2 SOCIALIST APPEAL May 21, 1938 STALINIST THUGS BUSY IN AKRON CLEVELAND RELIEF Stalinists Routed At UAW Executive Meet UAW Adopts 20 Point Program of Activity Ford Union Refuses To Leave Scene CLIENTS SIT Down Toledo Unions Move To Aid Struggle of Jobless AMALGAMATED URGES UNITY from thousands of com OF , Teachers Union Fights Council Edict Hotels near Beard est tries.
AKRON Taking a page from CLEVELAND. The relief the book of Mayor Hague police crisis in this industrial center and the Ford Service Department, took a new turn this week when a crowd of 30 Stalinist hooligans the unemployed staged a sitdescended upon three down in the Council chambers at Growing Crisis Puts Organization Of Unemployed Browder Frankensteen handbill distributors last night City Hall in an effort to force as they were passing out the Combination Flops the city and state administration On Agenda Of Industrial Council Open Letter to Communist Party to alleviate the misery and starCompletely Members in front of a vation facing 75, 000 unemployed. TOLEDO, Ohio. The past few the obvious desire of the workstate convention mass meeting Workers Vote Affiliation cut off from the rolls and have trated the truth of the conten play was curbed. demonstraThousands of people have been months in Toledo have demons ers to put on an aggressive dis(Continued from page 1)
condemning the gangster murd To But Company been storming relief headquart tion of the Socialist Workers tion was held recently at the ers of the Russian Old Bolsheviks.
Union Lives On ers demanding the right to live. Party that it is the fundamental County Court House in conjuncby accepting certain agreements The hoodlums, shouting Don Failure of the Ohio legislature obligation of the trade union tion with the now thoroughly disbecause prosperity was fright The following 20 point program, submitted by President read the Trotskyist poison and and the Democratic and Repub movement itself to organize around the corner.
Homer Martin, was unanimously adopted by the International even going so far as to snatch DETROIT Wm. McDowell, lican politicians in this state to unemployed and workcely 800 workers attended, al The stand of the auto union Executive Board of the United Automobile Workers of America, leaflets out of the hands of their Sr. attorney for the Ford Bro provide funds to give adequate ers, in whose ranks are hundreds though thousands of mionists, against the danger of imperial. Recognition by all members of the International Union of own party members, threatened therhood of America, company relief caused the crisis.
ist war found prominence in the of thousands of unionists, if mil with records as fighters, are sufthe responsibility and authority of the International ExAlready the pressure of the lions of American workers in the fering from abject poverty and report of the president. Here ecutive Board and the International officers, subject to the while showing them around in the recently that the brotherhood industrial workers in Cleveland months to come are to be saved eager for a show down scrap.
again the advocates of collective Constitution, which is the basic law of the Union between security took a sound drubbing: conventions.
The Akron Times Press the Co. a 1, 500 minimum wage for Governor Davey to call a special and starvation which characterizers, as the Stalinists would have The guarantee of democratic rights of local unions, conOpposes War sistent with the Constitution and the welfare of the memnext morning carried a front page Ford workers. Several weeks session of the legislature to con ed the Hoover regime.
sider the problem.
us believe, but the passivity and bership of the International Union as a whole story on the Stalinists vicious previously, the brotherhood Already the Toledo Industrial timidity of the leaders, and the Our struggle against the re3. Maximum responsibility in carrying out joint agreements attack, quoting partially from a held the only meeting since its Union Council has taken certain Stalinist attempt to sell out the actionary legislation of the type of the Sheppard Hill Bill or the statement that this is inception, where a motion for with employers.
initial steps in this direction, workers to the Roosevelt share4. Cooperation of all officers and members of the Union in a good commentary on the type affiliation to the United Auto but in hesitant and loose the poverty program have made May Bill has been based on the the prevention and elimination of wild cat stoppages and of democracy in which the Com mobile Workers was carried and fashion.
the unemployed members fact that Labor sees in such plans strikes, munist Party believes. While corporation controlled officers Pressure on the leaders of the disgusted.
the danger of bringing Fascism Continued effort to elevate standards of living, improve the hooligans were doing their removed. The National Labor into our country, which will lead ment of working conditions, and reduced hours of work.
