The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 20, 1929, Page 3

‘Slmmsiiitbanaesshwen omnes aye DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1929 PARTY PRE-CONVENTION DI (The article which follows is @ sontinuation of the article by Com- rade Foster in the Daily Worker of eb. 12th, entitled, “As to New) Lines and Old Lines.” In this first) rticle he took issue sharply with SCUSSION Bourgeois Reformism and Social Reformism italist refor in general, the pur- of the employers, to readapt them- social reformism. The dialectics of without and to avoid the organiza- a diminishing need for the help of tense exploitation of the worke: capitalists continued to use these fakers extensively to betray the workers as a class through the capi- talist parties, the Civic Federation, by breaking strikes of the old trade unions, etc. Here Comrade Zack, in moralizing and disorganizing the ] set ; ‘ “a pose of which is to shield the cap-| selves to the needs of the capital- tion of the conservative unions. the social reformi: Basan thas ap sl Desting af the A. ne & “tha italists and capitalism through the | ists. | By WILLIAM Z. FOSTER. This did not prevent the capital-| With the aid of its tremendous re- Se aes aaa stale Jan-Feb. issue of “The Commu- ruption, materially and ideolog-| Comrade Bittelman is wrong when) —- — Hk __ ists, however, from making use of | .ources, American imperialism then |in denying the role of the A. F of nist,”) made by Comrades Bittel-|%*ll¥, of the labor aristocracy, and | he categorically declares that it is : ! ; the AgMyeat te leaders politically, |) 2757 ¢) elaborate the most insidious |. bureaucracy as betrayers “at the man, Browder, Aronberg, Hathaway, ‘rough the latter the exertion of | impermissible to speak of social re. UP methods of force to hold the)ing tempo in the different periods. through the National Civie Federa- | ethods of direct capitalist. control. whole working class, when, confused Wagenknecht, Costrell, Gomez and|* ‘emoralizing and paralyzing ef-|formist organizations, in a given| Workers in subjection? By no| Let us divide recent labor history | tion, the capitalist parties, ete to/r” developed in its factories and|by the pies ah Se Grecht, in the Daily of the previous ¢ct upon the broad masses of the | situation, being in crisis or decline,|™eans. Even Italian capitalism, into four periods, (a) pre-war, (b) demoralize the workers, It was! iants an unprecedented growth of |permit the A. F of I as ae day, as well as with the answer in| “°tking class. ‘The distinguishing | He js also incorrect when he de. | {esPite its present uncortcealed dic-| war, (c) post-war, (d) present per- characteristic of this period that sourgeois reformism (backed by a|their workers into uni = hed ‘ ike agoic gine afi ha Conanitinis difference between these two phases |clares that if it is said that a given tatorship, ‘will, as it confronts its |iod, and the varying tempo of so- great employers who would not per-'_ tilocs oven align quality autho ine |clarexcchat 4G sl sf as. iets . by Comrade Bedacht. In the article |\°! Capitalist reformism lies in the | social reformist organization, the A, | developing revolutionary crisis, have cial reformism in the class strug- mit an A. F. of L, organizer within doateien) to soca ABs iahoeracittn: | dateies “to on Sata eee Popa! s which follows, Comrade Foster con-|™2nner in which they are presented |}, of L., is in decline, this neces. | Tecourse to the methods of social gle becomes clearly evident a mile of their industrial plants eae didtes: deuiotaliea the Gread ldoes ‘not Sonate abe e a Late | Hinues ie discussion of the situa), the workers. While bourgeois | sarily implies a theory of the liqui.|Teformism in corrupting the labor] In the pre-war era, that is, dur. /would sit down and hob-nob with tcii°4 masses, so that it might have |Green’s production efficiency. brand ; tion of social reformism in the labor reformism: comes to the workers | dation of the A. F. of L, and of |2tistocracy, spreading reformist il-|ing the period of the formation of these same organizers, or thein ey eauhahdstovdevelon te Mbt ine of pene P sates eae tat eee ; from without, urged more or less , |lusions among the masses, in order|the trusts and up to the entrance chiefs, in such class collaboration in- F z of ‘company unionism,’ but in de- movement.) - * { The central issue involved in the | controversy now turning around | my article in the current number of | “The Communist” deals primarily | with the role of social reformism in | the class struggle and its relation to | bourgeois reformism. It will be well, | therefore, to consider this matter | first and subsidiary questions later. | Bourgeois reformism and social | reformism are basically the same. ‘They are merely two phases of cap-' 1.