SOCIALISTPublished Weekly as the Organ of the Socialist Party of APPEAL 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. Jean Rous spoke fo r the P.O.I. other prisoners. L’Humanite of and its PSUC political commissar, engineer" Herbert Hoover, late As so often before, it does not (Internationalist Workers Party October 25 publishes a new se Trueba, dismissed. unlamented Republican president take long to show how disas for the Fourth International), ries of accusations: destruction While the Stalinists thus sland of the United States, when he trous is the policy of class colla with Marceau Pivert speaking of bridges, m ilitary espionage on er the POUM, its members con was confronted by the 1929 de boration for the working class. for the left socailists. Daniel 4he Aragon front, attempts to tinue to die at the front. La Cor pression ? LaGuardia and the capitalist po Guerin represented the Com assassinate m ilitary leaders and respondence de Valencia, UGT Such a strong defender of liticians could not be expected to mittee for Inquiry into the a m in ister. organ, of October 19, reports the Roosevelt as the New York Post act otherwise—that would mean Moscow Trials. death of one of the most heroic compares the Roosevelt and to betray their class interests. fighters of the war, the POUM A telegram to the Negrin gov Covering Up Hoover policies as essentially the In endorsing LaGuardia and in ernment was read, demanding member, Jose Alcantarilla, com same! collaborating with the capitalist legal guarantees for the anti The little “detail" that the mander of a battalion of the politicians to corral the working fascist prisoners, signed by An POUM leadership has been im 27th division. His prestige, won The revolutionary socialists g
When considering semi-colonial Oliviera undoubtedly would be Latin America, n dear under swept into office. The desire of standing of politics is inconcei the Vargas feudal clique for self- vable unless it is analysed in the preservation and with it, the light of imperialist machina exigencies of American imperial tions. This is all the more true ist domination determined the of the most backward of all the action of Vargas. South American countries, Brazil, The Daily Worker striving to whose colonial nature can hardly prove to the American bourgeoisie be overlooked. Reposing upon a the virtues of Russo-American feudal economy, with coffee as accord, warned Wall Street edi its economic foundation, virtually to ria lly on November 12 th a t the entire industrial life of the “ Dictator Vargas in Rio de Jane- nation is monopolized between rio has taken his orders directly American and British imperial from Hitler, Mussolini and the ism. Konoye cabinet in Tokyo." We The contradictions between by no means wish to ignore the these two imperialisms have been role of Germany in Brazilian the main dynamic force behind politics. German imperialism, Brazilian political happenings of almost asphyxiated as a result the last decade. The two impe of Versailles, has been turning rialist camps struggling for the frantically, during the last few upper hand have organized poli years, toward Latin-America as tical cliques and parties. During a source for war materials and this time, the pliant tool of Ame as an outlet for her industrial rican Dollar Diplomacy has been commodities, and has succeeded in and still is Don Getulio Vargas. obtaining mining concessions in In li930 he was nominated as some South American nations. presidential candidate by the By means of government sub feudal landlords of Rio Grande sidies on exports, Germany in De Sul, Minas Geraes and Para- 1936 led the U. S. in exports to hyba in connivance with Wall Brazil. The "Integralist" party Street which controls the rail overtly expresses its friendship roads, banks and electrical indus for Nazi Germany. The large, in tries of those states. His op fluential German population of ponent was Julio P. de Albur- Brazil is overwhelmingly Nazi in thoroughly subdue these masses and to stifle their querque of Sao Paulo, the hope social and political aspirations, the totalitarian its sympathies. However, at the SOCIALIST APPEAL of the British Lion which domi present time, German economic regime of Vargas w ill prove more feeble than Vol. I. - No. 1,5. Saturday, Nov. 20, 1937 nates the economic life of that and political influence isn’t of any other regime in the countries of Latin Ame state. With the government of Published every week by the great significance and the In rica. The sub-fascism of Vargas cannot act as President Washington Luis favor tegralist party is still far from SOCIALIST APPEAL PUBLISHING ASS’N. anything but a docile instrument for the genuine ing the candidacy of de Albur- being a decisive force in Brazi Published at 116 University Place, N. Y. imperialist fascism which created it. In other querque, Vargas and his Yankee lian political relationships and Subscriptions: $2.00 per year; $1.00 for 6 words, the totalitarian coup d’etat is not a step masters, demagogically flirting struggles. with the masses, carried through months. Foreign: $2.50 per year. Bundle order along the road from a semi-colonial position to-‘ The fact that Vargas has given ward national liberation, but on the contrary, a a successful coup d’etat against 3 cents per copy. Single copies 5 cents. L uis. free latitude to the “Integral- A ll checks and money orders should be made step back from the semi-colonial position toward ists" in their activities does not out to the Socialist Appeal. complete colonial enslavement. Vargas’ Past Record prove that he is an agent o f Ger For the Latin American proletariat, as for the many, but stresses the point, Entered as second-class matter September 1, working masses in general, facing this situation, Vargas has been in office for that lacking any social support, 1937 a t the post office a t New Y o rk, New Y o rk, it is a question above all of rejecting w ith contempt seven years and has consistently he rests to some extent upon that under the Act of March 3, 1879. the diplomatic lie of non-intervention. Getulio shown himself to be a loyal fascist rabble in his efforts to Vargas is preparing for the most starved and the lackey of his Yankee overlords. perpetuate his rule. In fact, it has been one of the most aggressive imperialism a base from which it As for Japan, we can add, that To The Aid of the Brazilian People most friendly periods in the his w ill be able to intervene in the internal life of all although Japanese trade with tory of Brazilian-American rela With the evident objective of facilitating the Latin-America has grown by Latin America. For the workers it becomes then tions. As a crowning point of penetration of German and Italian fascist im leaps and bounds during the last a question of defending themselves w ith the power Vargas’ servility, Brazil, at the few years, only the most naive perialism into this continent and