The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 23, 1934, Page 3

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, APRIL 2 Two Camden Strikes Negro Magistrate ‘Must Spread “Daily” Union | Jails Fighters for Threatened by 8. Pe “Goushoro Si Leaders Maneuvers teeny suse threats a Philadelphia Negro Revolutionaries PHILADELPHIA, Pa., April 22— narling threats against the Negro| | revolutionary workers, Magistrate Jim-Crowed Negroes in Split Tactics Used to Strike at Campbell | Smother Militancy in Is Soup Co. Plant | Shipyard Strike | Henry, Negro reformist, last Thurs- | soecar | day sentenced James Watson, Negro CAMDEN, N. J., April 22——The| district secretary of the Interna- Socialist leaders of the Industrial) tional Labor Defense, to thirty days Marine and Ship Workers Union! in jail or a fine of $13 and costs. have through their tactics greatly| te also set exorbitant bail for two! CAMDEN, April 22—The three thousand Campbell Soup Co. strik- ers, members of the Socialist-led Industrial Canners Union, are on the verge of being sold out. as two) checked the militant spirit of the) other Negro workers, Bennie Greene, | attacks on them are being simul- strike of the New York Ship Build-| §; 999 and Ben Downey. $400. He taneously carried out by the bosses,| ing Company, ped at Some tee know in the courts and in the conference! After almost five weeks of strikes! you guys. You are always knocking toom with the Federal mediator, the leaders have failed to solidify) the government.” hi 2! Chappell. | the ranks of the strikers, and lead) 7.0 on, f th k i Last week the company demanded] them in militant struggles, Instead). — Tal. of the Ne cig pri an injunction against picketing,| they have separated the leading} of jim-crow pa tpi genaievart in| their attorney saying that picketing) strikers from the others, and have their rticiy eee oy rates | and strikes had been outlawed by| sent them to Washington to cool pos a = gic iia’ a a4 recent court decisions, making arbi-| their heels waiting for an audience china. re ae - o * ‘nat n 2 ih tration compulsory. with Roosevelt, while the bosses, the Bectisice ge pig veh ure Oo} ‘ | After the company’s attorney| cops, the Socialist misleaders, and th a iat on ab “erg a vic made out his case, the hearing was| federal mediators concoct a scheme) 9"! the at; eh 7 y | ane era adjourned to permit Chappell to get| to put over a sell-out agreement on ey ye = pss aps " Leet} Bee ri in his work, in a conference with| the almost leaderless strikers. tae i tater Han Nad aes Ag i the Socialist leaders and the bosses.| In spite of unanimous rejection leading lights eat Bia Say ie a | ‘When they failed to come to an|of arbitration at several strike 7: i agreement, the hearing waa re-| meetings, in spite of immediate and| The Protest demonstration was held| sumed. Attorneys for the union! determined opposition to all ad-|U2der the joint auspices of the) mildly protesting that pickets had| vances of the bosses for slight pay| Lesgue of Struggle for Negro the right to peacefully picket plants,| increases and absolutely no recog-| i a the International Labor | Se. and ‘gently’ talk to scabs in at- tempts to win them over. The company attorney cited 164 individual cases of intimidation, giving names, addresses, and dates for 54, and, on the strength of this demanded, an order to outlaw picketing. “Picketing itself constitutes vio- lence,” he said, when the union’s attorneys denied that the com- pany had proved their pojnt. “Have we come to the point where we must have police protection to carry on our business?” This was the status of the case this morning, as Chappell, Man- ning. and Dorrance, millionaire president of Campbell Soup Co., nition of the union, John Green, acting president in place of Mullins, who was condemned by unanimous! @nd Negro workers marched to the vote of the strikers early in the, Police station to protest the evic-| strike, is again helping the author-| tion of a Negro worker, Mack, from ities to break the spirit and confuse| his home. There they were denied the strikers, and starve them into| their constitutional right of protest submission while they wait for| and petition and attacked by the