While thousands of workers Mobilization of the entire union against wage reductions the orator inside was cal desist order to Henry Ford, conanti working class work outside, Relations Board in its cease and employed and desperate mem. suffer, precious weeks go by, and to the destruction of our unions bers has brought a certain the Stalinists in the and the undermining of our cognition of the problem and a standards of living. Labor has Vigorous drive to obtain closed shop contracts in all plants ling for immediate severance of demned the as a compawithin the industry.
diplomatic relations with Gernydominated union.
sincere attempt on the part of hamper the real job of organizlearned that it must struggle Launching of comprehensive drive to organize competitive many and Japan e. for the But the has not faded Clothing Workers Hear most of the leaders to do some the into expending funds against the industrial and finanplants.
immediate launching of imperial from the picture. Neither mothe situation and energy to rehabilitate the cial plutocrats in order to earn Full mobilization of the Union in support of all legitimate ist war!
Pleas For Peace tions for affiliation, nor Crisis Deepening better wages and to work under authorized strikes. decisions, nor removal Workers Alliance, which the Among Unions Stalinists have dragged from a decent conditions. Labor is not 10. Intensive activities in behalf of federal and state legislation of officers have made the originDespite their efforts, however, peak membership of almost 2, 000 deceived by propaganda to the in the interests of Labor.
al officers veer from their planeffect that it must go to war to a. Federal Wage and Hour Bill.
the unemployment crisis becomes dues paying members less than ATLANTIC CITY ned course.
The con more acute each day, and the un a year ago to no more than 300 protect the money bags of these The Wagner Healy Act.
vention of the Amalgamated employed are being subjected to today, same interests who are trying to Federal housing legislation.
McDowell Contradicted Clothing Workers of America increasing indignities and abuses, undermine American working Federal appropriations for relief.
McDowell contention that his meeting here voted this week to both from the officials 11. Opposition to anti union. legislation such as Organize the Unemployed!
conditions by employing coolio union was recognized as a bona give renewed aid to the o and the local relief authorities.
a. Sheppard Hill Bill or May Bills.
It is the job of the to labor in far off Asiatic counb. Amendment of National Labor Relations Act.
decision of the National Labor of when a satisfactory cuts for the office workers, dis own ranks and under its own On lost time, pay boldly proceed to charter in its Two points of the program 12. Strengthening of drive to organize aircraft workers of the Relations Board on the Ford basis could be found.
nation.
The resolution on missals on the flimsiest excuses direction the workers, concretize these remarks by 13. Active prosecution of Ford organization drive on nationstating definite opposition to the is emphatically contradicted by of unity was adopted by petty bosses, all make life same time to keep the present wide scale.
Sheppard Hill and May bills and 14. Intensification of campaign to organize workers.
Harold Cranefield, regional unanimously. It said: The needs a hell for the project workers favoring the passage of the of the labor movement demand Relief is just a slow freight to within the ranks of their interUnionists Have Duty attorney for the unemployed members 10. Building of strong local and International treasuries as a Ludlow amendment. As on the other points of the program, no necessary expenditures, to provide maximum available funds To Back Move For Dowell remarks are directly real service to the labor move starvation, ringed round by so nationals by a required system articulate opposition was heard to carry on organizational activities.
Reinstatement contrary to, nnd the distorts ment must be based on the he worker is lucky if he can hop must recognize that support of from the known sponsors of 16. Maximum participation of all local unions in Labor Nonthe language of the decision. petuation of the gains which the it at all.
Roosevelt quarantine program. Partisan League. In Michigan, supporto The Board order was to con has so brilliantly securGovernor Murphy There are two fundamental only to defeats and further misery Roosevelt program can lead In other words, Wyndham Mor for re election.
NEW YORK. Recently the demn the as not repre. ed.
reasons why the has been for the workers.
timer is now committed to go 17. Pledge of continued whole hearted support to the policies Executive Board of the Central sentative of the employees be Backed by convention decision, unable adequately to cope with before the workers with a proincluding regular and prompt payment of per capita tax principles of the Committee for Industrial Organization, For it is clear to the workers Trades and Labor Council, meet cause it was dominated by the Sidney Hillman, president of the the problem. The first is gram he took publie exception to in the United Auto Workers as a fixed obligation of the International Union.
ing in executive sessions, sus Ford Motor Co.
