Correspondents Write In From The Trade Unions Under WayIn Moscow Left Jabs Tells of China Struggle Page SOCIALIST APPEAL January 22, 1938 December 1933 issue. He is known to members of Local and ways to guarantee. Two weeks went by before the the factory to him at the rate SOCIALIST APPEAL 338 of the Retail Clerks Union as a Stalinist. He a Soviet government answered. While using the pass.
of one dollar a year parently also goes under the name of Wershow. His port disclosures, to deal a few blows to the in Marion, Ind. now has a shoe VOL. II, No. Saturday, January 22, 1938 wife, Muriel, is also a Stalinist supporter if not a party the United States, Hull made no public disclosures.
factory, the boss has his profits member.
with no deductions for machePublished every week by the Socialist Appeal The Appeal Fries The Lid Ore nery depreciation, and the work.
Publishing Association at 116 University Place, Sharfin, having obtained the passport aplications ers foot the bill.
New York, zither from Rubens direct or through an intermedinry, The Socialist Appeal is not a State Department The American Federation of passed them on to Harry Zukerman. At this point the gazette. It has established that at both ends of the Lahor, which reports this highly Subscriptions: 00 per year; 00 for months. passport applications graduated from the level chain which made it possible for the Robinson Rubens instructive incident, is silent on Foreign: 50 per year. Bundle order: cents per to the Tamiany Hall level, and went through several to get their phony passports are Stalinist connections. EAST CHICAGO, Ind. The wages for thousands of rubber the question of wage, hours, so copy. Single copies: cents.
Tammany stooges to Al Marinelli, County Clerk of We have charged that the Robinson Rubens affair is long awaited purge of the Stalin workers has galvanized the CJ. niority and working conditions.
All checks and money orders should be made out New York, who certified them and sent them to Wash important because it casts light on the nefarious, reac ists has begun in the Steel Work unions into preparing a defense to Socialist Appeal.
ington. The State Department made out passports. tionary political activities of Stalin G. both in ers Union of the Pre against such moves.
The dicted for many months by every Entered as second class matter September 1, 1937 this country and in the industrial union CANTON, Ohio. Little Steel Ravitch Got Passports barons in the Canton region at the post office at New York, New York, under the No Stalinist organ or official has attempted to rer one who studied the scene, the council branded the company Act of March 3, 1879. The passports were sent, as ordered by the appli fute any of our charges.
purge comes as a blow to the plans as a selfish, callous and moved to consolidate their posicants, to an organization called the Drama Travel Stalinists. Beginning first in the arrogant move and pledged, tions last week by introducing At Powerful Forces MAX SHACHTMAN Work League Miss Isabel Walsh, worker in that office, has Chicago Calumet area where the its complete support to Local into city council a drastic alien Editor, identified pictures of Mrs. Robinson as those of a nerv In the United States there are powerful forces which, the drive has started by the a program.
Stalinists are particularly strong, Unions involved in fighting such rexistration measure The ordinance, proposed by HAROLD ROBERTS FRANK GRAVES ous woman who once came into the office looking for having an eye to imperialist war adventures in the dismissal of the district sub. The six hour day is one of the Republican Mayor James SecAssociate Editors.
Miss Helen Ravitch, the manager. Miss Raviteh, des. Far Enst, desire not to cause serious embarrassment to director and former strike direct few remaining gains won by the combe, would compel all foreign pite her denials, has been identified as the person who Stalin. These forces have the ear of the State Depart or curing the Little Steel Strike. United Rubber Workers tot Aime born residents of the city to re BOB BROWNE signed the receipt for the passports delivered to her ment. Consequently, despite Mrs. Rubens American Other Stalinist organizers are rice which has been left intact sister at the police station every Business Manager.
by the Post Office Department. Miss Ravitch is married to Dr. Solon Bernstein, the Robinson Rubens case for a frame up by the use as the John citizenship, despite the fact that a plot is afoot to use slated to be rewis Phil Murray rubber companies against immediately in the recent onslaught by the six months, be finger printed the photographed and pay a one dol.
