SOCIALIST APPEAL November 20, 1937 West Coast Labor Notes is.
rectifying with bullets any acts of negligence in the most democratic elections in the world.
INTERNATIONAL NOTES But the is obviously having its hands full. So, on the initiative of Petrovsky, Chairman of the Ukrainian of the Soviets, the Komsomol (Y. committees have mobilized pioneers and all school children of pioneer age for active participation Stalin Tightens the Screws on His Plebiscite in the electoral campaign. Petrovsky in an article in Pionershkaya Stalin Central Committee sat in plenary session for two Pravda specifies just what this participation entails. Among the chief duties of school children days on October 11 12 to take the question of the electoral of the bourgeoisie, the nationalists, the followers of Petlura, the Camign. While the decisions of this session have yet to be Trotskyites, the Rights and other traitors of the people.
published in full, the keynote of the campaign has been issued, Labor Editor Resigns With each passing day, the terror is gathering momentum.
and the fear of the ruling clique given a more graphic expression. Krasnaya Gazetta for October 10, carries an announcement of a Somewhat of a sensation was Under the slogan of Strengthen the Ties With the Non Party new regional conference of the Leningrad Komsomol, necessitated caused throughout the ranks of Masses! joint slates with non party Bolsheviks have been made mandatory. All indications point to the certainty that non Party by additional exposure of enemies of the people who had sneak the Maritime Federation of the ed into leading posts of a Komsomol organization that has been Pacific last week when Ralph delegates will constitute a very substantial block, if purged three times in the last few weeks! At the head of these the Federation resigned, chargnot the majoreed of these Chaplin, editor of the Voice of ity of those elected to the Supreme Soviet. The press features the enemies, this time, was none other than Vaishlya, secretary of ing that the Communist Party, nominations of members of this new aristocracy from among the Regional Committee, one of Zhdanov closet henchmen and through a process of slow and the well to do kolkhozniki, Stakhanovites, technicians, Stalinist himself one of the most ruthless purgers. In the five weeks ending deliberate strangulation, has put intelligentsia and so on. They receive prominence second only with October ber 31, more than 400 individuals have been shot for the Voice on the rocks.
to that of Stalin and his closest henchmen pro tem. sabotage and wrecking according to reports published in the In his statement printed in the Whatever Stalin plan may be, his fears of possible hindNo sphere remains untouched by the purge, not even paper, Chaplin, well known workrances are being given ever clearer expression, with the progress the Political Bureau! At the XVII Party Congress of February 10, ing class poet, announced he reof the campaign. The press no longer speaks in generalities, but 1934 Stalin handpicked 10 men for this body. Of these, three died; fused to serve as a scape goat for openly tresses not only the danger but the likelihood that antiStalin candidates will be elected! For days prior to an official Kirov, Kuibishev and Ordjonikidze. They were replaced by Mikoyan, the cunning plot hatched by the were three of the candidates likewise local Moscow wrecking crew.
confirmation in Pravda, preventive resolutions on this theme selected at the time. The other two were Rudzutak and Postyshev. The principles of genuine indusdotted its columns. We select one instance out of scores: In 1985, after Kirov assassination, Zhdanov and Eikhe were ap: trial unionism upon which the We will strain all our efforts not to permit a single one of pointed candidates. Rudzutak and Postyshev fell into disgrace. ed are too important to be disthe vile enemies of the people from among the Trotskyite Buk And now with with the appointment of Yezhov to the Political Bureau, harmint Hy kov gang, not a single double dealer and traitor to the interests of the people, to speak into the highest organs of state the members of this body are (for the time being. Stalin, Mohtov, cardede for the cheap substitute Kaganovich, Voroshilov, Kalinin, Andreyev, Mikoyan, Chubar. proposed by the Communist cio.
power of our happy and free country. Resolution of the Neveky Kossior, Zhdanov and Yezhov. Of those missing. Eikhe has just plant in Leningrad, Pravda, Oct. 14. been kicked down stairs into the People Commissariat. Petrovsky Indorse Independent Pravda more than bears out the need of straining all on the spot in the Ukraine. Who is next?
Industrial Union efforts Referring to one of the most important, and perhaps To cope with difficulties Stalin has found it ncessary to add the key organizational In the meantime, the progrestional question of the electoral campaign, e. the bribes to agitation and bullets. On November 1, the People election of district and regional electoral committees, Pravda wails: Commissariat issued a decree raising the wages of lower paid sive campaign for unity among The enemy elements, understanding the full political signi workers and ficance of electoral committees, strive, and in some places net un.
