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Vol. I No. 4, 5 January 1935, New York, NY
New Militant
Weekly Organ of the Workers Party of the U.S.
Editoral Board:
EDITOR:
James P. Cannon
ASSOCIATE EDITOR:
Harry A. Howe
BUSINESS MANAGER:
Hawthorne Winner
Wall Street Crack Whip on Congress, by Geo. Clarke
Robber Baron Goes Free (photo)
Steel Election Called, by Arne Swabeck
Eighteen on Trial Need Labor Defense, from Press Service of Non-Partisan Labor Defense
Auto Body Told System is Doomed
Imperialists Enter New Phase
Huey Long is Tammany Hall Rising in South, by Dan Eastman
1934 – Labor’s Story – Hope, Trust, Betrayal, Militancy – 1935
From the Firing Line
- Clothing Workers Fight Suspension, from Members of Local 4
- Allard Elected
- Relief Head Aids Cops, League Finds
United Fronting in Pittsburgh, by E.R. McKinney
In the Unions, by Karl Lore
- Local 802 A.F.M.
- 13 Years Hard Luck
- 3,728 to 127
- Labor in Court
- Administration Out
- Building Trades
Contract for Paterson – What a Contract! by Felix Giordano
Aged Man Jailed for Snaring Rabbits
Richberg Smokes Peace Pipe As He Exonerates the Poor
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
A Farewell to Bureaucracy, by Joseph Zack
Perkins’ Daughter Enters Society
The Party Fund
How the Middle Class Led “Freed” Negroes After Civil War, by Simon Williamson
[Editorials]
- Eyes on Sacramento
- Hope for the Steel Workers
- Churchified Fascists
Roosevelt and Congress, by John West
Mass Action Policy of National League, by Arnold Johnson
Zack Meeting Draws Crowd
Vol. I No. 5, 12 January 1935, New York, NY
New Militant
Weekly Organ of the Workers Party of the U.S.
Editoral Board:
EDITOR:
James P. Cannon
ASSOCIATE EDITOR:
Harry A. Howe
BUSINESS MANAGER:
Hawthorne Winner
Roosevelt's Speech Goes On Forever, by Dan Diamat
Warnick Is Released on $3,200 Bail, from NPLD Press Service
Workers Party Leaders Off on Speaking Tour (with photos of A.J. Muste and James P. Cannon)
Strike Shuts Garages in Twin Cities, by Special Correspondent
FDR Advocates Low Wage, Protects Private Industry in Dealing with Unemployed
150 League Men Storm Town Hall in Michigan
Lay Plans for Akron Strike
AFSW Plans Constitution, by Felix Giordano
Militant Wins PMA Election
One World at a Time! League Paper Tells Unemployed Readers, from Voice of the Workers
Labor’s Share Less in 1935, While Profits Rose, NRA Figures Show
From the Firing Line
- League in Airport Strike Bares Huge Graft; Hits at Forced Labor
- PMA “Wild Cat” in Springfield
- Meeting on Work Projects Called by Allentown League
Gotham’s 1,200,000 Unemployed Face ’35, by Al Dasch
In the Unions, by Karl Lore
- Saving John L. Lewis
- Oil Unionism
- Thunder Ahead
- Price Control
- Fight—The Only Way
- Arbitration
What to Attend
- In New York City
The Party at Work
- Rapid Growth in New York
- Allentown Maps Activity
- Two Month Action Program of Youngstown Branch
Party Lists 6 Pamphlets
$3,500 Is Family Need, by Special Correspondent
Injunction Seen as Lewis Move
Letter Carriers Protest Extension of Wage Cut
You Said It, Franklin!
March of Events, by Jack Weber
Dew of Death Rained From Sky – Capitalist Weapon for Next War, by Ruth Wilson
World in Review
- Letter From Spain – New International – Cuban Volcano
- Situation Tense in Cuba
How NUL Convention Nipped Fascist Attack, by Louis Breier
Big Profits in Textiles
And the “Abundant Life” Is Poverty! Poverty! Poverty! by Tess Huff
The Party Fund
7,400,000 Children
Huey Is Tammany Hall Rising From the South, by Dan Eastman
Cult of Leadership, Zig-Zags and Turns Mark C.I. Policy, by Joseph Zack
Reviewing the News, by Bill Sherman
Muste Cannon Tour
International Workers School
Bill White Dead
Vol. I No. 6, 19 January 1935, New York, NY
New Militant
Weekly Organ of the Workers Party of the U.S.
Editoral Board:
EDITOR:
James P. Cannon
ASSOCIATE EDITOR:
Harry A. Howe
BUSINESS MANAGER:
Hawthorne Winner
Lenin
Trotsky Answers Indictment – Links G.P.U. with Kirov Assassination, by Leon Trotsky
The Federal Budget, from Washington Correspondent
Bosses Pay Prosecutor in Sacramento Red Trial
League Men in Conference in N.W. Ohio
Union Victory Ends St. Paul Garage Strike
3,000 in N.Y. Biscuit Strike
Muste, Cannon in Canada; Find Workers Party Active There, by A.J. Muste
W.P. Moves National Office – Takes Floor at 2 W. 15th St.
From the Firing Line
- Judge Wins Picket Trial
- New England Welcomes NUL
- Stalinists on Firing-Line
- League Pickets 13 Townships
- League’s Strike is First One in Monroe County
National Progressive Movement in Trade Union Is Party Task, by Arne Swabeck
Does Industrial Food Union Support Dutch Shultz Gang? by Joseph Zack
What to Attend
The Party at Work
Subway Men in Revolt Against Co. “Brotherhood”
Arrest Union Local in Labor Frame-Up
March of Events, by Jack Weber
Huey Long’s Labor Record; He Says Mussolini Endorsed His Plan, by Dan Eastman
World in Review
- France – Paris Socialists, Program from La Verité
- The Crisis
Mechanization in Steel Bodes Uncertain Future, by Fred Rayburn
The Boston Tea Party and The Fears of $ir Hearst, by Bill Monroe
The Party Fund
[Editorials]
- Workers’ Security
- The 30-Hour Week
- The Saar Plebiscite
Reviewing the News, by Bill Sherman
International Workers School
Vol. I No. 7, 26 January 1935, New York, NY
New Militant
Weekly Organ of the Workers Party of the U.S.
Editoral Board:
EDITOR:
James P. Cannon
ASSOCIATE EDITOR:
Harry A. Howe
BUSINESS MANAGER:
Hawthorne Winner
Across the Country With Cannon and Muste, by A.J. Muste
Buying Power Drops Under “Model” Code, by Jack Elder
Akron C.P. Members Follow Zack to W.P.
56 Released as Leaguemen Storm Court, by Art Preis
United Defense Acts to Mobilize Labor in California Trial
That Pittsburgh Convention, by Special Correspondent
Ohio Branch Raps League Run by C.P.
Second Blast in Mine Kills 11, Injures 71
Saturday Night Housewarming
Coal Miners Ready to Welcome Muste, Cannon
To Maintain this Great Work We Must Have Funds – Now!
New Address
From the Firing Line
- Three Convicted on Old Charge for Assisting Evicted Family, by Clarence Mayer
- Pearcy Out, Keck In – Worse, Says Germinal, “Or I’ll Eat a Shovel”, by Germinal
Two Young Men Start Subway Union Rolling, by An IRT Subway Worker
In the Unions, by Karl Lore
- Hard Facts for A.F. of L. Pow-Wow
- Times Are Tough
- Wages Down; Profits Up
- Hard Facts
The Party at Work
What to Attend
A.F. of L. Blocks Rubber Strike
Railroad Jobs Get Fewer and Fewer
600 at League Meet
The Nature and Causes of Modern War – Capitalist Expansion Ends in Open Conflict, by John West
World in Review
- Situation in Cuba, Aftermath in Spain
- The Aftermath in Asturias
Will the Steel Workers Strike? – Here’s the Record Under NRA to Date, by Dennis Brown
The Party Fund
International Workers School
[Editorials]
- In California
- The C.P. and the Labor Party
- Tom Mooney’s Freedom
- Attack the Enemy
Reviewing the News, by Bill Sherman
- New Title Wanted
- The Mooney Case
- ”All the News That’s Fit to Print”
- Slobbering Over Stalin
- The Dignity of the Court
- Strikers versus Labor Leaders
Letters to the Editor
- Start Meetings on Time, from Comrade A.B.C.
Vol. I No. 8, 2 February 1935, New York, NY
New Militant
Weekly Organ of the Workers Party of the U.S.
Editoral Board:
EDITOR:
James P. Cannon
ASSOCIATE EDITOR:
Harry A. Howe
BUSINESS MANAGER:
Hawthorne Winner
Across the Country With Cannon and Muste, by A.J. Muste
Latest Order By FD Hides New Threat, by Zack Elder
New Deal Launches Another Gunboat (photo)
94 Strikers Arrested in Fargo N. Dakota by 300 Vigilantes
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
Liberty of 18 Jeopardized as C.P. Splits Defense
When It Snows in New York
Truckmen Stay Injunction
Suggested Symbol
Doll and Toy Workers Use Flying Squadron
Lively Meetings Mark Speaking Tour for Workers Party – Enthusiastic Crowd Cheers the New Party in Chicago
Sop to Akron Labor Hides Company Aim
Textile Strike Looms – Will It Be Another Betrayal by UTW Leaders? by Felix Giordano
The League’s Fight for Unity by Louis Breier
What to Attend
Real Story in Relief Paper
Garage Strike Ends in Gains
Leaves Communist Party for Workers Party – Tells Why, by Harold Smith
Workers Education for Allentown
Forgotten Men’s Yell, from Voice of the Workers
Bridge that Gap!
The Struggle Against War, by John West
March of Events, by Jack Weber
Long Waits, Small Benefits Feature of Insurance Bills, by Hugo Oehler
Booker T. Washington – He Pleased the Bourgeoisie, by Simon Williamson
International Workers School
[Editorials]
- Roosevelt Program
- Hearst and the Bosses
The Party at Work
A Bold Policy for Progressives in Steel
Reviewing the News, by Bill Sherman
- Title Contest
- Suggested Titles
National Jig Saw – Bill Reich Broadcasting
A Request, and a Business Matter,
Vol. I No. 9, 9 February 1935, New York, NY
New Militant
Weekly Organ of the Workers Party of the U.S.
Editoral Board:
EDITOR:
James P. Cannon
ASSOCIATE EDITOR:
Harry A. Howe
BUSINESS MANAGER:
Hawthorne Winner
Roosevelt Kicks Bill Green Downstairs, by Arne Swabeck
Capitol News Letter – Labor Bureaucrats Howl as Roosevelt Disregards Auto Union, by Jack Elder
Fantastic Evidence Used by State in Labor Trial
Judge’s Trick Approved by Union Leaders
Mass Meeting calls Hearst Labor Enemy
Union Pledges Solidarity to 18 Framed-up
Silk Strike is Voted Pending Referendum
Mass Meetings Build PA. Unemployed League
Thirty Days, Says Buffalo Judge, Instead of Food
Want Plenty? Nice, Easy Secret Way – It’s Utopian
Father Coughlin Adopts Popes’ Fake Liberalism, by Dan Eastman
Should Revolutionists Build a Labor Party, by Hugo Oehler
Notice
Food Workers Bare Unions's Alliance with Schultz Gang, by a Group of Progressive Food Workers
- Introductory Note, by Joseph Zack
Credits for Russia – A Slogan for U.S. Labor, by Tess Huff
What to Attend
International Workers School Term Nears
St. Louis Socialist Finds Workers Party Is Realistic
- SP is Hopeless, He Says, from John Burfeindt
- In N.Y., E. Martin Leaves Weisbord Group to Join W.P., from E. Martin
Workers Security?
