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SOCIALISTPUBLISHED WEEKLY AS THE OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE SOCIALIST APPEAL WORKERS PARTY Vol. II. - No. 7. 401 Saturday, February 12, 1938 5 Cents per Copy WPA WORKERS USED Hitler Seeks Green Backs FOR WAR PURPOSES Leahy Testimony Bares War To Appease War Program NEW YORK.— The speed with which the government is prepar­ ------A N E D IT O R IA L ------ing for the outbreak of war, and Plans Of U.S. Imperialism; the extent to which it is using Commenting at Miami on the enormous war budget the unemployed for war prepara­ Reichswehr proposed to Congress by Roosevelt, President William tions, was revealed here last week. Green of the American Federation of Labor declared: Army-Nazi Feud Breaks “ I feel that at this period, when we take into account M ore than 1,000 W . P. A . Admits Conflict Is Near what is happening internationally, we must have con­ technicians, laborers, etc. are now Out; Shifts Viewed fidence in the judgment of the Chief Executive. He employed on the construction of As Compromise must have information on the world situation which an army land and sea airbase, with 39 hangars, at the Curtis F D R ‘Talks’ For Peace; HINT JOINT ACTION WITH BRITAIN we do not possess. It is really the duty of all of us to airport on Long Island. The chronic friction between stand with the President in this trying world situa­ Construction of the base, al­ the German army officer caste tion. If he feels that a billion dollars are necessary to though technically coming under and the upstart Nazi bureau­ Fleet Prepares For War Note to Japan on Battleship Program Heralds protect America, I feel we ought to support him.” (N. Y. the jurisdiction of the W .P.A. cracy reached the explosive point Naval Race; Admiral Says Fleet W ill Be Times, January 29, 1938.) and being financed with W .P.A. last week in the summary remo­ Navy Maneuvers, Alaska Threatens Japan Used to Implement Monroe Doctrine funds, is actually being super­ val of Marshal von Blomberg as Issue, Indicate Trend Why Is Information Kept Secret? War Minister and of General von vised by the War Department. Toward Clash The utmost secrecy and pre­ F rits c h as Chief of Staff, the Not troubling to mince words, Admiral William D. In the first place, if Roosevelt has “ information on caution enshrouds this "W. P. A. shifting of several foreign diplo­ Foreign policy. Senator Pitt­ the world situation which we do not possess” , why does mats, the replacement of Foreign Leahy, chief of naval operations of the U. S. Navy, last project," with army men impos­ man told the Senate last week, he not impart this information to the common mortals Minister von Neurath by the week revealed to the House Committee on Naval Affairs ing a maximum of discipline on consists of “the actions of a go­ who have to do the fighting and dying in the war for former ambassador to London, all employed there. In line with vernment and not its words." the broad lines of the war policies of the Roosevelt govern­ which he is preparing? And if he doesn’t impart it, von Ribbentrop, and the as­ general plans to complete the air The actions of the United ment. is it not the elementary duty of a labor leader to demand sumption of direct control of base within a very short period, States Government in the past the armed forces by Hitler him­ Admiral Leahy was testifying id favor of the $800,- the information before he asks the workers to put blind the construction work has been ten days, reflecting its swift pace self. “ confidence in the judgment of the Chief Executive” ? put on a 24-hour day, G-day week toward a showdown against Japan j 000.000 naval budget proposed by President Roosevelt and The fact that control of the Why, even such capitalist politicians, progressive and basis, with three 8-hour shifts in the Pacific, included the fol­ he made it plain that Congress would be called on to vote per day. army was given neither to Goer- conservative, as Borah, Nye and others, have asked lo w in g : ing nor to Himmler, who is head still more millions to fulfill all the far-reaching aims of Roosevelt at least to express his foreign policy before 1. N e arly 100 w arships and 300 of the private black Nazi divi­ American imperialism in the war which Leahy admitted he is given a blank check of support! fighting planes completed five- sions, while several of the old- In the second place, if support to the war program day maneuvers off the southern was “ nearer now than at any time since the World War.” AUTO WORKERS line conservative representatives .coast of California. The note sent to Japan on®------——------is to be given Roosevelt just because he “ feels” that a of the army officer clique have February 5 concurrently bv the ing that the naval expansion pro­ billion dollars are necessary to “ protect” the U. S., then been installed in the new dom i­ Pearl Harbor Reinforced United States, Great Britain, and gram was a weapon of aggres­ what’s the difference between our “ democratic pro­ nant Party Council, indicates that LEADER SLAMS France, demanding information sion to be used in line with Roo­ cesses” and the way things are done under the rule of Hitler has sought to mollify 2. The already huge military by F e b ru a ry 20 on Japan’s sevelt’s policy announced in his the Fascist Fuehrer in Germany? both sides by concessions and a establishment of Honolulu, key Pacific base of American impe­ battleship building plans, made Chicago speech of “quarantining" In the third place, why should American labor put temporary compromise. aggressor nations. WAR MONGERS ria lis m , was augm ented by 1,000 CORDELL HULL it plain that the Roosevelt regime even a scrap of “ confidence in the judgment of the Chief is prepared to embark on a naval Executive” of the capitalist class? Has nothing been Rests On Bayonets marines withdrawn from Shang­ Ready For Anything ha i and 1,268 men o f the reg ular building race and to construct learned from the confidence in the Chief Executive The destruction of the mass Homer Martin Exposes army sent from the West Coast, super-dreadnoughts of more than Asked on Tuesday by Repub­ basis of German fascism has which Samuel Gompers imposed on the labor move­ C. P. As Reactionary The marines, originally drawn 40,000 tons. lican Representative Maas from brought it to the position where LINKS POYNTZ ment during the last War to Make the World Safe For from the San Diego naval base, Minnesota whether "if we should Force In Union its rule is based entirely on the Mysterious Trip Democracy ? were ordered to Pearl Harbor have trouble in the Pacific, we bayonets of the Reichswehr, on could anticipate any substantial Homer Martin, president of instead of back to their original This joint step clarified at one No Confidence In Ruling Class the one side, and the ambitious TO ‘ROBINSON’ aid from any other power?”, Ad­ posts. The submarine Nautilus stroke the meaning of the mys­ the United Automobile Workers, mercenaries of the private Nazi was also ordered to Pearl Harbor terious trip to London made by miral Leahy replied: "We arc lias the regimenting, conscripting, gagging and second largest C.I.O. affiliate, army, led by the selected corps for permanent duty there. Only Captain R. Ingersoll of the War planning to take care of any si­ chaining of labor in the last war, while the war profi­ rocked the labor movement last of Himmler’s Schutzstaffel. on two weeks ago a fleet of 18 huge SPY FRAME-UP Plans Department of the Navy, tuation." In response to other teers became increasingly bloated with blood-stained week with a devastating blast the othei'. fighting planes made ‘a record on which Admiral Leahy refused questions, Leahy indicated that against Communist Party policy Having preserved German ca­ wealth—has all that been forgotten ? Have we forgotten formation flight across the Pa­ to give information to the House the defense lines of the navy in­ and activity in the union move­ pitalism by the ruthless crush­ that the last war for Wall Street was also launched on cific to Pearl Harbor and more Carlo Trcsca Says She Committee before which he testi­ clude Canada, Mexico and Central ment. ing of the working class and the the pretext of “ protecting” America? arc to follow. Was Abducted By fied. The note showed that first America. "The Pacific defense Amplifying charges made by iabor movement, and prepared Rave we forgotten that while we were fighting for 3. Three American cruisers, tentative steps have already been line," he said, “ extends from the Benjamin Stolberg in his series the ground for.-the imperialist G. P. U. Agent “ democracy” in Flanders, Mooney was framed up in the Trenton, the Memphis, and taken by the Roosevelt Adminis­ Aleutian Islands to Hawaii and of articles in the N. Y. World- expansion of Germany, the Nazi the United States, the Bisbee strikers deported, labor the Milwaukee were scheduled to tration for joint naval action thence via Samoa to the Panatrta Telegram, Martin declared in an upstarts have continually de­ halls raided, labor papers suppressed, genuine labor be at Singapore for the ceremony BY J U N IU S with Britain in the event, of war. Canal. The Atlantic defense Iin<6 interview that the C.P. was manded a greater share of the there on February 11 opening the What other commitments the extends from the coast of Maine leaders imprisoned or lynched, and all democratic rights working to “involve the United spoils of rule. Their demands While Lov Henderson, U. S. new huge B ritis h naval base. administration and the military to the Virgin Islands to Colon.” for the masses suppressed—while Gompers “ stood with States in war with Japan for have brought them into more charge d'affaires in Moscow This significant American par­ and naval chiefs have made with­ Asked later, whether in thd the President” and with the assistant secretary of the the defense of the Stalin dictat­ than one conflict with the old waited for the G.P.U. "to ar­ ticipation in a naval display ob­ out. the knowledge of Congress ease of any attempted “indirect navy, Franklin D. Roosevelt? orship in Russia,” doing this in governing bureaucracy whom range the time and place" of his viously aimed at Japan was link­ or of the people w ill be disclosed invasion" of Central or South The government and the capitalist class it represents the name of “ collective security." they replaced and with the army interview with Mrs. Rubens, ed with the secret and still un­ only when further actions bring American republics by a foreign cannot plunge us into another imperialist war without machine which is the most re­ Carlo Trcsca, veteran anti-Fasc- The Proof them to light. j power, the U.S. navy would be explained trip to London of ist leader, this week delivered a guaranteeing themselves the support of labor in ad­ liable prop of capitalist domina­ used to thwart such an attempt, tion. Captain Royal Ingersoll, of the withering attack on the Stalin vance. Without peace at home—at labor’s expense— The entire present activity of What Leahy Revealed Leahy answered that it would be War Plans Department of the frame-up machine charging if an effective war cannot be prosecuted. Whoever ties the Stalinists, who are laboring so used if the national policy at Army Conservatism Navy, last month. with the abduction ol' Juliet Enough has already been re ­ the labor movement to the war program and the war overtime to line up the workers the time required it. He further Testifying in Washington last Stuart. Poynlz, noted Stalinist vealed, however, to require of all machine, is helping bring war closer; he is handing of this country behind the war The army command has felt, stated that the ability of the week, Admiral Leahy, chief of leader who disappeared last sum­ workers the utmost vigilance a- over the working class, bound hand and foot with fake plans of the Washington govern­ in particular, that the foreign navy to enforce the Monroe naval operations, refused to ex­ mer. gainst the war plans of Ameri­ ment, proves Martin’s point. policy of Hitler-Roscnberg-Goeb- patriotic slogans, to the war-mongers. plain the purpose of Ingersoll’.