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• x se rame- S .. Corcoran Slain (j~t Minneapvli~ i~ Nvt M()~£()w! r~SavCiiiOSc Yd hyLabor'sFoes .Alive , Is PIca ~Says Cannon ITo World Labor ... . The Stalinist frar 1 e-up . MINNEAPOLIS, DEC. 7. ~~·!"teJ11 j" cracking! ""No one knows yet who The gag that pre\'~nted the Rus~ian re,-olutionists Jcilled Pat Corcoran, but I . . ,whenever a good militant from ,:. pt"aki ng' Ollt and teJl- ing the truth about Stalin'• \ .,..;--....Jabclr leader· like Pat is kill hidrou!ol purgt>s, i!lt being torn ed, it must be laid at the off! . • doOr of the enemies of la-, bor," James P; Cannon, edi The ~elJ~ational, tremt>nd tor of the Socialist Appeal, OU51~- ~ignificant r~PQrt comel" from Europe tha: two stated at a large mass meet- I prominent officials oi the. It ing last night, at the 7th st. I Soviets, communists of long Hall sponsored by the Min I "standing, h a v e broken neapolis Socialist Party. thr~)Ugh the burea.oora~c Vincent R. Dunne, State Or con::;piracy of silence. . gamer .of the Party, pres "i'ii;::·::~'~~:::";~~~~JiMiimil.COR'ORAr1 tfl:::ii~'±:~:i i ided. :-::,,-;;:;~~.;~~::,;.t:"'L~::'::.I· MUROER Denounce Frame-Ups; (ContinuM on page 3) I ! One right on the heel!:' of the" o the r - Ali-xaruler Banrnn., / Charge d'Affaire:, of the So'riet Developments oFl' Union in Greece, and Walter Krivitsky, former Dh'e,'tor ,)f the The Week In T ne "',ar 'Industries Institute, have re8igned from Stalin';; ,;",rvice, CQrcoran Case taken refuge in Fran~'t', and writ ten stauoments denouncing the J.; Coroner's inquest sel'sions Stalini!'t frame-up;;, They make • :ran five days, examining many pel'fectly clear what the .",ppeal .t . Witnesses, developing many leads has been saying from the begin- for continued search for the mur- ning, namely, that Stalin h: :nur- derers of Pat Corcoran, del'i~g· and impri!!oning innocent ;. 2. County Attorney Goff speed- people as part of his dr-ive to eel up investigation, to provide smash the Russian RevQlutioD. ~. i new material and witnesses v Following the :'tatem~nt by ~ when . coroner's inquest re-opens Barmine, which ('r'eated a sensa- t" on December 22. tion, Krivitsky del.'lal·ed in ~: lett;n. 1~! ;.:1' .!m!:":':t! s.=i:: .;, tD recomllleDd that the Central~:!= Mee' tl-ng To Hear Verd,·ct Of Dewey ~O:~:i:::,:~nt~~'the Central Commlttf'e s~~::~~i~~t;:::~ of the Labor Unioll spoIUlor a huge Communist Party of Fran<:t', and -'-... to mobiHze ~bor behind to the ~neraI Confederation of ~ fell' Corcoran's a.~aS8ins.C·· . Ch - I B d Labor of FI'anl'e: . "W to protect labor from boas , "During tlll':''' la~t F'ar'!, 1 ":'" ;:'..":.~in~~'" ommlsslon , airman n roa cast :::~,!o:::;~:: ~::.. ~~:!:~:';;:: and other drivers' leaden;, made NEW YORK.-Concluding eight Chamberlain, noted literary <:ritic his personal comments on the- ever, I subordinatt·.! Illy ""leasi by enemies of labor, wel'e recor,d- months of intensive investigation,land author, Benjamin Stolberg, Commission's work and finding!!. nes;; to the dt'fense of the .Soviet ed by inquest witnesses. the Commission of Inquiry. into labol' .journalist, Carlo Tresea, Dr. Dewey will also read a tt'· Union's interests, Thi;; I ..:onsid- 6, A total of eleven A. F. of the charges made against L(!()n labor leader and editor of 11 legram from Leoit Trotsky which el'ed the legitimate thing to do, L. officials testified that theil' Trotsky at the lloscow Trials, MarteDo and Wendelin Thomas, will be Trotsky's first comment knowing that my work sec.ed it names had been fraudulently used Iheaded by ~OfesS01· John Dewey, . former Deputy in the German on the fiiadings of the Commis- and was therefore necessary to It,. the Stalinists on a "volunteer I internationally known 'educator, i Reichs:tag. Anot~er speaker will siolt. the cause of socialism, eommittee" leaflet. attacking the wiD report its findings to a mass lbe John Finerty,. counsel to the Th' L_ h d 1 "But the cow'se of Event'! con- . f·l.... M' 1· labo eeti to be h Id S d C .. h' ted f IS program can -- ear 01 ho nor 0 ~ ~po IS r I m ng e on un ay, o~mlSslon, W 0 IS no or the fonowiq stations: vinced me that the poliey of the ~ement. ., IDeeember 12th, at the Hotel ha"JDg reopened the Mooney case. :SEW yORK,." .. WABC Stalin &>vernment enters more 6. George Cole. Regional Dl~ec- Center, at 8 P. If. . . . Dewey On the Air! PHILADELPHIA " WCA U a~ more into opposition not only tor of the ~O, under q~s~lon- . The .speakers at the meeting,. . , BOSTON ., ... , .... WEEI With the interests of the Soviet IDe at the, ~st, 1"eIIudiated In addition to Profe:'sor Dewey, At 6.35 Eastern Standard Tnn4C', CHICAGO,."., .. WBB)I UDion, but with those of the work- III re8poD8lbUity :lDd knowledge will be a number of his colleagues Monday, December 13, 1937, Dr. SAN FRANCISCO KSSO ing class movement IJ1 general" of the aJuderoua "CIO Indus- on the Commiuion, including Su- John Dewey will broadcast over" . , . Like Barmine, Krivitsky ex- Unionist" paper issued by zume LaFollette, forma' editor tile na~wide net1fGl'k of the or yoar own Ioeal Columbia 8taUDJata lIu8etb.aDCtSmith. of, the NeW Freetnan. . John ICoIumbia • __atiDg Systeal Broadeuting S,___ statioa. (Catinaed en pa,. 2) . . . '-....~.:.-~ '~' ~ ~ ....
I SOCIALIST APPEA14 December 11. 1937 • DiplomatsExposeStalinFrameUps __ u_ :!) • _ ..
In Moving Appeal Forll'!ir::~:UtP:;s::;!~' devotIOn I am deeply ~::e:tys:~~IB'''eaus persuaded. 'UI' Restn·ct Rights Of Threatened Bolsheviks ' Face Death J bl . L I WAA 'Po ed' .. " • 001 would like to make the most • (Continued from page 1) i went to the school of Red Army pressing, most desperate appeal 0 ess oca s, rg officers and held various com- to public opinion in behalf at posed the police measures used mands on the Western front. least of those of them who are By Neil Harrison rough. thu" eliminating the AI to extort false confessions from After the offensive againSt War- still perhaps living and against lianl'p locals from the bureau al- titose tried and murdered, and saw, the military council of the the false and ignoble accusations. NEW; YORK. - Aft e r ten together. added: 16th Army named me to take I am thinking of my friends re months of unity the Alliance is courses at the Academy of the nlaining at their posts in other completely in the grip of Stalin Stalinist "Line" Victims Were Innocent I General Staff. In 1932 I was countries of Europe, Asia or ist leadership. Immediately after retired with rank of brigade America, threatened daily with a taking control of the Alliance, Before the election of La- .. Each new trial, each firing c·:)mmander. I functioned as similar fate and placed before the squad, shook my conscience more the Stalinists started a campaign Guardia a .. demonstration" wu Consul General in Persia from tragic dilemma: go back to certain of suspension and expulsion of held at City Hall which had all deeply. I had sufficient informa 1.92a to 1925. I have belonged death, or, renouncing seeing their militBnts who dared offer any the appearance of a fuae~ tion to know how these trials for 10 years to the ranks of the country again, to risk the bullets were staged, and to realize that criticism of their leadership. march. The main slogan l.ucI Commissariat of Foreign Trade of the agents of the Secret Police First, Clarence Roth was expel was OOfood and rent must COBle innocent persons were perishing." and was, from 1929 to 1931 di- abroad of those agents who quite Both of the fQrmer Soviet of led on trumped-up charges. Then down." Some prqgressive m~ rector-gen!!ral of Imports' in l'eeently still shadowed my every militants like Sol Berkowitz and tants who shouted OOdown with Ute ficials have been members of the France and Italy, official agent step. -'Communist Party of Russia vir Weinberg were suspended for sales tax 00 were nearly beaten \It' of the USSR in Belgium in 1932, ooTo remain in the service of daring to criticize the ooleaqers.OO by the Stalinists. bally since the Revolution, and member of the governmental Stalin's government would have toek this public step only because, Finally, leading workers such as On WPA the line was that netlt delegation in Poland in 1933, pre-been to doom myself to the worst George Aranoff and Ida Lipp .. in Krivitsky's words, "I believe it sident of the central export trust demoralization and to assume my ing should be done to embarass is my duty to bring all these we.re expelled. Hoodlums wert' Roosevelt. Thousands of dollars of automobile and aviation pro- share of the responsibility