SOCIALIST APPEAL JANUARY 20, 1940 Some Pertinent History Past and Present The LABOR WITH WHITE SKIN CANNOT EMANCIPATE ITSELF WHERE LABOR WITH BLACK SKIN IS BRANDED KARL MARX NI POOR LITTLE FINLAND Marxist Alibi For the Jingoes Finland Negro Question On among the White leaders in the movement receded; with By CHRIS ANDREWS the the lie underneath the capitalist peasant must fight for a living By JOHNSON II Civil War.
lightening of the economic crisis testimony.
for himself and his family.
Two men went up into the temple to pray, In 1930 a Fascist movement, From the bankers came 15. the bourgeoisle concluded that it What has happened to the TIMBER FORTUNES MADE the one Pharisce and the other publican. the Lappo movement, broke out 000, 000 marks for Fascistex could dispense with the services Finnish peasantry and rural poor FROM THESE PEASANTS By FELIX MORROW This famous tale of the holy scripture was reenacted once more in 1932. You remember what. the very classes which had in Chief of the Army, Kurt Wal untons have been permitted to bravely at the side of their city government statistics concerning During the first world war the jingo social been legality greatest cham Ineius (now the hero of the begin again their laborious de brothers in the proletarian in unemployed land owners. In orhappened in the Gospels. The Pharisee was the democratic parties spoke in terms little different man who boasted of what he had done. He had surrection of 1918? Did their de der to live at all, thousands upon than those of their capitalist rulers. However, pions were the first to encourage Finnish waist line defense) velopment.
terrorism. Gone was the belief in was placed in charge of organ Where will those 90, 000 class feat and massacre by the enraged thousands of the poverty strickpaid his dues, he fasted so many days a week.
in each country the brazen jingoes carried, as individual liberties; clergymen izing attacks against working conscious men be today (not bourgeoisie prepar the way for en peasantry must go to seek He thanked God that he was a righteous man protection on their left flanks, spokesmen and preached intolerance as a Chris class leaders and newspapers, their corrupt social democratic the bettering of their living con employment during the winter groups whose task it was to justify the war, or and not scoundrel like the damned publican.
But the publican didn pretend, he didn say tian duty, democrats urged the Heavy sums came from the tim officials but the workers. and ditions by the same triumphant months in the lumber camps and at least to justify the socialist jingoes, in pseudisenfranchisement of a large ber exporters, facing a decline in all the other thousands of unor bourgeoisie?
the saw mills, side by side with he had done this and that and the other. He do Marxist language. This division of labor was said he was a sinner. That all. He begged for proportion of their fellow citi world demand for timber, and ganized laborers who saw their an important factor in preventing for a long Finland is 90 per cent woods the agricultural laborer. In this mercy, it is true, but that isn important for us.
time a break away of the masses from the jingoes zens, the farmers(read farm planning to recoup by still fur right to have untons twice ruth and forest area and only per way they can add enough to owners individualists to ther cutting the wages of their lessly destroyed by the govern cent cultivable. of Finland pop their miserable income to eke to a revolutionary position. Workers discontented Twentieth Century Pharisees a man, conspired to end the laborers. Last but not the least ing class? Will they be enthusi ulation of 3, 800, 000 over 2, 000. out a living for the rest of the with Scheidemann could be taken in tow by rights of speech and public meet source of strength for Finnish astic volunteers today in the ar: 000 fight for life and existence in year.
Kautsky. Ramsay MacDonald caught those movLook at the New Dealers. These Pharisees ing.
Fascism was the richest section my of the Finnish bourgeoiste the sphere of agriculture.
For the timber capitalists, en ing away from the British Labor Party. And so have for years been telling the whole world and of the Cooperative Movement, Just like capitalist United on exploitation of FinThe Fascists attacked Finnish Govenment statistics joying Negroes what fine fellows they are. The Negroes should love them. They are the men for true meetings, smashed on Workersthe SOK, the Finnish Cooper. States, capitalist Finland passed tell us that of the farm popula land most valuable resources, labor printing through the world depression at tion (1929) 61. per cent were this arrangement is excellent. It The thing is already being repeated here in presses, kidnapped two left wing tive Wholesale Society.
the expense of its working class farm owners. Farm laborers guarantees a plentiful supply of democracy: they want to build a new world of one small instance. It is instructive to describe members of the Diet from a Com THE CLASS STRUGGLE it.
righteousness and peace, in which the lion will and peasantry and just like and tenant farmers represent desperate laborers; it guarantees lie down with the lamb, in which the Southern mittee meeting, and brutally beat IN THE COOPERATIVES The appearance of a section of capitalist United States, capital. only 39. per cent of these a low wage rate.
