SOCIALIST APPEAL FEBRUARY 3, 1940 GLEAM THROUGH THE CENSORSHIP Auto Workers LEWIS MOVE ON REFLECTS MASS FEELINGS UMW SCORES CUTS IN AID TO JOBLESS Stalinistsand the New Deal LABOR WITH ITSELF WHITE SKIN The WHERES LABRANDED. KARL MARX Negro Question By JOHNSON Almost nothing appears in the such an appeal, even if worded one occasion only to pass four ous liberation of the oppressed are sent from Kharkov, Kieff, and Minsk Russian and Stalinist press de with extreme caution, it is im fundamental resolutions. They blood brethren.
They Want Security On First of all, as we showed last week, lynching The agrarian revolution in So So far the authorities have rescribing any of the details of the possible to constitute a new re are to proclaim the introduction The Job And Decent has nothing to do with the protection of white new economic set up in the ter gime will on the morrow un of the Soviet system into their viet Poland has had the force of trained from much anti religious womanhood. Let us once more nail that lie.
ritories of former Poland occu doubtedly suppressed by ruth territories; to incorporate the a spontaneous movement. As propaganda. Clerics who engage Living. And Nothing Some months ago the refusal of Miami Negroes pled by the Red Army. The fol less police measures in order to territories in the Soviet Union; to soon as the report spread that in political activities are perseto be frightened away from the polls the Ku lowing article, which appeared in assure the preponderance of the expropriate the large landowners the Red Army had crossed the cuted, but for political reasons Less Will Serve Klux Klan made national headlines in all the the Times of London, December bureaucracy over the awakened and distribute the land among River Zbrucz the peasants began and not as expressions of an anNegro papers and even had some attention in 12 (part of it was published in revolutionary masses. the peasants; and to nationalize to share out among themselves ti religious drive. The separation the capitalist press. It was only afterwards that the Times with a mislead The awakened revolutionary the banks and large scale indus the landlords acres. Land was of church and State, one of the By JULES GELLER we learnt what had frightened off the Klan. The given first to smallholders, and cardinal points in the old Bolshe FLINT, Michigan mass rally of 5, 000 GenNegroes sat in their houses waiting for the Klan ing introduction. appears to be masses, having been encouraged tries.
in this way about 30 per cent of vist program, was not included a sober and realistic account. it into activity to expropriate the RUSSIAN OFFICIALS eral Motors workers here on January 21 served to with loaded Winchesters across their laps. Backed agricultural land was expropriat. in the agenda of the National As underline with startling clarity both the growing provides some details of the com land and establish control of the FACE DIFFICULTIES by this not to be despised argument, American plex inter action of the three factories, do not relapse into pas There will be difficulties in all ed. But any attempt to introduce semblies.
militancy of the auto workers and the incapacity democracy won a small victory.
major factors in the situation: sivity at the subsequent com this. In the occupied territories collectivization by force would All spheres of communal life of the official union leaders to make progressive Now a similar situation is developing in Green The nationalized economy of mand of the but seek to the peasantry and a small section immediately break the friendly in the occupied territories, whe use of the fighting spirit of the union men.
ville, South Carolina. Both sides are primed for the Soviet Union, which dictated carry on in the revolutionary of the intelligentsia regard them relations between the peasants ther economic, political or cultur Much the greatest stress was placed, by George civil war. The Klan is determined that the Ne to the Stalinist bureaucracy the spirit appropriate to the new selves as of Ukrainian or white and the authorities.
al, are in a state of flux. Nothing Addes, International Secretary Treasurer of the groes shall not vote. The Negroes are determined economic transformation of the economy. These hotheads are Russian nationality, while the in In industry, drastic acts of ex is definite, save one thing, the de United Auto Workers (CIO. upon the need for occupied territories.
that they shall. They are carrying on a campaign ruthlessly curbed by the Stalin dustrial workers in the towns are propriation have not yet been termination of the Moscow gov responsibility and condemnation of outlaw for registration in the city elections. James The role of the Stalinist ist bureaucracy.
Poles and, to some extent, Jews. carried out on a large scale. The ernment to maintain absolute strikes.
