Smoke Screen Laid political platform which involRank And File Rebel Bureaucrats Prepare Sell Out Of All To Hide Frame Up Gains Made By Automobile Workers Continued from page bureaucracy.
under arrest.
January 29, 1938 SOCIALIST APPEAL Page much zest, Big Business Called ves the restoration of capitalism.
In California SWOC To Washington Confab SOVIET UNION NOTES And, although a political trend cannot hide its views from the working class, to use Stalin cratic union has been taken. Continued from page 1)
Drive Against Foreigners Proceeds Another even more evident before the (Continued from page 2)
own phrase, Trotskyismº sucG. Mystery. Troyanovsky Engages Housing Act finishes its course The calling of the rump sesceeded in accomplishing, again Membership Plouted through Congress. Times On Illiteracy they feared the reaction of the according to Stalin, what could sion came as a result of the conmasses. But if the Trotskyite not possibly be accomplished. Continued from page 1)
On the day before this action Who gave the GEB authority was taken, Roosevelt issued a platform is so repulsive to the of democratic procedure. few of the agreement and a just BY JOHN WRIGHT The Trotskyites hid their wocks previously the delegates cause for immediate suspension to srant these guarantees. carefully prepared statement on mit its publication in the laves the Trotskyites and from the steel lodge in the area, were company.
masses. wbrication in stand in ves: views from the rank and file of from Lodge 14, the largest or cancellation thereof by the Nobody on the contrary, they union responsiblity, and the ne Drive Against Foreigners Intensified.
tin and Pravda and allow the Trotskyite leadership. Alas, the provoked to walk out of a DisIn a statement to the press, expressed desire of the UAW union financial reports. This The lag in Soviet industry had led to the belief that foreign lose any support it might yet Trotskyite platform was a trict Policy Conference by the Homer Martin declared that the membership.
move would be unintelligible in specialists might be recalled, but thus far there has been noOn Sept. 11, a conference of itself, particularly since for thing to indicate any change in the attitude toward foreigners.
claim?
With ever more pugnacity, who believed amaielded from the discussion. The issue involved was unanimous. In other words, General Motors workers met in many years the financial reports Expulsion of Czechoslovak citizens has assumed such prothe Conference both the Martin Frankensteen Detroit, and unanimously reject of most unions have been avail portions that the Czechoslovak legation had to convert part of slaught on Piatakov and Radek, Trotsky three most intimate should support the policy its quarters into a dormitory for travellers in transit. The Paris but here too, he comes away confidants, namely, one dead mitting negotiations with u. timer Reuther (CP SP) fraction tract but the GEB guaran greater detail and clarity than press reports that about 60 Czechs have been recently placed with tattered colors.
man, one prisoner in an isolator, Steel to be handled solely by the are parties to this shameful tees of Sept. 11 as well. The the reports of, for example, the agreement.
Socialist Appeal of Nov. 27, big corporations. But this stateunder arrest. The number of Germans arrested has reached At the trial in 1937, Piatakov, Stalin doesn elucidate how he Radek and Sokolnikov took a happened to learn of the horrid 1937, told about that conference. ment is only one small part of 500, according to the same sources. In the latter part of 1937, Union Boss Roars What It Means The conference instructed the a major propaganda campaign 3, 000 Greeks, most of them naturalized Soviet citizens, were different line, says Stalin. They secrets that Trotsky concealed GEB to reconvene a General Mo that has been launched. The enarrested.
did not deny that the Trotsky even from the Trotskyite lead curred on an attempt to rule out guarantee. This week the explosion ocWhat is the meaning of this tors workers conclave within six tire press of the country is car At Moscow, 48 technicians were recently placed under arites and Zinovievites had a poership.
