The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 12, 1934, Page 2

Page 2 DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1936 Many Workers’ Groups Back Conference on the Far East m, ¥: Parley Lovestone- Willi Plan Aid For Chinese Well-Known Writers Endorse Action to Aid Chinese People Concrete proof of the immense encouragement and support exist- ing among the workers and intel- lectuals of the United States for the national liberation strugg the Chinese Peoplé is manifest in the number and tenor of statements of endorsement of the Conference on the Far East, to be held in New York City on Oct, 28, received by the Friends of the Chinese People, initiating the conference. The conference is intended to be a broad, united front conference at which all important aspects of the Far Eastern problem will be dis- cussed. and a broad program of concrete action in support of the struggles of the Chinee people will be adopted. All types of organiza- tions have been invited, Since the conference is scheduled for Oct. 23, it is urgent for all or- Sanizations to elect their delegates immediately and to report to the Friends of the Chinese People, 168 W. 23rd St. With the threat of imperialist war, with a more savage terror being daily waged against The. Chinese people, and in view of néw actions originated, such as the action of the committee led by Mme. Sun Yat Sen, which hes called for a war of armed defense against Japenese imperialism, it is @ssential that at this very crucial moment, workers be able to throw their weight into the struggle on the side of the Chinese people, against imperialist war, against fas- cism. 4Among the statements of endorse- ment of the Conference on the Far East are those of Genevieve Tag- gard, well known poet; Winifred Chappel, secretary of the Methodist Federation for Social Service; Ben Davis, Jr., editor of the Liberator, and noted Negro lawyer, and Edwin Seaver, editor of Soviet Russia To- day and author of several novels), LD. Intensifies Struggle Jugoslavia Incites Anti-Italian Riots (Continued from Page 1) them was with the assassin on the day the murders were committed. Invstigation shows that the police now have no clues as to the real identity of the assassin. His name jis evidently not Petrus Kelemen, as originally reported, as all his papers were false, and he left no evidence of who he was, French Cabinet May Quit The French Cabinet is expected to resign in view of the assassination taking place on French soil, without the French police being able to pre- vent it. Doumergue is expected to remain as premier and to re-organ- ize the Cabinet. Albert Sarraut, minister of the interior, has already resigned. Ac- tion is to be taken for the dis- missal of Pierre Jouhannaud, chief of police at Marseilles, and chief of secret police at Marseilles, as well as of the controller general of the Surete Nationale, which is charged with organizing protection for visit- ¢ Brandler Groups Now Seek to Hide Bankruptcy By Open Letter Proposing ‘Collaboration’ With Comintern * » I. Reply Points Out the situation, as, for example, “(a) r a the Brandler group has come out Complete Collapse of against the social-democratic and * | Trotzkyite estimate of the interna- Brandler Line jtional situation and the Trotzkyite emt: | Slander of the U. 8. S. R. and the By JACK STACHEL |C. P. S. U.; (b) the Brandler group pe 934) th has revised its estimate of social- Some time ago, (une, 18% © ‘democracy, and recognized that the did not apply to the U. 8. A. He |Lovestoneites Pursue. painted a picture of the wth of . . . ba Reactionary Line in American capitalism, while the Comintern was pointing to the be- Trade Unions ginning of the end of capitalist par- tial stabilization, He even called the beginning of the present crisis as |Shoe industry, I. Zimmerman is the merely a “stock market affair” of |ideological leader of the openly no great significance. |Right-wing Makesy group, fighting | ‘Seamen Extend ‘Need for ‘Daily’ = Funds et (Continued from Page 1) | able to supply our national editions with more news and articles on work in the concentration districts, lin the heavy industries, where the Lines in Strike ie artes Party is striving to root its forces the strongest, | QUT ‘faced with these momentous | Political events, with the neces- |sity of increasing the circulation (Continued from Page 1) so-called “International Communist Opposition’—that is, the little groups of Brandiler-Lovestone, ad- dressed a le‘ter to. the Communis International, in which they pro- posed that they be invited through their representatives to send dele- gates to the Seventh World Con- | gress of the Comintern to raise the question there of “collaboration with