SOCIALIST APPEAL April 9, 1938 Scab Herding Police in Workers Resist Force Closing Electrical Workers Chicago Office Workers Reject Of Screw Plant Attempt To Oust Organizer Detroit Battle WAA Convention Opens At Hippodrome In SEC GIVES BACKING Marine Unions Hit Sorted closing time the police FOOD WORKERS Seing with their feet. The aveva The last meeting was the largest TO BEAL GROUP By New Fink Hall ON APRIL 12 April New International small locallup charge.
Newsmen On Coast Score Fine Victory Vote Strike Action MINNEAPOLIS The elecSAN FRANCISCO Authortrical workers have smashed ity to call strike against the union busting scheme of four San Francisco and one the Northern States Power Thousands Join Strikers CHICAGO. At a recent mem jganizer of the local was pushed into several smaller ones, with Oakland newspapers if they Company, the full story of bership meeting of Local 24 of more and more into the back the aim of controlling each one which was published in the the United Office and Profession ground.
fail to comply with demands To Prevent Movement Socialist Appeal of March 26.
separately.
presented by the Northern (Continued from page 1) threats will simmer down to the Of Scabs After all its bluster, the al Workers of America, They tried to smash the opCommittees Disintegrate California Newspaper Guild the rank and file administered usual slander and red baiting atWith this record of political tacks by the Stalinist leaders, or was voted overwhelmingly position by calling it Trotskycompany resumed relations an overwhelming defeat to the here Sunday of last week af victories. actually Almost every committee rapid ite. but that failed. leading DETROIT Two days of bitter steady develop into a move for expulwith the union under the exrule or ruin tactics practiced by ly disintegrated and very few Stalinist member of the executive ter an enthusiastie mass meetlosses in relief conditions for thesions, remains to be seen. In any picket line battles involving in isting agreement, and abandonthe Stalinist leadership for the members were brought into the board explained to a newcomering of the newspaper workers, unemployed the Stalinist leader case the Progressive Group must jury to 25 strikers and strike ed its demand for the ousting past six months. vote of 247 to 16 for strike local. Although these committees that the trouble was being causship of the Alliance comes before be on guard against any attempt sympathizers as a result of of militant union leaders.
The test occurred on the pro were supposed to be a step in the ed by a lot of Reds who had got action followed a report on the convention.
to split the Workers Alliance.
clashes with the police, shut The union, Local 292 of the posal of the Stalinist executive direction of union democracy, they into the union. But such expla negotiations, during which the If this leadership was docile down tight the plant of the Fe International Brotherhood of board to abolish the post of were allowed no initiative, held nations have acted as boomerpublishers have repeatedly re and meek in the face of the For New Course deral Screw Workers here last Electrical Workers, is in better fused to consider the major steadily worsening conditions of paid organizer for purposes of no discussions to plan their work, angs against the Stalinists. They shape than ever. The crisis week. Militant members of the demands of the Guild.
economy. The real purpose was but were called together primar will therefore attempt the other It is now the task of the the unemployed, they showed precipitated by the company United Automobile Workers put to remove the organizer, Sandra ily to be given assignments.
method ruin Local 24.
About 700 workers will be real ruthlessness to critics of Workers Alliance to turn its back to rout the scabs and their police action in breaking off rela Slotkin, because she could not be the local has been suffering tions and its demand for oustaffected if a strike is called.
protectors.
Members On Guard!
their own administration. Lead on the past line of the leadership swung into the line of the Com financially for some time now, ing of the union leaders, munist Party in its attempt to Its expenses rise constantly, and The 300 strikers were aided Members of the unions in the ing members who proposed milit and consciously seek to restore in holding the picket line firm by The membership must be on mechanical departments were ant policies were brought up on the morale and fighting spirit of actually served to rally the force its views on the union it cannot pay the excessively guard against any moves for union membership in solidar membership.
present at the Sunday meetnearly 5, 000, sympathizers, mostly high per capita tax to the Inter division which the Stalinists all sorts of trumped up charges. the unemployed by. 1) Practicing and teaching residents of the industrial neighing as observers, and it is ity with the leaders, and to national. But the local has a propose. Such a policy is suicidal Progressives Rally likely that the mechanical reliance first and foremost on borhood around the plant. Cops cement together the Utilities Why Stalinists Won good foundation and good pos at the present time. Against and scabs were bombarded with Section and the Inside Workworkers will support the Responding to the noods of the the organized strength of the The Stalinists had obtained sibilities for growth, which alone such policies, and against the strike, if called, a Barrage of bricks from the ers, who were in two separate unemployed and the threat of unemployed themselves.
