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2 SOCIALIST APPEAL September 4, 1937 A. of Endorses La Guardia IN SPAIN BUNGLES PLOT IN FRAMING SOCIALIST and shot down by the police.
But Lovestone utters not a Mayor Rejects Endorsement of Stalinists to on won costs.
as a on housing, strikebreaking, and relief! Why the distinction between Roosevelt and La Guardia. Very simple: La Guardia is now up for re election and the labor Trotskyist POUM Aided Fran his laboratory and issued a war Stalinist alibi is that the PCUM bureaucrats order their cohorts co with supplies, Englishman rant for his arrest.
kept the arms in Barcelona. DeUnder the leadership of the to line up; and Lovestone hastens Reaveals, scream the front page In his absence, Kopp was socisive refutation of Frankford notorious Joe Ryan and President to obey.
headlines of the Daily Worker of tenced by the Belgian courts to lis provided by George Orwell, George Meany, the state conven He even criticises Thomas for August 31.
fifteen years at hard labor; five well known English left wing tion of the of unanimous saying that the fails to When Frankford discovered years for making explosives for author and a member of the ly endorsed the candidacy of La meet the test of absolute inde. the Trotskyist Commander Kopp a foreign power; five years for contingent on the Aragon Front.
Guardia, while it voted down all pendence from capitalist parties. climbing over the barbed wire leaving the country without per. Writing in the August issue of resolutions for unity or conciliaObviously. answers the Work entanglement the fascist mission; five years for joining a Controversy, the Socialist forum, tion with the This combi ers Age, this is a weak and, trenches with a patrol, the En foreign army while holding a re Orwell says: nation of actions is not accidental. let hope, soon to be dissipated glishman learned of the regular servist officer rank in the Belgian As a matter of fact the POUM La Guardia police have endear remnant of the revolu connection between the POUM Army.
possessed pitifully few weapons ed themselves to the reactionaries tionary pastime of confronting officers and Franco On the Aragon front, Kopp either at the front or in the rear.
slogging naritin and the mass movement with all sorts Who is this Frankfc ining the During the street chting (of shipyard strikers. If leaders of conditions and ultimatums. Englishman, who gives such of Commandant. He was twice May) was at all three of the like Hillman and Dubinsky insist Lovestone is against differing damning eyewitness testimony? wounded.
principal strongholds of the on supporting La Guardia, Joe with the mass movement his Nobody ever heard of him. But The next episode in the story POUM, the Executive Building, Ryan has no objections since his euphemism for the labor burea, the clumsy GPU agents who is told by David Murray in the the Comite Locai, and the Hotel gang is the gainer.
crats. whenever Hillman and fabricated this testimony have British New Leader of August Falcon. It is worth recording in The of action was Dubinsky crack the whip. That blundered, as they have so often 13. During June, George Kopp detail what armaments these heartily seconded that night, the Stalinists are perfectly cor before. For the Trotskyist Com was called to Valencia, in the buildings contained. There were August 26, by Earl Browder, rect in characterizing the elec mander Kopp who was in the reorganization of the militia, and in all about eighty rifles, some whose news that the Communist toral coalition as a Peoples habit of commuting between the was given a new commission. He of them defective, besides a few Party would support La Guardia Front on this key question of Loyalist and Fascist trenches was appointed to one of the new obsolete guns of various patterns, was scarcely unexpected. Browder politics in the concrete, Lovestone happens to be a Belgian Socialist divisions forming the Aragon all useless because there were no applauded Norman Thomas for is silent.
whose heroic services to the labor front. The commission stated that cartridges for them. of rifle being busily engaged in expell True to form, Lovestone joins movement and the Spanish strug he was a person of every con ammunition there was about fifty ing from his party precisely that the Stalinists in applauding the gle is a matter of record. An fidence. una persona de toda rounds for each weapon. There group which vociferously demands expulsion of the Trotskyists. An interview with him in the confianza.
were a few cases of hand grenathat he shall. run for office at all important element in the situa trenches, published in the When Kopp returned to Bar and no pistol ammunition. There tion says Lovestone is the New Leader frantic efforts the Trotskyites are the salient facts.
