Why Is Russia Mobilizing?... By Leon Trotsky

Not Even the Three - Times - a - Week

Kremlin Knows! L E T T H E P E O P L E VOTE ON WAR Moscow mobilizes and everybody asks himself, against Socialist Appeal whom? But at the present moment even the Kremlin doesn’t know. One thing is clear: the German-Soviet agreement facili­ Official Organ of the Socialist Workers Party, Section of the Fourth International tated the defeat of Poland, but didn’t at all guarantee the Soviet Union’s neutrality. The Polish army proved to be weaker than many supposed. Now in Paris and London, undoubtedly, the VOL. Ill, No. 70 FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER I5, 1939 3c a Copy people are looking at the German arm y’s approach to the Soviet border with interest and without excessive alarm. The friend­ ship of Stalin and Hitler needs distance. The complete defeat of Poland can prove fatal to the German-Soviet agreement. Hav­ ing settled down on the borders of the Ukraine and White Rus­ sia, Hitler w ill propose to Stalin to give a more active character to his new “friendship” . Simultaneously, he can turn to Paris and London with a proposition to give the German army an op­ portunity to march farther east, and w ill show complete willing­ F. D. R. CALLS SPECIAL SESSION ness to bind himself, at the same time, not to raise the question of colonies for twenty-five or fifty years (Hitler gladly exchanges time for space). Under the pressure of double blackmail Stalin will have to make a definite choice. In view of this critical moment’s approach, the Kremlin is mobilizing. In order to main­ tain both possibilities, the Moscow radio stations are giving news in tlie Russian language favorable to the Western democracies, and in the German language favorable to Germany. It is diffi­ TO FORCE VOTE ON WAR MOVES cult to imagine a more symbolic expression of the Kremlin’s -<*> double dealing politics and of Stalin’s personal character. In what way is this double dealing going to be solved? Long War Dangerous to Hitler SWP D rive Stalin understands what even ex-Kaiser Wilhelm understood: Act of War Seen in namely, that with a prolonged war Hitler is headed toward a great catastrophe. But the whole question is one of time limits To Get on and tempo. On the road to the abyss Hitler can not only crush Poland, but he can give the Soviet Union such blows as to cost His Statement on the Kremlin oligarchy their heads. And those gentlemen value N. Y. Ballot their heads above everything. For their salvation they can be compelled to go farther on the road with Hitler than they wanted at the moment the pact was concluded. Defense of Canada As an obstacle on this road there is, it is true, the extreme Progresses unpopularity among the masses of the alliance with fascism. Molotov referred to it recently in his latest speech when he com- pained that the “ simplified propaganda” (that is, the Comin­ tern’s propaganda of yesterday against fascism) gave birth even Report Good Results Sole Function of Congress W ill Be to Put in the Soviet Union to discontent with a German-Soviet combina­ tion. The above mentioned radio news in the Russian language Despite Interference Rubber-Stamp on Presidential Decrees— testifies to this fact. But Stalin expects to master public opinion in his own country by further purges: the enmity of the Russian O f Tammany Repeal of Arms Embargo Certain workers and peasants, unlike the enmity of Hitler, is not yet armed. Thus, having started as H itler’s quartermaster, Stalin can become his half-prisoner and ally. NEW YORK CITY, Sept. 13— Despite orders from Tammany Having stacked all the cards, in open defiance of law, the Is a New Turn Possible? ward heelers to their support­ But can’t the Kremlin complete a new sharp turn, breaking ers to block the anti-war cam­ Constitution and the w ill o f the people, by his decree declar­ the Soviet-German agreement and throwing itself at the last paign of the Socialist Workers ing a “ limited state o f national emergency” and by his un­ moment against Hitler? For this there would be necessary, of Party and prevent it from ob­ course, serious m ilitary successes by France and England in the taining the number of signa­ paralleled proclamation that the United States w ill defend tures necessary to place candi­ next period, plus a radical change of the neutrality law in the Canada in its war against Germany, Franklin Roosevelt on United States. But the Kremlin would hardly enter an open war dates Max Shachtman of the against Hitler even in this case. However, the concentration of Bronx ad George Lyman Paine Wednesday summoned the Special Session of Congress to of Manhattan on the ballot for significant forces on the western border would permit Stalin to meet on September 21st. reject Hitler’s absolutely inevitable new demands. the coming Councilmanic elec To connect the question of the direction of Moscow politics tions, canvassers report steady The war-mongering Roosevelt administration, rushing progress in filling out the nom with the ideas of the international working class, with the tasks headlong toward direct m ilitary intervention, has decided not of socialism, with the principles of democracy, et cetera, can mating petitions. only be done by completely ignorant babblers or by paid agents ' In the Bronx yesterday 300 merely to deprive the people of any voice on the issue o f the signatures were obtained in less of the Kremlin. In reality, Moscow politics is exclusively deter­ war. Following the example o f the totalitarian democrats of mined by the ruling oligarchy’s struggle for self-preservation. than an hour and a half by can­ The Krem lin’s choice of roads w ill be determined by the mate­ vassers of the Bronx branch. Britain and France, Roosevelt People not members of the So­ rial interrelation of forces of both camps and by the march of is determined also to reduce m ilitary operations in the next weeks. It is better not to say the cialist Workers Party but sym­ "choice of roads” , but the direction of the next zig-zag. pathetic to its anti-war cam CIO JOBLESS Congress to the function o f paign, reports Max Mont, or­ approving steps which have LEON TROTSKY ganizer of the Bronx branch, Coyoacan, D.F. are giving the most encourag­ been taken beforehand by ex­ Septem ber 11, 1939 ing help in order to insure the UNION FORMED ecutive decree. appearance of Max Shachtman The plain fact of the mat­ on the ballot in their borough of the B ro n x. AT CONFERENCE ter is that Roosevelt’s state­ Needle Trades Respond A Manifesto- ment on the defense o f Cana­ Behind the Lines In Manhattan the workers in da is an act o f war. Canada the needles trades industry are By GEORGE STERN. Delegates at Seven has declared war against Ger­ giving the campaign a particu­ many. Roosevelt has notified larly warm welcome. They are Stalin has moved more than only against adversaries who the world that the armed forces fam iliar with the successful an­ State Meet Oppose a million troops to the Polish are helpless. He may use his To the Oppressed Peoples o f of the United States w ill defend ti-fascist drives of the Socialist and Rumanian frontiers and bayonets against the Polish ref­ F.D.R. W ar Plans Canada against its declared the whole world is wondering ugees who seek haven in his Workers Party at Madison enemy. By such a move, Roose- w hy domain, but this column’s guess Square Garden on February 20 Ivelt drops even the pretense of' and in Union Square on August The black line of the Nazi ad' is that when the German troops Latin America, A s i a , A fric a ! (Special to the Socialist A p p e a l) neutrality. vance through Poland is mor reach the first Russian outposts 19 when the Coughlinites threat­ PITTSBURGH, Sept. 10—Del By what right, by what au­ ing like lava across the land. It they w ill more likely be greeted ened an invasion. Canvassers egates from CIO-WPA unions in thority, does Roosevelt usurp for George Lyman Paine report has already submerged the in' with respectful salutes and con^ seven states met here over the the power to commit the United dustrial heart of Poland and at gratulations for the speedy and that those who sign the nomin­ weekend, at the call of the Before even a generation has passed, Eu­ to the bellicose snarl of the beast excited by States to war? this writing the Germans are efficient completion of the drive ating petition greet them sym­ United Project Workers Organ­ rope is again at war! The imperialist beasts the odor of blood and carnage. The state of Roosevelt’s Strategy Plain claiming entry into the out­ across ‘Poland. pathetically on the streets when izing