Steps to set up a Guild the majority of the executive can overcome the financial dif bureaucratic control of the leadhuge crowd of workers.
unions a year ago (2) Working for the closest coexpulsions, progressive members board at the last election chiefly ficulties.
ership, the membership The whole membership is must newspaper which would be Fight Wage Cut of the Alliance formed a Pro operation with the organized toned up by the short and because the progressives and published during the strike The leadership, however, seiz now organize.
gressive Group and succeeded in trade union movement.
The strike was called Monday militants had organized too late ed the present situation to strike successful fight, and the comi.
have already been taken and checking the expulsion campaign Front policy of reliance on pro(3) Rejecting the People of last week by the committee is now working to combat them. The net result a blow at the progressive elepany is faced with a firm for the time being.
gressive politicians.
members when the company ar body determined to secure out plans for such a project.
of their leadership has been to ments. Remove the organizer and Also by their aggressive critibitrarily cut the wage scale ton alienate the general membership save money that was their soluevery concession to be gained (4) Restoring democracy to cism they have compelled the per cent. Tuesday morning, po on the basis of the agreeto a point where attendance attion.
The practice leadership to make some moves the organization.
lice, using their clubs freely and ment, which has another year meetings has fallen to less against the 10 per cent cut. of bringing critics of the admi.
armed with tear gas, broke Proposal Voted Down than half that prior to their adto run.
Faint hearted and weak though of Stalinism up on phony charges nistration and political opponents through the picket line and esministration.
In this move, they had forgotthese moves were, they will have must cease.
corted 20 scabs into the plant The membership who voted the ten to reckon with the memberfar more effect in winning back Stalinists office now ship which at the 10 per cent cut than all the These two fundamental points: again brutally clubbed their way behind the scenes diplomacy of Democratic procedure within the through the picket line and hurage member had no interest in membership meeting in over a Rose Sends Letter Of Crews Shipped Out By the leadership.
organization, and a fighting poried the scabs away.
TO TAKE POLL long discussions on affiliation to year. The members turned out Maritime Body Threats of action against the licy, will place the Workers AlNews of the encounter swept Support To Defense liance back on the road to beProgressives at this convention coming an effective organization through the neighborhood, and and Democracy, or an investiga derstood that without full time Wednesday found the strikers tion into the Women Charter. organizers the union cannot Committee NEW YORK. The Maritime have been made. Whether these of the unemployed.
prepared for a real battle. He felt that the union had no grow and overcome its present Commission struck at the most first aid tent was set up, the interest in his problems, his job, critical condition. By a vote of vital function of the seamen pickets nailed their placards on NEW YORK. The election of wages and conditions.
two to one, they defeated the NEW YORK. Timidly and unions with the opening last heavy sticks, and the huge crowd officers in Waiters Union, Local The present leadership, upon proposal of the executive board half heartedly, as might have week of a government shipping of neighborhood residents gather. 16, will take place at Palm getting into office, began to and instructed the budget com been expected, the American La hall, designed to replace union Contains Timely Articles ed, in solid sympathy with the Garden, April 12. This election throw all responsibility for or mittee to include as one of its bor Party has gone on record as the 38 ships operated by the strikers.
is of vital importance to all ganizing upon the membership: necessary expenditures the main being deeply sympathetic to commission.
Leon Trotsky reviews the cam loving nature of the great deScabs Escorted members of the Union and to the Every member tenance of an organizer in the the case of Fred Beal, leader Captain Grenville Conway, paign waged by the Anarchists, mocracies is made by Maurice At closing time, the police a youko trisna levement of New was their slogan. To effect this, teman The plans of the Stalinists are strike, who is now serving a 10 Commission, stated that appli of Bolshevism around the Kron in The Record of the Democraof the 1929 Gastonia textile local director of the Maritime Mensheviks and other opponents Spector and his findings revcaled gain prepared to evacuate the progressive and honest elements tes were set up at the head of quite clear now. If they cannot 20 years sentence in a North cants would be required only to stadt issue in an article entitled eie cum poate strike breakers from the plant in the Union on the one side, the general organizing commit smash the opposition (and that Carolina prison. The sentence, produce their licenses indicating The Hue and Cry Over Kron the current economic situation ready. When 150 foot policemen racketeer combination on the who could not even call a meet bers. they will undertake to years by escaping to the Soviet concerned, he stated, with the New International, which came whether the new depression is and 15 mounted officers attemp. other.
ing to over et alone lead the destroy Local 24. They will pro: Union, was secured on a frame union views or affiliations of the off the press last week. The ted to escort the scabs to their Progressive Group, guther work on gan 12. The to divide men.
