and faith in God. And among mother Stalinists Oust Selves Mpls. Unions Show are also From Anti Nazi Drive Method Of Ending Noah London Reported CIO AFL Disputes Executed In Moscow!
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at 116 University Place, New York, SAN FRANCISCO. Com 16. Delegates from the GermanTelephone: National Office: Algonquin 8547 Who are the ladies and gentlemen so munist Party heads renched a American League for Culture, Subscriptions: 00 per year; 00 for vitally concerned with guarding Liberty new al time newer pankruptes the Socialist Workers Party and Jurisdiction Quarrel In report has reached the United States that Noah London has months. Foreign: 50 per year. Bundle order cents per copy. Single copies cents.
been executed in Moscow, and there is good reason to believe forces. seeking the overthrow of free united front conference held here Lengue, the Socialist Party and Garages Settled By All checks and money orders should be made that the report it true.
June 6, where they attempted to their Young Peoples Socialist governments. Among them we find exclude the Socialist Workers League, were present. The baFirm Action Who was Noah London?
out to the Socialist Appeal.
such illustrious democrats as the reaction Party from the anti Nazi move lance of the delegates, with He was a founder of the Communist Party of the United States Entered as second class matter September 1, ary gentleman from Virginia, Richard ment and capture control of that few exceptions, were from the By CARL SHEA and a leader of its Jewish Federation for years. true proletar1937 at the post office at New York, New York, Byrd; the agent of the House of MorCommunist the StalinistTo understand the full signific dominated middle class groups Party, MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. The he devoted his whole life to the revolutionary movement. Speaker, ian, raised in the misery and poverty of New York East Side, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
gan and former candidate for president, ance of what has happened it is and unions with Stalinist admi. Minneapolis trhde union moveMAX SHACHTMAN John Davis; the democratic Hero of necessary to recapitulate what nistrations. Approximately 150 ment, which both by example organizer and writer, he was known to thousands of Jewish Editor.
Anacostia, Herbert Hoover; the late has taken place in the past few attended.
and by direct organizational aid workers in New York and elsewhere.
HAROLD ROBERTS FRANK GRAVES candidate for president put forward by weeks. On about May 20th it was Taking the chair, the repre has contributed so much to the HELPED FOUND THE FREIHEIT Associate Editors.
DuPonts and the Liberty League Ai can Bund, an open Maxi outfit. Nazi Council opened the meeting week executed a brilliant pian to STANLEY Among the leading spirits in the foundation of the first Jewish Business Manager.
fred Landon; the red baiting specialist was planning on holding a state by announcing that no delegates end an dispute communist daily newspaper the Freiheit he was a member of of the of Matthew Woll: and convention in San Francisco on from political parties would be in the local garage industry its editorial staff all during the early years of its existence.
the head of the General Electric Com of resentment May 29. Almost instantly a wave seated! When it was pointed out which had been precipitated by In addition he was a member of the Educational Committee of at this flagrant that political parties had been the Communist Party and was Progress In Akron pany, Owen Young.
challenge swept the San Fran expressly invited, he and half a endangering unionism in the inthe party and one of the directors of the Workers School hundred other disguised Stalinists dustry and the city.
since its foundation.
The report in last week issue about That this collection of reactionaries cisco labor movement.
rose to point out how such parties The Minneapolis solution to such Several years ago, he voluntarily gave up a well paying posithe decision of various of and should seek to pose as guardians of li Picketing Announced as were present would give the jurisdictional disputes should tion as engineer with one of New York big corporations and berty, may be a fine piece of hypocrisy, conference a left wing (no less. prove of great interest to other unions in Akron to establish a went to the Soviet Union with his wife, to place his technical but not entirely strange. Not at all few days later the German dinge and thus make it impos sections of the labor movement United Labor Defense Council on a talent at the disposal of Soviet economy. He left for Russia for Culture, sible to draw in other political cursed with similar internecine strange is their eulogy of America militantly anti Nazi, announced Croups such as the Democrats struggles.
with a recommendation from the American Communist party to permanent basis for the purpose of protecting the unions right of picketing and free institutions, of the Constitution, through its secretary, Eric Rix, and Republicans! And then, to the Soviet authorities.
Background of Dispute of faith in America and faith in God. that it would picket the conven make the maneuver complete, the Why was this old communist militant executed? To those guarding the civil liberties of labor, is Their dislike of alien revolutionary In order to weigh the merita a welcome sign of progress.
who knew him and worked with him in the past even to those Among the organizations which and announced that he agreed of the Minneapolis solution, one who could not agree with his political acceptance of Stalinism forces dates back to and is of a piece responded were the Socialist with the above arguments and so must know the background of the it is inconceivable that he should have committed any crime Coming on the heels of the murderous with their ingrained hatred of the Rus Workers Party, the United Anti the would withdraw (sic. dispute. Briefly, last August the against the revolution or the Soviet Union to merit capital assault by company thugs and Akron sian Revolution, of Marxism, socialism, Nazi Council (Stalinist control from the conference.
