MUEVELAND SWPCRs Stalinists and Labor League In Illinois Democratic Swamp Dunne Raps Bernard For Quitting Beal Defense PROGRESSIVES JERSEY STRIKE SOCIALIST APPEAL April 23, 1938 HOODLUMS ATTACK ST. PAUL UNIONISTS Militants In OPPOSE WAR PLANS CLEVELAND Stalinist hoodST. PAUL. Local 459 of Phila. Fight lums, following out their estabthe International Association lished routine, attacked members of Machinists was the first St.
of the Socialist Workers Party Paul union to adopt a militant Red Baiting who were distributing the Open Back Igoe and Other Alone Boycotted Boss resolution against the war plans of the Federal govern Minneapolis Union Leader Rips Congressman Letter to the Communist Party Machine Primary at a meeting at Public Hall on Arguments To Pieces On Issue Of Candidates Party Primaries In Chicago merhe resolution, adopted by April 13 at which Earl Browder the last membership meeting, Defending Class War Prisoner Leaders of ILGWU Local was speaking. Continued from page 1) kong standing Tradition in Labor Movement Borne preparing for war, placing the Try To Cover Their Led by one Ben Gray, erstMINNEAPOLIS.
Forward By Revolutionists In Party Call Miles which Beal denounced the reacOwn Bankruptcy while leader of the local Workers ed into each others personal his.
of the opposition to war and Dunne, secretary of the Teams tionary acts of the Stalin governAlliance, squads of Stalinists destory and went into the field of the war makers, denounced ters Joint Council and editor of ment, doing so explicitly on the cended on leaflet pashalysis.
CHICAGO. Despite the fact Regarding the parties which the Sheppard. May Bill, de the council organ, Northwest basis that he, Beal, remained to played a strong that it has been a long standing had hitherto called for primaries manded the withdrawal of Organizer, last week sharply true to the working class while cover up the bankruptcy their sers, many of them girls, and part in the campaign. Chicago radical practice here to boycott boycotts, the statement continues: American forces from foreign rapped Congressman John Stalin has betrayed it. American Not so long ago many of you soil, and the allocation of war Bernard, Minnesota Farmer labor history is full of incidents Local 15 of the International lets as they could to shreds. One wrong to have two senators from Workers Party issued a boycott under the influence of the Sofunds to relief purposes, and Laborite, for withdrawing from where progressive section of Ladies Garment Workers Umon young girl comrade had her arm matter of ability, pointed out the big capitalist parties are listed would have disdained to enroll Chicago, said Horner. It was a call this year. None but the two cialist and Communist Parties declared that only a govern the Non Partisan Committee for the labor movement criticize rement dominated by workers the Defense of Fred Beal, actionary union officials and the red baiting campaigns with a sisted Gray attempts to sepa the labor hater, wanted to have opened one of their typical painfully twisted when she re Kelly Nash adherents. Cosure ties can only get on the ballot with a new war in the offing.
in the primaries; minority par yourselves as Democrats. Today, will bring peace and security.
1929 Gastonia strike leader now capitalist press tries to take adtacks on the Trotskyist members rate her from the leaflets.
in a North Carolina prison serv vantage of it. Who is responsible of the local, whom they accuse an honest election, but Kelly by filling out an enormous num the labor fakers are stampeding ing a 17 20 year sentence on a for that situation? Not those frame up murder charge. who criticize the wrongs done by officials to maintain the work the the meeting was well be personal police from him be signed by any one who regis as they fled to the safe ground Dunne had written to Bernard degenerate labor officials! The ers standards and conditions in covered by leaflets which disap guard the ballot boxes! Jarecki The boycott call points by the test of the last war. That.
of Wilson liberalism when faced asking him to explain his with responsibility for that situation face of the advancing cconomie peared into the pockets of many declared that he was rejected by out the nature of a capitalist is what is happening to the So LOSE IN FOOD depression.
had acted after having receiv commit the crimes which must This accusation is made in an rank and filers.
Kelly Nash because he would not party as a political company cialists and Communists today, ed factual information from be criticized.
resort in the article which appeared stealing elections. union and the necessity for As is usual in such a period, UNION BALLOT friends of mine relative to the Benedict Arnold was rewardStalinist Daily Freiheit of April Prystalski, his opponent, called smashing capitalism and its poli the revolutionary party has bepast actions of this individual. ed by the Tories. Fred Beal is 4, which deals with the alleged STEEL WORKERS Lame kit eshooting the charged tical arms. However, it declares. come the only one upholding He then went on to retail a se persecuted by the reactionaries.
vernment out of well earned pro diate demands of the workers in immediate economic and poliStalinists Unite With ries of charges against Beal, in. That shows which side he beand one of their sympathizers in cluding that of being a stoogelongs to. Did it not occur to you the Philadelphia local. NET GAINS IN perty tax monies.
and their allies are unimportant, tical struggles.
