We propose that the regular 1940 session of the Congress of the United States shall enact emergency legislation to put into immediate effect the following: 1. Appropriation of $10,000,000,000 to provide, at once, jobs on housing and other public works projects for unemployed workers. 2. Amendment of the Wages and Hours Act to provide throughout private industry and public works a maximum work week of 30 hours and a minimum weekly pay of 30 dollars. Socialist Appeal 3. 30 dollar weekly old age and disability pensions. Official Weekly Organ of the Socialist Workers Party, Section of the Fourth International 4. Appropriation of $3,000,000,000 to guarantee either maintenance at school or jobs for all youth.

N E W Y O R K, N. Y „ M A R C H 23, 1940 Vol. IV, No. 12 FIVE (5) CENTS STOP FIRING OF 800,000 WPA WORKERS! STALIN IN FINLAND War Deal to Drop One Man Abuse of Labors' WHY HE INVADED IT AND WHY HE MADE PEACE By ALBERT GOLDMAN ------In Three From Work Rolls Rights In Sioux Our party, in the resolution dealing with the invasion of Fin­ land by the Red Army, (Socialist Appeal, Dec. 9) characterized SWP Polls 624 Votes More than eight hundred thousand WPA work­ that invasion as an incident in the Second World War. That is They got then TWO AND A QUARTER City to be Probed In St. Paul Election ers—more than one man in every three of the what it turned out to be— an incident which ended by the achieve­ TIMES AS MUCH AS THEY ARE GOING TO 2,321,000 now on WPA rolls— are to be fired dur­ ment of peace before it became the beginning of a major conflict GET DURING THE COMING YEAR! ST. PAUL, March 15—John ing the coming weeks, the WPA Administration between the Soviet Union and Allied imperialism. Roosevelt and his War Deal can be stopped! McDonough, Democratic may­ has announced. Two hundred thousand are to be Padway Announces Intervention Congress is and will remain in session long That the invasion did not develop into an open conflict be­ oralty candidate backed by the fired during April, the rest in batches so that, by enough for the trade unions and fhe unemployed tween English and French imperialism and the Soviet Union is Labor Progressive Association, the end of the fiscal year, June 30, there shall be Of Lafollette Committee; to organize sufficient pressure to throw Roose­ primarily due to the fact that Stalin's chief aim is to keep from received 31,499 votes in the no more than 1,500,000 on the rolls. Four Unionists Are Indicted being involved in a major war. primaries Tuesday, 6,000 more velt’s WPA budget info the wastebasket and re­ Why? Arc there, perhaps, jobs waiting for place if with a budget which will begin to meet That is what explains the Hitler-Stalin pact. The only enemy than the reactionary incum­ these 321,000 heads of families who are to be the emergency. Stalin feared was Hitler who, of all the imperialists, had the best bent, Mayor Fallon. given pink slips? Not even the pollyanna govern­ chance to attack the Soviet Union. A pact with Hitler would. Henry Rutzick, mayoralty America’s Sixty Families can be made fo dis­ OMAHA, Nebr., March 19—Investigators of the LaFollette Civil candidate of the Socialist ment economists pretend that- anymore. For ev­ Stalin thought, do away With the possibility of an immediate gorge enough so that no man, woman or child Liberties Committee will be assigned to investigate violations of W o fke rs P a rty , received 624 erybody now knows that unemployment is in­ war. He was undoubtedly of the opinion that England and France shall lack food, shelter or clothing. It can be the rights of Sioux City trade union members. 1 votes. In the primary two creasing, not decreasing. would not go to war over the invasion of Poland and, if they did, done! This was revealed here this morning by Joseph A. Padway, years ago for the same office, he could avoid being involved in such a war. At the end of January there were twelve mil­ general counsel of the AFL and of the International Brotherhood the S.W.P. candidate, Jules It is on the way to being done in several cities lion unemployed, according to the unchallenged of Teamsters, in a statement to the press. Geller, received 559 votes. where the trade unions and the unemployed have figures of the CIO’s research division. And to Padway said he was sure that the committee’s investigators Hitler Repays Stalin Rutzick campaigned on a stayed together, organized close together, adopt­ these there must still be added those who lost would particularly look into charges that the Businessmen’s Asso­ As his compensation for relieving Hitler of the danger of platform calling for revolu­ ed a militant program and elected a militant their jobs during February and March, when pro­ ciation of Sioux City had acted in violation of federal statutes in facing enemy armies on Germany's eastern borders, Stalin re­ tionary struggle against war leadership, and mobilized the workers’ strength duction continued its precipitous decline. for action. its attempt to break up the organizing drive of the teamsters and ceived from Hitler guaranties, in the form of territorial conces­ and unemployment. other AFL unions. In a campaign for which The New Deal has transformed itself complete­ sions in Poland and the Baltic countries which make, the Soviet Flint, Michigan, in the heart of the auto indus­ He said the investigators also would look into the charges that frontiers more easily defended. they brought here Clarence ly into the War Deal. Federal funds have one try, is a shining example. The WPA Administra­ T» large part of the police depart­ Hathaway, editor of the Daily main purpose in the hands of Roosevelt: war Wliy does Stalin want to avoid a major war? Because war tion hasn’t got away with firing any member of ment. is under the control of the Worker and spent plenty of preparations. The index for war expenditures has threatens the rule of the Stalinist bureaucracy either through the Unemployed and WPA Auxiliary of the Businessmen’s Association. money, the Stalinists polled 1,- been going up like a skyrocket. The index for revolution or through a successful attack of one or more im­ United Auto Workers, CIO; those that got fired CIO TOPS MEET Conditions that exist in other 026 votes for their candidate, WPA expenditures has been going down nearly perialist countries. went back on the job after the union heard about Iowa cities also were discussed Rose Tillotson, a sharp decline as fast. But if he wants to avoid a major war, why did he invade it. The Flint city authorities have had to think at an all-day Monday conference in votes below 1938. Finland ? Because his demands on Latvia, Esthonia and Lithuania Last year the appropriation for WPA was $2,- up new WPA projects to sponsor, and there are LAGUARDIA, BUT of Des Moines, Sioux City and having been granted, he could not afford to permit Finland to 225,000,000. For this year—the fiscal year ending more workers on WPA in Flint today proportion­ Omaha union officials and attor­ defy him. His prestige was at stake and, besides, he was anxious June 30—the appropriation was $1,477,000,000, a ally than anywhere In the country. That’s what neys, Padway revealed, and he union militancy is getting for the Flint workers. to take advantage of the general situation to increase his de­ cut from the previous year of three-quarters of a FIGHT IS ON said it was probable the LaFol- fensive strength. He undoubtedly thought that he could settle BOSE WARNS OF billion dollars. For the coming fiscal year, begin­ But Flint and one or two other cities like it lette investigators would look in­ matters with Finland very quickly. ning July 1, Roosevelt’s budget proposes an ap­ stand alone in the whole country. If that example to the situation in those cities. Against whom is he trying to defend himself? Primarily propriation of $1,000,000,000—another half-bil­ "ere followed in the major cities everywhere, Particular cities discussed at against Hitler, for it must not be presumed that Stalin is so COMING CIVIL lio n cut. Roosevelt and Congress would find their budgets Transport Workers the conference were Fort Dodge, stupid as not to see that if Hitler is successful against the Allies, Just think! In the .fiscal year July 1, 1938-June blowing up in their faces. The budget for jobs Mason City, Waterloo and Du­ the Nazi war machine will turn to the East. 30, 1939 there w ere few e r unem ployed tha n there would have to reflect the size of that fighting Must Organize For buque, he said. WAR IN INDIA are now, yet during that period the unemployed labor movement that was demanding a job and a Militant Strike Tobin Called Conference Stalin Drops H k Puppet received, In WPA jobs, ONE AND ONE-QUAR­ decent living for every worker in the country. The conference was called by TER BILLION DOLLARS MORE THAN THEY Flint has blazed the trail. Let’s follow it in Teamsters International Presi­ The creation of the Kuusinen puppet government is evidence ARE DUE TO RECEIVE THIS COMING YEAR! every working class neighborhood in the country! Mayor LaGuardia finally on dent Daniel J. Tobin to discuss of the fact that Stalin at first thought of taking all of Finland. Left Wingers Meet, Monday gave in to union pres­ various arrests, prosecutions and A few days after the invasion, in the early days of December, the sure for a conference to discuss convictions of union members Finnish government made a plea through Sweden to the Kremlin Map Struggle at the working conditions and con­ that have occurred in Sioux City to renew negotiations. The Kremlin on Dec. 5 haughtily informed Congress Session tracts of the 27,000 employees and this territory during the last Sweden that there was no Finnish government other than the Organized Unemployed FIVE WPA STRIKE working on the IRT and BMT two years. Padway attended the Peoples Government of Kuusinen with which the Soviet govern­ transit lines. He conferred for an conference at Tobin's direction. ment had already "made” a treaty. A struggle against imperialism hour with a CIO delegation head­ “Nowhere outside of the to­ However, when Stalin found that his army, led by a general which would inevitably develop Force Gains In Flint DEFENDANTS PUT ed by John L. Lewis, Sidney H ill­ talitarian countries of Europe staff which he had decapitated and demoralized, could not repeat into civil war in India was out­ man and Michael Quill, Interna­ can conditions be found more the exploits of Hitler's army in Poland and that, as a result, there lined Tuesday by Subhas Chan­ tional' President of the Transport oppressive than those I have was a real chance of his being involved in war w ith the Allies, he dra Bose in a speech to an “an­ Workers Union. learned today exist in Sioux beat a retreat from his original purpose. After the Red Army ON PROBATION City,” Padway declared. “The ti-compromise” conference of UAW-CIO Auxiliary Compels The union delegation distrib­ cracked the Mannerheim line he was willing to call a halt, settle International Brotherhood of left-wing delegates to the Indian uted to the TWU membership a with the same Finnish government which he refused to recognize Granting of Union Demands Team sters w ill throw its full National Congress on the open­ mimeographed circular after the in December, and thus avoid an attack by the Allied armies. support Into the defense of the ing day of the congress. Last Five Cases Are negotiations, explaining that the Sioux City workers whose * * * Bose denounced Gandhi and the following demands were made to FLINT, Mich., March 15—The fast growing and militant WPA Disposed of; Other rights have been so consistent­ Was it merely the Finnish capitalist army that was defeated ? right-wing leadership of the con­ the m ayo r: and Unemployed Auxiliary of the UAW-CIO chalked up another ly denied.” In coming out for the defense of the Soviet Union and for the gress in terms which indicate a 1. That, the union contracts victory today, when after an all-day demonstration at the Welfare Charges Dropped Padway declared that the re­ victory of the Red Army as a lesser evil to the victory of the split in the congress during the with the IRT and BMT lines, headquarters, the labor-hating relief administration was forced cent arrest and indictment of Finnish capitalist army, we took the position that essentially the present session. Bose declared: which do not expire until June to recognize the union representatives and concede several of their four truck drivers on kidnapping Soviet Union was at war with the imperialist forces standing be­ “The problem of the hour is: 30, 1941 m ust be honored by MINNEAPOLIS, March 19- charges outraged every sense of will India remain under the demands. the city, upon taking over the hind