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Vol. II. - No. 1. 401 Saturday, January 1, 1938 5 Cents per Copy Sit-Down Strikes Sweeping France Algic Trial “Robinson-Rubens” Hits Labor Paris Utilities Frameup Prepared Ship Strikers Condemned As Mutineers For Paralyzed By For U.S. Spy Scare Solidarity Move BALTIMORE, Md—'The Roo­ sevelt regime struck a heavy New Strikes The psychological preparation of the American people blow against the Organized Labor for war goes on alongside the swift speed-up of the Roose- movement when it obtained the Paris transport facilities and public services were par­ ^^4t'fhHitary and naval program designed for the ultimate conviction here of Ji4 seamen of alyzed by a general strike beginning at dawn on Dec. 29. showdown with Japan for imperialist domination of the the S.S. Algic on charges of This was the answer to the attempts of Camille Chau- Pacific. “mutiny” because they partici­ temps’ People’s Front Government to break the new wave The country has been treated to its first spy-scare in pated in a sit-down strike. of sit-in strikes sweeping over France. the form of a spectacular search on a Japanese ship. Des­ The case of the Algic seamen Faced with rising prices which have wiped out the is of nation-wide importance be­ troyers of the Pacific fleet engage in mysterious “ maneuv­ gains made by the great strikes of June, 1936, and new ers” along the West coast. President Roosevelt announces cause the convictions were an attempt to curb the militancy of decree laws virtually abolishing the 40-hour week won at that he will ask an enlargment of the already stupendous the maritime workers and to that'time, the French workers are rising to the struggle. “outlaw" the sit-down strike naval building program which now calls for the expendi­ The movement is only begin-'?------weapon. ture of more than half a billion dollars. ning but its general characteris­ belt, with the Goodrich tire plant The basic motive behind the ® - tics are already clear. as a focal point, it has rapidly arrest and trials of the Algic “No Peace at Any Price’ Moscow are the center of a com­ 1. The character of the strikes spread to include telephone work­ seamen was the desire of the plex conspiracy with roots both is not episodic, but, on the con­ ers, steel workers, chemical Roosevelt war-mongering ad­ This followed Roosevelt's plain in Moscow and the United States, trary, reveals a determined mass workers, department stores, mo­ ministration to smash the inter- intimation that his government designed to feed the spy-scare in upsurge on the part of the work- vies, food warehouses, bakeries, was not prepared to continue this country. At one with Alf I national solidarity displayed by ers. The occupation of the fac-1 river boatmen and all forms of enjoying "peace at any price” Landon in the sentiment that a ll[tle seamen when they pulled a jtories is widespread. Although j transportation, especially the and the studiedly frigid "accep­ (Continued on page 3) (Continued on page 7) [centered in Paris and its “red" j truck drivers. Thus the provinces, tance” of Japan’s apology for from Lille to Marseille, are in­ the sinking of the gunboat Panay volved. in the Yangtze River. The ex­ 2. The reaction of the workers tension of Japan’s robber war of reveals their revolutionary nature conquest in China will provide Cooperation-With Whom?-Why? and aspirations. The Goodrich more than ample opportunity for An Editorial factory flies the red flag. With hew incidents, new friction, new the experiences of the tremend­ “accidents” which can at any "Parallel" moves are being made in Washington press with its logical force and sincerity other ous strike wave of June, 193(1 tim e considered pro pitious be and in London to harmonize the policies of the democracies with great stakes for peace in the under their belts, there can be made the pretext for starting the world’s two leading imperialist powers in the Far Far East. The interests of France and the Nether­ no doubt that the workers have co n flict. Eastern crisis, which is daily becoming more acute lands, in the Pacific as well as in European waters, established factory committees. This week the Stalinists did as the invading armies of Japanese imperialism cannot be preserved in a world where the Yangtze Sympathy strikes develop in- their bit for the cause by getting continue their devastating march through China. attacks are tolerated or repeated. They must pro­ s.tantaneusly and intuitively as the American Student Union to These moves are the first fruits of the Japanese the workers learn that the repudiate the Oxford Pledge and ceed along the same pa rallels if in te rn a tio n a l People’s Front Government has to adopt an openly jingoistic sinking of the U. S.- gunboat Panay and their banditry is to be brought to the halt which their sent mobile guards to evacuate platform promising in advance attacks on British warships in the Yangtze River. sistev democracies now seek to impose." the workers forcibly from tire the students’ support to Ameri­ What is the meaning of this Anglo-American Who are these champions of justice and right occupied factories. The N. Y. can imperialism in the coming entente? What bearing does it have on China’s who seek to end the “international banditry" of Tim es dispatch o f December 26 war. A t the same time the Daily struggle against the barbarous invasion of the the Japanese imperialists? proves the seriousness of the si­ Worker, more loudly, more shrilly Japanese imperialists? What is its significance The very mention of Britain evokes living me­ tuation, when it says: than Hearst dares, lashes up the for the American and international working class? mories of imperialist freebooting and plunder, of “Government arbitrators pre­ spy mania and calls upon the In a considered editorial on December 24—an savage exploitation and oppression of weaker dicted the ‘beginning of the end’ government at Washington to editorial having all the earmarks of a statement peoples. British imperial grandeur is the story of the strike movement which emulate Stalin’s methods in deal­ of policy approved by the State Department in of a vast empire of colonial slaves, an empire threatened to approach propor­ ing with “spies” and “traitors” Washington—the New York Times warns the tions of the wave of strikes in i. e., a ll those who oppose Roose­ which spreads over two continents and embraces Japanese imperialists: 1936, under the government of velt’s and Stalin’s war aims, and numerous insular territories as well. India—of I^on Blum." most especially those who stead­ “ Those Japanese statesmen who are repotted Am ritsar massacre fame, land of public floggings, fastly dedicate themselves to the from Tokio as fearing joint action only would of mass pauperism, where the Royal Air Force revolutionary struggle against discover their error if, unhappily and unthinkably, periodically bombs villages of lowly Northwest Government Intervenes capitalism. their m ilitary forces were permitted to continue frontier tribesmen. Africa—land of forced labor 3. The strikes, although eco­ their cruel and illicit warfare against friendly na­ and wretched poverty, where millions of Negroes nomic in origin, immediately be­ The ‘Robinson’ Case tio n s .” are ground down in helotry. Palestine—where come political in every respect. This staid and respectable organ of American currently the Arabs are being subjected to naked § Developments in the mysteri­ “Premier Chautemps, after con­ military terror. ferences with Interior Minister ous “ Robinson-Rubens” case dur­ imperialism favors the widening of the Anglo- France—-“democratic" France of the Third Re­ Marx Dornroy and Air Minister ing the past week indicate more American entente: public and the Popular Front—and “democratic” and more clearly that the couple “ A concurrent policy of the United States and Pierre Cot, insisted that the how.fitting in a GPU cell in Great Britain needs only to be followed to im- (C ontinued on page 4) (Continued on page 2) 2 SOCIALIST APPEAL January 1, 1038 Red Flag Flies Over Latin-American Notes By Bernard Ross Chile the company reported that the enterprise could easily grant New French Stay-Ins The bankruptcy of Popular 26,000,000 pesos annually in wage Frontism and Stalinism becomes increase. The workers originally more evident with each passing demanded 16,000,000 pesos. (Contfnued from page 1) and political situation of France. I Stalinist Maneuvers in day. Recently, the reactionary The “anti-imperialist" Carde­ No wave of the magic wand of general Caelos Ibanez del Campo nas government which recently Goodrich fa c to ry m ust be eva­ class collaboration (People’s the Labor Movement who only a few years ago was granted large concessions to the cuated before negotiations could driven out of power by the Chil­ British Royal Dutch Shell, he­ Frontism) can change this basic 7. F in a lly , it w ould be a m is­ start." (N. Y. Times, December fact. Moreover, the Chautemps ean masses, returned to Chile. sitates before the handing down take to ignore the labor move­ 25). It is necessary to recall that government is doomed, because The Nacista Party, headed by of a decision. Incapable of ment, and especially its most compulsory arbitration is the Jorge Gonzales von Maree, fighting against imperialism it has accomplished its basic task important section, both numeri­ law of the land and that all and therefore can no longer serve promptly decided to support the and threatened by feudal reac­ cally and politically—the Stalin­ strikes are therefore "illegal candidacy of Ibanez in the com­ tion, the liberal bourgeoisie head­ the bourgeoisie. ist?. For months the Stalinists under the People’s Front. The ing presidential elections. And ed by Cardenas cannot afford to 5. The fo rm a tio n o f the Chau­ have been clamoring for the government is forced to intervene then.... the popular front coa­ alienate working class support. temps government signified poli­ achievement of organic unity to save its prestige. Besides, for lition also decided to support The most likely result will be a tically the assumption of the of­ with the Social Democrats. Fol­ some time now the bosses have Ibanez. compromise decision. fensive in the class war by the lowing the conclusion of the pact been on an open offensive to The Communist party issued * * * capitalists. The People’s Front between the Russian trade unions break the unions, abolish the 40 a manifesto declaring itself be­ The American Smelting Co., was shunted onto more respect­ and the Amsterdam Fedevation hour week and to pave the way hind General Ibanez and urged largest imperialist mining inte­ able and conservative rails. The of the Second International, the for the counter-revolution. all leftist organizations to sup­ rest in Mexico, bringing its Ame­ budget was to be balanced, or French C.P. took it for granted Needless to say, throughout all port that candidate against the rican investors $25,000,000 an­ at least the reforms of the Blum th a t now B lu m & Co. w ould come this, the lackeys of the French openly reactionary, former Mi­ nually, refuses to come to terms government were to be comple­ along into the folds of the united bourgeoisie—the Stalinist, re­ nister of Finance, Gustave Ross. with the Miners Union. tely vitiated. In general, intern­ party of the "proletariat and the formist and trade union bureau­ In that same manifesto the The conditions of the miners ally and externally, France was people.’’ Imagine their surprise crats—have been quiet. They Communist party criticizes the are deplorable. Working more to be made safe for the capital­ and consternation, when t h e certainly don't want any strikes. Socialist Party for having its than eight hours a day, under ists and their profits and equip­ S.P. bureaucracy abruptly broke But the workers are becoming own independent candidate. Co­ terrible hygienic conditions, their ped to conduct the coming im­ off negotiations at the end of more and more incensed. lonel Grove, and foams against legs knee-deep in mud, inhaling perialist world war. This meant, November, using a speech of Trotskyite tendencies in the So­ poisonous vapors, the miners 4. While truces are reported, above all, that the 'armaments Dimitrov’s as pretext , claiming cialist party.... barely receive a subsistence wage. the fall of the Chautemps go­ had to be taken care of. that this proves the C. P. is do­ ❖ -•:< <« To date the Cardenas govern­ vernment is imminent. "The minated by a foreign govern­ ment using dilatory tactics has widespread labor troubles threat­ W ar Budget Voted m ent. Mexico ened a s p lit in the Popular succeeded in warding off a strike, Immediately, the Political Buro Front, supporting the Chautemps Unanimously Evilio Bandillo, former mem­ urging the miners’ leaders to ar­ of the French C.P. adopted a ber of the Central Committee of bitrate the issues involved. government." (N. Y. Times, Dec. 6. The debates of the Parlia­ resolution (published in L ’Huma- the Mexican Communist Party 25). Even more revealing, is the ment on the war budget are very nite on December 7) which is was sent last summer by his article on the financial page of revealing on this score. Not only Cuba noteworthy not only for what it party to study in Soviet schools. the Times (Dec. 27). "This re­ was the war budget voted una­ omits, hut also for what is says. crudescence of labor unrest has He mysteriously disappeared and The Cuten military dictator, nimously, 603-0, in the Chamber Placing the onus for the rupture rum ours are afo ot th a t he was Colonel Fulgencio Batista is an for its ostensible motive demands Deputies, but it was the lar- on the S.P., the Stalinists delve apprehended as a “Trotskyist.” apt pupil of Gestapo methods. lor higher wages to meet the in gest in French history—the re­ into history to prove that the Evilio Bandillo never was a Not satisfied with the reign of crease in cost of living, but finan­ cord sum o f 12,934,000,000 C.P. has always been for the Trotskyist but, on the contrary, terror he has established on the cial observers wonder if it was francs, an increase of 17 Vs % unity of the proletariat. Going not engineered by extreme Deft his record was that of an out­ island, his government sends over the 1937 w a r budget. The back to the Congress of Tours in spoken supporter o f SEaUftlsfiST politicians with a view to creat­ total armaments budget, which 1.920 when the French C.P. was But the G .P.U . assassinates and sional gunmen among Cuban ing difficulties for the present includes the navy, the air and formed as the result of the adhe­ government and thus preparing persecutes not only revolution­ emigre circles. colonial defense, runs to well sion of a majority to the Third aries, but its own lackeys when a return to power of a Cabinet over 30,000,000,000 francs—i.e., International, the resolution goes All this was established by the dominated by Socialists and it suspects that the latter are M exican police in v e s tig a tin g ¡the over 1 billion dollars, about the on to say: "The working class not sincere in their protestations Communists." size of the American armaments of France has thus known the assassination of an emigre nam­ of servility to Stalin. ed Ton-ado. One of the suspects budget. And when one considers hard proof of the split, which * W * Two Alternatives Be­ the size and population of France, the C. P-, fo r its p a rt, has never apprehended was classified as “ a fore Bourgeoisie the figure is staggering. It would considered as definitive." This is The insolence of American and well-known Cuban gunman with correspond to considerably over the clearest expression of the British oil interests in Mexico very bad antecedents." The po­ reached new heights when they Obviously, if the strike wave 5 billion dollars on the part of Stalinist line that the Third In­ lice discovered on his person cre­ gathers momentum for as long American imperialism, which ternational should never have announced that they w ill not ac­ dentials from the Batista govern­ as a week, the French revolution, even our jingoists haven’t begun been formed and thus there cept any government decision ment. One other suspect testified granting the workers more than that the Cuban government, whose temp’s has been extremely to reach. should be organic unity with the 13 m illion pesos in wage increases. slow, w ill enter a new stage. The In the debates, none (no "So­ Second International—naturally, through the national Chief of French bourgeoisie must then cialist" or “Communist") even on a reformist program. This in spite of the fact that a Police, Pedaza, was responsible choose one of two alternatives. dreamed of questioning the need government commission investi­ for the murders of Torrada and gating the financial status of Either they will decide to crush for strenthening to the utmost Role of C. P. in Strike a number of other exiles. the workers by force, using the the national defense of French Wave army and the fascists; or, they imperialism. When Daladier, the will drift along for a while with Wjar Minister, declared: "The Reports on the strike wave in­ the current, make a few conces­ eyes o f the a rm y are fixed on dicate that the Stalinists are sions, and then call upon their the frontiers and not m political supporting it; or, at least, not agents in the labor movement to s trife , he was cheered on all i opposing it. There are two im- Excellent Gifts swindle the workers out of their benches. No, the only question | portant reasons for this: (1) the gains. This would mean the for­ was why so much money had to ' membership of the C.P. is ba­ mation of a Blum-Thorez go­ be spent on armaments, so that sically revolutionary in France. for yourself or others vernment, where the Stalinists the balancing of the budget was ! They are the ones on strike. In would bear the brunt of the dirty being threatened. | order not to lose the support of work, i.c., the execution of the Here, the summary of the de­ its following, and also to counter­ orders of the French bourgeoisie. bates printed in the Paris I.e act the exposures of Barmine, RUSSIA In the event of a protracted strike'itemps, 0f December 1, is amaz- etc., the C.P. is forced to go movement, the latter is indubit- jngly clear and most revealing, along now—the better to strangle Twenty Years After ably the more likely alternative., “xhe chief factor in the increase the movement in the end. as For one thing, the fascist move- L f the credits demanded by the B lum did in 1936. By V I C T O R SERGE rnent is by no means ready to \ Minister of War and National (2) There has been a veritable — $ — take power; and, even more im­ Defense fo r the 1938 budget as ¡ campaign in the bourgeois press 2.00 portant, the French capitalists, compared w ith th a t o f 1937 is against continuing the Franco- P H P r A copy of Serge’s From Lenin to Stalin wifi be and their British and American the rise of prices.... The price Soviet Pact. "It is only a scrap F-’ft J j u given away free with each order for Russia brothern, cannot afford, in view of a day’s food (for a soldier) ! of paper.... Russia is a dubious of the international situation, is being increased from 5 fr. 11 ally at best, etc." Thus, Stalin Twenty Years After which is received by Dec. TOth- civil war in France at the mo­ to 7 fr. (you can just imagine can very well use the French ment. what kind of slops the conscripts labor movement as blackmail will get, when you consider that against the French capitalists. WORLD REVOLUTION: 1917-1956 Possible Truce Only this is less than 25c per day for He will sell it out—yes, but for the average soldier—F.I..D.) for a price! Namely, the continuation The Rise and Fall of the Communist International Temporary 1938.... The coefficients of in­ of the French-Soviet alliance. by C. L. R. J A M E S There is a third possibility. crease are 62 per cent for meat, The entirely new feature of That the government will he able 100 per cent fo r wine, 140 per the situation, therefore, is that — $3.50 — to force through sufficient truces cent fo r u n ifo rm s (c lo th ), 165 the Stalinists appear likely to p p r r n i World Revolution by C- I>. R. James m^y to break the momentum of the per cent for boots. There is some­ play a dominant vole. They will u r j u L J f l L be purchased in a special combination thing still more serious...... the strike movement. This would en­ no longer be able to escape the with The Stalin School of Falsification by Leon Trot­ able it to stay in office for some increase in prices for shells and responsibility for their trcr.c.h- weeks, but would in no way bombs has gone up 109 per erous policies. The rank and file sky ($2.50: Both for $5.00 (Saving $1.00). change the basic analysis that cent...." And if the army has of the French proletariat is face Order From we have made. The strike wave to pay such increases for basic to face with its most crucial ex- can be temporarily postponed or necessities, imagine what the I perience. Inevitably, they will Pioneer Publishers diverted into so-called “ peaceful economic situation of the average I be forced to the conclusion that and orderly” channels, hut it is worker is, and you have the real only on the road of the Fourth 100 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK, N. Y. inherent in the entire economic cause of the strike wave!'. • International lies their salvation. Ja n u a ry 1, 1938 SOCIALIST APPEAL Local 544 Victory Over Wholesale WAA Workers Grocers Hailed by Minneapolis Labor Fight Ousting MINNEAPOLIS.—Local 544’s victory over the wholesale grocery bosses, sealed of N. Harrison by an agreement unanimously accepted by the strikers at their meeting of December 13, has been hailed by the whole labor movement here. Three Hundred Workers Storm Alliance Office “Drivers 544 Victory Marks® And Demand Open Hering; Force Lasser Big Advance. Blueblood Aristo­ cials who came over as part of torious enemy of decent workers’ To Adjourn Session cracy of Citizens Alliance Loses the agreement from which re­ standards of relief in this com­ in Short, Effective Strike.” These sulted the present Local 544. By m u n ity. NEW YORK.—Over three-hundred workers, militant headlines from the Minneapolis unanimous decision the Executive 6. “ A T ru c k D riv e r” says: members of the Workers’ Alliance, who will not tolerate Labor Review, organ of the Cen­ Board of the Union discharged “We say emphatically that the tral Labor Union and by no the Firottos.- Bellini was also Trotskyite Dunnes are agents of the Stalinist expulsion and disrupting squad heading the means too friendly to the Team­ gotten rid of and came into sharp the Citizens’ Alliance and the Alliance, stormed the City Office at 781 Broadway last sters’ Progressive leadership, conflict with Local 544 when it forces of reaction in Minnesota. Tuesday, demanding an open hearing on the case of Neil testify to the universal recogni­ took jurisdiction over all the This can be supported by a mass Harrison, Chairman of Local 15.