SEPTEMBER 10, 1938 SOCIALIST APPEAL Sedoff Murder Mexican Plot Trotsky Death!
for LOCAL IN SPLIT FROM the Peace Plenty Trotsky Bares Further LATE FLASH!
EDITOR NOTE Back from a trip from LabOnce again Leon Trotsky turns a probing searchlight on rador to Siberia, Senator Reyn Proof of Guilt the circumstances which led to the death of his son, Leon olds of North Carolina wants the United States to add the fol Sedoff, in a Paris hospital. Persistent demands of Trotsky lowing to its colonial empire: Investigation Discloses Direct Tie Up Besupported by friends and comrades in France compelled an Bermuda, Newfoundland, and a investigation into the causes of the strange death of Sedoff.
strip across Western Canada tween and Hospital Staff; As documents and testimony pile up before the court, all highway to Aluska (all to possible doubt must vanish on the score that Sedoff was be obtained from Great Britain Laxity of Police Assailed foully murdered, or that his assassins were the inin payment of its war debt. St.
structed and paid by Stalin to commit this act of personal Laborde, Mexican Head, Spent Plerre and Miquelon Islands (in Mr. Judge: to the conclusion in the given and political vengeance against Leon Trotsky. The French payment for the French war Supplementing my statement of circumstances that the physician police are shielding the assassins, who stalk the streets of Months in Preparing Final Blow debt. Lower California (in set July 19, have the honor to add could invoke professional secrecy tlement of American all claims the following considerations: in one of the three cases!
France maiming and murdering revolutionists. In the adjoinAgainst Trotsky and Friends against Mexico. and Wrangel (1) have consulted competent (a) 11 he was interested in ing columns, Trotsky rips aside the curtain of protection to Island (The could just physicians. None of them, natur hiding his own crime; make the truth known to the working class An elaborate plan of the to assassinate Leon Trotsky, help itself to the last by right ally, would venture to counter. b) if he was interested in Diego Rivera, the noted Mexican artist and some of their friends of prlor discovery, although the pose their opinion froin afar to hiding his own negligence; testify to the extreme naivete of napped in France another of my was brought to the attention of the Socialist Appeal just as we were has a weather, aviat the opinion of the highly qualified (c) if he was interested in tion, and shipping station there French specialists who performed hiding the crime or negligence now. It would be a valuable air an earnest investigation were not ment. Will the French police find going to press. The information has been received from entirely the autopsy. But the physicians of his colleagues. collaborators, LEON SEDOFF concealed behind it.
him? win they care to make any reliable and authentic sources.
base, says Senator Reynolds, as whom have consulted agree ete.
effort to search for him? perIt is in direct line from New to conclude that Mr. Simkoff, who Yagoda Repertoire few months ago Hernan Laborde, leader of the Mexican unanimously that the course of York to the Philippines. mit myself to doubt this. The Communist Party left for Moscow. In reality, Laborde remained the liness and the causes of The provoking silence of Mr.
Talheimer should in itself have over the telephone of the arrival (10) But, Mr. Judge, without above mentioned list of victims all the time illegally in the United States. His task was to utilize The editor of the St. Thomas death were not established by the indicated the course of the invesMail and Notes, in the Virgin Isinvestigation with the necessary lands of the who is running fullness demanded by the extra tigations necessary by all his closest collaborator the rent sous investigation the crimes to me. do not speak of the the preparation for the September congresses in Mexico for a defor election to the Municipal ordinary circumstances of this stances when cover the circum: identity of the French engineer, or the cannot be uncov thousands and tens of thousands cisive blow against Trotsky, Diego Rivera and their friends.
case.
an approximate of those who perished in the But the police, apparently, stumbled on Laborde tracks. At Council, would add another bit of geon to hide behind professional presence of the nurse Eismont, idea of the mores and methods of SB at the hands of the as any rate that was the impression of the leaders of the Communist territory to the Senator list. 11 Hides Behind secrecy.
elected, he says, he will work for Professional Secrecy (3) The testimony of the owner pointed out, spoke with the paSimkoff (as has already been this institution am obliged to Party who became terrified of an international scandal and of comquote from the officious Soviet the annexation of the British Vir or the elinie, Mr. Simkoff, is un tient in Russian. Jirmunsky magazine October March 3G. and its marked letih promising the New York agency of the Laborde received gin Islands by the United States. 2) The Incompleteness of the clear, scanty, and partly contra knows the Russian language. Or of this year. The article is de Leon Sedoff ranked first with me.
