January 8, 1938 SOCIALIST APPEAL Minneapolis Unionists LeadersAcceptSpeed Up. Bring Suit for Libel Akron Workers Aroused Against Daily Worker with CONVENTION RESOLUTIONS AKRON. Unionism in Akron not be discussed at the business suffered another setback last meeting, but left to the plant week when officials of Goodyear foremen to introduce.
local agreed to a company pro In event the program is workposal to speed up production, and ed out, it will be handled departultimately cut wages.
ment by department, it was learnUsing the excuse of preventing ed. There will be no general pro.
MINNEAPOLIS. Instituting libel suit against the again, warning decentralization by cutting down gram to cover the entire facStalinist Daily Worker, the Executive Board of General once against Bell.
unit production costs, John House tory. the Akron Times Press Drivers, Local 544, retained Albert Goldman, noted Chi But Francis egged on by the the reactionary president of the said.
cago labor lawyer, to proceed with the case.
Stalinists who had provided the local No. 2, United Rubber Work Since the limit was the greatphoney affidavit. insisted on er of America, accepted the est single factor Suit will be filed in the names in building of Vincent, Grant, and Miles Coast. In other words, despite going through with it. His ans management plan to increase unions in the rubber industry, per cent its abolition will throw the Dunne, Farrel Dobbs, Bill Brown, Cole warning, Francis insisted wer to Cole repeated warnings tire production seven into further retreat.
and Local 511. Materials to be on the right kind of informa was to send copies of the affi per man each day.
davit to all parts of the country The rubber companies, notori Men with 10, 15, and 20 years used in the suit are the special tion!
anti Corcoran edition of the Daily for release to the press. Obvious ous throughout American indus service, who were about to be Worker and previous material of Cole Warning ly fearing negative comment by try for their speed up system, discharged in 1936 because they Cole, Francis wired him instruc did not slow down production could not compete with younger, the same stripe.
Once more, on November 22, tions on November 29th to release until after the Goodyear strike faster workers, joined the union, Thus the Stalinists will have a Cole warned Francis. Party the affidavit to the press with in 1936 and the series of sitdowns because it saved their livelihood chance to try to stretch their Now their future, and the future information to the legal rules mentioned treacherous character. no comments other than ask for which followed it.
of evidence and to pay a stiff Take no chances, and followed a federal investigation.
Union members placed an un of the local is imperiled by the up with a letter to emphasize But Francis was not the only official limit on the amount of surrender of the officers.
price when they flop.
my telegram that the man is no scoundrel. Cole, after all his work to be done each shift. Al If successful in bringing back Further Exposure of good. The next day Cole wrote warnings, himself read the affi though House and his henchmen the speed up, the companies will West Coast Frame Up that The drivers to Francis, explaining to him davit to a Stalinist mass meet prevented the limit from be cat wagés. Before the days of (Local 544) ing here on December But coming an official union policy, the the companies The whole mechanism of Sta warned all locals not to trust two days later, confronted on the the workers maintained it in the often urged the men to produce linist frame ups in this country Bell in matters of money and witness stand the coroner shops.
more.
The limit has become so ex The company would then cut was further blasted by testimony advised against hiring him as an inquest, Cole denied all knowobtained from George Cole, local organizer. However, Cole went ledge and responsibility for the plosive an issue, that the mem wages for each unit produced. o. director.
Thousands of Akron workers As readers of on to provide details useful to affidavit.
With the opening of bership of the union were only the Socialist Appeal will recall, Francis in building up a false his files by the jury, however, it informed of the officialdom in the grip of the economic crisis the West Coast stooges of the picture of Bell as an of is clear what his foul role was capitulation through the daily may accept this attack upon their Communist Party attempted to organizer. But he ended his letter, in this filthy business. press. It is probable that it will living standards. They may believe, at first, that more produccome to aid of their Minneapolis tion and longer hours may inbrethren with the confession of crease their wages slightly.
a certain Robert Bell that he was have worked one month in sent by Minnesota labor leaders the last five, one Goodyear tire to kill Harry Bridges, the builder stated. My total wages director on the Pacific Coast. This confession was blasted at once (Continued from page 2)
of the Soviet Union against imperialism is there for this period were less than what a WPA laborer gets.
in San Francisco. See the Socialfore the imperative duty of the international proHowever, not all the unionists ist Appeal of Dec. 11, 1937. perly directed by the revolutionary party, it may letariat.
will take the attack without reCole revelations, made public become the decisive popular slogan with the masses Stalinism, however, likewise in the long run sistance. Already several have by the Northwest Organizer, 01 of the workers and above all of the militant trade sumantes the completo defeat themelore the yan of the Teamsters Joint Council unionists.
