2 SOCIALIST APPEAL September 18, 1937 Japan Set For Long Fight; Chiang Stalin Pact Dud Akron Unions Built By Progressives But CIO Chieftains Push Them Out IS masses (Continued from page 1) Japanese struggle on behalf of China unless such intervention which followed the shooting of should be vitally dictated by the (Continued from page 1) inspired by the Goodyear strug tendencies became stroger.
the British ambassador to China. interests of the Soviet bureaugle, joined the URWA. The union Under pressure of the rubber Tokyo thumbed its nose at cracy. Stalinist foreign policy is munist League of America (later was established.
companies, leaders of Labor Britain protest and the British still conducted within the con the Workers Party. Nearly 100 Using the weapon of xit downs. Non Partisan League, and the lion has not even emitted a roar servative frame work of the rubber workers, most of them the rubber workers continued to local press, the executive board by way of answer. In the hey status quo. That which does not subsequently the union leadership gain many concessions, to recruit removed Widick, left wing day of the British Empire ascen immediately affect the interests of Akron, attended the school. new members, to protest against socialist, as research director of dancy a lesser incident would of the bureaucracy is no concern Some of its students included company policies, fight threat the International Union. The have led to war.
of Stalin. Dalrymple, now president of of vigilantism both in Akron and bureaucracy continued to consoAmerican imperialism, rising the URWA, Buckmaster, other rubber centers Akron be lidate itself.
Japan Unopposed gradually to the stature of the Firestone Local president, came the sit down capital of CLU Liquidated world dominant power, is not From this brief analysis of the Callahan, Goodrich Local presi America.
yet in the full stride of its march positions of the principal Far how to fight the of budent, and others. They learned Success Inspiration Central Labor Union, under to empire destiny and therefore Eastern powers an inescapable progressive domination, had done not ready to stake itself in a conclusion emerges: Japan will reaucracy effectively.
The gigantic sit down wave cutstanding work.
It was the able to carry through the The lessons were not in vain. that shook the foundations of ca first CLU to support sit clowns.
rivals. The Neutrality Act of the present phase of her conquest In September 1935, the progres pitalist France added fuel to the It kept Roosevelt Government the of China without foreign hind sives had forced the of fires of the American struggles, mittee permanently in readiness.
formula of the uppreparedness rance. Japanese imperialism to call a rubber workers conven From rubber plants they spread It gave funds generously to all of America imperialism. Wash only actual foe is the Nanking tion. Despite the personal inter to other industries, especially strike and other labor struggles.
inton policy in China at this government and its armies, since vention of William Green, the automotive (not the least reason It supported a YPSL fight against time is confined to a passive the exploited masses was that Akron militants went at Akron University. It protection of American lives and China and Japan are held down hief organizer, Coleman Claherty, into the industry and agitated refused to allow a split. William property accompanied by vague by military dictatorship.
set up an independent interna for sit downs as the best method Green demands were always hints that both Japan and China China defeat by Japan is tional union based on industrial of building the United Automobile thrown into a waste baxket. The will be held accountable for certain unless the defense against unionism and adopted a class Workers of America. CLU, as the platform of the leftdamage to American interests. imperialism is wrenched from struggle policy for organizing the The effects of these struggles wing, was a thorn in the side of the control of the Kuomintang industry.
were not confined to the rubber the developing bureaucracies.
