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(1934)

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Volume VII No. 1 [No. 205] Saturday, January 4, 1934, New York, NY

THE MILITANT
Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America [Opposition]

Editoral Board:

James P. Cannon
Martin Abern
Max Shactman
Maurice Spector
Arne Swabeck

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

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

Volume VII No. 2 [No. 206] Saturday, January 20, 1934, New York, NY

THE MILITANT
Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America [Opposition]

Editoral Board:

James P. Cannon
Martin Abern
Max Shactman
Maurice Spector
Arne Swabeck

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 Shactman
(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

Volume VII No. 3 [No. 207] Saturday, January 27, 1934, New York, NY

THE MILITANT
Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America [Opposition]

Editoral Board:

James P. Cannon
Martin Abern
Max Shactman
Maurice Spector
Arne Swabeck

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 Shactman (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.)

Volume VII No. 4 [No. 208] Saturday, Monday 29, 1934, New York, NY

THE MILITANT
Published Three Times a Week by the Communist League of America (Opposition)

Editoral Board:

James P. Cannon
Martin Abern
Max Shactman
Maurice Spector
Arne Swabeck

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

Volume VII No. 5 [No. 209] Wednesday, January 31, 1934, New York, NY

THE MILITANT
Published Three Times a Week by the Communist League of America (Opposition)

Editoral Board:

James P. Cannon
Martin Abern
Max Shactman
Maurice Spector
Arne Swabeck

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

Volume VII No. 6 [No. 210] Friday, February 2, 1934, New York, NY

THE MILITANT
Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America [Opposition]

Editoral Board:

James P. Cannon
Martin Abern
Max Shactman
Maurice Spector
Arne Swabeck

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

Volume VII No. 7 [No. 211] Saturday, February 10, 1934, New York, NY

THE MILITANT
Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America [Opposition]

Editoral Board:

James P. Cannon
Martin Abern
Max Shactman
Maurice Spector
Arne Swabeck

Paris Masses Shake Corrupt French Regime

Reaction in Power with Dumergue

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

Volume VII No. 8 [No. 212] Saturday, February 17, 1934, New York, NY

THE MILITANT
Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America [Opposition]

Editoral Board:

James P. Cannon
Martin Abern
Max Shactman
Maurice Spector
Arne Swabeck

Austrian Workers Fight Heroic Battle, by Max Shactman

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

Volume VII No. 9 [No. 213] Friday, February 24, 1934, New York, NY

THE MILITANT
Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America [Opposition]

Editoral Board:

James P. Cannon
Martin Abern
Max Shactman
Maurice Spector
Arne Swabeck

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.

Shactman 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 Shactman

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

Volume VII No. 10 [No. 214] Saturday, March 10, 1934, New York, NY

THE MILITANT
Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America [Opposition]

Editoral Board:

James P. Cannon
Martin Abern
Max Shactman
Maurice Spector
Arne Swabeck

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

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

Volume VII No. 13 [No. 217] Saturday, March 31, 1934, New York, NY

THE MILITANT
Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America

Editoral Board:

James P. Cannon
Martin Abern
Max Shactman
Maurice Spector
Arne Swabeck

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!

Shactman on Tour

New Castle
Youngstown Stalinists Frustrated
Stalinist Hoodlums Mobilize
Dealing With the Disrupters

Shactman 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

Volume VII No. 14 [No. 218] Saturday, April 7, 1934, New York, NY

THE MILITANT
Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America

Editoral Board:

James P. Cannon
Martin Abern
Max Shactman
Maurice Spector
Arne Swabeck

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

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!

Shactman 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

Volume VII No. 15 [No. 219] Friday, April 14, 1934, New York, NY

THE MILITANT
Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America

Editoral Board:

James P. Cannon
Martin Abern
Max Shactman
Maurice Spector
Arne Swabeck

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 Shactman Tour

Railroad Robins and Gras for Work in Hotel Strike

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

A Pacifist Morass, by M.G.

Pledge Fund

An Appeal to Our Sympathizers
New Pledgers

Shactman 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

Shactman Tour Schedule

Russian Bulletin

Brownsville Relief Demonstration

Harlem Workers Club

Fascists in N.Y.