International Workers School
Late Episodes in Kirov Assassination Analyzed by Trotsky, by Leon Trotsky
March of Events, by Jack Weber
Open Letter, from the National Committee of the W.P.
The League Against War and Fascism, by John West
[Editorials]
- Danger in Sacramento
- “Planned Economy” in the U.S.
- A Watchdog of Capitalism
- On the Flying Trapeze
Hearst Calls the Tune ... (cartoon), by Karl
Reviewing the News, by Bill Sherman
- A New Militant Sub for the Best Title
- Tommy Maloy, Labor Leader
- Well! Well!
NPLD Statement on Sacramento Case
National Jig Saw, by Bill Reich
Zack Tour
Toy Workers Strike in Second Week: Gains Won
N.Y. Membership Meeting
Vol. I No. 10, 16 February 1935, New York, NY
New Militant
Weekly Organ of the Workers Party of the U.S.
Editoral Board:
EDITOR:
James P. Cannon
ASSOCIATE EDITOR:
Harry A. Howe
BUSINESS MANAGER:
Hawthorne Winner
Across the Country With Cannon and Muste, by A.J. Muste
Capitol News Letter – Roosevelt Help up Auto Labor Report Until Code Was Renewed, by Jack Elder
C.P.’s Attack on Mini Decried in Sacramento
- Warnick Defends Mini; Raps Western Worker, by Jack Warnick
Relief Bill Will Drive Wages of All Labor to $12 Minimum
Socialists Violate Agreement
United Opposition Needed Against Tighe, by Elmer Cope
Merry-Go-Round for Akron Labor
Relief Bill Will Drive Wages of All Labor to $12 Minimum
- Prevailing Wage Clause Defeated by Order of Roosevelt
- A.F. of L. Helpless; Strike Action on PWA Only Course for Labor
Scholarship Contest to New York Workers
How the A.F. of L. Actually Betrayed the Automobile Workers, by Special Correspondent
Spiking Lies Printed in the Daily Worker About Printers Election
What to Attend
Bankers Control Relief – California Legion Aids Drive to Reduce Standard
Why Progressives Must Organize by B.F.
Win a Prize
Act in Newark
International Workers School
Crowd Hears Muste Defy Arrest Threat
March of Events, by Jack Weber
The United Front and War, by John West
World in Review
- Fascism Degrades Italian Workers to Feudal Slaves
- Mine Wages Decline
- Return to Feudalism
Should Revolutionists Build a Labor Party in America? by Hugo Oehler
The Party Fund
Nite Club Revue to Feature Dances
[Editorials]
- Socialist Party Adventurism
- Bootlickers
Reviewing the News, by Bill Sherman
- Title Contest Ends
- A Voice from Philly
- Other Titles
- Obituary Note
- Investigating a Company Union
- Labor Proves Gratitude
- A Warm “Fascist” Smile
Greetings from the New Manager, by Hawthorne Winner
Action Training School Opens
Vol. I No. 11, 2 March 1935, New York, NY
New Militant
Weekly Organ of the Workers Party of the U.S.
Editoral Board:
EDITOR:
James P. Cannon
ASSOCIATE EDITOR:
Harry A. Howe
BUSINESS MANAGER:
Hawthorne Winner
Capitol News Letter – New Deal is Bankrupt ... – Wagner’s Labor Bill ... – “Social Security” ...., by Jack Elder
N.U.L. Plans Caravan to Washington – To Get Out Nat’l Paper For Jobless
Mini on Stand Gives Lie to “Stool-pigeon” Charge
WP to Hold Conference
16 Sentenced for “Riot” in Fargo; Labor Aroused, by Robert Whitcomb
Thomas Quits New Leader; SP May Split, by Special Correspondent
Mother of 5 Leads League in Relief Fight
AFL to Aid Akron Bosses Fight “Reds”, by Jack Wilson
The New Press Is Here; We’ll Do Our Part If You Do Yours!
To All Subscribers, by The Business Manager
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
They Got Suspicious
What to Attend
Stalinists Attack Worker Opposed to Union Policy
Contest Note
574 Boys Support Albert Lea Picket
International Workers School
NBC Ruse Fails
March of Events, by Jack Weber
The Truth About Sacramento – How C.P. Tactics Hurt Defendants, by James P. Cannon
- Statement by N.P.L.D., by George Novack
Five Join Workers Party Protesting C.P. Bureaucracy
S.P. on Sacramento “United Front”
Bound Militants
[Editorial]
- The Reason for Hearst
The Set-Up (cartoon), by Karl
Left Jabs, by Bill Sherman
- The New Title
- “My Country ’Tis of Thee”, by Earl Browder, from Daily Worker
- A Governor, Child Labor and Bolshevism
- Our Hope and Strength, by Bill Reich
- The Cuckoo Clock
- Religion, A Moral Force, by Bill Reich
- Theory and Practice, by Bill Reich
- Arms Control & League of Nations, from Reviewing the Crisis, 1929–35, by M.L.
- ’Til Death Do Us Part, by Bill Reich
Elevator Strike History in Newspaper Headlines
We Need a Larger Paper
Vol. I No. 12, 9 March 1935, New York, NY
New Militant
Weekly Organ of the Workers Party of the U.S.
Editoral Board:
EDITOR:
James P. Cannon
ASSOCIATE EDITOR:
Harry A. Howe
BUSINESS MANAGER:
Hawthorne Winner
NRA Batters Down Wages – But Profits Soar Gov’t Board Says
Capitol News Letter, by Jack Elder
James Rorty Ouster Goes to Congress
Civil Liberties Union Charges C.P. with Disrupting Sacramento Defense – Statements Say Break Was Deliberate
(Statements refer to Sacramento defense)
- Statement of the American Civil Liberties Union, from the National Executive Committee
- Statement, by Travers Clement, in The Nation
- [Statement], by Lillian Symes, California Author
- [Statement], by George Hedley, Chairman United Front Committee
Building Union Leads Toledo FERA Strike
Green in Detroit Surveys His Ruin of Auto Union – Try Another Board, He Cries, by Our Detroit Correspondent
Win 62½ Percent Raise in Wage-Relief Wage
Huey Long Works Hospital Aids for ‘Kickback’
Boss Press Subsidized
State League Formed in Kentucky – Johnson Urges Fight for Harlan Miners
Strategic Labor Attack Triumphs – Waukegan Office Workers Stand by Mechanics
Win Strike
Choice of Name Biggest Achievement of S.P. Unemployed Meet – “A Socialist Party Congress” Protests Virginia Delegate, by Special Correspondent
Fur Union Must Move Carefully for Unity; Cannon’s Advice Still Holds, by Trade Union Dept. of W.P.
NRA Speed-Up and Police Brutality Hit in St. Louis, by Special Correspondent
What to Attend
Contest Note
Just Arrived: Bulletin of the Russian Opposition, No. 42
March of Events, by Jack Weber
Why Join the Workers Party – Letter to a Worker Correspondent, by A.J. Muste
International Notes ...
- Communist League of China Hails W.P.
- Workers Party Organized in Panama
S.P. Militants Forced to Cover Up Right Wing Labor Defense Maneuver
- Morrow’s Letter to Baron, by Felix Morrow
- Baron’s Reply, by Murray Baron
Bankers Hear Plan for Aged
Finds C.I. Like Roman Church, by Bernard Ross
Facts About America
[Editorials]
- Unity of the Unemployed?
- Balance of Power—An Illusion
Relief Investigators Do Detective Work – Letter from “Inside” Tells the Wretched Story
Question Box
Two Important C.P. Members in Week Join Workers Party
Capitalist Press Lies About Mini Scored by Chambers and Warnick, from Jack Warnick, Pat Chambers & Norman Mini
Watch for This Fellow
Insull Farce
Vol. I No. 13, 16 March 1935, New York, NY
New Militant
Weekly Organ of the Workers Party of the U.S.
Editoral Board:
EDITOR:
James P. Cannon
ASSOCIATE EDITOR:
Harry A. Howe
BUSINESS MANAGER:
Hawthorne Winner
Capitol News Letter: A.A.A. Accomplishments – Milk Production – Corn Belt Conditions – Saga of Scarcity, by Jack Elder
Cuban Workers in Island-Wide General Strike – Mendieta Sustained by Wall Street Army Alone
N.U.L. Paper Announces Club For Jailed Heroes of Labor
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
A.F. of L. Busy Sabotaging Akron Strike – Leaders Fear They Are Losing Grip on Rubber Union
Workers Party Sends Letter to P.P., by A.J. Muste
Ark. Workers College Is in Danger, by Gerry Allard
Wall Street’s Priest – Father Coughlin Wins Fame and Fortune with Red Scare — Says Henry Ford is a Communist, by Dan Eastman
N.U.L. Paper Announces Club for Jailed Heroes of Labor
Roosevelt OK’s Machine Gun Squads Formed in Sacramento
Settlement in Sight For Dental Mechanics
President Gives A.F. of L. Cold Shoulder on Auto Boards, Codes, Relief, by Arne Swabeck
C.P. Leadership Can’t Be Trusted, by Alfred Terry & Jack Taylor
Progressives Suspended From ILG
Misery Stalks Fascist Austria
Teachers Must Not Rest With Vanderwoude Decision, by A Teacher
Note on Boston Branch
What to Attend
Contest Note
March of Events, by Jack Weber
Why Join the Workers Party – Letters to a Worker Correspondent, by A.J. Muste
The Pacific Movement – Japanese Imperialism Stirs Up Race Hatred in America, by Simon Williamson
Super Red-Baiting Bill to Keep Truth From Soldiers
Liberals (poem), by Louis Breier
[Editorials]
- The Hooey Long Way
- A Bloc with Reformists
- The Socialist Party
Will They Make Them (cartoon), by Jim Karl
Left Jabs, by Bill Sherman
- Oh, Deah, Deah!
- Race Prejudice
- Reviewing the Crisis
- Building the A.F. of L.
- Olgin, God, and Father Divine
The Paris Commune, by Joseph Carter
Question Box
Banks Increase Control of Gov’t Thru Bond Purchases
Unemployed in Ind. Organize Out of the SP
Pity the Poor Owners
Vol. I No. 14, 23 March 1935, New York, NY
New Militant
Weekly Organ of the Workers Party of the U.S.
Editoral Board:
EDITOR:
James P. Cannon
ASSOCIATE EDITOR:
Harry A. Howe
BUSINESS MANAGER:
Hawthorne Winner
Capitol News Letter: A Bigger and Better Board – The Works-Relief Bill, by Jack Elder
Nations Totter on the Brink of Another Imperialist War
Cannon, Rorty and Chas. Malamuth Will Tell of Cal. Terror
WP Progress on All Fronts, National and International Marked at Ptsbg. Conference
Sacramento C.S. Trial Near End – Judge Rules Case to Continue Despite Ford’s Illness
NUL Blasts Roosevelt’s Relief Plan
Democracy Violent in S.P.