of sapping the ful arm of international solidarity. The duty of Buenos Aires conference, openly political observer could maintain positions acquired by North American capitalism, this solidarity falls primarily upon the workers and unmistakingly aligned itself that Japan exercises at the pre Brazil on the night of November ninth officially of Latin America. with Washington in the latter’s sent time, influence on Brazil. became a totalitarian state. President Getulio The Brazilian proletariat who number almost efforts to attain economic hege The same can be said for sup Vargas disclaims having made a fascist coup 11,000,000 workers in industry and agriculture mony of the Western Hemis posed Italian influence. The d’etat. He has more reason for his denial than phere. have many times demonstrated their magnificent Daily Worker, trying to place the A Washington dispatch to the he himself thinks. The regime he has introduced combattive qualities. The totalitarian regime w ill responsibility for the Vargas New York Times of November is not fascism, but its colonial parody. be a severe school for them, but no one of long coup upon the Rome-Berlin- 12, obviously after the reporter Fascism is the product of contradictions inso duration. This Brazilian dictatorship, the last to Tokyo axis and furthermore, by had consulted State Department luble to imperialism, that is to say, capitalism appear, w ill very likely be the first to fall. maintaining in that same editor officials, stated: "Furthermore, in its final stage. The real beneficiary of fascism In order to preserve Latin America from the ial that Roosevelt's Latin-Ame- the records of the men in power is finance-capital. The instrument of fascism is colonial slavery which menaces it more and more, rican policy is for “peace and in Brazil, would indicate that as the petty bourgeoisie of the town and country, it is necessary to unite it. It is not the “national" Democracy" shamelessly attempts long as they remain in office any ruined by finance-capital, desperate, and falling to dissimulate the fact that Var bourgeoisies, these agencies of foreign imperial move being sponsored contrary into the trap of its exploiter. ism, who w ill assure the success of this task. It gas is the product of American to the interests of the U. S. is imperialist manipulations. Brazfi, like all the Latin American countries, is only the working masses who are capable of inconceivable.” Itself possesses no finance-capital, or almost none. Has Brazil turned fascist? A creating by their indomitable revolutionary How explain the action of Var sober political analysis would It is foreign imperialism which dominates the struggle the United Socialist States of Latin gas? Basically there are two bring an observer to the conclu economic life of the country and dictates its laws. Am erica. reasons for the latest step of the sion that what presents itself The Coup d’etat can only serve therefore to en Workers of Mexico! Workers of Latin America! Brazilian president. 1) The in today in that country is just slave the country more thoroughly to foreign ternal economic and political si Workers of the entire world! We must tighten another form true, more naked ca pita l. tuation of the country; and 2) our ranks. We must explain to the general masses of the personal, m ilitary dictator Contrary to Europe, the petty bourgeoisie of the Sharpening of imperialist con the real meaning of the Brazilian coup d’etat. We ship so common throughout Ibero- cities have never played an important economic tradictions. must help the Brazilian advance guard, materially American history. The tyrant role in Latin America. The peasant masses are and morally. We must assure the right of asylum The seven years dictatorship Gomez ruled Venezuela for 25 not yet free from a semi-feudal servitude. They for Brazilian political refugees. We must help which has brought Brazil to the years no more democratically have no tradition of political struggle. They are them in the creation of a genuine nucleus for the brink of economic disaster, re than Vargas w ill rule under the not enlisted in the fascist party. The so-called future revolution. ducing millions of hunger-ridden new constitution. A fascist move “green shirts" represent a negligible quantity and masses to barbaric levels of ex The van-guard of the Mexican workers send ment is an upsurge of discontent it appears that Getulio Vargas has not even found istence and which has pitilessly their vibrant appeal for the solidarity of world ed petty-bourgeois masses and it necessary to enlist them in the coup d’etat. crushed every national, anti lumped proletarians directed in labor and above all of the powerful working class Because of the political misery of the petty imperialist manifestation of the the interests of finance capital. of the United States which is called by history bourgeoisie, it was the state apparatus and pri Brazilian people, finds itself to Vargas hasn’t any mass base at to become the leader of the oppressed people of day devoid of any social support marily the m ilitary apparatus, that is to say, the all, having long since alienated this continent. whatsoever with new mass ex the sympathies of virtually the instrument of foreign imperialism, which became plosions imminent. Vargas had at the same time the instrument of the coup d’etat. Down with world fascism and its miserable lieu entire Brazilian nation. The new to act quickly to reconsolidate his tyrant rests upon the precarious Hence the totalitarian regime of Brazil has had tenants in Latin Americal precarious rule. support of an army which will Since its origin a purely bureaucratic character. Down with foreign imperialism and its national Secondly, a fa ir election being agents! inevitably reflect the social anta It is more like the dictatorship of a Primo de Rivera held, with the hatred and disgust gonism which the very logic of than that of a H itler or of a Mussolini. Deprived Long live international socialism! of the masses directed against his politics w ill not mitigate but «f any social and political base in the masses of Liga Comunista Internationalists (B.L.) Vargas, British imperialism’s only intensify. the country, established only in order to more Seccion Mexicans de la IV International candidate, Armando de Salles Bernard Ross. November 20, 1937 SOCIALIST APPEAL 5 It Is High Time To Launch a World Offensive Against Stalinism An Open Letter to All Workers' Organizations By Leon T ro tsky The world social movement is mittee of the CPSU in which he No sooner did m ilitary activities its Shanghai correspondent is a less chain of crimes serving?” being: consumed by a terrible di declared that “the Fourth Inter begin in the Far East than Stalin G.P.U. agent who fulfills the And the answer is hammering its sease. The source of contagion is national consists two-thirds of launched a crushing offensive decisions—of the