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passed through a considerable his
torical evolution.
Already in Lenin's lifetime, Trot-
sky openly fought against Lenins
policy. Since 1928 he openly OBJ
posed the Bolsheyik policy and tried
to establish factions within the
ranks of Bolshevism. Since 1927.
Trotskyism has ceased to be a fac
ton of Communism. 1t has sought
to establish it's own groups in all
countries. This undertaking has
not been successful. And this I'M
dertaking will not succeed. The
Trotskyist groups decay before they
have taken shape Nowhere, in no
country, has Trotsky succeeded in
bringing under his influence any
group of workers.
Now Trotskyism hopes that Hit
ler's victory in Germany will help
in the formation Of few Trotsky-
ist groups. Perhaps it will manage
to gather some booty on the BATTLE
fields of the class war. Trotskyism
has become pillsger, hyena on
the bat fields OF the class war.
Leninisin
In what did historic Trotskyism
consist, and wherein did it differ
from Rolshevisna? This question
has been so often answered, that
1t is truly superfiuous to ask it
again. But it will perhaps not be
altogether useless to show Some Of
the characteristics of Trotslxyism.
Trotskyisrn differed from Lenin-
ism in its evaluation of the char
aoter and the driving force of the
revolution in Russia, even before
1904-19G6. At that time the Men
shsviks proclaimed that the revo-
luton in Russia would be a bour-
gois revolution, under the leader
ship Of the bourgeoisie, The Boil
sheviks stated that the revolution
would indeed be a bourgeois demo-
cratic revolution, but that this
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-21
Relief Cut Is PC.
in Columbus; Many
JObleSSAre EviCted
Police Attack with In,
structions to Shoot;
Workers Resist

COLUMBUS, o., April 2o-The
Columbus bosses government cut
relief Is per cent, in addition to
cutting many of the 10000 out-of-
work families off the relief, and be-
gan a savage eviction campaign.
The question was raised of a
United Front of Unemployment
Council and Unemployed Leagues
in order to fight against such condi-
lions. The League officials didn't
want one. g
On March 81, the United Front
was born at ABS City Park Ave.
A worker, G. w. McGufin Of the
League, had been put out on the
street. He was advised" to stay
there, so there he and his family
stayed, and at that it was better
than going to the vermin-infested
Salvation Army Flop House. League
and Council members were guard
ing his furniture when ten police
men drove up with police cruisers,
a furniture truck and an ambu-
lance. The workers massed solidly
about the furniture and more cops
were sent for. Flying dishes and a
kettle of hot stew broke up the
attack.
More cops arrived Two boys were
beaten, more dishes broken. One
hundred policemen charged among
the workers, blackjacking right and
left.
Monday night, April 2, League
and Council members jammed the
City Council. Representatives of
both organizations spoke. Wednes-
day, April 4, a demonstration of
League and Council called by the
Unemployment Council, was held
before the State House. From
the hundreds of demonstrators a
committee of five, three Council
members and two League members,
invaded the headquarters of the
Ohio Relief Commission. Facts,
figures and demands were hurled
at Ned j. Boggs for one hour
A United Front Committee of
Unemployment Council and Unem-
ployed League, together with all
unorganized unemployed, met on
Sunday, April 8. Delegations from
organizations of employed workers
are joining with the voorhees,.
The entire working class will
continue to struggle for relief jobs
for all at 60 cents an hour for 80
hours week. Thirty per cent in
crease in relief, no more evictions,
no more police terror, endorsement
of the Workers Unemployment and
Social Insurance Bill HR 1898.
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skyism never understood what a
Bolshevlk Party is. 1t favored the
legsl1zation of groups, groupings,
and factions within the Party and
really never understood that the
Bolshevik Party was Party of a
new kind, the Communist vanguard
of the proletariat formed in a single
mold. Trotzkyism conceived of the
party as Noak's Ark of move
ments, groups, and sub-groups. and
not as a party nodded in a single
unit, democratically centralized
with iron discipline.
Trotzkyism actually took over
Kautsky's theory in it's appraisal
of the principal elements of I'M
perialism. 1t favored the theory
of ultra imperialism, the theory
which has led from organized
capitalism" to the theory of "eco-
nomic democracy" Trotzkyism at
tackled and still attacks the basic
law of Imperialism, the law of I'M
equal development, and denies that
the law of the unequal development
of Imperialism makes it possible
for the proletariat to seize power
in one country, consolidate that
power, and, in possession of power,
to build a socialism in one coun-
try. The counter Revolutionary
theory of Trotzkyism consisted in
asserting that the Russian revolu-
ton was condemned to collapse and
defeat if the world revolution did
not come to its aid in time. Trot-
zkyism struggles against the build
ing of socialism in one country, by
covering itself with seemingly radi-
cal phrases about the world revo-
luton. This means disbelief in the
inner force of the Russian revo-
luton, disbelief in the possibility
of maintaining the alliance between
the proletariat and the peasantry,
disbelief in the possibility that the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-21
PieceDyeVi ctoryW on
By Real Rank & File Action