Volume VII No. 16 [No. 220] Monday, April 21, 1934, New York, NY

THE MILITANT
Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America

Editoral Board:

James P. Cannon
Martin Abern
Max Shactman
Maurice Spector
Arne Swabeck

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

Shactman 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

Volume VII No. 17 [No. 221] Wednesday, April 28, 1934, New York, NY

THE MILITANT
Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America

Editoral Board:

James P. Cannon
Martin Abern
Max Shactman
Maurice Spector
Arne Swabeck

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 Shactman L.A. Meeting

San Francisco Meeting, by Florence Wyle

Militant is Barred From Canada

Young Spartacus

Volume VII No. 18 [No. 222] Friday, May 5, 1934, New York, NY

THE MILITANT
Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America

Editoral Board:

James P. Cannon
Martin Abern
Max Shactman
Maurice Spector
Arne Swabeck

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)

Shactman Speaks at St. Louis Meet

Reviewing the News, by Bill

"Democratic" Traditions
"Tricks of the Press"
Bert Wolfe

Shactman 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

Volume VII No. 19 [No. 223] Friday, May 12, 1934, New York, NY

THE MILITANT
Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America

Editoral Board:

James P. Cannon
Martin Abern
Max Shactman
Maurice Spector
Arne Swabeck

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"

Shactman 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

Volume VII No. 20 [No. 224] Saturday, May 19, 1934, New York, NY

THE MILITANT
Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America

Editoral Board:

James P. Cannon
Martin Abern
Max Shactman
Maurice Spector
Arne Swabeck

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

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

Volume VII No. 21 [No. 225 Saturday, May 26, 1934, New York, NY

THE MILITANT
Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America

Editoral Board:

James P. Cannon
Martin Abern
Max Shactman
Maurice Spector
Arne Swabeck

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

Telegram to The Militant, by K.

Learn From Minneapolis, by James P. Cannon

The Message of Minneapolis
Mass Action
The Sympathetic Strike
The Bolshevik Mili

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 Shactman

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

Volume VII No. 22 [No. 226] Saturday, June 2, 1934, New York, NY

THE MILITANT
Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America

Editoral Board:

James P. Cannon
Martin Abern
Max Shactman
Maurice Spector
Arne Swabeck

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 Shactman

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

Volume VII No. 23 [No. 227] Saturday, June 9, 1934, New York, NY

THE MILITANT
Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America

Editoral Board:

James P. Cannon
Martin Abern
Max Shactman
Maurice Spector
Arne Swabeck

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

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 Shactman

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

Volume VII No. 24 [No. 228] Saturday, June 16, 1934, New York, NY

THE MILITANT
Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America

Editoral Board:

James P. Cannon
Martin Abern
Max Shactman
Maurice Spector
Arne Swabeck

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

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

Volume VII No. 25 [No. 229] Saturday, June 23, 1934, New York, NY

THE MILITANT
Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America

Editoral Board:

James P. Cannon
Martin Abern
Max Shactman
Maurice Spector
Arne Swabeck

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

[Transcribers note: Editors of The Militant misunumbered this issues as "June 23" but it is in fact "June 30"]

Volume VII No. 26 [No. 230] Saturday, June 30, 1934, New York, NY

THE MILITANT
Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America

Editoral Board:

James P. Cannon
Martin Abern
Max Shactman
Maurice Spector
Arne Swabeck

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

Volume VII No. 27 [No. 231] Saturday, July 7, 1934, New York, NY

THE MILITANT
Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America

Editoral Board:

James P. Cannon
Martin Abern
Max Shactman
Maurice Spector
Arne Swabeck

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
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

[Transcribers note: Editors of The Militant started misunumbering by skipping an issue]

Volume VII No. 28 [No. 232] Saturday, July 14, 1934, New York, NY

THE MILITANT
Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America

Editoral Board:

James P. Cannon
Martin Abern
Max Shactman
Maurice Spector
Arne Swabeck

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

Volume VII No. 29 [No. 233] Saturday, July 21, 1934, New York, NY

THE MILITANT
Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America

Editoral Board:

