor Haters Merge Forces American Capitalists Combining Bitterly Anti-Labor State Labor Head Shows Heavy Unemployment in Michigan Communist League to Print Important Books Buffalo Unemployment Heavy From a Southern Worker The Period of Right-Centrist Down-Sliding in the C. I. by Leon Trotsky The Revisionism of Stalin and Bucharin The Results of the Anglo-Russian Committee The Role of the Russian Unions in the Bloc The Bloc with the General Council and "Stabilization" The Rotten Strategy of Right-Centrism Throughout the World of Labor * In Spain after the Fall of the Dictatorship -Monarchy, Republic or Proletarian Revolution? by Gorkin Why the Petty Bourgeois Are Republican Fear of the Proletariat The Condition of the Workers and Peasants The Workers' Awakening The Opposition and the Party * War on Russia Cry U. S. Imperialists Militarist Hounds for War on Soviet Union Gandhi's Policy and the Proletarian Movement British Policy in India Gandhi's Policy is Unstable Indian Masses Militant Comintern Policy Continues Wrong Line Task is to Build a Communist Party The Split in the Leninbund by Roman Well The Theoretical Misconceptions of the Leninbund Political Bankruptcy of Urbahns The Decline of the Leninbund Trench Episodes A.D. 1936 A Short Story by Bertram Chambers "Services No Longer Required" by Charles Curtis Misery Wages for S.C. Bag Workers In the Opposition Ranks -International Left Forms Provisional Bureau (Signed by Shachtman (Communist League of America) (Opposition), Markin (Russian Communist Opposition-Bolshevik-Leninists) and Rosmer (Left Communist Opposition of France) Northern China Organizes Opposition by North China Executive Committee of Chinese Leninists (Opposition) 15 Apr 12, 1930 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck The 5 Year Plan and World Unemployment by Leon Trotsky The Bureaucracy Runs Blindly World Unemployment and the Soviet Union Ways to Aid the Unemployed and the Soviet Union Unemployment and the United Front Socialist Construction and the International Revolution Rally Workers on May Day The Situation of American Labor The Issues for May Day For a United Front Opposition Paper Published in the Argentine 12 W. Va. Miners Fatally Gassed St. Louis Busmen Win Strike 6-Hour Day Aim of Twin City Rail Workers Consider Labor's Economic and Political Problems Resolution Minnesota's "Farmer-Labor" Meet -The "Practical" Politicians and Business Men Take Charge Left Wing Presents Program; Denied Expression Left Wing to Continue Fight for Fighting Workers' Movement Labor Party Sentiment Polled in Philly Economic Reaction World-Wide Bosses and Government Do Nothing for Jobless Relieve Unemployment Through Broad Economic Relations with Soviet Union 20,000 Rush Ford's Plant for Work Toothless Foster Silent at Party Plenum The Situation Among the Coal Miners by Arne Swabeck Serious Errors of Wrong Analysis What Does the New Union Signify? Reactionaries Strengthen Hold--But Workers Move On How Far Will the Rebellion Reverberate Left Wing Facing Serious Problems Machines Displace More Miners Sixteen Coal Miners Die in Blast Steel Slaves Need Union Throughout the World of Labor * In the Soviet Union -Our Statement to the XVI Party Congress What to Tell the Party The Centrist Adventures * The Communist Workers and the Opposition The Opposition and the Rank and File * In India -Gandhi Enters the Field of "Struggle" Gandhi on His Knees Before the Lord Viceroy The Workers Will March Beyond Gandhi * The Durban "Raid" in South Africa by C. Frank Glass Japanese Radical Held for Deportation Sellier is Right-- Lovestone Wrong by Max Shachtman Internationalism is Forgotten Travelling Toward Menshevism Naval Parley Bound for "Davy Jone's Locker" Conference Cannot Solve Its Problems Attempts at Security Pacts Fail Secrecy Prevails in Conference Police Kill Worker at Anti-Fascist Meet Rochester Typos Share Jobs with Unemployed Where to Buy The Militant Street Railwaymen Ask Raise Beating the War Drums War Department Calls for Free Hand Turning the Factories into War Machines All Workers to be Entrapped Trotsky on Foster and Lovestone No Wage Increase for Memphis Street Car Men Police Board Approves Blackjacking Students Back Jobless Against Police Fines and Jail for Jobless Capitalism Blamed for Crime Problem Letters from the Militants * The Party Mathematicians at Work by Frank Bromley The March 6 New York Demonstration In the Unions Untruths and Illusions Don't Help the Communists The "Cooperative" Cafeteria * Dividends Go Up! Wages Come Down by J. Mihelic * Matthew Woll Proves Himself by Harold Preece Woll's Poison Goods 16 Apr 19, 1930 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Five Communists Framed -Unite Working Class Forces for May Day Demonstrations by Martin Abern L.D. Trotsky's Autobiography "My Life" Corporations Make Huge Profits U.S. Steel and Standard Oil Get Huge Profits "Public Service" Corporations Rake in the Dough The Naval Conference "Agrees" American Imperialism in the Ascendency Rakovsky's Illness B. of L. E. Convention -A program of Action for the Engineers by C. R. Hedlund Floating Worthless Stock The Officials Loot the Treasury The Real Estate Racket A Program for a Rank and File Union Illinois Elections Ignore Worker's Needs by Arne Swabeck A Contest Between Groups Labor Fakers Play Usual Game Independent Political Action Raised in Federation Stalin Silent on Blumkin; Jacquemotte Speaks Railroad Workers to Meet on 6-Hour Day by O. Coover Dispatchers Need Shorter Hours Washington Governor Pardons Crooks, Refuses Wobblies Atlanta Threatens Death to Communist Organizers $50,000 Minimum Budget for Young N. Y. Banker The Ultra-Left Policy on Right Dregs by Leon Trotsky The German Defeat of 1923 The Bulgarian and Esthonian Adventures (Variant spelling of "Estonian") Falsification and Fiction Replace Facts and Truth The Illusions About the Peasantry Zinovieff on Raditch The LaFollette Maneuver The Farmer-Labor Party and the Class The Course Toward the Kuomintang The Party and Proletarian Revolution Throughout the World of Labor * In the Soviet Union -First Flutterings of a New Course A Rebirth for the Kulaks! The Changed Course Toward the Church * The Elections to the Factory Councils in Germany by K.L. The Party Fails to Lead The Left is Assembling Its Forced * Strikes and Peasant Uprisings in Greece Rationalization and Suppression Mass Unemployment Continues The Adventurist Party Course * Spanish Opposition Endorse International Conference The Lessons of Capitulations -Necrological Reflections by ALFA (Leon Trotsky) The "Leaders" Renounce Themselves The Capitulations by the Right How the Capitulations are Obtained And Radek Yelps, "Me, Too." Zinoviev and Kamenev "Repent" Once Again Stalin's Equilibrium is Shaky The Danger of Bonapartism Book Review: Karl Marx, the Man -Karl Marx: Biographical Memoirs, by Karl Liebknecht reviewed by James P. Cannon Scientific Truth Was Marx's Guide Marx in Exile at London Marx the Teacher Harvester Profits Soar; Lay off Men Newark Jobless Haunt Newspaper Office to Scan Want Ads Wisconsin Federation Meets July 15 Expose Revolting Conditions In Canneries Letters from The Militants * The Estonian Press Hews to Party Line--The Results by P.S. Workers' Clubs Disbanding Stalinism Wrecks Esthonian Movement Also (Variant spelling of "Estonian") * Lovestone Speaks His Piece by G.R. Sprinkler Fitters Take 5-Day Week American Capitalist Development by C.L. Where to Buy The Militant 17 Apr 26, 1930 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck International Labor Day I. L. P. "Turns Left" May Day in New York -With the Militant Workers -Against Whalen and the Legionaries! -All Workers Out to Rutgers Square on the First of May Capitalists on the Offensive Organize Labor's Resistance Unemployment Unrelieved The Policy of Bluff in the N.T.W.U. by Frank Bromley The Southern Membership and the Organizers Blumkin Issue Will Not Down by "La Verite" Ford Makes Profits on Men Ford Cuts Wages $25 Minimum for N. Y. Girl Police Charge Into Crowd of Jobless Pittsburgh Car men Stand Pat for More Pay Furniture workers Get 49 Cent Wage Jobless told to Leave Detroit "Nothing Doing" Bankers Move Phila. Hosiery Co. -South to Get Scab Labor The Autobiography of Leon Trotsky "My Life" reviewed by Max Shachtman The Role of the Individual in History The Making of a Revolutionist Trotsky's Activity in Exile The Truth Confronts the Stalinist Liars How Mediocrities Like Stalin Arise The Stalinist Intrigue Against the Bolshevik Revolutionists A Great Political Document "Pure and Transparent as Crystal" by ALFA (Leon Trotsky) The Race Between Lovestone and Foster Why Does Stalin Publish These Speeches Now? The Mud Upon the Crystal Arriving at a Decision Foster Proves His Loyalty Kussinen Mumbles "Amen" What Next for Foster? Police Help Auto Plant Subdue Negro Workers The Crisis of Italian Fascism (Faenza and Milan) The Economic Stages of Fascist Development Nitti or Mussolini The Proletarian Revolution Only Can Defeat Fascism The Outbreaks at Faenza--A Signal of the Future The Economic Causes of the Milan Movement The Proletariat Must Lead the Struggle Against Fascism Policy of Centrism Has Been Ruinous Influence of Stalinized Communist Party at Minimum The Policy of the Left Unites the Masses for Struggle Unite Faenza and Milan Under Communist Leadership for the Proletarian Revolution A New Stage of the International Communist Opposition by Maurice Spector Mexican White Terror Continues Communist Oppositionists Deported Mooney Incensed by Liberty Mystery Yarn The Events in India -The Naval "Pact" by Albert Glotzer The Masses Struggle Despite Gandhi The British Labor Government Defends the Empire The Persecutions of the Indonesian Revolutionaries Demand the Right of Asylum The "Safeguard Clause"--Build Bigger Navies Soviet-American Trade Up 61% Phila. Shoe Workers Await Militant Union Lead Wage Cuts Threaten Denver Labor Letters from The Militants * The Noose on the "New Line" by J. Archipenko An Active Party Rank and File A Strike is Called Arrested Striker * Communism and the American Negro by J. M. * On Organizing the Seamen by M. R. The Narrow Line of the Marine Workers League Unite All Militants to Build Seamen's Union Where To Buy The Militant May 18 May 3, 1930 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck A Big Step Forward -The International Conference of the Left Opposition, by Max Shachtman The Conference Representation The Origin of the Opposition Our Recent Successes Towards an International Conference Conflict Sharp in India -The Popular Militant Spirit Conflicts Increase Attention! (Announcing a mass meeting to hear Max Shachtman report on his trip to Europe, his visit with Trotsky in Turkey and Trotsky's current views.) The Left Wing and the Amalgamated Convention The Marine Workers Convention by S.M. Rose The Mink Explodes The Ship Councils Idea Stalinists Endanger the Movement A Telegram to Comrade Leon Trotsky (From the first international meeting of the Left Communist Opposition) The Left Wing and the Amalgamated Convention (Comments on the national convention of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers) Printers Privileged Position Doomed Two Threats to "Labor Skill" May Scrap Pressmen, Too Street Car Men Demand 6-Day Week The Seamen's Convention -Bureaucracy Perfected! by John Horne Johnstone's Manipulations Organization a la Mode 200 Men Control U.S. Industry Illinois Jobs Much Scarcer Than a Year Ago On Seattle: A Correction In Our Next Issue Throughout the World of Labor * Exit Monde! Exit Henri Barbusse! by Pierre F. Naville * The "Red Peasants" Meet by A.B. * Reactionary Maneuvers in Spain by Henri Lacroix The May Day Meetings In the Party -The N.Y. District is Re-Organized by B.T. A Little Purification by James Sifakis The Men's Clothing Union -In the Amalgamated: From Class Struggle to Class Collaboration The Betrayal of the U.G.W. First Victory of the A.C.W. The Early Successes In the Soviet Union -Stalin Assassinates Two More! Message to Siberia by Pushkin (Poem translated by Max Eastman) In the Railroad Brotherhoods -The Legislative Board Game by C.R. Hedlund The Make-Up of the Boards How the Racket Works "Legislative Program" Shall Three More Workers Burn? by Frank Bromley Electric Chair for Leaflets Facts of the Case Suppressed A "Broad" May Day Conference Oppositionist Ejected From Hillquit to Lovestone -Pointed Parallel between Two Generations of National Socialism by Marsh The Impotence of Centrism The Real Sectarians A Couple of Exceptionalists Nationalism and Internationalism Ross Arrested in Minneapolis Billings' Release "Postponed" Trotsky's Autobiography Free! Or You Can Get a Free Copy of "The Real Situation in Russia" We Also Offer a Free Copy of "Since Lenin Died" Under the Lash of Unemployment * The Crime of Being Jobless Clubbed to Death * Labor Camp Jobs 1-10th of Former Years * The Census Taker Reports by X. Wilkes * He Starved Amid Plenty The Crime of Joblessness * Master Plumbers Offensive 19 May 10, 1930 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Whalen's Anti-Red Forgeries The Pressure on the Soviet Union Peshawur and the Gandhi Arrest (Alternate spelling of "Peshawar" which is generally considered the correct spelling) McDonald: Servant of Capital The Meaning of Peshawar N.Y. Jobs Scarcest Since 1914 Judge Denies Bail to Foster, Minor, Amter Wall Street Speaks * Hoover's Bunk Cynical Over "Predictions" * Little Piece of Forgotten History Bluff, Brother, Bluff! Someone Will Believe It Trotsky's Autobiography Free! After May Day's Demonstrations Achievements of Meetings Opposition Active In the Amalgamated -Hillman and the Left Wing Capitalist Corruption in the Union Hillman Fools the Left Hillman's War on the Left What Must be Done Stalinist Splitting -Bordiga Expelled by X. A Visit to the Island of Prinkipo by Max Shachtman Trotsky's Health Stalin and the Five Year Plan The Danger of a Retreat The "Old Bolsheviks" On the "Farmer-Labor Party" Internationalism and the Theory of "Exceptionalism" by Leon Trotsky -Preface to the American Edition of "The Permanent Revolution" Industrialization and Socialism Marxism and World Economy The Law of Uneven Development Character and Limits of Our Faction by James P. Cannon -Lessons from Recent International Experiences of the Opposition Internationalism our Touchstone The Limits of a Faction "The Case of Roy Stephens" Tactics Copied from Fascism Away with Fascist Tactics! Unemployment in Minneapolis by Carl Cowl Unemployment Severe Cramer Has Ross Pinched After Yen Bay -The Revolt in Indo-China The Inconsistency of the S.L.P. by Harold Preece Doonping on China -Charlatanism as a Cover for the Concealment of Adventurism What Should Not Be Forgotten Trotsky on the Constituent Doonping on Browder In the Soviet Union -And the Kulak? Voronezh versus Tomsk! 20 May 17, 1930 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck MacDonald's Assault on India by Max Shachtman -The Labor Party's Message of Peace Comes from the Mouth of Machine Guns Puzzled and Powerless! The Week * Whalen's Forgeries * Tariff and Trade * The Lynching Bee The "Red" Guerilla War in China -Stalinist Adventurism by Niel-Sih Rich Peasant Elements in Party Tehu-Deh's Forces Co-operatives Confer at Superior by Max Shachtman Conflict Comes to a Head The "Reliable Fighters" What Next? Plan Two Toronto Dress Strikes Trade Conditions Rotten Why Left Wing Fails Johnstone's "Self-Criticism" -Crisis in the Needle Trades A Scandalous Record Lovestoneites Mainly Responsible Johnstone Then and Now From Bad to Worse Prelude to a President's Swan-Song by R.T. Where Hyman Has Fallen Down Internationalism and the Theory of "Exceptionalism" by Leon Trotsky -Preface to the American Edition of "The Permanent Revolution" (Continued from last issue) National Revolution and World Economies The Growth of Contradictions The "Mad Gallop" and the Panicky Retreat In the Party * N.Y. District Plenum by Roger * The Pittsburgh Expulsions by James Sifakis * May Day in Youngstown by Denis Plarinos In Italy -Crisis in the Communist Party by H.S. Opportunists, Real and Faked The Minority Viewpoint The Role of the Vanguard The Socialist Party and the Prospects for Communism by Arne Swabeck The S.P. and the Middle Class Communists and Unemployment For Correct Policy Toward Socialists A National Tour for the Communist League A.C.W. Convention -Hillman's Record for Toronto by A. Schneider Hillman's Kind of Labor Unity Trotsky's Book Free! Books for Workers -Biography and Revolutionary Struggle by Maurice Spector Two Phases of the October Revolution The Usurpation by the Bureaucrat T.U.U.L. -"Mass Work" in Philly by J. Archipenko The Party Strait-Jacket Proposes Fight for Jobless in Chicago Labor Body 21 May 24, 1930 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Left Wing Needle Trades Crisis by Max Shachtman False "Self-Criticism" A Zig-Zagging Leadership Re-Establish Workers Democracy Organize the Unorganized Organize the Right Wing Workers The United Front The Week * Sandino * A.C.W. in Toronto * U.S. of Briand * A Tearful Appeal * In the Factories by L. (A letter from Moscow) Stalinist Brutalities in Russia * A Raid on Rakovsky * On Guard In the Party -The Convention Nears by B.T. Passivity and Indifference Meetings Unattended Our National Tour - New York Begins with a Successful Meeting Speaks on Five Year Plan After the May Day Meeting in Boston by A.K. An Open Letter to the Members of the C.P.S.U.(b) by Leon Trotsky Kulak and Kholkhoz The Threatening Crisis The Stalinist Retreat The Theory of the "Third Period" In Italy -How Does Italian Fascism Stand Today? by Akros The Class Character of Fascism The Period of Civil War The Bourgeoisie Behind Fascism A Stalinist Canard The I.L.P. -Saviors of Reform The Discrediting of Reformism Maxton as MacDonald's Savior The Incapacity of the C.P. The Fight for Harry Eisman by George Clarke It Depends on Whose Holiday It Is Unemployment -A Capitalist Monstrosity by George Roberts Super-Machine Age Zig-Zagging Policies Decline in Membership The Guerilla Warfare Ruining a Movement -Decline of the Chinese Communist Party by Niel-Sih An Open Road to Adventurism Throws Hundreds Out of Jobs Trotsky's Book Free! The Young Vanguard * The Breakdown of the Mexican League by Russell Blackwell The Apparatus Men Get Busy Expulsions Continue * The Rank and File Is Ominously Silent! by Leo Ring League Members, Wake Up! * In the Y.C.L. -The Plan of Action by George Ray "Do More Work" The "Plan of Action" June 22 Jun 7, 1930 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Electric Chair Threat to Left Organizers Maintain the Weekly Militant! Indian Ferment and Chinese Lessons by Maurice Spector MacDonald--Bourgeois Agent India and the Proletariat Build Mass Movement for Mar 6 Jailed -Free March 6 Jailed Deny Aid to Meerut Victims Our National Tour Shachtman Tours for Opposition Additional Cities Added Rank and File Unrest in the Amalgamated The Blumkin Assassination In Germany -The "New" Turn in the C.I. by Sam Gordon The Real Responsibility The Turn a la Thaelmann and Co. Effects of the Turn Finding a Scape-Goat The Perspectives An Open Letter to the Members of the C.P.S.U.(b) by Leon Trotsky (Continued from last issue) The Position of the Left Wing The Role of the Social Democracy Against "Socialist" Treachery Stalin's Victory Over the Party Conditions of the Opposition Cadres A Tribute From a So. African Militant by Manuel Lopez In Italy -Italian Fascism and the Economic Crisis by Akros After the War The "Crisis of 1921" The Revival of 1923 and the New Crisis Rationalization and the Capitalist Monopoly International Monopolies Socialist "Ultra-Imperialism" Sharpened Contradictions The Plenum of the American Communist Opposition by James P. Cannon Political Unity of Plenum Opposition Platform Confirmed Perspectives of Party Crisis Preparing New Forces The Needle Trades Situation Maintain the Weekly Militant Trotsky on the Militant Strengthening the Center Consolidation Mexico Stalinists Continue Splitting Social Democracy Betrayed -Answer to a Socialist Worker by Maurice Spector Indictment of Social Democracy A Record of Betrayals The Role of the Maxtons The Way of Thomas The Line of Bolshevism The Suicide of Vladimir Mayakovsky A Stalinized "Ten Days That Shook the World" by W.P.S. Towards the XVI Congress of the C.P.S.U. -Dissolving the Communist Party into the Class by N. Markin Collective Admission A Premium on Political Illiteracy The Gap Between Leaders and the Masses Trifling With the Textile Workers Union by Frank Bromley 23 Jun 14, 1930 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Back to Lenin -Manifesto to the Rank and File and Seventh National Convention of the C.P.U.S.A From the National Committee of the Communist League of America (Opposition) signed by Martin Abern, James P. Cannon, Albert M. Glotzer, Max Shachtman, Carl Skoglund, Maurice Spector and Arne Swabeck) The Economic Crisis American Reformism Fruits of the "Third Period" The United Front Policy International Roots of Party Crisis The Right Wing and Stalin Factions Solution of the Party Crisis For the Unity of Communist Ranks (From the Platform of the Communist Opposition Adopted (Chicago) May 20, 1929) Rally to the Weekly New York Leads the Way For the Unemployed For the Opposition Our Appeal Left Needle Workers Convention Meets Save Georgia Class War Prisoners Senate Red-Baiting Probe Starts Our National Tour -Meetings Stir Great Enthusiasm Splendid Meetings in Boston The Philadelphia Meeting Stalinists Boycott Meeting but Workers Turn Out in Toronto Chicago, Twin Cities and Lake Cities Prepare Extensively Upholsterers Organize to Fight Speed-Up The Work in the Old Unions (From the Platform of the Communist Opposition Adopted (Chicago) May 20, 1929 Klorkeit #2 (Organ of the Jewish Left Opposition in France, published in Yiddish) Scab Gunman is Acquitted Leftist Sectarianism in Toronto Needle Trades The Slogan of the National Assembly in China by Leon Trotsky The Constituent Assembly in Russia A Slogan to Mobilize the Masses In the International Opposition -Questions to the Prometeo Group by Leon Trotsky The Economic Crisis (From the Platform of the Communist Opposition Adopted (Chicago) May 20, 1929) In Germany -The Menace of Fascism by K.L. The Communist Party and the Leftward Movement The Bourgeoisie Dismisses the Social Democracy Spanish Left Organ Appears Discussion -Communism and the Negro Problem by K.M. Whitten Lovestone's "Americanism" by George Clarke Covering Lovestone's Misdeeds Evading Questions of Principle The Role of American Imperialism (From the Platform of the Communist Opposition Adopted (Chicago) May 20, 1929) An Open Letter to the Members of the C.P.S.U.(b) by Leon Trotsky (Continued from last issue) Barred from Union Activity for "Trotskyism" by Charlie Bryne The "Mass Political Strike" "My Life" and Its Critics -DeWitt, Browder and Gold on Trotsky's Autobiography by James P. Cannon Political Autobiography The Social Democrats The Stalinists Browder Joins the Freudians Mike "Arrives" The S.P.-Stalinist United Front World Union Membership Declines The Young Vanguard * The Misery of India's Youthful Toilers Wages in the Cotton Industry by Days * Communist Youth and the Left Opposition by Albert Glotzer Bigger and Better Wars 24 Jun 21, 1930 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: Martin Abern James P. Cannon Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Unemployment and Communist Tactics Defeat the Capitalist Offensive! -Organize United Front Against Unemployment and Wage Cuts! by Maurice Spector The Crisis of American Capitalism The Open Conspiracy of Communism The Tasks of the Communist Party For Communist Unity! Hugo Oehler Joins Opposition by Hugo Oehler (Personal Statement) Bankruptcy of the Centrist Party Regime The Menace of Revisionism The Struggle of the Left Opposition The Hawley-Smoot Tariff and American Imperialism by Maurice Spector Class Legislation The Economic Crisis The Workers' Position Attack on the World Market Financial Yoke Towards Proletarian Revolution Do Your Share! New Forces from Party and Youth The Militant and the Economic Crisis The Militant as a Pivot for Communist Growth Aftermath of the Needle Trades Convention -Questions of a Left Wing Program by James P. Cannon Party Factionalism Dominates False Attitude on Left Wing The Relation of Forces Vitality of Lefts Delegations to U.S.S.R. and the Opposition by Ian Frankel Trade Union Policy (From the Platform of the Communist Opposition Adopted (Chicago) May 29, 1929 A Squeak in the Apparatus -(A Popular Explanation of Rights and Lefts) by Leon Trotsky The Tempo of Industrialization Collectivization The Opposition Platform Collectivization and Adventurism Our Slogan of Collaboration with the Soviet Union In Germany -Comintern Loses Fresh Opportunity by Roman Well "The Acute Revolutionary Crisis" Facts and Figures Party Influence Sinks Percentage of Total Votes in Leuna Works, Berlin V.A.G. Social Democracy Betrays The False Approach of the Stalinists In France -Opposition Defends Indo-Chinese Rebels by Pierre F. Naville Diego Rivera Retires from Political Life Towards a Concrete Program of Action by Maurice Spector Social Insurance Social Insurance as a By-Product of Struggle Capitalist Responsibility for Unemployment Credits for the Soviet Union Economic and Military Defence (Alternate spelling of "Defense") International Solidarity The Party and the Unorganized Masses (From the Platform of the Communist Opposition Adopted (Chicago) May 20, 1929 In India -The C.I. and Two-Class Parties by Joseph Carter The "Two-Class Party" Policy After the Sixth Congress The "Workers' and Peasants' Party" Sofarov's Apologetics for Stalin Flaunt Royal Courts at British Workers by Millicent Shooter One Year of Labor Government New York Open Air Meetings Our National Tour -Shachtman's Tour is Extended Chicago, Minneapolis Hold Good Meetings Return Engagements in Montreal and Toronto Capitalist "Disarmament" Win Five-Day Week U.S. Imperialist Contradictions (From the Platform of the Communist Opposition Adopted (Chicago) May 20, 1929 Red Army Men Urge Trotsky's Recall Where to Buy the Militant Militant Outing 25 Jun 28, 1930 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: Martin Abern James P. Cannon Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Jobless Millions Must Organize! -Demand Immediate Relief! by Maurice Spector No Signs of Ease-Up in Crisis The Industrial Reserve Army The General Crisis of Capitalism The Socialist Five Year Plan Organize for Action! N.Y. Party-Y.C.L. Group for Opposition (Signed by Harry Milton, M. Morris, Morris Spector, Raymond Spector (George Ray), Max Stover and Dave Weber) Bureaucratism Supreme Fundamental Questions The Decline of Party Influence Ruinous Policies Demonstrate for the Indian Revolution! Bureaucrats Rule C.P. Convention In Canada -Stalinist Officials Sabotage Communist Unity by M.Q Officialdom Bars Opposition Communists But the Pearle Zionists are Seated Opposition Slogan for Soviet Credits...Rejected Our National Tour -Meetings Mark Left Advance Good Results in Duluth Superior, Wisconsin Kansas City and St. Louis Forthcoming Meetings In India -Simon Report Declares War on Revolution Operators Prey Upon Passivity of the Coal Miners by Arne Swabeck New Union Grows Under "Friendly" Auspices of Operators Will the Two Unions Unite? Where is Howatt Going? Preying Upon "Miners" Momentary Passivity Fatal Blunders of the Left Wing Result in Isolation Left Wing Must Return to Fundamental Task "Revolutionary Age" Barred from Mails A Squeak in the Apparatus -(A Popular Explanation of Rights and Lefts) by Leon Trotsky (Continued from the previous issues and concluding the the article) From the Left or From the Right Tail-Endism (Chvotism) or Adventurism Our Prognosis Flattering the Peasantry Why the New Polemic? The New Unions and the United Front (From the Platform of the Communist Opposition Adopted (Chicago) May 20, 1929 In Germany -Fascist Gains in Saxony Switchmens' Union Convention Red-Baiter Resolution Defeated Resolution for Railroad Councils General Strike in Spain Where to Buy the Militant Aftermath of the Needle Trades Convention -Character of the Right Wing Unions by James P. Cannon Attitude to Right Wing Unions The Company Union Argument Class-Collaboration Unions The Young Vanguard * Y.P.S.L. Appeals to Young Babbittry by George Ray Socialist "Doctors and Dentists" The Conditions of the Working Youth Trotsky on the Grown-Up Yipsel * Opposition Recruits Youth Right Wingers Distortions The Future to the Youth Self-Criticism (From the Platform of the Communist Opposition Adopted (Chicago) May 20, 1929) License for the Shriner's Clubs for Workers by Sam Gordon (? very difficult to make out author) License for "Shriners", Clubbings for Workers July 26 Jul 12, 1930 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: Martin Abern James P. Cannon Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Appeal to Our Readers Mooney-Billings Stay Jailed -Appellate Court Turns Down Foster, Minor, Amter and Raymond Lovestone's Symbol! Capitalist Murder on the Streets! Police Savagery Workers Stirred The Crisis in the Communist Movement -New Party Forces Continue to Join the Communist Opposition -The 7th Convention of the Party -a Debacle by Maurice Spector The New Zig-Zag of Centrism Bureaucracy Versus Bolshevism Jerry Hill for the Opposition by Jerry Hill The Rank and File of Newark Speaks Out by X.Y. Former N.M.U. Head for Left Group by John J. Watt Aftermath of Needle Trades Convention -Tactics and Slogans for the Left Wing Struggle by James P. Cannon Can a Left Wing Be Organized in the Old Unions The Program of Demands The Tactics of the United Front The Slogan of Unity The Question of "Reforming" the Old Unions First Henri Barbusse - Is Michael Gold Next? The Revolution in India - Its Tasks and its Dangers by Leon Trotsky Social Antagonisms in India The Jailing of Gandhi The "Only" Missing Condition Centrism's "Left" Jump Who Will Lead the "Bloc" The Apotheosis of Confusion Some Stalinist Activities in Czecho-Slovakia by Jan The Soviet Diplomats and the Police A "Communist" as State Attorney How the Workers Think Public Warning! Lessons of the Chinese Revolution -The Constituent Assembly and the Soviets by Arne Swabeck Browder--Professional Confusionist Browder's Confessions Stalin for Hankow The Bourgeois Democratic Revolution Lenin on the "Democratic Dictatorship" A "Revolutionary Upsurge" Here and in China A Review and Criticism -The Communists in the South by Hugo Oehler Open Letter to the C.P. on the Elections by the New York branch of the Communist League of America (Opposition) India -Browder vs. Luhani Solidarity on the Streets -New York Demonstrates for India by Sp. Clarification by Reva Craine The Foster Faction (From the Platform of the Communist Opposition adopted (Chicago) May 20, 1929) A Stalino-Fascist Attack -Cleveland Workers Reply to Hooliganism by M. The Opposition in Brazil After the Cleveland Riot by Joseph (last name unreadable) 27 Jul 28, 1930 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: Martin Abern James P. Cannon Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck What Fish Committee Means -A Fighting United Front Needed Against the Sharpening Offensive of the Capitalist Class by Maurice Spector A Forced Retreat The Mass Workers Join the Opposition! -George J. Saul Also Demands that Party Reinstate Our Group by George J. Saul The 16th Congress of the C.P.S.U. The Chicago Conference -The Unemployed Gather by Arne Swabeck Many Extravaganzas First Tasks The Program of Action The Iron Heel Grinds Mexican Labor by R.B. Yes or No? Northwest Experiences -Farmer-Laborism in Action by A. Ekstrom Reformist Labor Parties Theory of Labor Reformism A "Two-Class" Party Why Doesn't Lovestone Answer Trotsky? The Man Stalin Chose to Succeed Blumkin! by O. Klorkeit No. 4 (Klorkeit is the organ of the Jewish Left Opposition group in France) France -Opposition Progress by Sam Gordon The Party Up a Blind Alley Opposition Growth What the "New Masses" Refused to Print -Concerning the "defenders" of the October Revolution by Leon Trotsky Hypocrisy for Art's Sake in the New Masses -Correspondence between Max Eastman, Walt Carmon, Mike Gold Notes of a Journalist -(Concerning Zinoviev, Manuilsky and "Radovoy") by Alfa Zinoviev and the Evils of Printing Has France Entered the Period of Revolution? Another New Talent Correction Opposition Problems -Deeper into the Party! by James P. Cannon A Question of Tactics Need Flexible Tactics The Character of the New Movement Closer Bonds with the Ranks Our Independent Activity The Truth About the Bolivian "Revolution" by Camilo Torres A Review and Criticism -The Communists in the South by Hugo Oehler (Continued from last issue) The Strike in Full Swing The Sources of Manuilsky and Co. by D. A Plagiary from Oskar Blum Lenin on the Libelers of Trotsky The Lying Campaign by Lillian Bord The Young Vanguard * The League's New "Plan of Action" by George Ray The New "Shock Plan" * Scranton Police Seize Communist Workers * Camp Nitgedaiget in Boston by C.D. * Lenin and the Youth Concerning the Students Just Out! (Bulletin of Russian Opposition Double No. 12-13 for June-July 1930) August 28 Aug 15, 1930 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: Martin Abern James P. Cannon Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck The Wage-Cutting Drive -What Green's Sellout to Hoover and the Bosses Really Means to American Workers Green Remains Loyal Sixty Wage Cuts Twelve Month Comparison of Volume of Employment in Percent For Social Insurance What's Going On in China by Maurice Spector Sands of Illusion The Correctness of the Opposition Our Class War Prisoners Must Be Freed! Is Sylvia Bleeker to Be Expelled? A Typical Case The Aim of the Browders The National Miners' Union Passes by Marsh How the Retreat is Covered Up Bluff and Adventurism Our Policy and Browder's Tested The Big-Hearted Boss...(Political Cartoon) Wherein Lies the Difference between Them? by J. The Real Results of August First No "General Strike" The N.Y. Demonstration How the 16th Party Congress Was Prepared -The Persecution of the Russian Bolshevik Opposition by N. Markin Non-Party Workers Arrested In the Solitaries A Hunger Strike in Ichim Sosnovsky in Danger Between Black and Red -The Danger of Fascism in Germany by Kurt Landau What Are the Driving Forces of Fascism? The Weakness of Communist Leadership--the Strength of Fascism Differentiation within Fascism A "1923" Upside Down A letter on Michael Gold by R. Notes of a Journalist -(Who Is Responsible for the "Turns"; Yakovlev's General Line) by Alfa The Responsibility for the Turns Lies With...Trotskyism Yakovlev's "General Line" The Right Wing Moves Closer to Social Democracy by S.-n. A Heavy Defeat for Brandlerism The Czech Right Wing Travels Fast Who is Disintegrating and How? A Saslavsky Doesn't Change Group vs, Branch Banking -A Struggle of Interests in the Ranks of the Capitalist Class by H. Where Does the Italian Opposition Stand? Stalinists Lose Their Heads in Boston by L. Schlossberg New Crimes on Stalinism's Law Books The Party's Progress A Review and Criticism -The Communists in the South by Hugo Oehler Klorkeit No. 4 (The organ of the Jewish Left Opposition in France) Strong-Arm Stalinism Defeated in N.Y. A Correction on China ("The Proletarian" is published by the Right Opposition group, not the Left Opposition group, which publishes "October." The Ultra-Left Opposition group publishes "Our Word.") Blumkin's Successor -Stalin and his Agabekov by A. Who Agabekov Is The Breach in Stalin's Monolithism A Slanderer Answered -Who and Where Are the Real Deserters? The "Final" Merger Comrade A.C. Miller Suspended The Epoch of Stalin by Valentin Olberg September 29 Sep 1, 1930 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: Martin Abern James P. Cannon Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck The Military Revolt in Peru by Russell Blackwell Vote Communist! -Against the Parties of Unemployment and Wage-Cuts, and the "Socialist" Reformers by S.-n Capitalist Bankruptcy The "Bulwark Against Bolshevism" The Main Issue Where We Stand Blumkin Dead-Is Rakovsky Next? Carolina Demands Its Pound of Flesh "Third Period" Bluff -Bessemer City Strikes Again by Hugo Oehler A Year Ago and Now Result of Phrase Mongering News from Southern California The Liberals' Pet Union -After the A.C.W. Convention by A. Schneider Convention Accomplishment The New York Lock-out The "Organizational Campaign" Where is the Left Wing? Maurice Malkin Stands with the Opposition! James McInerney Case of Cold Feet by A.A. Buehler Who Will Prevail? From the Bulletin of the Opposition (Bolshevik-Leninists) Stalin's Figures The World Market The Party Regime Stalin's Repressions In the International -Where Is the British Party? by "Black Diamond" A Nine Years' Balance Robotizing the Party The Minority Movement The Fight of the New York Plumbers Helpers by J. Sprague Self-Determination -The Problem of Mobilizing the Negroes in the Class Struggle by H. Is Slogan Correct? The Garvey Movement Racial and Economic Oppression Problems of the Revolutionary Movement -A Statement of Views on Some Disputed Questions by Albert Weisbord Stalinists Before and After the War Errors of Party Leadership The American Crisis Slander Won't Win by J. Chiplowitz A Revolutionary "Social Fascist" A Review and Criticism -The Communists in the South by Hugo Oehler Blackmailers Cloaked in Red Mantles by Joseph Keller The Young Vanguard * The Y.C.I. Letter is Brought to Light! by George Ray Amateur and Skilled Suppressors The Y.C.I. Estimate of the Y.C.L. No Solution of the Problem * International Youth Day As it Should Be As it is What is to be Done * Lenin and the Youth (A speech delivered to the Russian Young Communist League October 4, 1920) Training the Youth, The Tasks of the Communist League The New Generation Will Build Communism The Task of the Youth is to Acquire Knowledge What to Learn and How to Learn It Theory and Practice; Knowledge and Struggle * The Youth and the Elections by Joseph Friedman Winning the Young Workers Youth Omitted in C.P. Platform 30 Sep 15, 1930 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: Martin Abern James P. Cannon Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck In Stalin's Exile -Rakovsky in Danger! by N.N. On Rakovsky Letter from Russia Issues in the Elections -Capitalist Parties Put Up Fake Issues to Conceal Jobless Sufferings Reformist Aides to Capitalism Vote Communist A Yankee Revolution in the Argentine The German Elections George Saul Tours for Opposition Comrade Andres Nin Expelled from Russia An Opportunist Campaign -The Communist Party in the Elections by S.-n. Conditions for Election Work Our Proposals How the Opportunists Write of Their Bill Petty Bourgeois Pacifism Our Reply to the Right Wing -Lovestone's "United Front" Maneuver by the National Committee Communist League of America (Opposition) The United Front Unity with "Counter-Revolutionists"? Questions to Lovestone An Answer and a Challenge to a Debate From Communist League of America (Opposition) Socialist Indignation Stalin as a Theoretician by Leon Trotsky The Peasant's Balance Sheet of the Democratic and Socialist Revolutions Notes of a Journalist by Alfa Two or Not Even One? (Blucher's Enigmatic Speech) The Sermon on Cockroaches A Self-Portrait of Yaroslavsky A Reply to Comrade Weisbord by the National Committee Communist League of America (Opposition) The Need for Clarity An Ambiguous Position on India Road to Ruin, Not to Victory Problems of the Revolutionary Movement -A Statement of Views on Some Disputed Questions by Albert Weisbord The Slogan of Soviets The Problem in China The Five Year Plan Read-- -Number 14 Bulletin of the Russian Opposition (Entirely in Russian) A Letter from Shanghai -What is Going On In China? by Peter In the Party The Red Army In the Party -Why I Joined the Left Opposition by Sylvia Bleeker Records Needs No Apology A Contemptible Slender Communism Weakened by Expulsions Stalinist Party Folly in St. Louis by H.L. Goldberg Opposition Organizes Unemployed Books for Workers by Carl Cowl (A review of "Since Lenin Died" by Max Eastman October 31 Oct 1, 1930 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: Martin Abern James P. Cannon Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck China -Manifesto of the International Left Opposition -To the Chinese and World Communists! -Perspectives and Tasks of the Chinese Revolution -The Left Opposition and the Chinese Events From the Provisional International Secretariat of the Communist Opposition: Rosmer, Landau, Markin, Russian Left Opposition (Bolshevik-Leninists) Leon Trotsky, Communist League of France (Opposition) A. Rosmer, United Left Opposition of the German C.P. (Bolshevik-Leninists Kurt Landau, Spanish Communist Opposition, Andrade, Gorkin, Belgian Communist Opposition Hennant, Communist League of America (Opposition) Shachtman, Communist Left of Austria, D. Karl, C. Mayer Is There a Soviet Government? The Crushing of the Revolution The Peasant Uprisings The Slogan of Soviets Toward the Third Revolution Hoover Advises Labor -Workers' United Front vs. "Optimistic" Pledges! by S.-n. Hoover and Wage Cuts Two Servitors of Capitalism The United Labor Front Danville Workers Out on Strike by Frank Bromley Boris Selinitchenko Under the Lash of Unemployment * A Concrete Program for Organizing the Unemployed by Albert Weisbord Unemployment to Become More Serious How the Party is Working The Basis for Unemployment Work * Wrong and Right Tactics in the Unemployment Movement by Hugo Oehler The Program of the Official Party The "Social Insurance Bill" The United Front The Hillman-Beckerman Union -How Do the Cutters Stand? by Albert Orland Where is the Left Wing in the Local? Wipe Hooliganism Out of the Movement! Stalin as a Theoretician by Leon Trotsky (Continued from last issue) The Aim of the Opposition The Problem of the "Scissors" A "Bourgeois Prejudice" Four New Organs of the Left Opposition Mimeograph Wanted The German Dilemma: Communism or Fascism? * The Election Results by Kurt Landau The Middle Bourgeois Parties Beaten Fascism, the Real Victor And Now? * The C.P.G. in the Campaign by Sam Gordon The C.P.G.'s Programmatic Declaration Lenin's View The Capitalist Offensive The Role of the Thaelmanns On Maurice Malkin Radek's Novitiate -What is Social-Fascism? by Alfa Who Is "Betraying" Labor Defense Unity? Besmirching the IWW Pearls of Priceless Purity (From "Daily Worker" editorial 9/20/1930) A Case of Base Ingratitude Just Received -Klorkeit No. 6 (Jewish Organ of the Left Opposition) Stalinist Antics in California by B.B. A Persecuted Socialist Weisbord's Statement Our National Tour -Good Meetings for Saul in Mid-West Cities Quotations That Somehow Do Not Tally... The Militant Needs Aid! November 32 Nov 1, 1930 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: Martin Abern James P. Cannon Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck 13 Years of Russian Revolution by S.-n. The Obstacles in the Road The Treachery of the Social Democrats The Meaning of the Opposition Results of the Election The Democratic Sweep The Communist Vote In the Next Issue The Coming Dressmakers Strike -The Bureaucratic Leadership Fails to Make Real Preparations by Sylvia Bleeker The Strike Plan The Strike Demands The Danger in the Strike Sylvan Pollock for the Opposition by Sylvan A. Pollock (Pen name "Frank Bromley") Against Opportunism and Adventurism of the Right Wing! -On the Proposal for a New Farmer-Labor Party Fraud from the National Committee of the Communist League of America (Opposition) per Max Shachtman -On the New Farmer-Labor Party Proposal Marine Workers' Rank and File Revolts An Appeal to the Members of the Marine Workers Industrial Union Our Aim Tactics Bankruptcy of the Present Leadership and Its Policies Background of the Wrong Policies of the Bureaucracy Incompetence and Irresponsibility of the Bureaucracy The Bureaucrats Hold Masses in Contempt The Origin of the Document Against the Stalinist Union Bureaucracy! by Marine Workers Industrial Union Rank and File Committee The "Leadership" Ruins Strikes Bureaucracy Cripples Our Union The Irresponsible Methods of Work and Organization Out With the Destructive Bureaucracy -- For Correct Constructive Policies to Build the Marine Workers Industrial Union The Outlook for the New Movement A Concrete Program on the Unemployed by Albert Weisbord (Continued from last issue) Spreading Parliamentary Illusions Street Demonstrations Urgent Appeal! Our Study Classes After the German Elections -Where is Thaelmann Leading the German Party? by Kurt Landau Young Vanguard by J.F. The Civil War in Brazil by Russell Blackwell A False Analysis of the Situation The Party Putsch 33 Nov 15, 1930 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: Martin Abern James P. Cannon Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck The Plot Against the Soviets -Stalin Imprisoned the Opposition Bolsheviks and Allowed the Counter-Revolutionists to Get Into Positions of Power by S.-n. The "Denials" of the Plotters The Opposition's Warning Stalin and the Right Wing For a Genuine United Front of the Millinery Workers by S.M. Rose The Origin of the Movement The Committee of Seven Party's Arbitrariness Organize the Left Wing! Are Walker and Lewis Going to Unite? -Illinois Miners -Howat and the Rank and File Movement by Joseph Angelo The Bureaucrats Unite In the Miners' Rank and File The Position of Howat New Seamen's "International" The Big Efficiency Union -The Benefits of Hillmanism by Albert Orland Militant Collaboration What the Bosses Want What "Temporary" Means in the A.C.W. Hillman Gives the Bosses a Break! Rose Karsner Bus. Manager The A.F. of L. Convention and the November Election by Max Shachtman The A.F. of L. Convention Labor's Dissatisfaction The A.F. of L. Decline The Fall of the Strike Curve What About Radicalization The Place of the Left Opposition How Stalin-Bucharin Destroyed the Chinese Revolution a letter by Tchen Du Hsiu A Pillar of Stalinism Molotov's Prosperity in Knowledge by T. Stalin as a Theoretician -Ground Rent, or, Stalin Deepens Marx and Engels by Leon Trotsky Young Vanguard * The Struggle of the Plumbers Helpers by J. Sprague A Militant Policy The Y.C.L. "Appears" * The Peasants' International and the Anti-Imperialist League * Opposition Group in Bulgaria A Plan -For You to Study December 34 Dec 1, 1930 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: Martin Abern James P. Cannon Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck For the Thirty-Hour Week! -No Wage Reduction -For Social Insurance -Against the Petition Delusion -For Credits to Russia The Program of the Bosses Credits to the Soviet Union Will Release Comrade Malkin December 20 Mother Jones Dies To Members of the Communist League of America (Opposition) and Sympathizers Two Events in the Labor Movement -The Railroad Brotherhoods Meet by Arne Swabeck The Railroad Conference "The Capitalist System is Shot" The Party's Tactics Lessons of the Marine Workers Union Struggle The Warnings of the Opposition The Reactionary Role of the Right Wing The False Tactics of the Syndicalists Left Wing's False Course -T.U.U.L. and Amalgamated by Albert Orland The Left Wing at Low Ebb The Workers Do Not Follow Social Reformism in the United States by Hugo Oehler Reform Parties and Reform Litvinov at Geneva The Soviet Delegation Stalin Grants Two Interviews by Max Shachtman What Trotsky Did "Too Late" "The Ten Years of Peace" The Daily Worker Silent Again Stalin Catches Up with the Opposition Weisbord's Proposals on Unemployment How Stalin-Bucharin Destroyed the Chinese Revolution a letter by Tchen Du Hsui (Continued from last issue) The Proposal to Withdraw from the K.M.T. A "Revolutionary" Court Where Responsibility Lies The Life of the Exiled and Imprisoned Russian Opposition by N. Markin The Crisis in the Opposition The Ideological Life of the Opposition The Social Nature of the State The Slogan of a Coalition C.C. The Opposition's Growth New Deportations Stalin as a Theoretician by Leon Trotsky (Continued from last issue) The Formulae of Marx and the Audacity of Ignorance The Process of Extended Reproductions Stalin Refers to Marx Stalin Discloses the Un-Marxian Village! Peasant Economy and "Socialist" Industry "Capital" and Socialist Reproduction Slander Answered -Pollack Case: A Statement of Fact by the National Committee of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Comrade Pollack's Statement by Sylvan A. Pollack A Dance in Chicago Chicago Study Class -------------------------------------------- 1931 The Militant Volume 4 January 1 Jan 1, 1931 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Fight Back the Boss' Offensive! by Sam Gordon The Theory of Capitalist Offensive "Order Prevails Throughout Spain" -Andres Nin, Leader of the Spanish Left Opposition, Arrested and in Danger by S. An Unstable Dictatorship Nin in Danger! Comrade Kote Zinzade's Life in Danger! Malkin Welcomed Back Danville Strike Prospects -A.F. of L. Leaders Prepare the Surrender of the Workers Struggle by Sylvan A. Pollack Policy Leads to Sell-Out N.T.W.U. Has Virtually Disappeared Cachin's Forty Years of Service Militant Goes to New Headquarters An Open Forum Lovestone Prepare the Front with Musteism by Max Shachtman Lovestone's First Accusation How the Estimates Have Been Tested Gitlow on the Progressives Who Are the Mustes What Next -On the Campaign Again st the Russian Right Wing Who is to Be Responsible for the Past The Faction of Toadies The Task of the Opposition The Red Fleet Visits Greece How Stalin Fought Blood-Letting In the Next Issue What Is to Be Learned from the Moscow Trial? by Leon Trotsky The Opposition and the Five Year Plan What the Sabotagers Aimed At Pravda and the Planning Commission Imperialist Gunpowder in the Air by Paul Sizoff After the Versailles Peace 1914 and 1930 The Role of America The Real Danger A very Obliging Reply The Bloc of the Left and the Right by Leon Trotsky Stalin and the Bloc with the Right The Problem of the Regime Stalin's Juggling of Figures What the Right Wing Thinks Stalin-Bucharin and the Chinese Revolution -A Letter by Tchen Du Hsui (Continued from last issue) The Need for Democratic Slogans The Correctness of Trotsky's Views Doongping, or, the Stalin School Orientalist Speaks Up by Joseph Carter Molotov on the Skids! In the Amalgamated -A Worker on Hillmanism by Albert Orland A Ten Year Struggle False Remedies The Fantasy of the Forum Attention! How Stalin Protected the Blood of Bucharin Belgian Group Splits 2 Jan 15, 1931 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Labor Faces Year of Fight to Live by Sam Gordon The Decline in Workers' Income The Bank Failures A New "Relapse into Trotskyism" in Russia by Senine A Terrible Traitor Who Teaches Leninism Hoover Attacks Labor Press Molotov Takes Rykov's Place by M. Mill Why Stalin Dumps the Right An Open Secret New Right-Center Bloc? Contributions The Sponsor Plan International Bulletin of the Left Opposition Coming Out in English Have You These Missing Copies Aaron Gross (Obituary and activist history) In the International -"Austro-Opportunism" by Jan Frankel Julio A. Mella by Russell Blackwell Exiled from Cuba Mella Against the Right Wing The Class in Marxian Economics Thermidoreanism and Bonapartism by Leon Trotsky Possible Successors to Soviet Rule Thermidor: in France and Russia Differences and Similarities Exit Weisbord.... Lovestone Looks With Favor at the Socialist Party by Max Shachtman Zimmerman Discovers the Virtues of Levy Lovesone Discovers the Revolt in the S.P..... Zam Discovers the Difference Between S.P. and S.L.P. Manuilsky on "Democratic Dictatorship" -A Retreat in Full Disorder Russia and China Manuilsky's Democratic Tasks The Tutor of Manuilsky A Ferment in the German Right Wing Group The Russian Bolshevik-Leninists on the Present Situation by Christian Rakovsky, V. Kosslor, and N. Muratov The Class Relationships The Middle Peasant in the Collectives The Demands of the Opposition The Poor Peasant's Unions Introduction by Leon Trotsky (To article above) The Union of Peasant Poor Stalin-Bucharin and the Chinese Revolution a Letter by Tchen Du Hsui (Continued from last issue) The Question of "Feudal Remnants" The Slogan of Soviets The Policy of Armed Uprisings February 3 Feb 1, 1931 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Lenin Lives in the Work of the Opposition Lenin's Will Must Be Carried Out by the Party! by V.I. Lenin Kote Zinzadze is Dead! Towards the New York Dressmakers Strike by Sylvia Bleeker The Assault of the Bosses Party Policy and Ours The Lack of Preparation What Should be Done? Gold On the Skids The Strike -- As We Go to Press What is Happening in the Soviet Union Today? by N.N. At the End of August Beginning of September November Olgin: Now and Then Towards a Concrete Program of Action -The Communists and the Unemployment Crisis by Arne Swabeck Hoover's Promises Economic Cycles of Capitalist Production Present Status of Working Class Movement From Wrong Estimates Flow Wrong Conclusions Playing into the Hands of Reformism What Must Be Done? Notes of a Journalist by Alfa (Leon Trotsky) The Knights of Anti-Trotskyism Heckert Teaches Liebknecht The Stalinist Recruitment The Greatest Crime The Opposition Yesterday "Everybody Remembers" The Mystery of Repentance The Bald-Headed Communist Youth The Trend of the Economic Crisis by Albert Glotzer The Party and the Left Opposition by Leon Trotsky The Strength of Our Party is Our Strength The Role of the Thalmanns Defeat of the Opposition Weakens Party Father Manuel and Comrade Epstein by Charles Curtiss Our New Pamphlet A Policy for the Amalgamated Left Wing by Albert Orland The Present Line and Its Main Features Basic Mistakes of the "Third Period" Ideology The "New" Change of Tactics What Is to Be Done? Stalin-Bucharin and the Chinese Revolution a Letter by Tchen Du Hsui (Continued from last issue) Norwegian Fascists and Comrade Trotsky In the League Open Forum Weisbord and the Liquidators A Word from Berlin Proletarian Party Meet 4 Feb 15, 1931 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck United Front on Unemployed by the National Committee Communist League of America (Opposition) Mooney's Betrayal by the Labor Bureaucrats by Max Shachtman The Treachery of the Bureaucrats The Agents of the Frame-Up False Steps in the New York Dressmakers' Strike Preparations On the Illinois Miners by Gerry Allard On Angelo's Article On Howat The Weisman Case -The Case of Weisman and Bureaucratism Recent Lessons in Strike Strategy by Arne Swabeck Recent Strikes in England Coal Miners in Struggle MacDonald Again "For Labor" What Has Become of Minority Movement? At the Fresh Grave of Kote Zinzadze by Leon Trotsky The Demagogy of the German National Socialists by Roman Well Reformism and Fascism The Ghezzi Case American Syndicalism and the Problems of Communism by James P. Cannon The I.W.W. as a Revolutionary Movement The Shortcomings of the I.W.W. Tasks of the Marxists Lovestone and Brandler The "Left" Saviors of Reformism in the Socialist Party by Max Shachtman The Sources of the "Left" Wing Who Are the "Militants" Defenders of Bourgeois Democracy The "Dictatorship" Debate Cannon Lecture in Boston Voices of Protest from the Bolsheviks in Exile by the Kansk Group: Arronovsky, Bardunal, Zagovsky, Zaichuk, Kugmainskaia, Michollov, Romansko, Razovenos, Suvitsky, Sovkin, Fortushkin and Smith The Prisons for Oppositionists Physical Destruction of Left Opposition The Desperate Methods of Centrism The Demands of the Opposition Organization Notes * Kansas City, Mo. * Minneapolis, Minn. * Toronto, Canada * Philadelphia, Pa. * Our Subscription Campaign * Chicago, Ill. * Our New Propaganda Literature * Resolution on Program of Expanded Activities for 1931 adopted by the National Committee Communist League of America The Legend of the Public Works Panacea by Harry Strang No Gains Asked Little Change Recorded Over 1930 Brandt Offers Little Hope March 5 Mar 1, 1931 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Blumkin...-One Year After His Murder "Communists and Progressives" Lawrence on Strike! -Textile Workers Rebel Against Wage-Cut and Speed Up System by Arne Swabeck Two Philly Oppositionists Held for Sedition by C. Stalin Acts Fire Destroys Trotsky Home Editorial Notes by James P. Cannon * How the Miners Were Defeated * Miller Goes Over to Muste * Trifling With the Negro Question Recent Lessons in Strike Strategy by Arne Swabeck Workers Divided in the Strike A Caricature of Strike Strategy Recent German Experiences A Sample of Party Strategy Organization Notes * New York * Philadelphia * Our Program for Expansion * Roll Call on the Program of Expansion * Get After Those Subs!! For the Program of Expansion by James P. Cannon The Two Thousand Dollar Fund The Progress in New York The Second National Conference What the London "Workers" Won't Print (A letter from David Davis to the editor of the "Daily Worker" that was censored) On the "Sectarians"... The Right Wing Liquidators and the S.P. "Militants" by Max Shachtman (Continued from last issue) Lovestone and the Stanley Group "Frontier Guards for the Soviet Union" The Mechanics of Liquidationism The International Conference of the Rights By Kurt Landau Is There an International Right Opposition? Results of the Minneapolis Special Election Appeal to the Party Members in the Needle Trades -For a United Front of the Party and the Left Opposition Against the Reactionaries, the Pseudo-Progressives, and the Right Wing Liquidators (the Lovestoneites) (From The Needle Trades Group, Communist League of America (Opposition), Sylvia Bleeker, Secretary) Indications of the Turn Preliminary Steps for the Left Wing The Theories of "Social Fascism" The Lovestone Liquidators One Step Forward Has Been Taken The Young Vanguard * What is the Situation in the Y.C.L.? by George Ray * Kaganovitch Teaches! The Dilemma of the War Department Youth Notes by Joseph Carter Hear! Hear! 6 Mar 15, 1931 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck In Prison. -A Letter from Exile by H.H. "Progressives" Meet -Middle Class Impotence Can't Solve the Burning Problems of Labor Anti-Communist Repression Spreads Throughout the Country * I.L.D. Refuses to Aid Philly Defendants by K.M. Whitten * Police Raid Minneapolis Opposition Forum Editorial Notes by James P. Cannon * More Treason to the Miners * "Against Exaggeration" * Miller's Manifesto * A Great Step Forward Our Subscription Drive The Strike Strategy of the Left Wing by Arne Swabeck What Strike Strategy is Not The United Front Policy in Strike Strategy Clarity of Strike Issues The Anti-Red Drive in Greece The Successes of Socialism and the Dangers of Adventurism by Leon Trotsky Mass Enthusiasm in the Civil War How the Economic Turn Was Carried Out Stalin's "Catching Up With and Surpassing" Stalin's Speech on the Five Year Plan by M. Mill Gandhi Make His Peace with Imperialism by Albert Glotzer Elections in the Amalgamated: What For? by Albert Orland Abolishing Elections Rank Corruption The Stalinists in the Hungarian Bureau Run Amuck by Thomas Stamm Charges of Corruption Supporters Turn into "Fascists" Overnight Beware of Dangers The Militants' Bookshelf -Lenin and the Iskra Period by James P. Cannon (Volume IV, The Collected Works of Lenin) The Iskra "Declaration" Lenin the Orthodox Marxist "Where to Begin" The Role of a Newspaper The Repression in Spain Organization Notes * Boston * Chicago * St. Louis, Mo. * From the National Office * The Program of Expansion Campaign * Roll Call on the Program of Expansion Paris Commune Affair Letters from the Militants * Stalinist Decay in England by Black Diamond * The Individual and the Revolution by H. Mashow * The New York Open Forum by George J. Saul April 7 Apr 1, 1931 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Illinois Mine Workers in Revolt -Rank and File Rebel Against Fishwick-Lewis Agreement; New Union Call Issued, by Arne Swabeck What Has Happened in Illinois? by Joseph Angelo Help Rebuild Trotsky's Library! (With a photograph of Trotsky at his work-desk pre-fire) Editorial Notes by James P. Cannon * Herberg Quotes Trotsky * Lawrence Gives the Signal * The Trade Union Turn * The Death of John Donlin For Economic Collaboration with Russia by Sam Gordon The Slogan of the Six-Hour Working-Day by Arne Swabeck A "Visionary" Slogan The Workers' Resistance The Miners and Railroad Workers The Successes of Socialism and the Dangers of Adventurism by Leon Trotsky (Continued from last issue) Have We Entered into the "Period of Socialism"? Four Years or Five? Past Mistakes and the Fate of the Plan The Philadelphia Cases The Communists and the Progressives by James P. Cannon Toward a Left Opposition Movement in Great Britain by Spartacus In the Next Issue Dressmaker Strike Ends by S.J. The Agrarian Congress in Puebla by Russell Blackwell Los Angeles "Radical" S.P. by Charles Curtiss The European Grain Meet -The American Big Stick Succeeds in Disrupting the Conference by Harry Strang "Too Much Wheat" The Price Decline "Sustained Prosperity" by George Ray Communist Tasks and the Workmens Circle by J.B. Opposition Lecture at Brookwood Expansion Program Headway Organization Notes * The Sub Drive For 500 New Subscribers and Renewals Special Offers * The Symbol Must Be Protected! * Expansion Program Roll Call on the Program of Expansion 8 Apr 15, 1931 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Republican Revolution in Spain by S.-n. Ill. Miners' Convention by Max Shachtman The Unity of Fishwick and Lewis The Blunders of Stalinism Confusion Instead of Policy The Left Wing Must Act Penn. Sedition Act Seeks Victims Editorial Notes by James P. Cannon * A Dangerous Situation * Communism and Syndicalism * Lying as a Political System * The Oppositionists at the May Day Conference May Day Meeting in Cleveland The Successes of Socialism and the Dangers of Adventurism by Leon Trotsky (Continued from last issue) The U.S.S.R. and the World Market Conclusion The Trial of the Russian Mensheviks -The Real Disposition of the Figures on the Political Scene by Leon Trotsky Who Are the Menshevik Defendants? The Two Fundamental Lines International Bulletin No. 2 Out! Notes of a Journalist by Alfa (Leon Trotsky Stalin and the Comintern Whose Phonograph is This? What Has Happened in the Chinese Communist Party In the Next Issue N.Y. May Day Conference -Opposition Delegates Heard Despite the Stalinist Bureaucracy by R. Hungarians Struggle Against Corruption by Y.S. A Wrong Point of Departure More Examples of Running Amuck Communist Tasks in the Workmens Circle Defend the Philly Militants! Clem Forsen, St. Paul TUUL Head, Expelled Organization Notes * The Subscription Drive * Organization Program Slogan of the 6-Hour Day -Discussion Article by John Mihelic The I.W.W. and the Unemployment Problem by Hugo Oehler A Step Forward May 9 May 1, 1931 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Workers, Out on May Day! from the National Committee of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Miners' Revolt Checked at Muste Convention by Hugo Oehler Smash the Scottsboro Frame-Up! by G. Editorial Notes by James P. Cannon * The Miners' Convention * The Road to a New Union * The Affair at City College Correction Next Steps in the Needle Trades by Sylvia Bleeker The Daily Worker Explains Some Differences by S. The Case of Riazanov by Leon Trotsky The Marxist Riazanov a Menshevik? The Menshevik "Collaborators" and the Marx-Engels Institute The Plebiscitary Regime...and Its Victims Behind the Scenes in the Russian Party The Theory of Stalinism and the Revolution in Spain by Max Shachtman The National-Socialist Conception Stalin on Spain An Objection Answered Organization Notes * Philadelphia * Minneapolis * Other Cities * How About Those Subs.? * Our Program of Expansion The Slogan of the Six-Hour Day -Discussion Article (Continued from last issue) 1886 and Today by John Mihelic Spring Festival of New York Opposition Branch In Our Next Issue Letters from the Militants * On the Party's Turn in the Needle Trades -Boston by Jenny * Musteism and Stalinism at the Miners Convention -Christopher, Ill. by Gerry Allard * The Fiftieth Anniversary of the Carpenters' Union -New York by W.H.H. Letter of a Deported Oppositionist The Young Vanguard -Youth Notes * The Young Vanguard * Y.C.L. Convention * The Free Youth * Indian Youth Executed * Against the R.O.T.C. The Young Communist League Convention by George Ray For a Genuine Discussion The Real Situation The Root Causes 10 May 15, 1931 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Revolutionary Progress in Spain - The Tasks of Spanish Communists by Andres Nin The Republican Government Who Will Carry Through the Democratic Revolution? The Weekly by July 1st! The Militant and the Events in Spain What is Happening in Spain -A Letter from Barcelona -Recent Events by J. Obin The Interest in "Moscow Affairs" Demagogy of the Republicans Editorial Notes by James P. Cannon * Now for the Weekly Militant! * Fighting for Free Speech * What About Morgenstern and Goodman? * The Right Wing Capitulators * The White Collar Unemployed Results of the Illinois Miners' Revolt by Arne Swabeck Serious Weaknesses Still Prevail Which Position Proved Correct? The Right Wing and the Center Make Their Position Clear The Position of the Left Opposition What of the Future? Who Has the "Leopard's Spots"? by John Mihelic Question of Leopards The Question of Trade Union Unity by Leon Trotsky The Bolsheviks and the Trade Unions Reformism and the Working Class The Problem of the United Front "America Conquers Britain" by S. Green The Rise of America The Decline of England The Fight for Supremacy The Clash The Times and the Daily Worker on Trotsky by George Ray Unemployed Cutters Rebel by Albert Orland Condition of Unemployed The Workers' Demands The Accomplishments So Far Immediate Relief Needed Weisbord: Cult of Confusionism by S. In the Next Issue Seasonal Improvement -- Where? b y Albert Glotzer Seasonal Rise Slight Wage Cuts Increased June 11 Jun 1, 1931 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Next Month The Weekly! -An Appeal to Our Readers Rally to the Defense of the Scottsboro Boys! -A United Working Class Front Will Prevent a Legalized Lynching by R.T. Ten Commandments of the Spanish Communist by Leon Trotsky Editorial Notes by James P. Cannon * Bolshevik Organization * The Struggle Against "Left" Reformism * What is Socialism? The Eleventh Plenum of the Comintern The Estimation on the U.S.S.R. The Colonial Question in China and in India Two Criticisms of the 6-Hour Day Slogan by Arne Swabeck Does the Party Oppose this Slogan? What Are Mihelic's Errors? M. Malkin Expelled From Opposition by the New York Branch Communist League of America (Opposition) Boston Lecture First of May in Madrid by J. Obin The Bourgeoisie and the Spanish Revolution by L. Fersen Papal Drugs for Labor by Herbert Capelis The Duluth Dock Strike by F. The Strike Starts Well Absence of Sound Leadership In Defense of Scottsboro Stanley Disappoints Lovestone Browder Gets the Call Resolution of the International Secretariat on the Weisbord Group Organization Notes by David Davis * Philadelphia * New York * Boston * The Movement in Los Angeles by Max Geldman * A "Non-Party" Organization -New York by J. * From an I.W.W. Member - Minneapolis Militant Sub Drive -Only One Month Left for Subscription Drive The Young Vanguard * Back of the Air Maneuvers by George Clarke * Yipsels and National Youth Day by F. Student Youth and the Workers Movement by Albert Glotzer 12 Jun 15, 1931 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Miners on the March! -Thousands on Strike Against Wage Cuts in Western Pennsylvania by Arne Swabeck Next Issue-The Weekly The Spanish Bourgeoisie Acts -- Against Labor -The Spanish Bourgeoisie Gets into Action by M. Mill The Role of the Bourgeoisie The "Crime" of the Expelled Editorial Notes by James P. Cannon * Strike Strategy * Assembling the Future Staff The Eleventh Plenum of the Comintern by Janin (Continued from last issue) The A.F. of L. and the Wage-Cut Drive by Arne Swabeck Communism and Syndicalism in Spain by Hugo Oehler The General Strike "Freedom" and Dictatorship The Strangled Revolution by Leon Trotsky An Unforgettable Picture Garine's False Radicalism Tcheng Dai and Hong The Weakness of the Masses America's "Pacifism" in Europe and...Litvinov's by Max Shachtman Germany's Plight The American Plan A Congenial Commissioner At One Single Blow! The Unification of the Chinese Opposition (by the Secretariat of the Left Opposition of the Chinese Communist Party, Secretary Chen Du-Siu) The Party's Unemployment Drive by Thomas Stamm The Stalinist Analysis The Party's Demonstrations The Decline of Support Organization Notes * The Militant Sub Drive * Program of Expansion Campaign * Reactionary Fanaticism by James Economou Letters from the Militants * How the I.L.D. Defends Opposition Workers by Leon Goodman * Shall We Subordinate Social Insurance Fight? by John Mihelic The Young Vanguard Appeal to the League Convention by the National Youth Committee Communist League of America (Opposition) Against Class Collaboration Policies The Situation in the Y.C.L. The Militant -Official Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) 12 Jun 15, 1931 (Supplement) Positions and Perspectives of American Imperialism Problems of American National Economy Capitalist Readjustment The Function of the N.R.A. International Problems Soviet Union & U.S. Imperialism Capitalist System in Decay The Insoluble Contradiction Draft Thesis of the N.C. of the Communist League for the Third National Convention (By the National Committee, Communist League of America) Class Relations in the United States Position of the American Farmer The New Deal and the Unions Work Within Mass Unions Great Tasks for New Party July 13 Jul 4, 1931 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck The Revolver at the Head of France -The Hoover Reparations Debt Scheme by Max Shachtman The Crisis in the Young Plan A Solution of the Crisis? "Permanent Revolution" Barred in Canada Miners Strike against Wage Cuts and Starvation Conditions by Arne Swabeck The Heavy Strike Toll Relief Urgent An Appeal for Communist Unity in Spain by Leon Trotsky, April 24, 1931 Philadelphia Oppositionists Convicted of Sedition In The International of Labor -Reviews and News of the Working Class and Revolutionary Movements -Two Social-Democratic Congresses, the Collapse of the "Lefts" * The French Socialists and National Defense * The Sanction of Betrayal at Leipzig by Sam Gordon * The Provisional Government in Action by Henry LaCroix * League Activities Organization Notes Our Subscription Campaign Our Program of Expansion Campaign On the Workers Front * Opposition Appeals to Milliners * Cleveland Party & Unemployment by George Clarke * Illinois Miners on the March by Gerry Allard * The Unemployment Councils at Work by Thomas Stamm * Where Does British Labor Stand? by Arne Swabeck In Europe The Essential Question of Destiny of England Where is the Proletarian Vanguard? MacDonald Preparing the Road * The Second Convention of the C.L.A. (Opposition) Editorial Notes by James P. Cannon * The Capitalist Offensive * The Union Square Meeting A New Slander Against D.B. Riazonov by Leon Trotsky Economic Crisis -- What Next? by B. J. Field Data on Manufacturing Industries 1919-1929 14 Jul 11, 1931 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Off the Leninist Path -Stalin's New Economic Policy by Max Shachtman How the New Policy is Made How Lenin Viewed the Problem The Opposition's Warning Shall Eight Die? 23,000 West Virginia Miners Are Out in New Strike Wave -Forward to a United Front of the Pennsylvania, Ohio, Illinois and W. Va. Miners by Arne Swabeck The Need for the United Front Rush Relief! On Guard Against Betrayal! -Hillman's New Racket - The "Campaign" Against Racketeering by Albert Orland Who Are the Racketeers? Bosses with Hillman A Real Challenge For a United Defense: -Movement Begins for the Defense of the Two Philadelphia Oppositionists United Front Imperative In the International of Labor -Reviews and News of the Working Class and Revolutionary Movements * The Spanish Masses in Motion -- Where Is the Communist Party? By Henry Lacroix The Strikes The Partial Election of May 31 Financial Panic In the Communist Party * The British Scene -England's Economic Plight by Arne Swabeck Growing Conflict in World Market Growing Conflict at Home * The Archio-Marxists In Action -Left Opposition Leads the May Day Struggles in Greece Demonstration Disrupted * Polish Social Democrats Capitalize on the Blunders of Stalinism by Felix Reasons for "Radicalization" Results of "Social Fascism' Theory Where is the Communist Party? On the Workers' Front: * Rank and File Struggles in the New York Carpenters' Union by W.H.H. A Reactionary Proposal Toward Mass Demonstrations Seven or Six Hour Day? Lessons for the T.U.U.L. * Auto Workers Reject a Cut by Gadfly * The Background of the Coal Strike by Harry Strang Editorial Notes by James P. Cannon * The Overlooked German Situation * "Saving-Germany" For Whom? * Reviving "The Appeal to Reason" Manuilsky Makes an Unintentional Admission by S.-n. Thaelmann and the "People's Revolution" by Leon Trotsky Economic Crisis -- What Next? by B. J. Field (Continued from last issue) Ways Out? Political Perspectives 15 Jul 18, 1931 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck The Spanish Revolution On the Order of the Day for the Left Opposition by Leon Trotsky Two Basic Questions Democratic Slogans The Lessons of China Relief and Defense for the Striking Miners Rank and File Illinois Miners Ready for a New and Militant National Movement by Gerry Allard The Policies of the Stalinists Immediate Task of the Left Wing Combine the Miners' Struggle into a United Front! -The Stalinists Are Pursuing a Sectarian Policy Which Keeps the Insurgent Movements Separated by Max Shachtman What is Happening in the Coal Fields? What Should the Left Wing Do? Do Not Be Deceived by Cheap Phrases The Mistake is Being Made Now -- Correct It Now! Acute Crisis Shakes Germany and Central European Lands -Whole Communist Movement of Europe Now Put to the Test by Sam Gordon I.L.D. Sabotages the Opposition Defense -I.L.D. Sabotages Class Defense of Goodman and Morgenstern Engdahl's Falsehoods In the International of Labor -Reviews and News of the Working Class and Revolutionary Movements * Germany -The Latest Decree Against the Workers by F. Policy of German Bourgeoisie The Aims of the Decree * Clearing Away the Petty Bourgeois Fog -On the Road to Proletarian Revolution in Spain by Estaban Bilbao * Argentine -Uriburu Dictatorship Strangles Labor by R.G. * For the Spanish Opposition Press * The British Scene -MacDonald and Rationalization by Arne Swabeck A Campaign of Wage Slashing * In France -Economic Crisis and the Strikes by Pierre Frank On the Workers Front * In the New York A.F. of L. by Gadfly * Ban "Class Struggle" Organization Notes New York Cleveland Philadelphia St. Louis The Expansion Program Campaign Editorial Notes by James P. Cannon * Even a Browder Can Learn * Our Revolution U.S. Crisis Past & Present by B. J. Field The Early Crises The Panic of 1873 World War and 1914 Crisis "Solutions" in the Past 16 Jul 25, 1931 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Stalinism and the German Crisis -The "Daily Worker" Contributes Three Errors To a Serious Question by James P. Cannon Another Form of American Hegemony Imperialists and a Fascist Dictatorship Second League Conference Demonstrate on August 1 Against Imperialist War! Pittsburgh Convention Shows Need for Unity of Fighting Miners by George Clarke A Militant Conference A Fosterite "United Front" Question of National Strike Patterson On Strike -N.T.W. Must Take Initiative in United Front of All Silk Workers by Max Shachtman Terror in China -Arrest Opposition Heads -13 Communists in the Hands of the Butcher Chiang Kai-Shek by N.S. Pointed Questions to the I.L.D. Results of the Spanish Elections -The Victory of the Socialists and the Tasks of the Communists by Leon Trotsky The Socialist Victory Weakness of Spanish Communism The Slogan of Soviets Stalinist Slander In the International of Labor -Reviews and News of the Working Class and Revolutionary Movements * In Spain -Day by Day Influence of Left Opposition The Opposition and Maurin The Relation of Forces * Clearing Away the Petty Bourgeois Fog -On the Road to the Proletarian Revolution in Spain by Estaban Bilbao (Continued from last issue) The Need for a Party * In France -Economic Crisis and the Strikes by Pierre Frank (Continued from last issue) Failure of the Communist Party * The British Scene -MacDonald's "Victories" by Arne Swabeck Struggles Looming The "Third Period" in England MacDonald's Imperialist Policy On the Workers Front -After the Pocketbook Makers' Strike by N. Davis The Agreement Call for Second National Conference of the Communist League (Opposition) Thesis for the Pre-Conference Discussion Crisis in the United States and Its Effects on Labor The Prospects for the American Working Class Movement Social Reformism and the Perspective of the Revolutionary Movement The Position of the Communist Movement and the Tasks of the Party The Left Opposition and Its Role in the Movement Problems of the Spanish Revolution by Leon Trotsky The "Intermediate Revolution" Communists and Socialist Workers Help the Press of the Spanish Opposition Attention, Youth! August 17 Aug 1, 1931, New Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Nine-Tenths of Our Activities for the Revolution in Spain -On the Maurin Group in Catalonia and the Left Opposition by Leon Trotsky The Federation in the Elections Unity a la Maurin Spain: The Revolution Day by Day -In the Communist Party of Spain by Henry Lacroix Persecutions Against Us In the Midst of the Elections The Strikes The Second Congress of the N.C. of L. Send Generous Aid to the Spanish Left Opposition Silk Revolt Growing -Policies of All Elements under Test of the Struggle in Paterson by James P. Cannon After The London Conference -The Buck is Passed to Germany by J. B. Fields Wage-Cuts -White House OK's the Drive The British Scene -The Unemployment Problem by Arne Swabeck The Serious Unemployment Situation The Communist Party and Unemployment The Anti-Trade Union Act What Does the Balance Sheet Show? The Catalonian Federation's Platform by Leon Trotsky Menshevik Criticism Spanish Kuo Min Tangism Alfa -Notes of a Journalist by Leon Trotsky Manuilsky, the Leader of the Comintern Auerbach Caught With the Goods Notes from the Editor Discussion Articles -The Party and the Opposition's Tasks by S. M. Rose Unity and Differences Role of Centrism Prospects for Future Call the Troopers Weisbord --- No Comment! A Proposal to Gitlow Editorial Notes by James P. Cannon * A Welcome Reversal * Again the Union Square Meeting * Field Organizers of the Opposition Behind the Miners Strike -Economic Decay in Soft Coal by B. J. Fields Where Coal Comes From Shift of Coal Fields Key Position of West Va. Reason for Market Loss Financial Concentration Mechanization of Mines Bucharin and the Permanent Revolution The Permanent Revolution in Lenin's Time 18 Aug 8, 1931 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck The New Musteite Party -The C.P.L.A. Prepares a Home for the Political Homeless Socialists and Communists The Sponsors of the Party After the Lamont Letter -Wage Cut Drive -Class Struggle or "Peace" by Sam Gordon What Is the Situation of the Workers at This Juncture? Per Capita Earnings Employment Mining and Textile Strikes in Danger -Stalinist Failure to Apply United Front Threatens Strike by S. The Party on the Mine Strike The Paterson Strike Hillman Brings the Tailor Strike to an End by Albert Orland A New Betrayal A Slander! -Blackguards and Assistants by Leon Trotsky Andres Nin Calls for the Spanish Opposition Press by Andres Nin In the International of Labor -Reviews and News of the Working Class and Revolutionary Movements * In Spain -The Struggle Day by Day by Henry Lacroix The Successes in Andalusia The Elections * Germany -The Impotence of the Communist Party in the Face of the Crisis What Is the Party Doing? The Party and the "Left" Socialist Leaders * In Greece -Repression Against the Opposition Anti-Semitic Disturbances in Salonika Discussion Articles -The Party and the Opposition's Tasks by S. M. Rose (Continued from last issue) The I.W.W. Education and the Young Communists by George Ray Organization Notes Our Recent Activities Our Expansion Program Fragments of Truth from Under the Garbage of Slander by Alfa (Leon Trotsky) Editorial Notes by James P. Cannon * Wage Cuts and Strikes * They Say it With Flowers Stalin in 1921 -More About the Theory of Socialism in One Country Before Lenin's Death by S.-n Stalin in 1925 And Stalin in 1921 Problems of the Spanish Revolution -Mistakes of Comrade Maurin by Andres Nin An...Uncomfortable Position Why Maurin Is Not with the "Trotskyists" The "National" Character of the Spanish Revolution 19 Aug 15, 1931 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck The Wage-Cut Offensive -Toward Sharp Working Class Struggles of Resistance by Arne Swabeck Trotsky Greets Weekly Militant by Leon Trotsky After the Massacre -Chicago Opposition Condemns Murders of Negro Workers by Chicago Branch Communist League of America (Left Opposition) Wickersham's Exposures -Capitalism's Agents Reveal a Few of Its Festering Sores Mass Arrests In Silk Strike -Left Wing Makes a Half Turn to Unity After Prussian Elections -Stalinists Trail Behind Demagogues of the Hitlerite Camp Almost 1,000 Pesetas Already Sent for the Spanish Opposition Press For Our National Conference -Draft Thesis on the Youth Question Youth in America The Effects of the Crisis The American League Opponent Youth Organizations The Work of the Opposition The British Scene -The Danger of Left Reformism by Arne Swabeck A General Political Fermentation The I.L.P. in the Past Discussion Articles -The Double Task of the Left Opposition by Hugo Oehler Wrong Views The Pressure of the Left The Party and the Opposition's Tasks by S. M. Rose (Continued from last issue) Dizziness...From Failure In the A.C.W.A -Cliques Gird for Spoils by Albert Orland Hillman-Beckerman Struggle Clique Conflicts in the Strike Towards a Split Editorial Notes by James P. Cannon: * Free Speech and the Labor Movement * What is a Renegade? Leon Trotsky Writes on Stalin's Latest Speech -A New Zig-zag and the New Dangers by Leon Trotsky The Five Year Plan in Four Years The Problem of the Working Force Problems of the Spanish Revolution Ð Mistakes of Comrade Maurin by Andres Nin 20 Aug 21, 1931 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Lovosky Unloads the Blame...-The Lesser Losovskys in their Old Role of "Whipping Boys" by James P. Cannon Trotsky's Letter to the Pravda by Leon Trotsky 78 Trotsky Voters in Santander The Revolution in Spain -Conflict of Tendencies in the Ranks of the Working Class -Madrid Letter by Henry Lacroix The Forces of the Spanish Party Panic in the Two Independent Federations The National Congress of the Socialist Party The Communist Opposition in the N.C.L. The New Persecutions Against Us Our Progress Spanish Opposition Press Fund Increasing Mine Strike Called Off -Opportunity for National Movement Missed by Party Blunder The Heavy Odds Speak Out Frankly Our Proposals Try 35 Kentucky Miners -Red-Baiting is Prominent Feature of New Frame-Up Attempt In the International of Labor -Reviews and News of the Working Class and Revolutionary Movements * Germany -Communist Suppression by Roman Well Abolition of Press Freedom * The British Scene -The Bankruptcy of British Stalinism by Arne Swabeck Pollitt Recites the Failures The Party Leadership Views "Simplifying" the Problems of Revolution The Future Holds Great Possibilities Opposition at Boston I.L.D. Conference Discussion Articles: * Reforms and Immediate Demands by Hugo Oehler The Position of Negation False Abstractions When Bosses Grant Reform The Communist Task * The Meaning of the American Crisis by B. J. Field The New Facts as Base Theories of Self-Cure The Agrarian Crisis * Shortcomings in the Youth Thesis by Lillian Bord Equal Pay for Equal Work A Nucleus in the League Youth Clubs Editorial Notes by James P. Cannon: * Bernard Shaw on Russian * Debating the Dole Leon Trotsky Writes on Stalin's Latest Speech -A New Zig-zag and the New Dangers (Continued from last issue) Socialist Enthusiasm and Piece Work A Personal Revelation 21 Aug 29, 1931 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck The End of the Labor Cabinet -Wall Street Cracks the Whip and MacDonald Jumps by Max Shachtman MacDonald and the Dole The Collapse of the Cabinet 34 Kentucky Miners Framed; 18 On Trial in Pennsylvania -Unity of Conflicting Defense Movements Needed to Strengthen the Struggle 18 on Trial in Washington Bureaucrats Sabotage United Front in Chicago Jobless Conference by Martin C. Payer M. Payer arrested in St. Louis Anti-Communist Arrests in Canada -Communist Party Leaders Seized and Held by Dominion Authorities under Sedition Act by Maurice Spector Canada In the Crisis Police terror in Toronto A Trial Out of the Past Half-Hearted Stalinist About Face On Issue of Credits to Soviet Union Increase the Spanish Press Fund to 200 Dollars! Draft of the Thesis on the Trade Union Question The Prospects for the New Militant Unions The Position and Perspectives of the A,F. of L. Unions The Trade Union Policy of the Lovestone Group The Status of the New Industrial Unions Conclusion Discussion Articles * Social Reform and a Labor Party by Hugo Oehler * The Meaning of the American Crisis by B. J. Field (Continued from last issue * Prospects for the Outcome of the Crisis by H. Stone Politics and Economics The Factors at Work Effects on Producers' Goods Foreign Trade In the Struggle of the Shoeworkers The Case of Lieut. Scheringer Organization Notes Boston Minneapolis Chicago New York Our Program of Expansion Campaign The Left Opposition on the Parliamentary Tribune -Comrade Seipold's Speech in the Prussian Landtag German and America Proletarian Revolution Only Hope Revolutionary Flames in Spain The "Freest Republic" September 22 Sep 5, 1931 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Consolidate The Weekly! -New York Gives new Impetus to Expansion Program Fund by James P. Cannon First Results I. Y. D. All Out! by Joseph Carter Gordon Arrested at Boston Meeting Credits for the Soviet Union -Stalinists Change their Stand but Evade Most Essential Points by S. What We Demanded Stalinist Objection The Need of Credits Our Spanish Fund Mooney Appeals! -All Efforts Now for a Broad and Genuine United Front Move by Arne Swabeck The Need for Action The Communist Duty A Call from Prison (San Quentin, August 20th 1931) by Tom Mooney Offer Aid in Party Election Fight by H. Stone The Anarchists in Spain -The "Turn" of the Syndicalists and Macia's Nationalism by M. Mills The Anarcho-Syndicalists In the International of Labor -Reviews and News of the Working Class and Revolutionary Movements * U.S.S.R. -From Moscow & Deportation * In Spain -The Events of a Fortnight by Henry Lacroix The Incidents at Seville The Labor Organizations During the Recent Disturbances The Socialist Ministers The Repression Continues * A Letter from Berlin at Election * Germany -The Plebiscite's Real Results The Figures Speak Further "Victory" Proof Toronto -The Canadian Red Raids by Maurice Quater Discussion Articles: * Some Shortcomings of the Thesis by Joseph Carter Change on Labor Party The Economic Crisis * To Improve our Will by Clem Forsen * The Thesis and the Crisis by Hugo Oehler Editorial Notes by James P. Cannon * Where is the British Communist Party? * The Return of Gerry Allard The Anonymous Factional Struggle in The Party by Max Shachtman An Anonymous Struggle Browder vs. Dunne and Foster Maurin and the Anarcho-Syndicalists by Leon Trotsky Lovestone 10 Years Ago by Marsh 23 Sep 12, 1931 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck The I.L.D. "Acts" on Moony -The Appeal for a United Front Evaded by the Stalinists by Max Shachtman A Significant Appeal A Radical Mistake Change the Course! 2nd National Conference, Sept. 24 Demand Trotsky's Return -French Red Union Congress Votes for Appeal to the Soviets Steel Wage Cuts Forecast -Analysis Shows Steel Barons' Plans to Slash at Workers by B. J. Fields A Contacted Market Wage Declines Complete the Expansion Fund Program! Jobless Spurned by Roosevelt, Hoover -Unemployment Insurance Must Be Won Hoover's "Plan" The Crux of the Problem Split Threatens A.C.W. -Cliques Expose Each Other While Left Wing Marks Time by Albert Orland Hillman's Maneuvers The Party Policy In the International of Labor -Reviews and News of the Working Class and Revolutionary Movements * In Spain -The Opposition and the National Question * Greece -The Elections in Mytilene Morgenstern-Goodman and the I. L. D. Discussion Articles: * A Reply to the Discussion by James P. Cannon A Discredited Idea Distorted History Repeating Slander False Viewpoints * Problems of Our Perspectives by Arne Swabeck Fundamentals of Present Crisis The Basis of Possible Revival Further World Market Expansion America's Role in the World Market * Contradictions of the Agrarian Crisis by W. Krehm Effects of "Return to Normal" Attempts at Organization A Revolutionary Force Our International Bulletin The Young Vanguard * Youth Notes by Joseph Carter Our Youth Thesis The Y. C. L. * The Question of Youth in Industry * Our Tasks by George Ray Struggle of the Boston Shoeworkers In the Ranks of the Party -The Startling Turnover in the Party The Sharp Decline The Roots of the Evil A Picture of the Party's Inner Life How Articles "Happen" to Be Written I.Y.D. in New York What IS International Youth Day? by Joseph Carter 24 Sep 19, 1931 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Stop Making a Football Out of the Mooney Case! by Max Shachtman The Stalinist Plan A Novel Committee For a Genuine Movement Arne Swabeck Injured in Accident British Seaman Revolt Against Wage Cuts I. L. D. Threatens Expulsion -Hacker Announces that All Oppositionists Will Be Expelled Opposition's Proposals Protest the Splitting Proposal! "Comunismo" Barred From Canada Nat'l Conference to Open Thursday The Latest Events in Spain -Turmoil Among the Socialists, Splits Among the Communists -Events of the Week by Henry Lacroix Social Democracy Frenzy The Catalonian Statute For the Unification of the C.P. In the Communist Party Unemployment Increases We Need Another $600.00 for the Fund In the International of Labor -Reviews and News of the Working Class and Revolutionary Movements * France -French Foreign Policy is Modified * After the Labor Government's Fall -New Nat'l Government -London Letter by Anglicus The Labor "Opposition" The Plight of the Party American Bankers and the Crisis Some Stalinist "Leninism" Germany -Bruening, France and the Communists Discussion Articles * Tasks of Our National Conference by James P. Cannon * The League and the Problem of the Youth by Joseph Carter * The Youth Thesis by Albert Glotzer * Perspectives of the American Crisis by B.J. Fields Maurin and the Catalonian Question by M. M. and Leon Trotsky Resolution on the International Left Opposition M. N. Roy Arrested in India Against National Communism (Lessons of the "Red" Referendum) by Leon Trotsky How Everything is Turned Upon Its Head The "United Front", But With Whom? The Question of the Relation of Forces Let Us Look Back at the Russian Experience With Blown-Out Lanterns 25 Sep 26, 1931 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Our Second Conference -A Milestone in the Progress of the American Opposition Our Position Confirmed War Clouds Dark in Manchuria Steel Wages Slashed Throughout Land A Signal to the Bosses Organize the Fight! Expulsions Campaign Begins in I. L. D. by Harry Milton Refused Admission R.R.s Prepare Wage Cuts by B. J. Fields Position of Labor Leaders Freight Rate Decline Expansion Program In the International of Labor -Reviews and News of the Working Class and Revolutionary Movements * In Spain -Progress of the Left Opposition by Juan Andrade The Propaganda Tours Our Weekly Organ The Spread of Our Literature * Germany and the Approaching Winter by Ervin Bauer The Development of German Fascism The Present Method of Domination and Strategy of the Bourgeoisie * The Floating Baron * Who is Malkin? * Greece -The Opposition and The Party by P. Psakis Davios (The Torch) Persecutions and Action International Labor Defense Federation of Food Industries Party Membership Mitylene By-Election Labor's Perspective in the Struggle for a Respite by Arne Swabeck Mobilizing the Labor United Front by Sam Gordon Double Responsibility Foreign-Born Workers How the Life of the Y. C. L. is Strangled The "Inner Life" Hullabaloo and Noise A Letter About the Spanish Revolution by Leon Trotsky Party Breaks Meet in Malden by Sam Gordon Against National Communism! (Lessons of the "Red" Referendum) by Leon Trotsky (Continued from last issue) "The People's Revolution" Instead of the Proletarian Revolution "People's Revolution" as a Method of National Liberation The School of Bureaucratic Centrism As the School of Capitulations "Revolutionary War" and Pacifism How Marxists Should Deliberate October 26 Oct 10, 1931 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Reply of the Steel Workers -Preparations to Resist Wage Cuts on the Order of the Day by Arne Swabeck Wages and Living Costs Past Experiences 23,000 Strike in Lawrence, Mass. -Will Left Wing Repeat Errors? Hoover Announces New "Crisis Cure" Where is Rakovsky? What About Paterson? -The Stalinists Unload Responsibility for Their Bankruptcy Second National Conference Marks Step Forward by Arne Swabeck The Political Report On the Soviet Union Conference Achievements In the International of Labor -Reviews and News of the Working Class and Revolutionary Movements * British Crisis Sharpens -Militant Correspondents Describe Moods of the Workers by Anglicus Parliamentary Opposition The Party * A Letter from Cornwall by Millicent Shooter * Germany -The Coming Winter by Ervin Bauer (Continued from last issue) The Policy of the German C.P. * U.S.S.R. -Letters from Oppositionists by P. * From an Economic Director * A View of the Struggle in Madrid by Ray Secr't Greets Conference -Increasing Problems for the International Left Opposition by M Mill (For the International Secretariat) A Ferment in the Chicago Y. C. L. by Youth Committee, C.L.A. (Opposition) Chicago Branch Against National Communism! -Lessons of the "Red" Referendum by Leon Trotsky (Continued from last issue) Why Was the Party Silent? What Does Stalin Say? What Does "Pravda" Say? A Syndicalist Voyage to the Ranks of Stalinism by Martin Abern Catching Up With the Revolution Scarlett on the Field of National Socialism The Struggle Against Bureaucracy Conference Acts on Weisbord Issue is Skipped Expulsions Begin in Spartacus Club 27 Oct 17, 1931 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck ILD Mooney Meet Ousts Left -Opposition Delegates Unseated by Bureaucratic Machine by G.C. Protest Expulsions in Greek Club To Party Members and Sympathizers War Threatens in Manchuria -Japan, China, U. S. and Soviet Union Are Involved by Nipponese Military Attack Japan and China The Position of the U.S. The American Game Jurisdictional Disputes Disrupt A.F.L. Building Trades Dept. by Arne Swabeck U.S. Confronts Banking Crisis by B. J. Fields The New Mechanism Controlling the Deflation Paper and Gold Effects of Deflation Government Bonds Minneapolis I.L.D. Pursue Ruinous Policy of Sectarianism and Expulsion by M. G. Plans Laid for Systematic Youth Work Organization Notes Militant Builders Our Expansion Program Constitution is Revised -National Conference Strengthen the Statutes of the League Name Purpose International Affiliation Membership Organization Administration Dues and Initiation Fee Discipline Qualifications for Election Conferences Fractions Chicago Unemployment Conference by Communist League of America (Left Opposition) Chicago Branch The Party's Election Campaign by Reva Craine The Struggle for Trade Union Unity in Spain by Henry LaCroix The Struggle for Trade Union Unity Up to 1926 Deception and Uncertainty Misery, Class Struggle and Trade Union Unity Editorial Notes -Furriers Unity by James P. Cannon Who is Christian Rakovsky? A Letter to Comrades by Leon Trotsky -The Question of Workers' Control of Production by Leon Trotsky 28 Oct 24, 1931 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Green and Co. at Vancouver -A.F. of L. Officialdom Continues to Serve Its Master by Arne Swabeck Growing Revolt Against National Government Marks British Scene by Anglicus A Turn-About Establish an English Opposition! The Party and the Election Fighting--for Votes! Division and Doubt The Case of the Meerut Prisoners Banking Crisis in the U.S. -Attempt to Defend Gold Standard Proves to be Costly by B. J. Field Small Banks Failed Bank Assets Financial Effects of the Crisis Increased Gold Need Vote Communist in the Elections! -Support the Candidates of the C.P.U.S.A. Opportunities for Progress Opportunist Blunders Funds are Needed Immediately On the Workers' Front * Lessons from the Furriers' Fight for the Coming Dressmakers' Struggle by Syliva Bleeker Conditions of Workers Coming Dress Strike * The Government Civil Service Applies Hooverism to the White Collar Slave by Martin Abern Low Wages of Civil Service Workers U.S. Government Increases Hours Need to Organize "White-Collar" Workers Stalinists Again Oust Left Opposition at Chicago Unemployment Conference by Hugo Oehler A Few "Pages from Party History" Youth Will Issue "Young Spartacus as Organ by Martin Abern In the International of Labor -Reviews and News of the Working Class and Revolutionary Movements C. P. Policy in England -The Stalinists' Sterility Before the Problem of the United Front by Arne Swabeck Serious Currents Within Labor Opposition C.P. Leadership Impotent Adding New Confusion The United Front Policy Now is the Time to Apply Lessons of Past Experiences Silence in the Ranks of the Party on the Tom Mooney Case The N.T.W.I.U at Work in Boston by C. Editorial Notes by James P. Cannon * Laying the Foundations * Hail Young Spartacus! A Letter to Comrades -The Question of Workers' Control of Production by Leon Trotsky (Continued from last issue) Two Ways Out Necessary Preparations 29 Oct 31, 1931 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Unite Employed and Unemployed in Relief Struggle by Arne Swabeck Opponents Divert Unemployed Issue Into False Channels Unemployed and Employed Must Be United in Struggle Party Recognizes Narrowness of Unemployed Movement For a United Front In the Next Issue -On the Manchurian Events! Railway Bosses Drop their Masks by B. J. Fields England Goes to the Polls by Caius Gracchus Labour Party Battles for Capitalism Tories Shift to Protection "Issue" Chicago I.L.D. Persists in Isolation Policy Greek Opposition Active Among British Sailors Trotsky Greets "El Soviet" by Leon Trotsky Banking Crisis in the U.S. -Perspectives of Future Finance Developments (Continued from previous issue) Rush Funds to The Militant! On the Workers' Front * The Morgenstern-Goodman Case and the I. L. D. -The Defendants Present a Statement of the Facts by Leon Goodman and Bernard Morgenstern I.L.D. Refuses to Aid Class War Victims Convicted on Sedition Charges Rally to Defendants * Penn. Sedition Victim Dies in Cell * Siskind's Report: Party Failures and New "Plans" New Plans * Serious Unemployment Problems Suffer Because of Stalinist Maneuvers -Left Opposition Brings Program Before Chicago Conference by C.C. [Charles Curtis] "Slip Up" of the Machine Opposition on Floor Rubiczki in Frenzy Opposition's Program The Machine "Repaired" * The Bureaucracy in the I.W.O. New International Bulletin Out on Sale In the International of Labor -Reviews and News of the Working Class and Revolutionary Movements * The Situation in Germany -The Elections in Hamburg by M. * Notes from Berlin * A Communist Party -The Problem of the Revolution in England by F. A. Ridly British Situation is Beyond Reform Objective Conditions Favorable to Revolution Prepare for Third Annual Dance Editorial Notes by James P. Cannon: * An Apologist for Stalinism * The Dressmakers Symposium From an I. L. D. Delegate The Opposition at Party Forum by H.C. The Party on the Philippines by A. Our Own Interview with Ben Gitlow November 30 Nov 7, 1931 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck After the British Elections -Preparing the Road for Sharpened Future Struggles by Arne Swabeck The Labor Party Prepared for Present Situation Does MacDonald See His Finish? New Relations and Labors' New Road Manchurian Events and the Communists by Niel-Sih The Resistance of the Chinese Masses Kuo Min Tang's Shaky Position Influence of the Past on Present Chinese C.P. The Protective Ambiguity of the Stalinist Formulas The Weakening of the Party Apparatus Actual Conditions in the "Soviet" Areas Mismanagement in Peasant Affairs Progress and Hardships of the Left Opposition Hail 14 Years of Soviet Rule! -Fight to Preserve the Traditions of the Bolshevik October by Martin Abern The Proletarian Dictatorship is Established The Epoch of Wars and Revolutions Carrying Out the Program of Communism Lenin Dies; Stalinism Rises Stalin and Menshevik Hopes The Opposition Platform Serves the Workers' Interests The Conditions in the Factories The Changes in the Communist Party The Development of National Socialism Soviet Russia -- The Fortress of World Revolution The Platform of the Opposition--And the Future Preserve the Weekly Canadian Party Leaders on Trial The Decisions of the Defense Conference The Regime of Police Terror "El Soviet" Out On the Workers' Front * A Union Delegate on the Mooney Meet by W.H.H. Hacker Lies * In Sec. Two C.P. A Rank and Filer Speaks Up * Amter Proscribes Opposition at Forum Amter Proscribes Oppositionist *Work in the I. L. D. -Opposition Active Despite Bureaucrats Litvinov In Turkey The Party Discusses the Negro Problem by Herbert Capelis Policy on the Negro Question The Negro and the Class Viewpoint In the International of Labor -Reviews and News of the Working Class and Revolutionary Movements * Letter from Germany -The New Party Turn -The Menace of Fascism Increases by Ervin Bauer Fascism Again Shows Its Fangs The Communist Party Changes Its Course Social Democrats Discussing Russo-German Relations The Social-Democratic Opposition and the New Centrist Party * In Great Britain -Developments in England and Ireland by Anglicus Developments in England and Ireland More "Self-Criticism" The Irish Ferment Editorial Notes by James P. Cannon * Amter Will Get Your Money Back? * The Opposition on the Offensive For Clarity and Action -"Young Spartacus" to Appeal to Membership of Y.C.L. by G. R. We Must Reach Y.C.L. Activities in the Ranks of the Opposition New York Classes Begin Study Group Chicago Classes Greek Left Opposition in Appeal to British Sailors by the Archio-Marxists, Bolshevik-Leninists of the Left Opposition of Greece The Appeal to the British Sailors Proletariat Greets Sailors' Strike 31 Nov 14, 1931 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck The Meaning of the Elections -A Victory for Capitalism; a Defeat for Official Communism by Martin Abern The Capitalists Win Again The Bosses Look Now to the Democrats The Elections in New York The Petit-Bourgeois Appeal of the Socialists The Communist Party Vote The Communist Objective in Elections The N.Y. Party Program What Kind of Demands Should be Raised Win Workers to Communist Principles The Central Committee on the Elections The Party Pays the Price of Wrong Theory Jap War in Manchuria Menaces Soviet & World Proletariat -American Imperialists Join in Preparations for World-wide Conflagration by Martin Abern Behind the Smoke-screen of Japanese Imperialism Imperialist Provocations and Soviets' Policy of Peace The Dual Task of the Moment Defeat the Aims of the War Lords! Russ. Oppositionists On Hunger Strike! by N.M. What Laval Achieved by His Visit by Arne Swabeck What are the Specific Relations? The Preparations for These Conflicts The French Bourgeoisie a Worthy Ally The Militant Starts Its Fourth Year Give Assistance Today! On the Workers' Front * The Canadian Trials and the Opposition -Maurice Spector Addresses the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Canada by Maurice Spector Involuntary Exemption from Persecution Why Revolutionists Are Proscribed Reinstate the Left Opposition! *St. Louis Opposition Active in Mooney Movement by H. L. Goldberg Stalinists Disrupt United Front Conference I.L.D. Holds Sectarian Meet Opposition Calls for Mooney United Front * Stalinists Slander Expelled Greek Workers * Furriers Need Real Move for Unity by Robert Brilliant Demand Elections with Participation of All Registered Furriers Left Wing Must Support Striking Dress Furriers In the International of Labor -Reviews and News of the Working Class and Revolutionary Movements * The General Strike in Barcelona -The Failure of the Anarchist Policy and the Revolutionary Strategy of the Communists by Andres Nin Strikes Under Present Conditions The Character of the September Strike What Should Be Our Attitude to "Chaotic" Movements? For Factory Councils The Experience of the Guerrilla Fight The Strike and Democratic Illusions The Internal Crisis of the C.N.T. Trotsky on Opposition and the Party in Spain by Leon Trotsky Our Relation to the Party Growth and Scope of the Opposition Editorial Notes * Where is the Mooney Movement? by James P. Cannon * The Economic Month by B.J. Fields "Young Spartacus" Out this Month! The Opposition Forum Very Significant Facts! -- by Alfa (Leon Trotsky) The Apparatus Men are Nervous Attend "Militant" Anniversary Dance 32 Nov 21, 1931 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck The Canadian Party Trial -The Government Outlaws the Communist Movement by Maurice Spector The Offensive Against the Workers Prosecution Mobilizes Its Heavy Artillery The Crown Spy a "Sensation" S.O.S! Help the Militant! An International Paper Japanese Imperialists Press On -Unite the Working Class Against the Capitalist War Plots by Martin Abern The Japanese Demands Situation Remains Critical Japan Determined to Dominate Manchuria The Capitalist Powers Want Their Booty The Aims of the Chinese Bourgeoisie American Imperialism at Its "Job" Tactics for the Communists White Guards Plot Against Trotsky Demonstration in Athens Against Terror Opposition in Drive for Jewish Paper The Role of the Press Next Step--A Jewish Paper Raise Funds On the Workers' Front * A "New Era" in A. C. W. by Albert Orland Hillman in a Deal with the Racketeers No Changes in Policies * Results of I. L. D. Methods in St. Louis by Charles Mahler Opposition Proposes Mooney Demonstration The Communists Must Lead and Unite Movement * The New York Opposition Forum * "Young Spartacus" is Out * Soviet Celebration in Staunton, Ill by H. L. Goldberg Tash Bungles Again * The Movement for Mooney in Boston by C. Shechet What the Conference Did The Lawrence Strike Rallying a Mass Defense Movement * Before the Party Control Commission by Leon Logan Party Member, Section