for the sent into locals not under Stalini~t to the knowledge of the interna- ducts in 1934-35. Such were, in crimes committed every day a were raised for a march to -'\ional workers' organizations. " control to take them over and, Washington which was held aft. brief, my posts before my appoint- gainst the'people of my country. failing that, to disrupt them. ,Barmine and Krivltsky have made ment to Greece. Whatever my It would have been to betray the :ongreu adjeumed. The oampaip public the fact that their foot Other locals were packed with against the lay-offs inaug\l1'llMfl functions, I have thought only of cause of socialism to which I have Communist party members. .teps have been dogged by G.P.U. wholeheartedly serving the inte- devoted my entire life. Iy the Stalinist leadership consist vents since their break with rests of my country and of social- "I am obeying my conscience in ed of phoney 00 job marches,· 8talinism, but that they are de ism. breaking with this government. I Relief Officials Take post card campaigns to the Prest.. termined to rehabilitate the im "The recent Moscow trials am fully aware of the danger to Advantage dent and Congressmen, a'ftd JllUoned and executed Russian filled me with stupor and horror. which I expose ~rself in actin~ marches to the Chamber of Com ftvolutioilists in the eyes of It was impossible for me to ac- this way. I am signing my own In the meanwhile the Emel'- merce, the net result being that public opinion regardless of the cept the execution of the old lead- death warrant and expose myself gency Relief Bureau started the government laid off fro. danger or cost to themselves. en of the revolution, despite the to the blows of paid killers. This cracking down on the unemploy- \VPA their desired quota anyway. Ignace Reiss, former agent of c':)nfe,ssions they lavishly made, consideration could not modify in ed and putting the Alliance in );ow with further WPA dismis the G. P . U ., who took a similar confessions which only added to any way my line of comiuct. its place. New rules were put !lals in view, the Stalinists have step several months ago in de my disquiet while prolonging my into force. First, clients were se- brought in no eoncrete plan on nouncing the Moscow frame-ups, last illusions. Obeys Conscience p8$.ted from delegates; the how to fight this. Nothing must :was murdered by G. P . U. assas Stalinist leadership yielded at be done to embarass the two .ills in Switzerland a few weeks 001 have sent my resignation to once. Then the size of the grie\'l white hopes of the People's. I Illusions Ended i aro. Remembering the fate of the Commissariat of Foreign Af- ance committee from each local I Front, Roosevelt and LaGuardia. Reiss, Barmine has written in his ooMy profound attachment to fail's at Moscow. and, r~",?uncing was cut· down to five; on this! I statement: .. I know. the danger the working cIa~s and t~ the .So- ~he benefits of dIplomatIc Im?,.un- the S\a1inists yielded again. Then Progressives Organize , I incur, but I am obeying my iet people, my dIfficulty In behev- Ity, I am today onl~ a pohtIcal the Bureaus ruled that only one . eonscience in breaking with this ing in the possibility of crimes refugee wh.o place hImself under representative from a local could A group of progressive milt- - i government. ,. on the part of its letlders, led the protectIOn of the laws a.nd present grievances; and once I tants, early seeing the trend that i me at first, in all sincerity to do opInIOn of the country whIch more the Stalinists yielded. Fi-: the Alliance wall taking, "tal'ted I Stalin Crisis Seen violence to myself and resign gives him hos~itality. I. ha~e nally the Bureaus ruled that the I laying the groundwork for the l . . . . myself to the facts. I hoped, in obeyed my C?nSClence, sure In ~hls Alliance could come in with! formation of a progressive group • f ReISS, Barmme, Kl'1vltsk~- making this effort, to serve still way of haVIng been ~ore fal~h- grievances only twice a week,: Ilround the general IIlogans of a • they are only the first! The Stahn- further the cause of Socialism. ful than ever to the Ideas whIch Mondays and Fridays, irre!'pect- democratic organization a mili iat G. P . U'. c~nnot fore~er ~eep But the events of recent months I have served al! my life. ". ive of whether the case was an tant fighting l1rogram, against o!d re~lutlOmsts te~ron~ed ~nto (months which I spent in France :'~ay my ch~lce he~p clal'~fy emergency or not. Through the the g'(l\'el'nlllent administration sIlence. The crack IS wldem~~, on convalescence leave) have left opInIOn on a regIme whIch dem~s accumulated "red tape OO it now responsible for WPA dismi~sals and foreshadow~ the ~nal cnsls me no further illusions. Startling in fact all Socialism, all humam- takes at least three weeks before and the cutting of relief stand- in the ~onapar~lst regIme ~f the trials prepared the wholesale ex- t y;. . . a relief applicant can get on rp-! ards; against the disruption of eounter.. re~olutlOna~. bUleauc- termination of the cadres of the mth my salutat!ons, lief; one week before an appoint- the locals by Stalinists, against racy that IS under~mmg ,.all t~e Communist Party of the USSR, .. Alexander B~~mlDe (Graff). ment is made, one' week before the the anti-pnion signs put up by eonq~ests. of th~ ploletallan le- i.e., of militants who led the Dec. ~, 1937. investigator calls, one week be- :,\fayor LaGuardia in the bureaus, volubon I~ ~ussla.. struggle in illegality, made the HereWIth we reprod~c.e. the fore the check is issued. Thi~, of (00 It is not nece!'sal'y to belong 1 The SOCIalist A~peal IS fortu- revolution, conducted the civil letter sent by 'Valter .~l'Ivlt!;kY course, saves the city hundreds of to any organization or pay any nately able to prInt below the war, assured the victory of the to th.e French . authontleo;, re- thousands of dollars. money to anyone t,:) get on re f statemen~ made ~y the COUl'If~e- first Workers State ... _ covered to- qu:s~Ing the rIght of asylum. I The StaliiIists continued to Ilief " is one of Mayor LaGuardia's , ous RUSSIan offiCIals. The filst day with slime and handed over Krlvltsky was not only recently I' th '" t "Fordisms" in e\'ery bUI'eau) d B ,' . - " . calm ey were wmnmg VIC ory I ,. . one, by Alexan er almme, IS to the executioner. It seemed to entrus&d by., the St'-alllmst .. gto- a f tel' VIC . t ory, an d I'f th ey d'ecelv- TI 1e P rogl'eSSlve'G I'OUp now addressed to the French Com- me then that a reactionary dicl vernment WIth a speCIal mIssIon d th k d fil th d' lb' t I "00 . . . .,. . . .' e e ran an e, ey \( n u III e r s approxlma e y _ Duttee of InqUIry mto the Moscow tatorshlp had m8talled Itself In abroad, but had been plevlously t f . 't d . L 11 be' d'" p ·t I b ten Trials with a copy sent to the decorated with the Order of the no ~I one mmu.e ecel.v~ a- II elll I s an IS ~u pOI el y 'I C 'tt f th L e my country. R d FI d' 'd f Gual'dla or the rehef admmlstra- 'I locals of the Alltance. The group • C entra omml ee 0 e eagll .., e ag an gIven a swor o. . . h' . · I f or the RIg htsoan f M m . F ran' ce: "I saw dIsappear Into pnson-donor.h H'IS Ie tter t 0 the F renc,. h tlOn who- cmched thell' advances I' as I'ecelved conSIderable support I "H'avmg Just. Ie ft th e servlc. e perhaps . executed or suppresse. II M"Inl!! t er 0 f the It' n erlOr f 0 II OWS;.IWIth the plan to set up a central J,from the rank , and file •formerly R -my chIefs and compamons, a M M" t comylamt bureau for each bo- lunder Stahmst leadershIp. '0f t h e government 0 f th e USS 'Id B I h 'k' th f er am- r. InIS er: I consider it my duty to bring to 0 0 s eVI s. e ,orm . 