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War Candidates! Voi. I ll, No. 76 NEW YORK, FRIDAY OCTOBER 6, 1939 3c a Copy

The workers of the two New York boroughs of Man­ hattan and the Bronx have an exceptional opportunity of making a choice between throwing away their votes in the coming municipal election or of making effective* use of them. WAR ENTRY MOVES STEP NEARER To vote for the Republican or the Democratic parties, is to throw away your vote. It means giving your suffrage to enemies of your class to use for their own purposes— which are not yours; to use for their own interests— which are not yours. By voting for the ticket of either of these parties, you AS “ NEUTRALITY” DEBATE OPENS stand a bigger chance of electing your candidate— only he won’t be YO UR candidate. You will have given your vote to the candidate of the bosses, the boodlers, the war-mong­ An Anti-War Candidate Speaks ers, the strike-breakers, the protectors of the fascists, the Aim Behind Embargo Repeal protectors of profit and exploitation. You will be throwing away your vote just as surely as if you threw it down the sewer. Is To Step Up Munitions To vote for the ticket of the Communist Party, is to throw away your vote. You w ill be voting for as corrupt, as reactionary and as unscrupulous a gang as ever cursed Production to War-Time Speed the labor movement. You w ill be voting for the spokesmen and attorneys of the Ilitler-Stalin Pact. You will be voting ÁFL AND CIO UN­ On Monday of this week, debate opened in the Senate on to endorse the murderous tyrants of the Kremlin, for IONS JOIN FORCES Roosevelt’s war-promoting “ Neutrality Act", with Senator whom Browder and Co. function as agents in this country. Pittman leading off for the Administration, and the veteran You will be voting for people whose last thought is the AGAINST CUDAHY Borah of Idaho sounding the keynote for the opponents of labor movement, or its interests, people who are concerned repeal of the arms embargo. only with the interests of their employers, the Stalinist (Special to the Socialist Appeal) The two Senators, each a skillful parliamentarian, suc­ KANSAS CITY, Kansas, bureaucracy. ceeded ably in exposing each other’s position'; and together But if you don’t want to throw away your vote, if you September 28 — The AFL Teamtsers and the CIO they combined to hide from the public the real kernel of the want it to mean something, if your interests go beyond Packing House Workers Or­ embargo issue. getting this or that individual into this or that office, ganizing Committee joined After Pittman had pointed out that an embargo merely on then— forces today in a 100% tie-up of the Cudahy Packing Com­ arms and munitions, with no restrictions on the shipment of Vote for the candidates of the Socialist Workers Party! pa n y’s pla n t here. O ver 1,- secondary war materials and other goods, is powerless to These candidates stand firmly committed to the program 000 workers were out, with immunize the United States from the conflict, Borah proved of their party. a strong picket line, mann­ ed mainly by CIO members, that the repeal of the arms embargo is nevertheless an act of It is the party which first organized and carried through blocking any attempts to re­ direct intervention in the wa the imposing action against the Nazis and Fascists in New open. Allies our arms because of and a major step toward mili­ their urgent call, will we, can York—the workers’ counter-demonstration at Madison The strike was called when the Company refused tary entry. we, in the hour of greater need, Square Garden. It is the party of struggle against fascism. . . . refuse to send our armies?” to deal with the Teamsters Borah showed that author­ It is the only party that stands unambiguously and con­ for 18 truck drivers. The And Borah answered correct­ itative spoksemen for the Ad­ Packing House Workers pull­ ly his own question: “I do not sistently in opposition to the Second World War and see how we could.” Part of the large crowd which heard Max Shachtman, Bronx candidate of the Socialist Workers ed out in sympathy, to force ministration admit publicly against the United States entering it. Party for New York City Councilman speak at Xremont and Prospect Avenues on the fight recognition and to secure that they want the embargo re­ But Borah did not even men­ tion the far more important It is the party not of despair, of exploitation, of misery against imperialist war. Comrade Shachtman’s running partner for the Council, in Manhattan, the reinstatements of 12 men moved in order to aid and ben­ is George Lyman Paine. discharged for union activi­ efit Britain and France. “ Can reason controlling Roosevelt’s and war— but the party of hope. It’s the party of hope interest in the repeal of the em­ ty. we,” Borah asked, “ under the because it’s the party of socialism! bargo, the reason that demands According to E. G. Wil­ program we are now adopting that the Administration concen­ Workers of New York! liamson, chairman of the and the reasons for adopting trate all of its energies in driv­ CIO Local, his Union 'has Vote everywhere for the candidates of the American the same, stay off the battle­ ing repeal through Congress. Albert Goldman Begins WAR PROBLEMS been trying to settle the Labor Party— not because of its leadership, but in spite of fields of Europe with ur young Fundamental Reason question of bargaining rights The fundamental and chief it; not because of its wishy-washy, milk and water pro­ through an NLRB election men? Having changed our laws reason is this: Repeal of the gram, but in spite of it. Vote the A.L.P. ticket because it Speaking Tour on War RAISED AT for some time without suc­ and our policies that we may, arms embargo and the flow of cess. is the ticket of the organized labor movement of New York. as • openly and repeatedly de­ war orders which w ill follow re­ Workers of Manhattan and the Bronx 1 A.L.P. MEETING clared, send there in aid of the peal w ill enable the munitions Vote the ticket of the American Labor . Party, but— industry of this country to be Just Returned from Europe, Noted Labor | operating at full war speed GIVE YOUR NUMBER ONE VOTE ON THE Election D rive Gets when the United States itself BALLOT TO THE COUNCILMANIC CANDIDATES Orator and Attorney Leaves on National Deliberate Silence of declares war. There w ill be no OF THE SOCIALIST WORKERS PARTY! “ lag” between the time of the Tour to Speak on War Crisis ALP Executive Broken declaration of war and the day Roll up a tremendous vote for the S.W.P. candidates! Off to Flying Start when the munitions industry is Let the ruling class see that there are thousands of work­ By 2 Committeemen stepped up to full production ers, who stand by its program of struggle against war and for this country’s own military Just returned from Europe where he was an eye-witness to m achine. fascism and exploitation! Make your vote mean something. the opening weeks of the war, Albert Goldman, well-known la­ Roosevelt has learned the By TONY CHAPMAN Vote for bor attorney and author, will make an extensive lecture tour of NEW YORK—Addressing a colorful, well-attended outdoor lessons of the last war. He does NEW YORK — Although the the Eastern States where large meetings-are being scheduled to mass meeting on the corner of Prospect and Tremont Avenues not intend to wait around for G. Lyman Paine, candidate for Councilman from Man­ high leadership of the Ameri­ hear him speak on the Second World War. last Friday, Sept. 29, Max Shachtman, Bronx candidate of the months after war is declared, can Labor Party has during the hattan. On October 7, Goldman will speak at Fraternal Hall, 19 Elm Socialist Workers Party, personally fired the opening gun in his as Wilson did, until industrial past month maintained an in­ Max Shachtman, candidate for Councilman from the Street, in New Haven, Conn.Moscow. The outcome of Truly, the Daily Worker did not tour include: the progress of Comrade Gold­ of present-day Kremlin foreign phrases against dealing in “ the Judge Irving Lehman, the AL- the War now raging in Europe the neutrality debate in Con­ lie when it said this “ is not a Reading—Tues., Oct. 3 man’s tour and the meeting policy. (Continued on Page 2) instruments of mass murder,” gress will help shape the war for the defense or rescue of Allentown—Wed., Oct. 4 halls at which he will speak. (Continued on Page 2) Outlining the pathetic naturally does not mention this manner and tempo of Ameri­ small nations.” underlying reason for repeal of can entry. The outcome of the The Stalin-Hitler “non-ag­ the arms embargo. He does not diplomatic game in the gression” pact was followed by because in reality he has no ob­ Kremlin will determine the the conquest and partition of “Let the People Vote on War!”-Rochester Labor jection to instruments of mass next stages of Russian partic- Poland. The new treaty of murder other than to make affect the fate of all the neu­ “friendship” signed by von (Special to the ¡Socialist Appeal) Roosevelt’s strategy in forcing tion that those who vote for the izer’s description of the M-Day “ MOVED: that no dictatorial trals in the Western Hemi­ Ribbentrop last week is being ROCHESTER, N.Y., Sept. 28 the people into the war. The an­ war should be the first in the plans. powers ever be granted to ab­ sure that the best of them re­ sphere. The other w ill settle accompanied by the re-asser- -—The Central Labor Council of ti-war sentiments were indicat­ trenches. “ If we’d take those The resolution as adopted rogate the labor laws now on main firmly in the hands of the course of all the neutrals tion of Russian domination in this city last night unanimously ed by the intense interest with boys in Congress” , said O’Con­ re a d : the statute books or which re­ U.S. imperialism. He never ob­ in Europe. the Baltic. Not until the man­ passed a resolution introduced which they listened to Niemey- nell, “and put them in the strict the freedom of action of jects to the armament approp­ euver of H itler’s “ peace offen­ by John Niemeyer of the er’s long speech. trenches over there first they’d “ MOVED: that this body de­ the organized trade union Such is the content of this riations which are used precise­ strange interlude in this war of sive" runs its course will we Teachers Union for support He was seconded by Henry be damned afraid to vote for mand of Congress that it pre- movement of this country. ly to manufacture instruments many paradoxes. see what other acts of loving of the Ludlow Amendment for O’Connell, president of the the w a r.” seht to the states for adoption “MOVED: that copies of liberation these pacts portend. Not evén the Stalinists in the these motions be sent to the From all the countries of the a. People’s Vote on War, and Central Trades who, in forceful an amendment which would of mass murder. And when the language, spoke about how the Council dared oppose the res­ give the people of this nation Baltic and the Balkans diplo­ The fate of the Balkan for the maintenance of the dem­ President and the proper Sen­ day comes, Borah w ill go along olution. One delegate presented the right to vote on war and mats are scurrying to the gates countries and the precise po­ ocratic rights of -the w orkers. workers of this country were ators and Congressmen, and with Roosevelt’s war just as sition of Turkey have re­ robbed and murdered in the the Northwest Organizer, organ requiring that those voting for of the Kremlin and abandoning Niemeyer presented his mo­ that resolutions based on these last World War to make profits of the Minneapolis Teamster’s war, regardless of age, be the will all the rest of the loud­ hope as they enter there. Es­ mained undecided pending a tion in a brilliant speech in for the bosses. At his request, Joint Council to the Council’s first drafted for the front-line motions be submitted to the mouthed Congressinal “ peace tonia has already mutually as­ forced decision by Mussolini. which he explained in detail the a section was added to the mo- secretary who read the Organ- trenches. coming AFL convention.” b lo c .” sisted itself into becoming a (Continued on Page 4) Mobilization Day plans and SOCIALIST APPEAL FRIDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1939

