SOCIALISTPublished Weekly as the Organ of the Socialist Party of APPEAL New York, Left Wing Branches. — — ■ — ...... - . ------.. 1 'I VOL. 1. - No. 2. 401 Saturday, August 21, 1937 5 Cents per Copy Tory Press Declares For LaGuardia As Mayor Enters G. 0 . P. Primaries
iTribune’ and ‘Times’ for Browder-Thomas-ALP People’s Front Candidate
As if derisively answering the Oneal, Earl Browder and Jay “People’s Fronters" in all camps Lovestone. A ll of them are as who have advertized him as The Capitalist Press For LaGuardia sociated ih a policy and move "Labor’s Candidate", Fiorello H. ment which the convention of the La Guardia threw off all pretense Socialist Party almost unanim by entering the race in the New The New York Times: The New York Herald-Tribune: ously condemned— the policy of York Republican primaries in the People’s Front, ranging from “The alternative to both Mr. Copeland and “The leaders of Fusion and their allies within order to win the Mayoralty no Thomas and Altman, through Mr. Mahoney is Mr. LaGuardia, on the Fusion the Republican party have every reason to be mination of the party of Landon, Lovestone and Browder, to La ticket. During the early days of his adminis Hoover, the DuPonts, Ford, Mel proud of their tic k e t.. , There have been nerv Guardia and the Republican Par lon and Mills. tration it was apparently his belief that trade ous moments in the last week, but the result is ty machine. A t the same time, not only the unions could do no wrong, even when they resort what counts. That could hardly be better. The main organ of American capital ed to vidlence in the pursuit of their objectives, ticket that will be offered the city, given the People’s Front Line Fatal ist “ Democracy", the New York and his action in the taxicab strike reflected this cooperation of the Republicans in their primary, Instead of emphasizing to the Times, but also the leading reac conviction. Fortunately, his opinions on this will be the ablest and best that local politics has working class the imperative tionary Republican organ and point are undergoing an unmistakeable change. ever achieved. •. They Mayor, rejecting the ad need for independence from the chief spokesman for Landon in His handling of the. attempted sit-down strikes vice of some of his closest advisors, remained in capitalist class and all its polit the last presidential campaign in this community last Spring— and his present the Republican primary. Thereby he turned his ical institutions and organiza the New York Herald-Tribune, handling of Left wing from S. P. By Glen Trimble Imperialism to Invade China The charter of the Socialist The Communist Party bureau within their ranks. It is now The world crisis of 1929 drove Party of California has been By James Wills possible— by cleansing all traces Japan to find new markets and cracy, which has spared neither suspended by the National Ex Goaded by an internal economic of Trotskyism from the SP or new sources of raw material. energy nor funds in its efforts ecutive Committee! On Wedns- crisis that has become intoler ganization— to strengthen the But there is no room in the pre to undermine and corrupt the So day, August 11, the Clarity fac ably acute, Japanese imperialism prestige of the Socialist Party sent-day imperialist world for cialist Party has put the stamp tion openly placed itself at the has struck again at continental and give it new health. peaceful expansion. Thus Japan of of hearty approval on the ex head of the party splitters and China in a supremely desperate has been compelled to erect a pulsion of the revolutionary left "Not only is it necessary to wreckers. Ward Rodgers, author effort bo find a way out by estab m ilitary and naval machine ut wing of the SP by the Altman- throw out Shachtman, Burnham, of the suspension resolution has lishing its mastery over all Asia. terly disproportionate to its eco Thomas combination. Abem and their tools. It is also been appointed “im partial” ex Coming late upon the scene of nomic capacities and to seek the “We greet the New York local essential, in the interests of the ecutor of the possessions, locals the capitalist world and lacking expansion it desperately needs of the Socialist Party", says the Socialist Party and of the work and members of the state party. the natural resources vital to the by resort to force. Yet precisely leading editorial of the Daily ing class, that all ideas and prac With this action last lingering development of the basic indus this resort to force has aggra Worker, on August 1.4, 1937, "for tises of Trotskyism and the Trot doubt as to the complete alliance tries, Japanese capitalism very vated the economic difficulties its expulsion of 54 counter-revo skyists be cleaned out entirely between the Altman-Thomas early in its life found it necessary and hastens the day when this lutionary Trotskyists as conspir from within the Socialist Party.” social-patriotic party liquidators to embark upon the path of im weak and top4ieavy structure atorial enemies of the Socialist By purging the SP of "all ideas and the “C larity” NEC majority perialist 'expansion. Since 1895, must topple down. Party.” and practises of Trotskyism”, js dispelled. In flagrant violation the year of the first Sino-Japan- the Stalinists mean today what of every party tradition, law and ese war, the Japanese bourgeoisie A few brief facts tell the story Urge Deeper Split in SP they have meant ever since thej£ decision, the NEC has acted in has been depending on the ex of Japan’s deep inner crisis, ag started their drive for the expul haste and conspiratorial secrecy ploitation of China to bolster up gravated as it has been by the “The New York Socialists," sion of the left wing: to convert to cut down the largest and most the frail economic structure on heavy burdens of the six-year ccntmnes the editorial, “have dis the Socialist Party into an ap active state organization in the which Japanese capitalism rests. invasion in China. For the first covered from bitter experience pendage of the Communist Party, entire Western United States. The first phase otf expansion won seven months of 1937, Japan had that it is not possible to tolerate molded in its image, to tear it off No chance was given to the them Korea, Formosa and a an adverse trade balance of 720,- these counter-revolutionary dregs Continued on page 7) (Continued on page 2) foothold in Manchuria. (Continued on page 6) 2 SOCIALIST APPEAL AvgUft 21, 19*T N E C Suspends California State Charter Guard hangover, anti-"Trotsky- Clarity Group ite", pacifist, liberal and stay-at- home member, and by a secret and CLARITY IN CALIFORNIA AND In Punitive unparalleledly vicious personal campaign they had secured a Expedition slim convention majority last CLARITY IN WISCONSIN February. Every meeting, discus sion, class, trade union struggle The Clarity group in control (Wisconsin now has one-third the we have to do is. We take every (Continued from page 1) or demonstration saw “Clarity” of the National Executive Com membership of the party accord thing very seriously in-Wisconsin. California comrades to present support dwindle. Their stay-at- mittee of the Socialist Party has ing to the latest membership re We want the NAC to agree that the overwhelming e v id e n c e home members were too far to voted unanimously to lift the' results of the convention and its as far as the resolution concern against the viciously false and the right for the Chicago con charter of the California orga decisions to be disastrous. Not a ing trade unions goes, Wisconsin absurd charges presented to the vention decisions. Registration nization, which is controlled by true convention. If held now, re can follow its own course. NEC by the tiny "Clarity” clique took its toll of those whose so the left wing, and to reorganize presentation would be entirely "TRAGER: The NEC will in the state. The responsible of cialism was not sturdy enough the State. different. Pennsylvania now has agree that the interpretation of ficers of the state organization for the exertion of filling out a Bold, prompt, vigorous— against only 200 members, while at con this resolution and all resolutions were given no notice whatever card. The State Committee ma the left wing. vention they had more delegates shall be through the SEC of that such drastic action or action jority was a cross-section of than we. (3) Also, we had Wisconsin as it is through each Clarity Capitulates to Wisconsin of any kind was contemplated. Clarity support, it could agree thought there was an agreement SEC in each state. The official party press kept only on Trotskyist-baiting and But how does the same NEC on labor secretary— we thought "KRUEGER: Wisconsin is an mum, the national party mem opposition to any and all active act with regard to the right wing he (Trager) had agreed to re exceptional organiation. It' has a bership was barred out, while its work and political development organization in Wisconsin? The sign if given a place on the NEC. stable organization with many responsible officers prepared the —which the membership persis shameful policy of Hoan, Porter, Now we find him back. !We have people who had a great deal of most far-reaching and important ted in. Biemiller, Raskin and Co. has not theoretical and organizational experience. We can agree that expulsion since 1919. A thriving party and a do- only led to a disgraceful alliance differences.... for the purpose of carrying out In marked contrast to this de nothing, politically illiterate State with the La Follette machine, but Attack Trade Union Line trade union work in line with cisive and ruthless attack upon Committee majority clashed more to the decline of the party mem the convention resolution that the the revolutionary Socialist wing •CHAIRMAN PLACE: Labor and more sharply. Locals repre bership from some 2,000 to about SEC, through its state secretary dff the party was the vacillation resolution full of contradictions. senting a full three quarters of 400— according to the Clarityites in Wisconsin, shall be considered and reluctance of identically A F L and CIO both could take the members — San Francisco, themselves. In addition, the responsible and no program of constituted National Executive exceptions W things said in it. Oakland, Fresno, Los Angeles Wisconsin right wing simply re organization of socialist activity Committees in dealing with the Need simplified general state Branch Central, Dominguez Hills, fuse to accept the Trade Union in the trade unions shall come frankly reformist and disloyal ment. Next step lies with NEC. Santa Monica and San Diego— Resolution adopted by the nat into Wisconsin except through New York Old Guard. For more Unless something is done Wis called for a special state conven ional convention in Chicago. In the state secretary. than two years local after local, consin has said for a long time tion. The SEC met and Clarity a word, whatever is even re "C H A IR M A N : We object to state after state, demanded action there was no Socialist Party and managed to hold a majority motely revolutionary in the the publicity given the trade to discipline the Waldman clique. why go on. They’d be happy to against a committee vote for SP is ignored by Wisconsin’s union resolution and policy. We The Old Guard systematically party bureaucracy. The Clarity- have us go to devil so there state convention by forcing its would be no party in Wisconsin. don’t want the press to know broke every principle and rule of ite National Action Committee of about such policy before we do. members to sign the opposing That’s why I suggest a refe the Party thereupon proceeds Besides, such questions should the party and yet its reward from ^ u t i o n in advance. The ques- rendum— and if socalled "leader the NEC was discipline o ! the ^ ^ fey a tje vote but a humbly to Milwaukee to meet never be for public consumption ship” is right— O.K. Let’s find ultra-le s • nves lons’ second motion was offered calling with the ‘Wisconsin State Exe but only for inner-party con it out now...! ings, negotiations without number |for a 8tate referendum to allow cutive Board and the Milwaukee sumption. “M IN K L E Y : Our objections to dragge r °ug ,°,ng ' the membership to decide the County Executive Board of the Wisconsin Gets Cart Blanche In all t ese e a ma " , question democratically. Clarity party to “straighten things out". iabor policy are these: 1. An or betrayers played the roleof j £ oundeped and broke in t h e f a e c And how are things “straightened ganization within an organization “MOTION BY RASKIN: . All out” in Wisconsin? By “bold, is the wrong policy (Socialist Dickensian sc oo mas ers 0f this unforseen emergency. The questions relating to union and rod ,n hand. The NEC took its , carried ?.5 Fra* k ^ prompt, vigorous” action? No, Leagues). 