SOCIALISTPublished Weekly as the Organ of the Socialist Party of New APPEAL York, Left Wing Branches. V ol. I. - No. 18. 401 Saturday, December 11,1937 5 Cents per Copy 2 Soviet Diplomats Expose Frame-Ups Corcoran S lain But Minneapolis is Not Moscow! ‘Save Those Yet by Labor’s Foes Alive' Is Plea -S a y s Cannon To World Lahor The Stalinist frare-up system is cracking! MINNEAPOLIS, DEC. 7. The gag that prevented “No one knows yet who the Russian revolutionists Tailed Pat Corcoran, blit from speaking out and tell­ Whenever a good militant ing the truth about Stalin’s tabor leader like Pat is kill- hideous purges, is being torn it must be laid at the o ff! door of the enemies of la­ The sensational, tremend­ bor,” James P. Cannon, edi­ ously significant report tor of the Socialist Appeal, comes from Europe th a t tw o stated at a large mass meet­ prominent officials of the ing last night, at the 7th St. Soviets, communists of long Halt sponsored by the Min­ standing, have broken neapolis Socialist Party. through the bureaucratic Vincent R. Dunne, State Or­ conspiracy of silence. ganizer of the Party, pres­ ided. Denounce Frame-Ups (Continued on page 3) One right on the heels of the other — Alexander Barmina, Charge d’Affaires of the Soviet Developments oí Union in Greece, and Walter Krivitsky, former Director of the The W eek In Tne War Industries Institute, have resigned front Stalin’s service, Corcoran Case taken refuge in France, and w rit­ ten statements denouncing tlje 1. ' Coroner’s inquest sessions Stalinist frame-ups. They make ran five days, examining many perfectly clear what the Appeal witnesses, developing many leads has been saying from the begin­ fo r continued search for the mur­ ning, namely, that Stalin in mur­ derers of Pat Corcoran. dering and imprisoning innocent 2. County Attorney Goff speed­ people as part of his drive to ed up investigation, to provide smash the Russian Revolution. new material and witnesses Following the statement by When coroner’s inquest re-opens Barmine, which created a sensa­ on December 22. tion, Krivitsky declared in a letter 3. Minneapolis Board of Union to the Permanent Administrative Business Agents meeting voted Committee of the Socialist Party, to recommend that the Central the Central Committee of the Labor Union sponsor a huge Meeting To Hear Verdict Of Dewey Communist Party of France, and meeting to mobilize labor behind to the General Confederation of the h u t for Corcoran’s assassins Labor of France: ánd to protect labor from boss "During these last years, I press and Stalinist slanders. Commission; Chairman In Broadcast have followed the Soviet (. ivem- 4. Threats against Corcoran ment’s policy with anxiety. How­ and other drivers’ leaders, made NEW YORK.—Concluding eight Chamberlain, noted literary critic his personal comments on the ever, I subordinated my oeasi- by enemies of labor, were record­ months of intensive investigation, land author, Benjamin Stolberg, Commission’s work and findings. ness to the defense of the Soviet ed by inquest witnesses. the Commission of Inquiry, into labor journalist, Carlo Tresca, Dr. Dewey w ill also read a te­ Union’s interests. This I consid­ 5. A total of eleven A. F. of the charges made against Leon labor leader and editor of 11 legram from Leon Trotsky which ered the legitimate thing to do, L. officials testified that their Trotsky at the Moscow Trials, Martello and Wendelin Thomas, w ill be Trotsky’s first comment knowing that my work served it names had been fraudulently used headed by Professor John Dewey, former Deputy in the German on the findings of the Commis­ and was therefore necessary to by the Stalinists on a “volunteer , internationally known 'educator, Reichstag. Another speaker w ill sion. the cause of socialism. w ill report its findings to a mass be John Finerty,. counsel to the committee” leaflet attacking the This program can be heard on “But the course of events con­ I meeting to be held on Sunday, Commission, who is noted for honog of the Minneapolis labor the following stations: vinced me that the policy of the ¡December 12th, at the Hotel having reopened the Mooney case. movement. N E W YORK ...... W ABC Stalin Government enters more 6. George Cole, Regional Direc­ Center, at 8 P. M. Dewey On the A ir! PHILADELPHIA .. WCAU and more into opposition not only The speakers at the meeting, tor of the CIO, under question­ BOSTON ...... W E E I with the interests of the Soviet in addition to Professor Dewey, A t 6:35 Eastern Standard Time, ing at the inquest, repudiated C HICAG O ...... W BBM Union, but with those of the work­ fll responsibility and knowledge w ill be a number of his colleagues Monday, December 13, 1937, Dr. SAN FRANCISCO . KSSO ing class movement m general*’ of the slanderous “CIO Indus­ on the Commission, including Su­ John Dewey w ill broadcast over Like Barmine, Krivitsky ex- tria l Unionist” paper issued by zanne LaFollette, former editor the nationrwide network of the or your own local Columbia cibe Stalinists Maoseth and' Smith. o f. the Nertr Freeman. John Columbia Broadeasting System Broadcasting System station. (Continued un page 2) e SOCIALIST APPEAL December 11, 1937 Diplomats ExposeStalin Frame Ups ■ <•)------I knew personally for a short In Moving Appeal For time but of whose honesty and devotion I am deeply persuaded. Bureaus Restrict Rights O f Threatened Bolsheviks Face Death "I would like to make the most (Continued from page 1) went to the school of Red Army pressing, most desperate appeal Jobless Locals; WAA ‘Purged’ officers and held various com­ to public opinion in behalf at least of those of them who are posed the police measures used mands on the Western front. By Neil Harrison rough. thus eliminating the Al­ to extort false confessions from After the offensive against War­ still perhaps living and against liance locals from the bureau al­ those tried and murdered, and saw, the m ilitary council of the the false and ignoble accusations. NEW; YORK. — After ten together. added: 16th Army named me to take I am thinking of my friends re­ months of unity the Alliance is courses at the Academy of the maining at their posts in other completely in the grip of Stalin­ Stalinist “Line” Victims Were Innocent General S ta ff. In 1932 I was countries of Europe, Asia or ist leadership. Immediately after retired with rank of brigade America, threatened daily with a “Each new trial, each firing- taking control of the Alliance, Before the election of La- commander. I functioned as sim ilar fate and placed before the the Stalinists started a campaign Guardia a “demonstration" was squad, shook my conscience more Consul General in Persia from tragic dilemma: go back to certain deeply. I had sufficient informa­ of suspension and expulsion of held at City Hall which had all 1523 to 1925. I have belonged death, or, renouncing seeing their militants who dared offer any the appearance of a funeral tion to know how these trials for 10 years to the ranks of the country again, to risk the bullets were staged, and to realize that criticism of their leadership. march. The main slogan raised Commissariat of Foreign Trade of the agents of the Secret Police First, Clarence Roth was expel­ was "food and rent must come innocent persons were perishing.” and was, from 1929 to 1931, di­ abroad, of those agents who quite Both of the former Soviet of­ led on trumped-up charges. Then down." Some prqgressive m ili­ rector-general of Imports in recently still shadowed my every militants like Sol Berkowitz and tants who shouted “ down w ith the ficials have been members of the France and Italy, official agent step. Communist Party of Russia vir­ Weinberg were suspended for sales tax" were nearly beaten up o f the USSR in B elgium in 1932, "To remain in the service of daring to criticize the "leaders." by the Stalinists. tually since the Revolution, and member of the governmental Stalin’s government would have Finally, leading workers such as On WPA the line was that noth­ took this public step only because, delegation in Poland in 1933, pre­ been to doom myself to the worst George Aranoff and Ida Lipp ing should be done to embarass in Krivitsky’s words, “ I believe it sident of the central export trust demoralization and to assume my were ^expelled. Hoodlums were Roosevelt. Thousands of dollars is my duty to bring all these of automobile and aviation pro­ share of the responsibility for the sent into locals not under Stalinist were raised for a march tt> to the knowledge of the interna­ ducts in 1934-35. Such were, in crimes committed every day a- control to take them over and, Washington which was held aftec tional workers’ organizations.” brief, my posts before my appoint­ gainst the'people of my country. failing that, to disrupt them. ongresa adjourned. The campaign Barmine and Krivltsky have made ment to Greece. Whatever my It would have been to betray the Other locals were packed with against the lay-offs inaugurated public the fact that their foot­ functions, I have thought only of cause of socialism to which I have Communist party members. •y the Stalinist leadership consist­ steps have been dogged by G.P.U. wholeheartedly serving the inte­ devoted my entire life. ed o f phoney "jo b m arches," agents since their break with rests of my country and of social­ “ I am obeying my conscience in Relief Officials Take post card campaigns to the Presi­ Stalinism, but that they are de­ ism. breaking with this government. I dent and Congressmen, and termined to rehabilitate the im­ “The recent Moscow trials am fully aware of the danger to Advantage marches to the Chamber of Com­ prisoned and executed Russian filled me with stupor and horror. which I expose myself in acting^ revolutionists in the eyes of merce, the net result being that It was impossible for me to ac­ this way. I am signing my own In the meanwhile the Emer­ the government laid off from public opinion regardless of the cept the execution of the old lead­ death warrant and expose myself gency Relief Bureau started WPA their desired quota anyway. danger or cost to themselves. ers of the revolution, despite the to the blows of paid killers. This cracking down on the unemploy­ Now with further WPA dismis­ Ignace Reiss, former agent of confessions they lavishly made, consideration could not modify in ed and putting the Alliance in sals in view, the Stalinists have the G .P.U., who took a similar confessions which only added to any way my line of conduct. its place. New rules were put brought in no concrete plan on Step several months ago in de­ my disquiet while prolonging my into force. First, clients were se­ nouncing the Moscow frame-ups, how to fight this. Nothing must last illusions. Obeys Conscience parated from delegates; the was murdered by G .P.U. assas­ Stalinist leadership yielded at be done to embarass the tw o sins in Switzerland a few weeks Illusions Ended “I have sent my resignation to once. Then the size of the griev­ white hopes of the People's «go. Remembering the fate of the Commissariat of Foreign A f­ ance committee from each local Front, Roosevelt and LaGuardia. Reiss, Barmine has written in his "My profound attachment to fairs at Moscow and, renouncing was cut down to five; on this statement: “ I know, the danger the working class and to the So- the benefits of diplomatic immun­ the Stalinists yielded again. Then Progressives Organize I incur, but I am obeying my iet people, my difficulty in believ­ ity, I am today only a political the Bureaus ruled that only one conscience in breaking with this ing in the possibility of crimes refugee who place himself under representative from a local could A group of progressive m ili­ government.” on the part of its leaders, led the protection of the laws and present grievances; and once tants, early seeing the trend that me at first, in all sincerity to do opinion of the country which more the Stalinists yielded. Fi­ the Alliance was taking, started Stalin Crisis Seen violence to myself and resign gives him hospitality. I have nally the Bureaus ruled that the laying the groundwork for the myself to the facts. I hoped, in obeyed my conscience, sure in this Alliance could come in with Reiss, Barmine, Krivitsky— formation of a progressive group making this effort, to serve still way of having been more faith­ grievances only twice a week, around the general slogans of a they are only the first! The Stalin­ further the cause of Socialism. ful than ever to the ideas which Mondays and Fridays, irrespect­ democratic organization a m ili­ ist G.P.U. cannot forever keep But the events of recent months I have served all my life ...... ive of whether the case was an tant fighting program, against old