Election Campaign Gets WELL, WOLL FOR Figures Reveal Scandal ONE HAS FAITH Off to Flying Start IN ROOSEVELT In St. Louis Relief

(Special to the Socialist Appeal) $7 a Person Is Average Relief Allotment Max Shachtman Fires Opening Gun at ST. LOUIS, Missouri, Sep­ Bronx Open-Air Rally tember 28 — Matthew Woll, In Seventh Largest U.S. City This week I should like to develop a little further the theme arch-reactionary Vice-Presi­ of my last column: that modern war is so vast a social under­ dent of the A PL. in an ad­ taking and the capitalism it expresses is by now so closely integ­ dress to the National Associ­ (Special to the Socialist Appeal) Y o rk C ity in June was $45.14, rated with the bourgeois state, as to make it impossible for old- i Continued from Page 1) ei pace in the Bronx, the New ation of Life Underwriters ST. LOUIS, Missouri, Sept. 27. $22.84 in St. Louis. Single cases style “ private enterprise” either to fight a war or even to meet and the imminence of swift York party intends to take the today at the swanky Jeffer­ — According to the Federal So­ in New York City were paid the problems of neutrality. The state simply must step in a»d American involvement, Shacht-[next week out and concentrate son Hotel, placed his hope cial Security Board figures just $27. Many other cities were low handle matters. man declared that the war is ¡on finishing the drive in Man- in keeping America out of When our movement adopted released the skimpy relief allot­ w ith $15 to $20, b ut St. Louis In 1914-1917 the dynamic leadership of the war drive came imperialist in nature and thatjhattan to secure well over the war in our Congress *nd the idea of a sliding scale of its aim is the re-division of the number of signatures that is le- ments in St.‘ Louis aré so low w ith $8.32 topped them a ll in from Wall Street, with the Wilson Administration up to the last President. k , as to approximate a national wages fo r union contracts last- world's markets. "In such a'gaily necessary to get candi- meagerness. putting on at least an appearance of opposition. This time the While recognizing that the scandal if generally known. August Avarage year to protect the living stan­ war for super profits, the work - 1 date Paine on the ballot, Roosevelt Administration is openly playing a war game, with ers of the world are called up-1 What the party requires most workers have everything to In this seventh largest of The August average in St. Wall Street rather inclined to keep in the background. This is by dards of the workers from war on by their masters to sacrifice ¡now is funds to make sure that lose in the war, Woll placed American cities, 7500 cases in Louis dropped to $20.59 per no means to imply that this war is not, like the last one, Wall time price boom conditions, their lives. "That sacrifice,” all the projects outlined above absolutely no faith in any di­ August exhausted the local fa m ily and $7.17 per single p e r­ Street’s war. The basic motivation of Roosevelt’s war drive is many unionists considered it Shachtman declared, "is hypo­ are made certain. All sympa­ rect action by labor to keep funda, a miserable $120,000, an son.. to protect {he interests and profits of American big business. us at peace, but placed his average of $16 a case. too theoretical and not practi­ critically described as a sacri- thizers and members of the par­ This crisis has been brought And the final, fateful decision as to the time and conditions of ty are requested to chip in to sole hope in our notoriously ■ Other cities' expenditures about because the State Legis­ our entry into the war will be determined in Wall Street and not cal enough. rice to make the world safe for democracy. Yet it is a fact that the lim it. The party is rarin’ to “ neutral” War Deal govern­ ra te : lature appropriated but $6,000,- in the White House. Like many other advanced the first victim of the war is, go. A whirlwind campaign is | m ent. D uluth, M inn. $152,000 000 for the entire state of Mis­ ideas, it took the hard impact significantly enough, democ­ planned—and has begun. All we' By now Woll will be ex­ San Diego, Cal. 175,000 souri for the years 1939 ,and 19- Instrument of Big Business of events to drive home the racy itself,” he went on. need now is cold cash. If the j pounding his misplaced hope R eading, Pa. . 152,000 40. Governor Stark, New Deal­ merits of this propsal. Yet. it Calling upon the workers to party gets that, then New York from the tribune of the M ilw aukee, W is. . 462,000 er, held out for slightly larger The Roosevelt Administration is as much the instrument of was essentially a simple idea. fight against the war, Shacht­ will see a working class cam - 1 American Federation of La­ Boston, Mass. 451,000 a ppropriations of $9,000,000, the big bourgeoisie as was that of Woodrow Wilson. Even more Prices rise before and during man stated that his candidacy paign such as it has not seen bor’s 1939 convention. N ew ark, N. J. 475,000 which would still not solve the so, indeed, since in the last two decades there has taken place a war. Unless union contracts are made it possible for all work­ for a long time. The family payment in New problem . gradual coalescence of big business and the government. This signed that permit upward ad­ v ing men and women to register In the weeks ahead the St. means that the relationship of Wall Street and Washington in this justment in wage scales in that their opposition to war at the Louis area is faced with one of war is far more subtle and complicated than it was in the last period, the workers really take polls this Pall and to support the most serious relief crises in war. It is not enough to perceive the basic fact that the country a wage cut because costs of and join the Socialist Workers the country. is being dragged into a second world slaughter in the interests of living have increased but the Join the SWP, Party of Revolution, Party, the only working class American capitalism. We must also understand just how this is amount of money the worker anti-war party with a program being done this time. We must be aware of certain differences in has with which to buy goods to end the war. technique which in turn reflect twenty-five years of development stood still. So part of our trans­ Says Spain Veteran, Quitting the CP of our monopoly capitalism. itional program consisted of WAR PROBLEMS urging the workers to get a In the coming four weeks be­ The other day the U.S. Chamber of Commerce reported to provision in union contracts fore the election, the Bronx its members on the outlook for foreign trade. This report was a (Special to the Socialist Appeal) j Party above all others placed sermon in caution and scepticism, warning that war booms pro­ which guaranteed a rise in Party is planning to hold two or the workers of the world by its wages to correspond with a rise three outdoor meetings nightly TOLEDO, Ohio—Six years a the power in the hands of the true name. The Communist in ­ RAISED AT duce bad economic hangovers, and advising its members against member of the Communist loyalist democratic bourgeoisie, ternational is dead. To every in prices. to bring the anti-war and anti- “ over-confidence.” This tone of moderation and wariness is Pascist message of the S.W.P. Party, before that a member. who then destroyed the inde- honest member of the CP, I characteristic these days of the whole financial press. On the before thousands of workers. of the YPSL, a veteran of the|pendence of the workers militia now address this appeal. A.LP. MEETING other hand, the President whips up the war spirit with ever- Prices Rise The party is also planning legal I sPanish Civil War, John Ken-j and organizations and created BREAK WITH THE PARTY OF increasing abandon, the current climax being his personal an- The second world was al­ action to force the police de-Idzierski last week resigned a democratic------bourgeois------1------army, SELLOUT, BETRAYALS, AND nouncement—such dirty jobs are usually left to minor officials— ready has brought a rapid rise from the Communist Party and making it possible for the LIES. Return once more to the that submarines “ of unknown nationality” had been sighted off in prices in America, and there partment to grant it loud speak­ (Continued from Page I) er permits for its outdoor meet­ joined the party of revolution­ "democratic bourgeoisie to se­ principles of Lenin. Let us re­ our coast. This bit of frank war-mongering, released just as the seems to be no stopping. Right ary action, the Socialist Work P’s choice for the Court of Ap­ ings. cretly make peace with their member the words of our Congress was about to start debating neutrality legislation, got after Hitler marched into Po­ ers P a rty . “ fascist” bourgeois brothers in teachers! Lenin who said “ The peals, the meeting of the State Indoor Rallies the front-page scareheads it was intended to. land, a sharp upward trend in order to save their own hides, workers have no fatherland.” Committee was about to ad­ In addition to the outdoor ral­ ActiVe in the labor movement the price of food became evi­ sell out the w orkers, and keefc Karl Liebknecht who said “ The journ when a lone