April plenum. way into their minds: Stalin is the Comintern, or to put it more spies and diversionists. “ This against his revolutionary oppon Informed Chinese sources have preparing his “coronation” over correctly, the G.P.U. for whom brazen and truly Stalinist decla ents in China. The method is in the meantime ascertained the ruins of the revolution and the apparatus of the Comintern ration already indicated quite identical with that applied in that there was and is no Trots the corpses of revolutionists. serves only as a legal cover. The clearly at what the Kremlin Cain Spain. Stalin sells to Chiang kyist organization in Kwangsi. The Bonapartist coronation of events of the last few months in was aiming. His designs are not Kai-shek, as to Negrin, products (Socialist Appeal, October 16). Stalin must coincide with his Spain have shown what crimes confined, however, to the frame of, Soviet industry at high prices, But this does not alter the situa political death for the working the unbridled and completely de work of the Fourth Internatoinal. and with the income thus obtain tion: The Shanghai cable signi class movement. It is necessary generated Moscow bureaucracy In Spain the POUM, which was ed pays his falsifiers, journalistic fies that in China there has open to rally the efforts of all revo and its hirelings from among the itself in an irreconciliable con swindlers, and hired assassins. ed the chapter of framed docu lutionists, all honest workers, all declassed international scum are flict with the Fourth Interna On October 5, a cable dispatch ments, kidnappings of “ Trotsky true friends of the proletariat, to capable of. It is not a question tional, was enrolled among the from Shanghai appeared in the ites” and murders from ambush. purge the ranks of the emancipa of “incidental” murders or "inci “Trotskyites.” After the POUM new York Daily Worker, accusing The prisons of Chiang Kai-shek tory movement from tile horrible dental” frame-ups. In question is came the turn of anarcho-syndi Chinese "Trotskyites” in Kwang- have already in them not a few contagion of Stalinism. There is a conspiracy against the world calists and even left Socialists. si of an alliance with the Japan impeccable revolutionists. Their only one way to attain this: By labor movement. And now, all those who protest ese General Staff. The Daily disclosing to the workers the lives are now being directly The Moscow trials could, of against the repression of anarch Work« is an organ of the G. truth, without exaggerations, but course, have taken place only un ists are being enrolled among P. U. published in New York; threatened by Stalin. also without any embellishment. der a totalitarian regime, where the Trotskyites. The frame-ups The program of action thus flows the G.P.U. dictates alike the and crimes are mounting at a The Amazing Testimony of a Canadian Communist well nigh automatically from the conduct of defendants, the prose fearful rate. Isolated and especial Who Revolted situation itself. cution, and the defense. But these ly scandalous details may, of We must definitely establish judicial frame-ups were from the course, be accounted for by ex The Canadian Communist, , crimes, dozens of foreign bourge and make public the names of all outset designed as a starting point cessive zeal on the part of indi Henry Beattie, who participated ois journalists of the Walter the national delegates who parti for a crushing offensive against vidual agents. But the activity as a volunteer for four months Duranty-Louis Fisher school are cipated in the recent Paris ple the opponents of the Moscow as a whole is rigidly centralized, on the Spanish front, and who kept on the payrolls of the num, as the men directly res clique on the world arena. On and is being conducted in accord was then sent back to his own G .P .U . It has long been no secret ponsible for the organization of M arch 3 S ta lin delivered a speech ance with a plan elaborated by, country as an agitator by the to those able to read between the frame-ups, kidnapping, and mur at a plenum of the Central Com the Kremlin. militiamen themselves, has re lines that the amiable-critical- cently recounted in the press how equivocal dispatches and articles ders in the respective countries. An ECCI Plenum Served To Prepare The World '■■he party of Canadian Stalinists from Moscow signed by “inde We must definitely establish and make public the names of Murder Campaign had compelled him to say at pendent” names, often accom public meetings that Trotskyites panied w ith a notation “uncensor all foreign Stalinists who either On April 21 an emergency ple loath to prostrate themselves in in Spain “shot wounded m ilitia- ed,” are in reality written under held or are holding any kind of num of the ECCI convened in the mud which was soaked with nen.” For a while, Beattie, accord the dictation of the G.P.U. and m ilitary police, or administra Paris, at which the most trusted fresh blood. But within a few ing to his own statement, ful have as their aim to reconcile tive posts in Spain. All these representatives of 17 most im months, the resistance of the filled this monstrous order, “sub world public opinion with the individuals are agents of the portant sections participated. waverers was broken down. The m itting to party discipline,” i.e. sinister figure of the Kremlin G .P.U . implicated in the crimes The sessions were strictly secret entire press of the Comintern, -o the decision of that same secret 3ain. “Independent” journalists committed in Spain. in character. The world press which Stalin keeps in a dog-collar plenum directed by Stalin. Today, of (his type differ from the We must carefully follow the carried only a brief dispatch of gold, was drawn into an orgy after Beattie escaped from the Messers Duranty only in this, international Stalinist press, as mentioning the fact that the de of slander unprecedented in vile poisoned atmosphere of the Co that they come at a higher price. well as the “literary” activity of liberations of the plenum were ness and cruelty. The guiding mintern into the clear air outside But the reporters are not the only the avowed and under-cover devoted to an international strug role was assigned, as it always he is of course branded as a spy nes mobilized. W riters w ith high- friends of the G .P.U ., inasmuch gle against Trotskyism. The is, to the emissaries of Moscow and a diversionist, and it is even sounding or famous names like as from the character of the instructions came from Moscow, like Michael Koltsov, Willie possible that there is a price on Romain Rolland, the deceased fumes they emit it is often pos directly from Stalin. Neither the Muenzenberg and other scound his head. When it comes to such Barbusse, Malraux, Heinrich sible to forecast what new crimes Stalin is preparing. discussion nor the decisions have rels. Pravda confidently promised understandings Stalin is not Mann or