Auto-Rubber Alliance in Akron, by Jack Wilson
A British Patriot
20th Century Civilization
Life, Liberty, the Pursuit of Happiness, by Bill Reich
Allentown Pushes New Militant Circulation Drive
New Classes in School
Nation-Wide Strike of 500,00 Bituminous Coal Miners Looms in April, by Gerry Allard
Left Wing Program for Silk; No More Skulking Cliques, by Felix Giordano
Wages Lag Profits Soar Since 1849 – A.F. of L. Figures Condemn Own Policy as False at Best
All Males Under 30 in CCC Plan of N.Y. Relief Bureau
What to Attend
Curtain Drops on Work Relief Farce; Wages Will Drop Soon
New Militant Drive News
Boston Branch Activities
J.P. Swaps Art for Profits in Japan
March of Events, by Jack Weber
Why Join the Workers Party – Letters to a Worker Correspondent, by A.J. Muste
Criminal Syndicalist or Renegade? by Norman Mini
S.Y.L. Looks to the Future of the American Revolution, by Reva Crane
Hooey
Not This Time, from New York Post
[Editorials]
- We Accuse William Green
- Friends of Labor
Good Work, Franklin (cartoon), by Jim Karl
Question Box, by A. Weaver
A.F. of L. Leaders Hope for New Gov’t Sell Out Board. Want Labor to Confide in Capitalism
Currency Inflation War of Today Leads Inevitably to Military War of Tomorrow
Monroe Clears Up Press Lie, by Lillian Monroe
Birth Control
Vol. I No. 15, 30 March 1935, New York, NY
New Militant
Weekly Organ of the Workers Party of the U.S.
Editoral Board:
EDITOR:
James P. Cannon
ASSOCIATE EDITOR:
Harry A. Howe
BUSINESS MANAGER:
Hawthorne Winner
Only A Spark is Needed!
Strike Struggles Grip Toledo – 4 Unions on Strike
Akron Workers Set for Siege in Rubber, by Jack Wilson
General Strike Shuts Down LA Hat Industry, by Sam Myers
Thomas Offers Olive Branch to Old Guard
C.P. Members Take Stand in Sacramento
Dan Tobin Rats on Fargo Driver But Ranks Remain Firm
Starvation Faces Million New York Jobless
Need for Unity is Leading Issue at Coming Steel Workers Convention – Trend of Steel Union Depends on Action of Progressives
Solidarity Forever, by Florence Wyle
Allard Calls on the P.M.A. Convention for United Struggle in Coming Coal Strike
Poverty and Discrimination – Behind the Harlem Events
Plentywood Leads Drive
What to Attend
March of Events, by Jack Weber
Why Join the Workers Party – Letters to a Worker Correspondent, by A.J. Muste
Question Box
Dutch Parties Raise Banner of Fourth International, from De Baanbreker
The Right to Vote for Stalin is Granted: “Soviet Democracy”, by L.T.
[Editorials]
- W.P. on the Firing Line
- The Socialist Party Crisis
- The Paradox of New York
Left Jabs
- British Bourgeois Hypocrisy
- Britain, Hitler and Peace
- The “Great Engineer” Tries a Comeback
- Justice in Harlem
- Harmless Substitutes All
Vol. I No. 16, 6 April 1935, New York, NY
New Militant
Weekly Organ of the Workers Party of the U.S.
Editoral Board:
EDITOR:
James P. Cannon
ASSOCIATE EDITOR:
Harry A. Howe
BUSINESS MANAGER:
Hawthorne Winner
An Editorial
- The Crime of Sacramento
Akron Rubber Strike Impends, by Jack Wilson
Modern Strike Strategy (photo)
Court Convicts 8 in Sacramento Amid Red Scare – Jury Acquits Six in Compromise After Sixty Six Hours
- Guilty of Organizing – Norman Mini (photo)
Scottsboro Boys Granted New Trial
NY Left Wing Leaves YPSL and Joins WP
St. Louis Gas House Workers Answer Bosses with Strike
N.U.L. Helps Win Strike
Albert Lea Strikers Duped by False Lawyers
Jobless Drivers Organize
Regional SYL Conference
Fargo — A Labor Struggle That Rocked the Northwest
1500 “Bootleg” Coal Miners Organize
In the Unions, by Karl Lore
- War
- Union Label
- Metal Trades
S.Y.L. Maps National Tour
What to Attend
The Cross of Silver – Between Speeches Coughlin Engages In Practical Business of His Own, by Dan Eastman
Five in California Quit C.P. and Join Workers Party, from T.H. Jameson, B.L. Collins, W.A. Pitts, Mrs. W.A. Pitts and Mrs. Ollie Collins
Tour to the U.S.S.R.
March of Events, by Jack Weber
Join the Workers Party – Letters to a Worker Correspondent, by A.J. Muste
Question Box, by A. Weaver
Civil War in Greece
News from the Soviet Union – The Anti-Trotsky Crusade
[Editorials]
- Fling Back the Challenge!
- New Recruits
- Tom Mooney Appeals
- Local 22 Elections
Conferences Prepare May Day in N.Y. and Chicago
Capitol News Letter, by Jack Elder
- Human and Divine
- The Pitfalls of Lewisdom ...
“The Collective Propagandist”, from National Committee of the W.P., A.J. Muste, Secretary
Vol. I No. 17, 13 April 1935, New York, NY
New Militant
Weekly Organ of the Workers Party of the U.S.
Editoral Board:
EDITOR:
James P. Cannon
ASSOCIATE EDITOR:
Harry A. Howe
BUSINESS MANAGER:
Hawthorne Winner
War! – The Enemy Is in Our Own Country
Labor Rallies to Aid of Akron Strike, by Jack Wilson
Juror Hits Verdict in California
Roll, Tire, Roll! (cartoon)
Labor Supports St. Louis Gas Workers Strike
Toledo Auto Strike Looms, by Art Preis
Continue Fight for the Scottsboro Boys
Death and Destruction ‘Peace’ Record of 1934
Nation-wide Strike Against War Stirs Students
In the Unions, by Karl Lore
- Come-Back?
- Rat Agency
- Neckties Merge
- Briefs
N.U.L. Pickets White House (photo)
Parties Unite Against War
Are You Interested in These Problems?
Boston Conference Prepares Joint May Day Celebration, by L. Schlosberg
Pittsburgh Headquarters
Furrier Says CP’s Dizzy Turn Threatens Existence of Union, by J. Rabinowitz
S.Y.L. North-Eastern Regional Confab to Map Future Course, by Sol Stevens
Spartacus Starts National Tour
An Appeal for Victor Serge
What to Attend
Comments – On Life, Liberty and Pursuit of Happiness, by Bill Reich
- Merry England
- Economics
- Labor
- Crime
- Society Notes
Troyanovsky Poses as Doctor for Capitalism, by A.J. Muste
Confusion Reigns in Ranks as C.P. Veers Toward Lab[or] Party, by Al Dasch
Question Box, by A. Weaver
The “Gods” Clash in Harlem, by Simon Williamson
Left Wing Group Scores Gains In French Socialist Ranks, from New Leader
Allentown Gains in Sub Drive
Chicago Meeting
[Editorials]
- Spotlight on Akron
- The Danzig Elections
- Reversion to Type
15 points of Father Coughlin, by Dan Eastman
Left Jabs
- This Changing World
- Diplomatic Dress
- Words and Action
- Anti-Fascist Meetings
New Headquarters
Vol. I No. 18, 20 April 1935, New York, NY
New Militant
Weekly Organ of the Workers Party of the U.S.
Editoral Board:
EDITOR:
James P. Cannon
ASSOCIATE EDITOR:
Harry A. Howe
BUSINESS MANAGER:
Hawthorne Winner
Labor Marshalls Forces for Banner May Day – Union Turnout to Be Biggest in Years, by A.J. Muste
- Workers Party To March With Unions in N.Y.
Raw Deal Put Over in Akron, by Art Preis
The Betrayal in Rubber – And the Road Ahead, by James P. Cannon
Eight Are Sentenced on Coast – Two Refuse Mercy; Scorn Court in Speeches
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
NUL is Active Thruout Ohio
Comments – On Life Liberty and Pursuit of Happiness, by Bill Reich
- Peace on Earth
- Good Will Towards Men
- Home Sweet Home
- Blessed Are the Little Children
- Labor
- The State of the Union
Mass Picketing is Effective in FERA Workers Strike in Ohio
Militant Joins Workers Party in Fort Wayne, by Harry W. Conner
In the Unions, by Karl Lore
- Glass ...
- Lumbermen ...
- Hutcheson ...
- Briefs ...
Radio Workers Are Fighting For One Nation-wide Union
Spartacus Starts National Tour
First Regional Conference of SYL Marks Real Progress, by Bill Streeter
Youngstown Br. Leads Sub Drive
What to Attend
March of Events, by Jack Weber
What Now for the Textile Workers? by Felix Giordano
Question Box, by A. Weaver
Is Torgler Being Victimized by the C.P. Bureaucracy?
Capitol News Letter, by Jack Elder
Letters to the Editor, from L.C.
[Editorials]
- The “Lesser Evil” Again
Sacramento Frame-up (cartoon), by Carl
Left Jabs, by Bill Sherman
- “War is Human”
- Who Are the Social Fascists? from Labor Unity
- Happy Naziland!
- Preservation of Civilization
- Again Divine and Ford
[A United Front Has Been Formed ...]
Vol. I No. 19, 27 April 1935, New York, NY
New Militant
Weekly Organ of the Workers Party of the U.S.
Editoral Board:
EDITOR:
James P. Cannon
ASSOCIATE EDITOR:
Harry A. Howe
BUSINESS MANAGER:
Hawthorne Winner
Into the Streets on May Day!
- Carry On! (cartoon), by J. Carl
- First of May Manifesto of the Workers Party of U.S.
Tobin Lifts Charter of Drivers Union, 574, by F.X. Ferry
Toledo Strike Solid; Auto Plant Paralyzed
- Wire, from A.J. Muste
- Report
March With the W.P. on May Day in N.Y.
Beat Company Union in Calif. Auto Election
Broad Unity For May Day in Allentown
Comments – On Life, Liberty and Pursuit of Happiness, by Bill Reich
- Sweetness and Light
- Higher Learning
- Fearless Journalism
- Salaries
- Coercion
- Morals Department
- Society Notes
August Upswing is Strategic Time for Silk Union Victory, by Felix Giordano
Mpls Council For One Union in Railroads, by A Railroad Worker
In the Unions, by Karl Lore
- Banks
- National Guard
- Yellow Dog Unions
- Briefs
Plentywood and Youngstown Tie
Capitol News Letter, by Jack Elder
In Every City and in Every Nation – History of May Day – Strikes, Demonstrations, Revolution
New Deal Paradise Summed Up
Battles in Chicago and Milwaukee – The First May Day – Let us Remember the Martyrs of 1886
Hollywood Fury (film review)
Machine Guns in Ohio Strike
What to Attend
A Sacramento Juror Weeps – C.P.’s “Vigilante” Is Only Human After All, by Herbert Solow
Young Spartacus Out
The Negro Workers’ Role in Past May Day Struggles, by Simon Williamson
Huey Long – Workers Enemy, 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
Question Box, by A. Weaver
Pioneer Book Notes
[Editorial]
- Toledo and May Day
Left Jabs, by Bill Sherman
- May Day in Britain
- May Day in Berlin
- Norman Mini
- “Justice” in New York
- Y.C.L. and Unity
Vol. I No. 20, 4 May 1935, New York, NY
New Militant
Weekly Organ of the Workers Party of the U.S.
Editoral Board:
EDITOR:
James P. Cannon
ASSOCIATE EDITOR:
Harry A. Howe
BUSINESS MANAGER:
Hawthorne Winner
Toledo Leads Revolt of Auto Workers: “Settle Strike on the Picket Line, Not in Washington,” Strikers Slogan
- Flint Invaded – Jamesville, Atlanta Plants on Strike
- Heed the Call of Toledo! by A.J. Muste
- Fight Spreads – Local Votes Support for Daily Paper
May Day March Biggest in Post-War History
Sub-Getters, On the Job!
