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By BOSE KARS NEK Appeal Campaign Director T o ta l to d a te is $1,330.70 w ith reports from the St. Paul-Mlnne- apolis New Year’s Eve Jamboree not in as we go to press. Of the branches competing for the Fourth International banner, FIGHT CUTS IN W. P. A.! San Francisco and Detroit have gone over the top. Both these branches are not satisfied to rest on their laurels. They promise to Slashes Plotted As keep on collecting for the cam 11,000 Taxi Drivers p a ig n . Returns from the branches are picking up, but still too slowly. In the remaining four weeks, the Strike in New York Foil to Arms Plans barometer must take bigger and faster leaps if we are to realize the slogan of The Twioe-a-week LaGuardia Mobilizes Full Police Force as Roosevelt Presents Congress With Huge Appeal on the Road to a Daily. & Let us prove in action the su Reply to Union Demands lor Armament Budget as Gamer Co. periority of our ideas. Decent Conditions Prepare Blow at Jobless P R IZ E S In addition to the three banners for the branches making the best N EW YO RK CITY.— A battle between 11,000 taxi-drivers; A specter haunts Congress, the specter o f 15,000,000 unem showing in the campaign, con and the big fleet companies began this week when the C.I.O. Trans-; ployed. sidering size and ability of mem port Workers Union called a strike Tuesday afternoon. President Roosevelt is asking for a gigantic war budget, for bership, we have three auto W ith in tw o h ours, 8,500 d riv e r s # ------—------— ------. graphed copies of C. L. R. James' battleships, for thousands o f new warplanes. and 1,000 m ainte n a n ce m en re books. Two copies of "World The unemployed are asking for food, for homes, for jobs. sponded to th e ca ll, le a v in g 7,000 Reovlution" and one of “Black To finance the arms program he needs to fu lfill the war plans cabs idle in the garages. The ad Moscow Frameups Jacobins.” These are to be given dition of the night men w ill bring of Yankee imperialism, Roosevelt is prepared to slash away at to sympathizers sending in the th e to ta l o f cabs la id u p to 8,500. the meager funds now allowed for the jobless and the 3,000,000 biggest collection on the Appeal Exposed by Trial workers on W.P.A. folder now in the mails, or mem O ve r 5,000 o w n e r-d riv e r cabs bers plugging hardest in the classed as independents are not Homes or battleships, jobs or war— that is the reality behind branches. Let us know who they affected by the strike call. Of Ukraine GPU the fanfare in Washington. are and what they have done. Nearly 100 full time and volun Unquestionably with Roosevelt’s tacit okay, the other Demo ' From Our Branches teer organizers carried the strike Admit 'Confessions' cratic big-wigs, led by . Vice-President Garner, are launching a Local New York—The Astoria message to the drivers at shift ------♦campaign whose avowed aim is changing time. The men quickly Branch is the first in the Local to cut W.P.A. appropriations by responded. They had voted strike Extracted from to fu lf ill its q u o ta 100 percent. at least a third for the coming authority by a big majority last The next branches making the Victim s C P. MISRULE ye a r. best showing so far, are Down week. Cops Mobilize This is the plan that lies be town, Bronx and Lower East That Russia's secret police sys IS EXPOSED IN hind all the palaver about “tak (Continued on page 2) L a G u a rd ia 's 19,000 cops w ere tematically extorted false confes ing the W.P.A. out of politics" fully mobilized in a show of sions which constituted the basis and "reorganizing the W.P.A” strength to curb the militancy of for judicial frame-ups—a conclu TEACHERS UNION and "returning control to state the strikers. It was under Mayor sion established last year by the and local agencies.” The $1,425,- L a G u a rd ia in 1934 th a t police Commission of Inquiry headed by 000,000 appropriated for W.P-A. broke a big cab strike. John Dewey in its exhaustive in Progressives Fight for the current fiscal year has Weeks of stalling and months vestigation of the trials against been exhausted in six months. of chiseling by the big companies Trotsky—received weighty con/ for Inner-Union Now it is being proposed that culminated when the contracts ex firmation from reports arriving D em ocracy o n ly $500,000,000 be p ro vid e d fo r Turn pired on December 31. this week of a trial of five G.P.U. the next six months, in other officials which culminated in an Demands A sensational exposure of the words, one-third of what was order for their execution on Jan On The immediate union demands rule-or-ruin course which the spent in the last six-month pe u a ry 3. contained in the contract propo Stalinists in control of the riod! Meanwhile the revamped The trial took place at Kiev, sals include: the closed shop, job Teachers’ Union in New York W.P.A. administration under Col. l l i e in the Ukraine. Despite its obvi security, hiring through Union are pursuing inside that organi Francis Hanington would pro ous importance, the trial was re halls on a rotation basis, elimina zation, came to light suddenly ceed to wholesale shaving of ported only in the Sovietskaya tion of the "shape-up" system un when announcement was made of the W.P.A. rolls and make it pos- Heat! Ukrainia of Kiev, no word on the der which drivers are picked each the resignation from College sibe to put over a still smaller trial appearing in the Moscow day by the shop foremen; an end Blackwell Freed, T eachers U n io n , L o ca l 537, A m e r appropriation for the fiscal period press, according to Harold Denny, M a k e to racial discrimination; nine ican Federation of Teachers, of after next July. New York Times correspondent, hours daily for day men; ten BRENDA'S PARTY one of its prominent members, who underlines the significance of A Smelly Deal hours work for night men, with Washington Hears Professor John L. Childs. I« this silence. Nor has a word on provision that on Saturdays and Champagne for (he Idle Rich; The announcement was fol- This is the proposal of Repre- holidays the day men be allowed the trial been published in the lowed with the information a few 1 SCntativc Woodrum, Democratic Daily Worker here during the Militant Acquitted Rise! an extra working hour, and night days later that three other mem ■ chairman of the sub-committee course of the trial nor prior to No Refuge for Oppressed men two extra hours; seniority bers, instructors, like Childs, at which w ill pass on the W.P.A. ap our going to press. Our sole in After Trial at rights providing for selection of “What will we do with all the European refugees once they get Columbia University, had fol propriations. formation so far is based on two days off and vacation periods; V a le n c ia here? Who is going to keep them alive in the United States? Isn’t lowed him in withdrawing from In other words, it begins to dispatches by Denny, January 2 drivers with one to five years ser there unemployment, enough as it Is, without adding to the army the organization on substantially smell very much like a deal in and 3 in the New York Times. vice, one w e e k’s va ca tio n w ith $25 Russell Negrete Blackwell is of the jobless?” the same grounds. The three in which Roosevelt w ill get his arms pay, and drivers with five or more Swear to Any Crime free, acquitted by a Spanish These are some of the questions heard wherever the problem of cluded Professors F. Ernest John budget, w ill be permitted to "de (Continued on naze 4) In the trial, it was brought out court, and is now at the Amer Jewish and other refugees from fascism is being discussed. son, Bruce Raup and later Dr. plore" the plight of the jobless that five G.P.U. officials, under ican consular offices in Valencia, It is not merely the average or Louis M. Hacker. and make his usual promises, the direction of a superior offi according to a telegram received conservatively minded w orker but we’ve read a good deal about Hacker, Childs Resign while the Garners and the Wood- cial who “died” before trial, had Tuesday by his wife, Edna Black- who puts these questions. Even her in the papers. No doubt so In making public their with rums cut away at the frail struc methodically organized frame-ups, well, from Acting Secretary of many class conscious workers, have many others, including the drawals from the union, the re ture of unemployment relief and giving them substance by extort State Sumner Welles. who are imbued with the spirit of unemployed, the homeless, the signing members, especially Childs the WJP.A. projects. ing confessions from innocent Welles said that Moffat, consul international solidarity, are ask foodless. and Hacker, declared that they One of the first barrages in this persons. Among the frame-ups at Valencia, will report Back- ing them too. Miss Frazier just had a lovely could no longer remain members campaign is going to be the re well’s departure from Spain, organized were the extortion of There Is An Answer coming-out party in New York, as of a union in which democratic port of the Senate Campaign Ex “which will be by safest means confessions in which victims We do not want to pretend that one paper described it, “in a prac control of the organization was penditure Committee which will available.” swore they belonged to Fascist the questions do not deserve an tically solid gold setting at the mythical, haying been replaced by be devoted mainly .to airing Blackwell, American militant, youth organizations and testified answer. We think, on the .con Ritz-Carlton” Hotel. Being the the reality of Stalinist factional charges that»W.P_A. iunfis have