SOCIALIST APPEAL DECEMBER 17, 1938 Speed Up the Twice Weekly Appeal Drive APPEAL ARMY To All Readers of Socialist Appeal!
Let swing into action! Let wipe out the zeros! Don hoard BANKERS TURN OMAHA INTO HARLAN COUNTY WPA SLASHED FDR XMAS GIFT FOR JOBLESS Idlers Wine and Dine Eden As Profiteers Hold Parley CHECKERS WIN STRIKE 1600 Ruth Querio Gives Points to On Pushing Appeal Sales HANDLING THE come to feel that the Appeal is an Fifty more days to go!
SEMI WEEKLY APPEAL: important and necessary part of We print below the excellent their everyday life and problems.
your collections. Send them in regularly so they reach us by Monday article by Ruth Querlo of Allen It is a real step forward on the of each week for inclusion in the current Score Board.
town describing how she and the road towards making the Appeal other comrades of her branch in the voice of the American workFRIENDS, SYMPATHIZERS, READERS of the Socialist Before long, the SOCIALIST APPEAL will appear as a tend to solve the distribution ing class. Subscriptions build, Appeal are not excluded from this campaign. prize of an autotwice weekly paper. The editors of the paper hope that this problems raised by the twice a finance and maintain the paper.
graphed copy of James book The Black Jacobins will be change will increase the effectiveness of the paper not only in week Appeal.
On with local subscription camgiven to the highest contributor. And to the branch making the best (Continued from page 1)
frequency of appearance but in new streamlined agitation and The most important thing to be paigns!
showing by January 15, considering locality, membership, etc. a noticed is that Ruth intends to propaganda. We have dozens of plans to accomplish (Continued from page 1)
end beautiful red banner of the Fourth International measuring about brought in by the bosses.
popular features, columns, timely labor reporting, etc. etc. tion of layoffs and relief redue see to it that the members of her MONTHLY STATEMENTS MAILED THIS WEEK: four by six feet.
George Norris of Nebraska, tions into the lap of another branch one and all alike shall Monthly bundle order state which will be put into effect as soon as the twice weekly gets friend of the people. Governor become more active than ever be Keep an eye on the St. Paul branch, if you have your eye on has viewed this regime in his own under way. We are positive that the readers of the APPEAL, Lehman, who, in turn, kicks it fore in distributing the voice of ments are now being drawn up the banner, because Jules Geller writes: We are sending in the backyard, and no attempt to get through their activities in the unions and the class struggle, right back to his pat the Mayor revolutionary socialism. Likewise, and will be mailed this week. We The city officials are all very Ruth has hit the nail right on throughout the country have been can give us Innumerable valuable suggestions and criticisms.
enclosed 10 as our first leg in our Twice a weck Appeal Fund him to speak out has pried his quota. What is the exact size of the Red Banner being given as a Fortunately for the strikers, But these Ideas are no good if you keep them to yourself or sorry about the poor unemployed the head when she emphasizes prize? We want to make room for it in our headquarters. The they are backed by the full power just tell them to your friends. They ought to be in the hands very upset about the unemployed. centration upon a good spot; res phasize the necessity for prompt The state officials are also very, the necessity of regularity. Con Calling somewhat behind. It is no branches are falling into step as some of the following exerpts from of the Teamsters International of the APPEAL editors and before the twice weekly begins.
letters testify and the militant truckdrivers We urge you to send any suggestions and criticisms (as stift pain. Even the Stalinists are that the secret for successful attention to these bills. Support of the Appeal now makes the semi movement of the Northwest From the deep South (for obvious reasons, the city cannot be touched. But not one of these selling of the Appeal. five man committee, with as you like) to the APPEAL office.
fakers dares point to the source We urge all literature agents, weekly paper that much closer to mentioned) the secretary organizer writes: You will be glad to Farrell Dobbs of Minneapolis as of the order to cut relief rolls members of literature commit realization.
Here is the list of subcriptions know that our unit has voted to expand special efforts to raise the its secretary, represents the tees, etc. to carefully read and and fire WPA workers.
assigned quota before January You may yet Teamsters International on the No Time to Criticize!
put into practice the wisdom of obtained during the week. Once again we hit the same all time spot, with extraordinary powers.