Feuchtwanger are in that the purge in Spain would be It is necessary to institute in been published. As is evident stingy: the technical expenses effect pensioners of the G .P.U. from the information at our dis conducted with the same ruth which pays liberally for the all labor organizations a regime posal, and from all the ensuing lessness as in the USSR. Its alone for the murder of Ignace “moral” services of these friends of rigid mistrust of everyone directly or indirectly connected events, this mysterious plenum words were followed with deeds: Reiss amounted to 300,000 francs! through the medium of the State was in reality a conference of framed documents against the To cover up or justify these Publishing House. with the Stalinist apparatus. One the most important international POUM, assassinations of anarch must always expect any kind of agents of the G.P.U. for the ist writers, the murder of An The Leaders of the Second International And Their perfidy on the part of the agents of the Comintern who are the purpose of preparing a campaign dres Nin, the kidnapping of Er Relation to Stalin of framed accusations, denuncia win Wolfe, the kidnapping of spineless tools of the G .P.U . tions, kidnappings and assassina Mark Rein, dozens of less pro There is a somewhat different for itself into the consciousness We must tirelessly gather tions against the adversaries of minent stabbings in the back or but not greatly improved situa of the labor masses of the world. printed material, documents, Stalinism in the labor movement murders from ambush, incarcera tion with regard to the leaders Drunk with impunity, Stalin has testimonials of witnesses con the world over. tions in Stalin’s extra-territorial of the Second and Labor Interna grossly over-stepped that bound cerning the criminal work of the At the time of the Zinoviev- prisons in Spain, confinement in tional. Out of considerations of ary which caution dictates even agents of the G.P.U.-Comintern. Kamenev trial (August 1936) these prisons in special cells, diplomatic or internal-political to the most privileged criminal. We must periodically publish in the press rigorously substantiated there was still some wavering in beating and infliction of all sorts character Leon Blum, Leon Jou- It is possible to dupe so brazenly haux, Vandervelde and their com only those who want to be duped. conclusions drawn from these the ranks of the Comintern. Des of physical and moral torture— pite the efforts of hoary hirelings peers in other countries have or Not a few of the dubious lumi m ate ria ls. of the G.P.U. like Jacques Du- all this under the cover of con ganized, in the fu ll sense of the naries belong to this category. It is necessary to open the clos in France, even the inured tinuous, crude, poisonous and term, a conspiracy of silence But the masses do not want to eyes of public opinion to the fact cadres of the Comintern were truly Stalinist slander. around the crimes of the Stalinist be deceived. They need the truth. that the honeyed and lying pro bureaucracy both in the USSR They are striving for it, and they paganda of many philosophers, The G.P.U. Works On a World Scale With Anyone and on the world arena. Negrin w ill attain it. moralists, aesthetes, artists, paci fists and labor “leaders” in de Who W ill Serve and Prieto are direct accomplices No longer bound by any prin of the G.P.U. A ll this they do ciples, Stalin has over-stepped fense of the Kremlin, under the In Spain, where the so-called some information to the French —under the guise of defending the final boundary. Precisely guise of "defense of the Soviet Republican Government serves police. On September 4, in Lau “ democracy!” therein is weakness. He is still Union” is paid for liberally in as a legal shield for Stalin’s cri sanne, Ignace Reiss was murder We know that the enemy is able to kill. But he cannot halt Moscow gold. These gentlemen minal gangs, the G.P.U. found ed, only because, horrified at the powerful; he has a long reach; the truth. More and more work must be covered with the infamy the most favorable arena for crimes of Stalin, he had publicly gold clinks in his pockets. He er-communists, socialists and they so richly have earned. fulfilling the directives of the broken with Moscow. Some of covers himself with the authority anarchists are being seized by Never before has the labor April plenum. But matters were Reiss’s assassins have been ar of the revolution which he is alarm. Even Stalin’s allies in the movement had in its own ranks not confined to Spain alone. The rested. strangling and dishonoring. But Second International are begin so vicious, dangerous, powerful French and British military They are members of the Comin we also know something else: ning to cast fearful glances at and unscrupulous an enemy as staffs, as appears from the press tern and agents of the G.P.U. however powerful the enemy may the Kremlin. Many literary Stalin’s clique and its interna of the Comintern itself, were recruited from among Russian be, he is not omnipotent. Despite “friends” have already cautiously tional agentry. Remissness in the supplied with some sort of mys White Guards. The investigation the Kremlin’s treasury and ap withdrawn to the sidelines under struggle against this enemy is terious documents pertaining to of the French and Swiss court paratus and legion of “friends,” the pretext of “neutrality.” But tantamount to betrayal. Only “Trotsky’s meeting with Rudolf authorities provides every ground truth is beginning to cut a path this is only the beginning. windbags and dilettantes but not Hess." The Czech m ilitary staff for the assumption that this very serious revolutionists can confine ■as handed forged correspon- gang had com m itted a whole se The Truth Will Out: We Must Organize To themselves to pathetic outbursts ■ge intended to establish a con- ries of hitherto unrevealed crimes. Make It Known of indignation. It is necessary to H ktion between the Gestapo and White Guards serve Stalin as have a plan and an organization. old German Revolutionist, assassins, just as they serve him Ignace Reiss was not the last lunteers in Spain w ill spread It is urgent to create special Baton Grylewicz. Jacques Duclos in the guise of prosecutors to bring: us his revelations. The throughout the globe the truth commissions which would follow ■Tied to link up the “Troskyites” (Vyshinsky), publicist (M. Kolt murderers of Reiss apprehended about the hang-man of the re the maneuvers, intrigues and ■ fth mysterious terrorist acts in sov, Zaslavsky etc.) or diplomats in Switzerland and France, may volution. Thinking workers are crimes of the Stalinists, warn the ■ frig, concerning which the GPU (Troyanovsky, Maisky, and the disclose a good many things, asking themselves: “To what end labor organizations of danger in ■ Id doubtless have supplied rest of the fraternity). Thousands of revolutionary vo- is all this ? What aim is this end- (Continued on page 7) 6 SOCIALIST APPEAL November 20, 1937