August 13 gives celona on his way back to the were a few cases of hand granefront, Murray informed him that des, but these were sent by the Bootlicker making to hamper the party Georges Kapp is forty five years Kopp room at the hotel had CNT after the fighting started.
Hailing the La Guardia ticket from revising its sectarian atti old, a member of long standing been searched. Kopp was, ho highly placed militin officer as really progressive. Browder tude towards the He ad. in the Belgian Socialist move wever, completely confident that afterwards gave me his pinion declared we accept that ticket vises the left socialists that ment. When the civil war broke he had nothing to be afraid of. that in the whole of Barcelona matter of united front the fight will have to be carried out, he was chief enginer in one He insisted on returning to his the POUM possessed about a discipline and will do everything on two fronts: against the op of the largest engineering firms quarters. Within a few minutes hundred and fifty rifles and one possible to help carry it to vic portunism of the right wingers in Belgium. In that capacity, he of his arrival he was arrested, machine gun. This, it will be tory. The press reports of and the Stalinists. This formula had the use of a first class labor and still is in jail.
seen, was barely sufficient for the Browder radio speech were is also that of the Zam Tyler atory maintained for him by the This is the man whom Frank armed guards which at that time scarcely on the streets before the group. Since factionalism and firm to develop his inventions. He ford and the Stalinists accuse of all parties, PSUC, POUM and head of the united front sectarianism mean to Lovestone now put his training as a chemist working for Franco!
CNT FAI alike, placed on their Comrade La Guardia, repudiated any opposition to La Guardia, to good use.
One more revelation by principal buildings.
Browder support, declaring the concretely his advice to Zam It had been usual for him to Frankford. did not realize One final revelation of Communists will get no aid or Tyler is to capitulate to Altman experiment at night. He circul at the time that the rifles, ma Frankford. which will interest comfort from me. Whereupon on this crucial question. Such is ated the story that he was trying chine guns and tanks which we the thousands of New York Browder licked the foot that the political program of the out a new machine, perfecting it had in such great quantities at needle trades workers who know kicked him. The Mayor state Lovestoneites, toward whom the by the actual process of manu our disposal in Barcelona were Harry Milton now returning, ment seems to be quite sensible, Zam Tyler group is now orient facture. Actually he manufactur the very arms which we had so finally released after strong and the Communists have not ex ing.
ed the supplies for millions of long yearned for at the front; workers protests against his pected any other attitude from rounds of cartridges. Left Social that the real reason for the arrest in Barcelona. as a milihim, said Browder. He is the NOTICE TO PARTY BRANCHES candidate of a very broad proists organized illegal transport shortage of arms at the front had tant member on the gressive front, including the Please send in names of of the materials to Paris and been this illicit stocking up of picket lines. Frankford darkly thence to Barcelona.
stolen arms by the POUM and refers to an American Trotskycomrades elected to serve as majority of the people of the city, correspondents to the SOCIAL Kopp soon discovered that he certain anarchist elements.
and certainly could take no other ist going by the name of Harry was under suspicion and being Special atNote that here, for the first Milton who made trips to BarIST APPEAL.
position.
watched by the police. He took time, the Stalinists admit that celona from the front with perThis is the first time in the hitention must be given to proleave of his four children. his the Aragon front was denuded mission of those who were constory of the labor movement that viding us with timely stories wife was dead) and headed for the of arms; hitherto they have de ducting activities against the on trade union struggles.
a party claimed to be in a united the CNT POUM charges republican government.
front while the ticket titular All copy must be in by French frontier. The very day nied that he left Brussels was the that arming of the Aragon front The GPU has blundered again, head denounced it in the press.
Saturday.
day on which the police raided. has been sabotaged. But the and what a clumsy job!
