Workers Age Vol. 2 #4 Dec 1, 1932

The Big Drive Is On!

(See page 8

WORKER

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VOL. II. — No. 4.

A Paper Defending the Interests of the Workers and Farmers

NEWYQRK^R Y„ DECEMBER 1, 1932.

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The Big Lesson of the Elections: for

1,000 FREED, BUT
M00NEYIN JAIL

Bootleggers Pardoned
But Not Labor Leaders

The governor of California,
James Rolph, Jr., has opened the
prison gates to release — not
Tom Mooncy and Warren Billings!
—but" 1,000 bootleggers and others
convicted of violating the Wright
prohibition enforcement act!

The

jice of the people, declares the
very democratic governor, is reg-
istered against prohibition and
what can he do but obey!

While hundreds of bootleggers
and speakeasy proprietors are be-
ing pardoned wholesale, Tom
Mooney and Warren Billings con-
tinue to rot in jail for a crime
which cverybodv knows they nev-
er committed! The trial judge and
all living jurors have publicly
stated that these labor leaders
were unjustly convicted. The
Wickersham Commission has is-
sued a report branding the Mooney
trial as nothing short of a frame-
up. A man by the name of Cali-
cotte has recently confessed to
placing the bomb in connection
with which Mooncy and Billings
were arrested. But still they lan-
guish in jail. Millions of workers
and other people in the United
States and the whole world have
raised their voice demanding the
release of Mooncy and Billings but
Governor Rolph, who can hear the
least whisper about the bootleg-
gers, remains stone deaf in this
case!

This is capitalist class "justice"
in the "land of the free"!

A Labor Party

PARTY IS BIG NEED OF WORKERS AND FARMERS

W1

ELL, Hoover is snowed under and Franklin
D. Roosevelt is swept into the White House
by the tremendous landslide of November 8. What's
going to happen now? What's ahead for the work-
ing people of this country?

Hoover was completely overwhelmed by the bit-
ter resentment of the millions of unemployed, of the
workers whose wages have been slashed, of the
bankrupt farmers, of the impoverished people in
town and country. Hoover was completely over-
whelmed by the resentment of these millions against
the Administration's policy of turning the crisis to
the advantage of the rich, of "relieving" the big
banks, railroads and trusts but reserving for the

be a "new deal" for the unemployed, for the suffer-
ing workers and farmers? A semi-official statement
issued by Democratic headquarters right after the
elections, hastens to answer:

"DRASTIC CHANGES IN ADMINIS-
TRATION (HOOVER) POLICIES ARE
FAR FROM THE MIND OF PRESIDENT-
ELECT ROOSEVELT. LEST A SUDDEN
BREAK NOT ONLY BE ATTENDED BY
SERIOUS RISKS BUT ALSO SEND SHIV-
ERS OF FEAR THRU BUSINESS. CAU-
TION SEEMS CERTAIN THEREFORE..."
In other words, all the talk about a "new deal" was
just a lot of pre-election bunk! Roosevelt does not

JOB INSURANCE
PLAN FOR OHIO

But State Law Proposed
Is Very Defective

THE OLD CAPITALIST SYSTEM-ROOSEVELT'S RUNNING IT NOW!

SOVIETS IN DRIVE
FOR EFFICIENCY

Moscow, U. S. S. R.
Over twenty-five thousand
white-collar workers in this city
nave been released from their clcr-
J cal occupations and registered by
Labor Buro for work in factories
and farms thruout the Soviet
union. The main purposes of this
"tovc arc first, to help "eliminate
Inc zrcat clutter of minor employ-
ees m virtually everv government
paro," and in this way to ^rcatlv
increase the efficiency of the cen-
tra^ government and economic or-
* an,7 ations, and, secondly, to help
•ciicve the acute labor shortage in
ma "y branches of industry.

of T fl e t0 P- nea vincss of the staffs
." joe government and economic
,n «itutions and the consequent
red-tape and inefficiency, have
Men b,g problem*, before the Sov-
'-- government for many years, but
especially since the inauguration
oMhe hive-Year Plan. The ncces-
*y oi mobilizing every ounce of
by a €ner ey to put over this
™a plan of socialist construc-
Tlrjr '. made th-
ac ?te. The

lid"!'* ,s on e phase of the many
wa»: J C * mi ' ai K n of efficiency beinj
aged '" the Soviet Union.

question very
e transfer of 25,000 clcri-
indtistry and agi

starving masses empty, hypocritical phrases, mach-
ine-gun bullets and poison gas. Roosevelt swung
in on the big landslide because he was able to capi-
talize this resentment with his parading as a "pro-
gressive", with his harping on the "forgotten man",
with his vague promises of a "new deal." The dis-
content, the rebellious anger of the workers and
farmers, did not rise to the level of CLARITY to
break thru the- iron wall of the two-party system,
the greatest obstacle to the political advancement of
labor in this country. Turning their back by the mil-
lions on the Republican party, the masses of the
American people rushed right into the corral of the
Democratic bankers and trust magnates. In spite of
their gains, the relatively very weak vote received
by the Communist and Socialist parties combined
shows how small is that section of th8 working class
that has taken even the very elementary step of
breaking away from the two big parties of capital
and striking out for independent political action.
Ninety-nine out of every hundred workers in the
United States still vote for one of the twin rackets
controlled by Wall Street, When, in desperation,
they break away from one, they swing right into
the other and the same old merry-go-round con-
tinues.

With Roosevelt elected, what now? Will there

intend to make any "drastic changes in Hoover's
policies"— because Big Business objects! In other
words, the jobless will continue to starve as under
Hoover; the farmers will continue to go broke as
under Hoover; the workers will continue to have
their wages cut and unions smashed as under Hoov-
er; hungry people raising their voice in protest will
continue to get shot down and gassed as under
Hoover; the big railroads and banks and trusts will
continue to fatten off the public funds as under
Hoover. The "new deal" turns out to be the same
old fraud! The "forgotten man" still remains the
worker and Poor farmer and nobody is going to for-
get him as effectively and as completely as Franklin
D. Roosevelt!

Switching from one capitalist party to another,
from one Wall Street controlled outfit to another,
is no way out for the workers. For the workers
and farmers the only way out is to break away al- 1
together from the two big parties of capital and to '
organize a strong fighting party of labor. Labor
must issue its political declaration of independence,
It must tear the bonds tying it to the chariot of
Big Business; it must set out on its own path poli-
tically, guided by its own class interests and aspira-
tions.

The big lesson of the elections is the urgent ne-
(CoiUmued on page 2)

Columbus, Ohio.
The advance of the idea of gov-
ernment unemployment insurance,
only a short time ago hooted down
t>y the spokesmen of capitalism as
"un-American", was marked in the
recommendation of a system of
state insurance by a board recent-
ly appointed by Governor White of
Ohio. The draft submitted by the
committee in its report made on
November 13 provides for an in-
surance plan financed by employ-
ers and employees. Fifty percent
of the workers weekly wage is to
be paid to him over a maximum of
sixteen weeks after a waiting per-
iod of three weeks; in anv case,
however, the benefit is not to ex-
ceed $15 weekly. It is not yet clear
what action the Ohio Legislature
will take on this recommendation.
The weaknesses of the Ohio
plan are so great and so deep as
to make it almost worthless from
the viewpoint of effective unem-
ployment insurance. In the first
place, it compels the workers to
contribute to the insurance fund;
in other words, it involves a wage-
cut. A proper unemployment in-
surance scheme would be based on
payments by the employers and
by the government only. Secondly,
it is a state insurance scheme and
not national. But industry is not
organized according to state lines;
workers have to move from one
state to another looking for work;
the same corporation often owns
factories in a half-dozen states.
Ihe only effective system of job-
less insurance is a Federal system.
but worst of all is the fact that
benefits are to be limited to onlv
sixteen weeks. Today, when unem-
ployment has become a permanent
curse for millions, when workers
are freouently out of jobs for many
months at a time, to give relief
for sixteen weeks and then stop,
is certainly no way of meeting the
emergency. An effective system
of jobless relief must take care of
the worker for the whole period
ot his unemployment.

"SUCCESS
STORY"

by John Howard Lawson

Workers Age Benefit

THURSDAY, NOV. 24, 1932

(MAXINE ELLIOT
THEATER

39th St.. East of Broadway

Two

WORKERS AGE

The World of Labor

Recent Amalgamated Strike in N*Y«

extracts from

m statement of the Amalga-

*fi Workers Prcgrts-

Swfo on "The Kecmt Strike-

■■>.<■ Amalgamated. —

Editor. ^ ^ (

New York Gtv.
The strogRie the tailors

St the carrying
of-town to the

>:nall tOWBS and villages ol New
and Pennsylvania. The com
-: ihai was created in this

wart *o the tailors oi New \ orfc

Cstv has brought devastation and

as far as the tailor is con

cemed The continual reductions

;>■ reduced Hie

tailors to beggary. Instead of a

nge, as the officials called il

when it began, the tailors convert

ed it into a real general strike. Th<.

distress of the tailors

drove them to heroism . . .

That the strike was not taker-
seriously in the beginning by the
union leadership but came thru
the pressure of an external force,
is shown by the fact that no prep-
arations were made, as any serious
would require. The work 1
crs, in New York City as well as
outside, were not organized foi
r.o strike machinery was set
up; the strike call came sudden-
ly and unexpectedly.

A week before the strike was
called, the leaders of the organi-
zation, at a meeting of the joint
board, attacked many active work-
ers as "hot-heads" and "lunatics"
because they talked about a strike.
.... Three days later, these same
leaders came to a meeting of the
boa-d o: directors and said that a
strike was necessary and that the
machinery for the strike had al-
ready been organized. And a few
days later came the strike.

When the strike order was is-
sued, the starving tailors, a large
part of them out of work for years
and without car-fare to come to the
labor buro to look for a job, grasp-
ed at the strike as the salvation
from all their troubles and they
threw themselves into the struggle
with body and soul .... Their
-.. Kant spirit and their self-sacri-
fice on the picket lines awoke en-
thusiasm in every right-thinking
person. Their struggle might not
only have called a halt to the fur-
ther worsening of conditions; it
ought ^ actually have improved
them Having the situation under
control, we really thought that
even if no new demands were put
up T at least we would get back
the wage-cuts which were inflict-
ed at the beginning of the season.
The tailors were bitterly disap-
pointed when, coming on a cer-
tain morning to the picket line,
they saw big out-of-town trucks
placards declaring that the
was allowing the work to be
taken out A few days later it be-
came known that not only were not
the wage-cuts withdrawn but in
afl settled shops where the
- - went back, they returned

r wages I

7 " r a* what had happened

"derbolt. The spirit

the tailors had shown in

' struggle was immediately

thus ended one of the

''■•, heroic, and sincere

s in the history of the

Ore thing i s dear,

am* for the consequences

>iis entirely upon the

I X e officiaIs - Certain-

by New York cutters should be
done in Xcw York shops and that
it should not be allowed thai
school-boys and school-girls should
learn the tutting trade at the ex-
pense oi New York workers

The union must prepare the tailors
diately for the coming season
for week-work and for a tolerable
cale of wages. Week-work and
i scale of wages must be establish-
ed in the whole Eastern district.

Working hours must be rcJuc-
ed . . . Economy must be establish-
ed in the union; unnecessary ex-
penses must be put an end to.' The
wages of the paid officials must
be adapted to the wages of the
workers in the shops. The number
of paid officials must be , :duce&
Because of the necessary reduction
of the paid staff, there must b-
Oiediate elections of paid officials
under the supervision of the rem-
ittee of the labor movement. . . .
Amalgamated Clothing Workers
Progressive Circle

NAZIS SWEEP CITY
VOTE IN GERMANY

BERLIN. — The Nazis swept
the municipal elections held on
November 13 in Saxony, Lucbcck
and the Saar. In Leipzig the Hit-
lerites won IS scats as against
three in the last elections in 1929.
In Dresden they won 22 scats as
compared to four and in six other
Saxon towns the results were sim-
ilar. In the Lucbcck House of
Burgesses the Nazis increased th
scats from six to 27. In Saarbruck-
thc Nazis won eight seats as
against one only in 1929. Every-
hcrc but in Luebcck the Social-
democrats lost.

THE WORKERS AND
UNEMPLOYMENT

The following paragraphs give
the gist of the remarks made by
C.H. McCarthy before an unem-
ployed conference held at Niles,
Ohio, on Sunday, October 9, 1932
in Labor Hall. Sixteen unemploy-
ed and labor organizations were
present. Further conferences on a
local and state soile are being
planned. — Editor.

* * *

Niles, Ohio.
The economic foundations of the
present system were shaken up and
thrown out of balance by forces
and factors growing- out" of the
H'orlc 1 V^ar. A major break in the

capitalist system was created and
the system itself ncgan to crumble
and decline.

Today, it is a ftict that the un-
employment problem is a perma-
nent fixture during the remaining
days of capitalism. Even tho there
will be a temporary pick-up in in-
dustrial activity, and few workers
will be recalled to the factories,
the unemployment problem will
still remain with us in a verv acute
form.

The rapid changes in the method
of production, spurred on under
the pressure of competition on a
world scale, together with the
shrinking of the markets, have dis-
placed workers by the tens of
hundreds of thousands, have made

In the Soviet Union

Women and Children in U.S.S.R.

