FOR ORGANIZATION OF AN FOR MILITARY TRAINING INDEPENDENT LABOR PARTY Socialist Appeal UNDER TRADE UNION CONTROL Official Weekly Organ of the Socialist Workers Party

VOL. V—No. 3 NEW YORK, N. Y. SATURDAY, JANUARY 18, 1941 >267 FIVE (5) CENTS ROOSEVELT DICTATOR UNDER NEW BILL

GRACE CARLSON Daily Worker’s IN BOSTON CIO Executive Board Adopts Bankers Give It Grace Carlson, Trotskyist candidate for U.S. Senator from Minnesota in the last 6-Point “ Plan” For Draftees Editor Expelled election, arrives in Boston this Their Blessing week-end on her national lec­ ture tour. The two meetings Accepts Principle That Unions Are Duty-Bound to Protect Neither He Nor Browder Will Tell Why; arranged for her in Boston are; Bill Is Confession That Imperialists SUNDAY, Jan. 19, 8 p.m., at Rights of Worker-Soldiers; But Program Is Too Vague May Be Dodge to Cover Up Their Tracks th e AVorkers Center, 158 Whether "Democratic" or Fascist, Now Broadway. Subject: “ South A “six-point plan to insure “Harsh and authoritarian dis­ cial machinery for the grievances All Wage War By Totalitarian Methods Clarence Hathaway, editor-in- cal of the venal and corrupt America” . MONDAY. Jan. 20, 8 p.m., democratic spirit in the army’’ cipline,” the CIO statement says, of the worker-soldiers, just as chief for ten years of the Daily bureaucrats of the C.P. who are at the Aurora Club, 42 Maver­ was adopted by the CIO executive in explanation of these points, the most progressive unions did Worker, central organ of the ready to avow whatever the ick Square, East Boston. Sub­ board at its two-day session in “has no place in a citizen army. for their unemployed members? Roosevelt’s “ Lease-Lend” Bill—its correct title should be Communist Party, a member of Kremlin decrees. In the days Washington last week-end. “The encouragement of initia­ ject: “The Right to Life”, a That’s what the CIO program War Powers B ill— is certain to be adopted with all its essential the Political Buro, and ranking when disagreements could still be This “plan” is practically a tive and self-reliance with full in the Stalinist bureaucracy sec­ voiced, before Stalin had suc­ graphic picture of the actual should mean. sections intact. conditions under which the word-for-word repetition of the opportunity fo r advancement That was made plain when the bill was endorsed by Wen­ ond only to Browder and Foster, ceeded in crushing the Russian resolution (No. R-24) adopted Ay from the ranks is a first require­ It is true, as the CIO board' has been expelled, the “national Bolshevik party and the Comin­ American people live, and how dell Willkie on behalf of the Republican high command, and by their living conditions can be the November convention of the ment of the American army. says, that “harsh and authoritar­ committee” of the Communist tern, Hathaway and Foster were CIO at Atlantic City. The repeti­ ian discipline has no place in a Winthrop W. Aldrich, chairman of the great Chase National transformed by a Workers’ “ Conscripted men should be Party announced Sunday. oppositionists on a number of tion of it by the CIO board now, citizen army.” But the plain fact Bank, undoubtedly speaking for the dominant section of W all Government, guaranteed both in selection and As with all Stalinist execu­ questions; but when Stalin in the form of a “new” six-point is. as everybody knows, that the Street. (Complete schedule of Carl­ training against discrimination tions and expulsions, the “ex­ cracked the whip, they knuckled program, indicates there must be •discipline of the U. S. Army, like The silence of the A F L and CIO leadership, during the first son tour appears on page 2.) because of race, creed, nationality planation” given only serves to under and have been his agents a strong demand from the ranks that of ail capitalist armies, is or any other reason. The civil crucial days after the bill was introduced, indicated that, what­ muddy the waters. The official ever since. for a union program to protect harsh and authoritarian. What I rights of conscripted men, such ever perfunctory opposition they might offer later to one or notice, in the Sunday AVorker, Perhaps Hathaway is now the rights of the workers drafted does the CIO board propose to do as the right to vote, must be pro­ another section of the bill, they®- merely said that the expulsion knuckling under to a stronger into the army. to- remedy that? Its “program” tected. Communication with were in reality already commit­ and Mussolinis will likewise was for Hathaway’s “failure to power than Stalin’s: American Unfortunately, however, the does not say. families and unions must not be ted to accepting it. maintain themselves in power meet personal and political res­ imperialism. It is certain that Grace Carlson’s CIO “plan” deals very little with interfered with.” The officer caste is hand-picked They were accepting a personal against the masses, thanks only ponsibilities assumed by him, for more than one of these Stalinist workers’ rights within the army. from the capitalist class. Hardly m ilitary dictatorship of the Unit­ to- their Good Neighbor’s gener­ desertion and for failing and re­ “leaders” will leave the ship like It is primarily concerned with The extreme vagueness of this Own Story On a single worker-soldier ever rises ed States. The War Powers Bill ous donations of arms and war­ fusing to take steps to rehabili­ frightened rats when serving requesting an “active voice” for language is very striking. When to a commissioned officer. The creates that. It vests in the pre­ ships. tate himself.” Stalin becomes intolerable to the CIO board wants to make labor on the draft boards, guar­ “full opportunity for advance­ sident all the main powers hither­ Pressed by reporters for fur­ American imperialism. clear what it is talking about, it Tour Meetings antee of re-employment when the ment from the ranks” proposed to given by constitution and cus­ REAL LIM IT OF l’OAVERS ther information, a Stalinist Perhaps the Stalinist leader­ can da so ve ry easily. men return from the army, pro­ by the CIO does not exist; and tom to Congress. The process of Fortunately for the future of spokesman would give nothing, ship fears imminent disclosure of tection of their families against What, for example, is meant by the CIO board makes no proposal concentration of power in the the human race, the mere con­ except to cite two sections of the some criminal activity involving By GRACE CARLSON lapsing of life insurance policies, the words: “ Communication with to change that. presidency, which has been going ferring of these powers on the C.P. constitution under which the Hathaway, and is hastily “expel­ DETROIT, Jan. 10—In centers foreclosures, etc. ... unions must not be interfered on since the crisis began in 1929. president by Congress does not expulsion was carried out. They ling” him to clear its skirts and In short, the CIO board, while like Flint and Detroit one has the The only points that deal at all with.” Does that mean, as it is climaxed by this measure. guarantee him the strength to read as fo llo w s : have him take “individual” res­ feeling of walking on volcanic with conditions within the army admitting in principle its res­ should, that the unions are pre­ Congress’ power over the purse exercise these powers. Legal “ Breaches of party discipline ponsibility for the crime. The ground. Everyone is certain that ponsibility to launch a program are the following pared to defend the interests of was specifically established in powers of this or any other kind by individual members, finan­ Mexican investigation of the there will be an eruption in the “4. Living conditions fo r on behalf of the worker-soldiers, their members in the army ? That the constitution in order to pro­ are only formal and not real, cial irregularities, as well as GPU’s murder of Leon Trotsky struggle between the UAW and has not done so. conscripted men that will im­ the unions propose to set up ways vide a civil check and control unless the workers permit the any conduct or action detri­ has disclosed not only the direct the automobile industry bosses, prove their health and well­ and means whereby they will The struggle to defend the over the m ilitary arm of the gov­ exercise of such powers in­ mental to the party’s prestige connection of the GPU and the but no one knows when or how being. keep directly in touch with their rights of the workers in uniform, ernment, of which the president definitely. and influence among the work­ Mexican Communist Party with the eruption w ill take place. “5. Administration of the members in the army and rep­ once it is taken seriously, will is commander-in-chief. This bill The struggle against this con­ ing masses and harmful to the the assassination, but has made The whole story of the struggle training period in accord with resent them in their grievances lead thinking workers to demand empowering the president not centration of power in the pre­ best interests of the party may clear that the central direction over the speed-up in the auto democratic practice.” (CIO against the reactionary officers? trade union control of military only to transfer the whole or any sident can henceforth only mean be punished by censure, public of the GPU in this hemisphere is plants, the unadjusted griev­ News, Jan. 13) That the unions w ill set up spe­ tra in in g . part of the Navy or Army equip­ a struggle for the concentration censure, removal from respon­ in the United States. ances, etc., has been reported in ment ta other countries, but alsc of power and control in the hands sible posts and by expulsion The Mexican Communist Party the Appeal time and time again. empowering him to draw from of the workers’ organizations. from the party. is now desperately engaged in What seemed to me unique and tile Treasury “such amounts as The first stages of that struggle “Party members found to clearing its skirts of responsibil­ extremely encouraging was that are clear enough. In civil life and be strikebreakers, degenerates, ity for its members involved only our party carries on mass Boss Weakening m ay be necessary,” wipes out industry: keep the hands of the habitual drunkards, betrayers in the assassination, including propaganda work among the work­ Flint Chevrolet Congressional control of the bosses and their government off of party confidence, provocat­ David Serrano, a member of its ers. Hundreds of Socialist Ap­ purse. Thus all financial and m ili­ In 20th Week Of the trade unions, and make the eurs, persons who practice or political Buro, now in prison peals are distributed weekly at ta ry powers are fused in the unions real fighting organiza­ advocate terrorism, sabotage, awaiting trial. Hathaway's ex­ factory gates in both Flint and hands of a single omnipotent in­ tions. In the armed forces, like­ espionage or force and viol­ pulsion may be a measure in ad­ Detroit; pamphlets are sold in Leviton Strike dividual. Votes To Strike The motivation for this per­ wise, the workers’ organizations ence, or members whose actions vance of exposure. house-to-house sales drives in the must fight for the rights of the are otherwise detrimental to “Expulsion” of a prominent working class sections; open meet­ sonal military dictatorship i: worker-soldiers. Trade union con­ the party and the working party member has been a meas­ ings are held; educational classes plain enough. It is an obvious fad Electrical Workers Strike Power Given to Local Board, to trol of military training is the class, shall be summarily dis­ ure taken in a number of cases on Marxist theory and trade un­ th a t Congress is alw ays more way to get those rights. missed from positions of res­ where that member has been as­ ion problems are conducted. Be­ Are Smashing His End Company's Dodging of Grievances amenable to popular pressure ponsibility, expelled from the signed to GPU work. For ex­ sides this many of our comrades than is a president. By abdicat­ We are many, they are few. party, and exposed before the ample, David Alfaro Siqueiros, are active as stewards and officers Union-Busting Boast ing its powers, Congress w ill pro­ They can pass the laws. We run general public.” now in prison awaiting trial in in the various UAW locals. , FLINT, Mich., Jan. 10—Chevrolet Local No. 659 complet­ tect the war plans of the pre­ the machines and bear the arms. The most suspicious aspect of Mexico as the admitted leader of Formerly, the Socialist AVorkers ed a strike vole today in which the overwhelming majority of sident against future changes ii All that is needed is that the the scandal is Hathaway’s silence. the-GPU gangsters who attempt­ Party competed in these cities Chevrolet’s 12.000 workers recorded themselves in favor of giv­ the outlook of the people. vorkers grasp this simple fact. BRO O KLYN, N. Y., Jan. 13.