2 SOCIALIST APPEAL July 2, 1938 Concerted Union Drive Needed To Oust Hague PROLETARIAN FIGHTER Appeal Army Bill Brown OMAHA COURT Guild Convention Shows ARRESTS, VAGS Newsmen Big Gains of Feud Must End So That Labor UNION OFFICIAL But Broun, Re elected President, Moves To Tie May Act Unitedly To Smash Dictarial Rule By JAMES CANNON Membership To Imperialist War Chariot By Of Would be Hitler In New Jersey Police Seize Organizer (This is the first of two articles by Comrade Bill to discover himself, and unfold his hidden Resolution On Collective Security Cannon on two outstanding leaders of the talent and capacities for greater things. They In Office, Search By JAMES RALEIGH all adverse publicity was to be workers and farmers movement in the north came with the development of the crisis which His Quarters The fifth annual convention of the foreign policy resolution, the west whose deaths were reported in preceding terminated by the and shattered for all time the stability of capitalthe American Newspaper Guild, keynote of the entire convention.
In previous writings about Hague was to provide a Hyde issues of the Appeal. Ed. Jersey it has been indicated that Park for free speech in Jersey ism and cleared the road for the militant mass OMAHA, Nebraska. Arrested held recently in Toronto Whereas last year the Guild movement of labor, which will finally put an in the office of the union by which revealed significant organization prominently featured its demand Death struck twice with cruel perversity in while the Democratic Party is the City.
end to its domination.
he is employed, Alfred Russell, al gains as the result of the in for 3, 000, 000, 000 appropriarecent days at the liberation movement of the private proparty (sic) of Frank well known militant and paid ordustrial union policy adopted at tion for this year first Hague, the Republican arty is Dangerous Deal oppressed. One cannot get accustomed to the The crisis bore down with unbearable weight ganizer for Local 554, Omaha last year St. Louis convention. place was accorded the speeches sir ply a disorganized, spiritless thought of the Northwestern sector of the moveon the workers in the trucking industry, of Teamsters union, was last week There were present 130 delegates, by Roosevelt and Hun on quair impotent group of political The harny of such a deal canment without Bill Brown, president of Local which Minneapolis is the great northwestern convicted of vagrancy and order representing a total mmbership rantining the aggressor and wyponents, carefully nurtured not be stressed too emphatically, 544, and Rodney Salisbury, one time Farmercenter. The provincial Minnesota bosses, their ed to leave the city under a sus of 16, 797 a 51 per cent increase international cooperation. Backdisunion and debility by for it would immediately have Labor sheriff of Sheridan County, Montana, and greed multiplied by their ignorance, slashed pended sentence of 90 days in over last year.
ed up by an editorial in the condague deals with its leaders. placed the under oblipresident of the Montana Farm Holiday Asso wages and increased hours of work with reck jail.
It was reported that 77 convention issue of The Guild ReNonetheless, the numerical sation to the local political boss.
ciation. They were as indigenous to the country less abandon. The truck drivers, unorganized The arrest was made by plain tracts were in effect with 50 porter which demands that the strength of both these parties As soon as militant action was for the most part, were goaded to desperation; clothes men, who took Russell to locals of the guild, 40 of which United States. impractical, act resolutely as the tough native grass. Both were men of rests with the workers.
begun, this treaty would be endunique and distinctive personality. They were only a spark was needed to touch off the exhis home and made an illegal had been signed in the past 12 to make The problem is how to clarify ed. As a result, the would rich in talents which they freely devoted to a plosion that would rock the country.
