January 1, 1938 SOCIALIST APPEAL In The California Labor World Left San Francisco Labor Council West Coast Labor Notes Jabs Condemns Stalinist Frauds the Hits Bridges Call for Gov Inteference in Unions Harry Bridges, West Coast calling in the government to pry o. representative and Sta into their affairs. Many consider The Land of Cotton linist stooge number one, is his action to be that of the chief SAN FRANCISCO. Indig Whereas, The daily press con screaming his lungs out here ide stool pigeon of all. If the goRomance, beautiful women, nation against the despicable trolled by the employers and the manding a government investiga vernment is to have access to the southern chivalry and happy attempts of the Stalinists to Daily Worker published by the tion of the San Francisco mari. union hall and books it wont need singing workers in the fields!
introduce the frame Communist party have joined in time union! Via the press and to send in stool pigeons, they Ah yes, let us drop in on them, up methods in the American a campaign to smear and dis: through his mouthpiece, James argue, The Department of Justice That what Owen White did trade union movement is tis credit the martyred Corcoran and Neil, publicity man, can get all the information it and he tells about it in Colliers ing ever more loudly in the the trade union movement, with Bridges is ranks of organized labor. Fol the charge that his assassination heaven that the Frisco unions are shouting to high wants direct. My Home in. Dixie lowing on the heels of the de. was caused by racketeering and seething with provocateurs, stool cisive condemnation of the gangsterism in the trade unions; pigeons and strike breakers. He Fired out of the office went into their two loom Cactics by th official and labor movement in Minneaclaims he has proof of this that when she disagreed wit the cabin, with a small kitchen atWhereas: These same forces are he is anxious to present to a go. Communist Party, Gertrude Wilk tached, wherein eleven people polis, the San Francisco active on the Pacific Coast in a vernment hearing. This flagrant took her case to her union the live, and was amazed at its emLabor Council struck another like attempt to besmirch the bona betrayal of elementary trade United Office and Professional ptiness. In the kitchen saw two powerful blow against the Sta fide labor movement, and are anionism is obviously and open Workers Union, Making wooden benches, rickety table, linist disrupters and slander joining with the capitalist press ly directed at the rank and file a pretense of acting on the case a crippled cookstove, and as a ers in a resolution adopted by in charges of of and paper of the Marine Firemen, he Stalinist dominated dismissal total visible supply of food for it on Friday, December 10, gangster plot whenever any inter Oilers, Wipers and Watertenders committee of the union investi the family, a part of a sack of 1937. We reprint the resolu gitimate conflict arises within Association which has rallied gated it and on their finding sent corn meal and a small slab of tion in full below: the labor movement; and over a fourth of the membership a protest against the discrimi fat back, or grease meat. In the of Whereas coThe brutale murder Warn Against Repetition of that union around a program nation to Harry Bridges. When other two rooms were three sia of amalgamating the thvee sea the latter refused to tonsider the double beds on which were three treasurer of the Teamsters Joint On West Coast faring crafts on the West Coast case the Stalinist dominated ex old, thin cotton mattresses coverCouncil of Minneapolis was a Whereas, These same forces the Sailors. Firemen and ecutive committee of the union ed with torn, worn, cotton quilts.
blow at the labor movement of recently issued public statements Cooks unions.
voted to drop the matter and to Also in those two rooms, there that city, as well as the general attempting to link the Sailor The firemen, sailors, cooks and strike references to it from their was only one chair. No sheets, labor movement throughout the Union of the Pacific in a plot even the longshoremen in his minutes! group of progress no pillow cases, no shoes and no United States; and with the shipowners to throw 35. own union are asking Bridges ives in the union issued a leaflet clothing were to be seen anyCommend Teamsters 000 men out of work, and inome very embarrassing ques exposing the betrayal of their where in the house, although, another statement charged that tions. They especially want to rights to the membership hanging on the line outside noand Council of forces within the know why he doesn give his ticed a tiny pair of blue overalls, Whereas, the Teamsters Joint organized labor movement were information to the Maritime Fe have succeeded in rallying a large and two or three towels made Council of Minneapolis has of participating in a plot on the life deration of the Pacific so the men ninority of the members against from fertilizer bags.
fered a 10, 000 reward for in: director, and that this well known West Coast in the unions can act instead of the Stalinists. Say Man, How be you?
formation leading to the arrest Minneapolis, and conviction of the assassin plot originated (Farm In 1935 the and have repeatedly made false or, assassins; and charges again Whereas, In order to protect labor movement that gangsters, organized Security Administration) had on its books. in Alabama and the Jahor movement and its goon squads, etc. were ruling Georgia, 26, 259 families, averagchosen officers from a terroristic the organized labor movement; ing six persons each, whose net waardereempaign the most reworth per family, including lentless efforts must be made to now, therefore, be it clothes, food, livestock, chickens, bring the assassins to deserved For Exposing Union farm equipment and household punishment; and SAN FRANCISCO. The Sailors, said La Follette Committee is furniture, was 03. Their health Whereas, An attempt is being Busters Union of the Pacific, at a recent the investigation of employer status is so bad as to be almost made to attribute the murder of Resolved, that we condemn membership nieeting, overwhel spying, thuggery and anti union unbelievable. Of 121, 388 Carcoran forces inside the such tactics by this irresponsible mingly condemned the action of activity; the said committee hav persons examined twenty eight labor movement, and to besmirch element as splitting and discre the Stalinist stooge, Harry Brid ing no right or authority for in per cent had tookworm. childtrade unions with the accusation diting the labor movement and ges, in attempting to get the fe terference in the internal affairs ren, sixty two per cent. Venereal that gangsterism and racketcer call for a full concentration of deral government to interfere in of labor organizations, and diseases are common. Malaria and ing inside labor ranks is res all efforts to expose these anti the affairs of the maritime unions WHEREAS, this requested in pellagra likewise are very preva. ponsible for this murder, and labor elements within the labor on the West Coast, Constantly vestigation is not only an unent.