Two, Unit 3, District Two At the Nucleus Meeting The Party--Against Lenin on the United Front Follow the Road of the Left Opposition * Engdahl on the Mooney United Front by Herbert Capelis A Negro Worker Protests In the International of Labor -Reviews and News of the Working Class and Revolutionary Movements * England -Conservatives Press Attack on Labor -Consequences of the Elections in Great Britain and Prospects for the Communists by Anglicus The Conservative Attack on Labour The Results for the Communists Prospects * The Repressions in Spain by Henry LaCroix * The Rise of Fascism in Britain by Caius Gracchus The Conservatives and Fascism The Road to Fascism * Russian-German Trade Relations by Leon Trotsky * On Soviet Germany and Soviet Russian Relations by Leon Trotsky * In Spain -The Political Situation -The Socialist-Republicans Support the Church by Henry LaCroix The Church Remains a Power Under the Republic New Laws Against the Workers The Masses Demand Bread Militant Dance This Saturday Editorial Notes by James P. Cannon * The Case of Dreiser * The End of the Lawrence Strike Organization Notes Educational Activities Mooney Greets Soviet Russia Demonstrations in Soviet Russia Build a United Front Movement for Mooney Factory Councils in Germany and Workers' Control of Production by Leon Trotsky The Employed and Unemployed The German "Ultra-Lefts" Phila. Defendants Appeal 33 Nov 28, 1931 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck The War in Manchuria -Chinese Masses Develop Struggle Against Exploiters by Martin Abern The International Commission of Inquiry Japan Achieving Objectives Kuo Min Tang Uniting Bourgeoisie Chinese Toilers Organizing Resistance The Marine Workers Tortured in Jail -Defendants Plead Not Guilty to Charges in the New York "Dynamite Plot" by James P. Cannon A Letter from One of the Defendants by John G. Soderberg, Secretary-Treasurer, I. T. B. U. Swabeck Starts On National Tour Rail Bosses Drive for Wage Cuts by Arne Swabeck How the Capitalist Pressure Works Will There Be a Repetition of the Past? What About the Left Wing Movement? El Soviet Confiscated Urgent! -Help the Militant On the Workers' Front * The Tom Mooney Case -Walker and the Labor Fakers in Attempt to Derail the Class Issue by Arne Swabeck * Mooney Meet at Staunton, Ill. by John Scott Elect Committee to Initiate Movement * A Record of a Party Bureaucrat Soulounias's "Record" in Labor Struggles The Decision of the Central Control Committee * Build the Communist Youth Movement -"Young Spartacus" to Work for Clarity and Action by Martin Abern The Low Level of the Y.C.L. To-day The "Leadership" of Mineriches and Greens The Dismal Y.C.L. Paper--"Young Worker" Trotsky on the Youth For Clarity and Action The Course of the Communist Youth Opposition In the International of Labor -Reviews and News of the Working Class and Revolutionary Movements * Soviet-U.S. Trade Relations -The Slogan for Long Term Credits by Martin Abern The Campaign Against the Soviets Amtorg Asks for Better Credits The False Doctrine of Stalin Immediate Demands For Working Class Unity * Mechanical Reorganization of the I.L.D. by R. Ulchin The Meaning of the Re-Organization Violations of the I.L.D. Constitution Rank and File Protests * In Spain -A Reactionary Gov't by Henry LaCroix The Role of Demagogues and Charlatans * Greek Manifesto Move for New Trial in Phila. Case Jewish Paper Activities In the Next Issue The Reply of Trotsky to Weisbord by Leon Trotsky Militant Builders The Chinese Revolution -The Permanent Revolution & the Canton Insurrection by Leon Trotsky The Objective Conditions on the Eve of the Insurrection The Duplicity of the E.C.C.I. The False Comparison Between Moscow, 1905 and Canton, 1927 An Inopportune Insurrection The Tasks of the Leadership Rebuild the Chinese Communist Party Editorial Notes -The Membership Campaign by James P. Cannon December 34 Dec 5, 1931 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck The Events in Manchuria -Japanese Achieving Objectives -Kuo Min Tang Attacks Rising Workers' Movement by Martin Abern The Chinese Bourgeoisie Capitulate Before the Imperialists The Oppression Against the Chinese Masses Relations With the Soviet Union The Importance of Chinchow Revive the Workers' Movement in China News from the Far East -China Seeks to Renew Soviet Relations Demand for Renewed Relations Increases Class Basis of the Anti-Japanese Boycott The Exploiters Band Together Chinese Police Attack Demonstrating Workers Militant Situation is Critical Marine Workers' Defense is Organized -Militant Workers Rally to the Defense of Soderberg, Bunker and Trajer Statement and Appeal of the Marine Workers' Defense Committee They Have Not "Confessed" The Role of an Agent Provocateur The Want to Destroy the Boatmen's Union Bestial Third Degree Torture Our Duty of Solidarity A Letter From the Defendants by J. Soderberg, Wm. Trajor, T. Hunker, Members of the I.T.B.U. Entertainment for "El Soviet" Swabeck National Tour Well Under Way Book Review -"Lenin" by Prince D.S. Mirsky--Little Brown & Co. by Martin Abern The Prince's Hero Is--Stalin The Defendants Before the Docks in Canada -The Government Aims to Attack All of the Communist Forces; An Evaluation of the Defense by Maurice Spector The Prosecutions Material Party History Trade Union Policy Bruce's Testimony Buck's Arguments Prosecution and Judge in Joint Attack Aim to Attack All Communist Groups Evaluation of the Defence Other Shortcomings of the Defense The Work of the Greek Opposition -The Archio-Marxists Lead the Workers in the Class Struggle by A. S-in The Press Political Activities Unemployment Elections Trade Unions Organization Formation of Cadres Spartakos The Slogan of Our Organization Differences with the Party on Concrete Political Questions Political Banditry in the French Communist Party -The Party is Conducting Factional Struggles Without Principles or Platform by Max Shachtman Revelations of the Party Conference of Paris Preparations For Another "Decisive Turn" Another Scapegoat is Discovered Explaining Away the "Excesses" of Stalinism Who Are "The Group"? Sordid Practices Revealed Who Are the Fighters Against the Left Opposition? What Needs to be Done Jewish Workers Attention Chicago Lectures Chinese Communist Gets 10 Years Communist Beheaded The N.Y. Forum Stalinist Attack on Greek Worker Boston Meeting A Letter to a Comrade by Leon Trotsky -The British Election and the Communists Traditions of the English Proletariat The Laborites Use the Stalinites Tasks of the British Left Opposition Cannon to Speak before I.W.W. Notes From England Illinois Miners on the Go for Tom Mooney by George Clarke 35 Dec 12, 1931 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition]0 Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck The N. Y. "Dynamite Plot" -Marine Union Supports Defendants by James P. Cannon Left Opposition Holds First Public Marine Defense Meet The Exploitation of the N. Y. Harbor Boatmen by Jack Soderberg, Secretary-Treasurer of the I.T.B.U. Miserable and Degrading Living Conditions The Union is Formed Urgent! -Help the Militant Railroads in Wage Cut Drive -Mobilize Railroad Workers in Struggle for Six Hour Day by Martin Abern The Wage Cuts Begin Bosses Sharply Reject Six Hour Day Six Hour Day is Rallying Brotherhood Heads Are the Allies of the Bosses Preparing Sell-Out Through Board of Mediation Conditions of Railroad Labor Heads and Bosses Congratulate Each Other Railroaders! Prepare for Struggle The Economic Month by B. J. Fields For the 6 Hour Day -No Pay Reduction -The Importance of the Struggle for the Shorter Work Day by Hugo Oehler The Main Slogans The Importance of the Struggle To Reduce Working Hours Reduction of Hours Is Strong Blow Against the Bosses Party Policy Makes Easier the Role of Reformists and Fakers Confusion among the Furriers by Robert Brilliant Gold's Remarks A Protest From the Ranks Progress for Jewish Paper In Minneapolis Red Christmas in Affair in N.Y. Meetings in Staunton, Ill., and St. Louis, Mo., Arranged for Swabeck Kansas City Meeting for Swabeck Study Class in Kansas City In the International of Labor -Reviews and News of the Working Class and Revolutionary Movements * The Black Shirt Dictatorship -The Problems of Revolutionary Struggle in Italy by Feroci The Difficulty In Spreading Information The Issue: Fascism or Communism Lessons From Various Countries * England at the Cross-Roads by Anglicus The Changed Political Outlook * Perspectives of the Crisis in France -Economic - Social Changes and Prospects Relative Mildness of the French Crisis in 1930, Increasing Sharpness in 1931 Historical Background of French Capitalism Tables for "Perspectives of the Economic Crisis of France" * Economic Crisis Hits Workers of Greece by P. P. Worsening of the Workers' Situation Trade Union Unity International Labor Defense The Terror Tasks of the Left Opposition in England and India -Some Critical Remarks on an Unsuccessful Thesis, November 7, 1931, by Leon Trotsky The Kerensky Period for Great Britain The British Trade Unions--Their Past and Future The Road of the Workers Toward Revolution Lenin's Dictum: Work in All Labor Organizations The Left Opposition and the Comintern The British Communist Party The Movement in India First Tasks First Editorial Notes by James P. Cannon * On Which Side? * The Opposition on the Eve of Great Advances 36 Dec 19, 1931 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Marine Defense Works Grows -New Forces Come to the Assistance of the Defendants Youth Organizations Support Marine Defense (Exchange of letters between Maurice Goldbloom, Acting Chairman, N.Y. District, Intercollegiate Student Council, League for Industrial Democracy and Lillian Bord, Secretary, Marxian Youth Club.) Japanese Entrenched in Manchuria -Provocation Against Soviet Union Fails; China Protest Grows by Martin Abern Nothing Settled The Movement in China The Kuo Min Tang Betrayers The Communist Party Christmas Eve Affair Write to the Prisoners Chinese Labor Federation Blocked Minneapolis -Attention! (Lectures, Meeting and Banquet for Arne Swabeck) Hoover's Message to Congress Demonstrates Capitalist Bankruptcy by Martin Abern A Bankrupt Capitalism The World We Live In Marx and Engels Corroborated Hoover's Internationalism The Facts and Results of Mass Unemployment Hoover is for Wage Reductions Significant Figures Functions of Government and Taxation Building a Movement Against Capitalism Railway Union Heads Betray Workers by Sam Gordon The Sell-Out at Chicago Strike Votes For The Six Hour Day--Against Wage Cuts News from China * Effects of Anti-Japanese Boycott on Sino-Japanese Trade Sharp Drop Since Jap Invasion * Kuo Min Tang Bans Strikes * Shanghai Police Suppress Strikes * Chinese Communists Celebrate November 7; Many Arrests The Needles Trades in St. Louis by Caroline Anderson Elementary Work is Needed Minneapolis Opposition Holds Open Forum New York Forum Entertainment for "Communistes", Greek Opposition Paper on Saturday, December 19. Perspectives of the Crisis in France -Economic - Social Changes and Prospects by B. J. Fields (Continued from the previous issue) Relative Backwardness of French Industry In the International of Labor -Reviews and News of the Working Class and Revolutionary Movements * The French C.G.T.U. Congress -Issue of Trade Union Unity Confounded by Stalinists by Felix "Self-Criticism" Monmousseau Reports The Issue of Trade Union Unity Minority Delegates Propose Correct Line Rush Through Agenda Left Opposition Has Correct Path * A Letter to Andres Nin -The Catalonian Separatists, Soviets, and the Communists by Leon Trotsky, Sept. 1st 1931 The Slogan of Soviets Workers' Control The Separatist Movement and the Iberian Soviet Federation * In Germany -A Very Dangerous Strategic Error -Policy of the Communist Party Hastens Fascist Menace by Ervin Bauer Proletariat Develops United Front Against Fascism C.P. Fails to Carry Out United Front Towards S.P.D. False Strategy of C.P. Holds Grave Dangers for Workers Stalinist Policy Leads to Capitulation Before Enemy The Menace of German Fascism Fight to Remove C.P. Policy of Despair What Is A Revolutionary Situation? -The Decisive Importance of the Communist Party by Leon Trotsky, Nov. 17, 1931 The Beginning of a Revolutionary Situation The Changing Outlook of the Classes The Rate of Development The Decisive Importance of a Matured Communist Party What is Coming? Swabeck National Tour Editorial Notes by James P. Cannon * The "Hunger March" * The Kentucky Miners * Greetings to "Communistes" * The Canadian Communist Trials Chicago Opposition Meets Prisoners Fund Dance 37 Dec 26, 1931 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Persecution of Left Opposition -Stalin Works for the Physical Destruction of the Bolshevik-Leninists Who Are The Opposition? List of the Bolshevik-Leninists (Left Opposition) in the Verchne-Uralsk Prison The Militant is in Danger! Will you Help? The Conspiracy Against the R. R. Workers by Albert Glotzer Labor Officials Betray Workers Workers Must Organize Resistance Notice -New Pamphlet on Germany by Leon Trotsky The National Tour (Of Arne Swabeck) Menace of Fascism Imperils Germany -United Front of Masses Needed to Ward off Danger by Sam Gordon How the Bourgeoisie Copes With the Crisis The World Imperialists and German Fascism Hitlerism: Farce or Menace? The Significance of the Thaelmann Article Marine Workers to Hold Defense Meet A Letter From Reilly (One of the original defendants in the marine workers' case) Cantonese Continue Capitalist Policy -Chinese Proletariat Must Develop Struggle for Democratic Rights by Martin Abern The Canton Bourgeois Clique The "Achievements" of Stalin and the Browders The Struggle For Democratic Rights The Soviet Union and the Imperialists For Communist Unity Correction Going the Rounds in Moscow Free Speech Fight in Denver Swabeck Meetings in St. Louis and Stanton by Thomas Stamm In St. Louis Mooney Protest Growing Perspectives of the Crisis in France -Economic - Social Changes and Prospects by B. J. Fields (Continued from previous issue) Special Factors in French Post-War Crisis Perspectives In the International of Labor -Reviews and News of the Working Class and Revolutionary Movements * The British Scene -National Government in Sharp Attack On the Workers' Standards by Anglicus National Government Lowers Workers' Standards Prepare for Struggles * In India -The Significance of Kashmir by "A" Living Conditions in Kashmir Britain Wants Kashmir's Oil Britain Supports Pan-Islamic Movement in India * The Left Opposition in Switzerland by Walter Nelz Publish Newspaper Composed of Young Comrades * French Evict Chinese * Hankow Communists Executed * War Chief Admits Failure Against Reds Stalin and the Chinese Revolution -Facts and Documents by Leon Trotsky The Block of Four Classes The Perspectives of the Revolution According to Stalin Stalin and Chiang Kai-Shek The Strategy of Lenin and the Strategy of Stalin The Government of Chiang Kai-Shek as a Live Refutation of the State Second Issue of Young Spartacus is Out New York Open Forum China's Silk Industry Stagnant Attention! Minneapolis Open Forum Editorial Notes by James P. Cannon: * The Downfall of Volkszeitung * How They Play With the Great Slogans * A Race with Time CONTENTS BY ISSUE (1932) 1 Jan 2, 1932 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Mass Meeting for Marine Workers Defense -New Forces Join Defense Committee The Struggle for Power in Germany by Albert Glotzer The Basis for Fascism Fascist Growth and Threats The Capitulationist Policy of the Party For a United Front Against Fascism Martial Law At Foochow The Geneva Disarmament Bluff -"Disarmament" Conference Will Expose Imperialist Rivalries and Aims Against the Soviet Union by Martin Abern The Cost of Militarism A Fake Disarmament Conference The Proposal of the Soviet Union Imperialist Rivalries A United States of Europe or a Soviet United States of Europe The Fundamental Struggle: For Capitalism or Communism Pacifism--A Middle Class Movement Militarism and War: A Class Problem Trotsky Pamphlet on International Situation Japs Use Russian White Guards to Provoke Soviets In the Needle Trades -Tasks Before the Plenum of the Needle Trades Industrial Union by Sylvia Bleeker A Genuine United Front Imperative Lovestone for Liquidation Issues of Struggle Must Be Posed Opposition Points the Way New York Open Forum (Albert Glotzer speaks on his visit to Trotsky) The Economic Month by B.J. Fields In the Workmen's Circle -The Membership Begins to Awaken by J.B. The Paterson Strike and the W.C. Scabs Socialist Party Supports Scab Members A Movement for a Special Conference Carpenter's Local Supports Marine Defense by W. H. H. Prospects for Jewish Paper Bright (Communist League of America (Opposition) Jewish organ to be called "Unser Kamf") Philadelphia -Mass Meeting (A lecture by Arne Swabeck on "The Economic Crisis and Communism") In the International of Labor -Reviews and News of the Working Class and Revolutionary Movements * Stalin and the Chinese Revolution -Facts and Documents by Leon Trotsky (Continued from previous issue) How Did the Shanghai Overturn Occur? The Organizers of the "Influx of Workers and Peasants Blood" Stalin Repeats His Experiment With the "Left" Kuo Min Tang Against the Opposition--For the Kuo Min Tang! Stalin Once Again Disarms the Workers and Peasants * Imprisoned for Chalking Communist Slogans Mother Mooney Denounces Gov. Rolph by Mary Mooney Entertainment in New York for Young Spartacus A Sojourn With Comrade Leon Trotsky -Five Weeks in Kadikoy by Albert Glotzer Successful Banquet for Press Held in Mpls. Editorial Notes by James P. Cannon * Evidence Made To Order * Foreign Language Problems * Where Did They Learn? 2 Jan 9, 1932 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Our Martyrs -Liebknecht and Luxemburg by Joseph Carter Japanese-American Conflict -The Recent Manchurian Incident as a Factor in World Politics by Sam Gordon Clarity on War Danger! Capitalist Politicians Favor Russian Credits; Stalinists Mark Time The Impending Danger of Fascism in Germany -A Letter to a German Communist Worker on the United Front Against Hitler by Leon Trotsky -Where Lies the Mistake in the Present Policy of the German Communist Party What Does Hitler Want? What is Concealed Behind Hitler's Stratagem? We Must Plan According to the Shorter Perspective Thaelmann Considers the Victory of Fascism Inevitable Once Again: The Russian Experiences Is Bruening the "Lesser Evil"? It is not a Question of the Workers Who Have Already Left the Social Democracy But of Those Who Still Remain With It We Must Force the Social Democracy Into a Block Against the Fascists A Good Quotation from Lenin Opposition Leader Attested in Argentina Mooney Conference in Belleville Japanese Communist Wins Voluntary Departure to Russia Stalin Makes Party History to Order -Killing a "Dead Trotskyism" for the 1,000th Time by E.O. With the Opposition in Minneapolis by Carl Cowl The Red Movement in Bulgaria Philadelphia Mass Meeting (Lecture on "The Economic Crisis and Communism" by Arne Swabeck) Swabeck Tour Results Kansas City by George Clarke Chicago, Ill. by J.S.G. Our Mind is Unchanged (The Militant proposes that "Revolutionary Age" should change its name to "Victorian Age" instead of the planned "Workers' Age") Death Penalty for Anti-Imperialist Agitation In the International of Labor -Reviews and News of the Working Class and Revolutionary Movements * Developments in the Spanish Revolution by L. Fersen Overthrow of Monarchy Inevitable Change in Spain Reactionary The Deception of the Cortes Left * A Series of Articles on Spain * Under the Banner of Marxism -Opposition in England -Party Members Form Nucleus to Fight for Leninism by -S. Entertainment In New York for Young Spartacus New Trotsky Pamphlet Coming Communism of Fascism in Germany? Editorial Notes by James P. Cannon * Proletarian Party Split * Bombs for New Year's 3 Jan 16, 1932 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Bankers and Jobless Relief -The Tammany Government Machine is Whipped into Line by H. P. Increased Fare Fight Cutting Down Relief The Bankers' Idea Japs Subsidize Russian Whites -Hire Semenov, Notorious Cossack Adventurer in Mongolian Drive Semenov at Work Is Stalin Preparing New 1923 in Germany by Max Shachtman The Advance of the Fascists Boastful Claims and Sorry Realities What Stalin Once Advised The Party Ranks Must Speak! Russian Opposition Persecuted -A Letter from Moscow New York Banquet Feb. 6 -To Greet "Unser Kamf" and Three Returned Comrades Stalinists Disrupt Mooney Confab by Thomas Stamm Condemn M.N. Roy to Exile Trotsky's "History" to Be Out Soon Marine Defense Meet -Hundreds Gather to Protest "Dynamite Plot" Frame-Up by -S. Rosa Luxemburg -On the Anniversary of Her Assassination by the German Social Democrats by Maurice Spector Imperialism and Social Democracy Bernstein's Revisionism The Struggle Against Opportunism The Russian Revolution The Precious Heritage of Rosa by James P. Cannon The Obsolete Craft System in the Railroad Brotherhoods by A. E. Bureaucratism and Class Collaboration Swabeck Tour Swabeck in Philly by L.G. Successful Pittsburgh Meeting How to Make the Kentucky Miners' Defense Really Effective In the International of Labor -Reviews and News of the Workers and Revolutionary Movements * Revolt Brewing in India -Gandhi Holds Masses in Check by Reformist Maneuvers by Sam Gordon A Shrewd Mahatma Signs of Militancy * Thaelmann's Belated Self-Criticism -The Leader of the German Communist Party "Examines" Some of Its Mistakes by W. M. Thaelmann's Self-Criticism * The Results of the Toronto Election by S. Green The Communist Ticket A Safe and Sane Candidate The Party Program * Government Repression in Republican Spain by Henri Lacroix (With a letter from Ramos to Max Shachtman about the situation in Spain) Stifling the Labor Defense by R. Ulchin German Opposition Organization Growing Adopt Political Resolution The Swabeck Meeting in Youngstown by Frank Cheloff The Spanish Articles What is Fascism? -Extracts From a Letter to a Comrade by Leon Trotsky Editorial Notes by James P. Cannon * Darrow and the Scottsboro Case * United Front Prospects 4 Jan 23, 1932 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Forward in Lenin's Way! -The Left Opposition Alone Carries on the Work of Ilitch Lenin's Last Words to the Party by Vladimir Ilitch Lenin, Jan. 4, 1923 Left Opposition in Appeal to Needle Trades Workers for United action in Struggle United Action is Imperative Why Hitler Promises New Trotsky Pamphlet Out Hitler Prepares to Strike -Stalinist Leadership Impotent in Face of Impending Struggle by Sam Gordon Hitler and the Weimar Constitution Why Hitler Promises Private Debts Payment For Attack on the Soviet Union Thaelmann & Co. Prepare for Capitulation Fascists Prepared for Struggle Left Opposition in Appeal to Needle Trades Workers for United Action in Struggle United Action is Imperative A Review of the Recent Nation Tour -The Sweep of the Economic Crisis; Its Effects on the Revolutionary Movement by Arne Swabeck Meetings in the Mine Field St. Louis Crowd Responsive The Tour Further West Minneapolis Movement Growing Excellent Meeting in Chicago Winding Up in the East A Setback for Stalinism by W. H. H. On the Question of the State by Marin Abern Class Society and the State The Proletarian State The Soviet Government Today The Viewpoint of the Opposition Resurge of Mine Struggles -Miners Learning, Gathering Forces for Coming Fight by Gerry Allard Causes for Retreat The Miners' Educational Leagues The Fascist Danger and the Need for a United Front of the Proletariat by Andres Nin The Socialists and Democratic Illusions Leroux, the Spanish Miliukov Whither, the Party Bourgeoisie? For Communist Action! -Documents of the German Left Opposition Shachtman Lectures at Opposition Forum A Correction In Spain: "The Democratic Republic of the Workers" -A First Hand Account of Conditions Under the Socialist-Republican Regime by Max Shachtman The Conditions of the Workers The Misery of Unemployment The Two Revolutions The Proletarian Party Opposition by Hugo Oehler Unemployment and Communism by Thomas Stamm Editorial Notes by James P. Cannon * Another Defeat in Kentucky * A Sorry Adventure 5 Jan 30, 1932 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck On the German Situation by the National Committee of the Communist League of America (Opposition) What Will Decide? The Ruinous theory of Stalinism What a Fascist Victory Means Act Before It is Too Late Japanese Invade Shanghai! -War Threat in the Far East and Against the Soviet Union by Sam Gordon Undeclared Open War Anti-Soviet Advances Chinese Experiences Not Forgotten All Out On Feb 4! Utilize Feb. 4 Meets to Build Jobless Movement by Arne Swabeck Possibilities for Movement Growing Failures Should Be Recognized Some Practical Steps Forward The Recent Outbreaks in Spain by Max Shachtman "Law for Defense of Republic" The Arnedo Massacre Bureaucracy in the R. R. Brotherhoods by A. E. (Continued from the January 16, 1931 issue) The Brotherhood Bureaucracy Nothing Done to Rebuild the Unions "Father" Cox Gets Free Hand in Pittsburgh by L. Archy Unser Kamf Off the Press Lovestone Splitters Calls for Unity by Max Shachtman Unemployment and the Party by Thomas Stamm (Continued from last issue) Young Spartacus Out Chicago Stalinists Disrupt Conference by --J. Statement of the Chicago Left Opposition In the International of Labor -Reviews and News of the Working Class and Revolutionary Movements * In Spain: The Fascist Danger and the Need for a United Front of the Proletariat by Andres Nin * In Bulgaria * Rumblings in the German Social Democracy by Erwin Bauer * A Letter to a Comrade -Left Opposition and the Brandlerites by Leon Trotsky In K. C. Opposition by --C. Book Review -Lasalle by Arne Schirokauer by --M. GTN. A Communication (About the Kentucky Miners Editorial Notes by James P. Cannon * Father Cox * Attacking the Marine Workers' Defense * A Progressive Tendency 6 Feb 6, 1932 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck The Railroad Wage Cut by Arne Swabeck A Class Approach Necessary New Developments in the Far East -Western Imperialists Register Protests as Japs Hold on to Booty by Sam Gordon Statement of the Marine Workers Defense The Work of the Defense Committee How the Disrupters Acted at the Time of the Arrest The United Front Policy of the Defense Committee The Attempt to Disrupt the Legal Defense on the Eve of the Trial The Fraudulent Issue of "Class Struggle Defense" The "Uprising" of Nov 7 by Leon Trotsky What Really Happened? Build the Opposition Press! "Reconstruction Finance Commission" Ruse by H. Stone The Importance of Bank Stability The Trends to be Counter-Balanced A Dole for Bankers--Starvation for Workers Organization Notes * Buffalo P.P. Opposition Endorses Left * Kansas City, Mo. * Philadelphia, PA. For a Fighting Unity of the New York Food Workers The Mistakes of the Past The Struggle of the Railroad Workers by A.E. Brotherhood Officials Too Busy Enjoying Their Big Salaries to Organize the Workers The Recent Wage Cut (Of the railroad Workers) by Hugo Oehler I. L. D. in Boston by Charlotte Shechet Amter Speaks on the Radio by Thomas Stamm A Fatal Interview The Capitalist Solution Amter Fails Miserably In the International of Labor -Reviews and News of the Working Class and Revolutionary Movements * Terror Against the Greek Opposition from "Pali Ton Taxeon", the organ of the Greek Left Opposition The Crimes of the Capitalist Prisons Must be Brought to Light The Victims of Capitalist Atrocities Are in Danger * History Made to Order al la Stalin by M. Mill Stalin Creates a History of Apologetics A Red Historian Dares Quote Lenin Through Ten Editions Stalin Does a Bit of "Rearming" * Left Opposition in Toronto * German Opposition Documents -False Strategy--False Tactics Dangerous Perspectives * A Letter from Germany No United Front! Winning S.P. Workers Spain's Bourgeoisie on the Offensive by Max Shachtman (Second in a series of articles on Spain by the author who has recently returned from Spain) An Atmosphere of Suppression Legalizing an Organization The Government and Strikes A Dictatorial Power Resolution of the Marxian Y. C. Correction 7 Feb 13, 1932 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck N. Y. Dressmakers Strike -Workers Unity Against the Common Enemy Imperative by Arne Swabeck Imperialists Meet at Geneva -French and Americans Wrangle for Lead in Struggle Against U.S.S.R. by Sam Gordon Common Action Among Imperialists Is Trotsky's Life to be Kept in Danger? Philadelphia Oppositionists Sentenced Com. Glotzter's National Tour Help Build the Opposition Press! Pay Reductions in the Building Trades -A Blow at the Workers' Standard Throughout All the Trades by Arne Swabeck Morgenstern and Goodman Sentenced -A Letter From the Two Philadelphia Defendants R.R. Fakers & Bosses Join Hands -To Improve the Health of "Our" Industry by A. E. Labor Bureaucrats Play the Role of Puppets Now Listen to "Davy" "Dan" Joins with "Davy" The Minneapolis Branch of the Left Opposition in the Fight for the Unemployed by the Communist League of America (Opposition) Minneapolis Branch Minneapolis, Minn. Statement: Save February 4th Victims The Annual Heresy Trial by Thomas Stamm Tampa Tobacco Workers Struggle Evictions In the International of Labor -Reviews and News of the Working Class and Revolutionary Movements * German Opposition Forges Ahead -Growing Sentiment for United Struggle against Fascism from Permanente Revolution, January 16, 1932 * The Split in the Brandler Group by Marsh * Changes in Policy of French Imperialism from La Verite * Reactionary Policies and the Working Class Movement in Spain by Henri Lacroix "The Law for the Defense of the Republic" The Workers' Solution In Spain: The Socialists and State Power -Reformists Maneuver to Avoid Responsibility Before the Laboring Masses by Max Shachtman The Socialists in the Coalition The Purpose of a "Socialist" Government The Attitude of the Socialists The Reformists Fear the Consequences What is the Official C.P. Doing From Comrade Trotsky's Letter to the National Sections by Leon Trotsky Greece Russia The January Conference of the C.P.S.U. Pioneer Publisher Notes The Draft Program Certificate Holders Editorial Notes by James P. Cannon * I. W. W. Wisdom * Lassalle 8 Feb 20, 1932 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Labor Fakers Before Congress -The A.F. of L. Bureaucrats Finally Recognize the "Dole" by Arne Swabeck World Powers at Loggerheads -Japanese Repulsed in China as Laval Cabinet Falls in Paris by Sam Gordon The Jailed Marine Workers and the I.L.D. by Jack Soderberg Oppositionist Victim of White Terror in Greece Glotzer Meetings (National tour schedule, his subject is "What is Europe Heading For?") The Presidential Elections in Germany by Albert Glotzer Aid in Our Circulation Drive Young Spartacus Affair From the Needle Strike Front Organization Notes Our Second National Tour The Simms Murder Book Review -Unemployed Councils in St. Petersburg in 1906 by Sergei Malyshev, Workers Library Publishers by G.R. After the R. R. Wage Cut by A. E. Complete Harmony Prevails at the Wage-Cutting Meet In the International of Labor -Reviews and News of the Working Class and Revolutionary Movements * The Character of Fascism -An Analysis of the Composition of the Hitlerite Camp by Erwin Bauer (Berlin) * The Government Reprisals in Greece * Sharp Changes in Foreign Policy of the French Imperialists from La Verite * The Stalinists in Bulgaria -Use Violence Against Oppositionists in the Prisons by D. Gatcheff The Right Wing of Spanish Communism -The Truth Concerning the Actual Policy and Influence of the Maurin Group by Max Shachtman The Litvinoff Stand on Disarmament by Albert Orland Editorial Notes by James P. Cannon * Learn from the Workers * United Front in Practice * Morgenstern and Goodman 9 Feb 29, 1932 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Germany Before the Elections by Sam Gordon New York Dress Strike Grows -Workers' Militancy Attains Unity on the Picket Line The Glass-Steagall Bill -- A Measure to Aid the Bankers by H. Stone Canadian Workers Fight Against Reaction Glotzer Meetings Our Press Needs Your Help! John L. Lewis Continues His Betrayals -A Review of the Thirty-second Convention of the United Mine Workers of America Lovestoneites in the Workmen's Circle by J. B. The Lovestoneites play Their Role Is Mooney to Stay in Jail? -Reactionaries Make Capital of Stalinists' Blunders by Thomas Stamm A Letter from Our Class War Prisoners by Leon Goodman and Bernard Morgenstern In the International of Labor -Reviews and News of the Working class and Revolutionary Movements * The Character of Fascism -An Analysis of the Composition of the Hitlerite Camp by Erwin Bauer (Berlin) (Continued from last issue) The Struggle Against Social Democracy, and the United Front Thaelmann Fails to Correct False Views Dangers of Calling Present Condition Fascism Basis For False Analyses and Tactics * Lessons of the Recent Events in Spain -An Official Document of the Spanish Left Opposition on the Results of the Struggle by the Left Communist Opposition of Catalonia, Jan. 26, 1932 * The Latest Anti-Trotsky Campaign by Sam Gordon Proletarian Party Opposition -Some Fundamental Problems of Its Future Course Discussed by Arne Swabeck Some Serious Progress Already Made Will This Group Continue in a Progressive Direction Pioneer Publisher Notes Whither England Pamphlet on Germany Bound Volume of Pamphlets History of the Russian Revolution A New Book on China A Letter from a Militant by W.S. "Pravda" on the Second 5 Year Plan -A National Socialist Utopia or the Leninist Conception of Socialist Economy? by Max Shachtman The Disregard for the International The Second Five Year Plan What Socialism Means Socialism and the World Economy Paris Commune Celebration 10 Mar 5, 1932 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck The Dress Strike Settlement -Some Lessons the Left Wing Must Draw from It by Arne Swabeck The Serious Weakness of Two Separate Strikes Fake Peace Gestures in Far East -Imperialists Jockeying for Position in Coming World Clashes by Sam Gordon Lovestoneites Disrupt Rank and File Movement in the A.C.W. Union by Albert Orland Who Will Organize the Revolt? The Necessity of a Correct Policy Shachtman - Tresca Debate Glotzer Tour Meets Success Lenin and Trotsky in 1905 -On Some Stalinist Distortions of History by Hugo Oehler On the February Revolution Trotsky and the Peasantry Lenin on Colonial Revolution The "Democratic Dictatorship" A Story of Boss Violence in the Illinois Mine Fields by Germinal The R.R. Workers and the Wage Cut -A Militant Looks at Conditions in his Industry and Reviews the Past Must Acknowledge Mistakes Unity Solidarity a Crying Need The Militant Subscription Drive Lectures on the History of the Communist International "Young Spartacus" No. 4 Out In the International of Labor -Reviews and News of the Working Class and Revolutionary Movements * German Political Scene by Erwin Bauer Nazi Terror Increases United Front is Only Solution * The Spanish Communist Party in the Revolution by Max Shachtman Manuilsky Admits Errors * Greek Oppositionist Victim of Terror Organization of the Bolshevik-Leninists (Archio-Marxist Left Opposition) "An Attack Against the Police" The Memorial Meeting Book Review -"The History of the Russian Revolution, Volume 1, The Overthrow of Tzarism" Translated by Max Eastman, Published by Simon and Shuster, Inc. New York, review by Sam Gordon Rakovsky on the Five Year Plan by Christian Rakovsky Uphold Our Revolutionary Classics! by Arne Swabeck N.Y. Paris Commune Affair A Lecture of Interest to Jewish Workers 11 Mar 12, 1932 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Sunday's Elections in Germany -The Alignment of Class Forces in the Campaign Struggle by Arne Swabeck The Working class Divided in Two Main Groups Growth of Fascist Reaction a Threat to Whole Working Class Is the Way Out Through a Fascist Dictatorship Communist Party Fails in Great Possibilities German Left Opposition Appeals to Party for United Front Policy Trotsky's Discusses World Situation (Reprint of an interview with Leon Trotsky) -Trotsky Answers Some Fundamental Questions -Gives Views on Problems of Communist Movement in Soviet Russia, Europe and the United States Appraisal of Five-Year Plan Soviet Russia and the Capitalist World Attitude Toward the Stalin Regime Weakening of Bureaucracy Predicts His Party's Return For Support of Bruening?--A Stalinist Slander The Present Crisis: Its Effects on Europe and America Ford Thugs Massacre Starving workers -Police Give Workers Lead Instead of Bread Action Teaches Lessons Relief Struggle Growing Government Persecution Coming Press Circulation Drive N.Y. Paris Commune Affair The Economic Month -Further Decline in Production and Workers Living Standard by H. Stone Organization Notes Cleveland, Ohio Minneapolis, Minn. St. Louis, Mo. Railroads & Strike Policy -The Strike Weapon and Its Rejection by the Misleaders by A.E. Strike Policy vs. Cooperation Policy United Front of Southern Miners Imperative Support the Relief and Defense! United Front Necessary Support "Unser Kamf" "Young Spartacus" No. 4 In the International of Labor -Reviews and News of the Working Class and Revolutionary Movements * Party and C.I. in England * A Few Lessons of the Anarchist Uprisings in Spain by Hugo Oehler * Rakovsky on the Five Year Plan by Christian Rakovsky (Continued from last issue) * The Communists and the Agrarian Crisis Agrarian Development Under Capitalism The Agrarian Crisis Effects of the Land Crisis Youth Club Activities -Youth Class Young Spartacus Affair -Youth Affair Book Review -"The Strategy of World Revolution" written by Leon Trotsky, review by G. R. Trotsky on the Character of Our Epoch The Illusions of the Anglo-Russian Committee Lectures on the History of the Communist International Glotzer's National Tour 12 Mar 19, 1932 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Lenin on the Paris Commune New Trotsky Series on Germany Starts Next Week After the Massacre in Detroit Remember our Prisoners Results of the German Elections -Gains of Reaction Serious Warning against Stalinist Policy by Sam Gordon New York Marine Workers Go to Trial The Communists and the Agrarian Crisis by Hugo Oehler (Continued from last issue) Our Subscription Drive Attention Greek Workers! Letters from The Militants * Drug Clerks Organize by I.D. * The Dress Strike in Boston by Joe Carter * Stalinist Flattery or Marxist Education by Paul Schwalbe * Another Expulsion from the I. L. D. by Herbert Capelis In the International of Labor -Reviews and News of the Working Class and Revolutionary Movements * A Shanghai View on Chinese Events by C. Frank Glass * "Stalin and His Creatures" -- The New Anti-Trotsky Campaign by Monyak * The German Opposition at Work by Roman Well Political and Organizational Activity Literature and Press Class In Marxism The World Crisis and Its Revolutionary Implications by Leon Trotsky from "Germany--the Key to the International Situation." The Spanish Revolution The Situation in England France The United States Japan China Manchuria Editorial Notes by James P. Cannon * The Threat of Illegality * The Situation and Its Tasks * A False Slogan Back Numbers of "Militant" Wanted 13 Mar 26, 1932 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Rebel Miners in Action! -New Movement in the Anthracite Growing Rapidly by Arne Swabeck Vote Stealing and Convention Packing Mine Strikes Elsewhere Rumblings of New Revolts Revolts Localized--Not United A National Perspective for a United Front A Statement of the International Left Opposition -Statement on the Recent Decree Depriving Comrade Trotsky of Soviet Citizenship (From the International Secretariat of the Left Opposition) The "Revolt" in Congress -An Indication of Radical Changes in Bourgeois Politics by Sam Gordon The Workers' United Front in Canada -The Working Class United Front Against Reaction in Canada by S. Green The Turn in Policy Perspectives The Raids on Hitler's Nazis in Prussia What Next? by Leon Trotsky (The introduction to Trotsky's new book on Germany) Statement of Gerry Allard -Oppositionist Answers Stalinist Slanders Differences With the Party The "Militant" Needs YOUR Help Now! Swabeck's Class in Marxism "Soviet's Challenge" at the Acme Theatre Letters from The Militants * Pocket Book Workers Prepare for Strike by N. Davis * Farmer-Laborites in Minn. by Sara Avrin * Left Opposition Activities in the Middle West * Opposition Greeks Answer "Empros" In the International of Labor -Reviews and News of the Working Class and Revolutionary Movements * For the Unity of Spanish Communism -An Open Letter of the Spanish Left Opposition Addressed to all Communists * Hail the Fourteenth Anniversary of the Red Army! The Truth About the Birth of the Red Army A Decree of the Council of People's Commissars Rakovsky on the Five Year Plan by Christian Rakovsky (Continued from last issue) A Decree of the council of People's Commissars, January 15, 1918 14 Apr 2, 1932 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Marine Workers on Trial Scottsboro Verdict Must Be Smashed by Thomas Stamm What Next? -Chapter 1: The Role of the German Social Democracy by Leon Trotsky Germany after the Presidential Elections by Roman Well Open Letter to the C. E. C. of the U.S.S.R. by Leon Trotsky A Thermidorean Trick An Expression of Impotence Hearst's Program and the Petty Bourgeoisie by Hugo Oehler Wants Cheap, Efficient Government The Middle Class Demands Jingoism Breaks Through A Dangerous Stalinist Slogan Anti-Working Class Program Second Month of Militant Drive Letters from The Militants * Among the Drug Clerks by J.D. * On the Waterfront by P. S. * N. Y. Auto Workers * Resolution of the N. Y. Carpenters' Union Proposals for an Agreement With the Employers Organizational and Relief Demands * In Honor of M. Winchewsky In the International of Labor -Reviews and News of the Working Class and Revolutionary Movements * For Communist Unity -An Open Letter of the Spanish Left Opposition (Continued from last issue) * New Tendencies in French Politics -World Crisis Reveals Long Latent Contradictions Between Social Classes by Pierre Frank The Seventh Convention of the C.P.F. Progress for the Left Opposition Spartacus--Y.P.S.L. Debate The New Book on Germany Fifty Years of Israel Amter Impressions of a National Tour by Albert Glotzer Tag Day for Marine Defense April "Young Spartacus" Out! 15 Apr 9, 1932 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Trade Relations with the U.S.S.R. by Arne Swabeck American Imperialist Aggression The Question of Soviet Trade Relations Demand U.S. Credits to the Soviet Union Stool-pigeon Discredited at Marine Trial Open Letter to the C.E.C. of the U.S.S.R. by Leon Trotsky (Continued from last issue) Miners Resist New Onslaught -Unification of Rebel Movements Urgent Duty of Revolutionary Party Strikes Growing in Other Fields Can the Isolated Movements Be United? What Should the National Miners Union Do? Hitler Scoffs at Threat to '"Outlaw" Nazis Militant Drive Yields Results Letters from The Militants * Opposition Branch Formed in Newark * Free Speech in the Party? by S. A. * Trotsky Meeting in Duluth by Charles Curtis * The Struggle around the Volkszeitung * Attention Y.C.L.-er! In the International of Labor -Reviews and News of the Working Class and Revolutionary Movements * German Opposition Shows the Way -Communist of Bruchal Apply Genuine Leninist United Front Tactic The C.P.G. in Forst Joins the L.O. How the Party Bureaucracy "Liquidates" the L.O. in Bruchsal The Lying Methods of the Stalinist Bureaucracy * Germany After the Presidential Elections by Roman Well (Continued from last issue) * A Letter from Czechoslovakia by O. Friedman The Economic Situation Political Developments Present Political Currents The Policy of the Left Opposition Debate in the Bronx Book Review -The Strange Career of Of Mr. Hoover--Under Two Flags, written by John S. Hamil, reviewed by Albert Glotzer Democracy and Fascism by Leon Trotsky Help Defend Kentucky Miners! Editorial Notes by James P. Cannon * Scottsboro * Why So Hot? 16 Apr 16, 1932 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck War and Social Chauvinism -Alarm Signals Against Jingoist Trends in the Communist Party by Max Shachtman Biased Judge Convicts Marine Workers Crucial Moment Nearing in Germany! -Statement of the National Committe, Communist League of America (Opposition) What Vote Indicates Growing Resentment of Workers Foodworkers Roused Against Bureaucrats Organization Notes Newark, N.J. N.Y. Activities Letters from The Militants * Two Reformist Meets by Carl Cowl * Movie Chains Try to Smash Union by Thomas Stamm Back Issues of The Militant Wanted Militant Drive at Half Way Mark Unser Kamf and Young Spartacus In the Canadian Movement * The Turn in the Industrial Union by Maurice Quarter * Governmental Red Baiting by S. Green In the International of Labor -Reviews and News of the Working Class and Revolutionary Movements * What Really Happened At Shanghai by Roman Well * Nine Years of the Struggle of the Left Opposition: - 1923 by Max Shachtman The Program for Worker's Democracy Trotsky's Intervention * Developments in Spain by Henri Lacroix The Mooney Case and the Party Democracy and Fascism by Leon Trotsky (Continued from last issue) Editorial Notes by James P. Cannon * Left-Wing Victory or Treacherous Bargain? * What Happened to the "Company Union" Theory? * Why Did the Right Support the Left? 17 Apr 23, 1932 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck New State in Needle Trade Fight -A Campaign for Unity is Now the Order of the Day by James P. Cannon What the Election of the Left Wing Delegates Signifies What the Past Developments Teach "Unity From Below" or Genuine Unity? The Slogan as a Challenge to the Progressives The Intensified Wage Cut Drive Another Privileged Trade Bill Failure of the Danube Union Conference by Albert Orland The Solution Lies in the Proletarian Revolution The Slogan of a Soviet United States of Europe Left Oppositionist Speaks from the Tribune of the Prussian Diet -The Voice of the International Left Opposition in the Prussian Parliament (Speech of Comrade Seipold in the Landtag) On the State Budget Greek Opposition Holds Convention Opposition Press Drive May 1 - June 1 Campaign Schedule Appeal to Sympathizers Economic Crisis Continues to Deepen by Thomas Stamm Debate (Socialism vs. Communism) Militant Affair In the Canadian Movement -Canadian Miners by S. Green Letters from The Militants * Among the Unemployed by W. K. * From a Ford Worker The Massacre Model In the International of Labor -Reviews and News of the Working Class and Revolutionary Movements * Appeal of the S.A.P. -The Left Opposition Addresses the Centrist Party Congress Struggle Against Pacifism! Does the "Declaration of Principles" Create Clarity? "Socialism in One Country" or Revolutionary Internationalism Statement on the Situation in the International Left Opposition by the National Committee of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Execution of the Scottsboro Boys Stayed by Thomas Stamm Bureaucratic Ulimatism by Leon Trotsky Relation of Party to Class Unconditional Independence of C.P. Under All Historical Conditions Correct Conception of the United Front Bureaucratic Ultimatism Leads to Negation of the Party 18 Apr 30, 1932 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Shall Tom Mooney Stay in Jail? To the Readers of the "The Militant" Debate: Socialism vs. Communism Demonstrate on May Day! After the Recent Elections in Prussia by Sam Gordon Wherein Lies the Responsibility of the Social Democrats? What Does the Left Opposition Propose? The State and Trade Unions in Canada by Maurice Spector Marine Workers Sentenced to Jail Militant Affair The Stalinist-Lovestone Unity Negotiations! Letters from The Militants * Once More on the Bronx Co-operatives * From an Illinois Miner The First Week of the Press Drive Militant Builders Lovestone and the "Pseudo-Revolutionists" by Max Shachtman Utilizing Capitalist Antagonisms The Meaning of an Alliance Economics, Politics and War Appeal to the S.A.P. -The Left Opposition Addresses the Centrist Party Congress (Continued from last issue) from the Executive Committee of the Left Opposition of the C.P.G. (Bolshevik-Leninists) National Socialism vs. Leninism The Anglo-Russian Committee United Front and Cartels What Constitutes a Revolutionary Policy Opposition Press in Czechoslovakia In the International of Labor -Reviews and News of the Working Class and Revolutionary Movements * The Bureaucrats Analyze the Elections -How the Rank and File Party Members React to Their "Analysis" from "Die Permanente Revolution" The Negro and the Class Struggle by Hugo Oehler The Problem of Labor Power The New Role of the Negro Bureaucratic Ultimatism by Leon Trotsky (Continued from last issue) Editorial Notes by James P. Cannon * "Under Rank and File Leadership" * Lenin on Leaders and Masses * The Role of the Conscious Workers 19 May 7, 1932 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck The S.P. "Lefts'" Program by Hugo Oehler Debate -I.W.W. Representative, Communist Representative -Is the Program of the I.W.W. Sufficient for the Emancipation of the Working Class? The Strike in the N.Y. Building Trades by Arne Swabeck Conditions of the Unions Must Prepare to Resist Bourgeois Left Gains in French Elections Weekly Militant Depends Upon Success of $1,000 Drive Stalinist-Lovestone Unity Negotiations In the Canadian Movement -The State and the Trade Unions in Canada by Maurice Spector (Continued from last issue) Conspiracy and the Right to Strike Sympathetic Strike Illegal Picketing is a Crime and a Tort "Incitement to Breach of Contract" The Negro and the Class Struggle by Hugo Oehler (Continued from last issue) Press Drive Under Way -- 2nd. Week Letters from The Militants * A.F. of L. Fakers Betray Sign Writers by Thomas Stamm * To the Greek Party Members and Sympathizers, by the Editorial Board of "Communistes" In the International of Labor -Reviews and News of the Working Class and Revolutionary Movements * For a Turn in the Policy of the C.P.G., from "Permanente Revolution," April 15, 1932 * German Sketches by Erwin Bauer Minister of the Interior Groener * Nine Years of the Struggle of the Left Opposition -The German Revolution of 1923 and the "Lessons of October" by Max Shachtman The German Situation in 1923 Stalinist Zig-zags on the Question of the "United Front" by Leon Trotsky Oppositionist Speaks at Party United Front Meet On the Anniversary of Marx's Birth by Arne Swabeck Editorial Notes by James P. Cannon * Centrist-Right Wing Unity? * Weisbord Blows the Whistle 20 May 14, 1932 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Comrades, Readers, Friends! The Party and the May Day Demonstration by Arne Swabeck Experiences from Recent Struggles What is the Policy Pursued? Oppositionists Slugged in Minneapolis on May Day by --RA. Bring the Unity Negotiations into the Open! by James P. Cannon Militant Builders Tom Mooney Must Be Freed! by Thomas Stamm The Police Shootings in Melrose Park France After the Parliamentary Elections Organization Notes Make Our Press Drive a Success Letters from The Militants * A Criticism of the Needle Trades Article by A. Borjarksy * The Bureaucrats Act Against Oppositionist on the Waterfront by Paul Schwalbe * From A Railroad Worker by A.E. In the International of Labor -Reviews and News of the Working Class and Revolutionary Movements * German Sketches by Erwin Bauer Lieutenant Scheringer Comrade Pruegel * Int. Right Wing on Verge of Disruption -Leader of Czech Group Protest Brandler-Thalheimer Slanders Against Trotsky by Nuerath * The Negro and the Class Struggle by Hugo Oehler (Continued from last issue) Spartacus Youth Club Notice Nine Years of the Struggle of the Left Opposition -The German Revolution of 1923 and the "Lessons of October" by Max Shachtman Reply to Comrade Borjarksy by James P. Cannon Stalinist Zig-zags on the Question of the "United Front" by Leon Trotsky (Continued from last issue) On the Anniversary of Marx's Birth by Arne Swabeck 21 May 21, 1932T Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Congress Talks Unemployment Relief -For the Workers - Only the Jingle of the Government Coin by Arne Swabeck Help Save Our Weekly Militant! More About the Unity Negotiations by --P. Morganstern and Goodman Released Beet Workers Go on Srike in Colorado The Political Crisis of Japanese Imperialism Effects of the Crisis The Assassination of the Premier What is Behind the Terror The Danger of War Against the War Danger in U.S. The Philadelphia Convention of the I. L. G. W. U. by Albert Orland The Anarchist-Lovestone Bloc and the Left Opposition The Tasks of the Left wing Opposition Youth Debates Anarchist Group (On the topic of "Is a Proletarian Dictatorship Necessary?") The Minnesota Convention of the C. P. by a League Delegate The Depression Hits South Carolina by Guy Southworth "A Smiling Providence" Providence Still Smiles Letters from The Militants * Among the Italian Workers of Chicago by Joe * Left Winger Expelled from I. L. G. W. U. by Harry Milton Militant Builders Minneapolis Branch Challenges Wobblies by --C. Put the Press Drive Over the Top! In the International of Labor -Reviews and News of the Working Class and Revolutionary Movements * Greet the Return of Our Class War Prisoners! * From the Left Opposition in South America by Pedro A. V * Nine Years of the Struggle of the Left Opposition -The Reactionary Theory of Socialism in One Country by Max Shachtman How the "Theory" Arose The Effects of October 1923 The Stalinist "Adjustment" The Theory as a Fruit of Pessimism The Essence of the Opposition's Struggle: Marxian Internationalism Internationalism as a Necessary Development What Internationalism Requires in the U.S.S.R. Stalinist Zig-zags on the Question of the "United Front" by Leon Trotsky (Continued from last issue) N.Y. Picnic St. Louis, Attention (Announces a study class on the "Fundamentals of Communism") Editorial Notes by James P. Cannon * Ungrateful Government * The "Negotiators" Smoked Out * For the Release of the Scottsboro Boys 22 May 28, 1932 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck The "Socialists" and their Line of Action by Arne Swabeck Rush Funds to Save Weekly! For the Communist Unity of Our Party! By the National Committee of the Communist League of America (Opposition) to the C.E.C. of the C.P.U.S.A. Jack MacDonald Joins the Left Opposition -Statement of the Former National Secretary of the Communist Party of Canada by Jack MacDonald The National Convention of the S. P. by George Clarke Aid Beet Strike! Letters from the Militants New York, N.Y. Militant Builders New York Attention! (Announcing the picnic celebrating the release of Morgenstern and Goodman) Situation in Pocketbook Makers' Union by N. Davis The Bosses Tax Problem and the Workers by Hugo Oehler Finish the Press Drive with Donations! Statement of Greek Comrades on "Empros" by the Editorial Board of Communistes In the International of Labor -Reviews and News of the Working Class and Revolutionary Movements * The Half-Turn in the German Party from "Permanente Revolution" * The Conference of the Spanish Opposition by Andres Nin * Trotsky and Brandler; or Lovestone and Principles by Max Shachtman An Expert on "Principle" Trotsky on Brandler Lovestone and Brandler Welcome Back, H. M. Wicks! -Expert on Renagacy Returns from Long Absence Bares Underhand "Red" Plot to Use Unions to Ruin United States Government Breaks With Party Work for American Legion No Use for "Reds" Expelled for Defeat Centrism "In General" and the Centrism of the Stalinist Bureaucracy by Leon Trotsky 23 Jun 4, 1932 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck For a Communist Campaign in the Elections The Central Issue: Unemployment The Communist Task in the Elections For Internationalism in the Struggle The Demand for Long Term Credits Scottsboro Boys' Execution Stayed Bruening Government Falls! -German Working Class Faced with Immediate Fascist Onslaught by Sam Gordon Mr. Seabury "Exposes" Tammany-Walker by George Clarke The C.P. Nominating Convention at Chicago Government Repression in Spain Hits Left Opposition -Strikes and Repression in Spain Andres Nin Arrested in Barcelona -Bulletin Chicago Debate (L.O. vs. YPSLs) Bound Volume of the Militant for Sale Highlights of Socialist National Convention -A Report of the Reformist Meet in Milwaukee by Norman Satir Milwaukee, Wis. Policy on the Soviet Union Fight Over National Chairman Comic Incident on Floor Letters from The Militants * Street Carmen Facing Strike in St. Louis by G. Roberts * From Negro Comrades in South Africa The Results of our Press Drive Militant Builders Pioneer Press Notes In the International of Labor -Reviews and News of the Working Class and Revolutionary Movements * The Party and the French Elections -Right Wing Renegades Exploit the Mistakes of the Stalinist Bureaucrats from "La Verite" * The I.L.P. and British Communism by Anglicus What is the I.L.P.? * Nine Years of the Struggle of the Left Opposition -The Anglo-Russian Committee and the British General Strike by Max Shachtman The Swing to the Right The Standpoint of the Opposition The Stalinists and the A.R.C. N.Y. Opposition Offers Cooperation in Elections to the Communist Party Centrism "In General" and the Centrism of the Stalinist Bureaucracy by Leon Trotsky (continued from last issue) Danger of Workers' Bureaucracy The Functionary Replaces the Bolshevik Wherein Lies the Strength of the Revolutionary Party Coarseness and Disloyalty Characterize the Bureaucrat Trotsky on the Disarmament Conference -In Reply to Questions Posed by the Chicago Daily News Bound Volumes of Pamphlets for Sale Editorial Notes by James P. Cannon * The Right Wing in a Blind Alley * The Case of J. T. Murphy 24 Jun 11, 1932 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck The Communist Party Election Platform by Arne Swabeck House Passes Anti-Alien Bill Fascists Moving to Power in Germany The Veterans' March on Washington The "Socialist" Revolt in Chile The Economic Crisis, the Unemployment Situation and the Working Class by Arne Swabeck Trotsky Greets "Unser Kamf" Book Review: Russia: Market or Menace? by Thomas D. Cambell reviewed by Carl Cowl Militant Builders Pioneer Publishers Notes Film Review: Not "Alone" Comrade! by Jack Weber Letters from the Militants -A Foodworker Writes About His Union New York, N.Y. On the Financial Question In the International of Labor -Reviews and News of the Working Class and Revolutionary Movements * A Letter From England by Anglicus * Trotsky's Pamphlets * Trotsky On the Labor Party Question May 19, 1932 * Nine Years of the Struggle of the Left Opposition -The Anglo-Russian Committee and the British General Strike by Max Shachtman (Continued from last issue) The Test of Events The Demands of the Opposition June "Young Spartacus" Out For an 8 Page Paper N.Y. Spartacus Youth Club Meets On the Slogan of "Rank and File Leadership" by James P. Cannon Anarchist Conception of Leadership History of the Slogan Control of Leadership Role of Leadership in Strikes and Unions Democratic Centralism in Unions Trotsky on Rank and File Control Strike Strategy by Leon Trotsky Criticism and Self-Criticism What is a "Red United Front" 25 Jun 18, 1932 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck On the Spot by Ridem Slogans in the Elections -Must Link Up Communist Goal with Immediate Demands Left Opposition Excluded C.P. Platform Deficient Slogan is Workers' Government Relief for Workers Also G. O. P. Meets in Chicago Confab by George Clarke Brown Shifts Legalized -New Decree Forms Part of the Anti-Working Class Move What the Decree Calls For First Signs of United Action Clear Words Needed Workers in Fight Against Forced Labor in Minneapolis by Communist League of America (Opposition) Minneapolis Branch Minneapolis, Minn. Resist Forced Labor Open Letter Capitalist System Real Cause German Paper Interviews Trotsky by Leon Trotsky Youth Meetings in N. Y. Letters from The Militants * News from Canada by Maurice Quarter Toronto Ontario Labor Fakers Have Hot Time * Party Member Joins Opposition * Workers Fight Bureaucracy by Coover Henry Ford Counsels Workers to Return to Feudal Serfdom by Guy Southworth The Drug Clerks and the Class Struggle by L. Dreyer Back Numbers of Militant Wanted Militant Builders In the International of Labor -Reviews and News of the Working Class and Revolutionary Movements * The Situation in Italy and the C. P. -The Fascist Dictatorship in the Throes of the Economic Crisis by Santini * New Issue of Greek Paper * The Organizational Progress of the German Left Opposition Gelsenkirchen Berlin -Meeting of the Members of the Northwest District Leipzig * A Letter From a Polish Comrade * Coal Miners Strike in Czechoslovakia * Nine Years of the Struggle of the Left Opposition -The Tragedy of the Chinese Revolution by Max Shachtman The Stalin Theory The "Bloc of Four Classes" The Smashing of the Opposition Stalinist Ministerialism Strike Strategy by Leon Trotsky (Continued from last issue) Unemployed and Employed Must Be United Luxemburgism--Or Bureaucratic Villification For the Defensive or For the Offensive 26 Jun 25, 1932 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck On the Spot by Ridem * It's the Worker Who Always Pays * The Elephant Never Forgets * Bolter Borah Cannot Swallow Booze Plank * What Makes the Jackass Wild? * The Socialist Party Also Run * Then They'll Have No Brains at All A New History Making Trotsky Book -Problems of the Chinese Revolution by Leon Trotsky, reviewed by S. Suppressing the Documents The Value of Marxism China and Russia Leninist Turn Imperative in Germany! -United Mass Action - Not Parliamentary Opportunism - Will Defeat Fascism by "The Militant" A First Hand Account of Events on the "Bonus Battle Front" Washington D.C. Diseases Rampant Vets in Militant Mood The Unemployment Situation, the Economic Crisis and the American Working Class by Arne Swabeck Credit System during Crisis Operation of Loan Capital Credit and Industry Where are the Markets? Letters from The Militants * Oppositionist Seated at Philly Conference by Leon Goodman * Party's N.Y. State Nominating Convention The Recent Beet Strike in Colorado by George Saul The Drug Clerks and the Class Struggle by L. Dreyer Militant Builders Wage Cut for Federal Gov't Workers by George Clarke Nine Years of the Struggle of the Left Opposition -Industrialization and the Collectivization of Agriculture in the U. S. S. R. by Max Shachtman The Origins of the Struggle First Reactions of the Bureaucracy The Slogan: "Enrich Yourselves" The Platform of 1927 Opposition Pilots Advance The Arrests in Spain (by "our Correspondent") Prize Contest! Pamphlets Wanted! Picnic! Picnic! -For the Benefit of the Spanish Youth Opposition Paper The Slogan of the Defense of the U. S. S. R. by Hugo Oehler Purpose of Slogans Right & Centre Misuse Slogans Scare Headlines on Manchuria Civil War in Germany A Political Biography of Stalin.... by Leon Trotsky Back Numbers of Militant Wanted 27 Jul 2, 1932 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck On the Spot by Ridem Crime is Gaining All the Time Reps. and Dems. Send Rival to Nut Ward Is William Green Seeing Red? O'Neal and Thomas in Tit for Tat Game Daily Worker Bares Diabolical Plot Lausanne Conference Near Collapse -German Reaction Aggressive by Sam Gordon Closer to the Proletarians of the "Colored" Races! by Leon Trotsky Arrest W.Z. Foster in Los Angeles -Released Although Charged with Criminal Syndicalism Alexander Rosanoff (Obituary) Demagogues and Bankers Clash in Chicago --What is Behind the Clique Fight at the Democrats' Meet by George Clarke Persecution of our Spanish Comrades The Zurich Congress of Reformist Int'ls -New Situation Brings "Left" Turn on Part of Amsterdam Letters from The Militants * The Pocketbook Makers Fight the Racketeers by N. Davis * The "Labor" Governor of Minnesota by O. M. Among the Greek Workers in N. Y. by the Editorial Board of "Communistes" Trial of the National Herald Our Healthy Criticism Spartacus Club and Labor Defense Organization Notes Youth Activities New York Young Spartacus Chicago, Ill. Y.C.L.'ers Declares for Left Opposition by Irving Bern France Under the Regime of Herriot from "La Verite" The Lausanne Conference Herriot's Internal Policy The Struggle Within the Working Class Change in the Policy of C.P. is Needed Growth of the Spanish Left In Badajoz In Corunia Another Group Organized in Hombres In Puenteduema In Tejares (Salamanca) Nine Years of the Struggle of the Left Opposition -The Break in the Right-Center Bloc and the Left Zig-zag of Stalinism by Max Shachtman The End of the Ebb-Tide The Campaign Against the Right Prize Contest Organizational Progress of the German Left Opposition Gelsenkirchen (Ruhr) Berlin Brandler and Stalinism Spandau.-- United Front Achieved in Breslau Will They Liquidate the Splitting Trade Union Tactic Correction The Economic Crisis, the Unemployment Situation and the American Working Class by Arne Swabeck An Open Letter to the Party District Committee by Herbert Capelis A Political Biography of Stalin.... by Leon Trotsky (Continued from last issue) 28 Jul 9, 1932 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck On The Spot by Ridem * Trotsky Writes on the Problems of the Chinese Revolution * The Fat Man's Day is Coming * Bryan's Son is Chip of Old Blockhead * Zagaria is Out but Wicks Remains * There is Still Some Money at Large Vote for Foster-Ford -Support the Communist Candidates Against Bourgeois Parties! Booze for Bread Socialist Reformism Vote Communist! One Dead in Fascist Riot Dies Bill Threat to Foreign Born Smash Hitler Now! -The Fascist Danger: A Striking Parallel by Leon Trotsky Capitulation The Main Enemy The Shame-Faced Turn The United Front Against Fascism Strike Unitedly A Complete Revision Needed Franco-German Anti-Soviet Alliance Being Formed at Laussane A Turn is Being Made Stalinism in Straits; Opposition on Upsurge by Leon Trotsky Redoubled Blows at the Opposition The "United Front": Who with Whom? The Opposition is Invincible! Successful League Meet -400 Hear Opposition Speakers in Bronx Despite Stalin Gangs Geneva "Peace" Swindles -Chain Formed by Hoover, Socialists, Litvinov, Barbusse & Co. -The Social Democrats Support Hoover; Hoover is Endorsed by Litvinov; Litvinov is Backed by Barbusse; Barbusse is Supported by the New Republic; the New Republic is Attacked by the Daily Worker; and the Daily Worker Flounders in the Swamp by Max Shachtman America's Shrewd Pacifism Socialists Rally to Hoover Litvinov Welcomes the U.S. Plan A Masquerade of Stalinism Questions on China Militant Builders A New Turn in the T.U.U.L. by Hugo Oehler Another New Turn The Factory Basis In Preparation for the Offensive Pioneer Publishers Notes What Next? Bound Volumes The Spanish Opposition Conference by Henri Lacroix Madrid, Spain The Police and the Conference Governmental Repression The Opposition's Growth Spanish Opposition Youth Makes Appeal by Eugenio F. Grannell For the National Committee of the Left Communist Opposition Youth of Spain A Letter from China by Y.M.T. With the Food Workers A Bureaucratic Reply The Party Workers Hit Back The Managers Sit Pretty Nine Years of the Struggle of the Left Opposition -The Break in the Right-Center Bloc and the Left Zig-zag of Stalinism by Max Shachtman (Continued from last issue) The Kulak Uprising An Admission of Bankruptcy by Sam Gordon A Damaging Admission Brandler's View A Right Wing Lie Stalin's Political Biography by Leon Trotsky (Continued from last issue) The Book on China Extra! Extra! Fink Discovered in S.L.P.? 29 Jul 16, 1932 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck On The Spot by Ridem * Let's Shake Hands on This * Smith May Keep His Shirt On * Olive is Wasting Her Oil * Whoever Wins We Are for This Fight * The Rascally Poor Simply Won't Be Good A Warning Out of the Past Socialist Edict Paves Road for HItlerites -Communists Must Form United Front Now New York Branch Picnic Five Expelled from Y.C.L. -Chicago Communist Youth Fight Campaign Against Opposition Hoover & Unemployment -Republican Party Platform Ignores Vital Problem of Jobless by George Clarke Jobless in Extreme Need Hoover's Grand Scheme Relief "Un-American" The Barbusse Congress -The Barbusse Congress Against War by Leon Trotsky June 13, 1932 I See War With Germany by Leon Trotsky Hitler Will Need Allies War Would Be Inevitable Russia Must Be Prepared Youth Notes July Issue of Young Spartacus New York Pioneer Publishers Notes Bound Volumes Publications in Foreign Languages Earn a Free Copy of "Problems of the Chinese Revolution" Opposition Challenge Still Unanswered - Letter to the Communist Party, New Jersey District 7, signed by Louis Nagy, Secretary of the Newark Branch, Communist League of America (Opposition) The Crisis in the A. C. W. -Independent Clothing Workers Union Formed in Canada by Albert Orland Hillman's New "Militancy" Collapse of "Higher Strategy" Hillman Sunk in Montreal Autocracy in the Union The Civil War in Chile -Motive Forces Behind South American "Revolutions" by Alberto Gonzalez The Stalinists and the Waterfront Work by B.F. New York Fiasco of Bureaucrats For a Fighting Opposition Why not the 4 Marx Bros.? (Not to Speak of Greta Garbo) Nine Years of the Struggle of the Left Opposition -The Ultra-Left Zig-zag in the Comintern and the "Third Period" by Max Shachtman The Turn at the Ninth Plenum Stalin and the Right Wing Aftermath of Lausanne -European Powers Seek United Front Against United States by Sam Gordon What the Agreement Consists of The Significance of the New Entente The "Bonuseers" at Washington by G.D. Veterans Stick Bonuseers Still Deluded What Is Our Task? The Census Report and the Middle Class by Hugo Oehler Labor Shifts Non-Workers Gainfully Employed Middle Class in U.S. Regain Proletarian Base First 30 Jul 23, 1932 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck On the Spot by Ridem * Bata Quits a Batty System * Krueger Rose From and Went to the Bottom * Krueger, Insull, Capone --All Self-Made Men * Bata Believed in Ford Methods * Brother Doak Sound Optimistic Note * Dog and Canary Greet Roosevelt Nomination Communism or Pacifism -The Party and the Barbusse Congress Germany on the Eve of Civil War -The Fate of the World Revolution Hangs in the Balance! The Workers Strive for Unity Communist Clarity Imperative The Class Line-Up--International The Party "Answers" Our Warning 15,000 Workers Strike -Textile and Furniture Plants Shut Down in North Carolina Strike After Wage Cut The Stalinist Course Workers Shot in Illinois New York Painters Out on Strike by K. The Massacre of St. Louis Workers -Left Opposition Calls on Party for Form a Workers' United Front by Martin Payer Jobless Position Acuteness Police Bomb Workers St. Louis "Self-Criticism" "The General Line" Belgian Diggers Resist Wage-cut by L. Lesoil The Dollar Versus the Pound -Wall St. and Lombard St. Fight for World Financial Supremacy by Hugo Oehler Militant Builders Pioneer Publishers Notes Just Arrived from England! What Next? Problems of the Chinese Revolution Publications in Foreign Languages Bound Volumes of Trotsky's Pamphlets The Civil War in Chile -Motive Forces Behind South American "Revolutions" by Alberto Gonzalez (Continued from last issue)\ First Meeting in Anthracite What Is Happening in he Soviet Union -A Letter from Moscow The All-Embracing Collectivization New York Branch Picnic Nine Years of the Struggle of the Left Opposition -The Ultra-Left Zig-zag in the Comintern and the "Third Period" Third Period and Social Fascism A Convenient Theory Problems of the Unemployed by Arne Swabeck The Party Councils The Reformist Dilemma Capitalist Income Democratic Party and Unemployment by George Clarke Problems of Democrats Unemployment Insurance The Fascist Firing Squads in Action From Maggiora to Sbardellotto and Bovone by Feroci The Weapon of Terror Fascism Losing Support Task of the Party 31 Jul 30, 1932 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck "What Next?" -- Book of Hour -"What Next?" by Leon Trotsky reviewed by Sam Gordon From Harzburg to Von Papen Lessons of the Past A Critique of Stalinism The Leninist Program Unfolded All Out on Aug. First -Demonstrate Against Imperialist War and Hilterist Menace Imperialism on a Volcano The Threat of Hitlerism Bullets and Gas for the Vets! -Hoover and Co. Make a Repayment for Soliders' Services by Thomas Stamm The Veterans' Progress Communist Opportunities 200 at German Meeting Hoover and the "Relief" Bill -Millions of Unemployed Workers Swindled by New Congress Bill by Herbert Capelis Eleventh Hour in Germany -Socialists Restrain Workers: Stalinists Still Reject United Front The Eleventh Hour Nears Thaelmann's New Theory New York Branch Starts Important Drive The Civil War in Germany: * The Fascist Terror is Let Loose! -Spontaneous United Front Developing July 1, at the University of Berlin At Dresden At Halle July 2 Nine Workers Killed in One Day July 3, Hamburg In Berlin At Mariendorf At Wedding The Police Assassins July 5 Kassel Minden (Westphalia) Kottbusertor (Berlin) July 6, Essen ()Ruhr) July 7 July 8, Gollinov July 9 July 10, Frankfort-on-the Main Hirschberg (Silesia) Child Killers The German Communist Party and the United Front -Is It Really Possible to Establisha Unified Proletarian Front Against the Growing Danger of Fascism? The Turn of the German C.P. Towards the United Front Social Democratic Leaders Against the United Front Arise Now, Red Berlin! "Now, Arise You, Red Berlin" The Socialist Workers Party and the United Front A Letter to a Party Member by A.K. Bound Volumes What Is Happening in the Soviet Union -A Letter from Moscow by M.M. (Continued from last issue) Stalin's Discreet Silence The Need for the Bulletin The Opposition in the Factories Rumors About Rakovsky Pioneer Publishers Notes "What Next" Off the Press Whither England? Germany--The Key to the International Situation, in Greek and Spanish Organizing the Jobless -The Need for Change of Course in the Official Party Policy by Arne Swabeck The Various Relief Programs On the Program of Demands The Party's Duty is Clear Forgotten Words -Lenin and the War Danger -Instructions to the Hague Anti-War Conference by Vladimir Iliitch Lenin "Defense of Fatherland" Task at Congress Errors of Communists The Stalinists and Barbusse The C.I. and Barbusse "The Foundations of Socialism" by Leon Trotsky What is the Meaning of "Foundations?" Socialist Foundation in 1921 Lenin on Radek Luzerne Hears Opposition 32 Aug 6, 1932 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Mooney Case Now 16 Years Old Lull in Fight is Temporary Opposition's Task Militant in Dangers! -Immediate Aid Must Be Sent if We Are Not to Suspend Martial Law for Indiana Strike Communists Gain in Reichstag Elections -Leninist United Front Tactics Vindicated by Sam Gordon On the Eve of a Coup d'Etat Communist Gains "The Defeat of the Trotskyists" Fascist Demands The New York Picnic A Sham Turn on Barbusse All Eyes on Germany! -A Manifesto of the Communist League of America (Opposition) -The Hitler Danger is a Danger to the Working Class of the Whole World Police, Troops and Vets -Eye-Witness Account of the Wash. Massacre of the Bonuseers by Jerdick Cavalry, Infantry and Tanks Some "Strange" Facts Letters from the Militants * A Scandal in the Red Food Workers' Union * A Run-in With the Party in Duluth by Charles Curtis * Opposition Progress in Africa by T.W.T. Stalinist Threats The African Opposition The Party Slogan Extracts from Earl Browder's Biography German Left Will Issue Weekly American Foreign Trade and the Question of Credits to the Soviet Union by Thomas Stamm Machinery Decline New York's Aug. First Meet Militant Builders Pioneer Publishers Notes -Marxist Classics Great Britain and the U.S. at Ottawa -The Struggle Between the Two Imperialisms by Albert Glotzer America's Rise to Power Britain's Demands Ratio of Imports Supplied by the United States to Canada in 1930 Effects of Crisis Nine Years of Struggle of the Left Opposition -Burning Questions of Bonapartism and Thermidor by Max Shachtman Two Great Revolutions Reasons for Thermidor Opposition Delegates for United Front at Party's Anti-Injunction Conference by Herbert Capelis Hands Off Rosa Luxemburg -Reply to the Slandering of a Revoutionist by Leon Trotsky Stalin's Ignorance of Party History Lenin and Luxemburg Luxemburg's Struggle Against Kautsky Where is Lenin's Letter to Radek? The Socialist Party and Unemployment by George Clarke The S.P. Program Meaning of the Ballot Box Fascism-U.S. and German -It was Discovered in U.S. and Ignored Where It Really Was by --S. Dewey's Theory Fascism is the Government in U.S.! In England Too! And Germany? 33 Aug 13, 1932 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Party Members! Militant Workers! Left Opposition Alone Raises the Voice of Lenin at N.Y. Congress Against War -Stalinists Unite With Liberal Pacifists to Reject Resolution of League Delegation on Fight Against the War Dangers by Max Shachtman The Petty Bourgeois Liberals Set the Tone Left Opposition Makes Itself Heard The Stalinists Reply to Us Olgin's Irony--at the Expense of Lenin Lenin's Comintern In 1922 Cheer Confusionists-Gag Oppositionists London in 1915 and New York in 1932 The Hitlerites at the Gates! -Alarm Signal! -Fascism Must Not Take Power Without Armed Resistance -The Black Hordes of Fascism at the Gates of Power The Governmental Manipulations of the Bourgeoisie Social Democracy--Perennial Betrayer Where is the C.P.G. The Next Step of Fascism--War Against the U.S.S.R. Trotsky Elected to Anti-War Meet Monarchist Putsch In Spain -Militarist Coup in Seville and Madrid in is Quickly Crushed Lessons of the Bonus March by Thomas Stamm Waters Leadership The Left Opposition's Resolution at the New York Anti-War Conference -Lenin's Fundamental Views Which Were Voted Down by the Stalinists in Alliance With the Pacifists War and the Soviet Union The Key Danger--Hitlerism For Revolutionary Struggle Against War A Letter to Roger Baldwin -On Stalinist-Pacifist Relations at the Anti-War Conference by James P. Cannon The Party and the 6-Hour Day Slogan by Hugo Oehler The Capitalist Aim A Stalinist Muddle Hours and Wages Militant Builders The Miracle Issue Moving Up Germany-The Key to the International Situation Portrait of a Youth Hands Off Rosa Luxemburg -Reply to the Slandering of a Revolutionist by Leon Trotsky (Continued from last issue) The Banner of the Proletarian Revolution Luxemburg and the Permanent Revolution Luxemburg and the Russian Revolution Ferment in the British Party -Open Letter from Comrade Stewart Purkis to Harry Pollitt Stand--One of Policy Reviewing Past of Party The Crucial Issue of Germany Marxist Classics 34 Aug 20, 1932 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck "I Must Speak Out" -Warns Party on Germany -Leading C.P. Member Appeals for United Front Against Hitlerism by Sebastian Pappas At the Brink of the Abyss Arouse the Working Class "I Must Speak Out Now" The Party's False Course For a United Front Seb. Pappas Expelled Stalinist Silence Broken Opposition Campaign On Germany by Thomas Stamm Yorkville Meeting Brownsville Meeting The Only Road -Von Papen & Hitler -Bonapartism and Fascism -An Analysis of the Present Moment in the German Situation by Leon Trotsky Bruening and the Bureaucracy Finishing Off the Social Democrats What Papen Represents Prospects for Tomorrow August 22: Fifth Anniversary of the Murder of Sacco-Vanzetti Illinois Miners Revolt Spreads Thru State -Thousands of Miners on Strike Against Lewis Machine and Wage-Cuts by Arne Swabeck Life of Union At Stake Extent of Present Movement Illinois, Scene of Many Revolts Duties of the Revolt Movement New York Tailors on Strike -Hillman "Leads" the New York Amalgamated in a Stoppage by Albert Orland Hillman Grants Cuts Hillman's Points A Vicious Combination The Rank and File Committee Possibilities for Left Wing Stalinists Split Trade Unions in Spain -Third T.U. Center Formed Conference a Swindle Opposition Fights in Trade Unions Bolshevik-Leninists Head Miners Strike in Belgium -Left Oppositionists on the Charleroi Firing Line! by the Left Opposition of the C.F.B. The Charleroi Group Bulletin A Letter From Our Charleroi Comrades The Miners' Situation The Bourgeoisie Acts Opposition Progress Need for Revolutionary Leadership Bound Volumes of Comrade Trotsky's Pamphlets French Opposition's German Campaign -Bureaucrats Resort to Violence Bureaucratic Impotence--All Over the World Who Was Actually "Caught"? A Conversation with a Party Member on the Question of the German Situation by A.K. The Opposition and the N.Y. "United Front" Unemployment Confab by Thomas Stamm Who Is Leading the Barbusse Congress by S. The Case of H.G. Wells The Case of Romain Rolland A Letter to the Workers of Zurich -Trotsky Replies to the Calumny of the Social Democrats by Leon Trotsky The Theory of Permanent Revolution and American Imperialism -The Conflict Between Proletarian Internationalism and Stalinist National Reformism by Hugo Oehler 35 Aug 27, 1932 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Stalinists in Monstrous Fame-Up Against Left Opposition -Bureaucrats "Answer" Our Policy by Inciting to Pogrom by the National Committee of the Communist League (Opposition): * Emergency Call * Left Opposition Demands an Open Hearing on the Stalinist Frame-up from the National Committee Communist League of America (Opposition) * Slander the Opposition as Murderers of Two Workers at N.Y. Street Meeting from the National Committee Communist League of America (Opposition) Here are the Facts With the Embattled Miners -Diggers Reply to Terror with Increased Militancy -Defy Bosses, Fakers and Police in Tremendous Advance by Germinal From the Front, Springfield, Ill. Why the Fight Fakery of the "Leaders" Basis of the Battle Party Holds First Meeting on Danger of German Fascism Opposition Ideas Penetrate Party The Meeting Revolves Around L.O. Let Us Reinforce Our Offensive! by Leon Trotsky The Communist and Election Activity -A Criticism of the Stalinist Methods in the Campaign by Hugo Oehler Favorable Chances for Communism The Opportunist Course of Stalinism For a Realistic Defense of the U.S.S.R. Who Was Exposed? German Campaign of Czech Opp. by K. Schmidt Sabotage German Campaign Effect of the Prussian Coup d'Etat The Convention of Father Cox's Quasi-Fascist "Jobless Party" by Martin Payer Expulsion of Carl Coster -Mink and Bureaucracy Run Rampant on the Waterfront by P.S. A Suppressed Stalinist Document Exposed! Resolution Submitted by the American Comm. for the World Congress Against War The "Daily Worker" and the Miners' Strike "Hoover Cities" -- An American Idyll of 1932 by Carl Cowl What Capitalism Has in Store for Us The Creed of Capitalism N.Y. Picnic Lovestonites Play Lackies in Doll Strike (Variant spelling of "Lackeys") Kowtow to A.F.L. Fakers--Prevent Left from Speaking Our Successful Anti-War Meet in New York A Declaration of the Bolshevik-Leninists (Left Opposition of the Comintern) -To the World Anti-War Congress at Amsterdam Capitalism in Blind Alley Soviet Union in Danger Clarity on War Danger Pacifism --Poison for Masses Disarmament -- A Lever for War Who Has the Weapons? C.I. Capitulates to Pacifists Free the Bolshevik Leninists We Propose: 36 Sep 3, 1932 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck With the Embattled Miners -Massacre Striking Miners in Franklin County, Illinois -Coal Diggers Regather Their Forces After the Slaughter by Germinal Status of Strike The Stalinists Bureaucrats Back Out On Murder Frame-Up Hearing Bureaucrats Retreat `Must Be Brought to Account Fascists Waiting Ready to Strike -Clara Zetkin Calls for International Solidarity Against Fascism Attitude of Hitlerism Call for International Solidarity Youth Hold Anti-War Meeting The Political Program of the Petty Bourgeoisie -Bourgeoisie, Petty Bourgeoisie and Proletariat -Jacobinism, Social Democracy and Fascism -- The Political Programs of the Petty Bourgeoisie by Leon Trotsky The Decline of the Democratic Forms A Few Lessons of the Pilsudski "Coup" Is the Alliance Between the Big and the Petty Bourgeoisie Indissoluble? The Responsibility for the Growth of Fascism "Farmers Holiday" in Iowa -A New and Militant Type of Middle Class Revolt by Hugo Oehler Significance of Farm Strike Workers' Strike and Farmers' Strike The Middle Class in the Crisis Appeal for Funds! Strike in Lancashire Mills -Big Wave of Struggle of British Workers Rising Joe Colbert -Labor's Martyr by Gerry Allard A Fateful Conversation Threats Fulfilled The Left Opposition At Work by Carl Cowl How Regime Reacts Prospects for Duluth Minneapolis Unemployed Activity in Retrospect by Thomas Stamm The Turn The TUUL NEC Resolution The Draft Program With the International Left Opposition * Greece Great Social and Revolutionary Struggles Ahead "An Appeal to the Communists and to the Working Class" * Belgium * Spain Some Experiences of the Illinois Miner's Struggle and the Policy of the Communists by Arne Swabeck Union Future Hangs in Balance A Letter from China by C.H. Militant Builders The Home Stretch New Bundle Orders The New York Marine Workers in Revolt Against the Stalinist Bureaucrats by J. Johannessen Fellow Seamen Pioneer Publisher Notes Literature Sales Trotsky's Complete Writings Leading Functionary Exposes Stalinism in Greece by J. Bambakas The Statement of Comrade Bombakas Admit Constant Attacks on Left Opposition Archio Marxist Excluded from Prison-Collectives Party Members Resent Exclusion of Archio-Marxists Party Voices on the Frame-Up -Condemn Disgraceful Action of Stalinist Leaders 37 Sep 10, 1932 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Help Maintain the Weekly Militant! Stalinists Reject Offer of Help -Chicago Stalinists Reject Offer of Help by Banzel Miners Form New Union -Raise Struggle to New Heights -National Unity -- Aim of Militant Illinois Body -C.L.A. Hails New Union by Germinal The Report of the Policy Committee Elected at Gillespie Conference September 1, 1932 The Salting Up of an Apparatus Some Necessary Criticism Party Leaders Negotiate Secretly But Denounce Publicly Communist League Greets New Progressive Miners Union by Communist League of America (Opposition) The Future Path of the Illinois Miners The Communist Duty in Coming Developments Police Act on Stalinist Frame-Up Pogrom Fails but Police Act Rank and File Aroused Demand Open Workers' Hearing! British Left Comes Out Openly in Fight for Leninist Policy by the Balham Group Demanded Party Congress "Free and Full Discussion"--Phrase and Fact On the Anti-War Congress On Germany Answer to Threat of Expulsion Class Struggle in Germany -Hitler and Junkers Vie for Power in Germany -Hitler and Von Papen by Sam Gordon Temporary Neutralization of Social Forces The Maneuvers of the Hitlerites Domestic Actions of Von Papen New Betrayals of Social Democracy Opportunity for Communists Allard Answers Party Bureaucrats by Gerry Allard Facts About Allard The Party in the Situation Sept. Young Spartacus Out Stalinist Bureaucrat Expelled in N.Y. Comrade Trotsky's Letter to the Weisbord Group by Leon Trotsky Postscript to the Letter to Comrade Weisbord Unemployed Activity in Retrospect by Thomas Stamm (Continued from last issue) One Step Forward Pioneer Publishers Notes Literature Running Out Militant Builders Alliance or Struggle Between Social Democracy and Fascism? by Leon Trotsky On the Proletarian Revolution in the United States American Revolution--When? The World Position of U.S. Imperialism Our Approach The Capitalists and the Civil War A Third Edition of the Bourgeois Revolution? 38 Sep 17, 1932 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck New Wage-Cuts Start -Accentuated Attacks on Workers Prelude to 4th Crisis Year Six Votes Against 2 Thousand -Stalino-pacifism Wins in Amsterdam Urgent Appeal Unity is Urgent Need of Illinois Miners -National Class Struggle Union Will Win! by Joe Angelo Who is Leading? Role of the Socialist Party Communist Party Where is the 7th World Congress? -What is Happening in the C. I.? The Silence of the Executive Convocation of the Seventh World Congress of the Comintern! "The World Congress Shall Be Convened Every Two Years." An Open Letter to John Watt -Standpoint of the Left Opposition in the Present Miners' Struggle by Joseph Angelo Angelo's Reply Watt and the Opposition Which Party? "Pacifism" at Work in Gran Chaco Trotsky Barred from Czechoslovakia The Opposition at Work * Shachtman's Meetings in Chicago by X. Chicago Youth Meetings South Side Meeting * Opposition Expands its Activities Davenport, Iowa * N. Y. Picnic a Success Fairy Tales and Fairy Tales The Four Portraits of Chiang Kai-Shek -What Happened to the Ones Sent to Stalin, Rykov and Voroschilov, and the One for...Trotsky -Extracts From the Archives of Stalinist United Front Policy by Leon Trotsky A Reply to Comrade Allard by Arne Swabeck The Party and Its Errors Blunders of Stalinism Question of United Front Japan! Full Reports On Amsterdam Congress Letters from The Militants * Shipstead Exposes His Bankruptcy by O. M. Minneapolis Shipstead Exposes His Political Bankruptcy * Another "Leader" Against War by W. A. Nelson Collier Weisbord's Reply to Trotsky's Letter -Statement of the Communist League of Struggle Outcome of Belgium Miners' Strike by Nora Strike Extends A Lesson to the Workers The Elections in Greece -Left Opposition Holds Aloft Banner of International Communism by Ar. Caldis The Checking of the Stalin-Thaelmann Policy Against Their Own Experience -From the Series of Articles in the Forthcoming Book "The Only Road" by Leon Trotsky On the Proletarian Revolution in the United States by Hugo Oehler (Continued from last issue) 39 Sep 24, 1932 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Militant Sub Drive -Our Club Plan Half Year Subs for 50 Cents Militant Builders Importance of the Drive Build the First Storey Spartacus Affair The Militant Appeals Urgently for Aid from All Its Supporters Terror Rules in Illinois Coal Field -Official Party Leaders Forced to Abandon Sectarian Attitude Toward New Union * Significance of the N.M.U. Offer of a United Front What the N.M.U. Can Do for the Strike * Progressive Miners Union Under Severe Attack -P.M.U. Under Sharp Attack by Jack Carmody Springfield, Ill. Confusion Sowed A Reign of Terror Frame-Up Challenge Stays Unanswered by Party by Arne Swabeck, Secretary Communist League of America (Opposition) Chicago Stalinists Echo Barbusse by J. Giganti League to Open School -First Four Courses Will Begin in New York City Next Month Barbusse-Stalin Congress -What Happened at the Barbusse Congress? * Stalinists and Opposition The Leader of the Hindu Bourgeoisie Opens and Closes the Debates Pacifist Speakers and Communists The Communists on the Tribune of the Congress The Intervention of the Reformists and the Social Democrats Muenzenberg's Speech The Opposition at the Congress Our Indo-Chinese Comrade Speaks The Congress Apparatus Runs Away With the "Final Vote" * The Barbusse "Charter" by P. Naville The Indelible Stamp of Centrism Cachin's Pledge and...Patel's Weisbord's Reply to Trotsky's Letter -Statement of the Communist League of Struggle (Continued from last issue) Russian Bulletin Japan -Its Rise from Feudalism to Capitalist Imperialism and the Development of the Proletariat by Jack Weber The Feudal Period The Tokugawa Shogunate (1603 to 1868) The Peasants The Restoration The New Militarist Bureaucracy Thaelmann's Twenty-One Mistakes by Leon Trotsky -An Analysis of the Replies Made by Ernst Thaelmann to a Seies of Questions Posed to Him by Former Socialist Workers on the Attitude of the Communist Party Towards the Problems of the United Front of All Workers in the Present German Situation -From the Series of Articles in the Forthcoming Book "The Only Road" Young Spartacus Aid In Picketing of Rex Strike 40 Oct 1, 1932 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Down With Lewisism! (Political Cartoon) One Road for Miners! -Lay a Firm Class Foundation at the Gillespie Convention by Arne Swabeck Rank and File Unity and Conscious Leadership Who Raised the Bogey of the "Reds"? Which is the Political Party of Labor? Progressive Miners of America Can Show the Way Two More Expelled for "Trotskyism" Lewis Gangsters Fail to Cow Miners -Springfield Miners Resist Strike-Breaker Mobilization by Jack Carmody Which Political Party Shall the Miners Support in the Coming Elections by George Clarke The Capitalist Demagogues The Socialist Program Vote Communist Problems Before the Gillespie Convention of the Progressive Miners of America by Joseph Angelo For Class Struggle Program Moscow Letter -Crisis in the Soviet Economy -Stalinism Engagers Alliance Between Town and Village by N. and M. Cause for Decline Agriculture and Industry The Opposition's Standpoint Berlin Letter -New Step Toward Fascism -Struggle for Democratic Rights Now on Agenda in Germany by Roman Well The United Front Militant Sub Drive -Our Club Plans Subs for Miners 500 Subs For the Miners Militant Builders Letters from Militants * New York Gets Barbusse Congress Report by C. * Socialists, Police Clubs and the Reds * The Fight For Militant Unions in Canada by Maurice Quarter * The Opposition at Wicks' Meetings by James Sifakis Spurts Ahead! Our School League Replies to Weisbord Letter The Question of Centrism and the Bloc With the Right Wing Madrid Letter -Checking Sanjuro's Coup -The Spanish Proletariat Replies to the Monarchist Insurrection by Henri Lacroix The Government and the Monarchists The Rotten Republic The Democratic Illusions of the Proletariat For a Workers' United Front Japan -Its Rise from Feudalism to Capitalist Imperialism and the Development of the Proletariat by Jack Weber (Continued from last issue) Foreign Aid The Fuedo-Capitalist Alliance Industrial Handicaps and Japanese Imperialism Brillant Expelled, by Hugo Oehler, Organizer Pioneer Publishers Note What Next? Exchange Offer Revolutionary Lessons Elections in Greece I.W.O. Expels Three for "Trotskyism" by H. Mashow, S. Mashow and S. Solomon Letter from Party Member 41 Oct 8, 1932 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck The Miners' Convention -Ravages of Lewisism; the Position of the Communist Groups by Arne Swabeck How the Miners Were Eliminated The Parties and the Miners Those Who Condemn a "Split" Elephant, Donkey and "Socialists" Compete for Election Honors by Thomas Stamm The Donkey Brays Socialists and Liberals Saturday: All Out to Union Square -For Scottsboro! Scottsboro Case Up In Supreme Court -Only Mass Action Can Save Framed-Up Negro Boys! No Let-Up! Opposition Youth Calls Scottsboro Meeting Illinois Conference Opens -Miners are Militant but Right Wing Forces are Organized, by Charles Curtis Convict 6th Harlan Miner -5 Now Serving Life Terms While 37 Others Still Await Trial Program of Action of the League on the Unemployment Situation The Conditions of the Movement The Social Reformists and the Unemployed An Unemployment Program of Relief The Problem of the Shorter Workday Large Scale Credits to the Soviet Union The Organization of the Movement Letters from the Militants * All Eyes on Davenport by Brady Davenport, Iowa Condition of the Party * Free Speech Struggle in Chicago by Nathan Gould Tour for Unser Kamf New Headquarters Banquet Militant Sub Drive -Our Club Plan We're Off The Club Plan Subs for the Miners The Jubilee Anniversary Issue Militant Jubilee Anniversary Number League Replies to Weisbord Letter (Continued from previous issue) by National Committee Communist League of America (Opposition) The Question of Mass Work The Tactic of the Weisbord Group in Other Questions "Unity" Maneuvers of Weisbord Japan -Its Rise from Feudalism to Capitalist Imperialism and the Development of the Proletariat by Jack Weber (Continued from last issue) The Dearth of Raw Materials Influence of Iron Ores The Problem of Coal Textiles The Imperialist Struggle for Markets Archives of the Opposition -"Socialism in One Country" by S. On Hopeless Idiots (A quote from Lenin's "Works" Volume XVI, page 306, August 24, 1919 and commentary on his ideas) A Picture of the Party from Inside -What the Party Bulletin Says About the "Achievements" by Max Shachtman A New Crisis in Soviet Economy (Continued from last issue) by N. and M. The Second Five Year Plan Capitalist Crisis and Soviet Economy The Opposition's Attitude 42 Oct 15, 1932 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Zinoviev Expelled Again -New Expulsions Denote Dangerous Crisis for Stalinist Regime by S. The "Counter-Revolutionary Plot" "Letter of the 18 Bolsheviks" The Crisis of Stalinism Right Wing Wins at Gillespie Mine Workers Conference -Miners Militant but Small Left Wing Fails to Stop $5.00 Day Scale Adoption by Arne Swabeck The Left Wing Position The Opportunists Favor Retreat To the Right or to the Left--Which? Some Lessons of the Gillespie Conference Lytton Report Aims at Partitioning China Among the Imperialist Bandit Powers by H. S. In the Elections -"Labor" or C.P. Ticket? -The Lovestoneites Propose a Reformist "United Labor" Slate by Arne Swabeck Reformist or Revolutionary Objective? What is the Right wing Position? A United Front or a Reformist Sham? The Peasant War in China -The Standpoint of the Red Proletariat in the Present Situation -A Letter to the Chinese Bolshevik-Leninists by Leon Trotsky The Peasant Army and the Industrial Centers Peasants' Outlook and the Workers The Danger of Peasant-Worker Conflicts Bourgeoisie Leads the Proletariat Banquet Saturday to Celebrate New Headquarters and School Opening Letters from the Militants * The Strike of the Embroiderers * Elections in Pocketbook Makers Union by N. Davis Shachtman in Boston Literature for the International Workers School Attack in Union Square New York by P. Militant Sub Drive -Our Club Plans Wanted--$1.00 Wanted--$2.00 Good News Militant Builders Jubilee Anniversary Issue A Double Anniversary The Power Trust and the Elections by Hugo Oehler Problem of Power Control Fictitious Capitalizations The Power Projects The Insull Collapse Highlights at Gillespie -Observations at the Convention of the Illinois Miners Two Conflicting Current A Jagged Course International School to Open The Demonstration of Solidarity by Jack Ayrshire Japan -Its Rise from Feudalism to Capitalist Imperialism and the Development of the Proletariat by Jack Weber (Continued from last issue) Present Status of Japanese Manufacturing The Textile Industries The Contract System Raw Silk in Foreign Trade The Cotton Industry Cotton and Opium--A Study in Historic Materialism Mercantilism and Money The Road to Socialism -The Social-Democratic Blind Alley; The Soviet Successes and the German Situation; Economic Collaboration Between the U.S.S.R. and Germany. The United Front With the Social Democracy Against the Papen Military-Bonapartistic Dictatorship -From a Series of Articles in the Forthcoming Book "The Only Road" by Leon Trotsky 43 Oct 22, 1932 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Von Papen's Election -Our Appeal for United Front Struggle of the German Workers Berlin Reconciliation Proposals For the Fighting United Front School Term Opens Needle Trades Convention Gets Left Opposition's Resolution * Our Resolution * The Bureaucrats Attack Miners' Relief! German Organ Suppressed 12th Plenum of the E.C.C.I. -The Need of the Hour: A Democratically Convened Congress Our Russian Revolution Celebration Chen Du-Hsiu Arrested -Seven Bolshevik-Leninists Seized in Raid in Shanghai School Term Opens Indo-China Militants Held Letters from the Militants Socialist Meetings in Youngstown by M. Koehler Youngstown Y.P.S.L. The Opposition at Work * The Opposition in Davenport by G.P. The Situation in Davenport * Opposition Debates Socialists by M. Koehler With the Greek Workers by A.C. New York The Empros Militant Builders A Question by Comrade Coover All Around the Circuit Subs for the Miners The Double Anniversary Issue The Staff to Date Our Anniversary Number A National Revolution in the South? -Discussion Article on the Negro Question by Hugo Oehler The Stalinist "Chart for the U.S." The Farce of the "Democratic Dictatorship" in the South A Loophole for a Retreat Highlights at Gillespie -Observations at the Convention of the Illinois Miners by Charles Curtis Japan -Its Rise from Feudalism to Capitalist Imperialism and the Development of the Proletariat by Jack Weber The Smuggling of Opium Japan and Opium Cotton and the Swadeshi Movement What They Say in Prague About the United Front -From the Series of Articles in the Forthcoming Book "The Only Road" by Leon Trotsky Pioneer Publishers Notes Extra! Extra! Achives of the Opposition -Marx and the Peace Conference by H.S. Proletariat and Peasant War in China -A Letter to the Chinese Bolshevik-Leninists by Leon Trotsky (Continued from last issue) A Reactionary Accusation Study the Class Tendencies Centrism Seeks Support From the Right 44 Oct 29, 1932 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Miners Face Big Task -Progressive Miners of America Must Be Class Union by Arne Swabeck Carrying the Offensive to the Miners Organization of the New Union Protest Meeting -What Happened in China (Speaker Max Shachtman) Vote Communist! -Against the Party of the Petty Bourgeois Reformism New Militant Forces Join the Ranks of the Left Opposition * Papcun's Statement by George J. Papcun * Declaration by Pappas by Sebastian Pappas Dead Hand at I.L.D. Meet -Feature of Convention is Absence of Discussion by Members -How the Stalinists Ran the I.L.D. Convention by Charlotte Schechet Boston Lack of Discussion Conclusions to Draw Good Meetings in Boston Bankruptcy at 12th Plenum -Theses Fail to Give a Reply to the Burning Questions of the Day by Hugo Oehler Ebbs and Flows in the Decay Stage What Is the Perspective? Did Stalinism Forget America? The Main Danger in Germany Far East Conflict The Position of the Soviet Union Directives for the United States Letters from Militants -Jobless United Front in Chicago by Joseph Giganti Help the Illinois Miners Militant Builders -Our Club Plan Completing the Circuit Pittsburgh Miners' Subs How to Get Subs for Miners $30 Does the Trick The Staff Record Left Opposition Movement Growing in Canada by S. Educational Work Trade Union Activity Literature--The Militant--Unser Kamf Organization and Agitation A Canadian Organ of the Opposition Japan -Its Rise from Feudalism to Capitalist Imperialism and the Development of the Proletariat by Jack Weber (Continued from last issue) Rise of Japan, Decline of England The Rhythm of Cotton Technology Limited Possibility for Japanese Growth "The Big Five" Effects of the War on Japan Our Eight Page Double Anniversary Issue -15 Years of the Russian Revolution-4 Yrs. of the Militant Archives of the Left Opposition -The Legend of Brest-Litovsk Two Press Comments on Russia * As It is Today * As it Once Was What They Say in Prague About the United Front -From the Series of Articles in the Forthcoming Book "The Only Road" by Leon Trotsky (Continued from last issue) Meetings Philadelphia Minneapolis Browder on the Chinese Revolution -The Arrest of Chen Du-Hsiu and the Apologist of Stalin by Max Shachtman Browder's Records Daily Worker and Chiang Kai-Shek Browder's Greeting in Hankow The Stalinist Defense of Wuhan Browder Earns His Praise Protest! (The arrest of Chen Du Hsui and 6 others from the Left Opposition) October Young Spartacus Now OUT 45 Nov 5, 1933 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck September Plenum of C.I -Some Fleeting Marginal Observations on the 12th Plenum by Leon Trotsky Emergency Number! Class Against Class in the Presidential Elections -Communist Vote Will Test the Policy of the Stalinists by Hugo Oehler Workers' Vote Cut Down Position of Middle Class Socialist Advances Hunger March in London -British Working Masses Make New Turn Toward the Left by A.S. [Arne Swabeck] The New March on Washington by Hugo Oehler No Automatic Connection The Communist Duty Fight in Illinois Sharpens -Armed Forces of Operators Mobilized Against the Miners by Joseph Angelo Out of Society's Gutter Bosses Preparing for Winter N. Y. Greek Workers Organize New Club * Letters from the Militants -The Militant Club in Chicago by R. * The Murder of Andrew Ganis by Carbody * Compensation Racket in New York by J.R. Stalinists Expel Philly Militant by Lou Rogers On Fraternization Archives of the Opposition -Trotsky's Letter to Olminsky by Leon Trotsky 46 Nov 12, 1932 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Hail the Anniversary of the Russian Bolshevik Revolution! -Fifteen Years by Leon Trotsky 4 Years of the Militant by Arne Swabeck Some Examples of Growth Some Trade union Experiences The Working Class Orientation On Future Contacts Soviet Economy in Danger -The Situation on the Eve of the Five Year Plan by Leon Trotsky The Art of Planning The Preliminary Totals of the Five Year Plan 9 Scottsboro Boys Win Victory -Illusions Now Greatest Danger Leftward Shift in German Vote -Parliamentary Gains Turn Heads of the Stalinist Leadership by S.-n. The Nazi Setback The Communist Vote Stalinists Take Measures -The Expulsion of Zinoviev -The Lessons of the Second Expulsion of the Capitulators by Leon Trotsky Roosevelt's Victory -Protest Vote of Middle Class and Labor Hits Republicans by Hugo Oehler A Shift to the Left Bound Vols. Mill as a Stalinist Agent by G.G. Nine Years of Struggle of the Left Opposition -The Burning Question of Thermidor and Bonapartism by Max Shachtman Marx-Lenin School Opens in Chicago Davenport Militant Joins Opposition by Betty Rowland Militant Builders The Winner Keep Up the Race Minneapolis in First Place Miners' Subs The Staff The Record by Cities Pioneer Publishers Notes Revolutionary Lessons Lenin's Speeches Two New Pamphlets The Fight in the Party for a Bolshevik Government...For the Policy of Lenin and Trotsky -Introduction to the Minutes of the Petrograd Committee, November 7, 1917, reported by J.G. Fenigstein J.G. Fenigstein Lenin Trotsky Nogin Glebov Slutsky Boky Trotsky Nogin Lunatcharsky Lenin's Report on the Russian Revolution to the 4th Congress of the C.I. from a speech by Vladimir Ilitch Lenin The Bolsheviks Take Over Power! -Meeting of Petrograd Soviet The Day After the Insurrection Declaration of Trotsky Lenin's Speech Declaration by Trotsky The Government is Deposed! South Africans Ban Trotsky China Book Japan -Its Rise From Feudalism to Capitalist Imperialism and the Development of the Proletariat by Jack Weber The Tanaka Document The Formula of Conquest Japan and China The Only Road by Leon Trotsky -From the Series of Articles in the Forthcoming Book "The Only Road" by Leon Trotsky 47 Nov 19, 1932 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck It's Up to You! The C.P. in the Elections -Reasons for Small Rise in Communist Vote This Year by S.