We continue below the article c iety. One immediate distinction

"When We're the Same, We're is the individual consideration

Different," by E. R, Brand, which shown to the patients in the Rus-

began in the last issue of the Age. s ' an clincs. A call is made by a

The article is a review of Alice Pregnant woman at her local Point

Winthrmo Field's "Protection of oi Consultation (local clinic). An

Women and Children in Soviet apP 01 ^™^ for examination is

Russia. 7 ' — Editor.

* * *

Soviet Maternity Centers
Every field the author touches
opens our eyes to the abortive
character of such services as wc
have. We too have maternity cen-
ters. We need more of them even
of the same kind. But this is how
maternity care commences and
continues in a socially geared so-

"Org-anized relief is benefiting the
politicians, more than the distress-
ed unemployed. It is the biggest
racket in the country and all poli-
ticians, high and low, are its ben-
eficiaries."

An organization of the unem-
ployed becomes a necessity, to be
organized around the immediate
necessities of the workers and their
families. "The strength of the

them "superfluous," with no other £'°r km & cl ? ss . Is organization.' 1

choiV^ hut to starve or to rebel .j s organization must function

Ti . ., . „ , ' independent of the present set-up,

It is quite clear that something of the so-called "relief buros " The

has to be done by the workers organization should demand full

themselves Nothing will be done rations for the unemployed, and

tor the workers except to give them especially proper nourishment for

a few crumbs of charity to keep school children in sufficient quan-

them quiet. And this charity, or titles that thev shall be well fed

so-called relief to the unemploy- and clothed and school supplies

ed and their families, is adminis- furnished. From this we can tro

tered in such a way that the great- on. e

6 f- E aT } °1 itf ^ m 2 st insta ? c fs. The organization should be tight,

sticks to the greedy fingers of the limited only to the worker* It

dispensers, while the smaller por- should aim to free itself from the

tion is passed on more or less re- influence of the business and pro-

luctantly, m a humiliating method, fessional classes. It must realize

in a method that is degrading, the importance of independent

Roger iiabson recently admitted: class action.

given but before the arrival Ul
that date, a home visitor calls to
make a contact, discuss household
problems and gauge the woman's
temperament. When the woman
appears for clinic examination, the
doctor verifies the pregnancy', es-
tablishes personal relations along
the lines of the social worker gives
the woman a Certificate of 'preg-
nancy so she need not wait on
lines, provides for her so that she
wil certainly receive every prac-
tical care of her self and child.
She reports weekly for examina-
tion and incidently has the same
doctor deliver her baby as has giv-
en her the preliminary care. This
is a mark of consideration so rare
as io be unique. In our clinics
the doctors vary with our visits
and we as individuals are just so
much material." AH of this ser-
vice, including the delivery of the
oaby and after-care in the hospi-
tal is free. In addition, there is
a four-month vacation with pay.
The baby comes out with a state
gift of $30, financial bonuses dur-
ing the first year and free medi-
cal and school service till he is an
adult. The mother, during her
required vacation, is instructed in
the most modern methods of child
training, cooking, hygiene, home
management, etc.

Before the mother returns to
work the child is a regular client of
pediatric department and al

is eligible for

THE GREAT LESSONS OF THE ELECTIONS

(Continued from page 1)
cessity for a real Labor party, a party based on the
trade unions, labor political parties, workers organi-
zations of all sorts as well as associations of work-
ing farmers, a party out to defend the immediate in-
terests of the great toiling classes of this country.
Such a party will mark the first step, but a big step,

on the road to the emancipation of labor from the
domination of capital, on the road to a "drastic
change" of the murderous and insane economic and
social system sponsored and defended by both the
Republicans and the Democrats.

For a Labor party! This slogan, which is now
agairi finding a response in the ranks of the workers
must become the fighting slogan of all that is alive,
militant and progressive in American labor!

• -" are not to blame.

' '■ l 'hing tl

e of strike.

i'twhal

mu,t call the

During the

Fereace, of opinion

'he background; the

Eg? -..ally. What

'trfJ? v "^ ' What

h the

ge Company?

tK^fr 4 ^ 1 *?."* * 'ew words to

railora! We carried

- - The out

eome oi the strike mast not be at

»± our fig^Jg *&

vote* a*me4tately or-

olMhze our forces in

n loca meetings and

■ "ruggle that all wofk cut

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"Worketi Age"

THE SECOND FIVE-
YEAR PLAN

DECEMBER 4

Walter White

National Association foi the

Advancement of Colored

People

SLAVERY IN THE

"LAND OF THE

FREE"

Diego Rivera

In the next issue or the
"Workers Age" there will be
published a statement oi Diego
Rivera answering the slanderous
charges of the "Daily Worker."

WATCH FOR IT!

the

one month he

sery school

As a result, these statistics, cul-
led irom many fascinating records
Of -Mrs. Fields, are eloquent "Be-
tore the Revolution, 40% of the
children of working women died
during the first year. Now onl-

Now see the ramifications of this
sen-ice which has already safe-
guarded the mother in connection
with her health, her preenancy, the

Now let's put it
Over the topi

Now Let's Put It Over The Top!

We've Got Two Weeks To Put
Over The Big Age Drive!

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delivery, her child's health and ed-
ucation at home and in school, and
her own job.

* * *
Birth Control And Abortion
_ The most distinctive and revolu-
tionary service has not yet been
mentioned. Says Mrs, Fields: "By
making the government solely re-
sponsible to the people, it follows
that birth control or anything cise
which aids in gaining freedom foi
individuals and health for socieiv
should and must be fostered n "t
only by a small group of scientists
but by the state itself." And so it
possible and logical for the ma
ternity Department to direct the
woman who has just had a baby
or who, for any other reason is
eager for such help, to the De-
partment of Birth Control and
Abortion. The coupling of these
two antithetic names in one title
is no accident but dramatizes the
very active fight in which the Sov-
is possible and logical for the Ma-
control against abortion.

(Coyicluded in the next issue)

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Address

City

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"Nature Friends" Issue
Invitation To Hikers

Many readers of the "Workers
Age" are undoubtedly interested
in hiking, camping and similar out-
door activities. And a still great
number of workers do not know
that the proper organization for
such lovers of outdoor life is the
Nature Friends, the workers out-
door club with an international
membership of 170,000, scattered
in 21 countries. The hike leaders
of the New York branch know
their trails. The Nature Friends
are going to publish their weekly
hike announcements regularly in
the "'Workers Age" and appeal
to the readers to join them in their
hike:

N, J. camp.

or trips to their Midvalc,

work's ach

Three

Results of German
Elections

Is Fascism Thru In Germany?

Ui'l fli.lli\

within

parties

both, but

Berlin
ihift m votes

pv ol the v

o vmportant shift between these
flo main camps, .ur the most si^

in Gci

. ■ irkers parties

• »nd Social«di
.•■;.-- rec« ved

ons, in

combin

ti< s In othei

. -i relative^ .1

in the laboi vote

it in the total

jj to note that in 1919 in the

i ■ ■ ; 1 ■ 1 X i t 1

mmunist Part}
boycotting the elec-
ta I
nj then received 45% of the

two ultra-reactionary
v and Nationalists)
votes: 41.3% in
nst 53.1% in
["he middle bourgeois par-
enter, People's party, etc )
d tlieir totals from 16.5%
to -1 3% in November.
thin the tabor camp a very
about 700,000
took place from the Social-
democratic party to the Commu-
nis Party Within the ultra-rcac-
htock, tho chief develop-
ment of importance was a loss ot
two million votes by the Nazis and
a gain of nearly a million by the
Nationalists.

* * *

The Hitler Loss

The loss of the Nazi votes arose
from two different sources. The
period of Hitler's semi-toleration
of the von Papcn regime, his un-
derhand parliamentary maneuvers
w th the Junker pang, the exhibi
tion of Nazi impotence and futili-
ty after the dissolution of the
Reichstag in contrast to Hitler's
loud promises and threats, render-
ed passive and drove away hun-
dred of thousands of workers and

/ietarians as well as many
lower middle class elements from
the Nazi camp. The main section
of the over 2,000,000 "stay-at-
homes" (as compared with the July
elections) must ' be traced to this
soarce The Nazi losses in Ber-
lin and other working class cen-
ters are to be thus accounted for.
On the other hand. Hitler's subse-
quent "left turn" alienated deci-
sive elements among the Junkers

tarists and significant por-

trust capital. The vigor-

apitalist policy of tbl I 00

Pipen regime, as shown especially

« the recent economic emergency

decrees and the offensive

-r,5, also con
: to convince these sections

rafing classes of Germany
•ivc" and

• d upon a lit-
er as "preferable" to Hit-
>Icb>an army. '1 be
&es of the Nazis in East
reactionary cen-
Hug-

the Papcn

true to

•he mid-

and more significant pi
portions l»v these ta< ties

Fascism Not Thrut

It

RECOGNITION OF
SOVIET HINTED

McAdoo Urges Big Role

Of Soviet Union

Th* rats And

uniita

would be a fatal > rroi t' 1 1 on
marking the
beginning of the end of Fascism
In Germany The f*< tors that have
■ edut ed : h< Nfi \ ote in the No\
ember elections have not weaken-
ed in the U ,i--l the great Spcial for-
ces th.ii make i*m- Fascism (the
profound crisis in the German
economy, the impoverishment oi
the piit\ bourgeoisie, the collapse pocted to I
of the so-called "middle" parties, [ence in the
the disunity and passivity of the
laboi movement). The inevitable

htpwreck of von Papen's cconom-

c schemes with all its consequenc-

s will only strengthen the basis

tor the continued growth of Fas-
isiu — unless the working class
unites for a determined counter-
offensive.

The outcome of the elections
points to a tremendous sharpen-
ing of the class war in Germany
The drive against the trade unions
and the standards and organiza-
tions of the workers will be pusa-
cd most viciously in the coming
months, especially in the attempt 10
overcome the growing contradic-
tions in the von Papcn economic
(Concluded on Page 8)

V\ \siii.\t. ["< >\ Thi possibill
ty of the improvement of trade

nl.itions bet ween the United

ind the Soviet Union and
i veu the diplomatic recognition of

the latter by the foiinei, was indi-
cated ben on tin ba ,i ■■ of the re
marks in a lo'ciil speech of Wil-
liam Gibbs McAdoo, outstanding
Democratic politician who is cx-
(l to have considerable influ-

■ It A dm in iil.; 1 .
tion. Neither disarmament nor
world peace nor any plan for econ-
omic reorganization, declared Mr.
McAdoo, could be considered
"without the participation of the
Soviet Union," McAdoo also cal-
led attention to the fact that the
Soviet Union was the only coun-
try at the recent "disarmament"
conference to make a proposal for
real disarmament and he sharply
criticized the United States dele-
gation for not voting for it. How
far McAdoo's liberalism will go
when it becomes a matter of Ad-
ministration policies is not yet evi-
dent but it seems clear that .sonic
definite change in attitude to the
U.S.S.R. is coming under pressure
of the economic crisis.

Results of the U. S.
Elections

What Docs The Big Roosevelt Vote Show?

In the midst of an CCOnomil

crisis which lias already lasted tor
three years, the in<>-,t outstand
lure of the elections just
h, id was the absence of any gen-
eral, Lit ge b< ale shifl ol working
way from the capital
I 1 p.u tics, in spite ol 1 omc rela-
t,vi [y iignifi< anl gain 1 foi both
the Communists and the ^"< ial
lata The tremendous discontent of

,| ]( . ma ...,-.. ol workers and farmers
and lower middle class elements in
the cities was confined within the
ty system, expressing itsell
in the sweeping victory of Roose-
velt and the Democratic pat

With few exceptions, this discon-

tent did not develop to the point
of radicalization. The election can,

therefore, be recorded as a victory
I,, 1 capitalist reaction, which was
covered by the petty bourgeois
demagogy of the Roosevelt "new
deal" caliber. This result is in
marked contrast to elections which
have taken place in other countries
in this period of world-wide urisis
where a decided and powerful
movement to the left was evident
(British municipal elections, gen-
eral elections in Greece, Rumania,
Sweden, and partly also, in the last
two elections in Germany). To
the extent that the election is an
indication of class forces in the
country and their mutual relation-

Resist Attempt to Use War Debt Cancellation
To Add to Tax Burdens of Masses!

Demand Voiding Of Old Czarist Loans And Annulment Of Internal War
Debts! Make Capitalists Bear Consequences Of Budget Crisis!

■

w *i prevented

With the spectacular announce-
ments of the French, British and
Belgian Ambassadors in Wash-
ineton that their governments
would "seek an extension of the
Hoover moratorium", that, in other
words, they neither could nor
would pav their war debts to the
United Slates, the big question,
again rises upon the horizon of in-
ternational politics, full of signifi-
cance for the workers and farmers
of the whole world.