the C. I.” and the “restoration | of unity of the International Com- munist Movement.” A | The Communist International re- | plied to these proposals through an jeditorial in the columns of the Executive Committee of the Comin- tern, “The Communist Interna- | tional” (No. 18 of the English edi- |tion). The editorial points out |that these proposals of the Brand- \lerites at this time are due to the | fact that the whole policy of this | |group has been proved by - The Jugosiavian riots, and the |Velopment of events to ‘be, bank. subsequent troop movements in| rupt, and that, as a consequence of Italy and Jugoslavia, is increasing | this, as was to be expected, the |the war nervousness throughout | Brandlerites have lost even the Europe. Both the European and Small groups of followers they acrid American capitalist press are striy-| All that remains of them is the ing sovereigns, ing hard to minimize the danger of Small groups in Germany, the war, in order not to arouse the|U. S. Switzerland and Alsace, masses. Statesmen are rushing into| Which, in their proééss of further | print declaring that there is no| disintegration, are torn by inner danger of war, when the very | dissensions, tramping of feet of hundreds of |thousands of soldiers can be heard throughout Europe. In the face of the preparation for immediate flight of war planes, the leading capi-| have lost most of their followers, talist statesmen increase their lying the Brandlerites were compelled, as to ward off any counter-action by | the E. C. C. I. points out, to revise |the toiling population, \some of their former estimates of Lovestoneism Bankrupt Realizing that ‘their whole pro- gram is bankrupt and that they | condemned to the electric chair long | before the International Labor De- | would be for each national group defeat of the working class in Ger- many and Aus‘ria is the result of the social-democratic policy; (c) this group has recognized that the Left” Socialist Labor Party [ot Germany] and Trotzkyites supply the reformists with their ideology so as to keep the workers frem/ going over to Communism.” In reply to the proposal of send- ing representatives. to the Seventh World Congress of the Comintern and the high-sounding phrases in which the proposals were made in the name of the “small bureau,” the E. C. C. I. points out that there is no need to cover up the bankruptcy |of the Brandler groups by such high-sounding names, since they will deceive no one and least of all the Communist International. That if these groups wish to “collaborate” with the C. I., and if they recognize their former mistakes, “the Come munist Parties of Germany, France, the U. S, A. and Switzerland will have no objections to the meetings proposed by Brandler. But in view of the fact that the four Brandler- ite groups differ to a great extent | from each other, that they were ex- | pelled from the Communist Parties and the Communist International for various reasons, the only thing that could bring useful results of the Brandlerite-Lovestoneite as- sociation to apply to the C. C. of the corresponding Communist Party.” But Lovestone did not even dis- play the honesty thet some of the other right wing groups, for ex- ample, Brandier, showed, by openly advocating all of their right wing Policies. Lovestone used Tammany methods in fighting the Comintern. He pleaded loyalty to the Comintern while developing his right wing pro- gram. He claimed that he was op- posed to the Brandier policies and publicly spoke against Brandler. It is well known thet while a follower of Bukharin, he demanded, for fac- tional reasons, at the Sixth Party Convention that the C.P.S.U. remove Comrade Bukharin, the then leader of the right wing in the CPSU. from all posts in the Party and the Comintern, These methods were characterized by Comrade Stalin as “stock exchange” methods, ™% was only after Lovestone had been expelled from the Party that he came out publicly against the policy of building the industrial unions made necessary because of the refusal of the A. F. of L. bureaueracy to organize the unor- ganized and the mass expulsions which this bureaucracy carried through. It was only then that he openly identified himself with the Brandlerites. Trade Unien Policy ‘We shall deal with the trade union question in a su>sequent article. We will show the whole line of this group on the trade ‘union’ question The E. C, C, I. states further that “the program, the chief decisions | of the Communist Parties and the | |Comintern on tactics and prin-| ciples, have been pudlished in the} press and are known to everyone, | including Brandler, Lovestone and Bringolf. They and their support- to be one of following at the tail of the most