2. Our own policy is Workers Alliance activities of Clarity’s blows are directed at better— have key positions iii licking, and the charter of the Dresent as Claritv re Wisconsin members of the SP state of New York remained in ' " T was Present as Clarity re the left wing. Before the right labor movement now. Our supe ^ 7 ,, , . , , ~ _ mforcetnent from the National will be handled by and be the Waldman’s vest pocketOnly a fte r, an to the raising of the power of volutionary sacrifice. The country State, non-recognition of the The following letter was By Leon Trotsky man over nature vand the liquida was starving. The Kronstanders central power) corresponded to written in reply to questions tion of the power of man over demanded privileges. The up the spirit of this kulak cavalry put to the author by Wendelin bureaucrats — all these factors man are good. In this broad his rising was dictated by a as nothing else could. I should Thomas, who argued for the combine in the hounding of the torical sense the means can only desire to get privileged food add that the hatred of the city view that there was a basic revolutionary Marxist. A t the be justified by the end. rations. The sailors had cannon and the city worker on thalpart identity between Bolshevism same time the Messrs. Slander Does not this mean, however, and battleships. All the reaction- of the followers of Makhno was and Stalinism, as shown by ers do not forget to be indignant that falsehood, treachery, be ry elements, in Russia as well as complemented by a militant anti- Lenin’s attitude towards op at the amoralism of the Marx trayal are permissible and justi abroad, immediately seized upon Semitism. A t the very time when ponents like he Mensheviks, ists. This hypocritical indignation fied if they lead to “the end"? this uprising. The white emigres we were carrying on life and the Kronstadt insurgents and is nothing but a weapon of the All depends on the nature of the demanded aid for the insurrec death struggle against Denikin the independent Makhno bands class struggle. aim. I f the aim is the libera tionists. The victory of this up and Wrangel, the Makhnovists, in the Ukrane during the Ci tion of manking then falsehood, Lenin’s Position rising could bring nothing but a attempted to carry on an in vil War. Thomas is a former betrayal, and treachery can in no victory of counter-revolution, en dependent policy. Straining at Communist deputy of the Ger wise be appropriate means. The In the words quoted by you, tirely independent of the ideas the bit, the petty bourgeois man Reichstag and now a Epicureans were accused by their Lenin merely wanted to say that the sailors had in their heads. (kulak), thought he could dictate member of- the International opponents of sinking to the ideals he no longer considers the Men But the ideas themselves were his contradictory views to the Commission investigating the of a pig when they advocated sheviks proletarian figthers and deeply reactionary. They reflect capitalists on the one hand and Moscow Trials. — Ed. "happiness". To which the Epi that he makes it his task to make ed the hostility of the backward to the workers on the other. This cureans, not without foundation, hateful in the eyes of the work peasantry to the worker, the kulak was armed, we had to Esteemed Comrade: replied: that their opponents ers. Lenin expressed his thought conceit of the soldier or sailor disarm him. This is precisely I do not think that the ques understand happiness... in a pig with his characteristic passion in relation to the "civilian" what we did. tions which you asked me have gish way. and opened the possibilities for Petersburg, the hatred of the Stalin and the Bolsheviks a direct relationship to the in You make reference to Lenin’s ambiguous and unworthy inter petty bourgeois for revolutionary, vestigations of the New York pretations. But on the basis of discipline. The movement there words that a revolutionary party Your attempt to conclude that Commission and can have an' in the complete works of Lenin and fore had a counter-revolutionary has the “right" to make its op Stalin’s forgeries flow from the fluence on its conclusions. Never his life’s work I declare that this character and since the insur ponents hated and despised in "amoralism" of the Bolsheviks is theless I am fully prepared to irreconciliable fighter was a most gents took possession of the arms the eyes of the masses. In these basically false. In the period reply to your questions in order loyal opponent, for despite all in the forts they could only be words you see a principled de when the revolution fought for to acquaint with my actual views exaggerations and extremes he crushed with the aid of arms. fense of amoralism. You forget, the liberation of the oppressed all those who are interested in always strove to tell the masses however, to point out where, in No less erroneous is your esti musses it called everything by them. what is. The struggle of the re which political camp are the re mate of Mahno. In himself he its right nome and was in no formists against Lenin, on the presentatives of lofty morals. was a mixture of fanatic and need of forgeries. Wie system of “End Justifies Means" contrary, was thoroughly penetra My observations tell me that po adventurer. He became the con falsifications flows from the ted with hypocrisiy, falsehood, Like many others, you see the litical struggle in general utiliz centration of the very tendencies fact that the Stalinist bureau trickery and forgeries under the source of evil in the principle: es widely exaggeration, distor which brought about the Krons cracy fights for the privileges of cover of universal truths. “The end justifies the means". tion, falsehood and slander. The tadt uprising. The cavalry in the minority and is compelled to This principle is in itself very revolutionists are always the Your evaluation of the Krons general is the most reactionary conceal and mask its real aims. abstract and rationalistic. It most slandered: in their time tadt uprising of 1921. is basically part of the army. The equestrian Instead of seeking for an ex permits most varied interpreta Marx, Engels and their friends; incorrect. The best, most sacrific despises the pedestrian. Makhno planation in the material condi tions. But I am prepared to take later— the Bolsheviks, Karl Lieb- ing sailors were completely with created a cavalry of peasants tions of historical development, upon myself the defense of this knecht and Rosa Luxemburg; at drawn from Kronstadt and played who supplied their own horses. you create the theory of “the formula—from the materialistic the present time— the Trotsky an important role at the fronts These were not downtrodden original sin", which fits the and dialectical viewpoint. Yes, ists. The hatred of the possessors and in the local Soviets through village poor whom the October church but not the socialist re I consider that there are no toward the revolution; the dull out the country. What remained Revolution first awakened, but public. means that are good or bad in conservatism of the petty bour was the gray mass with big pre the strong and well-fed peasants Respectfully yours, '.themselves or in connection with geoisie, the conceit and super tensions ("W e are from Krons who were afraid of losing what L. Trotsky. some ' absolute supra-historical ciliousness of the intellectuals; tadt"), but without political they had. The anarchist ideas of principle. Those means that lead the material interests of the labor education and unprepared for re Makhno (the ignoring of the Coyoacan, July, 6, 1937. "Girolamo Valenti, editor of La Stamps Libera, suggested at Once More: The Altman the August 3 meeting that a Clarity Heads Oppose committee be formed to approach Thomas Finances t h e Amalgamated Clothing Independent SP Slate Workers Union and the ILG W U Last week, the Appeal printed " I charge and will cite here for funds to finance the Altman Zam, Delson and the other we should withdraw our candi -the story of the shady deal pro after my proof of the following: group with the statement that leaders of the Clarity group in date and fight within the C.I.O. posed in the Altman-Thomas "1. That expulsions of the left he was certain that five to ten New York are carrying on a for Martin to adopt a program group by Girolamo Valenti for wing in mass were decided upon thousand dollars could be raised. campaign of protest against the and platform as befits a warking raising a slush fund from the in advance of the action. This suggestion was unanimous right wing decision to withdraw class candidate. bureaucracy of the International "2. Authorization was given to ly accepted and Valenti appointed the regular socialist candidate “Bob Parker (another Clarity Ladies Garment Workers Union raise a fund of from $5,000.00 to a committee of one to do the job. for mayor in favor of La Guar leader) supported Ben. Bill Kauf and the Amalgamated Clothing $10,000.00 to finance the Altman “As to point 3: dia. man, YPSL organizer here and a "Workers for the purpose of caucus in a national expulsion “ Sam Dewitt and G. Valenti, Good, so far as it goes! Clarityite, took issue with the financing the split drive against drive. along with several others, sug But wherein is the city of Cle Parkers. 0.n our motion to reaf the left wing. "3. The caucus tolei-ates gested that no more financial veland different from the city of firm our support of Dullea the This week we are printing the members who openly sabotage support be given to the Call, New York? Are socialist prin Clarityites split, Kaufman voting proof of our assertions. It is the publishing of the Socialist which would result in its collapse. ciples one thing in New York and with us, carrying the motion presented by comrade Robert O. Call and advocate that it cease The suggestion was also made another in Ohio? through the Executive Committee. Menaker, an officer of the League to be published. that Norman Thomas withdraw Frank Stern, Labor Secretary The Parkers will issue a minority for Industrial DemcYraey and "As to point 1: his weekly article from the Call. of the Socialist Party in Cleve report. The whole business is land, writes as follows about the coming up at a general member editor of its official periodical. “A t every meeting of the A lt Though both of these suggestions situation in that city: ship meeting Thursday night We have received it in the form man caucus that I attended, in were voted against, the people called for that purpose”. of a letter to the National Ex cluding the most recent one of who made them are still tolerated “A new problem has come up * * * ecutive Committee of the Socialist "key people’ held at Norman in the Party and in the caucus. here similar to the La Guardia situation in New York, but with Party, which we print in full. Thomas’ home on Tuesday, "Included aong those that at As we go to press, we receive added complications. August 3, all members of the tended this August 3 meeting the latest news about the situation The Menaker Letter “Comrade Robert Dullea, as caucus decided that the Trotsy- were: Norman Thomas, Jack in the Cleveland Party organir you know, is the regular Socialist “August 11, 1937. ists must be expelled in whatever Altman, Hal Siegel, Aaron Le- zation.At a membership meeting candidate for Mayor in Cleveland. "National Executive Committee, manner the action could be taken venstein, Rose and Morris Sha of Cuyahoga County, the left Filing date for candidates is two “ Socialist Party, U. S. A., Before the meeting of the City piro, Sam DeW itt, John Herling, wing motion “that the SP of weeks off. Last week, the C. I. O. “649 Randolph Street, Executive Committee, which was G. Valenti and others. Cuyahoga County reaffirms its endorsed for Mayor an Inde support of Robert Dullea as can “Chicago, 111. held on Monday, August 2, it “On the basis of the above pendent Democratic named M ar didate for mayor of Cleveland”, had already been announced to statement I request the NEC, as “ Dear Comrades: tin.