Illinois Confab Fights Threat To Stop Relief
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
Toledo Militants “Disturb” Washington A.F.L. Lobby
Highlights of May Day on Union Square
Comments – On Life, Liberty and Pursuit of Happiness, by Bill Reich
- Wisdom in Washington ...
- America the Beautiful ...
- The State of the Nation ...
- State of the World ...
St. Louis Gas Workers Stand Firm in Strike
Capitol News Letter: The Meaning of the Wagner Bill – A Noose for Labor, by Jack Elder
Miners Honor Slain Fighter in Mass Funeral – Swarm Into Springfield to Protest Mabie Murder
In the Unions, by Karl Lore
- Weakness ...
- Shoe Workers ...
- No Fights ...
- No Gentlemen ...
Employment Gains Less
Lang – Hearstian Socialist
March of Events, by Jack Weber
Question Box, by A. Weaver
Bolshevik-Leninists in U.S.S.R. Face New Frame-Up, by Leon Trotsky
S.Y.L. Flays Youth Buro Rep. for Stand at Paris Meet
Pouring Salt on the Wounds of China’s Oppressed Masses, by Lo Sen
[Editorial]
- Local 574 Under Fire Again
[Stink] (cartoon), by J. Carlo
Left Jabs, by Bill Sherman
- Police Hero
- Fascist Future Foretold
- As Rare as Albino Frogs
- Two of a Kind
- Red or Green Banners?
- Again Peace
Phila. W.P. in May Day Unity
5,000 in Cleveland May First Parade
Debate on WP vs. SP Scheduled in N.Y.
Vol. I No. 21, 11 May 1935, New York, NY
New Militant
Weekly Organ of the Workers Party of the U.S.
Editoral Board:
EDITOR:
James P. Cannon
ASSOCIATE EDITOR:
Harry A. Howe
BUSINESS MANAGER:
Hawthorne Winner
War and the Franco-Soviet Pact, by James P. Cannon
Strikers Reject Union Busting ‘Peace’
- [Mass Picket at General Motors Toledo] (photo)
- How the Tables Were Turned
20 Workers Party Pickets Arrested in N.Y. Demonstration Against General Motors
Muste Rallies N.Y. Support For Auto Strike
Dillon Spikes Flint Strike Vote; Slurs Toledo Workers
Dutch Party Gains 4 Seats in Elections
Allard Leads Illinois Jobless on Capitol
U.S. Washes Hands of Inquiry into Minor Kidnap Outrage
‘Wildcat’ Miners Boo Solons at Hearing
Comments – On Life, Liberty and Pursuit of Happiness, by Bill Reich
- Youth ...
- Collective Bargaining ...
- Education ...
- Society Notes ...
- State of Nation ...
In the Union, by Karl Lore
- Progressive Lewis ...
- Fireworks ...
- Lumber ...
S.Y.L. Regional Confab Held In Youngstown, by M. Slavin
‘In the Name of God’, by Arne Swabeck
What to Attend
[Brownsville Headquarters Re-opened]
March of Events, by Jack Weber
The “American Approach” – Adapting Marxism to the American Class Struggle, by A.J. Muste
Question Box, by A. Weaver
Letters to the Editor, from H. Robins & A. Gras
[Editorial]
- Shades of 1914
“The Shrine of the Little Flower” (cartoon), by J. Carlo
May First Sees United Front in Many Cities
- Chicago
- Kansas City, by Jefferson Rall
- New Castle, by Fred Rayburn
Rebuild Dental Workers Union
Jobless Slugged at N.Y. Relief Bureau
Uriah Heep? No, Abe Cahan!
Federal Judge Sees Doom of Capitalism
Vol. I No. 22, 18 May 1935, New York, NY
New Militant
Weekly Organ of the Workers Party of the U.S.
Editoral Board:
EDITOR:
James P. Cannon
ASSOCIATE EDITOR:
Harry A. Howe
War and the Stalin-Laval Communiqué, by James P. Cannon
Toledo Auto Progressives Organize – Dillon & Co. Wreck Chance to Win Strike, by Art Preis
- Applying the “Merit Clause” (cartoon), by Carlo
- Lessons of the Great Toledo Battle
- Dillon Men Slug Toledo Workers in Flint Meet
Unemployed Leader – Gerry Allard (photo)
Jobless Renew Relief March For Showdown, by Gerry Allard
St Louis Gas Strike is Solid Despite Terror
W.P. Supports Election Battle Against Mpls. Reactionaries
Expel Allentown Professor for Activity in Labor Movement
Next Week!
Comments – On Life, Liberty and Pursuit of Happiness, by Bill Reich
- Privileged Classes ...
- Food ...
- Jobs ...
- Patriotism ...
- Society Notes ...
Central Labor Union Backs Local 574 – Unanimous Appeal For Reinstatement
Boston Dressmaker Calls for Effective Preparations to Improve Conditions, by J. Raymond
Reject Pact in Rubber Strike, by R. Ferguson
What to Attend
Letters to the Editor, from Cara Cook
March of Events, by Jack Weber
The American Approach – The Use of Polemics in the Labor Movement, by A.J. Muste
Question Box, by A. Weaver
The Forgotten Men in America’s No-Man’s Land – Ward H. Rogers Tells Stirring Story Of Share-Croppers Battle, by Harry Strang
[Editorial]
Stalinist Treason in France – Some Startling Quotations from L’Humanité of Paris
Big Crowd at Cannon Meet
The Pulitzer Prize for Poison Pens
Classical Language
Vol. I No. 23, 25 May 1935, New York, NY
New Militant
Official Organ of the Workers Party of the United States
Editoral Board:
EDITOR:
James P. Cannon
ASSOCIATE EDITOR:
Harry A. Howe
$4.75 A Week – The Roosevelt Standard – Coolie Wages
Illinois Workers Plan New Hunger March – Hit Sales Tax
Youth Confab Swayed by SYL In Minneapolis – Left Wing Delegates Carry the Field, by Reginald L. Burke
Expelled Professor – Winslow N. Hallett (photo)
- 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
A.J. Muste to Broadcast On Radio May 30, 10PM
ILGW Pledges to Support Relief Battle
Bakers Strike To Gain Union Demands in NY
New Castle Jobless Storm Relief Office, by Fred Rayburn
Wage Levels Hit New Low as FDR ‘Redistributes’ Wealth
Key Lumber Plants Walk Out – Industry Tied Up on West Coast
Readers, Attention! Change of Address
Comments – On Life, Liberty and Pursuit of Happiness, by Bill Reich
- Land of the Free ...
- And Home of the Brave ...
- Great Minds ...
- Higher Learning ...
- Fearless Journalism ...
- Society Notes ...
Inside Story of Toledo Strike – Told by a Leading Participant in the Battle with General Motors, by Art Preis
In the Unions, by Karl Lore
- Newspaper Guild ...
- Split? ...
- Copper ...
The Manager’s Corner
Letters to the Editor
- Wrong on Mass Pressure Reader Says, by Harry Strang
- Tobin Skunk Should Have CP Rat for Pal, by H.S.
- The Party on the Flying Trapeze
What to Attend
March of Events, by Jack Weber
The “American Approach”: Twin Evils of Labor – Nationalism & Reformism, by A.J. Muste
Question Box, by A. Weaver
Fourth International Party Formed in Fusion in Holland, from The Bulletin of the International Communist League (Bolshevik-Leninists)
Left Socialist Conference – A Letter and a Declaration
- Letter of Comrade Seegers, from Will A. Seegers
- Declaration of Schmidt and Sneevliet, by P.J. Schmidt and H. Sneevliet
[Editorials]
- 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
Vol. I No. 24, 1 June 1935, New York, NY
New Militant
Official Organ of the Workers Party of the United States
Editoral Board:
EDITOR:
James P. Cannon
ASSOCIATE EDITOR:
Harry A. Howe
An Editorial
- The End of the Blue Buzzard
Wage Slashing Drive Begins – N.R.A. Flops, by F. Ferry
Victory Greets Efforts of Ill. Jobless Masses – C.P. Rivals Mr. Hearst in Slurs at I.W.A., by Gerry Allard
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
- A.J. Muste (Photograph)
Drive on Pro-Labor Professors Assumes Wide Proportions
[Exports of Scrap Steel]
Statement on the Franco-Soviet Alliance, by the National Committee of the Workers Party of the U.S.
Comments – On Life, Liberty and Pursuit of Happiness, by Bill Reich
- Labor ...
- Boom ...
- Arts and Letters ...
- Progress ...
- Games ...
- Society Notes ...
Inside the Story of Toledo Strike – Told by a Leading Participant in the Battle with General Motors, by Art Preis
Censure Silk Workers Board; Fails to Carry Out Decisions, by Felix Giordano
The Manager’s Corner
- More Builders Are Wanted
- Next New International to Appear Soon
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
- Allies of the Workers
L. Budenz Resigns From Workers Party
What to Attend
[Editorials]
- A Shady Adventure
- The Wagner Bill
Vol. I No. 25, 8 June 1935, New York, NY
New Militant
Official Organ of the Workers Party of the United States
Editoral Board:
EDITOR:
James P. Cannon
ASSOCIATE EDITOR:
Harry A. Howe
N.P.L.D. to Appeal Criminal Syndicalist Case in Sacramento
Drive Begins for Eight-Page New Militant by August First
Toledo Edison Strike Is Called Off After Paralyzing Industry, by Art Preis
Radio Symposium Brings Thousands of Letters
Article on Franco-Soviet Alliance on Page Three
Slug Pickets in Brutal Sally on Packing Strike – Mayor Praises Police After Attack in Columbus
A.F. of L. Leaders Split Ranks of Canton Strike, by Jack Wilson
Ohio Jobless to Meet on June 7 – Protest Splitting Move by W.A.A. Chairman in State
N.C. of W.P. to Hold Plenum
Terror is Used Against Bakers – Solidarity Will Win Strike, Union Leader Says
Mass Picket Line For Hallet Defense
New Castle WP Gains In Intensive Drive
Lumber Strikers Win Initial Victory
Comments – On Life, Liberty and Pursuit of Happiness, by Bill Reich
- Peace on Earth ...
- Captains of Industry ...
- Labor ...
- Majesty of the Law ...
- Population ...
- Wonders of Science ...
Inside Story of Toledo Strike – Told by a Leading Participant in the Battle With General Motors, by Art Preis
Progressives Map Plans for Strike in Silk
Stalinist Disrupters Routed In Ill. Meeting on Hunger March
Correction
US Steel Guards Data on Executives’ Salaries
Stalin Has Signed the Death Certificate of the Third International, from the International Secretariat of the International Communist League
- Announcement of Betrayal! from a speech by Maurice Thorez
[Editorial]
- The Sacramento Appeal
Letters to the Editor
- When Gold Turns to Mud or a Letter the Daily Worker Failed to Print, by Gerry Allard
Progressives Meet in N.Y. Needle Trades, by B.F.
“The Future Belongs to the Youth”
S.Y.L. Takes Leap Forward Mid-West Conference Shows
A Holy Father (poem)
Illinois Wages Sag in April
Vol. I No. 26, 15 June 1935, New York, NY
New Militant
Official Organ of the Workers Party of the United States
EDITOR:
James P. Cannon
Left Groupings Confer in N.Y. Needle Trades
Progressives Unite to Fight Expulsion in Teachers Union
NPLD Pushes Campaign for Mini Freedom
Unemployed Leagues Hold Mass Conventions
Shoulder to the Wheel – Everybody Behind the Eight Page New Militant
Southern Tenant Farmers Union Expands
131 Delegates Participate in W.Va. Jobless Convention
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
News Men’s Guild to Join A.F. of L., by Jack Wilson
Baker Strike Ends After Fierce Battle
Green Acts to Stall New Rubber Union
Comments – On Life, Liberty and Pursuit of Happiness, by Bill Reich
- The World Do Move...