At its Jan. meeting the American Labor plantation owner will give a square deal to the Democratic Party was thien Spped the Finnish Cooperative move ist Finland now enjoys prosper farm laborers, please remember The government reports in its Party state committee adopted a jingo resolusharecropper. They say, Discriminate against. ment on the side of Finnish Fasthis. The Finnish hour law, now Finland Year Book (1936) tion for American government aid to Finland, the Negro? Not we. Look how many Negrocs President Stahlberg, was kid cism will startle only those peo The capitalists have the same being ballyhooed the world over that 45 per cent of the labor in line with the previous pro Ally stand taken there are in the WPA white collar Jobs and napped by a reactionary Gener ple who have been taken in by characteristics everywhere. one by the defenders of the Flanish force in the timber Industry con by the The Norman Thomas socialists and working in relief bureaus, etc. We thank God, al. The General, arrested, admit the middle way propaganda, being bland equanimity in the bourgeoisie, does not apply to assists of such land owners. the Lovestoneites voted for both resolutions.
say the New Dealers, that we are not like ted his guilt and was freed.
peddled extensively in the United face of the suffering of the mass riculture. e, it does not apply When the wages paid in the other men, even as these Republicans.
es. Even Professor Jackson, ad to the majority of the toilers. But many needle trades workers are anti StalAs a result of the Fascist agi States in recent years.
timber Industry fell during the inist, yet believe there is something dear to the Now comes a fine exposure of these righteous tation, the Communist Party was The SOK, founded in 1904, lat mirer of Finland government, The Finnish bourgeoisie pub depression from 1, 959. 000. 000 rascals. few days ago Miles Paige, Negro again proscribed in 1930 and its er split apart when trade union Finland cooperatives, and Fin lish very incomplete unemploy. marks (average before 1929) to working class in the Soviet Union which is worth defending. These workers do not take well to elements of the cities clashed land steam baths, is forced to ment figures nothing for the na 788, 000, 000 (average during 1930Magistrate in Harlem, was named by Mayor 23 Diet members arrested.
LaGuardia for a seat on the Special Sessions the stand of the leaders, who have been tion as a whole. But in what they 1932. this represented a slash of The Finnish Fascists rose up with the rural membership. The admit of Finland recovery: enemies of the Soviet Union from its first days The benefits of debt reduction do publish occurs a very peculiar more than 50 per cent in the inbench at 12, 000 year. The Negro press as on the wave of mass unrest relatter refused to hire only trade and capital improvement were classification. the unemployed come that the peasantry and ag.
So. the Lovestoneites undertake the task of betal nails this as proof of the great progress sulting from the economic crisis union members on the factores naturally felt by the rich rather land owner. How does and ricultural laborers received from taking these workers into camp. As usual, this of Negroes. It is proof of nothing of the kind.
this source. Meantime credit for type of job goes to Will Herberg.
No Negro who knows the history of his race 1928 a bad crop year. The crip on the right to employ scabs than by the poor. Bankers and owner become unemployed needs any proof of its capacity to fill any office pled labor movement could not The trade union workers with shareholders prospered, substanThe census figures of Finland farmers became much dearer of Ostensibly he agrees with these workers.
Dive aid or firm leadership to the drew, forming OTK, the Progres: made, especially in cellulose, but 1929 report to us 285, 390 farm where 80 per cent of farmers in this country. Furthermore, Paige appointa We want to defend what remains of the ment does not raise the income of one Negro suffering peasantry: corrupt sive Cooperatives, predominantly the poor did not receive pro families owning land. Evident debts consist of short term loans Russian Revolution, the economic foundasharecropper or one Negro factory worker or social democratic leaders would a consumers organization tions, the nationalized economy, from the one Negro unemployed. And these are the people not; the Fascists sought support SOK buys and manufacture portionate share in the nationally a prosperous, contented peas. at an interest rate averaging danger of restoration of private capitalism.