ager about the complaints of the
stretch and split shifts. The COM
mittee demanded a six hour day
to take effect Immediately. The
bosses did not want to talk to the
organizer, because he does not work
at the plant, but seeing the deter
mination of the committee. soon
changed their minds and the or
ganizer was allowed to take up these
grievances. About two hours later
this system was inaugurated and
all workers got six hours a day.
Heretofore they worked 2-3-4-5
hours day.
This marks a victory for the
NT.W.U. and shows to the rest of
the workers what could be done if
all workers would realize their
strength. All United Piece Dye
workers should attend their weekly
meetings held every Saturday at
2 pm, at 62-3rd ST., Passaic.
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the so-called great cycles. This
theory stated that capitalism moves
not only through industrial cycles,
that is from depressions to average
activity, from average activity to
prosperity, from prosperity to crisis,
as Marx had shown, but that capt.
talist production also moves in
great cycles which last 20 to 80
years. According to this theory,
there is long rising trend of the
market, within which a series of
industrial cycles develop, and then
long downward trend of the
market follows. Trotzky thinks
that this great downward trend be-
gan in 1914, and it follows from
this theory that after this falling
trend long rising trend must
again set in.
This theory means the denial of
the general crisis of capitalism, and
from this theoretical position Trot-
zkyism adjusts itself for a long
period of proletarian defeats.
Without this bourgeois theory,
which was developed in the Soviet
Union by the counter-revolution
Professor Kondratyev, it would be
difficult to understand the present
position of Trotzkyisn. Trotzky
expects, not sharpening of the
general crisis of capitalism, but a
long rising trend of business, which
must soon begin and which is to
mean long period of bourgeois
rule. Hence-not a new series of
wars and revolutions, but long
period of capitalist sterilization!
This is the economic theoretical
position of Trotzkyism, politely
stated. From this theory of historic
Trotzkyism there follows the
traitorous defeatist attitude, the
expectation of defeats, on the part
of Trotzkyisrn,
! Ito Be ContInued)
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the workers attention from
the real causes of the threat
ening imperialist war for the
protection and repartition of
foreign markets.
Worded in libarGl-pacjf5st phrases.
strikingiv reminiscent Of the piously
d1sarmng mouthings on the eve oil
the World War. the resolution. from
an objective point Of view, actually
serves the interests of the munitions
manufacturers, the people who pre-
sumably are to be Investigated. 1t
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-21
Down Tools May First!
Engineering W ork ers
to Picket n. Y. Plant;
Ask for Workers Aid

NEW YORK. The strike at the
Teleradio Engineering Corporation,
SO Wooster St, which began April
II for an increase in wages. con-
tinues with the utmost militancy
despite numerous arrests of strikers
on the picket lines.
The boss of the plant is now at
tempting to bring in scabs in taxi
cabs. To stop this the Radio and
Metal Workers Union has organized
mass picket lines at the struck
establishment at in the morning
and 4:3O in the evening.
The strikers issued a call yester-
day to workers in all industries to
come to the picket line and help
them win the strike.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-21
50 Fine If You Don't
attend S. P. Nay Day
Meet, Say AFL Heads