Committee­ lies, the party is planning to for the greater part of his life, dent throughout the country. their money bags. enemy is in our own country.” man arose to offer a resolution The Morgan Myth cover every section of the Comrade Kendzierski is well Prices increased from ten to Return to the principles of In­ on the Stalin-Hitier rapproche­ There is a widespread illusion, sometimes to be found eve» Bronx with'large indoor rallies, known among Toledo’s work­ Leadership Lied twenty per cent on foods, etc. ternational Socialism, which m ent. in the pages of the Appeal, that J. P. Morgan & Co. is playing 'these rallies w ill be addressed ers. On his return from Spain, In Prance the identical thing The pinch was felt quickly by means an independent revolu­ exactly the same role in maneuvering America into this war it workers. They were making the by candidate Shachtman to- the local C.Fr. fille d h im a t happened: the CP led the revo­ Text of Resolution tionary movement of the work­ did in the last. This emphasis does not correspond with the same pay, working just as hard, gether with other prominent meetings -held in his honor. In lu tio n a ry workers into the The resolution, submitted by ers to overthrow all capitalist known facts. Spain he saw the line of Stalin- camp t,ne democratic bour- W illiam Schaeffer of Local 155, and yet they could buy less, party speakers. nations. Let us fight against The rising price level was re- Among the meetings already ism in practice—how at every geois Popular Front, which put ILGWU, declares: When the last world war hit the American economic system, this imperialist war for which ducing their real wages. A na- scheduled are: a meeting this stage it violated the interests the democratic military dictat­ “ As a worker and a member no governmental measures whatever had been taken to cope the “ democratic” as well as the tion-wide cry against "war Friday night in P.S. 67 at 178th oi the workers. With the added or Daladier into power. Dala- of the New York State Commit­ with it. The financial edmmunity was hastily mobilized by the “fascist” capitalist is guilty. profiteering" was raised by the Street and Mohegan Avenue, a evidence of the Stalin - Hitler dier is now crushing the work­ tee of the American Labor Par­ Governors of the N.Y. Stock Exchange and by the leading Wall There is only one way to de­ labor movement as part of the meeting next Wednesday night ¡pact. Comrade Kendziers l ers’ parties and sending the ty, I want to take this opportun­ Street bankers, headed by Mr. Morgan. But this mobilization fend the Soviet Union and to protest against this injustice. in Elsmere Hall at 170th Street;came to the realization that the French workers into an imper­ ity to express my opinion and was insufficient. The impact of war abroad and the hasty selling end forever imperialist war and and Morris Avenue and meet- only way in which the October ialist war of murder for cap­ also to ask the State Commit­ of large blocks of American securities by foreign holders, these fascism. That is by the revolu­ ings in the following halls: Revolution, and the interests of italist profit. tee to go on record in express­ caused a temporary financial panic. The Stock Exchange had to Some Unions Act tionary overthrow of Capital­ Bronx Terrace, Ward Manor, the world’s workers could be As to our own CP leaders, ing its opinion on the present be closed for several months. There was an industrial slump be­ More or less progressive un­ ism by the revolutionary work­ H ollyw ood G ardens, P.S. 98, defended was to break with the why did they lie to us about the international situation. fore the Allies began to buy over here in big quantities. ions, whose leadership had ing class of the world. Stalin­ Wilkins Hall. The last meeting Stalinist party of lies and be- Stalin-Hitier pact. The Daily “ 1. That we go on record con This time, J. P. Morgan, symbolically enough, happened to foresight enough to have claus­ ism with its contempt of the will be a special youth meeting trayal. His message to a ll Worker of March 13, 1939, said demning Stalin and the present be on the high seas when the war began. It would have made es contained in the signed con­ power of the working class, its for Shachtman.— , . * __ m i..., The areas in ¡ mpmhppi:members nfof t.hethe OnC om m unist "The apologizers of the Munich Soviet Government for the pact little difference if he had been on the spot, as he was in 1914. tracts which permit reopening reliance on capitalist powers, which these indoor meetings j Party is: Join the Socialist treachery make the dirty in­ between Hitler and Nazi Ger­ For one thing, the present Morgan is rather stupid, carries little of the wage questions, are us­ is trying to barter away these will be held are to be “ warmed' Workers Party. sinuations that the Soviet Union many and the Soviet Union. weight in Wall Street, and for many years has had very little to ing these clauses to begin nego­ only defenses of the Soviet Un­ up" by intensive outdoor activ- \I Comrade Kendzierski's state- is ‘considering’ rapprochement This pact has brought about .a do with running the House of Morgan. But even if he possessed tiating along the idea of a slid­ ment is here printed in full: ion. ing scale of wages. ities during the week before. with the fascists!” Now they war which has resulted in the the brains and the influence his father had in his day, the present TO THE MEMBERS OF THE Sidney Hillman, president of Paper Planned say that this pact is a blow to There is Hope destruction of millions of lives, J. P. Morgan would have played a rather small part in the COMMUNIST PARTY the Amalgamated Clothing Among the other plans that the fascists. The second state­ Comrades, do not despair. especially in the disruption of drama. Months ago the arrangements to meet the impact of a Dear Comrades: Workers Union, announced in the Bronx party has for the ment is more a lie than the There yet remains one Party, the Polish working class as a European war on our financial system had been made, and behalf of 225,000 m em bers th a t election campaign are: (1) the For six years I have been a firs t. arising out of the defeats and whole. As a Labor Party, we when war actually came they were merely put into effect. This member of the Communist they would seek a wage in- | publication of a special 4-Pag A Step to War betrayals, which through all the cannot remain silent in the face job was done neither by the Stock Exchange governors nor by Party and the YCL. You ’all of the betrayal of the interna­ crease of ten per cent soon to j paper which will give the mor ­ First they say there will be past years of lies and slanders, the big bankers of Wall Street, but rather by the Federal agen­ state-i know that I am _ loyal to the tional working class by Stalin. eover the men because of the ers of the Bronx a full s a no pact, then they say it is only has held true to the real prin­ cies which now dominate the nation’s financial system: the working class and a militant rising price level. ! ment of the anti-war principles an innocent trade pact, but ciples of Leninism, which has “ 2. That the American Labbr Securities & Exchange Commission, the Federal Reserve Board, anti-fascist. I have fought for The Textile Workers of A m - of the party, (2) the publica when it is proved to be a po­ pointed out year after year te Party go on record as in favor and the U.S. Treasury Department. Working in close collabora­ the freedom of the international erica has also taken steps in j tion of special ‘ Shachtman oi litical pact of non-aggression, road of defeats and betrayals of requesting the President and tion with the British Exchequer and the Bank of England, these working class on the battle­ this direction. ■ ¡Councilman” placards. Earl Browder says it would be down which Stalin has gone, the Congress of the United powerful state agencies drew up plans so effectively that from fields of Spain and against the David Dubinsky, president of i The party is also planning broken if the Nazis started an and which today stands out as St ates to declare the Soviet Un­ the firing of the first gun in Poland, stocks began to soar, and an wolves of fascist reaction. the International Ladies Gar- special mass meeting on c imperialist war. Hitler did start the only fighting organization ion a belligerent nation and that uninterrupted war boom began over here. While thousands of the best ment Workers Union, has ad- ber 13 in the Fordham aiea, such a war; the papt was not against imperialst war and I the embargo be applied to the So it has been also with two other functions which the House revolutionary workers of Amer­ vised all local unions to include which has been the sc®n® ° broken, instead a m ilitary mis­ fascism. That is the Party of ¡Soviet Government as well as of Morgan fulfilled for the Allies in the last war: the raising of ica fought with courage for. provisions for cost-of-living frequent Cbughlinite ana - sion was sent from Stalin to the Fourth International of! to the other belligerents on the credits over here, and the purchase of American war materials. what we believed would be the increases in all new contracts, cist gatherings. James . a Hitler, proving Browder again which the Socialist Workers! European Continent. In the first week of the war, Administration officials announced socialist revolutionary victory He proposed that wages be ¡non, national secretary o a lia r. Party is the American section. I <<3. That the American Labor they were prepared to extend credits to the Allied nations party, is scheduled to address in Spain, we all saw many raised automatically when the This pact was not a step to­ I ask all of my comrades of , party go on record condemning through two governmental agencies: the Reconstruction Finance things in the policy of the C.P. price index figured* out by the thé meeting. ward peace but toward war. the Communist Party to join j the Communist Party of the Corp. and the Export-Import Bank. ^ ...... ^ _____ Despite the fact that the cam- in Spain which made us won­ US Departmen of Labor goes The second World War is on. me in once aga'in building the j united States as an agency of der. Being disciplined revolu­ It is true that when J. P. Morgan got off the boat the other up five*points. Incidentally,0the paign is proceeding at a quick- If the workers of the Soviet World Party of the Socialist the Soviet Union and as an ad- tionists. we placed our trust in day, he said something about it being “ reasonable” to assume T e x tile W orkers proposals are j ------— Union could not trust the “ dem­ Revolution. vocate of policies detrimental our leaders of the CP and said that the Allies would