WORKERS OF THE FOR THE FOURTH Socialist Appeal INTERNATIONAL! WORLD UNITE! OFFICIAL WEEKLY ORGAN OF THE SOCIALIST WORKERS PARTY

Vol. II. - No. 20. Saturday, May 14, 1938 Five Cents per Copy Hague’s Rule Workers! Unite All Forces Martin Balks Still Awaits Frankensteen Real Challenge Against the Union Wreckers! Plot ln U.A.W. By JA M E S P. C A N N O N where you will, from one end of the country to another, in one union after another, the record of internal discord Browder’s Candidate For Union Presidency Gets Farmer-Labor Congressmen, Acting On Advice Of The “ big push” of the Communist Party to take over describes the fever chart of sick unions in convulsive Stalinist I. L. D., Fail To Make Good On or smash the United Auto Workers raises a question struggles to throw off an alien poison. The name of Rebuff At Executive Board Meeting; Threat To Defy New Jersey Dictator which is rapidly coming to a head in many unions. this poison is Stalinism. Stalinists Begin to Squirm Supported by a strong press and apparatus, and with huge funds at their disposal, the Stalinists have become Crisis Aggravates Union Problems FREE SPEECH FIGHT IMPERATIVE a big factor in the trade union movement, especially The problems of the trade unions are many and UNION-BUSTERS STRIKE SNAG in the C.I.O. Catering to every prejudice of the most varied. These problems are aggravated under condi­ backward workers, combining with the worst types of Boss Hague, his private police force, and his army of tions of the deepening crisis. In the newly formed orga­ DETROIT, May 10—As the fateful session of the ex­ labor fakers and even with discredited racketeers, nization in the big industries the problems are compli­ ecutive board of the United Automobile Workers of Amer­ office-holders remain in undisturbed possession of Jersey cajoling, bribing, slandering and bull-dozing, the Ame­ cated by the inexperience of the workers and by the ica rounded out its second day, the Martin forces had a City. In the first test of strength between the Jersey rican operatives of the G.P.U. have taken the unsuspect­ concentrated power of big capital arrayed against them. clear majority and were confident of victory over the autocrat and his opponents, the Mayor emerged victorious ing trade unionists unawares. They have inched their Differences of opinion over programs and policies without a battle. way into strategic control of many unions and are reactionary elements seeking to control or smash the are inevitable. Trade union democracy alone can provide union. The widespread movement of popular protest engender­ reaching out for power in others. the arena for the responsible discussion of these dif­ The Frankensteen Stalinist combination received its ed by Norman Thomas’s expulsion from the city on April The first effects of this quiet and systematic pene­ ferences and the disciplined execution of majority de­ 30 and the continued provocations of Hague’s agents dur­ tration by the Stalinists are now becoming manifest. cisions. It is not possible, and it is not necessary, for heaviest blow thus far when it became obvious that they ing last week fizzled out miserably when the two Congress­ The affected unions are erupting in widespread dis­ all members of the beleagured unions to answer all proposed to throttle the union with a bureaucratic strangle­ men, Jerry J. O’Connell and John T. Bernard, who came sension disruption and split as the victim of syphilis questions in the same way. But there is one thing upon hold. Homer Martin, President of the U.A.W. made the from Washington to challenge Hague’s dictatorship, fa il­ breaks out in sores and rashes. The labor movement is which all constructive and responsible trade unionists public declaration that “ caucuses cannot be abolished by ed to appear at the meeting scheduled for Journal being frightfully weakened and undermined by inter­ must agree and co-operate. That is the preservation of decree.” Square last Saturday night. nal disorders at a time when it needs all its strength the unions against disruption and disorganization. This "Q He elaborated his opinion, trac­ for the external struggle. ing the origin and conditions that For three days Hague prepar-®- is a common platform for all bona fide trade unionists. From this point of view, the class-conscious and m i­ give rise to factions. Three fac­ ed to prevent the meeting. Bill­ ‘I Am the Law’ The Workers Must Be Prepared BRIDGES THUGS tors were responsible for the boards and full-page advertise­ litant forces in the unions must take the lead in the formation of factions, he con­ ments in all the Hudson County The economic crisis, plunging deeper and without life and death struggles of the unions to overcome the tinued: (1) Legitimate differences papers, jointly sponsored by the dread disease of Stalinism in their ranks. They must of opinion arising from the “American Federation of Labor prospects of alleviation, automatically endangers the ATTACK PICKETS manifold problems of a union as Unions of Hudson County'1 and position of the trade unions and sternly imposes upon become the champions of the united front of all union- large as the U.A.W.; (2) natural the “War Veterans Committee them a policy of preparedness for coming storms. Pro­ loyal and constructive forces against the Stalinite misunderstandings occasioned in for Law and Order," headed by duction is away down and is dropping steadily. Unem­ wrecking crew. ON WEST COAST the course of work; (3) opposi­ Col.- Hugh Kelley, Secretary to ployment figures are up to the 1935 level—the ultra- tion’s sake. Factionalism, he de­ Gov. Moore, called upon Jersey The Auto Union Situation clared, can be eliminated only by City citizens to “show their cautious statisticians of the A.F. of L. put the number Revolt Movement Grows uniting the membership around Americanism" and “be present of jobless at 11,232,000. If the entire history of capital­ This is a burning problem right now in the auto­ Among Rank and File a program. Any other method in Journal Square" on Saturday ism means anything this state of affairs spells only one mobile workers union. In their mad drive to control would not eliminate hut merely evening to repeal the invaders. Longshoremen suppress factions. The leaders of the Democratic thing: organized and determined assaults of the em­ or wreck the U.A.W. the Stalinists have formed a fac­ ward clubs, together with heads ployers to batter down wages and destroy the unions tional combination with the ultra-reactionary, red­ Weather-Vane Frankensteen SAN FRANCISCO.—Six sail­ of several A. F. L. unions, ral­ are on the order of the day. baiting Frankensteen and his similars against the ors picketing the contract­ Undoubtedly the third case is lied Hague’s cohorts for the ex­ Preparations for such a campaign are to be seen Martin administration. This crooked factional maneuver breaking Shepard Line were most applicable to Frankensteen. pected battle. on every side. To meet this campaign successfully it is is carried forward, of course, under the slogan of “ an beaten and pursued for three As outlined in previous issues Police F ill Scpiare end to factionalism.” In this, the jingo-Stalinites only blocks by a gang under orders of the Appeal, Frankensteen’s op­ self-evident that the unions need a firm solidarity in slavishly imitate the hypocritical tactics of the imper­ of Harry Bridges, West Coast position on caucuses and on most From noon on the atmosphere their own ranks. They need to hold together, despite C.I.O. director and Stalinist other problems facing the union around Journal Square was no­ ialist diplomats who always advance their war prepa­ leader of the International Long­ have changed as often as it was ticeably tense. Plain clothes cops MAYOR HAGUE differences of opinion among the membership, and rations under the guise of peace conferences and peace shoremen and Warehousemen’s necessary to serve his overween­ and uniformed police were present a united front to the employers. pacts. Union, last week. ing ambitions. It is even rumor­ sprinkled throughout the place. Will a single intelligent militant in the auto unions Victims of the attack were ed that out of the bigness of The first act of violence occur­ But this necessary internal cohesion is precisely what members of the Sailor’s Union of their hearts, Weinstone and Fos­ red around one o’clock when be taken in by this cynical strategem? Can they really LEAGUE SERVES is lacking. The unions are sick. Take the almost daily the Pacific, picketing the Shepard ter promised Frankensteen the Milton Filker, executive director wish, after the horrible experiences of workers in the Line because the company refus­ Lieutenant-Governorship of Mi­ reports of violent internal dissensions — auto union, of the Jersey City Committee of Stalinist controlled unions, to experiment with such ed to abide by an agreement chigan. What applies to the piti­ Labor's Non-Partisan League, TO CONSECRATE maritime, pocket-book makers, New York painters, “control” in the great organization of the auto workers? signed with West Coast seamen’s ful figure of Richard T. Franken­ / ------union over a year ago. steen holds good for the Stalinist teachers, office workers, restaurant workers. Look (Continued on page 4) bureaucrats. Their unscrupulous A. F. of L. Bosses Bosses Fare Badly APPEAL SALESMEN course in the auto union has been Back Hague Terror ETHIOPIAN RAPE dictated solely in the interests Despite the support of the Sta­ DEVALUATION OF Big Business Asks Curb ARE THREATENED linist misleaders in the C.I.O. of the Stalin bureaucracy. Where principled considerations can be JERSEY CITY, N. J. — DETROIT, May 9—Gangster maritime unions, the cause of Italian Conquest W ill Be said to motivate their policies, A.F. of L. bureaucrats play­ threats of physical violence Shipowner Shepard fared badly these principles can be classed ed their usual reactionary role Legitimized At On Trade Union Rights were made tonight by Stalinist as two ships, the Wind Rush and FRANC TO RAISE as distinctly inimical to the in­ against labor when they cal­ members of the executive the Harpoon, were manned by Geneva terests of the auto workers. led together a meeting and board o f Local 157, U nited West Coast men and a third, the The first slap in the face ad­ passed a scandalous red-bait­ Knudsen and Others Sound O ff A t Chamber Of Automobile Workers, against Timber Rush, remained tied to The on ly real po in t on the ministered the Communist Party ing resolution endorsing Mayor COST OF LIVING comrades selling the Socialist its dock in Tacoma. agenda of the Council of the Commerce Session In Washington bloc was the public removal of Frank Hague’s vicious attacks Appeal before a meeting of Growing opposition from the League of Nations, which is Frankensteen from the post of on civil liberties. the District Auto Council. The rank-and-file maritime workers meeting in Geneva this week, is Daladier Move Strikes Assistant President. Last Decem­ They endorsed Hague’s re­ Stimulated by the Supreme Steel and Inland Steel, favorable issue of the Appeal carried a against the union-wrecking act­ the question of recognition of ber Martin had committed the fusal to permit the holding Blow At Workers’ Court decision in the Fred O. decisions which would on the leading article exposing the ivities of the Communist Party the new Italian empire which error of appointing Frankensteen of C.I.O. or other meetings M organ Sheep Commission Co. whole uphold the contentions of Stlalinist-Frankensteen allian­ is making Bridges’ position with­ Mussolini has raised over the Standards to this post despite the absence in his city. This help was given case, the spokesmen for Big the C.I.O . with respect to these ce to th ro ttle democracy in in his own union precarious. At grave of the last indepehdent na­ of any constitutional provision to H ague 24 hours before he Business let themselves go at companies. Charles Fahy, counsel the auto union. The appear­ a recent meeting of the I.L.W.U., tive state in Africa — Ethiopia. calling for such an office. Earl summoned his henchmen to The Daladier government last last week’s convention of the to the N .L.R .B. moved to with­ ance of this article, at the Henry Schmidt, Bridges' right- Macehiavelli might well have Browder’s new disciple felt that stop the civil liberties rally week devalued the franc, for tba U.S. Chamber of Commerce, but draw these cases from the courts, opening of the International hand man, was forced to plead studied in the school of Halifax this post made him heir-apparent at Journal Square last Satur­ th ird tim e since 1936, to the rate piously neglected to notice the realizing that the Supreme Court Executive Board meeting, has “ dumping" their own officials, and Daladier. Their task is to to the presidency of the union. day. of 2.79 cents, the lowest in the S. E. C. hearings w hich were decision in the M organ Co. case created a sensation in union with the membership not to start preserve the possibility of using Since his alliance with the Sta­ A half-page advertisement history of the franc. proving that most of the pro­ would, on the basis of the re­ circles. (Continued on page 2) the Negus against Italy at some linist gang, it appeared likely in the Jersey City newspapers, The immediate consequences of minent figures in Wall Street cords, result in decisions against later date—if and when that may that Frankensteen would use his paid for by the Central Labor this new devaluation of the cur­ knew for months of Richard the board. The corporations be necessary or desirable. Mean­ post to become a frankenstein. Union, announced