Roosevelt. or Johnson, or somebody, | police, who arrested their leaders. sranted. Wife of Kidnaped Labor Defense Man ‘Thinks He Is Dead The workers should repudiate this watchful waiting policy of the Socialist leaders. To rely on the Washington conferences will | mean failure to the strike. Mili- tant action on the picket line over the heads of the betraying offi- 3, 1934 Page Three “Daily” Writer to “No!” Shout Cleveland Supplement, Says Ben Gold Answer Libel Suit NEW YORK—‘I am sure that the trade union supplement will be | greeted with enthusiasm by the thousands of needle trades workers in New York,” said Ben Gold, sec- retary of the Needle Trades Work- ers’ Industrial Union, commenting on the plan of the Daily Worker to publish each Monday, starting April 30, a special two-page New York trade union section, | “We have long looked forward to the day when we could have our own special trade union section in| the Daily Worker,” declared Gold. | “The appearance of this section next Monday will be an event of| | Sreat importance for the New York trade union movement. It will give | fresh impetus, leadership and guid- | ance to the vast mounting strike struggles that are sweeping the city. It will be an additional weapon in Monday issues of the Daily Worker | containing the supplement. | “Unless we distribute the cop- ies of the ‘Daily’ trade union sup- plement among the workers in the unions by tens of thousands we, the Communists in the unions, cannot consider that we have done our taks,” said Gold. It will be the duty of every Commu- nist in the unions, every Commu- nist fraction, to take up seriously the question of distributing the issues containing the trade union section among the union mem- bers.” | Knitgoods Strikers Pickets Jailed in Attacked By Police Furniture Strike Mass Action Forces Re- lease of Pickets PHILADELPHIA, April 22.—Two workers were injured and five others arrested when 500 militant knit- continued their attempts to reach an agreement. With the club of the injunction held over them, the Socialist lead-! ers are very likely to use this as an| cials is the kind of action that will win. 'No Word of F. Norman, Seized by Fla. Citrus Growers’ Thugs | NEW YORK.—The wife of Frank Sie is ao aneenen” Hathaway to Speak In New Orleans 2”, International Labor De- — |fense organizer, reported yesterday The most militant solidarity of Will Lecture April 29 | that her husband has not been the strikers is necessary to defeat | heard of since he was kidnapped} at Open Forum this two-sided threat, and this Manning, Socialist organizer of the from his shack in Lakeland, Fla., by | agents of the citrus growers on union, has failed to achieve. In- stead he has made considerable} Aigitiegs in fabian the ranks of ie ers by rank discrimination ; ‘ against Negro strikers. At the be-| NEW ORLEANS.—Clarence A.|APril 11. She states her belief that ginning of the strike, there were no| Hathaway, editor of the Daily | Nofman Rie Pere mete, nang | Negroes on the strike committee.| Worker, member of the Central| R&S. former organizer of the) When spirited protests forced him| Committee of the Communist Party | Cittus Workers Union. As I. 1. D. to add two Negroes to the com-|and one of the outstanding lead- lap eal 3 Nts a inne bas ot mittee, they were completely ignored| ers of the workers of the U. S, the Wa oe ted be ihe 2 nice 2 by the white members. And when) will lecture on Communism and iis | oe Reese pansy rthote cela gne Negro and five white workers program for a planned society at tions to surike for vetter fauattions eae d ebdigdase Manning permitted) the Eleanor McMain High School, a eee Berne eye at | 8024S: Clkibourn a, New: Orteaua, | Mus. Notinani tarinented By. ihe) ects Sunday, April 29, at 8 murdered, is further harassed by This lecture is one of a series be-| Persecution by the police who by | ing conducted under the auspices of | *ccusing her of “withholding in- swo weeks, making absolutely no “Mttempt to get bail for him. | | ” are thus attempting to SOE Nem. .Oreao8 Open Forum, | cover up their own inactivity in which has invited lecturers of note | ; |to speak on various subjects ep em can ic ee, un beees OF MAY Ist Celebration | political and economic interest, 2¢* husband. |Previous to the Hathaway lecture! Pa MADISON SQ. |the forum has heard speakers on New Workers Center apitalism, Fascism and Socialism, | * GARDEN and other kindred subjects. The To Open in Dayton, 0. 