4 SOCIALIST APPEAL December 18, 1937 Purge Coming In Repudiate Fake SOCIALIST APPEAL Vol. No. 19. Saturday, Dec. 18, 1937 Published every week by the SOCIALIST APPEAL PUBLISHING ASS Published at 116 University Place, Subscriptions: 00 per year; 00 for months. Foreign: 50 per year. Bundle order MINNEAPOLIS smashing blow against the cents per copy. Single copies cents. purge is being prepared in grasp a Phil Frankfeld, let us Stalinist attempt to link the progressive labor All checks and money orders should be made the American Communist Party. say, in the role of Carrie Nation movement here with gangsterism was delivered out to the Socialist Appeal If it is not as bloody as Stalin or Pussyfoot Johnson, at the December St. Paul meeting of the MinneEntered as second class matter September 1, purge in the Soviet Union, it is No, the whole point of the im sota State Council of the Packinghouse Workers 1937 at the post office at New York, New York, only because the Browder gang pending American purge, as is of the under the Act of March 3, 1879.
does not have state power.
the case in Russia, is that it Contrasting the national policy with the If officials and members of the pursues not moral but political rule or ruin policy of the Stalinist controlled The Dewey Report o. of this state, the Packinghouse Council not to be sent to prison or to base and reprehensible than the unanimously went on record against the Stalinist No more vigorous blow has been dealt the Stal Siberian concentration camps, it immorality and immodest beattempt to dishonor the memory of Pat Corcoran inist assassins in recent times than the report of is only because the American havior which Browder pretend by terming his death the result of gangster strugthe Commission of Enquiry into the Moscow trials, purges do not have them at their to combat.
disposal in this country.
the of The Stalinists are intent on gle for control of the headed by Professor John Dewey.
The Packinghouse Council is constituted by It is not only the unchallengeable probity and Threat Made Public making the Communist Party no representatives from all the Packinghouse locals intellectual integrity of the commissioners that In the threat delivered to the eyes of the American bourgeoisie in the state. It represents the only real union give such weight to their report, but also the fact recent Plenum of the Central to make it entirely acceptable locals in the here, outside of the needle that none of them shares the of Leon Trotsky and the Fourth International; in Committee of the American Stal to the ruling class, to prove that trades which also oppose the Stalinist policy. The inists, Browder, the party gen thing at all if Wall Street will it is fully house broken any resolution follows: fact, they are its adversaries.
WHEREAS, the labor movement is at present The hysterical cries of the Stalinist press and ing to the area in career fare core only decide to join the democra divided, and spokesmen, the charges that the commissioners 3, 1937. tie front against Fascism. Stalin WHEREAS, such a condition is of benefit only themselves are only part of a world wide plot to demonstrates his suitability as a to the enemies of the labor movement and cannot Our party is operating today nott to be feared ally the continue without virtual civil war, Trotsky and the Mikado, are taken least seriously in o tem emidst the the treate mass French and British bourgeoisie NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, by the by those who are paid to utter them. As insiders, us. The slightest weaknesses are man and woman who to the for a unified trade union movement, and The spotlight is on by physically annihilating every Minnesota State Council that we stand definitely they are best equipped know the hideous frame exaggerated and made use of by slightest or remotest degree symup system and methods of the our enemies. And let no one bolizes or incarnates the revoluBE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that we call assailable conclusions of the Commission which sonal from political life.
These cries cannot drown out the firm and un think that you can separate per tionary ideas that make the Oc upon the Washington Unity Negotiations ConfeYou tober insurrection of 1917 pos rence to make all possible haste in unifying the demonstrate the ghastly mockery that has been cannot do it; not in leading work sible. Essentially, that is what labor movement on the basis of democratie indusmade of the great ideals of the proletarian move in the communist movement. We is what is being planned for the trial unionism in the mass production industries.
ment by those who pretend to represent them in must create a much keener real American Stalinist cadres. WHEREAS: The Minnesota State Council of the seats of power of Russia. And though the ization of this fact in all our Packinghouse Workers is a labor organization Commission itself draws no political conclusions members. Any manifestations of Their Only Way founded on the principles of militant and democof its own nor was that its purpose or province looseness or penetration into our ratic industrial unionism and on the firm belief its report serves to underline a conclusion which ranks of bourgeois habits, par These old timers. all of them that Labor class must fight its class enemies, We consider inescapable: ticularly with respect to personal Stalinist life, must be rooted out, because reduced by this time to obliging AND WHEREAS: We fully realize as class The which disgraces, betrays and undermines the great as this that the enemies recruit ground or wiped out of the party his murder, therefore, is equally a blow at our bureaucracy has become a cancer it is precisely from such things hacks bt the political machine, conscious workers that Pat Corcoran was slain by Russian Revolution and its imperishable ideals.
in our ranks. It has been an Unchecked, the cancer will rot the whole body. invariable result of entirely. That cannot be done In the ruthless removal of this bureaucracy and amination political degenera on political grounds, for poli section of the labor movement as well the restoration of proletarian democracy lies the tion that it almost always is netical purpose. And what shadow, all labor, and must be avenged by the united strugof salvation of the Soviet Union. The Dewey report companied by personal degenera disagreement is permissible in workers or even evanescent whisper of a gle regardless of their affiliations, AND WHEREAS: We deeply resent the vicious is another weapon in the struggle to achieve these tion. We must begin to examine the ranks of the party bureae blow struck at all labor in the brutal assassinaaims!
all tion of Patrick Corcoran, militant Minnesota ing cadres as a necessary and racy?