- Who Respects the Flag?
- “Don’t Worry Your Little Heads”
Dunne Blasts C.P. in Debate – After Complete Rout Stalinists Apologize For Disruption
Letters to the Editor
- From Comrade to “Disrupter”, C.P. Style, from Worker Correspondent
Rubber Barons Begin Offensive – New Line Is Pretext For Firing Active Progressives, by George Papcun
The Manager’s Corner
Italians Mutiny as Mobilization Gives Nation Jump
What to Attend
Copper Miners Strike at Phelps-Dodge
March of Events, by Jack Weber
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, from Vanguard
How the Stalinists Ruin the Morale of the Red Army, by Alpha
Corroboration of Betrayal, from Prager Tageblatt
Industrial Unionism and the A.F. of L., by Karl Lore
[Editorial]
- The Socialist Call and Social Patriotism
Mexican Railway, Mine Workers Forming Pact
Vol. I No. 27, 29 June 1935, New York, NY
New Militant
Official Organ of the Workers Party of the United States
EDITOR:
James P. Cannon
S.P. Congress Meets Amid French Crisis, by Special Correspondent
500 in New York Pledge Support to C.S. Victims – Bitter Attacks of I.L.D. Fail to Shake Mini
Sergei Trotsky Jailed By Stalin Bureaucrats – An Act of Vengeance, by Nathalie I. Trotsky
Eight-Page New Militant First Step to Daily Paper, by A.J. Muste
Students at Edinburgh Offer Trotsky Rectorship, letter to the Students of Edinburgh University from Leon Trotsky
National Guard Shoot Lumber Men in Tacoma
Deploy Militia in Omaha Strike, by Pat Murphy
Perkins Hunts Reds in Akron, by Jack Wilson
Troops Smash Illinois Strike, by Leighton Rigby
Woll Opens Drive on AFL Progressives
Two Killed in South Carolina Mill Strike
Why We Skipped the Last Issue
Comments – On Life, Liberty and Pursuit of Happiness, by Bill Reich
- Death of the Blue Eagle ...
- Advice to Graduates
- Cops ...
- Agricultural Adjustment
Letters to the Editor
- Furrier Hails Unity Achieved in Union; Tells of Progressives Role, from J. Kaminitsky
- Sacramento Case and Agricultural Union, from Paul Courtney
- Criticizes Article on Franco-Soviet Pact, from E. Everett
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
- Rotten Arguments for a Rotten Cause – the Road from Class Struggle to Civil Peace
- Platform of the Bolshevik-Leninist Group in French S.P.
Question Box by A. Weaver
[Union of Automobile Workers]
Mexican Labor Movement Unites Against Reaction
Report Activities of Boston W.P. Br.
I.S.U. Strikes Cities Service
Vol. I No. 28, 6 July 1935, New York, NY
New Militant
Official Organ of the Workers Party of the United States
EDITOR:
James P. Cannon
Britain Joins Hitler Against Soviet Union
The New ‘Magna Charta’ for Labor
100 Companies Grab ¼ of Nation’s Wealth
Protest Stalin Jailings in N.Y.
Invent Electric Jolt for Strikes
Akron C.L.U. Head Backs Green Red Drive in the Unions, by Jack Wilson
Italy Prepares Ethiopia Rape, Mussolini Says, by Martin A. Glee
Ford’s Pay Boosts Really Wage Slash Plant Survey Shows
Beet Workers Organize
New York Pledges $1000 in Drive for 8-Page New Militant
Roosevelt Throws Youth a Bone But Slams Labor at Same Time
Comments – On Life, Liberty and Pursuit of Happiness, by Bill Reich
- Great Minds ...
- Safety ...
- Blue Eagle ...
- Housing ...
- Unemployment ...
A Survey of the Automobile Industry: Detroit and Toledo – Striking Contrast in Organization Methods
Plenum of N.C. of W.P. Spikes False Rumors
Tobin’s Union-Busting Drive Against 574 – and Their Reply
A Letter the Daily Worker Dared Not Print, from Jack Taylor
What to Attend
March of Events, by Jack Weber
From The Very Beginning – Heritage of Class Struggle in U.S. History, by Al Dasch
Bolshevik Speaks for Fourth International at SFIO Congress
Administration Split Policy in Teacher’s Union Threatens Progressives in A.F. of L.
Manager’s Corner
Zack Expelled from Workers Party
[Editorials]
- Labor Party Confusion
- For a Fighting Auto Union
A Reply to Liberal Critics of Bolshevism, by A.J. Muste
Spring Makers Strike in N.Y.
Vol. I No. 29, 13 July 1935, New York, NY
New Militant
Official Organ of the Workers Party of the United States
EDITOR:
James P. Cannon
Mooney Wins New Hearing
Old Guard Pounds Militants as Socialist Party N.C. Meets
U.S. Aids Terror of Mendieta, by R.S. De la Torre
Powers Yield to Italy’s Aggression in Ethiopia, by Martin A. Glee
- Shall Ethiopia Perish?
Wagner Bill Ignored in Akron
Heavy Prison Terms Given to Group of Polish “Trotskyites”
Workers’ Security Bill Drafted by Nat’l Unemployed League
3 Leading Members of North Dakota C.P. Resign; Join W.P., from Charles E. Taylor, Ashbel Ingerson & Mary Ingerson
Thrift Pays – Little Diana Didn’t Save a Dime But Inherits $30,000 a Year
Comments – On Life, Liberty and Pursuit of Happiness, by Bill Reich
- Relief ...
- Imperialism ...
- Patriotism ...
- Commerce & Industry ...
Stalinists Go to Bat for Priest – Chicago C.P. Makes Touching Plea for Coughlin, by F.X. Ferry
The Color Line in the A.F. of L. – The Negro & American Labor
Coast Dockers Defy Ryan at I.L.A. Meeting
Russian Stalinist Emissaries Sent to France to Win Socialist Youth for Patriotism and Against Marxism
Question Box, by A. Weaver
March of Events, by Jack Weber
Application Rejected
What to Attend
[Editorials]
- “Progressive”
A Reply to Liberal Critics of Bolshevism, by A.J. Muste
July Issue of New International Out
Vol. I No. 30, 20 July 1935, New York, NY
New Militant
Official Organ of the Workers Party of the United States
EDITOR:
James P. Cannon
NUL Calls National Caravan
Plans for Eight Page Completed; Now Funds!
Africans Called to the Colors: “Better Die Free Than Live as Slaves,” Selassie Says
Third Party Meet Sows Confusion; F.D.R. Safe, by A.J. Muste
New Party Gains in Holland – Fourth Int’l Vote Increases in Many Municipalities
‘Toledo Plan’ Hits Militant Union Polic, by Cyrus Rigby
Revolt Against Muir Lumber Strike Sell-Out, by Earl Lane
Old Guard Swamps Militants at SP Meet
Dismiss Indictment Against Robins-Gras
It Pays to Be a Plutocrat
Leading Oregon Lovestonite Quits; Joins Workers Party, from Earl Lane
Survey of Ohio Strikes Shows Value of Revolutionary Party, by Jack Wilson
No Share-the-Wealth Here
Comments – On Life, Liberty and Pursuit of Happiness, by Bill Reich
- Agriculture ...
- Patriotism ...
- Capitol Hill ...
- Society Notes ...
Form United Front to Protest Deportation of Anti-Fascists
In the Unions, by Karl Lore
- Program ...
- How??
Manager’s Column
- Pay Up Bundle Accounts
Strike Pits Brother Against Brother, by Gerry Allard
Reveal Background of Fight by Militants in Teachers’ Union for Real Democracy
C.P. Warned to Stop Hooligan Tactics in N.Y. – Stalinists and Cops Break Up W.P. Meeting, by Morris Lewitt
- Letter to the New York District Committee, Communist Party U.S.A.
- Letter to the American Civil Liberties Union
Question Box, by A. Weaver
Ryan Cops ILA Gab Fest; Raises Salary
What to Attend
Pacifism Keynote of A.Y.C.
- The S.Y.L. Resolution
Workmen’s Sick and Death Benefit Fund Holds Convention, by Paul Sturm
Picket Work Relief Office
Case of Framed Negroes to Go to U.S. Supreme Court
Vol. I No. 31, 27 July 1935, New York, NY
New Militant
Official Organ of the Workers Party of the United States
EDITOR:
James P. Cannon
Relief in Dakota Ceases – Work at Slave Wages Or Starve, Governor Orders
‘Militants’ Capture YPSL Convention, by Joseph Carter
Terra Haute Strikers Victimized After General Strike Betrayal; City Tense as Militia Holds Sway
Camden Strike Holds Up Big Navy Program
Ohio Jobless Prepare Huge State Confab – 20,000 Are Expected to Heed League Call For Demonstration
Seventh Congress of CI Opens in Moscow
Social Patriotism in Full Flower in France
W.P. to Hold Anti-War Meeting in Allentown
Comments – On Life, Liberty and Pursuit of Happiness, by Bill Reich
- Washington Side Show ...
- Housing ...
- High Finance ...
- Education ...
- The Land of Plenty ...
3 Members of P.P. Sect Resign After Bitter Struggle; Join W.P.
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
Spring Strike Enters Fifth Week
Moonlight on the Hudson
Indiana Council Members Denounce Stalinist Splitting
What to Attend
Question Box, by A. Weaver
French Revolutionists in Move Against New 1914
The Manager’s Corner
August New International Almost Ready
[Editorials]
- Terra Haute General Strike
- United Front on Ethiopia
Soc. Call Whines at N.C. Decision
Greetings to The Vanguard
Vol. I No. 32, 3 August 1935, New York, NY
New Militant
Official Organ of the Workers Party of the United States
EDITOR:
James P. Cannon
Over the Top for the Eight-Page New Militant
- Introduction to the Open Letter, by A.J. Muste
Manifesto of the W.P.U.S. on Anti-War Day
Green Dodges Convention of Auto Workers, by Burke Cochran
10,000 Rally for Tom Mooney in Frisco on 19th Year of Arrest
Move for Omaha General Strike In Support of Tram Workers
Comments – On Life, Liberty and Pursuit of Happiness, by Bill Reich
- Brides ...
- Housing ...
- New Deal ...
- Prosperity ...
- Royalty ...
- Book Review ...
The Role and Position of the Various Groups in the Struggle Ocurring in the Teachers Union
Lumber Strike Ends; Obtained Few Demands, by Earl Lane
The Manager’s Corner
- Postponement Unavoidable
- Exact Date in Next Issue
- Totals Going Up
Party Grows in Cleveland
Moonlight on the Hudson
What to Attend
The Signers of the Open Letter
- Workers Party of the U.S.
- Revolutionary Workers Socialist Party of Holland (R.S.A.P.)
- International Communist League (I.C.L.)
- Bolshevik-Leninist Group in the S.F.I.O.
- Workers Party of Canada
Fight Hitlerism!
Question Box, by A. Weaver
Young Spartacus Out
Move to Oust Lackey in British Unions
[Editorial]
- Dark Clouds in Italy
For the Boycott of Fascist Italy! – Against Italian Aggression in Ethiopia!
United Front on Sacramento
Vol. I No. 33, 10 August 1935, New York, NY
New Militant
Official Organ of the Workers Party of the United States
EDITOR:
James P. Cannon
Over the Top for the Eight-Page New Militant
President Roosevelt — Strikebreaker No. 1 – Orders Striking W.P.A. Workers Off Relief, by A.S.