Ruth article. In the near future high obtained a few weeks ago.
have to send a red banner to the branch south 3000 The same committee is cleaning President. hate war. Roose we will print arteles by Abe Special mention must be made of of the Mason Dixon line, though we realize up remaining spots in the area velt must not be bothered with Miller of New York and Kart the Bronx branch in New York where negotiations have not yet that we don and can expect to rate with the problem of 15, 000, 000 unem. Shier of Chicago Meanwhile, City which turned in 14 new sub 270Q ployed workers while he is spend Minneapolis, California or New York City, but been concluded, and the Nebraska comments and brief articles along bosses are ever more isolated in ing 120, 000, 000 on battleships! similar lines are welcomed by the scriptions in one batch. Good we will do our very best.
2400 their desperate fight.
work, comrades!
Concluding its sessions with the tor Mahoney, Chairman of the The good neighbor policy in Appeal staff.
The quiet working, result. gelting Chester Teamsters strategists are conf. dull and empty platitudes of An: monopoly committee. Anyone South America depends upona CONCENTRATE ON NEW YORK CITY Jobson of Minneapolis, writes: We want to dent of the victorious conclusion thony Eden, unofficial publicity having any lingering doubts that increased army and more battle SUBSCRIPTIONS: Minnesota see the barometer shoot up to the top as quickly 2100 of the Omaha strike and are al agent in this country for the the monopoly committee might be ships!
Chicago We are happy to report that Cleveland.
Who dares eritieize at a time our subscription drive (both na Massachusetts ready thinking of the task of ex Anglo American alliance, the Na as possible. The Minneapolis Branch to seriously planning an investigapanding the 11 state agreement tional Association of Manufactur tion into the nature of busi like this: gether with the St. Paul comrades is going ahead 1900 into a national uniform agreeers last week completed its anness or any genuine effort to cor The Democrats? But Roosevelt tional and local) has been show Michigan ing splendid results. report has with arrangements for a big New Year Jamment for all highway drivers. ual Congress of American Indus rect abuses, was set to rights by is a Democrat, St. Louis.
try. It is hard to judge whether boree, the proceeds of which are earmarked for the worthy Senator. He pledged The Republicans? They have just been drawn up for last New York State 1500 the Appeal. We are confident that we will be the gathering was more notable himself and his committee one always been in favor of doing month (November) showing that able to meet our quota within the sixty day 1200 for the infinitely low level of hundred percent to the interest away with WPA and relief and more subs both new and renew. Portland, Ore.
mind and intelligence revealed by of the National Association of they have always been for a big als were obtained during that Pennsylvania period and perhaps exceed it. That is encour.
the nation or for the callous to be a good boy during the entire The Communist Party? Theytion. An average of 16 per week Rhode Island since the Appeal began publica New Jersey aging news indeed, because if you know Chester, 900 viciousness with which, as alyou know he makes no empty promises. investigation.
and dedicated his are yelling louder than all the was maintained during the month Seattle, Wash.
Kansas: Comrade Whiteside writes: Even NEW YORK, The strong ways, they subordinated the burnpolitical life to upholding the others for a big army and navy lone dollars don show up often around this solidarity of the truck drivers, ing needs of the people of the glorious system of free enter. They sabotage the fight against of November! We have almost Montana ash.
who walked out in sympathy with country to their own yelping prise.
the Inyoffs. They refuse to do reached our present goal of 80 per week!
wigwam, so m sending along the enclosed Total. 80 1500 platform men and checkers search for higher profits.
Flushed with the reactionary While they guzzled their five more than write a post card, as while ve got it. Kansas will go over the top Everything indicates that we In addition, two bundle order 300 dollar a plate Waldorf Astoria usual, to some stooge Congressemployed at the terminals and on its quota before the deadline, or we ll bust caused a virtual stoppage of an sains in the November election, dinners and willed the highballs men. Many workers are getting should be able to go beyond an increases came in: something trying. And comrade Smith, also trueking to and from the city and confident that Congress and bought and paid for out of the writers cramp us a result of average of 50 during the month of (1) Kari Shier of Chicago has this week, resulted in a union the Administration are now com sweat and blood of the 5, 000, 000 these never ending post card cam December. All you have to do is added 100 copies per week to Chi of Kansas, backs up this promise. to look at this week list to see cago order. This makes a total victory.
pletely under their thumb, these workers in the factories they con paigns, but little else. that Punta Gorda, Fla. Comrade received The strike was called last boss gangsters of Anance trol. They listened to orator after of 250 per week and places ChicaFingerprinting Now Scheme Another thing to be proud of: go in second place as for ne disthe Appeal Campaign Bulletin. am heartily agreed and enthusiastic Thursday by the Motor Bus and capital felt that this year they orator not only their own mem.