reactionary bureaucracy of the A. F. of L. and the Socialist Party. We will also deal with the development of the Party trade ion line and its tactical applica- sion’ at the various stages’ of the struggle., Here, however, we wish against democracy in the union, at- tacking Communists, preaching re- liance on the N.R.A., and in general in carrying through the class col- laboration policy. Of course, Zim- merman, in. order to save himself from the consequences of the grow- ing influence of the Left wing in the LL.G.W.U., and aware of his own growing isolation, is trying to rehabilitate himself as a “Left” by bringing forward talk of “general strikes,” “industrial unionism,” etc., ‘but at the same time he has not a word of criticism of the Green- Dubinsky policies in the I.L.G.W.U. He is playing “Left” only in order to be able to be of service to Green- Dubinsky and Co. Joi Reactionary “Red” Drive And just as the Green-Woll leadership of the A. F. of L. is re- sorting to expulsions and “red- baiting” in their efforts to stifie the genuine rank-and-file opposi- tion movement led by the Commu- nist Party, so the Lovestoneites are with great speed developing these same methods. It is already known that Zimmerman and Co. have ex- pelled and suspended Left-wing | Workers from the unions, the union Executive. Now this same policy is being carried through by Keller in the textile union.’ That there is no difference between Keller and Green can be seen in the state- ment against the Communists is- sued by the Executive Board of the textile union in Paterson under Keller's leadership. In the statement issued by the | Keller executive they say: “However, a few Communists, who | | Came over with the members of the N.T.W.U. [referring to the merger of the N.T.W.U. with the U.T.W. Line Steamship Company to com- pel the owners to comply with the shipping acts and put a full quota of radio operators on their ships Sailing to West Africa. of the Daily Worker, of sending re- porters to the vast stzikes battle fronts in this country, the Daiiy Worker is met with very heavy | burdens. Pronbd bapa) ee Ge | A great deal of the future prog- ships are sailing in violation to the Tess of the Daily Worker is up to ship acts of July 23, 1912, and June | Cur readers. The drive for $60,000 24, 1910. jis going along very slowly. Becatse. Ships Violate Laws rif Worke: has re come ou | wil ysterical appeals about im iene Facog fovas Pighoiey |minent collapse if the money is no Passengers and crew shall have em- | forthcoming, some of readers d: ployed a minimum of two radio op- | not feel that the need is urgent anc erators and maintain continuous Pressing. ne 2 service through proper equipment.| Already the deficit in publishing Barber Line ships sailing to West | the two new editions in New York Africa, according to Haddock, carry @d improving the national edition on an average a crew of 40 men is mounting dangerously. We must and one operator. But while on the have funds now ini order not” to African Coast these ships take on impede the development ‘of the hundreds of Negro deck passengers Daily Worker. and carry them sometimes more | Saree ae than a thousand miles. is more than ever necessary + Haddock wrote to the Federal 4 now that no obstacles be placed | 200 miles.” ‘Haddock showed reporters docu- |ments prepared by ‘radio officers from the Barber Line which show that the owners of the line are con- i u int out a few instances of the ers must clearly and plainly state |0 poimt t whether they can call these de-| Practical work of the Lovestoneites cisions their own ... they can only |in the trade unions to make clear in Paterson—J. S.] are not only |Stantly violating the shipping law violating the rules and discipline of regarding the question of operators the union, but are again resorting |and are thus endangering the lives Communications Commission about | in the way of the rapid development the matter and received on Oct. 5 @ letter from Herbert L. Petty, sec- retary of the commission, stating that ships carrying fifty or more persons must have at least two op- erators. Quote Commission’s Reply Mr. Petty’s letter said in part: “If an American vessel, during the course of het voyage, picks up additional passengers or crew, or both, making a total of: fifty or Tore persons, she would be re- quired to carry ‘at least two op- erators, provided the distance to the next port or place of call is at least | and growth of the Daily Worker. ‘We urge all our readers to dig deep | into their pockets, to make every | Sacrifice they can in order to help the Daily Worker meets its, financial difficulties. Every penny you give means the | Strengthening and improving of our ;Most powerful