Fierce Class War Tears Loose in France
Full Report of C.I. Congress Next Week
Iron Workers of Minneapolis Reform Ranks, by Northwest Correspondent
Doomed to Life of Poverty Ozark Tiff Diggers Rebel, by Special Correspondent
150 Delegates Attend I.W.A. Convention, by Cyrus Rigby
Forces Clash Before Rubber Union Confab, by Jack Wilson
Protest Persecution of Chinese Bolshevik-Leninists – W.P. Call, from Communist League of China (Bolshevik-Leninists)
West Coast Marine Workers Fight for Class Struggle Union, by Earl Lane
Comments – On Life, Liberty and Pursuit of Happiness, by Bill Reich
- New Deal Heaven ...
- The Commonwealth ...
“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
- Harlem Leads
- Settling Bundle Accounts
Correction
Skeletons Out of the Daily Worker Closet – A Few Telling Quotations, by Henry Thurman
What Next in the Socialist Party? by A.J. Muste
Question Box, by A. Weaver
What to Attend
Moonlight on the Hudson
[Editorial]
- Ethiopia in the Thieves’ Den
Mass Arrests in Spring Strike
Vol. I No. 34, 17 August 1935, New York, NY
New Militant
Official Organ of the Workers Party of the United States
EDITOR:
James P. Cannon
Remember Sacco & Vanzetti!
A.F. of L. Skates Face Crucial Issues in N.J.
Fur Workers Elect New Leadership
AFL Crew Turns N.Y. WPA Strike into Fiasco
Follow Their Example!
Progressives Fight for Sway in Rubber Union, by Jack Wilson
Imperialist Ring Tightens Around Ethiopian Nation, by Martin A. Glee
Prepare Now for Silk Strike, by Felix Giordano
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, from the Executive Committee of the Socialist Youth of the Seine District
United Front Anti-War Meet in Boston
Free the Sacramento Prisoners!
The Manager’s Corner
August New International Is Out
Calls for Uniting Opposition Groups in Teachers Union
What to Attend
‘Few Million or a Few Marks’ ... No Difference: Nazi Fictions and ... Cold Facts
Question Box, by A. Weaver
The French Trotskyists on the Conclave Against Class Peace, from La Verité
Peace, Anti-Fascism, Stalinism, by A.J. Muste
The Seventh Congress of the Comintern (cartoon), by J. Carlo
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
- Abe Cahan Hails the Seventh Congress
Vol. I No. 35, 24 August 1935, New York, NY
New Militant
Official Organ of the Workers Party of the United States
EDITOR:
James P. Cannon
Europe Rocks on Brink of New World War – “Thieves Kitchen” Folds Up; Britain Capitulates, by Martin A. Glee
- Mussolini on a Volcano, by J.P. Martin
Dillon to Pack Convention of Auto Workers, by Burke Cochran
Congress Passes Harmless Social Security Program, by A.J. Muste
Dunne Slugged In Clash in Mpls. Hosiery Strike, by Northwest Correspondent
Red Scare in Akron Heralds Convention, by Richard Ferguson
Negro Clerks Upset History
Don’t Get Old in Missouri!
Mooney Must Be Freed! from Tom Mooney
Retain Henderson in Sacramento Appeal
Comments – On Life, Liberty and Pursuit of Happiness, by Bill Reich
- Labor and Capital
- Jurisprudence
- Political Science
- Military Science
- Good and Welfare
Spartacan Trounces Stalinist In First Debate in Middle West
Walter Sukut Dead
The Manager’s Corner
Workers Party Booms in the Northwest
White Collar WPA Workers Protest
Toledo Workers School Begins Sessions Sept. 4
OUL March in Bryan Ohio Wins Relief
Candy Makers Strike Hard, by Jack Walton
What to Attend
West Coast Notes, by Earl Lane
Pioneer Publishers Move to New Quarters – Announce Publishing Program
[Editorial]
- Shame!
The Comintern Goes Back to Kautsky, by John West
New Signers for the Open Letter
They Have One Teacher, by Henry Thurman
Vol. I No. 36, 31 August 1935, New York, NY
New Militant
Official Organ of the Workers Party of the United States
EDITOR:
James P. Cannon
Labor Skates, Mayor, Bosses Form Alliance To Smash Local 574
U.S. Rubber Barons Seek Profits in African War
Imperialist Carnage Awaits Mussolini’s Raid on Ethiopia
Tyrant-in-Chief Bill Green Dictates Auto Union Heads
Pass Guffey Bill; Blow to Mine Workers
Teachers Win Victory Over Green Machine
Sellout Fixed For N.Y. WPA Relief Strike, by Jack Taylor
Packed Convention Sure in Rubber Union, by Jack Wilson
Armed Vigilantes Terrorize Calif. Agricultural Workers, by C. Curtiss
Shipping Clerks Out Solid in NY Strike; Drivers Move Scab Goods
Comments – On Life, Liberty and Pursuit of Happiness, by Bill Reich
- Log of a Hitch-Hiker
A Forerunner of the Revolution, by A.J. Muste
Crumbs for America’s Starving Children – Millions for “Defense“, by G.R.
The Manager’s Corner
Must One Live? by Erich Wollenberg, from De International
Skeletons Out of the Comintern Closet: ‘Pacifist’ and ‘Warlike’ Nations, by Henry Thurman
Question Box, by A. Weaver
Chicago Candy Strike Spiked, by Jack Walton
Spartacan Comrades Ask for Assistance for Activity
Socialist Youth of Paris Raise Banner of Revolution; Urge General Strike Against Laval’s Decree Laws
- Editor’s Note
- Youth Leader Appeals for Revolutionary Action, by Fred Zeller, from Révolution
- To the Soldiers: The Workers in Uniform Will Not Fire at Their Brothers in Civilian Clothes, from Révolution
- Chronicle of Events – Brest and Toulon: The Price of the Decree-Laws, from Révolution
- The Entente Continues, from Révolution
- A Word to the Young Communists, from Révolution
- Greetings to Chevalier, from Executive Committee of the Young Socialists of the Seine, from Révolution
NUL Demonstrates at Newark City Hall
Defense Conference to Aid Jailed Clerks
[Series of Four Sunday Night Lectures]
Vol. I No. 37, 7 September 1935, New York, NY
New Militant
Official Organ of the Workers Party of the United States
EDITOR:
James P. Cannon
Mussolini Spars for Time in League Palavers
Green Backs Lefkowitz & Co. in Splitting Teachers Local
Publish Pamphlet on Sacramento Case
Spartacus Continues Struggle Begun 15 Years Ago on I.Y.D., by Sam Gordon
Spartacus Plans Int’l Youth Day
Local Press Rages at Mini Defense Comm.
Militancy High In NY Shipping Clerks Strike
Rubber Workers Indignant Over Detroit Auto Deal
Green Extols Capitalism on Labor Day, by Jack Wilson
Cannon Lecture Series
The Sacramento Case, A Statement by the National Committee of the Workers Party
Comments – On Life, Liberty and Pursuit of Happiness, by Bill Reich
- Prosperity ...
- Equality ...
- Washington Side Show
- Society Notes ...
Fink AFL Leadership Sabotages Then Betrays KC Battery Strike, by Stan Dolsen
The Manager’s Corner
dere emily, from Mike
Faker Undermines K.C. Auto Union, by Stan Dolsen
A Letter from M. Pivert – To the Comrades Expelled by the National Congress of the Socialist Youth of France at Lille; July 30, 1935, from Marceau Pivert
“Labels” and “Numbers” – On the Subject of the Letter from Marceau Pivert to the Expelled Comrades of Socialist Youth of France, by Leon Trotsky
Trends in Wage Levels, by Albert Glotzer
The Moral Guardian of Capitalist Exploitation: The Church, Fascism and War, by Richard Zotzman
[Editorial]
- Roosevelt’s Protest to the S.U.
The Crime of the Auto International, by Burke Cochran
Discontent Grips St. Louis: First Successful WPA Strike Prelude to Other Actions, by St. Louis Correspondent
The Best Answer to Slander!
Vol. I No. 38, 14 September 1935, New York, NY
New Militant
Official Organ of the Workers Party of the United States
EDITOR:
James P. Cannon
Minneap’s Labor Hits F-L Mayor – Two Workers Dead, Many Wounded, By Farm-Labor Cops
Conflict Continues in Teachers Union
- Teachers Meeting
Form Unholy Alliance at Geneva For New Imperialist World War – Stalinists Hail Laval Argumen
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, by Kim Dolson
Green in Maneuver at Meet – Expect A.F.L. Head to Repeat Auto Union Scandal, by Jack Wilson
Burning Problems Face 55th A.F.L. Convention, by Arne Swabeck
Confidential Report by Oneal to 2nd International Reveals Situation in the Socialist Party of the U.S., by James Oneal
Comments – On Life, Liberty and Pursuit of Happiness, by Bill Reich
- Among the Patriots ...
- Soak the Rich ...
- Science and Invention ...
- Prosperity ...
Stalinists Launch New Phoney Labor Party in San Francisco, 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, [by Jack Weber]
New War Alliances
Small Question Box
France Faces the Crisis, by H. Frank Roberts
Vol. I No. 39, 21 September 1935, New York, NY
New Militant
Official Organ of the Workers Party of the United States
EDITOR:
James P. Cannon
The ‘Thieves Kitchen’ and Workers’ Policy in War
Minneapolis Workers Battle – Mass Uprising against Traitor ‘Labor’ Mayor
Rubber Workers Ride Over Green Machine, by Jack Wilson
Tarov Makes Escape From Soviet Prison
Cannon to Speak Sunday Night on Lenin to Stalin
Latimer Convicted as Murderer at Mpls Mass Trial
“Flying Squadrons” Tie Up WPA Projects in Allentown Strike
Plan Expulsion of the French Bolshevik-Leninists as War Nears, by H.F. Roberts
Capitulation Planned by Stalinists to Right Wing of Teachers
dere emily, from mike
The Party at Work
- Boston
- Minneapolis
Detroit Notes, by Burke Cochran
Manager’s Corner
Left Jabs
- March to Victory ...
- Oh Susanna
- Proof of Christianity ...
- Crooked Government ...
- Shadows Over Lovestone ...
Budenz and the Stalinists
Vigilantism Shows Growing Peril to West Coast Labor
Toledo Militants Lead Winning Strike of 400 at Defiance, Ohio
Challenge Lovestone Group to Debate, by Joseph Carter
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 Ride over Green’s Plans
Sales Tax Big Issue at S.P. Convention, by New Haven Correspondent
Mooney in Court In Legal Struggle To Gain Freedom
Rubber Workers Took Big Step Forward at Akron Convention, by Jack Wilson
Spartacan Slugged in Picket Of Hearst News Reel
Vol. I No. 40, 28 September 1935, New York, NY
New Militant
Official Organ of the Workers Party of the United States
EDITOR:
James P. Cannon
Zero Hour Sounds for New World War – League Votes Application of Sanctions
French Fascists in Rally Say ‘Our Time Will Come’, by H.F. Roberts
Reaction Rules Ill. Federation Of Labor Meet, by Gerry Allard
Militants Held In Chinese Jails Appeal for Aid, by Lo Sen
Chaining the Workers to Imperialist War Machine, by J.P. Martin
Packed Hall Hears Cannon Lecture in First of Series of 4
The Internationalists Need Our Help, by Leon Trotsky
Comments – On Life, Liberty and Pursuit of Happiness, by Bill Reich
- Peace on Earth ...
- Relief ...
- Dietetics ...
- Equality ...