call on his firm “ to repeat our perform­ THE OWNER- ocratic” imperialist nations, John Kendzierski to the American labor move- along these lines. I ®£NT vvau io MiSNT C IR C U I* A- nothing. We did not wish to ance.” But this remark, which caused a great flutter in left-wing And there have been similar Îte RKQUiiucb "hy t h e how can it trust a Hitler, whose m e n t.” cause dissension in our ranks Sept. 18, 1939 journals, turned out to be merely an indication of how much out steps in other unions. Reports * ’ -S' CONGRESS OF AUGUST hand Stalin clasps in peace and Immediately upon concluding AC2T S m 2 e A N D J‘ M A R C H 3. ¿933 before the enemy. of touch with things Mr. Morgan is these days. His partners ol the inclusion of the sliding Of Socialist Appeal published friendship. the reading of his resolution, in Now I for one cannot be si­ promptly denied any such possibility, and so did the British and scale of wages proposal in un­ Semi-Weekly at New Yolk. N.Y., foi For five years we were which are mingled an attack Oct 1, 1939, State of New Yolk, lent. The signing of the pact be­ French governments. Officials of the War Deal disclosed that ion contracts are beginning to N.Y.. Corinty of New York. N.Y. taught to support “our own” on the pact as well as a lot of Before me, a notary in and foi the tween Stalin and Hitler, the Roosevelt had advised the British government against allowing appear in the labor press. It is capitalist governments in the | patriotic nonosense, Commit­ State an dcounty aforesaid, person­ most bitter enemy of the work­ the House of Morgan to give an encore of its famous 1914 per­ entirely possible that the CIO ally appeared Sherman Stanley, who. name of “ democracy.” Now we| teeman Schaeffer received the having been duly sworn according to ers, at a time when Hitler was formance. As T.R.B. cynically notes in the Sept. .27 New Repub­ convention will take decisive law, deposes and says that he is the can see that all capitalist na­ almost unanimous applause of on the brink of an Imperialist lic: “ The advice was sensible. To create pro-English sentiment action on this question. •iss t i.usiness Manager of the bo- tions, democratc and fascist, tlie body. Although the State -ialist Appeal and that the following War, forces me to speak. We among the mass of voters here, the House of Morgan should be is to the best of his knowledge and are nothing but imperialist Committee includes not a small must face the truth, so that we kept out of sight. . . . In 1914-1917, the English government had belief, a true statement of the own­ wolves, fighting for plunder and group of Stalinists, there was AFL War Stand ership, management (and if a daily can continue to build on the ba­ Ambassador Page to helpThem influence American opinion: In The AFL convention is facing paper, the circulation), etc., of tile profits. Both those great “ de­ none in the hall who arose to sis of a real International Rev­ this war they seem to have done much better.” a lores« id publication for the date mocracies” England and oppose or to argue against ei­ an unusual resolution on the shown in the above caption, required olutionary program to crush war question which was sub­ ov the Act of August 24 1912. as France have established m ili­ ther the resolution or its lan­ amended by the Act of March 3, capitalism, be it German fasc­ tary dictatorships. Now we can guage. The only opposition A Matter of Scale mitted to it by the executive 1933. embodied in section *>3/. Postal ism or English imperialism, by council. ,*av.s and Regulations, printed on see that the cry of "democracy came from the dais; from State But it is not only for propagandistic reasons that the House tile reverse of this form, to w it: destroying the cause of fascism Chairman Luigi Antonini and Besides the ordinary provi­ 1. That the names and addresses and imperialism, our class en­ versus fascism” was a lie in. of Morgan is not being called in again by the Allies. The mat» sions about "we’ stand for neu­ of the publisher, editor, managing! order to fool the workers. Who State Secretary Alex Rose. editor, arid business managers are: emy—the bourgeoisie. reason is that today Government agencies rather than Wall ' Publisher, Socialist Appeal Pub­ started this slogan if not the trality, democracy, keep Amer­ In Spain I saw how the C.I., Declaring himself in sympa­ Street bankers control the technical workings of our financial ica safe and out of European lishing Association. Editor Max rotten C.I., which is now on the Shachtman. 116 University PI.: Man- with its policy of the support of thy with the resolution, Antoni­ system. (The basic control of the system, of course, remains in wars,” (which are a poor sub­ \ginc Editor. None: Business Man­ side of Hitler and no amount of ni pleaded with the State Com­ agers, Martin Abern & Sherman "democratic" capitalism ag­ the hands of big business. It has merely been found advisable, stitute for adopting a Let the Stanley. 116 University, PI. ainst fascist capitalism, led to 'explaining, excuses, or lies can mittee to refuse to consider it. for the benefit not of “ the people” but of business interests, to People Vote on War slogan) the 2. That the owner is: (If owned hide that fact. the destruction of the Spanish The body relented when Antoni­ centralize technical management in Washington.) This is true la convention is being asked to bv a corporation, its name and ad- , 1-ess must be stated and also im- workers and peasants revolu­ Let us call this betrayal of ni gave the assurance that the times of peace, and it is truer than ever now that war has en­ call on the United States gov­ nediatelv thereunder the names and ALP is preparing a similar res- addresses of stockholders owning or tion and to the victory of fasc­ larged the problems of capitalism to abnormal size. ernment to mediate in the sec­ holding one per cent or more of to­ ism. We saw how in the name tolution which it will submit at ' An anonymous “financier” put the essence of the matter ond world war! tal amount of stock. If not owned by i corporation, the names and ad­ of democracy the Communist the Party’s Citywide Confer­ pretty well when he was quoted in the &.Y. World-Telegram of This section was introduced dresses of the individual owners ence this Wednesday. Sept. 14 as follows: “ Buying materials is not a banking firm ’s by W illiam Green, president of must be given. If owned by a firm , company, or other unincorprated the said two paragraphs contain function anyway. When J. F. Morgan & Co. went into it in the the AFL. Who inspired him to concern, its name and address, as Big Guns Fall Flat statements embracing affiant* s full last war, everyone thought the fight would be over auickiv and introduce it? Since we know well as those of each individual knowledge and belief as to the cir­ Although the big guns of the member, must be given.) cumstances and conditions under .he work could be done. Then it turned out to be a gigantic ua- through Green’s long history as Socialist Appeal Publishing Asso­ Labor Party had popped off in which stockholders and security dertaking. It expanded tremendously. Buying for this w«,r *s ex­ a labor faker that he. is an ag­ c ia tio n . holders who <¿0 not appear upon the order to force a retreat upon Max Shachtman. 116 University books of ?the company as trustees, pected to begin at the same scale and may go on from there to ent of American capitalism, we PI.: Martin Ahern, 116 University hold stock and securities in a ca­ other Committee members with PI.; Sherman Stanley, 116 Univer­ pacity other than that of a bona fide similar resolutions and in or­ something which would dwarf the imagination.” are inclined to doubt the theory s ity P I. . owner; and thies affiant has no rea­ that this was introduced as part 3. That the known bondholders, son to believe that any other person, der to clear the way for the in­ The French have already announced that all their purchases „ . . . , , ____.___,, mortgagees, and other security hold- association, or corporation has any will, for the time being, clear through the commercial attache of of the H itler peace offensive. !et-s owning or holding 1 per cent or interest direct or indirect in the said troduction of officially approv­ Did Roosevelt ask his good,i more of total amount of bonds, m ort­ stock, bonds, or other securities than ed statements at a later date, their embassy in Washington. There is also a semi-official report gages, or other securities are: (If as so stated by him. friend Bill to bring this matter I there are none, so state. ) 5. That the average . number of one of the committeewomen that a Franco-British Joint purchasing agency w ill be set up In before the AFL convention? ! N one. copies of each issue of this publica­ offered a resolution on the war Canada to arrange all purchases in North America. This agency, 4. That the two paragraphs next tion sold or distributed, through the And if SO, why? Does Roosevelt above, giving the names of the own- mails or otherwise, to paid subscrib­ danger. She had spoken only a it is expected, will work closely with the procurement division tr» t r v q ers, stockholders, and security hold- , erg anV|, contain not only the list ers during the twelve months preced­ few moments when Antonini de­ of the U.S. Treasury. Wânt to be forced to try a ing the date shown above is. (This m ediation O f the war which of stockholders and security holders information is required from daily clared her out of order on the War today is just too vast an enterprise for even the most »» as they appear upon the books of the comi)}dny Cut also, in cases where publications only.) grounds that the Executive of powerful private bankers to handle. If war hasn’t been exactly w ould not succeed. Whicn SHERMAN STANLEY would mean America would the stockholder or security holder ap­ (Signature of editor, publisher, busi­ the Labor Party would present socialized, it has at least reached the stage of government own­ pears upon the books of the com­ ness manager, or owner.) have to go to war to “make pany as trustee qr in any other fidu­ Sworn to and subscribed before me a resolution on war at the Wed­ ership. It goes without saying that, as in the case of other forms ciary relation, the name of the per­ this 22 day of Sept. 1939. nesday night Citywide Confer­ of government ownership under capitalism, the change is made peace possible?” The next few son or corporation for whom such days will tell. trustee is acting, is given : also that Irving Scher, Notary Public. ence. in the general interests of monopoly capitalism. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1939 SOCIALIST APPEAL 3: Our Line's Been Changed Again!

