November 6, 1937 SOCIALIST APPEAL Auto Unionists Face Vital Battle Against Big Motor Companies Stalinists Betray China Struggle by New Line Detroit locals, protesting the the contract submitted by the bureaucratic action. Martin accus United Auto Workers. Chrysler ed Walter Reuther and his local is busy rebuilding the company as the instigators of this revolt, union. It violates seignority of provoking hooliganism. Reu rights of union members daily, ther ducked from underneath the discriminates against union men responsibility, disclaimed any con and is actively heading for a nection with the revolt. No break with the Union. The Ford Unity meetings were called. organizing campaign is hopelessly No program offered the mem bogged. Companies throughout bership. The Unity Group play the industry are stiffening their ed dead. pall settled over attitude and refuse to sign agreeDetroit. Explanation of the Comments with the union. Martin is munist Party: We must do noth maneuvering desperately to avoid ing to disrupt the Unity of the a strike, a weapon he hates and Auto Workers while the elections fears.
are pending in Detroit. In other By Auto Worker much initiative and boldness, by 25 per cent the day before. words, there is more important Strike Only Answer business on hand right now.
The United Automobile Work union today. The National Ex Unity Group Collapses We have got is Martin This background elect Walter ers of America is the largest of ecutive Board ruled that no local What about the Unity group Reuther and Maurice Sugar; the Achilles heel He cannot stabilize his rule and supremacy, because the new unions of the and could issue its own newspaper members of the Executive Board. auto workers can wait.
in the busi and that all printed material was How did they respond to these The is today at a low General Motors and Chrysler are ness sense of the word. It is subject to the censorship of the bureaucratic usurpations and to point, both in morale and attrac: Auto Union, because Ford is still still determined to crush the moreover, one of the few major National office. With another the policy of shameful surrender tive power. The reaction to the unions of the which has stroke, the Executive Board vio to General Motors. On these ignominious defeat in Little unorganized. The membership, developed its own independent lated the decision of the Milwau crucial questions the Executive Steel has not yet abated. year especially in General Motors leadership. In contrast, the Steel kee convention and incidentally Board voted favorably by a ago, rank and file o. mem plants, is seething with dissatisWorkers Organizing Committee is the basic democratic rights of the unanimous vote. On the key bers would have opposed bitterly faction and impatience. The only a synthetic affair; the leader local union organizations. issues of democracy and Auto Union will exthe any negotiations between the way the its present ship, primary and secondary, is Martin was too ill during the policy toward the corporations, and the American Federa tricate itself from the private property of the Mine NEB meeting to give an organi Martin and the Unity people tion of Labor Executive Council. numerous difficulties is to arouse Workers bureaucracy. The Textile zational report. The question was obviously see eye to eye. Today, they are all hoping and the membership to the dangerWorkers Organizing Committee tabled until after the Atlantic When on top of the decisions praying that an agreement will ous state of affairs, and prepare leadership, the private property City conference. Martin recover at the Executive Board meeting be reached between the two or Chrysler and General Motors. It of Hillman and his friends. The ed sufficiently two days later, fourteen organizers, including ganizations. As the 38 season is B principles of democracy, however, to discharge fourteen Victor Reuther and Robert Travis getting under way, the Auto budge from their present stiffthose corporations refuse to common even in many of the International organizers.
American Federation of Labor reason: Economy. Martin forgot got riled up. Martin hotel was the first order. After three months necked attitude: STRIKE!
unions, such as strike votes, strike that his own Executive Board picketed. Delegations started of negotiations, General Motors progressive group will be committees, elected negotiating had increased organizers salaries pouring in from Flint, Pontiac, has still not offered a reply to reconstituted in the days to come on the firm basis of a fighting pro committees, have been blandly gram of militant action and ordisregarded by these two organiganization. The revolutionists in zations, The Auto Workers Union the Auto Union have the opporis unquestionably the best that tunity of playing a highly imthe o. has so far produced.
portant role in this new movementa movement that possesses Leaders an Obstacle gigantic scope and opportunity for the future.
Eighteen months ago, the United Automobile Workers launched their organizing camNOTICE paign. Objective conditions were The New York District of highly favorable. The rank and the YPSL will conduct a torchfile responded with energy and enthusiasm. Dillon and his reactionary crowd were ousted by an Side on FRIDAY, NOV. 12, the day after Armistice Day.
almost unanimous vote. new, Mobilize at district headquartyoung and progressive leadership had been placed in office, In As Our British Friends ers between and 7:30 and march to the new headeighteen brief months, this truly progressive leadership has become quarters of the Lower East a furiously reactionary, red baitSide branch at 159 Rivington When the Russian proletariat, By Lucifer and students in Shanghai, killing ing clique, whose only thought is under the leadership of Bol.
nine and wounding scores. few St. In case of rain, go directly to Rivington St. where a mass the perpetuation of its own ex sheviks, ended the rule of the believable shamelessness, the short weeks later, British troops istence and position. Personal capitalists and landlords twenty Chinese Stalinists have abandon opened fire on a demonstration of meeting will be held. Ernest Erber, who has just returned prestige and standing overbalance years ago, they established noted the cause of the downtrodden Chinese students Shameen, in from a nation wide tour, will very easily with them the inter the prerequisites for building an peasantry and act as open strike Canton, killing 52 and wounding speak.