Briar, 69 year old head of the local National As bureaucracy. The article verifies We publish below the original The Soviet authorities clearly main centers of the banking sys control. The new masters show The present leaders are unable to understand sociation for the Advancement of Colored People. Trotsky prediction of Sept. 25, text of the Times of London art show distrust of the Polish prole tem, the railway system and a an unconcealed disapproval of all, the current wave of unrest and outcry for action considered chiefly responsible for the agitation, shortly after the Red Army be icle: tariat. They have discarded the number of large industrial uneven Soviet, forms of local self which is shaking every plant to its foundations.
has been arrested for illegal possession gan to march into Poland: The Their only answer to the pressure of the ranks is use of Marxist terminology and dertakings were state owned for government.
This time Briar is defending not only democ appeal to the independent activThe Russians, in the part of discouraged the traditional pro years before the Russian occupaWill the Soviet regime be able decree against irresponsible slow downs and racy but his life. Klan visited his house a ity on the part of the masses in tion. In small and medium sized to establish itself firmly in the strikes.
few times in recent weeks, but he was always the new territories and without Poland they have seized, have not letarian outlook.
Proclamations, resolutions, and industries workmen now exercise former Polish provinces. Inter Fundamental Needs Cry Out out. According to the Amsterdam News reproduced the methods of the first years of the Bolshevik Revo articles in the press, carefully control over production (December 23, 1939. the Klan raided the Negro lution.
Contrary to general belief refrain from reference to the The industrialists nominally re great. The Russians will have to The wave of sporadic slow downs and repeated area and have beaten up men, stripped and huthere are as yet no worker and dictatorship of the proletariat, tain a full right of ownership in overcome considerable resistance, struggles which break out daily in plant after miliated women and destroyed some property.
peasant soviets in the occupied which in this case would have to their own establishments, but both Polish and Ukrainian. But plant, in a sort of disorganized guerilla warfare This conflict has been going on for months.
territory, and the Russian press mean the hegemony of the Polish they are compelled to submit the chances of establishing the against the corporations, expresses the fact that How does it affect the Negro? Enter your Southhas rather tended to emphasize section of the population. The statements of costs of production, new regime will not depend so the auto workers are being pressed to the wall ern scientist: Here is a situation where he Nethe difficulty that the political new authorities seek support and so on, for the consideration much on internal factors as on by their bosses.
gro uncontrollable lust for white women shows commissions have had in restrain from the pensantry and from the of the workmen delegates. The the development of the interna The auto workers are looking desperately for itself. William Anderson, 19 years old, presisolution to their need for security steady job.
ing hotheads. from. forming nonpolitically minded Ukrainian latter, jointly, with the employ tional situation and the course of dent of the local NAACP Youth Council and very them. The administration is being intelligentsia who alone are disers, fix wages, conditions of work, relations between Moscow and Men on the production line are restless, jittery, active in the registration campaign, was framcarried on by provisional local posed to submit passively to the and a just rate of profit for Berlin, ill tempered. looking for a way out of their ed some time ago for disorderly conduct and commissars and agents. directions of Moscow.
the industrialist.
insecurity, trying to find an answer to their need breach of the peace, charges by the authorities, Representatives of the local pop The Communist party has so The Russian authorities attach for a job not six months out of the year, not who insisted he had tried to date a white girl (Continued from Page 1) ulation have only an advisory far been entirely inactive in the great importance to the organiza subject to the whim of Du Pont or Sloane buta in town. There you have the kernel of lynching auto, rubber, oil the very nerve voice.
guaranteed income twelve months out of the year, occupied territory. The Commu tion of cultural life on Soviet in the South. The authorities bring a case. The centers of American economy.