Racketeers In for the National Civic Federa that it was very strange that In the midst of this great leven in themselves. But in this Two members of the Young battle Election tion, an agent of Hearst and a one joining in Hearst attack Conditions Grow Worse inside the Democratic respect, too, the building of an Peoples Socialist League distri Benedict Arnold in the Labor against the labor and progresParty, there entered two outside independent, révolutionary party buting the statement at a Demo movement. Dunne reply was sive movement, a stooge openly For a long time the Stalinists forces. They arrived late on the is the best guarantee of success. cratic rally were assaulted and NEW YORK. Stalinists and as follows: and their stooges have been acknowledged by the National scene, but not too late to do Though it elect nobody, a one of them was knocked to the racketeers, united in a fusion Civic Federation should neverspreading lies in Local 15 to keep their filthy bit in deluding the true working class vote, like a pavement, but they beat off the slate, delivered a blow to the For or Against?
theless be seized by the State the workers from realizing the Crucible Strikers Win voters of the state that in this working class mass meeting is attack and continued the distri progressive forces in Waiters true role of the people whom Concessions After struggle over spoils within the a demonstration of militancy and bution. This time the Democrats Union, Local 16, when they won Your letter of the 7th is now of North Carolina for the crime they elected to office. This local, numbering over 3, 000 members, Militant Fight the struggle between fascism and for the future, which can always paid strong arm men they usu union officials last week at Palm formation from friends which to labor are thus persecuted.
Democratic Party, a rehearsal of determination, as well as a threat did not have to use any of the a closely contested election of thang short of amazing. Appar of leading the Gastonia strike?
ently you live in a world of in No! Only those who remain loyal has been completely in the hands democracy, progress and reaction wrest more concessions from the ally turn loose on radical distri Garden.
of the Stalinists since the last David Siegel, a leader of the has no relation to the real world. You would have known that, it election.
HARRISON, Workers The Communist Party and any compromises with their par had new, volunteer assistance progresives and candidate for you still thought like the workAs a result of their Here are the real facts.
er you once were.
misrule, conditions in the shops of the Crucible Steel began to Labor The slugging was Stalinist work. president, was defeated by Harry Fred Beal is now serving a have grown worse. In some cases, return to work last Monday entered into the campaign with y system of oppression.
Lee, the fusion candidate, aby 17 20 year sentence for the Demands Investigation wages and working conditions after the end of a hard fought great vigor. The old Gomper ideas became the mouthpiece for hailed their victories, with one 112 votes. The whole fusion slate crime of having led the famous are comparable to the period strike that began March 14 when practice of rewarding your Gastonia textile strike of 1929. The least you can do now to prior to the great general strike the company locked out several friends and punishing your enos 1goe, Jarecki, and a host of exception. The deplored the went into office.
The Progressive Group present. Are you for or against his ratone for having deserted the of garment workers in 1933.
Work flows out of the inside the plant and the Jersey City rican Federation of Labor con mored even members) of the the grounds of his association ed a clear cut program, calling lease? That is the sole issue. defense of Fred Beal is to inshops to contractors, union and Spauldings and Jennings plant fused its members and tied them entered the primaries te with the Kelly Nash machine in for one industrial union for all By withdrawing from his defense vestigate the information from non union, where it is made up and refused to adjust grievances to the tails of both capitalist help make the fight a political its editorial of April 14, entitled food workers in New York and you have apparently signified friends and you will discover cheaper, not only further enthe workers.
creasing the ide period. The in Harrison and 460 in Jersey supported by cow bthe candidates candidates. The Record carried rejoiced over the defeat of Kelly mination of the union by the Unlike you, the authoritative up. And while you re investigatmanager and the stalinist busi city maintained for over san League and the Communist choice. But the was also of in supporting the group opposed all racketeer ele have endorsed the defense of this those friends. That will provide ments in the union. The militants class war prisoner.
you, if you really want it, with ness agent, when reporting at month 24 hour picket lines in Party were labor choice based in a quandary. Igoe, the pro many winning candidates.
and honest trade unionists Scores of labor leaders of the key to the intolerable situamembership meetings, hand out both cities and not a single fore. upon the support of progressive gressive candidate, the true Divided Victory menabered well the days when both the and the tion they have gotten you into.
to the few workers who now man entered either plant without candidates as against reaction Rooseveltian, was taken in by. Very truly yours, Kelly Nash.
attend the same stuff about en permission of the strike com aries!