In the valuable Archives of automobiles parked five blocks ing around themselves all honest away, they were forced to fight members of the Union, huve Chinese Garment Workers In a letter to the Non Partisan. Two ships, the Independence volt 17 years ago are made clear the Revolution the concluding Committee which is working for Hall and the Algic, have already in an uncompromising defense installment of Trotsky letter battle lasted over 15 minutes remnants of the Couleher gang, Beal liberation, and which has been manned by this fink hall, of the actions of the Bolsheviks. on the problems of the Chinese and extended over the entire five and their corrupt Stalinist allies.
Strike in San Francisco received endorsement from nu after members of the National In the same issue, Max East Revolution, written in 1927, is published.
blocks.
merous working class organiza Maritime Union had refused to man addresses an open letter to The platform of the industrial Other articles by Jack Weber, While the scabs escaped, the Group calls for one SAN FRANCISCO deter Union, an of affiliate, tions and scores of liberals and sail the ships. The Algic crew Corliss Lamont, replying to Lacops got more than a taste of union of all food workers in New mined strike by 100 Chinese are respecting the picket lines intellectuals, the refused to work with two stool mont circular letters attacking Stanley and Walter Held, and their own medicine. Five were York, and is steadfastly opposed dressmakers in the factory of the manned by the Chinese strikers, through its state executive ser piece one who likvih been insemn the Trotsky Defense Committee. George Novackand Bernard forced to undergo hospital treat to all racketeering elements. It National Dollar Stores, Ltd. sup leaving the retail stores without retary, Alex Rose, declares that ed after testifying against union The regular feature, Com Wolfe, round out the 32 page isment. Cracked heads though the sympathies of the members in the famous Algie ments on the current scene by sue.
among is for democracy in the Union, plemented by picket lines around salespeople, the Ten strikers were arrested and union by any political organizu marks a real step forward in the difficulties, the San Francisco ways be found on the side of the the crew of the Independence to the Trial of the 21, viewed in and yearly subscriptions may be In face of nearly insuperable American Labor Party may al case.
sixteen treated for injuries attion.
organization of the Chinese Board, under the downtrodden and oppressed, there Hall were discharged when they swift moving obtained for 00 by writing the the union first aid lent. That in the clection held last year, workers in this area.
New International, 116 UniverThe strike was called by the Organizer, succeed. participation in individual cases of the Dalzell Towing Co. on the events in Europe.
the real victory lay with the after the merger of the Stalinist International Ladies Garmented toward the end of last year in view of the fact that as a unfair list for discrimination An inquiry into the peace sity Place, New York City.
strikers was shown when the controlled Independent Food company announced that the Workers Union, Local 119, with Workers Union after the Chinese in organizing the National Dollar political party we have our own against union members. Officials plant would remain closed. Nc Local 16, members of the latter, owners of the National Dollar Store factory, largest Chinese program and objective to of the charged that of seamen, on orders gotiations between the union and having had no previous experi Stores, a retail chain of 37 stores, dress factory in San Francisco achieve.
the company are expected to ence of the activities of Stalin had broken the agreement cov. Chinese labor, employed mainly Rose, however, adds that his from the Maritime Commission, begin shortly.
ist stooges, clected a number of lering their factory workers by their own Chinese boss class, letter may be used by the Com replaced the crew and them to office. year experi Members of the Retail Clerks has long been kept in docile submittee foy enlisting the support sailed the ship, Last week eight page anti Akron, Ohio ence has convinced the progres.
jection by appeals to national of any of our affiliated trade war issue of the Socialist Appeal Cleveland, Ohio sives that between Browder solidarity.
union.
