SOCIALIST APPEAL April 16, 1938 Teachers Union Ousted By Joint Committee For St. Louis Rally Seeks To Prevent Newark Union WAA Meet Sedulously United May Day Parades Skirts Vital Problems comrades NMU OPPOSITION and their stooges.
SHOWS LACK OF Stepresentatives the year. stinking elements.
and hysteria es expressed most soundt democratie union admini. CLARITY IN POLL LABOR PLAYING PENNSYLVANIA BOSS POLITICS Rochester Unions Begin Organizing that Stalinists Turn Out Anti War Resolution NEWARK, The VeST. LOUIS, Mo. large and rona Bronze Powder Workers stirring anti war rally was held Union, Local 425, International here by the Socialist Workers Union of Mine, Mill and SmeltParty on April 6, the 21st aner Workers, voted at Company Union Type of Organization Moves With niversary of America entry into Strait jacketed Committees Exclude Militants its membership meeting last (Continued from page 1)
Reactionary Wave; Conciliatory Methods the world war.
week the unanimous adoption The audience, including 10 From Meetings In Boston, Lynn, Newark of the militant anti war resoOf Local Prove Bankrupt rank and file members of the To Prevent Unity lution passed by the Central the than the Stalinists turn, the price paid to his office for Stalinist party, greeted with Labor Union of Minneapolis ed the convention into a hog dues stamps from 10 to 12 cents.
mediately upon the close of the the union membership in proposal Belonidick, blation athlabor See excluded from the skynited way bona kde union which had res Trotskyites were and published in the Socialist calling contest, with the female He finally went down to defeat Appeal of April Stalinists having the edge. In after fighting valiantly for the the midst of the bedlam, Wise two cents. Harrison made a deAdoption of the resolution where it worked feverishly to de tional Education Association (not retary of the for them Day Conference called by the ponded to the call, the Lasters man appealed to the chair to rule termined effort to have the dues was voted after a full and feat the progressive teacher and to be confused with the American to join our ranks for a revolu Communist and Socialist parties Local of the United Shoe WorkRhoda Pearson out of order. changes referred to a referendum child welfare legislation intro Education Association. the nationary struggle against impe of Boston last Sunday, when re ers of America, was unfortunatelively discussion of the war presentatives of the Socialists and ly represented by two dyed induced by the Teachers Union, tional company union of teach rialist war and fascism.
policies of the Roosevelt adChairman Willis Morgan prompt vote of the membership but was ministration and of certain ly obliged.
voted down Local 5, the Joint Committee ofers, supervisor controlled rival. Not since had 15 rank and Lovestoneites bowed to the de the wool Stalinists.
of the Stalinist mand of the Stalinists to deny No sooner had the meeting forces within the labor move Stalinists Run Riot Teachers Organizations on April of the American Federation of file members Delegates Switch ment.
7, ousted Local from the com Teachers.
party at the Indiana Harbor anti seats to representatives of the opened than the assembled Sta.
The local is preparing to war rally have seen such a large Socialist Workers Party and the linists moved to the task of Appealing the decision of the number of resolutions, mittee by a vote of 82 to 25.
Militant Slate The ostensible reasons given the Trotskyites. demand, when the present con chair, Neil Harrison for the Pro though none dealing with the imgroup of awakening Stalinists at Young Peoples Socialist League kicking out by claiming were criticism and charges minority report from the They started out gressives pointed out that a pre mediate and vital problems of In the elections of officers and a meeting. Widiek told the audtract expires, even better conmade by the representatives of executive board to be held next en both instances the rank and by Socialist and Lovestoncite de did not exist and therefore credentials committee, submitted that the uninvited organizations ditions than those obtained vious speaker had attacked the the unemployed, were reported as a result of their 100 per Trotskyists and had not been out by the resolutions committee.
cent effective sit down last ruled out of order. In scathing on the question of the attitude 1937 regarding the Committee ning a full slate against the ad file violated Communist Party legates, asking that the creden could not be represented. Jack terms he lashed the Stalinist to of the Alliance toward the Ameactions in Albany.
Fall in the plants of the ministration upon a program of orders to boycott the tials of the and Green moved they be requested militant action American delegates be recognized, was to leave and the question was Bronze Powder talitarian conception of demo rican Labor Party, the commitas opposed to meetings.