-The Executive Committee of was carried by a decisive major a prior meeting of the Altman the leading body in the Socialist the SP then agreed to keep Dul ity. The Clarity group split in “I wish to call the attention of caucus by Hal Siegel. that this Party to intervene in the New lea in the field and to issue a two, with the YPSL comrades, the N. E. C. to the Party situ committee would take action to York situation. I am ready to leaflet giving our position on the Bill Kaufman and Hy Weintrauh, ation in Local New York. expel 54 members of the Appeal appear at any time to substan Martin business. supporting the left wing stand, "As a member of the Altman group at that City Executive tiate this statement. “Last night, at a special Ex Highly interesting was the caucus since its inception, I have meeting. “Fraternally yours, ecutive Committe meeting, Ben fact that Sam Baron, traveling followed closely the conspiratorial "Norman Thomas made the (Sgd.) “Robert O. Menaker. Parker (a Clarity leader) caucus organizer for the Altman actions of that body which I feel statement at the meeting of brought the following matter up group, took the floor in complete are against the best interests of August 3, which was held at his “PS. In order to acquaint those most affected by the actions of for discussion: that inasmuch as solidarity with the Parkers’ po the independent future of the home, that he had made a mis the Altman caucus, I am handing Bob Dullea is a supporter of the sition, showing that it was iden Party. These actions, in my take in approving the entry of a copy of this letter to Gus Appeal, it would be wrong for tical with the New York right opinion, are a distinct corruption the Workers Party into the So Tyler, editor of the Socialist Call the S. P. to file for him because wing’s stand on La Guardia, In of Party principles. cialist Party. he would not be in the .party by his concluding remarks, Bob “ I have attended numerous “Assurance was given to this and to M ax Shachtman, repre sentative of the group against election day (September 28) and Parker declared: " If Baron has meetings of the Altman caucus same group of key people at this whom this expulsion campaign is the S. P. would be placed in the a good idea, I am not ashamed including meetings of "key peo same meeting by Jack Altman beein organized”. position of filling for and sup of agreeing with him. I don’t ple" who number 25 or 30 and it that the City Central Committee porting a non-party member think it’s a crime to agree with was the last meeting of the latter would have two-thirds majority The Socialist Appeal has only who would probably be busy at Baron. I f I agree with Baron on group which motivates me in fo» expulsion of the Appeal this question to put: what does tacking the S. P.! the question of candidates, then severing all relations with this members that had been brought the N EC intend to do about the I ’m willing to be called an A lt- group and informing the Party up on charges. malodorous scandal disclosed by “ Second, that inasmuch as manite”. as a whole as to the situation. “As to point 2: the Menaker letter? the C. I. O. has endorsed a man, 4 SOCIALIST APPEAL August 21, 1937 The Situation in Spain Today BARCELONA, July 24. (By als, to hold secret trials on es little appalled by the crudity of ed them in fraternal spirit, that make a "Trotskyist” criticism of Courier to the Frontier),— July pionage and high treason char the Stalinist GPU—but they are we had the right to call for CNT- the POUM but fear nothing so 19th aniversary of the proleta ges; as the CNT secretary point linked with the Stalinists in the FA I-P O U M action because we much as contact with the Trots rian crushing of Fascism in Ca ed out, “all oppositionists to the same repressive governmental consider that today only the kyists; but this is merely the talonia, was not celebrated here. Government, all those who speak apparatus. They enjoy its reac struggle of these three organ remnants of their heritage of A t the last moment the Valencia or demonstrate against the con tionary fruits. W e blush when izations can stop the imprison Nin’s "Neither Trotskyist nor -Government prohibited the joint stituted Government, come under we hear foreign anti-fascist com ments, closing of centers, mon Stalinist." demonstration scheduled by all the terms of this - decree. And rades, combatants from the front, strous trials, and- the offensive the Catalan parties, cynically de this means, for example, that at fallen under the heel of the against the collectives. The “no POUM Disoriented claring that anti-fascist senti this moment, I am subject to its G.P.U., exclaiming bewildered: b ility” of the anarchist leaders The illegal leaflets published ment, “the perfect harmony be penalties and tomorrow I can be “Have we made a mistake in did not go so fa r as to publish by the Executive Committee of tween the rear and the front”, arrested and tried behind closed sides ? ” out answer. the POUM testify to the com required no special manifesta dorrs”. The great masses, still largely The desperate repressive cam plete disorientation reigning in tion. This attitude was only lo I f only Vasquez' words on Nin anarchist in sympathy, remain paign, led by the Stalinists, has their ranks. One of 'these is par gical on the part of the Valen had been published in the big expectant. But the pathetic ora finally frightened Caballero into ticularly worthy of comment. cia authorities: how can a reac CNT papers! If only the CNT tions of their leaders do not suc motion, for it is plain that the They, who have always reproach tionary government permit the had organized a real ■ campaign ceed in awakening their enthu Stalinists will try to wipe out ed the Bolshevik-Leninists fo i. celebration of a revolution? The for his defense! The CNT lead siasm. The anarcho-reformist every form of opposition. The seeing only Stalinism, have fal C N T-FA I leadership made no ership knew Nin well; he had bureaucrat’s- phraseology about “Spanish Lenin”—what a pre len into a completely vulgar an protest; their members wished been one of the biggest of them, “nobility” and “let us sacrifice” posterous title, after his shame ti-Stalinism. They have, indeed, to demonstrate illegally, but the twenty years ago, before he is too worn. The local group of the ful record as Premier during the become anti-Stalinist and noth authority of the anarco-reformist founded the Communist Party of F A I have resumed their illegal period of reconstruction of the ing more. Today even the bour leaders is still great enough to Spain. propaganda; unfortunately it does bourgeois state, from September geois liberals find grace in their stifle such initiative from below. “Ah! but what nobody can un not center around the most im 4th to May 15th!—-was all the eyes. The leaflet addresses it The General who, in charge of derstand,” said Vasquez, “is mediate problem, the release of more ready to come to the fore, self to everybody on the left and Public Order, had prevented the their saying Nin has been in con the prisoners. Protesting against since both the CNT and POUM, on the right: to the anarchists demonstration planned for the tact with Franco, and that Nin Stalinist repression, the Anar with their slogan of a CNT-UGT as well as to the “young separ 18th, himself ordered a charac is a fascist. This must be taken chist youth, the Libertarian or Government— ceded unquestioned atists” of the ultra-reactionary teristic demonstration for tKe into the courts and proved to the ganization, as' in its time the leadership of the opposition to Estat Catala. The POUM-asks 19th: the assault guards and people because, for the people, German Social Democracy, de Caballero. How bad the situa all to protect them against Sta shock police, armed to the teeth, Nin is a revolutionist. He is a mands of the state help against tion is here may be realized from linism, which which is alone held came out and patrolled the streets man who, from youth, has been — its own bands! the fact that Caballero now calls guilty of the repressions. The of Barcelona, between each com in the revolutionary organiza “How long? I t is time for the the government a “reactionary POUM passes over in complete pany two machine guns, 1937 tions, and the people cannot re Government Council to. speak, or regime”. He makes a sharp dis silence the fact that the Stalin model, with munition cases. concile this with what is said re lacking that, the Delegate Gen tinction between fighting at the ists can fu lfil their counter-re garding Franco. It is supreme eral of Public Order and the fronts and political suport to Stalin Police System Installed volutionary job only thanks to madness, to say the least, politic Chief of Police,” says one pa the government, and gives it no the complacency of Companys The point is that, having sup ally mad as well, not to proceed thetic leaflet. But the illegal political support. He offers the and Prieto and the whole-heart pressed all forms of Catalonian legally in these matters.” But, leaflets and press of the anarch masses, however, no perspective ed aid of the bourgeoisie of the autonomy—although the Catalan of course, the Stalinists and the ists does provide interesting re other than a new parliamentary Estat Catala. "The men of the statute remains on paper—the Negrin government dare not velations. Anar quia reports: “To combination. * Even this is too Left cannot betray their postu authorities have confidence in no bring Nin into open court. (This the shame and mockery of those much for the Stalinists, who are lates. The Separatists cannot body who has'any tie, no matter was written before the discovery calling themselves democrats, on openly threatening to outlaw the sell Catalonia by their silence. hd# slight, with the Catalan that Nin had been lynched by the 17th of the present month,, Caballero group if they continue And the leaflet ends with a slo masses. The entire Catalan po the G P U ). while proven' anti-fascists and in opposition. gan: "Prevent tbe establishment lice were transferred to the cen fighters for a better tomorrow of the dictatorship of a party be- Prisoners on Hunger Strike The Stalinist Degeneration ter of the country or to the front. are held in jail, seventy prison hind the lines.” Are there stijl ers were set free, among.-them Only the old “cossacks” the Civil A hunger strike of foreign There is simply no way of des comrades abroad who. believe the fifty-five proven fascists.”-’ We Guard, ;rechristened as the Na political prisoners, most of them cribing in a few words the poli POUM can be reformed, or that leam from the illegal leaflets tional Republic Guard, remain. POUM and CNT co-workers, be tical degenration of the Stalinist the demand for a new party that the PSUC (Catalan Stalin Even the firemen have been sent gan on Monday, July 12— seventy party. In Catalonia its composi would be premature? ists) issue instructions -for re to Madrid. An entirely novel prisoners refused nourishment. tion is based on the “new bour The POUM leadership has no cruiting: “Stop .your companions system, probably introduced by They demanded, not only better geoisie", that is, the former perspectives. Hence they find it in the War School and offer them the Russian police here, is that treatment, but above all to know small shopkeepers and business easy to write in an article against liberty in exchange for entry in the whole city is covered with a of what they were accused. Des men who— the former big bour the Bolshevik-Leninists, that to the PSUC.” “I f a man is ar network of guardsmen carefully pite concessions to them on in geoisie having been liquidated The scanty elements that com rested who is ascertained, or concealed; the meshes of this net creasing food allowances avtd largely on July 19, 1936—under pose the Bolshevik - Leninist whom one believes, not to be a are so fine that from one guard provided bed sheets, the prisoners the regime of free trade and bank Section in Spain for the Fourth revolutionist, the police propose post to another is only three mi .continued their strike for four credits to favorites, have become International published in recent that he enter the PSUC.” Anar- nutes on foot. Thus they hope days .that we "know of: a trial or full-blown bourgeois enfrepene- days leaflets that are real models quia of July L reports: “What to be able to stifle any illicit liberation, was their slogan. urs. In Spain generally, the Sta of confusion and demonstrate we cannot tolerate nor consent movement from the first moment. Under the pressure of the CNT, linists have come into sharp col that the poor Trotskyists are to . . . is uniformed assault, rob The repression is much worse the police made a promise not lision with both the ONT Federa politically dwelling in the strato bery and pillage penetrating our in Catalonia than in the rest of to hold prisoners more than thir tion of Peasants and Agricul sphere. In them they ask for centers and cultural organs.” A the country. Solidadridad Obrera ty days without bringing them tural Workers and the UGT such absurd things, so contrary Libertarian headquarters had (C NT organ) can speak only in. into court; but the promise has Peasant Federation; Ricardo Za- to the realty of the present mo been assaulted, its equipment the language of flowers about not been kept; even the ordin balza, secretary of the latter, vement, that they amount to ac destroyed, valuables stolen, by the most important problems. It ary rank-and-file worker is im and by no means a leftist, has tual political aberration.”