rectifying with bullets any acts of “negligence" in the “most de t ------mocratic elections in the world.” INTERNATIONAL NOTES But the G. P.U. is obviously having its hands full. So, on the initiative of Petrovsky, Chairman of the Ukrainian C.E.C. of the West Coast Soviets, the Komsomol (Y.C.L.) committees have mobilized pioneers and all school children of pioneer age “for active participation Stalin Tightens the Screws on His Plebiscite in the electoral campaign." Petrovsky in an article in Pionershkaya Pravda specifies just what this participation entails. Among the Labor Notes Stalin's Central Committee sat in plenary session for two chief duties of school Children is to agitate against the “ excrements days on October 11-12 to "take up the question of the electoral of the bourgeoisie, the nationalists, the followers of Petlura, the l______j campaign' . While the decisions of this session have yet to be Trotskyites, the Rights and other traitors of the people.” Labor Editor Resigns published in full, the keynpte of the campaign has been issued, With each passing day, the terror is gathering momentum. and the fear of the ruling clique given a more graphic expression. Krasnaya Gazetta for October IX), carries an announcement of a Somewhat of a sensation was Under the slogan of "Strengthen the Ties W ith the Non-Party new regional conference of the Leningrad Komsomol, necessitated caused throughout the ranks of the Maritime Federation of the Masses!" joint slates with ‘non-party Bolsheviks’ have been made by “ additional” exposure of “ enemies of the people who had sneak Pacific last week when Ralph mandatory. A ll indications point to the certainty that "non-Party ed into leading posts"—of a Komsomol organization that has been Chaplin, editor of the "Voice of delegates w ill constitute a very substantial block, if not the major purged three times in the last few weeks! At the head of these the Federation” resigned, charg ity of those elected to the Supreme Soviet. The press features the enemies, this time, was none other than Vaishlya, secretary of ing that the Communist Party, nominations of members of this new aristocracy from among the Regional Committee, one of Zhdanov’s closet henchmen and through a process of slow and the ‘'well-to-do" kolkhozniki, Stakhanovites, technicians, Stalinist himself one of the most ruthless “purgers”. In the five weeks ending deliberate strangulation, has put “ intelligentsia" and so on. They receive prominence second only with October 31, more than 400 individuals have been shot for the “ Voice" on the rocks. to that of Stalin and his closest henchmen-pro-tem. “sabotage and wrecking”—according to reports published in the In his statement printed in the Whatever Stalin’s plan may be, his fears of possible hind Soviet press. No sphere remains untouched by the purge, not even paper, Chaplin, well-known work rances are being given ever clearer expression, with the progress the Political Bureau! A t the X V II Party Congress of February 10, ing class poet, announced he “ re of the campaign. The press no longer speaks in generalities, but 1934 Stalin handpicked 10 men for this body. Of these, three died; fused to serve as a scape-goat fo r openly stresses not only the danger but the likelihood that anti- Kirov, Kuibishev and Ordjonikidze. They were replaced by Mikoyan, the cunning plot hatched by the Stalin candidates w ill be elected! For days prior to an “official” Chubar and Petrovsky, who were three of the 5 candidates likewise local Moscow wrecking crew... confirmation in Pravda, “preventive" resolutions on this theme selected at the time. The other two were Rudzutak and Postyshev. The principles of genuine indus dotted its columns. We select one instance out of scores: In 1935, after Kirov’s assassination, Zhdanov and Eikhe were ap trial unionism upon which the "We w ill strain all our efforts not to permit a single one of pointed candidates. Rudzutak and Postyshev fe ll into “disgrace.” Maritime Federation was found the vile enemies of the people from among the Trotskyite-Buk- And now with the appointment of Yezhov to the Political Bureau, ed are too important to be dis carded for the cheap substitute harmist-Rykov gang, not a single double-dealer and traitor to the the members of this body are (for the time being): Stalin, Molotov, proposed by the Communist CIO interests of the people, to sneak into the highest organs of state Kaganovich, Voroshilov, Kalinin, Andreyev, Mikoyan, Chubar. S. V. Maritime Council.” pow er a t our happy and free country". (Resolution of the Nevsky Kossior, Zhdanov and Yezhov. Of those “missing”, Eikhe has just plant in Leningrad, Pravda, Oct. 14.) been kicked down stairs into the People’s Commissariat. Petrovsky Indorse Independent Pravda more than bears out the "need" of straining “all 1 is on the spot in the Ukraine. Who is next ? Industrial Union efforts ” Referring to “ohe of the most important, and perhaps To cope with difficulties Stalin has found it ncessary to add the key organizational question of the electoral campaign," i.e., the bribes to “agitation” and bullets. On November 1, the People’s In the meantime, the progres sive campaign for unity among election of district and regional electoral committees, Pravda wails: Commissariat issued a decree raising the wages “of lower paid the maritime unions gains head "The enemy elements, understanding the fu ll political signi workers and employes in industry and transport.” The decree way. San Pedro and Seattle ficance Of electoral committees, strive, and in some places not un cautiously avoids specifying the precise amount of the raise, but branches of the Marins Firemen successfully, to sneak ‘their own’ creatures into them, especially specifies “ guiding considerations” which establish minimum monthly and Oilers union, and the head into the district committees. In the Ordjonikidze province wage scales of “not less than” HO and 115 rubles “exclusive of quarters meeting of the Sailors' in five districts alone, from among 81 candidates put forward premiums and other additional earnings.” For the first time we Union of the Pacific have all vo for the district electoral committee, 14 either had criminal records have an “official" wage scale for “lower paid” workers, i.e. the ted by an overwhelmingly ma or were implicated in ties with enemies of the people. In the face bulk of the Soviet proletariat. The ruling clique has lifted a corner jority to amalgamate the three of that, what good is all the talk about vigilance on the part of of the veil that hides one of its darkest secrets! Thfct they have unlicensed union groups on the local regional party m ilitants!" (October 18). been compelled to do so is another indication of the growing, fer Pacific Coast into an independent Another instance: "It is silly and dangerous to expect that ment