lar registration fee. They would physician to Stalinist William Foster, and also con. of evidence manufactured in Moscow, the State Do bureaucracy moves to strengthen wnions.
be furnished with cards which nected with the Stalinist International Workers Order. partment enters a conspiracy of silence. Instead of its position. The pretext given is would have to be carried at all KOMINSA FranG UP the passports to the Drama Travel League, the Ro stigators have learned in the last two months, it cont observer knows that this is not lesson in hog tieing workers to of a policeman. Before instructing the State Department to deliver making available to the public all that its many inve economy but any intelligent MARION, Inc. An object times, and shown upon demand pinsons had asked that they be delivered to a mid town rives to silence most of the press on the subject. While the real reason, their employers under the lofty address where lived one Mr. and Mrs. Harry Fried it does not dare to suppress openly the American polit steel industry was begun, the given here by the Marion Shoe failed to catch local labor napWhen the drive to organize the slogan of profit shaving was ner of presenting the ordinance The quiet, almost secret man.
lander. The Appeal has been informed that the Fried. tical opposition, it protects Stalin good name be was forced to rely on Company.
Post Office Department has shown considerable anxiety fore the public.
ping, however. It has been un.
the many Stalinists who volun.
case, Mrs. Friedlander maiden name is Florence Oken.
Several years ago the company animously condemned by the Hull may be expected to continue conniving with teered as organizers.
This is the name of a known Stalinist supporter; the the Kremlin to hide the facts, unless forced to open (Continued from page 1)
During the strike in Little was on the rocks, and threatened Industrial Council and the the workers and the towns people American Federation of Labor, organizational tie up, if any, is unknown at this writing the Robinson Rubens Yezhov dossier now in his posses. Steel, Stalinists demonstrat with closing. By devious methods with the exception of the buildconfer with Leon Trotsky prior to their departure for It may or may not be a coincidence that Oken is a well sion.
ed to the bureaucracy that they public spirited campaign to ing trades council.
Enrope. To this they added the suggestion that the known name in Stalinist circles, Helen Oken being the The continuance of the Appeal investigation will were trustworthy stooges and Robinsons or Rubenses had been to California prior wife of an editor of the New Masses.
bring more facts to light, making the Department showed them that they were the keep the factory in Marion was The building trades together with the American Legion and to their departure for Mexico. without failing to tell equals if not the superiors of Guilty. Knowledge their readers that California is the main center of Workers raised money for a other eivic groups are waving If at the same time the United States Senate Com the Lewis group in their class 23, 000 stock subscription to the flag and beating the drum Japanese espionage activities in the United States. 9. well known Stalinist in New York atated many mittee on Foreign Relations demands the facts now in collaboration tactics and in their purchase the factory from the for its passage few days after they launched this story, a Vice Com. weeks ago, when not a single newspaper knew anything lull possession, the State Department may have to.
owner. The money was borrowed, So determined has opposition missar of the in Moscow wrote a sensational about the Robinsons identity, that the couple had do a great deal more talking than Hull or Troyanovsky Stalinists as Stooges and paid back by deducting two become that council postponed story for the Soviet press, reproduced in part in the been in California before going to Mexico. This Sta. would like.
per cent of the employee wages final reading of the ordinance at American newspapers, calling the attention of the linist obviously had inside information on the story Always afraid that Murray cach week.
its meeting last week. Organized to activities, real or alleged, of unnamed Japanese which the had gotten up for the Robinsons would dispense with them if they Magnanimously, the boss de Labor representatives were on pies in California and Panama.
became aggressive, the Stalinists cided to stay, and, equally mag hand to vigorously oppose the to tell.
did their best to prove to him nanimonxly, the workers rented measure.