— Newspaper speculation that ed to assassinate Trotsky on May with the Lovestoneites, Stalinists By constitutional provision. t< The twentieth week of the Levi­ ing strike power to the local executive board. The ballot was ten Hathaway may have come to dis­ 24, was “expelled” from the C.P. and Norman Thomas Socialists. protect the people against a war ton strike began last Thursday to one in favor of strike. some years prior to turning up Now, I understand, none of these making president, Congress alone agree with the Stalin-Hitler pact with growing indications that Isi- This follows the vote in favor of authorizing strike powers in Spain as a GPU colonel. groups do any literature distribu­ has the power to declare war EAST CHICAGO is nonsense. Hathaway is typi- dor Leviton, is beginning to rea­ to the board of the Chevrolet Drop Forge local in Detroit. In tion or hold any open meetings. This provision has, of course lize he faces defeat. Leviton made The small numbers of union offi­ other C M plants issues have arisen in the last few days which been violated more than once. Bu' $12,000,000 through his exploita­ STEELCHIPPERS cials, etc., whom the Stalinists also w ill probably lead to strike votes. the present bill simply wipes out tion of the Leviton electrical man­ and S. P.’ers still control are vo­ If Walter Reuther and his aides-de-camp on the UAW that constitutional provision. ufacturing workers and swore to lu n ta rily fa r, fa r underground. executive board, who have been so possessed with high m ilitary spend all his ill-gotten fortune in END OF “DEMOCRACY” OUT ON STRIKE ON THE WAR FRONTS And the field is clear lor us! (^questions, wished to analyze the breaking the strike if necessary. The demand of Roosevelt foi The last open meeting which GM situation from the army man’s by GEORGE STERN Now he has indicated that he w ill such powers constitutes a confes­ the Stalinists held here several point of view, they would undoubt­ negotiate with the representa­ sion that “democracy” goes by EAST CHICAGO, Ind.—One Joseph Stalin has again shown direction. And while he waits he months ago for James Ford, their Marks Products edly find that “a perilous situa tives of the strikers, who belong tlie* board in this epoch of world­ hundred and fifty chippcrs of the that his bread is still buttered remains compliant to Hitler. vice-presidential candidate, tion prevails which threatens to to Local 3 of the International wide collisions between the great Indiana Harbor, Ind., plant of the on the same side. Down upon the If the flow of goods from the brought out only 25 people. The become general.” For this kind o', Brotherhood of Electrical Work­ Strike Backs Up capitalist powers. Modern imper­ Youngstown Sheet and Tube heads of all the wishful thinkers Soviet Union into Germany has open meeting which I addressed thing Reuther and • Co. w ill prob ialist war can be waged only by Company went on strike this in London and Washington about not up until now met Nazi ex­ in the headquarters of the Detroit ers. ably sound retreat; but it is The strikers demand a union totalitarian methods on eithei week. After weeks of fruitless a Nazi-Soviet break came the pectations, it is certainly plain Branch of the S. AV. P. last night Leviton Action doubtful that the C.M rank and shop, a minimum wage of $16 a (lie “democratic” or the fascist negotiating with the company, news of a new scries of Hitler- that, under the new- accords this had 46 people in the audience, file will take the order. .vcok and a m in im um increase of siele. these chippcrs—all members of Stalin pacts. The most important flow will increase. and this did not include the more The Chevrolet Workers in Flint 10 cents an hour for every em­ There are. of course, plenty of the Steel Workers Organizing of them was a sweeping new The Deutsche Allgemeine Zeit- than a dozen comrades and friend? took their strike vote after tin ploye. BROOKLYN. N. Y„ Jan. 13. — fat-headed liberals and “ labor” Committee (CIO)—working un­ trade agreement, said to involve ung, commenting on the pacts, who came to a AVednesday noon management refused tim e and Pickets on 24 hour duty at the The strike against the Marks Pro­ leaders who are prepared to give der the most difficult physical the greatest international grain said that “ the Russo-German un­ meeting because they are night again to negotiate on importan' plant described to a Socialist .Ap­ ducts Co., 80 No. 9th St., entered us their personal guarantee— conditions, were forced to strike deal in history. derstanding ... stands, indeed, on workers. grievances. According to Regions' peal reporter some of the intoler­ its fourteenth week with rein­ backed up by nothing—that after when the management refused to the threshold of new and still Perhaps the most encouraging Director Carl Swanson, “Chevrole' able conditions which led to forced picket lines to counteract grant their demands. It is probably true that H it­ closer cooperation.” Can this be features of all was that 12 of those management has consistently vio the war is over, the country will strike action. Forced collections attempts of the company to run go back to being a “real” democ­ The chippers are asking for a ler has not—yet—gotten all he taken to mean the Balkans? Is attending this meeting were col­ lated the General- Motors agree strike breakers under police pro­ dollar a day increase in wages wants from Stalin’s regime in Stalin bargaining now on the ored workers, most of them from were made from women employ­ ment, they have unjustly dis racy. “It may be a paradox,” ees with which to buy presents tection into the plant. Members in order to be able to meet the Russia. Indeed, he won’t get basis of the revealed weakness UAW locals. Colored workers are charged committeemen and they they say, “but dictatorship is for foremen. Some girls were of the B. F. division of Local No. necessary now in order to havi ever-increasing cost of living that much until he tries mov­ of the Italian axis partner? Re­ the most exploited both in the have, caused the complete break forced to make “loans” to certain 3 of the International Brotherhood which is especially high in this ing in with all his horses, his marks like this in Nazi news­ shops as well as in the army and down of collective bargaining ir democracy later.” foremen which were never repaid. of Electrical Workers were in­ Y e t these are the ve ry same area. Despite its tremendous tanks, his planes, and his men. papers arc never aimless. It may they received the proletarian m ili­ that plant.” structed to concentrate at Marks people who accuse us of mystic­ profits gained from lucrative “de­ This docs not change the cs- | even be that it is Hitler who is tary program for the abolition of- An official release of the union The Michigan state labor media Products in place of the Leviton ism when we say that a dictator­ fense” orders, the company pays sential significance of Stalin’s exploring the possibility of us­ Jim Crowism in an enthusiastic charged that some girls had been tion hoard lias announced it w il’ plant until the union demands these men wages which are far present course. He is playing ing Stalin to fill the gaps left in way. forced to submit to certain fore­ attempt to invoke a 30-day waitin' ship of the proletariat is the only for a $3 weekly wage increase and road to REAL democracy. They lower than those paid by other along with Hitler and w ill con­ his armor by the Italian reverses. One thing is certain, that the men in order to hold their jobs. period in all strikes, in which wai a closed shop arc won. steel corporations for similar tinue to do so until Hitler s The report that a Soviet devotion, enthusiasm and self-sac­ When employes throughout the production plants are involved -an’t see how a W o rke r’s Gov­ w o rk. m ilitary predominance is can­ trade delegation is en route to rificing spirit of the Flint and De­ plant were forced to produce more The M arks p la n t uses 60 per­ The labor board has asked tin ernment will establish genuine celled by events not now fore­ Buenos Aires to buy huge troit comrades who are bringing or lose their jobs, their piece cent of the output of electrical opinion of the attorney genera’ democracy, b u t they can see how In spite of the fact that both seeable. quantities of grain awaits con­ (lie Marxist program to the mass rates were then cut. resulting in parts of the Leviton company, as to the legality of the action a Wall Street dictatorship will the company and the boss press and its strikebreaking attempt is Undoubtedly the entire laboi voluntarily make way for democ­ are using the war hysteria to Groping in the fog of Balkan firm a tio n . I f i t proves to be production workers mf these cen­ more production at the old pay. movement of Michigan will op­ racy. And these people call them­ attempt to raise public opinion developments, watchers in Lon­ true, there can be little doubt ters “will bring forth fruit a hun­ Some men employed on an hourly backed by the Leviton outfit. dredfold.” Previously unorganized, the pose this attempt, to destroy the selves realists! against the strikers on the don and in this country have that Stalin would be buying for basis went to work at 6:30 A. M. Marks Products Co. attempted to strike weapon. Coming events contain many grounds that they are “sabotag­ looked hopefully for signs of de­ H itler’s account. b u t were not allowed to set up a company union when While the strike votes at the unpleasant surprises for these ing national defense,” these m ili­ veloping strain in the relations In any case, the new Ilitlcr- punch the clock until 8 A.M. NEW YORK ! ! ! sentiment grew among the worlo Chevrolet plants in Flint and De people. They w ill see Roosevelt tant workers are holding firm. between Hitler and Stalin. And Stalin pacts make it plain that to evade the provisions of the Wage and Hour Law. Many men ers for an increase on their mis- troit now lace the 'Executive employing his dictatorial powers The Indiana Harbor SWOC local out of that fog comes now fresh the Kremlin’s policy still flows Don’t forgot our Lenin crable wage of $12 to $13 weekly. Broad of the UAW with an im­ to back the British Tories against of the Youngstown Sheet and evidence that Stalin is Just as from a shuddering fear of Hit­ Memorial Meeting at which with families earned as little as $14 a week. AA’ages were so low More than 70 percent of the work­ mediate problem, the General Mo­ the demand of the majority of Tube Company, representing firm ly hitched to- H itle r ’s ch a rio t ler plus no less a fear of internal Grace Carlson will be the prin­ ers are women. The IBEW chal­ tors Conference moves closer. The the English people far a Labor some 6,000 workers in the plant, as before. The bluster of the upheaval. Those two factors de­ cipal speaker. that mothers had to hurry back lenged the company union, and the date has been set for February 8 Government. Churchill will rule is supporting the chipping de­ ’Moscow Pravda and Izvestia termine Stalin’s policy. Incidental Friday, January 24, 8 p.m., to work, weak and sick, after having their babies. Mothers National Labor Relations Board and 9 in Detroit. With the temper England thanks only to Roose­ partment and is preparing to call about Stalin’s “independent factors which seem to contradict at Irving Rlaza, Irving Place worked besido their husands and decided in favor of the IBEW. of the GM workers on the rise, velt’s threat of withdrawal of a genera] plant strike if neces­ policy” does not conceal the fact this from time to time are pure­ and 15th Street, New York children at the bench and the ma Marks responded by organizing a the leadership can expect plenty arms supplies from England. sary to force the company to that Stalin still “waits” because ly transitory. Stalin 'always City. chine. new company union.. 1 of heat from the ranks. The Latin-Ameriean Hitlers come to terms. he does not dare to move in any knuckles down in the end. 2 SOCIALIST APPEAL JANUARY 18, 194t tab WORKERS' Navy Backs Union-Busting Bill Highlights In To Militarize Merchant Marine The Labor Press F o r u m B y C A R L O’SHEA = * and tlie M.E.B.A.’ (CIO) among, their use as strike-breakers in Commenting on the substance'of increase from $12,000 to $20,000 Would Compel All Seamen to time of peace.” What lie means the engineers—has been unanim-| national defense, the Minneapolis per annum. Of course Mi'. Green Write to us—tell us what’s going o-n in your part of the Work Ships For Coolie Wages ous in its opposition against this is, it. is obvious, actu ally using Labor Review. January 3rd, says: needed that extra dough. These Naval Reserve men as s trik e ­ labor movement—what are the workers thinking aboutt—tell attempt to dragoon the seamen “ It was unfortunate, we believe, are strenuous times we are liv­ us what the bosses are up to-—and the G-men and the local cops-— into tlie Naval Reserve. breakers in time of emergency, that in his address the President ing in and it would never do for and the Stalinists—send us that story the capitalist press didn't W ASHINGTON, D.C.