00 The undersigned. Samuel. " . , · th f II . f ts bassador and People s Commls- G' b b' . th USSR I was convmced that my work lillY WIfe nOl' Illy chIld. I have tt t 0 ~ our a en Ion e owmg ac ..' InS urg, earIng In e . " ~ 111\, Yan d t'0 raIse an In. d'Ignan t prote~t , iI sal' of ForeIgn• Affa11's KrestIns-• t as a S·oVle t CI't' Izen the name of served the supreme mterest!' of often l'l"ked . hfe for my . cause. toou in the name of humanity' ky; the chaIrman o~ the Socle y Walter Krivitsky, and the politic- ?,y worker~ fatherland and that B~t I do not want to dIe for no I anI the rights of man, against for Cultural Rela~lOns Ab.roa~ al pseudonym Walter, bOl'n June It was too Important to be aban- thmg. ~ the crimes which are becoming Arrosev, former vIce-Com mIssal 28 1899 at Podwoloczyska (Po- doned whatever my person~l Aware of Danger I . and Ankara ambassador Karak-' b b f h opInIOns. The most recellt polt- • more extensIVe every day. h 'd t be shot· Ambassador land) has een a mem er 0 t e t' It' th USSR com- "I feel in solidarity with all UF' t t y of the Le a- an, sal 0, CPSU since 1919 Ica even SIne .1 11'S secreSaRr Atb .g Yrunev, former commissar-gene- . pletely changed this situation. the militant workers of the US tion of the US at ens' since. . SR . h h h d b h Ch' ral of the Red Army m 1918-19; Twice Decorated Faced by the phYSIcal Sllppres- ,WIt t e tens of t ousan s ecember, 1935, t en alge Elivia vice-commissar of Foreign sion of all the old militlnt!). and of impl'isonl'd, deported, murder- ~fa~res ?f ~e U:S:;:; ~t~ens Trade' whose collaborator I had 00 From 1919 tlo 1937 I was in all who, like myself, placed them- ed, executed by the present rul- j gmnIng m a~c 'th '. avef the honor to be; my friends and the service of the Communist selves from the beginning at the ers of a regime which they passed 19 years In e servIce 0 • I' .' b hI" . h b comrades (WIth whom I strugg - Party and the SovIet State, en- disposal of the SOVIets, I under- roug t to power. n remalmng the SOVlet Government :ve. e- ed and worked at different times trusted with missions of a politic- stood that I could not continue abroad, I hope to have the pos longed f~r 19 years todth e ~s!'~an during the last 20 years), Zu- al military and economic nature. to work with the Soviet Govern- sibility of I'ehabilitating the me Commu?lst Pa.rty, an foug ~ ~~ kerman and Fechner, directors at I loyally and with absolute devo- ment. mory of these militants of the ·the SovIet regIme and devote a the Foreign Affairs CotJmissariat tion fulfilled these missions, con- "Faced with the choice of fol- working class, treated as sple~ my strength to the Worker!' in Moscow; the Soviet ministers vinced that I was best serving lowing all myoid comrades t:) and agents of the Gestapo. It is State. Asmus (Helsingfors), Podolsky my cause. My efforts were re- death, or of trying to save my also for them that I ask you to Is Old Revolutionist (Kaunas), Ostrovsky, friend and cognized many times. The State life and those of my near ones, protect me, me and mine, protege of Voroshilov (Bucha- and the Party testified to their I decided not to hand myself o\'er authorize me to remain in "I volunteered for the Red Irest),; Generals Guekker, Schmidt confidence in me. I was named silently to the Stalinist telTor until I will be able to go to an Army in 1919, was named six Iand Sav-itaky, heroes of th~ . civil to important posts and was twice which has nothin~ ~n ~ommon other country. to ~arn mt living months later political commissar war and comrades of the MIlItary decorated. with the cause whIch IS mme. for me and mme m full mdepen- of a battalion and then of a re- Academy·; finally the ambas· "For several years, however, "I know that a price has been dence and security. ciment. For haviac distineuis1ted sadors Davtian, Karsky, B:)gomo-II have followed with anxiety the placed on my lif~. Assassin~tion "(Sgd) Samuel .. myself under fire, I subsequently ,loY, Rosenberg, Brodovsky, whom policy of my government. But . dogs me and wIll spare neIther (Krlvltskyl
.:, .... " December 11, 1937 SOCIALIST APPEAL a ------____ ..... r NOTICE Corcoran Ca~eAnalyz~d lMoscow-Amsterdam "Unity:" Internal Bulletin No. 3 is ., now ready for mailing. All Locals and Branches are urged At Minneapolis Meeting A Diplomatic Maneuver to send their ordt'rs at once. (Continued from page 1) on militant action by the w-.>rk Remittances shoud be made by el:,". The bosses are not averse t. Comments on the Agreement between the check or money order. DO .- Pat Corcoran's 'assassination racketeering in the unions-it. - I.F.T.U. and the Soviet "Trade Unions" in NOT SEND CASH. is a tragic consequence of a total- pays them well. A cinching proof an Interview Granted to "EI Universal" The National Office is comp ity of events which have raised of the worth of the drivers' lead letely out of Bulletin No. 1 Minneapolis from a notorious ership is the fact that throughout . (The Spanish question). Any open shop town to what is pro- all their strikes, the workers have By Leon Trotsky Ileaders ?"" .. "" One can. buy," local or branch having these bably the best organized city in been led from one victory to an an~wered, somebody m order to on hand will please communi the United States. as recently at- other, until the scale for drivers The u?ification .of . the . world conupt him, but not in order to i cate with the National Office tested to by officials of the Na- ~which was 42'hc per hour af hade union orl!;alllzatJOn, III the· make him a fighter for the eman without delay as some branches tional Labor Relations Board. tel' the victorious strikes of 1934 present case the adh('rence of the cipation of the oppressed." This did not get their full qu-ota. I The killing of Corcoran is not an -is today 70c per hour. Soviet Union to the Amsterdam practice has since that time taken Due credit will be given. isolated instance, but is a link "The revolutionists in the trade International, could b1"ing- great on gigantic proportions. 'V'l' mllst ~ I in a chain of events forged by union movement-the Dunnes and advantages to the working da~~ not forget that the gold indu~.try sinister forces, the enemies of the Dobbs and the Skoglunds -under only one condition: that has made great progress in the political aims upon the aid of the the working class. The role of have always sought the means there are actually unions in till' I U . S. S. R. The industry of bribery powerful international apparatus the Associated Indu\tries in this for cooperation with the other U. S. S. R. B.ut there ar~ none Iand of l'OlTuption has made still of Moscow. case (the A. I. is the former honest but comparatively con there. There IS a tJ"ade union ap- greatel' progress. I do riot doubt that Stalin, Citizens Alliance) is that of a servative elements in the trade pal'atus totally dependent upon Many of the so-ealled Yezhov, and Shvernik will utilize I ""fl"iend~"" pack of jackals, who seek to union movement, have always the rulin~ clique and dominating- I of the U.S.S.R. who have no the so-called trade union unifica besmirch the names of the lead- sought a united front with other !he workmg masses. TI1U~, dur-I thing in common with the Russian tion in order to enlarge their hold ership of the local progressive progressive forces in joint action ~ng the last bloody purg~, which people, its revolutionary tradi upon the number of leaders with unionists. The bosses have not against the. common enemy, the IS, moreover, far from bemg end- tions, its sufferings, and its a supple spine ·and conscience. reconciled themselves to the fact bosses. It is quite possible to ed, the' central Council of Trade aspirations are not more than What will be the reaction of the that the labor movement has successfully work with conservs;.. U~ions was totally reor,:an~zed interested friends of the ruling working class a.inst ,these so materially raised the living tive trade union forces in furth Without the so~alled UniOnized clique of the Kremlin. Some of practices? We shall see in the standards of the workers. has ering the immediate demands of masses kno:winll: mOI'e ~han what them are paid directly with gold. coming years. appeal'ed m the offiCial press. Others depend in their personal Coyoacan, D. F., Nov. 29, 1937.· caused millions of dollars more the workers, higher wages and The purge of the trade union ap- to go in the pay envelopes of shorter hours and better work- paratus was done by the G.I'. l" . their employes. ing conditions. This may be ~ upon the direct order of Stalin. · "Since 1934, when the drivers' done, as proved by the work of The fonner trade union lead('r, Iunion succeeded in havinll: the the Dunnes in the drivers' union, the old revolutionary, Tomsky, Militant Executive Of HoSlery I bosses operate under signed con- despite fundamental differences was driven into suicide b\- a tracts, the trade union movement Iwith conservatives like Corcoran campaign of ("alumnies 'and' \·i· of Minneapolis has trebled in on politic~, religion, and the goal U· size, until there are today over of the class struggle. Men like cious Pl'l·sccution. His plaeL' wa, olon taken, witoout the least consul- Slugged in Minneapolis 45,000 workers working under Corcoran, unlike the Stalinists, tation with thl' membership. by union contracts. There are 50 knew that there was a class Sh\"C.