SOCIALIST APPEAL Plan Relief Cuts Published Weekly as the Organ of the Socialist Party of New York, Left Wing Branches.
Vol. No. 15.
401 Saturday, November 20, 1937 Cents per Copy Police Ban Mass Pickets, Morgenthau Speech Forecasts Guard Scabs, Arrest Strikers Planned Congress Attacks on Workers Economy praise there by the police until rein and initiated a united front move alothing insidentiteror Textile conidis Political Science a few days prior reduce the budget hoces, 60, in Smashing through the picket however, betrayed the class inBy Widick And the umemployed? Wat has lines of the United Electric and terests of the working class. More Roosevelt, who boasted that the Roosevelt regimet offer Radio Workers Union at the proofs of this perfidy will not be returning prosperity was planned profits of. Big Business by re do about the hundred brazen attempt to save the them? What does it prose to Presto Lock Corporation plant in wanting in the future, just as by the administration, sings a ducing its taxes and cutting down sands of lay offs. thonthey were not lacking in the different tune as depression the already meagre relief proAt the Brooklyn the LaGuardia police past.
sweeps across the country.
force escorted scabs into the facscope of the present recession, gram is being made by the Roose already drastic cuts in relit that velt administration at the special have brought misery and arvatory and dragged 15 pickets to which is fast wiping out all gains session of Congress that began tion?
Newark Students Fight of the apturn, is clearly revealed Every worker who ext his jail as the first instalment of this week.
labor reward for its fulsome ballot last fall for the re election For School by the following examples gathRoosevelt admitted in his mes. of Roosevelt believed that the and its support of Laered from recent reports.
Guardia in the last election.
In ten weeks, Steel, the leader sage to Congress that he was in the upturn, has dismissed alarmed by the current business! pion of the common people. great humanitarian and chamThe pickets fought back miliIn the middle of September, 185, 000 workers. In two weeks, tremendous lay offs which reflect recession with its accompanying would do something to alleviate tantly against the strike breakers and their escorting police and all students of the Essex County the closely related coal industay the deepening of the basic crisis the burdens of the work. lot under capitalism.
despite the attack of both Junior College received notices has laid off 130, 000 miners, while of capitalism.
In plain, clear, and cold blooded mounted and foot police, only announcing that school would not the balance have been placed on The New Deal program to terms that only the blind could a two day week work basis.
four strike breakers got through open in the fall. The Young Washington announces what meet this crisis was outlined by fail to see and understand, the lines and into the plant. The Peoples Socialist League underSecretary of the Treasury Henry Roosevelt informed the workers, arrested pickets were also drag, stood immediately that this meant every garment worker knew al Morganthau Jr. in his authorita through his spokesman Morgenslumption forcements and squad cars arriv ment in the interests of the 700 are in a similar or worse condi to the opening of Congress.
Auto production drops 000, which can be done, It adds, ed to take them to the police sta students against this measure. determined movement through reducing relief, farm rapidly, as thousands of auto towards balancing the budget is and public works expenditures.
tion. There they were charged Over 100 delegates from various workers face a workless winter. lone of the needed solutions for with felonious assault, inciting unions, unemployed organizations Unions in the oil, rubber, elec. today problems, Morgenthau nounced so frankly and openly?
Was any betrayal eve: anto riot, malicious mischief and and student groups attended trical and radio lines report told Wall Street, to foster the Roosevelt admits that hundreds rioting.
conference to re open Junior thousands fired daily. Machine full application of the driving of thousands have been laid off.
That the action of LaGuardia College. Endorsements of the manufacturing no exception.
police in the Presto Lock strike purpose of the conference poured force of private capital. o. leaders in Louis That there are millions unenwas not the isolated strike break in from numerous district com seek relief for thousands of meming of an individual police off mittees of unions and federa bers and non members recently Cries: Reduce Relief! ployed. He points that ov: in his message.
cial but the considered policy of tions. Only the Stalinist controlled dropped from the payroll. In San The Roosevelt regime hopes to the Police Department was con American Youth Congress re Francisco, the state unemploy balance the budget through. rc Aid Business, Keynote firmed by te publication of a fused to support the conference. ment service reports 300, 000 out ducing relief, farm and public Yet Roosevelt proposes to new order issued by the Depart. Meanwhile the forces of the con of work. Chicago reports a works expenditures, ment abolishing the right of ference swung into action. sharp rise Jorgen. cut down on the amount or relief unemployment. thau declared, and would try to in the face of a great increase workers to employ the weapon of picket line at WPA headquarters Ohio tells the same story. Tex encourage expansion of private in the need for relief! Let them mass picketing.
forced a statement that money tile mills in New England are, industry through revising taxes starve, Roosevelt should have According to reports published for the school was available. Two as in Hoover days, seeking vol found to be inequitable.
declared frankly. He meant that.
in the New York press last Tues delegations visited the City Com untary wage reductions. Min This declaration met with the His program, if carried ol, will day, police department officials missioners, who promised to neapolis joins the general trend unanimous approval of the Am bring that.
have been instructed per provide money for light and heat with thousands of new relief ap erican capitalist newspapers. Aid Business, is the key note mit more than six pickets to and a place for the school. plicants.