By J. R. ir>UKKr>K1 The place of the Negro is in the very vanguard of the revolu­ tionary movement for socialism. That is the major theoretical contribution which the Fourth International and the Socialist Workers Party have made towards a clear and precise under­ standing of the role of the Negro in the solution of the difficulties now facing humanity. Whereas even the Communist Party in its revolutionaiy days saw the Negroes essentially as an appendage, however valuable, to the revolutionary movement, we on the other hand, see the Negroes as foremost among those who w ill struggle against the crimes and barbarities of the capitalist system. The reason for this lies in the very nature of the Negro’s position in capitalist society. The most exploited, the most oppressed, the most dis­ crim inated against, Negroes are the ones who experience most acutely and most unbearably the overwhelming burdens which capitalism places upon the masses in every country. Negroes haven’t to read in books about the fraud of capitalist demociacy. Karl Marx and Lenin have little to teach them about the fact. Prejudices Must Be Overcome This conception of the role of the Negro has hitherto been ob­ scured by the racial prejudices instilled into the different sections of the working class by American capitalism. The revolutionary party therefore is faced with the tremendous difficulty of over­ coming this division. Yet difficult as this task is,* it is a difficulty of tactics and not of strategy. The important question is not so much that of winning the Negroes for the revolution, but of in­ stilling the Negro masses with the conviction that they can place their trust and confidence in a revolutionary party composed largely of white workers, as is inevitable in American society. That task successfully accomplished, the Fourth International is confident that the large masses of the Negroes will fight against imperialism of all kinds with a bravery and endurance that will be surpassed by no other section of the population. Such a generalization, of such profound importance for the American revolution, and the world revolution as a whole, is best tested by the reaction of Negroes to great events such as for instance the present war. Anyone who has contacts of any kind with Negroes will know that they have been profoundly stirred by the outbreak of war in Europe. In a series of articles in this column, we shall examine the attitude to^the war taken by va­ rious groups of Negroes. This attitude is in many respects con­ fused and in some dangerous. What has been most striking, however, is that of all political and social groups in America, they have been the least bamboozled by the thesis that the im ­ perialist war is a war for democracy against fascism. From the harsh experiences of their own lives and their knowledge of the exploitation and indignities endured by their brothers in Africa, they see the realities of the imperialist conflict much more clearly than many other sections of the American workers who are better organized and have more education and experience in the day to day politics of America. What is true of the Amer­ ican Negro is also true of Negroes everywhere. A general mass sentiment of this kind inevitably produces at one stage or another some political organization, some political expression which points the road by which the confused but rev­ olutionary instincts of great masses can be transformed into effective political reality. Such an organization already ^xists in the Fourth International and its sections in America, Great Britain, Africa, etc. The Fourth International, in its call for the revolutionary struggle against imperialism, expresses the aspir­ ations and shows the future road for all the workers, white. Negroe, Indian, whatever color, whatever race, whatever creed. Bosses Get Inside Tip on Labor Control Int'l African Service Bureau But there are Negroes, not affiliated to the Fourth Interna­ By JOSEPH HANSEN tional, who have arrived at a political position which places (2) “Administrator of Labor appointed. . . Like Fas­ “ (2) A single unified employment service for preven­ them side by side with the Fourth International on the war ques­ A R TIC LE IV cist Italy and Nazi Germany, the trade unions must become tion of competition for labor. [Competition for labor would tion. They are conscious that nothing but the revolutionary over­ The greatest worry confronting the individual capitalist government-controlled, regimented in order not to disrupt tend to raise wages.— J.H.] throw of capitalism can give any final solution to the perma­ nent burdens, and additional sufferings placed upon Negroes at the brink of American participation in the second World the steady flow of profits into Wall Street’s vaults. “ (3) The development of public opinion. [That is, everywhere by the imperialist war. In Great Britain, an organ­ War is the lack o f certainty about the most powerful factor (3) “ Minimizing of excessive migrations of labor. . . .” flooding the public with skillful propaganda fed through ization of Negroes known as the International African Service involved in both prosecuting the war and in producing the Again like Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany, laws will be the press, the pulpit, the radio, whispering campaigns, etc. Bureau, during the last few years has carried on a wide propa­ passed preventing a working man from leaving his job to ganda for African independence and Negro emancipation. This desired flow of profits—the labor movement. propaganda has not been confined to Great Britain, but has been W ill each capitalist be assured of an adequate labor sup go to another one at a higher rate of pay. Mussolini and “ (4) Compulsory arbitration of disputes after all means spread in all parts of the world where Negroes live and suffer. ply? O f a low level of wages? O f an efficient blacklisting Hitler require a labor passport for every working man in of conciliation and mediation have been exhausted. [The These Negroes have seen that the colonial masses of the East order to enforce this provision, the passport being held by are allies of the Negro and contacts have been made with organ­ system which will permit the weeding out of all those who old system of the boss sitting tight, mediators lying to izations in India and in Ceylon. The work of the bureau has been might interrupt the lucrative harvest of war profits? And the employer. Without the passport a man cannot get a job. workers, and then cracking down with National Guard.— assisted by various industrial and political organizations of the above all, will the nightmare that preys upon the mind of Roosevelt may extend the use of a fink book such as the J-'H.] British workers, which to a smaller or greater degree, recognize every capitalist—working class revolution— end this one he attempted to foist on the seamen, or he may use the how vital to their own emancipation is the emancipation of the “ The methods which will be used to cope with the labor Negro people all over the world. In the crisis over Czechoslo­ slaughter as it did the last one? Social Security card, the possession of which is already re­ problem will involve direct and indirect contact and co­ vakia, the Bureau issued a call to the Africans and to the B rit­ Big Business wishes to allay the fears of the capitalist quired in order to obtain a job. operation with other government agencies. [Labor spies, ish workers, to fight in unity against the imperialist lie of “ war class as it plunges the country into war— any group enter­ (4) “ Prevention of unethical competition of labor. . . .” for democracy.” And with the approach of this war, the Bureau police, propaganda department, social security department, issued another manifesto, “ A Warning to the Colonial Peoples” ing a struggle without complete confidence in itself is beat­ If one industry sees a chance to make greater profits by a labor administration will all work together.— J.H.] Thus, which is published in another column. The manifesto calls upon en before the battle starts. Big Business as the leading sec­ sudden expansion and in order to obtain the necessary man­ the division entrusted with the labor problem, the War La­ the colonial masses in Africa, in India, in Burma ,in Ceylon, to tion of the capitalist class wishes to impress every capitalist power offers lucrative wages, this would be considered “ un­ struggle against the war-mongers both fascist and “demo­ bor Administration, w ill: cratic.” It appeals to the British workers to do the same against with a sense of its authority, strength, and complete aware­ ethical*" and the military dictatorship would cancel these “ (a) Foresee and forestall, wherever possible, and in the common enemy—imperialism. ness that the real enemy from their point of view is the higher wages in favor of the lower level. other cases take prompt action, to adjust labor difficulties working class here in the United States. in industrial facilities producing the Arm y’s requirements. Struggle against War Is International Blacklist Arranged for Tightening Grip on Government , (5) “ Compilation . . . of lists . . . of individuals re­ “ (b) Maintain liaison with any interested Federal and This manifesto is of enormous importance, and must be closely state labor agencies in order to advise them of the labor studied and assimilated by all the workers in America, Negro In the most authoritative tones, Big Business is tighten­ quired for efficient operations. . . .” This is nothing less and white. The Negroes in particular must realize that it is ing its grip as ruler and informing all factions of the capi­ than a blacklist. If the colonels and Wall Street henchmen needs of facilities producing Army requirements. their duty to follow the lead so clearly and courageously given talist class that it has prepared for the labor factor with at the head of the military dictatorship decide a given in­ “ (c) Maintain close liason with the Director of Selec­ by a group of their brothers operating in Great Britain, the tive Service and with industrial management in order to in­ heart of the British Empire and of world imperialist reaction. detailed blue prints drawn up by the best brains that could dividual is not “ efficient” he may be shipped to the front iri Today the struggle against war is international and the Bureau be purchased on the market. order to help “ make the world safe for democracy” by dy­ sure the deferments