These committees organized nist party of Western Ukrainia models. The schools are being reevery year, day in and day out. Now production mob is less subtle. It tears the victim to pieces. Lewis has seen the militant the election campaign for the and Western Bielorussia was, organized and subordinated to goes up, several thousands more go to workIt is is a principle of propaganda today to smear workers of these industries in formation of the National As along with the Polish Communist the demands of official propagannext month out they go. From this fundamental your enemy with the crimes of which you your battle. He knows their indomit semblies of Lwow and Bialystok. party, disowned by the Comin. da. The leading educational posts situation arise the daily protests.
self are guilty. Hitler is a past master at the able courage and their determin. In this campaign there were no tern two years ago, being accus are filled by trusted Soviet offThose with the courage to see the truth recogart, Stalin its greatest exponent, living or dead ation to win economic security class restrictions, at least in the ed of Ukrainian nationalism and cials. young reader in history nize that to secure the justifiable demands of the The South acts on the same principle. The South for themselves and their families. ory, but only one list of candi of acting in the interest of the in Kieff has been appointed Recworkers means a most determined battle against ern gentlemen pester the Negro women with Knows What Is Coming the corporations and against the power of the dates was submitted, and the Na Polish police and of Hitlerism. tor of the old Lwow University their attentions. They accuse the Negro of this, Lewis has learned, in the re tional Assemblies were monolith The distrust and hostility mant. The use of the Polish language state which would undoubtedly be mustered to their own besetting sin.
cent years, to understand what ie, in accordance with the best tested by Moscow toward all po 15 discouraged, the Ukrainian and discussion and denounced the Ranks Unafraid of Struggle (Continued from Page 1)
back the corporations.
independent strength the Ameri totalitarian models.
litical sections of the Ukrainians White Russian languages are Who Are the Savages?
can trade unions possess. Dis The assemblies are not meant and White Russians, including those in which lectures are deliv. Eureau of Mines as anti union.
turbed by the deep, subterran to be permanent legislative bod the Communist party, shed an in ered, and Russian has become a He attacked Secretary Ickes for Who are the Savages in this lynching busiof.
can rumblings of dissatisfaction ses. They have been convened for teresting sidelight on this curi compusory subject. Textbooks previously ignoring the recom. They showed it at the rally, as they stamped, ness? In his recent book, The Black Man In mendation of the United Mine cheered and shouted lustily every time the 30 White America, John Van Deusen, Professor beginning to roar out against Werkers and demanded voice of American History and Government in Hobart the New Deal and higher corte Two Views: Front and Back hour week at 10 hours pay was so much as in the selection of the Bureau mentioned. It is this spirit of struggle which the College, details some of the practices of the He is demanding a higher price next director eaders fear to unleash. They lynch mobs.
rgot We know what the coal oper ten the sit downs.
In Mississippi a Negro woman had five splinderstands the impending revolt ators of this country want, Low Since this meeting, the General Motors Departand is determined to lead it.
ters run into her body and was then slowly is exclaimed. They want to con ment of the UAW has published in the union paTo lead it, of course, in a safe burned alive by white men because the mob had per the demands it intends to submit to the cordirection, not toward the necesfailed to capture her husband. Texas mob burntheir inalienable right to butcher poration.
ed a Negro in a courthouse vault. Georgian a deal with capitalist politicians.
sary Laber Party but back into men in the mining industry, rath There is a peculiar separation of these demands mob beat an insane man to death in a hospital.
By OHRIS ANDREWS Obviously, Lewis made no efopoly capitalism in the United and as a scheme to create illu er than spend the money to make into two categories. Immediate and basic. Tennessee mob tied a fifteen year old boy to The New Deal lamb has laid States. For example: The iron sions among the working masses the mines safe.
According to this arbitrary separation, the UAW train. Mobs in Tennessee and Georgia disemfort to reach an agreement on down with the reactionary lion. and steel code, according to a re and to turn them away from the. No member of the Federal negotiating committee will ask only routine imboweled pregnant women. In Louisiana they his new anti Roosevelt policy so cried Earl Browder to the cent Federal Trade Commission with the other top officials of Communist Party members gath report, placed domination of the social for unemployment and Congress has been required to provements in grievance procedure and in seniorsewed a man in a sack, weighted it with stone, insurance.
gather up the charred remains of the CIO, prior to its presentation ity regulations in the parleys with General Moand threw him into a lake. In Mississippi they buried a man up to his neck, placed a steel cage to the Miners convention. The ered in Madison Square Garden policies of the steel industry in men burned to death in the mines tors.