-n. Chicago Greets United Front -Left Opposition Hails Joint Unemployment Conference by The Chicago Branch of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Aim of United Front Role of Socialist Party Greek Banquet a Success Chen Du-Hsiu's Life in Danger Trotsky Sails for Denmark Scottsboro--What Now? -Supreme Court Evades Issue--Workers Must Unite Forces Communists Prevented Lynching The Supreme Court Decision For a Broader Movement! by T. Stamm [Thomas Stamm] Start Hunger March on Washington -United Front Can Bring Huge Movement Soviet Economy in Danger -The Situation on the Eve of the Second Five Year Plan By Leon Trotsky (Continued from last issue) Stalinists Take Measures -The Expulsion of Zinoviev -The Lessons of the Second Expulsion of the Capitulators by Leon Trotsky The Left Opposition Breaks Ground in the Pittsburgh District by S.G. [Sam Gordon] Pittsburgh The Workshop of the World--At One-Third Capacity The Inevitable Awakening of the Militants Clarification Begins in the Ranks of the Party 48 Nov 26, 1932 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Four Years! -Trotsky Greets Militant -The Revolutionary Kernel is Assembling Around Opposition by Leon Trotsky Fight for Left Opposition Proposals in Pittsburgh Hunger March Conference Pittsburgh The Left Opposition Takes the Floor 29 to 1--An Insufficient Majority for the Bureaucrats Against the Leninist Opposition by S.G. [Sam Gordon] What Do the Communists Say About Mr. Duranty and Comrade Stalin by S. Call the Scottsboro Conferences! A Shanghai Report of Com. Chen's Arrest by Niel-Sih Shanghai Bourgeoisie Jubilant Chiang's "Blue Shirts" Chen's Record of Struggle Chen and the Epigones A Heavy Blow Marchers Advance to Demand Relief -Broad, Militant Movement Can Win for Unemployed by A.S. [Arne Swabeck] Stalinists Make Right About Face in Chicago Unemployed United Front by Albert Glotzer Birth of the Movement Workers Respond to Call The Demonstration Japan -Its Rise from Feudalism to Capitalist Imperialism and the Development of the Proletariat by Jack Weber Japan in Manchuria Strategic Railways What of the Chinese Revolution? Japan and the U.S. The Philippines Letters from the Militants * Party and Opposition in Pittsburgh by B.J. Pittsburgh Opposition Holds Classes Gordon Speaks Before Young Workers Oppositionist Gets Floor in Spite of Machine Tactics The "Freiheit" Lies and Slanders As Usual * New Protest Against Stalin Bureaucrats by George Millage, E.E. Thurston and S.R. Clausen Davenport, Iowa * Utica I.L.D. Fails to Act by Gadfly Des Moines, Iowa - A New Battleground for the Left Opposition by M. Gottlieb Our Club Plan -Militant Builders Second Phase of the Club Plan The Staff to Date Class Trends in Elections The Expulsion of Zinoviev -The Lessons of the Second Expulsion of the Capitulators by Leon Trotsky Zinoviev Zinoviev's Game With History The Basis Under the Capitulations The Importance of Our Policy Soviet Economy in Danger -The Situation on the Eve of the Second 5 Yr. Plan -- A Marxian Analysis by Leon Trotsky Capital Construction Domestic Disproportions and the World Market The Position of the Workers The 1932 Elections and the American Working Class by Arne Swabeck Discontent and Radicalization Problems of Social Reformism 49 Dec 3, 1932 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Police Attack Hunger Army A Reply From Shanghai to the Stalinists Slanders on Chen Du-Hsiu's Arrest by H. The Stalinists and Trotsky's Radio Speech to America Extracts from the Speech Delivered by Leon Trotsky and Broadcast from Copenhagen -Trotsky Speaks to American Audiences on Significance of the Russian Revolution Conference Seats St. Louis Opposition by G.H. Mimeograph Wanted Arrest 2 Pittsburgh Oppositionists Greek Stalinists Fail to Meet Challenge Opposition Ejected from Conference on Hunger March in New York by Harry Milton New York No Serious United Front A New Kind of Committee Left Opposition Excluded Pamphlets Wanted A.F.L. Convention Talks "Radical" -Labor Discontent Forces Lip-Service to Left Measures by Arne Swabeck Is A.F.L. Leadership Turning Left The Fear for Safety of Capitalism The Real Green Money for Subs Letters from Militants * Unser Kamf Tour Brings Results by Sylvia Bleeker and Morris Lewit * Pittsburgh Youth Club and Opposition * Pitts. Anniversary Meet Our Club Plan -Militant Builders Paid Sub Cards Newcastle Shows the Way The Staff The Record by Cities A Picture of the Situation in China Today by Niel-Sih For the 6-Hour Day, 5 Day Week! by Oehler [Hugo Oehler] Stalinist Zig-zags on the Chicago Conference by Albert Glotzer (Concluded from last issue) Party Confusion Our View Japan -Its Rise from Feudalism to Capitalist Imperialism and the Development of the Proletariat by Jack Weber Commercial Rivalries Pacific Shipping Controversies with the U.S. Chinese Trade The Strategy of War Archives of the Left Opposition -Engels on the International Revolution by H.S. League Resolution For New York Hunger March Conference by New York Branch Communist League of America (Opposition) Resolution The Question of War Debts -World Bourgeoisie Upset by Sharp Conflicts Over Problem by Hugo Oehler Soviet Economy in Danger -The Situation on the Eve of the Second 5 Yr. Plan--A Marxian Analysis by Leon Trotsky (Continued from last issue) Rural Economy The Problem of Establishing the Link 50 Dec 17, 1932 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck Hoover's Message Hoover's Last Message to Congress by Hugo Oehler Opposition at Anti-War Meet in New York Discussion on the Resolutions The Chicago Anti-War Conference Save the Militant! Bonapartism in Germany by Leon Trotsky A.F.L. and 6-Hour Day -Cincinnati Convention Shows Left Wing Opportunity by Arne Swabeck Toward Social Reformism Are There Signs of Coming Struggles? The Six Hour Day Slogan Gov't Answers Hunger Marchers With Force -Militants Surrounded by 5000 Armed Police by Bill Kitt Washington D.C. En Route Again The Convention 1 P.M. Second School Term to Open Letters from Militants * Pittsburgh Opposition and the Hunger March by S.H. Pittsburgh * Opposition Active in Smokey City Pittsburgh - The Marxist Study Class Work for the United Front Hunger March Greek Workers Educational Circle Stalinist Attacks All Along the Line Other Activities of the Left Opposition Lewit-Bleeker Tour Extends Basis of "Unser Kamf" Workers Clubs by Sylvia Bleeker and Morris Lewit Our Club Plan -Militant Builders Paid Sub Cards for the Miners New York and Montreal The Paid Sub Card Idea The Staff The Record by Cities New Expulsion in the Comintern Japan -Its Rise from Feudalism to Capitalist Imperialism and the Development of the Proletariat by Jack Weber The Agrarian Problem Status of Japanese Farming Bankrupt Rural Economy Mortgages The Solution Japan and Russia Feudal Remnants in Capitalism Wages and Discharge Allowance Greek Stalinists Meet Arguments of Left Opposition With Slanderous Attacks by Sebastian Pappas Weisbord and the Hunger March Pamphlets Wanted Soviet Economy in Danger -The Situation on the Eve of the Second Five Year Plan by Leon Trotsky (Continued from last issue) The Conditions and Methods of Planned Economy 51 Dec 31, 1932 Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America (Opposition) Editorial Board: James P. Cannon Martin Abern Max Shachtman Maurice Spector Arne Swabeck A Million to Be Expelled! -The New Stalinist Plan for "Purging" the Russian Party Rank An Involuntary Admission Dissolving the Party Canadian Organ Issued The Militant Must Be Saved! -An Appeal of the National Committee of the League by National Committee, Communist League of America (Opposition) Unite to Smash the Trade Union Racketeers! -The Meaning of the Shooting in Waiters Local, No. 1 A.F.L. and Union Unity -The Stalinist Policies Fail to Meet the Test of the Situation by Arne Swabeck Will There Be a Change of Policy? The Unorganized and the A.F. of L. The Question of Trade Union Unity Ala. Negro Croppers Resist White Terror -Pitched Battle Between Posse and Negroes by Sn. The Bourbon System The Negroes Stand Their Ground The Hunger March to Washington by Bill Kitt "Unser Kamf" Tour Concludes with the Launching of Worker's Clubs by Sylvia Bleeker and Morris Lewit Negotiations with Weisbord Suspended (Copies of letter from the National Committee, Communist League of America (Opposition) and from Leon Trotsky replying to a letter from Weisbord) New Expulsions in the Comintern -"Traitors" and Scapegoats In the Bureaucracy by Marsh (Continued from last issue) Who Is Heinz Neumann Whole Spanish Leadership Expelled "Traitors" and Scapegoats Perspectives of Marxism -An Open Letter by Leon Trotsky to V.F. Calverton on the Revolutionary Intellectuals by Leon Trotsky Calverton Omits Revolutionary Realities Intellectuals Fear Consequences of Clarity Stalinism Drives Intellectuals to Quandary Marxism No Dogma--Guide to Action American Marxism at Cross Roads New Vistas Before U.S. Communists Pioneer Publishers Notes History of the Russian Revolution The Unemployment Pamphlet The Publishing Fund Our Schedule Party Militant Speaks From Platform of Opposition in Newark, N.J. by L.B. The Death of the Father of Revisionism -Eduard Bernstein's "Triumph" Over Militant Marxism by Max Shachtman Friendship With Engels Bernstein's "Fine Trick" The Father of Revisionism The Essence of Bernsteinism Soviet Economy in Danger -The Situation on the Eve of the Second Five Year Plan The Suppression of the NEP, Monetary Inflation, and the Liquidation of Soviet Democracy The Crisis of Soviet Economy Campaign On For Militant Subs Cities Militant Builders A Footnote to Browder's Record in the Chinese Revolution by M.S. [Max Shachtman] Browder's "Records" The Comintern and Hankow The Militant Volume 6 1933 January 1 Jan 7, 1933 Open Letter to Vanderveld, by Leon Trotsky Bridgeman Red Cases Revived Supreme Court Ruling Opens Attack on American Communist Movement We Are Counting on You For Aid, by Max Shachtman Moscow Letter Stalin Banishes Zinoviev Two Killed in New Illinois Mine War Lewis and Operators Renew Terror Drive Against Miners Left Wing Victory in the I.L.G.U., by S. Defeat For Lovestoneites What Will Left Wing Do Now? Japanese Resume Chinese Offensive Opposition Youth at Chicago Conference by Aderahbe Rival Positions Presented C.L.A. Delegates Defend Lenin View at Anti-War Meet Left Opposition Issues Statement Left Wing Pressure Effective Split Threatens "With Both Hands" The Stalin Bureaucracy and the United States of America Stalin's Denial Wall Street Rulers Force Wage Cut On the Teachers of New York City, by Thomas Stamm "Unser Kampf" Tour Concludes With the Launching of the Worker's Clubs by Morris Lewit-Sylvia Bleeker Silent Cal Silent The Crisis in the Food Workers Industrial Union in New York by Sebastian Pappas The Open Letter The Kornelios Case Our Club Plan Militant Builders The Record by Cities The Staff Japan Its Rise From Feudalism to Capitalist Imperialism and the Development of the Proletariat, by Jack Weber Trade Union Movement The Outburst of 1918 and After Anarcho-Syndicalism and the Unions Soviet Economy in Danger, by Leon Trotsky The situation on the Eve of the Second Five Year Plan The Second Five Year Plan The Year of Capital Reconstruction The Death of the Father of Revisionism by Max Shachtman (Continued from last issue) Eduard Bernstein's "Triumph" Over Militant Marxism Defeats on Paper The Kautskyans and Bernstein A Short-Lived Centrist Last Triumph Pioneer Publishers Notes 2 Jan 14, 1933 Japan Seizes North China, by G.C. Soviet Union Also Threatened Answer! Where is Rakovsky? United Front Call Issued For Unemployment Insurance, by Max Shachtman Opposition Welcomes Party Turn and Warns Against Opportunistic Tendencies Opposition Stand Vindicated Old Policy Dropped Opportunist Aspects of Change Save the Militant, by Arne Swabeck (The article contains a list of contributions from New York, Cleveland, Pittsburgh and Minneapolis.) Technocracy, by Hugo Oehler Engineers Have New Plan To Save Bankrupt Capitalism The Technocrats "Refute" Marxism "Technocratic "Energy" Is Labor's Importance Decreasing? The Key to the Problem The Civil War in China, by P.K. Dangerous Turn From Partisan War to Pitched Battles Trotsky's Analysis Verified Policy Change Injurious Zinaide Trotsky (Obituary) Two Debates in Chicago Letters from Militants- Chauvinism Among Pittsburgh Stalinists Boston Branch Moves Forward Greek Militant Expelled in Philadelphia Stalinists Challenged in St. Louis by G. Roberts Pittsburgh Branch Progresses In the Progressive Youth Club Czech Right Wing Collapses, by O. Friedmann Lovestone's Allies Take Final Step and Join Social Democracy Centrism Assists Right Wing Decline of Right Opposition Opposition at Anti Pogrom Conference Hold Public Meeting Announcement (The next issue is devoted to Lenin, Liebknecht and Luxemburg.) Opposition at Anti-War Meet Left Delegates Issue Statement at Chicago Student Conference For A United Worker-Student Youth Conference Japan, by Jack Weber The High Speed of Japanese Development Reformism and Opportunism The Communists and the Labor Party From Istanbul to Copenhagen, by Verite What Happened Along the Route of Trotsky's Trip The Anti-Bolshevik Fury At Marseilles The S.L.P. and This Dictatorship Cleveland- Cannon Speaks at Right Wing Forum 3 Jan 21, 1933 Editorial Notes, by James P. Cannon The New Party Turn A New Federation of Labor? Who Will Prevail? by James P. Cannon January Young Spartacus Out Japanese Invasion of Jehol Creates Tense Situation, by George Clarke World Imperialist Powers Press for Their Share of the Loot Leon Trotsky Defends the October Revolution Full Text of Speech Delivered to the Social Democratic Students at Copenhagen November 27, 1932 The Meaning of Revolution The Causes of October "The Russian Revolution Will Become The First Stage Of The Socialist World Revolution" - 1905 The Peasantry The National Question The Permanent Revolution The Bolshevik Party "The October Revolution Has Laid The Foundation For A New Civilization...." - 1932 15 Years of the Soviet Regime Balance Sheet of October The Revolution and Its Place in History Help Us Publish Trotsky's Speech On "The Defense of the October Revolution" Protomagia at United Front Meet, by A.C. The Program of the U.W.P., by Hugo Oehler Proletarian Party Offshoot Elaborates Opportunist Program by H.O. Pauline Gutringer (Obituary) Pioneer Publishing Fund Unemployment and the Working Class Soviet Economy in Danger and the Expulsion of Zinoviev 4 Jan 28, 1933 Liberals Protest Chen's Arrest Help! Left Opposition Demand Broad United Front at N.Y. Unemployment Conference Presents Revolutionary Program to Stalinist Confab Oriented on Opportunist Half-Turn by Max Shachtman Our Reservations Justified Socialist Workers Absent Brilliant Tactics Opposition Speaks Stalinist Confusion Genuine United Front Rejected L.O. Resolutions Resolution on Program and Tactics Com. Cannon's Speech Broader Base Necessary Nazis, Cops Provoke CPG, by Thomas Stamm Von Schleicher Uses Fascists to Bolster Bonapartist Regime Letters From Militants- Twenty-two P.M.A. Miners Framed, by Gerry Allard Thugs Terrorize Miners Stalinists Collaborate With Clergy, Millionaires, by A. Caldis Another "Mass Trial"! by L. Roberts League Activities in Youngstown, by H.S. Bureaucrats Checked in I.L.D. Confusion Marks Stalinist Policy on Fight Against War, by Albert Glotzer Student Conference Compromises Communism in Chicago Edition of Amsterdam; Yield Principled Positions Japan Its Rise From Feudalism to Capitalist Imperialism and the Development of the Proletariat, by Jack Weber Daily Worker Decries Promoter of the Amsterdam Congress, by S. Our Club Plan Militant Builders The Three-In-One Revolving Fund The Record by Cities International Workers School Notes The Case of Chas. Yale Harrison Pioneer Publishing Fund Strike While the Iron is Hot A Reminder A Note on Max Eastman, by Leon Trotsky Unemployed & Barter Exchange Petty Bourgeois "Solution" Reflects Pressure of the Crisis, by Hugo Oehler Resolution on Weisbord February 5 Feb 4, 1933 The Danger of Thermidor, by Leon Trotsky An Analysis of the Significance of Stalin's Latest Speech What the Peasant Demands Back to War Communism Give Now! by Hugo Oehler Opposition's Demand for United Front Is Need of the Hour in Germany, by Max Shachtman Responsibility for Rise of Fascism Must be Established Schleicher's Role The Coming Civil War Hitler in Power; Civil War Starts Fate of the World Revoltion in Balance Stalinist Blunders United Front Imperative Pass Philippines Bill Over Veto Mooney Congress Called, by Thomas Stamm Molders Committee Issues United Front Call for Chicago Meet 10,000 Strike in Detroit, by Martin Beardsley Wages and "Dead Time" issues in Briggs Auto Walkout The A.F. of L. and the A.W.U. The Elections and Labor's Struggle, by Martin Abern What the Presidential Vote Means for the Workers Some Factors in the Low Vote A Lesson From England The Labor Party Left Opposition Grows in China by Left Opposition of North China Oppositionists Expelled from I.L.D., by S.F. The "Save The Militant" Drive Shall the Revolutionary Students Be Organized Into Separate Movements, by Martin Abern Discussion Article Role of Students How Far Will the Stalinists Go?, by N. Satir The Swing to Opportunism in Chicago The Change in Chicago Students Congress Against War The Aldermanic Elections Pioneer Publishing Fund Militant Builders The Copenhagen Speech The Record by Cities Japan Its Rise from Feudalism to Capitalist Imperialism and the Development of the Proletariat, by Jack Weber The Epoch of Wars and Revolutions The Great Obstacle Special Tasks of the Japanese Party The ETA The Army The Permanent Revolution 6 Feb 11, 1933 Why Is the Comintern Silent on Germany? by Max Shachtman Hitlerites Move Forward; Communists Mark Time The Comintern Is Silent! Fascist Advances Germany: Why Is the Comintern Silent Communists, Socialists and Fascists in Civil War Is Fascism Different? The Socialist Leaders The Militant to Appear Three Times A Week During Drive! by James P. Cannon The National Committee Issues A Call to Action to All Call to Action Concentrate All Activity On The German Campaign Of The League! 500 Workers Pack New York Hall To Hear Opposition on Germany, by James P. Cannon Opposition at Gillespie, by James P. Cannon League's View Triumphs at Progressive Miners Conference A Mistake Avoided The Progressive Miners Organization The Stalinist Position How We Plan "New Militant" From Five Cents to One Cent Oehler Starts National Tour On Germany Lovestone Group Splits in Two Letters from Militants- Miner's Women on the March My Daughter's Suicide Open Letter On Stalin's Role in the Death of Zinaide Trotsky, by Leon Trotsky Stalin's Denial, by Leon Trotsky The Capitulation of Roman Well and Co. I.L.G.W.U. Leaders Seek to Corral Youth, by Joseph Carter The Record Speaks! Centrism Month by Month The Same Bloodhounds, by Rote Fahne "Many Comrades..." by Remmele The Slogan of the Communist Youth, by Junge Garde The Slogan of the Young Pioneers, by Die Trommel The "Red" Factory Councils On Paper by Wedding Congress C.P.G. The "Red" Factory Councils in Reality, by Congress of the Trade Union Opposition of the C.P.G. Muenzenberg On The United Front, by Will Muenzenberg A Thousand Times Lesser Evil The "Offensive" Began in....1929, by Rote Fahne Against: The "Offensive" in 1929 Illusions About Distinctions Fascist Rule Set Up....In 1930, by Rote Fahne Later, Heinz Neumann Was The Scapegoat, by Ernst Thaelmann Who Was Guilty Of Underestimation? After Social Fascism--"Bruening Fascism", by Rote Fahne More "Bruening Fascism" by Rote Fahne Hitler's Greatest Day--In 1930, by Rote Fahne More Bureaucratic Optimism, by Rote Fahne Fascism "Again" At A Standstill by Communist Party of Germany, Political Bureau decision "Let Them Come To Power," by Remmele in Reichstag, Rote Fahne The Great Leader Speaks by Thaelmann, Die Internationale Von Papen is Also Fascism....by Rote Fahne Diverting Attention From Real Fascism, by Walter Ulbricht, Rote Fahne Sandino Passes Stalinist Policies Throw Food Workers Union Into Serious Crisis, by Sebastian Pappas Boston Activities, by C.S. Confusion Marks Stalinist Policy on Fight Against War, by Albert Glotzer (Continued from previous issue) Shall the Revolutionary Students Be Organized Into Separate Movements, by Martin Abern (Continued from last issue) Discussion Article Win Students on Communist Basis 7 Feb 13, 1933 Opposition Demands United Front At Second Jobless Conference League Representative Proposes United Front Policy Be Adopted Towards Conference For Unemployment Organized By Socialist Leaders Resolution Stalinists Oppose United Front Lacroix and Nin Arrested Japan Rejects League "Aid," by J.W. Imperialists Jockey For Position U.S. Involved; Soviets Are Threatened U.S. Takes Up Challenge Militant Now 3 Times a Week Hitler Lays New Trap for Workers, by Max Shachtman Aims to Distract Attention from Mass Struggle of Labor By Parliamentary Deception of March 5; Social Democrats Join in Dupery; Communists Still Tied Hand and Foot by Rejection of United Front The Election Trap What is C.P. Doing? Catastrophe Threatens Seek Freedom For Angelo Herndon Young Negro Communist Is Given 18 To 20 Years in Georgia; No Bail Granted Writer Exposes Stalinist Censor Gorky's Memoirs of Lenin Falsified to Suit Need of Party Bureaucracy German Bourgeoisie Calls Fascism To Solve Economic Crisis Its Way, by B.J. Field Slight Rise Under Papen Analysis Shows That Establishment of Hitler Regime is Final Effort of Ruling Classes to Settle Economic Crisis in Its Own Way Bourgeoisie Forced to Change DeValera Harnesses Discontent, by Jack Carmody Uprising Threatens Machado, by Rosalio Negrette Machado Position Untenable Revolt Threatens Machado in Cuba Publishing Fund Two New Pamphlets Soviet Economy in Danger and The Expulsion Of Zinoviev In Defense Of The Russian Revolution The Publishing Loan Fund From The Militants "In the Spirit of Stalin's Letter," by Gordon Fight for United Front In Boston, by Jenny Chiplovitz A Pen Picture, by John Reed C.G. Rakovsky Capitalist Chain Gang Exposures, by George J. Saul Left Opposition Gives Estimate of Spanish Anarchism Putschism 8 Feb 15, 1933 Hitler is Consolidation the Power of Fascism in Germany! by Max Shachtman Whoever Blocks the Workers' United Front Is a Traitor! Scottsb'ro Frame-Up Laid Bare Charge of "Rape" Proves To Be Unfounded; Letter of Girl Now Published Text of Bates Letter United Movement Imperative Hitler Threat to Soviet Union, by B.J. Field Analysis Shows That Contradictions In Politics Of Hitlerism Drives It To An Alliance With The Other Imperialists For An Assault Upon Soviet Union Dependence on Foreign Bankers Danger to Soviets Nazis Murder 11 Workers Oehler Tour this Week Fascism: Italian and German Comparison Between Italian Fascism of 1920 and the Hitlerite Movement of Today Shows Possibilities For Successful Counter-Movement of Proletariat The Fascist Supporters Differences in Situations Millions to Be Jobless Perman'tly Army of Unemployed Will Remain, Admits Head of A. F. of L. Wm. Green, by George Clarke Suspend 19 C.C.N.Y. Students A Letter From Shanghai, by C.C.C. Stalinist Confusion, by James P. Cannon "Daily Worker" on the German Crisis German Campaign 500 Gather for Bronx Meeting Successful German Meet in Philly, by L. Goodman "New Militant" Sells Well From Tinkers To Evers To Chance The Embargo of Arms Left Opposition Gives Estimate of Spanish Putschism, by The Executive Committee of the Spanish Communist Left 9 Feb 17, 1933 Fascists In Complete Control of Police Party Must Act Now! Hitler Acts With Ruthless Determination to Crush Labor Movement; Stalin Persists in Opposition to United Front Red Meetings Forbidden Trotsky's Forecast Stalinist Silence "Broken" Daily Worker Makes Demagogic Attack on Opposition in Order to Cover Up Sterility of Stalin Policy of Opposition to Leninist United Front Tactics by Max Shachtman Smash Hitler German Left Opposition Appeals for United Proletarian Resistance, by The Left Opposition of the Communist Party of Germany Hitler is Chancellor! The General Strike We must not wait, we must hit out! Governor Strikes at Ill. Miners Illusions About Horner Shattered by Memorandum Aimed at P.M. of A., by Joe. Angelo Japs Plan to Extend Conquest Manchurian Invasion To Be Extended Further Despite Other Powers, by J.W. War on for Control of Leticia, by Rosalio Negrete Unrest in Peru The Dollar Props Up Hitler, by Hugo Oehler America and the Fascist Danger Oehler Tour this Week Homeless Youth to be Militarised $20,000,000 Appropriated to Send Young Workers Into Military Training Camps The Great Betrayal First Part of the History of Social Democratic Treachery in Germany Taken From Its Own Authentic Records, Writings, Speeches, Newspapers, Which Show How It Sold Proletariat to Bourgeoisie The Social Democrats and the War All For the Fatherland Social Democracy and Monarchy Never Against the Monarchy War to the Last Minute The Monarchy Must Remain The Pact With the Capitalists Kautsky and Haase on Russia The Judas Role of the Socialists Noske the Bloodhound Incitement to Murder Rosa and Karl Noske's Two Great Deeds French Socialists on Noske-Gallifet Build the Militant The Record by Cities The Builders Super-Exploitation in So. Illinois Drives Miners to A Militant Revolt, by B.J. Field Mass Production High Modern Machinery Used Strike at Foltis Fisher Tom Mann Freed 100 at B'klyn Meet The Relief March In Minneapolis, by Clem Forsen 10 Feb 20, 1933 To Delay Anti-Nazi United Front Is Fatal, by Max Shachtman Hesitation at This Time Is a Crime Opposition's Stand The Stalinist Position How Fascism Can Be Smashed in Germany, by Leon Trotsky We Must Force the Social Democracy into a Bloc Against the Fascists A Good Quotation from Lenin League Obeys U.S.A. In Move Against Japan, by J.W. "International Cooperation" Bulletin Quits "Anti-War" Group Geltman Denounces Barbusse Masquerade Imposed Upon Left Students at Chicago Conference on War Problem; Demands Dissolution of the Committee Boston I.L.D. Expels Two, by Charlotte Schechet, William M. Konikov I.L.D. Bureaucrats Expel Two Active Militants on Frame-Up Charge of "Stealing Mailing List"; Real Reason Shown to be That They Are Oppositionists Good Sales in Boston German Meetings Oehler Tour Minneapolis Mass Meeting Abern to Speak in Boston Appeal for Aid to Readers, by James P. Cannon Lynching Campaign Against Zangara, by G.C. A Letter from the U.S.S.R., by Tonov Minor Challenged at Philly Meeting, by L. Roberts America's Role in Germany, by Hugo Oehler Wall Street's Stake in Germany German Opposition Overwhelmingly Against the Handful of Capitulators Lovestone and the Capitulators 11 Feb 22, 1933 Fascists Command Police: Shoot Reds! by Max Shachtman Goering's Order An Alarming Situation Opposition and Stalinists We Have All to Gain Workers! The Social Democracy Has Betrayed Again Stalinism Is Abdicating! Unite Ranks and Crush Hitler Appeal to the Proletariat of Germany by the Paris Conference of the International Left Opposition (Bolshevik-Leninists) There is Still Time! Proletarian Revolution Only Way Out For Doubly-Exploited German Masses, by B.J. Field Dependence on Foreign Capital Role of Petty Bourgeoisie German Meets Scheduled Mass Meeting in Chicago Abern Speaks at Wilkes-Barre Meeting Other Tours Breaking Point Approaches in North China Conflict of Imperialist Powers Japan Reaches for North China American Apprehension Program of Action Against Fascism Proposed Year Ago by German Left by The Left Opposition of the C.P.G. (Bolshevik-Leninists) The National Committee German Campaign Chicago Advances With Campaign, by J. Giganti 200 Sold in Few Hours Hundreds Sold in N.Y. Pledge Solidarity at Cleveland Meet by, S.G. America's Role in Germany The Threat of Imperialist War, by Hugo Oehler Opposition in Davenport, by George J. Papcun Marx-Lenin School in Chi. Shachtman at Brookwood S.L.P. Treachery In Springfield, by Joe Angelo Abern at Boston Meet 12 Feb 24, 1933 Leon Trotsky Analyzes German Situation, by Leon Trotsky First Article After Hitler's Appointment as Chancellor The Camp of Counter-Revolution The Camp of the Proletariat Is It Too Late to Act? Turn Depends On Party Elections Can Decide Nothing Party Democracy and the Turn German Class Struggle and Collaboration With U.S.S.R., by B.J. Field Preparing for War Line of Big Bourgeoisie Answer of Communism Youth Debate This Sunday Militant Correspondent On the Spot in German Crisis, by Arne Swabeck Capitalism Mobilizes Its Last Reserves The Issue is Now to be Settled by the Means of Civil War Chicago Complains Japan Defies Other Imperialist Powers in China, by J.W. New York Courses Start American Labor Leaders--the Movements and the Men History and Principles of the Left Opposition League Activities- Opposition Beaten in Cleveland Youngstown Proposes United Front by Youngstown Branch, Communist League of America (Opposition) Why is the Comintern Still Silent About the Acute Crisis in Germany? Musteites Exclude Oppositionists, by N. Abern Speaks at Wilkes-Barre Meeting Oehler Tour Abern at Boston Meet 13 Feb 27, 1933 Hitlerites Shut Down Headquarters of The Communist Party, by Max Shachtman Why Does the Communist International Continue Its Silence About Germany? Party Quarters Raided Stampfer's Interview Stalinist Silence Japan Widens Attack On North China, by J.W. St. Louis Unemployment Conference Adops Left Opposition Proposals United Front Program Intensive Exploitation of the German Workers is Prospect Under Hitler, by B .J. Field Significance of Low Export Surplus Militant Sales In Sharp Rise Two Negroes Lynched In South, by George J. Saul 7 Wounded In New Mine Battle, by G.C. Tardy Acknowledgement, by S. Abern Speaks at Boston The League In Action, by A.C. 300 Hear Opposition in Toronto Scottsboro Conference Rejects United Front Mine Situation Told In Davenport Greeks Rallied On German Crisis February 12th Report Shows Fate of Germany Hangs In Balance; United Front Is Urgent (Contunued from last issue) Why Are the Strong Hands Paralyzed? The Balance Sheet of Stalinism In Germany, by Arne Swabeck March 14 Mar 1, 1933 Fascists Frame-Up The Communist Party The Life and Death Question: Leninists Urge United Front In Germany or Disaster! by Max Shachtman Another Complaint, by Rebecca Sacherow Students Strike in Protest Thousands of Students Demand Restoration of Academic Rights The Reign of Terror Against the Reds! Defend Opposition Stand in Pittsburgh S.P. Fakers Drive Out Left Wing, by W.H. Herrmann Strong Arm Squad Ousts Militant Delegations At Socialist Confab Oehler Tour The Socialist Record Presidential Government Only Possibility Defeat Hitler by Voting Hindenburg Let Hitler Come to Power No Longer a Danger The Party Defends Noske The League In Action- Cleveland Workers Hear Oehler, by S.G. 400 at Minneapolis Meeting, by C. Forsen Wilkes-Barre Miners Hear Opposition Nearing, Stalin Apologist, on Germany, by Albert Glotzer In Chicago In Pittsburgh The Flower of Bourbon Civilization Negro Lynchings in the South by, George J. Saul "Barbusse-Stalinist" Capitulation, by L. Green Oehler Meeting in Pittsburgh Pioneer Publishing Fund The Only Road The Publishing Loan Fund Report Shows Fate of Germany Hangs In Balance; United Front is Urgent, by Arne Swabeck (Continued from last issue) Only the United Front Can Mobilize Workers Power The Left Opposition Conference Appeals to Comintern 15 Mar 3, 1933 No Retreat! Struggle or Annihilation, by Max Shachtman "Soviet Economy in Danger," by Leon Trotsky Bureaucratic Centrism Bucharin's Stand The Second Plan Arrest Soviet "Trotskyists" Jap Advance Hits U.S.S.R., by Jack Weber League Price for Support of Japan is Assault on Fatherland of the Workers Russia and Japan To Union Sq. on Saturday Roosevelt Regime Reopens Question of Russ Soviets, by B.J. Field Situation Over-Ripe For American Militants To Raise Demand For Long-Term Credits to Soviet Union As Part of Internationalist Campaign Soviet Economy in Critical State Trading with Soviets and Workers' Control Credits for the Soviet Union and American Working-Class Demand Credits for the Soviet Union as a Political Question Comintern and World Revolution at Decisive Historical Turning Point, by Feroci A Turning Point The Decisive Question What is Demanded? Anti-United Front Policy Plays Into Hands of Socialist Party Bureaucrats, by S. Socialist "United Fronts" Stalinist Blundering League Activities- Another "Friend" of the Soviet Union At Socialist Party Forum A Party Meeting on Germany in Semi-Seclusion Before a German Workers' Society For the German Opposition Lecture on Germany Opposition Debates I.U.L. 16 Mar 6, 1933 National Banking Crisis, by B.J. Field Stage in General Crisis of Capitalism in This Country Throws Bourgeoisie Into Panic; Its "Way Out" to be Sought on Backs of Workers Crisis and the Class Struggle No Automatic Collapse of Capitalism Party and Crisis Fascist Elections Show Stalinist Bankruptcy Policy of "United Front From Below" Fails to Win Over Masses of Socialist Workers, by Max Shachtman Lovestone Group and the Opposition, by S. A Political Swindle Exposed Oppositionists Attacked, by R. Chinese Bourgeoisie Is Impotent Before Advancing Japanese Armies, by Jack Weber Failure to Unify China The Japanese Continue Advance Our German Campaign Is Endangered! League Activities- Stalinists Sabotage United Front, by G. Roberts Two Unemployment Conferences, by L.G. I.L.D. Expels St. Louis Oppositionist, by Martin Payer An End to Stalinist Confusion--For the United Front! by G.H. "Trotsky's Genius Denied" A Mistake in the Daily Worker International Pre-Conference of the Left Opposition Presents Thesis The Organ of the Left Opposition in the U.S.S.R. The Left Opposition in Imperialist Countries 17 Mar 8, 1933 Communist International Changes Policy Half-Turn to Genuine United Front Must Be Completed and Actually Carried Out From January 22nd to March 6th The Significance of the Turn What Must the Party Do Now? by Max Shachtman Response From Montreal, by George Kelley Banking Crisis in the United States, by B.J. Field Two Billions in Currency and Gold Hoarded, Threatening to Cripple the Financing of Business; Plans Being Worked Out by Bourgeoisie to Tide Itself Over Critical Period, With Inflation Menacing Proletariat Will There be Inflation? Communism and the Negro, by George J. Saul Fight Lynching in the South League Activities- Successful Meeting in Newcastle, by Max Hudson 250 at Brownsville Meeting Two Good Meetings in Boston First Mass Meeting in Los Angeles, by C. China Report Confirms Opposition, by George Clarke International Pre-Conference of the Left Opposition Presents Thesis (Continued from last issue.) Fundamental Principles of the Left Opposition Faction and Not Party 18 Mar 10, 1933 We Demand Plain Speaking on Germany! by Max Shachtman Only Unmistakable Change in Comintern Policy Can Smash Fascism at 11th. Hour! We Want to Know Left Opposition On Germany The New U.S. Banking Law, by B.J. Field Roosevelt's Emergency Measures Leave Open Road to Inflation; Help Concentrate Banks Into Hands of Monopolists, Prepare for Branch Banking System "New Deal" in Banking System Bankers and Inflation Militant Back to Weekly Appeal to Y.C.L. On Slugging of Opposition Youth, by Nathan Gould and Joseph Gigante Com. Cannon at Albany: The N.Y. State Conference by Communist League of America (Left Opposition) Left Opposition Sets Forth Its Policy and Program in the United Front Movement of the Unemployed in State-Wide Meet at the Capital Statement of L.O. The Workers' Front Carpenters Protest Against Bureaucracy at S.P. "United Front," by Charles Ebel, Secretary, Local Union 2000, UB of C and J. of A. F.S.U. Backs Out From L.O. Debate League Activities Big Oehler Meeting In Davenport, by B. The Only Road International Pre-Conference of the Left Opposition Presents Thesis (Continued from last issue.) Changing of the Ranks of the Left Opposition Presents Thesis Cleansing of the Ranks of the Left Opposition and Composition of the International Conference The Left Opposition in Italy (Relations With the Bordigists) 19 Mar 18, 1933 Alarm Signal! by Leon Trotsky Danger Draws Closer in U.S.S.R. Bureaucratic Sabotage of Socialist Construction Under the Guise of Infallible Leadership Money Inflation Who Will Prevail? The Balance Sheet of the First Five Year Plan A Notice To Our Readers Cafeteria Strike On in N.Y., by Sebastian Pappas Crisis In Germany Manifesto of the Left Opposition by National Committee, Communist League of America (Opposition) An Open Letter to the Central Committee of the Communist Party by National Committee, Communist League of America (Opposition) James P. Cannon, Secretary Has Rakovsky Been Assassinated? Stalinists Discredited at Mooney United Front Conference In N.Y., by Thomas Stamm Two Framed Up by Peabody Coal Co., by Joe Angelo Bankers Utilize Situation In Order To Strengthen Hold on Whole System, by Hugo Oehler The Pioneer Publishing Fund The Only Road The Publishing Fund The Hitler Press & "Moscow," by S.G. Is Russia No Longer Interested in the C.P.G.? The Left Opposition at Albany, by Jack Carmody Move to Unite Rail Unions in M'p'lis, by J.M. The Three Sources and Three Constituent Parts of Marxism, by V.I. Lenin On the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Death of Karl Marx March 14, 1883-March 14, 1933 International Pre-Conference of the Left Opposition Presents Thesis (Continued from last issue.) On Party Democracy The Left Opposition in Russia The Left Opposition in the Balkans The Left Opposition in Czecho-Slovakia Workers Letter to Slovene Stalinists Pioneer Leader is Expelled by YCL, by David Levitt New'rk German Meeting, by Louis Nagy Workers' Schools Confer on Fascism And Prepare for Demonstration Schools Represented Attitude of the Party Workers' School Role of the Left Opposition Results of the Conference School Notes The Stalinists Distort Our Stand, by B.J. Field On Our "Faith in the Strength" of Capitalism Albany: 3 Years of Party Policy, by James P. Cannon The Opposition's Criticism of Stalinist Bankruptcy Net Result of False Policy The "Bills" Discussion The Left Opposition Sidelights on the Albany Conference Cornelia Davis (Obituary) 20 Mar 25, 1933 C.I. Turn to the United Front in Germany Danger in C.I. Turn An Alarm Signal, by Leon Trotsky The Second Five Year Plan Bonapartist Tendencies in the Party Trotsky Sounds the Alarm Signal on the Danger to the Soviet Regime Defense of the U.S.S.R. The Stalinized Comintern Groupings in the C.P.S.U. and the Comintern The Capital Reconstruction of Economy For An Honest Party Regime! For Soviet Democracy First Daily of Opposition Kincaid Miners Up For Trial, by Albert Glotzer Workers: Out On Saturday! First Underground Leaflet of Left Opposition Issued in Germany by Left Opposition of the Communist Party of Germany (Bolshevik-Leninists) To the Revolutionary Proletariat A World Workers' Congress Hathaway Seeks to Explain Away C.I. Turn at Membership Meet the Hathaway Apologetics The C.I. Turn I.L.D. Allows Reactionary Lawyer To Injure Scottsboro Struggle Liebowitz's Attack League Activities- New League Branch In Springfield, by Joe Angelo Chicago Stalinists Again Try Gangsterism Austintown Jobless Forge Ahead, by N. Miners Hear Opposition On Germany Second Big Meet In Minneapolis, by C. Forsen Litvinov at Geneva Opportunist Diplomacy Plays Into Hands of Imperialists, by L. Green The American Capitalist Paradise Hooverville by Paul Schwalbe Bourgeois Explanations How They Live Mink & Co. Expel "Trotskyist" Seamen International Workers School Notes World Economic Situation Today How It Stands Today and Its Next Perspectives, by B.J. Field Victory or Defeat in Germany, by Arne Swabeck Alternatives in the Decisive Class Battles The Possible Variants Touching Reconciliation Effects of Stalinist Strategy International Pre-Conference of the Left Opposition Presents Thesis (Continued from last issue.) On the Reorganization of the International Organ of the ILO On the International Conference of the Left Opposition A Trade Union Balance Sheet In Germany, by Joseph Carter The Third Period Policy Admission of Failure April 21 Apr 1, 1933 For United Defense against Hitlerism! A Talk With the Socialist Workers, by Leon Trotsky Is It Not Too Late? A Non-Aggression Pact Jointly Organize the Defense, Do Not Forget the Past, Prepare for the Future Adversaries Close Ranks in the Face of the Common Danger Two Weights and Two Scales Your Leaders Don't Want to Fight! Then is Our Proposal a Maneuver? Stalin Persecutions, by T.T. Russian Left Opposition Forges Ahead in the Party The Situation Among the Exiles Workers' Youth Form Genuine United Front in New York Protest Struggle against Hitlerism New Ill. Mine Contract, by Hugo Oehler Left Wing Criticizes Provisions of 2 Year Agreement Shortcomings of Contract The Right Wing Wants "Peace" Party May Day Conference Reveals Inner Dispute on United Front Policy, by Thomas Stamm Bank Holiday Screens Advance in the Concentration of Big Capital, by Hugo Oehler What Was Aimed At? League Activities- A Stalinist Meeting In Chicago, by F.M. Oehler Meeting in St. Louis, by G. Roberts A United Front From the Top?, by Thomas Stamm The opposition in Bethlehem The American Capitalist Paradise, by Paul Schwalbe Hooverville (Continued from last issue) Stalinists Merge With Balbontin International Womans Day in Davenport Peekskill Meeting Minneapolis Mass Meeting The Crisis in German Communism, by Arne Swabeck Alternatives in the Decisive Class Battles The False Outlook of the Stalinists Fascist-Stahlheim Unity Aims at Working Class Destruction Workers Possess Remarkable Collectivity and Organizational Discipline World Economic Situation Today, by B.J. Field How It Stands Today and Its Next Perspectives (Continued from last issue) Perspective for Coming Period The Reformist Theory and the Stalinists Chicago R.R. Conference Some Fundamental Aspects of the Present Crisis in Germany, by Sam Gordon The Warning of the Opposition 22 Apr 8, 1933 The Tragedy of the German Proletariat, by Leon Trotsky What of Rakovsky? Victor Serge Arrested Riazonov and Smirnov Are Dead Hitler and the Red Army, by Leon Trotsky Stalinists Beat Up Oppositionists New Organ of German Left 2nd Gillespie Meeting, by Hugo Oehler Policy Committee Proposals The Stalinist Proposal Defend the Class War Fighters- Sneevliet Under Arrest Spain Not a word from the IRA on Nin and Lacroix Indo-China For the Sending of a Workers Delegation! Kincaid Miners Trial Starts, by Hugo Oehler Evidence Proves Frame-Up League Activities- The Stalinist Shift To the Right, by Thomas Stamm Dicker with Thomas Bureaucrats Fall Out Chicago Meet Adopts Joint Protest, by Aalbert Glotzer Resolution Adopted by the Communist League of America (Opposition) Hans Pfeifer, Nathan Gould, Joe Giganti, Norval Allen and Albert Glotzer A "United Front" At Any Price, by Geo. J. Papcun Rank Stalinist Opportunism Huan Ping and Chen Du-Siu, by Robert Stalinists and the Upholsterers With the Spartacus Youth Movement- Hathaway Before Y.C.L. Membership N.Y. Youth Club Social YCL Offers United Front Notes- Semi-Monthly Youth Page in Militant Spartacus Youth Club Activities April Issue of the Young Spartacus 1,000 N.Y. Youth Protest Fascism New Expulsions in Brownsville, by J. Elliot Joint Meeting of League and Weisbord Lays Ground for Close Collaboration by C.L.A. (Opposition) Max Shachtman, J.P. Cannon and Martin Abern and for the Communist League of Struggle Albert Weisbord, Sam Fisher and Vera Burch The Morale of the Russian Proletarian Youth From Exile The Crisis in German Communism, by Arne Swabeck The Alternatives in the Decisive Class Battles (Continued from last issue) Stalinist Leaders Prevented Trend Toward Communism Socialist Bureaucrats and Stalinists Partners in Betrayal Fall of Stalinism Signals Rise of Left Opposition Three Expulsions by C.L.A. Tri-City Branch 23 Apr 15, 1933 Austria Next In Order, by Leon Trotsky Austrian Bonapartism Bonapartism and Fascism In the Austrian Crisis The Possibility of Postponement "The Struggle For Democracy" The Austro-Marxists Are Chloroforming the Proletariat Start Fund for German Left Unique Russian Films to Be Shown Convict Patterson United Mass Protest Must Save Scottsboro Boys, by Thomas Stamm American Committee Appeals for Exiled Russian Bolshevik-Leninists, by Leon Trotsky For the Opposition! Form American Section of the International Commission Genuine United Front for Mooney Formed by the St. Louis Workers Moscow Trial Starts Roosevelt Reforestation Swindle, by Carl Cowl Homeless Still Homeless Illinois Hunger March Smashed, by Joe Angelo League Activities- Hundreds at Toronto Meeting, by M.Q. Greek L.O. in Elections A Stalinist United Front in 'Frisco, by L. Green Voices From Germany The Condition of the Party After the Fascist Victory From the Berlin District (March 10) From the Palitinate From the Brandenburg District (Berlin) On the Trade Union Policy of the Party Hamburg Statement of the Communist League of America (Left Opposition) on the Hunger March to Springfield, by Hunger March Fraction, C.L.A., S.Y.C. A Disastrous Policy In the Furniture Workers Union, by Sol Lankin Neumann Is New Leader For the United Front of Defense Against Hitlerism, by Leon Trotsky (Continued from last issue) The Irreconcilable Character of the Social Democratic and the Communist Parties Democracy and Dictatorship There Is No Other Road The German Bourgeoisie Will Have the Revolution in German and Not Russian What Shall We Defend? As To Freedom of the Press The Mooney United Front--the Negotiations Must Be Conducted Publicly, by Thomas Stamm An Interview With Leon Trotsky, B.J. Field interviewer Answer Given to Views Of Louis Fischer Lenin and Socialism In One Country The Chicago May Day Conference, by Irving Bern 24 Apr 29, 1933 Unite on May 1st Against World Reaction Workers Must Join Forces in Big Demonstration Despite Sabotage of Socialist Party Leaders Left Opposition Must Lead Red Baiting in Illinois by, James P. Cannon The P.M.A. Under Fire The Enemy's Aim The Present Course of the P.M.A. leadership Why We Missed an Issue Russian Movie; May 6, 8 p.m. Labor Temple Inflation Bill Deceptive, by B.J. Field Roosevelt Retreats before Petty Bourgeois Pressure and Threatens Workers' Standard with New Measures Inflation?--Rather Deflation! The Daily Worker and Inflation Fascist Terror Rages Against German Masses, by Arne Swabeck Workers Under Bestial Torture S.P. Sabotages Mooney Struggle, by Thomas Stamm S.P. Splits Mooney Fight The Committee's Statement on S.P. Scottsboro March On Capital, by Thomas Stamm The March to Washington The Scottsboro Bill The S.P. and A.F. of L. and the Negroes League Activities- League in Action in Philadelphia The Anti-Nazi Demonstrations in Philadelphia, by L.R. Stalinist Opportunism In Mpls. Elections, by C. Forsen The S.P.'s Continental Congress, by Albert Glotzer Communists Must Break Thru "Closed Door" Policy Growing Mood of Struggle Aim of Conference New Sub Drive The German Campaign Club Plan Subs Alteration Painters United Front, by William Kitt I.L.D. Refuses Aid to Greek Worker, by Esther Field Some Fundamental Aspects of the Present Crisis in Germany, by Sam Gordon Social Democracy Passive Before Menace of Austrian Fascism Austria Is Next in Order, by Leon Trotsky Bonapartism and Fascism In the Austrian Crisis (Continued from last issue) The General Strike Today, The Key to the Situation In the Hands of the Austrian Proletariat Leon Trotsky on Hitler, by Leon Trotsky Reprint of Article in Manchester Guardian A Desperate People Prediction Hitler's Difficulties Voices From Germany (Extracted from a series of letters received from Germany) Volkseitung Salesmen May 25 May 6, 1933 L.O. Scores at Chicago Mooney Congress 39 Delegates Representing 45,000 Workers in Solid Left Opposition Bloc. Makes Pressure Felt on Policy and Resolutions Cannon Elected on Permanent National Com. Progressive Miners Decisive Mass Support of Marxist Wing The Collapse of the C.P.G. and the Opposition's Tasks The German Workers Will Rise Again; Stalinism Never! C.I. at Crossroads-- International Proletarian Revolution or Extinction A United Front Now? The Isolation of the Apparatus The Argument of the "International Scale" Solve the Contradiction! C.I. Retraces Steps, by Sam Gordon May 1 Manifesto Returns to "United Front From Below" "Now...Not Negotiations" What Will Be the Consequences? What the Serious Communist Workers Will Say "New Deal" Diplomacy, by B.J. Field Washington Parleys Prepare New World Conflict Basic Conflict: Anglo-American Interests Martial Law Reigns in Farm Area; Prepare for National Grain Strike The "Daily Worker" and the Defense of the Russian Bolshevik Leninists, by B.J. Field Shaw and Stalin, by D. Bellows May Day Throughout the World Wage Cuts for Beet Workers, by George J. Saul 26 May 13, 1933 In the Illinois Minefields, by Hugo Oehler Prospects of Development of the progressive Miners The Tendencies in the Union and the Tasks Facing It Tendencies in P.M.A. P.M.A. and Unemployment The Situation in Franklin County Tasks for Next Period Red Baiting Campaign Smash the Circle of Debt! Chicago United Front Symposium National Mooney Meet Lays Basis for Broad Fight, by Albert Glotzer First Genuine National United Front Gathering of American Workers in Recent Times Marks Progress The Tendencies in Communist Movement Clearly Revealed in Clash on Policies and Resolutions; Left Opposition Defends Marxist Position Congress Elects National Council of Action; Left Opposition Among Many Groups Represented. Highlight of Meet--Clash Between Stalinists and L.O. on "Non Aggression" Clause of Main Resolution Election of Resolution Committee The Third Day of the Congress The Reports of the Resolution Committee Glotzer Replies to the Critics of the Minority Report Voting on the Resolutions Congress Sidelights, by Hugo Oehler Political Notes on Incidents at the Chicago Sessions Progressive Miners of America The United Front Scott and Goldman Political Forces The Resolution The C.I. May Day Bombshell The Scottsb'ro March, by Glee-Ross "New Deal" President Ignores Protests of Marchers Capacity Crowd Hails Russian Movie; Second Showing Saturday, May 27 Rockefeller Vandals Threaten Rivera Frescoes 30 Hour Bill Legalizes Stagger System and Furthers Plan for New Wage Cuts, by Thomas Stamm A Quick Turn in Policy on Part of the Stalinists Opposition to Bill The Seven Hour Day The Foltis Fisher Strike, by J.G. Lessons of Stalinist Blunder Policy in the F.W.I.U. Falling into a Trap "Under the Leadership of General O'Ryan" Young Workers Revolt Against "New Deal" The Designs Behind the Four Power Pact, by H.E. Nazi-Fascist Diplomacy and the U.S.S.R. Sub Drive "Counter Revolutionary"! Collapse of the C.P.G. and Our Tasks, by Leon Trotsky New Party is Only Marxian Policy (Continued from last issue) "The Party Dead--The Organization Alive?" No Illusions! Labor Writhes Under Nazi Whip, by Arne Swabeck Fascists Attack in the Guise of "Defense" Fascist Strategy in Name of "Defense" Huan Ping Betrays Chinese Party; Chen Du Siu Fights Kuomintang in Jail Archio-Marxists Wage Independent Struggle in Greece, by A. Caldis Chaco War Formally Declared 27 May 20, 1933 America Intervenes in European Conflict by, Sam Gordon Hitler Dances to Roosevelt's Tune, Orgy of "Peace" Talk Prepares New Slaughter and Attack on the U.S.S.R.! Mobilize for Defense of the Workers Fatherland Hitler and the Mussolini Pact Two Expelled by Stalinists from Y.C.L., by Gladstone Heroic Sacrifices Mark P.M.A. Resistance to Operators' Onslaught, by W.M. Murdered Wounded by Bayonets Wounded by Machine Gun and Revolver Slugged 5.000 Walk Out In Philadelphia Dress Strike, by Leon Goodman Boston Also On Strike Broad United Front to Preserve Rivera Murals, by B.J. Field The Committee's Resolution Irving Plaza Mass Meeting United Front at Columbus Circle Meeting Help Pull The Militant Thru Organize Fight Against Mass Evictions, by George Clarke Bulletin N.Y. Conference Against Evictions and Relief Cuts Kameneve Capitulates Again Cannon Meetings Are Big Factor in Reviving Movement in Kansas City, by C.D. Move to Unify Unemployed in Ohio, by N. Chicago Meet Unifies Jobless Movement, by Hugo Oehler National Federation Formed. Socialists Forced to Include All Communist Tendencies in Conference. Left Wing Carries Program After Hard Struggle Huge Representation The Left Opposition's Objectives The Floor Struggles The Committee on Program and Policies A Big Step Forward League Activities- Opposition and Unemployed in Los Angeles, by C. Curtiss Activity of the Left Opposition Organization Notes- Big Crowd Attends Successful Affair of Int'l Workers' School, by B.J. Field Main Resolution Outlines Broad Program of Action in Fight to Free Tom Mooney Adopted at the "Free Tom Mooney Congress" Held in Chicago, April 30-May 2 Call for "Council of Representatives of Various Organizations with Different Views" Disunity in the Past A Call for Unity National Council of Action Motions Presented by Left Opposition at Chicago Heckert "Explains" the Debate, by H.E. The Stalinist Hypocrites Answer the Roll Call "Fascism Victorious ... and the C.I. Correct" Heckert and His Straw Men Labor Writhes Under Nazi Whip Workers' Leaders Lacked Strategy Against Fascists (Continued from last issue) The Party in the Industries Elections to the Factory Councils The Party and the Factory Councils Sub Drive L.O. Meetings in Kansas City, by S. Declaration of the Internat'l Left Opposition To the World Anti-Fascist Congress to Be Held in Copenhagen, June 17th For the Congress of Struggle Against Fascism Social Democratic Leaders Lick Hitler's Boots First 4 Congresses of C.I. Vindicated by Events Blunders of Stalinist Have Shipwrecked Revolutions No Accidental Errors But an Erroneous System L.O. Analysis of Fascism in Autumn, 1929 Stalinist Bureaucracy Takes Path of Sabotage Surrender Criticism but Retain "Social Fascism" Fascism Built on Lies; Communism on Truth No Miracles; Only Workers Can Defeat Fascism Congress Again Colored by Intelligentsia Amsterdam Congress Miserable Failure Proposals of International Left Opposition Austrian Workers Must Take Offensive Sound the Alarm: Soviet Russia in Danger! 28 May 27, 1933 Problems of the Soviet Regime, by Leon Trotsky The Degeneration of Theory and the Theory of Degeneration The Withering of the State Political Regime of the Dictatorship and Its Social Foundation Sub Drive National Youth Day: Fight Against War! Youth Must Break Through Sabotage of Socialism and Sectarianism of Stalinists--In United Struggle Against War. All Out on May 30th! Young Workers, to the Fore! Second Showing of Russian Movie Protest Admission of Hitler Agent on American Soil Hundreds of Workers Jeer Nazi Envoy in Solidarity With German Workers Mooney Acquitted; Evidence Muzzled California Boss Class Exposes Its Own Frame-Up By Action at the Trial. Final Mass Effort Needed to Free Tom Mooney. New York Conference on June 18th Workers Must Unite in Fight on Roosevelt Program, by B.J. Field Administration Measures Mean to Forestall Militant Labor Struggle Revolt Gathers Against Machado Regime in Cuba, by Rosalio Negrete Wave of Militant Struggles Sweeps Needle Trades, by S. Bleeker Needle Trades Struggles Why the Stalinists Have Been Caught Unawares Needle Workers are Asserting Themselves NTWIU Vacillating and Stalling L.O. Addresses Party on Elections in Minneapolis, by C.L.A. (Left Opposition) L.O. & Stalinists in Toronto, by C.N.K. The Two Faced Policy of the Centrist Bureaucrats Attack on Furriers' Union Police, Bosses & A.F.L. in Onslaught on Left Wing League Activities- Unemployed Struggle in Youngstown, by H.N. Muste and Brookwood by, S.M. Davis A Review of A Type of "American" Centrism Miller and Muste Oil the Machinery Statement of Jobless Leaders Statement of the National Comm. of the National Federation of Unemployed Workers Leagues Main Resolution Outlines Broad Program of Action in Fight to Free Tom Mooney Adopted at the "Free Tom Mooney Congress" Held in Chicago, April 30-May 2 Calls for "Council of Representatives of Various Organizations with Different Views" (Continued from last issue) Conditions of Affiliations Mooney Petition Local Councils of Action Mooney Day and Another Congress Related Issues A Call to Mass Action Hail Red Flag! Letters from Germany Reveal Truth on Conditions in Labor Ranks Letter from the Rhine and Ruhr Letter from comrade W. in S., by W. Letter from R. About Our Work, by P.K. Letter of Comrade Herta from S. Left Opposition Overcomes Obstacle Strengthens Organization in China With the "Left" Socialists -- from the Top? by Joseph Carter Labor Writhes Under Nazi Whip, by Arne Swabeck The Fascists and the Trade Unions (Continued from last issue) The Fascists and the Trade Unions The Fatal Policy of the R.G.O. Heckert "Explains" the Debacle, by H.E. The Stalinist Hypocrites Answer the Role Call (Continued from last issue) The "Hitler-Trotskyist" United Front and the C.I. March 5th Proclamation Was the Party Prepared? A Few Things to Explain Discussion on Tasks in Germany Resolution of the N.C. of the German Opposition Important Correction June 29 Jun 3, 1933 Problems of the United Front, by Martin Abern The Jobless Movement and Political Parties The Reactionary Character of the Lovestone Policy Among the Jobless Basic Requirements The False Views of the Lovestoneites The Communist Position Stalinist Errors Right Wing Move to Expel Militants from the P.M.A., by Hugo Oehler Right Wing and Stalinists in PMA Lessons of May Day in Austria, by Leon Trotsky "New Deal" Fakers Push Inquiry into Bankers' Deals, by G.G. On the Morgan "Inquiry" Nazis, Poles Plot Attack on USSR, by Sam Gordon Danger of Imperialist Intervention Imminent. Western Powers Haggle Over Vantage Points in Coming Anti-Soviet War Japan Cinches Position with the Help of the Kuomintang and War Lords Organize Australian Opposition "From Below" in the Office Organize the Opposition The Meaning of the Farm Revolt, by B.J. Field Aim of the Agrarian Revolts Perspectives for Agriculture Stalinist Diplomacy Leaves Trail of Treachery for International Proletariat, by H.E. Stalinist Diplomacy and Marxian Fundamentals Reactionary Policy and Practical Dangers Nationalist Foreign Policy--A Logical Consequence Stalinist Diplomacy in the Far East Young Spartacus Out New York Branch to Hold Picnic for Benefit of Press & Illinois Campaign League Activities- Chicago Branch in "Militant" Drive, by R.S. Greek Stalinists Exclude Protomagia, by J. Bananos N.Y. Youth March Against War Street Meetings Book Review (Russia and Germany at Brest Litovsk) Muste & Brookwood, by S.M. Davis Musteite Quits, by H.N. Draft Program Wanted Statement of Chicago Branch to National Jobless Meet, by Chicago Branch C.L.A. (Left Opposition) Trotsky to the Austrian S.D. Opposition, by Leon Trotsky A Reply to Some Concrete Questions Sub Drive Are You a Subscriber to the Militant? Litvinov and -- Herriot German Labor Writhes Under the Whip of the Fascists, by Arne Swabeck (Continued from last issue) The New Turn Lessons of Some Practical Experiences What is to be Done Now? Problems of the Soviet Regime, by Leon Trotsky The Degeneration of Theory and the Theory of Degeneration (Continued from last issue) Official Explanation of Bureaucratic Terror Class Enemy Powerless--Why the Repression? The Withering Away of Money and the Withering Away of the State Money Socialized Under Planned Economy The Official Theory of Inflation A Purely Bureaucratic Economy Stalinist System Exhausted I.L.D. District Workers Meet, by F. 30 Jun 10, 1933 Apropos the Foreign Policy of the Stalinists, by Leon Trotsky What's Happened to Rakovsky? by Leon Trotsky In Illinois P.M.A. Starts National Drive; Policies Differ, by Hugo Oehler Left Wing Puts Forward Own Policies Jobless Struggles Sharpen; Unity Need of the Hour, by C.L.A. (Left Opposition) New York Branch Demonstrations in New York End in Alarming Disunity Relief for the Unemployed N.Y. Anti-Eviction Conference, by G.C. Party Adopts Slogan of Long Term Credits to SU Lovestonites & Socialists Sabotage United Front Winter's Report The Delegate from the L.O. Speaks Minor Intervenes for the Official Party Finally-the Stalinists for Soviet Credits! Hitler Plans to Kill Reds Communist Leaders Face Death on Arson Frame-Up Assassinate Seven P.M.A. Militants on Picket Line Borders Loses in Split by Hugo Oehler Majority of Group Refuses to Quit Jobless Federation Group Firm for Unity Chen Du Siu Sentenced to Thirteen Years, by A. Join the Anti-Fascist Rally Today! Jobless Force Relief in L.A., by S.M. Rose Committee Arrested Demand Continuation of Hearing Democracy in Illinois League Activities- A Calendar of Effective Action, by C. Forsen T.U.U.C. Attacks Left Wing in the Furniture Union, by Sol Lankin and Carl Cowl Call Proposal "General Strike" Militant Attacked A Postscript on Amter Subscribe to "Unser Wort" Class in "Capital" A Fighting Farmer Subscribes: Are You a Subscriber? by A. A Letter From So. Dakota Among the Youth- An Open Letter to the N.Y.D. Committee, by Perry Meyers National Youth Day in Perth Amboy, by Sam Fisher Letters from the Nazi Inferno The Truth About Conditions in the Labor Movement Letter from Rhineland Letter from the South West Letter from Thuringia Letter from Hamburg On Zinoviev and Kamenev, by L.T. The British I.L.P. Turns Leftward, by Joseph Carter Realignments in the Camp of English Reformism The Discussion on Germany Resolution of Left Opposition Youth Group of Southeast Berlin on the Question of the New Party Good Response to Appeal, by B.J. Field, Secretary Another Word About Heckert's Apologetics, by A.B. South America Groups of I.L.O. Mark Advance Chili, by DEVINE (Chile is misspelled in the headline) ` Brazil Cuba Strikes Spread in Many Parts of U.S.A., by W.M. 31 June 17, 1933 The "New Deal" in Practice, by H. Stone Industrial Recovery Bill Hits at Workers' Standards What the Act Consists of? The Origin of the Bill Provisions How is the Working Class Affected The Anti-Fascist Congress to Meet in Paris Soon Plot Pogrom on L.O. at Anti-Fascist Meet Didn't Hitler Triumph? Campaign of Slander and Provocation Against the International Left Opposition What About Copenhagen? Role of L.O. at the Congress Opportunists in Bloc vs. Lefts at 4th Gillespie Conference, by Martin Payer A Bit of Sleight-of-Hand Course of Action Adopted Oehler Gets the Floor Despite Stalinists Summing Up the Discussion Class War Rages In Mine Area of Illinois Trotsky Proposes U.S.-Soviet Trade Accord As London Meet Lags Interview Stresses Inevitable Failure of World Economic Conference and Calls for A Realistic Plan of Business Collaboration Between the Two Countries C.C.N.Y. Students Expelled for Fight Against War, by K.D. The Senate Inquiry Exposed, by B.J. Field The Banking Investigation Itself is the Biggest Scandal What Did Morgan Reveal? What Can the Senate Comm. Do? The Van Sweringen Deals The Reals Abuses Are Left Untouched (Sic "Reals" should be "Real") Nazi-Austrian Tension Brings Sharp Clashes, by Sam Gordon Chilean Opposition Organized by The Central Committee of the Communist Left (Chilean Section of the International Communist Left Opp.) Delegations Represented Appeal for Unification Leon Goodman Arrested in Phila., by G. Roberts Subs From the Militants- I.L.D. Expells (sic, should be "Expels" Left Oppositionist, by G. Duell How Trouble Started Cannon Meetings in Minneapolis, by C. Forsen Subscribe to "Unser Wort" "On The Workers Front"- Burning Problems Facing the New York Dressmakers, by N.B. The Division in the Ranks Disunity Plays into the Hand of the Bosses Problems that Need a Solution A Single Strike Without a Single Organization? What Policies are Required to Fight the Bosses? A Policy to Fill the Need of the Moment The Question of a Progressive-Left Wing Bloc Perspectives of the Struggle Left Wing Fights For the Teachers Expelled by B. of E. The Union and Expulsions Administration and Left Wing Among the Youth- First Hand Account of Reforestation Swindle, by R. Young Nutpickers in Militant St. Louis Strike by, G. Roberts Erratum The Platform of the Brandler Group, by Leon Trotsky A Few Steps Forward - But No Conclusion China Receives New U.S. Loan, by H.S. New Falsifications of the Stalinists, by Alfa The Slander of Trotsky's "Judas" Role News From German C.P. Reject E.C.C.I. Resolution Expulsion at the Top Remmele Disagrees With Heckert Stalinists Furnish False Information Flowers of Stalinist Prognosis More Flowers Article Delayed 32 Jun 24, 1933 The Industrial Control Bill, by Hugo Oehler Workers Must Organize Against State Capitalism A Form of State Capitalism How the Coal Operators Take It How the Labor "Leaders" React The Workers' Answer: Class Struggle Organization Left Opposition Excluded at Anti-Fascist Congress by Sam Gordon "Daily Worker" On Congress Left Opposition Excluded! Slug Bolshevik-Leninists! Nevertheless--Our Voice is Heard! Why The Terror Against The Left Opposition A Fabric of Lies All Out to Anti-Nazi Meet on Union Square Danger Signals Flash at London Conference by B.J. Field War to Solve Crisis Nears as Contradictions Sharpen, Imperialists Wrangle Over Tariff, Prices, Markets, Hugenburg Betrays Real Plans -- to attack USSR Behind the Scenes Talk and Action--a la American Litvinoff in London A Few Pointed Questions Hugenberg's "Feeler" Ill. in Mass Action Women's Auxiliary Takes Valiant Part in Struggle Miners Women a Serious "Menace" in Southern Illinois No Race Discrimination Here 10,000 Miners in Funeral Cortege New York City to Stop All Jobless Relief S.P.G. Vote Shakes 2nd Int'l by O.R. May 17, 1933: A Comparison With Aug. 4, 1914 "Germany is Not Italy" Socialist Hopes For Mercy Shattered The S.P.G. is Dead Hitler Clashes with Hugenberg for Control, by M.G. Hold Protest Meeting in Phila., by Meyer Hirsch C. Zetkin, Veteran Red Dies at 76 P.M.A. in Perspective by Albert Glotzer A Review of the Past and Signs for the Future The "Red" Scare Why the Fight Against Lewis? The Howat Movement "Stabilization of the P.M.A. A Glaring Error On the Worker's Front Pocket Book Workers Vote for Strike by N.D.F. The Gillespie Meet by Hugo Oehler A Resolution which was Rejected and the Reason Why Thrust of Industrial Control Bill Stalinists Set Up Straw Men Resolution on the Industrial Control Bill introduced by delegate Hugo Oehler Admission of Capitalist Bankruptcy Subsidy to Decayed System "Law an' Order" in Illinois Subscribe to "Unser Wort" Sugar Coated Misery Teachers Union and the Fight Against Wage Cuts Policy of the Administration The Joint Salary Committee New Salary Cuts Impending The Banning of the Austrian C.P. Dollfus Strikes an Ominous Blow against the Austrian Proletariat Importance of Foreign Traffic Workers Passive in Banning of C.P.A. Austrian Stalinists in Dregs of Bureaucratic Stupidity C.P.A. Comes to Infamous End The End of Austro-Marxism by Austriacus A Review of the Past That Helps to Understand the Present And the Austrian Social Democracy Its True Face Collusion With Hapsburg Versailles Revisionism Engenders New Social Chauvinist Wave by H. Lenorovics Workers Against All Capitalist Wars Social Democrats Carries Patriotic Banner July 33 Jul 1, 1933 Workers Slave for Pennies in Penna. Sweat Shops Stalinists Break Up League Meeting in N.Y., by M. Glee Return to Narrow Basis at N.Y. Mooney "United Front" Confab Narrow Down N.Y. Free Tom Mooney Meet, by M. Geldman The Paris Anti-Fascist Congress...An Anti-Trotskyite Slugfest (From La Verite, organ of the French Left Opposition) Empty Parade is a Complete Failure Left Opposition Delegates Beaten The European Anti-Fascist Congress...An Anti-Trotskyist Slug Fest of the Stalinists "Let these Gentlemen Hold the Congress in Peace"--Say the Police to the L.O. Protest Delegates Long Live the Proletarian Revolution! Down With Fascism! Long Live Trotsky! Free Rakovsky! The Congress Utilized by French Imperialism Soviet Workers Excluded from the "European" Congress The Marxist Wing Excluded from the Congress--the Preparation The Explanation of the Organization Bureau "Organization Bureau of the Convocation of the European Workers Anti-Fascist Congress" Bureaucratic Sifting Bureaucratic Measures Breed Arbitrariness The Congress Begins Two Regimes, the Detectives and the "Trotskyites": Example of the Press Cards Welcome to the Delegates First Day in the Hall of the "Congress" The Parade Ends In the Future We Will Speak to You with a Revolver Young Socialists Protest Bergery Prepares the Break Last Day of the Parade Unanimity at Any Cost Results of the Masquerade Stalinists Expel 3 L.O. Youth, by George Ray The Textile Code Shows Real Face of the "New Deal," by H.S. Roosevelt Program Long-Range Plan to Stabilize U.S. Capitalism On the Backs of the Workers, by B.J. Field. Situation of American Imperialism in World Economy Forces "New Deal" Demagogues to Reverse Historic Policy-at Expense of Agriculture and the Proletariat. Program Disguised to Enlist Support of Toiling Masses. What the Government Accomplished The Long Range Perspective of U.S. Capitalism Roosevelt Contribution to Capitalist Technique The Mobilization of Public Opinion A Period of Drastic Readjustments Scottsboro Decision Reversed, by W.M. Furniture Union Accepts Left Wing Proposals, by Carl Cowl and Sol Lankin Spartacus Club Lectures The Columbus Meet and Muste's Labor Party, by N. On the Workers' Front- Militant Strikes on West Coast Milliners in Militant Strike, by C.C. Bosses Lockout Pocketbook Workers, by N.D.F. The Teachers Union and the Fight for Union Democracy (Continued from last week) Disloyalty Democratic Rights Violated The Special Grievance Committee The Delegate Assembly Subscribe to "Unser Wort" Discussion of the German Tasks, by G.G. A Reply to the N.C. of the German Opposition L.O. Representative Denounces Fascism in the Chilean Parliament A View of the Labor Scene in the British Isles Today, by T.C. The End of Austro-Marxism, by Austriacus (From "Unser Wort") A Review of the Past That Helps to Understand the Present (Continued from last issue) The Dream is Punctured, But.... The Rise of Fascism, Unnoticed.... The Incident of July 15, 1927 Stalinism Weakens the U.S.S.R., by Simmons If the Workers Triumphed Defeats Bring Reaction Even Dollfus Can Put One Over... The Left Wing in the Trade 34 Jul 8, 1933 C.I. Impotence Veils Itself with Parliamentary Cretinism, by Leon Trotsky Archbishop Benjamin "Blesses" U.S.S.R. FSU Leaders Thank Wrangel Priest, by J. Kamiat Nazis' Labor Front in Action Workers Get Big Wage Cuts; Look for Leadership How the Fascist Technique Works On Trotsky's Return to the S.U.--Rumor and Fact Lay Basis for Real Federation of Jobless in Ohio, by N. Part of Left Opposition German Oppositionist Condemned to 5 Years by the Fascists The Social Democratic Party of Germany Decomposes An Open Letter to the Communist Party, U.S.A., from N.Y. branch, C.L.A. (Opposition.) C.P. Expels A. Goldman, by Albert Goldman Prominent I.L.D. Attorney Answers Party Charges The Statement of Comrade Goldman Distortions of Fact Wilful Misrepresentations (sic, should be "Willful") America Cracks Whip at London. Ruthless Policy Splits Confab, by B.J. Field Lays Down Law to Rivals -- Hands Off the U.S. "Domestic" Problems First, "International" Questions Later. Roosevelt Ends "Stabilization" Plans Pocketbook Strikers Win Demands from Morris White Co. in Struggle, by N.D.F. Among the Youth- Break United Front at Chicago Anti-Fascist Meet, by Maximillian Spartacus Speaker Chosen by Conference Stalinist Disruption A Resolution of the Int'l Left Opposition (Declaration of the International Left Opposition (Bolshevik-Leninist) to the Youth Conference at Paris.) Lessons of the Leninist United Front Tactic, by Hugo Oehler The United Action of the Working Class The Workers Front- Military Strike Progress in Los Angeles Is the Recovery Act a Fascist Measure Right Wing Excludes Left at Strike Conference of Boston Bakers Only Right Wing Seated Ford Real United Front A Delegate's View of the I.W.O. Convention, by C-o The Chicago Convention Col. Robins on 1918 and 1933 The Two Sides of USSR Recognition by the U.S., by Hugo Oehler On "The Fourth of August" The Limits of Historical Analogy. A Reply to Some Objections, by Leon Trotsky British Group Leaves I.L.P. Statement Supports L.O., by T. Kernot, P. Solomons, J. Sainsbury and M. Gibbs To All Comrades of the I.L.P. The Theory of Socialism in One Country The United Front from Below The Amsterdam Anti-War Congress Determination of the Policy A Letter from a Worker in E. St. Louis, by Joe Carter Browder Criticises John Reed -- for Trotskyism, (sic, should be "criticizes") by W.M.K. Sharpening Contradictions of Fascism Increase Danger to S.U. (Continued from last issue) Foreign Interests in Germany Against Versailles Only Avenue of Escape for Capitalism, by Simmons Austro-Marxism Retreats... A Record of Passivity Before the Advance of Bonapartism Freedom of Press and Assembly Destroyed Streets Are Made Free....For Reaction Fascism Receives Arms 26 Years of Austrian Trade Union Works Are Destroyed Inside of 24 Hours Strikes Are Prohibited Prayers Are Ordered Against the Constitution Subscribe to "Unser Wort" Perspectives for American Labor Comrade Millicent Shooter (Obituary) 35 Jul 15,1933 Industrial Recovery Act Prepares New Capitalist Crisis in Near Future by B.J. Field Save Chen Du Siu from White Terror! Plan to End Relief in N.Y., by Sam Gordon Minor to the Board of Estimate; "Now Comrades...." Columbus Unemployed Confab Forms Dual National Organization National Convention Hold Anti-Fascist Strike in Toronto C.P. Holds Extraordinary Conference To Whitewash Bureaucrats' Failure, by Hugo Oehler A Letter from Fascist Germany Stalinists in Bloc with Musteites at Columbus Meet, Retard Progress, by Hugo Oehler The United Front from Above The Political Tendencies The Musteites The Socialists The Stalinists The Right Wing The Free Lancers The Lovestoneites Left Opposition Delegates The National Federation of Unemployed Pocketbook Workers Struggle by N.F.D. Perspectives for American Class Struggles, by Simmons (Continued from last issue) N.Y. Doll Workers Win Demands in Strike, by A.R. What Stalinism Said about Democracy and Fascism What the Left Opposition Said about Democracy and Fascism Leninism versus Stalinism, by Leon Trotsky Foreword Lessons of the Leninist United Front Tactic, by Hugo Oehler Against United Front from Above Against the United Front from Below The Relation of the United Front from Above and Below United Fronts and Individuals "Guarantee" Leadership of the United Front Letter from Party Member Exposes Bureaucracy, by E.R. The Bulletin of the Russian L.O. Needs Your Aid Bulletin of the Opposition (Bolsheviks-Leninists) To Readers Who Are Adherents and to Readers Who Are Sympathizers! Spartacus Youth Club in Over-Night Hike After the German Catastrophe, by Leon Trotsky An Historical Evaluation of the Events The Labor Movement in Greece (from "La Verite") Economic and Political Acts of Capitalism and the Working Class The Communist Party The Left Opposition Subscribe to "Unser Wort" News from Workers in Naziland Letter From Hamburg About the "Revolutionary" Storm Troopers The S.P.G. Last Whimpers from Scheiderman by P.M. Historical Objectiveness.., by Leon Trotsky From China 36 Jul 22, 1933 Fighting the "Recovery" Act, by Hugo Oehler Cleveland Conference Against the N.I.R.A. Cleveland Meet to Take Up Fight on "Recovery" Miners Protest Vigorously Against Right Wing's Removal of Allard from P.M.A. Post Fascists Kill Young Worker in Astoria L.I. Nazis Launch New Atrocity Campaign Against Workers Trotsky Greets "Red Flag", British Organ of L.O., by Leon Trotsky Bonapartist Government Robs Labor of Long-Standing Rights in Austria Schlager Indignant A Sterile Protest Hitler Prepares "Suicides" for Comrade Torgler and the Bulgarian Communists How Nazi "Pacifism" Looks in Practice Spartacus Delegates Raise Internat'l Issues at Youth Anti-Fascist Meet Statement of the Spartacus Youth Club, N.Y. (Communist Left Opposition) to Youth Congress Against War and Fascism--New York, July 16th, 1933 Struggle for Workers' Rights Scores Victory in Los Angeles Britt Smith, one of the Last Two Centralia Prisoners Paroled Slavery Provisions Exposed in Code for Steel Industry, by Peter Morton Publicity to Steel Baron's "Generosity" The Right to Organize Even the Children Are Protected Left Opposition Active in Toronto Anti-Nazi Meet, by Q. L.O. Slogans in Parade The Columbus Conference, by Norman Satir The Background of the Unemployed Movement Unemployed Councils Decompose Need of Unity The Chicago Conference Left Wing Scores Victory Quantity Becomes Quality Lessons of the Leninist United Front Tactic (Continued from last issue) Another So-Called United Front The United Front as a Maneuver Non-Aggression Pacts Ohio State Jobless Confab, by N. Flag Waving Patriots-Muste's Supporters Ohio Convention Exposes Reaction in Muste Built Leagues Declaration of L.O. at Columbus Conference, by Unemployed Organization Fraction, C.L.A. (Left Opposition) To All Delegates to the National Unemployment Conference Hathaway Speaks on United Front in Brownsville Stalinist Slugger Beats Left Oppositionist The Death of Com. Klara Zetkin, by Max Shachtman A Historical Appreciation of the Great Woman Revolutionist Klara Zetkin--Women's Leader Opposed the Social Patriots Sympathetic to L.O. at Start Silent on Slander of Luxemburg Paralysis of Stalinist Degradation Whither the Y.P.S.L. Insurgents? by G.M. Albert The Expelled Chicago S.P. Youth and the Three Communist Currents The Legend of the "Red Nazi" (From User Wort) Conflict in S.A, Ranks Expected Mussolini Also Shot Adherents No Faith in S.A. Mutinies On the Expulsion of Wollenberg Great Indignation over Expulsion Conflict With Thaelmann A Correction, by J.G.W. (Relates to the mistranslation of a passage from "Historical Objectiveness" by Leon Trotsky) Subscribe to "Unser Wort" The Party in the Field of Art and Philosophy, by Leon Trotsky A Reply to the American Comrades Martin Glee, Harry Ross and M. Morris Lovestone's "Quotations" 37 Jul 29, 1933 Around the "Recovery" How the Boss Class Receives the N.I.R.A., by B.J. Field Wave of "Recovery" Strikes! Reading Hosiery Workers Hollywood Movie Workers Meat Packers in Omaha Uniform Makers in N.J. Pocketbook Workers Win Conditions, by N.D.F. Roosevelt's Radio Speech Asks for Class "Peace," by Sam Gordon Organize Strike Among Mirror Makers New Boss Attacks in Britain, by Joe Carter British Capitalist Class Prepares New Attacks on Workers Militant Strikes Mark Beginning of Workess' Resistance (sic, should be "Workers'") Unemployed Conscripted Cowardly Document of Labor Party Series of Strikes Bureaucrats Restrain Struggle Rebellion in Transport Workers Union Gen'l Strike in Furniture Trade of N.Y. Furniture Workers in General Strike Left Wing Joins Strike C.P. Versus the Union Left Wing "Defeated" St. Louis-Hotbed of Strikes, by Ralph Martin Shoe Workers Rebel in Strike Without "Leaders" St. Louis Shaken by Strike Movement The Shoe Strike A Rebellion in the Union The N.I.R.A. - Summed Up, by Hugo Oehler Lessons of the United Front Political Factions Within an Organization Is It Proper to Break a United Front? Compromise Leaders and Leaders From the Militants- I.L.D. Expels 3 Workers in Minneapolis, by J. Ross, M.B. Dunne and Celia Cazanov A Militant Writes From Glasgow, Scotland, by M. Ohio Jobless United, by N. L.O. Members in Eviction Protest July Issue of Young Spartacus Ready The Columbus Conference, by Norman Satir (Continued from last issue) The Stalinist-Muste Bloc at the Unemployed Gathering The Stalinist-Muste Bloc The National Conference Moissaye Olgin as a "Historian," by Joseph Carter On Some of His Recent "Criticism" on Trotsky's History Statement on Funds Collected for German L.O. Income Recapitulation For a Social Democratic Gov't in Belgium - Why? A Letter from Moscow U.S.S.R. Every Day Conditions in the Life of a Russian Worker G. Zinoviev on the Party Regime, by G. Zinoviev A Letter That Doesn't Jibe With His Latest Recantation All Out on the Picket Line, by Carl Cowl and Sol Lankin On Some Misconceptions of Fascism and State Capitalism, by Simmons August 38 Aug 5, 1933 Foreign Developments After the Collapse of the London Confab, by B.J. Field Economic Trends in the U.S. France and the Crisis USSR Accorded Recognition by the Spanish Gov't. Hitler Executes Four Altona Communists N.Y. Upholsterers Strike Spreads to New Shops, by Carl Cowl and Sol Lankin What About the Industrial Union? Win the Strike, Beat the Bosses! 35,000 Mine Workers Strike For Right of Union Recognition, by Arne Swabeck Test of Recovery Act Conditions in Fayette Coke Region What Does this Strike Indicate? Dissension in French S.P. Right Wing Actual Victors -- "Left" Compromises (From "La Verite") Leon Trotsky Moves From Turkey to France Background of the New Deal, by Arne Swabeck Crisis Creates New Conditions Capitalist Economy Reorganized Concentration of Capital Higher Living Standards an Illusion Japan Provokes the Soviets Criminal Stalinist Policies Weaken Soviet Resistance Provocations by Japan Strike Wave in China The Economic Situation in China Today Starvation Rampant Lessons of the United Front, by Hugo Oehler (Continued from last issue) The Frame Work of the United Front The Reformist Refusal of Acceptance of the United Front Calling the United Front United Fronts That Exclude Communists or Have the Wrong Programe (sic, should be "Program") The Form of the United Front Plans and Propaganda Immediate Demands and Ultimate Demands League Activities- A Report from the Middle West, by George J. Papcun Muscatine Des Moines Council Bluffs Omaha Lincoln, and Sioux City General Conditions Opportunism in N.Y. Food Union Banks in "Support" of N.I.R.A. Latest Developments in the Textile Industry, by Hugo Oehler In the Party- Lydia Beidel Expelled from Chicago Dist. Bosses Propose Starving Schools, By Thomas Stamm The Left Socialists and Our Tasks Our Attitude Towards the Independent Left Socialirt Tendencies, (sic, should be "Socialist") by G. Gourov Hitler Orders: "Butter for People" (From "Under Wort") How the Economic Side of the Fascist Regime Works Out in Practice Margarine or Butter--Question of Taste or Qpestion of Wages? (sic, should be "Question") The New Measures The Government Needs Scape-Goats National Recovery Act to Throw New Burdens on U.S. Proletariat, by Joseph S. Giganti New Burdens for Workers in NIRA Toronto Workers in Anti-Fascist Strike, by B.B. Sabotage of the A.C.W. Leaders Stalinist Stupidity Results of Strike Los Angeles Unemployed Movement, by M. Rose First Steps in Organization Class Collaboration vs. Mass Pressure 39 Aug 12. 1933 Civil War Shakes Cuba; U.S. Ready to Intervene, by R.N. Mass Murder Behind the "Arbitration" Current Policy Decisive Bulletin Perspectives of the Upturn, by Leon Trotsky A Marxian Analysis of Business Cycles A. F. of L. Leaders Sanction N.R.A. No Strike Policy! U.S. Anti-War Congress, by Joseph Carter Socialists Back Out of Anti-War Congress Socialists Withdraw from Arrangements Committee Double Game of Stalinists Meaning of Non-Aggression Pact Labor's Mighty Challenge Challenge to Capitalism Challenge to Official C.P. N.R.A. and the Trade Unions, by Arne Swabeck Question of Policy is Decisive in the Present Stage Roosevelt's National Police, by Peter Morton France Friend of USSR--Litvinov (From "La Verite") Jackal Press Howls at Trotsky Lessons of the United Front (Continued from last issue) Behind Closed Doors The Capitalists and Their Office Boys Sitting at the Same Table With Betrayers Parliamentary and Extra-Parliamentary Activity The Question of Unity and Principal Differences Pinchot and Labor, by Thomas Stamm New Bourgeois Methods in Pennsylvania Strikes The Archbishop Benjamin Again, by Thomas Stamm Letters from Fascist Germany No Abatement in Terror, Workers Feel Effect of Party Failure From the Lower Rhineland Beginning of July 1933 From Saxony Powerful Anti-Fascist Front in Chile A Delegate Visits the Soviet Union (From "Unser Wort") Outstanding Impression is Poverty of People and Long Queus Pessimism and Tiredness Poverty on Sidewalks No Admittance Special Sub Offer Support the Club Plan Four Half Year Subs for Two Dollars Correction (Mistranslation in article by G.Gourov on "Left Socialists and Our Tasks") Strikes Spreading in Massachusets Shoe Industry, by W. (sic, should be "Massachusetts") Many Unions T.U.U.L. Union Left Wing Isolates Itself Prospects of Many Strikes From the Militants, by C.C. Labor Shows Militancy in Los Angeles Conflicts "Clear the Streets" General Strike Needed Agricultural Workers Strike T.U.U.L. Outwitted Hollywood Film Strike The Strikes and the Left Wing An Example of the New Deal in Operation, by Stuart Hoax of Employment 300 Workers Laid Off Youth Class in Boston A. F. of L. Federal Unions Why They All Climb on N.R.A. Bandwagon American Imperialism Preparing Offensive Upon World Markets, by B.J. Field Roosevelt Consolidates Capital The Importance of the 6 Hour Day Slogan Under the N.I.R.A., by Thomas Stamm Threaten Deportation of Penn. Militant The Suicide of N. Skrypnik A Striking Revelation of the Degeneration of Stalinism Member of Stalin's Private Faction What is the Explanation? Machine Devours Creators N.Y. Upholsterers Strike Bulletin Greek Stalinists Support Bourgeois Party in Elections Development of the Los Angeles Jobless Movement and a Perspective, by M.J. Rose (Continued from last issue) Meeting the Problem of Evictions Turning on Gas and Light Lessons of the Los Angeles Experience 40 Aug 26, 1933 Fascism and Democratic Slogans, by Leon Trotsky Is it True that Hitler Has Destroyed "Democratic Prejudices?" The Example of Spain and Italy Can the Social-Democracy Regenerate Itself? The Randlerites Improve on Stalinists Protest Frame-Up Against Young Anti-Fascist Worker We Need Money! The Coal Operators' Organ Frame-Up on the Militant U.S. Imperialism Holds High Cards in Cuban Situation, by Thomas Stamm Cespedes Welcomes U.S. Warships Pre-Revolutionary Situation Cespedes' Job Clubs, Tear Gas, Riot Guns Used in Milk Strike Farmers Get It in the Neck "Striking Against the Government" J.L. Lewis Betrays Miners at Coal Hearing, by Hugo Oehler Lewis and Class Collaboration P.M.A. Capitulation and Stalinist Blunders 2 Young Negroes Slain by Lynch Law in South, by M. Glee N.Y. Dress Workers Gain as Strike Ends; One Union Needed False Policy of Stalinists Leads Left Wing Workers into Blind Alley. Reentry of Left Wing into I.L.G.W. Cannot Be Delayed. Vital for Enforcement of Settlement Internatoinal Consolidated Union (sic, should be "International) Gained 35-Hour Week One Union a Necessity Threaten Public Trial of Bolshevik-Leninists in Moscow Who Breaks the Strikes? N.Y. Furniture Strikers Repulse Manoeuvers, by Carl Cowl and Sol Lankin (sic, should be "Maneuvers") Furniture Strikers Defeat Maneuver Political Character of Strikes Under N.I.R.A., by Hugo Oehler L.A. Yipsel Suspended for Union Activity, by Florence Wyle Chi. Y.C.L. Bureaucrats Expel 5 Militants, by T.F. Education and the Century of Progress, by D.S. B. of E. Chooses Graft Decline in Education Marks Capitalist Decay Progressive T.U. Center Disrupted by Right Wing From the Militants- Examples of N.R.A. at Work in St. Louis, by G. Roberts Burden Loaded on Workers The Same Trick Interested Only in Pie-Card Stalinists Win with the Mayor Davenport Stalinists Use Hooligans, by Betty Rowland St Louis Dress Workers Strike for Recognition, by Lloyd Murphy Lessons of the United Front, by Hugo Oehler (Concluded in this issue) Political Blocs (Extra-Parliamentarian) The Marxian Concept of the United Front N.Y. Food Workers Meet For United Action Impressions of Fascist Germany, by Arne Swabeck An Eye-witness Account of Conditions in Hitler's Germany The Overflow of Cuban Revolt, by R.N. Continued Strikes, Riots Burst Bounds Set by New Deal Diplomacy Stalinists Refuse L.O. Representative Right to Speak, by N. Stalin Reassures Hitler on Trotsky's "Return" by N.N. Discussion on the German Defeat United States at London Confab, by Arne Swabeck Book Review, by Leon Trotsky Fostamara (sic, should be "Fontamara") (A novel by Silone, published in Zurich, 1933) September 41 Sep 2, 1933 The Left Wing's Place Is in A. F. of L. Unions, by James P. Cannon Demand the 7th Congress! NRA Reveals Its True Role in Strike Situation It is an Instrument for Greater Class Collaboration and Simultaneously a Means to Make Strikes Illegal Industrial Codes to Prevent Strikes The Workers' Path is through Struggle. Russian Recognition A Class Question for World Labor, by B.J. Field Unity of Proletarian Interests Is Still the Issue Unite the Interests of the Soviet Hitler's "Disarmament" and Prospects of War With Soviet Union, by Leon Trotsky Mooney Stays in Jail; Crook Free Hitler's "Pacifism" Youth Day Must Prepare for Real Anti-War Fight, by Joseph Carter Left Socialist Conference Shows Trend Toward Left Opposition Confusion Is Still Apparent The Issue Within the British L.L.P. Temps and Stalin Against Trotsky From the Militants- Conservative Unions Grow in St. Louis, by Martin N.Y. Doll Workers Call Strike N.Y. Mirror Workers Organize Union Union Extends to All Crafts The New England Shoe Unions, by W. Question of Amalgamation and the Blue Eagle Code The Issue of Amalgamation Officials in Log Rolling Game What Was Done to the Wage Increase? The Blue Eagle Appears Will Amalgamation Be Achieved? League Activities- Toronto L.O. Branch Scores New Gains, by M.Q. A Reformist Has His Day Successful Meeting We Are Active in Strikes Bureaucratic Expulsion Rebuked Anti-War Confab of Boston Youth, by R.C. The Pacifist Position Explained Slanders as Usual Fight for Unions in Los Angeles, by Florence Wyle Organizing a Small Shop Will the T.U.U.L. Learn? Growth of Fascism in England, by T.C. Will the British Workers Learn from the German Experience Hitler's "Socialist" Demagogy Unmasked by Brutal Facts (From "Unser Wort") Composition of Economic Council Presents for the Possessing Classes: On the Other Hand, the Working Class Has Been Singled Out for Not Less Than Two Kinds of Additional Taxes on Wages Jobless Are Not Spared Disarmament and War, by V.I. Lenin Imperialist War and Class War Are Sharply Contrasted N.R.A. and Changing Forms of Amer. Capitalist Economy, by Joseph S. Giganti Discussion on the German Defeat, by John G. Wright L.O. Holds Successful Meeting in N.Y. 42 Sep 9, 1933 (sic, mislabeled as #43) The Cleveland Fiasco, by James P. Cannon Stalinists Ready to Give Up Saar to Hitler, by J.(Paris) Stalinists and Saar Referendum The Class Face of the N.R.A., by Sam Gordon Hands Off Cuba! Workers Demand Hands Off Cuba Soldiers and Students Oust Gov't; U.S. Sends Navy, by S. Stalin Invites Pilsudski to Review the Red Army U.S. Prepares Assault on Europe, by Arne Swabeck Congress of Second International, by Max Shachtman Ex-Ministers Gloomy--Socialist Workers Awakening Communists to Be Tried for Goering Reichstag Fire The German Communist Trial The Boston Needle Trades Right Wing Unions Growing -- T.U.U.L. Isolated Union Members Begin To Stir Reject Bosses Proposals Union Leader Confuses Workers Hyman Comes to Boston The Teachers Can Organize With Aid of Workers, by ST Strike of the Doll Workers Grows Pravda Admission Shows Growth of Left Opposition Chauvinist Policy or Stalinist Antics--Which? N.Y. Upholsterers Union Growing, Strike Goes On, by Sol Lankin Disarmament and War, by V.I. Lenin Imperialist War and Class War are Sharply Contrasted (Continued from last issue) Hitler & the Prospects of War, by Leon Trotsky Trotsky Warns Against Nazi Designs on Soviet Union (Continued from last issue) A Revealing Document Inflation Hits the American Working Class, by Hugo Oehler Richard Rall (Obituary) Radek's Visit to Polish Dictator, by Roger Discussion on the German Defeat, by John G. Wright (Continued from last Issue) Our Comrades Criticize The Militant Terzani Out on Bail 43 Sep 16,1933 The Trade Union Question, by James P. Cannon The Left Wing Needs a New Policy and a New Leadership The New Left Wing Program Programs and Perspectives for the Cuban Proletariat Paterson Strike Ties Up Silk and Dye Industries, by George Clarke The Militant Workers Recognize Fallacy of the Stalinist Paper Unions New Forces for Left Opposition Left Socialists Meet -- Two Steps Forward, One Step Back, by Arne Swabeck The Left Socialist Conference N.Y. Embroidery Workers Gain Rising Militancy Shown in Growing Strike Wave, by Arne Swabeck Swabeck to Start National Tour Mine Pickets Shot in Penn. League Activities- L.O. Issues Stir Party Membership League Growing in Youngstown, by N. Labor Partyites Convene, by A.V. Farmer Answers Judge Warn Against Revolution Postpone Organization Exclude Communist Party Issues Unclear The "Daily Worker" Goes to the Masses, by T.N. From the Militants- Strike Lessons on Pacific Coast, by C.C. T.U.U.L. Disrupts Doll Strike Cracks in the N.R.A. Structure, by B.J. Field Discussion on the German Defeat, by L. Brown The Future of the C.I. Conclusion U.S., Cuba and Latin America, by Hugo Oehler Southern Negroes Under the N.R.A., by George J. Saul Cuban Revolution Rising Perspectives for the Cuban Proletariat Relativity and Pacifism, by Thomas Stamm Even Slander Needs Meaning, by G.G. A Discussion with those Stalinists Who Reflect Book Review, by Sam Fisher "The Untried Case" by Herbert B. Ehrmann (Concerns Sacco and Vanzetti) Bosses and NRA Defeat Workers, by George J.Saul A Correction Walk Out in the Haverstraw Shop Discussion on the N.R.A. and the Slogan "Nationalization of Industry," by Jack Weber Exposure of NRA Our Task N.R.A. vs. Planned Economy Aims of the Communists Function of Intermediate Slogans The Slogan of Nationalization For "Ripened" Industries Get a Sub! 44 Sep 23, 1933 G. Gourov Left Socialist Conference, by G. Gourov A Firm Nucleus for A New International Emerges Only Serious Result The Swedish Ind. Communists The 'Yesterday" and "Tomorrow" of the Movement Joint Declaration for New Internat'l Declaration of International Left Opposition to Left Socialist Conference Declaration of the Delegation of Bolshevik-Leninists at the Conference of Left-Socialist and Communist Organizations. The Collapse of Both Internationals The Position of the Bolshevik-Leninists The Struggle With Reformism The First Four Congresses of the Comintern Strategic Lessons of the Last Decade The U.S.S.R. The Party Regime Silk Strikers Hold Firm; Reject N.R.A. Truce, by R.M. N.T.W. Forms Splitting Strike Committee; All Unions Must Unite in Associated Silk Workers Historic Words Reichstag Fire Frame-Up Unmasked Civil War Looms in Cuba; Situation Tense, by Thomas Stamm Military Intervention by United States Imminent Swabeck National Tour Begins A. F. of L. Leaders Accept Company Union Clause William Green "Friend" of Cuba League Activities- Successful Meetings in Montreal, by J.G. A Criticism of the Militant, by Albert Gloetzer Editorial Note A.F.W. Extends Organization, by A.C. From the Rhineland Painters Strike- Stalinist Union Delays, by Bill Kitt From the Militants Brownsville Jobless Councils Collapse Youngstown Steel Workers Meet, by M. Koehler Terzani United Front Meet, by P.M. Sub Note Whither the I.L.P. of Great Britain Its Present Position and Perspectives, by Leon Trotsky Stalin Prepares Treacherous Blow, by Onken A Patent Fraud Another Wrangel Officer Frame-Up Warns of Crime Alignment of Forces in Mexico, by Rosalio Negrete A New Revolt is Growing Out of Split in Ruling Party 1924-1929 Kuo Min Tang Policy of the C.P. Attempts to Crush the C.P. The "Institutional" Regime and the Crisis Recovery Ballyhoo of the P.N.R. Demand Freedom for Chen Du Siu On the Discussion With Comrades of the C.P. (Correspondence from Berlin) Book Review- by Martin Glee "U.S.S.R. and World Revolution," by M.T. Florinsky Discussion on the N.R.A. and the Slogan of Nationalization, by Jack Weber (Continued from last issue) The Struggle Against Ultra-Leftism 45 Sep 30, 1933 For a New Party and a New International Declaration of the National Committee of the Communist League of America - Opposition American Perspectives Fundamental Principles For Revolutionary Internationalism -- Against the Theory of Socialism in One Country Defense of the Soviet Union The United Front Trade Union Policy Against the Right Wing Apologists Of Stalinism Party Democracy Forces for the New Party The Eleven Points - The Fundamental Principles of the International Left Opposition 60th Birthday of Rakovsky His Activities During War, by Max Shachtman Delegate to Zimmerwald Rakovsky Imprisoned Russian Troops Release Rakovsky Doll Workers Strike Strong Brandler International Makes Overtures to Stalin, by Arne Swabeck Right Wing Prepared the Ground for Bureaucratic Adventurism The Anti-Trotsky Crusade Defenders of the Theory of Socialism in One Country To Reestablish the Right-Centrist Bloc Swabeck Tour Itinerary Sub Note Stalinists Split Food Workers, by S. Pappas Against One Union Cut-Throat Competition Perspectives Under NRA British Labor Skates Have Own Way at Congress, by T.C. No Opposition to Bureaucrats Bow to American Plutocrats Unemployed Refused Hearing C.P. Conspicuous by Absence New York Strikes Alarm N.R.A., by George J. Saul The I.L.P. and the New International, A Criticism of Its Paris Declaration, by Leon Trotsky Working Class "Parliamentarianism" No Impatience in the L.O. The Most Important Task Can We Skip Over the Trade Unions The Capture of Trade Unions Revolutionary Realism More on the Paris Conference, by G. Gourov A Step Forward or a Step to the Right? Pressure from Ranks Our Conjectures Principled Declaration Zimmerwald and Kienthal Not Responsible for Allies The Stalinist Program for the Cuban Revolution, by Thomas Stamm The Cuban Challenge to U.S. Imperialism, by Hugo Oehler Communist Activity in Cuba At Gates of U.S. Imperialism Trotsky's Prediction Marxian Communist Party Vital Must Abrogate Platt Amendment Before the Court of the Fascists Communists Meet Challenge No Protest in Soviet Union Before the A. F. of L. Convention, by Arne Swabeck Reactionaries Plan to Harness Labor at Momentous Gathering Opening Oct. 2 The Growth of the A. F. of L. New Split in Chilean Communist Party St. Louis Strike Briefs, by Martin Payer Discussion on the NRA - The Slogan of Nationalization, by Jack Weber (Continued from last issue) Compensation or No Compensation? Nationalization and the Labor Party Our Tasks A Letter from Shanghai, by N. Interview with Huang Ping Torture of Huang "Blue Shirts" in North China October 46 Oct 7, 1933 General Silk Strike Sweeps the Industry! Workers Hold Battle Line Firm as the Great Struggle Enters Sixth Week Union Organizations in the Silk Workers' Strike Record of the Associated Decline of the N.T.W. Solidarity Welds Ranks; N.R.A. Truce Rejected N.R.A. "Truce" The Record of McMahon as a Misleader of Labor; Bosses' Agent in the Ranks of the Working Class Sabotage at Hazelton Old Friend of the Bosses Independent Craft Unions in Strike One Hundred Years of Trade Union Struggles in the Silk Industry The Paterson Strike of 1828 Paterson--1835 "Organize the Unskilled" Slave Wages--1894 Inch by Inch Living Conditions I.W.W. -- 1912 Amalgamated Textile Workers Union 8 Hour Day Slogan in 1924 The Passaic Strike -- 1926 Sold Out In Conclusion Important Notice (The Militant will transform from a publication directed mainly at Communists to one appealing directly to the mass of American Workers. Subscription prices will be cut.) Historic Strike of 20 Years Ago Notes of the Week- Mr. Revere Reveals, by Arthur Brisbane Let Him Whistle There's Gold in Them Thar Hills, by G.....n From the Militants- St. Louis Needle Trades Strike, by Rose Casano Organizing the Greek Painters, by Katsikis Poulos The "United Front" in California, by L. Logan Mirror Workers Strike Ended League Activities- Swabeck Opens Tour at Newark, by Louis Nagy With the "Militant" Builders New Price To November 15th. History of the Russian Revolution Double the Circulation Shachtman Speaks at Philadelphia, by L.G. Labor Fakers at Work, by Peter Morton No Union Recognition The Miners Are Fighting For a Union Discussion Articles- On the National Recovery Act, by Harry Brand Conclusions from German Defeat, by G. Roberts Nationalization and the N.R.A., by Hugo Oehler A Slogan of Reform The Working Class Approach The Devil's Grandmother Again, by L.T. About the United Front with Grzezinsky.. Perspectives for Revolution in U.S., by Arne Swabeck Strike Wave Points the Way of the Future Development Results of Early Expansion American Capitalism Depending Upon World Equilibrium Future Trends Within the Country Resolution on the Paris Conference Adopted by the Int'l Left Opposition (By Plenum of the International Secretariat) Editorial- The Silk Workers' Battle The Unions in the Strike Main Features of the Strike Strike Policy The Real Test Ahead Look to Paterson Two American Congresses "Against War" by Max Shachtman The New York Barbusse Movement and The "People's Council" of 1917 The Stalinist Theory About War A Striking Comparison A Superficial Distinction 47 Oct 14, 1933 "The Evil Genius of the American Labor Movement" by George Clarke A Monument to Gompers A Bulwark Against Radicalism National Civic Federation Against Industrial Unionism... "Non-Partisan" Politics A Recruiting Sergeant For Capitalist War In His Dotage--Fighting the "Reds" New Issues Disturb 53rd A. F. of L. Convention Mass Movement Surges against Old Forms; Roosevelt Threatens Strikers Johnson Threatens Strikers A "Family" Faction Fight Issue of Industrial Unionism Striking Silk Workers Protest New NRA Code Khaki Shirts Get Medals New Inquiry Into Killing Too Much Coffee! The Cuban Government Moves to the Right, by Thomas Stamm Government Turns to Right The Impoverishment of the Petty Bourgeoisie The Pressure of the Crisis Too Much Butter! "Rev." Green Preaches, by D. Marcus Miners' Strike Bucks N.R.A., by Peter Morton The Miners Force A "Reconsideration" Sabotaging the Mooney Front, by Charlotte Shechet C.P. Fails to Appear Campaign Speech for the C.P. From The Militants- In the Pocketbook Makers Union, by N.D.F. Discussing "Trotskyism" in Brownsville In the Workers' Clubs Discussing "Trotskyism" The Left Opposition in Australia Bankruptcy of Australian C.P. Wrecking Crew at Work in the Chicago I.L.D., by G.M.A. League Activities- Rousing Meetings Greet Swabeck At New Haven, by M.G. At Boston Swabeck Tour Itinerary Militant Builders We Begin Carry On 1st-2nd-3rd "Spiritual Values" for Hungry Men, by B.J. Field What Does It Actually Mean? "Spiritual Values" for the Hungry The Gist of the Roosevelt Program Is It Necessary to Build Anew Communist Parties and an International! The Course Toward the Reform of the C.I. Change of Orientation Realism Against Pessimism New Reserves U.S.S.R. and the C.P.S.U. U.S.S.R. and the C.I. "Liquidationism" On the New Road Discussion Articles- On the Slogan of Nationalization, by John G. Wright Political Content of Slogans The Isolation of the Vanguard Workers Unorganized Transitional Slogans Letters from Fascist Germany Brown-Shirted Trade Union Methods From Berlin Editorial- The A. F. of L. Convention, the Strike Wave and Trade Union Perspectives The Real Program of Roosevelt The New Factor in the Labor Movement Trade Unionism -- After the Collapse of the NRA New Struggles within the Unions The Task of the Militants Notes of the Week, by G...n Said the Mad Hatter Two Congresses "Against War" by Max Shachtman The New York Barbusse Movement and the "People's Council" of 1917 (Continued from last issue) The United Front and War The Left Wing in 1917 48 Oct 21, 1933 Strike Wave Hits Canada, by L. Levine Struggles Show Labor Revival Radical Term of Movement Rise of the Strike Wave Mass Movement in Stratford Order Bellusi to Be Deported, by L.R. (Sic, should be "Bellussi") The Organizing Campaign of the New York Food Workers, by Arist. Caldis The Strike of 1918 The 1929 Strike and Split Bosses Prepare to Fight Union The Fight for Union Recognition Hitler's "Bombshell" at Geneva, by Sam Gordon German Fascism Bids for Arms Independence Nazis Maneuvering for Free Hand in Military Adventure. Prepare for Drive against the Soviet Union; Seek French Aid The Adventurism of Despair Fascism Seeks Military Independence A French-German Alliance? Hitler's "Eastern Orientation" French Munitions for Germany German-Japanese Plans in Anti-Soviet Front The International Workers' Front Trial Exposes Nazis' Guilt Frame-Up Victims Face Death Unemployed Die in L.A. Fire Trotsky Writes To the British "New Leader," by Leon Trotsky League Activities- C.L.A. Activities in New York Reorganization Our Meetings School and Forum In the Trade Unions The Banquet Successful Meet in Brownsville 700 Hear Swabeck Speak in Toronto Phila. School Starts Classes Swabeck Lecture in Rochester Swabeck Tour Itinerary Paris Conference- Resolution of the Paris Conference The International Struggle of the Working Class Where are the Stalinists Today? Exploitation of Farm Laborers, by George J. Saul Left Wing in Teachers Union, by Thomas Stamm Left Wing's Opportunity Errors of Left Groups Militant Builders Three Facts Quotas On the "History" From the West Coast It Is Impossible to Remain in the Same International with Stalin, Manuilsky, Losovsky and Company -- (A Conversation), by G.G. The Comintern "As A Whole" The German Party The First Four Congresses The C.P.S.U. The Road of Civil War Pressure on the Bureaucracy Danger of Adventurism Muenzenberg a Symbol The Comintern a Brake on the Revolutionary Movement The Axis of the New Crystallization British Lord and Ex-War Minister Leads Stalinist Anti-War Junket in Shanghai Motley "Sponsors" Ignore Shanghai Workers Discussion Articles- For a New Communist Party, by Ben Gitlow Editorial-(Next four articles) The Boycott of Fascist Germany Making Fun of International Communism The Expulsion of Joe Angelo The Socialist Party After Hillquit Hoover and Roosevelt, by D. Marcus Notes of the Week The League of Nations as an Example for the NRA, by G.....n. The Food Workers' Industrial Union and the Split from the A.F.W., by James Gordon (Member Food Workers' Industrial Union) A Horrible Example of Stalinist "Third Period" Trade Union Policies Clique Rule in the Union Gagging the Workers Campaign Against "Trotskyites" Favoritism in Giving Jobs The Split a Fundamental Mistake Bronx Butchers Strike 49 Oct 28, 1933 N.R.A. Ballyhoo and the Facts Behind It, by Peter Morton The Painters General Strike Celebrate the 5th Anniversary of the Left Opposition in America Hail the Movement for a New Party and the Fourth International! Terzani Accuser Faces Trial Organizing Steel Workers in Ohio, by M. A Strike of the Unemployed Stalinist Policy Isolates Militants Swabeck's Meeting Silk Dyers Vote for Separate Agreement, by George Clarke Vote Not Unanimous The Separation of the Dyers Disruptive Role of the N.T.W. Tactics of the Bosses Evil Result of Separate Organization Gangster Attack on Chicago League Meet Stalinist Hoodlums Repulsed as Swabeck Speaks for New Party and New Iuternational (Sic, should be "International") Hooligan Tactics Repulsed Meeting Hears Swabeck Swabeck Explains German "Victory" The Hooligans Depart Bellusi Case Needs the Support of Workers, by L.R. (sic, should be "Bellussi") Anti-Fascist Demonstration Statement on N.Y. Elections (By Communist League of America (Opposition) Local New York) News from Canada Rousing Swabeck Meeting at Toronto Hails New International, by B.B. New Conditions and New Problems The Work of the Stalin Clique Toward the New International Speech of MacDonald Speech of Spector Open Letter to the Joe Derry Defense Committee (By Montreal Branch of the International Left Opposition Spartacus Youth Club of Montreal) Anti-Fascist United