Stalin Stages New Frame-up

732 In Teachers Union War Moves Take Anti-War Stand FDR Offers Trotsky Nails Last Surviving

NEW YORK.—A referendum Speeded Up on affiliation to the American Meager Sop Fresh Attack Old Bolsheviks league for Peace and Democracy in Teachers Union, Local 5, re­ sulted in victory for affiliation by a vote of 1,955 to 732. The To Jobless On His Asylum Facing Death By Roosevelt vote was preceded by an intens­ ive campaign by the majority group, favoring affiliation, and Bukharin, Rykov, Rakovsky, and Eighteen Others Prepare To Knit Latin by the Independents, who are op­ Hundreds of Thousands Answers Toledano’s Move Tried on New Frame-up Charges of American States In posed. Will Starve As War Known GPU Agent The oppositional vote of 27 To Gag Him As New Treason and Murder War Alliance percent, was the largest ever pol­ Budget Mounts Trial Opens led against the leadership since Goes To Mexico A favorable report by the the present administration took The miserly proportions of the On F ebruary 23, 1938, the C. Fears that definite plans BUKHARIN WAS ALLY OF STALIN House Military Affairs Com­ control of the union. It showed financial provisions made by the T. M. (Mexican trade union are on foot to assassinate mittee on the notorious May Bill,, the considerable growth in in­ Roosevelt administration for re­ federation dominated by a Sta­ Leon Trotsky were heightened revised version of the Sheppard- fluence that the Independent lief of mounting unemployment, BULLETIN linist clique under the leader­ this week with receipt of word H ill Bill, and preparations on the group has enjoyed and also re­ as compared with the inflated ship of Lombardo Toledano and that Georges Fournial, a Nikolai Krestinsky, former first vice-commissar of Foreign floor of the House for speedy flected a growing and increas­ war budgets which Congress is Hernan Laborde, secretary of known agent of Stalin’s G1*U, Affairs, ripped the Stalin frame-up fabric wide open at the openr passage of the huge special ingly intelligent appreciation of being asked to vote, have been the Mexican Communist Party) has arrived in Mexico City, Naval Appropriations, last week the real nature of “collective brought into prominence by the ing session of the Trial of 21 on Mar. 2, by repudiating hid without any previous discus­ ostensibly as delegate of the brought the Roosevelt war pro­ security” — the issue around $250,000,000 deficiency relief ap­ sion adopted a resolution at­ International of Educational "confession" that he had engaged in espionage at the direct gram to new heights. Overwhelm­ which £he referendum campaign propriation recommended by tacking Leon Trotsky and re­ Workers, one of those vague orders of Leon Trotsky. ing endorsement by Congress of was fought. Roosevelt for the remainder of peating all the slanders concoct­ paper organizations which the Naval Appropriations was The Independents waged their the fiscal year ending June 30. To an astounded court, Krestinsky declared: “ I am not guilty!' ed by Stalin against the lead­ serve the Kremlin Borgia as freely predicted for the near fight against affiliation, not on According to an estimate made I nevef was a s p y !” ers of the October Revolution a cover for his international future, with the authorized sum the basis of futile pacifist isola­ by the administration, this de­ NIKOLAI BUKHARIN —slanders which were comp­ plotting s. When .Judge V. V. Ulrich reminded him that he had “con­ in all probability going far be­ tionism but upon a program of ficiency appropriation, if passed, letely exploded and branded as Fournial's arrival at the yond the $800,000,000 originally militant workers’ action against will enable the Wi.P.A. to em­ fessed," Krestinsky repeated: “ I am not guilty!" sheer frame-up by the impart­ place of Trotsky’s asylum fol­ projected. the capitalist war-makers. In the. ploy an additional 2,500,000 ial Commission of Inquiry un­ lowed revelation in last week’s Thousands of telegrams from course of the struggle the Inde­ people between now and the end der the leadership of Dr. John “ Socialist Appeal" that a man With the customary suddenness that characterized all American Legion posts and other pendents also won a remarkable of the fiscal year. GPU TRIES TO Dewey. The following is the named Rossi, alias Rous, the jingo organizations were pouring measure of union democracy from the previous frame-up trials, Moscow announced at the text of Comrade Trotsky’s re­ into Washington demanding an administration that had to “ Revolutionary" Criticism actual murderer of Ignnce end of last week its plans to open up the latest of its ply to this infamous resolution. Reiss in Switzerland last year, passage of the Sheppard-Hill learn that it could not so easily frightful travesties on justice, this time involving the The Stalinist-controlled Nation­ — Ed. had been assigned the job of FRAME CHINESE May Bill. In its present form railroad its policies through. lives of 21 men, headed by such prominent architects of al Executive Committee of the murdering Trotsky. Among this measure provides for uni­ By Leon Trotsky the Russian Revolution as Alexis Rykov, Lenin’s successor Workers Alliance, has taken is­ Rossi’s belongings were found versal conscription (draft) of all as Chairman of the Council of People’s Commissars, Niko­ sue with Aubrey Williams, assist­ COYOACAN, D.F., Feb. 24.— a map of Mexico City and male citizens between thd ages BOLSHEVIKS lai Bukharin, former chairman of the Communist Interna­ a n t W ..P .A . a d m in istra to r, on Mr. Lombardo Toledano and his suburbs, a map of Mexico, a of 21 and 31, a proposal unpre­ this figure and has declared that clique, after lengthy and assidu­ tional who, together with Rykov and Stalin, formed the cedented in American peace-time WPA Rolls Used number of American addresses, the appropriation is sufficient to ous preparation, have made a and, most important of all, a ruling trio in Russia from 1925 to 1929, and Christian h isto ry. Chinese Comrades Spike give employment to an additional malicious attempt to deceive pub­ duplicate of Rossi’s applica­ Rakovsky, first head of the Ukrainian Soviet Republic* M ilitary Dictatorship 2,900,000 people, or 400,000 more lic opinion in this country. The tion for a visa to visit Mexico. Stalinist Charges Henrik Yagoda, until recently the head of the G.P.U. who For Recruiting than the official estimate. “material” on which they based Against Them organized the two big trials against Zinoviev-Kamenev Along with the draft section is By this they intend to convey themselves at the February Con­ in 1936 and ftadek-Pyatakov in 1937, is also included: included blanket authorization the idea that Williams is just vention of the Confederation of and his kind by several heads. Charges Go Back to 1921! for a one hundred percent m ilit­ Into U.S. Army holding out on the unemployed. Trade Unions . of Mexico (C.T. The Commission, point by point, Tying in closely with the in­ ary dictatorship not merely for This is in line with their general M .) does not represent anything refuted all the accusations of Ya- ternational campaign being con­ The accusations against the 21, who have been sen­ the time of the war, but as long policy of directing their “revolu­ new: it is the material of Ya- goda, Yezhov, Vyshinsky, Stalin, ducted by the Stalinists against tenced in advance by the Stalinist machine, exceed by far as the “emergency" might last. Military, Relief Agencies tionary” criticism, not against goda, Yezhov, Vyshinsky. It is and their international lackeys. the revolutionists gathered under anything that has yet been witnessed. The defendants are A legal basis is given for the the capitalist system and its po­ the material of Stalin. On the The twenty-first paragraph of the the banner, of the Fourth Inter­ not only charged with the murder of Kirov, but with hav­ definition on all forms of labor Cooperate To Put litical administration as a whole, basis of this material thousands verdict states: “ We find the Pro­ national, a violent lynch drive, ing assassinated Maxim Gorky, V. Kuibyshev, and V. K., and trade-union activity as treas­ Men In Uniform but against the “ bad" capitalists, of people have been shot. Their secutor fantastically falsified with provocation and slander as Mcnzhinsky, ex-chief of the G.P.U. on. the “ economic royalists,” and the only ,guilt was that they detested Trotsky’s role before, during, and its instruments, is being waged As if this were not sufficiently fantastic, the announce­ The impact of the current "bad" administrators in Wash­ the dictatorship of the Kremlin after the October revolution." It against the Communist League The Roosevelt Administration ment of the trial includes the charge that Leon Trotsky crisis in European affairs served ington. As the twentieth-century clique and felt contempt for its is exactly this "fantastic falsifi­ of China (Bolshevik-Leninists) has been a spy of one foreign power since 1921 and of to bring out the fundamental plans to use relief agencies as a exponents of reformism they out­ lawyer and lackeys. The "ma­ cation" which, lies at the root of according to reports reaching channel for recruiting for the here from our comrades in another one since 1926, and that Bukharin, Trotsky and’ identity of “collective security" do all the reformists of the clas­ terial” which Lombardo Toledano the slanders of Mr. Toledano and others conspired as early as 1918, that is, immediately and “isolation.” Prime Minister next war. This came out into the sical schools. uses in order to deceive Mexican his helpers. Shanghai. open February 25 when the New Leading the campaign in China after the revolution, to overturn the Soviet Government Chamberlain’s turn toward a It is not at all surprising to public opinion received the ne­ York Times reported that the Real Views Available is Chen Shao-yi (known abroad by murdering Lenin, Stalin and Sverdlovl deal with Mussolini served to find the StaliniBts completely si­ cessary evaluation in the find­ U.S. army recruiting service had as Wang-Ming,) Chinese repre­ dampen temporarily the enthus­ lent on the fact that People’s ings of the International Inquiry My real politics arc accessible Stalin in -Desperation whole, and to distract attention asked the up-state VV. P. A . for sentative on the Executive Com­ iasm of the "quarantine the ag­ Champion Roosevelt first sent his Commission at New York. In mo­ to all. They are set forth in my from the utter collapse of his lists of unmarried men on home mittee of the Communist Inter­ gressor” bloc of Congressmen; $250,000,000 appropriation request ral height, past, •Irreproachabil- books and articles. As in October, The very wording of the entire course in foreign policy. or work relief, in order to get national, who, under the protect­ but this bloc joined as one with to Congress and only afterwards ity of reputation, personal dis­ 1917, I defend the interests and charges reveals that, in his de­ Stalin has become supremely them to enlist for military ser­ ing wing of the reactionary the Congressional isolationists to termination to cover up the fla­ desperate and mad. For no per­ vice. called “the people” (i.e. the N. interestedness, each member of rights of the workers and peas­ Kuomintang government at Han­ howl for still larger naval and grant contradictions in the pre­ son in his right mind, who has According to the report, the E.C. of the Workers Alliance) this Commission, beginning with ants in the U.S.S.R.—against kow, where he arrived recently military armament as the ans­ vious trials, to rid himself of all the slightest knowledge of the VV.P.A. the re fore sent out letters into consultation. its president, Dr. John Dewey, the new, insatiable and tyrannic- from Moscow, is calling for "the wer to the European events. possible critics and opponents, Russian Revolution, can place the (Continued on page 2) (Continued on page 2) surpasses Lombardo Toledano (Confinued on page 3) (Continued on page 4) to terrorize the population as a “Wings of Democracy" slightest credence in the out­ rageously absurd accusations The Administration is utilizing that are levelled at the defend­ the European crisis as a spring­ ants. board for re-emphasizing the That Stalin has again succeed­ fundamental plank in its imper­ ed in extorting confessions from ialist policy: namely, undisputed Last of Lenin’s Colleagues Face Doom his prisoners, confessions written U.S. domination over the entire for them in advance, goes with­ two American continents. N. I. BUKHARIN came illegally to the United ary movement since 1900. Arrest­ 1696: participated in labor mo­ served u n til 1916. A ctive p a rti­ sion, where as chairman of the out saying. Otherwise, he would States in 191,6, where,he edited! ed in M arch, 1901. W ent to Ge­ vement of Switzerland, Germany cipant in October revolution in Central Commission he guided Six of the gigantic new army never risk the explosion of his. Born 1888. "O ne o f the lead­ the Novy Mir. neva in 1902, im m ediately sent and France. 