Certainly Stalin cannot of order a delegate from the ty days. This motion was rying article after article insist rest in a single house. Their wives and children, numbering litical platform. They admitted mean to suggest, at this late Bethlehem lodge who tried to to fire any militant worker from sure and only after Walter Reu. be modified to permit appeals by now has the legal right adopted under considerable pres. ing that the Wagner Act must they had a political platform, date, that he, too, like Radek, give voice to wide spread dissa its plants. All that is necessary ther acting about 100, were ordered to prepare for departure to an unknown recognized and unfolded it in destination. On Dec. 28, the police came in trucks and took was as Homer Martin employers as well as by unions: them away. It seems to have become an established practice to their testimony The right of hatchet man, killed a left wing that unions must be held legally folded it not to call on the work like he to the big cities.
But they un sky, through a Romm, or that tisfaction, and who ultimately is the pretext.
send relatives of arrested persons to regions far distant from people to support the Trotskyite to visit Trotsky in Oslo or Berconference should be elected procedure affords precious little ence in session until such mat breaches of contract; that wilding class, not to call on the from the floor. Eanging his gavel protection. Seven months ago, ters as the impending Pontiac cat strikes must be outlawed and Their apartments, incidentally, are not placed at the disposiplatform, but in order to curse said wishnary a soul knowing of and bellowing, Dalrymple bra. six union men were fired from strike were acted upon. Sixty punished; that sympathetic and tion of the public, despite the acute housing shortage, but reit and brand it an anti people said flight!
main in the hands of the which thus provides for its and anti proletarian platform. What is far more important ning the whole thing as he saw tiac. for cause. Their case there is no sign of such a con ed; that secondary boycotts must own members. 16. than the question of how Stalin fit on full authority from his made the rounds of the grievance ference or even a call for a con be forbidden.
came upon Trotsky dark secs. o. superiors, and that procedure and even of an im ference.
Non Existent Program!
The courts, rets are the implications of his anyone who tried to do anything partial arbitrator. The men are without waiting Another Mystery?
Instead comes the brazen, bu for legislation, are already carIs Stalin here, by any chance, amazing statement.
about it would suffer Everyone in any way connected with recording the death severe still out of work.
reaucratic statement by Martin: rying this campaign into action, unwittingly revealing a secret?
of Ordjonikidze, Commissar of Heavy Industry who allegedly Again Why? consequences. In answer to this The job of every shop stew. There is no way this guarantee as is shown by the New York Piatakov, Radek, et al were threat a number of delegates ard and committeeman is placed clause can be revoked before the decision outlawing died at his home on Feb. 18, 1937, has either disappeared or been secondary abashed at the manner in which Ever since the first Moscow called for the ramp session arrested.
in jeopardy. Deliberate reduc 1939 convention, which alone can boycotts, and the Illinois decision Kamenev and Zinoviev behaved trial, scores of old Bolshevik Delegates from Bethlehem, tion rate of production below over ride a decision of the execu against the Progressive Miners According to reports as yet unconfirmed, the purge reached at the first trinl. The confes. leaders and thousands of revolu National Supply, Columbia Stoel standards. can easily be used tive board. Detroit News, Jan. dealt with elsewhere in this is inside the Kremlin walls and carried off two of the leading sions of the latter pair, while tionary workers have been imprir (U. Steel) and other lodges as the formula to frame any 18, 1938. sue. Either in this or the next physicians in charge of the Kremlin hospitals: Drs. Levine (di freely given and amply self. soned or shot on charges of assailed the bureaucratic methods steward the company is out to Power Vested In Martin session, determined efforts will rector of the hospital. Mertz, and a third unnamed.
degrading, still lacked the touch having taken orders from Trot: and lack of cooperation of the get. With no union backing, unquestionably be made in Con These doctors had signed the statement issued by What is this principle that gress to embody these and other Kaminsky, then Commissar of Health, on Ordjonikidze death.
the suspicions of a large body of program. But it Leon Trotsky le particularly. Several of the great reluctance to continue Martin is establishing. Between strike breaking and union weak Kaminsky was removed from his post in March. Prof. Pletnev, in Federal worth. Consequently, Radek and with any of them and if his views the bureaucrats attempted to the UAW, its shop steward sys for the rank and file, control of law.
