2 SOCIALIST APPEAL AUGUST 6, 1938 Fight Against Fink Hall Fat From Years of Plunder, Rail Forces Showdown In NMU Moguls Turn Guns On Workers ministrationer BUILDING TRADES LOSE CONTROL OF CLEVELAND LABOR Minneapolis Unions Back Fight For Jobless Youth MEMBERS DENIED New York Local Railroads. Demand Wage Cuts Leads Fund Drive VOTE IN TEACHERS Returns from collection lists during the past week have pushed UNION ELECTION (Continued from page 1) Stalinist betrayers.
the Local New York Committee, with 85, to the top of the list of ernmental basis, the union Mariners Club Leaflet wreckers have supported every The speed with which these roStalinists Pull Fake contributors to the work of the effort of the federal government actionaries will discredit themAmerican Fund for Political Pristo chain the seamen.
Election to Pack oners and Refugees. With hunselves is shown by the example of dreds of collection lists still unStalinists For Pink Hall the Mariners Club, so called antireported the New York CommitBy DAVE COWLES Convention Together Again?
The government hiring hall, el Communist grouping on the tee hopes to be able to maintain though it means death to all waterfront. Gathering supporto The railroad moguls have launched a 15 per cent wage cut promarine untons, has proved no ex the basis of a fight against the In typical bureaucratic man the lead over the other committees posal in order, they claim, to save the railroads.
ception. Here the officials Communist Party stooges in the ner This is still pending. It hangs like a sword of Damocles over bend every effort toward getting leadership, the Mariners Emulating the example of Minministration of the New York the union membership to ship Club this week came out with a Teachers Union, Local 452 New York plans to hold a series would do more than weaken the railroad unions and cut railroad 453 neapolis, Cleveland and Detroit, the wage standards of a million railroad workers. Should it fall, it through the Ank hall. Pack the leaflet declaring they wanted to Fink Hall is one slogan, coupled get rid of the Communtata in Teachers, has elected 20 delet Tas Days at the end of the wages. It would start an avalanche of wage cuts that will crush to its mate, you can fight the order to better collaborate with gates to the coming national con month by which to reach with our beneath it general wage scales and undermine the rest of the labor government. Resentment of the the government. This at a time rank and Ale seamen in the when the whole membership of membership meeting had been the streets interested in the fate movement. The railroad moguls realize this and are vigorously stirred by the refusal of the the is up in arms because announced by a mailing to the of their fellow. fighters against pressing the attack.
Stalinist officials to join the the Stalinists openly collaborate Fascism.
membership, and although the Their claim that wage cuts are necessary to save the railroads united front against the fink hall with the government!
executive board had the week tional and social evenings will be is sheer fraud. Its one aim is to hide and justify their predatory and thelr brazen attempts to. com Other elements within the union previous decided on the usual held by the Local Committee on attack on the workers. And this is but the latest of a long history tinue herding the seamen into the (and without) would start a witchgovernment hall, reached white hunt against politiciang in gerielect delegates was held without Wednesday evening at 8:30 at the of graft, corruption, and plunder by means of which the railroad heat last week and led to an as eral, believing that the betrayal of a mailing. Instead, telegrams home of Laura Woods, 45 Charles dictators rose to power a power sault on the union headquarters the Stalinists proves. In some were sent to large job locations st. at which George Novack, Na which they now use against the (as had also been decided by the tional Secretary of the American workers.
NEW WAGE CUTS here. Provoked beyond restraint manner or another that all polleby the open betrayal of the unfon. ics are bad for unions. To concede executive, informing them of the Fund, will speak on The Right The briefest sketch of ratlroad of Asylum.
history tears the mask off their made clear to every worker in the for a moment that the Communist meeting, but this by no means All people who are interested in cant and deception. It strips them HIT WPA WORKERS covered the entire membership.
fight against the government, Party, with its international the terrible plight of the political bare of pretension and exposes crowd of members entered record of betrayal and its everSeating of Delegates Contested prisoners and refugees in virtually them for what they are: Robber the headquarters and removed the growing record in the for The legality of this meeting, at every country of the world, and tarons and lords of plunder. Continued from page 1)
Stalinist officials by physical union wrecking, is a party only tended by about 150 members, themselves safe from the indig.
who are anxious to participate in ABE CAHAN NORMAN THOMAS force.