1896-1903: worked Petrograd. 1920: appointed to the work on the drafting of the bombers, by far the most power­ frame-up system that would ers and theoreticians of the C. back to Russia for underground in Rumania and Russia; collabo­ post in Cheka, became head of Five-Year Plan. ful fighting planes in existence, After the February revolution follow if the men were brought P.S.U., member of the C.E.C. work. Participated in 1.905 revo­ rated on Lenin’s Iskra (under pen G.P.U. under Stalin. Organizer roared their way down through made his way to Moscow through 1929: deputy People’s Commis­ in to a public court. and the Political Committee, edit­ lution, member of Petersburg name of Insarov). 1907: arrested of Zinoviev-Kamenev trial. Panama and Peru to play the Japan and Siberia. sar of Agriculture. But whatever the prisoners or of Pravda, member of the E. Soviet of Workers’ Deputies. by Rumanian government and de­ star role at the inauguration of “All his qualities make Buk­ Rose with Stalin; appointed by feel themselves compelled to re­ C .C .I." (Small Soviet Encyclo­ 1906: exiled to Siberia, escaped ported. During Balkan wars and the new President of Argentina, harin one of the best beloved latter to Commissariat of Fin­ peat by heart in court, nothing pedia). Son of a school-teacher. to Moscow. 1907: arrested and World Wiar arrested on several the rich banker and industrialist, personalities of the Russian re­ C. F. GRINKO ance, fro m which post he was in the world can make the charges Participated as high-school stu­ exiled to Taganrog. Went abroad, occasions. 1915: Participated in Roberto Ortiz. The peoples of volution.” (Small Encyclopedia.) removed during the recent purge. stick. dent in 1905 revolution. Entered returning to Russia in Summer Zimnterwaid Conference. May Born 1890. P articipated in re­ « * * the Central and South American Referred to by Lenin in his Bolshevik party in 190G. Mem­ o f 1909. A rrested alm ost im m e­ 1917: freed from prison by Rus­ volutionary movement (with the Ex-Ally of Stalin nations were being told in no Testament as “ the most valuable N. N. KRESTINSKY ber of Moscow Com m ittee, 1908. diately, escaped, arrested (per­ sian soldiers. January-March Social-Revolutionists) at age of uncertain terms just which side and biggest theoretician of the Arrested several times. Exiled at formance repeated many times 1918: headed struggle against 16. Expelled from university in Born 1883: Old Bolshevik. Son The only association between their bread is buttered on. party,” and the “favorite of the end o f 1910 to Onega, whence he over). Exiled in Narym when counter-revolution in the Ukrainq. 1913 for participating in student of a high-school teacher. In re­ the Bukharin-Rykov group and' At the same time new short whole party.’’ 1919-1926: head of escaped abroad. Became . closely February revolution broke. Mem­ 191.9: C hairm an of Council of strike. Drafted 'into the army, volutionary movement since any other, was not woth Trotsky, wave channels were granted to the Communist International. connected with Lenin, “who, im­ ber of Presidium of Moscow So­ People’s Commissars in the Uk­ where he remained until -1917. 1902; joined p a rty in 1903. A r ­ but w ith S talin. Between 1923 the General Electric Company After his capitulation to Sta; mediately recognized his great viet shortly after. Member of raine. 1923: ambassador to Eng­ Spent 1914-1917 at the front, rested several times and exiled. and 1929, Bukharin, Rykov, Stalin and • one of its subsidiaries for lin, was sent on European tour abilities and talent.” first Council of People’s Commis­ land. 1925-1927: ambassador to where he was promoted to rank After February revolution, mem­ and Voroshilov marched aim in­ daily “non-commercial” broad­ by Stalin. Delivered speeches in While abroad was arrested by sars as Commissar of the Inter­ France. Oppositionist!; expelled, of officer. After October revolu­ ber of Ural provincial commit­ arm in a relentless crusade a- casts to South America, and Paris. At approximately the Austrian police as a “spy," but ior. February 1918: Lenin’s de­ exiled, capitulated in 1934. Sent tion worked in the U kra ine as tee and of Ekaterinburg city gainst Trotsky and his support­ plans were announced for direct same time, Rakovsky was sent to was set free on intervention of puty in Council of People’s Com­ by Stalin to Japan (undoubtedly member of the Borothysf.i (left committee. October 1917: elect­ ers. At the end of that period, U.S. Government broadcasts in Japan. These trips will undoubt­ Austrian Socialists. Says the missars and Council.of Labor and in preparation for the trial). Ap­ wing of the Ukrainian S.R.’s), ed Commissar of Justice. August, during which the four and their the same direction. The sugared edly be used in the trial to estab­ Small Encyclopedia: “ this charge Defense. Lenin’s successor as pointed head of Gynecological which fused in 1920 with the C. 1.918 to end of 1922: served as associates mutually. defended message of Roosevelt “ neighbor­ lish links between the defendants each other, Bukharin-Rykov- was too absurd.” Deported to chairman of Council of People’s Medical Institute. Arrested after r.s.u. People’s Commissar of Finance. liness” thus enters into big-scale and foreign enemies. Commissars. Member of Polit­ Zinoviev-Kamenev trial. 1919-1.926: worked in U k ra in ­ 1917-1921: member of Central Tomsky were opened up on by competition with the broadcasts S w itzerland. In 1915 w ent to Bukharin was one of the com­ buro since 1919. One o f most * * * ian Soviet government, occupying Committee of party. 1919-1921: the Stalin machine, which threat­ from Germany, Italy and Eng­ Sweden, where the Swedish police ened them with expulsion unless mittee of 30 which drafted the highly honored personages in the several important posts (member secretary of the Central Commit­ land. H. G. YAGODA they capitulated, which they arrested him as an “agent of Stalin Constitution. Soviet Union. of All-Ukrainian Revolutionary tee. Member of Central Execut­ Simultaneously, rumors were Lenin" for his anti-militarist Born 1891. Son o f an artisan. Military Committee; People’s ive Committee of the Soviets finally did. The right wing faction of Buk­ revived about the possibilities of propaganda, charging him with Official Stalinist biography states Commissar of Education; chair­ Under Lenin. October 1921: made a Pan-American m ilitary alliance. harin was restored to important alleged preparations to "blow up A. I. RYKOV C. G. RAKOVSKY that he. was active in the revo­ man of State Planning Commis­ Soviet Ambassador to Berlin. In spite of the fact that for years lutionary movement since bis sion; Chairman of Ukrainian 1922: participated in Hague Con­ Soviet and party positions and bridges" and “throw bombs." Secretary Hull has denied any Born 1881. “ One o f the most Born 1873. Old revo lu tio n ist. youth. -Joined p a rty in 1907. A r ­ Council of People’s Commissars). ference. Originally in Opposition. simply resumed their previous thought of such a plan, last week Deported from Sweden. Went to eminent members of the Bolshevik 1889: participated in revolution­ rested in Moscow in 1911. and ex­ 1926-1929: vice-chairman of Capitulated to Stalin. campaign against “Trotskyism.” (Continued on page 3) Norway, then Denmark. Finally party.” Participant in revolution­ a ry movement 'in B ulga ria. 1890- iled. Drafted into army in 1915; Soviet State Planning Commis- (Continued on page 3) (Continued on page 4) Page 2 SOCIALIST APPEAL March 5, 1938

S.W.P. Replies JERSEY JOBLESS Akron Teachers Spy Scare, Somewhat Too Neatly‘Pro-Labor’ Congressmen W IN CONCESSIONS F ig h t Layoffs Timed, Rouses Jingo Newspapers To Slander Of NEWARK—Acting in conjunc­ tion with many C.I.O. and A. The capitalist press is being filled with What we do have, however, is some Abandon Beal’s Defense F. of L. unions, as well as the With Union Aid Workers’ Alliance, the Trade the most sensational stories about, the very suspicious evidence that all is not ‘New Republic’ discovery of a big “ Nazi spy ring” in the what it seems to be with this peculiar Union Committee on Unemploy­ NEW YORK.—The action of defense because he (w ith six ment of Essex County has suc­ Board Drops 38 In Face United States. Government agents have “ Nazi spy ring.” One of the prisoners two congressmen, Rep. John T. other Communist Party mem­ ceeded in winning many new con­ Of Militant Union already apprehended two men and one says he was engaged in his job merely Bernard of Minnesota and Rep. bers) jum ped bail in 1930 to go to fix-Liberal Organ Caught cessions from local relief and woman—it is said that others are about by sending a request to the German John M. Coffee of Washington, the Soviet Union; because in 1933 Lying In Issue of W .P.A. authorities in Essex Resistance to he added to the lis t— and charged secret service in an envelope addressed in resigning from the Non-Par­ he left the Soviet Union and on I County. them with military espionage in behalf to a German newspaper. How simple! tisan Committee for the defense returning to the United States Bridges Ouster I Under the driving force of the of a foreign power. It is.broadly intimat­ Just like applying for a job advertised of Fred E. Beal, former member criticized the prevailing reime in progressives’ program, the m ili­ BY lil.AKK BEAR ed that the foreign power is none other in the “ Help Wanted” columns! of the Communist Party now in the Soviet Union; because lie op­ jail in North Carolina for his posed the C.I.O. in his native The following letter was sent tan ts of the com m ittee have been AKRON—For the first time in than Germany. activities in the Gastonia strike to the New Republic last week able to overcome the do-nothing Akron history, school teachers Seme Peculiar Features city of Lawrence, Mass. The arrests are meat and drink to the in 1929, was severely criticize d by James P. Cannon, national respectable People’s Front pro­ dared speak up in defense of their jingoistic press, which has joined readily by the Committee this week as Only One Charge Secretary ol' the Socialist Work­ gram of the Stalinists, and have jobs when the Akron Federation The origin of the discove'ry is also not with the Roosevelt regime and its spokes­ unworthy of public officials elect­ e rs P a rty : developed a strong demand in of Teachers opposed the Board without interest.... and surprise. The “ Since you do not specify your men to work up a frenzied war spirit on ed with labor support. To the Editor of the many trade unions for more in­ of Education’s plan for wholesale spy, we are told, simply calls up the '•complaints against Beal, we are the basis of which the professional pa­ A letter addressed by the com­ New Republic: tensive activity in relief affairs. la yo ffs. Passport Bureau, says his name is “ Mr. ied to assume that you mean to Your department of Washington triots hope to swing through without mittee to the two Congressmen «The chief Stalinist in the com­ Although 38 teachers were laid Weston, Under-Secretary of State,” and refer to the above charges. We states, inter alia: "General state­ ‘Notes by T.R.B. in the New mittee has been revealed as a off, this was achieved only by difficulty the biggest peace-time naval asks for 50 blank passports. This is really wish to point out that this Com­ ments purporting to emanate Republic of February 2.'