\"Ilik, who wa,; neve I' ami i~ :\U:\:\EAPOLIS, DEL'. 3. - conflict with the group dominat- more local unions in 1937 than struggle, and that the only way nothing mOI'e than a bell-hoJl in Vern Simonson, Minneapolis ing the'local union to which he there were three years ago, new to win it was to organize unions the Ill'J'"onal s('rvice of Stalin. Sociali"t party membel' and Ex- belonged. industries have been organized, which genuinely fought for the :rhe r~n().vated ap,,:lI"atu,.; o~"l"upie,; ecu~i~'e :\lembl'~' leading an op- V. R. Dunne, Socialist Party better contracts have been secur- interests of the workers. Itself In Its turn WIth purging the pO~Jt\On group 111 Local 38 of the Organizer and associate of Pat ed each year, which mean shorter fa("torie,; al1<1 the offices, in hunt- American Federation of Hosiery Corcoran in the leadership of the hours and more pay and yet the Sailing Under False ing and tJ'apping whoe\'el' i" di,,- ,,"oJ'kers, was brutally attacked Drivers' Union said: Stalinists, with characteristic ef Colors contented, critical. 01' makt'.- dl'- alld injurC'd b~' a gang who seiz- ""Vern Simonson is the second frontery, echo the bosses' charges Il\ands. Thus tht' ,;o-ealled union~ ed him at 7:;~O P. M. Thursday victim of violence against labor' of "gangsterism", and that Pat "The Stalinists sail under false leprl'~ent a~1 (lrKanization of in- nig'ht, Dec. 2, as he ~as return- employed by open and disguised Corcoran was killed as a result colors. While they are the class~ dUstl'lal poitCl', an appelHlagc' of ing fl'OIll suppel' to his job on the enemies of labor. He is associated of "inter-union warfare."" collaborationists and counter-rev thl' G. P. C. and. no~ at all an nig'ht shift at the Strutwear with the same group of labor "The role of gangsterism in revolutionists, they denounce all al\tonOIl1Ol\~ orgalllzatJOn of work- HC)~il'ry plant. officials as was Pat Corcoran. the trade union movement is to honest revolutionists as class. ers. Dr. H. P. llcCl"immon, of 601 Whether in or out of the A.F. terrorize the worker" in the collaborationists and conter-rev U . fi f ., N D· :\ledical Al-t,.; Building, stated of L., this groliP has always stood unions, to take bribes from the olutionists, and this in the name nl ca Ion. 0 - IP-j that he had, "a severe brain eon- for a united labor movement and bosses, and to put the quietus of Leninism, of social revolu . r> lomatic Accord! cu~sion, two broken ribs on the against .union-splitting. tion. They have put the Soviet lpft ~ide, and the abdominal re- ""I want to emphasize most tical program. As a left wing Union, which is a trade uniOM It is not a question th('n of thl' Igion badly swollen from kicks."" emphatically that Vern had no Socil!list, Simonson is opposed to raised to the highest level, in • unification of the working mas-i Half conscious and in extreme quarrel with the national leader- the frame-up and murder system precarious c \. • .~ • December 11, 1937 SOCIALIST APPEAL I fI :LRttfllLL jAom., (JJIJL IiJIadRh.L Raidson'HoodedOnes' . Olivia, Minnesota, Local Backs Left Wing We are reprinting below, ex- i file of the party members of ~ Stir France; P.O. I. Calls cerpts from a copy of a letter, Chicago convention who p&II8CfI to Roy Burt, sent to us by Com- fairly revolutionary resolutioa rade John Enestvedt, the Sec-- and realize now that they ha_ retary of the Socialist Party been betrayed by the Rig~ LOcal in Olivia, Minnesota. The Centrist N . E . C . which theF. National Secretary of the SO-I elected through the short-aightecl {for< Workers Militias Clarit~ cialist Party (Right Wing) had ness on the part of the : By Terence Phelan demanded a "loyalty oath" from ite caucus at the convention. >. . ories, as in June '36!'"'--for na- the Olivia comrades, a demand You take me to task for callinc Spectacular charges and counter-charges in the inter- tion-wide wage contracts, for a which had previously ·been re- the expelled comrades revolution ~ ., Fascist libel suit paralleled by even more spectacular police sliding-~le. ~f ~ages based on jected by the Minneapolis, St. ists.... Then you go on harangu- .;. , the cost-of-hvmg mdex, for com- Paul and Austin locals in Min- ing about their being diSl"Upted raids upon Fascist arms-caches, have for the last month plete workers' control over hiring nesota. The Olivia comrades had and therefore are being expelled. ,. ~ept France in ferment. LaRocque has used court pro- .and. ~ring: Against the. P.F.- protested the expulsion of the I would like to call to your. ceedings ostensibly brought for libel against 17 persons Stahmst Ime of. compromIse and latter for refusing to comply attention the record of these re- , . .. . .• 1·etreat, they raJSe the cry that witli Bw·t's order. -Ed. volutionists, particularly in 80 far. l and newspapers rangmg from the Stahmst Humamte the only real defense is "attack Olivia, Minn., Nov. 22, 1937. as Minneapolis is concerned. ~ ,~ ! to the RoyaHat Action Francaise, and workers' victory - direct Dear Comrade Burt: short while ago, a report from. as a base for attacking l·ival!f>on the other, tend to lun the mass action"-"for mass occupa- ,When you refer to the Ap- the U. S. Government declarea ! fascist gl·0UpS, particularly those Iw01:kers to a false sense of se- tions, for workers' militias, for peal Group or Trotskyites as a Minneapolis the best oqram.... ~ unde1· Pozzo di Borgo and General eurlty. the general strike." 'dual organization in the party, union city in the country. A sh~ Duseigneur, of which the theatri- .Su~med up, th~ Fr?nt ~opu- I am reminded of some of the five years ago, Minneapolis WUI t cal French Ku-Kluxers, the eag- 1~lre s whole. behav10r, m a s~tua- Congress Prepares for things that liappened at the an open shop town that the Citi. .t..,. ouIa~s 01· ··ho~ed ones,·' al·e the tlon th~t obv10usly pr~des elt~er Action Chicago convention: For instance, zen's Alliance of any city woull f fanCiest. Irevolu~JOn . or countel-rev.olubon, when either the Right Wing or point to with pride. W~ bo~ ... o leads. mev1tably, not as In 19~7 These are outstanding among pure Stalinists got up and attack- these people to be revolutionists Sudden RaIds RURSla, t? the former but as m the militant slogans adopted by ed the Trotskyites.:.. the rank because they have been able teo 1936 Spam, to the latter. the Second Annual Congl·ess of and ,file at the convention got up combat not only the forces of the With a remarkable prompt- 0 I C lis f St Ie the POI, held, despite LaROcque's one after another and virtual1y Citizens' Alliance, but also the o itude.. the Popular ftont police P 0 0 a or rugg protests to the Front Populaire, drove them back into their seats. union splitting and disruptive ~ ~udde~ly discovered. a r~volt plot, Against the false and fatal po- October 30-31 and November 1 in Which only goes to show that the tactics of the Stalinists .... IDvolvlO~ LaRocque s rl\"als: two icies of the Popular Front only Paris. No adventurism, they are wish of the convention was not If you mean by staying as Paris raids, for example, ull~o\"er- the French section of the Fourth backed by a carefully planned to drive the Trotskyites or the members in the Socialist Party. ed 1480 hand-grenades, 40 mao, Intel.national the Parti Ouvriel· practical program of organiza- so-called dual organization out of that the Olivia comrades must chine-guns, large stocks of am-, InternationaIfste r a i s e s the tion leading through the dual the party, ·but that they welcom- denounce the principles of Revo munition, subte1"l'alle~n for~s. a~rl slogans that can' prevent France's power to a wor~ers' state. ~he ed. the ?olitical pl"incip~es b~ lutionary Socialis!'l which the ~e arsen~ls, . and elabOl ate 'llIh~al y Ibecoming aoother Spain. Against Convention, lookmg also outSide whIch thiS group was ~led to'- legates of the Ch1cago conv~nt1~n orgamzatlonal plans lea. din ~ I'the provocations and plots of the France, pledged its continued de- gether. Let me also reml~d you e~dorsed, that no revolu.t10n!" France.. Du.selgneuI: Fascist gangs and equally against fense of the conquests of October that the or W!11 do. We reaffinn our SOI.lda!ltJ; throug~out s so~cal~ed Trotsk~ltes who eVidently fanCied hllll~elf .a the feeble and treacherous policy in,the USSR, its solidarity with dual o.rgamzation to which you w1th the expeUed ~evolut10D1stS. t~e French Fra~~o, And ~IBOlB;0 of the Front Populaire toward the Spanish workers and peasants refer 1S composed not only of but we do not cons1der ourselvea h1mself, we1·e Jailed. DIBol'go s th e n the Bolshevik-Lenin- in their fight against Franco, and former members of the Workers expelled from the party for allies, the Monarchists, oountel'- . tos g~1 g;, orkers' militias their aid to the '\Wrld proletariat Party but also the real militant upholding the principles of R&. attacked from Swit~rland with ~g~in~: th:r ir:reasingly violent whether under -democratic, fascist: Le~t Wing of the .Socialist Party volutionarr Marxism. W~. cast elabo~ite proclamations .by the attacks by the nationaJly orga- or colonial domination, in its whIch was developmg even .bef?re ouy lot Wlth all tho~e pobtlcally, '. royahst pre. tenders (which feJl . db" . t hat few struggle a ..... inst the real enemy the so-caUed dual organization exlled who are subjects of bu- h nlze os"es agams w ~- , . . . b lead h. flat). The govemment 0f t e t .. I ft f th "'ol'k- capitalism and its Stalinist and entered the Soc1ahst Party. l·eaucrabc ads y a ers P laire I I . remnan sale e 0 e.. , . Y f h fa t hat th th of hate ·nsti.... ~·I. F1"Ont opu • s ow)" tapermg , - . th e t tr·k of other t lackeys Cheered .... ou re er te t e c teat e top w ver I ...... el·s gams 10 e gr a s Ie ..