Committee of the CIO, to are at large again, anxious to devour, in thp.’r emergency already decreed in the United stepYto set up Yperman- Roosevelt’s campaign to rush skirts of Lwow, capital of the With the conquest of Poland they chance to meet later, and greedy ferocity, all the riches of civilization States creates the necessary conditions for the country into the war within Polish Ukraine, only 100 miles Hitler will have other means of lend a hand in securing more ent International Union of WPA and all of humanity itself. This once more con­ snuffing out in advance every critical voice, the shortest possible time is from the Soviet frontier. What keeping his new axis partner in signatures. and Project Workers. firm s the precision of the Leninist description every manifestation of distrust of the m ilitar­ moving fast and straight toward is going to happen when the a state of perpetual trepidation ' A.L.P. Silent Anti-Roosevelt Resolutions of our epoch as the epoch of wars and revolu­ ist and pro-war policy of Washington. New as­ its goal. His strategy becomes lava curls steaming up against It is no accident that precisely Meanwhile the policy of sil­ The conference adopted sig­ tions. tronomical sums are being swallowed up in plainer every day. S ta lin ’s borders? at this time reports are reap ence on the part of leaders of nificant resolutions opposing The Anglo-Franco-Polish imperialist bandits preparations for war; new works are opening During the first two weeks, Trotsky says he does not be­ pearing concerning the activity (Continued on Page 2) Roosevelt’s war plans and de­ on the one hand, and the German imperialist to manufacture more engines of destruction by his own acts as head of the lieve the Kremlin itself is sure o f nationalist propagandists nouncing the Administration’s bandits on the other, are however, only the night and day; the war profiteers are already government, he lines up the of the answer to this question among the people of the Polish persecution of the Minneapolis outposts of the world catastrophe that has al­ licking their chops in expectation of the profits United States on the side of An­ The only certain thing we have Ukraine. If the Nazi-Soviet pact WPA strikers. ready begun. All of humanity stands on the they w ill draw from the slaughter of millions glo-French imperialism. At the to go on is Stalin’s fearful de did contain secret provisions Called at the initiative of Phil­ PACKINGHOUSE brink of the abyss. Nothing can save us from of men. The power of anti-democratic repres­ same time, his subordinates termination not to let himself for parcelling out Poland, Hit­ ip Murray, CIO vice-president, destruction and a return to savage bestiality, sion multiplies from day to day. Roosevelt’s start a howling war-mongering be drawn into a war that he ler will be handing over .to his the conference—with 35 dele­ except the revolt of the peoples against their general staff prepares to call a million men to campaign throughout the coun­ knows will mean his end and friend in the Kremlin a heavily gates from Pennsylvania, Ala­ WORKERS WANT capitalist governments. the flag immediately, while awaiting the trans try . the end of his ruling clique. charged bomb. Resurgent Uk bama, Maryland, Illinois, Mich­ No part of the world will be spared by the formation of Latin America into a source of Rubber-Stamp Congress Stalin’s union with Hitler was a rainian nationalism can and igan, West Virginia and Ohio, war. Mussolini stands on guard, awaiting the supplies and a barracks at the exclusive serv­ Then, with the fundamental shotgun wedding and is conse­ w ill have consequences just as representing steel, coal, rubber development of the situation and weighing the ice of Yankee imperialism. direction toward the war estab­ quently destined to be neither explosive for Hitler as for Stal ACTION POLICY and auto areas—may possibly price offered him by the Anglo-French capi­ lished in advance, he calls Con­ blissful nor long-lived. That is in, but Hitler’s whole daring Roosevelt Gives Orders to mean that John L. Lewis is pre­ talists on one side and the German capitalists gress together to rubber-stamp why the approach of Hitler’s strategy is based upon playing paring to wipe out the Workers By WILLIAM SIMMONS on the other for the sale of the Italian people. Latin America hordes to the Russian frontier with dynamite, a game in Alliance in an anti-Stalinist of­ the moves already taken and to CHICAGO — Ever since the As always, the Balkan peoples w ill be the can­ Washington is already calling the govern has the whole world guessing. which Stalin cannot afford to fensive. make the next giant steps. Packinghouse Workers Organiz­ non-fodder of the big imperialist powers. ments of Latin America together at Panama In particular, he demands Is Hitler’s wedding gift to his jo in . The conference recommended in g C o m m itte e delegation, to dictate to them what shall be their conduct frightened bride going to be a Stalin has strangled the SovI that the CIO national council and will get from Congress re­ headed by Van Bittner, present­ Roosevelt W ill Plunge Us into War in the present international situation. The Pan­ slice of the Polish Ukraine? Or et Ukraine and earned the Only those who wish to deceive themselves set up a nation-wide WPA or peal of the arms embargo. The ed its appeal to the Secretary of ama Conference is the continuation of the com­ is he going to begin, even at smouldering hatred of the Uk' w ill be deceived: there is not a corner on the ganization as an international Senate isolationists, led by Bor­ Labor in Washington, it has edy of Lima. Authorized by the so-called this early date, to show her who j rainian peasantry. Any fuse surface of the globe that will be spared by the charter local bodies. ah, feeling the pressure of the been clear that further moves “ Declaration” of Lima, the Yankee imperial­ is master in this charnel house?! touched off in the Polish Uk- war. The “ assurances” of peace by the United Genora Johnson, representing anti-war sentiments of the peo­ in negotiations with the packers ists are taking the first steps in the mobiliza­ One guess is that Hitler will raine will reach charges laid States can fool no one. America, whether it be the WPA and Unemployed Aux­ ple, announce that they will would be more closely related tion of the oppressed people of Latin America keep right on marching. But if deep in the Soviet Ukraine by North, Central or South, is not a world apart. iliary of the UAW-CIO of Flint, fight to retain the embargo. to the clean atmosphere of the to lead them to the slaughter-house of war. he does he will greatly oblige Stalin himself. The spectre of Roosevelt cynically lies, and the puppet gov­ Michigan, led the fight for a Borah expressed the entirely national administration build­ Already the watch-dogs of the imperialists, a surge toward the creation of ernments of Latin America echo their master’s militant anti-war stand, and correct belief that repeal of the the French and British by cre­ ings than to the ill-smelling re­ their most faithful lackeys in the mass move­ succeeded in carrying the reso­ embargo, coupled with the Ad­ ating a real eastern front. an independent, united Ukraine cesses of the stockyards. lie, when they assert that the Western Hemi­ ments, begin to yelp. Such a watch-dog is Lom­ lutions unanimously. ministration’s general conduct There will be plenty of Hitler- undoubtedly haunts the Krem Unfortunately for the young sphere isn’t Europe but is a continent of peace bardo Toledano, in Mexico, who cynically ap Stalin double - crossing before lin these uneasy nights. That Oppose Armaments of foreign relations, "w ill inev­ union, it has thereby also per­ and democracy. peals to the Latin-American masses to support Supplementing the general itably bring us into the war.” the world sees daylight, but it may be why Stalin has sent a mitted itself to be maneuvered It is not true. The Yankee imperialist sharp­ Roosevelt’s war policy and the “ democratic” anti-war resolution and giving Isolationists W ill Collapse is not likely to take the form of million men to the border and n t o w e a k e r ground. Its ens his teeth, feverishly prepares his weapons imperialists, that is: Chamberlain-Daladier & a Soviet-German clash at this that may also be why Hitler it life by attacking armament Nevertheless, any reliance on strength lies in the yards. There and awaits only the opportune moment to Co., oppressors of the enslaved peoples of In­ greets this move with evident appropriations, a resolution on the isolationists to block Roose­ stage