Published Weekly as the Organ of the Socialist Party of New York, Left Wing Branches.
Saturday, November 27, 1937 Cents per Copy Vol. No. 16.
401 SOCIALIST APPEAL Labor Leader Slain In Minneapolis Coming Trials To Reveal Stalinists Seek Frame up Secret Plans of of Leaders of Local 544 Industrial Lay Offs Challenge To Labor By Leon Trotsky COYOACAN, Nov. 16. In France and in Switzerland sensational trials are Minneapolis: Watch the Fingers of the imminent over the criminal activities of the upon the world arena. The inFrame Up Artists!
quiry is apparently being conducted with energy. series of facts have already been See Editorial, Paye conclusively established. One of the new facts is the painstaking preparation of an attempt upon the life of Leon MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. The time before the killing of CorcoSedoff, my son living in Pamurder of Patrick Corcoran, ran, about information at his disTrotsky Cable to Premier Chautemps Secretary Treasurer of the Min posal indicating that ris. The Swiss woman, Renot only neapolis Teamsters Joint Council, Corcoran, but William Brown, nata Steiner, has made a INLT CHAUTEMPS PRESIDENT CABINET, PARIS. who was prominently active in president of the General. Drivers precise deposition on this IN AFFAIRS ASSASSINATION IGNACE REISS the organizing of the labor move Union, and the three. Dunne affair totally confirmed by MY STOLEN ARCHIVES AND ANALOGOUS ment for years, has aroused the brothers. incent, Grant and greatest tension that has exist Mfiles organizers of the union, the evidence. As an agent CRIMES PERMIT ME TO INSIST ON NECESSITY ed in the trade union movement were slated for killing of the Renata Stein SUBMITTING TO INTERROGATION AT LEAST of the Northwest for a long time. Ihile the assassin or assassins er participated, as is known, AS WITNESS JACQUES DUCLOS VICE PRES The cold blooded assassination have not yet been apprehended, in the assassination of Ig DENT CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES OLD GPU of the union leader is all the more the police declared that they have significant in view of the anPatrick Corcoran nace Reiss near Lausanne.
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nouncement made by Minneapolis But during more than a TROTSKY. Alderman Albert Bastis that year before this assassinahe had notified the police, some tion, Renata Steiner and a Russian White Guard accomplice, Smirensky, were occupied in shadowing Leon Sedoff: they prepared the stealing of my archives and attempted the kidnapping of Sedoff himself. Smirensky and Renata Steiner rented an apartment next door All indications in the national scene point to a wholesale offensive against the livto that of Sedoff (Rue La ing standards of the American workers, both in the industrial as well as the cratelle 28) so that the res political field. The past week has witness ed a further sharp drop in employment tigpective balconies were only ures, organized threats on the part of the bosses against the incipient resistance of three feet apart from each the workers to this trend; ed from 90 per cent to 35 per Linked up with this strategy, and a marked tendency on cent of capacity.
follows an onslaught on the gains On November of last year, the part of Congress and Lay offs are planned made by the trades unions in the Smirensky, together with other the Administration to act past period, the wholesale attack Yet, as the editorial writers in on agreements fought for on the time, stoleo 143 pounds of my more openly than at any the capitalist press point out, picket lines, the abolition of seniarchives stored by Sedoff with time since the inception of there is no sign of a crisis ority rights and so on. That is the Institute of Social History. the New Deal. as the the banking system; interest why the bosses are especially The crime remained unsolved in direct agency of the capital rates remain low and no indica alarmed at the militaney of the police did not have the slight ists in their efforts to un elopment of the capital goods the rubber workers in Ohio, who est doubt that all threads led to load the burden of the on industries. At the same time, have begun to reply to the layi Moscow rushing depression upon la the financial pages overflow with off campaign with sit down notices of dividend payments. strikes.
already questioned two suspects.
Planned Assassination bor shoulders.
At the United States Confer employment totals. Why, then, the sharp drop in of Sedoff Meanwhile, the Teamsters Joint Mobilizing Against Spokesmen Council has offered a reward of ence of Mayors, held in Wash of the United States Chamber Militants 10, 000 for information leading In January of this year, the ington last week, it was estab of Commerce provide the precise terrorists tried to arrange lished that in numerous locali answer. If a recession is on the of the sharpness of the coming minal. The Council issued Politically, the first expression to the apprehension of the cria trap for Leon Sedoff at Mul ties employment totals house (Muehlhausen) analogous fallen off between 10 and 20 per respondent quotes them, the has been the mobilization of the for Corcoran murder upon antithe one they arranged for cent in the last few months thing to znace Reiss in Lausanne. Under alone. In the highly industrial payroll as sharply as possible lar preparation in Michigan and National Guard in Ohio and similabor elements, and declared: over of the name of my Swiss ized regions, the percentage is for the moment and get over in other sections, as a reply to Teamster Council storney, who is occupied with a held to be even higher. If we with it. Times, November, 21, the spontaneous outburst of sitStatement it over slanders made by the Sonintern, the conspirators re are to take steel as an example 1987. In other words, since the downs. However, the political sedly urged Leon Sedoff by of the trend, lay offs of a far the working class the shock ab expression of the attack is not compromising fight against Min Pat Corcoran has led an ungraph and telephone to come wider scope are in prospect. Com sorber. Let the brunt be borne confined to such crass examples. neapolis employers and has un Muehlhausen for a conference. Ipared with the beginning of the by labor! There is the strategy of far greater consequence is questionably by his unswerving (Continued on Page 8) year, steel production has dropp of the bosses in a nutshell. Continued on page Continued on page 8)
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