. But a Stalinist detachment. dares not publish the speech of prisoned for fifty days and more continually denounced the Stalin they are careful not to inform Mariano Vasquez, Secretary of without a perfunctory hearing, their membership what are the Discontent with Anarchist ists for their recruiting of "ku the CNT National Committee, in and a good many of them held "such absurd things”. That is Leaders laks” and “caciques,” charging which the CNT finally took up strictly incommunicado during that the Gil Robles men and why I reproduce the last part of the public defense of the POUM. all this time. There is widespread discontent reactionaries in the villages gen our leaflet of June 19, 1937: Indeed, only Castilla Libre of The chief of police— Ortega— with the leadership in the anar erally have joined the Commun “Only the United Front of Madrid published it; unfortuna for all Spain, is a Stalinist. chist ranks. The Bolshevik-Len- ist Party as the most efficacious struggle of the CNT-FAI-POUM tely it has not a large circula (Since this was written Ortega inists (Trotskyists) are still too means of fighting the peasantry and all revolutionary organizat tion. We must not deceive our was dismissed for illegally sum small, however, to channelize it. and the collectives. Generals, ions can succeed in annihilating selves: not a few people— especi moning and arresting a POUM Having been the tail to the CNT governmental bureaucrats, trad the ogre of counter-revolution. ally the petty-bourgeoisie— are military commander during pre during most of the events, the ers, hordes from the Catalan Es- Workers: demand of your or beginning to believe that the paration of the Aragon offen POUM has attracted few of the querra,— all have joined the Sta- ganization and your leader a POUM is guilty of some of the sive, but was immediately re anarchists. Consequently, the inists because they are the most united front pact which must contain: charges. Now the shortcomings placed by Gabriel Moron, another main tendency among the dis vigorous defenders of the bour of the CNT press, which never Stalinist). But the official police contented CNT workers is a geois regime. W ith the pending "1. Struggle for the freedom explained the significance of the force, jails, etc. do not suffice for fruitless one, of desirinjg to re fusion with the Socialist Party of the workers press! Down with Moscow trials—they refrained in their bloody work; in the case turn to their traditional anti-pol- into one “united party of the political censorship! the name of unity and still pub of the POUM leadership, for in iticalism. The CNT National proletariat ( ! ) ”, Spain will have "2 Liberation of all revolution lish little; on the shooting of the stance, they arrested them with Committee has found itself oblig a totalitarian party based on ary prisoners. For the liberation Russian generals, for example, out using the legal channels. In ed to attack them publicly and ruthless extermination of the re of Comrade Nin, transported to Soli and Noche merely published deed, in most of the political ar effectively too; for the sterile volutionary forces. Valencia! the official bulletins without com rests, there is no official notice criticism o f the “hundred per The POUM has regrouped it 3. Joint protection of all cen mentary—are being paid for by at Police Headquarters or else cent” anti-statists only gives self organizationally, but, alas, ters and enterprises in the pos both the POUM and CNT pris where. Friends have seen, for ex force to the reformist alibis of has not at all changed its poli session of our organizations. oners. ample, the official record, releas their leaders. tical line. The divergences be “4. Reconstitution of strength ing Jose Escuder, managing edi The Bolshevik-'Leninists have tween the three factions.—The ened Workers Patrols. Cease di Issue Reactionary Decrees tor of La Batalla; but then the won sufficient influence in the Rightists or former Maurinists, sarming the working class. Recently two decrees of the stalinists took him to one of CNT ranks to receive, at the the Centrists or remains of the “5. Equal pay for officers and Ministry of Justice (the Minister their unofficial “Cheka” (GPU). hands of the CNT leaders a dow- Executive Committee, and the soldiers. The return to the front of all the armed bodies sent from is Irujo, representative of the big Socialists Tacitly Aid G.P.U right dishonest attack. During Lefts led by the Madrid and Bar Basque bourgeoisie) have paved the M ay Days, as an immediate celona Local Committees— are Valencia. General offensive on all fronts. the way for Moscow trials in And the authorities, the Valen measure, we called for united deepening. Tl\e Maurinists are Spain. One drove the F A I out of cia and Barcelona governments, action of the C.N.T.—F.A .I.- saying: the policy of the “Trots “6. Control of prices and the Popular Tribunals, by decree consent to all this. Although P .O .U .M . Accusing us of kyists”, -Nin, Andrade, Molins, distribution through committees ing that parties that were not the Cheka is not under their con speaking in their name, though etc. is to blame for the repres of workers and WVnkingwomen. legalized before the 16th of Feb trol, they condone its persecu our leaflet was plainly signed' sion against us. The Center tries “7. Arrest of the provocateurs ruary could not be represented. tions and murders Negrin, Prie by the Bolshevik-Leninists of to maintain unity be evoking only of May 3rd; Rodriguez Salas, The other decree, still more seri to, and the other Social Demo Spain, the CNT denounced our sentimental pleas. The Left wing Aiguade, etc. ous, constitutes Special Tribun cratic leaders, it is known, are a “dirty maneuvers.” We answer is in constant fermentation: they “To achieve this, all workers. August 21, 1937 SOCIALIST APPEAL 5 Truth About Barcelona’s May Days A Sensational Document on the Stalinist-Separatist Plot to Crush Labor The CNT statement of facts We publish below an important panys, had blamed each other putting an end to their persec over the towns of Catalonia. Un behind the Barcelona May document which has not yet ap for capitulating to the fascist utors. “For the sake of harmony", punished murder is on the order events after being written, peared in English. The sensa regime of Gil Robles in October, the CNT called the workers off of the day. Our libertarian move censored in the Barcelona tional charges made by the N at 1934—was being directed in the the street, told them to give up ment has been silent, not through Press, names of prominent ional Committee of the anarcho- plot by Dencas, from his refuge their arms. W ith what result? cowardice, but through discipline Catalans mentioned as cons syndacalist union, CNT, are all in Italy. It had found this quite Thousands of the best CNT mi and sense of responsibility while piring being eliminated. It ap the more noteworthy since the compatible vrith takeing part in litants are in jail, many have it lost the lives of its best mili peared in toto in “C N T ” of anarcho-reformist leaders have the great parade celebrating the (been assassinated, and the last tants. It has suffered with in Madrid June 14, as follows: to this day not broken with the Russian Revolution! vestiges off their conquests of comparable stoicism, the assault People’s Front, whose govern But not only Estat Catala was July 19, 1936 are in immediate on the collectives, on the con One fine day, May 4, there ap ments they are still begging to implicated. Juan Casanovas, Pre danger. structive labor of the proleta peared at the telephone building enter again. sident of the Catalan Parliament Anarchism got its first great riat.... Y et those guilty of so o f Barcelona guards and police On November 27, 1936, the and right-hand man of Oom- test in action in the Spanish re many crimes, shamelessly blame men, large number of them, under chief organ of the CNT, Solidar- p&nys, had, according to the go volution. It has revealed itself as them on the CNT, and even, the . command of Rodiguez Salas, idad Obrara, uncovered a plot to vernment’s declaration, “first hopelessly disoriented movement. with all that barbarism, all that Commissioner of Public Order. assassinate the w eg king-class toyed with the -plot, but finally Without a theory of workers’ treason, still threaten to “punish” Why? Simply because the PSUC leaders of Catalonia, seize the rejected it ”. Casanovas was per state power, it has become a the CNT.... (Stalinist Party) and Estat Ca- power, declare an independent mitted to flee to France, together bourgeois-ministerial party. Its We have said enough to allow tala, who as parties had no share Catalonia and make peace with with Ventura Gassol and other glorification of trade unions as every man to judge for himself. in control of the telephone syst- Franco on the basis of recogniz Esquerra members. the basic institutions of isocial Let it be noted precisely, that tem, needed it for their conspir ing his rule over the rest of Spain. The CNT did not carry through life has led it to deny the neces there is in Catalonia an amalgam atorial ends. And the CNT would President Companys and the its exposure of the plotters. “For sity of uniting the whole toiling of interests which coincide against not permit it, knowing what was Stalinists at first ridiculed the the sake of harmony”— it was in population in the workers’ and us, Estat Catala, the Commu being planned. In the telephone charges; but forced to investigate the coalition government,—it let peasants’ councils (Soviets). But nists, and Esquerra, whose objec system, there funcioned, since the CNT charges were proven to the m atter die. W ith what result ? the ideological bankruptcy of tives are not yet identical but the beginning of the movement, the hilt. The Commissioner of That those whom the CNT should anarchism has not saved the whose common interest it is to (July 19) the control committee Public Order, Rebert a member have completely destroyed in CNT from the murderous on exterminate the CNT. This coin of the CNT-iUGT. Furthermore of the reactionary Catalonian November 1936, machine-gunned slaught of the Stalinists, who cides also with Mussolini’s in there was a delegate of the Ge- Party, Estat Catala, was found the workers on May 3, 1937. cannot permit any organization terests, who therefore, through neralitat, representing the go guilty and executed by a firing Such is the inevitable consequence of the proletariat to exist under Dencas, gives them indirect sup vernment. The attitude of Ro squad. The Secretary General of of class collaboiration. independent leadership. port. And let it be stated exat- driguez Salas and Ayguade, or Estat Catala and over a hundred Now the CNT cries out against The following document is a ly, that we do nat concur in the dering the guards, was illegal, of its leading members were ar the bourgeois and Stalinist ex startling revelation of how the stupid error of confusing Com as was demonstrated by the fact rested; some were convicted, ecutioners of the Barcelona degenarate roots of Stalinism munists with Fascists. We say that the Council of the General- others are still awaiting trial. workers. But in those very May tangle in the dark with the categorically that we do not ita t recognized that the Commis Estat Catala, a split-off from the days of struggle, it was the CNT sources of the counter-revolution believe the CP has the sligh sioner and Councillor of the In Esquerra— its leader, Dencas, itself, and the POUM at its tail, ary peacemakers with Franco. test contact with the fascists. terior had gone beyond their and the Esquerra chief, Com- that prevented the workers from Ed. But that is not the case with authority. A t the same time as Estat Catala, and when they act this was going on at the tele him. Polo, the other police-agent pared spark to produce the clash. together on the streets— who is phone- building, there appeared liament, because his complicity of the Generalitat, who was a doing the directing? borrifeades- and guns at the head in the frustrated coup d’etat was And that spark and clash were confidential man for Badia, (late not generated by the CNT... From We realize with full respons quarters of the PSUC and Estat proven. leader of Estat Catala) works in the first moment of the struggle ibility the weight of what we are GhtSIa, then guns in the streets, The separatists bourgeois, France under the orders of Viz- the CNT intervened to try to cut saying, but no one dares deny it, add in view of these warlike de after all, could not swallow the aino, agent of the fascist counter because the burden of proof at monstrations our comrades took fact that the proletariat had won it short. We found a solution that a victory over the fascist insur espionage’ that operates under was accepted by everybody ex our disposal is so very great. the defense, supposing, and Ayguade, Dencas, Mussolini, Ca tightly, that the PSUC and rection which would deprive them Beltran y Musitu..... cept the Communists, who played W hat do these mixtures of sanovas, Ventura Gassols, Sancho, Estat Catala were trying to take of their wealth. And in search of the game of constantly post a restoration, they began to ne separatist and fascist elements poning all agreement and all act Xicota, Polo, Castaner— there is the telephone building, which was the guilt for the bloody Barce part -one of their plot. gotiate with Italy, to provoke mean? Can we not find the root ion, so that the Valencia Govern struggle which would give open of various provocations there? ment would have to send forces lona events!.... Plot Preceded May Events ings to foreign intervention, and We are sure of it And anybody and take over the Administration The Nat. Com. of the CNT. But this explains nothing. The facilitate the recognition, by some who looks at the facts objecti of Public Order, as occurred. And when on Thursday morning, the roots off these things must be powers, of Catalan idependence, vely w ill be sure, too. Let us Dwyer Slated For Ex at the same time as the anti add to these antecedents that the CNT and UGT had ordered the dug up, in certain antecedents. pulsion in Massachusetts There is a long-growing process fascist front was weakened. To fascists, at the end of April, were return to work and the city this plan everybody who wanted preparing a landing operation seemed calm again, the battle of battle against our movement SPR IN G FIELD , Mass. — Fol in Catalonia. Uhe Communists', things to remain as they were that stretched from Almeria to began a ll over again, because the on the IBth of July, could sub Rosas. It was an operation on a Separatists and Communists were lowing on the heels of the char