Amalgamated, is in a good posi except for one poorly devised ef who suffer the miseries of unA worker in the Ford plant tion to proceed in pressing for fort, no genuine attempt has employment, if not to their leadabout two months ago. He stat.
18. Constant resistance to war propaganda, and cooperation with all sincere efforts to keep America out of war. Support of with a membership of over 6, 000, has little trouble deciding whe: labor unity. The approval that been made to organize the uners, that Roosevelt program is ed in a letter to the paper that LaFollette Ludlow Amendment is a guarantee of Labor from that body on the ground ther the is company John Lewis gave to Hillman employed and workers primarily one of subsidizing big his vote on the war resolution, democratic right to determine whether or not it will wage that to. business to adopted at the last Executive power of the Central Trades and leaflets of the brotherhood were when Lewis spoke at the conven ordinated, disciplined fashion the a war of aggression abroad.
taxes indirectly Board meeting, was falsely reported in the paper.
LwOr Council and overstepped distributed on Ford property tion, indicates that the militant pressure of the suffer levied on the workers, giving this 19. Program of close cooperation hetwen ennent of bona fide its authority in calling a confer the gates of the company. No will continue making efforts to ers. Secondly, the penetration of the workers only crumbs and a workers and organized farmers.
letter, among other things, he cooperative movements.
ence of locals for the riots or beatings occurred. There achieve unity.
Stalinists and their reactionary pat on the back. militant, oropposed that section in the re 20. Assumption by all International officers of full responsi purpose of discussing ways and was no attempt to rhinder thendier bid for White ideas top ranks solution which called for the International Union bility for carrying out the program and policies of the means of attaining unity. httribution. No unusual number House, favor when he introduced ClO has put al. erimp into the ganized mass fight, aimed directwithdrawal of armed tween the and the Tof service men were present. The a resolution giving complete sup natural militancy of the workers ly at the national administration, forces from the war. troubled The Teachers Union was not company expected no trouble. On port to Roosevelt policies. It and has tamed fighting leaders is the only possible way of securwaters of the Far East. Let them Martin bias. Secondly, the glar.
informed of the action pending May 26, however, men was passed unanimously.
who have risen from the ranks, ing immediate jobs, remain there, he wrote, as long ing searchlight of publicity on against it and hence had no op came to distribute literature.
but who have little experience adequate wages and working as Japan keeps her gunboats in the fact that an alliance did portunity to present a defense.
Slugged and Beaten with unemployment problems.
the same area. This meeting of exist beteween Frankensteen and Philadelphia SWP Furthermore, the Council Exconditions, and higher relief.
the Executive Board was Morti. the Communist Party combined ecutive Board action was rati The distributors were slugged Activists Confer Militancy) Curbed mer opportunity to correct false with the exposure of the antified at a meeting of the Council, and beaten. Pictures taken by impressions. He failed to take it. democratic nature of the program, CAMDEN, Vigilantes, when only a handful of local dele reporters were, where possible PHILADELPHIA, Pa. Dele been called, but in each instance AT YOUR NEWSSTAND Several demonstrations have ASK FOR THE APPEAL Apparently principles are not sent these peaceful gentlemen armed with shotguns, rifles and gates were present, in the form destroyed by service men. And gates from seven Socialist Work the strong point with these flying for cover. The Socialist clubs, last week, drove striking of a motion to accept the minutes yet the distributors, as well as ers Party branches in this aren people.
Appeal played an important role workers from the much of the Executive Board without those who came with them attended an active workers conin unmasking the real situation nicipal gravel pits at Lindenwold, debate and without an oppor parson, officials, ference held here last Sunday to Reasons For Retreat to the rank and file of the union. twelve miles southeast of this tunity for the defense to be heard. leading people had set up a provisional district orWhat accounts for the helter (printed elsewhere in this issue) to pull gravel workers Trades and Labor Council was der. But the company expected Widick, labor secretary The twenty. point program city, as the strikers attempted That the action of the Central every interest in preserving organization.
No sooner said than done! average of 50 new subs per week.
union saviors who were going and with one important exception The vigilantes, to rescue the from ait by and large fills the bill.
about 160 tacitly admitted by its Executive voke trouble in the hope that the plenum of the national commit Last week we asked why the Let start right in. crisis deeper than that of the strong were summoned to the Board, which later permitted the Ford drive would thus tee, and the discussion on trade weekly, sub rate could not be current economic recession. It calls for a mobilization of gravel pits by a pre arranged representatives of the Teachers be stopped in its tracks.