sin industry and transport. The decree the maritime unions gains headand Seattle cautiously avoids specifying the precise amount of the raise, but branches of the Marine Firemen successfully. to sneak their own creatures into them, especially into the district committees. In the Ordjonikidze province in five districts alone, from among 81 candidates put forward wage scales of not less than 110 and 115 rubles exclusive of and Oilers union, and the headquarters meeting of the Sailors premiums and other additional earnings. For the first time we Únion of the Pacific have all vofor the district electoral committee, 14 either had criminal records have an official wage scale for lower paid workers, e. the ted by an overwhelmingly maor were implicated in ties with enemies of the people. In the face bulk of the Soviet proletariat. The ruling clique has lifted a corner jority to amalgamate the three of that, what good is all the talk about vigilance on the part of of the veil that hides one of its darkest secrets! That they have unlicensed union groups on the local regional party militants. October 18. been compelled to do so is another indication of the growing fer Pacific Coast into an independent Aasther instance: It is silly and dangerous to expect that ment among the masses.
industrial union affiliated to the the still lurking enemies the splinters of the crushed counterMaritime Federation.
revolutionary parties, the Mensheviks and the churchmen, By a majority of more than the most venomous of the enemies of the people from among the Trotskyhite Bukharinist Faréist gang will not strive to and per, On October 20, the Soviet press hailed the entry of the elector 14, 000 votes, organized labor in al campaign into a new phase. The first candidates were noSan Francisco last week again petrate abominations, and engage in wrecking on the sly. Oc minated. Their names are, indeed, important: Stalin, Molotov, securing an antipicketing ordinprevented from reactionaries tober 17. And again: Despite the absolutely clear directives of the Kalinin, Zhdanov and two non party Stakhanovists Pichugina ance.
and Smetanin. Was it an accident that Voroshilov and Kagaplenum of the of which stressed the paramount novich names are conspicuously absent among these first. Unionists Framed importance of electoral districts in the coming elections, party Beginning with October 29 Pravda began printing long lists organizations and Soviets, in many places, did not attend in a of organizations nominating Stalin. Only on November 2nd were LOS ANGELES. In recent Rolshevik ntanner to the selection of district electoral committees. the names of others included. Here is the order as of November months the District Attorney and In places, shocking negligence was shown, which enabled 2nd, arranged according to the number of nominations.
the courts in Los Angeles have shady elements to sneak into some district electoral committees. Stalin intensified their drive against This curred in the Kuibishev and Smolensk regions, as well as Molotov the militants in the unions. Anin the Ordjonikidze province. October 27. Our emphasis throughother attempt of the and out. the courts to break a strike ocThe disappearance of candidates is beginning to assume curred when two militant mem68 bers of the Josenationwide proportions. certain number of these can doubtless On the first appearance of these figures Yezhov ran ahead phine Snyder and Frances Sanbe accounted by clerical and typographical errors, but the of Voroshilov 37 to 36; and Kaganovich swamped Molotov by a hez were arrested on charges of illuminating comment in Pravda, coupled with the fact, that the score of 52 to 48. Knowing Stalin gentle methods, these hints kidnapping and grand theft.
remiss regions listed above have figured prominently in the latest are highly signifieant, indeed!
These charges and arrests are as reports of executions, is ample proof that Stalin G. is patent a frame up a. ever experienced by labor. Two weeks ago a scab attempting to enter POPULAR HANDBOOK OF THE TACTICS AND STRATEGY OF REVOLUTION!
the plant the Chic Lingerie Co. whose employes were on CRUSHING INDICTMENT OF THE STALIN FRAME UP REGIME!
strike, engaged in an argument with the picket. fight ensued, They say: during which the scab dropped her purse.
Witnesses present He marshals his evidence and argument with proved that the purse had fallen such mastery and cumulative force that the reader into the gutter and was swept will probably regard this testimony not so much into the gutter and was swept us a defense as an indictment. It is an indictinto the sewer. while later, ment more powerful than any penned, by Zola durMarshall Ross, union attorney, ing the Dreyfus affair.
accompanied by a detective, disSidney Hook, in the covered the purse lying in the New York Herald Tribune. sewer.
The charge of kidnapping This book is most readable. It contains Trotsarises out of the following cirky final speech of summation which will, most cumstances. During the first days likely, go down in history as one of the greatest of the strike, Mrs. Snyder and indictments of all time. It contains Trotsky reFrances Sanchez convinced a cord of his life, his relationship with Lenin, with The Verbatim Record of the Hearings of the Dewey union member, employed in the Stalin and the defendants at the trial, his story Commission in Mexico City plant, who was attempting to of the oppositional fight with Stalin. And it conpass the picket line, to remain tains a closely reasoned and brilliant analysis of on strike. She was taken to the every aspect of the Moscow trials.
617 Pages union headquarters, given lunch James Farrel, in the money, after a further conSaturday Review of Literature.
versation asked to return home.
The employer later visited the SPECIAL PRICE DURING THIS CAMPAIGN SALE: 50 girl and prevailed upon her to return to work and sign a com plaint for kidnapping.
This is one of many such ex periences that unionism has en Rush all orders to countered in Los Angeles. Thộ 28 EAST 12th Street New York, torces of labor throughout the city must be aroused against kind of vile strike breaking.
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