SOCIALIST APPEAL JUNE 18, 1938 Weinstock Ouster Breaches Breaches Stalinist Union Domination Action Of Painters SWP CONTINUES Purge Looms InNMU As Bosses Glad Stooges Suspended Heartens Progressives DRIVE AGAINST Officials Lose Prestige CIO Fired Kaempt From Auto Union Posts FIRETRAP PERIL Curran Asks Outlawing Of All Groups as Rank when, Progressives In Culinary Union Jobless Prepare Ranks In Revolt Against On Handbill Ban Action In New Crisis Establish Group Unionist Jailed (Continued from page 1) basest attempt to stir up race NEWARK, Steel plant (Continued from page 1) of the Stalinists, one heard talk housing program, to be worked and national prejudice in the owners and managers in Northed to educate the membership to of peace and harmony, while the out in conjunction with the other union. The membership of the And File Seamen Reject Policies of (Continued from page 1)
Jersey, as well as the Jersey the program it was following: Stalinists continued blazing away unions in the Building Trades District Council has met with Stalinist District Committee Journal, mouthpiece of Mayor neither has it convinced a great at the administration with all Council, to rid the city of slums such attempts at defamation befaced by workers obliged to live Hague, atre rejoicing over the dis portion of the membership that the weapons of factional warand fire traps and give work to fore. The applause which greeted fire trap tenements, a second missal of Kaempf and Al it is necessary to resort to dis fare.
the thousands of unemployed Stevens answer to the foul fire, occurring exactly one week NEW YORK. With the usual shore work could proceed. Blackman, militant organizers of ciplinary action.
So, two weeks after the vicbuilding mechanics and union slander of the Stalinists at last after the blaze at Avenue and hypocritical pleas for unity, a the Steel Workers Organizing painters; for job protection in Saturday mass meeting Stalinists Reply Houston Street, gutted a tener campaign for the expulsion of Is The rapid fire suspension of tory, another meeting is unCommittee (C. the trade agreement. The pro sure indication that the painters ment building at 147 Morning seamen unwilling to accept the five prominent officials will unnecessarily and gratuitously calThis outright flouting of the The two men have to their doubtedly cause confusion and led. Martin is not even in town, gram of the progressives, pro will not be fooled by this frame side Avenue, in Harlem, killing factional domination of the authority of the Stalinist lead credit the organization of several consternation in the ranks unless so sure is everyone that the pagated incessantly by the Inter up either, and that regardless of John Horan, aged 6, and his communist Party was launched ership is being met in true Sta thousand steel workers in Hud it is immediately followed by a Stalinists have been licked for Local Conference, in the paper nationality, race, color or political sister, Elizabeth, aged 55. They by Joseph Carran, organizer of linist fashion. Anyone who dares son and Essex counties and er vigorous attempt to explain to good. Then the Stalinists, catchand in the locals, has served to affiliation, the majority of the were suffocated as they slept.
consolidate the militant rank and rank and file will know how to Profits In Death a meeting of the deck depart wrecking antics of the district strikes, particularly in the Jersey sions were necessary, what the another grab for the leadership file around their banner within answer it at the polls on June 25.
ment last week a comparatively short time While hundreds of horrified Employing the same phras committee is branded as City and Harrison Crucible Steel leadership plans for the union, and the administration becomes The Trotskyist Charge traitor. Any group that tries plants.
workers stood watching, firemen used in the unsuccessful end to mobilize the rank and file to and a guarantee that the demo. panicky and replies with susResort To Usual Tactics The principal reason given for cratic rights of the members will pensions.
Finally, there is the usual work edilen sain the pump lite back Gerilica is utomobilever workers. save the union from the wreck depriving Kaempf of his job was be respected. Otherwise the sus Taken unawares by the sweep charge of Trotskyism.