Front in Montreal, by K. In California Activities of the "Frisco" Port Workers, by Noix The C.P. on the Waterfront Formation of the A. F. of L. Union Stalinists in a Predicament Left Wing in A. F. of L. Union Revolt Against Stalinism in California Party Statement of A. Robbins, by Anna Robins Statement of Six Comrades, by A. Stone, C.M. Hesser, Everett E. Wilder, Chris G. Johnson, Anna Robbins and E.W. Hesser Statement of S.D. Laycock, by Stanley D. Laycock New York School Starts Off with a Bang Situation in Hotels and Restaurants Conditions of Workers in Large N.Y. Industry Investments and Wages "War Chest" to Fight Unions Overbuilding in the Hotel Industry Hotel Failures During Boom Making the Workers Pay Wage Rates Per Week "More Efficient Operation" Juggling the Profit Figures Demands On Hotel Workers The Bosses' Codes and the Workers' Code The Anti-War Junket in Shanghai (Continued from last issue) Led by British Lord and Ex-War Minister Futile Mission to Japan "Prejudices" of Imperialist Agents Scorn of Bourgeois Press Discussion Articles Problems of the Cuban Revolution, by J.G.W. Revolutionary Party Needed Defeat American Intervention League Activities- New Castle Meeting, by Max Hudson Swabeck at Cleveland, by Leo Gleisser Swabeck Tour Itinerary Militant Builders An Encouraging Sign The Standing The Youngstown Branch Editorial- (Next two articles) Russian Recognition United Front Against Hooliganism Notes of the Week- Abolishing Unemployment, by G....n. Agrarian Question in Mexico, by Rosalio Negrete The Problem of the Coming Revolt and the Peasantry Ending the Land Reforms Communal Aspirations of Peasants November 50 Nov 4, 1933 Sixteen Years of the Russian Revolution, by Sam Gordon The Creation of a Fourth International is the Best Defense of the Soviet Union The Rebirth of Revolutionary Internationalism Alone Can Save the First Workers' Fatherland International Defense of Soviet Russia The Russian Revolution and the Comintern The New Revisionism Opportunism on the International Field The Swing to Adventurism "Non-Aggression Pacts" The Downfall of the Comintern Reconstitute the International Vanguard! The Bolshevik Heritage Must Be Preserved in the Struggle Against The Stalinist Revisionists, by Martin Abern Since the First Comintern Congress Why Bolshevism Will Be Victorious Leon Trotsky on the Saar Question, by Leon Trotsky Save Dimitroff and Togler! A call to Action for the Leipzig Victims of Hitlerism - Issued by the International Secretariat Tom Mann for the Defense of Chen Du Siu, by Tom Mann Bar Shachtman from Canada League Organizer, on Speaking Tour, Refused Admittance by Border Authorities The Workers' Front- N.Y. Optical Workers Out on Strike, by George J. Saul Stalinist Unionism in Philadelphia, by Tom Halligan Striking Cotton Pickers Murdered in Cold Blood Just Received! October Russian Bulletin Swabeck Tour Itinerary Militant Builders The Standing: Double the Record "A Century of Progress" (Taken from "Capital" by Karl Marx; Vol. I, pages 721 and 272.) An Open Letter to Browder: On Hooliganism, by Lydia Beidel Hooliganism in Chicago Militant Resentment Against Fakers in the Pocketbook Union, by N.D.F. "Five Cents a Bar..." Rousing Meeting Aids Drive to Organize Restaurant Workers, by A.C. League Activities- Cannon Speaks at Newark, by G.K. Statement on the United Front Anti-Fascist Demonstration (by New York City Committee Communist League of America (Left Opposition). Young Spartacus Sub Drive Letters from Germany The Growing Dissatisfaction of the Middle Classes From Westphalia British Labour Party Masks Support to Capitalism at Annual Conference, by T.C. Fritz Adler Speaks Labor Party "Socialism" Introducing Sir Stafford Cripps Debate Fizzles Out Following the German Path From South Bend, Ind. The Agrarian Question in Mexico in the Light of the Coming Revolt (The second of a series on political developments in Mexico.) Terzani's Release Towards the Creation of a Fourth International A Record of Progress on the Road Towards the Reconstitution of the Revolutionary Vanguard of the World Proletariat The Revolutionary Socialist Party of Holland Joins the International Left Opposition Thousands of Dutch Workers Hail the New International In Belgium For a New Revolutionary Youth International Dollfus and Hitler Recent Changes in the Austrian Government The Illinois Miners American Communism and the Russian Revolution The Boycott of Fascist Germany, by Harry Strang A Sympathyzer Writes on the Strategy of the Anti-Hitler Struggle (sic, should be "Sympathizer") Discussion Articles- Two Internationals, by Albert Glotzer The Subjective Factor Downfall of the Second International Notes of the Week, by G....n. Who Are the "Chiselers"? Hearst to the Rescue Which Way Is the New Wind Blowing? As to the Workers 51 Nov 11, 1933 The New Rift in the Lovestone Group--and the New Party, by Max Shachtman "Genuine Opposition to Fascism" The "Existence" of the German C.P. 1914 and 1933 A Brandlerist Contradiction Culmination of Ten Years Boycott of Germany (Issued by the International Secretariat.) Stalinists Expel 3 Food Workers from Union Culmination of Long Fight Rank and File Indignant Progressive Enginemen Organize For Reform of Railroad Unions Yakima Hop Pickers Still Imprisoned in Stockade A Letter From Prison, by Anthony Bellussi N.Y. Food Workers Turn To Trade Union Action Sentiment for Aggressive Organization Struggle Follows N.R.A. Fiasco; Hotel Strike in Prospect Cotton Pickers Arrested in Strike "Good Government" Cleans Up in the New York Municipal Election A Rude Awakening The Labor Vote The Vote for the C.P. League Activities- Hundreds Hear MacDonald at Toronto, by P.S. Minneapolis Branch in Action, by Cee-Kay... 300 at Montreal Rally, by J.G. Swabeck Meetings in K.C. Successful, by A.C. Mass Turnout to Hear Cannon at Toronto, by B.B. Militant Builders The Youngstown Branch The Standing Philadelphia League Members Repel Stalinist Hooligan Assault, by Meyer Hirsh Canned Comedy at the Painters' Banquet, by e. From the Militants- A New Method of Expulsion, by Arthur Brandmark Discussion Articles- Two Internationals, by Albert Glotzer (Continued from last issue.) The French Socialist Party The Comintern Fascism and Social Democracy Evaluating the German Events Capitulation to Fascism The Recognition of the German Working Class, by L. Kogan The Stalinist Mistake Factory--Karl Radek and the Polish Prince Polish Diplomacy Bluntly Explained Radek's Comment In Exile on the Tierra Del Fuego, by Eduardo Islas Argentine Reactionaries Use Torture on Militant Bolshevik-Leninist Prisoner's Manifesto Prison Life Begins Death of Prisoners "They Will Find Him Dead" Propaganda in Prison A Fight On the Prison Ship Again at Liberty International Notes- The L.O. in Lithuania National Conference of Swiss The ILP and the Movement For the New International Editorials- (Next three articles) Bellussi The C.P.L.A. Convention Trade Union Tactics Notes of the Week, by G....n "Pigs is Pigs" A Subway Sardine Commits Suicide--With Apologies to the Police Note on Park Bench Apologizes to Police For Trouble.. Correction The Crisis in the Cuban Revolution, by Thomas Stamm 52 Nov 18, 1933 Probation for Food Workers Stalinist Expulsion Order Revoked Under Pressure Workers' Protest Purpose of "Probation" Graduated Sentences Then They Sing--the "Internationale" Tag-Day for Terzani Defense This Week-End in N.Y.C. A. Bellussi Deporting Imminent Quick Action Needed to Save Anti-Fascist Lynch Threat for Scottsboro Boys Lovestone Evades Challenge Hitler's Secret Police in Terror Campaign From a Special Correspondent Riddled With Bullets They All Die Nazis Investigated "Emancipated" Children Too Much Bread Wave of Repression in China; Left Opposition Threatened A Wave of Arrests The Left Opposition Fights On Big Sums for War Purposes, by Martin Beardslee Huge Appropriations for Military Revealed Huge Army Contracts Hundreds of Millions For War Rushing War Preparations Socialist Mayor Promises Cheap Government In the Fascist Inferno League Activities- Swabeck Meetings in Minneapolis, by Cee Kay Basis of A. F. of L. Unions False Policy of Stalinists "The Future of International Communism" The New Revisionism The Banquet At Workmen's Circle Open Forum Shachtman Lectures in Boston The Flames of the Class War In Yakima, Washington, by George Clarke The Beer Ballyhoo Harvesting Ceases Mob Fury The "Bullpen" Unspeakable Conditions From the Militants- Statement on Expulsion from Party, by F. Creque The Blight of Stalinism in Mass Work Militant Builders- The Winners Shortcomings More Subs Bound Volumes of the Militant "What Next" in Russian My Life Important Document The Rift in the Lovestone Group, by Max Shachtman The Alleged "Trotskyist Centrism" and the Truly Bureaucratic Centrism The Austro-Marxian School Austro-Marxism and Bureaucratic Centrism Lenin's Point of View The "Declaration" on Centrism A Deliberate Falsification The Truth About the "21 Points" The "August Bloc" Hoax The Position of the Centrist Parties A Plagiarism from Hillquit Clearing the Atmosphere To the Cuban Workers&Peasants Manifesto of Bolshevik-Leninist Party of Cuba The Importance of the Party The Cuban Situation and the Bolshevik Party The International Situation The Bolshevik Party and the Revolution in Cuba Possibilities of a Resurgence of the Official Communist Party Lovestone's Apologetics in Toronto Editorials (Next two articles) Five Years of the Militant Litvinoff's Visit and Russian Recognition Long Term Credits to the Soviet Union! Society News (From press reports) A New Light on the United Front Testimony of Neubauer Negotiations With Stampfer A Journalist as Intermediary General Strike and Civil War Aimed at United Front Questions by Dimitroff Notes of the Week, by G....n. "Worker, Farmer 'Join Up'" If They Won't Raise 'Em--They'll Stretch 'em 53 Nov 25, 1933 Price of Recognition Stalin's Bargain (Editorial) "Compromises" - When, and How Soviet Diplomacy in 1918 and 1933 The Bourgeois Press Celebrates Was U.S. Imperialism Outwitted The Basis of the Retreat The "Vital" Paragraphs 3 and 4, by Maxim Litvinoff The Diplomacy of Stalin and the Diplomacy of Lenin--a Contrast, by Max Shachtman Elimination of C.I. Rubber-Stamped The Washington Agreement in the Light of Soviet History The Propaganda Pledge Drawing the Balnce Sheet (sic, should be "Balance") To Whom Does It Apply? A Lie of the Daily Worker Two Instances Two Epochs M. Litvinoff and -- M. Bedacht, by S.N. "The Communist Party of Russia Does Not Concern America and the Communist Party of the U.S. Does Not Concern Russia" Resume Trial of Scottsboro Negro Boys The Retrial of the Nine Scottsboro Boys Preparing the Rope and Faggot The Real Crime of the Scottsboro Boys Tense Atmosphere of Trial Lynch Pack in Full Cry Mass Meeting of Food Workers Acclaims Drive for General Strike, by A.C. Maria Reese's "I Accuse" From The Militants Unemployed Confab in Minneapolis, by Cee Kay Forty-Nine Organizations Represented Achievements of Conference Work Has Only Begun Toronto Conference on Anti-Labor Laws, by M. Mass Meeting Speeches The Rev. A.E. Smith Fifteen Years of Democracy in the Czechoslovakian Republic, by J. Keller (From "La Verite") Correction (Includes a section concluding the article "Blight of Stalinism in Mass Work," by F. Crique omitted from last issue) Evolution of the Anti-War "Fighters" (From the British "Red Flag") League Activities- Debate Stalinists in St. Louis "I Am With You for a New Party," by Thos. Sabatini (New Member of the L.O.) Anti-Semitism in "Progressive Miner," by A.C. Maria Reese Accuses! An Indictment of the Stalinists by a Leader of the German C.P., by Maria Reese How You Fought Against a Marxist Policy? The Opportunist Committee-Politics Sabotage Against the Red Aid The Inglorious Capitulation Before Hitler The Reichstag Fire and the Situation of Com. Torgler Your Latest Pearls of Wisdom What is Necessary Maria Reese and the Comintern, by Leon Trotsky An Unbearable Contrast She Spoke the Truth Notes of the Week, by G....n. (Concerns biological warfare.) New Aid for Bellussi December 54 Dec 9, 1933 Biased Judge Rushes Negro Boys to Chair No Reliance on Capitalist Justice; Only Mass Pressure of Workers Can Save Scottsboro Boys, by Thomas Stamm The "Impartial" Jury Cards Dealt from the Bottom Learned from Massachusetts The Meaning of "Justice" Playing Down Class Issue Change of Strategy Needed Needle Workers Misled by Right Wing in L.A., by F.W. L.A. Needle Trades Strike Beginning of Organization Drive Leaders Oppose Strike Turn-Out of Strikers Workers Against Arbitration The Reactionaries" "Maneuver" Arbitration Dampens Militancy Disorganization of Union American Imperialism at the Montevideo Conference, by Hugo Oehler Hotel Union Shows Gains, by A.C. Shoe Workers to Merge Unions Independents at Boston Convention Independent Unions in Shoe Industry Bright Prospects of New Independent Union Tasks of New Union Nazis Doom 91 S.W.P. Workers to Long Terms "Answer 'Yes' or 'No'" Driving for the New Party Russian Revolution Film "Nol"-Unser Wort's Reply to the Hitler Plebiscite Red Fleet Greeted With Cry: "Long Live Trotsky" During Visit to Greece The Visiting Days At Every Step The Attitude of the Sailors Statement of Goldman on Joining Communist League, by Albert Goldman Testimony of Russian Party Members The German Lesson The Principles of Marx and Lenin Unemployment Insurance - A Slogan to Unite Teachers and Workers, by Thomas Stamm Not A Temporary Phenomenon Unemployment Insurance for Teachers Greetings to Australian "Militant" The Class Meaning of the Conflict over the Roosevelt Mcnetary Policy, by Hugo Oehler (sic, should be "Monetary") Dr. Sprague's Statement Drastic Steps To Be Taken Increase in Foreign Trade Pioneer Publisher Notes on Pamphlets A Special Offer The Language of Bolshevik Diplomacy "Ours is a People's Government Yours Is Not" - Chicherin to Wilson "Your Post Is Not Yet Taken by Debs" Said Soviet Comissar to U.S. President (Chicherin was the Soviet Comissar of Foreign Affairs. The headline refers to a message to President Woodrow Wilson in 1918) Test of American Capitalism's "Good Will" Promises and Performance Wilson's "Assistance" to Russia "Ours is a People's Government, Yours is Not." For the Cancellation of War Debts Aims of the League of Nations "Expropriate the Capitalists" Appeal to American Workers "Which is the Real President?" "Your Post Is Not Yet Taken by Debs" "State Your Demands Clearly" Our Present Tasks, by Leon Trotsky The Workers Dread Fascism Take the Situation As It Is The Struggle for Democratic "Rights" Deepen the Channels of Struggle The Bolsheviks in 1917 Our Tasks Today Attitude Toward Socialist Workers News from Germany Editorial- The Lynching Wave The Railroad Brotherhoods, by A.E. Craft Divisions of R.R. Workers New Methods of Transportation First of a Series of Articles Statement on Montreal Anti-Fascist Conference, by the International Left Opposition (Montreal Branch) Spartacus Youth Club of Montreal Terzani Trial Postponed When "General" Smith Fails to Appear Notes of the Week, by G....n. (Discusses lynching and the Scottsboro boys) 55 Dec 16, 1933 Finished With Stalinism!, by Karl Friedberg Another Leader of the German C.P. Revolts The Results of Stalinist Policy The Guilt of the E.C.C.I. The False Policy in the Saar On the Death of Max Hoelz (From "Unser Wort") An Enemy of the Stalinist Bureaucracy Stood for a New Party Rivera Murals New Year Eve Masquerade Ball for the Militant The League Forges Ahead N.Y. Hotel Strikers Organize Food Workers Union Strengthens Ranks Why I Did It Stalinism Cracks in Brooklyn Statement Distributed to Workers Jail Two Philadelphia Militants St. Paul Packing Strike, by William Kitt Adventurist Methods Cause Bad Defeat Stalinist Strike Strategy Repudiated by the Workers Fruit of False Policy The Railroad Brotherhoods, by A.E. The Rise and Fall of the Craft Unions International Notes Germany Youth Scandinavia "Historical Analogies" A Statement to the Communist Party, by Al Dasch, Isodore Lipschitz and David Lesser To the D.E.C. of the C.P. To the D.E.C. of the Y.C.L. Short Dispatches from Fascist Germany The Painter Affair Index of Standard of Living Montreal Stalinists Answer Marxist Ideas With Hooliganism A Stalinist Lecture on Germany Argument Replaced by Epithet Bedlam at Meeting A. F. of L. and Mirror Workers Apply for A. F. of L. Charter A Trade Union or a Sect Discussion Article The Proletarian Party, by Joseph Knight History of the Party Proletarian Party and C.P. Organizational Weaknesses A One-Man Party ` The Peterson-Dixon Group Labor and Internationalism Problems of the Cuban Revolution, by Thomas Stamm Cuba and Montevideo Strike Wave Rising Again Importance of the Strike Strategy of the Martin Government Cuban Workers Need International Support Pioneer Publisher Notes Discussion Articles- Draft Resolution on the Tasks of the Spartacus Youth Clubs Proposed by National Youth Comm. of the C.L.A., by Albert Goldman League Subordinate to Party A Uniform Constitution Position Toward Existing Youth Organizations International Affiliation and Tasks With Whom and How Shall We Build the New Communist Party Editorial- (The next 5 articles are editorials) The Leipsig Prisoners and the Boycott of Germany (sic, should be "Leipzig") Cuba and the Comintern Signs of the Coming Storm The Scottsboro Struggle Why? Soviet Policy and Turkish Terror Stalinist Diplomats Praise Oppressor of Turkish Workers as "Best Friend" Karakhan and Pasha The "New Turkey" Stalinist Diplomacy in America Henri Lacroix--Deserter General Defense Affair Postscript to the "Portrait of National Socialism" by L.T. Notes of the Week, by G....n 56 Dec 23, 1933 Wall Street Rules at Montevideo Confab, by Hugo Oehler Tariff Plan of U.S. Imperialism Designed as Weapon Against European Competitor Nations Secrecy at Conference U.S. Hits at Rivals Behind the Tariff Plan Gangsterism Again! Nazis Demand Death Verdict for Torgler International Solidarity of the Workers Alone Can Save Prisoners from Fascist Vengeance Railroad Accidents Increase Criminal Syndicalism Trial Ends in Hung Jury Celebrate New Years at Gala Masquerade Ball New Upheaval Shakes China, by Niel-Sih The Fukien Rebellion and Its Perspectives Terzani Frame-Up Smashed United Front at Minneapolis, by C.F. Labor Organizations in Unemployment Fight Growth of the Movement Push the Action Program Hooliganism Spreads to Brooklyn An Open Letter to the District Committee of the Communist Party, by Max Shachtman, Organizer, City Committee, C.L.A. (Opposition) A Protest Against Stalinist Gangster Attacks, by W.C. (Former member of the Communist Party, Brownsville) Tumult Brings Police An Open Letter to the International Labor Defense, by Max Shachtman, Organizer, City Committee, C.L.A. (Opposition) An Apologist for Litvinoff, by S.F. The Panic-Stricken Scribblers Olgin's "Explanations" What the Workers Said Impressions on a National Tour, by Arne Swabeck A Panorama of Present Conditions of the American Worker Decline of "New Deal" Illusions Surge Toward Unionization Fayette County Miners Failure of Stalinist Unions Conditions of the Unemployed Catastrophic Position of Official Party League Member in L.A. Demands Proof for Slanders, by Frank Halstead A Protest Against Stalinist Gangster Attacks, by W.C. The New Danger of War in the Far East, by Lucifer Attack on the Workers' Fatherland by the Japanese Militarists Imminent Japan Aims at War Effect of American Recognition Sharpening Japano-American Relations Japanese Militarism in a Hurry Drive of Rival Imperialism Relations of China and Japan Nanking's Deal With Japan Tasks of Chinese Communists Democratic Demands For a New Party in China Movie Review, by Thomas Stamm (A review of "Wild Boys of the Road") The Collapse of the Brandler Movement New Rifts Developing Disintegration Also in Bohemia Discussion Article The Proletarian Party -- Position and Prospects, by Joseph Knight (Continued from last issue) New Opposition in 1932 Question of Organization Principle 1933 Convention Social Democratic Viewpoints Leaders and Rank and File Editorial- Building the New Movement Conditions in the Soviet Union, by John Cernicky An American Worker's Report on Labor and the Five-Year Plan Labor Conditions in the Factory Stalinist "Political Education" The New Wage Policy Discontent of the Workers Proletarian Party Youth Group Out, by C. Jones. D. Gabe, A. Wiencock, R. Jones, S. Walters, K. Jones, E. Lovett, L. Walters, N. Wiencek, R. Romm, R. Brenner, F. Jones and R. Nagle Russian Revolution Film Notes of the Week, by G....n "Gimme a Match" Books for Workers, by Joseph Carter Ten Years--History and Principles of the Left Opposition by Max Shachtman 57 Dec 30, 1933 Philadelphia Gripped by Transport Strike NRA and Labor Leaders Combine to "Outlaw" Workers' Fight for Bread, by Leon Goodman Transport Tie-up in Philadelphia Sympathy Strike Causes of the Strike The Workers' Strike Back Supporting Taxicab Drivers Betrayal of Bakery Drivers Labor Fakers in Action Hold Torgler Despite Fire Trial Verdict Shoe Workers Amalgamate Unions at Historic Convention at Boston 60,000 Workers Represented Bitter Fight over T.U.U.L. Old Officers Removed New Constitution Discussed Local Autonomy in New Union Contradictory Resolutions Brocton Brotherhood to Come In Roosevelt's "Planned Work" A Worker's Report What the Workers Talk About A Pedestal of Manure Vandals Wreck League Hall Hotel Workers Driving Toward General Strike Amalgamated Union Formulates Program of Demands Big Hotels Organized Demands of the Union The Confidence in NRA Prefering for General Strike (sic, should be "Preferring") A Letter from Mooney, by Tom Mooney No Report of Congress Want to Hear from Delegates Appeals for New Campaign Eighteenth Year in Prison The Railroad Brotherhoods, by A.E. The Reactionary Union Officialdom A Picture of the League Today, by Arne Swabeck Growth of the League The Youth on the March Test of Political Position The Trend of the Future The Unemployed Movement New Forces in the West Manifesto of the Spanish Bolshevik-Leninists To the Workers Workers The Teachers and the Class Struggle, by Thomas Stamm Successful Meet in Brownsville Militant Builders Pioneer Publishers Book Review, by John G. Wright The Marxian Theory of the State, by Sherman H.M. Chang, Ph. D. Chang's "Slant" on Marxism A Surprising "Discovery" Literature and History A Typhical Ph. D. Thesis (sic, should be "Typical") Hitler the Pacifist, by Leon Trotsky The Arguments of Hitler "Peace" Instead of "Struggle" Hitler's "Open Letter" Nazi Foreign Policy Recreating German Militarism Hitler's Calculated Plan Movie Review, by Thomas Stamm (A review of Noel Coward's "Cavalcade") A New Stage in the NRA, by Hugo Oehler From Nazi Germany Berlin Wicks at Large Again Revival of Gangster Methods The Record of Wicks Once Excluded from Party Editorial- (The next two articles are editorials) Strike the Hotels Mooney Appeals Again Another "Friend" of the Soviet Union, by M. (Discusses George Bernard Shaw) The Logical Conclusion New York Printers Organize Union Notes of the Week, by G...n ----------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------- The Militant 1934 Table of Contents: January 1 Jan 6, 1934 Nothing for Workers in Roosevelt Message President's Demagogy at Congress Opening Hides Ruling Class Plans Increase of Unemployment "Balancing Production and Consumption" The Joker in the Peace Policy Court Threat to Labor Witness Civil Works and the NRA, by Hugo Oehler Free Yakima Defendants Increase in Lynchings Reported for 1933 Bourbon South Leads in Mob Murder; Sheriffs Assist Gangs Unemployment Increase Phila. Food Workers Strike, by Harry Allen Fight Against Heavy Odds to Organize Industry Federation of Unions Correction (In the report last issue of the Brownsville meeting the audience was 300 rather than 500) How Pacifism Led Us into War, by George Clarke "He Kept Us Out of War." Wilson, the Dove of Peace Pacifism Leading Into War The "War to End All Wars" "To Make the World Safe for Democracy" The Downfall of Wilson On the N.Y. Waterfront Seamen Subjected to Vicious Treatment Chaco - Imperialist Battleground, by Rosalio Negrette British and American Oil Interests War Two Years Old The Recovery Program of the Socialist Party, by Thomas Stamm The Story of a Boy Who Made Good, by Al Dasch Hero's Career Begins Still Running Strong Toronto Mass Meeting on Russian Recognition Movie Review, by Kino (A review of "Little Women") Free Torgler, Dimitroff, Popoff and Taneff The Railroad Brotherhood Ritualistic Mummery at Meetings Pioneer Needed Secrecy Secret Work Now Isolates the Unions Aids System of Gag-Rule Discussion Article On the Youth Resolution, by Dave Levitt The Policy of 1921 Basis of the Youth Movement Political Leadership Tasks of Immediate Period Pioneer Publishers Last Opportunity Correction (Trotsky's article from last issue, "Hitler the Pacifist," has numerous mistranslations from the original French text.) Roosevelt's Speech on Latin America A Letter on the Hitler Boycott, by Harry Strang The Old Position of Comintern A Typical Stalinist "Turn" The Soviet Union & the 4th International, by Leon Trotsky The Class Nature of the Soviet State How the Question is Posed "The Dictatorship over the Proletariat" The Dictatorship of the Proletariat as an Idealistic Norm Bonapartism Discussion Articles- The NRA and the Corporate State, by Clem Forsen Example of the 1851 Insurrection Contradictions of Roosevelt Regime State Capitalism and the Corporate State Function of Imperialist State State Form of Finance Capital Editorial Shoe Workers Amalgamated Discussion Article Spartacus Youth Tasks, by Perry Meyers Characteristics of American Youth Contact with Industrial Workers Sports and Social Activities Concrete On Primary Task Norwegian Labor Party and the Fourth International, by B. The Marxist Attitude The N.A.P. and Sweden The Charge of "Sectarianism" The Road of the IVth International The Picture Notes of the Week, by G....n (Discusses Roosevelt, bankers and Wall Street) Discussion Article On the National Recovery Act, by Harry Brand 2 Jan 20, 1934 A Capitalist Budget of 10 Billion Dollars Debt to Exceed World War Figures; America Pays High Price for World Domination The Price of World Hegemony A Class Budget Senator Davis Makes a Speech for 6 Hour Day The Mystery of Van der Lubbe, by Harry Strang Mystery Shrouds Fascist Killing of Van der Lubbe "Dead Men Tell No Tales" A Suspicious Incident Fascism in America, by George Clarke Pelley's Silver Shirts Fascism in the U.S. "The Chief" Truly "Miraculous" A New Pope The Psychic Transformed Omnipotent, Infallible "The Higher Import" Policy Praises Ford California Board Denies Parole to Warren Billings "Anti-Social Activities" Teachers of N.Y. in Protest, by S. Furlough Protest by New York Teachers Clear The Decks Green Urges Nazi Boycott Big Meetings in Hotel Union Drive War Sparks Fly in Far East; Powers Arm, by Arne Swabeck Wall Street Plays Its Own Game in Recognition and Prepares for Coming War in Pacific Pacifism to Screen War Aims U.S. Imperialist Designs The Game of American Imperialism The U.S. Versus Japan Japan Moving against Soviet Union Far East Tensions Increases Kerensky Minister Reveals Jap War Aims Discussion Article on the NRA, by Harry Brand (Continued from last Issue) Lovestone Discovers Esthonia, by Max Shachtman (Alternate spelling, usually spelled "Estonia") Propaganda Pledge Is Defended by Stalinist Attorneys Attorney for Stalinism "Explaining" Paragraph 4 The Soviet Treaty With Esthonia Soviet Policy at Genoa Policy at Tenth Soviet Congress Pioneer Publishers Working in Macy's Model Restaurant "Investments" Under the NRA Discipline and Penalties The "Steady Extra" Racket No Bus Boys Macy's "Mutual" Benefit Sick Workers Not Rehired The Railroad Brotherhoods, by A.E. The "Obligation" as a Gaglaw Destructing Role of Secret Work The Obligation Never Affects The Officials The Soviet Union & the 4th International The Class Nature of the Soviet State, by Leon Trotsky (Continued from last issue) "State Capitalism" The Economy of the U.S.S.R. Bureaucracy and the Ruling Class Class Exploitation and Social Parasitism Notes of a Journalist, by Alpha Koltzov in Paris A Pumpkin in the Director's Office Editorial- (The next three articles are editorials.) The Great American Skin Game (Discusses monetary policy, devaluation and Roosevelt's ability to fool the workers and the American people in general.) The Expulsions in Local 9 The Sixty-Cent Dollar Labor Leaders and NRA, by Hugo Oehler Basic Problem Untouched Reduction in Real Wages Green Appeals to Capitalists Role of Labor Leaders in the N.R.A. The Grocery Code 3 Jan 27, 1934 Call General Strike of N.Y. Food Workers 600 Start Strike Wave In the Waldorf Astoria Whole Kitchen and Dining Room Crew March in Body To Amalgamated Union Headquarters Six Hundred in Stoppage Waldorf is Signal For Workers Workers Act As One Man Militant Three Times a Week During Strike Thousands Pack Halls; Walkout Vote Solid General Strike Acclaimed Further Strike News The Unanimously Adopted Resolution What the Strike Means to You Strike Lights...and Shadows, by Oscar De Boomer The Union's Strike Demands Plan Big Navy Program Teachers Protest Economy Program, by H.L. An Open Letter to the American Workers Party, by Arne Swabeck, Secretary, National Committee of the C.L.A. (Opposition) For the New Party Lovestone Discovers Esthonia, by Max Shachtman (Alternate spelling of "Estonia") Propaganda Pledge is Defended by Stalinist Attorneys (Continued from last issue) Anglo-Russian Trade Agreement Reply to Lord Curzon Chicherin on "Propaganda" The Transition with the Border States Not Ordinary Recognition Pacts Bolshevik Policy on Self-Determination What the Comintern Manifesto Urged and What It Forgot to Urge... Drive Starts for "New Intern'l." ("New International" is a new monthly magazine) For the Fourth International, by Leon Trotsky Letter to a Member of the Independent Labor Party The Question of a Banner Lessons of Anglo-Russian Committee The International Question The London Bureau Swedish Communist Party Events Will Confirm Our Slogans Hill-Billy Hitlerites, by George Clarke Red Baiting and Jew Baiting The Jewish Plot a la Pelley The Choicest Invective The Railroad Brotherhoods, by A.E. Constitutions Reek with Gaglaws The Brotherhood Constitutions Reek With Gaglaws Constitutional Restrictions The Magazines, by Mag Notes of a Journalist, by Alpha "Not Only But Also...." The Drive for Quality The Class Enemy Cleansing the Party Gems From Stalin Workers Oppose Mendieta Regime, by Thomas Stamm Workers Oppose Mendieta Cuban Sugar Problem Deadline for Harvest High mark of Struggle Rackets at the McAlpin Wage Cuts Under NRA Unpaid Overtime Compulsory Deductions From Wages Racket Number Two Discrimination Trotsky's Article (The Militant will discontinue publication of Trotsky's article on the Soviet State and the Fourth International. It will appear shortly as a pamphlet from Pioneer Publishers.) 4 Jan 29, 1934 (The disclosure has changed to "Published Three Times a Week by the Communist League of America (Opposition)" Toward the Catastrophe, by Leon Trotsky The Myth of Invincibility Struck Hotels "Ballyhoo" Won't Cook Dinners, by B. 20,000 Out Service Crippled As Strike Ranks Swell Fifty of City's Most Important Hotels Successfully Struck by Amalgamated Food Workers Biggest Hotels Paralyzed Militant Tactics Strike Spirit Excellent Effective Unionism Thousands Surround Waldorf In First Mass Picketing Line, by Diana Rice Down With the Scabs! "For the Union makes us strong!" Japan Moves Toward War Against the Soviet Union, by Lucifer Boss Papers Launch Flood of Lies Against Hotel Strike, by Harry Strang Boss Press Tricks The "Red Plot" Beware: Fake Telegrams! The I.L.P. and the Comintern, by T.C. Problem of the Third International Criticize Comintern Sub Drive on 5 Jan 31, 1934 10,000 In Mass Hotel Picket Line Strikers "Greet" Roosevelt Scab Birthday Dinners Revolt at Local 16's Treachery Members of A. F. of L. Refuse to Act as Scabs Ten Dollars for Scab Job Rebel Against High Dues Bosses Work with Racketeers Editorial- (The next 4 articles are editorials) The Strike and the N.R.A. How Will the Strike Be Won? Extending the Strike Front Red Baiting and Reaction F.W.I.U. "Fortress" Collapses, by Harry Strang New Yorker Men Vote Solid for Amalgamated Stalinists Create Confusion Flock to Amalgamated Drawn Guns On Pickets Police Effort to Scare Workers is Defied Cops Draw Guns New Hotels Join Ranks of Strike Face Thugs at Longchamps Another N.R.A. Project Collapses 10,000 Fill Mass Rally Madison Square Garden Jammed With Strikers Masses Shout Down Disrupters Call For Spreading Strike Strike Gains Momentum, by G.C. Corrections Labor Greets Amalgamated The Strikers Speak Emil Smith, Dining Room Delegate, Waldorf-Astoria Gustave Barth, Kitchen Delegate, Pennsylvania Hotel Marcel Gaudachon, Kitchen Delegate, Hotel Astor V. Mastro, Picket Captain, Waiter, Hotel New Weston Herbert Schneider, Waiter Delegate, Longchamps, 57th Street Protest Chen Du Siu's Imprisonment (Signed by numerous individuals from the following organizations, C.P., I.L.P., N.A.F.T.A., N.U.D.A.W., W.U., Chemical Workers Union, C.W.U., A.E.U. Subs Double February 6 Feb 2, 1934 Call 30,000 Cab Drivers in General Strike, by Carl Cowl Big Companies Already Tied Up CWA Workers Rebel Brand Lies on Union Contracts Show Complete List of Amalgamated Demands Strike Committee Unanimous Demand for Wage Scale of Kitchen Scabs a Flop at Casino de Paree "Daily Worker" Hits Hotel Strike With Slander and False Charges Grand Central Joins in Strike Strike Has Cut Menus to the Bone Stories by Diners Show Hotel Men Bluffing What the Amalgamated Stands For Editorial Boss Press Persists In Fighting Strike Hitler: One Year After, by Joe Carter Hitlerism in the Saddle Workers Left Leaderless The United Front Fascism Doomed The Wrecking Crew at Work The Railroad Brotherhoods, by A.E. Official Censorship of Union Press Censorship Laws Cited Subs Rise 7 Feb 10, 1934 (The disclosure has changed back to "Published Weekly by the Communist League of America (Opposition)" Paris Masses Shake Corrupt French Regime Reaction in Power with Dumergue Masses and the Crisis The Stavisky Affair Latest Developments in the N.Y. Hotel Strike Lewis Triumphs at Mine Convention, by Arne Swabeck Another "Victory" for Lewis The U.M.W. of A. Convention An "Industrial Statesman" The Conciliation Hoax No Strike Assurances The Insurgent Unions Editorial (Concerns the N.Y. hotel and restaurant workers general strike) Significance of Taxi Drivers' Strike Analyzed, by Thomas Stamm Cab Drivers In Huge Meet At Garden, by S.A. Militant Action in Cab Walkout, by B.C. Militancy Shown in Taxi Strike Scab Cars Run Off Streets of N.Y., by S.G.B. Nab Khaki Shirt In Cab Driver Murder Letters from the Militants- (The next 7 articles are letters) C.W.A. Workers Must Unite as One, by G. A "Shoppe" Under a N.R.A. Code, by J.T. Extra Work Without Pay "Fixing" Labor Inspectors A Pig-Sty of a Hospital, by J.T. An Expulsion at High Speed, by David Udell No Answer to Questions Member of Section Committee Becomes a "Counter-Revolutionist" The Jew-Baiters in Chicago, by R.L. Hotel Scab Agencies Fall Through, by Arne Swabeck Fired by the C.W.A. But Not Hired!, by J.H. Pioneer Publishers The Soviet Union and the Fourth International, by Leon Trotsky Important Offer 569 Subs! Our School in Brooklyn The Unpleasant Task of O. Piatnitsky and How Lenin Is Used to "Help" Him, by Harry Strang Ignores Real Issue How Piatnitsky "Edits" Lenin Organize Jewish Club in Brownsville American-Soviet Agreement The Significance of Russian Recognition by the United States, by J. Kamiat Just Arrived! (The Bulletin of the Russian Opposition) Who Was Bishop Tourian "Unser Wort" a Weekly, by Leon Trotsky A Real Achievement A Note to Branches Discussion of Youth Problems, by Florence Wyle On Industrial Activity The Movement in Mexico, by C.C. Revolutionary Events As Seen by Our Own Correspondent Stalinist Provocation Young Internationalists Persecution of Comrades Marxist Education Demagogy of Government Trotsky's Works Popular Bolshevik Congress Once and Now, by Leon Trotsky On the Eve of the Congress Bureaucratic Dictatorship and Social Contradictions 8 Feb 17, 1934 Austrian Workers Fight Heroic Battle, by Max Shachtman Show Proletarian Will In War Against Fascism Austrian Workers Fight Points The Way To World Proletariat Austria Next in Order, by Leon Trotsky A United Front on Austria Cops Slug Workers In Austria Protest C.P. Disrupts Garden Meet Hotel Strike Strikers Take "Militant" French Gov't In War Move Reactionary French Government in War Moves An "Aggressive Tone" Need of United Struggle C.I. Phrasemongering Priests Bless Fascist Guns, by Aquinas 645 Subs 9 Feb 24, 1934 Heading Straight For Another World War, by Arne Swabeck Horrible Spectre of a New Imperialist Holocaust Menaces the Whole World Collapse of Austro-Marxism In the Vienna Struggle, by S. A Fatal Policy Banking on Dollfuss The Dissatisfied Masses Adler's Indictment Coal Yard Workers Win Strike in Minneapolis, by V.R.D. Militant Battle Brings a Speedy Victory To Drivers The "Cruising Picket Squad" Inspiration and Example For Union Workers Vandalism! NRA Attacks Hotel Strike Need Militant Policy to Overcome Crisis in Ranks A Critical Situation Quick Action Needed Shoe Union Forges Ahead Amalgamation Rolls over Reactionary Opposition Mahan's Workshop The Fight at Lowell Elections in New York Shops The C.W.A. Front- 10,000 Demonstrate in New York Inwood Park Marine Park Prospect Park, by K. Wage Cuts, by K. Shachtman Tour Revolt in the Blockers Union Reactionary Clique Struggle Threatens Split Results of Clique Struggle Fishing In Troubled Waters Where Will Revolt Lead? The Right Road Maintain United Local Money vs Men Capital and Labor in the Hotel Strike Things the Minneapolis Coal-yard Workers Won't Forget, by V.R.D. Another United Front Burlesque, by J.S.G. Oneal Discovers "Trotskyism" by S. Socialist Locals Come Out For The Fourth International Oneal Distorts Facts Social Democratic Legends The Case of Hungary Stalinism Is Not Communism MPLS Labor Notes, by C.F. Minneapolis Mooney Conference Marks Time Stalinism on Austria, by Joseph Carter Comments Refute Course in Germany Here and There with the United Front, by Thomas Stamm Vital Questions of the New Party, by Max Shachtman The Program of the A.W.P. The Decisive Question Settled Questions The International Approach S.P. "Neutrality" in the Unions The Waterloo of Pseudo-Radicalism, by G.C. Vienna: the Socialist "Millennium" The Capitalist Press Bourgeois Praise of Austro-Marxism Vienna The Symbol Reformist Utopia Ad Nauseum From the Daily Worker Reports of the 17th Congress of the C.P.S.U. Against Hooliganism March 10 Mar 10, 1934 Toward the New Party, by James P. Cannon Internationalism and the A.W.P. The Paramount Question The A.W.P. Program New Parties and New International--A Single Task Marxism Is Not A Foreign Product Concepts of Internationalism Can the National Parties Develop Independently? Organization Methods Which International? Spring Festival Big Crowd at Debate, by G.R. Cannon and Lovestone Discuss Internationals A Statement on the Rakovsky Case, by Leon Trotsky N.R.A. and Company Unions Corporations Win the Fake "Elections" "Protecting Workers' Rights" Weirton Steel Case Enforcing Company Union Plan Compulsory Arbitration Scheme End of the N.Y. Hotel Strike Left Wing Fights to Rebuild Amalgamated Union Discrimination Against Strike Militants NRA and Strike Leadership The Left Wing Organizes Rebuild the Amalgamated! French Internationalists Appeal to the Masses (Appeal of the Communist League of France (Bolshevik-Leninists) published in "La Verite" of February 16) To The Workers of France! How Shall the Struggle Be Carried On? Hard Times Missed Bosses, by W.R. "Presidents" Increased Salaries and Bonuses Hill Draws A Mere Million Schwab Gets a Raise Hardship For Some "Captains" C.W.A. News- C.W.A. Layoffs Hillside Park Inwood Park, by Ross C.W.A. Separations, by A.W.C. Letters to the Editor- Another Preparedness Parade in Frisco, by George Ellis The Parade of 1916 No Bomb This Time Aftermath of the Garden Affair A Stalinist Argument The Daily Worker and the Hotel Strike, by Herbert Solow Goldin Clique in Blind Alley Unscrupulous Policy Endangers Unity in Blockers Union Genuine Revolt Against Zaritsky Stalinist Rise with Goldin Sudden Concern for Principles The United Blockers' League The I.L.D. in the Capitalist Courts The Cuban Bolshevik-Leninists Pledge Fund Militant Builders 789 Subs! Shachtman Tour Are There Limits to the Fall? by Leon Trotsky Summary of the 13th Plenum of the Executive of the C.I. "The Policy of the German C.P. Was Correct"! The Growth of Fascism The Social Democracy The Reasoning of Anarchism A Provoking Idiocy A Phantom Universe Figures from the "Yearbooks" Explaining the Facts Stalinism Assisted Hitler Directives Contradict Analysis A Self-Indicting Recommendation Perspectives New Revolutionary Situations The New International Estimating the Socialist Rifts "Counter-Revolutionary" Aftermath of the Madison Square Garden Affair The Intellectuals Revolt Against Stalinist Hooliganism "Discussion" a la C.P. Intellectuals and the Party United Front from Below The Rebels' Destiny 11 Mar 17, 1934 Taxi Strikers Battling for Union Recognition N.R.A. Labor Board Conspires With Bosses to Break Strike and Impose Company Union Intolerable Conditions Mrs. Herrick Bats for Bosses The Strikers' Demands Spring Festival and Dance Court Denies Habeas Writ to A. Bellussi Deportation to Fascist Italy Reaffirmed Shachtman Speaks for the New Party on National Tour National Scope of Tour The Paris Commune, by Joseph Carter The Rise of the Commune Mistakes of the Commune Heirs of the Communards The Party--the Instrument of Struggle Wholesale Layoffs on All C.W.A. Projects Begin, by G.G. "Paupers Oath" Forced on Government Employees 11,000 Get the Gate The "Pink" Discharge Slip Tough Luck for Bright Boy Cut Wage of Paterson Textile Workers GRammercy 5-9524--- Cannon to Speak on Program of the 4th International 854 New Subs! 500 Unorganized Printers in Mass Meeting in N.Y. Government Inquisition for the Workers, by K. Questionnaire Pries Into Private Affairs Big May Day Edition of the Militant Letters to the Editor- New York Furriers Situation, by Kamenetsky Chaos in Shops Both Unions Impotent Shady Role of Lovestoneites Preparing Strike for June Strike of New York Dental Mechanics, by Herbert Capelis Facts About the Strike The Mechanics' Union Policy of the Leadership The Bosses' Organizations Fight for the Union Expulsion of B.J. Field and A Kaldis Organization Notes- The International Bulletin New York Reorganization The Madison Square Garden Boomerang Fake United Fronts Crack Up Sympathizers Alienated Inside the C.P. Mood of the Workers International Workers School Notes, by J. Weber (Next 5 articles) Militant Pledge Fund Oakland Bookshop and Forum March of Events After the CWA What? Madison Square Garden England Centrism and the 4th International, by Leon Trotsky Realignments in the International Labor Movement Characteristics of Centrism Centrist Ideology On the International Arena Words and Deeds The London Bureau Bureaucratic Centrism Adaption to Reformist Maneuvers New Forms of Struggle Events Force Realignments The Fourth International Conditions for Success The Basic Historic Task Communism and the Intellectuals Toward an Alliance of the Workers and Intellectuals A Year of Probation Shattering the Intellectual Facade The Challenge of the Intellectuals The Political Situation in Spain, by L.Fersen, Prison Celular, Madrid, January 26, 1934 Workers Prepare for Struggle United Front in Catalonia For National Alliance Organizing the CWA White Collar Workers Marine Park, by J.E. The "League Against War and Fascism" in Action at Newark Roosevelt's "12 Points" Against the Workers, by Hugo Oehler Speak to the "Captains of Industry" The "12 Points" Ballyhoo Reducing the Hours Senator Wagner's Admissions "Reforming" the C.I. Shachtman Tour 12 Mar 24,1934 Toward the Fourth International, by Albert Glotzer Revolutionary Youth Meet in International Conference Another Step on the Road to the New International German Delegates Handed over to Hitler Police Conference Reorganized Reports of National Sections Proposals of S.A.P. Youth Standpoint of I.C.L. Agreement on Amended Thesis Appeal to All Revolutionary Youth Great Tasks Ahead The Strange Adventures of Insull, by G.E. National Tour of Shachtman Builds for the New Party Dutch Police Deport Youth Delegates to Germany! Mass Delegations On CWA Work Go to Washington Lining Up For Big May Day Edition Of the Militant The New Strike Wave Organized Labor Under the NRA Company Unions Gain Under the NRA Green Admits the NRA Cannot Help Real Wages International Workers School Notes The Automobile Workers Revolt New York Taxi Drivers Continue Militant Fight For Union Demands of the Union Hostile to NRA Court Hits At Substitute Teachers, by H.L. Organizing the Home Relief Workers Disruptive Tactics 919 New Subs! Greek Workers' Club "Protomagia" Shachtman Tour Schedule Troyanovsky -- 1916 And 1934, by Harry Strang Troyanovsky Accuses Lenin "An International Scientific Society" "Deny Necessity of International" Australian Youth Organizations (By the International Communist League of Australia) Membership Internal Affairs of the Y.C.L. Youth Sections Suggested Organizational Form March of Events, by Jack Weber Manhattan Housing Cuba The Japanese-English Textile Negotiations One Year of Roosevelt's New Deal, by Arne Swabeck The Technique of Serving the Exploiters and Fooling the Masses The Demagogy of Roosevelt Program Fear Collapse of System The Ballyhoo Technique Not a "Revolution" Wall Street Not Really Disturbed The Big Interests and the Codes Discussion Article On the Resolution of the National Youth Committee, by Rae Spiegel Liberal Phraseology Lenin on the Jacobins The Struggle of the Masses Communism and the Intellectuals A Program for the Intellectuals Discussion Not Enough Mass Organizations a Necessity Build Mass Organizations Now! The British Hunger March, by T.C. "Congress of Action" A Peaceful Demonstration Comintern Reply to I.L.P. I.L.P. Conferences Editorial- The Furriers' Problem, by James P. Cannon Honor Among Thieves Rural Housing "Party Life" Correction (Concerns the article " Organizing the CWA White Collar Workers") March Young Spartacus Militant Pledge Fund N.Y. Printers Demand Unionization 13 Mar 31, 1934 For the 4th International (By the International Secretariat, League of Communist-Internationalists, Geneva, March 1934) Appeal of the Communist-Internationalists to the Workers of the World The Bankruptcy of the Leadership Which is the Way Out The Proletariat Must Forge a New Weapon The Proletariat Can Crush Fascism A Program of Action Workers of the World Reviewing the News, by Bill Tammany Hall "Success" of British C.P. Letters to the Editor- Another Opinion on the Furriers' Situation, by Leon Koenig Terroristic Methods Democracy in International Editor's Reply, by James P. Cannon Unconvincing Arguments The Criterion of the Mass Consistent Principle Sick-Bed Repentance 992 New Subs! Shachtman on Tour New Castle Youngstown Stalinists Frustrated Stalinist Hoodlums Mobilize Dealing With the Disrupters Shachtman on Tour Schedule March of Events The A. F. of L. Bureaucracy The Role of Roosevelt The Philippines The New York Post and Civic Virtue International Agitation For Deported Youth Add New Names to Pledge Fund to Sustain Militant The Pledgers "Expert" Deals Foul Blow at the N.Y. Teachers, by H.L. A Storm of Protest Organize the Unemployed The Betrayal of the Auto Workers A. F. of L. Sabotage and Treachery The Role of Roosevelt An Old Lesson Taught Again The Task of the Militants Plan Early Publication of the "New International" Theoretical Organ of Revolutionary Marxism Out in May Bellussi Gets 30 Days Stay Greek Workers' Club Lecture (On war and the 4th International) 500 at Cannon Lecture on International Program Lecture Course on the Subject to Follow Successful Meeting CWA Delegations March in Protest at Washington Explaining the "New Deal" Program A Tail to the Socialist Kite Attempts to Split the Amalgamated Hotel Workers The Opportunists in Home Relief Workers Body One Year of Roosevelt's New Deal, by Arne Swabeck Aid to Big Financiers Government Money Flows Standardizing on a Lower Level Unemployment and Reduced Hours The Real Aim of the New Deal Inside the C.C.C. Camps, by Carlos Hudson International Notes Lithuania Germany The Left Movement in Poland, by Victor Effects of Crises Trade Union Debacle The Internal Regime In the Party The Opposition The Right Wing and Labor Party, by J.G. Wright April TM Q2 1934 14 Apr 7, 1934 All Together Against Reaction on May Day (By the New York City Committee, Communist League of America) On Father Coughlan 4 Deported Youth in Grave Danger in Hitler Germany The Nazi Program Fascist Elections Dryer Taken to Court by A.F. of L. Official End of the New York Taxi Strike, by Thomas Stamm Politics in the Strike Bloc With Stalinists Tammany and the Socialists Contradictions Come Out Future Lines Appeal to the Young Workers of the World Committee Organized to Aid Anthony Bellussi Arrest Leaders of The Cuban Labor Movement A Veteran Militant Reviewing the News, by Bill Manuilsky Blames Stalin Senator Thayer and the Power Trust "Holy Joe" McKee The Police and the Taxi Strike The C.P. Convention--A Forecast Letters to the Editor- From a C.P. Member "The Menace of Trotskyism" Merely Tactical Differences From a I.L.D. Member Pledge Fund 20 New Pledges Previously Reported 1014 New Subs! Over the Top! Shachtman Tour Schedule Russian Bulletin Organization Notes_ New York City Conference Organized Labor Under the N.R.A. The Auto "Settlement" NRA Tightens Grip to Prevent Strikes The Wagner Bill Railroad Struggle Left to President Wage Increases Herald Further Inflation March of Events, by Jack Weber The Period of Concessions Closing The Open Shop Drive Dividing the Movement Bourgeois Nightmares 15 Apr 14, 1934 Movement on Behalf of Four Deported Germans Grows Non-Partisan Defense Committee Initiates the Movement in the United States Protest Movement Grows Rousing Meetings On Shachtman Tour Several Meetings In Chicago Order May Day Special Edition Of the Militant After the C.W.A. Disproof of Roosevelt's Claims Need of Unemployment Insurance Railroad Robins and Gras for Work in Hotel Strike Hostile Rulings of Judge Fascists Attack Rivera Cuban Arrests Club Plan Drive for 1000 More Subs The International Bulletin Minneapolis Workers Fight Starvation Program, by W.K. Militant Demonstrations of Ten Thousand Unemployed at City Hall Refuses to Receive Committee Cops Throw Tear Gas Bombs Arrest of Committee Fighting Qualities of Workers Stalinist Policy For the United Front Important Notice N.Y. Conference Against War Is Pacifist Affair Cannon to Speak On War and the 4th International Anti-Fascist Dinner For Bellussi Arrested June 17 Speakers at Dinner Reviewing the News, by Bill The C.P. Convention Convention Highlights Horse Thieves and Politicians LaGuardia--S.P.--C.P. Suicide Letters to the Editor- (Next 4 articles) The Furriers Again, by Jackinson Expulsion from I.L.D. Los Angeles Milliners, by Samuel Meyers Disruptionist Policy A Pacifist Morass, by M.G. Pledge Fund An Appeal to Our Sympathizers New Pledgers Shachtman on Tour Williston, N.D., by A.G. Miller Minneapolis, by Wm. Curran Speech on "Austrian Events" Downtown Meeting St. Paul Meeting More About St. Paul Under the N.R.A. Federal Union and Company Unions Dr. Wirt and the NRA Open Shop and Company Unions Mrs. Pinchot Says Wall Street Rules Johnson The Cuban Situation After Grau (Translated from "Rayo", organ of the Bolshevik-Leninist Party of Cuba) The Petty Bourgeois Farce Position of the Bolshevik-Leninists The Fight for Revolutionary Juntas C.P. Loses its Bearings The Duty of the Vanguard "Braintrust" Conspiracy, by G.R. Patriots to the Defense Wm, A, Wirt from Gary A Centrist Attack on Marxism, by Leon Trotsky A "Non-Orthodox" Point of View The Class Theory of Society Ideas and Classes Historic Role of Classes Echoes of Bernstein The Austrian Constitution A Year of Roosevelt's New Deal, by Arne Swabeck Article III The NRA Illusion Unionism the Issue Role of Craft Unionism Basic Policy of Capitalists Force for Union Organization Union at Crossroads The Labor Front Shachtman Tour Schedule Russian Bulletin Brownsville Relief Demonstration Harlem Workers Club Fascists in N.Y. 16 Apr 21, 1934 Reaction Hounds Trotsky Organize a Fight for the Right of Asylum in U.S. The United Front--For and Against Asylum U.S. Once a Refuge for Exiles 50,000 Manifestoes How Trotsky Lived and Worked in Exile Before And Was Deported from Country to Country London Congress Ten Years of Exile War and More Deportation New York in 1917 1917 Revolution Spectre of Communism in The Fourth International, by James P. Cannon (Alternate spelling of "Specter") Reactionaries Strike at Leon Trotsky The Political Meaning of the Attack Why They Fear the Fourth International The Real Issues Break Through No Refuge in Capitalist Countries Under the NRA Injunction Based on NRA Trust Busters Plan Fight Profits Increase Under NRA Social Origins of Crime "Triple Unionism" by W. Lenin on Trade Union Tactics New Method of Disruption Militant Builders How Coover Does It New Subs Shachtman Tour Schedule Help the Cuban Struggle Nazis Violate Tomb Of Eckstein Austrian Fighters Sentenced The Stalinist Conference League Statement to Conference (By New York Local, Communist League of America) March of Events, by Jack Weber All Eyes to France Uniting of the Forces of Reaction Fascist or Proletarian Dictatorship? The Farmer and American Imperialism The Farmers as Social Anchor Once More on Centrism, by Leon Trotsky Trotsky Answers the Criticism of Dutch O.S.P. Paper "De Fakkel" on Centrism Centrism and Centrism Stages of Development Left Centrist Groupings The London-Amsterdam Bureau Old Arguments of the Stalinists From Marxist Quality to Mass Quantity Discussion Article On the Resolution of the National Youth Committee, by Bernard M. Landau The Tasks of the National Youth Committee, by Nathan Gould Sectarian Organization Education and Mass Work Necessary Steps Who Lost the National Income? by George Roberts An Analysis of Facts and Figures Regarding Wages and Dividends Wages in 1931 Dividing the National Income Bosses' Income Stood Up Commodity Prices The 59 Cent Dollar Wages and Interest Dutch Aid Hitler Reviewing the News, by Bill L'Humanite and Liberte Stalin and Kemal Pasha H. George Invents a Plot "Vanguard of the Bourgeoisie" "Against Fascism--For the Fourth International" For the Fourth International The Historic Declaration of the Four Organizations at Paris (Signed by E. Bauer--International Left Opposition (Marxist-Leninist), J. Schwab--S.A.P. (Socialist Workers Party of Germany) J.P. Schmidt--O.S.P. (Independent Socialist Party of Holland) and K. Sneevliet--R.S.P. (Revolutionary Socialist Party of Holland) Robins and Gras Sentenced The International Bulletin Pledge Fund The Pledgers Labor Groups Protest Action of Dutch Government Organizations Signing Protest Labor Conference Sends Protest 17 Apr 28, 1934 All Out to Madison Square Garden on May Day!, by James P. Cannon Revolutionary Workers March Under the Banner of the Communist League of America Madison Square and Union Square Socialists and Communists Who Are the Revolutionary Workers! Party Meeting or United Front? The Stand of the Communist League The Road to the United Front May Day The Record of the Past Year Result of False Policies The Road of the United Front The Struggle in the U.S. Lenin's May Day Appeal to the Russian Workers, by V.I. Lenin, May 1, 1896 The "United Front", by W. Mass Basis for Common Struggle "United Front With Individuals" "New "Generals' for Old" Playing the Fascist Game Payless Furlough for N.Y. Teachers, by H.L. Second Wage Cut The Teachers' Enemy The Teachers' Union Reform the Union March of Events, by Jack Weber Japan's Monroe Doctrine for Asia Japanese Uncertainty The Danger of Waiting Roosevelt and Nationalization What is the Meaning of Rakovsky's Surrender?, by Leon Trotsky Center Shifted to West The Struggle for Industrialization Defeats of the Proletariat The Example of Kirov Effects of Isolation Hitler Aided Stalin Light Will Come From West Cuban Revolution, by M. Garcia Villareal Stalinism Kneels to American Imperialism Reasons for the Defeat Road to Emancipation Opened Confusing the Masses A Treasonable Capitulation New Revolutionary Explosion Impending America vs Japan in Latin America, by C.C. Japanese Exports Tendency Alarms U.S. U.S. Exports to South America Do the Figures Spell War? The Collapse of the Disarmament Bubble, by G.R. Bankruptcy of "Peace" Agencies Peace Pacts--and Wars Reviewing the News, by Bill Statesmen at Albany Tammany Gang Chief Dropped "History" by Sam Don The Facts The Hosanna Chorus The Revolutionary Union The C.I. Open Letter Cleveland Convention of the C.P., by Arne Swabeck The Events of Four Years They Learned Nothing Repeat the Old Errors Philadelphia Branch and the Militant 400 Hail Move for New Defense at Bellussi Meet Speakers Warmly Received Advocate Non-Partisan Organization Stalinist Hoodlums Attack Shachtman L.A. Meeting San Francisco Meeting, by Florence Wyle Militant is Barred From Canada Young Spartacus May 18 May 5, 1934 Left Currents in the S.P., by James P. Cannon The Revolutionary Policy Committee Dangers Facing the Left Wing The State and Revolution For Arming the Workers The Workers' Councils and the Struggle for Power Necessary Amendment to Program Leader of the Spanish C.P. Resigns Post In the New York May Day Parade (Photo) Marching Under the Banner of the Communist League (Photo) Capitalists of All Countries Close Their Doors to Leon Trotsky Sudden Death of A.A. Buehler Terror in Hitler Germany "America First" Parade is Fiasco At Minneapolis, by R. Traitors in the Labor Ranks Fight for the United Front Greatest May Day in the History Of New York Labor Movement Mexican Police Seize International Communists Com. Cora Duff Dead (Obituary) Shachtman Speaks at St. Louis Meet Reviewing the News, by Bill "Democratic" Traditions "Tricks of the Press" Bert Wolfe Shachtman Meeting at K.C., by F.S. Old and New Organization Forms, by Hugo Oehler Remoulding Workers' Organizations (Variant Spelling of "Remolding") Shop Delegate Bodies New Form to the Fore Utilize Federal Unions The Answer to the NRA Cleveland Convention of the C.P., by Arne Swabeck (Continued from last issue) New "Federation of Labor" Fluctuations of Membership Under the NRA Oneal on the Communist Sickness, by O.W. Watters Two Sides of the NRA Statement of Jack Hackverdian, by Jack Hackverdian Paterson Silk Workers Club To Extend Organization Foundations for a Communist Youth League, by Martin Abern Youth and Militarism Preparing For War, by W. Not Disarming, but Rearming "Congresses" Against War Hearst Speaks Out Another Hearst Editorial Talks of "World Revolution" Decisive Struggles Approach In Spain The Workers' Alliance New Alignment of Proletariat Labor and the New Deal, by S. Fisher Violating Codes Civil Liberties Survey "Protecting" Labor Rights Railroad Pay Cuts March of Events, by Jack Weber Diplomacy at the Breaking Point The Attack on Labor Deepens Who is Aided, Who is Not? The Crisis in the Pocketbook Makers' Union What the Code Provides Role of the "Fraternal Club" Who is Responsible Incompetence of Officials Walinsky and his Gang New Administration Needed Mobilize the Workers Wage Standards Destroyed Program of Demands United Front Against Hooliganism in L.A. (By Allen Stiller, Sec'y L.A. Branch, A.W.P.) Statement of Los Angeles A.W.P. Wipe Out This Hooliganism The Whole Labor Movement Of Los Angeles Must Unite to Prevent a Repetition of the Brooklyn Hall Scandal Hooligans! A Menace to the Whole Labor Movement Unite to Burn Hooliganism Out of the Labor Movement 19 May 12, 1934 New Trends in the Trade Union Movement, by Arne Swabeck Leaders Under Fire New Forces in the Unions Rank and File Revolts Officials in a Dilemma Danger of Premature Splits Trend Towards Industrial Unionism "United Front" in Chicago, by Norman Satir Stalinists Celebrate May Day by Hooligan Attack on International Communists on Parade A Hooligan Attack The "Leader" of the Hooligans Dental Mechanics Strike at Baltimore Labor Board Steps In Partial Victory for Union Young Socialists and Spartacus Youth Sponsor United Front Bulletin Discussion at the Conference Yipsel Amendment New York's May Day in Review, by B. Minneapolis Union Prepares For Action, by R. Three Thousand Transport Workers Organize Forces to Fight For Demands Workers Flock to Union Coal Yard Workers in Vanguard Role of Labor Board Wolinsky Gang Seize Control of Pocketbook Union Reactionary Elements Progressive Forces Divided Reviewing the News, by Bill Death of Woodin The Police and the Crooks The Daily Worker and the "Renegades" Dope From the Hop-Joints On "Shorty" Buehler and Cora Duff, by George Clarke A Revolutionist Since 1913 Moving Spirit of Kansas City Branch "Don't Mourn But Organize" Shachtman Meeting in Davenport, by Betty Roland The Cuban Revolution on the Defensive, by Thomas Stamm Advance of Reaction Perspective of Struggles Democratic Demands Situation in U.S. Terror in the Imperial Valley, by Harry Ross Methods of Intimidation Red Scare in the News Pledge Fund Minneapolis Rail Workers Organize Program of Demands Executive Committee Elected Cause of High Dues March of Events, by Jack Weber The New German Decrees "Iron Heel" Legislation The Value of Organization The New York Post and the Middle Class Before the Socialist Party Convention, by Albert Glotzer Groupings in the Party Basis Causes of the Groupings Roots in the International Situation Probing the Disputes Nazis Exploit Winter Help World Revolution or World Fascism, by Joseph S. Giganti Louis Fisher Slays "Trotskyism" Again, by Jack Weber Cause of Rakovsky's Capitulation "Socialism in One Country" Trotsky's Position What Stalin Once Wrote Industrialisation (Variant spelling of "Industrialization") Who Killed the Comintern? "Trotsky's World Revolution" Propaganda of the Hirelings Close-up of Stalinism The Imperialist Conflicts Over the Chinese Markets, by Hugo Oehler The Struggle for China International Policy Decisive Enlarging the Contradictions The U.S. and England Upset "Balance of Power" Militant Builders The New Subs Theatre Party The International Position of the Revolutionary Policy Committee, by James P. Cannon Which Way for the R.P.C. Internationalism--Paramount Question Against the Second International! A Bad "Strategy" The Role of Centrism The Marxist Fight Against Centrism The Revolutionary Way Out Waukegan Meeting, by O.A. Watters 20 May 19, 1934 The Johnson Bill and Credit to the U.S.S.R., by Thomas Stamm Purpose of the Loans The Russian Market Soviet Union Needs Credit Pressure on Soviet Union Fight for Soviet Credits! N.Y. Youth Conference Against War Bulletin Slogans of the Day Point of Conflict No Agreement Reached Second Strike Wave Under the N.R.A., by Arne Swabeck Pitched Battles The Strike Waves Under NRA Issue is Organization Trotsky Remains Without Place of Asylum; Nazi Paper Demands Banishment to Distant Island Trotsky Behind the Troubles in France The Solitary Writer Seeking Refuge. What Was Found in a Neukoelin Barrack Trotsky Undermines Germany! New Court Battle For Freedom of Mooney First Appeal to U.S. Courts The Case of Mr. Dillinger, by Carlos Hudson A High Class Bandit Flower of Capitalism Doriot Expelled From French C.P. Record of Doriot February Events C.P. Rejects United Front French Workers Begin to Act Leninist Influence Grows Statement of Non-Partisan Labor Defense on German Deportees, by Herbert Solow, Sec'y. Provisional Committee for Non-Partisan Labor Defense (From Press Service of Non-Partisan Labor Defense) Romain Rolland Joins Protest Organization Notes- The League is Growing on the Pacific Coast Truth About Dachau Told by Manchester Guardian March of Events, by Jack Weber Amter's United Front with Fascists Completing the Cycle of Folly Petty-Bourgeois Cringing! The Real Significance of Rakovsky's Capitulation (From "La Verite"--Paris) Before the Detroit Convention Of the Socialist Party, by Albert Glotzer The Paris Conference Of the 2nd International Leading Role of German Party Wels Defends Policy in Germany Polish Bund Leads Fight Right Wing Dominates Congress Resolution of Polish Bund Left Wing Confuses Issues Left Tendencies Grow Perspectives of the Fight A Critical Analysis of the American Workers Party, by Felix Morrow The Political Evolution of the C.P.L.A. The Past of the A.W.P. December Conference Further Analysis Needed The Role of the Party "Too Much Better" Editorial Needed Now: A New Defence Organization, by James P. Cannon (Variant spelling of "Defense") Crime and Economics, by Carlos Hudson Starving Men Steal Prison Statistics The Economic Factor in Crime Toward the National Workers' Alliance in Spain, by Andres Nin (Editorial in"La Autorcha", new fortnightly organ of the Spanish Communist League--Bolshevik-Leninists--May 1, 1934) Vitality of Alliance Lesson of Experiences For a National Conference New York Organization Notes Twelve New Members in One Week Reviewing the News, by Bill Mike Gold the Mathematical Wizard Politicians and Their Price We Are Challenged American Traditions--A Fable 21 May 26, 1934 Minneapolis Shows the Way, by F.K. Militant Mass Picket Line Routs Scabs, Cops, Special Deputies and Thugs and Stops All Commercial Transport Building Trades in Sympathy Strike; Womens Auxiliary Active in Fight; Workers' Spirit Soars All Transport Stopped Battle at the Market Bosses Try Terror Miserable Role of Stalinists Telegram to The Militant, by K. Learn From Minneapolis, by James P. Cannon The Message of Minneapolis Mass Action The Sympathetic Strike The Bolshevik Militants Non-Partisan Labor Defense Protests Police Attack on Workers Youth Demonstration Against War And Fascism on May 30th Stalinists Force Split Mobilize for May 30 Reviewing the News, by Bill Gigolos and Kings May 1st and May 17th The Crisis and the Socialist Party Olgin on Browder's Masterly Report The Foreign Policy of Japan Japan's Claim to Hegemony British Policy Anti-Soviet Policy Strike of Los Angeles Longshoremen The Railroad Wage Settlement, by Weaver Labor Leaders and Capitalists in Mutual Appreciation Workers' Pressure Forces a Change Another Sell-Out Accomplished Who Will Lead the Workers? Militant Builders Second Club Plan Drive Ends August 1st New Subs Complete Record And "Underground Union", by Thomas Stamm "No Influence on Teachers' Movement "Union" Goes Underground Fights Teachers' Union March of Events British Imperialism in Retreat Threat of Japanese Bonapartism The Soviet Union Slowly Encircled Litvinov and the League of Nations "New Group" For a "New Party", by Max Shachtman The Gitlow Group and the Field Clique Form a "Principled Bloc" The Negotiations with Gitlow Group Fundamental Questions Ambiguous Formulations "Socialism in One Country" Declaration of Four The Paramount Question Policy of the League The "Pair of Deuces" "Deuces" Become Allies League not "Radical" Enough Mutual Amnesty Critical Analysis of the A.W.P., by Felix Morrow The Political Meaning of "Adaption to the American Scene" What Sectarianism Means False Characterization of C.P. Origin of False Analysis Relics of Reformism Who Are the "Marxists" No "Simple" Analysis The Left Face of the Socialist Party, by Albert Goldman Impetus to Revolutionary Elements No Attraction in Comintern Heterogeneous Elements The Middle-West Group A Typical Centrist Group Reformist Theories Revolutionary Policy Committee Struggle for Leadership Gist of the Question Fourth International Manifesto Darrow Speaks for the Middle Class, by Hugo Oehler Darrow Speaks for Middle Class Pressure on the Workers Who is the NRA For? Finance Capital and the New Deal Wolinsky--Bosses' Agent Anti-Nazi Demonstration in N.Y., by Harry Strang United Front In Action Meeting in Times Square June 22 Jun 2, 1934 Strike Wave Sweeps Country Union Recognition Gained by Militant Minneapolis Battles, by James P. Cannon Victory is an Inspiration to Workers Everywhere General Strike Looms in Toledo Background of the Struggle Tricked by Labor Board No Delay on General Strike! Unite in Support of Toledo! The Sprit of the Blue Eagle (Political cartoon) Longshoremens' Strike Ties Up Pacific Coast Ports, by Florence Wyle Longshoremen Strike All Pacific Ports Bosses Want Job Control for Company Union The "Red" Issue Enters the Strike, by Fred Crique General Strike the Answer if Troops Are Called Out Communist League Makes New Gains On Pacific Coast At the Minneapolis City Market "The Battle of Deputy Run" The Battle of "Deputies Run" How the Strike Was Organized Organizing the Strike The Details of Organization An Effective Strategy of Picketing Concentration of Mass Picketing Handling Stool-Pigeons Minneapolis Strike Reveals Splendid Organization and Militancy Support From Other Unions Workers Show Fighting Ability Reviewing the News. by Bill A Professor Speaks Democracy and the T.U.U.L. The "Higher Strategy" of Stalin Police Brutality Strikers vs. Labor Leaders Roosevelt, the Friend of Labor The Strike in the Bay District National Tour Finds League Advancing, by Max Shachtman League Views Receive Serious Attention S.P. Members Attend Meetings The Stalinist Party in Decline Other Hoodlum Tactics Fail Excellent Recruits for the League Picnic June 24th (To greet the arrival of "New International") On the Political Scene in Mexico The Electoral Campaign May Day in Mexico City March of Events, by Jack Weber "Stop Fooling with Labor"! Finance Capital to the Attack Who is Bigger?" The Road to Fascism Positions of Conflicting Groups in the Socialist Party, by Albert Glotzer The R.P.C. and Its Program The Fundamental Questions The R.P.C. R.P.C. Program The Question of the State "Reforming" the 2nd International Under the Iron Heel of Chiang Kai Shek, by Lucifer Theoretical Organ Out July 1st (The "New International," the article lists features and authors in the first issue) Critical Analysis of the American Workers Party, by Felix Morrow What is Its Position On Internationalism A Lesson in "Law and Order", by William Kitt All Ready for the Big Battle Women Active on Firing Line Women on Picket Line! The Women's Auxiliary Demonstration at City Hall A Brush with Deputies Women--Into the Class Struggle! Role of the League in Strike 23 Jun 9, 1934 Partial Victory Gained By Toledo Workers Ask for Government Intervention A. F. of L. Leaders Force Retreat Mighty Demonstration of Solidarity Socialist Party Does Its Part Mooney Appeal Goes to the U.S. Supreme Court (Includes a letter from Tom Mooney appealing for funds to be used for his legal defense) Roosevelt's New Cuban Treaty, by Hugo Oehler Socialist Party Adopts "Militant" Position At Detroit National Convention, by James P. Cannon League in Campaign to Build Organization and Press Defend Thaelmann-Torgler Nation Wide Strike Looms Throughout Steel Industry Mighty Attack on Company Union Fortress Planned The Fear of the Strike Spreading Will the Union Fight it Out? Strike on Pacific Coast Extends to Shipyards, by Fred Crique Longshoremen Stand Ground General Strike Sentiment Growing Reviewing the News, by Bill The Stalinist United Front with God Trotsky, Thaelmann, and Stool-Pigeons Radek and the League of Nations Steel Facts and Figures, by Weaver What Did the Owners Get? On Whom Can the Workers Rely Capital and Labor Under the NRA National Tour Shows League Influence, by Max Shachtman League Continues Gains in Frisco. by Fred Crique I.L.D. Refuses to Defend Prisoners Weirton Steel Mills, by Irving Oklin The Union Prepares for Strike How Weir Wins His Elections A Serious Struggle is Impending New York Local Arranges Picnic March of Events, by Jack Weber Biro-Bidjan Contrast with Palestine The Question of Freedom Defense of the Soviet Union Will the Soviet Union Join the League of Nations? Petty Bourgeois Pacifists Will Greet This Move What Will the Comintern Do? What Will the German Stalinists Say? Need for Fourth International Militant Builders "Minneapolis Shows the Way" The Complete Record of Second Drive Mussolini Sets An Example of "Disarmament" A Critique of the Draft Program of The American Workers Party, by Arne Swabeck Editorial Note The Minneapolis Strike New Attacks on the Unemployed New Youngstown Drivers Union, by P. A New Type of Strike Leaders Bellussi's Reply to the I.L.D. Outlawing Strikes The Wagner Bill Dispute, by Hugo Oehler Most Sinister Aspect of the Bill Why Labor Leaders Support Bill New York United Front in Support of Strikes Anti-War Issue of Young Spartacus New York Youth Demonstrate The Other Youth Demonstration 24 Jun 16, 1934 Roosevelt's Program For "Social Insurance", by Hugo Oehler I.L.A. Leaders Weaken Pacific Coast Tie-Up, by Fred Crique I.L.A. Leaders Weaken Strike Good Programs Not Carried Out The Stalinists in the Strike Mistakes of the League Minneapolis Strike - An Answer to Its Defamers, by James P. Cannon How the Strike Was Organized When is the Time for Strike Settlement? What the Strike Settlement Means The Eggs in the Eagle's Nest (Political Cartoon) Steel Union Letter to Roosevelt Build the League and Press Steel Workers Union In Meeting to Decide Action, by Arne Swabeck Mike Tighe is Conniving to Surrender Demands Steel Trust Names Its Own Board Reactionaries Prepare Treachery Rely Only on Your Own Mass Power Browder "Exposes" Strike "Sell-Out" In Minneapolis, by Clem Forsen Reviewing the News, by Bill Minneapolis and Dunne Fascist "Victories" League Activities, by L.G. (Next 3 articles are on this topic) Chicago Hears Report On Minneapolis Strike Public Trial Clears Militant Worker Philadelphia Branch Increases Activities Sidelights From the Great Battle of the Minneapolis Workers, by C.H. Mexican Nazis Attack Trotsky, by C.C. From the Militants (The next two articles are on this topic) The Farmers and the Minneapolis Strike, by Clem Forsen California Ordinances Against the Reds, by Clem Forsen March of Events, by Jack Weber The Textile Crisis The Workers and the Forces of Production Company Unionism Smash Company Unions! Stalinist Record in the Cuban Revolution, by Thomas Stamm Stalinists Come to Aid of Class Enemy Daily Workers Gives Assistance Lying Out of the Whole Cloth The "Insurrection" of September 29 Not An Insurrection But a Putsch New York Teachers Union Fights Red-Baiting, by H.L. Persecuting Protesting Teachers Union Members Defeat Demagogue After the Socialist Party Convention Old Guard to Flaunt Convention Decisions Old Guard Renews Threat of Split "Militants" Afraid of Themselves Split in the S.P. is Inevitable The Foreign Policy of the Soviet Union Lenin's Teachings Forgotten The Understanding With French Imperialism How Pravda Explains Manoeuver (variant spelling of "Maneuver") Soviet Union in Greater Danger The Destruction of the Third International The Militant Pledge Fund The Pledgers Militant Builders The Complete Record of Second Drive N.Y. Independent Printers Union, by P.S. N.Y. Picnic Sunday, June 24th 25 Jun 23, 1934 Insurance For Jobless Depends on Labor, by D.B. Roosevelt's Message Reflects Pressure of Discontent Longshoremen Refuse Surrender Recovery For the Farmer, by G. Roberts One Example of Curtailed Production Who Pays the Price? Agricultural Production to be Forced Backward Union Barred at NRA Office New Deal Marches Ahead (Political Cartoon) Organization & Press Drive Steel Workers Union Retreats, by Arne Swabeck Strike Plans Deferred Bill Green's Proposal What Was Lacking? Steel Workers Should Not be Deceived The Battle Remains Inevitable Fight to Oust Wolinsky, by N.D.F. How the Union Officials Work for the Bosses What Must be Done Now Wolinsky Gang Breaks Union Meeting French Labor Parties Ignore Storm Signals, by A.R. Decisive Issues Moving to the Fore The Danger of False Slogans And in the Socialist Party Reviewing the News, by Bill The S.P. "Communist" Declaration Recent "Liberal" Moves by La Guardia The Youth and War Role of the Stalinists In Minneapolis Strike, by Clem Forsen On the Eve of the Strike The First Day of the Strike The Gathering of Forces The Saturday Events What Happened Tuesday Question Box Y.C.L. Holds Seventh National Convention, by Joseph Carter 300% Turnover in Three Years In the Trade Unions Militant Builders Six More Weeks to Go Complete Record Pledge Fund March of Events, by Jack Weber Fascism and the Junkers Fascism as a Bridge Fascism Losing its Social Base The Big Bourgeoisie Stalinist Record in the Cuban Revolution, by Thomas Stamm (Continued from last Issue) Necessity of Tactical Manoeuvers (Variant spelling of "Maneuvers") A Retreat in the Face of Imperialists Who Are the Owners of Cuba? Surrendering the Struggle Appeal For Jewish-Arab Workers Solidarity A Visit to Tom Mooney at San Quentin, by Harry Ross Entering the Prison The Class Fighter Inseparable From the Movement Mooney's Spirit is in the Class Struggle Unshakable Faith in His Class No Time To Lose Big Tasks Ahead After the Bulgarian Coup d'Etat, (by E.T. in "Unser Wort") The Strike Wave and the Role of the NRA, by Hugo Oehler NRA in the First Strike Wave The Capitalist Plans Aim of the New Deal The Present Task Results of the New Deal Organization-Press Campaign Receipts Penalty of Wrong Trade Union Policy Presenting a False Position "Leaders" Fail to Advance With Workers The Rival Unions Labeled "The Opposition" A Policy of Confusion and Disintegration Protest N.Y. City Police Terror, by A.W. Paul Hooliganism in Harlem Cannon Lecture on the Minneapolis Strike 26 Jun 30, 1934 What is Happening in Fascist Germany?, by Arne Swabeck Worthless Speculation Von Papen's Program Too Many Fists What the New Program Means Monthly Review New International Comes Off Press Factions Struggle For Control of the Socialist Party Right Wing Threatens Split "No Compromise" No Criticism of Labor Fakers or NRA Pious Hopes for "Peace" Conciliatory Gestures R.P.C.-Militant Merger Another Stalinist "Strike" Organization-Press Campaign Paves Way for Big Advances of Communist League, by Harry Strang Receipts (Since last report) Minneapolis Union Forcing Action on Wage Demands Conference of Unions Prepares for Shutdown Thursday, June 28, is Date for Unity Meeting A. F. of L. Moves Against Pacific Coast Dock Strike, by D.E. West Coast Strike "Red Scare" Raised in San Francisco Labor Council San Francisco, June 23 The Ground for the Attack Reactionaries Act "Red-Hunt" Voted Down For Labor Solidarity Seattle, by Harry Ross Seattle, Smith's Cove Oakland Oakland, Calif., June 18 Terms of Rejected Settlement Committee Moves to Appeal Case of Robins and Gras Show Up Labor Board Reviewing the News, by Bill Dangerous Propaganda For God--For King and Country Another Honest Politician A Royal Socialist Midwife Brain Trust at Work Tactics at Minneapolis, by Clem Forsen General Strike Movement The Strategy of the Fight United Front Policy Prospects of a General Strike Strike Sidelights, by H. Question Box Imperial Valley Notes Pledge Fund Militant Builders Local New York Climbs to the Top; Minneapolis Branch Takes Second Place Complete Record No Time to Lose Big Tasks Ahead March of Events, by Jack Weber Contraction of the Stalinist Bureaucracy The Bonapartist Danger Build New Parties The Infallibility of Stalinism The Burning Question in France (From "La Verite," June 8, 1934 Toward Opportunism or Toward Marxism---There Is No Other Road Conversation With a Comrade From the Saint-Denis District For Unity There Must be a Vanguard Party If No Party Exists We Must Create a New One Reaction and Fascism "Soviets Without Communists" The Struggle Against War Compromises and Compromises A Falsified Biography of Lenin, by Thomas Stamm False Picture of Lenin No Word of Lenin's Ideas Recovery "For the Farmers", by George Roberts No Solution for the Agricultural Crisis Is Possible on a Capitalist Basis Opening New Homesteads Present-day Capitalism in the U.S. Why Agrarian Crisis is Insoluble "Too Many Farmers" Turing the Clock Backwards The Farmers' Way Out Strikes and the National Guard, by Al Dasch The Police and Strikes Strikes Transform the Worker Role of the National Guard Tasks of Our Youth Minneapolis Notes The Organizer, Weekly paper of General Drivers No.574, Minneapolis, Vol 1, No 1., by H. Post Frame-Up in MPLS The "Rank and File Opposition" (Extract from a Letter) Help Cuban Comrades Y.C.L. Convention, by Joseph Carter 300% Turnover in Three Years Trade Union Policy A "Mistake"--Who Made It? Student Youth Problem Need for a New Movement What the 73rd Congress Did for the Bosses, by Hugo Oehler Government Subsidies International Policies Unemployment Relief July TM Q3 1934 27 Jul 7, 1934 Hitler "Purges" Party in Bloody Reign of Terror, by Arne Swabeck Fascist Leaders Throw Off Middle Class Ballast; Degenerate Character of Regime Revealed Human Refuse German Workers Prostrate The Custodians of Capitalism The Rallying Slogans of Fascism Mussolini's Advice Capitalist Reaction Strengthened Fascist Base Narrowed A Corroded Party The Stalinist "Contribution" For a New Revolutionary Party Old Guard Routs Militants In New York S.P. Convention Militants Pussyfoot Crushing Policy of Old Guard Humiliation of Thomas Thomas Appeals to Hillquit Militants Evade Issue No Principled Struggle No Will to Fight General Strike Near in Frisco After Killings New Address Housewarming New Truck Drivers Strike Impends in Minneapolis Drivers Union Prepares Strike Entire Labor Movement Backs 574 General Strike Possible Lies and Evasions A Real Industrial Union The Union's Answer Preparing to Strike Mass Parade Military Coup d'Etat In Latvia, by Paul Schwalbe The Program of Ulmanis Rests on Military Force Aimed at the Workers Workers Without Leadership Back the League In New Drive Broad Silk Dept in Silk Union Backs 7 Expelled Militants The Albert (Roy) Case Demand Open Investigation Militant Policy Bears Fruit Keller's Charges Takes Worker from Job Reviewing the News, by Bill "Heil Hitler!" Hitler and Capone The Fascist Danger Stalinism and Germany Voodooism Bert Wolfe Question Box The Chicago Friends of The Militant Club, by J. Ruby Pledge Fund No Time to Lose Big Tasks Ahead Militant Builders March of Events, by Jack Weber Appraisal of the German Events The Fascist Hostages The Dregs of Society The White Terror, by Lucifer Stalinist Treachery in China The Trial of Chen Persecution of Communists Stalinist Capitulators A Despicable Betrayal Nemesis of a Traitor Voluntary Surrenders "Testimony" of Traitors Another Capitulator Speaks Degeneracy of Stalinism Business Slows Down The Wisconsin State Socialist Party Convention Revolutionist and Reformist Positions Wisconsin Reformism Planks of Platform A Touch of Farce The Man on the Flying Trapeze, by S. The Record of Bill Dunne A Letter From a Comrade, by L.G. To the Saar Workers an Appeal by the I.S. From the International Secretariat of the League of Communist Internationalists (Bolshevik-Leninists) For the Status Quo Extra-Parliamentary Struggle for the Improvement of Living Conditions and Democratic Rights No Effective Struggle Without a United Front! Organize a Militia Against the Nazi Terror! S.P.G. and C.P.G. Have Failed! United Front of All Anti-Fascists! Hitler Can and Must be Defeated! Do not forget: Hitler must and will be defeated! Our International Press 28 Jul 14, 1934 Teamsters Join Dock Workers in Frisco Strike Bulletin Casey Affords the Pretext Comrade Thor Dead (Obituary) President Brown Teaches Tobin Lesson in Unionism 10,000 March in Big Labor Day Parade, by C.H. 10,000 in Greatest Parade in City's Labor History Up Nicollet Avenue Filled to Capacity "Why Wait Till Wednesday" Minneapolis Sidelights Housewarming Minneapolis Strikes Monday Mass Meeting of Local 574 Unanimously Accepts Call for Walkout; Repudiates Tobin-Bosses Red Scare Minneapolis Drivers Solid Behind Local Leadership Daniel Tobin Goes to Bat For the Bosses A Smashing Repudiation "We Plead Guilty" A Cowardly Appeal Couldn't Do a Thing Preparing the Sell-Out Bosses Went Wild When They Read This Squib "The 'Low and Odor' League" Red Herring Cover For Real Issues The Real Issue A "Startling" Discovery What Is This Communism? Strike Call of Local 574 The Agreement Violated by the Bosses The "Red Scare" Maneuver An Appeal for Solidarity Central Labor Union Backs Drivers' Local, by James P. Cannon St. Paul to Vote on Strike Reviewing the News, by Bill That Omnipresent "Zack Tendency" Rudolph Hess Defends Hitler and Murder Startling News "Holy Joe" McKee and Patriotic Whalen New Features in Second Strike Wave, by M.B. Militant Builders Complete Record Question Box Fierce Trade War Grips Entire World, by Hugo Oehler The Two Trade Wars America's Position The Crisis in Germany The Most Decisive Conflict Blending the Old With the New, by Bill War and the Fourth International to Appear Soon March of Events, by Jack Weber War Rumors England, Where Do You Stand? Stalinist Comments on the German Events Problems of Marxism, by Albert Goldman "Workers' Democracy" The Program of the A.W.P. The Dictatorship in Russia The Characteristics of the Transition Period Program Not Propaganda--the Issue The League Marches to New Victories Revolutionary Leadership Vital Build the New Party Now! General Strike in Minneapolis Build the League! An Appeal to our Sympathizers Don't Be a Platonic Friend The Opportunity is Here Support Grows in Org-Press Drive Receipts (Since last report) Hitler's Dilemma, by G.C. The Crisis in Germany Unfavorable Trade Balance Wages Slashed Prices Rise The Master is Repaid The Man on the Flying Trapeze, by S. (Continued from last issue) United Front - Tobin and the Stalinists Cleveland Strike News, by P. Nailing a Few Brazen Lies The Disagreement on the Name A "Non-Aggression" Pact? Another Weisbord Trick Antonio Fierro Memorial Meeting How Not to Lead a Strike 29 Jul 21, 1934 Cops Fire on Unarmed Pickets 33 Shot In Minneapolis As Strikers Stop All Commercial Vehicles Unions Meet to Consider Call for General Strike Strike Headquarters in Command of District Farmers Rally to 574 Olsen Threatens Martial Law Bulletin Local 574 Appeals for Funds A.F.L. Misleaders Betray Frisco General Strike, by C.G.E. Capitalists Jubilant; Longshoremen Still Out A Phony Vote The "Election" Fake Steps to Break the Strike Waterfront Strike Not Over Stalinist Responsibility Terror Used by Bosses to Crush Strike Gives Word of Raids "Just Hoodlums," Declare Police Glass Front Smashed Brandish Clubs Green & Co. Knife Coast Labor Unions Green's Treachery Press Understood Green The "Holy" Contract Militant Pickets Close Alabama Textile Industry Bosses Fear to Open Mills Strike Now Tide of Strikes Sweeps Over the Entire Nation Reviewing the News The Capitalist Press and San Francisco Green--"The Lost Leader" "Lost" General Strikes Class Collaboration Strike Ends in Philadelphia S.K.F. Works, by Lou Roberts A Vicious Decision Police Terror Labor Skates Boycott Strike The Pledge Fund Campaign A Holy United Front in Mexico, by C.C. Com. Abramowitz Dead (Obituary) Question Box The Crisis in the New York Painters Union The Steamroller in Action A Bit of Fake Bravado Zausner on Offensive Red Baiting Tasks of the Left Wing March of Events, by Jack Weber The United Front in France The Psychology of Forgetting The United Front to Release Thaelmann Spain Movement Toward Unity Against Fascism Grows Catalonian Land Laws An Appeal for Our Cuban Comrades German Fascism Unmasked, by E.B. Discontent on Two Sides Roehm-Schleicher Combine Impossible The Hitler-Goebbels Legend The Struggle for "Morality" How Long Will Hitler Last? Italy and Germany Petty Bourgeois Discontent A Priceless Lesson In Mussolini's "Paradise", by Glee Taxes on Necessities Culture Under Fascism China, by P.K. Terror and Capitulation Grip Worker's Ranks The "Soviet Territory" Internal "Life" Significant Figures The Economic Crisis Make the Org-Press Drive a Success Funds Received in the Organization and Press Campaign (Since last report) Trade Union Strategy, by Arne Swabeck Unionism the Main Issue Recognition Still to Be Won Efforts to Smash Strike What About Minneapolis? Breaking Strike Solidarity Stalinist Foster Division The New International Brass Check Journalism The Boss Press and Frisco The Myth of the Food Shortage Food "Riot" Scares Anything Goes in Brass Check Press "All the News That's Fit to Print" A "Pro-Labor" Paper Militant Builders Bound Volumes 30 Jul 28, 1934 Troops Rule Minneapolis Police Arrest Cannon and Shachtman Drivers Ranks Solid Despite Provocation Protect Whose Lives? Union Gains Daily War Looms as Powers Clash Over Austria Imperialist Conflicts Underlie Austrian Situation Hitler's Desire For the "Anschluss" Mussolini Opposes Nazi Expansion War Against Soviet Russia Leon Trotsky in Danger Victim Denounces Police Lies, by Simon Barach Frisco League is Firm in Wave of Boss Terror Home of League Organizer Wrecked C.P. Taken Completely Off Guard Mayor Rossi Leads the Vigilantes 40,000 Join Mass Funeral for Harry Ness Goldman's Speech, by Albert Goldman Goldman's Funeral Oration Rush Funds for Cannon-Shachtman Defense Local 574 on Martial Law Farm Workers Strike in Ohio Shows Militancy Reviewing the News, by Bill "Democratic" Law and Order "And the Ass Spake" "It is Reported" War and Oil Roosevelt? No, Lovestone Civil Liberties Under the New Deal, by Glee Liberty Under the New Deal--The Record for 1933-34 (Published by the Civil Liberties Union) Militant Tone Roosevelt's Terror Why the Omissions? Militant Builders Second Drive Ends New Subs Last Week Complete Record Org--Press Campaign Receipts Special Note Question Box Goethals-Strikebreaker New Castle Unemployed Organize, by A.L.L. Movement Under Way Forward to New Positions Jean Tomasini Dead Place Orders for the New International Stalin Keeps His Promises The World of Labor Toward a Western European Congress of Workers Toward the New Party in Chile Regional Conference of the Catalonian Workers Alliance Robber Barons Rave at Crime Capitalism Breeds Crime Catching Suckers Who Pays the Press? Only One Way Out The Biggest Grab of All How Capitalism Reforms Itself "Status Quo Ante Bellum" "The Right Man for the Right Job" Pontius Investigates Pilate Daily Worker Tells All, by Thomas Stamm Circulation Figures Readers and Members Less than 4,000 for Steel The Significance of the United Front Between the C.P. and the S.P. in France, by P. Naville (Writing in "La Verite," July 6, 1934) A Non-Aggression Pact, (From "La Verite," July 6, 1934) Editorial- (Next two articles are editorials) Democracy--American Style Red-Baiting on the Coast Workers' Blood is Shed (Reprinted from "The Organizer," July 21, 1934) A Cold Blooded Provocation The Crime of the Strikers Workers! Speak Out in Protest August 31 Aug 4, 1934 Strikers Defy Olson Militia Drivers Force Release of 4 Leaders "Impartial" Military Rule Olson "Protects" the Strikers (Political Cartoon) Local 574 Makes Labor History in Great Struggle Frame-up Against League Leaders a Complete Collapse, by Max Shachtman Arrest of Cannon and Shachtman Union Leaders Stand Up Finger Prints Taken A Real "Scoop" Under Military Arrest "Shoot to Kill" Telegram to Olson A.F.L. Heads Check Strike In Stockyards Protest the Military Terror in Minneapolis Local 574 Issues Call for a Protest General Strike (Text of appeal from Local 574 for a general strike from the "Organizer" the union's daily strike bulletin) To the Trade Unions and the Working People of Minneapolis Union men of Minneapolis, what are you going to do about it? We shall fight for our rights to the bitter end! Resistance to tyranny is the beginning of freedom--Answer Olson's military tyranny with the General Strike of Protest! More Strikebreakers Reviewing the News, by Bill The Minneapolis "Organizer" A Tough Break for 200,000 Natives Laughs from the News The "Cardinal's Mistress" Goes to Mass Building Up Socialism and Tearing Down Capitalism Smile! Damn You, Smile! Capone Declines A Reminder Green Strikes at Labor in Blow at Sympathy Strike "A Grave Mistake" No Solidarity Green Bosses Unite--O.K. for Green Sharper Struggles in Strike Wave, by Arne Swabeck Deeper Meaning in Struggles The Bosses' Offensive Breaking the Craft Lines Unions--A Life and Death Issue Ossip Wolinsky "Resigns" Statement of the New Group For Workers Rights March of Events, by Jack Weber A Turn in the Business Trend Slump More Than Seasonal The Workers and the New Slump The French Parliamentary Crisis Question Box A Communist Radio Speech (Text of the radio address) The "Red Scare" Farce Labor's Weapon--the Strike The Role of Communists The Minneapolis Battle The Purpose of the Strike The Great Teachers Speak Hammond, Ind., July 26 (Article about the radio speech of Lydia Beidel) Minneapolis Sidelights -- by an Eye-Witness, by Jerry Kotz Second Offensive A Cop Vanishes Workers' Solidarity World of Labor Doriot United Front in the Saar Unemployed Revolt in Holland Preparing to Defend the Fatherland in Britain Editorial- A "Farmer-Labor" Strikebreaker Strike at Martial Law! Stalinist Zig-Zags, by Arne Swabeck The United Front 32 Aug 11, 1934 Fight Cripples Strike of New York Painters Internal Fight Splits Painters Wide Open Racketeering The "Brilliant" Strike A Leaf from Hitler's Book Playing Into Zausner's Hands General Strike in Knit Goods Trade Report Silver Shirts Arming in San Diego Link Between Nazis and Silver Shirts Collusion with Police and Soldiers 89,000 Represented as Illinois Jobless Organize Condemn Roosevelt Program For Abolition of Capitalism Militant Executive Board Detroit Automobile Workers Revolt Against Treacherous A. F. of L. Policy Danger of Craft Unionism ` "Patriotic Duty" Conservative Leadership Drivers Ranks Hold Firm as Bosses Committee of 166 Begins to Crack 574 Backed By Workers in Mass Meet "Confidence is Returning" Says Artful Dodger Roosevelt Very Discreet Omissions "Confidence is Returning" Credit Where It is Due For a Hot Time! (Excursion on the "Seagate" steamer chartered by the New York Local of the Communist League of America and the International Workers School for a moonlight sail up the Hudson to Bear Mountain and back.) Reviewing the News, by Bill "Father Divine" Hindenburg Famous Sayings that Made Headlines With the Daily Worker Staff Labor News from Mexico, by C.C. (Next two articles are on this topic) The Taxi Drivers Strike Stalinists Fail to Disrupt Meeting, by C.C. Org-Press Campaign Special Local New York Report Details of branch and individual contributions, grand total is $250.50) Registration Plan Fails A Freak Movement in L.A., by T.B. Father Divine - Browder's God Once Again on Cuba, by Latin American Department, C.L.A March of Events, by Jack Weber The Conspiracy Against the Unions Olson's Maneouver (Variant spelling of "Maneuver") American Fascism Starts to Drill! The United Front Question Box Pioneer Notes "War and the Fourth International" The Socialist Party -- In 1914 and Today Causes of Social-Chauvinism American Socialists in War An Appeal for Robins and Gras The Crisis in the Socialist Party, by Joseph Carter The Coming Referendum The Referendum Before the S.P. The Centrists Versus Right Wing The Socialists and War Starvation Wages for German Workers World of Labor Massacre in Chile Spain Spanish Yipsels Fight Opportunism New Party in Australia The United Front, by Arne Swabeck Stifling a Movement A Step Forward Bureaucrats Fear United Front A Practical Test The Task of the Socialist Worker Stalinist Foreign Policy Stimulus of United Front The Coming U.T.W. Convention McMahon Spikes Autonomy Silk Workers Distrust U.T.W. Paterson Isolated General Strike in Textiles Robins-Gras Refused Release on Bail; Appeal Pending Statement of Defense Committee A Demagogue at Work, by Hugo Oehler Olson's Role in the Strike Permits for Scabs Demands of the Union Olson Retreats "Neutrality" in the Class War "Good Intentions" and Results Russian Opposition Bulletin 33 Aug 18, 1934 General Strike Voted in Textile Convention McMahon Out-Voted by Workers; 500,000 to Strike Reactionaries Challenged Strike Demands The Fight for Recognition Don't Forget the Boat Ride Conspiracy to Break Mpls. Strike Smashed By Committee of 100 Drivers Smash Conspiracy Haas and Dunnigan Exposed as Aiding Bosses in Fake Agreement A Fusillade of Questions Youth Defeat F.D.R. Aides at Congress Plan of Sponsors Arbitrary Ruling Danger of War Grows as Japs Provoke Soviets War Clouds Gather Marines Leave Haiti as Dirty Work is Finished Philadelphia Jobless Fight for Tainted Food Club Strikers as La Guardia "Investigates" Food Prices Rise Gougers Active; "No Shortage" Reporters Picket Scab Paper in Staten Island Knit Goods Strikers Show Militancy Knit Goods Strike Reviewing the News, by Bill The Church Crusade on Films A. F. Of L. Executive Council An Act of God Who is God? Warden Lawes of Sing Sing Capitalism Safe and Sane Medals Lessons of the General Strike in Frisco, by Jack Weber A Demonstration of Power Growing Rift Between Masses and Reactionary Leaders Class Consciousness and Politicalization of Struggle Workers' Control of Production Process of Fascist Crystallization Org-Press Campaign Receipts Pledge Fund Once Again on the Role of Governor Olson, by Hugo Oehler Roosevelt-Olson Harmony Pressure Forces Retreat Martial Law--Bosses Weapon A "Handkerchief Head" Speaks Out Sneers at Mass Pressure March of Events, by Jack Weber The Foreign Workers in France French Fascism and the Foreign Worker The French Communist League Comrade Trotsky in Danger! Question Box Political Change in Mexico, by C.C. The Significance of the Impending Crisis in the Government Party Rumors of Split Analogy With Kerensky Stalinism and Leninism Labor on New Upswing New Stage Approaching The Crisis in the Socialist Party, by Joseph Carter "Bogus" Democracy The So-Called Minority Revolution World of Labor International Solidarity and the Stalinists Reactionary Decrees in Holland Vandervelde on the United Front Fraternal Orders Begin Drive Against Labor Left Wing Needed in Paterson McMahon's Empty Threats Keller's Achievements Build the Left Wing Behind the Algerian Massacre, by Jean Mendez Economic Factors Provoking the Recent Anti-Semitic Riots Class Differences Pressure on Moslems Dividing the Colonials Bound Volumes of the Militant Drought and New Deal Ruins American Farmers, by Wasserman Prices Soaring Causes of Crisis Drop in Value of Farm Products Newark Meeting On Minneapolis 34 Aug 25, 1934 Minneapolis Drivers Victorious Local 574 Wins Right to Represent Inside Men; Discrimination Barred 574 Acts in Enforcement of Settlement Defeating a Mighty Foe Win on Major Issue Statement of Dunne Agreement Answers Lies and Slanders The Terms of the Settlement The Strike Triumphant In the Next Issue (A lengthy statement by Herbert Zam in which he resigns from the Lovestone group.) Green & Co. Declare War On Militants The Reactionary Program Fascist Bands Will Approve Minneapolis Shows the Way New Deal Defends Profit System, Says Secretary Japan Prepares Seizure of Chinese Eastern Railroad An Open Letter to the C.P. and S.P. on the United Front (From the National Committee of the Communist League of America, Arne Swabeck, Secretary) Labor Skates Stall General Textile Strike Food Prices Rise 22 Percent Reviewing the News, By Bill Attention Browder! "National Socialism" The Union Label "Splinters" "Deuces Wild" Not Entirely... Silence on Union Square Protest Deporting of Bellussi Klan Rears Its Head in Fort Wayne, by J.R. In the Trade Unions (The next 4 articles fall under this topic) Painters Strike Sags in New York Motley Crowd of Speakers Molders in Unity Move, by G.M. Bureaucrat Wants Pie-Card N.Y. Truckers Strike Looms Pocketbook Workers Oust Wolinsky Demonstration Against Wolinsky A Program of Action Hathaway Slurs Mpls. Strike Model Strike Provocative Slander March of Events, by Jack Weber The Pre-Revolutionary Situation in France Socialists and the United Front Significance of the United Front Question Box A Capitalist Institution, by Burt Cochrane Suicide Chicago: A "Normal" City A Typical "Case History" The Class Struggle Again Looking for "Solid" Stuff Under the Heel of Wall Street, by John Coates Imperialism Stake of American Imperialism Clear Answer Needed The Next Step, by Walter Held (Member of the International Secretariat of the Bureau of Revolutionary Youth Organizations) A Progressive Mission Deep Ferment in Youth Movement French Youth for New Internationalism Bound Volumes of the Militant World of Labor Spain China Argentina Costa Rican Banana Workers Strike New Strike Wave Rising in Cuba Profits of Large Corporations Rise; Greed Unsatiated Low Textile Wages Make Enormous Profits Gunpowder Turns to Profits 20 Million Live on Crumbs on Government Relief At the Bottom of the Heap The Tories Protest at the Pittance Never Forget An Irresistible Tide New Haven Meeting On Minneapolis Young Spartacans Fight Pacifism at Congress Stalinists Expel 6 Youth; Join S.Y.L. and League September 35 Sep 1, 1934 Textile Strike Begins Today Workers in Wool Trade Join Cotton The Yellow Press Howls Again Sinclair Plan a Daydream of Middle Class E.P.I.C. Sinclair Sold on New Deal A Socialist? Jail International Communists in Mexico Richberg Report Omits Wage Drop Richberg Forgets Real Wages Drop Steel Salaries Slashed; Wage Reductions Next Cuts Announced in Big Companies More Profits--Less Wages A New Stagger System God and Bosses Scare Hopkins out of Feeding Strike Hopkins and Relief God Against Workers Hopkins Reassures His Masters Food Prices Soar; Roosevelt Plans Are Responsible Utility and Truck Strikes Loom in N.Y. Cuban Comrades Need Support, by Arne Swabeck (National Secretary, Communist League of America) We Are in a Crisis Reviewing the News, by Bill Birthday Greetings Prosperity Drought and Snow Another "Splinter" Duranty and Stalin, "Times" Correspondents Blah! Blah! Baseball, Wages and the Rising Cost of Living Living Costs and Profits Rise Pledge Fund To All Pledgers Correction ("Red Flag" is an unofficial Communist publication, not an official organ of the International Communist League) In The Trade Unions (The next 5 articles are on this topic) Onion Workers Appeal Against Terror Court Outlaws Closed Shop in N.J. Painters Strike Ends; Zausner Collects Boss-Painters Also Wanted Strike Stalinists Wreck Left Wing Is Zausner's Charge True? 100 Brush Workers Strike in N.Y. Plug-Uglies to Break Strike Shovel Workers Rebel In West Virginia, by G.N. "Law and Order" Terror Bosses Investigate Themselves A Ruse Is Spiked March of Events, by Jack Weber The United Front and the Defense of Trotsky The United Front in Belgium The Movement Begins Here International Youth Day, by Joseph Carter Origin of Socialist Youth Movement Anti-War Position at Berne Steps Toward New Youth International Trying to Turn the Clock of History Back, by C.C. Stalin's Camp Followers on Latin America, by John Coates Muenzenberg in a Web of Contradictions Make This Out--If You Can! World of Labor Youth Unite in Belgium Notes on the United Front Czechoslovakia Britain Holland Sweden Condemnation at Any Price New International Off the Press United Fruit Company Vs. United Banana Workers, by Jean Mendez International Solidarity in Strike Strike Triumphs Lessons of Strike Labor Day--1934 An Offering of Capitalism Cotton Mills Close on Labor Day Stronger and More Confident Onion Workers Battle Terror, by Harry Milton Demand 35 Cents an Hour Mayor's Home Bombed Tom Mooney Appeals to Labor for Assistance, by Tom Mooney 36 Sep 8, 1934 Minneapolis Drivers Win In Elections Labor Leaders Say "No War on War" Major Angas Arrives With Big "Boom" Few Suckers This Time "Richer"--How? Whom? Climbing Out Lid Comes Off In Armament Disclosures Busy With Death Sir Basil Cleans Up The Fire Behind the Smoke Textile Strike Sweeps Over Nation; 10 Killed as Workers Defy Thugs, Armed Scabs, Troops; South in Fore Shady Deal Looms in New Negotiations Bulletin Every Loom Idle is Aim Can't Get Enough Soldiers South Takes the Lead Green and Woll Bide Their Time Flying Squads Strike Fear Into Bosses A First Class Weapon Dern Deplores But Workers Are Shot South Awakens; "Mill Hands" Become Fighting Legions What Do the Prayers Mean? The Mill Town "Cheap" But Not "Contented" The Changing South Kensington Strike In Militant Start Reviewing the News, by Bill The Hope Diamond The U.T.W. Strike Unemployment and Cost of Living Upton Sinclair Labor Day Speeches Speech by Mr. Flea Stalin's Praise for Kemal, Oppressor of Turkish Workers, by Brown Old and "New" Turkey Trade Unions Banned Minorities Oppressed In The Trade Unions (Next three articles fall under this topic) N.Y. Upholsterers on Strike Dental Mechanics in National Drive N.Y. Truckers Win Demands Vancouver Activities Other Organizations in B.C. The Stalinists The American Federation of Labor All Canadian Congress of Labor The Unemployed General Remarks International Bulletin Out Price Reduced What a Scoop! Lovestone Group Cracks in Detroit; 5 Join League Condemn "Socialism in 1 Country" Lovestone's "Democracy" March of Events, by Jack Weber Shifting Class Relations The NRA as Precipitant Middle Class a Decisive Factor An Interesting Note Question Box Pioneer Notes To the Bolshevik-Leninists of the U.S.S.R. Herbert Zam Quits the Lovestone Group, by Max Shachtman World of Labor Welcome! Polish Youth Mensheviks in the Open With the Grace of Stalin Doom to Failure Text of the United Front Youth Pact in Belgium (Signed by the Young Socialist Guard, Young Communist League and the Leninist Youth League) The First Thousand Years Are Hardest Editorial Note Bound Volumes of the Militant The Meaning of the Textile Strike, by Arne Swabeck Strike Will Awaken Workers Union Organization is Issue Officials Under Pressure N.T.W.