— Backed by high-ranking officers of Behind the legislative move toward which end t he whole spoke against strikes and lock­ members of trade unions to neg­ scheme is hatched. print and that story they buried or distorted—our pages are open the United States Navy, Representative Everett M. Dirksen, in­ there is, however, a far deeper outs, but did not insist that not lect. their leaders to tlie point troduced a bill in Congress this week to “ make all crews on aim. In the book already quoted. In order to ward off impending only would war profits be regu­ where (like tlie unemployed) they to you. Letters must carry name and address, but indicate if you attacks, the maritime unions will American merchant ships members of the active Naval Reserve.” Major Eliot says: lated, blit that there would be no begin to show the obvious effects do not want your name printed. have to take a hand in establish­ lie said the intention of the bill is to "m ilitarize commercial “It is necessary to say quite war profits. No war profits from of malnutrition. Labour leaders ing collective bargaining and the plainly that a very bad state of the munitions and equipment of must be kept in prime condition. shipping in event of a national emergency” and "to break the union wage scales in the merob discipline exists in our merchant war sold to Britain and no profits It takes a lot of nerve to den­ contractor’s badge frequently have Communist grip on the American merchant marine.” ant marine Naval Reserve, if they A Laborer On the marine. ’This is not ALTO­ to industrial owners from the ounce a strike of workers who to wait from five or six A. M. to Dirkscn’s bill is merely the culmination of a long smear do not want the latter to be used GETHER due to union activi­ work of preparing this nation for have gone out in tlie middle of the l\eic Army Camps noon or later for the chance to campaign against American seamen begun by the Dies Commit­ for the purpose of wrecking tlie ties... If war came, it would be defense. This would become a night on picket-line duty to win work. Usually when the word conditions and wages gained by Tells His Story tee and drummed up by a series of red-baiting articles against necessary to dispense with many sweeter land to 80,000,000 people a 6 per cent increase in wages, “No more work!” spreads there (he unions up to now and fo r des maritime workers by William Me Pec in the Saturday livening of the men now serving in our if instead of all this talk, from and in tlie same week tlie den­ are still some hundreds outside Iro.vlng' tlie unions themselves. Post. merchant ships...” those who do no manual labor, ouncer grabs o ff $8.0fin more per the gates, yearning for the chance. Texas has the tradition of do­ One of the real reasons behind the move is revealed in To the union busting program about increasing hours of toil, year.” ing tilings tlie big way. Right They stand gazing out over the Although couched in cautious of t he shipowners and their bosom figures released by the Navy De­ there would be a large scale move * * « now it is following out this tradi­ camps, a hungry look in their language, this expresses (lie inner­ friends tlie Admirals, the sea partment, simultaneously with National Maritime Union (CIO) to shorten the hours without de­ Justice, organ of tlie 1LGWU, tion in the construction of train­ eyes. A nd behind those hungry most thought of the brass hats: men's unions must counterpose a the announcement of the Dirksen as well as the Seafarers Interna­ crease in pay, and put to work the January 1, reports that President in g camps whose scope, gigantic eyes smoulders hatred.. . . and re­ it. is necessary to get rid of the labor program of their own for Bill. The Navy had set itself a tional Union and llie Sailors Un 8,000,000 or more who va in ly seek David D ttbinsky lias pledged $100,- bellion. One day it w ill no longer unions and of tlie most, militant size and enormous cost are stag­ ion of the Pacific (AFL), the in­ the men in the Naval Reserve. 000 of union funds to a Dress goal of enrolling 30,000 merchant union lighters in the merchant employment.” gering to the imagination. sm oulder. dependent West Coast Marine seamen in the Naval Reserve * * * Industry Promotion Fund to At Ellington Field, Palacios, marine. Major Eliot believes that A nd i f one is so fortun ate as to during the past four years, but Firem en among the. unlicensed which the retailers and dress in­ Corpus Christi, Galveston, Hit­ this can tie (tone by building up Subscribe to the T lie Weekly People reports get. on . . . unpredictable hours, only 339 such volunteers have dustry will of course also contri­ chcock and other places the work­ personnel, as w ell as the United tlie Naval Reserve with men who (January 4) that its presidential compulsory toadying in hope of actually been enrolled in this " Fourth International“ bute. The next tiling you know, ing people are building their own tomorrow’s work, flagrant scape­ Licensed Officers among the mates would he given “assurance against candidate (Aiken of the Socialist- period. Dttbinsky will lie spending his future concentration camps. This goating for the blunders of fore­ Labor Party) in 1910 received 14,- Major George Fielding Eliot, 861 votes in fourteen states, com­ spare time hawking dresses on the expression is not a personal one. men, checkers and supervisors streets. military and naval expert, esti­ pared w ith 12,777 votes in sixteen It is in daily use at the fields who know less than the men un­ * * * mates in his authoritative “The among the common laborers who der their control and are paid stales in 1936. Ramparts We Watch” that at least The San Francisco Labor Cler­ plod ankle, knee and even, some­ three times their wages for . . . * # * 20,000 reservists of train ed caliber ical for December 27 reports that times, hip deep in the rich, black doing nothing. “Is there any­ will be necessary to man the key The Record of the War The American Newspaper G uild on December 19 tlie locked-out Texas ooze. I t is an expression thing more useless than a fore­ posts alone in a merchant marine Reporter announces that four re­ Gantner & Mattern knitgood work­ th a t characterizes not a deep man?” we ask? The answer is controlled by the Navy under em­ sident organizers will be added ers were tendered a holiday ban­ pride in the product of their “Yes; two foremen.” And of ergency regulations. to tlie organizing staff of tlie In­ quet by the labor movement. The handiwork, hut a shame, a hatred, course, mud, mud, mud. And with ternational. The Guild strike in In reality, the stand of the men union particularly thanks “the and a rebelliousness. it, rheumatism among a majority Labor Board of 1918 Monroe, La., was finally ended officers and members of Teams­ who make up the crews of the Most of the jobs are union, of of those who float from camp to with a Labor Board stipulation ters’ Union No. 85 who have, at merchant ships can be clearly un­ course. The existing craft build­ camp, aching, creaking joints, that returns 13 of tlie 16 strikers a great cost to themselves, re­ derstood by a comparison between ing trades unions are totally une­ ru n n in g noses, w atery eyes . . . of By MICHAEL CORT This demand came from labor so frequently and to their jobs, with back pay not fused to pass our picket line.” their present conditions of work quipped to handle the demand for safety precautions there are none. insistently that the Board made a brave announce to exceed $11,000. The January * # -T and those in the Naval Reserve. III labor. Consequently, a great “or­ No time to fool with that. Uncle 1 issue of tlie R eporter contains After years of hard struggles in Immediately upon its inception in February ment that it would set up such wage scales for The Duluth Labor World in De­ ganizing drive" on the part of the Sam needs these rat traps in a several articles pro and con rela­ organizing strong unions of mari­ 1918 the National War Labor Board enunciated the defense industries. The howl of the bosses cember published the complete AFL is in progress. The method hurry . . . and the contractors tive to the merits of the Youngs­ time workers, the seamen have es­ soon changed the Board's attitude however, and list of local signers of petitions used is the “ You-wanna-work-well- their profits. A simple request “A Declaration of Principles.” Tlie best way to town resolution condemning com­ tablished hiring through the union after wrestling with tlie problem for five months to place the Communist Party on sign - up - here - four - dollars - for water, plain old water, is analyze the Board's work is to quote the prin­ munism, upon which a referendum hall and collective bargaining on the ballot in Minnesota. please” system. The newcomers dodged as much as possible. Wa- ciples and then show how they were applied. it announced, “ . that for the present the Board is to be held. tile vast majority of commercial This is the first union paper so are not encouraged to become veal terboys walk atop the freight cars Principle No. 1.—“There shall be no strikes or or its sections should consider and decide each We hope the Guildsmen will vessels. In the Naval Reserve col­ far as we know, which has gone union men in any sense of the to stay out of sight. And sani­ lockouts.” There were plenty of lockouts during case involving the principle (living wage) on its have sense enough to defeat th is lective bargaining is banned. in fo r th is d irty bosses game. word. In spile of this it is signi­ tary facilities? Describe ’em your­ particular facts and reserve any definite rule or red-baiting resolution. Wages have been raised by the the war period but the Board only took cognizance * * * ficant to note that the attitude of self, Editor. You can’t exagger­ decision until its judgments have been suffl unions to a tolerable point; in the of the strikes. There is no record of the Board * * * the average common laborer is ate! Phew! From Washington comes news Naval Reserve the scab standards ever having disciplined a boss for locking out cienlly clear to make generalizations safe.” This The Canadian Labor Herald fo r that the AFL has chartered its “The union stinks but . . . (and These are the training camps. persist. On union ships overtime his men. There are plenty of cases where the statement of policy was approved by the Board December comments on the AFL 106fh international union: the here the speaker usually glares) Editor. The men are not in them pay is relig'eously adhered to; in unanimously! convention: “This month the AFL Wine, Liquor & Distillery Workers . . . don’t you forget that its MY yet, but as they rise from the Board cracked down on the workers for striking. the Naval Reserve there is no held its 60tli annual potlatch at International. Representatives of union, guy!” In short, while the muck of Texas it is already clear The first step taken in this direction was the When the Board announced its abandonment ceiling to hours. New Orleans and re-elected W il­ locals composed chiefly of whole­ methods of the bureaucrats act­ to those th a t have eyes to see th a t enactment of a rule that provided that once of any minimum wage scale, Gompers was bit­ Here is a comparison between liam Green for his seventeenth sale liquor salesmen won 7 of the ing as labor contractors for, al­ those who ordered them are build­ workers in any plant had struck, their ease was terly attacked by the more m ilitant locals of the average monthly union wage term as president witli a salary 9 offices. most partners of, the hated con­ ing not instruments for their own “outlaw” and could not be heard before the Board. AFL. His reply was, “In the midst of a war scales and the Naval Reserve tractors, completely antagonizes preservation, b u t instruments Thereupon, all agencies of the government would there can be no discussion among those who have and outrages the oppressed work­ scale: which will one day precipitate a mobilize bourgeois public opinion against the guns trained upon them . . . therefore, let us defer ers, these same workers will not gigantic explosion . . . an explo­ tfatiny I'nion Stale lleserve workers; if this failed to break the strike, troops questions which can be deferred, questions that fo r. one m om ent forget th a t ttye sion that will wipe them from the A.II. Seaman $72— $95 $54 union still stands between them face of America and, we hope, Old. Seaman 55— 70 21 were used. If tlie workers struck a fte r the Board are likely to divide us in this war.” and the bosses, and th a t w ith o u t it fro m the w o rld . T h is is m y be­ Firem en 72— 95 GO had made a decision, then the case was turned Workers were usually awarded about the same their wages would be even lower lief. Of course, I am only a Oilers, Water- over to the executive branch of the government wages they were receiving when they filed an than they are. A “button-man” tenders 82— 95 72—84 COMMON LABORER and the workers involved were haired from all appeal. In October 1918 the Board gave a basic is a proud man, and the envy of Cooks 95— 150 72— 84 war time employment, which meant 90% of Amer­ hourly wage of 36 cents to the street-car conductors Brother “ Hod-Carrier”, Int’I his neighbors. The few seeds be­ The reaction of the unions—the ican industry. in Memphis, Tenn.. One month later it awarded ing planted in this field w ill one Hod Carriers. Building and The workers at the New Jersey plant of the a basic wage of 61 cents to conductors in Butte day bring rich harvests, you can Common Laborers Union, CIRCULATION pect to increase our bundle order A.F.L. "Wesson Oil Company revolted in the summer of Mont. That is, tlie unorganized southern workers be sure. GOING UP!! by 100%! 