®------— ------tion of the importance of this gasoline drivers. Previously these of evidence with which every vic to ry . drivers had been divided among working man in Minneapolis is Seeing- an aroused rank and file, litants. This Adjustment Com­ a weak CIO local, Bellini’s gaso­ familiar.” On the ground here the leadership, all the way up to mittee is composed of members on the Executive Committee who ‘‘Labor Review’s” Esti­ line station workers’ local, and in Minneapolis people rub then- Benjamin and Lasser, who were no union at all. eyes to read such ravings. It is themselves preferred the charges. mate of “C. I. 0 .” called in from Washington, found H ow get around the^e» facts a matter of public record that the th a t they were tre a d in g on very- “No Moscow Trials Stalinists and justify the amalgam between Teamsters’ leadership drove the the Firottos, Bellini, and the Citizens Alliance underground. thin ice and backed down mo­ The December 17 issue of the Here!” Dunnes? Very sintple for the The wholesale grocery bosses who mentarily on their rule or ruin Minneapolis Labor Review also The "charges" are not based Stalinist lie factory. They simp­ were beaten last week were the policy. marked the acceptance by that on fact at all, but arc mere ly ignore the facts and state the bluebloods of the Citizens Al­ organ for the first time of the blanket accusations with no bill opposite. "After the merger (by liance. progressives’ estimate of the of particulars attached to any which 544 was established) Ed 7. Hard put to build up any Lasser’s Offers StaltaisS-controlled CIO office one of them. Thus the ire of and A1 F iro tto , now a w a itin g kind of an amalgam, even a here: "Tactics of the CIO in the I those present at this so-culled trial for assaulting another union putrid one, the Stalinists again Twin Cities are not helping the The local bureaucrats were man with a gun, and another hearing can readily be under- CIO and it is a certainty that dig up the notorious letter sent completely cowed. Lasser, nation- stooc| when they shouted "No alleged Chicago mobster, Joe by the late Mayor Latimer to they are not helping the labor al Chairman of the Alliance was Moscow Trials here!” Bellini, became firmly entrench­ movement in general,” declared the Department of Justice, ask­ ed in Local 544 as ‘organizers’ and put forward as the spokesman, i The demands of the rank and the Review in its leading edi­ ing for aid in smashing the part of the Trotskyist machine." Evidently, not wishing- a repe-|fi'e al'e simple: torial. “ It does not seem possible Teamsters’ union. That letter Not a single mention of the oust­ national CIO leaders are aware of was the most flagrant strike tition in New York Citv of what 1 '■ -W open hearing-. ing- o f the F iro tto s and B e llin i! Twin City CIO policies.” Thus Breaking action ever taken by lias occurred elsewhere in the 2. A Bill of Particulars, item­ 4. The screaming absurdity of Latimer—but the Stalinists vouch izing in detail, what, when, where, officially the entire labor move­ country, with rank and file mem­ the article signed by "A Truck for its accuracy! how these things with which ment here stands opposed to the bers dropping- out by the thous- union wrecking and frame-up Driver" which obviously was Harrison is charged, occurred. j ands, and major splits occurring policy of the Stalinist machine. written by Harry Raymond in “Explaining” Thugs 3. An adjustm ent committee, ■ The Minnesota State Electrical New York. The "Truck Driver" against the bureaucratic domi- that is not stacked. That excludes S. The Stalinist conception of Workers Council, composed of 1 proves his thorough fam iliarity nation of the Alliance by the Sta- people who have themselve tin* united front: "the public, all the electrical workers’ union- with the internal mechanisms of iinist purges, Lasser offered what brought the charges, which is labor, civic organizations, church of Minnesota, last week adopted Local 544 by saying, "They con­ he thought was a compromise. elementary working class proce­ people, merchants"—class treach- a resolution declaring that, the tro l Local 544 w ith o u t dem ocratic First he offered that the frame- dure. baas-fitaliuist slanders against procedure. The Executive Board |eryl up charges against Harrison be These demands are what the ! 9. The Stalinists can't quite Pat Corcoran "constitute a foul appoints the stewards; the stew­ heard before the entire City Cen­ Progressive Group is fighting make up their minds how to ex­ slander on the bona-fide labor ards elect the Executive Board." tral Committee, which was shout­ for, for all who are facing and plain the fact that, despite three movement and its martyred offi­ Imagine handing this stuff out to ed down by the ran k and file have faced the bureaucratic fist of years of systematic slander and cer and shield the real perpetra­ Minneapolis workers at the mo­ present as being unconstitutional. the Stalinists of the Alliance, in so attempted frame-ups, the Trots- tors of this dastardly crime.” ment when the election campaign He offered another proposal to far as expulsions are concerned. kyites remain the leadership of is in full blast in the union, the be taken back and considered by the Teamsters. On the same page An Act of Despair membership meeting having- the group concerned, the Pro­ they give three different explana­ Disregards Needs of made nominations last week! gressive Group of the Alliance As the whole labor movement tions: (a) gangster terrorism; Jobless and Local 15, to the e ffe ct th a t moved to isolate and condemn (b)wildest demagogy and radical Queer Allies Brother Harrison and those (the With thousands and thousands the Stalinist frame-up artists, talk; (c) undemocratic regime in rank and file) supporting him of unemployed recently removed the Stalinists resorted to a des­ 5. Having no friends in the the union. The one thing they choose 50 and those (the bureau­ from industry because of the perate measure to keep then- labor movement, the Stalinists can’t even mention, however, is crats) bringing the charges, new business "recession," with forces together. A special Min­ find like-minded allies among- the the enormous growth of the union choose another 50, and the trial thousands waiting weeks on end nesota edition of the Daily Work­ preachers. It is almost impossible and the five-state North Centra! be held before these combined to get on relief; with mass er dated December 1G devoted to convey to outsiders how mad District Drivers Council and the 1.00 representatives. Again this misery facing the unemployed, more than two solid pages to the the Stalinists arc when they pub­ perfect record of winning strikes. was shouted down by the militants lhe leadership is more concerned most insanely slanderous attack- lish an article quoting- at length This will give a picture of the present, \\ho demanded an open with disrupting the organization, on the Teamsters’ leadership the Reverend George Mecklen- new Stalinist frame-up here. hearing at which no rank and with expelling m ilitant elements, which has yet appeared. berg as supporting their proposal Needless to say, the Daily Work­ filer would be excluded. than fighting against the admi­ for a judicial investigation of er did not publish a single word The Stalinist stuff is on about With this, Lasser demanded nistration at the relief bureau, the trade union movement. Meck- about the wholesale grocery the intellectual level of a shot that Harrison clear the hall, since who hold the life and death of lenberg is perhaps the most no- s trik e . of dope. Apparently the stuff is he (Lasser) obviously had no in­ the unemployed in their hands. really written for people outside fluence over the unemployed as­ They, the bureaucrats, are more of this area who might not know sembled, and he then declared concerned with not embarrasing any of the facts. A few examples the session over. La Guardia, than with seeing w ill suffice: that the unemployed are properly 1. Faked pictures: Pat Corco­ Accusers as Judges! fed, housed and clothed. ran with a sinister scar drawn Only an aroused and vigilant: across his face; Bill Brown with RUSSIA membership can stem the shame­ hard lines put on his face, and a TWENTY YEARS AFTER The Adjustment Committee ful and disruptive activities of leering Vincent Dunne.* which is to hear the charges, is the leadership. The record of 2. A big picture of a sign of by Victor Serge If you want the bitter and composed exclusively of Stalin­ these m isleaders m ust be made the N o rth e rn States Power Co. real truth about Stalin’s ists since the resignation of | known to every unemployed Brother Charles. Mack, who re under the heading "A Power Be­ Translated by Russia—if you want to quit worker in the United States. A cen^ly resigned from that com­ hind Leach," under which is Max Shachtman kidding yourself—this is record of constant ruin of every written: “ Public utilities in Min­ mittee in protest against the Published to coincide with the book. Max Eastman movement which they head. A neapolis were the main backers frame-up and expulsion campaign record of playing political foot­ the 20th anniversary of the of Mayor Leach’s campaign, but being conducted against the mi- ball at the expense of the unem­ Russian Revolution, th is the Dunne brothers, Trotskyists, I think that this book de­ ployed. had their hands in it too." All hook is a clear, vigorous serves to be w idely read, that is wrong with this amalgam picture of present day Rus­ widely discussed. Without is that the Northern States Power sia, and a survey of the past doubt, it will be one of the ARE YOU Co. was licked in a s trik e and its twenty years there, by a most challenging books of R E A D Y Ring In The New Year employees organized 100 per cent man who actually lived the the present publishing sea­ by the same progressive leader­ Revolution and was an active son. James T. Farrell FOR WAR? with a revolutionary spirit ship which the Stalinists are p a rtic ip a n t in the events he JUST PUBLISHED at the only city-wide party!! a tta ckin g ! so vividly describes. I have read Victor Serge’s Leah Dillon’s Studio Book with absorbed inter­ The Firotto-Bellini 137 E. 13th Street $2.00 est. It should be read by By the National Executive New Years Eve. — Dec. 31st Amalgam all who wish' to understand Pioneer Publishers Committee of the Young at 9 o’clock 3. The S ta lin is t am algam has the development hnd pres­ Peoples Socialist League. as its link Ed and A1 Firotto and 100 Fifth Avenue ent conditions of the U. S. Drinks Entertaivm nit Joe Bellini, all of whom long ago N E W YO R K S. R . John Dewey Food separated from Local 544—they Order now — 5c per copy A D M IS S IO N 50 cents. were part of the Local 500 offi- 3c in bundles of 10 or more 4 SOCIALIST APPEAL January 1, 1938