Explanation Needed of the movement, with its gene Trotskyists in the union, he aged brother and sister. On their Curran declared that any mem ivities. Any one who tries to during their last strike, used per martyrs of the Stalinists and lay ralissimo eliminated from the be sure, are up in the front tombstones will never be wen begs terkini se pare the secret moet stop the suicidal warfare waged capita to run their strike and the groundwork for the further the bal effects of this move, the picture, outmaneuvered and rout ranks of the fight where they graved the words progressive Martin leadership must go to the the Stalinist machine is resort racterize the whole movement as tators: They were killed by the policy into the union, be dealt wniondebby the Malthough admittedly these unions membership behind them.
membership at once, explain the national office of the ing to the usual methods Trotskyist, ludicrous as it is greed and lust for profit of the with it discovered on the basis Lundeberg. Ryan. Green ship. received no financial aid from Leaders Over Confident what policies it wishes to carry through, explain the role of the of lying, slanders and frame ups when hurled at an opposition as landlord of the building in which of anti union activities and be To achieve unity Curran calls Blackman was just fired without Filed the progressives, is they died, a landlord who refus subject to trial and suspension. for the suppression of the Bank even being given the opportunity panicky measures against the action was taken, and assure the The real secret of the last Stalinists and why disciplinary in a last minute attempt to bol broad ster its shaken position It tries even more laughable when it be ed to protect their lives by renPilot Echoes Curran to make up for the fact that its comes known that inost of the dering the building safe from groups within the union, and exActually. union wrecking has isolated it leading personalities within it fire.
The bland statement that any pulsion of all determined critics o. took this metion be super confidence the leadership red baiting or violations of demoIn the case of both fires, the one opposing the serile class of the policies of the district cause of complaints from numer Board meeting. The victory scem can then be rearmed with the The union from every honest force in the such as Polstein, Stevens, Ru union. socialists, anarchists, binstein, Cronin, etc. have for city police and investigators have collaboration policies of the Sta committee.
social democrats, Trotskyists year past and up to very re tried to put the blame on any linist controlled district commitous employers in this area con ed so easy. The Stalinists seem necessary militancy and confireal criminals. In tee is guilty of anti union actcerning the unreasonable atti ed crushed. Instead of inaugu dence for the inevitable camand unattached militants. bycently been allied with Wein body but tude of Kaempt and Blackman. rating a bold and energetic campaign the Stalinists will launch raising the dead cat issue of stock and his friends themselves! the East Side fire, they endeavorivity met with whole hearted Dismissal of the two men has paign to educate the membership and for the great economic Zausnerism.
To becloud the election issues boomrang in connection er, who lived on the second floor Pilot, despite Curran bluster of the doomed building, into ad about Communist politicians in among the rank and file workers point program and to expose battles that loom ominously in and hide their own miserable with it, the brethern atin most of the steel lodges.
bankruptcy, the Weinstock gang tempt to take up a defense of mitting that he fell asleep with the union.
the treachery and the deception the immediate future.
has seen fit to raise a fund. Stalinism and of the bloody listed cigarette in his hand. The editors of the Pilot, waterthe time of the Zausner admini every self respecting union mem fire they are seeking to blameer, recognize the real signific stration in Local 442 now, two ber has regarded with horror and some poor devil who did not evenance of Curran speech when tions, whereas Zausner and his of the men who, together with and who had sought shelter in upon those members of the Stalinists In Frisco who are pushing the Harry Rosens were ousted more him, held the highest posts in the hallway.
than two years ago. The purpose Soviet Russia for more than Real responsibility for the fires Rank and File Pilot to imme. Dishwashers Local of this smoke screen is obvious. twenty years.
rests squarely upon the tenement diately cease their treacherous Police Arrest ILGW NEW YORK. With reports, there were 180, 000 to 200, 000 on Under the heading Painters The frame up artists and fire trap owners, the capitalist attack on the officials of this coming in from all parts of the direct home relief (excluding SAN FRANCISCO. The Union Fund Steal Exposed by slanderers of Thirteenth Street system of private property which union.