arrested on charges brought by that others belonged with them, trary, that they do. We think, year’s most gorgeous debutante, domination. The union, they as been used to oil thè ¿democratic Stalinists, was released last sum although the organizations were also, that there is an answer. she just had to have a little party. serted, had been converted into political machines, especially in non-existent and innocent victims mer and placed on board boat by an instrument for the further some of the contests ’last Fall. Let us see if we cannot find at Quite A Shindig were forced to-, accuse others the American vice-consul, but was ance of the political line of the The hearings on confirmation of least a hint at a solution from the And from all reports, it was a whom they did not even know. then seized by Stalinist agents Communist party. Harry Hopkins' appointment as case of Miss Brenda Diana Duff high-class shindig. Supper and The reports in the Sovietskaya and returned to jail. The Black- Though those informed abouj Secretary of Commerce ‘ w ill of Frazier. Now what can she pos b re a k fa s t alone cam e to $8,000. Ukrainia, Denny says, were care well Defense Committee, consti the real situation in the labor course be used for the satne pur sibly have to do with the question Now a man can’t eat without ful to give “no inkling of just tuted by a broad circle of anti- movement have known for some pose. Fascists, has been vigorously of the refugees? This: w a s h in g i t dow n, can he? So $1,- what methods were used to ex- time of the destructive bureau- Every effort will' be made to campaigning for his release. We don’t know the young lady, (Continued on Page 4) (Continued on Page 3) I (Continued on Page 4) use misuse of W .PA funds as a pretext for justifying cuts in STATEMENT OF THE SOCIALIST WORKERS PARTY, U.S.A. those funds by tjde present Con gress. But the workers—employed and unemployed—must act to prevent Roosevelt, Gamer & Co. fro m putting over this cheap piece of Yankee Imperialism At Lima tric k e ry . Hitler’s Munich triumph has the door of its empire to the wide counter - offensive against purely economic forms (war hemisphere. The "good neighbor,” O u r A n s w e r impelled American imperialism to Yankee rival. Meanwhile Stalin, Germany and Japan. The United against controlled commerce, res Wail Street, in reality aims to We’ve got our own answer to launch a gigantic counter-offen terrified, looks toward Roosevelt States delegation sought to con toration of complete liberty of transform its neighbors into the questions these Washington American-controlled Manchukuos sive for the conquest of the world. as a savior. solidate Yankee hegemony in commerce, lowering of tariffs, gentlemen raise about • “politics” The slogans abandoned by Anglo- Toward World Empire Latin-America, to eradicate all loans, etc.) In the Western Hemi and Czechoslovak las. in the W.P.A. French imperialism at Munich— The United States takes over Eliropean influence, to expel Ger sphere, however, that counter-of W hat "Defense” Means Yes, we say, take, W.P.A. out “democratic anti - fascist front,” the front line in the battle against many and her allies from Latln- fensive assumes definite politica1 Authoritative m ilitary circles do of "politics”—i.e., out of the hands "common action against the ag Nazi and Japanese imperialism, America’s markets and, in short, forms, ranging from collective not conceal what they understand of the New Deal politicians—and gressor,” “collective security” — declares open war against Ger to destroy all positions hitherto declarations against aggressors by defense of our hemisphere: the put it in the hands of the work-? have now become the weapons of man barter trade, places German conquered by rival imperialisms. and proposals for defensive alli m ilitary unification of the Amer ers themselves! W all Street. Under these slogans As the United States comes to the ances to over more precise plans products on the black-list, incites icas under the direct control of And to this campaign to cut Roosevelt called the Latin Amer front of the stage, the world con for m ilitary strategy. world public opinion against Ger Washington. W.P.A. funds we must counter ican countries to Lima, and flict assumes a new form. Now it American imperialism aims at man barbarism and ostentatiously The U.S. War Department con pose our own program and make they inspired the "Declaration of is not simply the old conflict be more than monopolizing the breaks the neutrality law in favor siders m ilitary control of Latin Congress heed -it: L im a .” of China. The United States bars tween the starved imperialisms, markets and the sources of raw America and the possession of its The first fruit garnered by the road to further conciliation impelled to the offensive by their materials of the entire Western sources of raw materials as vital ALL WAR FUND8 TO THE American imperialism following between England apd Germany— desperate condition, against the Hemisphere. It also aims at mak to the development of the defen UNEMPLOYED! Munich is the capitulation or through the Anglo-American ana satiated imperialisms who benefit- ing the Americas, from Cape Horn sive and offensive power of the W.P.A. JOBS FOR ALL UN Great Britain to America's ti;aae American-Canadian accords which ted from Versaille and are con to Patagonia, the physical, eco American war machine. Among EMPLOYED AT TRADE UNION demands. The Munich crash ¿Ives cover nearly two-thirds of world stantly on the defensive, having nomic and strategic base required materials which the United States WAGES! the United States what Hull œuld commerce — obliging England to as their only aim the preservation for the coming decisive struggles must secure abroad, the W ar De of their booty. Now a new parti not obtain in three years of wma- declare economic war against Ger for the possession of the world. partment has classified twenty- OPEN ALL IDLE FACTO tion of the world is being pressed cious striving: a month jfter m any. This is why Roosevelt bellicosely one as “strategic” and a few oth RIES! OPERATE THEM UN most determinedly by the United Munich the Anglo-American com First Act at Lima proclaims, alongside of the evan ers as "critical," that is, materials DER WORKERS’ CONTROL! mercial accord is signed, and it Lima is the stage on which the States. gelical preaching of Hull, that the which are not sufficiently pro is followed by the Amerlcan-Can- American imperialists have play Elsewhere, W all Street still de United States w ill defend, tooth duced at home to provide for the A JOB FOR EVERY WORKER adian accord: Great Britain opens ed the first act of their world- velops its counter-offensive, under and nail, all the countries ’ (rV*t*7.'/ed on Page 3) AT A LIVING WAGE! 2 SOCIALIST APPEAL JA N U A R Y 7, 1939 APPEAL ARMY Hague Emboldened By C.I.O. Weakness FEBRUARY IS COMING! R e m e m b e r! 104 issues fo r th e Now with New Year’s safely same price as formerly! past and the Appeal drive at the » * * half-way mark, the time is ap CLEVELAND DOING FINE proaching for the actual issuance WORK! American Student Union McKinney Hails Twice-Weekly of the twice-weekly Appeal. In NEW INJUNCTIONS When we go out of our way the time left between now and B y e . r . m c k i n n e y to praise a branch for its good February those branches that work in handling the Appeal you have not already laid their plans CHALLENGE UNION The Twice-a-Week Appeal should be welcomed by every can rest assured that such praise Takes Rabid Jingo Line worker, by every reader, by every sympathizer of the Socialist for extra distribution activity must be deserved! And Cleveland Workers Party and all those who want to see a real revolution must take -action immediately. It The fourth annual convention which we mean non-interfer mongering methods, the conven deserves its full share for its RIGHTS I n JERSEY ary workers' paper increase its influence and prestige in the is up to the literature agents in of the Stalinist controlled Amer ence in the affairs of other na- tion welcomed the announcement recent great pick-up in activity. United States. these branches to bring the ican Student Union, meeting in tions, common consultation to b y P re s id e n t R oose ve lt th a t 20,- This branch is taking more pa problem to the attention of all 000 students must be trained for The Twice-a-Week Socialist Appeal is an answer to the pers than ever before; actually Union-Busting Drive New York during Christmas week, safeguard the Hemisphere m em bers. completed its transition from a ' against fascist penetration, and the army air corps. Molly Yard, demands made on the revolutionary party—the Socialist W ork selling and paying for them. We Also, we urge literature agents Resumed Full m ilitant anti-war force to an out the carrying thru of the trade speaking on the floor of the con ers Party—for more frequent discussion and interpretation of have in our hands a fine leaflet to start sending in their increased right jingoistic, war propaganda agreement program in such a vention, stated that she was the many significant national and world-wide events in which distributed to workers and de bundle-orders at once so that we Blast agency on the campus when they way as will strengthen democ proud to say that she welcomed the working class of the United States Is involved. Further scribing the contents of the can lay our plans. The success adopted resolutions in favor of racy in the Western Hemi the m ilitary aviation training pro more. the appearance of the Socialist Appeal twice a week Appeal. This leaflet might be of the twice-weekly paper natu NEW ARK, N. J.—The failure of “national defense" and R.O.T.C. sphere.” posed by Roosevelt for the stu means a doubling of the volume of news stories; especially, used as a model—not only in its rally depends upon greatly in the C.I.O. to lift the fight against The Young People’s Socialist dent bodies because she felt that trade union news, the doings of Congress and Roosevelt’s war attractive appearance but in con Recruiting Sergeant’s Manual creased circulation. New York Hagueism, for civil liberties and League, which broke from the in that way we could be guaran preparations. tent—by branches throughout the City, Detroit and Cleveland are workers’ rights, out of the drag- A.S.U. last September because of The discussions at the conven teed that the air force will be Send in subscriptions and contributions now! Support the c o u n try . already on record to handle many