of such workmen as are vitally essen­ manifesto has appealed not only to Negroes but to all workers, tial to the munitions producing program. Stifling of the labor movement, suppression of all civil ing on a bayonet, or he may be simply jailed for the dura­ in the colonies and in Europe. It is impossible to have an equivo­ “ (d) Maintain liaison with national labpr organizations cal position on war. One must be either with the imperialists liberties is assured-—this is the inside tip passed out by Big tion of the war. and with agencies having to do with labor welfare.” and for the war, or against the imperialists and against the con­ Business through the confidential bulletin issued by the (6) “ Avoidance and settlement of labor problems. . . .” tinuance of their system which inevitably breeds war. The mani­ Tax Research Institute. Forget your fears about labor. The Wall Street will decide such questions as hours, wages, and festo says clearly and simply: Colonials and white workers, op­ Sixty Families Fear Labor road is clear for W AR P R O FITS ; open up the throttle! working, conditions and w'hether or not a man may be per­ pose the war. This entire plan to regiment labor under the bayonet, It is of great significance that this manifesto comes into our “ Labor -. The assurance to industry of an adequate labor mitted to belong to a union. Violations of Wall Street’s de­ from the viewpoint of the Big Busness men sitting in lux­ hands just at the moment that our series of aricles on the supply, both in numbers and by occupational qualification, cisions will receive the appropriate punishment at the hands Negro and War in this column of the Socialist Appeal have come urious Wall Street office suites look foolproof. But the very will require the organization of a labor administration with of the Wall Street henchman who head the military dicta­ to a conclusion. That series will be republished in a few days detailed minuteness of these blue prints shows that there is as a pamphlet of 32 pages under the title of “ Why Negroes an Administrator of Labor appointed by and directly re- torship. a profound basis for the fears of the capitalist class. Should Oppose the W ar” . Negroes of all shades of political opin­ sjxmsible to the President. Among the more important (7) “ Coordination of employment services. . . .” This ion must study this pamphlet carefully, compare it with the It is one thing to draw up complicated blueprints with problems to-be considered are the minimizing of excessive means the end of union control of hiring and even the end manifesto issued by the International African Service Bureau, which to straitjacket and slaughter the tens of millions who and realize how the consciousness of oppression and an insight migrations of labor; the prevention of unethical competi­ of separate employment agencies. A ll hiring, all black-list­ constitute the working population of the country. But these into the mechanism of modern society lead inevitably to the one tion for labor by war industries; compilation, for the in­ ing will be done through one Wall-Street-controllcd agen­ conclusion: that all the workers, of whatever race, must unite prints have an entirely different color when it comes to im­ in revolutionary struggle against the imperialist war-mongers, formation of the President, of lists of industrial defer­ cy. This agency will extend its tentacles across the whole posing them successfully. whether fascist or “ democratic” . The pamphlet “ Why Negroes ments from the draft of individuals required for efficient nation and strangle the labor movement in its grasp. One thing is absolutely certain: when the working popu­ Should Oppose the War” and the manifesto "A Warning to the operations of war industries; the avoidance and settlement Methods of " Controlling" Labor lation of the United States understands as a whole that the Colonial Peoples” are events of major importance in the political of labor problems; and the coordination of employment crystallization of the Negro instinct for revolutionary struggle. The confidential bulletin describes the concrete methods Wall Street dictatorship is composed of only a handful of services.” that will be used against labor in the following section : men whose numbers are in inverse proportion to their Guaranteeing War-Time Profits “ The Labor Controls to Be Used wealth and greed, and when the working population under­ Socialist Appeal This paragraph is one of the most important in the “ One of the major problems the War Labor Administra­ stands that this war is being conducted for nothing but the 116 University Place whole bulletin from the viewpoint of labor. It reveals ex­ tion must face is the one which caused greatest dissatisfac­ insurance of capitalist profits, they will rise in consuming New York City. I would like to get better acquainted with your paper, actly what is in store for the working man upon the entry tion during the World War on all sides— labor migration. wrath and wipe capitalism from the face of the earth, blue­ the Socialist Appeal. Please send me sample copies for of the United States into the war: “ T.R.I. Observation : Solution of the labor problem, par­ prints, greed, military dictatorship and all. the next few weeks. (1) “ Assurance of . . . adequate labor supply.” Wall ticularly that of migration, may be attempted by the use of In place of capitalist minority rule, they will construct Nam e ...... Street cannot be assured of its profits if there are not four means. These are : socialism, and through socialism the working man will gain enough hands to keep up with the war expansion of its ma­ “ ( 1 ) Control of the cost of living and the keying of the peace, decent living conditions, and a new era that will rele­ Address ...... chine and factories and to turn out the necessary goods, or real wages to that of living cost for all workers. [Just as gate war to the museum beside the dusty bones of the dino­ C ity ...... if the labor supply becomes so scarce that the demand for W.P.A. wages in the North have been slashed to corres­ saur and the capitalist. it acts to raise wages and so cut into profits. pond to a slight raise in the South.— J.H.] T h e E n d * SOCIALIST APPEAL FRIDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1939

camp in the war he favors. The new “ neutrality” legislation proposed by him is calculated to bring Danish Fourth International Issues the country two or three steps closer to the “ dem­ ocratic” empires in the war than did the present A Warning to “ neutrality” legislation he sponsored in its time. Revolutionary Call fo r a United The fight to keep the United States out of the war is primarily a fight against the Roosevelt Scandinavian Socialist Federation The People of regime. That fight cannot be led by. any other force than the independent labor movement— independent from all capitalist parties, capitalist Everywhere in this war-rid­ In all the belligerent coun­ revolution. If socialism can be The Colonies politicians and capitalist governments. Only such den world the voice of the tries, in all the countries more victorious in Germany, in independence can make the anti-war fight a Fourth International is making or less directly dragged into France or in England, then the itself heard as the only voice this war, the “ neutral” states, working class can also conquer serious one. \ of hope. Several weeks ago we parties and groups of the in Denmark and all of Scandi­ (For additional material on this manifesto see Green, however, true labor lieutenant of cap­ published the manifesto of our Fourth International, and only navia. Even today the united the column on the Negro Question on page 3.) italism, uses the occasion of the A F L convention British comrades of the M ili­ these parties, fight against the working classes of Scandinavia To the oppressed and exploited masses of the tant Labour League. In this is­ war and for the social revolu­ could give an example' of the British Empire, and all peoples under the heel of to endorse Roosevelt, to cover up his hypocriti­ sue we are reprinting a leaflet tion, for socialism. Do not per­ seizure of power to the workers Imperialism throughout the world: cal “ peace” assurances, to get behind his war issued by the Danish Fourth m it the catastrophes of the Sec­ of the world, if there were rev­ You, the most oppressed and exploited, will program, the program of armaments expansion Internationalists. In subsequent ond and Third Internationals to olutionary parties in these soon be called upon to take part in a war which issues we shall make public cast you into despair and ap­ countries. threatens the slaughter of millions of men, women included. A ll he asks is that he he “ fully repre­ the anti-war declarations of our athy. Take the revolutionary Distrust S.P., C.P. and children. Ruin, misery and devastation unpar­ FIGHT WITH THE SOCIALIST sented on any and all government hoards en­ French and Canadian com­ road. Do not lose courage! Be­ Do you believe that Stauning alleled in history endanger humanity. Yet at the gaged in preparing plans for industrial mobiliza­ rades, copies of which have on­ lieve in the future of the revo­ and Larsen w ill take this road? conclusion of the war the mass of the people w ill WORKERS PARTY FOR: ly just reached our office. lutionary movement! Siauning and the social democ­ still remain in their present condition of abject tion. . .” His only beef is, you see, that he hasn’t The Danish manifesto is sign­ 1. A job and a decent living for every worker. Support the Fourth Interna­ racy .upholding their tradition, poverty. War is no solution for their problems. been given enough recognition as part of the ed by the International Com­ tional ideologically and materi­ will fight on the side of the Even if agreement is reached between the rival 2. Open the idle factories—operate them under war machine. munists. This group has since a lly ! bourgeoisie in the future also. Imperialisms, it will only delay for a short period workers’ control. merged with the Leninist group How illusory, in the light of this, is the hope Support the Fourth! And the Danish Communist the threatening conflict. The next issue w ill be the .3. A Twenty-Billion dollar Federal public works and formed a united section of War and blockade will place Party will always adopt any Colonial Question. expressed by many workers that the Greens and the Fourth International in and housing program. Danish capitalism and its social counter-revolutionary position The Truth About the War the Lewises are going to stand up against the Denmark under the name Rev­ democratic government before ordered by Stalin at any given 4. Thirty-thirty! $30-weekly minimum wage— We are told that the war will be fought to save olutionary Socialists. In a note heavy tasks, which they can m om ent. 30-hour weekly maximum for all workers on capitalist war-mongers—an illusion expressed Poland from Hitler. This is a lie! If a battle is to us the comrades explain that solve only at the expense of the War is sharpening all class a ll jobs. waged it will be to prevent Hitler from overrun­ only recently at the Duluth convention of the the change in name was made working class. The Danish contradictions. All the questions ning Europe and stealing “ their” colonies. 