4 SOCIALIST APPEAL April 2, 1938 Woodrow Wilson, In Four Installments MINNEAPOLIS VETS TAKE William Green Ready How He Led Us To War MILITANT ANTI WAR STAND To Sub For Gompers Its Roosevelt Hull Heading Toward New World War Keep America Out of War, Asks New Committee; But How?
cialist Labor Party, Spargo, WalAugust 18. 1914, Woodrow Wil for the ultimate peace of the ling, Ghent, Russell and other son declared: world and for the liberation of The following resolution was adopted at a Has Already Announced creasing their own power, and turncoats supplied the socialist its peoples, the German people meeting of several hundred war veterans in WHEREAS America vast natural resources, The effect of the war upon included: for the rights of naSupport of Roosevelt coloration to this capitalist patriDrivers Hall, Minneapolis, on March 12, under the United States will depend up tions great and small and the the auspices of the Federal Workers Veterans scientific processes and competent manpower War Program otic venture. The St. Paul Conare ample for the unprecedented well being of ference of the American Alliance, on what the American citizens privilege of men everywhere to committee.
every man, woman and child without resort to in late 191. 7, pledged faithfully say and do. Every man who real, choose their way of life and of William Green, president of ly loves America will act and obedience.
and loyally to support the govThe world must be wal. in sharp contrast to the social suicide and WHEREAS we, war veterans of the World the American Federation of Laspeaks in the true spirit of neu made safe for democracy.
barbaric reversion which would now result from ernment of the United States in bor, has pledged wholehearted trality, which is the spirit of im peace must be planted upon the War, were taken in by the 1917 hysteria to a MAJOR WAR OF CONQUEST as forecast carrying on the present war for support to the Roosevelt adminpartiality and fairness and friend tested foundations of political Make the World Safe for Democracy, only by Roosevelt words and deeds, justice, freedom and democracy istration war plans. feel to a triumphant conclusion.
liness to all concerned.
liberty.
to find that our comrades and brothers died, March, 5, 1917, Walter Hines THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED BY THE that at this period, when we take (p. 383. And so they did!
1919. Woodrow Wilson stated as did tens of millions of our so called ene.
Page, United States ambassador in a speech at St. Louis: WORLD WAR VETERANS OF MINNEA internationally, we must have into account what is happening mies, not to make life fuller and happier for Press censorship, arrests of of at London, wrote in a confiden Why, my fellows citizens, is anti war speakers, deportation POLIS: humanity but solely for opposing groups of confidence in the judgment of tial letter to President Wilson: there any man here or any aliens all were defended in the Perhaps our going to war is woman, let me say is there any International Bankers, and the chief executive. If he That in view of our experiences we now feels that a billion dollars are name of the war for democracy.
the only way in which our pre child here, who does not know WHEREAS those same interests since 191. warn the younger generation against the false For this war, production had to necessary to protect America, sent preeminent trade position that the seed of war in the have continuously seized upon every means and propaganda of democracy and peace loving feel we ought to support him.
be increased; smooth industrial be maintained and a panic modern world is industrial and pretext to beat down and avoid every vestige nations, which is but a thin sugarcoating for (New York Times, January 29, operations had to be assured; averted. The submarine has ad commercial rivalry? The real of compensation or comfort for us or for our the fatal pill of imperialist conquest; 1938. strikes to be broken, worker reded the last item to the danger reason that the war that we have dependents and to amass for themselves great We can be certain that Green gimented. That we now call upon all veterans and of uncertainty about our being just finished took place was that wealth and power in total disregard of not only their organizations, and all other workers to activities are not confined to such Hugh Frayne was appointed by drawn into the war, no more con Germany was afraid her comourselves but of the entire working class of public statements. It was recentSamuel Gompers to the War Lasiderable credit can be privatelymercial rivals were going to get actively oppose all war preparations of this people everywhere, and ly rumored that he and a person bor Policies Board set up in May, country and to demand the immediate return placed in the United States and the better of her, and the reason OF DEPRESS close to John Lewis confer1918. Officially Frayne reprea collapse may come in the mean why some nations went into the to America of all American forces in the Far WHEREAS the suffering, malnutrition, red with army men to prepare sented the War Industries Board. time.
East: war against Germany was that American labor for the next war.