Especially such reactionary pap of the Roosevelt message to Concover any one industrial or Plans are now under way to Decadent capitalism again ers as the New York Herald Tri gress. This, at a time when finmercial establishment; not to start an experimental college that hammers home the lesson which bune. Why?
allow pickets ancial reports indicate that the lock arms on will give the students a means workers must learn: not throngh Because Big Business has been rubber, auto, steel, oil and other the line; and not to permit picket of receiving some education until New Deals or demagogic pro given public assurance that the industries are making over 50 ing demonstrations to move from Essex re opens. The students are mises, but only through the rev Roosevelt administration will help more profit this year than in one branch to another of a chain showing their desire for educa olutionary overthrow of the out them maintain profits. Can the 1936.
establishment.
tion despite the State Board of lived capitalist order can peace, capitalists be blamed for cheer Aid Business, shouts RooseThe immediate cause of the education and the American prosperity and security be won. ing?
cheers of Wall St. velt (to order appears to be the trouble Youth Congress. Stern. But what about the workers. while millions of workers face the police have been having with Ne cold of winter, the mizery of pickets of the Horn and Hardart starvation, and the other trageAutomats. If the order means dies of unemployment, without anything, it means that the adeven the prospect of a few bread ministration, acting as an agency crumbs in the form of relief!
of the cafeteria bosses, is intent PARIS. The left socialist, Francois Mauriac of the French chief purpose of this charge apupon smashing the Automat anarchist and Fourth Interna Academy.
pears to be to provide an alibi Real Program: Save strike.
tionalist movement here joined To cover up the government for the sensational desertion Even before the ballots have together in a great mass meeting, responsibility for the disastrous from the Stalinist Karl Marx Capitalism been completely counted, the city October 22, at the Salle Wagram, military defeats, the Stalinists Division on the Aragon front in How does the present Roosegovernment has thus given a de in defense of working class pri have launched a new lynch cam mid October, for which numerous velt program differ one io:a from monstration whom the LaGuar soners in Spain.
paign against the POUM and officers of the division were shot that advocated by the great dia victory will actually serve. Jean Rous spoke for the other prisoners. Humanité of and its PSUC political commissar, engineer Herbert Hoover, late As so often before, it does not (Internationalist Workers Party October 25 publishes a new se Trueba, dismissed.
unlamented Republican president take long to show how disas for the Fourth International. ries of accusations: destruction While the Stalinists thus sland of the United States, when he trous is the policy of class colla with Marceau Pivert speaking of bridges, military espionage on er the POUM, its members con was confronted by the 1929 de boration for the working class. for the left socailists. Daniel the Aragon front, attempts to tinue to die at the front. La Cor. pression. La Guardia and the capitalist po Guerin represented the Com assassinate military leaders and respondence de Valencia, UGT Such a liticians could not be expected to mittee for Inquiry strong defender of into the a minister, organ, of October 19, reports the Roosevelt as the New York Post act otherwise that would mean Moscow Trials.
death of one of the most heroic compares the Roosevelt to betray their class and interests. telegram to the Negrin gov Covering Up fighters of the war, the POUM Hoover policies as essentially the In endorsing LaGuardia and in ernment was read, demanding member, Jose Alcantarilla, com same!
collaborating with the capitalist legal guarantees for the anti The little detail that the mander of a battalion of the The revolutionary socialists go politicians to corral the working fascist prisoners, signed by An POUM leadership has been in 27th division. His prestige, won ass vote. under the illusion of dre Gide, Paul Rivet, Roger Mar prisoned since June does not stop on the battelefield, was so great one step further. We point out Labor Party, the trade union tin du Gard, and Georges Duhamel the Stalinists from blaming them that the government dared not that the programs of all the presidents, Republican, Demo ters, the Stalinists and the of the French Academy. for divulging military secrets touch him during the round up of Wing Socialists have, similar telegram was also sent by leading to recent setbacks! The POUM leaders. Continged on page Protest Grows Against Spanish GPU ht