this red­ rency w ill be an increase in Whitney’s thefts and were thus gleefully contested Fahy’s mo­ while they yield to “reality" and Toledo White Collar Workers M artin’s statement to members baiting and Hague-supporting prices, especially those of con­ legally accessories to bis crimes. tions, confident that they can call upon the League to adopt of the executive board, respect­ stand! sumers’ goods. And, as experience B ig Business, as usual, had now force through decisions one its "principles” thereto. demonstrates, retail prices al­ every reason to thank its gods hundred per cent in their own Put Progressives In Office ing the just resentment evoked in The Negus or his representa­ ways soar more rapidly than for the Supreme Court, with its fa vo r. the rank-and-file by the original was socked in the jaw by a plain tives will be granted the demo­ wholesale prices. In other words, Papal power to intervene on any Frankensteen appointment, de­ clothes dick for distributing TOLEDO, Ohio. — Progressive new jobs. A t the present time it cratic privilege of appearing be­ the workers, who have just forc- occasion to uphold the divine Union Smashing Was Issue clared that “ after consideration leaflets. An Associated Press and militant labor forces won a is mobilizing the W .P.A. office fore the high assembly; there d meager wage increases through rights of property and profits. of the constitution upon the com­ photographer who tried to snap It should be recalled that these decisive victory here last Satur­ workers to secure higher wages will be some speech-making. But a series of strikes, are now Mouthing a customary fulsome plaints lodged and on the author­ the scene had his camera smash­ cases involve Ford’s and Repub­ day, when a complete slate of and to stop the nation - wide everything is settled in advance. automatically losing these gains, sentence—"The liberty and pro­ ity vested in me as president of ed. Police Chief Casey stood lic Steel’s open smashing of progressives was elected to office wage-cutting drive against white- The President of the Council— and probably even more, through perty of the citizens shall be the U.A.W., I am hereby de­ smiling by and allowed the as­ unionization at their plants, and in Local 29, W .P.A. Division, collar workers initiated by the who, to complete the picture, is the shrinking purchasing power protected by the rudimentary re­ claring that the office of assist­ sailants to escape. Inland Steel’s refusal to sign a of the United Office and Profes­ Washington authorities. the delegate from Lithuania, the of their income. quirements of fair play” — the ant president has no constitu­ By seven o’clock 350 police contract with the Steel Workers sional Workers of America, How decisively the Stalinists country which recently had to The glory for having effect- C o urt in the M organ Co. case tional standing with the Interna­ guarded Journal Square. Wreck­ Organizing Committee. C.I.O., despite a campaign of were defeated is indicated by the struck a heavy blow, ostensibly tional Union, and therefore does ing cars had dragged away all (Continued on page 3) (Continued on page 3) The courts are once again the Stalinist reactionaries to fact that Francis Murphy, can­ at various government agencies, not and cannot exist under the the autos parked in the vicinity. teaching the lesson that the seize the reins of the union. didate for secretary and organiz­ but in reality at the unions in constitution.” Escorted by mounted police and workers must rely on their own Art Preis was elected chair­ er for the letter-head American the mass industries. members of the American Legion Y.P.S.L. Members Arrested organized class strength, and man; Richard Gigandet, vice- League for Peace and Democracy, Martin Group Carries motor trucks carried 3,000 pla­ that hope in the institutions of chairman; Alex Feldstein, secret­ received just three votes. (The “ Unfair” to Bosses On all issues, mostly of a sec­ cards into Bergen Street with the capitalist government leads ary; and Clarence Rose, treasur­ three C.P. members at the meet­ At Street Meeting In N. Y. ondary nature, to come before the such slogans as “Reds Destroy The Court claimed that the always into a blind alley. er. The new officers have for in g .) board in its first two sessions, Industry and Business but not in Secretary of Agriculture, in is­ years been active organizers and While the Stalinists were dis­ Cheered up by the Supreme the Martin group has carried by Jersey City,” “Civil Liberties NEW YORKr-Two members case rested on perjured testimony suing an order against the Mor­ leaders of the unemployed in tinguishing themselves by com­ Court decision, General Motors’ Union is a cloak for Commun­ of the Young Peoples Socialist to the effect that the platform gan Co., had not given the Mor­ Northwest Ohio, and have help­ ing late to meetings, arguing a vote of 14-10. Although there W .S. Knudsen (whose recently has been no public declaration of ism,” “Let all the Radicals and League (Fourth International) stood on the sidewalk. The de­ gan Co. a sufficient chance to ed win many decisive victories against motions they had never reported 1937 salary alone total­ policy on the crucial issue, it ap­ Red Foreigners go back to Rus­ were found guilty and fined five fense produced five witnesses get at all facts and to present for the unemployed and relief even heard, bringing in not more led over 8300,000) took the floor sia.” These were distributed dollars each this week for “Ob­ who testified that the platform its side of the case. The full in­ w orkers. than one single member in four pears likely that Walter Reuther, at the Chamber of Commerce among the waiting crowd of structing the sidewalk”—the lat­ was in the gutter and that a cidence of the decision, however, Progressive forces ’in the To­ months, trying to sneak over president of the West Side Local, sessions to lash out at industrial Hague henchmen. The Legion- est dodge of local police and passage lane of fifteen feet was falls on the National Labor Re­ ledo Industrial Union Council pro-war collective security re­ will line up against the anti­ unionism. Industrial unionism, aires bore two 20-foot stream­ businessmen to prevent minority available for pedestrians. The lations Board. What it means is were also bolstered by the elec­ solutions and other reactionary caucus. He has been committed Knudsen declared, had been put ers, one inscribed “ Labor! A.F.L. parties from exercising their presiding judge, ‘Old Mother’ that the procedure heretofore tion of Rose, Gigandet and Ted ideas in the last moments of to this stand by a meeting of the in the balance and found want­ Will Never Join Hands with rights of free speech and assem­ Murphy, sour-puss protege of followed by the N.L.R.B. in a Selander, former national ex­ meetings, and slandering the joint council of his local. He ing. And he was no doubt being C. I. O. and Communism," and blage. Democratic boss Ed Flynn, made number of major cases has not, ecutive board member of the leadership from whose projects called this meeting for the pur­ honest enough in this reflection: the other, “Norman Thomas, The young comrades, Morris prejudiced comments throughout according to the Court, given the Workers Alliance and leading 99 pe r cent o f the m em bership pose of receiving instructions for in the balance by which Knudsen Roger Baldwin and Stalin, One Blum and David Goldberg, were the trial, overlooking the civil corporations their usual complete labor m ilitant here, as delegates of the union has been gained, the the executive boai-d sessions. He for All and All for One—Keep attacking LaGuardia’s new taxes liberties issue and ruling in favor power to delay, obstruct, and measures, industrial unionism is to the C.I.O. central body. so-called “Trotskyite” leadership was duly instructed, on a motion of John Anderson, West Side ex­ Out. ” when they were arrested at the of the false testimony of the finally prevent the carrying into certainly a large negative quan­ This union was started in Feb­ together with the other m ilit­ ecutive board member, to oppose corner o f 163rd St. and So. policeman. practice of any decision render­ tity . ruary and is the first C.I.O. Congressmen Stay Away ants went ahead quietly build­ Frankensteen’s program. The Boulevard on a no-permit charge Unlike the liberal congress­ chartered group of organized ed in favor of a union. ing the union and daily risked Socialist Party has adopted a which was changed to “obstruc­ men who shied clear of Hague- Knudsen and Irresponsibility W .P.A. workers in Toledo. By All traffic was stopped by the That this is the meaning of similar decision. It remains to ting the sidewalk” after police town under threat, the local the loss of their jobs by aggres­ police and the area roped off. By the decision became at once ap Industrial unions are irrespon- a militant and aggressive pro­ authorities discovered the origin­ Y.P.S.L. branch will hold a rally sively fighting to protect the be seen whether Reuther w ill fol­ 8:30 over 25,000 people, includ­ parent. The N .L.R .B . has far- sible, Knudsen complained. That gram it has succeeded in stop­ ing in large part W.P.A. work- al charge was unconstitutional. in defense of civil liberties on reaching cases pending in the is, to put it in other words, ping all lay-offs of white-collar workers on the job and win con­ low the determined and unmis- (Continued on page 3) In court, the policeman’s whole the same spot next Monday night. courts against Ford, Republic (Continued on page 3) workers and won hundreds of cessions for them. (Contlnued oh page 2) 2 SOCIALIST APPEAL May 14, 1938, Frankensteen Daily Worker Retreats W o rk e r Paints Revealing Picture Cafeteria Union Bosses From Anti-Martin Fight O f Conditions In Ford Factories Sell Out Hard-Won Gain Move Balked To Escape UAW Wrath Job Security Sacrificed By Agreement To Refer By A FORD WORKER w ill probably never be called service man, without even being back, others will return to work told why. Their job was simply Discharge Cases To “ Impartial” Board DETROIT.—Approximately 10 Stalinists Change Their Tune Overnight As News at production jobs, many will to obey their superior. These per cent of those now employed A tUAW Meet return at the minimum wage. workers were simply armed with Throttling an aroused member­ out o f 500 U nion Houses; pre­ From Detroit Presages Failure For Their at the Ford Motor Company, Many foremen, as well as ser­ clubs, their superiors had guns ship by base trickery and flagrant ference to the Association shops were affected by recent wage Plot To Capture Auto Union vicemen, tend because of these and handcuffs. In that period, violation of union democracy, w ill build it as a powerful weapon Browder’s Candidate Is cuts. Incomes of salaried men conditions to be in sym pathy I would estimate the number of the Stalinist-ruled administration against our Union. were reduced first, and wages Set Back A Peg In with the worker. men doing “service" as close to of the Cafeteria Employees By B. J. WIDICK of factory workers shortly after­ 10,000, a verita b le arm y. Today Union, Local 302, recently eras­ Militant Workers Meet wards. No wage is as yet below Union Fight More Speed-Up there are no more than a few ed the most important gain made Labor Secretary S’.IT.P. 75 cents per hour. In a large So thorough was the cam paign hundred. The others have been by the union since its inception part, those affected are skilled Speed-ups, too, have increased. of the Progressives that a belli­ (Continued from page 1) The. grandiose scheme of the Richard Frankensteen-Earl Browder sent back to their regular work. —job security. In return for an men who have been transferred Some lines it is impossible to gerent membership packed the It is significant that several at­ eight-hour day, the union con­ factions in the United Automobile Workers of America, to oust to unskilled jobs, or men whom speed-up: men already w o rk as meeting hall on the night of the takable stand of the rank-and- tempted sit-downs, spontaneous ceded the demand of the A ffiliat­ Homer Martin, international president, and to capture control of the company keeps at work rather fast as possible. Recent step-ups voting. At the start of the read­ file of his local and his party. in origin, within the last 18 ed R estaurateurs’ Association th a t this great C.I.O. union suffered a set-back at the first session of than pay compensation — men are especially noticeable among ing of the proposed contract— Meanwhile the anti-Stalinist the skilled and semi-skilled. One months were broken almost be­ all cases of discharge of work­ the international executive board in Detroit this week. who were injured in the plant. which was actually the demands sentiment among- the ranks, re­ fore they got started. Results ers shall be decided by an "im­ Not all salaried men were affect­ man doing the work of two, of the bosses’s association—the acting against bureaucratic poli­ Martin took the bull by the®; were disastrous for the workers. partial" Adjustment Board or a Frankensteen-Browder plans. ed. three or even five is not uncom­ Stalinist-reactionary clique was cies and unprincipled deals, is horns when he announced at the The Dearborn polite and city State Labqr arbiter. Only a few weeks previously, That only a small percentage mon. During this past summer, outvoted by five and ten to one beginning to surge forward. session that he was abolishing administration help the company. Previously, all such cases Reuther and other S.P. members of men were affected by the cuts, new badges for all