of the game. Hitler won't the workers feel the pinch of throw himself into the fight to overcome all dia, of Indo-China, of the five continents. choose this path because for the satisfaction. their mounting grievances, and his rivals. The whole world will then be but a flood control demanded that velt’s war moves would be uto­ time being he has too much to For a double cross on a they have shown on more than single red-hot furnace. The fire will extend Pacifists Serve the Imperialists Congress "appropriate funds pian. The isolationists are gain from Soviet “ neutrality.” grander scale by either party one occasion that one ounce of from Europe to Asia, from Alaska to Pata­ In this tragic hour, when guns are deciding, not for armaments for the de­ themselves patriots of the first Stalin certainly won’t choose to this unholy union, conditions action brings quicker results gonia. the humanitarian verbiage of the pacifists is struction of life, but for flood water, advocates 'of an ever K because he willingly fights (Continued on Page 2) (Continued on Page 3) Roosevelt will change his democratic smile (Continued on Page 4) (Continued on Page 2) (Continued from Page 2) FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1939 2 SOCIALIST APPEAL Jobless Union Formed at Seven State CIO ALL SET FOR SWP DRIVE TO GET ON BALLOT BIG DANCE PROGRESSES DESPITE TAMMANY Conference Takes Stand Against War Deal MANEUVERS Canvassers Get Good Results on Nominating Petitions for Anti-War Candidates Also Denounces Per­ It was learned today from the IN DEFENSE OF PERSECUTED most authoritative sources that FOR A GENUINE LABOR STAND (Continued on Page 2) •• further the development of a communique is forthcoming secution of Minnea­ dependent political action 8* conscripting all men and wo­ the American Labor Party in the part of the American work­ polis WPA Strikers men of dancing age to Irving the face of increasingly omin­ AGAINST THE WAR-MAKERS MINNEAPOLIS WPA STRIKERS ers. Plaza this Saturday night when ous signs that President Roose­ It is high time that the important dance maneuvers velt is maneuvering to embroil (Continued from Page 1) American Labor Party officials The text of the anti-war resolution adopted by the Pittsburgh will be held. the United States in the world control in ail areas needed for war now raging on the battle­ clarify their platform in rela­ conference of the CIO United Project Workers Organizing Com­ The Pittsburgh conference of the CIO United Project Workers Meanwhile, many persons the preservation of life.” fields of Europe, underlines the tion to the capitalist war which mittee follows In full: Organizing Committee adopted the following resolution in de­ rushed preparations to don the The resolution supporting the burning need to ensure the ap­ has been raging almost twè WHEREAS: the war being waged in Europe may well be­ fense of the Minneapolis WPA strikers: anti-war paint in a demonstra­ Minneapolis WPA strikers pearance of candidates on the weeks and which threatens it come another bloody carnage of world destruction and WHEREAS: The WPA workers of the Federal Workers Sec tion that indicated wide support stressed the vicious role of At ballot who will stand up cour­ suck us in within a short time’. tion of the General Drivers Union Local 544 of Minneapolis of this Saturday’s frolic. WHEREAS: detailed plans exist for the emasculation and torney General Murphy’s ag­ ageously in public and oppose Silence in face of the war stifling of all labor organizations during war, embodied in the staged a militant and spirited strike in the nationwide strikes ents and demanded the acquit­ The parade grounds, located the w a r. danger is tantamount to ap­ Army M-Day plans which are to be rushed through Congress tal of all defendants. and protests against the vicious Woodrum Amendment of the at Irving Plaza, 15th Street and proval of the im perialist slaugh­ “The continued silence of imediately upon America’s entry into the war; Jack Grittie of Newcastle, work relief and relief bill which slashed the prevailing WPA Irving Place, have been newly ter for profits. The officials ®f American Labor Party officials AND WHEREAS: the workers have been given the lesson Pa., was chairman of the con­ wage scale and increased the number of work hours, and decorated and the anti-martlal the American Labor Party must concerning their attitude to­ from the last world conflict that labor has everything to lose and ference and Fred Carrenno of WHERES: As a result of this m ilitant action. Federal nego­ music will be supplied by the speak out and take a stand wards plunging this country in­ nothing to gain from war; Pittsburgh was secretary. Both tiators did settle the grievances of the Minneapolis WPA workers Savoy Bearcats. Heading the against this capitalist war. •* to the blood-bath is not less are now serving as officers of favorably, and list of revue-ers w ill be Archie “ The silence of these officials AND WHEREAS: if the American workers are to keep out than criminal,” declared Ed­ the Project Workers Organizing Savage, in an Afro-American up to now is further proof, if of the international slaughter, they must stand united against WHEREAS: Attorney General Murphy sent his agents to ward R. Frank, organizer of Committee. A national commit­ version of Cuban dances, Dew­ such proof were necessary, that any and all wars waged by international profiteers and concen­ Minneapolis, which agents’ actions resulted in the prosecution Local New York of the Socialist tee was elected to carry on the ey Johnson, famous Negro bari­ every single opponent of war trate their forces upon solving the problems of the employed of some 40 or more m ilitant WPA workers, who are now behind Workers Party, today. “ It em­ w ork. tone and many others. must throw himself into the and unemployed workers in their struggle for economic security; prison bars under five to ten thousand dollars bond, phasizes again that there is on­ As yet it is Impossible to struggle to place the Socialist AND WHEREAS: the Nye munitions Investigating Commit­ THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED: That this Conference go Tickets can be purchased at ly one 100 percent anti-war, an­ judge whether Lewis w ill follow Workers Party candidates òa tee exposed that the profits of the Merchants of Death, the manu­ on record condemning the action of these government officials the Labor Bookshop, 116 Uni ti-fascist political party in the the mandate of the conference the ballot. If opponents of thfe facturers, are the only motives which force us into wars: and the press in their strikebreaking role, and versity Place. The admission is field — the Socialist Workers and set up an International for war have not yet signed a nom­ BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED: that we express our soli­ 75 cents and plugged medals P a rty . THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED: That the United Project WPA and unemployed workers. inating petition, they should da darity with the WPA unionists of Minneapolis by demanding will not suffice. Workers of the CIO, meeting in conference in Pittsburgh Sep­ Should he take this step—which Relation to A.L. P. so Immediately. If they have their unconditional acquital of the trumped up charges framed tember 9th and 10th, calls upon John L. Lewis and William would mean a definite break be­ “ I want to emphasize that the not yet secured blank petitions by reactionary agents, and Green, and other officials of the CIO and AFL to recognize the tween the CIO and the Stalinist Socialist Workers Party has de­ for circulation among their deadly seriousness of the threat to organize labor as incorpo­ Workers Alliance—it may very BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED: that copies of this resolu­ clared that it w ill support every thopmates they should secure rated in the M-Day plans, and to do all in their power to keep well be the basis to rally to- tion be sent to the Federal Workers Section, Local 544, to John Subscribe to the candidate of the American La­ them without waiting another labor united in a genuine stand against War. getner all m ilitant WPA and un­ L. Lewis, William Green, Attorney-General Murphy, Colonel bor Party who stands indepen­ day, either from the nearest (See editorial, page 4 of this issue) employed workers. Harrington, and President Roosevelt. SOCIALIST APPEAL dently on the slate of the Amer­ branch headquarters of the ican Labor Party. We give cri­ Socialist Workers Party or tical support to such candidates from the City Office, 116 Uni­ c ' because we believe that it will versity Place, New York City. Independence of the Ukraine and Sectarian Muddleheads Last Call for New York By Leon Trotsky