7:30 P. M. |Communist Party of New Orleans Eke es {plans to make this one of the} DAYTON,—A Workers Center Reserved Seat $1.00 largest meetings of its kind ever| has been opened in the Beckell General Admission 25 cents held in the city. Both Negro and| Building, 6 North Jefferson St., white workers are being mobilized in the neighborhoods to attend in| there will be a housewarming party mass. in the form of a Box Social and The Hathaway meeting is ex- | entertainment, on Saturday, April pected to be an added stimulus for|21, 8 p.m., at the Center. Admis- a big May Day demonstration | sion is free. which will be the first one to be) In this new Center there will be held in the city. a Workers Book Shop, as well as jclasses in Principles of Communism and Political Economy. Beginning Ist to force the adoption of the (with the first Sunday in May an Jommunist Party, N. Y. District 50 East 13th St. WORKERS COOPERATIVE COLONY 2700-2800 BRONX PARK EAST has reduced the rent, several Down Tools, Demonstrate May Room 310. To celebrate this event | | goods strikers were attacked by po-| | lice and gangsters in front of the} | West Point Plant in Germantown. When the pickets arrived at the Plant police attempted to separate the men from the women. When the workers resisted they were at- | tacked by the cops and gangsters armed with blackjacks and clubs. | After a fight lasting almost an hour two workers were rushed to the hos- Pital, one with scalp wounds that took seven stitches to close. In spite of this the picketting con- tinuel. Some time after picketing had been resumed five workers were pulled out of line by police as they were being pointed out by several gangsters. Force Release of Jailed Workers At the same time the spirit and solidarity of the workers grows, and they have forced the release of one group of arrested pickets after an- other by militant mass demonstr: tions at the station houses immec magistrates’ hearing. ately after the arrests and at the) BEN GOLD Secretary of the Needle Trades | Workers’ Industrial Union. He says: “We must distribute copies of the ‘Daily’ trade union supple- ment by tens of thousands!” the tricky strikebreaking tactics of the Socialist Party.” Gold stressed heavily the neces- sity of circulating among the thou- Following the meeting, the white our struggle against wage-cuts and|sands of trade union workers the Company Changes Name To Nullify Agreement BOSTON, MASS. | April Twenty-s ven pickets who were ar. striking under the leadership of the| Furniture Workers Industrial Union for union conditions and union! recognition, Uses Legal Trickery The Columbia-Myers Upholstering | | Company has launched an attack against the Furniture Workers In- | dustrial Union of Greater Boston, | with whom they had an agreement to maintain a union shop with union | conditions. Througi a piece of legal | trickery, Mr. Myers changed the| name of the firm from “company” | to “incorporated.” By doing this the union agreement becomes nuil and| void, thereby giving Mr. Myers an| opportunity to cut wages and lock} | out the union men. A strike was | called by the union in answer to Mr. Myer's challenge. | Judge Jacob J. Kaplan, who has |inherited an interest in the firm} from his late father, is believed to| Down Tools May Firs State Meets ‘‘Bookies” | Half Way; To Garner $1,500,000 a Year NEW YORK, April 22 — The fruits of the bill, legalizing betting, signed by Gov. Lehman Thursday was observed at the Jamaica race track yesterday. The bill remove thepenalties from the Hughes anti-betting measure and makes possible suits against bookmakers for losses sustained. It is explained that the state will garner $1,500,000 yearly through a 15 per cent tax on the definite number of admissions Workers’ Unemployment Insur- | open forum will be conducted every good apartments available. ance Bill, H. R, 7598! Sunday evening. the bookmakers will have to guar- antee in order to do business, | have been instrumental