The Militant 1934 Table of Contents: January 1 Jan 6, 1934 Nothing for Workers in Roosevelt Message President's Demagogy at Congress Opening Hides Ruling Class Plans Increase of Unemployment "Balancing Production and Consumption" The Joker in the Peace Policy Court Threat to Labor Witness Civil Works and the NRA, by Hugo Oehler Free Yakima Defendants Increase in Lynchings Reported for 1933 Bourbon South Leads in Mob Murder; Sheriffs Assist Gangs Unemployment Increase Phila. Food Workers Strike, by Harry Allen Fight Against Heavy Odds to Organize Industry Federation of Unions Correction (In the report last issue of the Brownsville meeting the audience was 300 rather than 500) How Pacifism Led Us into War, by George Clarke "He Kept Us Out of War." Wilson, the Dove of Peace Pacifism Leading Into War The "War to End All Wars" "To Make the World Safe for Democracy" The Downfall of Wilson On the N.Y. Waterfront Seamen Subjected to Vicious Treatment Chaco - Imperialist Battleground, by Rosalio Negrette British and American Oil Interests War Two Years Old The Recovery Program of the Socialist Party, by Thomas Stamm The Story of a Boy Who Made Good, by Al Dasch Hero's Career Begins Still Running Strong Toronto Mass Meeting on Russian Recognition Movie Review, by Kino (A review of "Little Women") Free Torgler, Dimitroff, Popoff and Taneff The Railroad Brotherhood Ritualistic Mummery at Meetings Pioneer Needed Secrecy Secret Work Now Isolates the Unions Aids System of Gag-Rule Discussion Article On the Youth Resolution, by Dave Levitt The Policy of 1921 Basis of the Youth Movement Political Leadership Tasks of Immediate Period Pioneer Publishers Last Opportunity Correction (Trotsky's article from last issue, "Hitler the Pacifist," has numerous mistranslations from the original French text.) Roosevelt's Speech on Latin America A Letter on the Hitler Boycott, by Harry Strang The Old Position of Comintern A Typical Stalinist "Turn" The Soviet Union & the 4th International, by Leon Trotsky The Class Nature of the Soviet State How the Question is Posed "The Dictatorship over the Proletariat" The Dictatorship of the Proletariat as an Idealistic Norm Bonapartism Discussion Articles- The NRA and the Corporate State, by Clem Forsen Example of the 1851 Insurrection Contradictions of Roosevelt Regime State Capitalism and the Corporate State Function of Imperialist State State Form of Finance Capital Editorial Shoe Workers Amalgamated Discussion Article Spartacus Youth Tasks, by Perry Meyers Characteristics of American Youth Contact with Industrial Workers Sports and Social Activities Concrete On Primary Task Norwegian Labor Party and the Fourth International, by B. The Marxist Attitude The N.A.P. and Sweden The Charge of "Sectarianism" The Road of the IVth International The Picture Notes of the Week, by G....n (Discusses Roosevelt, bankers and Wall Street) Discussion Article On the National Recovery Act, by Harry Brand 2 Jan 20, 1934 A Capitalist Budget of 10 Billion Dollars Debt to Exceed World War Figures; America Pays High Price for World Domination The Price of World Hegemony A Class Budget Senator Davis Makes a Speech for 6 Hour Day The Mystery of Van der Lubbe, by Harry Strang Mystery Shrouds Fascist Killing of Van der Lubbe "Dead Men Tell No Tales" A Suspicious Incident Fascism in America, by George Clarke Pelley's Silver Shirts Fascism in the U.S. "The Chief" Truly "Miraculous" A New Pope The Psychic Transformed Omnipotent, Infallible "The Higher Import" Policy Praises Ford California Board Denies Parole to Warren Billings "Anti-Social Activities" Teachers of N.Y. in Protest, by S. Furlough Protest by New York Teachers Clear The Decks Green Urges Nazi Boycott Big Meetings in Hotel Union Drive War Sparks Fly in Far East; Powers Arm, by Arne Swabeck Wall Street Plays Its Own Game in Recognition and Prepares for Coming War in Pacific Pacifism to Screen War Aims U.S. Imperialist Designs The Game of American Imperialism The U.S. Versus Japan Japan Moving against Soviet Union Far East Tensions Increases Kerensky Minister Reveals Jap War Aims Discussion Article on the NRA, by Harry Brand (Continued from last Issue) Lovestone Discovers Esthonia, by Max Shachtman (Alternate spelling, usually spelled "Estonia") Propaganda Pledge Is Defended by Stalinist Attorneys Attorney for Stalinism "Explaining" Paragraph 4 The Soviet Treaty With Esthonia Soviet Policy at Genoa Policy at Tenth Soviet Congress Pioneer Publishers Working in Macy's Model Restaurant "Investments" Under the NRA Discipline and Penalties The "Steady Extra" Racket No Bus Boys Macy's "Mutual" Benefit Sick Workers Not Rehired The Railroad Brotherhoods, by A.E. The "Obligation" as a Gaglaw Destructing Role of Secret Work The Obligation Never Affects The Officials The Soviet Union & the 4th International The Class Nature of the Soviet State, by Leon Trotsky (Continued from last issue) "State Capitalism" The Economy of the U.S.S.R. Bureaucracy and the Ruling Class Class Exploitation and Social Parasitism Notes of a Journalist, by Alpha Koltzov in Paris A Pumpkin in the Director's Office Editorial- (The next three articles are editorials.) The Great American Skin Game (Discusses monetary policy, devaluation and Roosevelt's ability to fool the workers and the American people in general.) The Expulsions in Local 9 The Sixty-Cent Dollar Labor Leaders and NRA, by Hugo Oehler Basic Problem Untouched Reduction in Real Wages Green Appeals to Capitalists Role of Labor Leaders in the N.R.A. The Grocery Code 3 Jan 27, 1934 Call General Strike of N.Y. Food Workers 600 Start Strike Wave In the Waldorf Astoria Whole Kitchen and Dining Room Crew March in Body To Amalgamated Union Headquarters Six Hundred in Stoppage Waldorf is Signal For Workers Workers Act As One Man Militant Three Times a Week During Strike Thousands Pack Halls; Walkout Vote Solid General Strike Acclaimed Further Strike News The Unanimously Adopted Resolution What the Strike Means to You Strike Lights...and Shadows, by Oscar De Boomer The Union's Strike Demands Plan Big Navy Program Teachers Protest Economy Program, by H.L. An Open Letter to the American Workers Party, by Arne Swabeck, Secretary, National Committee of the C.L.A. (Opposition) For the New Party Lovestone Discovers Esthonia, by Max Shachtman (Alternate spelling of "Estonia") Propaganda Pledge is Defended by Stalinist Attorneys (Continued from last issue) Anglo-Russian Trade Agreement Reply to Lord Curzon Chicherin on "Propaganda" The Transition with the Border States Not Ordinary Recognition Pacts Bolshevik Policy on Self-Determination What the Comintern Manifesto Urged and What It Forgot to Urge... Drive Starts for "New Intern'l." ("New International" is a new monthly magazine) For the Fourth International, by Leon Trotsky Letter to a Member of the Independent Labor Party The Question of a Banner Lessons of Anglo-Russian Committee The International Question The London Bureau Swedish Communist Party Events Will Confirm Our Slogans Hill-Billy Hitlerites, by George Clarke Red Baiting and Jew Baiting The Jewish Plot a la Pelley The Choicest Invective The Railroad Brotherhoods, by A.E. Constitutions Reek with Gaglaws The Brotherhood Constitutions Reek With Gaglaws Constitutional Restrictions The Magazines, by Mag Notes of a Journalist, by Alpha "Not Only But Also...." The Drive for Quality The Class Enemy Cleansing the Party Gems From Stalin Workers Oppose Mendieta Regime, by Thomas Stamm Workers Oppose Mendieta Cuban Sugar Problem Deadline for Harvest High mark of Struggle Rackets at the McAlpin Wage Cuts Under NRA Unpaid Overtime Compulsory Deductions From Wages Racket Number Two Discrimination Trotsky's Article (The Militant will discontinue publication of Trotsky's article on the Soviet State and the Fourth International. It will appear shortly as a pamphlet from Pioneer Publishers.) 4 Jan 29, 1934 (The disclosure has changed to "Published Three Times a Week by the Communist League of America (Opposition)" Toward the Catastrophe, by Leon Trotsky The Myth of Invincibility Struck Hotels "Ballyhoo" Won't Cook Dinners, by B. 20,000 Out Service Crippled As Strike Ranks Swell Fifty of City's Most Important Hotels Successfully Struck by Amalgamated Food Workers Biggest Hotels Paralyzed Militant Tactics Strike Spirit Excellent Effective Unionism Thousands Surround Waldorf In First Mass Picketing Line, by Diana Rice Down With the Scabs! "For the Union makes us strong!" Japan Moves Toward War Against the Soviet Union, by Lucifer Boss Papers Launch Flood of Lies Against Hotel Strike, by Harry Strang Boss Press Tricks The "Red Plot" Beware: Fake Telegrams! The I.L.P. and the Comintern, by T.C. Problem of the Third International Criticize Comintern Sub Drive on 5 Jan 31, 1934 10,000 In Mass Hotel Picket Line Strikers "Greet" Roosevelt Scab Birthday Dinners Revolt at Local 16's Treachery Members of A. F. of L. Refuse to Act as Scabs Ten Dollars for Scab Job Rebel Against High Dues Bosses Work with Racketeers Editorial- (The next 4 articles are editorials) The Strike and the N.R.A. How Will the Strike Be Won? Extending the Strike Front Red Baiting and Reaction F.W.I.U. "Fortress" Collapses, by Harry Strang New Yorker Men Vote Solid for Amalgamated Stalinists Create Confusion Flock to Amalgamated Drawn Guns On Pickets Police Effort to Scare Workers is Defied Cops Draw Guns New Hotels Join Ranks of Strike Face Thugs at Longchamps Another N.R.A. Project Collapses 10,000 Fill Mass Rally Madison Square Garden Jammed With Strikers Masses Shout Down Disrupters Call For Spreading Strike Strike Gains Momentum, by G.C. Corrections Labor Greets Amalgamated The Strikers Speak Emil Smith, Dining Room Delegate, Waldorf-Astoria Gustave Barth, Kitchen Delegate, Pennsylvania Hotel Marcel Gaudachon, Kitchen Delegate, Hotel Astor V. Mastro, Picket Captain, Waiter, Hotel New Weston Herbert Schneider, Waiter Delegate, Longchamps, 57th Street Protest Chen Du Siu's Imprisonment (Signed by numerous individuals from the following organizations, C.P., I.L.P., N.A.F.T.A., N.U.D.A.W., W.U., Chemical Workers Union, C.W.U., A.E.U. Subs Double February 6 Feb 2, 1934 Call 30,000 Cab Drivers in General Strike, by Carl Cowl Big Companies Already Tied Up CWA Workers Rebel Brand Lies on Union Contracts Show Complete List of Amalgamated Demands Strike Committee Unanimous Demand for Wage Scale of Kitchen Scabs a Flop at Casino de Paree "Daily Worker" Hits Hotel Strike With Slander and False Charges Grand Central Joins in Strike Strike Has Cut Menus to the Bone Stories by Diners Show Hotel Men Bluffing What the Amalgamated Stands For Editorial Boss Press Persists In Fighting Strike Hitler: One Year After, by Joe Carter Hitlerism in the Saddle Workers Left Leaderless The United Front Fascism Doomed The Wrecking Crew at Work The Railroad Brotherhoods, by A.E. Official Censorship of Union Press Censorship Laws Cited Subs Rise 7 Feb 10, 1934 (The disclosure has changed back to "Published Weekly by the Communist League of America (Opposition)" Paris Masses Shake Corrupt French Regime Reaction in Power with Dumergue Masses and the Crisis The Stavisky Affair Latest Developments in the N.Y. Hotel Strike Lewis Triumphs at Mine Convention, by Arne Swabeck Another "Victory" for Lewis The U.M.W. of A. Convention An "Industrial Statesman" The Conciliation Hoax No Strike Assurances The Insurgent Unions Editorial (Concerns the N.Y. hotel and restaurant workers general strike) Significance of Taxi Drivers' Strike Analyzed, by Thomas Stamm Cab Drivers In Huge Meet At Garden, by S.A. Militant Action in Cab Walkout, by B.C. Militancy Shown in Taxi Strike Scab Cars Run Off Streets of N.Y., by S.G.B. Nab Khaki Shirt In Cab Driver Murder Letters from the Militants- (The next 7 articles are letters) C.W.A. Workers Must Unite as One, by G. A "Shoppe" Under a N.R.A. Code, by J.T. Extra Work Without Pay "Fixing" Labor Inspectors A Pig-Sty of a Hospital, by J.T. An Expulsion at High Speed, by David Udell No Answer to Questions Member of Section Committee Becomes a "Counter-Revolutionist" The Jew-Baiters in Chicago, by R.L. Hotel Scab Agencies Fall Through, by Arne Swabeck Fired by the C.W.A. But Not Hired!, by J.H. Pioneer Publishers The Soviet Union and the Fourth International, by Leon Trotsky Important Offer 569 Subs! Our School in Brooklyn The Unpleasant Task of O. Piatnitsky and How Lenin Is Used to "Help" Him, by Harry Strang Ignores Real Issue How Piatnitsky "Edits" Lenin Organize Jewish Club in Brownsville American-Soviet Agreement The Significance of Russian Recognition by the United States, by J. Kamiat Just Arrived! (The Bulletin of the Russian Opposition) Who Was Bishop Tourian "Unser Wort" a Weekly, by Leon Trotsky A Real Achievement A Note to Branches Discussion of Youth Problems, by Florence Wyle On Industrial Activity The Movement in Mexico, by C.C. Revolutionary Events As Seen by Our Own Correspondent Stalinist Provocation Young Internationalists Persecution of Comrades Marxist Education Demagogy of Government Trotsky's Works Popular Bolshevik Congress Once and Now, by Leon Trotsky On the Eve of the Congress Bureaucratic Dictatorship and Social Contradictions 8 Feb 17, 1934 Austrian Workers Fight Heroic Battle, by Max Shachtman Show Proletarian Will In War Against Fascism Austrian Workers Fight Points The Way To World Proletariat Austria Next in Order, by Leon Trotsky A United Front on Austria Cops Slug Workers In Austria Protest C.P. Disrupts Garden Meet Hotel Strike Strikers Take "Militant" French Gov't In War Move Reactionary French Government in War Moves An "Aggressive Tone" Need of United Struggle C.I. Phrasemongering Priests Bless Fascist Guns, by Aquinas 645 Subs 9 Feb 24, 1934 Heading Straight For Another World War, by Arne Swabeck Horrible Spectre of a New Imperialist Holocaust Menaces the Whole World Collapse of Austro-Marxism In the Vienna Struggle, by S. A Fatal Policy Banking on Dollfuss The Dissatisfied Masses Adler's Indictment Coal Yard Workers