On Negro workers: Condi and to carry these burnt bodies to the major units; reThe basic demands. 1) Guaranteed annual over his head, and loosed a bull dog into the next day, Hillman, President of on January 22.
sulted in sharp price increasestions of Negroes have grown the undertaker. If the members of wage, 30 hour week of five six hour days for cage. Mississippi mob bored corkscrews into Clothing it was only yesterday that and price fixing and legalized worse under the NRA. With the the Congress had done this, he Workers of America and Emil Browder and the whole Stalinist monopolistic practises and aims adoption of NRA codes thousands continued sarcastically, they steward system. 3) Vacations with pay for all 40 hours pay. 2) Complete recognition of shop the flesh of Luther Holbert and his wife, in arms Rieve. President of the United press were lavishing their praise previously by the Commission. have been fired and replaced by would find time to take five minlegs, and body, and then pulled them out, the white workers on jobs where Neutes to pass at least the Neely Textile Workers of America, re on the progressive New Deal spirals pulling with them big pieces of raw quivemployees covered by the contract; etc none of How about the workers under groes were being paid less than Bill.
these will be presented in the present parleys ering flesh every time. Henry Lowry was burned jected the Lewis policy and urged and advising all good communcontinued support for a Roose ists to support Roosevelt. Now Roosevelt? The Stalinists told us the established minimum wage with the corporation. They will be left to gather to death over a slow fire in 1921. Inch by inch velt third term. David Dubin today they wall of betrayal. thenscales. Low NRA wage mintDemand Law As Right the Negro was fairly cooked to death. Nine dust until after the NLRB elections.
In other words, the UAW is offering in reality months later men, women and children in Hub sky, President of the Internation and ingratitude. Is it true? Do The so called right to organ mums were considered too much Lewis added that the miners only a routine program which cannot by any bard, Texas, roasted a Negro to death and, to al Ladies Garment Workers Un the Stalinists really have a right ize and bargain collectively money for Negroes. The Federal do not ask the passage of the measure be said to meet the real demands of the both the AFL to speak of betrayal. Were the through representatives of their government itself has given legal Neely Bill as a favor, they deincrease his pain, jabbed sticks into his mouth, ion, independent workers. If the corporation refuses to grant even and CIO, is expected to take a Honest Stalinists really deceived own choosing has proved to be a sanction to this discrimination mand it as a right.
nose and ears. 1937 a mob at Duck Hill, MisThe 82 page Officers report similar stand this week in the by the Bad New Dealers with delusion for workers and a weap policy, long the practice of souththe routine demands, the auto workers will be sissippi, tortured two Negroes with a blow torch faced with the prospect of a long and debilitating magazine Newsweek.
False Promises. before shooting them. Occasionally fingers, toes on for employers to prevent or ern employers, by providing low pointed out that the Bureau of Sure of His Ground strike at the end of which a victory will bring and ears have been cut off the living wretch and Lewis The Socialist Workers Party in ganization and or force through er wage scales in southern states Mines was guilty of a series of them no nearer their real goal.
distributed for souvenirs. Photographs are quickkeenly aware of this its press long ago analyzed the their company union schemes.
and aimed especially at the Negroes, bureaucratic regulations, opposition inside the CIO, but venal and degenerate corruption The open shop has been legal are exempt even from the low report further pointed out that ly sold out.
Black workers in some instances pussyfooting the real issues. The On the other hand, if the corporation grants is convinced that economic con of the Stalinist leadership. One ized by the inclusion in the auto minimums of the code.
the routine demands, the real issue will only be And the authorities?
ditions and the dissatisfaction on thing, however, we never charged mobile code of the notorious mereven if the Neely Bill becomes postponed. The NLRB elections will probably be the part of millions make it ob against Browder and his lackeys it clause as well as by Roose The Stalinists today could con unless the Bureau of Mines is or effective struggle can be waged in slack season law, its effects will be nullified held after the peak of the production season. No Huey Long did not think it worth while to ligatory to break with Roosevelt hother himself about an investigation. It would and take the leadership of this pid as to honestly believe in General Johnson, clarifying Sec expert analysis of the New Deal. evils of incompetence, inexperi we never said they were so stu: velt statement in a letter to gratulate themselves upon their ganized to exclude the present for the basic demands. t do the dead nigga no good. When a Negro new movement. This, Lewis bei the New Deal they supported. it tion (a) and stating that there they could tell the workers that ence and the transfer of funds to glaring injustices of the system of But the ranks are getting tired of waiting. The association sent a telegram to Governor Bilbo lieves, will fully compensate for was precisely the fact that they is nothing in the provision of Sec. they predicted all along the pres. relatively unimportant functions.