« can capitalism. Doctrine at present depended ab­ He declares that in their ef­ bcls-Ribbentrop and Co., is too Trcsca offered to go before solutely on the amount of force That’s the crime of William Green. That’s the crime visit, which was obviously in or­ In a prepared statement Ad­ fort to plunge the U.S.A. into adventuristic and calculated to the Grand Jury now investigating employed against the Monroe of all the other labor bureaucrats who, like the Lewis der to coordinate possible Anglo- miral Leahy told the Committee war against Japan the Stalinists precipitate prematurely a con­ the Rubens passport mystery and D octrine. machine at the United Mine Workers convention, cheer­ American naval action in the on Monday that “the political are “working hand in hand" with flict with Britain—whose friend­ to give evidence implicating the The concentration of the hear­ ed themselves hoarse for Roosevelt at the very moment Pacific. conditions in the world at this “certain finanoial interests." ship they seek— in company with G.P.U. in the disappearance of ings upon the situation in the when he was launching an unprecedented armaments moment both in Europe and the Right again. Regardless of so dubious an ally as Italy. Miss Poyntz. Pacific revealed that Japan was C a pita l Ship Race Far East are far more threaten­ program. whether an explicit agreement Von Blomberg's plebeian mar­ considered to be the main enemy Linked To Rubens in g than at any tim e since 1918 exists, there can be no doubt in riage was of course only a pre­ 1. Concurrently with Great in the coming war. On Thursday Forward To The Class War and no improvement was in sight. the essence of the matter that text for the precipitation of the Britain and France, the United He also 'indicated that a con­ Leahy testified that President The major conflict in progress Stalin’s henchmen in this country dispute that has been smoulder­ States government on February nection might be established bet­ Roosevelt contemplated a navy No confidence in Roosevelt or the government! Con­ in China has resulted in many are serving the interests of the ing for some time. Hitler’s solu­ G presented to Japan a virtual ween the Poyntz disappearance adequate to protect the nation fidence only in the solidarity and solidity and militancy grave incidents involving the so­ financial oligarchs of Wall Street tion is merely a temporary ultimatum on the subject of and the Rubens case, which only on one ocean, the Pacific. of labor’s own ranks! That’s the requirement of the vereign rights of the United by their social-patriotic bally­ makeshift, reflecting the uncer­ super-dreadnought building above seems about to flower into a He said that with the fleet con­ hour. If labor relies on itself to defend its own inter­ States and other third powers. hoo. tainty of the imperialist alliances 35,000 tons as the prelude to an first class "spy" plot, seeking to centrated in the Pacific! a,s at ests, it will save itself otherwise inevitable surprises, The civil war in Spain continues in Europe. The establishment of undisguised race for naval sup- involve American Trotskyists ' the present time no nation could unabated and the threat of a disappointments, betrayals. Aid Freely Given _ (Continued on page 4) (Continued on page 4) invade the United States on the (Continued on page 2) 1 general European conflict is ever Not an iota of support to the armaments progiam Pacific shore. He thought it ne­ The American imperialists need ! present. " for war! We have a war of our own to fight: the war cessary for the Navy Department against poverty, suffering and exploitation That war Stalinist cover for their war plans. Stalinist aid to whip up Just a Police Patrol to have a force at its disposal can be won only if it is fought against the capitalist war hysteria, Stalinist aid for Murdered Victim of G.P.U. Reveals equal to the combined strength The Admiral regarded the navy class and its chief executive in Washington. war recruiting, and—when war of the German, Japanese, and as a police patrol for the entire Roosevelt mav “ feel” that a “ billion dollars are ne­ breaks—Stalinist aid in leading Italian fleets because “these Inner Life of Stalin’s Secret Police western hemisphere. "At our cessary to protect” American investments and imperi­ the lynch-mobs against the re­ nations are in some sort of doors nothing stands in the way volutionists. They get it freely agreement. ” alist interests abroad. of possible exploitation or seizure But every worker KNOWS that the billion dollars and voluntarily, because it is in The following revealing pen There was no one to intercede Gases o f this sort are not an of the Republics of Central or Denies English Alliance are necessary to protect the millions of unemployed line with Kremlin policy in this picture of the inner situation of in their behalf and so there was exception but, rather, the rule. A., South America except the Mon­ country. the G.P.U., Stalin’s counter­ no need for any ceremony in Admiral Leahy persistently right here from the unspeakable misery they suttei. a woman conductor in Kharkov, roe Doctrine, backed by such revolutionary secret police, has dealing with them. They were denied that there was an under­ A billion dollars for war armaments? Martin is not correct in saying was removed from her job. naval forces as the United States been supplied by Comrade Ignace all, as a rule, accused of espion­ standing between the United A billion times: NO! , that “ the Communists are Fasc­ Reason ? It appears that her may have and the use o f th a t Reiss, himself a former G.P.U. age. _ Very quickly followed the States and Great Britain on Let us demand that the billion be shifted out of the ists in every sense of the word." former husband had signed ten force if the necessity should agent, who was slain by Staljris arrest of Russians who had mar­ naval policy or plans involving war column in the budget and into the column tor un­ True, Stalin has in his dictator­ years ago some sort of opposi­ arise." He asserted that the navy orders on September 4. 1937 near ried foreigners, i.e., female jo in t action in case o f w ar. He ial rule borrowed freely from the tional statement. None of her m ust be “ m aintained at. a employment relief! ______Lausanne, Switzerland, after he “ spies.” said that the recent visit of three arsenal of fascist methods. Hitler friends interceded in her behalf strength which will prevent a se­ had denounced his murderous em­ U.S. cruisers to the British na­ and Mussolini, on the other hand, —to do so was to suffer the same rious challenge by any nation ployers and declared his adher­ They Just Disappear val base at Singapore on his or­ have supplemented their armory fate. or nations to any of America’s ence to the Fourth International. ders was merely “a friendly visit ‘Little Men’ Fume and Bluster of repression with methods copi­ Foreign communists disap­ G. was removed from his post vital national policies." He spe­ — E d ito r. to a friendly port.” He denied ed from Stalin. Nevertheless, the peared in batches, new ones in the G.P.U., allegedly for cifically referred to "the recently I hat the naval race before the aims of the “ Communists" and By IGNACE REISS daily. Two old Polish Commun­ “gossiping”. As a matter of fact concluded German-Italian-Japan­ As F.D.R. Provides Steam Valve outbreak of the last war was a the fascists are different, even Am ong the fir s t to be clapped ists happen to meet on the street: G. had been intimate with B. who ese anti-Communist protocol" and factor in starting that war. He though they pursue those aims in jail—accused of “Trotskyism” “You’re not in jail yet?" "And was arrested shortly before. G.’s the breakdown of all limitations sions of “ resolutions" issuing out agreed with Chairman Vinson’s To the tune of shouts, whines, by more or less identical methods. —was the head of the spets de­ you?” Or, another meeting: superior had told him: “I know on naval construction as reasons of their mass meeting. Responsiblity for the current assertion that “a prepared na­ and general tilvmoil, the confer­ partment, Molchanov. After his “ You’re still in Moscow! I thought you meet B. in the corridors. Cut for an immediate increase in This Conference was a most tion is in a much better position identification of Communism arrest came the arrest of a dozen you were arrested long ago!" it out.” At the time, B. was only American naval power. ence of a thousand Little Busi­ instructive contrast to the var­ to maintain peace than an un­ with Fascism rests exclusively at of his collaborators and this Among those placed under ar­ a prospective candidate for jail. ness Men" last week provided ious Conferences of the big busi­ After pointing out that the prepared nation." No one bother­ the door of the Stalin regime constituted the first blow against rest, in pursuance of the line of ness men which had preceded it. After B.'s arrest, G. was first navy was the first line of nation­ ed to point out that "a prepar­ Washington with its most disor­ and its lickspittle agents who Yagoda. Then, one arre st fo l­ liquidating the old cadres, was The meetings of the latter, the removed from his post and short­ al defense, he stated that "in ed nation’ was also in a better derly show of the current season. defend and extol Stalin’s totali­ lowed another. an old Chekist, B. In search for real rulers of American capital­ defending our territory in war, position to wage war. tarian barbarism. some pretext, they seized upon ly thereafter himself .arrested. For two days, these bathrobe The blow was first of all aim­ we cannot assume an attitude Leahy’s testimony was riddled ism, were models of order and “ There is a hue and cry about a denunciation in his case: In manufacturers, country editors, ed at G.P.U. functionaries of A “Spy” Arrested of passive defense. Prompt and with such contradictions. After decorum. There were no yells or Nazism and fascism," Martin told 1927, in reply to some denigra­ photo supply dealers, salesmen foreign birth. Reprisals against effective injury to an enemy at having pointed out that the in­ his press interviewers, "hut if ting remark about Trotsky made Among those arrested was K.. and hardware store owners, rioting. The suave spokesmen them were only part and parcel a distance from our shores, is the ternational war danger and the any one mentions Stalinism they by an assistant of his, B. had wrangled, shouted at each othei, gave their dignified generalities of general reprisals against for­ an old-timer in the G.P.U., of only correct strategy to be em­ naval strength of other nations shook their puny lists, and strug­ are immediately accused of ‘red­ said, “Don’t you... dare mention to the press in the most gracious eign communists who had migrat­ foreign extraction, who knew ployed" in case of anticipated or were the prime factors in pro­ baiting.’ We take the position Trotsky’s name in my presence!" gled hundreds at a time to get ed to the U .S .S .R . E specially actual attack. This declaration posing the huge new naval pro­ manner. that a political label does not Nothing was made of it at the several languages and worked in the floor. On the third day, a desperate was the situation of that the best means of defense gram, he refused to admit that ■immunize any group from critic­ time. But now, ten years later, the foreign department. Like delegation presented to the Pre­ The Little Business Men, alas, those who had Fascist rule in was an offensive attack nullified the new program would have any is m .” he was reminded of his hot­ the rest, he was accused o f “ es- sident a list of twenty-three their native countries: Germans, Admiral Leahy’s steadfast de­ considerable effect upon the rest (Continued on page 4) (Continued on page 4) “ demands"—politely worded ver- Poles, H ungarians and so on. headed action. (Continued on page 3) nials in the subsequent question­ (Continued on page 3) Crucible Strikers Win Curran Gets N.M.U. UMW Convention Party Resolutions Despite Hague Threats To V o te S.U.P. War Bans Communists S ------N E W Y O R K . — Some 2.000 TRADE UNION MOVEMENT and the S.W.P. Majority of Points Won tation aided the strikers im­ members of the National Ma­ mensely. ritime Union, meeting here 's ------After Week’s Strike; Already, in other steel plants, February 1, heard the Sailors From Membership Kaempf Cheered organizing is proceeding more Union of the Pacific charged The following is the second installment of the re­ enemy of all revolutionary and truly progressive forces' in the rapidly. Five union men were with discriminating against Vote Aids Bureaucrats j solution on the trade union question adopted by unions. Hence, their chief slogan: "Drive the Trotskyists out of JERSEY CITY, N. J.—Orga­ reinstated in one big steel plant. East Coast men and demand­ the labor movement," which means, drive out of the labor move­ Jersey C ity w ill be organized the convention of the Socialist Workers Party. nized Labor gained its biggest ed a statement from the S. To Act Against ment all those who stand for the class struggle, who oppose if the C .I.O . follows the policies victory against the anti-union U.P. regarding its stand in Real Militants imperialist war, and the reactionary bureaucracy which is al­ which the steel workers used -in policies of "I am the Law" Frank :he matter. The militant vanguard must constantly stress the fact that ready part of the capitalist government machine today and the the Crucible strike. Hague, boss of Jersey City, when Professing opposition to the Stormy re-affirmation of an neither industrial unionism nor unity, by themselves, solve the war machine tomorrow. the Crucible Steel strikers won "civil war" resolution defeat­ old resolution barring Commun­ problems of the working class and its struggle. In its way, The idea that the Communist Party represents a progressive the majority of their demands ed by militants the previous ist Party members from the each is a step forward for labor which facilitates its further factor in the trade union movement is based upon outworn me­ after one week’s shut-down of ‘Victory’ Faked week, Joe Curran, N.M .U. ranks of the United Mine Work­ progress. Unification is always desirable because it enables labor mories of the past. The C.P. today is a reactionary force in the plant. organizer, presented a more ers was given by Lewis’ union to present a move solid and effective front. Industrial unionism the labor movement and must be dealt with as such. It is a per­ Picket lines were maintained "moderate" proposal differ­ last week at the closing session aids in the development of rank-and-file democratic control and nicious influence which the vanguard elements and militants throughout the strike, although By Office Union ing in no essential from the of its convention in Washington. in m ilitant mass action, and promotes the best functioning of the in general must fight tooth and nail to eliminate from the work­ Hague has often threatened defeated measure. A Communist Party spokes­ organized workers in the modern big machine industries. ing class movement. “drastic action" against any C. If within ten days the S.U. man, taking the floor with a plea Leaders Try To Conceal But unless the industrial unions, or the union movement in I. 0. union which organized in P. does not issue a public sta­ for "tolerance,-" was shouted Defeat To Protect general, function as class struggle organizations, they present his bailiwick, tement acceptable to N .M .U . down with cries of "thrm. him Small Likelihood Of Blocs With C. P. to the working class no decisive and lasting advantages. Class Prestige leaders, the N. Y. district o u t.” Leader Gets Cheers collaboration under whatever form or structure finally yields Blocs with the Communist Party in the trade unions are, committee will have power to as a rule, entirely inconceivable for the revolutionary Marxists, NEW, YORK CITY. -- How Resolulion All-Inclusive only defeat for the working class. The correct basis for the An enthusiastic mass meeting take the following contemp­ strike “victories" are faked in and are permissible only under the most extraordinary and ex­ of the strikers voted to approve lated steps: (1) Pull West Unlike Homer Martin’s attack union movement can only be found in the theory and practise Stalinist-controlled Unions in or­ ceptional circumstances, and provided only that the utmost th e term s o f the agreem ent as Coast men off East Coast upon the Stalinists, which center­ of the class struggle, in the widest inner-union democracy, in der to maintain the prestige of vigilance is maintained towards them and the most rigid political outlined by the negotiation com­ ships unless they take out ed upon the C .P .’s pro -w a r po­ rank-and-file control, and in a leadership and policies based upon the leadership at all costs was independence is insisted upon. Ninety-nine times out of a hundred, mittee. Cheers for Ed Kaempf, N. M. U. books; (2) deny licy and specifically stated that the class struggle and workers’ democracy. brought out by the Progressive collaboration with the C.P. forces will prove permissible only S.W .O.C. organizer, who direct­ shipping rights to West Coast the fight against it did not in­ Class struggle policies and leadership, and union democracy, Group of Local 16 of the United ed the strike, showed the work­ seamen; (3) open N.M.U. volve undemocratic procedure in are at a minimum in the A. F. of L. and in the C.I.O . The bulk under exceptional circumstances where they are part of a much Office Workers Union in connec­ ers’ response to his militant halls on the West Coast. the union ranks, the U .M .W .’s more broadly organized general progressive or left wing move­ tion with the recent strike of of the leadership of both sections of the union movement have leadership. There was no organized re­ resolution was reactionary in ment of which we may also form a part. over forty office workers at the in common the fact that they both serve as the labor lieutenants The morale of the Crucible sistance to these proposals of character. In those unions which are under the control of the Stalin­ Howard Stores. In an article in of the capitalist class and are the defenders, basically, of the unionists had been low in some Curran. A barrage of words The resolution, re-adopted as ists, and in which left-wing minority work is particularly dif­ the Ledger, official organ of the capitalist system. All the difference between the two movements departments when the strike be­ from the speakers’ platform, an article of the constitution, ficult, it is the special duty of the revolutionists to remain Union, the claim is made of a notwithstanding, this common fundamental feature of the leader­ gan. The workers today are the charging progressive non- groups the Industrial Workers "victory” in Howard’s and the ships can be ignored only at the greatest peril to the proper doggedly at their task, to avoid and fight against expulsion, most spirited in the state. Every Stalinist West Coast unions of the World, the Working Class granting of Union recognition. orientation of the militant vanguard. The A.F. of L. bureau­ and not to leave the rank-and-file under the uncontested leader­ one of them understands the with wrecking national unity Union, the One Big Union, with ship of the C.P. cliques. A c tu a lly tw enty-one of the 42 of the maritime workers, cracy is the classic representative of class collaboration policies great chances they had taken the Communist Party, the Na­ The Thomas-Tyler-Altman Socialist Party cannot be counted when a strike was called in workers involved lost their jobs, caused the militants to weak­ tional Chamber of Commerce, and in the labor movement, with its theory of the "harmony of as a decisive progressive force in the trade unions. The S.P. Hague’s anti-labor territory. and only four out of the 42 work­ en, and only a few scattered the Ku K lu x K la n, m aking no interests" of employer and employee, and the acceptance of ca­ is a right-wing propaganda sect without direct influence of its Visions of police brutality, ers are now members of the "noes" greeted the revised distinction between sincere work­ pitalism implied in the slogan of- a "fair day’s pay for a fair own in the labor movement. Wherever individual members of mass arrests and other means of Union. The rest are completely "c-ivil war" resolution. ing class groups and capitalist clay’s work". The same bureaucracy has, consequently, not re­ that party occupy official or leading posts, they were gained, terrorism stood before the work­ demoralized by the Stalinist sell­ O/ganizations, or between the coiled from the most arbitrary and repressive measures against out. The facts are as follows: ers throughout the strike. They C.P. as a pro-capitalist party every militant and revolutionary minority that has threatened as a rule, not by the advancement of a m ilitant socialist position, but as a result of adaptation to the policies and rule of the con­ watched each, move of the police Strike Voted and the outright organizations its rule and its policies. with apprehension. Militant Policy of American capitalism. servative union bureaucracy. This has, in fact, been the tradi­ After weeks of futile negotia­ C. I. O. Leadership Also Reactionary tional method of "rooting themselves in the unions" pursued by Police Cautious tions between the Union and the No Political Motives the S.P. reformists. Howard Stores, a strike was Need In St. Louis Fundamentally, the role of the C.I.O . leadership has been But nation-wide publicity forc­ Thus, in line with Lewis’ tra­ Even over these officials, the S.P. has no control, nor does voted by the forty-two office no loss reactionary. It has performed the function of steering ed the police to be cagey. The ditional policy within his own it seek to exercise any. Party discipline is employed only against workers involved. After picket­ fact that the workers were all Progressives In Ford union, the resolution can, and in the spontaneous and independent class action of the workers those few rank-and-file militants who do seek to conduct a m ili­ ing a day and half, the strikers Jersey City residents and that Strike Urge New a ll likelihood w ill, be used as an organized under its banner back onto the road of class collabora­ tant struggle against class collaborationism and bureaucratic were informed by the manager the company has an odious repu- excuse to bar genuine militants tion, of employer-employee “harmony,” of reliance upon the leadership in the unions. However, because of the number of of the Howard Stores that the Fisrhtine: Tactics and revolutionists rather than Roosevelt, i.e., the capitalist government, its institutions and its rank-and-file S. P. members who are ready to go part of the strike had been called off. Be­ servile ¡stalinists from the U.M . "impartial mediation." The failure of the "Little Steel" strike lieving this to be a trick, the ST. LOUIS, Mo.—The United distance in a consistent struggle for left-wing policies, it is W. only emphasized the ruinous results of this course. The most Program Mapped At strikers got in touch with Union Automobile Workers strike, a- permissible and necessary for the revolutionists to form blocs No attempt was made at. the elementary requirements of strike organization were ignored. headquarters and were informed gainst Henry Ford at the local with them -in specific instances and for specific ends. convention to pursue Martin’s No real strike committees or mass picket lines were organized. that as a result of a conference here continues unabated alto- W ith insignificant changes, what has been said about the S.P. N.Y.C. Convention three months, despite increased policy of exposing the Stalinists The workers were not given to understand that the strike was between Lewis Merrill, in­ on the ground of their war­ applies to the Lovestone group. The positions occupied by some piice terror against the work­ to be a real and vigorous class action and that victory depended ternational president of the Of­ mongering and support of the of its members in the trade unions have been acquired or main­ Two-Day Session Opens ers, and the cooperation of the upon their own might, their own militancy, their own organi­ fice Workers Union, and the Roosevelt re-armament program, tained, generally speaking, by the surrender of working-class capitalist press with Ford’s anti- zation. New Phase of Work manager of Howard’s, the strike as well as their dictatorial rule or principles and adaptation to the conservative bureaucracy and had been called off, and that all tnuon plar.s. Aided and abetted by the Stalinists who follow their line, For Party ruin policy in the union move­ its policies. Examples of this are to be found in the International workers were to go back to work The strike was forced on the Lewis and Murray repressed the militant forces in favor of ment. Ladies Garment Workers Union, the Shoe Workers Union, and Monday morning. union by a lockout which the an appeal to and dependence on official action by the president NEW YORK/—The first New management pulled in an effort the Auto Workers Union. As with the S.P. blocs are per­ On Monday, the strikers re­ Weak-Kneed Defense and the governors involved. The idea that Roosevelt, and not York City convention of the So­ to break the union. For seven missible under certain conditions with the Lovestone group. ported back to work. Instead of the workers, would win the victory for the union, proved fatal, cialist Workers Party met on months prior to September 15 the Stalinist. union bureaucrats To the extent that the Lovestoneites also come into conflict all of them being taken back as was to be expected. Class collaboration was carried to the February 5-fi and made plans union had certain collective bar­ immediately took a defensive at­ with the Stalinists and their murderous Red-baiting drive against only twelve out of the forty-two for the coming six months. In gaining privileges with the local titude, either arguing that the limit of welcoming the Ohio National Guard in Youngstown. all militants, the Lovestoneites will be compelled to seek a com­ were rehired. The rest were out. addition to adopting proposals m anagement. O f n e a rly 1,000 U.M.W. has a right to make The leaders and their subordinates poisoned the minds of the mon front at least on such elementary questions as the rights Upon reporting this back to the for each department of work, employes, ninety per cent were whatever decisions it desires or workers with assurances that the governor had sent the Guard Union, they received no instruc­ of minorities in the unions. Actuated though they are. by the the convention decided to launch in the union. refusing to comment at all. to keep the plants closed, and thereby help the workers defeat tions to resume picketing. Not interest of self-defcn.se and self-preservation, temporary blocs a campaign against Roosevelt’s Clarence Hathaway issued a the employers. only that but the Union permit­ with clearly limited aims are quite conceivable between the re­ war preparations, linked to a Ford Police Take Over tfttement for the C.P. in which The bureaucratic management of the new C.I.O. unions ted the twelve rehired to remain volutionary Marxists and the Lovestoneites. drive for party membership and he assured his followers that at work. That evening the strik­ After the seasonal shut-down, is notorious. The Lewis-Hillman-Murray clique, aware of the the increased sale of the Socialist “this is not the beginning of a ers were told that beginning the re-employment of the men was danger to their leadership and policies represented by the mass I. W. W. Now Only A Reactionary Sect Appeal. There were 31 delegates drive against the Communists... next day picketing would again taken out of the hands of local unionization of the aggressive unskilled workers in the large- representing 13 branches. in the miners' union there are From the standpoint both of its membership and its sym­ be resumed by the U nion. management and placed in charge scale industries, sought to paralyze rank-and-file control in ad­ The convention revealed that large numbers of Communist:»-, pathizers, the l.W .W . plays only a limited role 'in the labor On Tuesday morning when the of Ford’s private police service vance by establishing a bureaucratic guardianship over all the in the past period, one of reor­ lo y a lly w o rkin g to build the un-ion directed by Ilarry Bennett. A unions they organized. Neither the leadership nor the policies movement today. As an organization, it is a reactionary sect, strikers reported to the Union and to carry out its policies." ganisation and national and local flagrant policy of discrimination dominated by a narrow-minded anarchist clique imbued with a office they were informed that Despite these bland reas­ were voted by the union membership. No regular organization pre-convention discussions, insuf­ against active unionists was in­ deep hatred of the Marxists and the Russian Revolution, and inasmuch as a conference bet­ surances, however, there arc has been set up in most cases. Officials are appointed in the ficient attention had been given stitu te d . animated by the narrowest factional interests. On the other ween the Union and the employ­ many