2 SOCIALIST APPEAL April 30, 1938 Progressive Painters Fight Bureaucrats GREETINGS FROM LOCAL NEW YORK GROUPS IN TEN LOCALS MEET TO MAP CAMPAIGN Harry Bridges Orders GOODRICH UNION Union Smashing Drive DEFEAT PLANS Socialist Workers Parti Against Coast Sailors FOR WAGE CUTS in TYPO WORKERS REJECT FIGHT AUTO WORKERS AGAINST CIO. FIGHT AGAINST WAGE CUTTING Fink herder DOWN WITH IMPERIALIST WAR!
Greetings!
Greetings to the AKRON, OHIO SOCIALIST APPEAL! LOWER Thugs Beat Up Militant Akron Bosses Overplay We Have Planted the Banner (Continued from page 1) their union, to force them into EAST In Local 51; Members the without a referendum Hand In Rubber up by offering to grant the on the question thus indirectly At the Gateway to the South UPPER WEST SIDE Are Outraged two of the five Shepard supporting the sailors fight. The Parleys SIDE BALTIMORE COMRADES ships and re open the case if the San Francisco Labor Council has will petition for such unanimously endorsed the action BRANCH AKRON. With unanimous NEW YORK. Progressives from ten locals of District action. The is insisting taken by the including decision not even to consider Council of the Painters Union that the Shepard Line live up its refusal to accept the voting on the company propos to its contract.
Hearty Greetings to the met here last Saturday at an compromise offer. eschwise un pero pra te spiked Meanwhile the whole West inter local conference of oppoCoast has been aroused by the SOCIALIST APPEAL Opposition in efforts of boss stooges to get sition clubs to plan for action union smashing of Britiges. Sup.
rubber workers acceptance of against the Stalinist controlled Socialist Workers Party But what is most significant wage cuts. This decision climaxport for the has appearWeinstock administration ed from a number of sources of all is that, on top of the ed weeks of frantic propaganda LOUISVILLE, KY.
the coming union elections.
Teamsters have refused to handle noticeable reluctance of the long by business men committees, Greetings All delegates reported sentithe hot cargo. majority of shoremen to obey Bridges orders the chamber of commerce, the ment against the Stalinist union wreckers on the upsurge. Good men, Oilers, Wipers and Water under the protection of the po timidate and frighten workers For a Workers World! WASHINGTON prospects for the fight are in tenders Association, who are be lice, an opposition bulletin has with the loss of 5, 000 jobs Greetings on May Day HEIGHTS BRANCH sight, according to spokesmen of the progressives. whirlBrownsville Branch a. through decentralization the three unlicensed crafts on Francisco within the overplaying their hand, the From Two Friends wind campaign to save the the West Coast, have given their While not having a clear cut business men group, with a union from legalized. scab confull support to the sailors. The program this bulletin has expos hysterical campaign that tell Socialist Workers Party ditions is reported under way.
Seattle branch of the Cooks and ed a number of Bridges union short only of vigilante violence. Greetings HARRY BRIDGES Stewards Union has rebelled wrecking activities and is de stiffened the spines of countless Riot at Local 51 against the attempt of the Sta manding unity with the Sailors thousands of workers, and clear Greetings!
linist bureaucrats who control against the shipowners. ly demonstrated the necessity EAST BRONX NEW YORK Growing sentiThrough the bulletin is re for militant unity against the Socialist Workers BRANCH vealed some extremely telling bosses solid front.
ment among the rank and file for The union Party showdown fight against the facts: The treasury resolved to press forward to a corrupt Weinstock administrais empty and there is neither a written agreement with the OAKLAND, CAL.
tion in the Stalinist United strike fund nor any effort be Goodrich Company and take no Front controlled Painters Union ing made to build one. It would vote until such can be submithas driven the latter to employ seem that Bridges has no intented to the membership in an Long Live the Greetings!
YPSL outright hooliganism against the tion of fighting the shipowners atmosphere of fairness and freemilitants.
this fall. dom.