In one of the tiny, sectarian bound up with the world prole­ ments of planned economy and inasmuch as the Ukrainian peo­ proletarian revolution in a midorian reaction in the USSR, Dance and Entertainment publications which appear in tarian revolution. From this the de-centralist requirements ple like all other peoples of the backward country proved in­ the defeat of a number of revo­ The Savoy Bearcats, one of the best swing bands in the America and which thrive upon general perspective, ABC for a of the development of nations U.S.S.R., are deprived of any capable of solving the national lutions, the victories of Fascism country w ill supply the music for the dance and entertain­ the, crumbs from the table of Marxist, he contrives, however, oppressed in the past. Having opportunity for expressing their question, especially the Ukrain­ —which is carving the map of ment being held this Saturday under the auspices of the the Fourth International, and to make a recipe of temporizing constructed a workers state on w ill. But the very genesis of the ian question which is, in its Europe in its own fashion— N. Y. District at Irving Plaza. repay with blackest ingratitude, passivity and national nihilism. totalitarian regime and its ever very essence, international in must be paid for in genuine the compromise principle of a An elaborate program of entertainment has been ar­ I chanced across an article de­ The triumph of the proletarian federation, the Bolshevik party more brutal intensification, es­ character. The Thermidorian currency in all spheres, includ­ ranged and the social committee stakes its reputation that voted to the Ukrainian problem. revolution on a world scale is wrote into the constitution the pecially in the Ukraine, are reaction, crowned by the Bona- ing that of the Ukrainian ques­ it w ill even surpass the program presented at the Pioneer the end-product of multiple proof that the real will of the p a rtis t bureaucracy, has tion. Were we to ignore the new What confusion! The author- right of nations to complete sep­ P a rtie s. sectarian is, of course, opposed movements, campaigns and aration, indicating thereby that Ukrainian masses is irreconcil­ thrown the toiling masses far situation created as a result of to the slogan of independent battles and not at all a ready­ the party did not at all consid­ ably hostile to the Soviet bur­ back in the national sphere as defeats, were we to pretend Everything is set for what will undoubtedly be the out­ Soviet Ukraine. He is for the made precondition for solving er the national question as eaucracy. There is no lack of well. The great mass of the that nothing extraordinary has standing social affair of the season (and perhaps the last world revolution and for social­ all questions automatically. On­ solved once and for all. evidence that one of the pri­ Ukrainian people are dissatis­ occurred, and were we to coun­ before America is drawn into the war). All comrades and ism—“ root and branch” . He ac­ ly a direct and bold posing of The author of the critical ar­ mary sources of this hostility fied with their national fate and terpose to unpleasant facts fa­ friends are urged to get their tickets immediately and be cuses us of ignoring the inter­ the Ukrainian question in the ticle argues that the party lead­ is the suppression of Ukrainian wish to change it drastically. It miliar abstractions, then we sure to be present. Get a group of your friends together ests of the U.S.S.R. and of re­ given concrete circumstances ers hoped “ to convince the independence. The nationalist is this fact that the revolution­ could very well surrender to and bring them along. Tickets may be obtained at the treating from the concept of the will facilitate the' rallying of masses to stay within the tendencies in tire Ukraine ary politician must, in contrast reaction the remaining chances S.W.P. offices at 116 University Place. permanent revolution. He in­ petty bourgeois and peasant framework of the Federated erupted violently in 1917-1919. to the bureaucrat and the sec­ for vengeance in the more or dicts us as centrists. The critic masses around the proletariat, Soviet Republic.” This is cor­ The Borotba party expressed tarian, take as his point of de­ less immediate future. is very severe, almost implac­ just as in Russia in 1917. rect, if the word “ convince” is these tendencies in the left pa rtu re . Our author interprets the slo­ able. Unfortunately, he under­ True enough, our author taken not in the sense of logical! wing. The most important indi­ gan of independent Ukraine as stands nothing at all (the name might object that in Russia pri­ arguments but in the sense of | cation of the success of the Len- SECTARIAN ARGUMENTS follows: “ First the Soviet Uk­ F.D.R. CALLS of this tiny publication, “The or to October it was the bour­ passing through the experience, inist policy in the Ukraine was LIKE THOSE OF STALINISTS raine must be freed from the Behind the Lines Marxist” rings rather ironical­ geois revolution that unfolded, of economic, political and cul-1 the fusion of the Ukrainian Bol- If our critic were capable of rest of the Soviet Union, then ly). But his incapacity to under­ whereas today we have the so­ tural collaboration. Abstract ag-|shevik party with the organiza- thinking politically, he would we will have the proletarian WAR SESSION (Continued from Page 1) stand assumes such finished, cialist revolution already be­ itation in favor of centralism tion of the Borotbists. have without much difficulty revolution and unification of the almost classical forms as can hind us. A demand which might does not of itself carry great in the course of the next dec- surmised the arguments of the rest of Ukraine.” But how can are not yet ripe. Despite the there be a separation without enable us better and more fully have been progressive in 1917 weight. As has already been a(je, however, an actual break Stalinists against the slogan of (Continued from Page 1) dazzling speed at which things to clarify the question. is nowadays reactionary. Such said, the federation was a nec- occurred with the Borotba independent Ukraine: “It ne­ first a revolution? The author move these days, a new flip- is caught in a vicious circle, Our critic takes as his point reasoning, wholly in the spirit essary departure from central­ group, whose leaders were sub gates the position of the de­ bigger army and navy. Their flop, like an Anglo-French dejkl and the slogan of independent of departure the following posi­ of bureaucrats and sectarians, ism. It must also be added that jected to persecution. The old fense of the Soviet Union” ; support of the arms embargo— with Hitler for a drive on Rus­ Ukraine together with Trotsky’s tion: “ If the workers in Soviet is false from beginning to end. the very composition of the fed­ Bolshevik, Skrypnik, a pure “ disrupts the unity of the revo­ which by itself is in any case sia, or a Russian deal with B ri­ “ faulty logic” is hopelessly dis­ Ukraine overthrow Stalinism eration is by no means given blooded Stalinist, was driven to lutionary masses” ; “ serves not helpless to block the swing tain and France for an attack DEMOCRATIC TASKS TIED credited. In point of fact this and reestablish a genuine work­ beforehand once and for all. suicide in 1933 for his allegedly the interests of revolution but toward the war—is largely a de on Hitler, could not occur with­ TO SOCIALIST AIMS peculiar logic — “first” and ers state, shall they separate Depending on objective condi­ excessive patronage of nation­ those of imperialism.” In other vice to quiet their own con out more straws drifting into The right of national self-de­ “then”—is only a striking ex­ from the rest of the Soviet tions, a federation may develop alist tendencies. The actual words, the Stalinists would re sciences. the wind than we have so fair termination is, of course, a ample of scholastic thinking. Union? No.” And so forth and toward greater centralism or, “ organizer” of this suicide was peat all the three arguments of They will make a certain been shown. That will require Our hapless critic has no ink­ so on. “If the workers over­ democratic and not a socialist on the contrary, toward greater the Stalinist emissary Posty our author. They w ill unfailing­ amount of trouble for Roosevellj principle. But genuinely demo­ ling of the fact that historical further and more extensive throw Stalinism” . . . then we independence of its national shev, who thereupon remained ly do