Support Pension Plan!
SOCIALIST APPEAL Fascism Threatens California!
Official Organ of the Socialist Workers Party, Section ofthe Fourth Internaional Special Edition SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, NOVEMBER 1938.
No.
Price Cent, Party And Youth Back Fight Proposition One Demand For Security! HEADQUARTERS By Mass Labor Protest!
THE BOSSES PROPOSITION!
BOSSES ow Pay to the order WAGES SAN FRANCISCO Only System Of Profit And Poverty Blocks 512 Valencia Street Militant Answer Given By Sailors Union Is Road to Economic Plenty For Aged, Room 11 Model For All Unions In Fighting Youth For All America!
LOS ANGELES Bosses Labor Lynching Bee!
233 South Broadway We are with you, not with them. With these words Room 312 The class struggle is a political struggle! Karl Marx the Socialist Workers Party and the Young Peoples Socialist established this maxim many years ago. Today it is being League takes its stand on the burning issue of the Pension JOIN THE SOCIALIST brought forcefully to the attention of the working class on Movement.
WORKERS PARTY, the Pacific Coast, especially Only bankers and their henchmen can scoff at this the State of California, through the medium of Proposition No. One, probably the great cry for economic relief expressed by over a million crassest piece of class legislation ever advanced in a state poverty stricken people. This demand of the dispossessed is notorious for its persecution of workers.
clearly the source of the disIn this law, predatory Capicomfort and hysteria of Rich tal, which has for a long time Men, Incorporated who sense plagued the California labor the revolutionary threat in a movement with its organized movement demanding genuine social security.
extra legal vigilantism, now seeks a legal covering for a Plain Truth!
labor lynching bee on a grand We do not believe that the plan scale.
proposed by Ham and Eggs can achieve what the movemeni is The political campaign, so striving for. In this we have nothfar, has been almost entirely ing in common with the Capitalists confined to channels selected who fear only for their profits. The by the master class. Hun plan will not accomplish what the dreds of thousands of dollars aged and the youth of the work.
are being poured into a billing class want and need because it board, newspaper and radio does not strike at the fundamental evil of the present economic syg.
by the exploiters of tem of chaos, poverty, unemployCalifornia labor. The workers ment, old age dependence, war, are courting disaster by perfascism and the whole host of mitting the employers to limit scourges. Any plan to cure these the campaign a field in evils by manipulating currency which the machinery of Capiand thus satisfying both capitalist ZABOR: talist politics is weighted and workers, bankers and toilers.
against them.
Suffice it to exploiters and exploited is an illusion which will be shattered by the state, that literally thousands course of events.
of workers, particularly in the This is the BLUNT truth! But PEACE PAYCHECKS vast agricultural areas of the Tax the Millionaire state, will be denied the right Experience will drive its lesson PROFITS to cast a ballot in the coming home. Does this mean, however, election.
that the struggle for pensions is BOSSES GAME futile. Far from it! The struggle The working class must for pensions has only begun. It will be reinforced by the struggles smash through the fatal conof all sections of the oprpessed.
striction imposed by the The youth who are cconomically straight jacket of Capitalist disfranchised, and the aged who Class politics. By playing the are pauperized will join hands and other fellow game we have win their demands. How? From two strikes called on us bewhere will the money come? From fore we go to bat. The milithe plutocrats of course! There is tant Sailors Union of the where the demand must be placed Pacific has indicated the true at the door of every member of road of working class political America Sixty Multi. Millionaire families. Why tax each other in a action by the adoption of a system of revolving misery? Tax resolution which calls for the the non productive parasites who workers in both the of live like leeches on the body of and the to forge a society We are engaged in a struggle plus PROSPERITY Cele against Proposition No. One.
that has laid bare the vicious conDOWN TOOLS ditions in present day society.
The resolution calls for Aligned against us are powerful enemies. Ready to use every trick ALL workers to lay down from slander to machine guns to their tools, for a period durdefeat the people. Against this the THE CLASS WAR IS GROWING IN CALIFORNIA. ing which monster demoncourse of struggle, militant and The real significance of the 1938 state elections is that they present the opposing strations and parades of labcourageous, is the only fitting or marching columns will forces of CLASS WAR in clearer and sharper form than ever before. Through the answer superficial tumult and shouting of petty capitalist politicians, there rises the deep, indramatize the determination Fed on Lies!
sistent roar and clash of two mighty forces met in life or death struggle. One is the of labor to fight for its right They lie who say that the deto live. This political struggle well equipped, carefully drilled, hireling army of PROFIT, POWER and PRIVILEGE; mand of 30 week for the aged is a class struggle! Urge your is impractical! They be who say the other is the ragged, disorganized, but million headed host workers of hand and union to follow the example that it is necessary for the youth brain, in field and factory. Those who have waxed fat from the fruits of an unjust set by the Sailors Union.
to starve and the aged to perish! and decaying social system stand arrayed in defense of their plunder against the swell FOR MILITANT WORKThey lie and lie deliberately who ing anger of the robbed.
say that the great mass of proING CLASS POLITICAL ducers must eke but a miserable Preserve Capialism!
ACTION!
existence while a few parasitical Clear as is the class conflict revealed, even clearer is the contrast between the miliDEMONSTRATE! PAMeconomic barons live in un tary strategies of the opposing forces. The bosses know exactly what they want and RADE! DRAMATIZE OUR heard of luxury!
how they propose to get it. They maintain a close cooperation and exchange of inforSTRUGGLE!
The truth should now be known mation throughout the entire world, because they understand that the REAL ISSUE DOWN TOOLS! FLING to all! American industry is more OUR CHALLENGE INTO than capable of producing tire niefor thom is not confined to national or state boundaries. Petty rivalries and national THE TEETH OF THE EX(Continued on Page Two. Continued On Page Three)
PLOITERS!
VOTE NO ON PROPOSITION The War Is On. Let Win It!