revolutionists terrorized into (months which I spent in France “May my choice help clarify emergency or not. Through the the government administration silence! The crack is widening, on convalescence leave) have left opinion on a regime which denies accumulated “red tape" it now responsible for WPA dismissals and foreshadows the final crisis me no further illusions. Startling in fact all Socialism, all humani­ takes at least three weeks before and the cutting of relief stand­ in the Bonapartist regime of the trials prepared the wholesale ex­ ty . a x-elief applicant can get on re­ ards; against the disruption of counter-revolutionary bureauc­ termination of the cadres of the “W ith my salutations, lief; one week before an appoint­ the locals by Stalinists, against racy that is undermining all the Communist Party of the USSR, Alexander Barmine (G raff). ment is made, one week before the the anti-union signs put up by conquests of the proletarian re­ i.e., of militants who led the “ Dec. 1, 1937.” investigator calls, one week be­ Mayor LaGuardia in the bureaus. volution in Russia. struggle in illegality, made the Herewith we reproduce the fore the check is issued. This, of ("It is not necessary to belong The Socialist Appeal is fortu­ revolution, conducted the civil letter sent by Walter Krivitsky course, saves the city hundreds of to any organization or pay any nately able to print below the war, assured the victory of the to the French authorities, re­ thousands of dollars. money to anyone to get on re­ statement made by the courage­ firs t W orkers State ... covered to ­ questing the right of asylum. lie f" is one of Mayor LaGuardia’s ous Russian officials. The first Krivitsky was not only recently The Stalinists continued to day with slime and handed over claim they were winning victory "Fordisms" in every bureau). one, by Alexander Barmine, is to the executioner. It seemed to entrusted by the Stalinist go­ addressed to the French Com­ vernment with a special mission after victory, and if they deceiv­ The Progressive Group now me then that a reactionary diet ed the rank and file, they did numbers approximately 200 mittee of Inquiry into the Moscow abroad, but had been previously tatorship had installed itself in not for one minute deceive La- members and is supported by ten Trials, with a copy sent to the my country. decorated with the Order of the Central Committee of the League Guardia or the relief administra­ locals of the Alliance. The group “ I saw disappear into prison— Red Flag and given a sword of for the Rights of Man in France: tion who cinched their advances has received considerable support perhaps executed or suppressed honor. His letter to the French “Having just left the service with the plan to set up a central from the rank and file formerly —my chiefs and companions, all Minister of the Interior follows: of the government of the USSR, complaint bureau for each bo­ under Stalinist leadership. old Bolsheviks: the former am­ Mr. Minister: I consider it my duty to bring to "The undersigned. Samuel bassador and People’s Commis­ your attention the following facts Ginsburg, bearing in the USSR I was convinced that my work my wife nor my child. I have sar of Foreign Affairs Krestins- and to raise an indignant protest as a Soviet citizen the name of served the supreme interests of often risked my life for my cause. ky; the chairman of the Society to you, in the name of humanity Walter Krivitsky, and the politic­ my workers fatherland and that But I do not want to die for no­ for Cultural Relations Abroad and the rights of man, against al pseudonym Walter, born June it was too important to be aban­ th in g . Arrosev, former vice-Commissar the crimes which are becoming 28, 1899 a t Podwoloczyska (Po­ doned whatever my personal and Ankara ambassador Karak- Aware of Danger more extensive every day. land) has been a member of the opinions. The most recent poli­ han, said to be shot; Ambassador “I feel in solidarity with all “First secretary of the Lega­ CPSU since 1919. tical events in the USSR com­ Yrunev, former commissar-gene­ tion of the USSR at Athens1 since pletely changed this situation. the militant workers of the US ral of the Red Army in 1918-19; December, 1935, then Charge Twice Decorated Faced by the physical suppres­ SR, with the tens of thousands Elivia, vice-commissar of Foreign d’Affaires of the USSR at Athens sion of all the old mili^mt§. and of imprisoned, deported, murder­ Trade whose collaborator I had beginning in March, 1937, I have "F ro m 1919 to 1937 I was in all who, like myself, placed them­ ed, executed by the present rul­ the honor to be; my friends and the service of the Communist ers of a regime which they passed 19 years in the service of selves from the beginning at the comrades (with whom I struggl­ Party and the Soviet State, en­ the Soviet Government, have be­ disposal of the Soviets, I under­ brought to power. In remaining ed and worked at different times trusted with missions of a politic­ abroad, I hope to have the pos­ longed for 19 years to the Russian stood that I could not continue during the last 20 years), Zu- al m ilitary and economic nature. sibility of rehabilitating the me­ Communist Party, and fought for to work with the Soviet Govern­ kerman and Fechner, directors at I loyally and with absolute devo­ mory of these militants of the the Soviet regime and devoted all m ent. the Foreign Affairs Commissariat tion fulfilled these missions, con­ working class, treated as spies my strength to the Workers “Faced with the choice of fol­ in Moscow; the Soviet ministers vinced that I was best serving lowing all my old comrades to and agents of the Gestapo. It is State. Asmus (Helsingfors), Podolsky my cause. My efforts were re­ death, or of trying to save my also for them that I ask you to Is Old Revolutionist (Kaunas), Ostrovsky, friend and cognized many times. The State life and those of my near ones, protect me, me and mine, to protege of Voroshilov (Bucha­ and the Party testified to their I decided not to hand myself over authorize me to remain in Francf “I volunteered for the Red rest); Generals Guekker, Schmidt confidence in me. I was named silently to the Stalinist terror until I w ill be able to go to an­ Army in 1919, was named six and Savitsky, heroes of the civil to important posts and was twice which has nothing in common other country to earn my* living1 months later political commissar war and comrades of the M ilitary decorated. with the cause which is mine. for me and mine in fu ll indepen­ of « battalion and then of a re­ Academy; finally the ambas­ “For several years, however, “ I know that a price has been dence and security. giment. For having distinguished sadors Davtian, Karsky, Bogomo­ I have followed with anxiety the placed on my life. Assassination “ (S gd) Samuel GInsbui*g( myself under fire, I subsequently lov, Rosenberg, Brodovsky, whom policy of my government. But dogs me and w ill spare neither (KrivitskyX December 11, 1937 SOCIALIST APPEAL S NOTICE Corcoran Case Analyzed Moscow-Amsterdam “Unity:” Internal Bulletin No. 3 is now ready for mailing. All Locals and Branches are urged At Minneapolis Meeting A Diplomatic Maneuver to send their orders at once. (Continued from page 1) on m ilitant action by the work­ Remittances shoud be made by ers. The bosses are not averse t* Comments on the Agreement between the check or money order. DO "Pat Corcoran’s /assassination racketeering in the unions—it I.F.T.U. and the Soviet “Trade Unions” in NOT SEND CASH. is a tragic consequence of a total­ pays them well. A cinching proof an Interview Granted to “El Universal” The National Office is comp­ ity of events which have raised of the worth of the drivers’ lead­ letely out of Bulletin No. 1 Minneapolis from a notorious ership is the fact that throughout (The Spanish question). Any open shop town to what is pro­ all their strikes, the workers have leaders?" "One can buy," I By Leon Trotsky local or branch having these bably the best organized city in been led from one victory to an­ answered, "somebody in order to on hand w ill please communi­ the United States, as recently at­ other, until the scale for drivers The unification of the world corrupt him, but not in order to cate with the National Office tested to by officials of the Na­ —which was 42’Ac per hour af­ trade union organization, in the make him a fighter for the eman­ without delay as some branches tional Labor Relations Board. ter the victorious strikes of 1934 present case the adherence of the cipation of the oppressed.” This did not get their full quota. The killing of Corcoran is not an —is today 70c per hour. Soviet Union to the Amsterdam practice has since that time taken Due credit w ill be given, isolated instance, but is a link “ The revolutionists in the trade International, could bring great on gigantic proportions. We must v . ___ - in a chain of events forged by union movement—the Dunnes and advantages to the working class not forget that the gold industry sinister forces, the enemies of the Dobbs and the Skoglunds— -under only one condition: that has made great progress in the political aims upon the aid of the the working class. The role of have always sought the means there are actually unions in the |U.S.S.R. The industry of bribery powerful international apparatus the Associated Industries in this for cooperation with the other U.S.S.R. But there are none and of corruption has made still o f Moscow. case (the A. I. is the former honest but comparatively con­ there. There is a trade union ap­ greater progress. I do riot doubt that Stalin, Citizens Alliance) is that of a servative elements in the trade paratus totally dependent upon Many of the so-called "friends" Yezhov, and Shvernik w ill utilize pack of jackals, who seek to union movement, have always the ruling clique anti dominating of the U.S.S.R. who have no­ the so-called trade union unifica­ besmirch the names of the lead­ sought a united front with other the working masses. Thus, dur­ thing in common with the Russian tion in order to enlarge their hold ership of the local progressive progressive forces in joint action ing the last bloody purge, which people, its revolutionary tradi­ upon the number of leaders with unionists. The bosses have not against the common enemy, the is, moreover, far from being end­ tions, its sufferings, and its a supple spine and conscience. reconciled themselves to the fact bosses. It is quite possible to ed, the central Council of Trade aspirations are not more than What w ill be the reaction of the that the labor movement has successfully work with conserva­ Unions was totally reorganized interested friends of the ruling working class against ;these so materially raised the living tive trade union forces in furth­ without the soscalled unionized clique of the Kremlin. Some of practices? We shall see in the standards of the workers, has ering the immediate demands of masses knowing more than what them are paid directly with gold. coming years. caused millions of dollars more appeared in the official press. Others depend in their personal Coyoacan, D. F ., Nov. 29, 1937. the workers, higher wages and The purge of the trade union ap­ to go in the pay envelopes of shorter hours and better work­ paratus was done by the G. I*. U . their employes. ing conditions. This may be upon the direct order of Stalin. “ Since 1934, when the drivers’ done, as proved by the work of The former trade union leader, [union succeeded in having the the Dunnes in the drivers’ union, the old revolutionary, Tomsky, Militant Executive Of Hosiery bosses operate under signed con­ despite fundamental differences was driven into suicide by a tracts, the trade union movement with conservatives like Corcoran campaign of calumnies and vi­ of Minneapolis has trebled in on politics, religion, and the goal cious persecution. His place was size, until there are today over of the class struggle. Men like taken, without the least consul­ Union Slugged in Minneapolis 45,000 workers working under Corcoran, unlike the Stalinists, tation with the membership, bv union contracts. There are 50 knew that there was a class Shvernik, who was never and is MINNEAPOLIS, DEC. 3. — conflict with the group dominat­ more local unions in 1937 than struggle, and that the only way nothing more than a bell-hop in Vein Simonson, Minneapolis ing the" local union to which he there were three years ago, new to win it was to organize unions the personal service of Stalin. Socialist party member and Ex­ belonged. industries have been organized, which genuinely fought for the The renovated apparatus occupies ecutive Member leading an op­ V. R. Dunne, Socialist Party better