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(1935)

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Volume I No. 4 Saturday, January 5, 1935, New York, NY
New Militant
Weekly Organ of the Workers Party of the United States

Editoral Board:

    James P. Cannon – Editor
    Harry A. Howe – Associate Editor
    Hawthorne Winner – Business Manager

Wall Street Crack Whip on Congress – Efforts to Save Capitalism to Continue – New Deal In 1934 Raised Prices, Profits – Put New Millions on Relief by Geo. Clarke [George Clarke]

Auto Body Told System is Doomed – Workers Shun Hearing Held to Stabilize Industry

1934 – Labor's Story – Hope, Trust, Betrayal, Militancy – 1935

Robber Baron Goes Free (Photograph of Martin Insull of Insull utility companies thanking the jury after being acquitted on embezzlement charges)

Huey Long is Tammany Hall Rising in South – A Clever Politician, Accustomed to Corruption, Graft by Dan Eastman

Steel Election Called – Carnegie Corporation Will Rely on Government and Courts by Arne Swabeck Eighteen on Trial Need Labor Defense – California Fruit Growers Push Prosecution of Union Leaders in Red Drive-Workers Move to Obtain Bail (From Press Service of Non-Partisan Labor Defense)

From the Firing Line

Contract for Paterson – What a Contract! – Silk Workers Must Tear It Up and Fling It at the Bosses by Felix Giordano

Richberg Smokes Peace Pipe As He Exonerates the Poor

United Front In Pittsburgh – Pennsylvania Leagues Try Again – But Councils and S.P. Group Forget to Tell the Rank and File What It's All About by E.R. McKinney

In the Unions by Karl Lore

Aged Man Jailed for Snaring Rabbits

First National League Convention Stormy Test of "American Approach" by Louis Breier

March of Events – Naval Race Forebodes War of the Pacific by Jack Weber

Perkins' Daughter Enters Society

The Party Fund

A Farewell to Bureaucracy by Joseph Zack

How the Middle Class Led "Freed" Negroes After Civil War – "The Republican Party Is the Ship and All Else Is the Sea," Leader Told Them by Simon Williamson

Eyes on Sacramento

Hope for the Steel Workers

Churchified Fascists

Zack Meeting Draws Crowd

Roosevelt and Congress

Mass Action Policy of National League by Arnold Johnson, Secretary of National Unemployed League


Volume I No. 5 Saturday, January 12, 1935, New York, NY
New Militant
Weekly Organ of the Workers Party of the United States

Editoral Board:

    James P. Cannon – Editor
    Harry A. Howe – Associate Editor
    Hawthorne Winner – Business Manager

Roosevelt's Speech Goes On Forever – Has Made It Many Times and Conditions Go from Bad to Worse by Dan Diamat

Warnick Is Released on $3,2900 Bail – Sacramento Labor Prisoners Helped by Non-Partisan Labor Defense (NPLD Press Service)

One World at a Time! League Paper Tells Unemployed Readers

Workers Party Leaders Off on Speaking Tour (Photos of A.J. Muste and James P. Cannon above article)

AFSW Plans Constitution – Draft of AFSW No Good, Giordano Says by Felix Giordano

Militant Wins PMA Election (Special to New Militant)

Strike Shuts Garages in Twin Cities – 2,000 Mechanics Out; Get Help from Drivers Union 574 (By Special Correspondent)

Labor's Share Less in 1935, While Profits Rose, NRA Figures Show

FDR Advocates Low Wage, Protects Private Industry, In Dealing with Unemployed – Federal Relief Must Stop He Tells Congress – What Does It Mean?

150 League Men Storm Town Hall in Michigan

Lay Plans for Akron Strike

From the Firing Line

League in Airport Strike Bares Huge Graft; Hits at Forced Labor

The Party at Work

Party Lists 6 Pamphlets

Injunction Seen as Lewis Move (Special to the New Militant)

You Said It, Franklin!

Gotham's 1,200,000 Unemployed Face '35 – City Juggles With Relief – Councils Dormant – Socialist Unions With Cap In Hand – Attitude of Jobless Changing by Al Dasch

$3,500 Is Family Need (By Special Correspondent)

In the Unions by Karl Lore

What to Attend

Letter Carriers Protest Extension of Wage Cut

March of Events – State of the Union, No More Cash Relief, Imperialism and the Farmer by Jack Weber

Big Profits in Textiles

The Party Fund

Dew of Death Rained From Sky – Capitalist Weapon for Next War by Ruth Wilson

And the "Abundant Life" Is Poverty! Poverty! Poverty! by Tess Huff

How NUL Convention Nipped Fascist Attack by Louis Breier

World in Review – Letter From Spain, New International, Cuban Volcano

7,400,000 Children

Reviewing the News by Bill Sherman

"A More Abundant Life"

Huey Is Tammany Hall Rising From the South – Second Installment on Life of Louisiana Kingfish by Dan Eastman (Continued from last issue)

International Workers School

Bill White Dead

Cult of Leadership, Zig-Zags and Turns Mark C.I. Policy by Joseph Zack


Volume I No. 6 Saturday, January 19, 1935, New York, NY
New Militant
Weekly Organ of the Workers Party of the United States

Editoral Board:

    James P. Cannon – Editor
    Harry A. Howe – Associate Editor
    Hawthorne Winner – Business Manager

Lenin

W.P. Moves National Office Takes Floor at 2 W. 15th St.

Trotsky Answers Indictment – Links G.P.U. with Kirov Assassination by Leon Trotsky

The Federal Budget (From Washington Correspondent)

Muste, Cannon in Canada; Find Workers Party Active There by A.J. Muste

Bosses Pay Prosecutor in Sacramento Red Trial

League Men in Conference in N.W. Ohio (Special to New Militant)

3,000 in N.Y. Biscuit Strike

Union Victory Ends St. Paul Garage Strike (Special to New Militant)

From the Firing Line

Judge Wins Picket Trial

The Party at Work

Subway Men in Revolt Against Co. "Brotherhood"

Does Industrial Food Union Support Dutch Shultz Gang? by Joseph Zack

Arrest Union Local in Labor Frame-Up (Special to New Militant)

National Progressive Movement in Trade Union is Party Task by Arne Swabeck (Trade Union Secretary of the W.P.)

What to Attend

March of Events by Jack Weber – Supreme Court Deliberates, Debts and Gold, Hughes is Shrewd, Perpetuating Rule of Rich

The Party Fund

Huey Long's Labor Record; He Says Mussolini Endorsed His Plan (Continued from last issue) by Dan Eastman

Mechanization In Steel Bodes Uncertain Future – Fewer Workers Needed in Modern High-Speed Mills — Companies Contract for Eight More by Fred Rayburn

The Boston Tea Party and The Fears of $ir Hearst by Bill Monroe

World in Review – France, Paris Socialists, Program from "La Verite"

Workers' Security

The 30-Hour Week

The Saar Plebiscite

Reviewing the News by Bill Sherman


Volume I No 7 Saturday, January 26, 1935, New York, NY
New Militant
Weekly Organ of the Workers Party of the United States

Editoral Board:

    James P. Cannon – Editor
    Harry A. Howe – Associate Editor
    Hawthorne Winner – Business Manager

Across the Country With Cannon and Muste by A.J. Muste

Buying Power Drops Under "Model" Code by Jack Elder

To Maintain this Great Work We Must Have Funds—Now!

Akron C.P. Members Follow Zack to W.P.

That Pittsburgh Convention – Steel Progressives Will Lead – A.F. of L. Leaders Looking Askance at Rank and File Conclave – Tighe Will Maneuver to Hold Steel Delegates in Check – Bill Sprang is Opposition Leader (By Special Correspondent)

Ohio Branch Raps League Run by C.P.

Coal Miners Ready to Welcome Muste, Cannon

Saturday Night Housewarming

56 Released as Leaguemen Storm Court – 56 Released by Ohio Leaguers by Art Preis

United Defense Acts to Mobilize Labor in California Trial – Union Conference Called by Five Groups to Aid 18 Defendants-Decker Bailed Out by NLPD

Second Blast in Mine Kills 11, Injures 71

New Address

From the Firing Line – Three Convicted on Old Charge for Assisting Evicted Family by Clarence Mayer

The Party at Work

Railroad Jobs Get Fewer and Fewer

Pearcy Out, Keck In – Worse, Says Germinal, "or I'll Eat a Shovel" by Germinal

600 At League Meet (Special to New Militant)

Two Young Men Start Subway Union Rolling

A.F. of L. Blocks Rubber Strike

In the Unions by Karl Lore – Hard Facts for A.F. of L. Pow-Wow

What to Attend

The Nature and Causes of Modern War – Capitalist Expansion Ends in Open Conflict by John West

The Party Fund

Will the Steel Workers Strike? – Here's the Record Under NRA to Date by Dennis Brown

World in Review – Situation in Cuba, Aftermath in Spain

In California

The C.P. and the Labor Party

Tom Mooney's Freedom

Attack the Enemy

Letters to the Editor – Start Meetings on Time by Comrade A.B.C.

Reviewing the News by Bill Sherman


Volume I No. 8 Friday, February 2, 1935, New York, NY
New Militant
Weekly Organ of the Workers Party of the United States

Editoral Board:

    James P. Cannon – Editor
    Harry A. Howe – Associate Editor
    Hawthorne Winner – Business Manager

Across the Country With Cannon and Muste by A.J. Muste

Latest Order By FD Hides New Threat – Section 7(a) Likely to be Replaced by New Legislation by Zack Elder

When It Snows in New York – Magnificent Chance for Jobless Men — Alderman Who Gets $100 an Hour Raps Shovellers

New Deal Launches Another Gunboat (Photo of the 1,500-ton Destroyer Dale Leaving the Brooklyn Navy Yard

Doll and Toy Workers Use Flying Squadron

Suggested Symbol

94 Strikers Arrested in Fargo N. Dakota by 300 Vigilantes – Take Town in Effort to Break Strike

4,000 Subs by May 31 Is Our Goal-Here's How

Progressives Seek National Organization (By Special Correspondent)

Speakers Will Bare Hearst's Labor Record

Truckmen Stay Injunction – One-Day Strike Prevents Judge from Issuing Writ – Her Postpones Decision Until Next Week

Lively Meetings Mark Speaking Tour for Workers Party – Enthusiastic Crowd Cheers The New Party in Chicago

Leaves Communist Party for Workers Party — Tells Why by Harold Smith (Exchange of letters between the C.P and the resigning member, a succinct analysis)

Forgotten Men's Yell from "Voice of the Workers"

Textile Strike Looms – Will It Be Another Betrayal by UTW Leaders? by Felix Giordano

Real Story in Relief Paper

Workers Education for Allentown

Garage Strike Ends in Gains

Sop to Akron Labor Hides Company Aim

What to Attend

Bridge that Gap!

Booker T. Washington-He Pleased the Bourgeoisie by Simon Williamson

The Struggle Against War – Pacifism No Aid, But Helps the Militarists – Only Through the Class Struggle Can War be Fought by John West ` To End War We Must Remove Cause

Long Waits, Small Benefits Feature of Insurance Bills by Hugo Oehler

March of Events by Jack Weber

Reviewing the News by Bill Sherman

Roosevelt Program

Hearst and the Bosses

A Request, and a Business Matter by Cara Cook

The Party at Work

A Bold Policy for Progressives in Steel – Retreat Before Tighe Would be Fatal – Militants Must Organize Their Forces to Unionize Industry


Volume I No. 9 Saturday, February 9, 1935, New York, NY
New Militant
Weekly Organ of the Workers Party of the United States

Editoral Board:

    James P. Cannon – Editor
    Harry A. Howe – Associate Editor
    Hawthorne Winner – Business Manager

Roosevelt Kicks Bill Green Downstairs – "Leaders" in Dilemma Still Cling to F.D.R. by Arne Swabeck

Capitol New Letter – Labor Bureaucrats Howl as Roosevelt Disregards Auto Union by Jack Elder

Fantastic Evidence Used by State in Labor Trial

Mass Meetings Build PA. Unemployed League

Want Plenty? Nice, Easy Secret Way—It's Utopian

Union Pledges Solidarity to 18 Framed-up

Judge's Trick Approved by Union Leaders – Stay of Injunction Gains Time for Bosses in Waterfront Fight

Mass Meeting calls Hearst Labor Enemy – Audience of 2,500 Indicts Millionaire Publisher and Red-Baiter

Father Coughlin Adopts Popes' Fake Liberalism by Dan Eastman

Silk Strike is Voted Pending Referendum

Thirty Days, Says Buffalo Judge, Instead of Food

Should Revolutionists Build a Labor Party by Hugo Oehler

Credits for Russia—A Slogan for U.S. Labor by Tess Huff

St. Louis Socialist Finds Workers Party Is Realistic – SP is Hopeless, He Says — In N.Y.., E. Martin Leaves Weisbord Group to Join W.P. letters by Juohn Burfeindt and E. Martin

Workers Security?

