N. Y. Police Ban Mass Pickets, Guard Scabs, Arrest Strikers Morgenthau

SOCIALISTPublished Weekly as the Organ of the Socialist Party ofAPPEAL New York, Left Wing Branches. Vol. I. - No. 15. 401 Saturday, November 20, 1937 5 Cents per Copy Plan Relief Cuts N. Y. Police Ban Mass Pickets, F. D. R .’s Morgenthau Speech Forecasts Guard Scabs, Arrest Strikers “Planned” Congress Attacks on Workers Economy Smashing through the picket however, betrayed the class in By B. J. Widick And the unemployed? \Y ;:t has lines of the United Electric and terests of the working class. More Roosevelt, who boasted that the Roosevelt regime t offet A brazen attempt to save the proofs of this perfidy w ill not be returning prosperity was planned them? What does it pro. ose to Radio Workers Union at the profits of. Big Business by re wanting in the future, just as by the administration, sings a do about the hundreds n thou Presto Lock Corporation plant in ducing its taxes and cutting down they were not lacking in the different tune as depression sands of lay-offs? Ah- .t the the already meagre relief pro Brooklyn the LaGuardia police past. sweeps across the country. The already drastic cuts in re I > f that gram is being made by the Roose force escorted scabs into the fac scope of the present recession, have brought misery and rarva- velt administration at the special which is fast wiping out all gains tio n ? tory and dragged 15 pickets to session of Congress that began of the upturn, is clearly revealed Every worker who ea-t hia jail as the first instalment of Newark Students Fight th is week. by the following examples gath ballot last fall for the re-election labor’s reward for its fulsome Roosevelt admitted in his mes ered from recent reports. of Roosevelt believed that the praise and its support of La For School sage to Congress that he was Guardia in the last election. In ten weeks, Steel, the leader “great humanitarian and cham alarmed by the current business pion of the common people,” The pickets fought back m ili- in the upturn, has dismissed recession with its accompanying In the middle of September, 185,000 workers. In two weeks, would do something to alleviate tantly against the strike break- tremendous lay-offs which reflect the burdens of the work-rs lo t ers and their escorting police and ' all students of the Essex County the closely related coal industry the deepening of the basic crisis has laid o ff 130,000 miners, while under capitalism. despite the attack of both Junior College received notices of capitalism. the balance have been placed on In plain, clear, and cold-blooded mounted and foot police, only announcing that school would not The “New Deal" program to a two-day week work-basis. terms that only the blind could four strike breakers got through open in the fall. The Young meet this crisis was outlined by Washington announces what fa il to see and unde; stand, the lines and into the plant. The Peoples Socialist League under Secretary of the Treasury Henry every garment worker knew al Roosevelt informed the workers, arrested pickets were also drag stood immediately that this meant Morganthau Jr. in his authorita ready: a severe slump in the through his spokesman Morgen ged inside the plant and held a permanent closing of the school tive speech to the Academy of clothing industry. Textile mills thau, that, “It is necessary to there by the police until rein and initiated a united front move Political Science a few days prior are in a similar or worse condi reduce the budget by $700,000,- forcements and squad cars arriv ment in the interests of the 700 to the opening of Congress. tion. Auto production drops 000," which can be done, I t adds, ed to take them to the police sta students against this measure. “ A determined movement “through reducing relief, farm tion. There they were charged rapidly, as thousands of auto towards balancing the budget is Over 100 delegates from various workers face a workless winter. and public works expenditures.” with felonious assault, inciting one of the needed solutions for unions, unemployed organizations Unions in the oil, rubber, elec Was any betrayal eve: an to riot, malicious mischief and today’s problems," Morgenthau and student groups attended a trical and radio lines report ! nounced so frankly and openly? rio tin g . told Wall Street, “to foster the conference to re-open Junior thousands fired daily. Machine ! Roosevelt admits that hundreds That the action of LaGuardia’s College. Endorsements of the full application of the driving of thousands have been laid off. manufacturing is no exception. force of private capital." police in the Presto Lock strike purpose of the conference poured C.I.O. leaders in St. Louis That