All these deliberately disseminated rumors acquire 10. Several weeks ago the Freiheit, Stalinist Yiddish significance in the light of the charges, completely re organ, declared that certain Trotskyite writers on that they were the best Charlie futed, to be sure, made in the Radek Piatakov trial last New York Yiddish papers were aware of the real identity The Trail of Empire McCarthies of them all. Even during the convenyear, to the effect that Trotsky had conspired with the of the Robinsons. Noodless to say, the Freiheit has Japanese Mikado to give Japan the Soviet Maritime not named names. The Appeal has inquired, not of The bloody trail trod by Great Britain in her march Lion held in Pittsburgh during Provinces and the island of Sakalin (and its oil) for Trotskyite writers (there are none) but of those Yiddish forward to becoming a peace loving nation is marked the week of December 15, when Leiter rom Shanghai the purpose of war against the Soviet Union and the writers whom the accuses of Trotskyism, at the honors list of the Seaforth Highlanders, the and that their stooging tactics by the honors of her famous regiments Take a look the purge was about to begin it was apparent to everyone that United States.
Commission Gives Spur was preparing to drag a few Yiddish anti Stalinists honors consisting of the list of places where Scottish were of no avail, the Stalinists of that regiment died defending democracy. worked hand in hand with the into the frame up and incidentally gave away its own Here is the list to date: Carnatic Hindustan Mysore Lewis Murray machine in crush It is quite apparent, therefore, that a systematic guilty awareness of the nature of the plot. Continued from page 3) Front, that is, they sought to Cape of Good Hope, 1806 Maida. Java Central India ing rank and file democracy and attempt has been made now for months to cook up a drag these movements backward Mail Pilfered. Peiwas Kotal Charasiah Kabul, 1879 Kandahar, militancy.
new frame up, made particularly necessary for the drivers, actually managing by into the fold of the Kuomintang 1880. Alfghanistan, 1878 80 Tel el Kebir. Egypt Lewis, Murray, and the coal these methods to capture Stalin regime because of the fact that the International six instead of trying to deepen the 11. Two months ago the national office of the Commission of Inquiry into the Moscow Trials, headed complained to the Post Office that its mail had been. South Africa, 1899 1902. Marne, 1914 18. Ypres er power than they ever had bee 1882. Chitral. Atbara. Khartoum. Paardeberg miner bureaucracy secured great tanks. The soldiers at Shanghai also against the present regime. Their class consciousness of the masses by Dr. John Dewey, so effectively exploded the previous villed. We now learn that the Post Office Department. Look Somme. Vimy. Arras. Cambrai. Va they were given by the delegates heavy losses on the Japanese urge the Kuomintans, to hope and charges made by the in its confession trials has arraigned one Arthur Semle, a department employee, lenciennes. Palestine, 1918. Bagdad.
inflicted line of action is to push and against Leon Trotsky as an agent of Hitler and Japan. charged with stealing mail on the route which includes (most of whom were either con. But their commander failed and demand that the Kuomintang The curse under which the thick skulled and clumsy the office. Semle has signed a confession and will Peace Loving Nation. 1938 trolled by the Murray machine them at every turn. buy dis accept them into the Governor by the Stalinists)
their programi pelled to continue an unending series of trials, in the Post Office Department has showen considerable anxiety The following quotation from the World Review check to do what they pleased. example. the Japanese landing maving abandoned here Intest of which they try to stuff up the gaping holes to convince the press, including the Socialist Appeal, brings another honor to the record of Bloody Britain. Now they are moving to conso was almost a sennial. the he revolution, they hope to solve which are revealed in the preceding trials. The im that the only motive in the thefts was to obtain money, ministration (British) is not denied by the government. longer needing the Stalinists who fear of commanders to sacrifice tive means. They have abandon.
of the soldiers, the the agrarian problem by legisla The frame up obviously dates back to July of last or checks which are missing have been cashed and It is actually defended by those responsible for it. as did a great deal of the dirty their own forces, mutual distrust, ed the class struggle because it year. At that time, the press was filled with reports that political documents are missing. Dinas much as the a rapid and humane method of keeping pence in the work for them, they are pushin: panicky retreat before the ap scopardizes national solidarity: of the action taken by the Soviet authorities in checking CP. has for many years made it a practice to steal satposts of the Empire. We are told that villages select them out.