·~formJS· " . ., be . I d. oa $; off the . nuds, 1SSUed . communl- Ma,1':" ~ J une 1.936 and equa11 y a - by a grea·t orgamza. t· 10na I growth convent10n. (to be h:eld) on Dec.. they may ,inc u 109 ourdb com-...... Ques Wh1Ch for their exalra-era- .'. .'·d I r' f 31 IS made up of a group of d1S- rade Sam Baron, arreste y ..... ~ tion of the importance of the aI- ga1nst the ~UIC;.: pod1cles ~y in the last year, the POI turns gruntled people. I think you are G.P.U. in Spain for TrotskJ: fair and for their self-congl'atu- class boPel~~~'4 ehga 1 Yt' ~kn m~rte d its face to the masses, to give generally con:ect: It is made up ism. . I "sym IC - our s n es f 01S e d II latory complacency, are t h eatncH h d k b th them true revolutionary counsel of the whole Left Wing ten ency Fraterna y yours, . upon t e arouse wor ers y e . . h I th d J h En t ed Sec ta masterp1eces. . h B I h ·k L· . the .....st cn·t1·cal year the wlthm t e party. n 0 er wor s, 0 n es v t, re ry This perfonnance ha!i •received.. reformists, teo s eVI - enm- 1n . mv 1t• 1S• made up of the ran k an d 01··1Vla L oca1 ~ an exce11 ent 0 ffiC1a· I press; b u t ists raise the slogan of 'general- French workers. have.. had to face ~he applause of the truly advanc- ized mass-occupation of the fact- since the last lmr-erlahst war. ed w01·kers has been more polite A Letter to the Editor of the "Modern Monthly" ; than enthusiastic. Regarding with well-founded cynicism the sud We reprint below a copy of I contributor in this case is bound deness of the police discovel'Y of a letter !lent by comrade Trots by a reciprocal bond to all the the arma-c&cbes of LaRocque'" ky to V. F. Calverton. To date, others. I consider it impossible momentary Political ad,·ersaries, no . reply or acknowledgment to carry any responsibility not . they point out the significant Renewa·ls has been made to it. -Ed. only for Mr. Beals himself but fact that somehow none of La- also for the publication which to- Rocque's far more numel·OU!i and The Socialist Appeal has been scl"ibers who do not renew their I October 15, 1937. Ilerates him iD its ranks. well stocked arms-depots wel·e mailed regularly to fonner sub subscriptions. The number ap- Mr. V. F. Calverton, Stalinism is the syphilis of the discovered· aDd though they have scribers of Labor Action and the pearing beside your name on the :: M;rrto:~; N Y workers movement. Anybody who been treated to exciting. det~ct- old Socialist Appeal. Wl! did not wrapper indicates the issue with ew or 1 y, • . chances to be a direct or indirect; iw-story reports of complete want subscribers to either of these which your subscription expires. My Dear Editor: carrier of such a contamination membership lists found, and of publications to feel that they were This issue is No. 18. If your You propose that I write an should be submitted to a pitilela great figures involved, they note not gettinc their money's worth. wrapper shows .a lower number article on war for the Madern quarantine. The hour has struck. that the arrests have been eX'- Now, in literally hundreds of than this, your name,YIilJ be re- Monthly. Before entering direct- for the unsparing demarcation of tremely t.lw- in number, and in- cases, subscriptions have expired mo~ed from our subscription list ly into discussion of your amiable h~nest people from all ~ agents. volve apart from DiBorgo and but we have continued mailing until you renew. proposition, I am forced to put friends, lawyers, pubbe18ts, ana Dusel.neur, DO one of any note; the Appeal with the hope that And while you are renewing,one preliminary question. In the p.oets. of the G.P.~. Collabo~ 'and that, furthermore, moat have renewals would be forthcoming. don't forget that subscriptions list of your associate editors is tl0n 10 a journal like yours ~ been 1"8I8&sed again. Each pel'son whose subscription alone will not finance the Appeal. inscribed the name of Mr. Carle- necessary for such as Beals 1Il haR expired has been notified by The blank belOw provides space ton Beals. Mter his kparticipa- o~er to preserve their mask of The Fascist Danger letter and thel·e has been some for contributions. If you can spare tion" in the Inquiry Commission "lnde~nce." The l.ess reasoJl response. any amount to keep alive the only on the Moscow Trials, there can- ~ .an independent.}OUl"nal te This is far f1·om meaning that ...... not be the clightest doubt about give 1ts cover to such gentlemen. French Faseiam is not to be taken Mu~h as ,,:e wo~ld like to, !t 1S Rev~lutio~ry M&rXls~ newspaper the moral physiognomy of this If the name of Mr. Beals re seriously. Quite the contrary. finanCially 1mposslble to contmue pubhshed 10 the Umtecl States, geJ!t1eman. Beals' article on the mains on your list only through Staged and limited as the raids supplying the Appeal to sub- spare it oow. Commission hearings in Coyoaean overi-sight (and I should be gla4 were, their revelations a1'e a . was nothing but a series of lies to hear from you that this is the symptomatic wal'ning of the sort and falsifications dictated by the case) then you can irnmeclia~ of which Spain had plenty prior r interest of the G. P •U. I enu'- correct this error. In the opposite to July 1936. They show once Socialist Appeal merated the most important of case I. shall be forced to uk you more that, just as in Spain, the 116 University Place Date these lies and falsifications in an to .publish this letter in your Fascists are preparing, right un New York City article, a' copy of which, so far magazine in explanation for Dl7. der the nose of the Popular as I know, was forwarded to you. taking away JIlT name· from the Front government, their eventual I enclose ,...... for which please send me the You have not yet, however, reael- roll of your cieDtributol'lt. armed insurrection. The arms ed in any way to the attitude of Sincereb' yours, seized are only a drop in the Socialist Appeal. One year-(f2.oo); Six ·Months Mr. Beals. .... Tntaky. bucket. Just as in Spain, the army ($1.00) 0 I can give an article to a of fi c ~ r s are overwhelmingly I enclose ,...... as my contribution toward. Riarhtist in sJlllpathy: the Fl'ench ,bourgeois publication without an! SOCIAL __ .:I DANCE building the Socialist Ap}geal. concern about the other conm- . UlU 'ftllftt_rparta of Sanjurjo, ·Franco, butors, as I may ride in a bus SatarU)' BYe., Dec. 18 and 1I0la only. await the Name ...... ~ ...... without concern about the identi- at LBAJI DILLON'S STUDIO' Just as in SpaiD, the Po- ties of the oUter passengers. To- 137 B. 11th 8tNet Front. government takes Address .... ,...... •...... oil tally different is the case with Aupieee: ADMISSION 20c ~ feeble balf-meuu~ that, .... . a magazine which appeals to Low_ llaahattan ~.. . J. band, are a positive Ci"3 • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • ... • ... Y. P. S. I. J ~rovocation tao the Fucists, and, " I Ma1"X1sm and revOlut1on. Every I '-______" • rt ti SOCIALIST APPEAL December 11, 1937 IlL- II Lovestoneites Change Ine Under INTERNATIONAL NOTES ~c·nt Ev-nts In U S S R lIThe Franco-~o~et Pact ~nd t~e Maneuyers. of • Impact Of R~ ~ .~ • • • • I the Imperialists. SoViet U mon Elections -,.