2 SOCIALIST APPEAL DECEMBER 10, 1938 YPSL Convention Adopts Fighting Policy APPEAL ARMY Decision Will Make League HUNGER FIGHTER Mass Youth Organization WHY DON YOU GET LASHES SOME BOY FRIENDS. RELIEF SET UP LaGuardia Relief Investigator Advises Jamaica, Jobless cation ahead of schedule.
Girl Applying for Welfare Expose Do Nothing Agency SCORE BOARD 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 00 WALGREEN MEN IN General Motors Attacks Auto Union FOOD WORKERS FIGHTRACKETEERS HOUSTON STRIKE 0 0 0 FUND RAISING CAMPAIGN charge of both these drives as AND REGULAR APPEAL sure us that subs are easy to get, ADVICE TO THE NEEDY FINANCES: especially when the subscriber toThe news from Comrade Rose be is told that he ll get twice as Karaner, In charge of the 8, 600 many papers for the same price campaign for the twice weekly as formerly.
Branches should get going on started off with resounding local sub campaigns and let us paper is that everything has 68 Delegates Represent Young Fourth bang. This is fine news and may know the results.
make it possible for the Appeal Following is the list of subInternationalists; Gould Elected to begin its more frequent publi scriptions received this past week Notice that Minneapolis has National Secretary But we must warn against any again returned to the challenge tendency on the part of branches of New York City supremacy. Special to Socialist Appeal)
NEW YORK CITY. 19 into a mass movement and set to forget about or gort of ignore By PAUL KUJAC of Locals 15 and 22 of the Un to do things what right, and it CHICAGO Determined to build forth the perspective of continuMinneapolis.
current Appeal bills. There is no militant mass movement of ing for a long period as a small Do you see this pretty dress employed and Project Workers ain right that poor people Massachusetts.
New York Out in Jamaica, conflict or contradiction between New York State revolutionary youth in time to de propaganda group. The Haskell m wearing? said the Home Re Union gave a fitting answer to should be evicted in cold weather feat the forces of fascism and position received South Dakota votes.
lief investigator, crossing her silk this outrageous attack upon un like this. So say to myself, Long Island, the unemployed a branch raising its Fund quot Pennsylvania boss war, the delegates to the Various amendments that sought stockinged legs. You could have employed workers. large dele sotta see what can be done! workers are beginning to find and paying its debts to the paper.
gation went to the Bureau de Seeing Is Belleving themselves and give voice to their us financially right now the Ohio.
Tenth National Convention of tht to modify the majority resolution pretty dresses, too. So goes over to the Union grievances. After years of affilia Newark, Young People Socialist League were all defeated. long series The young and for relief manding immediate aid for the meeting here November 25 27, of practical amendments that protested how she when Rothman famliy.
and they say to me The Home tion with the WorkersAlliance, branches make it that much Connecticut Quick Action Administrator Levine, self proeviction, what can we do to prove to break with the class. collabora for the new Appeal and suppor Relief don believe there is an they were one of the first locals easier for the twice weekly to be successfully stabilized. The drive Chicago went on record for a complete re. sought to add corrections and im she couldn ever get relief?
California building of their organization provements to the resolution were But our sympathetic social welalong the lines of a colorful, fight referred to the incoming National fare worker had her answer claimed friend of labor, refused there is? So scratches the old tionist policy of the Staliniat bu of the paper today to hand in Indiana ing movement.
Council for consideration. ready Leaning confidentially point blank. The workers dele bean and says Well, maybe the reaucracy and form a real fightTotal The resolution on the Role of The new constitution changed closer to the young girl, she whis gation began to press their de Home Relle don know there is ing, militant organization, the Un hand. It is particularly the jo: the which outlined the the name of the local group, here pered: You re a pretty girl. Getmands and Levine called the an eviction because they is so far employed and Relief Worker of local Appeal agents to see way maybe if we bring it that the bills sent to them tw fur engue, affiliated with the Unem weeks ago are taken care or in Small bundle order increases new course for the organization tofore called a circle, to unit. a couple of boy friends it not cops. The delegation obtained Workers was adopted with only two dis The name National Council su hard let them give you the horse and wagon, picked up the niture up there we can prove ployed and Project mediately.
have come in from our agents in things you need. In other words: belongings of the Rothman fam. there is an eviction. You know, Union.