tourist ships from the United States for the purpose political documents belonging to its working class op, of time to allow the inhabitants to get away. This all contributed toward the case have turned their backs on the AKRON, Ohio. Authentie re with which the Japanese vecoris masses and that they recognize of barring from entry into the Soviet Union all persons ponents, we believe the theft of the mail had the usual norts that the rubber barons ed the Northern provinces. At the Kuomintang as their master.
by the name of Robinson.
political motive: to obtain a basis for forging doeu The End of Civilization here plan to attempt a return to Shanghai, the officers showed an When they joined in the work the eight hour day with reduced inclination to retreat and several of Chiang Kai shek headquartHow Works ments useful to the Coming at the time they did, we naturally would not be surprised if these thefts If the Anti Lynching Bill is allowed to pass it will Finally, at the beginning of December, man re had as their aim forgeries to be used in bolstering up mark the end of civilization in the United States. Marxist School Starts scuted. The general previously their lihtsuence counterpointment gistered at the National Hotel in Moscow under the the plans for the Robinson Rubens case. distinguished Southern gentleman, speaking in the quoted stated that the Shanghai additional right wingers Winter Term Feb. 16 name of Robinson suddenly disappeared. The woman The may now be expected, under orders, Senate.
phase of the war had convinced The winter term of the Marx. him that the factor which deregistered as his wife was told by the Soviet authorities to try to unload the Stalinista in New York who are in Reform Is Hopeless ist School will open the week of cides victory is not the army but that her husband had been taken to a hospital. few any way linked to the case, and perhaps to try to make Wage Differential for The recent reorganization February 14th at 116 University the masses. This conclusion will days later, Mrs. Robinson also disappeared although them out to be Trotskyites. In addition, the may Southern Senators Place. Regular courses will in be fully utilized in the future government posts still occupied four provincial governments left the Soviet authorities systematically denied knowledge be expected to fish around in American liberal, Boheof their whereabouts. That, at least, was the first story. mian, and pseudo radical circles in an effort to find Senators from the South, who opposed the Wages clude: Elementary Socialism, guerrilla warfare by landlords and reactionary Masses lield Down Now, the official account from Moscow already con somebody who can be bribed, blackmailed, or framed and hours Bill on the ground that due to the beneficence Marxian Economics, Principles of bureaucrats and cliques. It is of Mother Nature workers in the South should have Revolutionary Socialism, History absolutely hopeless to reform the told the Russian authorities that her husband had gone the Rubens and American Trotskyites. The frame up.
tains a significant alteration. Now, it is the wife who into playing the role of the indispensable link between lower minimum wages than in the north, were asked of the Third International, His tory and Problems of Trade As to conditions at the rear, political structure from within to a hospital! About the middle of November, reads noreover, will probably be stretched to cover not only to apply the same rule to themselves and take a twenty Unionism, Party Organization we see how the bourgeoisie, the or to initiate military reforms the revised version of the disappearance, the husband Trotskyites but any liberat or left critics of Stalin per cent cut in salaries by the Atlantic District Council Problems, and Problems of the landlords, the village elders and corresponding to the needs of of the So far no saviour of civilization Youth Movement. The last two The masses and the youth are the war shows us that the most disappeared from the hotel. The wife informed author. plan for a People Totalitarian War Front.
ities that he had become ill and had gone to a hospital, Grand Jury Probe has stood up on his hind legs in the Senate to propose will be open only to members of the name of which she did not know. search of all a bill along those lines. If such a bil were passed, the Socialist Workers Party and not allowed freedom of organis essential material of the struggle hospitals in Moscow and the suburbs failed to reveal For the last week there has been in session in New wouldn the pillars of civilization totter!