Win Strike in Minneapolis, by V.R.D. Militant Battle Brings a Speedy Victory To Drivers The "Cruising Picket Squad" Inspiration and Example For Union Workers Vandalism! NRA Attacks Hotel Strike Need Militant Policy to Overcome Crisis in Ranks A Critical Situation Quick Action Needed Shoe Union Forges Ahead Amalgamation Rolls over Reactionary Opposition Mahan's Workshop The Fight at Lowell Elections in New York Shops The C.W.A. Front- 10,000 Demonstrate in New York Inwood Park Marine Park Prospect Park, by K. Wage Cuts, by K. Shachtman Tour Revolt in the Blockers Union Reactionary Clique Struggle Threatens Split Results of Clique Struggle Fishing In Troubled Waters Where Will Revolt Lead? The Right Road Maintain United Local Money vs Men Capital and Labor in the Hotel Strike Things the Minneapolis Coal-yard Workers Won't Forget, by V.R.D. Another United Front Burlesque, by J.S.G. Oneal Discovers "Trotskyism" by S. Socialist Locals Come Out For The Fourth International Oneal Distorts Facts Social Democratic Legends The Case of Hungary Stalinism Is Not Communism MPLS Labor Notes, by C.F. Minneapolis Mooney Conference Marks Time Stalinism on Austria, by Joseph Carter Comments Refute Course in Germany Here and There with the United Front, by Thomas Stamm Vital Questions of the New Party, by Max Shachtman The Program of the A.W.P. The Decisive Question Settled Questions The International Approach S.P. "Neutrality" in the Unions The Waterloo of Pseudo-Radicalism, by G.C. Vienna: the Socialist "Millennium" The Capitalist Press Bourgeois Praise of Austro-Marxism Vienna The Symbol Reformist Utopia Ad Nauseum From the Daily Worker Reports of the 17th Congress of the C.P.S.U. Against Hooliganism March 10 Mar 10, 1934 Toward the New Party, by James P. Cannon Internationalism and the A.W.P. The Paramount Question The A.W.P. Program New Parties and New International--A Single Task Marxism Is Not A Foreign Product Concepts of Internationalism Can the National Parties Develop Independently? Organization Methods Which International? Spring Festival Big Crowd at Debate, by G.R. Cannon and Lovestone Discuss Internationals A Statement on the Rakovsky Case, by Leon Trotsky N.R.A. and Company Unions Corporations Win the Fake "Elections" "Protecting Workers' Rights" Weirton Steel Case Enforcing Company Union Plan Compulsory Arbitration Scheme End of the N.Y. Hotel Strike Left Wing Fights to Rebuild Amalgamated Union Discrimination Against Strike Militants NRA and Strike Leadership The Left Wing Organizes Rebuild the Amalgamated! French Internationalists Appeal to the Masses (Appeal of the Communist League of France (Bolshevik-Leninists) published in "La Verite" of February 16) To The Workers of France! How Shall the Struggle Be Carried On? Hard Times Missed Bosses, by W.R. "Presidents" Increased Salaries and Bonuses Hill Draws A Mere Million Schwab Gets a Raise Hardship For Some "Captains" C.W.A. News- C.W.A. Layoffs Hillside Park Inwood Park, by Ross C.W.A. Separations, by A.W.C. Letters to the Editor- Another Preparedness Parade in Frisco, by George Ellis The Parade of 1916 No Bomb This Time Aftermath of the Garden Affair A Stalinist Argument The Daily Worker and the Hotel Strike, by Herbert Solow Goldin Clique in Blind Alley Unscrupulous Policy Endangers Unity in Blockers Union Genuine Revolt Against Zaritsky Stalinist Rise with Goldin Sudden Concern for Principles The United Blockers' League The I.L.D. in the Capitalist Courts The Cuban Bolshevik-Leninists Pledge Fund Militant Builders 789 Subs! Shachtman Tour Are There Limits to the Fall? by Leon Trotsky Summary of the 13th Plenum of the Executive of the C.I. "The Policy of the German C.P. Was Correct"! The Growth of Fascism The Social Democracy The Reasoning of Anarchism A Provoking Idiocy A Phantom Universe Figures from the "Yearbooks" Explaining the Facts Stalinism Assisted Hitler Directives Contradict Analysis A Self-Indicting Recommendation Perspectives New Revolutionary Situations The New International Estimating the Socialist Rifts "Counter-Revolutionary" Aftermath of the Madison Square Garden Affair The Intellectuals Revolt Against Stalinist Hooliganism "Discussion" a la C.P. Intellectuals and the Party United Front from Below The Rebels' Destiny 11 Mar 17, 1934 Taxi Strikers Battling for Union Recognition N.R.A. Labor Board Conspires With Bosses to Break Strike and Impose Company Union Intolerable Conditions Mrs. Herrick Bats for Bosses The Strikers' Demands Spring Festival and Dance Court Denies Habeas Writ to A. Bellussi Deportation to Fascist Italy Reaffirmed Shachtman Speaks for the New Party on National Tour National Scope of Tour The Paris Commune, by Joseph Carter The Rise of the Commune Mistakes of the Commune Heirs of the Communards The Party--the Instrument of Struggle Wholesale Layoffs on All C.W.A. Projects Begin, by G.G. "Paupers Oath" Forced on Government Employees 11,000 Get the Gate The "Pink" Discharge Slip Tough Luck for Bright Boy Cut Wage of Paterson Textile Workers GRammercy 5-9524--- Cannon to Speak on Program of the 4th International 854 New Subs! 500 Unorganized Printers in Mass Meeting in N.Y. Government Inquisition for the Workers, by K. Questionnaire Pries Into Private Affairs Big May Day Edition of the Militant Letters to the Editor- New York Furriers Situation, by Kamenetsky Chaos in Shops Both Unions Impotent Shady Role of Lovestoneites Preparing Strike for June Strike of New York Dental Mechanics, by Herbert Capelis Facts About the Strike The Mechanics' Union Policy of the Leadership The Bosses' Organizations Fight for the Union Expulsion of B.J. Field and A Kaldis Organization Notes- The International Bulletin New York Reorganization The Madison Square Garden Boomerang Fake United Fronts Crack Up Sympathizers Alienated Inside the C.P. Mood of the Workers International Workers School Notes, by J. Weber (Next 5 articles) Militant Pledge Fund Oakland Bookshop and Forum March of Events After the CWA What? Madison Square Garden England Centrism and the 4th International, by Leon Trotsky Realignments in the International Labor Movement Characteristics of Centrism Centrist Ideology On the International Arena Words and Deeds The London Bureau Bureaucratic Centrism Adaption to Reformist Maneuvers New Forms of Struggle Events Force Realignments The Fourth International Conditions for Success The Basic Historic Task Communism and the Intellectuals Toward an Alliance of the Workers and Intellectuals A Year of Probation Shattering the Intellectual Facade The Challenge of the Intellectuals The Political Situation in Spain, by L.Fersen, Prison Celular, Madrid, January 26, 1934 Workers Prepare for Struggle United Front in Catalonia For National Alliance Organizing the CWA White Collar Workers Marine Park, by J.E. The "League Against War and Fascism" in Action at Newark Roosevelt's "12 Points" Against the Workers, by Hugo Oehler Speak to the "Captains of Industry" The "12 Points" Ballyhoo Reducing the Hours Senator Wagner's Admissions "Reforming" the C.I. Shachtman Tour 12 Mar 24,1934 Toward the Fourth International, by Albert Glotzer Revolutionary Youth Meet in International Conference Another Step on the Road to the New International German Delegates Handed over to Hitler Police Conference Reorganized Reports of National Sections Proposals of S.A.P. Youth Standpoint of I.C.L. Agreement on Amended Thesis Appeal to All Revolutionary Youth Great Tasks Ahead The Strange Adventures of Insull, by G.E. National Tour of Shachtman Builds for the New Party Dutch Police Deport Youth Delegates to Germany! Mass Delegations On CWA Work Go to Washington Lining Up For Big May Day Edition Of the Militant The New Strike Wave Organized Labor Under the NRA Company Unions Gain Under the NRA Green Admits the NRA Cannot Help Real Wages International Workers School Notes The Automobile Workers Revolt New York Taxi Drivers Continue Militant Fight For Union Demands of the Union Hostile to NRA Court Hits At Substitute Teachers, by H.L. Organizing the Home Relief Workers Disruptive Tactics 919 New Subs! Greek Workers' Club "Protomagia" Shachtman Tour Schedule Troyanovsky -- 1916 And 1934, by Harry Strang Troyanovsky Accuses Lenin "An International Scientific Society" "Deny Necessity of International" Australian Youth Organizations (By the International Communist League of Australia) Membership Internal Affairs of the Y.C.L. Youth Sections Suggested Organizational Form March of Events, by Jack Weber Manhattan Housing Cuba The Japanese-English Textile Negotiations One Year of Roosevelt's New Deal, by Arne Swabeck The Technique of Serving the Exploiters and Fooling the Masses The Demagogy of Roosevelt Program Fear Collapse of System The Ballyhoo Technique Not a "Revolution" Wall Street Not Really Disturbed The Big Interests and the Codes Discussion Article On the Resolution of the National Youth Committee, by Rae Spiegel Liberal Phraseology Lenin on the Jacobins The Struggle of the Masses Communism and the Intellectuals A Program for the Intellectuals Discussion Not Enough Mass Organizations a Necessity Build Mass Organizations Now! The British Hunger March, by T.C. "Congress of Action" A Peaceful Demonstration Comintern Reply to I.L.P. I.L.P. Conferences Editorial- The Furriers' Problem, by James P. Cannon Honor Among Thieves Rural Housing "Party Life" Correction (Concerns the article " Organizing the CWA White Collar Workers") March Young Spartacus Militant Pledge Fund N.Y. Printers Demand Unionization 13 Mar 31, 1934 For the 4th International (By the International Secretariat, League of Communist-Internationalists, Geneva, March 1934) Appeal of the Communist-Internationalists to the Workers of the World The Bankruptcy of the Leadership Which is the Way Out The Proletariat Must Forge a New Weapon The Proletariat Can Crush Fascism A Program of Action Workers of the World Reviewing the News, by Bill Tammany Hall "Success" of British C.P. Letters to the Editor- Another Opinion on the Furriers' Situation, by Leon Koenig Terroristic Methods Democracy in International Editor's Reply, by James P. Cannon Unconvincing Arguments The Criterion of the Mass Consistent Principle Sick-Bed Repentance 992 New Subs! Shachtman on Tour New Castle Youngstown Stalinists Frustrated Stalinist Hoodlums Mobilize Dealing With the Disrupters Shachtman on Tour Schedule March of Events The A. F. of L. Bureaucracy The Role of Roosevelt The Philippines The New York Post and Civic Virtue International Agitation For Deported Youth Add New Names to Pledge Fund to Sustain Militant The Pledgers "Expert" Deals Foul Blow at the N.Y. Teachers, by H.L. A Storm of Protest Organize the Unemployed The Betrayal of the Auto Workers A. F. of L. Sabotage and Treachery The Role of Roosevelt An Old Lesson Taught Again The Task of the Militants Plan Early Publication of the "New International" Theoretical Organ of Revolutionary Marxism Out in May Bellussi Gets 30 Days Stay Greek Workers' Club Lecture (On war and the 4th International) 500 at Cannon Lecture on International Program Lecture Course on the Subject to Follow Successful Meeting CWA Delegations March in Protest at Washington Explaining the "New Deal" Program A Tail to the Socialist Kite Attempts to Split the Amalgamated Hotel Workers The Opportunists in Home Relief Workers Body One Year of Roosevelt's New Deal, by Arne Swabeck Aid to Big Financiers Government Money Flows Standardizing on a Lower Level Unemployment and Reduced Hours The Real Aim of the New Deal Inside the C.C.C. Camps, by Carlos Hudson International Notes Lithuania Germany The Left Movement in Poland, by Victor Effects of Crises Trade Union Debacle The Internal Regime In the Party The Opposition The Right Wing and Labor Party, by J.G. Wright April TM Q2 1934 14 Apr 7, 1934 All Together Against Reaction on May Day (By the New York City Committee, Communist League of America) On Father Coughlan 4 Deported Youth in Grave Danger in Hitler Germany The Nazi Program Fascist Elections Dryer Taken to Court by A.F. of L. Official End of the New York Taxi Strike, by Thomas Stamm Politics in the Strike Bloc With Stalinists Tammany and the Socialists Contradictions Come Out Future Lines Appeal to the Young Workers of the World Committee Organized to Aid Anthony Bellussi Arrest Leaders of The Cuban Labor Movement A Veteran Militant Reviewing the News, by Bill Manuilsky Blames Stalin Senator Thayer and the Power Trust "Holy Joe" McKee The Police and the Taxi Strike The C.P. Convention--A Forecast Letters to the Editor- From a C.P. Member "The Menace of Trotskyism" Merely Tactical Differences From a I.L.D. Member Pledge Fund 20 New Pledges Previously Reported 1014 New Subs! Over the Top! Shachtman Tour Schedule Russian Bulletin Organization Notes_ New York City Conference Organized Labor Under the N.R.A. The Auto "Settlement" NRA Tightens Grip to Prevent Strikes The Wagner Bill Railroad Struggle Left to President Wage Increases Herald Further Inflation March of Events, by Jack Weber The Period of Concessions Closing The Open Shop Drive Dividing the Movement Bourgeois Nightmares 15 Apr 14, 1934 Movement on Behalf of Four Deported Germans Grows Non-Partisan Defense Committee Initiates the Movement in the United States Protest Movement Grows Rousing Meetings On Shachtman Tour Several Meetings In Chicago Order May Day Special Edition Of the Militant After the C.W.A. Disproof of Roosevelt's Claims Need of Unemployment Insurance Railroad Robins and Gras for Work in Hotel Strike Hostile Rulings of Judge Fascists Attack Rivera Cuban Arrests Club Plan Drive for 1000 More Subs The International Bulletin Minneapolis Workers Fight Starvation Program, by W.K. Militant Demonstrations of Ten Thousand Unemployed at City Hall Refuses to Receive Committee Cops Throw Tear Gas Bombs Arrest of Committee Fighting Qualities of Workers Stalinist Policy For the United Front Important Notice N.Y. Conference Against War Is Pacifist Affair Cannon to Speak On War and the 4th International Anti-Fascist Dinner For Bellussi Arrested June 17 Speakers at Dinner Reviewing the News, by Bill The C.P. Convention Convention Highlights Horse Thieves and Politicians LaGuardia--S.P.