James P. Cannon
Martin Abern
Max Shactman
Maurice Spector
Arne Swabeck

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

Volume VII No. 30 [No. 234] Saturday, July 28, 1934, New York, NY

THE MILITANT
Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America

Editoral Board:

James P. Cannon
Martin Abern
Max Shactman
Maurice Spector
Arne Swabeck

Troops Rule Minneapolis

Police Arrest Cannon and Shactman
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-Shactman 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

Volume VII No. 31 [No. 235] Saturday, August 4, 1934, New York, NY

THE MILITANT
Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America

Editoral Board:

James P. Cannon
Martin Abern
Max Shactman
Maurice Spector
Arne Swabeck

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 Shactman

Arrest of Cannon and Shactman
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

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

Volume VII No. 32 [No. 236] Saturday, August 11, 1934, New York, NY

THE MILITANT
Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America

Editoral Board:

James P. Cannon
Martin Abern
Max Shactman
Maurice Spector
Arne Swabeck

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

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

Volume VII No. 33 [No. 237] Saturday, August 18, 1934, New York, NY

THE MILITANT
Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America

Editoral Board:

James P. Cannon
Martin Abern
Max Shactman
Maurice Spector
Arne Swabeck

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 Outul>

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

Volume VII No. 34 [No. 238] Saturday, August 25, 1934, New York, NY

THE MILITANT
Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America

Editoral Board:

James P. Cannon
Martin Abern
Max Shactman
Maurice Spector
Arne Swabeck

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

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

Volume VII No. 35 [No. 239] Saturday, September 1, 1934, New York, NY

THE MILITANT
Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America

Editoral Board:

James P. Cannon
Martin Abern
Max Shactman
Maurice Spector
Arne Swabeck

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

Volume VII No. 36 [No. 240] Saturday, September 8, 1934, New York, NY

THE MILITANT
Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America

Editoral Board:

James P. Cannon
Martin Abern
Max Shactman
Maurice Spector
Arne Swabeck

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 Shactman

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

Volume VII No. 37 [No. 241] Saturday, September 15, 1934, New York, NY

THE MILITANT
Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America

Editoral Board:

James P. Cannon
Martin Abern
Max Shactman
Maurice Spector
Arne Swabeck

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

Volume VII No. 38 [No. 242] Saturday, September 22, 1934, New York, NY

THE MILITANT
Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America

Editoral Board:

James P. Cannon
Martin Abern
Max Shactman
Maurice Spector
Arne Swabeck

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

Volume VII No. 39 [No. 243] Saturday, September 29, 1934, New York, NY

THE MILITANT
Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America

Editoral Board:

James P. Cannon
Martin Abern
Max Shactman
Maurice Spector
Arne Swabeck

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)

Volume VII No. 40 [No. 244] Saturday, October 6, 1934, New York, NY

THE MILITANT
Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America

Editoral Board:

James P. Cannon
Martin Abern
Max Shactman
Maurice Spector
Arne Swabeck

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

Volume VII No. 41 [No. 245] Saturday, October 13, 1934, New York, NY

THE MILITANT
Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America

Editoral Board:

James P. Cannon
Martin Abern
Max Shactman
Maurice Spector
Arne Swabeck

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 BillKidnapping

"Periods" 738212; 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

Volume VII No. 42 [No. 246] Saturday, October 20, 1934, New York, NY

THE MILITANT
Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America

Editoral Board:

James P. Cannon
Martin Abern
Max Shactman
Maurice Spector
Arne Swabeck

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 Shactman

A Decadent Party
Founded on Marxism
The Mind of a Bureaucrat
"Armyless Generals"
Burglary Again
Bittelman's Lies
A Startling "Discovery"
Negotiations in Open

Volume VII No. 43 [No. 247] Saturday, October 27, 1934, New York, NY

THE MILITANT
Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America

Editoral Board:

James P. Cannon
Martin Abern
Max Shactman
Maurice Spector
Arne Swabeck

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

Volume VII No. 44 [No. 248] Saturday, November 3, 1934, New York, NY

THE MILITANT
Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America

Editoral Board:

James P. Cannon
Martin Abern
Max Shactman
Maurice Spector
Arne Swabeck

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

Volume VII No. 45 [No. 249] Saturday, November 10, 1934, New York, NY

THE MILITANT
Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America

Editoral Board:

James P. Cannon
Martin Abern
Max Shactman
Maurice Spector
Arne Swabeck

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. Frank

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

Volume VII No. 46 [No. 250] Saturday, November 17, 1934, New York, NY

THE MILITANT
Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America

Editoral Board:

James P. Cannon
Martin Abern
Max Shactman
Maurice Spector
Arne Swabeck

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)

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

NEW MILITANT

Volume 1 No. 1 [No. 1] Saturday, December 15, 1934, New York, NY

NEW MILITANT
Weekly Organ of the Workers Party of the United States

Editoral Board:

James P. Cannon – Editor
Howie A. Howe – Associate Editor
Cara Cooke – Business Manager

Workers Party Opens Action Campaign – Eleven Point Program is Mapped

• Sets Eleven Tasks
• Party Machinery in Motion
• Enrolling Charter Members
• Launch Speaking Tour
• Hold Unemployment Conference
• Must Raise $5.000
• Wide Interest in Party

Government Preparing for War

• Bending Every Nerve
• Talk is Demagogy
• War Men Head Commission
• Government Co-Operated
• Would Avoid Confusion

Prison Figures Reveal Nazi Terror

Muste and Cannon Start National Tour, Jan 13

Robins, Gras Win New Trial; Frames in N.Y. Hotel Strike – Non-Partisan Labor Defense Sees Victory for Labor

• Victory for Labor
• Non-Partisan Labor Defense Acts
• Daily Worker Attacks Committee

Auto Wages Drop 19 Pct.

Budenz Hails Party From Sickbed

• Need Mass Action
• American Approach
• Language of the Machine

Health and Low Wages

The Forgotten Man

Party Fund Drive Opened By National Committee – Assigns Tasks to Members in $5,000 Campaign

Youth in Convention Plans Broad Radical Organization – Spartacus League Pledges Adherence to Workers Party

• Growth of Spartacus Youth

Altum Press Out on Strike

From the Firing Line – We Ride the Rods to the Merger Convention – From Kansas City to New York by Simon Williamson

Men Who Get $3.000 a Day Doubled by Nira, Roosevelt – Incomes Under $25,000 Shrink, Tax Returns Show – Million Dollar Incomes Rise

• "Redistributing" Wealth
• What the Figures Show

Wealthy Americans

Defeating the Militants In Illinois – The Real Story – Allard's Account Reprinted from Labor Action by Gerry Allard

• The Real Story
• C.P. Tactics

Mooney May Be Pardoned

Merry Christmas—! F.D.'s Little Gift To the Jobless – FERA 30 Cent Minimum Wage is Abandoned

• A Merry Christmas
• Unemployed Are Fearful
• Voice of Wall Street
• Using Sales Taxes
• And S0—Merry Xmas!

Red Sees the New Militant Coming From the Press – Finds the Shop Coffee Good – And Black by Red

• Clutter of Things
• "We're Kept Busy"
• On Its Way

In the Unions by Karl Lore

• Building Trades War
• It Didn't Last
• Jurisdiction Claims
• Does It Mean Split?
• Department Stores

Mail Orders Specialty of Pioneer Shop

March of Events by Jack Weber

• The Chaotic Balkans
• Italian Foreign Exchange Monopoly
• Scrapping the NRA

Socialist Party Turns to the Right

• Thumbs Down on United Front
• The Position of Thomas
• Move to Expel Left Wing
• Right Wing Presses Forward
• Aim to "Cleanse" the Party

The National Unemployed League – History and Methods by Louis Breier

• "Self-Help" and Barter Schemes
• From "Self-Help" to Mass Pressure
• C.P.L.A. Enters Field
• Moves for National Organization