—Social Reformism the Main Danger. openly by capitalist: elements frankly defending the capitalist system, so- | ial reformism is presented to the workers from within their own ranks as the wo: g class program, by their own leaders. Social democracy, the chief exponent of reformism in the labor movement, and around which all other labor reformistic cur- rents turn, including the A. F. of L. bureaucracy, is in the realest sense | of the word, es Lenin said, the | agency of the employing class in the | ranks of the workers, | social reformism altogether escape him, Let us consider the situation in Italy, for example. There fascism, “a method of the unconcealed dic- | tatorship of the bourgeoisie,” (Com- intern program) has not only sent! the socialist party and the General Confederation of Labor into decline, but it has practically wiped them out entirely. (Now the CROM of Mexico also is in a serious crisis.) | But does the smashing of the tra- ditional social reformist organiza- tions in Italy mean that the Italian |eapitalist class has completely and | to shield itself from the revolution- lary working class. This it will | probably do thruout the development cf a “Left” fascism which brings |forward the pseudo-labor character- istics of fascism in sharp reformist garb or by the reconstitution of the social democratic party and trade unions in semi-fascist forms. So- cial democracy is the bulwark of the capitalist system against the | proletarian revolution. Because my article and the other | theses and articles mentioned do not jclearly analyse the decline of the |A. F. of L. in this sense of the |varying tempo of social reformism ‘of the United States into the world war, trustified capital relied rela- tively very little upon social reform- ism, especially in its dealings with the workers directly in the indus- tries. It took directly upon itself the job of corrupting the labor ari tocracy and breaking up the move- ments of the semi-skilled and un- skilled. It drove even the conserva- tive A. F. of L. unions out of the | trustified industries. The smash- ling of the Amalgamated Associa- tion of Iron, Steel and Tin Work- ers in the Homestead strike was the signal of the pre-war open shop policy of trustified capital. |L. unions, stitutions as the National Civic Fed- eration. During the war period the_capi- talists modified very considerably their attitude towards the A, I’, of Their tendency was to make more use of social reformism. To mobilize the workers for the war they had to call more directly than ever before the leaders of the A. F. of L. into their service. Result, a wide modification of their former open shop policy and an extension of the trade unions into many in- dustries. But this concession to the A. F. of L, was made with reluc- While on the one hand allow- The main features of this bourgeois reformism (company unionism, wel- fare systems, group insurance, em- ploye stock-buying, etce., together with a whole series of illusions about “the abolition of poverty,” “perma- nent prosperity,” ‘workers becoming capitalists,” etc.), I have summarized under the title of Capitalist Effi- ciency Socialism, are well known and need no description here, This was a period of the minimiz- ing of the use of the social reformist trade unions by the employers. It is correct to say, as I do in my ar- ticle in “The Communist,” that al- two million worke: ranks of the A, F. till within the of L.” The post-war period has been one of decline for the A. F. of L. and of actual for many of its sec- tions. This is clear to all who do not shut their eyes to realities, The old trade unions have not onl clined as organs of struggle for the workers (and to emphasize this phase of the A. F, of L ne a major aspect of my article in “The Communist”) but are also in crisis in their general role as reformist organizations. It has been a period of ebb in the use of the social re- Of the two phases of capitalist |dangerous character. Social democ- | finally abandoned the social re-| in varying objective situations, they : Efforts of the workers to organ- |" : : * + |though the A. F. of L. declined, the formists by the employers. The old seformlnmneanciats xefotiniaca site’ | racy dete wencipeienatentent of formist method and will rely solely|are all to be sharply criticized, | ize and strike were met with iron ee we eS Seaa ethers |seread of reformist illusions among unions have steadily crumbled in the |vesistance, not only in the case of |the railroad, ship: J the workers in the industries in- face of American imperialism’s sents the main danger for the work- | ing class. This is because of (1) | its strong organizational base in the | corrupted labor aristocracy and la: bor bureaucracy, and (2) its insid-| jous approach to the workers under | the guise of being the working class | program. The social democratic leadership, \to gain the leadership of the masses the employers to weaken the ideol- ogy of the working class, to prevent the growth of revolutionary under- tanding and struggle among the workers, by the sowing of reformist illusions among them and by force- ful break-up of their movement. It is the central enemy that the Com- munist Party has to defeat in order 4, In view of the foregoing analysis let us now examine the extent to which trustified capital, the decisive section of capital, has tended to rely upon direct bourgeois dictatorship and how much it has tended to- wards utilizing social reformism.