Finland. It was clear to us that Finland could not have de­ Last of the WPA strike defend­ justice. “It seems that union thumb of the right wing or (Continued on Page 4) lines. cided to resist Stalin’s demands without the encouragement of ants were sentenced Saturday members here have been arrest­ swing to the left once and for 2. That de finite provisions Chamberlain, Daladier and Roosevelt. It was clear to us that morning in Judge Joyce’s court­ ed with regularity that would do all? In the event of a compro­ must be made to provide jobs Finland could not have held out so long without receiving sub­ room when the judge disposed of justice to a Swiss watchmaker, mise with imperialism being ef­ with equal pay to the 4,800 men stantial aid from the outside. Only when Finland was ready to the cases of the five men who and with the same regularity fected in this country, the In­ who are now employed on the capitulate did Chamberlain and Daladier reveal how much arma­ Behind the Lines pleaded nolo contendere. Roy Or­ have been held under excessive dian left-wing w ill have to fight Second and Ninth Avenue and ment material they had actually sent and how much more ma­ gan, Louis Lindsay, Victor Chio- bail, have faced excessive not only imperialism but its Brooklyn elevated lines, which terial and how many men they were ready to send if Finland By GEORGE STERN do and Glen Smith were given charges, and been given exces­ new-fangled Indian allies as are to be demolished. would only keep fighting. Our assertion that Finland was fight­ twelve months' probation, and sive sentences.” well. This must necessarily The Allies are getting another on M arch 18 ru m o r has spun an While all of the capitalist pa­ ing the battle for imperialism was completely confirmed. Owen Jacobson received fifteen mean that the national strug­ dose of Hitlerite diplomatic blitz­ opaque web but it seems clear pers hailed this conference as Federal Frameups Too months' probation. Why Finns Made Peace gle against imperialism will be krieg. enough that Mussolini is to play paving the way for a “peaceful If the LaFollette committee in­ converted into civil war be­ The Soviet-Finnish peace pre­ the role of Mediterranean men­ These five men were those Who settlement” of the whole contro­ vestigators dig deep enough, The cracking of the Mannerheim line would by itself be a suffi­ tween Indians themselves.” vented the Allies from establish­ ace on the one hand and advo­ agreed to plead nolo contendere versy, the very opposite is closer they will find that colleagues of cient reason for the Finnish government to accept peace terms. ing a northern front in Scandi­ cate on the other of the latest to the government’s indictments theirs in the federal government Bose bitterly attacked “Mr. to the truth. For months, La True, the Allies offered to send 100,000 men and all the material navia. Hitler is now moving to Hitlerite “peace" plan. when charges against the other have been joining hands with Io­ Gandhi's hurried visit to the vice­ Guardia, “friend of labor" refused necessary to withstand the attack of the Red Army. But in view make southeastern Europe an 130 s trik e defendants were wa, Nebraska, and South Dakota roy and his offer of unconditional Perhaps most interesting of even to confer with the union del­ of the time that it would require to get these men over to Finland equally closed preserve. If he dropped through arrangements state and local authorities in the help to Britain immediately aft­ the many reports current of egation. He finally granted the succeeds, he w ill have assured his: made late in January between the attempt to stem the organizing and especially in view of the refusal of Sweden and Norway to er the outbreak of war." Hitler’s forthcoming offer to conference only after the most northern and southern flanks and Central Labor Union’s WPA De­ drive of the teamsters. The Fed­ permit transit facilities, the Finnish government saw no possi­ the Allies, is the report that widespread criticism of his obvi­ The “anti-compromise con­ his rear, and will narrow the the­ eral Bureau of Investigation was bility of accepting that offer. the Nazi dictator is once more fense C om m ittee and O. John ous union busting tactics and an­ ference” announced as its aim ater of actual military conflict responsible for one of the most offering the allies the chance of Rogge, of the criminal division ti-labor stand. And then it was certain, as Prime Minister Ryti informed the “the focussing of all anti-im­ to the west. From that strategic outrageous of the series of frame- a four-power bloc, based upon of the Department of Justice. But what are the results of Finnish Diet, that to accept the offer of the Allies would mean to perialist forces in the country position he will try to dictate ups perpetrated — a costly 18- recognition of German suprem­ Like most of the other WPA this conference? So far, noth­ invite Germany to send its armed forces into Finland. And they which are now determined to terms of a negotiated peace. months' "investigation" culmin­ acy in Central Europe and the strikers sentenced, the five men ing. What concessions did Hiz- could get there faster than the Allied forces. That meant that resist compromise with Brit­ ating in September in the arrest, Such a negotiated peace, as isolation of the U.S.S.R. If this are members of Local 544's Fed­ zoner offer the union dele­ Finland would become one of the major battlefields of the war. ain.” conviction and sentence to two the Allies fully understand, is not agreed to, he holds out eral Workers Section. gates? So far, none. Not only The Finnish bourgeoisie preferred at this juncture to get peace years each in a federal peniten­ would be equivalent to Hitler's the threat of “total war” and a Judge Joyce told Organ he evi­ is • it premat ure to blather by surrendering to Stalin the strategical frontiers that he had tiary of seven union officers of A few weeks ago the mass dis­ victory in the war. Because German - Italian - Soviet, war denced the “exuberance of about “peace”. As a matter of demanded. They had refused to grant his demands when original­ Sioux City, Des Moines and Oma­ content with Gandhi’s policy of they realize this and because bloc. youth" during the strike and that fact, every single union mem­ ly made, only on the mistaken assumption—undoubtedly based on futile negotiations with the Bri­ for the moment they seem frus­ he seems to think the department ber must prepare for “war”. ha teamsters’ locals on a charge promises made to them by the Allies—that the Allies were going Through this maze has walked tish viceroy forced the Mahatma trated in all efforts to turn of welfare owes him special care. Every single action of the May­ of damaging a truck in a bakery to declare war against Soviet Russia as soon as the invasion Sumner Welles, emissary of Pres­ to promise the launching of a civil some hapless neutral into a He said that Organ had written or and his administration point strik e . began. ident Roosevelt, who has been disobedience campaign. He is now battlefield on which they can a threatening letter to the relief to the fact that he is determined Now the Federal Trade Com­ closer to the developments of the mission has filed a complaint Why did not France and England openly declare war on the doing everything in his power to get at Germany, there is a dis­ authorities, and warned him not to go through with his conspiracy past ten days than any other im­ against Sioux City and Des Soviet Union at the very beginning and immediately send a huge prevent the actual campaign. tinct atmosphere of half-hys­ to do it again while he is on pro­ to destroy union organization on portant neutral diplomat in Eu­ Moines bakery drivers and other army to aid Finland? It must be recognized that there were seri­ "Civil disobedience w ill be started terical confusion in the Allied bation. New York’s transportation sys­ rope. teamsters locals. ous practical difficulties in the way, chief of which was the atti­ when I am sure th a t so fa r as capitals. Of Owen Jacobson, the judge tem. tude of the Swedish and Norwegian governments, unwilling to is humanly possible non-violence In the week since the signing On his second trip to Paris— said, “You and work don't get As a matter of fact, it is more IBT Will Fight see their countries become a battle-ground. will be strictly observed", de­ of the Soviet-Finnish peace, en route from London to Rome along well together.” He criti­ than likely that this union-bust­ Padway said that his office had clared Gandhi. Since every ac­ Nazi diplomacy has moved to — he delivered another message cized Jacobson for saying “we ing scheme constituted a part of been instructed by the Execu­ Nor must it be forgotten that, while the contradiction between tion entails the possibility of vio knit Rumania and Italy into its to Premier Daladier which are the government” to other the infamous “unification" deal tive Council of the International imperialism and the Soviet Union is real and fundamental, there lent reaction, this time can be desired pattern. Over Rumania can’t this time be passed off as WPA workers during the strike. with the Wall Street bankers. Brotherhood of Teamsters to use are also inter-imperialist rivalries and, at this particular mo­ conveniently postponed forever. he holds the threat, of Stalin a mere greeting—and was in Chiodo was criticized for mak­ On March 15, in spite of a stiff all its resources in contesting the ment, those rivalries are in the forefront. British and' French im­ This is Gandhi’s clearcut object. and although Carol is still try­ Rome when the Hitler-Musso- ing the same remark, .and for his union protest, the Board of Esti­ Trade Commission’s move. perialism are of the opinion that if they can take care of German ing to balance himself on the lini meeting was arranged. He “demanding attitude” towards mate steamrollered through ar­ “We take the position,” Pad­ Left Wing Forces imperialism they will have no difficulty in settling scores with narrow path he has had to saw Mussolini upon his return the relief department. rangements for demolition of the way declared, “that federal an­ the Soviet Union. Leading the numerically strong tread since the war began, it from Brenner Pass and sails With these cases, the courts Second, Ninth and Brooklyn el­ ti-trust legislation does not ap­ left-wing forces at the Congress is evident that the Nazi pres­ back with the report of nego­ are through with the WPA trials evated lines. The removal of these ply to labor unions. As a matter Of course, if they conclude that, in order to get at German is Subhas Charda Bose, the for­ sure is producing results. Lib­ tiations which w ill undoubtedly —but organized labor isn’t. Min­ lines will enable the city to raise of fact it conceivably could be imperialism they must attack the Soviet Union, they will not mer Mayor of Calcutta and ex- eration of the imprisoned Iron have the most fateful results neapolis labor is calling upon all some eleven million dollars in ex­ charged that any contract be­ hesitate to do so and try to kill two birds with one stone. To de­ President of the All-India Trade Guards is evidence of this. for the American people but of unions in the country to demand tra assessments on the adjoining tween an employer and a union fend his government against the charge of cowardice in not Union Congress. Gandhi and Bose Around the Brenner Pass meet­ which they have been kept In of Roosevelt unconditional par­ properties to the Wall Street of his employees to some extent (Continued on Page 3) (Continued on Page 3) ing between Hitler and Mussolini darkest ignorance. dons for the 32 convicted. (Continued on Page 2) (Continued on Page 2) SOCIALIST APPEAL Page 2 M A R C H 23, 1940