who reputedly refused to sign the statement, is believed to be its leadership, power to examine, New Anti Labor Move Ordjonikidze was stated to have died of heart failure due to cat, were determined to correct them all, why were they impri: resentment. The leading Stalinist Knudsen of will in revise or reject agreements can any untoward impressions. Hence, soned or executed for carrying in the of the area sat directly be able to determine be suspended. All power is vestoverstrain. There was a delay of almost twenty four hours beIn connection with the unpreaccording to Stalin, they present out his orders? Will Joseph Sta through the whole rump meeting who is and who is not to be a ed in the GEB, or in Martin, cedented Naval Appropriations tween the time of his death and the public announcement of it.
ed the Trotskyite political lin attempt to answer Joseph without saying a word, betraying member of the UAW. What else who functions in its name be Bill, a third important move The Membership Drive of the platform which, Stalin emphasiz Stalin?
by his slience the extent to which is the meaning of the section, tween quarterly meetings of the came to light during this past ed, did not exist. Why did they Moreover, how could Trotsky his kind have compromised them The union shall take effective GEB. And no appeal is possible week. Under present regulations, As an integral part of his Second Five Year Plan, Stalin do that? This, Stalin is also be responsible for any alleged selves by deals with the bureau disciplinary action against the until the next convention, August the Government is required to ordered a new purge in the party. On December 10, 1932, the ready to answer. Radek and Piat: crimes if, again as Stalin reveals, cracy.
member or members of the union 1939!
allot a substantial percentage of Central Committee decreed the cleansing. and at the same akov presented the Trotskylte Trotsky had never divulged to responsible therefor. Any milThis bureaucratic policy, if all naval building and repair time closed the membership books. Three years later (on Deplatform in order to curse any of the thousands of defend. Extradition of Beal itant worker fired by the com continued, will place the union work to Government operated cember 25, 1935) the Central Committee voted in favor of rethemselves and to bring upon ants his program, his aims, his Up To Massachusetts pany for defending his union is at the mercy of the employers naval yards, where hour, and opening the lists, and accepting applications of new candidates themselves the curses of the hidden secrets?
people.
Trotsky, says Stalin, didn It seems that Martin and Knud. the membership. That precise considerably better than in pri ber 1, 1936 that official instruction to this effect was forthcoming.
Despite Stalin ingenious ex want any of his followers to know (Continued from page 1)
sen have a common interest in by the reason why no new vate yards. The Walsh Healy planation, many readers of the of his platform for fear of a challenge to the liberals. It is getting rid of the militants, the workers conference has been Act, furthermore, though there The party had apparently been made safe for new memreport may pause to ponder split. Notwithstanding this in no secret that, under pressure of fighters and the rebels. held or is likely to be called are ways of getting around it bers after a purge of four years duration which was followed whether it was the and formation, Stalin winds up by the Communist Party, most compels a certain level of labor by a check up of documents and the issuance of new books. not the defendants who took charging that instead of a hand called liberals, especially Roger standards to be written into conand climaxed by the Moscow frame ups and the blood purge of tracts with private industry, unprecedented proportions. The most conservative estimate of sions of the second trial. thousands and more thousands can Civil Liberties Union, have Using the rearmament program the number of party members involved in this entire (five year)
Undaunted by the growing were zealously carrying through shamefully ignored the Beal case.
as an excuse, both of these re operation would be in the neighborhood of a million.
mountain of contradictions, Sta a program that Trotsky reveal. Such an attitude is a blighting, quirements are now about to be In its leading article for December 22, 1937, Pravda sums lin presses on to his major of ed only to Radek, Piatakov revolting disgrace for it simply thrown overboard.
up the achievements for this period as follows: fensive. Charging the Trotsky and. Stalin!