Line up With Reaction playing around with Democratic voted down, 40 to 11, by a con immediately called. Our Company. Delegates to the cracy while the Stalinists howled tee was divided. The two Socialference packed with Stalinists vigorously protested these tactics Newark May Day Committee and booed.
ist Party members on the comand Green thereupon delivered This move serves notice on the and Republican politicians, exwere instructed to maintain Lasser took over the chair and mittee brought in a resolution teachers of New York that the posure of the role of the Joint motion by one of the dele lynch speech, calling upon his firm anti war, antigave the floor to Rhoda Pearson, opposing the People Front line Joint Committee takes its place Committee and an active camgates that the floor be given to followers to throw out these security stand.
who pointed out that it was the of the Stalinists. But at the last with the dangerously growing paign for its reorganization, op truth of her remarks which was minute, they withdrew their own forces of reaction, retrenchment position to the pro war policy of for five minutes was also voted collective security and for a Ausing all the indignation. resolution and united with the Stalinists Isolated down.
She declared: If any other party, Stalinists to carry a weaselOur comrades departed amid from the Republicans to the worded People Front type of Naboe Devaney bill in Albany stration in the interests of all the Revolutionists Barred a chorus of epithets. It appears Trotskyists, is attacked. that resolution which called, inter and the Educational Signpost teachers. Only upon such a proin the school system. The Sign gram can the union fight off its Various Elements Mixed During the debate, the dele. probable that the Lasters will Party clique comes under fire American League for Peace and post is the publication of a many enemies and continue to In Rank and File gates under discussion were bar repudiate the report of their de the speaker is stopped.
Democracy.
newly organized American Educa grow as a force in the New York red from the hall and given no legates and withdraw from the school system.
Pilot Group tion Association whose purpose the conference, thus leaving the Staopportunity to reply to The militant anti war resoluCharge Retracted Hinists high and dry slanderous. accusations of the People tion of the Minneapolis Central is to eradicate radicalism, leftA motion to refer Pearson Labor Council, presented by ism, and all progressive educaNEW YORK As the first Stalinists. Philip Frankfeld, state Front isolation.
The wrecking tactics of the Lewis Sets Out To Take charges to the Rules Committee David Cowles for the Progrestion from the New York City union wide election in the Na: Communist Party, denounced the CP have so disgusted union Over Democratic was carried by the Stalinist sives, was of course voted down.
schools. tional Maritime Union began last Trotskyites as fascists and packed convention. Harrison then This action also serves notice week, an opposition slate, issued are apathetie toward any kind Party Machine Slate Elected moved to refer the charges of by the group around the Rank enemies of the working class of May Day celebration. The on the Board of Education Trotskyist disruption to the same and File Pilot, anti Stalinist basing his charges con criticism however, will hold its The rules committee, which authorities that the Joint Com(Continued from page 1) committee. This caused a little included two members, mittee will perform well its own May Day meeting and en chinepanic among the red baiters and brought in a slate for the new function of company union and on tave Loones, lead in the attempt to smash the AFL Affiliates Support during the red baiting working class celebration.
the New York waterfront.
its backing by Labor Non delegates, a Stalinist, took the ed by the Stalinists although only organization which can serve Reprinting the ballot, using red hearing at the State House.
Partisan League no more alters floor and admitted that they including four nominees. the interests of the classroom Drive To Unite Delegates representing the Soink and the hammer and sickle Barred In Newark this fact than would the selec actually knew of no Trotskyist minority of the committee nomiteacher, namely, the Teachers emblem to identify the Stalinists cialists and Lovestoneites took Unemployed tion of a labor bureaucrat the right of as disruption in their local. It was nated and spoke for Neil HarUnion.
and their stooges, the leaflet the floor to Internationalisht to The Joint Committee of TeachNEWARK, Socialist Secretary of Labor turn the cur just a slip of the tongue, he rison, who was voted on and defeated. Other nominees from the ers Organizations, originally the ROCHESTER, With the sen going rank and file seamen participate in a united front on Workers Party delegates to the rent regime into a work explained.
