Published Weekly as the Organ of the Socialist Party of New York, Left Wing Branches.
Vol. No. 17.
401 Saturday, December 4, 1937 Cents per Copy SOCIALIST APPEAL Labor Aroused By Midwest Murder Economic Crisis Grows Rejects With More Lay Offs And Plans to Smear Rising Cost Of Living Union Leaders WHO KILLED PATRICK Thousands Pay Corcoran an move, By James Casey The new capitalist crisis has definitely arrived.
Wall Street and its press are calling it a business recession, while New Dealers, MINNEAPOLIS, Nov. 28. While organized labor Stalinists and other faithful healers of the decaying democracy are frantically look here closed ranks to fight for a thorough investigation to mous about for panaceas find Pat Corcoran murderers. the boss press and the Meanwhile, American workStalinists joined hands to smear the labor movement with ers and farmers are being charges of union gangsterism as the source of Cor:oran lashed, buffeted and over death.
whelmed by this latest econThe capitalist p:ess of ine twin omic typhoon.
cities, Minneapolis and St. Paul, Here is a condensed word pichave attempted to raise a lynch spirit against unionism. Their ture of the situation: animus is clear. Minneapolis driv. 1) Industrial activity has declined for the thirteenth conseers are 95 per cent organized and cutive week, according to the By James Cannon have inspired similar organization in other industries. Under the New York Times business index, Minneapolis. The atro gently only on the basis of lead of the Minneapolis locals, a and there are no signs of any im cious murder of Pat Corco the main facts standing in North Central District Drivers mediate upward trends. 2) Retail prices have soared the powerful Teamster der. These can be establish paid their last tribute to Patrick push ran, Secretary Treasurer of the back ground of the mur Ten thousand union workers Council was set up a year ago to union in five states. the percent as compared with Joint Council, has once again ed approximately as follows: Corcoran on Saturday, November few months ago, the St. Paul April (8 80 per cent for the same period. movement of Minneapolis Advance of the Unions: ledged by the daily press to have council, and thus spelled the end (4) Rents have risen 40 per into the center of national Minneapolis, once the been the largest ever held in this of employer domination in St.
Paul too. Twenty five thousand cent over the housing costs in attention. Once again the open shop colony of the Citi part of the country.
drivers are united in the council.
January, 1984 In zens Alliance, is today the unprecedented of progressive labor keenest interest and concles best organized city in the the Minneapolis Teamsters Joint Boss Press Leads Attack Jobs Drop from coast to coast have entire country. One must go the time of the funeral, and from Council called a Holiday during (5) Factory employment has been aroused in this stormy to San Francisco for a near A. to noon no trucks or ways an unrelenting toe of labor, The St. Paul Daily News, aloutpost of labor in in New York State, according to Northwest, the pace setter gan of the 1934 strike, cabs moved in the city. is leading the pack in viciousthe State Department of Labor for the country. The forces Make Minneapolis a Union services from Delegations were present at the ness. Under the hypocritical sloAgures, General Drivers gan of That is terrorism, not projects heve been eliminated. ganized labor cried out Town has been realized in Locals affiliated with the five unionism, it is daily linking Pat while many Federal of with one voice for the the ap action.
state North Central District Corcoran death to gangster thus adding to the number of job prehension of Corcoran hese. Federal data on the num assassins. At the same time fly by night paper organiz coran was chairman. Among the Columns are devoted to references ber of unemployed are not avail the dark forces of reaction, ations. The Minneapolis cities represented with drivers to labor czars, levying tribute now me approximate, though not in and stooges, couldn wait unions, tested in struggle, Willmar, Austin, Rochester ground out of which came come of Accurate figure.
coran murder.
the martyr militant in their methods Brainard, St. Cloud, etc.
to be lowered (6) Relief expenditures have been cut by 152, 416, 000 for the efore they began to sing in their demands. of the forening pegere betingelser forint here to News is a umeonsciousfy the wealed fret nine months of the year, as chorus, with a suspicious sters who drive trucks and stated that no member of the in a passing reference, compared with the 1936 total. enthusiasm this great nterizes either his job or his standing power of the drivers: It is ap assistance from Federal, State and been rehearsed and the parts of the Northwest are the holiday. The membership of the union is strategically the most the in the union by observing the parent that the truck drivers local funds, wages under the assigned beforehand for a dominating and inspiring driving crafts responded to a man effective labor weapon in this or works program and subsistence police investigation of the force in the movement. From to the call.
prants under the Farm Security trade union movement of membership of a few hunAdministration totaled 1, 685. Minneapolis.
dred Over a hundred local labor ralyze almost any business. For 491, 000. This is a woefully inyears ago, officials acted as honorary pall this reason, this organ of the adequate sum, many members of For everything there is a the driving trades in Min bearers mete the funeral. The bosses tries to smear the drivers unions.
Congress having admitted the reason. Here, on the ground neapolis now embrace twelve church was packed to the doors ood of two and a half to six in Minneapolis, the facts and thousand organized men. half an hour before the ceremonies Stalinists Follow Suit illion dollars to meet the nation the reason are clear for all the same leadership directs began, and thousands of workers 1 emergency.
to see. Who killed Pat Cor a total of twenty five thou stood outside on the steps during Repeating word for word the (7) Stock market prices, which coran, and why? And who sand men in a joint coun the services. Active pallbearers slanderous charges of the boss rve as one of the many aro wants to cover up the crime cil extending out into all the and ushers were drawn from the press, the Stalinists here have sters of general trade trends, and shield the criminals, and arteries of commerce over ranks of the various driving called a meeting which is desagain toppling as in the pe why? The search for the five North Central states tri crafts. The procession to the ce cribed, in their leaflet, as a od directly after the October, truth in reply to these ques butary to the Twin Cities. metery tied up traffic for over lamass public hearing on gangster (Continued on page 6) tions, can proceed intelli. Continued on page 4)
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