The only thing Local 16 was little more than of are publicly supportAside from the leading posts, Miles Dunne, Editor, forcing the agreement and keep mittee. Despite WC with Igoe was that he fan the victors were equally divideda tool in the hands of Coulchering the defense of Fred Beal.
Cnly One Dilemma Retek, gan Northwest Organizer.
on the Kelly Nash ticket. They between Horner and Kelly men.
snow in jail. Among them are Homer Martin, ing up union standards. But no slanders against the strike leadLabor. league supported him, nevertheless. They ership, The Stalinists, discredited in president of the United Auto thing is being done about it.
stooges and Stalinists, the solid spread by both company came out in support of gee as supported Jarecki and the other and the sup the eyes of the progressive Workers; William Green, presiported indiscriminately the maAppeal for Funds Members Wake Up arity of the workers was evi senator, on the theory that he anti Kelly progressives.
But chine men of both camps.
workers, made a deal with the dent of the of David remnants of the Coulcher gang. Dubinsky, president of the in NEW YORK. The Non Parti At the last meeting, the Stadenced by the largest picket line was and is a friend of a labor, they also supported the Kelly. With the primaries concluded, resulting in the Stalinist racke ternational Ladies Garment san Committee for the Defense on the last day of the strikc.
a progressive candidate. There Nash judiciary candidates! But everyone points to the elections linist business agent added to was only one dilemma to be ex you see, only the most progresſ in the Fall. Already, Big Jim teer fusion slate. The votes that Workers, Alex Rose, secretary of of Fred Beal issued an appeal her report a warning against No Strike Concession plained away: He was the can sive.
certain clements who are trying didate of the Kelly Nash machine Farley is coming to Illinois to former associates of the gang. the American Labor Party. These here last week for funds to help to take advantage of the crisis ment, advised by Desvernine, massacre of the steel strikers For three days, the manage which distinguished itself in the Opposes Lucas unite the party for the Fall sters were able to swing to the labor leaders had known of the organize the legal aspects of the Communist Party resulted in the vicious slanders peddled by the Beal defense. The appeal was to break up the union. All these Liberty League attorney, at last Memorial Day. On the other elections. Party unity may be Communist Party against Besl, addressed to all branches of the The carried on a vigor achieved. Although the elections victory for the fusion ticket.
which are repeated in your letter American Labor Party whose to shift the blame to someone tempted to get the union to pro side, they supported Jarecki be ous campaign against Scott marked the decline of the Kellyas information from friends. secretary, Alex Rose, has endorselse, however, are ceasing to cause he was honest and clean Lucas, as senator, on the ground Nash machine, they are not out work. The workers eyes are be ment was reached. The wand opposed the Kelly Nash ma that he was an isolationist by a long shot. There is plenty that the factual information and authorized circularization of. was pure slander, invented by the party branches and affiliatdiate strike action is the best gressives for other state and Roosevelt supporter.
ing restless.
was op trols almost a million voters in the Communist Party.
ed unions.
guaranteen against chiseling local posts, notwithstanding their posed, at least so he declared, the Chicago area. Unity will be Although the Trotskyists are management, refused to sign any machine afiliations. By and large, to any foreign war, and would achieved to put over the entire Where Truth Lies The appeal enclosed contribution lists. Funds are to be sent Lewesende Weren defeated bhxation such statement and made no con the majority of the candidates not vote to budget a single Democratic sĩate against the Re The only semblance of truth to the Non Partisan Committee LYNN, Mass. The strike of in the last election, they were in the coming struggles.