At a meeting of the rules com floor met the same fate and then May Day, but finally capitulated Newark May Day conference are ers government.
joint Salary Committee, is com aim of bringing unemployed to various posts.
to the majority decision of the to be denied credentials for mittee next day, arrangements the combined slate posed of delegates of some 76 workers directly into the recogFly Progressive Colors Stalinist. dominated body. further participation in the preStalinists Back Democrats were made to withdraw the entire was put to the vote and elected teachers organizations, the over. nized trade union movement, courageous refusal to abide by paration of the May Day cele matter from the convention floor en bloc.
whelming majority of which are steps are being taken to organize It goes without saying the dollar a year, supervisor workers of Rochester. whole, presented a perfect picture While the sponsors call them any such outrageous proposition brations. Our party is also to be the Stalinists, who have given and to have an impartial comThe convention, taken as a favored, bureaucratically control under a charter of the Interna rank and file the slate actually the Stalinist disrupters.
themselves.
pro of a Stalinist controlled organiled company union type of orga tional Laborers Union, of represents an amalgam of all the affiliate, it was announced here various oppositional data stoncites may still withdraw gates was nization. While the committee it That the Socialists and LoveDecision to exclude our dele are among the most active Dejects.
self contains some 60 per cent last week.
stirred taken Finances took up a large partzation and as such quite incaa conference mocratic party hacks in the of the convention time te pare pable of advaneing the true inclassroom teachers, the real con The plan has received the full rule of the Stalinist clique in from such a farce of a united session thoroughly packed by primary fight.
terests of the unemployed worktrol is vested in the self perpe endorsement and support of the control of the Despite front is not impossible, especial. Stalinists and their stooges and The of condemnation here that the only division in theers. As long as the control of tuating executive committee, Central Trades and Labor the presence of real militants as their organizations in New noted for the almost totalab. die Kennedy slate has been peared. Membership cards were the Stalinists lasts, the Alliance supervisors, and in the legisla way Brotherhoods and severall the canditives on the slate York have rejected the high sence of delegates from those pointed to by Labor Non Part increased to 30 cents and dues will continue to be an instru.
where of the 20 members are Council, local lodges of the Railand represent the clear: handed proposals of the Stalinta trade unions which at a previous san League and by the Stalinists strumpsstandardized at 25 ment of class collaborationism tive committee, where four of the locals of. of affiliates. cut program nor do they repre ists. It is possible that Boston session had voted warsix members are supervisors.
enough; and true also that the cents for unemployed. The battle and collective security First Charter Granted sent a genuinely progressive may yet have a real united front delegates.
condemnation on May Day, a united front that sprung group that stands by itself.
from was fought over a matter of two mongering. The lesson for the Demand Reorganization Regimented Vote The new charter, first granted This is shown clearly by the will permit the participation of thoroughly reactionary motives. cents. Sam Wiseman, as city unemployed. Break the StalinOne of the important demands in this area, provides for reduc support offered Joseph Curran, the revolutionists.
The vote at the session was But the action of and treasurer, led a fight to increase ist stranglehold!
of the opposition in Local be ed initiation fees and low monthly candidate for president and prealmost identical on practically the workers and keeping them fore the Lefkowitz split was that dues. Such an organization, aesent general organizer of the the union demand a reorganizacording to Fred Struble, pres. Curran, who in the past Same Tactics In Lynn 64 votes for the Stalinist proposal bound to the Democratic machine tion of the Joint Committee to ident of the local, will enable has exemplified the worst asito about six against.
at just the time when the workgive more democratic representa union workers who become un pects of Stalinism, receives the LYNN, Massr Last Saturday On a proposal to invite a Ne ers themselves are ready to take tion to the classroom teachers employed and are forced to drop endorsement of this anti Com morning the Stalinists here gro speaker for May Day, the a mighty step forward is no less whose dollars are collected each their regular union affiliation, to munist group on the basis of his staged their annual clown play Stalinists voted solidly for Lett treachery.
It is not too late to place your won be able to turn papers out orders for extra copies of the fast enough.
The workers are going to have May 1st issue of the Appeal adopted a policy of militant eam guarded through union connec Communist Party, delivered at a from their private May Day con as against Plaskett, militant paigning for democratization of tions.
meeting of the deck department ference.
Workers Alliance fighter. to take things into their own which promises to be as popular The following subscriptions the Joint Committee. Under the The group instrumental in some weeks ago.
not to as the anti war issue. Let not were received this past week: None of the Steel Workers Or hands if is pressure of the opposition, the Founders of the Workers Alliance which stands for the policy of unionists. Although some of them bracing a membership of some their necks. It will never become their orders in at once.
The presence of Curran name, was signed by several trade ganizing Committee lodges in prove merely and exclusively one repeat the mistake of failing to Los Angeles committee had already made the Greater Newark area, em more additional yoke around pends upon all locals getting Montrose, Calif.