protesting against a lynching, Bilbo replied, Go vate profit the non support Hillman. It to hell. Cole Blease, Governor of South Caroalways knew from the beginning tion (a) to interfere with the ent drive against organized labor is, of course, a foregone conclu the falseness of Roosevelt prom bona fide exercise of the right of by Roosevelt, the continuance of for vigorous action to force pasThe convention went on record is becoming increasingly unbearable.
dina, said to a leader of a mob. will turn you loose when charged with lynching a Negro who will follow the Lewis polley and derstood completely th. sham advance employees on the basis top for the big corporations, the Bill in the House, where it now The Money Is There!
is accused of assault on a white woman. On anthat it will carry in the CIO character of his reforms it was of individual merit.
General Motors will declaré a net profit for other occasion, when campaigning for election Executive Board.
banks and the whole parasitic rests in the Rules Committee.
to the Senate, Blease found himself 1939 of at least 150, 000, 000. One fourth of this Union, precisely this fact that made the Lewis and his lieutenants are stalinist betrayal so much more the chief aims of NRA has been erty at the bottom back in 1934 That strike breaking is one of Sixty families, the grinding povFor Anti Lynch Law where not long before a lynching had taken tremendous loot sweated out of the workers will place. He marked the occasion feelingly: Whenconvinced that the coming period neinous and criminal The convention also passed go to the DuPont dynasty, all the rest to a small will be marked by great expanproven by Recovery Administra they understood correctly the real ever the Constitution comes between men and resolutions endorsing federal an group of coupon clippers. That net profit would sion of all war industries and THEY KNEW BETTEK tor statements, code provisions, character of the New Deal.
the virtue of the white women of South Carolina, ti lynching legislation and input 100, 000 unemployed to work in the plant at a that the CIO, with its industrial IN 1983 1985 agreements prohibiting strikes, say to hell with the Constitution.
But they will not so remind structed the International officers yearly average wage of about 1500.
structure and its modern and ag.
To prove this, it is only neces and published advice from NRA the workers. Because every re to work for passage of an anti Think of it! 100, 000 men could be given a year. Only Stage gressive methods of organization, sary to turn back to the Stalin encouraging establishment of minder would evoke the bitter lynching bill in this session of round guaranteed wage, the work week could be will be enabled to win definite ists analysis of the first years of strike breaking machinery.
response: If you knew then, Congress.
cut down to 20 hours and the same productive These gentlemen make moderate speeches hegemony of the trade union Roosevelt. Leaving aside for the On the National Labor Board: why did you lie to us after The convention lashed out capacity preserved, if. if the auto workers about states rights in Congress. But that is not movement. That is why he is de moment the editorial pages of fiercely against the Dies Com would take back what rightfully belongs to them.
the language and the arguments they use to termined that the cro unions the Daily Worker where, day at Delay, exhausting the physical wards and policies, under no conditions, ter day, the Stalinists in Third of the strikers, while at the same SERVE STALIN GAME mittee which it described as the endurance and financial resources THEN AND NOW, THEY their own constituents. Let the last word be with greatest achievement of anti The growing realization of these facts is what Franklin Roosevelt, President of the United be subordinated to the moribund Period delirium described Roose time giving the employers ample labor forces that specialize in is causing turmoil and unrest in the auto plants.