International Workers School Term Nears

Food Workers Bare Unions's Alliance with Schultz Gang – An Example of the New Trade Union Policy of the Communist Party

What to Attend

Late Episodes in Kirov Assassination Analyzed by Trotsky by Leon Trotsky

Open Letter from the National Committee of the W.P.

The League Against War and Fascism by John West

March of Events by Jack Weber – The Plundering of China – Germany—Rearmed

Danger in Sacramento

"Planned Economy" in the U.S.

A Watchdog of Capitalism

On the Flying Trapeze

Hearst Calls the Tune... (Political Cartoon)

NPLD Statement on Sacramento Case

Zack Tour

Reviewing the News by Bill Sherman

National Jig Saw by Bill Reich

Toy Workers Strike in Second Week: Gains Won


Volume I No. 10 Saturday, February 16, 1935, New York, NY
New Militant
Weekly Organ of the Workers Party of the United States

Editoral Board:

    James P. Cannon – Editor
    Harry A. Howe – Associate Editor
    Hawthorne Winner – Business Manager

Across the Country With Cannon and Muste – On Tour by A.J. Muste

Capitol New Letter – Roosevelt Help up Auto Labor Report until Code Was Renewed by Jack Elder

Relief Bill Will Drive Wages of All Labor to $12 Minimum

Prevailing Wage Clause Defeated by Order of Roosevelt

C.P.'s Attack on Mini Decried in Sacramento

Warnick Defends Mini; Raps "Western Worker" by Jack Warnick

United Opposition Needed Against Tighe – Lack of Preparation Brought Present Progressive Movement in Steel to Disaster by Elmer Cope

Merry-go-round For Akron Labor

Scholarship Contest to New York Workers

How the A.F. of L. Actually Betrayed the Automobile Workers by Special Correspondent

Win a Prize – Rules of the Prize Contest for Subscriptions

Bankers Control Relief – California Legion Aids Drive to Reduce Standard

Act in Newark

Crowd Hears Muste Defy Arrest Threat

Why Progressives Must Organize by B.F.

Spiking Lies Printed In the Daily Worker About Printers Election What to Attend

March of Events by Jack Weber

The Party Fund

The United Front and War by John West

Should Revolutionists Build a Labor Party in America? by Hugo Oehler (Continued from last issue)

Nite Club Revue to Feature Dances

World in Review

Socialist Party Adventurism

Bootlickers

Greetings from the New Manager by Hawthorne Winner

Action Training School Opens

Reviewing the News by Bill Sherman


Volume I No. 11 Saturday, March 2, 1935, New York, NY
New Militant
Weekly Organ of the Workers Party of the United States

Editoral Board:

    James P. Cannon – Editor
    Harry A. Howe – Associate Editor
    Hawthorne Winner – Business Manager

Capitol News Letter – New Deal is Bankrupt...-Wagner's Labor Bill....-"Social Security".... by Jack Elder

To All Subscribers by The Business Manager

N.U.L. Plans Caravan to Washington – To Get Out Nat'l Paper For Jobless

Mini on Stand Gives Lie to "Stool-pigeon" Charge – Mini in Court Reaffirms His Views as Revolutionist

Thomas Quits New Leader; SP May Split by Special Correspondent

The New Press Is Here; We'll Do Our Part If You Do Yours!

WP to Hold Conference

AFL to Aid Akron Bosses Fight "Reds" – AFL Starts Drive in Akron With Anti-Strike Ballyhoo by Jack Wilson

16 Sentenced for "Riot" In Fargo; Labor Aroused – Fargo Rallies to Aid Strike by Robert Whitcomb

Mother of 5 Leads League in Relief Fight

To All Branches and Prospective Advertisers by Business Manager

Organized Left Wing Task of Real Progressives in Silk Workers Union – Strike Vote Sabotaged By Delay of A.F. of L. by Felix Giordano

NBC Ruse Fails (NBC for National Biscuit Company)

Contest Note

They Got Suspicious

March of Events by Jack Weber

Five Join Workers Party Protesting C.P. Bureaucracy

The Truth About Sacramento – How C.P. Tactics Hurt Defendants by James P. Cannon

Statement by N.P.L.D. by George Novack, Chairman, Provisional Committee for Non-Partisan Labor Defense

S.P. on Sacramento "United Front"

Bound Militants

The Reason for Hearst

The Set-Up (Political Cartoon) – Bill Green: "Am I getting too rough, Franklin"

Elevator Strike History In Newspaper Headlines

Left Jabs by Bill Sherman

We Need a Larger Paper

Stalinists Attack Worker Opposed to Union Policy

574 Boys Support Albert Lea Pickets

What to Attend


Volume I No. 12 Saturday, March 9, 1935, New York, NY
New Militant
Weekly Organ of the Workers Party of the United States

Editoral Board:

    James P. Cannon – Editor
    Harry A. Howe – Associate Editor
    Hawthorne Winner – Business Manager

NRA Batters Down Wages – But Profits Soar Gov't Board Says

Capitol News Letter by Jack Elder

James Rorty Ouster Goes to Congress

Win 62 and 1/2 Percent Raise in Wage Relief Wage

State League Formed in Kentucky – Johnson Urges Fight for Harlan Miners

Win Strike (At Myers Regulator Co.)

Civil Liberties Union Charges C.P. with Disrupting Sacramento Defense

Statements Say Break Was Deliberate (Statements refer to Sacramento defense)

Green in Detroit Surveys His Ruin of Auto Union – Try Another Board, He Cries by Our Detroit Correspondent

Building Union Leads Toledo FERA Strike – Special to New Militant

Strategic Labor Attack Triumphs – Waukegan Office Workers Stand by Mechanics

Choice of Name Biggest Achievement of S.P. Unemployed Meet – "A Socialist Party Congress" Protests Virginia Delegate by Special Correspondent

Contest Note

Question Box

NRA Speed-Up and Police Brutality Hit in St. Louis – Three Thousand in Mass Meeting by Special Correspondent

Fur Union Must Move Carefully for Unity; Cannon's Advice Still Holds bt Trade Union Dept. of W.P.

What to Attend

March of Events by Jack Weber

Bankers Hear Plan for Aged

S.P. Militants Forced to Cover Up Right Wing Labor Defense Maneuver

Why Join the Workers Party – Letter to a Worker Correspondent by A.J. Muste

Finds C.I. Like Roman Church by Bernard Ross

International Notes...

Communist League of China Hails W.P.

Facts About America

Unity of the Unemployed?

Balance of Power—An Illusion

Capitalist Press Lies About Mini Scored by Chambers and Warnick letter from Jack Warnick, Pat Chambers and Norman Mini

Insull Farce

Relief Investigators Do Detective Work – Letter from "Inside" Tells the Wretched Story

Two Important C.P. Members in Week Join Workers Party

Watch for This Fellow


Volume I No. 13 Saturday, March 16, 1935, New York, NY
New Militant
Weekly Organ of the Workers Party of the United States

Editoral Board:

    James P. Cannon – Editor
    Harry A. Howe – Associate Editor
    Hawthorne Winner – Business Manager

Capitol News Letter by Jack Elder – A.A.A. Accomplishments – Milk Production – Corn Belt Conditions – Saga of Scarcity

N.U.L. Paper Announces Club For Jailed Heroes of Labor

Cuban Workers in Island-Wide General Strike – Mendieta Sustained by Wall Street Army Alone – Intolerable Conditions Result of American Sugar Imperialism, Cause of Permanent Unrest – All Support to the Cuban Workers!

Darcy Takes the Stand In Sacramento – C.P. Organizer Testifies His Party Stands For—Reform! by Special Correspondent

Ohio League Congress Holds Impeachment Over Governor

Workers Party Sends Letter to P.P. by A.J. Muste

Settlement in Sight For Dental Mechanics

Wall Street's Priest – Father Coughlin Wins Fame and Fortune with Red Scare — Says Henry Ford is a Communist by Dan Eastman (Second in a series)

A.F. of L. Busy Sabotaging Akron Strike – Leaders Fear They Are Losing Grip On Rubber Union

Ark. Workers College is In Danger by Gerry Allard

Roosevelt OK's Machine Gun Squads Formed In Sacramento

President Gives A.F. of L. Cold Shoulder on Auto Boards, Codes, Relief – Administration Getting Ready for Large Scale Wage Cutting Drive Against Unions by Arne Swabeck

C.P. Leadership Can't Be Trusted – Write Former Members to Comrade Who Asks Them to Come Back to Party letter by Alfred Terry and Jack Taylor

Contest Note

Teachers Must Not Rest With Vanderwoude Decision

Progressives Suspended From ILG

Misery Stalks Fascist Austria

What to Attend

March of Events by Jack Weber

Super Red-Baiting Bill to Keep Truth From Soldiers

Why Join the Workers Party – Letters to a Worker Correspondent by A.J. Muste (Part 2)

The Pacific Movement – Japanese Imperialism Stirs Up Race Hatred in America by Simon Williamson

Liberals by Louis Breier (Poem)

The Hooey Long Way

A Bloc with Reformists

The Socialist Party

Question Box

Unemployed in Ind. Organize Out of the SP

Pity the Poor Owners

Will They Make Them by Jim Karl (Political Cartoon)

The Paris Commune by Joseph Carter

Banks Increase Control of Gov't Thru Bond Purchases

Left Jabs by Bill Sherman


Volume I No. 14 Saturday, March 23, 1935, New York, NY
New Militant
Weekly Organ of the Workers Party of the United States

Editoral Board:

    James P. Cannon – Editor
    Harry A. Howe – Associate Editor
    Hawthorne Winner – Business Manager

Capitol News Letter by Jack Elder

Nation Totter on the Brink of Another Imperialist War – Capitalists Profited $12,000 For Every Death in Last – Second World War Looms

New Classes in School

Sacramento C.S. Trial Near End – Judge Rules Case to Continue Despite Ford's Illness

A British Patriot

20th Century Civilization

Life, Liberty, the Pursuit of Happiness by Bill Reich

Cannon Rorty And Chas. Malamuth Will Tell of Cal. Terror

Democracy Violent In S.P. – Class Struggle in the S.P.

N.U.L. Blasts Roosevelt's Relief Plan – Like Trying to Fight a Fire With Tea Cup

Auto-Rubber Alliance in Akron by Jack Wilson

Allentown Pushes New Militant Circulation Drive

WP Progress on All Fronts, National and International Marked at Ptsbg. Conference – Membership, Trade Union, Unemployed Work Shows Gain; Daily Paper Up for Discussion

Nation-Wide Strike of 500,00 Bituminous Coal Miners Looms in April – Short Sweet and Victorious Under Rank and File Control – Danger of Separate Agreement by Leaders by Gerry Allard

New Militant Drive News

All Males Under 30 in CCC Plan of N.Y. Relief Bureau – Second Letter >From a Relief Investigator

J.P. Swaps Art for Profits in Japan

Left Wing Program for Silk; No More Skulking Cliques by Felix Giordano

Curtain Drops on Work Relief Farce; Wages Will Drop Soon

Boston Branch Activities

Wages Lag Profits Soar Since 1849 – A.F. of L. Figures Condemn Own Policy as False at Best

What to Attend

March of Events by Jack Weber

S.Y.L. Looks to the Future of the American Revolution by Reva Crane

Why Join the Workers Party – Letters to a Worker Correspondent by A.J. Muste

Criminal Syndicalist or Renegade? – From a Statement of Norman Mini in Reply to the Slanders of the Stalinist Press by Norman Mini

Hooey

Not This Time

We Accuse William Green

Currency Inflation War of Today Leads Inevitably to Military War of Tomorrow

Birth Control

Good Work Franklin by Jim Karl (Political Cartoon)

AF of L Leaders Hope for New Gov't Sell Out Board. Want Labor to Confide in Capitalism

Question Box


Volume I No. 15 Saturday, March 30, 1935, New York, NY
New Militant
Weekly Organ of the Workers Party of the United States

Editoral Board:

    James P. Cannon – Editor
    Harry A. Howe – Associate Editor
    Hawthorne Winner – Business Manager

Only A Spark is Needed! (To start the next World War)

Strike Struggles Grip Toledo – 4 Unions on Strike – Joint Action Committee Established – "March of Labor" Takes the Field; W.P. Members Active

Akron Workers Set for Siege in Rubber – Bosses Import 3 Thousand Hired Thugs as Union Girds for First Test in 20 Years by Jack Wilson

Starvation Faces Million New York Jobless – Relief Inadequate, Conditions Appalling Is Finding of Mayor's Committee

Thomas Offers Olive Branch to Old Guard

General Strike Shuts Down LA Hat Industry – Morale of Workers High as Strong Picket Lines Surround Shops by Sam Myers

Dan Tobin Rats on Fargo Driver But Ranks Remain Firm

C.P. Members Take Stand in Sacramento

Need for Unity is Leading Issue at Coming Steel Workers Convention – Trend of Steel Union Depends on Action of Progressives