so on the morrow. in the Special, Session, but un­ processes may occur not “ first” tests of strength between the shall be able to see more clear­ cratic principles are supported component parts. Politically it in the Ukraine as the represent­ The Kremlin bureaucracy der the heat which will be and realized in our era only by and “ then” but run parallel to present belligerents and it will ly what to do. But Stalinism is not at all a question of wheth­ ative of the centralist policy tells the Soviet woman: Inas­ turned on by the administration the revolutionary proletariat; it each other, exert influence up must first be overthrown. And er it is advantageous “ in gener­ Presently, however, Postyshev much as there is socialism in and by the munitions manufac­ depend in no small measure on is for this very reason that they on each other, speed or retard in order to achieve this, one al” for various nationalities. to himself fell in disgrace. These our country, you must be happy turers hungry for war profits, the future course of the princi­ interlace with socialist tasks. each other; and that the task of roufet not shut one’s eyes to the live together within the frame­ facts are profoundly sympto­ and you must give up abortions their opposition will fold up. The resolute struggle of the revolutionary politics consists pal “ neutrals”—Italy, Japan, growth of separatist tendencies work of a single state, but rath­ matic, for they reveal how (or suffer the penalty). To the Roosevelt’s measures will go Bolshevik party for the right of precisely in speeding up the and, above all, the United i!L.the Ukraine, but rather give er it is a question of whether or much force there is behind the Ukrainian they say: Inasmuch sailing through. self-determination of oppressed mutual action and reaction of them a correct political expres no a particular nationality has, pressure of the nationalist op­ as the socialist revolution has It is very probable that States. nationalities in Russia facili­ progressive processes. The sion. on the basis of her own experi­ position on the bureaucracy. solved the national question, it Roosevelt will jam other war tated in the extreme the con­ barb of the slogan of indepen ence, found it advantageous to Nowhere did the purges and re­ is your duty to be happy in the moves besides repeal of the FAT FORMULAS DON’T quest of power by the proletar­ dent Ukraine is aimed directly adhere to a given state. pressions assume such a sav­ USSR and to renounce all arms embargo through the Spe­ Life Through the SOLVE CONCRETE TASKS iat. It was as if the proletarian against the Moscow bureauc­ In other words: Which of the age and mass character as they thought of separation (or face cial Session. New armament ap­ revolution had sucked in the racy and enables the proletar­ Eyes of a “ Not turning our backs on the two tendencies in the given cir­ did in the Ukraine. the firing squad). propriations, “ anti - sedition” democratic problems, above all, ian vanguard to rally the peas Soviet Union,” continues the au­ cumstances gains the ascendan­ What does a revolutionist say bills, and even a “ national reg­ Social-Democrat the agrarian and national prob­ ant masses. On the other hand, thor, “ but its regeneration and cy in a compromise regime of SIGNIFICANT ATTITUDES to the woman? “ You w ill decide istration” in preparation for the lems, giving to the Russian rev­ the same slogan opens up for Here’s a chestnut from Al­ reestablishment as a mighty a federation—the centrifugal or OF UKRAINIANS ABROAD yourself whether you want a draft are by no means ex­ olution a combined character. the proletarian party the oppor­ gernon Lee, leader of the citadel of world revolution— the centripetal? Or to put it ev­ child; I will defend your right cluded. Of enormous political import­ tunity of playing a leading role Social Democratic Federa­ that is the road of Marxism.” The proletariat was already un­ en more concretely: Have Stal­ to abortion against the Kremlin It cannot be too strongly em­ dertaking socialist tasks but it ance is the sharp turn away in the national Ukrainian move­ tio n : The actual trend of the develop­ in and his Ukrainian satraps police.” To the Ukrainian peo­ phasized that Roosevelt’s aim from the Soviet Union of ment in Poland, Rumania and “ For my part, I deny that ment of the masses, in this ins­ could not immediately raise to succeeded in convincing the ple he says, "O f importance to is to get this nation into the war Ukrainian democratic elements Hungary. Both of these political there is at present in this tance, of the nationally oppress­ this level the peasantry and the Ukrainian masses of the super­ me is your attitude toward your as fast as he can overcome the outside the Soviet Union. When processes w ill drive the revolu­ country any considerable ‘po­ ed masses, is replaced by our oppressed nations (themselves iority of Moscow’s centralism national destiny and not the ‘so­ resistance of the people. It is predominantly peasant) who the Ukrainian problem became tionary movement forward and litical and economic drift sage with speculations as to the over Ukrainian independence or cialistic’ sophistries of the reported that inner circles in aggravated early this year, increase the specific weight of toward fascism.’ There are best possible roads of develop­ were absorbed with solving have they failed? This question Kremlin police; I will support Washington are passing around their democratic tasks. communist voices were not the proletarian vanguard. a good many racketeers ment. With this method; but is of decisive importance. Yet heard at all, but instead the your struggle for independence the slogan: “ War by Christ­ Hence flowed the historically (To Be Concluded Next Issue) (some of them may also be with far greater logic, one our author does not even sus­ voice of the Ukrainian clericals with all my might!” m a s !” might say, “ Not defending a de­ Inescapable compromises in the fanatics) who more or less pect its existence. and national-socialists was loud The sectarian, as so often generated Soviet Union is our agrarian as well as the national openly advocate some brand DO THE UKRAINIANS enough. This means that the happens, finds himself siding task, but the victorious world sphere. Despite the economic OUT OF THE of fascism. I do not think DESIRE SEPARATION? proletarian vanguard has let with the police, covering up the revolution which w ill transform advantages of large scale agri­ HORSE'S MOUTH they really have much influ­ Do the broad masses of the the Ukrainian national move­ status quo, that is police vio­ Join the Socialist ence.”—New Leader, Aug. the whole world into a World culture, the Soviet government That J. P. Morgan & Co. Ukrainian people wish to sep­ ment slip out of its hands and lence, by sterile speculation on 5, 1939. Soviet Union,” etc. Such aphor­ was compelled to divide up have been appointed finan­ arate from the U.S.S.R.? It that this movement has pro­ the superiority of the socialist Workers Party isms come cheap. large estates. Only several cial agents for Great Britain might at first sight appear dif­ gressed far on the road of sep­ unification of nations as against The critic1 repeats several years later was the government again, as in 1914, was re­ able to pass to collective farm ficult to answer this question, aratism. Lastly, very indicative their remaining divided. Assur times my statement to the ef­ vealed by the “Importers ing and then it immediately also are the moods among the edly, the separation of the fect that the fate of independ­ Guide,” confidential infor­ What Your Dollar Can Do leaped too far ahead and found Ukrainian emigres in the North Ukrainian is a liability as com­ ent Ukraine is indissolubly American continent. In Canada, mation service, in its latest itself compelled, a few years pared with a voluntary and A dollar puts a Socialist Appeal salesman an an im­ REPUBLICAN for instance, where the Ukrain­ equalitarian socialist federa issue. later, to make concessions to portant street corner for one day. ians compose the bulk of the tion; but it will be an unques­ “Please take notice,” it the peasants in the shape of pri " ISOLATIONISM" Five dollars permits free distribution of two hundred JUDAS GOAT vate land-holdings which in Communist party, there began tionable asset as compared says, “ that J. P. Morgan Co. have again been appoint­ Socialist Appeals. many places tend to devour the in 1933, as I am informed by a with the bureaucratic strangu “In the grim tragedy that prominent participant in the lation of the Ukrainian people. ed financial