One tiling is quite clear. The
march of events, the deep and
world-wide economic crisis, has
"solved" the reparations-war debt
question over the head of the gold-
braided diplomats. It is simply im-
possible for the German govern-
ment to pay any more reparations
to the former Allies and it is just
impossible for Britain and
France to make many mote wai
debt payments to the U. S. Trcas
ury. It is an accomplished econ-
omic fact and the future course
of all governments concerned will
have to be based solidly upon it!
♦ * *

Cancel The Old Czarist Debts!
A partial or total, a direct or in-
direct, annulment of war debts and
reparations is inevitable. The
whole ( artfully fostered myth of
at tity of debts" is smashed
nd exposed as a hollow fraud.
■ r< member the sew-

I rS Of abuse and misrepi* - nta

tion that the boss preas of this

country poured upon thi

the Soviet workers
ed to make good
the Preach, British and

the billions that the

I gar with

; .v thi

'J h» full hypo*

onous outpour*

■ by the prac-

• rar di bi upon the

•

and farmers ol the
demand

• d< bi ■'

be officially recognized as can-
celled by the American govern-
ment and that this mailer no long-
er stand as an obstacle to the diplo-
matic recognition of the U.S.S.R
by the U. S. A.

* * #

Why Feed The Parasites?
The annulment of the inter-gov-
ernmental war debts brings before
us the question of the internal war
debts. Big banks, corporations and
individual capitalists hold billions
of dollars in bonds for money lent
to the government during the war,
and the people of this country
have to keep on paying scores of
millions in interest to support a
horde of idle, coupon-clipping para-
sites, if the British government is
allowed to "default" its debts to
the United States, why are these
internal war debts so holy? All

ship (oidy a secondary indication,
in be sure), the election in the
United States marked the power-
ful hold that the capitalist class
still has upon the minds of the
workers and the strong position it
occupies in general social life.
* * *
The Socialist And Communist

Votes
The vote of the Socialist party
and of the Communist Party in-
creased in the neighborhood oi
100% in each ease. Under ordi-
nary circumstances this would be
considered a significant develop-
ment. In the present case, how-
ever, it is to be noted that the ac-
tual vote, failed by far to reach
not only the expectations of the
respective parties and their candi-
dates, but even the estimates of
"impartial" and even unfriendly ob-
servers. For any intelligent revo-
lutionist this must be a keen dis-
appointment and this should lead
to a searching analysis of the
causes involved and to an honest
and objective discussion of the
steps to be taken for channinn the
situation. As yet, there is no sign
of Ibis in cither of the parties,
which arc both engaged in the
pastime of self-deception, with
small gain to the workers.

It is particularly important for
us, as Communists, to analyze the
situation with great objectivity be-
cause, in the United States, the
first steps of establishing a mass
Communist movement have yet to
be taken. The self-deception In
which the Communist Party lead-
ers are already engaging will
have only harmful results.
These leaders, who in 1928 found
"radicalization" in the Smith vote,
do not indeed repeat the same mis-
take (if the Smith vote was radi-
calization, then the Roosevelt vote
was revolution!). But they find
radicalization in the vote neverthe-
less! Where? In two respects.
First, in the failure of the Social-
ist party to score any more sub-
stantial increase and, second, in
the relatively large but absolutely
insignficant increase of the Com-
munist vote. In Wm. Z. Foster's
post-election statement, he explains
the Socialist vote as follows: "The
workers want a class policy. This
they did not sec in the policy of
Thomas and Waldman and the
Socialist party," Therefore, they

internal war debts over $10,000,
all internal war debts held by the
capitalists, should be annuled by
the same right by which the lin
lish and the French debts are tc
be "forgotten"!

* * *

Who Shall Bear The Burden?

The stoppage of war debt pay-
ments will inevitably sharpen the
budgetary crisis of the Federal
government, by greatly increasing
the deficit. The capitalists, who -
control the government, will try did not vote for Thomas and Wald-

LECTURE COURSE

V. F. CALVERTON

"Liberation of
American Literature"

New Workers School

228 Second Avenue

New York City

THURSDAY EVENINGS IN
DECEMBER

December 1, 8:30 P. M.

THE COLONIAL COMPLEX

+

December 8, 8:30 P. M.

THE PURITAN MYTH

■f

December 15, 8:30 P. M.

THE FRONTIER FORCE

•♦-

December 22, 8:30 P. M.
TOWARDS LIBERATION!

to make up for this increase in de-
ficit by piling on still greater tax
burdens upon the shoulders
of the workers, farmers and other
poor people. The masses of the
American people must resist this
attempt before it is too late, We
must demand that the capitalists
be made to bear the consequences
of the crisis of a system from
'which they profit so tremendously.
Increased income taxes in the high-
er brackets, very high inheritance
and property taxes, a levy on capi-
tal, that is the way the budget
must be "balanced" and not by a
sales-tax or other schemes which
hit the masses of people directly
or indircctlyl

+ * *

The Only Way Out!
The practical annulment of war
debts and reparations will not ease
up the world economic crisis. It
Will oidy deepen the confusion and
drag the whole world closer to the
abyss. The very cancellation of
debts raises economic and political
problems even more formidable.
The dark shadow of the World
War and of the decay of the capi-
talist system continues to spread
over mankind. The whole sinister

tangle that is drawing the world

ever more into its murderous toils
Can Only b« CUt by the sharp sword

oi the proletarian revolution and
for this a militant, international
Struggle of the workers of all

1 "in, i nrs against the who!,
system ol capitalist world politics
and diplomacy is nec< .iry 1

\»/i11 H*»«*tft«»«r»Or ° n Nov - Z7 ' ZZ8-2nd Av.
▼▼ 11* 1HS *T «JfJ5 IT|J 'Secaod Five- Year Plan'

man and the Socialist party. Com-
rade Foster is discreetly silent on
Hillquit's vote, for if he should
follow his reasoning to its logical
conclusion, then he would have to
account for Hillquit's large vote
by his class policy, in contrast with
Waldman's. An obviously absurd
conclusion. The "Daily Worker"
tries to resolve the riddle left by
Foster, "Tens of thousands of
workers and poor farmers, Ne-
gro and while, not only came out
against Hoover, but also against
Roosevelt; they were able to break
away from the firmly rooted two-
party system." Where? How?
"It is the increase in the Commu-
nist vote that expresses the grow-
ing revolutionary trend among tire
American masses ..." How child-
ish, to ignore the tens of millions
of votes, to dismiss several hun-
dred thousand votes (because they
were cast for your opponents) and
to make the significance of the
election revolve about the few tens
of thousands of voles which you
gained, The Smith radicalization
conclusion is indeed absent but the
Smith radicalization lo^ic is still
with us.

There have, indeed, been signs of
iidiiali/atjon in recent months
but not it] the election results. In
the bonus march, in the farmers
strike, in the strike of the Illinois
miners, in such events there was
noticeable trends of radicalization,
nol del p goiiiK, widespread, nation-
wide, but far more significant than
the changes in the elections.
* * *

What About RadicAhzation?
Why, then, was there so little

radicalization manifested in the

t< ■ tion , even less than In events

(Continued on Page 8)

Four

WORKERS AGE

And Now Again — the "Russian Question"

j article below w ;wr( of the

■.- ;.s^uv; on the

.-■■-party eo«rsi
( PJSXf, .'. H w MtieM by
tfc* CoMMMft&t 2'arty 0/ t&* I/.S'-A.
(OpfMSftvOit), A« wmirtwi.vs ar*J

to 1,000 nvnte. — Editor,

In the Post-Conference Discussion

by Jay Lovestone

situation in the U.S.S.R,
main, these are:

In the

The building oi socialism is du-
Rcult even undet the most tavor-
able conditions, conditions much

more favorable than those inherit-
ed bv the Russian proletariat in

the case oi the Soviet I nion, th<
.:,,- backwardness 01 old
, ssia, the chaos brought on by
Utanst and kmnshevik counter-
revolution, the ternble cost of for-
eign invasion, proved factors mul-
g and accentuating the gen-
eral auficuities attendant to the
construction of socialism. In the
... oi ail these unfavorable fac-
tors, the C.P.S.U. has led the Sov-
iet masses to veritable miracles in
economic and social achievement—
to industrial and agricultural pro-
gress the rate and volume of wiiich
are unequalled and even undreamt
of in the history of mankind, to a
world-astounding revolution in so-
cial relations and institutions.

Of course, these achievements,
gotten despite a hostile capitalist
world, gotten under conditions 01
an international credit blockade,
were won at a price, a terrific
price in severe temporary hard-
ships, in great strain and stress.
And, indeed, not without serious
mistakes, some unavoidable and al-
together too many which should
and could have been avoided, had
there prevailed in the party
healthier regime, a less factional,
a less burocratic, a broader and
more collective and truly self-cn
tical leadership. Vet, with all short-
comings, the price was a bargain
price, historically speaking.

However, the difficulties and set-
backs that we desire to turn the
searchlight on just now are not
the general and inevitable ones but
rather the particular acute ones
coming to the notice of the world
in the recent months. At the out-
set, let us frankly admit that the
program set at the beginning of
the year for three of the basic com-
modities (coal, iron and steel) will
not be achieved in time, despite
tremendously impressive advances.
The food problem is acute. Grain
collections have fallen short. There
is a severe dearth of consumers
goods. The transportation sys-
tem and distributive apparatus are
conspicuously faulty. The labor
turnover has assumed demoralizing
proportions.

All tourists have noticed these
developments. Some people in the
Soviet Union have written "bleed-
ing" letters about this to their rela-
tives in the United States, especial-
ly among the Jews. Foreign cor-
teats have told the world
aboet it The U.S.S.R. hasn't
hidden these facts. And the lead-
oi the C.P.S.U., the Central
•tee, has openly proclaim-
ed these facts and has proposed re-
lad measures.

Why The Recent Difficulties
Even m their most aggravated
the latest difficulties and
hardships in the U.S.S.R. are, in
. , to be associated with the
: socialist con
ocialist growth and
Obviously, the source of
es and hardships in the U.
. contrast to the
and misery in
-world, suffering and
associated solely with the
dec:ay and breakdown oi the capi-
v-.k'i-r.conorn.c Order. In a
; octal system,
hunger, oner '';7ids to

assume permanency and increasing
y and extension In a pro-
&. essive, growing society, such as
oioa today, moment-
ary food shortage may be the very
'i;ng the ways
and means oi completely banning
hunger sooner rather than later.
Ehll what *.c the specific rea-
•ne concrete causes for the
Mead worsening of the economic

The very rapid growth or
heavy industrialization has reached
.1 Stage in which the cumulative ef
feet of years of an insufficient sup-
ply of trained, skilled labor and
technical resources is now painful-
ly evident and felt.

2. Due to natural and uncontrol-
lable causes there were harvest
failures last year in the Ukraine
and in the North Caucasus.

3. The heavy tall in the prices oi
raw materials on the world market
(wheat, oil, etc) has been parti-
cularly hard on the Soviet Union.
This marked price collapse not
only means that more must be ex-
ported by the U.S.S.R. in order
to secure sufficient foreign
change with which to buy certain
necessary machinery from other
countries, but it also tends to make
still more stringent the credit fa-
cilities for the U.S.S.R. in the
world credit mart.

4. The very conditions under
which the U.S.S.R. is building so-
cialism, conditions under which the
nation must rely strictly on its own
resources, strictly on its own cap-
acity to produce an adequate capi-
tal supply and reserves, have them-
selves generated serious complica-
tions in the Soviet monetary sys-
tem and exchange relations. The
problems of inflation in the U. S.
S. R. have recently become more
acute. Tho one cannot at all
speak of the dangers of inflation
Soviet economy in the same

light and sense as in capitalist
economy, yet one should not close
his eyes to the grave difficulties
which inflationary consequences
also breed for us even in the U.
S.S.R.

5. Even the very best of lead-
ership and the most correct of gen-
eral lines are no absolute guaran-
tee against mistakes being made in
the every-day execution of poli-
cies. We often must experiment
until we find solutions. This pro-
cess of experimenting and learn-
ing also has its price in temporary
hardships and strain.

6. Of course, the altogether too
frequent application of factional
strategy in the execution of econ-
omic policy by the Stalin regime
in the C.P.S.U. has played its
part in multiplying difficulties and
aggravating the consequences of
mistakes.

Even the world-renowned and

efficient American railway system

virtually broke down in the first

months of military mobilization

s for the World War. And, the

sj storing up of extraordinary food

reserves for the army and general
population certainly does not in
crease the food supply available foi
immediate consumption by the
country as a whole.

7. Finally— and the influence of
this factor cannot be exaggerated
— the sharpening war danger in the
Far East in the last year has forc-
ed certain rearrangements in Sov-
iet economy, which only further
aggravate the strain and stress to
which the Soviet people are still
subject. Herein are to be found
some of the reasons for the "over-
collections" of grain last year and
the resultant discouraged peas-
ants, small wheat collections and
great mortality of traction animals
this year.

Success or Failure? Right or
Wrong?
What yardsticks shall we apply
to estimate the success or failure of
socialist construction in the U.S.
S. R. todate? What test shall we
apply to determine whether the
general line of the C.P.S.U. in the
U.S.S.R. is right or wrong?

First of all, we should not judge
either the achievements todate or
the acute difficulties of the mo-
ment in the light of the factional
strategy and boasts of the Stalin
regime. Secondly, we should not
apply merely arithmetical gauges,
even tho there are incontrovertible'
statistics to prove the success ol
the Five- Year Plan and the cor-
rectness of the general line of the
C.P.S.U. for the Soviet Union,
even beyond the most sanguine ex-
pectations of its most ardent pro-
ponents.