Plundering Public Lands Interested in the aims of the was challenged by a member of the work of the Committee are Anger Justified the executive board. protest is invited to attend.
From the very beginnings, the nities and complications of home Judging from the enthusiasm of the Socialist Call (See Editorial working class, is absurd, party, railroad barons sucked on plun relief are now forced once more While class conscious militants whose only Interest is in following being fled with the conder. One source was the public to resort to government charity. on page It won be long before Thomas party returns to the realize that a resort to physical the orders of corrupt bureautesting the seating of the delelands. The eminent historian This time, their situation is, if fold of Cahan Old Guard.
force in inner union affairs cracy in the Soviet Union, is most gate elected then, all of whom usually acts Charles Beard bears witness anything, even worse than before a boomerang, the certainly not a working class are supporters of the Union Adthat in the short quarter of a cen the creation of For, in resentment that found expression party. Nor is the struggle against tury of railroad building end spite of having to work for a in this crude way certainly is Stalinism an argument against The unton now has about 1, 800 ing 1872, a chart of the rallway living, they are forced to spend understandable. With their union genuine, class struggle politics.
pald up members. Until about ten land grants in the West looms up mazes of red tape to get suppleprecious time to cut through flooded with horde of Stalinist Against Stalinist Politics weeks ago, the Local was paying like the map of stooges, their treasury milked by It is is against the politics of the per capita to the on 100 parasitle functionaries from Thir Communist Party that the work pire in the Age of Augustus. The mentary grants in order to keep members, entitling it to four delethemselves and their families teenth Street, saddled with Northern Pacific, for instance, alive.
con ers in the must direct. Concrete less of whether any other stitution that places all power in their resentment. To sweep out of sates. At a cost of about 170, Teamsters Group In, was subsidized MINNEAPOLIS land grants the Staliniats then paid up back The arbitrary slash perpetrated steps to fight for the rights of unper capita on another 150 mem as large as a European country by Col. Brehon Somervell, lo employed youth were taken inst or any other federal the hands of the Communist their way the treacherous tool of After Bitter or state agency. THE BASIS party dominated District Commit the shipowners and the govern bers, so that they would be en Fight as much in land grants. The cal Works Progress Administra week in Minneapolls when Gentitled to a total of ten delegates.
OF THIS DEMAND IS THE tee, and, above all, serving as the ment is the task before the rank Union Pacific not only received tor, caught most of the project eral Drivers Local 544 powerful Packing Attempted workers unaware. The Stalinist unemployed organization, Fed RIGHT TO WORK IF ONE cal party whose main purpose is Every class. conscious militant millions of acres of land as a subAbout a month ago the executive board was informed that cent, bitterly fought, contest In Pacific received additional sub. nel plans, did nothing to arouse sweeping program of jobs for the CLEVELAND, Ohio. At a residy, but both it and the Central controlled Workers Alliance, al eral Workers Section, set up a though well informed of the colo Youth Committee and adopted a ON THE BASIS OF NDED to bind the working class to the in the labor movement must foln several Progressive e. stalinist the Cleveland Federation of Lasidies of 16, 000 to 48, 000 for a mass protest movement or to youth.
AS DETERMINED BY THE Ism, there is no reason for hands in combatting the plague war chariot of American son of the union movement RELIEF DEPARTMENT.
der at the wrath that visited the send more delegates if possible headed by Albert Dalton of the until the end of the second Cleve prepare for adequate action The program is based on the for all unemployed union despots one night last week. PHILADELPHIA WAREHOUSE Since there was no money in the building trades, was ousted and land administration, says the right to work and demands youth, whether their familles While it may be true that certreasury, special loan of 200 the teamsters group, led by Edsame historian, the publie land Scuttles Protest jobs for those between are on relief or not.