In order to further the rings The percentage of renewals is tribution of Appeals is concerned.
about the twice a week. accept my quota but regret that cannot Terminal Checkers, Platform and could afford to be more concilia bers, but their hired prostitutes and reductions of relief, the WPA higher than ever before. This in. 2) Youngstown, Ohio, has insend it all in immediately. have been unemployed and sick for Office Workers, Local 21510, AE tory in the language they used like Dean William Russell of officials have brought forward adicates that subscribers have creased its order to 30 per week.
of Leafter union officials had renhout the latest peale vanamehe Teachers College, Columbia, and new idea fingerprinting all the several months. However, for first payment is enclosed. peatedly failed to reach an agree: Like fathers speaking to way politicians er mouthing bloated This Intest order, the CLO. News Ruth Onerio of Allentown, Pa. Now in re our quota for the ment with the heights Highway ward children, they merely re phrases about ethics. free of December 12 points out, is extwice a week Appeal. Johnny Brucker is in charge of affairs, and a Transport Association.
better guy with shipping completely led Congress that they wanted the to the public how fortunate are ing workers means a blacklist of the 60 minutes. These minutes are being sold at so much. per. When contract providing a 50 daily manner that it could not possibly governed and led by such a holy. trade unions and all unemployed minimum instead of the 40 a inconvenience a single employer, God fearing and enlightened organizations should immediately the minutes are all sold, a clock will be wound and sealed in a box. day rate they had previously re: the tax load on industry sharply group of cut throats as the Na take up the fight against this new By RUTH QUERIO size to try and beat us!
Then an affair of some kind will be given when the clock stops. The Iceived. The agreement also pro reduced, Federal unemployment tional Association of Manufae Roo has begun a campolicy.
The only difference that the box will be opened at this affair, and the person who has the minute vided that the pay rate was to relief drastically curtailed, and in Allentown Ace Literature turers twice weekly will make is that nearest the second the clock stopped at, wins a table lamp Agent minimum after 10 and one hall its nose out of their affairs un vehledh hur unmistakeable call tor discrimination against union men Anthony Eden speech, with its paign to prevent Inyoffs and stop instead of doing these regular months.
ALLENTOWN, PA things once week, we will do. The Although no strike of truck asicod for.
less its help were specifically a new imperialist war to save the by WPA officials. In New York coming of the twice weekly is them twice a week, and believe drivers was called, members of 10tottering British Empire under City the Unemployed and Project just about the best news one me, expect that within a Mahoney Pledge cals 807 and 816 of the Teamsters the Roosevelt Chamberlain slogan Workers Union is fighting tooth could possibly receive, and a month time after the lowerUnion refused to cross picket An interesting priced paper comes out, we will The total this week is 168. 20. Speed up, comrades. We have lines into the terminals, thus meeting was feature of the of Democracy. brought the pro. and nail to increase the allow day for the grandest kind of the address of Sena ceedings to an appropriate close ances for coal, clothing and food celebration!
have to increase the bundle. As only a short time to go demonstrating their sympathy for the unemployed and to présummer gets under way, the You ask how we in Allentown Send money in WEEKLY. Wipe out the zeros. Shoot up the vent layoffs of WPA worker bundle orders will go up and with the strikers.
intend to get out the best news barometer.
Interest in Mahoney Mayor La Guardia, in his atup and UP!
What the matter with Newark, Philadelphia, St. Louis, Ohio tempt to break the solidarity of paper that printed? Um, that Bill Spreads easy it sells itself, providing The whole thing just rests on and other points East? And California don keep us waiting the drivers with the striking ter each comrade puts his shoulder getting out regularly to certain much longer.
On December Zina Nesminal men, read the riot act to Quotes places. This business of selling Pala Percent ST. PAUL, Minn The Trades to the task. The thing to do is son, mother of comrade Fred the truckmen with the hope that the Appeal doesn worry me in Toledo, Ohio 20. 00 20. 00 100 She was Nesson, died.
he could frighten them back to to make each and every comand Labor assembly here, after the least In fact m all pepped Maraton Mills, Mass. 00 100 work.
sympathizer to our move several preliminary discussions on rade, none excluded, automatup. particularly in regard to 00 Punta Gorda, Fla. 00 40 ically responsible for at least several preliminary discussions on ment, and although ham. There is no truck strike and 00 Durham, the lower price. really do ex2. 00 40 NEW the Mahoney States Industries pered by her grave illness, there should be none. the Mayor Progressive two copies. We in Allentown are YORK pect to double my sales in no Boston.
