Published Weekly as the Organ of the Socialist Party of New York, Left Wing Branches.
SOCIALIST APPEAL Union Unity Move Vol. No. 11.
401 Saturday, October 23, 1937 Cents per Copy More Locals AFL CIO To Confer in EndorseChicago Left Wing Meet Washington NextWeek Veterans of Future Wars. The decision of the Denver convention of the American Federation of Labor and Growing response in the Locals and branches of the Socialist of the Atlantic City meeting of the heads of the Committee for Industrial OrganizaParty to the call for an emergency convention on November 25th tion to have committees from the two bodies meet in Washington during the week of in Chicago to deal with the Party crisis, indicates a widespread October 25 for the purpose of discussing the disputes that have divided the two moveinterest which guarantees complete national representation when ments, was the first important step taken since the split towards healing the two yeartihe convention sessions open. The announcement was made by James old breach in the ranks of American organized labor. Cannon, secretary of the Convention Arrangements Committee in New York. The call for the 8, 000, 000 Involved convention was issued three weeks tentiary for embezzlement of of between seven and eight mill in the rank and file of both orago in the name of the State Ex party property which duly beShould the joint confer lion member more than have ganizations for unity, the absence ecutive Committees of the Social. longed to the left wing.
ence take further steps to ever been enrolled in American of which has had such painful unions in all their history. and pernicious results in recent ist Party of California, Minnesota, Indiana, Ohio, the Executive Local of the Socialist Party has the two organizations, it though such a unification is, it growing number of fairaidom of In East Chicago, Indiana, the ward uniting the ranks of Highly desirable and necessary times as a consequence of the in Chicago and New York (Left just voted, according to Secre would result in the establish cannot yet be said that the Washganized by the officialdom of tary Paul Brauer, to condemn each Wong) and by the National Ex the NEC for having trampled ment of an organized labor ington meeting will bring it both organizations upon antive Committee of the Young about. It is indisputable that a other. Demoralizing jurisdictionPeople Socialist League. Continued on page 3)
movement in this country great deal of sentiment exists al disputes, leaving the workers divided in face of the employAmong the Party organizations which have already taken action ing class, can only impede the progress of American labor.
to endorse the special convention and to provide for representaWhatever the Washington contion at it, are the following: ference outcome may be, it cannot obliviate the tremendous conLocal Bucks Joins tribution made by the CIO movement. Whereas hidebound craft Local Bucks County, Pennsylorganization, confined largely to vania, representing the three the skilled and betterpaid workbranches of Quakertown, South ers, have time and again failed Langhorne and Perkesy, unaniabysmally to organize the mass mously passed a resolution, signproduction industries, the indusod by Clara Gring, Acting Secretrial form of organization, destary and by Howard Stump, pite the croaking admonitions of Chairman, declaring that the the Green bureaucracy, has not County Committee of Local only proved its ability to organBucks, refusing to be a party to ize such industries as auto, rubber and steel, but has demonsthe expulsion of left wingers or to the People Front policy of trated that it facilitates the efthe National Executive Comfective mobilizaion of the workmittee and desiring that the disers for aggressive struggle.
puted questions be throughly This has now been established klized and settled, endorsed the beyond dispute in practise despite the numerous shortcomings At a meeting of Local Rochesof the CIO, which are traceable ter, a resolution was unato the bureaucratic control exnimously adopted, signed by ercized over its union by the selfCharles Hess, chairman and appointed leadership and to the James Brown, secretary, declass collaboration policy which during that by its flagrant vioit has imposed.
lations of the party constitution and those betrayal of the party Industrial Unions Vital trast, the NEC has forfeited its Any unification of the two authority and lost all right to movements which involved a reqeak in the name of the party wambership. The Local, in the THIS IS treat from the right of the worksame resolution, endorsed ers, at the very least in the basic, the THE NOT AN mass production industries, to call for the convention. IMPERIAUST WE LOVE organize in industrial unions, inLocal East Bay, Calif. accordWAR stead of being split up into ing information received here scores of craft organizations, trom its secretary, Carl Wallace, would signify an abandonment has also voted unanimously to of all the gains made in the past endorse the calling of the Chicago two years and would fling the convention. The local had prelabor movement back to the posiviously indicated its position by tion it occupied years ago.
deciding without dissenting From the standpoint both of Tote to expel as a stool pigeon the immediate and long run inWürd Rodgers, who had gone to terests and needs of the labor the San Francisco District Attormovement, however, recent events bey in an attempt to send revoCarlo have only served to stress the tationary socialists to the peni(Continued on page 3)
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