Stalinist leaders of the three punishment.
police upon the Goodyear picket line, the communism, and all other doctrines and led. a number of unions and the machinists locals inducCommunist Party. The Socialist Exclusion Voted ed part of the membership to STALINIST PRESS KEEPS SILENT action of the unions takes on additional movements which they stamp as alien.
Party (Clarityites) allowed its significance.
withdraw from their InternationThey are people who have regarded the name to be used but did not send Delegates from the al and join the Solely a And the fact the official communist press has been abmild reforms of Roosevelt, and Roose delegates or turn out for the de the Socialist Party and the Ger job saving device on the part of solutely silent about his case only strengthens the suspicion that The rubber workers of Akron, organvelt himself, as a modified American man American League for Culthe Stalinists, the move was conmonstration later.
Noah London was murdered by the Stalinist assassins.
ized a few years ago, have already distranslation of Bolshevism. Their whole Trotskyists and because the real when they protested that this ganiser and the progressive Because they came in after the ture were told by the chairman demned by the Northwest Or We know that hundreds of foreign born communists leaders tinguished themselves by their militancy, public record shows them to conceive core of the movement was repre had long been a rule of the Anti labor movement as a crime, for and rank and filers well known in the German, Hungarian, fearlessness and determination to win.
the term liberty to mean the untramel sented by Rix, the Stalinists were Nazi Council. He was reminded the following reasons: Polish, Greek and other movements have been murdered on They are among the vanguard of AmerSoviet soil by the But this is the first case we know The locals had signed agreeled freedom of reactionary capitalism unable to keep from uniting with that these delegates had not ican labor. They have now fortified their the Socialist Workers Party in come to affiliate to the Council ments with the bosses. The split of which involves an American communist.
to exploit the masses and to crush all this demonstration. Their only but to form a united front with would give the bosses a chance What has Moissaye Olgin, London old friend, political colrecord by the important step of overthose who oppose it. Nor can liberty choice was to go along or with it for specific actions. Unperturb to renew their fight on unionism; league and collaborator on the Freiheit, to say about the case. coming the division in labor ranks and have any other meaning on their lips.
draw from the action. They chose ed he entertained a motion to The split isolated the ma What have his other old associates to say about it? Why is there uniting of and unions inthe first, but not without insist exclude politica! parties and of chinists from their brothers on no statement at all from the party of which he was a member?
to a common front. Nobody will quarrel For this perfectly obvious reason got an overwhelming a national scale; ing that all participants hide the course The labor public is entitled to a plain spoken explanation!
with the aims of this front; on the con alone, the new movement is a cheap de names of their organizations. To majority, practically every deleNone Better Organized trary, every worker will salute it cordi ception, a democratic, capitalist patriotic to be the first to lower their ing organizations voting aye. Nowhere else in the country ally.
mask for reaction.
own banner. The dele. These latter then withdrew to were the machinists organized But side by side with Hoover, Landon, gates objected but refused to caucus and decided to return as on so broad a basis as in MinNow that Akron labor has taken the Have Article By Trotsky Young, Woll, Davis and Byrd, sits we break the united front on this individual observers with voice neapolis. In fact, industrial first step; it should take the second. The rub our eyes. the national chairman point. Despite this, their banners and no vote.
unionism prevailed in the inUnited Labor Defense Committee needs stood out in the picket line like the rest of the meeting was dustry: of the Socialist Party, Norman Thomas. a beroon light because of their devoted to discussing ways of The July issue of the New present status and the situation By raiding the widest support from the ranks. If the Has his party approved his participa working class content.
an established International, which is now be in the United States.
spreading the boycott against industrial union, the Stalinists ing prepared, will contain a The significance of the recent rights to picket, to strike, to organize, to tion in this reactionary fraud or has he, free speech and assembly, are really to German goods and enlisting the only confused and disrupted the number of interesting articles convention of the Communist An Inspiration unions for a boycott of California local labor movement, serving which are sure to keep the cir Party, its new constitution and as usual, committed the party without be preserved from reactionary attack, even consulting it? We are loath to be As for the demonstration it rupted repeatedly by efforts on er in the o. or in the at the rate it has been growing be dealt with in an article by Hall. The discussion inters neither the interests of the work. culation of the review mounting general politlen orientation, will the United Labor Defense Committee lieve that there is one man in the was beyond question one of the the part of the chairman and While condem. ning the Com up to now.
must have at its disposal hundreds, if who takes the ideas of socialism seriousMax Shachtman.