Rather, we should apply mor e
lundamental standards, more basic
criteria, tests which go more to
the root of things and which show
the definite direction and course
lot development— economically and

socially On this basis, 0nc M
eyen call upon so hostile a Ja "
of the U.S.S.R. as the leading^
gan of finance capital in r-t T
whose government, the fU '
government, is today the ntos S'
taut enemy of the U.S.SR t»
the instigator of "The Ki„ '

Post" of Montreal, M r Tho C ' a '
Purkis, draws the foil,
ance sheet:

. "Hon
owing bal-

For Militancy And Unity In The Trade Unions

THE NEEDLE TRADES SITUATION IN LOS ANCELES

by Paul Berg (Los Angeles)

About six months ago there took
place an open conference between
the International Ladies Garment
Workers Union, Local 65, and the
Needle Trades Workers Industrial
Union. This conference took place
upon the latter's initiative with the
aim, of course, of exposing the
"company union" character of the
I. L. G. W. U. At the conference
the N. T. W. I. U. delegates pro-
posed that both unions elect an
equal number of representatives,
a similar number to be elected at
a mass meeting, and that all these
constitute an organization commit-
tee that should, independent of
both unions, begin a drive to im-
prove th° working conditions of
the cloak and dressmakers in Los
Angeles. This program did not
even look like a united front "from
below." It appeared to some three
hundred workers present at the
conference like a third union, and
they had enough of two. Against
this, the I. L. G. W. U. delegates
hammered one union and offered
an open door.

The result of this conference was
that the Industrial Union people
exposed themselves as a group of
people engaged in petty maneuver-
ing. From this point dates the re-
vival of sentiment among the lad-
ies garment workers for an Inter-
national Union.

The State Of The Needle Unions
At the time of the conference,
the Industrial Union had about 50
members; the other union still less
out of some 6,000 workers in the
industry, The bulk of these work-
ers, composed chiefly of Mexican
and American women, have never
been in unions. Only about 500
Jewish cloakmakers ever had a
union until 1930 when, as a result
of an unsuccessful strike led by
the International, the union was
smashed.

The workers conditions have
been steadily becoming worse, un-
til today most dress finishers work
for $1.00 a day and operators and
pressers for about $2.00 a day. The
cloakmakers made up by working
as hijrh as 75 hours a week; this
kept a section of them altogether

out of jobs, even during the rush
season. The first to react to thi
condition were the cutters whose
wages too have been cut in more
than half. A group of them turned
to the International local with the
demand that this local help them
get a charter for a separate local
union.

The cutters all English speaking
men (the "aristocrats" of the
trade), everywhere in the country
retuse to meet together with the
other crafts, the "riff-raff". For
some reason the executive commit-
tee refused to grant them this de-
mand at first anoTmuch time for
organization was lost. It took
much arguing to convince the ex-
ecutive that this would stimulate
the cutters to organize. Today
nearly 100 cutters, for the first
tune m Los Angeles, have joined
the union. This makes about half
of this craft organized.

Following the cutters there came
group of pressers demanding
from the union that the dues of
40c a week be reduced to 25c as
a condition to organize. This too
was granted. To date about 150
fn?l7 S ■ enroHed . "ainly Italian
and Mexican men; no women pres-
sers, who make up about ha , f

this craft, have been reached as
The cloakmakers, too, have be-

gun to return to the union. A num-
ber of strikes in cloak shops have
taken place lasting a few days and
ending in small gains for the work-
ers. One such strike met with
greater resistance from the boss
and the shop has been on strike
for nearly six weeks. The Red
Squad got busy and one day ar-
rested five members of Y.P.S.L.
who came to assist in picketing.
It should have been the business
of the union to answer the Red
Squad strike-breaking with great-
er picket lines, to draw in outside
help and raise the issue of the
right to strike and picket. How-
ever the conservative leadership
failed to do this excusing itself that
the union was too weak organiza-
tionally and financially.

Firstly, that they have establish.
ed in Russia a native machine con
struction industry, and have there
by provided for the unhampcrei
progress of industrialization

"Secondly, that they have mill
aged to lecruit millions of younJ
workers to the service of ijnlu>t, v
th.-s Mipt.ying the machinery wj-h
the due complement of man-pa^u-

"Thirdly, that they have carried
thru a collectivization of Russian
agriculture, and have so laid the
foundations for the socialization of
the country.

" ' ' * True - the importation of
machines and tools is actually i n .
creasing in absolute figures; but
the proportion of imported mach-
ines to those of native production
is steadily diminishing. Leaving
the future to look after itself, it is
justifiable to assume that the pro-
gress already achieved in machine
mukir.g in Russia is nothing less
than astonishing ....

"If there are any healthier, hap-
pjer people working on farms in
Canada than those that I saw work-
ing on collective farms In Russia I
should like to meet with them ....
'The average peasant wor'-a with
a hc-pe and a cheerfulness ih.u was
not present before. He 'belongs', as
we should say. He is no longer in
bondage to the kulak."
The tremendous rise of the so-
cial services, the unbelievable pro-
gress in overcoming illiteracy, the
improvement of the social compo-
"tion of the country, the practical
wiping out of unemployment, the
whole cultural revolution, the vast
"mprovement in the international
and military position of the U. S.
S. R., the strengthening of the
Soviet Union as the base of the
(Concluded on Page 7)

LENIN SAYS:

The revolution has accom-
plished so much, that in a few
months Russia, in its political
system, overtook the advanced
countries. But this is not
enough. War is inexorable; it
raises the question with merci-
less sharpness: either perish or
overtake the advanced countries
and surpass them economically
as well. To perish or to rush
ahead at full speacL This is how
history has presented the ques-

The nearly 400 members that
have joined the union to date are a
very negligible part of the total
number employed in the industry.
Yet they are very important as
they give a clear expression of
the discontent of all the workers.
Nearly half of the union members
are for the first time in the union
and they came to the realization oi
the need to organize without any
effort on the part of the union.
Some of the more conservative
leaders of the union were even re-
luctant at first to meet and help
this new sentiment for organiza-
tion. So that all the new members
were not organized by the union-
they came to the union of them-
selves.

The Task For The Future
The new members, nearly all
working in dress factories, have
thus changed the union from a
cloakmakers local to that of a
dressmakers local. This new de-
velopment requires that the lead-
ers of the union turn their atten-
tion toward the dressmakers not,
of course, neglecting the cloak-
makers. The dressmakers, altho
new in the organization, have
shown great loyalty to the union.
Whatever activity there was dur-

frL, ♦ !* SCaS °" Was a11 to w «-cst
from the manufacturers some gains
for the cloakmakers *„,t .

raises in wages amounting to as
high as 25% were obtained; yet
most of the cloakmakers are still
outside of the union.

I do not believe that it will be
posible for very long to keep the
dressmakers in the union with
speeches only. I maintain that or-
ganization goes hand in hand with
struggle for better working con-
ditions. The union should have
tried to win some improvements
for the new members immediately
after they joined the organization,
when there was still work in the
industry. If this is not corrected
by the next season, the idea of
union will soon appear to them
like pie in the sky.

The union alone, as it is today,
will not be able to organize the
dressmakers, 90% of whom have
never had union experience. Add-
ed to this are the special difficul-
ties to organize in Los Angeles.
To organize the dressmakers it
will be necessary to draw in all
the labor and all pro-labor organi-
zations into active support. A
broad organization committee
must be set up representing all
those who are opposed to such vi-
cious exploitation and police rule.
Its main work should be publicity.
agitation, legal help and relief
work. The issues around which to
rally public sympathy are manv:
women are extremely exploited,
long hours in violation of the state
law of 8 hours for women, unem-
ployment as a result of long hours,
the refusal of the right to organ-
ize, etc. All these are issues which
if well dramatized, will make it
much harder for the police to pre-
vent organization. It would also
help to raise funds necessary f° r
an organization drive. Los An-
geles is known for its big liberal
crowd which has always suppo"'
ed strikes. No help is to be ex-
pected from the International in
New York. All the appeals tin
union has made for help have no
been answered. The union niusi
rely upon local support and, when
properly approached, all the nece( *
sary help would be forthcoming tw

. , "- --•— * Kilns * ai y »ieip WOU1U UK IUH»i l

cloakmakers and some the cloak and dressmakers.

WORKERS AGE

Five

fhe General Line and the Five- Year Plan

In the Post- Conference Discussion

'1.. ,li

, fic lc below is fxirf 0/ "'
Thl ' Terence discmston on the

Ling conducted by

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^Communist Part) of the

** ° Union are .uul the relation

s ' »he two, When you hear

*JdS say: "I'm for the

F"J rt puT n but 1 think the

% M i S wrong!* or: Tin

* f,lfr ,' the general Hue because I

»^ mS L«5 the system oi expul-

T« a0 eeoats and the whole

■ ; you realize how

gffitlSSrfij has gone.

.- pseudo-capitalist
tlations by socialist

xchauge, ih

by AVill Herberg

What Is The General Line?
Z general line* 1 which on,
V,,^ endorsed, is the "gen
cooferenci . SO cial

on?«lfigur«,e.c bywh,ch

.1 snchlist construction is reg-

n ^tr^tccical course in so-
SSffSSSK "for the specific
Sod under consideration A
p ,;,-«• the eencra hue was \\ ai
SXnism;^ another the New
Economic Policy; in 1927-2S the
j£2 line was changed again
Si" time towards a d.rect socialist

lie Five-Year Plan is sub-
stantially nothing more than the
concrete embodiment of the new
general tine that was adopted in
928 To say that you arc
Five- Year Plan but against
the general line, is equivalent U
saving that you are for the con
Crete application but against tin
policy of which it is the applica-
tion!

The confusion between the gen
eral line and regime is even worse
The resolution of the national con-
ference condemns in the sharpest
way the inner-party regime in the
C I'.S U. It docs more; it specific-
ally analyzes this regime and ex-
poses its dangerous elements-, put
because you are against the regim<
therefore to oppose the policies ot
economic construction— this is to-
ullv illegitimate, politically and
logically. It is a thoroly subjec-
•id non-Leninist method ot
jodgment It is true that false par-
hods and an oppressive in-
ner-party regime may and do have
serious negative effects upon thc
exeeution of a correct general line;
tut that is quite different from
branding the economic policies as
cause of your condemna-
tion of the regime

The first prerequisite for a clem
understanding of the "Russian
question" is to define in a precise
and unmistakable manner what
jron mean by the "general line" as
distinct from regime.

The Main Features Of The

General Line
What arc the main features of
• ral line in economic con-
iction which the resolution of

... limitation

.ice market, etc.) These are

the main features oi the general

hue adopted in 1927 PL's and ihCSfl

\re also the main objectives tor
he fulfilment Oi which the Five
Tear I'lan was constructed.

* * ♦

On Light And Heavy Industry
The question Of light and heavy
industry occupies a central posi-
tion in the general line. It is clear
to everybody that to develop heavy

industry SO as to make it the base

of the Soviet economy is the onl
road to socialism, for a socialu
conomy without a strong and
nnly rooted heavy industry i
together out of the question. But
could this transformation of the
Soviet Union from a backwaid
agricultural country into an ad
vanced industrial country with i
powerfully developed heavy iudus
try take place without involving
sacrifices of light industry that is
industry producing articles of con-
sumption? In other words, was
t possible for the general line to
include a full and harmonious de-
velopment of light industry without
dropping the absolutely essential
Objective of building heavy indu

y? The best answer was given

by Rykoff at the fifteenth congress
of the Communist Tarty of the
Soviet Union in December 1 1 >J7:
"We cannot develop heavy in-
dustry with our own means

without help from abroad, and
safeguard at llu* same tune a
full economic development in
other directions. On the devel-
opment of heavy industry . . •
depends also the development
of light industry and agricul-
ture . . . We can solve the task
Oi the development of heavy in
dustry and we shall solve it With
our own resources, even tho
this should prevent us from li-
quidating the so-called com-
modity famine in the next tew
years. Hitherto not a smyle
country was able to restore and
develop its heavy industry with-
out extensive help from other
countries. 1 1 we want to devel-
op heavy industry, and we must
do so, With mil own resources,
then we will have to suffer for
it for some time. There is no
other way."

Those comrades who say they
are opposed to the general hue be-
cause light industry has been ne-
glected" or "sacrificed" so that
various commodity shortages (in-
volving suffering lor the masses)
necessarily resulted, should care-
fully ponder these words ol Rv-
koff. H these comrades really
agree that heavy industry, the es-
sential base of socialism, must be
built up in the U. S. S. R.. then
they must also agree that light in-
dustry must be sacrificed (of

rse, temporarily, during the
UH l | the first Pivc x'cai l la ■
and his means that the commodi-
ty famine is inevitable and there-

r orc also a certain amount 01 sut
• ring for the Soviet masses. n

we want socialism, as Rykoff says,

"ll have to suffer for it for

ie tune " To cry about the

9 KificS" while sbommg loudly

/ bout socialism, is the veriest pct-

y bourgeois plubstinisin!