5. Thirty dollar weekly old-age and disability Minnesota State Federation of Labor which, in necessary by the discreditment bourgeoisie is attempting to re­ of the daily class struggle are This is the truth that they dare not tell! pension. of the word “communist” main out of the war. But it is being placed on a high plane. its anti-war resolution, mistakenly hailed W il­ If these democratic nations are so concerned which after the Stalin - Hitler not the Danish bourgeoisie—it The war places you directly 6. Expropriate the Sixty Families. with defending smaller nations against aggression, liam Green as an opponent of the war. pact reached such a point that 1 is the General Staffs in Berlin and immediately before your why did they stand aside and allow Mussolini to 7. All war funds to the unemployed. Green and Lewis and their similars in the workers drove the Stalinists and London which will decide historic tasks: Overthrow of attack the defenseless Abyssinian people after hav­ off the streets wherever they in the last instance whether the rule of capitalism—prole­ 8. A people’s referendum on any and all wars. trade union bureaucracy can no more be relied ing promised them assistance? It is to mislead you showed their heads. Denmark is to participate act­ tarian dictatorship! upon to fight war than can Roosevelt. They are that our Imperialist masters are asking you to 9. No secret diplomacy. Seven thousand copies of the ively or passively in the war. Only a Marxist-Leninist par­ join up and fight for Democracy against Fascism. It. An independent Labor Party. the agents or servants of the war-mongers. stirring appeal of our Danish Will you, can you, leave the ty, which must grow- out of DEMOCRACY! What do you know of democra­ friends were distributed in Co­ struggle against war to Staun- your ranks, can enable the 11. Workers’ Defense Guards against vigilante cy in the Empire? In 1914 they called on the mass­ penhagen. Two comrades were ing and Aksel Larsen? Never! Danish working class of fulfill­ and Fascist attacks. es in the Mother Country and in the Empire to arrested in the process. The At the end of this war, victor ing these tasks. fight for Democracy and self-determination. M il­ 12. Full social, political and economic equality In Washington, D.C., the wage-hour administra­ Revolutionary Socialists an­ and vanquished will stand at International Communists lions died on Flanders’ Field, in Palestine, in East, for the Negro people. tion granted the lumber industry in Michigan, Wis­ swered the arrests with an in- the precipice faced by social (Affiliated to the 4th Inti.) consin and Minnesota partial exemption from the tensfied campaign of anti-war West and. South Africa. For what? More slavery, more oppression, more exploitation. fair labor standards act for the spring freshet w ork. driving. This will permit employment of workers TO THE DANISH WORKING No "Rights" Under Imperialism Danger Signal for as much as 56 hours a week for 14 weeks with­ CLASS! You in the Empire! What rights, what liberties, out paying overtime. Ordinarily, overtime is paid The war has come! Injunction Fails to Halt what democracy have you in the “ glorious” Em­ The Dies Committee, operating with the aid after 44 hours a week. The administration also Millions of people are about pires of Britain, France, Belgium, Holland, Por­ of Federal agents, has raided the offices of the granted exemption to the sugar beet industry, af­ to fight and die—not for any, Calif. Sports Wear Strike tugal, etc.? They have robbed the masses of their Communist Party in Chicago, and of several fecting thousands of sugar beet workers. It’s ideas or views, not for democ­ land and broken up their civilisation. They seg­ strange, but it looks like the workers who most racy or fascism, but for the' regate you in your own country, pen you in re­ other organizations which are not named in the need this act, with its minimum wage of two bits maintenance and expansion of (Special to the Socialist Appeal j blocking pedestrian traffic, and serves and locations like cattle, make you carry LOS ANGELES, Sept. 29 — an hour, are the very ones who are always being the imperialist terrain, for the: battery. Alice Ingram, business passes like common criminals, and then pay newspaper accounts. Entering the eighth week of its ■•exempted” . exploitation and redivision of agent of the local, and Paula The attitude of every revolutionary worker, strike against the Billy Biller you starvation wages. In the West Indies you are colonies, for interest paid on among the arrested. All of the still denied the most elementary rights of humaa Sports Wear Mfg. in Los Angel­ of every honest progressive worker, for that capital exports. union members were found beings. You asked for bread, and they gave you es, local 266 of the ILGWU con­ matter, towards the Stalinists, is pretty well That is what this war is be­ guilty and fined twenty-five dol­ hot lead! tinues to hold firm despite the ing conducted for. None of the lars each. The day of the ar­ The colonial masses in war, as in peace, can known. We consider Stalinism a poisonous in­ arrest of several of its militants belligerent parties have any rests, the employer found fur­ have only one aim, one goal—INDEPENDENCE. fluence in the labor movement and we have not Thomas vs. Browder concern over moral or historic and a court injunction restrict­ th e r assistance fro m the couiH.s ing picketing. And we summon you in whatever country—India, been in the last ranks of the struggle to eliminate " rig h ts .” when an injunction was issued Ceylon, Burma, Palestine, Africa—all people who Norman Thomas has worked himself up in The strike was called August This war is an imperialist restricting the picket line to fight for this end, to unite against the warmongers, that influence. But everyone who is concerned more than one speech and article during the past 22 when the union protested the war, an inevitable catastrophe three people. both Democratic and Fascist, and all those who at with the interests of the working class, and who employer’s violation of the state few weeks against the Ilitler-Stalin pact and in in the epoch of imperialism. this hour pledge in your name your lives in defense minimum wage law and de­ During the strike the employ­ reflects seriously on the problem, will share our From the moral point of view, of the Imperialists. They do not represent the real particular against its defense by Farl Browder. manded a union shop. At the er was hailed into court and this war is a gigantic crime on aspirations of the colonial peoples struggling for position on the Dies Committee attack upon the In the past, Thomas often condemned Brow-, refusal of the employer to grant charged with criminal violation the part of the ruling classes liberty. Be vigilant and watch the traitors in your Stalinist party. any of their demands an over­ of the state minimum wage der and Co. for pursuing a pro-war policy in which have no other means of law. Although his trial was set own ranks. In our fight against Stalin, Browder & Co., this country calculated to bring the United States securing, maintaining and ex­ whelming majority of the em­ ployee walked out of the shop for the 26th of Sept, he secured Unite in the Common Struggle we not only proceed from certain unshakeable panding the conditions of their a continuance until Oct. 19. into the camp of the “ democratic” imperialist and established a picket line. We denounce the whole gang of European rob­ existence. However, as a result of the principles, but we are very careful—doubly care­ In the fifth week of the strike bers and enslavers of the colonial peoples—Ger­ pirates with whom Stalin was allied or hoping to Only Way Out strike and the work of the union five of the union leaders were man Nazis, Italian Fascists, French, British, Bel­ ful nowadays, in the conditions of the war crisis he allied. Now, and not without justice, Thomas Lenin and Trotsky, Lieb- arrested for their activity on the boss has already been com­ — about W HO it is that is fighting the Stalinists knecht and Luxemburg showed, gian and Dutch democrats — all are the same condemns the new line of Browder, which is cal­ the picket line and charged pelled to raise wages to con­ in the last war, the only way IMPERIALIST BANDITS whose common aim is and what AIM S he pursues in the fight. w ith fiv e counts in clu d in g form to the state law. culated to alter the position of American capital­ out for the working class: the enslavement of humanity throughout the world. In our fight against Hitlerism, we are not ism in such a way as to facilitate the work of Down with the governments of To the workers of Britain we appeal also. You prepared to turn to the imperialist murderers of the fascist imperialist pirates with whom Stalin all the belligerent states! Turn must unite in the struggle of the colonial peoples this war into a civil war! Seize against the common enemy, who is in your own the “ democracies” for leadership and coopera­ is at present allied. country. To white and black the solution is the tion. Similarly, in our fight against Stalinism, power for yourselves! That still Yet the position that Thomas has taken to­ remains today the only way— WORKERS’FORUM same: Organize and be ready to seize the oppor­ we are not prepared to turn to the labor-hating, out of. war and fascism, out of tunity to overthrow the enemy. wards Stalin and the Soviet Union place him es­ FOR COMPLETE ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL chaos and barbarism! USING SPIES ed. So I must believe that the red-baiting gang of Bourbons who guide and sentially on the same plane