contracts have been secur­ interests of the workers. itself in its turn with purging the position group in Local 38 of the Organizer and associate of Pat ed each year, which mean shorter factories and the offices, in hunt- j American Federation of Hosiery Corcoran in the leadership of the hours and more pay and yet the Sailing Under False ing and trapping whoever is dis-j Workers, was brutally attacked Drivers’ Union said: Stalinists, with characteristic ef­ Colors contented, critical, or makes de- j and injured by a gang who seiz- "Vern Simonson is the second frontery, echo the bosses’ charges mands. Thus the so-called unions ■ ed him at 7:30 P. M., Thursday victim of violence against labor, of “gangsterism", and that Pat “The Stalinists sail under false represent an organization of in- j night, Dec. 2, as he was return- employed by open and disguised Corcoran was killed as a result colors. While they are the class- dustrial police, an appendage o f; ing from supper to his job on the enemies of labor. He is associated of “inter-union warfare." collaborationists and counter-rev- the G.P.U. and not at all an night shift at the Strutwear with the same group of labor “The role of gangsterism in revolutionists, they denounce all autonomous organization of work­ Hosiery plant. officials as was Pat Corcoran. the trade union movement is to honest revolutionists as class- ers. D r. H. P. M cCrimm on, o f 601 Whether in or out of the A.F. terrorize the workers in the collaborationists and conter-rev- Medical Arts Building, stated of L., this gro|ip has always stood unions, to take bribes from the olutionists, and this in the namt Unification? No — Dip­ that he had, "a severe brain con­ for a united labor movement and bosses, and to put the quietus of Leninism, of social revolu­ lomatic Accord! cussion, two broken ribs on the against .union-splitting. tion. They have put the Soviet left side, and the abdominal re­ “I want to emphasize most tical program. As a left wing Union, which is a trade unioB It is not a question then of the gion badly swollen from kicks." emphatically that Vern had no Socialist, Simonson is opposed to raised to the highest level, in a unification of the working mas­ Half conscious and in extreme quarrel with the national leader­ the frame-up and murder system precarious condition through ses, but of a diplomatic accord pain, Simonson labored to give ship of his union. When Alex perpetrated on an international th e ir cx-ooked m aneuvering and between the Amsterdam appara­ an account of the attack and his McKeown was stationed here as scale by the Communist parties compromise with the capitalist tus, decently conservative, and opinion concerning the reasons the representative of the national of Stalin. It is of course a notor­ nations of the world. the police apparatus of Moscow. for it. Pieced together his story office of the American Federation ious fact that the same Mauseth- Smith-Bean gang who fought The heads of the British trade of Hosiery Workers, Vern and he Call Police were on the best of terms and him in the unions are also parti­ unions would like well enough to On 6th Street, between 8th and “ The wailing and yelping of thq were in substantial agreement on sans of Stalin. They denounce orient the external policy of their 9th Avenue South, on the south Minneapolis Stalinists for a spe­ union policy. Likewise, it must be Vern Simonson as a “Trotskyist- country toward a rapprochement side of the street, a group of men cial police investigator to pry noted that throughout the country fascist” and declare they will with France, the United States, seized him and dragged him be­ into the records of Local 544, is the American Federation of drive all of us out of the labor and the U.S.S.R. The French hind a building, striking him on a case in point; since when do Hosiery Workers maintains cor­ movement. They try to raise a policy, that of the People’s Front, the head and kicking him in the m ilitant workers go to the police ribs and stomach. They fled when dial relations with the entire lynch spirit against us, which can is based upon the support of lead to anything. for help; since when have the Moscow. Jouhaux, the head of the a car approached and its driver labor movement. Only in Min­ “These utterly irresponsible Stalinists forgotten that the police French union, while proclaiming stopped and came over to see neapolis, under the regime of the B ill Mauseth-Hilliard Smith gang people have been attempting to are the agents of the bosses; and the "independence" of his trade what was happening. The driver that the state is the agent of the who control Vern’s local, is there strike at our group by attempt­ unions, belongs in reality to the helped Simonson into the car and bosses; and that the state and People’s Front. It is this political took him to Simonson’s home, at friction with the labor movement. ing to link us with alleged gangs­ Vern Simonson opposed this in­ terism in the labor movement. the police and the bosses are the. conjuncture, nationally and inter­ 6500-15 Avenue South, where his enemies of the workers?” nationally, which has determined sister immediately called Dr. Mc­ sane union-splitting policy as They have thus created an atmo­ well as he could as the lone op­ sphere in which any enemy of Before the meeting, the Com­ the rapprochement of the Am­ Crimmon. After examining him, munist Party, not through its Dr. McCrimmon reported the at­ positionist on the local’s executive labor can strike down labor lead­ sterdam trade union bureaucracy own name of course, but through tack to the police. board, and as a result was vilified, ers with impunity, for the Maus- with the pseudo-trade union bu­ that of one of its members, one reaucracy of Moscow. calumniated and threatened by eth-Smith propaganda has in ad­ Fought Splitters those pursuing a mad policy of vance pinned all such crimes on Robert Kelly, organizer of the We must add still another ele­ rule or ruin. the labor movement itself. The Miscellaneous Workers Union, ment which is not without im- | As a Socialist party member fact is that the bona fide labor local 655, asked a series of ques­ porlance. Already for some years, associated with Vincent R. Dunne Threatened by Stalin movement of Minneapolis, the tions on a mimeographed leaflet. practically since 192-1, Stalin has The Socialist Party, in great con­ and other labor leaders in a fight Men most progressive in the country, purchased precisely through the to prevent the splitting of unions is clean as a hound’s tooth. trast to the practice of the Com­ intermediary of the so-called trade and to maintain the unity of the “They hated Vern Simonson, These attacks come from ene­ munist Party, allowed the leaflet union apparatus the "sympathies" J labor movement of Minneapolis, not only for his trade union policy mies of labor whether open or vendors to distribute them even of various trade union leaders Simonson had come into sharp but at least equally for his poli- disguised.” at the very doors of the meeting. abroad, commencing with Eng- | (As a matter of fact, one of our land. We are able to cite some j leaflet distributors was beaten up cases of British trade union by a gang of Stalinist thugs re­ heads on the regular Moscow pay- , The Stalinist Frame-Ups cently at a Stalinist Ralph Bates roll. Others have benefitted i meeting.) The questions on the through exceptional privileges, : leaflet were adequately answered or their wives have received pre- ! From Moscow To Minneapolis by Cannon; also numerous ques­ sents in gold or in platinum. This , tions from the floor. Where one practice of demoralizing the j Speaker questioner asked who beat Vern w orkers’ leaders was, be it said in Simonson, a member of the Min­ passing, one of the principal James P. Cannon neapolis Socialist Party, who is points of my struggle against ! in active opposition to the Stal­ Stalin's clique. ! Just Returned from, Minneapolis inist control of his local union of When I become aware of this ■ FRIDAY EVENING, DEC. 17, 1937, 8:00 P. M. the American Federation of practice, in the spring of 1925, j Hosiery Workers, Cannon asked I protested vigorously. "But 1 WEBSTER MANOR, 125 East 11th Street (Near 4th Ave). why this question was not on why?" Stalin countered, "Do not 1 Auspices: Socialist Party (Left Wing), New York Local the list of questions addressed the bourgeoisie buy the workers’ to him in the Kelly leaflet. SOCIALIST APPEAL December 11,1937 SOCIALIST APPEAL Pittsburgh Congress for "Peace Voi. I. - No. 18. Saturday, Dec. Ik , 1937 Nanking's Fall Ends Published every week by the SOCIALIST APPEAL PUBLISHING ASS'N. And Democracy” Prepares W ar Published at 116 University Place, N. Y. Roosevelt’s policy of “quaran­ change the pro-war significance First Phase of W a r Subscriptions: $2.00 per year; $1.00 for 6 tine the aggressor” was embodied of the Congress. During the last months. Foreign: $2.50 per year. Bundle order in the program of the American war, the. labor and “socialist” By Li Fu-jen 3 cents per copy. Single copies 6 cents. League for Democracy and Peace forces were mobilized behind A ll checks and money orders should be made (formerly ““Against War and Wilson through the “American W ith the capture of Nanking, China’s capital, by o l: to the Socialist Appeal. Fascism” ) at its fourth congress Alliance for Labor and Democ­ Japan’s invading legions, the first phase of thft Sino-Japanese war is drawing to a close. Through Entered as second-class matter September 1, held in Pittsburgh last week end. racy”. The declaration of prin­ five months of struggle, the Kuomintang govern* 1957 at the post office at New York, New York, Last year the Congress as a ciples of the American Alliance whole did not accept the concept under the Act of March 3, 1879. (adopted at its first congress ment and Chinese bourgeoisie have demonstrated, of aggressor and defender na­ September 5-7, 1917) clearly re­ not for the first time, their utter incapacity to tions but instead adopted the pa­ veals the plagiarism of our pre­ conduct with any degree of success the liberating Jobless Must Be Roused Into Action cifist proposal: “To demand that sent day social patriots: campaign fo r China’s national independence against neutrality legislation effectively “As labor unionists, social re­ imperialism. EUevvhere in this issue as well as in previous cover all war supplies, loans and formers, and Socialists we pledge Already there is talk that Chiang Kai-shek, issues of the Socialist Appeal, facts and figures credits, and permit no discretion our loyal support and service to having fled from Nanking, is about to go into have been cited to picture the frigh tfu l plight of the of the President”. Though even the United States Government American workers as the economic crisis deepens. then it contradicted its own pro­ and its allies in the present con­ “retirement.” According to a Shanghai dispatch to the New York Times, a reorganized govern­ The ominous sweep of the lay-off campaign is gram the Communist party voted flict. (The American League as fo r th is ! such is not so frank. But w ait... ment w ill assume “the onerous task of negotiating matched by the equally disastrous sky-rocketing of Today Roosevelt has helped filf have patience!) the best peace terms available.” The same messago the cost of living. the breach. The Commujiist par­ relates that the “ Japanese authorities have already Luid-off workers met the onrush of the great “We declare that one over­ ty's program, now more than shadowing issue is the preser va­ been approached with this plan, and it is undetw c.risi'- of It'S? with a wave of m ilitancy and struggle ever in harmony with the inter­ tion of democracy... We declare that w ill long be an inspiration for American labor stood they suggested that General Ho Ying-chiag ests of American imperialism, that the great war must be (Minister of War in the Nanking government) and for the working class throughout the world. was adopted by the fourth con­ fought to a decisive result: that succeed General Chiang Kai-shek in control of thO It was precisely this vigorous determination of gress: until autocracy is defeated there arm y.” the disemployed wage slaves to stand up and fight can be no hope of an honorable that foretd the concessions upon that system of Adopts F. D. R. War peace, and that to compromise There can be no illusions as to the terms which intuí,-utility called capitalism, resulting in the set­ Program the issue is to sow the seed for the Japanese imperialists w ill impose. The Kuo­ ting up of the federal relief and W .P.A. agencies. “ Demand a foreign policy bas­ bloodier and more devastating mintang government w ill be obliged to abandon Or.ee more, and even more acutely than before, ed upon: (A) Distinction betwen wars in the future.” the m ilitary struggle and put its signature to an the s tectre of starvation hovers over working «lass aggressor and victims. (B) Deny­ “We strongly denounce the agreement which w ill make it a pliant tool in the hous hold-. No one w ill drive it off, this time as ing markets to the aggressors words and actions of those ene­ hands of Japan. There w ill be the first fruits of at a1 times, except the workers themselves,’orga­ (C) Concerted action to quaran­ mies of the Republic who, falsely the war as it lias been conducted hitherto by the nized in fighting demonstrations, rallied to solid- tine the aggressor." (Daily Work­ assuming to speak in the name Kuomintang and Stalinists under the banner of arit.. by m ilitant organizations. er. Nov. 29, 1337). of labor and democracy are now the “ People’s Anti-Japanese Front." Tt ■ ■ Workers Alliance, completely in the strangle­ The differences between the ceaselessly striving to obstruct hold >f a Stalinist leadership which is more con­ liberal pacifists and the Stalinists the operations of the govern­ New Phase Opening cerned in helping United States capitalism prepare is indicated by the odd formula ment's purposes.” (Browder has in point eight of the program: already—before the war!