search of his possessions, seizing months. Thirteen of these called the resolution calls, among other political issues for the workers always be inclined toward moa number of personal letters, for the Guild Shop, making a things, for an international peace so they not remain divided, con deration and concessions in order cause bigger than themselves or any of us. The entrance into this fully ripened situation pictures and pamphlets found total of 22 Guild Shop contracts policy based on Roosevelt Chiveniently for Mr. Hague, within to preserve their inconsequential They truly reflected and expressed the move of a new group of men, and the working colla there. Russell was then held in the significance of such an ad cago speech and for amending the framework of these old line civil right. On the other hand, ment out of which they had grown, by which boration established between them and Bill jail for three days without vance can hardly be overestimat the Neutrality Act to define the parties. But to achieve this re the right to continue unionization, they had been shaped and upon which they, Brown, supplied the spark. The new men charges being placed against him. ed, especially when one remem aggressor. It was passed 109 6 quires first giving the workers with which Hague was to cease in turn, had placed their own personal stamp. were a group of coal yard workers who are bers that the organization is one against a heterogenous minority Goldman Excluded political understanding that interfering, was only an imaginof white collar workers.
sometimes called Trotskyites. These studious of 40 6.
their interests differ from ary concession, They Live On!
men of theory, who were also qualified mass Russell, who is now and for the Political Back Sliding Disastrous Idea Hague as well as from those of For the already had Now they are both dead. But assert with workers a rare enough phenomenon came into past five months has been employthe financial and industrial forces this right and was actually exconfidence that their names and their deeds will Unfortunately, however, losses behind Hague.
Thus the Guild, in spite of noercizing it, though modestly, the teamsters union by way of an organization ed as organizer for Teamsters throughout the recent disturblive after them in the grateful and affectionate Local 554 at a wage of 30. 00 were also registered. Last year table organizational advances has campaign in the coal yards. It is to the eternal Unions Are The Place ances. The error of the memory of their co workers who numbered many weekly. was tried by a police convention reaffirmed the Guild allowed itself to be snared by the credit of Bill Brown that he opened the door magistrate on charges of vag stand for a Labor Party with anti working class collective sethousands. More than that, their memory ought of the union to this new development and reAll fields for solidarizing the negotiators was in believing that by all rights to be saluted in wider circles than ceived the new dynamic forces with open arms.
raney. Albert Goldman, Chicago out the slightest trace of People curity program of Stalin Broun, workers eventually boil down to if Hague granted them permislabor attorney, appeared on be Frontism or Democratic Front who apparently have sold the the labor union. Here dissidentsion to organize, they could or those in which they lived and died, and passed The compact formed between them one of the half of Russell, but as he is not ism. Gunnar Mickelson, Guild the disastrous idea of givelements, except for the easily ganize better. In fact, if they on to our youth. It should be a source of inspi happiest and most fruitful ever recorded in the licensed to practice in Nebraska vice president, made a speech ing up the class struggle on the detected bosses stooges, are gen began to organize under Hague ration to them. Such considerations alone labor movement. endured to the end and the magistrate, Judge Harry which he stated that labor can war question in the false belief erally absent and a clear cut, patronage, the trend thereafter prompt and will perhaps justify these lines, flowered into political as well as trade union Wheeler, refused to hear Gold never hope to come into a full that they will be punishing agclass conscious attitude of the would be to pacify him at all which otherwise would not be written. It is not solidarity, not to speak of unshakable personal man share of the goodness of this gressors and stopping fascism.
worker can be crystalized. His times and from that position, by easy to write about the dead, especially when friendship Goldman asked the court to country without having candi The Guild membership is being concern in his economic organiza short steps, they would soon be the wound is fresh; have always believed with continue the case until Russell dates of its own, responsible to committed to support of any war tion can then be utilized to unite where the bureaucratic HagueSwinburne that silence after grievous things Had Indispensable Qualities could obtain local legal counsel, labor alone.
in which American imperialism him politically with his brothers. dictated of is today. is good.
Bill rich experience in the trade union movebut Wheeler ignored this request This year, Jonathan Eddy, re engages, provided the imperialAny effort, therefore, to effect militant labor organization that and found the defendant guilty of elected executive vice president, ists declare as, of course, they ively politiealize labor must have comes on the scene crawling on From the time that William Brown went ment, his charming personality, oratorical abilvagrancy. The sentence of 90 spoke for our government con are already doing that the aim a labor union base. This does not its belly ends up only lying on to work driving a one horse wagon as a boy of ity and widespread popularity were an abso days, suspended provided the deducted in such a way as to hinder of the war is the preservation of mean, however, that the unemits back.