Houston Henting votes. The seriousness percedes the term National ExTexas, and Oakland, with which the delegates regard ecutive Committee for the lead Why degrade yourself by living ily, carted them to the Relief the old saying Officer Seein is Bureau, and dumped them on the Believin. That all there is to cor unemployed workers in SUBSCRIPTION CAMPAIGN: Otto Popovitch, veteran fighter HAS YOUR BRANCH STARTED California. Incidentally. Elle Meyers, the agent for East Oaked the new turn was indicated by ing national body. The constitu on home relief?
Queens county and Chairman of the fact that the discussion of the tion contains a pledge of loyalty This is the formula for success sidewalk before the amazed and it, so help me Officer.
land, is one of California most The cop was speechless. Finally the League, has a small hant New York City has been con ambitious and up and coming lit.
resolution and various amend to the cause of the working class, given to the unemployed by Lahe said: guess if they told you printing press, and puts out a ser ducting a highly successful sub specialists.
ments consumed 14 hours of the and the banner of the Guardin blood hounds who call officiale eyes of the relief and the copa.
campaign. An averyge of about convention sessions.
for new members.
themselves social welfare invest The action took place so rapto bring the furniture to the les of leaflets, issued in the form Spirited Mass Meeting Commemorate Martyrs igators.
idly that, although there were police station, you do it.
20 subs has been turned in each REMINDERS: of paper under the title: The Well, said the young militant. Hunger Fighter. Here an extract Week.
The opening of the official ses The convention adopted a resohalf a dozen police in the bureau (1) Organize your local subFamily Evicted New Haven, Conn. is in th scription campaign: 104 18sions was preceded by a well at lution of commemoration to Leon tended and spirited mass meeting Sedoff, Rudoph Klement, and the Rothman family, an unem gether before the furniture was This young gir) is a member of and two patrols in front, they we had to prove to the cops from a recent number: that there is an eviction, we do Let us yell Hip Ho Hooray for midst of an intensive campaig. sues for 00.
on the evening of Nov. 24th which other young heroes of the Fourth ployed family of five which in dumped in their laps. The police Bellevin.
it. You know, Officer, Seein is the fake politicians that were for renewed subscriptions and (2) Take care of your monthly elected.
new subscribers. Comrades Appeal bin.
and Martin Abern, delegates from killed by the Stalinist and Fascist They were thrown off relief by and woman. rushed to do thelr duty by God On the basis of this militant They promised us a lot, but the Socialist Workers Party, and foes of the movement. It also the Avenue Home Relief Bu Where Country. One shouted: unemployment action, not only will give us nothing. Little PotHal Draper, Nathan Gould, and sent a wire of greeting to Leon reau, the driver of this was the Rothman case opened Bellied LaGuardia is still in office.
and evieted from their wagon for relief, but also all the emer: We pay him 25, 000 a year and he, Ernest Erber of the National Trotsky, adopted resolutions for the freedom of Tom Mooney, for furniture and all their belongings to home. The landlord threw their m the driver what about seney cases Locals 15 and 22 had in turn, gives us a lot of ballyhoo. Continued from Page 1) CONVENTION the freedom of 16 jobless youth out in the snow. Why? The Home It? answered young worker pending in the Bureau. Adminis. Miss Harris, the Big Shot in the East Chicago, Ind.
trator Levine was removed from Home Reliel Bureau is getting so 10. 00 GREETS TROTSKY arrested in Brooklyn in the fight Relief Bureau wanted to know Who told you to bring the fur.
Gardner, Mass.
the Bureau.