tan order to leave the United States again in payment of Britain war investigation is most clearly con ditory. Did he or did he not know aid Simkort have special reasons voted to the show trial which re The did not take its eyes Immediately. There is no reason debt. He points out that posses firmed by the attitude of the sur who his patient was? This questo believe that he went to the sion of these Islands would assure geon, Mr. Talheimer, himself. He question is not clarified at all. reasons precisely?
to beware of Jirmunsky? What sulted in the shooting of the for off him. During two years at least mer head of the Yagoda. the gangsters of the On the contrary, there more adequate protection for the refused to give explanations, ap Sedoff was admitted to the clinic When he used to remain in his tracked Sedoff like game. These is evidence that he returned clanPanama Canal peuling to professional secrecy under the name Marten, French (5) Bolshevik sympathizer study, the Soviet magazine says facts are irrefutably established destinely to Mexico where he kept The law grants a physician this engineer. But in the clinte Dr. this is a definite characteriza of Yagoda, alone or with his in connection with the murder his incognito in order to support This sounds llke the days of right. But the law does not obti Simkoff conversed with Sedoff in tlon. Here the investigation clear henchman Bulanoff, he throw of case of Reiss. Can we suppose version of his stay in the (Continued from page 1)
McKinley and Manifest Des Eate a physician make use of Russian. It is precisely thanks to ly stops inid way. Under the con his mask. He moved to the dark even for a moment that the tiny. though when the Impe. this right. In the given case the this that the nurse Eismont, acditions of Russian emigration est corner of the room and lost sight of Sedoff during his stay the City Hall, to fight against the Direct Action Ordered rialists of those days went after physician must have had some cording to her own words, this sympathy does not remain opened up his treasured closet. at the clinic and passed up such of laborers. The Stalinist chief by Laborde in the middle of Aug.
demotions of mechanics to status The latest instructions received Spain possessions in this hemi Special reason for hiding behind learned that Marten was a Rus nowadays a platonic one. Gener: Poisons. He contemplated them, an exceptionally favorable mo tains warned Rourke and his me ust were to strengthen the camsphere they were careful not to professional secrecy. What is Mr. sian or knew Russian. As the ally the sympathizer assumes This beast in human image ad ment? The investigating author chanics omit anything. What about Talheimer reason? There can investigating documents the mem a hostile attitude with regard to mired the flasks in the light, ap ities have no right to such sup their friend La Guardia would Trotsky and his friends, not conthat any picketing of Nassau, Jamaica, Trinidad, and not be any question at all in the seves point out, Sedoff was reg White emigration. From what portioning them among his fu positions.
paign of persecution against ALL of Canada, Senator Reyn civen case of safeguarding the Istered under different name circles does Mr. Jirmunsky draw ture victims. Yagoda is the one in public repudiation. The local fining it to political and bureauolds! And did you forget the secrets of the patient or of his for purposes of security. Was Dr. his clients? Does he mix with who organized my own, my wife s, Police Wink at denounced this open collaboration cratic measures, but passing over French Antilles. relatives. It is therefore a ques. Simkoff aware of these purposes? the circles of the Soviet embassy, and our son tion of safeguarding the secret of And if he was why did he address of the trade representation, etc. Bulanoff mentioned in the quo deportation; the Crimes with the city politicians, while to direct action. In connection they continued to be given starwith the murders of Trotskyites vation wages.
The War Department has the physician himself. What does the patient in Russian in the If so, then without any doubt tation accompey as the repre without indignation the report of by the new organization was to pecially in Spain, it is not hard to us from Cer. 13) Mr. Judge, one cannot read blocked plans for Royal Nether this secret consist of? have no presence of the nurse Elsmont? the most important agents of the tral Asia to One of the first actions taken in France, Switzerland and eslands flying service between the reasons whatever to suspect Me If it was through carelessness, enter among his clients.
sentative of the authorities. do the police signed by Hauret and throw a 24 hour plcket line guess what direct action means.