The A.F. of L. and the Teachers Union, by A.J. Muste
Manager’s Corner
The U.S, in the Philippines, by Lo Sen
New Bolivian Party Formed
The Party at Work
- New York Banquet
- California
- Toledo
March of Events, by Jack Weber
- Army Rules in the Philippines ...
- Gentlemen’s Agreement
- Anglo-Japanese Alliance
- Revolutionary Action Against Imperialist War
The Mass Trial of a “Labor Mayor”
Question Box, by A. Weaver
Japan’s Advance in China, by Lo Sen
Side Lights on the “New Turn” of the Stalinists, by Henry Thurman
- Manuilsky
- Broun
[Editorials]
- The Coal Strike
- The N.L.P.D. and Sacramento
- The Role of the P.M.A.
- Help Our Chinese Comrades
Progressives Win Rubber Workers Election in Akron
Mixing Quotations, by Hank Rice
Latimer Greets Jobless
Dillon at Akron
N.Y. District School to Open Oct. 21
Push Fight for Sacramento Appeal
Vol. I No. 41, 5 October 1935, New York, NY
New Militant
Official Organ of the Workers Party of the United States
EDITOR:
James P. Cannon
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
- Revolutionary Policy Alone Can Defeat Imperialist War, Statement of the Third Plenum of the National Committee, Workers Party of the U.S.
- Bombs Rain on African Mud Hovels
Bureaucrats Form Toledo Labor Party – Radicals Barred From All Influence in County Congress
Iron Workers Victorious in Minneapolis
“Militant Socialist” Program Hedges on the Question of War, by the Editorial Board
- Program of the “Militants”
N.P.L.D. Aids Cuban Worker In Struggle against Terror Rule, from the National Committee, General Secretariat, N.P.L.D.
Comments – On Life, Liberty and Pursuit of Happiness, by Bill Reich
- Men of God ...
- Dollar Diplomacy ...
- Prevailing Wages ...
- Jurisprudence ...
Left Jabs
- Champion of Two Worlds ...
- People’s Fronts ...
Shachtman on National Tour
Party at Work
A.F.L. Convention Report in Next New Militant
A Case for a Labor Jury, by Leon Trotsky
Question Box, by A. Weaver
March of Events, by Jack Weber
N.Y. District School to Open Oct. 21
[Editorials]
- Support French Bolshevik-Leninists
- What the Miners Did Not Get
Struggle Rages on West Coast
- Cal. State Fed Is Dominated by Fakerdom
- Union Militant Murdered In L.A. Vigilante Terror, by Earl Lane
- Showdown is Close on Cal. Waterfront
Labor Defense Front
- The Sacramento Appeal
- Philly Workers Free
- Harlan Miners
- Heisler in Bismarck
Minneapolis N.P.L.D.
Vol. I No. 42, 12 October 1935, New York, NY
New Militant
Official Organ of the Workers Party of the United States
EDITOR:
James P. Cannon
Geneva Gambles with War
Vote on Sanctions Lines Up League Nations to Defend British Colonial Thievery
- Treachers Casts a Shadow Before, by Dan Eastman
- South African 4th Int’n’lists Back Ethiopia, from Charles Van Geldenen
Green-Legion Join at AFL Conclave Against Militants
Rubber Co’s Prepare for Price War, by Jack Wilson
Shachtman on National Tour
15 Unions for Recharter of Drivers’ 574
Isaacs Speaks for N.P.L.D.
On S.P. ‘Militants’ Trade Union Stand, by Editorial Board
- The ‘Militants’ Program
Comments – On Life, Liberty and Pursuit of Happiness, by Bill Reich
- Business Self-Control ...
- Prosperity ...
- With the Strikebreakers
- Society Notes ...
Auto Notes
Coal Strike Exposes Keck Leadership in P.M.A., by Germinal
Allentown WPA Workers Win State-wide Victory
March of Events, by Jack Weber
How History Is Written – Dished Up to Order by Stalin’s Savants on Frederick Engels’ Anniversary, by Alfa
Question Box, by A. Weaver
A Skeleton from Olgin’s Social Patriotic Past, by Henry Thurman
Party at Work
- Cleveland
Labor Defense Front
- City-Wide Conference to Aid Angelo Herndon
- Concert for Ferrero-Salletto Defense
Mooney Trial Brings Out New Proofs of Innocence
Wage Cuts Heaped on Phila. Dress and Blouse Workers
To Lecture on AFL Conclave
International Workers School
Vol. I No. 43, 19 October 1935, New York, NY
New Militant
Official Organ of the Workers Party of the United States
EDITOR:
James P. Cannon
Story of First Leninist Ever to Escape from Stalin’s Siberia!
War Center Shifts to Europe – Britain-Italy Threaten War for Control of the Mediterranean
- Imperialist Sanctions (cartoon), by Carlo
- N.Y. Mass Meet on War Crisis
- Partners in Social-Patriotic Betrayal
Green-Woll Forces Suffer Heavy Setback At AFL Convention, 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
Japs Plotting China Grab, by Lo Sen
Tarov Relates Torture of Real Bolsheviks in Stalin’s Prisons, by A. Tarov
Next Week
Question Box, by A. Weaver
Buffalo WPA Workers Out On Restrike, by Cyrus Rigby
Int’l Youth Bureau Collapses – German S.A.P. Centrists Expel I.C.L. Youth Representative, by W. Held
Left Jabs
- Lovestone’s Speech at the 7th World Congress ...
- Lovestone’s Appeal ...
- Women’s Deb Denounces Lovestone ...
- Stalin Takes The Floor ...
- A Few More Suggestions ...
Changes in Shachtman Tour Itinerary
Party at Work
March of Events, by Jack Weber
Shactman Phil. Meeting
Plenum Meets; Plans a Campaign Against War
International Workers School
Trade Unions Merge in France – C.P. Gives Up Political Activity at Reformists Bidding, by H.F. Roberts
8 Pages on Nov. 7
Vol. I No. 44, 26 October 1935, New York, NY
New Militant
Official Organ of the Workers Party of the United States
EDITOR:
James P. Cannon
Order Your Bundles of Special Eight-Page Nov. 7 Issue Now!
Oust 13 French Bolsheviks From S.P. for Stand on War – Central Comm. Splits on Issue Of Expulsions, by H.F. Roberts
- 1500 in Paris Meet Cheer New Revolutionary Bloc
Shachtman Tour Off to Flying Start
Build the Left Wing, Is Real Lesson of AFL Convention, by A.J. Muste
3,500 Out for N.Y. Herndon Farewell Meet
Special Features for Nov. 7 Issue
Akron Bosses Union Revolts, by Jack Wilson
Try to Deport Jack Warnick
‘Hot Cargo’ Fight Rages Up and Down West Coast, by Earl Lane
‘People’s Peace Parades’ Today, Preparedness Parades Tomorrow
The Manager’s Corner
Striker Tells of WPA Victory in Allentown, by Lester Heckman
Concerning Rumors of Trotsky’s Illness, from La Verité
M’pls. CP’ers Picket Drivers Local 574!
Party at Work
- Minneapolis
- Eastern Ohio
- Tucson, Arizona
- Salt Lake City
Chicken and Candy Workers Organize and Strike
March of Events, by Jack Weber
Socialist Party and the Coming War, by the Editorial Board
Expulsion of Ludwig Lore
School Notes
- Muste’s Course
- Students, Take Note!
- Registrations
The Theoretical Origin of Social Patriotism – The Source, by Leon Trotsky
The Machine Is a Communist, by Hildegarde M. Smith
DuPont Profits Soar Again Under ‘Oppressive’ N. Deal
Vol. I No. 45, 2 November 1935, New York, NY
New Militant
Official Organ of the Workers Party of the United States
EDITOR:
James P. Cannon
Hail the Russian Revolution! by James P. Cannon
- V.I. Lenin (photo)
Green Trains Guns on Militant Minneapolis Labor; Appeal to Open Shoppery Against Local 574
Peace Parade Bluff in Facts and Figures
Extend the October Revolution! (cartoon), [_by Carlo_]
Both Sides Are Right! by Art Preis
Inspired! – Il Duce Colors Hearst Stories on Ethiopia
France Faces Civil War as C.P. Prepares Government for Imperialist Defense, by H.F. Roberts
Britain Acts for “Small Nations”!
Comments – On Life, Liberty and Pursuit of Happiness, by Bill Reich
- Peace on Earth
- Civilization
- Education
- Land of the Free
- Relief
Labor Defense Front
- Protest Against the Frame-Up and Deportation of Jack Warnick
- Herndon Sick; Faces Chain-Gang
- Sac’to Defense Meet in Cleveland
- Court Reverses Ruling In Ohio Railroading
- Mendieta Gag-Law Outlawed in Cuba
- Vigilante Justice in Santa Rosa, Cal.
Opportunities Big for New Rubber Union, by Jack Wilson
Left Jabs, by Bill
- Pravda on Mother
- “Pope’s Cousin Once Removed”
- Champs
- The Changing Line
- League of Nations
Statement of the Nat’l Committee of the Workers Party
Party at Work
- Newark, N.J.
The Danger of War and the Defense of the Soviet Union, by Maurice Spector
Who Finances Italy’s War? – How Big Business Provides Loans to Mussolini, from British New Leader
Comrade Candide and Comrade Browder ... A Tragi-Comedy Being the Story of an Honest Worker Who Fell into a Coma in the “Third Period”, by John Marshall
The Art of Insurrection, from Volume III of the History of the Russian Revolution by Leon Trotsky
November 7th, 1917 – Victor Serge’s Account of the Seizure of Power, by Victor Serge
The Significance of the October Revolution for the Orient, by Lo Sen
- Arrests in the streets of Shanghai. The Police Belong to the International Settlement (photo)
- Execution of workers outside a Hankow factory by a Kuomintang officer (photo)
- The first and one of the few anti-Japanese demonstrations — at Shanghai on September 26, 1931 (photo)
March of Events, by Jack Weber
Increasing Oppression the Path of Bureaucracy, by Leon Trotsky
Question Box, by A. Weaver
French Stalinists Give the Fascists A Lesson on the True Patriotic Spirit
Why the National Government of Great Britain Is Prepared to Embark on a War with Italy, from the British New Leader
The Significance of the Russian Revolution for the American Working Class, by A.J. Muste
Vol. I No. 46, 9 November 1935, New York, NY
New Militant
Official Organ of the Workers Party of the United States
EDITOR:
James P. Cannon
We Did It Once ... We’ll Do It Again ... Now for 1,000 Subs
Hundreds Turn Out for Shachtman Meetings
French C.P. Gets First Payment, by H.F. Roberts
Minneapolis Progressives Rally for Defense of Drivers Local 574
- Mpls. W.P. Shows True Role of F-L Party, Statement of the Minneapolis Branch, Workers Party of the U.S.
Meeting on Mpls. Sunday Nov. 10
C.P. Votes For McLevy, by Connecticut Correspondent
Japan Rules North China – Chiang Crawls to Int’l Capitals for New Masters, by Lo Sen
700 at New York Meeting Back French Bolsheviks
- Facsimile of Check Sent to French comrades (photo)
Report Reveals Terror Rule of Wall Street Regime in Cuba
W.P. Main Butt of Attack at I.L.G. Progressives Meet
On the Firing Line
- W.P. Issues Paper in Akron
- Another Strikebreaking ‘Labor’ Mayor
- Stalinists ‘Vote Socialist’ in Phila.
- Sugar Workers Strike for Recognition
- Bldg. Trades Fight Scabs in Calif.
