January 1, 1938 SOCIALIST APPEAL Local 544 Victory Over Wholesale WAA Workers Grocers Hailed by Minneapolis Labor Fight Ousting of Harrison and NO things MINNEAPOLIS. Local 544 victory over the wholesale grocery bosses, sealed by an agreement unanimously accepted by the strikers at their meeting of December 13, has been hailed by the whole labor movement here.
Three Hundred Workers Storm Alliance Office Drivers 544 Victory MarksoAnd Demand Open Hering; Force Lasser Big Advance. Blueblood Aristo cials who came over as part of torious enemy of decent workers To Adjourn Session cracy of Citizens Alliance Loses the agreement from which re standards of relief in this comin Short, Effective Strike. These sulted the present Local 544. By munity.
NEW YORK. Over three hundred workers, militant headlines from the Minneapolis unanimous decision the Executive Truck Driver Labor Review, organ of the Cen Board of the Union discharged We say emphatically that the members of the Workers Alliance, who will not tolerate tral Labor Union and by no the Firottos: Bellini was also Trotskyite Dunnes are agents of the Stalinist expulsion and disrupting squad heading the means too friendly to the Team gotten rid of and came into sharp the Citizens Alliance the Alliance, stormed the City Office at 781 Broadway last sters Progressive leadership, conflict with Local 544 when it forces of reaction in Minnesota. Tuesday, demanding an open hearing on the case of Neil testify to the universal recogni took jurisdiction over all the This can be supported by a mass tion of the importance this gas drivers. Pre usly hese of evidence with which every Harrison, Chairman of Local 15. victory.
drivers had been divided among working man in Minneapolis is Seeing an aroused rank and file, litants. This Adjustment Com Labor Review Esti line station workers local, and in Minneapolis people rub their Benjamin and Lasser, who were themselves preferred the charges.
a weak cio local, Bellini gaso. familiar. On the ground here the leadership, all the way up to mittee is composed of members mate of no union at all.
eyes to read such ravings. It is called in from Washington, found Stalinists How get around theber facts a matter of public record that the No Moscow Trials and justify the amalgam between Teamsters leadership drove the that they were treading on very The December 17 issue of the the Firottos, Bellini, and the Citizens Alliance underground. thin ice and backed down moHere!
Minneapolis Labor Review also Dunnes? Very simple for the The wholesale grocery bosses who mentarily on their rule or ruin The charges are not based marked the acceptance by that Stalinist lie factory. They simp were beaten last week were the policy.
Citizens Alon fact at all, but are mere organ for the first time of the ly ignore the facts and state the bluebloods of the blanket accusations with no bill progressives estimate of the opposite. After the merger (by liance.
Lasser Offers Stalinis controlled of particulars attached to any CIO Hard put to build up any office which 544 was established) Ed one of them. Thus the ire of here. Tactics of the CIO in the and Al Firotto, now awaiting kind of an amalgam, even a Twin Cities are not helping the trial for assaulting another union putrid one, the Stalinists again, The local bureaucrats were hearing can readily be underthose present at this 20 walled CIO and it is a certainty that man with a gun, and another dig up the notorious letter sent completely cowed. Lasser, nation stood when they shouted movement in general, declared Bellini, became firmly entrench the Department of Justice, ask al Chairman of the Alliance was Moscow Trials here!
the Review in its leading edi ed in Local 544 as organizers and ing for aid in smashing the put forward as the spokesman. The demands of the rank and torial. It does not seem possible part of the Trotskyist machine. Teamsters union.
