The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-06
Music Changes Mann.
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trade unions they also exposed the
| isolation. They talk much about o.
weaknesses in the work IN the A.
OF l. unions. Without doubt We be
l for long time been guilty o.
/ doing sufficient work IN the A. y
L. unions. Lately much progress
been made. But we surely Dc
have TO accept any criticism frog
Musteites. The only force orga
| the revolt Of the rank and file
the Greens and VOLS ar. the
munists and their supporters
Musteites are either completely ~
lated from the unions OF their fol
lowers Ike Ryan are indistinguish
able from the A. F. Of L. chief bu
reaucrats. Tbs lone Mustette dele
gate elected TO the A F. Of L IA
tional convention did not come, 70
personal reasons" while Il was
follower OF the left wing that IL
troduced every important resolutio
on the floor OF the convention. on
IN the unemployed movement C
the Musteites record some progres
And what Is their role here7 To so
the unemployed from united actto
with the Unemployed Councils, y
stop the political development {
these masses on the ground "tfs
politics must be kept out Of the VI
employed organizations"
The CPL.A. was, even before II
change Of name, a cleft social r
formist" party. The new name VI
change little As shown above 1t Is 8
a5empt to conceal their bankrupt
/ and an attempt TO make alliance
with other groups for the purpose {
fighting the leftward movement
the masses to Communism. And IL
even vague and nebuicus program
attic pronouncements Of the Musteite
make clear the true purpose Of the
ewly-formed organization. Must
n his programatic article, printe
n the anti-SoVtet Union semi-Tro'
skyits organ OF Calverton. aModer
| 'onthlv." fvoids even the mentio
Of Marx OF Lentn, Altho he states
win make use Of the teachings an
examples Of the revolutionary thinI
era and workers Of the past" VINO
has Music In mind7 Perhaps Kau
sky, TrptSkyf We don't know. b
one thing Is certain: Music and h
new party have borrowed 8 lit
everywhere In making up their
am. They repeat the Star
TrotsAy in charging the Coa,~ess
Party Of the Soviet Union sto,,
national outlook" He has boEsb
from James Oneal snd Matt.
Won in charging the Commrnis
with splitting the trade unions. 7
has borrowed from the farmer-lab
liberals, from the LoveStonites, fro
I'll enemies OF the working class, .
his attack on the Communist Int
national and the Communist Part
He even borrowed the slande
against the Soviet Union from Han
ilton Fish. He In, especially, an q
pupil Of Fish In his provocative stat
ments regarding the Communist Il
ternational and the Foreign on
of the Soviet government. But abo
all, Music aims TO be good Amer
can" This is the tf.enle that rr
throughout his song And In tr
eshicn ha raneAts the proposal
Secretar y HUI that therh be 3 div
sion Of spheres OF 1nnuence. TnatFC
Comintern occupy itself only vi
problems In the orient, while @ ne
international Is necessary for the a.
vanced countries OF America al
Europe. But again, true to America
I H., al s.fVoe%4
international Of revolution must va
upon tho building of an eject
revolutionary movement In the Uk
In this, without doubt, Music
Influenced by the Anglo-AIner1c;
relations and he wants his count
to play the dominant role. From Il
one could Judge that the mission
Brockway in this country for t
purpose Of Immediately setting up
fourth international was not entin
successful. One must wait until Mw
can become the head Of the "tr
effective international"
Music attacks the Commun
Party a. not being Of American 81
On the other hand. the Mlsteites
the true representatives OF
American soil Foster, Browd
Hathaway, Minor, Ford, Bloor 8
not true Americans. But SALUTE
Lore and Cohen are. What wondt
the Musteites can create. The stru
giles Of the miners, the steel worke
the farmers, the Negro masses In I
South led by the Communist Pai
we're not struggles OF the Americ
masses "spr1nging from the nat
soil" They were influenced by No
COW. And besides these struggles W
conducted without consulting
against the expressed advice Of Mus
whose role " TO stop the revolutsc
airy struggles Of the masses Of d
country. The truth Ia that this
what the bourgeoiGe Of every ccs1ni
sayS-that Communism Il q fore
importation. Music here only ech,
the Hoovers, Fishes, Roosevelts
ThomaSes. Music wants q re
tionary" party without ths DE
ship Of the prolet&r1st. In ald
his revolutionary phrases kllns
cover for nter-reyolutionc
position to Communism Wilhelm
the bouugeoisae considers foxviR1
American capitalism.
Indeed, there Ia nothing fngenis
as TO the thinking, program and t,
tics Of the Musteites. It Is count
revolutionary social-fasciS1 at VT
here Just as It was In Germany, Il
land and the world over. II Is
same song that one heard BET
from those whose task il TO PREV
the revolution.
The counter-revoiutsonsry pest