Moscow Compromises regime and the defense campaign plants. This entire city of 250. 000 few weeks ago the RWA Struggle and Victory transformed and enlarged into a felt the No threat to the Far Eastern general offensive against imperepercussions. Grade international officers agreed to Meanwhile, the unrest in the school children sat down because allow the rubber workers to be stake of French imperialism is rialism on all fronts. This re factories developed into tempor home assignments were too long! expelled from the CLU upen immediately present in the war quires the intervention of Japan and China. France of the ary stoppages of work, dubbed The badly exploited downtown another request of Green. Howeunder trade with China is infinitesimal leadership. Nanking, if it does culminated at Goodyear in the rubber workers, many strugles is being formed, sentiment for a revolutionary sit downs by a reporter. They store clerks sat down. Aided by iver, a joint CIO of council and her principal interests are not succumb to humiliating five weeks strike. The rubber were successful. Akron was really solidarity is so strong. Of course.
her colonial territories in Indo military defeat, will effect a workers demanded and obtained becoming a union town.
the left wing will be excluded, if China and her concessions at compromise with Japan. a the support of the CIO a week Shanghai, Hankow and Tientsin compromise which will be dictat after Tired of being robbed by the possible, from this council.
the strike began. What milk trust, even the farmers near The former are far from the ed by Anglo American imperial started as a sit down and walk Akron went on strike, 3, 000 of Causes scene of Sino Japanese hostilities, ism at the expense of China out of 500 out of 14, 000 Goodyear them. They called on the progres The growth of conservatism in while the latter, because of their sovereignty and independence, a workers ended in the winning of sive and left wing unionists to the local union movement came location, have suffered practi: compromise which will still fur many concessions. Thousands of help them. farmers union was because of definite, ascertainable cally no damage in the latest ther enslave China millions. rubber workers in other plants, organized and the strike was reasons, in addition to the specific fighting won.
ones already mentoined.
The one country which was a Foremost of the reasons was real source of worry to the Tokyo LEWIS FOUND GUILTY BY OWN PARTISANS CIO Tops Intervene the defeat of the Little Steel warlords was the Soviet Union.
Would Moscow, concerned for its strike. Reactionary forces took FOR BUYING VOTES The convention of the URWA heart from labor defeat. The strategic defense in the Mongoin September 1936 marked the wide spread harrage of antilian People Republic, permit turning point in the history of the local union movement. Under urion officials retreated before union propaganda intensified, and Japan to grab North China and Inner Mongolia? In June, Stalin By John Dwyer and Lewis the defendant. He CIO pressure, and the constant it. Roosevelt betrayal of the framed and executed the flower brought his own jury from Cam barrage of the capitalist press, workers created political uncerof the Red Army commanding Acting on the letter published bridge to hear the case. charg the convention refused to sans tainty, but the cho leaders te staff. The Japanese army imme in the September issue of the ed him with (1) buying members tion sit downs as a weapon of the fused to speak out.
diately seized two strategic islands Appeal, inviting me to come to into a party to fight the left union. Likewise support of Roo.
in the Amur River which indis supper with my wife and have wing (the Salerno letter published sevelt and of Labor Non Par Militancy Declines putably belonged to the Soviet my head amputated, attended in the Appeal of September tisan League were voted. Akron workers this sumner Union. In subsequent negotiations, the exclusive lynching party in (2) using his position and the Major attention of the leading lost their first strike since 1933.
Moscow virtually ceded control the home of Mary Dickson in party apparatus for factional unionists turned towards organi City police, heartened by the of the islands to Japan. The Northampton, Massachusetts. purposes, and (3) bringing false Izing the rest of the industry, success Chicago police had in Tokyo warlords rightly conclud Supper started at with Com and malicious charges against a after the glaring defeat ed that if Moscow feared to de rade Konikow abstaining. It was member in good standing.
Gadsden, Ala. where Goodyear Day massacre, prevented picket at getting away with the Memorial fend its own territory, it cer a perfectly delightful meal with thugs smashed the union. With lines in the Enterprise strike.
tainly could not be expected to judge Pineo acting as second Found Guilty higher wages, better working When obstruct Japan attempts conditions and definite limitation a rumor spread that seize North China and Inner The Lewis jury, which also of production (temporary aholi Goodrich Local might strike, a Mongolia.
My triell got under may with received ducky little invitations tion of speed up. Akron rubber company of National Guardsmen to supper, sat and looked very workers began to slip back into and ready for trouble. Not even Hostess Dickson and Comrade wise throughout the trial. pre their old norms of living.