(Continued from Page 1) non fodder. The potentkl man dends, interest and super-pronts economic vassals of the Northern of the great foreign monopolies— American proletarians do not necessities of a war. Most of these power reserves of LatinAmerica on the five billion dollars (40% of colossus. mostly American or British—to have anything in common with materials are to be found in the Fight Is Against Im perialism ! these aristocrats and lackeys. equal those of the Unite< States. A m e ric a ’s to ta l investments Fave Way For Fascists make them believe that the anti We are confident that the ers Government. rest of the Western Hemisphere. Today, in fact, its imnediately abroad) invested in the mines, imperialist fighters and the revo-j Though miserably deceived by Latin American masses will not When petty bourgeois national Among these raw materials are available trained manpower is su petroleum, public services, elec In the dependent and semi lutionary militants are nothing the labor lieutenants and the allow themselves to be auped in ist leaders like Haya de la Torre Canadian nickel, Bolivian tin, perior to that of the Yankee tricity, meat packing, territorial colonial countries of Latin Amer but agents of Wall Street and Stalinist hirelings, the millions of to abandoning the anti-imperial or Grau San Martin, or "social rubber, manganese, Brazilian and metropolis! Washington istimates concessions and plantations which ica the fight against fascism is London. This method is the American proletarians have true ist struggle, which w ill continue ist” leaders like Grove, abandon Columbian coffee, Argentine wool, that Latin America can immedi constitute the key positions in the finance capital — i.e., American principal one used by all the na class instincts. They feel in their despite the efforts of dollar dip- the traditional struggle against Chilean nitrate, Mexican silver, ately put into the held nrore than economic life of Latin America. finance capital which holds the tive fascists in Latin America depths that the enemy who ex U. S. im p e ria lis m in o rd e r to petroleum from Venzuela, Colom a million, men with m iliUry train omacy to stifle it. lion's share and is the chief im backed directly or indirectly by ploits them in this country is the It must be stressed that tfic unite with it for a "common" bia, Mexico, etc. ing. This means that, as soon as The gentlemen of Wall Street perialism oppressing the two con Hitler or Mussolini: the Integral- same oppressor who keeps under principal enemy of the Latin struggle against fascism, the Nazi Cannon-fodder too war breaks out, the wry first are terrified by the danger that tinents—and its native agents. istas of Brazil, the Gold Shirts an even more terrible yoke the American peoples is not fascism agents in Latin America are Latin-Amerlcan contains anoth- shots will initiate pajment to the Mexican example will prove The Latin American capitalists, of Mexico, the Nacistas of Chile, semi-slave masses of peasants in general but imperialism. Fas quite content. The capitulation of ei raw material of primary im Uncle Sam of blood tribite by the contagious. They move to block far from being able to lead a the Brown Shirts of Argentina, and workers south of the Rio these leaders makes it easier to portance which American military* the road to more audacious ex cism in Latin America is only struggle for the independence of Grande. Speak out to your broth oppressed peoples of Lain Amer- reach the masses with fascist etc. experts greedily eye: man, can- propriations. They grant the de one of the uniforms used by one their countries, simply become ers in the North, workers and demagogy. It also makes it easier Thus, to suspend the struggle gree of "democrats” and "anti of the imperialist cliques. agents of Yankee imperialism. peasants of Latin America, and for the fascists to make connec against Yankee or British im fascists" to dictators like Vargas The liberation of Latin America they w ill learn to answer you in Knemy Is At Home tions with those national capital and Benevides, while they insinu is a task that falls to the work perialism, even for a single mo- a common tongue, in unison American Totalitarianism In the advanced democratic ists (mainly the local industrial The political and military ob ate through the kept press that ers and peasants in struggle ment, is to hand the masses over against the common oppressor! however, who can beleve that countries, not to struggle above ists) who aspire to economic in jectives of Wall Street in Latin Cardenas favors fascism. against the imperialists and to the mercies of the fascists, to The Socialist Workers Party threat is imminent, when we see all against your own national dependence. The agents of Hitler against their own immediate ex •nake it easier for the fascistof the_ United^ States, section of America are totalitarian, embel Japan entirely absorbed in China, Knows No Lim it capitalist class and its "demo or Mussolini can thus mask them lished though they are by Roose- p lo ite rs. enemy to conquer from the in the Fourth International, revolu Germany geared to the Herculean In squeezing the Latin Ameri cratic” governments, means not selves as nationalists. They can veltian democracy. Washington tionary vanguard of the Ameri task of devouring Easern Eur to defend democracy but to pre Dictators Backed by U. S. make use of the masses’ hatred side! can lemon, W all Street piles con can workers, before the brother seeks a monopoly in everything: ope, and Italy preoccuped in the pare the way for fascism. If the The reactionary dictatorships tradiction upon contradiction. It peoples of Latin America de in raw materials and markets, in Mediterranean? This pretext was examples of Italy, Germany, Aus- j that rule most of Latin America obliges the tributary countries to nounces the grim comedy of ideology and politics, in foreign unmasked for their own purposes tria, and Spain did not suffice, are maintained by the support buy only in the American mar Rulers Cannot Fight Fascism Lima. We warn our brothers in relations, in m ilitary missions, by the representatives >f "demo we now have the fresh examples they get from Washington or director of the country’s agricul kets, but at the same time drains The reactionary dictatorships Latin America against the ma war supplies, naval and air lines cratic" English imperalism at of Czechoslovakia and France. I London, the imperialist capitals. tural and credit bank. In Peru, into its own coffers the gold of in the majority of Latin Ameri neuvers of the American delega and bases, in military prepara Lima, the Argentine debates. Czech democracy quietly and au- j The danger of a Nazi, Italian, or more than half the country’s these countries, demands prompt can countries cannot serve as in tion whicj^ spoke there for Wall tions. Washington wants no other tomatically transformed Itself in- j Japanese invasion of Peru, Ar- banking activity is controlled by No, these sensational prepara payment for old debts, the end of struments of struggle against in Street. We appeal to the semi powers — not even "democratic” to fascism. In France the much- gentina, or Nicaragua does not the Bank of Italy. In Brazil, tions are not for defersive pur exchange control by the Latin ternational fascism but rather as colonial peoples of the south to France!