New Pamphlets
The Manager’s Corner
What Are Sanctions? – “Collective Effort for Peace” or Imperialist Battle for Empire? by Arne Swabeck
“Militant” Socialists and the Bauer-Dan-Zyromsky Thesis, by the Editorial Board
Announcement
Comintern Prepares Dissolution of Y.C.L.; To Change It into Innocuous Organization, by Joseph Carter
A Stalinist Adventure in Gutter Journalism – In the Footsteps of Hearst
R U Satisfied
Vol. I No. 47, 16 November 1935, New York, NY
New Militant
Official Organ of the Workers Party of the United States
EDITOR:
James P. Cannon
Mpls. Labor Slams Union-Busting Campaign
- Overflow Meeting Backs 574
- Latest Facts on Mpls.
- F.-L. Paper Trounces Bill Green
S. African Comrades Fight War
French C.P. Pleads with Laval to Jail Fascists, by H.F. Roberts
Confirmed! – Times Reporter Says Newsmen Get No News at All
V. Dunne Lashes Fakerdom Before Mpls. Mass Meeting, by Vincent R. Dunne
To the Soldiers and Youth of Italy! Manifesto of the Italian Bolshevik-Leninists
Comments – On Life, Liberty and Pursuit of Happiness, by Bill Reich
- Prosperity ...
- Parable for Preachers
- Athletes ...
On the Firing Line
Shachtman Gets Rousing Reception in Minneapolis, Plentywood Meeting
- Minneapolis
- Plentywood, Montana
- Salt Lake City
- 100 Hear Cannon in Allentown Meeting
- Hold First Forum on N.W. Side, Chicago
Party at Work
- Mississippi
- Newark, N.J.
- Minneapolis
- Cannon Speaks at Philadelphia
“What If a Foreign Army Invaded Our Country?” Stalinist Jingoes Ask, by Sam Pollock & Art Preis
The Manager’s Corner
Nazi Strikebreakers Used in Bakery Strike
March of Events, by Jack Weber
Our Revolutionary Heritage: Class War of the ’70s, by Leighton Rigby
Question Box, by A. Weaver
[Editorials]
- The Elections
- Support the Southern Miners
The Auto Union Amalgamation, by Burke Cochrane
“Labor Party” Poor 3rd in S.F.
Rubber Union in 2 Hr. Strike, by Jack Wilson
New Pamphlets
I.C.L. on Youth Bureau
Vol. I No. 48, 23 November 1935, New York, NY
New Militant
Official Organ of the Workers Party of the United States
EDITOR:
James P. Cannon
A Message to New Militant Readers
Lewis “Purge” Stopped Cold
- 574 Heads Confident of Smashing Victory, by James P. Cannon
- Meyer Lewis Has to Catch Train
- Stormy C.L.U. Rally in Mpls. Voices Protest
- Exposed! – Bradley, Lewis Aide Revealed as Swindler in Akron, by Richard Ferguson
- Frame-Up! – Militant 574 Leader Arrested on Fake Charges
Fascists Grow Bolder in France after Recent Clash, by H.F.R.
Egypt Rises in Revolt
Scottsboro Boys in Danger as Southern Bourbons Hint Deal
Jim-Crow Justice Keeps Angelo Herndon in Jail; Protest Now!
Roosevelt’s “Pacifism”
Cuban Bolshevik-Leninists Sign Open Letter
Our Revolutionary Heritage: Shay’s Rebellion, by Leighton Rigby
Support Italian Comrades in Their Struggle Against Fascism and War
‘Social Credit’ Goes Begging
The Manager’s Corner
Shachtman Holds First Meeting in Fresno, Cal.
Textile Barons Ready for War
March of Events, by Jack Weber
Lovestone Gets His Price
Question Box, by A. Weaver
Old Guard Reorganizes N.Y. Socialist Party
Y.C.L. Meet Converted Into Forum against Social Patriots, by Joseph Carter
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, 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
Alabama Miners Win Partial Victory
Vol. I No. 49, 30 November 1935, New York, NY
New Militant
Workers of the World, Unite!
EDITOR:
James P. Cannon
One Year of the Workers Party, by A.J. Muste
- A.J. Muste (photo)
Big Auto Strike Brewing – Chevrolet Plant May Lead Off
M. Lewis Reported Retired – Minneapolis C.L.U. Refuses Splitters Aid; Negotiates with 574, by Carl O’Shea
Spouting the Gospel in Ethiopia (photo)
People’s Front Cracks in Crisis – Fred Zeller Declares for 4th Int’l
- Paris Socialist Youth Leader Writes Stirring Pamphlet
- Radicals, Stalinists, Socialists Collapse at First Test, by H.F. Roberts
- Not Hollow Preaching – But Clear Cut Slogans, by Leon Trotsky
In the Next Issue
Army Stocks Up In Case...
Vote to Strike Ill. WPA
- I.W.A. Leader: Gerry Allard (photo)
Barberton Labor Rises, by Jack Wilson
230 Hear Shachtman in L.A.
High-Lights, by Henry Thurman
- The People’s Friends
- “Design for Living”
- “I Knows It, Brother”
- Workers School Hands Out Plenty Too
A ‘Square Deal’ Corporation: An Altruistic Boss! – Workers Get It in the Neck, by Cyrus Rigby
How They Ache for War!
The ‘Resettlement’ Fraud: A Texas Thanksgiving – Relief is Discontinued, by James Evans
Texas Old Age Pensions Cheaper Than Poorhouse, by a Worker Correspondent
Appeal Date Set in C.S. Frame-Up
Minneapolis Labor Notes
A Radical Farmer’s View of Recent Shifts in AAA, from the Producers News
Corruption Rampant in Ft. Worth, Texas, Relief, by a Worker Correspondent
Shachtman Meeting in San Diego
Newark Jobless In Demonstration
Mays Strikers Call for Aid
Dunne to give Series on Labor Party
Party at Work
- Newark, N.J.
Letters to the Editor, from Milton Hindus
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
Hitler Germany
New York
Italy
Cuba
China - The Fight Against Criminal Syndicalism Laws
Sacramento
Angelo Herndon
Ward Rogers - Deportation of Aliens
Antonio Bellussi
Jack Warnick - Against Martial Law
- Against Persecution of Strikers
Harlan Miners
Robins-Gras
Fargo Teamsters
Minneapolis Strikes
Phila. Fruit Clerks - Rallying the Labor Movement
Norman Mini Writes from His Dungeon in San Quentin, by Norman Mini
New Stalinist Pamphlet Covers Up their Shameful Role in the Sacramento Case
The Race Into War
Pioneer Notes
To Hold Protest Against Ferrero Deportation
Who Are the New “Progressive” Leaders in the A.F. of L.? by Arne Swabeck
Toledo – Union Town, by Art Preis
- “The Battle of Chestnut Hill” (photo)
- Mass Action in Toledo (photo)
Dasch Speaks on Olympics
“Local 574 Is Invincible”, by James P. Cannon
- The Militancy That Scared Green (photo)
- The Battle of “Deputies Run” (photo)
- James P. Cannon (photo)
- Cops Get A Shellacking (photo)
5th Anniversary of Spartacus Youth League – Report Shows Large Increase in Membership and Influence, by Nathan Gould
Write Your Own Comment!
The New Struggle in Autos, by A.J. Muste
March of Events, by Jack Weber
- Miners’ Strike in England
- England and the Far East
- Class Struggle in France
- Trade Treaty with Canada
Lessons of October, by Leon Trotsky, from the French paper Revolution
- [Trotsky] (cartoon)
Question Box, by A. Weaver
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, by John West
- Only Privileged Few Benefit from New “Prosperity”
Purged! (cartoon)
M.E.S.A. Strike in Toledo
Vol. I No. 50, 14 December 1935, New York, NY
THE NEW MILITANT
Official Organ of the Workers Party of the United States
EDITOR:
James P. Cannon
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
Herndon Freed – Mass Pressure Forces Release of Class War Prisoner
Answer the Fascist War Mongers; All Out Dec. 14!
Profiteers Clear Decks for Big Drive on Labor
Six YCLers Join SYL – Symptoms of Ferment Over New Turn to Betrayal
Yipsels Unite With Spartacus at Toledo Meet, by Art Preis
U.S. Agent Can’t Find One Scab Truck in Mpls.
Japs Snatch North China; Put Screws on Chiang Gov’t, by Lo Sen
The Future of the A.F. of L., speech by James P. Cannon
Manager’s Corner
To the Readers of the New Militant
March of Events, by Jack Weber
Our Revolutionary Heritage: Homestead Strike, by Leighton Rigby
Seine District of Socialist Youth Grows Since Their Expulsion, from Révolution
World of Labor
- Belgian Labor Party Bureaucrats Push Expulsions As Left Wing Adopts Revolutionary Position
Five Years of Spartacus, by Nathan Gould
[Editorials]
- We Can Make Good!
- Fight Against Bourbon Rule
The Deadly Parallel: Social Patriotism versus Revolutionary Struggle, from Révolution
- 1914–1918
- The Camp of the Bourgeoisie
This is Social Patriotism - The Camp of the Workers
This is Revolutionary Defeatism! - Today
Vol. I No. 51, 21 December 1935, New York, NY
THE NEW MILITANT
Official Organ of the Workers Party of the United States
EDITOR:
James P. Cannon
N. West Militants Meet
Sanctions End in Scandal – League Powers Plan Partition of Ethiopia
Ill. Unions Aid IWA Walkout, by a W.P.A. Worker
Where is Roosevelt’s Relief Program Going? by John West
- Facts and Policies for WPA Workers, by Herbert Capelis
- Texas Jobless Face Hunger, by James Evans
600 in Newark WPA Protest
L.D. Trotsky’s Wife Makes New Appeal for Son Sergei
Pa. Jobless Organizations Unite in Statewide Action
World of Labor
- Congress of Dutch R.S.A.P. Overwhelmingly Favors 4th Int’l
Defeats S.A.P. Splitters Unequivocally for 4th International
Nomad Lecture Postponed
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
- Appeal Denied Cal. Class War Victims
- Stop Limping! Start Walking!
- Mpls. Labor Protests Jailing of Al Russell
- Resentment Nationwide in Tampa Case
Reverse Fargo Convictions
United Front Proposed on ‘Scottsboro’
Mass Meet to Fight Danger to Herndon
Three Harlan Miners Freed
Order Ferrero-Sallito Deported
Vol. I No. 52, 28 December 1935, New York, NY
THE NEW MILITANT
Official Organ of the Workers Party of the United States
EDITOR:
James P. Cannon
Russell Sentenced to Four Months in Hosiery Strike
A Xmas Gift for A. Sloan – Ohio Chevrolet Workers ‘Thank’ G.M. Head for Empty Christmas Tables, from Committee of 900
Independent Auto Unions Amalgamate
900 Auto Men Act in Toledo
Toledo Projects Organize
Illinois WPA Walkout is Postponed
Rap Ferrero Deportation
Mini Defense in New Move
500 in NY Hear Max Shachtman – Cannon to Speak on Labor War in Mpls., Jan 5th
Class Struggle Issues Arouse West Coast Maritime Unions, by C. Curtiss
New Zealand Seamen’s Union Adopts Revolutionary Position on Sanctions
Our Revolutionary Heritage: The Debs Rebellion, by Leighton Rigby
Electrical Worker Flays Stalinists for Use of Forgery in Local Union, by Andrew Forman
New Year’s Eve Party
The Manager’s Corner
The League of Stalinist Agents for Social Patriotism – A Political Analysis of the Lovestone Group And its Reactionary Role
Question Box, by A. Weaver
March of Events, by Jack Weber
Theater Benefit
Cannon Speaks on Labor War in Minneapolis
Labor Defense Unity Vital!
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.
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