1918 against working conditions that the Board received about what they were already getting The common laborers hate their Last April, when the petty- “ We feel that the proposed before coining to the Board; tlie workers in highly checkers, they hate their foremen, SCHEDULE OF had failed to correct, and went out on strike. The bourgeois splitters had done their changes in the APPEAL are they hate their supervisors, and Board declared the case “outlaw," and handed organized Butte were in a position to force a worst, the party absorbed de­ further steps in the transforma- their hatred is particular for the BANQUET the case over to President Wilson. The President better award. fiantly the resultant decrease in ticn of our paper into a mass contractor. But most of all they threatened, not only to bar the workers from Appeal circulation. At that junc­ paper and w ill do much toward For CARLSON TOUR hate army shavetails and officers “any war time industry throughout the country,” Trouble With Bethlehem Steel ture the N.O. had the courage to making our party a mass party.’' in civvies who even today prowl Fri. Jan. 17 Rochester but also threatened to send them into the front There were cases where conditions demanded plan a program of expansion that The expansion of APPEAL about the grounds with a “tomor­ GRACE CARLSON Sat. Jan. 18 Syracuse line trenches. AFL President Gompers joined in a change in wage scales and the Board was un­ would run the circulation up a work in Detroit to Minneapolis row I’m gonna gitcha and re a lly The Trotskyist Candidate for fu ll 75%. I t was realized, and proportions—following on the Sun. Jan. 19 Boston the threat. able to dodge the resp on sibility. Such a case was make you work you sunnab!” ex­ U.S. Senator from Minnesota. if fo r weeks we walked around in heels of similar recent expansion Mon. Jan. 20 Bethlehem Steel. The Board instructed Bethlehem pression in th e ir eyes. Her Vote Exceeded the Com­ a daze—dreaming- of a complete by Chicago— is the surest sign Tues. Jan. 21 The National Run-Around to raise wages of all common labor and certain And by the way, don’t let the bined Votes Cast for the So­ Wed. Jan. 22 New Haven doubling of the April circulation. we can think of, of the rapid categories of skilled labor. Bethlehem took ad­ kept press fool you about bigtime cialist and Communist Parties. Thurs. Jan. 23 New York Principle No. 2.—“Labor lias the right to or­ That was realized. We stopped transformation of our party into proletarian patriotism. The near­ to Feb 1 ganize and bargain collectively.” . The workers vantage of tlie red tape surrounding the Board’s dreaming and just walked around a mass party. (Get the snow out est approach to it is a hopeless Saturday Feb. 1 Sun. Feb. 2 Newark in the New England plant of the Madison-Kipp procedure and stalled on compliance with the in a daze. of your shoes Minneapolis! This acceptance of the inevitable, but a Mon. Feb. 3 New York Lubricator Company in 1918 were working 12 order until after the armistice, then it discharged A fter a while we caught on Detroit expansion is no accident: rebellious acceptance none the GERMANIA HALL 8.00 p.m. Tues. Feb. 4 Trenton hours per day on piece work. However fast they the workers involved. The Board took the only that the Dialectic had become in­ Your leadership is being serious­ less. Its most distant pole is the volved, and regained our poise. ly challenged by the up and com­ 160 Third Ave. Near 14th St. Wed. Feb. 5 worked, their piece work earnings were always attitude it could, that Bethlehem owed the dis­ desire of some of the workers I Thurs. 6 We now announce as a matter of ing comrades in Auto!) New York City Feb. A lle n to w n computed in such a manner as to keep their charged workers back pay: the difference between have heard to install polecat nests Fri. course that the APPEAL press- Feb. 7 Reading wages at a fraction over 28 cents per hour. Upon their wage and the one granted by the Board. LOS ANGELES under the officers’ quarters. I say Sat. Feb. 8 run is now 150% more than it AUSPICES: Q uakertow n announcement, by the NWLB that employes were Bethlehem countered this by claiming that it REPORTS “polecat” deliberately. Use your Sun. Feb. 9 was last April, with another 10% Socialist Workers Party Philadelphia didn’t know the addresses of its workers and imagination. Mon. Feb. 10 guaranteed the right to collective bargaining, the increase scheduled two weeks LOS ANGELES— In sev­ Admission $1 could not notify them by mail of the money due Working conditions for tis are Tues. Feb. 11 workers organized and demanded their rights. hence. What’s more, we have no eral places, our APPEAL work is them. Furthermore, Bethlehem said, most of the beginning to bear fruit. At the terrific. Even button-men with the Wed. Feb. 12 B a ltim o re The boss not only refused to lower hours and doubt that the Dialectic will re­ Thurs. Feb. 13 raise wages, but he completely refused to bar­ workers were foreigners and wouldn’t be able to main on our side (Though we waterfront, San Pedro, many Fri. Feb. 14 P itts b u rg h gain collectively. Immediately an appeal was filed read a letter of notification if they got one. Be­ know if we asked W illiam F. workers stop to talk to us. We cover meetings of the Vultee A ir­ Sat. Feb. 45 with the Board. fore this dispute was settled tlie Boavd was dis- Warde he’d say it w ill and it craft local of the U.A.W.A. and Sun. Feb. 16 Indianapolis olved by its own vote and the en tire case passed won’t.) TROTSKY MEMORIAL FUND After some months a traveling-examiner show­ receive excellent response. Ours Mon. Feb. 17 Indianapolis into limbo. NEW YORK ed up to hear the case. Conditions were so bad TO THE FORE is the only labor paper being dis­ Branch Quota Amount paid % Tues. Feb. 18 that the examiner was forced to find for the Nearly half of the most recent tributed at these points . . . BOSTON § 100.00 $ 150.00 150 Wed. Feb. 19 St. Louis Wage Raises— With a Catch workers, but the boss ignored his decision. Faced increase is due to the efforts of “ The comrade from Flint, NEW HAVEN 20.00 Thurs. Feb. 20 26.00 130 with an unyielding boss, the workers appealed The Board did get compliance with wage in­ Michigan, wrote an excellent let­ Fri. Feb. 21 M em phis proletarian New York. The New LOS ANGELES 150.00 162.45 108 crease orders from some of the bosses, but th is was ter in the December 28th AP­ Sat. Feb. 22 the case to the Board itself. After several more York branches, which formerly QUAKERTOWN 7.00 7.50 107 usually accomplished through a “deal.” For ins­ PEAL. As he pointed out, mass Sun. Feb. 23 Arkansas months the Board affirmed the right of the workers hid their individual laxness be­ BUFFALO 25.00 26.15 105 tance: many of the Board’s hearings were devoted hind a* seemingly impressive APPEAL work, regularly, will Mon. Feb. 24 Arkansas to bargain collectively, instructed them to again DETROIT 200.00 210.00 105 to the conditions existing in the various street- city-wide total, are today de­ open the way to thousands of Tues. Feb. 25 Texas elect a shop committee, and again wait upon the PORTLAND 10.00 10.50 105 manding their place in the sun eager workers.” Wed. Feb. 26 Texas boss fo r a discussion of th e ir grievances. The boss railway systems throughout, the country. The TOLEDO for their steady expansion of 50.00 51.00 102 Feb. 27 records reveal that wherever the Board awarded NEWSSTAND SALES: Thurs. was admonished to meet with tlie committee this mass APPEAL work. Starting Minneapolis & St. Paul 1000.00 1001.00 100.1 an increase in wages to the workers, an accorn ATTENTION AGENTS! to Thurs. Mar. 13 time. Tlie boss refused to meet the workers this with last week’s issue, the Chicago & Indiana Harbor 200.00 200.07 100 Fri. March 14 Los Angeles time too, and they again appealed to the Board. panying petition from the Board was submitted to APPEAL order of the New York Please send to this office a Pittsburgh 10.00 10.00 100 Sat. March 15 and vicinity the municipality, asking a change in the laws fix­ complete list of the newsstands if Before the Board got around to consider their proletarians was increased by Allentown 15.00 15.00 100 Sun. March 16 ing the rate of fare. The Board’s petitions always in your city which carry the ft appeal, the war ended and the Board was dissolved. ■10%—(which is also, as they Milwaukee 5.10 5.10 100 Mon. March 17 explained the hardship imposed upon the boss by APPEAL, so that it may be pub­ ff 226 Board decisions were concerned with tlie proudly state, 40% more than the Reading Tues. March 18 5.00 5.00 100 the increased wage order and called on the city total NATIONAL circulation of lished in the February 1st issue, Wed. March 19 ft right of collective bargaining and the majority Baltimore 10.00 10.00 100 the paper now being issued by in a national newsstand listing. Thurs. March 20 tf of the case histories parallel the one just cited. officials to grant the boss the right to raise fares San Diego 8.50 8.50 100 the petty-bourgeois splitters.) Be sure to send it with your next Fri. March 21 Principle No. 3. “Where union and non-union and pass the cost on to the worker-consumer. Rockville 7.00 7.00 100 This increase means that now remittance, so that your city may Sat. March 22 San Francisco men and women work side by side the continuance This, then, is how the Board’s five principles not be omitted. Texas 5.00 5.00 100 ft the average New York branch is Sun. March 23 of such conditions shall not be deemed a griev­ were applied to prevent strikes and keep the Newark 150.00 150.00 100 ft doing at least as well as the most Mon. March 24 ance.” This prohibited the closed shop and there­ workers shackled to the machines throughout the Hutchinson 10.00 10.00 100 ft active branches elsewhere in the Tues. March 25 by robbed the workers of the backbone of any war. All the decisions quoted were by unanimous St. Louis 5.00 ft party, barring Minneapolis and 5.00 100 Wed. March 26 vote of the Board. Bronx House Party ft genuine collective bargaining system. Chicago. And they caution us Akron 10.00 10.00 100 Thurs. March 27 And w h at happened in the 82 cases where at that this latest increase by no Philadelphia 30.00 Fri. March 28 DANCE * DRINK * DINE 30.00 100 Perpetuating Coolie Wages means exhausts local New York’s Sat. March 29 least one “representative” of labor rebelled? The Rochester 15.00 15.00 100 possibilities. We’ve seen these LATEST RECORDINGS Sun. March 30 P ortla nd P rin cip le No. 4, “In fixing wages, hours, and. machinery was this: an unmpive was chosen by San Francisco 100.00 100.00 100 Young Big City workers in Swing Classical Mon. March 31 conditions of labor, regard should alicays be had the Board, and bis decision was binding upon all Williston 10.00 10.00 100 action, and we know they mean Tues. A p ril 1 Seattle parties. If the Board was unable to agree unan­ F lin t 150.00 138.00 92 for conditions. prevailing in localities affected.” business! In weeks to come we 241 E- 169th St. Apt. D12, Bx. Wed. A p ril 2 imously upon an umpire, then one was chosen Lynn 100.00 90.00 Through this paragraph the Board justified wage hope to publish reports of their 90 Thurs. A p ril 3 January 18, — 8:30 P.M. 1000.00 differences between the South and tlie North, be­ by lot from a panel of ten nominated by President excellent activity with the AP­ New York 706.00 71 Fri. A p ril 4 Plentyw ood tween the organized and the unorganized workers. Wilson. Thus the final arbiter was always the PEAL. Admission 35c, including food Cleveland 70.00 10.00 14 Sat. A pril 5 W illis to n The Board was dedicated to the status quo, not boss and labor’s ro.presentatives could do nothing PETROIT DOUBLES Youngstown 50.00 6.00 12 Sund. A p ril 6 Directions: 6th or 8th Avenue to reform . but maintain the farce of national unity hy vot­ ITS APPEAL EFFORTS Individual Contributions 3.30 Mon. A p ril 7 F a rg o subway to I67th Street station Tues. A p ril 8 ff There arose, however, considerable demand ing “Ja.” Oh yes, the name that led all others on D E T R O I T^—“ . . . Beginning TOTAL $3527.60 $3193.57 91% Wed. A p ril 9 Twin Cities for the formulation of a minimum wage scale. the panel of ten umpires was that of Henry Ford. with February 1st issue we ex­ JANUARY 18, 1941 SOCIALIST APPEAL ATI

