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VOL. Ill—No. 11 TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1939 - ^ ^ . 3 7 5 M per copy FIGHT NAZIS IN LOS ANGELES 5,000 WORKERS Flint Backs ANSWER S.W.P. C.I.O. Auto CALL TO PICKET Police Battle To Convention Protect Bund Meeting Martin's Splitting Tactics Repel |MEETING DELAYED

Members /Special to the Socialist Appeal) LOS ANGELES, Feb. 23 THIRD GROUPMEETS — Following the example set in New York, more than ¡Special to the Socialist Appeal) 5,000 workers responded FLINT, Mich., Feb. 20- Mem­ bers of the United Automobile here last night to the call of Workers in this city staged a mass the Los Angeles section of exodus from the camp of Homer the Socialist Workers Party Martin this week, asserting their and staged a m ilitant coun­ determination to stay within the C I O., and to attend the Cleve­ ter-demonstration against a land convention on March 27. meeting o f the German- Considered for months to be American Fund in the Deut­ an impregnable Martin strong­ The Democratic horses of the Democratic CosaeUs of Democratic Mayor LaGuardia are Defend­ Tile anti-fascist workers, who were not sucker enough to rely on the Democratic horses of the sches Haus. hold, this auto center neverthe­ Democratic Cossacks, are shown here protecting their rights in action, by a Little. Lesson to a Nazi ing Democracy outside Madison Square Garden In riding down and slugging workers who tried to The anti - Fascist pickets less has witnessed a wave of in­ exercise their democratic right to assemble and picket the Nazi gangsters whom the police protected so Storm-Trooper outside the Garden who made the mistake of provoking and attacking them in the dignation against Martin's split­ tenderly. That’s a Little Lesson that the workers are learning. street. The Nazi is a little sadder today, but a whole lot smarter. sent the uniformed Nazis ting away from the C.I.O. Flint scurrying. An emergency auto plants were littered with dis­ call from the Bund members carded “I Am for Homer Martin” buttons, and even Charles E. Mad­ inside the hall brought po­ den, formerly Martin’s main sup­ Fight Fascism With Workers’ Guards! lice cars to the scene and from porter in til is district, rail for cov- that point on the police protected er back to the camp of the C.I.O. Fascism is a national organized movement of scabs Executive board. Fascism is a movement of scabs and thugs. tion in New York. the cringing Nazis from the dem­ and thugs, which threatens the very existence o f the While two weeks ago Martin We don’t have to GUESS at what it aims to do. The 50,000 workers who demonstrated against the onstrators. supporters were able to stage big We don’t even have to look at Europe to find out thugs and scabs showed that they want to fight them, w orking class. Several Los Angeles Unions meetings on his behalf, this week The lesson of the Madison Square Garden mobiliza­ supported the call of the S.W.P. what it has been doing. are ready to fight them. o n ly 100 m en a tte nd e d a m e e tin g and workers carried banners and o f C h e vro le t lo ca l 156 called by How is the Fascist monster to be crushed? tion of the Fascists is: A ll we have to do is see what it is planning to do and Labor must have a counter-mobilization! placards calling for a militant Bert Harris. Matin’s supporter. what it is doing right here, under our very eyes. By the La Guardias and their police? By the "demo­ A previous meeting of this local, It must immediately organize its Workers Defense struggle against Fascism as the two weeks before, was attended It wants to smash and prohibit every labor union, cratic” politicians? only means of defending the very Guards! by m ore th a n 1200 w o rke rs. every workers’ organization. Foolish, criminal, fatal illusion! It must put the fear of ORGANIZED WORKERS BULLETIN Third Group Conference It wants to smash and prohibit every labor political La Guardia and his police PROTECTED the "rights” POWER into the cowardly hearts of the Nazi hood­ (Special to the Socialist Appeal) Representatives of the new of the Fascists. movement. lums! LOS ANGELES.— Feb. 23. third group, which endorses nei­ It wants to deprive us of our right to free speech, free- But they DENIED the workers TH EIR right to as­ The following telegram was ther Martin nor the Stalinist Ex­ Only a fool will wait until he is in a concentration assembly, free press, the right to organize, to strike, to semble and picket. ecutive Board majority, held a camp. received today -from the When workers strike in defense of their jobs, hours workers of the Dura Steel conference here to lay plans for picket. The w'orkers of Italy, Germany and Austria are sorry building rank and file support for It wants to send the Jew back to the Ghetto, or wipe and wages, how do they deal wnth scabs, strikebreakers Shop: "Dura steel metal work­ their program. The group de­ THEY waited. ers contingent, members of mands rank and file control of him out altogether. and thugs? Don’t wait—act now. Act strongly! Act militantly! Local 1421 of the United the union, adherence to the C.I.O. It wants to deprive the Catholic and Protestant of By relying on the police and their political bosses, Industrial union movement, and a the right to w’orship as they see fit. who always take the anti-labor side? Unite your ranks into anti-fascist WORKERS DE­ Electrical Radio Machine vigorous fight against the Stalin­ Last Monday night was Fascism's first big mobiliza­ N o! They organize their pickets, their defense guard. FENSE GUARDS! Workers of America, con­ ist bureaucratic machine at the gratulate the Socialist Work­ Cleveland convention. ers Party and the Young Peo­ Although the Martin faction ples Socialist League in tak­ held elections in the Chevrolet 8 Locals Quit WAA, Mayor Stalls Delegation Alliance Meeting ing the initiative in organiz­ local 156 la s t w eek, th e C.I.O. elections in this local will be held ing the splendid demonstra­ soon, and w ill undoubtedly repre­ Protesting Cop Brutality Waves War Flag tion against fascist thugs on sent an overwhelming m ajority of Form Fighting Union Washington's birthday in Los the Chevrolet workers. The third NEW YORK—Delegations from “attending an executive session of Angeles." group will run its own slate for the Socialist Workers Party, the the City Council.” Fink Leaders Drop Last Vestige of Action the Cleveland convention, on its Essex County Majority Issues Militant Young Peoples Socialist League, Demand to See Mayor existence of workers’ organiza­ own union building program, cal­ “Declaration of Independence" nnd the American Fund for Po­ Mayor La Guardia. his aide for Unemployed Workers tions. culated to turn the union back in­ litical Prisoners and Refugees said, would not be back until to the hands of the rank and file. The often-heard remark, "Every As in New York, the Com­ i Special to tlti Socialist Appeal) went to City Hall last Tuesday Thursday. The delegations de­ by BILL MORGAN thing the Communist Party touch­ munist Party boycotted the anti- NEWARK, N.J. -The rule-or-ruin company union policies of afternoon, to protest against po­ manded that his aide arrange for special to the Socialist AppealJ es turns to lead," could easily be the Stalinist leadership of the Workers Alliance received a power­ lice brutality at the anti-Nazi an interview with the mayor. Fascist struggle but numerous NEW YORK—The Stalinists applied to this phoney gathering. ful blow this week when 6 locals, representing 75 per cent of the demonstration the previous eve­ But Tuesday evening, La Guar­ rank-and-file members of that TRIAL SET FOR staged a state "convention” of the All the delegates were hand-picked membership of the Workers Alliance of Essex County, adopted a dia returned and immediately is­ n in g . Workers Alliance here last week, in advance, so the convention was party joined the ranks of the DeclaraUon of Independence, withdrew from the Alliance, and set sued a statement to the press City officials claimed that Act- and from reports, including the nothing more nor less than a full S.W.P.-led pickets. up a new organization, the Workers Relief and W.P.A. Union. exonerating the police from the 5 ARRESTED AT ! ing Mayor Newbold Morris was Daily Worker, the rule-or-ruin unit meeting of the party mem­ charges of brutality. The break was in every sense a progressive step, forced upon ; "not in.” The delegations left, gang has made short work of what bers. Associated Press Account the rank-and-file by the decisions of the recent Camden state I returning later in the afternoon, The text of the protest handed was once a strong m ilitant organ­ ANTI-NAZI RALLY Activists Absent NEW YORK, Feb. 23—The As­ convention where the Stalinist-John Spain leadership rode rough­ j to be informed that Morris was (Continued on Page 3) iza tio n . Absent were many well-known sociated Press reported the dem­ shod over the demands of the^_ workers whose untiring efforts onstration against the German- iSperiat In the Socialist Appeal) powerful Essex delegation, which American Bund meeting in Los NEW YORK, Feb. 23—A sworn and organizational abilities built represented fully one half the An Open Letter Angeles in part as follows: statement by his physician that he the Alliance and established its membership of the state organi­ "Pelted with eggs and over-ripe had been so badly beaten by po­ reputation as a class struggle zation, for a program of action to vegetables by a violent crowd of lice in the street and again in the weapon second to none before Mr. meet the state relief crisis and the anti-Nazi demonstrators, 300 per­ police station after his arrest that Browder’s wrecking crew took it coming flood of 'W.P.A. layoffs. sons attended a meeting of the he could not appear today, won over. In the Declaration of Indepen­ German-American Bund here last postponement until March 6 of The absence of these workers dence, the grievances set forth To Members of the Communist Party night at which Adolf Hitler was was explained in part in the report the case of Petei Saunders, arrest­ against the national and state of the Executive Board on mem­ likened to George Washington. ed at the Monday night demon­ boards showed how far the organ­ bership. “It is true,” said one of "Seven radio cars of police an­ stration against the Nazi meeting. ization had been run into the To A ll Members of the Communist Party from exercising their own elementary right to picket, and launched the organizers, “that many locals swered a riot call at the Deutsches (See page 3 for Saunder’s own ground by the present policies of and Young Communist League: dozens of brutal attacks against the anti-fascists. and hundreds of workers left the Haus as booing pickets outside sto ry.) the leadership. The Essex locals On Monday night, February 20, in Madison Square Garden, W. A. under the influence of smashed windows with rocks and B a il o f $100, m edical a tte n tio n , protested at the program offered We were warmed and heartened to find thousands of rank the Nazis and Fascists staged their greatest concentration so far- Trotskyites." “The split which drove uniformed Bund members and legal defense for Saunders by the national office: “For too and file members of the Communist Party and Young Communist occurred last fall in New York to cover. was furnished by the American long- they have answered the de­ in the history of New York City. League fighting side by side with us at the demonstration in spite City left the Alliance with only a "One man, wearing Nazi insig­ Fund for Political Prisoners and mands of the rank-and-file for a This meeting of the fascist thugs and gangsters was a delib­ of the sabotage of their leadership. few scattered locals and most of nia, was beaten. Another maJT was Refugees. program ol action that will help erate provocation to every' New York worker. This meeting, with these are behind in dues. ...” hit by a flying rock. fight unemployment with orders You want to fight fascism: we know that. But your Party, The ease of George Mason, ar­ said another. . Meeting Held Up rested at the demonstration and for us to send postcards, tele­ its uniformed storm troopers and its wild hymns o f hate, was your leaders, w ill not, cannot permit you to fight in the only way “Once during the meeting, which (The Workers Alliance dues declared guilty in night court of grams and letters. . . . The inade­ laying the basis for terroristic assaults on the Jews, the unions and that can promise victory. Their advice was: Stay at home1 Let the was delayed more than an hour system is a sore point with the disorderly conduct was appealed. quacy of this program has result­ the other labor organizations of New York. Fascists mobilize their gangsters in peace! by the demonstration, a wedge of Stalinists and they suffer untold ed only in more relief cuts, more pickets attempted to gain en­ Trial for four other victims of embarrassment whenever the W.P.A. layoffs, more hunger and It was the duty of every militant worker to show publicly, The Danger Is Here At Home trance through a side door, but police brutality, Michael Naradich, question is discussed out loud. misery. It is now time for us to on the streets, his determination to resist and fight against the were stopped by police. Peter Shotes, Lionel Sheppard, Have we learned nothing, comrades? Have we learned noth­ The continual jacking of dues, a ct.” advance of fascism, to fight it from its beginning to the end "Officers said Bund members and Abe Dollinger, was set for ing from what has happened in Italy, in Germany, Austria, Czech­ initiation fees, and the many Expose National Office armed themselves with clubs for March 4. Pending trial they were Your Party Prevents You "special” assessments lead many They also exposed the attitude oslovakia, in Spain? use in event the crowd surged In­ released on bail furnished by the workers to believe that the A lli­ of the national office toward the From Fighting Fascism Have we not learned that liberals, "democrats, " capitalist- side, and a length of iron gas American Fund. ance is nothing but a collection Congressional appropriation of pipe was taken from one of them. In addition to legal defense for democratic governments w ill not, cannot fight fascism; that only agency for Mr. Sam Wiseman $725,000,000 as a 90% v ic to ry ” (as Where was your Party on that night r Where were youi ‘‘The anti-Nazis carried placards thc.se defendants, the American the workers, relying on their own strength and their own organ­ and his stooges. Needless to say, Lasscr called it). If this appropri­ leaders? 