Stalin Victory unavoidable part of the guaranThe only way of getting rid of labor leader a death which we deeply mourn, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the The entire world is laughing at the latest Soviet tee of the political integrity of burdensome elements with someelections, even the Stalinists who pretend to take our party. And this applies to thing of a past, is by framing hereby go on record against Corcoran en: enemies of powerful workingclass them seriously.
And to the degree that we find loathsome way is the one usually organizations, and, Only, it is no laughing matter. The elections problems that cannot be correct preferred by the wholly degeneBE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that we do our are a tragie commentary on the decline and dege ed, let us know in advance that rated cadres of the Stalinist very utmost to find and convict those responsible, neration of the Russian Revolution, undermined there always a final way of leadership, the frame up is to be and by a counter revolutionary bureaucracy. guranteeing the party against based on the immoral conduct The democratic elections were a travesty, dangers that is, removing peo of the victim.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that we protest which could be justified only by people with a ple from responsible positions if We are not among those who against and deplore the erroneous actions of the Hitlerian attitude towards the masses, or those they cannot give us a guarantee hold up the decadent lives and State o. Committee and the Hennepin Count who never saw anything wrong in a trade union of their ability to protect the manners of the bourgeoisie as ty Council for their policy of interposing a reactionary machine prevented any minority party, to protect its line, to pro anything like a standard of and injecting the issue and from contesting an election by presenting its own tect its prestige, protect its re morality.
Nor are we so ignorant in the labor movement of Minneapolis a policy masses. as to believe that the wanton, which we feel is most harmful to the welfare and Stalinist bureau future of the and a united labor moveThe nominations were made in public meet. Every member of the leadership irresponsible ings, and heaven help the person who ventured to bute positively, making the par excluding precious few of them of bonafide unionism and which we feel is ceret of the party has got to contri crats from top to bottom and ment one which can only lead to the destruction nominate a candidate who was not a 100 per cent ty reputation, spotless mastest their private lives in a way nationally, especially in view of the fact Browder calls tainly in sharp contradiction to the policies of the supporter of the Stalinist machine for the tackable among the would not help That the ajority of the districts had only one candidate running. Uriah Heep tion by the Catholic Church. Nor, at the Coroner inquest clearly repudiated these Only a totalitarian regime could regard such phenomena with joy and pride in actuality, it Browder announcement that interested in that question; the expressions of the State Committee and only shows how the bureaucracy has crushed the the private lives and conduct of political lives of the Stalinists County Council and its newspaper last remnants of workers democracy.
all the Stalinist functionaries are are, heaven knows, sufficiently on gangsterism.
The only right the Soviet voter had was to to be investigated, immediately repulsive.
Copies to be sent to: The Unionist, The Packing.
cast his ballot for Stalin and those designated by reveals the nature of the framehouse Worker, and the CIO Industrial Unionist, Stalin. He had no right to nominate a candidate up in preparation.
The hypoSignificant Fact and to the national and regional offices of the of his own choosing; he had no right to run on crisy of Browder piety is of It is any platform of his own, regardless of how pro not be use of their Twentieth political aims that Browder pur Council of Packinghouse Workers, December 5, It is, however we repeat Adopted unanimously by the Minnesota State Soviet it might be; and he had no possibility of Century Americanism that the sues. Highly significant is the 1937.
voting effectively against the candidates he had Stalinist chieftains are taking fact that in appointing the editor pushed under his pencil.
over the traditions of the Society for the new Chicago daily paper What a revealing light is thrown on the democ. for the Suppression of Vice, of the Browder went over Last Minute Minneapolis News racy of the elections when we read that at the which indiscriminately hunts por the heads of a dozen more or less.
Last minute, without the electorate acting or being nographie postcards and great indicated old timers. Wein Important developments in Minneapolis, consulted, regularly nominated candidates were works of art. The only qual stone, Minor, Amter, Bedacht, reported as we go to press, are being held over withdrawn by a mysterious hand and new ones ification that Earl Browder has Dunne, Don, Gannes (who is for full publication for the next issue of the soput in, guaranteed the same unanimous vote as for donning the mantle of the morally qualified, to boot. cialist Appeal. Among them are the following: those whose place they had taken if the latter had late Anthony Comstock or his Darcy, Williamson, and others Teamsters Union wins the strike of the successor, John Summer, is and selected for the post a man Wholesale Grocery Drivers.
How significant is the fact that one of the last that part of his character which who virtually just entered the Detlaf Wieck, Stalinist paid official of minute candidates was born in 1913, the very year for years earned him the name party, Louis Budenz.
in which the man whom he replaced became a the Carpenters Union, was removed from office of is coming for by the indignant membership following munist Party.
slandermember of the Bolshevik party. The old revoluBrowder threat was no idle or ous attack on at Corcoran and the Teamsters tionists, however The mind of anyone who is accidental remark. Protestations Union.
ile, the representatives of the new and rising strata General Secretary of the Amer tims are sure to make, will avail even slightly acquainted with the of loyalty, which prospective vic3. Capitalist Press threatens Vigilante of Soviet society who want to put the last nails ican Stalinists, cannot conceive them as little as they did the Movement against unionism.
into the coffin of the revolution and restore a of him in the position of a moral capitulators to Stalin in the William Wright, of representative, regime of capitalist exploitation.
judge, any more than it could Soviet Union.
exploded the Bridges Aassassination hoax.
mostemies the when candidates.
remained.
The purge