Ford workers on minor points. But the contract Last night, for the first time, the post of assistant president, In the May 26 riots of last year, were decided solely by the union's received a bitter taste of Stalin­ that they hit salaried men first, in the country were made in the was sixteen pages long. At 2 the unchallenged position of the which was Frankensteen’s job, the police stood passively by Executive Board and the mem­ ist double-crossing when Victor and that the 75 cents minimum Dearborn plant. The first com­ A. M., the vital clause was C.P. caucus in the district council This was the first test of oppo­ while union men and women were bership as a whole. Vigorous and Reuther, youngest of the three still remains, indicate the com­ plete set was thrown away: the reached. A motion to conduct a of the Detroit U.A.W. was visibly sition forces to Martin’s admi­ slugged and beaten. The Dearborn highly effective opposition ta brothers, was defeated for the pany’s fear of unionism. In the picture of a V8 was stamped on referendum on the clause was shaken. A motion to oppose the nistration. Martin won. city council passed an ordinance this sell-out of the fundamental post of secretary-treasurer of the previous depression, wages were the face and it was thought the declared “out of order.” Near Frankensteen anti-caucus pro­ prohibiting distribution of litera­ right of all workers had been led C P. Squirms Michigan C.I.O. council, after slashed as high as 50 and 60 model might change soon. This violence ensued for many tum­ gram was defeated by the slim ture in front of the main gates, by the United Progressive Group the C.P. promised to support per cent at one time. set was produced in about 4 1/3 ultuous minutes. An appeal from m a rg in o f 12-40. Six m onths ago No sooner had Martin showed ostensibly "to avoid traffic con­ of Local 302. The Stalinist lead­ him at a meeting of the unity weeks although the job was the chair’s decision whs losl, the very conception of such a his strength by the aggressive ers and their natural allies, the caucus. The Stalinists openly Lay-offs and Pay Cuts scheduled for, and had always gestion.” whereupon two hundred stooges vote would have been laughed stand he took in fighting his un­ taken, six weeks. The week and racketeers’ ex - henchmen, had of the administration voted “ aye" voted for Reuther’s opponent! The cuts followed recent lay­ Lesson Learned out of court. principled enemies, than the Sta­ a half in costs was saved by frantically called innumerable and fifty members voted "no" in offs involving approximately 75 linists began squirming in an Reuther’s Role speeding up the. men. No extra In the meantime the men in "rank-and-file" caucuses to extol a deserted hall. Thereby job Strike Problem Up per cent of the Ford workers. effort to avoid the boomerang machinery was used. The next the plant have definitely learn­ the virtues of the proposed arbi­ security was snatched from 4000 While Walter Reuther refused M ost o f these men.— even the The strike problem came be­ created by their deal with set of badges, which bears the ed that Ford is not their friend. tration or adjustment clause on w orkers. to go along with the Franken- skilled—will be rehired at the fore the executive board today Frankensteen. same face as did the old—the Poor wages, job insecurity, un­ the following grounds: A few days later the contract steen-Stalinist clique (he has minimum wage. The policy of for consideration. By unanimous William Weinstone, Stalinist Ford factory—was finished in employment, intimidation, amid a was signed in the office of none been a bitter enemy of Franken­ lading off and rehfiring |at 75 Stalinist Arguments vote the board issued a warning commissar in the auto industry, three weeks. Again, added ef­ host of other conditions, have other than our racket-busting steen for two years) he appa­ cents per hour is a re g u la r one against unauthorized strikes and declared, “Communists in the ficiency meant stepping up pro­ finally driven them to this con­ 1. "That we are now a mem­ district attorney, Thomas E. rently still tried to oppose Mar­ at the Ford Motor Company, took the power of penalizing U. A. W., are making no move duction. Today these conditions clusion. This does not mean that bership o f 12,000 and not 500. Dewey, who remarked amid tin by another maneuver. He even when lay-offs are not ne­ members responsible for these to oust Martin.” He forgot to add are the rule wherever possible. the service men and stooges feel 2. "T h a t we are no longer liv ­ clicking cameras: "This is the wanted George Addes, "neutral” cessary. It is a substitute for unauthorized actions into its own th a t on ly one m onth ago the. Just last week, approximately this way. In part, these are so ing in the horse-and-buggy days. best contract I've seen yet." secretary-treasurer of the union, wage-cuts. Another substitute is hands. The resolution stated that Stalinists openly distributed 100,- 4,000 men were laid off. Most of demoralized that they care no 3. “That unless you accept the to run for presidency in event to place men on more highly the unauthorized strikes and stop­ 000 copies of a Daily Worker these did not turn in badge and longer for anyone except them­ Adjustment Board you won’t get Progressives Charged Martin was kicked out, it was skilled jobs than they have pages have been in direct viola­ editorial branding Martin a tool checks. This means that selves; in part, their sympathy the 8-hour day." announced publicly. Apparently handled, without increase in pay, Despite their victory the Sta­ tion of the constitution, have re­ "fa s c is t,’’ w ho should be re ­ when and if they resume work, for the worker is still latent; this proposal fell flat, judging thus displacing the skilled man These contemptible and scabby linist leaders received quite a sulted in unemployment for large moved. they resume without a wage re­ and ‘in part, they still think that by subsequent events. who had been paid more. Ap­ gestures were amply answered scare. Several Progressive lead­ numbers of workers and pre­ The shock in the ranks of auto duction. Many of these are die- if labor and capital get together The sham of Frankesteen’s prentices placed 'in complete by the Progressives who cited ers have been summoned before vented thousands of union mem­ unionists over the brazen deal hards for Henry Ford, others are everything will be all right. But slogan, “ End factionalism” in the charge of a job, trade school boys the following facts: the executive hoard on charges bers from casting a vote on the between the Stalinists and that not. The policy of taking up the worker who has seen only auto union, was evident to every —paid as low as 15 cents an 1. T h a t if 500 w o rkers could of "slander" and "disruption.” strike question. arch red-baiter in the auto badge and tool checks and re­ factory work for the greater part active auto unionist who knows hour—working on regular jobs, get jo b secu rity, then 12,000 All this in compliance with the The problem of strike action unions, Frankensteen, aided Mar­ hiring at the minimum wage is, o f his life , or who sees on ly th is that the Stalinists, also "sup­ are not a rare phenomenon. workers can hold it. manifesto of the Cafeteria Units has been a particularly grievous tin in exposing the reactionary because of union threats, not as in store for him, looks favorably porters" of this slogan, meet Members, or former members, 2. The 8-hour day can be fought of the C.P. published recently in one. Employers have been role of the C.P. in the union extensively utilized as formerly, toward the union. Especially do weekly in fraction meetings, and of the service department are for and won in the manner of all the Daily Worker, expressing eager to provoke premature and movement. but s till is very much in use. the unemployed feel this way. will continue to do so. not to my knowledge taking any clean and free trade unions. their intention of purging’ the ill-prepared action so they could They understand that the future Terms of Deal Recently, Martin appeared at wage-,cut. Many are, however, 3. The A djustm en t Board trade unions of all militant and smash the union in a time of Police Regime Installed lias nothing in store for them, a district council meeting in being taken off “service" and covers only 95 association shops free-minded men and women. wide- spread unemployment. even if they resume work. Yet This deal was exposed in the Detroit, and read the minutes of placed back on their old jobs. This past summer, the service S trikes m ust be c a re fu lly pre­ May 7 issue of the Socialist they are not decided that the a Stalinist fraction meeting, Some are also being given lay­ department reached its zenith in pared and the time for them U.A.W. will act. They want to Appeal. Frankensteen was pro­ thereby putting the crimps in offs for periods of two or three strength and number. Service properly chosen to the extent be resolute but are afraid. The Goodrich Workers Vote Ten- mised the presidency in place of maneuvers they had planned for weeks. They return to work at men patrolled aisles within the that is possible. The issues Martin and also Stalinist support future of the Ford drive depends that meeting. their old hourly rate. p la n t, they filled the seaits of m u st be ca re fu lly picked. for achieving his ambition of on overcoming this fear. A ge­ One Against Wage Cut Plan Foremen, too, feel present con- many five-passenger cars station­ Nevertheless, this added power becoming lieutenant-governor of C P. C overing Tracks neral rise in economic conditions .L.ons. Recently, 1.7 were sent ed around each fa c to ry gate, in the hands of the top leader­ Michigan if he would join forces they were armed with guns, hand­ even for a short period of a few R e a lizin g l h : . t their rutlileaJ home from the Motor Building. AKRON.—By a vote of 10 to Stalinist clique 'in the rank and ship is fraught with danger un­ with them against Martin. cuffs, and clubs. Many workers months, may furnish this op­ and irresponsible factionalism is They w ill be called back to work 1 the Goodrich local of the Unit­ file, and a demoralization induc­ less properly handled. If the Walter Reuther, executive portunity. I 11 the meantime it “when needed.” Others were put were taken off their jobs and ed Rubber Workers of America ed by the fa ilu re to see any w ay board becomes the acknowledged board member, and former front exposing them in the eyes of all •is necessary to prepare. back on production jobs. Some placed under the direction of a last week voted down a compro­ out of the present blind alley the leadership of the rank-and-file man of the unity caucus, who militant workers, the Stalinists mise wage cut proposal. rubber industry, along with the and provides direction to the carries a Socialist label, announc­ are trying to cover up their At the same time the bakery rest of American capitalism, vigorous defensive strikes, the ed before the board session that tracks through a belly-crawling Radio Union Votes drivers concluded a contract finds itself in. problem of unauthorized actions he would not go along with the retreat announced in the Daily Hillman H ints At New Attempt will cease to exist. Otherwise Worker of May 10. providing for no wage cuts; us­ With union leaders still pres­ ing a short one-day strike io the effect will be to curb the "The Central Committee (of To Effect A. F. L.-C. I . O. Unity sing for continued negotiations, Against Boss War clinch the argument. rightful privileges and powers of the Stalinist Party) has forbid­ and James P. Miller of the na­ Stirring speeches by leading tional labor relations board stil.l the rank-and-file. BRIDGES THUGS den its membership to organize a “permanent medium of inde­ ATLANTIC CITY, N. J. — CHICAGO—Local 1.121 of the progressives helped to swing the hovering on the sidelines, it is fractions or act as a group with­ pendent and progressive labor Union to Fight Another behind the scenes effort United Electrical, Radio & Ma­ anti-wage cut decision. Under not to be excluded that a further in unions of the C.I.O.,” the action in politics." That the of­ ATTACK PICKETS Daily Worker claimed. to negotiate terms for C.I.O. chine Workers of America lined the impact of the wage cut pro­ attempt to sew up rubber labor The last section of this resolu­ ficers believe Labor’s Non-Parti­ ui> at its last membership meet­ This announcement would be and A.F. of L. unity was hint­ posals and the catastrophic eco­ in a compulsory arbitration pro­ tion gives the first guarantee san League will meet the re­ funny 'if it were not intended as ed at in the opening address last ing with all the genuine anti­ nomic decline, progressive ele­ posal, using as bait an annual against these dangers. It states: quirements of the trade union war forces in the labor move­ ON WEST COAST a new cover for Stalinist ma­ week of Sidney Hillman, in charge ments arc beginning to awaken living wage, work guarantees, "Should the management attempt movement is to be inferred from neuvers. What militant unionist of C.I.O. negotiations with the ment by voting enthusiastic en­ out of the apathy induced by a etc., will be attempted again in wage-cuts, the impairing of work­ the statement by Hillman that in any C.I.O. union, auto, rub­ A.F. of L., before the conven­ dorsement of the anti-war resolu­ lethargic leadership, a stand-pat the not too distant future. ing conditions, or refuse to settle (Continued from page 1) the League, "being flexible, will ber, steel, or elsewhere, has not tion of the Amalgamated Cloth­ tion of the Minneapolis Central legitimate grievances in keeping meet the needs of the future as been invited to a Stalinist frac­ ing Workers of which he is Labor Council. There were only with the contract, the Interna­ it has those of the past.” tion meeting? How about the president. three dissenting votes. tional Union will not hesitate to This broad formulation of the In the Cooks and Stewards minutes of the fraction meeting H is public prediction of peace During the last month, Local authorize and fully support strike Union, where the Stalinists also purpose of the League is in­ 1121 has launched a w h irlw in d that Martin exposed? between the C.I.O. and the action in keeping with the In­ have control, democracy was A.F. of L. and the cautious tended to cover the possibility of organization campaign under the Appeal Army ternational Constitution to meet forgotten as Frank Koci was Rank and File Revolted attitude of the union towards turning it into a labor party if slogan: "A city-wide union agree­ the offensive of the employer.” suspended for a year for daring the A.F. of L. as expressed in sentiment among the rank and ment for the radio plants." As Again, the actions of the Sta­ Now the job is to carry this re­ to mention that, despite the the report of the general ex­ file continues. It is a statement a step in that direction, Climax Can’t we raise our weekly sub- * “I am really not able to sub­ linists in the present crisis in the solution into practise. N.L.R.B. ballot, the West ecutive board indicate that H ill­ which can be made to fit what­ Radio Corporation was organized increase over the 30 mark? And scribe but will try to help the United Automobile Workers only The next sessions of the ex­ Coast marine unions had signed man sees hope fo r resum ption of ever political developments arise. 