Plentywood Leads Drive

Solidarity Forever by Florence Wyle

Poverty and Discrimination – Behind the Harlem Events

Allard Calls on the P.M.A. Convention for United Struggle in Coming Coal Strike

March of Events by Jack Weber

Dutch Parliament Raises Banner of Fourth International

Why Join the Workers Party – Letters to a Worker Correspondent by A.J. Muste

The Right to Vote for Stalin is Granted by L.T. [Leon Trotsky]

Question Box

W.P. on the Firing Line

The Socialist Party Crisis

The Paradox of New York

Left Jabs


Volume I No. 16 Saturday, April 6, 1935, New York, NY
New Militant
Weekly Organ of the Workers Party of the United States

Editoral Board:

    James P. Cannon – Editor
    Harry A. Howe – Associate Editor
    Hawthorne Winner – Business Manager

The Crime of Sacramento – An Editorial

NY Left Wing Leaves YPSL and Joins WP – Resign as a Group in Protest Against N.C. Decision at Buffalo

Jobless Drivers Organize

Modern Strike Strategy – Daily Strike Bulletin – Gas House Worker (Daily strike paper)

St. Louis Gas House Workers Answer Bosses with Strike – Police and Scabs Fail to Terrorize Strikers' Two Unions Offer Aid

Court Convicts 8 in Sacramento Amid Red Scare – Jury Acquits Six in Compromise After Sixty Six Hours

N.U.L. Helps Win Strike

Albert Lea Strikers Duped by False Lawyers – Serve 60 Days

Guilty of Organizing – Norman Mini (Photograph)

Scottsboro Boys Granted New Trial – Is Victory for Negro Rights; Struggle Must Be Continued

Akron Rubber Strike Impends – City Tense – Goodyear Vote Overwhelming for a Walkout by Jack Wilson

Regional SYL Conference

Fargo — A Labor Struggle That Rocked the Northwest

The Cross of Silver – Between Speeches Coughlin Engages In Practical Business of His Own by Dan Eastman

S.Y.L. Maps National Tour

1500 "Bootleg" Coal Miners Organize

Five in California Quit C.P. and Join Workers Party (Letter signed by T.H. Jameson, B.L. Collins, W.A. Pitts, Mrs. W.A. Pitts and Mrs. Ollie Collins

In the Unions by Karl Lore

What to Attend

Tour to the U.S.S.R.

March of Events by Jack Weber

News from the Soviet Union – The Anti-Trotsky Crusade

Join the Workers Party by A.J. Muste – Letters to a Worker Correspondent

Civil War in Greece – (Extracts from a letter)

Question Box

Fling Back the Challenge!

New Recruits

Tom Mooney Appeals

Local 22 Elections

Conferences Prepare May Day in N.Y. and Chicago

"The Collective Propagandist" from National Committee of the W.P., A.J. Muste, Secretary

Capitol News Letter by Jack Elder


Volume I No. 17 Saturday, April 13, 1935, New York, NY
New Militant
Weekly Organ of the Workers Party of the United States

Editoral Board:

    James P. Cannon – Editor
    Harry A. Howe – Associate Editor
    Hawthorne Winner – Business Manager

War! – The Enemy Is In Our Own Country

Juror Hits Verdict in California – Goldman Appeals for New Trial as Deal is Uncovered – Jurors Affidavit Flays Sacramento Verdict – Horse-Trade Uncovered; Goldman Calls for New Trial

Nation-wide Strike Against War Stirs Students

Roll, Tire, Roll! (Political Cartoon)

Toledo Auto Strike Looms – Men Flocking into Chevrolet Union by Art Preis

Continue Fight for the Scottsboro Boys

Death and Destruction "Peace" Record of 1934

Labor Supports St. Louis Gas Workers Strike – Trick Settlement Rejected – Ladies' Auxiliary Is Organized

Labor Rallies to Aid of Akron Strike – Solidarity Pledged by Cleveland & Detroit – Intervention of Perkin Threatens to Continue the "National Run Around" – Latest Strike Aspects at Glance by Jack Wilson Major Battle of 1935

Furrier Says CP's Dizzy Turn Threatens Existence of Union by J. Rabinowitz

What to Attend

Are You Interested in These Problems?

Pittsburgh Headquarters

N.U.L. Pickets White House (Photograph)

Boston Conference Prepares Joint May Day Celebration by L Schlosberg

Spartacus Starts National Tour

An Appeal for Victor Serge

S.Y.L. North-Eastern Regional Confab to Map Future Course by Sol Stevens

Parties Unite Against War (Costa Rica and Panama)

In the Unions by Karl Lore

Comments – On Life, Liberty and Pursuit of Happiness by Bill Reich

Troyanovsky Poses as Doctor for Capitalism by A.J. Muste

The "Gods' Clash in Harlem by Simon Williamson

Left Wing Group Scores Gains In French Socialist Ranks

Allentown Gains in Sub Drive

Confusion Reigns in Ranks as C.P. Veers Toward Labor Party by Al Dasch

Question Box by A. Weaver

Left Jabs

Spotlight on Akron

Reversion to Type

15 points of Father Coughlin – Analysis of Program of Detroit Priest Reveals Fascist Trend in Fundamental Aims and Method by Dan Eastman

New Headquarters


Volume I No. 18 Saturday, April 20, 1935, New York, NY
New Militant
Weekly Organ of the Workers Party of the United States

Editoral Board:

    James P. Cannon – Editor
    Harry A. Howe – Associate Editor
    Hawthorne Winner – Business Manager

Raw Deal Put Over in Akron – Green & Co. Surpass All Records For Treachery by Art Preis

The Betrayal in Rubber – And the Road Ahead by James P. Cannon

Resentment is Bitter Over Trickery of "Settlement" – Inside Story of the Battle in Rubber Unions by Jack Wilson

110,000 Out in Student Strike Against War – Spartacus Youth League Plays Militant Role in Demonstrations

Eight Are Sentenced on Coast – Two Refuse Mercy; Scorn Court in Speeches

NUL is Active Thruout Ohio

Workers Party To March With Unions in N.Y. – May Day United Fronts Concluded in Other Cities

Labor Marshalls Forces for Banner May Day – Union Turnout to Be Biggest in Years – First May Day Finds Workers Party in Forefront of Important Labor Battles by A.J. Muste

March of Events by Jack Weber

Capitol News Letter by Jack Elder

What Now for the Textile Workers? – The Main Task After the Betrayal Is the Organization of Union Progressives by Felix Giordano

Letters to the Editor (Letter from L.C.)

Is Torgler Being Victimized by the C.P. Bureaucracy?

Question Box by A. Weaver

Comments – On Life Liberty and Pursuit of Happiness by Bill Reich

Mass Picketing is Effective in FERA Workers Strike in Ohio – Newssellers Picket Press; Organize Union; Make Gains

Radio Workers Are Fighting For One Nation-wide Union

First Regional Conference of SYL Marks Real Progress by Bill Streeter

Militant Joins Workers Party in Fort Wayne by Harry W. Conner

Spartacus Starts National Tour

In the Unions by Karl Lore

Youngstown Br. Leads Sub Drive

What to Attend

The "Lesser Evil" Again

"But this same class struggle that results in our conviction will someday generate an irresistable wave that will sweep every thing this court and this state represent away forever" (Political Cartoon)

Left Jabs by Bill Sherman


Volume I No. 19 Wednesday, April 26, 1935, New York, NY
New Militant
Weekly Organ of the Workers Party of the United States

Editoral Board:

    James P. Cannon – Editor
    Harry A. Howe – Associate Editor
    Hawthorne Winner – Business Manager

Into the Streets on May Day! – First of May Manifesto of the Workers Party of U,S.

Carry On! (Political Cartoon)

Tobin Lifts Charter of Drivers Union, 574 – Join With Citizens Alliance – But Thousands of Truckers Swear Fealty To Local Leaders in Reinstatement Fight by F.X. Ferry

March With the W.P. On May Day in N.Y.

Broad Unity For May Day in Allentown – Monster Parade to Voice Important Labor Demands

Toledo Strike Solid; Auto Plant Paralyzed – Strike Paper to Be Published – Militants Active, Promise real Fight, No Fake Agreement; Bosses Frantic by A.J. Muste

Beat Company Union in Calif. Auto Election – Workers Vote for AF of L Despite Extensive Fink System

Comments – On Life, Liberty and Pursuit of Happiness

August Upswing is Strategic Time for Silk Union Victory – Thorough Preparation is Vital – Organize Nationally, Raise $500,000 Strike Fund, Publish Strike Paper Now by Felix Giordano

Plentywood and Youngstown Tie

Mpls Council For one Union In Railroads

In the Unions by Karl Lore

Capitol News Letter by Jack Elder

In Every City and in Every Nation – History of May Day – Strikes, Demonstrations, Revolution

A Sacramento Juror Weeps – C.P.'s "Vigilante' Is Only Human After All by Herbert Solow

New Deal Paradise Summed Up

Machine Guns in Ohio Strike

What to Attend

Battles in Chicago and Milwaukee – The First May Day – Let us Remember the Martyrs of 1886

Hollywood Fury (Film Review of "Black Fury" about coal miners)

The Negro Workers' Role in Past May Day Struggles by Simon Williamson

Huey Long—Workers Enemy – Share-the Wealth Can Only Mean Share-the-Poverty As Long as the Capitalist System Endures by Arne Swabeck

For the American Workers—Labor Day or [May] First?

March of Events by Jack Weber

May Day, American Born in 1886 – Tremendous Strikes For 8 Hour Day Shook Nation – Knights of Labor Sprang Up Almost Over Night

Pioneer Book Notes

Question Box

Left Jabs by Bill Sherman

Toledo and May Day


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Volume I No. 20 Friday, May 4, 1935, New York, NY
New Militant
Weekly Organ of the Workers Party of the United States

Editoral Board:

    James P. Cannon – Editor
    Harry A. Howe – Associate Editor
    Hawthorne Winner – Business Manager

May Day March Biggest in Post-War History – W.P. Section Voices Solidarity with Toledo at G.M.C. Building

Highlights of May Day on Union Square

Sub-Getters, On the Job!

Illinois Confab Fights Threat To Stop Relief – 3,000 Delegates Gather In Huge Four County I.W.A. Meeting

Toledo Militants "Disturb" Washington A.F.L. Lobby

Toledo Leads Revolt of Auto Workers "Settle Strike on the Picket Line, Not in Washington," Strikers Slogan – Fight Spreads – Local Votes Support for Daily Paper – Special to New Militant

Heed the Call of Toledo! by A.J. Muste

Flint Invaded – Jamesville, Atlanta Plants on Strike

Claherty Hits at Akron Rebels by Jack Wilson

65 Killed as Filipinos Rise – Wall Street Oppression Is at Bottom of New Revolt

Public Backs Omaha Strike by Pat Murphy

Comments – On Life, Liberty and Pursuit of Happiness by Bill Reich

St. Louis Gas Workers Stand Firm in Strike – Second Month of Fight Finds Picket Line Solid

Capitol News Letter – The Meaning of the Wagner Bill — A Noose for Labor by Jack Elder

Lang—Hearstian Socialist

Miners Honor Slain Fighter in Mass Funeral – Swarm Into Springfield to Protest Mabie Murder

Employment Gains Less

In the Unions by Karl Lore

March of Events by Jack Weber

S.Y.L. Flays Youth Buro Rep. for Stand at Paris Meet

In the Service of His Majesty – Norwegian Labor Party Enters Cabinet Under Domination of Ruling Class by H. St.

Bolshevik-Leninists in U.S.S.R. Face New Frame-Up by Leon Trotsky

Pouring Salt on the Wounds of China's Oppressed Masses

Question Box

Local 574 Under Fire Again

5,000 in Cleveland May First Parade

Debate on WP vs. SP Scheduled in N.Y

Left Jabs by Bill Sherman


Volume I No. 21 Friday, May 11, 1935, New York, NY
New Militant
Weekly Organ of the Workers Party of the United States

Editoral Board:

    James P. Cannon – Editor
    Harry A. Howe – Associate Editor
    Hawthorne Winner – Business Manager

War – and the Franco-Soviet Pact by James P. Cannon

20 Workers Party Pickets Arrested in N.Y. Demonstration Against General Motors

Dutch Party Gains 4 Seats in Elections

"Wildcat" Miners Boo Solons at Hearing

Allard Leads Illinois Jobless On Capitol

Muste Rallies N.Y. Support For Auto Strike – 400 Cheer Speaker to Echo in Inspiring Meeting

Dillon Spikes Flint Strike Vote; Slurs Toledo Workers

U.S. Washes Hands of Inquiry into Minor Kidnap Outrage

Strikers Reject Union Busting "Peace" – Trim Scabs – Roland Sounds Fighting Note at Big Meeting – Resume "Strike Truth" as Union Prepares to Spread Battle – Spread Strike is Task Ahead – Special to the New Militant

How the Tables Were Turned (At Toledo Chevrolet)

Comments – On Life, Liberty and Pursuit of Happiness

"In the Name of God" – Coughlin "Eschews All Radicalism;" Offers Age-Old Panaceas as Cure-All by Arne Swabeck

In the Union by Karl Lore

S.Y.L. Regional Confab Held In Youngstown by M. Slavin

What to Attend

March of Events by Jack Weber

The "American Approach" – Adapting Marxism To the American Class Struggle by A.J. Muste

Letters to the Editor from H. Robins and A. Gras

Shades of 1914

Jobless Slugged at N.Y. Relief Bureau

Uriah Heep? No, Abe Cahan!