--C.P. Suicide Letters to the Editor- (Next 4 articles) The Furriers Again, by Jackinson Expulsion from I.L.D. Los Angeles Milliners, by Samuel Meyers Disruptionist Policy A Pacifist Morass, by M.G. Pledge Fund An Appeal to Our Sympathizers New Pledgers Shachtman on Tour Williston, N.D., by A.G. Miller Minneapolis, by Wm. Curran Speech on "Austrian Events" Downtown Meeting St. Paul Meeting More About St. Paul Under the N.R.A. Federal Union and Company Unions Dr. Wirt and the NRA Open Shop and Company Unions Mrs. Pinchot Says Wall Street Rules Johnson The Cuban Situation After Grau (Translated from "Rayo", organ of the Bolshevik-Leninist Party of Cuba) The Petty Bourgeois Farce Position of the Bolshevik-Leninists The Fight for Revolutionary Juntas C.P. Loses its Bearings The Duty of the Vanguard "Braintrust" Conspiracy, by G.R. Patriots to the Defense Wm, A, Wirt from Gary A Centrist Attack on Marxism, by Leon Trotsky A "Non-Orthodox" Point of View The Class Theory of Society Ideas and Classes Historic Role of Classes Echoes of Bernstein The Austrian Constitution A Year of Roosevelt's New Deal, by Arne Swabeck Article III The NRA Illusion Unionism the Issue Role of Craft Unionism Basic Policy of Capitalists Force for Union Organization Union at Crossroads The Labor Front Shachtman Tour Schedule Russian Bulletin Brownsville Relief Demonstration Harlem Workers Club Fascists in N.Y. 16 Apr 21, 1934 Reaction Hounds Trotsky Organize a Fight for the Right of Asylum in U.S. The United Front--For and Against Asylum U.S. Once a Refuge for Exiles 50,000 Manifestoes How Trotsky Lived and Worked in Exile Before And Was Deported from Country to Country London Congress Ten Years of Exile War and More Deportation New York in 1917 1917 Revolution Spectre of Communism in The Fourth International, by James P. Cannon (Alternate spelling of "Specter") Reactionaries Strike at Leon Trotsky The Political Meaning of the Attack Why They Fear the Fourth International The Real Issues Break Through No Refuge in Capitalist Countries Under the NRA Injunction Based on NRA Trust Busters Plan Fight Profits Increase Under NRA Social Origins of Crime "Triple Unionism" by W. Lenin on Trade Union Tactics New Method of Disruption Militant Builders How Coover Does It New Subs Shachtman Tour Schedule Help the Cuban Struggle Nazis Violate Tomb Of Eckstein Austrian Fighters Sentenced The Stalinist Conference League Statement to Conference (By New York Local, Communist League of America) March of Events, by Jack Weber All Eyes to France Uniting of the Forces of Reaction Fascist or Proletarian Dictatorship? The Farmer and American Imperialism The Farmers as Social Anchor Once More on Centrism, by Leon Trotsky Trotsky Answers the Criticism of Dutch O.S.P. Paper "De Fakkel" on Centrism Centrism and Centrism Stages of Development Left Centrist Groupings The London-Amsterdam Bureau Old Arguments of the Stalinists From Marxist Quality to Mass Quantity Discussion Article On the Resolution of the National Youth Committee, by Bernard M. Landau The Tasks of the National Youth Committee, by Nathan Gould Sectarian Organization Education and Mass Work Necessary Steps Who Lost the National Income? by George Roberts An Analysis of Facts and Figures Regarding Wages and Dividends Wages in 1931 Dividing the National Income Bosses' Income Stood Up Commodity Prices The 59 Cent Dollar Wages and Interest Dutch Aid Hitler Reviewing the News, by Bill L'Humanite and Liberte Stalin and Kemal Pasha H. George Invents a Plot "Vanguard of the Bourgeoisie" "Against Fascism--For the Fourth International" For the Fourth International The Historic Declaration of the Four Organizations at Paris (Signed by E. Bauer--International Left Opposition (Marxist-Leninist), J. Schwab--S.A.P. (Socialist Workers Party of Germany) J.P. Schmidt--O.S.P. (Independent Socialist Party of Holland) and K. Sneevliet--R.S.P. (Revolutionary Socialist Party of Holland) Robins and Gras Sentenced The International Bulletin Pledge Fund The Pledgers Labor Groups Protest Action of Dutch Government Organizations Signing Protest Labor Conference Sends Protest 17 Apr 28, 1934 All Out to Madison Square Garden on May Day!, by James P. Cannon Revolutionary Workers March Under the Banner of the Communist League of America Madison Square and Union Square Socialists and Communists Who Are the Revolutionary Workers! Party Meeting or United Front? The Stand of the Communist League The Road to the United Front May Day The Record of the Past Year Result of False Policies The Road of the United Front The Struggle in the U.S. Lenin's May Day Appeal to the Russian Workers, by V.I. Lenin, May 1, 1896 The "United Front", by W. Mass Basis for Common Struggle "United Front With Individuals" "New "Generals' for Old" Playing the Fascist Game Payless Furlough for N.Y. Teachers, by H.L. Second Wage Cut The Teachers' Enemy The Teachers' Union Reform the Union March of Events, by Jack Weber Japan's Monroe Doctrine for Asia Japanese Uncertainty The Danger of Waiting Roosevelt and Nationalization What is the Meaning of Rakovsky's Surrender?, by Leon Trotsky Center Shifted to West The Struggle for Industrialization Defeats of the Proletariat The Example of Kirov Effects of Isolation Hitler Aided Stalin Light Will Come From West Cuban Revolution, by M. Garcia Villareal Stalinism Kneels to American Imperialism Reasons for the Defeat Road to Emancipation Opened Confusing the Masses A Treasonable Capitulation New Revolutionary Explosion Impending America vs Japan in Latin America, by C.C. Japanese Exports Tendency Alarms U.S. U.S. Exports to South America Do the Figures Spell War? The Collapse of the Disarmament Bubble, by G.R. Bankruptcy of "Peace" Agencies Peace Pacts--and Wars Reviewing the News, by Bill Statesmen at Albany Tammany Gang Chief Dropped "History" by Sam Don The Facts The Hosanna Chorus The Revolutionary Union The C.I. Open Letter Cleveland Convention of the C.P., by Arne Swabeck The Events of Four Years They Learned Nothing Repeat the Old Errors Philadelphia Branch and the Militant 400 Hail Move for New Defense at Bellussi Meet Speakers Warmly Received Advocate Non-Partisan Organization Stalinist Hoodlums Attack Shachtman L.A. Meeting San Francisco Meeting, by Florence Wyle Militant is Barred From Canada Young Spartacus May 18 May 5, 1934 Left Currents in the S.P., by James P. Cannon The Revolutionary Policy Committee Dangers Facing the Left Wing The State and Revolution For Arming the Workers The Workers' Councils and the Struggle for Power Necessary Amendment to Program Leader of the Spanish C.P. Resigns Post In the New York May Day Parade (Photo) Marching Under the Banner of the Communist League (Photo) Capitalists of All Countries Close Their Doors to Leon Trotsky Sudden Death of A.A. Buehler Terror in Hitler Germany "America First" Parade is Fiasco At Minneapolis, by R. Traitors in the Labor Ranks Fight for the United Front Greatest May Day in the History Of New York Labor Movement Mexican Police Seize International Communists Com. Cora Duff Dead (Obituary) Shachtman Speaks at St. Louis Meet Reviewing the News, by Bill "Democratic" Traditions "Tricks of the Press" Bert Wolfe Shachtman Meeting at K.C., by F.S. Old and New Organization Forms, by Hugo Oehler Remoulding Workers' Organizations (Variant Spelling of "Remolding") Shop Delegate Bodies New Form to the Fore Utilize Federal Unions The Answer to the NRA Cleveland Convention of the C.P., by Arne Swabeck (Continued from last issue) New "Federation of Labor" Fluctuations of Membership Under the NRA Oneal on the Communist Sickness, by O.W. Watters Two Sides of the NRA Statement of Jack Hackverdian, by Jack Hackverdian Paterson Silk Workers Club To Extend Organization Foundations for a Communist Youth League, by Martin Abern Youth and Militarism Preparing For War, by W. Not Disarming, but Rearming "Congresses" Against War Hearst Speaks Out Another Hearst Editorial Talks of "World Revolution" Decisive Struggles Approach In Spain The Workers' Alliance New Alignment of Proletariat Labor and the New Deal, by S. Fisher Violating Codes Civil Liberties Survey "Protecting" Labor Rights Railroad Pay Cuts March of Events, by Jack Weber Diplomacy at the Breaking Point The Attack on Labor Deepens Who is Aided, Who is Not? The Crisis in the Pocketbook Makers' Union What the Code Provides Role of the "Fraternal Club" Who is Responsible Incompetence of Officials Walinsky and his Gang New Administration Needed Mobilize the Workers Wage Standards Destroyed Program of Demands United Front Against Hooliganism in L.A. (By Allen Stiller, Sec'y L.A. Branch, A.W.P.) Statement of Los Angeles A.W.P. Wipe Out This Hooliganism The Whole Labor Movement Of Los Angeles Must Unite to Prevent a Repetition of the Brooklyn Hall Scandal Hooligans! A Menace to the Whole Labor Movement Unite to Burn Hooliganism Out of the Labor Movement 19 May 12, 1934 New Trends in the Trade Union Movement, by Arne Swabeck Leaders Under Fire New Forces in the Unions Rank and File Revolts Officials in a Dilemma Danger of Premature Splits Trend Towards Industrial Unionism "United Front" in Chicago, by Norman Satir Stalinists Celebrate May Day by Hooligan Attack on International Communists on Parade A Hooligan Attack The "Leader" of the Hooligans Dental Mechanics Strike at Baltimore Labor Board Steps In Partial Victory for Union Young Socialists and Spartacus Youth Sponsor United Front Bulletin Discussion at the Conference Yipsel Amendment New York's May Day in Review, by B. Minneapolis Union Prepares For Action, by R. Three Thousand Transport Workers Organize Forces to Fight For Demands Workers Flock to Union Coal Yard Workers in Vanguard Role of Labor Board Wolinsky Gang Seize Control of Pocketbook Union Reactionary Elements Progressive Forces Divided Reviewing the News, by Bill Death of Woodin The Police and the Crooks The Daily Worker and the "Renegades" Dope From the Hop-Joints On "Shorty" Buehler and Cora Duff, by George Clarke A Revolutionist Since 1913 Moving Spirit of Kansas City Branch "Don't Mourn But Organize" Shachtman Meeting in Davenport, by Betty Roland The Cuban Revolution on the Defensive, by Thomas Stamm Advance of Reaction Perspective of Struggles Democratic Demands Situation in U.S. Terror in the Imperial Valley, by Harry Ross Methods of Intimidation Red Scare in the News Pledge Fund Minneapolis Rail Workers Organize Program of Demands Executive Committee Elected Cause of High Dues March of Events, by Jack Weber The New German Decrees "Iron Heel" Legislation The Value of Organization The New York Post and the Middle Class Before the Socialist Party Convention, by Albert Glotzer Groupings in the Party Basis Causes of the Groupings Roots in the International Situation Probing the Disputes Nazis Exploit Winter Help World Revolution or World Fascism, by Joseph S. Giganti Louis Fisher Slays "Trotskyism" Again, by Jack Weber Cause of Rakovsky's Capitulation "Socialism in One Country" Trotsky's Position What Stalin Once Wrote Industrialisation (Variant spelling of "Industrialization") Who Killed the Comintern? "Trotsky's World Revolution" Propaganda of the Hirelings Close-up of Stalinism The Imperialist Conflicts Over the Chinese Markets, by Hugo Oehler The Struggle for China International Policy Decisive Enlarging the Contradictions The U.S. and England Upset "Balance of Power" Militant Builders The New Subs Theatre Party The International Position of the Revolutionary Policy Committee, by James P. Cannon Which Way for the R.P.C. Internationalism--Paramount Question Against the Second International! A Bad "Strategy" The Role of Centrism The Marxist Fight Against Centrism The Revolutionary Way Out Waukegan Meeting, by O.A. Watters 20 May 19, 1934 The Johnson Bill and Credit to the U.S.S.R., by Thomas Stamm Purpose of the Loans The Russian Market Soviet Union Needs Credit Pressure on Soviet Union Fight for Soviet Credits! N.Y. Youth Conference Against War Bulletin Slogans of the Day Point of Conflict No Agreement Reached Second Strike Wave Under the N.R.A., by Arne Swabeck Pitched Battles The Strike Waves Under NRA Issue is Organization Trotsky Remains Without Place of Asylum; Nazi Paper Demands Banishment to Distant Island Trotsky Behind the Troubles in France The Solitary Writer Seeking Refuge. What Was Found in a Neukoelin Barrack Trotsky Undermines Germany! New Court Battle For Freedom of Mooney First Appeal to U.S. Courts The Case of Mr. Dillinger, by Carlos Hudson A High Class Bandit Flower of Capitalism Doriot Expelled From French C.P. Record of Doriot February Events C.P. Rejects United Front French Workers Begin to Act Leninist Influence Grows Statement of Non-Partisan Labor Defense on German Deportees, by Herbert Solow, Sec'y. Provisional Committee for Non-Partisan Labor Defense (From Press Service of Non-Partisan Labor Defense) Romain Rolland Joins Protest Organization Notes- The League is Growing on the Pacific Coast Truth About Dachau Told by Manchester Guardian March of Events, by Jack Weber Amter's United Front with Fascists Completing the Cycle of Folly Petty-Bourgeois Cringing! The Real Significance of Rakovsky's Capitulation (From "La Verite"--Paris) Before the Detroit Convention Of the Socialist Party, by Albert Glotzer The Paris Conference Of the 2nd International Leading Role of German Party Wels Defends Policy in Germany Polish Bund Leads Fight Right Wing Dominates Congress Resolution of Polish Bund Left Wing Confuses Issues Left Tendencies Grow Perspectives of the Fight A Critical Analysis of the American Workers Party, by Felix Morrow The Political Evolution of the C.P.L.A. The Past of the A.W.P. December Conference Further Analysis Needed The Role of the Party "Too Much Better" Editorial Needed Now: A New Defence Organization, by James P. Cannon (Variant spelling