selves and their robber interests in the Far East, SOCIALIST APPEAL which are essentially similar to those of Japan. They want .to stop the Japanese imperialist 1 Vol. II. - No. 1. Saturday, Jan. 1, 1938 robbers from b'agging China, so that they will Kuomintang Decrees Published every week by the |pe able to bag China themselves. SOCIALIST APPEAL PUBLISHING ASS’N. The struggle, now confined to the diplomatic Death For Strikers Published at 116 U n iv e rs ity Place, N. Y. field, but moving rapidly in the direction of war, Subscriptions: $2.00 per year; $1.00 for 6 is a struggle between rival camps of imperialist ------By Lo Sen. ------robbers. months. Foreign: $2.50 per year. Bundle order The workers of America, of Britain, France, Cut off from North China and utilize the strength of the masses 3 cents per copy. Single copies 5 cents. Japan, Holland and the entire world have nothing- the rich coastal provinces and through guerrilla warfare, the A ll checks and money orders should be made to gain from this tussle between the imperialist threatened with early loss of the only effective tactic that can now out to the Socialist Appeal. bandits. Whichever camp is victorious, the work­ Cafiton-Hankow railway which is j be pursued. But he also intends Entered as second-class matter September 1, ers lose. now his chief source of munitions to see to i t th a t the movement supply from abroad, Chiang Kai- is kept within the limits of mi­ 1937 at the post office at New York, New York, Every class conscious worker desires to aid shek is m aking a new bid fo r litary action alone. under the A c t o f M arch 3, 1879. China’s struggle against Japan, since every blow more effective m ilitary aid from Chiang remembers that ten ------— ^ struck at imperialism advances the cause of the the Soviet Union. years ago the weapon of mass exploited and oppressed everywhere. COOPERATION — WITH WHOM ? The Kuomintang leadership power placed him in a position But the only entente which can effectively aid has already proved that it can to command terms from the im­ (Continued from page 1) China’s struggle and at the same time serve the organize only defeats. It has perialists. He wants to make Holland! What are the "great stakes for peace" interests of the proletariat is an entente of the proceeded from the beginning equally limited use of that which they hold in the Far East? These stakes international working class directed against the with the expectation of defeat, weapon again. And we know in are the colonial territories of French Indo-China entire world system of imperialism. with the hope t>f putting up advance that the Chinese Stalin­ and the Dutch colonies in Indonesia, where hor­ The 'bourgeois press in this country deceives enough of a show of resistance ists, having already abandoned rible oppression and exploitation of the native the workers by proclaiming the "peaceful" role of to win Anglo-American interven­ their agrarian program and peoples prevails and where agitation against the American imperialism, thus preparing them for tion or, that failing, to elicit pledged themselves not to mobi­ imperialist overlords is punished with ruthless recruitment in the coining war. from the imperialist invaders lize the workers in their own "reasonable” term s fo r peace. interests, will become once again savagery. The French imperialists have, too, an un- Pacifists of every stripe help in the deception These calculations have fallen his tools. cviablc record of oppression and plunder in Morocco, by creating the illusion that war can be avoided through. The heroic soldiers who Yet the struggle against in Equatorial Africa and in Syria, where the bomb­ under capitalism. They sponsor such enterprises gave an indication at Shanghai Japanese imperialism can and ing plane is no stranger. It was only a few short as the Ludlow amendment, which, by making a for three month? of what might will become effective only when war declaration a popular decision through a re­ years ago that France fought a predatory war in be done in self-defense if pro­ the masses are mobilized, not Morocco, a war accompanied by all the frightfulness ferendum, seeks to insure American participation perly led and supplied and if ani­ under the banners of the Chinese with which Japanese imperialism is now scourging only in "just” wars. mated by national revolutionary bourgeoisie, but under the banner China. The Stalinists brazenly line up behind the im­ j determination, have been aban­ of their own struggle in their And our own very "peaceful'’ American im­ perialist government at Washington and call upon doned and betrayed. own interest. The present situa­ perialists? Can we forget the rape of the Philip­ Roosevelt "to move boldly forward, as the Ame­ tion offers incomparable oppor­ Policies of Defeat pines, of Haiti, Nicaragua and other Caribbean rican people desire it, to join hands with the peace­ tunities for the revival of a re­ and Latin American countries, including Mexico? ful nations of the w orld...." for war against The collapse of the defenses, volutionary mass movement and What, too, of the predatory activities of the Fire'«- Japan. the strewing of helpless masses the emergence of a revolutionary stone Rubber Company in the little African "co­ We. too, wish to castigate the Japanese impe­ of soldiery in the path of the party which will know how to lony” of Liberia? rialists, to help drive them out of China, thus Japanese troops, have had then- break the grip of the foreign There is no need to go so far afield in order aiding the Chinese masses in the struggle for result. Carrying out wholesale exploiters by driving the native exploiters to the wall at the same to expose the blatant hypocrisy of those "demo­ the independence of their country and for their massacres in town after town, tim e. cratic" imperialist powers which now come for­ social emancipation. This task cannot be entrust­ the Japanese have swiftly ex­ tended their sway over the entire Road to Victory ward to champion "peace" against the Japanese ed to the American imperialists, who pursue ex­ Yangtze delta and with the im­ imperialist plunderers. Has not be the entire history clusively their own robber aims in China. The Chinese bourgeoisie is re­ minent completion of the oc­ of China during the past century been a story Can we consider entrusting the struggle for sisting the Japanese invasion be­ cupation of Shantung province cause it realizes that Japanese of the despoliation of .a great country by these peace to the imperialist government at Washing­ they will hold all of the north imperialism w ill leave it no shred very powers, of the oppression and terrorization ton, when we know that war is inseparable from and the coast from Shanhaik- of its . nominal sovereignty and of the Chinese peoples ? cap italism ? wan to beyond Shanghai. no corner to participate in the Can we for a moment dream of entrusting the Can we forget the Opium Wars in the first These easy victories l)ave made exploitation of the Chinese defense of the interests of the American workers half of the nineteenth century, the suppression it increasingly impossible for iñásses.*‘~M!ñlí?r”'CffiSttg' Ol-STH'K of the Taipings by the "ever-victorious army” of to the Roosevelt administration ? Chiang Kai-shek to sue for terms made this quite plain recently the American Genera! Ward, the shameful inter­ How, then, can it be argued, as the Stalinists now. He will seek instead the when she. wrote that Japan national m ilitary expedition which ravaged Peking I do, that the working class of this country should cover of Moscow and the Chinese "wants to make coolies of us at the beginning of the present century? Coining- j support Roosevelt in a war against Japan on the Communist leaders for his all.” But the events of the last down to more modern times, we might recall the ground that Roosevelt would be defending "peace" treacherous misleadership of the six months, certainly, if not the Nanking Road massacre in Shanghai on May 30, and at the same time serving the Chinese struggle Chinese defense against the in­ entire history of the last 15 years, vaders. The latter, instead of re­ 1925, when British imperialist police mowed down for liberation? have proved the incapacity of the lentlessly exposing him and of­ demonstrating- students and workers, followed by The cause of peace in general, and the cause Chinese bourgeoisie to wage an fering the masses a banner of a similar massacre at Shameen in Canton. of China in particular, can be served only by the effective struggle against impe­ their own around which they can rialism, even in its own behalf. Should »’e forget the British naval bombard­ methods of the revolutionary class struggle, by rally, will rally to Chiang and The revolutionary party in ment of Wanhsien, Yangtze River port, in 1926? f uniting the workers against imperialism in all enable him to strengthen his China today will collaborate in Or the bombardment of Nanking- by British, Ame- ( countries. -| > grip on the power that remains the m ilitary struggle with Chiang rican, Italian and Japanese warships in the follow­ The American workers can aid China’s cause to him . Kai-shek or anybody else but it in g year? only with their own forces, by stopping shipments A “Left Turn” will not abdicate for a single It is the imperialist authors of all these un­ of munitions and supplies to Japan, by preventing instant its complete political in­ speakable crimes against weaker peoples who now the landing of Japanese goods in this country. For this, however, Chiang will dependence and its right to pro­ don the cap of righteousness and come forward Against the imperialists we raise the revolution­ have to make a “left” turn. The pagate its own ideas and its own to castigate the Japanese imperialist bandits! ary battle cry: "Down with imperialist war!” first steps in this direction have political program and to subject They have no desire whatever to save China Against the social patriotic lackeys of" the im­ already been taken. Sun Fo, son the military and political leader­ from Japan for China’s sake and they say so. perialists we proclaim: “ No confidence in the im­ of Sun Yat-sen and one of the ship of the bourgeois Kuomin­ Their concern is over Japan’s "cruel and illicit perialist government at Washington! Only work­ most unscrupulous politicians in tang to pitiless exposure before the Kuomintang hierarchy, has the masses. This road and this warfare against friendly nations"—meaning them­ ers’ action can preserve peace and aid China!" been reported sent to Moscow to road alone can lead to the defeat see Stalin himself in an effort of Japanese imperialism. to strike a new bargain. For Democratic Rights Wang Ching-wei and Chang Chicago Workers Aid China Fight; In China the workers have to Chun, two of his aides most fight back against decrees that closely identified with pro-Japan- condemn them to death if they Urge Independent Labor Action ism in the Kuomintang appara­ try to prevent the bosses from tus, are being dropped. Chu Teh, loading the cost of the war on CHICAGO, 111.— The Chicago to send delegates to do-nothing Mao Tse-tung and Chow En-lai, of manufacture any goods com­ their shoulders. They have to leading Stalinists, are to be given Gffiee Workers Local of the conferences like the Conference ing from or destined for Japan. fight for the broadest democratic posts in Chiang Kai-shek’s go­ United Office and Professional for Peace and Democracy recent­ “2. That we fight for the ex­ rights. They have to organize vernment. Wang Min, a leading ly held in Pittsburgh. Confront­ tension of this boycott in all their own ranks solidly enough .Workers Union, C .I.O . affiliate, Communist Party spokesman, ed by the left-wing Socialists countries of Europe, by the trade to fight against the inevitable be­ gt its last meeting adopted a re­ told an interviewer in Hankow with the first concrete plan for union movement. trayal by those who now lead this week: "We are satisfied with solution on behalf of the Chinese action on the part of organized "3. That we support a supple­ them. They have to be inculcated the present policy of stubborn people in their struggle against labor, their only contribution was mentary m ilitant consumers’ boy­ with the sharpest distrust and Japanese aggression. In opposi­ a proposal to postpone action on cott, which includes the organi­ resistance." suspicion of the Kuomintang B u t Chiang is m aking fyis tion to the policy of the Stalin­ this resolution. The union mem­ zation of salespeople not to sell, leaders who for ten years drain­ ists, who advocate following bership, nevertheless, decided to as well as the organized refusal "left" turn in characteristic ed them of their life’s blood and manner. He will lengthen the .President Roosevelt’s "anti-Japan­ consider the resolution—and act­ to buy, Japanese goods. now, with the help of the Sta­ leash by which he now holds the ese campaign,” the resolution ed overwhelmingly for its adop­ "4. That we oppose any at­ linists demand their docile sub­ correctly states that labor must, tion. tempt to stop shipment of war Chinese Stalinists at his heels. mission under the hammer blows by its own organized strength After explaining the situation ■materials_and general supplies to But at the same time he has al­ of the Japanese imperialist rob­ and independently of the United in China, the resolution proposes China, no matter whence such at­ ready served advance notice that bers. States government, organize a the following action: tempts may originate. definite limits remain. In this country we have to ex­ boycott of producers who will "Be it hereby resolved: “Copy of this resolution to be Death For Strikers tend the inadequate weapon of a refuse to use in the process of “1. That we support and act­ sent to the International Office of consumers’ boycott into a work­ manufacture, to load, ship or un­ ively extend a producers’ boycott the UOPWA, to all locals of the A decree militarizing Chinese ers’ boycott,, refusal to load or load, war materials destined for on Japanese war materials and UOPWA, to the C.I.O., to its industry was adopted last week handle Japanese goods and mu­ Japan, or any Japanese articles Japanese goods in general, said local organizations, as well as to by Chiang’s government. Its key nitions and supplies going to used in this country. boycott to be conducted by the A.F. of L. local organizations. provision is imposition of the Japan. This is the most effective For months, the Stalinists have trade unions, and to take the Resolution to be published in the death penalty for workers who way we can help the Chinese been showing their "sympathy" j¡form of refusal to load, transport, press of our local for general strike or agitate for strikes. In masses in their struggle and at ¡for China by getting the union j¡unload or use as raw materials publicity. ” other words, Chiang- hopes to!i the same time advance our own. January 1, 1938 SOCIALIST APPEAL 5 C. P. Repudiates Revolutionary Aims PREFERS TO STRENGTHEN EXISTING SOCIAL ORDER

