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Behind the Lines Pleaded Nolo Contendere 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.
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