of "Defense") Crime and Economics, by Carlos Hudson Starving Men Steal Prison Statistics The Economic Factor in Crime Toward the National Workers' Alliance in Spain, by Andres Nin (Editorial in"La Autorcha", new fortnightly organ of the Spanish Communist League--Bolshevik-Leninists--May 1, 1934) Vitality of Alliance Lesson of Experiences For a National Conference New York Organization Notes Twelve New Members in One Week Reviewing the News, by Bill Mike Gold the Mathematical Wizard Politicians and Their Price We Are Challenged American Traditions--A Fable 21 May 26, 1934 Minneapolis Shows the Way, by F.K. Militant Mass Picket Line Routs Scabs, Cops, Special Deputies and Thugs and Stops All Commercial Transport Building Trades in Sympathy Strike; Womens Auxiliary Active in Fight; Workers' Spirit Soars All Transport Stopped Battle at the Market Bosses Try Terror Miserable Role of Stalinists Telegram to The Militant, by K. Learn From Minneapolis, by James P. Cannon The Message of Minneapolis Mass Action The Sympathetic Strike The Bolshevik Militants Non-Partisan Labor Defense Protests Police Attack on Workers Youth Demonstration Against War And Fascism on May 30th Stalinists Force Split Mobilize for May 30 Reviewing the News, by Bill Gigolos and Kings May 1st and May 17th The Crisis and the Socialist Party Olgin on Browder's Masterly Report The Foreign Policy of Japan Japan's Claim to Hegemony British Policy Anti-Soviet Policy Strike of Los Angeles Longshoremen The Railroad Wage Settlement, by Weaver Labor Leaders and Capitalists in Mutual Appreciation Workers' Pressure Forces a Change Another Sell-Out Accomplished Who Will Lead the Workers? Militant Builders Second Club Plan Drive Ends August 1st New Subs Complete Record And "Underground Union", by Thomas Stamm "No Influence on Teachers' Movement "Union" Goes Underground Fights Teachers' Union March of Events British Imperialism in Retreat Threat of Japanese Bonapartism The Soviet Union Slowly Encircled Litvinov and the League of Nations "New Group" For a "New Party", by Max Shachtman The Gitlow Group and the Field Clique Form a "Principled Bloc" The Negotiations with Gitlow Group Fundamental Questions Ambiguous Formulations "Socialism in One Country" Declaration of Four The Paramount Question Policy of the League The "Pair of Deuces" "Deuces" Become Allies League not "Radical" Enough Mutual Amnesty Critical Analysis of the A.W.P., by Felix Morrow The Political Meaning of "Adaption to the American Scene" What Sectarianism Means False Characterization of C.P. Origin of False Analysis Relics of Reformism Who Are the "Marxists" No "Simple" Analysis The Left Face of the Socialist Party, by Albert Goldman Impetus to Revolutionary Elements No Attraction in Comintern Heterogeneous Elements The Middle-West Group A Typical Centrist Group Reformist Theories Revolutionary Policy Committee Struggle for Leadership Gist of the Question Fourth International Manifesto Darrow Speaks for the Middle Class, by Hugo Oehler Darrow Speaks for Middle Class Pressure on the Workers Who is the NRA For? Finance Capital and the New Deal Wolinsky--Bosses' Agent Anti-Nazi Demonstration in N.Y., by Harry Strang United Front In Action Meeting in Times Square June 22 Jun 2, 1934 Strike Wave Sweeps Country Union Recognition Gained by Militant Minneapolis Battles, by James P. Cannon Victory is an Inspiration to Workers Everywhere General Strike Looms in Toledo Background of the Struggle Tricked by Labor Board No Delay on General Strike! Unite in Support of Toledo! The Sprit of the Blue Eagle (Political cartoon) Longshoremens' Strike Ties Up Pacific Coast Ports, by Florence Wyle Longshoremen Strike All Pacific Ports Bosses Want Job Control for Company Union The "Red" Issue Enters the Strike, by Fred Crique General Strike the Answer if Troops Are Called Out Communist League Makes New Gains On Pacific Coast At the Minneapolis City Market "The Battle of Deputy Run" The Battle of "Deputies Run" How the Strike Was Organized Organizing the Strike The Details of Organization An Effective Strategy of Picketing Concentration of Mass Picketing Handling Stool-Pigeons Minneapolis Strike Reveals Splendid Organization and Militancy Support From Other Unions Workers Show Fighting Ability Reviewing the News. by Bill A Professor Speaks Democracy and the T.U.U.L. The "Higher Strategy" of Stalin Police Brutality Strikers vs. Labor Leaders Roosevelt, the Friend of Labor The Strike in the Bay District National Tour Finds League Advancing, by Max Shachtman League Views Receive Serious Attention S.P. Members Attend Meetings The Stalinist Party in Decline Other Hoodlum Tactics Fail Excellent Recruits for the League Picnic June 24th (To greet the arrival of "New International") On the Political Scene in Mexico The Electoral Campaign May Day in Mexico City March of Events, by Jack Weber "Stop Fooling with Labor"! Finance Capital to the Attack Who is Bigger?" The Road to Fascism Positions of Conflicting Groups in the Socialist Party, by Albert Glotzer The R.P.C. and Its Program The Fundamental Questions The R.P.C. R.P.C. Program The Question of the State "Reforming" the 2nd International Under the Iron Heel of Chiang Kai Shek, by Lucifer Theoretical Organ Out July 1st (The "New International," the article lists features and authors in the first issue) Critical Analysis of the American Workers Party, by Felix Morrow What is Its Position On Internationalism A Lesson in "Law and Order", by William Kitt All Ready for the Big Battle Women Active on Firing Line Women on Picket Line! The Women's Auxiliary Demonstration at City Hall A Brush with Deputies Women--Into the Class Struggle! Role of the League in Strike 23 Jun 9, 1934 Partial Victory Gained By Toledo Workers Ask for Government Intervention A. F. of L. Leaders Force Retreat Mighty Demonstration of Solidarity Socialist Party Does Its Part Mooney Appeal Goes to the U.S. Supreme Court (Includes a letter from Tom Mooney appealing for funds to be used for his legal defense) Roosevelt's New Cuban Treaty, by Hugo Oehler Socialist Party Adopts "Militant" Position At Detroit National Convention, by James P. Cannon League in Campaign to Build Organization and Press Defend Thaelmann-Torgler Nation Wide Strike Looms Throughout Steel Industry Mighty Attack on Company Union Fortress Planned The Fear of the Strike Spreading Will the Union Fight it Out? Strike on Pacific Coast Extends to Shipyards, by Fred Crique Longshoremen Stand Ground General Strike Sentiment Growing Reviewing the News, by Bill The Stalinist United Front with God Trotsky, Thaelmann, and Stool-Pigeons Radek and the League of Nations Steel Facts and Figures, by Weaver What Did the Owners Get? On Whom Can the Workers Rely Capital and Labor Under the NRA National Tour Shows League Influence, by Max Shachtman League Continues Gains in Frisco. by Fred Crique I.L.D. Refuses to Defend Prisoners Weirton Steel Mills, by Irving Oklin The Union Prepares for Strike How Weir Wins His Elections A Serious Struggle is Impending New York Local Arranges Picnic March of Events, by Jack Weber Biro-Bidjan Contrast with Palestine The Question of Freedom Defense of the Soviet Union Will the Soviet Union Join the League of Nations? Petty Bourgeois Pacifists Will Greet This Move What Will the Comintern Do? What Will the German Stalinists Say? Need for Fourth International Militant Builders "Minneapolis Shows the Way" The Complete Record of Second Drive Mussolini Sets An Example of "Disarmament" A Critique of the Draft Program of The American Workers Party, by Arne Swabeck Editorial Note The Minneapolis Strike New Attacks on the Unemployed New Youngstown Drivers Union, by P. A New Type of Strike Leaders Bellussi's Reply to the I.L.D. Outlawing Strikes The Wagner Bill Dispute, by Hugo Oehler Most Sinister Aspect of the Bill Why Labor Leaders Support Bill New York United Front in Support of Strikes Anti-War Issue of Young Spartacus New York Youth Demonstrate The Other Youth Demonstration 24 Jun 16, 1934 Roosevelt's Program For "Social Insurance", by Hugo Oehler I.L.A. Leaders Weaken Pacific Coast Tie-Up, by Fred Crique I.L.A. Leaders Weaken Strike Good Programs Not Carried Out The Stalinists in the Strike Mistakes of the League Minneapolis Strike - An Answer to Its Defamers, by James P. Cannon How the Strike Was Organized When is the Time for Strike Settlement? What the Strike Settlement Means The Eggs in the Eagle's Nest (Political Cartoon) Steel Union Letter to Roosevelt Build the League and Press Steel Workers Union In Meeting to Decide Action, by Arne Swabeck Mike Tighe is Conniving to Surrender Demands Steel Trust Names Its Own Board Reactionaries Prepare Treachery Rely Only on Your Own Mass Power Browder "Exposes" Strike "Sell-Out" In Minneapolis, by Clem Forsen Reviewing the News, by Bill Minneapolis and Dunne Fascist "Victories" League Activities, by L.G. (Next 3 articles are on this topic) Chicago Hears Report On Minneapolis Strike Public Trial Clears Militant Worker Philadelphia Branch Increases Activities Sidelights From the Great Battle of the Minneapolis Workers, by C.H. Mexican Nazis Attack Trotsky, by C.C. From the Militants (The next two articles are on this topic) The Farmers and the Minneapolis Strike, by Clem Forsen California Ordinances Against the Reds, by Clem Forsen March of Events, by Jack Weber The Textile Crisis The Workers and the Forces of Production Company Unionism Smash Company Unions! Stalinist Record in the Cuban Revolution, by Thomas Stamm Stalinists Come to Aid of Class Enemy Daily Workers Gives Assistance Lying Out of the Whole Cloth The "Insurrection" of September 29 Not An Insurrection But a Putsch New York Teachers Union Fights Red-Baiting, by H.L. Persecuting Protesting Teachers Union Members Defeat Demagogue After the Socialist Party Convention Old Guard to Flaunt Convention Decisions Old Guard Renews Threat of Split "Militants" Afraid of Themselves Split in the S.P. is Inevitable The Foreign Policy of the Soviet Union Lenin's Teachings Forgotten The Understanding With French Imperialism How Pravda Explains Manoeuver (variant spelling of "Maneuver") Soviet Union in Greater Danger The Destruction of the Third International The Militant Pledge Fund The Pledgers Militant Builders The Complete Record of Second Drive N.Y. Independent Printers Union, by P.S. N.Y. Picnic Sunday, June 24th 25 Jun 23, 1934 Insurance For Jobless Depends on Labor, by D.B. Roosevelt's Message Reflects Pressure of Discontent Longshoremen Refuse Surrender Recovery For the Farmer, by G. Roberts One Example of Curtailed Production Who Pays the Price? Agricultural Production to be Forced Backward Union Barred at NRA Office New Deal Marches Ahead (Political Cartoon) Organization & Press Drive Steel Workers Union Retreats, by Arne Swabeck Strike Plans Deferred Bill Green's Proposal What Was Lacking? Steel Workers Should Not be Deceived The Battle Remains Inevitable Fight to Oust Wolinsky, by N.D.F. How the Union Officials Work for the Bosses What Must be Done Now Wolinsky Gang Breaks Union Meeting French Labor Parties Ignore Storm Signals, by A.R. Decisive Issues Moving to the Fore The Danger of False Slogans And in the Socialist Party Reviewing the News, by Bill The S.P. "Communist" Declaration Recent "Liberal" Moves by La Guardia The Youth and War Role of the Stalinists In Minneapolis Strike, by Clem Forsen On the Eve of the Strike The First Day of the Strike The Gathering of Forces The Saturday Events What Happened Tuesday Question Box Y.C.L. Holds Seventh National Convention, by Joseph Carter 300% Turnover in Three Years In the Trade Unions Militant Builders Six More Weeks to Go Complete Record Pledge Fund March of Events, by Jack Weber Fascism and the Junkers Fascism as a Bridge Fascism Losing its Social Base The Big Bourgeoisie Stalinist Record in the Cuban Revolution, by Thomas Stamm (Continued from last Issue) Necessity of Tactical Manoeuvers (Variant spelling of "Maneuvers") A Retreat in the Face of Imperialists Who Are the Owners of Cuba? Surrendering the Struggle Appeal For Jewish-Arab Workers Solidarity A Visit to Tom Mooney at San Quentin, by Harry Ross Entering the Prison The Class Fighter Inseparable From the Movement Mooney's Spirit is in the Class Struggle Unshakable Faith in His Class No Time To Lose Big Tasks Ahead After the Bulgarian Coup d'Etat, (by E.T. in "Unser Wort") The Strike Wave and the Role of the NRA, by Hugo Oehler NRA in the First Strike Wave The Capitalist Plans Aim of the New Deal The Present Task Results of the New Deal Organization-Press Campaign Receipts Penalty of Wrong Trade Union Policy Presenting a False Position "Leaders" Fail to Advance With Workers The Rival Unions Labeled "The Opposition" A Policy of Confusion and Disintegration Protest N.Y. City Police Terror, by A.W. Paul Hooliganism in Harlem Cannon Lecture on the Minneapolis Strike 26 Jun 30, 1934 What is Happening in Fascist Germany?, by Arne Swabeck Worthless Speculation Von Papen's Program Too Many Fists What the New Program Means Monthly Review New International Comes Off Press Factions Struggle For Control of the Socialist Party Right Wing Threatens Split "No Compromise" No Criticism of Labor Fakers or NRA Pious Hopes for "Peace" Conciliatory Gestures R.P.C.