By Harold Draper The outstandng result of the hearings was the open­ ness of the C. P. repudiation, not only of a revolution­ ary position on war and a host of other questions, but on the elementary question of the revolutionary overthrow of capitalism versus the peaceful introduction of Social- ism through the ballot. This re-®“ pudiation itself ‘is certainly not W illiam Z. Foster, American lead­ new, but. the frankness in stat­ er, which gave a vivid but ima­ ing- it is. ginary description of the over­ The chief witnesses for the throw of the Government, culmi­ CP were Phil Frankfeld and nating in the arrest of the Pre­ Earl Browder. Right off, both sident and his cabinet. The pas­ objected to the investigation on sage, Frankfeld said, was writ­ the ground that the legislative ten years ago during the infancy order really didn’t apply to them. of the party. It would not come They weren’t "subversive.” from the pen of Foster now, the j)arty having reached either ado­ “Strengthen Present lescence oi- m aturity. Communists, Economic Democracy” lie said, have toned down a bit." (Globe. Sept. 30.) Which puts it "The CP," said Frankfeld, m ildly. "does not believe that this order— Browder too said that Foster investigating Communist, Nazi had changed his mind since let­ and) other subversive propaganda ting his third-period imagination within the state—applies to it. run riot; it was “outmoded doc­ We do not wish to overthrow the trine, written in the heated in­ Government from its founda­ fancy of the party," that is, in­ tions, nor to overthrow existing cluding- the time when the move­ society by force. In fact we seek ment was led by that enfant ter­ to strengthen the present eco­ rible, Lenin. nomic democracy on a firmer, more equitable foundation Only Allegiance to (Globe, Sept. 30.) American Flag Pressed further, Frankfeld shouted: "I never said I believ­ Browder, in addition, swore by ed in the overthrow of the go­ Washington and Jefferson, "that vernment by force or other­ he owed his allegiance only to w ise..." (Ibid.) the American flag.” (Post, Oct. -ftP-The senators kep t com ing 1.) back -'to- this time' and again, W h ile B row der said th a t he wringing literally dozens of expected to achieve socialism more aiid more unequivocal state­ through the process of elections, ments from the two C .P. lead­ it seemed that this did not ne­ ers. The Herald, October 1, re­ cessitate even the election of p o rts: Communists. "Frankfeld went so “ Stoutly denying Communists far as to say the party only ran are plotting to overthrow the its own candidates when it was governm ent by violence, he unable to support a libéral can­ (Browder) insisted the revolu­ didate of some other party...” tion, which is inevitable in his (Globe, Sept. 30.) ‘Robinson-Rubens’ Frameup Part opinion, will reach its climax One of the legislators was an with the communists taking over internationalist. "R ep. P h ilip control of the government through Sherman of Somerville asked of G P U Spy-Scare Plots In U. S. the process of elections.” Browder if Communists advocate world revolution. ‘No’, replied For “Peaceful” Changes the witness.” (Post, Oct. 1.) (Continued from page 1) A. Rubens,. Interviewed by the made or authorized any state­ What if the C.P. and its act­ Daily News, Ribbe was quoted ments suggesting that they had “ Frankfeld said the agitation opposition to imperialist foreign ivities were illegalized by the as follows: reason to think that the "Robin­ of his party is a peaceful agita­ p o licy m u st be silenced, the government? Would they resort son-Rubens” people were Trots­ tion and does not seek the over­ Kremlin is apparently busily rig­ to illegal methods? The Commis­ Hearst ‘Correction’ kyites. Asked whether he was throw of the government,” (Post, ging—not without help from sion wanted to know. prepared to make such a state­ Oct. L ) some American newspapers in­ “ Relatives felt a little disturb- ment at this time, the spokes­ The "Confession" (pamphlet cluding Hearst—the fanciest of d... and blamed Rubens for in­ A Party F it for Red- man declared he had no basis for issued by C.P..) states: “We its series of Oppenheim mystery teresting Ruth in radical move­ making any such statement and "Communists believe in accomp­ Baiters fram e-ups. ments. I don’t know which Com- that he would not make it. lishing great social changes peace­ nunist group—the party in pow- The "Confession” had stated The chief goat, apparently, is The New York press seemed fully and through democratic r or the T ro ts k y ite s — he was that “Wé have never believed in to be the “ T ro tsky ite ” move­ pretty well convinced that the processes.” (Page 24.) riendly with.” working as a conspirative organi­ ment, but there is no lack of in­ The Hearst reporter was not “Robinsons” were, in fact, the Although the Stalinists made zation and never will accept the dications that Prosecutor Vish- satisfied with this statement, Rubens couple, and that they no qualifications to these state­ position of conspirators.” In ef­ nsky will shortly “prove” in a and “corrected” it in a manner had sailed for Europe on Oct. 16 ments, the senators suspected fect the Commission asked, Moscow court by the usual “con­ on the Rex, using the Rubens mental reservations. “ Rep. Julian fession” method that among the worthy of Hearst’s only rival, What, never?” and at the hear­ passport. Then, according to the asked Frankfeld if he did not Japanese spies in this country the Daily Worker. Hearst’s ings Frankfeld answered... press, they went to Russia, pre­ believe some ‘form of force and are not only the Marxist oppo­ Mirror quoted Ribbe as follows: "He said the Communists would sumably as Rubens, since the violence is unavoidable.’ ‘No, nents of imperialist war, but "The fam ily didn't like the idea not hesitate to employ ‘semi­ Soviet government denies it is­ sir,’ was the reply.” (Globe, Oct. every opponent of collective se­ of her (Ruth) eloping with Ru­ legal’ methods to continue its sued any visas to Robinsons. 5), Just to make sure, the se­ curity, Christian pacifists, and bens, who was thoroughly versed activities in the event the state When they registered at the Mos­ nators stuck before him a quo­ “objectively” even the two-hun­ in Trotskyist ideas”. government should disregard the cow hotel, however, they used the tation from Browder’s old writ­ dred odd Congressmen who sup­ Just to make everything per­ constitutional guarantees which Robinson name and passports. ings that “history does not show port the utopian Ludlow amend­ fect, the Mirror’s story on Dec. now permit the Communist party W hat has not been explained a single instance where govern­ ment. 29 included the following inter­ to function openly and legally. esting “revelation”: yet by the New York reporters is mental power has been trans­ As long ago as tw o weeks the Subsequently he asked that the “The Justice Department why these people, who had two ferred by peaceful means.” No­ New York World-Telegram stat­ record be extended to include his agents, it was learned, are prob­ sets of pretty phony passports, thing daunted, Frankfeld replied, ed that a Federal investigator on denial that the party would em­ ing reports that Rubens received chose to use the one in the name “ We hope that all historical pre­ the “ Robinson-Rubens” case (like ploy ‘illegal’ methods.” (Herald, a call to an anti-Stalinist confe­ of Robinson—a name which as cedents will be broken." (Herald, the Soviet Embassy, whom this Oct. 5.) rence in Latvia—a gathering, early as July had been labeled Oct. 5) paper also quoted) had sugges­ No wonder Frankfeld said to probably, of Trotskyist forces— in the world press as "wanted by ted that the prisoners in Moscow the Commission, after testifying: and that it was imperative for the police" in Moscow. Unless, Skeletons from C. P. might very well be Trotskyites. "Perhaps some of you would like him to attend.” of course, they were helping The notion did not catch hold for Closet to join the party after healing Vishinsky in his little arrange­ some days, but early this week the discussion.” (Globe, Sept. 30.) Authoritative Denial ments. The official Soviet ex­ As further evidence of then- the New York Herald-Tribune planation, given jointly by the reading, the senators pulled out (This is the second of a scries of echoed the allegation, again put­ Interviewed by an Appeal re­ prosecutor and the “confessing" another skeleton in the C.P. articles by comrade Draper on ting it in a Federal man’s mouth. porter, the New York spokesman prisoners will surely be juicy— closet, and rattled it before Frank- the Massachusetts Investiga­ On Dec. 29 the Federal men of the Department of State of unless the surprise edge is taken feld: “ Specifically he denied a tion. Another article will ap­ turned up a Mr. Richard J. Ribbe the U. S., declared that neither off by more preliminary an­ passage from a pamphlet by pear in a subsequent issue.) of Jamaica, a cousin of Mrs. A. the Department nor its men had nouncements in the Hearst press. G SOCIALIST APPEAL January 1* 193&