Lovestone Stalinist combination cession that would weaken them were old time ward heelers, parts foreign country to engage in war. do in the Fall? It is against Sharaf Restaurant is that the Hearst press published West 44 Street, New York penny to send our boys to a publicans.
able, together with other trade No contraet was signed, the whose prime interest in politics hacks, professional job holders, What will the and Foodworkers Local 701, in all these slanders is the fact for the Defense of Fred Beal, In an editorial on April 9, the Record declared: not hard to guess. They will sup now in its third week and some articles of Fred Beal in City.
campaign, to get a good portion be settled on a day to day basis, is the spoils to be gained.
of the votes. The class peace with Non. Partisan If you are for President Roo port the reactionaries on the militant picket lines have cut Stalinists in the leadership have signed statements.
both sides submitting League was outdone by the Comsevelt progressive policies, you ticket along with the progres patronage to about five percent stifled the militant, fighting chose to wait for a more favor pretending to be a revolutionary sives, in order to defeat the of normal. Systematic violation The union munist Party. If ever a party will vote for Michael Igoc. If you are against the pro forces of fascism in the guise of an agreement reached after spirit that was so characteristicable moment before signing a re party, a workers party, played gressive features of the Roosevelt, of the Republican Party. Una strike last January forced the of the young workers who make gular contract.
Next week issue of the So while we have received a total up the majority of the Local cialist Appeal will be the Special of 235 new subscriptions in the Concessions won from the com a foul and traitorous role, it was program, you will vote for Scott less, of course, the suffers Poodworkers to call this strike, membership, but the Stalinists pany included the reinstatement into the primaries as if the canthe Communist Party. It entered Lucas. On Tuesday, the another change of line, which the second in three months.
The effectiveness of the picket May Day Edition. Orders for ex samo period. The bulk of these workers had the courage to vote equitable distribution of work, Convention. And well they should cast their ballot for the right.
to be deceived as to how they is charted ever more to the line has forced Sharaf to re tra copies have come in but it new subscriptions came from sort to ridiculous anties in at is still not too late for those New York, Chicago, Boston, Los tempts to counteract the pickets. who have not ordered. Don de Angeles, Newark, Montana, and that the Trotskyists are not plants, with no reductions in pay Daily Record, one of the three. When this editorial appeared, afraid to speak. They still re for any worker and a guarantee sectional newspap ANNOUNCEMENTS Amplifiers blare out popular lay any longer because we ex Minneapolis.
music and parrot like contradicpect to be sold out and you won The fact that the Appeal is of the Lucas charged that Igoe was beInsertions in this column are tions of the pickets slogans.
extra once constantly growing in cireulathe Trotskyists took the floor, not notified the day before that is to hela propagate its new Per supported by the communist some other endorfer Stooges, posing as loyal work the press run is set tion proves that there is an ever after discouraging reports by the there was to be no work. In ad reformist and anti revolutionary Party and that Browder so de ers and attired in white unigreater demand for it. What it officers, and proceeded to expose dition, the union reported the clared in a Chicago speech. The o clock Monday evening. denied that Browder made forms and chef hats, parade up New subscriptions for the will take from now on is conthem to the membership. So satisfactory settlement of all NEW YORK and down beside Local 701. pickets week ended April 15 are as fol sistent plugging and hard work such a statement. Budenz degreat was the response of the grievances pending up to the provoke lows: on the part of every party memrank and file that even some Sta date of the strike.
clared that the Record had in ASTORIA BRANCH. Grand Social in an attempt to Los Angeles ber and sympathizer to make correctly reported and hindis next Saturday night, brawl.
Browder linists, caught off guard, joined April 23, 11 22 Forty Seconds One of the by products of this Mishawaka, Indiana. possible a larger paper. We rein the applause.
Improved Situation speech. Morris Childs, the state South Bend, Indiana Take Thishing train to Lowery militant strike which has greatpeat again: Double the circulasecretary of the made This strike showed a marked St. Station.
similar denials.
Admission 25 cents ly increased the prestige of Local Ann Arbor, Mich.
Another Falsehood tion of the Appeal and not only Dedham, Mass.
will you have an eight page improvement from every point NEWARK. Less than a week Record carried an interview The Freiheit writer falsely re of view over the strike a few However, on April 9, the DANCE AND ENTERTAIN. 701 is the cracking of the city MENT, 78 St. Marks Place, ordinance forbidding leaflet dis.
St. Louis, Mo. paper but you ll have it twice a ports that a sea of hands went months ago. Organization of the after a motion passed in the with Childs, in which he gave the April 23, 8:30 admission tribution. Over 5, 000 strike leaf. Billings, Montana week. Then on to a national up for the collective security re Jersey City plant is now 100 per Newark Labor Committee for reasons for supporting, together 25 cents. Auspices, Polish lets have been distributed on the New York daily!
solution as against two hands cent and the Harrison plant well May Day by the Stalinist stooge with Labor Non Partisan Workers League.
streets of Lynn.