95 per cent, while by a series of as far as bundle order increases cause $1 for which send me reveal the depths to which they ecutive board can mark a turn­ agreements with the Shepard negotiations. It also makes more Hillman is seldom caught nap­ go-slow strikes the union is forc­ are concerned, the showing is paper for six months. have sunk. The hypocritical turns ing point for the auto workers Line. possible his fondest dream — ping. ing the management to accept only a little improvement over "1 have been sick for some in their policy from week to week union. It can once and for all Koci was charged with "con­ its demands for a closed shop, the past few weeks. Where are time now, am almost 82 years only emphasize the utter un- , presidency of the united labor smash the sinister threat aimed spiring" with the S.U.P., hail­ seniority rights, a 40-hour week those promotion experts in Chi­ old and only getting $15 per scrupulousness of their methods movement. at its very existence by the Com­ ed before a packed trial com­ with time a half for overtime, cago, Boston, San Francisco, month from the government, but in seeking to capture a union. The Amalgamated will retain munist Party. This it can do mittee, and then suspended. C.I.O. To Organize and a 25 cent wage increase. Minneapolis, etc., etc.? can depend on me always living So revolting has become the its allegiance to the C.I.O . and only by rallying the membership At Pacific Radio, the union New subs that came in last and being for the cause." Another union, the Ships policy of the Stalinist commis­ it will neglect no opportunity to around a program and then has broken off negotiations be­ w eek: Many thanks, Comrade Danil Clerks, decided that they had sars (kindly note; the Central bring about unity in the labor Lynn WPA Workers translating this program into cause of the bosses’ brazen de­ NEW YORK CITY 14 and we wish you many more enough of the Communist Party committee orders in New York movement, Hillman emphasized. deeds. mand for a six per cent wage California ...... 4 revolutionary years. union wrecking, and were voting a policy for unionists in Detioit) The report of the general ex­ L Y N N , Mass.—John G. Poulos, cut. Preparations aie under way Chicago ...... 3 * * * In brief a program for the to withdraw from the I.L.W .U . that the rank and file unionists ecutive board discussed political C .I.O . representative, announced for a strike when the contract Massachusetts ...... 2 auto union must begin by guar­ when Bridges and Schmidt des­ who joined the Stalinist party action by labor and stated that this week that a Federal Work­ Plans are now being drawn expires on May 12. Philadelphia ...... 1 anteeing the membership against cended upon their meeting. have rebelled time and again. In the union intended to establish ers Organizing Committee had up to launch the biggest Appeal M ontana 1 that which they have feared Bridges spoke for about an hour Flint a whole fraction in the boon formed here, in accordance The Chicago area encompas­ sub drive and circulation cam­ Connecticut 1 most: the infraction of their and a half and was followed by Fisher body plants rejected the with the national policy of the ses the largest center of radio paign we have yet tried. Details Minneapolis ...... 1 rights and the violation of local Schmdit, who spoke for thirty Stalinist policy foisted from C.I.O. and electrical manufacturing in will he published shortly. All Toledo Militant Is St. Paul ...... 1 autonomy. The mistakes of the m inutes. " I t is intended th a t the the world, employing over 90,000 Appeal friends with ideas and above. The fraction was "reor­ •Jersey C ity ...... 1 past and the inadvised actions Bridges blustered and blew, ganized.” F.W .O.C. will have jurisdiction workers, hitherto almost entire­ suggestions are urged to send Girard, Ohio ...... 1 can be corrected by steering a using every form of intimidation, Vindicated by Union over relief clients as well as ly unorganized. them in immediately. We gua­ course which will assure these even threatening to take over New Deals Ahead W .P.A. workers, with the object rantee they’ll receive our atten­ T O T A L ...... 30 most precious rights to the rank- the Ships Clerks’ hiring hall and of raising relief standards and ANNOUNCEMENTS tion. The statement of the "new TOLEDO, Ohio.— Progressive The following branches increas­ and-file. Particularly, must the run the union himself. In an at­ p ro vid in g secu rity fo r the 10,000 * * • turn” announced in the Daily unionism in this auto center won ed their bundle orders: assurance be keenly felt that tempt to further intimidate the relief workers in Lynn," he said. Insertions in this column are 23 Worker of May 10 should serve a real victory in recent weeks cents for five lines. Copy must be Kansas City, Mo. to: 15 We hope our friends and sym­ all future contracts will be sub­ membership by a show of phy­ Poulos claims that complaints in at the APPEAL office before six as a warning to all militants in when the Toledo Central Labor Vancouver, Canada to: 25 pathizers in New York are car­ mitted for ratification to the sical force he tried to have the are coming into the C.I.O . office o’clock Monday evening. the union. "Public" opposition to union voted 11.3 to 80 to reject ♦ * * workers involved. It was the meeting moved to the Warehouse­ that unsatisfactory relief con­ rying out the suggestion of the Martin has proven a boomerang. a report of a special trial board failure to do this that aroused men’s headquarters, a hangout ditions exist at the State Foods N E W Y O R K Here’s a letter from Comrade New York City literature agent, Watch then for undercover and backed by reactionaries to expel widespread and justified resent­ of the picket-line smashing C.P. Distribution Center on Stewart Danil in Seadrift, Texas, that Abe Miller: Request and pur­ underhanded moves, probably Carl Joseph, militant president VILLAGE AUCTION and dance, ment among the workers in the stooges. Street, and at City Hall, and that should set an example for our chase your weekly Appeal at your through C. P. agents in the of the Longshoremen’s union 107 McDougal Street, Satur­ General Motors plants. This re­ intimidation and favoritism are younger comrades: local newsstand. It is apparent that any serious Labor’s Non-Partisan League from the A.F. of L. day M ay 14, A dm ission 25c. sentment was uncrupulously ex­ marked at certain W .P.A. pro­ attempt of the rank-and-file to w hich has been flooded by Sta­ For nearly two months, the ploited by the C.P.-inspired Unity jects. throw out the Bridges machine full fire of a reactionary attack NEWARK Group. That should be a lesson linists. that is forcing the bitter inter­ by A . F . of L. bureaucrats has Whenever possible, Poulos sta­ for all time. If the deal with Frankensteen union war now threatening the fallen on Joseph because of his tes, unemployed workers are to CLASS IN TRADE UNIONISM, fizzles completely, it only sig­ existence of the West Coast advocacy of militant unionism be reintegrated with their res­ Instructor, George Breitman. Against Wage-Cuts nifies that the Stalinists will in­ maritime unions, will be met with and unity of the labor movement. pective unions, and those pre­ Four lectures, Tuesday nights tensify their efforts for more Secondly, a vigorous campaign the same tactics employed in the The trial board charges against viously unconnected with any be ginning M ay 10, 8:30 P. M. and bigger deals, which bring Admission 1,0 cents per lecture against wage-cuts, the most try­ Shepard Line dispute. him included: "espousal of com­ union will be united in a broad them "fruitful” results. or 25 cents for four. 284 15th ing problem before the union, unemployed organization. munism," "sabotaging" the Cen­ Avenue. Progressivfe Workers and the organization of the ped except by the most intimate Against these reactionary ma­ tral Labor Union, being in neuvers, the rank and file union­ School. dozens of competitive plants, unity of the employed and un­ "league" with the C.I.O., and FREE BEER PARTY which are breaking down all ists should exercise the greatest employed. Anywhere up to and permitting use of an A. F. of L. Saturday Night, May 14 LOS ANGELES union standards, must be serious­ over 50 percent o f the U .A .W . vigilance. The Sthlinists were seal on a C .I.O . newspaper. brought out into the open at this 916 N IN T H A V E N U E ly undertaken after the board membership is now in the ranks Joseph blasted the lies and ex­ SPECIAL FOR THIS WEEK ONLY, executive board session. Each Entertainment by the meeting. The solution of these of the jobless. They must not posed the reactionary purpose in­ ART AND SOCIETY by G. V. problems is vital to the very ex­ of their future moves must be YPSL Troopers and "Izzy of P le k h a n o v . 35 cu n ts . be lost to the union. On the con­ cluding the “red scare" raised Orders filled promptly. 5 cents treated likewise. The life and the B ro n x ” istence of the union. They brook trary, they should become its against him. His defense rallied extra for postage. Modern Book future of the United Automobile Auspices: Shop. 509'A W 5th St.. DosAngoles no postponement. most loyal and valiant fighters. every healthy element in the W orkers is a t stake. MANHATTAN YPSL Finally, the organization of The picket lines of the next C.L.U., and the vote in his Adm ission 25 Cents W.P.A. workers and an aggres­ beriod will be manned by the un­ Homer Martin’s defense of the favor came as a great shock and FOR R E N T I . - ...... y Two double rooms, with bath sive struggle for an improvement employed if the U.A.W. or­ union from outside clique control blow to the bureaucrats whose and kitchen privileges. Reas­ of their conditions is of para­ ganizes and leads them in the was a real advance for the cause hold over the C. L . U . had never SUBSCRIBE NOW TO onable rent. 219 East 12 St. mount importance. The offensive struggle for improved welfare of progressive unionism in Ame­ been successfully challenged in and W.P.A. conditions. THE SOCIALIST APPEAL c/o Levine, top floor, of the employers cannot be stop- rica and must be supported. recent times. v. ______I______J May 14, 1938 SOCIALIST APPEAL 3

® - - ® LEAGUE SERVES German Centrists Give Cowley Labored 200 French Communists TO CONSECRATE Bleak ConferenceReport Hear Trials Denounced