with whom we are chiefly concerned. Appoint among the peasants, ably assist food, clothing, and household try brought the unemployed back antry. until we break the figures per cent Defend how and against whom? Of ments like this one of Paige cannot lift the great ed in this by the skilled agitators utensils and is predominantly a to work, but not at the old rate Books kept by 802 farms, large course, against invaders and forces of restormass of oppressed Negroes. When the great of the Lutheran clergy. This par producers In the of pay 37, 987 land owning families and prosperous enough to require ation. But also against the Stalin dictatorasitic group, living off the pens Finnish Wovement of masses of Negroes move, they will create opthe work from an acre to 24 the keeping of books, indicated The English Midland Bank Re acres no more. From this they that the farmer return on his ship. Workers Age, Jan. 13)
portunities for ten thousand Paiges. That is antry, well understand the dy early thirties, SOK saw a twoSo far, so good. One begins to wonder how not to say that such appointments are not to namics of the class struggle. As fold opportunity to smash its view finds in Finland. a gen live.
investment between 1932 and Herberg is going to reconcile these correct state40. 114 land owning be supported not only by Negroes but by the the liberal historian, Jackson, competitor and to protect itself eral standard of living lower ments with the position.
whole labor movement. The Negroes have a right to posts everywhere. The Socialist Workers plied the most unforgiving union movement, once again in rent trade. WPA and relief ruefully records, The clergy sup against the demands of the trade that might have been justified work from acres to 74 acrescent to per cent.
It was niet urai then that the peasantry, un108, 642 land owning familles able to pay the interest rates on Pickpocket Kind of Skill Party, for instance, condemns those who join the creasing in strength and millworkers, does this remind you of work from 71, acres to 25 acres the money they borrowed to get taney.
bourgeois army. But as for the right of Negroes The fact is that Herberg makes no attempt to no more.
to join the army if they want to, and on equal Jobs Not Battleships One of the results of the Fas anything. their land in the first place, reconcile the two. Having presumably satisfied terms with the whites that we support.
the questioning workers by agreeing with them cist agitation was precisely that EXPLODING MYTHS In other words, 218, 736 fam should have rapidly lost their Pamphlet for Workers. suppression by the government ABOUT THE PEASANTS ilies (76. per cent of the land ownership during the depres that there is a basic working class stake in the Where the Catch?
of the trade union federation The capitalist press tells us owning peasantry before the sion. Sales of farms at public Soviet Union worthy of defense, he then simply JOBS NOT BATTLESHIPS! by with its 90, 000 members in 1930 tirelessly that Finland is a na depression in 1929 were strug autcion were as prevalent in goes on to drop that stake from his further calBut now comes a mystery. Paige was to be Dwight Macdonald is a simple for treasonable activities. tion of happy land owners. The gling for a bare subsistence on happy Finland as in our Midculations. It is a bit of sleight of hand. It is ilseated on Tuesday, January 2nd, but the cere and direct message of 16 pages Dissolved before by the bour Marxist, understanding Finland Carms ranging from 25 acres die West.
luminating to quote him: mony was postponed indefinitely. The Amster to the New York workers, par geoisie in 1918, the unions had to be an agricultural country im in size for the most fortunate (Continued next week. Easy victory for the Russian invader in dam News of January 13 gives us some indica ticularly the jobless and sells been slowly fighting their way prisoned in the permanent crisis down to farms of acre. On Finland which hardly seems possible any tion why for one penny back. After 1930 the Fascist of world agriculture, looks for this economic base the Finnish Here is a clear summary of substitution of capitalist allies longer would immensely strengthen the toLaGuardia is flirting with the New Dealers, talitarian dictatorship in Russia; any sort of the important facts and statisfor the world working class. By with an eye to the presidential elections. He is tics on the cuts in federal and his pact with Hitler and his brazvictory would operate some degree in the typical of them, with his large words and small wame direction. Victory for the Russian inlocal relief; the tremendous inen attempt to justify it as a brilconcessions. But since the Harlem riots of 1936, La Guardia has a wholesome respect for Harlem vader would greatly stimulate the predatory creases in military and naval exliant victory Stalin alienated penditure: the development of still further the sympathy and appetites of the new Stalin imperialism and Negroes. And since Lchman defeated Dewey only Roosevelt New Deal into the support of the world workers for would further demolish what remains of the by the aid of the Negroes vote, all these progWar Deal.