Estat Catala, and infiltrated ges made against left wingers in scribe. big scale. It didn’t come off be stopping our comrades, searching elements had been worknig for New York, which have already some time to take away our pres cause the necessary material them, tearing up their union Intelligence Agent Murdered resulted in the expulsion of more tige here and outside of our could not be gotten. It was post books attacking CNT headquart poned to the middle of May. And ers making defense necessary all than 50 comrades, the right wing country. What everybody doesn’t In France, a conspiracy to in the Socialist Party of Mass- know are the strange coincidences if it has not been tried it is be over again. And when the first bring about a truce was going on. cause of a certain incident that street-car of the Garcia line was chusetts, headed by Alfred Baker that fit in with the May events. Certain important people were Lewis, has broken loose w ith . a Not everybody knows, for ex occurred and put all these plans going down toward the Plaza involved. An intelligence agent, in the hands o f the police of a Cataluria, it was shot at by the series of charges that aim at ample, that already in January who was in the service of Spanish splitting the party in the Bay Casanovas (president of the Ca neutral country. guards and by Estat Catala, anti-fascism, had discovered a Moreover at the end of April, behind barricades on Paris and State. Charges have now been talan parliament) Lluhi Vallesca, few of these combinations. He filed against comrade John Xicota Sancho, Polo and Ventura Estat Catala concentrated on the Diagonal streets, so that trans was given a commission to con frontiers all the armed men it portations services had to remain Dwyer, leading left winger who Gassols (prominent Esquerra tinue his investigations until he has been active for years in members), were in France, had in France. And another suspended. And the cars that had irrefutable proofs, and this thing: on April 13, the official went out to repair the broken Massachusetts and as party or working for "Catalan .indepen agent, when he was just about ganizer in up-State New York. dence.” It was a process of pre Gazette of the Republic published street-car tracks were shot at, to complete his documentation, a list of the officers and sub too. The charges are the first of a paration similar to the one that was murdered in Barcelona. By series to be filed against all the alterns, sergeants and privates of Finally when on Friday morn went on during the Dictatorship. whom? He worked for the Go left wing members of the State the National Republican Guard ing the firing stopped at the hour But with a difference: that then, vernment of the Republic. There Excutive Committee of the Party. that were to be dismissed from agreed upon, shooting continued Italian fascism intervened as an fore he was murdered by those The charge is that Dwyer’s name the Guard, whose further punish from the Communist and Cata- agent provocateur through Gara- who were conspiring, but who appeared as signing the anti-gag ment for treason would be de lanist centers, in order to provoke baldi, and this time, Mussolini some how knew about his work. rule resolution of ‘Local San termined by the results of an another battle. And Friday night, operated through Dencas (former Let us recall that Ayguade was Francisco. Lewis claims that his investigation. Nevertheless a from the Commissariat on Paris head of Estat Catala) the sepa Councillor of Security and that basis for charges is the fact that captain, 4 ensigns, 14 lieutenants, street, Estat Catala and the ratist agent provocateur of Oc he is a member of Estat Catala, the statement says “we reject 18 sergeants, 19 brigadiers, 23 guards shot at the car in which tober in Catalonia. and that he was already under the decision of the N E C ”—al corporals and 58 guards of those the secretary of the CNT Nation Already in December there was founded suspicion of having been though this very same statement on the list were not dischiarged al Committee was going to Va a plot, which produced the ex involved in the December plot. has already been accepted by the through the influence of Artemio lencia, notwithstanding the fact ecution of Reberter, Commissioner • On the 20th of April, Commo- National Office of the Party as Ayguade, the then Councillor of that it was an official govern o f Public Order, and the flight rera, leader of the PSUC in Ca the basis for a membership re Security, and in the May events ment car he was traveling in. o f Casanovas, president of par- talonia, was in Paris. Among ferendum, a call for which has these men appeared at the head Our National Committee sent other people, he saw the secretary been printed in the Socialist CalL of the Ayguade forces. delegates to all our regional and from the united front! Organize of Ventura Gassols, and a certain Comrade Dwyer was apparently local headquarters at once, to Committees of Workers, Peasants Castanero. Who is Castonero ? Guards Under G.P. Orders selected as the first to bring prevent a repetion of the Bar and Combatants in all enterprises, “Police agent of the Generalitat”; A t about the same time great charges against because he is a celona events, and also a dele barracks and districts on the land in contact with a certain Vintro, numbers o f these guards were member-at-large. The SEC has gation to the Aragon front, and at the front. sent to the frontiers, and the original jurisdiction over mem- secretary of Octavio Salto, jour to prevent the soldiers from "Down with the bourgeois go nalist in the service of the chief of one important unit, in bers-at-large. Lewis has filed marching back from the trenches, vernment! Long live the revolut fascists. He has also been seen stead of reporting to the Munic notice that he would bring which was accomplished.... ionary committee constituted by with three prominent fascists ipal Council at Figueras, went charges against the other mem tile delegates of the workers, who live in Biarritz and St. Jean directly to the PSUC head CP-Catala Continue Repressions bers of the SEC in their own peasonts and soldiers!” de Luz, and he also maintains quarters thus demonstrating that Weeks after the movement, the branches. Since their branches, Such is our immediate pro close relations with members of this was an armed force at the barricades remained in front of which support the left wing, will g ram . The POUM, however, con Estat Catala, and especially with orders of the CP. the Communist and Separatist not expel them, it appears that tinues to minimize its differences Dencas and Casanovas. The A ll these details tell us clearly headquarters whereas ours were the Lewis-controlled SEC will with the CNT— and gets nothing former visits Castaner in his enough that the Barcelona events dismanteled on Friday. A wave proceed to lift the carters of for its pains. X. {house and the latter is visited by were nothing more than the pre of (error, of blood, has swept the branches involved. 6 SOCIALIST APPEAL August 21, 1937 Socialist Call Comes O u t Japanese InvadeChina For Sanctions Kai-shek, capitulated virtually rialist exploitation. It remembers Continued from page 1) The fruits of the right wing- taged effective independent without struggle to the successive too vividly how the peasants in 000,000 yen, or approximately centrists alliance against the left working class support of the incursions of Japanese imperial Hunan ten years ago, primitive $250,000,000. To meet part of have ripened quickly. It would Ethiopian struggle; (2) disorient ism. It gave up Manchuria with arms in hand, translated the these obligations $130,000,000 in have been naive to suppose that ed the working class on the out firing a shot. It gave up Jehol slogan: "Down with the unequal gold has been exported since the alliance could be reduced to whole problem of the fight and saved its own face by want treaties between China and the March and a similar sum must an "organizational’’ maneuver. against war and the role played only sacrificing thousands of imperialist!" into “Down with soon leave the country, leaving Not at all. Just as the alliance in that fight by all imperialist soldiers it left there to fight the unequal treaties between the gold stocks that will probably required a political foundation, governments; and (3) led logic without support. It consciously landlord and the peasants!" It not exceed $350,000,000. To cut so does it yield to necessary po ally toi support of “one’s own” and deliberately sabotaged the remembers how the workers were imports the regime has called litical consequences. imperialism in the coming war, attempted resistance of the 19th no more satisfied to be exploited upon the people to cut down on The political foundation is dis in order to back up the govern Route Army five and half years by Chinese capitalists than they the consumption of primary pro covered, in the last analysis, by mental acts (the "sanctions”) ago. It spoke loud and long of were to be exploited by British ducts and subordinate this al the hostility to revolutionary which had been advocated. m ilitary preparations, but only or Japanese. In the great strike ready meager living standards to Marxism, shared in common by “The application of the Neut a few weeks ago once more waves of 1925-27, Chinese mills the needs of the m ilitary machine the right wing, and by the 'Zams, rality Act" is simply another Chiang Kai-shek left the 29th closed as well as foreign mills. whose demands have caused Tylers, and Delsons of the cen phrase for "sanctions". The Neu Army unaided in the face Of Ja- Then the Chinese bourgeoisie was Japan’s budget to treble in three trist leadership — a hostility trality Act would impose an im ian’s march on Peiping and Tien saved from disaster only by the years and are responsible for a srhich the centrist leaders try to partial embargo, just as sanctions tsin. During the past six years, criminal policies of Stalinism. It prospective deficit of l,1'00,000 nask as “anti-Trotskyism”. But did. This embargo, if meant se .he Nanking government has not s not anxious to take the chance yen next year. Meanwhile prices this basic hostility to revolution riously, would have to be en only not opposed Japan, but it again. For it knows that while are shooting up and heavier and ary Marxism, confronted by the forced. For the U. S. govern- has waged a ruthless terror its struggle with imperialism is heavier taxes are being imposed. Party crisis and the need fc»r men to enforce it, would lead to igainst all who raised their xnly a struggle for a Jarger share A t the same time the inevitable coercive acts which as between of the spoils, the struggle bet finally "taking sides”, forces its and imperative mobilization of the voices against the Japanese in sovereign states constitute “acts ween exploited and exploiters is way more and more decisively government subsidized merchant vasion. of w ar”, and, if conditions so a struggle of life and death. through the left phrases of the marine for war purposes cripples But this was still not enough centrist leaders, and reveals dictated, to war itself: The Chinese ruling class can Japanese trade or, at best, raises for Japanese imperialism, which more and more openly the react The central objections to the not wage a successful struggle costs to almost prohibitive levels unlike the British and American ionary content of the whole demand for the application of against Japanese imperialism un if foreign ships are used. varieties, cannot quite so well :entrist ideology. the Neutrality Act are the same less it arms the masses of China; Since 1931, billions of yen have afford to share with the Chinese as those to the demand for san and it dares not arm the masses, Centriests Adopting Right Wing gone into Japan’s m ilitary ad bourgeoisie its booty in the ex ctions. It sabotages the move because the guns will surely be Line. venture. So far, the returns have ploitation of the Chinese masses. ment for independent working turned against itself. In the course of this evolution, ben negligible for the solution of It requires complete conquest, class support of the struggle ;he centrist leaders are compell Japan’s crisis. But, having start complete subjugation. That is To the Chinese masses, there against Franco. It disorients the ed to abandon one by one the ed on the path of expansion, Ja why it has struck again at is of course no basic difference working class on the whole pro “revolutionary” positions which panese imperialism cannot stand Shangai in hopes of there inflict between being exploited directly blem of the fight against war— they had in the past been pushed still, else it falls back. It must ing a swift and decisive defeat by Japanese imperailism, or in- and in this case fa r more fatally to adopt in words and resolutions go forward, even if ahead lies on the Chinese bourgeoisie and directely, through the Chinese than in connection with sanctions; by the pressure of the member ruin. The Japanese imperialists bringing it completely to heel. bourgeoisie, by Anglo-American for here it is the U. S. govern ship. A major step in this pro know that ruin is not inevitable The Chinese bourgeoisie is by imperialism. For them it is a ment itself, and the relation of cess was taken at the Phila so long as they can continue to its very nature compelled to question of freedom from all ex the U. S. working class to “its delphia meeting of. the N. E. C. exploit the masses in their own serve one imperialist or another. ploitation. For the peasant, the own” government, that is in by the voting of the shameful country and in increasing measure With it the question is: whom primary question remains the question. And it forms a link in Spanish resolution, in direct and exploit the many millions in the shall it serve? Japanese imper question of Ehe land; for the the chain which leads to support bureaucratic violation of the will great sprawling land across the ialism, based so largely on light worker it is a question of decent of the U. S. government in the of the membership and the de narrow Japan Sea. industry and a weak financial working conditions and a living coming war (in order to enforce cisions of the Chicago Conven structure, wants to master China wage. “neutrality” against aggressors) C.P.