------Fea!ured by Continued Purge. .II tly Joseph Carter '-, ______~~ __~ ______~iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii~, i ®-- By John G. Wright Moscow Trials Rumors that the Franco-Soviet pact is about to be scrapped have been revived of late, The "democratic" EUl'opean pl'es<; keeps The Zinoviev-Kamenev and the stressing the growing isolation of the S " '1 '/3 ~ . ·'i .~~ . ., ..' December 11, 1937 SOCIALIST APPEAL .. .,4,. "r ', .~ JJankers Order Congress FutHe Debates in Capitol . : .. ·To Place Crisis .Burden RevealComingPvartyRifts· on Workers and Farmers I • By Jani:::iumbam The Special Session of Congress has now been goinl'; By Jam(!S Casey on for nearly a month. To date, its score in wor~ ae- · .. t h kl th Ii) '. • • complished is exactly-zero. A remarkable fact when pJac- FiDan~ Ca~ital has POISed Its ~orce.s 0 s . ac . e e a Federal agency against arbl~- ed a ainst the headlines which we read every day. There is, aation's u,ilers WIth a mass of new legislatIve chams before rary slashing of wages by busI- . g I k f bl th t . ht be d It witB . ."'"- ~ end'41 0-\ the W'111 t e1'. ness, large and. small... eVIdently, no ac 0 pro. ems a .mlg ea • . . h th' th -f Id ur- Moreover, wIth a reJectIon of the And yet the Congressmen havc@) The Wall Sbeet bourbons ave IS . ree 0 P thirty or even the thirty-five spent by far the gl'eatel' part of fidently rcady. Their aim w.. pose: our week, it is clear that "private theil' time in debating "points of once the progressive one of ex.. • Fit.t to place the entire bur-®····· ...... enterprise" in accordance with its procedure." The Concrftlsional panding. the produdive forceR. of: den of the current crisis. upon 'he~ lneh. a cJft1cal ~ ~es: inherent nature, is concerned firat Record these days isra rich labor- society. fhis is no longer possiWe:" ... aboulders of tQe wOl'kers tiomftg a~ltu~e on CaPltQI Hill. and foremost with the quiCk re- atory book in the intricftciell of -for them. And now they seek tiiid f&m1er1. ' HanD« aald tblS, Tuoker proeeecls tW'll to big dividends and ~s tUl'Il- he rules of ol·der. only l'ationalizq fonnulal fOlP. .- SMon4.. to cut wu-. eQrb go-. to reveal how t~ melnbers of in~ a d~ ear to t~ pleas of • p~s~rvi~'g their .i~1 power aa4 _mat relief f9r the \lIll!m~ ~~sa have ~.to ~rfo~ ':hberals' for absorptIon of ~he Purpose o~ Speetal pnvIlege. befQl'e. gomg ov~r • • 1oJed an-ut the risiq power theU' Jobl for B1&'BU8me~, w)lll. Jobless as a means of stemmmg SessIOll the open brutalIty of fa;;(:IBm. ef .... trade ~. atimQlM4i tumiD&' their b~lm OD the needs the "recession." . '. . .' 1IP3 uion orga.tz.tio.-. and of ,tile iBcreaaq .1\umbe.r. of 111\- Finally, the public uti~ities are ~sevelt c~led this SpeCIal Battle~Behind.The Seenea loWer the liviJw· etaadard of the employed aM tbe.r tamihe~.. to be ,P6l'Il1itted to ralae rate. "Sesslon, early m the autumn, to...:. _ ... m..... "They will demand revtalQn of anew and swell profita. enact a four-point ··secial pro- It should not, however, be ,,!,a-: =~ Pl'oeuH ~ioQl a~1 laws believ~d.to dampe'h;~ C . romise with Power gram": Farm Aid, HOU8~ng, ~ined that nothing is happen..- : Pl'QfP'8JD, -..tien fo, this ttiaco~ge. pn~~ ~te~nlM!' OIllP •... w.ges and How's! Reorgamza- m Washmgt~. Beneath the sur-' ~ ill' deaiCQed to end the '1'ucker write.. . 'l'M! WIU &,llD Trusts . . tion of the ExecutIve Br~ch of face debate I~ CongrellS" a ~ ...... ine. reeeslrien" aad bJ,ast first at the modifieation of c:or- "Of all the eoonomlC royalISt,! the Government. No one wIll ~eny an~ far-reachmg ba~tIe la nOW" • ..til for QeW and big.. r eli. por.ate tuea, es~ly eapl~1 moat violently denouncecl by the tru.-t each of these matters IS of gOIng on,!. a battle whICh emer~ ~. ~ aad 10HeII and ta. UD~S- New Deal preachers,. the publ~c the utmost importance. bound UP in ~n earlier stage last SprIDlt .. • tributec! ~urpl';ll levy. To rev1~e utilities stand to g~ most lD Iwith the ~terests and ne~ of d~rmg the fight over the ~uR VIew of Press the buIlding Industry they wIll view of the more subdued and large sectIons of the AmerICan BIll. T~e first bone of contentioaa urge reaQlllption of the home realistic attitude on Capitol HUl," people. No one should be so foolish from thcrpoint of view of eac_ 'Walter Lippman, David Law- modemization oamp~gJl and s~k says the Wall Street spokesman. as to imagine that Roolevelt act- gl'OUp, is; how to slough off ~ ftIlCe, Hugh S. Johnson and .other better FHA terms for home ~uIld- Declaring that the plan for seven ually intended that these ques- ponsibility for the new c)'Js~ "th~pieces of ~ction wtite era. Drastic amendmeJlt of the additional TV As may be ditched, tions should be genuiBely solved which seems to impend? 'Wlth a cynical bluntness o! t~ese W-agner Ac:t so as .to make it lei. Tucker writes: by the Special Session. What was Roose~elt mUllt seek to attri ..... of the monopoly capltahsts pro-labor is alm08t a ~n..mty. '·Even the President seems to needed was a gesture in each bute it to'the sabotage of "oc-o-. - at Roosevelt's open capitula- ~. be weaken.ing on tlltlt sector, and field sufftcient to aroule the bopes nomic TQl'ics" and to a rf'calcit: • .- w the "eeonomic royalists.· Proposed LetrislatlGft if he can negotiate a 50-50 com- and illusions of the masses, to rant Congress. The ··economi~ • f;I:a three different publications. It· fr th f regoing >romise with the Power boys, he reinforce their f.ith in Roosevelt, Tories" . and their immediate Ilu.~ at the same time, the' three t ; Il"ee:t ~~ teed 0to have will gladiy withdraw from this Itut at the same time so vague spokesmen, on the othel' hand~ UlfJQt.lQlled writers say that tbe t~ au :; m t n.t! b dget- costly and controversial scheme." and limited as to guarantee no must try to make New Dealism llapmltive need, "if depression is t e govermn b m:. I thUse in The "scheme" is "controversial" breach in bourgeois economy and responsillle in the public mind. - be .verted and a sound eeono- expen,":s y bxmgketa'Q lind because it proposes to lower light no real break with bourgeois tra- Thus Roosevelt, by giving the .' • be'nd ed . vi . n ~hY t e l ower Iqcome rac ..,"' , f '11' of . h . d k' !by IS to 1 UC .1S a re S10 , th f ed' r' slas'h and power rates or ml Ions dition. This is the perenmal met - rope w-'~ongress an ma Inc ~ N n-I I" . ed at In e course 0 proc u e, . gh h try . d '~" b.".... . --. . ew. oVC'. po 1Cles aIm . ref d f rce the jo.bless to consumers throu out t e coun od of the New Deal polIcy an U conceSSfons to usmess 4III .... stbnulating priyate credit and in- dIe I dan 1 0 I h 't' nd the .and cut into the profita of the Ne~ Deal demagogy. self nieanwhile baviRg too" ~ t." epen on oca carl 1es a 11 t' ., . . k yc.... :uoen p I d k1! Tucker dis- Morg&R-Bockefe er corpora umB, But when the SpecIal Sesl"llon aches and going fishmg), Joe .". They concede that mon0p?ly er oye ;or t:t Rooaevelt's who cODtrol more than 60 per was called, th!! business "reees- into a position where, if it seems GlQ)i~ta, thrown into confuSIon c oS-::'i :ecth u' ~gram has cent of the utilities in America. sion" was just beginning, and desirable-at a later stage, he can the depth of the last crisis, ~tsUc -. o~ dO SlDg rt 'n Wall Also the "scheme" would provide there 'Was still confidence that it again denounce the Torie!l, prove .v·of • 3 t I ble I orlgm an suppo 1 ,. '. . . found m 193 a mos va ua St t d' 1 I ted primarily employment for thousands In was only Il minor drop of a few that coopel'atlon WIth them 'was ~ in Roosevelt's New Deal ~~ ree ant~s cb~ cu a tra' ct rs and agencies not directly controlled weeks to be quickly "corrected." the cause of all evil, and l-e--a,csert Ii · Th' N D 1 h r "'" serve lie 19 con 0 h b" Th ef . ' ". " po Oles. IS ew ea. ow~v~. Ito th th . aid to by t e Ig Interests. er ote, During the intervening weeks, the ~e\V Deahsm on a "new and ba.cJ given a few sops to labOr .~~ :t:lio:': :~um andw~;:rs and it is to be tabooed. . index of production, along with higher plane." the. form of government reh prospective' smail home owners. The enactment of even. a patt the prices on the Stock Exchan~e, Onc point, howcver, and b¥ '~Jects . a~d encouragement to Then there is to be "drastic of the program, as outlIned by hurtled downward, at a rate tWIce far the most important point, trade unIonIsm. amendment" of the Wagner ..let Tucker, wt)~ld be a deadly b~w as rapid as that during the last Roosevelt, the val'iou:\ (actions i~ · Now, . after ~ve years, ~he and Tucker makes no effort to to the AmerIc~n workers. It would months of 1929. Wide-scale lay- Congl'csli and the "Torie!l" have ~OUIltry IS ag.l? floundermr conceal its aims. The amendment eras~ many, if not all, the con- offs began. Whether 01' not a new completely in common: namel" through an eeonom1~ mora~s. W~~ is to be wholly in the interests c~sslon~ wrung from the corpora- major cyclical crisis has bc- .the neces:\ity for attributinr .tlle Streeters and theIr legls"to e of the bosses, which meaDS its tIOns Ih the last few ye~rs gun, no one any longer dOl1bt~ new crisis to something, anything, have found that the recurrenc t" to __ 1... d if pos- through strenuous trade umon the seriousness of the currcnt other than its true {'ause which - b' "de ." annot mo Ive 18 w..