most inspiring and militant ac. others to get Rix to reconsider munist Party for its utter irrestions seen in San Francisco since his withdrawal. efforts which ponsibility in splitting the new article called Learn to the review will be printed letters not thousands, of courageous workers Leon Trotsky contributes a In the Discussion section of ly, who will not immediately repudiate the great strikes of 934 36. An met with a firm refusal. And so, machinists, progressives pointed Think on the war question and by Victor Serge, from Paris, and ready at a moment notice to defend Thomas disgraceful and criminal col estimated two to three thousand once more, the Stalinists wound out that part of the blame for the principles and tactics which Dwight MacDonald, of the Partithemselves from the reaction with every laboration with such arch enemies of took part in the picketing and up shaking hands with them the disastrous situation Tested revolutionary internationalists are san Review, commenting on ar available means. The Akron labor movelabor and liberty as he is now associated three or four times that many selves. They have demonstrated on the shoulder of the Machin called upon to follow in the ticles about the. Kronstadt upment has thousands of such workers, with.
ready to respond to the first call.
eos. when the line was offently they much prefer unity with the stupid policies in the past, and course of wars of variant cha rising by Leon Trotsky and John.
When the Stalinist party proclaims it dismissed at approximately than with those of the working nished the unscrupulous StalinG. Wright in preceding issues. committee of a dozen or a score of self the defender of American capitalist most of the workers re class. Just as Harry Bridges, ists with an Maurice Spector is writing an The editors are including a reply persons, no matter how willing, cannot, by itself, protect the picket line or other democracy and the splendor of Amer turned to the hall and remained West Coast director, in weaken the use to split and other article on the New Deal to the contributors.
labor movement.
ica free institutions, this is universal there despite police offorts to carrying out the program, labor rights. That job requires mass Bosses Seize Chance in each garage represent all ly recognized as the measure of its self disperse them until the conven smashes picket lines of the sail.
support. And by mass support, nothing ors Union and then meets with Nine months have passed since Such a policy would have gun workers in the establishment.
degradation. What a low estate the SoSuch show of anti fascist the Committee of 43 (industrial the split occurred. The old union else can be meant than selected, trained, cialist Party has fallen to when its nadisciplined fighters, properly organized sentiment naturally led those who ists) to end industrial strife contract had expired and the ranteed that the industry would tional chairman can blandly join hands had been instrumental in awaken. read, break strikes) so the Sta garage owners, organized in the unions, and would have offered and democratically led, who will know for the same free institutions and the ing it to make an effort to further linists in the Anti Nazi move Auto Dealers Association, were the bosses their opportunity to how to protect the union rights from same chauvinistic drivel, with such preexpand such a splendid movement prefer unity with the refusing to sign new agreements. smash edustry. The employers munist Party of Chile and the An alliance between the Comassaults of mobsters, uniformed or otherment. On the morning following bosses political parties to unity cious specimens as Herbert Hoover, At this point, the labor move maske ana vestiges of unionism the demonstration the united with those of the workers.
wise.
the situa Owen Young and John Davis! front committee met to discuss had already taken the hint by Union Socialista, open supporttion. Recently there was set up refusing ways and means to continue and Stalinists Oust Themselves a Policy sign working agree ers of the Nazis, has been exAkron has already set the pace for enlarge still further the struggle To sum up, the workers in San of eight ommittee, consisting ments with either union.
elected representatives posed by the Partido Obrero American labor in many fields. Let it against Nazism. At this meeting Francisco have come out on the two cach from the Central really cracked down. On Thurs Workers Party. Chilean section The union movement then Revolutionario (Revolutionary now take the initiative in organizing the the delegate from the Stalinist streets against the Nazis. The Labor Union, the Allied Printing day, June 2, the union of the Fourth International.
first important Labor Defense Guard.
Deport Em!
United Anti Nazi Council in core of their movement was and Trades Council, the Building called a strike in all garages. The Union has been openly Such a step would be an unforgettable formed the committee that his is the German American League Trades Council and the Teamstorganization had already called for Culture. In an effort to capers Joint Council, to put an end tion of strength. Forty eight Ibanez, in his campaign, first for It was an impressive demonstra supporting the Nazi candidate, service to the working class, and a ter Last week press reported a lettera city wide conference for just ture this movement and exclude to the plague of jurisdictional hours later the Stalinists capithe presidency, and then, when rific blow to reaction.
from the March Federal grand jury in such a purpose. He invited the the other political groups from disputes and to deal with broader tulated.
the Southern District of New York, to committee as a whole to parti it the Stalinists have alienated phases of the union movement.