--A Name of the Past Mass Unions Beginning New Period Opening An Interview with the Managing Editor of the Minneapolis Truck Drivers' Strike Bulletin Says Union Won on Main Issues Northwest Workers Inspired Sinclair Finds His Mentor in F.D.R. Bill Green Gets Radical; The Old Game-New Cards From Him Who Hath Not Shall Be Taken There's a Catch to It 37 Sep 15, 1934 Communist League and A.W.P. Move to Form a New Party Both Organizations Declare Desire to Hasten Union of Forces Arms Inquiry Is Too Hot for State Dep't Deputize the Strikers? Who Owns This Country, Anyway "It's Unheard Of" Whose "Law and Order" The Bullet-Bayonet Lesson Mill Workers Slain by Guards; Governor Raises "Red" Scare Strike Ranks Firm; New Mills Close in the North and South Shall R.I. Follow Frisco War Veterans or Thugs? The Truth About the Morro Fire Railroading Testimony Wanted Alagna's Crime Delay in S.O.S. A Damning Indictment Fire Alarm Unheard Aid for All Where Did It Start? Roger's Testimony Workers Are Disarmed by Spanish Gov't Indian Summer Festival R.I. Solons Save Roosevelt From Sending Federal Troops Work or Jail Says Paterson Court Order Vicious Paterson Injunction Reviewing the News, by Bill Dern, the National Guard and the Workers Nazi Gems Mussolini and the Stork Tears from a Crocodile The Workers Bookstore The Munitions Inquiry The American Legion Strike Statistics a la T.U.U.L. Embarrassing Questions Meeting to Defy Nazis in Yorkville In the Trade Unions Salem, Lawrence Workers Confused, by Stanton McMahon Responsible Lawrence Suffers from Old Wounds Textile Strike in Connecticut, by Jay Harde Hoover vs. Roosevelt, by Hugo Oehler "Tories" Still Alive Half-Truths Facts vs. Conclusions The "Liberty" Racket Competition for "Forgotten Man" The Middle Class Backing of Sinclair, by Jon Dane Hooliganism Again (From C.L.A. and S.Y.L., Pittsburgh Branch) Letters to the Editor March of Events, by Jack Weber The State and the NRA Owen D. Young and the Farmer Monopoly Capitalism Crushes the Farmer Question Box Manifesto of the Workers Party of Canada (Taken from the "Vanguard," organ of the Workers' Party of Canada, formerly the Left Opposition) World Crisis of Capitalist Decay The Menace of Fascism The Conquest of Political Power Defence of the Soviet Union (Variant spelling of "Defense") Pioneer Notes Bound Volumes of the Militant Economic Conditions Behind Textile Strike Crisis Intensified Squeezing the Workers "Labor Specialization" The "Stretch Out" History of Unions World of Labor Puerto Rican Communists Rebel Against Stalinism International Communist Sentenced Saar Workers Begin Active Resistance to Fascism Costa Rican Banana Workers Strike The Advance of Fascism in Spain Editorial For the New Party - For the Fusion of the League and the A.W.P., by James P. Cannon Pioneer Book Shop (Opens September 17th with a complete line of working-class literature) The Stalinists Turn to the Right In the Sphere of Literature, by R.M. Radek Orders Right-About-Face "Fighters for Progress" Carte Blanche to Communists The Peculiar Mode of the Announcement 38 Sep 22, 1934 Soviet Joins The League Of Nations, by Hugo Oehler Fascism Dons White Hood As Klan Rides Again in South The Klux Brains Miners to Be Buried Alive Pocketbook Makers Out Pocketbook Workers On Strike Bosses Refuse Committee Demands Tasks of Strike Marine Union Appeals for Strike Here Babes Born With Gun in their Mouth Proposals of the Roosevelt Board Would Continue Present Coolie Conditions in the Textile Industry Relief is Vital for Victory in Strike Battle Dye Workers Strike Call Winant's Proposals A Good Example of the Run-Around Cold Steel for Textile No Settlement a la Winant Relief! Relief! 20,000 Dyers Get Strike Call This Monday Georgia Brings Hitler Methods to The United States Cripples Meet What Price Strike-Breaking? "American" Wages Reviewing the News, by Bill Strike Contrasts The Battle Line Capitalist Press Definitions Flying Squadrons General Hooie Johnson Hot News Generous America "The Hatred of Communists" Liberal "Spirit" Again Yachts and Scabs Money Still Needed The Pledgers Upholsterers in Critical Situation Paterson Group Calls For Violation of Injunction Injunction is Gallows Noose "Smash Injunction" Protest to Judge Drug Clerks Prepare General Strike "Thou Shalt Not Kill" Capone Can't Take It Johnny Goes For a Swim Are Tomatoes Cheaper? March of Events, by Jack Weber Relief The Constitution and the NRA Question Box The Rise and Fall of a Gangster-Journalist By Mid-Western Correspondent Tool of Citizen's Alliance Guilford's Bile Greetings from Fellow-Murderers For God and Pocketbook The Bosses' Scruples The History of the Frisco General Strike, by Jim Osborn and Dick Ettlinger The Blacklist Majority for Strike Ryan's Maneuvers Workers Support Marine Strike Manifesto of Worker's Party of Canada (Continued from last issue) For the Fourth International The Crisis in Canada and the Workers' Party World of Labor Young Leninists of France Take Decisive Step American Workers Party Sends Letter on Unity, by A.J. Muste, Chairman, Provisional Organizing Committee American Workers Party No Recovery Here, by Paul Schwalbe Privation Everywhere What the People Think About Understanding Still Superficial Opportunity on the Slave Market Coolie Conditions Come to America Marxian Information Scarce A Comment on Belgian United Front Pact Cannon-Bingham Debate 39 Sep 29, 1934 Textile Strike Debacle, By James P. Cannon The Strike Settlement Rank and File Disarmed A New Vanguard Immediately Youth Unite Against Fascists Relief System Endangered in New York For the New Party (Appeal of the National Committee, Communist League of America) Jobless Will Demonstrate November 24th Blackshirts a Challenge to N.Y. Labor Parrots Not Students Fontamara's Challenge Down With Mussolini! Green & Co. in Control as A.F.L. Convention Opens in San Francisco, by Hugo Oehler Left Wing Lacks Clear Program and Capable Leadership Meets After NRA Period Fakers Lie About Facts The New Opposition Opposition is Heterogeneous Incipient Revolts Organizing the Left Wing The "Red" Scare Against Political Discrimination A.F.L. Leaders Plot Against Food Strike Bulletin Reviewing the News Bayonets and the General Strike "Preparedness" Itching Palms--Police and Clergy The "Red Joiner" Mellon's Stolen Millions In the Trade Unions (Three articles on this topic) African Laundry Workers, by Murray G. Purdy, General Secretary, The Committee Pocketbook Strike Bulletin Button Workers Strike The Discipline of Failure, by E.B. "Reward Your Friends" Take Orders from Bosses Only Rights and Rights A "Dark Horse" for Green March of Events, by Jack Weber The Credit System Attempt to Control Credit A Government Central Bank Question Box China's "Red" Generals Recant, by Lucifer Capitulate to Kuomintang and Attack Erstwhile Comrades Shanghai, China Ho-chung Surrenders Military Adviser to Chiang "Advice" from "Red" Commander Inventions Unnecessary Here Another "Red" Traitor "Soviet China" Faces Extinction Peasant War Will Continue The Passing of a Shadow The History of the Frisco General Strike, by Jim Osborn and Dick Ettlinger (Continued from last week) World of Labor British Workers Overwhelm Fascists Left Socialist Threatened Banana Workers Hold Firm French Bolshevik-Leninists Decide to Enter S.F.I.O. as Faction, by James P. Cannon Declaration of French Bolshevik-Leninists (Translated from "La Verite," statement of the National Conference of the Communist League of France) Third Conference of French League (Translated from "La Verite") Foundation of "La Verite" and the Struggle for the Reform of the C.I. The Degeneration of the C.I., The German Defeat Our Record in this Period Toward the Fourth International For a United Revolutionary Party! Disapproval and Equivocal Approval Communist League Replies to Letter Of A.W.P. on Unity (By Arne Swabeck, Secretary, National Committee, Communist League of America) October 40 Oct 6, 1934 Issues of the Day at the A.F. of L. Convention, By Arne Swabeck Strike Truces of the Past Real Issues to the Fore Strike in War Time Green's Record Organizing the Unorganized Pressure on the Workers Read the Crime News and Forget Your Troubles, by Henry Cape Sensation Made to Order To Make the Workers Forget Cannon, Muste Address Paterson Silk Workers Paterson Silk Meet Huge Success Muste Scores "Settlement" Cannon Analyzes Strike Wave Youth Demonstrates Against Italian Fascism Friday Anti Fascists to Rally on Oct. 12 Build the League Armed Clashes in Spain as Civil War Begins Workers Conduct Militant Struggle Against Fascism Armed Clashes Socialist Party Appeal World Labor Must Aid Spanish Workers Destiny Hinges on Militant Action, by R.B. Political Crisis in Spain Socialist Party Manifesto Aim to Conquer Power Sabotage of the United Front The Minority Groups Reviewing the News, by Bill Stalinism on Parade Some Lighter Touches of the Chicago "Anti-War" Congress Young Socialists Give Young Stalinist an A.B.C. Lesson on the United Front (Signed by Ben Fischer, Executive Secretary, N.Y.C. Executive Committee YPSL) The Y.P.S.L. Letter Manifesto of the Workers Party of Canada (From the Provisional National Committee, Workers Party of Canada) (Continued from last issue) The United Front The Trade Unions Program of Action Join the Workers Party! March of Events, by Jack Weber Doumergue Prepares the Next Stage Palestine and the British Empire Question Box A Reformed 2nd or a 4th International? by Rous A Discussion of the International Left Socialist Declaration (From "Verite") The Left Socialist Declaration Bankruptcy of the Second International The History of the Frisco General Strike, by Jim Osborn and Dick Ettlinger (Continued from last week) International Tense Situation in Costa Rica Mendieta Regime in Crisis Bolivian Communists Reorganize Chaco War Threatens Other Countries Editorial Trade Union Perspectives Drug Clerks Union Calls Bronx Strike Robins-Gras Appeal New York Newsstands (That carry "The Militant") Good News 41 Oct 13, 1934 Vertical Union Plan Is Adopted by A.F. of L. at Convention in Frisco, by Hugo Oehler But Right Wing Steers Toward Class Collaboration Policy A. F. of L. Convention Anti-Labor Drive Prepared A.F. of L. Gains and Loses The Vertical Union Decision Prices to Rise In Fake Truce of Roosevelt Vote for the New Party in the Elections The Gift-Horse Perfidy at the Ballot Box Don't Vote for Parties of the Past! For the New Revolutionary Party Scottsboro Boys In Danger As I.L.D. Tactics Enable Lawyer to Knife Defense "Democracy" in the I.L.D. Sectarianism Bred Opportunism Raise New Party Fund! Recruit Sympathizers! Build the League! Workers Battle Heavy Odds in Spain Against Onslaught of Reaction Best Fight Is Waged in Districts Led by Worker's Alliance United on the Barricades "July Days" in Spain Power of Workers Alliances Anti-Fascists Demonstrate In New York Stress Need for Unity Reviewing the News, by Bill Kidnapping "Periods"--Second or Third? With the "Daily Worker" What! No Father Divine? Browder Analyzes Textile Strike "A Truce in Industry" Workers "Greet" Black Shirts in New Haven, by Jay Harde In the Trade Unions (Next two articles) The Electrical Workers Struggle, by Karl Oswald Dividends and Relief Bonus Cancelled Unrest Grows "Loyal" Workers See Trick Brotherhood Strengthened Strike Threatened Drug Clerks Strike Winning Letters to the Editor March of Events, by Jack Weber The Spanish Insurrection Lessons of the Struggle The United Front Belgian Y.C.L. Divides on United Front Issue, by Harry Strang The Stalinist Letter Stalinist "Facts" "Trotskyites" and the United Front Question Box Robins-Gras Appeal New York Newsstands (A listing of stands where "The Militant cab be bought) "Off Again, On Again, Gone Again, Finnegan" Program of the Latin American Bourgeoisie, by C. Curtis The Apra Program Menshevism in a New Guise Kinship with Stalinism The Latin American Proletariat The Road of the Proletariat Perspectives World of Labor Bolivian Communists and the Chaco War Strike Wave Rises in Cuba Repressions in Costa Rica The History of the Frisco General Strike, by Jim Osborn and Dick Ettlinger (Concluded in this issue) Editorial (Next 3 topics) Stalinism in an Impasse -- About Some Contemporaries.. Crocodile Tears -- 42 Oct 20, 1934 Arbitration Award Won by Local 574 Minneapolis Union Forces Wage Increases; Triumphs in Minor Strikes (From the "Organizer," official weekly of General Drivers Union Local 574, Minneapolis) Time and a Third for Overtime Another Bone to Chew On Poincare Dead; Slew Millions Stretch-Out Okayed by New "Order" The Old Stretch-Out Remains Six-Hour Day, Five-Day Week is Now Watchword for Labor Terror Rules as Spanish Revolt Ends United Defense Action of World Proletariat Sole Hope of Rebels Suicide Strike Inspires New Open Battle $2 a Week Many Driven Insane Capitalism Must Go! Government Shows Colors in Houde Case Attorney General Decision Reveals N.R.A. Promises To Be Soap Bubbles Getting Away With Murder! Write in J.P. Cannon as Your Vote for New Party in Elections (New York District, Communist League of America) Price of Militant 3 Cents on Nov. 1st 9 Negro Boys Need United Movement Left Wing is Crucial Issue In A. F. of L., by Arne Swabeck Forward Step of Industrial Unions Is Checked by Reactionary Leaders Industrial Union Move Checked by Right Wing Dilemma of Labor Skates The Industrial Union Issue The Scramble for Spoils Rogues Gallery of "Progressives" Adding Pitch to Black Reviewing the News, by Bill "Peace! Peace! Where There Is No Peace" Results of Bureaucratic Degeneration Roses and the Thirty Hour Week The Hearst Press and Leon Trotsky "Class Brothers" or "Fascist Twins" Lessons of the Revolt in Spain, by Rosalio Negrete Weaknesses of the Uprising In the Trade Unions, by B.B. (The Next two articles) Seamens's "Strike" Flops Ballast and Noise In the Philadelphia I.L.G.W.U. The Smoke-Screen The "Nice" Bosses Some Fundamental Aspects of Youth Work, by Albert Glotzer Basis of "Youth Problem" The Role of the Youth Organization Question Box Leading Philadelphia C.P. Member Declares for Fourth International, by James W. Watson The Negro Question The Utopian Dream of Self-Determination Under Capitalism Negroes are Not a Nation in the United States Race Equality in the United States, Self-Determination for West Indies, Haiti and Africa For War Against Our Own Imperialists Trade Union Policy and Its Relation to the Negro Problem Democratic Centralism versus Bureaucratic Centrism Discussion Article, by Simon Williamson A Critique of the Stalinist Theory of Self-Determination World of Labor- Non-Aggression With a Vengeance Strike Wave in South America Bolivian Communists Threatened With Death Penalty Stalinists in a Panic as Organization of New Party in U.S. Approaches, by Max Shachtman A Decadent Party Founded on Marxism The Mind of a Bureaucrat "Armyless Generals" Burglary Again Bittelman's Lies A Startling "Discovery" Negotiations in Open 43 Oct 27. 1934 P.L. Bergoff, Rat Chieftain Brags of Scabbing in Press Proposed Program for the New Party Prepared by Joint A.W.P.-C.L.A. Committee) Foreword Program Decline and Collapse of Capitalism Imperialism and War Fascism America's Place in the World The Roosevelt Program The Only Way Out The Working Class and Its Allies The Capitalist State and Democracy Role of the Revolutionary Party Conquest of Power Consolidation of Workers' Rule Foundations of a Socialist Society The Goal of a Classless Society World-Socialism Inadequacy of Existing Parties Socialist Party The Communist Party The Defense of the Soviet Union Intermediate Groupings Labor and Farmer-Labor Parties For the New International The Main Task The Trade Unions Agricultural Workers and Farmers Negroes and Other Oppressed Racial Groups Colonial Peoples Professional and Technical Workers The Unemployed Struggle Against Imperialist War The Young Workers The United Front Conclusion What is Happening In the C.P. Militant Will Print Startling Documents and Material Bulletin (News from Spain) Boost New Party Fund Silk Industry Tied Up as Strike of 25,000 Dyers Involves Eastern Cities Higher Wages and Union Shop Are Issues of Walkout Workers Want to Fight Grounds for Victory Roosevelt is Applauded by Bankers Reviewing the News, by Glee Some Fundamental Aspects of Youth Work, by Albert Glotzer Youth - Adult Relations The Economic Struggle of the Young Workers In the Trade Unions, by L. Brown Teachers Attacked by Ives Bill New Espionage System The Economy Knife Modern Lusk Laws Humble Slaves Not Teachers Ives Bill Attacks Labor March of Events, by Jack Weber Hunger Strike of Workers Unity of the Working Class A Sign of the Times Question Box What Next for French Labor (From "La Verite") Strengthening of Bonapartism and the Struggle Against the "Common Front" The C.P. and S.P. on the Plane of Bourgeois Legality The Only Perspective: Fight for a Workers and Peasants Government! The Methods of Struggle The Question of Trade Union Unity Anti-Fascist Militia and the Arming of the Proletariat to Beat Back the Reactionary Bands Discussion Article, by Hugo Oehler The Question of Intervention by U.S. Imperialism in Cuba World of Labor Trade Union Unity in France Expulsion in Britain Sir Stafford Muddles Out 44 Nov 3, 1934 10,000 Pennsylvania Silk Workers to Swell Ranks of Striking Dyers Union Solidarity with Unemployed League Strike Ranks Swelling Unemployed League Aiding Instructions for New Party Voters Police Attacks "Deplored" by Tory Diehard Election Balm for Cracked Skulls New Dealers Bolt Sinclair in Epic Fight Joining Ranks of Forgotten Men He Calls to God for Succor "Liberal" Versus "Liberal" Your Duty to New Party Union Fight Forces A&P to Back Down Spreading of Strike and Boycott Threat Calls Bosses Bluff Arrangements Completed for National Convention to Launch New Party in U.S. AWP-CLA Set Nov. 30th for Meeting Demonstrate November 24 for Job Relief Russian Revolution and Militant Issue Labor Editor Threatened by Fascist Thugs The Chauvinist "Anti-Japanese Campaign" of American Stalinists The Significance of the Comintern Document (From the Executive Committee of the Communist International) Reviewing the News, by Glee Egregious Social-Democratic Ministers and Worms Jehova for Sinclair Angels for Amter Tears, Tears, More Glycerine In the Trade Unions, by Eva Winer Another Paper Union Folds Up Looking at the Record Will the Workers "Come Back"? Discretion Better Part of Valor March of Events, by Jack Weber Second International Begins to Crack The American Socialist Party Question Box Has the Comintern Learned? by Erich Wollenberg A Critique of Criticism Spreading Illusions The "Revolutionary Upsurge" Muenzenbergism! "Without a Stalin There Could Be No Hitler" The Author of this Article (About Erich Wollenberg) Six Years of the Militant Addressograph Contributed World of Labor Religious Conflict Flares in Mexico New War Threat in South America Spanish Reaction Prepares New Blows Editorial (Next 2 articles) Radek for a New Party?.... The Times and Fascism.... "Organizer" Raps Vigilantes Cops--Deaf, Dumb, and Blind "Organizer" Denounces Raids Remember "Deputies Run"! Who Are the Vigilantes? Stalinists Bewilder Workers Insurance for Defeat Organize Against Vigilantes Mpls. "Organizers" on Sale League Expels Goldman for Capitulation to S.P. (By National Committee, C.L.A.) Increase in Militant Price 45 Nov 10, 1934 Fargo Drivers Win in Militant Milk Strike Dunne Jailed for Activity; Released by Mass Pressure By Our Mid-West Correspondent Cannon Forum Postponed Membership Meets Sun. Gorman Plans a Love Feast With Bosses Textile Workers Get It in the Neck While Faker Talks "Cooperation" It Seems... Cooperation with Mr. Legree National Jobless Day Supported by Unions Not An Appeal - An Alarm! Dyers Strike Holds Lines in 2nd Week Convention of C.L.A. Call November 26, by Arne Swabeck, Secretary, National Committee C.L.A. "Truce" Government Falls in France; Class Lines Drawn, by P. Franck French Bolshevik Paper Calls for Decisive Steps The Aims The Methods S.P. Groups Prepare for a Split in Party, by Joseph Carter Thomas Begs for Unity as Forward Crowd Takes Steps for Schism Right Wing Steers to Labor Party Unity with "Sewer Socialists" Thomas Panicky What Shall the Left Wing Do? The Chauvinist "Anti-Japanese Campaign" of American Stalinists (Continued from last issue) The C.I.'s Guilt for the Policy of the C.P.U.S.A. Reviewing the News, by Glee What's Wrong With this Picture The Majesty of the Law or What's Sauce for the Goose is Poison for the Gander Fish, Flesh or the Best Disciple of Lenin? Between Ourselves Warning Support the Militant; Continue Your Pledge Special Offer Add Your Name to the New Party Honor Roll March of Events, by Jack Weber The Danger in France The Commune Once Again Question Box Draft Thesis for C.I.A. Convention The Need for a National Spartacus Youth League Discussion Article, by Simon Williamson The Fight for Full Social, Economic and Political Equality Fundamental Aspects of Youth Work, by Albert Glotzer Anti-Militarism and the Struggle Against War Socialist Education of the Youth World of Labor Norwegian Labor Party Elections Victory Executions in Spain Mendieta in Straits Militant Circulation to All Branches Militant Greetings History in the Making Health Lectures The Truth is Alien to Them, by Harry Strang Stalinist Hokum on Minneapolis Country Electrified The Spleen of the Stalinists The Workers' Illusion The Leaders' Policy Opposition to Olsonism From Words to Deeds Olson's Friends A Crime Against the Class 46 Nov 17, 1934 Weavers Will Decide On Joining General Strike of Dye Workers Dyers Spurn Boss Truce Offer and Continue Struggle Fighting the Strike with Bullets Striking the Stallers Giant Meeting Dec. 2nd to Greet Fusion Workers Set for Elevator Strike Here For a New Revolutionary Party! by James P. Cannon The Influence of the Fusion The Post-Lenin Scene The Test of Present Conditions The Course of the League The Fate of Our Critics Dilemma of Propaganda Groups Gitlow and Zam--Renegades! Mistaken Analogies Goldman's Desertion The Principles of the New Party Security Plan Nails Wolf to Labor's Door Unemployment Insurance Scheme Provides No Solution Roosevelt Plan Fails No "Wild" Ideas Wanted The "Security" Grave Mooney Wins Court Hearing; Mass Action Need of Hour The "Big-Hearted" Decision Protest is Only Weapon Minn. Union Progressives in Conference Militant Program Outlined by Fifteen Trade Union Representatives Accommodations Needed for Convention Delegates Students in Free Speech Fight in L.A., by Bill Monroe Cops Guard "Academic Freedom" Support from Stanford Jobless Organizations Lay Nationwide Plans for Big Demonstration 1,100 Local Bodies March Nov. 24th for Relief Demands Reviewing the News, by Glee Weekly Prosperity Note Morning, Noon and Night The Majesty of the Law Idea for a Braintruster with Streamlined Brains Flash! Announcement (The second installment of the series of articles on the Communist Party has been delayed.) Organization Notes - N.Y. In the Trade Unions A Worker Looks at the A. F. of L. Convention Industrial Unionism Jurisdiction Squabbles The 30-Hour Week Faith in Roosevelt Special Offer to Expire (Combo package of a subscription to the Militant and a book or pamphlet) The Crisis is Still With Us! March of Events, by Jack Weber Lull in the French Storm War, Politics and Diplomacy World of Labor (By the International Secretariat, International Communist League) Lessons of the Spanish Revolution New York Trade Unionists Quit C.P. Join Movement for New Party in U.S., by Jack Taylor "Independent Action" Local 499 Painters Local 2717 Carpenters Rival Unions Bureaucracy Political Work Statement of Comrade Alfred Terry, by Alfred Terry (Concurs with Jack Taylor's statement above) November New International Out Question Box The Heritage of October, by Arne Swabeck 17 Years of the Workers State The Contrast Struggle to the End 47 Nov 24, 1934 C.L.A. and A.W.P. Head for Fusion Delegates Meet to Decide on New Party at Conventions Wall Street Conspiracy for Fascist Coup Revealed Morgan Lurks in Picture Offered Three Million Army Generals Involved Trying to Laugh It Off Weavers Set Deadline for Walkout Keller's Pussyfooting Aids Bosses Against Strike Keller's Stalling Expelled Members Reinstated Youth Greet Convention (From National Committee, Spartacus Youth League of America) Easley Plots Against Nine Negro Boys Chronicle of Scottsboro Case Reveals I.L.D. Role Last Minute Call (Appeal for food for the delegates) Mass Meeting To Greet the National Conferences of the American Workers Party and the Communist League Unemployed to Demonstrate Today National Delegation to Present Demands in Washington What the Inner Regime of the Communist Party Looks Like Inventing Miniature Stalins The Rubber Stamp Pol-Bureau Rife With Intrigues Stacked With Pie-Card Artists Hand-Picking Convention Delegates Barracks Discipline Leaps In--Bounds Out The New Party- The Answer to Stalinist Corruption Reviewing the News, by Glee So You Can't Take It, Mr. Young! Is There Any Possible Connection Department? Friend or Foe--We Want to Know For a Nickel on the Drum You Get a Strikebreaking Bum Meet the Gang! Six More Weeks to Go! (Subscription Campaign) March of Events, by Jack Weber Upturn Hangs Fire Danger of Fascism Our Task Question Box November New International Out Who Are the Defenders of the U.S.S.R.? The International Secretariat Replies to the Calumnies of the French Stalinists Reply to the I.L.P. Copy to All Working Class Organizations Spiking a Canard in the Daily Worker A Statement by Joseph Fox on His Resignation from the C.P.U.S.A., by Joseph Fox Out of C.P. - For New Party, by S. Greenberg and I. Greenberg, Unit 2015 N.Y. Organization Notes World of Labor The L.S.I.-C.I. Negotiations The Events in Spain and the Fourth International "Republican Militia" Marches in Chile Newark Anti-Nazi Protest Split by Stalinists, YPSL, by Arne Colts Spartacus Youth Convention Two Anniversaries Consolation in Figures Revisionism with a Vengeance Celebrating October Under NEP C.I. and Soviets in Joint Session Under the Cloud of Reaction "Emphasis on Soviet Defense" N.Y. Student Strike Slams Robinson An Honor to Be a "Gutter-Snipe" Students Expelled Class Struggle Reaches Campus Help! Is Needed at Once (Militant needs donations) 48 Dec 8, 1934 Launch Workers Party of U.S. C.L.A. and A.W.P. In Fusion Convention of U.S. Revolutionaries Fusion Endorsed Third Convention of League Draws Balance Sheet of Six Years, by George Clarke C.L.A. Endorses Fusion Program Party Maps Big Drive to Rally Jobless Spartacus Youth Meets Canada W.P. Greets New Party's Birth Canada Hails W.P. Build New Party Workers of N.Y. Rally to Support Party Trade Unionists Speak Unemployed Leaders Speak Minneapolis Bosses Plot Frame-Up of 574 Leaders Minneapolis Frame-Up Attacked by Dunne V.R. Dunne Promises Fight Workers Party Facts Old Guard Threatens S.P. With Split Old Guard Delivers Ultimatum "Militants" Have Cold Feet W.P. to Back Left Wing in Trade Unions This Issue is Last of "The Militant" (It will be replaced by "The New Militant" due to the C.L.A.-W.P. merger) Party to Act on Defense Resolution on Mooney Resolution on Holstein Resolution on Labor Defense Workers Party of the U.S.--Declaration of Principles The Decline of Capitalism Imperialism and War Fascism America's Place in the World The Roosevelt Program The Only Way Out The Working Class and Its Allies The Capitalist State and Democracy Conquest of Power--The Workers' State Role of the Revolutionary The Workers Party of the U.S. Foundations of a Socialist Society The Goal of a Classless Society Criticism of Existing Parties Socialist Party The Communist Party Centrist Political Groupings Labor and Farmer-Labor Parties The New International Struggle Against Imperialist War The Defense of the Soviet Union The Main Task The Trade Unions Agricultural Workers and Farmers Negroes and Other Oppressed Racial Groups Colonial Peoples Professional and Technical Workers The Unemployed The Young Workers The United Front Constitution of the Workers Party Constitution of the Workers Party of the United States Name Purpose International Affiliation Members Organization Administration Initiation Fees and Dues Discipline Qualifications for Election National Conventions Fractions Amendments N.U.L. Led Thousands On Nov. 24, by Anthony Ramuglia Were More Than Parades Authorities Stand By Delegation Visits Washington Perkins Doesn't Know Unemployed Getting Enough Tony Bellussi Quits U.S. In the Trade Unions, by Robert Strong Independent Unionist Resigns from C.P. Party Democracy Dead A. F. of L. Fetishism Members Quitting Franz Bobzien Murdered Weisbord Group Breaking Up, by X. A.W.P. Votes Fusion Plan as Drafted, by Louis Breier Historic Occasion Adopt Organization Proposals -------------------------------------- The New Militant Dec 1934-Dec 1935 Complete Contents by Issue, Volume 1 1934 1 Dec 15, 1934 NEW MILITANT with which is merged THE MILITANT Published weekly by the Workers Party of the U.S. James P. Cannon, Editor Harry A. Howe, Associate Editor Cara Cook, Business Manager Workers Party Opens Action Campaign -Eleven Point Program is Mapped Sets Eleven Tasks Party Machinery in Motion Enrolling Charter Members Launch Speaking Tour Hold Unemployment Conference Must Raise $5.000 Wide Interest in Party Government Preparing for War Bending Every Nerve Talk is Demagogy War Men Head Commission Government Co-Operated Would Avoid Confusion Prison Figures Reveal Nazi Terror Muste and Cannon Start National Tour, Jan 13 Robins, Gras Win New Trial; Frames in N.Y. Hotel Strike -Non-Partisan Labor Defense Sees Victory for Labor Victory for Labor Non-Partisan Labor Defense Acts Daily Worker Attacks Committee Auto Wages Drop 19 Pct. Budenz Hails Party From Sickbed Need Mass Action American Approach Language of the Machine Health and Low Wages The Forgotten Man Party Fund Drive Opened By National Committee -Assigns Tasks to Members in $5,000 Campaign Youth in Convention Plans Broad Radical Organization -Spartacus League Pledges Adherence to Workers Party Growth of Spartacus Youth Altum Press Out on Strike From the Firing Line -We Ride the Rods to the Merger Convention -From Kansas City to New York by Simon Williamson Men Who Get $3.000 a Day Doubled by Nira, Roosevelt -Incomes Under $25,000 Shrink, Tax Returns Show -Million Dollar Incomes Rise "Redistributing" Wealth What the Figures Show Wealthy Americans Defeating the Militants In Illinois - The Real Story -Allard's Account Reprinted from Labor Action by Gerry Allard The Real Story C.P. Tactics Mooney May Be Pardoned Merry Christmas--! F.D.'s Little Gift To the Jobless -FERA 30 Cent Minimum Wage is Abandoned A Merry Christmas Unemployed Are Fearful Voice of Wall Street Using Sales Taxes And S0--Merry Xmas! Red Sees the New Militant Coming From the Press -Finds the Shop Coffee Good - And Black by Red Clutter of Things "We're Kept Busy" On Its Way In the Unions by Karl Lore * Building Trades War * It Didn't Last * Jurisdiction Claims * Does It Mean Split? * Department Stores Mail Orders Specialty of Pioneer Shop March of Events by Jack Weber * The Chaotic Balkans * Italian Foreign Exchange Monopoly * Scrapping the NRA Socialist Party Turns to the Right Thumbs Down on United Front The Position of Thomas Move to Expel Left Wing Right Wing Presses Forward Aim to "Cleanse" the Party The National Unemployed League -History and Methods by Louis Breier "Self-Help" and Barter Schemes From "Self-Help" to Mass Pressure C.P.L.A. Enters Field Moves for National Organization World In Review * Leroux-Gil Robles on Tightrope * Bolivia Makes Last Stand Prices Rise in Germany German Aryans Running Amuck The New Militant Non-Partisan Defense Anti-Crime War Aimed at Lone Killers - while Bankers and War Makers Get Protection Washington Of a Lower Order No Reference to Causes "Political Pressure" An Important Question Pamphlet Publication Program Fascism at Work Notice Reviewing the News by Bill [Bill Sherman] * Spartacus * At Last the Forgotten Man * Time-Clocks vs. Military Muster * Bankers and Lawyers Gyp Crippled Veterans * Free Workers * Voodism and the Quintuplets [Should be "Voodooism"?] 2 Dec 22, 1934 Alarm Signals in the Soviet Union by A.J. Muste and James P. Cannon Muste Calls for Funds To Carry on Mass Work by A.J. Muste Steel Truce in Deadlock At Capitol -Roosevelt's Plan is Balked By Failure to Agree on Company Unions Sanctions Company Unions Asks More Conferences Hit Sabotage In C.P. Trial -Hits C.P. Sabotage In Trial of Cal. Militants Merry Christmas - Where? -Merry Christmas - For Whom? by Dan Eastman Eats at Horse Markets To Keep People Quiet The Muni Waiting Gala Christmas A Place to Stay The Gold Dust Lodge Joseph Zack, C.P. Leader, Joins the Workers Party Comrade Zack's Statement by Joseph Zack Auto Hearing Farce With Ban on 7a This Was Important Committee Heard Plenty What They Told Printers' O.K. Aids Striking Reporters by Leo Roberts Their First Strike Results of Class-Collaboration No Arbitration Scab-Law or No Law 9 Join Party At Philly Meet Super Lobby Seeks Wage Relief Slash -Capitalists in United Front Against Labor to Put Screws on Congress Will Ask for Dole United Front Screws on Congress Cats Eat Relief Meat--Live From the Firing Line * Wild Cat Strike Looms at Mine -John L. Lewis Holds on by Strong-Arm Methods * Steam Shovel Dynamited -Miners Eking Out Existence in Clash With Coal Co. * Leibowitz Plans Anti-Labor Trial for Scottsboro Boys by Harry Strang United Front With Leibowitz * Left Wing Polls Heavy Vote in P.M.A. Election The Party at Work Membership Meet Raises $500 on Build Party Fund "Save the Workers From Revolution!" -U.S. Chamber of Commerce Busy -Words of Abraham Lincoln on Rights of the People to Change or Overthrow the Existing Government Hit Working Class Violence Defending Capitalism Right of Revolution All to "Save" the Workers! Wants Stricter Dictatorship Why Mooney Remains in Prison Capitalist Sabotage In the Unions by Karl Lore Rubber Organizes Is Akron Next? Yellow Dog Unions Put Up or Shut Up Another Weirton??? Where Are the Progressives? Briefs March of Events by Jack Weber The Profit System and Capitalist Sabotage Profits and Housing Housing and the Building Workers Robins-Gras Free on Bail Munitions Makers Put the Screws on Roosevelt -President Overplays His Hand In Profitless-War Plan New Deal and War Roosevelt on the Spot No War Clouds? The End-Profit Boys Equally Low Wages The Lever Act Against Labor W.P. and Trade Unions by Arne Swabeck, Secretary of the Trade Union Dept. of the Workers Party Basic Tasks Concentration Points Harlan "Law" Still Active World in Review * Fascist State in Portugal * Chaco War Toll Heavy * Power Balance in Europe * Trend in France Downward Secret War Plans Negro Workers in the Early American Labor Movement -Fight for Social and Economic Equality Since 1869 by Simon Williamson Sowing Seeds of Hatred Knights of Labor The Years 1881-86 Development of Industry White Labor Monopoly Middle Class Negroes Foundation Fund Campaign Theatre Benefit 3 Dec 29, 1934 Prepare for a Year of Determined Struggle! -New Year's Manifesto of the Workers Party from National Committee, Workers Party of the U.S. Conditions Get Worse Not Better The "New Deal" Swindle The Only Way Out Capitalism Cannot Be "Reformed" The Need of a Revolutionary Party Workers Party of the U.S. The Road of Struggle 18 Sacramento Workers on Trial--Face Long Sentences -Red Frame-Up is Mask for Drive Against Unions -Victims Were Leaders of Agricultural Laborers -Sacramento Trials Aimed at Labor Penalty is 84 Years Two Out on Bail Prosecution is Crooked Prisoners Are Fighting Need of United Defense Movement Big Meeting Hears Muste and Cannon on WP Program -Adopts Resolution on Situation in Soviet Union The Resolution Tour Dates (Muste and Cannon) Inequalities Shown by A.F. of L. Survey One Year Ago in Labor (Dec 28, 1933-Jan 3, 1934) Washington (Address by Roosevelt on labor) New York Harrisburg, Pa. Washington (A.F. of L. affiliated unions called upon by President William Green to boycott German goods and services) Norris, S.P. Leader Joins Workers Party Was Minnesota Secretary Statement of W.W. Norris Muste Dinner From the Firing Line * Three Leagues Built in Week -Lehigh County Adds 600 Draw Up Plans Organize in Palmerton * Mayor McNair Has a Flair -For Single Tax and Scabs * Holstein Freed in Minneapolis -One Frame-Up Remains * Relief Wood Strike Looms The Party at Work Independent Printing Employees Win 5 Day Altum Press Strike -A.F. of L. Printing Unions Urged to Help Organize Industry W.P. to Open Training School In Fight Against Capitalism Party to Train Workers Class Outlines Form Research Department Facts Are Facts For Coal Miners -Illinois "Exposure" Exposed -Allard Cites P.M. of A. Records Against Article by Ralph Shaw in Labor Unity by Gerry Allard "Facts Are Facts" From the Record Allard Opposes Retreat 50 Opposition Votes Shaw's Nightmare Made Supreme Sacrifice In the Unions by Karl Lore The Labor Racket Union Receivership Unions and Government Dangerous Precedents Briefs Saar Basin is Pawn of Imperialist Rivals -Plebiscite Masks Real Aims History in the Making The Urgent Need Receipts to Date U.S. Role in Making Bosses' War Shown -Workers Died for Morgan Loans Why America Entered the War The "Japs" Are Discovered The Methods of Stalin by Joseph Zack Back Stage Methods The Game of Make-Believe The Moscow Rumor Factory "Explaining" the Opposition The Chinese Debacle How the Lefts Were Fooled The Real Issues in the Soviet Union Issue New International, Party Organ Glass Faces Ten Years On Syndicalist Charge -W. Va. Unemployed League Aid Defense Hearst Red-Baiting in School System Vehemently Protested by Educators Cooking Up a Red Scare So Radical 1935 4 Jan 5, 1935 Wall Street Crack Whip on Congress -Efforts to Save Capitalism to Continue - New Deal In 1934 Raised Prices, Profits - Put New Millions on Relief by Geo. Clarke [George Clarke] Ungrateful Wall Street Promises Employed Workers Public Works Auto Body Told System is Doomed -Workers Shun Hearing Held to Stabilize Industry Whispered Testimony Preis Produces Facts Willis-Overland Co. Remove Modern Machinery 1934 - Labor's Story - Hope, Trust, Betrayal, Militancy - 1935 Unemployed Help For 16 Workers--Death Victory--For Bosses Robber Baron Goes Free (Photograph of Martin Insull of Insull utility companies thanking the jury after being acquitted on embezzlement charges) Huey Long is Tammany Hall Rising in South -A Clever Politician, Accustomed to Corruption, Graft by Dan Eastman Long's Following Little Industry A Venture in Oil Captured Rural Vote Steel Election Called -Carnegie Corporation Will Rely on Government and Courts by Arne Swabeck Eighteen on Trial Need Labor Defense -California Fruit Growers Push Prosecution of Union Leaders in Red Drive-Workers Move to Obtain Bail (From Press Service of Non-Partisan Labor Defense) From the Firing Line * Clothing Workers Fight Suspension * Allard Elected * Relief Head Aids Cops, League Finds Appeals to League Contract for Paterson --- What a Contract! -Silk Workers Must Tear It Up and Fling It at the Bosses by Felix Giordano "No More Strikes" Perpetuates 40-Hour Week "Trial Period" Joker "The Right Strike" Richberg Smokes Peace Pipe As He Exonerates the Poor Doesn't Blame Poor Men United Front In Pittsburgh -Pennsylvania Leagues Try Again -But Councils and S.P. Group Forget to Tell the Rank and File What It's All About by E.R. McKinney On the Line Not a Parade And It Failed Forgot Rank and File What Councils Wanted U.C. Hatchet Men In the Unions by Karl Lore Local 802 A.F.M. 13 Years Hard Luck 3,728 to 127 Labor in Court Administration Out Building Trades Aged Man Jailed for Snaring Rabbits First National League Convention Stormy Test of "American Approach" by Louis Breier Backgrounds How Others Work The "American Approach" March of Events -Naval Race Forebodes War of the Pacific by Jack Weber The Imperialist Naval Race Necessity for Truth Perkins' Daughter Enters Society The Party Fund The Challenge Receipts A Farewell to Bureaucracy by Joseph Zack Suppressing the Opposition The Stalin Regime Conditions for Real Discussion Show Business How the Middle Class Led "Freed" Negroes After Civil War -"The Republican Party Is the Ship and All Else Is the Sea," Leader Told Them by Simon Williamson Frederick Douglass Eyes on Sacramento Hope for the Steel Workers Churchified Fascists Zack Meeting Draws Crowd Roosevelt and Congress Mass Action Policy of National League by Arnold Johnson, Secretary of National Unemployed League Used as Bait Need Organization 5 Jan 12, 1935 Roosevelt's Speech Goes On Forever -Has Made It Many Times and Conditions Go from Bad to Worse by Dan Diamat From Bad to Worse That Reasonable Leisure Better Than Wealth Farmers Not Forgotten Warnick Is Released on $3,2900 Bail -Sacramento Labor Prisoners Helped by Non-Partisan Labor Defense (NPLD Press Service) Albert Goldman Enters Case Defendants Hold Conference One World at a Time! League Paper Tells Unemployed Readers Workers Party Leaders Off on Speaking Tour (Photos of A.J. Muste and James P. Cannon above article) AFSW Plans Constitution -Draft of AFSW No Good, Giordano Says by Felix Giordano Limits Democratic Rights Militant Wins PMA Election (Special to New Militant) Pearcy Losing New Officers Strike Shuts Garages in Twin Cities -2,000 Mechanics Out; Get Help from Drivers Union 574 (By Special Correspondent) Bosses Stall V.R. Dunne on Job Labor's Share Less in 1935, While Profits Rose, NRA Figures Show FDR Advocates Low Wage, Protects Private Industry, In Dealing with Unemployed -Federal Relief Must Stop He Tells Congress - What Does It Mean? The Real Questions Is Four Billion Enough? What About Wages? Roosevelt's "American Plan" 150 League Men Storm Town Hall in Michigan Lay Plans for Akron Strike From the Firing Line * League in Airport Strike Bares Huge Graft; Hits at Forced Labor * PMA "Wild Cat" In Springfield * Meeting on Work Projects Called by Allentown League The Party at Work * Rapid Growth in New York * Allentown Maps Activity * Two Month Action Program of Youngstown Branch Party Lists 6 Pamphlets Injunction Seen as Lewis Move (Special to the New Militant) You Said It, Franklin! Gotham's 1,200,000 Unemployed Face '35 -City Juggles With Relief -Councils Dormant - Socialist Unions With Cap In Hand - Attitude of Jobless Changing by Al Dasch Waiting for Snow Work Relief Lack of Organization Attitude of Unemployed Changing $3,500 Is Family Need (By Special Correspondent) In the Unions by Karl Lore Saving John L. Lewis Oil Unionism Thunder Ahead Price Control Fight--The Only Way Arbitration What to Attend Letter Carriers Protest Extension of Wage Cut March of Events -State of the Union, No More Cash Relief, Imperialism and the Farmer by Jack Weber Secretary Wallace Gives the Key Big Profits in Textiles The Party Fund Branch Reports Receipts Dew of Death Rained From Sky -Capitalist Weapon for Next War by Ruth Wilson No Limits Mustard Gas "Civilized" Weapons Soothing Syrup And the "Abundant Life" Is Poverty! Poverty! Poverty! by Tess Huff How NUL Convention Nipped Fascist Attack by Louis Breier The Workers Guard Role of the Socialists The Counter-Attack World in Review -Letter From Spain, New International, Cuban Volcano * Spanish Socialist Youth Calls for New International from Socialist Youth of Spain * Situation Tense in Cuba 7,400,000 Children Reviewing the News by Bill Sherman * "A More Abundant Life" * Democracy and Communist Party * "The Slums We Give Them" * Pastors, Preachers, Messiahs and Crooks * "Free Workers" in Auto Paradise Huey Is Tammany Hall Rising From the South -Second Installment on Life of Louisiana Kingfish by Dan Eastman (Continued from last issue) Controls 13,500 Jobs Rich Get Richer Huey and the Banks Huey and the Government Huey's Program Another Plan to Save Capitalism What Huey Doesn't Know Solution in Ownership International Workers School Bill White Dead Cult of Leadership, Zig-Zags and Turns Mark C.I. Policy by Joseph Zack Right-Left Turns Red Unions Period Why the Zig-Zags 6 Jan 19, 1935 Lenin W.P. Moves National Office Takes Floor at 2 W. 15th St. Trotsky Answers Indictment -Links G.P.U. with Kirov Assassination by Leon Trotsky What Happened to the Letter? The Mystery of the "Consul" Complicity of the G.P.U. The White Guard Dodge Stalin's Lackeys Inform French Authorities Postmarked for the "Best Disciple" The Federal Budget (From Washington Correspondent) Billions for Bondholders War Expenditures Muste, Cannon in Canada; Find Workers Party Active There by A.J. Muste Speak to 400 Canada's "New Deal" Opportunity for W.P. Bosses Pay Prosecutor in Sacramento Red Trial League Men in Conference in N.W. Ohio (Special to New Militant) 3,000 in N.Y. Biscuit Strike Every Man Out Union Victory Ends St. Paul Garage Strike (Special to New Militant) Bosses' Cop Shoots Three "Bloody Mike" Busy From the Firing Line * Judge Wins Picket Trial * New England Welcomes NUL * Stalinists on Firing - Line * League Pickets 13 Townships * League's Strike is First One in Monroe County The Party at Work * Boston Branch Takes Lead in Getting New Members Boston in Lead Active in Strike * L.A. Branch Increases 30 Percent at Each Meeting Plan Mass Meeting * District Committee Starts Trade Union Campaign Subway Men in Revolt Against Co. "Brotherhood" Company "Brotherhood" Another Example Putting It Over Does Industrial Food Union Support Dutch Shultz Gang? by Joseph Zack Arrest Union Local in Labor Frame-Up (Special to New Militant) National Progressive Movement in Trade Union is Party Task by Arne Swabeck (Trade Union Secretary of the W.P.) Progressives in Steel Auto Workers Period of Calm Fears of the Officialdom The Job Before the Progressives What to Attend March of Events by Jack Weber -Supreme Court Deliberates, Debts and Gold, Hughes is Shrewd, Perpetuating Rule of Rich Supreme Court Deliberates Case of the Gold Standard Majesty of the Law The Constitution Itself The Party Fund Reports from Branches Receipts Huey Long's Labor Record; He Says Mussolini Endorsed His Plan (Continued from last issue) by Dan Eastman His Labor Record "Every Man a King" Suppresses Pamphlet Negroes Are Oppressed Lynchings Huey Uses Troops Relief Is Low Mechanization In Steel Bodes Uncertain Future -Fewer Workers Needed in Modern High-Speed Mills -- Companies Contract for Eight More by Fred Rayburn See Uncertain Future Erecting Modern Mills Brings Loss of Jobs Steel Towns Passing The Boston Tea Party and The Fears of $ir Hearst by Bill Monroe World in Review -France, Paris Socialists, Program from "La Verite" The Crisis How to Bring the Masses on to the Road of the Decisive Struggle for Power The Struggle for Power Workers' Security The 30-Hour Week The Saar Plebiscite Reviewing the News by Bill Sherman Real News in Hauptmann Case Militant Progressive Unionism Mass Telephoning 7 Jan 26, 1935 Across the Country With Cannon and Muste by A.J. Muste W.P. Has Many Contacts Two Husky Sons Same Old Story A Hot Situation Buying Power Drops Under "Model" Code by Jack Elder Roosevelt's Insecurity Program Fifty-Fifty? Democratic Poverty To Maintain this Great Work We Must Have Funds--Now! Akron C.P. Members Follow Zack to W.P. That Pittsburgh Convention -Steel Progressives Will Lead - A.F. of L. Leaders Looking Askance at Rank and File Conclave -Tighe Will Maneuver to Hold Steel Delegates in Check - Bill Sprang is Opposition Leader (By Special Correspondent) Revolt Against A.F. of L. Will Delegates be Hoodwinked? Not Likely Again "Our Men Are Desperate" Bill Sprang's Weakness Tighe is Afraid A Golden Opportunity Ohio Branch Raps League Run by C.P. Coal Miners Ready to Welcome Muste, Cannon Saturday Night Housewarming 56 Released as Leaguemen Storm Court -56 Released by Ohio Leaguers by Art Preis Force Leaders' Release Are Back on Job Relief Building "Private" United Defense Acts to Mobilize Labor in California Trial -Union Conference Called by Five Groups to Aid 18 Defendants-Decker Bailed Out by NLPD Special Prosecutor Stays Prosecution "Bargains" Rejected Real United Front Second Blast in Mine Kills 11, Injures 71 New Address From the Firing Line -Three Convicted on Old Charge for Assisting Evicted Family by Clarence Mayer Move Furniture These Terrible Unemployed! Three Are Found Guilty The Party at Work * Minneapolis Branch Moves Forward * Heavy Schedule in N.Y.C. Railroad Jobs Get Fewer and Fewer Pearcy Out, Keck In - Worse, Says Germinal, "or I'll Eat a Shovel" by Germinal Jones, NRA Socialist Keckism Wins Program for Future 600 At League Meet (Special to New Militant) Two Young Men Start Subway Union Rolling The Two Men The Man Defied Them The New Agreement Men Stirred Again A.F. of L. Blocks Rubber Strike In the Unions by Karl Lore -Hard Facts for A.F. of L. Pow-Wow Times Are Tough Wages Down; Profits Up Hard Facts What to Attend The Nature and Causes of Modern War -Capitalist Expansion Ends in Open Conflict by John West At the Bottom of War Driven to Imperialist Expansion Capitalists Vie on World-Wide Scale Capitalist Society Continually at War The Revolutionary War of the Workers The Party Fund Receipts Will the Steel Workers Strike? -Here's the Record Under NRA to Date by Dennis Brown Membership Exerts Pressure Weighing the Record Roosevelt's Pledge Set Up Steel Board Another Weirton Case Created Illusion World in Review -Situation in Cuba, Aftermath in Spain * Toilers Under Imperialism * Mendieta Seeks Allies * The Aftermath in Asturias In California The C.P. and the Labor Party Tom Mooney's Freedom Attack the Enemy Letters to the Editor -Start Meetings on Time by Comrade A.B.C. Reviewing the News by Bill Sherman New Title Wanted The Mooney Case "All the News That's Fit to Print" Slobbering Over Stalin The Dignity of the Court Strikers Versus Labor Leaders 8 Feb 2, 1935 NEW MILITANT with which is merged THE MILITANT Published Weekly by the Workers Party of the U.S. James P. Cannon, Editor Harry A, Howe, Associate Editor Hawthorne Winner, Business Manager Across the Country With Cannon and Muste by A.J. Muste Latest Order By FD Hides New Threat -Section 7(a) Likely to be Replaced by New Legislation by Zack Elder National Run Around's New Maneuver New Strike-Breaking Legislation When It Snows in New York -Magnificent Chance for Jobless Men -- Alderman Who Gets $100 an Hour Raps Shovellers A "Liberal" Paper How to Keep Warm New Deal Launches Another Gunboat (Photo of the 1,500-ton Destroyer Dale Leaving the Brooklyn Navy Yard Liberty of 18 Jeopardized As C.P. Splits Defense Doll and Toy Workers Use Flying Squadron Suggested Symbol 94 Strikers Arrested in Fargo N. Dakota by 300 Vigilantes -Take Town in Effort to Break Strike 4,000 Subs by May 31 Is Our Goal-Here's How Progressives Seek National Organization (By Special Correspondent) Resolution on Workers' Security Program Speakers Will Bare Hearst's Labor Record Truckmen Stay Injunction -One-Day Strike Prevents Judge from Issuing Writ -Her Postpones Decision Until Next Week Lively Meetings Mark Speaking Tour for Workers Party -Enthusiastic Crowd Cheers The New Party in Chicago Communists Behave Brought Down the House God Forbid! Describes Zig-Zags Leaves Communist Party for Workers Party -- Tells Why by Harold Smith (Exchange of letters between the C.P and the resigning member, a succinct analysis) The League's Fight for Unity by Louis Breier History of the National Unemployed League, Part Four What Unity Is Confusing the Problem Workers Cannot Deviate The Struggle for Unity Testing the Councils Patience--Another Letter Forgotten Men's Yell from "Voice of the Workers" Textile Strike Looms - Will It Be Another Betrayal by UTW Leaders? by Felix Giordano Delegates to Meet Way Through Strike Committee Real Story in Relief Paper Workers Education for Allentown Garage Strike Ends in Gains Act Against Chiseling Sop to Akron Labor Hides Company Aim What to Attend Bridge that Gap! Booker T. Washington-He Pleased the Bourgeoisie by Simon Williamson Helped Exploiters Got Additional Glory He Twisted History The Struggle Against War -Pacifism No Aid, But Helps the Militarists - Only Through the Class Struggle Can War be Fought by John West ` To End War We Must Remove Cause Socialist Economy Will End Contradictions Peace Plans and Pacifism Long Waits, Small Benefits Feature of Insurance Bills by Hugo Oehler They Call It Insurance Roosevelt's "Plan" Not Central Issue March of Events by Jack Weber A Year of Struggle in France The United Front Alliance With the Bourgeoisie The Anniversary Sugar Workers Strike in Puerto Rico Reviewing the News by Bill Sherman Title Contest Suggested Titles National Jig Saw -Bill Reich Broadcasting by Bill Reich Roosevelt Program Hearst and the Bosses A Request, and a Business Matter by Cara Cook The Party at Work The Toledo Branch A Bold Policy for Progressives in Steel -Retreat Before Tighe Would be Fatal -Militants Must Organize Their Forces to Unionize Industry Organize Progressive Forces A Bold Policy A National Strike Powerful Allies Unemployed Allies Retreat is Fatal 9 Feb 9, 1935 Roosevelt Kicks Bill Green Downstairs -"Leaders" in Dilemma Still Cling to F.D.R. by Arne Swabeck A Dilemma Militant Bureaucrats The Auto Agreement The Result Capitol New Letter -Labor Bureaucrats Howl as Roosevelt Disregards Auto Union by Jack Elder Fantastic Evidence Used by State in Labor Trial More Defendants Bailed Mass Meetings Build PA. Unemployed League Want Plenty? Nice, Easy Secret Way--It's Utopian Not Enough Flags The Easy Method Union Pledges Solidarity to 18 Framed-up Judge's Trick Approved by Union Leaders -Stay of Injunction Gains Time for Bosses in Waterfront Fight A Lousy Plot What a Victory! Mass Meeting calls Hearst Labor Enemy -Audience of 2,500 Indicts Millionaire Publisher and Red-Baiter Father Coughlin Adopts Popes' Fake Liberalism by Dan Eastman Leo Takes Sides It's More Profitable Silk Strike is Voted Pending Referendum Thirty Days, Says Buffalo Judge, Instead of Food Should Revolutionists Build a Labor Party by Hugo Oehler Labor Parties and Reform Capitalist Decay Reform Base Disappearing Credits for Russia--A Slogan for U.S. Labor by Tess Huff A Bit Mixed Up Why the Deadlock? St. Louis Socialist Finds Workers Party Is Realistic -SP is Hopeless, He Says -- In N.Y.., E. Martin Leaves Weisbord Group to Join W.P. letters by Juohn Burfeindt and E. Martin Workers Security? International Workers School Term Nears Registration Classes Scholarships Food Workers Bare Unions's Alliance with Schultz Gang -An Example of the New Trade Union Policy of the Communist Party Introductory Note by Joseph Zack By a Group of Progressive Food Workers What is this United Front? C.P. "Unity" in 1935 How "Unity" Works in Practice Some Pertinent Questions What to Attend Late Episodes in Kirov Assassination Analyzed by Trotsky by Leon Trotsky Why Was Zinoviev Arrested? 1926 Platform of Russian Opposition Cited "We Do Not Believe the Indictment" G.P.U. is Tool of Bureaucracy Real Devotion to Soviet Union Means Struggle Against Bureaucracy Open Letter from the National Committee of the W.P. Program of Action Our Needs--Concretely The League Against War and Fascism by John West The Fallacies of the League Revolutionary Party is First Task The Policy of Stalinism March of Events by Jack Weber -The Plundering of China -Germany--Rearmed The Plundering of China A Victory for Hitler Danger in Sacramento "Planned Economy" in the U.S. A Watchdog of Capitalism On the Flying Trapeze Hearst Calls the Tune... (Political Cartoon) NPLD Statement on Sacramento Case Zack Tour Reviewing the News by Bill Sherman A New Militant Sub for the Best Title Tommy Malloy, Labor Leader Well! Well! National Jig Saw by Bill Reich Babies Fashion Notes Toy Workers Strike in Second Week: Gains Won 10 Feb 16, 1935 Across the Country With Cannon and Muste -On Tour by A.J. Muste Crowded Hours in St. Louis "Best Political Meeting Yet" An Old American Custom Pittsburgh--the Last Stop Capitol New Letter -Roosevelt Help up Auto Labor Report until Code Was Renewed by Jack Elder Bitterly Oppose Payment Plan Boss Dips in Pay Envelope Code is Violated Experts Speak of Rational Workers Relief Bill Will Drive Wages of All Labor to $12 Minimum * Prevailing Wage Clause Defeated by Order of Roosevelt Prevailing Wage Amendment Roosevelt Opposes It The Three Proposals The Sweatshop Argument Legalizing Scabbing * A.F. of L. Helpless; Strike Action on PWA Only Course for Labor The Outlook C.P.'s Attack on Mini Decried in Sacramento Stool Pigeon's Testimony Mini's Statement Warnick Defends Mini; Raps "Western Worker" by Jack Warnick Warnick's Statement United Opposition Needed Against Tighe -Lack of Preparation Brought Present Progressive Movement in Steel to Disaster by Elmer Cope The Leaders The Feb. 3 Conference Resolutions Tighe Goes Into Action Job Before Progressives No Compromise With Fakers Merry-go-round For Akron Labor Scholarship Contest to New York Workers How the A.F. of L. Actually Betrayed the Automobile Workers by Special Correspondent Last Spring Today A.F. of L. "Acts" Capitulation The Anti-Labor Board A New Attack A.F. of L.'s Dilemma Win a Prize -Rules of the Prize Contest for Subscriptions Bankers Control Relief -California Legion Aids Drive to Reduce Standard Act in Newark Crowd Hears Muste Defy Arrest Threat Why Progressives Must Organize by B.F. A Job for the Progressives Spiking Lies Printed In the Daily Worker About Printers Election What to Attend March of Events by Jack Weber Roosevelt's Open Offensive Against Labor Shall the Unemployed Be Used Against the Employed? New Methods of Unemployed Work The Workers and the State The Party Fund Receipts The United Front and War by John West An Entry to the Minds of Pacifists War Issue Base for Agitation Making Marxist Position Clear Application of the United Front Should Revolutionists Build a Labor Party in America? by Hugo Oehler (Continued from last issue) Nite Club Revue to Feature Dances World in Review Fascism Degrades Italian Workers to Feudal Slaves Mine Wages Decline Return to Feudalism Socialist Party Adventurism Bootlickers Greetings from the New Manager by Hawthorne Winner Action Training School Opens Reviewing the News by Bill Sherman Title Contest Ends A Voice from Philly Other Titles Obituary Note Investigating a Company Union Labor Proves Gratitude A Warm "Fascist" Smile 11 Mar 2, 1935 Capitol News Letter -New Deal is Bankrupt...-Wagner's Labor Bill....-"Social Security".... by Jack Elder President is Consistent Wagner's Labor Bill Shadow Boxing To All Subscribers by The Business Manager N.U.L. Plans Caravan to Washington -To Get Out Nat'l Paper For Jobless Mini on Stand Gives Lie to "Stool-pigeon" Charge -Mini in Court Reaffirms His Views as Revolutionist Workers Demonstrate Solidarity Mini Risks Contempt Would Try Capitalists Affirms Marxist Position People Versus Property Differ With C.P. Stands by "Manifesto" Was Active in Strike Thomas Quits New Leader; SP May Split by Special Correspondent Withdrawals The New Press Is Here; We'll Do Our Part If You Do Yours! WP to Hold Conference AFL to Aid Akron Bosses Fight "Reds" -AFL Starts Drive in Akron With Anti-Strike Ballyhoo by Jack Wilson The Willoughby Strike 16 Sentenced for "Riot" In Fargo; Labor Aroused -Fargo Rallies to Aid Strike by Robert Whitcomb The Bosses Make a Mistake Leaders Picked Off Mother of 5 Leads League in Relief Fight They Got Suspicious To All Branches and Prospective Advertisers by Business Manager Organized Left Wing Task of Real Progressives in Silk Workers Union -Strike Vote Sabotaged By Delay of A.F. of L. by Felix Giordano Slack Season is Near Security on the Job The Paterson Election Why Militants Failed No Clear-Cut Program Results of C.P. Policy NBC Ruse Fails (NBC for National Biscuit Company) Contest Note Rules of Prize Contest for Subscriptions They Got Suspicious March of Events by Jack Weber American Imperialism Arrives At a Decision American Policy Militarizing of the Pacific War and Fascism Five Join Workers Party Protesting C.P. Bureaucracy Cite Lack of Democracy The Truth About Sacramento -How C.P. Tactics Hurt Defendants by James P. Cannon Sabotaging the Case Making and Breaking United Front Defense Policy in Court Frame-up Against Norman Mini Statement by N.P.L.D. by George Novack, Chairman, Provisional Committee for Non-Partisan Labor Defense S.P. on Sacramento "United Front" Bound Militants The Reason for Hearst The Set-Up (Political Cartoon) -Bill Green: "Am I getting too rough, Franklin" Elevator Strike History In Newspaper Headlines Left Jabs by Bill Sherman The New Title "My Country 'Tis of Thee" by Earl Browder, Daily Worker A Governor, Child Labor and Bolshevism Our Hope and Strength by Bill Reich The Cuckoo Clock Religion, A Moral Force by Bill Reich Theory and Practice by Bill Reich Arms Control & League of Nations from "Reviewing the Crisis, 1929-35, by M.L. 'Til Death Do Us Part by Bill Reich We Need a Larger Paper Stalinists Attack Worker Opposed to Union Policy 574 Boys Support Albert Lea Pickets What to Attend 12 Mar 9, 1935 NRA Batters Down Wages -But Profits Soar Gov't Board Says Higher Wages? Share-the-Starvation Bosses Share-the-Profits Real Wages Drop Capitol News Letter by Jack Elder The Labor Disputes Bill What Socialism Would Do New Deal "Left Wing" Out James Rorty Ouster Goes to Congress Win 62 and 1/2 Percent Raise in Wage Relief Wage Boss Press Subsidized State League Formed in Kentucky -Johnson Urges Fight for Harlan Miners Win Strike (At Myers Regulator Co.) Civil Liberties Union Charges C.P. with Disrupting Sacramento Defense Charges Against C.P. Confirmed The Facts Caroline Decker's Position Warnick Stands Firm Lillian Symes, California Author (Letter of comment) George Hedley, Chairman United Front Committee (Letter of comment on an article in "Western Worker" captioned "Trotskyite Splitting Tactics Fail") Statements Say Break Was Deliberate (Statements refer to Sacramento defense) Statement of the American Civil Liberties Union from the National Executive Committee Statement by Travers Clement in The Nation Green in Detroit Surveys His Ruin of Auto Union -Try Another Board, He Cries by Our Detroit Correspondent Bill's "Wisdom" A.F. of L. Weak in Detroit Workers Waking Up Building Union Leads Toledo FERA Strike -Special to New Militant Character of Organization W.P. and O.U.L. Active Motions Adopted Strategic Labor Attack Triumphs -Waukegan Office Workers Stand by Mechanics Choice of Name Biggest Achievement of S.P. Unemployed Meet -"A Socialist Party Congress" Protests Virginia Delegate by Special Correspondent Benjamin Approves Rev. Myers Speaks Selecting a Name N.U.L.'s Position on Convention Contest Note Minneapolis Ties Davenport on Subs Question Box NRA Speed-Up and Police Brutality Hit in St. Louis -Three Thousand in Mass Meeting by Special Correspondent The Usual Story Scab Agencies Work Call Mass Protest Edith Phillips Fur Union Must Move Carefully for Unity; Cannon's Advice Still Holds bt Trade Union Dept. of W.P. Proposals of Industrial Union What to Attend March of Events by Jack Weber Italy's Colonial Drive Japan and the Chinese Consortium Roosevelt and "Prevailing Wage" Bankers Hear Plan for Aged S.P. Militants Forced to Cover Up Right Wing Labor Defense Maneuver Morrow's Letter to Baron Baron's Reply Why Join the Workers Party -Letter to a Worker Correspondent by A.J. Muste How W.P. Began Found Need of New Party Not a Hasty Decision Our Credentials Unity--On What Basis? Finds C.I. Like Roman Church by Bernard Ross International Notes... * Communist League of China Hails W.P. * Workers Party Organized in Panama Facts About America Unity of the Unemployed? Balance of Power--An Illusion Capitalist Press Lies About Mini Scored by Chambers and Warnick letter from Jack Warnick, Pat Chambers and Norman Mini Insull Farce Relief Investigators Do Detective Work -Letter from "Inside" Tells the Wretched Story Our Health "Service" The Spy System No Kicking Allowed Speed Up for Typists Two Important C.P. Members in Week Join Workers Party Watch for This Fellow 13 Mar 16, 1935 Capitol News Letter by Jack Elder -A.A.A. Accomplishments -Milk Production -Corn Belt Conditions -Saga of Scarcity Milk Production Lowest on Record Corn Belt Conditions More Cheerful News! Saga of Scarcity N.U.L. Paper Announces Club For Jailed Heroes of Labor Cuban Workers in Island-Wide General Strike -Mendieta Sustained by Wall Street Army Alone -Intolerable Conditions Result of American Sugar Imperialism, Cause of Permanent Unrest -All Support to the Cuban Workers! Cuban Labor A Crisis Regime A Single Product Country Darcy Takes the Stand In Sacramento -C.P. Organizer Testifies His Party Stands For--Reform! by Special Correspondent Is This the Communist Party? How the C.P. Uses the Courts But the C.P. Yells Trotskyism Ohio League Congress Holds Impeachment Over Governor Hit Sales Tax Workers Party Sends Letter to P.P. by A.J. Muste Settlement in Sight For Dental Mechanics Wall Street's Priest -Father Coughlin Wins Fame and Fortune with Red Scare -- Says Henry Ford is a Communist by Dan Eastman (Second in a series) The Red Serpent Christ's Prime Minister Coughlin and Hearst Father Coughlin's Red Scare A.F. of L. Busy Sabotaging Akron Strike -Leaders Fear They Are Losing Grip On Rubber Union Ark. Workers College is In Danger by Gerry Allard Roosevelt OK's Machine Gun Squads Formed In Sacramento President Gives A.F. of L. Cold Shoulder on Auto Boards, Codes, Relief -Administration Getting Ready for Large Scale Wage Cutting Drive Against Unions by Arne Swabeck Serious Problems Ahead What is Being Done? C.P. Leadership Can't Be Trusted -Write Former Members to Comrade Who Asks Them to Come Back to Party letter by Alfred Terry and Jack Taylor Note on Boston Branch Contest Note Big Gains in Middle West Teachers Must Not Rest With Vanderwoude Decision What of the Future? Purely Legal Fight Role of the Union Struggle Within the Union Progressives Suspended From ILG Misery Stalks Fascist Austria What to Attend March of Events by Jack Weber A Dangerous Alliance The Labor Party Fallacy Shall We Compete With Fascism? Super Red-Baiting Bill to Keep Truth From Soldiers Why Join the Workers Party -Letters to a Worker Correspondent by A.J. Muste (Part 2) An Example of Reform General Trend Today Riding in Opposite Directions The Pacific Movement -Japanese Imperialism Stirs Up Race Hatred in America by Simon Williamson "Friend" of the Negro The "Friend" in Action Liberals by Louis Breier (Poem) The Hooey Long Way A Bloc with Reformists The Socialist Party Question Box Unemployed in Ind. Organize Out of the SP "Organize or Starve" S.P. Begins Writing Letters Pity the Poor Owners Will They Make Them by Jim Karl (Political Cartoon) The Paris Commune by Joseph Carter Deadly Menace to Whom Toll of the Bloody Work Russian Workers Learn Lessons of Communism Commemorate the Commune--Build Workers Party Banks Increase Control of Gov't Thru Bond Purchases Who Bus Bonds? Banks and Security Left Jabs by Bill Sherman Oh, Deah, Deah! Race Prejudice Reviewing the Crisis Building the A,F, of L. Olgin, God, and Father Divine 14 Mar 23, 1935 Capitol News Letter by Jack Elder A Bigger and Better Board The Works-Relief Bill by Jack Elder Nation Totter on the Brink of Another Imperialist War -Capitalists Profited $12,000 For Every Death in Last -Second World War Looms The Second World War What War Means Who Won? New Classes in School Sacramento C.S. Trial Near End -Judge Rules Case to Continue Despite Ford's Illness A British Patriot 20th Century Civilization Life, Liberty, the Pursuit of Happiness by Bill Reich Housing Society Sports Food Relief The Arts and Sciences Business and Finance Cannon Rorty And Chas. Malamuth Will Tell of Cal. Terror Democracy Violent In S.P. -Class Struggle in the S.P. N.U.L. Blasts Roosevelt's Relief Plan -Like Trying to Fight a Fire With Tea Cup 30 Hour Weeks Nothing for War Administered by Workers and Farmers Auto-Rubber Alliance in Akron by Jack Wilson Allentown Pushes New Militant Circulation Drive WP Progress on All Fronts, National and International Marked at Ptsbg. Conference -Membership, Trade Union, Unemployed Work Shows Gain; Daily Paper Up for Discussion Membership Increases S.Y.L. Doubled Membership A Daily Paper Nation-Wide Strike of 500,00 Bituminous Coal Miners Looms in April -Short Sweet and Victorious Under Rank and File Control -Danger of Separate Agreement by Leaders by Gerry Allard Dual Movements Demands Separate Agreements New Militant Drive News Donations, Contributions All Males Under 30 in CCC Plan of N.Y. Relief Bureau -Second Letter From a Relief Investigator Some Facts "Tapering Off" the Rolls J.P. Swaps Art for Profits in Japan Left Wing Program for Silk; No More Skulking Cliques by Felix Giordano The Task of the Left Wing No Cliques A Program for the Left Wing Curtain Drops on Work Relief Farce; Wages Will Drop Soon Boston Branch Activities Wages Lag Profits Soar Since 1849 -A.F. of L. Figures Condemn Own Policy as False at Best What to Attend March of Events by Jack Weber Hitler Unmasks German Rearmament Stalinism in France Danger of a French Amalgam S.Y.L. Looks to the Future of the American Revolution by Reva Crane Why Join the Workers Party -Letters to a Worker Correspondent by A.J. Muste What the Masses Fight For How Are Strikes Caused? The Revolutionary Party Criminal Syndicalist or Renegade? -From a Statement of Norman Mini in Reply to the Slanders of the Stalinist Press by Norman Mini The McAllister Interview Another Prisoner Speaks The "United Front" Who Bailed Out Decker? Who Hurts the Defense? Hooey Not This Time We Accuse William Green Friends of Labor Currency Inflation War of Today Leads Inevitably to Military War of Tomorrow Stabilization Funds Birth Control Good Work Franklin by Jim Karl (Political Cartoon) AF of L Leaders Hope for New Gov't Sell Out Board. Want Labor to Confide in Capitalism Question Box 15 Mar 30, 1935 Only A Spark is Needed! (To start the next World War) Strike Struggles Grip Toledo -4 Unions on Strike -Joint Action Committee Established -"March of Labor" Takes the Field; W.P. Members Active "The March of Labor" Akron Workers Set for Siege in Rubber -Bosses Import 3 Thousand Hired Thugs as Union Girds for First Test in 20 Years by Jack Wilson Scabs Ready City Tense and Expectant Starvation Faces Million New York Jobless -Relief Inadequate, Conditions Appalling Is Finding of Mayor's Committee Malnutrition Rife The Sick Alliance Clothing Inadequate Thomas Offers Olive Branch to Old Guard General Strike Shuts Down LA Hat Industry -Morale of Workers High as Strong Picket Lines Surround Shops by Sam Myers Dan Tobin Rats on Fargo Driver But Ranks Remain Firm N.P.L.D. Attorney at Work C.P. Members Take Stand in Sacramento Evading Fundamentals Need for Unity is Leading Issue at Coming Steel Workers Convention -Trend of Steel Union Depends on Action of Progressives All Promises--No Action Unity Chief Issue Stalinist Parades Plentywood Leads Drive Donations, Contributions What to Attend Solidarity Forever by Florence Wyle Tony "Little Annie" The Old Timer Surging Hopes Poverty and Discrimination -Behind the Harlem Events Death Stalks the Streets Home Relief Discriminates Special Rules for Harlem Allard Calls on the P.M.A. Convention for United Struggle in Coming Coal Strike Allard's Remarks Two Roads Unholy Alliance at Work Rank and File Holds Key Strikes Looming Everywhere Plan of Action Proposed March of Events by Jack Weber The AAA and the Tenant Farmer Driving Farmers Off the Land The Attack on Trotsky Dutch Parliament Raises Banner of Fourth International Translation of Article in De Baanbreker (March 2, 1935 on the Paris Conference of Feb 14) Why Join the Workers Party -Letters to a Worker Correspondent by A.J. Muste The Right to Vote for Stalin is Granted by L.T. [Leon Trotsky] The Risk of the Party Question Box W.P. on the Firing Line The Socialist Party Crisis The Paradox of New York Left Jabs British Bourgeois Hypocrisy Britain, Hitler and Peace The "Great Engineer" Tries a Comeback Justice in Harlem Harmless Substitutes All 16 Apr 6, 1935 The Crime of Sacramento -An Editorial NY Left Wing Leaves YPSL and Joins WP -Resign as a Group in Protest Against N.C. Decision at Buffalo Analyses Confirmed Struggle Against Reformism Jobless Drivers Organize Modern Strike Strategy -Daily Strike Bulletin -Gas House Worker (Daily strike paper) St. Louis Gas House Workers Answer Bosses with Strike -Police and Scabs Fail to Terrorize Strikers' Two Unions Offer Aid Daily Strike Bulletin The Grand Stall Rat Agency Active Court Convicts 8 in Sacramento Amid Red Scare -Jury Acquits Six in Compromise After Sixty Six Hours N.U.L. Helps Win Strike Albert Lea Strikers Duped by False Lawyers - Serve 60 Days Seized for "Rioting" Olson's Recommendation Supreme Court Ruling Emme's Dismissal Guilty of Organizing -Norman Mini (Photograph) Scottsboro Boys Granted New Trial -Is Victory for Negro Rights; Struggle Must Be Continued Victory for Negro Rights Victory Not Yet Complete Akron Rubber Strike Impends -City Tense -Goodyear Vote Overwhelming for a Walkout by Jack Wilson Danger in Strike Delay Company Maneuvers Rank and File Restless Regional SYL Conference Fargo -- A Labor Struggle That Rocked the Northwest Vigilante Trouble-Shooting Tear Gas for Children Packed Jury The Cross of Silver -Between Speeches Coughlin Engages In Practical Business of His Own by Dan Eastman Lubricating an Oil Plot Making Charity Pay For God and Silver All Roads Lead to Wall Street S.Y.L. Maps National Tour 1500 "Bootleg" Coal Miners Organize Five in California Quit C.P. and Join Workers Party (Letter signed by T.H. Jameson, B.L. Collins, W.A. Pitts, Mrs. W.A. Pitts and Mrs. Ollie Collins In the Unions by Karl Lore War Union Label Metal Trades What to Attend Tour to the U.S.S.R. March of Events by Jack Weber Fascist Symptoms in the Third Party Movement New Political Movements and the Class Struggle News from the Soviet Union -The Anti-Trotsky Crusade An Erring Professor A Trotskyist Nest" "Ignored the Works of Stalin" One Expelled, One Censured "Always True Bolsheviks" Twenty Cases in Twenty Cities Join the Workers Party by A.J. Muste -Letters to a Worker Correspondent Internationalism American Traditions Study the Program Revolutionists Must Organize Civil War in Greece -(Extracts from a letter) Question Box Fling Back the Challenge! New Recruits Tom Mooney Appeals Local 22 Elections Conferences Prepare May Day in N.Y. and Chicago Unity Wins Out W.P. Proposal Adopted Executive Committee Elected "The Collective Propagandist" from National Committee of the W.P., A.J. Muste, Secretary Capitol News Letter by Jack Elder Human and Divine The Pitfalls of Lewisdom... 17 Apr 13, 1935 War! -The Enemy Is In Our Own Country Juror Hits Verdict in California -Goldman Appeals for New Trial as Deal is Uncovered -Jurors Affidavit Flays Sacramento Verdict -Horse-Trade Uncovered; Goldman Calls for New Trial Jurors Threatened Stalinist Prisoners Reconsider Nation-wide Strike Against War Stirs Students Roll, Tire, Roll! (Political Cartoon) Toledo Auto Strike Looms -Men Flocking into Chevrolet Union by Art Preis Continue Fight for the Scottsboro Boys Death and Destruction "Peace" Record of 1934 Labor Supports St. Louis Gas Workers Strike -Trick Settlement Rejected -Ladies' Auxiliary Is Organized Labor Movement in Support "Settlement" Rejected One Scab--Fifteen Cops Labor Rallies to Aid of Akron Strike -Solidarity Pledged by Cleveland & Detroit -Intervention of Perkin Threatens to Continue the "National Run Around" -Latest Strike Aspects at Glance by Jack Wilson Major Battle of 1935 Sentiment Militant Furrier Says CP's Dizzy Turn Threatens Existence of Union by J. Rabinowitz What to Attend Are You Interested in These Problems? Pittsburgh Headquarters N.U.L. Pickets White House (Photograph) Boston Conference Prepares Joint May Day Celebration by L Schlosberg Spartacus Starts National Tour An Appeal for Victor Serge S.Y.L. North-Eastern Regional Confab to Map Future Course by Sol Stevens Parties Unite Against War (Costa Rica and Panama) In the Unions by Karl Lore Come-Back? (Of I.W.W.) Rat Agency Neckties Merge Briefs Comments -On Life, Liberty and Pursuit of Happiness by Bill Reich Merry England Economics Labor Crime Society Notes Troyanovsky Poses as Doctor for Capitalism by A.J. Muste Physician for Capitalism Don't Rock the Boat! Pacifism with a Red Color The "Gods' Clash in Harlem by Simon Williamson Mother Horn and the Elder The Elder is Popular Father Divine in a Jam "God" in Contempt of Court Left Wing Group Scores Gains In French Socialist Ranks Influence Rapidly Growing Resolution Adopted in Paris Stalinists Furious Allentown Gains in Sub Drive Confusion Reigns in Ranks as C.P. Veers Toward Labor Party by Al Dasch Perversion of Theory A Bewildered Membership The Basis of Reformism Question Box by A. Weaver Left Jabs This Changing World Diplomatic Dress Words and Action Anti-Fascist Meetings Spotlight on Akron The Danzig Elections Reversion to Type 15 points of Father Coughlin -Analysis of Program of Detroit Priest Reveals Fascist Trend in Fundamental Aims and Method by Dan Eastman Consummate Hypocrisy The Wages of Slavery No Offense Intended "Fair" Slavery? "Coordinated Unions" A "Simple" Government New Headquarters 18 Apr 20, 1935 Raw Deal Put Over in Akron -Green & Co. Surpass All Records For Treachery by Art Preis The Game of Delays Last Minute Promises C.P. Plays Claherty's Game Browder Swallows His Tongue Dragging Through the Courts The Betrayal in Rubber -And the Road Ahead by James P. Cannon Resentment is Bitter Over Trickery of "Settlement" -Inside Story of the Battle in Rubber Unions by Jack Wilson Nothing is Too Low The Rout at Firestone A "Bold" Faker The Specter of Black-Listing 110,000 Out in Student Strike Against War -Spartacus Youth League Plays Militant Role in Demonstrations Eight Are Sentenced on Coast -Two Refuse Mercy; Scorn Court in Speeches Refuse Probation NUL is Active Thruout Ohio Workers Party To March With Unions in N.Y. -May Day United Fronts Concluded in Other Cities Organizations Represented N.B.C. Strikers to Participate Labor Marshalls Forces for Banner May Day -Union Turnout to Be Biggest in Years -First May Day Finds Workers Party in Forefront of Important Labor Battles by A.J. Muste Before the Crisis Short Cut Proves a Trap Radical Thought Gaining The Wrong Way Against False Shibboleths For a Workers' World March of Events by Jack Weber The Stresa Conference Stalinism and the War Danger Capitol News Letter by Jack Elder What Now for the Textile Workers? -The Main Task After the Betrayal Is the Organization of Union Progressives by Felix Giordano The U.T.W. Convention Labor-Saving and Speed-Up Leadership Trusts in Washington Welcome to Soldiers Conditions of Truce The Lack of Left Wing Heaping Insult on Injury The Road Ahead The Only Alternative Progressive Organization Imperative Letters to the Editor (Letter from L.C.) Is Torgler Being Victimized by the C.P. Bureaucracy? Question Box by A. Weaver Comments -On Life Liberty and Pursuit of Happiness by Bill Reich Peace on Earth Good Will Towards Men Home Sweet Home Blessed Are the Little Children Labor The State of the Union Mass Picketing is Effective in FERA Workers Strike in Ohio -Newssellers Picket Press; Organize Union; Make Gains News Boys Organizing Radio Workers Are Fighting For One Nation-wide Union A.F. of L. Fakers No Help Three Unions in One Plant Fight Inside the A.F. of L. First Regional Conference of SYL Marks Real Progress by Bill Streeter Militant Joins Workers Party in Fort Wayne by Harry W. Conner Spartacus Starts National Tour In the Unions by Karl Lore Glass... Lumbermen... Hutcheson... Briefs... Youngstown Br. Leads Sub Drive What to Attend The "Lesser Evil" Again "But this same class struggle that results in our conviction will someday generate an irresistable wave that will sweep every thing this court and this state represent away forever" (Political Cartoon) Left Jabs by Bill Sherman "War is Human Who Are the Social Fascists? Happy Naziland! Preservation of Civilization Again Divine and Ford 19 Apr 27, 1935 Into the Streets on May Day! -First of May Manifesto of the Workers Party of U,S. Carry On! (Political Cartoon) Tobin Lifts Charter of Drivers Union, 574 -Join With Citizens Alliance -But Thousands of Truckers Swear Fealty To Local Leaders in Reinstatement Fight by F.X. Ferry Fight for Reinstatement Tobin's Real Reasons 574 Remains Firm The "United Front" March With the W.P. On May Day in N.Y. Broad Unity For May Day in Allentown -Monster Parade to Voice Important Labor Demands Toledo Strike Solid; Auto Plant Paralyzed -Strike Paper to Be Published -Militants Active, Promise real Fight, No Fake Agreement; Bosses Frantic by A.J. Muste Progressives in Leadership Company "Conditions" Strikers Aggressive To Publish Strike Daily Rely on Own Strength Beat Company Union in Calif. Auto Election -Workers Vote for AF of L Despite Extensive Fink System Comments -On Life, Liberty and Pursuit of Happiness Sweetness and Light Higher Learning Fearless Journalism Salaries Coercion Morals Department Society Notes August Upswing is Strategic Time for Silk Union Victory -Thorough Preparation is Vital -Organize Nationally, Raise $500,000 Strike Fund, Publish Strike Paper Now by Felix Giordano Need of Organization Perspectives What Must Be Done? Strike Organ Needed Now Plentywood and Youngstown Tie Mpls Council For one Union In Railroads In the Unions by Karl Lore Banks National Guard Yellow Dog Unions Briefs Capitol News Letter by Jack Elder In Every City and in Every Nation -History of May Day -Strikes, Demonstrations, Revolution Chicago Center of Struggle May Day Comes to France In Italy In Russia In Germany May Day 1917 After the War Back to the U.S. A Sacramento Juror Weeps -C.P.'s "Vigilante' Is Only Human After All by Herbert Solow McIntire Talks Believed Defendants Innocent Trading in Lives Juror Wants Sympathy Couldn't Sleep Nights Jurors Condemn Statement The Jury Pressure Counts Most Support the Defendants New Deal Paradise Summed Up Machine Guns in Ohio Strike What to Attend Battles in Chicago and Milwaukee -The First May Day -Let us Remember the Martyrs of 1886 We Remember the Dead 1st May Day in Union Sq. Hollywood Fury (Film Review of "Black Fury" about coal miners) The Negro Workers' Role in Past May Day Struggles by Simon Williamson Huey Long--Workers Enemy -Share-the Wealth Can Only Mean Share-the-Poverty As Long as the Capitalist System Endures by Arne Swabeck Out for Bigger Things Long as Roosevelt Supporter Huey's Discovery Ownership Determines Distribution For Maintenance of System For the American Workers--Labor Day or [May] First? Clubs and Bands A.F. of L. Condemns May Day March of Events by Jack Weber The Class Struggle in France The Ranks of the Workers Role of the Bolshevik-Leninists May Day, American Born in 1886 -Tremendous Strikes For 8 Hour Day Shook Nation -Knights of Labor Sprang Up Almost Over Night Workers Roused to Action The First May Day Knights of Labor Declines Pioneer Book Notes Question Box Left Jabs by Bill Sherman May Day in Britain May Day in Berlin Norman Mini "Justice" in New York Y.C.L. and Unity Toledo and May Day 20 May 4, 1935 May Day March Biggest in Post-War History -W.P. Section Voices Solidarity with Toledo at G.M.C. Building Boos for Hearst Solidarity with Toledo Leaders Kowtow to Cops Cannon Alone Stresses Struggle Highlights of May Day on Union Square Sub-Getters, On the Job! Illinois Confab Fights Threat To Stop Relief -3,000 Delegates Gather In Huge Four County I.W.A. Meeting Toledo Militants "Disturb" Washington A.F.L. Lobby Toledo Leads Revolt of Auto Workers "Settle Strike on the Picket Line, Not in Washington," Strikers Slogan -Fight Spreads -Local Votes Support for Daily Paper -Special to New Militant Flint Takes Strike Vote 1,700 Out in Norwood Dillon Tries to Stem Tide Tries to Divide Workers Strikers Demand Strike Paper Heed the Call of Toledo! by A.J. Muste Flint Invaded -Jamesville, Atlanta Plants on Strike Claherty Hits at Akron Rebels by Jack Wilson "India Tire" Workers Fight Back 65 Killed as Filipinos Rise -Wall Street Oppression Is at Bottom of New Revolt Public Backs Omaha Strike by Pat Murphy Comments -On Life, Liberty and Pursuit of Happiness by Bill Reich Wisdom in Washington... America the Beautiful... The State of the Nation... State of the World... St. Louis Gas Workers Stand Firm in Strike -Second Month of Fight Finds Picket Line Solid Capitol News Letter -The Meaning of the Wagner Bill -- A Noose for Labor by Jack Elder Economic Security... Lang--Hearstian Socialist Miners Honor Slain Fighter in Mass Funeral -Swarm Into Springfield to Protest Mabie Murder Employment Gains Less In the Unions by Karl Lore Weakness... Shoe Workers... No Fights... No Gentlemen... March of Events by Jack Weber The Road to Power... The Betrayals... Abramovitsch... S.Y.L. Flays Youth Buro Rep. for Stand at Paris Meet In the Service of His Majesty -Norwegian Labor Party Enters Cabinet Under Domination of Ruling Class by H. St. Voting the King's Stipend New Uses for Cops Importance of Trade unions Bolshevik-Leninists in U.S.S.R. Face New Frame-Up by Leon Trotsky Pouring Salt on the Wounds of China's Oppressed Masses Banquet for Concubine Irony of Fate Question Box Local 574 Under Fire Again 5,000 in Cleveland May First Parade Debate on WP vs. SP Scheduled in N.Y Left Jabs by Bill Sherman Police Hero Fascist Future Foretold As Rare as Albino Frogs Two of a Kind Red or Green Banners? Again Peace Phila. W.P. in May Day Unity 21 May 11, 1935 War -and the Franco-Soviet Pact by James P. Cannon 20 Workers Party Pickets Arrested in N.Y. Demonstration Against General Motors Dutch Party Gains 4 Seats in Elections "Wildcat" Miners Boo Solons at Hearing Allard Leads Illinois Jobless On Capitol Muste Rallies N.Y. Support For Auto Strike -400 Cheer Speaker to Echo in Inspiring Meeting Reviewing Toledo's Tradition Warns Against Dillon Ovation From Crowd Dillon Spikes Flint Strike Vote; Slurs Toledo Workers U.S. Washes Hands of Inquiry into Minor Kidnap Outrage Strikers Reject Union Busting "Peace" -Trim Scabs -Roland Sounds Fighting Note at Big Meeting -Resume "Strike Truth" as Union Prepares to Spread Battle -Spread Strike is Task Ahead -Special to the New Militant Dillon Accepts Scab Terms 5,000 Rally Support Knudsen Won't Negotiate Roland Fights Capitulation Workers Party Active How the Tables Were Turned (At Toledo Chevrolet) Comments -On Life, Liberty and Pursuit of Happiness Youth... Collective Bargaining... Education... Society Notes... State of Nation... "In the Name of God" -Coughlin "Eschews All Radicalism;" Offers Age-Old Panaceas as Cure-All by Arne Swabeck Says It is Not a Third Party Makes Bid For Farmers, Workers Real Appeal is o Petty Bourgeoisie Coughlin Explains His System Classes and Production In the Union by Karl Lore Progressive Lewis... Fireworks... Lumber... S.Y.L. Regional Confab Held In Youngstown by M. Slavin What to Attend March of Events by Jack Weber Imperial Jubilee... Role of Monarchy... Labor Party... The "American Approach" -Adapting Marxism To the American Class Struggle by A.J. Muste Theory and Practice Lenin's Realistic Approach How Advise the Youth? The "Lunatic" Fringe The American Pragmatism Assimilating "Activists" The Fallacy of Individualism The Vanguard Letters to the Editor from H. Robins and A. Gras Question Box Shades of 1914 Jobless Slugged at N.Y. Relief Bureau Uriah Heep? No, Abe Cahan! Federal Judge Sees Doom of Capitalism "The Shrine of the Little Flower" (Political Cartoon abut Father Coughlin) Rebuild Dental Workers Union May First Sees United Front in Many Cities Chicago Kansas City by Jefferson Rall New Castle by Fred Rayburn 22 May 18, 1935 NEW MILITANT with which is merged THE MILITANT Published Weekly by the Workers Party of the U.S. James P. Cannon, Editor Harry A, Howe, Associate Editor War -and the Stalin-Laval Communique by James P. Cannon Unemployed Leader -Gerry Allard (Photograph of Gerry Allard) Next Week! (A Statement from the Workers Party on the Franco-Soviet Alliance) St Louis Gas Strike is Solid Despite Terror Strike Paper Invaluable Jobless Renew Relief March For Showdown -Will Lay Siege to Ill. State Capitol Says I.W.A. Leader by Gerry Allard Present Their Demands Learn Political Lesson Federation Knifes Unemployed W.P. Supports Election Battle Against Mpls. Reactionaries Applying the "Merit Clause" (Political Cartoon about G.M. Strike) Lessons of the Great Toledo Battle Dillon Men Slug Toledo Workers in Flint Meet Expel Allentown Professor for Activity in Labor Movement Toledo Auto Progressives Organize -Dillon & Co. Wreck Chance to Win Strike -Temporary Setback is Signal to Cement Ranks by Art Preis Lack of Experience Fulminates at Muste Schwake Rats for Dillon Knifes Roland Progressives Organize W.P. in Strike Comments -On Life, Liberty and Pursuit of Happiness by Bill Reich Privileged Classes... Food... Jobs... Patriotism... Society Notes... Central Labor Union Backs Local 574 -Unanimous Appeal For Reinstatement Find Charges False Take Immediate Steps What to Attend Boston Dressmaker Calls for Effective Preparations to Improve Conditions by J. Raymond Reject Pact in Rubber Strike by R. Ferguson Letters to the Editor letter from Cara Cook, Former Manager, New Militant Question Box by A. Weaver March of Events by Jack Weber In Belgium... Coalition Gov't... The Effects... The Forgotten Men in America's No-Man's Land -Ward H. Rogers Tells Stirring Story Of Share-Croppers Battle by Harry Strang NRA a New Burden Color Issue Raised Threaten Lynchings Shoot Union Men N.P.L.D. Aids Defense The American Approach -The Use of Polemics in the Labor Movement by A.J. Muste (Part 2 of a series) Mud-Slinging Methods The Issue at Hand The Point of Departure Unity--Its Real Meaning The Question of Stalinism The Ostrich Method The Job Before Us The Pulitzer Prize for Poison Pens Classical Language Stalinist Treason in France -Some Startling Quotations from L'Humanite of Paris The Peace Policy of the C.I. Peri and Pertinax The Announcement of Treason Big Crowd at Cannon Meet 23 May 25, 1935 NEW MILITANT with which is merged THE MILITANT Published weekly by the New Militant Publishing Co. James p. Cannon.............Editor Harry A. Howe...............Associate Editor Illinois Workers Plan New Hunger March -Hit Sales Tax -Will Fight to Last Ditch Says IWA Leader Call for National Support New Castle Jobless Storm Relief Office by Fred Rayburn A.J. Muste to Broadcast On Radio May 30, 10PM ILGW Pledges to Support Relief Battle Wage Levels Hit New Low as FDR "Redistributes" Wealth Youth Confab Swayed by SYL In Minneapolis -Left Wing Delegates Carry the Field by Reginald L. Burke Purpose of Conference Expelled Professor -Winslow N. Hallett (Photograph) -Allentown CLU Backs Teacher In College Fight -N.P.L.D. Organizes Wide Campaign for Reinstatement P.U.L. Protests Church Considers Case Central Union Slams Dillon For Settlement -Worse than Hitler Toledo Body Finds Dillon's Dictatorship In Fitting Company Key Lumber Plants Walk Out -Industry Tied Up on West Coast Bakers Strike To Gain Union Demands in NY $4.75 A Week -- The Roosevelt Standard -Coolie Wages -Low Scale Will Drive All Union Rates Down -"Fear of Strikes" Disturbs Bill Green --Would Rather Talk The Very Minimum Lower Everywhere How Scales Were Determined Under P.W.A. Rates Not Isolated--Competing Green's Nightmares Bills, Not Action It Depends on Labor Comments -On Life, Liberty and Pursuit of Happiness by Bill Reich Land of the Free... And Home of the Brave... Great Minds... Higher Learning... Fearless Journalism... Society Notes... Inside Story of Toledo Strike -Told by a Leading Participant in the Battle with General Motors by Art Preis (Continued next week) Went Down Fighting Role of the W.P. Toledo Before Auto-Lite Latent Power of Workers The First Battle In Passing General Motors Next Letters to the Editor * Wrong on Mass Pressure Reader Says by Harry Strang * Tobin Skunk Should Have CP Rat for Pal by H.S. * The Party on the Flying Trapeze What to Attend In the Unions by Karl Lore Newspaper Guild... Split?... Copper... The Manager's Corner Question Box by A. Weaver March of Events by Jack Weber Franco-Soviet Pact... Stalinist Wreckage... Rules of Class War... Left Socialist Conference--A Letter and a Declaration Letter of Comrade Seegers by Will A. Seegers Declaration of Schmidt and Sneevliet by P.J. Schmidt and H. Sneevliet The "American Approach" -Twin Evils of Labor -- Nationalism & Reformism by A.J. Muste (Part 3 of 4) Borrowing Symbols A Deadly Parallel A Practical Example American Tradition The Constitutional Amendment A "Parliamentary" Revolution Logic of a False Position Fourth International Party Formed in Fusion in Holland from The Bulletin of the International Communist League (Bolshevik-Leninists) The Name of Party International Affiliation Parties in Holland Bi-Weekly Organ A Forward Step Progressives Organize! Auto International S.Y.L. Fights for a United Protest on Memorial Day S.Y.L. Efforts for Unity Letter to Young Socialists Opposes Stalinist Disruption Refused Speaker Gould Speaks in Kansas City by Jeff Rall French Situation is Feature of May "New International" 24 Jun 1, 1935 Editorials * The End of the Blue Buzzard (Concerns the Supreme Court and the NRA) * A Shady Adventure * The Wagner Bill Victory Greets Efforts of Ill. Jobless Masses -C.P. Rivals Mr. Hearst In Slurs at I.W.A. by Gerry Allard One Marcher Dies Jobless Make History Wrecking Crew at Work What to Attend Statement on the Franco-Soviet Alliance by the National Committee of the Workers Party of the U.S. N.U.L. Protest Paupers Wages on Work Relief -Demands Adoption of Workers Security Bill Muste Speaks for Workers' Revolution on Nat'l Hook-Up -Choice Between Fascism or Communism He Declares Abundance for All Obliterating Insecurity The Choice for All A.J. Muste (Photograph) Drive on Pro-Labor Professors Assumes Wide Proportions Hicks Dismissed C.L.U. to Extend Action Wage Slashing Drive Begins -N.R.A. Flops -Bosses Rush To Cash In On Court Decision -Organization Is Only Power in Labors' Hands by F. Ferry Anti-Labor Decisions Where Conditions Improved "Far-Sighted" Exploiters Don't Forget Hoover Prepare for Action Comments -On Life, Liberty and Pursuit of Happiness by Bill Reich Labor... Boom... Arts and Letters... Progress... Games... Society Notes... Inside the Story of Toledo Strike -Told by a Leading Participant in the Battle with General Motors by Art Preis (Second in a series of 3) The Organized Unemployed The Famous Death March "March of Labor" Showdown Comes in Autos The Company Maneuver One-Man Picket Line Acted Quickly Trying to Stall Censure Silk Workers Board; Fails to Carry Out Decisions by Felix Giordano W.P. Member Speaks Union Muffs Situation An Alarm Signal The Manager's Corner More Builders Are Wanted Next New International to Appear Soon Speed Is Most Important Now! As the French Working Class Approached the Final Crisis -Lessons of the Municipal Election -- "Victory" Brings Fascist Danger Closer The Italian Experience Disavow "Civil Truce" The Dilemma Resolution of the Bolshevik-Leninists For the Coming Congress of the French SP The "American Approach" -How the Job Can and Must Be Done by A.J. Muste Allies of the Workers L. Budenz Resigns From Workers Party 25 Jun 8, 1935 N.P.L.D. to Appeal Criminal Syndicalist Case in Sacramento -National Issue -Campaign Planned in Labor Movement of Entire Country Conference Called Socialist Party Reply Radio Symposium Brings Thousands of Letters Slug Pickets in Brutal Sally on Packing Strike -Mayor Praises Police After Attack in Columbus -(Special to New Militant) Bosses Understand Mayor Whitewashes Police Mass Picket Line For Hallet Defense Drive Begins for Eight-Page New Militant by August First -Interesting Features and Educational Articles Will Be Attraction in Enlarged Paper; Members, Sympathizers Urged to Support Ohio Jobless to Meet on June 7 -Protest Splitting Move by W.A.A. Chairman In State -(By Special Correspondent) N.C. of W.P. to Hold Plenum Lumber Strikers Win Initial Victory Terror is Used Against Bakers -Solidarity Will Win Strike, Union L:eader Says Face Smashed In Article on Franco-Soviet Alliance on Page Three A.F. of L. Leaders Split Ranks of Canton Strike -Succeed After Bosses Guns, Clubs and Gas Fail by Jack Wilson New Castle WP Gains In Intensive Drive Toledo Edison Strike Is Called Off After Paralyzing Industry -Press Frantic -Enormous Pressure Causes Cave-In of Strike -(Special to the New Militant) by Art Preis Frenzied Attack on Strike Press Demands Violence Comments -On Life, Liberty and Pursuit of Happiness by Bill Reich Peace on Earth... Captains of Industry... Labor... Majesty of the Law... Population... Wonders of Science... Inside Story of Toledo Strike -Told by a Leading Participant in the Battle With General Motors (Part 3 of 3) by Art Preis No Try at Scabbing Combating Company Propaganda The Negotiations Conflict Sharpens Strike Spreads Welcome W.P. Literature Dillon's First Trick Turn Down Proposal The Showdown Role of Parties Progressives to Meet Soon Stalinist Disrupters Routed In Ill. Meeting on Hunger March Stalinists Scalping Party Solid Support Correction Progressives Map Plans for Strike in Silk Assume Offensive Proposals Stalin Has Signed the Death Certificate of the Third International from the International Secretariat of the International Communist League Open Letter To the World Proletariat Brest-Litovsk and the Franco-Russian Pact Has the War Danger a National Address? Social Patriotism Is Driving the U.S.S.R. to Ruin The Betrayal of Stalin and the Crisis in the U.S.S.R. Stalinism to the Rescue of Social Pacifism The League of Nations and Blum's Faith Must We Support Alliances Useful to the Workers Gov't? The Pact is the Consequence of the Defeats of the World Proletariat Safety Lies in the Revolutionary Policy of the Proletariat Socialism in one Country Ends in Civil Peace The Third International Is Dead! Long Live The Fourth International! Announcement of Betrayal! (Extract from a speech by Maurice Thorez, leader of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of France) The Sacramento Appeal S.Y.L. Takes Leap Forward Mid-West Conference Shows Grows in Outlying Territory Table R.O.T.C. Motion Report from Gillespie Gould Speaks at "Y" Letters to the Editor -When Gold Turns to Mud or a Letter The Daily Worker Failed to Print (To Mike Gold) by Gerry Allard Broken Bone Stuff Mike's Union Sq. Miners Learn a Few Things, Gold Just Not Recognized Something Fishy Here "The Future Belongs to the Youth" Illinois Wages Sag in April Progressives Meet in N.Y. Needle Trades by B.F. Situation in the Industry Situation in the Unions Progressive Leadership A Holy Father (Anonymous Poem) 26 Jun 15, 1935 NEW MILITANT with which is merged THE MILITANT Published weekly by the New Militant Publishing Co. James P. Cannon..................Editor Left Groupings Confer in N.Y. Needle Trades -Lovestonites Dampen and Dominate Conference Shelve Industrial Unionism Bill Green's Position Sleight-of-Hand Green Acts to Stall New Rubber Union Progressives Unite to Fight Expulsion in Teachers Union -Split Threatens as Right Wing Socialist Administration Moves to Comply with Green's Demand for Red Hunt Second Expulsion Attempt New Frame-up Southern Tenant Farmers Union Expands Furriers Unite In One Union -"Red" Union Dissolved Joins A.F. of L. International Police Destroy American Flag -Assault Mass Picket Line for Hallett Reinstatement Pickets in Cap and Gown NPLD Pushes Campaign for Mini Freedom -Opening Gun Will Be Banquet in N.Y. On June 26 N.P.L.D. for Unified Defense C.P. Opposes Unity Mini Rejects I.L.D. Baker Strike Ends After Fierce Battle Shoulder to the Wheel--Everybody Behind the Eight Page New Militant 131 Delegates Participate in W. Va. Jobless Convention -Class Struggle Measures Adopted; Fighting Executive Elected "War Only for Freedom" Resolutions Adopted News Men's Guild To Join A.F. of L. by Jack Wilson Affiliate Industrially Unemployed Leagues Hold Mass Conventions -P.U.L. Meets -Militant Stand Is Adopted on Burning Issues -Labor Party Rejected; Favor Revolutionary Action -P.U.L. Convention Marks Great Stride Forward Plan Against Relief Rates Reject Phony Unity Labor Party Resolution For Revolutionary Action New Officers Elected Comments -On Life, Liberty and Pursuit of Happiness by Bill Reich The World Do Move... Who Respects the Flag? "Don't Worry Your Little Heads" Copper Miners Strike at Phelps-Dodge Dunne Blasts C.P. in Debate -After Complete Rout Stalinists Apologize For Disruption Tiala Ducks Out Dunne on Stalinism Old Slanders Answered Complete Rout of C.P. Letters to the Editor -From Comrade to "Disrupter", C.P. Style The Manager's Corner Italians Mutiny as Mobilization Gives Nation Jump What to Attend Rubber Barons Begin Offensive -New Line Is Pretext For Firing Active Progressives by George Papcun Second Offensive Lay-Off Begins Progressives Active March of Events by Jack Weber Imperialist Objectives.. The Call for War... American Preparation How the Stalinists Ruin the Morale of the Red Army by Alpha Pertinent Questions What About Lenin? "Killed" Again Behind the Rearmament of Germany -Consequences of Hitler's Program for The International Working Class (By ICL Press Service) "Drang Nach Osten" No Solution at All In Germany Proper Labor Passive The Double-Edged Sword International Support Vital Question Box by A. Weaver British I.L.P. Marks Time Report of Conference Shows (Reprinted from the Vanguard, organ of the Workers Party of Canada) Stalinists Balked Three Main Lines The Present Need Mexican Railway, Mine Workers Forming Pact Corroboration of Betrayal (From a speech by the C.P. deputy in the Czech parliament) The Socialist Call and Social Patriotism Industrial Unionism and the A.F. of L. by Karl Lore In the Old Unions Warfare Against Brewery Union The "Campaign" in Steel The Oil Contract Splitting the Federal Locals No Change Envisaged Separating Unskilled Workers Issue For Progressives 27 Jun 29, 1935 S.P. Congress Meets Amis French Crisis -Blum Speaks; He Hails Social Patriotism of the Stalinists -Leninists Alone Hold Aloft Banner of Revolution by Special Correspondent Why Was Flandin Defeated Stalinist Parliamentarians The Radicals Capitulate The Mulhouse Congress National Defense Stalin Changes Thorez' Mind The Bolshevik Leninists Eight-Page New Militant First Step to Daily Paper by A.J. Muste National Secretary of the W.P. Perkins Hunts Reds in Akron -Government "Survey" Trick to Avert New Strike by Jack Wilson The Government "Survey" Troops Smash Illinois Strike -Captain Honors "Forgotten" Men by Tear Gassing Them by Leighton Rigby Tricked Again 500 in New York Pledge Support to C.S. Victims -Bitter Attacks of I.L.D. Fail to Shake Mini More I.L.D. Sabotage I.L.D. Tries Terror Mini Stands Firm Woll Opens Drive on AFL Progressives Students at Edinburgh Offer Trotsky Rectorship letter to the Students of Edinburgh University by Leon Trotsky Deploy Militia in Omaha Strike -Fire at Pickets and Public but Morale Holds Strong by Pat Murphy Why We Skipped the Last Issue National Guard Shoot Lumber Men in Tacoma -Strike Persists Despite Brutal Terror from All Sides What Will the Army Do? Two Killed in South Carolina Mill Strike Sergei Trotsky Jailed By Stalin Bureaucrats -An Act of Vengeance -Mother Asks for Investigation of Latest Series of Persecutions by Nathalie I. Trotsky Never in Politics Stayed in Russia Six Months in Jail An Act of Vengeance A New Amalgam An International Committee Comments -On Life, Liberty and Pursuit of Happiness by Bill Reich Death of the Blue Eagle... Advice to Graduates Cops... Agricultural Adjustment Letters to the Editor * Furrier Hails Unity Achieved in Union; Tells of Progressives Role by J Kaminitsky Conditions Degraded The Role of Stalinists Struggle of Progressives * Sacramento Case and Agricultural Union by Paul Courtney * Criticizes Article on Franco-Soviet Pact by E. Everett The Manager's Corner -Full Steam Ahead Now in Drive for Eight-Page Militant! Force Yipsels Resign Posts The Proposed Program "Militants" Embarrassed K.C. Battery Workers Strike What to Attend 1,087 Vote for Bolshevik-Leninists in Paris S.P. District Morocco Marne Finistere Rhone Vaucluse Tarne-Et-Gare Yonne The Bolshevik-Leninist Position The Centrist Verbiage The Will to Revolution Pivert on the Tightrope First Battalion of Workers Militia Marches in France Platform of the Bolshevik-Leninist Group in French S.P. The Struggle for Power Revolutionary Defeatism Illegal Work Factory Nuclei Rotten Arguments for a Rotten Cause-the Road from Class Struggle to Civil Peace Social-Patriotic Dishrags Abusing a Good Example Lenin's "Conditions" General Strike Against War "Revolutionary Defense" The Logical Conclusion Mexican Labor Movement Unites Against Reaction Mexico's "New Deal" Report Activities of Boston W.P. Branch I.S.U. Strikes Cities Service (East coast oil tankers idled in quest for union contract) Question Box by A. Weaver 28 Jul 6, 1935 Britain Joins Hitler Against Soviet Union -Smashes Versailles Pact by Treaty with Germany Blow at France Fear for Colonies Protest Stalin Jailings in N.Y. New York Pledges $1000 in Drive for 8-Page New Militant -Manager's Corner New York Pledges $1,000 Contributions to Date Special Subscription Contest The New "Magna Charta" for Labor Akron C.L.U. Head Backs Green Red Drive in the Unions by Jack Wilson Italy Prepares Ethiopia Rape, Mussolini Says -Dynamite in Situation May Explode in New World War by Martin A. Glee Britain's Stake Mussolini's Alibi No Help from Litvinoff Ford's Pay Boosts Really Wage Slash Plant Survey Shows Lay-off, Speed-up Invent Electric Jolt for Strikes Beet Workers Organize Roosevelt Throws Youth a Bone But Slams Labor at Same Time Only One-Sixth "Benefits" A Blow at Labor 100 Companies Grab 1/4 of Nation's Wealth -Plutocrats Squeeze Out Small Business Fewer and Fewer Hands Comments -On Life, Liberty and Pursuit of Happiness Great Minds... Safety... Blue Eagle... Housing... Unemployment... A Survey of the Automobile Industry -Detroit and Toledo-Striking Contrast In Organization Methods Detroit Doesn't Budge Toledo and Detroit--a Contrast Role of the C.P. Dillon Blocks the Road Good Opportunities Missed M.E.S.A. Stagnates Workers Must Prepare to Strike A Letter the Daily Worker Dared Not Print by Jack Taylor Tobin's Union-Busting Drive Against 574--and Their Reply Tobin Program Worse than Bosses Slander Used in Election Campaign Travesty on Union Democracy Threaten Charter Revocations Reactionaries Meet Defeat Plenum of N.C. of W.P. Spikes False Rumors What to Attend March of Events by Jack Weber England Ends Versailles Treaty Stalin Grovels Before Imperialism From The Very Beginning -Heritage of Class Struggle in U.S. History by Al Dasch A Legacy of Force The Rebels of Yesterday Suppressing the Poor Administration Split Policy In Teacher's Union Threatens Progressives in A.F. of L. Work of the Opposition Groups The "Investigation" Maneuvers Effect on Other Unions Zack Expelled from Workers Party Bolshevik Speaks for Fourth International at SFIO Congress The Third International Unity of the Second and Third Internationals? Labor Party Confusion For a Fighting Auto Union Spring Makers Strike in N.Y. A Reply to Liberal Critics of Bolshevism -The Position of the Workers Party on Proletarian Dictatorship and Worker's Democracy in Light of Recent Events by A.J. Muste Stalin Sows Illusions Liberals Find a Moral In the Ukraine Answer of Workers Party 29 Jul 13, 1935 Mooney Wins New Hearing -State Confesses to Destruction of Evidence State Destroys Evidence Wagner Bill Ignored in Akron Old Guard Pounds Militants As Socialist Party N.C. Meets -Right Wing Riding High; National "Militant" Caucus Breaks; Hoan with Waldman; Thomas Attacks Left Old Guard Position Clear "Cadre Builds Program"! Pessimism Among "Leaders" Heavy Prison Terms Given to Group of Polish "Trotskyites" Workers' Security Bill Drafted by Nat'l Unemployed League U.S. Aids Terror of Mendieta -Brutal Regime Slays and Jails Scores of Workers -Cuban Repressions Maintained with Aid of U.S. -Mendieta Regime Vies with Machado in Terror Record -Bolshevik Leninists Among the Victims of Savage Government Attacks by R.S. De La Torre The Strike Martial Law Organize the Workers Middle Class Parasitic Guiteras' Position Thrift Pays -Little Diana Didn't Save a Dime But Inherits $30,000 a Year Powers Yield to Italy's Aggression in Ethiopia-Il Duce Moves For Conquest In September -"White Man's Burden" Alibi for Fascist Exploitation by Martin A. Glee Il Duce Ready for Action Wants Only a "Crumb" Shall Ethiopia Perish -Against Italian Fascism, Negroes Are Fighting Battle of World Proletariat 3 Leading Members of North Dakota C.P. Resign; Join W.P., letter to Workers Party signed by Charles E. Taylor, Ashbel Ingerson and Mary Ingerson Comments -On Life, Liberty and Pursuit of Happiness Relief... Imperialism... Patriotism... Commerce & Industry... Stalinists Go to Bat for Priest -Chicago C.P. Makes Touching Plea for Coughlin by F.X. Ferry C.P. "Enforces the Constitution" A "Fascist Attack" on Coughlin In Black on White Russian Stalinist Emissaries Sent to France to Win Socialist Youth for Patriotism and against Marxism The Color Line in the A.F. of L. -The Negro & American Labor No Negro on Committee Outright Discrimination Coast Dockers Defy Ryan at I.L.A. Meeting -Propose Progressive Measures; Wants New Leadership West Coast Against Ryan March of Events by Jack Weber The War for the Colonies Ethiopia and the Powers Civilizing Ethiopia What to Attend Question Box Application Rejected "Progressive" July Issue of New International Out A Reply to Liberal Critics of Bolshevism -The Position of the Workers Party on Proletarian Dictatorship and Worker's Democracy in Light of Recent Events by A.J. Muste (Continued from last issue) Freedom and Fascism The Workers' State Dealing With Enemies Democratic Centralism Bureaucratic Regime Our Position 30 Jul 20, 1935 NUL Calls National Caravan -Convention in Wash. D.C. to be Held Same Time Leading Oregon Lovestonite Quits; Joins Workers Party letter from Earl Lane Plans for Eight Page Completed; Now Funds! -Manager's Corner Pay Up Bundle Accounts "Toledo Plan" Hits Militant Union Policy -"Capital-Labor" Cooperation Intended Against Strikes by Cyrus Rigby Slobbers Over Plutocrats Revolt Against Muir Lumber Strike Sell-Out -A.F. of L. Chief Works Hand-in-Glove With Militia by Earl Lane Muir's Maneuvers Revolt Against Muir Police Terror 5.000 Protest in Aberdeen Africans Called to the Colors "Better Die Free Than Live as Slaves" Selassie Says No Share-the-Wealth Here Third Party Meet Sows Confusion; F.D.R. Safe by A.J. Muste Big Guns Very Absent Conservative As Any Old Guard Swamps Militants at SP Meet Reformism Triumphs Thomas Backslides Drop N.Y. Charges Norman "Swears" Old Guard Satisfied Case of Framed Negroes to Go to U.S. Supreme Court New Party Gains in Holland -Fourth Int'l Vote Increases in Many Municipalities It Pays to Be a Plutocrat Dismiss Indictment Against Robins-Gras Survey of Ohio Strikes Shows Value of Revolutionary Party by Jack Wilson General Features of Strikes Concrete Results The Role of the W.P. Comments -On Life, Liberty and Pursuit of Happiness by Bill Reich Agriculture... Patriotism... Capitol Hill... Society Notes... Form United Front to Protest Deportation of Anti-Fascists Strike Pits Brother Against Brother by Gerry Allard In the Unions by Karl Lore Program... How?? Ryan Cops ILA Gab Fest; Raises Salary Bridges Outmaneuvered The "Practical" Ryan Reveal Background of Fight by Militants in Teachers' Union for Real Democracy (Second in a series) Placed Hopes on LaGuardia The Green Anti-Red Campaign Neglect Costly in Elections What to Attend Question Box by A. Weaver C.P. Warned to Stop Hooligan Tactics in N.Y. -Stalinists and Cops Break Up W.P. Meeting (Two letters from Morris Lewitt, District Organizer of the W.P., to the Communist Party and the A.C.L.U.) Pacifism Keynote of A.Y.C. -Stalinists Adopt Social Patriotic Position - Defeat Spartacus Resolution to Oppose U.S. Imperialism under any Conditions in Next War -- Whole Venture Nears Collapse -Yipsels Prepare Break The S.Y.L. Resolution Picket Work Relief Office Workmen's Sick and Death Benefit Fund Holds Convention by Paul Sturm, National Secretary 31 Jul 27, 1935 Relief in Dakota Ceases -Work at Slave Wages Or Starve, Governor Orders "Militants" Capture YPSL Convention by Joseph Carter No Political Discussions Political Fight Evaded Y.C.L.er Warns of "Trotskyism" Genuine Left Wing Needed Seventh Congress of CI Opens in Moscow Phila. Fruit Clerks in Six Week Strike Social Patriotism in Full Flower in France -Stalinists in Van of Social Patriotism -Bureaucrats Dismayed at Rising Tide of Opposition Painting Up the Radicals Organic Unity Camden Strike Holds Up Big Navy Program -4600 Men in Shipyard Stop Production for 11 Weeks Terra Haute Strikers Victimized After General Strike Betrayal; City Tense as Militia Holds Sway -Troops Jail Scores -Labor Skates Time Treacherous Action With Onslaught of Press and Soldiers on Workers Town Stands Still "Napoleon" Declares Martial Law Ohio Jobless Prepare Huge State Confab -20,000 Are Expected to Heed League Call For Demonstration W.P. to Hold Anti-War Meeting in Allentown Comments -On Life, Liberty and Pursuit of Happiness by Bill Reich Washington Side Show... Housing... High Finance... Education... The Land of Plenty... What to Attend Spring Strike Enters Fifth Week 3 Members of P.P. Sect Resign After Bitter Struggle; Join W.P. Moonlight On the Hudson Indiana Council Members Denounce Stalinist Splitting Ride Scabs Out in Iowa Strike -Workers on March In Many Cities of State by Pat Murphy An Outline of Class Persecution -Criminal Syndicalism Laws Reviving Dead Laws Dusting Off the Civil War Terror in California "The Usual Story" Everything Goes French Revolutionists in Move Against New 1914 The Manager's Corner Contributions Bundle Order Settlements August New International Almost Ready Question Box by A. Weaver Terra Haute General Strike United Front on Ethiopia Greetings to The Vanguard (The Vanguard is the new official bi-weekly organ of the Workers Party of Canada) "Soc. Call" Whines at N.C. Decision War Against Dissenters "Militants" Disdain Ranks 32 Aug 3, 1935 Over the Top for the Eight-Page New Militant (Top Banner Headline) For the 4th International -Five Organizations Issue Call for New World Party; Answer New Betrayal of 7th Comintern Congress signed by Revolutionary Socialist Workers Party of Holland (R.S.A.P.): P.J. Schmidt, H. Sneevliet, Workers Party of the United States (W.P.U.S.): A.J. Muste, James P. Cannon, International Secretariat of International Communist League (Bolshevik-Leninists): Crux, Dubols, Martin, The Bolshevik-Leninist Group in the S.F.I.O., Workers Party of Canada (W.P.C.): J. MacDonald, M. Spector Open Letter to All Revolutionary Working Class Organizations & Groups Social Democracy Bound to the Chariot of the Bourgeoisie The Frightful Wreckage of the C.I. Over the World Stalin Has Signed the Death Warrant of the C.I. A New Slaughter and a New Betrayal Imminent We Are Stronger Today Than the "Lefts" in 1915 "Unity" at any Price Is a Monstrous Deception The New Epoch Requires A New International Revolution Alone Can Eliminate War The 4th International Stands on the Shoulders Of its Forerunners Introduction to the Open Letter by A.J. Muste, National Sec'y, W.P.U.S. 10,000 Rally for Tom Mooney In Frisco on 19th Year of Arrest Manifesto of the W.P.U.S. on Anti-War Day Feverish War Preparations Terrorism Grows War Will Involve U.S. Only Revolution Can Stop War Stalinism Has Betrayed! Lenin or Stalin Lenin and Karl Liebknecht Green Dodges Convention of Auto Workers by Burke Cochran Officials Dodge Question Industrial Union Aim Move for Omaha General Strike In Support of Tram Workers Comments -On Life, Liberty and Pursuit of Happiness Brides... Housing... New Deal... Prosperity... Royalty... Book Review... The Role and Position of the Various Groups in the Struggle Ocurring in the Teachers Union (Third in a series) The Progressive Group Policies of Rank and File Group A Bankrupt Maneuver The Committee for Democracy Party Grows in Cleveland Lumber Strike Ends; Obtained Few Demands -Labor Skates Expel All Rebellious Locals from Union by Earl Lane Concessions Inadequate Green's Papal Bull Promote the Struggle The Manager's Corner Postponement Unavoidable Exact Date in Next Issue Totals Going Up What to Attend Fight Hitlerism! Young Spartacus Out The Signers of the Open Letter Workers Party of the U.S. Revolutionary Workers Socialist Party of Holland (R.S.A.P.) International Communist League (I.C.I.) Bolshevik-Leninist Group in the S.F.I.O. Workers Party of Canada Move to Oust Lackey In British Unions Question Box by A. Weaver Dark Clouds in Italy United Front on Sacramento Broad Committee For the Boycott of Fascist Italy! -Against Italian Aggression in Ethiopia! International Communist League Calls For World Struggle The Thieves' Kitchen Action Alone Counts Proletariat Still Mighty Organize the Boycott Organize for Action Now! 33 Aug 10, 1935 Fierce Class War Tears Loose in France Against Laval's Starvation Decree Laws -Troops Slay 5 -"Dignity" Advice of C.P. In Fusillade of Bullet Workers Storm City Fruits of Social Patriotism C.P. Applaud the Army Iron Workers of Minneapolis Reform Ranks -Teamsters Local 574 And W.P. Members Help Raid Scabs (By Northwest Correspondent) A Slave-Driving Boss Farmer-Labor Mayor Herds Scabs Workers Party Takes Hand How Revolutionists Act The Employers Whimper Protest Persecution of Chinese Bolshevik-Leninists - W.P. Call from Communist League of China (Bolshevik-Leninists) Niel-Sih Tortured Daily Wedge Between City and Country Redouble Efforts Doomed to Life of Poverty Ozark Tiff Diggers Rebel -Writer Describes Misery of Men, Women and Children Suffering untold Horrors In Effort to Earn Livelihood (By special Correspondent) Fighting for Life Code "Sidetracked" Full Report of C.I. Congress Next Week 150 Delegates Attend I.W.A. Convention -Movement Toward Left Shown in the Proceedings by Cyrus Rigby West Coast Marine Workers Fight for Class Struggle Union by Earl Lane International Solidarity Strikebreaker No. 1 Gutter Press Aids Fakers President Roosevelt -- Strikebreaker No. 1 -Orders Striking W.P.A. Workers Off Relief -Trade Unions Stand by Men Demanding Living Wage; Flying Squads Formed by A.S. [Arne Swabeck?] Strike Seen Spreading Union Officials Put on Spot Forces Clash Before Rubber Union Confab by Jack Wilson Comments -On Life, Liberty and Pursuit of Happiness by Bill Reich New Deal Heaven... The Commonwealth... "Impartial" St. Louis Cops Bust a Record--and Heads Strikebreaking is a Pastime No Discrimination The Gas Workers Strike A "Crime" and Criminals Thugs, "Legal and Illegal" Minority Group in Teachers Union to Wage United Fight To Save Union at Convention Bowing to Prejudice Committee Active Save the Teachers Union The Manager's Corner Harlem Leads Settling Bundle Accounts Skeletons Out of the Daily Worker Closet -A Few Telling Quotations by Henry Thurman A "Little" Correction Monstrous Indeed Lenin on the Stalinists What Next in the Socialist Party? -An Analysis of Developments Arising Out of the Recent Old Guard Triumph at the N.C. Meeting by A.J. Muste The Detroit Turn The First Blow Militants Fail to Create Left Wing The Fetish of Unity Important Question The Trade Union Problem The Open Letter The Duty of Left Wingers Moonlight on the Hudson What to Attend Question Box Ethiopia in the Thieves' Den Mass Arrests in Spring Strike Treachery Spiked 34 Aug 17, 1935 Remember Sacco & Vanzetti! Facts in the Frame-Up Protest Too Late Heroism of the Defendants Vanzetti's Immortal Words Progressives Fight for Sway In Rubber Union -Claherty Gerrymandering Meets with Stiff Opposition by Jack Wilson Claherty's Maneuvers Expulsions Hit French Socialist Youth -Bolshevik-Leninists and Zeller Group Ousted by Reactionaries -Entire Seine District Supports Leaders; Pivert Urges Fight On the International The National Conference at Lille Attack on Revolutionary Position After the Expulsions Manifesto of the Struggle signed by the Executive Committee of the Socialist Youth of the Seine District A.F. of L. Skates Face Crucial Issues in N.J. -Fight for Spoils at Top; Demand from Ranks Sidetracked Failure and Disappointment Rubber and Auto Convention Lewis Pulling Wires At the Crossroads Fur Workers Elect New Leadership -Stalinists Unite With Right Wing to Gain Control Oppose Removals Follow Their Example! AFL Crew Turns N.Y. WPA Strike Into Fiasco -Limit Walkout -Sabotage Picketing While They Connive With Gen. Johnson Workers Want to Strike Groundwork to Lower Standards United Front Anti-War Meet in Boston Imperialist Ring Tightens Around Ethiopian Nation by Martin A. Glee For a Soviet Italy Prepare Now for Silk Strike -CP Shouts for General Strike but Does Nothing About It by Felix Giordano What to Attend Free the Sacramento Prisoners! The Manager's Corner Calls for Uniting Opposition Groups in Teachers Union "Few Million or a Few Marks"...No Difference -Nazi Fictions and...Cold Facts The French Trotskyists on the Conclave Against Class Peace from La Verite (Organ of the Bolshevik-Leninist Group in the S.F.I.O.) Peace, Anti-Fascism, Stalinism by A.J. Muste The Lovers of Peace Disarmament Those Who Fear Fascism Fascism Concomitant of War Question Box by A. Weaver The Seventh Congress of the Comintern by J. Carlo (Political Cartoon) The Stalinist Congress of Social Patriotic Betrayal * Favors Coalition Gov'ts`--Cheers "Lesser Evil" --Treachery Rules -Amid Hymns of Praise for Stalin "the Great" another 1914 Emerges by Joseph Carter The "Now Course" The Struggle Against Fascism "Organizational Decentralization" * Abe Cahan Hails the Seventh Congress 35 Aug 24, 1935 Dillon to Pack Convention of Auto Workers -Faker "Somewhere in the West" Organizing Sky Blue Locals by Burke Cochran Labor Skates "Not Interested" Congress Passes Harmless Social Security Program -Big Business Unconcerned About Bill; Completely Ineffectual Improving Workers Conditions; Passes Burden Onto Labor by A.J. Muste Big Business Indifferent Perkins Waxes Eloquent No Revival at All Red Scare in Akron Heralds Convention by Richard Ferguson Mooney Must Be Freed! (Letter of appeal from Tom Mooney) Don't Get Old in Missouri! Thousands Rubbed Off Dunne Slugged In Clash in Mpls. Hosiery Strike -Farmer-Labor Mayor Again Gives Scabs Police Protection by Northwest Correspondent Police Open Fire Farmer-Labor Mayor Sets Record The Scab Parade Girls Used to Protect Men Retain Henderson in Sacramento Appeal Negro Clerks Upset History Europe Rocks on Brink of New World War -"Thieves Kitchen" Folds Up; Britain Capitulates -Duce Marches Full Speed to War in Africa -Only the International Working Class Can Defeat Him by Martin A. Glee British Hypocrisy U.S. "Neutrality" The Italian Workers Must Act Mussolini on a Volcano -Writer Describes Crisis in Italy on the Eve of the Fascist Adventure in Ethiopia -Mussolini Embarks on Campaign Against Ethiopia to Sidetrack Attention from Poverty and Discontent at Home by J.P. Martin Economic Crisis Wracks Italy Peasants Impoverished Youth Rebellious Capital Frightened Even Victory Fatal Populace Panicky A Vanguard Needed! Comments -On Life, Liberty and Pursuit of Happiness by Bill Reich Labor and Capital Jurisprudence Political Science Military Science Good and Welfare Spartacan Trounces Stalinist In First Debate in Middle West Puny Stalinist Arguments Toledo Workers School Begins Sessions Sept. 4 Walter Sukut Dead OUL March in Bryan Ohio Wins Relief Candy Makers Strike Hard by Jack Walton The Manager's Corner Workers Party Booms in the Northwest White Collar WPA Workers Protest What to Attend West Coast Notes by Earl Lane Pioneer Publishers Move to New Quarters -Announce Publishing Program Shame! (About Ethiopia) They Have One Teacher by Henry Thurman The Comintern Goes Back to Kautsky -Stalinist 7th Congress Throws Overboard All the Teachings of Marx and Lenin on the State and Internationalism by John West The Flowers of Stalinism The Poison Spreads The Inevitable Conclusions Two Sources of Degeneration The "People's Government" New Signers for the Open Letter (Open Letter to the World Proletariat declaring for the Fourth International) 36 Aug. 31, 1935 Labor Skates, Mayor, Bosses Form Alliance To Smash Local 574 -Minn. State Federation Officials Line Up with Open Shop Employers in Fight Against Militant Unionism "Outside Interference" Uphold Police Action in Strikes Sellout Fixed For N.Y. WPA Relief Strike -Meaney Pals with Johnson Despite Strike-breaking Moves by Jack Taylor Packed Convention Sure in Rubber Union by Jack Wilson U.S. Rubber Barons Seek Profits in African War Teachers Win Victory Over Green Machine -Militants Defeat Move to Oust New York Progressives Green's Splitting Telegram Denounces Green as Hitler Repudiate Administration Lies Green's Avowed Treachery Armed Vigilantes Terrorize Calif. Agricultural Workers -Tar and Feather Union Organizers in Desperate Attempt to Stem Unionization; But Crops Rot in Field by C. Curtiss Patriotism and a Drunken Mob Police Cooperation Made-in-California Shipping Clerks Out Solid in NY Strike; Drivers Move Scab Goods Tyrant-in-Chief Bill Green Dictates Auto Union Heads -Overrides Overwhelming Vote of Membership Defeating Dillon for Office at Convention in Detroit Green Pleads, Cajoles, Whines A "Compromise"--Not a Defeat! Pass Guffey Bill; Blow to Mine Workers -Legalizes Company Unions; Stifles Strike Movements Cancels Strike Action Power to Big Operators Imperialist Carnage Awaits Mussolini's Raid on Ethiopia -Powers Ready -Boycott of Imperialist Italy Must Begin Now Britain's Game Comments -On Life, Liberty and Pursuit of Happiness by Bill Reich Log of a Hitch-Hiker A Forerunner of the Revolution by A.J. Muste Learning from Life Plugging Along Crumb's for America's Starving Children -Millions for "Defense" by G.R. Safe for Capitalism Building a War Machine The Manager's Corner Question Box by A. Weaver Must One Live? by Erich Wollenberg (Translated from "De International" of April 1935, by B. Reade. This paper is the theoretical organ of the R.S.A.P., a Dutch brother party) 1915, Before Dunaberg March 1918. On the Somme. July 1934. Oranienburg concentration camp. "Navigare Necesse est, vivere non." Skeletons Out of the Comintern Closet -"Pacifist" and "Warlike" Nations by Henry Thurman Spartacan Comrades Ask Assistance for Activity Chicago Candy Strike Spiked by Jack Walton Effective Strike The Strike Meeting Socialist Youth of Paris Raise Banner of Revolution; Urge General Strike Against Laval's Decree Laws * To the Soldiers -The Workers in Uniform Will Not Fire At Their Brothers in Civilian Clothes, from "Revolution" * Youth Leader Appeals for Revolutionary Action by Fred Zeller, Secretary of Serine Federation of Young Socialists, from "Revolution" A Word to the Young Communists, from "Revolution" Greetings to Chevalier, from "Revolution" by Executive Committee of the Young Socialists of the Seine Editor's Note Chronicle of Events -Brest and Toulon -The Price of the Decree-Laws, from "Revolution" July 14 July 17 July 19 August 7 August 3-4 August 5 August 6 August 8-9 There are 3 dead, 200 wounded, 100 workers arrested The Entente Continues, from "Revolution" NUL Demonstrates at Newark City Hall Defense Conference to Aid Jailed Clerks 37 Sep 7, 1935 Mussolini Spars for Time in League Palavers -Litvinov Talk Veils Powers Bandit Deals -Shies Away from International Regime of Fascist Italy Diplomacy for Whom? How Long Now? Green Backs Lefkowitz & Co. In Splitting Teachers Local -Aim to Revoke National Charter as Revenge for Defeat at Convention; Progressives Must Rally Resistance Now Struggle on National Scale Threat to Progressives Local Press Rages at Mini Defense Comm. -Vigilante Chief Arrested in Degenerate Assault A Patriot's Lighter Mood Publish Pamphlet on Sacramento Case Rubber Workers Indignant Over Detroit Auto Deal The Sacramento Case -A Statement by the National Committee of the Workers Party Spartacus Continues Struggle Begun 15 Years Ago on I.Y.D. -International Youth Day Embodies Traditions of Anti-Militarism; Revolutionary Youth of Today Fight Under Same Banner by Sam Gordon Treachery Everywhere The Answer of October Spartacus Alone Shows the Way "Turn Imperialist War into Civil War!" Militancy High In NY Shipping Clerks Strike -Strike Drives Home Need of Industrial Unionism Where Figures Lie Lessons of the Strike Spartacus Plans Int'l Youth Day Green Extols Capitalism on Labor Day -Lauds Hunger Regime; Silent on Falling Wages by Jack Wilson Horns and Wings Amnesia Grips Bill Dere Emily The Manager's Corner Comments -On Life, Liberty and Pursuit of Happiness by Bill Reich Prosperity... Equality... Washington Side Show Society Notes... Fink AFL Leadership Sabotages Then Betrays KC Battery Strike by Stan Dolsen Situation Favorable Progressive Plans Martens Instigates Relief Settlement Agreed To Faker Undermines K.C. Auto Union by Stan Dolsen Democracy in Union a Farce Present Course Leading to Disaster "Labels" and "Numbers" -On the Subject of the Letter from Marceau Pivert to the Expelled Comrades of Socialist Youth of France by Leon Trotsky The Name and the Masses The Meaning of Bolshevik-Leninist The Crime of Hiding the Banner Trend in Wage Levels by Albert Glotzer Important Facts Omitted Average Wages--$21 Marxist Conception Confirmed A Letter from M. Pivert -To the Comrades Expelled by the National Congress of the Socialist Youth of France at Lille; July 30, 1935 The Problem of Factions On the "illegal" Nature of the Expulsions The Motives for the Expulsion Editor's Note The Moral Guardian of Capitalist Exploitation -The Church, Fascism and War by Richard Zotzman Roosevelt's Protest to the S.U. The Best Answer to Slander! The Crime of the Auto International -Writer Discusses Significance of Green's High-Handed Domination of the Detroit Convention and the Tasks of Progressives by Burke Cochran The Work of the Bureaucrats Strength of Progressives The Enemy to Overcome Discontent Grips St. Louis -First Successful WPA Strike Prelude to Other Actions by St. Louis Correspondent Prelude to Wage Slashing 38 Sep 14, 1935 Minneap's Labor Hits F-L Mayor -Teo Workers Dead, Many Wounded, By Farm-Labor Cops Two Dead "Farmer-Labor" Police Conflict Continues in Teachers Union Impressions of the Delegates Report of Officers of A.F.T. Teacher Tenure and the Treacherous Role of Company Unions of National Education Assn. The Struggle for Academic Freedom The Delegation of the United Committee to Save the Union The Lefkowitz and Linville Slanders in the N.Y. Press Teachers Meeting Burning Problems Face 55th A.F.L. Convention -Fear of Progressive Tendencies in Labor Movement Disturbs Officials -Bankrupt Union Leadership Must Be Challenged by Awakened Membership by Arne Swabeck Some Blows to Reaction Political Policy Challenges Retreat in the Face of Bosses Assault Faith in System of Exploitation Crucial Issues Still Remain Confidential Report by Oneal to 2nd International Reveals Situation in the Socialist Party of the U.S. -Oneal Makes His Report -Confidential Memorandum of Right Wing to Second Internat'l Shows Reactionary Contempt Toward Young Militants The Labor Movement The Crisis Since 1932 The United Front The Youth Movement Organizational Conflicts Summary FDR Tells Bosses to Drop Fear -"Breathing Spell" Note to Howard Shows Masses Bear Load The "Breathing Spell" Roosevelt Program a Fraud Profits Mount "Militant" Confab Proves a Failure Pacifist Leads War Discussion Program Ambiguous Dziengeliewsky Is Framed in Scranton Green In Maneuver At Meet -Expect A.F.L. Head To Repeat Auto Union Scandal -Rubber Workers Convention Rejects Appointed Officials by Jack Wilson Plan Rigid Control Seek to Appoint Officials Industrial Unionism Rubber Workers Aroused Form Unholy Alliance at Geneva For New Imperialist World War -Stalinists Hail Laval Argument -"Sanctions" Pleas Conceal Jockeying for War Positions Comments -On Life, Liberty and Pursuit of Happiness Among the Patriots... Soak the Rich... Science and Invention.. Prosperity... Stalinists Launch New Phony Labor Party in San Francisco -Opportunist Platform It to Right of Epic; Devised to Catch All Voters by Charles Curtiss Philly Fruit Clerks Ask Aid for Members Facing Jail Terms Shipping Clerk Strike in New York Ended -ILGW Heads Paralyze Militant Battle of Striking Workers The Manager's Corner Canon to Lecture on 4th Int'l In Series Starting this Week March of Events F.D.R. Warns Soviets... Aim of U.S. Capitalism... Small Question Box France Faces the Crisis -Labor Displays Its Readiness To Battle Against The Regime But Socialists and Stalinists Sabotage Struggle by H. Frank Roberts 39 Sep 21, 1935 The "Thieves Kitchen" and Workers' Policy in War -"Thieves Kitchen" at Geneva Lenin's Analysis of the League of Nations Crisis of Stalinism Imperialist Bargains Working Class "Sanctions" Policy of Betrayal "Flying Squadrons" Ti9e Up WPA Projects in Allentown Strike Militant Women Picket Strikers' Spirit Strong Organizations at Conference Capitulation Planned by Stalinists to Right Wing of Teachers Cannon to Speak Sunday Night on "Lenin to Stalin" Plan Expulsion of the French Bolshevik-Leninists as War Nears by H.F. Roberts [H. Frank Roberts] The "Crime" of La Verite Spectre of New Party Youth Support Left Convulsions in S.P. Rubber Workers Ride Over Green Machine by Jack Wilson Refuse to Bar Communists Progressives Take Heart Defeat Green 44 to 9 Green Threatens Delegate Green Bars Industrial Unionism "Surprise Move" of Bureaucrats Progressive's Reply Thunder of Protest Progressives Prepare Slate Tarov Makes Escape From Soviet Prison Minneapolis Workers Battle -Mass Uprising against Traitor "Labor" Mayor Mass Pressure Closes Down Plant Mayor Booed Down Latimer Gets in Deeper and Deeper Investigations Continue Workers Party Plans Meeting Latimer Convicted As Murderer At Mpls Mass Trial Left Jabs March to Victory... "Oh Susanna" Proof of Christianity... Crooked Government... Shadows Over Lovestone.. Dere Emily The Party at Work Boston Minneapolis Budenz and The Stalinists Vigilantism Shows Growing Peril To West Coast Labor Challenge Lovestone Group to Debate, letter by Joseph Carter, Communist Party (Opposition) Educational Director Detroit Notes by Burke Cochran Manager's Corner Toledo Militants Lead Winning Strike of 400 at Defiance, Ohio National Guardsmen in Strike Toledo Leaders on Job March of Events by Jack Weber Destruction Threatens Robber League Attitude of British Labor Effect on British general Elections Anti-Union Conspiracy Revealed in Chamber of Commerce Letter Progressive Issues Confront the A.F.L. by Arne Swabeck Problem of New Unions Old Basis Undermined Trade Union Democracy Industrial Unionism Progressives Grow in Struggle Political Tendencies Rubber Workers Took Big Step Forward at Akron Convention by Jack Wilson Adopt Militant Program Learning Through Struggle Organization Plans No Compromise with Misleaders Sales Tax Big Issue at S.P. Convention by New Haven Correspondent McLevy Arguments "Function of Socialist Legislators" Mooney in Court In Legal Struggle To Gain Freedom Spartacan Slugged in Picket Of Hearst News Reel 40 Sep 28, 1935 Zero Hour Sounds for New World War -League Votes Application of Sanctions -Traitor Internationals Paralyze Independent Action of Workers New Social-Patriotic Betrayal Comintern "Welcomes" Decision French Fascists in Rally Say "Our Time Will Come" by H.F. Roberts [H. Frank Roberts] Supported by Finance Capital Other Fascist Groups Fight for Workers' Militia Packed Hall Hears Cannon Lecture in First of Series of 4 Reaction Rules Ill. Federation Of Labor Meet by Gerry Allard Militants Held In Chinese Jails Appeal for Aid by Lo Sen The Internationalists Need Our Help by Leon Trotsky Moral and Material Aid Prisoners in China Severe Trials Ahead Chaining the Workers to Imperialist War Machine by J.P. Martin L.S.I. Program Game of "Peace" "Sanctions" Arbitration Ineffective Another "Decorative" Conference Manager's Corner The U.S, in the Philippines by Lo Sen "Democracy" in the Philippines Illusions of "Independence" New Bolivian Party Formed Comments -On Life, Liberty and Pursuit of Happiness by Bill Reich Peace on Earth... Relief... Dietetics... Equality... The A.F. of L. and the Teachers Union by A.J. Muste Forcing Dillon on Auto Workers Teacher's Convention Green at Akron Struggle for Leadership Conditions Favor Progressives Groups in Unions Bureaucracy is Organized "Politics" in the Union Revolutionists Play Their Part The Party at Work New York Banquet California Toledo March of Events by Jack Weber Army Rules in the Philippines... Gentlemen's Agreement Anglo-Japanese Alliance Revolutionary Action Against Imperialist War Side Lights on the "New Turn" of the Stalinists by Henry Thurman Manuilsky Broun The Mass Trial of a "Labor Mayor" Address of Heisler Testimony of Hendrickson Eugene Benjamin Being Sworn In Another Eye-witness Parade of Pickets Spectator Wounded Japan's Advance in China by Lo Sen Japanese Offensive Task of New Revolutionary Party Question Box by A. Weaver The Coal Strike The N.L.P.D. and Sacramento The Role of the P.M.A. Push Fight for Sacramento Appeal Pressure on the Stalinists Progressives Win Rubber Workers Election in Akron Dillon at Akron Mixing Quotations by Hank Rice Latimer Greets Jobless N.Y. District School to Open Oct. 21 41 Oct 5, 1935 War Flames Sweep Ethiopia -Imperialist Robbers Bomb Helpless Natives As Second And Third Internationals Betray Into New Slaughter -Remember 1914! Down With Imperialist War! * Both Int'ls For League War Moves -Two Int'ls For League Moves A Song and a Vote * Bombs Rain on African Mud Hovels Bureaucrats Form Toledo Labor Party -Radicals Barred From All Influence in County Congress "Militant Socialist" Program Hedges on the Question of War by the Editorial Board Pacifism Progressive Wars Revolutionary Defeatism War and Revolution National Defense Silence on Other Socialist Betrayers The "General Strike" Myth Myth Versus Reality The Role of Zam Revolutionary Policy Alone Can Defeat Imperialist War -Statement of the Third Plenum of the National Committee, Workers Party of the U.S., New York, Oct. 4 Expose the Bandit League Against Stalinist Betrayal Combat Social Patriotism Defend Ethiopian People Iron Workers Victorious in Minneapolis -74 Day Battle in Which Two Were Killed Comes to End Terms of Agreement N.P.L.D. Aids Cuban Worker In Struggle against Terror Rule from the National Committee, General Secretariat, N.P.L.D. Savage Persecutions Mistreatment of Prisoners Aims of Pro-Amnesty Committee Demand Complete Amnesty Left Jabs Champion of Two Worlds.. People's Fronts... Comments -On Life, Liberty and Pursuit of Happiness by Bill Reich Men of God... Dollar Diplomacy... Prevailing Wages... Jurisprudence... Shactman on National Tour A.F.L. Convention Report in Next New Militant Party at Work Program of the "Militants" -(Extracts from the new program presented at the Socialist Call Institute at Bound Brook, N.J.) A Case for a Labor Jury -Against All Types of Gangsterism in the Working Class Movement; On the Murder of the Italian Stalinist Montanari by Leon Trotsky Jig-Sawing the Facts As Clear As the Kirov Case The Diary of a Lunatic New Criminals Found Let the Workers Judge! Question Box by A. Weaver March of Events by Jack Weber The Voting in Memel... Threat of War... N.Y. District School to Open Oct. 21 Support French Bolshevik-Leninists What the Miners Did Not Get Struggle Rages on West Coast * Showdown is Close on Cal. Waterfront Call for Vigilantes * Cal. State Fed Is Dominated by Fakerdom * Union Militant Murdered In L.A. Vigilante Terror by Earl Lane Labor Defense Front The Sacramento Appeal Philly Workers Free Harlan Miners Heisler in Bismarck Minneapolis N.P.L.D. 42 Oct 12, 1935 Geneva Gambles With War -Vote on Sanctions Lines Up League Nations to Defend British Colonial Thievery -Fate of Ethiopia To Be Decided in European Arena Green-Legion Join at AFL Conclave Against Militants -Rank and File Presses Bureaucracy Toward Showdown on Critical Problems of Labor Movement The Anti-Red Resolution Shactman on National Tour Schedule of Tour 15 Unions For Recharter of Drivers' 574 -Conference in Minneapolis Sends Resolution to Green, Tobin, CLU Isaacs Speaks for N.P.L.D. On S.P. "Militants" Trade Union Stand -The Old Reformist Line is Dusted Off; Basic Problems Not Answered -By the Editorial Board (Second in a series) The Role of the Party in the Trade Unions The Fight Against the A.F. of L. Officialdom The Fight Against Government Control The Fight Against the A.F. of L. Monopoly The Fight for Party Responsibility The "Militants" Program -(From the "Militant" Program presented at the "Call Institute") Rubber Co's Prepare for Price War -Cost Will Fall on Workers Unions Face Battle For Life by Jack Wilson Wage Cuts Threatened Program of Struggle Test of Leadership South Africa 4th Int'n'lists Back Ethiopia -Police Reply with Arrests and Repressions of Workers by Charles Van Geldenen Treachery Casts a Shadow Before -Every Issue of Daily Worker Sinks Deeper into Social Patriotic Swamp by Dan Eastman "Using" the Imperialists Litvinov's Role Sanctions and British Labor Covering Up the Tracks Playing the Fascists' Game "Forcing" the Imperialists A Prophetic Editorial Shaking Hands With Green Geneva Gambles With War -Vote On Sanctions Lines Up League Nations to Defend British Colonial Thievery -Fate of Ethiopia To Be Decided in European Arena Comments -On Life, Liberty and Pursuit of Happiness By Bill Reich Business Self-Control... Posterity... With the Strikebreakers... Society Notes Coal Strike Exposes Keck Leadership in the P.M.A. by Germinal Allentown WPA Workers Win State-wide Victory Terms of Settlement Stalinist Disrupters Routed Auto Notes March of Events by Jack Weber Britain Prepares... Stalinism Aids the Bourgeoisie... The Enemy At Home... The Labor Defense Front City-Wide Conference to Aid Angelo Herndon Concert for Ferrero-Salletto Defense How History is Written -Dished Up to Order by Stalin's Savants on Frederick Engels Anniversary by Alfa [Leon Trotsky] Stalinist Sharpshooters The Institute of Confusion Learned Nonsense Defaming Plekhanov Flame Belching Bureaucrats Zaslavsky: Bootlicker in Chief Question Box by A. Weaver Party at Work Cleveland A Skeleton from Olgin's Social Patriotic Closet by Henry Thurman Mooney Trial Brings Out New Proofs of Innocence Weinberg on Stand Testimony of Nolan Cross-Examination of Billings Wage Cut Heaped on Phila. Dress and Blouse Workers "Impartial" Chairman Cliques in Union Class Collaboration To Lecture on AFL Conclave 43 Oct. 19, 1935 Story of First Leninist Ever to Escape From Stalin's Siberia! (Teaser headline above the masthead) War Center Shifts To Europe -Britain-Italy Threaten War For Control of The Mediterranean -France Caught Between Two Fires; Germany Waits Opening England Acts Rapidly Where Are the Pacts Green-Woll Forces Suffer Heavy Setback At AFL Convention -Rift Among Fakers Gives Industrial Unionism an Opportunity; Red Resolution May Fail to Pass -Lewis Tirade Reflection of Rank and File Militancy by A.J. Muste The Slam at Woll Industrial Unionism Edged Out Muste Speaks on A.F. of L. Convention Plan Fight For Herndon -Georgia Negro Is Given "Death" Sentence on Chain Gang Tarov Relates Torture of Real Bolsheviks in Stalin's Prisons -Tarov Relates Horror of Prison and Exile Under Stalin Regime -Given Long Terms Without A Trial Revolutionists Are Beaten and Shot by A. Tarov The "Reward" for Capitulation The Hunger Strike The "Interview" Torn From His Family A Bureaucrat and a Communist Communist Despite All! Destroying the Revolution Even the Infants Persecuted Imperialist Sanctions (Political Cartoon) Partners in Social-Patriotic Betrayal N.Y. Mass Meet on War Crisis Japs Plotting China Grab by Lo Sen Japan Moves In U.S. Imperialism Trains Its Guns Question Box by A. Weaver Buffalo WPA Workers Out On Restrike -Pauper Wage Levels Drive Men to More Militant Struggle by Cyrus Rigby Police Brutality No Settlement At All Int'l Youth Bureau Collapses -German S.A.P. Centrists Expel I.C.L. Youth Representative -Outcome of SAP's Fight Against Forces of the 4th International by W. Held Sabotage from the Start Betrayal Intervenes Touching Solidarity The Bolshevik Position Significance and Prospects Changes in Shactman Tour Itinerary Party at Work Left Jabs Lovestone's Speech at the 7th World Congress... Lovestone's Appeal... Women's Deb Denounces Lovestone... Stalin Takes The Floor... A Few More Suggestions... March of Events by Jack Weber Renewed Menace to China Which Theatre of War?... Attack on South China... Shactman Phil. Meeting Plenum Meets; Plans A Campaign Against War Trade Unions Merge In France -C.P. Gives Up Political Activity at Reformists Bidding by H.F. Roberts [H. Frank Roberts] One Happy Family Now! Stalinists to Swallow Everything "Exceptional Tactics" Throw Over Marxism The Way Is Cleared 8 Pages On Nov. 7 44 Oct. 26, 1935 Oust 13 French Bolsheviks From S.P. for Stand on War -Central Comm. Splits on Issue Of Expulsions by H.F. Roberts [H. Frank Roberts] Expelled for Bolshevism Agitated for Fourth International S.P. Central Committee Splits 1500 in Paris Meet Cheer New Revolutionary Bloc Pivert for Revolutionary Party Ferment Starts in Stalinist Ranks Y.C.L.ers Join With Bol.-Len. "Hot Cargo" Fight Rages Up and Down West Coast by Earl Lane Victory in Honolulu "Red Herring" Again Akron Bosses Union Revolt -Lay Off Resentment Rips Company Organization Wide Open by Jack Wilson Prepare Drive Revolt Spreads Rapidly War Situation Involved People's Peace Parades" Today, Preparedness Parades Tomorrow Everybody "Opposes" War Now Onward Christian Soldiers The "Church Militant" The Real Gompers Shactman Tour Off to Flying Start -Rousing Meets in Toledo, Youngstown, Pittsburgh, Cleveland Pittsburgh Newcastle Youngstown Cleveland Toledo 3,500 Out For N.Y. Herndon Farewell Meet Scheduled March Called Off Special Features For Nov. 7 Issue Try to Deport Jack Warnick -NSAC Coes to Defense As Courts Bait Cal. Prisoners -Resi9st Attempt to Deport Warnick -Special to the New Militant Seek Warnick's Deportation Norman Refused Parole Build the Left Wing, Is Real Lesson of AFL Convention -Put No Trust in Lewis and Co. Is the Slogan by A.J. Muste "Progressives" in a Minority The Real Program of Lewis End of Gomperism Stalinists Trail Lewis Opportunity for Militants The Manager's Corner Striker Tells of WPA Victory in Allentown -Independent Class Tactic Smashed Through Gov't Officials' Threats and Trickery to Union Victory by Lester Heckman Picket Line Formed Arrest of Pickets Concerning Rumors of Trotsky's Illness (From La Verite) M'pls. CP'ers Picket Drivers Local 574! -Stalinists Rage While Union Organizes Chicken and Candy Workers Strikes Local 574 Becomes the Enemy A Real Organization Needed Chicken and Candy Workers Organize and Strike Candy Makers Win Party at Work Minneapolis Eastern Ohio Tucson, Arizona Salt Lake City March of Events by Jack Weber The Division of Ethiopia Forces in British Labor Expulsion of Ludwig Lore Socialist Party and the Coming War -Resolution of the N.E.C. Reveals Centrist Position on Basic Problems of the War Danger (By the Editorial Board) The Outright Chauvinists The "Left" Chauvinists Division Growing Between Chauvinists and Revolutionists The Camp of Revolution The Old Guard and the N.E.C. The N.E.C.'s "Radical" Phraseology The Real Meat of the Document Why Thomas is a Social Patriot School Notes Muste's Course Students, Take Note! Registrations The Theoretical Origin of Social Patriotism -The Source by Leon Trotsky The Machine Is A Communist -Industry Idle to Keep Parasites in Power Cost Workers Three Hundred Billion in 1930-34 -- The High Cost of Capitalism! by Hildegarde M. Smith Our Production Capacity A Machine Civilization Why They Buried the Report DuPont Profits Soar Again Under "Oppressive" N. Deal 45 Nov. 2, 1935 Hail the Russian Revolution! (Picture of V.I. Lenin above the Article) by James P. Cannon Green Trains Guns on Militant Minneapolis Labor; Appeal to Open Shoppery Against Local 574 -574's Fighting Policy Thorn In the Sides of Labor Skates -Assistance Rendered to Six Strikes in Other Industries Resulted in Victory 574 Leads Minneapolis Labor Iron Workers' Strike Aid Hosiery Workers' Struggle Other Services of 574 Labor Cold to Skates Appeal Peace Parade Bluff in Facts and Figures -Unions Protest Use of Name in Jamboree Led by Father Divine Inspired! -Il Duce Colors Hearst Stories on Ethiopia Extend the October Revolution! (Political Cartoon) France Faces Civil War as C.P. Prepares Government for Imperialist Defense by H.F. Roberts [H. Frank Roberts] Britain Acts for "Small Nations"! Both Sides Are Right! -Toledo and Mpls. Press Argue on which City Has Most "Labor Trouble" by Art Preis The Pot to the Kettle Short Memories Left Jabs by Bill Pravda on "Mother" "Pope's Cousin Once Removed" Champs The Changing Line League of Nations Comments -On Life, Liberty and Pursuit of Happiness by Bill Reich Peace on Earth Civilization Education Land of the Free Relief Labor Defense Front * Protest Against the Frame-Up and Deportation of Jack Warnick Importance of Case * Herndon Sick; Faces Chain-Gang * Sac'to Defense Meet In Cleveland * Court Reverses Ruling In Ohio Railroading * Mendieta Gag-Law Outlawed in Cuba * Vigilante Justice in Santa Rosa, Cal. Statement of the National Committee of the Worker's Party Opportunities Big for New Rubber Union -Confidence in Own Strength; No Reliance in Boards or Labor Fakers Is the Road to Victory by Jack Wilson Union Active Struggle of Rubber Barons Fight for Six-hour Day No Illusions in Boards Continue the Battle Party at Work Newark, N.J. The Danger of War and the Defense of the Soviet Union -New Version of Social Patriotism as Deadly as Old -Fourth Int'l Only Guardian of Workers Fatherland by Maurice Spector Defending the Soviet Union With Social Patriotism! Ours is the Policy of Lenin Logic of Stalinism Predicted The Two Roads Who Finances Italy's War? -How Big Business Provides Loans to Mussolini (Reprinted from the British "New Leader" Organ of the I.L.P.) Loans to Industry Money from War Explosives Pay Germany's Part Comrade Candide and Comrade Browder ... A Tragi-Comedy -Behind the Story of an Honest Worker Who Fell into a Coma in the "Third Period" by John Marshall The Second Period The Third Period The Fourth Period The Art of Insurrection by Leon Trotsky (From Volume III of the History of the Russian Revolution by Leon Trotsky) (Article contains a picture of Leon Trotsky in exile on the island of Prinkipo) Conspiracy and Insurrection The Role of Spontaneity in Social Crises Limits of Spontaneous Insurrection The Significance of "Blanquism" Engels on Barricade Fighting The Importance of the Soviets When Is the Time Right for Action Conditions Coincide for Victory in Russia Fatality of Menshevik Conceptions Kornilov or Lenin -- No Other Road The Limits of Democratic Methods Lenin on Dynamics of the Majority November 7th, 1914 -Victor Serge's Account of the Seizure of Power by Victor Serge (Victor Kibalchiche) (Contains a photo of the mural made by Diego Rivera for the International Workers School) On the Eve of Battle Kronstadt and the Fleet The Capture of the Winter Palace The Congress of the Soviets About the Author (Victor Serge, author of the previous article, translated from his book "the Year One of the Russian Revolution) The Significance of the October Revolution for the Orient -Lenin's Bolshevism and Stalin's Menshevism -- Victory in Russia and Catastrophe in China by Lo Sen (Contains 3 photos, "Arrests in the streets of Shanghi. The Police Belong to the International Settlement", "Execution of workers outside a Hankow factory by a Kuomintang officer" and "The first and one of the few anti-Japanese demonstrations -- at Shanghai on September 26, 1931") Reaction in Russia--Revolution in China The Road Binding Both Revolutions Permanent Revolution--1905 Lesson Proletariat Emerges in China Lenin's Teachings But Menshevism Leads in China Executioners in Russia and Orient March of Events by Jack Weber Who Will Disarm the Fascists? The Policy of Laval Why the National Government of Great Britain Is Prepared to Embark on a War with Italy (Reprinted from the British "New Leader" organ of the Independent Labor Party) British Empire in Africa How Capitalism Has Grown Total Trade of Africa Increase of Gold from Africa Threat to British Owners of Cotton Fields Big Increase of British Investments Investments Since 1925 Africans Become Wage-Slaves for British Capitalists Has Slavery in the British Empire Been Abolished? But Why Should British Workers Be Killed? Increasing Oppression the Path of Bureaucracy -Leon Trotsky Analyzes the Revelations of the Bolshevik Tarov by Leon Trotsky Tarov's Mistake Signpost of Stalinist Corruption Engels on Stalin The Basis of the Terror Fallacy of Individual Attempts Question Box by A. Weaver French Stalinists Give the Fascists A Lesson on the True Patriotic Spirit The Significance of the Russian Revolution For the American Working Class -Explanation of the Basic Elements of Revolution Will Spur Desire to Emulate It by A.J. Muste Achievements in the S.U. Tell the Story of the Revolution Show the Connection with War Revolution No Tea Party Only the First Battle The Importance of Leaders The Figure of Trotsky 46 Nov. 9, 1935 We Did It Once...We'll Do It Again... Now for 1000 Subs Hundreds Turn Out for Shactman Meetings -Chicago, Detroit and Northwest High Points on Tour Detroit Chicago Davenport Albert Lea, Minn. Austin, Minn. Report Reveals Terror Rule of Wall Street Regime in Cuba Meeting on Mpls. Sunday Nov. 10 C.P. Votes For McLevy -S.P. Faker Gets in with Aid of Republican and "Solid" Citizens by Connecticut Correspondent French C.P. Gets First Payment -Radicals Elect Cachin In Gratitude For Services by H.F. Roberts [H. Frank Roberts] Social Patriot Comes Into His Own People's Front Votes for Laval Give the Dog His Bone "The Deserving Cachin" 700 at New York Meeting Back French Bolsheviks (Contains photo of facsimile of check sent to our French comrades from collection at Meeting) Minneapolis Progressives Rally for Defense of Drivers Local 574 -Issue Challenge to Nation's Militants to Hit Green Drive Citizen's Alliance Gleeful All Progressive Thought Threatened Progressives Organize for Defense A Clarion Battle Cry to the Nation's Progressives Mpls. W.P. Shows True Role of F-L Party, Statement of the Minneapolis Branch, Workers Party of the U.S. on the Farmer Labor Party Our Pre-Election Statement Three Months of Farmer-Labor Rule in Minneapolis Some Serious Questions What is to Be Done? Build the Revolutionary Party Japan Rules North China -Chiang Crawls to Int'l Capitals for New Masters by Lo Sen Sewing Up the North Britain's Maneuver Comintern Prepares Dissolution of Y.C.L.; To Change It into Innocuous Organization -Used as Bait to Lure Yipsels into Social-Patriotic Organic Unity by Joseph Carter Capitulation to Right Wing Social-Patriotic Organic Unity Young Socialists Move Left Manifesto of Yipsels A Stalinist Adventure in Gutter Journalism -In the Footsteps of Hearst New Low for Gutter Journalism Paranoiac Analysis Bathing Beauties, Scandals, Filth The Daily Worker Applauds Truly a Stinking Corpse Seeking New Markets W.P. Main Butt of Attack at I.L.G. Progressives Meet -Lovestone Easy on Labor Fakers; No Mention of 574 Easy on Dubinsky On the Firing Line * W.P. Issues Paper In Akron * Another Strikebreaking "Labor" Mayor * Stalinists "Vote Socialist" in Phila. * Sugar Workers Strike For Recognition * Bidg. Trades Fight Scabs in Calif. New Pamphlets The Manager's Corner "Militant" Socialists and the Bauer-Dan-Zyromsky Thesis by the Editorial Board (Continued from last week) Significance of Answer to Bauer-Zyromski Develops Opposition to National Defense Repudiates All Capitalist Instruments For Real Internationalism Drops General Strike Myth, Adopts Leninist Struggle Against War N.E.C. Supports Capitalist "Peace" Instruments "Militants" Cover Up N.E.C. What Socialist Workers Should Do What Are Sanctions? -"Collective Effort for Peace" or Imperialist Battle for Empire? by Arne Swabeck The Causes of War Britain and Italy Not Ethiopia--The British Empire The Many-Sided Danger of War "Good-Intentioned" Treachery Democracy Versus Dictatorship? Shall it Be 1914 Again? 47 Nov. 16, 1935 Mpls. Labor Slams Union-Busting Campaign -F.-L. Paper Trounces Bill Green -Laundry Workers Solid Despite Revocation of Charter Reasons for Drive Clear Laundry Workers Stick to 574 Citizen's Alliance Delighted S. Africa Comrades Fight War -Arrested for Active Support of Boycott against Italy Sabotage Workers Action To the Soldiers and Youth of Italy! -Manifesto of the Italian Bolshevik-Leninists Enough of Division Among the Workers. Let Us Unite, Unite Yourselves with All People Who Suffer and Toil French C.P. Pleads with Laval to Jail the Fascists -Stalinists Outraged by Fascist Insistence on "Right of Insurrection"; See Salvation in "Purification of Police Force"! by H.F. Roberts [H. Frank Roberts] Demand "Arrest" of Fascist! Decree Laws--Against Workers "Purify the Police Force"! Confirmed! -Times Reporter Says Newsman Get No News at All Overflow Meeting Backs 574 Biggest "Peacetime" Gathering Roars Complete Solidarity -Overflow Crowd Cheers Speakers Bill Brown Chairman Speech of Ruben Latz Power Union Musicians Resolution of Rank and File Farmer-Labor Alderman Candy Workers Farmer-Labor Legislator Speech of Miles Dunne Latest Facts on Mpls. V. Dunne Lashes Fakerdom Before Mpls. Mass Meeting Drive for Industrial Unionism The "Purge" of 1924 Party at Work Mississippi Newark, N.J. Minneapolis Cannon Speaks at Philadelphia Comments -On Life, Liberty and Pursuit of Happiness by Bill Reich Prosperity... Parable for Preachers... Athletes... The Manager's Corner On the Firing Line * Shactman Gets Rousing Reception In Minneapolis, Plentywood Meetings Minneapolis Plentywood, Montana Salt Lake City * "What if a Foreign Country Invaded Our Country?" Stalinist Jingoes Ask by Sam Pollock and Art Preis Trade Unionists Balk * 100 Hear Cannon in Allentown Meeting * Nazi Strikebreakers Used in Bakery Strike * Hold First Forum on N.W. Side, Chicago March of Events by Jack Weber Battle of the Currencies American Silver Policy Our Revolutionary Heritage-Class War of the '70s by Leighton Rigby The Molly Maguires Fierce Struggles of 1877 Question Box by A. Weaver The Elections Support the Southern Miners I.C.L. Resolution on Youth Bureau The Auto Union Amalgamation -Emergence of New Union and Fusion with A.F.L. May Have Far Reaching Effects for Auto Workers by Burke Cochran Workers Split Into Crafts Background of the M.E.S.A. Evaluation of the Associated The Coughlin Union Green Policy Repulses Independents New Pamphlets "Labor Party" Poor 3rd In S.F. Rubber Union in 2 Hr. Strike 48 Nov. 23, 1935 A Message to New Militant Readers Fascists Grow Bolder in France after Recent Clash by H.F.R. [H. Frank Roberts] Will Sacrifice "People's Front" Government Egypt Rises in Revolt -British Imperialism Casts Off Hypocritical Mask in Severe Repression Roosevelt's "Pacifism" Jim Crow Justice Keeps Angelo Herndon in Jail; Protest Now! Defense Arguments for Herndon Jim-Crow Political Philosophy Statement of N.P.L.D. Alabama Miners Win Partial Victory Scottsboro Boys in Danger as Southern Bourbons Hint Deal The Bourbon Deal Emptiness of Supreme Court Decision Lewis "Purge" Stopped Cold * 574 Heads Confidant of Smashing Victory -Cannon, on the Scene, Reports Drivers Local Stronger than Ever and the Center of the Minneapolis Labor Movement by James P. Cannon 574 Demands Return of Charter * Stormy C.L.U. Rally in Mpls. Voices Protest -Green Stooge Forced to Backwater on Hosiery Strike Despite Solidarity with 574: C.P. Plays Cowardly Role A Planned Frame-up 574 Goes to College Bosses Plan to Open Strutwear The C.L.U. Meeting Stalinists Play Miserable Role C.P. Funks on 574 * Exposed! -Bradley, Lewis Aide Revealed as Swindler in Akron by Richard Ferguson * Meyer Lewis Has to Catch Train -After Students and 574 Get Thru with Him Meyer Meets Bill Brown Reserves Right to Refuse to Reply Brown Shoots a Question Lewis Has Enough and Scrams * Frame-Up! -Militant 574 Leader Arrested on Fake Charges Our Revolutionary Heritage -Shay's Rebellion by Leighton Rigby Hamilton Safeguards the System Foreclosure, Taxes, Oppression "The Common Property of All" A "Strong" Government Shactman Holds First Meeting In Fresno, Cal. The Manager's Corner Support Italian Comrades In Their Struggle Against Fascism and War "Social Credit" Goes Begging March of Events by Jack Weber Scottsboro Case Egypt Shanghai Old Guard Reorganizes N.Y. Socialist Party Lovestone Gets His Price -Herberg and Zimmerman Dicker on Entry into S.P., Lovestone in C.P. An Interlude of "Criticism" Whitewashing the Stalinist War Program Wolfe Sees the Fleshpots Take Any Program--Not Revolutionary A "Reasonable' Appeal New System of Stalinist Apologetics Question Box by A. Weaver Y.C.L. Meet Converted Into Forum against Social Patriots by Joseph Carter Green Sees the "Light" YPSL Denounces Social Patriotism The Twenty-One Points Let History Speak Green Nods His Head Textile Barons Ready for War Just Off the Press! (New Pamphlet "War and the Workers" by John West, published by the Workers Party of U.S.) Chiang Hands Over North China to Japanese for the Asking -Abandons Region Without Raising a Finger by Lo Sen Britain Steps In Japanese Marines March Again Chiang Backs Down "People's Press" Sinks Ever Lower in Its Methods Fascist Propaganda Methods British Tories Sweep Election as Best "Sanctions" Party to Protect Empire by Maurice Spector Labor Party Prepares Own Defeat Supports and "Deplores" Right Party for Right Job Role of Independent Labor Party The Years Ahead 49 Nov. 30, 1935 One Year of the Workers Party by A.J. Muste Big Auto Strike Brewing -Chevrolet Plant May Lead Off -Motor Products Strike in Detroit Is First Skirmish Good Time for Strike Spouting the Gospel in Ethiopia (AP Press photo) M. Lewis Reported Retired -Minneapolis C.L.U. Refuses Splitters Aid; Negotiates with 574 by Carl O'Shea 230 Hear Shactman in L.A. People's Front Cracks in Crisis -Radicals, Stalinists, Socialists Collapse at First Test by H.F. Roberts [H. Frank Roberts] Tweedledum for Tweedledee Where Are the "Valiant" Radicals? Fred Zeller Declares for 4th Int'l -Paris Socialist Youth Leader Writes Stirring Pamphlet Days of Decisive Struggle Hatred for Bolshevism Stalin's Missionaries in France Expulsions, War Crisis, Toulon The Two Roads Not Hollow Preaching - But Clear Cut Slogans (From Leon Trotsky's Preface to Fred Zeller's Pamphlet) Army Stocks Up In Case... Vote to Strike Ill. WPA -Mass Conference of Illinois Workers Alliance Draws Up Demands for Wage Increase and Hour Reduction I.W.A. Leader (Photo of Gerry Allard) Barberton Labor Rises -Plan General Strike in Akron Suburb to Meet Threat of Militia; Reporter Tells of Heroic Battle by Jack Wilson The Weed Double-Crosses Children Gassed Tide Turns Demand General Strike C.L.U. Promises Walkout Workers Celebrate All Unions Involved High-Lights by Henry Thurman The People's Friends "Design for Living" "I Knows It Brother" Workers School Hands Out Plenty Too A "Square Deal" Corporation -An Altruistic Boss! -Workers Get It in the Neck by Cyrus Rigby Dividing the Workers for Profit A "Working Class" Bank Shactman Meeting in San Diego Minneapolis Labor Notes Party at Work Newark, N.J. How They Ache for War! Appeal Date Set in C.S. Frame-Up A Radical Farmer's View of Recent Shifts in AAA (Reprinted from the Producers News, official organ of Farmers Holiday Asso. of Montana) Letters to the Editor (letter from Milton Hindus on the inner workings of the League Against War and Fascism) The "Resettlement" Fraud -A Texas Thanksgiving -Relief is Discontinued by James Evans (Special to the New Militant) Slaves of King Cotton Mays Strikers Call for Aid Newark Jobless In Demonstration Texas Old Age Pensions Cheaper Than Poorhouse Corruption Rampant in Ft. Worth, Texas, Relief Norman Mini Writes from His Dungeon in San Quentin by Norman Mini The Non-Partisan Labor Defense -A Year of Activity, Success and Service to the Working Class on All Fronts of the Radical and Labor Movement * Anti-Fascist and International Activities Hitler Germany New York Italy Cuba China * The Fight Against Criminal Syndicalism Laws Sacramento * Angelo Herndon * Ward Rogers * Deportation of Aliens Antonio Bellussi Jack Warnick * Against Martial Law * Against Persecution of Strikers Harlan Miners Robins-Gras Fargo Teamsters Minneapolis Strikes Phila. Fruit Clerks * Rallying the Labor Movement New Stalinist Pamphlet Covers Up their Shameful Role in the Sacramento Case -Truth Telling Remains the Worst Evil for the C.P. The Author and His Job Who Raised the Bail Insulting the Jurors The "Stool-Pigeon" Legend Gallagher and Goldman Mini's Testimony The Race Into War Pioneer Notes To Hold Protest Against Ferrero Deportation Who Are the New "Progressive " Leaders in the A.F. of L.? -A Few Pages from the Records of John L. Lewis, David Dubinsky, Sidney Hillman, Chas. P. Howard et. al. by Arne Swabeck Framed Way Into Presidency Turns Heat on Farrington Wrecking the U.M.W.A. The Revival Failure of Leadership Lewis Gives the Record Green's Church Philosophy The Needle Trades Sydney Hillman Lewis on Communism and Fascism Dasch Speaks on Olympics Toledo-Union Town -Militant Battles That Defeated the Bosses by Art Preis Toledo a Union Town Chevrolet Strike The Unemployed Leagues W.P. Active and Influential "The Battle of Chestnut Hill" (Photo) "Local 574 Is Invincible" by James P. Cannon Bosses Wary of 574 The Grand Strategy Cops Get A Shellacking (Photo) The Battle of "Deputies Run" (Photo) The Militancy That Scared Green 5th Anniversary of Spartacus Youth League -Report Shows Large Increase in Membership and Influence by Nathan Gould, National Secretary, S.Y.L. Growth of S.Y.L. Purpose of Spartacus On the Economic Fron Unemployed Youth Write Your Own Comment! The New Struggle in Autos -Big Test Awaits Industrial Union Movement by A.J. Muste Program for Militants Question Box by A. Weaver March of Events Miners' Strike in England England and the Far East Class Struggle in France Trade Treaty with Canada Lessons of October by Leon Trotsky (Written for the French paper "Revolution" to demonstrate the fatal nature of the "People's Front" policy) Bolsheviks a Minority in the Beginning The Poison of Patriotism Cowardice of the Russian "United Front" The Masses Are Convinced The Campaign Against the Bolsheviks Learning from Experience Our Revolutionary Heritage -Haymarket Sq. by Leighton Rigby It Can Happen Here! Our Varied Heritage McCormick's Lockout Roosevelt Closes His Third Year with New Deal at Low Ebb -Capitalists Desert "Savior" as Crisis Clouds Lift -Only Privileged Few Benefit from New "Prosperity" by John West Savior of Capitalism The New "Prosperity" Big Business Clamps Down Growing Sentiment for Class Actions Purged! (Political Cartoon about Meyer Lewis, William Green, and Local 574) M.E.S.A. Strike in Toledo 50 Dec. 14, 1935 Trotsky Shows Road of Struggle in France -Committees of Action---Not People's Front by Leon Trotsky Radicals Dominate People's Front The Committees of Action Influence over Middle Class Danger of Sporadic Outbreaks Parties and Soviets Workers' Militia Conclusions Thomas Leads Break with Old Guard as NY Socialist Party Splits -Danger of Patch-up with Right Wing Is Still Great Statements Fly N.E.C. to Send Delegation Danger of Reconciliation Profiteers Clear Decks For Big Drive on Labor -M'f'r's Asso. Opens Fight For "Freedom" -- To Exploit Labor "Saving the Country" "Soak the Poor" Lewis Also for Roosevelt "Smash the Unions" Japs Snatch North China; Put Screws on Chiang Government by Lo Sen Six YCLers Join SYL -Symptoms of Ferment Over New Turn To Betrayal Herndon Freed -Mass Pressure Forces Release of Class War Prisoner Dorsey for Rigid Gag-Law Answer the Fascist War Mongers; All Out Dec. 14! Yipsels Unite With Spartacus at Toledo Meet by Art Preis The Minimum Is Zero U.S. Agent Can't Find One Scab Truck in Mpls. The Future of the A.F. of L. -From a Speech Delivered by Comrade James P. Cannon Before a Forum of Minneapolis Workers "Into the Unions" Workers Want Industrial Unionism Our Tendency Fear of the Younger Leaders What Pushed Lewis to the Lead Conquer the World Manager's Corner To the Readers of The New Militant (Missed issue, new publishing schedule) March of Events by Jack Weber War Technology Labor and the War Plans War in the Far East Five Years of "Spartacus" -War Machine Exploits Misery and Poverty of the Youth to Corral Them for New Capitalist Juggernaut by Nathan Gould (Continued from last week) Youth and Relief Institutions for Youth Relief Transient Camps National Youth Act The Civilian Conservation Corps On the War Front Our Revolutionary Heritage -Homestead Strike by Leighton Rigby Carnegie Off to Bonnie Scotland Pinkerton's Are Spotted The Workers Victorious Seine District of Socialist Youth Grows Since Their Expulsion -From "Revolution" November Issue World of Labor -Belgian Labor Party Bureaucrats Push Expulsions As Left Wing Adopts Revolutionary Position We Can Make Good! Fight Against Bourbon Rule The Deadly Parallel -Social Patriotism versus Revolutionary Struggle (From "Revolution" organ of the Young Socialists of the Seine) 1914-1918 The Camp of the Bourgeoisie -This is Social Patriotism (Numerous Quotes) The Camp of the Workers -This is Revolutionary Defeatism! (Numerous Quotes) Today (More Quotes from both sides) 51 Dec. 21, 1935 N. West Militants Meet -Seeks Link with A.F.L. Industrial Unionists; Cannon Speaks Hail Movement in A.F. of L. Sanctions End in Scandal -league Powers Plan Partition of Ethiopia Ill. Unions Aid IWA Walkout -Conference Sets Date for Tie-up on All Projects in State Support from Many Workers To Meet WPA Administration Bergdoff Men in St. Louis 600 in Newark WPA Protest L.D. Trotsky's Wife Makes New Appeal for Son Sergei Facts and Policies for WPA Workers by Herbert Capelis Facts The Unions Organizations What to Do Where is Roosevelt's Relief Program Going? -Direct Relief Remains Central Issue for Unemployed; Workers' Organizations Must Demand Large-Scale Public Works by John West Program Not Fulfilled Unemployment Permanent Direct Relief Still Primary WPA--Attack on Relief Standards Pa. Jobless Organizations Unite in Statewide Action A Stalinist Coup Stalinists Alarm Security League Conference Opens in Disorder Mass Action Surprises C.P. P.U.L. for Real United Front Benjamin Changes the Line Texas Jobless Face Hunger -Spur Demand for General WPA Strike in State F. of L. by James Evans (Special to the New Militant) No Relief for Paupers Talk of General WPA Strike Learning Solidarity World of Labor -Congress of Dutch R.S.A.P. Overwhelmingly Favors 4th Int'l; Defeats S.A.P. Splitters Unequivocally for 4th International Our Revolutionary Heritage; Dorr's Rebellion by Leighton Rigby New Oppression, New Revolts Freedom for Property Owners Peaceful Action Unsuccessful Dual Government in R.I. The Armed Assault The Significance of the Browder-Thomas Debate for the Revolutionary Movement by Arne Swabeck The Lines Cross "Come to Jesus" People's Front The Franco-Soviet Pact The Smell of Oil Jingo Browder Defense Forces Rally Against Anti-Labor Repression -Mpls. Labor Protests Jailing of Al Russell Demand Strutwear Show Books Order Ferrero-Sallito Deported Appeal Denied Cal. Class War Victims No Transcript Provided I.L.D. Splits Defense Court Nullifies Writ Whole Defense Affected I.L.D. Passive Stop Limping! Start Walking! [About the state of labor defense] United Front Proposed on "Scottsboro" Three Harlan Miners Freed Mass Meet to Fight Danger to Herndon Resentment Nationwide in Tampa Case Reverse Fargo Convictions 52 Dec. 28, 1935 Russell Sentenced to Four Months in Hosiery Strike -Ellis and Swanson, Strutwear Strikers, Get Six Months in Workhouse; N.P.L.D. To Appeal Cases Russell Supporters Pack Court Strike-Breaking Courts Illinois WPA Walkout is Postponed Reasons for Postponement Pledges Support of P.M.A. Local Class Struggle Issues Arouse West Coast Maritime Unions by C. Curtiss [Charles Curtiss] Conditions of Seamen Job Action Gets Results Lundberg Answers Conservatives Stalinists on Reactionary Side Workers Slam Stalinists Maritime Federation Resolution Ambiguous For a Class Struggle Policy A Xmas Gift for A. Sloan -Ohio Chevrolet Workers "Thank" G.M. Head for Empty Christmas Tables from Committee of 900, signed by James Holly, Secretary, Former employees of Toledo Chevrolet Ohio Co. 500 in NY Hear Max Shactman -Cannon to Speak on Labor War in Mpls., Jan 5th New Zealand Seamen's Union Adopts Revolutionary Position on Sanctions Independent Auto Unions Amalgamate -Detroit Convention Launches New Organization with 100 Delegates Present 900 Auto Men Act in Toledo -Organize Vigorous Campaign to Save Chevrolet Union Union Leadership Weak Quick Action Vital Rap Ferrero Deportation Mini Defense in New Move Toledo Projects Organize -O.U.L. Backs New WPA Set-up After Unity Efforts Prove Fruitless Unity Efforts Fruitless U.L. Organizes Project Union County-wide Drive for Conditions Our Revolutionary Heritage: The Debs Rebellion by Leighton Rigby Company Refuses to Negotiate Cleveland Calls Out the Troops Solidarity of Soldiers and Workers The Injunction Electrical Worker Flays Stalinists For Use of Forgery in Local Union By Andrew Forman (Member Local 3, International Brotherhood Electrical Workers) Maneuvering for Control Anything Goes Not a Word on Union Matters The Manager's Corner Prepare to Don Khaki For "Our U.S."-C.P. Says by M. Joerger General Line of Betrayal Lenin Castigates Bittleman Gold--Recruiting Sergeant No. 1 W.P. Sends Funds for Tarov Aid Herndon Victory Celebrated in N.Y. Question Box by A. Weaver Cannon Speaks on Labor War in Minneapolis The League of Stalinist Agents for Social Patriotism -A Political Analysis of the Lovestone Group And its Reactionary Role The Test of Events The Seventh Congress Lovestoneites Caught Unawares Drawing the Conclusions The Road Back Wolfe's Somersault Explain This Away--Lovestone! Herberg's "Masterly" Contribution The Tacit Admission Proved to the Hilt Theater Benefit ("Let Freedom Ring") March of Events by Jack Weber Gerard on Radical "Dog-Hunt" Hoare's Faux Pas Outer Mongolia Labor Defense Unity Vital! No Gratitude to Dorsey The N.P.L.D. Program Defense in Courts Legal Aid Presentation of Basic Labor Issues Organized Mass Support Publicity and Educational Activities Aid to Prisoners and Defendants 1937 SOCIALIST APPEAL COMPLETE CONTENTS BY VOLUME, VOLUME 1 1937 1 Aug. 14, 1937 SOCIALIST APPEAL Published Weekly as the Organ of the Socialist Party of New York, Left Wing Branches. Socialist Party is Split in New York Expulsions -"La Guardia Socialists" Oust Left Wingers At Rump Meeting of Central Committee Farcical Hearing No Charges Proved Denounce Meeting as Illegal Why We Are Publishing the Socialist Appeal from the Manifesto to the Party Membership LaGuardia Sell-out in S.P. Class Lines Sharpening La Guardia Record Altman-Thomas Sell-out Issue is National and Basic Who Is Financing the Right Wing Split Drive? GPU Lynches Andres Nin Committee Finds Frame-Up "Evidence" Laughed At Stalin the Butcher A Manifesto to the Members of the Socialist Party The Background of the Crisis The Fight Against Old Guard The Chicago Convention The Right Wing's Hands Forced The Political Basis of the Crisis Spain The May Events in Barcelona Spain and the Party Crisis The Soviet Persecutions Stalinism is not an Ally The Fourth International Two Bankrupt Internationals Right Wing and Fourth International Farmer-Laborism Labor Party--Real and Ideal Right Wing for La Guardia The Silence on Wisconsin Stalinism and the Party Crisis The Stalinists Aim Political Source of Right Wing Spurious Flare-Ups Against Stalinism Altman-Wisconsin-Lewis Wisconsin's "States' Rights" N.E.C. Capitulates to Wisconsin Altman's Wrecking of N.Y. The Role of Norman Thomas Thomas with Right Wing The Thomas Line The Clarity Group Thomas for La Guardia Evolution of Clarity group Impotence of N.E.C. The Right-Center Bloc The Gag-Law Against the Left Clarity Final Stage Perspective of the Left Wing Capitulate or Fight! Perspective of Fight Forward with Left Wing Where Is Kupinsky? 2 Aug. 2, 1937 Tory Press Declares for LaGuardia As Mayor Enters G.O.P. Primaries -"Triune" and "Times" for Browder-Thomas-ALP People's Front Candidate Thomas View Rejected People's Front Line Fatal The Capitalist Press for LaGuardia The New York Times, Aug. 15, 1937 The New York Herald-Tribune, Aug. 15, 1937 Stalinists Applaud Ousting of Left Wing from S.P. Urge Deeper Split in S.P. NEC Suspends California Charter -Clarity Group in Punitive Expedition by Glen Trimble California's Real Crime What the Left Wing Is Hindering Violent Crisis Drives Japanese Imperialism to Invade China C.P.-Supported Party for Invasion Chinese Bourgeoisie Sabotage Fight Chang Propped by Anglo-French C.P. Calls for Imperialist Intervention Clarity in California and Clarity in Wisconsin Clarity Capitulates to Wisconsin Attack Trade Union Line Trager O.K.'s Raskin Demand Wisconsin Gets Carte Blanche What is the N.E.C. Doing About LaGuardia The Questions of Wendelin Thomas by Leon Trotsky "End Justifies Means" Lenin's Position Stalin and the Bolsheviks Once More: The Altman-Thomas Finances The Menaker Letter Clarity Heads Oppose Independent SP Slate The Situation in Spain Today by X. Stalin Police System Installed Issue Reactionary Decrees Prisoners on Hunger Strike Socialists Tacitly Aid G.P.U. Discontent with Anarchist Leaders The Stalinist Degeneration POUM Disoriented Truth About Barcelona's May Days -A Sensational Document on the Stalinist-Separatist Plot to Crush Labor by the Nat. Committee of the CNT Plot Preceded May Events Intelligence Agent Murdered Guards Under G.P. Orders CP-Catala Continue Repressions Dwyer Slated for Expulsion in Massachusetts Socialist Call Comes Out For Sanctions Centrists Adopting Right Wing Line Thomas Demands U.S. Sanctions Call Joins Thomas Demand A Reply to a Stalinist Calumniator by James Casey Stalinists and Apologists Gold in Exile Who is the Newcomer? Gold and Browder at Odds Eloquent Silence Roll of Honor (Lists those "expelled" or scheduled for expulsion) Erber Hits Plan to Steal YPSL Convention -Calls on Circles To Guarantee Honest Meet by Ernest Erber, National Chairman, Young People's Socialist League Brazen Fraud Harry Milton Freed in Spain; Returning Here Washington Protests Mass Expulsions (The Washington D.C. branch of the Socialist Party sends a telegram to Norman Thomas protesting against the idea of mass expulsion of the Left Wing) An Appeal to Revolutionary Socialists by Glen Trimble The "Red Herring" Clarity's Capitulation Left Wing has Majority Unite Against Gag Law! 3 Aug. 2, 1937 YPSL Split in N.Y. -11 Left Wing DEC Leaders Are Expelled -"Clarity" Splits New York Yipsels -Join with Right Wing to Expel 11 Revolutionists Expelled on False Pretenses Whole Left Wing Involved 70 More Ousted by Altman -Right Drops 7 Branches Clarity Calls the Cops -Ward Rodgers Hales California Left Wingers to Court Spain's Unions Join Pact Against Stalinist Reaction by Felix Morrow Blow at Stalinists Stalinists Assail Pact Unity Machinery Weak Consistent Party Lacking CNT Press Protests Frame-Up Negrin Cabinet Shows Incompetence Araquistain "Disillusioned" Removed Satir As Labor Secy. In Cook County by Albert Glotzer Arm Chinese Mass, Only War Hope by Lo Sen Japan Refuses Partial Surrender Tokyo's Calculations Mobilize the Masses Notice to Yipsel Delegates New York Emergency Conference Called The "Appeal" Is Your Paper-Support It! What Was Done In Scottsboro? Who Is Back of F.H. LaGuardia -The Capitalist Forces Behind the Candidate of the New York People's Front by James Burnham New York's Big Business The Budget Question Banks Apply Pressure Unify At Last! Ask Aid of Yipsels in New York Fight, signed by Donald Bergner, Hal Draper, Mary Ford, Manny Garrett, Anne Kracik, Irving Panken, Alex Retzkin and Oscar Shoenfeld To Disregard Rump DEC Split Created by Right-Center Bloc Clarity Imitates Old Guard The Trial of the Danzig Trotskyists -How the Fascist Prosecutor Follow in the Footsteps of Stalin and Vishinsky by Leon Trotsky The Fascist Press Story Vishinsky's Language Fascist Indignation Trotskyists Hit Fascism Call for 4th International Stalinist Hypocrisy Moscow and Danzig "Instructions" Non Existent Nanking Bans Truth of Moscow Trial at Bid of Stalin Ambassador The Politics of Gus Tyler--A Genuine Case of Rotten Liberalism in the Party -How the Centrist Leadership of the Clarity group Reacts to the Crisis Confronting the Socialist party at the Decisive Stages of the Struggle by Max Shachtman The Liberal and the "Sectarians" The Left Wing and the Right are Irreconcilable How Does Tyler Answer the Decisive Question? Who Picked the NEC and How Does It Act? Criminal Silence About Criminal Errors The Party Liberal Asleep...and Aroused It Seems That We Have Not Been Expelled At All! The Party Liberal Five Months Ago and Today Party Branches Protest Mass Expulsions -Rochester and Twin Cities Hit Ouster Rochester Protests (Statement approved by B.C. Benham, Local Secretary) Twin Cities Protest (Adopted unanimously at a membership meeting and signed by C.R. Hedlund, Chairman of meeting and Karl S. Kuhen Secretary of meeting) A Black Book of YPSL Leaders Fix Arbitrary Ratios Coast Delegation Cut The End of Henry Yagoda -Stalin Imprisoned the Head of the G.P.U. Because He Knew the Inside Story by Victor Serge Yipsels Remain True to Revolutionary Tradition By Hal Draper Majority with Appeal Shady Clarity Devices Expulsions Begin in New York A New Wave of Terror Against German Trotskyism What Norman Thomas Saw in Barcelona Distinguished Visitors Half-Rate on Trial Book ("Case of Leon Trotsky" special edition for workers) Left Wing Will Not Allow Itself to Be Gagged by the Party Bureaucracy! -Declaration by Albert Goldman for the Left Wing at the Chicago Membership Meeting in a Reply to Maynard Krueger's Threats by Albert Goldman Convention Did not Settle Problems New NEC Unable to Weather Storm Our Forecasts Justified Spanish Events Intrude Norman Thomas' Attitude The Hypocrisy of Krueger Bankruptcy of National Office The Heart of the Gag-Law Krueger Creates Straw Men The Left Wing Has Been Disciplined The Question of Mass Work In Activity We Yield to No One Toward an Index Prohibitorum Appeal's Proposals For the Crisis Ohio Youth Solidly with Left Wing by Robert Stiler California...New York 4 Sep. 4, 1937 Popular Front Surrenders Santander -Basque Chiefs Fear Workers by Felix Morrow Play Fascist Game Double Treachery Nothing Learned War Sabotaged China Defense Sags, Fear Masses -Nanking Prepares New Defense by Li-Fu-Jen Record of Surrender "Resistance" Nanking Not Serious Britain, U.S. Tied Erber Greets Youth Convention by Ernest Erber, National Chairman of the Young People's Socialist League Growth of Left Wing Robbing the Left Wing Bankrupt Centrists New Flash! (Moulin, leader of the Spanish Bolshevik-Leninists has been arrested by the Spanish GPU, also arrested was Irwin Wolf, former secretary of Leon Trotsky) N.Y. Meeting Lays Basis For Activity A. F. of L. Endorses La Guardia -Mayor Rejects Endorsement of Stalinists Bootlicker Lovestone Too Appeal for Spanish Political Prisoners G.P.U. in Spain Bungles Plot in Framing Socialist CIO Gets Setback in Steel; Government Aids Bosses Government Aids the Bosses Leaders Go to Politicians Class Collaboration Policy Picket Lines Neglected Party Locals Rally to the Left Wing Indiana Unanimous Indianapolis Local Local Lynn Acts Conn. Secretary French People's Front (Raises prices on wheat and bread) Scottsboro Defense in Phony Deal McGrady Lands Job as Radio Company Boss Expulsion Drive is Underway in Mass. Lewis Pays for Votes The Last Supper T.U. "Discipline" Admiral's Vote California Party Displays Record Growth, Activity by Glen Trimble Registration High Clarity's Case Farmer-Labor Party Leaders Plan the Dissolution of Their Party Appeal Greetings Letter from Albert Goldman City Central Committee, Local Boston voted to send greetings and donate 5 dollars Letter of praise from Fresno Branch Letter from Hildegarde Smith of Hutchinson, Kansas, praise, 5$ and pledge of 2$ a month or more donation Letter from Chas. L.H., Marston Mills, Cape Cod, Mass.. 5$ renewal and 4 new subs Letters from Organizers, Enrico Panicali, Louisville, Kentucky, Richard E. Posner, Rochester Y.P.S.L., Paul A. Rasmussen, St. Paul, Minnesota, B.C. Bennen, Local Rochester Chairman, Monroe County Feuchtwanger Defends Stalin Against Attack of Andre Gide by Blake Lear A Bourgeois Defense A Story-teller's Story Swears by Stalin California YPSL Summer School Sacco-Vanzetti Rally Disrupted by Chicago Clarity Leaders by Melos Most Outsiders Protest Attack on Left Letters from Barcelona Picture Bourgeois-Stalinist Repressions by Z. Maine Shoe Strike and CIO Leadership -Old Line Chiefs, Methods Fail to Bring Victory by Russell Scott Leaders Hang On Another AFL Type Relief Doled Out Government "Help" Chicago Backs Appeal Appeal Works to Save Party Clarity and Language Branches 5 Sep. 11, 1937 National Executive Committee Sells Out Socialist Party to La Guardia -Orders Expulsion of all Revolutionists -Forward to a Rank and File Convention to Throw Out the Betrayers and Rebuild the Party on A Revolutionary Basis Left Wing Carries YPSL Convention -Huge Majority Prevails as Gerrymander Flops -Y.P.S.L. Convention Organizes for Work by Hal Draper, National Secretary Young Peopls Socialist League Frantic Centrists The Key Questions Only Convention Can Decide Splitters Exposed Convention Decisions Workingclass Delegates From Coast to Coast Morale High Erber Re-Elected Program Mass Work Great Future Erber Surveys YPSL Progress In Five Years of Development by Ernest Erber, National Chairman Young People's Socialist League Leaders Elected by Y.P.S.L. Young in Years, Old in Work "Supporting La Guardia Betrays Socialism" by Max Shachtman-So Said Clarity, But Accepts NEC Betrayal and Leads Expulsions Two Questions Are One Clarity's "Line" Altman's Line Carries What This Means "Betrayal", Said Clarity Clarity Capitulates Never Serious Clarity Leads Expulsions Confusion Confounded Clarity Hypocrisy Cowardly Toward Rightists Expulsions Are Political The Fight Begins! La Guardia's Record: A Lackey of Capitalism -Fiorello is Wall Street's Cleverest Candidate but His Record is Damning by James Casey "New Dealer" Mahoney Big Capital Backs La Guardia Fiorello and Tammany Ham Fish's Man Fiorello Defends Tammany Labor Record Against Postal Workers Jingoism Aids Fascists Harry Lundberg is Defended by N.M.U. Sailors Against Slander by Joe Lookout Moscow Frameup More Party Bodies Fight Right Wing Spanish Anti-Fascist Movement Slandered by Church Hierarchy by Felix Morrow Must Tell Catholic Worker Church Still Hypocritical Even Kings Fought Clergy Economic Power of the Church The Church Army Popular Front Leaves Church Untouched Damning Evidence Progressive Leaders Build N.W. Labor Movement Strike Weapon Used Ness-Belor Honored Whole Movement Advances La Guardia Attacks Militant Unionism Colorado Party Leader Charges Tyler Factional by Paul S. McCormick Why Tyler Suppressed It How G.P.U. Hounds Revolutionists -Old Bolshevik, Tarov, Escapes, Testifies to Inquiry Commission -Tarov Indicts G.P.U. Before Commission Arrest, Deportation Deportation and Escape The Soviet Worker is Not Free Why the Opposition Functioned Underground How the G.P.U. Extorts Capitulations Suicides His Own Experience A Fatal Error Terrible Plight Clarity Calls the Cops (A Copy of the summons procured by Ward Rodgers against Glen Trimble) Teachers Convention Adopts CIO Referendum, Organizing Plan Move Toward CIO Convention Pro CIO Three Rival Groups People's Fronters Main Fight Organizational Socialist Role Left Socialists Act Stalinists-Conservatives Knife Krueger Composition of Executive Organizing Campaign Planned 6 Sep. 18, 1937 Nyon Meet Aids British War Plans -Trade Unions Leaders Repeat 1914 Betrayal -John Bull, Arming, Pledged Support by Reformist Chiefs by James Burnham Juridical Solutions Inadequate Tactic to Delay Compromise in Spain Opposes Rome-Berlin Axis Britain wins "Strong Hand" War Postponed Labor "Leaders" Help Pledge Sell-Out Beforehand Japan Admits Long Fight Ahead to Conquer China -But Rivals are Preoccupied In West, Soviet Stands Off by Li Fu-Jen Opportune Moment Moscow Compromises Pact Meaningless Japan Unopposed Convention Call Initiated By Ohio State and Chicago U.S. Marines Smash Strike Demonstration of Chinese Workers CIO Tested in Akron's Gum Mines -Akron Unions Built by Progressives But CIO Chieftains Push Them Out by Jack Wilson Sit-Down Began Here Role of A.F. of L. Progressives Learn Struggle and Victory Success Inspiration CIO Tops Intervene Bureaucrats Develop CLU Liquidated Causes Militancy Declines F.L.P. Scheme Democrat Victorious No Program Stalinists Right-Wing Uncompromising Struggle Chautemps' Rule Shaky, Prices Rise -French Workers Are Restive as Gains of Strikes are Wiped Out by Frank L. Demby Capitalists Profit Prices Soar News Flash! (Harry Milton Arrived from Spain) Lewis Found Guilty by Own Partisans for Buying Votes by John F. Dwyer Roles Reversed Found Guilty Left Wing Carries On Austrian Trotskyists Jailed, Sentenced By Fascist Courts Tribunes of the Masses Martin Attacks Communists (Homer Martin, president of the United Automobile Workers) Akron and St. Louis Branches Rally to Support of Left Wing N.W. Union Progressives Condemn Union Splitting Moves of Stalinists by Carlos Hudson Win Strikes All Inclusive Stalinist Tricksters Ill-Advised Sympathy Strike Fought by Progressives Agreements Endangered Move Lacks Basis What's Behind the Move Leaders Recognize Seriousness Call for Reconsiderations Reading Old Guard Joins In Fight Against "Trotskyism" Old Guard "Democracy" Old Guard vs. Trotskyism Primary Fight Crushing Left Wing Majority At YPSL Convention Make Impossible Alibi Attempt of Socialist Call -Socialist Call Alibi on Y.P.S.L. Answered by Cold Facts "Figures Compared" The Figures Broken Down Clarityite "Answers" Wishful Thinking A Sorry Confession A "Convention" And a Convention How G.P.U. Hounds Revolutionists -Old Bolshevik, Tarov, Escapes, Testifies to Inquiry Commission (Continued from last week) Rakovsky's End How the G.P.U. Tortures Prisoners Slaughterhouse Began in 1928 Hunger-Strike Why They Confess Spanish Govt. Outlaws Criticism, Chains Press Decree Helps Fascists CNT Organ Suspended London Buro Aids Stalin Frame-Ups by Refusal to Join Probe Commission -Hypocrisy in the Guise of "Impartiality" Shown in Reply By Brockway by Leon Trotsky Tyler-Altman Bloc Built on Hostility to Leninism Something New Dutch Courage Riding the Rods by Carlo (Political Cartoon about La Guardia and his allies) Forgotten Zam-Tyler Words Indict Their Own Practices in Party Minority Rights Appeal Friends Send in Subs Harry Milton, Wounded Saved From GPU Jail 7 Sep. 25, 1937 La Guardia Endorses George U. Harvey -"People's Front" Candidate for New York's Red-Baiter No. 1. -Thomas is "Shocked" But Will Not Run Red-Baiter Endorsed Thomas to Withdraw Erwin Wolf in Spanish Prison -Trotsky Secretary Held By G.P.U. in Barcelona Betrayed by G.P.U. Victor Harris Ousted as Conn. Secretary Forward to the Convention To Speak Friday (Photo of Harry Milton When Will the New World war Begin -Imperialists Now Launch Conflicts Without Formal Declaration by James Burnham Same in Politics Central Task The New Aspect No Formalities End of Versailles Prelude to the War What Next? What This Means Build the Appeal Erber and Gould on Tour (With schedules) Who Does the Constitution Belong To? -Should the Working Class Celebrate Its Birthday or Prepare Its Funeral Undemocratic Some Features Why Two Houses Indirect Elections Amendments Balked Bill if Rights? Class Instrument How to Fight Our Constitution Stalinism and Bolshevism -An Article Concerning the Roots and Traditions of the Movement for the Fourth International by Leon Trotsky The Reaction Against Marxism and Bolshevism "Back to Marxism"? Is Bolshevism Responsible for Stalinism? The Fundamental Prognosis of Bolshevism Stalinism and "State Socialism" The Wave of Trials in the U.S.S.R. -Mass Executions, Disrupting Economy, Reveal Reactionary Role of Stalin by Jack Weber Stalin's Alibi Some Recent Trials Far Eastern Trials The National Problem Some Revealing Trials Economy & Bureaucracy Hidden Trials Youth Endangers Stalin Stalin Teaches Hitler The Case of Leon Trotsky -A Review of the Dewey Sub-Commission's Hearing in Mexico City Verbatim Report Documentation Physically Impossible The Role of Confessions Provides Political Understanding The Capitulators On Sabotage On Terrorism A Great Speech Dullea to Run in Spite of Clarityites Save U.S. Business in China, Is C.P. Appeal -"New Masses" Ask Roosevelt to Intervene for American Capital by Li Fu-jen "Collective Security" Jingoes at Work Recruiting Officer Draper Poisoned Pill Flunkeys in Line Plan to Deceive Real Intervention All in Together Yes, Yes, But What About His Friends? (Reprint of the cover of the "New Masses" from August 24, 1937, featuring an article about Hugo Black "A Man with the Right Kind of Enemies" by Wallace Moore) Register for the School 8 Oct. 2, 1937 Left Wing Issues Convention Call -N.Y. and Chicago Join Four State Committees In National Appeal The N.E.C. Has Betrayed Socialism The N.E.C. Is Splitting the Party The La Guardia-N.E.C. Stands Condemned On to the Chicago Convention! Thomas Quits Mayoralty Campaign -Left Wing to Act on Campaign This Week "First Time in History" Left Wing to Act G.P.U. Murders Rebelling Agent -Reiss Broke With Stalin, Thugs Take Him for Ride -Bullet Riddled Body Found by Police in Switzerland Broke With Assassins G.P.U. Sets Murder Trap Revolutionary Record Painters' Strike Settlement Arouses Dissatisfaction with Stalinist Leadership Real Demands Ignored W. Green Splits Up Akron Labor by Blake Lear Majority Fights Bradley Green Breaks Unity The Wall Streeters Behind LaGuardia -Mayor is "Liberal" Front for Prominent Reactionary Backers by James Casey Wall Streeters Give Aid Fusion's Chairman G.O.P.'ers in Lead for Mayor "Call" Has Alibi on LaGuardia Means Endorsement Delson-Zam Estimate C.P. Pushes LaGuardia-F.D.R. in East Coast Marine Union Socialism and Bolshevism -An Article Concerning Roots and Traditions -The Movement for the Fourth International by Leon Trotsky (Continued from last issue and concluded) The Political "Sins" of Bolshevism as the Source of Stalinism Questions of Theory Question of Morals The Traditions of Bolshevism and the Fourth International Spain and the Coming World War -Civil War May Be Completely Transformed Into Imperialist Conflict by James Burnham England's Position Fascism and Democracy Two Kinds of Support The Call for Government Action Dangers of Spain Auto Convention Shows Growth -Victory of Bureaucracy Shows Left Wing Need Background of the Convention Bosses Advice? Martin's Lovestonites The Toledo Meeting Browder Steps In C.P. Has to Fight Lewis Man Booed Lewis Arrives Militancy Diverted Browder and LaGuardia Calif. Aviation Strike Firm Company Fights Union Profits from Government Contracts Strike in Danger Compare The "Appeal" Bulletin (Announces a protest against the Nazi rally in Madison Square Garden Oct. 3) The United Front from Below by Carlo (Political Cartoon about Browder and the American Legion) Times Change in the S.P. by John Hall 9 Oct. 9, 1937 Nominate James P. Cannon for Mayor In New York Municipal Campaign -Open Write-In Drive for Only Labor Candidate Only Labor Candidate Class Issues Dominate Write-In Campaign Our Candidate (Photo of James P. Cannon) Trotsky Sees Jap Blow-up by Leon Trotsky (Answers to questions of J.P. McKnight of AP) Blow-up Threatens Japan Stalin Regime Doomed Rodgers Expelled Harry Milton on National Tour New Crisis Hits People's Front Gov't in France -Labor Systematically Robbed of Gains Made in Struggles by Frank L. Demby Socialists Continue Old Line Radicals Divided Sharp Struggles Ahead "New International" On Way Rubber Workers Convene in Akron -Conservatives in Control, But Democratic Constitution Voted by Jack Wilson Conservatives Dominant Confusion on War-Fascism Constitution Democratic Some Progressives Win Milton Tour Dates School Offers Five Courses -Marxist School Notes from Spain Collectivization Attacked Stalinists Insults Worker-Martyrs Anarchist Youth Refuse to Slander Trotskyists Courts Re-Organized Clashes in Far East and Mediterranean Make New World War Danger Imminent -Stalinist Bureaucracy is Tied To Imperialist Apron-Strings by Herman Stern Capitalist War Inevitable The Two Camps Japan vs. England The "War on Piracy" The Pro-Fascist Pretense Opposition Fights Fur Union Bureaucracy Elementary Demands ignored Heavy Price Paid Democracy Flouted Heavy Tax Voted Down Opposition Group Continues New Headquarters in Chicago Browder: "One of my best friends...." (Political Cartoon) Dullea Gets 1511 Votes for Mayor Akron A.F. of L. Charter Lifted by Blake Lear Trotskyists Hounded and Imprisoned by Fascist Terror in Austria, Germany -While the Stalinists Slander Them as "Agents of the Gestapo", the Real Gestapo Makes the Fourth Internationalists Its Chief Victims Trotskyist Trial in Hamburg Four Trotskyist Trials in One Year Take Militant Stand "For World Revolution" Trial Gets Publicity Stalinist Union Wrecking Is Discrediting CIO Movement Among Minnesota Unionists by Carlos Hudson Stalinists Discredit CIO Machinists Resist Raids ` Unionists Aroused Who Is Girolamo Valenti? -The Financial Wizard of the Socialist Right Wing Valenti the Fixer Valenti's Partners Money Tight Again Stalinists Become Partners Takes Up La Guardia Our Duty in Spain Is Aid To 4th Internationalists LaGuardia Favored by Wall Street to Preserve Its Financial Interests by James Casey Tammany's Decay Racketeers Cut Profits 44 Million to Underworld Roosevelt Imposes LaGuardia Stalinist Press at Work Here We Are! Fear for Life of Widow of Reiss, Murdered by G.P.U, 400 Yipsels Demonstrate Against N.Y. Nazis 10 Oct. 16, 1937 Roosevelt Heading Toward New War -Speech in Chicago Heralds U.S. Offensive Against Japan in Far-Eastern Crisis Mobilizing Public Opinion for War Reaching Out for the World The Masses Are Duped By Lies Behind the "Peace" Cry Roosevelt Leads to War Pacifism Aids War Traitors in Labor's Ranks Asks for Lyncher's Job War and Revolution Anglo-French Aid to Spanish Loyalists is a Fraud and Delusion by Felix Morow Democratic Myths Little Aid in Sight Break-up of Status Quo Struggle Inevitable Britain in Bilbao Ratification Meet Starts N.Y. Mayoralty Drive of Left Socialists for Cannon The Beginning of the End -"Stalin Will Depart from the Scene Laden with All the Crimes Which He Has Committed--Not Only as the Grave-Digger of the Revolution but as the Most Sinister Figure in the History of Mankind", by Leon Trotsky Dictatorship of Ignorance and Lies Poisons Spiritual Life of People The Communist International Supports the Counter-Revolution in Spain Stalinism the Scourge of the Soviet Union and Leprosy of Labor Movement Terroristic Acts of Despair Alter Nothing in the Stalinist System Itself Stronger or Weaker Bureaucracy Hated The A.F. of L. Convention Aragon Front Veteran Tells of Sabotage of Anti-Fascist Fight By People's Front Government by Harry Milton Deprived of Rifles Minor Lies Pacifism and China -Answer to Journalist Devlin by Leon Trotsky No Confidence in Chinese Bourgeoisie New Stalinist Frame-up Hits China "Trotskyists" -Chinese Bolshevik-Leninist Exposes Lies in "Daily Worker" Dispatch by Li Fu-jen Frame-Up Apparent "The Leading Newspaper" Lasser Helps C.P. Drive to Undermine Militancy Of Unemployed Alliance Lasser Goes The Whole Hog Sabotage Struggle Revolt in the Ranks Lasser's Stalinist Phrases Sexton's Testimony Reveal U.S. Interests in China -High Stakes in East Drive Toward War With Japan by Lucifer A Chauvinist Flood Stimson Spills Beans U.S. Trade in Far East U.S. Interests Commercial Japanese Depend on Rivals War Impends New Headquarters Widick Runs for Mayor in Akron by Ed Thorn Hall Ryan (Obituary) Stalin's Terror Continues With Envoy's Recall by Victor Serge Rudzutak in Prison Capitulation No Aid Assets and Liabilities The Crooner by Carlo (Political Cartoon ridiculing Earl Browder) Anti-War Press 11 Oct. 23, 1937 Union Unity Move -AFL-CIO To Confer in Washington Next Week -CIO-AFL Unity 8,000,000 Involved Industrial Unions Vital More S.P. Locals Endorse Chicago Left Wing Meet Local Bucks Join Austin Hits Traitors Veterans of Future Wars by Carlo (Political Cartoon) Browder's Complete Turn About-Face On La Guardia's Election by James Casey Decay of Stalinism On LaGuardia in 1934 Why Front Changed Lenin's Warnings Capitalist Agents What's Going on in N.Y. Election Campaign Pacific Sailors Fight to Preserve Militancy Against C.P. Assaults by Glen Trimble Spearhead of Militancy Green Repulsed CIO Leadership at Fault Bridges Line Fatal New Headquarters (For Socialist Appeal) Cleveland Socialists Launch New Activity After Ohio Conference of Left Wingers Generals Are Made By Headlines The Stock Market Crash U.S. Imperialism Attempting to Railroad 11 Puerto Rican Nationalist Leaders to Prison by Bernard Ross Trial Background Roosevelt Hypocrisy The Liquidation of the Comintern -Browder Proclaims C.P. to be Staunch Bulwark of American Capitalism by Liston M. Oak Black's Defender Stalinists and War Browder the Democrat Marx Out-dated Browder is Patient A Mercenary for Sale Stalinist Hoodlum Beats Up Socialist at New York Election Campaign Meeting Spain in Grip of Stalinist G.P.U. -Socialist Kidnapped and Smuggled Off to Russia The Case of Mark Rein Is Son of Abramovich Investigators Vanish Dr. Fiorello H. Jekyll and Mr. Fiorello H. Hyde on New York's Columbus Day Man Bites Dog Subscribe, Give Drive to Aid C.N.T. is Endorsed by Trotsky by Leon Trotsky Widow Reveals How G.P.U. Slew Ignace Reiss in Swiss Village -Stalin Aimed to Silence Former Soviet Agent by E. How Ludwig Was Killed Assassins Known What Ludwig's Wife Knows About the GPU Refused to Confess--Shot! Marxist School a Success As First Sessions Begin Y.C.L. Leaders Split New Jersey A.Y.C. Bill's Column -Trial of a Renegade [By Bill Sherman] The Star Spangled Banner Judas Offers Himself "Peace Loving" Scabbing on the Police "Red Squads" A Warning Clarity Goes Under-ground A Timely Book: -Trotsky Exposes the Lie Machine -The Stalin School of Falsification by Leon Trotsky, Pioneer Publishers, New York, New York -Reviewed by Hal Draper Suppressed Documents Stalin's Biography Fellow Prisoner Testifies An Open Letter to Alfred Baker Lewis on the Mass Expulsion of the Left Wing by John Hall Hypocritical Charges Referendums Sabotaged No Crawling to Bureaucrats 12 Oct. 30, 1937 High Court Rejects Scottsboro Appeal -"Liberal" Black Ducks Opinion; Youth Faces 75 Year Sentence Faces 75 Year Term "Liberal" Black Ducks Secret Paris Meeting Decides for Early Liquidation of Comintern -Trotskyists To Be Annihilated Is Main Slogan by Liston M. Oak To Dissolve Comintern Drive Toward War The Logic of a Policy "Collective Security" by Carlo (Political Cartoon about Britain, the U.S., and France and their relationship with China) Convention Postponed for Wider Discussions Swiss Police Arrest Assassins of Murdered G.P.U. Man, Reiss -Documents Reveal Tortures Used To Get Confessions from Innocent Victims of Moscow Purges and Framed-Up Trials by Leon Trotsky Assassins Arrested Stalinist Press Silent Denounced to Police Challenges Fischer An Emergency (Appeal for funds and subscriptions to enable continued publication) Group Denounces The Kidnapping of Wolf, Rein Hit Rein Abduction Demand Investigation Words Out of the Past Which the Stalinists Want to Forget Roy Burt "Lifts" Minnesota's Charters; Left Has Membership by Arthur Hopkins Ask "Loyalty Oath" Members Solid Tell Me Who Your Friends Are Bela Kun in Prison The Government of Defeat (Comments on the "People's Front" in Spain) Roosevelt Regime Is Main Prop of Brazil Oligarchy by Bernard Ross The Imperialist Hand Labor Conditions 20th Anniversary (Of the Russian Revolution meeting in N.Y. with The Socialist Party of N.Y. and the YPSL) N.Y. Members (Announcement of general membership meetings to discuss convention problems) "Challenge" Out Stalin on His Own Frame-Ups -The Real Prosecuting Attorney Finally Presents Another Explanation of the Moscow Trials with Arguments That Do Not Discredit Those Fighting Against the Despotism of the Bureaucracy, but Which Are a Merciless Indictment of the Political Regime of the Bureaucracy Itself by Leon Trotsky Stalin Finally Comes Forward to Explain Away The Moscow Trials Accusations That Discredit the Regime and Not Those Who Fight It Why the Prosecution Completely Changed the Charges in the Indictment Stalin Sets the Pace and the Comintern Follows All His Zig-Zags Radek Fails to Foresee A Sinister Reality West Coast Seamen to Continue Struggle for Militancy, Autonomy by Glen Trimble, (Concluded from last issue) Stalinists Seek Control Sailors Reply Decision is Sound N.Y. Election Drive Notes Bill's Column [By Bill Sherman] N.Y. Election Campaign "Counter-revolutionists" Antidotes for Reformism Questions Contrast "France for the French!" Is Now Stalinist Call by Charles Orr Showing True Colors Living Costs High Bucks County Local With Left Wing After Hearing Canon Debate Felix and Sandwick by John F. Dwyer International Notes * The Coming Elections in Russia * The Purges Continue * The Cost of Living in France Arrest of 3 Loyalist Generals Shows Treason in People's Front Regimes -Stalinist Pogrom Against POUM Intensified to Cover Betrayal of Northern Front by Basque Bourgeoisie in the Valencia Government by Felix Morrow Reason For Trial Prieto and Navy POUM Trial Fiasco Laugh at Charges Bureaucracy Adopts Barbaric Penal Code to Punish Smallest Offenses in Russia by Victor Serge Karakhan 13 Nov. 6, 1937 U.S.S.R. Faces Crisis on Twentieth Anniversary of October Revolution -World Revolution Alone Can Save the Workers State Fighting Against Odds The Isolation of the Revolution Revolutionary Wave Recedes The Degeneration of the Revolution The Corrupt Rule of the G.P.U. Differences in Social Rank Stalinism and the Revolution The Defense of the Revolution The Attack on the Revolution The Extension of the Revolution Revolt Flares In Morocco; Arrest Heads Stalinists Support Repressions Most Gained by Bosses in A.L.P. Deal A Tragic Lesson -Ignace Reiss, Assassinated by the G.P.U., Was Only the First of the Militants in the Stalinist Camp Who Will Come Over to the Banner of the Fourth International by Leon Trotsky Why Reiss Broke The Effects of Thermidor Underground Work A Difficult Problem The Error of Reiss A Reply to A. McDowell by Paul S. McCormick Get Subs! Auto Unionists Face Vital Battle Against Big Motor Companies Leaders an Obstacle "Unity" Group Collapses Strike Only Answer Stalinists Betray China Struggle by "New Line" -Shanghai Students Forget The Lessons Of 1925-27, Hail Imperialist Troops As "Our British Friends" by Lucifer Kuomintang Gets Red Army Agents for Britain How Bolsheviks Defend China Notice (The NY District of YPSL will conduct a torchlight parade through the East Side on Nov. 12, the day after Armistice Day) International Notes (Discussion of British Labor Party Conference) The Result of the Cantonal Election in France Left Wing Socialist Calls for Militancy at Ohio W.A.A. Confab Why They Were Afraid Real Voting Strength Analyzed Plan Administration Deal Preis Well Received Fur Militants Unite Against C.P. Leaders Bill's Column [By Bill Sherman] The Last Straw How to Win Friends and Influence People The Butcher and the Cattle A Rival for the C.P. "Search for Peace" Religion on the Wane "Anti-Fascist" Capitalists Gave Whole Northern Front to Franco -Basque Government, Tool of Anglo-French Imperialists, Gave Up Cities Intact, Then Tried to Blame Their Treachery On Others by Felix Morrow Loss of San Sebastian Seek Armistice Suppress Workers Role of Central Government Bilbao Betrayed Santander Falls Basque Alibi Others Implicated Stalinist Alibi Blames Workers Asturians Fight On But Are Betrayed The Government of Defeat Stalin on His Own Frame-Ups -The Real Prosecuting Attorney Finally Presents Another Explanation of the Moscow Trials with Arguments That Do Not Discredit Those Fighting Against the Despotism of the Bureaucracy, but Which Are a Merciless Indictment of the Political Regime of the Bureaucracy Itself by Leon Trotsky (Concluded from last issue) The Entire Old Guard Is Given the Name of Wreckers by Stalin The Secret Platform of the Trotskyists Which It Tells Only to the G.P.U. An Appeal to the General Staffs for "Information" Against the Trotskyists The Leaders of Economic Life Did Not Even Know That It Was Being "Wrecked" Rataichak's Sabotage 14 Nov 13, 1937 Anti-Moscow Pact Shows War Peril -Coming Conflict Will Take Place Not to Defend "Democracy" But to Protect the Imperialist Plunder of Big World Powers Pact is Imperialist Smoke-Screen Italy Signs the Pact Germany's Lost Colonies England in Spain Two Currents England and Japan Labor's Role Armistice Day Pause, 1937 (Political Cartoon) Labor's Great Political Power Must Be Used for Independent Action, Election Vote Shows by B.J. Widick Aid Old Party Men Surrender Labor Program National F.L.P.? "Balance of Power" A Fatal Faith Sam Baron Arrested in Spain Internal Bulletin No.2 Ready Appeals Court "Exonerates" Sacramento Defendants CIO-AFL Meet Shows Prospects of Unity in Labor Movement Feel Business Recession Roosevelt's Position Formula Found Unity Needed Push The Appeal Pleading With Fur Bosses Is Fatal to Labor Mass Action Ended The Four Points A Hero of the People's Front (A letter from Portela Valladares, former Prime Minister of Spain) A Study in Contrasts -How the Chinese "Soviets" Were Liquidated Yesterday Today Roosevelt Makes Little Gift to New York by Sam Marcy A Symbolic Occasion The "New Chapter" Committee Urges All Branches To Help In Sales Campaign of "Case of Leon Trotsky" How Shall We Support China -It Is the Duty of Every Worker to Support the Struggle of the Chinese People Against Japanese Imperialism, But the War for Liberation Can Be Won Only by Placing No Confidence at All in the Chinese Bourgeoisie and Placing All Emphasis on the Independent Class Action of the Masses by V.R. Smash Japan Britain and the U.S. Low Living Standards Why Chiang Fights Coming Compromises For Independent Action Britain Takes Steps to "Solve" Spanish Crisis By Recognizing Franco by Felix Morrow Britain's Policy Joined Union of Bandits Meaning of Plebiscite A New Alibi New Struggles on Horizon As French Standards Fall by Herman Stern International Notes by J.G.W. [John G. Wright?] Japanese Economy crumbling Under War Strain Russian White Guards on the Class Nature of the Soviet Union Are You Ready for War? -A Discussion on Imperialist War, Past and Present, on the Presidential "Peace-Lovers" and How They Prepare the Minds of the Masses in Support of a New World-Wide War for Plunder and Exploitation There Were Peace-Lovers Then Too Presidential Peace-Lovers Today Mobilizing the Consciences Wars to End War": Stopping the "Aggressor" As The War Approaches! by Harry Roskolenko (Political Poem) "New Int'l" To Appear in 2 Weeks Genesis of A.L.P. Bill's Column [by Bill Sherman] Freedom and Rome "The Blood of the Lamb" The White Man's Burden A Bargain "Success" Free Labor 15 Nov. 20, 1937 Plan Relief Cuts -Morgenthau Speech Forecasts Congress Attacks on Workers by B.J. Widick Cries: Reduce Relief "Aid Business," Keynote Real Program: Save Capitalism Business "Opposition" Disappears What "Prosperity" Means Workers Must Prepare N.Y. Police Ban Mass Pickets, Guard Scabs, Arrest Strikers Newark Students Fight For School Protest Grows Against Spanish GPU Covering Up F.D.R.'s "Planned" Economy by H. Stern British Labor Party Prepares for War The Battle of Words Shachtman Gives Marxist War Line at CCNY Despite C.P. Disruption Move by Donald R. Bergner More Subs! Chiang Kai Shek Will Not Release Peasant Masses for War Against Japan by Li Fu-jen A Non-Sectarian Zamite Milton and Beatty Speak at Successful Meets in Chicago India's Striking Masses Are Colliding With "Own Bosses" The Stalinist International by Carlo (Political Cartoon) To the Aid of the Brazilian People Vargas Coup Entrenches Hold of U.S. Imperialism by Bernard Ross Vargas' Past Record It Is High Time To Launch a World Offensive Against Stalinism -An Open Letter to All Workers' Organizations by Leon Trotsky An ECCI Plenum Served to Prepare the World Murder Campaign The G.P.U. Works on a World Scale With Anyone Who Will Serve The Amazing Testimony of a Canadian Communist Who Revolted The Leaders of the Second International and Their Relation to Stalin The Truth Will Out: We Must Organize to Make It Known International Notes -Stalin Tightens the Screws on His Plebiscite by J.G.W. [John G. Wright?] West Coast Labor Notes Labor Editor Resigns Endorse Independent Industrial Union Unionists Frames Worker Wants Relief; Sent to Lunatic Asylum by Neil Harrison Roffman's "Crimes" Progressives Rally Aid Paula Aragon, Young Socialist Leader and Labor Organizer, Sentenced to Jail Are You Ready for War? -A Discussion on Imperialist War, Past and Present, on the Presidential "Peace-Lovers" and How They Prepare the Minds of the Masses in Support of a New World-Wide War for Plunder and Exploitation (Continued from last issue) Capitalism Must Expand Who is the "Aggressor?" The Real Line-Up "Democracy" In War Time Glimpses at Latin America by Bernard Ross Chicago Celebrates November 7th Bill's Column [By Bill Sherman?] Stalinized Cosmetics A "Lunatic" Looking Backward An Announcement A Governor's Cure for Depression 16 Nov. 27, 1937 Labor Leader Slain In Minneapolis -Stalinists Seek Frame-up of Leaders of Local 544 (Photo of murdered Patrick J. Corcoran) Teamster Council Statement Stalinists Exploit Tragedy Coming Trials To Reveal Secret Plans of G.P.U. by Leon Trotsky Planned Assassination of Sedoff Demands Duclos Be Investigated Trotsky's Cable to Premier Chautemps by Leon Trotsky Industrial Lay-Offs A Challenge to Labor Lay-offs are Planned Mobilizing Against Militants Behind the People's Front Mask Goodyear Accord Imperils Union -Layoff of 1600 More Men Ends rubber Sit-Down by B.J. Widick Present N.R.L.B. "Offer" Dalrymple Swings Axe Stalinists Equivocate Need Militant Leaders Something to Br Thankful For by Carlo (Political Cartoon about the Armaments Industry) General Motors Throws Down Gauntlet; Workers Answer With Sit-Downs Company Agreement Unacceptable Leaders Try to Shift Responsibility Move to Dismiss Committee Conference Results in Sit-Down Wage Martin and Reuther "Make Up" Rank and File Movement Necessary Koci, West Coast Militant, Menaced by Deportation Minneapolis: Watch the Fingers of the Frame-Up Artist The Meaning of the Stalinist Attack Local 544--A Thorn in the C.P.'s Side The Plan for a Frame-Up Sam Baron Released Three Cheers for Red (White & Blue) Lessons of the Goodyear Sit-Down by Blake Lear Why Offensive Was Launched House Knifes Sit-Downers More Lay-Offs Coming Shanghai's Fall Shows Urgent Need of Mass Action To Stop Japan by Li Fu-jen Shanghai Falls, Too Heads For Defeat Treachery and Corruption Truth Must Be Told Letters from Our Readers -An Open Letter to Norman Thomas by B.C. Bennem "Reorganizer" Finds Branch Solid Imitating Old Guard Methods Who Wants the Split? LaRoque Calls for Ban on National Congress of 4th International by Terence Phelan Tardieu's Revelations The New Upsurge Bolsheviks Provide Leadership International Notes -Stalin's Purge Extends into the Youth and Even Penetrates the "Politburo" by John G. Wright Stalin's Purge of Blood, "At Home" Baku "Kalinin" Liquidated "Suicides" Also Increase Stalinist Uses Sleight-of-Hand Tricks to Prove That Lenin Opposed Soviets by James Casey Latest "Crime": Belief in Soviets How a Quotation is Distorted Why the Sudden Outburst? Reason for Latest Attack What "Democracy" are they Fighting For? Party Activities -Ohio Party Plans Active Workers