in the firm | seeking an injunction against the | Union, | New Opposition Paper Issued in Pittsburgh) by UMWA Rank, File) Pittsburgh, Pa—The Rank and} | File Committee of the United Mine| Workers of America has issued al new paper calied the “The Rank and File Coal Digger.” The paper seils| | at 3 cents a copy, subscription 50 cents a year. Bundle orders are sold | at the rate of 2 cents a copy. | Address all communications to) \“The Rank and File Coal Digger,” | 929 Fifth Ave., Pittsburgh, Pa. | fessional scab-herders and purv me rested in front of the Columbia | In Court Tomorrow Courtroom to Protest Attack on Paper NEW YORK.—Harry F author of a series of articl | labor spies just concluded Daily Worker, will appe son Market Cou at 10 am., t | charges of cri against him by breaker and labor George Williams. The libel charges are organized attack against of forged documents who operate out of the offices of the Sherwood De- tective Bureau, 1457 Broadway. George Williams, who is bringing the charges against Raymond, is a | partner of Max Sherwood, who was | recently exposed in the Daily Work- jer as the head of the old Eagle | Detective Agency, which circulated | manufacturers with forgeries pur- porting to be documents of the Com- | the leaders of the A. F. of L, and| ™unist Party. In 1930 Williams was exposed by Martin A. Dillman, a writer for the} Federation News of leader of a scab-herdir as the Williams Service, which re. cruited its working force “from Nev York’s huge supply of gunmen and expert man-killers.” | This gang leader will be in court | tomorrow to press charges against Raymond and the Daily Worker. | Workers of New York should pro- | test this attack on the Daily Work- ler by packing the courtroom when | the case comes up for a hearing. go, as the /1,000 Jamaica H. S. Pupils Witness Attack ‘an known | Gas Station Strikers Workers Urged wo Pack TQ Bosses Ultimatum Oil Truckers Plan Walkout; Big Oil Companies Gather Forces to D Meet Stubborn, efeat Workers But Militant Fight By FRANK ROGER: CLEVELAND, Ohio.— 2,000 Gasoline Station work- ers, meeting F the Prospect Auditorium, and 200 women mem organized Women’s Auxil- lary of the union shou matum of the Gas Company t 3 Mass Trials to Render Verdict on Lovestone Group Furriers Charge Group Worked Against Union With Racketeers YORK i render their NEW TY Tho} the strike-breaking activities against the fur workers. At the three trials on Thursday, April 26, in the Bronx. Bronwnsville and Coney Island | (Brighton). | The Fue Workers Industrial | Union is charging the entire Lovestonite group with working hand in glove with the worst | racketeering group and underworld types against the conditions of the fur workers and against their union. Workers from the shops and also former Lovestonites will testify on the contemptible treach- | nanimous “No” to the ulti- at they return to work Monday morning before the company negotiates with the union presentatives. The Petroleum Truck Driv- ’ and Helpers’ Union 545 also sent demands to the oil 72 hour dead ted to city : niforms i by the company by monthly pay jays. This walkout of tank truck drivers would shut off supplies of all strtions in Cleveland Desipte efforts of Fred Keightly, U. S. Department of Labor coneili- ator, to get the men back to work. the gas station workers stand united against any trickery of arbitration They have fresh in their minds whet happened to the gasoline ers of St. Louis who about a year ago ac- | cepted the company’s offer to re- turn back to wor! before negotiating gz. This resulted in com sing to meet the de and breaking o and settli pant of t the JAMAICA, N. Y.