The old timers who fought in Socialist Workers Climaxing a whole series of Fourth International! UPPER WEST SIDE attempts to break up local union Reject Assessment Order the 134 and strikes are beWant Books Examined Party meetings to prevent adverse vot And Demand Poll ing rapidly replaced by permit department of Labor stati men on the docks. Permit men stician is now in town investiCLEVELAND, OHIO. es, a scene of scandalous disrupVILLAGE BRANCH On Issue tion was staged by Stalinist adStrikes Meet Bosses have no vote and their right to gating the wage situation ministration supporters in Local work depends entirely BORO PARK 51 last Friday night. smashing victory for the Plan To Break amount of loyalty they show Goodrich, and his report is exprogressive forces in the InterBRANCH toward the Bridges machine. rected by the union to have vital Throttled Discussion Unions national Typographical Union They are the men who are used bearing on the result of the controversy. In this connection, the to smash picket lines, May Day Greetings (Boro Park Labor dissident member of the was scored when Woodruff Ranstatement of President Callahan DETROIT. The auto situation Lyceum)
Stalinist sponsored Unity Club dolph, secretary treasurer of the Fakers Aims of Goodrich local is of great sig.
YPSL in the Local, Tom Luttenberg, announced last week the is once again loaded with strike nificance. He says: There is From who like many of his fellows results of the referendum held dynamite. Hardly had the hard. The action taken by the only one thing that will give us UPPER the headership, reguested the on question one, the union Screw Works been ended with while being acceded to by well out how much raw material is NORTH JERSEY MANHATTAN WEST BRONX Stration supporter, granted his payment of an assessment of one the eight plants of Doon of rank and file dis is produced, and what is paid for request. As Luttenberg proceed. cent a month per member to the minum wr. wed up in a strike gust with the Stalinists and wages in any given period of 252 Market Street ed to speak, a motion to close do not cand in the struggle of the Fedewinterikes agdulot wagenics same e fakers are attempting to pointed out the differentials in SUBSCRIBE NOW TO Newark, THE SOCIALIST APPEAL.
Chairman, who then ordered the of bureaucracy against at the American Brass Company, canalize for their own ends. To wage rates, but has not pointed speaker off the floor in flagrant the Michigan Steel Casting and Holet prevent this from happening by out the actual cost of producviolation of union procedure. Referendum Demanded Top and Body.
uniting the progressive sentiment tion.
Forward to the Fourth Luttenberg protested. ImmeMeanwhile at approximately in all these groups and directing By a vote of 44, 138 to 4, 493 the first anniversary of the it toward a united, progressive, to open its books and reveal its This demand for the company in the local ane Charles Goslin, the union rank and file voted great sit downs which establish class struggle program to pre commercial secrets the union International!
crowd of packed administration before payment of any assess industry, Flint again hovers on of the Socialist Workers Party velt investigating statistician, supporters set up a howl to preposition: Shall our union conti in the Chevrolet and Buick plants ever increasing role in the Westdence in the Roosevelt adminiment to the F. of The pro the brink of a strike. Workers which is playing a small but in line with its general confivent the militant from being nue to maintain the policy adopt have voted more than four to Coast situation.
heard.
HAIL THE FOURTH INTERNATIONAL!
ed at the time the of Lone in favor of strike action.
Greetings!
stration. But the union is in for Uriting with the Shepard Line, a sad disappointment here; for Luttenberg Slugged was formed, namely, that the inSocialist Workers dividuality of the International supported by the National Labor such a far reaching demand can Bosses Determined In the midst of the uproar thus Typographical Union shall be Relations Board and covered by only be realized when the workParty created, Hatchet man Goslin maintained and that it shall not Despite the original set back a smokescreen of slander direct ers themselves control producROCHESTER, jumped to his feet and attacked take a charter in or be subordi suffered by the motor magnatesed by the Stalinists against the tion and have complete access to the speaker. hundred odd of nate to any organization?
was at the Federal Screw Works, it West Coast militants, Bridges is the company books.