World In Review

• Leroux-Gil Robles on Tightrope
• Bolivia Makes Last Stand

Prices Rise in Germany

German Aryans Running Amuck

The New Militant

Non-Partisan Defense

Anti-Crime War Aimed at Lone Killers – while Bankers and War Makers Get Protection

• Washington
• Of a Lower Order
• No Reference to Causes
• "Political Pressure"
• An Important Question

Pamphlet Publication Program

Fascism at Work

Notice

Reviewing the News by Bill [Bill Sherman]

Spartacus

• At Last the Forgotten Man
• Time-Clocks vs. Military Muster
• Bankers and Lawyers Gyp Crippled Veterans
• Free Workers
• Voodism and the Quintuplets [Should be "Voodooism"?]

Volume 1 No. 2 [No. 2] Saturday, December 22, 1934, New York, NY

NEW MILITANT
Weekly Organ of the Workers Party of the United States

Editoral Board:

James P. Cannon – Editor
Howie A. Howe – Associate Editor
Cara Cooke – Business Manager

Alarm Signals in the Soviet Union by A.J. Muste and James P. Cannon

Muste Calls for Funds To Carry on Mass Work by A.J. Muste

Steel Truce in Deadlock At Capitol – Roosevelt's Plan is Balked By Failure to Agree on Company Unions

• Sanctions Company Unions
• Asks More Conferences

Hit Sabotage In C.P. Trial – Hits C.P. Sabotage In Trial of Cal. Militants

Merry Christmas – Where? – Merry Christmas – For Whom? by Dan Eastman

• Eats at Horse Markets
• To Keep People Quiet
• The Muni
• Waiting
• Gala Christmas
• A Place to Stay
• The Gold Dust Lodge

Joseph Zack, C.P. Leader, Joins the Workers Party

Comrade Zack's Statement by Joseph Zack

Auto Hearing Farce With Ban on 7a

• This Was Important
• Committee Heard Plenty
• What They Told

Printers' O.K. Aids Striking Reporters by Leo Roberts

• Their First Strike
• Results of Class-Collaboration
• No Arbitration
• Scab-Law or No Law

9 Join Party At Philly Meet

Super Lobby Seeks Wage Relief Slash – Capitalists in United Front Against Labor to Put Screws on Congress

• Will Ask for Dole
• United Front
• Screws on Congress

Cats Eat Relief Meat—Live

From the Firing Line

Wild Cat Strike Looms at Mine – John L. Lewis Holds on by Strong-Arm Methods

• Steam Shovel Dynamited – Miners Eking Out Existence in Clash With Coal Co.
• Leibowitz Plans Anti-Labor Trial for Scottsboro Boys by Harry Strang
• United Front With Leibowitz
• Left Wing Polls Heavy Vote in P.M.A. Election

The Party at Work

• Membership Meet Raises $500 on Build Party Fund

"Save the Workers From Revolution!" – U.S. Chamber of Commerce Busy – Words of Abraham Lincoln on Rights of the People to Change or Overthrow the Existing Government

• Hit Working Class Violence
• Defending Capitalism
• Right of Revolution
• All to "Save" the Workers!
• Wants Stricter Dictatorship

Why Mooney Remains in Prison

Capitalist Sabotage

In the Unions by Karl Lore

• Rubber Organizes
• Is Akron Next?
• Yellow Dog Unions
• Put Up or Shut Up
• Another Weirton???
• Where Are the Progressives?
• Briefs

March of Events by Jack Weber

• The Profit System and Capitalist Sabotage
• Profits and Housing
• Housing and the Building Workers

Robins-Gras Free on Bail

Munitions Makers Put the Screws on Roosevelt – President Overplays His Hand In Profitless-War Plan

• New Deal and War
• Roosevelt on the Spot
• No War Clouds?
• The End-Profit Boys
• Equally Low Wages
• The Lever Act
• Against Labor

W.P. and Trade Unions by Arne Swabeck, Secretary of the Trade Union Dept. of the Workers Party