means that any worker who is What this means is, as in the Rigid individual selection has helped the party for the past ites with a plot to restore ci And there Stalin ends his ana a critic of the blood stained bu pitalism, liquidate collective and lysis of Trotskyism and goes reaucracy in the Soviet Union Aid Boycott Proposed By Chamber of Commerce that the big steel companies hozniki, and the best people from among the Soviet intelligentcase of the housing situation, year to fill its ranks with thousands of advanced workers, kolkstate funds, dismember the Soon to discuss ways and means forfeits his claim for support of To Protect Profits of Industry (which control also the major viet Union and give up territory to combat it. This report, de labor and progressives and may In the various enterprises in Moscow and Leningrad, the to Hitler and the Mikado, Stalin signed to justify the extermina be framed up, persecuted and im EAST LIVERPOOL, Afthan the military bands and fat Shipbuilding concerns) will be basic party organizations have added to their ranks a considerChamber of able to utilize the rearmament able number of new communists from among the best Stakhanocontinues: tion of the organizers and supprisoned by reaction in the Unit good example of a bad way to gentlemen of porters of the October Revoluted States with impunity. conduct an anti Japanese boy Commerce were the banners the to regain the profits which the vists, men known to the whole country. All told, since the reThey Hid It tion, will live to confound its rott was given here recently when workers carried, such as: We private market no longer offers opening of applications into the party, there have been accepted, In Days Gone By Naturally the Trotskyites author. It may safely be said could not but hide such a platform that this self indicting docu We point out that before the Potters (A. of united Workers! The Daughters of the will be able to do so without too according to preliminary figures, 46, 289 individuals as candidates, from the people, from the work ment submitted to Stalin International Labor Defense be with the American Legion and American Revolution brought up much interference by the Go and 51, 675 as members of the Of this number, the district and city committees have approved 27, 785 as candidates only from the working class, but in years to come as the begin tion it asked was: Is this work the profits of the pottery manu. Throughout there was not one Rearmament, making ready to and 33, 720 as party members.
ing class. And they hid it not Central Committee will be read came Stalinized, the only ques Chamber of Commerce to hike the rear, as usual.
facturers.
But while apparently expressing satisfaction with the genalso from the Trotskyite rank ning of Stalin own confessions. er a victim of capitalist class word expressing solidarity with advance American imperialism With the outbreak of the Sino the Chinese and Japanese work on a world scale, thus in the cral state of affairs, Pravda goes on to comment sadly that in and file, and not only from the Trotskyite rank and file but even Britishers Refuse To in the affirmative, the Japanese conflict, the union in ers, not one indication of inde meanwhile serves as a subsidy many party organizations membership books are still closed, in point of fact. from the leading group of the Load Japanese Ship defended him regardless of his tensified its anti Japanese boy. pendent workers action against to American heavy industry.
Not Accidental political views, even if they hap. cott which had been carried on the militarists and industrialists Since its leading editorial on the progress of the memberTrotskyites consisting of a small ship drive, Pravda has filled its columns with danger signals.
handful of thirty or forty people.
pened to be antagonistic to the for many years under the slogan of Japan and Americn.
the There is some reason to sus, The Railway and Stalin District Committees in Rostov on Don When Radek and Piatakov ask stringing restrictions inposed by the most e keriking case of this workers. The highly publicized by competition from a cheaper beta dhah is the presentlich reching had not taken in a single new member ed Trotsky permission to call their union officialdom to pre splendid spirit of class solidarity burning of 100. 000 worth of producer and by years of cking have more than an accidental ten months. The Voroshilovsk party organization (embracing the largest chemical a small conference, thirty or vent militant action, longshore was the attitude of the Japanese goods was merely out a miserable existence in connection with the fact that the plants in the country) had accepted only seven applicants as forty people, to inform them of men at the port of Middles and even of the Communist logical extension of their show: company dominated towns, pro new union contracts in Auto and candidates and the same number as members in a period of the tail saying it was inexpedient fused to load a Japanese vessel. in connection with the Sacco voluntarily donated the goods a chance to get back their jobs Steel are up for consideration months Cravda, Dec 29. The Sevastopol party organization to talk of the real nature of the the Haruna Mars with Vanceticise wiesehen Sames which had been standing idle on and perhaps higher wages. The during the ones te couple of competias: had accepted for the past half year only fourteen men, among their them three workers. The total number of sympathizers had of Trotskyites, as such an opera The action of the men, un pitalism, but were intransigeant chist workers not only hated cafallacy of this cannot be demons iy additional restrictions in the even declined in the same period. Pravda, Jan. In the tion might cause a split. 17. authorized by their union, was opponents and avowed crities of Green Heads Show trated too soon.