made use of one of the leading Negroes to form a company un­ Steel Worker Reports Problemsion. Wages have not been raised, seniority rights are not respected and the employees are afraid to talk union for fear of discharge. Of Uniting Black and White Behind the company’s ability to use this Negro as head of this company union lies the fact that We publish below a remark­ This lip service to no discrim­ es and eat lunch with the girl he was a m em ber of the R a ilw a y able letter from a steel worker, ination enables the Negro bour­ who prepared the box). Firemen and was discriminated Chicago deserves top mention "I was frankly amazed the first describing the experiences of geoisie to step up about one step Some of the white union mem­ against and let out of his job and in this column for the excellent week I passed out no papers. The his section of the union in or­ higher and in doing so form a bers secretly started a move to a white man took his place. efforts it is making to liquidate questions asked were gratifying: Write to us— tell iis if 'hat's going on in your part of the ganizing Negro and white block headed by petty Negro pol­ have the box social changed to Another instance of how the its back debt. A t this w riting they " ‘Where’s my Appeal, V— ?’ labor movement— what arc the workers thinking aboutt tell workers together. It gives iticians, preachers, Y.M.C.A. something else to avoid quite race question can wreck a union have reduced it by more than " ‘I thought the papers came many pointers which can be heads, etc. They have a decided such close social relations with half. us what the bosses arc up to— and the G-men and the local cops was shown in the Century Bis­ out weekly.’ used to advantage by militants influence on the Negroes and lead the Negroes. and the Stalinists—send ns that story the capitalist press didn t cuit Company here. This union H. S. of Evansville, Indiana " ’Are your papers all gone, in other sections of the coun­ them to believe that Negroes are They dared not bring up such print and that story they buried or distorted— our pages are open was form ed in 1937, g o t a fa ir came through with a big pay­ V—.’ try and other industries. Let’s well treated and should be pret­ an issue before the local union to you. Letters must carry name and address, but indicate if you contract and increases in pay. ment. Comrades in other parts of “Red Sunday sounds like a ty well satisfied, especially with but tried to get it fixed up at the have more letters like this!— There were a large number of the country should blush for great idea, but when I mention it do not want your name printed. their conditions in the factories. top. This they could not do es­ Editor. colored workers in that plant and shame and envy at mention of to the comrades here they des­ pecially because the leading The companies, taking advan­ a Negro was elected president. this Indiana comrade’s work. He pair. They are loyal enough to E d ito r: tage of race differences, support white m ilitant in the union would distributes more Appeals than p.m., a t the C u ltu ra l Center, 125 This man was as fine a man as know they should try, But. Auto Workers Didn't During and after the war, in the colored workers in social af­ have forced their hand and branches ten times the number. West 33rd Street, New York City. ever served as president of any “However, I’m going to do order to keep the wage scale fairs and what not, in an effort brought the chauvinists out in And then he pays—even if it The principal speaker of the eve­ union but the white workers, no something similar. Here it is. Give for Finland down, Negro labor was induced to make it appear all the more the open on the Lodge or be­ means a big sacrifice. E d ito r: ning will be: doubt due to stimulus of the Next week I ’ll send copies to one by extensive advertisements to true that the Negro is well taken cause he knew the reaction it Detroit came through with a Recently the Chrysler Corp. H. H. BROACH, EDUCA­ company, started a whispering apartment house. I’ll repeat the come North. In an effort, largely care of, well treated, etc.—these would have on the Negro mem­ $15 payment on its bundle ac­ donated $2500 to the Finnish Re­ TIONAL DIRECTOR OF THE campaign against having a Negro following week (same house). successful, to break the Iron sops being less expensive to the bers. count and said: "Sorry for not be­ lief Fund and at the same time INTERNATIONAL BROTH­ for president. As a result, many Then I’ll call on them personally Moulders Union, Negro labor was employers than would be united To prove him correct it was ing able to send the full amount they placed contribution cans ERHOOD OF ELECTRICAL white workers dropped out. The and try to drum up a few subs. used to take the positions of iron action of the Negro and white only one or two days later that of $18.45 but we will send an­ throughout the factories so that WORKERS, LOCAL NO. 3, Negroes, sensing the situation How does it sound?" moulders, striking for more pay. workers in a union for the bene­ the Negro members sent an in­ other payment next week. Pub­ the workers could contribute whose union faces prosecution un­ played safe and dropped out too. Sounds good, M.V. It’s the way fit of both. formal visitor to this militant lishing the amount due the Ap­ money. der this new "interpretation” of Due to this the iron moulders Later the company found a to get results. white worker in whom they had peal was a good idea. The only In my department they collect­ the Sherman Anti-Trust Act. in the foundries of Indianapolis, One of the outstanding exam­ chance to discharge the Negro confidence, to ask him what was way to get branches to act is ed about three dimes. I've talked Assistant Attorney - General are practically all Negroes and ples of this method of fighting president of the union. going to be done about the box through pressure from the cen­ to friends in other departments Thurman Arnold's anti-union cru­ wage rates are considerably be­ unionism by giving inexpensive HOW TO GET SUBSCRIPTIONS social. When he informed the col­ One thing that has been at­ ter. This applies to Detroit too. and they all say the same thing. sade is a flagrant misuse of a low normal. favors to the Negro is at the From Mark Knight, Los Ang­ ored spokesman that the box so­ tempted here is to create unity Keep it up." Either nothing at all, or else, federal law aimed at business The meat packing industry in plant of the National Malleable eles: cial was going ahead and for the between Negro and white work­ Payments in general were bet­ just a few coins. It is significant monopolies. This law specifically its search for cheap labor was, Steel Castings Co. o f th is city. "Enclosed you w ill find five six- N egro g irls and women to be ers has been the setting up of a ter last week. We received from that the Corporation has not pub­ exempts labor from prosecution. likewise affected, except that Here a white woman, a Mrs. month subscriptions to the Social­ sure and be there with their box­ Racial Relations Committee by Minneapolis, St. Paul, Flint, Ak­ lished the amount of the contri­ Under the guise of freeing the strike action was not responsible Shirley, who is on the personnel ist Appeal. es, the same as any one else, the the CIO Council. The purpose of ron, Newark, New Haven, Quak- butions received. construction industry from un­ for the induction of Negro labor; staff of the company has formed “Each of these subscriptions reply of the Negro was “Fine, this committee is to seek out ertown, Allentown, Lynn, Hutch­ The attitude of the men is la w fu l re stra in ts, A rn o ld ’s 200- but rather the lack of appeal of a Glee Club for the colored wo­ were obtained from an auto plant but if it had been called off we and bring forward within the un­ inson, Boston, Ann Arbor. Keep it simply this: they don't want to man legal staff has indicted many jobs in the packing indus­ men. She takes them on singing know w h y.” ions issues which will tend to in this locality. These men have leaders of this nation’s most pow­ trips all over this locality, and up, and we’ll be out of the red get involved in any war. They try to white labor during times draw together the Negro and just completed a successful ’ elec­ erful labor unions for the crime by appearing with them and asso­ This was all that was ever before it gets warm. sympathize in a mild sort of way of good work caused a large per­ white workers. tion campaign for local union of­ said, but this lodge went ahead * * * for Finlahd but you can’t get of exercising labor's hard-won centage of Negroes to be em­ ciating with them it really forms ficers on the basis of a program with the box social, a splendid them very excited about the rig hts. ployed during the war. an appeal to the Negro that the The e ffo rts so fa r have re­ SELLING THE APPEAL suggested by the Appeal, which unions have to equal at least, in time was had ,and money for volved around attempts at get­ whole affair. Quite often you hear The A.L.A. seeks to awaken the The population of Indianapolis Comrades who find it difficult proves th a t ou r organ can be order to meet. four months' rent raised at the ting support for the Anti-Lynch­ them say, “Why do they send American public to the danger in­ at the present time is approxi­ getting up Sunday mornings for made a successful tool in the affair. What was more important, ing Bill and to educate the white money to Finland. There's plen­ herent in this sinister attack up­ mately one-sixth colored and special Appeal sales one day a struggle for progressive trade un­ WHAT UNIONS MUST DO this lodge is another of the 100% workers regarding the treatment ty of people that need relief here on organized labor. since these 45,000 Negroes have week should take note of the ac­ ionism, and further, that our pa­ —SOME EXAMPLES lodges in this district and is get­ of the Negroes in general, the a t home.’’ The A.L.A.—which defends la­ the right to vote they are quite tivity of Howard S. in Quaker- per has a place in the home of For some concrete examples of ting wage increases and giving real reasons underlying it, and It will take plenty of high pres­ bor, helps Negroes, Jews, foreign- a factor in local politics. So much town. He writes: "I have to make all workers. We can sell the Ap­ the methods of work that unions job protection to both white and dealing especially with the right sure propaganda to get the work­ bom and aids anti-fascist refu­ so that local politicians, especial­ a trip of 45 miles to deliver six peal, if we try. gees -is also pleased to present must carry out, I will cite first colored members. of the Negro to vote in the South. ers steamed up so that they'll go ly the township trustees who are copies. . . His remark, it would "Our worker-salesmen at Gen­ at the same meeting Philip Adler, the case of the Armour Packing Progress along this line has been to w ar. responsible for relief distribution An entirely different situation seem to me, is directly addressed eral Motors promise us more sub­ plant here. Shortly after the men slow, but encouraging. J. D. noted labor attorney, who recent­ are giving lip service to no dis­ is that at the Ewart plant of the to those comrades who won’t go had started organizing that plant scriptions next week, and I prom­ Detroit, Mich. ly defended, in the name of the crimination in order to appeal to Link Belt Co. where the company Indianapolis, Indiana C.A. around the corner to sell an Ap­ the company, hoping to scare ise, for them, more subscriptions A.L.A., the 13 Jamaica relief cli­ the colored vote. peal to a worker neighbor. first the Negroes and eventually in the following weeks. Their ents who picketed the Central From St. laniis comes another work indicates that it is possible Queens Relief Bureau in protest the whites away from the union, Lynn Labor Backs letter from M.V., chief Appeal to put into practise the slogan, against the inhuman treatment began their attack by calling an plugger in that area: ‘More Appeals in the Factories!’ ’’ Anti-Lynch Bill accorded the unemployed by the elderly Negro into the office and W ill Probe Abuse E d ito r, administration. CIO TOPS MEET after some conversation asked The Anti-Lynch Bill now be­ We urge all liberal-minded per­ him how he would like to be laid a strong rank and file response. fore the Senate is receiving the sons actively interested in pre­ off—a faithful employee for 22 The jurisdictional agreement just unanimous support of organized serving the democratic rights of LAGUARDIA, BUT years. O f Labor’s Rights concluded between the ILGWU labor in this section. The exact the American people to attend. This man knew what that and the Amalgamated Clothing resolution passed by the St. Paul Come with your friends and par­ meant. But his reaction was not Workers has two-fold signifi­ (Continued from Page 1) them were members of Drivers Labor Assembly was unanimous­ ticipate with us in our work. Re­ what the company had hoped for. cance. Inside both organizations, restrains trade. Y et such con­ U nion Local 383. The H avelock ly adopted here by the North member the time and place: Fri­ FIGHT IS ON Although he had not at that time the top leadership has responded tracts have never been declared merchant has not signed the Shore Industrial Council (CIO), day, March 29th, at 8 p.m., 125 joined the union, he went to the to strong pressure in the union representing more than twenty- unlawful. over-the-road drivers contract. . . W est 33rd St., Room 201. (Continued from Page 1) president of the Lodge and asked for such an agreement as a first five thousand workers in the “The very life of the collect­ “These three men went to the step in the fight for better job ARTHUR P. BURCH bankers for the transit lines. him what to do about the layoff. greater Lynn area. The council ive bargaining agreement is Sioux C ity office of Local 383. conditions—slated to be a big Secretary of Local New York With the demolition of these The president signed him up in called upon all of its affiliated tm- at stake in this issue before They went freely and of their American Labor Aid elevated lines, 4,800 union work­ the union, called a special meet­ The Steel Workers Organizing ILGWU convention issue. ions to contact their senators and the federal commission. No own accord. They went into the ers are thrown out into the ing to take the matter up and Committee, CIO, will meet in Better relations between the congressmen to support the act. matter what position the bak­ office of Fouts, who is business streets. If we recall that the s'ix the unanimous vote of the Lodge convention at Chicago in May. ILGWU and ACW create another The resolution was also adopt­ ery companies, who also were agent of the union. The three hundred men from the demolish­ was “If the old Negro was laid barrier against John L. Lewis’ ed by Local 20 o f the In te rn a tio n ­ named in the complaint, may drivers talked with Fouts, talked The official policy is that it will Promoting A Better ed S ixth Avenue elevated line ofi to go fishing, the whole plant union-raiding policies in the AFL al Fur and Leather Workers Un­ take, we w ill fight the issue to by phone from Fouts’ office with not be a constitutional conven­ are still unemployed, we know would go along to bait his hook." —CIO fight, and increase some­ ion: and it is expected that the Social Order, Etc. the end.” their employer at Havelock, then, that the promises of the Mayor This action occurred almost tion. However, influential Inland what the pressure on Lewis to resolution will be adopted at the E d ito r: when they got ready to go, ac­ and his lieutenants are not worth three years ago and when the Steel, Lodge 1010 and Rubican negotiate a settlement. This fac­ next regular business meeting of The Twentieth Century Associ­ SIOUX CITY, Iowa, March 18 cepted Fouts’ offer to drive them the paper they are written on. company was informed of the Lodge 1014, representing the tor was more than a small part the Lynn Food Workers Union ation For the Promotion of a —Joseph A. Padway, general back to their trucks. . . The members of the TWU are union's decision the old Negro did of Hillman’s motive. Added to Local 701, (CIO). Finer Public Spirit and a Better counsel of the AFL and the IBT, “Nobody laid hands on any­ largest steel plant in the world, beginning to realize that these not go fishing but has worked this is the desire of Dubinsky John Travis Social Order whose headquarters is scheduled to arrive here this body. The three drivers were at have passed resolutions proposing leeches and rats run the city gov­ ever since; and naturally every and Hillman to promote the in­ Lynn, Mass. at 3 Joy Street, Boston, are a wreek to organize the defense of all times as free to go and come the contrary. Other lodges are ernment of New' York and are Negro worker signed up with the terests of the Roosevelt third- gathering ground for well-placed General Drivers Union Local 383 as is any person who enters any following their lead. It may take not interested in the welfare or union. Today, there is not a non­ term movement. Lewis has been bourgeois liberals anounces a members who were indicted here office in Sioux City. They came something more than an old- the well-being of the poor people union employee allowed to work more and more of a bull-in-the- HOBBY GROUP last week on charges of “kidnap­ of their own accord, and departed fashioned Rah-Rah for the top American Labor Aid of this city. They realize also that in the shop and a Negro would china-shop to the third-term ad­ On March 19th at six o’clock, a ping and conspiracy.” when they got ready. . . officialdom to head off the de­ this whole anti-labor drive of the not think of refusing to pay his vocates. To Hear I.B.E.W. buffet supper (50c) w ill be served Howard Fouts and Ralph John­ "Next thing was the arrest of mand for a constitutional conven­ | LaGuardia administration is not dues. Wages were raised, hours the members of the Hobby group son, union organizers, Charles Cunningham, Fouts and Johnson tion. The desire of both the ILGWU On Anti-Labor Drive due to some unfortunate “misun­ shortened and conditions made E d ito r: and their friends, to be followed Cunningham, financial secretary, on the charge of ’kidnapping for and the ACW rank and file in derstanding” but is the deliberate better through the strength of The American Labor Aid is by a lecture by Capt. Harry and Jack Webster, a union mem­ ransom’ which ‘carries a penalty fighting for harmony between conspiracy of Wall Street to the union. ber, were those indicted. After of either life imprisonment or their unions and for unity in the launching its campaign against Brown of the National Guard on The International Ladles Gar­ smash one of the strongest un­ At the plant of the Indiana much fanfare by authorities who death’." national labor movement, is to Thurman Arnold's vicious anti­ "Chemical Warfare.” ment W'orkers Union will meet in ions in this city. Steel and Wire Company in Mun- refused previously to admit them promote the interest of the work­ union, anti-labor drive with a John Brooks Wheelwright A Revealing Contrast convention at New York City in cie the company laid off a col­ to bail because the maximum ers, not for the benefit of Roose­ meeting Friday, March 29th at S Boston, Mass. Keeping these ideas in mind, In stark contrast to the high May. This organization has re­ ored craneman. Acting especially penalty on the charge was death, velt and his war plans. every member of the TWU must bail set for union men on this mained independent since its in defense of this man and also bail was fixed at $1,000 each on insist that the union make all flimsy charge was the $1500 bail withdrawal two years ago from against other acts of bad faith the conspiracy count and $2,500 necessary preparations to strike for two city policemen, recently the CIO. There is pressure from on the part of the company, a each on the kidnapping count. and close down every single suspended and now indicted on the top for reaffiliatlon with the strike was called and the Negro’s transport unit of this city if that What Really Happened charges of protecting a dope ring A EL. In the rank and file there return to the job was won. The International Brotherhood is the only way of retaining the In describing this, the latest and houses of prostitution. is a fast growing progressive In the SWOC lodge of the In­ of Teamsters, AFL, now almost present closed-shop union con­ of a long series of frameups Appropriately enough, these movement against giving such diana Steel and Wire some six a half million strong, will be tracts. Now more than ever be­ against this local union which two cops were in a large measure support to the die-hard craft un­ months before this a case came fore, the TWU members must has borne much of the brunt of responsible for securing convic­ ionists of the Green, Woll, Frey, heard from in no uncertain terms up which shows how sensitive the watch every new move of La the fight to maintain the 14-state tions last winter against the Hutchinson and Co. camp. on the question of labor unity in Negro is toward the least act of Guardia with the greatest sus­ over-the-road drivers’ contract, same union officers, Fouts and slight or discrimination on the its convention at Washington, picion. They must depend, not on the Sioux City Unionist states: Johnson, in a Sioux F a lls case, part of the white workers. D.C. in September. The IBT laws the empty promises of capitalist “This present case is the resulting in four-year sentences politicians but on the independent The Steel Lodges had voted to most outrageous example of against each unionist on a charge ILGWU progressives are fight­ will come in for a revamping at strength of their union and the raise money to pay for a head­ malicious persecution that has of damaging a truck. The case ing for a 30-hour week with no this convention to clear the decks reduction in pay, campaigns to support of organized labor of this quarters by means of a box so­ come to our attention during is now being appealed and the for a stream-lined organization city, to win this fight and save cial. (A box social is where the unionize every garment shop in 40 years of active participa­ latest exploits of the prosecuting drive. The American labor move­ the great Transport Workers Un­ girls and women bring along a tion in labor union affairs. . . . cops will look good in the ap­ the country, and standardize ag­ ment may soon see its first mil- ion of this city. box and the men bid on the box­ Let no honest friend of justice pellate record! reements with uniform expiration dates. These slogans are arousing lion-membered union. stop to cry over this case. This Union Rejects Deal case is destined to become fa­ Overtures have been made to mous. Let every man and wo­ Local 383 officers to support cer­ man who believes in honor and tain boss politicians in the March justice hold up his head and let 29 city elections with a promise there be no faltering.” that, in return, all the charges Describing the circumstances would be dropped. But the union under which the frameup oc­ is making it very clear to the curred, the Unionist states: bosses and their agents that this "One morning three truck driv­ fight is not going to be settled ers for a merchant of Havelock, behind closed doors, but right Iowa, were in Sioux City. Two of out in the open where it will hurt the bosses as they never got hurt before. SOCIALIST APPEAL M A R C H 23, 1940 Page 3

“LABOR WITH A WHITE SKIN CANNOT EMANCIPATE ITSELF O’Dwyer, the Butcher of Amritsar, I WHERE LABOR WITH A BLACK STALIN IN FINLAND Centrism Did Its SKIN IS BRANDED" — KARL MARX. Meets His Fate In London (Continued from Page 1) Bit During the Negro Question joining Finland, Christian E. Guenther, Swedish Foreign Minister, By SHERMAN STANLEY Suddenly a contingent of Bri­ MURDERERS WHITEWASHED showed that the Allied proposal to send troops to Finland was ------By J. R. JOHNSON tish soldiers, with a few profes­ BY BRITISH “DEMOCRACY” Last week, in London’s West­ designed more for the purpose of getting at Germany than to Soviet-Finn War minster district, a young Sikh sional Indian troops, under the After the trial had dragged on (This column Is written by Robert L. assure Finland’s independence. To a certain extent Guenther is student and engineer named Ma­ command of Brigadier General for years, the inevitable white­ B y P A U L G. S T E V E N S Birchman in comrade Johnson’s absence.) wash and verdict of “not guilty’’ correct. But another primary motive of the Allies in sending homed Sing Azad interrupted a Dyer appeared. They had been Among the centrists today united in the so- was given. Dyer retired on a nice meeting of high Indian officials sent by Sir Michael O’Dwyer to troops to Finland would be to inflict a defeat on the Red Army, called "International Front Against War" (Brit­ In blasting the myth that this war is a conflict pension and died in 1928, do ub t­ and retired British civil servants "restore order.” These men were if possible, and if not, to keep Stalin busy so that he would not be ish Independent Labor Party, Lovestoneites, between the “totalitarians" and the “democra­ lessly untroubled by the screams to put two bullets in the heart posted at the only exit to the French P.S.O.P., Dutch Revolutionary Socialist of his victims, for had not the in a position to help Hitler. cies," we have often pointed out that British of Sir Michael O’Dwyer, former walled-in square. Without warn­ Labor Party, etc.), the Soviet-Finnish conflict has Crown and Church of England democracy, such as it is, is limited to the small Governor General of India's pro­ ing—as General Dyer later boast­ brought to the fore the deep contradictions which ed—they began to fire into the given him their blessings? As tor Why Hitler Wanted the Peace white minority of the British Empire’s popula­ vince of the Punjab. have been latent among them for years. crowd. Before the slaughter was Sir Michael, he met his fate last It can be presumed that not only did Hitler agree to peace Azad, crying out that he was Thus we read in the German edition of the tion of five hundred millions. English law and over 500 lay dead and 1,200 were week. between