INTERNATIONAL NOTES G.P.U. Plans Framing French Press on Soviet “Election"—“Fathers’ ' of Stalinist Constitution Now “Traitors”— French Trotskyists in World’s Mounting Armaments. By John G. Wright Echoes of Stalin’s Fake Elections Stalin’s plebiscite met with polite but pointed razzing in the editorial pages of the world capitalist ("democratic.") press. The Secret Fascist Plots fraud was so brazen and crude that the bourgeois editors stood only to gain by understatement. It goes without saying that they did By Pierre Naville not let the opportunity slip to cover Marxism in general and Bol­ shevism in particular with the muck that Stalin pumps out of PARIS, France.—The clandestine arming of the^ uprising in South-Western France Moscow. French fascist parties has never been a secret for anyone. ill support of an uprising prepar­ The noteworthy thing is that the French partners of Stalin in The participation of the heads of the army in this enter­ ed in Catalonia by the ‘Fifth the People’s Front treachery have finally unbuttoned their lips. prise has also been quite obvious. As to the complicity of Colum n’ as w e ll as by the P. Even Le Populaire broke on this occasion its non-aggression policy O.U.M. elements and the anar­ toward Stalin, dropping its pretext of “ diplomatic consideration” to the “ People’s Front” government in this conspiracy ch is ts .1’ criticize the electoral frame-up. The French social patriots had against the working masses, that®- For the G.P.U., the P.O.U. covered Stalin’s judicial frame-ups with silence. Now that it is has boon just as patent, if not Attempt to Smear 4th M. represents the "Spanish no longer expedient (or possible) to keep mum, Populaire virtuously quite as avowed. Patent, because Trotskyists.'' Ce Soir launches declares that Stalinism liafe “succeeded quite convincingly in de­ the arms depots have been ex­ International forth with this dastardly calum­ monstrating to the populace the grave personal risk every citizen posed many times for more than Their first attempt: In L’Hu- ny of the P.O.U.M . at the very incurs by adhering to the opposition." a year (particularly by the So­ manitc of November 21, one of moment when the attempt to They dare even to make reference (somewhat belatedly) to the cialist Populaire and the Com­ its editors writes: "One finds (in implicate the P.O.U.M. in an frame-ups. Says Populaire: “ The January trial of the so-called munist L’Humanite) without any the conspiracy) the Trotskyist espionage trial in Spain has en­ parallel center-1 (i.e., Radek-Piatakov trial—J.GAV.); the June government action; because the provocateurs, headed by Trots­ tirely collapsed. The G.P.U. execution of Tukhachevsky and seven other generals, the purge Suretc National (the federal ky". This sheet writes thus with­ does not give up its aim very police) has been kept well-in­ out the slightest attempt to jus- easily. To implicate revolutionists in the party, the trade unions, the Komsomol, the Comintern, the formed in the matter, thanks to ify such a statement. Pure calum- in counter-revolutionary enter­ administration, the journalistic and literary circles; the havoc its stoolpigeons, spies and provo- :ny! In what role arc thcy fOUnd ? prises controlled and fostered by wrought in the so-called 'federated' republics-—all this nips in cateurs—without any interven On what occasion? Under which the government—with the classic the bud the very possibility of an opposition’s crystallizing." tion on the part of the ministry; circum stances ? police technique of the bourge­ Concludes the Populaire: "...the system of Soviet (read, Sta­ because fascist propaganda and In reality, although no Trots­ oisie—there is the aim! linist) elections has nothing in common with democracy despite organization have been develop­ kyists are to he found mixed up the fact that the Soviet government has had the gall to declare ing in the army with the support in the fascist conspiracies, the La Rocque Agrees its electoral law ‘the most democratic in the' world.’" of Daladiei the Minister of De- ¡ , r ,, „ ,T ,, ; agents of the G.P.U., on the Now that they have broken the negotiations for unity with fense. I t m ust also he rem arked th a t other hand, are not, probably, Stalin’s agents find themselves in the C.P., the French social-patriots declare that they "cannot but GovernmcntCo-mpiicity entirely absent from such a frame­ good company with La Rocque, view with disparagement the system of rule which is a complete work. It has already been proven in pursuing this aim. Here is a denial of democratic principles." P j z /.o di Borgo, Duseigncur, j that the leaders of the White statement made by the latter at Naturally, this cannot but widen the breach between Blum La Rocque and the others have Russians (Skobline, Kondratiev) j the Lyons Congress of the P.S.F. & Co. and S ta lin -G .P .U .-T h o re z & Co. been and still are preparing their and some elements in the Gesta­ (Petit Journal. November 2!)): torios without any restraint be- J p0, as well as in the French and If the safety of the country and 100 Per Cent for Stalin hind the hacks of Daladier Blum ,; Czechoslovakian police, are mem- the <)efensc of the republican in- 1 tommy and ( o. just as franco bers of the counter-revolutionary | stitutions ((!!) demand it. he to- The Stalinski electoral district in which Stalin himself chose Moia and the others prepared I police of Stalin. Why shouldn’t it ¿-other with his collaborators to run was in the nature of things destined to sot the record in getting out the vole. Nothing less than 100 per cent would do! When themselves under tne henevoamt have its men among the French will unmask the enterprises of eyes of Company», Azana, Ca- i fascists ? the anarchists tmd the Trotsky­ the zealous officials completed the count.of the.JbfoiRws, they were bal loro and Co. | Their second attempt: Ce Soir ists, associated with others, for slightly embarrassed to discover that Stalin had been elected "by All the "revelations about the | (the Stalinist evening paper in the purpose of making France more than 100 per cent. The official explanation is that voters in conspiracy show that the govern- . Paris) of November 30 writes: the charnel-house of their sava­ other districts seeking the "great honor" of voting for the beloved went, with the knowledge of the!-The aim of this military orga- gery. ’’ butcher flocked to the Stalinski district, where apparently the vote Socialist and Communist leaders, jnization (fascist groups in the Once more, by denouncing the was so secret that ballots could be cast even by those who were has tried to canalize fascist ac- : South-West of France) thus ap- enterprises of the provocateurs not registered there. tivity in continuing to play off pears to he very clear. It was a in advance, their failure will be one force against another as a! matter of provoking an armed1 assured. Stalinist Constitution Work of “Spies” Etc. balance fo r its e lf, a sort o f g a m e j------In F ebru ary 1935 a C o nstitutio na l Commission o f 29 was ap­ which can only result in the worst pointed to draft the Stalin Constitution. Of these "Founding- kind of catastrophe for the work­ Fathers," five have been officially reported shot as "enemies of ing class. At the same time, the A New Stalinist Crime: Pozzo di Borgo-LaRocquc trial the people;" one (Cherviakov) committed suicide; two are pre­ has displayed before the eyes of sumably in prison (Radek, tried and sentenced; Bukharin, re­ the public some Punch-and-Judy ported to have been sentenced and probably dead); one is reported secrets: the Radicals secretly The Murder of Januola a virtual prisoner (Litvinov); one is under a cloud (Petrovsky); subsidized La Rocque; Blum and nine are "missing11—leaving still to be accounted for, eight others Salcngro (the Socialist Minister PARIS, France.—The entire I taken another road, the three (Molotov, Voroshilov, L. Kaganovich, Zhdanov, Kalinin, Mikoyan, of Interior who committed sui­ French press has made public! young people took a mountain Ghibar, and Vishinsky) plus, of course, Stalin. cide about a year ago) negotiat­ the assassination by a Spanish | l oad bordering on the frontier In other words, the notorious Stalin Constitution was drafted (Negrin-Stalin) frontier guard, and penetrating Spanish territory ed with La Rocque regarding the by a Commission composed two-thirds of Germano-Japanese- of young Sebastian Januola, 18 in part of its course... The organization of the P.S.F. Fascist-Trotskyite-Bukliaririist etc. spies, wreckers, poisoners, years old, on French territory, three persons suddenly came (French Social Party—the newly restorers of capitalism, etc—that is, if you believe Stalin. form ed fa scist p a rty of La at St. Laurent de Cerdans. Jan-; head-on in front of three govern- Rocque) subsequent to the uola stopped bullets destined for ment guards who, finding them Fate of Austrian Revolutionists in U. S. S. R. pseudo-dissolution of the Croix Fons, a young Spaniard who on Spanish territory, asked them Early in 1.931 the heroic little army of COO Austrian socialists, de Feu (La Rocque’s military accompanied him. The latter for their papers. Fons being a members of the Schutzbund, went to the U.S.S.R. In a fea tu re organization) etc. *i escaped assassination. This crime Spaniard, they ordered him to | has aroused great indignation | follow them. Fons refused. Jua- article for December 15, the Daily Herald reports that "The men Role of G. P. U. among the population a'nd the nola began to insult the frontier who went to Russia full of enthusiasm are now trickling back in However, there is one o rg a n i­ Negrin government has been guards and to follow after Fons a steady flow anxious to go home to Austria where prison awaits zation which holds that these forced to arrest Corporal Martinez who had turned about and jump­ them." They are reported as leaving "of their own choice." The forced revelations about .fascist and two of his men (on December ed over into French territory. Daily Herald also reports that "at least 10 Austrian Socialists are conspiracy are of interest only 9) who w ill he tried in Barcelona. Juanola was at his side. A shot in prison" in the city of Kharkov. if they can bo made to com pro- But who are the real culprits rang out. He fell, fatally wound­ mi sie the revolutionary organiza­ in this crime? The Stalinists de­ ed." Cannon Balls, Cannon Balls, Jingle All Around!” The arrest of the murderers tions of the proletariat: that's signate themselves in this role The League of Nations adds to the prevailing spirit of "peace in a dispatch from Perpignan gives the lie to the fundamental the G.P.U. It is obvious that and good will on earth" (hailed so graciously by the Daily Worker) published in L’Humanite on De­ point of this impudent article: the facts revealed on different by issuing its Armaments Year Book for 1937. The world military- cember 7. Juanola and Fons were on French occasions by I.’Humanite were expenditure w hich in 1932 was estim ated a t -1,300,000,000 gold L'Humairite writes: territory which they had not at brought to its attention, partial­ dollars reached in 1937 the staggering total of 7,100,000,000 gold ly at least, by the G.P.U. But "It is reported from St. Lau­ all left (as the Havas corres­ dollars—with still greater expenditures itt store. These figures are there is onlv one thing that in­ rent de Cerdans that a young pondent attests). The Spanish terests the G.P.U. and its ! Frenchman, 18 years of age, Se- guards, commanded by Stalinists based on "official" budgets only, i. e., are far below the actual French lackeys: how to compro- 1 bastian Juanola, a farm worker leaders (Pozas, Bur-illo and their amounts invested in the impending war. The admitted amount is mise the Fourth International. from the Nautiila region, came successors) openly draw upon almost three times as much as the world military expenditure in In spite of all their strong de­ here last night at 7 o’clock, ac­ anyone who displeases Mr. Sta­ 1913, on the eve of the first world slaughter. Europe’s share is sires, the agents of Stalin have companied by his sister and a lin. The will of the Kremlin has approximately two-thirds of this total. The plans of the imperial­ not succeeded in linking the P. cousin from the neighboring vil­ become their task. The dispatch ists in the sphere of war preparations may be gathered from the O.I. (the French party of the lage of Coustouges. The cousin, in L’Humanite is an admission armament budget of "democratic" Britain which calls for: Fourth International) either to one Fons, a native of Massanet of this fact. Fons and Juanola 1936- 7 ...... £188 million have been reviled because they the "Etoile " bombings or to the de Yabrenys (Spain) and a m ili­ 1937- 8 ...... £278 million belonged to the P. 0. U . M . Sta­ first investigation of the "Cagou- tant in the Trotskyist P O.U.M-. 1938- 9 ...... £340 m illio n iards," the so-called "Hooded whose actions in favor of the re­ lin orders: exterminate the Trots- 0 In 1913-14, Britain's war budget was £77 million. bels are known, had deserted the kyites! And the guards obey: Ones." The provocateurs are now Browdc-r and Co. strangely forgot to extend the greetings of once more taking up the charge ranks of the Republican Army they shoot. One more crime—one the season to the greatest beneficiaries of Santa Clf.r.s. (and the in two articles which must be some time ago and fled to France* more warning. It is time to or­ G.P.U.). immediately unmasked. "Although they could have ganize for self-defense! January X, 1938 SOCIALIST APPEAL 7 In The California Labor World