—Roy Spector,| ery committed by the Lovestonites | st Louis strike. ; Myers Upholstering Company last| Chairman of an Anti-War meeting| in the name of their so-called | as fe Friday and charged sauntering | of 1,000 students of Jamaica High| “revolutionary” principles. Wan ch ae Spt, i PEt byt Sat now out on $100 | School Thursday, was dragged from Ben Gold, A. Potash and J. Wino- are<idlitant workéers wha tae aa: in court Whunadns Al ii come up/|the speakers’ stand and roughly gradsky will be the accusers. Work-| clared that they will fight to a ce eee AE eh suk ig anaes by members of the Var-| ers from other trades will tell about| snich {or all of the demands as sity Club of the school. Student | witnesses begged a mounted police-| man who was present to intervene,| ‘phe public trials will be held in bueyhe refused, Jaughing: | Ambassador Hall, 3875—Third Ave- | Spector was then suspended by | nue, Bronx, in Brow Je at the orders of Charles H. Vosburgh, Prin- | Hinsdale Workers Clu! Sutter | cipal, on the pretext that he had| Avenue, and in Brighton at 3200 been smoking. Louis Spector, young | Coney island Avenue (cor. Brighton Spector’s father is going to fight the| Beach Ave.) suspension. He has the active sup- port of the National Students’ League, the International Labor De- | fense, andthe American Civil Lib- erties Union. activities of in their trades. the Lovestonites presented in the union agreement. This militant stand of the Cleve- land gas station workers has struck fear into the billion dollar gas com- pany officials who have sent their representatives to Cleveland At the present time representa- tives of the leading companies hav in the Statler for the pw | pose of united action on the part of the i] companies to smash this strike. Many of the representatives arrived here by airplanes in their hurry to mobilize all the forces of the government to smash the mili- Down Tools May First! Students Wage Fight to Keep Philadelphia Down tools May 1 against fas- clam here and abroad, for the | Summer Schools Open jiant strike. at the present time release of Thaelmann and all im- — there are repr ives of the prisoned anti-fascists! | PHILADELPHIA, April 22.— The | Standard Oil Company, Shell Petro- jelosing of all summer schools in| leum Corporation, Sinclair Refining sae ostes this city was announced by the| Company, Gulf RefAning Company. Silver Shirts’? Paper | Board of Education. Over 10.000| City Service Oil Company, Texas 1 Ss d B kr; t students had attended last year. | Distriouing Company, and other $ Sued as Bankrupt | students in almost every school| large conc in. Cleveland |have formed Committees for the| It is reported that the Union is ASHEVILLE, N. C., April 22— Bankruptcy proceedings have been brought against the Gala- had Press, the publishing com- pany of William Dudley Pelley |Re-opening of Summer Schools, and are gathering signatures to demand ‘that the Board rescind its order In Gratz High School, 900 stu- drawing up agreements to be pre- sented in Alsron, Ohio, Kansas City, | St. Louis and Eastern St. Louis vith organizations also t ‘ Pelley || Gents signed the petitions the first lished in 37 other cities and his fascist “Silver Shirts. an and in South Philadelphia | out the countr; It is quite evi- This press publishes “Libera- |/ 4:2 School 500 signed. Commit-| dent that the oil companies are de- tion,” the organ of the “Silver || +005 report that feeling over the| t ed to use all the force at Shirt Legion of America,” devoted || ciosing of summer schools is high.| their command, even the Federal to praise of Adolf Hitler and the |\there is talk of a student strike | Government, to smash this strike Nazis, and to attacks on Com- munism. The records of the pub- lication showed that it had only 9,000 subscribers. The Silver Shirts have united with U. S. Nazi storm troops, who |to force the Board to open the | schools. | | The Board claims that it must | |economize wherever possible. The| committees are demanding a full ac- in order to kill any effort to estab- lish union organization that might effect the profits of their billion dollar corp rations. To date there has been no effort i i rd’ ences he part of the A. F. of L. now wear the Silver Shirt uni- ||counting of the Board's finances,|on t J form, to act as sluggers at Nazi |, Claiming that the Board can not/ leadership to encourage sympathy meetings. In other parts of the only find means of continuing the | and support strike action of their country they have attempted to |/Summer schools, but can also build | Federal locals in other cities in new schools to reliev and provide empl unemployed teachers. overcrowding | support of the Cleveland strike. ment for 2,000 The Steel & Metal Workers In- dustrial Union has sent