Organizer, Set Bail country of ever expanding relief 140, 000 on He also The rising resentment of the spreading revolt of progressive At 600 rolls, and the capitaist politicians testified that an average of tute by the name of George Morpoisonous brews. They are frantic and the city officials and ad rank and file members of the trade unionists against the Stashowing increasing incapacity to 3, 500 to 4, 000 were being acceptris writes in the Sunday Worker over the opposition wave which ministrators who uphold that toward the reactionary linistion busting yang has LOS ANGELES. While cope with the mounting relict ed on the relief rolls every week.
of June 12: has hit them like a cyclone. The system. policies of the district committee fnally swung into uptown San Shriners, Meetings in national crisis, New York may soon wit out of the 8, 000 to 10, 000 who Local 442 was the main base progressives will have to be on Death Lurks in Slums of operation for the Zausner guard agahust every move they cern to the Communist Party. Employees Union, Local 110, was sosyentier recheosales were which have prevailed in Cleveland rejected every week to shift for clique the very group that has make. In desperation they will Death lurked in every corner As Curran said in the Pilot, am for many years in the forefront busy last week, blocking traffic and Chicago only on a much themselves. entered Lewis Stevens try any crooked trick. But no and crack of those buildings as plifying his statement at the deck of the struggle of progressively adolescent pranks, littering larger seals when the Board of new relief Sit Ins Postponed as its candidate for a comeback. Nander and no frame up, no dorit does in the floors and walls department meeting: picable trick like their hiring of nine tenths of the tenement they (the District Committee) wages. It was nationally known every conceivable kind of loud appropriations for the month of Sit ins, projected last week Brazen Frame Up of an armory all the way up houses of New York City. In cannot continue by the Alliance Delegates (were by the more brazen piece of frame town for the elections, with the these hovels which are called this continues as it has, where for its members, and its leaders Inritted to do things which would up could hardly be produced by aim of making more difficult a homes live the workers of the crew members refuse to live up were well respected in all labor en na prison sentence for a LaGuardia moved for the cut in city strategy committee as an the Yezhoff Statin For complete turn out of voters. wealthiest city in the world to agreements and constantly circles. Last year the stalinists, striking worker, Bill Busick, or relief in April, he confided to sam sincetracers were voting for by use of whispering campaigns canizer of the International Wiseman, Stalinist secretary of participation in them. Telegrams Lewis Stevens was chairman will do them much good as long Each month well fed, well dres condemn the officials.
of the Rank and File Protective as the progressives continue to sed representatives of the landSeamen Rebel playing upon the ignorance of was arrested for violating an that the cut, unnecessary at that the Alliance announced the postAssociation. in which Weinstock fight on a clean program, everlord bankers extract from the participated, and which led the alert to the moves of the wreck tenants a portion of their hardly fight against Zausner up to his ors, ever on guard to protect won earnings as rent. The sleek dence in the Stalinise hures uerats understand the technique of the leased on the exorbitant bail of tion of a future crisis and to voting machine, were successful bludgeon the City Council into Coming at this time, the sit.
elimination from power in the their union and the livelihood oil parasites, who themselves live in of the district committee was in winning the majority of the of the Supreme Court of the voting his Sales Tax proposalsins to a large degree should serve pulatial mansions and apart: even more strikingly revealed posts in the union.
In spite of the recent ruling painters union. The same Stevensts members.
ments, never fail to demand their when rank and file as a preventive measure against was so much in the lead of the United States invalidating a Figures Are Eloquent toll from the poverty stricken fused to heed the irresponsible struggle that the gangsters in Almost immediately after tak. similar ordinance, and a recent what is happening in Cleveland denizens of their tumble down. 24 hour stoppage in the port in office, they instituted to local ruling of the Los Angeles of the relief crisis in this city. Progressive Group in the Alliance To comprehend the magnitude and Chicago, spokesmen for the him to within an inch of his life.
The Daily Worker printed pieBut knowing that these build line was forced to live up to its work among the members. The constitutional the handbill ordi figoures issued by the New York any deal between the city Alliance tures of Stevens wrapped up in bandages not once but half a owners ignore safety regulations Const men on the Sen tation system would be used by of Vernon, a small manufacture Times with previous figures. The leadership (Stalinist) and the dozen times. Pen prostitute (Continued from page 1)
The vote taken at the DeleMorris knows this.