—used The surrender and capitulation of Chiang Kai- f >'■ ■■ ar than it is in obtaining the most element­ “ Seek to remove restrictions stronger language). shek and the Kuomintang, however, w ill not mean ary !• ght- for its rank and file, has issued no call on access of the Chinese and the end of China’s struggle against imperialism. for -ction. This alleged organization of the un­ Spanish governments to the pur­ Beware of Repetition of A new phase is opening, in which the exploited! employed ha< organized no campaign and sent out chase of American goods and at i917 Fraud masses of China, held in passivity by the Kuomin­ no directives to arouse the unemployed and the he same time remove the risk of tang and the Stalinists, w ill march to the front woi'K 'i.- who are constantly being laid o ff to plan­ In the preparations for the becoming involved in war." (Our of the war stage. Reports from North China al­ ned. voncerti-ii national demonstrations of struggle new war not only do the arma­ unphasis). ready indicate the opening of guerrilla warfare such as the seriousness of the situation requires. W hat does th is p la to nic reser­ ment programs outstrip the last over a widespread area. This movement w ill grow In stead, the Stalinist leaders of the Alliance are vation mean? A ll supporters of pre-war period but the social pa­ and extend throughout the country. Goaded, by dilly-dallying with the so-called "progressive” the Spanish and Chinese people triotism of the Social Democracy the bestialities of the armies of Japanese imperial­ capitalist politicians; lobbying endlessly while are in favor of removing the ob­ and Stalinism is far more bla­ ism, the masses w ill arise everywhere against the hungsr grows; lulling the unemployed into illusory stacles to their purchase of ma­ tant than could be found in the invaders. reí a: ce upon Roosevelt benevolence and LaGuardia terial in the United States. (Ob­ labor movement before the last magnanimity. stacles, by the way, which were war. In the American League it­ The task of the Chinese revolutionists is to link created by the “neutrality legis­ self the Stalinists still have to TK- Stalinist helpmates of the capitalist politi­ themselves to the masses by means of a practical lation” called for by the third keep in line with the pacifists. cian. cannot be expected to give the jobless that program of struggle based on revolutionary pers­ congress of the League). Yesterday, the American im­ indis;-ensible leadership and spirit of struggle which pectives, to organize and mobilize the workers The American League program perialists wanted “neutrality”, the hour demands. Already, in spite of them, sit- instead o f rem oving “ the* ris k o f so this was the program of the and peasants for the struggle, to blast the last downs are taking place in local relief bureaus all becoming involved in war”, by its League. Today, i t demands illusions which the masses still retain concerning over the country to force the administration to advocacy of “concerted action to “quarantine of the aggressor” or the Kuomintang and the Stalinists, who stand an adjustment in relief grants commensurate with quarantine the aggressor” (point collective security, so the League exposed before the entire country as the organizers the new needs. Resentment against the impending nine), aids the Roosevelt admin­ obliges. And tomorrow... The o f defeat. cut« on W .P.A. are mounting on every project. istration in mobilizing the masses experience of the American Al­ But the sentiment as well as the actions are still for its. imperialist aims. liance for Labor and Democracy Japanese Victories Episodic too scattered. The cohesion necessary for effective Tim fact that one third of the w ill be duplicated by the Amer­ M ilitary victories won so far by the armies results is still lacking. delegates are reported to have ican League for Democracy and of Japan have only an episodic character. Japanese Revolutionists, militants in the unemployed come from trade unions does not War Against Fascism. imperialism, in attempting to subdue all China, movement, face a heavy responsibility and a great w ill encounter difficulties a thousand times greater task In the coming months. It is incumbent upon NEW YORK DANCE TO AID CONVENTION than it has encountered in Manchuria. The first them to agitate for m ilitant action on a national C hristm as Eve prom ises to be A first class band has been en­ serious reverses w ill set in train a series of social scale in the ranks of the Workers Alliance. Their’s a gala occasion fo r New Yorkers. gaged and attempts are being explosions in Japan, whose economic fabric has is the duty to provide the necessary leadership to All revolutionary socialists and made to secure a number of well- already been terribly strained by the war. Thirty the unemployed movement in the struggles ahead. their friends w ill converge on known professional entertainers. m illion Chinese in Manchuria, 21,000,000 inhabi­ Now is the time for the militants in the W .A.A. Irving Plaza for an evening of The fu ll proceeds w ill be turned tants of Korea and 5,000,000 inhabitants of For­ to organize their forces in a challenge to the celebration before the New York over to the National Convention. mosa w ill rise up against their Japanese oppres­ Stalinists, whom the fighting jobless men and delegation leaves fo r the National Tickets are 55c in advance and sors. women w ill of necessity discard both inside and Convention in Chicago. 75c at the door. They may be se­ outside the present organization. The Committee in charge of the cured from the Labor Book Shop, The activity of the Chinese Bolshevik-LeninistS dance assures us that every step 28 East 12th Street and at the in organizing the masses for struggle against The revolutionary socialists are needed in the has been taken to make this dance office o f the Party, 116 University Japanese imperialism around revolutionary slogans van of the unemployed. It is up to them to put the outstanding affair of its kind. Place. their «boulder to wheel if the laid-off auto, rubber, must be linked w ith the struggles of the Japanese steel workers are to get W .P.A. jobs at prevail­ proletariat and peasantry and w ith the correspond­ ing union rates; if those now on W .P.A. are to ing struggles of Japan’s colonial slaves. Together, head off curtailment of work relief; if the latter these masses represent a force which all the hosts and those on direct relief are to prevent the cuts Christmas Eve Dance of imperialist Japan w ill not be able to vanquish in re'ief appropriations now being planned cold­ —provided they are armed, not only with guns, bloodedly by the Administration; if relief grants Friday, December 24th, at 9 P. M. but with revolutionary objectives. and W .P.A. wages are to be brought in line with the rising cost of living; if the entire organized IRVING PLAZA labor movement is to be lined up in support of The New International the unemployed. 15th STREET AND IRVING PLACE Our heartiest greetings, this week, go to tha revived New International, the firs t issue of which Bad Week for Frame-Up Artists Tickets: In Advance 55 cents — At the door 75 cents has just come off the press. Graceful in its new It was a bad week for the frame-up artists. format and more vigorous than ever in its con­ First, eleven union officials in Minneapolis repu­ tents, the theoretical organ of revolutionary Marx­ diated their signatures to the Stalinist “ Volunteer For Sale at: Labor Book Shop, 28 East 12th St. ism fills a need which the partisans of the Fourth Committee's" union-wrecking document. Next, International throughout the world have fe lt very the Harry Bridges “assassination” hoax was deeply during the year and a half of its suspen­ pretty thoroughly exposed on the West Coast. sion. In the stirring days of social ferment and Finally, a crushing blow came with the exposure AUSPICES: Convention Arrangements Committee class struggle ahead of us, it w ill be an indispen- of the Stalinist murder gang by two Soviet diplo­ Socialist Party (Left Wing) sible weapon for proletarian fighters. More power mats in Paris. to i t ! December 11, 1937 SOCIALIST APPEAL

Raidson 'Hooded Ones’ « 'ïatiahA. puun. Ow l fieadsAA, Olivia, Minnesota, Local Backs Left Wing We are reprinting below, ex­ file of the party members of the Stir France; P.O.I. Calls cerpts from a copy of a letter Chicago convention who passed to Roy Burt, sent to us by Com­ fairly revolutionary resolutions rade John Enestvedt, the Sec­ and realize now that they have retary of the Socialist Party been betrayed by the Right- Local in Olivia, Minnesota. The Centrist N.E.C. which they; For Workers Militias National Secretary of the So­ elected through the short-sighted­ cialist Party (Right Wing) had ness on the part of the Clarity!- By Terence Phelan demanded a “loyalty oath” from ite caucus at the convention. ories, as in June ’36!”—for na­ the Olivia comrades, a demand You take me to task for calling tion-wide wage contracts, for a Spectacular charges and counter-charges in the inter- which had previously been re­ the expelled comrades revolution­ sliding-scale of wages based on Fascist libel suit, paralleled by even more spectacular police jected by the Minneapolis, St. ists... Then you go on harangu­ the cost-of-living index, for com­ Paul and Austin locals in Min­ ing about their being disrupters raids upon Fascist arms-caches, have for thè last month plete workers’ control over hiring nesota. The Olivia comrades had and therefore are being expelled. kept France in ferment. LaRocque has used court pro­ and firing. Against the P.F.