ETHIOPIAN RAPE London Bureau, Uniting Miscellaneous European -And He Brought Forth Some Mice Rappoport, Ex-Party Leader, Denounces Stalin’s ® Groups, Fails To Make Headway ® (Continued from page 1) In a previous issue we commented on the Trials and the history of the Russian Revolu­ Totalitarianism At Paris Gathering circular letter being sent out to the Stalinist tion, as the eminent Hollywood warriors for submit, with the tolerance of the PARIS.—The April number of developments in the latter party sucker list by Messrs. Malcolm Cowley, Marc human liberty: Melvin Levy, Samuel Ornitz NEW YORK. — The Jewish known French anti - Semite, League, to the arbitrariness of Neue Front, the organ of the in the last number of the theo­ D a ily F o rw a rd o f A p ril 27 re ­ D rum ont. Blitzstein and other pseudonyms for E. R. and even Miss Dorothy Parker, the Martini Polish aggression—will declare S.A.P. (Socialist Labor Party retical organ of his owiy party. ports an unannounced and un­ Browder for signatures to a public statement Stalinist whose weight in these questions is that the law of the League is of Germany) contains an extra­ Now that the S.A.P. leaders advertised meeting of Commun­ Totalitarian Cruelty calculated to whitewash Stalin, the G. P. U. established by her well-known belief that Brest- always on the side of the ordinarily pessimistic report of have been sobered up not only ist Party members held in Paris “ In the ancient Byzantine em­ m ig h tie r. the last conference of the London by their experiences in the and their Moscow frame-ups in the name of Litovsk is the Lithuanian May West. two weeks ago to protest against pire,” he continued, “ the emperor Bureau of the so-called "inde­ London Bureau but also in the Peace, Justice, Democracy and Liberty. No less devastating is the judgment of such the counter-revolutionary terror China Pleads In Vain gouged out the eyes of his op­ pendent” parties (British Inde­ German “ People’s Front,” they The hook has netted some fish, not very signers as Mr. Guy Endore, who believes in of the Stalin regime. ponents; in Turkey, the Sultan pendent Labor Party, Swedish The representative of victim­ are considering either building a big ones, it is true, but fish nevertheless. The witches and consequently knows a witch-trial Most of the 200 attending the used to kill off his brothers, S ocialist Party, Spanish new party together with Max ized China has already repeated Daily Worker of April 28 prints on its obscure when he sees one; m oreover, his fam ous m anu­ meeting had already tendered Stalin is far more cruel than P.O.U.M ., etc.). As is already Braun, Victor Schiff, Breitscheid his request for protection against fourth page the list of those who bit. Space script, “ Autobiography of an Idiot,” assuredly their resignation from the C.P., that: he also robs the victims of Japanese aggression. His appeal well-known, the S.A.P. signed and other social democrats or according to the report. The his murders of their very honor.” a declaration calling for a Fourth limitations alone prevent us from rescuing entitles him to a voice in such matters. Signers w ill disappear noiselessly in the else, a fraction within the old main speaker was Charles Rap­ With great emotion, the old International together with the their names from oblivion by printing them like ex-General Victor A. Yakhontoff, who is dusty archives of the League social democracy. "The interna­ poport, a leading theoretician in the oretician recounted his ex? Trotskyist organizations in the all; from obloquy, nothing can rescue them. selected by God and nature to sit in judgment for the Protection of Anglo- tional question constitutes no the French Marxist movement perienee in conducting a cam­ fa ll o f 1933. For, those who are not Stalinist party mem­ upon the organizer of the Red Army by virtue French Imperialism. stumbling block for the S .A.P.," and Paris correspondent of paign to save Christian Rakov- Shortly afterward, however, The delegate of the legal go­ says Meyer, who ought to know. bers and hence under compulsion to put their of the fact that he was for years General in Isvestia (official Soviet organ in sky from execution at the hands they turned against our alleged vernment of Spain will again in­ "It knows that a broader realign­ names to whatever piece of infamy and self­ the Army of His Imperial Majesty, Nikolay II, Moscow) up to the time of his of the Rumanian government be­ "sectarianism" and took up in­ ment of groups will pose the voke the written law of the debasement is shoved under their pens—and Czar of All the Russias, later M ilitary Attache resignation from the Communist fore the war. “Now Rakovsky is ternational collaboration with League in an attempt to save question whether this realign­ half the signers fall into this category—have of the Czarist Embassy at Tokyo, and still Party of France four weeks ago. accused of being an agent of the parties like the Norwegian Labor ment should take place within his country from foreign con­ only besmirched and dishonored themselves by later attached to the General Staff of the Another speaker was F. Shrager, British Intelligence Service,” he Party and siiniliar “ mass" parties the folds of the Socialist and quest. But in vain. signing a statement which includes the sen­ Armies of Alexander Kerensky, the originator until recently the editor of the exclaimed in a bitter cry. as models of revolutionary real­ The Jews of Roumania and Labor (Second) International and Jewish language paper of the “People ask,” he went on, ism and genuine connections with tence: "The link between Hitler and the Trots- of the accusation that Trotsky (and Lenin) wras Austria will remind the Council it will not oppose such an idea." C.P., Neie Presse. “why the accused old Bolsheviks ky-Bukharin camp is plain for us to see." a German spy. Signers like Charles Recht, of the stipulations for the pro­ the masses. They said at that confessed. But how many hund­ New A llie s Is it re a lly so plain to see, Messrs, and Mes- Bachelor of Laws, and cynical stipendiary of tection of national minorities. time that while we were repel­ Marxism Vs Stalinism reds did not confess and never­ ling the masses by our sectarian­ dames Signers? And pray, where do you see the G.P.U., who knows better. Signers like Adjournment, as usual, will be The new allies of the S.A.P. Forward quotes Rappoport, theless were shot without a trial ? ism, the S.A.P. would win them it? In the official records of the trials? In the Dashiell Hammett, who knows a good detective the answer. —Messrs. Max Braun, the hero according to the Paris daily To come into court in Russia one In the meantime, Mussolini, by means of wise and patient of the Saar plebiscite, Breitscheid official record of Trotsky’s counter-argument story when he writes one and apparently sees must be a celebrity.” tactics. H a in t, as fo llo w s: who is the sole beneficiary of and their colleagues—differ from before the Dewey Commission of Inquiry ? But no serious rival in mystery-story writers and Rappoport then told how the “It is not simply a matter of this low comedy, has, with the Masses Absent the old party only in the consi­ surely you would not—at the very least, nine- frame-up artists like Yezhov and Co. Signers Radical Senator DeMonzie, a my activity or of the activity of British treaty in his pocket and derably greater degree of their tenths of you would not have the effrontery “Friend of the Soviet Union,” Today, however, the S.A.P. like Paul Peters, who is New Masses and others. It is a matter of rehabi­ a French treaty on its way, given corruption. Herr Braun published related to him stories of pleas complains that not a single re­ to ask us to believe that you even thumbed Labor Defender Bolshevik under one name, and litating the meaning of socialism. a popular fiesta in H itler’s honor. a paper with means furnished by he had received to intervene for presentative of a truly mass or­ through the pages of those records, much less a not poorly paid editor of “Life” (which the Marxism is a science; science is The greater the misery under the French governm ent and one Rakovsky’s daughter, who has ganization was present at the read them with sufficient care to warrant a "Daily Worker” calls “fascist") under another. criticism, not faith. Karl Marx the fascist dictatorships, the of his pet ideas is incorporating been arrested in Russia. DeMon­ conference. The Norwegian declaration on what is and what is not “plain” always combatted the cult of per­ more dazzling are the spectacles a volunteer corps of German But enough is enough, for at this point zie advised those who made the Labor Party, the only party in sonalities against the Utopians which they stage for the outside emigrees in the army of French to see! nausea triumphs over all. One need only com­ pleas to write to Romain Rol- the London Bureau worthy of who used to link up the victory w o rld. imperialism. As can be seen, the “Educators” — “artists” — “professors” — pare this jolly crew with the list of the mem­ land, the famous French author. the name, has just joined the of socialism with the strength S.A.P., in its endeavor to win “Hollywood stars” and “Broadway figures"! But Romain Rolland replied: “I Mussolini Wants Time Second International without any bers of the Trotsky Defense Committee and of various personalities. In the the masses, is treading on new What a tidy collection the Stalinists made! have written some twenty letters appreciable opposition within its the personnel of the Commission of Inquiry, to political field socialism was a paths. Half the signatories are saved by their own and received no answer.” H itler’s visit has produced no­ own ranks. The P. 0. U. M., see on which side stand the serious and re­ continuation of democracy. W ith­ One further little 'irony offer­ This reply by Rolland Rappo­ thing new. The military alliance which appeared to be developing obscurity, for even a fair questioning of ex­ putable elements in American intellectual life. out freedom of thought socialism ed us by history is the fact that p o rt said he had seen w ith his originally planned has not been into a mass party, but was perts in the field fails to reveal who they is impossible. This is one of the at the very moment when the The latter asked for but one thing: that the ow n eyes. realized. But Mussolini was cir­ encouraged by the S.A.P. and the arc. As for others*—again, apart from the essentials of socialism. leaders of the S.A.P.—Walcher He concluded with the follow­ cumspect enough to maintain the London Bureau to take an op­ known Stalinist party members — we are of truth be objectively investigated. The Stalin­ and Froelich—arc preparing to “ B u t w h a t do we see In the in g w ords; "axis.” After his Austrian de­ portunist path, has in the mean­ ist suckers airily put their name to a murder­ leave the London Bureau, their course gravely impressed and even a bit shaken Communist Party today? Every­ feat he must gain time. As Brit­ time been crushed by events. It f o r m e r factional colleagues, by such authoritative voices on the Moscow ous lie. A gulf separates the two. thing is turned upside down. The Fastens Responsibility ain’s simple partner he would be is becoming ever more clear that Brandler and Thalheimer, are party is ruled by the most abo­ no less helpless than as Hitler’s in any case the London Bureau "Responsible for the bad name making their entry into it. And minable cult of personalities. It simple ally. Only as the decisive is an entirely useless instrument Russia is getting are those who making this entry by defending studies neither life nor society, weight in the balance of power for winning the masses. are shooting revolutionists; res­ the same position that Walcher but the whims of Stalin. It has between England, France and The skeptical report of the ‘Enemies of Man’ ponsible are those who have made Germany can he hope to gain po­ took against us in 1933. This Hague’s Rule almost reached the point where a prison out of Russia. They are Neue Front on the conference of position, reduced to its shortest a Communist is prohibited from sitions for Italy which would sur­ ■its own International acquires dragging in the mud the face of formula, reads as follows: "To Will Cavort At reading Marx. It is enough, pass by far her economic im­ real m eaning only when one the Russian Revolution. This be sure, the T ro ts k y is ts are there, to read only Stalin, just portance in the imperialist sys­ knows that the S.A.P. itself al­ must not be allowed. We must right in many things, and we as the Catholic church once pro­ tem. ready stands with one foot, or Pioneer Shindig Still Awaits not remain silent.” shall make use of their argu­ hibited the reading of the Evan­ In the midst of these changes, more correctly, with a foot and Shrager, the second speaker, ments insofar as it is of service gels and ordered only Papal en­ what has become of the foreign a half, outside of the London told of the dual life led by C.P. to our brand of political mer­ cyclicals to be read.” policy of the Soviet Union? Bureau. NEW YORK—Pioneer Publish­ members, who have to say one After Russia’s entry into the chandise, but naturally, Trotsky ers arc putting off all their Real Challenge Rappoport dwelt for some thing in public and think some­ League of Nations in 1.934, Lit­ To Follow N.L.P. is a hopeless sectarian; it is too cares and worries for one even­ time on the conditions in the thing else in private, in order vinov was assigned the task of soon to found a new Interna­ ing — the evening of May 18 — C.P. when the slogan “France n o t to be denounced as “ T ro ts k y ­ Since the S.A.P. did not suc­ (Continued from page 1) making all the crimes of impe­ tio n a l— it is necessary to be when they invite all their friends for the French” was adopted. ists” or spies. Others who took ceed in winning the Norwegian skins by proceeding to Jersey rialism palatable to the masses. wary of excessive demands and — creditors, too! — to celebrate Many were expelled for oppos­ part in the discussion stressed Labor Party for the Fourth In­ ers and city employees conscript­ City, despite Marcantonio’s warn­ The criminal policies of the So­ to collaborate with all indepen­ with them at Irving Plaza. ing this slogan, he said. Rappo­ the plight of the Jewish Com­ ternational, it is now making ed fo r H ague’s dem onstration, ings. “It was a damnable thing, viet and Comintern bureaucracy dent tendencies.” Having rounded out seven had gathered in Journal Square. getting us all worked up over port himself had pleaded with munists in Russia. According to ready to follow 'it into the Second Brandler and Thalheimer may facilitated by Mussolini’s Abys­ years of service to the revolu­ The legion bands and the parad- this and then talking us out of the leadership against its adop­ one of the participants, the International. It is interesting to rest assured that they w ill have sinian adventure, aided "non­ tionary movement (believe us, a ers bearing placards, headed by it," Bernard was reported