— to maintain military acclaimed chief of the People's, lie in a spectacular armed inva- Vargas divides the Amazon re poses. That pretext merely serves American governments, and the channels for its penetration. The unite with us against the com missions in Latin America. Wash Front, Daladier, decided almost ‘ sion by the armies and navies or gion between the Mikado and to delude American workers and immediate handing over of Wall mock constitution granted (by mon enemy: imperialism, and ington obliges the Latin American overnight, with the complete sup the totalitarian powers. The ri Henry Ford. In Santo Domingo, to frighten the peoples and gov» Street credits now frozen in divine right?) to Brazil by Presi that includes the American countries, one after another, to port of his party, to begin the re valries among the imperialist Trujillo opens a land concession ernments of Latin Amtrica into Latin American banks for lack of d e n t V a rg a s on N ov. 10, 1937, brand. We pledge our unremit dispense with long - established actionary offensive and conscious bandits serve to protect Latin to 40,000 Nazifled Germans. In seeking shelter under (he wings exchange. As if this were not was directly modelled on totali ting aid in rallying the working Eui opean m ilitary, naval or avia ly prepare for the transition to America from such an invasion. these countries farm hands and of the Yankee eagle. If these enough, Wall Street tries to de tarian lines. His coup d’etat was class of this country in effective tion missions and to establish fascism. The same process of In order to make a landing on European immigrants, suffering arms, apart from their ise in the prive these countries of their tra planned and carried out with the solidarity with the Latin Ameri new, exclusively' American ones. democratic degeneration will in the coast of Brazil, Germany coming inter-imperialist war, are ditional markets for products active participation of the Integ- under the general economic back It even leases war vessels to can peoples in their struggles for employed in Latin Ame ica, they which America also produces evitably take place in this coun would first have to destroy the wardness, and contemptuous of Brazil. The old plan for a second ralistas and other Nazi agents. If national freedom. try unless the American woraers American fleet, and probably the the cultural inferiority of their will be used there, vhen the (wheat, cotton, sugar, etc.). The Vargas did not at that time For Joint Struggle canal, in Nicaragua, is taken from succeed in overthrowing the cap British as well. But their chances new lands, are easily attracted by i necessity arises, to crush revolu catalogue is not complete without transform himself into a Brazil The liberation of Latin Ameri the archives. M ilitary aides are italists and establishing a Work- of doing that are still remote. tionary mass movements for na referring to the reprisals ano ian Henlein, it was only because the racial myths and respond to sent to all the Latin American ca from the imperialist yoke, the tional independence in :he semi boycotts organized by Wall he feared popular opposition and the perfected demagogic tech capitals with the objective of destruction of the threat of fas colonial countries! The Yankee Street against any country civil war and could not count on nique of the German and Italian molding their military mechan cist intervention at its very roots, imperialists cannot be defenders which, like Mexico, dares to ex Fascist Danger Is At Home sufficient direct aid from Hitler. propaganda machines. isms into the strategic plans elab can be achieved only by common of those peoples of whom they' propriate imperialist concessions. The Immediate danger of fas-1 nourished by the patronage of Struggle Must Be Revolutionary j orated in Washington. American He chose, therefore, to return to action of the American working are the principal exploiters airel Wall Street cannot but strangle cist domination in Latin America American imperialism and by the The conclusion from all this is military, naval or aviation mis the fold of his old Yankee mas class with the worker and peas oppressors. Woe to any people the goose that lays its golden is internal. It rears its head in fact that the Latin American ters. Meanwhile his “democratic” clear: semi-colonial Latin Amer sions are already' operating in ant masses of Central and South which listens to the mermaid song eggs. each and every country. It is ' countries are transformed into ica, an opressed continent, can Brazil, Argentina. Peru, Haiti, constitution cloaks a regime of A m e rica . of Washington! That song is as terror, concentration camps, de not escape Fascism without strug Guatema, Columbia, and they are To this great historic task the deceiving as the tunes emanating portations to plague-infested is gling against imperialist oppres coming in other countries; they Bolshevik-Leninists of the United from Berlin, London, Tokyo, Paris sion. But this struggle means na do not instruct, nor will they in lands, torture and murder. Trade States summon all the revolu o r Rom e. tional independence. It means struct, the forces of these coun unions are organs of the state tionary, anti-imperialist and na and political parties are prohi an agrarian revolution to bring tries in the special problems of Democracy Stretches tional-democratic forces of Latin bited. This is the kind of “de about the distribution of land to their own defense, but aim to cre The enslaved peoples of Latin A m e rica . mocracy" Roosevelt asks the tho tillers. It means expropria ate strategic bases for the war America cannot but feel a sarcas Our Fate Is Yours Latin American people to defend tion of the foreign monopolies. plans of American imperialism. tic note in the call for common Your national independence against the advance of the Fas It means the granting of unre Cuba already is nothing more defense of democracy issued by will be a gigantic step in speed cists from across the Atlantic! stricted democratic liberties to than an outpost of the American Roosevelt-Hull to the Latin-Axner- ing the socialist revolution in the Fascist Economic Gains the people ahd the elevation of naval system, as much so as Por ican governments. What sort of United States. Likewise the vic These regimes, by their very the living standard of the masses. to Rico. All this is geared into democracy can these governments tory of the proletarian revolu nature, favor the penetration not This is the only program that can Roosevelt’s gigantic armament defend, the satrapies of Getulio tion in this country will guaran only of Fascist ideas, but of Fas liberate the millions of Latin program, for which we are being Vargas, Benevides, Somosa, Tru tee the complete liberation of the cist economic and political influ American slaves from the chains called upon to provide astro jillo, Batista and Company? To people» of Latin America. Our ence. Thus the German consul of imperialist oppression, of fas- nomical sums. day they are the devoted lackeys fate is indissolubly linked with in Salvador assumes the post of cism, and creole dictatorships! A Flimsy Alibi of W all Street, but tomorrow they yours. The pretext for building this w ill unhesitatingly sell themselves In the coming struggle for tremendous apparatus is a threat to Hitler or to the Mikado, if the freedom, the historic task of the by a foreign totalitarian power. switch would serve to continue "Anti-Fascist" Illusions revolutionary vanguard of the Under world conditions today. them in power. Unfortunately, this program is Stalin’s personal organ, Pr&vda, United States and of Latin Amer rejected not only by imperialist urged the United States to have ica, organized under the banner I hirelings but by nationalist petty- "a more active foreign policy” of the Fourth International, will What They Mean by Democracy bourgeois leaders who are im and to enter into “common action be to place itself in the forefront pressed by the advance of the with all the democratic elements of that battle and lead it to a The defense of "democratic” in- l year it rose again to 34.4% for the ! fascist powers and by noisy Stal of Latin America, as the only triumphant conclusion. stitutions means concretely to whole of Latin America — more inist demagogy. Haya de la Torre, possible way of resisting the de For the national Independence Washington two things: the eradi- than the combined imports from for example, believes in the "sin structive forces of fascism.” Thus, of the Latin American countries! cation of German-Nipponese com- , Great Britain, Germany, Japan cerity” of Roosevelt. Why? Be while Roosevelt drags the dicta For the agrarian revolution and petition and the preservation of and Italy. But Germany—prac- cause Roosevelt has not yet used tors and fuehrers of Latin Am er the national and social liberation the concessions and privileges of ; tically eliminated in 1920 as a troops and cannons like some of ica into the "democratic anti- of the semi-colonial peoples the big American trusts against i consequence of the war — has his predecessors and teachers fascist front.” the Stalinists at For the proletarian, socialist the bourgeois-nationalist indepen- j meanwhile pushed into second (Wilson!). Haya de la Torre tempt to entice into it the popular revolution In the United States! denoe movements exemplified by ! place ahead of England and has simply does not understand that anti-imperialist leaders. Stalin's For the Federation of Socialist Toro in Bolivia and Cardenas in j become, thanks to its methods of W all Street is not yet reduced to supreme hope lies in W all Street Soviet Republics of all the Amer M exico. • control, subsidies, etc., the most methods of last resort and des and he demonstrates to it his ica s! Behind Roosevelt’s sonorous | serious competitor of the United peration. Hitler cannot wait; but usefulness. The Popular Front of N e w Y o rk , D ecem ber, 1938. phrases is the determination to I statS8' seeking to open a breach Roosevelt can. Chile is the most finished expres assure the monopoly of Latin-1 in the zone of Yankee monopoly. Tweedledum and Tweedledee sion of that policy. America’s markets. The constant Slogans Hide Reality If Browder, fuehrer of Ameri turmoil and the growing political To defend itself against its com In essence, however, Roose can Stalinism, could not find a DRIVERS' LEADERS and economic restrictions in the petitors, Wall Street raises the velt's foreign policy is that of place in the American delega European and Asiatic markets liberal slogan of return to Tree his predecessor and of his Re tion as a lackey of Hull-Landon, makes the Latin American mar commerce; in actual content, how publican rivals. Landon’s place JAILED IN AKRON his superiors in the hierarchy of kets ever more important to Wall ever, that slogan gives Latin In the American delegation at labor lieutenants of Wall Street Street Latin America now takes America the same status as was