Russian Revolution. Hence. Stalin the USSR. Already the conseressive fakers are at their wits end to keep victory in Finland would most emphatically quences of this pact have forced Thus in three years, war funds the Negro vote. So LAGuardia runs around in Stalin to move westward and bunot serve the best interests of the Russian Harlem, he has lunch with Bill Robinson sitting have been triple, while WPA funds have been cut in half.
people or of world socialism.
reaucratically impose the Soviet near him, he builds a housing project or two By JOSEPH HANSEN The two and one half billion regime upon the eastern part of The inescapable conclusion of all this is (where fifty are needed. and he appoints Negroes that the defense of the Soviet Union has no dollars which the War Deal plans In the New Year issue of the With so many brilliant accom tary dictatorship in full sway, Poland, with Finland now on the to posts they have not held before. First Justice feature story plishments reeking like fresh militant workers hounded and list.
to pour down the sink hole of Daily Worker, And these victories, no meaning whatever for international socialism Bolin. And now Paige.
war preparations would build one from Moscow, reprinted from scalps on Stalin hatchet belt, it persecuted, and even the com matter what their temporary milat the present. moment, in connection But behold! Roosevelt in Washington lives with the invasion of Finland. It may. arise million 2, 500 homes.
Pravda, Sums Up a Year of So might not seem quite genteel to munist Party itself declared il itary advantages may be includonly by grace of those Southern landlords, with again as a significant slogan tomorrow. It would buy five pair of cialist Victories With Stalin, as discuss those Stalinist victories legal.
ing even the fact that Stalin is out whom the Democratic Party is nothing.
or it may not. Certainly it has no significance shoes for every man, woman and the headline puts it. The year in 1939 which Moscow did not In China the Peoples Front compelled to socialize property in today These fellows are not going to stand for any child in the country, 1939 can rightfully be called a deem brilliant enough to mention chained the Chinese workers once the occupied territories, when vice president or cabinet minister who is a nig If it were divided among the year of brilliant Bolshevik vic in the article. Nevertheless in again to the chariot of the butch compared with the blow to the ger lover. So Washington warns LaGuardia. He thirty million men, women and torles, says the article drawing up a balance sheet for er Chiang Kai Shek, who with world revolution of which these How He Does It is leaning too heavily towards the Negro race.
children in the ranks of the un As first on the list of brilliant 1939 there are certain events Stalin aid had put down the acts are in essence a substitution, The sleight of hand comes with the hence You cannot discriminate in favor of Negroes, employed, each of them would get victories the article places the victories in Stalinist language revolution in China in 1927 28. can only mean that Stalin has 83. At present relief standards, mere holding of the 18th Con but in any other language terrl PREPARING FOR THE brought the hour of direst danger you know. One judge every twenty years or so in the first paragraph. That Stalin cannot defend is enough. If you go on like that you discredit the Soviet Union, that successful defense of the to the Soviet Union appreciably this would be equal to a one gress of the Communist Party of ble defeats which are of more PACT WITH HITLER yourself, and your future with us of the DemoSoviet Union requires the overthrow of Stalin quarter to one third increase in Russia. This Congress was a concern to the working class of close. The mere fact that the by the workers, that the strengthening of the cratic Party is gloomy. Hence, says the Amster. their annual income.
In the United States the poor signing of the Hitler Stalin pact brilliant victory. Why? It is the world than even water rushples Front policy put Liberty proved to be the signal for actual totalitarian dictatorship is bad for world socialdam News, Paige appointment still awaits conProgram of Action Why there is a reactionary succeded in convening without so THE REAL BALANCE SHEET Communist Party member and ond world war is evidence enough not explained. Perhaps because it ing into the Ferghana Canal.
formation ismall this we said already at a time when, for saying it, we were denounced by the Lovestonedrive on relief standards and for much as placing on the agenda THEY DON MENTION ites as enemies of the Soviet Union. But what Tweedledum and.
the Star Spangled Banner on his war expenditures, and what the the impending defeat of the so We list as first, the strangling lips. When the Nazi Germanof that.