The rank and lose. Instead of centering their even relatively five proof condiCommittee called port wide on the jobs because the men knew area, have insisted on enforcing present total home relief load is file painters of District Council fire on Roosevelt, who ordered tion, to provide adequate holiday in support of the Na there would be a long wait till their local ordinance (apart from gates Council for a strategy No. know it too. Stalin Wein the 1, 000 maximum, they will means of escape in the event of tional Labor Relations Board their names got to the top of 571, 000 others who are deriving committee of seven was erronefire. More than a year ago, a several underlings represtock attempt to frame Stevens picket reactionaries who that the Avenue house which day and those that did sit classifications of work that some ANNOUNCEMENTS their support from the wages of ously reported in last week The seamen on the ships for the list in case they got fired and the progressive opposition senting home relief investigator reported the most part ignored the holi Also there are so many different 168, 000 workers. Appeal as being decided by Insertions in this column are 25 Mayor La Guardia, testifying on with a charge of Zausnerism convinced the president of the burned down June was a con down kept up steam so long men would naturally get all the same the APPEAL orfice before she Senate Special Committee to In 23 23 tie vote. second vote was center for five lines Copy must be January 17, 1938, before the Chairman Jerry Benton, after a of the painters union know where Not only are New York was taken by the city to tear o clock Monday evening, vestigate Unemployment and taken which favored a committee continued existence of the fireplace on the list.
NEW YORK smaller jobs, or else lose their ask: What are Zauner hench. they are also faced with disabis down the fire trap and move the tion, which is responsible for the would have to take relief work, Relief, stated that at that time of seven by a vote of 28 24.
men Zughaft, Ladisky, Kosloff, sals. At the present time, thor tenants into a safe abode.
traps, but just an exhortation BAND BEING FORMED All Passini, Meyers, Zeller, Lawson ough investigation of the relief Landlords Are Safe to the tenants to report viola Stalinist Record those interested in learning to and Jack Barry doing as paid status of each worker is being tions of the fire laws!
play musical instruments, and officials in Weinstock admini made by employees of the city their beautiful fire proof homes. very well that such violationssystem to give the good jobs to The landlord murderers sit in The Stalinists have used this all those who already can per form on any musical instru What are Harry Rosen pals Guardian, as mayor of the city. Their police and their govern have been going on for years the Filipinos and Latin Ameri. ment, communicate at once with Yoina Gelibter, Billy Sherman has the power to prevent city ment, when a fatality occurs, How can one expect a capitalist cans who make up a large part Reynolds, National Office and Jack Siegel doing in the employees from being used on try to pin responsibility on the politician to fight the landlords of the membership in order to 116 University Place. AI 8547. few literature agents have wreKarolyne Kerry, Oakland new National Appeal Campaign: this week with a total of 10.
present administration of Local this type of work. Yet the Sta helpless tenants. La Guardia de and capitalists? Yet the Stalin hold their vote, thereby tending READ THE RUSSIAN BUL ten us regarding their plans for literature agent has promised 10 442 itself?
The Progressive Painter in any militant demonstration to parks his linist leadership refuses to allow livers pretty speeches about the LETIN of the Oppositshevik Let hear from the others, showing good results. As for or the campaign beginning on July, get down to work and is already gan of the Russian a recent issue set up a table of force the mayor hand.
The created, while fire trap landlords stooges of Roosevelt and La. the union. The activities of the Leninists. Leading articles by Don forget that we only have New York City, sunk to a miser, paid henchmen in the Zausner very idea of even picketing such continue to batten on the miserGuardia, have done little else but union have been almost entirely machine as compared with those a prominent People Fronter is ies of the poor. He prattles about pitalist page boys in the legis teaching the boys to play base news and letters. Single issue, two more week in which to get able third place, the less said started on the Appeal greatest about them, the better. We re 20 cents. Subscription rates, drive to date: to attain table gives names; in each case planned is a dramatic and pro but omits to point out that no and the capitalist administrators once Union, are now hiring non for six months. Order tion of 10, 000! The first week is again. we want to thank the circula sure hoping they wake up union porters. and to raiding tical: the question is put: What Ask the mayor in a nice way worker, can pay the rentals of to enforce a law or two.