Federal Judge Sees Doom of Capitalism

"The Shrine of the Little Flower" (Political Cartoon abut Father Coughlin)

Rebuild Dental Workers Union

May First Sees United Front in Many Cities


Volume I No. 22 Saturday, May 18, 1935, New York, NY
New Militant
Weekly Organ of the Workers Party of the United States

Editoral Board:

    James P. Cannon – Editor
    Harry A. Howe – Associate Editor
    Hawthorne Winner – Business Manager

War – and the Stalin-Laval Communique by James P. Cannon

Unemployed Leader – Gerry Allard (Photograph of Gerry Allard)

Next Week! (A Statement from the Workers Party on the Franco-Soviet Alliance)

St Louis Gas Strike is Solid Despite Terror

Jobless Renew Relief March For Showdown – Will Lay Siege to Ill. State Capitol Says I.W.A. Leader by Gerry Allard

W.P. Supports Election Battle Against Mpls. Reactionaries

Applying the "Merit Clause" (Political Cartoon about G.M. Strike)

Lessons of the Great Toledo Battle

Dillon Men Slug Toledo Workers in Flint Meet

Expel Allentown Professor for Activity in Labor Movement

Toledo Auto Progressives Organize – Dillon & Co. Wreck Chance to Win Strike – Temporary Setback is Signal to Cement Ranks by Art Preis

Comments – On Life, Liberty and Pursuit of Happiness by Bill Reich

Central Labor Union Backs Local 574 – Unanimous Appeal For Reinstatement

What to Attend

Boston Dressmaker Calls for Effective Preparations to Improve Conditions by J. Raymond

Reject Pact in Rubber Strike by R. Ferguson

Letters to the Editor letter from Cara Cook, Former Manager, New Militant

Question Box by A. Weaver

March of Events by Jack Weber

The Forgotten Men in America's No-Man's Land – Ward H. Rogers Tells Stirring Story Of Share-Croppers Battle by Harry Strang

The American Approach – The Use of Polemics in the Labor Movement by A.J. Muste (Part 2 of a series)

The Pulitzer Prize for Poison Pens

Classical Language

Stalinist Treason in France – Some Startling Quotations from L'Humanite of Paris

Big Crowd at Cannon Meet


Volume I No. 23 Saturday, May 25, 1935, New York, NY
New Militant
Official Organ of the Workers Party of the United States

Editoral Board:

    James P. Cannon – Editor
    Harry A. Howe – Associate Editor

Illinois Workers Plan New Hunger March – Hit Sales Tax – Will Fight to Last Ditch Says IWA Leader

New Castle Jobless Storm Relief Office by Fred Rayburn

A.J. Muste to Broadcast On Radio May 30, 10PM

ILGW Pledges to Support Relief Battle

Wage Levels Hit New Low as FDR "Redistributes" Wealth

Youth Confab Swayed by SYL In Minneapolis – Left Wing Delegates Carry the Field by Reginald L. Burke

Expelled Professor – Winslow N. Hallett (Photograph) – Allentown CLU Backs Teacher In College Fight – N.P.L.D. Organizes Wide Campaign for Reinstatement

Central Union Slams Dillon For Settlement – Worse than Hitler Toledo Body Finds

Key Lumber Plants Walk Out – Industry Tied Up on West Coast

Bakers Strike To Gain Union Demands in NY

$4.75 A Week — The Roosevelt Standard – Coolie Wages – Low Scale Will Drive All Union Rates Down – "Fear of Strikes" Disturbs Bill Green —Would Rather Talk

Comments – On Life, Liberty and Pursuit of Happiness by Bill Reich

Inside Story of Toledo Strike – Told by a Leading Participant in the Battle with General Motors by Art Preis (Continued next week)

Letters to the Editor

Wrong on Mass Pressure Reader Says by Harry Strang

What to Attend

In the Unions by Karl Lore

The Manager's Corner

Question Box by A. Weaver

March of Events by Jack Weber

Left Socialist Conference—A Letter and a Declaration

The "American Approach" – Twin Evils of Labor — Nationalism & Reformism by A.J. Muste (Part 3 of 4)

Fourth International Party Formed in Fusion in Holland from The Bulletin of the International Communist League (Bolshevik-Leninists)

Progressives Organize!

Auto International

S.Y.L. Fights for a United Protest on Memorial Day

Gould Speaks in Kansas City by Jeff Rall

French Situation is Feature of May "New International"


Volume I No. 24 Saturday, June 1, 1935, New York, NY
New Militant
Official Organ of the Workers Party of the United States

Editoral Board:

    James P. Cannon – Editor
    Harry A. Howe – Associate Editor

Editorials

Victory Greets Efforts of Ill. Jobless Masses – C.P. Rivals Mr. Hearst In Slurs at I.W.A. by Gerry Allard

What to Attend

Statement on the Franco-Soviet Alliance by the National Committee of the Workers Party of the U.S.

N.U.L. Protest Paupers Wages on Work Relief – Demands Adoption of Workers Security Bill

Muste Speaks for Workers' Revolution on Nat'l Hook-Up – Choice Between Fascism or Communism He Declares

A.J. Muste (Photograph)

Drive on Pro-Labor Professors Assumes Wide Proportions

Wage Slashing Drive Begins – N.R.A. Flops – Bosses Rush To Cash In On Court Decision – Organization Is Only Power in Labors' Hands by F. Ferry

Comments – On Life, Liberty and Pursuit of Happiness by Bill Reich

Inside the Story of Toledo Strike – Told by a Leading Participant in the Battle with General Motors by Art Preis (Second in a series of 3)

Censure Silk Workers Board; Fails to Carry Out Decisions by Felix Giordano

The Manager's Corner

Speed Is Most Important Now!

As the French Working Class Approached the Final Crisis – Lessons of the Municipal Election — "Victory" Brings Fascist Danger Closer

Resolution of the Bolshevik-Leninists For the Coming Congress of the French SP The "American Approach" – How the Job Can and Must Be Done by A.J. Muste

L. Budenz Resigns From Workers Party


Volume I No. 25 Saturday, June 8, 1935, New York, NY
New Militant
Official Organ of the Workers Party of the United States

Editoral Board:

    James P. Cannon – Editor
    Harry A. Howe – Associate Editor

N.P.L.D. to Appeal Criminal Syndicalist Case in Sacramento – National Issue – Campaign Planned in Labor Movement of Entire Country

Radio Symposium Brings Thousands of Letters

Slug Pickets in Brutal Sally on Packing Strike – Mayor Praises Police After Attack in Columbus – (Special to New Militant)

Mass Picket Line For Hallet Defense

Drive Begins for Eight-Page New Militant by August First – Interesting Features and Educational Articles Will Be Attraction in Enlarged Paper; Members, Sympathizers Urged to Support

Ohio Jobless to Meet on June 7 – Protest Splitting Move by W.A.A. Chairman In State – (By Special Correspondent)

N.C. of W.P. to Hold Plenum

Lumber Strikers Win Initial Victory

Terror is Used Against Bakers – Solidarity Will Win Strike, Union L:eader Says

Article on Franco-Soviet Alliance on Page Three

A.F. of L. Leaders Split Ranks of Canton Strike – Succeed After Bosses Guns, Clubs and Gas Fail by Jack Wilson

New Castle WP Gains In Intensive Drive

Toledo Edison Strike Is Called Off After Paralyzing Industry – Press Frantic – Enormous Pressure Causes Cave-In of Strike – (Special to the New Militant) by Art Preis

Comments – On Life, Liberty and Pursuit of Happiness by Bill Reich

Inside Story of Toledo Strike – Told by a Leading Participant in the Battle With General Motors (Part 3 of 3) by Art Preis

Stalinist Disrupters Routed In Ill. Meeting on Hunger March

Correction

Progressives Map Plans for Strike in Silk

Stalin Has Signed the Death Certificate of the Third International from the International Secretariat of the International Communist League

Announcement of Betrayal! (Extract from a speech by Maurice Thorez, leader of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of France)

The Sacramento Appeal

S.Y.L. Takes Leap Forward Mid-West Conference Shows

Letters to the Editor – When Gold Turns to Mud or a Letter The Daily Worker Failed to Print (To Mike Gold) by Gerry Allard

"The Future Belongs to the Youth"

Illinois Wages Sag in April

Progressives Meet in N.Y. Needle Trades by B.F.

A Holy Father (Anonymous Poem)


Volume I No. 26 Saturday, June 15, 1935, New York, NY
New Militant
Official Organ of the Workers Party of the United States

Editoral Board:

    James P. Cannon – Editor
    Harry A. Howe – Associate Editor
    Hawthorne Winner – Business Manager

Left Groupings Confer in N.Y. Needle Trades – Lovestonites Dampen and Dominate Conference

Green Acts to Stall New Rubber Union

Progressives Unite to Fight Expulsion in Teachers Union – Split Threatens as Right Wing Socialist Administration Moves to Comply with Green's Demand for Red Hunt

Southern Tenant Farmers Union Expands

Furriers Unite In One Union – "Red" Union Dissolved Joins A.F. of L. International

Police Destroy American Flag – Assault Mass Picket Line for Hallett Reinstatement

NPLD Pushes Campaign for Mini Freedom – Opening Gun Will Be Banquet in N.Y. On June 26

Baker Strike Ends After Fierce Battle

Shoulder to the Wheel—Everybody Behind the Eight Page New Militant

131 Delegates Participate in W. Va. Jobless Convention – Class Struggle Measures Adopted; Fighting Executive Elected

News Men's Guild To Join A.F. of L. by Jack Wilson

Unemployed Leagues Hold Mass Conventions – P.U.L. Meets – Militant Stand Is Adopted on Burning Issues – Labor Party Rejected; Favor Revolutionary Action – P.U.L. Convention Marks Great Stride Forward

Comments – On Life, Liberty and Pursuit of Happiness by Bill Reich

Copper Miners Strike at Phelps-Dodge

Dunne Blasts C.P. in Debate – After Complete Rout Stalinists Apologize For Disruption

Letters to the Editor – From Comrade to "Disrupter", C.P. Style

The Manager's Corner

Italians Mutiny as Mobilization Gives Nation Jump

What to Attend

Rubber Barons Begin Offensive – New Line Is Pretext For Firing Active Progressives by George Papcun

March of Events by Jack Weber

How the Stalinists Ruin the Morale of the Red Army by Alpha

Behind the Rearmament of Germany – Consequences of Hitler's Program for The International Working Class (By ICL Press Service)

Question Box by A. Weaver

British I.L.P. Marks Time Report of Conference Shows (Reprinted from the Vanguard, organ of the Workers Party of Canada)

Mexican Railway, Mine Workers Forming Pact

Corroboration of Betrayal (From a speech by the C.P. deputy in the Czech parliament) — The Socialist Call and Social Patriotism

Industrial Unionism and the A.F. of L. by Karl Lore


[Transcribers note: Editors of New Militant misunumbered this issues as "June 23" but it is in fact "June 30"]
Volume I No. 27 Saturday, June 29, 1935, New York, NY
New Militant
Official Organ of the Workers Party of the United States

Editoral Board:

    James P. Cannon – Editor

S.P. Congress Meets Amis French Crisis – Blum Speaks; He Hails Social Patriotism of the Stalinists – Leninists Alone Hold Aloft Banner of Revolution by Special Correspondent

Eight-Page New Militant First Step to Daily Paper by A.J. Muste National Secretary of the W.P.

Perkins Hunts Reds in Akron – Government "Survey" Trick to Avert New Strike by Jack Wilson

Troops Smash Illinois Strike – Captain Honors "Forgotten" Men by Tear Gassing Them by Leighton Rigby

500 in New York Pledge Support to C.S. Victims – Bitter Attacks of I.L.D. Fail to Shake Mini

Woll Opens Drive on AFL Progressives

Students at Edinburgh Offer Trotsky Rectorship letter to the Students of Edinburgh University by Leon Trotsky

Deploy Militia in Omaha Strike – Fire at Pickets and Public but Morale Holds Strong by Pat Murphy

Why We Skipped the Last Issue

National Guard Shoot Lumber Men in Tacoma – Strike Persists Despite Brutal Terror from All Sides

Two Killed in South Carolina Mill Strike

Sergei Trotsky Jailed By Stalin Bureaucrats – An Act of Vengeance – Mother Asks for Investigation of Latest Series of Persecutions by Nathalie I. Trotsky

Comments – On Life, Liberty and Pursuit of Happiness by Bill Reich

Letters to the Editor

Furrier Hails Unity Achieved in Union; Tells of Progressives Role by J Kaminitsky

The Manager's Corner – Full Steam Ahead Now in Drive for Eight-Page Militant!