200. 00 62. 75 31 attempted whenever possible said. The trucks are not inBill, has approved a plan to con strength in the food workers very lucky to have two very time at all when the price New York City comrades, only 72. 1, 050. 00 300. 45 volved.
to ald us by raising money duct a series of open discussions union here showed a gratifying responsible Astoris.
comes down. It takes time to on the bill, in order to have a Increase the previous elec and 78 years old Mother Kim build up the sales but it is 00 through contacts and social But the truck drivers held firm, Williamsburg 30, 00 and the trucks were involved affairs. In the hospital at thorough educational campaign tions. The Stalinist administra mel, 72, who sells at least Apr really worth while. It forms Bronx.
33. 00 which she was confined at around the bill main points, and tion in coalition with old line peals every week, often more, enough to assure the union vicDowntown.
36. 00 different periods through her to acquaint the entire labor office holders rode into office and Comrade Wickman, 78, who sort of friendly spirit with the tory.
workers. They read the paper Lower East Side 36. 50 illness she was known as movement with its objectives.
again in the polling just com sells the paper with me. Also and come back for more. They Needle Trades 33. 00 500 Protest WPA the Trotskylte and from Trades and Labor commit pleted in Cafeteria Employees John Brucker who has what it tell their friends about the ApUpper West Side. 13. 26 her sick bed circulated our tee, in charge of the arrange Union, Local 302, peal and others buy.
Balance through DisCuts in St. Paul literature and ideas. Her ments for the discussion, has anLarry Phillips, Progressive can The most important thing to There are plenty of places trict office warm personality radiating nounced that the first open meet didate for Secretary Treasurer, do is to watch the local papers around here that are ripe for 50, 00 Lynn, Mass.
14. 00 Ing will be held December 17, and polled 1, 258 votes as against his 28 kindness, charm and hospiST. PAUL, Minn, Dec. 10500 for union meetings, mass meet the picking: places where you Yellow Springs, Ohio. 00 tality was known to many of twice monthly meetings will be opponent who was re clected withings and all kinds of meetings and relief workers pro held thereafter, for a period of 3, 301 votes. The Progressive vote can see the workers are looking Fargo, 25. 00 00 our comrades and will be tested Roosevelt W. Iny off: where workers gather. Then for something they thought they Kines 10. 00 00 long remembered by them. several weeks.
and demanded that every worker represented an increase of 500 two or more comrades cover the Labor lenders and others will over the previous elections. The had in the and where they St. Paul, Minn.
100. 00 10. 00 be given a job at decent wages, at meeting with Appeals, and like will soon learn that it really is South Bend, Ind.
10. 00 00 a mass meeting held here at the Subscribe to be invited to speak on the BII, increased administration vote the little newsle on the corner, in the Socialist Workers Party.
Chicago.
250. 00 and all who attend the meetings came from the newly organized 20. 00 State Capitol, under the sponCALL out the headline or the Minneapolis 500. 00 15. 00 will be given an opportunity to chain cafeterias.
sorship of the Workers Benefit Socialist Appeal item nearest the mind of the Cleveland 200. 00 Association.
state their opinion. Full publicity The workers in these cafeterias worker attending the meeting. ANNOUNCEMENTS Los Angeles 200. 00 Not content with a mere protest Learn by. being given the educational where no minimum wages were campaign by the Trades and La Regularity Imperative WANTED: Girl to share apart Newark District 100, 00 against A, lay offs, the work bor Assembly established had virtually no conAstoria Parties Are Popular 75, 00 ment. Greenwich Village. Ani Akron, Ohio ers passed a resolution in support tact with the union because of a Of course, the mill gates are conveniences. Call WA 0899.
St. Louis, Mo.
75. 00 of the Mahoney Bill which has as DANCE, SKITS very important. That is regular, deliberate policy on the part of Evenings. Daily Saturday Philadelphia its aim the setting up of state routine work. Comrade WiekCANNON WILL LECTURE SONGS Sunday 50. 00 San Francisco the administration to prevent the man and cover Bethlehem owned industries and the putting ON TRANSITION PROGRAM holding of membership meetings.
Youngstown, Ohio 50. 00 o to work of all able bodied workers Workmen Circle James Cannon will give a Thus while the opposition was WANTED: Will buy second hand Allentown, Pa.
25. 00 in every kind of necessary in 28 40 31st St. Astoria, lecture on the Transition Pro prevented from bringing adminiscover two Spanish clubs and sheet music for piano, Classic Austin, Minn.
25. 00 dustry. to Grand Ave. gram of the Fourth Internaone Portuguese Club in Bethtration mismanagement before al music wanted (sonatas, conDetroit.