Minneapolis and St. Paul have union work also was featured on raised above 30? And here comes Within the plant, it is common the agenda.
the answer this week: It can! If taken the bit in their teeth and One month ago they were adopt. the entire union against wage siren blast, sounded when the Union to present its case after knowledge that pro Branches represented included this keeps up, the business man are running their own local subof Martin and his gang and the the gains already achieved and officers were sworn in and talk is not healthy. But during Philadelphia, Allentown, Quaker ager won be having those tra campaign drive, lasting until Reinstatement Sought calling of special convention for all full mobilization of the borough officials said 60 others the summer members town, for this purpose. One week ago, urrion in support of all legitimate were available.
wore their buttons openly and Reading and Williamsport. summer let down. Here the to Minn. literature agent tells us About 3, 500 workers are on At present, the question of the membership solicitation went on Thirty five persons attended, in tal score for last week: the Detroit District Council of It calls for a drive to organ strike in the Camden area, pro locals reinstatement is pend: during working hours. Today cluding special youth represent NEW YORK CITY they aim at getting 250 sub15 the was presented with ice competitive plants, the air testing against a staggered working before that body, and it this is not the case only because atives.
scribers. We are offering real Minneapolls prizes: Collected Works of Lenin, all trades the Liberty Legion has taken the California calling on the local to case tinuation of the Ford Drive to work Saturdays on unionists to realize what issues place. Ford worker The Revolution Betrayed, etc.
ANNOUNCEMENTS Missouri are involved. First of all is the knows that the bosses are not inMassachusetts This drive is first on the party national if Frankensteen anti of. projects.
Efforts to coerce the strikers question of the right of local terested in him. But what can Insertions in this column are Michigan agenda. Evers Party Member democracy proposals were not the coto organize back Subscriber, is our slogan.
to their jobs are being bodies Connecticut adopted at the Executive Board. Mike. We ll give you all It calls for careful economy made by the admini question, the most important done nothing for the Ford work the APPEAL Office before six o clock Monday Ohio After all this preparation and with union funds and the build stration. Henry Young. Dis question before the trade union er. Neither has the support you want on this HC New Jersey campaign, it was only logical to ing of local and International trict Administrator, has movement. Secondly, the right knows the is a company It up to you. Some of the other NEW YORK cities might start a local drive expect at least a little fire war chests.
threatened to dismiss all workers of local bodies to call unofficial union. But is the Kansas works. Instead, the Executive It guarantees the demo not on the job by the beginning conferences for the purpose of workers Union? Only this lies PINS AND NEEDLES! of their own as sort of warmChicago attaining worthy objectives is unanswered in his mind.
theater party for the SWP to up for the big national drive Pittsburgh ers stricken utterly speechless. cratic rights of the membership of this week.
that coming soon.
Despite the use of vigilantes being Pins And Needles will be held Ford would like to confuse Miscellaneous Your correspondent can venture and of local union autonomy.
become a tradition in both the and the on Wed. eve. June 1, and two reasons for this change of No Support for Murphy! administration, the strike is the labor movement for unions worker in order Tuesday eve. June Tickets, By the way, before we forget, TOTAL the easier to heart. In due tima, no doubt, largely effective and demons to call unofficial conferences on quash the board decision and all at 65, can be secured Sam Friedman won first prize in their full strategy will come to However, approval of the union trates a determination of the unemployment, relief, housing, to continue the same oppressive from Miller or Paine by leav Abe Miller of New York the last Appeal sub drive, with light.
program must be accompanied workers to fight to school construction, defense of regime within his plant. This ing an order at the City Office, challenges any other local liter. Freddie (Tom Boy) Drake run The Stalinists and Franken: by unambiguous opposition to maintain decent working condi strikers and strike relief, de is the only reason for MeDowell steen were banking on a split the political plank which calls for tions fense of political prisoners, aid statements and proposals.
between Homer Martin and John the support of Governor Murphy, to labor victims of fascism, etc.