States, the great crusader for human rights AFL Executive Council. This vell as a Fascist. let us cite time to fortify their already Yes, the Stalinists knew just skillful propaganda to demoralA desire to rectify the situation, to break the bonds and chains which hold down production, against Hitler and other enemies of democracy. What has he to say about lynching? Zoro. of prepared Labor which lock out hundreds of thousands of workDistrict Autonomy Loses ers, is what is bringing about the so called outExactly that. Not a word of rebuke to the fu Dan Tobin of the Teamsters Un Fact Book of the stalinists, pub principal tactic employed by the represented. But then came the against organized labor.
ion.
busterers who year after year have killed the lished by International Publish: labor boards in weakening work order from Moscow. Stalin foreign policy, from 1935 until 1939, As in every recent Miners conlaw actions in waves in the plants.
bill. And why? Because Roosevelt knows that ers, using the volumes of 1934 ers militancy.
ball Fight For Labor Party!
required playing with vention, the fight for the restora It is clear the UAW leadership does not take lynching is no accidental phenomenon. It is rootand 1936, where the New Deal The NRA has widened the gap Roosevelt. it did not matter to tion of district autonomy took seriously a struggle for the real interests of the Progressives in every local un measures ed not only in the history but in the whole ecowere carefully ion must now convince all rank viewed.
re between the purchasing power of Browder and his gang that Roose most time and occupied greatest auto workers. They are frightened by the prosnomic and social system of the South. These and file unionists of the utter the consuming masses and the velt, before and after 1935, was attention under the discussion of pect of the struggle. Insofar as the demands of cost of living. It first established the same Roosevelt, that in the the Officers Report. In spite of Southern politicians are not defending white Here is what they said THEN a fixed and very low level of wag years 1935 1939 his measures the determined fight bankruptcy, not only of the oldthe workers are advanced at all, it is under pres womanhood. They are defending Southern fashioned Gompers reward your es.
numerous sure from the ranks, as mere lip service. Only the property, power and privilege. In their attempt to find a way against the workers increased. delegates from West Virginia and organization of this pressure against the Reutherfriends and punish your enemies out of the crisis, the capitalist And Franklin Roosevelt is defending SouthPolitics, but also the streamlined class and its government in Roosevelt budget is designed to cars than the anguished voices trict autonomy, the combined real demands of the auto workers on the order of On the Roosevelt Budget: The Stalin voice was louder in their Illinols for the restoration of dis. Thomas leadership will put the struggle for the ern property. power and privilege too. So that it Lewis of playing around Southern property, power and privilege need to with capitalist politicians. The tactics. Especially since the inau. Support the tottering financial or the hungry and jobless. With pressure of Lewis and his lleu the day.
keep this two edged sword between black and bankruptcy the old policies guration of Roosevelt on March Structure to reduce the names set about making Roosevelt into the measure and to force continuSouth, Franklin keeps his in this field must be utilized to 4, 1933, progr.
ance of the natterasane and carry through the inflation a lamb.
policy, with pow woman with a high bred air, carrying mouth shut. If he and his New Dealers could put force the unions to break com other has been announced as a scheme, all at the expense of the And now, after five years of er lodged in the hands of the In Pekinese under her arm, entered a Minneapolis an end to lynching without disrupting the social pletely with all company union way to recovery. Please note working masses.
service of this kind to Roosevelt, ternational Executive Board to store recently, and when the dog showed signs and economic bruses of capitalism, they would Stalin has ordered a new change. grant each district autonomy as of thirst she took it over to the water fountain But first things come first. They leave lynching to utilize the energy, finances, but the capitalist class and its YES, THEY SAID THIS Now they cry out against Roose it sees fit.
and gave the beast a drink. Seeing this, floorwhere it is as a means of preserving the system. and strength of the unlons to government. IN THESE EARLY DAYS!
velt. For how long? For what The Miners Union, one of the walker timidly suggested that Our customers We, however, will not leave lynching where it is. build an independent political About NRA: NIRA is the key On PWA: The entire plan of purpose. NOT on behalf of the most militant and progressive in might not like to drink after a dog. Hearing party of labor, based on a fightWe support the attack on it in Congress. But this, the lady is frightfully taken aback. Oh, that is only a stage in the fight. It has to be torn ing program for jobs, security stone of the Roosevelt New Deal the Public Works Administration masses whom they so long tied to the country, continues to be run pardon me, she exclaimed: thought that founup by the roots, and the roots are in the capital and the struggle against fascism structure. This act greatly accel has been revealed as largely a Roosevelt! Now, as before, they in a highly autocratic manner by ist system.
the top machine headed by Lewis. tain was for your clerks!
and war.
erates the development of mon program for war preparations, are doing Stalin dirty work.