20. 00 Voicing their condemnation of Astoria)
tional next Tuesday, December lehem on Thursdays. Do you these workers, the officials called certos, mazurkas, études, Rochester, 25. 00 Roosevelt huge armaments cam Tickets, 20e; At door, 280 20, at 8:45 at the Marx private meetings notice the specified day? That to instruct fugues, etc. Write to New Haven.
20. 00 ist School 116 University paign, the mass meeting of Work SATURDAY, DEC. 17 is very important. Workers be0 Wynne, o the Socialist Apthese workers 20, 00 fighting not the Washington, ers Benefit Association members Place, The tople uncome used to you coming there bosses! but the Progressives.
peal 116 University Place Oakland, Cal.
15. 00 Proceeds For Socialist and interested trade unionists de der discussion will be Re Another factor in the victory of on just such day and just New York City.
Quakertown, Pa 15. 00 manded that war funds be turned Appeal the Stalinists was their ability to the Party for its New such a time. Now with the comSan Diego, Call 15. 00 over to the unemployed so that is. Admission will be 25 Aus. Astoria Branch, WORKERS Educational Forum ing twice weekly we are laying wield economic pressure against Baltimore, Md.
10. 00 presents: LISTON OAK on every man, woman and child can the ground work by telling the cents.
10. 00 the workers. This included framDenver, Colo. December 23, 1988. LR.
workers that the paper is soon be guaranteed a living.
ing workers out of their jobs, 30. 00 East, Chicago, Ind.
The meeting also pasged a resoJAMES on January 6, 1989, coming out twice a week and at usually with the musistance of the Gardner, Mass PIONEER Does It Again With a 10. 00 lution demanding the raising of 277 11th St. Phlla. Pa. Fri lower price (3e. Bosses Association, in clique conIndianapolis, Ind. 10. 00 relief standards all along the line.
day night, 8:30.
trol over the Labor Chief office We also have a route that Joplin, Mo.
10. 00 Speakers at the meeting intwo sons of comrade cover and discriminatory distribution of Kansas City, Mo.
10. 00 cluded william Mahoney, originwork to the union unemployed weekly for regular customers. STORY OF CHEAT, the Lexington, Ky.
10. 00 ator of the State Industries BIII, To Remember! members.
Then there is the important Sashn Guitry Film of the Year Louisville, Ky.
10. 00 Oscar Votaw, of the Machinists can be seen at any time cut10. 00 Olivia, Minn.
matter of getting out into the Union, Charlotte Rons, EdGala Dance and Floor Show minor victory was scored by streets especially the main rate prices. See Reynolds at Plenty wood, Mont.
10. 00 the Progressives in the exclusion ucational Director of the Workers walk street where workers Featuring An All Star Cast National Office for 10. 00 Reading, PR.
tickets.
of Harry Lieben, Stalinist thug regularly.
Benefit Association, and Oscar Downtown Branch.
10. 00 Sacramento. Cal.
Kohler, Youth Secretary of the SPIVY in her inimitable rendition of intimate songs and Business Agent, from the Seattle, Wash 10. 00 Federal Workers Section 544.
HARLEM fast stepping. Hunt, Savage Gibson rank and fle (administration) Il you notice, regularity is the WANTED: Krasnaya Letopis, No.
Worcester, Mass.
10. 00 The Workers Benent Associa Princess Maravaia doing the African Makumba slate. Lieben exploits in framing keynote. have regular places, (10. 1921; Proletarskaya Evansville, Ind. tion, closely allied the St. Paul regular times to go to them and slugging workers in his terriRevolutsla, No. (43. 1925.
Kawaika in several native Hawaiian dances Fitchburg, Mass.
trade union movement, was formtory have been mentioned in preand we are getting regular cus These volumes are indispens Flaxton, 00 Mary Frieman recapturing the high spots of Pioneer tomers.
vious issues of the Appeal ed originally over a year ago by soon as better Last Party plus able for research now. being Fresno, CAT 00 progressive workers who were Weather conditions permit we carried on. If you have them in Hartford, Conn. 00 forced out of the Stalinist conSwing Music. Drinks. Food Bar will be covering more mills; your possession, or any inforPortland, Ore. 00 trolled Workers Alliance. It has at IRVING PLAZA, 15th St. Irving Place ASK FOR THE APPEAL there will be street corner meetmation where they may be obThermopolls, Wyo. 00 been growing rapidly in recent ings again; really concentrated AT YOUR NEWSSTAND STREET SELLING and then tained, please get in touch at Windsor, Conn.
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