Philippines and the East Indies. Talhelmer of criminal actions. did not he reveal the same care. 6) Somehow nothing is said not enter into a discussion of Boilet. Regarding the preparation around the City Hall.
The Central Committee of the While Philippine circles were But it is quite evident that had lessness in other cases as well in the documents about the po whether Yagoda and Bulanoff of a series of attempts on Sedoff Mexican Communist Party has alanxious for such a service, the the death of Sedoff followed natUnited States is averse to foreign urally and inevitably from the Bolshevik litical sympathies of the owner were guilty of the crimes to the report states: Apparently, Revolt Against Stalinism of the clinic, Mr. Simkoff. This which it was deemed necessary to his political activity really was ready informed New York that planes flying over territory Im nature of his illness, that the sur.
The real cause of this schism they started to carry out InstrucSympathizer. is a grave omission. The close col laccuse them. call attention to the subject of sufficiently close is found in the policy that has tions received from the In portant to American defense. The troon would not have the least in Philippines have been granted terest or psychological inclination (1) According to police infor. and Jirmunsky Impels us to supterize in the words of the of adversaries. This phrase alone leadership in New York and na torial meeting was convoked with Independence, butfor refusing to give the necessary mation Dr. Jirmunsky, the direcexplanations. In hiding behind tor of the clinic, was considered not hostile to Soviet circles and ment, atmosphere and methods of where it is a question of prepar tion of the three unemployed or members of the Central Commitpose that Mr. Simkoff too was clous publication the environ gives the police away completely! tionally ever since the amalgama the participation of only certain American alrcraft manufac professional secrecy Mr. Talhel a Bolshevik sympathizer. Nowaing murd days this is a very definite char possibly had connections in these Stalin secret agency. The presr of Sedoff in France ganizations in the early part of and organizers turers have just had the most Aghting ac mer says that there are pose acterization. It signifies friend spheres.
ent head of the Yeshov, the French police speak of suf 1036 the Alliance, prosperous half year in their lar circumstances in the Unem tions, among them two or three entire history. Earnings for the of the illness and the causes of of the Kremlin bureaucracy and (7) Dr. Simkoff is a contributor the attorney Vyshinsky and their fciently close observation on the ployed Council, and the National foreigners who went to Mexico in to the medical periodical Oeuvre foreign agents of course are not part of anonymous adversaries, Unemployed League.
six months ending June 30 were death, the clarfication of which of its agencies. Jirmunsky de: Chirurgique Franco Russe. What whit better than Yagoda and Bu and adds the word apparently.
connection with the preparation 80 per cent over those of the he does not wish to assist. It is clared that he learned the real character does this publication anor.
In New York, Communist Par of the congress against war and first half of last year. breakimpossible to give any other in identity of the patient only on Mr. Judge! The police do not ty control has resulted in dis fascism.
down of this year aviation terpretation Mr. Talhelmer the eve of his death from Mrs. Prench physicians with the Sov. The Death List want to uncover the truth as they crimination, expulsions and susAt this meeting the reporter sales, according to an article attitude. Reasoning in a purely Molinier. If these words are to did not uncover it in the theft of pensions of those Alliance mem. apparently Laborde himsell) deiet government, or, on the conin the New York Times, re logical manner, we can only comel be taken on faith, we should have trary, do White emigres appear daughters to untimely death, the nothing in the case of the murder or opinions with the leadership campaign against the Trotskyites (11) Yagoda drove one of my my archives, as they uncovered bers who expressed differences manded not only that the political veals that 62 per cent or 15, in the name of Russian medicine?
600, 000 were for military pura prostitute factory which forces This question remains entirely other to suicide. He Imprisoned of Reiss, as they do not intendAt the last City Convention, be strengthened tenfold but that who sub to uncover anything in the matter Chairman Pearson, of Local 4, my two sons in law poses. The military situathe necessary atmosphere be creyoung Negro tion, in fact, is one reason why Rudolf Kle threw the session into turmoil ated for the physical liquidation streets. The bureau utilized the the police but even infants knowtrace. The arrested my ment. In the French police and when she stated a fact that every of Trotsky and some of his women into the unclarified Moreover, not only sequently disappeared without a of the kidnapping authorities are so optimistle demonstration as a pretext for that under cover of all kinds of youngest son, Serge, on a prepos in their higher ups the has one knew to be true, namely, that friends. In regard to the politabout sales in the near future.