CLOSED tain reactionary elements on the was authorized to pay up porward Murphy, came into power. office of the United States was sistance of the workers, of their rellet status, and states Instead of organizing the re the age of 16 and 25. regardless All youth work at the union waterfront attempt to turn the The Warehouse Employees Uncapita on another 250 members, The basis for this overthrow goes little more than a distribution the Communist Party officials of that earnings of any individual wage scale.
spontaneous movement of lon, has halted the shipnow giving the Local a total of back to previous events and center for plunder. and part time ranks into the channels of reping of drugs and serums from 20 delegates. The union cannot chiefly to the hard blows struck the Alliance wasted weeks in tu youth are not to be deducted Bribery and Corruption earnings are not to be de action, such attempts are doomed the plant of Sharpe Dohme, possibly afford to send anywhere at the building trades by the long All this was accompanied by delegation was sent to Washingtile gestures. Delegation after from the family budget.
near that number of delegates to years of the depression.
ducted from the family re to failure. The chance and epl Inc. Philadelphia. Truck drivers, bribery and corruption. Govern ton. Thousands of ineffective peHits War Plans lief budget.
sodic success of these reactionary members of Local 107, L, Ohio, where the convention is be One phase of this struggle dis ment officials were bribed with titions were circulated. The only ask that all military funds be dbOther demands of the program Free text books and materials plots reflect only the lack of con have refused to pass through the ing held. Most likely, a few will closed more plainly than before passes on railroads, judges and result of this kind of activity verted to work relief and that the in the high schools and free scious, militant leadership on the picket line. The workers are on be went with proxles from the the dual jurisdiction existing in egtolators with shares of stock: was non attending tuition at the University for East Coast. Under no circumstan strike because the firm has redelegates.
lling the workers into Civilian Conservation Cumpa be some sections of the of Land, where this was not sufficient, Polse sense of security.
all those on ces can it be argued that fused to deal with their union While the union is hard hit by transformed into non military more or less accidental presence and insists on negotiating only wage cuts from the benevolent porters was Frank Converse, in tion fund with which to complete Workers Alliance is just as named as seeretary One of Murphy strongest sup roads put aside a regular corrup Now that the cut is here, the youth projects. Oscar Kohler was and state aid wages of these reactionary currents with the Sharpe Dohme Emfor high school students must should serve as an excuse toployees Organization, a company New Deal, while vacations for ternational representative of the the bribery. The Erle Rallroad, to qutekcentas before the Youth many teachers are cut in half, Operating Engineers. Converse mention only one, used up in onerumbling on the projects to Organizar oficial organ of the Although Committee, and the Northwest projects are in while several month. wages for Unt. soften the struggle against the union.
danger of being liquidated, the cers and firemen, including Lo penses. When the Southern Pacino way of channelizing the dis Counell, is publishing a series of versity students must tre minimum of 60 per month Stalinista empty the treasury and cal 588A, stationary firemen. On ic Railroad was built, a federal content into action. The project articles by Kohter on the prob7. Transform the into be used on these vital issues, for and supporting Dalton, was Roystruction was accompanied by forefront of the fight for the In As is the case with the Federal of youth and unemployment.
non military youth projects their own political purpose. They Seitz, International representa widespread corruption of high terests of the workers, Workers Section, the Youth Com8. Divert all military funds to are desperately trying to pack the tive of the Brotherhood of Fire federal legislators, reaching up have been reduced to Impotence mittee will urge all jobless youth work relier We are pleased to report that CALIFORNIA convention with their delegates in men and Oilers, Local 62. Seitzeven to the vice president. by the Stalinist leadership and or those with grievances to avail an allempt to capture the also claims jurisdiction over sta many more branches heeded our New York City Watering the Stocks its People Front policies. Any themselves of the aid of the orWANT ADS emergency plea of a few weeks New York State tionary fremen. For years there back and sent in funds whleh Not content with plundering the action which is likely to embar: gantzation. The Federal Workers TWO COMRADES WANT TO Teamsters Defy Pennsylvania has been a dirty fight between government, they also milked the rass the various government Section, backed by the trade unChicago.
these two organizations, and the stockholders. According to the agencies is eschewed by the ion movement and using millshare all expenses with others considerably reduced their debt Court Order To New Jersey Federation struggle made it dir testimony of a former railroad leaders of the unions.