Lima demonstrates that fact. did appear. John L. Lewis’ daugh By R. FERGUSON 20% of all American exports. De held by the American colonies There are no differences on im ter (C.I.O.) and Tracy (A.F.L.) AKRON, Ohio — tw o drivers’ spite its supremacy in commercial when they did not have the right perialist policies within the rul were there to provide a "work union business agents were sen relations with the twenty south to trade except with the British ing class of the United States. ing class" sanction for America’» tenced to one and two day jail e rn re p u b lics since 1918, the crown. As for the "defense of In Stalin Serves Roosevelt predatory policy. The Latin terms for violation of an anti- United States feels itself threat ternational law,” it means simply Roosevelt’s demagogy is ably American peoples were presented picketing injunction last week ened by competitors and, as a that In spite of the fictitious sov served by Stalin and his minions with the spectacle of a sacred here. The charge of contempt of matter of fact, during the last ereignty of the dependent nations in deluding the Haya de la Tor- union extending from Izindon to court sent them to the "jug,” two years did lose first place in of the New World, the Yankees res. On April 17 of this year Browder. after they made a test-case of the five of the principal countries of reserve for themselves the right validity of a sweeping Injunction Latin America (Mexico, Brazil, to intervene in the internal life of against all picketing of a fink etc.). The American share of these states to restore, if neces gasoline station. South American importing mar sary by force, the privileges and Lackeys Do Not Speak For Us ! The labor lieutenants of Wall izes Itself with the imperialists Chet Smead, president of the ke ts w as 44% in 1920. b u t th a t fig monopolies that they enjoy there, Street, lackeys of the imperialist of their own country. This is Truck Drivers Joint Council, and ure decreased to 30%> in 1928; last or to impose new ones. exploiters of the Western Hemi- false! These lackeys of imperial- T. C. Dethloff, president of Taxi Only a few days after the Lima Conference came to an end huzzas for the united front of the sphere, by their presence at ism represent only the labor aris- D riv e rs lo ca l 345 w ere th e leaders American democracies—the black splotches on the map show those countries actually ruled by grlnd- Lima attempted to convey to the tocracy which lives off the sentenced for protesting the issu i lng dictatorships—the New York Tlmgs correspondent suddenly revealed that at Lima the dictator- The Right to Be Squeezed Latin American peoples and their crumbs cast to them by the im- ance of the injunction against "all In essence. Secretary Hull calls exploits in Mexico, Cuba, Haiti, ship of President Benavides had actually submitted the conference delegates to . kind of reign of j most ^pular_ leaders™ the” Haya perialUtsTrom theTr'fea^tsTt 'the persons” aiding Drivers Local 348. upon the Latin American states Nicaragua, etc.—the right to col ¡terror The Times headlined "censorship InHnddaUon and espionage" at Lima and the correspondent;^ u Torres. Qrau ^ Mar0 ^ ^ ^ Amerioan Together with John Ellis and to concede the right of Wall lect, with machine guns and can detailed a lengthy account of how Benavides had hounded the newsmen at the conference to prevent e*c ) iv,p ide f . Sam Pollock, two other A.F. of L Street' to repeat its past Infamous nons when required — the divi- anya n v nAtiMinews ofa # an anti-Fascistanil -Pa uniat nhoMnfflrcharacter fromIwttn Knlnbeing tr sentuanf abroad!a Kwva A f I . pOOp 68, American working class solidar- But the vast majority of the union business agents, these un ionists formed a "Civil Liberties Why Truth Comes Out the millions of functionaries. In officials and intellectuals, admin- Committee” to carry on picketing _ -a activities while Loesd 348 was un Why the present revelation? the past year, therefore, Soviet istrators and Stakhanovists, who Moscow Frameups Bared der legal restraint. The last two The murderous onslaught of the leaders have made various reas presumably were summoned in named escaped sentences because degenerate bureaucracy against suring speeches. But these have order to be directly reassured. LENIN MEMORIAL MEETING the judge found “a reasonable all its potential enemies let loose not achieved their aim. Finally, | The fact that the trials were not By Ukraine G.P. U. Trial doubt whether these two men had a Frankenstein which threatens in desperation, the bureaucracy reported throughout the Soviet willfully violated the court or to destroy everything, including has had to expose part of its own i Union indicates that the ruling (Continued from page 1) motivation for this trial in the Max Shachtman Speaks: d e r.” the bureaucracy itself. Industrial mechanism in the hope that this 1 clique still hopes to provide such tract the false confessions from fact that "much stress was placed The courtroom sessions were at production, m ilitary work, admin extraordinary step will create the reassurance by such local trial- the ten men who appeared as by the prosecution on the neces tended by large crowds of A.F. of istration in every sphere—every necessary reassurance. But in the demonstrations, with discreetly- ‘ HAS BOLSHEVISM FAILED?” prosecution witnesses.” The w it sity of the public’s having faith L. and C.I.O. unionists intensely thing falters as fear-paralyzed nature of the whole regime— iron- i limited audiences, and without In the political police.” “This interested in the case. The pres nesses were limited to describing functionaries and workers flinch ¡cal touch!— the scapegoats had to much publicity. The all-devour- crime is particularly heinous,” ence of these unionists "con that G.P.U. officials ‘'compelled” at every step, fearing that any aP« their own methods, convict- |ng paralysis, however, will not them to make the confessions. the prosecution declared in asking “From Tsar to Lenin" vinced” the judge that he had initiative, anything, may bring ing themselves in the Kiev tria] be lifted by these measures or, Ordinarily news out of Soviet the death sentence, “because it better tread lightly in his anti them into the view of the secret by self-confessions. indeed, by any measures which World-Famous Documentary Film Russia is limited to what ema has sullied the honorable name of labor activities. police and cause their downfall. No doubt these confessions, too, the bureaucracy itself can under- nates from Moscow officials and Chekist (G.P.U.) with contempt As though stricken with a plague ; had to be extorted by those very take. Nothing but the removal of the Moscow press. Apparently ible deeds.” of inertia, the whole nation sinks efficacious methods of "compel the Stalinist bureaucracy, the re FRIDAY, JANUARY 20 — 8P .M . Denny picked up the Kiev story Thus a tiny corner of the cur B onaparte into passive sullcnncss. The ter ling" which the authorities were vival of the Soviet and the estab independently of the official news tain has been lifted exposing a Pv EUGENE TABLE roristic methods of the ruling very careful not to have de lishment of a new revolutionary sources. In view of his former minor cog in the vast mechanism IR V IN G PLAZA — 15th Street and Irving Plaza A standard Marxist study clique thus endanger its own se scribed in the courtroom. The party can save the Soviet Union uncritical attitude, Denny’s un employed by Stalinism in the of Napoleon Bonaparte’s life curity, for its own power and extortion methods are kept se from destruction. derlining of the fact that the two-year blood purge of which Admission 40 cents av.d times. Ori finally sold for privileges require a functioning cret, undoubtedly, for the good .trial did not bring out the instru the three most celebrated trials - ’ 50— N o w fo r a lim ite d tim e society. and, sufficient reason that they Tickets Available at the Labor Bookshop, 28 E. 12th St., N.Y.C. mentalities employed to secure took place in Moscow but which o n ly. SI.?.'», (400 papres.) confessions speaks volumes. included hundreds of frame-up The ruling clique is therefore are still to be used In future Subscribe to Auspices: The Marxist School L.VBOR BOOKSHOP Preserve Faith in G.F.U. trials throughout the Soviet driven to find ways and means to 28 East 12th St, N. Y. C. Denny further points out the U nion. reassure the people, or at least The Kiev trial was attended by Socialist Appeal 4 SOCIALIST APPEAL JA N U A R Y 7, 1939