closing entirely the next day and medical, juridical, literary, paci terous charge of poisoning work powerful accomplices. Millions of the was discriminating cal campaign, the reporter refusing to accept any cases at fats and other organizations and era, after which he disappeared. Chervontat are expended only to against and transfering from promised full material assistance President Roosevelt is not overall.
looking the place of electric power (Continued from page 1)
bases of support which serve it, drove to suicide two of my sec Stalinist mafla in France. To this were opposed to the Stalinist Education, Vazquez Vela, and his in his war plans, and has ap of 40 cach. Bail of 1, 000 was deRellef Long Refused especially in France, for com retaries, Glazman and Butow, who patriotic and diplomatic na back, a committee set up to in who must be added considerations of a leadership. Only a few weeks closest assistants.
pointed a committee to draw up amanded for cach of the four held For eleven weeks, Luben, who mitting crimes with impunity.
program. This program, as out tor felonious assault.
is an unemployed, single, unat: Blames Trotskyites testimony under Yagoda dictature which are conveniently util quire into the Pearson charges, Toledano Follows Suit Hned during a conference between By the next night, 4, 000 was tached young worker, has sought the President and authorities on raised to cover the last of bail for relief at bureau 79.
tion. Two others of my Russian ized by the murderers in Stalin dominated by Stalinists and their parallel campaign, in the Each time for Sons Death secretaries, Posnanski and Ser Fervice who operate in Paris as stooges, reported out with a com words of the reporte Toledthe power defense question, con the latter. The relief bureau of some new red tape, some new is being tained a strong hint that Federal Cials, however, took advantage of postponement. His case is only (8) We cannot proceed with muks, disappeared in Siberia in their own home. That is plete white wash of the charges. carried on by There are many instances on ano, president of the Mexaid might be extended to the the very moment of their release single example of the plight or out mentioning one exceptionally without leaving a trace. In Spain why the investigation in the case significant circumstance which the agency of the arrested of Sedoff death bears a fleticious record where Stalinist dominated ican Federation of Labor. who, power companies. And the power to prefer additional charges and youth in New York as a whole permit myself, Mr. Judge to my former secretary. Crecho character.
white collar locals refused to during his recent trip to Europe, the economie royalists brown back into jail. The off st system and refused the most is known, Mr. Simkoff had the Just very recently the kidbring to your special attention. As Slovakian citizen, Erwin Wolfe, picket project offices to prevent received all the necessary instruc was most sincerely concerned cials of the local bureau, acting elementary relief by a rotten catrace. Coyoacan, August 24, 1938.
who disappeared without dismissals and pay cuts, because tions from the and also the Trotsky. the found it more conve necessary material means (in par.
about subjugating!
in consultation with the central pitalist city administration they sons, victims of land slide. Durnient to protect its own political ticular, a slanderous film against at 902 Broadway sudden have absolutely no place to turn. ing the time when the real fate of favorites and to forget the rest Trotsky. Among the delegates The death toll by war since ly charged a day and a half later Pive weeks the bureau definitely It was outlawed by the Kellogg the boys still remained unknown. Rivera Says Trade Union Congress in of the union membership. to the Congress, there are a great pact, as given by Washington that Luben had thrown Bux. rejected Luben case and denied Mr. Simkoff declared in an inter baum, the Supervisor down the him relief, on the grounds that a view given by him to the French number of foreign agents of the Record in Alliance military experts, and including Mexico Staged by Stalinists stairs. Another charge of assault detail here and there of the story press, that if his sons were kidUnemployed locals have sufG. whose main task consist only the major hostilities: was preferred against and was incomplete. Continued from page 1)
in creating in Mexico a favorable fication of the workers of an fered disruption and ruin at the atmosphere for carrying out the 1982 86 Bolivia Paraguay 100, 000 his bail raised by an additional Stalinist controlled Local 50 was by Trotskyites In revenge for open and secret ones, will parAmericas because he himself rep hands of the Here again latest Moscow instructions 1985 86 Italy Ethiopia 86, 000 150. The three others had their handling his case. It had utterly Sedore death. At the time this ticipate resents the worker aristocracy the facts speak for themselves.
bail raised by 50.