— protested the expulsion of the I would like to call to your, Stalinist line of compromise and ceedings, ostensibly brought for libel against 17 persons latter for refusing to comply attention the record of these re­ retreat, they raise the cry that and newspapers ranging from the Stalinist Humanité with Burt’s order. —Ed. volutionists, particularly in so fa r the only real defense is “attack O livia , M inn., Nov. 22, 1937. as Minneapolis is concerned. A1 tó the Royalist Action Française, and workers’ victory — direct ''on the other, tend to lull the Dear Comrade Burt: short while ago, a report from as a base for attacking rival' mass action”—“fo r mass occupa­ workers to a When you refer to the Ap­ the U. S. Government declared fascist groups, particularly those false sense of se- tions, for workers’ militias, for c u rity . peal Group or Trotskyites as a Minneapolis the best organized under Pozzo di Borgo and General the general 9trike.” Duseigneur, of which the theatri­ Summed up, the Front Popu- "dual organization in the party, union city in the country. A short I am reminded of some of the cal French Ku-Kluxers, the Cag- laire’s whole behavior, in a situa­ Congress Prepares for five years ago, Minneapolis was oulards or “ hooded ones," are the tion that obviously precedes either things that Happened at the an open shop town that the C iti­ fa ncie st. revolution or counter-revolution, Action Chicago convention: For instance, zen’s Alliance of any city would when either the Right Wing or point to with pride. We hold leads in e vita b ly, n o t as in 1917 These are outstanding among Sudden Raids Russia, to the former but as in pure Stalinists got up and attack­ these people to be revolutionists the m ilitant slogans adopted by ed the Trotskyites ... the rank because they have been able te 1936 Spain, to the la tte r. the Second Annual Congress of With a remarkable prompt­ and file at the convention got up combat not only the forces of the the POI, held, despite LaRocque’s itude,, the Popular Front police P.O.I. Calls for Struggle one after another and virtually Citizens’ Alliance, but also the protests to the Front Populaire, suddenly discovered a revolt plot, drove them back into their seats. union splitting and disruptive October 30-31 and November 1 in involving LaRocque's rivals: two Against the false and fatal po- Which only goes to show that the tactics of the Stalinists.... Paris. No adventurism, they are Paris raids, for example, uncover­ icies of the Popular Front, only wish of the convention was not If you mean by staying as backed by a carefully planned ed 1480 hand-grenades, 45 ma­ the French section of the Fourth to drive the Trotskyites or the members in the Socialist Party« practical program of organiza­ chine-guns, large stocks of am­ International, the Parti Ouvrier so-called dual organization out of that the Olivia comrades must tion leading through the dual munition, subterranean forts and Internationalists, raise s the the party, but that they welcom­ denounce the principles of Revo­ power to a workers’ state. The ed the political principles by arsenals, and elaborate m ilitary slogans that can prevent France’s lutionary Socialism which the de­ Convention, looking also outside Which this group was tied to­ organizational plans leading becoming another Spain. Against legates of the Chicago convention France, pledged its continued de­ gether. Let me also remihd you throughout France. Duseigneur, the provocations and plots of the endorsed, that no revolutionist fense of the conquests of October that the so-called Trotskyites or who evidently fancied himself as Fascist gangs, and equally against w ill do. We reaffirm our solidarity, the French Franco, find DiBorgo the feeble and treacherous policy in (the USSR, its solidarity with dual organization to which you with the expelled revolutionists, refer is composed not only of himself, were jailed. DiBorgo’s of the Front Populaire toward the Spanish workers and peasants but we do not consider ourselves former members of the Workers allies, the Monarchists, counter­ those gangs, the Bolshevik-Lenin- in their fight against Franco, and expelled from the party for Party but also the real militant attacked from Switzerland with ists call for workers’ militias. their aid to the world proletariat, upholding the principles of Re­ Left Wing of the Socialist Party elaborate proclamations by the Against the increasingly violent whether under democratic, fascist, volutionary Marxism. We cast which was developing even before royalist pretenders (which fell attacks by the nationally orga­ or colonial domination, in its our lot with all those politically; struggle against the real enemy, the so-called dual organization flat). The government of the nized bos&es against w hat few exiled who are subjects of bu­ entered the Socialist Party. Fiont Populaire, slowly tapering remnants are left of the work­ capitalism, and its Stalinist and reaucratic acts by a leadership ....You refer te the fact that the off the raids, issued communi­ ers’ gains in the great strike of other reformist lackeys. Cheered at the top of whatever institution MajWune 1936, and equally a- by a great organizational growth convention (to be held) on Dec. they may be, including our com­ qués which for their exaggera­ 31 is made up of a group of dis­ tion of the importance of the af­ gainst the suicidal policies of rade Sam Baron, arrested by the in the last year, the POI turns gruntled people. I think you are fair and for their self-congratu­ class peace, legality, and merely G.P.U. in Spain for Trotsky­ its face to the masses, to give generally correct: It is made up ism. latory complacency, are theatrical “symbolic” 4-hour strikes foisted them true revolutionary counsel of the whole Left Wing tendency Fraternally yours, masterpieces. upon the aroused workers by the reformists, the Bolshevik-Lenin- in the most critical year the within the party. In other words, John Enestvedt, Secretary This performance has received it is made up of the rank and Olivia Local an excellent official press; but ists raise the slogan of “ general­ French workers have had to face the applause of the truly advanc­ ized mass-occupation of the fa ct-’since the last imperialist war. ed workers has been more polite A Letter to the Editor of the “Modern Monthly” than enthusiastic. Regarding with well-founded cynicism the sud- We reprint below a copy of contributor in this case is bound deness of the police discovery of a letter sent by comrade Trots­ by a reciprocal bond to all the the arms-caçhes of LaRocque’s ky to V. F. Calverton. To date, others. I consider it impossible momentary political adversaries, no reply or acknowledgment to carry any responsibility not they point out the significant Renewals has been made to it. —Ed. only for Mr. Beals himself but fact that somehow none of La­ also for the publication which to­ October 15, 1937. Rocque’s fa r more numerous and The Socialist Appeal has been scribers who do not renew their lerates him in its ranks. well stocked arms-depots were mailed regularly to former sub­ subscriptions. The number ap­ Mr. V. F. Calverton, Stalinism is the syphilis of the 46 Morton St. discovered; and though they have scribers of Labor Action and the pearing beside your name on the workers movement. Anybody who New York City, N. Y. been treated to exciting detect­ old Socialist Appeal. Wte did not wrapper indicates the issue with chances to be a direct or indirect ive-story reports of complete want subscribers to either of these which your subscription expires. My Dear Editor: carrier of such a contamination membership lists found, and of publications to feel that they were This issue is No. 18. If your You propose that I write an should be submitted to a pitiless great figures involved, they note not getting their money’s worth. wrapper shows a lower number article on war for the Modern quarantine. The hour has struck that the arrests have been ex­ Now, in literally hundreds of than this, your name jw ill be re­ Monthly. Before entering direct­ for the unsparing demarcation o l tremely few- in number, and in­ cases, subscriptions have expired moved from our subscription list ly into discussion of your amiable honest people from all the agents, volve, apart from DiBorgo and but we have continued mailing until you renew. proposition, I am forced to put friends, lawyers, publicists, and Duseigneur, no one of any note; the Appeal with the hope that And while you are renewing, one preliminary question. In the poets of the G.P.U. Collabora­ and that, furthermore, most have renewals would be forthcoming. don’t forget that subscriptions list of your associate editors is tion in a journal like yours is been released again. Each person whose subscription alone w ill not finance the Appeal. inscribed the name of Mr. Carle- necessary for such as Beals in has expired has been notified by The blank below provides space ton Beals. After his “participa­ order to preserve their mask of “ independence.” The less reason The Fascist Danger letter and there has been some fo r contributions. If you can spare tion” in the Inquiry Commission has an independent journal te response. any amount to keep alive the only on the Moscow Trials, there can­ This is far from meaning that not be the slightest doubt about give its cover to such gentlemen. French Fascism is not to be taken Much as we would like to, it is Revolutionary M arxist newspaper the moral physiognomy of this If the name of Mr. Beals re­ seriously. Quite the contrary. financially impossible to continue published in the United States, gentleman. Beals’ article on the mains on your list only through Staged and limited as the raids supplying the Appeal to sub- spare it now. Commission hearings in Coyoacan overt-sight (and I should be glad were, their revelations are a was nothing but a series of lies to hear from you that this is the symptomatic warning of the sort and falsifications dictated by the case) then you can immediately; of which Spain had plenty prior interest of the G.P.U. I enu­ correct this error. In the opposite to July 1936. They show once Socialist Appeal merated the most important of case I shall be forced to ask yon more that, just as in Spain, the 116 University Place Date ...... these lies and falsifications in an to publish this letter in your Fascists are preparing, right un­ New York City article, a copy of which, so far magazine in explanation for my. der the nose of the Popular as I know, was forwarded to you. taking away my name from the Front government, their eventual I enclose $ ...... for which please send me the You have not yet, however, react­ roll of your contributors. armed insurrection. The arms ed in any way to the attitude of Sincerely yours, Socialist Appeal. One year— ($2.00); Six "Months— seized are only a drop in the M r. Beals. Leon Trotsky. bucket. Just as in Spain, the army ($1.00). I can give an article to a officer s are overwhelmingly I enclose $ ...... as my contribution toward bourgeois publication without any Rightist in sympathy: the French buildingr the Socialist Appeal. concern about the other contri­ SOCIAL and DANCE counterparts of Sanjurjo, Franco, butors, as I may ride in a bus Saturday Eve., Dee. 18 ' and Mola only await the Nam e . without concern about the identi­ at LEAH DILLON’S STUDIO: si. Just as in Spain, the Po- ties of the other passengers. To­ 137 E . 13th S tre e t l sr Front government takes Address tally different is the case with Auspices: ADMISSION 20c ( [only feeble half-measures that, Lower Manhattan Branch a magazine which appeals to pn the one hand, are a positive City and Y . P. S. L . provocation to the Fascists, and, Marxism and revolution. Every ______s SOCIALIST APPEAL December 11, 1937

Lovestoneites Change "Line" Under INTERNATIONAL N O T E S The Franco-Soviet Pact and the Maneuvers of Impact O f Recent Events In U.S.S.R. the Imperialists. Soviet Union Elections Featured by Continued Purge. By Joseph Carter The so-called Russian question has been and remains €> By John G. Wright the touchstone of international Marxist politics. The Moscow Trials Rumors that the Franco-Soviet pact is about to be scrapped twentieth anniversary of the Russian Revolution is not have been revived of late. The “ democratic" European press keeps The Zinoviev-Kamenev and the stressing the growing isolation of the Soviet Union. British diplo- only an occasion for the celebration of this great event Radek-Piatakov trials were like­ macy has been particularly active in recent days in pointing out wise defended by the Lovestone­ but simultaneously the moment to evaluate the meaning that there are no insurmountable barriers to divide the imperialist of the present crisis in the^^r :------~ ites. Like pleading attorneys they . . T herm idorian degeneration. asked the jury to overlook the camp into two irreconcilable wings, i.e., peaceloving "democratic” Soviet Union and how it can ■Or is this an exaggeration ? Let 'circumstantial evidence" which states, versus the bellicose Fascist states. The official and "un­ be resolved in the interests us listen to Jay Lovestone in minted to frame-ups, the inconsis­ official" visits paid to Hitler by British statesmen are indications of revolutionary socialism. August 1935: tency between the politics of the of a similar trend. A curious incident that occurred toward the defendants and the charge of in­ This task is undertaken by M. end of last month may be directly connected with these maneuvers Yesterday’s Position dividual terror, discrepencies in S. Mautner, for the Love^tone- testimony and indisputable false­ to "reconcile" the existing antagonisms. ites. in Workers’ Age (Nov. 20. ’•. .The Soviet workers them- The Paris correspondent of one of Mussolini’s newspapers sent 1937). In line with the .resolution i selves with their own forces, hoods. The trials should be view­ on the Soviet Union of the “ Inter-1 without armed proletarian aid ed with “historical objectivity", in a dispatch on the desirability of establishing a Franco-Italian national Communist Opposition"' from outside can build a social- hey insisted; and pretentious ana­ rapprochement. It was published in Tribuna. The issue in which (see W. A., A ugust 14, 1937), ist society in Russia." (Soviet logies were made with the revo­ this article appeared was thereupon confiscated, and the