revolutionary Weapon, |means added strength to mobilize | united front support for our..em- | battled Spanish comrades, means more Daily Workers on the. strike fronts in this country. niga Send in your contribution .now, | Help us build the Daily Worker. Many workers have set them- selves a quota of $1 a week for the “Daily” $60,000 drive. How much are you giving? Pennies, dimes, quarters—send as much as you can! The Daily Worker depends upon For Scottsboro Boys’ Lives (Continued from Page 1) International Labor Defense namely, to raise all questions of denial of constitutional righis in- volved in the cases. When once more we were faced with an appeal to the highest court of the land, we would not be fulfilling our duty to these boys’ and the eause they gymbolize if we did not exert every effort to enlist the services of the same attorney who had successfully handled the appeals of the boys in that court. “Insofar as Mr. Leibowitz ig con- cerned, he came into the cases with full knowledge of the world-wide protest movement that had been developed by the International La- bor Defense and he acquiesced to our expressed determination to con- tinue and intensify this movement. “Insofar as the. appeal to the United States Supreme Court was concerned, frankly, we did not con- sider Mr. Leibowitz in that role; we are advised that he has never argued an appeal in the United States Supreme Court in his en- tire professional career, and in- deed, it is our information that he | is not even admitted to practice in that court. Will Continue Struggle “We affirm that our struggle for the freedom of the nine innocent Scottsboro victims will go on un- abated; we will intensify our efforts to develop an even wider and more effective mass defense movement throughout the United States and the rest of the world to stay the hands of the executioners and force open the doors of Kilby and Jeffer- son County Jails so that these in- nocent boys may be released. For the furtherance of that purpose and in the interests of the rights of the oppressed Negro people we will con- tinue to cooperate with anybody and any organization that is actuated by the same purposes. We will call conferences to support the Scotts- boro defense; we will join confer- ences with all others for that pur- pose; we will organize demonstra- tions and parades; we will strength- en and build the growing unity of black and white workers in support of the defense; in short, we will carry on that policy which has ad- mittedly wrested the Scottsboro boys five times from the electric chair and has kept them alive through the last three and one-half years, “At this time it is highly neces- sary to set forth the history of the Scotisboro cases anr the connection of the International Labor Defense with them. History of Case “On March 25, 1931, nine Negro boys were arrested at Paint Rock, Alabama, and charged with at- tacking two white girls—Ruby Bates and Victoria Price. On April 6th the trials of these nine boys began | at. Scottsboro before Judge E. A. Hawkins; they were represented at he triels by an attorney named Stephen Roddy, of Chattanooga, Tennessee, who was retained by a group of ministers at the sugges- tion of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. By. April 9th four trials had been completed and death sentences had been pronounced on eight of the Scotsboro boys. “At this time the International Labor Defense, though it had not yet entered the legal defense of the Scottsboro bovs, alréady had initiated a protest movement against the verdicts, which was {built to a world-wide scale within a few short months. “Joseph R. Brodsky, of the In- ternational Labor Defense legal staff, went South, interviewed the |parents of the boys, took them to |see theiy children in Kilby Prison, Montgomery, Alabama. He obtained ja retainer dated May 14, 1931, signed by all of the parents of the de- fendants, as well as by the defend- ants themselves. He retained southern counsel, General George W. Chamiee, who has been asso- ciated in the case ever since. Constitutional Issues Raised “He made a motion for a new trial in the Scottsboro court house where, in spite of threats made against him, he raised the con- stitutional questions of the exclu- sion of Negroes from the Grand Jury that had indicted the boys and the Petit Jury that tried them; of fense ever stepped into the case, Issue of Negro Rights “The International Labor Defense | entered the Scottsboro case with full knowledge of the issues involved in it. Involved in the question of the frame-up of these nine innocent boys was the question of the rights of thirteen million Negro people in | the United States. Therefore it was necessary to mobilize the