Force Yipsels Resign Posts

K.C. Battery Workers Strike

What to Attend

1,087 Vote for Bolshevik-Leninists in Paris S.P. District

First Battalion of Workers Militia Marches in France

Platform of the Bolshevik-Leninist Group in French S.P.

Rotten Arguments for a Rotten Cause-the Road from Class Struggle to Civil Peace

Mexican Labor Movement Unites Against Reaction

Report Activities of Boston W.P. Branch

I.S.U. Strikes Cities Service (East coast oil tankers idled in quest for union contract)

Question Box by A. Weaver


Volume I No. 28 Saturday, July 6, 1935, New York, NY
New Militant
Official Organ of the Workers Party of the United States

Editoral Board:

    James P. Cannon – Editor

Britain Joins Hitler Against Soviet Union – Smashes Versailles Pact by Treaty with Germany

Protest Stalin Jailings in N.Y.

New York Pledges $1000 in Drive for 8-Page New Militant – Manager's Corner

The New "Magna Charta" for Labor

Akron C.L.U. Head Backs Green Red Drive in the Unions by Jack Wilson

Italy Prepares Ethiopia Rape, Mussolini Says – Dynamite in Situation May Explode in New World War by Martin A. Glee

Ford's Pay Boosts Really Wage Slash Plant Survey Shows

Invent Electric Jolt for Strikes

Beet Workers Organize

Roosevelt Throws Youth a Bone But Slams Labor at Same Time

100 Companies Grab 1/4 of Nation's Wealth – Plutocrats Squeeze Out Small Business

Fewer and Fewer Hands

Comments – On Life, Liberty and Pursuit of Happiness

A Survey of the Automobile Industry – Detroit and Toledo-Striking Contrast In Organization Methods

A Letter the Daily Worker Dared Not Print by Jack Taylor

Tobin's Union-Busting Drive Against 574—and Their Reply

Plenum of N.C. of W.P. Spikes False Rumors

What to Attend

March of Events by Jack Weber

From The Very Beginning – Heritage of Class Struggle in U.S. History by Al Dasch

Administration Split Policy In Teacher's Union Threatens Progressives in A.F. of L.

Zack Expelled from Workers Party

Bolshevik Speaks for Fourth International at SFIO Congress

Labor Party Confusion

For a Fighting Auto Union

Spring Makers Strike in N.Y.

A Reply to Liberal Critics of Bolshevism – The Position of the Workers Party on Proletarian Dictatorship and Worker's Democracy in Light of Recent Events by A.J. Muste


[Transcribers note: Editors of New Militant started misunumbering by skipping an issue]
Volume I No. 29 Saturday, July 13, 1935, New York, NY
New Militant
Official Organ of the Workers Party of the United States

Editoral Board:

    James P. Cannon – Editor

Mooney Wins New Hearing – State Confesses to Destruction of Evidence

Wagner Bill Ignored in Akron

Old Guard Pounds Militants As Socialist Party N.C. Meets – Right Wing Riding High; National "Militant" Caucus Breaks; Hoan with Waldman; Thomas Attacks Left

Heavy Prison Terms Given to Group of Polish "Trotskyites"

Workers' Security Bill Drafted by Nat'l Unemployed League

U.S. Aids Terror of Mendieta – Brutal Regime Slays and Jails Scores of Workers – Cuban Repressions Maintained with Aid of U.S. – Mendieta Regime Vies with Machado in Terror Record – Bolshevik Leninists Among the Victims of Savage Government Attacks by R.S. De La Torre

Thrift Pays – Little Diana Didn't Save a Dime But Inherits $30,000 a Year

Powers Yield to Italy's Aggression in Ethiopia-Il Duce Moves For Conquest In September – "White Man's Burden" Alibi for Fascist Exploitation by Martin A. Glee

Shall Ethiopia Perish – Against Italian Fascism, Negroes Are Fighting Battle of World Proletariat

3 Leading Members of North Dakota C.P. Resign; Join W.P., letter to Workers Party signed by Charles E. Taylor, Ashbel Ingerson and Mary Ingerson

Comments – On Life, Liberty and Pursuit of Happiness

Stalinists Go to Bat for Priest – Chicago C.P. Makes Touching Plea for Coughlin by F.X. Ferry

Russian Stalinist Emissaries Sent to France to Win Socialist Youth for Patriotism and against Marxism

The Color Line in the A.F. of L. – The Negro & American Labor

Coast Dockers Defy Ryan at I.L.A. Meeting – Propose Progressive Measures; Wants New Leadership

March of Events by Jack Weber

What to Attend

Question Box

Application Rejected

"Progressive"

July Issue of New International Out

A Reply to Liberal Critics of Bolshevism – The Position of the Workers Party on Proletarian Dictatorship and Worker's Democracy in Light of Recent Events by A.J. Muste (Continued from last issue)


Volume I No. 30 Saturday, July 20, 1935, New York, NY
New Militant
Official Organ of the Workers Party of the United States

Editoral Board:

    James P. Cannon – Editor

NUL Calls National Caravan – Convention in Wash. D.C. to be Held Same Time

Leading Oregon Lovestonite Quits; Joins Workers Party letter from Earl Lane

Plans for Eight Page Completed; Now Funds! – Manager's Corner

"Toledo Plan" Hits Militant Union Policy – "Capital-Labor" Cooperation Intended Against Strikes by Cyrus Rigby

Revolt Against Muir Lumber Strike Sell-Out – A.F. of L. Chief Works Hand-in-Glove With Militia by Earl Lane

Africans Called to the Colors "Better Die Free Than Live as Slaves" Selassie Says

No Share-the-Wealth Here

Third Party Meet Sows Confusion; F.D.R. Safe by A.J. Muste

Old Guard Swamps Militants at SP Meet

Case of Framed Negroes to Go to U.S. Supreme Court

New Party Gains in Holland – Fourth Int'l Vote Increases in Many Municipalities

It Pays to Be a Plutocrat

Dismiss Indictment Against Robins-Gras

Survey of Ohio Strikes Shows Value of Revolutionary Party by Jack Wilson

Comments – On Life, Liberty and Pursuit of Happiness by Bill Reich

Form United Front to Protest Deportation of Anti-Fascists

Strike Pits Brother Against Brother by Gerry Allard

In the Unions by Karl Lore

Ryan Cops ILA Gab Fest; Raises Salary

Reveal Background of Fight by Militants in Teachers' Union for Real Democracy (Second in a series)

What to Attend

Question Box by A. Weaver

C.P. Warned to Stop Hooligan Tactics in N.Y. – Stalinists and Cops Break Up W.P. Meeting (Two letters from Morris Lewitt, District Organizer of the W.P., to the Communist Party and the A.C.L.U.)

Pacifism Keynote of A.Y.C. – Stalinists Adopt Social Patriotic Position – Defeat Spartacus Resolution to Oppose U.S. Imperialism under any Conditions in Next War — Whole Venture Nears Collapse – Yipsels Prepare Break

The S.Y.L. Resolution

Picket Work Relief Office

Workmen's Sick and Death Benefit Fund Holds Convention by Paul Sturm, National Secretary


Volume I No. 31 Saturday, July 27, 1935, New York, NY
New Militant
Official Organ of the Workers Party of the United States

Editoral Board:

    James P. Cannon – Editor

Relief in Dakota Ceases – Work at Slave Wages Or Starve, Governor Orders

"Militants" Capture YPSL Convention by Joseph Carter

Seventh Congress of CI Opens in Moscow

Phila. Fruit Clerks in Six Week Strike

Social Patriotism in Full Flower in France – Stalinists in Van of Social Patriotism – Bureaucrats Dismayed at Rising Tide of Opposition

Camden Strike Holds Up Big Navy Program – 4600 Men in Shipyard Stop Production for 11 Weeks

Terra Haute Strikers Victimized After General Strike Betrayal; City Tense as Militia Holds Sway – Troops Jail Scores – Labor Skates Time Treacherous Action With Onslaught of Press and Soldiers on Workers

Ohio Jobless Prepare Huge State Confab – 20,000 Are Expected to Heed League Call For Demonstration

W.P. to Hold Anti-War Meeting in Allentown

Comments – On Life, Liberty and Pursuit of Happiness by Bill Reich

What to Attend

Spring Strike Enters Fifth Week

3 Members of P.P. Sect Resign After Bitter Struggle; Join W.P.

Moonlight On the Hudson

Indiana Council Members Denounce Stalinist Splitting

Ride Scabs Out in Iowa Strike – Workers on March In Many Cities of State by Pat Murphy

An Outline of Class Persecution – Criminal Syndicalism Laws

French Revolutionists in Move Against New 1914

The Manager's Corner

Question Box by A. Weaver

Terra Haute General Strike

United Front on Ethiopia

Greetings to The Vanguard (The Vanguard is the new official bi-weekly organ of the Workers Party of Canada)

"Soc. Call" Whines at N.C. Decision


Volume I No. 32 Saturday, August 3, 1935, New York, NY
New Militant
Official Organ of the Workers Party of the United States

Editoral Board:

    James P. Cannon – Editor

Over the Top for the Eight-Page New Militant (Top Banner Headline)

For the 4th International – Five Organizations Issue Call for New World Party; Answer New Betrayal of 7th Comintern Congress signed by Revolutionary Socialist Workers Party of Holland (R.S.A.P.): P.J. Schmidt, H. Sneevliet, Workers Party of the United States (W.P.U.S.): A.J. Muste, James P. Cannon, International Secretariat of International Communist League (Bolshevik-Leninists): Crux, Dubols, Martin, The Bolshevik-Leninist Group in the S.F.I.O., Workers Party of Canada (W.P.C.): J. MacDonald, M. Spector

Introduction to the Open Letter by A.J. Muste, National Sec'y, W.P.U.S.

10,000 Rally for Tom Mooney In Frisco on 19th Year of Arrest

Manifesto of the W.P.U.S. on Anti-War Day

Green Dodges Convention of Auto Workers by Burke Cochran

Move for Omaha General Strike In Support of Tram Workers

Comments – On Life, Liberty and Pursuit of Happiness

The Role and Position of the Various Groups in the Struggle Ocurring in the Teachers Union (Third in a series)

Party Grows in Cleveland

Lumber Strike Ends; Obtained Few Demands – Labor Skates Expel All Rebellious Locals from Union by Earl Lane

The Manager's Corner

What to Attend

Fight Hitlerism!

Young Spartacus Out

The Signers of the Open Letter

Move to Oust Lackey In British Unions

Question Box by A. Weaver

Dark Clouds in Italy

United Front on Sacramento

For the Boycott of Fascist Italy! – Against Italian Aggression in Ethiopia! International Communist League Calls For World Struggle


Volume I No. 33 Saturday, August 10, 1935, New York, NY
New Militant
Official Organ of the Workers Party of the United States

Editoral Board:

    James P. Cannon – Editor
    Harry A. Howe – Associate Editor
    Hawthorne Winner – Business Manager

Fierce Class War Tears Loose in France Against Laval's Starvation Decree Laws – Troops Slay 5 – "Dignity" Advice of C.P. In Fusillade of Bullet

Iron Workers of Minneapolis Reform Ranks – Teamsters Local 574 And W.P. Members Help Raid Scabs (By Northwest Correspondent)

Protest Persecution of Chinese Bolshevik-Leninists – W.P. Call from Communist League of China (Bolshevik-Leninists)

Doomed to Life of Poverty Ozark Tiff Diggers Rebel – Writer Describes Misery of Men, Women and Children Suffering untold Horrors In Effort to Earn Livelihood (By special Correspondent)

Full Report of C.I. Congress Next Week

150 Delegates Attend I.W.A. Convention – Movement Toward Left Shown in the Proceedings by Cyrus Rigby

West Coast Marine Workers Fight for Class Struggle Union by Earl Lane

President Roosevelt — Strikebreaker No. 1 – Orders Striking W.P.A. Workers Off Relief – Trade Unions Stand by Men Demanding Living Wage; Flying Squads Formed by A.S. [Arne Swabeck?]

Forces Clash Before Rubber Union Confab by Jack Wilson

Comments – On Life, Liberty and Pursuit of Happiness by Bill Reich

"Impartial" St. Louis Cops Bust a Record—and Heads Strikebreaking is a Pastime

Minority Group in Teachers Union to Wage United Fight To Save Union at Convention

The Manager's Corner

Skeletons Out of the Daily Worker Closet – A Few Telling Quotations by Henry Thurman

What Next in the Socialist Party? – An Analysis of Developments Arising Out of the Recent Old Guard Triumph at the N.C. Meeting by A.J. Muste

Moonlight on the Hudson

What to Attend

Question Box

Ethiopia in the Thieves' Den

Mass Arrests in Spring Strike


Volume I No. 34 Saturday, August 17, 1935, New York, NY
New Militant
Official Organ of the Workers Party of the United States

Editoral Board:

    James P. Cannon – Editor

Remember Sacco & Vanzetti!