the Soviet Union and Finland but he was actually press­ acting in the name of India's “Front’s” information bulletin (January 1940): legal procedure is one thing; the laws dictated wounded. Then the brave general No event has made such an im ­ ing for it. While his general aim is to involve Stalin in a m ilitary freedom, also wounded the Mar­ “Among adherents of the I.F.A.W. who have had by Englishmen to the colored populations of the w ith d re w . pression upon the Indian people conflict with the Allies, he obviously is of the opinion that, at this quis of Zetland, Secretary of an opportunity to discuss the question there are The next day, as part of his as the massacre of Amritsar. A particular moment, Stalin can be of greater service to him if the Empire is something else again. England’s Privy State for India, and two others. divergent views with regard to the character admitted project of "striking ter­ national memorial park has been Soviet Union is at peace. He was also anxious to avoid war in Council has recently made this distinction with of the present regime in the Soviet Union.” Some Readers of the Socialist Appeal ror into the whole of the Punjab ”, created on the site, to which Sweden, for hostilities there meant a chance of having his supply consider it, we are told, as still retaining the brazen clarity in connection with the laws gov­ know that our movement does General Dyer issued his famous hundreds of thousands of Indian of iron ore and other material cut off. character of a "progressive workers state.” Oth­ erning one of the colonies, Sierra Leone in British not support individual terrorist "crawling order” compelling all fighters for freedom come every action which can never be a sub­ Nor is he very anxious to see Stalin entrench himself too ers, that it is no longer a workers state, that West Africa. The story is worth telling. Indians to crawl on their hands year. Jallianwala Day—a day stitute for action on the part of and knees down the principal upon which the memory of those strongly in the Baltic, for he realizes that any increase in the the bureaucracy is a new exploiting class and A t the sessions of the British-dominated Legis­ the people of India for their in­ street of Amritsar. Such was B ri­ who died in the cause is honored defensive strength of the Soviet Union makes his future task all that therefore the workers should be for its de­ feat. lative Council in May, 1939 a series of bills were dependence. But if ever a man tish imperialism in action in the and a renewed pledge to struggle the more difficult. However, his all-important problem is to defeat deserved the fate that was meted for freedom is taken—is celeb­ the Allies. He is perfectly willing to grant Stalin defensive posi­ Some regard as motives for the war: the de­ passed, providing for the deportation of undesir­ summer of 1919! out to him it was Sir Michael Never since India’s first War rated annually by India. tions if thereby the Nazi war machine can only achieve its main sire to strengthen the defense of Leningrad and able subjects, for the punishment of “seditious O’Dwyer. That is why we, op­ of Independence of 1857 had the The British w ill unquestionably purpose at this moment. to find other military-strategic guarantees for acts,” and prohibiting the publication and dis­ ponents of terrorism of this sort, country been roused to such a try to place the hangman’s noose defense against Germany as well as the Allies— tribution of “undesirable literature.” Under these must hasten to energetically con­ fury. Dyer and his boss, Sir M i­ around the neck of Mahomed What the Soviet Union Lost without excusing in the least Stalin’s procedure demn Mahatma Gandhi and his chael O ’D w ye r had to be w ith ­ Singh Azad, martyr in India's- in realizing these motives. Others think that the ordinances there w ill be no w rit of habeas corpus It would be folly to deny that the defensive position of the associates in the leadership of drawn from India. Indian public struggle. They have already hung invasion of Finland is part of a great plan of and “no other process calling in question the Soviet Union, in a m ilitary sense, has been strengthened. But it the Indian Nationalist Congress opinion forced the creation of a three members of the Irish Re­ conquest agreed upon by "Berlin-Moscow im­ would be greater folly not to realize that the defense of the Soviet legality of any order made under these ordinances who instantly disowned Azad and Royal committee to investigate publican Army. perialism.” Union depends primarily, not upon m ilitary strategic factors, but shall have any effect.” threw his fate into the hands of the horrible' massacre. At the Action of the English working Some recall the counter-revolutionary charac­ upon the sympathy of the masses throughout the world. Through the British authorities. hearing both of these bloody im­ class can save Azad. Our com­ ter of the Finnish bourgeoisie under Manner- One of the main purposes of these ordinances the invasion Stalin brought discredit upon the Soviet Union; he Who was Sir Michael O’Dwyer? perialists defended and boasted of rades in England, the British heim. Others regard the “resistance of the Fin­ destroyed the sympathy of the masses for the Soviet Union and is to guard against political activity in the armed their actions. O’Dwyer assumed Fourth Internationalists, have al­ nish people against the Russian attack as a pro­ It was he who, more than any­ tied them more firmly to the capitalist world. The loss to the forces. There was a mutiny among the native full responsibility and claimed ready begun a campaign in his gressive national war”. They believe that “the one else, bears responsibility for Soviet Union because of that is far greater than the gains that he had saved thereby British behalf. Finnish proletariat must participate actively in soldiers of the colony last summer, and eleven of the worst massacre in India's his­ achieved in a military-strategic way. tory—the Amritsar massacre, rule over the 400,000,000 Indian Defend Azad from the British the defense of Finnish indeepndence, maintaining them were court-martialled. They received sen­ No one except the misled people who blindly follow the Stalin­ which takes its place in world people. hangm en! their class independence in doing this, and de­ tences of from seven to ten years penal servitude. ist parties believed the absurd statements made by the Kremlin history alongside the Bloody Sun­ sire the defeat of the Red Army.” Unrest is widespread among the industrial work­ that Finland threatened to invade the Soviet Union and no one day of Czar Nicholas. After setting forth the existence of the diver­ ward Bloc, wants complete in­ except those same people believe now that the Soviet-Finnish ers, the civil services and the armed forces. This The Amritsar affair took place gent views in its ranks, the I.F.A.W. presents a dependence from Great Britain. peace treaty is a tremendous victory for peace, as is claimed by accounts for the large number of white troops on April 13, 1919—almost 21 resolution which contains the following main BOSE WARNS OF (2) Gandhi, at best, would take Moscow and, of course, by the Dally Worker. stationed in Freetown. years ago. The Caxton hall as­ point: “Regardless of our opinions about the Dominion Status within the Bri­ sassination of last week was a If and when the Allied imperialists should succeed in defeating character of the present Russian state (!) and The introduction of this dictatorial legislation tish Empire; Gandhi wants to in­ reminder to British imperialism Hitler and proceed with settling accounts with Stalin, or if the the motives for its invasion of Finland, that the definitely postpone the campaign aroused tremendous opposition among the people that the memory of April 13, COMING CIVIL Allies should decide to invade the Soviet Union before defeating methods employed by Stalin against the Finnish for independence. Bose wants the and thousands of natives demonstrated on the 1919 can never be w iped out u n til Hitler, it will be a thousand times more difficult to arouse the people must be condemned and attacked as coun­ campaign immediately launched. opening day of the legislature. The demonstrators it has been fully avenged. masses in opposition to such a war. Stalin has destroyed the ter-revolutionary . . . the Russian workers can (3) Finally, Bose—even though in represented the Trade Union Congress, the Na­ WAR IN INDIA faith of millions in the Soviet Union and has once more shown not therefore be for the victory of the Russian an extremely bewildered manner tional Congress, Christian League, Citizens Com­ THE POST-WAR WAVE OF that the Stalinist bureaucracy is weakening the Soviet Union. (!) Army in Finland, but must desire the imme­ —understands that only socialism mittee, West Africa Bar Association, etc., and REVOLT IN INDIA diate cessation of the war. For a peace without and industrialization can solve In­ was the largest ever seen in Freetown. But the After the last World War a (Continued from Page 1) Stalin Is Not the Soviet Union annexations! For the immediate withdrawal of dia's economic problems. To this ordinances were pushed through the legislature revolutionary wave, stirred up have been engaged in a bitter Russian troops from occupied territories!” etc., Gandhi counterposes his Utopian Millions of workers do not make the distinction that should be in spite of this overwhelming sentiment. by the actions of the Russian struggle for over a year. Gandhi etc. and reactionary "hobbies” of re­ made between the Stalinist bureaucracy and the Soviet Union. workers and peasants and by the and his die-hard right wing sup­ ligious worship, handicraft in­ Stalin acts in the same manner as Hitler and from that they total failure of the British to keep porters have bent every effort to Political Persecution of dustry, prohibition, etc. The aim draw the false conclusion that the Soviet Union is the same as How Do They Do It? their hypocritical promises made isolate Bose and strip him of his of these schemes is to return Germany. We condemned the invasion because we knew before­ during the war in exchange for powers. How anyone who still regards Soviet Russia Wallace Johnson India to a stage which it had hand that no matter what victories the Red Army would gain, support by India, held the country as a workers state and considers Mannerheim’s The persecution under these ordinances of W al­ But Bose, supported by the jute reached about 3,000 years ago. the Soviet Union would lose in the esteem of the working masses, in its grip. The Indian Nationalist Finland as an outpost of world imperialism can lace Johnson, secretary of the West African workers of his home city of Cal­ because the masses, repelled by the invasion, would tend also to movement was progressing ra­ The Ramgarh session of the consistently be “against the victory of the Red Youth League and of the Sierra Leone Trade Un­ cutta, has fought back. Bose gave become indifferent or even hostile to the Soviet Union. pidly. In the historic Punjabi city Congress may well be of decisive Army" in a struggle between the two is not ex­ ion Congress, indicates the function of this legis­ a clear statement of the platform But we were staunch in our defense of the Soviet Union and of Amritsar some 5,000 Sikh importance for India’s nationalist plained. Nor can it be explained. For the cen­ lation. At the outbreak of the war Johnson was around which he is seeking to favored the victory of the Red Army against the Finnish capital­ peasants and workers had gath­ movement. Will it result in a trists are here trying to reconcile two opposing subjected to “preventive arrest.” His home was overthrow the dead weight of ist army representing the imperialist world. Recognizing that na­ ered on A p ril 13 to liste n to split, with the radical and prog­ class points of view. raided, his books confiscated, and he was im­ Gandhi and his crowd. tionalized property still exists in the Soviet Union we must de­ Nationalist agitators. They were ressive elements going their own How untenable this position is has been re­ prisoned for the duration of the war. For under fend it in any war against a capitalist nation. All that one has to a crowd of men, women and Bose explained that he differs way? In next week’s issue of the vealed by subsequent events. While the January these ordinances the governor has the power to ask is: what would have been the result of a defeat of the Red children—totally unarmed—meet­ with Gandhi on three fundamen­ Socialist Appeal we will have a resolution strained itself to avoid characterizing order the arrest of any native whom he