San Francisco Labor Council W est Coast Labor Notes

Harry Bridges, West Coast calling in the government to pry Condemns Stalinist Frauds C.I.O . representative and Sta­ into their affairs. Many consider “The Land of Cotton” linist stooge number one, is his action to be that of the chief SAN FRANCISCO. — Indig­ Whereas, The daily press con­ screuming his lungs out here de­ stool pigeon of all. If the go­ Romance, beautiful women, nation against the despicable trolled by the employers and the manding a government investiga­ vernment is to have access to the southern chivalry and happy attempts of tiie Stalinists to “ Daily Worker ” published by- the tion of the San Francisco mari­ union hall and books it wont need singing workers in the fields! introduce the G.P.U. frame- Communist party have joined in time union! Via the press and to send in stool pigeons, they Ah yes, let us drop in on them. up methods in the American a campaign to smjear and dis­ through his mouthpiece, James argue. The Department of Justice T h a t’s w h at Owen P. W hite did trade union movement is ris­ credit the martyred Corcoran and O’Neil, C.I.O. publicity man, can get all the information it and he tells about it in "Collier’s" ing ever * move loudly in the the trade union movement, with Bridges is shouting to high wants direct. ranks of organized labor. Fol­ the charge that his assassination heaven that the Frisco unions are “My Home in Dixie” lowing on the heels of the de­ was caused by “ racketeering and seething with provocateurs, stool cisive condemnation of the gangsterism" in the trade unions; pigeons and strike breakers. He Fired out of the C.I.O . office ”I went into their two-room C.P.’s tactics by the official and claims he has proof of this that when she disagreed with the cabin, with a small kitchen at­ labor movement in Minnea­ Whereas, These same forces are he is anxious to present to a go­ Communist Party, Gertrude W ilk tached, wherein eleven people polis, the San Francisco active on the Pacific Coast in a vernment hearing. This flagrant took her case to her union—the live, and was amazed at its em­ Labor Council struck another like attempt to besmirch the bona betrayal of elementary trade United Office and Professional ptiness. In the kitchen I saw two powerful blow against the Sta­ fide labor movement, and are unionism is obviously and open­ A’orkers Un ipn, C.I.O . Making wooden benches, a rickety table, linist disrupters and slander­ joining with the capitalist press ly directed at the rank and file a pretense o f actin g on the case a crippled cookstove, and as a ers in a resolution adopted by in charges of "A.F. of L. and papev of the Marine Firemen, he Stalinist dominated dismissal total visible supply of food for i t on F rid a y, December 30, gangster plot” whenever any le­ Oilers, Wipers and Watertenders committee of the union investi­ the family, a part of a sack of 1937. We re p rin t the reso lu­ gitimate conflict arises within Association which has rallied gated it and on their finding sent corn meal and a small slab of tion in full below: the labor movement; and over a fourth of the membership a protest against the discrimi­ fat-back, or grease meat. In the Whereas, The brutal murder of that union around a program nation to Harry Bridges. When other two rooms were three old of P. J. Corcoran, secretary- Warn Against Repetition of amalgamating the three sea­ the latter refused to Consider the double beds on which were three treasurer of the Teamsters’ Joint On West Coast faring crafts on the West Coast ease the S ta lin is t dom inated ex­ old, thin cotton mattresses cover­ ecutive committee of the union ed with torn, worn, cotton quilts. Council of Minneapolis was a WJhereas, These same forces —the Sailors’, Firemen’s and voted to drop the matter and to Also in those two rooms, there blow at the labor movement of recently issued public statements Cooks’ unions. strike references to it from their was only one chair. No sheets, that city, as well as the general attempting to link the Sailor’s The firemen, sailors, cooks and minutes! A group of progress- no pillow-cases, no shoes and no labor movement throughout the Union of the Pacific in a plot even the longshoremen in his clo th in g were to be seen an y­ United States; and with the shipowners to throw 35,- own union are asking Bridges ives in the union issued a leaflet where in the house, although, 000 men out of work, and in ome very embarrassing ques­ exposing the betrayal of their hanging on the line outside I no­ Commend Teamsters’ another statement charged that tions. They especially want to rights to the membership and ticed a tiny pair of blue overalls, Council “A.F. of L. forces within the know why he doesn’t give his have succeeded in rallying a large and two or three towels made organized labor movement" were information to the Maritime Fe- Whereas, the Teamsters’ Joint uinority of the members against from fertilizer bags." participating in a plot on the life leration of the Pacific so the men Council of Minneapolis has of­ of a well-known West Coast in the unions can act instead of ¡the Stalinists. fered a 810,000 reward for in­ C.I.O. director, and that this “Say Man, How be you?” formation leading to the arrest plot originated in Minneapolis, and conviction of the assassin " In 1935 the F . S . I . (F a n il and have repeatedly made false or .assassins; and Security Administration) had on charges against the organized Whereas, In order to protect S.U.P. Hits Bridges Gall for its books.... in Alabama and labor movement that “gangsters,” the labor movement and its Georgia, 26,259 families, averag­ "goon squads," etc., were ruling chosen officers from a terroristic ing six persons each, whose net the organized labor movement; -wmeder’-eampaign the most re­ worth .per family, including now, the re fore, be it lentless efforts must be made to Gov’t Inteference in Unions clothes, food, livestock, chickens, bring the assassins to deserved For Exposing Union farm equipment and household punishment; and SAN FRANCISCO.—The Sailors said LaFollette Committee is furniture, was $3.03. Their health Whereas, An attempt is being Busters Union of the Pacific, at a recent the investigation of employer status is so bad as to be alm ost made to attribute the murder of Resolved, that we condemn membership meeting, overwhel­ spying, thuggery and anti-union unbelievable...... O f 121,383 Corcoran to forces inside the such tactics by this irresponsible mingly condemned the action of activity; the said committee liav- persons examined twenty-eight labor movement, and to besmirch element as splitting and discre­ the Stalinist stooge, Harry Brid­ ing no right or authority for in- ¡pel. cent had hookworm... child trade unions with the accusation diting the labor movement and ges, in attempting to get the fe­ terference in the internal affairs l1.en> sixty-two per cent. Venereal that "gangsterism and racketeer­ call for a full concentration of deral government to interfere in of labor organizations, and \ diseases are common. Malaria and ing” inside labor’s ranks is res­ all efforts to expose these anti­ the affairs of the maritime unions WiHEREAS, this requested in- ! pellagra likewise are very prcval- ponsible for this murder, and labor elements within the labor on the West Coast. Constantly vestigation is not only an un-'enG” this constitutes a foul slander on movement for what they are; losing ground among the rank warranted insult against all ma the bona-fide labor movement union-busfing, boss collaboration­ and file membership of the ma­ ritime unions on this coast, but “Sweet Land of Liberty” and its martyred officer and ists who are out to discredit and ritime unions here because of would also open the way for a shields the real murderers and wreck the bona fide labor move­ their class collaboration policies barrage of false and malicious “I saw people who are miser­ dark forces behind, them; and ment. and disruptive tactics, the Sta­ testimony from ship-owners’ ably sick and yet so ignorant linists have, in desperation, stool-pigeons, commissar stooges. jthat they tlon-t know lhey are department of justice men arrest­ sought to obtain the aid of the and every other conceivable type ' sick. I saw slatternly, barefoot- ed the 14 seamen on charges of Washington authorities, in an of enemy of the Maritime Union-. d> filthy, tobacco-chewing women; Algic Trial "m utiny" based on a law passed effort to stem the tide of re­ if the Pacific Coast, and land scabby-headed babies who in 1790! The charges declared sentment among seamen and port j WHEREAS, this testimony ¡have never had a bath, except Hits Labor that the seamen “were conspir­ w orkers. would be planned and calculated one maybe, since they were born; ing and endeavoring to revolt The progressive leadership of jto influence unfavorably pending ¡and adolescent boys and girls; Ship Strikers Condemned against the master of their ves­ the Maritime Federation has legislation now before Congress, I and shifty-eyed, shiftless men, so sel." The charges are a brazen made serious advances in every BE IT THEREFORE RESOLV- I tired all the time that they’d lie As Mutineers For lie. union here, including those con­ ED: that we, the members of the down on the ground to talk to Solidarity Move trolled by the Bridges gang. The Sailors Union of the Pacific me, all living, eight or ten of Only Crime: Refused appeal of the San Pedro local of meeting in headquarters Monday, I both sexes, crowded into one the International Longshoremen’s (Continued from page 1) To Scab December the 20th, condemn room. Add to this picture child Union, still in the grip of the I an y Bridges and I.L.W .U. marriage, or not even marriage, sit-down to help the strike of The only "crime" of the sea­ Bridges gang, to the LaFollette 1-13 for this attack on the inde­ with a birth rati three and one longshoremen at Montevideo, j men was their refusal to work Committee represents an act of pendence and integrity of the, half times greater than the na- Uruguay this September. alongside scabs, and this is an desperation on the part of the Maritime Unions of the Pacific | tional average, and with praet- N o th in g would be more fa ta l ! inalienable right of a union man. Stalinists which has served only Coast, and | ically every baby born infected to Roosevelt’s pro-war policies Convicted on two counts, the to intensify the resentment of BE IT FURTHER RESOLV­ with disease." than a continuation of the feeling 14 seamen face a maximum pu­ the workers against them. The ED: that we notify the LaFollette of international solidarity among j nishment of five years imprison­ S.U.P. resolution, adopted at Committee of the United States ‘ The Gay Southland” the maritime workers since it | ment and 81,000 fine or both. The its last meeting, follows in full: Senate that the Maritime Unions will be difficult to drag the trade trial was held in a federal court. W H E R E A S , Local 1-13 San of the Pacific Coast are capable Is It really the same country union movement into an imperial­ A national campaign to rally Pedro I.L.W .U. and Harry of settling their own problems that the Times says lures the ist war to slaughter their union the organized labor movement Bridges, West Coast C.I.O. and determined to resist any in- | tourists. " Land of cotton fields brothers in other countries, if against the terrible convictions Director, have seen fit to send terference from unauthorized ' solidarity exists. and