Limbach Hits Senior's Misuse Of Bulletin For Factionalism
Limbach Hits Senior's Misuse Of Bulletin For Factionalism Demands National Secretary Accord Interstate Conference Opportunity to Reach Party Members Through National Organ as Is Used to Bolster...
...Militants Induce Trotskyites To Join the Socialist Party ?HE Trotsky" "Workers' Party" (Communist), led by It 8 Muste and James P. Cannon, was split a few months ago he...
...Of the 81 delegates, 41 voted for and the remainder either voted "No" or abstained from voting, stating that support of Thomas would depend upon him ceasing to lead a faction and whether the regular delegates from New York were seated in the national convention...
...Since the "militants" seceded from- the Socialist Part;Jfl New York City they have been conferring quietly with the Trotskj Communists regarding the entrance of the latter into the secession, group led by Norman Thomas...
...Amend the Law to Give Us One Day of Rest in Seven...
...It is to make ' immediately available to those states and federations that hold that the N.E.C...
...A motion to instruct national delegates to vote to seat New York delegates approved by the N.E.C...
...But when half of the membership of the party goes on record challenging the right of the N.E.C...
...was answered by several delegates saying that they would accept instructions only from the members electing them...
...The caucus graciously offered places to Goebel, Jones and a few others of the Old Guard on the state committee of 15 but they refused...
...to reorganize a state by the methods of dictatorship and against the will of the membership of that state, you should have also invited them to state their position...
...This cons ti til tag their justification for which 2,000 to 3,000 members, many of whom have devoted a lifetime oi service to the cause of Socialism now stand outside the Socialist -- . Party of the United States...
...That you as the Executive Secretary of the Socialist Party would open to such use a bulletin paid for by all the members of the party, when yon have the fullest knowledge that their authority in this course was being challenged by thousands of party members representing some—of the largest states and federations in the party, requires an explanation on your, part...
...Why Should the State of New York...
...Women in Hotels and Restaurants Should Be Included in the Forty-Eight-Hour Law...
...Only in this way can the membership decide on the merits of this controversy...
...Herman Neisner was nominated for U. S. Senator...
...Vigorously protesting against the use of "Socialist Action," the monthly published fay the notional office of the Socialist Party, by National Secretary Senior to support the National Executive Committee in disfranchising a big majority of the party members in New York State, Emil Limbach, secretary of the Socialist Party Interstate Conference, has sent a letter to Senior declaring that it is his duty to give the conference "the opportunity to reach the same members as were reached with the current issue of the bulletin...
...Since 1933 the state conventions have had slates, caucuses and methods typical of Tammany and Lenin, but in this convention the Socialists put up a two-days battle to be long remembered...
...War On Majority in New York...
...To use the party bulletin as a propaganda instrument for one side of the controversy on the eve of a national convention which is to decide this question, at a moment when states are balloting for delegates, is unpardonable, i "For yes to throw the weight of the National Office on one aide of this tataertaat issue which, together with other issues, must be decided in Cleveland, decisions that wfll profoundly affect the future course of our party, makes your conduct unprecedented fat the history of the Socialist Party...
...Norman Thomas was nominated for President...
...The minority had the active leadership of Thompson, Green, Bernstein, Becker, Jones, Reiss and Goebel...
...The protesting letter of Limbach is as follows: "In the recent January-February issue of the party bulletin, 'Socialist Action,' you devoted considerable space to news articles and statements that, taken together are a defense of the conduct of the National Executive Committee vr.fr respect to the revocation of the charter and the dismemberment at the largest state organization ir the party, New York...
...Then came an unprecedented action in the Jersey movement...
...An answer to this letter is expected next week...
...The convention of 1933 had 163 delegates representing 1,400 members...
...To the statement appearing over the names of Allen, Krsycki and Coolidge, who are supervising she reorganization in New York State, you attach the significant headline 'The Eastern States Answered.' This implies that a statenent has been provided by us to ¦vhich this is the answer...
...Special to The Now Leader PITTSBURGH...
...The Socialists served notice that they accepted the deci, sions with the reservations of those facing one armed with a gun...