and the restoration of capitalism within the Soviet beating up production hogs. cil of Minneapolis, not only exUnion. The revolutionary defense of the Soviet Resistance against the rubber pose the frame up but bring to The Russian Resolution light the methods by which they Union, that is the defense of the remaining con barons must be organized, direcquests of the Revolution of 1917 above all of the ted and done on a mass basis: are concocted. We reprint the After a thorough going analysis of conditions nationalized economy and the mighty foundation The organization of a progresNorthwest Organizer article on the subject, in full: in the Soviet Union, the Russian Resolution draws it provides for workers rute and progress toward sive bloc on the basis of retainthe following conclusions: socialism therefore requires no less imperatively ing wage and hour standards and How the Bell Affidavit The Solution of the Present Crisis the Soviet Union, the political struggle to win the step to be taken in combatting the struggle against Stalinism. This means, within for union democracy, is the first Was Cooked Up Of the Soviet Union decisive sections of the Soviet masses to the re the combined attack of the comrepanies and their stooges within That one official warnvolutionary program and upon that basis the over the union. The present crisis in the Soviet Union will throw of the Stalinist bureaucracy and the re ed another against using the phoney Bell affidavit cooked up eventuate either in capitalist restoration, which establishment of the democratically controlled by the Stalinists, båt that the will follow with certainty as the immediate result Workers State. The struggle against Stalinism, HOUSE PARTY officials then got together of successful imperialist attack, or in the long run more with far from being inconsistent with the uncondicertainty from the continued rule of tional defense of the Soviet Union against impeequal plausible, was revealed when the Stalinist bureaucracy; or, on the other hand, rialism, is a necessary part of such defense: The WELCOME HOME OUR DELEGATES George Cole, Regional Director the of the ce. was recalled for establishment of their own democratically con and for the overthrow of the Stalinist dicatorship conquest of Saturday, January further examination last week trolled dictatorship as the State power, the re that will ensure the socialist progress of the at the home of Jager by the coroner jury investigat form of the economy, and the reassertion of un Soviet Union, is impossible without the fullest 505 6th Street ing the murder of Pat Corcoran.
ámbiguous progress toward socialism. The cha litical and material aid to the Bolshevik Leninists po Auspices: Lower Man.
Subpoenaed by the jury the racter and methods of the present dictatorship in the Soviet Union in their work to reconstitute Admission: 20 offietais was introduced in the its armed suppression of all opposition or suspi. the revolutionary proletarian party of Marxian inrecord, and reveals the delibera cion of opposition, has done away with all possi ternationalism, section of the Fourth International.
ST. LOUIS THE MARXIST SCHOOL teness with which the frame up bility of the peaceful reform of the State, and leaves the masses only the road of political re Revolution, is inseparable now as always from the The defense of the Soviet Union, of the Russian Olive Hall was engineered.
volution.
3830a OLIVE STREET Wanted Right Kind international revolution. The success of the revo Tuesday, Jan. 11, p. Of Information The Defense of the Revolution lution internationally, in at least certain of the CIO AFL, Unity advanced capitalist nations, is the only assuwance Its Real Meaning On November 17, Richard The outcome of the present crisis in the Soviet for the socialist development of the Soviet Union, Speaker: ARNE SWABECK Francis, Regional Director of the Union will be decided by international forces. The the only way in which to root out Stalinism and of Chicago. Well known Defense of Labor Journalist wrote a letter to cole, asking economy and polity, and cannot be artificially the Soviet Union therefore excludes support of him for information on Robert isolated from the rest of the world in spite of any imperialist government, or capitalist governCole wired all the pretenses of the theory of socialism in one ment within any imperialist coalition in the comARE Bell. Cn the 18th YOU Francis: Party mentioned un country. The economic and social conflicts cis answered by wire, repeating of the conflicts of international economy and of the class struggle within every country with the FOR WAR?
reliable and no good. But Fran the Soviet Union are reflections and expressions in coma hether or not allied with the Soviet E AD his request and on the 19th Fran the international class struggle. The dependence aim of the overthrow of the capitalist government cis wired Cole again for mate of the Soviet Union and its destiny upon interna and the establishment of JUST PUBLISHED Workers State. Only rial.
On the 20th Francis wrote the preparations for and probable events of the tionary interests of the Soviet Union.
tional forces is most strikingly of all shown in such a State can in actuality defend the revoluCole, explaining that Bell had coming imperialist war. Indeed, the international By the National Executive sworn to an affidavit that Meyer policies of Stalinism are inescapably bound up the indispensable condition of the extension of the Peoples Socialist League. Within the Soviet Union and internationally. Committee of the Young Lewis, of tive, had hired Bell to kill Harry the democratie imperialist powers and the social Marxian internationalism of the fourth Interna: Order now. 5c per copy Any information you can furn. patriotic betrayal of the masses and of the work tional. The task of the ers revolution.
ish us will greatly assist us in of the Soviet Union. 3c in bundles of 10 or more our work to discredit the Ameri The military victory of one or more of the im the revolutionary struggle for workers power and WANTED. Girl Comrade share two room and kitchenette can Federation of Labor and perialist powers over the Soviet Union would gua for socialism throughout the world, are summed break Teamsters racket rantee the immediate restoration of capitalism up in the building of the Fourth International, Apt. Communicate: Appeal Ofunder Dave Beck on the West within the Soviet Union. The unconditional defense and its sections throughout the world.
fice. Kimmel. Very reasonable.
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