corres­ Mauttie• justifies his group’s de­ Foreign Policy", Pg. 28). Even lutionary terror of the Jacobins. (See Workers’ Age, Feb. 6 and pondent recalled. The official explanation was that this corres­ fense of Stalinism against Trots­ more, he adds: “If the C P S U pondent had merely expressed his “personal" opinion. It is of kyism in the past on the ground were not correct in concluding Feb. 13, 1937). An editorial of February 20th course no secret that no “personal" opinions are permitted to slip that the Soviet bureaucracy then that the Soviet proletariat was into the rigidly censored Fascist press. In any case, Mussolini is played a progressive role. capable of overcoming fully all declared: “ When objective judge­ capitalist elements within its ment is passed on the Moscow “ unofficially" on record as ready for “reconciliation". A Belated Echo country, that is, of building a trials, it must surely be done pri­ * * * socialist society, then it would marily on the basis of the all- Journal des Nations, the “organ" of the League of Naitions “Trotsky himself declares that really have no reason for main­ absorbing question: Is it Stalin or published in Geneva hardly carries any news about the Soviet Union. ‘it would he criminal to deny the the Trotskyist opposition that by taining power. We should then An occasional brief notice may appear from time to time dwelling progrès-ive work accomplished by and large represents the basic in­ stop fooling the workers in the on some latest “achievement". Not a word about the purge, the the soviet hurocracy ’ " the USSR and everywhere else and terests of the socialist revolution author tells us. And adds: "But in Russia, that is the bearer of “ trials" etc. On the other hand, it carries perhaps the most detail­ give up power to another class. ed accounts outside the Comintern press of the activities of the it is c>{iially true that this pro­ (P g. 28). the fundamentally sound policies gressive mission has been comp­ of socialist construction? And on Stalinists, especially with regard to France and Spain. letely evlmisted In the past, its And today, Mautner-Lovestone this question our position has Thus, Journal des Nations devoted several issues to reports of (Stalini-m) positive and cons­ tell us quite casually that the in­ been made clear more than once. the recent plenum of the Spanish Communist Party, giving con­ tructive aspects predominated: it ternal crisis is due to the "fatal The course of events itself, more­ siderable space to the speeches made there, and in particular to was the builder of socialism. To­ isolation" of backward Russia over, has pretty generally con­ the oration made by M. Anton “the political Commissar of the Cen­ day it has entered its negative which can be broken only by "in­ firmed the viewpoint of Stalin as tral Front." M. Anton, we are informed by the Journal, devoted and destructive phase: it is un­ ternational socialist- revolution." against that of Trotsky." his entire speech to "showing the relations between the Trotskyites dermining, degrading, endanger­ In other words, the Russian work­ But life itself so ruthlessly and the Fascists, between the members of the P.O.U.M. and the ers by "their own f(frees, without ing its own achievements." thi-ew to the winds the despicably partisans of Franco." There follows an extract from his speech: “The armed proletarian aid from out­ In s' fa r as the above is cor­ apologetics of Lovestone, that fo l­ struggle against Trotskyism," he declared, “ is not a question which side" uannot build seqidlism! rect. it is a belated echo of the lowing the execution of Tucha- solely concerns the Communists, but is the struggle of the Spanish Trotskyist analysis. However— To follow Lovestone’s old logic chevsky, the arrest of Yagoda, people as a whole. That is why we want to denounce the peril that and this is the nub of the matter he should today conclude that etc. the I.C.O. resolution of is constituted by the Trotskyite elements". (Journal des Nations, —the Lovestoneites saw (and therefore "We should stop fooling June 25, 1937 stated: “Such see) in connection between the the workers in the USSR and methods (Stalin’s terrorism) Nov. 19, 1937.) yesterday and today save Stalin’s everywhere else and give up deal communism the most disas­ The French newspapers, however, devote a great deal of at- organizational methods which are power to another class" (see trous blows it has received at any tention to the purge. Matin, for example, insists that the Red Army completely divorced by them from above)! But his "logic" was as time from any source." (W. A., is undergoing another “cleansing." Havas Agency has been circu­ his general program, social, eco­ deceptive as his theory (of social­ A ugust 14, 1937). lating “unverified reports" that many army divisions are now be­ nomic end foreign policies. ism in one country) ; today he Could anything reveal greater ing headed by officers of subordinate rank. Matin likewise reports T ro ts) y ’s objective analysis of abandons both without the neces­ bankruptcy! The Lovestoneites the rumored suicide of Postyshev, and the arrest of Victor Keen, the prou' essive role of the bureau­ sary re-evaluation. now unwittingly admit that they editor-in-chief of Journal de Moscou and former Tass correspondent cracy referred to one side of the mistook Stalinist counter-revolu­ in Rome and Paris. function of Stalinism, which it The Stalinist Constitution tionary terrorism for revolution­ * * * performed despite itself, its own The Stalinist Constitution, the ary terror. In the Soviet Union there are 33 republics, of which 22 are reactionary program and prac- trials and purges, the foreign Nor were the Lovestoneites autonomous and 11 "independent" Soviet entities. No other sphere ise: under the pressure of the policy (in which are included the more successful in understanding appears to have been more thoroughly purged than the administra­ kulaks, private traders and impe­ policies of the Comintern) are not Russian foreign policy or its re­ tive machinery of these republics. The hands of the executioner rialist- on the one hand, and the lation to the policies of the Co­ merely symptoms of the present reached even into Biro-Bidjan where the Jewish party heads, Pro­ Trotskyist opposition on the other. mintern. In August 1935, Love­ situation but necessary prere­ fessor Lieberberg, Chafkin and several others were arrested as (This is clear by an examination stone wrote: quisites for the bourgeois counter­ “ sabotagers, bourgeois-nationalistsi—and Japanese, spies”. These of tlu- origin and development “The Trotskyist theory that revolution from within. men had been credited officially as the “builders of Biro-Bidjan”. of the First Five Year Plan). there is a fundamental cleavage Latest dispatches leave no room for doubt that the republics For the Lovestoneites. reference The Constitution expresses in between the interests of ‘Russian to yesterday’s progressive role of legal terms the political expro­ state policy’ and the interests of are being “re-purged". Thus, in the Ukraine where Lubchenko, the priation of the proletariat and the bureaucracy serves merely as the international proletariat is Chairman of the Ukrainian Soviet Government, committed suicide an apology for it< defense of the the omnipotence of the bureauc­ false from top to bottom." (“So­ on Aug. 30, and the secretary of the party Popov was arrested as Stalinisr program, internal and racy. The trials and purges des­ viet Foreign Policy”, Pg. 27). a “ Trotskyite", the newly appointed Chairman of the Government, foreign policies. troy actual and potential defend­ He polemized against those who Bondarenko, also “committed suicide." In White Russia, Chervia- ers of nationalized property re­ declared that, for example, the kov, the Pi-esident of the Republic, committed suicide, and the The Sources of Stalinism lations. Soviet foreign policy, social patriotism of the French Chairman of the Soviets and the secretary of the party were ar­ (and Comintern policies) aims to Communist Party was due to rested. In Tadjikistan, Muksumov and Bobokalov, the successors Mautcer, however, clearly ve- maintain the absolutism of Sta­ Russian foreign policy. of Rakhimbayev, the Premier, and Shotemir, the President, were veals the untenable position of linism against Fascist destruction the Lovestoneites. He tells üs that and prevent at all costs a work­ And today? Lovestone (and arrested on September 21st. The Kirghiz Republic had been purged, the sources of the present crisis ing class revolutionary victory in Mautner) remain silent. However, but again the Chairman Isakeyev and others who had replaced the in the Soviet Union are not to bo Western Eiu-ope which would August Thalheimer, their interna­ the “spies and traitors" were themselves purged. On Nov. 20, found in the "Thermidorian reac­ make impossible Stalinist ab­ tional theoretican, presents a there was reported another “ plot" in Uzbekistan. Seven "plotters” tion" -but rather: solutism in Russia and threat­ hitherto not unknown view: were shot. Among them the head of the C. P., Kaipov. “ in the specific conditions in en the Stalinist policy of sub­ “What is responsible for the W riting in the Manchester Guardian on this aspect of Stalin’s which the Russian Revolution ordination of the working class change in the policy of the Com­ blood purge, Di\ J. N. Steinberg comments as follows: "It is has developed, in the incredible to its "democratic" imperialist munist International?” he writes impossible to believe that in all the national states states simul­ handicaps it has faced of the back­ a llies. in the British New Leader taneously all the most important leaders should be nothing but wardness of the country and its (August 20, 1937), “The crisis in political and moral criminals. This mass campaign seems to be own isolation in a world of impe­ The new constitution was hail­ Russia is the explanation. Be­ intended to clear the way for a purely Russian national state.” ria lis m .” ed by the JiOvestoneites : cause of the absence of proletarian (Manchester Guardian Weekly, November 5). For the solution of this crisis, “The new constitution of the democracy, Soviet Russia is To demonstrate to the world how securely he sits in the Kremlin, he adds: “ And it is the Interna­ Soviet Union is living proof that going back and the bureaucracy tional socialist revolution 'alone is defending itself under terror. Stalin promised to free 15,000 political prisoners on the XX anni­ the proletarian dictatorship makes versary of the October revolution. But, of course, they remained that can break the fatal isolation for the full development of the “ The rulers of Russia are satis­ in ja il and in the concentration camps. of the Soviet Republic in thé rights of the toiling masses.. As fied with Socialism (!) in their world of imperialism." a result of the new constitution own country and status quo in With this, Mautner not only the Soviet state is nearing its other countries. Their policy is question have been refuted by either inside or outside the party” goes beyond the analysis given in goal of abolishing the state al­ the Isolated Socialist State.” history itself, as inadvertantly ad­ the removal of Stalin (that is, the the rc~ lution but "sinks to the together". we read in the Workers Is it not clear how critics of mitted by the Lovestoneites overthrow of the bureaucracy) depths of Trotskyism!" For he Age o f Nov. 14, 1937. Seven Stalinism must “borrow" (more themselves. “ can take place thru the channel presents the crux of the Trotsky­ months later we are told by these accurately, plagiarize!) from the What remains? Bewilderment, of evolution” (ICO resolution, ist argument against Stalinism— same people that the articles of basic views of Trotskyism which spiced with critical bits taken June 25). they yesterday declared “counter­ the impossibility of constructing the constitution “read like a from Trotskyism; apologies for And with this eclectic program socialism in one country alone, revolutionary” ? their old position, and a utopian gruesome mockery.” (I.C.O. reso­ the International of Lovestone- without the aid of the interna­ lution, June 25, 1937, W. A. We thus see th a t the Lovestone- conception that although in Rus­ tional socialist revolution: that is, August 14, 1937). Mautner does ite fundamental theories, analysis, sia “There can be no hope for Thalheimer-Brockway-Gorkin is to the objective conditions for the not even mention the constitution. logic and conclusions on this basic any kind of democratic rights be organized! December 11,1937 SOCIALIST APPEAL 7 Bankers Order Congress Futile Debates in Capitol To Place