-Militant Merger Another Stalinist "Strike" Organization-Press Campaign Paves Way for Big Advances of Communist League, by Harry Strang Receipts (Since last report) Minneapolis Union Forcing Action on Wage Demands Conference of Unions Prepares for Shutdown Thursday, June 28, is Date for Unity Meeting A. F. of L. Moves Against Pacific Coast Dock Strike, by D.E. West Coast Strike "Red Scare" Raised in San Francisco Labor Council San Francisco, June 23 The Ground for the Attack Reactionaries Act "Red-Hunt" Voted Down For Labor Solidarity Seattle, by Harry Ross Seattle, Smith's Cove Oakland Oakland, Calif., June 18 Terms of Rejected Settlement Committee Moves to Appeal Case of Robins and Gras Show Up Labor Board Reviewing the News, by Bill Dangerous Propaganda For God--For King and Country Another Honest Politician A Royal Socialist Midwife Brain Trust at Work Tactics at Minneapolis, by Clem Forsen General Strike Movement The Strategy of the Fight United Front Policy Prospects of a General Strike Strike Sidelights, by H. Question Box Imperial Valley Notes Pledge Fund Militant Builders Local New York Climbs to the Top; Minneapolis Branch Takes Second Place Complete Record No Time to Lose Big Tasks Ahead March of Events, by Jack Weber Contraction of the Stalinist Bureaucracy The Bonapartist Danger Build New Parties The Infallibility of Stalinism The Burning Question in France (From "La Verite," June 8, 1934 Toward Opportunism or Toward Marxism---There Is No Other Road Conversation With a Comrade From the Saint-Denis District For Unity There Must be a Vanguard Party If No Party Exists We Must Create a New One Reaction and Fascism "Soviets Without Communists" The Struggle Against War Compromises and Compromises A Falsified Biography of Lenin, by Thomas Stamm False Picture of Lenin No Word of Lenin's Ideas Recovery "For the Farmers", by George Roberts No Solution for the Agricultural Crisis Is Possible on a Capitalist Basis Opening New Homesteads Present-day Capitalism in the U.S. Why Agrarian Crisis is Insoluble "Too Many Farmers" Turing the Clock Backwards The Farmers' Way Out Strikes and the National Guard, by Al Dasch The Police and Strikes Strikes Transform the Worker Role of the National Guard Tasks of Our Youth Minneapolis Notes The Organizer, Weekly paper of General Drivers No.574, Minneapolis, Vol 1, No 1., by H. Post Frame-Up in MPLS The "Rank and File Opposition" (Extract from a Letter) Help Cuban Comrades Y.C.L. Convention, by Joseph Carter 300% Turnover in Three Years Trade Union Policy A "Mistake"--Who Made It? Student Youth Problem Need for a New Movement What the 73rd Congress Did for the Bosses, by Hugo Oehler Government Subsidies International Policies Unemployment Relief July TM Q3 1934 27 Jul 7, 1934 Hitler "Purges" Party in Bloody Reign of Terror, by Arne Swabeck Fascist Leaders Throw Off Middle Class Ballast; Degenerate Character of Regime Revealed Human Refuse German Workers Prostrate The Custodians of Capitalism The Rallying Slogans of Fascism Mussolini's Advice Capitalist Reaction Strengthened Fascist Base Narrowed A Corroded Party The Stalinist "Contribution" For a New Revolutionary Party Old Guard Routs Militants In New York S.P. Convention Militants Pussyfoot Crushing Policy of Old Guard Humiliation of Thomas Thomas Appeals to Hillquit Militants Evade Issue No Principled Struggle No Will to Fight General Strike Near in Frisco After Killings New Address Housewarming New Truck Drivers Strike Impends in Minneapolis Drivers Union Prepares Strike Entire Labor Movement Backs 574 General Strike Possible Lies and Evasions A Real Industrial Union The Union's Answer Preparing to Strike Mass Parade Military Coup d'Etat In Latvia, by Paul Schwalbe The Program of Ulmanis Rests on Military Force Aimed at the Workers Workers Without Leadership Back the League In New Drive Broad Silk Dept in Silk Union Backs 7 Expelled Militants The Albert (Roy) Case Demand Open Investigation Militant Policy Bears Fruit Keller's Charges Takes Worker from Job Reviewing the News, by Bill "Heil Hitler!" Hitler and Capone The Fascist Danger Stalinism and Germany Voodooism Bert Wolfe Question Box The Chicago Friends of The Militant Club, by J. Ruby Pledge Fund No Time to Lose Big Tasks Ahead Militant Builders March of Events, by Jack Weber Appraisal of the German Events The Fascist Hostages The Dregs of Society The White Terror, by Lucifer Stalinist Treachery in China The Trial of Chen Persecution of Communists Stalinist Capitulators A Despicable Betrayal Nemesis of a Traitor Voluntary Surrenders "Testimony" of Traitors Another Capitulator Speaks Degeneracy of Stalinism Business Slows Down The Wisconsin State Socialist Party Convention Revolutionist and Reformist Positions Wisconsin Reformism Planks of Platform A Touch of Farce The Man on the Flying Trapeze, by S. The Record of Bill Dunne A Letter From a Comrade, by L.G. To the Saar Workers an Appeal by the I.S. From the International Secretariat of the League of Communist Internationalists (Bolshevik-Leninists) For the Status Quo Extra-Parliamentary Struggle for the Improvement of Living Conditions and Democratic Rights No Effective Struggle Without a United Front! Organize a Militia Against the Nazi Terror! S.P.G. and C.P.G. Have Failed! United Front of All Anti-Fascists! Hitler Can and Must be Defeated! Do not forget: Hitler must and will be defeated! Our International Press 28 Jul 14, 1934 Teamsters Join Dock Workers in Frisco Strike Bulletin Casey Affords the Pretext Comrade Thor Dead (Obituary) President Brown Teaches Tobin Lesson in Unionism 10,000 March in Big Labor Day Parade, by C.H. 10,000 in Greatest Parade in City's Labor History Up Nicollet Avenue Filled to Capacity "Why Wait Till Wednesday" Minneapolis Sidelights Housewarming Minneapolis Strikes Monday Mass Meeting of Local 574 Unanimously Accepts Call for Walkout; Repudiates Tobin-Bosses Red Scare Minneapolis Drivers Solid Behind Local Leadership Daniel Tobin Goes to Bat For the Bosses A Smashing Repudiation "We Plead Guilty" A Cowardly Appeal Couldn't Do a Thing Preparing the Sell-Out Bosses Went Wild When They Read This Squib "The 'Low and Odor' League" Red Herring Cover For Real Issues The Real Issue A "Startling" Discovery What Is This Communism? Strike Call of Local 574 The Agreement Violated by the Bosses The "Red Scare" Maneuver An Appeal for Solidarity Central Labor Union Backs Drivers' Local, by James P. Cannon St. Paul to Vote on Strike Reviewing the News, by Bill That Omnipresent "Zack Tendency" Rudolph Hess Defends Hitler and Murder Startling News "Holy Joe" McKee and Patriotic Whalen New Features in Second Strike Wave, by M.B. Militant Builders Complete Record Question Box Fierce Trade War Grips Entire World, by Hugo Oehler The Two Trade Wars America's Position The Crisis in Germany The Most Decisive Conflict Blending the Old With the New, by Bill War and the Fourth International to Appear Soon March of Events, by Jack Weber War Rumors England, Where Do You Stand? Stalinist Comments on the German Events Problems of Marxism, by Albert Goldman "Workers' Democracy" The Program of the A.W.P. The Dictatorship in Russia The Characteristics of the Transition Period Program Not Propaganda--the Issue The League Marches to New Victories Revolutionary Leadership Vital Build the New Party Now! General Strike in Minneapolis Build the League! An Appeal to our Sympathizers Don't Be a Platonic Friend The Opportunity is Here Support Grows in Org-Press Drive Receipts (Since last report) Hitler's Dilemma, by G.C. The Crisis in Germany Unfavorable Trade Balance Wages Slashed Prices Rise The Master is Repaid The Man on the Flying Trapeze, by S. (Continued from last issue) United Front - Tobin and the Stalinists Cleveland Strike News, by P. Nailing a Few Brazen Lies The Disagreement on the Name A "Non-Aggression" Pact? Another Weisbord Trick Antonio Fierro Memorial Meeting How Not to Lead a Strike 29 Jul 21, 1934 Cops Fire on Unarmed Pickets 33 Shot In Minneapolis As Strikers Stop All Commercial Vehicles Unions Meet to Consider Call for General Strike Strike Headquarters in Command of District Farmers Rally to 574 Olsen Threatens Martial Law Bulletin Local 574 Appeals for Funds A.F.L. Misleaders Betray Frisco General Strike, by C.G.E. Capitalists Jubilant; Longshoremen Still Out A Phony Vote The "Election" Fake Steps to Break the Strike Waterfront Strike Not Over Stalinist Responsibility Terror Used by Bosses to Crush Strike Gives Word of Raids "Just Hoodlums," Declare Police Glass Front Smashed Brandish Clubs Green & Co. Knife Coast Labor Unions Green's Treachery Press Understood Green The "Holy" Contract Militant Pickets Close Alabama Textile Industry Bosses Fear to Open Mills Strike Now Tide of Strikes Sweeps Over the Entire Nation Reviewing the News The Capitalist Press and San Francisco Green--"The Lost Leader" "Lost" General Strikes Class Collaboration Strike Ends in Philadelphia S.K.F. Works, by Lou Roberts A Vicious Decision Police Terror Labor Skates Boycott Strike The Pledge Fund Campaign A Holy United Front in Mexico, by C.C. Com. Abramowitz Dead (Obituary) Question Box The Crisis in the New York Painters Union The Steamroller in Action A Bit of Fake Bravado Zausner on Offensive Red Baiting Tasks of the Left Wing March of Events, by Jack Weber The United Front in France The Psychology of Forgetting The United Front to Release Thaelmann Spain Movement Toward Unity Against Fascism Grows Catalonian Land Laws An Appeal for Our Cuban Comrades German Fascism Unmasked, by E.B. Discontent on Two Sides Roehm-Schleicher Combine Impossible The Hitler-Goebbels Legend The Struggle for "Morality" How Long Will Hitler Last? Italy and Germany Petty Bourgeois Discontent A Priceless Lesson In Mussolini's "Paradise", by Glee Taxes on Necessities Culture Under Fascism China, by P.K. Terror and Capitulation Grip Worker's Ranks The "Soviet Territory" Internal "Life" Significant Figures The Economic Crisis Make the Org-Press Drive a Success Funds Received in the Organization and Press Campaign (Since last report) Trade Union Strategy, by Arne Swabeck Unionism the Main Issue Recognition Still to Be Won Efforts to Smash Strike What About Minneapolis? Breaking Strike Solidarity Stalinist Foster Division The New International Brass Check Journalism The Boss Press and Frisco The Myth of the Food Shortage Food "Riot" Scares Anything Goes in Brass Check Press "All the News That's Fit to Print" A "Pro-Labor" Paper Militant Builders Bound Volumes 30 Jul 28, 1934 Troops Rule Minneapolis Police Arrest Cannon and Shachtman Drivers Ranks Solid Despite Provocation Protect Whose Lives? Union Gains Daily War Looms as Powers Clash Over Austria Imperialist Conflicts Underlie Austrian Situation Hitler's Desire For the "Anschluss" Mussolini Opposes Nazi Expansion War Against Soviet Russia Leon Trotsky in Danger Victim Denounces Police Lies, by Simon Barach Frisco League is Firm in Wave of Boss Terror Home of League Organizer Wrecked C.P. Taken Completely Off Guard Mayor Rossi Leads the Vigilantes 40,000 Join Mass Funeral for Harry Ness Goldman's Speech, by Albert Goldman Goldman's Funeral Oration Rush Funds for Cannon-Shachtman Defense Local 574 on Martial Law Farm Workers Strike in Ohio Shows Militancy Reviewing the News, by Bill "Democratic" Law and Order "And the Ass Spake" "It is Reported" War and Oil Roosevelt? No, Lovestone Civil Liberties Under the New Deal, by Glee Liberty Under the New Deal--The Record for 1933-34 (Published by the Civil Liberties Union) Militant Tone Roosevelt's Terror Why the Omissions? Militant Builders Second Drive Ends New Subs Last Week Complete Record Org--Press Campaign Receipts Special Note Question Box Goethals-Strikebreaker New Castle Unemployed Organize, by A.L.L. Movement Under Way Forward to New Positions Jean Tomasini Dead Place Orders for the New International Stalin Keeps His Promises The World of Labor Toward a Western European Congress of Workers Toward the New Party in Chile Regional Conference of the Catalonian Workers Alliance Robber Barons Rave at Crime Capitalism Breeds Crime Catching Suckers Who Pays the Press? Only One Way Out The Biggest Grab of All How Capitalism Reforms Itself "Status Quo Ante Bellum" "The Right Man for the Right Job" Pontius Investigates Pilate Daily Worker Tells All, by Thomas Stamm Circulation Figures Readers and Members Less than 4,000 for Steel The Significance of the United Front Between the C.P. and the S.P. in France, by P. Naville (Writing in "La Verite," July 6, 1934) A Non-Aggression Pact, (From "La Verite," July 6, 1934) Editorial- (Next two articles are editorials) Democracy--American Style Red-Baiting on the Coast Workers' Blood is Shed (Reprinted from "The Organizer," July 21, 1934) A Cold Blooded Provocation The Crime of the Strikers Workers! Speak Out in Protest August 31 Aug 4, 1934 Strikers Defy Olson Militia Drivers Force Release of 4 Leaders "Impartial" Military Rule Olson "Protects" the Strikers (Political Cartoon) Local 574 Makes Labor History in Great Struggle Frame-up Against League Leaders a Complete Collapse, by Max Shachtman Arrest of Cannon and Shachtman Union Leaders Stand Up Finger Prints Taken A Real "Scoop" Under Military Arrest "Shoot to Kill" Telegram to Olson A.F.L. Heads Check Strike In Stockyards Protest the Military Terror in Minneapolis Local 574 Issues Call for a Protest General Strike (Text of appeal from Local 574 for a general strike from the "Organizer" the union's daily strike bulletin) To the Trade Unions and the Working People of Minneapolis Union men of Minneapolis, what are you going to do about it? We shall fight for our rights to the bitter end! Resistance to tyranny is the beginning of freedom--Answer Olson's military tyranny with the General Strike of Protest! More Strikebreakers Reviewing the News, by Bill The Minneapolis "Organizer" A Tough Break for 200,000 Natives Laughs from the News The "Cardinal's Mistress" Goes to Mass Building Up Socialism and Tearing Down Capitalism Smile! Damn You, Smile! Capone Declines A Reminder Green Strikes at Labor in Blow at Sympathy Strike "A Grave Mistake" No Solidarity Green Bosses Unite--O.K. for Green Sharper Struggles in Strike Wave, by Arne Swabeck Deeper Meaning in Struggles The Bosses' Offensive Breaking the Craft Lines Unions--A Life and Death Issue Ossip Wolinsky "Resigns" Statement of the New Group For Workers Rights March of Events, by Jack Weber A Turn in the Business Trend Slump More Than Seasonal The Workers and the New Slump The French Parliamentary Crisis Question Box A Communist Radio Speech (Text of the radio address) The "Red Scare" Farce Labor's Weapon--the Strike The Role of Communists The Minneapolis Battle The Purpose of the Strike