13, until his untimely and tragic death at the lutely indispensable factor in the subsequent fendant leaves town immediatly, and not to help the cause of ag peace and democracy.
ployed and the unorganized can How To Organize age of 41, he was continuously and uninterdevelopments. He and the new men from the is the established manner of get gressor nations, barely touch Members of the Guild must be not participate. On the contrary, ruptedly associated with the workers; more coal yards, working together, welded the new ting rid of undesirables, espeing on the question of independ warned that in any war embarkthey are most necessary in fact, The only real concession to the specifically, the drivers, and their trade unions. insurgent mass movement and the apparatus cially the unemployed and home ent political action. For him, ased upon by American imperialindispensable.
people under this proposed pact Flesh of their flesh and bone of their bone, of the old drivers union into one solid piece.
less.
for Heywood Broun, unanimous ism, regardless of the official But first of all there must be was the establishment of a pubreacted sensitively to all that concerned them The rest is history. They formed a combination Blow At Unionism ly re elected president, this policy justification, only the ruling class a considerable autonomous labor lic place where free speech could. their grievances, their advantages, their vic that hasn been beaten in a single engageis merely a stepping stone to stands to gain. American labor, nucleus. In Jersey City this does be exercized without police inter.
tories and defeats.
ment to this day.
For Russell the sentence means unity with a capitalist govern including the Guild, has nothing not exist. The of is ference. But while this demoIn the great strikes of 1934 especially the giving up his job, and, more im ment which pretends willingness to gain. It stands only to lose, bureaucratic and Hague control cratic right is valuable for the College of Hard Knocks July August strike Bill Brown came out of his portant to the court, abandon to fight reaction abroad. This together with the workers of the led and backs Hague in every public at large, it is of secondary ing the struggle to organize the was made abundantly clear in aggressor nations.
anti o. move. The value from an organizing view Lacking formal education, he compensated shell and showed his real talent as a mass teamsters and other workers in to a large extent for the deficiency with a leader. Somewhat weak as an executive, and itself is young, numerically weak for labor. You cannot organize Omaha. One of the chief attracand none too ably led. Consider, workers on a public thoroughfare first class diploma from the college of hard a poor office man (Bill wasn gifted on these tions of Nebraska to industrial for example, the recent or at a public meeting. Workers knocks, and supplemented it with mother wit lines. he loomed up powerfully at moments ists, according to the State drive to open up Jersey City, can be organized only in their and native shrewdness. When he attained to of crisis and showed the heart of a lion in times Chamber of Commerce advertisewhich was crudely bungled from shops. You cannot bring to leadership in the big mass movement and had of action and danger. He fulfilled the duties of ments, is an ample supply of start to finish, and the results of gether in open mass meetings to match wits with the bosges and their slick union president best on the picket line; and docile labor, and the vigorous which in terms of organization heterogeneous, unrelated workers and oily lawyers, he was able to hold his own if a recalcitrant scab had to be clipped, he organizing campaign of the National Appeal Campağd:fober and the following prizes Without any schooling in the technique of public of workers was directly propor and UNLTE them, let alone wouldn spare his own knuckles.