share-cropper cabins, of and for the freedom of the sea­ the following telegram to the political agents of interests which magnolias and vivid moonlight. . . men had been announced by the LaFollette Committee of the are outside of, foreign to, and Foreshadows W ar National Maritime Union, of United States Senate: “Have epeatedly hostile to those of the dogwoods bloom in white clouds Regime which the workers are member's. every reason to believe and evi­ membership of the Maritime ¡over the hills, Cherokee roses... dence to point that our ranks are Unions of the Pacific Coast. How ruthless Roosevelt will be camelias and azaleas bloom riot- STALINISM infested with industrial spies and , , I against the labor movement dur­ ouslv in old gardens. Yachting, provocateurs Stop Request that ing the coming world war was, and Copies of this resolution to be nlt¡ fishinR. and goif of. your committee make arrange­ demonstrated by the manner the BOLSHEVISM sent to Harry Bridges, all I.L. ments to investigate situation in W.U. locals, the LaFollette fennR diversions. The gayety Algic sit-down was broken. Maritime Unions on this coast." The captain of this govern­ o y Committee, the Maritime Federa- I loving population lives in an at- ment-owned ship wired Washing-j 1 0 c Leon AND WHEREAS, the Maritime tion of the Pacific Coast and it? ¡mospherc of festivity, Mardi ton for instructions on handling TROTSKY Unions of the Pacific Coast have component organizations, the Gvas___ garden tours, flower the sit-down. "Put them in irons," demonstrated their ability to Voice of the Federation and the! . , conduct their own affairs without ,¥r „ . r, -i snows, musical events... yellow replied Joseph Kennedy, then Pioneer Publisher? West Coast Sailor. j , , .. the assistance or interference of . , j . i a . i i jessamine, wild honey-suckle etc.. head of the Maritime Commis­ 100 F ifth Avenue (Passed overwhelmingly by the ¡ sion, “and send them home.” outside government agencies, and Sailors Union of the Pacific. jetc. Let us be thankful, there New York. N. V. When the Algic returned here. WHEREAS, the function of the Monday. December 20, 1927.) are no classes in Am erica. 8 SOCIALIST APPEAL January 1, 1938

Union Lawyers Plead Trotsky Urges Backing Memorial Day Massacre Akron Court Decision Defendants Guilty For Pioneer Publishers CHICAGO.— Without consult­ Outlaws Closed Shop Pioneer Publishers has just Soviet bureaucracy is complete­ ing the workers who were arrest- made public a letter received ly evident. Pioneer Publishers from Leon Trotsky on the occa­ from the very beginning set it­ d for participation in the mass By Blake Lear for street car operators and bus sion of its seventh anniversary. self the task of bringing out a picketing demonstration staged drivers, who had lost an election AKRON, Ohio, Dec. 26.—A The letter follows: serious library of revolutionary on M em orial Day before the Re with the C. I. O. and who had thought for advanced workers uling which virtually outlaws been denied membership in the public Steel Co., the lawyers, ap­ and radical intelligentsia. the closed shop in Akron was C. I. O. local of the Transport Economic Crisis and pointed by the union to defend Ideologies “ During the last few years the handed down here last week by Workers of America, were fired, first step along this road have those arrested, entered into an judge E. D. Fritch. since the transport workers had According- to all indications, I been taken. They have been met agreement with the State’s At­ Since the court’s decision will secured a closed shop. They took be used as precedent, the ruling the present crisis should bring I with manifest and encouraging torney of Cook County to plead their case to court and the decL constitutes a blow not only to sion was the result. The court, about tremendous changes in the sympathy. But there yet remains all the defendants guilty. whole world and perhaps first of immeasurably more to be done the working class of Akron and ironically enough, did not even When the case came up in the all in the U.S.A. The crisis of than has been accomplished. of Ohio, but to the working class recommend th a t they be taken 1929 has already dealt a serious There is weight in the idea that Criminal Court of Cook County nationally as well. Labor must back on their jobs. blow to the traditional ideologies the center of social-revolutionary jn December 20, the lawyers en­ unitedly fight this decision tooth The ruling beautifully exposes and na il. of Americanism and created the and revolutionary-philosophical tered a plea of guilty to charges the role of the courts as the necessity for a new orientation. thought will shift in the next of unlawful assembly and rioting watchdogs of capitalism. Under The economic revival of the period to America. Under the Essentials of Decision the slogans of preserving the placed against 61 workers. The past year has, it is true, some­ blows of the crisis and social right to work, fighting monopoly, what damped theoretical searches shake-ups there will here arise judge thereupon fined six of the The essential portion of the and defending the public’s inter­ and social criticism. Hopes arose a generation of revolutionary defendants $10 and $10 costs. decision reads: “ __ a c-antract by ests, which translated means that the process of economic theoreticians capable of saying The remaining got off with a one the employer to employ only preserving the “right” to work growth interrupted by the crisis a new word. All the more neces­ dollar fine and one dollar costs. union labor is contrary to public at slave wages, fighting union­ would again be re-established. sary is it to create for this The small fines were in return policy when it includes an entire ism, and defending the interests But sooner than one could have awakening social criticism a for the plea of guilty. in d u s try so as to operate gener­ of the capitalist class, the court ally in the community, prevent­ expected the hour of a new crisis stable base in the form of a pub­ The meaning of the whole has given labor a s t if f blow'. ing workmen from obtaining em­ struck. It started from a lower lishing house not bound by any farce was explained to the de­ ployment without joining the level than the crisis -of 1929 and other considerations and obliga­ fendants after they walked out Higher Form of un ion.” is developing at a more rapid tions outside of the objective to of the court room and most of “A contract against public Deception tempo. This demonstrates that it open to humanity a new road of them, prepared to go on trial policy is void and illegal." not an accidental recession nor development. Pioneer Publishers and fight it out to the end, were Since by and large the old ar­ In other words, taxi drivers, even a conjunctural depression can accomplish a great historic bitterly disap pointed and resent­ gument that the workers in a light and power employees, cereal but an organic crisis of the whole task. Our common duty is to help fu l. plant do not represent a majori­ capitalist system. That is why them . workers, fishing tackle workers, Both the Republic Steel Co. ty and hence should not be grant­ one can with assurance predict building tradesmen, and mem­ (Signed) Leon Trotsky. and the Chicago police force will ed recognition seldom holds any that in all fields of human ideo­ Nov. 29, 1937, Coyoacan. bers of the newspaper guild and naturally use the plea of guilty longer, the courts have to resort logy.—in economics, politics, phi­ the typos are forbidden to have * * * to justify the murderous attack to a higher deception. As the losophy, literature, art—there a closed shop, either because upon workers exercising their struggle gets sharper they make As a non-commercial publish­ theiremployers have a monopoly will open an epoch of bold critic­ up new rules. They outlaw the ing house Pioneer Publishers de­ lawful right to picket. in their field in Akron or because ism, liquidation of old prejudices, closed shop. They declare the pends on the support of every­ Not all compromises with the where the monopoly is split two searches for new systems, cou­ sit-dow n “ ille g a l, im m o ral, _and one interested in the develop­ enemy are to be condemned. But ways, as it is in the newspaper rageous creation. revolutionary." They refuse to ment of a genuinely revolution­ a compromise which is based field, the typos have a closed Revolutionary thought in Ame­ press laws invoked against the ary publishing house in America. upon a plea of guilty in a case shop at both plants. In both rica, with immeasurably more bosses. Among the volumes scheduled that has received world-wide eases, you see, a closed shop, stability and vigor than hitherto, TK at* 'is^ wiRty' * y l Hllgy!Te*'Twi“' will begin to study different so­ for publication are: Revolution publicity, where the bosses and would mean that it would pre­ and Counter-Revolution in Spain cops were placed on the defens­ ducted on straight trade union cial doctrines in order to resolve vent a workman “from obtaining by Felix Morrow; Ten Years of ive in the role of murderers, is employment without joining the lines alone can only lead up a the question of the fate of the blind alley. Such a condition United States and of the capital­ World Politics by Leon Trotsky: nothing short of a betrayal of in io n .'’ W hat is Im perialism ? by G. Z i­ the interests of the whole work­ has been reached in France, is t system as a whole. The breadth of interpretation noviev; The Year One of the ing class. can be so great th is ru lin g could where magnificent struggles have led only to the breaking of con­ What to Expect from Russian Revolution by Victor The Daily Worker of December easily be made to extend not only Serge; Marxism and Philosophy 21, 1937 sim p ly mentioned th a t to the bakery workers, coal tracts by the companies and a Other Publishers by Franz Mehring; Selected the bad judge found the 61 pickets drivers, and other trades, but discreet averting of the head by Works of Rosa Luxemburg, etc. guilty. It carefully concealed the could be applied to the large the courts. The trade union prob­ "On the other hand, one can etc. fact that the lawyers, by agree­ rubber shops as well, on the basis lem becomes a political problem expect that the bourgeois pub­ and can be solved only on the In themselves these works ment with the prosecution, plead­ that there are certain depart­ lishing houses which from time political field. This is the stage more than warrant the support ed them guilty. The Stalinists, ments in each plant which are to time printed radical works in at which many unions in the of those who have profited by being in control of the Steel unique in the city, and that were the firm belief that the U.S. was United States,plagued by lay-offs, earlier Pioneer publications. Workers Organizing Committee a scab denied the right of em­ immune to the actions of "des­ cursed with the problem of un­ Contributions should be sent to in the Chicago area, are the ones ployment in such a department tructive" ideas will in the com­ employment, beset with a rise in Pioneer Publishers, 100 Fifth j actually responsible for the ma­ he would be unable to obtain a ing years become more cautious; the cost of living, and harassed Avenue, New York. lodorous deal. job elsewhere in the industry. i. e., reactionary, and will comp­ by the courts, have now reached. letely ostracize revolutionary Background of Decision For, lacking the revolutionary theoretic thought. Socialist Appeal answer to these problems, many "It is impossible to place the 116 University Place Date The decision is part of the unions, especially those in the slightest hope in this respect in New York City poisoned fruit of the A. F. of L. mass production industries, are the publishing activity of the so- -C. 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