considers Arm y in Finland ? Nationalized property would have been endan­ in g in the c ity ’s open square tal points: (1) The left-wing of lengthy article on the results of the Soviet Union in the terminology of Marxism, undesirable. As a trade union organizer, he was gered and that is what we defend both against imperialism and known as Jallianwala Bagh. the Congress, known as the For- this historic Congress session. and in order to avoid commitments, speaks of most “undesirable" to the British colonial officials. against the Stalinist bureaucracy. the “Russian” state and the "Russian” army a "Preventive arrest” without any crime charged Has not the Stalinist bureaucracy strengthened itself because resolution published by the same people in Feb­ was perhaps too much like Nazi procedure. The and cargo. The spray stops flying of the victory of the Red Army? Perhaps, yes, temporarily. But ruary throws all caution to the winds in this authorities decided to justify their persecution of Pigs and Bosses and the decks begin to dry. After would not the Soviet Union be in danger if the Red Army had respect. Johnson by convicting him of a “crime.” He was been defeated? We repeat what we have said a thousand times. three hours work (no overtime) In "Independent News”, the English language therefore convicted of sedition by the West A f­ The task of destroying the Stalinist bureaucracy is a privilege bulletin of the I.F.A.W. for February, we read the crew go below. rican Court of Appeal for having written in the and a duty which the workers must reserve for themselves and something entirely different: "By appealing to Gold Coast Spectator an article, “Has the African not assign to the imperialists. A Sailor’s Story The break o f a new day sees the argument of ‘strategic advantage’ as a jus­ a God.” the ship driving ahead. The cold, tification for a wanton attack against a small "Stalinist Imperialism" Theory Blasted neighbor, Stalinist Russia puts itself in the cate­ Voicing the indignation of the natives of West wet spray is flying. The pigs lie to­ How will those profound theoreticians—the Socialist party, gory of imperialistic powers. . . .’’ Africa against the imperialists, Johnson had The stench of pigs is over the pigs! Goddamned pigs!" He hates gether shivering like bowls of jel­ the Lovestoneites and their similars—justify their theory of w ritte n ; ship. A head wind blows the foul to slow down the ship. The waves ly. They are too tired to get up off Stalinist imperialism? Undoubtedly they w ill make all kinds of smell aft into the crew's quarters. are getting higer. It’s either slow the wet deck. Too tired even to Logical Result of Their Theory “Personally I believe the European has a gyrations to show that they are correct, but anyone who is not Four hundred hogs are penned in down or have the pigs washed ov­ get up and eat breakfast. They Whoever says “A” must say “B ’. Having dis­ God in whom he believes and whom he is blinded by hatred of Stalin can easily see that what he is after between the bridge and the poop erboard. He slows down with lie in three days accumulation of covered that Soviet Russia is an imperialist state, representing in his Churches all over Africa. primarily is to obtain defensive footholds. It is well-nigh impos­ on the port deck of the SS KAP- curses. dung. The stench is terrific. The the I.F.A.W . now finds: “Because we sincerely be­ He believes in the god whose name is spelt ULANI, a freighter bound for sible to explain what he has done thus far on the basis of the The crew works all afternoon pig-man refuses to disturb the lieve in the principles of national self-determina­ Deceit. He believes in the God whose law is H onolulu. theory that he has entered into a partnership with Hitler to and finally put up a strong pen. pigs to clean the pen. Phew! What tion, because we recognize the disastrous effects ‘Ye strong*; you must weaken the weak. Ye divide the British Empire or even (some have said it!) the whole The pig-man, a weather-beaten The pigs are wet and miserable. a stink! With a tired crew and of Stalin's invasion from the standpoint not only ‘civilized’ Europeans, you must ‘civilize’ the world. Of course people do not have to consider facts; they can hand from the wide open spaces, One has two broken legs. Another five thousand dollars damage the of the Finnish people but also of the Russian ‘barbarous’ Africans with machine guns. Ye let their desires and imaginations run away with them. But then feeds and waters the pigs, and has an eye gouged out. A grue­ ship arrived thirty-two hours late. people and of the international working class ‘Christian’ Europeans you must ‘Christianize’ these people are not Marxists. The ship could have arrived a few generally we sympathize with the Finnish strug­ the ‘pagan’ Africans w ith bombs, poison gas­ shovels pig droppings over the some sight. hours later but without any dam­ And when the Supreme Council of tne Soviet Union w ill meet gle against the Russian invader. Of that there es, etc. side. The captain speeds up the ship. age. Why did the captain disre­ it will undoubtedly nationalize industiy in that section of Finland can be no doubt.” Friday night; the wind is blow­ The propellor races madly. The gard good seamanship and com­ ceded to the Soviet Union by the peace terms. It is true that this “In the colonies the Europeans believe in ing up and the barometer is go­ stern bounces up and down, The new line permits their American section the god that commands: ‘Ye administrators, mon sense to endanger the ship, will be done in a bureaucratic manner and to that extent it is (the Lovestoneites) and the Dutch (Sneevliet) ing down. The weather report is a shakes, quivers and vibrates. One make Sedition Bill to keep the African cargo and crew? Pressure from not what we want. But as against permitting industry to remain to howl in chorus with the bourgeois press storm warning. moment your guts are plastered gagged. Make Forced Labor Bill to work the the office to maintain a schedule. under capitalism, even bureaucratic nationalization is progressive. against “Soviet imperialism” and to identify the up against your ears, the next in­ Africans as slaves. Make Deportation Ordin­ Saturday, before dawn, the first Let the middle-class democrats howl about “Stalinist imperial­ Communist Party with the German-American stant they shoot down to your What is this schedule that must ance to send the Africans to exile whenever sea came aboard and knocked ism,” but Marxists will continue to make a distinction between Bund, and to call for funds to be sent to Fin­ knees. There is an awful din as be kept at any cost? Is it a new they dare to question your authority. ’ down the after end of the pig-pen. imperialism and a degenerated workers’ state which, when it nish “labor organizations”, that is, to the social the giant turbines hum and whine, religion? A disease of the mind? The pigs stampeded to the poop annexes territory, takes property away from imperialism and democracy which is in one bloc w ith Mannerheim. the steering gear grinds back and Or just plain stupidity? “Make an ordinance to grab his money so deck. The second mate called the narrows the base of world imperialism. However, it does not yet prevent the Scottish that he cannot stand economically. . . . Send forth, leaking steam valves hiss captain, who called the mate, who Before the depression the upper No one can say with certainty when and under what condi­ Independent Labor Party from adopting a resolu­ detectives to stay around the house of any and scream, lockers rattle crazily called the bosun, carpenter, day­ classes flocked to Europe by the tions the Soviet Union will find itself at war. All that our party tion which goes against the grain of this whole African who is agitating for national inde­ while the water-logged crew tries man and pig man, who, together thousands. Abysmally ignorant of states is: whenever the Soviet Union will be at war with any line: the latter, adopted at a conference on Jan­ pendence and if possible to round him up in a to rest in jitterbugging bunks. with the watch on deck began the social sciences, they were eas­ capitalist country we shall call upon the workers of the world to uary 20-21 says: ‘criminal frame up’ so that he could be kept herding pigs. Thru the night and all day Sun­ ily taken in by the lies and hypoc- defend it because in doing so we are defending the first conquest “This conference, reviewing the events which behind the bars.” day the storm rages. The captain of the World Revolution. For workers everywhere the main en­ At dawn the wind is blowing a ricies that mask the rotten social led up to the present situation in Finland, con­ drives the ship into the teeth of emy is imperialism. The workers must do their utmost to de­ gale. The captain is driving the structure of Europe. demns the foreign policy of the Russian govern­ Two Kinds of "Law" the gale. Salt stinging wet spray stroy the power of the Stalinist bureaucracy precisely in order to m ent. ship full speed into the storm and in gale-driven showers makes a They came back raving about Johnson's conviction was appealed to England, defend the Soviet Union most effectively. making dirty weather of it. Con­ “that wonderful man Mussolini. "We warn the workers, however, to be on to the Privy Council. In the argument on the ap­ minute on deck miserable. And tinual sprays, driven with sting­ He makes the trains run on guard against the intensive propaganda in which peal, the Gold Coast Government contended that there stand the pigs cold and ing force, pelt and soak every­ time!” This they repeated like world capitalism seeks to canalize opinion against publication of the article was seditious in that it wet, taking an awful beating. thing on deck. The pigs are parrots, until the entire boss-class Russia. . . . brought the government into contempt and hat­ The sea is making up big. Huge squaw king. believed ‘trains on time’ to be a “We therefore resolve to oppose the formation red. Johnson formally denied this, claiming that waves, growling and hissing, lift modern miracle. of a capitalist block against Russia and consider his article was a fair expression of opinion on A sea knocks down the forward the ship up into the sky and then that we can best assist the workers and peasants matters of vital concern to the natives. His coun­ wall of the pig-pen. The wrecking- They proceeded to put this plunge it down into the ocean. of Russia by concentrating our energies against sel, arguing the legal issue, contended that the crew, with hammers, nails and mental aberration into practice Some of the crew are sea-sick, the capitalist, imperialist enemy at home.” prosecution had to prove that the words com­ ropes, are on the job again for a some have headaches, and some with religious fanaticism. All The Finnish-Soviet war is concluded. But the plained of were of such a nature as likely to incite couple hours. They go below soak­ are constipated. sorts of schedules were mapped violence. His counsel based his argument on nu­ ing wet for breakfast. A big wave out, with speed the essential fac­ imperialist war goes on. In this war, the class Just after dark a big wave hits merous citations from English and Scottish court knocks the hell out of the entire tor. Men were driven nuts trying lines come boldly to the forefront. W ithin the the starboard corner of the after­ workers’ camp, in this war, is the Soviet Union decisions. pen. The wet crew is on deck to make everything run on time. again. house. What a smack! Everybody which, despite Stalin and his degenerated bureau­ The judges of the Privy Council dismissed the comes out on the run. The star­ Ships were no exception. Cap­ cracy, still retains the main economic conquests This time they stack up the appeal, leaving Johnson convicted and subject to board lifeboat is smashed. The tains ashore and afloat had to of the October revolution. Any attempt to slur pieces and begin to build anew. penalties. On what ground? On the ground that dining saloon is wrecked. The maintain schedules or -else. That over this fact, any attempt to find compromise All morning they labor in a howl­ the law of sedition for the colony is to be found in wave smashed thru the heavy oak is why ships are wrecked and formulas that reconcile two opposing class atti­ ing wet gale. the criminal code of the Gold Coast and not in storm ports and knocked off the sailors drowned when captains try tudes, are bound to shatter on the rocks of liv­ English law ! The colonial code, they said, was During dinner the pen, origin­ inside wall panels. The place is to make port in a fog, cross ing reality. That is why centrism is doomed to no doubt designed to suit the “circumstances” of ally put together in Frisco with awash with broken glasses, china, treacherous bars in bad weather disintegration. That is why one wing of the I.F. the natives in the colony! dunnage, rope yarns and nails, is ketchup bottles and mustard jars. and plunge full speed into storms. A.W. must of necessity go over to the camp of smashed to pieces. The crew, still Luckily only five of the three The stench of pigs and bosses the treacherous social democracy. That is why A clear-enough decision. One law for the white soaking wet, turns out cursing hundred and fifty carboys of acid get in our hair. another wing must approach ever closer the posi­ English; another law for the black natives. That captain for not slowing down. on the starboard deck are over­ — S. U. P. No. 3248 tions of the Fourth International. The actions of is the foundation-stone of the British Empire: turned. 