-Supporbed Party for tion. in order to establish a large out — that is, the demand is a pre Invasion C.P. Calls for Imperialist This process did not stop there. let for its own products and to paration for social-patriotic be Intervention It has not yet been sufficiently drain the country of the raw trayal. Careful preparations were noticed—to take a striking ex materials it posses. Under such Can anyone doubt this who has made before the present attacks But, in the interests of Soviet ample— that during the past three mastery there is no room for the followed the manipulation of this on North and Central China were foreign diplomacy, the Chinese months the right wing-centrist Chinese bourgeoisie which would demand in the Stalinist press, begun. A t home, the Japanese Communist Party and the Com alliance has been gradually become essentially a class of where it is part and parcel of imperialists fear only the dis intern have forgotten all this. throwing over the revolutionary salaried employees. Britain and their social-patriotic program-, content of the Japanese workers They have lined up with the Chi position on war overwhelmingly the United States, with their and so clearly figures, in their and peasants. More and more the nese bourgeoisie in placing their supported by the membership, greater share in the common ex build-up for support of the ap burdens of the crisis have been faith exclusively in the contra and fought for during so many ability to export capital, offer proaching war ? placed on the backs of the masses. dictions between Anglo-American years. to the Chinese bourgeoisie a far Far from attempting to alleviate and Japanese imperialism. In the As always, the right wing call Call joins Thomas Demand great share in the common ex this discontent, for Japanese hope that Nanking will at least ed. the turn. Wisconsin announ ploitation of the Chinese masses. Let no one imagine that the capitalism has not the resources hinder Japan’s ultimate attack ced flatly that it did not and Under their domination the Chi demand for the application of the ito make concessions to the work on the Soviet Union, they have would not accept the W ar Re nese bourgeoisie would remain Neutrality Act rested, in the ers, preparations have been made again tied themselves to Chiang solution adopted by the Chicago what it is, a class of wealthy Socialist Party, in the press to canalize and suppress it. At Kai-shek. They do not merely Convention. Naturally, there was brokers with a direct stake in the statements of Thomas. In the the same time that an intense call for support of the indispens no criticism of Wisconsin by the exploitation of the masses. Ob issue of July 3rd, the Socialist campaign of pro-war propaganda able struggle against the invad centrist leaders constituting the viously, Britain and America are Call, the faction organ of the was launched, strikes were pro ing Japanese brigands, but pro majority of the N. E. C. But fa r more preferable masters. So right wing-centrist alliance, made hibited. The movement of protest ceed to place the gate and the Wisconsin was not content with long as there is any hope of ef it the official policy of the Calk against the rising cost of living orces of the Chinese masses en “States’ Rights". A t Philadelphia fective American and British Let the membership re-read and the m ilitary campaign which tirely in the hands of the trea Raskin demanded “ editorial becking, the Chinese bourgeoisie the lead editorial of that issue caused it was canalized into the cherous Chinese bourgeoisie and changes " in the W ar Resolution— will try, in its own way and for — headed "Neutrality". It is in Social Masses Party, supported the “good" imperialist. In ad changes all of which were de its own purposes, to counter the distinguishable from the pro by the Stalinists in the last elec dition, they take upon themselvse signed to permit pacifist and Japanese advance. paganda of the Stalinists and tions in which it made consider the task of teaching the "demo reformist interpretations of the able gains. Three weeks ago this reformists on sanctions two Chiang Propped by Anglo-French cratic)" imperialists how best to resolution as a whole; and the Party declared its unqualified years ago or on neutrality to take care of their interests in N. E. C. obligingly changed at day. It contains even the samfe support of the Konoye govern Chiang Kai-shek is fighting at China. The Daily Worker warns Raskin’s dictation. hypocritical “apologies” and at ment’s invasion of China. Shanghai today because, with the that “Japan will proceed to drive But even this is not what is tempts at covering up. Its argu Before renewing its attacks on gold exchange agreement con out of China its British, Ame most significant. A fter all, a re mentation almost out-does the China, Japan tested out the cluded by H. H. Kung recently rican, and French competitors.” solution on paper is less impor Stalinists. The editorial declares: temper of the Soviet Union. Em in Washington, the $120,000,000 The "democratic nations” do not tant than a concrete stand on a “But actually, H itler and Musso boldened by the deep inner crisis loan concluded by him in London, realize the danger. "Why does it concrete issue. lini have been at war with Spain... int he U.S.S.R. and the execution and the credit extended to him (the U. S. State Department) Unofficial warfare.... came to an in Paris, the Chinese bourgeoisie Thomas demands U. S. Sanctions of Tukhachevsky and the other not— NOW— invoke the N in e - end with the bombing of Al- generals, Japan took a very tru has been given reason to hope Power Treaty and the Kellog- Thomas returned from Europe meria That was open war”. If this culent attitude concerning the that Anglo-American imperialism Briand Pact?” Daily Worker, and in his first interviews de statement were true, the editors question of Soviet patrols on the will support it against the Japan Aug. 7 1937.) I t should suffice manded that the U. S. Govern of the Call are thus advocating Am ur River, which separates ese. Furthermore, the Chinese to recall that from 1931 to 1933, ment apply its Neutrality Act to that the U. S. government take Manchuria from the Soviet Union, bourgeoisie realizes perfectly well when the imposture of the "peace Italy and German. What is the what are in effect war measures even to the point of sinking a that not to fight now is to abdicate machinery” of capitalism was meaning of this demand ? Its against rival imperialist govern- Soviet gunboat and demanding forever its hopes of development completely exposed, the Nanking sources, in the vicious propa ments ndw at war. Whatever the withdrawal of Soviet patrols. under the tutelage of Anglo-Ame government covered up its be ganda of the Stalinists and re may foe the intentions of the A fter several days of sharp rican imperialism. Chiang Kai- trayal and capitulation to Japa formists through out the world, editors, their position on this tension, Moscow agreed to Japan’s shek is fighting also because the nese imperialism by just appeals should- indicate the answer. question is a form of social- demands. Seven days later oc Japanese, in attacking his own to the League of Nations and to In political fundamentals, this patriotism; its logic leads ine»r curred the "incident" at Lukou- bailwick, have made it perfectly the signatories of the Nine- demand is identical with the capably- to coimpilete abandon chiaio which precipitated the con lear that they do not trust Chiang demand for the application of Power Pact ment of revolutionary defeatism flict in North China. as their ally and they want to get League and gqvermental “sanc and to support of the coming rid of him. The fight against imperialism, tions” in the Italo-Ethiopian Chinese Bourgeoisie Sabotage war. like the fight against fascism, War. Fight So today, the Chinese bour Let those who still have faith geoisie is basing its hopes on the cannot be separated from the In opposing the policy of sanc in the “revolutionary” intention What,is most important to re contradictions between Anglo- fight against capitalism. I f tions during the Ethiopian War, of the centrist leaders ponder member in seeking the key to American and Japanese imperial Chiang Kai-shek is fighting to the Socialist Party pointed out the lesson well. The price of an the present conflict is that from ism. I t does not dare to take the with- absolute correctness that alliance with the right wing day, it is only to preserve the 1981 until now the Chinese lead in arming the masses for this advocacy of “anti-war” against the revolutionary left is, bourgeoisie, acting through its a really revolutionary war of: right of the Chinese bourgeoisie measures to be taken by impe now as always, Hie abandonment principal representative, Chiang national liberation against impe tot enploit Hie Chinese masses. rialist governments: (1) sabo of revolutionary principle. August 21, 1937 SOCIALIST APPEAL 7 A Reply to a Stalinist Calumniator Underworld king engage drug ; lacked in coherence, they surely By James Casey to invent bedtime stories. That he wait more than three hundred addicts, stool pigeons, dim-witted , more than made up in name-call- preparation of the election cam is why Mike recounts supposed and sixty-five days before coming thugs and other unfortunate , ing and just plain puerile piffle, paign. conversations that he and Casey- out with this confession? Does products of the capitalist system j The cuss words were lusty and A fter a bold start, Mike’s at had about the latter’s wife not not Gold realize that by his ch/m for their foul jobs. When one of j plentiful and what more could tack slowly simmers down into being satisfied with Daily Worker statement he placed himself in these overlords want to snuff j Joseph Stalin or Ear] Browder a whine. Casey was paid more earnings. For more than a year, the position of being branded “a out a rival, he gives the sign to desire as a substitute for political money than any man on the Mike claims, he had listened to self-confessed Trotskyist plotter” two or three of his human de argument? Daily Worker, including Clarence Casey’s complaints. And now, and "an enemy of the people?” relicts and the morning papers The confession was a howling Hathaway, bemoans Mike, and nore than twelve months later, But Mike can quickly dispel his carry a story of so-and-so having success. Mike was reinstated. asks: "Wihy did he kick?” Mike suddenly ups and squeals fears. Casey will save him. The been "taken for a ride". And now he is back at his co It is relevant to ask Mike, at on Casey. conversations Mike writes about Such crimes fill us with a sense lumn, as happy as it’s possible this juncture, why doesn’t he and Mike and his masters know took place only in his own per of disgust and 41ass-conscious for one in his plight to be. his boss Browder get together full well that Helen Casey was verted mind. They are part and workers, while condemning the His latest assignment was to and decide to stick by the same an active worker in the Com parcel of the necessary trimmings instigators and perpetrators, in "show up" James Casey and try lies? munist Party and the general he had to fabricate to carry out veigh basically against the to make a good job of it. These fraction secretary of a mass or a dirty job for callous, unscru society that breeds this sort of Last Summer, Browder rushed Stalinist chiefs are sly and to the capitalist press to declare ganization in a Bronx section. pulous masters, who make lying violence. scheming gentlemen. They are Helen Casey was one of the a cardinal principle of their daily However, there is rampant that Casey was "just a minor conscious that the election cam editorial employee." And now largest contributors to the Party operations. today a form of crime more paign is about to get under way fund for many years, and before His masters used Yagoda, the bestial than the underworld along comes Mike with the state and that the chances are one ment that Casey wasn’t satisfied, she was expelled for her opposi chief of the OGPU, for the same murders and a human species thousand to one that Casey will tion to People’s Frontism, she kind of dirty work. Now Yagoda more abhorrent