1 of the Socialist Workers Party Fund provided medical attention izations and their own socialist program w ill and can really fight the question did not arise at ation. which according to Lasser with the exhortations: ‘Smash for twelve other demonstrators Many of you, we know, were with us in the great demonstra­ this convention.) himself, means a layoff of two fascism? Hitler*, ‘Fight Against Anti-Sem­ who were seriously injured when The frantic haste of the Com­ million W.P.A. workers by June 30 tions that proved the w ill of New York workers to fight fascism, W ill La Guardia and his cops— and all the other La Guardias itism’, ‘Build Workers Defense police protecting the Nazi meeting munist Party to hog-tie the un­ unless more money is appropriat- were with us while La Guardia’s police, guarding with tender care Guards’. Girls and youths were spurred their horses into crowded and their cops--fight fascism? You saw the answer with your own employed and W.P_A. workers to the precious rights of the Nazis, forcefully prevented the workers prominent in the picket line, picket lines. (Continued on page 2) (Continued on Pane 3) (Continued on Page 2) which sang the ‘International.’ ” 2 SOCIALIST APPEAL Tuesday, February 28, 1939 SHOWDOWN NEAR Bosses Use Auto Union Split to Push MINNEAPOLIS CAB IN DETROIT AUTO Anti-Labor Law as UAW Falls to Act DRIVERS STRIKE APPEAL ARMY I n the- (Special to the Socialist Appeal) to fifteen thousand — abolished ■problem is unemployment. The D E T R O IT , Feb. 15.—F o r th e present union regime is creating means there can be no successful TO WIN CONTRACT UNION STRUGGLE first time since the 1937 sit-downs unemployment—throwing men off picketing and therefore no suc­ FLASH! IN THE MAULS: sent them to the dog-house, the payrolls instead of putting them cessful strike in Michigan. New York City sells and dis­ We have mailed out this week pot-bellied moneybags of Michi­ T ra de, Two Meetings Show on. “Labor leaders” Play Game Show Workers Can trib u te s 6,000 copies o f th e A p p e a l Appeal Army Bulletin No. 3 on gan are pressing the offensive “When labor can achieve lead­ What is the Michigan labor j covering the anti-Nazi demonstra­ the subject of Mass Street Sales. against the labor movement. The Large Majority ership that will join with citizens movement doing to kill a bill that Handle Own tion at Madison Square Garden. We urge all literature agents to split in the auto workers union is who want to pull together to re­ will make sit-downs illegal, pre­ Problems Minneapolis orders an extra bun­ take into consideration the sug­ For C.I.O. giving them their opportunity, the build America, we’ll all be on oui- vent mass picketing and force dle of 500 Appeals, Chicago orders gestions made therein. They have vigilante governor in Lansing a Unions- way to greater prosperity." unions to notify their enemies ! Special to the Socialist Appeal) over 300 extras! The Socialist been tried and have worked! (Special to the Socialist Appeal) leader, and the new labor bill a Conceals Purpose anywhere from 10 to 40 days in Workers Party shows the way in Also, we have sent to branches D E T R O IT , Feb. 20.—T h e fir s t slogan. M IN N E A P O L IS . Feb. 19.—The As the reader can sde, the edi­ advance? the struggle against fascism! the balance of our newsboy aprons By 6. J. WIDICK I showdown in the plants between Paper Attacks Unionism Minneapolis Taxicab Drivers’ and torial carefully conceals its real When the bill was first pre­ We had the pleasure of ordering on hand. Branches w ill be charged Some 18,000 d re ssm a ke rs o f the the U.A.W. and the Martin spllt- Under the heading "Support the H e lp e rs U n io n , L o ca l 958, backed off group was expected here when purpose behind a plaintive lament sented to the legislature, state­ by the powerful Teamsters Joint what was by far the largest press 30c each for these aprons and are I. L. G. W. U. demonstrated last Governor’s Labor Law,” the Pat McCartney’s crowd attempts for the poor persecuted DuPonts ments of representatives of C.I.O. run in the history of our paper. to remit this sum along with their Tuesday for one hour on Eighth Detroiter, organ of the Board of Council, this week showed the ! and Chryslers. The obvious fraud and A.F.L. indicated they might Yes, the Appeal marches rapidly regular payments on the bundle Avenue at 35th St. against the to oust the stewards of the local Commerce, howls for immediate bosses and their stooges in the \ is that Fitzgerald’s Bill concerns take the bill provided it was towards a mass circulation! order accounts. Dress Trucking Association for recognized by the Executive action before labor can once city hall that organized labor is Board and demand recognition ! itself in no way with inner union slightly diluted. There was even fully capable of handling its own • * « refusing to sign a union contract. again get on its feet and unite o t- * | politics. In reality, they are say­ indication that the C.I.O. bureau­ It was an impressive sight. It from the Plymouth division of for action. Here is the editorial problems. Mayor George E. Leach THE BRANCHES AT WORK: SUBSCRIPTION DRIVE ing to those who want to be crats would not raise too much should bring rosults to the work­ the Chrysler Corporation. which covers the front page of tried to intervene to bring the Enclosed is a money order for HITS REAL PACE! Two meetings of Plymouth fooled: if Labor cannot keep its of a fuss if the force of the law strike of the cab-drivers against ers involved. the January 30th issue: $5.40, p a ym e n t on o u r b u n dle o r ­ Now in its third week, the Ap­ own house in order how can it was directed at the A.F.L. and Suppóse a sim ilar demonstration workers were held here yesterday. "There was a period in the his­ three independent cab companies der, for two Appeal salesmen peal d riv e fo r 1,000 new su b scrib ­ be trusted to represent the work­ vice versa. had been called by the officials of The meeting organized under the tory of the United States when to a speedy close, but was curtly aprons and for two six-month sub­ ers by April 1st has gotten undqr ers. And to the fat boys on the Since that time they have be­ the I.L.G.W.U. one day sooner as auspices of the U.A.W. was at­ its citizens pulled together, with rebuffed by the drivers. scriptions."—A. Callender of San way with a bang! This week we Chamber of Commerce: Now that come genuinely frightened by the a protest against the Nazi meet­ tended b y som e 1,500 w h ile th e only minor defections. That was On Feb. 15, la s t y e a r’s c o n tra c ts Francisco, Calif. can report receipt of the largest one sponsored by the Martin labor is dis-united let’s cram this nature of the bill and at least for betw een L o ca l 958 and th e cab- ing at Madison Square Garden? what made this country great. “ Enclosed please fin d $1.40 in number—by far—of new subscrip­ crowd drew some 300 workers. It bill down its throat! public consumption they have operators, expired. Negotiations Suppose other unions officially "Today we have labor ‘leaders' payment of my current bill. I find tions we have ever received. Just is impossible to tell exactly how The provisions of the bill have dropped this cynical game. But for a new contract were started had participated in our fight and subversive malcontents mak­ taking care of the 2-a-week paper i look over the list! Particularly many of the workers in both already been examined in a previ­ there is no doubt that behind the in January between the union and against the fascists? ing thoir own bids for individual quite a job, but will manage it. I notable has been the work of the meetings were bona fide Plymouth ous issue of the Socialist Appeal scenes, Fitzgerald is playing off the Yellow Taxi Co., largest of P ic tu re 250,000 w o rk e rs s u r­ gains with no regard for the well­ The Appeal is splendid!’’—Com­ New York Branches. Berkeley workers and how many ringers but they bear repetition if only one labor organization against th e o p e ra to rs. On Feb. 10, an rounding Madison Square Garden being of the country at large. rade T. of Worcester, Mass. Y.P.S.L. which surely is In line to burn the seriousness of the bill another—and that "Labor lead­ agreement was reached, calling hours before the Nazi meeting brought in to swell the size of “Members of the Automobile for one of the prizes we’ve offered into the minds of Michigan’s ers" are taking part in this game for reduction of hours from 10 “We have had auspicious suc­ was called. Obviously there would the meeting for publicity pur­ Workers are engaged in a red since it has already fulfilled 90% poses. workers before they find them­ to the great peril of the organ­ to nine, and a guaranteed salary cess with the first three issues of have been no fascist rally. hot inter-union row. Lewis in of its quota and Cleveland. Ohio. selves facing prison sentences in ized workers. o f $18 a week, plus 40% o f the the twice-weekly Appeal. News- j Powerful as the anti-Nazi rally Plymouth For C.I.O. Washington is evidently attempt­ There is a good six weeks left strik e s . proceeds o ve r $45. stands sold out their quota each was, it could have been invincible Even at Plymouth, despite the ing to assume complete control. Time to Act! to go in this drive. However, if time. We are selling at all union with cooperation of the union of­ worst kind of Stalinist misman­ "Rival A.F.L. unions staged a The bill prohibits sit-downs Without real action and pro­ Demand Same Agreement we a re to reach 1,000 new subs meetings, on the street and ; agement, the majority sentiment fight for the whip-hand over and provides penalties for those test, it begins to appear that the One hour, before midnight, on we must quicken the pace. Re­ ficia ls. through canvassing working class j is for the C.I.O. But if actual workers in the brewing industry. engaged in them. The sit-down bill will soon go before the state Feb. 15, the independent operators member, as prizes to the best neighborhoods. Akron has been • Labor Officials physical combat breaks out in the A general strike was threatened, is the most effective weapon legislature and become law. agreed to negotiate. The union branches we are offering (1) A somewhat lax in the past in cir­ plant the original responsibility to affect the delivery of all com­ the automobile workers have Michigan w ill then follow Oregon demanded the same agreement complete set of Lenin’s writings: Abjectly Silent culating the Appeal. We intend to for it can be laid clearly at the modities, including food. Employ­ thus far devised. W ithout it ef­ into an anti-union strait-jacket- that had been signed with the (2) A complete collection of the Instead, the labor officials were retrieve ourselves, and set an ex­ door of the LaMotte-Stalinist gang ers have had no part in the war­ fective protest against speed-up M ilitant workers have been heard Yfellow Taxi Co. No settlement books, pamphlets, etc., of Leon conspicuous only by their abject ample for the rest of the branches which used the Plymouth local as fare. Their business was dis­ on the lines, abuses by arrogant saying that they will strike irre­ was reached by midnight, so the T ro ts k y . silence. Is this all they have learn­ a stepping stone of their rotten foremen, etc., etc., w ill be seri­ spective of the bill, when they in the country.”