masses against the common enemy, the lynch ‘class which ‘perpetrated the Scottsboro lynch ‘frame-up as part of its campaign of terror and op- pression against the Negro people. “The ILD. realized that arrayed against it were all these forces of |reaction, and all and agents within the ranks of the Negro people and the working ciass. |In the three-year fight to free the Scottsboro boys, it has been neces- sary to carry on a constant fight | against the efforts of these elements | to cripple the defense. “Assistance has been given to their henchmen! return as its supporters.” | Correct Comintern Policy In the Lovestone press there is an announcement that the Brandler group in Germany has decided to collaborate with the C. P. of Ger- | many on a number of ques‘ions. | From the above it is clear that if there is truth in this announcement, that such collaboration could only be achieved on the basis of the ac- ceptance by the Brandlerites of the line of the Comintern on these questions. é | Lovestone, however, true to his methods and policies, hastens to save whatever followers he still has for fear that the few honest work- jers still in his ranks will return to the ranks of the Pariy, He therefore decided to take the “of- fensive” in the form of an open letter to the membership of the Communist Party. This document, which the Lovestoneites have dis- tributed in leaflet form, wishes to state the impression that the Com- | munist International has adopted the Brandler-Lovestonc line, Nat- | |that their activities and their pok-| jcies have nothing to do with Com-| munism and to expose the frand that the taoties of the Party at pres- now. The . differences on the trade union question between the Party and the Lovestone renegades are not merely on the question of build- ing independent unions (which we advocate. only where there is a basis) and the work in the A. P. of L: unions (which the» Party has always stood for) but rather these | differences lie in the character of | \the trade union. work, whether these | unions be affiliated to the A. F. of L. or not. The Loyestone policies in the A. F. of L. unions (1.LG.W.U. and U.T.W.) and the independent unions (United Shoe) are essentially the same as those of Green and Co. It is a difference in the first place and in the main between reformism and a revolutionary policy. These practical questions will also to the usual Communistie tactics | of slander, disturbance, disruption | and violence.” (Emphasis miné.— |J. 8.) They further justify and pre- lent have anything to do with what | Pare for more expulsions in the fol- | officers is that all ships be properly \Lovestone stood for or advocates | jJowing words: “The Joint Board appeals to all silk workers to sup- port it in whatever action may be necessary to protect and defend the union against those who secretly or otherwise, whether as Communists or as employers’ agents, intend to | design to weaken or destroy it. Sus- pect any disruptionist as a bosses’ agent.” « This is how Lovestone fights for unity. Compare this statement with | the one issued by Bill Green in the | name of the A. F. of L. Executive Council inthe form of a letter to all A. F. of 'L. locals under the date | Of Sept. 11, calling for the expul- |sion of Communists from the | |unions and calling for the deporta- \tion of militant foreign-born work- ers. Is there any difference be- |tween these two statements? Not: in the least. And these people dare use the these forces of reaction by the urally, no one who knows the situ- make clear to every worker that |"@Me of Communist! Lovestone of members of the crews and thou- sands of Negro people in West Africa. One of the demands of the radio you! visited Todd at his headquarters, 15 Whitehall Street, Tuesday and threatened to picket his offices if he shipped any officers on ships deciared on strike of the strike com- mittee. Yesterday Todd sent a let- | ter to Edward F. Drolette, chairmen | Of the officers’ section of the strike committee, requesting that the com- mittee notify the U.L.O.A. wherever the committee expectéd scabs ‘to’ be shipped so that he ‘could inform the membership of the ‘association “ndt to’ take the’ jobs. “Todd ‘offered “His full cooperation to keep scabs the struck vessels.) © 3 CL and C.Y.1 Call ~AllWorkersTo Aid - manned. Force Scabs to Stay Off Pressure brought by more than 200 licensed officers, who are sup- porting the strike, compelled Bert Todd, secretary of the United Licensed Officers Association, to agree not to ship officers abroad struck vessels. Although Todd and refused to endorse the uhited front strike call; he agreed to cooperate with the officers’ committee to keep scabs off the struck ships. A committee of