EAST SIDE BRANCH his cronies followed this lead and carried by a vote of 45, 284 to now becomes evident they plan attempting to split the Maritime who came to his defense with fourth proposition which cutting, union busting campaign. ber unions with the slavish poMay Day Greetings beastly violence. Luttenberg lay would empower the executive Federal Screw had been used as licies of class collaboration. He West Coast Sailors Stalinist hoodlums kicked him any action as may be necessary and effectiveness of the United serve the needs of his masters, PITKIN NEW YORK. Picket lines mercilessly in the face as well to retain the rights of the Automobile Workers. The corpo the Stalinists. For they on their in the of was carried rations found to their dismay part must be prepared in the around the Shepard Line Wind CAFETERIAS Numerous administration sup. 44, 841 to 3, 475.
that the workers were in no near future to turn over the rush were withdrawn last 1781 Pitkin Ave.
porters were visibly disgusted The membership voted 25, 919 mood for wage cuts. Heinie working class, bound hand and week when the operators decidGreetings to the Socialist MAY DAY GREETINGS with this display of Fascist like to 21, 804 against severing the Pickert uniformed thugs struck foot, to Roosevelt and his classed to live up to the West Coast 457 Sutter Ave.
Appeal on May Day. Long TO THE may it live and grow in adjourned by the chairman, with and establishing a mailers inter: them are still recuperating from other world war for the conquest and engine departments from the BROOKLYN, NY, of new markets.
carrying out the tradibites.
the scuffle still going on, mem national union. The mailers, by Sailors Union of the Pacific SOCIALIST APPEAL bers in all parts of the hall ex a majority of 200, voted against minum and other parts plants The new strikes at Bohn Alutional fighting spirit of The Opposition New York hall. Possibility of a continued tie up was probable ASTORIA BRANCH May day against imperialist war, Fascism, and clear the Local of Goslin Wein limited sense this was a vote indicate now that the Federal Against this reactionary line should the National Maritime stock gangster THOMAS PAINE SOCIETY Capitalism.
88 Seventh Ave. South, Louis Fleisher, Morris Rudombtedly definite steps will be craft unionism in the printing skirmish in the bigger battle up stand the the major die ont refuse to supply men for taken in the.
against the employers offensive. ity of the members of the Fire In Baltimore the Harpoon. 7th Avenue Subway to bin, Dave Gordon, Irving TOLEDO, OHIO very near future.
Pretexts are daily being men Union, the Seattle branch Christopher Street)
Levy, AI Brener, Blow to Green Machine It is only natural that the sought to provoke premature ac of the Cooks and the growing another Shepard ship, is clear Friday, April 29, P.
Stein, Ringhit Sym Weinstock administration should Socialist Workers Party serious blow was struck tion and discredit the union. The opposition of the rank and file with a full West Coast crew.
As yet these Reports from the Pacific Coast pathizers, Brownsville.
recent flurry over dues collec longshoremen. Is the Soviet Union a hatchet men in the local unions. chine by employ thugs like Goslin as its against the William Green mations at Fisher Body in Flint forces are not united except in state that the Seathrush. CHARLES YALE HARRISON Success?
Hatchet man Goslin has lod si executive leadership of the ing within the confines of the writer and many other progressive shoremen broke through the leta de referendum. The is in line with this attempt. Act sympathy. They need a clear cut center of fighting on the San of was openly and whole new Friday, May 6, P.
milar sluggings on previous 09 heartedly supporting and agita with General Motors, the limited elements which still lie dormant picket line, has sailed supplementary agreement unite and HARRY WATON Progressives On Workers What Is the Historic Meaning casions. In reward for Busting for the payment of the one Automobile Workers Set up office in the maritime unions. Only from San Pedro with a skeleton of Marxism?