Pact Meaningless Konikow filling out the com sented my case and Lewis his.
a strike vote had been taken.
In a feeble effort to offset the mittee. was charged with using The jury asked numerous ques: came a reflection of the great Six months before, the appearance Militancy, more and more. be. The rumor was completely false. tages thus given to Japan, the word reject instead of tions and finally found as Moscow has now concluded a object in expressing my feel lows: strike struggle elsewhere. The of guards would have signalized rubber workers kept the locall a general strike. But the workers non aggression pact with Nankings about the actions of the Charge 1: Guilty vote to plants going so they could better kept quiet: when they had marching. It is a fact of common know in the Spanish resolution.
censure.
the National ledge in the Far East that nego 11 protested that contribute to the auto, maritime ed to Youngstown, 3, 000, to fight Charge 2: Two voted not and other strike funds. fever the guards during the steel strike, tiations for the conclusion of Office had accepted the word guilty and one voted guilty. heat was reached again during union leader ordered them home this pact were commenced as far when Roy Burt accepted the San Charge 3: Three voted to back 1933, when diplomatic Francisco resolution for a refethe General Motors strike. saying that Davey guards would defer until after the SepMoscow and rendum. But Lewis assured his. relations between general strike slogan raised by protect the strikers.
tember meeting of the revolutionary socialists won wide Nanking, ruptured in 1927, were committee that Burt had no inS. Continued on page 1)
restored. Moscow sought by this tentions of sending out any such support. At the last minute it In short Lewis own jury could was called off under terrific SOCIALIST APPEAL pact to hinder Nanking from referendum and so was found making an alliance with Japan guilty of being in grammatical not find him not guilty of any pressure of the cio leaders.
of the charges by a unanimous against the Soviet Union. Nank disagreement with the Bureaucrats Develop Vol. No. Saturday, vote. On the contrary they did ing, hoping to make a satisfacRoles Reversed September 18th, 1937 find him guilty on the first tory deal with Japan, delayed The committee then recomend charge, e. of bringing into the Each problem exposed the signing but kept the pact in rePublished every week by the limitations of the progressive Socialist Appeal Pub. Assn.
serve as a threat to the Tokyo ed my expulsion and referred the Party bought members.
ness of the progressives. warlords. In signing it now, matter to the next meeting Left Wing Carries On CIO adviser, Allan Haywood, was Published at Room 1609 Nanking hopes to frighten Tokyo which will be held the third Sunthe power behind the union lead 100 Fifth Avenue, New York into sweet reasonableness. But, day in September.
The left wing has the supporters. When he was sent elsewhere, having no fundamental common The Lynn, Boston, and Wor of 98 per cent of the active the official union leadership suf Subscriptions: 00 per year. interests with Moscow it will cester Locals have refused to membership the state. Lewis fered a severe blow. He had prop 00 for months. Bundle scrap the pact if opportunity expel their representatives on has the support of those people ped up more than one weak orders cents per copy. Single occurs to make what seems the and 90 Lewis will who forgot to leave when the union official. The rubber com copies cents.
favorable agreement with Tokyo. bring charges against the three rest of the old Guard did, and panies, aided by the local press, The Stalin government, which locals on that date.
the Fabian Sewing Circle took up policy of conciliation.
An checks and money orabandoned the German and After my intimate ders should be made out to and branch of Western Massachu it had its effect. Progressives tariat to their fate friendly supper trial was over setts. The people who remain turned into conservatives. Meanthe Socialist Appeal.
and which today sabotages the we changed jaries and started with him will dissolve into the while, the best class conscious Application for entry 15 struggle of the Spanish workers, trial No. in this trial the roles first Farmer Labor Party that elements were doing organizing second class matter is pending will not intervene in the Sino were reversed. was the accuser comes over the horison.
work elsewhere. Bureaucratic to maid.