In a few words: the Navy gang knew that SOCIALIST APPEAL Grace was using scab sponsoring a company union and intimidating workers from becom Socialist Party Comes to An End VoL H I—No. 1 Saturday, January 7, 1989 ing real union men. And Grace knew he could Published every week by the sponsor a company union and unibn-busting Party Folds Up to Become an "Educational" Society (Conducted by the National Educational Department) SOCIALIST APPEAL PUBLISHING ASS’N. methods and get the Navy contract. Inside the American Labor Party a t 116 U niversity Place. New Y ork, N . Y . Telephone: N atio n al O ffice: Algonquin 4-8547 QUESTION: How do you answer the argument that the big The whole army-navy building program as armaments program »411 provide jobs?—M.B.F., Boston. By the combined support of the PATCH UP A LITTLE MISUNDERSTANDING Subscriptions: $2.00 per year; $1.00 for six revealed by this little incident is, in the final extreme right wing (Thomas- ANSWER: If the armaments program is a "blessing” for this months. Foreign $2.50 per year. Bundle order analysis, a scab union-busting program. It starts 3 cents per copy. Single copies 5 cents. Laidler) and their Tyler-Zamlte reason, then so was the tornado that swept the East not long ago. by giving the plums to open shops as well as satellites, a majority of the mem It cannot be denied that tornadoes, earthquakes, fires, etc., also All checks and money orders should be made out to the Socialist Appeal. to unionized establishments. Then as war comes bership of the New York State provide jobs—provided they take place on a sufficiently large Entered as second-class matter September 1, closer and the might of the militarist gang Socialist Party has Just voted in scale. It is obvious, however, that such calamities waste the 1937, at the post office at New York, New York, favor of a proposition submitted wealth of society and make every member of society so much (working hand-in-glove with the New Deal under the A ct of M arch 3, 1879. to referendum by the State Com poorer. "liberals” ) increases, it begins to make inroads mittee which provides for the The same is true of the armaments program. The products MAX SHACHTMAN on the union organizations. That’s what the members of the S.P. entering the of this industry do not go to satisfy a single human need; they E dito r M-Day Plan is for. It begins with a little favor American Labor Party. do not add a whit to the wealth and goods available to society. HAROLD ROBERTS GEORGE CLARKE itism for company unions and ends by putting The vote really brings to a con The government might just as well decide on a billion-dollar pro gram to build Egyptian pyramids every mile from coast to coast. Asociate Editors the real unions behind the eight-ball. clusion a whole stage of develop 8. STANLEY, Business Manager ment of the Thomas organization On the contrary, unlike pyramids, the armaments program means There's a real point in Grace recalling that and marks its voluntary liquida the expenditure of money (wasting of wealth) in order to make possible the destruction of more wealth, not to speak of lives— the company union plan was worked out in tion as a political party. Its liq Musica and Business Secrets uidation as a left wing organiza this being the sole use for which armaments are manufactured. 1918 in cooperation with the W ar Labor Board. The armaments program, in brief, means expenditure for (Reprinted from the Northwest Organizer of tion was effected some time ago. It is not merely a recollection— it is a predic After its break with the incor socially useless, or rather socially destructive ends. We propose December 22, 1938) tion of the way things w ill look when war rigible social - democratic "Old that the huge sums which Roosevelt wants appropriated to build This Coster case gives us ideas. Why not begins. Guard" a few years ago, the So huge battleships, and make machine-guns and poison gas, be spent let the workers of the United States get a good cialist party not only took on new rather on low-cost, non-profit housing, to provide substitutes for the slums; to build decent dwellings for the families now con long gander at those financial operations that life but moved rapidly in the di rection of revolutionary Marxism. demned to live in fire-traps and unsanitary hovels. Homes, not even now are being covered up by the uncaught The growth of a genuine left wing battleships! This expresses sharply the contradiction between ad Costers and Whitneys in the marts of trade Hitler Apes Stalin in its ranks, however, frightened vocacy of the armaments program and the interests of the masses and gold? the centrists and the right-wing NORMAN THOMAS A B E C AH AN of workers. On January 3rd H itler initiated the biggest W hy not find out exactly why these big ers who had remained after the which depends entirely on the so much by Thomas, much less It is also noteworthy that out of a billion dollars spent on corporations can’t pay a living wage? W hy they "treason" trial in his six years of power. As one split With a bureaucratic cyni policy which it is intended to fol Zam, as by Alex Rose, Dubinsky armaments, as against a billion dollar's spent on (say) W.P.A., a can't provide more jobs ? reads the official dispatches and the accounts of cism not exceeded by any Stalin low inside it, means in the given and Hillman. smaller percentage of the former will end up in the hands of the first day of the trial, one is forcibly reminded ist clique, the Thomas-Tyler lead case the end of the S.P. as a In a word, its “existence” will the needy workers themselves, because of the exorbitant profit- Let labor's trusted representatives open the ership thereupon arbitrarily ex of Stalin’s juridical methods. H itler seems to political party. Two years or so be as real and independent and making which is rampant in the munition-making industry. books of the big corporations. pelled from the party every mem It cannot be denied that the great armament programs of have drawn more than one leaf from the book ago, virtually the entire party critical and free as is that of the We know the trusts and the big shots don't ber who stood for a revolutionary membership looked askance at the S.D.F., its partner in the coming other countries have resulted in propping up industrial activity, keep any secrets from each other. The business of the Moscow trials. p ro g ra m . proposals of Alfred Baker Lewis family reconciliation. You can at least at first, and have created a kiryl of artificial prosperity, secrets o f today are part of a gigantic plot of As in the Moscow models, one learns in ad Prediction Confirmed and Co. to convert the S.P. into more easily catch a bird by salt temporarily and on a limited scale. It acts as a shot-in-the-arm the monopolists against the interests o f the peo vance that those who are to be tried are already The mass expulsion of left an educational society, that is, in ing its tail than catch Laidler and for capitalism, temporarily stimulating but leading eventually and shortly to an even greater relapse. ple. assumed to be guilty: some seventeen or- so wingers took the. heart and soul to a "respectable” Fabian club. Company saying or doing any out of the S.P. Hundreds who No other party leader dared then thing that hurts the bureaucratic Thus far, we have answered the question on the basis of W hy not see how many Musicas, Whitneys, are to be beheaded. The trial is preceded by were not expelled, dropped out in to associate himself with this political position of the A.L.P. economic considerations. But it would be short-sighted to look Mellons, Insulls and Morgans there are, rob vituperative official releases. The chief victims disgust. The left wing, which plan. Tyler-Zam and their friends h ie ra rc h y . upon the armaments program as a measure for domestic economic bing, faking, plundering the wealth of the un are presented as oppositionists from of old, when formed the Socialist Workers even denounced it sternly as op Future for S.P. M ilitants recovery. The armament program is another link in Roosevelt’s derpaid workers who produce the goods they they have actually been adherents of the regime. Party a year ago, did not have portunist liquidation. That oppor What is left of Thomas’ famous preparation for the imperialist war which he knows is inevitable. finagle with. Ernst Niekisch, the most prominent defendant long to wait for the fulfillm ent of tunist liquidation is now being "all-inclusive" party? Little more It is one of the laps in the arms race which is progressing so its prediction: it declared that realized jointly by Lewis, Thomas than reminiscences of the tender Let’s have a good old-fashioned peeking con in the Nazi court, is presented as a Socialist feverishly among all the nations of the world. It Is Roosevelt’s with the left wing gone, the ex a n d T y le r, moments it spent together with saber-rattling to catch the attention of Germany and Japan. test, with the American workers for judge. who "antagonized National Socialism long be treme right wing would have un To make absolutely sure that the "Old Guard” in the years gone This means that sooner or later the armaments program Then we’ll find out who it is that's cheating fore 1933” ; actually be became a militarist in disputed and undisputable sway the remnants of the S.P. are prop by; there w ill be many such mo W ILL provide a job for every able-bodied man—the job of killing erly house-broken, the unification whom. 1923, supported the Nazi conquest in 1933, in the party and would reduce it ments again in the days to come. his fellow-workers in foreign uniforms. We w ill be permitted to and published a newspaper after H itler became to a conservative, impotent, so with the Social-Democratic Fed Yet there is a little more than fight for the investments of the Fat Boys in Latin America and eration, led by the distinguished Chancellor. cial-democratic "educational” sect. that. In the referendum in New elsewhere, while dictatorship is clamped down at home, the m ili Precisely that has happened now. "revolutionary socialists" Abe York, a surprising number of How the Arms Program Works The trial, like the Moscow ones, includes tant labor movement is smashed, labor is squeezed to carry on The membership of the S.P. has Cahan and James Oneal, is being members (85 out of 345, or one- the war, and Roosevelt makes pretty speeches about “democ On December 30th, the U.S. Navy awarded a rushed to completion. The politic secret sessions, while the public sessions are to been reduced to a shadow—a far fourth) voted against the State racy.” This is the armament program's job—nothing else. quarter of a m illion dollar contract to the Beth cry from