Education Project work done in the past, Goslin has cent per month per capita tax; outside the gates of Fisher Body such a program of unity of the crew of men. Besides Greetings thrush is undoubtedly short of Greet the Questions and Discussion just been re appointed an orga for the payment of any assess and proceeded vigorously to rank and file against the bosses. being short of men, the Seanizer at 50 a week. His record,. ment levied by the of bring delinquent members up to their agents in the unions and stores as West Coast teamsters Sub. 40 cents to the Socialist Appeal which is extraordinarily reveal without referendum; for the sub date. There is nothing in the Bridges and the Stalinists which refused to go through the picket Tea and Cake Free DANCING SOCIALIST APPEAL ing of the system of shady deals ordination of the LT. and agreement forbidding solicitation the bosses government which PHILADELPHIA and terror used by the Stalinists The defeat of the of dues outside of company pro can save the Maritime Federa In Seattle the Timberush is to maintain their strangle hold took place in one of the most perty. Yet, in delince the tion and with it the hard won tied up tight, with sailors, stewLOS ANGELES the Socialist Call and skilled craft unions.
Socialist Workers Party While agreement, the Fisher Body conditions of the West Coast ards and officers off the ship Workers Age on in the union, will be thorougnly the vote was not a vote for in management closed the plant this program would enable the officials and refusing to pass the PEOPLE FRONT. by James maritime workers. Carried out, and longshoremen defying their illumined in these pages in com dustrial unionism it was a vote locked Burnham. 15 cents.
May Day Orders filed promptly. cente ing articles.
against the union scabbing po. Homer Martin correctlyk branded maritime workers to stand their picket line.
extra for postage. Modern Book Shop. 50946 cu St. Los Angeles Hcy of the of in its this move as a deliberate blow ground against the inevitable attacks which will be made on ANNOUNCEMENTS at the union.
Appeal to Publish The effect of this defeat of the their living standards this fall.
Insertions in this column are 25 Trade Union Series of will be far reaching. Explosion Due To fail means death to the Fe cents for five lines. Copy must be in at the APPEAL office before six series of articles of exderation.
The forces opposed to the execu.
Now the grievances over laytreme Importance to tive council of the AE: Lofts and violation of sentority Workers Party have given their trade The members of the Socialist o clock Monday evening.
will be heartened by this vic combined with innumerable other full support to this struggle unionists in New York as well NEW YORK Boston Branch, Socialist Workers Party and as in the rest of the country, will begin in next week tory. Progressive unionists every minor violations of the agree both on the picket line and in NOTICE, BROWNSVILLE! We where will hail the results of ment in the plant are coming helping to expose the reactionSocialist Appeal: the referendum start our open air meetings on to a head in the strike votes ary role of Bridges. We have the Friday, April 29 at Pitkin and Send Hearty Revolutionary Greetings to the INSIDE THE NEW YORK Trend Reversed taken at the Flint General Motask now of tying together the Bristol. All comrades of the PAINTERS UNION tors plant. General Motors is different groupings which are branch and and all Election of international offic. feeling out the union. It wants groping for a way out and giv, party sympathizers, please be An account on hand at o clok. We need of the record ers will take place next month. to determine whether it can geting to them a clear lead toward you all to put these meetings The incumbent president, John away with more drastic steps. unity in the struggle for the and activities of the StalinistSOCIALIST APPEAL over. Branch Secretary.
controlled Weinstock Admini Howard, opposed the payment At present writing it appears preservation of the Federation stration in District Council of the assessment to the that the Flint grievances will be it is a great task and one which NEWARK No. of the Brotherhood of Painters, Decorators and which received the endorsement machinery set up in the agree is one that can and must be ful! MAY DAY CELEBRATION Peperhangers and Fighter for the Fourth International of the of the membership. Claude M, ment. The best card held by the filled if West Coast labor is not Sunday, May 1, 252 fight of the rank and file Baker, Howard opponent and in these negotiations to be driven back into the hands Market Street. Hear Join.
militants for a clean and efcandidate of Bill Green and Co. is its militant, aggressive atti of the bosses to be transformed Wright on May Day. 1936 fective union.
advocated the payment of the ftude with two strike votes to into cannon fodder for the comGames, Dancing assessment.
back them up: ments, Red Puppets, Auspices. ing war. and Shepard Line Ships