The Great Teachers Speak Hammond, Ind., July 26 (Article about the radio speech of Lydia Beidel) Minneapolis Sidelights -- by an Eye-Witness, by Jerry Kotz Second Offensive A Cop Vanishes Workers' Solidarity World of Labor Doriot United Front in the Saar Unemployed Revolt in Holland Preparing to Defend the Fatherland in Britain Editorial- A "Farmer-Labor" Strikebreaker Strike at Martial Law! Stalinist Zig-Zags, by Arne Swabeck The United Front 32 Aug 11, 1934 Fight Cripples Strike of New York Painters Internal Fight Splits Painters Wide Open Racketeering The "Brilliant" Strike A Leaf from Hitler's Book Playing Into Zausner's Hands General Strike in Knit Goods Trade Report Silver Shirts Arming in San Diego Link Between Nazis and Silver Shirts Collusion with Police and Soldiers 89,000 Represented as Illinois Jobless Organize Condemn Roosevelt Program For Abolition of Capitalism Militant Executive Board Detroit Automobile Workers Revolt Against Treacherous A. F. of L. Policy Danger of Craft Unionism ` "Patriotic Duty" Conservative Leadership Drivers Ranks Hold Firm as Bosses Committee of 166 Begins to Crack 574 Backed By Workers in Mass Meet "Confidence is Returning" Says Artful Dodger Roosevelt Very Discreet Omissions "Confidence is Returning" Credit Where It is Due For a Hot Time! (Excursion on the "Seagate" steamer chartered by the New York Local of the Communist League of America and the International Workers School for a moonlight sail up the Hudson to Bear Mountain and back.) Reviewing the News, by Bill "Father Divine" Hindenburg Famous Sayings that Made Headlines With the Daily Worker Staff Labor News from Mexico, by C.C. (Next two articles are on this topic) The Taxi Drivers Strike Stalinists Fail to Disrupt Meeting, by C.C. Org-Press Campaign Special Local New York Report Details of branch and individual contributions, grand total is $250.50) Registration Plan Fails A Freak Movement in L.A., by T.B. Father Divine - Browder's God Once Again on Cuba, by Latin American Department, C.L.A March of Events, by Jack Weber The Conspiracy Against the Unions Olson's Maneouver (Variant spelling of "Maneuver") American Fascism Starts to Drill! The United Front Question Box Pioneer Notes "War and the Fourth International" The Socialist Party -- In 1914 and Today Causes of Social-Chauvinism American Socialists in War An Appeal for Robins and Gras The Crisis in the Socialist Party, by Joseph Carter The Coming Referendum The Referendum Before the S.P. The Centrists Versus Right Wing The Socialists and War Starvation Wages for German Workers World of Labor Massacre in Chile Spain Spanish Yipsels Fight Opportunism New Party in Australia The United Front, by Arne Swabeck Stifling a Movement A Step Forward Bureaucrats Fear United Front A Practical Test The Task of the Socialist Worker Stalinist Foreign Policy Stimulus of United Front The Coming U.T.W. Convention McMahon Spikes Autonomy Silk Workers Distrust U.T.W. Paterson Isolated General Strike in Textiles Robins-Gras Refused Release on Bail; Appeal Pending Statement of Defense Committee A Demagogue at Work, by Hugo Oehler Olson's Role in the Strike Permits for Scabs Demands of the Union Olson Retreats "Neutrality" in the Class War "Good Intentions" and Results Russian Opposition Bulletin 33 Aug 18, 1934 General Strike Voted in Textile Convention McMahon Out-Voted by Workers; 500,000 to Strike Reactionaries Challenged Strike Demands The Fight for Recognition Don't Forget the Boat Ride Conspiracy to Break Mpls. Strike Smashed By Committee of 100 Drivers Smash Conspiracy Haas and Dunnigan Exposed as Aiding Bosses in Fake Agreement A Fusillade of Questions Youth Defeat F.D.R. Aides at Congress Plan of Sponsors Arbitrary Ruling Danger of War Grows as Japs Provoke Soviets War Clouds Gather Marines Leave Haiti as Dirty Work is Finished Philadelphia Jobless Fight for Tainted Food Club Strikers as La Guardia "Investigates" Food Prices Rise Gougers Active; "No Shortage" Reporters Picket Scab Paper in Staten Island Knit Goods Strikers Show Militancy Knit Goods Strike Reviewing the News, by Bill The Church Crusade on Films A. F. Of L. Executive Council An Act of God Who is God? Warden Lawes of Sing Sing Capitalism Safe and Sane Medals Lessons of the General Strike in Frisco, by Jack Weber A Demonstration of Power Growing Rift Between Masses and Reactionary Leaders Class Consciousness and Politicalization of Struggle Workers' Control of Production Process of Fascist Crystallization Org-Press Campaign Receipts Pledge Fund Once Again on the Role of Governor Olson, by Hugo Oehler Roosevelt-Olson Harmony Pressure Forces Retreat Martial Law--Bosses Weapon A "Handkerchief Head" Speaks Out Sneers at Mass Pressure March of Events, by Jack Weber The Foreign Workers in France French Fascism and the Foreign Worker The French Communist League Comrade Trotsky in Danger! Question Box Political Change in Mexico, by C.C. The Significance of the Impending Crisis in the Government Party Rumors of Split Analogy With Kerensky Stalinism and Leninism Labor on New Upswing New Stage Approaching The Crisis in the Socialist Party, by Joseph Carter "Bogus" Democracy The So-Called Minority Revolution World of Labor International Solidarity and the Stalinists Reactionary Decrees in Holland Vandervelde on the United Front Fraternal Orders Begin Drive Against Labor Left Wing Needed in Paterson McMahon's Empty Threats Keller's Achievements Build the Left Wing Behind the Algerian Massacre, by Jean Mendez Economic Factors Provoking the Recent Anti-Semitic Riots Class Differences Pressure on Moslems Dividing the Colonials Bound Volumes of the Militant Drought and New Deal Ruins American Farmers, by Wasserman Prices Soaring Causes of Crisis Drop in Value of Farm Products Newark Meeting On Minneapolis 34 Aug 25, 1934 Minneapolis Drivers Victorious Local 574 Wins Right to Represent Inside Men; Discrimination Barred 574 Acts in Enforcement of Settlement Defeating a Mighty Foe Win on Major Issue Statement of Dunne Agreement Answers Lies and Slanders The Terms of the Settlement The Strike Triumphant In the Next Issue (A lengthy statement by Herbert Zam in which he resigns from the Lovestone group.) Green & Co. Declare War On Militants The Reactionary Program Fascist Bands Will Approve Minneapolis Shows the Way New Deal Defends Profit System, Says Secretary Japan Prepares Seizure of Chinese Eastern Railroad An Open Letter to the C.P. and S.P. on the United Front (From the National Committee of the Communist League of America, Arne Swabeck, Secretary) Labor Skates Stall General Textile Strike Food Prices Rise 22 Percent Reviewing the News, By Bill Attention Browder! "National Socialism" The Union Label "Splinters" "Deuces Wild" Not Entirely... Silence on Union Square Protest Deporting of Bellussi Klan Rears Its Head in Fort Wayne, by J.R. In the Trade Unions (The next 4 articles fall under this topic) Painters Strike Sags in New York Motley Crowd of Speakers Molders in Unity Move, by G.M. Bureaucrat Wants Pie-Card N.Y. Truckers Strike Looms Pocketbook Workers Oust Wolinsky Demonstration Against Wolinsky A Program of Action Hathaway Slurs Mpls. Strike Model Strike Provocative Slander March of Events, by Jack Weber The Pre-Revolutionary Situation in France Socialists and the United Front Significance of the United Front Question Box A Capitalist Institution, by Burt Cochrane Suicide Chicago: A "Normal" City A Typical "Case History" The Class Struggle Again Looking for "Solid" Stuff Under the Heel of Wall Street, by John Coates Imperialism Stake of American Imperialism Clear Answer Needed The Next Step, by Walter Held (Member of the International Secretariat of the Bureau of Revolutionary Youth Organizations) A Progressive Mission Deep Ferment in Youth Movement French Youth for New Internationalism Bound Volumes of the Militant World of Labor Spain China Argentina Costa Rican Banana Workers Strike New Strike Wave Rising in Cuba Profits of Large Corporations Rise; Greed Unsatiated Low Textile Wages Make Enormous Profits Gunpowder Turns to Profits 20 Million Live on Crumbs on Government Relief At the Bottom of the Heap The Tories Protest at the Pittance Never Forget An Irresistible Tide New Haven Meeting On Minneapolis Young Spartacans Fight Pacifism at Congress Stalinists Expel 6 Youth; Join S.Y.L. and League September 35 Sep 1, 1934 Textile Strike Begins Today Workers in Wool Trade Join Cotton The Yellow Press Howls Again Sinclair Plan a Daydream of Middle Class E.P.I.C. Sinclair Sold on New Deal A Socialist? Jail International Communists in Mexico Richberg Report Omits Wage Drop Richberg Forgets Real Wages Drop Steel Salaries Slashed; Wage Reductions Next Cuts Announced in Big Companies More Profits--Less Wages A New Stagger System God and Bosses Scare Hopkins out of Feeding Strike Hopkins and Relief God Against Workers Hopkins Reassures His Masters Food Prices Soar; Roosevelt Plans Are Responsible Utility and Truck Strikes Loom in N.Y. Cuban Comrades Need Support, by Arne Swabeck (National Secretary, Communist League of America) We Are in a Crisis Reviewing the News, by Bill Birthday Greetings Prosperity Drought and Snow Another "Splinter" Duranty and Stalin, "Times" Correspondents Blah! Blah! Baseball, Wages and the Rising Cost of Living Living Costs and Profits Rise Pledge Fund To All Pledgers Correction ("Red Flag" is an unofficial Communist publication, not an official organ of the International Communist League) In The Trade Unions (The next 5 articles are on this topic) Onion Workers Appeal Against Terror Court Outlaws Closed Shop in N.J. Painters Strike Ends; Zausner Collects Boss-Painters Also Wanted Strike Stalinists Wreck Left Wing Is Zausner's Charge True? 100 Brush Workers Strike in N.Y. Plug-Uglies to Break Strike Shovel Workers Rebel In West Virginia, by G.N. "Law and Order" Terror Bosses Investigate Themselves A Ruse Is Spiked March of Events, by Jack Weber The United Front and the Defense of Trotsky The United Front in Belgium The Movement Begins Here International Youth Day, by Joseph Carter Origin of Socialist Youth Movement Anti-War Position at Berne Steps Toward New Youth International Trying to Turn the Clock of History Back, by C.C. Stalin's Camp Followers on Latin America, by John Coates Muenzenberg in a Web of Contradictions Make This Out--If You Can! World of Labor Youth Unite in Belgium Notes on the United Front Czechoslovakia Britain Holland Sweden Condemnation at Any Price New International Off the Press United Fruit Company Vs. United Banana Workers, by Jean Mendez International Solidarity in Strike Strike Triumphs Lessons of Strike Labor Day--1934 An Offering of Capitalism Cotton Mills Close on Labor Day Stronger and More Confident Onion Workers Battle Terror, by Harry Milton Demand 35 Cents an Hour Mayor's Home Bombed Tom Mooney Appeals to Labor for Assistance, by Tom Mooney 36 Sep 8, 1934 Minneapolis Drivers Win In Elections Labor Leaders Say "No War on War" Major Angas Arrives With Big "Boom" Few Suckers This Time "Richer"--How? Whom? Climbing Out Lid Comes Off In Armament Disclosures Busy With Death Sir Basil Cleans Up The Fire Behind the Smoke Textile Strike Sweeps Over Nation; 10 Killed as Workers Defy Thugs, Armed Scabs, Troops; South in Fore Shady Deal Looms in New Negotiations Bulletin Every Loom Idle is Aim Can't Get Enough Soldiers South Takes the Lead Green and Woll Bide Their Time Flying Squads Strike Fear Into Bosses A First Class Weapon Dern Deplores But Workers Are Shot South Awakens; "Mill Hands" Become Fighting Legions What Do the Prayers Mean? The Mill Town "Cheap" But Not "Contented" The Changing South Kensington Strike In Militant Start Reviewing the News, by Bill The Hope Diamond The U.T.W. Strike Unemployment and Cost of Living Upton Sinclair Labor Day Speeches Speech by Mr. Flea Stalin's Praise for Kemal, Oppressor of Turkish Workers, by Brown Old and "New" Turkey Trade Unions Banned Minorities Oppressed In The Trade Unions (Next three articles fall under this topic) N.Y. Upholsterers on Strike Dental Mechanics in National Drive N.Y. Truckers Win Demands Vancouver Activities Other Organizations in B.C. The Stalinists The American Federation of Labor All Canadian Congress of Labor The Unemployed General Remarks International Bulletin Out Price Reduced What a Scoop! Lovestone Group Cracks in Detroit; 5 Join League Condemn "Socialism in 1 Country" Lovestone's "Democracy" March of Events, by Jack Weber Shifting Class Relations The NRA as Precipitant Middle Class a Decisive Factor An Interesting Note Question Box Pioneer Notes To the Bolshevik-Leninists of the U.S.S.R. Herbert Zam Quits the Lovestone Group, by Max Shachtman World of Labor Welcome! Polish Youth Mensheviks in the Open With the Grace of Stalin Doom to Failure Text of the United Front Youth Pact in Belgium (Signed by the Young Socialist Guard, Young Communist League and the Leninist Youth League) The First Thousand Years Are Hardest Editorial Note Bound Volumes of the Militant The Meaning of the Textile Strike, by Arne Swabeck Strike Will Awaken Workers Union Organization is Issue Officials Under Pressure N.T.W.