Chicago, III, Indianapolis Bet just me this time, a change resigned because of the disrupt. then overnment and there soon: theless represented only them did the Amalgamated Clothing in any sense an instrument of Nordis it too late to sende street took place in the Rank and fine ive activities of the Stalinists. owners alike, is in stranger conselves. It goes without saying Workers and the International class action by relying on the ings to the Socialist Appeal for Newark, Peekskill, in the union. Instead of follow time 1, 500 strong, has dwindled militants, such as Arthur Thom the Socialist Workers Party or group, now the majority groun The Workers Alliance, at one trast to the names of genuine that invitations were not sent to ladies Garment Workers Union. good will of Lewis, Kennedy, the special May Day edition. All NEW YORK CITY All have withdrawn. the ing through on its campaign, and until a scant 40 members remain as and Charles Torres of the branches and locals have been The Stalinists, following on a Gulf, or Jerome King of the New organizations sympathetic to it. o. because it could not and Browder. The Pennsylvania notified of the scale of prices.
Total 26 reinforcing the demands of the Crash Conference classroom teachers for demo local scale their national line, York District. Nor is the name meet the tax voted on the unions experience is proving this much Every member and sympared partsa be able by the Stalinist controlled con in a very thorough manner.
have consistently slandered and of Jesse Nohoikaiu, a Hawaiian cratic representation in the comNevertheless, delegates from ference.
to take at least one column inch.
One more week of the subscripmittee, there was a sudden attacked alle militants in the sailor and certainly a real rankin harmony the Local 134 of the switch to conciliation and friend. duced the Rochester Workers with some of the former Workers Alliance, and the WorkSend Your Greetings in at Once. tion drive has still to go and New Contact Unions York is far in the lead. We reliness. Nothing must be said or Alliance to an impotent Com office holders backed in the slateers Defense League, crashed the alize that done to antagonize the Joint munist Party group.
It is gratifying to see locals to comrades in New York is not Pre. May Day Conference, the trade unions of the Greater The in a letter to the Off the Press arding the prizes Committee. The union would win Militant Group Weakened which met in the hall of the fake Newark area, has re emphasized LEON SEDOFF over by American Comittee for Aid to its desire to demonstrate with Son Friend Fighter active in the past as far as the entirely fair to other locals. But The position of the real miliArmenia.
Appeal is concerned, taking hold there will be another drive in Union teachers in the schools, Dedicated to the Proletarian and going to work. Allentown, out a more equitable method of the near future and we ll figure tants and progressives with the labor and pointed out the reasons dozen delegates were pre for its exclusion from the conYouth left without directives, docilely is made less tenable, Pennsylvania, has appointed a supported the Joint Committee rather than strengthened, by the sent from the International ference, namely, its class struggle by new literature agent, Ruth Que making awards.
requests for funds, even while it support of this group. The tae Workers Order, the Russian Club, program. The plans a LEON TROTSKY But the end of the drive does rio, who, with the cooperation of was attacking union bills. The NEW YORK large force ties of the group, attacking their the American League for Peace May Day meeting to which it is il Published by the Young Peoll started putting the local on the ting. Subscriptions still support the Allentown comrades, has not mean relaxation in sub getpresent Rank and File admi of police are patrolling New opponents simply as Commun and Democracy and other Sta inviting all trade unionists.
ple Socialist League nistration, under the guise of York fur district as the generalists and avoiding a presentation (4th Internationalists)
map by increasing the bundle the Appeal and this support must 116 University Place order and straightening out ac come from you who read it.
as end of New York City counts: others to have betrayed the in of scabs to continue work have opens the door to all sorts of Get Response In Yorkville10e per single copy Joseph Almansburger, litera Los Angeles Local of the terests of the teachers to the already met with stern resistance shady elements. The time may ture agent in Rochester, New has sent us, by air mail, same extent as Lefkowitz did in from the strikers, and street come when the real militants 7c in bundles of or more York, is also doing good work a special donation of 10 with NEW YORK. In the heart of ing, of course, international cothe old administration, skirmishes have resulted in so will find it difficult to explain proletarian Yorkville a Socialist operation of nations, and adORDER NOW for the Appeal. He has increased the accompanying comment: veral arrests by cops busily entheir association with this group. Party pacifist maneuver, conceiv. vocacy of a democratie declara.
his bundle order twice in the The eight page paper on April Oppose False Policy gaged in protecting the strike. The struggle against the ed in the best style of the Ame tion of war along the lines of ANNOUNCEMENTS past month. sold out almost immediately.