10. 00 The National Youth Conven0 for relief, hailing the proposal to what happened to 5, 000 in com niture here?
fat on our misery and on her Indianapolis, Ind.
tlon sent the following telegram 10. 00 Once more there exists in New 60. 00 a week do nothing big job, issue the Socialist Appeal twice a Joplin, Mo.
received Well, you see, officer, it was York City an unemployed move that we are looking forward, in pensation the family 10. 00 to Leon Trotsky: week, and officially adhering to seven years ago. The Home Re this way. was walkin along ment whose fighting powers will the near future, to see her foreKansas City, Mo.
10. 00 The Fourth Internationalist the Youth Section of the Fourth liet Bureau would not accept the minding my own business when a improve the conditions of the ing herself through the door aldeLexington, Ky.
10, 00 Youth of America in convenInternational ample evidence furnished by the friend from the Unemployed and workers.
Louisville, Ky 10. 00 tlon Assembled sends you its The newly elected National family in the form of doctors Project Workers Union comes The Unemployment and Project have to be ripped off, so she can ways or else the door jams will Olivia, Minn 10. 00 warmest fraternal greetings.
Council met immediately after Plentywood, Mont Your ideas and unquenchable statements to the effect that the rushing up to me and tells me the Workers Union challenges the pass through them.
10. 00 the adjournment of the conven money had been used to pay for Home Relief ain tendin to their right of the Reliet Administration Reading, Pa.
10. 00 spirit gulde and inspire us in tion. It established the following much needed medical attention. business seein as how the Roth to starve the unemployed. The We the unemployed, when we Sacramento. Cai.
10. 00 our struggle to win the opposts and elected the following Seattle, Wash.
10. 00 pressed youth to our banner.
officers to All them: National Sec the eviction of the Rothman fam and the Relief won do nothin being the only organization the full of hot air. Our wives come Immediately upon hearing of mans was put out into the snow rightfully lays claim to come to the bureau to tell these South Bend, Ind 10. 00 Worcester, Mass.
10. 00 Committee of the Irving Healy Seehotnou vingers Bernay the unemployed of the best about it says to makelen Wikie wnemelovedornd workers here and shed bitter tears. Evictional SecretaryIrving BernSide, and boy you ve been tryin should support.
Evansville, Ind. 00 Bern, head of the Chicago Ar.
National Propaganda Director, tion notices are disregarded. Fitchburg, Mass. 00 Tangements Committee, acted as Ernest Erber.
Bare footed children are told to Flaxton, 00 chairman. uniformed color stay home from school. Toothless Fresno, Cal.
guard and a chorus served as people are told to eat mush. Blind Hartford, Conn. 00 symbols of the new enthusiasm people are told to buy a Seeing Portland, Ore. 00 with which the pre convention (Continued from page 1)
Thermopolis, Wyo.
The difference in standards did Eye Dog. Ruptured people are 00 discussion had infused the movesent on the to swing Windsor, Conn. 00 ment.
authorized strike one year ago. not indicate a slow down, when pick and shovel. Good investigatThe first session was opened by The most popular Pontiac com the difference in quality of work ors are terrorized and rats are Ernest Erber, National Chairman, Stalinists, during the discussion mittee man has since been re was considered. Nevertheless the Progressives Enter made out of them.
period, to pin the speaker down on Thursday morning with Unions Come To Aid turned to his job because the management saw At to transfer Fall Slate Against company feared another strike if the Chief Steward from Fleet Communist investigators write regular delegates in attendance, to an unqualified endorsement of Of Sixteen who had come by train, bus, up funny stories about honest allthe Roosevelt administration and he were not rehired. However, wood to the Cadillac plant admit Clique ents and write up pathetie stories all its acts WAS countered by hitch hike, and freight car from the international repre ting that they felt by such a Workers for communist clients.
the speaker and the Chairman points as widely separated as sentative had signed an agree transfer they would be able to ment with the company that this speed up production in that de New York The coming elec These are the horrible stories Los Angeles and Boston. In addiwith description of how the (By a Special Correspondent) unionist can hold no office in the partment. When the steward re tions in Local 308 of the Food tion some 25 alternates and fra in the We the unemployed plantation owners, unhindered by workers Union will mark the cll people must recognize the fact the Department of Agriculture, ternal delegates and a score of HOUSTON, Tex. Nov. 29 The union for year after he has used to go he was told he was max of a long and bitter struggle that the only way we can clean (Special to Socialist Appeal)
returned to work.
out of town visitors attended. The militant young workers who last get all the crop reduction pay.