indications that C. P. worst traditions of the United Mine Workers of America. to popular mass propaganda, dis­ Ford’s strategy was to force hand, as a general movement, in the sense of those former mem­ er was scheduled for that day leaders expect and are fearful of tribution of the Socialist Appeal, an isolated strike and then whip no picketing was necessary. A a concerted drive against them in Bureaucrats Appointed By Themselves bers of the l.W .W . who are still influenced by its ideology, and in general, that the city com­ the United Automobile workers stormy meeting of all the work­ the C.I.O. Such a drive may it has a distinct importance 'in certain fields, notably in the mari­ mittee and the organization had I piecemeal. Yet the auto workers The C.I.O . itself is a self-appointed committee of leaders ers of the Howard Stores was well be reactionary in character time industry. Most of these elements have splendid traditions not shown immediate responsive­ had no other choice but to go on wliich has never been ratified by the rank-and-file. The inability held that evening. The workers unless m ilita n ts see to -it th a t its behind them and are permeated by an irreconcilable spirit of ness to issues as they arose. ¡strike against the discrimination of the latter to determine their leadership or decide upon the were militant, demanding strike content is straightforward and class struggle and militancy. In the maritime industry, the | or to allow the union to be broken policies of the various "Organizing Committees” has already Better Union Work action and a fight to the finish political, instead of purely orga­ building of a broad progressive and m ilitant movement requires without a struggle. A strike was produced a bad reaction in the organizations, manifesting itself until all the workers were taken nizational. a sincere cooperation with the best elements among the syndical­ Marked improvement was re­ back. called. in a decline of interest, falling into indifference, reduced at­ ist-minded workers. corded in trade union work. In Escorting scabs into the plants tendance at meetings etc. The C.I.O. can be restored to its several unions the Stalinist cam­ Try To Discourage became the chief occupation of At the same time we must conduct a persistent and stubborn full strength and effectiveness, and put In a position to exploit paign to drive the militants out the city police. Besides, workers Link Poyntz To though patient and comradely—struggle to break down the anti­ The administration did every­ all the possibilities of growth before it, only in a relentless strug­ of the movement was met with i were continually arrested, picket political, anti-Marxist prejudices inculcated into these militants thing to discourage the workers, gle against the poison of class collaborationism and bureaucrat­ effective, resistance and counter­ lines broken, strikers framed on pointing out the difficulties of and fostered by the corrupt parliamentarism and reformism of false charges, and every con­ ‘Robinson’ Case ism, and against the leadership that represents them. attack. A number of trade union­ picketing in cold weather, that the Social-Democracy and by the bureaucratism, deceit, fakery ists were won to the party dur­ ceivable anti-union activity fom­ If neither industrial unionism, nor unity, as such, are a the Union could not finance the and treachery to principles of the Stalinists. ented. (Continued front page 1) lotion of the problem, they are nevertheless steps in that direc­ ing this period. The report show­ strike, that a continuance of the The only consistent revolutionary and progressive force in tion. The problem itself may be summed up as follows: the ed that about two-thirds of the strike would lead to demoraliza­ the trade union movement is represented by our party, the party Strikers Firm triumph of a militant leadership in the unions, basing itself on party are members of trade tion, etc. In spite of this, how­ with Japan’s espionage system of the revolutionary class struggle. It can begin to accomplish unions. ever, on a motion as to how- All the false stories in the in this country. Tresca was class struggle policies, union democracy, and rank-and-file control. its tasks only by understanding its present relationship to them. In the Workers’ Alliance, the many would picket, thirty out of press, and the strike-breaking promptly subpoenaed. Of all the labor political groups in the trade unions today, The party is woefully weak in general, and especially weak in Stalinist campaign had created forty present raised their hands. activities of the police, however, Tresca declared that Poyntz which is indicated to promote a solution of this key problem? the trade unions. Its influence and leadership is either local, a large progressive opposition to have not succeeded in breaking was "lured or kidnapped" to the The Communist Party was once the organizer of the pro­ Before a vote was taken, the episodic, or accidental. Very little systematic trade union work People’s Frontism and expulsion the morale of the strikers. A Soviet Union because “ she knew organizer read the names of the gressive and left wing movement in the trade unions. It has is done, and what is done is not properly organized or centralized. of militants. In view of increas­ twenty-one of the forty-two boycott against Ford is succeed­ too much." He sa-id he knew the completely abandoned this role today. In the period of its reac­ Our press only. casually reflects the American class struggle. ed lay-offs caused by the eco­ whom Howard was willing to re­ ing. O nly 75 cars a day are being man who he believed was respon­ tionary degeneration, it has been reduced to the position of an News of the trade union movement, its struggles and internal nomic recession, the workers are em ploy. The rest w ould be put made in the plant. sible for spiriting the woman j agency in the American trade unions, representing the interests being pitted against the LaGuar- Dependence on government leader out of the country after j life, are accidental in its columns, dependent largely upon chance in a preferential list and rehired and responding exclusively to (he commands of the anti-Soviet d'ia and Roosevelt administra­ as soon as vacancies occurred. agencies has been one of the she had broken with the Stalin­ contributions of isolated comrades. bureaucracy of the Kremlin. tions—much to the embarrass­ This last move broke the spirit chief weaknesses in strike strate­ is t p a rty. ment of the Communist Party. of the strikers and the motion gy. Main emphasis has been plac­ Complete Reorientation Is Demanded ed on National Labor Relations ‘Forward’ Names Him Stalinists Are Servile Flunkeys The convention recognized work to call off the strike carried. A compete reorientation of our party, from the membership among the jobless as a major board hearings which drag out (The Jewish Daily Forward Throughout the trade unions, but above all 'in the C .I.O ., the up to the leadership and back agaiii, is absolutely imperative task in the comjng period and Strike Is Over interminably. Even then Ford said on February 8 that the man Stalinists arc the most servile and venomous assistants of the and unpostponable. No less drastic a reorientation is required adopted measures for the max­ can ignore the findings, and a The strike was over, and half referred to was Schachno Ep­ reactionary bureaucracy. They outshout the most vehement in of our weekly press. The attention of the party must be focused imum utilization of the situation. the workers were out of jobs. policy of militancy must soon be stein, former editor of the New their advocacy of class collaboration, of reliance on the Roosevelt adopted if the strike is not to be primarily upon the American labor movement. The energies of Those remaining on the job were York Stalinist Jewish paper, the regime, of subservience to the union officialdom. At the same Education Stressed lost through stalling around. the party must be devoted mainly to rooting itself in the trade completely terrorized. Since then Freiheit, who was long suspect­ time, it must be emphasized that they nevertheless have a dif­ A policy of rallying all work­ unions, becoming an inseparable part of the trade unions and Plans were also adopted for the three additional have been fired, ed o f being a G .P .U . agent.) j ferent basis than that of the C.I-.O. or A .F. of L. bureaucracy. ers to support the strike by hav­ their struggles. The bulk of the party’s work must be directed extension of educational work, while 17 new workers were hired Elias Lieberman, at one time ‘ ing an -independent strike bulletin The latter, though they act as the labor lieutenants of the (o this vital field of the class struggle. Unless this slogan is including frequent publication of by Howard from various agen­ attorney for Miss Poyntz, came ■is being- urged by progressive j bourgeoisies, and base themselves on bourgeois democracy whose translated speedily into life, the party is doomed to vegetate as popular leaflets and pamphlets, cies. forward with an attempted de­ unionists. The progressives are left, reformist'wing they constitute, cannot preserve their own an impotent sect which will be washed away by the waves of a drive for enrollment in the For four weeks following the nial, but admitted that some- pointing ..put that the fault of power as a bureaucracy without, to one extent or another, pre­ Marxist School, concentration on strike nothing was done by the the first serious social crisis. the union leadership has been to [ months ago there had been sus­ serving its source and foundation, namely the trade unions. several local open forums, Union. The strikers were left to The party membership must be rooted deeply in the trade place the confidence of the work­ picious pointing to the man Tre­ Their policies, in the long run, do, it is true, help destroy the monthly open branch discussion shift for themselves. Only when unions. The first demand for activity that the party must make ers in the labor board rather than meetings and the organization sca had in mind. Since Tresca very trade unions upon which they rest; but in doing so, as on every member is that he join the union in which he is eligible the news leaked out, and the in their own action on the picket of local classes in elementary had mentioned no names, L-ieber- shown( by the German, Italian and Austrian experiences, they for membership. The sweep of unionism, covering virtually every Progressives got hold of the line. socialism . man's statement caused some arc themselves destroyed. craft, trade and industry, insures the possibility of virtually facts did the administration be­ Also, unless the Ford strike The brightest part of the con­ The Stalinist bureaucracy, even in the trade unions, is, is won here, it will be more dif­ astonishment. Lieberman himself every worker becoming a unionist today. It should be borne in vention was the report of the gin to take action and discuss however, primarily an instrument of the counter-revolutionary ficult to organize the main Ford named no names nor did he dis­ mind that if our party is to be a genuinely proletarian party, Young Peoples Socialist League. the advisability of taking the Stalin bureaucracy in Russia, and serves its interests first of plants in Detroit. A victory here close what action, if any, had both in its composition and its ideology, it must be composed, Enthl/siasm and spirit has mark­ all. The preservation and advancement of the interests of the case before the State Labor Re­ would inspire the Ford Workers in its decisive majority, of proletarians and trade unionists. ed the w o rk o f the Y P SL. Con­ been taken by him in the matter. trade unions, and the working class in general, are entirely lations Board. everywhere . Above all, it should be borne in mind that if the party is to certed activity, including an ef­ secondary considerations, subordinated to their main function. Asks Defense Action survive the coming war, with its certain persecution and hound­ fective anti-war campaign, has For them, the trade unions are primarily institutions to he con­ ing of the revolutionary movement, if the party is to fulfill its resulted in substantial increase In his statement, Tresca said verted into instruments for the People’s Front, for the successful great tasks during the war, if it is not to be dispersed and its ijti. ; membership, particularly THE NEW INTERNATIONAL it was high time for all Ameri­ propagation of the war of the "democratic” imperialists against among high school students and efforts rendered nugatory—the party membership must be solidly can radicals who oppose the Sta­ the "reactionary” imperialists in defense of the Stalin regime. Stalinist youth. Steps were taken Monthly Marxist Magazine and inseparably connected with the organized working class. The. most consistent class collaborationists and social-patriots to insure greater co-operation lin regime to' take "some mea­ There is no better way of accomplishing this connection than between the party and youth or­ — — SUBSCRIBE NOW!