follows from these facts? That Stalin overjobless must do, are told in lan cialist revolution in Spain in 1939, of the socialist revolution in American Bund launched an of HIS LATEST AND throw by the workers is imperative. This, and So here we are, my friends, the little flower guage everyone can understand the catastrophe of the People Spain. The Stalinists, it will be fensive in New York City in Feb MOST BRILLIANT VICTORY nothing more. There does NOT follow from this of democracy and the New Deal, herald angels The pamphlet is published by Front policy in France and else recalled, brilliantly delivered ruary 1939 and the Socialist As a final brilliant victory of the consciously dishonest piece of sleight of hand the New York Local of the SWP. where, the work of the other sec up Barcelona and. to save their immortal souls and to placate the that Hence a Stalin victory in Finland would The branches of the Party are tions of the Communist Interna dustrial section of Spain to Fran workers to picket the mass meet other Allied powers and their sarichest in Workers Party called on the Stalinist policy, England and the most emphatically not serve etc.
viciousness of Southern reactionaries at the ex already started on an intensive tional, or the plight of the refug. co fascist hordes without so ing of fascists in Madison Square tellites have seized upon the inpense of one Negro being made a judge one drive to sell the edition of 10, 000 ees from Spain and Germany.
The Russian workers, aided by the internamuch as a fight. They brilliant Garden, the stalinists boycotted vasion of Finland as an opporNegro, be it noted.
within a period of three weeks As second of the brilliant vic ly executed thousands of revo the picket lines. Similarly the tunity for laying the basis for tional proletariat, must and will overthrow StalHere and there a Negro may squeeze into an through house to house canvass tories. the Daily Worker lists lutionaries who were fighting in Stalinista made practical prepar military intervention against the in. But until then? Until then, if we are loya!
appointment. But salvation for the race from against ations for their coming pact with USSR. Soldiers are being sent to cies, home relief bureaus, at un chief grave digger in this inter. Franco. General Miaja, still a Coughlin inspirer, Hitler, by join the Finnish bourgeois armUnion against the capitalist world. The Soviet any of these Republicans or Democrats who have ion halls, and in important shop ment, Hitler, is not mentioned by member in good standing of the boycotting the Aug 19 counter ies, funds and arms, the sinews Union cannot be defended by Stalin? The worksystematically deceived the Negro people for pin gcenters of the City. In addit. name, but praise for his major Communist Party today, was in demonstrations initiated by the of war, are pouring into Finland ing class efforts for his overthrow must be reseventy five years? No. The Republicans make tion public meetings on Jobs Not role in the job is nonetheless ap charge of the practical work con Socialist Workers Party.
doubled. But his overthrow can have meaning no promises. The New Dealers make them but being held parent.
do not mean it. And that is the only difference throughout the city.
Battleships are nected with these brilliant vic. In the nation wide WPA strike The Allies have made the most of only it in the interim we defend the Soviet Unbetween them.
ion against its capitalist enemies. The defeat of Then follow as brilliant victories. Stalin added the final of last summer against Roose the opening provided by Stalin tories under the leadership of niceties of his executioner touch velt slashes of relief, the Stal and are now whipping up a tre Stalin by the capitalists means capitalist restoration in the Soviet Union. Not a political revoluStalin the holding of an agricult the tragedy of Spain by refus, inists again boycotted the work mendous campaign of sympathy NEITHER KING NOR FUEHRER Speech of tural exhibit, an increase in the ing admittance of the Spanish crs, piously accepting Roosevelt for poor little Finland and hattion will come in the wake of invading capitalist United Press and Associated Press dispatches grain harvest, moral and politic refugees to the Soviet Union and notorious strike breaking dictum, red for Russian imperialism.
armies, but the overturn of the national economy.
from London, dated January 2, repeated at face Thus Stalin has helped the al unity of the Soviet people, so thus condemning them to Fran. You can strike against the brilliantly revealed in the elec co axe or to starvation in the government, and attempting to forces of blackest reaction deal a That is what the lackeys of imperialism, the value crude British slander linking the Irish leaders, want. That is not what the workRepublicans with the Nazis. reported recorded on two discs; made tions, the Stalinist policy French concentration camps strangle strike action.
stiff blow against the distinction ers want. The role of the Lovestoneltes is to molseeking Nazi Aid was the headline over the for the New York meeting which averted the danger of they were lucky enough to be Last August, Stalin without so in the mind of the working class lify the workers and support the leaders story in the New York World Telegram and the the Soviet Union being drawn in able to escape Spain alive.