ests of half a million men and isolated socialist society or one breakers against the workers. 117. In the following year there women. The leadership has be sixth of the earth surface, but All this has been and is being was the British naval bombardcome a hindrance and an obstacle a point of departure and support done in the interests of a Peo ment of Wanhsien, Yangtze to the further progress of the for the world wide proletarian ple Anti Japanese United River port, resulting in heavy out the overthrow from power of of imperialist domination. withorganization.
revolution. The October revolu Front, just as in 1927 the Chi: casualties. And in 1927, British the Kuomintang and militarists Events move with such whirl tion afforded an exemplary in nese revolution was betrayed and warships, combining with Ameri and the creation of the rule of wind rapidity today; the problems spiration not only for the toilers wrecked in the name of a na can, Japanese and Italian naval Soviets.
of a union organization have be of the capitalist countries of the tional united front. All the units, poured shells into Nankat come so complicated and difficult west, but also for the oppressed prestige of the October Revolu ing. But that was all 10 12 years Plenum of the in De in this era of capitalist decline, peoples of the colonies and semi tion is being employed by the ago. Imperialist Britain has since cember. 1933, Wang Ming, the that it has become virtually im colonies. above all China, where Stalinist epigones to strangle been promoted into the ranks of Chinese representative declared possible for a man to be consis a youthful proletariat was strik the beginnings of the new Chinese peace loving powers. Hence, that the overthrow of the Kuotently progressive in a union, ing out on the path of revolution. revolution by harnessing the the British soldiers now at mintang regime is a condition of without the guidance and direction and aid of a left wing work, small part in the great Chinese geoisie. Stalin needs an ally in ish lives and property (read against Japanese and other imThe October tradition played no Chinese workers and peasants to Shanghai, although sent for the the successful prosecution of the national revolutionary ers party. The evolution of Revolution of 1925 27, but the the Far East against Japan. He British imperialist interests) are perialisms.
Martin and his crowd is not ac opportunist policies cidental. Dalrymple, President of Chinese Communist Party, dic wants China to fight Japan so hailed by Stalinist trained Chi Today, Wang Ming announces: the Rubber Workers Union, a tated to it by the dominant that Japan will be unable to nese students as our British. We, Chinese Communists, openman of far greater personal Stalin Bukharin faction in the fight the Soviet Union. It is for friends.
ly declare that we support the gone an almost identical trans tion to tragic disaster renhose the liquidation of Communism How Bolsheviks Defend government, and will fight shoul.
formation and plays an almost same policies have been revived which Chiang Kai shek and the China der to shoulder with them against identical role. The heroie period again today in China, but in a Chinese bourgeoisie demanded for Japanese imperialism.
of the Auto Workers Union as of crasser The new Stalinist Kuomintang the is definitely over. form. The interests of the Chi. diplomatic deal with. Moscow alliance, instead of promoting support the struggle against JaThe September meeting of the nese workers and peasants, if and resistance against Japan. and assisting China struggle panese imperialism, but the proNational Executive Board of the the Comunists have their way, for national independence againstgressive character of the nationAgents for Britain Auto Workers Union was marked are to be wholly subordinated to imperialism, will result in the al war is no excuse for giving by retreat and reaction. The the requirements of Soviet for The new Stalinist line in China national struggle is closely bound shek. Any such support is a bebetrayal of that struggle. The political support to Chiang Kaiwarning of the Milwaukee con eign policy.
is already bearing poisonous vention was ignored. General fruit. Last week, three British up with the class struggle and trayal.
Motors was informed it could Kuomintang Gets Red dismiss all employees guilty of Army violating union discipline and gun fire at Shangai. At the sub policy which hinders and betrays stitute agency of the national sequent funeral, according to the class struggle militates aresponsible for unauthorized What remains of the Chinese press dispatches, thousands of was not so very long ago that gainst the national struggle. ti bourgeoisie, and by that measure a prostitute agency of imperialstoppages. Thus, Knudsen and Sloan have become the new conCommunist Party has become Chinese students lined the ceme the Stalinists themselves recog in China as elsewhere, have the ism. The revolutionary Marxists, trol commission in charge of almost an integral part of the tery walls and later paraded nized this fact. Thus the Sixth task of tearing the standard of enforcing the decisions of the bourgeois Kuomintang. The So through Shanghai streets carry World Congress of the Comint the October Revolution, the great union. In five minutes, the Martin viet Government of China has ing banners which read: Longern in 1928 affirmed that the traditions of Bolshevism, out of Executive Board destroyed what the auto workers had fought ten been liquidated. The Red Army. live our British friends. Party must explain to the masses the hands of these traitors and weeks of furious battle to win leading the workers and the ophas been virtually dissolved and How short is human memory! the impossibility of a radical pressed peoples out onto the clear The convention revealed that brought under the high command On May 30, 1925, British police improvement in their position, road of the proletarian revoludelegates were possessed of tool of Manking. With almost un fired on demonstrating workers the impossibility of the overthowtion.
Shanghai Students Forget The Lessons lite parade through the East Of 1925 27, Hail Imperialist Troops war