-en an , ct"t It Id t th ~ I 110 V.& uame:!I b pres~l:n c t' " sible, block the work of trade a· lVI y. wou se I e f" d ~ drop. And, in ~ddition, .t~e war is, of COUl'SC, simply the (~apital- ...preven yany em?cra l~ union organization. suppress movement back .a cou~ e 0 e question thrust Itself heavIly ftnd ist ~ystem itself. At all ('osts, ::" ~. Tb.e~ ~re prepa~~~g t~O ir strikea, curtail picketing and b.e- cades. The AmerIcan toIle~s :ust abruptly forward, not as a dis- they mu:\t hide this conclusion• .':\1~ oov;r oov:. w~ed .;c- nefit company unionism. ~ct at once d t: p:t Il c ec on tant cloud, but as a heavy present The real importance of the pre- ~_ s owar unprec en r. Nor is that all. Wall Street is (~gress tan tih e osses· .. shadow. sent crisis is in providiBg the --. . . . bla .a lie nex ar c l e on the crISIS ., . . eded) Discuasing the "united front" of lDslstent that even the seI? ~ce will deal with the mobilization The real Iss~es In the face of final pl'eQf . (if one IS ne 'IU_ "D..._. • te st and theU" of proposed pro-labor legISlatIon f th t" k' d which the Sesslo.n gathered wcre that (repJ'esented by . - _mesa lD re S . 0 e na Ion S wor ers an ....refel'lm~m bl . C • Ra Tucker must be revamped to the sat1S~ f) simple and direct: the downward thc New·Dt'sl) IS no more capa e pJaaa. f InF' OnglelS,Capital's y leading'. factIon 0f the bo sses. R ea d w h a t armers. swing of the bUSIness. cyc Ie, Iong than I'alsser ralre . 0fl' so vmg t"",!e OlIe 0 lDance Tu ... 'tes f h ed r ... . . II t" h t' I bl f QOkesmen writel in the last is- ~ ..er . ~ 0 suc propos OPEN FORUM before the .0ptlmlstIca y an ICI- t. e grea socIa pl'O em~ :> our .. 11M of the Ma.azine of Wall legIslation. Which Wa For The Soviet pated upsw~g had been co.mp- tIme...... t· "The wages-and-hours measure, ~ . • ., leted accordIng to the norms of 'As In the Court fight, so m the ~ • if passed at all, will be only a • nlon. . the bourgeois statisticians; and Special Se!;sion, the most -bitter Attitude of Capitol Bill shado~"o! its firs~ form. Where.as ~be MIller, Speaker Ithe approach of the war. ." exchan~es tab place not between the ongInal WhIte House 81m ThIS FRIDAY, Dec. 10, 8 p. m. And with these issues, so mtl- Repubhcans and .Democrats, bat "The reasons for the changed waa a 40-40 proposition with . at 159 RIVI~GTON ST. mately affecting the lives of the betweerr-"the different faction,; of . mental ltatus on Capitol Hill sliding, regional scales adminis- . ,-AUSPICes masses in face of the lay-offs. thc Democratic Party. The divi- 41ft ironic. and yet IUltural. Five tered by a Federal boa~, Con- East . SIde ~b~r Ce~ter the lo..,,!ering of wages, the whole I"ion between the Republican and ,....a ago the m~rket ~ollapse gress will probably prOVIde f~r QuestIon~ a!ld DiSCUSSIons gathering storm of "economic I ~emocI'atic Parties f:ounded in,~h~ 1Pl4i' subsequent IDdustnal de- a 40-hour week and a $12 .i~l- AdmlSSlon Free J crisis" and the untold human . Issues focussed ~ul'mg thc t.;lvd !treeaion fric"tened the poli- maDl weekly wage to he adMhlls- . _ .. .. '.. misery which it brings with it, War has reduced itself to a tieoB .to ~lind allbservience to teretl a.der hard aad fut rtlles. Fridav _ Dec. 17th Congress debates points of order. Tweedledum-Tweedledee contest; JlooIJevelt. . lIe aeemed to have It will not pe~it any F~I at· 8:45 P. M. The President has a toothache and the political fl'amework .it ~ ~ t~ nght aDawes and the agency to fix regIOnal and Indus- VAX SHACHTMAN (one always does well do be SUI"I- provided is no longer convmclqg .1Jt ~~QD8,. ~nd .they Ilmen- tr~al ~iff~renti~ls in. accor~anc~. ..1".'. ..' ." picious of the toothaches of poli- enough to sustain the !llu"i~ .tlhim b» ~tinC bia pl'OposalB WIth Ita lDvestJgatonal whIms. Ed!tor Socl"ist .An~ ticians) and goes fiahing off of capitalist politics ID t~lS "(ritjho,.. ~ tl)e titles of . Ne.... InteraatJo a Miami. Senator Connally makes country. The prcssure i)f "'e the bills. Jle was the one and Wages to Be Lowered RuW11~ spe~k o~ . wise cracks about the Anti- Labor Pal'ty movement, contaUl- .m., ..viow. They expected •• '"The sSlan evo a:~011 - Lynching Bill. No clearer sYlllbol'~ ing beneath its diatol'te.1 ud ··1IliNcles. Since em~l~yers always IDSISt 2~ Years A~ter. . of the decay of capitalism could bUl"eaOCI,.tic surface the incipi~t "NoQe ~ "me•• Ou the con- that. the ~m~mum also be the QuestJ.Jn and DiSCUSSIon. be found. Confronted with genu- class IDOvement of t~ J)1;1:HCS, 'lS ...,,~b...... ad ~ ~ve maXImum, It IS patent tba.t· Wall •• ine social probleDlS, the bo~r- being felt; and t~e n~et.I. fur cOin- .... lQ" ~ tal1api~ which, Street Iws atruck upon thus TUse I olnas PlUDe Society . geoisie itself, and its lpokesmen, inc to tel'llls wIUl It 1" a way *..,m. retpect.. ia ••!!pel' tUn as one of the quiek ~a1s to. end 88 Seventh AVeJUle South are dismayed and floun.ring. that will pa~.$ee ita Iaar ..... .. arl.IriI* .6re. X. 110" in'" the new criaia. Thus. if the bank- reenWich Villace. N. Y. C. Their attitude betraya the fact development. If 'he ltepohli.,...... ·tIae 4ecJiJ)e in ~c- ~'. drive is not sw.,ped, a $12 - (7t~.~~ Subway) that, col1llCioully or UDOOlUIejpua!y, and Denloeratie ~il'l'i twit ~ll tie has ~ ~ preclPltate JnlIllDlUJll wqe would be esdata!i Christopher Street) they have lost confidence ill their jin the field in 1HO, th.y vrill..,t ... ~ .... ia \laI ~ly daya llahed as th~ average stan AtI ..issiOil with ~ Aclv. oWn answer, the aaarer which in be the ..me ,.u. t .... 411f:tM ~ .•~lon. Never for the AmerICan worker. Neit)Ier - OaJy 36 cq~ - an earlier era they had so con- been know. sinl." .. Civil Wtr• ...,.... til aoo..eItlan ~ya was would there even be recourse to .. - .. SOCIALIST APPEAL Deeember 11, 1937 • .. .. Fdiing Station ILeft Are You Ready for War? • A Discussion on Imperialist War, Past and Pre8ent, on the Presidential Workers Winl .labs ''Peace-Lovers'' and How They Prepare the Minds of the Masses in .. Support of a New World-Wide War for Plunder and Exploitation. Frisco Strike SAN FRANCISOO.-Expres Synthetic bacon made from Not "Red" But YeUow only when the working class has taken power. sion of a strong sentiment for pig's blood and synthetic eggs Are we for the abolition of the ROTC and the unity of the rank and file in CIO made from fish are among the Many people, who have become accustomed to other govqnment agencies seeking to militarize blessings enjoyed by German la regarding the Communist Party as the "reds", the and AFL unions against both sets the Y:lung people? The fight against war must of bureaucrats led to the speedy bor since Heiling HitJel' has been arch-revolutionists, may not be aware that in re be carried on NOW:, not only after war is declared, and favorable settlement of a substituted for thinking, and eent years they have thrown aside their whole rev through a conc~'ete struggle against militarism. strike in a General Petroleum goose-stepping for labor unions olutionary past and have instead taken over cont Against ROTC, both compulsory and optional, as service station here last week. in Germany. plete1y the ideas of the pinkest reformist social the goose-step agqncy on the campus. Against the The four men in the station shuck ists. The Massachusetts investigation found thenl militarization of the CCC camps, which al·e under when Jerry Driscoll, member of Life Under Mussolini . ~ stoutly insisting that they believed in achieving army control for the purpose (as army officers the Filling Station Employees Conditions close to serfdom, Socialism through "peaceful means," through the have boasted) of preparing the youth for war. Union, Local 410, CIO, was fired growing poverty, miserable sub-. election process, that they were against the Against Roosevelt's sky-roeketing military appro for union activity. sistence wages, increased hours overthrow of th~ government "by fOl'ce or