| relatively slow because of various | American Trustified Capital and Social Reformism. developed in this country; the ultra- rapid growth of the industries in ae and the trusts in particu- |lar, the rich natural resources of | the country, the presence of a work- |ing class whose development was |Left unions but also the A. F. of |L., long record of bloody strikes testifies, McKees Rocks, Colorado, West Virginia, Calumet, Lawrence, etc. In no industrial country did |conservative trade unionism meet {with such violent resistance as in the United States. The American capitalists were strong enough to do | industries, the employers at the same time developed the company union movement as a barrier against a too wide spread of the unions. In many industries, notably steel, they refused to depart from the open shop policy and met with powerful resistance the attempts of the work- ers to organize into the A. F. of L. creased. The big employers used chiefly their own bourgeois reformist apparatus, rather than the social reformist apparatus, the A. F. of L, Nor could all the shrieks and beg- gings and concessions and _ strike breaking of the A. F. of L. leaders, the adoption of the “new wage policy,” “higher strategy of labor,” policy of the industries of the open shop plus an elaborate system of bourgeois reformism. They have not been able to organize even the most highly skilled workers, although the past several years have been ones of unprecedented industrial activity. On the contrary they have constantly lost membership, or tion, and basing itself primarily upon the cor- |; ; * stale, i ‘ | isifvii ji . : ® A thie canola elavernted: policy, of |sivatenis fanaa we ‘ in the struggle against capitalism | We must see how it has oscillated| bourgeoisifying tendencies (free During the Post-War Period. and the whole elaborated policy of strategic position in indust That rupted labor aristocracy and labor |+,.. ihe proletarian revolution, between methods of open dictator-|land, etc.), lack of heterogenity, | is intensified class collaboration, this is most distinctly a process of bureaucracy, juses “all of: its great ship and of social reformism. This | etc. During the post-war period the ,war time, but to break the backbone |change the capitalist policy. The decline and not only one of readap- power as the controlling head of vast political and industrial organ- izations ef the workers to push through its program of social re- form, which is only the program of the employers disguised and which paralyzes the action of the workers. With the help of the employers and the state it makes ruthless war upon the Communists at the head of the increasingly revelutionary masses, breaking strikes and otherwise de- moralizing the workers’ mass at- tacks against capitalism and steer- ing it into illusory channels of re- form. The disastrous betrayals of the workers in the post-war revolu- tionary struggles in Germany, in the British general strike, as well as in Consequently, although we must \fight against all phases of capitalist ‘yeformism, we must concentrate our main fire against its most danger- jous form, social reformism, which in this country is represented chiefly, industrially and politically, by the A. F. of L. bureaucracy. ‘this we must be very clear about. It is the error of my article not to clearly single out social reformism \for this attack, as differentiated |from bourgeois reformism. The |same error is made in the theses of the Majority and Minority, as well as in many articles, etc., in our Party literature, including my re- cent articles on Capitalist Efficiency Socialism, Comrade Zack’s article in we shall do, looking towards a solu-| tion of the question of whether or/enough to, as a rule, take pretty verse direction, towards the methods 1919 to 1923 practically every union not the A. F. of L. is in decline or| directly in hand themselves the job of open dictatorship. The employers in the country, excepting only a re- crisis, and if so, what this signifies. | of corrupting the labor aristocracy generally, following the lead of big latively few ultra-skilled organiza- | and of smashing back the move- capital, largely cast aside social re-| tions were menaced with destruction. in general|ments of the masses through use|formism and delivered a violent at- It was a period of the capitalists It is indisputable that American trustified capital has tended to depend more upon its own|of state power, economic pressure | . direct methods of terrorizing and|and bourgeois reformism. But, de-|every industry. : corrupting the workers and to use|spite this, they have