Progressives Fight for Sway In Rubber Union – Claherty Gerrymandering Meets with Stiff Opposition by Jack Wilson

Expulsions Hit French Socialist Youth – Bolshevik-Leninists and Zeller Group Ousted by Reactionaries – Entire Seine District Supports Leaders; Pivert Urges Fight

Manifesto of the Struggle signed by the Executive Committee of the Socialist Youth of the Seine District

A.F. of L. Skates Face Crucial Issues in N.J. – Fight for Spoils at Top; Demand from Ranks Sidetracked

Fur Workers Elect New Leadership – Stalinists Unite With Right Wing to Gain Control

Follow Their Example!

AFL Crew Turns N.Y. WPA Strike Into Fiasco – Limit Walkout – Sabotage Picketing While They Connive With Gen. Johnson

United Front Anti-War Meet in Boston

Imperialist Ring Tightens Around Ethiopian Nation by Martin A. Glee

Prepare Now for Silk Strike – CP Shouts for General Strike but Does Nothing About It by Felix Giordano

Free the Sacramento Prisoners!

The Manager's Corner

Calls for Uniting Opposition Groups in Teachers Union

"Few Million or a Few Marks"...No Difference – Nazi Fictions and...Cold Facts

The French Trotskyists on the Conclave Against Class Peace from La Verite (Organ of the Bolshevik-Leninist Group in the S.F.I.O.)

Peace, Anti-Fascism, Stalinism by A.J. Muste

Question Box by A. Weaver

The Seventh Congress of the Comintern by J. Carlo (Political Cartoon)

The Stalinist Congress of Social Patriotic Betrayal

Favors Coalition Gov'ts`—Cheers "Lesser Evil" —Treachery Rules – Amid Hymns of Praise for Stalin "the Great" another 1914 Emerges by Joseph Carter


Volume I No. 35 Saturday, August 24, 1935, New York, NY
New Militant
Official Organ of the Workers Party of the United States

Editoral Board:

    James P. Cannon – Editor

Dillon to Pack Convention of Auto Workers – Faker "Somewhere in the West" Organizing Sky Blue Locals by Burke Cochran

Congress Passes Harmless Social Security Program – Big Business Unconcerned About Bill; Completely Ineffectual Improving Workers Conditions; Passes Burden Onto Labor by A.J. Muste

Red Scare in Akron Heralds Convention by Richard Ferguson

Mooney Must Be Freed! (Letter of appeal from Tom Mooney)

Don't Get Old in Missouri!

Dunne Slugged In Clash in Mpls. Hosiery Strike – Farmer-Labor Mayor Again Gives Scabs Police Protection by Northwest Correspondent

Retain Henderson in Sacramento Appeal

Negro Clerks Upset History

Europe Rocks on Brink of New World War – "Thieves Kitchen" Folds Up; Britain Capitulates – Duce Marches Full Speed to War in Africa – Only the International Working Class Can Defeat Him by Martin A. Glee

Mussolini on a Volcano – Writer Describes Crisis in Italy on the Eve of the Fascist Adventure in Ethiopia – Mussolini Embarks on Campaign Against Ethiopia to Sidetrack Attention from Poverty and Discontent at Home by J.P. Martin

Comments – On Life, Liberty and Pursuit of Happiness by Bill Reich

Spartacan Trounces Stalinist In First Debate in Middle West

Toledo Workers School Begins Sessions Sept. 4

Walter Sukut Dead

OUL March in Bryan Ohio Wins Relief

Candy Makers Strike Hard by Jack Walton

Workers Party Booms in the Northwest

White Collar WPA Workers Protest

What to Attend

West Coast Notes by Earl Lane

Pioneer Publishers Move to New Quarters – Announce Publishing Program

Shame! (About Ethiopia)

They Have One Teacher by Henry Thurman

The Comintern Goes Back to Kautsky – Stalinist 7th Congress Throws Overboard All the Teachings of Marx and Lenin on the State and Internationalism by John West

New Signers for the Open Letter (Open Letter to the World Proletariat declaring for the Fourth International)


Volume I No. 36 Saturday, August 31, 1935, New York, NY
New Militant
Official Organ of the Workers Party of the United States

Editoral Board:

    James P. Cannon – Editor

Labor Skates, Mayor, Bosses Form Alliance To Smash Local 574 – Minn. State Federation Officials Line Up with Open Shop Employers in Fight Against Militant Unionism

Sellout Fixed For N.Y. WPA Relief Strike – Meaney Pals with Johnson Despite Strike-breaking Moves by Jack Taylor

Packed Convention Sure in Rubber Union by Jack Wilson

U.S. Rubber Barons Seek Profits in African War

Teachers Win Victory Over Green Machine – Militants Defeat Move to Oust New York Progressives

Armed Vigilantes Terrorize Calif. Agricultural Workers – Tar and Feather Union Organizers in Desperate Attempt to Stem Unionization; But Crops Rot in Field by C. Curtiss

Shipping Clerks Out Solid in NY Strike; Drivers Move Scab Goods

Tyrant-in-Chief Bill Green Dictates Auto Union Heads – Overrides Overwhelming Vote of Membership Defeating Dillon for Office at Convention in Detroit

Pass Guffey Bill; Blow to Mine Workers – Legalizes Company Unions; Stifles Strike Movements

Imperialist Carnage Awaits Mussolini's Raid on Ethiopia – Powers Ready – Boycott of Imperialist Italy Must Begin Now

Comments – On Life, Liberty and Pursuit of Happiness by Bill Reich

A Forerunner of the Revolution by A.J. Muste

Crumb's for America's Starving Children – Millions for "Defense" by G.R.

The Manager's Corner

Question Box by A. Weaver

Must One Live? by Erich Wollenberg (Translated from "De International" of April 1935, by B. Reade. This paper is the theoretical organ of the R.S.A.P., a Dutch brother party)

Skeletons Out of the Comintern Closet – "Pacifist" and "Warlike" Nations by Henry Thurman

Chicago Candy Strike Spiked by Jack Walton

Socialist Youth of Paris Raise Banner of Revolution; Urge General Strike Against Laval's Decree Laws

To the Soldiers – The Workers in Uniform Will Not Fire At Their Brothers in Civilian Clothes, from "Revolution"

A Word to the Young Communists, from "Revolution"

Greetings to Chevalier, from "Revolution" by Executive Committee of the Young Socialists of the Seine

Editor's Note

Chronicle of Events – Brest and Toulon – The Price of the Decree-Laws, from "Revolution"

NUL Demonstrates at Newark City Hall

Defense Conference to Aid Jailed Clerks


Volume I No. 37 Saturday, September 7, 1935, New York, NY
New Militant
Official Organ of the Workers Party of the United States

Editoral Board:

    James P. Cannon – Editor

Mussolini Spars for Time in League Palavers – Litvinov Talk Veils Powers Bandit Deals – Shies Away from International Regime of Fascist Italy

Green Backs Lefkowitz & Co. In Splitting Teachers Local – Aim to Revoke National Charter as Revenge for Defeat at Convention; Progressives Must Rally Resistance Now

Local Press Rages at Mini Defense Comm. – Vigilante Chief Arrested in Degenerate Assault

Publish Pamphlet on Sacramento Case

Rubber Workers Indignant Over Detroit Auto Deal

The Sacramento Case – A Statement by the National Committee of the Workers Party

Spartacus Continues Struggle Begun 15 Years Ago on I.Y.D. – International Youth Day Embodies Traditions of Anti-Militarism; Revolutionary Youth of Today Fight Under Same Banner by Sam Gordon

Militancy High In NY Shipping Clerks Strike – Strike Drives Home Need of Industrial Unionism

Spartacus Plans Int'l Youth Day

Green Extols Capitalism on Labor Day – Lauds Hunger Regime; Silent on Falling Wages by Jack Wilson

Dere Emily

The Manager's Corner

Comments – On Life, Liberty and Pursuit of Happiness by Bill Reich

Fink AFL Leadership Sabotages Then Betrays KC Battery Strike by Stan Dolsen

Faker Undermines K.C. Auto Union by Stan Dolsen

"Labels" and "Numbers" – On the Subject of the Letter from Marceau Pivert to the Expelled Comrades of Socialist Youth of France by Leon Trotsky

Trend in Wage Levels by Albert Glotzer

A Letter from M. Pivert – To the Comrades Expelled by the National Congress of the Socialist Youth of France at Lille; July 30, 1935

Editor's Note

The Moral Guardian of Capitalist Exploitation – The Church, Fascism and War by Richard Zotzman

Roosevelt's Protest to the S.U.

The Best Answer to Slander!

The Crime of the Auto International – Writer Discusses Significance of Green's High-Handed Domination of the Detroit Convention and the Tasks of Progressives by Burke Cochran

Discontent Grips St. Louis – First Successful WPA Strike Prelude to Other Actions by St. Louis Correspondent


Volume I No. 38 Saturday, September 14, 1935, New York, NY
New Militant
Official Organ of the Workers Party of the United States

Editoral Board:

    James P. Cannon – Editor

Minneap's Labor Hits F-L Mayor – Teo Workers Dead, Many Wounded, By Farm-Labor Cops

Conflict Continues in Teachers Union

Teachers Meeting

Burning Problems Face 55th A.F.L. Convention – Fear of Progressive Tendencies in Labor Movement Disturbs Officials – Bankrupt Union Leadership Must Be Challenged by Awakened Membership by Arne Swabeck

Confidential Report by Oneal to 2nd International Reveals Situation in the Socialist Party of the U.S. – Oneal Makes His Report – Confidential Memorandum of Right Wing to Second Internat'l Shows Reactionary Contempt Toward Young Militants

FDR Tells Bosses to Drop Fear – "Breathing Spell" Note to Howard Shows Masses Bear Load

"Militant" Confab Proves a Failure

Dziengeliewsky Is Framed in Scranton

Green In Maneuver At Meet – Expect A.F.L. Head To Repeat Auto Union Scandal – Rubber Workers Convention Rejects Appointed Officials by Jack Wilson

Form Unholy Alliance at Geneva For New Imperialist World War – Stalinists Hail Laval Argument – "Sanctions" Pleas Conceal Jockeying for War Positions Comments – On Life, Liberty and Pursuit of Happiness

Stalinists Launch New Phony Labor Party in San Francisco – Opportunist Platform It to Right of Epic; Devised to Catch All Voters by Charles Curtiss

Philly Fruit Clerks Ask Aid for Members Facing Jail Terms

Shipping Clerk Strike in New York Ended – ILGW Heads Paralyze Militant Battle of Striking Workers

The Manager's Corner

Canon to Lecture on 4th Int'l In Series Starting this Week

March of Events

Small Question Box

France Faces the Crisis – Labor Displays Its Readiness To Battle Against The Regime But Socialists and Stalinists Sabotage Struggle by H. Frank Roberts



Volume I No. 39 Saturday, September 21, 1935, New York, NY
New Militant
Official Organ of the Workers Party of the United States

Editoral Board:

    James P. Cannon – Editor
    Harry A. Howe – Associate Editor
    Hawthorne Winner – Business Manager

The "Thieves Kitchen" and Workers' Policy in War – "Thieves Kitchen" at Geneva

"Flying Squadrons" Ti9e Up WPA Projects in Allentown Strike

Capitulation Planned by Stalinists to Right Wing of Teachers

Cannon to Speak Sunday Night on "Lenin to Stalin"

Plan Expulsion of the French Bolshevik-Leninists as War Nears by H.F. Roberts [H. Frank Roberts]

Rubber Workers Ride Over Green Machine by Jack Wilson

Tarov Makes Escape From Soviet Prison

Minneapolis Workers Battle – Mass Uprising against Traitor "Labor" Mayor

Latimer Convicted As Murderer At Mpls Mass Trial

Left Jabs

Dere Emily

The Party at Work

Budenz and The Stalinists

Vigilantism Shows Growing Peril To West Coast Labor

Challenge Lovestone Group to Debate, letter by Joseph Carter, Communist Party (Opposition) Educational Director

Detroit Notes by Burke Cochran

Manager's Corner

Toledo Militants Lead Winning Strike of 400 at Defiance, Ohio

March of Events by Jack Weber

Anti-Union Conspiracy Revealed in Chamber of Commerce Letter

Progressive Issues Confront the A.F.L. by Arne Swabeck

Rubber Workers Took Big Step Forward at Akron Convention by Jack Wilson

Sales Tax Big Issue at S.P. Convention by New Haven Correspondent

Mooney in Court In Legal Struggle To Gain Freedom

Spartacan Slugged in Picket Of Hearst News Reel


Volume I No. 40 Saturday, September 28, 1935, New York, NY
New Militant
Official Organ of the Workers Party of the United States

Editoral Board:

    James P. Cannon – Editor

Zero Hour Sounds for New World War – League Votes Application of Sanctions – Traitor Internationals Paralyze Independent Action of Workers

French Fascists in Rally Say "Our Time Will Come" by H.F. Roberts [H. Frank Roberts]

Packed Hall Hears Cannon Lecture in First of Series of 4

Reaction Rules Ill. Federation Of Labor Meet by Gerry Allard

Militants Held In Chinese Jails Appeal for Aid by Lo Sen

The Internationalists Need Our Help by Leon Trotsky

Chaining the Workers to Imperialist War Machine by J.P. Martin

Manager's Corner

The U.S, in the Philippines by Lo Sen

New Bolivian Party Formed

Comments – On Life, Liberty and Pursuit of Happiness by Bill Reich

The A.F. of L. and the Teachers Union by A.J. Muste

The Party at Work

March of Events by Jack Weber

Side Lights on the "New Turn" of the Stalinists by Henry Thurman

The Mass Trial of a "Labor Mayor"

Japan's Advance in China by Lo Sen

Question Box by A. Weaver

The Coal Strike

The N.L.P.D. and Sacramento

The Role of the P.M.A.