solidarity greetings to the strikers, pledging sell their services as gangsters, strike-breakers, and scabs. Cultural Activities for Adults, Youth and Children. The Counter-Revolutionary Role of ‘Trotsky and His “International” | full support of the strike and the | rallying of all its force to help the | gas station workers. Telephone: Estabrook 8-1400—8-1401 ae erent Trains. Stop at Allerton Ave. ‘ : Gee sper WAN tates cae ea ee K Rm uer ce sean ae faire : Bias aie EN Wins Club to 1.W.0. Direction: “exington Ave., White Piains| is | ; i oe » i Friday and Saturday 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Trotzkyism Li s N O W #sagrarian revolution, and the eight-| an agency of the bourgeoisie, be-| International. Nevertheless, it) the slogan of Soviet power in China, Its Place s On the Through Sales of Sunday 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. is hour day, Bolshevism sets up the|cause Trotzkyism itself was a kind| would be false to equate Trotzky-|and proposed that the proletariat Rubbish-H f } Th Daily Work Counter-Revolutionary slogan of Soviet power. The posi-|of Menshevism. Trotzkyism has|ism today with historic Trotzky-|should struggle for a national as- ubbdish-Freap 0 | ne aly orker C t tion has changed and so has the| always regarded the Mensheviks as|ism. Historic Trotzkyism was aj sembly. Chiang Kai Shek has taken) History” | : PATRONIZE urren revolutionary slogan of Bolshevism.| older brothers, who “make mis-| current within the working class|over the slogan for a national as- P ’ “Since I started selling the Daily The situation has changed — and so the counter-revolutionary slogan of Trotzkyism changes. Freedom of coalition would be a too pitiful slogan today. So Trotzkyism sup- ports bourgeois “democracy.” Before the war, the Bolsheviks completed their separation from the Mensheviks, finally and forever. They excluded the liquidators from the Party, and constituted them- By L, MAGYAR PART Ii. In the period of reaction which followed the defeat of the Russian revolution of 1905-1906, the Bol- Sheviks orientated themselves to the inevitability of the new revolution, and for that reason they put forth, even during the period of reaction, the three Leninist slogans: Re- SEVERN’S CAFETERIA 7th Avenue at 30th St. Best Food—W orkers Prices We Have Reopened JADE MOUNTAIN American & Chinese Restaurant 197 SECOND AVENUE (Bet. 12th and 13th St.) Folding Chairs Desks, Files Typewriters public—confiscation of the land of the large landlords—and the eight- hour day. Trotzky opposed these slogans of the Bolsheviks, and he set up only one slogan: Freedom of Coalition. Freedom of coalition, as the sum of democracy. Today we witness the resurrec- tion of this Trotzkyist slogan under quite different historic conditions. selves the Party of the revolution- ary proletariat. They struggled against Liquidationism, they strug- gled against the Otsovists. Because of this struggle, Trotzky called Lenin and the Bolsheviks “dis- rupters,” “fanatics,” “intellectual cranks,” “saboteurs of the working class movement.” In order better to fight the Bolsheviks, Trotzky The proletariat has the power in its hands on only one-sixth of the jearth’s surface. In the other, the capitalist countries, the proletariat has not yet been able to seize ‘power. Now a fascist wave is ris- ,ing. In Germany, Fascism has ob- tained a temporary victory. The Second International speaks of a “counter-revolutionary situation”; Trotzkyism, of the “period of dark- est reaction”; the defeatists speak of the “epoch of fascism and re- action”; the Bolshevists speak of the inevitable approach of a new series of revolutions and wars. And in this position the Communists set up as the prifcipal slogan power to the Soviets. Trotzkyism ad- vances the slogan of democracy, the struggle for bourgeois democ- racy. Is this not the same struggle, under different historic conditions, which was fought between Trotzky- ism and Leninism in the period of | reaction? Instead of the freedom of coalition, Trotzkyism now ad- vances the slogan of democracy; instead of the hattle-cries: republic, formed the notorious August- Bloc*) of liquidators. He gathered about himself all the opportunists, all