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The splendid response of the New York stion among his fellow workers in Weinstock gang and their Daily Worker When Roosevelt Comes The fight against fire traps, East Side workers to the rallyThe progressives organized in PICNIC, Sunday, June 19, at Fiterature agent has turned in a bakery and raised a contribuanswer that question ing campaign of the is for decent housing is a fight for the Union Welfare Committee Pelham Bay Park. Rowing, over 40 of them already. Just astion of 30 for the Appeal.
for the coming Accusers Record On June 30, President Roose an indication that the tenement the right to live no less. Twice are preparing games, refreshments. All soon as we have enough, a news. We heartily recommend this With a Bronx Party and com stand column will be printed method of raising funds to all Since the Stalinists are look at the World Fair grounds, to longer while slum landlords go No one knows where or when good section of the union tho rades meet 10 a. mat Pelham regularly.
those who work in shops, as a ing for fund stealing scandals, address the National Education on collecting their blood tainted the dread peril will strike next. roughly dissatisfied with the Bay Station.
way of bringing our paper to why don they look in their own al Association convention. This money and piling up more victims Every worker must support the Stalinists, the progressives stand Subs took a drop over lant the working class.
NEW YORK. Special. in the would be a splendid opportunity to their greed, fight of the East Side Workers an excellent chance of winning ATTENTION Winners of the Build the So week record total, but we re credit must go this week to to 16 of the Workers Better cialist Appeal Contest were still going strong. Here the Maplewood, Missouri, which goes right out after its subs through former Stalinist secretary of the Fall grounds. The chief executive of the and march through the Fred Larin, Edith Kirkman, record for the week: the fund stealing activities of the fighting demonstration, at the liance, responding to an appeal Workers should to aoutcome they are determined to Side to carry on the fight until every MINNEAPOLIS and Leopold. Will these personal visiting, and Detroit, Redler, responsible last vestige of Stalinism is driven comrades please call at the reduction of has entered splendid united City Hall with the demands: who is being indicted for his salary, will be right at hand. front action to combat the fire fire traps at city expense!
Maplewood, Missouri which has finally begun to reap Move all families out of the from the union.
City Office and see Abe Miller New York City the harvest of those articles on frauds. Why don they explain Probably the most militant acAs a reaction to the Stalinists to collect their prizes.
Los Angeles the auto workers union.
that scandal away? Why don tion the Stalinists will allow will formation of a pro tem East Side trap menace. This has led to the Tear down the fire traps! many of the progressives have Detroit they explain away the scandal be the circulation of petitions Workers Committee for Better CHICAGO Oakland, Calif.
Build new, large scale, low. turned anti political, but due to of Weinstock, through the District and showing of exhibits of the Housing, which is issuing a call rent housing at once!
the action of genuine revolution SUMMER FESTIVAL Chicago Literature Agents: Don forget Ohio Council, lending the Stalinist good work done on near to all East Side labor organizato send in your campaign ideas No more hypocrisy and pro workers political action will be ary workers their confidence in Redler 500 from union funds the Fair grounds. picnic. Food, games, San Francisco and also a preliminary list of tions to set up a broader united mises. appropriate money at revived.
camp fire, at Schiller Park Miscellaneous entirely unaccounted for?
newsstands carrying the Appeal As is usually the case, the workers is to cast aside the StaThe only hope for front organization.
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sle for their immediate demands. the Communistess than Se Pricing headquarters of the Workers SINGLE ROOM for rent on 8; 116 University Place Another good frame up charge St. Very Reasonable. See CAMP SEVEN OAKS, Eaton diana, raising theirs to to join in the fight. Instead, they Street, any night of the week.
New York City that the heroes resort to Stanley at City Headquarters town, Excellent swim Youngstown, Chio, to 25 and spend their time trying to break Their cases will be taken to the for Details.
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