May Day Symbol of Working Class Unity
Hendin, Louis
May Day Symbol of Working Class Unity Solidarity of Labor Based on High Idealism and Sound Socialist Principle Essential to Combat Fascism and Reaction—Fake "United Front* of Communists Seeks to...
...Instead of promoting wanytaey seek to impose their Wbeopky of dictatorship upon as hhni nem iutut-and to -domis*nW dictate to ft...
...T» feet is that the Communists ^sa^want unity...
...Sascha Zimmerman, the Lovestooite, Weinstock, the Communist, and Norman Thomas, the Socialist, sealed a "united front" pact for the May Day demonstration...
...As for the militants and Norman Thomas, it hardly pays to waste any words over them...
...81, as Abraham Lincoln said: Tea osafoei all of the people a |jrt mf the f lissai, ¦ nil you can, foal iSart af the people all of the time, |p'you cannot fool all of the peojksS ef the time...
...They opened the doors and welcomed.them into their organizations...
...Workers ft world over have always bemmi in the slogan "Proletarians Call countries unite...
...They led that fight in a deliberate attempt to prove that those locals were mote, loyal .to the Conuna- '. ,'">.zr i -¦: T,t.- '• • t**§p1 nists than to the International...
...How can they demand political freedom for Austria, Italy, Germany, and'other countries and not demand political freedom for Russia...
...Hits SplrrHncj Policy If the Communists really wanted a united front, why have they now cooked up a fratricidal war in the Internationa] in connection with the First of May celebration...
...Why did they lead the fight in Local 117, 9, and 22 of the International, to induce- those organisations to parade with them instead of celebrating May Day with their parent organization...
...The Comma* dp are foehng themselves if they fit that they can fool sll of the attle all of dm time...
...by the air|SWthod 40 acres take 8 min...
...Certain unions believed that they could avoid fratricidal war by dealing with the Communists as gentleman...
...enthusiasm' ¦ws free and buoyant Education ffle- -dfecussion are the "ant i)Jpj*f both.—Thomas Jefferson...
...Perhaps they have put their cards on the table a little too early...
...As Dtretnsky explained at the meeting of the Cloakmakers'Joint Board, Zimmerman and Nelson are window-dressing for the Communists, who, following a new policy recently adopted, hide behind the skirts of others to deceive those who know full well all about the long record of the Communist Party's intriguing and disruption in the unions and will have nothing to do with them...
...In the Socialist Party, conflict arose out of the united front and has brought a split...
...The whole plan has not yet been carried out, probably because it was made public prematurely, but in part it has already been achieved...
...By Louis Hendin ApflfoyKrat worker* through§r^H toe world demonstrate JyLgafr, tiieir solidarity, their 'Sgr.*Bd tiieir willingness to fear a world without rich or Swifhoat hunger in the midst Etentv, without exploiters and BBi They demonstrate for ijLfcj ot freedom and equality...
...They seek to force their way into other organizations and have a say in formulating policies though they are in the minority...
...It was only a short time ago when they were carrying on a bitter campaign against the official CommunistStalinist Party...
...Why, then did they instigate a fratricidal conflict in the labor movement...
...And what about the Lovestoneite Communists^ represented by Sascha Zimmerman, manager of Local 22, and L. Nelson, manager of the Knitgoods Workers' Union...
...toaefrea they may clash, then the tutted front collapses and the nafaat form new groupings and condsee aew united fronts, What meed have the workers for aw' s.eontraption...
...jg^ 'WHAT NEXT...
...5*^;.*eJ>s"ht in the propeller SSjjfSid sowed evenly in 65-feet ^gjJfr old inethods, planting Sjr*'feok s day...
...For them MSiSeo front in^time ^S'njrfsa Sfc.has its separate interests...
...ffc stands hi the way of the stay of the working class...
...In their own organizations, the Communists demand absolute loyalty, and woe to him who does not carry...
...Why did Sascha Zimmerman and L. Nelson defy that decision?-Why did they daate...
...they have had the effect of cementing more strongly than ever the ranks of the loyal members of the International...
...May Day Symbol of Working Class Unity Solidarity of Labor Based on High Idealism and Sound Socialist Principle Essential to Combat Fascism and Reaction—Fake "United Front* of Communists Seeks to Make Impossible Genuine Cooperation, Harmony and Understanding Among Toilers—Organized Labor Scores Communist Intrigues—Warning to Innocents—Some Facts About Recent Developments in the I.L.G.W.U...
...those countries stat am temporarily more or testenasn interests...
...There, though Communists may be members of trade unions and are not discriminated against with respect to jobs, members of the Communist party are not permitted to occupy any representative official position in the trade unions...
...The speeches which David Dubinsky, president of the International, delivered before the United,, Hebrew Trades and the Cloakmakers' Joint Board were history-making in the broadest sense of the word...
...year tne workers will direct yK...
...WISDOM yflpjry is a disease of ignor**,of morbid minds...
...WK, They know perfectly well ** -rae unity can be attained eg jhteagk harmony and under•aaKng...
...The Communists made their own plans for that day...
...No, the Communists do' not want the unity of the working class...
...Why «aft -he Communists conclude n aftat front'* in Russia where -Wp sre in complete.control...
...They are the errand boys of the Lovestonites, a play thing in the hands of the Communist intriguers...
...Then, why m the Communists talk about a "msed front" instead of about the' aity af the working class...
...The British labor movement had learned its lesson through bitter experience: Last week's issue of The New Leader reported the Communist maneuvers in connection with the celebration of Hay Day...
