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

A. j. Music is leading the Amer
lean Workers Party into organic
unity with the Trotzkyists. The
stumbling block, as was already
pointed out in these columns, is
the Trotzkyist Fourth Interna-
tional" "a bridge to the Second In
ternationaD, and its counter-revo-
lutionary position to the Soviet
Union, two things to which the
membership of the A. w. P. is OPP
posed and which even Music cannot
swallow in the raw as it is served
by Cannon-Shachtman and Co.
Hence, the painful efforts of the
leaders of the two groups to find
formula" which would hide from
the membership of the two groups
the outstanding fact that Music Is
violating the will Of the member
ship of the A. w. P. to remain
loyal to the Soviet Union and that
Cannon Shachtman are moving
back to the Second International
to the Socialist Party-by way of
organic unity" with Music.
A Few Questions to the A. w. P.
Do you know, comrades of the A.
w. P, with what you are uniting :?
Do you know that you are led to
merge with a ter-revolutionary
sect that is decaying and diSin-
tegrating? Do you know that the
leaders, of this decaying sect Can
nom Shachtman-Swabeck) view the
merger with the A. w. P. as a tran
sition to the Socialist Party, as a
means of bringing the A. w. P. also
into the fold of the Socialist Party?
The leaders OF the American Trot-
zkyists wish to emulate the example
of the French Trotzkyists, who have
gone back to the Socialist Party.
Only Cannon wants to take the A.
w. P. along with him. He is an
ambitious fellow, you know.
There is no doubt that A. j..
Music has certain inklings about
Cannon's plans but does not speak
of them, although he argues mildly
against joining the Socialist Party.
The thing, however, must be
brought out into the open. 1t is a
F., fact that Cannon peddles around
the idea of the reform of the Sec
ond International by way of pre-
pairing the ground for bringing the
Trotzky group and the A. w. P. into
the Socialist Party. The Trotzkyist
rank and file is terrified at the idea
while some of the other leaders of
the Trotzky group pretend not to
understand it.
Through the good services of a
T1otzkyist, evidently disguised and
demoralized by these maneuvers of
c a n -Shachtman-Swabeck we
came into possession of number
of letters which throw a glaring and
lurid light upon the decay and
breakup of the Trotzky group
These letters should serve as an
eye Opener to the membership OF
the two groups but especially to
the members of the American
Workers Party.
Writing to Martin Abern, on
Sept. %, Maurice Spector says:
"Cann0n's reported remark on
the reform of the Second Inter-
national seems wholly unintelli-
gible.p
Why it is SO "unintelligible" On
the contrary, IL is perfecly clear
that Cannon is pulling his followers
land the A. w. p into the Social
iSt Party. The members of the New
York Trotzky group seem to have
gotten the idea of Cannon straight
This is seen from another 49,.
(signed Rae and addressed t,
Al" presumably Glotzer), datee
October 9, which says:
The whole N. Y. c. voted against
proposal for entry into Y. P. S. L
and when the rank and file hearc
of that proposal they were hor
rified"
They naturally would be Mortified
Bu5 that does not stop Cannon ane
Swabeck from maneuvering Their
membership into the Socialist Par.
ty, if need be, by way of the A. w
P. Speaking of the state of mine
of the membership, the "youngsl
generation and the colder one" thu
same correspondent tRae) says:
They are low in spirits, feel
themselves leaderless, and attend
to League functions as If they
were factory routine jobs. Now
that we are practically sewed up
in the A. w. p, what is there to
say::"
Leaderless. low in spirits. lookins
upon their organization as if it wer,