not failed to| was used violently to smash the old need for, and the taking more The capitalists have been strong |pendulum swung far back in the re- |of the trade union movement. From \tack against the trade unions in The state power less the traditional methods and or-| promptly call into their service the | unions. ganizations of social reformism than | social reformist agents wherever} has been the case in any other coun-|and whenever they have felt the | greatest in the history of the Ameri-| workers. American imperialism, al- In_the United |can labor movement, was not merely ready feeling the urge of its ap- extremely favorable objective con-| States, as well as in Europe, social|to wipe out the higher wages and proaching several years of unprece- ditions under which capitalism has|reformism has developed with vary- shorter hours won by the workers in | dented growth and development, had try. This has been because of the need for them. The objective of this assault, the employers turned a deaf ear to the A. F. of L. bureaucracy that it be permitted, with its company-union- ized trade unions, to organize the workers in the trustified industries and thus to help the employers ex- ploit them, At the same time the kicking out the social reformists whom they no longer had such keen The Present or directly in hand themselves the job of controlling and exploiting their one of decline for the old trade unions in spite of all the efforts of the bureaucracy to re-adapt them to the needs of the employers. Now EMERGENCY FUND Revolt in Venezuela we are entering into a new period, which the 6th World Congress of the “the ‘Story of Soviet Rescue, Comintern characterizes as tation cannot be disputed. Comrade Bittelman is in error when he denies the decline and sees only a process of readaptation. The question rather whether this decline still con- tinues and what forms the readap- itation is taking. “Third Period.” The post-war period was distinctlywhat does this imply for the old trade-unions? Does it mean a re- building of the A. F. of L. on a mass scale, with millions of workers pouring into and revolutionizing the old craft unions, as Comrade Pepper has in mind; does it mean the re- construction of the A. F. of L. as a skilled workers’ organization of a spat _|the Dee., 1928, “Communist Inter- | < . A od? * F a Tage ache prec ee p | Grows; Dictator Acts “Krassin” Best Seller ‘it periot” This sa tine of more oss. wational spe, 0 italists use against the revolutionary | All these documents, of course, (Continued from Page One) ,A. Kramer, New Milford, | to Crush Outbreaks at Workers Book Shop dictions of capitalism, of gro fakes on. does {tan T have plated workers the powerful social demo-|mako sharp, attacks against social) 7 Vo vou Git Tig sConneivass 1.00 | class conflicts and world war-danger.|out in my articles (and as the theses cratic, social xeformistic organiza-|reformism (concretely, the A. F. of | .11, New Vos CY ---+-+ 40014 “Overgaard, New York 1.00| CUCUTA, Colombia, Feb. 19—Re-| “The Krassin” is the title ‘of a|JIn this period the employers, con- of both the Majority and Minority, tion. The treachery of the A. F. of |L. and S. P.), but their weakness is C if a Jay orl cd ieee 1 oR Gh New York City 100 | es sealed nee an a ea i Sister ee % Feoibed ith the. Leftward <dettt of ees Feet Side id Mi ore L. bureaucracy and the socialist |that they do not point this out as | Collected by Adam Kalasunas, G. 8, New York Cit oan as nezue'a ‘newly-published book written by ji) o ign iaweracivanbenesl crete eae tcae ce ane ak nly be understood in the |the main danger, as against bour- Providence, R, I.: S. Grisko, \c. S., ew York City .. e A indicate a widespread revolutionary French Communist journalist, Mau- | he masses and an imperative neces- ‘continued decline of old line trade perk iy cana TOE re!” leectscstoraisinn Teas thauirate | > $1 We Kasparvidiue, Bbc; Z. | Oscar Rabinovitz, New York 1.00 situation there, which the support |. ba.stanine, whose book is rap- jsity to press the workers into the unionism and its gradual transfor- Me: of the C. I. decision which gave the| Raizis, 25c; P. Kazakonis, Jos, Rada, New York City .. 1.00 ers of General Cedeno, who is re- |? a Ro ft |rationalization and war pregram, mation into a company-unionized Social reformism not only has &|1.24 to correct this mistake. How 1| 25¢; A+ Kubilius, 50c;_K. |J. F. Muron, New York City 1.00 | ported marching from the south on | idly approaching the best-seller tend to again call the social reform- type of unionism, somewhat akin to powerful organizational base in the | ..4e my error, in seeking to focus, Xirkutis, $1; R. Turkevicius, \Jerry Kvlir, New York .... 2.00 Caracas, are seeking to take advan- | class, according to Aaron Chorover, |ists more directly into their service. fascist unionism, with the A. F. of skilled aristocracy of labor, but its| ii. attention of the Party upon|__ 25c; A. Grigas, 50c ....... 