------sure of defense against the ter­ in the working class, and in the trade union movement, are the by every member becoming an active, responsible and influential ganization. rorism of the Soviet G.P.U.” Stalinists. Hence, they are the most, violent and bureaucratic trade unionist. Defends Property Reiss Describes Inner Expulsions from A .F.L. FUR WORKERS SOVIET UNION NOTES Life of Stalin’s G.P.U. Setback For Unity Drive BACK VERDICT Purge Reflects Economic Crisis — Coal Piles (Continued from page 1) cording to the reports of Stas- Up At Mines — Tractor Failures hevsky’s friends, neither he nor Reactionary Move By Executive Council Widens ON FEDERMAN Slow Down Harvest pionage”. When his chief, an his daughter ever reached their Chasm in Labor Movement; Campaign For By JOHN G. WRIGHT intimate friend of his, who knew Moscow apartment. Apparently Unity Must Be Intensified very well this was a lie, was they were seized at the border. Stalinists Try To Break New Crisis in Soviet Economy asked how he had failed to notice Stashevsky, incidentally, was Up Meeting Held to considered a 100 per cent S ta lin ­ th a t S. was a spy, he rep lie d: BY B. J. WIDICK tlu* council indicates that open There is a clear connection between the current reign of terror ist. He was given an interview Hail Findings A spy does not impart his sec­ w a rfa re on too wide a front, is and the economic difficulties in which Stalin’s regime of self- by Stalin “himself” and received A damaging blow to the cause rets. An important G.P.U. func­ not yet the plan of the A.F. of proclaimed "victorious socialism” finds itself at the beginning tionary, Sh., was arrested, and, personal instructions from him of unity in the labor movement L. leaders. of the Third Five Year Plan. Thousands of technicians, engineers prior to his departure for Spain. was dealt this week by the re­ TORONTO, Canada,—Gather­ of course, charged with espion­ The revocation of the Mine, In 1935, he demonstrated his actionary executive council of the ing at a joint meeting of Locals and plant administrators are being made scapegoats for failings age. Ilis wife was immediately Mill and Smelter Workers Union loyalty by betraying Sirtsov, A .F. of L. when it expelled the 40 and 100 of the Furriers Inter­ which are inherent in the Stalinist management and operation thrown out of their apartment. charter was part of the plan to who had been rash enough to United Mine Workers of Ame­ national Union, an overwhelming of Soviet industries. •Sh. was a typical G .P .U .’er, in "isolate" the miners, since this make some critical comments on rica, backbone of the C.I.O., majority of the furriers in this Soviet railways, long a weak spot in industrial life, are again the worst sense of the term. international is closely tied up Stalin’s "activity" around the city gave enthusiastic endorse­ in serious straits. The basic equipment of the railways, like Comrades who knew him intim­ JUAN NEGRIN from the Federation. with the Lewis-coot lolled 11. M. corpse of Kirov. President W illiam Green of the ment to the verdict of the work­ ately wore in a quandary: Why W|. A . that of the majority of vital plants, has been seriously under­ A.F. of L. implied that the re­ ers’ jury which last week acquit­ had this man been arrested? Was Woman Accused mined in the reckless drive for records. Despite vast sums pour­ it perhaps because he knew lan­ vocation of the miners’ charter, Raid Plan Seen ted Max Federman, vicc-presi- ed into transportation in recent years under the direction of L. guages? Was this perhaps held An old Polish communist, a and two other smaller C.I.O. j dent of the International and ma- M. Kaganovich, the railroads are functioning poorly. Wrecks Negrin Promises The bitter internal dispute in suspect by the authorities ? woman, R., was arrested (her unions, was a compromise bet­ ! nager of the Toronto locals, of the Flat Glass "Workers Union and accidents show no signs of decreasing. Car loadings have In the G.P.U. there worked husband had been spared from ween the civil war policy advo­ the frame-up charges brought which led to the ousting of Glen been dropping at an alarming rate, thus nullifying the recent a German. His fate had long jail only by a premature death). Stern Defense Of cated by the "diehards" and the against him by Ben Gold, Stalin­ McCabe as international presi­ "successes" in metallurgy and mining. been decided, but for one reason She was accused of having joined policy of "moderates" in the ex­ ist union president. dent, offered the A.F. of L. the In the latter industries, production has been temporarily res­ or another be had not yet been the C. P. S. U . on inslructions ecutive council. When the Stalinists became hope of "raiding” that industry. tored to the levels attained towards the end of 1935, at the be­ arrested. Apparently they were from the sub-Bureau of the Pol­ Private Property The Federation of Flat Glass 1 conscious that their frame-up McCabe turned against the C.I. ginning of Stakhanovism. For example, coal production in the waiting for some suitable trial. ish General Staff, in whose em­ workers and the Mine, Mill and was a failure they provoked phy­ 0. following his overthrow and A pure-blooded German of the ploy she had allegedly been since Frank Interview Shows Smelter workers were the other sical attacks to break up the Donbas region is averaging 225,000 tons per day (daily produc­ probably expects to capture some A ry a n type, he was a d m ira b ly 1921. Bruno Yassensky and two international unions whose m eeting. tion in December 1935—‘229,000) as against the previous levels Who Is Destroying locals for the A.F. of L. Mc­ suited for the role of a Nazi in other Poles are in jail on similar charter were revoked. of below 200,000 tons daily. But the additional coal is simply Cabe was originally suspended Stalinists Slink Away some public trial. It was indis­ charges. Inasmuch as they are Revolution piling up at the mines. Leadership Divided when charges were placed pensable to “liquidate” him, if not apprehending real spies, The Fur Workers, however, The real economic aims of the against him in regard to use of only because he was a German. they are arresting and shooting remained orderly. A small num­ Spanish Loyalist Government The action of the executive the C .I.O . union funds. Coal Stocks Pile Up at Pits Either because no suitable trial innocent people. ber of Communists, no more than were strikingly revealed last council came after two weeks of The executive council did not cropped up, or for some other Even in the G.P.U. hardly 70 or 75, left the meeting and month by President Juan Negrin indecision which reflected the vote on the appeal of the Penn­ reason, a different method was any one knows -what happens in went to the C.P. headquarters. So grave is the situ a tio n th a t Pravda on Jan ua ry 15, devoted in an interview given to the division within the top A.F. of sylvania State Federation of La­ applied in his case. He was sent the inner prison to those arrested. The hundreds of furriers remain­ to the First Session of the Supreme Council, had to allot space Radio news agency. The most L. leadership. Dan Tobin, of the bor against the Green order to to Spain, and disappeared there. A case b e tte r known than the ed, the meeting continued and to the "disgraceful condition” of the Donbas railways. Pravda significant statements, omitted Teamsters, and George Harrison, purge itself of C.I.O . affiliates. In general, it is by no means a others is that of the aged Fried­ reports that in the first ten days of January the coal stocks at from the reports in the American of the Railroad Brotherhoods, If the State Federation of Labor endorsed in full the recommenda­ rare practice to send people to man, an old Chekist whom Sta­ the mine pits "more than doubled." “ More than 000,000 tons of press, are reprinted below from were for moderation. Bill Hut­ is forced to cause a split of tions of the trial committee. Spain for the purpose of liquida­ lin, for some reason, was bent Also here, in Toronto, the Sta­ the Paris L’Oeuvre: cheson, of the Carpenters, head­ Pennsylvania labor, it means that coal piled up, and the reserve keeps increasing. Meanwhile, tin g them. on including in the Zinoviev trial. linists had their men make "con­ "Numerous owners have al­ ed the “civil war" group. the A.F. of L. leaders will in­ according to Pravda, "The North Donetz and South Donetz rail­ He was subjected to many long fessions," in order to involve Dog Gives Clue ready made peace with the Re­ The strategy of the A.F. of tensify hostilities against the C. ways fall behind, failing to load daily from 25 to 30 thousand months of torture to extort con­ public and their property has L. executive board in expelling I.O . on the political field. Max Federman. The trial com­ tons... On the North Donetz Railway only one-half of the A member of the G.P.U. fails fessions from him. Nor did they the miners’ union is obvious. It mittee condemned the .frame-up been returned to them.... The A split in the ranks of Penn­ trains start on schedule and only one-third keep to the schedule." lose hope of breaking him until witnesses, who admitted their to show up fo r w ork. W as he seizure of property is illegal. hopes to “isolate" the John L. This affects not only the work of the coal mines but of other a few days before the opening sylvania unions would seriously arrested ? Worried comrades be­ We shall do everything within Lewis-controlled section of the part in the deal, and unanimous­ of the trial. But Friedman re­ affect the political perspectives plants as well, in particular the metallurgy industry. "Tens of gin to wonder. No one, of course, our power to assure foreign pro­ C.I.O ., and cause a split in C. ly exonerated Federman. mained adamant. The story is of the Lewis machine-, which in­ thousands tons ol production remain lying in metallurgical and dares to make inquiries. There perty-holders or stock-holders the I.O. ranks. When all the provocations of that his last words were: You tends to run Thomas Kennedy, other plants of the Donbas for the same reason." (Pravda, Jan­ was still hope that X. had gone full enjoyment of their property David Dubinsky, president of the Stalinists encountered a can shoot old Friedman only secretary-treasurer of the min­ ua ry 15.) abroad, where he had done work. and the complete exercise of their the International Ladies Gar­ stone wall of opposition from once, but no one can make a er’s union, for governor. Pravda lor Jan. 24 devotes its leading article to the railways Sometime later a friend of his rights. . . The workers recognize ment Workers Union, indirectly the union, they embarked on ty­ whore out of him. crisis. Here is the opening paragraph: "The work of the rail­ receives a letter from X.’s serv­ the difficulties inherent in the played a part in determining pical gangster methods. Arming During examination, in most Green Hits League ant abroad, with an inquiry as functioning of the enterprises and this strategy by bis recent public themselves with knives and clubs, way transport has steadily worsened in the recent period. The ctases, the in v e s tig a tin g m agis­ to what she should do with X.’s arc increasingly well-disposed to attack on Lewis. Green repeated his blast of last they entered the union head­ magnificent position which the railwaymen occupied in the sum­ trates do not, apparently, talk dog\ She had written to the accept regulation.... In this fall against Labor’s Non-Parti­ quarters and brutally beat up mer of 1937 has now been lost bv them. Daily, the transport frankly with the prisoners, i.e., Hope in Dubinsky master, but received no reply. connection, we have been assured san League in a special report five union militants, supporters system fails to fulfil the plan by 1.0 to 20 per cent. The most they conduct the investigation in Thus, because a dog had been of the collaboration of the Com­ Louis Stark, of the New York to the council. He termed it a of Max Federman. This attack important freight for the life of the country—metal, oil, and accordance with orders issued left abroad, news of the arrest munists, and we shall do what Times, pointed out in his article "mere tool and mouthpiece of has evoked the strongest protests bread— -is being held up for long periods at the key stations. from above, without themselves o f the. dog’s ow ner a rrive d in is necessary to obtain that of the of February (! that the A.F. of the C .I.O ." His previous attack from all sections of the Canadian knowing the truth officially. But, The debt of the transport system to the country is growing with Moscow. Anarchists." L. was placing hope in winning was ignored in many labor cen­ labor movement. of course, they are very well every passing day." Several years ago, one of the Dubinsky away from the C.I.O ., ters but today it might mean G.P.U. functionaries detailed aw are of w h a t 'is involved. Deeds Versus Words Run To Court Continues Pravda: "The railwaymen have no objective, ex­ and having him, "carry the ball further action against the C.I. ternal reasons whatsoever for the lag." The solution for the dif­ to “work” on the street and to across the C.I.O. goal line." It 0. in the political sphere. As a further act of despera­ Scoff At Confessions These frank statements of ficulty is: "To raise the discipline among the railwaymen," in compile reports about the pre­ was this difference between Du­ These recent developments de­ tion, the Stalinists proceeded to policy, intended to appease the other words, to pile repressions upon repressions. That is the vailing moods, in making his re­ In Moscow the “confessions” binsky and Lewis that gave the lay the possibility of peace in the capitalist law court to secure port to the authorities was rash are openly scoffed at. Very exacting capitalists of Great only solution Stalin has to offer. The condition of the transport Britain and France, run directly A.F. of L. council new vigor the labor movement. In his study an injunction debarring the To­ enough to say that in re potatoes, popular are anecdotes • such as is especially grave in view of the fact that the country’s re­ counter to the oft-repeated pro­ and aided in determining the of the situation, Stark aptly ronto Furriers Union from using things were really very bad. Not the following: Alexei Tolstoy, sources are being strained to match the armament, race fo r the mise of the Government that policy of continued hostility to summed up the prospect, and per­ offices in the Labor