who are making an auto trip or to the Appeal and our debt to Reveal Records tier than ever. At each national president the promoters of the Kansus tant labor action, has established vacation in August. Write care printer. There is every reason to convention of the of L, Central injected Atty thousernment, the boss of the PA cent rellet for the unemployed. DU LIEST DEUTSCH. Dann more cries of help will be neces In place of fighting the gov an enviable record in gaining deof Socialist Appeal.
believe that the emergency is Canada over for the time and that no Boston this matter of jurisdiction is dis and dollars of absolute water into (Continued from page 1)
ganized labor. All they would cussed, but nothing is ever done the value of every mile between workers the Stalinist leaders are the new plan will enable the orIndians engaged in a campaign to ex ganization to devote more care Ohio about it. There are too many fat New York and Buffalo. In the terminate political opposition on and attention to the specific needs WORT, das Organ der Interperiod, providing branches do not have to do would be to plant nationalen Kommunisten lapse back into old habits and Total couple of stool pigeons in every recenzie onged to merge the two frie e are capture of Les end 1872. the various projects. Under the or the youth.
32 union. The stools would then ask Meantime the workers remain road jumped from 17, 000, 000 to is being made to obtain the disCents. Zu bezlehen vom Labor providing also that there is a Sweeping Program Adopted for an accounting of funds, the There are two new bundle or atterly confused and don know 378, 000, 000 and most of the in missal of all those who fail to Book Shop. 28 East Twelfth pick up in the number of new court would back them up, the St.
subscribers each week. Wo again der agents this week. comwhere to turn. They usually refuse crease was pure fiction. And at conform to the party ne on The program, as adopted, is: want to thank all comrades andrade in Marysville, California, and prers would use the event to amear labor, the unions would to join either organization. The regular Intervals, the railroads all the white collar projects. No We call for the establishment CAMPS sympathizers who sent in Individ one in Tel Aviv, Palestine.
drain thelr resources defending umployers, too, knowing of the were thrown into bankruptcy: the means direct stool pigeon tactics, of YOUTH PROJual contributions.
And in distant Johannesburg, themselves, the employers would struggle between the two groups, small stockholders were robbed of frame ups, etc. are too low ECTS, for those between the CAMP SEVEN OAKS, EatonSouth Africa, our comrades have complie a list of every unionist take full advantage and pit one their ownership, and the widow the leaders to use in order ages of 16 to 25. No youth town, Red Bank Station. Notice: Watch for special an increased their weekly bundle against the other, thus dealing and the orphan, over whom the to achieve these ends.
shall be kept of because he Capacity 25, swimming pool, nouncements which will be of order from 45 to 60. These which would form the basis for railroad barons shed their crocoall sorts of anti union activities. heavy blows to both Clearly, it is high time for all or she is single and regardaile tears whenever their rates anti Stalinist forces to unite. The facilities, good food, comfort tremendous interest to all read comrados in other countries can The bosses could march right Blow to Building Trades able housing. Daily 75, weekers of the Socialist Appeal. They give real lessons to many of our through the union movement, Another factor in the Federa were touched, were squeezed into bread and butter of all ly 16. 00. Fare 80 cents. Fur should appear a few weeks from own branches.
smashing one section after an ion struggle was the distinctly the poor house workers is involved. The unions ther information now. We guarantee that other.
anti labor regime in the City But this very watered stock on the projects must be revived 7620 or Eatontown 515. be good news to all!
Send all subscriptions and Judge Reed handed down his Hall. While Mayor Burton is served as an excuse for oppres and reorganized, it the communications to: order on Thursday, the day after lever in assuming middle sing the farmers with high rates. workers are not to be shoved Here is the list of new subs SOCLALIST APPEAL the Minneapolis Central Labor position between Capital and La The farmers had to use the rall, back on the reller rolls once Insertions in this column are tained last week. There is plen 116 University Place.
25 cents for five lines. Copy must ty of room for improvement: New York City Northwest Organizer went to Ness, is strongly anti labor and commerce which carried the grain such action is unity of the anti(Continued from page 1) be in at the APPEAL office beproves it every day. As a result to market. High rates for freight, Stalinists on program of pro Senate Committee disclosed now fore o clock Monday evening.
press.