On The Question Of Collectiviza-
tion
The rapid collectivization o
agriculture emerged as a .dominant
Lask thru the innci ogic of tin-
NEP Usetf. In 192? everybody
.'alizcd that the only way of de-
stroying the threat of kulak hegC-
iv in the agrarian economy he
»»ly" -ay of. pcrman cntlv raising
the productivity and yield of I igii
■ultuie, was thru making a Sharp
urn in policy, away from fost ci-
ne ,he individualistic development
,f agriculture (which was ncccs-
sary in the earlier stages of Soviet

development) towards collectiviza-
tion. The material requisites to.
collectivization (agricultural mach-
inery, electric power, etc.) would
be provided by the rapid expansion
of heavy industry, especially mach-
ine production, while the las
growing industrial proletariat
would supply a huge market for
agricultural products.

In the long run the collectiviza-
tion of agriculture means a trc

u-ndous increase in productivity
(advantage oi collective labor, pos-
.ilnlitv of technical uuprovemrnt ),

,, Is already proved in the big

state farms in the U. S. S. R ' l '

the v ,,s rapidity with which this
revolutionary process of e. dice. .v.
nation had to be earned out, the
profound unsettling ot ccntury-ord
social and economic relations 11
involved, the sharpening of the

lass war in the village and the

rliiiunation of the rich peasant
(kulak) as a class that it implied,
.dl contributed, in the first period,
to lower production, especially m
grain. The unavoidable shortage

of light commodities, which must
be sent to the village in exchange
for grain, has been a tremendous

factor operating in the same direc-
tion. Here, too, a certain (tempo
rary) straining of worker-peasant

(town-country) relations and cer-
tain sacrifices are inevitable; here
too, to crv about these while -limit
ing loudly for collectivization, is
.hallow philistinism!

T he N. Y. Painters Strike And Us Betrayers

THE TRADE UNION UNITY LEAGUE AND THE STRIKE

by H. Edwards

The Birth-Pangs Of A New Society
In agriculture as in industry,

these strains and sacrifices are
merely temporary; they arc the
birth-pangs of the new socialist
order. With the completion of the
first Five Year l'lan the basis will

be laid (heavy industrialization,

collectivization) for the very rapid
expansion of light industry, for the
large-scale supply of all articles of
consumption, for the permanent
elevation of agricultural produc-
tion and for the firm cementing of
socialist relations (not the business
jtions of the N. E. P.) between
town and country. The guarantee
Of the successful realization of
these grand objectives constitutes
the best evidence of the fundament-
al correctness of the general line
of socialist construction in the Sov-
iet Union.

This is the fourth article on tht
recent New York painter* srn/o.
The final article will appear m Uie
next xssvjo. — Editor.

To cov er up this policy , an
eleventh hour "turn was made to
off- he District Council a "un.l-
5 front" in the strike knowing
well that the burocrats of tin Uis
. council would not accept it
so that they would have an excuse

ring anything by claiming tha

hey had offered to cooperate but
were refused. At a mass meeting
ofth Alteration Painters Union
held on lulv 13, the day when the
t . ,Jc railed a committee oi
Steen was dSted to present to
. V Strict Council str.ke.com-
;l; ul ^ :i "united |.ojU 3?

;i r t rSit' 0) a committee of
and wages. t

(k

lu

Can be cata-

' (l) The exten-
ail ohai

n*\\t>n;i\ conference endorsed

ii oi which the Five

traded?

form they

dlowi

i

• w»a| , conomy, the unili-

national economy on

ral plan; U\

ol the Sovu i

nto an industrial country;

■

>:ny 10 ih-'VV

hie ma

■ ■
. , Kricuitun

, ,y and the b<
liquida-

lh< '!,'.■ :• cUmina
m iht
lJ * ,i arid rura

Tricks And Maneuvers Instead Of
Unity
The District Council refused
admit the committee oi ti
5on Painters Union or
;',, proposals. Aboul a
,!cr, on July 22. upon

• ,nad< by - l

oflyos, which
mously. ih

. Alter

t<, hear

week hi

motion

left' winger in Local

.,,, adopted unan-

: , [ocal invited the Al

,,ot admitting theii
itucklnjj

\t of the A

md ih

proposals. Mr. Motzkm, a business
SgeSt whose candidacy had been
endorsed and supported by the 1.
U U.L. and party members ami
U lVrlin, chairman of the local,
•plied to Harris's speech I hey

minted out that the strike had

been called despite the A. F. L.
officials, that it showed a militant
spirit, that it embraced the lar«
sections of the unorgan,/ed altera-
tion workers, who were joining the
union in the hundreds, and that,
the existence of a dual union, small
as it is, operated against the work
ers fighting for better conditions.
Mot/kin called upon Harris and all
members of the Alteration 1 ai.U-
crs Union to make a real united
front bv joining the A. F. of L.
locals and thereby strengthening
the progressive elements to fight
betrayals and to organize the al-
teration workers. Mr, Mot /km,
offered tO make concessions to
members of the Alteration Paint-
ers Union, to reduce the initiation
fee from the already reduced $10
to $2.44, to be paid when the work-
er would begin to work. To tins
proposal 1. Harris answered that
they would not join the A. F. of
L. The workers at that meeting
saw the bluff in Harris's united
front proposals and voted against
them. This did not hinder the
"Kreihcil" from reporting in the
July 25 issue that the workers at
the meeting voted against the pro-
posal Of the Alteration Painters
Union because they were "terror-

th

mittee, coi
the tr< ai hi rou
,, ,,, i. leadci hip,

Harris then stated
union ,»< ;,", n|ilt( - (1 r r0

,nlt i ,

,1 rfn mill
,n. d uoon t

tanl umwu ■ ■
workers to adopt im

LENIN SAYS:

Unless we build heavy indns
try, unless wc find subsidies for
it, wc arc lost as a civilized
state, not to mention a socialist
state.

The only possible material
basis of socialism is lurgc-BCalc
machine industry capable of re-
organizing agriculture. Large-
scale industry, brought to the
level of the latest technique and
, ap.il.In ol 'i coi ganii/ing agu
culture, means the electrifica-
tion oi the whole count! y.

i/ed bv the local clique" (MoiA
gj* w g and they feared expulsion
from he union. When this d,
2l lP united front" rnanouver
failed the city council oi the Al
ration Painters Union issued .
leaflet, a call to all alteration paint
crSl in which they attacked the DlS
trict Council for not accepting the

"united front" proposals and con

eluded: "We call upon all, altera-
tion painters to stop work m thur
shop, and report to our union head
quarters for strike advice and help
Forward with the building of
a big rank file Alteration Painters
Union" (emphasis ours- -1 1. E.J
This actual split call, carefull)
worded, was issued in time ol

strike!

* + +

Scabbcry Under "Left" Cover
While the "united front" rnan-
ouver was being carried on, ihe Al
teratiou Painters Union was seal.
bing 011 jobs picketed by strikers.
and their organizers were trying
to sign scab agreements with em-
plovers. As illustration, only a
few of Ihe many and varied cases
will be mentioned here.

1 Miller's job, West End Ave
nue and 104 Street. This was an
open shop. The A. F. of L, pick
el committee took the men out on
strike. The employer offered the

•ulement committee an agree-
ment for $S.0O per day, a raise of
$2.00 over what the workers were
getting before the strike in this
shop. The strike committee insist-
ed on $11.20 per day and the job
was picketed by the strikers. The
employer signed with the Altera-
tion Painters Union for $6.00 per
day and eight members weie sent
to scab. In addition tO the scabs,

the Alteration Pointers Union also
supplied protection fm- the scabs

against the strikers, In a fight be-
tween the strikers and the scabs in
from of the building, where some
Strikers and scab protectors weie

arrested, four scabs protectors

gave the following as their OCCU-

pationsi (a) reportei *>f the Him
garian Communist Party organ
"TJj I lore", (bj elevatoi engineer,
(c) longshoreman, and (d) paint

Sol and Cohen shop, This
was organised by two A. V,
, members woiking In the

shop. They brought the workers
to the Alteration Painters Union
because the workers in the shop
could not afford to pay the high
initiation in the A. F. of L. After
a short strike the workers resisted
the effort to employers to cut their
wages from $6.00 to $5.00 and
f 0rC ed to employers to sign with
the Alteration Painters Union. At
the beginning of the strike the A.

F or L. members in the shop

UTgcd the workers 'to join the
st s.ke for higher wages, but the
proposal to join the strike was re-
jected by the executive committee
of the Alteration Painters Union,

Bronx Section, and two scabs were
sent to take the places of the two
A K. of U. workers who joined
the strike. Chie of the scabs, Mr.
Forman, is a party member and a
member of the executive commit-
tee Of Bronx Section. Despite the
fact that the Sol and Cohen agree-
ment called for $0.00 a day the

scab Forman offered himself, in

front of workers of thai shop, to
work for $5.00 a day in order to
retain the job. The executive com

mettee squashed these ch.ue.es
against Forinati; enough protection
was sent to their jobs against the
A. F. Of 1- pickets; and influence
was used not to let the employers
to sign with the A. F, of L.

3, I'odolskv shop. Signed with
the Alteration Painters Union. At
a shop meeting the wotheis deeid
ed to gO OUt in stiike with the A.
K. of L Six of the workers in
the shop proposed that the whole
shop should join the A. F. of L.
union. When the strike was called
the workers wire out for a day
and a half until they were ordered
kirk tO work by the Alteration
Painters Union or their jobs would

be taken by "worthy" members.
For proposing to affiliate with the

V p oi I union, the SUC WOrk-

crs were fined $.? 50 each.

4. Title Guaranty and Trust
Company, open shop. Employed
.ii the beginning of the strike about
300 painters, Aboul so workers
responded t»> the strike call, With
theit help all the other painters

from this concern weie taken out
<>n Strike, Stopping all the painting

operations oi this firm and picket

Ing their |obl. Mr. Smith, the mi

perlntendcni oi tho company, ne-
gotiated with ihe settlement com
mittee foi the signing ol -oi agree

ment for $8.00 pei dav, which w a |

(Concluded on rmje s>

WORKERS A^>

The Group at Work

Unemployed Work in San Antonio

blunder

, -< Iho hc>l torv ^-

i t -■■■ ■— •• 222"

^ our mem-
her* Wt l .secularly

v mcnCM wort
ers to thr first B*«
council Il« P«^

tried hard but failed to abrupt the
unemployed conference, On the
other hand a numbci ol parti com
s individuals, are working
together with us. The cOttftrence

Adopts

s m resolution the imme«

- .aid tasks Oi the SMI
Unemployed Council,
SI these demands the first
ore IS! Creation ol a tund by the
Cfoy JLi'.d State government to ede*
U feed. hou.s* and clotht
the unemployed and their families,
the fund to be administered by
workers." The council IS lighting
tguast evictions, tor l'rce milk and
food for all children of the unem-
ployed, tor medical care, etc., etc,
:hc Mexican workers we
arc extending our propaganda and
agitation with good results. The
Communist Port* (Opposition)
also held a successful Fifteenth
Anniversary Celebration of the
Russian Revolution al the LlbOl
Temple Auditorium, Addresses
were made in English and Span-
ish. In the Marxian Cultural So-
ciety, recently organized, our mem-
bers are on the job.

„ Fifteenth Mwrtveranrjj Meeting
the S, i ■ t 1 there
he cheUenged, »n the name of out
group, the S I P to .1 debate on;
; \\ Rich W*) Freeoom foi the
\\ orking Clsss S I P, 01 *. om
munist?

in the Croatian Fraternal Union

ethei with the

r> utv voiuiads-s ngifnst the axpul

n maneuvers e( the reaction'

NEW 1T0RK CITY

In the various I.UG.W.TJ |o

comrades led the fight foi

dorsemenl ol the ( ommun

Parts candidates and against

t n0 s P candidates in the recent

elections.

With tbe help ol some party loj
aKtes the reactionaries succeeded
in defeating, in Local 2090 ol the
Carpenters, the Labor party reso-
lution unantmoush adopted by the
recent United textile Workers
Union national convention. I he

vote was close.

The Fifteenth Anniversary Meet
inj; drew the biggest attendance
our group has yet attracted on
such occasions.

Thru our activities among tin-
Negroes we are winning now val

liable contacts.

Jav LoVOStWW

Speaks OU

"Fascism and the Vwth"

At

STUVVESANT CASINO

\.\: Second Avenue
on

WEDNBSh DEC 1 f iv M-
Queatione and Dtaeuaalon win

Follow 1
Admission

Heinz Neumann Ousted in Qermany

held
iv hi

llv

HARTFORD, CONN.

The Hartford unit is on the job.
Or Sunday. November 13, Com-
radc Lovestone addlCSSed a well
attended publu meeting 011
"Whither Germany? Many so-
cialist party and Y. P. S- L. mem-
bers were present, participated in
the discussion, and asked questions.
In our work among the unem-
ployed we are helping to build a
a mass movement thru the Unem-
ployed Association. In this, our
mam obstacles arc the manouvcrs
of the City Administration to split
up the ranks of the jobless.

The Fifteenth Anniversary
Meeting took on a united front
character with Comrade J. O. Bcn-
Ull speaking for the Communist
Party (Opposition) and Comrade
J. B. Matthews for the Socialisl
The right wing in the So-
cialist party was against the hold-
ing of the joint celebration with
the Communists.