to have tion. He had pointed out that works of Aaron Lieberman, the note what Haakon Meyer, the no more luck with their brand intervention" in Spain, and as­ good enough reason for celebrat­ the deputy police chief, kept the declared in irritation. "In certain this chauvnistic slogan was pioneer Jewish Socialist writer former representative of the of anti-Trotskyism than did sisted the Japanese invasion of ing), Pioneer has been unusually crowd in a state of excitement respects we’ve made fools of our­ originally launched and was still of Russia, have been proscribed N.L.P. in the London Bureau Walcher and Froelich. They need China. fortunate in getting the out­ and tried to incite a lynch spirit selves," O’Connell declared, as being propagated by the well- by the government. and a particular friend of the but study the development of the Now that Stalin has disarmed standing wits and satirists in them. they departed for Washington. S.A.P., writes about the latest latter to read their own horo­ the international proletariat for among the radical intelligensia Meanwhile, the two congress­ He said that he and his partner the sake of his dealing with the scope. to collaborate in a show which men who were slated to speak at were only beating "a strategic imperialists, Halifax knocks the w ill be remembered as the g a y­ 8:30 had been corralled by the retreat in preparation for a new Franc Devaluation Hits French diplomatic saber out of his hand. New International MAX EASTMAN SUES est in the annals of the radical Stalinists at the headquarters of offensive when the organization The increasing elimination of THE DAILY WORKER movement. the International Labor Defense of the masses has been brought Workers’ Standard of Living the League from any active role Irving Plaza will be especially in Manhattan, which had taken ab ou t.” in international politics, and its For May On Stands NEW] YORK—Max Eastman, decorated for the evening. Guests charge of the proposed meeting. replacement by bilateral agree­ well-known radical author and w ill be seated a t M usic H a ll There they stayed while the pre­ Cops W ere Pleased (Continued from page 1) the workers had won wage in­ ments in the diplomatic style of lecturer, this week filed a ?250,- tables. The prettiest waitresses creases of 25 per cent in the The May issue of The New In­ sident of the I.L.D ., the ex- Marcantonio found support, ively introduced this method of Hitler, is to a great extent di­ 000 libel suit against the Daily in town will serve drinks and re­ s trik e movem ent o f June, 1536, ternational is off the press. A Republican congressman Vito however, from Chief Harry expropriation of the proletarian rected against the Soviet Union. Worker, organ of the Communist freshments. An eight-piece popu­ the Blum government immedi­ review of its contents indicates Marcantonio, received telephone Walsh of the Jersey City police, and petty bourgeois population, Litvinov’s speeches in the Council Party of America, and three in­ lar swing-band will provide the ately invalidated them by dimin­ clearly that it will meet with a bulletins from the battleground who remarked that “It’s just as belongs to none other than Leon are the swan song of the Stalin­ dividuals, including Earl Bi'owder, music for dancing. ishing the purchasing power of very favorable reception every­ in Journal Square. well they’re not coming. It would Blum, leader of the French So­ ist foreign policy of collective general secretary of the party. the franc to almost the same where. The piece de resistance—and At 10:45 Marcantonio announc­ have been murder if they had. cialist Party (S.F.I.O .). After security. They may prove to be Last March, basing itself on degree. Thus Daladier can claim Among the more important we don’t mean maybe—will be ed th a t O’Connell and B ernard Instead of "organizing the mas­ his own swan song as well. evidence reportedly given in the that he is preserving faithfully items are: (1) The Crisis and the MUSIC HALL REVUE, in had finally been persuaded not ses,” Marcantonio stated that the traditions of the People’s the Reform Labor Politics by frame-up trial in Moscow of which such luminaries as Max to go to Jersey City. "The reason "we would call upon President Workers Are Ready Buhkarin, Rykov and 18 other F ro n t. David Cowles; (2) The Editor’s Eastman, Eugene Lyons, James w h y it has taken so lo n g ,” he Roosevelt to intervene to restore Big Business Seeks Soviet leaders, the Daily Worker Despite Stalin and all his Comments, which deal with the Rorty, Max Shachtman and Sid­ said, “is that I have been un­ law and order in a lawless city. The government, which could crimes, the overwhelming major­ disintegration of the Democratic described Eastman as a "spy for ney Hook, etc. etc. will give a able up to this moment to per­ Despite numerous appeals in the Trade Union Curbs not find the necessary armament ity of the exploited masses of the and Republican Parties, and with the British government,” an practical demonstration in the suade cither of them not to go .. . past months, the President has credits on the money market, has world are still ready to defend the National Progressive Party "agent of the German and Japan­ Enjoyment of Laughter. Ben I have been insisting and argu­ not yet shown any more inclina­ through devaluation made it pos­ (Continued from page 1) the firs t w o rke rs’ state. There 'is recently formed by Governor La ese secret services,” a “ notorious Lieberman has composed origin­ ing for the last three and half tion to proceed against his fel­ sible to "create” money through person,” a "bandit and notorious no dearth of possibilities for its Follette of Wisconsin; (3) The al scores for the songs. Pioneer hours against it. 1 know that low Democrat Hague than has workers organized into industrial printing new banknotes. On the swindler,” etc., etc. defense. There is a dearth only Land Problem in Mexico by Ber­ predicts that the songs, which they are ready to face any per­ Marcantonio himself. unions insist on fighting for their other hand, the employers of correct policies for exploiting nard Ross; (4) Statements by a Eastman told the press: "Brow­ will later be available for use sonal danger and that no threat Thanks to the failure of the rights; and this, from Knudsen’s breathe more easily, since the them . group of Palestine Communists der is trying to assassinate my throughout the country, will be of physical violence could deter Stalinist leadership and their point of view, is the height of cheapened cost of labor permits Over all the fascist countries and by Charles Rappaport, character only because he cannot "sensational" hits. them from their readiness to de­ liberal Congressmen to prepare irresponsibility. If things conti­ them again to work "profitably.” hangs the pall of a war economy, | French Communist, on why they assassinate me. 1 want to dis­ Tickets for the affair are 31.00. fend the constitutional rights of in any adequate way to meet the nue in that way, Knudsen might But they are not yet satisfied. strained to the utmost. In Japan quit the Communist Party; (5) cuss these lies with Earl Brow­ They can be obtained at Pioneer American citizens. mobilization of Hague’s gang by have to take a wage cut down Pointing to the 60-hour week in one political crisis follows an­ Principles and Tactics in War der in a court of justice where Publishers, 100 F ifth Avenue, or Motivates Back-Down rallying the workers of Jersey to a quarter of a million. Germany, they insist that the other. The Abyssinian war by W. St.; (6) The Crisis of people are tried before and not at the Labor Bookshop, 28 E. "However, as president of the City in a counter-demonstration Once again the division in the government formally abolish the brought Italy to the verge of re­ Stalinism in Brazil; (7) A Meet­ after they are condemned.” 12 Street. I.L .D ., I cannot permit innocent against them, they had no forces ranks of labor was helping the 40-hour week, which even now volution. France, Belgium, and ing of Bankrupts by Joseph Car­ people to face certain bloodshed, at their disposal and were com­ bosses. Knudsen, who was of is frequently violated, especially even present-day Spain contain ter; (8) Lenin and Rosa Luxem­ violence, and perhaps death at pelled to capitulate in a coward­ course attacking unionism in in the war industry, where the tremendous revolutionary possi­ burg by Max Shachtman. the hands of a mob incited to do ly manner before the threats of general, was able to pretend that government itself is the chief bilities. In China Chiang Kai- Important articles for the June violence by Mayor Hague through Hague’s thugs. To avoid a repeti­ he was attacking only one form em ployer. shek maintains himself only issue are already in course of his henchmen. tion of this fiasco in the future, of unionism — industrial union­ The Daladier cabinet, which, thanks to Stalin’s political assis­ preparation, including one by “ We are interested in preserv­ it is imperative that the orga­ ism, and was thus making a play through the voluntary* vote of tance. In Central and Eastern Maurice Spector entitled "Five ing law and order against law­ nized workers of New Jersey for A.F. of L. support or at confidence of the workers’ parties Europe dozens of little nations Years of the New Deal"—a bal­ lessness, in defending the demo­ take the initiative in creating a least sympathy. The continuance has acquired the aspect of a Na­ live in social and economic de­ ance sheet of the Roosevelt Ad­ cratic and civil rights of the movement of self-defense against of the A.F. of L.-C.I.O. split tional Union government, is cay, under the constant threat of ministration. American people. The issue is not Hague’s henchmen. The organiz­ at every step is weakening the working might and main to carry national enslavement. Anyone who wishes to obtain one of physical courage, for that ed workers in the C.I.O. con­ strength of the workers. through finance capital’s program What tremendous objective the magazine can do so by send­ issue is well settled against stitute the only force capable of of offense against the working Wants Strikes Outlawed possibilities for the development ing 20 cents for a single copy or Hague's m ob.. . . They act brave mobilizing the masses and gene­ class. It remains to be seen how of an audacious policy of inter­ $2 for a year’s subscription to o n ly when the odds are 1,000 rating a movement powerful Knudsen was aiming at even lasting is the strength of the national revolution! Today, per­ The New International, 116 Uni­ to 1.” enough to undermine Hague, bigger game. His stress on “ir­ workers’ bureaucracy in restrain­ haps more than ever before, the versity Place, New York, N. Y. The two congressmen spoke dislodge him from power, and responsibility” referred to the ing the proletariat from a Soviet U nion could act as the far more militantly than their restore the elementary rights of strikes, sit-downs, etc. in the counter - offensive against the liberator and protector, not only sed nations becomes the task of Stalinist saviors. They were free speech and public assembly Michigan area which have been Daladier program. of the colonial but also of the the Fourth International. The evidently willing to risk their to Jersey City. provoked by the outrageous vio­ small European nations, and road is not smooth, but it lations of the union contract by gather around herself a genuine offers a thousand times greater General Motors and its rank dis­ League of Nations of the oppres­ chances of success than the Mass Meeting on Spain crimination against active union­ LERMAN BROS. sed. wretched diplomatic maneuvers ists. The Chamber of Commerce, Union Stationers and Commemorate the Barcelona uprising of May, 1937 by agitating against union “'ir­ Stalinist "Audacity” of the Soviet bureaucracy. Printers responsibility” and by calling for But the Soviet bureaucracy ' HOW TO FIGHT WAR SPEAKERS: the amendment of the Labor Re­ 37 East 14th St. New York City displays “audacity” only in the Isolation n HARRY MILTON lations Act to make unions persecution of revolutionists. “ responsible,” is seeking a for­ Phone ALgonquin 4-3356-7-8 Collective Security ' Participant in the Barcelona events Through its cowardly retreat be­ mula whereby, under the cover Relentless Class Struggle Selling to Labor Organiz­ fore woifid imperialism it throws MAX SHACHTMAN of contracts ambiguously drawn by the first proletarian revolution Editor of the Socialist Appeal up and interpreted by the courts ations at Lowest Prices. in history into unspeakable dan­ JAMES BURNIIAM uniformly in the bosses’ favor, Our Printing Plant locat­ 8:00 p. m., SUNDAY, MAY 15 gers, and calls forth the audacity 16 pp. 3c strikes will be legally prohibited. ed'■ at 36 West 15th St., of the imperialists. Socialist Workers Party Germania Hall, (Third Ave. at 16th St.) Knudsen has no doubt observ­ 6 th Floor. Phone Algon­ The defense of the Soviet Union 116 U n iv e rs ity Place Auspices: Socialist Workers Party, New' York. ed how “responsible” labor is in through proletarian revolution New York City living up tq its ecutnttes in quin 4-7823. and the liberation of the oppres- Germany and Italy. I SOCIALIST APPEAL May 14, 1938, ------s unions from external assault by the Socialist Appeal bosses or internal disruption by the Sta­ Leon T rotsky Challenges V ol. II. - No. 20. Saturday, M ay 14, 1938 linists. Properly speaking, these are two UNITE AGAINST HAGUE! sides of the same task. Published every week by the British Labor Party On SOCIALIST APPEAL PUBLISHING ASS’N. The second is an even more immediate