...Their infraahi.are the same...
...What happened...
...No one interfered with the Communists celebrating the First of May in the way they chose to do it...
...Inj? it is a matter of life, and ?gkibf the working' class...
...Jwjjjaniirjg by airplane is the BeB culture, it being reBg that a large part of Cali"WttWaWO acres of rice will from the air this year...
...It was also agreed that | Lovestone would be rewarded for this job by being taken back into 1 the Communist Party...
...Here in America the Communists have just furnished us with a vivid eiample of what they mean by a united front in connection with the celebration ef Kay Day...
...But President Dubinsky did not explain why Zimmerman and Nelson suddenly became fronts for the Communists...
...They will undoubtedly have a tremendous significance in determining the future development of bur movement...
...Wfk Communists use the "united mm* as their siren call...
...How can they protest against dictatorship in Hitler land and other fascist countries while in Russia there exists an iron dictatorship in which the power of Stalin is just as absolute as that of Hitler...
...But let anyone try to voice a dissenting opinion where Communists are in control, and he will immediately be sent to a concentration camp...
...out to the last detail the decrees of the Comintern...
...But this only the future will tell...
...Today the interests of seine imperialist nations coinnth, S» they stand together...
...that we clearly analyze gt'daesnon...
...In tins respect the Intenmtmnal Ladles' Garment Workers* Union was particularly tolerant^ 'hi fact^ so big-hearted that it not only opened its doors to the Communists, but even permitted them to occupy important posts...
...Now, however, it appears that after all there is only one effective way to deal with Communists and that is the policy pursued by the trade union movement in England...
...They do not b»s separate interests...
...Zimmerman and Nelson Recently participated together with twentythree other managers of the International in a preliminary conference which, by a majority of 23 to 2, decided to celebrate May Day in the Polo Grounds together with the entire labor movement...
...One thing the actions of the Communists, in connection with the First of May celebration, has accomplished...
...Tatar—ee Unrewarded Under these ehmaaewnneee, how is it possible to demonstrate and protest on the First of May together with Communists T But why ciarano oneself to illustrations from other countries...
...Way have the Communists raised ¦¦Villi11 ilii al slogan...
...IHU Islted 'fronts ""are eon-' aW laareer...
...What the ¦Beers want is unity, not a united ;wa: phrase "united front" was (¦•owed from the militarists, from &anperialist nations...
...In so doing we dare ni dose our eyes to realities...
...jsoostrations particularly 2a**l fascism, reaction and teredeeket concentration camps, ngir—- cf political prison's, jaier brutality, the Austrian iZmmu Mussolini's reign of tertdvjat insatiable appetite of im5jjSsi ag»»°st war, against ^jjjjirw of dictatorship and en^fjjfismy has become a symbol jfogmm class unity 'throughout 4* eerie Particularly now, when jjHit1- hordes of reaction have jUfaj s large part of Europe, 3Jan«>* of the working class is MjttfVtg need of the day...
...The ffjaa is that the "united front" fifea is a sugar-coated poison f Berry or Uaffed Front...
...What fat more, they have lighted the fires of a fratricidal internal war in the unions...
...And when for a while peace and harmony reigned in the International, certain trade union .leaders thought that they had proved themselves to be real diplomats;, they bad at last discovered how to deal with Communists...
...jiat r ¦ for this reason it is sjnani...
...To them the aiiW' front hi admittedly a ma...
...mray begins at home...
...Several months ago it was reported in a Trotsky periodical that Lovestone had conferred ip Paris with representatives of.fne Communist International, at which it was decided that Zimmerman should join the Socialist Party and pretend to have split off from the Lovestonites in order to effectuate a "united front" between the ' Socialists and all the Communist 1 groups...
...Whenever the Communists begin their "united front" propaganda, it is a sure sign that splits, division, and fratricidal war are in the offing...
...The International, the Amalgamated, the Millinery Workers, and other sections of the labor movement decided to celebrate the First of May in their own way...
...It is the opinion of the most influential and responsible trade union leaders that Dubinsky 's prestige in the labor movement has been immeasurably increased by reason of the decisive and determined stand he took against the renewed united front maneuver...
...This is the way in which Zimmerman and Nelson show their gratitude to the International for its generosity in opening wide its doors to them and allowing them to occupy official positions in the organisation...
...w engender splits and divijssrf The Communists shout •am the housetops that they want s-*'asftea front** and a number of adaferaBH young people are misp by this high-sounding slogan...
...Row can the workers, together' with Communists, protest on the First ef May against the imprisonment and persecution of Socialists, Anarchists, end Communists in the concentration camps of Germany, Italy, and other fascist countries, while in Russia, after, nineteen years of social revolution, Socialists, dissident Communists, and: Anarchists languish in concentration camps solely because they do not wish to be supinely subservient to the Stalin dictatorship...
...the unity of the International ? On whose behalf did they de tins...
...No, they were not so simple-minded...
...The united wllja-awnething temporary in teaear...
...Were the Communists so naive as to believe that the International would look on indifferently while they destroyed the discipline of the organization...
...Norman Thomas is chasing rainbows whan ha ¦peaks far an "all-inclusive party," a party far everybody, and thinks that he is its leader...
...In their little sect, with its insignificant membership, they preach iron discipline, but is there not equal need for discipline and loyalty in the International which has upwards of 200,000 members...
...They merely felt that the time'had come once more to test their strength...
...Who *j...
Vol. 19 • May 1936 • No. 18