The party loyalites, in a desper-
ate effort to check the growing
influence and activities of our or-
on, are spreading all kinds
iers against our comrades.
re learn from the Hartford
at: "The party is spreading
*hat our group was selling
S- P. literature at the Thomas
:; The truth is that we sold
Ages' and the party
wa« afraid to sell literature be-
I i* against the law to iell
on Sunday after one o'clock . . . .
Initead of doir.;; real Communist
work tin .'to throw mud

at U*. I wish you would put this
in the bat comrades in

r.try will
know what th?, activity of the par-
ty ccm*i»ti

DETROIT, MICH.

Comrade Miller, our organizer,
presented the position of our group
in a symposium on: "The Problem
of Labor Unity", Besides the
Communist Party (Opposition)
there were also represented the

Proletarian party, the Socialist
party, the I. W. W. and the Anar-
chist group.

Comrade Miller got an nithu-
siastic response to our program.
His appeal for uniting into :i mass
movement for unemployment in-
surance was particularly well re-
ceived. .

A number of Ukrainian and Lith-
uanian workers have joined the
Communist Party (Opposition).
Wc have also attracted some new
and valuable American forces.

destroj the unemployed «wmont|
dw Connors and, '
White are collaborating with

,„ Ohio (NUM. Glraro, etc J
end the organ! at ion of m
unemployed, M lh «^,
nioved conference "« llu
S«S were ^u^u-d^;
inn oroanisatlons by f* ,v < » |,u

b0 Lpcd«« ccu tnuk unu ; n "■'

iEors W ith Huhiani record .
^.Western area, are being g t •

^r^^SJPw. ;;;;

Kv ;\ ^"Jne organisation jiJJJJ
niiutll ., u , may expect tinsdiMim
!!- up In the uon. in he mom
bership drive now being launched,

CHICAGO, ILL,

Xhe group is well up in tho Ago
Dr ivc. Comrades Ralnov and Hold
iddresscd meetings oi the Lithuan-
ian Communist Opposition and met
with good response, I he com

lades are working full >P«od tO

oreoare good meetings foi ( om-
' liU l, Lovestone on his national
tour.

PASSAIC, N. ,T.

The unit has been reorgani
; om rade Bail reported on the
tional conference. Arrangem
have been made [01 active p
' at ion in the Age Drive,

TROY, N. Y.

FORT WAYNE, IND.

The group is cooperating with
the progressive and left forces of
labor against, the 'K.K.K, the
Chamber of Commerce, the Bettci
Business Buro and other reaction"

ary forces seeking to paraly/e and

Unit is working tO ( hcll

the Marxian Lducational
Comrade Dan Grey address
first meeting on the ongli
crisis. A speeial class Is be
' Z1111

Th
build

Club.

ed it
Of tlU; 1

m g organized with Comraa
the instructor. Special . .
bcing made by our comrade
tc w i n foi Communism a numje
of workers today following in
S. P.

.■ii«

PHILADELPfflA, PA.

The group is going ahead in th
Aj M . Drive, A mass meeting 1
being arranged foi < omradc Lov<

stone on his tour.

Berlin, G«tmany<
a tremendous sensayon was tre
tied In the Communist Partj >^
ftmong the workers bv the report
S tho "Rote Fahne" thai Helm
Neumann has been removed trom
the Central Committee ol the 1 om
munlst I'.otv ol Germany and hat
boon refused R place on the Hit
1 Communist Reichstag canai
dates .i-> the "head ol ■» grouo de
itructive ko the partji and desli
., u , oi changing the partj line
Concretely, Neumann ^ clvargeo
with being responsible for; (,n the
'false tactics »n the Question
Fajclsm"; (2) raise estimation ol
the "Bruening regime as B Fascist
roglmo"! (3) the "national bolsho
v ,.'i" deviations (the "programmai
(c declaration on national and 10
cial liberation", thr , 'lu<A" refei
euduin in Prussia, et< )\ (4) th«
falac estimation «»i partial, deCen
8 lve laboi struggles as "mass ol

lensives"; (5) ".oioh.H us mi [ig

painting everything in rosj
minimising party dofeats
and proclaiming "imaginary vl<

1 ric»"; etc

The action in the Nenin.ooi * .o,e

is now being followed by a .wave
oi removals oi Nciiinanti 1 follow
eis In the apparatus oi the C P.

and V.t'.l.. On the othei hand.

Neumann and his shameless lieu
tenants are falling head ovei heels
in "sell criticism", confessing Iheii
errors, and boating theti breasts
in repentance. [*Ietns Noumann
who Is already In Moscow, made p
public statement .it .1 C, P. S, TJ
functionaries meeting, reachins
the limits oi sell abuse.

Noumann was Indoed one <>i 'hi
Instigators and fervid champion

Of the suicidal ulfi.i loCl COUrSO "I

tho C.P.G.; nevertheless, tho of
inslvo against the Neumannlte
... another example ol the nitnl
unprincipled "scapegoat" manouv
, The crimes with which Neu
,uiu is boing chai gcd were 1 om
iitr.l by the whole C.t ' <>i I P
G,, with the ftill and open approv
il ol the Excculivo Committee ol
the C0mlntcr.1t, To question these
ultra left dogmas was to Invite Im
sdiate expulsion from the party
they arc all blamed on Neu

while the IiUmki.iIs in t In
P.Gr. and C.I. try to crawd out
no under,

At tho same lime thai this mock
[ghl against ull 1 q leftism b. In pi

"" and, indeed, under coyer ol
tllO SC< tai i.oi ' "in SO i 1 . heme.

. .miiniicd and sharpened In prac
I tide, with even more disastrous re

lulti rhe gain ol ths ( P,0 la
th, Reiohstag slet tlons has op* 1
ite,i to tntenslfj the ultra left Line
not to embolden Its champions
I'h, io trick) manouvei 1 1 m\ on
h 1, .,,t i,. worse eatastrophsi
what is aeoded li nn open .»n,i
hon< it repudiation ol the set tarts

poih [i ■■ toot and bram h -not the
r,|u.iih open ooi honest readop
ihu> .M the tactical princlp,Us ol

1 i ion

Swiss OPPOSITION in
lil<; VICTORY!

s, haffhauion, Swltae

Th.

fc

land,

„„ Ipnl elei lions that topV
place in Si hauhausen and Neuhaus
■n on Octoboi 30 wore tremend
,ii-. .vnd astonishing victories Foi
the Swiss Communist Opposition
In Greatei Schaffhausen Comrade
Drlngoll obtained more votes Hum

any Oth«l candidate The euloe

■date oi the ( lommunlst l Opposition
was elo< I'd! Tho Social democrats
badly beaten and fell behind
i he Opposition, in spite of the
1 that the Communist Opposl
tion recolved <»u an average i<*' - '
than LOO votes less than the boui
,.ynv. block In the oloctlons, the
'd.in.M ..in. " election law operat
ed 10 as i" give the bourgeois
block 20 doputtei and tho Opposl
lion only 10,

In Neuhau-.en tOO tllfl < IppOSition

idei led ihe etitiie ;.late, In hotli

places tho official party w,v» no
lably absont.

DESERTERS IN CZECH
OPPOSITION

A 1,

Praguo, Cs

id blow to tin
it Opposiil

ichsh

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Hi ess

A Worker Writes About the Jugoslav Club

by Jugo-Slav Worker

New York City. I
During its ten years of exlatonce I

r .1 1.. 1. ,_ 1,. li ,.,.... 11 "BolBnOVlK,

THE ANTHRACITE

-.'. elected a -
aad oficeri

iraprcrttmtrA in the work i» pltd^-
al rffr,r\

■'.- \'j help b

si Club, which

r 20, IW2

port of the laboi Struggle. H was
able to keep ltl rankH clean of all
corrupt elementa and to prevent
buroerutism in the lcadernhip of
tho organization. Ita influence
grew steadily amongnt tho ad-
vanced and militant Jugo-Sluv
workers. Tho Communiit Partyj
which during that period Cbllowtd
a I^eninist linn, wan able to make
great advancea in the club and

amongst the JuK«-Siav workers
generally by its correct tOCtiCI ftnd
rnethod».

With the change in line of the
Communist 1'arty in L020, tbfl I»^ r
ty began to nurHue a iplitting pol-
icy and, in the rna«B organization*,
began to follow a course of huro-

domination from the top.

\hy their rnethodw th«:y chuH<:fi away

I from the dob all the capabli and
advanced elementa. Now tlw situ
- riets in tbs club whew -

one can my anything against tbs
bsroeratk domination of tbi clul

ouro<;ra(.u- uvuuubvwu ■>> -

or anything againxt a ntro/i^ coun
U ' " .-/Wtjonary element fcnat ax
i«t» in the DTganlzatloiL

- . |£aw, om tnembei
ol \\,,. . 1 Min sgainsl

another tOOOW^i ■'■ '■ Capftalljrt

\r .,,'.< r V, v-'lfi In'. 'I'; « J U

*'"* I court, VI+j; " '"- 1 -" 1 to the W«*t

String of the Soviet Wi lofl

'Bolshovlk.

Naturally, tho lattor way con
vlcted, Ho in now on parolo and

tho police can arn-i.t him any lime
they Heo fit.

with hia opponent a momoor m
good standing both of the club and
the Communfit Party, in-, nimioui
u I)() t able to Join either orgamzo
tion becauso oi the reitrlctloni
forced on him hy tho court.

At the club meeting before tha

last, a comrade of long Standing

protested agalnit tho corruption
and burocracy and exposed coun-
ter-revolutionary tendonciei tnai
oclit in the club. .

Immediaudy the leaderthlp
started to defend these very coun
., , ,. ^olutlonary and corrupl - li
merits and fought bitterly to con

tlnue their burocratlc domination

of the club. u t .

At tho foiiov/ifig meeting tne
burocrate moblliaed a lot "t those
efemi nts ( in< lading somi who 1[ ' •>
tcuerllla methods against other
cotnrad< 1 end had been expelled
from the party- They came pro

pared to prOVOlfl B flghl 111 OTdel

tp upprefi ■'<■<>■/ oppo ftlon. when
they failed to provoke a battle,
Buro< ''''' Mlrocovlc raadi a

jovoitoneltoi" and "ioelal fai
elitit"
Of these four comrados two are

party momberi and the oilier two,

tho no longer mombon of the par

ly, are and always have supported

the party slnco Its organisation

and have not worlu'd for any other

organization. They are now mr

1 yiiir. on ,h live mov< •■ In the move
ment. ,, .

And now Lhey have been expelled

from tho olub bocaueo they were
lighting to cloame Its ranks of coi
rupt and counter revolutionary ale
montii 1 .

Xhli gort of ""li Communlil
...cthods lias caused gem ral di moi

ftllzatlon In tlm rlub and ninny

mombore have reelgned from thfl
club in protest agalnit theifl
method*.

g uc h a situation to Intolerable,
, ■,[,,, [ally for om who was among
the founders or the olub and 1. foi
one, cannot ih anything 10 demoi
nUzlng and corrupt pass wlthmti
full [ng a voico of proteit.

The purpoio of Dill article Is to
appeal to tho members of tho 1 ub
thai Lhey should not leave the elub
but remain at their poets and light
agalnit Irreipomlble corrupt and
counter revolutionary elcmi nti tnai
now dominate the club. They
must continue their activity in or«
,i,. ( to bring non Communist work

I nlei H.ilni
n .mil 10 till

wnild Communist
gcnoral was doo.lt rocontly whop
the loading group ol tho I sochjsli
icctlon "i the l soi hoslovaklan
1 lommunlst < Jppositlon. hoaded by

QorgOl and Mnn.i ,W<u\rA to fun

,11s the Cxochlsh Social demociai

party, Some piotrf.l h.o. .dic.dv

ade itsell hoard In tho ranks ol
,hr [ormoi Opposition bul It li
ai V rt hard to tell oxactly whal tol
lowing those ox * ommunlst load
on will tako with them.

The Czechish group practically
broke with the international Op-
position Contoi some lime ago and
was mil represented at tho receni
international ( lonforoni o.

Desertions ol Communists to

I the Smtal dem.H 1.0 v h.ive In 1 II

v. 1 v 1 , .tion.. n m the lasl few y< ' ii *«
In i u , hslovakla, both from the
,,11,, [ tt ] Communist Party, (odltots.
Contra! Committeo member) and
tho ( Opposition, 'i Ills shows Lh<
profound demoralization thai doml
natos the I ommunlsl movemi \\\
ol all tendencloi In thai country.

At iin: same timo, however, the
1 ippositlon In tho Oorman region 1
oj 1 koi hoslovakla, whole roletn ni

with tho ( sei h group bavi 1

prai 10 ally non * Kistonl foi d lonu
time, Is showing some -i'i-:"* 1 pi
improvemont, aftoi the illghi weak
1 lllll): ,1,,, to tlifl passage oi Neu

.oh and a few frlonds to thi 1 roj
skyltes, In the region around
An ii the ( ippositlon lias
,,i m entorlng Into o vory cffoi live

moii d froni movi 1 1 with the lo

1 .ii party organisation, dosplto tho
orders oJ the Central ( ommittci
in 1 in receni Aich oleetioni the
1 ippositlon 1 ii 1 i<d throe member!
1.1 1 in munii o'-'i 1 "in'" 1

Oppoi Itlon and I am proud of ii-
I'ui', even tho out organization i«
itin comparatively small, it worki

with might and mum tC bring

about the unity of the Communist
rank 1 In thli counti y on tho bo ill
,i a correct i-- nlnlit llnft

liur'.rrat Mifoeovie. niiujc iiiii'hm. v "■■^■,

p., I,., 1 u iii. .I. pn i#!on and thi
li 1 tion i'" ildi ni U>»"-' • tin ■
.1,11,] time drafting hli ' hanl gh
im: pro< lamatlon thli v li I

WORKERS AGE

Seven

BANANA GOLD, by Carleton
Beals. G. P. Lippineott and
Company, Philadelphia, 1932.
This book deals with events in
Central America in 1927 and 192S,
when the author went to interview
Sandino, chief of the nationalist
forces of Nicaragua. To get to
Sandino he had to cross Guatema-
la. Salvador and Honduras. In
each country he stopped long
enough to get a close-up of the life
of the peon and worker, the ways
of the missionary and the Church,
the activities of U. S. capital and
American diplomacy.