agents for Great Ten dollars puts a full-time field organizer to work for collective farms. The next “I’m in favor of the Neu­ has come upon us there is stages of this contradictory movement, a marked exodus of In order to draw together more Britain and w ill probably al­ one week in the anti-war campaign. one ray of hope. Humanity trality Act except that I fav­ Ukrainian workers and farmers closely and honestly, it is some­ so be appointed for the process have not yet been re­ or repealing the embargo on is not dead. The peoples of solved. from communism, falling eith­ times necessary first to separ French government to act in two great nations risk their arms, ammunition and im­ er into passivity or nationalism ate. Lenin often used to cite the a similar capacity as during Anti-War Campaign Committee own annihilation to help a HAS STALIN CONVINCED plements of war. It seems to of various hues. In their totali­ fact that the relations between the previous war, which is Socialist Workers Party smaller neighbor. Greater THE UKRAINIAN MASSES? me that there is nothing un­ ty, these symptoms and facts the Norwegian and Swedish indicative that steps have al­ neutral about supplying arms 116 University Place, N.Y.C. nobility hath no man than The need for compromise, or incontestably testify to the workers improved and became ready been taken to make / to any nation which can buy that he lay down his life for rather for a number of compro­ growing strength of separatist closer after the disruption of possible purchases of all Dear Friends: them, just as we have his unknown brother. . . . A mises similarly arises in the tendencies among the Ukrain­ the compulsory unification of commodities in this country throughout our country’s his­ new, a higher morality has field of the national question, ian masses. Sweden and Norway. by the democratic nations.” I enclose , as a contribution to the anti-war tory.” — Senator Robert A. taken possession of the de­ whose paths are no more recti­ This is the basic fact under­ The “Importers Guide” work of the Socialist Workers Party. Taft, leading candidate for INDEPENDENCE FOR mocracies.” — Ludwig Lore, linear than the paths of the ag­ lying the whole problem. It took for granted that Roose the Republican 1940 nomina­ UKRAINE IS REVOLUTION. Nam e in his daily column, “ Behind rarian revolution. The feder­ shows that despite the' giant velt will succeed in wiping tion, as quoted in N. Y. A R Y SLOGAN the Cables.” (N. Y. Post, ated structure of the Soviet Re­ step forward taken by the Octo­ out the embargo against Address Sept. 4, 1939.) public represents a compromise; T im es, Sept, 5, 1939. ber revolution in the domain of We must proceed from facts arms shipments to Europe. between the centralist require national relations, the isolated and not ideal norms. The Ther- FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1939 SOCIALIST APPEAL 3

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A Manifesto 1 SOCIALIST APPEAL Smash the Frameup The Stalinist Tol. m, No. 70 September 15, 1939 On “ evidence” provided by F B I agents sent into the Minneapolis WPA strike by Attorney Published three times a week by the SOCIALIST APPEAL PUBLISHING ASS'N. General Murphy, a Federal grand ju ry has in­ To the Oppressed Peoples o f War Line Adds at 116 University Place, New York, N. Y. Telephone: ALgonquin 4-8547 dicted 103 strikers. “ You can’t strike against the (Published three times a week beginning Sept. 9) government,” Roosevelt threatened—though there’s nothing in the Constitution or the law to Latin America, Asia, Africa A New Wrinkle Subscriptions: $2.00 per year; $1.00 for six months. For- •ten: $8.00 per year, $1.50 for six month«. Bundle order»: that effect— and his lieutenant Murphy carried 2 cent« per copy In the United States; 3 cents per copy in . . . “the character of the war now developing is «11 foreign countries. Single copies: 3 cents. out the threat. They hung the indictments on the (Continued from Page 1) that of a struggle between two rival imperialist Bronx and Manhattan subscriptions are: $1.60 for aix groups for the domination of the world. months: $3.00 for one year. flimsy thread provided by a provision of the the most dangerous poison for the masses. The from your ranks, with equal firmness, the "Reentered as second class matter February 16. 191*. at Roosevelt-Woodrum Relief Law which prohi­ true face of the pacifist democrats begins to faithful agents of Stalin the traitor, yesterday “Poland has been made the excuse for the out­ the post office at New York. N.Y., under the Act of March break of this war as Belgium became the pretext *. 1979." bits “ interference” with WPA workers. Trials be revealed in all its hideous nudity. Look at still the raging partisans of the “ democratic” Gandhi, that senile saint of the Hindu capital­ war against the fascist aggressor, and today for the development of the last world war. . . . are to take place shortly. v the defenders of the treacherous alliance be­ “The character of this war in no principle re­ E d ito r : ists! He drops his mask and changes his role MAX SHACHTMAN Minnesota labor got a stiff dose of govern­ of the humanitarian vegetarian prophet into tween Stalin and Htiler! spect can be said to differ from that of the late World W ar. Associate E d ito r» : ____ ment and state prosecution in the last war for that of recruiting sergeant in the service of FKL.IX MORROW EMANUEL. GARRETT “This war has nothing to offer the masses of democracy. Minnesota labor understands that British imperialism, the most infamous oppres­ Yankees— Policemen of G eneral M a nage r : A s s is ta n t M a n a g e r: sor of India. The same despicable role is any participating country except death and de­ MARTIN ABERN SHERMAN STANLEY Roosevelt is taking the road that Wilson trav­ played by such petty-bourgeois nationalists as World Reaction struction, further miseries and burdens.” elled, and that Roosevelt is moving even more Nehru. M. N. Roy, etc. The role of Yankee imperialism is no less Incredible as it may seem, these simple state­ reactionary than that of the European or Jap­ ments of fact are now uttered by the general sec­ sw iftly than his predecessor. W hat Attorney FIGHT WITH THE SOCIALIST Neither Hitler-Stalin Nor anese imperialisms. The Yankee imperialists retary of the Communist Party of the United General Daugherty didn’t get around to until Chamberlain-Roosevelt will be the reserve force of world reaction States, Earl Browder. (Daily Worker, Sept. 13). WORKERS PARTY FOR: And to round out the picture he declared that to 1918 and 1919, Murphy is already up to. Oppressed peoples of Latin America! En­ when, sickened by the horrors of the war, the 1. A job and a decent living for every worker. understand the role of Poland “we have to refer to slaved peoples of Asia and Africa! Do not be­ enslaved peoples of the Orient stand up erect, The answer of Minnesota labor has been in- the fascist character of the government of Poland 2. Open the idle factories—operate them under lieve the lies of the imperialist powers! Do not chase out the British and French slave-drivers spiringly decisive. The Central Labor Union of itself. This was a government which only a few workers’ control. march to war under the bloody and ignoble and proclaim their independence. The Euro­ months ago participated with Hitler in the dis­ Minneapolis, comprising the entire labor move­ banner of imperialism! Chamberlain-Daladier pean imperialists, worn out by the war, will S. A Twenty ^Billion dollar Federal public works memberment of Czechoslovakia. want your skin, your bones that are exhausted no longer have the strength to strangle the and housing program. ment, has set up a W P A Defense Committee “This government in the past oppressed, and by feudal and capitalist exploitation, in order great revolution of the colonies. This task falls which is raising the necessary bail, taking care still continues up to the present to oppress nation­ 4. Thirty-thirty! $30-weekly minimum wage— to throw you into the mouths of the fascist upon the less exhausted imperialists, the rich­ alities within its own frontiers.” 