Lyceum. The potatoes, but some sort of mud. upon being arrested and examin­ coming conflict. "the conquests of the Revolution the C .I.O . spectives by writing, "If for the union has been compelled to w ith­ Couldn’t something be done about ed, confessed th a t he Was the will be defended at all costs." Surprise was expressed in present, .ho stilitie s do not cease, draw from Ben Gold’s Interna­ it? He was clapped in jail, and, author of Hamlet, etc. In the light of Negrin’s inter­ many labor circles that of the it will not mean an end to peace tional and to apply for a charter as is sometimes the case, for­ Because of the (lumber of ar­ The Crisis in Spring; Sowing view, it is interesting to recall major C.I.O. Unions only the hopes nor an end of striving to­ in the A.F. of 1,., which has gotten. He received no packages, rests, and the enormous number the reasons given for the arrest, miner’s union was expelled. The ward renewal of peace parleys. been granted. no visits; his relatives were of cases, virtually all the func­ Despite the Stalinist boasts of a record crop last, year and of hundreds upon hundreds of Amalgamated Clothing Workers Resumption of peace negotiations The Left. Poalc Zion, of which afraid to inquire. A year and a tionaries of the G.P.U. have forecasts of even a greater crop in the coming season, it is quite Anarchist and P.O.U.M. work­ was “slated to go," too, accord­ will he made more difficult by Federm an is a m em ber, has half passed. An investigating become investigating magistrates. apparent that serious difficulties are being encountered in agricul­ ers. The papers of the latter ing to the “civil war" theory. The these hostilities, blit forces both challenged Gold and his cohorts magistrate, on finding the case For the same reasons, no pack­ groups repeatedly warned that very fact that this demand of inside and outside labor will con­ to appear before an impartial ture, especially in spring sowing. Seeds have not been prepared; among the old files, proposed in ages are permitted in jail. With the Popular Front Government, the "diehards" was not voted by tinue to work for unity in labor." workers’ tribunal charged with a the tractors are not ready; the plan is not being fulfilled. Emer­ the nucleus that he be set free. tens of thousands in prison, the acting in the interests of British thorough investigation of the en­ gency measures are being resorted to. "Volunteer" brigades (At that time minor cases con­ sending of packages is allegedly imperialism, had as its chief duty tire affair. This challenge has are being recruited to go into the country and repair the tractors. cerning- members could still he impossible “in practice”. On the the crushing of the Spanish re­ so fa r been ignored. The entire Komsomol (Young Communist League) has been mob­ brought up in the nuclei.) No same grounds, many are shot: volution. Leahy Testimony Reformists Win Taking issue with the Stalin­ decision was reached on the There is no room in the prisons. ilized -to fulfill the plan in repairing tractors and "prepare the ist union wreckers, the Toronto questkm. The authorities kept Political prisoners are now The Government and the sowing campaign." Furriers Union has put out a dragging the case, but no one usually sent into exile together Stalinist circles, when they ini­ In Jersey W. A. A. On January 18 Eikhe, the new Commissar for Agriculture, Bares War Plans public statement in which it de­ doubted that the arrested man with ordinary criminals, and, in tiated the mass arrest of revo­ delivered a report on the “Plan for 1938 in Agriculture" at a clares: "For many years the would be freed either this day addition, the criminals are ex­ lutionists, charged these groups plenary session of the Central Committee of the C.P.S.U. He with “consciously playing the Furriers Union of Toronto has or the next. Presently, some tended the “right” of stripping (Continued from page 1) Progressive Forces Co painted a dismal picture of the conditions in agriculture. His game of the fascists in attempt­ been regarded as one of the one again reminded himself of the political prisoners bare. It of the world. "You realize," .lie report might as well have been entitled "the work of wreckers ing to create an atmosphere of Down to Defeat At strongest and most progressive the case, and this time the auth­ is hardly surprising if in these was challenged by Representative in the agricultural organs.” “ Wreckers" are to blame for every­ discontent within anti - fascist Trenton Meet unions in Canada. Under the orities finally decided: To be shot conditions many exiles never Brewster of Maine, "what we are Spain and its French and British capable leadership of Max Fe­ thing. In the meantime, according to Eikhe, the plan for re­ in 24 hours. reach their place of exile, but asked to do is of major impor­ allies." (Las Noticias, Stalinist derman, the union has carried on pairing tractors has been fulfilled only 30 per cent. Gasoline perish on the way. tance to the whole world." To Avoid Fus= organ of the U.G .T.) TRENTON, N. .1. — The re­ m ilitant and exemplary struggles supplies are lacking, seed has not been prepared. (Pravda, Jan­ After Yagoda’s arrest and the • "No, I do not," answered Leahy, It. is pertinent to ask: Who is formist line of the Communist to win for the hundreds of fur u a ry 22.) Nowadays they try to make massacre in the G.P.U., the "hut I do think it is of major “consciously playing the game" Party was, for the most part, workers and their families in Dispatches appearing in the Soviet press present even a more arrests with the least amount of most incredible stories began to importance to our own country. of British imperialism? Who is Toronto decent living standards. dismal picture. In the Ukraine (Chernigov) tractors are not be­ fuss. Men' are not seized either circulate among the foreign adopted as the 1,938 program of destroying "the conquests of the Conceals Secret Talks ing repaired. In 14 tractor stations there are no head mechanics. at home or in the department— agents and a real panic ensued. the Workers Alliance of New Attack C P Wreckers In order to check it somehow, Revolution "—the revolutionary I Pravda, January 19.) In the Maryansk region in Kuban, at the so as not to cause panic. People workers’ groups or the Popular Republican Representative Jersey as progressive forces the G.P.U. sent out a circular "We, the fur workers, have al­ tractor station there, on January 1, out of 20 tractors requiring are not arrested—they simply Front Government? Church of Illinois created a sen­ went down to defeat on the vital letter throughout the entire for­ ways guarded against attempts major repairs only 8 were ready; out of 30 tractors requiring disappear. For example, a meet­ sation toward the end of Friday’s eign network. Its contents were questions confronting the third to make of our union just another “ average" repairs only 10 were ready. In Maryansk, l.,400 tons ing is in session; a man gets up session when he suddenly inquir­ approximately as follows: The annual convention held here over subdivision of the Communist to go to the toilet and does not grave “problem” for the Soviet ed what matters involving the of gasoline were needed, only 6 tons were stored. In Novo- C.C. has removed the gang at Party. We were certain that the return. This attracts least at­ functionary is the question of British and American navies last week-end. Myshastovsk out of 1,860 tons needed, only 71 tons were ready. the head of our department. We wolf in our ranks would never tention. No one, of course, asks arranging a party. X. is consi­ were being discussed in London With the exception of progres­ (Pravda, January 17.) The Georgievsk tractor station (Ordjo­ must unfortunately 'admit that be satisfied until it got a victim what happened to him. dering giving a party in bis by Captain Ingersoll. "I will not sive resolutions on perspectives nikidze province) had not produced a single tractor by January 1. our heads (Yagoda and the rest) in its claws. It took no longer After Yagoda's removal and bouse and inviting a number answer that question," Admiral (Pravda, January 24.) Things are had in Bashkiria and worse turned out to be bandits. The and principles of the organiza­ than six months for the Com­ the smashing of the central ap­ of friends, among them foreign ¡Leahy said, "hut I will make a in Tadjikistan. The Commissar for Agriculture in the hitter ch ie f task fo r us ami fo r you is tion, the convention did little of munists to get their fingers on paratus of the G.P.U., they communists, mostly workers in statement in executive sessions, region, Selivanov, is "not to be trusted." began to recall foreign agents to to struggle against the Fascist- the fur workers union. the G.P.U. A more experienced o f course, on the basis th a t it is a constructive nature. In it..-, leading article on January 3, Pravda declared: "On De­ Trotskyites: (1) struggle against i "We have decided to raise a Moscow. As a rule they are re­ friend urgently advises against absolutely secret, because it is On the important Labor Party the Trotskyites; (2) keen a strict: fund of $10,000 to defend our cember 20, 1937. the plan fo r re p a irin g tra c to rs had been fu l­ called by some sort of ruse. For it: Something might come out. of of vital importance to the inte­ check on your subordinates. question, the Stalinists and their union in the interests of the fur filled only 13 per cent for the Union as a whole. In point of fact, example, X. is informed that he it. The best thing is to go to a rests and defense of the United stooges refused to defend clearly workers. We furriers have al­ the plan for the fourth quarter has collapsed." had been compromised and would Demoralization Reigns p a rty given by so and so. Sucli- S tates." their opposition to independent ready raised $1,000 towards this have to transfer to another coun­ and such people w ill be present, Leahy told C h u rch ill th a t he fund. We are the victims of a tr y , and “ cn ro u te ” he m ig h t It must be said that in connec­ there, whose position today is did not know whether or not Pre­ political action. The resolution Havoc Caused By Purge new Communist offensive against drop in on Moscow. U. is recall­ tion with the recent trials, the quite sound. sident Roosevelt had delayed the calling for such action encounter­ working class rights and demo­ The havoc caused by the purge accounts in part for this con­ ed on some other harm less pre­ important functionaries of the submission of the. $800,000,000 ed demagogic attacks w hich so cracy. Heed our call, protest text. In Moscow, they “disap­ G.P.U. abroad had to “agitate" program to Congress for about dition. Thus Pravda (January 24) reports that in Bashkiria confused the delegates that they against Communist brutality in pear.” their subordinate foreign agents i tw o weeks because he wanted alone for the last three months 37 agricultural heads and 46 its assault upon the fur workers Arthur Stashevsky worked in nights on end, so great was the STALINISM ¡first to confer with Captain In- gladly voted a tabling motion to directors of tractor stations have been removed, together with in Toronto." Spain ostensibly as a trade rep­ demoralization these trials prod­ and | gersoll. remove the question from the their deputies and "scores of mechanics." Eikhe reported that resentative. But in reality as one uced even in this milieu. | In discussing naval defense on flo o r. out of 200 tractor stations in White Russia only 144 had direc­ of the leading functionaries of According to the latest re­ BOLSHEVISM I the Atlantic Coast, Leahy re­ tors. He added "We have the same picture in Omsk, Orenburg, the G.P.U. After Tukhachevs- ports, Unschlicht (sister of Z. marked that an "excellent base " War Resolution Spiked Sverdlovsk and a number of other regions." (Pravda, January 22.) ky*s trial and connection with Unschlicht), an oppositionist, by Minneapolis could be created from the area Remedy? It is provided in the leading editorial of the same issue the arrest of Unschlicht and who was arrested in 1931 and IOc Leon The war resolution of the pro­ SOCIALIST FORUM of Long Island Sound and Narra- of Pravda which declared that in the recent order of the Central other Polish communists, it was who had worked in the Comin­ gressives was sabotaged ‘in com­ Every Sunday at 3 P. M. TROTSKY gansett Bay. When the Repre­ Committee to "suspend” the purge, the party has "a new sharp decided in Moscow to recall Stas­ tern, died in the isolator. (At sentative from Massachusetts on mittee with threats of a filibuster Socialist Workers weapon against the enemies of the people." hevsky as well. But inasmuch the time of her arrest, she was Pioneer Publishers the Committee asked why an on the floor. As a result, an in­ Party Hall as his wife and daughter were taken from her sick-bed.) 1(10 Fifth Avenue adequate fleet was not maintain­ nocuous statement was brought working in the Soviet pavilion The well known Ukrainian New York, N. Y. ed for the defense of the Atlantic, out to tired delegates at 2 a. m. 669 2nd AVE. N. Purge in the Commissariat of Heavy Industry at the Paris exhibition, Moscow com m unist K otsubinsky has been Admiral Leahy answered, "Cli­ on (he day of the final session. (Between Glenwood Ave. and was afraid lest he refuse to re­ shot. matic condition is one reason." The Stalinists packed the state 8th St.) Among those made scapegoats for the latest economic crisis turn. The resourceful minds in The Bulletin (of the Russian He was not pressed to mention executive board with a "straight Feb. 13—FRANCE: "The End were all three deputies of Lazar Kaganovich, Commissar for the G.P.U. thought up the fol­ Opposition) is widely read in the others. ticket" vote, leaving a stench of the People’s Front” Heavy Industry (who replacer!