the traitorous elements of Men- 26th Street | K ALMUS 35 West and fought rabidly against the Bol- shevik position. Today Trotzkyism repeats its historic betrayal of the working class under quite different histori- cal conditions. Trotakyism wants to form a new August-Bloc, by gathering about itself all the ele- ments which have been thrown out of the camp of Communism. It is trying to weld these elements into a single bloc, in order better to fight against Bolshevism. The historic roots of this attempt lie in the attitude of Trotzkyism toward Menshevism, which has al- ready been described; Trotzkyism *In 1912, in Vienna, Trotzky formed a bloc of all the groups and sub-groups opposed to the Bolsheviks, as a “counterweight” to the Prague Conference of the Bol- shevik Party. (The Editors.) has never regarded Menshevism as SPRING Is In Full - i Estabrook §-1400, Private Quarters Again Available shevism, formed a bloc out of them | takes,” but who can be brought back to the correct path of class struggle by good advice. Only this attitude of historic Trotzkyism to- ward Menshevism makes it possible to explain why Trotzkyism fights furiously against the Bolsheviks, when they call the present-day Social democracy social-fascism. This attitude of historic Trotzky- ism to historic opportunism explains how Trotzky dared to propose the formation of a united front from above, with the worst social-fas- cists, such as Wels, Loebe, Leipart and Severing, ostensibly in order to fight fascism better in that way. Trotzkyism has once more as- sumed that the Social-democratic leaders Severing, Zoergiebel, Grzesinski, Noske, Loebe, etc.—are capable of a revolutionary struggle against fascism. Trotzkyism's fight against the designation of social- democracy as social-fascism, Trot- |zkyism’s proposal to form a bloc with the social-democratic leaders —is nothing else than the logical consequence of the historic policy of Trotzkyism, which led at an- other time to the formation of the August-bloc. Today Trotzky talks about “the formation of a fourth Interna- tional.” Trotzky’s fourth “Inter- national” is the repetition of the August-bloc on a new and higher level of the historic ladder. Why is Trotzkyism a Counter- Revolutionary Current? But can one say that Trotzkyism today is identical with historic Trotzkyism? Instead of freedom of coalition, today bourgeois democ- racy; instead of cooperation with the liquidators, today a united front with the social-fascist leaders; in- stead of the theory of permanent revolution in Russia, theory of the permanent revolu- tion in China and India; instead of the August-bloc, today the fourth today the) movement. Trotzkyism today has) had to turn itself into a counter- | revolutionary Current. One need) only to name the most. important prophecies of Tro‘zkyism, in order to understand its real role: Trotzkyism presented the theory of “ultra-imperialism,” and pro- claimed that the United States would “put Europe on rations.” This theory denies the unequal rate of the development. of capitalism. Trotzky’s theory was a new edi- tion of “organized capitalism.” But it has appeared that the United States could not organize capital- ism, that American imperialism has or Japan “on rations.” Trotzkyism proclaimed the victory of Thermidor in the Sov- iet Union, and accused the Bol- shevik Party, among other things, of sacrificing the interests of the proletariat to the class interests of the kulaks. Instead of the vietory of Thermidor, the victory of socialism came in the Soviet Union. The kulaks were liqui- dated as a class on the basis of the thorough collectivization of agriculture. Trotzky called the First Five- Year Plan an “adventure,” a “burocratic fantasy.” The First Five Year Plan was realized. Trotzky opposed the Communist International, when it proclaimed the beginning of a new, third period in the development of post- war capitalism, and the approach of the end of capitalist stabiliza- tion. The end of the temporary ing apart; China finds itself in a nationwide crisis. Troteky opposed sembly from Trotsky, but the Sov-| iet revolution is victorious in China. When Japanese imperialism began its predatory campaign against the Worker I