NEW YORK - Devising a
method whereby they can force
workers to attend the Socialist
Party May Day demonstration.
the officials Of the Brotherhood
Of Painters, local 261, sent a state
ment to all its members to the
effect that:
g. according to the decision
of our local, every member must
participate in the May Day DEM
onstration. All the painters locals
are taking part in it. A fine of
SO will be imposed on those who
will not be in the parade"
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industries is, of course, Just a joker
TO make certain that the war profits
will be as juicy as ever. Such in
eenuity may not even be necessary
in view of the fact that the heads
OF each industry will indubitably
preside over the various military
business and price fixing boards in
evitable in wartime which will
dictate prices in their own fields.
Furthermore, this provision fails to
treat the certainty Of huge profits
through bulk war orders even if the
concern in question had made only
a per cent return during the
years previous to a declaration Of
war. Lastly, official records, espe-
cially the Illuminating Graham
Committee reports on the monu-
mental greed and corruption that
accompanied the shelI-coining of
workers bodies into new power and
new markets during 1917-18. show
the absolute impossibility of pre-
venting business fraud and Chi
Canery and the impracticability of
understanding or supervising cor
pOratiOn accounts.
That is the difference between
what the American Legion rank
and file demanded and what they
got from their leadership and the
government.
Fortunately. however, many thou
sands of workers, a good number
of them veterans. understand that
it is better to prevent one ship
from leaving port with guns and
powder designed for the slaughter
Of workers in other lands. than to
wait for or believe in ten thousand
investigations"
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STRAP COMPANY WORKERS
STRIKE

NEW Workers of the
Lasko Strap Company, 125 Canal
St, commenced picketing the shop
yesterday following vote taken to
strike for increased wages and rec
ignition of the Independent Novelty
Workers Union.
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n. Y. Laundry Workers
Vote Strike for Higher
W ages, Closed Shop

NEW YORK-Workers at the
Columbus Laundry, at a shop meet
ing Thursday night, voted to strike
unless their demands of increased
wages and recognition of their union
are carried out by the bosses of the
Columbus Laundry.
Workers of the Universal Shirt
Company, at a meeting Thursday
night, joined the Laundry Workers
Industrial Union and drew up de-
mands for enforcement of the New
York State minimum wage law of
81 cents per hour and a 45-hour
week. Strike action will be taken
if the demands are not needed.
AS the fourth week of the Spic
and Span Laundry workers strike
rolls in, ranks of workers remain
solid in mass demonstrations in the
fight to have their demands met by
the company bosses.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-21
CAB DRIVERS FORM CLUB

NEW YORK-Cab drivers from
the Melrose vicinity, who played a
militant part in the last strike, Or
ganized club. A constitution will
be voted upon at their next meet
ing, April "a, at 800 pm, at 1875
Avenue c.
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80 "a" HAH r.
striving to dis
sipate the mill
tant workers re-
alization Of the
necessity for or
gained resist
ance to the plans
and program Of
the imperialists
to whom the mu-
ni5ionS makers
are either part
ners or servants.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-21
WALL STREETS
CAPITOL
By SEYMOUR WALDMAN-
By SEYMOUR WALDMAN

WASHINGTON, April 20-Ihe Nye-Vanderberg resO-
luton ordering Senate Investigation into the practices Of
munitions manufacturs and the consideration of the ode
STABILITY Of creating government monopoly of the
facture of instruments is the latest attempt to divert
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-21

The Abe Yankowitz eighteen year old
who brutaly beaten death in the Mont
George saiana, their compen-
saton cut month.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-21

Down tools May l against fas-
cism here and abroad, for the
release of Thaelmann and all i'm
prisoned anti-fascists!
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Trotzky's Bourgeois Defeatist
Theory

But today we are interested not
in Trotzkyism in general, but in
those roots and characteristics of
historic Trotzkyism which explain
Trotzkyisn1 of today. Before the
war. Trotzky advanced the anti
Marxist, anti-Leninist theory of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-21

proletariat can lead the peasantry
on the path of Socialism.
These are a few important char
acteristics of Trotzkyism, although
with them we have of course not
exhausted the characteristics of
Trotzkyism. Trotzky took Cen
trist position on the national ques-
ton, and it was not without reason
that at the time of the World War
Lenin classed him with Kautsky,
Martov, and the other Centrists,
particularly on the national ques-
ton. During the war, Trotzky
supported the false, non-prole-
tartan, -pacif1st slogan of
Peace Without Annexation and
Tribute" thus finding himself
close to wisconsin.
The Bolshevists, with Lenin at
their head, proclaimed the slogan
of turning the inperialist war into
civil war. Trotzky fought that
slogan. During the World War
the Bolshevists, with Lenin at their
head, already sponsored the forma-
ton of Federation of Soviet Re
publics, which would arise from
the revolution. Trotzky set up
the counter-revolutionary reaction
airy slogan of THE United States
of Europe" At every great turn
in the class struggle, Trotzkyism
was in position opposing Lenin-
ism. 1t became a faction of Com
munism only for time before the
October revolution.
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EDITORS NOTE;-The follow
ing letter is from a japanese
worker in response to Comrade
Briggs exposure in the Daily
Worker Of March 3, 1894. of the
activities Of Japanese irnperisIists
and their agents among the Ne
gro masses in this country.
The Washington times., 1934-10-27
Holds Picture Record