new contracts on the unions entire Archangel province, the number of sympathizers had inWhat the Stalinists did in this freedom of action are certainly creased by only 260. In certain regions there was a decrease.
the hips in Stahin himself one an imperialist war on China win, Trotsky and Stalin, of the thumping parade of patriots was mess is not quite certain. They objects to be sought after bx The number of acceptances had been decreasing from month to might mistake his words for and as a demonstration of solid Whole Bolshevik movement. This William Green, motivator of the probably demanded union labels General Motors, Chrysler; and month and in the last two months only seven were accepted in satire upon the charges of arity with the Chinese masses. Trotskyism printed daily in did not stand in the way of the boycott. Even more erinsinail on all flags.
the entire province. Pravda, Jan. The reactionary bureauerats most ardent campaign against own New Deal manner, is prethe Izvestia, Pravda, the Daily of the longshoremen The explanation for this lag is simple enough Every paring the ground for such new applicant must be recommended by two party members in Worker and other Stalinist pub lining up with the British im their persecutors conducted by all be held liable for money is appealing the decision, the changes. Even the White House lications.
good standing. And prospective sponsors, mindful of what has perialist government, which is Accomplish Impossible Against the background of this Who is to determine the legal following steps to secure its their stress on national unity and happened in the past, are evidently very loth to incur the risk anxious to avoid becoming em fact, the scabbing attitude of the ity or illegality of a strike? Who judgment in the event Judge cooperation of all the various of recommending anybody at all for fear that they might be Having decried Trotskyism appealed to the workers to general and the liberals under violence arose broiled with Japan at this stage Daily Worker, the Stalinists in is to determine how and why Wham decision is upheld: When interests, do their part. For if sponsoring an enemy of the people.
as gangsterism without a politi through with the loading of the their sway, is even more loath strike!
in any given the Judge signs the decree, it the auto and steel unions insist Bungle Troyanovsy vs. The Times cal trend, Stalin reasserts, after ship. with results as yet un some.
will attach the property of the too much on their rights, and some thought and with as known.
state organization of the object too strenuously when the Bosses Provoke Violence and Stalin Pravda On Illiteracy.
We are confident that the resof affiliated at Gillespie, and companies demand that the ponsible, class conscious workIt is common knowledge that of the 13 locals in Madison and workers should pay for the Ambassador Troyanovsky has engaged the editors of the ers, and the serious labor mo the traditional policy of the boss St. Clair counties. In the event slump, they will be blamed for Times in a spirited discussion on the level of illiteracy SPECIAL OFFER xement as a whole, will not take class is to provoke violence in the funds of the union do not sabotaging the united efforts of in the The editorial commentator of the Times has the same attitude, but will rally all strikes by the employment of satisfy the judgment, the com the nation to meet the threaten had the temerity to estimate that the number of illiterate perFor get sons in the Soviet Union composes perhaps 25 of the populaa full year fight against living entombment thugs, stool pigeons, deputy pany will levy against the pro ing crisis. After all, everyone view of the very limited supply, subscription to the only revolu in the prison cell of the labor: stripe, in order thereby to obt were defendants. The attorneys pull together. The President tion. Troyanovsky thereupon charges that this is part of a campaign defamation against Stalin carried on by the chamthe Socialist Appeal offers with tionary Marxist newspaper pub. hating reactionaries of the South. tain legal refuge for strike for the company likewise are himself has said so!
pion of obscurant Tsarist autocracy who poses as a commenbreaking. Judges are notorious considering a garnishment of the tator for the said Times. Times, Sunday, Jan. 16. bound copy of Behind the Mos. with it a book which in itself Court Ruling Is ly anti labor. It is they who dues of the union members which Akron Branch Plans Unbeknown to the contending parties (and to itsell. Pravda cow Trial by Max Shachtman. is worth many times the price This invaluable book is the in of a subscription.