Form Workers’ Defense Committees! at 116 University Place, New York, N. Y. and pressing problem than the first. The An Editorial ...... Oil Land Expropriation Telephone: National Office: ALgonquin 4-8547 Stalinists are a greater danger to the The struggle now raging between gangster- Defense. Its president, Mareanlonio, took public Subscriptions: $2.00 per year; $1.00 for 6 trade union movement than all the mayor Hague and the people of New Jersey responsiblity for calling off the meeting. In (The following letter was juridical side. The executive imonths. Foreign: $2.50 per year. Bundle order committee of your party would, bosses precisely because they attack for the restitution of their democratic rights the face of a reactionary threat, the Stalinist sent by Leon Trotsky to the 3' cents per copy. Single copies 5 cents. in my opinion, act correctly if it from within. They sail under false colors has tremendous significance for every American leadership cravenly crawled on its bellies and London Daily Herald on the A ll checks and money orders should be made created a special commission for in order to deceive and befuddle the w orker. surrendered without a fight. out to the Socialist Appeal. subject of the British go­ studying what British, and in workers. They disrupt the unions with Not in isolated Harlan County or in rural Instead of going forward to meet the gang­ vernment’s demand for re­ general foreign, capital has con­ Entered as second-class matter September 1, hypocritical cries for “ unity.” They California, but in the industrial appendage of ster army, they retreated before the Jersey tributed to Mexico and what it turn of the oil property of 1937 at the post office at New York, New York, preach solidarity only in order to be­ New York itself, a petty boss has established Hitler just as the German Stalinist leaders, has extracted. Such a commission under the Act of March 3, 1879. a dictatorial, anti-labor regime. The elementary despite the great labor organizations behind the Mexican Eagle Oil Co., could within a short period pre­ tray the workers more effectively. Sta­ sent to the British public the MAX SHACHTMAN linism is the worst and most destructive rights of free speech and free assembly have them, succumbed to the Nazi battalions. recently expropriated, by been nullified for every critic of Hague; ar­ stunning balance of imperialist E d ito r. SURRENDER WITHOUT BATTLE the Cardenas administra­ exploitation! disease of the labor movement of the bitrary arrests and illegal jail sentences meted HAROLD ROBERTS FRANK GRAVES world. Stalinism is deception, disruption tion. — Ed.) Associate Editors. out to them by his judicial servants; C.I.O. The liberal generals talked more belligerent­ A Robber Clique The Editor, and treachery organized and subsidized labor unions placed under a ban. This is the ly but acted no less spinelessly than their Sta­ S. S T A N L E Y Daily Herald, A small clique of foreign mag­ on an international scale. It is high time way Fascism begins! Business Manager. linist comrades-in-chief. “ O, there never was a London. nates, in the full sense of the The insolent defiance and repeated provoca­ ...------> to diagnose this disease and quarantine braver crew than these liberal Congressmen, Dear S ir: word, pumps out the living sap tions of the Jersey despot have aroused every the labor movement against it. they marched right down from Washington and In the vocabulary of all civiliz­ of Mexico as well as of a series militant element in the labor movement against Unite Against marched right back again.” ed nations there exists the word, of other backward or weak coun­ him . The Stalinists were able to plead the desire 1 cynicism. As a classic example tries. The solemn speeches about to avoid personal danger as a pretext for their of brazen cynicism, the British foreign capital contributing “ci­ Union-Wreckers! HAGUE GETS AWAY WITH IT vilization,” about it assisting in capitulation only because they and their friends government’s defense of the in­ (Continued from page 1) The Sheriff Knocks the development of national eco­ After a week of intense excitement, Hague’s had made no preparations to organize or call terests of a clique of capitalist exploiters should be introduced nomy and so forth, are the sheer­ For a long time the Stalinist slander foes went forth to challenge him on Saturday out the workers of Jersey City in r counter- In that case, you can be sure they will into all encyclopedias. I am there­ est Pharisaism. The question, machine, with the estimable Daily Work­ at a public meeting. Both sides understood the demonstration against the Jersey Hitler’s soon find out what disruptive “ factional­ fore not mistaken if I say that in actuality, concerns plundering er in the lead, has felt free to exercise, importance of the occasion. Hague mobilized ism” really means. forces. world public opinion awaits the the natural wealth of the coun­ without fear of punitive consequences, his whole reactionary army in Journal Square. Representative O’Connell insisted that he and voice of the British Labor Party try. Nature required many mil­ The National Maritime Union, raised its “ democratic” prerogative to indulge The liberal New York Post said in its lead­ Bernard were only beating "a strategic retreat regarding the scandalous role of lions of years in order to deposit up through heroic struggles of militant in the most poisonous calumny of its ing editorial that morning: "The entire country in preparation for a new offensive when the British diplomacy in the question gold, silver, and oil in the sub­ is watching the proposed civil liberties mass organization of the masses has been brought of the expropriation of the Eagle soil of Mexico. The foreign im­ and self-sacrificing seamen, gives the political opponents and of all and sundry perialists wish to plunder these meeting this evening and will know whom to ab ou t.” joint-stock oil company by the riches in the shortest possible latest example and warning of what Sta- who in any way incur the wrath or dis­ blame if Boss Hague carries out the violent Mexican government. He should be forced to make good his words. time, making use of cheap labor linite domination of a union really pleasure of the Communist Party chief­ threats of his underlings .. The ‘deportation’ The CIO. unions, directly endangered by The juridical side of the ques­ tion is clear to a child. W ith the power and the protection of their means. A servile belly-crawling attitude tains. of Norman Thomas last week has created a Hague’s dictatorship, ought to invite him to aim of exploiting the hatural diplomacy and their fleet. toward the bosses; the signing of agree­ situation in which American citizens must either come to Jersey City and speak under their On May 3, Supreme Court Justice wealth of Mexico, the British Picture of Oilfields ments which shame the labor movement; insist on civil liberties in Jersey City or auspices. He will need protection. The organiz­ Meier Steinbrink awarded $25,000 capitalists placed themselves an internal regime of bureaucratic ter­ knuckle under for good to Jersey City’s arro­ ed workers of the region and their friends can under the protection and at the Visit any center of the mining damages against the Daily Worker to ror and expulsions; the factional ex­ gant dictator... Nothing succeeds like success furnish it to them in the same way that they same time under the control of industry: hundreds of millions Mrs. Edith Liggett of Brooklyn in a libel ploitation of the union for every twist —and if Mayor Hague gets away with the have protected themselves against scabs and Mexican laws and the Mexican of dollars, extracted by foreign suit which the Stalinist scandal sheet warning uttered by Governor Moore’s secretary authorities. No one compelled capital from the earth, have giv­ and turn of Communist Party politics— police in their recent strike struggles. deemed it unwise to defend. The Daily that, eight hundred men with sections of rubber Enough of begging Roosevelt to proceed Messrs. Capitalists to do this en nothing, nothing whatever that is what Stalinite domination of a either by military force or to the culture of the country; Worker, in its well-known style, had re­ hose will prevent a meeting, other tinpot dic­ against one of the national vice-chairmen of through diplomatic notes. They neither highways nor buildings union means, as the latest example of tators will be encouraged to do likewise.” his own party! They work hand in glove. Hague ferred to Mrs. Liggett and her husband acted entirely voluntarily and nor good development of the the National Maritime Union again de­ What happened? Hague got away with it! (the late Walter W. Liggett, murdered uses the Federal patronage (relief, etc.) fur­ consciously. Now Mr. Chamber- cities. Even the premises of the monstrates. Minneapolis editor) as enemies of the Without a fight he chalked up a complete vic­ nished him by the Roosevelt administration to lain and Lord Halifax wish to companies themselves often re­ to ry . No, the m ilitant and progressive mem­ labor movement. force the unemployed to do his will! force mankind into believing that semble barracks. Why, indeed, Why was Hague permitted to get away with Let the workers rely upon their own strength the British capitalists have should one spend Mexican oil, bers in the U.A.W. must give a different The fact that the Stalinists did not it? Who was responsible for the fiasco? What and their own independent action. Let them pledged themselves to recognize Mexican gold, Mexican silver on and more responsible answer to the Sta­ the needs of far-away and alien defend the suit speaks for itself. Now must be done to get rid of this menace? These defend themselves with all the means at their Mexican laws only within those linite drive for control of their union. are questions every worker and every radical disposal. limits where they find it neces­ Mexico when with the profits ob­ that they are to pay, and pay heavily, sary. Moreover, it accidentally tained it is possible to build They cannot stand as neutrals on the ought to ask himself. His life and liberties The militant and forthright action of the for the privilege of slander, they may occurs that the completely “■im­ palaces, museums, theatres in depend upon a correct answer to them. employed and unemployed workers of Jersey sideline of the struggle either. If the partial” interpretation of the London or in Monaco? Such are feel constrained to tread more warily in The arrangements for the demonstration were City alone can unseat the Hague regime and militants in the auto union want to save the future. They have already another Mexican laws by Chamberlain- the civilizers! In the place of his­ their organization from such a fate, they in charge of the Stalinist International Labor wipe that black spot off the political map. Halifax coincides exactly with torical riches they leave shafts in libel suit on their hands, the action need an active policy now in the present the interpretation of the interest­ the Mexican soil and ill-health brought by Local 544 of the Teamsters ______edO cap italists. among the Mexican workers. critical situation. That policy can only Union in Minneapolis, which is claiming The notes of the British go­ be the broadest united front in the union Imperialist Cynicism substantial damages against the Daily Inside the N, Y . Painters* Union vernment refer to “ international against a disruptive alien force. This is The British government can­ law.” Even irony powerlessly Worker for libelling both the union and just as logical and just as necessary as not, however, deny that only the drops its hands in face of this its officials. This suit is expected to be argument. About what kind of solidarity on the picket line against a Mexican government and the heard in the near future. Supreme Court of the country international law are we talking? gang of scabs trying to break a strike. 