Teamsters Union is frightening The drive for 10, 000 circulation are at stake: tionate to the crude tacties em that is, to create a single functhe bosses.
speaking, he revealed in the great struggles As the mass orator at critical moments in is on! Enthusiastic letters from (a) First Prize: America 60 ployed. Since the drive began, tioning organ of workers, requires of On the advice of Goldman, all over the country indicate that Families by Lundberg and Histhe union a surprising articulateness, and the strike, and at later fateful turning points bcame a commanding orator and master of the been made, because from the that they be united on common in the life of the union, Bill was supreme. He Russell is ignoring the court a real campaign can be expected. tory of the Russian Revolution felicitous phrase. Nobody could lash the rapaorder to leave Omaha and is con Boston writes that the entire by Leon Trotsky.
very outset no preparatory ground. The only common ground articulated the indignation and the mass cious employers and their murderous cops with groundwork was done prior to the is their particular field of emtinuing his duties as organizer branch has been mobilized to (b) Second Prize: by courage of the workers better than any other. for Local 554. The case is being participate in the work: We John Dos Passos and an autocampaign, the leaders ployment, their particular shop the bitter effectiveness of Bill, and none could In this field also he was pretty much of an appealed by the union, with a have the Appeal on eight news graphed copy of The Revolution naively believing they could in or factory or trade. From this stir the workers so deeply.
improviser. don think he ever prepared local attorney, Dewey Hanson, stands regularly and will send Betrayed by Leon Trotsky.
vade Jersey City and take it base one can proceed to separata speech in his life, but he delivered some representing Russell.
If there is such a thing as the typical Amein names and addresses. From (c) Third Prize: One year by storm.
ed and dissimilar, though similrican, he was it tough, hard boiled, sophisticarly organized, units of labor.
mighty fine ones; some almost perfect speeches Reading, Penn. we have word subscription to the Appeal and Publicity Stunts ated and, at bottom, deeply sentimental and a But the beginning must be at for the occasion. Like the true orator, he sensANNOUNCEMENTS that the comrades there are plan to the New International ning party for July to raise sucker for a hard luck story. Like all Ameed and felt his audience and let the inarti(d) Fourth Prize: Six Months the place of work.
Another blunder was to try Insertions in this column are money for the paper.
subscription to the Appeal and culate mass speak through him.
Fortunately, before Hague had ricans, he was an empiricist, learning as he cents for five lines. Copy must be merely to make the issue spec. a chance to ratify this comproOne of the most enthusiastic to the New International.
went along and inclined to improvise answers Virtues Outweighed Failings hele KM APPEALvnice before lx responses is from our old friend tacular, to publicize it across First prize winner must get a to problems as they arose from day to day. At Ruth Querio of Allentown, Penn.
the country. Although the lead mise, the deal was prematurely minimum of 24 subs during the least, that what he had been all his life up NEW YORK ers were cautioned against this announced in the press. Hague All those who went together through those am personally aiming at First contest.
tactic as tragic and useless, the immediately denied, first that any to the great strike of 1934. After that he days of destiny, took a great personal liking NEW YORK BOAT RIDE, Sun Prize. want it! ve challenged Ruth Querio is in the lead!
publicity craze overwhelmed them authorized negotiations were stood at the head of a mass movement. He was to Bill. The little guy, as he was sometimes day July 3, to Hook Mountain my branch to pit their entire who challenging her?
and a battle was fought across pending and second, that any con involved more and more in big and complicated called by his friends, who had such a big and Organized by Italian strength against mine alone.
the front pages of newspapers cessions would be made to the actions where rule of thumb practice was lost strong heart, had a way of making people like members. Stamer Calvert Ruth has asked us to put aside Subs picked up this week, New and helpless. Under the influence of his new from Miami to Seattle, but the red Thus, the leaves Pier him; one tended easily to minimize or overlook drive is exactly where it was workers still are unorganized.
from she off to a head start already, siderably. Here is the list: conenvironment, Bill was thrown more and more a. share his faults, of which, by the way, he had his Hook Mountain starts 30 with two subscriptions to her The prevailing opinion now seems last November, with the work into the consideration of things from a broader 12 share. Bill was no plaster saint, but human, MINNEAPOLIS Swimming, dancing, Spaghetti credit! The Allentown branch has to be that Roosevelt Depart ers still largely unorganized.
standpoint. He assimilated the basic ideas of New York City and other italian delights. held several lengthy discussions all too human.