among the masses. industrial union affiliated to the the still lurking enemies—the splinters of the crushed counter Maritime Federation. * • * revolutionary parties, the Mensheviks and S.R.’s the churchmen, By a majority of more than the most venomous of the enemies of the people from among the On October 20, the Soviet press hailed the entry of the elector 14,000 votes, organized labor in Trotskyite-Bukharinist Fascist gang—w ill not strive to and per-, al campaign into a “new phase.” The “first candidates” were no San Francisco last week again prevented reactionaries from petrate abominations, and engage in wrecking on the sly”. (Oc minated. Their names are, indeed, important: Stalin, Molotov, tober IT ). securing an antipicketing ordin Kalinin, Zhdanov and two “ non-party” Stakhanovists Piehugina ance. And again: "Despite the absolutely clear directives of the and Smetanin. Was it an accident that Voroshilov’s and Kaga plenum of the C.C. of C.P.S.U. which stressed the paramount novich’s names are conspicuously absent among these “ first” ? Unionists Framed importance of electoral districts in the coming elections, party Beginning with October 29 Pravda began printing long lists organizations and Soviets,, in many places, did not attend in a of organizations nominating Stalin. Only on November 2nd were LOS ANGELES. — In recent Bolshevik manner to the selection of district electoral committees. the names of others included. Here is the order as of November months the District Attorney and the courts in Los Angeles have In several places, shocking negligence was shown, which enabled 2nd, arranged according to the “number” of nominations. intensified their drive against shady elements to sneak into some district electoral committees. Stalin ...... 446 This occurred in the Kuibishev and Smolensk regions, as well as the militants in the unions. An M olotov ...... 106 other attempt of the D. A. and in the Ordjonikidze province." (October 27. Our emphasis through Kaganovich ...... 102 the courts to break a strike oc o u t). Yezhov ...... 68 curred when two m ilitant mem The disappearance of candidates is beginning to assume Voroshilov ...... 68 bers of the I.L.G.W.U., Jose nationwide proportions. A certain number of these can doubtless On the first appearance of these “-figures” Yezhov ran ahead phine Snyder and Frances San be accounted for by clerical and typographical errors, but the of Voroshilov 37 to 36; and Kaganovich swamped Molotov by a chez were arrested on charges of illuminating comment in I'rarda, coupled with the fact, that the score of 52 to 48. Knowing Stalin’s gentle methods, these “hints” kidnapping and grand theft. remiss regions listed above have figured prominently in the latest are highly significant, indeed! These charges and arrests are as reports of executions, is ample proof that Stalin's G.P.U. is J. G. W . patent a frame-up as ever ex perienced by labor. Two weeks ago a scab attempting to enter A POPULAR HANDBOOK OF THE TACTICS AND STRATEGY OF REVOLUTION! the plant of the Chic Lingerie Co., whose employes were on A CRUSHING INDICTMENT OF THE STALIN FRAME-UP REGIME! strike, engaged in an argument with the picket. A fight ensued, They say: during which the scab dropped her purse. Witnesses present "He marshals his evidence and argument with proved that the purse had fallen such mastery and cumulative force that the reader into the gutter and was swept w ill probably regard this testimony not so much into the gutter and was swept us a defense as an indictment. It is an indict into the sewer. A while later, ment more powerful than any penned by Zola dur “The Case Of Marshall Ross, union attorney, ing the Dreyfus a ffa ir .” accompanied by a detective, dis Sidney Hook, in the covered the purse lying in the New York Herald-Tribune sewer. The charge of kidnapping "This book is most readable. It contains Trots arises out of the following cir ky’s final speech of summation which w ill, most Leon Trotsky” cumstances. During the first days likely, go down in history as one of the greatest of the strike, Mrs. Snyder and indictments of all time. It contains Trotsky’s re Frances Sanchez convinced a cord of his life, his relationship with Lenin, with The Verbatim Record of the Hearings of the Dewey union member, employed in the plant, who was attempting to Stalin and the defendants at the trial, his story Commission in Mexico City of the oppositional fight with Stalin. And it con pass the picket line, to remain tains a closely reasoned and brilliant analysis of on strike. She was taken to the every aspect of the Moscow trials. 617 Pages union headquarters, given lunch —James T. Farrel, in the money, and after a further con versation asked to return home. Saturday Review of Literature. The employer later visited the g irl and prevailed upon her to re SPECIAL PRICE DURING THIS CAMPAIGN SALE: $1.50 turn to work and sign a com plaint for kidnapping. The Labor Book Shop This is one of many such ex periences that unionism has en Rush all orders to countered in Los Angeles. Tha New York, N. Y. forces of labor throughout tha 28 EAST 12th Street city must be aroused against tJfll kind of vile strike-breaking. November 20, 1937 SOCIALIST APPEAL 7 Congress Convenes to Worker Wants Relief; Sent to Pass Relief Slashes Lunatic Asylum
And Help Bosses By Neil Harrison “Commit him to Belleview for observation” Harry Roffman has been con- Roffman is still in Belleview. find! to Belleview Prison Ward (Continued from page 1) made the slogan,“ Aid Business,” can’t buy whatever industry The Stalinist leaders of the for mental observation for the Workers Alliance had refused to the theme of his legislative pro produces. Each time that capi last sixteen days because he is ratic, are essentially the same. lift a finger in his behalf. Be gram ? tal spends money in private in unemployed and asked for relief. Their purpose is identical, name fore election day they advised Roosevelt understands that dustry to produce goods, it in About five days before election, ly to save capitalism. capitalism is a system based on troduces labor-saving machinery caution so as not to embarrass Many workers have wondered Roffman, a member of the Work LaGuacdia. With LaGuardia well private property of the means of which continues to throw more ers Alliance, went to the Single Why W all Street has insisted that taken care of by these mislead- production from which profit is men out of work permanently. men’s relief bureau to inquire Roosevelt balance the budget. ers of the unemployed, they have made through the exploitation of The home market can’t absorb why he had been cut off relief. Does not the meaning become still refused to do a thing for a labor. the goods produced: the foreign Being cut off meant for Roffman clear today? Balance the budget rank arid" file member of the Al markets are tied up by other either to starve or steal. He re means to cut down relief pro