The Independent Group has breakers.
And of course Karl Shier in We need more. All the comrades been organized as growing opposition within the last year received the enthusi portunists of all stripes, whether y last week.
strong and Mayor La Guardia, who only with the struggle against op moeruey, foundered ignominious program is to be realized by commere om on this columna de Chicagou must be mentioned in and sympathizers in Los Angeles sending petitions to Congress and cents for must be this He union to such policies, as well astic endorsement of the Fur they be the henchmen of Staevening.
Despite the fact that goodly building a membership organiza o clock Monday AL office before six doubled Chidago bundle order and are anxious to see an eightas to the policy of turning the Workers Union, has placed his lin or discredited fakers. sums had been spent for advertis tion similar to the old American since the drive started, brought page Appeal continue with the union into a pro war organiza police force at the disposal of NEW YORK the local out of debt, and still same high caliber as the April The ranks of the real progres ing and that at least 75 organi League Against War and Fascgoes on tion behind the slogans of col the fur manufacturers. special issue. With an eight page paper BRANCH Grand Social If Abe Miller in New York we can immediately double our lective security and support of detachment of 75 officers are on sives can be kept free of pie card zations had been contacted for ism how the League for Peace ASTORIA next Saturday nighi President Roosevelt peace strike duty, and these are aug artists, disgruntled fakers and a meeting to establish a York and Democracy.
April 28, 41 99Forty Second si puts all of his ideas into practice, order. To facilitate this, we are Speakers at the meeting exCapt. Sunnyside, Queens, we ll have to find new presses donating 10 to the Appeal as policy. Proposals for a müitant mented by mobile reserves that outright company men only by ville branch of the Keep America Out of War movement, pressed their dismay and amazecampaign against the Joint Com speed to the district at the following in action, a program only four delegates and one ob ment at the hopeless flop in atSt. Station Admission 25 cent for the Appeal. The present one an initial step.
mittee made by representatives slightest sign of militancy from against the shipowners, against server attended.
tendance and proceeded to decide PHILADELPHIA of the Independents within the the pickets.
the government boards, and that if the workers would not ANTI WAR MEETING, Friday, Socialist Appeal union committees, were turned Despite the police, the work all who would stand in the way The Representation involve themselves the gospel April 22, 8:20 431 Pine 116 University Place Date down by the administration as ers are keeping the fur shops carrying out such a program.
recently as two week ago, but closed. Well organized squads Two of the delegates repre peddlers should.
Street, Speaker: Maurice Spec New York City now, when its leaders can no roam the district, picket lines sented the Socialist Party, one The committee therefore re tor. Auspices: Socialist WorkI enclos HOW TO FIGHT WAR longer defend their policies be are strong, and a series of meetwas from the controlled church in Yorkville, the War ers Party. Admission 20 cents. for which please send me the solved to contact personally every Socialist Appeal. One year. 00. Six Months fore the membership, they hastings keep alive the spirit of the Isolation National Lawyers Guild, while a LOS ANGELES en to adopt measures they should workers Collective Security third represented Canada. History and similar organizaResisters, World Peaceways, New. 00. have carried out long ago. al. Meanwhile, the Stalinist leadSTALINISM AND BOLSHEVISM Relentless Class Struggle enclose. as my contribution toward by Leon Trotsky. 10 cents.
though some of these leaders still ers of the furriers, who would The observer was sent by the Orders filled promptly. cents by building the Socialist Appeal.
continue to mouth empty phrases not dream of embarrassing the German Anti Fascist Club.
extra for postage. Modern Book JAMES BURNHAM Shop. 5094 5th st. Los Angeles about unity.
mayor by exposing his use of The program as outlined by Name It is highly significant of the the police against the strikers, 16 pp.
John Lewine, chairman, consistWANT ADS SUBSCRIBE NOW TO Socialist Workers Party Address administration attitude toward continue to attempt using the ed in propagation of the six point company unionism among teach mayor offices for settling the 116 University Place PERSON TO SELL SOCIALIST New York City platform of the Keep America City APPEAL on commission basis.
THE SOCIALIST 4PPEAL ers that they have placed before Istrike.
Out of War movement, includSee Ape Miller, Local New York, Appeal Office Appeal Army 1 1 17 light People Frontiam. Fur Strike Ends Its Second Week Progressivism, has proved it. strike of fur workers near the of a genuine program for defend. American League Fails To Seamen, tions.
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