—P.F.—new liter­ rupted. the public inconvenienced drivers struck. The Yellow Taxi Here's the list for the week: ed from the experiences in Italy, political ambition and used its ously impaired. The scalp of please, and picket how they ature agent of Akron, Ohio. and large payrolls stopped. Co. continued to operate under New York City ...... 34 Germany, Austria, Spain and else­ tre a s u ry (to th e tu n e o f $10,000) the sit-down Is prize No. 1 Gen­ please. Perhaps they will! But LETTER OF APPRECIATION : "Under such circumstances the th e a g re e m e n t w ith L o ca l 958, L y n n , M ass...... 7 w he re ? as a pork barrel. eral Motors wants from Fitz­ the difficulties w ill be immeasur­ “I really can’t find words to ex­ man who wants to work and the and the next day hired about 40 C hicago ...... 5 A young reporter went around Reactionaries like McCartney gerald In the 193!) hunting sea­ ably heightened. press my appreciation of a paper employer who seeks to remain in of the striking drivers, putting Minneapolis ...... 5 to various prominent union head­ could never have been able to son against labor. which shows so much courage business are forced to stand aside, Now is the time to act all their cabs on the streets. St. P a u l ...... 3 quarters to ask them what they mislead such a large group of and clear, definite leadership to powerless to do anything about it. “Cooling-off” Period against this vicious bill. Power­ The strike is now four days old. Akron, Ohio ...... 3 thought or were going to do about workers if the Stalinists hadn’t the workers. "In neither of these local brawls A "cooling-off” period for 10 ful protest from Michigan’s still The working drivers have been C a lifo rn ia ...... 3 the Nazi -meeting. prepared the road for him. W ork­ is there any altercation between days in all industries except utili­ powerful labor movement will assessed $1 a day each to assist “As there, is a great deal of Sari Francisco ...... 2 The Amalgamated C lothing ers from this local testify that it capital and labor. Employer-em­ ties and transportation is manda­ frighten the big-front politicians their striking brothers, and all muddling concerning what is real­ F lo rid a ...... 2 Workers officials gave him a run­ was the regular practice of this ployee relationships are not con­ tory before a strike may be called. back under their beds—with the signs point to an early and easy ly meant by unity, I would sug­ Newark, N. J ...... 2 around. "Can’t make any state­ Stalinist gang to keep all critics cerned. No strike committees The boss is to be given ample bill left behind as a souvenir. victory for the union. gest that if you could spare the B oston ...... 2 ment. Joint Board members out off the floor and to howl them have complained about wages, time to terrorize the weak sisters But the entire labor movement, space in the Appeal to give a P e n n sylva n ia ...... 2 of town. Can’t issue it myself," down if they attempted to voice hoiirs, or working conditions. The in the plants, to import his thugs, both C.I.O. and A.F.L. must act. clear, definite answer to the ques­ P h ila d e lp h ia ...... 2 declared one official who was in­ some legitimate point of differ­ point at issue is “which group is to lay up his supplies of tear H o w ? tion: What is real working class R ochester, N . Y ...... 2 te rvie w e d . ence or opposition with the ad­ going to collect the dues.” Such gas, to make all arrangements for 1. A conference o f a ll local FINK-RUN WAA u n ity ? Quakertown, Pa ...... 2 "I couldn’t get within a mile of ministration. • a ridiculous condition must not fink-herding and to fire the lead­ unions, A.F.L., C.I.O. and Railroad "I wish the Appeal every suc­ U ta h ...... 2 Dubinsky,” the reporter said. Oth­ Another instance of this was re cu r. ers of the coming strike long Brotherhoods; cess and thank you for your invi­ C leveland ...... 2 er officials privately said the coun­ given Sunday morning when an MEETING WAVES "Governor Fitzgerald's inaugur­ enough before it is allowed to 2. A program of mass meetings tation to criticize or approve your Columbus, Ohio ...... 1 ter-demonstration was a mistake. attempt was made to prevent al message proposed equitable break out. In transportation, and demonstrations in every city paper. . . .’’—Comrade J.T.S. in B e rke le y ...... 1 ’’Playing into the hands of the Socialist Appeals from being dis­ labor legislation. His bill, and aimed principally at the team­ of the state; FDR WAR FLAG Saskatchewan, Canada. Thanks Oakland, Calif...... 1 fascists by giving them publicity,” tributed at the meeting. When others, now confront the House sters union, a 40-day "cooling-off" 3. A march on Lansing; and a for these words of approval, Com­ In d ia n a ...... 1 one said. It was the old story of this failed, the goon squads posted and Senate Committees on I.abor. p e rio d is m ade m a n d a to ry . 40 sit-down in the state Capitol it­ (Continued from rage 1) rade—and your question will be St. Louis, Mo ...... 1 an ostrich sticking his head into themselves at the door and con­ W rite to your governor and legis­ days! In 40 days a union can be turned over to the Appeal Ques­ self if the bill seems likely to the Roosevelt war machine was C o n n e c tic u t...... 1 the sand when he saw danger fiscated copies of the paper from w iped o u t! tion Box for a reply. lators. Give them your opinions. pass; and clearly indicated in the many N e w Je rse y ...... 1 coming . . . but that didn’t elimin­ workers as they went into the * * * “Our legislature should see that Peaceful picketing will be legal­ 4. If possible, a general strike Washington, D. C ...... 1 ate the danger. Look at the trade h a ll. speeches of the "leaders.” whatever new law is enacted ized but mass picketing outlawed. of limited duration. APPEAL ARMY BULLETIN unionists in Nazi concentration Meanwhie a landslide of support Said Mr. Herbert Benjamin, should put an end to internal That’s a real concession from This is a concrete simple pro­ No. 3 AND NEWSBOY APRON T o ta l ...... 88 camps. They learned too late how continues to sweep on for the general secretary-treasurer of the union quarrels that affect the Fitzgerald. As if a labor union gram, worth a million speeches to keep Hitler from power. C.I.O. And as the Martin ship Alliance: “We do not want hunger oeace, health, and safety of our needed his sanction to put a before a bunch of rubber-necked SOCIALIST APPEAL and NEW INTERNATIONAL Stalinist - controlled unions fol­ begins to sink, the job holders inarches any more in the United commonwealth sleepy picket with an "unfair” monkeys in the legislature. It is lowed the C.P. policy of complete and two-bit politicians are begin­ States. We believe that after nine Can be Obtained at the Following Newsstands "Honest labor leaders have the before a curiosity shop! But mass the only way to eliminate the silence. So did Local 22, of the ning to scramble off as fast as years o f unemployment we should MANHATTAN welfare of the workers in then- picketing—the auto plants em­ greatest danger to the labor Church St., bet. Chapel & Center I.L.G.W.U. Last week, the Love- they can. Latest desertions were he able to meet the problems of CHICAGO hearts. They realize our gre.v.est ploy masses, from a few hundred Cherry & Katherine St*. Monroe & Mad­ movement of this state. ison Sts.— K -K Stationery Store. Near S.W.P., 160 N. Wells. Rm. 308 stoneite Workers Age said exact­ Loren Houser and Charles Mad­ unemployment w ith o u t such Cor. 57tb & Blackstonc Knickerbocker Village—Villard’s General ly nothing about the coming Nazi den, two of the remaining five of m eans.” Store. Essex & Delanccy Sts.—S.E. Houston Cor 12th & Kedzie P. O . News, 37 W . Monroe m ee tin g . the Executive Board members Mr. Benjamin did not attempt & Clinton. Meisel Bookshop—Grand & At­ torney Sts. C linton & K. B away. 5th St. & BALTIMORE. MD. Rank and File supporting Martin. Houser had to explain why after nine long Ave. B—N.W. 9th St. & Ave D—Candy * Sam Weisberg, 1113 E. Baltim ore St. been M artin’s Secretary-Treasurer 8 Jersey Locals Quit Alliance, years of unemployment, there has Store. 2nd Ave. & 2nd St.—N.W. 2nd Ave. Frigate Book Shop. 515 N orth Howard St. & 4th St. 17 First Ave. 2nd Ave. & 9th St. ALLENTOWN, PA. l^abor Took Action but the job apparently wasn't a been no reduction in the number (Stuyvesant Casino). Ave. B & 10th St.— Robert Zettlemoyer 637 H am ilton St very good one because, as Houser of jobless workers. He did not N'.E. 2nd Ave. & 12th St. (near Cafe Roy­ also: 10th & H am ilton St. Organized labor acted only al). Waverly Place vSt B’dway—N.W. Bied- Paul Sherr. 7th & Hamilton St through the splendid initiative of says in his statement, there explain why, after nine long, bit­ erman’s— 184 Second Ave. U niv. PI. & 12th PHILADELPHIA. PA. rank and file unionists who joined wasn’t very much in the way of Form Fighting Relief Union ter years of unemployment, the St.— N .E. 14th St. & U niv. PL—S.E. 14th 1806 North Franklin St. St. & B’dway—S.E. 14th St. & 4th Ave.— Cor. 11th and Market Sts., N.W. us in the anti-Nazi rally. funds to be treasurer of, and workers must abandon the only S.W. 14th St. & 4th Ave.—N .E . 14th St. Sc 40th St. and Girard Ave. what there was Martin guarded (Continued from Page 1) ventions to raise the dues, and weapon which forced concessions 4th Ave.— 1st Stand S.E. 14th St. & 4th H’h St. and Arch St. It was no accident that the very to help the unemployed and W.P.A. Ave.—2nd Stand S.S. 14th St. & 3rd Ave.— QUAKERTOWN, PA. cops who broke picket lines pro­ with his own little hands. Houser ed, is a 90% victory, then “God stated that in the new organiza­ workers. We cast off our links from the Federal and State gov­ S.W. 14th St. & 3rd Ave.—N .W . 14th St. Esser’s Newsstand and Madden expect to find green­ tion dues would be lowered, not ernments In increased relief, jobs, opp. Jefferson Theatre. 14th St. & 2nd Ave. Front & West Broad Sts. tected the Nazi assemblage. Cops I preserve us from a 100% victory!” with the state and national organ­ — N .W . 13th St. & Ave. A. 14th St. & BOSTON, MASS. and Fascists both are anti-union er pastures in the C.I.O. | They pointed out in the resolution raised. ization which we helped build and and recognition of their right to 8th Ave.—N.E. Labor Book Shop—28 E. Andclman’s Tremont St. (opp. Hotel But this tidal wave in support "We declare ourselves free of organize! No, Mr. Benjamin could 12th St. 23rd St. & 7th Ave.—N.W. & Bradford) to the core. Only powerful, well- that what was really needed was which they have helped destroy. St. & 6th Ave.—N.E. 42nd St. & 5th Ave.— not explain his reasons for want­ CAMBRIDGE, MASS. organized and militant picket of the C.I.O. in no way indicates action against Washington, the this spineless lot of fakers who We leave them the name and S.W. 36th St. & 7th Ave.—N.E. 38th St. & Felix’s, Massachusetts Ave. at Harvard Sq. blanket support to the rotten ad­ are afraid to put up a real fight ing to castrate the workers’ organ­ 6th Ave. 38th St. & 8th Ave. 38th St.- & LYNN, MASS. lines can preserve the workers kind of m ilitant job marches that we take the membership.” 7th Ave.—N.W. & S.W. B’dwav & 38th St. izations. He hopes to gain some S.W.P., Lynn Labor Lyceum, rights against them. ministration of the Executive the unemployed organizations used — N.E. 131 W . 33rd St.—Rm. 704. 75 127 Oxford St. The rank and file in large num­ Board dominated by the Stalinist- to conduct, not the sending of recognition for his Party from the Greenwich Ave. 8th St. & 6th Ave.—N.E. Sara’s Corner. Olympia Square Roosevelt Administration for his 51 University Place. Rand Bonk Store—7 E. ROXBURY. MASS. bers have learned this lesson from wreckers. The large Chrysler telegram s. 15th St. 23rd St. & 4th Ave.—S.W . 14th ^ricndly Variety. Warren St. (Grove Hall) local 7 voted at its meeting to betrayal. S.W. 42nd St. opp. Stern’s—South side. INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA their own experience and the BEGINS THIS MONDAY 42nd St. & 6th Ave.—S.E. & S.W. 42nd St. For Labor Party Silent on Needs Lyric News Shop, 115 N. Illinois St tragic fate of the trade union send delegates to the Cleveland The MARXIST SCHOOL will be held at Irving Plaza, Irving & 7th Ave.— S.W. 64th St. & 65th St. MINNEAPOLIS, MIN. The question of political action Mr. Benjamin was silent on the & B’dway—Candy Store. 66th St. & I.abor Book Store, 919 Marquetu- movement in Europe. That is why Convention but instructed them to Place and 15th Street, N. Y. C. Classes begin Feb. 27. also aroused considerable dispute. questions of immediate demands. B’dway. 72nd St. & B’dway. 93rd St. & Shinder’s, Sixth & Hennepin; they joined our demonstration. vote against all the existing Ex­ I. PRACTICAL TRADE UNIONISM- Sam Gordon, B. J. Widick. Columbus Ave. 96th St. & Cent’l. Pk. West. Kroman’s, Fourth & Nicollet. Said the resolution: “For too long The problem of meeting the rent, 110*h St. & Columbus Ave.