Pittsburgh, PA.
for the Ludlow amendment. About over 90 percent. With the help organizations to give credentials San Antonio, Tex.
Rodney Salisbury in Billings, CORRECTION Allardt, Tenn.
65 members were present, of of the Workers Alliance, hund only to the Communist and so League, Igoe and Jarecki. He PLAYERS PRESENT Montana, writes: The Appeal is whom a little more than half reds of workers were quickly cialist Parties, organizations in and went on to say: LINE, operetta, Dancing and the best working class paper The report of the Workers Drinks, 1723 Amsterdam Ave.
voted for collective security. The placed on relief in Hudson and the vicinity have begun to show Total: ever published. We are proud rest did not vote at all. worker Essex counties.
their determination not be used The Chief Task (145 St. April 24, admission Alliance New York convenBundle orders have been in of it. You may send a bundle who attempted to propose more The antagonism between as labor fronts for the splitting, 25 cents. Tickets obtainable tion in the SOCIALIST APcreased by: of 10 copies to Comrade Roger discussion on the resolution was Negro and white workers, bet social patriotic policies of the from Comrade Stanley, City of Real revolutionists. must PEAL of last week erroneous Los Angeles, Calif. 50 Murray in Clancy, Montana, and howled down by the Stalinists. ween native and foreign born Stalinists.
take the tead in influencing fice. Limited number only to ly stated that the Socialist Claney, Montana to Ed Langren in Great Falls, avoid crowding! Auspices, similar occurrence took place workers, worked up in the past Already three units of the people, in organizing them and Washington Heights Branch Party members of the ResoluGreat Lakes, Montana Montana.
tions Committee had withduring a symposium on war ar by the bosses, has completely dis. Workers Alliance, comprising leading them in the fight against Johannesburg, So. Africa 12 drawn their resolution on the On the basis of population, if Saskatoon, Canada ranged by the educational de appeared. Negro workers played over 60 percent of the membership the camp of reaction, keeping in CHARLES YALE HARRISON, these small towns in Montana American Labor Party. On NEW YORK 100 take bundles of 10, the cities Barricades, speaks on the So this issue the Socialists did withdrawn from the committee. defeat fascism. In line with the speakers two Stalinists, a Love at all times.
viet Union, Friday, April 29, throughout the country should stoneite and a Socialist (Clarity. During this strike the company Three trade unions, about to send policy of our party, we are already maintain their opposition. It Total increase: 179 P. Thomas Paine Society, be ordering literally thousands.
was their resolution on war ite. The Socialist Party speak did what it had refused to do delegates to the committee, upon fully entered in the election cam88 Seventh Ave. Seventh Ave.
which was withdrawn in favor For the eight week period end. How about it Boston, Philadeler, forced into taking a revolu before the management met learning what had happened, paign, supporting and endorsing Subway to Christopher Street. ing April 15 there has been an phia, Chicago, Detroit, San Fran.
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which supported the People ary arguments of the Stalinists, ganizer for the was not permitted to continue by The union did not win every others of the few trade unions in for the needs of the people, MAY DAY EVE SOCIAL, city Front position and endorsed Socialist Appeal wide affair. All other dates the war mongering American the lovers of peace and demo thing it set out for, but it won the committee will also withdraw. cooperation with other progrescalled off for April 30. piece League for Peace and Demo116 University Place Date cracy although the workers in almost all its immediately im. Efforts are being made to or sive forces and groups in the. portant demands, and now the ganize another demonstration in state.
cracy.
personations. April 30, P. New York City sisted that he go on.
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is affiliated with the restless and discontented rankand entertainment on April 30 at GALA MAY DAY CELEBRA Young People Socialist TION, Showing of Tsar To League of Los Angeles.
Name and file in order to bring pres. the The paralyz the Music Arts Auditorium. The Labor Party of Illinois.
ing hand of Stalinism is fasten film record of the October revFollowing the primaries in Lenin, pictorial record of the Russian sure on the leadership and put up ed on Local 15. It must be shaken olution, From Tsay to Lenin, which Lucas and Jarecki, along followed Address WORKERS IN AMERICAN HIS a fight to regain better working off it the union is to march for will be shown and the with the majority of Horner canby festive danee.
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chorus of 100 will be heard. didates won out, the Record Hall, 233 So. Broadway, April Shop. 509 oth st. Los Angeles Lynn Foodworkers In Second Strike Appeal Army be to Jersey WAA Rejects May Day Stooge Role 8 25 10