--A Name of the Past Mass Unions Beginning New Period Opening An Interview with the Managing Editor of the Minneapolis Truck Drivers' Strike Bulletin Says Union Won on Main Issues Northwest Workers Inspired Sinclair Finds His Mentor in F.D.R. Bill Green Gets Radical; The Old Game-New Cards From Him Who Hath Not Shall Be Taken There's a Catch to It 37 Sep 15, 1934 Communist League and A.W.P. Move to Form a New Party Both Organizations Declare Desire to Hasten Union of Forces Arms Inquiry Is Too Hot for State Dep't Deputize the Strikers? Who Owns This Country, Anyway "It's Unheard Of" Whose "Law and Order" The Bullet-Bayonet Lesson Mill Workers Slain by Guards; Governor Raises "Red" Scare Strike Ranks Firm; New Mills Close in the North and South Shall R.I. Follow Frisco War Veterans or Thugs? The Truth About the Morro Fire Railroading Testimony Wanted Alagna's Crime Delay in S.O.S. A Damning Indictment Fire Alarm Unheard Aid for All Where Did It Start? Roger's Testimony Workers Are Disarmed by Spanish Gov't Indian Summer Festival R.I. Solons Save Roosevelt From Sending Federal Troops Work or Jail Says Paterson Court Order Vicious Paterson Injunction Reviewing the News, by Bill Dern, the National Guard and the Workers Nazi Gems Mussolini and the Stork Tears from a Crocodile The Workers Bookstore The Munitions Inquiry The American Legion Strike Statistics a la T.U.U.L. Embarrassing Questions Meeting to Defy Nazis in Yorkville In the Trade Unions Salem, Lawrence Workers Confused, by Stanton McMahon Responsible Lawrence Suffers from Old Wounds Textile Strike in Connecticut, by Jay Harde Hoover vs. Roosevelt, by Hugo Oehler "Tories" Still Alive Half-Truths Facts vs. Conclusions The "Liberty" Racket Competition for "Forgotten Man" The Middle Class Backing of Sinclair, by Jon Dane Hooliganism Again (From C.L.A. and S.Y.L., Pittsburgh Branch) Letters to the Editor March of Events, by Jack Weber The State and the NRA Owen D. Young and the Farmer Monopoly Capitalism Crushes the Farmer Question Box Manifesto of the Workers Party of Canada (Taken from the "Vanguard," organ of the Workers' Party of Canada, formerly the Left Opposition) World Crisis of Capitalist Decay The Menace of Fascism The Conquest of Political Power Defence of the Soviet Union (Variant spelling of "Defense") Pioneer Notes Bound Volumes of the Militant Economic Conditions Behind Textile Strike Crisis Intensified Squeezing the Workers "Labor Specialization" The "Stretch Out" History of Unions World of Labor Puerto Rican Communists Rebel Against Stalinism International Communist Sentenced Saar Workers Begin Active Resistance to Fascism Costa Rican Banana Workers Strike The Advance of Fascism in Spain Editorial For the New Party - For the Fusion of the League and the A.W.P., by James P. Cannon Pioneer Book Shop (Opens September 17th with a complete line of working-class literature) The Stalinists Turn to the Right In the Sphere of Literature, by R.M. Radek Orders Right-About-Face "Fighters for Progress" Carte Blanche to Communists The Peculiar Mode of the Announcement 38 Sep 22, 1934 Soviet Joins The League Of Nations, by Hugo Oehler Fascism Dons White Hood As Klan Rides Again in South The Klux Brains Miners to Be Buried Alive Pocketbook Makers Out Pocketbook Workers On Strike Bosses Refuse Committee Demands Tasks of Strike Marine Union Appeals for Strike Here Babes Born With Gun in their Mouth Proposals of the Roosevelt Board Would Continue Present Coolie Conditions in the Textile Industry Relief is Vital for Victory in Strike Battle Dye Workers Strike Call Winant's Proposals A Good Example of the Run-Around Cold Steel for Textile No Settlement a la Winant Relief! Relief! 20,000 Dyers Get Strike Call This Monday Georgia Brings Hitler Methods to The United States Cripples Meet What Price Strike-Breaking? "American" Wages Reviewing the News, by Bill Strike Contrasts The Battle Line Capitalist Press Definitions Flying Squadrons General Hooie Johnson Hot News Generous America "The Hatred of Communists" Liberal "Spirit" Again Yachts and Scabs Money Still Needed The Pledgers Upholsterers in Critical Situation Paterson Group Calls For Violation of Injunction Injunction is Gallows Noose "Smash Injunction" Protest to Judge Drug Clerks Prepare General Strike "Thou Shalt Not Kill" Capone Can't Take It Johnny Goes For a Swim Are Tomatoes Cheaper? March of Events, by Jack Weber Relief The Constitution and the NRA Question Box The Rise and Fall of a Gangster-Journalist By Mid-Western Correspondent Tool of Citizen's Alliance Guilford's Bile Greetings from Fellow-Murderers For God and Pocketbook The Bosses' Scruples The History of the Frisco General Strike, by Jim Osborn and Dick Ettlinger The Blacklist Majority for Strike Ryan's Maneuvers Workers Support Marine Strike Manifesto of Worker's Party of Canada (Continued from last issue) For the Fourth International The Crisis in Canada and the Workers' Party World of Labor Young Leninists of France Take Decisive Step American Workers Party Sends Letter on Unity, by A.J. Muste, Chairman, Provisional Organizing Committee American Workers Party No Recovery Here, by Paul Schwalbe Privation Everywhere What the People Think About Understanding Still Superficial Opportunity on the Slave Market Coolie Conditions Come to America Marxian Information Scarce A Comment on Belgian United Front Pact Cannon-Bingham Debate 39 Sep 29, 1934 Textile Strike Debacle, By James P. Cannon The Strike Settlement Rank and File Disarmed A New Vanguard Immediately Youth Unite Against Fascists Relief System Endangered in New York For the New Party (Appeal of the National Committee, Communist League of America) Jobless Will Demonstrate November 24th Blackshirts a Challenge to N.Y. Labor Parrots Not Students Fontamara's Challenge Down With Mussolini! Green & Co. in Control as A.F.L. Convention Opens in San Francisco, by Hugo Oehler Left Wing Lacks Clear Program and Capable Leadership Meets After NRA Period Fakers Lie About Facts The New Opposition Opposition is Heterogeneous Incipient Revolts Organizing the Left Wing The "Red" Scare Against Political Discrimination A.F.L. Leaders Plot Against Food Strike Bulletin Reviewing the News Bayonets and the General Strike "Preparedness" Itching Palms--Police and Clergy The "Red Joiner" Mellon's Stolen Millions In the Trade Unions (Three articles on this topic) African Laundry Workers, by Murray G. Purdy, General Secretary, The Committee Pocketbook Strike Bulletin Button Workers Strike The Discipline of Failure, by E.B. "Reward Your Friends" Take Orders from Bosses Only Rights and Rights A "Dark Horse" for Green March of Events, by Jack Weber The Credit System Attempt to Control Credit A Government Central Bank Question Box China's "Red" Generals Recant, by Lucifer Capitulate to Kuomintang and Attack Erstwhile Comrades Shanghai, China Ho-chung Surrenders Military Adviser to Chiang "Advice" from "Red" Commander Inventions Unnecessary Here Another "Red" Traitor "Soviet China" Faces Extinction Peasant War Will Continue The Passing of a Shadow The History of the Frisco General Strike, by Jim Osborn and Dick Ettlinger (Continued from last week) World of Labor British Workers Overwhelm Fascists Left Socialist Threatened Banana Workers Hold Firm French Bolshevik-Leninists Decide to Enter S.F.I.O. as Faction, by James P. Cannon Declaration of French Bolshevik-Leninists (Translated from "La Verite," statement of the National Conference of the Communist League of France) Third Conference of French League (Translated from "La Verite") Foundation of "La Verite" and the Struggle for the Reform of the C.I. The Degeneration of the C.I., The German Defeat Our Record in this Period Toward the Fourth International For a United Revolutionary Party! Disapproval and Equivocal Approval Communist League Replies to Letter Of A.W.P. on Unity (By Arne Swabeck, Secretary, National Committee, Communist League of America) October 40 Oct 6, 1934 Issues of the Day at the A.F. of L. Convention, By Arne Swabeck Strike Truces of the Past Real Issues to the Fore Strike in War Time Green's Record Organizing the Unorganized Pressure on the Workers Read the Crime News and Forget Your Troubles, by Henry Cape Sensation Made to Order To Make the Workers Forget Cannon, Muste Address Paterson Silk Workers Paterson Silk Meet Huge Success Muste Scores "Settlement" Cannon Analyzes Strike Wave Youth Demonstrates Against Italian Fascism Friday Anti Fascists to Rally on Oct. 12 Build the League Armed Clashes in Spain as Civil War Begins Workers Conduct Militant Struggle Against Fascism Armed Clashes Socialist Party Appeal World Labor Must Aid Spanish Workers Destiny Hinges on Militant Action, by R.B. Political Crisis in Spain Socialist Party Manifesto Aim to Conquer Power Sabotage of the United Front The Minority Groups Reviewing the News, by Bill Stalinism on Parade Some Lighter Touches of the Chicago "Anti-War" Congress Young Socialists Give Young Stalinist an A.B.C. Lesson on the United Front (Signed by Ben Fischer, Executive Secretary, N.Y.C. Executive Committee YPSL) The Y.P.S.L. Letter Manifesto of the Workers Party of Canada (From the Provisional National Committee, Workers Party of Canada) (Continued from last issue) The United Front The Trade Unions Program of Action Join the Workers Party! March of Events, by Jack Weber Doumergue Prepares the Next Stage Palestine and the British Empire Question Box A Reformed 2nd or a 4th International? by Rous A Discussion of the International Left Socialist Declaration (From "Verite") The Left Socialist Declaration Bankruptcy of the Second International The History of the Frisco General Strike, by Jim Osborn and Dick Ettlinger (Continued from last week) International Tense Situation in Costa Rica Mendieta Regime in Crisis Bolivian Communists Reorganize Chaco War Threatens Other Countries Editorial Trade Union Perspectives Drug Clerks Union Calls Bronx Strike Robins-Gras Appeal New York Newsstands (That carry "The Militant") Good News 41 Oct 13, 1934 Vertical Union Plan Is Adopted by A.F. of L. at Convention in Frisco, by Hugo Oehler But Right Wing Steers Toward Class Collaboration Policy A. F. of L. Convention Anti-Labor Drive Prepared A.F. of L. Gains and Loses The Vertical Union Decision Prices to Rise In Fake Truce of Roosevelt Vote for the New Party in the Elections The Gift-Horse Perfidy at the Ballot Box Don't Vote for Parties of the Past! For the New Revolutionary Party Scottsboro Boys In Danger As I.L.D. Tactics Enable Lawyer to Knife Defense "Democracy" in the I.L.D. Sectarianism Bred Opportunism Raise New Party Fund! Recruit Sympathizers! Build the League! Workers Battle Heavy Odds in Spain Against Onslaught of Reaction Best Fight Is Waged in Districts Led by Worker's Alliance United on the Barricades "July Days" in Spain Power of Workers Alliances Anti-Fascists Demonstrate In New York Stress Need for Unity Reviewing the News, by Bill Kidnapping "Periods"--Second or Third? With the "Daily Worker" What! No Father Divine? Browder Analyzes Textile Strike "A Truce in Industry" Workers "Greet" Black Shirts in New Haven, by Jay Harde In the Trade Unions (Next two articles) The Electrical Workers Struggle, by Karl Oswald Dividends and Relief Bonus Cancelled Unrest Grows "Loyal" Workers See Trick Brotherhood Strengthened Strike Threatened Drug Clerks Strike Winning Letters to the Editor March of Events, by Jack Weber The Spanish Insurrection Lessons of the Struggle The United Front Belgian Y.C.L. Divides on United Front Issue, by Harry Strang The Stalinist Letter Stalinist "Facts" "Trotskyites" and the United Front Question Box Robins-Gras Appeal New York Newsstands (A listing of stands where "The Militant cab be bought) "Off Again, On Again, Gone Again, Finnegan" Program of the Latin American Bourgeoisie, by C. Curtis The Apra Program Menshevism in a New Guise Kinship with Stalinism The Latin American Proletariat The Road of the Proletariat Perspectives World of Labor Bolivian Communists and the Chaco War Strike Wave Rises in Cuba Repressions in Costa Rica The History of the Frisco General Strike, by Jim Osborn and Dick Ettlinger (Concluded in this issue) Editorial (Next 3 topics) Stalinism in an Impasse -- About Some Contemporaries.. Crocodile Tears -- 42 Oct 20, 1934 Arbitration Award Won by Local 574 Minneapolis Union Forces Wage Increases; Triumphs in Minor Strikes (From the "Organizer," official weekly of General Drivers Union Local 574, Minneapolis) Time and a Third for Overtime Another Bone to Chew On Poincare Dead; Slew Millions Stretch-Out Okayed by New "Order" The Old Stretch-Out Remains Six-Hour Day, Five-Day Week is Now Watchword for Labor Terror Rules as Spanish Revolt Ends United Defense Action of World Proletariat Sole Hope of Rebels Suicide Strike Inspires New Open Battle $2 a Week Many Driven Insane Capitalism Must Go! Government Shows Colors in Houde Case Attorney General Decision Reveals N.R.A. Promises To Be Soap Bubbles Getting Away With Murder! Write in J.P. Cannon as Your Vote for New Party in Elections (New York District, Communist League of America) Price of Militant 3 Cents on Nov. 1st 9 Negro Boys Need United Movement Left Wing is Crucial Issue In A. F. of L., by Arne Swabeck Forward Step of Industrial Unions Is Checked by Reactionary Leaders Industrial Union Move Checked by Right Wing Dilemma of Labor Skates The Industrial Union Issue The Scramble for Spoils Rogues Gallery of "Progressives" Adding Pitch to Black Reviewing the News, by Bill "Peace! Peace! Where There Is No Peace" Results of Bureaucratic Degeneration Roses and the Thirty Hour Week The Hearst Press and Leon Trotsky "Class Brothers" or "Fascist Twins" Lessons of the Revolt in Spain, by Rosalio Negrete Weaknesses of the Uprising In the Trade Unions, by B.B. (The Next two articles) Seamens's "Strike" Flops Ballast and Noise In the Philadelphia I.L.G.W.U. The Smoke-Screen The "Nice" Bosses Some Fundamental Aspects of Youth Work, by Albert Glotzer Basis of "Youth Problem" The Role of the Youth Organization Question Box Leading Philadelphia C.P. Member Declares for Fourth International, by James W. Watson The Negro Question The Utopian Dream of Self-Determination Under Capitalism Negroes are Not a Nation in the United States Race Equality in the United States, Self-Determination for West Indies, Haiti and Africa For War Against Our Own Imperialists Trade Union Policy and Its Relation to the Negro Problem Democratic Centralism versus Bureaucratic Centrism Discussion Article, by Simon Williamson A Critique of the Stalinist Theory of Self-Determination World of Labor- Non-Aggression With a Vengeance Strike Wave in South America Bolivian Communists Threatened With Death Penalty Stalinists in a Panic as Organization of New Party in U.S. Approaches, by Max Shachtman A Decadent Party Founded on Marxism The Mind of a Bureaucrat "Armyless Generals" Burglary Again Bittelman's Lies A Startling "Discovery" Negotiations in Open 43 Oct 27. 