—N.E. 181st St. 410 Washington Blvd. This lesson must be understood ecutive Board officers. When Lectures on the day to day activity of the trade unionist. they have tried to substitute for light, fuel, clothing and food bills & St. Nicholas Ave. 157th St. & B ’dway— ST. LOUIS, MO. by every union man if a victorious joined with the five locals who Mondays, 7:15 P.M.—8:40 P.M. 6 le ctu re s— $1.00 N .W . 145th St. & St. Nicholas Ave. (W ig- Foster Book Company a m ilitant labor program policies each month means nothing to this erson’s). Madison Ave. & 90th St.—N.W. CLAYTON, MO. fight against fascism is to take have gone on record for a pro­ II. PROBLEMS OF AMERICAN POLITICS— of deals with all kinds of discred­ miserable bureaucrat who can be The Book Nook, 24A Mcramw place. gram of honest, progressive, m ili­ James Burnham, Albert Goldman, Max Shachtman BRONX CLEVELAND, OHIO ited politicians. This reached its bought with the promise of a pie- Longwood Ave. & Southern Boulevard— Rubin’s D rug Store And a real campaign to break tant unionism, this local added to Marxist analyses of the shifting American political scene. climax in the last elections when card if thé workers are misled S.W. 171st St. & Fulton Ave.—S.W. 170th 1072 E. 105th Street the lethargy and inertia of the the groups in the large locals of Mondays, 8:50 P.M.—10:15 P.M. 6 le ctu re s—$1.00 St. & Jerome Ave.—S.E. 167th St. & Mcriam Building, Room 214 Detroit, Flint and Saginaw, the the Workers Alliance of New successfully into the army and Jerome Ave. Jerome & Burnside Ave. 161st 5716 E uclid Avenue trade union bureaucracy before III. WHAT IS TROTSKYISM? Jo h n G. W rig h t Schroeder’s Book Shop. Public Square Jersey endorsed a company union navy of the bosses. St. & Prospect Ave. Freeman St. Sc South­ the menace of fascism is a major rank and file will have a formid­ The truth about Trotskyism based on original documents. ern Boulevard. 174th St. & Boston Road. . YOUNGSTOWN OHIO able voice at the Cleveland Con­ lawyer for Congress and when all "Full support to the ’progress­ Kingsbridgc Rd. & Jerome Ave. East Mosh- Nick’s, Wick St. and Commerce task for every progressive worker. Tuesdays, 7:00 P.M.—8:40 P.M. 6 le ctu re s—$1.00 SAN FRANCISCO the Congressmen whom they had ives’ in congress and in the state rdu Subway Station. 3897 Sedgwick Ave. ve n tio n . IV. ART AND POLITICS Median & Grand Concourse—S.F.. South Side of Market St., supported voted in the House of and city government," pleads Mr. Embarcadero newsstand Martin Repudiates Affiliation Six lectures by Phillip Rahv, Dwight Macdonald, James T. BROOKLYN MacDonald’s Bookstore, 65—6th St Representatives against the in­ Benjamin and his fellow scab- Martin himself took a more Farrell, F. W. Dupee. Delmore Schwartz and Will Straus cor. Pitkin Ave. Tompkins cor. Fillm ore Bookstore adequate $875,000,000 a p p ro p ria tio n herders. The LaGuardia sales-tax M yrtle Ave. Haveincyer cor. S. 4th St. Sutter & Fillm ore Sts. 25? open position against the C.I.O. Phillips. (A half year’s subscription to the Partisan Golden Gate News Agency, 21—4th St in fa v o r o f th e s till w orse $725,- and the Roosevelt war burget are Sutter cor. Van Scndcren. Rockaway cor. yesterday when he accepted the Review w ill be given free to every registrant.) Pitkin Ave. 475 Sutter Ave. Bay Parkway Fitzgerald’s News Agency, 57—3rd St. FACT PAMPHLETS 000,000. W e have a lw a ys stood fo r “Progressive,” and woe unto any & 86th St. Ave. ‘O’ & 66th St. Brighton Store 20, 3057 16th St. bureaucratic order of Lewis as a Tuesdays, 8:50 P.M.—10:15 P.M. 6 le ctu re s— $1.25 Beach Ave. & 5th St. 50th St. & New Ray’s Smoke Shop, 1203 Sutter History of Negro Revolt— an independent labor party. No who disagree. Frame-ups, gangster fact and declared himself ready V. LABOR JOURNALISM James Casey Utrecht Ave. 1510 Kings Highway. Mac­ Room 11, 542 Valencia St. (SWP) C.L.R. James longer shall we be tools for lying methods and muck-throwing are Donald & Ditmars Ave. 9th Ave. ¿4 40th St. Cigar Store— 1352 Polk St. to take the “independent” road. Wednesdays,’ 7:15 P.M.—8:40 P.M. 6 le ctu re s— $1.00 Bookstore—502 Haight (nr. Fillmore) Desolation of the Highlands— politicians.” the Stalinist answer to revolution­ QUEENS Once again ho reiterated the ri­ VI. THE SECOND AMERICAN REVOLUTION—George Novack 3023 Grand Ave. 3l#10 Broadway. Cedar Cafe Cigar Stand—955 Larkin St. D avid K e lr War Fluids To Unemployed ists who are not afraid to expose LOS ANGELES diculous assertion that the U.A.W. The American Civil War. What it really was and meant. ROCHESTER. N. Y. 233 S. Broadway, Room 312 these cheap, petty parasites. Science and World Resources had never been form ally affiliated The action of the Stalinists in Wednesdays, 8:50—10:15 P.M. 6 le ctu re s—$1.00 433 N. C linton St. Smith News. 5th & M ain Sts. —Richard Palmer jamming down the throats of the Another reversal of policy in the 257 N . C linton St. Shoe Shine Shop, 2307 Brooklyn with the C.I.O. Whatever truth Registration can be made at the school office, 116 University Cor. Cumberland & C linton Sts. Candy Store. 2231 Brooklyn Ave. Roosevelt and His New Deal— there is in this statement, it is unemployed their jingo-war pro­ Place or at the Labor Bookshop, 28 East 12th Street, N. Y. C„ fight for adequate relief brings to Cor. East Ave. & Chestnut St. Candy Store, 214! Brooklyn Ave. Stephen K. Bailey gram drew forth the following S.E. cor. M ain & C linton Sts. Sweet Shop, 2526 Brooklyn Ave. not recognized by thousands of beween 1 p.m. and 8 p.m. Registrations may also be made by light the complete and shameless S.W. cor. Main & South Ave. SAN DIEGO, CALIF. Underground Struggle in Ger­ auto workers, even Martin sup­ protest: "It is not the business of m a il o r b y c a llin g ST 9-0567. role of Mr. Benjamin and Mr. M ain Street East & C linton Ave. Universal News Co., 242 Broadway many—Evelyn Lend an unemployed organization to Wiseman. This is the shifting of South, southeast corner S.W.P — I166-I3fh St. porters in the plants, who are M ain Street East, front of Edwards’ AKRON. OHIO The Truth about English Pris­ wearing C.I.O. buttons. Whether call for larger and larger appro­ the responsibility for relief from Department Store News Exchange, 51 S. M ain St Cigar Store, ons—Mark Benney priations for war, planes, cannon, SHERIDAN SANDWICH the Federal Government. Now the 208 Clinton Aye., North at Cumberland St. Martin has conferred with Dillon ANNOUNCEMENTS Levine’s Delicatessen, 257 Clinton Ave. Next cor. Bartges & S. M ain St. A Guide to British Liberties— has not yet been made public. guns, as was done at the February SHOPPE plan is to make each State take North at Wcstcott OAKLAND, CALIF. Carfi Brothers. 433 Clinton Ave. North 7th and Washington James Curtis The bureaucratic move of 4 convention; it is rather our duty 114 University Place over the administration of home I2th, bet. B’way and Washington GIRL wants girl to share a cozy next to headquarters NEWARK, N. J. What’s Up in Palestine—Mich­ Lewis and Co. expelling all locals to call for the diversion of all war relief and work relief, following Andrew Williams Market apartment. Located in Astoria, Special 25c Lunch! Rei*~'an’s, cor. Broad & William Broadway, near 19th ael Greenberg who go to the Detro’it Convention funds to the unemployed to be Long Island (15 minutes to Soup. 15c S an d w ich , Coffee o r closely Roosevelt’s latest lead. L ittm a n ’s DETROIT, MICH. T im e s S quare). $15.00 p e r m o n th Writing In Revolt—Theory and cannot but deepen the split in used for relief, for W.P.A., for an Milk with Pastry! In order to insure in advance cor. Hawthorne Ave. & Reeves PI. Socialist Appeal Club, rent; write Edith Kimmel, c/o 3513 Woodward Ave., Room 5 Examples—Stephen Spender, adequate housing program. We "Union Food at a Union Place” PATERSON, N . J. the U.A.W. With Flint still S. S tanley, 116 U n iv e rs ity Place. ample cannon-fodder for the gen­ Cor. 13th & M arket St»., N .W . J. Allen, etc. want money to save human lives, erals, in order to insure in advance A. Guabello’s Stationery Store SEATTLE, WASHINGTON strongly behind Martin, a way 317 Straight St. Rymcr’s Book Store, 905 3rd Avenue Air Raid Protection—10 Cam­ must be left open for these locals n o t to k ill th e m . W e w a n t to see ROOM FOR RENT: Comfortable, For the a large, cheap labor market for Eckhart’s News Agency. 104 Washington St. Roth Cigar Store. 1407 First Ave. bridge Scientists to return to the fold of the C.I.O. houses b u ilt, n o t b lo w n up, to see bright, steam heat, 5 mile view. the Tom Girdlers and the Henry NEW HAVEN, Conn. 4033 University Way $4.00 per week. See S. S tanley Nodelman’s Newsstand. Sunday Forum at Independence Hall, Portrait of a Mining Town— after the Martin Convention. The roads, hospitals and schools con­ at the Appeal office. 'New International' Fords, the Communist Party advo­ Philip Massey pitifully small forces and the structed, not destroyed. We do DANCE cates open slavery and full submis­ Skeleton of the Empire—Leon­ rotten program w ill undoubtedly not intend to accept the war-mon- MASS RALLY—Jobs not Battle­ and sion to the program of reaction. ard Barnes cause many of these locals to turn gering policies of the Communist ships! Hear B. J. Widick—E. ENTERTAINMENT These union-wreckers w ill con­ R. McKinney—George Brelt- Japan’s War on China—A. P a rty .” tinue to wave the flag, to speak in their backs on Martin. But not if man—I. Rosenberg. Chairman: Upper West Side Headquarters Morgan Young the doors are closed. The resolution also pointed out R. P la s k e tt. S unday, Feb. 26— 916 N in th Ave., n r. 59th St. the name of "democracy” and, Pocket History of the British Lewis and Co. are closing the that the Essex locals were denied 8 P.M . W o rk m e n ’s C ircle , 190 Saturday, Feb. 25—Adm. 35c when the war comes, play the role Workers—Raymond Postgate Belmont Ave.. Newark. Aus­ of spy in the ranks of labor unless door3 so as to prevent the grow­ representation of their own only pices: Newark S.W.P. SONGS BY MARY FRIEMAN I Drive a Taxi—Herbert Dodge ing opposition in their own ranks because the state bureaucracy & HELENE GARDEN the rank and file of the Alliance and of every trade union and LABOR BOOK SHOP from being strengthened by lo­ wants to completely stifle all op­ HOUSE WARMING—To open the Swing Music—Peasant Dances cals and delegates who supported position to their rotten policies. Greek Trade Union Educational All Proceeds to workers organization take steps 28 Bast 12th St., N.Y.C. C enter. 167 W . 29th St. A d m is ­ Martin out of antagonism to the It also protested the decision of The New International to drive out and smash this filthy Open 10 A.M. to 8 P.M. sion 25c. Lavish entertainment. rotten Stalinist administration. the recent national and state con­ S a tu rd a y, Feb. 25. 8:30 P.M . G.P.U. and all its stooges. Tuesday, February 28, 1939 SOCIALIST APPEAL 3