Perhaps recognition that the socialism and became inspired by its great ment of Justice will do what no California Tickets may be had at any His virtues outweighed one else has done. make Hague present nucleus for organizing his failings, and Washington, ideal. That is the true explanation of his re1. hall in or by on how to best put over the camthat about the best that can be said of anypaign. Keep your eye on the behave. How this will establish labor politically was none too calling MAin 0291.
markable transformation from a more or less New Mexico body. Bill Brown was a man who took sides Allentown comrades! We expect unions, advance workers, or help promising, caused Labor NonNew Jersey ordinary trade union official to a leader of mithe unemployed is not even men Partisan League to abandon its RUSSIAN BULLETIN. New is big things of them!
and always stayed on the side he had taken.
Philadelphia recent efforts to launch a labor tioned.
litant mass actions. In this, think, he pioneer.
sue, just out, features The He hated the bosses as a bunch of greedy and St. Paul Death Agony of Capitalism and ed on a road that hundreds and thousands of This is cheating parasites; he was on the side of the National Newsstand the Tasks of the Fourth Inter. Week. Crews of comrades and But these are not the only party in New Jersey. After two Connecticut minor trade union officials in America are des mistakes the leadership conventions, one in December, the underdog every time and his big heart was full Cleveland national. Also articles on the friends are to be sent out to all Toledo tined to follow.
made. Admittedly checkmated in other in May, the matter seems of sympathy for suffering and struggling their endeavors Trotsky in the original. Sub newsstands in order to get the to organize now to be in a state of summer An Assiduous Student workers everywhere. He had a fierce hatred Miscellaneus Jersey City labor, the leadership hibernation. If the and and contempt for policemen and deputies, and scription, 00 for six months: Appeal placed. Literature agents single copies 20 cents from should see to it that this is done concluded that the real obstacle are at all aware of He became a party man and a fairly assiduous all hirelings of the bosses. He loved the work Rae Spiegel, o Socialist Ap properly as suggested in the TOTAL 43 in their path was Frank Hague, the obstacles and objectives in student of the theoretical teachings of our ers, the union, the big headquarters with the peal, 118 University Place, Appeal Army bulletin. And don in person, and that the solution New Jersey, three things no doubt great masters. Few knew this; he didn ad big auditorium where he presided and spoke so forget to send in immediately On bundle orders, we welcome to their problem lay in coming occur to them now. First, they vertise it. The hard boiled trade unionist re often. His whole life revolved around it.
lists of the stands carrying the a new agent to the ranks: Pauline to an agreement with the Jersey Cially in Jersey City, by effective, mained to the last a bit shy about explaining YIPSELS ATTENTION! Do you paper!
Thompson of Worcester, Mass. this strange business of comprehensive theory Herald of the Future want Convention? The dues who starts with five. And Hague was being injured by persistent, not necessarily spec and world wide vision which was so far removresponse to date doesn show it the adverse nation wide pub tacular, audacious tactics not With all his importance and his fame as a The sub campaign begins this Ben Herbert of Saskatoon, Sask.
Get your circle paid up by July week, too. It will last until Oct Thas increased his order to seven.
licity which his suppressive acts futile, sporadic, grandstand, pub ed from trade unionism of the old school, its labor leader, Bill was a carefree laughing fel 15 if you want proper reprearoused.
licity seeking stunts. Second, they limited outlook and its humdrum routine.
sentation. National low all the time. Everything seemed to sit What they forgot to take into paign within the of to must begin an education cam Nevertheless, it opened up a new window on the Finance Committee.
lightly on his shoulders, even when in moments The SOCIALIST APPEAL can now be obtained at world for Bill, as he freely acknowledged in consideration was that Hague teach its membership the reacwas not responsive to outside tionary role their leaders are now of desperate crisis in the union battles he EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA the close party circles, and greatly heightened any of the following newsstands: seemed for the moment to bear the whole opinion of his actions as long as performing. Third, they must his stature as a leader of the stormily developweight himself. never knew a man who loved GRAND PICNIC AND OUTING NEW YORK CITY St. opp. Loew Theatre. he maintained a semblance of strive to unite the and ing mass movement.