liance. What “Prosperity” capitalist nations and a crisis fused to do either. He demanded grams so the taxes can be elimin develops, as it has periodically to be put back on relief. He was ated which hurt the pocket-books M eans for many deeales. ordered out of the buerau. In Progressives Rally Aid of the rich. “Prosperity” under capitalism When the crisis ean’t be solved desperation, on being shoved out “ Our tax revenues come large can only mean that private in by political measures, by allow of the door, he threw a copy of It was only the Progressive ly from individual earnings and dustry is making enough profit ing millions of working people Wells’ Outline of History through Group of the Workers Alliance, business profits. We do not to maintain production schedules to starve during what is called a the glass pane of the door. There organized to protect the real Wish to impose levies which tend which give the workers the means depression: when the workers upon he was arrested and taken real interests of the rank and to dry up the sources of revenue, ” of subsistence. begin to rebel against the damn to the Tombs. He was there five file in the Alliance, that went to. M orgenthau p o in t out. So in “The basic need today is to able injustices of this vicious days and then brought before bat for Roffman. After getting stead of taxing the rich, the gov foster the fu ll application of the capitalist system, the capitalists Magistrate Ford. At this point the facts from him, they immedi ernment decides to starve the driving force of private capital. have two answers. His Mightiness, Magistrate Ford, ately got in touch with a lawyer poor. We w a n t to see ca p ita l go in to Either they plunge America into asked h im : from the Workers Defense More than that, Roosevelt productive channels of private another world war to obtain League, Attorney Fleischman. wishes, “to encourage the ex in d u stry. We w ant to see p r i bigger and more lucrative for R o ffm a n ’s “C rim es” Fleischman is handling the legal pansion of business through revi vate business expanded. We be eign markets for the goods they aspects of the case. The Pro sing taxes found to be inequi lieve that much of the remaining produce (which the exploited “Do you believe that the gov gressive Group is carrying on a table.” But business considers unemployment w ill disappear as workers at home can’t buy) or ernment should feed the unem campaign of mass pressure all taxes they pay as “inequi private capital funds are increas they crush the workers through ployed and give them jobs?” To through publicity, leaflets and table.” That’s why Wall Street ingly employed in productive en fascist forces. which Roffman replied: "Yes.-' mass picket lines before the maintains powerful lobbies in terprises.” Morgenthau explain Organized Labor can’t and Thereupon, Justice Ford said: Single Men’s bureau. Washington to fight against ed the basic motives of the won’t stand for the betrayal of taxes. Roosevelt policy. What does it the working people by Roosevelt’s mean? Is it possible? policies. A militant struggle Business “Opposition” Certaiiily the guarantee that against them must come. Paula Aragon, Young Socialist Leader D is a ppears i taxes wifi be reduced is an in Then, it w ill he necessary to centive to big business to use prepare to keep America out of Is it any wonder the business capital for private industry. More the next imperialist war, which And Labor Organizer, Sentenced To Jail opposition to the special session important, however, is the basic shall be declared under the guise of Congress has disappeared ? consideration that prefit can of “Fighting for Peace and De Paula Aragon, National Ex severely condemned the defendant The financiers and industrialists only be made by exploiting labor, m ocracy.” ecutive Committee member of for her trade union activity and worried that perhaps Roosevelt by having long hours, low wages The workers’ answer to impe the Young Peoples Socialist sentenced her to 90 days in the m ight do something which would and poor working conditions: rialist war and fascism must be League, serving now as a Los county jail, 45 days suspended h u rt them . By not paying labor its fu ll due. the revolutionary overthrow of Angeles organizer of the Inter and a year probation. Instead, his message and his The Roosevelt program of capitalism, the system of unem national Ladies Garment Work The case was appealed because program as outlined by Morgen- ignoring the 30-hour week de ployment, misery, starvation, as ers Union, is to begin serving a of alleged improper instruction thau, told them, in advance, that mand, of passing up a wage and so strikingly revealed today. sentence in the Los Angeles given to the jury and because of the special session would be for hour bill, assures the capitalists In its struggle against the be County ja il this week. the refusal of the Judge to per the capitalists’ benefit and against of little opposition from the pol trayal policies of Roosevelt, the Arrested several months ago mit the defendant’s attorney, the interests of the working itical direction to their attempts workers w ill develop the class- on charges of battery and dis James Carter, to question the people. to lower wages etc. consciousness, the power, and the turbing the peace, Paula Aragon jurors in an effort to elicit their Talk of legislation for a 30 The Roosevelt policy of reduc self-confidence which shall pre was placed on trial. After a vi bias and prejudice against trade hour week died completely many ing relief has the effect of mak pare them for the task of over cious patriotic tirade by the pro- unions. The court of Appeals re months before this session of ing labor cheaper too. The bar throwing the capitalist system. secuter she was found guilty by cently upheld the decision of the Congress began. The 40-hour gaining power of the workers is In the vanguard of this strug a jury who listened with open lower court and without much week, too, is considered imprac less when millions are unem gle, will be found the revolu mouths to the statement of Hie chance of securing a new hearing tical by the Roosevelt adminis ployed. It is harder to fight the tionary socialists around whose city attorney that “Miss Aragon Paula Aragon must begin serving tration! Even a modified wage bosses through strikes to main program and banner the fight probably never saluted the Ame her term . wage and hour bill received but tain or increase wages when m il against capitalism can succeed, rican Flag.” In all charges of battery and vague support in the Roosevelt lions of unemployed want jobs. as it did 20 years ago in Russia. The witnesses of the prosecutor disturbance of the peace the message! Potential scabs are too plentiful. attempted to prove that the de usual sentence is a fine of $25 or The industrial rulers of Amer fendant had attempted to beat $50. Unquestionably the