By Dwight An Open Letter LEFT— OFF Macdonald __JABS To Members of the Communist Party Law and Order, N. Y. C., 1907— ’33— ’39 THE RECORD (Continued from Page 1) camp. Where are your party comrades now in Germany, Austria, W.W. McLaughlin, ex-head of N.Y. City detectives who quit the -and fight the anti Czechosolvakia, Spain? eyes: they give aid and comfort to the fascists- post in 1907, ju s t one ju m p ahead from swinging its heavy battalions decisively into On the Other Side fascist workers. You must break with the party and program and leadership of a commission of inquiry, died line between the liberal and reformist skirmish- i of defeat and treachery and lies! le a vin g $734,019. C alled to e xp la in of the Railroad Tracks ers. But if the Chronicle is to be taken as an in­ Your party tells you (hat the fascist danger lies only across why policemen were shifted dex of Wall Street opinion, that moment has not | the seas, in Berlin or Rome or Burgos. W e must fight the fascists, fight them not in the distant fu ­ around to suit Dutch Schultz while T he 1938 e d itio n o f th e “ P e rio d ica ls D ire c to ry " yet arrived. In this, at least, the editors of the No, comrades. The main ¡¿tscist danger, the fascists who w ill ture or in distant lands, but here and now, in the streets o f New he was in office, ex-police Com is a volume of 465 close-printed pages which lists Nation are in advance of their age. York and throughout this country. We must fight them every step missioner J.P. Bolan testified at and describes 10.200 p u b lic a tio n s , m ost o f th e m whip and club and stab you, who w ill put you into concentration the Hines hearing that all he knew trade papers. There is a section headed “Gro­ camps, smash your political and trade-union organizations, drive o f the way. W e must resolve that never again w ill the fascists o f Afterthoughts on Alonday Night about Schultz was what he read in cery Trades." with 29 publications listed, another you into slavery, are right here at home. They are gathering their New York be allowed to repeat their provocation of last Monday the papers. . . . Assistant Attorney headed "Vending Machines,” with 4, and so on. After the splendid demonstration put on by night, that next time their meeting shall not take place. W e must forces in the vigilante hordes of the West Coast, in the Silver General Amen is investigating But there is no section headed either “Munitions” the Socialist Workers Party last Monday, it may Shirts, in Hague's legions. They were meeting in Madison Square shatter and smash them. charges that six high ranking po­ or “Armaments” or “W ar Supplies,” and the only seem ungrateful to offer criticism. But precisely Garden on the 20th. lice officials in Brooklyn received trace of the subject in the lengthy index is: because the affair was a success, because the Join the Ranks graft for suppressing strikes to "Rifles—See GAMES AND SPORTS: Hunting: SWP showed, in m ilitant action, its superiority To Fight Fascism of the Fourth International! th e tu n e o f $100,000. S h o o tin g ." over the other parties of the Left, I think certain serious shortcomings should be pointed out. I You Must Break W ith Stalinism Can the fascists be defeated? O f course, o f course they can. Maxim Litvinov The munitions industry apparently boasts not a must begin by stating that from eight o’clock on, D o you th in k that the fascist gangs are going to break up They are, at bottom, contemptible cowards. They gain strength ".After Russia had entered the single trade paper. As the respectable citizens of I was inside the Garden—I hope it’s not neces­ and dissolve if we just keep quiet, shut our eyes and bury our only through our failures, only through our failure to launch on a League, Litvinov played the role a community don't talk about the red light dis­ sary to add I was there on business, not pleasure. of a social. Hon in international heads in the sand? D o n 't let us fool ourselves. The fascists are broad scale the real fight; the militant workingclass fight against trict across the railroad tracks, so the business But I have checked my criticisms with those circles in Geneva and Paris. . . . fraternity observes a taboo of silence on that who saw the whole business, and I think , they growing stronger month by month. They are much bolder, much them. The workers are ready and willing: they have shown that I remember one party at which great industry which has become the very heart are justified. more insolent since Munich, since the terrible defeat in Spain. in New York as throughout the world. But the workers are in the Princess Stahremberg, the mother of modern capitalism: Death, Inc. The furriers And they w ill soon begin more open attacks against the workers end powerless unless we show them the road, the road of revolu­ of Rudi, the aspirant dictator of have trade journals, and so have those who make Generally speaking, I should say the SWP did and their organizations. tionary class struggle. Austria, presided, and where L it­ paper cups and harmonicas and perfumes and not plan the affair carefully enough, did not use vinov, his face wreathed in smiles, ice cream, but the merchants of death, whose showmanship in putting over its message, and The fascists can be stopped only by the direct resistance of Comrades: cast from your shoulders the party that ties you was throned between the Princess vast enterprises are keeping the great capitalist failed utterly to exploit the demonstration as a the workers; only when the workers, under revolutionary leader­ helpless in the La Guardia-Roosevelt straightjacket, that forbids Tortonia and the Countess Cou- means of advertising to the general public the economies of the world going along even as ship, smash them. There is no other way. you to join with us in the front of the militant struggle against the denhove-Kalergi, with a couple of flmpingly as they are today, these gentlemen do SWP and Us press. By the time I arrived on the fascists and fo r socialism! the Princesses of the blood on not discuss their trade in public. Their business scene—about 7:00—there was not a banner or a Where was your Party Monday night? W hat lead, what tabourets at his feet. ’Go and look lies across the railroad tracks. placard to be seen except for one small card­ guidance did its lying, cowardly press give to the workers of New Let us together guarantee that the February 20 concentration at Rasputin with his whiskers off,' board sign a girl was-holding aloft in her hands, Y ork? Where were your leaders? o f the fascists shall prove to be their last! said Van Beek en Donk, the cor­ Fig out of Thistle without benefit of a stick. I was told the police It is easy enough fo r your leaders. W hat does it matter to Take your place in our fighting ranks, under the shining respondent of the Nleuwe Rotter- had seized and destroyed all such signs at the damsche Courant, when I arrived.” According to the Good Book, thistle trees don’t beginning of the demonstration. But this should them when the fascists conquer in the United States and institute banner of the Fourth International, the banner of the defeat of — Pierre Van Passen in "Days of produce figs. But I challenge any reader of this have been foreseen, and reserve supplies should the regime of the concentration camp? They have their funds and world reaction and the triumph of international socialism! our Years,” p.119. column to guess what periodical printed the have been provided, smuggled in under coats or their passports. They do not have to feel the lash on their own following editorial comment on Roosevelt's re­ cached in some place outside the battle zone. Socialist Workers Party Pope Pius, Poland and the cent "W ar Message” to Congress: W ithout signs or banners, the public saw merely backs. Young Stalinists what I saw: a confused, anonymous mass of But fo r you, comrades, it is hot so easy. You have no funds, Local New York "We must make up our minds, said the Presi­ Three items from N.Y. Times, demonstrators. Far more serious was the failure no passports. You must remain, under the whip, within the prison 116 University Place dent, to save our religious and democratic insti­ Feb. 12, p.2 cols. 6, 7, and 8. In to distribute SWP literature. I saw not a single tutions, for ‘we know what might happen to us column 6 Father Coughlin praised copy of the APPEAL or the NEW INTERNA­ the dead Pope for his work against of the United States if the new philosophies of TIONAL offered for sale, and I am told there forces were to encompass the other continents radicalism, especially in "saving was no effort made at any time to sell literature. MORE SIDELIGHTS LA GUARDIA COPS and invade our own.’ Although the aggressor "l Am Joining the S.W.P.” Poland from Bolshevism." Column I was told, indeed, that during the speeches by States were not named, it was sufficiently obvi­ 7, A.P. dispatch from Moscow, Max Shachtman, James Burnham and others, By RUTH RAFFER just didn’t know what to say or ous that Mr. Roosevelt had in mind Germany, BEAT UP NEGRO IN "Soviet Press criticised Pope Pius there was at least one enterprising vendor cir­ ON THE ANTI-NAZI do so he just beat it: because, Itfely, and Japan. He failed to indicate, however, I am joining the Socialist W ork­ X I as a defender of Capitalism ... culating among the crowd offering for sale—the after all, could he have denied that whatever these countries formerly could ers P a rty . for his crusade against Soviet Dally W orker! Among the tens of thousands of Hitler's agents the right of free boast of freedom and tolerance was destroyed DEMONSTRATION Where was Norman Thomas on POLICE S TATION Russia . . . and for maintaining outsiders who in the course of th^ evening either speech—and protection, by thou­ from within, and not from without. Nor was any Monday night when the Fascists good relations with Spanish In­ took part in the demonstration or watched it sands of the people’s public ser­ reference made to the complete improbability of made their first stand in New surgents and Japanese." Column 8. sympathetically, there must have been thousands Among the thousands who vants, against the indignation of Driven By Mounted an attack by any or all of those aggressor gov­ York? Why wasn't he out on the "The second annual convention of who would have paid three cents for an APPEAL. answered the S.W.P.'s call to the people? Of course he could ernments upon the United States, or to the even streets making as courageous an Police At Nazi the New York Communist League For that matter, my own pamphlet, "Fascism the anti-Fascist counter-demon­ deny the right of the people to more remote contingency of success in any for­ attack upon New York fascism was brought to a close yesterday- and the American Scene," should have sold well assemble peacably and picket, be­ eign attack so long as the liberties left us by our stration last ■ Monday night as he made on Newark fascism? Meeting afternoon with a resolution ex­ in such a crowd. But no one—including myself— cause he didn’t want them to get own government are worth fighting for and pre­ were many members and sym­ Can the local brand of Nazism pressing sympathy to young Cath­ thought of exploiting the occasion. hurt. His police did bang a few serving." This voice of sanity in a mad world possibly be a more democratic Brutally beaten by La Guardia’s olics on the death of Pope Pius X I.” pathizers of the Communist dozen heads and try to gouge was raised by The Commercial & Financial Chon- Small matters, these? It was just their super­ typ e ? police, who were protecting the and Socialist parties and of the out an eye or two:—but that’s a Coming Publications icle. The moral scarcely needs underlining: (1) iority in details like banners and showmanship Where was Angelo Herndon, meeting of fascists at Madison more generally accepted, and less Izzy Amter, state secretary of businessmen talk among themselves realistically that gave the Nazis a great advantage over their Lovestoneite Independent La­ who used to symbolize the rights Square Garden last Monday eve­ roundabout way for the people to the Communist Party is arranging and not in the tones they use for wide public left-wing opponents. (H itler is said to design his bor League. Here are a few of the workers of all races to ning, Peter Saunders, a Negro get hurt (and that way you make for early publication of his com­ consumption; (2) unlike the liberal intelligentsia, party’s insignia and flags himself.) Today, when of the many incidents reported organize against their common worker, was still under doctor's sure that the people get hurt). plete correspondence w ith the late finance capital has a serious stake in capitalism the Enemy has reduced mass propaganda to an enemies? Can it be that the fear care suffering from contusions to the Appeal of the reaction These well-known leaders and Pope under the title “Correspon­ and so thinks twice before risking its vast prop­ exact science, a revolutionary party must pay (now that he is a Twentieth Cen­ and possible internal injuries. among these demonstrators friends of the people were not on dence: Izzy to Pius—Pius to Izzy.” erties in the maelstrom of a world war. Which attention to the details as well as the broad out­ tury American) of embarrassing “I am not a member of the hand on the day they have spoken Solomon's Mines doesn’t prevent it, of course, when the moment lines, to the technique as well as to the content whose own organizations re­ his new bourgeois friends proves Socialist Workers Party,” he told of “when fascism first rears its If the U.S. Judiciary haven't has arrived at which it judges war is “necessary,” of its appeal to the masses. mained silent and inactive in r'lghtier than any former fear of a staff reporter of the Socialist ugly head." They all had reasons found the wisdom of Solomon, the face of the gross Fascist chain-gangs? Appeal. “I was just returning for deploring demonstration. home along 53rd Street after vis­ some of them at least appear to Where were the Leaders of provocation: But the people of New York did iting some friends on the evening have discovered his fabulous MEN AND W OMEN OF LABOR Jewish Thought? What can they not deplore demonstration: they of the meeting. mines. Judge Manton, it is now "Much to my surprise I saw a have been thinking to have are anti-Nazi and not afraid to “The police turned me back be­ revealed banked a million bucks C.P. member on our picket line. drugged their followers into the say so. And they found leaders, fore I reached a subway entrance while meting out equal justice to He was trading blows with La traditional Jewish state of passive In the Fourth International, who and I went to 50th Street. both rich and poor. Guardia's police on 8th Ave. along non-resistance? Perhaps these with our comrades and doing a were ready to raise their