the days, only a few al program of the united organ Committee proposition. In this, we be in the nature of demonstrations, with some (Readers of the Socialist Appeal are urged to submit their years ago,' when it looked down ization can easily be imagined are sure, these comrades did not lehem Steel Corporation. twenty-two principal defendants and numerous questions for an answer by this department.) contemptuously upon the small now. It w ill differ from the classic express an unbending opposition Two days before, E. G. Grace, Czar of the supernumaries. It is reported they w ill confess revoutionary groups from the opportunism of the present S.D.F. to working inside the A.L.P. on a corporation, announced to the press that he in open court. It w ill be a big show. "h e ig h ts " o f its 15-20,000 m em ber like a skinny mouse differs from revolutionary socialist program, •would fight recommendations of the N.L.R.B. Stalin, however, still leads H itler in the ship. In the last elections, it was two skinnier mice. After 37 years as their distrust of the unprin to disband the 20-year old company union. number of victims. virtually wiped out as an electoral of independent existence in New cipled and opportunistic leaders C P . MISRULE machine, losing its place on the York, the Socialist party w ill have of the S.P. This distrust is fully New York ballot because it failed produced a Fabian mouse, looking warranted, for gentlemen like to poll even half of the required in its old age for scraps of cheese Laidler and Altman w ill do exact IS EXPOSED IN votes; its showing elsewhere was in the A.L.P. ly as much to infuse the A.L.P. the worse yet recorded in the last The Centrist Lament with a class-struggle program as TEACHERS UNION THEIRWAGE IS ONE CENT AN HOUR! 30-40 years. The "m inority” statement of the Louis Waldman and August Claes- Zamites in the referendum, which sens have done—neither more nor How do the millions of workers earn 10 to 19 cents pe r h o u r. In Act. They have already begun a The Dual Strategy (Continued from page I) Simultaneously, the right wing endorsed the m ajority proposition, less. down at the bottom of the eco New York City over 25 percent campaign of firing and evasion. cratic regime which the Stalinists developed a “dual" strategy. First nevertheless begged piteously that But what will these comrades nomic ladder live? The answer to earn 20 cents per hour or less. T o-date 3,300 co m p la in ts have have established in the Teachers’ ly, dissolve the party into the "there must not be an unorganiz do now? And the youth comrades this question, long-shrouded in The Roosevelt "solution,” the been registered by unions and Union, the resignation of four A.L.P., now that the S.P. had the ed rush which will denude the in particular, for among them mystery and kept from public at Wage and Hour Act, which is to groups of workers. In Puerto Rico prominent members of Teachers “good fortune” to cease being an branches and sub-committees of there arc still many who want a tention by the venal press, is now maintain “the minimum standard 120,000 o f th e is la n d ’s 420,000 College served to bring the fact "official party,” which makes its personnel and make independent m ilitant socialist party? To all ol coming to light thanks to the of living necessary for health, ef workers are being laid off, bring dramatically before public atten members eligible for membership socialist existence impossible in them, the Socialist Workers Party Wages and Hours Bill. ficiency and general well being," ing the number of unemployed tio n . in the Labor Party of New York. fact, even though guaranteed in and the Young People’s Socialist Compelled to seek information a pplies o n ly to those 11,000,000 th e re to 350,000. Saw m ills in A r Secondly, fuse with the Social theory." The plea will be coldly League (Fourth International) Professor Childs pointed out for the purposes of applying the workers whose products or ser kansas and Mississippi have Democratic Federation, that is, ignored by Thomas, I^aidler ana call for true socialist unity, on a that he had, in fact, resigned Bill, the Wages and Hours Ad vices are used in commerce be closed. 5,000 to 7,000 w o rk e rs o f return to the withered bosom of Altman, who are the real and only revolutionary Marxist program. from the Local some time last ministration has uncovered de tween the states. Under the Act the pecan shelling industry the "Old Guard." bosses. The "independent socialist Their place js with us, comrades Spring, but had not made his grading conditions of poverty and they are to receive not less than around San Antonio have been The entry into the A.L.P., not existence" in store foCSSie S.P. in a common struggle. Is it not withdrawal public out of a de exploitation which has kept mil 25 cents an hour and their work shown the gate. In the North, the C. L. R. JAMES w ill be circumscribed rigidly not time they took their proper place? sire not to injure the union. He week is limited to 44 hours for Western Union Telegraph Com at all reprehensible in itself but lions of workers in the black pit was impelled to make the an the first year; the second year pany has threatened to dump 3,- of coolie misery. Out of then- nouncement publicly, he said, they will receive 30 cents and slave labor comes the fabulous 125 "boys” onto the street because only after an insinuating and work 42 hours; the third year the company is operating at a C L. R. JAMES wealth of the Doris Dukes, the characteristic attack had been they will receive 30 cents and d e fic it ($1,615,919 fo r th e fir s t ten 11,000 DRIVERS Barbara Huttons, the Brenda made upon him and his associates work 40 hours; the eighth year months of 1938); yet R. B. White, Fraziers and the rest of the para BRENDA'S PARTY in the pages of the Nation by OPENS NATIONAL they are to get 40 cents and work president, and Newcomb Carlton, sitic, upper-class bums of the 60 STRIKE IN N.Y. the well-known C. P. stooge, ruling families. 40 hours. Time-and-a-half is to be c h a irm a n , c o n tin u e to d ra w $76,- (Continued from page 1) that the doors of "democratic j James Wechsler. The Wechsler paid for overtime. 770 and $62,065 per year. TOUR IN PHILA. (Continued from page 1) article was calculated to discredit The Wages and Hours Bill in 500 was spent on champagne for America" may be opened to them, j no way solves the problem of sub In terms of real life this wage C om pared w ith A m e ric a ’s ca years two weeks vacation with in advance any possible public one evening, and a n o th e r $1,000 And here are a gang of gigo- i C. L R. James, noted English standard labor. It merely smears scale means that a man lives de pacity to produce, the Act’s $11 pay. criticism that Childs might make for Scotch and rye and just plain los and clothes-horses, swilling | lecturer and writer, opened a na a little soothing salve on this fes cently and marries on $11 per worth of purchasing power is a The union is asking for 45 per- of Stalinist misrule in the Union. Bourbon. And you can't just sit around like so many swine at a tional speaking tour on Friday, tering sore in the aim of making week. The second year he is mockery. It has time and again gildcd trough, wallowing drunk- jCGnt ^e gross take for day around making a pig of yourself Militants Fight C. P. Misrule January 6th, in Philadelphia, and American wdrkers more amenable raised to $12.60 and p u ts a couple been shown that a living wage be enly in champagne, sonirtlmr I men and 50 P^cent for mght at the table, can you? So another s q u irtin g w ill speak in Newark on Sunday, of kids into the world. By the g in s a t $30. B y s e ttin g such a ! men. Under the expired contract Militants in the New York to becoming cannon fodder in a w a y a b o u t $50,000 fo r ju s t one th e 8th. $2,500 w as p a id fo r a little m usic the men obtained 42 % percent. Teachers' Union, who have long Wall Street's coming war, and of time the eighth year comes sub-standard minimum the gov night of celebration—the "coming ! to keep things moving. And Elimination of company strong- been conducting an organized A scries of meetings addressed easing competitive conditions for around he is getting $16 per week ernment has encouraged the boss out" of a worthless social parasite. 