!, com­ letter-writing, resolution-passing a secret rum)) session of the appropriations budget in American his­ mittee, composed of persons of a bit thick, as the English say. Can it be from liberals, Socialists and ments on the new attempt to de- bureaucrat who has never at any Board of Education r.fter five tory. diverse political viewpoint pas­ ¿ort Harry Bridges on the basis that Nazis are so much more stupid than Farmer-Laborites have appear­ time presented a clear-cut ag­ weeks of battling during which ses no ju dgem ent on Beal’s po­ $£'affidavits by ex-members of the they are said to be? It would seem that ed in the Daily Worker charging gressive program for the unem­ the Teachers were supported by Spurred by Washington litical or trade union views or Communist Party purporting to such a naive step would not be taken that Fred Beal is unworthy of ployed. Under the driving force representatives from the Akron activities. We are defending Beal connect Mr. Bridges with mem­ The Washington authorities, of course, even by a spy who had come by his pro­ of the m ilita n ts , he has been Industrial Union Council and the against only one charge: the bership in that organization. arc not behindhand in this drive. Quite fession through a correspondence school forced to make militant state­ rubber locals. frame-up charge of murder .Your correspondent adds: The course. ments that are not at all becom­ The rump session was conven­ the contrary. They spur it on with all Stool Pigeons Put brought against him in North identity of these accusers has not ing to the present program of ed under the pressure of the Ak­ the powers at their command. It is highly And when it is added that the 50 pass­ Carolina in 1929 to punish him been revealed, but it is understood the Stalinists. ron Beacon-Journal and the significant that while tlie State Depart­ ports were for use by Nazi agents in Finger on Writers for the crimes of organizing a they are former Stalinit.es who The unemployed, however, are Chamber of Commerce, who ment dilly-dallied and stammered, when traveling to the Soviet Union, and that union and leading a strike. have turned Trotskyist." fast recognizing the consistent fear the penetration of anti-lay­ it was not entirely silent, about the “ Ro- there was found—how conveniently!—in "Beal’s innocence of murder Like all other informed people militants, and will not easily be off ideology into the rubber binson-Rubens” case, which so plainly one spy’s pocket a picture very much like Informers Cause Many is admitted even by the Daily who have watched the recent fooled by words alone. shops, the basic industry of Ak­ involves the whole G.P.U. machine in that of Mrs. Rubens-Robinson; and W o rke r of Feb. 24, 1938. The evolution of the New Republic, ron. To Lose Jobs On American Civil Liberties Union, I fully understand the design this country, a sharply different attitude when it is borne in mind that “ Mr. Wes­ The Akron education system, which, with the Communist Party, behind this deliberate attempt to has marked the behavior of Washington ton” gave himself up to the government WPA Project one of the worst in the United defended him in 1929, has through besmirch a political tendency by with respect to the alleged Nazi ring of —excuse us! we meant “ was apprehend­ States for cities of its size, is its director, Roger N. Baldwin, reference to anonymous "Trotsky­ spies. WPA Rolls Used For paying the price of a large bond­ ed bv the government” — right on the Pursuing the line of driving offered to ‘aid in any way the ists.” Since -the New Republic We do not, to be sure, have any con­ ed indebtedness for its boom eve of the announcement of the New all independent militants out of defense committee requests’ our gfcve its e d ito ria l blessing to the growth. As a consequence there clusive evidence about the crime of es­ Moscow Trial, we are tempted to believe the labor movement the Com­ fight for Beal’s freedom. The of­ Moscow frame-up trials, it is only U. S. Army Recruits are no kindergartens, the first pionage with which the arrested persons that the whole affair hangs together munist Party members of the ficial organ of the Socialist natural that you should extend grade is on half time, half of the are charged. Even if it were clearly de­ just a .little bit too well. W riters’ Project recently publish­ Party, the Call, unlike the so- the technique to the American high schools run in two shifts monstrated that they were guilty of the ed, in their monthly paper, the called ‘Lawrence Socialists’ quot­ Scene. I am not naive enough to Military, Relief Agencies and school is held in buildings charge, we would beg to be excused from A Little Too Neat Red Pen, the names of all Pro­ ed by the Daily Worker, supports ask you to correct this statement Join Hands To Put Men long since condemned by the participating in the chauvinistic hysteria ject workers who refuse to sub­ this Committee." iri regard to the alleged "Trots­ State Fire Warden. which the press is working up. We are In fact, if one of the agents of the G. mit to the Party line. kyists“ who have allegedly be­ In Uniform Who Are They? By cutting the school year only P.U., disguised as a Nazi spy, had cook­ The Red Pen. eager to remove come stool pigeons for the De­ not such gullible idiots as not to know three days, the proposal support­ ed up the whole business—and HeaVen from the W.P.A. those who dis­ Who are the Lawrence "Social- partment of Justice. I do chal­ (Continued from page 1; what every government official through­ ed by the Federation, a ll 38 knows we could never, never suspect the agree with the C.P. war line and is ts ” who signed the attack on lenge- you to be more specific. out the world—and every informed per­ teachers could have been retained. spotless G.P.U. of doing anything so dictatorial union policies, accus­ Beal which appeared in the Daily Who are these “Trotskyists to "to all local public welfare com­ son, for that matter—also knows. We In supporting this proposal, how­ ed the dozen writers named of Worker of Feb. 24? Not one of Whom your correspondent refers? missioners outside of New York refer to the well-established fact that d irty !—it could not have fitted together ever, the Teachers stated that at loafing on the job writing "fas­ the persons signing it is a So­ -Give us the names! City" asking them to cooperate every government in the world has an more prettily. best it was only a stop gap, and cist brochures for the W.P.A.," cialist or a member of any work­ with the army in its recruiting espionage service, whose agents are act­ Frankly, we await further develop­ Slander Retracted that a more fundamental revi­ of being hooligans of the ing class political party. The as "a means of reducing your sion of the system's finances ive in spying on every other government ments — especially what Moscow may mouth," "union busters” and first two signers, Joe Salerno Some weeks ago the Western relief roils and costs." through either a special election, in the world, seeking to acquire for have to say—fortified against any “ sur­ "spies.” and Charlotte Marchese, quit the Worker, California organ of the This plan to squeeze the un­ legislation which would free themselves, by bribery, theft and simil­ prises” that certain gentlemen may have Socialist Party over a year ago, employed into the army was put Stalinist Supervisors Communist Party, accused Harry money for the schools, or through ar methods, the military and diplomatic in mind. For after all, in concocting af­ and left in our possession a do­ into effect immediately in up­ Lundeberg, Secretary of the further state aid, would have to secrets of the country to which they have fairs of this type, what is there left to It is common knowledge that cument denouncing the S.P. and state New York. "Some district Sailors Union of the Pacific, of be made. been assigned. surprise anybody with? most of the supervisors on the its aims. The next signer, Thomas reports.... showed that local instigating the new deportation The campaign of the Federa­ Project are members of the C.P., Nicholson, is a reactionary who commissioners had already begun movement against Bridges. Mr. tion of Teachers was led by and that failure to contribute to left the S. P. over two years ago, a system of direct communication Lundeberg filed notice of a suit Chalmers K. Stewart, President, N.J. C hem ical the pet Stalinist Leagues For or before the Old Guard left the with army officials on the recruit­ for libel. Thereupon the West- and Donald D. Burns, Corres­ Ohio-Michigan YPSLs Fight Rule Against This or That, the drives party. Most of the other signers ing of persons from relief." tern W orker p ro m p tly p rin te d a ponding Secretary, progressive to save peace and democracy, are old-time members of the Ita­ The action was not limited to Plant Strike front page retraction and apol­ leaders of the organization. They, may be tantamount to dismissal. lian Federation of the S.P. which area "outside of New York City." On Alien Students ogy. The' frame-up and slander were elected in a recent election District Meets Many a non-Stalinist project has not held a ch a rte r in the S.P. The Times’ own story states that In Ninth Week game around this issue continues. in which the progressives defeat­ worker was placed on the firing for over five years. Furthermore, "Col. L. B. Magruder, acting re­ • The medium has changed from ed a Stalinist-reactionary bloc. lists last June for political in­ there is no local of the S.P. in cruiting officer for the Second SWP Organizations meet Picket Board of Higher itho official Stalinist press to the : • NEVV/A-ftK-.—-W ith '- ranks- - s till transigeance and independent ; Lawrence, and there are no mem­ Corps Area, disclosed that re­ New Republic and the indictment A t Cleveland To Plan solid, 325 members of United Education To Force thought. Red Pen is obviously bers of the S.P. residing in the has been switched from Lunde­ presentatives of the army, navy Mine Workers Chemical Division, laying- down the line fo r the new; city. From this alone we can see and other branches of the armed Building Drive New Decision berg to nameless "Trotskyists ; MONEY FOR WAR have ended the ninth week of a wave of dismissals. that behind the document there service had attended a meeting are lies and deceit. otherwise the game remains the bitter strike against the United Twenty-three independents on same. No doubt the Western January 10, in the offices of The document itself states that BY R. FERG USO N Color and P igm ent Co., a rich NEW YORK. — Several hund­ the project, supported by many Worker’s experience with Lunde­ Lieut.-Col. Brohon B. Somervell, NONE FOR RELIEF Count Vittorio Orlandini, a fasc­ chemical company with a long red students, led by the Young others, have just issued a signed berg has taught you caution in local Works Progress Adminis­ ist, uses Beal’s pamphlet to at­ CLEVELAND. — Gathering in anti-labor history. People’s Socialist League (Fourth leaflet answering the Stalinist the use of names in connection tra to r. " tack thp Soviet Union. That, if Cleveland February 13, delegates The union went on strike last Internationalists), picketed the charges and exposing their stool- with such foul accusations. But Deficiency Appropriation true, is regrettable. But what is Beans Spilled from the branches in the Ohio- December when the company Board of Higher Education meet­ pigeon character. M an y C. P. to be said of the Stalinists and you w ill not be able, to duck the Fails To Meet Most Detroit region met in their first refused to renew their contract ing- last Thursday to protest a re­ members, disgusted but cowed by issue by this contemptible device. What was the outcome of the convention to set up a district unless a wage-cut was accepted their press, which, in chorus with Pressing Needs actionary ruling barring all non­ the threat to their jobs, have ex­ You will still have to put up or conference? Magruder, according organization and to lay plans for by the workers. Despite lack of citizens from New York City the reactionary Southern Bour­ pressed their contempt for this shut' up. to the Times report, "came out a concerted Socialist Workers organizational help from the In­ colleges. bons, are howling for the impri­ of the conference with the con­ (Continued from page 1) Party-building campaign in this ternational, the union, organized slanderous campaign on the pro­ sonment of a proletarian fighter, Beal Un mentioned Shortly after the pickets had viction that persons who refused industrial area. only last summer, has carried on held a mass meeting- outside as ject. a victim of capitalist frame-up? On the general question of to accept m ilitary posts would be Inspired by the decisions of the a spectacular and solid strike the climax of a vigorous cam­ stqol-pigoonry it has been noticed dropped from federal relief Official estimates disclose the national convention, the delegates against overwhelming odds. paign led by the Y.P.S.L., the that you have avoided all men­ posts." The next day, Col. Som­ fact that at ¡east 3,000,000 men reported from the various The rank and file committee Board decided to ask the State tion of the indecent campaign of ervell contradicted him and "in­ have lately lost their jobs, thus branches the work done in the conducting the strike is doing a Legislature to reverse the old the Communist Party to hustle sisted that no thought had been swelling the