slogans, “Black Son-of-a-Bltcli” Forgery not Widespread Nazis will shrivel at the thought and lead their ranks—thousands right fine job of defending him­ "There were quite a few police Faced with proof of forging of of being beneath the contempt of strong—in the most heartening Out of the Past self. Later on, during our parade there, and one of them mounted names of policy holders to ballots the civilized Jew? mass demonstration New York on Broadway I saw him again. on a horse rode up on the side­ in the company’s biennial elec­ Where, just incidentally, was has seen in many a year. This time he was selling the So­ walk and said, ‘Get back.” tions, officials of the Metropolitan the Little Flower who springs I am joining the Socialist BY EMANUEL GARRETT cialist Appeal. His Liberty Bell " ’I’m going home,” I told him. Life Insurance Company said the from two oppressed peoples? He Workers Party. attracted the attention of many ” ’Get back you black son-of-a- practice was not widespread. And bitch,” he said. Then he stuck played a dominant role in the labor battles of other Y.C.L.ers and C.P.ers and what’s a little bit of forgery in his spurs in the horse’s flanks, JOHANN MOST th e 80's. they were listening to his sales- the business world. making it lunge at me. ta lk . Farrell Demands Mayor Lost— 1,000,000,000 Hours "The next day we met on the Having separated himself from thé main body “I reached up my arms to pro­ of Work (Feb. 5, 1846—March 17, 1906) of American anarchists in bitter controversy, project where we had been dis­ tect myself from the horse and Explain Protecting Nazis A survey by the W.P.A. reports M ost so u g h t o u t and u n ite d in O ctober, 1883, in cussing the program of the S.W.P. pulled on the bridle. Into the somewhat placid labor movement of th a t 1,000,000,000 w o rk h o u rs have the organization of the International Working for weeks. I asked him where his "The cop yelled to the other been saved by the introduction of the American 80's came Johann Most—the fiery ¡people's Association (the “Black International") Liberty Bell was. 'I threw it in a La Guardia's Entire Conduct Reminiscent cops standing around, ’Grab that farm machinery but "something “propagandist of the deed.” Great struggles were with Parsons and Spies. The platform of the sewer on 48th Street . . . and if black son-of-a-bitch.’ more than this amount of new "Black International" pointed to the inefficacy you people ever need me again to Of Democrats in Italy, Germany “Two police held me while the pending, the eight-hour movement was just then work has been created in the con­ of ballots as a means of conquering power; it fight the fascists, just let me mounted policeman climbed off getting into full swing, individuals like Parsons sequent expansion of automotive, called for the "destruction of the existing class know — I’ll be there. I never James T. Farrell, noted novelist, | other one, trapped by several po- his horse. When he reached me, and Spies were already spreading the doctrines rubber and petroleum industries." rule by all means, that is by energetic, relentless, thought the Communist Party who was present as an observer | licemen, and obviously only try- he doubled up his gloved fist and Eight to fifteen m illion unemployed of m ilitant labor action. Haymarkct Square was revolutionary and international action.” would actually desert the workers at the Madison Square Garden | ing to defend himself, was brutally struck mo in the mouth. counter-demonstration, has sent to workers searching the highways soon to be the center of the first great anti-labor at a time when the Fascists were punched by a detective. On Forty “On the way down to the police planning a real attack in New the press and to several promi­ Ninth Street, around the corner station he kept repeating: ’Just and byways of the U.S. for the frame-up in the United States. A Brilliant Orator Y o r k .’ nent individuals in New York, the ; and just cast of Broadway, there wait until we get you to the sta­ past ten years have been unable Most toured the country. The brilliance of his following letter of protest against to find the missing Billion hours “It took me more than 20 years were other demonstrators, most of tio n .’ Jailed in Every Country attack on capitalist rule, his wit, his biting sar­ police brutality which he sent to o f w o rk . to learn,” said an old worker at them youths, with bruised heads "A t the station house he wanted casm gave many a fat-growing money-bag sleep­ Mayor LaGuardia and other city and faces, and young girls scream­ When Most arrived in 1882 he had behind him our newsstand this morning. “To to make an assault charge. He ] less nights. "Extirpate the miserable brood!”, o ffic ia ls : think that in 20 years the Social ing hysterically. started the frame-up going by years of activity in the socialist movements of cried Most, “Extirpate the wretches!” Workers, Democrats would learn nothing “To Mayor LaGuardia: “Why was this? What principle telling the desk sergeant that I Protest Delegation Europe, and a reputation so great that a huge many of them come to the United States as from the defeats in Europe . . . “Why was dn anti-Fascist dem­ of democracy was upheld when had jerked his horse and took a exiles from Bismarck’s tyranny, applauded. Boss­ mass meeting was organized in New York City I saw the leaflet in the “Daily onstration broken up in front of one group was perm itted to m eet* *1 punch at him. es, frightened by the venom and vigor of his Stalled by Mayor to welcome him. News" and I said to myself, ‘Yes, the Rivoli Theatre at Forty Ninth at Forty Ninth Street and Eighth ^ Beaten At Station words, demanded he be jailed. the Trotskyites are the only ones and Broadway' between ten-thirty Avenue, and another suppressed! " ’Why don’t you bring a charge He also had behind him, this ex-journeyman (Continued from Page 1) who are wise to the Fascists. I and eleven o’clock last night while by force at Forty Ninth and of cruelty to animals against bookbinder who startled bourgeois German sen­ And so he was for “inciting to violence”—just will go along with them to this the Fascist meeting of the Ger- B ro a d w a y? him?’ asked the desk sergeant. to city officials by George No- sibilities by his bitter proclamations, years of before the Haymarket demonstration. Hardly picket line and to hell with the man-American Bund at Madison “Citizens of New York were ‘That would be a better charge.’ vack, secretary of the American jail sentences. These were to be continued in the was he released from Blackwell’s Island when he old bureaucrats in the Rand Square Garden was protected by treated to the following policy by “After booking me and filing Fund for Political Prisoners and United States. For though Most agitated for his was returned there for a pamphlet on the "scien­ Refugees was: School. A n d I d id go along. See cordons of policemen, not to men­ the authorities: police protection charges of ’cruelty to animals’ “propaganda of the deed” prim arily in speeches tific art of revolutionary warfare.” Later, after this lump on my face? Well, I tion an army of uniformed storm- for Fascists, police clubs for anti- and ‘assaulting an officer,’ they “On Monday evening, February and tracts that were rarely matched in specific the assassination of McKinley, he was sentenced got in a couple of beautiful socks troopers who did police duty in­ Fascist«. Why? dragged me into a back room and 20, many thousands of anti-fascist deeds, he was regularly imprisoned for the vio­ to a third term on Blackwell’s Island. He claimed myself. (This worker, a machin­ side of the meeting? sat me in a chair. Then the po­ workers gathered in the vicinity lence of his words. that the greatest indignity done him in jail had “These events are reminiscent liceman who had brought me of Madison Square Garden to been the shaving of his beard. ist, is over 60 years of age and he "In front of the Rivoli Theatre, of pre-Fascist Italy and pre-Fasc- In Vienna he had been sentenced to five years has decided that he is not too old after the anti-Fascist demonstra­ ist Germany. In these countries, down took off his coat and said, ’ protest against the provocative Nazi meeting. Numbers of these imprisonment, and released after twelve months to take his place on the line with tors had been dispersed, I saw the democratic authorities also ’You god damn black Communist. Rejects Individual Terror anti-fascists who were doing noth­ on condition that he leave Austria. Back in his the youth of the Fourth Interna­ policemen slugging two helpless conferred the benefits of police I am an American and fought tio n a l.) under the American flag.’ ing but exercising their consti­ native Germany, he engaged in socialist editorial Towards the end of his life, though he con­ demonstrators who were at their protection on Fascists, and the “He started beating me while I tutional right of picketing the work, and was elected to the Reichstag. But not tinued to be hounded for his "violence,” Most “Where were you—and where mercy. Witnesses of this were benefits of the police power on was in the chair. When I stood meeting in a peaceful fashion, for long. Bismarck exiled him under the anti­ rejected individual acts of terrorism, except was the I.L.L. (Independent Labor herded off by the police officers anti-Fascists. I quote from what up from the pain of it, he kicked were ridden down and trampled socialist laws. In London, to which he went, he where they would awaken the masses to revolu­ League)?" said an excited girl in with all the necessary efficiency. Miss Dorothy Thompson, who at­ me In the stomach. ’If this is the upon by mounted police, and bru­ was twice sentenced to jail for articles that ap­ tionary action. So that when Alexander Berkman the union hall. “You say the One of these men was lying help­ tended the Madison Square Gar­ way Americans do,’ I said, Tm tally beaten by uniformed and peared in the famous anarchist journal he found­ shot Frick, the steel baron, Most criticized the Trotskyites are only a small hand­ less on the sidewalk, crying out den meeting, stated in this morn­ ashamed I’m an American.” ” plainclothes policemen. ed, the Frelheit. act as ineffective in advancing the cause of an­ ful of sectarians yet they were the that his leg was injured, an ex­ ing’s HERALD TRIBUNE: “The B a il o f $100 w as fu rn is h e d by "The American Fund for Po­ archism. With this change in viewpoint, the only ones who dared take the lead pression of pain on his face. The entire meeting was familiar to the American Fund for Political litical Prisoners and Refugees Gives Labor Slant to Anarchism mainstream of the American anarchist move­ in this fight which the 'Workers me. I saw an exact .duplicate of it Prisoners and Refugees. Hearing energetically protests against these Before he came to this country, the German ment, represented by the new figures of Emma Age' talks so much about. Don’t replied that the Y.C.L leaders told in the Berlin Sports Palast in 1931. was set for February 23. unwarranted attacks against the Social Democratic Party had expelled him for Goldman and Alexander Berkman which he had come around here with that kind them not to associate with the That meeting was also ’protected’ anti-fascists by the police, who his trenchant denunciations of parliamentary up to then nurtured and which had looked upon of baloney. Go on back to Local Trotskyite-Fascists." "But why,” by the police of the German Re­ devoted their entire energies to action. Arrived in the United States he almost him as its ideological leader, broke from him. 22 and help make deals with the I asked, "is it all right for your public. Three years later the peo­ streets of New York last evening protecting the fascists. We ask immediately quarreled with the various anar­ Stalinists .... don’t peddle your leaders to break up Trotskyite ple who had been in charge of going to be investigated? Or do that the mayor and other respon­ chist groups then existtng—most of them bred Persecuted every year of his life, from his phoney talk to me any more—I meetings and not meetings of the that meeting were in charge of the taxpayers of this city support sible city authorities immediately in the Thoreau tradition of peaceful retirement childhood spent under the lash of beatings, left the I.L.L. last night, my for­ Bund?” There was no answer. the government of Germany, and the police department in order institute an investigation into from active life. Most brought to American an­ through his adulthood spent under the whip of mer friend, and I w ill be with the They marched along and with the the German citizens against whom, that these men can herd the pub­ these actions. The American Fund, archism a labor slant, and with it separated the c a p ita lis t repression, M ost died in 1906. Few , i f Trotskyites fighting—not talking.” Trotskyites went into action in 1931, e x a c tly th e sam e sta te ­ lic like sheep, attack anti-Fascist which has offered its services to old school, which enjoyed a certain respectable any, of his works are now read, few victories "When I saw a couple of Club against the Fascists. Now they ments had been made as were be­ pickets, tear their banners from several of the demonstrators who popularity in the Unitfed States for generations, remain as monuments to his pioneer work. Yet, Malraux (a Young Communist understand why the Y.C.L leaders ing made to-night by Mr. Kunze, them, and slug them? were beaten and arrested during from the new school which sought, however un- Most with his speeches and burning tracts League club) members on the tell them not to associate with were being beaten, expropriated, "Why was this, Mr. Mayor? the demonstration, is prepared to clearly, to wrest power from the bosses through helped educate the American proletariat into picket line I asked them why the Trotkyites. They know now what and murdered.” Who is responsible? submit affidavits fully substan­ class struggle. It was thus largely through the militancy of action, to stir it into a realization Y.C.L. did not come out and dem­ the Trotskyites stand for—and “Is this policy to continue? Or Sincerely yours, tiating its charges against the po­ influence of Most that the anarchist movement that it alone could fight its own cause. onstrate against the Fascists. They h o w !” is the conduct of the police on the t James T. Farrell lice ." 4 SOCIALIST APPEAL Tuesday, February 28, 1939