4« * * the Lovestoneites, Sneevliet and company, on open and brutal dictatorship over the overwhelm­ The captain, fatter than the The captain heaves the ship to, (Reprinted from the “West the one hand, and of the Scottish I.L.P. on the ing majority of the population of the British Em­ fattest hog and much louder, while all hands secure loose gear Coast Sailor,” March 1.) other, are merely portents of this trend. pire. keeps g ru n tin g , “Goddamned SOCIALIST APPEAL Page 4 M A R C H 23, 1940 the F B I is aiming its artillery prim arily against the labor movement, what justification have the CIO leaders for not speaking up when the first A Soberly-Compiled History Lovestone Weeps shells have already fallen in the camp of the AFL? With Pity fo r It is a good sign that the CIO has finally ob­ O f Kuusinen’s 'People s Gov’t’ served the activities of F B I aircraft overhead. The Bankers Now what are the CIO leaders going to do By RUTH JEFFREY land is now engaged, with the Feb. 4: "Very important things aid of the civilian population, in are taking place in Eastern Fin­ about it? All during the Finnish War clearing populated centers of land, which has been liberated By JOSEPH HANSEN there was, according to the D aily Schutzcorps officers, wreckers by the Red Army and the Peo­ W orker and the rest of Moscow's In his article published in the March 2 issue of the and White Guards. The People's ple’s Finnish Army. In the vil­ press, a People’s Government of Workers Age, official organ of the Lovestoneites, Mr. Army men look splendid and are lages of Salmi and Suojaervi one Finland. It pleases us to compile Graham places the label "Trotskyite Super-'Ham-and- well armed.” can see the new life bro u g h t to for posterity the Daily Worker Eggs Plan upon the emergency demands which the The Paris Commune the inhabitants. . . . As yet both day-by-day History of the Peo­ Socialist Workers Party suggests the labor movement Dec. 15: (A headline) villages are but sparsely populat­ ple’s Government of Finland. make upon Congress. These demands include the fol­ W hat happened in Paris on Monday— it w’as “U.S. FINNS VOW SUPPORT ed .. . (but) each district has a lowing immediate legislation: $10,000,000,000 for the representative of the People’s March 18, the sixty-ninth anniversary of the Dec. 2: One week after “the FOR PEOPLE’S GOV’T” unemployed, a 30-houy week a t m in im u m pay o f $30, Government of Finland. . . .” creation of the Paris Commune— ?We scanned provocative firing on Soviet disability and old age pensions of $30 a week, and troops by Finnish army units sta­ Dec. 17: The Soviet Govern­ $3,000,000,000 for the youth. all the dispatches, but not a word had got past tioned on the Isthmus of Karelia" ment quotes to the League of Na­ Feb. 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, I I , 12, 13, Daladier’s censorship. But who, knowing the (D a ily W orker, Nov. 27), “A Fin­ tions its pact with the People’s Such demands, claims Mr. Graham, are not feasible 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, under capitalism and therefore should not be raised nish People’s Government was es­ Government of Finland, which French proletariat, can believe that the anniver­ 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29; M arch by the labor movement. He attempts to prove this by tablished in the town of Terijoki “insures peace.” sary of the Commune was not commemorated ? 1, 2—N o th in g. pointing to the national income and the federal income in eastern Finland under the and then deducing that these sums are not large FIGHT WITH THE SOCIALIST In the darkest days of “ national unity” during leadership of Otto Kuusinen, vet­ Dec. 21: The D.W’. denies that enough to carry out the demands of the suggested the last W orld War, when democratic illusions eran Finnish working class lead­ there is any truth in the N. Y. M ar. 3: “ In December 1939 the ptogram. Such arguments, we note in passing, arc WORKERS PARTY FOR: er. The first act of the new gov­ Times story of Dec. 20, which newspaper Kansan Valta (Peo­ were far more pervasive than today, there were ple's Power) began publication in the stock in trade of all the attorneys of the capitalist 1. A job and a decent living for every worker. ernment was to proclaim its pro­ tells of “the People’s Army of hundreds, of thousands in 1914 and milions in gram for a free and sovereign Finland” using medieval uniforms the liberated districts of Finland. system from the Chamber of Commerce right down 2. Open the Idle factories—operate them under to the most miserable pettifogging labor lieutenant and independent Democratic Re­ which came from a museum. The Every number of this paper, of by workers’ control. 1918 who observed the day. And on May Sun­ of Wall Street. public of Finland. . . . Represen­ D.W. says: “Who ever heard of a and for the Finnish people, pub­ 8. A Twenty-Billion dollar Federal public works day throughout the day a procession of workers tatives of several Left parties and museum containing enough uni­ lished by the People’s Govern­ (Mi. Graham draws the moral that our suggesting and housing program. wended their way to Pere Lachaise cemetery and Finnish troops who had rebelled form s- all of them over 200 years ment . . . discusses practical ac­ such demands indicates “again and once again the 4. T h irty -th irty — $30-\veekly minimum wage—30- there gazed on the Wall of the Federáis, where against the anti-Soviet war of the old!—to outfit an army?" tivities ' of the People's Govern­ Stalinists and Trotskyists have something in com­ hour weekly maximum for all workers on all jobs. French “ democracy” perpetrated its greatest Finnish ruling class met in Teri- ment and the cultural and eco­ mon - an unprinicipled and demagogic appeal to the 5. Thirty dollar weekly old-age and disability i joki and agreed on formation of Dee. 21: (Stalin had a birth­ nomic construction in the coun­ backwardness and illusions of the masses." This from massacre of the Communards. day). pension. the regime. . . . In the critical tr y .” the Lovestoneites who white washed the Moscow Remembering O UR heroic dead, the revolu­ situation caused by the anti-Sovi­ “KUUSINEN HAILS Trials and who arc now shouting that it is possible__ 6. Expropriate the Sixty Families. Mar. 8: (A front-page feature et war, says the government pro­ STALIN IN NAME under capitalism!—to “Keep America Out of War.") 7. All war funds to the unemployed, tionary martyrs who died for the World Social­ a rtic le ). clamation, ’the wide masses of OF FINN PEOPLE" Are these emergency demands feasible? Is there 8. A people’s referendum on any and all wars. "As the Finnish White Guards ist Republic, who died in the only war worth the Finnish toiling people ■ • ■ not enough wealth available in the United States to totter to their fall, let us take a 9. No secret diplomacy. fighting and dying for, the workers of Paris were consider it their elementary right Dec. 29: provide food, clothing, shelter, and jobs for everyone look at the old and the new rul­ Hi. An independent Labor Party. and their sacred duty to take the i “Finn People’s Army Hails immediately ? Let us see. thereby remembering what is to he done. Stalin As First Defender of Free­ ing classes of Finland, as person­ 11. Workers’ Defense Guards against vigilante and fate of the fatherland into their To commemorate the Commune is to con­ dom” ified by Field Marsha! Baron Fascist attacks. own reliable hands.” demn as traitors to the working class the Leon Carl Gustave von Mannerheim It Can Be Done! 12. Full social, political and economic equality for Dec. 3: (front-page streamer Jan. 7: (A biography) and Otto Kuusinen. the Negro people. Blums and Jouhaux, the “ socialists” and trade headline) "Who is Otto Kuusinen, the "The Finnish people know both If it is merely a question of raising the national in­ union bureaucrats who clasp the hand of Dal- “USSR, Finn Peoples Gov’t. Premier and Foreign Minister of of these men. . . . They know come or of providing the necessary funds which Mr. adier in “national unity” against the “Prus­ Pledge M utual Aid; Soviet Cedes the People’s Government. . . . ? Kuusinen, the friend of Lenin and Graham believes the present federal income could not Karelia.” “Who is this Finnish leader who Stalin. . . . Finnish workers of | provide (under the present tax structure controlled by sians." signed ... a treaty . . . with Mol­ New York tell many stories of Wall Street), hero are some practical proposals which For in 1871 the Prussians held the gates of Dec. 4: “Revision of the fron­ otov. . . ?” their hero, Kuusinen. . . ." if carried out would immediately make possible not The CIO on the FBI tiers between the Soviet Union only the granting of the above emergency demands Paris after a victorious war. The bourgeoisie I and Finland, provided for in the Jan 14: Paavo Prokkenen, Mar. 9: Very incidentally, in but far bigger and more important needs of the pov­ A t long last the Congress of Industrial Organ­ called for "national unity" so that France might treaty signed with the People's "Minister for Karelian Affairs” any editorial, he is termed “Otto erty-stricken levels of the populace: praises Stalin for sending sup­ izations lias taken cognizance of the union-bust­ recover . . . for another war. In the name of Government of Finland, was offi­ Kuusinen, head of the Provisional (1) Open the idle factories and run them at full plies to "Finnish towns freed by cially announced today.” Soviet People’s Governm ent of demo­ capacity, providing jobs for all the unemployed in ing activities of Roosevelt’s Gestapo, the Fed­ national unity they attempted to disarm the Par­ the Red Army.” Karelia became part of Finland. cratic Finland.” productive enterprises at trade union wages. This eral Bureau of Investigation. The March 18 is­ isian working class which had armed itself dur­ Jan. 19: (Headline) would immediately raise the national income, about Dec. 5: The Soviet government Mar. 13: "PEACE IN FIN­ sue of the CIO News carries a full-page blast ing the war. For to the bourgeoisie. Paris in "Finnish People Create a New- which Mr. Graham worries, to many times its present refuses an offer, transmitted LAND!” Across the front page, against Roosevelt's secret police. Life Behind Red Army Lines” figure. True, some of the coupon-clippers might have arms was the revolution— it had been that in through Sweden, for new negoti­ the text of the peace treaty, be­ “The work of the People's Gov­ to take a factory job, but what they lost in dividends 1792, 1830, 1848. This time the bourgeoisie did ations with the Ryti government ginning: “The peace treaty be­ Yet both the form and the content of this at­ ernment is difficult, but is earning from their stock would be made up hundreds of times of Finland, on the ground that the tween the USSR and the Republic tack as it appears in the CIO News is of more not have its way; the masses of Paris answered thanks. It is creating a new coun­ over by what the workers gained in wages. And who, Soviet government only recog­ of Finland." What happened to them by establishing the Commune. try in the midst of innumerable aside from the Lovestoneites, would concern them­ than passing significance. The articles appear as nizes in Finland the existence of the peace treaty between the difficulties. The shoots of the new selves about the whining objections of the stockhold­ Those renegades from Marxism, the “ social­ the People’s Government. USSR ami the People's Govern­ signed news stories by two CIO newspapermen, life are being nurtured.” ers who now live by exploiting and plundering the reporting in semi-editorial fashion testimony ist" worshippers of legality at any price— they Dee. 9: “Greetings to the Peo­ ment of Finland is not