Young Peoples Socialist League. nize they are denounced as But the Kuomintang has been Other courses his presence, the officials said. World Telegram. York a Federal Grand Jury investigating the passport Jan. 18, 1938. and arrested. The just as reckless as it could be in racket whereby the mysterious Robinson Rubens got Quite Unintentionally planned.
This tiny forgery is but one of many, culminating their phony passports. The high political significance Says Director Fechner of the CCC camps: 2, 300, 000 The last semester of the Marx upper classes organize them handling this living material.
in the monstrous frame up being prepared for the pur of the Rubinson Rubens case is indicated by the fact ccc youths have been taught discipline, how to live in great interest in socialist educa collect funds or do relief work will continue, but the armies, in School its first. revealed selves into patriotie societies to the military collapse, believe pore of blackening Trotsky and the American section that not a single New York newspaper has reported large groups harmoniously, how to care for themselves, tion. Several hundred students This is to forestall similar orga falling apart, will become guerrilla of the Fourth International.
one bit of news concerning the Grand Jury proceedings, and how to maintain rigid sanitation. He adds: Quite regularly attended the lecture rozetions among the masses forces which, in cooperation with Either the reporters can get no information or they unintentionally their training is also such that they courses.
Case Bungled are afraid to print what they get lest they be prose could be turned into first class fighting men at almost The propaganda of the youth is lese army and wear it down cuted for contempt of the Federal Jury. Moreover, instant notice.
But, unfortunately for the frame up artists, the whole United States Attorney Lester Dunningan has appai ANOTHER GALA EAST branded by them as undesivab The operations in Shansi by SIDE LABOR CENTER le activity. The students are the former Red Army show that case has been bungled miserably from the very begin rently hedged himself about with unusual protections Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen AFFAIR!
closed up in schools as in the a small army, with a politically ning. Starting with the idea of having the Robinsons against publicity, usually one of the chief delights of SATURDAY NITE JAN. 22 olden days to study the Chinese conscious rank and file, animatenact the role of intermediary between Trotsky and prosecuters.
The latest song hit, goes round and round and it 159 Rivington St. 1st floor classics and to mull over tedious, ed by the spirit of equality, hav.
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worn out lessons. Their work in ing close connection with the clear pattern revealing that the Robinsons have been from the Department of State rather than from the ped out in a cartoon in the Morning Journal. Here WAA Member 100 national salvation is limited people, can win big successes.
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we found no less a notable than Moissaye Olgin, editor AUSPICES: to such unimportant fields as Here the masses do not flee All the facts thus far brought forth show that the For what is at issue here is not an affair of justice knee (he has had a lot of practice in knee, bending. of the Freiheit (Stalinist Jewish Daily) down on one EAST SIDE BRANCH collecting funds, mass singing, from the fighting zone, but help Robinsons were connected at every point with the but an affair of state.
AND play reading, wall newspapers, the army in various ways. There etc Communist Party and its members and institutions in are no more traitors. Japanese Early in December Secretary of State Hull asked looking with adoration at the Pope, and singing Bei this country!
LENIN, LIEBKNECHT.
Administrative officials utilize planes fly over the army headWe list here some of the salient disclosures thus far Rubens couple, then known only as the Robinsons. It The Sun, the Moon and the Stars Moscow for an explanation of the disappearance of the Mir Bist Du schoen LUXEMBURG their positions to amass big quarters, but they do not drop made which have caused the Daily Worker to maintain is rumored in diplomatic circles in Washington that Memorial Meeting fortunes by regulating grain bombs because no traitors have prices, by taking bribes such an aby mal silence all during the affair: disclosed to them its location and SPEAKERS: Troyanovsky told Hull not to yell too loud or he would great Stalin, leader of the peoples granting exemptions from cons it cannot be identified from the The Known Facts Maurice Spector. Member of be sorry. In any case, Moscow made no official answer Thou who broughtest man to birth, cription, by inventing new taxes air.
Nat. Comm. for a week, apparently confident that it could play with Thou who fructifiest the earth, and requisitions, etc. Mrs. Rubens relatives regarded her and her hus the sensibilities of Washington with impunity. At the Harold Draper (Nat. Sec.