1936 38 Spain failed to put up any real fight struck me by its monstrosity.
Question: What do you be of the United States and views Local. in the Bronx, was The Mexican Communist Party for Luben who is well knowns must say frankly that such 1, 000, 000 to 1, 500, 000 lleve will be its practical result? with contempt the Indo American smashed by a deliberate cam is now fully subordinated to the Police Cause Violence as left wing Alliance member, supposition could only enter the 1, 000, 000 1937 38 Japan China paign of disruption carried on leaders of the Communist Party Answer: The results of the Pan workers.
All the charges are patent and it meekly accepted the work mind of a person whose conQUESTION American Trade Union Congress What signifi purely wecause its leadership was frame ups. Responsibility for the of the bureau.
of the United States and through The German government has disorder at the bureau falls on science was not altogether clean, will depend to a great extent on cance does the presence of John not in political agreement with them receives all orders from told women to get back into the shoulders of the police and Lewis of the have at the leaders at the city of Moscow. This strange order of The leadership of the Alliance or to a person who mixed in po whether or not Lombardo Toledthe Congress?
fice. Stalinists were sent into the things is very easily explained.
business and Industry to take the the bureau officials. During the in New York refused to handle litical circles deadly hostile to me ano will succeed in subordinating ANSWER: What aims Lewis local to break up meeting after Mexico has no Soviet institutions place of men drafted for the cure course of all the fighting, when his case on one pretext or an and Sedoff, where agents of the the working class movement of rent military maneuvers. The ever the police ceased their at other and refused to fight for rec could direct the thought of this continent to the orders of his pursues in his participation at meeting, resulting in the mem and the agents of the in Nazis used to make them get out tacks all violence stopped. It is ognition of the grievance com the unfortunate father to this Moscow chiefs. am convinced the congress cannot say as yet. bership leaving the local in dis Mexico, having no diplomatie protection, are obliged to maintain of business and industry, in ac. therefore clear who initiated the mittee of Local 17, progressive fantastic and revolting consec that he will not succeed. In tying This will become clear from his gust, and subsequently its mergstrietest secrecy. They, therecordance with the principle that violence. The police claim that local, at Bureau 79.
ture. But if Mr. Simkort is on his fate to the Lombardo attitude at the congress itself. Iting with the stalinist Local 68.
woman place was the home, and someone tore a black jack out of friendly terms with circles which Toledano is preparing a catas is absolutely clear, however, that Local 41 in Brooklyn was treat fore, avoid any direct contact Story Documented with the local Communist Party, her sacred duty was motherhood. the hands of one of the policepreoccupy themselves with sys trophe for his policy and for his Lombardo Toledano and other ed to the same campaign of dismen and struck him. The charge, Luben has had new documenta tematic physical extermination of career.
agents of Moscow, North Ameri ruption until opposition members fearing that it might harbor police When more than 100 jobs of course, is an absolute lie.
ry evidence for over five weeks Trotskyites, it is also not diff.
Question: How does the op can and Mexican have as their had been expelled or dropped out. agents.
aim the submission of the In Local 22 on the Lower East as city porter paying 960 a in the form of rent receipts, let cult to suppose that these friend position look upon the ConThe ardor with which the case ters, statements from former em ly relations could have, even Leaders Immune In to the dictates of Moscow. For Side, members continually year with the possibility of future Increase to 1, 200, were is being pressed, the severity and ployers, landlords, storekeepers, without the knowledge of Mr.
Answer: It is very doubtful Moscow diplomacy this question attempt to expel those who dis. In the United States, the most the large number of charges, and and neighbors. These substantiate Simk off, been utilized for u advertised in New York City.
whether the opposition will be is now of decisive Importance. It agree with them, but have so far important agents of the over 5000 men lined up front able to enter the congress. The is a question of transforming the falled in their disruptive purpose. enjoy a diplomatic Immunity and fendants have been hounded at every detail of his story and ev crime against Sedorf.