m i “LABOR WITH A WHITE SKIN I h £k CANNOT EMANCIPATE ITSELF A I I C WHERE LABOR WITH A BLACK SKIN IS BRANDED" — KARL KARL LIEBKNECHT: Revolutionist They Tell Vile MARX. i Falsehoods About Negro Struggle The " Democrats" Murdered H im ---And Opened The Road To Hitler .■v r r r -—I By ALBERT PARKER German Workers The aircraft workers at Vnltee (organized By EUGENE VARLIN assassinated them. The assassins people. Liebknecht foresaw that done elsewhere besides Prussia is proved to the hilt by tlie present into Local 683 of the United Auto Workers Union, Twenty-two years ago this January 15, the two outstanding were known; but their trial was the Czar would be one of the first The war propaganda of British and Ame^ CIO) deserve double thanks from the workers of revolutionary leaders of the German working class, Karl Lieb- a mere farce. to be destroyed by this contradic­ attempt lo outlaw strikes in war- production plants in the United rican imperialism attempts to picture the Ger­ this country. knecht and Rosa Luxemburg, were arrested and murdered by Shortly before Comrade Trot­ tion. sky’s death, be predicted, and States. man masses as “ hypnotized” followers of Hit* the German Junker officers whom the Social Democratic gov­ “In the bourgeois capitalist, First of all they struck a blow which showed events bear it. out, th a t tile Prus­ state,” he wrote, “ the conscript The maltreatment of soldiers, ler. that it is not only desirable but possible to win ernment had called upon 1o aid it in crushing the socialist revo­ sian drill-sergeant would become army, in its function as a Liebknecht. insists, is an integral It is a deliberate lie. higher wages and better working conditions in lution. That horrible deed, connived at by ihe pro-war “social- the ideal of capitalist America. weapon against the proletariat, part of bourgeois militarism. It It was with the connivance and consent of the war industries, even under a heavy barrage isis,” beheaded the revolution and led to the victory of Nazism. Liebknecht’s “Militarism” '— bis is a crude and terrible contra­ flows from the need of the capi­ of attacks from the employers, their stooges and Liebknecht’s life is an inspiration lo the German proletariat 1906 lectures—deseries to be read the capitalists of the world that H itler came diction in itself; under the talists to discipline in tlieir army by all workers today, for it is an to power in 1933. They preferred Hitler to the the government. which w ill rise in tho course of this war and avenge him. Czar’s despotic regime the con­ the working class whose interests analysis of bourgeois militarism, Secondly, they have taken another action which Al ihe time of his birth, in August 1871, his father, founder script army is a weapon which are opposed to those of the capi­ only other real alternative— the socialist re­ as expressed by its Prussian ex­ of the German socialist, movement must (urn itself more and more talist class. Tlie power of life volution in Germany. w ill be greeted with enthusiasm by the workers, ponents and now imitated every­ was in prison for "high treason.' session, however, he broke disci­ with crushing power against, and death possessed by the o ffi­ especially those Negro workers who tire almost where. That revolution was almost achieved in' Karl became a lawyer—but one pline and voted against war cre­ the despotism of czarism it­ cers further aggravates this situa­ I00% barred from many important industries Militarism, Liebknecht points tion; the officers tend to use mal­ 1918, when the German workers and the re­ whose first case was the defense dits. self.’.’ such as aircraft. of a young socialist, and so it out in bis book, assumes under treatment. instead of persuasion in turning soldiers overthrew the Kaiser. It was WHY KARL AND ROSA Here is how it happened. At the dance celebrat­ was always. capitalism special forms, suited to Another contradiction in capital­ whipping the men into shape. with the help of a French-British-American F A IL E D IN 1919 the, uses to which capitalism puts ist militarism is that, as modern ing the victorious strike, two Negro members were His immortal fame vests, above threat of armed intervention—just as they in­ With Rosa Luxemburg, Clara it. Best adapted to capitalist weapons and strategy become more THESE CONTRADICTIONS asked to leave by people acting as floor managers all, on his leadership of the strug­ Zetkin, and Franz Mehring, he needs is universal m ilitary train­ and more complex, they require POINT THE WAY OUT tervened in Russia— that the German "demo­ gle against bourgeois militarism. and making Die request on their own initiative. founded “Die Internationale,” the ing; Liebknecht predicted its es­ highly intelligent, soldiers. It was crats” smashed the revolution. In 1906 lie was on trial; the This exposition of Liebknecht’s When the members of the union learned about first illegal organ of the German tablishment. in the United States. an open secret that the German offi­ views indicates how he proposed T he German workers have shown in theif “crime” was a series of lectures revolutionists. But they did not The army of capitalism serves cers, though they found the East- it, there was a discussion of this action on the on militarism, delivered lo the an­ to put. an end to bourgeois m ili­ whole history that Nazism is utterly alien to build a party. as a “national institution destined El-bian peasants the most, easily floor of a regular local meeting, resulting in the nual conference of the Socialist tarism. Pacifism, disarmament, them. They have given to the world a shining Liebknecht organized the mag­ for attack” ; but it is at tlie same commanded soldiers, complained adoption of the following resolution: Youth organizations. When he etc., he viewed as so much non­ firmament of revolutionary figures: Karl nificent May Day demonstration time also a weapon in tlie struggle that they could he used only with­ published the lectures, the book sense. The fundamental contra­ “ WHEREAS: A t a public dance given by the of 1916 in Berlin. There he de­ of the bosses against the workers. in certain lim its because of their Marx, Friedrich Fngels, Rosa Luxemburg, was confiscated, lie was arrested diction between the capitalist of­ Vultee unit of Local 683, two Negro union nounced the imperialists and call­ Not only against the workers at low intelligence. These monarch­ Karl Liebknecht, Franz Mehring, Clara Zet­ and sentenced to 18 months im­ ficers and the armed worker-sol­ brothers and their guests were asked to leave, ed upon the German proletariat home, but also against the masses ist officers had to confess that the diers would inevitably lead to an kin. These, and not Hitler, ty p ify the German prisonment. abroad. For the wars of capital­ class-conscious Socialist workers and to fight against its main enemy explosion from within. It was the masses. He was not a pacifist. On the at home. Arrested for this heroic ism in tliis epoch, Liebknecht al­ made the best soldiers. At the task of the revolutionary party WHEREAS: This action is in direct contra­ T hirteen million socialists and commun­ contrary, as a member of the in­ protest., he was trie d behind closed ready saw clearly in 1906, origi­ same time, of course, these So­ to fight for the interests of the diction to the national CIO policy of no dis­ ternational bureau of the Socialist doors—the German “democracy” nate not in Europe but in the cialists were dedicated to destroy­ worker-soldiers and to organize ists—the backbone of tbe German people—• crimination because of race, color, creed, na­ Youth he attacked those who pro­ feared an open trial—and sen­ political and commercial expan­ ing the Junker officer class. This them to secure redress of their voted against H itler in the last election that tionality or political affiliation, and posed refusal to register for m ili­ tenced to four and a half years’ ! sion of the "civilized nations,” contradiction is even more pro­ grievances. Out of this struggle was permitted. And that election only dimly whose colonial polities produces WHEREAS: The success of our drive to or­ tary services. In opposition to imprisonment. nounced today than it was in Lieb­ —as much part of the class strug­ reflecled-Hio election under capitalism really these pacifists, he called for the two new forms of militarism: knecht’s time; precisely the most ganize the aircraft industry depends upon the Set free when the Kaiser was gle as is the fight in the factories struggle against bourgeois m ilitar­ “navalism” (militarism on sea) intelligent trade-unionists and re­ reflects— the anti-fascist sentiment of the Ger­ broadest possible public support, and overthrown, Liebknecht and Lux­ for workers’ rights, and in the ism within the' bourgeois army and colonial militarism. The last volutionists make the best tank- man people. emburg agonizedly realized that epoch of m ilitarism even more im ­ WHEREAS: The Negro people, who helped itself. is becoming increasingly impor­ drivers, machine-gunners, avia­ The German workers need help in over­ I the revolutionary wave had no portant—would come, Liebknecht on our picket line with donations of food and tant for the capitalists, Liebknecht tion mechanics, etc. The Czar w ill When the war broke out, be was leadership; they tried, working was sure, the socialist society of throwing Hitler. But that help is not carried money in our recent successful strike, are part proved; it is used to enslave the have plenty of company! a member of the Reichstag. The the future. against time, to build the neces­ natives of the “backward” conti­ by American bombing planes. Not freedom of that publie, and The power of life and death Social Democratic party's Reichs­ sary revolutionary party. The nents. Liebknecht a n d Luxemburg but a bloody military dictatorship will be WHEREAS: We recognize that discrimina­ tag group was dominated, as was Spartacusbund which they formed which capitalist army officers made the mistake, I have said, THE CONTRADICTIONS brought to Germany by the victorious imper­ tion of any kind is the weapon used by the em­ the party, by trade union bureauc­ suffered all the ills of an inex­ have over their men tends to be of not beginning to build the revo­ ployer and his organizations to split and divide rats; they carried their peacetime perienced and ultra-left group, and WITHIN THE ARMY extended to private industry and lutionary party in time to lead the ialist armies of “ democracy.” lis in our struggle for a higher standard of liv­ opportunism to its logical conclu­ it was not permitted time to learn. The most significant contradic­ it is first challenged there by the revolutionary wave. Two genera­ The decisive help that we can give to the ing, the re fore be i t sion, and supported the war. Lieb- At the invitation of Noske. the tion within capitalist militarism, workers. Industrialists holding ar­ tions have paid dearly for that German workers so that they can overthrow knecht refused to go along, al­ Social Democratic Minister of Liebknecht showed, is that in the my contracts attempt to impose mistake. But our generation w ill RESOLVED: That we apologize to the Negro H itler is to demonstrate to them that we, too, though at the first vote in the War, Junker troops invaded Wil- struggles of the big capitalist barracks discipline on their work­ learn, lias already profited, from people for this action, and that we give our com­ | are struggling against our oppressors. That we, Reichstag he abided by party dis­ mersdorf where Liebknecht and countries against each other, they ers. That Liebknecht was right both their mistakes and their plete assurance that this action w ill not be re­ cipline; at the December 2, 1914 Luxemburg were in hiding, and are compelled to arm the whole in generalizing that this would be I great contributions. I too, are fighting for a Workers Governments peated, and be it further RESOLVED: That this Local 683 of the Unit­ ed Auto Workers, CIO, do all in its power to break down the anti-labor, racial discrimination policy in the aircraft and national defense in­ , dustries, recognizing that our national defense Our Red Rosa The German Workers Called Her 'must rest on the maintenance of our democratic principles, foremost among which is the right of By ANTOINETTE F. KONIKOW ond International. For example, when tbe French So­ had to he suspended for the duration of war. Rosa assurance, self-confidence, and resolution in the every citizen to an opportunity to cam his liveli­ Physically she was small, slender, a neglected hip cialists became jubilant because Millerand bad re­ Luxemburg did not waver in her stand. Together- masses; a weak, vacillating course not only under­ hood without discrimination.” disease in childhood left her with a limp. On her ceived a high ministerial post, Rosa at once condemned with Lenin she had sponsored the resolution against mines the power of the working class but demoralises Another instance of gains in the IL q ld o f labor arrival to address large gatherings, committees meet­ this entry into a bourgeois government. Tiie gist war.adapted at tlie Stuttgart World Congress, the last and confuses the masses. She cited a passage from a against racial suspicion and division te to betseeif ing her for the first time would become crestfallen: of her criticism was: Socialists can accept executive one before the war. This resolution in veiled phrase­ book by General 'B’ernhardi (be was tbe guiding ge­ in what happened in another CIO union, Local How could such a frail being make an impression on state positions only if the government itself is in ology (to elude the German censors), bad actually nius of tbe Germany army at that time) disclosing 486, of the Midland Steel plant in Cleveland. the speaker’s platform! But once she faced the crowd, their hands, otherwise they invariably serve as the threatened a civil war against the bourgeoisie in his fear that under certain conditions the army might Here in a union where 90% of the membership she seemed to grow in stature; her resonant powerful servants of the bourgeoisie and betray tbe workers. every country if war were declared. become a menace to the ruling class. The Junius pamphlet states that national wars are white workers, Joseph Jackson, a Negro and voice, her flaming oratory roused audiences to wild In her- fight against revisionism she attacked Bern­ At the outbreak of the war Rosa Luxemburg ap­ cannot be waged under imperialism. . Lenin realized former vice president, has been elected president. enthusiasm. Our Red Rosa, the German workers called stein, a very prominent and influential party leader plied the line of this resolution. Addressing the work­ that Junius had the world war in mind, but considered As one commentator in the area, Ted Cox, put it: her with proud tenderness. in Germany, who argued that Marx had