SONGS AND BEER IN AN close second. One of the them are in New York City. Sam Wages and Markets Lewis. They believed that a capitalist candidate for reOUTDOOR GARDEN! The Twin Cities, Minneapolis, finally collected a total of 27 subs which If a local trade union body can COAST SAILORS McDowell, however, pulled Martin critical and independ election in Michigan. This supbe suspended for initiating a boner when he asked for a 1, 500 party has taken over the Ter came to life, but what happen netted him a copy of 60 Fament position on the question of port undoubtedly coincides with call to a conference, then no un annual minimum wage. Harry race Beer Garden with its ed to the other one. With ilies. Freddie still hasn made the Appeal running those splen up her mind what she wants. She unity push Lewis on the war path Labor Non Partisan League cause can be called without in tried to cover up by saying: An door garden for festivities on did articles on the auto union says she read them all!
Saturday eve, June from situation, we should have a heap against him. Here they thought leadership and reflects the senti curring the threat of suspension annual wage would be very on. Admission at the door of subs pouring in from the auto Don Forget To Ask For was the perfect set up for the ment of large numbers of (Continued from page 1)
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LOS ANGELES campaign against their violently Support of a capitalist candidatesures against the West Coast ferences, place the question ment for any specific period? It Socialist Appeal pro war policy of the reinstatement of Local led to a catastrophe for the sailors.
Conditions and terms laid is the upon the agenda of their next employment. Henry Ford, too, market which determines SPECIAL FOR THIS WEEK ONLY.
Date 116 University Place LENIN, notes by leon Trotsky pectable front and peace and an Workers steel Michigan will have down by the in seeking membership meeting and to ob les forced to defend himself: You end to factionalism the tender to learn from their own bitter Orders filled promptloderes New York City enclose. for which please send me the theme song, the Stalinists had experience that they can rely autonomy and rank and file contain the passage of resolutions can have an annual wage unShop 50 i sl. Los Angeles calling upon the Central Trades til you have an annual market.
Socialist Appeal. One year. 00. Six Months union with as little publicity as action in politics as well as on democratic rights will be mean and Labor Council to rescind its These gentlemen are telling the WANT ADS. 00. possible. The membership was to the picket line.
SINGLE ROOM for rent on be treated to the spectacle of ingless unless this procedure is action. In doing so they will not worker that they cannot guar.
that drastically revised in the future. only defend a traditional right, It must also be noted enclose. as my contribution toward And what does Ford offer as Riverside Drive, neat 125th a very quiet and very orderly Martin strictures and reasons Basically, however, its sig. but will assist the Teachers a solution. All we need to do St. Very Reasonable. See building the Socialist Appeal.
revolt against the factionalist for the non ratification by the nificant and important features Union, which at the present is is to continue the way we are Stanley at City Headquarters Martin Name membership of the supplement the program is progressive and also under attack by reactionary going With higher prices. for Details.
Both Misfired ary agreement with General probably the most thoroughAddress lower wages, more lay offs and Motors miss the mark entirely going in the entire The school supervisors and their poll. neglect of duty. With intimi presume, to go back to the days In both cases their calculations The fact that the union was in a Stalinists ate now definitely in tical associates because of this dation of workers and beating of of Hoover. But the workers City went awry. Firstly, for various tough spot with General Motors, retreat. But the big job of iso suspension.
union organizers. With compa even chose the paltry relief of reasons which space does not that the previous supplementary Inting and destroying their perny unions and scabs?
Roosevelt rather than the prosBut even Ford does not want perity around the corner of THE NEW INTERNATIONAL ticle, Lewis refused to throw his either, and that John Lewis still ahead. This can be done. SUBSCRIBE NOW TO to continue exactly the same way: Hoover. You can live on proinfluence on the Frankensteen upproved the procedure is no ex and more important the union If Government will get out of mises forever. And now it is Monthly Marxist Magazine scales. Instead, the two represent planation for circumventing the can get a big push forward as. SUBSCRIBE NOW!
Meeting the sent to the Board most vital democratie process in the program pressed vigo THE SOCIALIST APPEAL the way and give natural Amers Roosevelt turn to become as meeting showed a strong pro the union. The assurance of ously throughout the union.
will do the job. He wants, we same reasons.
Vigilantes Attack WPA Picket Lines Appeal Army for to Texas and the open intimidation by the eine les pardized.
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