this constitutes a foul slander on movement for what they are; losing ground among the rank warranted insult against all mathe bona fide labor movement union busting, boss collaboration, and file membership of the marritime unions on this coast, but Sweet Land of Liberty and its martyred officer and ists who are out to discredit and ritime unions here because of would also open the way for shields the real murderers and wreck the bona fide labor move their class collaboration policies barrage of false and malicious saw people who are miserdark forces behind them; and ment.
and disruptive tacties, the Sta testimony from ship owners ably sick and yet so ignorant linists have, in desperation, stool pigeons, commissar stooges, that they don know they are department of justice men arrest sought to obtain the aid of the and every other conceivable type sick. saw slatternly, barefooted the 11 seamen on charges of Washington, authorities, in an of enemy of the Maritime Unions d, filthy, tobacco chewing women. mutiny based on a law passed effort to stem the tide of re. Of the Pacific Coast, and and scabby headed babies who in 1790! The charges declared sentment among seamon and port WHEREAS, this testimony have never had a bath, except that the seamen were conspir workers.
would be planned and calculated one maybe, since they were born; ing and endeavoring to revolt The progressive leadership of to influence unfavorably pending and adolescent boys and girls; Ship Strikers Condemned against the master of their ves the Mariti Federati has legislation now before Congress, and shifty eyed, shiftless men, so sel.
As Mutineers For The charges are a brazen made serious advances in every BE IT THEREFORE RESOLV tired all the time that they lie lie.
union here, including those con ED: that we, the members of the down on the ground to talk to Solidarity Move trolled by the Bridges gang. The Sailors Union of the Pacific me, all living, eight or ten of Only Crime: Refused into one appeal of the San Pedro local of meeting in headquarters Monday, both sexes, crowded (Continued from page 1)
To Scab the International Longshoremen December the 20th, condemn room. Add to this picture child Union, still in the grip of the larry Bridges and marriage, or not even marriage, sit down to help the strike of The only crime or the sea Bridges gang, to the LaFollette 13 for this attack on the inde with a birth rate three and one longshoremen Montevideo, men was their refusal to work Committee represents an act of pendence and integrity of the half times greater than the naUraguay this September. alongside scabs, and this is an desperation on the part of the Maritime Unions of the Pacific tional average, and with practNothing would be more fatal inalienable right of a union man. Stalinists which has served only Coast, and ically every baby born infected to Roosevelt pro war policies Convicted on two counts, the to intensify the resentment of than a continuation of the feeling 14 seamen face a maximum pu the workers against them. The ED: that we notify the La Folletto BE IT FURTHER RESOLV. with disease.
of international solidarity among nishment of five years imprison resolution, adopted at the maritime workers will be difficult to drag the trade trial was held in a federal court.
since it ment and 1, 000 fine or both. The its last meeting, follows in full: Committee of the United States The Gay Southland Senate that the Maritime Unions Is it really the same country WHEREAS, Local 13 San of the Pacific Coast are capable union movement into imperial national campaign to rally Pedro and Harry of setting their own problems that the Times says luues the ist war to slaughter their union the organized labor movement Bridges, brothers in other countries, it against the terrible convictions Directors. have seen a fit to send and determined to resist any in tourists. Land of cotton fields solidarity exists.
unauthorized and for the freedom of the sea the following telegram and to the political agents of interests which share cropper cabins, of Foreshadows War men had been announced by the LaFollette Committee of the are outside of, foreign to, and magnolias and vivid moonlight.
National Maritime Union, of United States Senate: Have repeatedly hostile to those of the dog woods bloom in white clouds Regime which the workers are members. every reason to believe and evi membership of the Maritime over the hills, Cherokee roses.
How ruthless Roosevelt will be STALINISM dence to point that our ranks are Unions of the Pacific Coast. camelias and azaleas bloom riotagainst the labor movement durinfested with industrial spies and and ing the coming world war was provocateurs Stop Request that ously in okl gardens. Yachting, Copies of this resolution to be demonstrated by the manner the BOLSHEVISM your committee make arrangements to investigate situation in locals, the sent to Harry Bridges, all horse racing, fishing and golf of Algic sit down was broken.
fering diversions. The gayety The captain of this governby Maritime Unions on this coast. Committee, the Maritime edera loving population lives in an atment owned ship wired Washing10 Leon AND WHEREAS, the Maritime tion of the Pacific Coast and its mosphere of festivity; Mardi ton for instructions on handling TROTSKY Unions of the Pacific Coast have component organizations, the Gras. garden tours, flower the sit down. Put them in irons, demonstrated their ability to Voice of the Federation and the replied Joseph Kennedy, then Pioneer Publishers conduct their own affairs without West Coast Sailor.
shows, musical events. yellow head of the Maritime Commis100 Fifth Avenue the assistance or interference of jessamine, wild honey suckle etc. Passed overwhelmingly by the sion, and send them home.
New York, NY.
outside government agencies, anel Sailors Union of the Pacific, etc. Let us be thankful, there When the Algic returned here.
WHEREAS. the function of the Monday, December 20, 1937. are no classes in America.
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