three officers the hostility of the atmosphere, the jleadership of the National Associa- lynch mobs that surrounded the |tion for the Advancement of Col- court house during the trials, yell- ored People, groups of Negro min- ing for the blood of the innocent isters, and other reformist organi victims; of the actual hostility of |Zations. Among these minister: “defense counsel” to the defendants. |have been the Rev. L. H. King, the “The first date set for the execu- | Rev. James W. Brown, the Rev. tion of these boys was July 10, 1931; |Richard E. Bolden, whose names this statement is being issued on} We find now among those of the |Oct. 11, 1934, and the Scottsboro backers of Mr. Leibowitz boys are still alive. Even Mr. Sam-| “In spite of all. this, the Inter- uel Leibowitz has time and time national Labor Defense repeats its again been forced to admit that if|statement that it will continue it had not been for the International |unabated its struggle for the free- Labor Defense the Scottsboro boys|dom of the Scottsboro boys, and would long since have been executed. | will cooperate fully with anybody | Lovestoné is not for unity with the talks of “unity of the Communist “The International Labor Defense retained Mr. Walter H. Pollak, known throughout the country as an outstanding practitioner in the United States Supreme Court. An appeal was taken to that court, and Mr. Pollak argued the appeal before that court. Mass pressure was in- tensified everywhere. A reversal was forced. The International Labor Defense was faced with the question of securing an outstanding trial lawyer. Sought Best Lawyer “Following its policy of securing ne best available lawyer for the particular legal job at hand, the In- ternational Labor Defense retained Mr, Samuel 8. Leibowitz for the trials. Again the boys were con- vieted. We are now faced again with an appeal to the United States Supreme Court. Naturally, we turned again to Mr. Pollak to take this case up to the ‘court of last illusions.’ “This was made known to Mr. Leibowitz on Oct. 1, 1934. We read |in the public press of Oct. 4th that Mr. Leibowitz announced that he had withdrawn from the Scottsboro cases. “Today we are met with the in- formation that a group of Negro ministers went South and succeeded in getting the boys to sign retainers| NEWARK, N. J., Oct. 11.—Several | tion” (1), as the renegade Lovestone to keep Mr. Leibowitz in the case es|hundred Negro and white workers|now dares to claim in a futile at- | Sole attorney. “This is not the first time that |efforts have been made to hinder | the successful defense of the Scotts- | boro boys. During the last three and one-half years repeated efforts have been made to separate the defendants and their parents from the International Labor Defense; j red scares’ were raised; the charge jwas hurled that the International Labor Defense was not interested in the boys but was interested in making propaganda out of their plight. Those who made _ these charges end attempted to drive a wedge between the defense organ zation and the defendants a conveniently omitted to state that the Scottsboro boys had first been and anv- organization that is ac~ |tuated by the purpose of sincerely |of the Scottsboro boys. “NATIONAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE INTERNATIONAL LABOR DEFENSE” Philadelphia Councils Win Relief for Negro | PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Oct. 11—A | delegation from the Unemployment | Councils forced the welfare depart- }ment to grant immediate relief to the family of Arthur Jones, Negro, former C.C.C. worker, whe had been denied relief since his discharge |from camp three months ago. children, He lost his job two years ago, The family was supported by | relatives until he was sent to a C.C. |C. camp about eight months ago. The entire family has since joined |the Unemployment Councils, | Three Jailed as Jobless Stop Eviction in Newark | massed at the home of Hurwitz, an unemployed worker, at 390 Morris /ruptcy of his group. Lovestone would Ave. here Wednesday, and stopped a scheduled eviction. Three work- ers, | Shapiro, were arrested. | Early in the morning the workers assembled at the house where the \eviction was to take place. About noon the police arrived. “ Af the de- |mend of the landlord, who threat- jened the unemployed with a large | knife, the police seized the three workers. The success of the Daily Worker $60,000 drive means a better, larger newspaper. Donate and get dona- tions today. Send the money im- mediately to the “Daily.” |fighting for the lives and freedom Jones was the sole support of his| widowed mother and her five other! Blokesherg, Diamond and Mrs.