2. In the G rip of Racketeers Evidently about the law which * A are competent to interpret the A t bottom it is the same thing. And that The results of this suit cannot, of laws of Mexico. To Lord Halifax, triumphed in Ethiopia and to course, be foretold as yet. But the deci­ who nourishes warms sympathies which the British government is what it has already come to on the In our first article we galized” racketeering to illicit tirely and always in conflict with sion in the Liggett case is an indication for the laws and courts of Hitler, is now preparing to give its sanc­ West Coast waterfront. gave a picture of conditions business - unionism was but a the p ro fit-g re e d y bo9s class; tion. Evidently about that same of what may be expected when the pro­ short step. 2. The knowledge that their the Mexican laws and courts may SUPPORT MARTIN in the painting industry, in seem unjust. But who gave the law which the airplanes and only safety lies in reliance on tanks of Mussolini and Hitler are fessional slanderers are compelled to Graft Flourished British government the right to the past as well as in the their own organized strength; already announcing in Spain for The policy here recommended does not confront those whom they have sland­ 3. The determination to con­ control the inner politics and present. Just as graft and racketeering legal procedure of an independent the second year with the British imply extensive negotiations over ques­ ered. duct a militant struggle for the government’s invariable support. How did these terrible flourished in municipal govern­ state? This question already con­ tions of program, etc. It does not neces­ ment under the reign of Tam­ maintenance of union standards; The latter held endless conversa­ As our readers know, the Stalinist conditions come about ? tains part of the answer: the sitate formal agreements of any kind. many’s Mayor Jimmy Walker, so 4. The organization of the un­ British government, accustomed tions about the evacuation of press here is like its kin everywhere. organized in the alteration and The most important facts are already Where was the union— and these same vices grew into bloom to command hundreds of millions foreign “volunteers" from Spain. About a year or so ago, the leader of the in New York’s building trades maintenance fields; known, and the duty of responsible ■its leaders? What did they of colonial slaves and semi­ Spain and Mexico British trade unions, Walter Citrine, was under the rule of “ Czar” Brindel, 5. The re-establishm ent o f de­ militants is clear. In the crisis provoked do to prevent such a mess? slaves, is trying to fit those same given a favorable verdict against the Tammany’s ally in the local labor mocracy in the union, cleaning methods also to Mexico. Having Naive public opinion long by the Stalinite bid for power, the m ilit­ slanderers of the London Daily Worker. I f they did nothing — why movement. Prohibition had rais­ out the gangster elements. encountered courageous resist­ thought this meant the halting ants have no choice but to support the not? What is the present ed the New York underworld to ance, it instructs its lawyers of intervention by the foreign Shortly after the Radek-Pyatakov trial the status of a big business con­ D ual Tactics of C P. fascist bandits. Actually the Martin administration as against the union administration doing hurriedly to invent arguments in in Moscow, the Prague courts compelled cern. Gangsters like “ Legs" Dia­ The task of the progressives which juridical logic is replaced British government demanded of Stalinite - Frankensteen combination. mond and “Dutch” Schultz be­ the official Stalinist rag in Czechoslo­ to help the painter out of was made extremely difficult by by imperialist cynicism. Mussolini only one thing: that And this support should be given openly, came heads of tremendous “ inter­ he remove his armies from Spain vakia to make a public retraction of its his fix? What can be done? the dual union policies of the The economic and social side frankly and aggressively. locking directorates” of racketeer­ Stalinists (Communist Party) in only after he guaranteed the calumnious statement that the German These are questions every of the problem is as clear as its ing. Through the beginnings that period. The latter split the victory of Franco. In this case, To be sure, the progressive and m ilit­ Fourth Internationalist emigre, Erich painter should ask himself. of racketeering made by “ Czar" progressive forces, withdrawing as in all others, the problem con­ Brindel and his crowd, these big sisted not in defending "inter­ ant forces in the U.A.W. have grievances, Wollenberg, was a Gestapo agent. And An understanding of the a good section of them for the defeat of the Zausner administra­ shots of the underworld made national law” or “democracy” and serious grievances, against the only a few weeks ago, the French courts formation of their “Alteration tio n . answers that such questions their entry into the labor move­ but in safeguarding the interests Martin administration. We have spoken decided in favor of the libel action Painters Union.” The Stalinist call for, is the first step to ment. When prohibition was re­ “Alteration Painters Union," Stalinists Change of British capitalists in the of them before and w ill speak of them brought b y th e Menshevik emigre pealed in 1933, they shifted then- Spanish mining industry from finding a way out of the based on the conception of the The Stalinist party, on orders Theodore Dan, whom the Stalinist organ, field of operations more exclus­ possible attempts on the part of again. I am not suggesting that these troubles the painters are- Communist Party at that time from Moscow, had changed its ively to the trades unions. Ita ly . criticisms be muffled or put aside. On the 1‘Humanite, had declared to be a fascist that all A.F. of L. unions were “line” just about at the same faced with. Thus, when the economic crisis In Mexico, the British govern­ “company unions,” did untold time. From the extremism of the contrary, it is seasonable even now to agent, associated with the other “ fascist broke and burst the bubble of ment carries on basically the In the following lines we damage to the struggle of the period between 1929 to 1934 — point out that the opportunist policies spies” who were tried in Moscbw’s frame- prosperity, the leadership of the same politics as in Spain—pas­ progressives. when they preached that John ups. shall try to find some of building trades unions were left sively in relation to Spain, acti­ and bureaucratic practices of Martin They carried their destructive L. Lewis, William Green, Roose­ these answers. not only without plan or per­ vely in Mexico. We are now have alienated many of the best fighters dual union tactics so far as to velt and Norman Thomas were The Stalinist liars, pilloried in public, spective — but fa r worse, witnessing the first steps of this In the boom days after the actually scab on jobs struck by all Fascists; when they maintain­ in the ranks and made them easy victims thoroughly infected with the activity. What will be its further are finding their profession a very costly World War, the apparent stabil­ the District Council of the ed that all official unions were of the Stalinist demagogy. poison of racketeering and gang­ development? No one can yet one. ity of the capitalist system gave Brotherhood in the general “company unions;” when they sterism. This situation only ag­ foretell. Chamberlain himself rise to many illusions widespread strikes of 1933 and 1934 when predicted that the struggle for But even in criticism it is necessary gravated the already bad straits does not yet know. One thing in their influence. Prosperity— the bosses tried to take advant­ the streets and the “proletarian to respect proportions and concrete the union men found themselves we can affirm with assurance: the professors of economics and age of the demoralization in the revolution” were just around the in, due to depression. th e . further development of the circumstances. The U.A.W. under the the highly-paid journalistic apo­ union brought about by the de­ corner—the international Stalin Lifeguards of Capital attempts of British imperialism Martin leadership remains, by compari­ logists for the profit system told Kick-backs Paid pression and by gangsterism. machine swung around to the against the independence of us—was here to stay. The dif­ The few Stalinists, like Lou-is opposite form of extremism: son, the most progressive of the C.I.O. The following letter appeared May 10 Mexico w ill to a great degree de­ ferences between bosses and In the Brotherhood, the rank Weinstock, who remained inside Roosevelt was now to be the unions and by far the most democratic. in the correspondence column of the pend upon the conduct of the workers, they said, were fast and file pa-inters who still ma­ the Brotherhood, served like a savior of the country; Lewis and British working class. Here it is The victory of the Stalinists would Stalinist Daily Worker, without editorial being wiped out: the whole naged to get a day’s work here millstone around the neck of Green were now to be “brothers” impossible to evade the issue by sw iftly put an end to all that. You have comment: American population was deve­ and there had to pay a heavy the progressives because of their and Norman Thomas a "com­ resort to indefinite formulas. loping into one single class-—the tribute in “ kick-back" and other half-concealed sponsorship of and rade;” the proletarian revolution only to look around a bit to see what Firm resoluteness is necessary to Editor, class of profit-sharing stock­ graft to the machine run by the their apologetics for the scabby was now a pipe-dream of the happens to a union that falls into the paralyze the criminal hand of Daily Worker: holders. They anticipated Huey gangsters “Lepke” and “ Gurrah” “Alteration Painters Union.” The distant, very distant future—the imperialist violence. I therefore hands of the Stalinists and their stooges Long’s famous slogan with a under the Zausner administra­ old line administration and its thing now was to build a The writer is certainly glad to see that finish as I began: world public and bribed agents. To prevent that hap­ slogan of their own: “Every tion in District Council No. 9. gangster allies could maintain “People’s Front” or a “Democ­ there are a few newspapers in this great opinion awaits the firm voice of pening is the first task, and one that Man a Capitalist.” Most of the painters naturally themselves in power as long as ratic Front” with Roosevelt, La- found themselves out of jobs al­ the British Labor Party! country that will continue to uphold the The entire officialdom of the they did only thanks to the po­ Guardia et al. cannot be postponed. together, with not a word of hope hands of President Roosevelt, and if half American Federation of Labor, licies of the Stalinists. Overnight the order came to L. TROTSKY. from the union leadership. IN OTHER UNIONS of those who are knocking and trying marching in the tow of the boss The crisis had, in the mean­ “liquidate” the “Alteration Coyoacan; D. F. to tear down would join those of us who class from the earliest days of Progressives -in the union, who time, brought about a change in Painters Union” and for all its The same problem confronts the m ilit­ had been fighting gangsterism municipal politics. The big New members to join the Brotherhood. are trying to save the economic system Gompers’ rule, was completely A p ril, 1938. ants in numerous other organizations at filled with this false capitalist and who had forewarned against York capitalists who, for years, With the groundwork done by or at least make it work, we would be the illusions of “prosperity,” the present moment. As this is being way of thinking and with this had looked on tolerantly upon the LaGuardia and Thomas Dewey, P. S. — Several im p e ria lis t sure to avoid what is happening in Eu­ phoney optimism. The labor slowly began to raise their heads. extravagant graft grabbed up by the Stalinist machine in the newspapers have attempted to written the convention of the pocket rope. skates in every A .F. of L. union Their long years of patient ex­ Jimmy Walker and the Tammany Painters Union, reinforced by the represent me... as the initiator book makers is split in two; Stalinists planation that capitalism, pro­ machine, began to be alarmed in­ recruits from the defunct "Al­ of the expropriation. Such non­ (signed) John J. Lang. went in for all kinds of get-rieh- and gangsters combined to “ end faction­ quick schemes: labor banking, ducing not according to plan nor creasingly as their profits shrunk. teration” outfit, well-organized sense does not even deserve re­ on the bas-is of the needs of the alism.” The West Coast sailors are fight­ Is it not high time that members of labor insurance, etc. Since wages Through their mouthpiece, Sa­ and financed, found it a fairly futation. I, a private person, en­ in the unions they controlled— population, was bound to bring muel Seabury, they launched the easy job to take over control of joying the hospitality of this ing it out with the Stalinists on the picket the Communist Party, who honestly be­ mostly those in the skilled crafts about crises and depressions was attack on Tammany which re­ the District Council when the country, have learned only from line to protect their closed shop agree­ lieve they belong to an organization de­ —were fairly high and work borne out by events themselves. sulted in the victory of the La- Zausner administration was oust­ the papers all the stages of the ments. By and large the same policy is dicated to the overthrow of capitalism plentiful, they were able to hand The rank and file began to give GuardJa-iFusion tidket. L»Guar­ ed. struggle of the foreign capitalists them a hearing. The only protec­ down this spirit of self-deception dia, Seabury and Thomas Dewey, What exact methods they used against the Mexican laws. But required everywhere. The class-conscious and the establishment of a socialist so­ tion for the workers against the to the rank and file, to a consider­ pledged to pro te ct the bosses in coming into power, how they this was completely sufficient to militants, while insisting on their right misery of capitalist crises and ciety, took stock of their position? Is i able extent. In return, they re­ from the scourge of racketeer­ have given “leadership” to the form an opinion. To state this of constructive criticism, must always not high time for them to ask themselves ceived a free hand from the latter boss exploitation, the progres­ ing, began the clean-up which, union and how their “policies” opinion aloud is the elementary sives explained, was: be ready for common action with all seriously in which direction they are for their “legalized” racketeer­ aided by a press campaign, suc­ are made—these questions will duty of every participant in the ing schemes — their so - called 1. The realization that they are ceeded in ousting “Lepke” and serve as the basis for articles liberating struggle of the pro­ other bona fide unionists to defend the really going? “business-unionism.” From “le­ a class whose interests are en- “ Gurrah” and brought about the to come. letariat. —L. T.