to the normal even though he was receiving get busier than ever blasting more money than anyone else on challenged the Party leadership is rotting in some dank prison intellect than the gangsters of full of holes the class betrayal to! bring her case before the cell or perhaps he has already the racketeer realm. the staff. Now isn’t Mike just a policies of the People’s Front little bit afraid that some Com membership. Naturally, this was been shot in the back in the rear Stalinists and Apologists bamboozlers. Hence, the Com- munist Party rank - and - file never done. of some toilet. The Stalinist imunist Party members must be members might be curious to By manufacturing the drivel chiefs will not always send Mike W e refer, .of course, to the Sta- ! stirred into a frenzy against know why "upright, disciplined about Helen Casey and alleged to New Mexico for his blunders. linist executioners and their | Casey. They must be worked up Bolsheviks ” should discriminate conversations, Mike shows him Mike should chuck up the whole noisy professional apologists, jto' such a pitch that the very and pay a minor editorial em self open to a serious charge. filthy game before it’s toolate. I f Here we have a situation wherein j sound of his name will make ployee more than anyone else on As “the hardened, honest and he waits until his masters are men are cruelly maligned, tortur- jthem want to tear their hair, the staff including the so-called disciplined Bolshevik ” that he through using him he may find, ed physically and, finally, shot kill somebody or commit suicide, boasts he is, why did’nt Mike re editor-in-chief, even though the to his grief, that they have down in cold blood for the 'un- j Hence the Gold effusion in the latter did spend nine months of port Casey’s deviations to his chosen for him a most unhappy forgivable sin" of upholding re- ! August 6 issue of the Daily the year in Minneapolis bar masters, when Casey was still volutionary working class prin- Worker, rooms. with the Daily Worker? Why did end. ciples against the perversions of j Mike starts out by saying that Stalinist People’s Frontism. a certain professor has quit the Gold and Browder at Odds Bent on "wiping out" the work Communist Party. He adds that As Mike goes on, his twaddle ing class opposition, Stalinist the said professor had gone to Stalinists Applaud Split Campaign grows more and more at variance leaders here and abroad have Harper’s or Scribner’s or some with that of his boss Browder. (Continued from page 1) “We offer our hand of com marshalled bands of "literary” other high-brow magazine to Browder told the membership the revolutionary road and trans radeship to the Socialist Party", weaklings to act as shock troop write about how he had been thas Casey had gone over to form in into an instrument for concludes the Stalinist editorial. ers. In America, the business, of misled. This professor, Gold Hearst. So had the Daily Worker. People’s Front class collabora The “hand of comradeship" of this pathetic crew is to conco.ct adds, had shunned contact with Taking Browder at his word, tion, of social patriotic support the CP bureaucracy drips with endless lies and slanders of the "real workers". But what can many Communist Party members of "democratic" imperialist wars, the blood of the revolutionary most brazen, most contemptible you expect, exclaims Mike, of had been buying the New York and of servile bootlicking, of the martyrs of the Soviet Union. It and most cowardly variety. That men who get into the party for Journal for months in anticipa trade union bureaucracy. is the hand that has just pumped these lies and slanders may be six months and leave? There tion of reading one of Casey’s The applause given by the the body of Adres Nin full of exposed is to these Stalinist upon, Mike launches on his tirade articles. Now Mike tearfully Daily Worker to the Altman- machine-gun bullets. It is the chiefs entirely beside the point. against Casey.... implying that whimpers: " If Casey wanted to Thomas drive marks the latter hand that is even now whipping They operate on that golden the cases of the professor and go back to the New York Times for what it plainly is: a capitu up a lynch campaign against Hearstian theory that the truth Casey are identical travels at a snail's pace and that and higher wages, why didn’t he lation to the Stalinist campaign Largo Caballero and other left many, perchance, will go to the At once poor Mike illustrates do so quietly instead of raising a by tearing the revolutionary wing socialists, against the anar grave without ever knowing it. to what low depths a man must fuss.” heart out of the Socialist Party. cho-syndicalists, and all other re Accordingly, the prostitute descend in order to do the bidd Desperately trying to .avoid The right wing combination in volutionists in Spain. It is the scribblers rant and boil and ing of the Stalinist masters. Mike the real issue, Mike seeks to give the SP is serving as a club in hand that squeezed the right snort. Their excretions appear in knows as well as do his Stalinist his readers the impression that the hands of the Stalinists for wing for more than a year to bosses that Casey had never the Daily Worker, the Pravda Casey has gone back to the New the complete devitalization and start the expulsion drive against and other Stalinist publications. written a line about the Stalin York Times and that his “oppo destruction of the revolutionary the Left wing in the American And one quick reading of their ists in any of the capitalist ma sition to Peopled Frontism” was socialist movement. Socialist Party. gazines or newspapers. More hodge-podge shows that these just a pretext. —— .— ------1 ------vilHfters, like all liars, become over, Mike and his masters know Needless to say, Mike lies as hoplessly enmeshed in their own that Casey is not a newecomer flagrantly when he implies Casey ROLL OF HONOR lies, indicting both themselves in the revolutionary working had returned to the Times as did and their masters. class movement. Casey was a his boss, Browder, when he said Here is the first list of revolutionary socialists “expelled" Perhaps the most overworked member of the Stalinist Party Casey had gone to Hearst. And by the rump meeting of the “La Guardia Socialists” in New York: of these forlorn figures is that when Gold was still trying to needless to say, also, that if Ca Max Shachtman. Martin Ahern. James Burnham. Joseph Daily Worker columnist, Michael learn the definition of anarchism. sey had cared to amass money, Gold. Poor Mike! Whenever And Casey was a member of the he would not have gone to the Carter. William Farrell. Sam Gordon. Emanuel Garrett. Ben there is some especially dirty Socialist Party in the war days Daily Worker, in the first place. Herman. Morris Lew it. Alex Retzkin. Maurice Spector. Her work to be done, Mike is singled |? hen £ old was memorizmg lines It is toward the end of his bert Capelis. Dan Fellows. Clara Ross. Sidney Moroff. Isadore out for the job. He has railed I*10™ Keats and Shelly and pan- fulmination that Mike gives him Greenberg. Esther Lieberman. Rubin Gotesky. Sam Greenberg. against James T. Farrell. He has, | Ja"dlln& n,ckels around the Rand self away. Why did Casey have Sam Gordon. Felix Morrow. Attilio Salemi Ernest Ettlinger. on instructions, fumed against bch00 ‘ to write a pamphlet, asks Gold, Irving Shackley. Frank Visconti. Joe Ellis. Ben Lieberman. Scott Nearing. Under orders ' Who the Neweomer7 "charging the Communist Party Ernest R. McKinney. Max Sterling. Martin Glee. Gertrude from his chiefs, he has scanned with being reacionary and be Brooks. Lyman Paine. Christian Neilson. Mildred Scharfberg. traying the working class.” Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary j It is Gold, not Casey, who is Bernard Morgenstern. George Novack. F. L. Demby. Cuth- Therein lies one of the answers for the vilest epithets to hurl j the newcomer in the working bert Daniel. Joseph Gott. Betty Smith. Fay Hollenbeck. Dan to Mike’s assignment. at Sidney Hook, James P. Cannon J class movement. Sc much for Eastman. Sam Roth. Abe Roth. Louis Fein. Victor Fox. Sol and a long list of other writers, j that. Casey wrote a pamphlet show Antman. Morris Heller. B. Allen Dash. Lou Gordon. Martha economists and political leaders, i Mike clajms that Casey got ing how the Stalinists, with the Burns. John G. W right. just because they refuse to con- ; peeVed because he was not ap- People’s Front line, have lost every right to call themselves a cede that to build Socialism, you ; pi.ecjated on the Daily Worker, The following comprise the list of the comrades still on revolutionary warking class party. have to kill off two-thirds or Now, j ust what k;n(i of murnbo_ charges and scheduled for immediate expulsion on the same three-quarters of a nations po- jumbo is thatj Mjke? Has Mike The lies about the "new demo "grounds": pulation. Gold so soon forgotten how Mike cracy” within the Party, growth ! Gold got up at a Stuyvesant in organization and the scheurs Hal Draper. Neil Harrison Ephraim Friend. Arther Ku- Gold in Exile to support Democrats in Phila ■ Casino banquet and paid tribute jawsky. Abraham Biensteck. Harry Low. Irving Smilier. Hilda delphia and Republicans in New And when poor Mike got kick-j "to our great managing editor Agloff. Irving Lefb. Philip Shulman. Meldon Joerger. Sam York, all are brought into the ed out editorship of the Nrw ; of our great revolutionary news- Gilbert. Sidney Feffer. Julie Dorsey. Max Lane Bertha Gruner. Mjasses because he got the sig- paper.” And has Mike Gold so light of day. And Casey also asked why the Stalinist leaders, Abraham Miller. Herman Stern. George Zola. Sam Fisher. nals mixed up and wrote several j soon forgotten how his own Raytnond Rosenthal. Mary Greenfield. Fred Nessin. Morris weeks before the official com- | masters— from Earl Browder and while calling on their followers Kline. Harold R. Isaacs. Molly Davis. Milton Davis. Edith mand was given that it was "the . Clarence Hathaway down to Ike to boycott Hearst, were them Konikow Oscar Tropp. Arthur Burch. Kathleen Burch. Philip duty of all workers to support. Amter and Charlie Krumbein— selves quietly carrying on busi Roosevelt’, he was sent to New j praised Casey from the public ness transactions with the Fascist Brinkman. David P. Atkins. Jacob Borut. Fred Jacobs. Ed. Mexico on a probationary vaca- | platform on numerous occasions publisher. Beecher William Sherman. Ada Mecelle. Stanley Loren. Samuel Chertoff. Morris Spector. Phil Markson. David Miller. Robert tion for his "political health", j because, they admitted, he turned Eloquent Silence A fter nine months in New an unreadable organizational Paul. Abe Marcus. Martha Burns. Sara A vrin. Sam Eidensohn. Mexico, Gold was allowed to re- j bulletin into the semblance of a Not a single world of this does Leon Falk. Ben Eidensohn. Daisy Manrat. David Knebel. Paul turn and, as a sort of confession. I regular newspaper. Casey did get Mike mention. Under the iron Schleifer. Harold Robbins. Sol Lankin. Helene Garden. Sol he was obliged to write a series | damned sore while on the Daily rule o f Stalinism, Mike dare not Broden. Moe Kirschenbaum. Louis Halaine. David Geschwind. of Stalinist tracts against Leon i Worker— but that was when try to meet or discuss political Joseph CarwelL Frances Rosen. Morton Gates. William K itt. Trotsky. | Casey was asked to put into the issues. That is not the Stalinist Milton Winston. Frieda Weber. Leopold Cyens. Ben Davidson. True, the articles didn't make ! paper editorials giving left- way. The Stalinist way is to lie, Edna Margolin. Philip Slaner. much sense but, then, what they handed support to Roosevelt in to distort, tc misrepresent and I ______J 8 SOCIALIST APPEAL August 21, 1937 Erber Hits Plan to Steal YPSL Convention their right to legislate on ques Calls on Circles tions of representation by the methods they have stooped to. To Guarantee Their methods of representation An Appeal to Revolutionary Socialists has given New York City, with Honest Meet only twice the membership of For weeks before the Chicago By Glen Trimble York an estimate of 80 per cent California . or Chicago, three convention there was a furious of the active party membership times as many delegates, while campaign for the expulsion of rejected, the Milwaukee meeting is conservative. In New York the former members of the Work of the National Action Committee more than half the book mem New York City Philadelphia, with less than half ers Party from the Socialist sold out the Chicago decision on bership and fa r more of the ac August 15, 1937. the membership of California or Chicago, has been given two- Party. Paul Porter called trade unions by turning its ad tive membership is opposed to To all Circle Secretaries; thirds the number of delegates. for expulsion in a pamphlet is ministration over to the anti expulsion and will unite us in the discipline, anti-Socialist League They have had members vote in sued by the Wisconsin Socialist fight that the party wreckers (To be read at next Circle Wisconsin SEC. Now at New Columbus and transferred them Party, paid for by a block sale have forced. Providing that the meeting). York the process is culminated to vote again in Cleveland. They