1 what’s the good of music if you fight against the class-collabora by James in New York prior to the big capitalists. and is looking ■ for investments es to reduce wages. This was done arm squads is also one of the ca n ’t dance? So a n o th e r $500 w e n t Relieving Miss Frazier for his surplus cash. under the N.R.A. and w ill be done pressing demands. tionist bureaucracy of the C. P., his departure brought enthusias Down at the bottom of thi» pit to buy 300 gigolos to keep the Why, it would be the easiest ; a g a in . Union officials said that day have expressed themselves as re tic praise for his oratorical abil are the workers in the needle B ill Does Not Effect All thing in the world to maintain Whether or not the Act can girls amused at the party. m en w ere now a ve ra g in g $17 gretting the decision of the col ity and capacity for analysis of trades, cane sugar, fertilizer, It must constantly be borne in hundreds of thousands of refu- even to some slight degree benefit And you wouldn’t expect them w e e kly and n ig h t m en $15. T he lege teachers involved to quit the world events. Audiences w ill have pecan shelling and lumber indus mind that the Act w ill affect only gees in this country! It would be . dcmands would bring a pay jn_ labor as a whole w ill only be de to dance around in a room that u n io n . an opportunity to hear him in al tries of Puerto Rico and the some 2,225,000 o f th e 11,000,000 looks like a barn, would you? So just as easy to extend real relief ! crease most every important city in the workers directly or indirectly en cided by the activity of the trade Their position is that it is— S outh. to the millions of unemployed. | However, there is another issue United States. gaged in interstate commerce. unions. It is not enough for them a n o th e r $1,500 w e n t fo r decora now more than ever—necessary One Cent an Hour to register complaints with the tions, including flowers. Nor All that has to be done is to behind the strike upon which the to stay in the union and extend His next lectures are scheduled T h e 24,000,000 w o rk e rs w ho are relieve Miss Frazier of most of future of the union depends and In Puerto Rico, for instance, Wage and Hour Division. Where could you take chances on any the fight against the disastrous for the following dates and not so engaged receive no atten her worries. Just slap a tax—a which can be according to U.S. Labor Depart the bosses lay off and reduce roughnecks crashing a quiet little met successfully policies and leadership of the places: tion whatsoever. real one—on the fortune which m e n t s ta tis tic s , 31.4 p e rce n t o f wages, the unions must demand private party, could you? So an only through strike victory. Stalinists. Many of them feel There are other tremendous she squanders in slop and swill. liew Haven: Tuesday, January the women engaged in the needle inspection of the books looking o th e r $400 w e n t to h ire p riv a te Make-Work Fakery gratified at the statement by Pro gaps in the A ct Child Labor (un Slap the same stiff tax on ali the 10, F ra te rn a l H a ll, 19 E lm S treet, trades earn less than one (1) cent toward reinstatement and restora dicks for the night. It is the problem of cab service fessor George S. Counts, former der 16) in interstate commerce is members of her useless class! 8 p.m.: "The Twilight of the per hour, 3L1 percent earn one tion of wages if the boss can pay. during the coming World's Fair. collaborator of the Stalinists who p ro h ib ite d . 50,000 c h ild re n w ill be She Needs Relaxation British Empire." Wednesday, Jan and under two cents and 31.4 per If the business is running at a And if the working class were Grover Whalen, commissioner of has recently broken with them, released from sweatshops immedi In a word, Miss Frazier's party uary 11, Negro Community Cen cent earn two and under four deficit, as Western Union is, the to fight for that, for really put the World's Fair, has proposed a but who has declared, in connec ately. Yet the New Deal has made set h e r b a ck some $25,000-$50,000 te r. cents. Adult male labor in the workers must demand that the ting the squeeze on the parasite reactionary scheme. He wants tion with the resignations of no provision for supplementing for the night, and considering thé Roxbury: Thursday, January, sugar cane fields averages less government take it over with class, the problems of the masses W.P.A. and relief workers to run other members from the Teach the income of their parents who clean, healthy fun they all get out 12, 8 p.m.: “Tw ilight of the British than ten cents per hour. The La workers control of wages, hours would be the easiest thing in the 7,000 cabs in special service a t ers’ Union, that while he is dis are unable to support them. Child of it, it was cheap at twice the Empire,” Otisfield Hall. bor Department states that the and financial operations. If the world to solve. their present low rate of pay. contented with the management Labor not involved in interstate cost. cost of a proper diet in Puerto enterprise is too small to be taken It is not the refugees who are Union members want to have of the union by the Communist Lynn, Mass.: January 13, 8 p.m., commerce goes on. The New Deal Now don’t think’ we begrudge R ico is $3.19 p e r w eek. Y e t over over, the union must demand pub the problem. The problem is the all unemployed cab drivers hired Party people, he intends to stay ^ynn Labor Lyceum, 127 Oxford courts say it is the problem of the Miss Frazier a little fun. Not for one-fifth of the families interview lic works at trade union wages Brenda Fraziers and, the rest of under the contract, and then oth- inside the organization and fight Street: “Twilight of the British states. AH courts have said so a minute. She has a tough job to ed by government investigators for those who have been cast on her class. And if we tackle that ers to be hired also at union scale i against anti-democratic malprac- Empire.” since 1916. do and she ought to be allowed a had total weekly earnings of less to the streets. problem in the simplest, boldest of wages and under the contract. tices. Boston: Sunday, January 15, 8 Furthermore, the Act provides little innocent relaxation. Imagine than 50 cents and almost four- No reliance on the government! and most direct way, we’ll find The union must win the present Professor Child’s revelations of P-m., Masonic Temple, 1095 Tre- no minimum wage for part time how hard you would have to work fifth s earned less th a n $3.00 per Make the boss pr his government that the "problem of the refu fight for a contract with the big tho C. P. stranglehold on the mont Street: “The Negro People workers, learners, handicapped to manage an estate which totals pay! For a 30 hour week at a $30 gees” will be automatically re companies if it hopes to have union proved very interesting. and World Imperialism.” week. persons and messengers. W orkers $4,051,000! W e ll, th a t’s w h a t M iss m in im u m ! solved. the power to prevent Whalen’s He pointed out that after the of In Texas there are many wo handling, preparing or canning Brenda has to draw her modest scheme from succeeding. ficial Columbia University Stalin Time and place of later rijieet- men workers averaging less than horticultural and agricultural income from; and it's this little ings will be reported as the tour Progressive u n io n is ts w a n t ist paper "Vanguard” had repeat five cents per hour; in the entire products or making dairy prod income that she must watch ever progresses. CORRECTION Now in Preparation! W.P.A. and relief workers to have edly published stupid and mali pecan shelling industry the wages ucts ‘within the area of produc so carefully so that she can have a job and a decent living at the cious attacks on the faculty and range from less than five to seven tion" or at nearby plants having In the article on Argentine another little party next month. . . last week an erroneous refer expense of the bosses and the the College, he made an attempt University Luncheonette cents. seven or fewer employes are also But Here's A Point Bound Volumes government and not to drag down to have the Teachers’ College There are countless other ex excluded. ence was made to a "Bolshev- 100A UNIVERSITY PLACE And as we were reading the re the union scales on the jobs. Union Chapter made public a dis amples of pay below 25 cents per These are the gaps which be ik-Leninist League” in Argen of the Appeal, 1938 near !2th St.—right near headquarters ports of the accounting of Bren W h a le n ’s schem e is a n o th e r a t avowal of any connections with hour. Notoriously low is the pay come evident at first glance. As tine. Actually several groups j Best Food at Best Prices da's little estate, and the details • tempt to divide the employed and the Stalinist sheet. In this effort, of the turpentine workers of Flo time goes on the government will of the Fourth International Special 25c Lunch! of her cozy little party, we were A ll % copies of last year’s unemployed through a fake “share he was defeated by the Stalinist rida and the fertilizer and cotton inevitably multiply them in order tendency exist in Argentina struck by a little point. the work” program. Progressive overlords who were interested Soup, any 10c Sandwich, Coffee, workers throughout the entire not to drive weak businesses to and the Pan-American Sub- Hundreds of thousands of hor APPEAL unionists counterpose a program primarily in defending their Tea or M ilk with Cake or Pie. South. the wall. It must also be remem Secretariat of the Internation- ¡ ribly persecuted people in Europe of jobs for all at union wages. clique interests, no matter how Western Union “Wages” bered that all cases of dispute al is at present sponsoring haven’t even a crust of bread or a Neatly Bound in Talk of arbitration through La- stupidly expressed or Injurious to are settled by a boss court. unity negotiations. In the North the Western Union glass of clean water—much less a Black and Red Covering Guardia or the state mediation the union. It was after this cul tried to have him meet with and Postal Telegraph Companies Employer Evasion Begins roof over their heads. They are board has already begun, and the minating demonstration of the Browder and Hathaway, C. P. typify super-exploitation. About The employers, however, have refugees from the fascist barbar PRICE (incl. postage) $3.00 strikers w ill have to be on guard complete factional control which leaders, in order to "straighten ASK FOR THE APPEAL 50 percent of the Western Union not waited for the New Deal to ians. They ask that the tradition Send Ydur Order in N ow ! if the union demands are not to the Stalinists exercise over the out” union matters (!!) th a t “boys" outside of New York City punch additional holes into the~ AT YOUR NEWSSTAND al right of asylum be invoked so be badly compromised. union, plus the fact that they Childs resigned from the Local.