• Basic Tasks
• Concentration Points

Harlan "Law" Still Active

World in Review

Fascist State in Portugal

• Chaco War Toll Heavy
• Power Balance in Europe
• Trend in France Downward
• Secret War Plans

Negro Workers in the Early American Labor Movement – Fight for Social and Economic Equality Since 1869 by Simon Williamson

• Sowing Seeds of Hatred
• Knights of Labor
• The Years 1881-86
• Development of Industry
• White Labor Monopoly
• Middle Class Negroes

Foundation Fund Campaign

Theatre Benefit

Volume 1 No. 3 [No. 3] Saturday, December 29, 1934, New York, NY

NEW MILITANT
Weekly Organ of the Workers Party of the United States

Editoral Board:

James P. Cannon – Editor
Howie A. Howe – Associate Editor
Cara Cooke – Business Manager

Prepare for a Year of Determined Struggle! – New Year's Manifesto of the Workers Party from National Committee, Workers Party of the U.S.

• Conditions Get Worse Not Better
• The "New Deal" Swindle
• The Only Way Out
• Capitalism Cannot Be "Reformed"
• The Need of a Revolutionary Party
• Workers Party of the U.S.
• The Road of Struggle

18 Sacramento Workers on Trial—Face Long Sentences – Red Frame-Up is Mask for Drive Against Unions – Victims Were Leaders of Agricultural Laborers – Sacramento Trials Aimed at Labor

• Penalty is 84 Years
• Two Out on Bail
• Prosecution is Crooked
• Prisoners Are Fighting
• Need of United Defense Movement

Big Meeting Hears Muste and Cannon on WP Program – Adopts Resolution on Situation in Soviet Union

• The Resolution
• Tour Dates (Muste and Cannon)

Inequalities Shown by A.F. of L. Survey

One Year Ago in Labor (Dec 28, 1933-Jan 3, 1934)

• Washington (Address by Roosevelt on labor)
• New York
• Harrisburg, Pa.
• Washington (A.F. of L. affiliated unions called upon by President William Green to boycott German goods and services)

Norris, S.P. Leader Joins Workers Party

• Was Minnesota Secretary
• Statement of W.W. Norris

Muste Dinner

From the Firing Line

* Three Leagues Built in Week – Lehigh County Adds 600

• Draw Up Plans
• Organize in Palmerton
• * Mayor McNair Has a Flair – For Single Tax and Scabs
• * Holstein Freed in Minneapolis – One Frame-Up Remains
• * Relief Wood Strike Looms

The Party at Work

Independent Printing Employees Win 5 Day Altum Press Strike – A.F. of L. Printing Unions Urged to Help Organize Industry

W.P. to Open Training School In Fight Against Capitalism

• Party to Train Workers
• Class Outlines
• Form Research Department

Facts Are Facts For Coal Miners – Illinois "Exposure" Exposed – Allard Cites P.M. of A. Records Against Article by Ralph Shaw in Labor Unity by Gerry Allard

• "Facts Are Facts"
• From the Record
• Allard Opposes Retreat
• 50 Opposition Votes
• Shaw's Nightmare
• Made Supreme Sacrifice

In the Unions by Karl Lore

• The Labor Racket
• Union Receivership
• Unions and Government
• Dangerous Precedents
• Briefs

Saar Basin is Pawn of Imperialist Rivals – Plebiscite Masks Real Aims

History in the Making

• The Urgent Need
• Receipts to Date

U.S. Role in Making Bosses' War Shown – Workers Died for Morgan Loans

• Why America Entered the War
• The "Japs" Are Discovered

The Methods of Stalin by Joseph Zack

• Back Stage Methods
• The Game of Make-Believe
• The Moscow Rumor Factory
• "Explaining" the Opposition
• The Chinese Debacle
• How the Lefts Were Fooled

The Real Issues in the Soviet Union

Issue New International, Party Organ

Glass Faces Ten Years On Syndicalist Charge – W. Va. Unemployed League Aid Defense

Hearst Red-Baiting in School System Vehemently Protested by Educators

• Cooking Up a Red Scare
• So Radical

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