This Board had as its announchuman wastage, perversion of youth, domestie April 2, 1917. Woodrow Wilson they thought Germany would get That we demand of Congress the com However that may be, it is known ed policy to determine, directly wreckage and industrial chaos of the depresaddressed Congress on the Ne the commercial advantage of sion in America were cold bloodedly unloaded plete defeat of the Sheppard May Bill; that Green at an earlier period WILLIAM GREEN cessity of War against Germa them. The seed of the jealousy, for war industries, all questions endorsed the basic ideas of the involving the distribution of la4. That we now demand of Congress and ny.
the seed of the deep seated hatred upon the workers during Hoover administra We are glad now that we was hot, successful commercial tion; and the Roosevelt administration scarcely the Administration the immediate diversion of Industrial Mobilization Plan. ers and fellow citizens in the holy bor, wages, hours, and working provided sufficient relief; and a new depression all naval and military funds to UNEMPLOYsee the facts with no veil of false and industrial war. It was not If War Comes.
name of Labor, Justice, Freedom, conditions. Day, MENT RELIEF: and Humanity to devotedly and 257. pretense about them, to fight thus a political war.
is upon us which the National Administration answers with a gigantic armament program It was an industrial dictator5. That we here and now declare that we Testifying before the War Poli patriotically give like service.
cies Commission in 1931 he de. 360. ship without parallel. said instead of with public works and relief, and are ready and willing to fight again but only clared he was for a plan which Clarkson. Day, WHEREAS neither we nor the Chinese mas in support of Labor determination to release would bring victory. war They kept Pledge 258. But only mild dose of ses can, in view of our experiences as veterans, the wheels of industry and resume the accelerat is to be abhorred. think that is And Gompers and his friends what can be expected under the expect any more humane treatment nor better ing production of needs and comforts of life, the attitude of the working peo kept their pledge! Not their Sheppard May Industrial Mobillivings from American imperialists than from and for the plentiful distribution and peaceful ple whom have the honor to pledge to labor to oppose com ization Bill.
Japanese, British or any other capitalists since use and enjoyment thereof BY ALL THE represent. They shrink from the pulsory military training! On the Gompers, Woll, Frayne and all are equally bent upon preserving and in WORKERS AND THEIR DEAR ONES. very thought of it. But, of contrary, Gompers soon discover their kind remained throughout course, if the thing we abhored that the most essentially de loyal to the system of wage slaveactually happens, then we realize mocratic method of mobilizing ry and imperialist war. Their Continued from page 1A there must be a plan and the human resources was universal Peace time class collaboration greatest imperialist power to engage in a robber war against plan must be a practical plan and draft (p. 369. and cooperated with the bosses could not but ations may go forward smoothly its rivals, for the subjection of a reasonable plan. Quoted in developing and carrying out mean wholehearted and enthusiby Rose Stein, Day, the draft plans.
and uninterruptedly. 80 that backward peoples, for control of astic support to them during the 319. mask opposition to war may be at least a goodly portion of the This labor leader also forgot war.
Green shows himself a worthy his pledge to the workers to canalized into streams which are earth.
successor to Samuel Gompers! fight for a closed shop. He could Green Follows Suit harmless to the warmakers. Capitalism in the United States The latest peace society is What is the attitude of the, but no alliance with any na Even before war is declared he not serve two masters: he served ap of So today, William Green patriots in the ranks of the work boundaries. The economic crisis Committee. Its program calls mittee towards the imperialist declared or undeclared, under any port the war makers, will do all shop clause in the building ing class, with the Stalinists out long ago gave warning that for withdrawal of American government? The key to this name or any pretext. This does in his power, once war is declare cantonments. Day, 260) preparations of the Roosevelt adHe endorses the war plans and ahead, grow more and more vo American capitalism must ex ships and marines from China, question is given in point five not differ from statements of ed, to chain the workers to the As profits soared to fantastic ministration again in the name ciferous and reveal themselves and those boundaries, capture no increase in the army and of the program: ever more openly as the defend new markets and fields of invest navy, support of the Ludlow operation for international peace it mean concretely?
heights the workers wages bares of the struggle for democracy.
ers of bourgeois property, enement, or resign itself to per Amendment, against the IndusSpokesmen for the Committee Like Gompers ly kept up with the rising Other labor are not so mies of the workers struggle a manent decay.
trial Mobilization plans, the reject the Stalinist It was Gompers who in the last stood his role: Organized labor serve their masters. In reality, But Gompers under outspoken but just as ready to gainst war, defenders of the im Just as the explo will not struggle aaginst injustice, uncollective security policy be war succeeded in corralling the realized that the most valuable if they appear to oppose the war perialist fatherland.
get off the back of the workers employment, bad housing and cause it will lead to imperialist American workers for the im service it could contribute to win plans, they can be even more Capitalism Stifled until they are thrown off so, poverty at home, American cotoo, they will not watch their operation for international peace, vernment, the instrument of im ably assisted by such renegades tain and raise production levels. Let us not forget the anti war The coming period will add system decay and die while there but no war alliances.