In each country the story of the
worker runs the same. The wage
of the banana and coffee peon aver-
ages fifteen cents a day from "sun
to sun." The "labor aristocracy":
police and government clerks, * 60
cents; street-car conductor, 90
cents, for a twelve hour day. The
Central American governments
graciously supply "forced labor"
for roads and plantations. On the
fruit plantations belonging to the
American companies, the chief of
police is empowered to collect the
pay for the peons and he hands
them what sum his own whim dic-
tates.

These heavy burdens and the
whip have engendered a national-
ist movement thruout Central Am-
erica, with its strongest expres-
sion in Nicaragua; strongest in
Nicaragua, not because its people
suffer more but because they have
a more conscious, more able and
more devoted leadership. In coun-
tries where small guerrilla bands
make and unmake presidents, San-
dino's "El Chipote is a model
camp . . . impregnable. His sold-
iers receive no pay — only rations
and clothes. They have planted
corn, beans and tobacco . . . Plen-
ty of women have come up to serve,
grind the corn and cook — of their
own free will. All the peasants

Love stone Is
On Tour

The national organization de-
partment has arranged a tour for
Comrade Lovestone to cover a
number of cities. Mass meetings,
group meetings and special con-
ferences have been arranged. In
a number of cities the meetings
to be addressed are arranged by
non-partisan labor organizations,
The schedule so far follows: Phila-
delphia, December 11 and 12; Pitts-
burgh, December 15 and 16; De-
troit, December IS, 19, 20; Fort
Wavne, December 21, 22; Chicago,
December 23, 24, 25; Toronto, De-
cember 27, 2S; Montreal, Decem-
ber 29, 30, 31.

In Hartford, Patcrson and the
Anthracite field Comrade Love-
stone has already spoken on: "The
Crisis in Germany and the Program
of the Communist Party of Ger-
many (Opposition)."

round about bring the army food.
There's no forced requisitioning,
no need for it . . . The families
thruout the country-side are risk-
ing all in the Sandino cause."

"El Chipote" is the symbol of a
whole people fighting for freedom.
Beals records utterances he heard
all about him:

'The fight must never cease."
They (the U.S. marines) may
drive us into the highest moun-
tains, the darkest jungles, but
never will we lie down before the
invader."

"We shall never give up thif
struggle and if necessary we shall
pass it on to our children."

All this is epic material of first
magnitude — of tremendous social
significance, with a great collec-
tive hero. It could have been writ-
ten into a moving story, firing the
enthusiasm and resistance of all
Latin America and other down-
trodden peoples. But instead the
author chose to make Beals the
hero of the story. The "danger"
of Beals's trip to Sandino's camp
looms so large that it completely

Again - the Russian Question

(Continued from page 5)
international proletarian revolution
arc also results the social and po-
litical importance of which defy
exaggeration.

It is clear. With all mistakes
and shortcomings, with all stress
and strain, with all hardships and
difficulties, aggravated in recent
months by special factors, the cor-
rectness of the general line of the
C.P.S.U. for the rapid construc-
tion of socialism in the Soviet
Union is unchallengeable. To the
question: "It is worth while?" we
answer: "Yes! A thousand times
yes!" To the question: "Success
or failure?" we answer, unhesi-
tatingly and with just as much un-
derstanding and conviction as in-
spiration and enthusiasm: "The

swallows the other — the vaster
canvass.

Another serious inadequacy ot
the book is the author's muddled
and contradictory discussion of the
activities of American imperialism.
After he exposes its shameless in-
trigue, brutality, greed and exploi-
tation, we are astonished by this
bewildering conclusion: "The im-
perialist (like the Communist) is
also a crusader fighting for the
improvement of backward poples
. . . both believe in the implanta-
tion of an ideal by force." (p. 294).

The book lays special emphasis
on the role played by Mexico, quiet-
ly and often under cover, in
strengthening the Central Amer-
'can nationalist movement against
the United States.

Despite its many weaknesses
"Banana Gold" is worth reading
for the close view it gives of life in
Central America, its legends and
beliefs, its art, color and song, but
above all for the moving sidelights
on the ferment and growth of its
nationalist movement, which ~
Nicaragua is still holding out after
six years against such tremendous
odds.

Ellen Ward

Five-Year Plan has succeeded be-
yond the shadow of all doubt and
far beyond the dreams of its first
dreamers and the thoughts of its
first thinkers."

ABOUT THE "YOIING
COMMUNIST"

"YOUNG COMMUNIST", Issued
monthly by the Communist
Youth Opposition of the United
States, vol. 1, No. 1, November,
1932, New York City.

With its recent revival of activi-
ty, the Communist Youth Opposi-
tion decided to resume publication
of an official youth paper to re-
place the long-suspended "Revolu-
tionary Youth." The first issue
of this new paper is emphatic proof
that such a publication has a big
part to play in the struggle for the
reestablishment of a Communist
youth movement in this country.

The brief paragraphs "Why
The 'Young Communist' ", follow-
ing the longer official statement
on "What The Communist Youth
Opposition Is Out For," declare
the purpose of the paper to be to
help "weld together those elements
inside and outside the Young Com-
munist League who are determin-
ed to do their bit towards saving
the Communist youth movement in
this country and putting it on its
feet again." It addresses itself to
Y. C. L. members and sympathiz-
ers, to young Socialists, to mili-
tant, leftward moving young work-
ers and students in general. It
aims to agitate, to educate, to or-
ganize.

The November issue, appearing
when it does, naturally contains
an article bringing the issues of the
elections to the youth and another
estimating the magnificent achieve-
ments of the Russian Revolution
on its fifteenth, anniversary.

In the field of Marxist education
are two first-rate articles, one by
August Thalheimer on the much

F* Loriot Dead!

Paris, France.

The death of F. Loriot, the well
known revolutionary leader, took
place here on October 12, at the
age of 60. Comrade Loriot was
the main spirit of the small group
of militants who fought for revo-
lutionary international Socialism
during the World War and who
helped to organize the Communist
Party of France. In recent years
he left the party and joined in the
Monatte group of syndicalists.

The name of Comrade Loriot
will be ever remembered in the
history of the international labor
movement .

disputed question of "socialism in
one country" (republished from the
organ of the German Youth Op-
position) and another by John Bar-
ron on "The Social Basis of Reli-
gion." B. Herman contributes a
strong article exposing the full
horror of the decay of capitalism
as seen in the hordes of homeless
children now tramping the coun-
try.

An excellent article on the Na-
tional Student League and the
League for Industrial Democracy
(reprinted in the November 15
issue of the "Age"), two interest-
ing items on the activities of the
Communist Youth Opposition in
Hartford, Conn., and Los Angeles,
Cal., a review of the Y. C L*
pamphlet "Who Are The Young
Communists?" a poem, a mass re-
citation, and some notes, conclude
the first number of the "Young
Communist."

X. Y. Z.

YOUNG COMMUNIST

Issued monthly by the Communist

Youth Opposition of the U.S.A.

5c a copy — 50c a year

228 Second Avenue

New York City

WHAT WE STAND FOR

On the United Front

by Bertram D. Wolfe

We continue below the series of articles by Bertram
D. Wolfe, "What the Communist Opposition Stands
For".

The unity of great masses of workers on an elemen-
tary program expressing their immediate need, would
immeasurably strengthen the workers, give them a
feeling of power such as comes with numbers, give
them a sense of class solidarity and common inter-
est, enable them to enter into struggles out of which
they would learn more than out of years of preach-
ment and abuse. Such proposal of unity to other or-
ganizations of the workers, on the basis of an elemen-
tary or minimum program, with each participating
group retaining its own separate organization and full
program, such a first step toward working class unity
is known as a "united front." The Communist Party
has in the past been the most energetic champion of
such united struggles.

Eut in the last few years there has grown up a dis-
position to treat the united front as a mere clever man-
euver to win following away from the reactionary
leaders. Naturally, when we propose unity to the
leaders of conservative working class organizations,
Socialist party or A. F. of L. unions, one of the im-
portant "by-products" of our fight for working class
unity is the exposure of the reactionary leaders. If
they reject the united front proposal, they expose
themselves as enemies of working class unity and
united struggle. If, in response to the pressure of
their followers, they accept the proposal and then do
not carry on an effective fight for the program of the
muted front, they again expose themselves in the eyes
of their followers, who can be won away to the sup-
port of the Communists as the only genuine fighters
for the elementary interests of the working class. But
we cannot too strongly emphasize that the Communists
must not make united front proposals merely as clever
inanouvers to win away workers from reactionary lead-
ership. Such "clever manouvers" are seen thru by
everybody. They do not promote working class unity
but earn contempt for Communism as a species of
sharp practise, of juggling with the longing of the
working class for greater unity and strength.

abai

THE UNITED FRONT FROM BELOW
For the last few years, the Communist Party has
abandoned the united front altogether. No more doea

the party embarrass the leaders of the Socialist party
and other labor organizations by tireless insistence on
working class unity on a program which even the most
backward worker can appreciate and be roused to
fight for. No more does the party battle earnestly and
tirelessly for the unity of the working class. "If the
backward workers won't follow us," runs the present
official attitude, "then they are reactionaries and
social-fascists." And so the party cuts itself off
voluntarily from the workers who still have faith in
the leaders of the conservative labor organizations.
* * *

DISHONEST JUGGLING
Yet the party leaders dare not openly repudiate the
time-honored tactics of the united front. Just as they
disguise their attempt to split the mass unions by call-
ing it "work in the reactionary unions," so they dis-
guise their repudiation of the united front by speaking
of the "united front from below."

What is this famous "united front from below?" It
is an invitation to the non-Communist workers to sup-
port the Communist Party! That is all! In short,
the "united front from below" is no united front at all.
And such dishonest juggling with terms prevents any
real discussion of the most complicated tactical prob-
lems confronting the party, the problems arising from
entrance into united fronts with organizations under
reactionary leadership.

The crying need of the German working class during
the last few years has been a united front of all
workers to fight Fascism. The Communist Party,
which should have been the driving force for such a
united struggle, fought against it. The Socialist lead-
ers were therefore able to herd their followers into a
united front with Hindenburg and Bruening "against"
Fascism. They were even able to capitalize on the
working class longing for unity. "The Communists do
not want a united front," said Breitscheid. "If they did
maybe we would not have to unite with Hindenburg."
A fine state of affairs when the Social-democratic lead-
ers can pretend that they are the apostles of unity!

In the United States, Norman Thomas was enabled
to play the same game:

"// Communists vjere less dogmatically proud
of fooling their allies," Thomas wrote in the
"New Leader," "and would work in good faith,
there might be some chance in Germany and
elsewhere for occasional Socialist-Communist
joint action." But since they won't, says Thomas,
therefore, "/ think the German Social-democrats
are justified in coalition (with Hindenburg and
Bruening) in this emergency."
How does the "Daily Worker" answer this "justifi-
cation" of Social-democratic treachery?

"The Communists formed and carried out a
policv of joint action — but only joint action with
the Sooktlist and non-party workers. The Com-

munists have not formed and will not form a
united front with the Social-democratic leaders."
(Editorial in the "Daily Worker" April 26,
1932).
In other words, the "Daily Worker" deliberately con-
fuses the invitation of Socialists workers who are
disgusted with their leaders, to join the Communists,
with the united front of the two organizations.

The Communist Party of the United States will also
have a "united front" in the Presidential elections, the
editorial continues.

"It will do this by bri?igmg about joint action
in the struggle of all workers and farmers,
including the rank and file members of the So-
cialist party and the A. F. of L."
In other words it will actually permit Socialists and
members of the A. F. of L. unions to vote for Foster
and call it a united front !

"The National Nominating convention . . . has

its doors wide open to all toiUrs and to those

ready to fight for the demands put forward in

the Convention Call. Here joint action (since

when is a Communist platform 'joint action' or

subject for a 'united front 1 ?) will be decided

upon, candidates chosen and a fighting platform

drafted. All workers are invited"

What has this word- juggling with "joint action,"

this anti-Communist suggestion that the full program

of Communism is subject to drafting by united front,

what has all this charlatanry to do with the united

front?

* * *

HOW DO THEY GET THAT WAY

How, the bewildered reader may ask, could such
ruinous, sectarian tactics ever get adopted by the
party of working class unity? The answer is strange
and yet simple:

In the Soviet Union there are no other parties but
the Communist Party — there can be no united front
except with the non-party workers "from below and
around the Communist Party."