4,00 Thomas Kolarik, New York 1.00 tage of. manager of the Workers Bookshop, | This general conclusion applies not L. bureaucracy playing a leading manner of approach to the mass of | (41, neglected, aspects of the whe Employees of Raklios Restaur- J. K., New York City ...... 1.00) “Ge AVinenta Petes-Sot vesi- |26 Union Square, who says that the only to the European countries but role in it? Seas , gz a S pro >. . Neder I a | renera: icente QS Legal 0, presl “ " 4 1 to the United State: which is a workers is far more insidious and jj... shail explain further along.| _ 8Mt» Chicago) Ill. .......... 3.00 |B. Friedman, B’klyn, N. Y. 1.00! sant of the state of Zulia, and’Pres-|book is having the largest sale a #80 to the United States, ch i (To Be Gontinued) demoralizing than that of bourgeois |7 ot’ the other comrades, who hans Albert Gerling, Madrid, Iowa 3.00 Comrade Heiston, Section 4, jdent: Gatbi of the tate: of Sucre, {non-fiction book has had for some |@? integral part of the world situa- Pa rules ola reformism. The social reformists,|-144e the same error, also give the | Collected by Steve Anderson, Unit A. New York City .. 1.00 |) th close friends of the dictator, | time. tion. (The concluding article by Com- who include the A. F.of L. bureau- |v .cossary explanations. Simply to| Detroit, Mich.: S. Anderson, |H. Prvidlo, New York City 1.00 j,2n Vicente Gomez, have been ar-| The hero of the book is not an in-| This means that American capi- rade Foster, to be published in the cracy, typically present to the work- |i. 5y6 their error and to attempt to} $1; J, Wasilovske, 25e; G. |Zean Day, Newport, R. I... 1.00 | ected by Gomez, charged with rev-| dividual, but a ship, an icebreaker |talists will (and do) make more Daily tomorrow, deals with the fol- ers as their own program capitalist | sioes it over will not do. Bolshevik | Krawichuk, 25; T. Andra- C. Brown, Santa Cruz, Cal. 1.00/Siitionary conspiracy. Other ar- |in the Soviet navy which quietly and |direct use of the A. F. of L. bureau-|lowing points: the consolidation reformism dressed up in working cf siticism demands the utmost| Shek, 25¢; G. Romon, 26c; A Friend, Chicago, Ill. .... 1.00 |, .<¢s are pending. It is said a large | unobtrusively smashed her way |cracy in mobilizing the workers for tendencies of imperialism: the com- class clothes, frankness and clarity of explana-| ©: Kudick, 25¢; A. Dwors- N. Mir, Monticello, N.Y... 1.00| cargo of arms for rebels was found | through hazardous icefloes and im- | rationalization and war. On this we pany #4 tres nee This is what gives it its especially | tion, : nick, 25c; K. Dorosh, 25¢; T. Emelianoff, New York .. 1.00! 2+ the port of La Guaira. minent danger to rescue the sur-|have no dispute, The immediate J. Zebalo, 25e ...++e+ee eee 8.00 |7. od AN asi oe “ht a a The Cedeno revolt, while it may vivors of the Italia. |question confronting us however is, | ne ; fi Py Collected by Tom Ray, Mc- |J. Black, Christopher, . 00 4 : é a ois yo 2—The Varying Tempo of Social Reformism. ‘Donald, Pai: A. Randonsa, |J. Simon, Chicago, Ill. ...... 1.00 | make use of the mass anger against So much for the matter of concen- trade union leaders.” SOc; Alex Fountain, $1; T. sia Ua Seccien ay Nor fears saa atieletirl oe trating our fire on the main enemy,| Later, when the attacks of the pea, ee J. White, 2be; 3.00 |J bes Ate ce Loy trigues with any and all imperial- social reformism, that is, upon the |workers had been beaten back, the Coll aah are ie la: Briend Dae York City .. 1,00 | ists. who will back him and _ his | A. F. of L. bureaucracy and the S. |capitalists tended to slough off the eae Gin: M shi ae IM. Luboveky, B’klyn, N.Y... 1.00 |¢lique in a coup. Undoubtedly, one P. Now to consider the question of |“socialist” governments and to] Jo"e GitY: iri re aie Phila, Pa... 1.990" another of the British or Amer- whether or not the A. F. of L. is in|again make larger use of direct ef) ie DROe ce Shey W. Kalista S aariy field Mane 1.00 lican oil interests is backing Cedeno. decline, and if this is so, does it, as methods of capitalist control. Thus ae ee a Lert he Gaines Washington, N. J. 1.00 Comrade Bittelman declares, imply |says the thesis of the Sixth World] Pye * 1; “ont. m Rosa, (pS Babich, (Chteuse I. 100] TaEGHIe AO@ FO the “declining role of social reform- | Congress of the Comintern: pee Ser a fer gt: nich acrglos gewoevicn) Cama mtd Okla. 50 is Es d Th iem?” “Through the medium of social Collected ae = 3 iktabrodsh, f Frank Gregurek, Kalamazoo, : The Communist ies : c \ Although the capitalists, without | democracy the bourgeoisie paved | ~ yaple Shade, N. J.: 0. Eich- Michieau Co scseieseeten ts. '-> 460) Communist International | let-up, utilize social reformism to| the way for the stabilization of | mann, $1; F. Ambrosch, $2 3.00/Mary Stein, New York .... 50] demoralize the working class and to| capitalism (the series of coalition |Golfected by M. 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