That letter Evidently, not wishing a repe file are simple: national CIO leaders are awarehousing of the Firottos and Bellini! breaking action ever taken by has occurred elsewhere in the the most flagrant striketition in New York City of what An open hearing. Bill of Particulars, itemofficially the entire labor move The screaming absurdity of Latimer but the Stalinists vouch country, with rank and file mem izing in detail, what, when, where, ment here stands opposed to the the article signed by Truck for its accuracy!
how these bers dropping out by the thous. Harrison is charged, occurred.
with which union wrecking and frame up Driver which obviously was policy of the Stalinist machine. written by Harry Raymond in Explaining Thugs ands, and major splits occurring An adjustment committee The Minnesota State Electrical New York. The Truck Driver against the bureaucratic domi. that is not stacked. That excludes The Stalinist conception of Workers Council, composed of proves his thorough familiarity nation of the Alliance by the Sta people who have themselves all the electrical workers union with the internal mechanisnis of the united front: the public, of Minnesota, last week adopted Local 544 by saying, They con labor, civic organizations, church linist purges, Lasser offered what brought the charges, which is Gall esolution declaring that the trol Local 514 without democratic People, merchants class treach he thought was a compromise. clementary working class proces First he offered that the frame dure.
bass Stalinist slanders against procedarc. The Executive Board ery!
These demands are what the Pat Corcoran constitute a fou! appoints the stewards; the stew The Stalinists can quite up charges against Harrison be heard before the entire City Cen Progressive Group is fighting slander on the bona fide labor ards elect the Executive Board. make up their minds how to ex tral Committee, which was shout for, for all who are facing and movement and its martyred off Imagine handing this stuff out to plain the fact that, despite three ed down by the rank and file have faced the bureaucratic fist of cer and shield the real perpetra Minneapolis workers at the mo years of systematic slander and present as being unconstitutional the Stalinists of the Alliance, in so tors of this dastardly crime.
is in full blast in the union, the kyites remain the leadership of He offered another proposal to far as expulsions are concerned.
An Act of Despair be taken back and considered by membership meeting having the Teamsters. On the same page the group concerned, the Promade nominations last week!
they give three different explana gressive Group of the Alliance Disregards Needs of As the whole laboy movement tions. a) gangster terrorism; and Local 15, to the effect that Jobless moved to isolate and condemn Queer Allies (b)wildest demagogy and radical Brother Harrison and those (the With thousands and thousands the Stalinist frame up artists, talk. c) undemocratic regime in rank and file) supporting him of unemployed recently removed the Stalinists resorted to a des Having no friends in the the union.
perate measure because of the to keep their labor movement, the Stalinists can even mention, however, is choose 50 and those (the bureau from industry forces together. special Min find like minded allies among the the enormous growth of the union choose another 50, and the trial thousands waiting wecks on end bringing the charges, new business recession, with nesota edition of the Daily Work preachers. It is almost impossible and the five state North Central be held before these combined to er dated December 16 devoted to convey to outsiders how mad District Drivers Council and the 100 representatives. Again this misery facing the unemployed, get on relief; with more than two solid pages to the the Stalinists are when they pub, perfect record of winning strikes, was shouted down by militants the leadership is more concerned most insanely slanderous attack lish an article quoting at length This will give a picture of the present, who demanded an open with disrupting the organization, the Teamsters leadership the Reverend George Mecklen new which has yet appeared. berg as supporting their proposal Needless to say, the Daily Work: hearing at which no rank and with expelling militant elements, filer would be excluded.
than fighting against the admi.
The Stalinist stuff is on about for a judicial investigation of er did not publish a single word With this, Lasser demanded nistration at the relief bureau.
the intellectual level of a shot the trade union movement. Meck about the wholesale grocery that Harrison clear the hall, since who hold the life and death of of dope. Apparently the stuff is lenberg is perhaps the most no strike.
he (Lasser) obviously had no in the unemployed in their hands.
really written for people outside fluence over the unemployed as They, the bureaucrats, are more of this area who might not know sembled, and he then declared concerned with not embarrasing any of the facts. few examples the session over.
will suffice: LaGuardia, than with seeing that the unemployed are properly Faked pictures: Pat CorcoAccusers as Judges!
fed, housed and clothed.
ran with a sinister scar drawn Only an aroused and vigilant across his face; Bill Brown with membership can stem the shame hard lines put on his face, and a TWENTY YEARS AFTER The Adjustment Committee ful and disruptive activities of leering Vincent Dunne, which is to hear the charges, is the leadership. The record of picture of a sign of by Victor Serge If you want the bitter and composed exclusively of Stalin these misleaders must be made the Northern States Power Co.
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