become “out­ ers in Germany she said: “If yon are ordered to shoot moded” and that it was possible to evolve into social­ it necessary to correct this statement by explaining “They (the members) wanted the best leader­ . Rosa Luxemburg was a magnificent speaker and down your French brothers refuse to shoot!” She ism without any revolution by simply relying on pro­ that we would support national wars of the colonial ship available in the shop. So, when President combined this with a rare ability of presenting the was arrested and imprisoned for the duration of the gress, the parliament, and the feelings of justice and peoples for self-determination; such wars are progres­ Mack Cheek resigned, they looked around. They ideas of socialism in a simple and graphic language. war. Her fate became henceforth indissolubly linked morality, Revisionism expressed the direct pressure sive and a blow to imperialism. didn’t give a damn what color or what religious She was not only a student but a theoretician of Marx­ with that of Liebknecht, her comrade-in-arms, who of the middle class upon the workers’ movement; had proclaimed: “Our main enemy is at home!” and Junius called for a German republic, to put an end or political opinions that leadership might have. ism, the author of many pamphlets and books, among pressure which repeats itself periodically, as we can who soon shared Rosa’s fate—imprisonment. to the war. Lenin pointed out that a parliament They wanted ability. them. "The Accumulation of Capital,” in which she expanded and modified Marx’s exposition of this sub­ vouch for from our own recent experience. In Ger­ Rosa Luxemburg, caged like an eagle, spent her constituted of representatives of the bourgeoisie and “ It happened that Joe Jackson, who is colored, ject in volume II of Das Kapital. (The controversy many, capitalism was on the up-grade at the time. days in a tiny cell from which she could barely the middle class could never stop the war. Only the had that ability. So now Joe is president of one over iter interpretation still continues and I leave it The party had several million votes, a vast treasury, glimpse a blue patch of the sky. Her letters from masses—through the Soviets—can assure peace. of the biggest, most m ilitant and most successful to theoreticians to evaluate its merits.) But Rosa many newspapers, scores of parliamentary seats, etc. prison reveal an aspect of her character previously local unions in the Cleveland CIO.” Rosa and the Russian Revolution was no cabinet theoretician. Her writings as her Party functionaries were well paid, and "trade union known only to her friends. The tenderness of this In prison Rosa received the great, news of the Rus­ Here, therefore, are two good example of how speeches were intimately bound up with action. leaders dominated the party. A feeling of satisfaction indomitable fighter is evidenced in these letters. She sian Revolution. Site burned with indignation over trade unions, militant and democratically con­ She possessed the rarest of gifts—the, ability to combined with a fear of losing tlieir gains began to could not observe without revulsion even the suffer­ the Brest-Litovsk peace forced by Germany upon the trolled by the rank-and-file, are educating white understand and even sense in advance the vital pe­ possess tbe Social D em ocratic tops. They argued ing of animals—tlie overloaded oxen, the tiny, unpro­ workers to the necessity for complete equality. riods, problems, and strategy of the workers’ movement. against revolutionary action because everything seem­ tected bird. In her letters she puts down her deep Bolsheviks. She accused the pro-war “socialists” of their responsibility, their degrading submission to the It was precisely this that brought her Into sharp ed to be progressing smoothly. Why rush, why “gam­ sympathy for all suffering, her craving for peace and Junkers. The Russian Revolution deeply inspired Much Still to be Done conflict throughout her life with the self-satisfied and ble,” when a gradual growth would bring about so­ beauty, her anger at injustice. She did not, however, degenerating leadership of old German Social Democ­ cialism? In her fight against this Philistine outlook, let her hands hang. Her magnetic personality and Rosa. Enemies of the Russian Revolution have tried to construe her criticism of the Russian Bolsheviks The editorial page of the latest issue of The racy. Rosa had against her almost the entire German lead­ noble nature enabled her to make friends in prison Chicago Defender features a cartoon by Jay Jack- Rosa Luxemburg was born in Czarist Poland, and ership. who helped to smuggle out regularly her articles for as an opposition to the Russian revolution. This i3 son, entitled “Back Of It All.” It shows a fac­ began to participate in illegal revolutionary circles “The International,” the publication of the Spartakns false. It was as one of them that-she criticized some tory entitled “National Defense Work,” bearing from a very early age. At 18 she was forced to flee 1905 Becomes the Dividing Line group which she and Liebknecht had formed. of their tactics. The most vicious lie is that spread by the Stalinists, a sign "Help Wanted.” In front of it stands a Poland in order to escape arrest. I met her at Zurich When the 1905 revolution broke out in Russia, Rosa The Famous “ Junius” Pamphlet who have tried to depict her as an enemy of Com­ Negro worker in overalls, labelled “Negro Labor,” where she studied economics and philosophy. She was with great joy followed the tremendous mass move­ Her best known work of that period is the Junius and he is held up, prevented from entering it, so mature, serious and self-assured that my friends ment in her own backward homeland. She grasped m unism . pamphlet, circulated throughout Germany. She did The doors of her prison were thrown open by the by a huge hand extended in front of him, barring and myself considered her our senior, but in reality at once the importance of the new weapons applied not sign her name because that would have disclosed his entrance. This hand is labelled "A.F.L.” she was several years younger than we were. in her Russia, especially the role of the general strike. German w orkers. I t was November 9, 1918—the be­ The German leadership inclined to dismiss the gen­ her work in prison. Even Lenin was unaware of the ginning of the German revolution. Although her long .The point of the cartoon is quite evidently Returning to Poland she worked to counteract tlie eral strike as “general nonsense.” But Rosa saw in identy of the author, of this remarkable pamphlet, prison term had weakened and exhausted her, Rosa that Negro labor could get jobs in the war in­ reactionary nationalist movement which had grown it revolutionary mass action surging onward without which he greeted with joy as a sign of a new and threw herself into the work. She edited the Rote dustries if it were not for the AFL, which is strong, by organizing the workers on a principled fear of the possibilities of defeats—an expression of powerful revolutionary wing developing in Germany. Fahne (Red Banner). Together with Liebknecht she “back of it all.’" Marxist basis. Lenin criticized her opposing the de­ He critized the pamphlet for its mistakes, bat appre­ organized the German Communist Party. The Mani­ mand for self-determination, in particular for Poland. the tremendous vitality latent in the masses. During Does such a cartoon help the struggle to open ciated its power and true revolutionary spirit. Her influence in organizing a powerful and strongly this period she became more and more estranged from festo of the party, in complete agreement with the the doors of industry to colored workers? We “Junius’ ” reasons for opposing impierialist wars program advocated by Lenin and Trotsky was w rit­ centralized party in Poland was enormous. On more the old leadership, and from Karl Kautsky himself th in k not. have become classic. They should be studied today, ten by her. than one occasion she sided with Lenin against the who had for a while shared her enthusiasm for the Who owns and controls and runs the factories? for they apply to World War II just as they did twenty Mensheviks within the Russian movement. 1905 events in Russia. The degenerated leadership of the Social Democ­ The unions—or the bosses? To ask the question The World War of 1914 brought with it the crucial years ago. Rosa explained that the victory of either racy took charge of the government in order to crush is to answer it. It is the bosses of course, and Her Struggle Against Reformism test fqr ail revolutionists. The German party and the side—whether Germany or the Allies—would neces­ the revolution. Luxemburg and Liebknecht were it is they and their managers who do the hiring. Through a fictitious marriage she became a German Seoond International revealed the full extent of their sarily lead to another world slaughter. Only the masses hounded. Leaflets demanding their assassination were Who benefits from division of the races, who citizen and was thus admitted to the arena of the large degeneration. The leaders betrayed the working class. could tear humanity out of war. Nothing can save circulated. Large rewards were offered for their cap­ re a lly pro fits from it, the unions or the bosses? German party. From then on we find her dealing blow Kautsky, the theoretical leader of the Second Inter­ the world except Socialism. ture. The Spartakus group which had become the The bosses, of course, because they can play one after blow to tbe reformist tendency which was gaining national bid his farewell to Marxism, declaring that She exposed the hypocricy of the capitalist class, German Communist Party had a large following but race against the other. sway over the German Social Democracy and the Sec­ internationalism could operate only in peace time and the fraud of patriotism. The ruling class w ill always was not yet strong enough to take power. The situ­ Plenty of factories in the war industries are make an alliance with the enemy in order to suppress ation greatly resembled the July, 1917 days in Russia. its own working class. The French aristocrats web not organized at ail. How many of these hire The advanced workers were pressing forward to bat­ corned the English and German armies against the Negroes any more than the factories that are or­ tle, while the leadership realized that it was prema­ French Jacobins. Tbe German army released the army ganized? ture. The bourgeoisie and the Social Democratic lead­ LENIN MEMORIAL MEETING of Napoleon III so that the Paris Commune could be ers did everything in their power to provoke the It is incorrect and misleading to say that the crushed. The Russian White Guards urged England, masses in Berlin to an uprising so as to drown the main responsibility for discrimination in hiring France and Germany to help them against the Rus­ revolution in blood. Liebknecht and Luxemburg did in the war industries lies at the door of the AFL. SPEAKER sia of the Bolsheviks. not stand aside from the masses. On January 15, To do so serves only to whitewash the role of She pointed out that, far from weakening the 1919 they were arrested and immediately assassinated. bosses w ho are re a lly responsible. GRACE CARLSON working class, the revolution would strengthen and These two great revolutionists, two of the most We do not seek in any way to minimize or Trotskyist Candidate for U. S. Senator from Minnesota. Member National Executive encourage the masses to defend their country, which sincere, devoted and fearless leaders of the proletariat excuse or cover up the stupid, reactionary and Board of the Workers Defense League becomes their real fatherland only after tne revolu­ were murdered by the bourgeoisie and its “s -cialist” vicious part played by some union leaders in the tion. The combined forces of all the monarchies could lackeys. Luxemburg and Liebknecht have become the AFL. We denounce them and we carry on a Friday, January 24, 1941 not subdue the great French Revolution. Nor could symbols for courage, militancy and unswerving opposi­ fight against their harmful policies. 8:30 P.M. Soviet Russia under Lenin and Trotsky be overthrown tion to imperialist war. The monuments erected in After all, what is "back of it all” even in the by all the imperialists. Germany to commemorate these two comrades have case of AFL officials guilty of Jim Crow practices? IRVING PLAZA And when the social patriots sneered tiiat tlie party been destroyed by Hitler. Isn’t it the training they received from the capi­ I rving Place and 15th Street New York City could do nothing during war time, she replied: Our But Luxemburg and Liebknecht have more perma­ talist system? Isn’t it the prejudices they inherited task is to issue clear political slogans comprehensible j AUSPICES: Socialist Workers Party Admission 25c nent memorials than monuments of stone or Iron. from the “respectable” captains of industry whom to the workers; a determined consistently revolution­ Their names are Inscribed in flaming red letters in so many of them try to imitate? ary course of action followed by the party w ill arouse the hearts o£ the international working class. 9 SOCIALIST APPEAL JANUARY 18, 1941