Berton Churchill, featured with
Gertrude Michael and Paul Cava-
nagh in Menace" played in 81
pictures in a single year-a record
for I'll Hollywood playerA
The Washington times., 1934-10-27
HOl lyWOOd GSSleS

|serious crime and he was shipped
to Leavenworth to serve from
now on"
After he had been on the train
about an hour he turned to a fel-
low prisoner and said:
"HOw cum we amt passed
through Middleville? Ever other
time 1 is sent up I member dat
town."
Replied the other:
"BOy, you amt gOin' to see
no Vaudeville on dis trip. YOu'S
in de BIG league now"
Did you hear Charles Kenyon's
squelch elegant to q certain wise
cracking actor?
They were talking about hit
pictures and the relative impor-
tance Of the writers and the
players. The actor jeered:
Writing is a cinch. All you
have to do is to string lot Of
words together. A 10-year-old
kid can do that"
quite true" admitted Kenyon,
"but Il I remember rightly, was
capable Of making faces at a
camera before I was g."
A film producer whose motto
was Honesty Is the Next Best
Policy" died recently, and in ac-
cordance with his last wishes his
family erected a beautiful tomb
The Washington times., 1934-10-27
Behind the Silver Screen

HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 27.-Harry
Warren and AL Dublin, composers
of the majority Of the song hits
in the Warner musical films,
have been given a five-year con-
tract by that studio.
Columbia has assigned Arthur
Rankin, Allyn Drake and Charles
Sabin to "Stake Out" with Bruce
Cabot and Judith Allen, while
Robert Allen and Arthur HOyt
have been added to the picture
temporarily titled "Spring S1OO,"
featuring Nancy Carroll, Donald
Cook and George Murphy.
Ralph Bellamy and Helen Vim
son have been signed by Samuel
Goldwyn for roles in support of
Anna Sten and Gary Cooper in
1.-THE wedding Night"
Maurice Hanline, RK-O
scenarist, is the author Of a new
book, "Years of IndiscretiOn,"
which will be published next
month by Macaulay. He and Sig
HerZig wrote "The Lottery Lover"
now being produced by Fox.
When the Marx brothers met
Irving Thalberg to sign their
new M-G-M contract they stood
around for some time without
signing. There was the contract,
but no signatures. Finally they
were asked why they did not
sign. Because there isn't any
ink in the pen," was Groucho's
retort.
Chester Hale will make the bal
let scene Of David Copperfield"
next week. He will also do the
dance numbers for the next Joan
Crawford production, which is as
yet untitled, and the numbers for
''Piccadilly Jim," which will star
Robert Montgomery. He has just
The Washington times., 1934-10-27
Edna Mae Oliver
Is Real Yankee

Being q descendant Of John
Quincy Adams and having been
born In Boston, in no way inter-
fered with Edna May Oliver from
being an outstanding comedienne,
q talent she demonstrated to the
satisfaction Of every one in the
stage production of Cradle
SnatcherS" and "The Show Boat" I"
She Is seen in support Of
George ArliSS In THE Last Gen.
tleman."
The Washington times., 1934-10-27

stone in his honor with this in
Scription:
CHE DID HIS BEST"
The payoff came shortly after
when someone, who evidently had
business dealings with him,
Chalked under it
FRIENDS"
One Of Joe Penner's favorite
stories concerns the family en-
route to Bermuda. Papa and
Mamma were horribly SeaSick,
but little Willie, aged 5, was
gleefully raising q miniature riot
in the cabin.
Mamma-Ooooooh! I'm so sick.
Won't you speak to that boy?
Papa (weakly)-Hello, Willie.
The Washington times., 1934-10-27