priations, and his plans fOl' military-industrial Bridges agreed to support the of labol', uncertainty of employ action but attempted to turn it otherwise,·· and against world l'evolution. These dictatorship in war-tim~. Around such issues wide ment, decline in quantity and things, they said, had been believed by the Com united fronts can be forged. into a CIO-AFL beef when the quality of food consumption, I munist International only in its "infancy"-that AF of L officials sent members Do we in the A.S.U. support the Oxford Pledge worsening of conditions of shal·e is; while it was led by Lenin. Today, Stalin, of their Garage Employees Union I hav "to refuse to support any war conducted by the croppers, impoverishment 0 f ing grown "wiser", is devotillg his time to wiping to work behind the CIO picket I U. S. government"? This pledge, wbich baa com small farmers, are among the eat the l't'volutionary past of the Communists line. blessings bestowed on the ma1'lses " I bined on different grounds rev.olutionists and In reply to this splitting ma _ framing up and shooting all the IMn who led of Italy by lIussolini and the pacifists in the immediate struggle against the nuever the men on stl'ike issued I the great Russian Revolution. Fascist regime according to Dl·. , concrete imperialist war which is being prepared, a leaflet to the rank and file of . This degeneration of a movement has bap~ Cal'l Schnlidt of Columbia Uni I has more than anything else in the student mo~ the -AF of L Union declaling they ! _ before. The Second (Socialist) International vel'Sity who spent eight month II ~ ment provoked the He8l'sts and ROTC colonels to were for presenting the station too was founded as a Marxist organization; be studying conditions in II Duce'" i frothing denunciations. They could see no more owners with a flet of joint de I fore the W~rld War it too was regarded as a red paradise. I favorable symptom in the student movement than mands and "demanding of the bogy, and its shameful support of imperialism , the abandonment of this platform. The YCL is leadership of both unions that in the World War came as a shocking surprise this unity be brought about" in "Patriotism: Last I now doing this work for them. We call upon all to all. Today the Communist International an order for the workers to present Refuge of a Scoundrel" sincere anti-war fighters in student ranks to smash nOlmces its betrayal of the working class in ad a "solid front to gain their de this drive in the A.S.U. "If Communism is 100 l>t'r cent vance. Both the Second International and the mands." Americanism on a national scale Third (Communist) International have gone the The day this leaflet was dis --and it is---.then why shouldn't Opposition to War Requires Fighting tdbuted, the of L men were way of social-patriotism and support of imperial A:F our lower units develop the -i withdrawn from the station and , ist war. Organization !'ame kind of patJ'iotism for their one day later the strikers were But the working class struggle for Sociali~m But thE!. Oxford Pledge is a correct statement neighborhoods?" - C I are n c e back on the job with their de~ only of what NOT to do when war comes. One Hathaway in the Sunday Wor,kel' . .and against war demands a revolutionary Inter mands won. There is nothing like _tional to organize that fight on a world-wide must go far beyond it. We do not look upon an an alert and militantly led rank If old Sam Johnson was alive to a:ale and r~volutionary parties in all countlies imperialist war merely as a horrible catastrophe, and tile to bring the bureaucrats day would he not chAnge his de finition to, .. Patriotism i!' the Isst that will take up the red banner. We of the move though it is that; to us it represents a crisis of and their bosses into line. ment fol' the Fourth International have our own the capitalist system, when it is stalting its all, refuge of a Stalinist 7 .. Pswer to the questions that wert!! asked Dave whe,n the W'l:>rkers are given arms aild told to fight for the bosses. Our aim is to utilize this Mickey Mouse in Gnm~the answer of our leader Lenin. Good Meeting Concentration Camp The Answer of Revolutionary crisis for the purpose of abolishing the capitalist For H. Milton • war-system itself, to teach the armed workers to Belie'·e it or not, h~'re's the Marxism tum their guns not against their fellow workers In St. Louis headline from the Tim~s: .. Writel' Do we differentiate between the capitalist in the opposite trenches but against their enemy ST. LOUIS, Mo.-On the even in trouble over Mickcy !\Iouse. "democracy·· of the imperialist countries and the at home. Our aim in opposing imperialist war is ing of November 30, HalTY !\liIton Tillles ~fan is Ordered from ~ Soviet democracy of a workers state? We cer the revolutionary overthrow of capitalism. Do addressed an enthusiastic meeting Yugoslavia after his Story of Ban tainly do. Capitalist democracy is a sham which we believe in turning imperialist war into civil ponsored by the St. Louis Di~trict on Comic Strip.·' That'~ tough is not believed in by the capitalists themselves, war? This is the way by which the Russian work of the Soeialist Party ( Left on :\1ickey and the reportcr but who are ever ready to throw asidE!! all democratic ers secured peac~ in 1917 while their ,brothers in Wing). About 70 persons attend watch the Storm troops and ex ecutioner go int·;) action if Hitler pretenses in strikes, in the lily-white South, in other lands were still struggling under the yoke ed. ever hears Donald Duck go Quack! its Cubas; it is a cover for the cruelest exploita of imperialism. This is the only way by which Taking as his general topic "The Truth About Spain", liilton Qua-a-ak!!! Qua-a-a-a-ak!!!!! tion of the mass. of people. We do not defend permanent peace can be, gained and war abolished from the face of the earth. _ gave a devastating analysis of • capitalism, democratic 01' otherwise, whether it the miserable history of the Po- ShOppU!g Notes is allied with the Soviet Union for its own imperi This fight is not an easy one. It is not sufficient pular Front regime in Spain, and II . t th t alist reasons or not. But we do defend the Soviet to stand on the sidelines and say" Attaboy" every in particnlar, of the- role played ommg pape!s repol'. a Union against imp.-ialist attacks: within the oncE! in a while at a mass meeting or while read . h Stal' . ... Leopold of Belgium and his bro- b y the S pams IDIS..s. h Ch I . E 1 d . Soviet Union we support its war against the im; ing a pamphlet. Our enemies are the organized In the discussion period the t er ar es. are !on ng a.n In perialists; in the capitalist countries we carry on f·;)rces of capitalist terrorism, military dictator spokesmen for the- CP, unwilling s~arch of ~rldes. They. wlil at the revolutionary struggle to establish a working ship, war hysteria, betrayers within the working or unable to deal with specific ~end the W orshop shoPPing fest class state as the only possible reliable any of class who act as direct agents of the war-machine. cases, confined themselves, at the IvaI to .be opene~ b~ Lady Anne the Soviet Union. Under capitalism the wOl'kers Our answer, if it is not merely fatalistic or d~ beginning, to long-winded and Cavendlsh-Bentmck.. We hc:'pe have no fathedand: we have a country to defend featist, must be a fighting organization. very "reasonable" dissertations they find some b8l'gams .. Our ow.n on the theme that since the policy supply of 5 and 10 helre~!'e,; IS .. . of the Popular Front Government completely gone, ~ot even a us~ -d F U W- his COITect, any measures it may o~e on hand. B~t If the boys c.ant take to enfOl'ce that policy aTe pick up something at the f .. "hval, T.!..y T0 B0 Is~er MI west . rame- PS_ It i:.~;~;;:'I[,;. '::::i",~~t-::: ~;~;:~':,h~ ':,':n~::':.!~.:" ~~~,~~;: ,. " C f·", IF·· • Plat F- I StalinistHenry Beattie,and veteran Canadian of the ex-In- p'IllS an d N ee dl es one SS Ion ~ n rIS co, IZ Z e S ternational Brigade who l:ecently If you live in or near Xew York expose~ th; fra~e-ups .agamFt the )l' if you are visiting our village, SAN FRANCISCO.-Facts are to Dave Beck in Seattle. He gave transaction. I revolutlOmsts m Spam, the re- don't fail to see "Pins and ~eed stubborn things. And James 0' $600 to his wife before leaving And Bell's own wife denied that pre~entatives of th~ CP <\l'opped les," the I. L. G. W • U. Players Niel, personal publicity man for on this mission, it is alleged. he gave her any $600. She even their. hit. It !