have gained the confid- Trotzky wants to found a fourth} ence of the workers I meet, I have International—the Communist In-| heen able to win an entire club to ternational is stronger, more uni- 4 pte §6the Internation- Chinese people, Chinese Commu- | fed. better prepared for struggle eae al Workers Or- nism set up the slogan of a na- vhan. ever, der, and have tional revolutionary war against! Trotzky announced that in the also won the Japanese imperialism. Trotzky op-| Soviet Union, power would haye to) sympathy of posed this slogan, and thereby he | be torn from the hands of the Bol- many young not been able to put either Europe | stabilization of capitalism has taken | | peasantry, an army of bandits. In this respect he found himself on one line with the head of the Second International, Vandervelde. workers and peasants is carrying victoriously forward the Soviet power, Trotzky opposed. not only she | First Five Year Plan, but also the collectivization of agriculture, and he announced the unconditional failure of this world-historical un- |dertaking of the Bolsheviks. The collectivization was carried through. Trotzky “prophesied” that Stalin is | the grave-digger of the proletarian revolution, Stalin has led the pro- cal victories. Trotzky proclaimed Hitler's victory the that after Communist Communist Party of Germany leads the heroic struggle against Hitler- fascism. Tretsky invetned the “Stalin-burocrats” for the fellow-workers in ths International. Communist place. already shown that the “Stalin- After the temporary defeat of) hurocrats” are the bearers of the the Chinese revolution, Trotzky| preletrrian revolution. | prophesied a long period of stabi-| Tri prophesied the fall of lization of Chiang Kai Shek’s|the Soviet power in the Sovict ‘power. The Kuomintang is fail-| Union — the Soviet power stands firmer than ever and wins world- historical victories. But the Red Army of the Chinese | letarian revolution to world-histori- | Party of Germany was dead—the/} name | leading | Dimitroff, and hun- | dreds and thousands with him, have | l- German fascism, and British imperialism are preparing a coun- ter-revolutionary war against the Soviet Union. | In view of all this, Trotzkyism to- day must not be held equivalent even to historic Trotzkyism. Trot- zkyism today is an accessory to the Second International, a handyman for the bourgeoisie, It is the van- guard of the counter-revolutionary | bourgeoisie in the struggle against! moment, when Japanese imper' |ism, | Leninism. That is why Trotzkyism was {swept out of the revolutionary working class movement. The Mensheviks praise Trotzky. They are already inviting Trotzky. | |The Menshevik Schiffrin writes that Trotzky is now on the right path in his criticism of Commu- nism, but he must restrain himself in his attitude toward the Sovict | | Union. Shiffrin, the Menshevik, | counsels Trotzky that one should) not so openly slander the Soviet | Union! ‘rotzkyism now appears as a group of marauders and} hyenas on the battlefield of the; class war.» It wants to benefit by the temporary defeats of the pro-| letariat. That is why Trotzkyism is condemned. That is why it could not and cannot find a place among |the reyclutionary workers. Its | place is on the rubbish-heap of the| history of the revolutionary work- ing class movement. \) objectively rendered service to|Sheviks by force; he is in favor of workers,” writes Japanese _ imperialism. Trotzky | 20 armed uprising at some remote | C. Carvotta, of called the Red Army of the Chinese | time, as a policy for a distant goal. | East Boston, Soviets an army of pauperized|He announces this policy at that Mass. Comrade Carvotta has re- cently built up a regular Daily Worker route in East Boston. “The method I use is a very simple one,” he writes. “When I speak to a worke: I tell him the truth about our revolutionary aim. Cc. Carvotta |I discuss freely with him or her the aims of the Communist Party land the Sccialist progress in the | Soviet Union. “T explain the difference between the Daily Worker which is a work- ing-class newspaper and the cap- italist press which défends the in- terests of the bosses. 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