Here is the complete, damning sentence, at the end SOCIALIST APPEAL of the Daily Worker's appreciative story on the May­ VoL n i l . No. 11 F eb ru a ry 28, 1939 or's whitewashing the cops. Mark it well, you workers who were ridden down, slugged, kicked and beaten by Published twice a week by the La Guardia's cops, you workers throughout the country =|IN THIS = SOCIALIST APPEAL PUBLISHING ASS'N who have seen the pictures of the cops attacking the at llti University Place, New York, N. Y. demonstration: T elephone: A L g o n q u iu 4-8547 "A group oj Trotskyites who came to City Hall = CORNER= S u b s c rip tio n s : $2.00 per y e a r; $1.00 fo r s ix m onths. to protest against action of the police in prevent­ F o re ig n : $3.00 per year, $1.50 fo r six m on th s. B u n d le ing serious provocations and disorder at the meet­ " By Max Shachlman - - ...... orders: 2 cents per copy in United States; 3 cents per ing were not recevied by the Mayor." (Daily copy in all foreign countries. Single copies: ^3 cents. Worker, Feb. 22, 1939) Now that all the reports are in about the Madison "Reentered as second class matter February 16, The only other reference by the Daily Worker to Square Garden rally of the Nazis and the counter demonstration called by our party, it is easier to cast 1939, at the post office at New York. N. Y.. under the existence of the demonstration against the Nazis up at. least a tentative balance-sheet. the A ct o f M a rch 3, 1879." was also on Wednesday, in a piece by Lowell Wake­ The press of the Jewish bourgeoisie and its social- field which begins: "Every loyal American inside democratic echo united in a joint pica to the Jewish E d ito r: Madison Square Garden the other night . . . was pro­ workers of New York to shun the vicinity of the MAX SHACHTMAN foundly shocked." The Daily Worker is ready to give Garden on Monday night. These snivelling cravens Associate Editors: haven t learned a thing from the horrifying events in plenty of rats who attended the meeting the benefit of HAROLD ROBERTS FELIX MORROW Eui ope and still hope that if they crawl on their Staff Members: the doubt; maybe they didn't know what this widely- bellies or stick their heads in the sand or play dead, EMANUEL GARRETT JOSEPH HANSEN publicised meeting was about. Like innocent virgins the fascists will either forget they exist or, if they remember, have mercy on them. Business Manager: they went there and were shocked, according to "com­ S. S T A N L E Y rade" Wakefield. Stalinists Feature But the demonstrators outside get no benefit from Morris Statement Wakefield. His single reference to them is that they f ig h t w u h t h e s o c ia l is t The Stalinists and Thomasite and Lovestoneite are "nasty little provocative knots of Trotskyites." press preserved a dignified silence on the counter WORKERS PARTY FOR: The Forward is no better than it ever was. But what demonstration. Every child knows that if the Stalinist 1. A job and a decent wage for every worker. has been established, beyond dispute, is that the For­ pi ess in particular had issued a call to its supporters 2. Open the idle factories— operate them under ward’s scabbery is not the lowest type. Way down be­ to come out to the Garden, the Nazi mobilization could never have taken place, and New York labor low it is the deliberate, conscious strike-breaking of the workers' control. would have registered a tremendous and inspiring 3. A Twenty-Billion dollar Federal public works Daily Worker against the anti-Nazi fighters. v ic to ry . and housing program. Instead, after days of silence, it featured promi­ 4. Thirty-thirty! $30-weekly minimum wage—-30- nently the appeal of another professional democrat. hour weekly maximum for all workers on all jobs. Where There Are No Cuts Acting Mayor Newboid Morris, who urged the people of New York to stay away from the demonstration. 5. Thirty dollar weekly old-age and disability pen­ The unemployed, who are being thrown off the re­ The bourgeois press took pains to underscore the sion. lief rolls in accordance with the Guinea Pig experi­ fact that neither the Communist nor Socialist party 6. Expropriate the Sixty Families. ment of Congress to determine just how low funds was supporting the counter-demonst ration, that “only” 7. All war funds to the unemployed. for relief purposes can be cut without bringing dem­ the Trotskyists were behind it. 8. A people's referendum on any and all wars. onstrations of protest, w ill be pleased to learn that In a word, everything was done by the “official” utterly fantastic profits for 19.38 continue to be re­ anti-fascist leaders to discourage attendance at the 9. No secret diplomacy. counter demonstration. 10. An independent Labor party. ported by the country's giant corporations. ||. Workers Defense Guards against Vigilante and None of the unemployed thrown off relief w ill Results Show S.W.P. Fascist attacks. want to protest about experimental cuts, naturally, Was Correct when they have had their feelings soothed by read­ Notwithstanding all this pressure, lens of thou­ ing about these enormous profits. Instead of cutting sands of workers did come to the demonstration in themselves a non-existent slice from an imaginary loaf response to the appeal of an admittedly small organi­ Join Us on the Firing Line! zation, the Socialist Workers Party, which does nor of bread provided by relief cuts, they w ill satisfy their yet have at its disposal the, large numbers who follow The Socialist Workers Parly has been on the firing hunger on epicurean delicacies the same luxurious way Dark Cloak of Secrecy Lifted the Communist party. line from coast 'to coast in the most m ilitant challenge die rich do . . . by just ordering whatever strikes their Now who, in light of the results, was correct: the to Fascist provocation that this country has yet seen. fancy. Stalinists and their like, who called on the workers The front pages of the entire American press have The money for it? Don't let the Guinea Pig exper­ to hide in their basements, or the Trotskyists, who called upon them to come out? told the story of the S.W.P.'s bold leadership in the iment of Congress stand in your way. People at long From FDR War Entanglement organization of counter-demonstrations to the attempt­ before Congress started cutting relief funds. The rich, Let us call as witness in our behalf two of the (Special to ike Socialist Appeal) ♦ (4) Roosevelt denied to the#ficials had differed with the Pres- writers on the Daily Worker staff, reporting the dem­ ed Fascist mobilizations at Madison Square Garden in for instance, solved that problem a long time ago. WASHINGTON, D. C.—Further American people that he had ident over the advisability of dis­ onstration in the Wednesday, Feb. 22 issue: New York and at Los Angeles. Just open up your family vault, blow the dust off confirmation of the widespread made such a statement but both closing military secrets to the "The Nazis came out of the Garden in little groups The Socialist Appeal in its first month as a twice- your stock, and clip a few m illion dollars worth of belief that President Roosevelt the Committee and the President French and British. undrt- police protection,” writes Lester- Rodney, “and has committed the United States weekly has. succeeded in hitting hammer-blows for the dividends for your year’s idleness. That’s an old secret categorically refused to make (11) Secretary of the Treasury scurr ied for the subways like rats for their holes." to enter any war involving Great public the stenographic report of Morgenthau asked that previous "Though brave inside, the Nazis slunk from the cause of united workers' action against Fascism, for formula developed by the upper classes. We pass it Britain or France came today the meeting or to explain what secret testimony of his be made Garden," writes Lowell Wakefield. “They gave their progressive unionism, and against the war preparations on to those of you who have been thrown off relief when Representative Vinson of had been divulged by Roosevelt public. The Committee refused. swastika banners, even the American flags they dis­ Georgia in a sensational address of the Roosevelt administration. for what it is worth. under oath of secrecy. (12) It became known that the played, to little boys and to young gL Is to carry home. to the House of Representatives (5) Fear and resentment swept But these are still only the first steps! To make the We w ill do our bit by sending to the unemployed secrecy surrounding the activities They felt the tenor of New York’s thoughts. I am defended the sale of planes to the nation and the Senate was the glad tidings as to just w hidi of the many stocks of the French experts in the not talking about the blood-brothers of Hitler, those needed advances in carrying the revolutionär)’, m ili­ these countries and announced adjourned for ten days by Roose- United States had coine at the nasty little provocative knots of Trotskyites [Well tant, fighting program of our party to the great masses in their family vaults they should clip. After a week that "America now finds it neces- velt leaders to avoid answering request of American officials, said, well said! But where were the non-provocative of celebrating Dividends and Profits Week, we re­ sary to answer the dictators in questions over Roosevelt’s agree- of the American working class, the Socialist Appeal probably directly from Roosevelt Browders and Hathaways?—M.S.l but of the thou their own language." 1 ments and commitments to has to expand its circulation and gather the sinews joice afresh and join with the unemployed in satis­ himself, the denials of the French sands of silent anti-fascists, the after-theater crowds, Congress convened again after plunge the United States into the fying our needs from the following items: Embassy that it knew anything of the workers on the way home from late shifts who that not only w ill enable it to continue as a twice- a ten-day adjournment called by coining world slaughter. The STOCKHOLDERS of the companies listed be­ the presence here of an air mis­ make the streets around there the city’s busiest weekly but will'enable it in the nearest fxrssible futurc Democratic Party leaders to al- j (6) The President refused to sion being an “ignorance" in­ low may clip from the following takes for 19.38: towards midnight." to become a thrice-weekly and then a daily! low public opinion to cool off after make further comment on the af- spired by the State Department. ( Nore:— We have listed nothing less paltry than a Getting out the twice-weekly Appeal places a tre­ disclosures that shocked the pub- fair, reporting that he was suf- (13) The Senate M ilitary Com­ What If 'There Had million dollar take. It is to be noted that al1 salaries of lic from coast to coast had indi- fering from a ’’cold." mittee carried on a bitter discus­ mendous financial strain upon us. We took this bold Been No Demonstration? corporation officials have already been deducted— but cated that the President and his i (7) The President left Wash- sion about the leaks which have The Nazis "slunk from the Garden” ; they "scurried step forward on the basis of calculated increases in administration under cover of ington for Florida to indulge in been occurring despite the pledge this is a minor item, some officers like Fred W . Sar­ for the subways like rats for their holes." That par t circulation— in subscriptions, street sales, and bundle- secrecy have engaged the nation a little fishing in the Carribean of secrecy imposed upon all mem­ gent, president of the Chicago & North Western ot the Daily Wor ker’s report is entirely accurate. orders. The party as a whole responded magnificently to enter the coming world war. ' Sea . . . and incidentally take bers and urged that all members Railway, receiving as little as $50,000 a year; that is, Vinson’s speech regarding the charge of war game maneuvers But suppose for a moment that the tens of thou­ in raising the $3,000 we needed to begin. It now adhere to the rule against dis­ according to the bookkeeping o f the corporations.) administration’s war policy was involving the entire Western closing any confidential testi­ sands who joined the S.W.P. around the Garden had must bend all its efforts to the task of making it pos­ Columbia Gas & Electric Corp ...... 