ST. LOUIS Whitfield, ments for themselves and prevent partment immediately quit work. against sangsterism and Stalinist house in the Is by joining Negro organizer and second Vice the sharecroppers from benefitsession elected the standing com week struck the warehouse Indus Sweat Blood for Boss mittees of the convention and or try in one of its most vital spots, the Walgreen Drug and Supply committee is company stooge the management and the men is ourallying items bumbers Workers League and all togeth. Farmers Union, spoke November plaints from Sharecroppers to the In his place on the bargaining The plant was then shut down by mismanagement. The membership the Unemployed and Relief President of the Southern Tenanting in any way: and how com.
ganized its work.
Youth Transition Demands Warehouse, are determined to who openly told the workers in sent home.
When the bargaining committee Group and its program to smash erful working class arme, we can 29 at a highly successful meeting Department of Agriculture in The first major item of business a real victory. Only sixteen in the presence of the plant manasponsored by the Marxist School Washington are almost invariably was a report on a Program of Demands for Youth. designed to ionism, they are fast learning the employees for not meeting pro were told three more stewards and gangsterism once and for all, and sweep these rats from the Party. The chairman of the meet mittees, dominated by the Demonumber and entirely new to unger, who had threatened to fire tried to settle the grievance they the combined forces of Stalinism swing the big broom of decency of the St. Louis Socialist Workers returned to the county relief com serve as an extension of the value of progressive unionism and duction schedules to work until were penalized for telling their In the Spotlight, organ of the B, and force them to give us ing was Martin Lechner, St. Louis cratie plantation owners, with the they sweat blood to conform to chief steward not to accept the progressives, long series of jobs or Adequate Rellet For Our labor organizer who has done result that the complaining share Party Program of Transitional the need for workers vigilance.
to the field of students, Demands to The warehouse is tied up 100 company standards.
transfer. When the case was taken Familles.
questions are directed to the unmuch work in behalf of the South croppers are evicted without deto the International the commityoung workers, and jobless youth. per cent, and effective secondary As a result of this union comion administration asking the We meet every Wednesday ern Tenant Farmers Union. Whit lay.
The report, given by Irving Bern, picketing is being conducted at pany cooperation, the union has tee was told that if a man were bureaucrats to explain the con night at pm. at 116 37 South St. held came to St. Louis with two was followed by a discussion that all the key downtown stores of been practically wiped out. Men asked to go out and mow the Whitfeld deescribed how the nections between the racketeers right on the corner of Waltham other representatives of the the notorious national drug chain. tell of speed up worse than when lawn in the winter time his fail and the union officials. The st. Jamaica.
brought forth many new ideas on rural Ruthorities work a Negro, President of one of hand in glove with the plantera, the union was first organized. ure to comply would be cause for charges are substantiated with how to make the demands con Chester the Locals in southeast by making it obligatory for the crete and realistic to young people The workers are members of the This plant, still under the juris fring. He could immediately call names, dates and places the bronze buzzard, symbol of the in the organization there.
Missouri, and a white man active workers to accept cotton picking In factories, schools, and in the Warehousemen Division, Local dictidn of an amalgamated local his committeemen but it might 367, of the truck drivers Interna of all plants in Pontiae, has been take days or even months before Slam Stander Campaign Association appeared in all of ranks of the jobless.
jobs offered to them by the plantBrother Whitfield told a movingers, regardless of the slightly their shops? his On Thursday evening the con tional. The strike has been on promised a separate charter from any action would be taken to corvention heard a report from dorsed by the Teamsters Joint the International. This the work rect the grievance. As a final setmore favorable condition of Council and has the support of ers feel wil free them from the tlement of this grievance, the the administration against the you seriously pretendo como be founding congress of the youth the big progressive locals of the heavy hand of the local bureau chief stoward has been penalized progressives are refuted and the fore the membership as fighters misery and degradation that the authorities arive the plantes Pout Section of the Fourth Interna in the city, such as marl crats.