of the Municipal Bullding. Huncongress does not consist of dele workers organizations of all ery point in dispute. spite of therefore transmit the most Help Jall Unemployed every turn point to one conclu the fact that Luben has been (9) With regard to the person gates elected by the masses. The America into bly over a year ago because its lead enjoy the unquestioned confidence an obedient Instrusecret Instructions to those leaddreds had walted in line all Local 27 was totally destroyed ers of the Communist Party who night, and several were injured sion the city administration evicted from his home, the bu nel of the clinic, beginning with tasks of the congress were not ment of Stalin and seeks The With this aim the Comintern, as or fainted in the stampede. By the time of the deadline for flmilitant workers, hoping thereby case and listen to the evidence tigation invariably repeats the organizational work is carried ons known, sharply changed its orship agreed with the Star of the These trusted pers Ing applications, 9, 865 had ap to paralyze the unemployed with It answers only with arrests. On formula of the non participa behind the stage with the policy. Browder became a Roode linist city leadership. Communist sons, in turn, transmit the in plied.
structions to Mexico.
The unemployed just fear as a prelude to new relier July 21 Luben was arrested for tion of these people in active po agency performing the greater veltian, Toledano a Cardenist. But face and a neighboring local don want to work cuts and attacks on the stand.
There is no room for doubt that ards of the unemployed. To the Halpern who sentenced Luben ing that this circumstance froos there is every reason to believe Thele real alm is to penetrate at united to help the and the the agents of the are now Even the New York Times was surpless Investigation and the said, My job is to enforce the them from the necessity of tur that the congress will be a con any price into the state apparatus court send the entire grievance concentrated in Mexicoon mo committee of the local to jail forsion of murder against the world shocked to learn that one third isolated arrests that have taken sw, not worry about where Las ther investigation. This view is gress of a carefully selected work Precisely because of this Moscow one and two months blow outstanding revolutionist and his of all American families and in place at various bureaus is to be ben sleeps.
absolutely false. It is not a ques. ers bureaucracy. shall be glad supports the ambitions of Toleddividuals had incomes of less than added this new trial.
ano. If these aims should be from which the local never recov. supporters. Killer Stalin has been The whole Inbor movement in tion of open political activity but to be mistaken.
The demonstration itself came Rew York City must fight against tine and criminal assignments of nost clandes QUESTION: In recent declar achieved, this would mean 780 in 1935 36 and two thirds less seeking this opportunity for some ations William Green declared the full sense of the word, time.
than 1, 450. But the Times editors as an answer to continued un. the frame up trials. Resolutions of have a remedy. through insuring bearable provocations by relier protest must be sent to LaGuarthe Agents of this kind, that it would be a congress of catastrophe for the American Armly trust that these designs will Let the labor movement be Communists and extreme left working class and for American suffer a flasco. The and its aroused! Only by incessant vigilbetter nourishment in youth, bet bureau ofacials. Bureau 79 has dia, demanding immediate relieflike military spies, naturally, can.
for Luben and the dropping of all participation in agitation, etc.
Ists, and sald that the of ter general education, better tech been the scene of numerous ar culture. We do not want the methods are far too compromised. ance on the part of every honest would not accept the invita transformation of Mexico Into in particular, due to the inces worker and intellectual will the nical training to increase the rests before.
Located in a Negro charges.
On the contrary, in the Interests tion to attend.
earning capacity of our least section of Williamsburg, the buCatalonia, where the hirelings of tigation of the New York com foul plot of the be exposed fortunate citizens. Have they reau is notorious as one of the Legal defense has been provided of conspiracy, they lead an ex ANSWER: Wm. Green falsely the no better than any mission headed by Dr. Dewey, and crushed. The searchlight of never heard of the thousands of most vicious labor hating centers by the Workers Defense League. tremely peaceful existence. Mo represents the congress well educated and technically in New York. It refuses relief The American Fund for Political notonous references to non par revolutionary one in order to honest and independent in the And its own road and methods of of their holes. Then let them betrained eltizens who still can even the most desperate cases Refugees cooperated in the rais ticipation of all the interrogated justify his own reactionary policy. proletariat and in the intelligent unification for the defense of its ware of the wrath of an aroused and because of this is known asing of ball in active political struggle would Green does not want the uni sia. As have already said, historie Interests.
make a living these days?
working class! POLICE CLUB RELIEF SEEKERS in ered.