WIDICK SPEAKS TO was a success from every point Newcastle, Pa.
followers and Coulcher gang, FARMERS IN OLIVIA of view. press run increased NEW YORK there is no choice.
by thousands has already been The progressives have put up OLIVIA, Minn Widiek, exhausted and orders still come TOTAL a full slate against the Stalinlabor secretary of the Socialist in for more. Unfortunately we ist racketeer fusion slate. They Workers Party, spoke here be cannot fill the orders that came BUNDLE ORDER INCREASE are confident that the members of Local 16 will unite with them Industry Paralyzed By Appeal Story On Strong fore a large group of farmers in late. Comments too numerous and unemployed, Wednesday. to list have started coming in, Boston, Mass.
Louisville, Ky in cleaning these harmful eleIn our issue of March 19 we in a letter of April 4, the initial March 30. Farmers from many too all enthusiastic and compStrike Action ments out of office.
Wiseton, Canada Socialist Appeal is miles around turned out for the limentary. There seems to be a carried a report of a meeting report in (Continued from page 1)
meeting, in spite of a heavy growing sentiment in favor of a Billings, Mont.
held at the Community Church accurate.
Foremen and supervisors snow storm.
40 Chicago, six or eight page paper every ejected, but operations were Go Ahead File!
NEW YORK. The New York in New York, in which Anrain Gardner, Mass.
The meeting was marked by week instead of now and then.
200 New York City maintained, with power still the extreme interest shown in If you get behind the Appeal as City fur industry wis closed Louise Strong, the speaker, was We can now add our voices to the war question by those in at you have this past week, six or flowing throughout this vast Columbus, Ohio 15 down completely when 20, 000 quoted as saying: Suppose the industrial area.
Governor Frank Murphy, remembers of the International Moscow trials are frame ups that of the comrade selling the tendance. Comrade Widick was eight pages it will be in the not TOTAL INCREASE Appeal outside the Boston meet asked many questions pertinent too distant future.
308 Fur Workers Union tunswered turning from a sojourn in Floing. In response to Miss Strong to the plight of the farmers and The above figures do not inthe strike call issued by the so what?
Miss Strong has been covering threat of a libel suit, he urged rural communities in war time the field in getting subs and war issue ordered by locals ull New York continues to lead clude the extra copies of the anti rida, promptly called a conferunion Joint Council Thursday ence between the strikers and Leaflet Distributors of last week.
the country assiduously since very strongly that she proceed the company in Detroit, where increasing its bundle orders over the country, nor do they The general strike was voted then, continuing her campaign to file it at the earliest possible the Olivia local of the Socialist Here are the increases for the include the copies ordered for Need No Permits the agreement was reached this Workers Party.
the previous week, and affected of enlightenment on the tick opportunity.
week ending April 1st: Monday. Evacuation of the plants who arranged promotion purposes. Don forget was the first demand of the com JERSEY CITY, Hand boys, several thousand Groek fur lish subject of the trial. Her Miss Strong Boston meeting, ANNOUNCEMENTS SUBS that the success of the Appeal pany, and Murphy backed them will distributors covered Mayor workers organized in a separate itinerary took her to Boston on however, evidently felt that her crive is a reflection of the Party Insertions in this column are 25 completely in this. He declared llague City Hall last Saturday union, and designers, foremen March 23.
threat had to be reinforced by cents for five lines. Copy must be Chicago, Ill.
success in its Anti War Camthat the seizure of the plants as the dictatorial city govern and pattern makers.
Louisville, Ky.
something more immediate and at the APPEAL office before six paign.
She Got Indignant was indefensible, illegal and ment found its rigorous antiWorcester, Mass.
The strike came after a locksubstantial. They therefore pro o clock Monday evening And don forget that May Day cannot be justified. Such ag handbill ordinance declared in out instituted early in February There, speaking before 300 ceeded to attack our comrades of Detroit, Mich.
is only three weeks off. Plans NEW YORK Minneapolis should be made immediately for gressive and significant strike valid by a Supreme Court ruling by the Associated Fur Coat and people (whereas she has always the Socialist Workers Party, tactics cannot be condoned by of March 28.
Trimming Manufacturers, Inc. managed to attract upwards of tearing literature from their THE RED PUPPETS The Low St. Paul a mass distribution of the Appeal.
St. Louis even a labor loving governor.
er East Side Branch presents We will give you a good paper Distributors, ranging from followed by weeks of fruitless 1, 200 on past occasions to hear hands and engaging in their The union was demanding the representatives of the American negotiations through the state about her Halliburton like pere usual repertoire of hooliganism. them again in Fireside Chat Billings, Mont.
if you will give us the orders renewal of a contract won a year Civil Liberties Union to the Mediation Board and the inter grinations through Stalinland. We take this form of argu with Roosevelt, Hearst, Brow.