as Browder. As LIBERATION OF THE COLONIAL PEOPLES! Where are the parties of the AGAINST LABOR labor spies are yet in the em­ run the Dies Committee. Reaction, whatever it DOWN WITH THE IMPERIALIST BANDITS! Chairman of the Socialist Party, Thomas has Second International? Where is Dear Comrade Editor: ployment of the corporations. WORKERS OF ALL LANDS UNITE! may seem to he doing at a given moment, cannot called upon President Roosevelt “ that the arms the social democracy? Ever The newspapers recently said Of course this is not modern. British Centre Against Imperialism since 1914 the history of the so­ tnat ‘detective organizations In the last war labor detective and does not serve the interests of progress. embargo against belligerent powers in Europe International African Service Bureau. cial democracy has been the set up. by industrial concerns to agencies worked with the feder­ Only shortsighted people, fools and scoun­ London—August 29, 1939 he extended to include Stalin’s government.” history of its betrayal of the prevent, sabotage would work al government against unions drels can take any comfort in the thought that Thomas and Browder are on the same political revolutionary tasks of the labor closely with the FBI.” My organizing. I can just picture “ regardless of his real aims,” Dies is striking a plane because both of them take an essentially movement and the working memory recalls that the Sen­ how a labor spy will get even blow at Stalinism. Only turncoats without prin­ class. Weis, Blum, Attlee and ate Committee on labor spies with the union leaders that Hear Cannon on the pro-war position and because both of them call the Staunings of all the parties ir, 1937 reviewed how the de­ made life so miserable for them ciples or scruples— people like Ben Gitlow and upon capitalist governments to fulfill their of the Second International tectives’ organizations function­ the last few years. The fallacy Causes of Imperialist War Joseph Zack—can cooperate with outfits run by bear the responsibility for m ak-1 ed against union organizing. of misleaders of the labor missions. The first lecture ii#a series of tour was deliv­ Dies. For our part, we condemn the Chicago ing possible that another impe­ My memory also recalls that I movement will fall on their Browder, up to yesterday, wanted the Roose­ rialist war can flare up in Eur­ never read or heard of any la­ thick heads like a ton of ered b)’ James P. Cannon, National Secretary of raids with all our strength, just as we condemn velt government to save Stalin from Hitler by ope at this late date. Hitler and bor spies being discharged af­ bricks. the Socialist Workers Party last Friday at I r ­ the whole conception and course and aims of the Mussolini, Daladier and Cham­ ter the Senate Committee end- For years they have been plunging the United States into an imperialist ving Plaza. Dies Committee. berlain, capitalist “ democracy” telling the workers what a war on the side of the “ democracies.” Browder and fascism — that is the way great friend of labor Frank An alert and intensely interested audience of The raids, like the rest of the Dies Commit­ now wants the Roosevelt government to help out, that is the handiwork, cre­ Murphy is. Soon “I Break over two hundred and fifty workers heard Can­ tee’s activities, are part and parcel of a national Stalin by keeping hands off Hitler and refrain­ ated by the Second Interna­ Strikes" Murphy will be work­ tional. Behind the Lines non outline the causes that gave ri»e to the first anti-labor and pro-war movement. Today it is the ing from taking sides with England and France ing hand and glove with the A Tool of the G.P.U. stool - pigeons, company spies, World War, the collapse of the anti-war pacifist S.talinists who are the victims of the govern­ liecause— Browder has discovered this now that Where is the Third Interna­ (Continued from Page 1) strikebreakers, and finks. They movement, the betrayal of the “ labor leaders” ment at whose heels they trotted for many years tional? Out of the banner-bear­ are in the same spot that the the Hitler-Stalin pact is in force—the war is im­ It was to place the issue and the struggle to reconstitute a revolutionary er of the world revolution, out Stalinites are in now, so clear and which they have not yet really abandoned. perialistic. At bottom, Browder, in the interests squarely before his wavering of the hope of the oppressed in that even dyed - in - the - wool international organization after the collapse of Tomorrow, bn much the'same pretext, Dies and axis-partner that Hitler sum­ of his paymaster, wants to sub-contract the job the whole world, Stalin has de­ Stalinites can understand. Mar­ moned Ciano to Berlin. It is the Second International. Murpny and the whole governmental machinery based the Third International tin Dies made a press state­ of the working class to the imperialist govern­ not difficult to guess that H it­ The audience, largely composed of the post­ into a propaganda agency for ment on the 26 of September will he swung into action against all labor and ments, or to one of them. ler was offering his pompous, his counter - revolutionary for­ that “ CIO soon would announce war generation of workers were particularly in­ militant elements who refuse to come to heel frightened ally in the Palazzo Thomas too has no faith in the working class eign policy, into a tool of the dismissal of all known Commu­ Venezia his last chance to get terested in the vivid picture Cannon gave of under the orders of the war dictatorship. and in its ability to act as an independent and G.P.U. in the struggle against nists from its ranks.” Boy, in on the Balkan ground flood America’s entry into the war in 1917. The in­ Unless the labor movement promptly takes Trotskyism and revolution. what a set-up for the labor decisive force in society. He is opposed to Stalin. before Stalin occupies it all. These last few days Stalin has spies in the CIO. They w ill find structive lesson of the complete betrayal of all measures to put a stop to the activities of the It is now the favorite pastime But he calls upon the American imperialist gov­ entrusted the fate of the Com­ more “reds” than there are those who “ opposed” the war but refused to take of Anglo-French statesmen and Dies Committee, it will find tomorrow that the ernment to do the job of crushing or “stopping” intern into H itler’s hands. Mor- corn stalks in Iowa, every un­ their journalistic echoes to a revolutionary anti-imperialist position was Dies Committee will have taken the measures j ally and politically destroyed ion militant will be painted a Stalinism. At bottom, he also wants to turn over gamble on the early break-up by the enormities of Stalinism “subversive element” by the driven home. needed to put a stop to the labor movement. of the new Moscow-Berlin axis. the task of the working class to a sub-contractor. | the Comintern apparatus which finks. Comradely yours, Cutting through the fog of official history Even Winston Churchill did his Imperialism and imperialist war are a plague. I still remains is naturally at- H .V . R om er part in his radio speech to Cannon showed'how the peace of 1918 was the I tempting to falsify the Ger- St. Louis Stalinism is a poison. But neither one of them th ro w '& -little oil on the fire he mano - Russian “ non - aggres­ P.S. You are doing a good direct outcome of the great revolutionary up­ J. F. Morgan has turned over his Scottish estate can be combatted by subjugating the working fondly hopes is burning under sion” pact as a victory for so­ job with the paper, more news heaval starting in Russia in February, 1917 to the British government as a war hospital. Well, the camp of his adversaries. class, intellectually, physically and politically, to cialism. But only the conclusion in action. The headline some he should: he helps get ’em shot. Russia is not really helping H it­ sweeping across Europe and changing the entire of this pact, only the direct war time back which said “ Workers a capitalist government. ler so much as helping itself aid of the Soviet Union initiated this is not your war” went over course of modern history. W ith all their differences and disputes, that is and in the process is barring by the trade agreement allows big here. I heard good remarks The lecture was followed by a lively question the Nazi drive from southeast­ precisely what Browder and Thomas, each in his Hitler to launch his war with about it. It draws their atten ern Europe, according to this period. confidence! tion sharp. Green’s Speech own way, are trying to do. theory. This is true enough, up The next lecture will deal with the “ Aftermath Danish Workers! What shall to a certain point. But those For Hitler—who realizes he The opening address of President William you do? of the First World War — The Versailles who calculate that for this rea­ must subdue Britain or go Green at the Cincinnati convention of the Amer­ son Stalin and Hitler w ill oblige down before it—Stalin’s “ neu­ Treaty.” The division of the world among the ican Federation of Labor puts him as squarely COMMENT SUPERFLUOUS Britain and France by flying trality,” however malevolent, victorious powers will be subjected to an analysis behind the War Deal government in Washington From an item on the International Youth Day prematurely at each other’s is worth any price he can showing how it prepared the conditions for the parade in Moscow, in the Manchester Guardian throats are doomed to sorry pay. For both, their self-pres­ second World War. as Roosevelt would desire. Weekly of September 8: disappointment. ervation is wrapped up in The leadership in the movement to drag the ” . . . Two German newspaper correspondents For Stalin right now it is of continuing for the present al­ The New York Local of the SWP is sponsor­ United States into the Second World War is in sprang to attention and clicked their heels when the essence that Hitler re­ ong the paths they have chos­ ing these lectures and invites all workers to at­ an O.G.P.U. (Secret Police) band began to play main capable of draining the en. What awaits them around tend this coming Fri. 8 p.m. in Irving Plaza, the hands of Roosevelt. >He has made no bones the ‘Internationale’ . . . Thaelmann’s picture was strength of the Western pow­ the next bend, however, nei­ about the fact that he has already decided which not to be seen.” ers in an exhausting war. ther of them really knows. 15 Street and Irving Place. Admission 25c.