perialism, conduct any policy in from socialism before the war considerably to the already imare. rivals whose territories. The two crucial questions in the interests of genuine peace uncompromising fighters (p. 372. speeches of Woodrow Wilson; posing weight of evidence these arkets and profits can be snateh any anti war movement are. that is, against the interests gainst militarism and war as Fought Anti War Movement William Jennings Bryan, John democratie, pea ce loving ed. That is why American im what is its attitude towards the of its own masters? What form John Spargo, William English Spargo, Charles Edward Russell American imperialism is preparperialism will and must go to American imperialist governof cooperation for international Walling and Charles Edward Rus. When workers militant op and Upton Sinclair!
ing, preparing consciously, and war. That is why the policy of ment. 2) does it rest programpeace does the Committee pro sell (the latter is today a mem position and pacifist opposition in the trade unions, the workers with all possible speed, to fight the Roosevelt government is head matically and organizationally on pose that would not lead to the ber of the Social Democratic to war developed, Gompers, in must be prepared for such befor its position as the worid led directly toward war.
the working class movement.
furtherance of the war prepara Federation and a columnist for agreement with the Advisory trayals. The militant class strugtion plans of the Roosevelt ad the New Leader. not forget Commission and Council of Na gle against the bosses, indeAttitude toward Government ministration. the free lance chauvinist, Upton tional Defense, and George Creel, pendent working class action Let it be recalled that the ReThe Committee itself does not Sinclair.
chief of the Committee on Pu against the Roosevelt war plans, publican members of the Senate supply a clear answer. Under its Before 1914, Gompers was ablic Information, organized the the struggle for a socialist warNaval Committee and Republic demand for American interna member of practically every American Alliance for Labor less world, are the only prean and Democratic congresstional cooperation for peace peace society in which members and Democracy to counteract parations against war, before it men voted against the Roosevelt naval program; that many of and programs ship was open to me and partici the anti war movement. Lucien breaks out and also after it is can unite: avowed pro capitalist pated in many conferences to pro: Saniel, former leader of the So declared.
gentlemen are in favor of isolationists like Charles Beard mote peace between nations, he withdrawal of American marines and Robert LaFollette, who wrote in his autobiography.
Continued from page JA America role in the war they from China; that some liberal believe that neutrality can keep. Seventy Years of Life and Lahad decided on conscription as a capitalist politicians are opposed us out of war, shamefaced sup. bor, Vol. II. 322. All fol.
EUGENE DEBS Select List of economic sanctions lowing quotations, unless otherporters While the English army had lit means of limiting the size of to the Sheppard May Bill, etc.
like the Lovestoneites, as well as wise stated, are from the same tle trouble from mutinous troops, the army and selecting only those The disputes over these questions are conflicts within the ruling The late leader of the American the ambiguous pacifists of the source. the widespread strikes and dis not needed in provided class itself over which measures Socialist Party took an attitude Norman Thomas school.
The National content at home made it perilous He was a pacifist so long as td recruit new troops for fear for the mobilization of industry can best serve imperialism. They of uncompromising opposition to The Dividing Line his masters, big business and its Washington Administration, were They are all united in the con pacifist! When the decision was the rebellious spirit of the in which industry was represented ween the working class and the the pacifist Wilson during the Recent Books by its Dollar Year patriots. ruling class only if utilized in a World War of 1914 18. Jailed for viction that the American govern made that the United States dustrial workers.
While the industrialists were particular manner. Otherwise the his revolutionary anti war activ ment can cooperate with other would soon enter the war, GomEntire regiments of the French cager to serve on boards like the avowedly anti war movement, no ity, Debs declared that he would imperialist nations for peace. pers in early 1916 enthusiaste The War in Outline Lidell Hart. 00 50 matter how sincere its adherents. fight only in the class war for Here is a basic dividing line betically helped to draw up question Europe in Arms Lidell Hart ive, saying that they would only paltry per year, they were less becomes a mere pawn in imperial the liberation of workers ween the revolutionary socialist aires to manufacturers in prepaenter the trenches to hold off patriotic when they thought the ans.
from capitalism.
and all other programs against for the conversion of inZero Hour Richard Freund 50 the enemy but not to advance. price they received was too 50 The plans of the French general low. number of industries ab net earnings of the United States reason or another ineurs the dis of the government is lost sight tober, 1916, he was appointed to The Final Choice Raushenbush.
staff for an offensive had to be solutely went on strike against Steel Corporation for the same pleasure of those in authority of or denied, the real causes of the Council of National Defense.