army of unemploy­ localities since then and outlined job that would do credit to a law under which it had barred Appeal Army Fred Beal back to North Caro­ given to compelling able-bodied ed to 13 millions or more. The the prospects for future growth. seasoned labor organizer. They all aliens, including many young- lina to serve a twenty-year prison young W .P.A. employees to en­ deficiency appropriation will take Like a red thread through the have maintained mass picket refugees from Fascist countries. Returns have just started com­ Olivia, Minnesota, sent in two list on threat of severance from care of only 2,500,000, according lines, organized effective flying in leaflets distributed through­ term, imposed on him for his reports ran the description of the ing in from locals that have subs and writes: Strike activity at Gastonia. The the relief rolls." In Washington, to the same sources. Presumably Communist Party bureaucrats’ squads to discourage back-to- out the city the Y.P.S.L. point­ started getting busy on the Ap­ “ We have started a sub-drive, Non-Partisan Committee for the everybody played dumb. First the the remaining 500,000 are to be work movements on the part of ed out that the ruling was a pre­ difficulties in subduing the re­ peal drive. and we are offering a copy of the War Department spokesmen allowed to starve. Or, if the Sta­ the company, and have arranged lude to an attack on all demo­ Defense of Fred Beal publicly volutionary reactions of militant For the week ending Feb. 2G Moscow Trials with each sub­ said.... it was a "local matter." linist estimate is accepted and relief for the strikers. cratic rights similar to the anti­ stated that "active Communists, workers in their party, and the the following subs came in: scription .. . And, of course, "the W.P.A. 2,900,000 get jobs, 100,000 w ill alien hysteria and purge during A rt Shields and Wiliam F. Dunne, possibilities this affords of at­ San Francisco ...... 1 authorities likewise tended to starve. A l the same time, Roose­ "The picking- is slow, and the Of the Communist Party’s Interna­ tracting such workers to out­ the World War, and called for Chjjeago ...... 5 localize whatever was being done velt. blandly asks for a naval ap­ spaces are wide and far between tional Labor Defense Organiza­ ranks. an immediate struggle against Boston ...... 1 in the matter to the New York propriation o f $800?000,000 (now the law. In a few days over out here, but we hope to get. in tion, have brought -.pressure to Lyn n, M a s s ...... 1 W .P.A. officials." advanced to SI.,100,000,000) to be Work In Unions ’.,500 signatures were collected a few subs—if not until after our bear on Professor Albert Sprague O livia , M in n ...... 2 All this is merely a ' smoke­ employed for mass slaughter in Anti-War meeting—during the Coolidge of Harvard University Likewise the delegates’ reports in a petition drive. Caught off St. Paul 1 screen to cover up the beans the coming war. last days in March." and Miss Jessica Henderson of showed that all comrades who guard, Young- Communists in Minneapolis 2 which Col. Magruder has spilled. On the subject of Roosevelt’s some schools attacked the cam­ Jf comrades in cities realized Boston, the two guarantors of are eligible for membership in St. Louis ...... 1 It is not true that the recruiting war budgets, the Stalinist manag­ w h at it means to get even one Beal’s bail bond, urging thenv to trade unions have joined them paign and in other schools sup­ New Y o rk 5 of unemployed from the relief ers of the. Worker Alliance ported it! sub in farming districts where Withdraw their support of Beal, anti are pursuing coordinated Toledo 1 rolls is a "local matter." The maintain a discreet silence. Why? Having achieved a certain the ‘graces are wide and far be­ tu t have failed in that. Various work therein. A great majority Houston, Tex...... 1 Times report shows that it is al­ Because the war preparations of amount of success with the pas­ tween’, John Enestvedt’s record members of the Non-Partisan of the comrades in the district Philadelphia 1 ready going on in up-state New American imperialism meet with sage of the Board’s recommenda­ as a sub -ge tter would be a good Committee for the defense of are trade unionists, members of F o re ig n ...... 1 York. It is not true that the un­ mark to shoot at. Fred Beal have received messages their approval, although, as yet, C.I.O. and A.F. of L. unions tion to the Legislature, the cam­ employed will not be compelled they do not dare say' so quite paign will be continued by the seeking to intimidate them into ranging from auto, steel and T o ta l subs 23 (o join. Col. Magruder’s "con­ openly and explicitly. „ Y.P.S.L. until complete victory abandoning the defense." rubber to office workers, -teach­ Bundle orders have been in­ Newark, New Jersey, says that This is real stool-pigeonry viction" did not arise from thin is secured. To this end the Y.P. their bundle order will be in­ Militant Action Needed ers, retail employees, etc. creased in several loeals and con­ •without precedent in the entire air. The fact that the recruiting S.L. now demands that the Leg­ creased by five copies each week A- district committee repre­ gratulations are due to the liter­ notices sent out by the army and islature drop the old law and that for an indefinite time and Com­ history of the American labor Only the Progressive Group in sentative of all the branches was ature agents who have already movement. ThisGs real news and navy proved completely ineffect­ in the meanwhile, the Board re­ rade Mendelsohn says that time the Workers Alliance, basing it­ erected to coordinate inter- started the drive seriously. ive, since not one person on re­ turn to its former, looser inter­ is way off in the future. the stool pigeons are named by self on the true interests of all branch activities by aiding in Local Lit. Agent Increase lief joined the military service, pretation of the law. ,a!- body of well-known and res­ the workers, employed and un­ Rochester, N.Y., Charles Hess 10 shows that the army will have f o r m in g classes, conducting ponsible people. Why does the employed, draws attention to this Boston, Mass., Sol Thomas 10 How about writing in to the to compel them to join. public forums, assisting in the New Republic keep maliciously crying contradiction: that while Akron, Ohio, Charles Martel 15 Appeal arid letting us know what . The truth is that all govern­ organization of new party silent about the Beal case and Roosevelt prepares to spend sums Goshen, Ind., John Malone 5 you are doing in the sub drive. ment activities are directed to­ branches in hitherto unorganiz­ shield the despicable stool pigeons running into billions for the des­ ed communities, and facilitating Newark, N. J., R. Negin 5 We want suggestions that might Sf .the Communist Party who wards the coming war. The Civil­ truction of human life in the the strengthening of the party London, Eng. Margaret Johns 10 be passed along to other locals. ian Conservation Corps are ready would deprive him of all defense rapidly-approaching war for the Montreal Can. H. Goldenberg How do you get your subs ? How for war. Tht W .P.A. is doing in the unions by the exchange of ■while i t m anufactures an accusa­ aggrandisement and profit of the experience and advice. (Decrease) 5 do you distribute your bundle or­ tion against anonymous "Trots­ considerable army work. Various exploiters of the American work­ ders? How do you get the Ap­ states have already passed con­ kyists" in the case of Bridges? ers, only paltry sums are asked Clarke Field Organizer Total increase in bundles .... 50 peal placed on newsstands? Have ¡The answer is clear to all who scription laws in preparation for to save human life, to save the ,) * !S you placed the Appeal in your the coming war. And the work George Clarke of Detroit was ktiow what is going on: the ex­ unemployed victims of capital­ John Enestvcdt, way out in ¡local library? elected field organizer, aiid R. liberal New Republic has merely and relief rolls are to be used ism who are threatened with the Ferguson secretary for the dis­ become an unofficial organ of the as the recruiting grounds of the loss of their homes, with priva­ trict. As the first concrete stop in frame-up and stool-pigeon gang first batch of soldiers for the war. tion and hunger, with disease, launching the new district orga­ identified ail over the world as with death by slow starvation. nization, Comrade Clarke was Stalinists. The Progressives seek to rally sent on a speaking tour of all James P. Cannon, all workers for united assault the branches (o initiate a regular National Secretary upon capitalism—upon the sys­ series of public forums. Conclud­ Socialist Workers Party. tem of hunger and war—with the ing- w ith the sin gin g of the In ­ Feb. 22, 1938. battle-cry: ternationale, the hall-full of ALL WAR FUNDS TO THE delegates, alternates and visitors UNEMPLOYED! left the convention knowing the party was on the right track in its struggle to win to its banner the decisive section of the work­ ing class in this industrial "Ruhr Valley” of America. March 5, 1938 SOCIALIST APPEAL Page 3

New Trial Is Climax "Son, Friend, Fighter" Trotsky Nails Fresh SOVIET UNION NOTES Of Two-Year Purge Attack On His Asylum Trial Defendants Include Last of Lenin’s Colleagues — They Now Face Their (Continued from page 1) his agents, does not doubt that The new trial now being stag­ Turn Before Firing Squad Liberals Ask Stay Of Toledano will be unsuccessful in ed in Moscow conies as a logical al aristocracy. In Spain I defend By John G, W right forcing me into silence by some and revealing culmination to the New Moscow Frameup those methods of struggle against ancient warmed-up slanders. It long series of frame-ups which Fascism which guaranteed the Calling upon the Stalin gov­ is exactly because of this that (Continued from page 1) burg; escaped; arrested again were inaugurated immediately victory of the Soviets in the Civil ernment to exhibit a “decent Stalin is preparing other me­ and sent back into exile. 1921.: after the assassination of Kirov. W ar (1917-1920), and I oppose the respect for the opinion of asures, considerably more real­ arrested and exiled to Narym; Actually, there have already ruinous methods of the Comintern mankind," a group of pro­ istic. But for these plans, about A. P. r o s e n g o l t z escaped in 1931,. Caught and been seven trials since Dec. 1, which guaranteed the victory minent liberals, headed by Os­ which wo will speak in due time. escaped again in 1914. A rrested 3934, the date o f K iro v ’s m urder, of Fascism -in Germany, Austria Born 1889. Old Bolshevik. Party wald Garrison Villard, Will Ir ­ Stalin as a preliminary needs to in 1915, escaped, in 1916. A fte r concerned directly with the as­ and other countries, and which m em ber since 1905. A rre s te d , in win and John Haynes Hol­ poison public opinion. For this February revolution, organizer sassination itself or directed a- are laying the basis for the vic­ 1907. A fte r F ebru ary revo lu tion, mes, wired an appeal to the work he requires Lombardo To­ of Moscow district committee of gainst the Trotskyites in general. tory of General Franco. Through­ member of Presidium of Moscow Soviet Government through ledano. the party. Later Chairman of As the charges progress and the out the world I defend those ir­ Soviet. October 1917: member of Ambassador Troyanovsky on Several months ago this man d is tric t com m ittee. 1,921-1924: list of victims mounts steadly, reconcilable methods of struggle Revolutionary M ilitary •Commit­ Feb.* 28 asking postponement asserted at a public meeting that secretary of Moscow committee. the truly vicious and totalitarian against imperialism which Lenin, tee. 1918: member of Council of of the Trial of 21 until a qua­ I was plotting a general strike 1924-1931: ' secretary of Central motivation behind these judicial Rosa Luxemburg, and Karl Lieb­ People’s Commissars. 1918-192!.: lified international commission against the Mexican government Asiatic Bureau of the C.C. of farces becomes strikingly evident. knecht, my old friends and com- served on fronts during civil war; could attend the hearings. in the interest of Fascism. In the C .P .S .U . From 1931 on: It is worthwhile to outline the pairkms-in-arms, applied; oppos­ also member of Revolutionary “Nothing could be more his turn, Mr. Laborde—partly a chairman of Centrosoyuz (Soviet process as the frame-up system ing the methods of the now M ilitary Committees of 5th, 7th, harmful to the interests of helper of Toledano in slander, foreign trading organization). moved to its present horrible thoroughly putrid Comintern 8th, 13th and 15th armies. 