In rejecting military training of any kind what­ SOCIALIST APPEAL soever, these deluded young people are, in reality, denying the realities and consequences of the class There’s War In Canada--- Lovestone Quits; VOL. V—No. 3_____Saturday, January 18, 1941 struggle. In the end, what w ill remain is their denial of the class struggle. Then they w ill sup­ W m M v » y (& « SOCIALIST AJPPKAL PUBLISHING ASS’», port military training and war—on behalf of the The Fruit O f Lack t l lit UnlT«r*lty Plao*. Nnr York. N. Y. capitalist class. Against The Trade Union TalapbMi«: Algonquin 4-1*47 The next stage in the degeneration of the So­ cialist Party is already apparent. We cite two in­ O f Principles Editorial Board: stances. But the Systematic Terror Has Failed to Break Down the FELIX MORROW ALBERT GOLDMAN The National Executive Committee of the The Lovestone group (“ Independent Labor League General M a n a g e r: Socialist Party has adopted a resolution on the en­ Workers and French Canadians' Opposition to the W ar of America” ) 1 has announced that it has dissolved, RUTH JEFFREY try of Greece into the imperialist war. Its key sen­ by decision of its recent national convention. In a tence is: “ We rejoice that the Greek people have The following is a first-hand account of the treatment of war comes from the French Can­ “Declaration” announcing the end of the organiza­ Subscriptions: $2.00 per year; $1.00 for six months. succeeded in administering a setback to the fascist the workers and unionists in Canada during the present war, adians, who are 41 per cent of tion, it calls upon all radical groups to “ join forces Poreian: $3.00 per year, $1.50 for six months. Bundle armies.” ’ (Call, December 7.) and of the growing resistance to the war in this sister “ democ­ the Canadian population. There in making a new start towards a genuine American •rders: 3 cents per copy in the United States: 4 cents were bitter draft riots in Quebec democratic socialism”—and to begin that new start per copy In all foreign countries. Single copies: * cents. The "Greek” army of Dictator Metaxas, as racy” to the United States. I t is part of a report to the everybody knows except Norman Thomas, con­ SOCIALIST APPEAL from a Canadian comrade. and Montreal, and today there are by following the IL LA into limbo. only 2,000 French-Canadian sol­ sists in large part of British troops, British air- TORONTO, Canada—-You may be surprised to learn that Presumably, with the death of the IL LA , its final ••Reentered as second class matter December 4, diers in the Canadian army. ‘Declaration” is its last word on what the coming liti, at the post office at New York, N. Y„ under the plaines, British technicians, and the British Navy. one union local here, with 160 members, advertised for an or­ Act of March t. 1871.” ganizer in the capitalist press. You w ill understand why, when I I have learned that there are “ genuine American democratic socialism” should be. Greece as a separate entity does not exist in this 2,000 soldiers in concentration tell you about present conditions here in Canada. But God help the mariner who tries to1 sail by their war. The only question that events were called camps for their refusal to go over­ directions! upon to answer was whether Greece would be part Unionists are afraid to accept jobs as organisers because seas. Some cases of suicide FIGHT WITH THE In a word, the Lovestone “ Declaration” is a com­ of the German war machine or part of the British- even a little m ilitant labor action means a ja il sentence. among young soldiers have also Civil liberties are at a very low ebb in Canada today. The plete confession of bankruptcy, which blusteringly SOCIALIST WORKERS PARTY American war machine. Greece is no more identi­ been disclosed. This w ill give you government has taken advantage of the war to deliver smashing an idea of the opposition which tries to cover up its nakedness by the whining lie: fiable ‘as an independent agent in this war than “ Everybody else has failed too.” ON THE WAR FRONT: blows at labor. 71 leaders of unions are in concentration camps exists here to fighting for British Serbia was in the last war. here. The charge?—they demand­ imperialism. Among the ideologies the expiring Lovestoneites anyone here to join the army. And if Thomas “ rejoices” that the British forces ed too much from the bosses! list as having failed is that of Bolshevism. The-im­ F o r: In the town of Scarsborough all The government has had to in the Mediterranean have thus set back the Ital­ Pat Sullivan, leader of the AFL 1. M ilitary training of workers, financed by the gov­ the unemployed youth have been yield to the opposition of the plication is conveyed that they, the Lovestoneites, seamen’s union was arrested right ernment, under control of the trade unions. ians, why shouldn’t he, logically, rejoice if W all forced into the army. The town French Canadians to some extent. tried the road of Bolshevism, and it proved a false in the midst of negotiations with Street’s army helps along? consists today almost entirely of For instance, in the predominant­ road. A lie made out of whole cloth. 2. The establishment of special officers’ training the' ship-owners. He had asked old men and women. ly English sections of Canada, if The story of the Lovestone group is worth telling camps, financed by the government and controlled That’s the real logic of Thomas’ position, and for better terms in the new con­ You can tell how desperate the you are caught distributing anti­ by the trade unions, to train workers to become he has already recognized it by taking the next tract than were in the old one. A in some detail, f o r there is an important lesson to government has become to break war leaflets or even union organ­ officers. step. The Call of January 18 announces its support criminal and treasonable offense learn from it—although scarcely the one that the down the resistance to army serv­ izing leaflets, you will receive in Canada today. Lovestoneites offer. That story was summarized by 3. - Confiscation of all war profits—all company books of the pro-war propaganda organization headed ice, when i t now pays $39 per from 6 months to 2 years in jail. Canadian labor is becoming in­ Comrade James P. Cannon in his pamphlet, “ The to be open for trade union inspection. by Matthew Woll under the phony title, “The month to a single man, and family But in French Canada, you will creasingly aroused by this anti­ Struggle for a Proletarian Party,” published in April men with a wife and two children receive only 10 days confinement 4. Expropriation of all war industries and their American Labor Committee to Aid British Labor.” labor attitude of the government. 1940. He wrote then: get as much as ?28 per week. In for the same "offense.” operation under workers’ control. The Call concedes that W olfs committee “could A ll labor organizations have been the U. S. I hear that ordinary “In the terminology of the Marxist movement, be misused and could be made to serve interven­ driven underground with the ex­ One of the hopeful signs here 5. Trade union wages for all workers drafted into the soldiers get only $21 a month for ception of the (pro-war) Com­ is the growing sentiment for an unprincipled cliques or groups which begin a struggle army. tionist sentiment in the United States,” but hypo­ the first four months, and then monwealth Federation. independent labor party. There without a definite program have been characterized critically closes its eyes to this real role of Wolfs $30 a month from then on, even 6. Full equality for Negroes in the armed forces— It is not only the government is a movement for this now on as political bandits. A classic example of such a married men. Down with Jim Crowism. committee and declares: “ In the absence of any which persecutes the workers, but foot, which is strongest in the group, from its beginning to its miserable end in the The greatest opposition to the AFL unions. 7. An end to secret diplomacy. evidence of such intent at this time, the Call com­ many reactionary trade union of­ backwaters of American radicalism, is the group 8. A peoples’ referendum on any and all wars. mends the A F L Committee.” What kind of evid­ ficials are aiding in this offensive. known as ‘Lovestoneites.’ This group, which took its ence is Thomas waiting for? Matthew Woll riding For instance, in a recent election name from the characterless adventurer who has been down Broadway in a tank, hell-bent for Berlin? in tlie International Ladies Gar­ its leader, poisoned and corrupted the American Com­ AT HOME: ment Workers Union local, the British Jail Indian For munist movement for many years by its unprincipled It’s a rather touching picture, virginal Norman leaders arbitrarily prohibited the and unscrupulous factional struggles, which were car­ F o r: being deceived and misled by the sly Matthew nomination of alleged Stalinists. 1. A job and decent living for every worker. Woll, but if we are ever called on to testify we These leaders crawl on their bel­ ried on to serve personal aims and personal ambi­ Demanding Democracy tions, or to satisfy personal grievances. The Love­ 2. Thirty-thirty—$30 weekly minimum wage—30 shall have to say that Norman was more than lies at. every opportunity to show their .servility to the government. stoneites were able and talented people, but they had hour weekly maximum for all workers on all jobs. willing and knew what he was letting himself in CANADA’S “HOME GUARD” We have received reports from no definite principles. They knew only that they want­ 3. $30 weekly old age and disability pension. for. ALL anti-CoIour legislation; full We read about the moves to England of the trial of Dr. Yus- rights of citizenship. ed to control the party ‘regime’. As with Abern, this 4. Full social, political and economic equality for the start the “Home Guard” in the sof Dadoo, an Indian, charged in ‘‘Don’t support this war, where question always occupied first place in their calcu­ Negro people. U. S. W ell, a “ home” defense Johannesburg, South Africa, with the rich get richer and the poor lations; the ‘political’ program of the moment was al­ 5. Workers Defense Guards against vigilante and “The mood of the majority of the army officers guard exists now in Canada. It publishing and distributing ’ a get killed.’,’ ways adapted to their prim ary aim of ‘solving the has already helped the bosses in fascist attacks. reflects the reactionary mood of the ruling classes leaflet which reads as follows: The government could not organization question satisfactorily’, that is, in their several strikes. It is a regular of the country, but in a much more concentrated “ War? An appeal to all non- charge him with being a “fifth favor. C. A twenty-billion dollar Federal public works and witch-hunt outfit,, which has ar­ form. The mood of the mass of the soldiery reflects European people of South Africa. columnist” or “sympathizer of housing program to provide jobs for the unem­ rested anyone at the slightest op­ “ They were wild-eyed radicals and ultra-leftists You are being asked to support the Nazis.” No fascist would ever ployed. the mood of the workers and farmers, but in a much portunity who voices the least bit when Zinoviev was at the head of the Comintern. the war fo r: Freedom, Justice demand the things for Which Da- weaker form ; the bourgeoisie knows much better how of dissatisfaction with the war or With the downfall of Zinoviev and the violent right 7. Expropriate the Sixty Families. and Democracy. Do you enjoy the doo asked in this leaflet. In fact, to maintain contact with the officers than the pro­ the government. swing of the Comintern under Bukharin, they be­ 8. An Independent Labor Party based on the Trade fruits of freedom, justice and these are the things the fascists letariat with the soldiers,”—TROTSKY, WHITHER Despite the feverish government came ardent Bukharinites as quickly and calmly as democracy ? want least of all (in which re­ Unions. FRANCE? Page 100. war propaganda campaigns, the spect you can’t tell them apart one changes his shirt. Due to an error in calculation, 9. A Workers’ and Farmers’ Government. Canadian people are generally op­ “ What you enjoy is: Pass and Poll Tax Laws, segregation, from the “ democracies.” ) or a delay in information, they were behindhand in posed to the war. By people, I making the switch from Bukharin to Stalin and the mean particularly the workers white labour policy, low wages, So they charged him with pub­ frenzied leftism of the Third Period. To be sure, they and the French Canadians. high rents, poverty, unemploy­ lishing a statement likely to in­ Good Old FDR The government is having a ment and vicious colour bar- cite resistance to the govern­ tried to make up for their oversight by proposing the laws . . . ment’s war policy, and fined him expulsion of Bukharin at the party convention they W hile bourgeois politicians and publicists as­ hard time getting soldiers for over-seas service. I t has used “ We answered the call in 1914- 25 pounds or one month’s im pri­ controlled in 1929. But this last demonstration of The New Stage sure us that Roosevelt runs a government, of the two methods to try to build the 18. What was our reward? Mis­ sonment, with an additional sus­ political flexibility in the service of rigid organiza­ As we go to press, word comes from Detroit that people, for the people, and by the people, his re­ army, neither one being very suc­ ery, starvation, unemployment. pended sentence of two months, tional aims came too late. Their tardiness cost them James F. Dewey, Federal labor “ mediator” , has gime proceeds to act like a government of the cessful. The government forces This time we must demand: The subject to good bdhavior. Dadoo their heads. all unemployed fathers off relief rig h t to live as human beings; reused to pay the fine. served an ultimatum on the United Auto W ork­ plutocracy, for the plutocracy, and by the plutoc­ “Their politics were always determined for them racy. Like all other capitalist powers, the adminis­ until their sons join the army. the right to work in skilled It was stated that “ crowds of by external pressure. A t the time of their member­ ers, demanding that the union call o ff within T his has been more successful trades; recognition of African Indians, Africans and Europeans” ship in the Communist Party it was the pressure of twenty-four hours its strike against the Eaton tration at Washington is in reality a pliant tool in than ra is in g the arm y pay, be­ trade unions; abolition of the I demonstrated on his behalf at the Manufacturing Company. The ultimatum, he the hands of the big international monopolist cor­ cause it seems you can’t even pay White Labour Policy; abolition of j trial. Moscow. W ith their formal expulsion from the Com­ intern a still weightier pressure began to bear down stated, was delivered on the authority of the Na­ porations. This stands out clearly in Roosevelt’s imperial­ upon them, and they gradually adapted themselves tional Defense Commission, including, presumably, to it. Today this miserable and isolated clique, petty- ist war-policies. But it is no less evident in such Sidney Hillman. bourgeois to the core, is tossed about by bourgeois- T o show his “ im partiality” , Dewey also ordered incidental events as the deal just consummated bet­ They Were The Greatest democratic public opinion like a feather in the breeze. the company to put to work the men it had failed ween the International Telephone and Telegraph The Lovestoneites never had any independent pro­ to re-employ after a strike last December. The re­ Corporation and the Rumanian Government, gram of their own. They were never able to develop hiring of these men was ONE of the issues in the thanks to the forceful intervention of State and one in the years since their separation from the of­ present strike, but by no means the only one. The Treasury Department officials. Heroes Of The Last War ficial Communist Party. Today their paper, the Work­ other issues between the company and the union, Here is the story. When the Nazis began to ers Age, is hardly distinguishable from a journal of said Dewey, can be settled by negotiation “after take over Rumania last October, Rumanian funds “You boys are heroes. You’re whom Hollywood’s need has tem­ ever, because of lack of money. left liberalism. A horrible example of the end result the plants are operating again.” amounting to some $40,000,000 were “ frozen” in going over to make the world safe porarily lifted the veil of obscur­ Now by mere chance she can go of unprincipled ‘organizational’ politics.” Note that the union has no guarantee that even this country by Presidential decree. The I. T. & T. for Democracy. God bless you ity ? to college on th a t $250— fo r one boys. And remember, when you One was discovered down and year. The History of This Group ;the one issue Dewey refers to, rehiring, w ill be owns the Rumanian Telephons System, part of get back, and I am voicing the out in a barroom in a Massachu­ Feodor Sole, the seventh sur­ Since Comrade Cannon wrote this, the Lovestone­ settled before the strike is called off. On the con­ which has already been seized by Russia, Hungary, sentiments of the entire country setts town. The newspapers call­ vivor, was/ finally located in a ites, pushed still further by bourgeois democratic trary, the union is told by the government to call and Bulgaria and the rest by the Rumanian Gov­ when I say it, nothing will be ed him a “bum” and would not veteran’s CCC camp near B uffalo, public opinion, became above all advocates of “ all- [off its walk-out regardless of what the company ernment, presumably as trustee for German too good for you.” print his real name to save him N. Y. This was his last refuge out” aid to England. does. capital. These were the words employed from "shame.” His “shame” is to which unemployment and want The end of the Lovestoneites is the handwriting on by the capitalist politicians and that of many workers who have had driven him. As for the other issues, every union man knows None of the United States corporations in Nazi- the wall for their ilk. The Norman Thomas group, big-shots back in 1917 and 1918 been so beaten down by the mis­ In Hamden, Conn., was Bernard that when a company has refused to come to a controlled countries have been able to obtain pay­ to speed tlie doughboys off to the eries and hardships of life in the Early, waiting on table in a bar. coming ever closer to a pro-British line (elsewhere general settlement before a strike, return to work ment in American money for their properties since European batflefronts. Among "Democracy” they fought to save Michael Saccini was found in New in this issue we deal with their latest moves in this without a general settlement means giving the com­ the war started. That's one of the underlying the millions of soldiers who listen­ that they have given up all hope. York, working as a barber shop direction), is already little more than an appendage Another, George Wills, was pany the whip-hand in further negotiations. Every motives behind Wall Street’s support of Washing­ ed to these words were Sergeant porter. to Norman Thomas’ radio program. Even the tradi­ York’s boys. found living near a city dump in tional Social Democratic Federation appears to have anti-union employer in the country hereafter will ton’s military program. Only the tenth of these greatest Sergeant York and his detail re­ Philadelphia, trying, to keep body heroes of the war was found to little basis fo r an independent existence in the war stand pat and depend on the government to force But why, reasoned W all Street, should all our turned from the war to be acclaim­ and soul together by keeping a be living somewhat free of inse- situation; its frenzied cries for “all out” aid to Bri­ the men back to work— and endless negotiations monopolies have to wait until H itler is crushed ed the outstanding heroes of all few goats and picking tin foil, curity. That was Percy Beards­ tain merely duplicate what Roosevelt docs louder and brass and paper off the dump. He over their grievances. for the return of our invested capital? So, as the the troops who bad gone overseas. ley, a bachelor living with his more skillfully. And the group which most resembles Marching down Broadway in a said ho was able to earn as much Roosevelt is taking o ff lh i velvet glove. W ith N. Y. Times phrases it, “ with the cooperation and father on a well-kept farm in Con­ the Lovestoneites in personal character and “ political” huge parade on their return, show­ as five dollars a week and bowed necticut. this ultimatum to the auto workers, a new stage of active help of the Stale Department and the United methods, the Abern-Shachtman “ Workers Party” , ered with cheers, applause and down to no man. “Nothing will be too good for States Treasury” the Rumanian government was sees its future mirrored. governmental action against the workers has confetti, Sergeant York’s boys A third, Thomas Johnson, was you when you return,” the ruling begun. “ induced” to pay immediately $13,800,000 of its were accorded a special position located living alone in a one-room class told the workers during the Abern-Shachtman united with Burnham “merely” blocked funds to the I. T. & T. for its properties. of honor. shack in Denison, Texas. He con­ last war. They’ll be saying it on the question of “ the party regime” — a la Love­ “The corporation,” reports the Times, “ was A lm ost 22 years have passed cealed himself behind a hanging again soon. stone. Just like Lovestone, however, Abern-Shacht­ since that glorious day. Sergeant blanket and signed the film com­ satisfied completely with the deal and had received When they do, remember Ser­ man found themselves at the conclusion of this “ bloc” York’s boys scattered over the pany’s release and received his geant Y o rk ’s hoys. the advocates of the politics of Burnham. Here is In every class society, be it based on slavery, serf­ an absolutely fair price for its property.” Indeed $250 without even permitting the country, disappeared into anony­ striking proof of the political law that groups and dom, or as at present on wage slavery, the oppressor they might be, for, according to the company m ity . film company representative to see cliques which have no program of their own become class is armed. I t is sufficient to mention the use of officials, “ the payment covered all I. T. & T .’s in­ Now a new batch of boys are his face. NOTICE TO BRANCHES troops (including the militia) against strikers, a the instruments of the program of others. Shacht- vestment in capital stock (amounting to $7,667,- being prepared to go to war “to Mario Mussi, another survivor, Sunday. January 26, has phenomenon common to all capitalist countries w ith­ make the world safe for Democ­ was found working as a night man, who loudly protested that he was not advo­ 686), advances on current account, and equity in been set by the National As­ out exception. The arming of the bourgeoisie against racy” again. A flood of propa- watchman in a New York paper sociation for the Advancement cating the anti-Soviet position of Burnham, has now the proletariat is one of the greatest, most cardinal, undistributed earnings.” That is, the corporation gand is being prepared and un­ mill. He was just managing to of Colored People as “ Nation­ published his own position which turns out to b e ... most significant facts of present-day capitalist so­ has redeemed its entire investment plus ten years loosed on them. Included in this eke out an existence. He was al Defense Day” . The Associa­ the position of Burnham. overwhelmed by the $250 w in d ­ ciety.”—LENIN profits plus hidden gravy, we may be sure. And it propaganda is a film shortly to tion has called for mass meet­ The Lovestoneites did not conceal their warm fall and said that this was the -,teas also compensated for that portion of its prop­ be released from Hollywood about ings and rallies throughout sympathy for Burnham-Shachtman. Here, they felt, the exploits of Sergeant York and first time in his life he had re­ the country to protest dis­ were kindred spirits. They were right. erties taken by Russia, Hungary, and Bulgaria! his hoys d u rin g the last. w ar. ceived something for nothing. crimination and segregation in The war, Comrade Trotsky wrote shortly before “This incident,” remarks the Times correspon­ Before the film could be given Another, Joe IConotski, is the the armed forces and in the his death, will destroy all such centrist organizations. dent, “ showed the value of the freezing policy as to the public the film company father of six children whom he is rapidly expanding war indus­ The debris w ill be cast aside and the arena cleared a measure of protecting United States interests in had to secure permission from trying to support by hard toil in tries. Pacifist Changeling a m ill in Holyoke, Mass. fo r the titanic struggle between the only two real countries which have fallen or arc likely to fall the surviving members of Ser­ Branches of the Party arc If you want to understand the process by which geant York’s heroic detail, whose forces in modern society: the bourgeois ruling class under outside influences. If there had been no THE FORTUNATE ONE notified that the next issue of professional pacifists turn into professional war names were used in the film. the SOCIALIST APPEAL will and the proletariat led by the revolutionary Bolshevik Otis V. Merrilhew is working mongers, you should read Norman Thomas’ Social­ frozen Rumanian funds in the United States, it carry a special message on party. The quicker Lovestone and his kind leave WHAT HAPPENED TO THEM as a truck driver. By comparison was pointed out, the I. T. & T . might have these questions which should the arena, the better fo r the revolutionary move­ ist Call and watch it happening. Ten men were located. The rest with the other heroes he seemed achieved a less satisfactory settlement or at least be of great help in pushing ment. It is not accidental that the dissolution of the Norman Thomas’ young followers are still were either dead or had disap­ to be making out pretty well. He sales of the paper at meetings fighting in court against military training but that have had to wait longer for its money.” peared beyond finding. has a wife and three, daughters, Lovesoneites coincides w ith the moment when our called in their cities. pacifist activity, far from being in direct contra­ Such are blessings showered by Roosevelt’s What has happened to these one of whom wanted to go college. party reaches the highest point in morale and activ­ ity in our history. diction to war mongering, provides a bridge to it. policies—upon the giant international trusts. greatest heroes of the war from She had given up this hope how­