The Devil Theory of War Charles Beard. 50 abandoned until efforts could be the government, refusing to me years: might have his status changed war, the true nature of a genuine War required a servile labor made to rebuild the morale of the nufacture for the government 1914 52, 716, 390 and might be called the front anti war struggle cannot be un movement!
troops. Miss Stein quotes a letter until their price terms were met.
on the shortest possible notice.
Specials 1915 104. 433. 846 derstood.
of Col. House of June 30, 1917. The du Pont Company, powder Assured Labor Docility 1916 Limited Stock Subject to Prior Sale 316, 436, 899 That is why the Keep Ame.
War Democracy on this point: manufacturers, held up plans for 1917 544, 994, 879 rica Out of War Committee see evidence of all the the construction of a government England knew had burden1918.
500, 808, 116 Those who will be assigned makes no appeal to the working ed herself with an unnecessary Day Rose Stein. 50). 98 belligerents weakening, and the powder mill for three months to work will be under the direc class as such, to independent handicap by not seeking the co Why We Fought. Hartley Grattan. 50) 98 cracking process being actively until their terms were met.
Present Mobilization Plan at work. My letters from France The lessons of mobilization of tion whose director will be a struggle against the war plans beginning of the war, Gompers indicate that the condition there Preface to Chaos Hartley Grattan. 00) 98 Treatment of Labor labor for war have not been for policies will be fomulated by the to the citizens at large, irres to call a trade union conference prominent industrialist. Labor of capitalism. Instead it appeals wrote. 359. So he proceeded is serious, and it is a question Study of the preparations and consequences whether they will be able to hold a vastly different treatment if it Labor can realize what it has Industries Administration made around an apparently supra class 1917, to assure labor support for Labor, however, was accorded gotten by the War Department. Iabor division within the War pective of class lines, to rally in Washington, held on Mareh 12, of the inevitable coming world war.
out during the year.
struck Therefore, America to the res. The reign of terror against the the fact that a Planning Commis, sonnel as the War Policies Board fore not accidental that among the conference adopted a recue! If it does not suffice to give lumber workers Pamphlets the French and British soldiers west who struck under the lead to perfect the scheme now allowed labor under this plan is mittee are Robert LaFollette peace or in war, in stress or in War and the Fourth International was car known as the Industrial Mobil in the Advisory Council which and Major General William Storm, to stand unreservedly by. 10 lion Americans to France to res ried through in a fashion that ization Plan whereby the wage in composition and in duties as Rivers.
cue the Morgan loans and Ame Hitler and Mussolini might well slaves of America will be sub: signed to it resembles the peacethe standards of liberty and the How to Fight War James Burnham. 05 rica preeminent trade posi envy. The sadistic lynching of jected to a military discipline that time company union.
The Anti War Fight safety and preservation of the War and the Workers John West tion. 10 Frank Little, organizer, is equally severe whether they To the ruthlessness of patriotic institutions and ideals of our The plans for American parti by a mob of patriots intent upon are at the front or working in, As against such a set up a Republic. But, despite all our. 03 Are you Ready for War? Harold Draper cipation were radically revised. making the world safe for de industry. Miss Stein sums up the lynch mobs will be added the ef working class struggle against endeavors and hopes, should our Socialism and War Lenin and Zinoviev. 15 The matinies in the French and mocracy was typical of what plans of the War Department for ficiency of a War Labor Admi war must be in line with the country be drawn into the maels.
British armies made it indispens workingmen faced if they dared the regimentation of labor as nistration. This is the demo class struggle against capitalism trom of the European conflict, The War and the Second International Lenin 20 able to reinforce American muni strike against intolerable condi follows: cracy which Mr. Browder asks and the government. It must be we, with these ideals of liberty tions with American man power. tions. Statistics indicate how in American Labor part in the the American working class to measures of the Roosevelt ad indispensable basis for national directed against specific pro war and justice herein declared, as the Write For New Book List ORDER tolerable these conditions really next war is fully outlined in the defend!
Ready in 1916 were. Let those who expect pros Industrial Congressional investigation perity from war carefully study which is the result of thirteen Miss Stein understands the one feating or obstrueting their ex country in every field of activity LABOR BOOK SHOP of War Department expenditures the following figures: years of study in the War De fact which supporters of the ecution by the mass actions of to defend, safeguard, and prein 1919 was amazed to discover Taking the pre War level of partment planning division, and good and bad nation idea re the workers. It must, implicitly serve the Republic of the United 28 East 12th Street New York, that the Council of National both wages and the cost of liv which has the approval of the fuse to see: or explicitly, be directed against States of America against its capitalist patriotism or loyalty to The basie faet must be faced the government of the exploiters and we call upon our fellow work SOCIALIST APPEAL, Published every week by the Soenemies whomsever they may be, plan for the mobilization of the ment index records the following and of prominent industrialists.
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