against racketeers you who mass of the sharecroppers and to the Jobs and tell them tional held last September in time, oil and steel. Public senti In the Lansing Fisher Body accept the transfer. One steward to your comrade Harry Leiben, received a one week penalty way who in addition to framing up Coulcher Williams and their rack more acute as the system of hirmade a deal with Pincus. Epstein agricultural workers of the South to pick out the workers they endure misery that becomes want.
Switzerland. The report on the went is completely on the side of plant the two leading committeeheroic struggles of the Fourth Inand beating witnesses in his terri eteering Metropolitan Association Ing and firing by the plantation he strikers.
men and the chairman had been off. The other two stewards were tory, has now been found to be by which you were taken into a Mass evictions face the shareternationalist youth in Europe Finks Stand Guard suspended from the union by the penalized two days each.
Fire 30 at Chevrolet The company, in a desperate regional director. They were then making side money by installing cal 302 and given jobs, in return the sharecroppers do not have January Whitfield and the owners becomes general. Most of croppers in southeast Missouri on and the founding of the new in ternational at a congress forced effort to smash the effectiveness removed from the committee grievance of a somewhat elgarette machines in the shops for supporting those rats in Trade time to establish their homes be other representatives of the to meet under illegal conditions of the strike, has hired almost without a hearing or trial. Soon similar nature has arisen in the under his jurisdiction?
Union clothing and defending in the midst of the September fifty ten dollar a day finks who after, union membership in the Chevrolet Gear and Axle plant. Do you refer to your comrade them when they were exposed? ers to move on. wage of 75e a public protest against these ele fore they are forced by the plant are attempting to arouse war hysteria, inspired the convic rust stand around and look at the plant fell from 95 percent to less Two stewards were given to day Arthur Bary, who acted as the tion to pass a number of mo pickets and guard Walgreen than one per cent.
penalties for ejecting a non union Secretary of the Defense Com ticket is Larry Phillips.
These day for cotton picking is the av tione hand create public demand Since production began to rise worker from the plant. sit down mittee for the indicted racket supported by a complete slate of sharecropper seldom makes any on which to settle the sharecropprecious real estate. Squads of tions designed to strengthen International movement and fur union cabs are parked near the with the 1939 models the mill strike was the result. They were eers. This committee spent 20. leading militants, including Harry thing out of his own crop: 100 in pers. The millions spent on rural Che comrades in the spirit of in who might dare to attack the risen. The corporation is again the committee went in to negoti Cher racketeers, according to the Charles Mitchell, James Gordon, considered exceptional, and about devoted to the purchase of arable ther the education of the Ameri key stores waiting for any finks tancy of the workers has likewise evacuated by the union and when 000 of Union funds in defense of Pinsley, Phillip Nims, Juan Aviles, the clear at the end of a year is could be more profitably ternational solidarity. These mo strikers. The store managers, in using the union letter of respon ate they were notifled that thir charge of the progressives. and many others.
the best that can be done.
land now producing nothing but The Spotlight further charges tions Included the regular publi some cases against their will, sibility discipline those who teen stewards were to be fired. Program of Progressives Whitfield was active in organiz weeds, of which there are 100, 000 cation of the English edition of have been forced to put follow insist too strongly that they still strike is threatened which the in that the administration of the loThe program of the United Proing the recent cotton pickers acres in southeast Missouri. Such the Youth Bulletin, the raising of up pickets out on the sidewalks, have a union, When men on certain opera ize it a settlement satisfactory to and seriously endangered the un analysis of the long series of deneribed how work under semi croppers have already been estabternational is expected to author cal engaged in sheer adventurism gresalve Group makes a clear strike in southeast Missouri. He Federal settlements for sharea 100 fund for the French youth carrying great yellow signs (scabsection, and the initiation of cor painted, too) saying We are tions do not meet standards set the men is not reached. ion by calling a premature strike crimes and betrayals of the pres illegal conditions had brought 35, lished on a very small scale, and respondence between local units satisfied. No strike here, etc. by the company they are threat.
in the Horn Hardart Chain in of the American and foreign sec This has served as boomerang ened with firing, penalty lay offs ent administration. This program 000 workers into the have proved highly successful.