Thou who restorest the centuries, The Revolutionary program Under such conditions, it is hand as Stalinists. Mr. Rubens had no known occupation end of a week the State Department discovered that Thou who makest bloom the spring, sheer deception of the masses to Sunday, Jan. 23rd, at Because of the still prevalent but plenty of money.
the Robinson passports were phony, issued a state. Thou who makest vibrate the musical chords. Labor Educational Center advocate national solidarity in suppression of the mass move. In applying for birth certificates in the names of ment implying that the Robinsons were not American Thou splendor of my spring, thou, the fight against Japan. The only ment through China, especially 415 19th Street dead persons named Robinson, the Rubens used an ad citizens, and thus unloaded the missing couple who Sun reflected by millions of hearts.
PHILADELPHIA, PA, classes which are capable of in the cities, and the arrest of Quoted from Pravda in Victor Serge Russia winning a decisive victory in this revolutionists (who are dress at which lived a number of Communist Party thenceforth were suspect in American eyes.
called Auspices: Socialist Workers war members, among them Julius Rosenthal (deceased. are still trampled under traitors. Twenty Years After.
Party and also because the foot. The resistance Intian Paley, and apparently one other, formerly an of the Kuomintang controls all popular Subsequently it was established that the phony Mrs. Lot Wife and Daughters Philadelphia Branch official of Intourist, Soviet travel agency.
upper classes will inevitably organizations, there has been ADMISSION. 25 cents Robinson was really Mrs. Rubens and that, whatever collapse. It is designed to prove practically no genuine In applying for the Robinson passports, the couple she may have to do with a Robinson passport, she worked through one Arthur or Aaron Sharlin. Sharfin was an American born citizen. Inasmuch as the Soviet wants peace and unity between the of and the David Dubinsky, president of the who that resistance against Japanese movement as a imperialism Lenin, Liebknecht, reaction to the hopeless. Then the Loukiaochino incident and the is a member of the Communist Party; he was formerly government had never answered Washington inquiry and wants it now, is compared by John Lewis Luxemberg, upper classes will be ready to events which have followed it.
assigned to the New York District, Section XV (mid except indirectly by an equivocal tzvestia announcto Lot Wife, who disobeying instructions looked MEMORIAL MEETING live tinder Japanese military The Stalinists have completely Bronx) Unit 12. He was active in unemployed work ment that measures were being taken to apprehend the back at the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah and rule SPEAKER: turned their backs on the masses.
at the Stalinist Unemployed Councils at 1400 Boston missing couple Hall early in January felt compelled to was turned into a pillar of salt. Lewis in his scorn of Gould, Nat Organizer Stalinists Betray Hence it is up to us to approach Road, on East 171 Street, and elsewhere, and for a address a new request to Moscow, this time for infor. Dubinsky, apparently sees himself in the role of Lot the masses with a revolutionary time lived in one of the Council headquarters.
mation about Mrs. Rubens only.
who did not look back. John Lot Lewis should, how. and full lentgth showing of The most shameful political program, calling for the orgaLinks Established Hull On The Lid ever, remember what happened in the cave (Genesis; attitude is that of the Stalinists. nization of the masses, for the Ten Days that Shook 19th Chapter: 32 35 verses. Come let us make our the World When the student and petty creation of councils of workers. Sharfin was linked with one Max or Mac Shaw. When a week went by without a reply from Moscow, father drink wine and we will lie with him etc. etc. FRIDAY, JAN. 21, at P. bourgeois national salvation mo. soldiers and peasants deputies, This Shaw is apparently the same person, as Marshall a number of American nowspapers commented on the and wateh out for the 20th Century American daughADMISSION 25 CENTS vements were widespread and for the arming of the workers, Shaw, star subscription salesman for Soviet Russia To amazing attitude of the Soviet government toward ters who are getting a bit too ardent in their affec.
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