Push Fight for Sacramento Appeal

Progressives Win Rubber Workers Election in Akron

Mixing Quotations by Hank Rice

Latimer Greets Jobless

N.Y. District School to Open Oct. 21


Volume I No. 41 Saturday, October 5, 1935, New York, NY
New Militant
Official Organ of the Workers Party of the United States

Editoral Board:

    James P. Cannon – Editor


Volume I No. 42 Saturday, October 12, 1935, New York, NY
New Militant
Official Organ of the Workers Party of the United States

Editoral Board:

    James P. Cannon – Editor

War Flames Sweep Ethiopia – Imperialist Robbers Bomb Helpless Natives As Second And Third Internationals Betray Into New Slaughter – Remember 1914! Down With Imperialist War!

  • Both Int'ls For League War Moves – Two Int'ls For League Moves A Song and a Vote
  • Bombs Rain on African Mud Hovels
  • Bureaucrats Form Toledo Labor Party – Radicals Barred From All Influence in County Congress

    "Militant Socialist" Program Hedges on the Question of War by the Editorial Board

    Revolutionary Policy Alone Can Defeat Imperialist War – Statement of the Third Plenum of the National Committee, Workers Party of the U.S., New York, Oct. 4

    Iron Workers Victorious in Minneapolis – 74 Day Battle in Which Two Were Killed Comes to End

    N.P.L.D. Aids Cuban Worker In Struggle against Terror Rule from the National Committee, General Secretariat, N.P.L.D.

    Left Jabs

    Comments – On Life, Liberty and Pursuit of Happiness by Bill Reich

    Shactman on National Tour

    A.F.L. Convention Report in Next New Militant

    Program of the "Militants" – (Extracts from the new program presented at the Socialist Call Institute at Bound Brook, N.J.)

    A Case for a Labor Jury – Against All Types of Gangsterism in the Working Class Movement; On the Murder of the Italian Stalinist Montanari by Leon Trotsky

    Question Box by A. Weaver

    March of Events by Jack Weber

    N.Y. District School to Open Oct. 21

    Support French Bolshevik-Leninists

    What the Miners Did Not Get

    Struggle Rages on West Coast

    Showdown is Close on Cal. Waterfront

    Labor Defense Front

    Minneapolis N.P.L.D.


    Volume I No. 43 Saturday, October 19, 1935, New York, NY
    New Militant
    Official Organ of the Workers Party of the United States

    Editoral Board:

      James P. Cannon – Editor

    Story of First Leninist Ever to Escape From Stalin's Siberia! (Teaser headline above the masthead)

    War Center Shifts To Europe – Britain-Italy Threaten War For Control of The Mediterranean – France Caught Between Two Fires; Germany Waits Opening

    Green-Woll Forces Suffer Heavy Setback At AFL Convention – Rift Among Fakers Gives Industrial Unionism an Opportunity; Red Resolution May Fail to Pass – Lewis Tirade Reflection of Rank and File Militancy by A.J. Muste

    Muste Speaks on A.F. of L. Convention

    Plan Fight For Herndon – Georgia Negro Is Given "Death" Sentence on Chain Gang

    Tarov Relates Torture of Real Bolsheviks in Stalin's Prisons – Tarov Relates Horror of Prison and Exile Under Stalin Regime – Given Long Terms Without A Trial Revolutionists Are Beaten and Shot by A. Tarov

    Imperialist Sanctions (Political Cartoon)

    Partners in Social-Patriotic Betrayal

    N.Y. Mass Meet on War Crisis

    Japs Plotting China Grab by Lo Sen

    Question Box by A. Weaver

    Buffalo WPA Workers Out On Restrike – Pauper Wage Levels Drive Men to More Militant Struggle by Cyrus Rigby

    Int'l Youth Bureau Collapses – German S.A.P. Centrists Expel I.C.L. Youth Representative – Outcome of SAP's Fight Against Forces of the 4th International by W. Held

    Changes in Shactman Tour Itinerary

    Party at Work

    Left Jabs

    March of Events by Jack Weber

    Shactman Phil. Meeting

    Plenum Meets; Plans A Campaign Against War

    Trade Unions Merge In France – C.P. Gives Up Political Activity at Reformists Bidding by H.F. Roberts [H. Frank Roberts]

    8 Pages On Nov. 7


    Volume I No. 44 Saturday, October 26, 1935, New York, NY
    New Militant
    Official Organ of the Workers Party of the United States

    Editoral Board:

      James P. Cannon – Editor

    Oust 13 French Bolsheviks From S.P. for Stand on War – Central Comm. Splits on Issue Of Expulsions by H.F. Roberts [H. Frank Roberts]

    1500 in Paris Meet Cheer New Revolutionary Bloc

    "Hot Cargo" Fight Rages Up and Down West Coast by Earl Lane

    Akron Bosses Union Revolt – Lay Off Resentment Rips Company Organization Wide Open by Jack Wilson

    People's Peace Parades" Today, Preparedness Parades Tomorrow

    Shactman Tour Off to Flying Start – Rousing Meets in Toledo, Youngstown, Pittsburgh, Cleveland

    3,500 Out For N.Y. Herndon Farewell Meet

    Special Features For Nov. 7 Issue

    Try to Deport Jack Warnick – NSAC Coes to Defense As Courts Bait Cal. Prisoners – Resi9st Attempt to Deport Warnick – Special to the New Militant

    Build the Left Wing, Is Real Lesson of AFL Convention – Put No Trust in Lewis and Co. Is the Slogan by A.J. Muste

    The Manager's Corner

    Striker Tells of WPA Victory in Allentown – Independent Class Tactic Smashed Through Gov't Officials' Threats and Trickery to Union Victory by Lester Heckman

    Concerning Rumors of Trotsky's Illness (From La Verite)

    M'pls. CP'ers Picket Drivers Local 574! – Stalinists Rage While Union Organizes Chicken and Candy Workers Strikes

    Chicken and Candy Workers Organize and Strike

    March of Events by Jack Weber

    Expulsion of Ludwig Lore

    Socialist Party and the Coming War – Resolution of the N.E.C. Reveals Centrist Position on Basic Problems of the War Danger (By the Editorial Board)

    School Notes

    The Theoretical Origin of Social Patriotism – The Source by Leon Trotsky

    The Machine Is A Communist – Industry Idle to Keep Parasites in Power Cost Workers Three Hundred Billion in 1930-34 — The High Cost of Capitalism! by Hildegarde M. Smith

    DuPont Profits Soar Again Under "Oppressive" N. Deal


    Volume I No. 45 Saturday, November 2, 1935, New York, NY
    New Militant
    Official Organ of the Workers Party of the United States

    Editoral Board:

      James P. Cannon – Editor

    Hail the Russian Revolution! (Picture of V.I. Lenin above the Article) by James P. Cannon

    Green Trains Guns on Militant Minneapolis Labor; Appeal to Open Shoppery Against Local 574 – 574's Fighting Policy Thorn In the Sides of Labor Skates – Assistance Rendered to Six Strikes in Other Industries Resulted in Victory

    Peace Parade Bluff in Facts and Figures – Unions Protest Use of Name in Jamboree Led by Father Divine

    Inspired! – Il Duce Colors Hearst Stories on Ethiopia

    Extend the October Revolution! (Political Cartoon)

    France Faces Civil War as C.P. Prepares Government for Imperialist Defense by H.F. Roberts [H. Frank Roberts]

    Britain Acts for "Small Nations"!

    Both Sides Are Right! – Toledo and Mpls. Press Argue on which City Has Most "Labor Trouble" by Art Preis

    Left Jabs by Bill

    Comments – On Life, Liberty and Pursuit of Happiness by Bill Reich

    Labor Defense Front

    Protest Against the Frame-Up and Deportation of Jack Warnick

    Statement of the National Committee of the Worker's Party

    Opportunities Big for New Rubber Union – Confidence in Own Strength; No Reliance in Boards or Labor Fakers Is the Road to Victory by Jack Wilson

    Party at Work

    The Danger of War and the Defense of the Soviet Union – New Version of Social Patriotism as Deadly as Old – Fourth Int'l Only Guardian of Workers Fatherland by Maurice Spector

    Who Finances Italy's War? – How Big Business Provides Loans to Mussolini (Reprinted from the British "New Leader" Organ of the I.L.P.)

    Comrade Candide and Comrade Browder ... A Tragi-Comedy – Behind the Story of an Honest Worker Who Fell into a Coma in the "Third Period" by John Marshall

    The Art of Insurrection by Leon Trotsky (From Volume III of the History of the Russian Revolution by Leon Trotsky)

    November 7th, 1914 – Victor Serge's Account of the Seizure of Power by Victor Serge (Victor Kibalchiche)

    About the Author (Victor Serge, author of the previous article, translated from his book "the Year One of the Russian Revolution)

    The Significance of the October Revolution for the Orient – Lenin's Bolshevism and Stalin's Menshevism — Victory in Russia and Catastrophe in China by Lo Sen

    March of Events by Jack Weber

    Why the National Government of Great Britain Is Prepared to Embark on a War with Italy (Reprinted from the British "New Leader" organ of the Independent Labor Party)

    Increasing Oppression the Path of Bureaucracy – Leon Trotsky Analyzes the Revelations of the Bolshevik Tarov by Leon Trotsky

    Question Box by A. Weaver

    French Stalinists Give the Fascists A Lesson on the True Patriotic Spirit

    The Significance of the Russian Revolution For the American Working Class – Explanation of the Basic Elements of Revolution Will Spur Desire to Emulate It by A.J. Muste


    Volume I No. 46 Saturday, November 9, 1935, New York, NY
    New Militant
    Official Organ of the Workers Party of the United States

    Editoral Board:

      James P. Cannon – Editor

    We Did It Once...We'll Do It Again... Now for 1000 Subs

    Hundreds Turn Out for Shactman Meetings – Chicago, Detroit and Northwest High Points on Tour

    Report Reveals Terror Rule of Wall Street Regime in Cuba

    Meeting on Mpls. Sunday Nov. 10

    C.P. Votes For McLevy – S.P. Faker Gets in with Aid of Republican and "Solid" Citizens by Connecticut Correspondent

    French C.P. Gets First Payment – Radicals Elect Cachin In Gratitude For Services by H.F. Roberts [H. Frank Roberts]

    700 at New York Meeting Back French Bolsheviks (Contains photo of facsimile of check sent to our French comrades from collection at Meeting)

    Minneapolis Progressives Rally for Defense of Drivers Local 574 – Issue Challenge to Nation's Militants to Hit Green Drive

    Mpls. W.P. Shows True Role of F-L Party, Statement of the Minneapolis Branch, Workers Party of the U.S. on the Farmer Labor Party

    Japan Rules North China – Chiang Crawls to Int'l Capitals for New Masters by Lo Sen

    Comintern Prepares Dissolution of Y.C.L.; To Change It into Innocuous Organization – Used as Bait to Lure Yipsels into Social-Patriotic Organic Unity by Joseph Carter

    A Stalinist Adventure in Gutter Journalism – In the Footsteps of Hearst

    W.P. Main Butt of Attack at I.L.G. Progressives Meet – Lovestone Easy on Labor Fakers; No Mention of 574

    On the Firing Line

    W.P. Issues Paper In Akron

    New Pamphlets

    The Manager's Corner

    "Militant" Socialists and the Bauer-Dan-Zyromsky Thesis by the Editorial Board (Continued from last week)

    What Are Sanctions? – "Collective Effort for Peace" or Imperialist Battle for Empire? by Arne Swabeck


    Volume I No. 47 Saturday, November 16, 1935, New York, NY
    New Militant
    Official Organ of the Workers Party of the United States

    Editoral Board:

      James P. Cannon – Editor

    We Did It Once...We'll Do It Again... Now for 1000 Subs

    Hundreds Turn Out for Shactman Meetings – Chicago, Detroit and Northwest High Points on Tour

    Report Reveals Terror Rule of Wall Street Regime in Cuba

    Meeting on Mpls. Sunday Nov. 10

    C.P. Votes For McLevy – S.P. Faker Gets in with Aid of Republican and "Solid" Citizens by Connecticut Correspondent

    French C.P. Gets First Payment – Radicals Elect Cachin In Gratitude For Services by H.F. Roberts [H. Frank Roberts]

    700 at New York Meeting Back French Bolsheviks (Contains photo of facsimile of check sent to our French comrades from collection at Meeting)

    Minneapolis Progressives Rally for Defense of Drivers Local 574 – Issue Challenge to Nation's Militants to Hit Green Drive

    Mpls. W.P. Shows True Role of F-L Party, Statement of the Minneapolis Branch, Workers Party of the U.S. on the Farmer Labor Party

    Japan Rules North China – Chiang Crawls to Int'l Capitals for New Masters by Lo Sen

    Comintern Prepares Dissolution of Y.C.L.; To Change It into Innocuous Organization – Used as Bait to Lure Yipsels into Social-Patriotic Organic Unity by Joseph Carter

    A Stalinist Adventure in Gutter Journalism – In the Footsteps of Hearst

    W.P. Main Butt of Attack at I.L.G. Progressives Meet – Lovestone Easy on Labor Fakers; No Mention of 574

    On the Firing Line

    W.P. Issues Paper In Akron

    New Pamphlets

    The Manager's Corner

    "Militant" Socialists and the Bauer-Dan-Zyromsky Thesis by the Editorial Board (Continued from last week)

    What Are Sanctions? – "Collective Effort for Peace" or Imperialist Battle for Empire? by Arne Swabeck


    Volume I No. 48 Saturday, November 23, 1935, New York, NY
    New Militant
    Official Organ of the Workers Party of the United States

    Editoral Board:

      James P. Cannon – Editor

    A Message to New Militant Readers

    Fascists Grow Bolder in France after Recent Clash by H.F.R. [H. Frank Roberts]

    Egypt Rises in Revolt – British Imperialism Casts Off Hypocritical Mask in Severe Repression

    Roosevelt's "Pacifism"

    Jim Crow Justice Keeps Angelo Herndon in Jail; Protest Now!