he dramatically withdrew in An agreement was signed by favor of Aguirre, candidate of President Roosevelt, urging him to take ways and means of fighting the this all important core and in Policy Committee Plan both unions, plus the policy com th People Front. for the Thomas In Queer Company steps towards the deportation of all Nazis would be discussed and the anti fascist struggle. Mean The Policy Committee called in sittee, to hold an election by June senate. The Stalinists, publicly aliens on relief who have lived in the acted on. His invitation was ac while, those organizations which leaders of the two Machinist 15 in all garages, both the raising their fists in support of Many are the crimes that have been United States three years without obcepted unanimously, no objec were forced to walk tours whicho Unions (the and the and appointing com the bourgeois. landowner politimittee of three to work out with cian, Aguirre, at the same time taining first citizenship papers.
committeed in the name of Liberty. But the labor board the details in or the Communist Party delegate a genuine united front meeting ings made the following recomwere selling on the streets of to the fact that this invitation in the near future to carry on mendations: volved in the preparation and Santiago, together with members seldom has a more sinister burlesque on We are sure that the gentlemen of the Negotiations with the em holding of the election; imme of the Union and regular that mouth filling word been perpetrat grand jury had no objection when, years not only were on the united front 29. The Stalinists have made ployers committee to start at diately following the clection, Nazis, the newspaper Clamor, ed than is done by the movement just ago, agents of the big corporations of the committee but were represented their choice of whom they wish once, with representatives of both the union contract to be turned propaganda sheet for Ibanez!
launched under the patriotic title of Na United States cajoled workers and peational Rededication.
sants from South, Central and Eastern which conducted the demonstra keep the organizations of the An election to be held within election; no worker to lose his the presence of the Union in tion.
job or union affiliation as a re the anti fascist People Front, Europe into coming to this country by workers from uniting carry five days after an agreement has We are not interested, announced painting attractive pictures of its unWith these events as a backing on the magnificent fight they been reached. The majority vote sult of his position in this dis and the Stalinist paper Frente ground the city wide conference have launched against the Nazis either wnich, is to decide which As soon as Minneapolis em of the valiant Nazi deputy, its acting director, Mr. Hermann HagePopular published the portrait limited possibilities and unrestricted convened on the evening of June and fascism in general.
dorn, in making public the names of the freedom. That was when the big corunion is to be the bargaining ployers saw that the union move Gonzales, who fired a pistol shot national committee, in criticizing any.
agent for all employees; Ir ment was not going to permit the in Congress in protest against body or attacking anybody. Our purporations needed big reserves of cheap Bloody Reign Of Terror In respective of the election out jurisdictional dispute to weaken the entry of President Alessanpose is to state the case for liberty and labor to keep the profit wheels moving.
come, the right of any worker the fight against the garage own ari, who has come out against democracy as expressed in the Declarato belong to any union of this ers, they agreed to sign a con both the Nazis and the People Now, in the midst of the crisis, these Jamaica Still Continuing choosing is not to be impaired trapte senting the scale continuation. Front tion of Independence and guaranteed by same gentlemen are unwilling to continue Labor Action Needed the Constitution of the United States. giving these workers even that miserable The score for democratic power plant workers, which had Labor Board through nery to held by the National ing conditions.
arrangeNo matter which way the elec The has issued a call relief which they are now getting and In their statement, the sponsors of the British imperialism, in its bloody left the city without light and ments with a joint union com tion goes, the workers in the for independent class action which constitutes only a tiny fraction of suppression of the Jamaica work power, was settled last week, but mittee.
National Rededication say: Liberty has industry are assured that union against the bourgeois candidates the profits they helped to pile up for the their wretched conditions, mount with the workers burning cane who have struck against strikes continued in rural areas, Stalinists Renege ism will prevail and that pre Aguirre and Ross, and has called been destroyed in many of the leading riously won wage scales will upon the militant elements within capitalist class in this country. Rather, ed to twelve killed when a fields in some districts.
The Stalinists who spoke for continue.
the Socialist Party to fight nations. Openly or secretly, alien revolutionary forces are seeking the overthey propose mass deportations on the striker was shot by police in the against the class collaborationist British Guiana West Indies the signified they would throw of free governments. The gloritactics of the party leadership grounds that. they are not citizens! parish of Trelawney on June labor conference meeting in go along with the above plan, LERMAN BROS.
Two strikers shot the previous Georgetown, British Guiana, on and then, without warning, prowho withdrew the Socialist canfication of violence and the resurgence We wonder if this insolent demand day at Luidasvale were in a June 8, sent a cable expressing tions with the employers.
Union Stationers and didate, Grove, in favor of Aguirre.
of racial and religious intolerance are critical condition. On the same sympathy with was made on the assumption that the Jamaica Printers At this point, the Minneapolis it day sailors landed from the strikers and condemning the use Central Labor Union stepped in everywhere endangering democracy. The The has also given would be supported also by the Stalinist British cruiser Ajax to help keep 37 East 14th St. critical support to the local canonly answer to militant autocracy is a order.
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