Conference In Cleveland on December 5th by Blake Lear 200 Hear Harry Milton Speak on Spain in San Francisco Are You Ready for War? -A Discussion on Imperialist War, Past and Present, on the Presidential "Peace-Lovers" and How They Prepare the Minds of the Masses in Support of a New World-Wide War for Plunder and Exploitation Hypocrisy, 1937 Model "Wars to End War": Collective Security The Workers' Answer to War Left Jabs by Bill [Bill Sherman?] "Sweet Land of Liberty" Martin's Stand on the Sitdown Troyanovsky Beware! "Duke's Mixture" "The Road to Life" That Man Browder 17 Dec. 4, 1937 Labor Aroused by Midwest Murder -Rejects G.P.U. Plan to Smear Union Leaders -Answers Slanders of Boss Press and C.P. With Counter Attack Boss Press Leads Attack Stalinists Follow Suit Bosses Utilize C.P. Slander Labor Indignant at Tactics Executing G.P.U. Orders Reactionary "Tribune" Gloats Has International Source Economic Crisis Grows With More Lay-Offs and Rising Cost of Living by James Casey Jobs Drop Repetition of 1929 Cost of Living Rises Higher Prices Coming Big Business Reassured Who Killed Patrick Corcoran -- Why? by James P. Cannon Advance of the Unions Pat Corcoran Attitude of the Labor Movement The Bosses and Their Press Enter the G.P.U. Thousands Pay Last Tribute To P.J. Corcoran Union Militants Meet to Map Campaign For Investigation Offer $10,000 Reward Spur Coroner to Act Press For Special Investigation Benson Asks U.S. Help Pontiac Workers Forced to Quit by Martin Machine by Clark Committeemen Fired Aid From Detroit Calls for G.E.B. Support Act Under Government Threat Those Responsible Akron General Strike Planned Against Nat'l Guard Tactics by B.J. Widick Role of Stalinists C.P. Faking of Signatures Hit by Mpls. Unionists Meeting of Business Agents Denounces Daily Worker Lies The Soviet Elections by Carlo (Political Cartoon) Bertram Wolfe On The Moscow Trials -His Sincere Acknowledgement of Mistaken Judgment Makes Necessary, On His Part, A Reevaluation of the Problem of the Soviet Revolution by Leon Trotsky Source of the Frame-Ups International Notes -Soviet Election to Be "Uncontested" -- List of Candidates Reveals New Social Composition of Ruling Stratum by John G. Wright Breakdown of Candidates List Fear Boycott of Elections Diplomats in Grip of Purge "Partisan Review:" A Revolt Against Stalinism Among The Intellectuals Significant Step Two Wrong Views Cannot Be Indifferent Fills a Need With The Party Kansas City Local Endorses Chicago Rank and File Convention (Resolution signed by C. O'Hara, Secretary) Attempt to Split Rochester Party Fails Greetings From India by Paul Schwalbe New Challenge Out Are You Ready for War? -A Discussion on Imperialist War, Past and Present, on the Presidential "Peace-Lovers" and How They Prepare the Minds of the Masses in Support of a New World-Wide War for Plunder and Exploitation The Second Principle of the War-Makers Jumping on the Bandwagon for War The "Communists" Pledge Allegiance Growing Pains Progressives Win in Akron CIO Council -Wilmer Tate, ex-CLU Chairman, Is Chosen As New President Frisco WPA Workers Face Mass Dismissals Left Jabs [by Bill Sherman?] Stalin Stages an Election Back to '76 "Seeing Things" The Murder of Andres Nin! Unity in the Opium Trade! Ludendorff and Hitler! "The Great Democrat" 18 Dec. 11, 1937 2 Soviet Diplomats Expose Frame-Ups -In Moving Appeal For Threatened Bolsheviks -"Save Those Yet Alive" Is Plea to World Labor Denounce Frame-Ups Victims Were Innocent Stalin Crisis Seen Is Old Revolutionist Illusions Ended Face Death Obeys Conscience Twice Decorated Aware of Danger Corcoran Slain by Labor's Foes -Says Cannon Sailing Under False Colors Call Police Developments of the Week in The Corcoran Case But Minneapolis is Not Moscow! by Carlo (Political cartoon on the Corcoran Murder) Meeting to Hear Verdict of Dewey Commission: Chairman in Broadcast Dewey on Air! Bureaus Restrict Rights of Jobless Locals; WAA "Purged" by Neal Harrison Relief Officials Take Advantage Stalinist "Line" Progressives Organize Moscow-Amsterdam "Unity:" A Diplomatic Maneuver -Comments on the Agreement between the I.F.T.U. and the Soviet "Trade Unions" in an Interview Granted to "El Universal" by Leon Trotsky Unification? No--Diplomatic Accord! Militant Executive of Hosiery Union Slugged in Minneapolis Fought Splitters Threatened by Stalin Men Jobless Must Be Roused Into Action Bad Week for Frame-Up Artists New York Dance to Aid Convention Pittsburgh Congress or "Peace and Democracy" Prepares War Adopts F.D.R. War Program Beware of Repetition of 1917 Fraud Nanking's Fall Ends First Phase of War by Li Fu-jen New Phase Opening Japanese Victories Episodic The New International Raids on "Hooded Ones" Stir France; P.O.I. Calls For Workers Militias by Terence Phelan Sudden Raids The Fascist Danger P.O.I. Calls for Struggle Congress Prepares for Action Renewals Letters from Our Readers * Olivia, Minnesota, Local Backs Left Wing, signed by John Enestvedt, Secretary Olivia Local * A Letter to the Editor of the "Modern Monthly" by Leon Trotsky Lovestoneites Change "Line" Under Impact Of Recent Events In U.S.S.R. by Joseph Carter A Belated Echo The Sources of Stalinism Yesterday's Position The Stalinist Constitution Moscow Trials International Notes -The Franco-Soviet Pact and the Maneuvers of the Imperialists. Soviet Union Election Featured by Continued Purge by John G. Wright Bankers Order Congress to Place Crisis Burden on Workers and Farmers by James Casey View of Press Attitude of Capitol Hill Proposed Legislation Wages to Be Lowered Compromise with Power Trusts Futile Debates in Capitol reveal Coming Party Rifts by James Burnham Purpose of Special Session Battle Behind the Scenes Are You Ready for War? -A Discussion on Imperialist War, Past and Present, on the Presidential "Peace-Lovers" and How They Prepare the Minds of the Masses in Support of a New World-Wide War for Plunder and Exploitation Not "Red" But Yellow The Answer of Revolutionary Marxism Opposition to War Requires Fighting Organization Try To Bolster Midwest Frame-Ups With "Confession" In Frisco; Plot Fizzles Left Jabs [by Bill Sherman?] Life Under Hitler Life Under Mussolini "Patriotism: Last Refuge of a Scoundrel" Mickey Mouse in Concentration Camp Shopping Notes Pins and Needles (Play from the I.L.G.W.U. Players) 19 Dec. 18, 1937 Full Abstract of Commission Report -- Page 5 (Teaser over Masthead) "Trotsky Innocent, Trials Frame-Ups" -Trial Procedure Flimsy and Vicious" (Trotsky and Sedoff found "not guilty" by the International Committee of Inquiry into the Moscow Trials "Fantastically Falsified Trotsky's Role" Signatories of Report Contradicted Precepts of Soviet Law Dr. Dewey's Speech Cannot Be Ignored Checked Dates Closely Withdraw America's Forces from China! -An Editorial Dewey Broadcasts on Trials; Hits Minneapolis Frame-Up Brands Frame-Up in Minneapolis Trotsky's Telegram to the Commission Report Cabinet Absolves Jailed P.O.U. Leaders Truth Convention Date Near; Locals Elect Delegates Model of Discussion Agenda is revealed For 4th International To Defend Marxism Convention Agenda Steel Workers Meet; Progressives Ready to Fight for Democracy and Autonomy New Jersey C.I.O. Meets Challenge of Boss Hague by Jack Wilson Raid on Organizers Tie-Up With Roosevelt Basis of Hague Control Appalling Conditions "Underground" Organizing The Dewey Report Stalin's Victory Browder Announces C.P. Purge Coming In U.S. Threat Made Public A "Uriah Heep" Their Only Way Significant Fact Packinghouse Workers Repudiate Fake C.I.O. Last Minute Minneapolis News Abstract of the Final Report of the Commission of Inquiry into Charges Made Against Leon Trotsky in the Moscow Trials (A condensation of the 80,000 word fully documented report released December 13, 1937.) Summary of Findings History and Procedure of the Commission The Two Moscow Trials General Nature of the Charges Procedure of the Soviet Court The Capitulators The Zinoviev-Kamenev Trial; The "Trotskyite-Zinovievite Terrorist Center." The Definitive Charges Against Leon Trotsky and Leon Sedov Holtzman Olberg Other Defendants The Pyatakov-Radek Trial: The "Parallel" or "Reserve Center." Definitive Charges Against Leon Trotsky and Leon Sedov Romm Pyatakov Conclusions from Old and New Evidence on: The Charge of Terrorism The Charge of Sabotage The Charge of Agreements with Foreign Powers The Historical Connection Final Conclusions Summary of Findings Conduct of Trials The Charges Conclusions The Commissioners -Members of the French Sub-Commission (Commission Regatoire) C.P. Acquits Capitalism; "Bad Monopolists" Held Responsible for Crisis by James Casey And Now..."Honest" and "Dishonest" Bosses Official Position "Honest" Monopolists Too? The Bosses "Strike" "Tired of Clipping Coupons"? How to End Recession... G.P.U. Plot Against Grylewicz Collapses; Old Militant Freed Veteran of 32 Years Hounded by Nazis Fraud Collapses Rivera Bares Mexican Plot Against Trotsky Tried Worn-Out Method An Incredible Charge Record of Villarreal A Ridiculous Charge Object of Maneuver "Just An...Assumption" by John F. Dwyer International Notes -G.P.U. Supervises Soviet Election--Arrests and Shootings Continue--Last Minute Removals From Ballot by John G. Wright Stalin Elects Himself Advised Ballots Be Signed Voting "Safe-Guarded" Last Minute Changes in Ballot The Massachusetts "Red" Investigation; A Further Stage in C.P. Degeneration by Hal Draper Frankfeld Eats His Words The Stalinists Confess Unbiased Red-baiters People's Front -- Mayflower Product No Danger Some Twentieth Century Beliefs N.Y. Membership Meeting Sunday LaGuardia and the Gravediggers Relief Sit-Down Ends in Settlement C.P. Disrupts Alliance; Drives to Expel Harrison Tries to Discredit Progressives Embarrassing Questions The Charges W.A. Official Resigns In Protest (Signed by Charles Mack, Member of City Executive Committee of W.A. Unemployed Division) Truth is On The March! by Carlo (Political Cartoon about Stalinism) Revived "New International" Rich in Content Left Jabs [by Bill Sherman?] Voting Machines and Machine Guns Revolution and Cinema Revolution Zam's "Bright Future" in Reading Robinson Case Union Vigilance Necessary Against Employers' Offensive by Manny Mills 20 Dec. 25, 1937 On to Convention! -Chicago Mass Meeting To Welcome Delegates To Hold Mass Meeting Delegates From Class Struggle Fronts New G.P.U. Frame-Ups Exposed; Purge Continues by Max Shachtman The Assassination of Karakhan G.P.U. Ravages Abroad Stalinists Distort Interview Case of Juliet Stuart Poyntz Steel Workers Meet Votes S.W.O.C. Full Power to Negotiate Contracts Reasons for Calling Convention Panay Incident Unmasks Aims of Imperialism by Li Fu-jen Tragic Rout at Nanking War Sentiment Created Meaning of "Panay" Incident U.S. Plans for Future Position of Revolutionists Midwest Conference Prepares T.U. Work of Party Convention by Blake Lear Prepare for Party Convention Proposed Steps Organized Unemployed Work With The Party Expulsion of W.A.A. Militants Meets With Strong Opposition Layoffs and Wage Cuts Hit Living Standards; Unions Must Act Now by James Casey (Conclusion of a series on the economic situation) Lippman in 1931 Advice Utilized Today Revolutionary Socialists' Tasks What Can Be Expected of C.P. C.P.'s Old Position Hail the New Party! On One Condition: That History Be Falsified Horror at Nanking C.P. Pickets "Tsar to Lenin" In Philadelphia "Champions of Democracy" Stunt a Boomerang Stalin Purge Strikes New Soviet Deputies War! (The Socialist Appeal is an educational organ for peace, it asks for support) Answers to Questions of Journalists On Verdict of Dewey Commission by Leon Trotsky Stalin's Cultural Inquisition by John Glenner Meyerhold's Genius Mediocre Uniformity--The Rule Grocery Drivers Win Strike in Minneapolis -C.I.O. Director Repudiates C.P.; Carpenters Oust Stalinist Stooge Issues of Strike Call Bosses Bluff Labor's Answer C.P. Pulls in Horns C.I.O. Director Repudiates Stalinists Stalinists Kicked Out by Union Membership Another Serious Blow International Notes -Illegal Conference of Austrian Revolutionary Socialists--Esthonia Social Democrats and People's Front--Swiss Leader Exposes Stalin by John G. Wright ["Esthonia is an archaic spelling of "Estonia"] Esthonian Social Democrats Reform Ranks For a People's Front Former Head of Swiss Stalinists "Exposes" Stalin Cannon Exposes Attempt to Use the "Robinson" Case Against U.S. Trotskyists Purpose Clear Feared Outcome of Inquiry Background of Affair Usual Frame-Up Structure Some Questions to Soviet Officials Dr. Dewey's Prediction Firemen Take The Lead As Progressives Win Support In West Coast Maritime Unions by Jack Cope 960 Endorse "Fireman" Gain in Election Bridges Pulls a Boner; "Plot" Fails to Thicken by Jack Cope Who Really "Plotted" Case of Lundeberg Bridges Against the "Griffith" Crew Sailors Win; Stalinists "Beef" Bridges' Real Aim S.U.P. Votes Funds to Sue Slanderers of Lundeberg Demand Retraction Sailors Nail a Lie Aircraft Strikers Convicted of "Conspiracy to Felony" Left Jabs [by Bill Sherman?] "Peace on Earth" 1914-18 A.D. God's Spokesmen Labor's Mayor ==================================== 1938 SOCIALIST APPEAL, VOLUME 2, COMPLETE CONTENTS BY ISSUE 1 Jan. 1, 1938 Sit-Down Strikes Sweeping France -Paris Utilities Paralyzed By New Strikes Red Flag Flies Over New French Stay-Ins Government Intervenes Two Alternatives Before Bourgeoisie Possible Truce Only Temporary War Budget Voted Unanimously Stalinist Maneuvers in the Labor Movement Role of C.P. in Strike Wave "Robinson-Rubens" Frameup Prepared for U.S. Spy Scare -"Robinson-Rubens" Frameup Part of GPU Spy-Scare Plots in U.S. "No Peace at Any Price" The "Robinson" Case Hearst "Correction" Authoritative Denial Algic Trial Hits Labor -Ship Strikers Condemned Mutineers For Solidarity Move Foreshadows War Regime Only Crime: Refused to Scab Cooperation- With Whom? - Why? -An Editorial Latin American Notes by Bernard Ross Chile Mexico Cuba Local 544 Victory Over Wholesale Grocers Hailed by Minneapolis Labor "Labor Review's" Estimate of "C.I.O." Stalinists An Act of Despair The Firotte-Bellini Amalgam Queer Allies "Explaining" Thugs WAA Workers Fight Ousting of N. Harrison -Three Hundred Workers Storm Alliance Office And Demand Open Hearing; Force Lasser To Adjourn Session Lasser's Offers Accusers as Judges! "No Moscow Trials Here!" Disregards Needs of Jobless Kuomintang Decrees Death For Strikers by Lo Sen Policies of Defeat A "Left Turn" Death For Strikers Road to Victory For Democratic Rights Chicago Workers Aid China Fight; Urge Independent Labor Action C.P. Repudiates Revolutionary Aims -Prefers to Strengthen Existing Social Order by Harold Draper "Strengthen Present Economic Democracy" For "Peaceful" Changes Skeletons from C.P. Closet Only Allegiance to American Flag A Party Fit for Red-Baiters Toward The New Party! by Carlo (Political Cartoon) G.P.U. Plans Framing French Trotskyists in Secret Fascist Plots by Pierre Naville Government Complicity Role of G.P.U. Attempt to Smear 4th International La Rocque Agrees A New Stalinist Crime: The Murder of Januola International Notes -French Press on Soviet "Election"--"Fathers" of Stalinist Constitution Now "Traitors"--World's Mounting Armaments by John G. Wright Echoes of Stalin's Fake Elections 100 Per Cent for Stalin Stalinist Constitution Work of "Spies" Etc. Fate of Austrian Revolutionists in U.S.S.R. "Cannon Balls, Cannon Balls, Jingle All Around!" In The California Labor World -San Francisco Labor Council Condemns Stalinist Frauds Commend Teamsters' Council Warn Against Repetition On West Coast For Exposing Union Busters West Coast Labor Notes S.U.P. Hits Bridges Call for Gov't Interference in Unions Left Jabs [by Bill Sherman?] "The Land of Cotton" "My Home in Dixie" "Say Man, How be you?" "Sweet Lad of Liberty" "The Gay Southland" Trotsky Urges Backing For Pioneer Publishers, letter from Leon Trotsky Economic Crisis and Ideologies What to Expect from Other Publishers Serious Task Faces Pioneer Publishers Union Lawyers Plead Memorial Day Massacre Defendants Guilty Akron Court Decision Outlaws Closed Shop by Blake Lear [C.K. Stewart] Essentials of Decision Background of Decision Higher Form of Deception 2 Jan. 8, 1938 New Party Formed; To Fight War Plans -Left Wing Delegates Found Socialist Workers Party at Convention in Chicago War Crisis Looms Defeatism Reaffirmed Stalinist "Democracy" To Fight Stalinism Dunne Reports Convention Resolutions Stress Fight on War, Mass Work, Defense of Soviet Union by New Party Political Resolution Points to War Danger The Trade Union Resolution The Russian Resolution The Solution of the Present Crisis of the Soviet Union The Defense of the Revolution Appeal View Confirmed in "Robinson"-GPU Mystery by Junius Ravitch Linked to Foster Another "Visit to Trotsky" Approached Dr. Kallen What is State Department Aiming At? Dr. Bernstein's Connections Well Known Completing the Frame-Up Formula What About the California Rumors? All Trails Lead to Stalinist Camp in the "Robinson"–"Rubens" Case by Junius Washington Hesitant Phony Passport Links Links to Stalinists Activities in St. Louis "Fundamentals of Socialism" Boston Y.P.S.L. Meeting Convention Sidelights California Minnesota Ohio: Toledo Akron New Jersey Michigan Montana North Dakota Missouri Minneapolis Unionists Bring Suit for Libel Against Daily Worker Further Exposure of West Coast Frame-Up How the Bell Affidavit Was Cooked Up Wanted "Right Kind" of Information Cole's Warning Leaders Accept Speed-Up; Akron Workers Aroused The Lessons of Spain--the Last Warning by Leon Trotsky Menshevism and Bolshevism in Spain The "Theory" of the People's Front The Union With a Shadow of the Bourgeoisie The Stalinists in the People's Front The Counter-Revolutionary Advantages of Stalinism Stalin in His Own Way Confirms the Correctness of the Theory of Permanent Revolution The Role of the Anarchists In the Teacher's Union -Independent Group Combats People's Front Policies of Stalinist Administration Period of Growth Role of "Rank and File" Group Defend American Legion United Progressives Organize Emergence of the Independent Group Measure Deceives Independents Show Strength Popular Front Breaks French Sit-Downs; Gov't Calls Troops by Terence Phelan [Sherry Mangan] Savage Threats Stalinist "Explanations" The Lesson Leadership Needed Army for Fascist Coup, French Hearings Reveal by Pierre Naville Army Chiefs Involved Helped Found Party Party Activities Fellow Travelers by Carlo (Political Cartoon) 3 Jan. 15, 1938 SOCIALIST APPEAL PUBLISHED WEEKLY AS THE OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE SOCIALIST WORKERS PARTY Hail the Socialist Workers Party! -Join the Struggle for Socialism! The Anti-Labor Drive Preparing the "War for Democracy" For the Class Struggle! Unite for Revolutionary Socialism! House Defeats Ludlow Amendment 209 to 188 -New "Front" Organized; G.O.P.-Roosevelt-C.P. Prepare Labor for War by Albert Goldman Pacifist Cure-All Marxist Conception of Cause of War Objections of Capitalists Attitude of Lovestoneite Leadership Attitude of Communist Party The Budget The Drive Is On Diary of Ignace Reiss Reveals Criminal Methods of G.P.U. -- Young Communists Die Shouting Defiantly: "Long Live Trotsky!" Shows Stalin Methods The Diary of Ignace Reiss Slutsky's Trip Abroad "Long Live Trotsky!" German C.P. Heads Shot Trotsky and.... Bauer "Not Taking Orders" New Format (Changing from tabloid to full-size newspaper format) The Lessons of Spain--the Last Warning by Leon Trotsky (Continued from last issue) The Role of the POUM The Problem of Arming The Conditions for Victory Stalin Guaranteed the Conditions of Defeat "Civil War in the Rear" The Denouement Young Communists for Fourth International; Join YPSL in New York International Notes -Purging the Polish C.P.--"Big Bank Depositors" Grow in the U.S.S.R.--French C.P. and Organic Unity by John G. Wright Polish C.P. Purges Stalin Caste of Bank Book Owners Flourishes in the U.S.S.R. French C.P. Drives for Organic Unity Independent Group Built on Firm Base in Teachers Union Unity With "Progressives" Membership Must Be Reached Austrian Militants Bitter at Stalin's "Asylum" Modesty (Excerpt from a Stalin Speech) Left Jabs [by Bill Sherman] National Unity "Yellow or Red?" The "Robinson-Rubens"-Mystery Believe It or Not 4 Jan. 22, 1938 SOCIALIST APPEAL PUBLISHED WEEKLY AS THE OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE SOCIALIST WORKERS PARTY Editor: Max Shachtman Associate Editors: Harold Roberts, Frank Graves Business Manager: Bob Browne Roosevelt Confers With Big Business To Save Capitalism -Prepares Drive on Labor as Sham Fight Against Bosses Nears End Stages Sham Fight To Shift Blame Move Against Labor W. Coast Unions Score Victories Over Stalinists -Sailors, Firemen Deal Heavy Blows to Bridges-C.P. Fakers Endorse Amalgamation Storm Created Boston Greets New Party at Week-End Meet Leninism Can't Be Embalmed by Carlo (Political Cartoon) 2 CIO Leaders Urge Lewis to Talk With AFL -New Peace Move Will Give Impetus to Unity Drive Will Not Withdraw Max Zaritsky (Photo) Sentiment for Unity New French Crisis Stirred by Break in the Popular Front -Sharper Clashes Loom in Class War as Workers' Burdens Increase Workers Headed Off Gains Wiped Out Chautemps Fails C.P. for Sacred Union Flirtation With Hitler Future Clashes Moscow Admits "Robinsons" Held for "Espionage" -Stalin's Latest Frame-Up Gets Underway After Long Preparation by Junius Not a Doubt Inspired Rumors Begin Commission Gives Spur How G.P.U. Works Case Bungled The Known Facts Links Established Ravitch Got Passports Guilty Knowledge S.W.P. Mail Pilfered Grand Jury Probe Hull On The Lid The "Appeal" Pries the Lid Off Powerful Forces at Work All Out at Lenin Memorial Meeting Sunday -Cannon to Speak on Great Leader's Teaching Party Convention Analyzes Political Situation -Text of Resolution Adopted at Chicago by Founding Convention of the S.W.P. - New Party Given Lead by the Convention Conflict Delay Outbreak of World War Imperialists Seek Defeat of S.U. Foreign Trade Vital for U.S. Capitalism Likely to Enter War Early Crisis Drives Ruling Class Toward War S.W.P. Must Find Roots in Unions Parleys Not Sought With Sects Reaction Caused by Big Defeats Stalinist Democracy a Fraud Party Composition to be Improved Feudal-Military Reaction Planning Mexican Coup to End Reform Program by Bernard Ross Cedillo Heads Reaction Lessons of History Bound to Imperialism The Hangman's Year by Victor Serge Victim of Purge - Bela Kun (Photograph) Shoots Boyhood Friend Victim of Purge - Jan Gamarnik (Photograph) Purge Goes On Stalin's Tool -Andrei Vyshinsky (Photograph) Letter From China Reveals Harsh Facts on Far Eastern War by L.J.C. No Mass Enthusiasm Peasants Flee Traitors Everywhere Tribute to Soldiers Masses Held Down Stalinists Betray Reform is Hopeless The Revolutionary Program Left Jabs [by Bill Sherman?] The Trail of Empire A "Peace Loving Nation", 1938 "The End of Civilization" A Wage Differential for Southern Senators "Quite Unintentionally" Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen "The Sun, the Moon and the Stars" "Lot's Wife and Daughters" Correspondents Write In From the Trade Unions East Chicago Stalinists as Stooges Akron, Ohio Marion, Ind. Canton, Ohio Marxist School Starts Winter Term Feb. 16 5 Jan. 29, 1938 Boss Court Holds Beal On Old Score -Gastonia Strike Leader Menaced -Fight On Against Extradition to N. Carolina -Extradition of Beal Up To Massachusetts Became Union Leader Frame-Up Is Frame-Up In Days Gone By Fred Beal (Photograph) California SWOC Members Revolt Against Leaders -Register Protest in Rump Meeting -Say Lewis Appointees Are Bureaucrats Union Boss Roars Soviet Council Adjourns After Giving Stalin OK -Order to End the Party Purge Presages New Terror Five "Securely" Seated A Year Ago Roosevelt in Huddle With Businessmen -Acts to Put Brake on Alarming Slump -Prevailing Wage Cut From Amendment Of Housing Act -Big Business Called to Washington Confab Aids Housing Bosses New Anti-Labor Move Not Accidental New Jersey Steel Workers Win Strike In Heart of the Notorious Anti-Labor Hudson County -Militant Tactics Bring Crucible Steel to Accept Workers Terms in 36 Hours -Bosses Fail to Befog Issues by Attack on E.H. Kaempf Great Solidarity Shown 600 Give Support UAWA Leaders Bow Down to GM -Give Up Ground Won By Workers -Proffer to Automakers Non-Strike Contract What It Means Membership Flouted Power Vested in Martin Rivera Resigns From Modern Monthly (Letter to the Editor of the Modern Monthly from Diego Rivera) Judge Wham Fines Illinois Miners for Alleged Conspiracy -Says 3-Year Strike Damaged Business -Precedent a Menace to Labor if Upheld by Albert Gates Words of Camouflage To Cripple Strikes Bosses Provoke Violence Dangerous Precedent Profound Depths of Economic Crisis Revealed in Statistics on New Unemployment Wave -But CP Accepts Roosevelt Smokescreen and Charges Wall Street Sabotage -Falling Off In Employment In U.S. Clearly Shows There Has Never Been Any Real Recovery in Country by Dave Cowles Capitalist Alibis Stalinist Fairy Tales Capitalism Means Crisis Depressed Recovery Moscow In Difficulty With Robinson Case -State Department Refused Right to See Arrested Woman -Moscow Denies Hull Request by Junius Stalinist Jitters Mount New Developments Photographer Questioned Stalinists Frantically Try to Offset the Findings of The Dewey Commission -Strain to Divert World Attention from Historic Verdict Exonerating Trotsky -Turn to Reactionary Sat. Eve. Post With Soviet Spy Story -Smoke Screen Laid to Hide Frame-Up by James Casey Raise Spy Scare Starts With Kirov Verbal Gymnastics Lies Complacently Non-Existent Program! They Hid It Accomplish Impossible Again--Why? Present War in Far East and the Tasks of Our Party -Text of Resolution Adopted By SWP Convention A Revolutionary Party Needed U.S. Seeks World Domination Boycott Alone is Insufficient How Our Party Must Aid China Moscow Killings Split French Civil Rights Group -Several Most Influential Leaders Leave, Including Karl Marx's Grand Daughter -Rebel Over Stalinist Control of Central Committee Trials Cause Crisis Condemns Frame-Ups Liberty At Issue League As Censor Special Offer (A cloth bound copy of "Behind the Moscow Trial" by Max Shachtman with each yearly subscription for a limited time) Britishers Refuse to Load Japanese Ship Green Joins With Legion and DAR In Patriotic Anti-Japanese Display -Aid Boycott Proposed by Chamber of Commerce To Protect Profits of U.S. Industry Green Heads Show Akron Branch Plans to Widen Mass Work Soviet Union Notes -Drive Against Foreigners Proceeds--Another G.P.U. Mystery--Troyanovsky Engages N.Y. Times On "Illiteracy" by John G. Wright Drive Against Foreigners Intensified Another Mystery? The Membership "Drive" of the C.P.S.U. Bungle-Troyanovsky vs. The N.Y. Times and Stalin's Pravda--On Illiteracy Labor Defense Organization Must Be Built Roosevelt's Navy Budget No, It Wasn't Hearst! Life In the Soviet Union Today by Carlo (Political Cartoon) Left Jabs [by Bill Sherman?] Native Taxation in S.A. The "Gentle Stimulus" Equality Slavery Called Liberty Slander and Apology The Sequel Another Gold Boner The Sequel Minneapolis The Sequel WAA Group Dance 6 Feb. 5, 1938 Stalinists Try Frame-Up in Canada -Furriers' Union Aroused to Fight Charges Made Against Federman Gold Tactics Repudiated Maneuver Defeated Stolberg CIO Articles Faulty in Analysis -His Attack On Stalinist Disruption In Unions Weakened by Whitewash of Leaders and Support of Class Collaboration by B.J. Widick (Labor Secretary of the Socialist Workers Party) Correct Premise False Characterization Unprincipled Opposition Weaknesses Ignored Union Democracy Second Steel Plant Struck in New Jersey Have No Illusions Labor Secretary Widick Blasts Hague Before Jersey Unionists Seamen Stop Stalinists In Union Fight -Rank-and-File Rescind Plan Hitting at West Coast Brothers An Old Trick National Action Needed Finks Not Tolerated "Hates War" (Photograph of President Roosevelt) Dockmen Tie Up Ships, Cargoes In Puerto Rico -Strikers Demand Wage Hike to 75 cents; Ortiz Arrested Asks Strike Support Bosses Threaten A "Socialist" Acts Browder Backs F.D.R.; Hearst Backs F.D.R. Arms for War Abroad Communist Party Okays Big Navy Hearst Also Satisfied Lynn Food Workers' Unity Move Aids Fight Against Sharaf Poulos Makes Denial Roosevelt Speeds Drive Toward War With Navy Budget -Will Spend Billions In Arms Program -Huge Outlay Bares War Aims of American Imperialism by Maurice Spector Stages of Policy Pushed by Depression Realize Mass Opposition Browder's Fair Fields UMW Gives Blank Check to Roosevelt -District Autonomy Is Blocked By Lewis Union Machine For Roosevelt High, Wide and Handsome Unity Approved Progressive Slates Win In Lundeberg Victory -West Coast Seamen Show Their Determination to Follow Militant Leadership By Casting Huge Vote by Glen Trimble Reactionary Squabble Election Results So. California A.C.L.U. Fights for Anarchist Police Terror in St. Louis Strike -Ford Workers Fight Provocations; Union Men Arrested Provocateurs At Work Publicity Backing Lundeberg Hits Back at Charges -Denounces Slanderous Accusations Made Against Seamen Cites Federal Laws Grounds of Opposition Defends Union Power Party Resolutions -Trade Union Movement and the S.W.P. Industrial Union an Essential Form A.F. of L. Also Using Industrial Form Pressure from All Sides for Unity Unity Must Be On Proper Basis Revolt Crystallizes In Newsstand Union Real Plan Behind Reubens Case Now Becoming Clearer by Junius Browder's Japanese Scare California Setting Is Stalin Rebuffing U.S.? Nature of C.P. Patriotism What Does Washington Know? Frame-up Artist Andrey Vishinsky (Photograph) Why the Lag? (In new subscriptions) School Holds Class in Party Principles Spanish Hold Franco Back Above Teruel -But Deadlock Threatens For Want of Bold Social Program Bold Program Needed Reaction Advances Stalemate Prevails Soviet Union Notes -Litvinov's Removal Certain -- Case of A.N. Tupolev -- Shadows Over Stakhanovism by John G. Wright Litvinov's Removal Certain The Case of A.N. Tupolev Shadows Over Stakhanovism "Fugitive From Justice" Another Frame-Up The Ludlow Amendment People's Front Balance The "New International" The Peace-Loving President by Carlo (Political Cartoon) Browder Defends Imperialism by James Burnham War Question is Decisive Browder Speaks for Roosevelt Policy Would Suppress Labor's Struggle Against Capital Filled With Frank Jingoism Roosevelt Will Save Humanity 7 Feb. 12, 1938 Green Backs War Program -An Editorial Why Is Information Kept Secret? No Confidence In Ruling Class Forward to The Class War "Little Men" Fume and Bluster As F.D.R. Provides Steam Valve Seek A Joshua Want Labor Curbed WPA Workers Used for War Purposes Auto Workers Leader Slams War Mongers -Homer Martin Exposes C.P. As Reactionary Force in Union The Proof Aid Freely Given Hitler Seeks to Appease Reichswehr -Army-Nazi Feud Breaks Out; Shifts Viewed As Compromise -Hitler Stalls in Army-Nazi Feud Rests On Bayonets Army Conservatism Murdered Victim of G.P.U. Reveals Inner Life of Stalin's Secret Police by Ignace Reiss They Just Disappear A "Spy" Arrested Dog Gives Clue To Avoid Fuss Woman Accused Scoff At Confessions Demoralization Reigns FDR "Talks" For Peace; Fleet Prepares For War -Navy Maneuvers, Alaska Issue, Indicate Trend Toward Clash Pearl Harbor Reinforced Capital Ship Race "Incidents" Will Follow Threatens Japan -Cordell Hull (Photograph) Links Poyntz to "Robinson" Frame-Up -Carlo Tresca Says She Was Abducted by G.P.U. Agent by Junius Linked to Rubens "Forward" Names Him Asks Defense Action Leahy Testimony Bares War Plans of U.S. Imperialism; Admits Conflict Is Near -Hint Joint Action With Britain -Note to Japan on Battleship Program Heralds Naval Race; Admiral Says Fleet Will Be Used to Implement Monroe Doctrine Mysterious Trip What Leahy Revealed Just a Police Patrol Ready For Anything Denies English Alliance Conceals Secret Talks Crucible Strikers Win Despite Hague Threats -Majority of Points Won After Week's Strike; Kaempf Cheered Leader Gets Cheers Police Cautious Program Mapped At N.Y.C. Convention -Two-Day Session Opens New Phase of Work For Party Better Union Work Education Stressed "Victory" Faked By Office Union -Leaders Try to Conceal Defeat To Protect Prestige Strike Voted Try To Discourage Strike Is Over Curran Gets N.M.U. To Vote S.U.P. War Militant Policy Need In St. Louis -Progressives In Ford Strike Urge New Fighting Tactics Ford Police Take Over Strikers Firm UMW Convention Bans Communists From Membership -Vote Aids Bureaucrats To Act Against Real Militants Resolution All-Inclusive No Political Motive Weak-Kneed Defense Party Resolutions -Trade Union Movement and the S.W.P. (Continued from last issue) C.I.O. Leadership Also Reactionary Bureaucrats Appointed By Themselves Stalinists Are Servile Flunkeys Small Likelihood of Blocs With C.P. I.W.W. Now Only A Reactionary Sect Complete Reorientation Is Demanded Negrin Promises Stern Defense of Private Property -Frank Interview Shows Who Is Destroying Revolution Defends Property -Juan Negrin (Photograph) Deeds Versus Words Expulsions from A.F.L. Setback For Unity Drive -Reactionary Move By Executive Council Widens Chasm in Labor Movement; Campaign For Unity Must Be Intensified by B.J. Widick Leadership Divided Hope in Dubinsky Raid Plan Seen Green Hits League Reformists Win In Jersey W.A.A. -Progressive Forces Go Down to Defeat At Trenton Meet War Resolution Spiked Fur Workers Back Verdict On Federman -Stalinists Try to Break Up Meeting Held to Hail Findings Stalinists Slink Away Run to Court Attack C.P. Wreckers Soviet Union Notes -Purge Reflects Economic Crisis -- Coal Piles Up At Mines --Tractor Failures Slow Down Harvest by John G. Wright New Crisis in Soviet Economy Coal Stocks Pile Up at Pits The Crisis in Spring Sowing Havoc Caused By Purge Purge in the Commissariat of Heavy Industry A.F. of L. Expulsions The War In The Far East Keep Gerson, Mr. Isaacs! Party and Press A More Than Apt Pupil by Burck (Political Cartoon from the "Daily Worker" about F.D.R., Woodrow Wilson, War and Profits) What Is Collective Security by James Burnham (Second in a series of four) Origin of Collective Security To Solidify Versailles Settlement "Peace" To Protect Imperialist Gangsters It Cements Military Alliances The Fifth Wheel by Leon Trotsky Manage Bourgeois State No Criticism Heard Boycott Postponed A New Betrayal Fourth International 8 Feb. 19, 1938 Stalin Waves Pink Flag to Bluff Allies -Admits "Final Victory" Is Not So Final As Believed Undeserved Headlines No "Victory" After All "Democracies" Cool Down With War Mongers! -Socialist Workers Party Manifesto Heading Directly Toward War War Sentiment Being Whipped Up Imperialists Are All Alike Masses Have Nothing To Gain Stalinists, Social Democrats Shout War Build A World For Peace No Aid To The War-Makers Unionists Will March in Relief Demonstration Relief Problems Acute W.A. Militants Call Jobless To Struggle _Progressive Group Takes Lead In Setting Forth Demands Relief Sharply Cut Another Tragedy Twin City Progressives Score Smashing Victory -Splitters Swept From Top Bodies -Elections Drive Them From Central Labor Organs in Midwest Miles Dunne Elected Split Drive Defeated Demands To Be Made Joe Lubich (Obituary) Evelyn Gordon (Obituary) Minneapolis Teamsters Sue "Daily Worker" for Libel -Complaint Lists Repeated Stalinist Slanders Against Union Malicious Slanders G.P.U. Methods Martyred Unionist -Patrick Corcoran (Photograph) One In Six In N.Y. Depend Upon Relief Rorty Gives Stinging Reply to "Writers" -Tells Few Home Truths to Communist Stooge Organization What He Wanted Against Fascist Methods Party Resolutions -Trade Union Movement and the S.W.P. (Continued from last issue, Part 3 of 3.) Serious, Responsible Approach Needed Sit-Down Has Significant Future For Democratic Union Control The Immediate Tasks of the Party Platform of the Left Wing The Union Must Defend Unemployed 20,000 Storm Philadelphia City Hall Jury to Get New Facts in Rubens Case -Carlo Tresca will Bare Significant Links In Moscow Frame-Up by Junius Duranty on the Job Tresca Issues Statement Held by Stalin -Mrs. Marie Rubens (Photograph) Epstein Keeps Silent Conspiracy Under Way Beard Slandered Communist League of China Needs Our Financial Aid On Firing Line Workers Must Rally Around Beal to Fight Sabotage of His Defense C.P. Sabotaging Defense Only One Change What Must Be Done Faces Old Charge -Fred Beal (Photograph) Littlepage "Evidence" Boomerang Against Communists, Lamont Finds Whitewash "Witness" Littlepage's Testimony Trager's Reply Reason For Sabotage British Dockmen Stop Japan Cargo Dock Strike Ends With Gains in P.R. No Solution Provided in Housing Bill -Act Filled Jokers Offers No Aid to Millions by John Fredericks Shortage of Homes Another Catch Soviet Union Notes -Duranty "Explains" USSR Economic Crisis Like Purges --By Concealing Facts and Belittling Seriousness by John G. Wright Walter (Dostoievsky) Duranty Reports for Duty (More common spelling is Dostoyevsky) Duranty Tries to Minimize the Crisis Duranty Falsifies Statistics Crisis Sharper Than Officials Admit Other Soviet Dispatches Equally "Colored" Cordell Hull Says "No!" Footnote to Carleton Beals Falsifiers of Marx Help Fight War Relief A La Roosevelt (Political Cartoon) The Dream of Isolation by James Burnham Majority Favor Neutrality Policy Base for Isolation No Longer Exists Beard Sees Where Policies Are Leading Understands Value of Democracy Fails to Make Positive Proposals Does He Think U.S. Will Abdicate? Anti-Lynch Bill – I Speech I Did Not Deliver in the United States Senate by Albert Goldman Hypocrisy of Northern Democrats Weakness of Bill Motives of Southern Senators How Lynching Will End Against Capitalism 9 Feb. 26, 1938 F.D.R War Plans Exposed –Key Leaders Hear Details of Campaign –Parleys With Army and Navy Chiefs, Financial, Industrial, and Newspaper Barons Prepare Way for War Propaganda Drive –Plan Laid at Secret Meeting Deliberate War Preparation To Silence Opposition "At the Drop of a Hat" Action Against Japan Britain seeks 4–Power Pact Against USSR –Chamberlain Offers Concessions to Rome and Berlin to Form Anti-Soviet Bloc; Would Free Britain to Face Japan –"Peace Lovers" Desert Stalin -Deal With Mussolini and Hitler Aims to Isolate Soviet Union "Guarantors" Absent Britain Seeks "Peace" U.S.S.R. Not Included France Will Follow Beal Receives Solid Backing for His Fight -Defense Group Joined by Prominent Educators, Liberals, Authors Says Return Inevitable Hundred Join Committee Leon Sedoff Dies in Paris After Sudden Operation * Thousands March Behind Bier; Await Results of Autopsy Foul Play Suspected Red Funeral Assembled Material Edited Bulletin His Daughters * Trotsky Sees Possibility of Foul Play in Death of His Son by Leon Trotsky Sicknesses a Surprise Possibility Exists Swiss Court Finds G.P.U Killed Reiss -Facts Uncover Moscow Guilt in Murder at Lausanne Four Agents Involved Plot Trotsky's Death Geller Files for St. Paul Election -S.W.P. Enters Mayoralty Primary in First Campaign Critical Support Vote Urged for Geller Thousands Parade in Rain for Relief Demonstration Widick Leaves on Midwestern Lecture Tour -To Organize Party Union Activities During Two Months on Road Union Work Stressed Tour Schedule Denver Teachers Face Union Split -Political Issues Injected by Stalinists Cause Threat of Bolt Abuses and Violations Progressives Lead Car Strike in Minneapolis -Unsatisfactory Terms Forced Through by Union Officers Fakers on the Job No Meeting Called Two Other Strikes Hook Answers Broun Attack on John Dewey -Asks Pointed Questions in Reply to Columnist's Slanderous Article by Sidney Hook Attacked by Broun -John Dewey (Photograph) Dewey's Warning Stalinists' Real Aim Explained All This Rubber Unions Confronted by Fight for Life -Layoffs and Attacks on Organizations Open Critical Period By Blake Lear [C.K. Stewart] Unions Fall Back Party Resolutions -On the Nature of the Party Principles of Democratic Centralism Responsibilities of Leadership Responsibilities of Membership Inner Party Discussion San Pedro Longshoremen Fight to Keep Hiring Hall Protest Meeting Held S.U.P. Backs Dockers Solidarity Stressed Fresh Light Is Cast On Poyntz Case -Tresca Links Mystery of Missing Woman To Rubens Affair by Junius Daily Finds It Too Hot Where Is She? -Juliet Poyntz (Photograph) War Mobilization Plans Provide Virtual Fascist Regime for Labor by Dave Cowles To Conscript Labor Strikes to Be Smashed Women and Children Too Wages Attacked May Be Extended Detroit Scene of Jingo Orgy by Stalinists -Panay Bombing Pictures Shown at Convention "Discussion" Audience Yawns Feature Mickey Mouse Sauce for the Goose Soviet Union Notes-French Newspaper Investigates Activities of G.P.U. Murder Agents--Tells of Schemes to Encompass Death of Ignace Reiss by John G Wright Murder Operative Summoned Makes Complaint of Double-Cross Appeal Drive On Acheron Spurts Forward The APPEAL Drive Figures to Be Given Six Pages Needed Lynn Workers Protest Hill-Sheppard Bill Leon Sedoff Stalin's Letter Fireside Chat (Political Cartoon) Marxism and Collective Security by James Burnham Two Positions Fundamentally Related Are Part of Preparation for War Analysis of Capitalism Only Truthful Answer Struggle Against War Is Fight for Socialism Fear of Workers Checks War Makers Answer to War Is Socialist Revolution Green-Lewis War -Verbal Battle Seen As Jockeying for Position in United Body by John Adamson Drive Stopped A.F.L. Also Hit Ranks Want Unity No New Feud 10 Mar. 5, 1938 Stalin Stages New Frame-Up -Last Surviving Old Bolsheviks Facing Death -Bukharin, Rykov, Rakovsky and Eighteen Others Tried on New Frame-Up Charges of Treason and Murder -Bukharin Was Ally of Stalin Charges Go Back to 1921! Stalin In Desperation Ex-Ally Of Stalin Bukharin Friend of Gorky Assumption Absurd Protest the Crime! War Moves Speeded Up by Roosevelt -Prepare to Knit Latin American States in War Alliance Military Dictatorship "Wings of Democracy" 723 in Teachers Union Take Anti-War Stand WPA Rolls Used for Recruiting Into U.S. Army -Military, Relief Agencies Cooperate to Put Men in Uniform Beans Spilled Last of Lenin's Colleagues Face Doom -Soviet Union Notes -Trial Defendants Include Last of Lenin's Colleagues -- They Now Face Their Turn Before Firing Squad by John G. Wright [Joseph Vanzler] N.I. Bukharin A.I. Rykov C.G. Rakovsky H.G. Yagoda C.F. Grinko N.N. Krestinsky A.P. Rosengoltz F. Khodzhaev Akmal Ikramov V.I. Ivanov Next? -Maxim Litvinov I.A. Zelensky Purger Purged -Henry Yagoda (Photograph) M. Chernov FDR Offers Meager Sop to Jobless -Hundreds of Thousands Will Starve As War Budget Mounts -Money for War None for Relief -Deficiency Appropriation Fails to Meet Most Pressing Needs "Revolutionary" Criticism Militant Action Needed Trotsky Nails Fresh Attack on His Asylum -Answers Toledano's Move to Gag Him As New Trial Opens by Leon Trotsky Real Views Available Inspired by Moscow Crawl to Stalin Odious Slanders Compelled to Answer Known GPU Agent Goes to Mexico GPU Tries to Frame Chinese Bolsheviks -Chinese Comrades Spike Stalinists Charges Against Them Another Frame-Up The Old Technique Who Are They? Exposed Moscow Trials Truth Proclaimed Letters from Our Readers In the Painters' Union by S. Pleve, Local 848 S.W.P. Replies to Slander of "New Republic" -Ex-Liberal Organ Caught Lying in Issue of Bridges Ouster by James P. Cannon, National Secretary Socialist Workers Party Slander Retracted Beal Unmentioned Jersey Jobless Win Concessions Akron Teachers Fight Layoffs With Union Aid -Board Drops 38 in Face of Militant Union Resistance by Blake Lear [C.K. Stewart] Spy Scare, Somewhat Too Neatly Timed, Rouses Jingo Newspapers Spurred by Washington Some Peculiar Features A Little Too Neat Ohio-Michigan District Meets -SWP Organizations Meet at Cleveland to Plan Building Drive by R. Ferguson [Robert Treash] Work In Unions Clarke Field Organizer "Pro–Labor" Congressman Abandon Beal's Defense Only One Charge Who Are They? Appeal Army Stool Pigeons Put a Finger on Writers -Informers Cause Many to Lose Jobs on WPA Project Stalinists Supervisors YPSLs Fight Rule on Alien Students -Picket Board of Higher Education to Force New Decision N.J. Chemical Plant Strike in Ninth Week New Trial Is Climax of Two-Year Purge Tries Again -Andrey Vishinsky (Photograph) Charges Grow As Trials Progress Fantastic "Evidence" Public Skepticism Increases [Misspelled as "scepticism" in text] Presides Again -V.V. Ulrich "Son, Friend, Fighter" (Photograph of Trotsky and his son Leon Sedoff) Leon Sedoff Honored by 700 at New York Memorial Meeting -Shachtman, Erber Pay Final Tribute to Late Warrior Life Reviewed Wire to Trotsky Natalia Trotsky Safeguard Trotsky's Asylum That Letter Labor's "Friends" How Not to Fight War -An Editorial Statement Sponsors of Meeting Suddenly Discover A "Program" Find Themselves Farther Right Than American League Infer That Roosevelt Might Forsake Drive toward War Movement Is Blow at Revolutionary Struggle Against War 11 Mar. 12, 1938 Pacifist Rally to Dear Old Flag at New York Talkfest -Patriotic Fervor Arises at Hippodrome "Anti-War" Meeting Patriotic Tone Retired General Favors Japan La Follette's "Differences" The Pink Wolfe Whose Blood? Will Crumble to Bits SWP Anti-War Meet March 18 Safeguard the Asylum of Leon Trotsky! New York Soviet Consulate Picketed to Protest Trial -Trial of 21 Denounced; Fourth International Slogan Resounds, (signed by Ernest Rice McKinney, Sec'y, Socialist Workers Party, Local New York Petition Handed to Consul Demand Postponement Shachtman Talks on Trials to 800 Yezhov "Favored" for Nobel Peace Prize! Trial Protest Sent by Mpls. Trade Unions -Midwest Organizations Wire Troyanovsky on Moscow Frame-up The Signers Ask Postponement They Stand Alone No Real Evidence Alexei Rykov (Photograph) Stalin Regime Desperate -New Moscow Trial Shows Usual Flaws -Universal Ridicule Greets Flood of Fantastic "Confessions" Extracted from the Former Leaders of Russian Bolshevism -Real Evidence Is Non-Existent -Oslo Official Refutes Testimony -Stalin's Regime Going Through Crisis Trial Shows Cautious on Hotels "Confesses" -Nicholas Krestinsky (Photograph) Expelled From Norway Victim of Stalin -A.P. Rosengoltz (Photograph) Covering Blunders Funniest of All Why, Oh Why? Socialist Party Ready to Liquidate Itself Into American Labor Party Entry Being Planned Laidler Tells All Clarity Pushed Aside Christian Rakovsky (Photograph) House Group Adopts Huge Navy Budget -Original Figure Raised to New Record Peace-Time High Prepares World War Defense of What? Widick Begins Labor Tour at Boston, Lynn -Finds Comrades Active in New England Key Unions N.Y. Painters Get Taste of Stalinism -Weinstock Imports C.P. Gangsterism to Gag Militants Vigorous Protests Riot Prevented Goshen Rubber Workers Kill Fake Union Move Fighting Platform Unfolded by Geller -Anti-War Stance Stressed by S.W.P. Candidate in St. Paul Critical Support Anti-War Fight Stalinist Moves Against Defense of Beal Crumble -Socialist Party Bares Falsity of Lawrence Effort Liars Exposed Handicapped Form New Trade Union -Old Organization Found Utterly Incapable of Struggle League Degeneration Plight of Handicapped Roosevelt Price Policy Shows Economic Drop by David Cowles Not All to Rise Sharp Depression Part of Permanent Crisis Effect of Falling Wages Raising Basic Prices Recovery In Profits Would Have Lowered Prices Actions Louder Than Words Akron Rubber Workers Ask Parley to Settle Friction Due to Lay-offs Plant Conditions Local Craft Uncovered Old Socialist Views Convention of S.W.P. -Found Source of Inspiration in New Year Gathering of Militants at Chicago by George M Whiteside Know What They Want No Rubber Stamp Vigilant Rank–and–File The Trials, Democracy and Communism Find a Defense for "Democracy" These Are NOT the Methods of Communism! The Trials and the Defense of the U.S.S.R. War Would Be Crusade Results of "Realism" Basis for Advance "Deliverance" To Slavery Moscow Trial Special Supplement * Stalin Directs Blows At Revolution Itself; Trial Testimony Crumbles at First Touch -Is Forced to New Extremes by Crisis -Krestinsky "Repudiation" Throws Glaring Light on Methods of G.P.U.; Documentary Evidence Entirely Absent by Max Shachtman Finding Scapegoats Grinko and the Ruble Stalin's National Policy Bankruptcy Abroad Why England Comes In Why America Does Not No One Will Remain Documentary Evidence Lacking Thousands Involved Little to Show The "Repudiation" by Krestinsky "Deliberately Perverted" Would Never Have Appeared A Night in Jail Soviet Relations With Reich Relations with Germany After Rapallo Scheidemann's Confirmation Zetkin's Speech The "Plot" Against Lenin in 1918 No Need to Tell Leadership New Radek, Piatakov, Speak No Plot at All "If the Charges Were True---" What Charges Mean Cannot Be Believed *Trials Arouse Protests from Labor Abroad -European Socialist Press Rejects Charges As Totally False Leaders Sign "Medieval Sorcery" * Attempt to Break Trotsky Defense Committee Fails * Organizers of October by Diego Rivera (Photograph of a mural?) * Trotsky Reviews Elements of New Trial; Cites Efforts to Gag Him by Leon Trotsky Sedoff's Death Second Step More Important Than Last One Stalin Alone Unaccused The Case of Pletnyev Eight Ministers Kirov Once More March New International Appears Hail the Heroic Paris Communards! -A Commemorative Statement Suppressed in Blood Social Democrats Betray New Courage and Hope Soviet Union Notes -French Socialists Break Silence on Trials; What the Records Say About Deaths of Gorky and Others by John G Wright Sidelights on the Latest Moscow Frame-up The "Murder" of Gorky Appeal Army Advance Information! Mr. Kerensky Comes to Town Nailed Again The Real Moscow Defendant (Political Cartoon) Letters to the Editor * Letter by John Wheelwright (Pertaining to coverage of the "Partisan Review") Charges Negligence Stalinist Depths? * Our Reply Present Program * To All Socialists (Letter from Norman Gilbert to members of the Socialist Party in Pennsylvania) Hippodrome Meeting -An Editorial Shachtman Heard at ILGWU Group Marxist School 12 Mar. 19, 1938 Lenin's Aides Shot -Anti-War Struggle Only Reply to Hitler -GPU Court Decrees Death for Eighteen After Farcical Trial -Last of Lenin's Staff Victims of Stalin's Executioners; Rakovsky Spared for Future Frame-up Charges -Trial Was Flimsiest of All The Victims White Guard Prosecutor Exposes Falsehoods Daily Covers Up A New Failure No Real Evidence Soviet Consulate Picketed In Fisco An Open Letter -To Members of the Communist Party Do You Believe In The October Revolution Is This Socialism? Truth Alone Serves Our Causes Stalinism, Not Socialism, Is Bankrupt Fascism Lashes Austrian Labor -Drive Toward General War Conflagration Given Impetus by Latest Triumph of Swastika; Move Looses Wave of Chauvinism -Vicious Reaction is Deepening Nazism Triumphs War Drive Speeded Social-Patriots in Line Stalinists To Fore Stalinism Aids Fascism The Revolutionary Road Loyalist Spain in Peril of Collapse Navy Departs for Pacific War "Games" -Record Maneuvers Will Cover Vast Triangle in Western Ocean Scope of Maneuvers Diplomatic Moves Mask Is Off Frame-ups? -So What? Says Anna Strong 2,000 Meet to Denounce Trial -2,000 Meet to Protest Frame-up Winding Up Affairs Trotsky's Message Lenin's General Staff of 1917 -Stalin, The Executioner, Alone Remains (Shot, in prison, disappeared, missing, suicide, in exile or dead with one survivor, and 2 or 3 unaccounted for) Mooney Wages New Battle to Gain Liberty -State Assembly Passes Resolution for a Full Pardon Merriam Has Pardon Power Mistrusts Courts Goff Defers Alone Fights On -Tom Mooney (Photograph) Labor Leader Offer Backing for Fred Beal -AFL Head Aids Defense; Dubinsky, Othes Join Up Dubinsky Speaks Up More Join St. Louis Unionists Spike Fake "Unemployment" Plan Clear Rasmussen of Fake Charges 1,000 Painters Fight Machine Rule in union -Hold Mass Meeting to Denounce Weinstock Leadership Weinstock Pilloried Fight Called For S.W.P. Candidate Polls Healthy Vote in St. Paul -Stalinists Are Slapped by Farmer-Labor Politicians by Carl O'Shea C.P. Gets Slapped Nothing New Candidate -Jules Geller Goodrich Locals Prepare to Oppose Wage Slashes Threaten to Decentralize Pecan Shellers on Strike Six Weeks Police Terror Rages New SWP Maritime Paper is Issued Lift Charters From Four WAA Locals in PA. -Stalinists Force Split in Allentown; League Takes Lead Aimed at Militants Unemployed Benefit Appeal Army Subs Bundle Orders -Local, Literature Agent, Increase "New Republic" Evades Challenge by Cannon -Fails to Name Alleged Provocateurs In S.W.P. Ranks Stove Workers Win Sit-Down Victory -Fight New Cut in Wage of $2.50 Weekly; 700 in Jail Fund Mounts for Chinese Comrades Blum Cabinet New Attempt to Stem Crisis -Franc Dives as Regime Tries Desperately to Save Itself Stopgap -Leon Blum (Photograph) Prepares for War Treachery and Betrayal Soviet Pact Doomed Anti-War Campaign On in Minneapolis -Issue Cuts Through All State Politics 544 Leads Drive Stalinists Losing out Bosses' Offensive Gene Frey (Obituary) Minnesota Farmer-Labor Group Takes Militant Anti-War Stand Mark Commune Date by Anti-War Mass Meeting Spector Speaks On Trials in Toronto Soviet Union Notes -Stalin on His Onetime Allies--He Sheds Blood He Said Opposition Wanted--The Mystery of Postyshev by John G. Wright [Joseph Vanzler] Stalin and Molotov on Bukharin -- in 1926 Stalin and "Bukharin's Blood" Stalin on the "Policy of Lopping Off" The Postyshev Mystery 13 Mar. 26, 1938 LaGuardia Cuts Relief Ten Percent -"Labor Mayor" Acts in "Gesture" Against Gov. Lehman All Out! (Demonstration against LaGuardia's Relief Cuts at City Hall) Wants Cut Now Unemployed Suffer Demonstration Proposed Relief Militants Arrested in N.Y. Expropriation of Oil Lands Opens New Era for Mexican Workers -Cardenas Move Is Step Forward; Workers in This Country Must Give Full Support to Mexican Working Class "Democratic" Pressure Our Position A Progressive Step Workers' Initiative SWP Militants Keep Fascists from East Side -Picket Line and Rally Block Meeting on Second Avenue Picket Line Formed Street Rally Held Second Rally Broken Up United Front Offer Next Week! -An 8-Page Anti-War Issue! Rappoport Breaks with French C.P. Trial Causes New Fissures in C.P. Ranks -Stalin's Terror Repels Honest Proletarian Militants Open Disbelief Foreign Groups Revolting Afraid to Argue Walls Cracking Imperialist War Impends in Europe; Hull Reiterates Aim to Dominate World -Hitler Speeds His War Plans -U.S.S.R.'s Isolation Is Deepened; Poland's Appetite Whetted New War Moves France Paralyzed U.S.S.R. In Peril No Real Difference Navy Funds to Be Hiked Again -War Scare Used to Spur American Armaments Program New Increases In View Rejects Isolation The Real Reason The Only Road To Peace Last War Led to Fascism The Enemy Is Here People's Front Leads Spanish Working Class Toward Fascist Abyss -Only the Repression of the Revolutionary Mass Movement of the Workers Has Made Franco's Sweeping Victories Possible Bombardments Continue Fascists Get Help Only Defeats Power Sacrificed Lie Revealed 10,000 Ohio Gum Minders Mass to Protest Wage Slashes -Boss Offensive Arouses Akron -Washington Acts behind Scenes to Spike Union Vote Rubber Barons Active Stalinists Prepare Ground Minneapolis Electrical Workers Vote to Strike -Power Company Attacks in General Offensive Directed Against Labor in Mid-West Strike Won Agreement Relations Severed Dangerous Concession Crucible Steel Workers Out on Strike in New Jersey -Picket Squads Evidence Fighting Spirit of Strike Committee Strikers' Demands Militant Leadership Roosevelt War Aims Denounced at New York Ant-War Meeting Bankruptcy of Roosevelt's Reform Program Laid Bare by Gov't Acts by Dave Cowles Never Reached It Consider Their Actions Need Admitted Nature of Boss Justice Family Affair Appeal Army Voroshilov is Next by Leon Sedoff The Best of Friends May Part -Stalin and Voroshilov (Photograph) Conflict Really with Stalin "German Orientation" Got Out in Time The Military Councils Decision Not New Appointment of Mekhlis Fund for Chinese Comrades Goes Up Soviet Union Notes -Monstrousness Of Trials Matched by Acuteness of Soviet Economic Crisis; Pravda Gives Picture Showing Scope of Breakdown by John G Wright [Joseph Vanzler] Stalin Frame-ups Mask Bankruptcy of Regime Statistics Carefully Doctored Stalin Regime Wrecks Soviet Economy Pravda Paints a Revealing Picture Everyone Can Now See him The McNaboe Bill The Travels of Kautsky Lamont to Dewey to Lamont Unity Against Fascism ILGWU Members Protest Trial to Soviet Envoy April New International Hitler's Austria Coup Aided by Moscow Trial by Leon Trotsky Vyshinsky--White Guard Gangster System Remains Disbelief Universal Pravda's Accusation Given Conditional Sentence The Metamorphosis Trotsky Explains to Kirchwey Aftermath of the Trials by James Burnham Even the Stalinists Makes Revolution Absurd Confessions to Order Disbelief Not Enough They Come to Life Smoke-Fire Theory For Straying Faithful Socialism Attacked New York Jobless Protest La Guardia Relief Slash Stalinists in Usual Role Speakers Stall Money Enough Fresh Wave of Strikes Hits France -Workers Open Offensive Despite Treachery of Popular Front by Argus Prop of Capital -Leon Blum (Photograph) Lesson Forgotten Gift to Bourgeoisie Reaction Fears Workers Anti-Labor Law Sought Stalinists for Sale Minneapolis Takes the Lead! -Unions Declare Anti-War Stand (Adopted by the Central Labor Union of Minneapolis, representing 50,000 unionists) "The Church Militant" Stalinists Try to Oust Martin from UAW Post -Groom Frankensteen for Presidency With View to Pushing "Collective Security" Fakery The Latest Maneuver Groom Frankensteen Deceit and Lies Irresponsible Action Blackens Martin The Ford Drive A Warning Stalin Purge Extended to Polar Heroes -Nineteen More Are Shot After an Alleged Secret Trial On His Way Out Charges Will Mount Fantastic--So What? Labor Alone Can Prevent Spain's Doom -Popular Front Crumbles Before Franco's Big Catalan Drive Preceded by Political Defeats Central Issue Jails Filled There is Still Time A Principled Fight Navy Maneuvers Proceed Under Close Secrecy -Internment Camps Being Prepared in Hawaii For Japanese They Understand SWP Leaders in Mexico City Support Workers Struggle Stalinists Back Governor Murphy for Re-Election -Mazey, Head of Briggs Auto Local, Alone in Opposition Short Memories Curran Aids Navy Recruiting Action Martin, Kenyon, Hays Join Beal Defense Group -Many Join in Nationwide Movement for His Liberation More Prominent Joiners Loones Ouster Uncovers Strife in Seamen's Union Attacks Editor, Stalinists Lenient to Opportunists Allentown Project Reopens as Result of Militant Action Appeal Army New Subs--Week ending March 25th Britain Not Yet Ready to Fight Hitler -Chamberlain Declines Role of Savior of "Democracy" No Advance Commitment Stalin Proposal Dismised Democracy and Fascism Loves Peace Too -Neville Chamberlain (Photograph) Preventive War Possible Labor Traitors Busy No Opposition Yet Consider Arbitration Board to Settle Rubber Disputes Arrested Photographer a Stalinist Sympathizer -Ossip Garber, Held in Rubens Passport Fraud, Is Well-Known in C.P. Periphery by Junius A Known Stalinist Arrest Confirms "Appeal" Family's Mouth Shut Passport photos for Mr. and Mrs. "Donald L. Robinson" (Perhaps made by Ossip Garber) Fund for China Mounts to $143 French Technicians Denounce the Trials Soviet Union Notes -Purge Goes On--New Trial of Red Army Generals is in Prospect--Soviet Deputies Begin to Get the Axe by John G. Wright [Joseph Vanzler] Stalin Intensifies Purge Sidelights on the Last Frame-Up Vyshinsky on Zinoviev In 1925 Bravo Minneapolis! The Gainesville Speech Stalinist Gangsterism Lynn Gets Taste of "Democracy" at Meeting on Moscow Frame-ups Stalinist "Democracy" Woman Pushed Around The Only War to End War! by Carlo (Political Cartoon) A Letter from China Chiang and the U.S.S.R. Time Not Ripe "Left" Trickery All Favored Surrender 14 Apr. 2, 1938 (Special Anti-War Supplement) Workers! The Enemy Is In Your Own Country! (Headline Above Masthead) Millions Died for the Fraud of "Democracy" In Human Lives One Out of Five Dies 28,000,000 Civilians Perished The Workers Gained Nothing The Capitalists Alone Profited by War The Workers Were Left With the Bills A Rooseveltian Ship of State -Aircraft Carrier "Lexington" (Photograph) Do Not Allow the Lessons of 1917 to be Easily Forgotten -Boss War is for Boss Profits and Not for "Democracy" The Real Facts Behind the Scenes Why Wars Are Fought Why Troops Went Ready in 1916 Treatment of Labor War "Democracy" Wars Since the "War to End War" S.W.P. Policy on War -Fight the War-Makers! (From "The Declaration of the Principles of the Socialist Workers Party.") Role of Pacifism Oppose Social Patriotism Roosevelt-Hull Are Heading Toward New World Conflict -War is Pivot of American Plans -Preparations Are Going Ahead in Every Domain Pacific Maneuvers Kennedy's Slip Pacifist Smokescreen Capitalism Stifled In Whose War Shall I Fight? by Eugene V. Debs (Article written in 1915) Sino-Japanese War is Prelude to Greater Pacific Conflict -Our Solidarity is With Masses of China, Japan -National Revolutionary War Will Transform the Whole East Japan's Invasion The Fight for Liberation Real Road to Victory Workers of the World Must Absorb Lessons of Spanish Civil War Masses Checked Avoided Radical Steps Sapped Initiative Imperialist Cynicism "Democracy" Smokescreen They Wanted a Better Life -Victims of Franco's Bombers (Photograph) Imperialist Interests in China Are at Root of Coming Clashes Percentage of Foreign Capital Investments U.S. Interests Comintern Prepared to Support Imperialist War Facilitate Support of War To Serve as Loyal Aides Role of Comintern "Class Harmony" Browder and Roosevelt Dove of Peace, Roosevelt Style -One of the U.S. Army's new "flying fortresses" which recently made a "goodwill" flight to South America (Photograph) The Idea of "National Defense" Defense of the Soviet Union Rests on Working Class -The Criminal Policies of Stalin Have Isolated the U.S.S.R.; Workers Will Aid It Only by Resisting Imperialistic War Plans Malignant Growth An Old Trick Struggle Will Decide Who Will Conquer Pacifism is An Aid, Not a Deterrent, To the War-Makers * The Meaning of Pacifism by Rosa Luxemburg * Pacifism Separates Anti-War Fight From Struggle Against Capitalism The Pacifist Argument In the Labor Movement The Roots of War Eliminate the Cause Really Aids War-Makers * Sowing Illusions, Pacifism Leaves Masses Helpless In Face of War Turn Into Support The Social Patriots * Democracy, Pacifism and Imperialism by Leon Trotsky (Published in 1917) The Roots of Pacifism The Idea of "Eternal Peace" "If War Should Come..." The Enemy is in Your Own Country! by Karl Liebknecht Socialism and War by Lenin and Zinoviev (Pamphlet published in 1915) National Awakening What is Social-Chauvinism?" Mass Suffering Increased Woodrow Wilson, In Four Installments -Howe Led Us to War Minneapolis Vets Take Militant Anti-War Stand "Keep America Out of War," Asks New Committee; But How? Attitude Toward Government The Dividing Line Eugene V. Debs -Jailed for his revolutionary activity during W.W.I Debs declared he would fight only in a Class War for the liberation of the workers from capitalism (Photograph) The Anti-War Fight William Green Ready to Sub for Gompers -He Already Announced Support of Roosevelt War Program "If War Comes..." Like Gompers Assured Labor Docility William Green (Photograph) They Kept Pledge Fought Anti-War Movement Green Follows Suit 14 Apr. 2, 1938 World's Workers Can Still Defeat Franco's Drive (Headline over Masthead) U.S. Strikes at Mexican Labor -Silver Move Made to Aid Oil Robbers -Action Seen as First Step in Sharp Struggle Which May End in Imperialist Intervention Through Mexican Fascist Bands -Jingo Campaign is Unleashed -U.S. Silver Move Against Mexico is Direct Attack on Working Class Jingo Campaign On Defend Fantastic Profits Roosevelt Collaborates Revolution is Need Solidarity With Mexico Twenty One Years After Lesson of History Follows Path of Woodrow Wilson Roosevelt's Idealistic Camouflage The Real Enemy--Imperialism New York Jobless Protest La Guardia Relief Slash Stalinists in Usual Role Speakers Stall Money Enough Fresh Wave of Strikes Hits France -Workers Open Offensive Despite Treachery of Popular Front by Argus Prop of Capital -Leon Blum (Photograph) Lesson Forgotten Gift to Bourgeoisie Reaction Fears Workers Anti-Labor Law Sought Stalinists for Sale Minneapolis Takes the Lead! -Unions Declare Anti-War Stand (Adopted by the Central Labor Union of Minneapolis, representing 50,000 unionists) "The Church Militant" Stalinists Try to Oust Martin from UAW Post -Groom Frankensteen for Presidency With View to Pushing "Collective Security" Fakery The Latest Maneuver Groom Frankensteen Deceit and Lies Irresponsible Action Blackens Martin The Ford Drive A Warning Stalin Purge Extended to Polar Heroes -Nineteen More Are Shot After an Alleged Secret Trial On His Way Out Charges Will Mount Fantastic--So What? Labor Alone Can Prevent Spain's Doom -Popular Front Crumbles Before Franco's Big Catalan Drive Preceded by Political Defeats Central Issue Jails Filled There is Still Time A Principled Fight Navy Maneuvers Proceed Under Close Secrecy -Internment Camps Being Prepared in Hawaii For Japanese They Understand SWP Leaders in Mexico City Support Workers Struggle Stalinists Back Governor Murphy for Re-Election -Mazey, Head of Briggs Auto Local, Alone in Opposition Short Memories Curran Aids Navy Recruiting Action Martin, Kenyon, Hays Join Beal Defense Group -Many Join in Nationwide Movement for His Liberation More Prominent Joiners Loones Ouster Uncovers Strife in Seamen's Union Attacks Editor, Stalinists Lenient to Opportunists Allentown Project Reopens as Result of Militant Action Appeal Army New Subs--Week ending March 25th Britain Not Yet Ready to Fight Hitler -Chamberlain Declines Role of Savior of "Democracy" No Advance Commitment Stalin Proposal Dismised Democracy and Fascism Loves Peace Too -Neville Chamberlain (Photograph) Preventive War Possible Labor Traitors Busy No Opposition Yet Consider Arbitration Board to Settle Rubber Disputes Arrested Photographer a Stalinist Sympathizer -Ossip Garber, Held in Rubens Passport Fraud, Is Well-Known in C.P. Periphery by Junius A Known Stalinist Arrest Confirms "Appeal" Family's Mouth Shut Passport photos for Mr. and Mrs. "Donald L. Robinson" (Perhaps made by Ossip Garber) Fund for China Mounts to $143 French Technicians Denounce the Trials Soviet Union Notes -Purge Goes On--New Trial of Red Army Generals is in Prospect--Soviet Deputies Begin to Get the Axe by John G. Wright Stalin Intensifies Purge Sidelights on the Last Frame-Up Vyshinsky on Zinoviev In 1925 Bravo Minneapolis! The Gainesville Speech Stalinist Gangsterism Lynn Gets Taste of "Democracy" at Meeting on Moscow Frame-ups Stalinist "Democracy" Woman Pushed Around The Only War to End War! by Carlo (Political Cartoon) A Letter from China Chiang and the U.S.S.R. Time Not Ripe "Left" Trickery All Favored Surrender 15 Apr. 9, 1938 Roosevelt Speeds War Plans -Vast Army Games to Help Make Country War-Minded -Many Sided Preparations, Military, Naval, and Diplomatic, Are Pointing U.S Toward New World Conflagration -Will Build Super-Warships Hull Reveals Purpose Another War Move Revolutionary Course in Spain Can Check Franco -Politicians Scurry for Safe Cover -Scapegoats Sought For Series of Heavy Defeats ` Prieto Dumped Pozas Led Terror "Anarchist Sabotage!" International Solidarity Palestine C.P. Joins Fourth International W.A.A. Gathers in Convention -Progressive To Urge Militant Program as Reply to Policies of People's Fronters "The Successes" Fruits of Victory Political Jockeying Progressives Rally For a New Course Workers Hold Power Plants in Michigan -Murphy Steps in Again to Head off New Sitdown Strike Mexican Workers Greet Delegates of the Socialist Workers Party Against Imperialism Challenges Toledano Union Leaders Speak Roosevelt Trims Sails in Oil Fight -Tries Tacking to Meet Threat of Storm in Mexico Silent on Threats Cárdenas' Note Cárdenas Was Willing British Are Losers Rickett's Role Effect on Workers For Mexico Liberation! Parade Today, Die Tomorrow! Conscious Preparation for War Meaning of "Preparedness" F.L.P. Becomes Cog in Roosevelt Machine -Stalinist–Benson Clique Presents Hand-Picked Convention with Class Peace Program Praise Roosevelt Stand on War Bernard at Work Stand on Relief Support Supreme Court A Packed Convention Senator Clarke Confirm N.Y. War Meeting At War Conclave? -Norman H. Davis (Photograph) Workers Resists Scab–Herding Police in Detroit Battle -Force Closing of Screw Plant -Thousands Join Strikers to Prevent Movement of Scabs Fight Wage Cut Scabs Escorted Electrical Workers Score Fine Victory Food Workers to Take Poll on April 12 Soviet Union Notes -Stalin's Bloody Purge Surpasses All Previous Bonapartist Excesses; Red Army Decimated; Soviet Transportation Disorganized by John G Wright The Purge and Progress The Purge and the Red Army The Crisis in Transportation Hook Blasts Moscow Frame-Ups in New York Radio Broadcast Testimony Proved False Stalin Does Not Believe Jersey Law Void, High Court Rules -Leaflet Distributors Need No Permits Chicago Office Workers Reject C.P. Attempt to Oust Organizer Why Stalinists Won Committees Disintegrate Proposal Voted down Members––On Guard! Chinese Garment Workers Strike in San Francisco 20,000 Furriers Tie Up N.Y. Shops -Industry Paralyzed by Strike Action National Committee Plenum Meeting in N.Y. Next Week Pastor Holmes Confirms "Appeal" Story on Strong She Got Indignant Go Ahead––File ! A.P.L. Sec'y Gives Backing to Beal Group -Rose Sends Letter of Support to Defense Committee Newsmen on Coast Vote Strike Action Marine Unions Hit by New Fink Hall -Crews Shipped Out by Maritime Body Widick Speaks to Farmers in Olivia April New International Contains Timely Articles Appeal Army Subs Bundle Order Increase New Crisis Looms as Blum Totters Again -Right Prepares Coup in France -National Union Government Will Pave Way for Repression of Workers to Help Capital Meet Deepening Crisis By Argus Clashes Loom A Danger Signal C.P. on Armaments Program of National Union Back at Starting Point Fund for Chinese Comrades Mounts Ta-tu, Indo-Chinese Militant, Held in Prison of People's Front People's Front Repression Arrested and Expelled Moutet Orders Suppression Is Paralyzed Grand Jury Indicts Two in Rubens Mystery Case -Garber, Sharfin, Known As C.P. Supporters Or Members by Junius Garber Indicted New Names Enter Sharfin Evades Questions Fall Guy -Ossip Garber (Photograph) Stalinists Keep Mum Gerson, Meet Gerson! Reorganization Bill A Letter from China by Fu Ling A Lesson from History Chiang's Danger Masses Feared Stalinist Slanders Protested Regroupment Begins Kuomintang Criticized 16 Apr. 10, 1938 Unemployment Gets No Lead at WAA Meet -N.Y. Convention Skirts All Issues Vital for Jobless LaGuardia's Advice "Democratic" Processes Lasser on Roosevelt Stalinists Run Riot Charge Retracted S.P. Delegates Switch C.P. Slate Elected 150,000 French Workers out on Strike To Defy Daladier -Red Flag Flies Again Over Paris Factories As Workers Resist Reactionary Offensive; Communists Vote for Daladier Floodgates Open Accord with Rome Looms Daladier's Aims Dangerous Weaknesses Threatens Workers -Premier Deladier (Photograph) Labor Playing Pennsylvania Boss Politics -Lewis Sets Out to Take over Democratic Party Machine Roosevelt Steers Clear Stalinists Back Democrats Plenum of S.W.P. Postponed One Week Nippon Drive Bog Down in Central China -Chiang Kai-Shek Given Absolute Powers by Congress Against Great Odds Congress Seals Dictatorship The Priests of Half-Truth By Leon Trotsky Reed and..... Duranty Logic of Class Struggle Opposites Identified Panorama of Narrowness Obliged to Veer Again Their World U.S. Puts Off Freedom for Philippines -War Strategy in Orient Causes Revision of Plans Concession to Bourgeoisie Promise of Independence Bourgeoisie Crawls Warning to Japan Against All Imperialism Mink, Well-Known G.P.U. Assassin, Is En Route to Mexico -Notorious Stalinist Agent Proceeds South Via Galveston; Served As Terror Chief for G.P.U. In Spain -Trotsky's Life Is Menaced! -Stalinist Hirelings Aim for Trotsky by Max Shachtman Leon Trotsky (Photograph) Worried in Moscow He Killed Berneri Preceded by Other Agents Why Is Mink Going to Mexico? 12 SWPers Injured by Hoodlum Attack in Chicago Will Improve Panama Canal for War Use -$200,000,000 Voted for Widening; Nicaragua Plan Dropped For War Vessels Offensive Aims Revealed A.B.B. of War Strategy All for Wall Street Teachers Union Ousted by Joint Committee -Company Union Type of Organization Moves With Reactionary Wave; Conciliatory Methods of Local 5 Prove Bankrupt Line-up With reaction Demand Reorganization Oppose False Policy Militant Slate Rochester Unions Begin Organizing Jobless Workers -AFL Affiliates Support Drive to Unite Unemployed First Charter Granted Fur Strike Ends Its Second Week Stalinists Turn Out for St. Louis Rally NMU Opposition Shows Lack of Clarity in Poll -Various Elements Mixed in "Rank and File Pilot" Group Fly Progressive Colors Militant Group Weakened C.P. Seeks to Prevent United May Day Parades -Strait-jacketed Committees Exclude Militants from Meetings in Boston, Lynn, Newark to Prevent Unity * Boston Revolutionists Barred * Same Tactics in Lynn Crash Conference Stalinists Isolated * Barred in Newark Regimented Vote Contact Unions American League Fails to Get Response in Yorkville The Representation Newark Union Adopts Anti-War Resolution Appeal Army Sharfin, Garber Released on Bail Where is Juliet Poyntz, Missing Now for a Year?--Tresca Links Disappearance to Agents of G.P.U.; Stalinists Maintain Tight-lipped Silence Had Reason to Fear Stalinists Keep Silent All for Wall Street Where Is She? -Juliet Stuart Poyntz (Photograph) History of Polish C.P. Undergoes Refurbishing by Ernest Erber History Rewritten Factionalism a Crime How They Lied Workers Begin to Drift, Disgusted, from Communist Party Ranks Everywhere Kick Over Traces Defy C.P. "Discipline" Attacks C.P. Policies Soviet Union Notes -Red Army and Navy Feel Effects of Purge--New Party Elections to be Held to Fill Vacant Posts by John G. Wright Crisis in the Armed Forces Admirals Given Liquidation Order Recent Developments in the Soviet Union The Eleventh Hour Blessed Are the Peace-Makers French Workers Demonstrate Their Might (Photograph shows workers occupying the Renault motor works) Back Numbers of N.I. on Sale 17 Apr. 23, 1938 Britain and Italy Sign Robber Pact -Open Road for Bloc of "Democratic" and Fascist States Both Sides Keen Stalinist "Theory" Upset British Interests Threatened Await Franco Victory Soviet Union Isolated Took the Pot –Mussolini (Photograph) French Sit-In Strikers Told to End Fight -Difficult Choice Now Faces Centrists in That S.F.I.O. S.F.I.O. Split Workers Challenge Midwest Boss Drive Against Labor False Rumors Dunne's Fighting Speech CIO Decision to Form National Body Brings Unity Issue Forward -Six-Month Interval Provided to Give Hillman Chance to Make New Peace Overtures; Leaders Fed up with C.P. by James P Cannon Unity Still on Agenda Hillman and Conciliation Unions Want Democracy Deal with Browder Situation in New York Takes a Long Step -John L Lewis (Photograph) Illinois C.P. Backs Kelly's Man for Senate -Apes Labor Non-Partisan League in Democratic Primary Fight -Back Igoe and Other Machine Primary Candidates by Albert Gates Democrats Split Scene of Struggle Mud-slinging Match Only One Dilemma C.P. Opposes Lucas "The Chief Task" Divided Victory Roosevelt Seeking Fresh Panaceas to Check Depression * But His Spending Cure-All Is Just Another Quack Remedy -Workers Will Pay Against the Tide Will Benefit Capitalists New Burdens Loom * Proclaims U.S. Primacy in Western Hemisphere -Roosevelt Warns off All Foreign Interests from Latin America: LaGuardia Gives Forthright Expression to Imperialist Aims Warning to All Have-Nots at Work Playing Two Sides Full Settlement Sought America for the Exploiters LaGuardia Program Toward Real War Fruit Growers Open Parley After Workers Vote Strike Score First Gain Determined to Strike Militants in Phila. Fight Red-Baiting -Leaders of ILGWU Local Try to Cover Their Own Bankruptcy Conditions Grow Worse Members Wake Up Another Falsehood Hoodlums attack Cleveland SWPers Steel Workers Net Gains in Jersey Strike -Crucible Strikers Win Concessions After Militant Fight No Strike Concession Improved Situation Jersey WAA Rejects May Day Stooge Role SWP Alone Boycotted Boss Party Primaries in Chicago -Long-standing Tradition in Labor Movement Borne Forward by Revolutionists in Party Call St. Paul Unionists Oppose War Plans -Stalinists Unite with Racketeers in Election Lynn Foodworkers in Second Strike Correction Appeal Army Dunne Raps Bernard for Quitting Beal Defense -Minneapolis Union Leader Rips Congressman's Arguments to Pieces on Issue of Defending Class-War Prisoner For or Against? Where Truth Lies Demands Investigation Appeal for Funds (The Non-Partisan Committee for the Defense of Fred Beal issued an appeal for funds to help organize the legal aspects of the Beal Defense) Famous German Actress is Shot in Moscow Without Public Trial Attempted Suicide Played Character Roles Mass Meeting in N.Y. Backs Mexico Labor -S.W.P. Delegates Given Greeting on Return from South Trip International Support Needed New Panaceas Have Failed Resolution Adopted Enough of Mud! Enough of Blood! By Alfred Rosmer Commission Exposes Lies The Real Facts Stalin's Reasons New Falsehoods Needed Protest Widening Unit Quits Communist Party -Denounces Moscow Frame Ups Capitalists Ask for Doles to Bolster Sagging Output Levels To Hide Decline Production Index China Fund Nears Its Goal of $200 The Right of Asylum Whose Morals? Street-walkers of the G.P.U. -An Editorial The Good Neighbor Policy by Carlo (Political Cartoon) Stalin's Trial as a Terrorist Demanded of League by Trotsky, letter from Leon Trotsky Right to Be Heard G.P.U. Terrorism Attempts in Mexico Stalin at the Head Y.C.L. Supports U.S. Imperialism A Personal Note -The Pot Without Gold by Max Shachtman 18 Apr. 30, 1938 May Day - A Day of Struggle! -SWP Summons Workers for May Day Rally -Revolutionists Will Not Attend Patriotic Show of the Stalinists Will Parade Fraudulent United Front Offers Made Objections Raised Ultimatum Issued Make May Day Labor's Day! Reaction Hits Labor U.S. Capitalism Crippled Where Are We Marching? Labor is Invincible Down Tools! by Carlo (Political Cartoon) Nazi Shadow Deepens Over Czechoslovakia -Hitler Makes New Threats as Britain Pushes Its Plans to Strike Bargain With Nazis Embraces Nazi Leadership Directed Against U.S.S.R. S.W.P. Plenum Maps Out Future Party Activity Harry Bridges Orders Union-Smashing Drive Against Coast Sailors -Whole Future of Maritime Unions at Stake On Clear ut Issue of Collaboration or Class Struggle Policy Bridges' Order Bogus Ruling Opposition in I.L.W.U. Fakers' Aims The Opposition Fink-herder -Harry Bridges (Photograph) Our Greetings and our Tribute -To Prisoers of the Class War Greet Tom Mooney! To the Fighters in Spain To Comrade Ta Tu-Thau Support the National Struggles! Progressive Painters Fight Bureaucrats -Groups in Ten Locals Meet to Map Campaign -Thugs Beat Up Militant in Local 51; Members Are Outraged Riot at Local 51 Throttled Discussion Luttenberg Slugged Typo Workers Reject Fight Against C.I.O. -Reject Assessment Order and Demand Poll On Issue Referendum Demanded Blow to Green Machine Trend Reversed Auto Workers Fight Against Wage Cutting -Strikes Meet Bosses' Plan to Break Unions Bosses Determined Explosion Due Goodrich Union Defeats Plans for Wage Cuts -Akron Bosses Overplay Hand in Rubber Parleys Want Books Examined Shepard Line Ships West Coast Sailors Japan Starts New Drive in Central China -Seeks to Wipe Out the Defeat in Southern Shantung Dissensions and Difficulties Striking Power Comrades in China Acknowledge Aid Left Wing Forces Issue at Canadian Convention -Commonwealth Federation Displays Bureaucratic Methods at Do-Nothing Sessions by E. Robertson Group's Action Reduced 50 Per Cent Wife of Ex-C.P. Head Held by the G.P.U. 150 Gather at S.W.P. Dinner -Gala Event to Greet N.C. Members Police Seize Arms from Mexican C.P. Soviet Union Notes -Council of People's Commissars Feels New Blows--Denny Discovers Destruction of Party Apparatus in Soviet Union by John G. Wright Purge in the Council of People's Commissars The Destruction of the C.P.S.U. Sidelights on Party "Elections" Meet the Nazi Thugs! Kerensky and Stalin Lynn SWP Supports Sharaf Strikers T.U. Unity Needed In Coming Class Battles by Arne Swabeck Conflict Overshadowed Independence a Fact Those "Too Old" Bosses on Offensive LaFollette Prepares Third Party Attempt for 1940 by Frances Merill Third Party Aspirations What They Want Not a Labor Party Could Not Represent Labor Tram Workers Strike in Columbus New International May Issue Appears 19 May 7, 1938 SOCIALIST APPEAL OFFICIAL WEEKLY ORGAN OF THE SOCIALIST WORKERS PARTY EDITOR: MAX SHACHTMAN ASSOCIATE EDITORS; HAROLD ROBERTS, FRANK GRAVES BUSINESS MANAGER: S. STANLEY Hitler Seeks to Mend Axis by Rome Visit -Britain Anticipates His Move by Concluding French Alliance To Pool Resources Hasten Franco's Victory Czechoslovakia Deserted France Loses Indians Given New Taste of Democracy Seek to Oust Sailors from Maritime Body -Bridges Moves to Expel S.U.P. from Coast Federation Attacks on Lundeberg Palestine Communist Party Members Denounce Frame-up Stalin Befouls Movement "Back to Leninism" LaFollette Third Party Movement Would Check Workers' Independence -National Progressive Party, Launched by Scion of Wisconsin Dynasty, Seeks to Head Off Labor's Own Political Action Cool Reception Windy Words Reactionary Policy Boss Hague's Police Kidnap Norman Thomas -Workers' Own Action is Needed to Combat Jersey Fuehrer Vicious Assaults Workers' Initiative Needed Government Tax Program Hits Labor -Roosevelt Measure Gives Relief Only to the Exploiters -Threats to Load Major Crisis Burdens on Bosses Evaporate in Congress Bill Slashing by David Cowles Relieve Capitalisms Role of the State Wage-cuts Speed-up Taxes and Spending Stalinists Start Fight to Capture or Smash United Auto Workers -Frankensteen, Browder's Candidate to Replace Homer Martin, Issues Open Challenge; Board Meets This Week -Would Crush Union Democracy Faces Fight -Homer Martin (Photograph) Would Crush Groups Frankensteen Switches Seeks Dictatorship Code of Servility Muzzle for Union Sugar Coated Pill Backing for Murphy Warning Given AFL Uses Dual Union Tactics to Fight CIO -Charters Reactionary Miners' Union in Illinois Dual Union Moves I.L.G.W.U. Position Rank and File Committee Brings In NMU Agreement U.A.W. Launches Dramatic Section Rochester Unemployed Win Payments in Cash WAA Frustrates Plot to Expel Rasmussen SWP Holds Enthusiastic May Day Meeting in N.Y. -More Than 500 Cheer Demands for Class Struggle Policy; YPSLs Hold Outdoor Rally Workers Will Struggle What Happened Before C.P. Celebrates May Day With Patriotic Parades -Militant Traditions of Labor's Day Continue Under Banner of Fourth International Patriotic Parade In Philadelphia Chicago Holds Rally Banquet in Cleveland Mob Attacks Y.P.S.L. Speakers in Jamaica Coast Office Workers Fight Bridges' Blackmail -He Threatens to Withdraw C.I.O. Support from Union Unless It Knuckles Under by Kathleen Walker Bridges Threatens Three Charges Listed Bridges Packs Meeting Snatch Majority Appeal Army Workers of All Races Must Unite Against Fascism in Czechoslovakia An Ironic Outcome Communist Party Failure Class Struggle Abandoned Germany's Stake is Vast Military Resistance Idle Threat Militant Students Hold Large Anti-War Rallies -Resistance to Patriotic Degeneration of Annual Anti-War Strikes is Widespread Ready Response City College Strike Y.P.S.L. Meetings Mass Meeting on Spain Soviet Union Notes -Election Call for R.S.F.S.R. Seen as a Move for Extension of Purge; Shortage of Primary Goods Still Prevails by John G. Wright Stalin's "Elections"--A Cover for Wilder Purges The Party Purge Shortage of Necessities LaFollette's New Party China's Victories Rubber Union Considers New NRLB Project Labor Has Strong Arms, Too by Carlo (Political Cartoon) Inside the N.Y. Painters Union -The Painting Industry Today (First in a series on conditiopns among painters in New York and the problems of militants in the Painters Union) Difficulties of Organization Effect on Wages Speed-Up Aggravated Job Competition Favoritism Practiced YPSL Committees Will Slug It Out (Y.P.S.L. National Committee versus the District Committee in a baseball game) S.W.P. Labor Secretary Gives Account of Tour by B.J. Widick, Labor Secretary, S.W.P. Attitude To Trials Fight for Existence Workers' Control Needed Characteristics of Detroit Stalinists Applaud In Minneapolis 20 May 14, 1938 Hague's Rule Still Awaits Real Challenge -Farmer's–Labor Congressman, Acting on Advice of Stalinist I.L.D., Fail to Make Good on Threat to Defy New Jersey Dictator -Free Speech Fight Imperative "I Am the Law" -Mayor Hague (Photograph) Police Fill Square Congressman Stay Away Motivates Back-Down Cops Were Pleased A.F. of L. Bosses Back Hague Terror League Serves to Consecrate Ethiopian Rape -Italian Conquest Will Be Legitimized at Geneva China Pleads in Vain Mussolini Wants Time Workers Are Ready Stalinist "Audacity" Y.P.S.L. Members Arrested at Street Meeting in N.Y. Workers! Unite All Forces Against the Union Wreckers! by James P. Cannon The Workers Must Be Prepared Crisis Aggravates Union Problems The Auto Union Situation Support Martin In Other Unions The Sheriff Knocks Lifeguards of Capital Devaluation of Franc to Raise Cost of Living -Daladier Move Strikes Blow at Workers' Standards Big Business Asks Curb On Trade Union Rights -Knudsen and Others Sound Off At Chamber of Commerce Session in Washington "Unfair" to Bosses Union Smashing Was Issue Knudsen and Irresponsibility Wants Strikes Outlawed Appeal Salesmen Are Threatened Toledo White Collar Workers Put Progressives in Office Martin Balks Frankensteen Plot in U.A.W. -Browder's Candidate for Union Presidency Gets Rebuff at Executive Board Meeting; Stalinists Begin to Squirm -Union-Busters Strike Snag Weather-Vane Frankensteen Martin Group Carries Strike Problem Up Union to Fight Against Wage-Cuts Bridges Thugs Attack Pickets on West Coast -Revolt Movement Grows Among Rank and File Longshoremen Bosses Fare Badly Daily Worker Retreats from Anti-Martin Fight to Escape UAW Wrath -Stalinists Change Their Tune Overnight as News From Detroit Presages Failure for Their Plot to Capture Auto Union, by B.J. Widick, Labor Secreary S.W.P. C.P. Squirms Terms of Deal Reuther's Role C.P. Covering Tracks New Deals Ahead Rank an File Revolted Worker Paints Revealing Picture of Conditions in Ford Factories Lay-offs and Pay Cuts More Speed-Up Police Regime Installed Lesson Learned Hillman Hints at New Attempt to Effect A.F.L.-C.I.O. Unity Toledo Militant is Vindicated by Union C.I.O. to Organize Lynn WPA Workers Radio Union Votes Against Boss War Goodrich Workers Vote Ten-One Against Wage Cut Plan Appeal Army Cafeteria Union Bosses Sell Out Hard-Won Gain -Job Security Sacrificed by Agreement to Refer Discharge Cases to "Impartial" Board Stalinist Arguments Militant Workers Meet Progressives Charged German Centrists Give Bleak Conference Report -London Bureau, Uniting Miscellaneous European Groups, Fails to Make Headway Masses Absent To Follow N.L.P. New Allies New International for May on Stands Max Eastman Sues the Daily Worker Cowley Labored -And He Brought Forth some Mice "Enemies of Man" Will Cavort at Pioneer Shindig 200 French Communists Hear Trials Denounced -Rappaport, Ex-Party Leader, Denounces Stalin's Totalitarianism at Paris Gathering Marxism Vs. Stalinism Totalitarian Cruelty Fastens Responsibility Unite Against Hague! -Form Workers Defense Committees! -An Editorial Hague Gets Away With It Surrender Without Battle Inside the N.Y. Painters Union -In the Grip of Racketeers (Part 2 of 4) Graft Flourished Kick-backs Paid Dual Tactics of C.P. Stalinists Change Leon Trotsky Challenges British Labor Party on Oil Land Expropriation (Letter from Leon Trotsky to the London Daily Herald on the subject of the British government's demand for return of the oil property of the Mexican Eagle Oil Co., recently expropriated by the Cardenas Administration) Imperialist Cynicism A Robber Clique Picture of Oilfields Spain and Mexico 21 May 21, 1938 Stalinists Put to Flight by UAW Board -Frankensteen-Browder Combination Collapses Completely; Union Errs, However, In Supporting Governor Murphy -Program Gets Unanimous Vote On Factionalism Real Democracy Economic Crisis Opposes War Reasons for Retreat Both Misfired No Support for Murphy! Progressives Show Gains in Painters' Poll -Get Majority in Three Locals in Union Referendum Close in Local 51 Where Stalinists Scored Paper Appears "No Riders!" by Carlo (Political Cartoon) U.S. Imperialism Shows Aerial Might Over N.Y. -Japan Envisioned in Maneuvers as Actual Enemy in Coming War; Air-fleet Defects to Be Used As Lever for More War Appropriations Farmingdale Blacked Out Headed for War In the June "New International" -Trotsky on "Their Morals and Ours" Methods, Aims Discussed Not an Abstraction Importance of Aim Our Next Week Coast Sailors Voting on AFL Entry Proposal -Stalinists Wrecking Drive in CIO Forces Seamen to Seek Support Chamberlain Seeking New Status Quo -Wants Understanding with Germany at the Cheapest Price "Democrats" vs. Aggressors Hold Secret Talks Empire Cracking Up Election Shows Trend Mexico Ends Its Relations with Britain -Action Follows Insolent Demands by Britain; American Unions Must Give Strong Support to Mexican Workers -Fascist Rebellion Fomented Broader Considerations Concentrating Against Cedillo Revolutionary Position Cease the Blockade Integralistas Ape Hitlerites in Brazil Coup -Putsch Against Vargas Recalls Attack on Dollfuss in 1934 Familiar Methods The Integralistas UAW Head Supports Mexican Strikers UAW Adopts 20 Point Program of Activity Vigilantes Attack WPA Picket Lines Stalinist Thugs Busy in Akron N.Y. Teachers' Union Fights Counsel Edict -Unionists Have Duty to Back Move for Reinstatement Reinstatement Sought Ford "Union" Refuses to Leave Scene -Workers Vote Affiliation to U.A.W. But Company Union Lives On McDowell Contradicted Slugged and Beaten Wages and Markets Cleveland Relief Clients Sit Down Amalgamated Urges Unity of C.I.O., A.F.L. -Clothing Workers Hear Pleas for Peace Among Unions Philadelphia SWP Activists Confer Appeal Army Toledo Unions Moved to Aid Struggle of Jobless -Growing Crisis Puts Organization of Unemployed on Agenda of Industrial Council Crisis Deepening Militancy Curbed Organize the Unemployed! Inside the N.Y. Painters' Union -Stalinist Wreckers Move in (Part 3 of 4) Machine Control In Cahoots With Bosses Unemployed Problem Union Democracy Vote Stealing Union Divided Shachtman Talks at Boston Meet World Bank Hits Myths of New Deal -Report Shows Futility of Planning under Capitalism Upswing Fails Stalinist Deny It On Mothers' Day C.P. Corral Sons for War The Marchers AFL Takes Unions Out of Labor Party 600,000 Affected Is Bluecher the Next on Stalin's Death List -Purge Hits Closest Aides and New Batch of High Officers; Judicial System Found Filled With Criminals New Army Changes Soviet "Justice" Anti-War Motion Gets New Support Lewis Conceals Anti-Labor Acts Behind Left Talk -Speech at A.C.W. Meet Designed to Keep His Influence Reflects Workers' Mood Pseudo-radical Oratory Gas Workers Gain in New Contract Hague Rule is "Local Police Matter"-F.D.R. -Roosevelt Skirts Pleas for Action Against Jersey Fuehrer He Criticized Hague Roosevelt Declines to Act Call to Labor The Wages and Hours Bill Untouchables On the Ludlow Amendment –Statement of the National Committee, SWP "Preparing the Shot!" by Burck (Political cartoon reprinted from the "Daily Worker") One in Six Depends on Relief, Says Hopkins by David Cowles Drop in the Bucket Problem Intensified Will Cut Relief Menace of Fascism On Housing -An Editorial 6,000,000 Homes Are Needed New York's Needs For a Real Housing Program 22 May 28, 1931 Smash Fascism in Mexico! -Workers Must Mobilize to Fight Cedillo -Fascist General Aspiring to Role of Mexican Franco, Has Backing of British and American Oil Companies -Break Washington's Blockade Fights Revolt -President Cardenas (Photograph) G.P.U. Stages Frame-Up Trial in Barcelona -Charges Seven Militants With Assassination -Stalin-Yezhof Methods Applied in Spain Against Revolutionists Who Have Been in Front Ranks Against Franco -Bolshevik-Leninists Accused Accused Militants One Escaped In Barcelona Prison If the Martyrs Could Speak -For Workers Defense! The Memorial Day Massacre (When 10 workers died at police hands during a strike at Republic Steel in South Chicago, Photograph) 9,000 Rubber Workers Quit Akron Plants -Goodrich Plants Struck in Fight Against Wage Cuts by B.J. Widick, Labor Secretary S.W.P. All Grievances Up Firestone Contract Renewed Union Positions Better An Open Letter -To Members of the Communist Party Relief Crisis in Cleveland Still Unsolved -City, State Authorities Pass the Buck While Jobless Starve -Workers Alliance Fails to Give Jobless a Lead One in Three on Relief Twelve Cents a Day Demonstration Opposed Unity in Censorship War Menace Looming in Czech Crisis -Britain, France Act to Forestall Forceful Hitler Coup Anglo-French Action Relief Ceases as "Recession" Hits Chicago -34,000 Jobless Families Face Starvation as Funds Fail Chicago Case Workers' Union Falls Down Miserably in New Relief crisis by L. Malgrecki Second Crisis in Two Years Board Reverses Stand Climax of Years' Impotence Causes of Bankruptcy Forbidden to Strike Union Becomes an Office Lack of Union Democracy A Program of Action Bridges Group Backs Bosses' Mass Meeting -Open Shop Employers Offered Forum by Frisco C.I.O. Boss Plan Rejected Desires Coincide Next Issue to Report Congress Appeal Army USSR Entry Into IFTU is Barred -Woll and Citrine Lead in Blocking Union Affiliation Soviet Isolation Increased A Pertinent Question Inside the N.Y. Painters' Union -Who Are the Wreckers? (4th installment of the series, which concludes next issue) Conditions in Industry Deals With Bosses Union Rights in Danger Not Red, Yellow Seeking Alliances Fissure Opens in Chinese C.P. Ranks Slanders Against Chen Tu-Hsui Repudiated by Noted Chinese Scholars -Stalinist Calumnies That He is Japanese Agent Indignantly Denounced in Hankow Public Statement Hit Stalinist Lying End This Slander Howling for Blood Chinese Comrades Acknowledge Fund Gov't Starts Harlan Mine Owners Trial -Long Record of Terror Brings Federal Prosecution Charge Conspiracy Trial Follows Exposure Long Fight Seen U.S. to Increase Military Forces Revvv-olution? No Thank You, Gerson Pleads Gerson and Socialism Who Owns Jefferson? Use Tear Gas on Duluth Pickets Orr Tells of Spain at Louisville Meet Roosevelt is Forced to Take Notice of Hague -Investigators Hunt for "Conspiracy" Against Democratic Rights in Realm of the Jersey City Fuehrer Roosevelt's Hand Forced More Anti-Hague Moves End in Sight The Pennsylvania Primaries The Relief Crisis A "Peace" Banquet The Spanish "United Front" by Carlo (Political Cartoon) Felix Morrow Writes a Marxist Study of the Events in Spain -Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Spain by Felix Morrow, Pioneer Publishers, reviewed by Ernest Erber New Facts Presented The Summary Once More -On Housing -An Editorial One for Every 100 Needed There is Money Enough! How the Plutocrats Live Rich Must Be Made to Pay 23 Jun. 4, 1938 Organizer Kills Brown in Insane Fit -President of Minneapolis Drivers" Union Shot by Demented Union Employee; Great Crowd Honors Him at Funeral -Midwest Labor Mourns Loss Statement by Union Sinister Possibility Firemen Back Progressives; Vote Merger With Sailors Minneapolis Labor Pays Final Tribute to Brown -Thousands Gather at Headquarters of Drivers' Local 544 for Last Rites Honoring Murdered Union Leader by Carlos Hudson Dunnes Speak Bosses Hated Him Vincent Dunne's Tribute Farewell to Bill Bill Brown (Photograph) Harlan Miners Accuse Bosses of Thug Rule -Court Hears Stories of Terror From Union Witnesses Sheriff Heads Thugs Blacklist at Work No Householders' Rights Vicious Brutality Quick Action Checkmates Gen. Cedillo -But Fascist Danger in Mexico Continues to Be Acute Imperialist Pressure Continues Smash Economic Blockade Internal Meeting Striking Goodyear Workers Fight Police Terror, Score Gains * Akron Militant Tells of Big Picket Line Battle = Police Brutally Attack Goodyear Pickets with Gas Bombs; Workers Make Heroic Defense Against "Law and Order" Thugs -Strike Ended by Compromise Arrangement by R. Ferguson [Robert Treash] Battle is On Workers Unprepared Police Fire Wildly Form Defense Squad * Compromise Settlement Accepted; Showdown is Postponed -100 Are Hurt Events of Strike Police Attack Suddenly Unity in Defense The Tide Turns Roosevelt Not Mentioned Recalls 1936 Strike Arrests Announced Detroit Cops Gas and Club C.I.O. Pickets -Workers Buil Barricade to Halt Movement of Scabs Coast SWPers and Stalinists in Anti-Nazi Demonstration The Lessons of Akron -Organize Workers Defense! by B.J. Widick, Labor Secretary S.W.P. Unity Achieved The Second Lesson Defense is Necessary Furriers Score in Strike Settlement Higher Pay Won by P.R. Dock Workers Use of Army, Navy Urged to Ban Sitdowns -Senator Rants Against Sitdown Tactic as Bosses Applaud Would Bar Sit-downs C.I.O. Hits Measure Relief A La Roosevelt! -Single Men Are Barred From N.Y. Relief Rolls -Jobless Client Told to Look for Maintenance to Fellow Roomer on W.P.A.; $55.78 Enough Per Month for Two, Says Official (Photograph of a letter from the Case Supervisor above article) Morrell Denied Relief Against Discrimination Ohio Teachers Balk at Attempted Steamroller -Convention Quickly Adjourned After Uproar Over Stalinist Move to Ram Through Changes in the Union Constitution by Blake Lear [C.K. Stewart] Meeting Adjourned The Stalinist Plot Appeal Army Japanese Imperialism Hurtles Toward Ruin in in China -Collapse Brought Closer by Every Fresh "Victory" -Creation of New "War Cabinet" Reflects Growing Crisis by Lo Sen New Battle in Lanfeng Shift in Tokyo Rising Cost of Living Taxes Skyrocketing Premier Konoye (Photograph) British Gloating An Important Beginning -All-American-Pacific Pre-Conference of the Fourth International by Max Shachtman Comintern an Obstacle Movement's Growth Mandated Delegates Our Obligations Organizational Steps South Africans Donate $62.50 to China Fund Jamaica Strikers Are Terrorized by British -Army and Police Go Into Action as Exploited Slaves of "Democratic" Imperialists Tie Up Colony in Militant Strikes Three Killed Starvation Wages For National Liberation Hague Again Frustrates Meeting Plan -C.I.O. Must Take Lead in Struggle Against Jersey Fuehrer Lynch Spirit Kindled May Block Struggle C.I.O. Action Needed Trotsky Article Features Lively June Issue of "New International" The C.P. Convention Stalinists in Convention by Carlo (Political Cartoon) Hague's Gangster Rule Nourished by Roosevelt New Deal Patronage by James Raleigh Know Who Will Pass Democracy in Jersey Not Big Enough New Deal Gravy Recalcitrants Removed Roosevelt Needs Hague Jury Packed In the N.Y. Painters' Union -Fight the Wreckers! (The fifth and concluding article in this series) Advance War Aims Against the Wreckers Committee in Action Election Versus Appointment The Fight Is On 24 Jun. 11, 1938 Akron-Detroit-Newark -The Workers Can Make Only One Answer! Assault in Akron What "Free Speech" Means Labor Must Defend Itself German Trotskyists Get Long Prison Sentences Weinstock Defeated by Own Local Labor Guard Must Answer Hague Menace -Thomas Meeting Broken Up by Mobsters in Newark Police Aid Mobsters Workers' Meeting Banned Longo Sentenced Petitions Won't Do The Fight for Relief (Photograph showing police brutality at a demonstration) City-Wide Relief Sit-In Called for N.Y. * Alliance Progressive Group Demands Militant Program -Local Relief Appropriation Slash Forces Plan to Bring Pressure on Authorities by George Milton Sit-In Planned Council Meeting Last Year's Sell-Out Militancy Alone Can Win Fire-Trap Deaths Militant Slogans Unwelcome * SWP Rallies Held to Protest Slum Firetrap Menace -Meeting Held at Scene of Fatal Blaze on Houston Street More Than a Score Hurt Wave of Indignation 500 Signed Petition Stalinist Action "Keeping America Out of War" by Max Shachtman What the Congress Failed to Do Imply Approval for "Defensive" Wars Adopt Classic Position of U.S. Imperialism Cover for Roosevelt War Preparations And Still They Become Patriotic U.S. Congress Reveals New Deal Futility -Capitalist Legislators Strip Wages and Hours Bill of Progressive Features, Display Impotence In Face of Deepening Crisis -Unity Shown on War Plans Wages and Hours Bill New Deal Bubble Burst Roosevelt Still on Top Unity for War New Evidence in Fight for Jailed Miners -Kentucky Governor Gets Proof That Photos Were Faked The Accusation Akron Defense Organ Created -Recent Battle on Picket Line Was Stimulant for Action Local 544 Leads in Battling for Unemployed in Minneapolis by Carl O'Shea Origin of the F.W.S. Attempts to Unite With W.A.A. Budget to Be Used for Computing Supplements to W.P.A. Earnings Direct Relief Close Check Kept Present Demands Relief in Minneapolis F.W.S. Effectiveness A Lesson for Labor Delegates Walk Out on L.N.P.L. Sessions in Ohio -Refuse to Accept Rule Barring 15 Steel Lodge Men Ruling Challenged Appeal Army National Appeal Campaign Workers Boo Employers' Plea for "Cooperation" -Bridges Praised for Smashing Picket Lines at San Francisco Meeting; Audience Shows Distinct Class "Bias" Cash Box Ideology Bridges Talks Left Call for Unity S.F. Warehouse Workers Vote to Quit C.I.O. Railroad Union Leaders Move in Wage Cut Crisis Without Ranks -Unionist Points Need for Planning United Action to Combat Employers' Offensive and Forestall Sell-out Maneuvers What is to Be Done? Action Must Be Planned For United Action Verbal Intransigence An Immediate Program 900,000 Rail Workers Face Big Pay Slash -Railway Labor Act Will Be Used to Bog Down Militant Action Back to 1932 Firm Stand Needed N.Y. Auto Builders Strike in 35 Shops Akron Teachers Demand Release for Fred Beal -Anti-War Resolution is Also Passed; Active Year Comes to End Teachers in Lead Office Union Session Sterile Under Gag Rule -Stalinist Leadership Concentrates on Keeping Opposition Silenced at Washington Office Workers' Session Opposition Baited New Constitution Concrete Proposals Kranis Opposed West Coast C.P. Has Hard Time Obeying New Dictum Help Refused to Dying Baby, Miner Tells Jury -Union Card Costs Miner Life of Infant Son as Company Doctor Neglects Child at Order of Harlan Mine Boss Bosses Suborn Perjury Damning Testimony Tells of Discrimination More Workers Killed as Jamaica Strike Spreads British Soldiers Patrol Jobs or Relief! "Aiding" the Loyalists Socialist Party and the A.L.P. Hague Will Be Ousted by Workers Offensive by James Raleigh Hopeless Courses No Real Conflict Receivership Weapon Runaway Shops Hollywood Bows to Orders on War Film 25 Jun. 18, 1938 Answer Hague and Harvey -With Workers' Defense An Admirer of Mussolini Thomas Courts Reactionaries SWP Intensifies Campaign Against Firetraps in N.Y. Profits in Death Death Lurks in Slums Landlords Are Safe Role of Stalinists Fight to Live Political Strike Staged in Newark WPA Workers to Have New Deal Pay Cut -Will Affect More Than 25,000 on Jobs in New York Leaders Back President To Picket "Reactionaries" When Roosevelt Comes C.P. Stooges Suspended by Martin to Forestall Bid for U.A.W. Control -Frankensteen and Four Others Are Affected by Order; Stalinists Violate Agreement to Observe 20-Point Program Martin Absent Stalinist Double-Cross Suspends Five -Homer Martin (Photograph) Membership Ignored Leaders Over-Confident Explanation Needed N.Y. Committee Launches Fund to Assist Persecuted Revolutionists Novack as Secretary Plight of Revolutionists Rush Ad Now! Japanese Air Raids Ravage China's Cities -Air Attacks on Canton Take Immense Toll of Human Life -China Bombings Show Japanese Imperialists Desperate to End War -Kuomintang Inaugurates Repressive Campaign to Silence Leftists as Invading Armies Press On for the Capture of Hankow Canton Unaided Repression Under Way Decisive Developments No Automatic Collapse Mass Movement Needed Capitulatory Moods Lesson of History 25,000 Slaughtered Danger of Repetition N.Y. Painters Deal Blow at C.P. Wreckers -Ousting of Weinstock from Top Post in District Council Marks High Point in Rank-and-File Revolt Against the Stalinists -Victory for Progressives -Weinstock Ouster Breaches Stalinist Union Domination Resentment Against Stalinists Rally to Stooge The Secret Ballot Resort to Usual Tactics A Brazen Frame-Up Accusers' Record The "Trotskyist" Charge Youthful Revolutionist is Arrested by GPU in Spain Purge Looms in NMU as Officials Lose Prestige -Curran Asks Outlawing of All Groups as Rank and File Seamen Reject Policies of Stalinist District Committee Pilot Echoes Curran Seamen Rebel Stalinists "Reply" Progressives in Culinary Union Establish Group -Ranks in Revolt Against Stalinists in Frisco Dishwashers Local Stalinist Record Appeal Army N.J. Bosses Glad CIO Fired Kaempf Unionist Jailed on Handbill ban -L.A. Police Arrest ILGWU Organizer, Set Bail at $600 N.Y. Jobless Prepare Action in New Crisis Figures Are Eloquent Sit-Ins Postponed 80,000 March in China on May Day Hull Reveals Real Aims of U.S. Diplomacy -Note to Japan Discloses Nature of "Friendship" for China Times Have Changed South American Problem To Combat Rivals Hypocritical Talk Social Crisis Grows as Business Indices Drop to levels of 1932 by Davis Cowles Economic Dictatorship Grows Administration's Role The Monopoly Inquiry Social Crisis Grows Harlan Witness Killed as Gov't Presses Case -Coal Operators Brazenly Use Old Terror Methods to Frame Alibis, But Witnesses Identify Night-Riding Murder Men Shot in Fight Efforts to Bribe Tells Gruesome Tale Narrow Escapes Terror Rages Against Spain's Revolutionists -Vicious Suppression Paves Way for "Compromise" With Franco; P.O.U.M. Organ Describes Horrors in Barcelona Prison In The "Model Prison" Inferno Breaks Loose A Prisoner Killed Last Gate Demolished Reprisals Begin Union Briefs Ford Plant Speed-Up South Organizes "Baneful Influence" Noah London Reported Executed in Moscow Helped Found The Freheit Stalinist Press Keeps Silent July New International to Have Article by Trotsky Progress in Akron Thomas in Queer Company Deport 'Em! Bloody Reign of Terror in Jamaica Still Continuing Stalinists Oust Selves from Anti-Nazi Drive Picketing Announced An Inspiration Exclusion Voted Stalinists Oust Themselves Mpls. Unions Show Method of Ending CIO-AFL Disputes -Jurisdiction Quarrel in Garages Settled by Firm Action by Carl O'Shea Background of Dispute None Better Organized Bosses Seize Chance Policy Committee Plan Stalinist Renege Chilean Stalinists Ally With Fascists Labor Action Needed 26 Jun. 25, 1938 An Urgent Appeal -Aid the Revolutionists! by James P. Cannon Puerto Rican Slavedrivers Balk at Wage-Hours Bill Sweated Industry Commissions Not Mentioned Refugee Fund is Welcomed Far and Wide -Enthusiastic Response Greets Formation of N.Y. Committee Willi Muenzenberg is Entered on Growing Blacklist of the G.P.U. On G.P.U. Blacklist Prospective Victim Silent Progressives Chalking Up New Scores in N.Y. Painters' Union Fight -Make Clean Sweep of offices in Local 892; Stalinist Campaign of Slander Fails to Halt Advance of Militant Candidates Clean Sweep Made Racial Prejudice Stirred Daily Worker Lies Stage a Burglary Labor Gains Smashed by Spain Gov't -Enterprises Are Handed Back to Exploiters as Fascists Advance Daladier Accedes Fascist Victory Desired Pictures Negrin Government Additional Troops Sent to Crush Jamaica Strike Commission Appointed Warn Against Agent of the GPU on The Coast -Suspicious Movements of Hanoff Are Noted in San Francisco CP Wreckers Force Splits in Maritime -Founding Organizations Withdraw From Pacific Federation After Bridges Packs Convention and Unseats Tacoma I.L.U. Delegation -Stalinist "Unity" is Exposed Constitution Violated A Hollow Shell Drive Against Militants The Issue Posed Glorifies Scab Action Curran Moves to Eliminate Rival Unions -Militant Organizations Are Threatened by Ray Proposal Owners Taken to Task Refusal Significant Stalinist Wreckers Act Concertedly to Smash Auto Workers' Union -Plunge Locals Into Pandemonium, Seek to Place International in Receivership in Order to Advance Rule or Ruin Policy Stalinist Program Victimization Pretense Democracy--Where? Stalinist Sabotage Receivership Sought The Real Struggle Unions Refuse Endorsement to Gov. Davey -Ohio Labor Federation Delegates Declare "Nothing Doing" Appeal Army A Veteran Passes -Rodney Salisbury Dead by Max Shachtman Passing Mourned -Rodney Salisbury (Photograph) Prominent as Leader Run for Governor S.W.P. Program Bonapartism Rules In France As Parliament is Sent on Vacation Working Class Stifled Tolerating Daladier Taste of National Union In a Blind Alley S.P Enters Third Period Left Wing Perspectives Anti-Hague Drive Launched by SWP Attack on Unions Alliance in Action How Fascism Begins Bosses on Offensive Labor Must Fight On to Struggle Mayor Hague Holds Stage in N. Jersey -Uses Forum of Court to Expound His Fascist Views on Labor Hague on Offensive Jersey Boss Sees Red Admires Roosevelt For a Real Struggle Attempt Made to Bar Appeal Sales Labor Book Shop Suggests Books for Militants Kuomintang in Crisis as Japanese Advance Up Yangtse to Hankow -U.S. Courts "Incidents" by Ordering Gunboats to Remain in Zone of Hostilities; Floods by Lo Sen U.S. Seeks "Incidents" Offer Britain Concession Value to Moscow Road to Victory Leaflet License Law to get Test Carter Mack Dies, Loss to N. Jersey Expropriate the Railroads! We Are Not Excited Where Anything Goes Spain Featured in N.I. for July Mexico and British Imperialism by Leon Trotsky Britain and Cedillo Ignorance and Deceit Britain and Slavery Two Aims Pursued Prompting from Moscow Workers, Support Mexico U.S. Will Fight in New War, Says N.Y. Times Voice of Authority U.S. Will Go to War Imperialist Frankness U.S. Rivals Warned The "Democratic Garb" 27 Jul. 2, 1938 Progressives Force Close Painters' Poll -Two Years of Weinstock Domination Finds Stalinists Hard Pressed to Win District Council Posts; Opposition Gains Impressive -Weinstock Gets 615 Majority Stalinist Majority Down Machine Vote Only Board's Opportunist Expulsion Aided Stalinists The Fight Goes On National Guard Stages Big Chicago War Demonstration Akron Labor Defense Hit by Stalinists -C.P. Press Calls United C.I.O.