Crisis Burden Reveal Coming PartyRifts on Workers and Farmers By James Burnham The Special Session of Congress has now been going: By James Casey on for nearly a month. To date, its score in work ac­ Finance Capital has poised its forces to shackle the complished is exactly— zero. A remarkable fact when plac­ a Federal agency against arbit­ nation’s toilers with a mass of new legislative chains before rary slashing of wages by busi­ ed against the headlines which we read every day. There is, the end of the Winter. ness, large and small. evidently, no lack of problems that.might be dealt wittt. The Wall Street bourbons have this three-fold pur­ Moreover, w ith a rejection of the And yet the Congressmen ‘ have®------>------thirty or even the thirty-five spent by far the greater part of fidently ready. Their aim was pose: our week, it is clear that "private their time in debating “points of once the progressive one of ex­ First to place the entire bur-1 enterprise” in accordance w ith its procedure.” The Congressional panding, the productive forces o f there such a cynical and ques­ den of the current crisis, upon inherent nature, is concerned first Record these days isra rich labor­ society. This is no longer possible: tioning attitude on Capitol H ill.” shoulders of the workers and foremost with the quick re­ atory book in the intricacies of —for them. And now they seek Having said this, Tucker proceeds M d farmer*. turn to big dividends and is turn­ he rules of order. only rationalizing formulas for to reveal how the members of . Second, to cut wages, curb go­ ing a deaf ear to the pleas of preserving their sbeial power an« vernment relief for the unem­ Congress have decided to perform "liberals” for absorption of the Purpose of Special their jobs for Big Business, while privilege^ before going over to ployed, arrest the rising power jobless as a means of stemming Session the open brutality of fascism. of the trade unions, stimulate turning their backs on the needs the “ recession.” setups uy union organization, and of the increasing number of un­ Finally, the public utilities are Roosevelt called this Special BattleRekind The Scenes lower the living standard of the employed and their families. to be permitted to raise rates Session, early in the autumn, to Atswrioan masses. “They w ill demand revision of anew and swell profits. enact a four-point “social pro­ It should not, however, be ima­ all laws believed to dampen and ¡Shard, to procure congressional Compromise with Power gram”: Farm Aid, Housing, gined that nothing is happening IstisJation for this program, discourage private enterprise,” Wluges and Horn's, Reorganiza­ in Washington. Beneath the sur­ which is designed to end the Tucker writes, “They w ill aim» T ru s ts tion of the Executive Branch of face debate in Congress, a real 'f%ashtess recession” and blast first at the modification of cor­Z “Of all the economic royalists the Government. No one w ill deny and far-reaching battle is now tile path for new and bigger di­ porate taxes, especially capital most violently denounced by the that each of these matters is of going on; a battle which emerged gains and losses and the undis­ vidends. New Deal preachers, the public the utmost importance, bound up in an earlier stage last Spring tributed surplus levy. To revive utilities stand to gain most in with the interests and needs of during the fight over the Court the building industry they w ill View of Press view of the more subdued and large sections of the American B ill. The first bone of contention* urge resumption of the home realistic attitude on Capitol H ill,” people. No one should be so foolish from the“- point of view of each Walter Iippman, David Law­ modernization campaign and seek says the W all Street spokesman. as to imagine that Roosevelt act­ group, is; how to slough off res­ rence, Hugh S. Johnson and other better FHA terms for home build­ Declaring that the plan for seven ually intended that these ques­ ponsibility for the new crisis month-pieces of Reaction write ers. Drastic amendment of the additional TV As may be ditched, tions should be genuinely solved which seems to impend? With a cynical bluntness of these Wagner Act so as to make it less Tucker writes: by the Special Session. What was Roosevelt must seek to attri­ gdans of the monopoly capitalists pro-labor is almost a certainty. “Even the President seems to «ad of Roosevelt’s open capitula­ needed was a gesture in each bute it tor the sabotage of “ eco­ be weakening on that sector, and field sufficient to arouse the hopes nomic Tories” and to a recalcit­ tion to the ‘‘economic royalists.” Proposed Legislation if he can negotiate a 50-50 com- In three different publications, and illusions of the masses, to rant Congress. The “economic jromise with the power boys, he reinforce their faith in Roosevelt, put at the same time, the three It is seen from the foregoing Tories" and their immediate that W ail Street intends to have w ill gladly withdraw from this but at the same time so vague spokesmen, on the other hand, mentioned writers say that the costly and controversial scheme.” Imperative need, “if depression is the government meet its budget­ and limited as to guarantee no must try to make New Dealism ary expenses by taxing those in The “ scheme” is “ controversial” breach in bourgeois economy and responsible in the public mind. tO be averted and a sound econo­ because it proposes to lower light my is to be induced, is a revision the lower income brackets and, no real break w ith bourgeois tra­ Thus Roosevelt, by giving the in the course of procedure, slash and power rates for millions of dition. This is the perennial meth­ rope to^Congress and making o f New. Pea] policies aimed at consumers throughout the country stimulating private credit and in­ relief and force the jobless to od . of the New Deal policy and “concessions to business" (him­ depend on local charities and the .and cut into the profits of the New Deal demagogy. self meanwhile having tooth­ vestm ent.” Morgan-Rockefeller corporations, They concede that monopoly employed workers. Tucker dis­ But when the Special Session aches and going fishing), jockeys closes, also, that Roosevelt’s who control more than 60 per was called, the business "reces­ into a position where, if it seems capitalists, thrown into confusion cent of the utilities in America. by the depth of the last crisis, much-touted housing pAsgram has sion” was just beginning, and desirable' at a later stage, he can its origin and support in Wall Also, the “ scheme” would provide there was still confidence that it again denounce the Tories, prove found in 1933 a most valuable employment for thousands in prop in Roosevelt’s New Deal Street and is calculated, prim arily was only a minor drop of a few that cooperation with them was to serve the big contractors and agencies not directly controlled weeks, to be quickly “ corrected." the cause of all evil, and re-assert policies, This New Deal, however, by the big interests. Therefore, bad given a few sops to labor in realtors, rather than give aid to During the intervening weeks, the New Dealism on a "new and millions of slum dwellers and it is to be tabooed. index of production, along with higher plane." the form of government relief The enactment of even a part projects and encouragement to prospective small home owners. the prices on the Stock Exchange, One point, however, and hy Then there is to be “drastic of the program, as outlined by hurtled downward, at a rate twice trade unionism. Tucker, would be a deadly blpw far the most important point, Now, after five years, the amendment” of the Wagner Act as rapid as that during the last Roosevelt, the various factions in and Tucker makes no effort to to the American workers. It would months of 1929. Wide-scale lay­ country is again floundering erase many, if not all, the con­ Congress and the “Tories” have through an economic morass. W all conceal its aims. The amendment offs began. Whether or not a new completely in common: namely, is to be wholly in the interests cessions wrung from the corpora­ major cyclical crisis has be­ Streeters and their legislators tions ih the last few years the necessity for attributing the of the bosses, which means its gun, no one any longer doubts have found that the recurrence through strenuous trade union new crisis to something, anything, motive is to weaken and, if pos­ the seriousness of the current « f business “depression” cannot activity. It would set the* labor other than its true cause which sible, hlock the work of trade drop. And, in addition, the war be prevented by any “ democratic” movement back a couple of de­ is, of course, simply the capital­ union organization, suppress question thrust itself heavily and pew deal. They are preparing now cades. The American toilers must ist system itself. At all costa, strikes, curtail picketing and be­ abruptly forward, not as a dis­ to out-Hoover Hoover with their act at once to put a check on they must hide this conclusion. nefit company unionism. tant cloud, but as a heavy present plans toward unprecedented reac­ Congress and the bosses. The real importance of the pre­ tio n . Nor is that all. Wall Street is shadow. sent crisis is in providing the insistent that even the semblance (The next article on the crisis Discussing the “united front” of w ill deal with the mobilization The real issues in the face of final proof (if one is needed) Big Business interests and their of proposed pro-labor legislation which the Session gathered were that reformism (represented by must be revamped to the satist- of the nation’s workers and plans in Congress, Ray Tucker, fa rm e rs.) simple and direct: the downward the New' Deal) is no more capable «Ue of Finance Capital’s leading faction of the bosses. Read what swing of the business cycle, long than laisser faire of solving the Tucker writes of such proposed spokesmen writes in the last is- O P E N F O R U M before the optimistically antici­ the great social problems of our «ue of the Magazine of Wall legislation: Which Way For The Soviet pated upswing had been comp­ tim e. S tre e t: “ The wages-and-hours measure, U nion? leted according to the norms of As in the Court fight, so in the if passed at all, w ill be only a the bourgeois statisticians; and Special Session, the most «bitter shadow of its first form. Whereas Abe M iller, Speaker Attitude of Capitol H ill the approach of the war. exchanges take place not between This FRIDAY, Dec. 10, 8 p. m. the original White House aim And with these issues, so inti­ Republicans and Democrats, bat “ The reasons for the changed was a 40-40 proposition with at 159 RIVINGTON ST. mately affecting the lives of the betweeiz-lhe different factions of mental status on Capitol H ill sliding, regional scales adminis­ Auspices masses, in face of the lay'-offs. the Democratic Party. The divi­ are ironic, and yet natural. Five tered by a Federal board, Con­ East Side Ijabor Center the lowering of wages, the whole sion between the Republican and years ago the market collapse gress w ill probably provide for Questions and Discussions gathering storm of “economic Democratic Parties founded in the gsd' subsequent industrial de­ a 40-hour week and a $12 mini­ Admission Free crisis” and the untold human issues focussed during the Civil pression frightened the poli­ mum w eekly wage to be adminis­ ticos into blind subservience to tered under hard and fast rules. misery which it brings with it, War has reduced itself to a Congress debates points of order. Tweedledum-Tweedledee contest; Roosevelt. He seemed to have It w ill not permit any Federal Friday - Dec. 17th The President has a toothache and the political framework it has botl; the right answers and the agency to fix regional and indus­ at 8:45 P. M. provided is no longer convincing tig h t questions, and they amen- trial differentials in accordance MAX SHACHTMAN (one always does well do be sus­ enough to sustain the illusions «d him by enacting his proposals with its investigatorial whims.” Editor “Socialist Appeal” picious of the toothaches of poli­ without knowing the titles of “New International” ticians) and goes fishing off of capitalist politics in this the hills. He was the one and Wages to Be Lowered w ill speak on Miami. Senator Connally makes country. The pressure of the «mly saviour. They expected “The Russian Revolution — wise cracks about the Anti- Labor Party movement, contain­ m iracles. Since employers always insist 20 Years After!” Lynching B ill. No clearer symbols ing beneath its distorted and “ None has some. Qu the con­ that thé minimum also be the Question and Discussion. of the decay of capitalism could bureaucratic surface the incipient tra ry, business and industry have maximum, it is patent that Wall be found. Confronted with genu­ class movement of the masses, is «mm into another tailspin which, Street has struck upon this ruse ine social problems, the bour­ being felt; and the need for com­ Thoinas Paine Society geoisie itself, and its spokesmen, ing to terms with it in a way in some respects, is sharper than as one of the quick ways to end 88 Seventh Avenue South are dismayed and floundering. that w ill guarantee its harmless tint original dive. In some in!