810,241,489 the first bluntly outspoken dc- Hemisphere. mony. They then questioned Am­ heeded instead the appeals of the Jewish Daily For­ sible to continue and to expand. Brooklyn Unton Gas Co...... 1,679,853 fense of Roosevelt s war entangle- Senators who had been rag- bassador Hugh Wilson, recently ward, the Morning Journal, the Day, the Daily Worker Party comrades and sympathizers! Expanding the P u b lic S ervice Co. o f N o. Illin o is ...... 3,635,025 ments since the adjournment of ¡ng demagogically about the right recalled from Germany. He would and Newboid Morris? Suppose the Garden had been the Senate. left completely free of the surrounding workers? circulation of the Socialist Appeal is a basic way of Cleveland Electric Illum inating Co...... 6,825,924 of the American people to know not speak until the' committee Kansas City Power & L ig h t C o ...... 3,806,729 It was thought by Roosevelt about their coming slaughter and stenographer and clerks had left Would the Nazi thugs have slunk away under putting our fighting program across! There must be— Continental Can Co...... 7,101,973 partisans that the country-wide alleging that they would rip awav 1 the room. After questioning him. those circumstances? Would they then have scurried there can he no let-up! We're asking for at least 1,000 Owens-Illinois Glass Co ...... 5,383,805 opposition to his secret diplomacy | the entjrc dark c]oak of secrecy ; Committee members stated for for the subways like frightened rats? Would they new subscribers by April 1 but this is only a mini­ Mead Johnson & C o ...... 1,608,212 was 'without leadership and from the President's entangle- the benefit of the public that he have gone home with the fear of the working class mum figure. Get your shoulders to the wheel! Get Union Oil Co. of California ...... 6,832,758 without plan and that after the ments with Britain and France, had given them no new informa­ in their hearts? ten day adjournment, members agreed thal the anger of their tion for fear- of injuring his "fu­ Not for a minute! Rather, they would have said out into the streets with the Appeal and help build a G e n e ra l B a k in g Co...... 2,713,425 Great Lakes Dredge and Dock Co ...... 2,213,030 of Congress who depend upon constituents had died down ture usefulness." ¿o themselves: mass circulation! Detroit Edison Co...... 8,218,672 demagogic opposition to the war enough to make it possible for (14) The President enroute to "We put over a bold and impudent provocation Southern California Edison Co ...... 11,733,479 plans would not be compelled by them to skip over the issue. The Key West gave a press confer­ on the New York workers, on the Reds, on the P a cific T e l. & T e l. C o ...... 17,244,411 an infuriated public opinion to Senate was again convened. ence, during which he went “off Jews. We shook our fists right under their noses, Yellow Journalism Postal TeL Land Line System ...... 1,916,968 further criticize the administra (9) The Military Affairs Coni the record" twice to explain to and they ran away from the scene. They slunk away San Diego Gas & Electric ...... 1,470,554 *,on- j mittee continued its hearings on the reporter’s of the capitalist from work, they scurried for the subways, they beat There was a time when no self-respecting worker Lone Star Gas ...... 52104,104 War-Negotiations "defense needs" (President's war press his estimate of the war situ­ it for home in the hope of avoiding a meeting with us. would be caught reading the Jewish Daily Forward; E l Paso N a tu ra l G a s...... 2,083,689 That the President and Con- program), and in secret sessions ation. No information of this ex­ Here we are—just getting started, and our numerous its scabbery against every m ilitant action of the w ork­ Louisville Gas & E le c tric o f D e la w a re . . 1,197,006 gress are carrying on secret ne- decided to make public an expur- planation to the reporters ap­ enemy already fears an encounter with us.” got iations with foreign nations to edition of part of the testi- ers was the most revolting spectacle in the labor move­ York Railways Co ...... 2,744,738 peared in the press, but the New And they would have acted accordingly. They T exas C o rp ...... 23,500,0(10 plunge the United States into war mony to be given by witnesses. York Times mentioned that it would have strutted home from the Garden, imbued ment. But even that yellow sheet never sank to the is clearly evident from the fol Underwood-Elllott Fisher Co ...... 1,7672596 (10) Senator Austin of the Com­ “seemed to throw light on state­ with new courage, self-confidence, insolence towards levels now being plumbed by the Stalinist sheets, the Carrier Corp ...... 1,061,000 lowing series of events: mittee disclosed that the United ments by Senate M ilitary Affairs the workers. (1) A bombing plane developed Daily Worker and the Freiheit. Cons. Gas, E ., L ., &• P. o f B a ltim o re .. 5,853,140 States Army has a “vast network Committeemen quoting Mr. Roo­ The outpouring of New York’s workers was the for the United States army under The Forward, like its bourgeois Jewish colleagues, Q u a kers O ats Co...... 6,287,405 of intelligence agents throughout sevelt as saying that this coun­ first important ai^d salutary lesson taught the fascists great secrecy crashed accidently Bayuk Cigars, Inc...... 1,300,995 the world," and that because of try’s m ilitary frontier was on the in this city. And we have learned enough, I fee), exhorted its readers not to attend our counter-demon­ near Santa Monica and it was B o n A m i C o ...... 1,389,118 their special knowledge Army of- R h in e .” from the shortcomings of the demonstration, so that stration against the Nazis last Monday night. In our discovered that it carried a mem­ C a te rp illa r T ra c to r C o ...... 3,318,360 the next lesson the workers teach the labor-haters ber of a French Air Commission last issue, we characterized this cowardly act fo r what B. F. Goodrich Co ...... 2,240,119 JAMES, RUSSELL DEBATE CAPITALIST and anti-Semites will be a decisive one. it was. Following upon the counter-demonstration, the St. Joseph Lead Co ...... 1,331,256 aboard. (2) It was revealed that an of­ Forward did not exactly get enthusiastic about the Everybody through clipping? It's really quite a task SYSTEM BEFORE LARGE AUDIENCE To Victory With ficial commission of the French when there's so many profits. Someone should have demonstration in its news reports; it did not report the government was in the United (Special to the Socialist Appeal) . the Oppressed of the world was the Party! police’s own estimates o f the size o f the crowd, cut it the workers invent a machine that would do the clip­ States for the second time, and CHICAGO—Before a crowd of socialism, Russell argued that That there were defects in the organization and carrying through ol' the demonstration, is undeniable. down to "Ten thousand Trotskyists and Socialists," ping automatically. Then the unemployed and the ricb at the request of President Roose­ 650 at the Mandcl Hall, University only the method of "persuasion" of Chicago, C.L.R. James routed could improve society. Some of them are pointed out elsewhere in this issue etc., etc. But at least it admitted the existence o f the w ouldn’t have to do any work at all. velt, secretly, in order to buy war planes. Plans for these planes, Bertrand Russell in a debate on James Analyzes Society by Dwight Macdonald. But without being smug about anti-fascist demonstration and that the demonstrators closely guarded by the Army, the defense of capitalist democ­ We must persuade the capitalist our satisfaction, it is important to say: Everything ran into considerable numbers. were made available to the for­ racy. The debate, held on Feb. 1, class that socialism is a superior in proportion. In its Tuesday edition, the Daily Worker achieved When Fascism Reared Its Head eign power. attracted considerable interest social order, he declared. Through We are frank to say that this was our first truly outside of the University circles. big mass action in New York, organized without the die unparalleled feat of running a copious story about D u rin g the past ten years the Stalinist leaders of Sworn to Secrecy this means and by education he A large number of workers at­ hoped to see the coming of social­ possibility of knowing in advance all the factors in­ the Nazi meeting—but not one single word about the the Communist Party have organized literally hun­ (3) President Roosevelt at­ tempted to stifle widespread ap­ tended. ism . volved. At comparatively short notice, ail our forces anti-Nazi demonstration outside! dreds of physical attacks on "Trotskyite” meetings. prehension that he had engaged Russell, while contending that James, on his part, analyzed the were mobilized for a bold action which proved suc­ This was already outstripping the Forward, but on Their hooligans have assaulted our speakers and the United States to enter any he too, was in favor of socialism, class character of capitalist soci­ cessful far beyond all hopes because our party knew Wednesday the Daily Worker demonstrated that there slugged our news-venders. war involving the French or made clear that he was, above all. ety and demonstrated unassailably bow to mesh the small gear which it represents into the huge gear which the militant workers of New is no bottom to the Stalinist pit of degeneration. W hen Fascism actually "reared its ugly head" British, by inviting the Military a pacifist. Because of his pacifism that violence was one of its main Affairs Committee to a secret he endorsed the Munich pact since characteristics. He went on to York represent, thus setting the latter into motion Whereas the Forward had, at least, indicated in its openly in New York City in the very front yard of conference at the White House. it gave the world a "little peace." show how every gain for the Next time we will do better. But only on the story the fact that the police had assaulted the demon­ the Communist Party and organized a mass meeting All members were sworn to di­ He abhorred violence no matter workers was obtained through condition that the “small gear" is strengthened and strators, the Stalinists went even further than La on a scale reminiscent o f those just a few years prior vulge nothing of what the Presi­ from what source it sprung—both uncompromising struggle, that the enlarged. The place of every militant worker, of Guardia in whitewashing the cops. La Guardia con­ to the rise o f H itle r, the Stalinist leaders were not dent told them about his plans. the violence of the ruling class ruling class always resisted with every revolutionary intellectual who means business, is in the fighting ranks of the Socialist W orkers Party. tented him self w ith merely praising the cops. The merely discreetly silent, but quoted approvingly Act­ Nevertheless, it leaked out that against the workers and the resis­ arms any threat to its existence. the President had stated that the tance of the workers to their per­ Persuasion, said James, meant We do not have an eternity before us, and even if D aily W orker went on to speak o f the cops as "pre­ ing-Mayor Morris, who pleaded with everybody to boundaries of the United States secution. In answer to James’ only reconciling oneself to the we did, "history” would not do our own job for us. venting serious provocations and disorder"! stay away. extend to the Rhine. statement that the only hope for continued existence of capitalism. I Into the party, into the fight, and on to the victory! Speaker: THERE IS AN ANSWER TO FASCISM! COULD THE Sunday, Feb. 26-8 P.M. A series of three lectures by the only organization that knows how to fight fascism SPANISH WORKERS Felix Morrow IRVING PLAZA FRANCE: There Is Still Time. By Max Shachtman, Sunday, March 5 Auspices: Irving Place and 15th St. UNITED STATES: It Need Not Happen Here. By James Burnham, Sun SPAIN: HAVE W ON ? SOCIALIST WORKERS PARTY Tickets on sale at the Fourth International LABOR BOOK SHOP, 28 East 12th St. day, March 12 Subscription to the series: 50c—Single lectures: 25c