1922: the Soviet government itself," partly his master—asserted after Elected candidate to C.C. at clim ax. which crawls on all fours before member of Collegium of People’s they, wired, than another trial this at a public manifestation The trials developed as follows: “democratic" imperialism, be­ C om m issariat of Finance. 1923- "that would further shake the that I was conspiring with "fasc­ (1 ) ttye tr ia l o f N ikola yev and traying the interests of the colo­ 1924: placed in charge of Air faith of civilized mankind in ist general’s." The answer to this Purger Purged others, Dec. 28-29, 1934 (over a nial and semi-colonial peoples Force. 1925-1927: attached to Soviet justice." Leon Trotsky and his son, Leon Sedoff, who died under mys­ “accusation" was a general con­ hundred defendants finally con­ for the sake of caste privileges embassy in London. At XV con­ A similar telegram sent by terious circumstances in Paris on Feb. 16. In a memorial dedi­ temptuous ’laugh. But it is im­ victed and shot, fo r the m urder for the Soviet bureaucracy. Such gress of party, elected member an equally prominent group possible to embarrass these gen­ of Kirov); (2) the trial of Zino- cated by him and Natalia Sedoff to the proletarian youth of the are my Views. 1 do not 'intend to of Central Committee. This fact following the announcement of tlemen. They cast these accusa­ viev-Kam enev, Jan. 1.5-16, 1935 world, Trotsky reviews the career of young Leon, "son, friend and change them. 1 carry full res­ alone indicates his hostility to the Radck-Piatakov trial in tions aside only in order to present (defendants found guilty of fighter," who devoted more than half of his 32 years to the cause ponsibility for them. "Trotskyism." Commissar of January, 1937, was never an­ others immediately. If you throw “moral responsibility" for the of the proletarian revolution. The memorial, of which an ex­ After the decision of the In­ Foreign Trade under Stalin. swered. enough mud, as the saying goes, Kirov assassination and sentenc­ cerpt appears in the current issue of Challenge, organ of the ternational Inquiry Commission The American Coihmittee some of it is bound to stick! ed to prison); (3) trial of G.P. for the Defense of Leon Trots­ Young People’s Socialist l.eague, out this week, will shortly be I have no reason to enter into po­ F. KTiODZHAEV ky, which supported the work published by the League as a pamphlet. litical or juridical altercations Odious Slanders of the Dewey Commission in "Good-by, Leon,’’ it concludes. "We bequeath your irreproach­ with Mr. Lombardo Toledano. Born 1.896. Former president Messrs. Slanderers continue to But I will be able to explain the of Uzbekistan, removed June, its study of the previous Mos­ able memory to the younger generation of the workers of the build their game on the accusa­ Tries Again tru th to the people who Ivave 1937. Listed in Sm all E ncyclo­ cow trials, which it pronoun­ world. You will rightly live in the hearts of all those who work, tion that I am breaking my ob­ been deceived by him. It is this pedia, as prominent Communist ced to be frameups, issued a suffer, and struggle for a better world. Revolutionary youth ligation about "noninterference that Mr. Lombardo Toledano and in Uzbekistan. Participated in statement declaring that the of all countries! Accept from us the memory of our Leon, adopt in the internal politics of Mexico." new trial of 21 was an effort his clique fear. Their whole, ma­ national revolutionary , move­ him as your so)'.—he is worthy of it—and let him henceforth The importation of odious sland­ "to cover the previous failur­ chination at the Convention, as m ents since 1914. Established participate invisibly in your battles, since destiny has refused ers from Moscow and their trans­ es." The committee asked that the authors themselves have contact with Bolsheviks after him the happiness of participating in vour final victory." lation into Spanish these gentle­ wires of protest be sent to quite clearly revealed, follows but October revolution, joining party men identify.... with .the inter­ Ambassador Troyanovsky at one single aim: to seal my mouth. in 1920. 1920-1924: chairm an of nal politics of Mexico. I an­ the Soviet Embassy in Wash­ Council of People’s Nazirs (Com­ Inspired By Moscow nounce: no one has ever demand­ ington, demanding that the missars), member of C.C. of C. Leon Sedoff Honored By 700 ed of me and I at no time promis­ They act, of course, not upon P. of Bokhara. Chairman of li\es of the 21 be spared. ed anyone that 1 would renounce their own initiative. Their ins­ People’s Commissars and mem­ the right to defend my political pirer lives in Moscow. The ver­ ber of C.C. of Uzbek C.P. since At New York Memorial Meeting honor from slanderers, and my technical collaboration of his late dict of the International Com­ formation of Uzbek Soviet Re­ ideas—from their opponents. 1 son, Leon Sedoff. mission, the published steno­ public. Staunch Stalin supporter. HENRY YAGODA pledged the government of Ge­ Shachtinan, Erber Pay graphic report of the Inquiry at Honored many times. Decorated Fantastic "Evidence" neral Cardenas that I would not Coyoacan, the disclosures of the with Orders of the Red Banner Final Tribute To interfere in the internal politics tenth party congress. Member The'-records of these two trials, former responsible agents of the and the Red Star. One of 30 Com­ Late Warrior of this country according to the of C.C. from the XI congress. published in many languages Kremlin, Reiss, ’ Barmine, and missioners appointed at VII con­ general understanding of the Not an Oppositionist. Elected at throughout the world, are start­ W a lte r K riv its k y , as w ell as gress of Soviets to draft Stalin word "politics." This pledge i X V congress to C.C. ling for their lack of documentary many other facts during the ¡last constitution. * »«• •. ■NEW Y O R K .— Move than 700 am fulfilling with absolute con­ or factual proof. The testimony year, delivered an irreparable revolutionary workers jammed scientiousness. But if on the Pravda o f Jan. 31, 1935, c a r­ is unique in its general avoidance blow to the Kremlin clique. My M. CHERNOV the hall in Manhattan Plaza streets of this capital someone ries front-page photo of Presid­ of concrete names, places and latest book, "The Crimes of Sta­ Sunday evening, February 27, to should shove his hand into my ium of VII All-Union Congress Former Commissar of Agricul­ ANDREY VISHINSKY dates. Wherever the G.P.U. lin," has already appeared in pay tribute to the memory of ¡socket in order to steal my do­ of Soviets. Caption under photo: ture. Strong Stalin supporter. bunglers tried to base themselves several languages. I hope that it Leon Sedoff, Trotsky's son who cuments and letters, I would "Listening to Tukhachovsky’s Not listed in any Soviet ency­ on specific references their fab­ will also appear in Spanish. Pro­ died suddenly in Paris on Feb. consider myself completely in I he speech (subject: "Red Army clopedia. Elected at VII Soviet rications crumbled to bits at the 16. The meeting opened with the gressive public opinion through­ Mighter than Ever Before;. Congress (1935) to C.E.C. of U. boss Medved and others, Jan. right to seize the criminal’s hand. first test: Holtzman’s story of his arrival of an honor guard of 150 out the world, with ever greater Stalin, Voroshilov, Kalinin, Bud­ the Soviets. 1935: People’s Com­ 23, 1935 (fu rth e r convictions fo r And let the owner of the hand , meeting with Trotsky and his son members of the Young People’s disgust, is turning away from missar of Agriculture. Never an Kirov murder, involving G.P.U. not scream after this that 1 am ^ enny, Cherviakov (suicide), G>- in Copenhagen (the ill-starred Socialist League who marched Stalin. This explains the furious loded (missing), Mussabekov agents); (4) trial of Kamenev interfering in the internal ¡mil- Oppositionist. Hotel Bristol episode); Pyata- behind red banners from the. City attempt of the G.B.TJ. to force (shot), and F. Khodzhaov (de­ * * • and others, J u ly, 1935 (a fte r tics of Mexico! Lombardo Tole- ; kov’s account of his airplane convention of (lie Y.P.S.L. to me into silence. Kamenev, unlike Zinoviev, refus­ dano tries to despoil something fendant )." Of the doctor.: listed: Dr. L. V. flig h t to Oslo; Rom m ’s m yster­ the hall. Mr. Lombardo Toledano and ed to make further, more fantastic .bigger, my political honor, and Levin (head of the Kremlin hos­ ious meeting with Trotsky in Ernest Erber, National Chair­ b is cliqué- drfe m istaken;-hbw ever, confessions); (5) trial of Zino- demands at that—(/democrat. O pital) signed the statement is*- Paris, and the other products of man of the Y.P.S.L., paid tri­ if they think that they will suc­ viev-Kam enev, A ug. 1930 (all revolutionist!—that 1 he hinder­ AKMAL IKRAMOV sued by G.N. Kaminsky, then over-zealous G.P.U. fantasia— bute to Sedoff as a leader of the ceed in executing the mission en­ sixteen defendants found guilty ed by force from designating his Commissar of Health, on the all were crushingly refuted by younger generation in the fight trusted to them. Many much Born 1898. Joined C .P .S .U . of terrorism, sabotage, and di­ actions and himself by those death of Ordjonikidzo, Commis­ minute and detailed documenta­ for the principles of Marx and stronger than they have tried to ■in Mebruary, 191,8. Carried on version; all executed); (0) the, names which they deserve. sar of Heavy Industry who alleg­ tion upon every related point. Lenin. Excerpts from the mov­ accomplish this task before with­ p a rty a c tiv ity u n til 1922, when Novosibirsk trial, Nov. 19-22, I have never concerned myself edly died at his home on Feb. 18, The International Commission ing memorial to his son written out success. The Czar taught me he entered Sverdlov Communist 1936 (group o f "T ro ts k y ite with the political program and 1937. P rof. Pletnev was reputed of Inquiry, headed by Dr. John by Leon 'Trotsky, which will be NATALIA TROTSKY silence for four years in prison Institute. Upon graduation elect­ wreckers" convicted of sabotage public actions of Mr. Toledano, to have refused to sign this sta­ Dewey, collated documentary issued in full in pamphlet form, and twice exiled me to Siberia. ed secretary of Tashkent party and shot); (7) trial of Pyatakov- nor with his references to Lenin, tement. Pletnev and Levin were materials from many parts of the were lead by comrade Erber. Kaiser Wilhelm sentenced me to committee. Then made secretary Radek Jan. 23-30, 1937 (thirteen which belong in the sphere of also among the physicians who world in the course of its lengthy and Lenin in a period of reaction, prison in contumacy because I did of the C.C. of the Communist out of seventeen defendants ex­ unintentional humor. Likewise 1 signed the death certificate of investigation, and finally turned Life Reviewed proletarian defeats, and persecu­ not wish to keep quiet in Switzer­ party of Uzbekistan. Starting ecuted for alliance with Hitler now leave aside the question Joffe, Oppositionist and former in a vindication of Trotsky and tion of revolutionists to the land during the war. The French w ith 1931, th ird secretary o f the and Mikado and plans to re­ concerning the kind of machina­ ambassador to Tokyo, Berlin and Sedoff which was at the same Max Shachtman, editor of the courageous stand of Rosa Lux­ allies of the Czar expelled me in Central Asiatic Bureau of the C. establish capitalism, as well as tions that made it possible for Peiping, who committed suicide time the most terrible indictment Socialist Appeal, reviewed Sed- emburg and Kail Liebknecht 1916 fro m France fo r the same C. o f the C .P .S .U . A t the X V the usual terrorism, sabotage, Toledano to palm off on the in 1927. of Stalin’s inquisitorial regime. off’s life and services in the revo­ during the last war. crime. King Alfonso X III threw * >:< ❖ Trade Union Convention a deci­ congress (when the Opposition etc.). Prof. Dewey and his associates lutionary movement to which he me into a Madrid prison in order The following telegram was sion upon a question about which was expelled), was elected can­ This leaves among the political found the entire "trial procedure devoted his talent and energies to force me into silence. With sent by the meeting to Leon the overwhelming majority had didate to Central Committee. In "unknowns" the following: V. Charges Grow as Trials Progress flimsy and vicious;" on the basis from boyhood. Recounting the the same objective, the British Trotsky: ."Seven hundred revo­ not the