Blow To Labor is legal or not, whether violence under the check off plan and To Widen Mass Work has added a significant item to the discussion. On Jan. 3rd, a side story of the trial and execu Use the blank below, enclosing (Continued from page 1)
attends a strike and how this which ultimately find their way special correspondent of Pravda, one Khodakov sent a wire disAKRON. The Akron branch tion of Zinoviev, Kamenev, Smir 15 cents additional for postage, violence is caused. But instead into the union treasury, The of the Socialist Workers Party patch from the thriving city of Osh, which has a silk plant omnov and their associates the and don delay because the and industrial rulers.
of openly finding against the company will also be in a posi got off to a flying start last ploying more than 1, 000 women. According to this corresponmost sensational trial of our books won last long.
Federal Judge Wham declares right to strike and the right to tion to collect on the bond put week by formulating plans to in. dent, the women workers in this silk plant become indignant epoch, destined to rank in his. Socialist Appeal, that his decision does not violate unionization, they will find con up by the union in this case tensify mass work and to con when they talk about the work in the domain of liquidating. illitory with the Dreyfus, Sacco and the right to strike; it is only spiracy against business as the pending its appeal.
cretize other convention decisions. teracy. And apparently with good reason. For, continues KhoVanzetti, Tom Mooney and Reich 116 University Place, directed against those who, en motive for strikes and seek to Officers were elected to guide dakov, they have been attending the study circles (of the 50stag Fire trials. The book deals New York City.
gaging in a conspiracy to inflict cripple the union Dangerous Precedent returning the activity. Bernard Donaldson ciety for liquidating illiteracy) for two and three years but the with the political background Date violent injury upon an employer verdicts in money damages for the precedent set in this case is secretary. treasurer, litera instruction is so poor that the women have not yet learned how and significance of the trial and or upon his property or business the companies.
is extremely dangerous. In vari ture agent, agit prop director to read. The conclusion which Pravda correspondent draws provides concrete proof of how Enclosed find 15 for which and in furtherance of the object strike will not be rendered pus parts of the country attempts and trade union fraction secretcalled please send me a cloth bound of the conspiracy do, by violent illegal as such, but will be held have been made by companies to aries were also elected.
might prove illuminating, especially to Troyanovsky. Here it is: and why the frame up. It is quite self evident that in the Soviet and party apparatus the greatest in history, was copy of Behind the Moscow and other unlawful conduct, in illegal on conspiratorial grounds. secure money damages from An attempt will be made to planned and perpetrated.
of the city of Osh there still remains a goodly pumber of alien Trial and a one year subscriptlict injury upon the property or Workers will go to jnil, union unions and striking workers on widen the circulation of the SoThe book itself sells for 00. tion to the Socialist Appeal.
and enemy elements. Pravda, Jan. 3, 1987. business of such employer, or by officials will be incarcerated for the ground of a conspiracy to cialist Appeal by distributing it We offer a full year subscrip such unlawful means All of which leads us to conclude that Troyanovsky bungled obstruct failure to pay judgments to com injure business. Judge Wham at union halls and workers meet its business or prevent it from panies so suing a union or group anti labor decision is certain to have begun which are devoted to tion to the Socialist Appeal Name again. Quite obviously, it was his duty not to challenge the. 00) plus the book for the Address conducting its business. He of strikers.
estimate of the Times but rather to point out that the price of the subscription alone.
concludes then that a union, its How does it operate in the encourage such actions against a study of American capitalism large number of illiterates was due to Trotskyite BoukharinitoTake advantage of this op City members and sympathizers will ase of the PMA? While tho uno other unions.
Lodny.
Fascist wrecking sabotage, etc. etc.
antifferent time in the contes content contrak terpilihing engines the wine union, hower Green Joins With Legion and DAR In Patriotic Anti Japanese Display sia.