The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-17

leaders as bosses. Thus can speak
people who have been badly de-
ceived, who feel themselves in
trap with no way out. This is what
Trotzkyism has accomplished for
them. This Is W h a t Cannon
Shachtman-Swabeck have produced.
And it is with this decaying and
demoralized counter revolutionary
sect that A. j. Music wants to unite
"organically,' not plainly, the. Amer
lean Workers Party. What do the
healthy, wol King class elements OF
the A. w. P. say to this? And,
please, think of it: The Communist
Party, section of the Communist
international, was not good
enough" for Music even to make a
united front with on specific issues.
He broke the understanding for
united action against unemploy-
ment, on the trade union field and
in the League Against War and
FaScism. But with the decaying
cou n e Revolutionary Trotzkyist
sect, Music seeks organic unity"
nothing less. How shall this be
qualified? Music argues against
joining the Socialist Party and the
Second International. Music, you
see, is rejecting equally both the
Second international and the Com
muniSt international. But at the
same time he proposes that the A.
W. P. should merge with Cannon
Shachtman -Swabeck who are ma
neuvering for joining the Socialist
Party and the Second International.
How shall this be qualified?
You 1.-THE members of the A.W.P.J
have heard a good deal of SANDER
about the mon democratic" regime
in the Communist Party and in the
Comintern. You have heard this
SANDER from the Trotzkyists; from
Lovestone, the expert in Tammany
methods; and also from the leaders
OF the A. w. P, especially from the
renegades in your midst (Salutzky.
Lore, etc.. Music, too, repeats this
SANDER. Now, see what Maurice
Spector writes about the demo-
cratic" regime in the Trotzky group.
He writes:
The Resident Comm, as it is,
is already guilty of enough usur-
patton by virtue Of the frequent
failure frequent? totaD TO hold
a plenum or conference at i'm
portant turning points,"
And when Spector dares TO raise
the question, he is threatened by
Cannon with dire consequences. OF
these threats, Spector writes:
Cannon threats don't worry
me at all. He would seem to
display singular lack of dis
erection if he started one of his
famous offensives. He'll end by
getting political trouncing he
will not soon forget"
How do you like this, as a
sample of Trotzkyist 'inner-party
democracy" Cannon and Swabeck
decide to move into the Socialist
Party (by way of Muste) without
asking even their own Executive
Committee. Poor Spector is again
forced to complain but without re-
suits. He writes:
Mac and l are unit in OBJ
jecting to the indecent haste with
which Schachtman and Cannon
are seeking TO bury the League.
The membership is being treated
like a pack of children"
Indecent haste Bury the
League :. Membership treated like
a pack of children This is
Trctzkyist democracy in their own
organization. And these are the
fighters" for "democratizing the
Soviet Union by way of overthrow
ing the dictatorship of the prole-
tariat. And these were the fighters
for "democratizing' the Commu-
mist Party. Now, if the organic
unity is achieved, they will SINH
larry democratic" the American
Workers Party There are really
no grounds to believe that Cannon
Schachtman-Swabeck will behave
in the merged organization differ
emily. The membership of the
A.W.p. must be ready to become
the object of Cannon's inner party
democracy" They must be aware
of the fact that they are being
used fer dishonest and unprincipled
maneuvers to steer the A.W.P. into
the Second international and the
Socialist Party by means of Can
non democracy.
Maurice Spector who drank this
| democracy to the full, has some