| ation will take him and his group | Seriously. By this position, Love- | stone only betrays a nervousness of being still further isolated, and be- ing forced into the open. | | Lovestone knows, after seeing the | |Trotzky renegade group going over | openly to the camp of the Second | International (France) and faced | with the reply of the Comintern, that he will be faced, on the one hand, with more Gitlow-Zam de-| sertions towards the Second Inter- | |national and with the return of| |the honest proletarians to the fold jof the Communist Party, on the other. Crocked Lovestone Methods ‘These Tammany Hall methods of |Lovestone’g political struggle are a continuation and further develop- iment of the policies which resulted jin his, expulsion from the Commu- |nist International. Perhaps most, of |the workers and even the majority of the Party. membership -are not acquainted with all-the facts leading up to the expulsion of Lovestone |from. the Party. The statement in the Communist International points lout that “Lovestone, who defended the bourgeois theory of American exceptionalism and prosperity, was |vemoved from the leadership of the |C.P.U.S.A. for introducing crooked |commercial methods of unprincipled |struggle into the Party when defend- ing his bourgeois theories, and was expelled when he violated the ele- jmentary obligations of a Party |member by continuing, not only to advocate his right wing views, but also these methods. In search of a platform, he joined Brandler for the |struggle against the C.P.U.S.A. and the Comintern.” This makes quite clear how cor- rect have been the policies and tac- ties of the Lovestone group and how the “Comintern is now coming jaround to the Lovestone posi- |tempt to cover up the whole bank- now ‘have us believe that he was ‘differ:ng with the Comintern only on the question of the united front and the trade union policy, and that he wes in agreement on the other fundamental questions. Lovestone Opportunism The facts are, however, that Love- stone, No matter what his private opinions may have been, did not |raise the questions of the tactics of the united front and the trade union |question as differences at the time (of his expuision, But what he did raise was the whole question of the line of the Communist Interna- Isolated From Workers The Lovestone. renegades have made little headway in general or in the trade unions. They haye, through some of their lieutenants, positions of leadership in three unions: the dressmakers in New York (Local 22 of the LL.G.W.U.), the Lovestonite Zimmerman being the manager of the local; in the Silk Workers Local of the U.T.W. in Paterson, where the Lovestoneite Keller is the secretary; and in the independent union, the United Shoe and Leather Workers Union, where I. Zimmerman, though defeated for office, was smuggled in by the re- actionary bureaucrats to a position of responsibility. In the basic in- dustries of steel, coal, marine, rail- road, marine, auto, etc., the Love- stoneites are completely isolated. But let us state at the outset that the Lovestoneites have not gained the position of leadership by even in anyway carrying on am “independent” poitey in the name of their group. They have gained these positions only by merging with the most reaction- ary officials of these unions, by becoming the mercenary troops of the labor bureaucracy in the struggle against the Left wing. The dressmakers know that it was not the small group around Zimmerman that was able to de- feat the Left wing candidates, who received some 4,000 votes in the local. It was the Dubinsky- ites, the anarchists, the Socialist Party groups (following a confer- ence of Zimmerman and Viadeck) that formed the bloc of which the Lovestoneites became a part with one ticket against the Left wing. The Zimmerman group by itself would not have received more jhan a few scores of votes, while he Left wing ticket received 4,000. votes. This is also true re- garding the positions gained by the Levesteneites in the textile and shoe unions. Aid A.F.L, Bureaucracy teaucracy. the recent convention of the I. L. the Communists. For this, ‘tional, claim:ng that, while it might apply to the rest of the world, it ecent, textile strike, Keller, the|is a ‘leaflet,’ and its distributors Lovestoneite, followed . completely|are arrested,. especially on. the the policies of Gorman. . In the! waterfront’ a 4 What policies are these renegades carrying through in these unions? They are carrying through the poli- cies of the official A. F. of L. bu- In the dress strike, at G. W. U., the Lovestone groun was in complete agreement with Du- binsky on all questions and stood at the head of the struggle against. Zim- ‘nerman was rewarded with a vice- residency of the I.L.G.W.U. In the |Communist Party’ but rather with | Movement”! | Green, Gorman, Dubinsky, and Co. | The Trotzky renegades in France have already gone over openly to |the Second International. Certain- ly, anyone formerly in the Party and now outside of the Party, who really wants to fight against’ capi- talism, against the growing. menace of fascism and war, can only do this by returning to the banner of the Communist International. Loyestone, despite all his pretense of talk of “Communist unity,” has openly identified himself with the A. F. of L. bureaucracy. Any hon- est worker still following the bank- rupt standard of Lovestoneism must draw the necessary conclu- sions from the road on which Lovestone has.taken them. The re- Ply of the Communist Interna- tional to the bankrupt Lovestone- Brandler groups makes clear. what road such ‘honest misled workers must take if they wish really to fight under the banner of Commu- nism, the road of the Communist International. r Boston Labor : Fights Terror (Continued from Page 1) cries of the thousands of victims of | fascist terror, will go on trial again in a few days. “Commissioner of Public Works Christopher Carven is upheld by Mayor Mansfield in refusing per- mits not only to anti-fascist pick- ets who carried signs denouncing man Consulate, but declares that he will not allow marine strikers to carry any form of placard or sign stating that a strike is going on. Open-air meetings are broken upon. a technicality that speakers, by standing upon a platform, are ‘placing obstruc ions in the street,’ and the arrested speakers are jailed by Boston judges. “The handbill ordinance, clearly unconstitutional, is not enforced against candidates of the capitalist parties, any advertising firm or other supporter of capitalism, but eny workers’ organization has its | leaflet distributors daily arrésted and jailed. Even the provision that the ordinance does not apply to newspapers has been violated by Judge Day, who states that the Daily Worker, the only daily work- ing-class newspaper in the country, having a circulation of over -50,000, the Hitler terror before the Ger- |) Spanish Brothers (Continued from Page 1) _ flotillas against the workers and peasants, who, under the working class alliance accomplished through the fighting unity between Communists and Socialists, have sealed this alliance with their blood, shed on the field of battle, a battle which is still going on. : “A victory for the fascist-monarchist reaction. in Spain would—after the seizure of power by fascism in Germany and Austria—mean not only immeasurable torture for the workers and peasants of Spain, but would signify a heavy blow for the international proletariat. Raa “This single example of fighting unity of the working class was a powerful spur to the Spanish toilers in their ef- forts to hinder Spanish and world reaction. sree ls “Having in mind this decisive picture of the bourgeoisie striving to shatter an embattled working class, the Commu- nist International calls upon its sections, in common with other workers’ organizations, to organize demonstrations in solidarity with the Spanish working class. fe re “At the same time the Communist International turns to the workers of the Socialist International with the pro- posal for immediate common actions, as well for the support of the fighting Spanish proletariat as against thé support of the Lerroux government by the governments of -other capi- talist countries. : “The Communist International instructs Comrade Cachin immediately to-ascertain the attitude of representa- tives of the Second International on the arrangement of con- crete forms and the practical carrying through of such united action. = ae (Signed) “EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE, : : “Communist International.” The appeal of the Communist Youth International: “To the Socialist International of Youth, to’ the young workers and women workers and the toiling youth of all countries! Be: Bt Bical tee “The Executive Committee of. the Communist Youth International joins in the appeal of the Comintern and pro- poses to the Socialist International of Youth to begin imme- diately with common action for the protection and support of the proletariat and the peasantry, consequently, therefore, of the youth, in their revolutionary fight. © - =. | “The E. C. of the C.Y.I. delegates Comrades Raymond, Guyot and Masse, to begin negotiations at once with repre- sentatives of the Socialist Youth International, and together with them to begin concrete mass action for the support of the Spanish proletariat and peasantry and the youth against the fascist-monarchist reaction, _ (Signed) “EXECUTIVE COMMITTEF, — 7 “Communist Youth International.” .