Further news of the Minneapol prosecution by Nens, the company employed spies THE SOCIALIST APPEAL CAN BE OBTAINED NEW YORK Ils Aght in defense of the union Campbell, president s District Council, and John tolls which the modern railroad they also sprend nationwide the organizers continuously, day and the Paint public warehouses. these were gressive, militant struggle.
whose job It was to shadow union AT THE FOLLOWING NEWSSTANDS movement will follow.
IcGee of the Bullding Laborers, barons squeezed from the farmer JAMBOREE Aue SCHOOL 6, at 016 were given penitentiary terms on even as the medieval baron did work of railroads. They robbed night, to find out which steel NEW YORK CITY Cor. Cumberland Clinton Sts.
the farmers, wiped out stock workers were visited.
Ninth Ave. cor. 59th St. Moet MANHATTAN: Fourteenth St. Oor. East Ave. Chestnut St.
charges of racketeering the peasants. The Granger move holders, and oppressed the work Union men were beaten by the comrades from Boston, at University Place, at cor. Main Clinton Sta.
It is difficult to say how guiltyment scored only a fleeting vicers but they did build the great strong armed thugs of the ReNewark and Cor. Main South Ave.
they were, but one thing is cer tory by limiting railroad rates and eat railroad system in the world, public Steel Corporation when good old fashion. Nadelphia in Brondway, at Fourth Ave. Games, Bathing Beauty Con Fourth Ave. e. a and at Reitman s, cor. Broad get together. W; at Fourth Ave. at NEWARK, William heavy blow to the building trades Court first supported them, and past. All that they now do is plun The thugs admitted to blackjacktest and Refreshments. Admis Third Ave, at Third Ave.
heavy blow to thoubtlesdinin tended then, as the railroad power srew der and profit. The methods are ng clubbing, and using brass BEAUTY CONTEST: GALA de rand Bookstore, te 1886 NEW HAVEN, Conn.
Nodelman Newsstand. Continued from page 1)
Second Ave. at Sixth Ave. Church St. bet. Chapel Center government attorney Welly Hop ers have had a serious fight in blown as the defender of the ris out stockholders in bankruptcy The only reply made by the kins made an impassioned eight their organization on whether or ing monopolista.
Cor. 67th AGO after bankruptey. They milk Republic police in answer to the and Saturday, Candy Store, 75 Greenwich hour plea for conviction, the de not they should further support Cor. 12th Kedele Smashing Strikes farmers and workers with in scores of charges of brutality August at P. at home of Ave. News, 37 Monroe fendants women, dressed in the Campbell and McGee. At present The workers, too, suffered from creased rates for freight and pas against the steel workers was Yox, 247 Wadsworth Ave. Forty second St. at Fifth Ave. Ceahinsky latest summer fashions, sat scat the Painters District Council the dictatorship of the railroad senger service. And they try to that all agents were near 185th St. Admission 20c. W; at Sixth Ave. at Sixth N, PA.
tered through the courtroom, split wide open on the matter.
barons. In the depression of 1877, increase their profits still further reds.
Ave. at Seventh Ave, Zettlemeyer, 637 Hamilton St.
ALLENTOWSKahon While they heard their men ac they slashed wages to the bone. by cutting wages 15 percent. And AN INFORMAL GATHERING opposite Sterns; 103 11th St. PHILADELPHIA New Leaders to Cooperate OF ALL PEOPLE interested 23rd St. Fourth Ave.
cused of resorting to almost every former minister of the PlyThe workers answered with a with all these profits, they are mouth Congregational Church of in the work of the American Essex and Delaney Sta; Book. Cor. 13th and Market Sta. 1806 North Franklin St.
That the teamaters will be less general strike that spread thru abandoning service on hundreds Youngstown told about meannes against union workers, militant than the building trades out the industry.
The government and thousands of miles of raill given to thirty ministers of that dinner Fund for Political Prisoners store at Grand and Attorney Sta; Cor. 11th and Market Sts. the women made plans among appears from reports of a recent sent out the militia to break the roads.
BOSTON, MASS.