30-hour weekly maximum for all workers on of the prisoners and their families, providing at­ cannons of Hitler! Japan wants to profit from est and most powerful ones, those of the United These words are by the same Browder who only a ll jobs. your legitimate hatred of the imperialist ban­ States. It is the historic responsibility of the torneys, and fighting the case before the bar of the other day howled for a war of England and dits of London and Paris in order to exploit American workers, with the aid of the op­ 5. Thirty dollar weekly old-age and disability public opinion. The St. Paul Trades and Labor pressed peoples of Latin America, to prevent France against German Fascism. pension. you, in the name of a vague Asiatic patriotism. Assembly, speaking for the labor movement of Do not let yourselves be used! If Hitler-Musso- world capitalist reaction from achieving its 6. Expropriate the Sixty Families. Minneapolis’ tw in city, has established a com­ lini come before you, arm in arm with the in­ goal. What Browder Said Until Yesterday. That is why the American workers and the Yesterday he painted the Polish government as 7. A ll w ar funds to the unemployed. mittee empowered to cooperate to the full with famous Stalin, trying to exploit for their own benefit your justified fight against Anglo- Latin-American peoples must not let them­ the genuine spokesman of the Polish people, the 8. A people’s referendum on any and all wars. the Minneapolis defense body. The Minnesota French imperialism, do not listen to them: un­ selves be deceived by the lies about the “ war true defender of their national independence. 9. No secret diplomacy. Federation of Labor, now in session, will un­ der the anti-imperialist, anti-capitalist dema­ for democracy” . The .reactionary governments Yesterday he denounced as “ counter-revolution­ of Latin America cannot defend democracy, ary Trotskyism” the view that the impending war 10. An independent Labor Party. doubtedly join in the defense and, moreover, w ill gogy of the Hitler-Stalin combine hides the hideous face of bestial fascism; drive them for if democracy really existed in these con­ would be a repetition of the war of 1914-1918, that 11. Workers’ Defense Guards against vigilante have submitted to it a proposal for a one-day aw ay! trolled countries their peoples would have the is, an im perialist war waged under the hypocritical and Fascist attacks. general strike against the frame-up. Neither is Roosevelt more worthy of confi­ means of refusing to go to this war for the slogan of defense of small nations. He scurrilously profits of Wall Street. 12. Full social, political and economic equality But the Minnesota labor movement should not dence. He works not for the defence of peace attacked as “ Fascist agents” those who pointed to the fascist and imperialist nature of the Polish for the Negro people. and democracy but for war, for the interests of stand alone in this fight. The finnacial burdens Wall Street, for the exploitation of all the peo­ Freedom for all the Oppressed! government. should be shared by the whole American labor ple of Latin America and Asia, for the domin­ Side by side with the millions of Latin Amer­ Today, at the dictates of the Kremlin master, movement, for the issues involved affect the fu ­ ation of the world! ica and of Asia, the African Negroes, the peo­ Browder’s tune has changed. Stalin’s agents have ples of Algeria, Morocco, Tunis and Egypt who to explain why their paymaster has signed a pact ture of every section of organized labor. I f the Hear Only the Voice of Why FDR Wants War suffer under the heel of the “ democratic” im ­ with Hitler which directly aids the latter’s attack government succeeds in railroading the defend­ Your Brothers perialists, will make coraon cause with their on the Polish people. So they discover that the im ­ The anti-war resolution adopted by the Pitts­ ants, that means that strikes w ill be outlawed The voice that you must hear is the voice of brothers oppressed by Mussolini, Salazar and perialist governments are nothing but . . . imper­ Franco. Together they w ill fight the common burgh conference of the CIO United Project not only on W PA and all work in government the toilers of the world, crucified anew by the ialist governments! They can no longer defend the Workers Organizing Committee (printed else­ unfaithful and traitorous leaders, from Stalin struggle against serving in the competing ar­ war as a just war, because otherwise how can they agencies, but on all public works for any na­ to Leon Blum, from Citrine to Toledano, from mies of imperialism. Together they will aim explain Stalin’s direct material and moral aid to where in this issue) breathes a spirit of such tional, state or municipal agency and, for that Browder to Green. Lewis and Co. This is the at one goal: the complete independence of the H itle r? earnest sincerity and— more important— grim matter, on any job under government contract. profound voice of your countrymen bent under peoples of Africa, so long the prey of preda­ Then the war—“ the struggle between two rival determination to fight the war-makers, that it the feudal yoke, it is the voice of the toilers of tory capitalism. imperialist groups for the domination of the Shipbuilding, munitions, chemicals, steel— all the the cities and the fields who get nothing from The oppressed peoples of the colonies and world” (Browder)—it appears should not be sup­ may seem carping to make some criticisms of it. multitudinous fields in which the Roosevelt ad­ life but the duty of not dying from hunger so semi-colonies must take into their own hands ported by the working class in any country? Unlike the isolationists, the signatories of the ministration sticks its nose and lets out a contract that the strong-boxes of the super-rich may the right to decide their own destinies: they Browder remains silentNm this question! Pittsburgh resolution start out with a realistic continue to be filled. That is the voice that you must take back their national riches which — w ill operate under the shadow of a successful m ust hear! were stolen from them by the foreign capital­ Browder's Comrades Back understanding o f a number of basic facts: that frame-up in Minneapolis. The war that at this moment is devastating ists; they must take back their land with the "Imperialist War" the war tends to become a world war, that the the fields of Europe and that will very soon right to work it freely; they must take back Sharing the financial burden with the Minne­ A week ago he endorsed the support of the war M-Day plans are prim arily directed against la­ embrace the whole world is not your war. It the great means of production and the monop­ sota unions is, therefore, an elementary obliga­ is an undertaking of the big thieves to see olies swallowed up by the foreign imperial­ by the French and English Communist Parties. bor, that to fight against the wars waged by tion of the American trade union movement. But which shall be master of the world in the near ists ; they must take back the freedom of which In a Daily Worker editorial (September 6), en­ capitalists means to fight for the needs o f the the financial aspect is secondary. Far more im­ future. Peoples of Asia, Africa and Latin they were deprived by the national feudal bar­ titled "Symbol of the French Communist Party” ons, allied with the foreign imperialist ban­ we read: workers, that labor only loses by such wars. One portant is the necessity to arouse the organized America: profit from their war by awakening! There is only one national war in the world d its: “ Maurice Thorez, general secretary of the has only to compare this resolution to the Labor workers of this country to the danger now con­ that can be just: that is your war! The war It is for these things that you must fight, great French Communist Party, has presented Day “ anti-war” speech of John L. Lewis to see cretised in the Minneapolis cases, to awaken ev­ that only you, oppressed and enslaved peoples, people of the oppressed countries of the world! himself for military service with the army of the fundamental difference between a serious, w ill be able to lead: the war against the bank­ The hour of this struggle w ill soon sound. The France. . . . ery trade unionist and friend of labor and demo­ proletariat of Europe, of the United States, of “ Now that Munich has led to war, Thorez, the honest approach and that of a trade union ers and imperialists of Europe, the United cratic rights, to the need for smashing the States and Japan; the war for your national the capitalist powers, w ill support you In this Communist leader beloved of the French people, bureaucrat seeking to take advantage of anti-war Minneapolis frame-up. Every union should take independence! struggle for freedom. And with your aid, they offers his life to defend the national security of F ra n c e .” sentiment. a stand in solidarity with the defendants against will stop the inter-imperialist world war by Break with all the transforming it into a war of the oppressed for And the next day, a