...After secret conferences, a "steering committee" of four directed the chop suey ensemble of "militants...
...Your duty is obvious...
...Bj The treachery within the Socialist Party which began w|| the "militants" voting against expulsion of Commumsts freak die party is now being consummated by thin decision of the Trotskyites...
...The Seventh Day Is the Sabbath...
...How do party members in other states like tbk work of Thomas and his allies...
...We desire you to advise us immediately if you will extend to use the same opportunity provided the National Executive Committee to present our position to the membership...
...End SerervDay Week, HotelWorkers Dnwnrt Thirty hotel workers, men aad women, including some of those on strike in New York City, atotmed the hearing on the State Federation of Labor bills providing one day of rest in seven for hotel workers, and including within the 48-hour 'law women workers in hotels and restaurants, new - exempted...
...New Jersey Party Shows Decline Under Militants Special tovTKs Nem Leader WEWARK, N. J.—The State con*^ vent ion of the Socialist Party of New Jersey dosed last Sunday...
...and in the issue of March 1st it prominently display* on the first page the advice of Leon Trotsky for the members W. the Workers' Party to join the Socialist Party...
...Limbach Hits Senior's Misuse Of Bulletin For Factionalism Demands National Secretary Accord Interstate Conference Opportunity to Reach Party Members Through National Organ as Is Used to Bolster N.E.C...
...The negotiations between the Thomashes and the Trotsky**** in New York City has been followed this week by a final decision of the Trotsky Communists to enter the Socialist Party...
...It tends to corroborate the charges made against you that for some time, at least, yon have net played a neutral role in conducting the party's affairs...
...The "OeMer group" now publishes an organ, "The FightiiaV Worker...
...What a combination...
...In It Thou Shalt Not Do Any Work...
...has exceeded its authority the opportunity to reach the same members as were I reached with the current issue of the bulletin...
...They included one who could "see no hope in peaceful methods" although he is an official of a political party, another but a short time out of the Communist movement, and still another inviting all and sundry to join the "Equitarians...
...On Sunday George Goebel, stating that it was obvious that plans for unity were useless, moved that spokesmen for the outside caucus present the motions and candidates the caucus agreed to, the chairman then to permit substitute i proposals, dispense with debate, proceed to roll-calls, and then adi journ...
...We Need Our Day of Best...
...These workers, who came up from New York City by autobus, bore sandwich signs with the inscription: "Six Days Shalt Thou Labor sad Do All Thy Work...
...But in the absence of such a statement, this comment obviously expresses your own opinion...
...The hottest fight was over endorsing the Thomasite dual organ in New York, which required three ballots and a roll call, resulting in a slender majority of three for the motion...
...The Lord Does Not Exempt Hotel Workers...
...This is the three-year record of state control by the R.P.C., syndicalist and "militant" faction...
...The Fighting Worker" runs the following statements "Trotsky's cable to Muste and Cannon, January, l$g|J« 'Unanimous Prompt Entry Seems D nail able to Ma.' -J"The above cable arrived in the midst of a pn-tsemomattttt discussion in the Workers Party of U. S., on the question af entry into the Socialist Party...
...The delegation was sponsored by the New York Women's Trade Union League, whose legislative represntative, Maude Schwartz, appeared on behalf of the measures...
...Fischer of Passaic led the battle with a motion that members read all genuine Socialist papers...
...this one had 81 delegates representing between 600 and 700 members, how many the "militant" state secretary did'not know...
...Then followed a decision to file the names of the 15 as Presidential Electors instead of calling for nominations...
...the expulsion" of a "left wing" known as the "OeMer group.* T|p^ "left wing" was opposed to the Trotsky Communists joining the Socialist Party...
...The purpose is to make sure of their faction in case the party splits at Cleveland...
...The Trotskyites sought the advise of Trotsky...
...Dishonest Coactoct "If the National Executive Committee desires to state its case before the membership, it has a perfect right to do so, and to use the bulletin...
...Hotel Workers Are Human Beings, Too...
...We shall prepare a statement for this purpose and will assume the cost...
...No Discrimination...
Vol. 19 • March 1936 • No. 11