mentioned, poor ? Jan. 22: “Despite harsh censor­ that day or any other. given at hearings on the F B I before a Congres­ call it “ democratic socialism” — have a hard time ple's Government of Finland have (2) Expropriate the parasitic Sixty Families who been adopted at numerous mass ship . . . news is leaking out of sional appropriations committee and statements re-moulding M arx in their image. The Commune growing mass support which is Mar. 20: “The economic and now dominate and control the nation’s industries and meetings in the liberated parts of who operate them for their private benefit at the ex­ stands between them and Marx. Fie called it the F in la n d .” being given directly and indirect­ cultural life of the city of Viborg on the F B I by Senator Norris and various lib­ pense of the rest of the population. This would im­ eral newspapers. There is no official statement work of “our party.” In its justification he wrote ly to the Democratic People’s is under the supervision of the Dee. 11: "The People’s Arm y of Government of Finland, headed representative of the Leningrad mediately provide far more than the amount of funds of the CIO itself or of any of its leading spokes­ The Civil W ar in France. The Commune, he the Democratic Republic of Fin­ by Otto Kuusinen." Regional Soviet, Borisov.” necessary to carry out the proposed emergency pro­ men on the F B I or on the Washington hearings. declared, “ w ill be for ever celebrated as the glori­ gram—thus answering the Lovestoneite objection that the federal income is inadequate to supply the funds ous harbinger of a new society.” Explain that In this manner, the CIO leadership continues to joining in the singing of “Soli­ we call for. True, the Sixty Families would find it avoid any definite public commitment. away, Messrs. Norman Thomas and James darity” with their fellow CIO somewhat distasteful but again who, aside from the Oneal! Marx had a name for their kind : “par­ Organized Unemployed members who were out in the Lovestoneites, feels any tenderness for these com­ Secondly, the articles are strangely abstract. liamentary cretins.” cold in more ways than one. pletely useless and decayed aristocrats of high soci­ They correctly state that the F B I “ . . . is really Van Geison, the relief adminis­ e ty? directed at organized labor. . .” but the F B I ac­ The Social-Democrats have tried to reduce Force Gains In Flint trator, was hung in effigy, and a (3) Run the national industries under the control tivities to which they refer are: finger-printing the meaning of the Paris Commune to a con­ black coffin was carried commem­ of factory committees elected by the workers. I f the fused clash forced upon the workers, the revolu­ orating those who have starved workers themselves controlled the industries, even industrial workers, compiling an index of sub­ (Continued from Page 1) while General Motors has piled though they were still “owned" by the capitalists versive individuals, inviting snooping reports on tionary structure and legislation of the Com­ This is the first time in the last, couple of years that an un­ up its profits of hundreds of m il­ the y could be tru ste d to see to i t th a t the p ro du ctive activities and opinions of neighbors, and similar mune being explained away as desperate defen­ employed union has actually made the local relief officials talk lions of dollars every year. Pick­ system was run at maximum efficiency and that all sive measures having no permanent significance turkey, and like it. Welfare Administrator Van Geison has made et signs carried such slogans as the secret bookkeeping, the secret deals, the swindles exploits. The M AIN anti-labor activities of the a name for himself as “Flint’s^------"Bread not Bullets”, “All War and frauds which now bleed the enterprises of the na­ for the international working class. But Marx F B I during the last year are not mentioned by Little Hitler” and over and over ing. Across the street, from the Funds to the Unemployed”. Es­ tion would be ended. Under this control, the workers so much as a w o rd ! and Engels declared that the Commune had again had declared he would nev­ windows of the 12-block-long Bu- pecially popular was the slogan could even guarantee their former bosses $30 a week taught them “ the finally discovered political form er meet with union committees. ick plant, hundreds of auto work­ one sign bore, “General Motors (if they worked 30 hours a week) or a pension of $30 Not a word on the prosecution o f the Minne­ But today he not only met with ers looked on and cheered their has locked us out . . . Demand the a week if they were old or disabled. Under such con­ under which the emancipation of labor could take a union committee, while two apolis W P A strikers, which was prepared by unemployed brothers on, many 30 hour week at 40 hours’ pay". trol of industry by the workers there would be a tre­ place.” hundred shouting, singing union F B I agents acting as agent s-provocateur— dis­ mendous leap in production that would immediately What that political form was, Engels sharply members jammed the outer of­ raise the national income and the federal income far guised as strikers. Not a word about the FBI fices, but made a regular appoint­ above the present figures. reminded the German socialists on the twentieth frameup against the Sioux City, Omaha and Des m ent to see the union welfare Any one of the above three proposals, or all three anniversary of the Commune; committee in weekly meetings. Moines teamsters. Not a word about the recent taken together, if carried out, would provide the 'an­ “ O f late the Social-Democratic philistine has The latest ruling this Van Geis­ swer to Mr. Graham's objections that there aren’t F B I raid on the New York teamsters. Not a on had pushed through the Wel­ once more been filled with wholesome terror at enough funds available. And as a starter, just to re­ word on the hundreds of cases organized by order fare Board was one tried in many lieve the worst cases now awaiting the pleasure of the the words: Dictatorship of the Proletariat. Well localities, the confiscation of li­ of the F B I's parent, the Department of Justice, relief authorities, how about the approximately $18,- and good, gentlemen, do you want to know what cense plates of all car owners on 000,000,000 in pure gold now lying idle in the vaults against the A F L building trades unions, or its 1 relief, forbidding welfare clients at Fort Knox? Why not put this money to work re­ this dictatorship looks like? Look at the Paris to drive a car. That was particu­ case against Joseph Ryan, the AFL longshore­ lieving human distress? Why not distribute it im­ Commune. That was the Dictatorship of the larly serious in this auto city men’s leader. In short, not a word about the FB I mediately as a bonus to the unemployed, the under­ where other forms of transporta­ Proletariat." paid, the aged, the youth, and the disabled while Con­ attacks which are ripping into every section of tion are practically non-existent. In accordance with their pseudo-left turn, the gress gets the machine greased to put into effect the The union demonstrators1 the A FL. proposals which would have a more permanent effect? Stalinists have been celebrating the Commune. forced him to back down on this Why is the CIO silent on the actual, current What a travesty! Stalin is as alien to the Com­ ruling ,and have assurance that To add up our proposed demands on a capitalist attempts to undermine and destroy a vital sec­ license plates of union members adding machine as the Lovestoneites have done—in mune as is Leon Blum. Not only because, like an attempt to prove solely on the basis of the present tion of the American labor movement? Can it will be returned, after the for­ Blum, he was yesterday embracing the Dal- mality of presenting their cases national income under capitalism in its death agony be inferred from this deliberate omission that adiers. as grievances has been observed. and the present tax structure as controlled by W’all Street that these demands are not feasible—is sheer CIO leaders, in flagrant disregard of the wishes We quote Engels on the lessons of the Com­ Previous to this demonstration of their own rank and file, are willing to stand the welfare department refused blockheadedness, an unprincipled and demagogic ap­ mune : peal to the backwardness and illusions of the masses. by and do nothing and say nothing while the to give any medical aid to clients. “ The working class must, on the one hand, Now it’s a different story, and government savagely persecutes a “ rival” union? do away with all the old repressive machinery all due to the action of the un­ The Masses Are Not Doomed! Are the methods of the F B I any less anti-labor previousy used against it, and on the other, safe­ ion members. This is only one in a series of We cannot agree with the implications of Mr. Gra­ because they are directed against “ rivals’’? Do guard itself against its own deputies and offi­ the CIO leaders nurture the secret hope that the successful actions recently car­ ham’s article that the unemployed, the youth, the cials, by declaring them all, ;without .exception, ried out by the WPA-CIO un­ aged, and the disabled are doomed to suffer without anti-labor government will clear the field for subject to recall at any moment. . . . And in the ion. Until today all the fire of hope of any gains whatsoever until socialism is se­ them of their union “ rivals” ? the union has been turner] on curely established. A militant fight on the part of second place, all officials, high or lo7L\ were paid the WPA administration. In a the masses for emergency appropriations by the pre­ There is no information on their attitude— only the wages received by other workers.” rapid-fire campaign of five or sent Congress would bring greater returns than even only these sinister indications and their tacit co­ Stalin celebrates the Commune! Stalin, who six weeks of fighting, the un­ those outlined in the program carried on our front operation in the Arnold drive against building can recall anybody but cannot himself lx re­ ion has succeeded in tam ing page masthead, if the militant fight mobilized the and training the W P A officials. entire working class for the demands. union officials. The CIO rank and file must be called; whose “ elections” are a replica of H itle r’s The city administration has This program, we are the first to point out, does w-arned. I f Lewis and Co. are toying with sui­ plebiscites; who more than a decade ago abol­ been forced to dig into its cof­ not offer a permanent solution. We have never claimed cidal notions of using the F B I against the A F L ished on behalf o f the parasitic bureaucracy the fers and sponsor a half dozen that it would. Only socialism can do that. Our entire new WPA projects, never they are playing with fire. The day after— and program is designed to reach that permanent solution, rigid rule which prevailed under Lenin and thought of before the pressure to provide the oppressed masses with a program probably before— the G-Men finish their union- Trotsky that no Communist could receive more of the unemployed was put on. which will show them the road to that permanent busting work in the A F L, they will move in on than a stipulated wage equivalent, as in the Com­ Now the first gun in the solution. the CIO. The truth is that the government of mune, to that of the skilled worker. campaign to whip the local re­ But there is absolutely no reason for anyone in a lief administration into line has land as rich as this going hungry, ill-clothed, or shel­ bankers and industrialists in Washington, head­ Revolutionary struggle and workers’ democ­ been fired, and it hit the mark. ed by Roosevelt, are much more concerned with terless while the toilers are organizing for socialism. racy— these two aspects sum up the meaning of The demonstration began at Emergency appropriations by Congress are in order smashing or domesticating the unions in the ba­ the Commune. To these we remain faithful. For 10:00 a.m., and gradually gained to relieve the present nation-wide distress immediate­ sic industries, auto, steel, rubber, coal, etc.— all us the Commune is not the occasion for a per­ momentum. A picket line of a ly. It is high time that the labor movement pitted its hundred men and women braved CIO affiliates— than in crushing the A F L . I f it functory festival but the living sinew of our colossal power in a struggle for this elementary right. a snow storm to march up and (A third article on this question will appear is true— and it is, a thousand times over— that daily work and thought. down outside the Welfare build­ next week.)