least conception. But it 1935 elected to C .C . Solid sup- Kruchkov (identified as secretary of voluminous documents and ex­ tragic fate visited on Trotsky’s imperialists threw me into a Ca­ lutionists, gathered in New York is completely clear that when I porter of Stalin throughout. A- to Gorky), 13. B. Sharangovich tensive historic . research they family by Stalin, he said the re­ nadian concentration camp. The Over a period of two years tonight to pay homage to that Mr. Toledano with the help of I mong those picked to speak on (former secretary of the White agreed that Trotsky and Sedoff actionary forces that hounded lawyer Kerensky, who was suc­ the charges expanded from moral stainless young soldier of the forged material mobilizes the | Red Square at Kuibyshev’s fu­ Russian Communist Party), S. were innocent, and that the Mos­ and reviled them cannot crush cessful during a certain period complicity in the Kirov assas­ world revolution, Loon Sedoff, whole convention against me, a neral (Pravda, Jan. 28, 1935). A. Bessonov (former secretary cow Trials were a frame-up. the proletarian revolution. of time in deceiving a consider­ sination to direct and purposive share with you and his mother private individual, a political Member of commission which to the Soviet Embassy in Berlin)* "We dedicate ourselves," he able part of public opinion, tried drafted Stalin constitution. complicity; from terrorism a- Public Scepticishi Increases the deepest grief at his untimely exile who has no relations what­ Dr. I. N. Kazakov, P. Zubarev, said, "to rescuing Sedoff’s name to seal my mouth in the Petro- gainst one man to terrorism a- departure from our ranks. Leon ever with the trade unions of V. Maximov. (Note: There was from the foul slanders with grad Kresty Prison. But it is gainst the whole bureaucracy; Public scepticisim has grown will live in the hearts of revolu­ Mexico., and does this with but an oppositionist named Bessonov which they have tried to bes­ written on the pages of history from sabotage and diversion as simultaneously with the expan­ tionary-fighters the whole wor.ld a single aim—to force me into V.I. IVANOV who capitulated to StaTin. His mirch it. We are pledged to a- th a t I have not learned to be such to wrecking in the service sion of the charges to their pre­ over. ” silence or to deprive me of the relation to the accused Bessonov venge his death, but we disdain silent on command. On the other Born 1893. F orm er chief of of the espionage services of Ger­ sent gigantic proportions. But right of asylum—then Mr. To­ is not known to us.) the methods of the gunmen. Ours .hand, during forty years of re­ lumber industry under Stalin. many and Japan, with the purpose there is no retreat for the terrible ledano acts not as a representa­ are the methods of the class vo lu tio n a ry stru g g le I have seen P a rty member since 1915. Served of partitioning the country and totalitarian steam-roller. To re­ VANGUARD FORUM tive of the internal politics of overthrowing the workers’ state. inforce the crumbling trials of s tru g g le ." in the ranks of the woi*kers’ mo­ Public Lecture Bv Mexico but as an agent of the The roster of victims expanded the past, new and more fantastic vement not a few careerists who FDR Speeds His CARLO TRESCA foreign politics of the G.P.U. from ex-Oppositionists, long since ones must be staged. To elimin­ Wire To Trotsky can not only be silent but also SUBJECT: The G P U in Let him then carry the respons­ Next? capitulated to the Stalin regime, ate the last vestiges of opposi­ slanderous on command. Maurice Spector, of the editor­ A m erica ibility of this unworthy function! until it embraced all those who tion and of the October revolu­ War Preparation ial Boaid of the New Interna­ An exposure of the facts be­ had once harbored "deviationist" tion, more and more staggering Crawl To Stalin Compelled To Answer tional and formerly of the Ex­ hind the Poyntz and Robinson sentiments, and finally caught up amalgams must be forged. The (Continued from page 1) ecutive Committee of the Com­ cases. in its all-inclusive fold some of former Right Opposition, the If 1 had wished to remain si­ The readers of these lines will munist International, stated that Sunday, March 6, at 8:30 P. M. understand without difficulty Stalin’s most faithful ijnd ruth­ Bukharinites, must now be link­ lent about the crimes of the Sta­ Leon Sedoff would take his place Vanguard Hall, 22 W. 17th St., that neither the present, circum­ a prominent spokesman of the less henchmen. Alongside the ed to the "Trotskyite scum." lin bureaucracy against the work­ among the martyrs of the revo­ New York City State Department casually re­ recurrent juridical "trials," most W ithin this formula new airplane ers and peasants, they would stances of my personal life nor lution, comparing Sedoff’s strug­ marked that it had for long been of them held in strictest secrecy, flights to Coyoacan must be in- — Admission : 15 cents. — have raised me high on th e ir the general character of my gle for the principles of Marx a cherished dream of U. S. coursed an ever wider and more shield and the Messrs. Lombardo work afford me time to occupy policy. bloody stream of peremptory Toledanos of the whole world myself over Mr. Toledano. But Thus the blue-print of Roose­ blood-purges and executions w ith­ Presides Again would have crawled before nie as this question is something alto­ velt imperialism conies more out benefit of trial, until the they now crawl before the Krem­ gether different. It is a question fully into the open. Fastenihg whole generation of Old Bolshe­ lin clique. The Norwegian Social concerning, public opinion in the its stranglehold on the two Ame­ viks, and many not so old, were Democrats, older brothers in country which has shown me and ricas, it strengthens its long arm carried away in its wake. spirit to Toledano, discovered my wife hospitality and which to keep open the market arid In­ Only two of the trials had any only one means with which to during the past year 1 have vestment fields of the Far East. semblance of being "publicly" force me into silence about the learned to value and to love. It Knowing with complete realism staged: the Zinoviev-Kamenev G .P.U .: to throw me into prison. is because of this, and only this, that its aims require war fbf tr ia l o f 1936 and the Pyatakov- But through a book,my son, whom that 1 consider myself compelled their ‘fulfillment, it forges thè Radek tria l of 1937. In the firs t only death has now brought to to answer with this declaration arms and the ideas which it hopes of these trial's, the defendants, silence, answered for me. Stalin, the carefully prepared slander will wring out of that war the without exception, grovelling as who understands this belter (ban of th<‘ Mexican agents of Stalin. maximum of privilege and pro­ abjectly as tjjey did, could dis­ MAXIM L IT V IN O V fits. cover themselves guilty of no cardinal crimes greater than those of' terrorism and murder. V. V. ULRICH in civil war. On southern front, In the second trial the startling 1.920-1921. D u rin g same period accusation was made that not only secretary of Yaroslav district the defendants then being tried, vented, new Hotel Bristols must committee of C.P.S.U. 1924- but all the previous ones long be uncovered in Mexico City, 1927: secretary o f the C entral since convicted and executed, fresh links, through the hapless Committee of Uzbekistan. 1927- had conducted their nefarious Robinsons-Ruhinses or others like 1931: secretary o f N o rth Caucas­ activities as agents of German them, must he forged between ian regional committee. Elected fascism and Japanese militarism, Trotsky and the Hitler-Mikado candidate to C.C. at XV and XV! with the breathtaking aims of team. Congress. Never a Trotskyite. precipitating war, preparing the But the structure of the frame- defeat of the U . S. S. R . and its up, as it grows to its appalling dismemberment, w ith the ultimate proportions, develops ever more I. A. ZELENSKY purpose of establishing capitalist glaring cracks and fissures. The rule in the country. Throughout, new trial, staged to bolster up Born in 1890. W orker-B olshe­ the guiding spirit and prime the previous series of frame-ups, vik. Former head of Consumers’ mover of the maze of conspir­ will inevitably bring them all Cobperatives under Stalin. Join­ acies was identified as Leon Trot­ tumbling detvn about Stalin’s ed p a rty in 1906 , in Sahiara. A r­ sky, charged with having the bead. rested in I9£8 and exiled to Or.en-,( Page 4 SOCIALIST APPEAL M arch 5, 1938

mocracy” or the concrete boundary lines of the Soviet Union. Chinese Trotskyists This trend reached a sensational cli­ How Not To Fight War max in the Eden-Chamberlain dispute that followed upon the virtual annexa­ — : An Editorial Statement :— Fight G.P.U. Methods tion of Austria by Hitler. The great “ democracies” proved very little con­ History has shown that in democratic imperial­ — “We can keep America out of war if American (Continued from page 1) Chinese ^Communist Party. Ar­ ist nations the pre-war period is a time of the citizens (sic) act at once!”-—it is a blatant lie, and rested in 1932, his statement of cerned with outward political forms, and extermination of the Trotskyist Chamberlain rushed to arrive at an ac­ mushroom growth of pacifist sentiments and or­ a gross deception of the very masses whose anti­ capitulation was published in cord with Italy as a preliminary to the ganizations. Indeed, as Lenin more than once war feelings the Committee aims to exploit. traitors in China.” 1934 by the Kuomintang in a pointed out, this development must be understood unique pamphlet entitled Trans­ achievement of a Four-Power Pact— INFER THAT ROOSEVELT MIGHT Another Frame-Up at bottom as an integral part of the war prepara­ formation (Tschuan Bian), which England, France, Germany and Italy. FORSAKE DRIVE TOWARD WAR tions'themselves. The Daily Worker, transplant­ is a veritable bible of Stalinist And the Soviet Union? And collective ing the provocations of the Confronted with widespread and genuine anti­ “The President himself”, says the call, “has capitulators. security? And the independence and in­ Chinese Stalinists to American “The ‘Trotskyist’ Hsui Lun- war feelings among the masses, the pacifist ideas declared no clear program of war and peace...” tegrity of Ethiopia? They are all lost in soil, reported Monday from shan was expelled from the Com­ divert these feelings into channels entirely harm­ Thus the inference is permitted that the President the shuffle and bustle of the imperialist Hankow that a man named munist League of China in 1931. less to the imperialist interests. The anti-war may actually be persuaded tQ head for peace. This, powers to improve their respective posi­ Chang Mu-tao, .