ANNOUNCEMENT the hope of getting the support of demands an end to the terror car throughout the South, since 1932.
to the company in that it has of a week or twq, or transfers to STORY OF CHEAT the pected to thus force the Automat for complete democracy in the the all powerful plantation own of the Land for the tions.
the Borses Association who ex ried on against the membership: Lynch mobs, and every device or White applause greeted statement of the aims On Friday morning the conven created more discussion and in another plant or department Sasha Guitry Film of the Year restaurants into the Association. union for the strict enforcement ers, had not been able to break landless; clothes for the naked: tion heard Hal Draper report on terest in the fight and because the where they may be fred as incomcan be seen at any time cutthe work of the organization for union warehousemen sign up the petent or be laid off because of rate prices. See Reynolds at set back union organization for in dues and the abolition of the black workers. An attempt by the wage slave!
This strike falled miserably and of the union contract; a reduction down the unity of the white and food for the hungry: freedom for the past year. The report indi soda clerks and the table girls lack of seniority in the departNational Office for tickets long period.
cated that the last year was one who march behind them. Several ment to which they have been Downtown Branch.
Arbitration Board which is used of political consolidation follow soda clerks have struck in ym transferred.
Racketeers Friends at present to break down militant PIONEER Does It Again With a ing the break with the Norman pathy rather than carry out or Discrimination at Fleetwood NEW LABOR FORUM, Wendelin Another question directed at the Thomas youth at the previous ders to so publicly condemn bona The company method of un Thomas speaks on From Wet Stalinists and their henchman by death grip on all job action.
New Year Eve Party to Remember!
convention. The report, however, filde union practices.
dermining the union was well mar till Hitler, Thursday, Dec the progressives gives a clear in The progresalves point out in showed that this period saw no Tonight the National Maritime demonstrated at the Fleetwood 8, 8:30 137 13th Street sight to the working of the their paper that the present adabsolute increase in membership. Union branch, a progressive local Fisher Body plant. For months Admission free.
line of class collaboration. Do ministration, if defeated in the though some 325 members left of the donated funds and the management had been comyou refer to your comrade Jay elections, can only go back to the the youth movement to join the promised complete suppori. Other plaining that the men in the NEW YORK CAMERA CLUB Rubin, who was mainly respon Communist Party headquarters Featuring An All Star Cast perty. locals such as steel and oil cushion department were slowing camera club for amateur sible for the building of the Met for assignment to some other un Princess Maravaia doing the African Makumba New Organization Course re expected to do likewise. Ware up production. The bargaining photographers is being formed. ropolitan Racketeering Associa ion busting job. They are not Kawaika in several native Hawaiian dances The report on the new course house workers throughout the en committee made time studies of Both beginners and experts aretion, who declared: That if we workers in the trade and never Mary Frieman recapturing the high spots of Pioneer for the organization, given by tire city are watching the out the men in that department. They invited to join. Those interested build the Association, we will have been. The slate of the proLast Party plus Ernest Erber, was followed by a come of this strike.
also compared the production are invited to attend a meeting smash the United and by gressives is made up only of food minority report by Gordon Hasstandards with a comparable at the district headquarters, 116 smashing the United we will workers. The membership is deSwing Music. Drinks. Food Bar kell of California. The Haskell Subscribe to group of men doing similar work University Place, on smash injunctions. And was it an manding an end to the control of at IRVING PLAZA, 15th St. Irving Place resolution denied the possibility in Flint Flint builds Buick bodies Wednesday, December 14th at accident that the after the their union by organizers sent of rapid growth of the Socialist Appeal BUY YOUR TICKETS NOW!
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