SAAS ASSSS "AS44 0AeSJ AOVOoV4As 4OV1
William NeilI IL directing.
Ann Shirley, following her per.
fOrmance in RKO Radios "AnN
Of Green Cables" has been given
q new contract by b. b. KahanA.
Spectrum Pictures first release,
Frontier Days." starring Bill
Cody, has been completed BY
AItmOnt Pictures under SupeE-
vision Of AL Alt.
Mickey Rooney, who played the
role of Puck in Max Reinhardt'S
stage production of Midsummer
Nights Dream" in Los Angeles,
has been signed by Warner Bros.
to portray the same role in the
company's forthcoming picturizar
ton Of the Shakespearean classic.
Curtis Nagei has returned from
Australia and New Zealand with
subject matter for "Travelaughs,"
produced by Walter Futter for Co
lumbia release. John P. Medbury
is the commentator and furnishes
the dialogue for thasO GoAtaRaA
The Washington times., 1934-10-27

completed the numbers for IRE
peaP and "The Night Is Young"
Laura Hope Crews, . stage
favorite, who teaches the stars
and starletS Of the screen to
speak properly, conducts her
school in a very unique classroom.
Miss Crews is too busy at present
to leave the sound stages at Para
mount and RKO, so the pupils
must come to her set for their
lesson. And there they are put
through their dramatic PAGES, be-
tween "takes," under the glare Of
arc lamps, props and camera
cranes.
Fay Wray and Victor JOry play
the leads in COlumbia's mills OF
The Washington times., 1934-10-27

Tallulah Bankhead Is back, and
the town Is that much brighter.
Tallulah Is an expert at the quick
retort, and the other night she
squelched q bore beautifully. It
seems that the annoying fellow
managed to corner her at a party.
He said finally:
'By the way, who's driving
you homer"
Tallulah fixed him with q glare
and snapped:
''YOu are"
Joe Penner'S idea Of the arch
optimist is the chap who would
sail on the same ocean liner with
The Washington times., 1934-10-27

bis break WlLn
Virginia Cher
rill. The tall
Paramount ac-
tor S tar tt e d
friends by ap-
pearing at the
CT ver Club,
S W a nix Holly
wood night spot,
in a gay four
some, the other
members being
Gertrude Mich
ael, LYDIA Ro-
berti, and AL
Kaufman. Cary
The Washington times., 1934-10-27

Greta Carlo in the hope that
there would be q ShipWreck near
Q desert island.
One Of the fading stars still has
deluSionS Of grandeur. But she
was cut down a trifle recently
when she groaned to an un-
sympathetic producer: "I'm get
ting so nervous 7 don't want to
see anybody"
"Why don't you go on a per-
sonal appearance tour" he sug-
geSted.
You may have heard this, but
Bing Crosby revived it to con-
vulse q Hollywood gathering the
other evening.
They were talking about pre-
views and Andy Devine spoke up:
Say, Bing, did you hear about
the last picture made?"
Crosby patted him on the back.
''Yeah," he said, II heard they
made guitar picks out Of it."
Add to grand retortS the one
recently made by the well-beloved
Nine. Schmann-Hei to an arty
young interviewer. Receiving the
press man with her usual kind.
ness, the veteran singer listened
carefully to his questions on
freakish cults of modern music.
When he paused Importantly,
the diva replied in her gentle,
husky tones:
young man, when the good
God made Schumann-Heink He
gave me q pretty good voice but
not much in the head. I'm sorry,
but 7 don't know q thing Of what
you are talking about"
stepin F'etchit drawled It, and
Jimmy Dunn sped it on to US.
A darky 'who had repeatedly
been sent to the county jail for
minor offenses got to know the
road from his home to the county
seat so well that he could have
written Q book on the landmarks.
RlualIR they convicted him q .
The Washington times., 1934-10-27
Cary Grant

Cary Grant danced almost
every dance with Gertrude Michael
and seemed to be forgetting his
troubles. Nice couple they made.
too-Cary'S dark, good looks and
GartNldaAa hiondnAAA
The Washington times., 1934-10-27
Grant C|innbinQ
Out of Gloom

HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 27.-For
the first time, Cary Grant
shows signs Of climbing out Of the
gloom that has enYeloped him since
The Washington times., 1934-10-27
Raft Is Originator

George Raft, featured in Lime
house Blues" introduced the
Charleston" and, before entering
films, was the highest paid dancer
in Europe.
The Washington times., 1934-10-27

Return of Sherlock
Holiness" with Give Brook.
RIALTO-Ken Maynard in "Ths
Wagon Master"