“the Chinese He subsequently joined the Blue tions. spirit is blocked from finding its only effective at a time when the President has set his course Trotskyist,” has been arrested shirts, Chiang Kai-shek’s strong- That explains why, in a political-pro­ outlet in an anti-capitalist direction. The masses openly and ruthlessly toward the war! The reas­ and is facing trial for treason, arm gang, and became editor of grammatic document devoted to the are ideologically disarmed, and turned over to on for this sentence is, of course, to leave room having been “ caught red-hand$d the China Times at Shanghai. He question of the defense of the Soviet Un­ “ peace leaders“ who are simply the hypocritical' .in the organization for oeiitain types of New while trying to signal Japanese is now in Hankow. Of all the ion, Stalin has not one single word to fronts of imperialism. When the time comes for Dealers (including the Ludlow-bloc Congressmen) warplanes raiding Linfing, Eighth ‘Trotskyists’ named by Wang say, not even a remote hint, about the serious business, they are ripe for plucking by the who would not allow a direct attack on the chief Route Army headquarters in Ming, Hsui Lun-shap is the only standard formulae which have been dai­ war makers. leader of American imperialism. Shansi province.” In Chang’s one who ever held membership ly repeated as slogans by the Stalinist The present “ Keep America out of W ar” move­ Similarly, no direct and specific attack is made home, the report says, were found in the Communist League, and he ment is thus a significant and normal sign of the on any individual or organization! Evidently no 73 hand grenades, eight revolvers was expelled more than six years party and diplomatists for the past few and 742 cartridges... “as well as times. This movement has not yet, of course, feelings are to be hurt by the “ Keep America out ago. Safeguard Trotsky’s Asylum! years. Nothing about the League of a supply of Trotskyist literature. ” taken final form; but it is already well enough of War” movement! It will be one big happy Nations, the famous “ pebble in the toad We nail this story to the mast­ Exposed Moscow Trials Once again the right of asylum for of war.” Nothing about collective secu­ characterized by what has happened up to now. family in search of Peace. head as yet another in the long “ The ‘Trotskyist’ professor, Throughout the document the words “our” and list of frame-ups being perpet­ Leon Trotsky, great leader of the world rity hitherto the loudest cry of the Sta­ SPONSORS OF MEETING Chen Sui-tsia, formerly of Fuh “we” are used in a manner to which no patriot rated by the counter-revolution­ revolutionary movement, is being threat­ linist patriots. Nothing about the united SUDDENLY DISCOVER A “PROGRAM” Tan University in Shanghai, is could take exception: “ ...w e do not need a bigger ary Stalintern to discredit the ened by the forces of reaction. The speech front of the “ democracies” and nothing politically unconnected. Entirely army or navy to protect our shores.” This is quite delivered last week by Lombardo Tole­ about the People’s Front. It was started by the Lovestoneites and the Alt- revolutionists. Our comrades in upon his own initiative he wrote Shanghai, who on the spot are dano, Stalin-inspired leader of the Mex­ And the reason for this eloquent sil­ man-Thomas Socialists as a desperate effort to in keeping with the addressing of the call “ To the an appraisal of the Moscow exposing Stalin’s frame-ups on ican Confederation of Labor, was the ence lies in the complete, patent and un- rehabilitate their hopelessly decaying political for­ Citizens (our bolds) of New York.” There is not trials which was published by the Chinese soil, have given us Chang opening gun in the newest campaign to disputable bankruptcy of Stalin’s foreign tunes—though it is already getting out of their a mention of “ workers”, classes, or the class strug­ Oriental Press in Shanghai. His Mu-tao’s political biography. hands. Its origin was handled in the typical man­ gle in the entire call. There is not a -line about book, wherein he concluded that drive Trotsky from his refuge in Mexico. policy. Who is Chang Mu-tao? A ner of “ innocent" stooge organizations, reminis­ the struggle against capitalism, which, evidently, the trials were frame-ups, was Toledano’s provocatory and contempt­ England is ready to come to a settle­ Trotskyist? No! He is an agent cent of the classic Stalinist maneuvers in this is presumed to have no connection with the strug­ suppressed by the Kuomintang ible speech preceded by but a few days ment with Italy and Germany. The lat­ of the G.P.U. Once a member field. A miscellaneous group of writers, preach­ gle against war. And among the sponsors of this government at the request of the the announcement of the trial of all re­ ter are not unwilling. Why and how is of the Chinese Communist Party, call are many who have in the past had harsh Soviet embassy. maining representatives of the leading this possible? Because it would give ers and liberals was called together in Thomas’ he quit the ranks several years The ‘Trotskyist’ Chen Chuo- cadres of Russian Bolshevism whom England a release from Europe and en­ house to “talk over" what steps might be taken things to say about People’s Frontism! ago but never completely severed shan was an active member of able her to concentrate all her forces “against the war.” A proposal was made to spon­ Among the programmatic planks is to be found his connections with the Stalin­ Stalin has at last decided to murder. The the C. P. some years ago. sor a public meeting in New York on March 6, at the following: "5. American cooperation for inter­ Connection is 'all too obvious. Stalin will against Japan’s challenge to her domin­ ists. For some time, we are in­ Trapped by Kuomintang spies which individuals with various points of view would national peace—but no alliance with any nation formed, he acted as the repre­ feel freer to go through with his latest ation of Asia. As for Germany, an agree­ who were assisted b y Sta­ or group of nations for war...” This is inserted, sentative ..of several reactionary frame-up trial if he knows that Trotsky ment with England (and consequently speak against the war and against collective se­ linist traitors, he refused to ca­ North China warlords. Just be­ is either interned, or—better yet—his with France, which plays no indepen­ curity. A small committee was selected to handle apparently, to make room for “respectable"’ ad­ pitulate although threatened fore the outbreak of the Shang­ voice stilled in death. dent role on the continent and can play “ d e ta ils.” vocates of collective security who are uneasy about with death. He was lined up for hai fig h tin g in A ug ust, 1937, he none) would mean that she could turn The New York meeting was paralleled by meet­ their present Stalinist company (at the time, by execution with several others,' but With Toledano’s aid the Stalin murder approached the Communist ings in arrangement for Philadelphia, Cleveland, the way, when Stalin himself is preparing to throw miraculously escaped death when gang hope to force President Cardenas her full attention to the East, that is, League with an offer to donate and other cities. The modest sponsoring committee collective security over). the bullets struck him in non- to expel Trotsky from Mexico, thus, once against the Soviet Union. $1,00. Recognizing this offer for for a New York meeting finds itself part of a va­ vital parts. Threatened again more, making him easy prey for the The net result of the “ statesmanlike” , This program corresponds accurately to the he­ what it was, our Chinese com­ with execution, he finally capitu­ assassins of the G.P.U. But they mis­ the “ practical” , the “ realistic” policy of gue "national organiation" which now talks about terogeneous Lovestoneite-to-New Deal social com­ rades instantly declined it. Stalin, has been to maneuver the Soviet a "national congress.” Under the disguise of a position of the movement. (It was not at all an lated to the Kuomintang, was set calculate. As in the past, all honest and at liberty, and lived thereafter Union into a more isolated and imperil­ “call" for the New York meeting, the sub-commit­ accident that no one representing the revolution­ The Old Technique enlightened men will rally to the defense in political obscurity in Shanghai. tee issues a political program for the sprouting ary position of the Socialist -Workers Party was of the exiled revolutionist against the led position than she has occupied for Here we discern the time-' He is the author and translator organization, and calmly signs to this program the counter-revolutionary Stalinists. The more than 15 years. And the Stalin let­ asked to participate, and that the suggestion of honored methods of Stalin’s G. of many Marxist works. Although movement for his defense is ah’eady un­ ter is an implicit recognition of this names of all of those who had for one reason or one Committee member to invite an S. W. P. P.U. “Obviously," our Chinese he remained loyal to them at the der way. Let us build a protective wall sorry fact. another agreed to sixmsor the meeting—some­ speaker for the public meeting was vigorously comrades write, “the Stalinists moment of death, the Stalinists of iron solidarity around Leon Trotsky! Does the letter herald a turn in policy ? how, in the great majority of cases, forgetting rejected.) Che speakers list for the public meet­ attempted to utilize Chang Mu- now denounce him as a ‘blood­ The hounding of Trotsky is not some­ Yes, a forced one. Not towards revolu­ the one “ detail'’ of consulting the sponsors about ing sums up neatly: Thomas and Wolfe for So­ tao to prove that the Communist stained assassin.’ Such is Stalin­ thing new’. Ever since 1929, when he was tionary internationalism—Troyanovsky the call to which their names was signed. cialists and Lovestoneites; Homer Martin as the League accepts gifts from the ist gratitude to the few faith­ is 100% correct in ridiculing such an in­ “labor figure”—the same Martin who last week Japanese imperialists. More than ful among their members. Such driven from the Soviet Union into exile FIND THEMSELVES FARTHER in Turkey, the bloodhounds of the G. P. terpretation. Stalinism is incapable of a announced through the Scripps-Howard Press de­ likely, Chang’s proffered gift are the ‘Trotskyists’ accused by RIGHT THAN AMERICAN LEAGUE came from Moscow's ample cof­ revolutionary line. But it means, in all votion to a war in "defense” of the United States; Wang Ming!” U. have been baying on his trail. In fers." If and when Chang is likelihood, the beginning of the end for Ironically enough, in this way many individuals the New York Post columnist, Ernest L. Meyer; August, 1936, just as the infamous Zino- brought to public trial for “treas­ Truth Proclaimed the retired liberal, Oswald Garrison Villard; the viev-Kamenev tria l was getting under the pet slogans of the Stalinist People’s in the past noted for their principled opposition to on,” he will doubtless tell the The brazen slanders and falsi­ way, the Norwegian government, under Front. Already Walter Duranty, unoffi­ the Stalinist American League against War and former liberal and present opponent of all “ gov­ world in his “confession” that fications of Wang Ming are be­ pressure from Moscow, silenced him by cial spokesman for the Kremlin, has an­ Fascism find themselves part of a setup distin­ ernment interference in business,” John T. Flynn; the Chinese Bolshevik-Leninists ing answered by our Chinese com­ nounced that the “ collective security” guished from the American League in its early Senator LJaFollette in person to represent the actually accepted the money. internment. rades. In a long programmatic slogan is being discarded by Moscow. stages only by being much further to the right. New Deal; and the inevitable retired general of Preparation of the Stalinist A. Again today, with another infamous letter published in the Shanghai What a cruel blow at Browder this will all pacifist medleys—this time Major General Wm. campaign against the revolution­ trial in progress, the frame-up managers The "Keep America out of W ar” Committee, let Evening Post of January 7, the be, and what difficulties it would present C. Rivers. An appropriate crew to handle such a ists in China was signalized by in Moscow want Trotsky silenced. This, it be clearly noticed, is in no sense whatever a Chinese version of which appear­ an article published by Wang ;ánd this alone, is the explanation for to any man who did not, like him, have United Front. It is a political bloc of various ten­ ship! For Thomas and Lovestone it is clear that ed Jan ua ry 4 in the vernacular M in g in the Novem ber, 1937 is­ Toledano’s attack on the pre-eminent a flexible spinal column! dencies and individuals: Socialist, Lovestoneite, defensists and patriots are their natural allies in newspaper, Ta Mei Wan Pao, sue of the Communist Interna­ But whatever may be the exact nature some anarchists, liberals, preachers, Quakers, w rit­ the fight against war. they proclaimed anew their re­ leader of the Fourth International. An tional, wherein he wrote: “ ...dur­ of the turn, it is evident that -Stalin has ers of a dozen shades of opinion, a few labor bu­ volutionary, unconditional sup­ aroused and indignant world movement, MOVEMENT IS BLOW AT ing the Sian events (the refer­ reached the end of a blind alley. The reaucrats. Like all such blocs it is based not upon port of the war against Japan­ iijtent on defending Trotsky against his REVOLUTIONARY STRUGGLE AGAINST WAR ence is to the kidnapping of danger to the Soviet Unipn has been ese imperialism, while character­ persecutors and traducers will defeat a plan for joint specific actions (as would ,be the Chiang Kai-shek in December, izing in the sharpest terms the this newest scheme of the Moscow assas­ enormously enhanced. It can be saved case with a united front) but upon a political pro­ One must speak the truth plainly on the issue 1936 —Ed.), the Japano-Trots- ignominious and treacherous ca­ sins. from the accumulated threats to its ex­ gram . of war. The “Keep America out of W ar” move­ kyite agents, led by the bandit pitulation of the C.P. to the re­ istence only by the independent class This program, as tentatively given in the call ment is in no respect a blow at the war and the Chang Mu-tao, tried their utmost actionary regime of Chiang