—on August 22, 1937—the purged lowing stratagem: Stashevsky’s G.P.U. ATTENTION FANS that will undoubtedly nullify Feb. 20—CHINA: "How Can Mezhlauk, successor of the deceased Ordjonikidze). In the early daughter (without her father’s Gide’s book, or, more precisely, See “ Gimble Sprokctts” Make their victory. a Colonial People Defend part of January, they all "disappeared." Among them was Za- knowledge) was sent from Paris stories concerning this book, and Alfred Mack, chairman of the H is D ebut! Its e lf? ” venyagin, candidate to the Central Committee, decorated with to Moscow with some exhibits, Gide’s taking a new position, ARE YOU strongest county unit in the state Double Feature Puppet Show Feb. 27.— U. S. A .: " W ill Rev­ the highest, orders for successful construction of the Magnito­ while Stashevsky himself was have indubitably produced a (Essex), brought the issue to Ihe and Social READY olution Corne to Amer­ gorsk combine and director of Magnitogorsk plants, and appointed called to Paris from Spain. In great impression in the IJ. S. flo o r by re fu s in g to serve as SATURDAY NJTE Feb. 19th ica ? " as deputy by Kaganovich h im se lf on September 17, 1937. The Paris two surprises awaited S. R. Those arriving from FOR WAR? second vice-chairman for the Speaker: fate of Zavenyagin and his colleagues bccapic known when him: an urgent request by wire abroad are bombarded from all at 159 Rivington St. Order now — 5c per copy state because of the nature of to come to Moscow and the in­ sides with questions about what (Near Clinton) the vote, although he himself FELIX MORROW Pravda and. Izvestia for January 8 printed terse notices of the formation that his daughter was Gide had written. 3c in bundles of 10 or more appointment of three new deputies: Butenko, Kuzmin and Per- Games, Drinks, Dancing, etc. scored the highest vote in the ADMISSION 10e already there (a hostage!). Ac­ In present conditions, a rather V______z ba llo ting . vukhin. on the task of effecting a junction between SOCIALIST APPEAL the invading forces in North China and those in the Yangtze region. Success for VO L. II. - No. 7. S aturday, F ebru ary 12, 1933 this venture will mean virtual Japanese THE FIFTH WHEEL Published every week by the control of all territory between the Great By LEON TROTSKY SOCIALIST APPEAL PUBLISHING ASS’N. Wall and the Yangtze at least as far west at 11C University Place* New York, N. Y. as the Peiping-Hankow Railway. The so-called International rains, i. e., in "e xce p tio n a l" c ir­ Telephones: Local Office: GRamerey ¡>-9142 And still there is no indication of any Workers' Association (A .I.T .), cumstances, but during dry National Office: ALgonquin 4-8547 attempt being made by the Kuomintang to representing the Anarcho-Syndi­ weather they remain "leak-proof” Subscriptions: $2.00 per year; $1.00 for 6 mobilize the masses against the invaders. calist groupings in various with complete success. countries, convened in Paris from months. Foreign: $2.50 per year. Bundle order A Shanghai dispatch to the N. Y. Times Boycott Proposed 3 cents per copy. Single copies 5 cents. on February 5 brings this fact into bold the 8th to the 17th of December. As is well known, the only large A ll checks and money orders should be made relief. Says the correspondent: The decisions of the Paris section of this International is out to the Socialist Appeal. “ Despite the announcements in Hankow congress are entirely on the same concerning the enthusiasm for continued the Spanish C.N.T. All the level as the politics l>f Garcia Entered as second-class matter September 1, other organizations (Swedish, Oliver and his kind. The leaders 1937 at the post office at New York, Now York, mass participation in prolonged hostilities, Portuguese, French, Latin-Ame- the Kuomintang Rightists (those who make of the A .I.T . have resolved to under the A c t o f M arch 3, 1879. rican) are completely insignifi­ appeal to the. Second, T h ird , and government policy - Ed.) oppose such a cant in size. MAX SHACHTMAN Amsterdam Internationals with a policy if it means greater freedom for the Of course, even a small orga­ proposal to create a “united in­ E d ito r. masses, agrarian reforms or basic domestic nization can be quite significant ternational anti-fascist front.” HAROLD ROBERTS FRANK GRAVES housecleanings which the former Commun­ if it has an independent revolu­ Not one word about the struggle Associate Editors. ists advocate. According to a version wide­ tionary position which anticipates against capitalism! The methods BOB B R O W N E ly believed here, the Kuomintang fears the the future development of the of battle are announced: “boy­ Business Manager. common people more than it fears the Japa­ class struggle. But, as can be cott of fascist goods” and.... V ______/ nese and would compromise with Japan if seen fro m the b rie f account pressure upon democratic go­ moderate terms were offered.” printed in the “Information vernments”; the most reliable The Times’ correspondent thus confirms Buljetin of the A .I.T .” (No. 67 methods with which to liberate A. F. of L. Expulsions of the German edition, “ Bolotin the proletariat! what has been pointed out by us almost de Información"), the special Evidently with the aim of ex­ The decision of the A. F. of L. Ex­ from the commencement of the war, and congress in Paris ended with the erting "pressure” the leader of ecutive Council to expel the United Mine he is by no means a Trotskyist. full victory of the politics of the Second International, Blum, Workers and two other international Kuomintang - Stalinist leadership of Garcia Oliver, i.e., the politics of became premier in “ democratic” unions, is a reactionary blow at the pros­ China’s struggle is bankrupted. But the capitulation to the bourgeoisie. pects of peace in the ranks of organized struggle itself is far from ended. In the France and did everything to labor and a blow at organized labor itself. coming phase the masses must move to the Manage Bourgeois State crush the revolutionary move­ The fossilized bureaucrats assembled in ment of the French proletariat. forefront to spell out the doom of imperi­ , During the past year a few Together with Stalin, and with Miami, their vision circumscribed by the alism and all its native allies. Anarchist publications, especially the cooperation of Garcia Oliver, narrow horizon of craft unionism into the French, have mildly criticiz­ Blum helped Negrin-Prieto stifle which they split the American workers for ed the Spanish C .N .T .’s methods the socialist revolution of the years, simply would not: reconcile them­ Keep Gerson, Mr. Isaacs! of action. There are quite enough Spanish proletariat. In all these selves to the living, unchallengeable reality The American Legion, the Catholic bases for this criticism: instead acts Jouhaux took a most pro­ constituted by the successes of industrial of building stateless Commun­ minent part. Church, and even the Sons of the American unionism under the banner of the G. I . O. Revolution have called upon Manhattan ism, the leaders of the C.N.T. With such actions the united Goaded especially by Republican Party became ministers in a bourgeois Borough President Isaacs, upon Mayor La- front of the three Internationals stooges like Hutcheson, who fear the deve­ state! This circumstance did not, for the struggle against the re­ Guardia and Governor Lehman to have however, hinder the Paris con­ volutionary proletariat has al­ lopment of an independent political move­ Simon W. Gerson, ex-reporter of the Daily ment of labor, they have put one obstacle gress of the A.I.T. from "ap­ ready been conducted for a long after another in the path of unity. Even Worker and Communist Party functionary proving the line of the C .N .T.” time. In this front the leaders removed from his appointed position of as­ In turn the leaders of Spanish their thoughts on the subject have been of the C .N .T. have occupied not dominated by the consideration of how sistant to President Isaacs. Anarcho-Syndicalism explained a conspicuous place but a suffici­ However Popular this new Front may to the Congress that if they had ently shameful one! many thousands of members they can split seem to many, we respectfully decline to betrayed the socialist revolution off from the existing industrial unions so support it. In' fact, our brows are knit in in the interests of saving the A New Betrayal as to enlarge their per capita power in the puzzlement at the to-do that is being made bourgeoisie, that was merely due obsolete craft union set-up and to keep the around Mr. Gerson’s case. to "insufficient solidarity of the The Paris Congress signifies power of craft unionism dominant in the international proletariat.” the imposition of the betrayal of Is Mr. Gerson’s Americanism being chal­ the Spanish anarchists upon organized labor movement. lenged? We don’t know what ship his fore­ The congress invented nothing The move for unification, which still re­ The abort: cartoon is reproduced without permission and without apology from the new: all reformist betrayers Anarchism throughout the world. bears came over on or what their XVIIth, “ Daily Worker” of three years ago. Even more timely now than it was then, it offers have always laid the blame for This finds its expression partic­ presents the best interests of labor in the XVIIIth or XIXth Century Americanism United States, should not be slowed down its own comment on the present-day policies of the Communist Party summed up by their betrayal upon the proletar­ ularly in the fact that from now was. But we are ready to give expert testi­ on the general secretary of the for an instant because of the Miami deci­ Earl Browder in his famous ‘‘New Republic” article: “In our country the task is to or­ iat. If social-patriots support sion. On the contrary, it calls for an even mony on the flawlessness of his XXth Cen­ ganize effectice support behind the President's policy.” their “national” militarism, it is, A .I.T . will be appointed by the more vigorous assertion of the rank-and- tury Americanism. of course, not because they are Spanish C.N.T. In other words, Is his loyalty in question? There is no lackeys of capital, but because the general secretary will from file’s demand that the split in the labor the masses are not “ matured yet now on be an official of the movement, especially in face of the critical more frenzied supporter of the American form of government, of the present govern­ for real internationalism.” If the Spanish bourgeois government. situation in industry, be promptly over­ i leaders of the trade unions ap­ Gentlemen Anarchist and semi- ment itself, than Mr. Gerson and his poli­ ! What Is Collective Security? come— not at the expense of industrial tical associates. And we say that if Mr. pear as strike-breakers, it is be­ Anarchist theoreticians and semi­ unionism, to be sure, but rather with gua­ I'"----- cause the masses "have not ma­ theoreticians, what do you have Roosevelt has the right to public office, Mr. The current war program o f BY JAMES BURNHAM program of Collective Security, to say about all this? Following rantees of the unassailable rights, proved Roosevelt’s most ardent advocates also tured" for the struggle. a dozen times oyer in struggle, of the in­ I the Stalinists is summed up in which is the program for the the example of the Spanish have. dustrial form of organization. ¡the phrase, ''Collective Security." preservation of an Anglo-French No Criticism Heard Anarcho-syndicalists, do you His honesty and civic pride? Imagine booty, wanted a method of pro­ agree to playing the role of fifth i'Earl Browder’s half of the New dominated imperialist system, is questioning those qualities in a Stalinist! tecting the spoils against any The account does not say a wheel on the cart of bourgeois The War In The Far East [Why, we know of no politician, from the Republic debate with Charles A. rival who might try to make a thus crassly and directly coun­ word about revolutionary critic­ democracy ? bid for them, either from among ism at the Paris congress. In this days of Richard Croker to those of Tin- Beard, subsequently reprinted in ter-revolutionary. M any A na rchists do not, o f the defeated Central Powers, or respect, as in many others, the China’s 450,000,000 people cannot be Box Farley, who has greater moral probity. The Daily Worker, is entitled However, in any case the as­ course, feel com pletely a t ease. from their own less satisfied gentlemen Anarchists fully imi­ whipped and driven into slavery by the Patriotic fervor? Gentlemen, you ought I "For Collective Security". The sumption that the program of But to overcome this uneasiness allies. Briand wanted to solidify tate the bourgeois liberals. Why Japanese imperialists—provided these mil­ to hear him warbling the Star-Spangled they change the subject of con­ Communist Party has recently the imperialist division of the Collective Security might pre­ let the rabble hear of differences versation. Why, indeed, occupy lions rise up and fight against their would- Banner! Its’s enough to put to shame the ■issued several pamphlets with the world as it existed at the time serve peace is directly contrary among the higher circles ? This oneself with Spain or the Paris be enslavers. sachems of Tammany Hall, whose whiskey of the Versailles Treaty. can only shake the authority of same title. We must enquire to fact. Italy, Germany, Japan congress of the A .I.T .... when During seven months of the Sino-Japa- tenors are notoriously poorly adapted to the Anarcho-bourgeois ministers. further into the true meaning of do not begin m ilitary operations, one can talk about... Kronstadt nese hostilities, the invaders of China have that soul-stirring anthem. TO SOLIDIFY It is very likely that in answer do not try to upset the existing or