special cable to the Daily But the Pittsburgh resolution is exceedingly the prosecution. Every trade union paper should freedom which w ill establish the only lasting Worker from London reports that the Communist Agents of Imperialism Party “ vigorously proclaimed that it continues to naive when it says that “the only motives which publish the story. Nothing w ill give the prosecu­ But in order that you should be able to profit peace, the peace of the workers, erected by the work more actively than ever' to help win the war force us into wars” are the profits of the muni­ from the war of the exploiting imperialist ban­ World Republic of Labor and Socialism! tion more cause to hesitate and back down, than against fascist aggression’ dits, in order that you should be able to utilize Down with both the “ Democratic” and Fas­ tions makers. These profits are a link in the a mountain of protests from the American trade The French Stalinists support the war in the it to conquer your national independence and cist Imperialists! chain, and that is why it is so important to stop name of “the national security of France.” union movement. liberty, one condition is indispensable: you Down with the Inter-Imperialist War! f # The English Stalinists support the war in the Roosevelt’s attempt to lift the embargo on muni­ Copies o f all resolutions should be sent to the must mercilessly drive from your ranks the Down with Capitalism! name of the struggle “ against fascist aggression.” open or disguised imperialist agents of every Long Live the War of the Colonial Peoples tions shipments. But it is only one link, and Central Labor Union W P A Defense Committee, This is the same war which Browder correctly color, whether they be democrats or fascists. for their National Liberation! scarcely the most important one. says “ has nothing to offer the masses of any par­ Eighth Street North, Minneapolis, Minnesota, The former want to push you to war in the Long Live the World Socialist Revolution! Roosevelt is taking the road toward war, not and checks and money orders should be made service of the British. French or American op­ All-American and Pacific Buro, ticipating country except death and destruction, further miseries and burdens.” ! only at the behest of the munitions makers, but out to the same body. pressor, the latter want to put you under the Sub-Secretariat of the yoke of Hitler, the Mikado or Mussolini. Drive Fourth International. All of Browder’s explanations of the Stalin- as the executive of the entire American capitalist Hitler pact and the new policy of the Communist class. He is taking the road to war because that Party only increase the confusion and bewilder­ is the capitalist way out of the economic crisis placed in a sealed envel­ ment in the Stalinist ranks. ope, with the nom de plume raging since 1929. For ten years the capitalists MANUSCRIPTS ASKED FOR JOHN on the outside—the envel­ Covering Up the Nazi Alliance tried other ways: Hoover’s way, and then the Such Coincidences! ope to be attached to the Browder’s condemnation of the war as imperial­ various shifts and turns of the “ New Deal” . outline submitted. ist on both sides is for the sole purpose of serving 3. The manuscript must be Recently we noted that the day after the Stal- the interests of the Stalin dictatorship in a new For ten years they tried internal methods of get­ DEWEY RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP completed within one year period—the period of the Stalin-Hitler pact. For ting capitalism to run again. A ll these methods, in-H itler pact was announced the Soviet Pavi­ after date of award. the present, this requires an attack on British and as we predicted, failed. And, as we predicted, the lion at the W orld’s Fair withdrew’ from exhibi­ 4. One-third of the fellowship French imperialism, and an increased agitation Professor Sidney Hook an­ terest in the labor movement. ($250) w ill be presented to capitalists have now turned to the external meth­ tion the anti-Nazi film, Professor Mamlock. This for a Roosevelt-Stalin alliance against Japan and nounced a contest for the first The contest is open to everyone the winning contestant on any other powers threatening Russia. But the pro­ od o f war. was officially described by the Stalinists as a a w a rd of a $750.00 fe llow ship under the following rules: acceptance of the outline, gram to be persuasive, must be put forward as Not merely for the gigantic profits of trade “ coincidence” . The N .Y . Times for Sept. 7 for “ a piece of original research 1. A full detailed outline of a the balance ($500) on ac­ flowing not from Stalinist but from American in­ work or a constructive analysis ceptance by the judges of in munitions and other products with Anglo- reports a whole series of such “ coincidences” proposed manuscript, the terests. That is why the Communist Party in­ of a labor problem.” The award latter to be preferably of the completed manuscript. creases its drive for rallying the workers behind French imperialism, but—more important—to now taking place in the Soviet Union: w ill be made by a committee of book size, must be submit­ Outlines should be mailed to Roosevelt’s “ national unity” and his war moves. join the one imperialist gang against H itle r’s “ Increasing signs o f a desire to consider Ger­ judges consisting of Professors ted on or before November Hillman M. Bishop, Secretary However, events are moving very rapidly. John Dewey and Sidney Hook, of the Committee of the Com­ imperialist gang in re-dividing the world, and man susceptibilities are noted. Tolstoi’s play, The 30, 1939, covering an o rig ­ Roosevelt is traveling at lightning speed towards and Julius Hochman, well- inal piece of research on mittee of Award, Government Road to, Victory, which deals with Germany's involvement of the United States in the war on the then to shoulder aside as much as possible Amer­ known labor leader. The name any problem of general Department, College of the City side of England and France. In fact he has already ica's Anglo-French partners in order to take the part in the wars of intervention, has been with­ of the winner w ill be made pub­ significance to the Ameri­ of New York, 17 Lexington Ave­ doe so by his declaration that the government will lic, and the chosen manuscript nue, New York, N. Y. lion’s share of the swag for the American drawn from the schedule of the Vakhtangov can labor movement; for defend Canada—an active aljly of*' Britain and will be published by the JOHN e xam ple: Theatre. Such famous anti-fascist films as P ro­ France—against any attack. Since the interests of bosses. At the end of this another Versailles D E W E Y RESEARCH F E L ­ a—Relations of the labor ATTENTION! NEW Stalin are at present not in that direction, the Com­ Treaty, breeding still more wars, separated by fessor Mamlock and The Oppenheimer Family LOWSHIP, of which Professor movement and public YORK READERS munist party will begin a flank attack on this “ peace” in the form o f great economic crises. have been withdrawn, as has also Eisenstein’s Hook is Chairman. school education; course. b—Philosophy of trade The APPEAL now appears The fellowship was founded on New York City news­ The policy of the American Communist Party That’s what it ’s all about, and not basically about Alexander Nevsky, although it deals with a unionism in relation to by friends and admirers of Pro­ stands on Tuesday, Thurs­ w ill be determined at each stage by the dictates of munitions profits. Russo-German conflict as far back as 1214. A ll fessor Dewey in honor of his the democratic way of the autocrat of the Kremlin. If Stalin makes an life . day and Saturday. If you A clear and realistic understanding of the mo­ comments on anti-German films, historical or approaching 80th birthday, in ¡vant the A P P E A L placed on open m ilitary alliance with Hitler for the partition tivation of the war-makers is the first weapon contemporary, are being deleted from the jubilee appreciation of his contribu­ 2. The outline is to be signed any newsstand notify the of Poland and the Baltic states—of course, under tions to the labor movement with a nom de plume. The the slogan of “ national independence” of the Uk­ needed by the labor movement in mobilizing book on the development of the Soviet motion Business Manager of the and to human progress, and in real name and address of APPEAL by mail. rainians, etc.!—then the Communist Party will against the Roosevelt war plans. picture now in course of preparation.” the hope of stimulating wide in- the contestant should be come into more open conflict with Roosevelt.