Post.
celebrating the tenth anniver te war, the pact with Germany, The Spanish collapse was the much as tipping off any section of between Sovlet forms and capiand the Traternal assistance ren major defest suffered by the threw overboard his entire five Stalin can well chalk down Roosevelt, Daladier, Chamberlain Hoover, the sary of the founding of the Scandinavian rulers, etc. etc. want to defeat the The alleged evidence cited in the story to jusdered by the Soviet Union to the working class during the five year Peoples Front policy against 1939 as a banner year of brilSoviet Union for the benefit of the capitalist tify the imputation that fighters for a free IreFourth International in this Finnish people. year indeed of years of the Peoples Front policy fascism, dropped on his knees liant victories. The catastrophic world that, hope, nobody will deny. From land were inviting Nazi aid was that headquar country brilliant victories under Stalin of Stalin. Inasmuch as this policy before Hitler and signed ters of the outlawed had sent questionpact defeat in Spain alone would do somewhere in the capacious pockets of the imbrilliant leadership naires to all its units asking: What part would Only 50 sets available AND WATER IN it is proper to review its course with this blood stained henchman that and entitle him to place 1939) perialist juggernaut comes the squeak of Lovestone Thomas and their European similars: We you play in event of an invasion in this country?
THE FERGHANA CANAL!
briefly, as part of Stalin balance of the capitalist class. This cast even above the year 1926 in which a new sidelight on such brilliant he brought the British general want the Finnish armies to defeat the Soviet The dispatch thereupon identified the implica 00 each per set But this was not all by any sheet of victories.
victories of Stalin as the Mos strike to a disastrous end, 1927tion that the Irish Republicans would not deUnion for the benefit of socialism. Is this not the exact counterpart of the spectacle of the means. Stalin cup of victories STALIN POLISHED UP THE Cow Trials in which the accused 28 when he strangled the Chinese fend the country against invasion with the prop osition that the Republicans would collaborate left British Labor Party and French Socialist Get Yours To day!
is filled to overflowing. There was INSTRUMENT OF PEACE were charged as being allies of revolution, and 1933 when he sucan industrial increase in cer. The Peoples Front policy began Hitler; the execution of the Red ceeded in binding the hands of Party leaders proclaiming that they support the with Nazi German inva Send check or money ordertain Soviet industries which ex in 1935, taking the USSR into the generals on the same charge; the the German workers so tightly unst Germany for very different objec This is an old slander against Irish Republictives than those of Chamberlain and Daladier?
ceeded expectations (in other League of Nations, that thieves murder of an entire generation of that not a finger was lifted again not cash ans. It was best answered, ed, in 1916, when James words, dislocated industry. an kitchen, as Lenin had termed it, Bolsheviks in the purges; the bar st the Nazis as they chopped Is the analogy unfair? Then let somebody exConnolly displayed outside the headquarters of increased speed up of the work. but which Stalin dubbed an in ring of Soviet doors to Jewish re down the German labor move plain why.
the Transport Workers Union in Dublin, the ers through further extension of strument of peace.
fugees fleeing from Hitler pog ment and marched into power.
Stakhanovism, and. the build In France the Peoples Front roms.
The year 1939 has proved to famous slogan: Neither King Nor Kaiser! The Are Norman Thomas and Lovestone prepared Pioneer Publishers ing of a canal. On Dec. 31 the policy cost the working class all Fundamentally this pact was on the hilt that the only title Stalin to defend their patriotic position before working only Ireland to be defended, said Connolly, was 116 University Place canal will be opened water. the gains they had made from ly another capitulation forced on deserves is that which Trotsky class audiences, in debate with Trotskyist spokesan Ireland free of British rulers and their Irish New York, will rush into the Ferghana Ca 1934 to 1936 by militant strike Stalin by his abandonment of the long ago gave him: Stalin or men? We, for our part, would more than wellackeys.
nal.
action: 1939 ended with a mili policy of world revolution and his ganizer of defeats.
come coming to grips with these people.
Stalin Claims Year Of Bolshevik Victories Leon Trotsky