* the new crisis. Thus, if the bank­ Greenwich Village, N .. Y. C. Their attitude betrays the fact development. If the Republican doutrief the decline in produc­ ers’ drive is not stopped, a $12 (7th. Avq. Subway) tion has been more precipitate minimum wage would be estab­ that, consciously or unoonsciously, and Democratic Parties are still Christopher Street) they have lost confidence in their in the field in 1940, they wi$ not $ian i t urns in the early days lished as the average standard Admission with this Adv. own answer, the answer which in be the tame parties that hape « f the original depression. Never for the American worker. Neither — Only 35 cents — Pcfftie in Booseveltian days was would there even be recourse to an earlier era they had so con­ been known since the Civil W«r. t SOCIALIST APPEAL December 11, 1937 Are You Ready for War? Filling Station L eft Workers Win A Discussion on Imperialist W ar, Past and Present, on the Presidential Jabs “Peace-Lovers” and How They Prepare the Minds of the Masses in Support of a New World-Wide W ar for Plunder and Exploitation. Frisco S trike Life Under Hitler SAN FRANCISCO.—Expres­ Synthetic bacon made from only when the working class has taken power. Not “Red” But Yellow sion of a strong sentiment for pig’s blood and synthetic eggs Are we for the abolition of the ROTC and the made from fish are among the Many people, who have become accustomed to unity of the rank and file iii CIO other govejmment agencies seeking to militarize and AFL unions against both sets blessings enjoyed by German la­ regarding the Communist Party as the “ reds", the the young people? The fight against war must of bureaucrats led to the speedy bor since Heiling H itler has been arch-revolutionists, may not be aware that in re­ be carried on NOW, not only after war is declared, and favorable settlement of a substituted for thinking, and cent years they have thrown aside their whole rev­ through a concrete struggle against militarism. strike in a General Petroleum goose-stepping for labor unions olutionary past and have instead taken over corrf- Against ROTC, both compulsory and optional, as service station here last week. in Germany. pfetely the ideas of the pinkest reformist social­ the goose-step agepicy on the campus. Against the The four men in the station struck ists. The Massachusetts investigation found them m ilitarization of the CCC camps, which are under- when Jerry Driscoll, member of Life Under Mussolini stoutly insisting that they believed in achieving army control for the purpose (as army officers the Filling Station Employees Conditions close to serfdom, Socialism through “peaceful means,” through the have boasted) of preparing the youth for war. Union, Local 410, CIO, was fired glowing poverty, miserable sub­ election process, that they were against the Against Roosevelt’s sky-rocketing m ilitary appro­ for union activity. sistence wages, increased hours overthrow of th'q government “by force or priations, and his plans for military-industrial Bridges agreed to support the of labor, uncertainty of employ­ otherwise," and against world revolution. These dictatorship in war-timq. Around such issues wide action but attempted to turn it ment, decline in quantity and things, they said, had been believed by the Com­ united fronts can be forged. into a CIO-AFL beef when the quality of food consumption, munist International only in its “infancy”—that AF of L officials sent members worsening of conditions of share­ Do we in the A.S.U. support the Oxford Pledge of their Garage Employees Union is, whiie it was led by Lenin. Today, Stalin, hav­ croppers, impoverishment o f “to refuse to support any war conducted by the to work behind the CIO picket ing grown “wiser”, is devoting his time to wiping small farmers, are among the U. S. government” ? This pledge, which has com­ lin e . out the revolutionary past of the Communists blessings bestowed on the masses bined on different grounds revolutionists and In reply to this splitting ma- b y framing up and shooting all the men who led of Italy by Mussolini and the pacifists in the immediate struggle against the nuever the men on strike issued the great Russian Revolution. Fascist regime according to Dr. concrete imperialist war which is being prepared, a leaflet to the rank and file of This degeneration of a movement has happen­ Carl Schmidt of Columbia Uni­ has more than anything else in the student move­ the AF of L Union declaring they ed before. The Second (Socialist) International versity who spent eight months ment provoked the Hearsts and ROTC colonels to were for presenting the station too was founded as a Marxist organization; be­ studying conditions in II Duce’s frothing denunciations. They could see no more owners with a set of joint de­ fore the World War it too was regarded as a red paradise. favorable symptom in the student movement than mands and “demanding of the bogy, and its shameful support of imperialism leadership of both unions that the abandonment of this platform. The YCL is “Patriotism: Last in the Wor-ld War came as a shocking surprise this unity be brought about” in now doing this work for them. We call upon all to all. Today the Communist International an­ order for the workers to present Refuge of a Scoundrel” sincere anti-war fighters in student ranks to smash nounces its betrayal of the working class in ad­ a “solid front to gain their de­ this drive in the A.S.U. “ I f Communism is 100 per cent vance. Both the Second International and the m ands.” Americanism on a national scale Third (Communist) International have gone the Opposition to W ar Requires Fighting The day this leaflet was dis­ —and it is—then why shouldn't tributed, the AF of L men were way of social-patriotism and support of imperial­ our lower units develop the Organization withdrawn from the station and is t w ar. same kind of patriotism for their one day later the strikers were But the working class struggle for Socialism But the. Oxford Pledge is a correct statement neighborhoods ?” — Clarence back on the job with their de­ only of what NOT to do when war comes. One Hathaway in the Sunday Worker. And against war demands a revolutionary Inter­ mands won. There is nothing like If old Sam Johnson was alive to­ national to organize that fight on a world-wide must go far beyond it. We do not look upon an an alert and m ilitantly led rank day would he not change his de­ acale and revolutionary parties in all countries imperialist war merely as a horrible catastrophe, and file to bring the bureaucrats finition to, “ Patriotism is the last that w ill take up the red banner. We of the move­ though it is that; to us it represents a crisis of and their bosses into line. ment for the Fourth International have our own the capitalist system, when it is staking its all, refuge of a Stalinist?" when the workers are given arms and told to answer to the questions that were asked Dave Mickey Mouse in Grant—the answer of our leader Lenin. fight for the bosses. Our aim is to utilize this Good Meeting crisis for the purpose of abolishing the capitalist Concentration Camp The Answer of Revolutionary For H. Milton war-system itself, to teach the armed workers to Believe it or not, here's the M a rx is m turn their guns not against their fellow workers In St. Louis headline from the Times: “ W riter Do we differentiate between the capitalist in the opposite trenches but against their enemy ST. LOUIS, Mo— On the even­ in trouble over Mickey Mouse. “ democracy” of the imperialist countries and the at home. Our aim in opposing imperialist war is ing of November 30, Harry Milton Times Man is Ordered from soviet democracy of a workers state? We cer­ the revolutionary overthrow of capitalism. Do addressed an enthusiastic meeting Yugoslavia after his Story of Ban tainly do. Capitalist democracy is a sham which we believe in turning imperialist war into civil ponsored by the St. Louis D istrict on Comic Strip." That’s tough is not believed in by the capitalists themselves, war ? This is the way by which the Russian work­ of the Socialist Party (Left on Mickey and the reporter but who are ever ready to throw asidei all democratic ers secured peacq in 1917 while their brothers in W5ng). About 70 persons attend­ watch the Storm troops and ex­ ecutioner go into action if Hitler pretenses in strikes, in the lily-white South, in other lands were still struggling under the yoke ed. ever hears Donald Duck go Quack! its Cubas; it is a cover for the crudest exploita­ of imperialism. This is the only way by which Taking as his general topic “ The Truth About Spain”, Milton Qua-a-ak!!! Qua-a-a-a-ak!!!!! tion of the massqs of people. We do not defend permanent peace can be; gained and war abolished gave a devastating analysis of capitalism, democratic or otherwise, whether it from the face of the earth. _ the miserable history of the Po­ Shopping Notes This fight is not an easy one. It is not sufficient is allied with the Soviet Union for its own imperi­ pular Front regime in Spain, and Morning papers report that alist reasons or not. But we do defend the Soviet to stand on the sidelines and say “ Attaboy” every in particular, of the role played Leopold of Belgium and his bro­ Union against imperialist attacks: within the oncq in a while at a mass meeting or while read­ by the Spanish Stalinists. ther Charles are in England in Soviet Union we support its war against the im,- ing a pamphlet. Our enemies are the organized In the discussion period the search of brides. “They w ill at­ perialists; in the capitalist countries we carry on forces of capitalist terrorism, m ilitary dictator­ spokesmen for the CP, unwilling the revolutionary struggle to establish a working- ship, war hysteria, betrayers within the working or unable to deal with specific tend the Worshop shopping fest­ class state as the only possible reliable ally of class who act as direct agents of the war-machine. cases, confined themselves, at the ival to be opened by Lady Anne Cavendish-Bentnick." We hope the Soviet Union. Under capitalism the workers Our answer, if it is not merely fatalistic or det- beginning, to long-winded and they find some bargains. Our own have no fatherland; we have a country to defend featist, must be a fighting organization. very “reasonable" dissertations on the theme that since the policy supply of 5 and 10 heiresses is of the Popular Front Government completely gone, not even a used is correct, any measures it may one on hand. But if the boys can't take to enforce that policy are pick up something at the festival, T ry To B olster Midwest Frame-Ups W ith justified. Finally, after Milton we might mention that our .Mr. had introduced the testimony of Simpson is on his way to Europe. Henry Beattie, Canadian ex- Stalinist and veteran of the In­ Pins and Needles “ Confession” In Frisco; Plot Fizzles ternational Brigade who recently If you live in or near New York exposed the frame-ups against the SAN FRANCISCO— Facts are to Dave Beck in Seattle. He gave transaction. )r if you are visiting our village, revolutionists in Spain, the re­ don’t fa il to see "Pins and Need­ stubborn things. And James O’- $600 to his wife before leaving And Bell’s own wife denied that presentatives of the CP dropped Niel, personal publicity man for on this mission, it is alleged. he gave her any $600. She even les," the I.L.G.W.U. Players their League-Againsti-iWar-and- hit. It shows only on Friday and Harry Bridges, is rapidly learn­ After a prolonged stay in the stated before the publication of Fascism disguise and proceeded ing how true this is. Less than Northwest, O’Niel said, he was the “confession” that her hus­ Saturday because the players are rapidly to lose control of them­ .working men and women who twenty-four hours after making called into the office of a union band had gone to Minneapolis, selves. the startling accusation over the official, given a police revolver according to the S. F. Chronicle. 'make dresses five days a week. radio that he was in possession and told to “get” Bridges. In­ Clarence H athaw ay and A1 A ll the theatre critics have given