-A.F.L. Committee "Trotskyist Plot" by B.J. Widick Labor secretary, S.W.P. Launch Sniping Attack Seek to Wreck Defense Record of Militants We Ask Once More: Is Noah London Alive or Dead? More Comes to Light Family Refused Visa Union Busters Prepare Marine Federation for Strike-Breaking Course -Bridges' Machine Forces Through Anti-Union Program as Seafaring Crafts Quit Convention; Unions Protest Splitting tactics Dictatorial Powers Good Dose of Bridges Split Action Deliberate Cannot Endure Long 21 Union Men Get Year in Kentucky Jail -Teamster Organizer Sent to Penitentiary Under Old Statute Eight More Indicted First Case Recorded SP Advances Phony UAW Peace Plan -End of Factional War Proposed on Basis of the Former 20-Point Program Whose Violation Caused Frankensteen Suspension -Martin Not Battling Wreckers New Stalinist Move? Malignant Work Martin's Responsibility Split Menaces Union Libel Suit Against Daily Worker Shifts to M'pls Concerted Union Drive Needed to Oust Hague -A.F. of L.-C.I.O. Feud Must End so That Labor May Act Unitedly to Smash Dictatorial Rule of Would-be Hitler in New Jersey by James Raleigh Unions Are the Place Publicity Stunts A Dangerous Deal How to Organize Bill Brown -A Proletarian Fighter by James p. Cannon They Live On! College of Hard Knocks An Assiduous Student Had Indispensable Qualities Virtues Outweighed Failings Herald of the Future Omaha Court Arrests, Vags Union Official -Police Seize Organizer in Office, Search His Quarters Goldman Excluded Blow at Unionism Appeal Army Guild Convention Shows Newsmen's Big Gains -But Broun, Re-elected President, Moves t tie Membership to Imperialist War Chariot by Resolution on Collective Security Political Back-Sliding A Disastrous Idea Bob Minor and The Times -A Revealing Commentary That "Frank Commercial Interest" Stalinists Favor Imperialist War July New International is Finest Issue Yet Published Cleveland Workless in Desperate Plight On Guard Against Spy Scares! -An Editorial Virginia Workers Vote Strike to Force Pact Drive for Fund to Aid Revolutionists Gathers Momentum in Country Russian Speaking Comrades Form Club Soviet Economy Lags as Purge Intensified -Denny Succeeds Duranty as Cover-Up Man for Stalin; But Facts Show Bureaucracy is Digging Grave of Workers' Power by John G. Wright [Joseph Vanzler] Sukhomlin Out Everlasting Purge Duranty Style What We Learn Unfounded Optimism Trotsky on Lovestone -No Its Not the Same The Difference Explained Trial of Mensheviks Lovestone Knew the Truth Good-For-Nothing Mistakes and Mistakes Lovestone's Travels "We Communists Disdain to Conceal Our Aims" by Carlo (Political Cartoon) Unity Against the Union Wreckers! Opposition is Growing Movement on Coast Clarity is Needed Among the Painters A Lesson to Learn For Unity of Effort 28 Jul. 9, 1938 Jersey City -Lesson and Warning by Jmaes P. Cannon The Real Meaning of Hagueism C.I.O. Bureaucrats Debase Struggle Business Interests Behind Hague Publicity Stunts Helped Hague A Fight of National Significance Fight Cannot Be Delegated Death Claims Otto Bauer in French Exile -Austro-Marxist Leader Dies Aftert Spendig Life in Betrayal "Socialist" Dies -Otto Bauer (Photograph) Bitter Anti-Bolshevik Policy of Defeat Refugee Fund Sends Sum to Aid Persecuted in Europe Stalin's Third Degree Methods Are Revealed by Former GPU Agent -Story of 90-hour Grilling of Mratchkovsky Gives Insight Into Moscow "Confession" Trials; Torture Ends With Capitulation by Walter Krivitsky The Inquisition Slutsky's Task A Warrior's Wounds Slutsky's Biography Men Without Hope N.Y. Unions Hit Court Picket Ban -Anti-Labor Injunction Fought: 14 Are Held for Contempt Mobile Picketing Judge on Picketing Ohio Teachers Support Fight for Fred Beal Alleged Plot to Kill Labor Leaders is Exposed in Minneapolis Arms Discovered Pierce Arrested Relief Probe is Slated for New York -Boss Politicians Seeking to Chisel Payments as Crisis Deepens Ruling Class Hypocrisy Seeking Out "Waste" Aimed at Alliance Spotlight is Played on Job Security Plan -Survey Bares Hopeless Inadequacy of Pet New Deal Insurance Measure; Beneficiaries Number Only Fraction of Workless -Doles Drop as Needs Increase Miserly Payments Only 900,000 Benefit Living Standards Ignored Stalinists Try to Frame Oak in Workers Alliance Charges by Majority Oak's Evidence Refused Govt. Lines Up Against Truckers Rodney Salisbury -A Model Revolutionist by Charles E. Taylor A Son of the Soil Linked Up With the I.W.W. Promoted a Socialist Paper Fights for the Persecuted Was Charter Member of the C.P. Class Conscious to the Core The Fight for the Auto Union -An Editorial Coast Union Split Widens After Parley -Remnants of Federation Now Isolated from Sea-Going Unions Delinquents Remain Afraid of Teamsters S.U.P. Crew on Shepard Ship Dunne Debates Parson on Gangsterism Charge Parson on Racketeering Appeal Army The Socialist Appeal Can Be Obtained at the Following Newsstands An Open Letter -To Moissaye Olgin -Concerning the Fate of Your Two Friends, Juliet Poyntz and Noah London by Max Shachtman Leader in Anti-LaFollette Faction What Have You Done, Olgin? Alive or Dead? -Juliet Poyntz (Photograph)_ Self-Avowed Assassins -An Editorial Y.P.S.L. Summer Classes Get Under Way Union Briefs A Turn-Coat on the Witness-Stand -Earl Browder Testifies Before the McNaboe Committee by Max Shachtman Disavows Principles Under Moscow Orders An American Precedent What the C.I. Said Qualified Support Hillquit Never Knew Browder and Roosevelt Defender of Capitalism Wants to Be a Cop Browder: Defender of the Soviet Union France Under Daladier Moves Toward National "Sacred Union" Gov't -Political Course of Bourgeoisie is Influenced by Growing Isolation of the Soviet Union; Socialist Party "Left" Expelled by Terrance Phelan [Sherry Mangan] Fascist Orbit Extends Workers Mark Time Seine Federation Revolts New Party Formed Another Fine Issue of New International Due Smash the Cotillo Injunction! Helping Mexico Next Step for the Painters Page the Communist Party (Editorial comment on the C.P.'s passing a rule at its last convention that no alien can be a member of the party) Not Two--Three! The New Deal on Parade by Carlo (Political Cartoon) The Conference at Evian -An Editorial Hoodlums Assail Astoria Meeting Books for Workers * A Historic Document -Not Guilty. (Report of the of Inquiry into the Charges Made Against Leon Trotsky in the Moscow Trials) reviewed by F.G. A Historic Verdict Overwhelming Evidence * Lyons versus Sinclair -Terror in Russia? Two Views -- Upton Sinclair and Eugene Lyons reviewed by L.F.J. Belief Versus Evidence Lost on Sinclair * A Timely Pamphlet -What is Socialism? By Albert Goldman reviewed by H.D. A Concrete Approach Applying Principles 29 Jul. 16, 1938 Czechoslovakia – Another -"Poor Little Belgium" Issue Is Not Self-Determination French Imperialism Decisive Factor Minnesota Socialists Reject Party of Norman Thomas, Join the S.W.P. Stalin Murders Foreign Communists Who Sought Refuge in the U.S.S.R. -Writer Gives Grim List of Victims Shot or Imprisoned by G.P.U. Without Semblance of a Trial -Poland The Rights Accused Shot for "Espionage" Lensky Group Purged -Germany German Emigres Shot Executed As Spies Victims Pile Up Watch for Spain Article Next Week First Year of China War Shows Japanese Imperialism Doomed -Army Victories Not Effective Beyond Soldiers' Bayonet Points; Japan Plunges toward Bankruptcy -China's Struggle Shows Weakness -Chang Kai-Shek Gov't Weakens China's Fight by Suppressing Masses by Lo Sen Already Crumbling Growing Stringency The Chinese Bourgeoisie A Revolutionary War Stalinist Capitulation Death to Strikers Catching up and Outstripping... By Carlo (Political Cartoon about Hitler and Stalin's respective body counts) Stalin Found Guilty of Frame-Ups -Dewey Commission Issues Exhaustive Report of Its Investigation Into the Moscow Trials, Finds Criminals in the Kremlin NOT GUILTY! The Composition of the Commission They Only Shrieked Insults Murderous Indictment of Stalinism Truth Is on the March! Sit-In Stage by Strikers in N.Y. Plant -Workers Hailed to Court After Cops Evict Them Police Force Doors Omaha Drivers Reply to Police Attack on Union; Appeal Sentence Appeal Vagrancy Sentence LaGuardia Police Crack Down on New York Jobless -Arrest 22 members of W.A.A. For Demanding Bigger Relief Checks Local Four Takes Lead Those Arrested Interminable Waiting Mass Action Needed H.O.L.C. Busy Evicting N.Y. Workers -New Deal Concern Posts Eviction Successes Bondholders Protected The Poor Evicted C.I.O. Summons Strike in C.P. Summer Camp -Stalinist Slave Girls 12 Hours for $7 a Week Union Briefs New Deal Crop Program Based on Starvation -Bumper Harvests Promise No Relief for Hungry as Government Maps Plans Of Destruction by J. Pytlak A Great Harvest Big Farmers' Advantage Crop Insurance Plan Prices--Not Needs Labor Must Act C.I.O., A.F. of L. Get Together in Akron Ohio Teachers Showed Gains by Progressives -Stalinists Defeated in Plan to Capture Federation Call for Unity Ex-Deputy Sheriff Is Killed As Mine Trial Proceeds in Harlan Violence Marks Trial Board Gives Decision August New International to Have Article by Dewey Appeal Army The Socialist Appeal Can Be Obtained at the Following Newsstands How Stalin Gov't Aids China War Radio Is Used to Generate War Hysteria To Protect "Democracy" The Intended Victims Divide and Rule Policy Explains Palestine Riots The Issues Stated Britain Is Responsible Empire Doors Closed Danger of Disunity Some More Questions -To Moissaye Olgin by Max Shachtman Prieto Letter Reveals How Revolutionists in Spain Were Wiped Out Knifes Workers -Indalecio Prieto (Photograph) Saw Easy Task Pleasing Their "Friends" Planned Mass Murder Disastrous Policy Hypocrisy at Evian The W.A.A. and Politics New Workers Party Springs from SFIO Split A Critical Letter A Legalistic Battle New Party's Future Mr. Cahan versus Mr. Hillman -An Editorial A Letter from England -Armaments Alone Boom As Brief Spell of "Prosperity" Passes; C.P. Courts Liberals; Union Bosses Back or Plans by A.B. Elsbury Armaments Boom Tender toward Fascism Chauvinist Bureaucrats To Left of the C.P. Liberal Come-Back Workers Are Hoodwinked Iowa Farmers Oppose Rail Cut 30 Jul. 23, 1938 G.P.U. Kidnaps Sec'y of IV Internat'l -Trotskyist Leader Seized in Paris; Taken to Spain -A Young German Revolutionist in Hands of Stalin's Assassins; Clues Lead to Spanish Border -Forged Letter Points to Frameup (Cable to the Socialist Appeal) Strange Letter No Previous Sign G.P.U. Earmarks Long Kidnap Trail Portfolio Missing Was Long Active Public Warned Bosses Hurl Armed Mobs Against C.I.O. Unions in 2 Strikes -California Lumber Workers Driven from Homes by Hoodlums; -Cops Battle New Orleans Taxi Drivers * California -Mob Drives Mill Workers from Homes Strike against Wage-Cut Mob Attacks Pickets Use Sound Truck * New Orleans -New Orleans Police Fight C.I.O Unions Terror Reigns Threaten Strikers Fight Legal Battles Eastside Labor to Hold Housing Parade Court Cracks down on N.Y. Strikers -Labor's Right Mere "Privileges," Says Jersey Judge Socialist Appeal Needs Your Aid! -Emergency Call for Funds by the Business Manager Auto Union Threatened by Split As Wreckers Force Fight for Power -Unscrupulous Tactics of Stalinists Paralyzes Militant Union: Lewis Intervention Danger Bulletin Locals Taken Over Ask Lewis' Aid Independence Threatened Stalinists Prepare Split Martin Begins Campaign Trip across Country Has Political Aim -President Adds to Party Prestige by Tour Consolidates Position Intervenes in Primaries Third Term Talk Evian Conference is Dismal Flop; Powers Offer No Aid to Refugees Gang Disrupts Astoria SWP Rally; Cops Look on -Harvey's Police, Like Hague's, Condones Fascist Tactics Against Labor Meetings; Workers Need Own Defense Guard by Frank Graves Police "Protection" Object Lesson in Democracy Defense Guard Needed Material for Fascism Stalinists Also Attacked The Contagion Spreads Skoglund Elected President of 544 Philadelphia -Example and Symptom -An Editorial Symptom and Example Joint Committees Union Hours, Wages Ohio Unions to Demand Better Relief Scales -Example of Minneapolis Unions' Fight for Adequate Unemployment Relief Inspires Akron Workers by B.J. Widick, Labor Secretary, S.W.P. Praise Local 544 Text of Resolution Ask Supplementary Relief Yipsels Announce Membership Meet The Socialist Appeal Can Be Obtained at the Following Newsstands French Labor Passive on Bastille Day Workers Dormant Separate Labor Parades Two Years of Civil War in Spain -Summing Up the Balance-Sheet of the People's Front Government in Its "Struggle for Democracy" and the Results of the Policies Followed by the Social-Democrats, Stalinists, Anarchists and the P.O.U.M. Men, Munitions at Franco's Command People's Front Defends Capitalism Fruits of the People's Front Government Destroyed Militias Loyalists Suppress Democracy British and French Interests Rule Leaders Continue a Fatal Policy Second International Impotent Stalinist Bloodhounds Active Anarchist Display Bankruptcy Events Teach Anarchists Nothing Class Action Only Road 50 Pickets Injured in North Chicago Police Attack Ludlow Retreats T.V.A. and War Watch Their Hands! Paul Revere... 1938! -by Carlo (Political Cartoon) Democracy and Communism -How Browder Has Abandoned the Traditional Revolutionary Teachings of Marxism on Decisive and Basic Questions by M.J. Olgin State Exploiters' Weapon Revolution Only Answer The Case of Joseph Zack -An Editorial Broke with Communist Party in 1935 Able to Prove American Citizenship The Browder's Act in Silence Stock Market Rises; Basic Crisis Continues by Dave Cowles Economic Activity Falls Indexes Rise 31 Jul. 30, 1938 Seamen Fight "Fink" Halls -Pickets Open Drive on N.Y. Gov't Hiring Hall -Picket Line Answers Government Threat to Take over Hiring; Seamen Act Despite N.M.U. Opposition -Hiring on Dollar Line Held by SUP Fink Hall Old Stuff Gov't Still Determined Stalinists Riot As Trial of Suspended Chiefs Begins in UAW -Stage Shameful Brawl to Discredit Proceedings; Switch Line After Lewis Fails to Intervene; Drop Rump Moves -But Danger to Union Is Mounting A Major Defeat C.P. Greater Danger A Warning Repeated Duty of Progressives G.O.P. Campaigns for Democrats -Two Boss Parties Unite to Back Reactionary Party Lines Blurred Trotsky Fears Fate of Klement, G.P.U. Victim, Letter from Leon Trotsky Labor under Attack -The Only Answer East Side Workers March for Housing Call Guardsmen in Iowa Strike Machine Guns Mounted State Steps In Nationalist Feeling Flares As Attempt Is Made on Puerto Rican Governor -Attempted Assassination Discloses Repressive Rule of U.S. Imperialism Against Independence Movement Police Murder Two Terrorists Seek Revenge Mexican Miners Strike C.P. Splits Phila. Navy Yard Union -Shipyard Loc'l Gives Up C.I.O. Charter in Split Move Naval Yard Council Set up "Pressure" Campaign Begins Local Union Dwindles Teamsters War on Finks Middletown Gives Labor Big Lesson -Militant Action by Muncie Auto Workers Smashes Attacks on Union Trusted Labor Board Machine Guns Threat Victories for Strikers Japan Retreats in Border Clash -Soviets' Firm Stand Forces Japan to Retreat Military Importance Only Tokyo Forced to Retreat Japan Faces Crisis Soviets and Fortunate Position C.P. Gang Attacks Appeal Salesmen Press Ballyhoo Hides True Story of Housing Program; Slum Problem Acute Headlines Hide True Story Poor Tenants Excluded Youth Sits Down in Relief Bureau Relief Red Tape Leaves Tenants Helpless Before Marshals; Brutality Features Evictions Woman of 65 Evicted Bureau Action Delayed Eviction Relief Inadequate Stalinists Order W.P.A. "Purge" -C.P. Members Told to Dismiss All Dissenters Alliance Purge First Step Cops Forced to Return Papers of Union Officer -Union Wins in Fight against Illegal Seizure Authorities Harass Russell C.P. Slander Fails in Alliance Local Eight Arrests in Indiana Strike -Indianapolis Police Attack Striking Box Workers Appeal Army The Socialist Appeal Can Be Obtained at the Following Newsstands Hauled Note Masks New Imperialist Threat by Roosevelt -U.S. Starts Fight Against Mexican Oil Expropriation -Agrarian Claims Serve As Pretext for Establishing Precedent Against Right of Expropriation Demand Arbitration American Seizures Unmentioned Aim for Public Sympathy Bankers' Hatchet Man -Cordell Hall (Photograph) Leading French Scientists Protest Law on Asylum -Committee Denounces Decree As "Inhuman and Illegal"; Trade Union Officials Join in Protest Vicious Decree Law Declare Decree Illegal Denouncing As "Inhuman" Noted Figures Sign Branches Active in Fund Drive for Refugees -Money Rolls to Committee from All Sections of the Country Tag Days Effective Southern Unionists Give Eight Given Five Refugees Need Funds for Fred Beal Fight Committee Asks for Funds Labor Militancy Rises Anew in France; Progressives Gain Strength in Unions -Reject People's Frontism at Left Socialist Convention; New Awakening Seen in Political Trends by Terence Phelan [Sherry Mangan] France Welcomes Doriot Strikes Increasing Statement Causes Flurry "Left Socialist" Convention War-Monger -Edouard Daladier (Photograph) Party Direction Undecided Telegraphists Present Demands Daily Worker Exposed by Gustav Mulfinger Horse-Trading Politics Taxing the Poor Lasser's Resignation America's Permanent Depression -Experts Baffled for Explanation -- But New Millions Face Unemployment and Disemployment -A Future of Hunger and Insecurity By Art Preis (First in a series of articles on unemployment) Third of Nation Distressed Unemployed Census Revealing Figures Give Vital Lesson Two Factors Revealed Depths Workers Pay Price of Crisis Class Strength Sapped Scene from Cleveland -The Plight of the Unemployed (Photograph) On My Conspiracy by Leon Trotsky The "Conspiratorial" Trip "Plot" In an Orphan Asylum No Silence on Slanderers George Sokolsky -One More Chapter in a Venal History Bosses Finance Campaign Sokolsky Revelations Sells to Japan Employed by Kuomintang 32 Aug. 6, 1938 Remember August 4th by Renewing the Fight Against Imperialist War! (Headline above masthead) After 24 Years -Above: Sacrificed on the Altar of Imperialist Greed in the Last War. -- Right: War Machine Primed for New Slaughter (Photographs) New Wage Cuts Hit WPA Workers -Directors Get Big Raise as Ranks Face Hunger Plight of W.P.A. Workers C.P. Scuttles Protest Stage Set in Barcelona for Frame-Up of POUM -Long-Awaited "Moscow Trial" Of Spanish Revolutionists Believed to Begin; Defense Action Urged "Agents of Fascism" Stiler to Answer Stalinist Slander Auto Union Trial to Be Resumed -Chief Task of U.A.W. To Carry Out 20-Point Program Expulsion Likely Revive 20-Point Program UAW Organizes WPA Drive on Competitive Plants Teamsters Defy Court Order to Reveal Records -Minneapolis Labor Backs Stand of Local 544 by Carlos Hudson (Special to Socialist Appeal) Background of Plaintiffs Part of Nation-Wide Attack Peril to All Unions Japan's Border Provocations Met With Firm Resistance by Soviet; Danger of General War Growing -Internal Crisis May Force Japan to Extend War -Hitler Holds Key Planned "Incidents" Fight Against Fink Hall Forces Showdown in NMU -Rank-And-File Seamen Revolt Against Scuttling of Union by Officials; Raid Drives out Stalinists Militants Lead Fight Stalinists for Fink Hall Anger Justified Mariners' Club Leaflet Jury in Harlan Trial Dismissed -Deputies and Mine Owners Jubilant at Mistrial Jurors Against Union Defendants Confident Officers Armed by Steel Barons -Police Supplied With Guns and Bombs; Used in Strike Gift to the Sheriff East Side Parade Demands Housing Members Denied Vote in Teachers Union Election -Stalinists Pull Fake Election to Pack Convention Seating of Delegates Contested Packing Attempted New York Local Leads Fund Drive Building Trades Lose Control of Cleveland Labor -Teamsters Group In, After Bitter Fight Blow to Building Trades New Leaders to "Cooperate" Railroads Demand Wage Cuts -Fat From Years of Plunder, Rail Moguls Turn Guns on Workers by Dave Cowles Plundering Public Lands Bribery and Corruption Watering the Stocks Smashing Strikes Together Again? -Abe Cahan, Norman Thomas Minneapolis Unions Back Fight for Jobless Youth Hits War Plans Sweeping Program Adopted Philadelphia Warehouse Closed Appeal Army The Socialist Appeal Can Be Obtained at the Following Newsstands Socialist Bares Barcelona Frame-Up Against POUM -Tells How Militants Are Persecuted by the Stalinist GPU -Import Moscow Trials into Spain; Crush Revolutionary Movement in Name of "Democracy" Trial Legal Assassination Three Arguments Demands Counter–Trial Many Murdered Vancouver Jobless Fight for Right to Live by E. Robertson Public Supported Strikers Mayor Mobilized Forces Street Warfare Triumphal March Struggle Continues New Internat'l Features Debate on Labor Party Article by John Dewey Stalinists' Record on Roosevelt Refugees Flee Nazis; Spurned by "Democracy" -Cite Cases of Exiles Sent Back to Concentration Camps Unable to Find Work French Party Brands Klement Kidnapping As Work of GPU Agents -Plan Joint Action to Combat Stalin's Terror System A Russian Hand New Provocation of G.P.U. The Popular Front and the POUM Third Term for Roosevelt Rounding the Circle British Repressions Continue in Burma America's Permanent Depression-II -New Deal Takes Care of Bankers First; Juggles Relief As Riot Insurance and for Political Machine by Art Preis "Subsidizing" Homeowners and Destroying Crops Bargaining Rights Won on Picket Line How F.D.R. "Solved" Unemployment Riot Insurance and Political Expediency C.W.A. Stifles Mass Jobless Revolt FERA Wage down to Relief Level New Deal Housing (Political Cartoon) Old Party Lines Break Down In Round of Primary Voting Clash of Social Forces Maverick's Defeat Fascist in Kansas Party Labels Inadequate 33 Aug. 13,1938 SOCIALIST APPEAL Published Every Week by the SOCIALIST APPEAL PUBLISHING ASS'N Editor: Max Shachtman Associate Editors: Harold Roberts, George Clark Business Manager: S. Stanley Stalinist Union Wreckers Hit Hard by NMU Elections; -Rank & File Win Control in First N.M.U. Election -Get 5 to 4 Majority on New Executive Committee Curran Elected Program Incomplete Assure Support Fight Fink Halls 20,000 L.A. Workers Quit Bridges' C.I.O. Council -Five Big Unions Denounce C.P. Wrecking Policy -Form New Central Body to Build Labor Unity Six–Point Program Opposition Howled Down C.I.O. Isolated Labor in Northwest Rallies to Local 544 in Court Defy -Militants Stand of Drivers Union Wins Thirty-Day Stay of Court Order to Open Books for Bosses by Felix Morrow Wave of Reaction Boss at Fascist Meeting Drive on 544 Union Defies Judge Labor Movement Rallies Japan Searches for Retreat in Soviet Impasse -Provocations Earn Reprisals from Soviet Army Germany Key "Peace" Parade Expels Pacifist National Guard –-Strike Breaker (Photograph of the Guard in action at a Maytag plant) Political Refugees Face Hunger in All Europe -Regulations Deny Worker-Refugees Right to Work by James Burnham Guild Wins Strike A Welcome Sign! -An Editorial Appeal Refused in Russell Case Poster Shop Opens Auto Union Strikes As Boss Moves Machinery -Will Force Company to Keep Work in Detroit Hostility Year Old Wages Slashed Halt Removal Crucial Test Call Strike of L.A. Steel Plant to Win Demands -Chiseling Company Find Union Ready to Fight List Demands Record of Discrimination Progressives Win at CUCOM Meet Union Officials Aid Boss Drive on Foodworkers -Union Fails to Back Up Fight Against Speed-up Relief Pickets Break Injunction Charge of "Trotskyist Spies" In Steel Lodges Exposed As Lies -Organizer Answers Daily Worker Calumny by Bob Stiler C.P. "Scoop" Ordinary Procedure Who Appointed Alberts? Present the Facts! Alliance Member Frame-up Victim Appeal Army -First Anniversary of the Socialist Appeal The Socialist Appeal Can Be Obtained at the Following Newsstands Peace & Plenty Was Leon Sedoff Murdered * Trotsky Presses Question In Letter to French Court; Finds Inquiry Avoids Essential Facts -Medical Men Find Death Mysterious, But Authorities Fail to Investigate Work of G.P.U. Assassins, letter from Leon Trotsky No Ordinary Case Left Unattended Turn Unexpected X Is Known Next Issue of N.I. Previewed Trotsky Tells of "Letter" from Victim of G.P.U. by Leon Trotsky Past History Forgotten Where Is Klement? World at a Glance Sugar Companies Grab Lands in Puerto Rico by Frances Merrill One of "Big Four" Sugar Pays Dividends Land Pressing Problem A Judge Orders--But... Mexican People Speaks Stalinist Thievery Made by Union Labor by Carlo (Political Cartoon) America's Permanent Depression-III -Roosevelt Smiles on the Unemployed When Elections Roll Around; But WPA Scales Are Lower Than Ever by Art Preis Starvation in F.D.R. Program Slashing Relief Appropriations Wages Gradually Reduced Roosevelt's "Noble" Sentiments Pinning 'em Down by James Casey Mid-Summer Marriage Browder's Severest Critic The Darling of Big Business 34 Aug. 20, 1938 Union Busters Peril U.A.W. -Plan Rump Convention to Split Auto Union -Frankensteen Claims Support of Lewis as Locals Are Advised to Throttle Int'l by Sending Funds to National C.I.O. -Lewis Maintains Silence Where Does He Stand? -John L Lewis (Photograph) Line Changed Again Dual Set-Up Tried Trump yet to Come Lewis May Back Split Enemies in Martin Camp FDR Aligns Forces in Primary Battles; Labor Acts As Pawn -Democrats Are Prepared for Major Schism -LNPL Tail-Ends Democrats, Depends on "Labor's Friends" Cracks the Whip -F.D. Roosevelt (Photograph) Prestige at Stake Labor's Political Strategy Case of O'Connor Steelworkers Win L.A. Strike -Strikers Backed by New Trade Union Conference New Group Aids Music Guild Wins Gov't Hiring Halls or Seamen's Unions? -Plans of Maritime Commission to Regiment Seamen in Preparation for War Spells Death to Unions -West Coast Unions Prepared to Defend Right to Control Hiring, But New N.M.U God Leaders Remain Silent Stalinists Prevent Fight Old Policy Prevails Who Built the N.M.U.? Land Gives Line All Hiring Endangered English Groups Unite to Build 4th Internat'l -New Party Combines Forces for Revolutionary Policy Local New York Schedules Meet It Might Have Happened! Tenuous Truce Reached in Siberian Conflict -Japanese Back Down but Threaten to Resume War Japan in Weak Position Only Breathing Spell Akron C.I.O. To Build Union for WPA Workers -W.A.A. Fights Move; Stalinists Want Open Field by B.J. Widick, Labor Secretary S.W.P. C.I.O. Calls Meet America's Permanent Depression-IV -Roosevelt, Man of Many Faces, Has But Single Purpose, To Save Capitalism –Defense Guards Only Answer! By Art Preis Portraits Are Modified Roosevelt Ablest Capitalist Politician War Demand Support by All Now to the Left, Now to the Right Child Slavery Brings Strike Ohio YPSL Holds Successful Camp Protest Long Hours, Low Pay Blackwell, Anti-Fascist Jailed by Loyalists, Free -Defense Needs Funds to Complete Works Appeal Army Socialist Appeal and New International Can Be Obtained at the Following Newsstands Peace & Plenty Victims of Nazis Write Pitiful Letters to U.S. New Book on Fascism to Be Published by Pioneer America Offers Comparison Trotsky Brands "Klement Letter" As GPU Forgery -Analysis of Alleged Letter Reveals Glaring Inconsistencies; Kidnappers Exposed by Leon Trotsky A Skillful Forgery Revive Old Pseudonym Crude Work of G.P.U. Follows Vyshinsky Pattern Aims at POUM Friendship Brandler Dragged In "Frederic" Defends Beals Klement Initiates Conference Klement Murdered? Capitulation Unlikely French Police Responsible Conclusions Confirmed Portfolio Stolen Russian Style Polish C.P. Dissolved; Call Stalinist Chiefs "Spies" Reaction in the Northwest Trotsky and Cardenas Sabotaging the Anti-Fascist Struggle From the Labor Press Delegates Slurred Unions Part Ignored Still Spieling by Carlo (Political Cartoon) Who Owns the Courts? -Spotlight on Capitalist Justice in Harlan by Albert Goldman Don't Convict Bosses Swindlers Sometimes Sacrificed Easy to Convict Workers Penalties Compared Pinning 'em Down by James Casey How to Be an Honest Liberal Hizzonor Is Busy... On the "Innocents" List Federal Chattels and Fireside Chats 35 Aug 27, 1938 We Want No Moscow Trials in Spain, Mister Pena! (Headline above Masthead) Vital Questions to Spain's Minister of Justice Pena F.D.R. Includes Canada In US War Zone; Hull Shakes Warning Fist at Europe -Pledge of Armed Support to Canada Shows Imperialist Plans for World Dominion War Machine Marches Isolationists Slapped Claim War Resources Will Be Debated Blackwell, Freed by Spanish Gov't, Snatched from Ship Promised Freedom St. Paul Unions Demand Idle Factories Be Opened, Operated under Workers' Control -Approve Plan for No–Profit Industry -Propose Law Would Have State Take Over Closed Plants to Be Run by Jobless Workers -At Union Hours, Wages State-Owned Plants Before Local Unions Challenge to Capitalists Paper Unions Rule at Bridges Conclave -Calif. State Meeting Admits Impotence to Aid Unions Mooney Protest Killed Bulletin Distributed On the Slide -Harry Bridges (Photograph) Slate Is Named by S.W.P. in New Jersey Election -Candidates Oppose Hague's Political Machine Hague Runs Candidates Both Reactionaries Hands Off, Mr. Dies! -Labor Will Clean Its Own House! –An Editorial Union Builders Lay Plans; Wreckers Map UAW Split -Stalinists Claim Sanction from Lewis; Urge Him to Set Up Czar Rule Over Auto Workers Union Chicago Slate in an A.F.T. Meet -Fred Beal Defense Defeated by Stalinists Resolutions on War Membership Doubled Strange Medley at Youth Meet -Patriots From Many Lands Bicker, Pass War Resolution Political Melting Pot Pickets Protest Frame-Up Trials America's Permanent Depression-V -Panaceas Fail; Only Destruction of Capitalism Can Rid Society of Mass Unemployment by Art Preis (Conclusion of Series) Workers Need Radical Cure No Cure under Capitalism What to Do Now? National Public Works Program Six Hour Day, Five Day Week Nationalize Subsidized Industries L.A. Summer School Ends Fifth Session Classes Held Slogan "Sales Mean Jobs" Displays Boss Futility Sidestep Crisis Jobs Come First Plants Shut Down New Body Wins Support in L.A. -Locals Back Stand of Leaders; Hail Six-Point Program, By a Special Correspondent I.L.G.W. Locals Solid Rubber Union Rallies Auto Union Lines Up Bridges Sleight-Of-Hand Cut-and–Dried Convention Appeal Available in Bound Volume St. Paul Unions Hit Silver Shirts Socialist Appeal and New International Can Be Obtained at the Following Newsstands Peace & Plenty Await Nazi Move In Czechoslovakia -Hitler Threat Arouses Extreme Nationalistic Fervor; Workers View British Efforts With Skepticism, By Frank Demby (Special to the Socialist Appeal) Speak No German Class Lines Forgotten Czech President -Eduard Benes (Photograph) Economic Crisis Believe War Inevitable Franco's Refusal to Withdraw Foreign Troops End Non-Intervention Farce -Note Reveals Italian and German Plan for More Aid by Albert Goldman Quick Victory Impossible British Busy Elsewhere Workers' Aid Needed Guild Signs Pact Wire Visiting Spanish Minister, Protesting Pending POUM Trials Soviet-Japanese War Inevitable -Trotsky Sees Japanese Militarists Headed for Blow-Up; Internal Difficulties Force Stalin's Hand by Leon Trotsky Fears War, Not Japan Tokyo Holds Key French Workers Face Major Loss Troops Break Strike Open Offensive Basky, Veteran Militant, Dead Opposed Stalin Lewis' Eloquent Silence Sacco and Vanzetti Horse Trader's Alibi -"Explaining" The Republican ALP Coalition by James Burnham Three Main Points Argument Worthless Only G.O.P. Wins S.P. Spurns United Front for GPU Victims in Spain Five Proposals S.P. Replies S.W.P. Writes Again Nazi Chieftain -Fritz Kuhn (Photograph) Jail Two in Anti-Nazi Protest Pinning 'em Down by James Casey Campaign Thunder The Messiah Is Come! Programs and Memories Look at the Record Congress without Congressman 36 Sep. 3, 1938 UAW Fights Lewis Invasion -Locals Condemn Plan to Set Up Dictatorship -Lewis Acts as Foil for Union-Wreckers; Would End Auto Union Autonomy and Hand Control to Stalinists -Lewis in Splitters Role Plan Not New Year of Turmoil Lewis Arbitrator C.P. Demagogy Union First Issue Driver Sign Pact Covering 11 States, 250,000 Workers -Tentative Agreement Will Affect 2,000 Operators, Make Teamsters Largest U.S. Union Militantly Executed Unity Against Picket Ban Appeal Available in Bound Volume More Ships to Be Run by Gov't -Commission Extends Hiring Control Over More Seamen Move to West Coast Land Reiterates Hiring Paramount Issue War Nears in Europe -Czechoslovakia Vital to German Plans for Expansion German Plans at Stake Drive in Southeast Vital War Factor Powers Back Czechs "Der Fuhrer" Gives Europe the "Jitters" -Adolph Hitler (Photograph) Seattle Council Hits Fink Halls Klement Reported Killed, Body Found -Headless and Legless Body Tentatively Identified As Fourth Victim of G.P.U. In Europe Fourth to Die Killings without Precedent Chinese Trotskyists Lead Strike Against Japan Ship Force Removal of Ship The Manifesto New York Faces Crisis in Relief Union-Smashing Drive Opens in San Francisco -Warehouse Lockout Begins Campaign Against Unions Committee of 43 Hews to Class Line Unions Retreat Strikers Force Parley on Plan to Move Plant -Quick Act Prevents Entry of Scabs; Leader Praised Quick Action Wins Resume Negotiations Workers Expect Action Cops Surround N.Y. Relief Sit-In -Protesting Jobless Denied Food As Bureau Closes Doors Locked Early Open the Factories! -An Editorial Hook Alliance to Roosevelt Machine -Strange List of Politicians Named As "Progressives" by Alliance; to Collect Huge Slush Fund by George Milton Announce Plans "Friends of Labor" Celler's Record Seize Leaflets Opposition Grows in Furriers Union -Dissatisfaction With New Agreement Brews Discord in Union Long Under C.P. Control Wage Raise Slight No Closed Shop Try to Dodge Not Prepared to Fight Finances Drained Tobacco Workers Strike Appeal Army Peace & Plenty Death Trust: American Medical Ass'n Mulcts Profits; But Diseases Is Rampant by David Cowles Advantages of Cooperative Halo Ripped Away Laws No Safeguards Cooperation Limited Hospitals Needed POUM Trials Postponed; Prisoners Still in Jail Puerto Rican Nationalists Face Trial; Lawyer Quits Picture Changed Strange Defense French Workers Grow Restive Under Deepening Crisis; Strikes Break Out -Military Checked by "Loyal" CGT Bureaucrats by Terence Phelan [Sherry Mangan] French Workers in Action During an Auto Strike (Photograph) Dock Workers Strike Teachers Show Militancy Johaux Booed Cordell Hull's Philosophy "Peace" Means War Wages and Attacks on NLRB Reflects Blows Suffered by Labor -William Green Joins With Employers Against Board -Militancy Alone Will Save Gains Under Wagner Act by James Burnham Wants Courts Supreme Attacks N.L.R.B. -Bill Green (Photograph) Aims of Wagner Act Act Is Strength Shifts to A.F. Of L. Fate of Political Refugees Rests with Labor by V.R. Dunne Crumbs From Evian Table "Democracy" Mocks Refugees No Safety in Stalinland G.P.U. Allied with Police Pending 'em Down by James Casey Surplus But No Bread The President's Morals Timely Articles On War Features September N.I. Saviors of Capitalism Political Survey 37 Sep. 10, 1938 War Crisis in 11th Hour -Armies on Frontiers As Europe Mobilizes -Diplomats Jockey for Position But Only United Workers' Might Can Beat Down War Danger -Against the War Makers! Armies Move to Frontiers Fleets in Battle Array Imperialists Promise Aid Press Aid War-Makers "One Third of the Nation" -An Editorial (Concerns Poverty in America) Plea for Liberalism Is Roosevelt Hoax -Drop "Principles" in California Primaries; Pension Hit By James Burnham Purpose of "Purge" Left Defeats F.D.R. Cracks Down on Masses A Thirty Dollar Minimum King, Ramsay and Connor in Appeal W.P.A. Local in Split from W.A. -New York Union Hits Communist Party Misleadership by George Milton Last of W.P.A. Strength Revolt against Stalinism C.P. Record in Alliance Help Jail Unemployed Cleaners Gain in Syracuse; Jail 2 Pact Covering 250,000 Drivers Nets Big Gains -Drivers Win Union Conditions for Huge Area Basic Hourly Rate Represents Wage Gains Area Committee Set Up More Unions Join N.Y. Police Club Relief Seekers; 16 Youth Jailed -Face Jail Terms on Framed Charges; Bail High LaGuardia "Befriends" Jobless Youth (Photograph of unemployed workers being led to jail after being beaten by police) Police Seize Luben Join in Frame-Up Police Cause Violence Relief Long Refused Story Documented Stevedores on West Coast Hit by Bosses' Drive – Only Agreement Not Renewed by Water-Front Employers Splitting Tactics Felt Believe Compromised Due Militants Win Renewal Rivera Says Trade Union Congress Staged by C.P. -Handpicked Delegates Will Extends Sway of Stalinists, Boom Toledano for Mexican Presidency World Youth Congress Beats the Drums of War -Inspired by Stalinist, Sponsored by Reaction, It Issues Open Appeal for Robber War Alliances by Hal Draper Youth Congress Would Build More of These (Photograph Of Aircraft Carrier "Lexington") No Soviet Delegation The "Distinguished" Sponsors Eyewash for "Innocents" Program Protects Plunder Unite the Generals! The "Program of Action" Appeal to Fascists Second International in Line Labor Unity Spurs Southern Unionism -Houston A.F. Of L. and C.I.O. Cooperate in Organization and Strike Activity; Texas Workers Better Conditions By Special Correspondent Unity in Union Picnic Steel Workers Backbone Oil Workers Cooperate Progressive Sweep Elections Appeal Army –Special 8-Page issue on world Congress Socialist Appeal and New International Can Be Obtained at the Following Newsstands Peace & Plenty Damning Evidence in Sedoff Murder -Trotsky Bares Further Proof of G.P.U. Guilt -Investigation Discloses Direct Tie-Up Between G.P.U. and Hospital Staff; Laxity of Police Assailed Hides Behind "Professional" Secrecy A "Bolshevik Sympathizer"! Leon Sedoff (Photograph) Blames "Trotskyites" for Sons' Death Yagoda's Repertoire The Death List Police Wink at G.P.U. Crimes Late Flash! -Mexican G.P.U. Plot Trotsky's Death -Laborde, Mexican G.P.U. Head, Spent Months in U.S. Preparing Final Blow Against Trotsky and Friends "Direct Action" Ordered Toledano Follow Suit Leaders Immune in U.S. A Broad Hint Expropriate the Railroads Mexico's Real Allies What the Army Is For "In Stalin's Realm" -"The Russian Workers' Own Story" (Review Of Book by Boris Silver) Reviewed by Joe Hansen A True Witness Speaks A First Encounter L.D. Trotsky -He Symbolizes Revolution to Soviet Workers (Photograph) V.I. Lenin -Years of Stalin Rule Have Not Crushed His Ideas in Soviet Union (Photograph) "Stalin Came a Little Late" "Down With the Georgian Swine!" (Continued in the next issue) Pinning 'em Down by James Casey Hunger Shatters New Deal Illusions Recount Story of Lynching Vote for County Politicians 38 Sep. 17, 1938 Powers Prepare War -Czechs Pawns in Conflict as Crisis of System Drives to Disaster -Workers Sold to War Machine by Pay-triot Leaders -Fight the War-Plans! Hitler Mocks Self-Determination World Clash Inevitable "Frances Is the Key" What Good Work, Mr. President? -An Editorial Unions Back Clerks! -Boss Offensive Met by United Labor Movement -Strikers Picket 27 Dep't Stores; In Militant Mood Employers Admit Aims Unions in Solidarity Leadership Conciliatory Major Anti-Union Offensive Spikes Bridges' Slander L.A. Unions Pledge Aid The Crisis in the Auto Workers Union -Martin, Waging Fight Against Wreckers, Is Hampered by Bureaucratic Tactics, Reactionary Allies -Internal Struggle Exposes Stalinism as Major Threat to Labor Movement; Socialist Party Only C.P. Shadow by Geo. Clarke Crimes of Stalinism Martin Fights the C.P. A Record of Blunders Weak w is ith G.M. Stays among Friends The Compromise Proposals Sailors Back Longshoremen; Blast C.P. Slanders (Reprinted from the WEST COAST SAILORS) by Harry Lundeberg, Sec'y-Treas. Union Defense Guards Formed by Local 544 -Group Prepares to Defend Union Hall From Thugs Lessons From '34 Seaman Picket Fink Hall, Gov't Training School -Pickets Meet Gov't Ship, NMU Officials Aid Commission N.M.U. "Cooperates" Look Who's Here! S.U.P. Charter Delayed Latin Americans Hit "Democratic" U.S. Imperialism -Congress in Uproar; Dissident Voices Suppressed (Special to the Socialist Appeal) Against U.S. Imperialism Whitewashed "Democracies" Shipyard Union Convenes; Maps Drive on Bethlehem -Shipyard Workers to Launch Huge Organizing Drive -Aim at "Little Steel" Yards -IUMSWA Meet Hits Fink Halls; Defends Fred Beal by Bill Morgan Urge Independent Candidates Hit Maritime Commission Organizers Fight Reaction Progressives Gain In N.Y. Painters' Union -Referendum on Tax Goes Against C.P. Administration Machine Majority Accidental Tax Washed Out N.Y. Fund Raises $150 Collection Police Protect Fascist Meeting -Arrest Four S.W.P. Members; Leaflets Banned Weekly Backs Fascists 2 More Locals Leave Alliance -Eight Delegates, 35 Observers Attend Conference by George Milton Cite Stalinist Wreckers To Meet Again Records Stolen McCord Strike Ranks Hold Firm -Other Locals Must Act in Solidarity With Strikers 11–State Pact Is Now in Effect -Unions Ratify Plan; Establish Area Committee Appeal Army -Appeal Needs Immediate Financial Aid Kulak Danger in Soviet Reappears -New Tax Decree, Aimed at Wealthy Peasants, Reveals Grave Situation; Collectives Being Undermined by J.G. Wright [Joseph Vanzler] Decree of Sweeping Nature Differences in Collectives Return to Village Labor Shows Strength in South A People's Parade Negro Dockers March "In Stalin's Realm" -"The Russian Workers Own Story" Reviewed by Joe Hansen (Continued from last issue) The Youth Know Tells Who Supports Stalin "They're A New Aristocracy!" How Oppression Will End Company Unionism in New York Primaries -A.L.P. Is Tail To Kite of Boss Parties by James Burnham Fay Machine Politician A.L.P. Trails Along Face Predicament Bosses Pick Candidate Hathaway "Forgets" London But Doesn't Deny Murder History Repeats! -An Editorial Guard the Security of Trotsky! Minneapolis Leads the Way Again! The New Deal Speaks on Hague Pinning 'em Down by James Casey A Prophecy Come True Prosecution Goes A-Begging 39 Sep. 24, 1938 Plain Speaking On Czechoslovakia - An Editorial A Weapon For Exploitation What Can Our Perspective Be? Results of People's Frontism What This War Would Be Who Will Stop Hitlerism? Plan War on Soviets –Post-War European Lineup Shattered -Collective Security Is Interred at Berchtesgaden: Anti-Soviet Four-Power Pact Is Next Aim -Win Temporary Respite Diplomats Talk Today; Guns Tomorrow (Photograph of heavy artillery) Democracy at Work Re-Making the Map Truck Drivers Tie up New York City –Rank And File Leaders Backed by Membership -Huge Meeting Balks Strikebreaking Attempts Strike Voted Last Week Strike May Be Extended Omaha Drivers Halt Trucking -New Set-up Ties up Trucks Over Vast Area Present Agreement Pena Challenged on Trial of Spanish Revolutionists -Socialist Workers Party Letter Demands Clear Statement From Minister of "Justice" "Denies" G.P.U. Trials Minister Not "Responsible" Text of Letter Held Incommunicado Bridges Accepts Changes In Pact -Modifications May Mean Compulsory Arbitration Mass Picketing Curbed Bridges Willing Compulsory Arbitration Looms Auto Strike Is Menaced by Ruse of Union Jobholder -Police Attack Pickets After McCord Workers Repel Attempt to Force Return to Work Houser Condemned Police Assault Strikers "Treason Trial" Delayed Again by Government -Sentence of Death Asked for Three Militants Postponed "Indefinitely" Legal Murder Attempt Referendum in Painters D.C. 9 Defeats $5 Tax -Administration Plan Rejected by Ranks Fear Own Locals Unions Fight Picket Ban * Los Angeles Bosses Pass Anti-Picket Ordinance Bosses Spent Half a Million Workers Deprived of Vote * Drive on Picketing Jails Seven L.A. Strikers Arrest All Pickets Grand Jury Clears Mpls. Unions; Slanderers Hit Probe Death of Brown Boss Lie Machine Appeal Available In Bound Volume Set Hearing for Jobless Youth Alliance Heads Ready to Expel Militant Locals -Stalinist Committee Able to Revoke Charters by George Milton Aimed at Convention Four-Point Program New York C.I.O. Supports F.D.R. -Head of State Body Pledges Workers to War-Makers Parade of Politicians Pro-War Resolution "Stand by France" Books Asked for Schools Appeal Army Socialist Appeal and New International Can Be Obtained at the Following Newsstands Akron Unionist Blast Lying Liberty Article by R. Ferguson [Robert Treash] Workers Know Sparks Who Ruined Akron? October N.I. Has Varied Content G.P.U. Assassins and Their Victim (Photomontage of Ignace Reiss murdered by the GPU and Vladimir Kondratieff, Dmitry Smizensky, Renata Steiner, Gertrude Schildbach, GPU agents involved) Murderers of Reiss Seek Life of Trotsky The Defense of Czechoslovakia War Crisis Curbs Strikes in France -French Bosses Use National Defense Plans to Break Strikes and Chain Workers to War Machine by F.L. Demby The Hand of the C.P. Economic Battles Inevitable A Bona Fide Strike! Patriot's Progress None so Blind Imperialist Smokescreen at Latin American Congress by Garcia Cestero Pious Hopes Unity for What? Reduced to Absurdity Silence on Imperialism Avoid All Problems Rubber Union Hits Hull Notes On Mexican Oil New Deal Candidates Lose, But F.D.R. Dolds Prestige by James Burnham Defeats Expected Personal Prestige High Farm-Labor Union Pinning 'em Down by James Casey Gold Rush On Wall Street Bull Market Coming Profits, Prices Up--Wages Down 40 Oct. 1, 1938 The Appeal Will Be Issued Three Times Weekly Beginning Saturday! Fight Imperialist War! –Millions in Arms Await Zero Hour on All Borders -Pacifist Leap On Bandwagon to Support War Chamberlain's Dream Why Hitler Roars Democracy in Discard The Real Fear No Way Out The Only Answer Novelist Turns War Monger U.S. Soon Involved Drivers Accept Terms While Strike Goes On –Boss Front Cracking After Ass'n Rejects Compromise; Strikers Keep Unsigned Firms Tied Up –New Pact Reduces Hours City Trucks Roll Strike Now Sanctioned Primary Deals Reveal Danger in ALP Policy -Independent Action Alone Will Rally Workers The Election Yield Lovestone Treachery S.W.P. Position Strikelights on the Truck Front by Bill Morgan New War Flows from Versailles Banditry -Trotsky Urges Firm Revolutionary Defeatist Policy As Only Way to Fight Hitlerism by Leon Trotsky Versailles Brought Fascism Mockery of "Racial" Unity Moscow Not Mentioned The "Fight" Against War Tools of Imperialism Fight Hitlerism by Revolution –An Editorial The Real Interests of the Czech Government The Objective for Workers and Peasants The Lie of "Democracy" The Answer of Revolutionists The Real Allies of the Workers and Peasants Teachers Fight G.P.U. Slander Against Trotsky Rivera Challenges Laborde A Mysterious Return Teachers' Statement Resolution Against Trotsky Omaha Trucks Tied Up throughout North Central Area –Move Only with Union Permits –New Area Contract Is Issue; 35 Companies Sign Rubber Workers Urge Labor Unity Ask C.I.O.–A.F. of L. Peace; Refuse C.P. Whitewash of Bridges Wrecking Tactics On West Coast by B.J. Widick, Labor Secretary, S.W.P. Support Railroad Unions Refuse Endorsement to Bridges Still Follow F.D.R. Blast Mayor Hague Praise Western Organizer Officers Re-Elected YPSL Conference Plans Activity Slug Militants in Food Union – Appeal Is Made Against Gangsters C.P. Clique Lieben Frames Militant Program Outlined Sailors Tie up Shepard Again -Breaking of Pact Gets Quick Strike Action Use Election Ruse Bridges Backs Down S.U.P. Gives Position Unemployed Militant Faces C.P. Expulsion Call the Cops! Jobless Issue Convention Call A Militant Organization Appeal Army -We Must Redouble Our Efforts Defense Formed for Unemployed Defense for Jobless 16 Involved in Case Trotskyists Defend Heroic Past of Polish Communists –Dissolution of Party and Murder of Leaders Is Reward for Loyalty to Stalin and Comintern Tools of Stalin Thrown into Discard R.R. Workers to Strike 800,000 Votes Cast Half the Battle Won Open Letter to the Members of the C.P. from the Socialist Workers Party On the Labor Party -A Resolution of the S.W.P. Bureaucrats Restrict Movement Radical Change in Tactics Principles Not Involved Bureaucracy Will Resist Will Support Labor Party Party Independence Preserved Pinning 'em Down by James Casey Vast Field Awaits S.W.P. How the C.P. Juggles Figures How Our Recruiters Should Speak 41 Oct. 3, 1938 Only the Workers of the World Can Defend the USSR! (Headline above Masthead) Pact Menaces Russia On the Eve of War –What Became of Democracy In Czechoslovakia... In France... Socialist Solution Is Only One for Czech National Minorities (From "Banner," Organ of the Sudeten Bolshevik-Leninists) How They Explain Allies with Bourgeoisies (From "Proletarske Noviny," Organ of the Bolshevik-Leninists in the Czech Speaking Area.) Source of Henlein's Strength Civil Peace and Fascism Confused by Patriotism Appeal Army Fourth Internationalist Firm in Czechoslovakia We Stand with Debs (Photograph) US Laws Ready to Shatter All Civil Liberties –In Case of War We Would Be Placed Under Iron Rule No Free Speech Concentration Camp Gov't Roosevelt Moves Open Path to War -Washington's Intervention Makes the Record, Helps Speed Up New Armament Outlays A Veiled Threat Behind the Scenes Military Preparations Speeded Helps Four-Power Pact Masses Want Peace Roosevelt Rehearses Stalinist Run Alliance Conclave; Bar Dissidents –New York Progressives Denied Seats; Cheering Delegates Clamber on Roosevelt Bandwagon Hitler Rule Condemn Treachery American Legion to Mobilize for Reactionaries – Convention Adopts 10-Point Anti-Labor Program Truck Strike Routes Bosses; Unions Gain –Substantial Increases Won by Drivers as Strike Comes to End; LaGuardia's True Role Now Revealed by S.V. O'Flaherty Bosses Ass'n Collapses Why They Capitulated Strike Points the Way Advice to Chiselers Force Wage Cut on Philco Union –Stalinist Leadership Ends Strike with Heavy Defeat Union Workers Scab 42 Oct 5, 1938 After Munich –– What Next? Cannon Reports on Strong Peace Spirit of Masses -S.W.P. National Secretary, Just Back from Europe, Tells of Anti-War Activity in Paris Masses Want Peace Reserves Go to Front To Speak Oct. 9 -James P Cannon (Photograph) Rulers Fear Revolution C.P. Alone for War Fourth International Founded A Smash Sell-Out! -Penny Appeal Makes Hit A Good Start; Let's Keep It Up! Czechs Bound for Economic Collapse After Munich Pact –Partitioned Country Will Become Vassal of Reich -Army Will Be Converted into Anti-Soviet Force by W.Keller Crippled Economy Now an Agrarian Country Ruins Sudetens Vassal of Reich Army against Russia A Popular Referendum New Internat'l Off the Press On Canadian Fascism Mahoney Bill Analyzed Book Reviews C.P. Stages Red–Baiting Frame–Up Import Hatchet–Man Peoples of Europe Clamor for Peace -Even in Fascist Countries Spontaneous Demonstration Show Deep–Going Opposition to War Answer to Labor Misleaders Where the Masses Stand Unsolicited Joy 43 Oct. 8, 1938 People's Front Bankrupt! –Are Leading Toward New Dictatorships -France in Czechoslovakia Turning Authoritarian; Loyalists Prepare for Deal with Fascists Collapse of People's Front A Two-Year Record The Czech Turn Time Is Short! Prepares Sell-Out -Premier Negrin (Photograph) For a People's Vote on War –An Editorial The Fourth International Fights Boss War! (Montage of newspapers affiliated with the Fourth International with headlines opposing the war over Czechoslovakia) Laborites Trail Boss Parties -A.L.P. Convention Again Endorses Gov. Lehman Not a Word on War Roosevelt and Reaction Force Independent Nominees The Road Forward Break with Roosevelt Trotsky Predicts Stalin Will Now Seek an Understanding with Hitler by Leon Trotsky Drivers Power in A.F.L. Meet -Counsel Straddles an Issue of AFL–CIO Unity Teamsters a Power Fight on Printers' Delegates Fate of UAW Lies with Rank And File Workers by John Adamson Red–Baiting Program Martin's Reactionary Allies Militants Built the U.A.W. The Union Under Fire Up to the Membership New Unemployed Union Organized in New York -Militants Locals Demand More Relief; Want Idle Factories Opened; Plan Fight on Sales Tax by George Milton Denounce LaGuardia Tax New Groups Join Militant Keynote Speech New Officers Elected Harrison Contested Denounces Discrimination Grants Rights to Locals Mass Sale of N.J. Campaign Paper Anti-Union Plan Is Defeated by Houston Labor -Plan for Managerial Dictatorship Is Spiked by a Special Correspondent Bosses Spend Thousands A Vigilante Plan Teamsters in the Forefront IRT Threatens to Cut Wages -Transport Workers Prepare to Fight Transit Bosses What Will Quill Do? Repulsive Hoodlum Attack on Meeting U.A.W. Wins Two Indiana strikes -Demands Granted in Plymouth and Briggs Plant 100 Per Cent walkout Champ' Salesman! By Ted Bekos Make Them Buy!! Posters Useful Appeal Army –Second Anti-War Issue of Appeal Has Great Success! C.I.O. To Set up Jersey Council Progressive Action Labor Party Sentiment S.W.P. Opens Big Offices in MPLS Library, Bookshop, Kitchen "Fight Imperialism to Fight Fascism," Trotsky Tells Cuban Press by Leon Trotsky Fascism and Imperialism Stalin--World Gendarme ASU Conducts Jingo Drive While YPSL Fights War Save "Our" Trade! Openly for War Beating the Drums Y.P.S.L. Drive Planned SWP Hits at War Meet in St. Louis LaGuardia Beats the Legion's War Drums –Swallows 10–Point Anti-Labor Program The "Little Flower" (Photograph of LaGuardia) Legion Beats the Drums Back War Program Time for Accounting International Come to Aid of Striking Omaha Drivers International Backs Strike Solidarity with Farmers Army Rule for Labor in War -Make Plans to Hog–Tie Unions When U.S. Fights Army in Complete Control Labor Movement Hog-Tied Army Will Break Strikes The Judas Kiss for Spain Greetings to "Workers Voice" Czech Bourgeoisie Prepares For Turn to Fascist Regime by W. Keller Gets the Skids -Eduard Benes (Photograph) Czech "Democracy" A Slave Regime Post–War Revolutions Workers' Struggle Applied Democracy Dictatorship Established Greet the Y.P.S.L. Convention Refugees Turned Back to Hitler Pinning 'em Down by James Casey The Blight of Hitlerism Traders in Human Flesh Cachin Exposes Cachin Slander Cannot Hide the Truth 44 Oct. 10, 1938 War On U.S. War–Makers! –U.S. Deeply Involved in World War Crisis New Attempt Made to Frame Leon Trotsky –Goldman Challenges Dies Agent on Slanderous Charge Alleging Trotsky–Fascist Link Smeared with G.P.U. Goldman's Telegram Tool of G.P.U. The Only Fight Against War by Carlo (Political Cartoon) Stalinist Issue Paramount at CIO Convention by B.J. Widick, Labor Secretary, S.W.P. I.T.U. Admitted Roosevelt's Role An Imposed Peace The Main Issue Appeal Concludes Extra Editions -- Now Forward! Hitler Speeds Eastward Drive Against U.S.S.R. -All Central Europe Passing Under Nazi Heel A Hangover New Crises Coming Real Motives Czech Parties Long Prepared for Authoritarian Regime by W. Keller A Logical Development No Mass Movement Disguised Fascists Opposed Western Orientation An Imperative Necessity Anti-Semitism Will Spread Fast Action By Sailors Wins New Shepard Pact -Militant Display Quickly Brings Line to Heel After Attempt to Utilize N.M.U. Back-Stabbing Notice of Non-Renewal Fast Action Wilkes-Barre Guild Closes Four Papers 45 Oct. 15, 1938 Will Stalin Bow to Hitler? -Duranty Article Lays Down New Line of Kremlin -Sees "No Obstacle" in Path of Such a Move Trotsky's Position New Mass Murders Stalin Stakes After Munich Parties Mark Time Roosevelt Seeks National Unity in Joint Appeals –Wants to Put House in Order Before War Comes Smile on Both Houses Industrial Survey Made Unity For War Supreme Court Denies Review of Mooney Case -Fight for Freedom Goes On After New Setback Labor Must Free Him -Tom Mooney (Photograph) New Jersey C.I.O. Calls for Unity – Convention Draws Plans for Anti-Hague Fight by B.J. Widick Labor Secretary S.W.P. Plan Fight on Hague Force Apology Discuss War Question Tobin Move Aid To Union Unity -Proposal Puts AFL Bureaucrats on Hot Spots Lewis Offers to Resign Tobin Gets Big Backing Strong Peace Sentiment in C.I.O. Fight for Prestige, Not for Unity -John L. Lewis, William Green (Photograph) of Sailors Slated to Get National AFL Charter Background of Conflict The Fink Book Issue Training Ships The Hiring Hall Deal with Admiral In the Coming Elections -For Independent Labor Politics! Begin Full Press "Spy Scare" to Aid War Plans -Roosevelt Prepares for Anti-Labor Legislation The Real Menace All the Trimmings New Arms Program Witch Hunts Tomorrow Militants Face "Treason" Trial; In Spain Court -Frame-up Hearings Finally Open in Barcelona Varied Charges Protests Multiplied G.P.U. Stage–Managers Lindbergh's The Culprit! Wrecking Crew Regime Tottering in Painters Union -Clique Admits Bankruptcy; Asks for Opposition's Aid -At End of Their Rope, Weinstock & Co. Try to Trick Opponents Into Okay of New Tax Administration Bankrupt Want Payment For Deal How Deal Was "Planned" Exposes C.P. Hand Begin Double–Cross Rail at Membership Jamaica Militant Hits C.P. Lies Subway Union Hits Wage Cut -Demand Increasing In Counter Proposal Appeal Army -World Congress Issue Appears Next Week! Results of Special Anti–War Issues New York City Shows the Way! Gaston Medina Dies For a Socialist United States of Europe (Partial text of a speech delivered by James P Cannon on "The war crisis in Europe and the meaning of the Munich pact.") A Lesson in Realism Masses Are against War The Real Face of Democracy Not Enough Yet! Stalin's Next Step Stalin Will Fall Whose The Responsibility? Only Internationalist Voice How Our Party Reacted Soviet Economy In Fresh Crisis; New, Sweeping Purges Threatened by J.G. Wright [Joseph Vanzler] The New Emergency Recurrences of Grain Strikes Campaign Against "Kulaks" 1,000 Protest (Protesting the persecution of revolutionary militants by the Loyalist Government in Spain) Pinning 'em Down by James Casey Love Feast with Economic Royalists The "Betterment" Diet A Healthy Program Free Tom Mooney! Tobin's Bombshell Sliding Scale of Hours New International Offers November Highlights Alliance "Friend" Denounces Strikes Czech Labor Movement Now Faces Fight Against Fascism by W. Keller A Grave Moment Traditions of Struggle An Important Distinction A Choice to Be Made Stalinists Will Be First A Quick Showdown 46 Oct. 22, 1938 Section 1 World Congress Founds Fourth International -Thirty Delegates From Eleven Countries Raise New Banner -New International Created Midst of European War Crisis Gives Voice to Revolutionary Opposition to Imperialist War -Youth International Formed Organizational Report Integration of Movement Stalinist Impotence On the Soviet Union On the International Other Problems Considered Congress Climaxes 15 Years' Struggle -Fourth International Emerges From Fight Against Degeneration in the Third International by Max Shachtman Against the Bureaucratism Rallied to the Opposition Subsequent Struggles Other Breaks Process of Selection Trotsky's Role History's Lessons A Sharp Turn Centrist Decline 4th International by Carlo (Political Cartoon) Ten Years of the Fight to Build a Revolutionary Party in the US by James P Cannon Ten Years Strong Revolutionary Realities The Pioneer Contingent -Martin Abern, James P Cannon, and Max Shachtman, pioneers in the Communist movement in the United States 10 years ago (Photograph) A Tough Start The Power of Program The First Persecution James P Cannon -National Sec'y, S.W.P. Firm Line of Principle The German Events Into the Mass Movement Turns and Sectarians Our "Rivals" The Party Re-Arms Nine Countries Represented at Youth Congress -Delegates Gather Despite Many Obstacles by Nathan Gould 19 Delegates Attend Tribute to Heroes Pledged to Anti-War Struggle Elect Delegates The Rights of Youth On National Sections Grow While Reformist Decay From Left Socialism to Bolshevism by Ernest Erber, National Chairman, Y.P.S.L. Merger With A.W.P. Move Left with Depression Conflict Takes Form Entry of Workers Party Revolutionists Unite The Revolutionary Marxist Press -Ten Year Record of Struggle and Progress by Martin Abern Only a Handful Martin Abern -Business Mgr., New International (Photograph) Circulation of 3,000 In the Early Issues Campaign For the Weekly Selling the Socialist Appeal (Photograph) Pioneer Publishers The New International The Socialist Appeal Events of a Decade Building the Press Appeal Army Best Issue of Appeal Yet! Affiliated Sections of the Fourth International Revolutionary Tasks and Work in the Trade Union Movement by V.R. Dunne Our Task The Reactionary Stalinists Vincent Dunne -Minnesota Organizer, S.W.P. The Mistakes of the C.I.O. The Strengths of the A.F.L. The Road Ahead The Unemployed Political Action Historical Role of S.W.P. The Early Days by Max Shachtman The "Document" Max Shachtman -Editor, Socialist Appeal How It Came to America The First Reaction The Trial The Real Accusers The Great Heresy "Burglary Bolshevism" The Sequel The First Trotskyist Group in New England by Antoinette F. Konikow The First Comrades Trip to Russia Prepares for Break Expelled from C.P. Progressives Merge with Fourth International by James Burnham Co-Editor, New International Not a Party Choice of the A.W.P. Obstacles Met A Foreshadowing The Struggle for Marxism In the Socialist Party by Glenn Trimble Member, Nat'l Comm., S.W.P. New Elements The "Militant" Group Left Wing Development "Clarity" Delivers A Life-or-Death Appeal! -Here's Your Chance to Act Internationalism Our Banner by Maurice Spector Co-Editor New International Lenin's Teachings The Final Straw Renunciation of Revolution There Is No Substitute Undermine the Only Force In Their Footsteps -by Atkins (Political Cartoon honoring Lenin, Liebknecht and Luxembourg) First Youth Conference Was Held In Chicago In November, 1929 by Albert Gates Nation-wide Expulsions The Youth Meet Pages from the History of the Youth Movement by Nathan Gould National Organizer, Y.P.S.L. Publish "Young Spartacus" New Clubs Organize First Convention Organization Grows Merge with Revolutionary Y.P.S.L. 46 Oct. 22, 1938 Section 2 The Death Agony of Capitalism and the Tasks of the Fourth International -Transitional Demands Will Mobilize The Masses The Objective Prerequisites for Socialist Revolution The Proletariat and Its Leadership The Minimum Program and a Transitional Program Sliding Scale of Wages and Sliding Scale of Hours Trade Unions in the Transitional Epoch Program Will Lay Basis for Regime of Dual Power Factory Committees "Business Secrets" and Workers Control of Industry Expropriation of Separate Groups of Capitalists The Picket Line -- Defense Groups -- Workers' Militia -- The Arming of the Proletariat Provides for Active Defense of Working Class Rights The Alliance of the Workers and Farmers The Main Enemy Is Still Our Own Capitalist Class The Struggle Against Imperialism and War Concretizing A Few Abstractions A Referendum on War Aiding Non-Imperialist Countries Workers and Farmers Government The Russian Experience Perspectives of the Slogan Soviets Backward Countries and the Program of Transitional Demands The Program of Transitional Demands in Fascist Country Fresh Forces Are Needed Tasks of the Fourth International The U.S.S.R. and Problems of the Transitional Epoch "Trotskyism" In the U.S.S.R. The Chief Task Against Opportunism and Unprincipled Revisionism Against Sectarianism The Road to the Woman–worker The Road to the Youth The Roots of the Fourth International World Congress Greetings to Leon Trotsky Manifesto of the Congress -Against Imperialist War! At Bandit War Betrayers of the Toilers Impotent against Fascism We Are Loyal to U.S.S.R. Break the Chains! The Fourth International Greetings to the Fighters in Spain from The Executive Committee of the Fourth International Salute to Our Living Martyrs in Our Heroic Dead Statement of the I.S. -On the Moliniere Group On Organizing Defense and Relief for Persecuted Revolutionists On Unification of the British Section On the Greek Question On the Mexican Question 47 Oct. 29, 1938 U.S. Builds War Machine -10,000 Plants Geared To Army, Navy Needs -Administration Prepares to Put Over Record Appropriation for Armed Forces and Fighting Planes Exceeds All But War Record Most Deadly Weapon Survey For M-Day Spy Scare Smoke Armaments for Conquest Kuomintang Gives Up Vital War Positions -Canton and Hankow Are Surrendered to Invaders; Turn to Guerilla Warfare Must Be Made by Lo Sen Enters New Phase Defeatist Tactics Canton Sell-out British Connivance Tasks That Remain Masses Victimized Thirteen Greek Comrades Jailed by Dictatorship -Tortures Used to Extract Names From Victims Quarters Raided 3,000 Imprisoned Life or Death Appeal! GPU Odor Begins to Spread from Nazi Spy Trial -Rumrich Drops Some Curious Hints on the Stand Washington's Choice Stalinists Indicted What Trial Reveals Creating Spy Scare An Important Aspect Enter the G.P.U. Some Curious Facts Who is Rumrich? And Matthews? He Read the Papers POUM Trial Foreshadows Munich Plan for Spain -Barcelona Frame-Up Is Smokescreen to Conceal Impending Betrayal of Anti-Fascist Spain by Felix Morrow G.P.U. Procedure Rovira's Fate Revealed Fresh "Revelations" Stalin's Role Pravda's Admission Trade Unions and the Social Crisis -A Conversation on the Problems and Program of the American Labor Movement by Crux [Leon Trotsky] (Fourth International Press Release) Capitalism in Decline Threat to Unions Psychology of Leaders Meetings Poorly Attended Masses and Leaders The Program Sliding Scale of Hours Capitulation or Struggle Danger of Fascism The Labor Party Roosevelt's "Popularity" Railroad Unions Resists Threat of Wage Slash -Road Bosses Reveal Attempt to Quash Board Inquiry by Bill Morgan "Fact Finding" Some Eyewash $95 Per Month Diverted Revenues Efforts to Balk Inquiry Other Plans N.M.U. Officers Are Accused As Bosses Agents -Rank-and-File Pilot Makes Sensational Accusation Gives Names and Dates King Involved Why Paper Was Published Tool of Opportunists King Denies The Stalinist Game Sailors Union Granted Charter by AFL Conclave Membership of New Union Program of Organization Appeal Army A Few Still Left Increased Sales and Subs New Advertising Manager Bound-Volumes New York City subscription Campaign Defense Group Organized for G.P.U. Victim -Blackwell Committee is Representative Twice Arrested Sirovy, "Friend" of Moscow, Outlaws C.P. -Social Democrats and Union Leaders Join in Craven Capitulation to Pro-Hitler Regime by W. Keller C.P. Dissolved Perfidious Betrayal "Social Fascism" Reincarnate Gold Finds a Farmer Conclusion Avoided The Real Conflict New Expulsion Wave in Stalinist Youth Ranks Refused to be Patriots Joined Y.P.S.L. A Fresh Start Appeal to YCLers Open the Doors! Vote Labor! -For Independent Political and a Fighting Program For Independent Labor Politics For a Bold, Fighting Labor Program Harlem Locals Quit Alliance Twenty Expelled Calls Cops Millions Hit As Stalin Purge Continues in Soviet Union by John G. Wright [Joseph Vanzler] Replacement and Purges "Tens of Thousands" Yardstick for Data One-Year Olds "Worthless Directors" Commissariats Cleansed The Notebook of An Agitator "Man's Best Friend is His Dog" 48 Nov. 5, 1938 C.I.O. Faces Crucial Issues of Democracy In the Unions -Convention Next Week Must Take Decisive Steps -Unity and Fight on Stalinism on the Agenda by B.J. Widick Labor Secretary S.W.P. Stalinist Issue Decisive New Unity Bid Bureaucratic Preparations Disruptors Want Recognition The Main Issue Twenty-One Years (21st anniversary of the Russian Revolution) Spanish Veterans Form New Group Progressive Painters Spurn C.P.'s Bribes -Lash Administration for Pork-Barrel Regime Would Bribe Progressives Not for Sale! Budget or Pork-Barrel Pouliopoulos Escapes From Hands of Metaxas' Police How to Vote on Tuesday How to Vote for Congress For State Senate For the Assembly POUM Leaders Sentenced in Spanish Frame-Up Trial -Workers Everywhere Must Protest Savage Prison Terms Meted out to Spanish Revolutionary Militants NMU Seamen Bullied into Signing Rotten Contract -Vicious Campaign Against Lindeberg and Militant Seafarers International Precedes Voting Agreement Bands "Quickies" The Hiring Clause West Coast Comments Plan to Shackle Seamen 1,500 Hear Trotsky Speak at New York Mass Meeting -Antoinette Konikow Honored by Tributes at Tenth Anniversary Celebration; Cannon Points the Road Ahead -Mass Meeting Hails Founding of Fourth International Konikow's Speech Highlight Colorful Meeting Other Speeches Resolution on Greece C.P. Discovers New Democratic Hero in Batista -Cuban Dictator Due for War Parley in Washington by J. Lopez Ambassador Rules Washington Intervenes "Three Year Plan" Continental Hegemony Stalinism at work Imperialism? Where? Open Strike–Breaking Trotsky Reiterates Mission of the Fourth International by Leon Trotsky Work Began in 1928 Our Historic Task The Demands Upon Us We Know No Fear Cannon Reviews the Past and Points to the Future (Excerpts from a speech delivered by James P. Cannon) The Program Decides! Face the Future National Committee Greets Konikow on 50th Anniversary by James P. Cannon, National Secretary, Socialist Workers Party Antoinette Konikow Views 50 Years of Her Activity (Text of the speech delivered by Comrade Antoinette Konikow at the Center Hotel mass meeting in reply to the tribute paid her there on the occasion of her 50th anniversary in the revolutionary movement) Party Honors Veteran (Photograph of Antoinette Konikow) Joined in 1888 At Many Cradlesides A Magic Word An Unsoiled Banner Appeal Army Anti-Imperialist Struggle Is Key to Liberation, Trotsky Tells Matteo Fossa (Fourth International Press Release) Toledano, G.P.U. Flunkey War Is Inevitable People's Front for Imperialism Democracy and Fascism in War The Only Way Out Perspectives for Mexico Latin American and War Stalin's Criminal Work Must Fight All Imperialism Tasks of the Trade Unions Fossa Joins Forces of the Fourth International C.P. Joins Nazis to Elect New Chile President -Stalinists Here Make Ludicrous Attempts to Cover Up by Donald Bergner S.P. Withdraws Growth General Supports Aguire Enter the "Daily Worker" Nov. New International Out The Fear of War Let the Refugees In! The Socialist Party: Act V and Curtain Forgotten Man Will Soon Be Remembered! by Carlo (Political Cartoon) Socialist Party near Collapse Recent NEC Meet Reveals Mr. Valenti Again Membership Sinks The "Call" Goes Down Porter's Program No Proposals on War Collapse in Unemployed Work 49 Nov. 12, 1938 Build Labor's Own Party! -Poll Shows Drift from New Deal -Labor Party Alone Can Stem March of Reaction -Workers Must Take Own Path Workers and Middle Class American Popular Frontism New Deal Explodes The Choice Ahead Let's Remember the Armistice! Belgian Fourth Int'l Candidates Score at Polls -Secure 7,000 Votes And Eight Seats in Communes (Special to the Socialist Appeal) Fought Coalition P.O.B. Losses Preserved "Peace" Dauge Honored Fighting Program Organize the Ford Motor Co.! -Successful Drive Will Put Labor on Offensive -Incompetent Stymied Previous UAW Efforts By John Adamson Defeat in "Little Steel" New Upswing; New Tasks The Great Job at Ford's Workers Want Union Henry Ford (Photograph) Why the Drive Failed High Point Missed Put Ford on CIO Agenda A Plan of Organization The Job Must Be Done Out with Batista -Roosevelt Bids Welcome to Butcher of Workers -Cuban Dictator, Who Rules by Terror, Hailed as "Democrat" by Local Stalinist Party Col. Fulgencio Battista (Photograph) Record of Terror "Democracy" In Cuba Shocking Tortures Workers Shut Down Unions Smashed Lima Conference Will Seal Latin American Pacts -U.S. Is Seeking to Consolidate Its Hegemony For American Domination Foreign Trade Convention Interests Involved Defending "Democracy" Indochinese Authorities Close Trotskyist Journal Organization of South Is Major CIO Problem -Pittsburgh Convention Must Launch Drive Southern Miners Organized Major Drive Not Attempted Johnson Freed in Bill Brown Murder Trial -Union Enemies Slander 544 As Organizer Is Absolved (Reprinted from Northwest Organizer) Killers at Large Readers Commemorate Bulletin Anniversary (10th anniversary of the Russian Bulletin of the Opposition) Marxist School Opens; Lists Important Classes Unions Condemn WPA Labor Camps Davey Breaks Ohio Tobacco Plant Strike -Threatens Workers with National Guard Terror New York Workers Vote Anti–War Stand Shachtman To Review Stolberg Book Next Week Rousing Meetings on Gould Tour Appeal Army U.S. Japanese Clash Due Over Nine–Power Treaty -Tokyo Hopes for Far Eastern Munich Pact -But Big-Navy Man Roosevelt Prepares Steadily for War As Diplomatic Conflicts Grow Acute What the Pact Is Japanese Pressure New Phase Opens Where We Stand Free the P.O.U.M. Leaders! -Fourth International Lashes G.P.U. Trial in Barcelona Statement of I.S. Veterans Picket for Blackwell C.N.T. Delegate Supports Aid for Blackwell Fresh Charges "Agent 29" Olay's Cable Stalinist Slanders Washington Delegation Telegram to Hull Lovestone Comes Out For Boss Candidates in Poll Support Imperialist Party Belly-Scraping Opportunity Y.P.S.L. Mass Convention Rally The "Kingmaker's" Friends Duranty Scents the Trail Reporting from More Duty, Sir! (Political Cartoon about Roosevelt, Batista and Cuba) Recovery: Industry Re-Geared Not for Plenty But for War Arms and Recovery Utilities Expansion Other Lines Affected Wall Street Pleased Order of Upturn Artificial Stimulation Statement on Diego Rivera 50 Nov. 19, 1938 Demonstrate Saturday at the German Consulate Against Nazi Terror (Headline above Masthead) Let the Refugees into U.S.! -Open the Doors to Victims of Hitler's Nazi Terror! (From the National Committee of the Socialist Workers Party, Section of the Fourth International) SWP Polls 6700 Votes in Jersey -Outruns S.P. and Comes Close to Stalinists -Crew Leads Party Ticket Negro Candidate High Polls More Than Stalinist Puppet UAW Board Hits Union Rights, Democracy -Bans Auto Workers Paper, Slams Big Tax on Members, Hands Slush Fund to Officers, Hits W.P.A. Auxiliary by John Adamson "Democracy" In Action Salaries Voted Paper Abolished WPA Set–up Revised Amounts to Liquidation Score Zero Expect No Miracles Pres. Cardenas Raps Attack on Trotsky Asylum -Sharply Repudiate Toledano Charges Against Exile (Special to the Socialist Appeal) Toledano's Slanders Union Revolt An Expensive Campaign Rubber Unions Appeal to NLRB -But Action, Organization Can Stop Wage Cut by R. Ferguson [Robert Treash] Union Unprepared Smash Election Alibi! Labor Unity, Union Democracy Issues Stir CIO Convention -Lewis' Miners Machine in Full Control; Attempt Steamrolling of Bureaucratic Constitution -Stalinists Lewis' Cheering Squad by B.J. Widick Labor Secretary, S.W.P. (Special to the Socialist Appeal) Copies Not Available Jeopardizes Political Rights Right to Overthrow Leaders Labor Unity C.I.O. Committed Industrial Workers Convention Miners' Machine Dominant Stalinists Cheering Squad Major Issues Evaded "Honeymoon" Days Over Skate around Politics Anti-Nazi Demonstration To Take Place Saturday Street Meeting Scheduled Petition Campaign GPU Brews New Rubens Trial -Moscow Links Local Spy Trial to Couple A New Trial? Rubens' "Prepared" Lewis "Pledges" C.I.O. Workers to Boss War -War-Mongers Offer Labor's Blood to War–Makers (Special to Socialist Appeal) A Job Through Slaughter Protection for Capitalism Left on the Galley+ Genora and Kermit Johnson, Leading Auto Workers, Quit S.P., Join S.W.P by George Clarke Significant Act To Those Still in the S.P. Organized Emergency Brigade Photograph -(Genora Johnson, enrolling recruits into the Women's Emergency Brigade, which was an important factor in winning the General Motors strike in Flint) Text of the Statement Issued by Genora and Kermit Johnson Dealing With Old Guard Joining the S.W.P. New Int'l Has Lively Features The Truth at Last! All Set for the Ball Game! Appeal Army How to Sell the Appeal Newsstand Poster Out Weber to Lecture on Moscow Foreign Policy Elections Prove Need for Independent Labor Action * Benson Defeat Shows Disgust For New Deal -Farmer–Labor Party Goes into Slump as Victim of Attempt to Become Prop of Roosevelt Regime by Jules Geller Lost 500,000 Votes Republican Promises Ineffectual Program Future Course Desertion to G.O.P. * Connecticut Workers Vote Independently -Heavy Vote for Jasper McLevy Shows Readiness of Workers to Support Independent Labor Ticket by B. Harde Election Figures Revealing Percentages Industrial Vote From Both Parties Honor Among Thieves Lessons of Vote Some "Explanations" The Full Truth Why Leftword Then? Make Good Showing -Ruben Plaskett, Frank Shapiro and Willis Crews, S.W.P. candidates in the Essex County, N.J. elections (Photograph) A Pointed Lesson in the Polls Why Did It Happen? What Will Be Proposed? What Must the Workers Do? ALP Pays Price for Sleazy Deals in N.Y. -Vote Falls Off by 100,000 as Workers See No Differences Between Labor Party and Democratic Machine Failure to Lead The Morning After Dangers Ahead Open the Doors! (Admit refugees from the Nazis) Elections over...WPA Slash! C.L.R. James, Noted Negro Militant to Speak on Decline of British Empire C.L.R. James (Photograph) Labor Party Aids Chamberlain One Road toward Progress! -By Carlo (Political Cartoon) Trotsky Defends Asylum in Slashing Reply to Toledano (Special to the Socialist Appeal) Cracked Brains 51 Nov. 20, 1938 National Plenum Votes to Issue Appeal Twice-Weekly -Launch Campaign for $3, 000 Fund (Resolution of the Plenum of the National Committee) Enough Pious Tears: Admit the Refugees! -Empty Talk Fills Air As Progrom Goes On -Hypocritical Plans For Havens In Remote Colonies Offer No Real Possibility Of Relief For Victims Of Hitler Real Roosevelt Persecutes Negroes Chamberlain's Crocodile Tears Vile Offerings of Stalinism Face the Issue-- Here! Plenary Session of N.C. Adopts Program of Action -Party to Be Geared to New Tempo to Apply Transitional Program In Trade Union Activity Watchword Is Forward! Discussion on Semi-Weekly Re-shapes Party Work Report on C.I.O. Endorses Change "Treason" Counts Collapse During Trial of P.O.U.M. -Militants Sentenced Only For Part In May Days Myths Exploded Charges Collapse One Charge Left Belgian Militant Tried for Slugging Fascist Chieftain (Special to Socialist Appeal) CIO Convention Rubber Stamps Lewis Machine -Mine Leader Rides Roughshod to Full Control by B.J. Widick (Special to Socialist Appeal) Stalinists Roughly Handled Weapon against Autonomy Stalinists Get Posts But Lewis Controls "Love–Feast" with Martin No Politics at Convention YPSL convention Opens in Chicago UAW Autonomy Endangered by Detroit Move -G.M. Loses No Time in Seizing Its Opportunity General Motors Attacks Fire Shop Steward Minn. Labor Demands Open Door for Refugees Roosevelt Proclaims Hemisphere His Domain -New Arms Program Designed to Assure Rule of U.S. Imperialism from Arctic to Cape Horn "Continental Defense" Trade Pacts LaGuardia Holds a Coat Daladier Lashes French Workers; Fight Strikers -Concentration Camp to Be Created for "Undesirables" Strikes Begin Membership Meet on Plenum Report Appeal Army Six-Page Issue This Week! Local Editions of the Appeal!& Twice-A-Week Appeal Must Be Prepared For! Acknowledgments from England Review of the Mid-Term Elections * Corrupt New Dealer Beaten at Mass. Polls -Labor Refuses Curley Backing Despite Fanfare by William Sherman Backed Wrong Horse Curley's Campaign Frankfeld on Curley * McLevy Has No Labor To Program But Workers Vote Slams All Parties by B. Harde (Second of two articles on the recent elections in Connecticut and its meaning to the workers) "Socialist" Label Doesn't Scare Voted Against Old Parties No Labor Program Unsavory Record L.N.P.L. Defeats McLevy Lessons of Election * Illinois Poll Shows Need for Labor Party -Workers Corralled in Voting for Crooked Gang by Albert Goldman Majority Whittled Down Supported by Underworld L.N.P.L. Backs Unholy Front California Labor Movement Smashes Anti-Labor Measures Larger Vote Than Olsen's Release the Others! S.W.P. Active CIO Council Pickets for Jobless Dole -Lynn Workers Rap Administration for Run-Around (Special to Socialist Appeal) Want No Stalling Aid to Strikers Anti-Semitic Pogroms Are By-Products of Capitalism -Stem from Same Roots As Lynchings of Negroes Here by James Burnham Masked Hypocrisy Capitalist-Bred Get at Roots! An African "Homeland" for the Jewish Refugees? -New "Panacea" Put Forward by World Imperialist Full of Pitfalls-- Only Solution Is "Open Doors" Right Here by C.L.R. James Natives Need Land Racism in Africa Join Fight for Jews C.L.R. James (Photograph) New York Party Arouses Masses on Asylum Issue -Workers Respond to Vigorous Drive By Locals The Case of Grynszpan by Art Preis What is Grynszpan's Fate? No Individual Terror! Fascism Is Capitalism Grynszpan Is Victim Must Not Be Victimized Bosses Exploit Jobless Needs to Bar Nazi Victims Majority in U.S.-- "Refugees!" Crocodile Tears I Ought to Know by Mike Gold Workers Picket Nazi Consulate -United Front Demonstrates Labor Strengths Counsel Joins American Fund Calls for Aid Newark Jobless Demand Asylum for Nazi Victims -Call Upon Roosevelt to Open Doors of America Wise to Boss Agitation Green and Woll Dodge Issue of Asylum for Jews Prayers but No Refuge Union Leader Demands Open Door for Refugees Zionism Proves to Be a Blind Alley for the Jews by Ben Herman Learn from Experience! Britain's Game CIO Skirts Issue of National Guard Des Moines Drivers Win New Contract C.P. Hogties Connecticut CIO -Capture Convention in Absence of Major Unions (Special to Socialist Appeal) Auto Workers Resist Must Organize Fight Bridges Dictatorship Drubbed by CIO Leaders -Rubber and Shoe Worker Delegates to CIO Convention Defy Machine; Back Fight for Democracy (Special to Socialist Appeal) Bridges "Defends" Dalrymple Attacks Blistering Attack New Revolutionary Organ Published by Peru Group Nicos Panayiotidis (Obituary) Truce Declared in Chile When Workers Arm -Popular Front and Fascists For U.S. Imperialism By Donald Bergner "Left" Goes Right C.P. Weasels Its Stand "Show Me Your Friends..." Resolutions Adopted by National Committee Plenum * Trade Union Resolution Points Road to Unity, Progressive Work (Resolution of the Plenum of the National Committee) Labor Unity Pro-C.I.O. Direction Transitional Program "Lesser Evil" In Unions Greater Concentration National Labor Secretary * Plenum Endorses World Congress Decision * Organization to Be Reshaped On Fighting Campaign Lines (Resolution of the Plenum of the National Committee) Tasks for the Next Period Professional Work The Party Press * Political Committee Rapped on Election (Resolution of the Plenum) Sidelights on C.I.O. Convention by B.J.W. [B J. Widick] Two Times Every Week! What's the Difference? Spike Slanders The People Want No War Let Me in -by Aesop (Political Cartoon) Daladier Regime Is Leading France Swiftly to Fascism by Terence Phelan [Sherry Mangan], (Special to Socialist Appeal) Daladier Declares War Stalinists Kicked Downstairs Comrades Imprisoned To Resist Is "Treason" Creeping Technique Our Tasks Book Review -Story of CIO by Max Shachtman -The Story of the CIO, by Benjamin Stolberg, Viking Press, New York The Book-Burners Fail A Defense of the C.I.O. The Virus That Threatens Labor Formula for Progress 52 Dec. 2, 1938 Drive is Launched for Twice-Weekly Appeal (Headline Over Masthead) Fascism Menaces France -Strike of Two Million Shows Workers Ready to Fight; Leaders Fear Showdown -Refusal to Meet Challenge of Power Enables Daladier to Score Bloodless Victory for Cause of Advancing Fascist Reaction -Workers' Power is Only Road Daladier Aggressive Blum's Gesture Response Uneven Daladier Jubilant Strikes Begin Wastes No Time Rumors of Dissolution Blum Goes Begging Duclos Follows Suit Blum Bleats On Demand That U.S. Congress Open the Doors to Refugees * Cannon Urges Party to Speed Appeal Campaign -Success of Drive Will Assure Appearance of Twice-Weekly by February 1 -- Or Sooner by James P. Cannon. National Secretary, S.W.P. * Petition Drive On; Party Calls for Signatures -To Be Distributed to All Union Locals Petitions Available Writers, Professors Sign Petition to the Congress of the United States: Open All Doors to the Refugees! * Who Opposes the Open Door? Big Shots Silent on Open Door What the Problems Are How About Jobs? Score Board -Local Quotas Let's Get Going! Issues Drawn in France Since Fascist Riot In '34 -People's Front Weakens Workers in Anti-Fascist Fight and Prepares Road For Daladier by Harold Roberts Discarding "Luxuries" Workers' Reaction United Front Created Program Proposed Declined, With Thanks Ultra-Patriots In June, 1938 Mass Sitdown Strikebreaker-In-Chief Union Guards Storm Silver Shirt Meetings -Fascists Thrashes in Youngstown and Chicago Union Guards Arrive Cancel Newcastle Meeting Chicago Fascists Drubbed A Necessary Warning Members Meet on YPSL Convention Sloan Would Tie G.M. Workers to Company Loans -Plan Designed to Smash Union's Militancy Scheme to Dampen Struggle Root of the Problem Boston Readers Attention! Slants on the News in the Unions by B.J. Widick, Labor Secretary, S,W,P, Pins and Needles C.P.-Olson for Militant Tobin's Prompter Won't Pay for Pie Leg-Work Information Back to Normal Bread or Bullets? Large Audience Hears the Johnsons at Mpls. Forum by Arthur Hopkins Tells of Emergency Brigade The Only Revolutionary Party Small Farmers Rebel Against Gov't Policy -Want Legislation to Protect Poor Farmers Ignores Debt Cancellation Model Resolution on Refugees Protest Deporting of Vincent Ferrero Teachers Demand Raising of Quotas I.L.G.W. Local for Refugees Youth Branch for Open Doors Appeal Army Twice-A-Week Drive On Literature Agents to Have Their Say On Subscriptions On Finances Roosevelt Speeds Drive to Mobilize Hemisphere Aims at Lima Batista Enlisted Emphasis on Industry Wall Street Dictator Rulesa Peru, Seat of Conference by Donald Bergner Puppets for Wall Street U.S. Investments Washington Runs President Nationalists Illegal Elected Without Running Stalin and Nazi Persecutions Mr. Backer's Backers Ludlow's Victory A Damning Confession Sweet Land of Liberty -by Carlo (Political Cartoon) Negroes Underline Hypocrisy of U.S. Indignation Over Jews And Black America? Roosevelt Challenged Our you know and there's no frozen peas is no frozen court all does there bad than good ones of the organic points their tasteless anyway this is all becoming a like part of my Pogroms Isolationist Reaction The Other "Democracies" What's to Be Done? Asylum in the U.S.S.R.? -Daily Worker Writhes Over a Knotty Problem Jerome's Solution Is War! The "Line" Alliance with Hitler 53 Dec. 10, 1938 Twice Weekly Appeal Drive Gets Off to Flying Start -Paper Will Wield Double Strength, Says Shachtman by Max Shachtman Toledo Goes Over the Top In First Week of Campaign Score Board French Strikes Go On -French Workers Strike Against Mass Reprisals -Daladier Uses Navy To Break Havre Walkout New Strikes Start Blum on the Rump American Fund Asks Christmas Aid to Refugees -Committee Issues Special Appeal For Workers Text of Appeal Aids Worker-Victims N.Y. Workers Demand Asylum Yankee Imperialism Plays for Big Stakes at Lima by Albert Goldman Agreed on Hemisphere Control Obstacles to Overcome Path Is Not Smooth Militant Action Can Halt Daladier Menace in France General Motors Launches New Attack on UAW -Uses "Responsibility" Letter to Penalize Militants "Sweat Blood" For Boss Discrimination at Fleetwood Fire 30 at Chevrolet Monopoly Inquiry Shows Capitalism at Standstill -Income of over Half Nation's Families below $1200 a Year; Industry Stagnates; Few Control Wealth Wall St. Cooperates Economy in Decay Incomes Under $1250 The Big Employers Anti-Semite No. 1 The Pot Boils Over Letters to the Editor Letter from Dwight McDonald Our Reply The Smoke Screen by Carlo (Political Cartoon Dictators Welcome "Democrats" at Lima by Donald Bergner Franco's Aides And Why Not? Same in 1933 Y.P.S.L. Convention Hails Twice Weekly Flash! Flash! Literary Tea's Agog Over New Blessed Event Hooking the Lyons It's a New League Everybody's Doing It A Slight Detail A Bit of a Dilemma New People in a Front 2 Anti-Daladier Pickets Jailed on West Coast -Boss Press Wants "Stiff Jail Terms" YPSL Convention Adopts Fighting Policy -Decision Will Make League Mass Youth Organization -68 Delegates Represent Young Fourth Internationalists; Gould Elected National Secretary (Special to Socialist Appeal) Spirited Mass Meeting Youth Transition Demands New Organization Course Commemorate Martyrs Walgreen Man in Houston Strike -Unions Come to Aid of Sixteen Workers (By a Special Correspondent) Finks Stand "Guard" Advice to the Needy -" Why Don't You Get Some 'Boy Friends'?" -LaGuardia Relief Investigator Advises Girl Applying for Welfare by Paul Kujak Family Evicted Quick Action Seeing Is Believing Y.P.S.L. Convention Greets Trotsky Food Workers Fight Racketeers -Progressives Enter Fall Slate Against C.P. Clique Slam Slander Campaign Racketeers' Friends Program of Progressives "Hunger Fighter" Lashes N.Y.C. Relief Set–Up -Jamaica, L.I., Jobless Expose Do-Nothing Agency Appeal Army Fund Raising Campaign in Regular Appeal Finances Has Your Branch Started a Subscription Campaign Reminders Houston C.I.O. Asks Asylum for German Refugee -Also Solidarizes With French Workers (Special to Socialist Appeal) Resolution on Nazi Persecutions of Minorities Resolution of Support to the French Workers Lehigh Unemployed Speak Out How Shall We Fight Anti-Semitism? By Felix Morrow Defeatism Paralyzes Jewry The Road of Assimilationism The Decay of Assimilationism Socialist Party Prepares to Liquidate Into A.L.P. Party Disintegrating Terms of the Deal Youth Oppose Deal Picketing the Nazis -Socialist Workers Party members and sympathizers picketing at the New York Nazi Consulate (Photograph) C.L.R. James Addresses Big Meeting in New York 54 Dec. 17, 1938 "Let Us In Or We Perish" -300,000 Refuges Demand Entry Here; Storm Consulates -Victims of Nazi Persecution Plead in Berlin, Vienna, and Naples for Asylum in U.S. Dewey, LaFollette Join Mass Meetings Scheduled Hitler Demands Ransom Reactionary Legion Stand The Main Enemy In Latin America -An Editorial (Yankee Imperialism) The "Democratic Front" In Latin America (Includes map showing dictatorships and democracies) Jobless Occupy Relief Bureaus; Demand Food for Children WPA Slashed -- FDR Xmas Gift by Bill Morgan The Buck is Passed No Time to Criticize! Fingerprinting New Scheme France is Main Axis of Coming Events Abroad -Uneasy Interlude Precedes Open Struggle Uneasy Interlude Bankers Turn Omaha Into a Harlan County -Drivers' Strike Continues Despite Boss Terror Anything Goes in Omaha Deny Strikers Relief Burnham Sees Long Step Forward in Twice-Weekly by James Burnham Toledo CIO Asks Open Door for Jewish Refugees -Drivers' Cooperation Stops Work; Bosses Sign Up (Special to Socialist Appeal) Speed Up the Twice-Weekly Appeal Drive Score Board N.Y. Checkers Win Strike 500 Protest WPA Cuts in St. Paul To All Readers of Socialist Appeal! Idlers Wine and Dine Eden As Profiteers Hold Parley O'Mahoney's Pledge Zina Nesson (Obituary) Interest in Mahoney Bill Spreads Cannon Will Lecture on Transition Program Progressives Gain in Cafeteria Union Appeal Army Handling the Semi-Weekly Appeal Concentrate on Subscriptions Monthly Statements Mailed This Week Ruth Querio Gives Points On Pushing Appeal Sales by Ruth Querio -Allentown's Ace Literature Agent Regularity Imperative Refugee Campaign--Tasks for All How Shall We Fight Anti-Semitism -- By Felix Morrow -Blind Alleys for the Jewish People (Part 2 of a series) The End of the Assimilationist Road The Road of Zionism The Price We Pay for Zionism Yezhov Following Yagoda to G.P.U. Resting Place Just a Simple Fact In Yagoda's Footsteps Why He Must Go To Years of "Glory" Beria's Apprenticeship Cannon, James Speak on France Solidarity for France Why Does Stalin Keep Jews Out of Soviet Union? "Stalin on Anti-Semitism" Gannes' Version And What Then? Alibi Ike The Jews Too A Hinted Truth Blackwell Coming to Trial, State Dep't Is Informed Make the List Grow On the Make Refuge and Social Democracy Trotsky Writes On Europe in Dec. N.I. Outlines Available Stalinists Try To "Smear" Grynszpan Collective Security- for the Capitalists by Carlo (Political Cartoon) Remember These Facts! (About the Daladier Government in France) U.S. Establishes Control Over Chile After Long Battle With Great Britain by Donald Bergner (3rd in a series on Latin America) U.S. Investments Dominant Seven Cents a Day Strikes Overthrow Dictator Wall Street Man The Stalinist Brass Check "Communists" Become Open Backers of Arms Program Repeats France Sacrificing Workers' Needs Browder Joins General Staff A Mess of Pottage Promise and Reality Question Box 55 Dec. 24, 1938 Bread! Not Battleships! -A Program for the Unemployed Is for These (Photograph of the Battleship) ---That We Must Start? (Photograph of a line of unemployed and hungry workers) Labor Can Force Congressional Action to Admit Refugees Here -Decision on Asylum Really Rests With Unions -Action Imperative Ickes' Hypocrisy Score Board Speed up Refugee Campaign! U.S. Fights for Wall St. Rights at Lima Parley -Quashes Proposals Aimed at U.S. Investors Fight Collapses Loan Plan Helps Argentina's Role Unions Organize Jobless For Showdown with New Deal -Cleveland UAW Is Setting Up Union WPA Auxiliary -To Fight WPA Cuts Organization Under Way "Bread not Bullets" Charter W.P.A. Workers Major Task Before C.I.O. -Industry Pick-Up Does Not Relieve Unemployment; Labor Action Alone Will Open Factories by Art Preis Mass Unemployment Permanent Production Up--- More WPA! The Decisive Hour in France by Leon Trotsky (Fourth International Press Release) Johaux Guarantees Betrayal What Means This Strike? Bureaucrats Prepare Defeat Has the Revolution Begun? Popular Front Stems Revolutionary Tide Has the Revolutionary "Danger" Passed? The Workers Wanted to Fight Find Road to Workers! Our Press, Organizer and Educator; Twice Weekly! by Martin Abern Branch Competition Keen for Twice-Weekly Prizes From Our Branches Local 544 to Fight WPA Cuts (Special to Socialist Appeal) There Are No Jobs! -Factory Wheels Turn But Unemployed Do Not Return to their Former Jobs by David Cowles Population Grows, Jobs Decline Can Industry Provide Jobs? Less Jobs Since 1929 Capitalism Impotent Stage Six-Day Sit-in In New York Relief Bureaus "Cash for Clothing" New Interest in Kids Hunger Strike Strike Threat Wins Gains on Detroit WPA Wins Concessions Appeal Army On the Conveyer Peak Production Flint Fights for Jobs Martin As "Statesman" Clique Wrangles On But Workers Fed Up The Real Score Board Boss Court Convicts Three Who Fought Hunger Only Business Men Pay-triot Judge Christmas on WPA...and Off Come Across, Or Else... Gorman and Hillman Are You Going to Pioneer's Party? How Shall We Fight Anti-Semitism -- By Felix Morrow Jew-Baiters Are the Spawn of Capitalism Two Immediate Tasks The Roots of Anti-Semitism Capitalism Lives By Race-Hatred The Roosevelt Technique by Carlo (Political Cartoon) Unions Demand Control of Minn. Farmer-Labor Party (Special to Socialist Appeal) Labor Demands Control Stalinists Oppose Unions Unions Crowded Out No Bottles, No Machines And No Sales---But Forty Million in Profits! No Bottles, No Machines Jan. New International Contents 56 Dec. 31, 1938 Appeal Fund Celebrates New Year by Topping $1,000 -Twice-Weekly Drive Total $1,001.70; Branches Promise Action on Balance by Rose Karsner, Appeal Campaign Director A Happy New Year for the Working Class! (Political Cartoon) Total to Date $1,007.70! On to the Daily! -From Our Branches Turn On the Heat! Make It Rise! Score Board Tasks in Refugee Campaign! FDR: "Warplanes Instead of WPA" -10,000 Planes for Army While Relief is Cut -Ten Million Need Money That Goes for War Aims Grim Fate for 3,000,000 "Simply Shocking" Cannon Fodder for Hunger Slums and Destroyers Homes! Not Battleships! Make Congress Heed Labor Arms Program Displaces Open Door for Refugees No Help for "Labor Leaders" Lundeen's Statement Saber-Rattler -Sumner Welles (Photograph) Progressives Sweep Mpls. Drivers Poll Lima Parley Is Cold Comfort to U.S. Diplomats -British Succeed in Checking Wall St. Program Britain Main Opposition Dressing It Up Priest Spills the Beans Detroit Drivers Win Area Pact, Wage Increases -Bosses Crack Before Strike Ultimatum Expires N.Y. Organizes Appeal Sales by Abe Miller (Head of New York's Literature Distribution) Challenge of Youth Appears Montana Farmers Destitute on $44 Monthly W.P.A. Ration Soulounias, Fur Militant, Vindicated In Libel Action Capacity Crowd Hears Cannon in Minneapolis New Outlines James Tour Opens at Philadelphia; Will Go to Coast Progressives Fight Food Union Bosses Gussie Krakowsky (Obituary) Appeal Army Make 1939 a Year for the Appeal! Directive on New Appeal to Appear in January! Brazil Communists Repudiate Moscow -Sao Paulo Regional Committee Issues Call For United Front Congress to Form New Party (Special to Socialist Appeal) Policies of the C.I. Condemned Organic Break Calls Conference Muniz, Carlini Awaiting Trial on Phony Charge -Counsel Asks for Mental Test of Witness SH -- SH! United States Also Uses Spies! Drumming Up War Scare How Shall We Fight Anti-Semitism--By Felix Morrow (Part 4) The Mechanics of Anti-Semitism How Not to Fight Anti-Semitism Coughlin, Stalin and the Jews The Spirit of the Russian Revolution Stalin, Enemy of Socialism Reformists Opened Door to Fascism Choose Your Fate; Socialism or Fascism In the Farmer Labor Party -An Editorial Finding Scapegoats Real Attack on Militants People's Front Liberates Nazis Soviet Press Gives Scant Coverage to Nazi Pogroms After Roosevelt-Pious Words "Intelligentsia" Protests Question Box (Conducted by the National Education Department A Healthy Young Baby More Pious Tears Why We Need an Army W.A.-Company Union Counsel of Treachery Politics and the Unions -Concerning the Sailors Union of the Pacific The S.U.P. Amendment Where the Issue Lies Political Rights Where It Would Lead Democracy a Myth in the Argentine by Donald Bergner Peace on a Bomber Suppresses Strikes Britain Dominant Argentine Imperialism ============================================= 1939 SOCIALIST APPEAL VOLUME 3 - First Half, January 1-June 30, 1939 1 Jan. 07, 1939 Branch Competition Gets Hotter In Twice-Weekly Drive -Fund at $1330 As Party Begins to Reach Quotas -But More Speed Is Needed to Reach Our Goal by Rose Karsner Appeal Campaign Director Score Board Fight Cuts in W.P.A -Slashes Plotted As Foil to Arms Plans -Roosevelt Presents Congress With Huge Armament Budget as Garner & Co. Prepare Blowing at Jobless 11,000 Taxi Drivers Strike in New York -LaGuardia Mobilizes Full Police Force as Reply to Union Demands for Decent Conditions New Year's Resolution No. 1 by Carlo (Political Cartoon about unemployment) Moscow Frameups Exposed by Trial of Ukraine GPU -Admit "Confessions" Extracted from Victims Statement of the Socialist Workers Party, U.S.A. -Yankee Imperialism at Lima Blackwell Freed, Washington Hears -Militant Acquitted After Trial of Valencia Brenda's Party -Champagne for the Idle Rich; No Refuge for Oppressed C.P. Misrule Is Exposed in Teachers Union -Progressives Fight for Inner-Union Democracy Appeal Army McKinney Hails Twice-Weekly by E.R. McKinney Hospital Union Cuts Loose from C.P. Domination -Advances Swiftly under Progressive Leaders Hague Emboldened by C.I.O. Weakness -New Injunctions Challenge Union Rights in Jersey -Union-Busting Drive Resumed Full Blast American Student Union Takes Rabid Jingo Line Negotiations With G.M. Are Stalled United States--Padlocked Pantry for Unemployed by Bill Morgan Question Box (Conducted by the National Educational Department) Musica and Business Secrets (Reprinted from the "Northwest Organizer" of December 22, 1938) How the Arms Program Works Hitler Apes Stalin Their Wage Is One Cent an Hour! Socialist Party Comes to an End -Party Folds Up to Become an "Educational" Society Inside the American Labor Party C.L.R. James Opens National Tour in Phila. 2 Jan. 14, 1939 SOCIALIST APPEAL PUBLISHED EVERY WEEK BY THE SOCIALIST APPEAL PUBLISHING COMPANY Editor: Max Shachtman Associate Editors: Harold Roberts, Felix Morrow Business Manager: S. Stanley F.D.R. Cuts WPA, Booms War * Indicates He Is Ready to Hurl Nation Into War -Tries to Make Use of Anti-Fascist Sentiment -"Guns, Not Butter" * Slashes Outlay to Provide for Big Arms Budget -Millions to Starve to Aid Plans for War -Resistance Vital Forgotten Words for the Forgotten Man Tom Mooney Freed after Twenty-Two Year Battle -Class War Prisoners Is Fully Vindicated -Became Symbol of Workers' Struggle Here and Abroad Against Capitalist Injustice S.W.P. Greets Tom Mooney $30 For 30-Hour Week Is Toledo Jobless Demand (Special to Socialist Appeal) Roosevelt Condemns Jews to Be Permanent Pariahs -Asks Mussolini to Open Up Ethiopia But Clamps down on Admitting Refugees to U.S. by Felix Morrow Leon Trotsky Hits Back At N.Y. "Daily News" Slanders Billions More for War; Billions Less for WPA Omaha Truckmen In Key Battle Against Bosses -Cannon Sees A Gain For Whole Country by James P. Cannon, National Secretary, S.W.P. More Die in Firetraps as Boss Politicians Make Promises by Grace Saunders Big Phila. Meeting Opens James Tour 1600 WPA Women Fired on Coast -Relief Union Plans to Fight New Firings (Special to Socialist Appeal) Rubber Workers Threaten Strike by R. Ferguson (Special to Socialist Appeal) Minn. Workers Fight WPA Cuts (Special to Socialist Appeal) Protest in St. Paul Progressive Victimized by Painters Union in N.Y. (Special to Socialist Appeal) Union Men Defy Martial Law in Okla. Oil Strike -Tulsa Unions Are Roused by Call for Guard (Special to Socialist Appeal) Appeal Army Question Box (Conducted by the National Educational Department) On the Way to the Trenches "Democracy" --- Salvador Style Fischer Shocks Faithful by Swing from Stalin Line Letters to the Editor On Fair Play and Plain Fraud Welcome Back, Tom Mooney A Clear Warning The C.P. and Roosevelt The Social Democrats Evicted Sharecroppers Start Mass Trek to U.S. Highway F.D.R.'s Budget Message! (Political Cartoon about the preponderance of government spending is for armaments with little going to social programs for the unemployed.) Relief for Horses but Not for Men-- That's the Law! Drive Slows Up; Branches Must Speed Fund Action by Rose Karsner, Appeal Campaign Director Score Board "Intellectuals in Retreat" Is Feature of "New International" 3 Jan. 21, 1939 Appeal Fund Nearly $2,500! Two More Weeks to Go! -Drive Spurts; Party Speeds down Stretch -Response Indicates Thermometer Will Spill Over by Rose Karsner, Appeal Campaign Director 1,000,000 Cut from WPA -Roosevelt Alibis While Congress Hacks at Funds -Militant Struggle Alone Can Check Deep Cuts -Fight The Slash! Cropper Misery Dramatized on Missouri Road -Police Start Drive to Breakup Sitdown (Special to Socialist Appeal) Score Board Fight Roosevelt's War Program An Editorial Let 'Em Eat Bullets by Carlo (Political Cartoon) Muniz Faces His GPU Inquisitors As Trial Nears -4th Internationalist Proudly Affirms His Stand Barcelona Workers Face Supreme Test -Boss Reaction in Loyalist Rear Makes Franco Advance Easier by Hamstringing Workers by Felix Morrow Workers in Ohio Fight WPA Cuts -Unemployed Union Leads Militant Struggle (Special to Socialist Appeal) Faction Fight Flares Again in U.A.W Executive Board St. Louis Mothers Hit by Relief Cut -1,000 of the Neediest and Most Helpless of Dependents and Their Children Face Starvation by David T. Burbank (Special to Socialist Appeal) Boss Plumbers Hit Labor Rates in N.Y. Lockout Jamaica Unemployed League Meetings Illustrate New York Relief Situation by Bill Morgan Michigan Labor Attacked in New Governor's Plan (Special to Socialist Appeal) Theatre Party for Dewey Fund C.L.R. James on Successful Tour Appeal Army A Visit to Germany -Masses Show Their Hatred of Fascism Despite Hitler's Reign of Terror by Paul Fielding Hitler Strikes Blow at 4th International -German Trotskyites Given Severe Prison Sentences -Hitler Strikes at Revolutionists Who Have Been Slandered by G.P.U. as "Gestapo Agents" Spanish Bolsheviks Call for Aid to Comrade Muniz Jewish Leader Condemns Roosevelt's Refugee Plan Hope For Beal Release Mounts Two Labor Prisoners -- Two Labor Leaders -Mooney's Present Conduct Brings to Mind What Debs Stood For The Cat Sneaks Out of the Bag In Missouri--America's Own Refugees (Political Cartoon) Who Is the G.P.U. Sending into Mexico and Why? Militarizing the W.P.A. Who Are the Murderers? Socialist Pontius Pilate Traitors at the Helm A Free Press