Not even a Stalinist theologian will resolve that contradiction.
Lovestone Too Perhaps most comical grouplet supporting La Guardia Lovestone Independent To the Revolutionists of Allare innocently suffering the Unfortunately we could learn they will involve them in some Communist Labor League. In Countries!
only the names of a fraction of espionage affair with which they effort to win Communist In the name of all revolutionGeorges Kopp. Belgium the imprisoned foreigners. There have absolutely nothing to do.
workers revolted by theists of Spain we address you!
Paul Dobler. Switzerland are members of anarchist or Out on the streets with demonPeople Front policy in Spain With deep indignation we dePaul Thalman. Switzerland ganizations, of the SFIO, of the strations! Protest to the repreand France, Lovestone is theoreti mand your protests against the Katja Landau Austria Jeunesse Socialiste of France, ofsentatives of the Spanish Repubcally against the Peoples Front reactionary suppression by the Maurice Stevens Holland the American Socialist Party of lic against the shameful betrayal His Workers Age carries a per liberal bourgeoisie and its vanEthel McDonald England Trotsky organizations, of KPO, of your comrades, many of whom tinent criticism of the Daily guard, the Stalinist bureaucracy.
William Krehm Canada FAP, of the split off group of have dedicated their lives to the Worker praise of Roosevelt The freedom, which the best Juluis Poland SAP, of the Parti Ouvrier of cause of the Spanish proletariat.
Roanoke speech: of what good comrades have rushed here to Foska Poland Belgium, of the Sozialistsche Send delegations to Spain so that are homilies on the virtues of protect, has been changed into Molinaar Holland Partei of Switzerland, of the they can be convinced on the spot democracy to the scores of thous prisons of reaction.
Duchene France Communist League and of the of the misdeeds of the bourands who are being thrown off In order to tie and bind the Gaston Amiral France League for a Workers Party in geoisie and Stalinists. If you the work relief rolls or the forces of the proletariat, the govWitte Greece the etc. etc. Numerous permit the present reactionary hundreds of thousands who can ernment of the Spanish Republic Albania British comrades have already course in Republican Spain, you not get on? Of what good ate has prepared espionage trials been released. This is explained will be guilty of the demoralizapolemics against Macaulay to the after the pattern of the Soviet Germany by the attitude of the British tion and weakening of our opmillions of workers who, as the Russian amalgam. Nin, Andrade, consul who declared that he will position to our chief enemy, Spanbearings on the Black Connery Gorkin will all be brought before not allow British citizens to ish and international fascism.
Mill show, are toiling lotig hotirs the secret court martial. Through imprisoned, in order to gather Release the best fighters starvation wages? Of what arbitrary arrests numerous comh We cannot publish the names incriminating evidence later. Most against Fascism! Unmask the food are learned and laminous rades, both men and women, of the German comrades because of the other consuls are little or real betrayers!
Leetutes on history to the above all Poomists, but also we do net want to endanger not at all concerned with the it Down with the non intertenhapless dwellers in the rat hole Anarchists, find themselves them or their relatives in Get prisoned.
tion of Blum Eden Stalin!
Atoms of our big cities? Of what Spanish prisons. The official re many. We will gladly disclose to Workers of all countries! Long live the proletarian revogood are invocations to detro port speaks of 500 imprisonmentes representatives of the emigrant is your duty to defend the lution of Europe!
Eftlicy and mote dentrocracy to mong the members of the POUM. organizations of absolutely trust nocetitly imprisoned, you must the little steel strikets, prese birt we can reckon the number worthy persots whether certata not leave it to the bourgeois conThe Committee of Bolslevit.
cuted by the federal government, of innocently imprisoned at letter persons are among the impris stilates.
Leninists of Spain (4th Int. beaten up by the state militia 1000. The following foreigners Otied.
There is a grave danger that Barcelona, July 5, 1987.
Appeal for Spanish Political Prisoners the is same fate: an.