there are millions unem was not the isolated strike break in from numerous district com seek relief for thousands of mem Cries: Reduce Relief! ployed. He points that out in his ing of an individual police offi- mittees of unions and federa- bers and non-members recently message. cial but the considered policy of tions. Only the Stalinist-controlled dropped from the payroll. In San The Roosevelt regime hopes to the Police Department was con American Youth Congress re Francisco, the state unemploy balance the budget through, “ re “Aid Business,” Keynote firmed by the publication of a fused to support the conference. ment service reports 300,000 out ducing relief, farm and public Yet Roosevelt proposes to new order issued by the Depart Meanwhile the forces of the con of work. Chicago reports a works expenditures," Morgen ment abolishing the right of ference swung into action. A cut down on the amount of relief sharp rise in unemployment. thau declared, “and would try to in the face of a great increase workers to employ the weapon of picket line at WPA headquarters Ohio tells the same story. Tex encourage expansion of private mass picketing. forced a statement that money in the need for relief! "Let them tile mills in New England are, industry through revising taxes starve," Roosevelt should have According to reports published for the school was available. Two as in Hoover’s days, seeking "vol found to be inequitable." declared frankly. He meant that. in the New York press last Tues- delegations visited the City Corn- untary” wage reductions. Min This declaration met with the His program, if carried o u, w ill day, police department officials, missioners, who promised to neapolis joins the general trend unanimous approval of the Am bring that. have been instructed not to per-' provide money for light and heat with thousands of new relief ap erican capitalist newspapers. “ Aid Business," is the k-.*y-note m it more than six pickets to and a place for the school, plicants. Especially such reactionary pap of the Roosevelt message to Con cover any one industrial or com- ] plans are now under way to Decadent capitalism a g a in ers as the New York Herald Tri gress. This, at a time when fin mercial establishment; not to start an experimental college that hammers home the lesson which bune. W hy? ancial reports indicate that the allow pickets to lock arms on will give the students a means workers must learn: not through Because Big Business has been rubber, auto, steel, oil and other the line; and not to permit picket of receiving some education until "New Deals” or demagogic pro given a public assurance that the industries are making over 50% ing demonstrations to move from Essex re-opens. The students are mises, but only through the rev Roosevelt administration w ill help more profit this year than in one branch to another of a chain showing their desire for educa olutionary overthrow of the out them maintain profits. Can the 1936. establishment. tion despite the State Boat'd of lived capitalist order can peace, capitalists be blamed for cheer “ Aid Business," shouts Roose The immediate cause of the education—and the American prosperity and security be won. ing ? velt (to the cheers of Wall St.) order appears to be the trouble Youth Congress. H . Stern. But what about the workers? while millions of workers face the police have been having with the cold of winter, the misery of pickets of the Horn and Hardart starvation, and the other trage Automats. If the order means Protest Grows Against Spanish GPU dies of unemployment, without anything, it means that the ad even the prospect of a few bread m inistration, acting as an agency crumbs in the form of relief! of the cafeteria bosses, is intent P A R IS . — The le f t socialist, Francois Mauriac of the French chief purpose of this charge ap upon smashing the Automat anarchist and Fourth Interna Academy. pears to be to provide an alibi Real Program: Save s trik e . tionalist movement here joined To cover up the government’s for the sensational desertion Even before the ballots have together in a great mass meeting, responsibility for the disastrous from the Stalinist Karl Marx Capitalism been completely oounted, the city October 22, at the Salle Wagram, m ilitary defeats, the Stalinists Division on the Aragon front in How does the present Roose government has thus given a de in defense of working class pri have launched a new lynch cam mid-October, for which numerous velt program differ one io'.a from monstration whom the LaGuar soners in Spain. paign against the POUM and officers of the division were shot that advocated by the “great dia victory w ill actually serve.

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