1934 P.L. Bergoff, Rat Chieftain Brags of Scabbing in Press Proposed Program for the New Party Prepared by Joint A.W.P.-C.L.A. Committee) Foreword Program Decline and Collapse of Capitalism Imperialism and War Fascism America's Place in the World The Roosevelt Program The Only Way Out The Working Class and Its Allies The Capitalist State and Democracy Role of the Revolutionary Party Conquest of Power Consolidation of Workers' Rule Foundations of a Socialist Society The Goal of a Classless Society World-Socialism Inadequacy of Existing Parties Socialist Party The Communist Party The Defense of the Soviet Union Intermediate Groupings Labor and Farmer-Labor Parties For the New International The Main Task The Trade Unions Agricultural Workers and Farmers Negroes and Other Oppressed Racial Groups Colonial Peoples Professional and Technical Workers The Unemployed Struggle Against Imperialist War The Young Workers The United Front Conclusion What is Happening In the C.P. Militant Will Print Startling Documents and Material Bulletin (News from Spain) Boost New Party Fund Silk Industry Tied Up as Strike of 25,000 Dyers Involves Eastern Cities Higher Wages and Union Shop Are Issues of Walkout Workers Want to Fight Grounds for Victory Roosevelt is Applauded by Bankers Reviewing the News, by Glee Some Fundamental Aspects of Youth Work, by Albert Glotzer Youth - Adult Relations The Economic Struggle of the Young Workers In the Trade Unions, by L. Brown Teachers Attacked by Ives Bill New Espionage System The Economy Knife Modern Lusk Laws Humble Slaves Not Teachers Ives Bill Attacks Labor March of Events, by Jack Weber Hunger Strike of Workers Unity of the Working Class A Sign of the Times Question Box What Next for French Labor (From "La Verite") Strengthening of Bonapartism and the Struggle Against the "Common Front" The C.P. and S.P. on the Plane of Bourgeois Legality The Only Perspective: Fight for a Workers and Peasants Government! The Methods of Struggle The Question of Trade Union Unity Anti-Fascist Militia and the Arming of the Proletariat to Beat Back the Reactionary Bands Discussion Article, by Hugo Oehler The Question of Intervention by U.S. Imperialism in Cuba World of Labor Trade Union Unity in France Expulsion in Britain Sir Stafford Muddles Out 44 Nov 3, 1934 10,000 Pennsylvania Silk Workers to Swell Ranks of Striking Dyers Union Solidarity with Unemployed League Strike Ranks Swelling Unemployed League Aiding Instructions for New Party Voters Police Attacks "Deplored" by Tory Diehard Election Balm for Cracked Skulls New Dealers Bolt Sinclair in Epic Fight Joining Ranks of Forgotten Men He Calls to God for Succor "Liberal" Versus "Liberal" Your Duty to New Party Union Fight Forces A&P to Back Down Spreading of Strike and Boycott Threat Calls Bosses Bluff Arrangements Completed for National Convention to Launch New Party in U.S. AWP-CLA Set Nov. 30th for Meeting Demonstrate November 24 for Job Relief Russian Revolution and Militant Issue Labor Editor Threatened by Fascist Thugs The Chauvinist "Anti-Japanese Campaign" of American Stalinists The Significance of the Comintern Document (From the Executive Committee of the Communist International) Reviewing the News, by Glee Egregious Social-Democratic Ministers and Worms Jehova for Sinclair Angels for Amter Tears, Tears, More Glycerine In the Trade Unions, by Eva Winer Another Paper Union Folds Up Looking at the Record Will the Workers "Come Back"? Discretion Better Part of Valor March of Events, by Jack Weber Second International Begins to Crack The American Socialist Party Question Box Has the Comintern Learned? by Erich Wollenberg A Critique of Criticism Spreading Illusions The "Revolutionary Upsurge" Muenzenbergism! "Without a Stalin There Could Be No Hitler" The Author of this Article (About Erich Wollenberg) Six Years of the Militant Addressograph Contributed World of Labor Religious Conflict Flares in Mexico New War Threat in South America Spanish Reaction Prepares New Blows Editorial (Next 2 articles) Radek for a New Party?.... The Times and Fascism.... "Organizer" Raps Vigilantes Cops--Deaf, Dumb, and Blind "Organizer" Denounces Raids Remember "Deputies Run"! Who Are the Vigilantes? Stalinists Bewilder Workers Insurance for Defeat Organize Against Vigilantes Mpls. "Organizers" on Sale League Expels Goldman for Capitulation to S.P. (By National Committee, C.L.A.) Increase in Militant Price 45 Nov 10, 1934 Fargo Drivers Win in Militant Milk Strike Dunne Jailed for Activity; Released by Mass Pressure By Our Mid-West Correspondent Cannon Forum Postponed Membership Meets Sun. Gorman Plans a Love Feast With Bosses Textile Workers Get It in the Neck While Faker Talks "Cooperation" It Seems... Cooperation with Mr. Legree National Jobless Day Supported by Unions Not An Appeal - An Alarm! Dyers Strike Holds Lines in 2nd Week Convention of C.L.A. Call November 26, by Arne Swabeck, Secretary, National Committee C.L.A. "Truce" Government Falls in France; Class Lines Drawn, by P. Franck French Bolshevik Paper Calls for Decisive Steps The Aims The Methods S.P. Groups Prepare for a Split in Party, by Joseph Carter Thomas Begs for Unity as Forward Crowd Takes Steps for Schism Right Wing Steers to Labor Party Unity with "Sewer Socialists" Thomas Panicky What Shall the Left Wing Do? The Chauvinist "Anti-Japanese Campaign" of American Stalinists (Continued from last issue) The C.I.'s Guilt for the Policy of the C.P.U.S.A. Reviewing the News, by Glee What's Wrong With this Picture The Majesty of the Law or What's Sauce for the Goose is Poison for the Gander Fish, Flesh or the Best Disciple of Lenin? Between Ourselves Warning Support the Militant; Continue Your Pledge Special Offer Add Your Name to the New Party Honor Roll March of Events, by Jack Weber The Danger in France The Commune Once Again Question Box Draft Thesis for C.I.A. Convention The Need for a National Spartacus Youth League Discussion Article, by Simon Williamson The Fight for Full Social, Economic and Political Equality Fundamental Aspects of Youth Work, by Albert Glotzer Anti-Militarism and the Struggle Against War Socialist Education of the Youth World of Labor Norwegian Labor Party Elections Victory Executions in Spain Mendieta in Straits Militant Circulation to All Branches Militant Greetings History in the Making Health Lectures The Truth is Alien to Them, by Harry Strang Stalinist Hokum on Minneapolis Country Electrified The Spleen of the Stalinists The Workers' Illusion The Leaders' Policy Opposition to Olsonism From Words to Deeds Olson's Friends A Crime Against the Class 46 Nov 17, 1934 Weavers Will Decide On Joining General Strike of Dye Workers Dyers Spurn Boss Truce Offer and Continue Struggle Fighting the Strike with Bullets Striking the Stallers Giant Meeting Dec. 2nd to Greet Fusion Workers Set for Elevator Strike Here For a New Revolutionary Party! by James P. Cannon The Influence of the Fusion The Post-Lenin Scene The Test of Present Conditions The Course of the League The Fate of Our Critics Dilemma of Propaganda Groups Gitlow and Zam--Renegades! Mistaken Analogies Goldman's Desertion The Principles of the New Party Security Plan Nails Wolf to Labor's Door Unemployment Insurance Scheme Provides No Solution Roosevelt Plan Fails No "Wild" Ideas Wanted The "Security" Grave Mooney Wins Court Hearing; Mass Action Need of Hour The "Big-Hearted" Decision Protest is Only Weapon Minn. Union Progressives in Conference Militant Program Outlined by Fifteen Trade Union Representatives Accommodations Needed for Convention Delegates Students in Free Speech Fight in L.A., by Bill Monroe Cops Guard "Academic Freedom" Support from Stanford Jobless Organizations Lay Nationwide Plans for Big Demonstration 1,100 Local Bodies March Nov. 24th for Relief Demands Reviewing the News, by Glee Weekly Prosperity Note Morning, Noon and Night The Majesty of the Law Idea for a Braintruster with Streamlined Brains Flash! Announcement (The second installment of the series of articles on the Communist Party has been delayed.) Organization Notes - N.Y. In the Trade Unions A Worker Looks at the A. F. of L. Convention Industrial Unionism Jurisdiction Squabbles The 30-Hour Week Faith in Roosevelt Special Offer to Expire (Combo package of a subscription to the Militant and a book or pamphlet) The Crisis is Still With Us! March of Events, by Jack Weber Lull in the French Storm War, Politics and Diplomacy World of Labor (By the International Secretariat, International Communist League) Lessons of the Spanish Revolution New York Trade Unionists Quit C.P. Join Movement for New Party in U.S., by Jack Taylor "Independent Action" Local 499 Painters Local 2717 Carpenters Rival Unions Bureaucracy Political Work Statement of Comrade Alfred Terry, by Alfred Terry (Concurs with Jack Taylor's statement above) November New International Out Question Box The Heritage of October, by Arne Swabeck 17 Years of the Workers State The Contrast Struggle to the End 47 Nov 24, 1934 C.L.A. and A.W.P. Head for Fusion Delegates Meet to Decide on New Party at Conventions Wall Street Conspiracy for Fascist Coup Revealed Morgan Lurks in Picture Offered Three Million Army Generals Involved Trying to Laugh It Off Weavers Set Deadline for Walkout Keller's Pussyfooting Aids Bosses Against Strike Keller's Stalling Expelled Members Reinstated Youth Greet Convention (From National Committee, Spartacus Youth League of America) Easley Plots Against Nine Negro Boys Chronicle of Scottsboro Case Reveals I.L.D. Role Last Minute Call (Appeal for food for the delegates) Mass Meeting To Greet the National Conferences of the American Workers Party and the Communist League Unemployed to Demonstrate Today National Delegation to Present Demands in Washington What the Inner Regime of the Communist Party Looks Like Inventing Miniature Stalins The Rubber Stamp Pol-Bureau Rife With Intrigues Stacked With Pie-Card Artists Hand-Picking Convention Delegates Barracks Discipline Leaps In--Bounds Out The New Party- The Answer to Stalinist Corruption Reviewing the News, by Glee So You Can't Take It, Mr. Young! Is There Any Possible Connection Department? Friend or Foe--We Want to Know For a Nickel on the Drum You Get a Strikebreaking Bum Meet the Gang! Six More Weeks to Go! (Subscription Campaign) March of Events, by Jack Weber Upturn Hangs Fire Danger of Fascism Our Task Question Box November New International Out Who Are the Defenders of the U.S.S.R.? The International Secretariat Replies to the Calumnies of the French Stalinists Reply to the I.L.P. Copy to All Working Class Organizations Spiking a Canard in the Daily Worker A Statement by Joseph Fox on His Resignation from the C.P.U.S.A., by Joseph Fox Out of C.P. - For New Party, by S. Greenberg and I. Greenberg, Unit 2015 N.Y. Organization Notes World of Labor The L.S.I.-C.I. Negotiations The Events in Spain and the Fourth International "Republican Militia" Marches in Chile Newark Anti-Nazi Protest Split by Stalinists, YPSL, by Arne Colts Spartacus Youth Convention Two Anniversaries Consolation in Figures Revisionism with a Vengeance Celebrating October Under NEP C.I. and Soviets in Joint Session Under the Cloud of Reaction "Emphasis on Soviet Defense" N.Y. Student Strike Slams Robinson An Honor to Be a "Gutter-Snipe" Students Expelled Class Struggle Reaches Campus Help! Is Needed at Once (Militant needs donations) 48 Dec 8, 1934 Launch Workers Party of U.S. C.L.A. and A.W.P. In Fusion Convention of U.S. Revolutionaries Fusion Endorsed Third Convention of League Draws Balance Sheet of Six Years, by George Clarke C.L.A. Endorses Fusion Program Party Maps Big Drive to Rally Jobless Spartacus Youth Meets Canada W.P. Greets New Party's Birth Canada Hails W.P. Build New Party Workers of N.Y. Rally to Support Party Trade Unionists Speak Unemployed Leaders Speak Minneapolis Bosses Plot Frame-Up of 574 Leaders Minneapolis Frame-Up Attacked by Dunne V.R. Dunne Promises Fight Workers Party Facts Old Guard Threatens S.P. With Split Old Guard Delivers Ultimatum "Militants" Have Cold Feet W.P. to Back Left Wing in Trade Unions This Issue is Last of "The Militant" (It will be replaced by "The New Militant" due to the C.L.A.-W.P. merger) Party to Act on Defense Resolution on Mooney Resolution on Holstein Resolution on Labor Defense Workers Party of the U.S.--Declaration of Principles The Decline of Capitalism Imperialism and War Fascism America's Place in the World The Roosevelt Program The Only Way Out The Working Class and Its Allies The Capitalist State and Democracy Conquest of Power--The Workers' State Role of the Revolutionary The Workers Party of the U.S. Foundations of a Socialist Society The Goal of a Classless Society Criticism of Existing Parties Socialist Party The Communist Party Centrist Political Groupings Labor and Farmer-Labor Parties The New International Struggle Against Imperialist War The Defense of the Soviet Union The Main Task The Trade Unions Agricultural Workers and Farmers Negroes and Other Oppressed Racial Groups Colonial Peoples Professional and Technical Workers The Unemployed The Young Workers The United Front Constitution of the Workers Party Constitution of the Workers Party of the United States Name Purpose International Affiliation Members Organization Administration Initiation Fees and Dues Discipline Qualifications for Election National Conventions Fractions Amendments N.U.L. Led Thousands On Nov. 24, by Anthony Ramuglia Were More Than Parades Authorities Stand By Delegation Visits Washington Perkins Doesn't Know Unemployed Getting Enough Tony Bellussi Quits U.S. In the Trade Unions, by Robert Strong Independent Unionist Resigns from C.P. Party Democracy Dead A. F. of L. Fetishism Members Quitting Franz Bobzien Murdered Weisbord Group Breaking Up, by X. A.W.P. Votes Fusion Plan as Drafted, by Louis Breier Historic Occasion Adopt Organization Proposals