to the Communist Party and cir NEC maintains its closet arrog culated to every local with the by a vicious and unprecedent at ance in the open arena of the Dear Comrades: have nullified the election of a tempt to gag the left wing ma left wing delegate in Ithica be help of National Office lists. The party, it can, by violating every jority of the convention and the clause of the constitution and This letter is an appeal to the cause a centrist member was ab “Connecticut Committee of Cor party. membership to ‘take immediate sent. They have sold dues stamps respondence” and an equally every tradition of the party, en The courage which dozed out steps to secure the election of a on credit so that circles like Bal phoney letter which “borrowed” force its illegal act and expel us. of the expulsionists at Chicago A fter the smoke has cleared fa ir and representative convention timore will meet with three he signatures of Michigan trade flourished in the secret sessions there will remain in the Socialist and thereby defeat the conspir members present to elect two unionists demanded that the Con in New York. Aaron Levenstein, Party Wisconsin (already dick acy of the centrist leaders to delegates. They give Chicago vention drive out revolutionary speaking for Jack Altman de steal the convention from the 120 members when a census last socialists from the Party, Jack ering with the Social Democratic manded that all “Trotskyites” be majority and split the League. May showed 193. They engaged Altman, ex-militant executive se Federation), Lewis of Mass expelled. He didn’t bother to give The centrist leaders began in practices of the type exposed cretary of local New York, joined achusetts (surrounded by Stal reasons; it was up to the NEC inist stooges, pie-cards, on the their mad attempts to secure a in the notorious Barshop letter. the expulsion chorus led and di “to find the formula”— to frame Lewis bank roll, and befuddled majority at the convention some Since these practices have de rected by the C. P. and the Daily a plausible excuse. Norman Tho liberals), Altman (whose pro six months ago by systematically stroyed all possibility of holding Worker. The “united front” of mas, having apparently abandon gram is transparently the Daily placing factional organizers in a convention that really repre counter revolutionary reformism ed all faith in “all-inclusiveness”, Worker’s), Thomas (provided his the field under the guise of Lea sents the membership, it is ne was working smoothly. party democracy and Socialism decision to wreck the party does gue organizers. Three months cessary that the circles take But the stooges reckoned with itself in his desperate effort to ■not involve personal retirement ago, with bureaucratic disregard matters into their own hands to out the rank and file of the So make the SP Safe for pacifism I to wait for the Farmer Labor for the wishes of the member enable the League to meet in a cialist Party. Declarations of and his own exclusive leadership, 'Party) and, perhapes, Zam ship, they deliberately changed representative convention and solidarity between pre-and post lined up solidly with Altman and I (whose reward for providing a the location of the convention prevent the centrist leadership entry revolutionary socialists, a Wisconsin. He differed only cn j left front to this outfit will be from Akron to Philadelphia in of the youth from carrying powerful counter-attack on the a minor point of tactics— argu I toleration, so long as he conti order to increase the difficulties through the orders of the Clarity- People’s Front, party liquidation ing for expulsion of selected nues to do as he’s told). of the western left wing section ite group in the Party to split program of the Right, above all, “Trotskyite” leaders in the (vain) I Many of us have given years in sending delegations while eas the Y. P. S. L. rather than per an overwhelming flood of left hope of splitting off and retain of our lives to the job of winning ing the task for their two eastern mit the left wing to gain control. wing delegates gathering in Chi ing a tamed rank ond file. ■the Socialist Party to a revolut strongholds, New York City and There is only one fair method for cago scared the expulsion into its ionary position in words and act Philadelphia. As the convention the election of delegates remain lasty retreat. Charity’s Capitulation ion. Despite setbacks we have approaches and it becomes ap ing to the circles. This is to: The “Red Herring” come a long way since 193 L I do parent to them that even these The Clarity majority of the 1. Have your circle examine not believe that we are going to shoddy maneuvers leave them Not a single delegate at Chica NEC lived up to the Clarity re its records and the books of the let the petty autocrats of the far from having a majority, they go dared to raise the expulsion cord. Just as they allowed Wis members to determine the num NEC stop us now. W hat is de now embark upon a frenzied issue. In the corridors, despite consin to dictate the NEC, and ber in good standing. manded is a solid front of ALL campaign of gerrymandering, their written record, the right Thomas’s new threadbare threat 2. Elect delegates to the con revolutionary Socialists, regard#- dues stamp record juggling, il wingers indignantly denied that to “refuse the leadership unless” vention on the basis of the ratio less of previous party or group legal transfers, and other corrupt they had ever intended such a to dictate their resolutions at decided -upon by the national office affiliation— SP or WP, Appeal or practices. thing. The Appeal Group was Chicago, so at New York they despite the obvious injustice of Clarity— and an offensive against charged both by the right and surrendered to the combined Brazen Fraud their system (1 for 5, 2 for 8, 3 the wreckers that w ill drive them muddled and mis-led Clarity right threat and unanimously for 23, and an additional delegate so far into their holes that they I receive reports virtually daily with creating a false issue, endorsed the expulsion “formu for every fifteen members or won’t be able to digf out until from Cleveland, Philadelphia, Bal dragging a “red herring” into the la” which Altaman demanded. major fraction thereof). six months after the revolution. convention. This formula is so flagrantly timore, Chicago, Ithaca, N. Y., and 3. Supply your delegates with in violation of every democratic other places, telling of the brazen indubitable proof of the mem Did the Appeal group exag Unite against Gag Law! attempts on the part of the gerate the danger of expulsion? tradition of the Socailist Party bership of your circle, either by The NEC resolution is a call national office or the local centrist ! The answer is now on the record. that even the Call dared not to means of the treasurers records to arms. Every weapon in our leaders to fraudulently defeat the 1 June 19th the National Executive print it. The NEC, itself bank or the membership cards. arsenal must be used to crush left wing nominees. When all of Committe was hastily called to rupt of leadership and having no Only this procedure can save the offensive against the left and these reports will have been col- ' gether in New York. Here be answer to the revolutionary pro the League from the disrepute to drive from the field all who lected with irrefutable evidence to hind closed doors the N. E. C. gram of the membership, wants into which the revolting methods persist in an anti-Socialist po verify them, they will constitue a launched the campaign which the a moratorium on Socialism in the of the centrist leaders are plung sition. For this we must use veritable “black book" of the cri genuine representatives of the Socialist Party. ing it. Let the membership teach every legal channel (the enclos mes of the centrist leaders against Party membership stopped dead the cynical politicians in control Left Wing has Majority ed referendum proposal should be the revolutionary majority of the at Chicago. o f the apparatus that the capture League as well as against those endorsed by every possible local), of the majority of the dues Just three months have passed. The consequence of the enforc of the centrist minority who are we must revive the Socialist Ap stamps leaves one far from cap The Party is not less but more ement of this decree should be opposed to the introduction of i peal (the promise of free ex turing the majority of a national thoroughly convinced that the clear. Either we agree to be gag chicanery and fakery into the i pression through the Call and convention of the Young People’s revolutionary Marxist road is the ged or the NEC will try to ex Y.P.S.L. Monthly has proved worthless), Socialist League. only one for the Socialist Party. pel the party in the name of the we must break down the artifi The practices engaged in by But the NEC, handpicked by tarty. This is not an exaggeration. c ia l split in the left wing forces those in control of the League With Socialist greetings, Wisconsin, has reacted to this From the Mississippi to the Pa 'devised and maintained by some machinery have created a situat shift to the left by a retreat to cific, everything worth mention Clarity “leaders” and force these ion where it is no longer pos Ernest Erber the right. The Philadelphia reso is from the jaundiced viewpoint ’same leaders to come off the sible to adhere to the legal forms lution on Spain embraces the Pe of the new old guard “Trot-ky-. National Chairman, Young fence and choose, once and for of the NEC when this crooked ople’s Front of class collaboration ite”. Throughout the Middle ’Vest all, between Wisconsin and re- “legality" of the centrist leaders People’s Socialist League. which the convention decisively and east outside the city of New ' volutionary Socialism. is designed to defeat the left ! Only Clarity votes can drive wing by corrupt methods. The us out of the Socialist Party and controlling bodies have abdicated Harry Milton Freed in Spain; Returning Here we have no intention of "bailing out’”. The decision is up to the SOCIALIST APPEAL As we go to press, the grati cialist Call did not carry a single bers approached him on behalf Clarity NEC. The NEC must be fying news arrives that comrade line in defense of a member of of Milton. Equally dastardly was told in unmistakeable terns that Published Every Week As The Harry Milton (Wolf Kupinsky), its own party, who actually the act of the Altmanite, Clen- we will not be gagged, that we Organ of the Socialist Party who has been in the Stalinist- fought the fascists at the front. denin, who, in the name of the w ill fight to the last ditch against of New York, Left Wing People’s Front prison in Barce To the very last day of his im Workers Defense League apolo every attack on any revolutionary Branches lona for almost two omnths for prisonment without a single for gized to the Spanish Government Socialist, against the wrecking of his revolutionary beliefs, has Published at Room 1609, mal charge against him, even for the “unauthorized" action of the Socialist Party, and for’ a been set free. A telegram to his after he, with others, was com the Chicago branch of the Work leadership and party seriously 100 Fifth Avenue, New York. friends here from Secretary of pelled to start a hunger strike ers Defense League in offering and honestly dedicated to the State Cordell Hull announces that which left him emaciated, re its legal services in behalf - of overthrow of capitalism and the TELEPHONE: comrade Milton has been released ducing him from 180 pounds to comrades Oehler and Milton on victory of Socialism. ALgonquin 4-4950 and is now at the American Con 115, the Call did not print a line the ground that the W DL does San Francisco, July 8, 1937. Vol. 1. No. 2. sulate in Barcelona awaiting the about him, although an article on not intervene in “intra-working departure of the first ship that the subject was sent in weeks class disputes." Were these the Washington Protests Saturday, August 21, 1937 can bring him back to his home ago. actions of a revolutionary party Mass Expulsions Subscriptions: $2.00 per year; in New York. Not only the Call, but Altman and press, or the work of miser $1.Q0 fo r 6 months. Bundle Because he was known as a and Co. especially left Harry able capitulators to the Stalinist W ASHINGTON, D. C. — The orders: 3 cents per cop. Single supporter of the left wing in the Milton in the lurch. Altman went butchers ? Washington, D. C., branch of the copies: 5 cents. SP, his case was sabotaged from so fa r as to call him a deserter Arrangements are row being Socialist Party adopted a motion Address all communications beginning to end. When the Daily because he chose to fight with made by the New York comrades at its last meeting to send a and make out all checks and Worker of June 30 charged com IL P contingent rather than to for an appropriate, hearty wal- telegram to Norman Thomas money orders to the Socialist rade Milton and Hugo Oehler commit suicide in the Stalinizsd come to H arry Milton upon his protesting against the idea of Appeal. with being fascist spies and call International Brigade. This Alt arrival here, which is expected mass expulsion of left wingens ed for their execution, the So man did when some Party mem shortly. from the Party.