at Shoemaker Farm, PerkaSorkin, 206th St. and Bainbridge life better than did Bill; never one who got MANHATTAN: Fourteenth St.
sie, Pa, Sunday, July 17, 1938.
support in Jersey City. At any the of so as to steal This was all the more remarkable in view more fun out of it even under the most adverse of his life long background in the stagnant pool Meet 10 a. at junction of at University Place, at Ave; Jerome and Burnside Aves; rate, conferences were arranged Hague thunder, that he may circumstances. That is why his death seems Routes 313 and 563, Perkasie, Broadway, E; at Fourth Ave. 160th St. and Prospect Ave; of old fashioned trade unionism. Bill was between the and Hague no longer use the red baiting, such a monstrous incongruity. He was a decided Pa. Tickets 15 cents. W; at Fourth Ave. E; at Allerton Ave. Station; Freeman President of General Drivers Union, Local No.
Auspices District ly gregarious person. Companionship was the Bureau, Fourth Ave. and at Ave. and Southern Boulevard; representatives, Morris Ernst on anti Catholic scare to deceive the 574 (now 544) continuously from 1921. It was Eastern Pa.
breath of life to him. He liked action all the Third Ave. W; at Third Ave. 174th St. and Boston Road. w; opp. Jefferson Theatre; at one side and Senator John Milton rank and file of the of BROOKLYN: Grand and Union a small union and he continued to work as a time. He had a good time fighting and a good CAMPS Second Ave. W; at Sixth Ave. Aves. Havemeyer Avenue and on the other. And a tentative and mislead the unemployed and driver until 1932. During all those years, up time celebrating when the fight, for the moment, E; Rand Book Store, E. 15th South 4th St; Marcy and Broadcompromise was reached wherein the unorganized.
CAMP SEVEN OAKS, Eaton St. 12th St. and University PlowayPitkin and Douglas Aves; until 1934, as with most unions of the same sort, nothing much ever happened. There were a few was ended.
town, Red Bank Sta: E; Candy Store, 76 Greenwich Sutter and Pitkin Aves. recall Bill Brown as a herald of the happy tion. Capacity 25, swimming Ave.
piddling contracts with small bosses. There was future when social relations will be organized and other the routine business of keeping an office open pool, feniliwood food, sports Forty second St. at Fifth Ave. ALLENTOWN, PA.
sanely and will be lighted up by human joy and colle dues and letting well enough Daily W; at Sixth Ave. E; at Sixth Zettlemeyer, 637 Hamilton St.
and laughter. He was a good soldier in the comfortable housing. 75, weekly 16. 00. Fare 80 Ave. w; at Seventh Ave. alone what is so characteristic of the old craft BOSTON, MASS.
emancipation struggle of the toilers and put cents. Further information W; opposite Sterns; 103 urrion school.
in his licks and his blows to hasten on the phone BRyant 7620 or Eaton 14th St. 46th St. and way. Andelman s, Tremont St. opp.
Hotel Bradford)
Bil! had something in him that such an en day of their liberation victory. Those who sur town 515.
Essex and Delancy Sts; Bookstore at Grand and Attorney Sts; CAMBRIDGE, MASS.
vironment could not draw out. During all those vive him and carry on the struggle which alone Candy Store, 9th St. and Felix s, Massachusetts Ave. at years of that deadening routine, there wasn gives life hope and meaning will gratefully Second Ave; Biederman Book Harvard Square.
LA NOCHE much on the surface to distinguish him from remember the man who bore the proud title Store, 12th St. and Second Ave; ROXBURY, MASS.
the ordinary run of the mill business agent.
de la FIESTA Wigerson, 145th St. and St of president of Local 544, the lion hearted Friendly Variety, Warren St.
Nicholas Ave; 110th St. and But, as further developments amply proved. Grove Hall)
fighter and soft hearted friend, Bill Brown Columbus Ave.
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