unusually ica are thus being given a silent Workers Must Prepare Open Letter to up a scab working in the Darling severe sentence against the union approval of their campaign to Dress shop during a strike. In organizer is an effort to handi lengthen the hours of work in the In other words, Roosevelt’s All Workers’ spite of the testimony of the cap the organization work of factories. Every economic gain program can do only one thing:' state’s own witnesses, who testi the I.L.G .W .U . which has been that the organized Labor move attempt to save capitalism at the Organizations fied that the union organizer had successful in the past several ment won by determined strug expense of the working people been held by a police officer while months in securing contracts with gle in the past two years has and the masses of unemployed. the scab had struck the m ilitant several factories in Los Angeles been placed in acute jeopardy That’s his encouragement to Big (Continued from Page 5) trade union organizer several whose employees were never or by the Roosevelt policies. Business. times in the face, Judge Guerin ganized. Why does Roosevelt pursue Even this is impossible, how these policies ? Why has he ever. The millions of unemployed store, and elaborate the methods of parrying and resist ing the Moscow gangsters. 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Trujillo in purges, arrests and shooting of Santo Domingo, Vincent in Haiti presidents, vice-presidents and and Samoza in Nicaragua do premiers of Soviet republics, of (Continued from last issue) cipant in the Chaco war; which is waging war minate with pitiless brutality the commissars, vice-commissars and now upon the Cuban people, thru the m ilitary oppressed, hunger-ridden masses assistant commissars of industry, Capitalism Must Expand dictatorship of its man Batista; which has the of their respective countries, of managers, assistant managers biggest peace-time budget in its history. France— mercilessly quelling all opposi and foremen of factories, it is But the trade war cannot be settled by such whose hands are dripping with the blood of the tion. And, one must not forget, a relief to read of one enterprise weapons. When the economic or trade weapons Moroccan war of 1925; which today under the that it is precisely in those coun that is not cursed with "Trotsky prove inadequate for one of the imperialist rivals, People’s Front, has the biggest m ilitary machine tries that American imperialist ist-Fascist saboteurs" and one it cannot merely accept defeat and give up. Its on the Continent and is building beyond it; whose hegemony is unquestionable, and commissar that rates not a firing capitalist must expand and then expand again. “democratic” army is led by avowed fascists, whose no government could endure for squad but promotion. That ex There is a fatal drive behind them which forces positions are not touched by the People’s Front. any length of time in those parts ception was not found in the steel, them to reach out toward new lands—the neces How peace-loving are the capitalist politicians without the support of the coal, oil or machine industries. sity for new markets to dispose of the goods United States. And. by the way, No, the one outstanding “indus who run these governments, and how peace-loving which cannot be bought by the impoverished we just recall that President try” that remained free from are the bankers who run these politicians? masses at home, the necessity for fresh fields for Roosevelt called the western he “enemies of the people” and true investing capital when the rate of profit falls misphere a “bulwark of democ in its entirety to the “Man of lower and lower at home. Capitalism must find The Real Line-Up racy” . Steel" was and is the Cosmetic “industry.” And the outstanding new victims to feed upon as the old are sucked The fact is that democratic capitalism is no out, or else die itself. The fact that the whole Democratic government is not commissar that won well deserved more “peace-loving” than any other kind of capital the rule but rather an exception promotion was none other than world is already divided up, that it must inevitably ism. The real line-up is not of the democracies throughout Latin-America and, it the wife of Stalin’s right hand collide with other imperialist robbers who likewise versus the fascists. It is the same division that is precisely where Yankee im man, Premier M olotoff. Mme. Mo- are prowling about outside or defending their led to the Weald War: the imperialist robbers that perialism dominates that the lotoff is to be congratulated on conquered spoils, this cannot stop it. have what they want and are w illing to sit back most naked police dictatorships her choice of “ industries” and of And so when ta riffs and trade treaties and local on their bloodily-gained loot, versus the imperial exist. Vargas in Brazil and Ba husbands. politics prove useless, a new change of weapons ist robbers that are dissatisfied with their share tista in Cuba are just two excel- is made. And the last resort is to cannon, gas, of the world—the Haves versus the Have-Nots. len illustrations proving our con A “Lunatic” tanks, airplanes, the guns that pop and the bayonets The fascist nations are fo r the most part the dis tention. And in Peru, the despot, While George, who is substitut- that flash. That is when you say war has begun. satisfied powers—Germany, defeated in the last general Benavides remains in po ng for W ally’s boy friend as the But this thing you call war is not something world scramble for colonies; Japan, which came wer despite the fact that his puppet king of England, was ce main political opponent in the that suddenly appears with no connections with late on the world scene, when the world had already lebrating Armistice Day along presidential elections of October, the past, like the visitation of a plague. It is a been divided up; Italy, which thinks its share in with some of the scoundrels who continuation of the imperialist politics of the past, 1936, received about eighty per sent hunderds of thousands of the Versailles peace settlement does not measure cent of the popular vote. In general, war is a continuation of the politics of up to its power. And it is precisely because these English boys to their death in —Bernard Ross the World War, a man dashed a nation—w ith a change of weapons. nations have been frozen out of the imperialist out shouting: “This is all hypo This is the reality. Anything else used to cover spoils upon which capitalism lives that their in r N B. J. WIDICK crisy. You are all preparing for up this reality is a lie. Behind the screen of ternal contradictions and weaknesses led to fasc “peace-time”, war is raging always. Former Research Director another war.” He was sent to a ism, the last resort of a desperate capitalism seek United Rubber Workers psychopathic hospital, while those ing to preserve itself.