Published Weekly as the Organ of the Socialist Party of New York, Left Wing Branches.
Vol. II. No: 401 Saturday, January 1, 1938 Cents per Copy SOCIALIST APPEAL Sit Down Strikes Sweeping France Hits Labor Robinson Rubens Algic Trial, Paris Utilities Frameup Prepared Paralyzed By For Spy Scare New Strikes Ship Strikers Condemned As Mutineers For Solidarity Move Cooperation With Whom? Why?
BALTIMORE, Md. The Roosevelt regime struck a heavy The psychological preparation of the American people blow against the Organized Labor for war goes on alongside the swift speed up of the Roose movement when it obtained the Paris transport facilities and public services were paryelt military and naval program designed for the ultimate conviction here of 14 seamen of alyzed by a general strike beginning at dawn on Dec. 29.
showdown with Japan for imperialist domination of the the Algic on charges of This was the answer to the attempts of Camille ChauPacific. mutiny because they partici temps People Front Government to break the new wave The country has been treated to its first spy scare in pated in a sit down strike.
of sit in strikes sweeping over France.
the form of a spectacular search on a Japanese ship. Des The case of the Algic seamen Faced with rising prices which have wiped out the troyers of the Pacific fleet engage in mysterious maneuv is of nation wide importance be.
ers along the west coast. President Roosevelt announces attempt to curb the militancy of decree laws virtually abolishing the 40 hour week won at were an gains made by the great strikes of June, 1936, and new that he will ask an enlargment of the already stupendous the maritime workers and to that time, the French workers are rising to the struggle.
naval building program which now calls for the expendi outlaw the sit down strike The movement is only beginture of more than half a billion dollars.
weapon.
The basic motive behind the tics are already clear.
ning but its general characteris belt, with the Goodrich tire plant No Peace at Any Price Moscow are the center of a com arrest and trials of the Algic as a focal point, it has rapidly The character of the strikes spread to include telephone workplex conspiracy with roots both seamen was the desire of the is not episodie, but, on the con ers, steel workers, chemical This followed Roosevelt plain in Moscow and the United States, Roosevelt intimation that his government designed to feed the spy scare in ministration to smash the inter trary, reveals a determined mass workers, department stores, mowas not prepared to continue this country. At one with Ale national solidarity displayed by upsurge on the part of the work vies, food warehouses, bakeries, ers. The occupation of the fac river boatmen and all forms of enjoying peace at any price Landon in the sentiment that all the seamen when they pulled a trries is widespread. Although transportation, especially the and the studiedly frigid accep. Continued on page Continued on page 7) centered in Paris and its red truck drivers. Thus the provinces, tance of Japan apology for from Lille to Marseille, are inthe sinking of the gunboat Panay volved in the Yangtze River. The extension of Japan robber war of The reaction of the workers conquest China will provide reveals their revolutionary nature more than ample opportunity for and aspirations. The Goodrich An Editorial new incidents, new friction, new factory flies the red flag. With accidents which can at any Parallel moves are being made in Washington press with its logical force and sincerity other ous strike wave of June, 1936 the experiences of the tremendtime considered propitious be and in London to harmonize the policies of the democracies with great stakes for peace in the under their belts, there can be made the pretext for starting the world two leading imperialist powers in the Far Far East. The interests of France and the Nether no doubt that the workers have This week the Stalinists dia Eastern crisis, which is daily becoming more acute lands, in the Pacific as well as in European waters, established factory committees the American Student Union to continue their devastating march through China. attacks are tolerated or repeated. They must pro stantaneusly and intuitively along the parallels repudiate the Oxford Pledge and These moves are the first fruits of the Japanese ceed if international the workers learn that to adopt an openly jingoistic sinking of the gunboat Panay and their banditry is to be brought to the halt which their People Front Government has platform promising in advance attacks on British warships in the Yangtze River. sister democracies now seek to impose. sent mobile guards to evacuate the students support to Ameri What is the meaning of this Anglo American Who are these champions of justice and right the workers fordibly from the The can imperialism in the coming entente? What bearing does it have on China who seek to end the international banditry of occupied factories.
war. At the same time the Daily struggle against the barbarous invasion of the the Japanese imperialists. Times dispatch of December 26 proves the seriousness of the siThe very mention of Britain evokes living me tuation, when it says: than Hearst dares, lashes up the for the American and international working class? mories of imperialist freebooting and plunder, of Government arbitrators prespy mania and calls upon the In a considered editorial on December 24 an savage exploitation and oppression of weaker dicted the beginning of the end government at Washington to editorial having all the earmarks of a statement peoples. British imperial grandeur is the story of the strike movement which emulate Stalin methods in deal of policy approved by the State Department in of a vast empire of colonial slaves, an ing with spies and traitors Washington the New York Times empire threatened to approach proporwarns the which spreads over two continents and embraces tions of the wave of strikes in velt and Stalin war aims, and Japanese imperialists: numerous insular territories as well. India of 1936, under the government of most especially those who stead Those Japanese statesmen who are reported Amritsar massacre fame, land of public floggings, Leon Blum.
Lastly dedicate thenselves to the from Tokio as fearing joint action only would of mass pauperism, where the Royal Air Force revolutionary struggle against discover their error if, unhappily and unthinkably, periodically bombs villages of lowly Northwest Government Intervenes capitalism.
their military forces were permitted to continue frontier tribesmen. Africa land of forced labor their cruel and illicit warfare against friendly na and wretched poverty, where millions of Negroes nomie in origin, immediately be3. The strikes, although ecoThe Robinson Case tions.
are ground down in helotry. Palestine where come political in every respect.
Developments in the mysteriThis staid and respectable organ of American currently the Arabs are being subjected to naked Premier Chautemps, after conous Robinson Rubens case dur imperialism favors the widening of the Anglo military terror.
ferences with Interior Minister ing the past week indicate more American entente: France. democratic France of the Third Re. Marx Dormoy and Air Minister and more clearly that the couple concurrent policy of the United States and public and the Popular Front and democratic Pierre Cot, insisted that the now sitting in GPU cell in Great Britain needs only to be followed to im (Continued on page Continued on page 2)
in as the same its