In the same way, there are no unions but revolu-
tionary unions in the U.S.S.R. and no problem of
working in reactionary unions. Once more our com-
rades are mechanically transporting Russian conditions
and tactics into America and acting as if there were
no other parties, as if all reactionary leaders were dis-
credited, and as if the American Communist Party
were the undisputed leader of the many million-headed
American working class.

The Communist Opposition works to establish united
fronts and demands the return of the party to the
united front tactics. The party can make no real prog-
ress till it again becomes the genuine ehampion of
working class unity thru united fronts of struggle
elementary working class needs.

NEXT ARTICLE: DISCIPLINE

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Eight

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VOL, II. — No. 4.

December, 1, 1932.

THE SCOTTSBORO DECISION

•T'HE action of the Supreme Court in. granting a new trial to the
1 Scottsboro defendants is one of the most significant develop-
ments in the recent social and political life of this country. It con-
stitutes a tremendous victory, almost unprecedented in character, for
the forces arrayed in desperate resistance to the wave of darkest re-
action engulfing this country. It constitutes a tremendous setback
to the forces of oppression and race prejudice that hold almost un-
disputed sway today. It is a victory well won, full of significance.

To the International Labor Defense, and to the Communists,
must go the great historical credit for this victory. Had it not been
for the Communists the Scottsboro boys would long have been rail-
roaded to death, with hardly a notice in the press to mark the con-
sumation of just one more legal lynching. It was the I. L. D. that
raised the affair from an insignificant event involving some obscure
colored boys into a "celebrated case" dramatizing once more, as did
the Mendel Beiliss, Dreyfuss, Sacco and Vanzetti, and Mooney cases
in the past, the great struggle against oppression and reaction. No
one can doubt for a moment that it was the world-wide protest
movement stirred up by the Communists and reaching into all classes
and all social strata, that was decisively responsible for winning the
new trial and a chance to save the lives of the seven Negro boys.

But to say this does not mean to absolve the I. L. D. and the
official Communist Party from responsibility for the tremendous mis-
takes which they have made in the conduct of the struggle and which
have greatly weakened the movement. The repeated rejection of
any sort of united front tactics, the replacement of a united front
movement by a movement of Communists and sympathizers, the
measureless abuse poured upon all those who manifested the slight-
est difference in policy, have all proved very costly and must not be
forgotten in the joy of victory. Especially is this important today be-
cause it must be clearly realized that THE BOYS ARE NOT YET
SAVED! A new trial has been won but the outcome of the new
trial is far from certain. The protest movement that wrung the new
trial from an unwilling Supreme Court must be tremendously
strengthened and broadened if it is to be effective in snatching these
boys from the claws of the legal lynchers in Alabama. FOR THIS
THE UNITY OF ALL FORCES ON THE SINGLE ISSUE OF
SAVING THE SCOTTSBORO BOYS IS NECESSARY.

The I. L. D, has shown that no obstacles placed in the way by
the ruling class lynchers can daunt it. Will it prove able to rise to
the height of removing the great obstacles placed in the way by its
own sectarian policies?

THE EVENTS IN GENEVA

rVELVE workers dead and many wounded — that is the toll which
the government has exacted from the workers as the price of a
demonstration in Switzerland — the most democratic of democratic bour-
geois republics. Lead from machine guns poured into the ranks of un-
armed men, women and children who dared organize a counter-demon-
stration against a Fascist organization, and who, horrors of horrors,
"hissed" the soldiers who were defending the Fascist meeting against
the workers. The workers of Geneva, of Switzerland, of the entire
world, have twelve corpses as their share of the "democracy" which
covers up the iron dictatorship of the capitalist exploiters.

What will the Social-democratic leaders say now? There were So-
cialist workers who were shot down. It was a Socialist demonstration,
organized by the Socialist party in Geneva. Will the leaders of the
Second International, including the Germans who, in 1919, set their
Swiss contemporaries a good example by shooting down the Berlin
workers, defend the "poor" troops as having been "provoked", as they
do continually when Communist demonstrations are broken up and the
workers shot down? Will our American "New Leader" again de-
nounce the workers for "baiting" the troops (did not the crowd hiss
the soldiers?) as they accuse revolutionists here of "baiting" the po-
lice? And will the Socialist workers continue to believe in the illusion
of 'democracy" which their leaders are continually fostering and
which has today become a most powerful weapon in the hands of the
capitalists against the workers? Is it not clear that "democracy", as
tne Geneva events demonstrate, is a toy which the capitalists permit the
workers to play with in order to make them forget the real weapons
at their command in the struggle against capitalism? The capitalists
pretend to participate in this game but actually keep a loaded gun
ready for emergencies.

And what will our friends, the "militant" Socialists, say about the
Geneva events? Has Geneva proved that where democracy exists if
strated iftf f ° r ^ orki . n e class emancipation? Or has it demon-
strated that the workers, in order to emancipate themselves must de
stroy this capitalist "democracy"? mcmseives, must de-

ooJl C L C ^,! OC i a r S !' eV " y worke I' * v cry honest person who is op-
posed to the capitalist system, ponder the Geneva events— thev lead
£3 iT J m th 1 C - amp of "formism. of Social-democracy and into the
ISli^-oT^rmTnisr^ 16 agaiOSt "P**™- " revolut^

Complete the Sub Drive

60% Of Quota Reached!

With four weeks of the Drive
still to go we have already achiev-
ed 60% of the general sub quota.

Our New York units, who have
the largest quotas, have reached
55% of their quota. Outstanding
among these units is the work of
the Down Town Unit, which has
already to its credit 73% of the
quota, and the Brooklyn Unit with
54% of its quota in the bag. The
Youth, Boro Park and Harlem-
Bronx Units have not maintained
the pace. It is still possible for
these ,units in the coming four
weeks to make up for the time lost.

Our out-of-town units have done
even better than New York, with
66% of their drive completed. Out-
standing among these units is the
Anthracite, which has almost
doubled its quota (180%), Chicago
with 130%, Pittsburgh, which has
just completed its quota and Phila-
delphia with 87% finished. Such
units as Hartford with 55%, Los

Angeles, Detroit, Fort Wayne and
Passaic-Paterson with 40% each
must show some good speed in the
next few weeks if they are to com-
plete their quotas.

The remaining units not named
have fallen behind in the Drive.

Comrades, the progress of the
Drive to date has been very good;
but we must not let down now.
Every comrade must stay on the
job between now and December
15. Forward to complete the drive,
to build our "Workers Age"!
* * *

.The individual standing of the
leading sub getters has undergone
one surprising change. Comrade
Rainey of Chicago has made
spectacular sprint for first place,
replacing Comrade Wolfe. Rainey
sent in 10 more subs during the
last two weeks. The standing of
the comrades is as follows: Rainey
18, Wolfe 14, Thompson 12, Love-
stone 11, Stone 10 and Sorenson 9.

RESULTS OF THE U. S, ELECTIONS

{Continued from Page 3)
preceding them? Why was not
the great discontent, the sharp dis-
satisfaction with conditions, con-
verted into radicalization, that is,
directed against the capitalists and
their parties? The experience of
the labor movement since the war
would seem to indicate that it is
due to the absence of an instru-
ment to serve this purpose. This
Instrument, under the given his
torical conditions, can only be a La-
bor or a Farmer-Labor party. In
this connection it may be well to
note that in the only state where
a Labor party is in existence (Min-
nesota), that party swept the elec-
tions with tremendous majorities.
Is that not a significant develop-
ment?

The Big Lesson of the Election
For clear-thinking revolutionists
the lessons of the elections should
not remain a mystery: The Com-
munist Party itself (also the So-
cialist party) is not as yet a suffi-
ciently attractive force for break-
ing the workers away from the
capitalist parties, which is the first
'step toward making them revolu-
tionists. The creation of such a
force would not hinder but, on the
contrary, would greatly help in
bringing workers to Communism.
A Labor party would not be a
competitor of the Communist Par-
ty but a field from which the Com-
munist Party would draw new
strength. Common sense, the in-
terests of the American working
class, the aims of American Com-
munism, therefore dictate the need
for a Labor party. Those revolu-
tionary workers who do not wish
to stand in the way of the forward
march of the working class must
unhesitatingly throw themselves in-
to the struggle for the creation of
a Labor party, an instrument
which will free the workers of
their paralyzing political backward-
ness and draw them on the road
to Communism.

RESULTS OF GERMAN
ELECTIONS

{Continued from Page 3)

program (between trust capital
ind the agrarians, between export
industry and home industry, etc.)
Unity in the labor movement be-
comes a life-and-dcath matter for
the workers in the face of the com-
ing offensive of capital.

No parliamentary combination
seems to have any chance of suc-
cess in the new Reichstag. The
policy of the von Papen Cabinet
is not yet clear but it seems likelv
that there will take place a shift
within this Cabinet in the direction
of Srhlcicher (perhaps involving
Papen's resignation), which means
an approach to the Nazis and the
creation of a basis for cooperation
between the two. The big capital-
ist papers in Germany, the voices
of trust capital, look upon this out-
come as greatly to be desired.

But above all is it important to
understand that the center of grav-
ity in German political life today
is not in the Reichstag, no matter
what parliamentary combinations
may take place. The center o'
gravity of German political life to
day lies outside of the Reichstag,
lies in the relations between the big
class forces, between the bourgeois
front, with the Nazis as spearhead,
and the working class front, today
unfortunately disunited and demor-
alized by the class betrayal of the
Social-democrats and the sectar
ian policies of the Communist
Party. The resistance of the trade
unions against the von Papen of-
fensive, the organization of a unit-
ed and anti-Fascist front — these
are the burning tasks of the mo-
ment. In spite of the millions of
votes that the C. P. has piled up,
it is very weak, almost impotent, in
the mass organizations of the
workers, where the Social-demo
crats still hold almost undisputed
control. In this situation, only the
procram of the German Commu-
nist Opposition shows the way
out for the Communist movemei i :
the complete scrapping of the ul-
tra-left course, the readoption of
Leninist^ trade union tactics and
the tactics of the united front, the
initiation of a drive for the unifi-
cation of the labor movement
against the reactionary offensive
and the menace of Fascism!

THE T. U. U. L. AND
PAINTERS STRIKE

{Continued from Page 4)

refused. Mr. Smith was approach-
ed by a committee of officials ot
the Alteration Painters Union; they
offered to supply him with enough
men to work his jobs at $6.00 pVr
day, less than the workers had
been receiving before they went on
strike, if he would sign an agree-
ment recognizing the Alteration
Painters Union and the shop com-
mittee system! Mr. Smith refused
to deal with the Alteration Paint-
ers Union, but he very eagerly
used this scab action with some of
the workers of his jobs, without
success, and he also tried to use it
influence the District Council
strike committee to sign with that
company a special agreement. The
shop remained in strike despite all
efforts of the Alteration Painters
Union to scab on the workers.

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December 2. 8:30 P. M.
WHERE DOES THE SO-
CIALIST PARTY STAND?
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We have turned over our column
for this issue to a Spanish Arch-
priest, dead these six hundred
years. His hymn to Saint Money
is part of one of the two greatest
ivorks of the Middle Ages. As
Dante pictured its "Commedi/x
Divina" so the Archpriest pro-
duced its "Commedi% Humana."
He wrote when money was just be-
ginning to spread "like a plague oi
an itch" thru medieval life and to
undermine all the institutions the
Archpriest cherished; yet the six
hundredth anniversary of its writ-
ing finds the plague still raging
and money still working the same
wonders.

* * *

MONEY THE MIRACLE-
MAKER

by John Ruiz, Archpriest of Hita

Money does wonders and merits
our love.

Of bad it makes good; of below
makes above;

The weak it gives rtrength and the
dumb man a tongue;

The legless it lifts to the ladder's
top rung.

The dullest and basest mak*^ noble

and wise,
Of his wit and his wiidom his

purse tells the size.
"Purseless is worthless," a saving

well told,
Joy, comfort, and justice are o??p

to gold.

For gold the Pope sells you ex-
emption from sin

And promise that Peter will let

you right in.

Mioney brings blessing: I saw once

in Rome
How they reverence Saint Money

in piety's home.

With rites of great splendor they
kneel and they pray

And humbly they worship Lord
Mammon all day —

Priors and bishops and abbots and
nuns,

Patriarchs, potentates, priests and
their sons.

Dull priests become scholars by
aid of its power

And wrong becomes right in the
space of an hour.

A layman gets orders and titles
at once

For gold will give wisdom to even
a dunce.

The poor clerk is failed for his
failing of pence

And told that his failure is failing
of sense.

Money can strike off the heaviest
chains

But he who has none has doubled
his pains.

The wonder of money no gospel
can tell —

Saves the lives of condemned and
sends guiltless to hell.

Gold robs of the poor man his
vineyard and farm,

And shelters the robber from meet-
ing with harm.

The judge winks an eye when he's
judging the rich.

Gold spreads thru the world like

a plague or an itch!
No maid can resist, no dame is

too old,
Even nuns give their love for a

guerdon of- gold.
In short, 'tis a thing of common

renown
That money can turn the whole

world upside down,
Make a lord of the serf, make a

serf of the lord,
And command with its might every

heart, pen and sword!

B. D. W.