Wednesday evening, Aug. 10, at Second Ave: Blederman Book steel community by the Youngs.
themselves for a victory dinner. meeting between some of the new strike and the workers met them 8:30 PM, at the home of Laura Store, 12th St. and Second Ave; Andelman s, Tremont St. opp This is characteristic of the de town Sheet and Tube Co. ReJudging by the first trial thely elected Federation officials In pitched battles. The armorle cline of capitalism. Before, profits public subsidiary, at which time Woods, 45 Charles St. George Wigerson, 145th St. and St. Nich confidence of the Harlan bosses and the mayor (with his cabinet) were built after this strike, as CAMBRIDGE, MASS.
was the stimulus to railroad build the company demanded that the Novack, national secretary of Olas Ave 110th St. and Columbus the Fund, will speak on The Ave.
Felix s, Massachusetts Ave. at was well Justined. Despite the et Jin City Hall. The Federation garrisons from which to crushing. Today, with freight loadings churches oppose the union. Rev. Right of Asylum and on the BRONX: Jerome Ave. 170th Harvard Square forts of the federal government, Committee complained weakly the picket lines.
going down, and capitalism declin Orville Jones, who testified beLYNN, Mass.
intent on implementing enforce about the treatment accorded un In the Pullman Strike of 1894, ing generally, profits can be kept fore the Senate Committee, volced work of the committee. Re: st Jerome Ave, and 187th St.
freshments will follow the dis. opp. Loew Theatre. Sorkin, Sam Corner, Olympia Square ment of the Wagner Labor Action men in the past, pointed out Eugene Debe led the railroad up only by destroying rallroads. his disapproval of the dictates of cussion.
206th St. and Bainbridge Ave: ROXBURY, MASS.
criminal penal that a new group was in control workers in a generalstrike That is the fact. Their claim that the steel barons and soon found POLISH WORKERS CLUB and St. and Prospect Ave: Alterton Jerome and Burnside Aves: 160th Friendly carlety, Warren St.
courts ground out the familiar who wanted to harmonize with against the kind of Justice. court of the mayor and his officers. They the railroad wants to get dengands of the 15 percent wage cut is in himself relieved to his chauen railroad managements. It retended to save the railroads is duties. The finance director of COMBINE to offer you Ave. Station: Freeman Ave, and MINNEAPOLIS Althy, reeking privilege, as At aid not want to be confused with mained for the Federal govern sheer fraud, an evening at the Terrace Beer Southern Boulevard: 174th St. Shinder s, Sixth Hennepln: the church was an officer of the torney McMahon called the Har the former Federation leaders.
Kroman s, Fourth Nicollet.
Carden, 1110 Second Ave. 59th Boston Rd. Kingsbridge Rd.
We have had enough of such Carnegie Illinois Steel Corp.
The Federation Commit to break the backbone of the deception and fraud.
lan court, is not confined to HarST. LOUIS MO.
The company also admitted to St. Band, Beer, Entertain Ave, East Moshula Subway Sta.
Foster Book Company 3897 Sedgwick Ave.
lan County alone. In this case, tee promised the mayor they strike.
Let the government expropriate hiring a countless number of sples ment. Proceeds to be used to BROOKLYN: Havemeyer Ave 410 Washington Blvd. Althy, reeking privilege walked would not cause him any embar But despite all this, they did the railroads!
and stooges to inform them of publish Polish pamphlet, out nue and South 4th St. Pitkin into the little London, Ky. court rassment if he would only let bulld railroads. They plundered Let the workers control the er union activities. No amount of YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio lining class struggle program Ave and Strauss St. Sutter and Nick s, Wick St. and Commerce blood or money was spared to Van Sinderen Aves.
for the Polish workers moveSAN FRANCISCO tread as they had across the arealetuderarhaty a more details on the publle lande, but they covered propriated workers. com by DI them with tracks. They bribed This will ensure union wages break unionization of the steel ROCHESTER, ment. Saturday eve, Aug. 13 MacDonald Bookstore, 66 6th St.
county line in Harian rector Ness.
and corrupted legislators. But and unton hours!
483 Clinton St.
SAN DIEGO, Callt.
workers.
Admission 25 cents.
287 Clinton st.
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