Kai- action of the world proletariat. To or­ war-makers. It is a blow at the revolutionary to foment war between Nanking to the New York meeting is naturally not “ final" shek and the reactionary Stalin- ganize this action—there lies the great struggle against war. It is a device for the decep­ and Sian.... The Trotskyites, That Letter in precise verbal form. Nevertheless, a program list campaign against revolution­ task of the Fourth International. headed by the thrice contempt­ What none of the capitalist news­ of the same general type therein given follows tion and disorientation of the people, above all ists. Calling for the mobilization ible renegades, Huang Ping and necessarily from the whole conception of this of the workers. That is the truth. and arming of the Chinese masses papers has taken the slightest notice of, Chang Mu-tao, received $50,000 movement as well as from its social composition. The struggle against the war is the struggle as the only means of driving out much less emphasized, with regard to monthly from the Japanese secret Analysis of the program in the call to the meeting against capitalism. The way to fight the war is the imperialist invaders, the let­ the Stalin letter to the young Kursk Labor’s “Friends” service in North China ...... to ter concludes: communist Ivanov,1 is its relation to the is therefore legitimate evidence in judging the to make the workers’ revolution, and that is the conduct wrecking work.... The Two “ liberal” Congressmen—Repre­ “Our position with regard to foreign policy of the Soviet bureaucracy. character of the movement. only way to fight it. This is the truth; and Trotskyists Hsui Lun-shan, Chen sentative John T. Bernard of Minnesota the present war is crystal clear. From this standpoint, the letter is of This program, however much it may reflect pre­ whoever hides this truth is guilty of crime and Sui-tsia and the bloodstained as­ It is consistent with our views and Representative John M-. Coffee of vailing anti-war moods, is thoroughly deceptive treachery against the people. We propose to pro­ sassin Chen Chuo-san (or He- signal importance. as expressed in published pro­ Washington—have resigned from the and reactionary. To begin with, the central slogan, claim this truth from the housetops, and to ex­ Chin) use Japanese money to pub­ For the past three years, the whole grams during the past ten years, Non-Partisan Committee for the Defense “Keep America out of War"—which is also pose at every turn those who seek to manipulate lish special newspapers and pe­ foreign policy of the Soviet Union and in our contemporaneous publica­ of Fred E. Beal as a result of “ revela­ used as the name fo r the org an izatio n— can be the riodicals in Shanghai in which the strategy of the Third International, the anti-war feelings of the masses in precisely tions, with our activity in the tions” concerning the frame-up leader of they spread all kinds of slander has been oriented towards a united front source only of the gravest illusions. When taken the way to sell them out most hopelessly and struggle today. The current the Gastonia textile strike which appear­ against the Communist Party, of all the “ democratic” countries against in conjunction with the last statement in the call 'tragically to the war-makers. methods of abuse, slander, frame- ed last week in that organ of truth and Kuomintang, and all anti-Japan­ the “ fascist aggressors” . up, and assassination now in un­ ese mass org an izatio ns.” Only the other day, in a speech at the enlightenment, the Stalinist Daily Work­ ashamed vogue among the inter­ er. ha rin and R ykov fo r tw ice as University of North Carolina, Soviet Who Are They? national parties of the Comintern Ambassador Troyanovsky made a pub­ Both these gentlemen won their seats New Stalin Frameup long a period, without the slight­ find their expression in China in lic appeal for an alliance among the in Congress with the aid of labor votes, est inkling of their conspirator­ Who are these other "Trotsky­ Chen Shao-yi’s slander, which, accorded them because of their supposed ia l plans. ites" named by Wang Ming? because of our increasing in­ United States, France, England and the In that event, Stalin would Soviet Union—the four “ great democ­ labor sympathies. They are prepared to Trial Opens In Moscow Our Chinese comrades identify fluence, will grow like a fester play ball with any labor organization stand condemned as the most stu­ them all and expose at one blow as it has in other countries. It is racies” —for the preservation of the pid and gullible incompetent that the falsifiers and their criminal and to associate themselves with any (Continued from page 1) Litovsk peace treaty which Ger­ clear that an integral part of peace of the world. ever occupied an important post, am algam s. labor- cause which evidences a capacity many was imposing upon Russia, Chen Shao-yi’s mandate from “ With the Communist International, In the brief period of the fal­ and if for no other reason, would “The ‘Trotskyist’ Huang Ping, to roll up working-class votes on election Bukharin and a whole group of Moscow returning him to China this took the form of the People’s Front ling out between Stalin and deserve being driven out of the like Chang Mu-tao,” they write, Left Communists, as is known, includes the intensification of the policy, which was aimed at bolstering day. In the defense organization built Bukharin, when the latter was movement. , “ is an ex-Stalinist and one of a opposed signing the treaty. So, slander campaign against us. to aid Beal in his fight for liberty against putting out feelers to Zinoviev But the facts are much more countless number who not only up capitalism in the “ democratic” coun­ for a time,' did Stalin. Bukharin Such slander, such provocations, the labor-hating Bourbons of the South, and Kamenev, who had mean­ simple, gtalin is destroying the capitulated to the Kuomintang tries as the price for its existing or pros­ later revealed, in an article in such vile and dishonest methods they scented a chance for vote-catching. time repented and recanted. last survivors of the Russian Re­ but betrayed many of his old pective military alliance with the Soviet the Moscow Pravda in 1932, that, neither can nor will stop our Now along comes the Communist Trotsky wrote several articles volution and its heroic period. comrades. He was a member of Union. je s tin g ly , he and -some o f his struggle against Japanese im­ Party and its Daily Worker, proclaim­ in the press showing that it was The hands of this bloodthirsty the Central Committee of the France was regarded as already a supporters had suggested to the perialism.” utterly impermissible for the despot are strangling the last ing Beal an “ enemy of the people” be­ opponents of the treaty, that Le­ close ally of Mpscow and defender of Left wing to make a bloc against breath of life in the throat of the cause he has engaged in honest criticism nin be kept in custody for a few its territorial integrity ; England and the Stalin with the Bukharinist Right Soviet republic. Each new trial is of the murderous Stalin dictatorship in days so that a revolutionary war United States were regarded as being w ing. another spike driven through its the Soviet Union and its army of corrupt could be launched a g ainst G er­ on the very verge of becoming an ally. heart. W ith each step he takes, allies in this country. The two Congress­ Bukharin Friend of Gorky many and Lenin could be pre­ In pursuance of the same line, the Stalin drags the country - closer In the Painters’ Union gets up to speak against Wein- vented from pressing for the Soviet bureaucracy became the most men proptly resign from the Beal Com­ to the abyss. His every action stock he is hissed and booed The accusation of murder in signing of the treaty. The whole Dear Editor: sturdy and vociferous proponent of the mittee without making the slightest ef­ is a blow at socialism and an un­ until he is forced to sit down, as the case of Gorky, Menzhinsky story, known for at least 15 Permit me to write in your discredited nest of pirates that sails un­ fort to verify the Stalinist accusations leashing of the forces of capital­ if it were a conspiracy. and Kuibyshev strains the wild­ years to the Soviet public, was newspaper about what has occur­ against Beal. ist restoration—and not in any Lately Weinstock has brought der the flag of the League of Nations. est imagination beyond the dismissed as an anecdote. The red in the Painters’ Union. I f and when these labor champions democratic form but in the form into the union a new element of This whole marvelous combination, breaking point. What earthly charge about a plotted assassina­ Under the Communist Party of fascism. members, especially in 848, where however, was based on hope and illusion appear for re-election, their services in reason Bukharin, for example, tion, is a sheer and despicable leadership things are beginning The voices of indignant protest opposition against his leadership and not on the realities of imperialist deserting a genuine labor fighter in his who was a warm personal friend invention, characteristic part of to be stirred up again. More than that have risen throughout the is growing stronger. Naturally, politics and thè class struggle. For, in hour of need will doubtless be remem­ of Gorky, would have for murder­ one of the most infamous frame- ever, the members of Local 848 world, and the increasing dis­ this new element are Weinstock’s the past year especially, and most par­ bered gratefully by the Stalinist ma­ ing him, cannot be ascertained. ups in history. are feeling it. Never in the 35 chine, which is intent on stilling the Just the contrary, he would, if contentment of the masses in the years of the local’s existence and supporters who don’t attend all ticularly in the past couple of months, it meetings but know just when to anything, go out of his way to Assumption Absurd Soviet Union itself, cannot be under any administration has a has become as plain as a pikestaff that voice of Beal—an opponent of Stalinism stilled by the blood of Stalin’s show up. the imperialist bandits of both the “ de­ and all the rottenness for which it stands preserve Gorky for he, like every­ thing happened which has oc­ body else, knew that Gorky fre­ If it were true, one would have martyred victims. curred now. We will soon be When the members have an mocratic” and the fascist camps are much —by having him railroaded to jail for important problem upon which twenty years. All the more reason for quently intervened to restrain to assume that both in the case Protest The Crime! afraid to attend meetings. more interested in coming to an under­ Stalin from too violent measures of Trotsky and Bukharin, of Local' 848 has always been a they want to vote, and the Stalin- standing among themselves, a settlement the genuine frierids of labor to stand against all opponents, real and Rykov and Rakovsky, Lenin work­ These voices must be raised progressive local for all alike. ites feel it is going to be against of their dispute for a time at least, than firmly and unflinchingly behind Beal in fancied. ed together with them as his louder and louder in an imperious Every member had the right to their favor, they start a disturb­ in dpfpndincr the abstract, ideals of “ de- his fight for liberty. It is impossible to find language closest associates in the party demand: express himself against the lead­ ance until a fight breaks out— to describe the charge that Trot­ and in the government for five Put an end to these horrible ership without fear. Even Com­ with the aid of the new members sky was a foreign spy as early years, without having the ele­ fram e-ups! rade Weinstock and his fellow- who immediately reach for their as 1921 and th a t he and B u k­ mentary intelligence to discover Release the political prisoners Stalinites, when they were bar­ knives as a writer reaches for harin tried to assassinate Lenin, th e ir p e rfid y . In S ta lin ’s case, of the Stalinist despotism! red from every other local, found his pen. If these fights are not S ta lin and Sverdlov in 1918. one would have to assume that DoWn with the regime of the a welcome in 848. stopped in time, there will be Early in 1918, when a lively he worked together with Trots­ monster in the Kremlin, whose But now under the Communist plenty of bloodshed. discussion occurred in the country ky and Rakovsky for as many name is a curse bn the lips of Party administration the local is S. Pleve over the signing of-the Brest- and more, years, and with Buk­ every honest worker! not the same. When a member Local 848.