Plentywood, Mont.
it. We expect bundle orders der, Saturday, April 9, 1938.
ago, when a similar strike shut political quack, Jeff Burkitt, vention of Mayor La Guardia. The she once again took up the cud mentation as a much more reCamden, NJ to be at least doubled and you Swing music, bar specials.
Portal, can do it.
off the power for twenty four were celebrating the demise of union, plagued by unemployment gels in defense of Stalinism. The vealing confession than even Sub. 25 cents. Children cents.
hours, and guarantee of no an ordinance that had been used and Stalinist leadership. has Daily Worker reported that at Miss Strong inadvertent slip of wage cuts.
with crushing effectiveness. consistently avoided any form of this meeting Miss Strong indig. the tongue at her New York BOB STILER, On the coming Socialist Appeal Date One of the company chief gainst all attempts to organize militant activity, but has sought nantly repudiated our slander meeting.
Wur, plus full length feature 116 University Place weapons has been the Indepen the workers of this industrial the aid of the city administra ous charge that she had cast film, Potemkin, Friday, April 8, P. Irving Plaza, New York City dent Power Employes Associa area. Only last December, six tion and the state apparatus. aspersions on the validity of the enclose. for which please send me the tion, Inc. a paper union fostered members recived jail Irving Pl. and 15 Street. AusAll such efforts of mediation trials in her Community Church by the company. This outfit, sentences for violating the orlin have failed, and the workers face meeting.
Off the Press pices, Socialist Appeal. One year. 00. Six Months, equipped with high powered legal ance.
a long fight with the manu The gang in New York threw LEON SEDOFF CABARET, SWING BAND, FLOOR. 00. Show. Bar and Snacks. Sit. Apr.
advisers, is demanding a Nation. The decision of the Supreme facturers, who apparently intend a barrage of questions at me, in Son Friend Fighter 916 Ninth Ave. At th St enclose. as my contribution toward al Labor Relations Board elec. Court, which held that the town to starve the workers into sub order to confuse me, Miss Strong. Uhr West Side Branch, tion. The maneuver has only one of Griffin, Ga. violated the con mission.
explained in reference to the Dedicated to the Proletarian building the Socialist Appeal.
purpose to give the company a stitutional of freedom Ben Gold, international pres. New York meeting. Before enter.
Youth PHILADELPHIA legal cloak for refusal to sign of the press in requiring persons ident of the union, is a well ing the hall she announced to Name by with the union. distributing circulars or advertise known Stalinist, and the policies one of our comrades selling the ANTI WAR MEETING, Friday, LEON TROTSKY Address Trailing along on this path is ments to obtain a license, is of of the Communist Party play no Appeal that she intended to sue April 22, 8:20 431 Pine the Electrical Workers Union, an national importance to the labor small part in accounting for the core paper reassuring, therefore, Published by the Young Peo Street. Speaker: Maurice SpecCity ple Socialist League tor. Auspices: Socialist Work (4th Internationalists)
ers Party. Admission 20 cents.
also demanding an election and with Dearborn, Mich. represents, workers still find themselves in. to receive a response to a comPATRONIZE THE threatening to call a strike if not an isolated instance of re Only recently this same Goldmunication we addressed to the 116 University Place LOS ANGELES the company signs with the pression by city urdinances, but instigated a frame up trial Reverand John Haynes Holmes New York City Such tactics are completely a common practice of city fa against a leader of the fur work who presided as chairman over 10 per single copy SPECIAL FOR THIS WEEK ONLY LABOR BOOK SHOP WHAT OUTUBROEWE exposed when the real union men ther throughout the nation in ers union in Toronto, Canada, Miss Strong meeting in Com. c in bundles of or more Orders Alled promptly. centa go on strike and demonstrate fighting working class organiza which succeeded in disrupting munity Church. You are quite ORDER NOW extra for postk. Modern Book 28 East 12th Street, wa Dayanand Shon. Goy oth si. LosAngeles Appeal Army 22 WORKERS HOLD POWER PLANTS IN MICHIGAN 20, 000 Furriers Tie Up Shops Pastor Holmes Confirms 42 25 10 10 were Jersey Law Void, High Court Rules 1 1 1 let un