    Alabama Miners Win Partial Victory

    Scottsboro Boys in Danger as Southern Bourbons Hint Deal

    Lewis "Purge" Stopped Cold

    574 Heads Confidant of Smashing Victory – Cannon, on the Scene, Reports Drivers Local Stronger than Ever and the Center of the Minneapolis Labor Movement by James P. Cannon

    Our Revolutionary Heritage – Shay's Rebellion by Leighton Rigby

    Shactman Holds First Meeting In Fresno, Cal.

    The Manager's Corner

    Support Italian Comrades In Their Struggle Against Fascism and War

    "Social Credit" Goes Begging

    March of Events by Jack Weber

    Old Guard Reorganizes N.Y. Socialist Party

    Lovestone Gets His Price – Herberg and Zimmerman Dicker on Entry into S.P., Lovestone in C.P.

    Question Box by A. Weaver

    Y.C.L. Meet Converted Into Forum against Social Patriots by Joseph Carter

    Textile Barons Ready for War

    Just Off the Press! (New Pamphlet "War and the Workers" by John West, published by the Workers Party of U.S.)

    Chiang Hands Over North China to Japanese for the Asking – Abandons Region Without Raising a Finger by Lo Sen

    "People's Press" Sinks Ever Lower in Its Methods

    British Tories Sweep Election as Best "Sanctions" Party to Protect Empire by Maurice Spector


    Volume I No. 49 Saturday, November 30, 1935, New York, NY
    New Militant
    Workers of the World, Unite!

    Editoral Board:

      James P. Cannon – Editor

    One Year of the Workers Party by A.J. Muste

    Big Auto Strike Brewing – Chevrolet Plant May Lead Off – Motor Products Strike in Detroit Is First Skirmish

    Spouting the Gospel in Ethiopia (AP Press photo)

    M. Lewis Reported Retired – Minneapolis C.L.U. Refuses Splitters Aid; Negotiates with 574 by Carl O'Shea

    230 Hear Shactman in L.A.

    People's Front Cracks in Crisis – Radicals, Stalinists, Socialists Collapse at First Test by H.F. Roberts [H. Frank Roberts]

    Fred Zeller Declares for 4th Int'l – Paris Socialist Youth Leader Writes Stirring Pamphlet

    Not Hollow Preaching – But Clear Cut Slogans (From Leon Trotsky's Preface to Fred Zeller's Pamphlet)

    Army Stocks Up In Case...

    Vote to Strike Ill. WPA – Mass Conference of Illinois Workers Alliance Draws Up Demands for Wage Increase and Hour Reduction

    Barberton Labor Rises – Plan General Strike in Akron Suburb to Meet Threat of Militia; Reporter Tells of Heroic Battle by Jack Wilson

    High-Lights by Henry Thurman

    A "Square Deal" Corporation – An Altruistic Boss! – Workers Get It in the Neck by Cyrus Rigby

    Shactman Meeting in San Diego

    Minneapolis Labor Notes

    Party at Work

    How They Ache for War!

    Appeal Date Set in C.S. Frame-Up

    A Radical Farmer's View of Recent Shifts in AAA (Reprinted from the Producers News, official organ of Farmers Holiday Asso. of Montana)

    Letters to the Editor (letter from Milton Hindus on the inner workings of the League Against War and Fascism)

    The "Resettlement" Fraud – A Texas Thanksgiving – Relief is Discontinued by James Evans (Special to the New Militant)

    Mays Strikers Call for Aid

    Newark Jobless In Demonstration

    Texas Old Age Pensions Cheaper Than Poorhouse

    Corruption Rampant in Ft. Worth, Texas, Relief

    Norman Mini Writes from His Dungeon in San Quentin by Norman Mini

    The Non-Partisan Labor Defense – A Year of Activity, Success and Service to the Working Class on All Fronts of the Radical and Labor Movement

    Anti-Fascist and International Activities

    New Stalinist Pamphlet Covers Up their Shameful Role in the Sacramento Case – Truth Telling Remains the Worst Evil for the C.P.

    The Race Into War

    Pioneer Notes

    To Hold Protest Against Ferrero Deportation

    Who Are the New "Progressive " Leaders in the A.F. of L.? – A Few Pages from the Records of John L. Lewis, David Dubinsky, Sidney Hillman, Chas. P. Howard et. al. by Arne Swabeck

    Dasch Speaks on Olympics

    Toledo-Union Town – Militant Battles That Defeated the Bosses by Art Preis

    "Local 574 Is Invincible" by James P. Cannon

    5th Anniversary of Spartacus Youth League – Report Shows Large Increase in Membership and Influence by Nathan Gould, National Secretary, S.Y.L.

    Write Your Own Comment!

    The New Struggle in Autos – Big Test Awaits Industrial Union Movement by A.J. Muste

    Question Box by A. Weaver

    March of Events

    Lessons of October by Leon Trotsky (Written for the French paper "Revolution" to demonstrate the fatal nature of the "People's Front" policy)

    Our Revolutionary Heritage – Haymarket Sq. by Leighton Rigby

    Roosevelt Closes His Third Year with New Deal at Low Ebb – Capitalists Desert "Savior" as Crisis Clouds Lift – Only Privileged Few Benefit from New "Prosperity" by John West

    Purged! (Political Cartoon about Meyer Lewis, William Green, and Local 574)

    M.E.S.A. Strike in Toledo


    Volume 1 No. 50 Saturday, December 14, 1935, New York, NY
    THE NEW MILITANT
    Official Organ of the Workers Party of the United States

    Editoral Board:

      James P. Cannon – Editor – Editor

    Trotsky Shows Road of Struggle in France – Committees of Action—-Not People's Front by Leon Trotsky

    Thomas Leads Break with Old Guard as NY Socialist Party Splits – Danger of Patch-up with Right Wing Is Still Great

    Profiteers Clear Decks For Big Drive on Labor – M'f'r's Asso. Opens Fight For "Freedom" — To Exploit Labor

    Japs Snatch North China; Put Screws on Chiang Government by Lo Sen

    Six YCLers Join SYL – Symptoms of Ferment Over New Turn To Betrayal

    Herndon Freed – Mass Pressure Forces Release of Class War Prisoner

    Answer the Fascist War Mongers; All Out Dec. 14!

    Yipsels Unite With Spartacus at Toledo Meet by Art Preis

    U.S. Agent Can't Find One Scab Truck in Mpls.

    The Future of the A.F. of L. – From a Speech Delivered by Comrade James P. Cannon Before a Forum of Minneapolis Workers

    Manager's Corner

    To the Readers of The New Militant (Missed issue, new publishing schedule)

    March of Events by Jack Weber

    Five Years of "Spartacus" – War Machine Exploits Misery and Poverty of the Youth to Corral Them for New Capitalist Juggernaut by Nathan Gould (Continued from last week)

    Our Revolutionary Heritage – Homestead Strike by Leighton Rigby

    Seine District of Socialist Youth Grows Since Their Expulsion – From "Revolution" November Issue

    World of Labor – Belgian Labor Party Bureaucrats Push Expulsions As Left Wing Adopts Revolutionary Position

    We Can Make Good!

    Fight Against Bourbon Rule

    The Deadly Parallel – Social Patriotism versus Revolutionary Struggle (From "Revolution" organ of the Young Socialists of the Seine) 1914-1918


    Volume 1 No. 51 Saturday, December 21, 1935, New York, NY
    THE NEW MILITANT
    Official Organ of the Workers Party of the United States

    Editoral Board:

      James P. Cannon – Editor – Editor

    N. West Militants Meet – Seeks Link with A.F.L. Industrial Unionists; Cannon Speaks

    Sanctions End in Scandal – league Powers Plan Partition of Ethiopia

    Ill. Unions Aid IWA Walkout – Conference Sets Date for Tie-up on All Projects in State

    600 in Newark WPA Protest

    L.D. Trotsky's Wife Makes New Appeal for Son Sergei

    Facts and Policies for WPA Workers by Herbert Capelis

    Where is Roosevelt's Relief Program Going? – Direct Relief Remains Central Issue for Unemployed; Workers' Organizations Must Demand Large-Scale Public Works by John West

    Pa. Jobless Organizations Unite in Statewide Action

    Texas Jobless Face Hunger – Spur Demand for General WPA Strike in State F. of L. by James Evans (Special to the New Militant)

    World of Labor – Congress of Dutch R.S.A.P. Overwhelmingly Favors 4th Int'l; Defeats S.A.P. Splitters

    Our Revolutionary Heritage; Dorr's Rebellion by Leighton Rigby

    The Significance of the Browder-Thomas Debate for the Revolutionary Movement by Arne Swabeck

    Defense Forces Rally Against Anti-Labor Repression – Mpls. Labor Protests Jailing of Al Russell Demand Strutwear Show Books

    Order Ferrero-Sallito Deported

    Appeal Denied Cal. Class War Victims

    Stop Limping! Start Walking! [About the state of labor defense]

    United Front Proposed on "Scottsboro"

    Three Harlan Miners Freed

    Mass Meet to Fight Danger to Herndon

    Resentment Nationwide in Tampa Case

    Reverse Fargo Convictions



    Volume 1 No. 52 Saturday, December 28, 1935, New York, NY
    THE NEW MILITANT
    Official Organ of the Workers Party of the United States

    Editoral Board:

      James P. Cannon – Editor – Editor

    Russell Sentenced to Four Months in Hosiery Strike – Ellis and Swanson, Strutwear Strikers, Get Six Months in Workhouse; N.P.L.D. To Appeal Cases

    Illinois WPA Walkout is Postponed

    Class Struggle Issues Arouse West Coast Maritime Unions by C. Curtiss [Charles Curtiss]

    A Xmas Gift for A. Sloan – Ohio Chevrolet Workers "Thank" G.M. Head for Empty Christmas Tables from Committee of 900, signed by James Holly, Secretary, Former employees of Toledo Chevrolet Ohio Co.

    500 in NY Hear Max Shactman – Cannon to Speak on Labor War in Mpls., Jan 5th

    New Zealand Seamen's Union Adopts Revolutionary Position on Sanctions

    Independent Auto Unions Amalgamate – Detroit Convention Launches New Organization with 100 Delegates Present

    900 Auto Men Act in Toledo – Organize Vigorous Campaign to Save Chevrolet Union

    Rap Ferrero Deportation

    Mini Defense in New Move

    Toledo Projects Organize – O.U.L. Backs New WPA Set-up After Unity Efforts Prove Fruitless

    Our Revolutionary Heritage: The Debs Rebellion by Leighton Rigby

    Electrical Worker Flays Stalinists For Use of Forgery in Local Union By Andrew Forman (Member Local 3, International Brotherhood Electrical Workers)

    The Manager's Corner

    Prepare to Don Khaki For "Our U.S."-C.P. Says by M. Joerger

    W.P. Sends Funds for Tarov Aid

    Herndon Victory Celebrated in N.Y.

    Question Box by A. Weaver

    Cannon Speaks on Labor War in Minneapolis

    The League of Stalinist Agents for Social Patriotism – A Political Analysis of the Lovestone Group And its Reactionary Role

    Theater Benefit ("Let Freedom Ring")

    March of Events by Jack Weber

    Labor Defense Unity Vital!

     


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