about Makhno? The most been able to score a number of important A Communist? Forsooth, forsooth, and Collective Security. VERSAILLES SETTLEMENT to the “left” criticism from the burning themes’ military victories—because the Kuomin- flapdoodle! Of Gerson’s type of commun­ At first glance, the program division of the world because French anarchists the latter were of Collective Security seems Collective Security was the Mussolini, Hitler and the Mikado tang rulers, aided by the Stalinists, have ism (or socialism), the late Elbert H. Gary reminded of their own conduct Fourth International held the masses back from the struggle. once said: “ We are all socialists now.” reasonable and practical to many plan for accomplishing just aie madmen or “war-lovers.” during the last imperialist war. Japan’s war machine is now concentrated Mr. Isaacs, keep Gerson! people. "Clearly," argues Browd­ this solidification. All of the na­ They are driven to military ad­ We have already heard from In its decomposition and decay er, “in this relation of forces, venture by iron necessity. Their tions (united in the League) some Anarchist theoreticians the Anarchist International evi­ ® ------— ------there does exist the possibility only alternative is economic and that at the time of such “excep­ were to take joint steps against dently does not wish to lag be­ of preventing the spread of war, social death for their own na­ tional” circumstances as war and hind the Second and Third Inter­ any nation which might attempt and of extinguishing the wars tional capitalism, and they are revolution, it is necessary to re­ nationals. All the sooner will the Little Men Fume, to break through the existing im­ fighting desperately against that going on, provided the peace- nounce the principles of one’s honest worker-Anarchists find perialist division. In addition, it Party and Press loving 90 per cent can arrive at death. No conceivable system of own program. Such revolutionists the Fourth International. was of course understood that a concerted program of action, at treaties or Leagues or "peaceful bear a close resemblance to rain­ Coyoacan, D. F. Let Off Steam collective action would above all The Socialist Workers Party is one of the bright spots on the least to a degree in some rela­ economic sanctions” can stop coats which "leak” only when it January 27, 1938. tion to that of the concerted ac­ be exercised against a bid for them. A man faced with certain growing. As a matter of fact it | Appeal horizon. power by the working class of death in one direction will fight (Continued from page I ) He has increased the Chicago tion of the Triple Alliance of the is growing out of proportion to any nation—-which would natur­ against any odds in the other. bundle order by 50 per cent and ‘anti-Communist’ bloc of fascist arc feeling the big squeeze. the growth of the Party press. ally tie the greatest of all threats' The originators of Collective promises to double it in the near states.... Considering the eco­ FDR Peace Talk Hitler Stalls In Caught inescapably between the against the existing imperialist Security know all this. And that For every new member that future. He has made regular pay­ nomic resources of the war-mak­ crushing weights of the two division. is why they have never pretend­ comes into the Party, there ments on back bills and kept up ers, it would clearly be sufficient great class forces, they can only It was as if two coalitions of ed to themselves that Collective should be five new subscriptions payments on current bundle or­ to bring them quickly to a halt Belied By Acts Army-Nazi Feud complain and whimper. With no if the United States, France, gangs had been fig h tin g fo r con­ S ecurity is in re a lity a “ peace to the Socialist Appeal. ders. He has also started a sub­ program of their own, the best trol of a racket. The winning program.” It is a program to Thus far, Chicago is the only scription drive which has already Britain, and the Soviet Union they can accomplish is to patch gang, having consolidated its preserve peace ( i.c., the status (Continued from page 1) (Continued from page 1) local that has demonstrated in an brought in more subs than we .should jo in tly declare an em­ up second-hand versions of the j victory, decreed that henceforth quo) as long as possible and con­ effective manner its determina­ have received from any other bargo upon all economic: transac­ remacy in the capital ship cate­ an understanding between Ger­ program of their masters. Roo­ "peace and order" were to reign venient to the dominant powers; tion to carry out the Convention local since the Convention. tions with the aggressors...." go ry . many and England, for which sevelt showed his usual political over Brooklyn. All the gangsters and in doing so to prepare for decision so fa r as the press is Hats off to Chicago and Karl How can anyone object to such 5. Hearings were begun in the latter has been working and skill by giving them this mass together would take collective war they know to be inevitable concerned. From one of the most Shier! Now, let’s get going all a calm and virtuous proposal? No Washington on a bill introduced to which the former is not at all Conference in which they could action against any rival gang on the most favorable physical inactive locals of the Party, Karl over the country with the slogan wonder Browder is indignant at by A. J. Dimond, representative averse, would signify the disrup­ let off steam. which attempted to muscle in. and moral terms. Shier, a newly-appointed litera­ “ Double the Appeal circulation by the scoundrels who 'insist on cri­ of Alaska, demanding "protec­ tion of the present line-ups, not And, of course, similar collective These Little Business Men feel ture agent, has made Chicago April 1st.” ticism ! tion" of the $46,000,000 salmon only at the expense of Italy but in their own lives the heavy hand action would likewise be taken IT CEMENTS fishing in d u stry in A laskan seas. also of the Soviet Union. That O R IG IN OF against any group of honest citi­ MILITARY ALLIANCES of the big corporations. Their The bill would have the United th is is fa r fro m excluded is seen program incorporated their timid Socialist Appeal zens who tried to break up the COLLECTIVE SECURITY States government assert sover- from the extremely reserved at­ and absurd gestures against 116 University Place Date ...... rackets themselves. Collective Security is a way of cementing m ilitary alliances in ignty over hundreds of miles of titude of the British towards the finance-capital, following the But let us, approaching this as In the case of the gang, it is New York City one of the imperialist coalitions. ocean now regarded as interna­ German shake-up and the feel­ lead already given by Roosevelt all questions from the point of clear enough that Collective It has the great advantage of tional and would order the con­ ing in London that it should during the month preceding. “ We view of the interests of the Action is hardly the answer to I enclose $ ...... for which please send me the making the members of the op­ fiscation of all Japanese ships cause them little concern. urge the strengthening and en­ working class, ask: First, even the problems of good citizens. Socialist Appeal. One year— ($2.00) ; Six Months— posing coalition appear to be the found in these fishing preserves. forcement of all laws seeking to assuming that Collective Security Their interest is to smash all of ( $ 1 .0 0 ) . “ breakers of the peace," thereby curb monopolies," says plank 1,3. m ig h t preserve peace, is it a cor- the gangs, and to get rid alto- “Incidents” W ill Follow permitting the mobilization of “We oppose a surtax on ‘small I enclose $ ...... as my contribution toward reet program; and, second, gather of the rackets Martin Attacks popular sentiment against them. business’ closely held corpora­ whethcr it can in fact preserve "1 am gravely apprehensive,” building the Socialist Appeal. This last feature explains why tions," adds plank 21. We “urge peace—or whether it is even de­ "PEACE" TO PROTECT Dimond said, "that unless suit­ IM PERIA LIST G A NG STERS Brow der has now so ardently approval of legislation designed signed to preserve peace. The able legislation is passed, there CP War Mongers Name ...... taken up the slogan of Collective to curb destructive, competition answer to both of these questions w ill be arm ed co n flic t in the The case of the im p e ria list Security. He knows, as w ell as of chain stores,” says plank 12, Address ...... requires a brief account of the Bering Sea." He said the fisher­ Briand knew and Auriol and (Continued from page 1) speaking plaintively for all the origin of the idea of Collective powers is exactly the same. Even men would take up arms them­ Chautemps and Daladier know Martin is absolutely correct. single-store proprietors present City ...... Security. if Collective Security could pre­ selves unless the government today, that Collective Security is For the Stalinists, Communism at the Conference. stepped in. The idea of Collective Security serve “peace," that would mean in the last analysis not a pro­ is just a label covering a political Said Representative Sirovich is not an invention of Browder, simply protecting the dominant gram for peace but a program line and activities which are en­ Seek A Joshua perhaps they can curry favor by of New York: "I would send up ness Conferences were most care­ nor of Litvinov nor of Stalin. It imperialist positions of the Anglo- for war. And he is using Collect­ tirely harmful to the workers turning fire against the common bombing planes, torpedo planes, Above all, they want to stop ful not to put matters in such arose in the camp of the Allied French bloc; protecting their ive Security in his attempt to and their organizations. The re­ enemy. After all, are not their and ships and drive them out of the relentless march of history. crude fashion; they left it for Powers during the latter part of right to exploit the major part make the war which he believes volutionary socialists certainty five and ten and twenty emplo­ these waters.” “If American leaders, as repre­ their Little Business valets. the War of 191.1-L3, and was of the world; safeguarding their will aid his master popular are opposed to all red-baiting yees, with their inordinate de­ Here is a fertile field for future sented by the Federal Govern­ Here, it should be noted, is part of the basis for the construc­ rule of starvation and terror in among the people of the United from whatever quarter it comes. mands and unionization and col­ "incidents" which will be used to ment, would light some place and the record of the heroes of the tion of the “ Versailles system." India, the Near East, Indo-China, States. Collective Security is his One way to deliver a blow at the lective bargaining, driving them the fullest extent in whipping up maintain a constant perch rather People’s Front. These are the Its chief early advocate was Africa; guaranteeing for eternity banner for enlisting the masses real red-baiters is tp expose the to the wall as effectively as the Aristide Briand, the renegade war sentiment. than flit about like a canary,- “democratic bourgeoisie and petty their right to the exploitation in this country in the next war Stalinist patriots for what they monopolies ? American business would find bourgeoisie” of the People’s from socialism who became dur­ and oppression of the workers in of American imperialism. are — vicious enemies of the encouragement.” If only, in other Front fairy tale, so different ing that time an outstanding the home countries. Lower East Side Labor Forum working class masquerading in Want Labor Curbed spokesman for French imperial­ words, history would stop, and from the “fascist-minded most The workers have absolutely (T his is the second in a "THE CRISIS AND THE the guise of friends. ism. no interest in the preservation series of four articles on the leave us alone, immune to its So plank after plank calls for reactionary sections of finance- UNEMPLOYED" By taking a step in that direc­ The theory o f Collective Se­ of any imperialist division what­ New Republic debate over conflicts and troubles, maybe we the repeal of the Wagner Act, capital,” the champions who are Speaker: NEIL HARRISON tion, by revealing the rule or curity was as follows: The Allied ever, no matter what nation or "Collective Security” between Little Men would make out some­ condemns any wage and hours going to defend the working class (Chairman— W.A.A.— Loc. 15) ruin policy of the Stalinists in Powers had won the war, and group of nations a given division Earl Browder and Charles A. how. Bill whatever, wants unions made from War and Fascism. The FRIDAY NITE FEB. 11 the unions, by exposing then- taken for themselves the rich favors. Their interest is to over­ Beard. The remaining articles Then, however, after these more “ responsible," asks exemp­ working class had better think at East Side Labor Center treacherous social-patriotism and spoils of conquest. France and throw the whole imperialist sys­ will deal with Beard’s "isola­ futile slaps, the real viciousness tions from the Social Securities twice before turning itself over 159 Rivington St. all the vicious practises flowing Great Britain, particularly, be­ tem: and, if mankind is not to tionist” reply to Browder and in their hearts was let loose. Big Act, insists on broadening of the to Little Business and its pro­ (Near Clinton) from it, HomeY Martin has rend­ ing satisfied with the results, re v e rt to barbarism , to do so in with the Marxist alternative Business is oppressing them, but Income Tax Base. The Big Busi- gram . Admission FREE ered a valuable service to the glutted with colonies and other the shortest possible time. The to Collective Security.) labor movement.