SOCIALIST APPEAL FEBRUARY 10, 1940 Kept Press Wants More Funds for er bare get into the road to replace Arnold Union Busting Drive General Manager: Lesson Learned 10 11.
The New Recession We don believe that Roosevelt and the ConSOCIALIST APPEAL gressmen and Senators are going to get away with their starvation budget. The American Vol. IV, No. Saturday, February 10, 1940 working class has the strength and the will to heir by James Burnham Published Weekly by the SOCIALIST APPEAL PUBLISHING ASSN.
that budget at this session of Congress, we proat 116 University Place, New York, Telephone: Algonquin 8547 pose the program for this session of Congress Government which we carry beside our front page masthead.
By RUTH JEFFRIES the bosses adding unneces industry real estate, financing, drive was launched last week sery labor.
and even the giant supply and Editors Clip it out and present it for adoption by your in the capitalist press to increase That Arnold has already in construction companies through John Lewis and FELIX MORROW MAX SHACHTMAN union.
to two and a quarter million dol dicted over 400 labor union of closely interlocking directorates.
lars the annual subsidy for the cials, with many more indict. ONE STEP ALL UNIONS The Labor Party Assistant Manager. anti trust division of the Dements to come, doesn begin to SHOULD TAKE NOW GEORGE CLARKE SHERMAN STANLEY After living for more than a year with the Aborig partment of Justice. That is the satisfy the Scripps Howard press.
Ines of Australia, the largest group of primitives in division, headed by Assistant At It says: Following is an excellent modSubscriptions: 00 per year: 00 for six months. the world, Dr. Davidson, anthropology professor torney General Thurman Arnold, Results thus far are small el resolution, already introduced What, exactly, led John Lewis to open up against Foreign: 00 per year. 50 for six months. Bundle of the University of Pennsylvania, concludes they are tronary drive to destroy the build by a widening of the faquiry as of which has just been received convention of the United Mine Workers? Where does Roosevelt and the Democratic Party at the recent which is concentrating on a reac compared with what can be done in unions in New York, a copy orders: cents per copy in the United States: centa as intelligent as modern Americans. They have adper copy in all foreign countries. Single coples: cents.
Justed themselves to their environment as intelligent intertrad os undon. Typical of the planned by the Justice Depart by us: it suggest that he is leading. ly sometimes think more intelligently than we barrage of newspaper propagan ment, the ultimate large scale Whereas, the Department of There is no doubt that Lewis is a sensitive reflector have da is a featured series in the success depending now only upon Justice and other governmental Reentered as second class matter December: ours, says Dr. Davidson, just returned from Scripps Howard chain. It pictures a grant by Congress of suicient agencies have indicted over 100 career, outstandingly by the organization of the CIO of mass opinion. He has proved this by his whole 1939, at the post office at New York, under the an expedition. It seems these aborigines don go Act of March 1879.
Arnold as a crusader who is funds.
around begging some slaver to enslave them, or go union officials under the terms of hungry with plenty food around.
slashing building costs, spurring itself. He now feels a groundswell of discontent, or the Sherman Anti Trust Act, and the construction industry on, etc. BANKS RESPONSIBLE FOR Whereas, this persecution of resentment against Roosevelt, beginning to grow One need go no further than HIGH COST OF HOUSING labor constitutes a direct viola not yet explicit enough to be noticed by the Gallup among the workers. It is undoubtedly there, though these articles, however, to see FIGHT WITH THE SOCIALIST that behind the nice phrases The indisputable testimony tion of the terms of the Sherman polls.
WORKERS PARTY FOR: st summer before the Anti Trust Act, which specificalabout eliminating corruption, presented Roosevelt is becoming too open and too crude in Arnold campaign is a direct as: Committee. which proved con from its provisions and is speTemporary National Economic ly exempts labor organizations his drive toward reaction. During the last year, he Job and a decent living for every worker.
sault on wage and hour standards clusively that Yabor is actually cifically directed only against the has had to appear more and more into the open: his Open the idle factories operate them under of unestramen Amersether types the least significant factor in the huge industrial monopolies and budgets propose the slashing of relief: he gives the workers control.
Perhaps more than any other section of the sons which, Anmol scriptshoptans strangle hold of the banks over on the Department of Justice are comes brazenly the head war monger.
ation to help break the WPA strike; his department of Justice smashes down on civil righ he beA Twenty Billion dollar Federal public works and housing program.
American labor movement, the union men and series lists first, prevention of important 1s never once alluded part of a large campaign of the Lewis speeches at the convention articulated the Thirty thirty 80 weekly minimum wage 30 women of Minneapolis have learned a pro cheaper hour weekly maximum for all workers on all jobs.
foundly important lesson in recent months the equipment and more efficient which blandly ignored the testi to destroy the effectiveness and He went in wordsfarther than the workers themo in the newspapers, most of present national administration resentment felt at this lengthening series of actions Thirty dollar weekly old age and disability need for MASS DEFENSE, for WORKING methods. and second hiring of mony when it was given. fighting strength of the entire la selves have yet gone in words, and thereby holds on pension.
labor in order to CLASS SOLIDARITY, against the bosses and make work.
bor movement, and thus to de to his position of leadership, at the front of the rising Expropriate the Sixty Families.
The papers buried in their back stroy the gains achieved by labor wave All war funds to the unemployed.
the boss government.
pages the testimony of Dr. The through many years of effort, and WHAT ARNOLD LEGAL people referendum on any and all wars.
Minneapolis is the best organized city of its PHRASES REALLY MEAN odore Kreps of the TNEC con Whereas, both the unions at CIO and the Administration suiting statt, who said that the filiated with the AFL and the No secret diplomacy.
size in the country. It got that way through An example of cheaper mate monthly carrying charge dic CIO will suffer if this union bustBut there was additional motivation as well. Until An independent Labor Party.
STRUGGLE AGAINST THE BOSSES AND rials is the attempt by contract tated by the banks is the really ing campaign is allowed to con year and a half or so ago, it was undoubtedly the case that the administration favored the CIO Workers Defense Guards against vigilante and THEIR POLITICAL AGENCIES. When the ors to bring to a building Job important point to attack, and tinuo unchallenged, against the AFL. This was shown by many decisions Fascist attacks.
federal government struck at Minneapolis labor sembled and adjusted for installa ered more by cutting the monthly SOLVED! That local Union No.
of the Labor Board, by the designation of bargaining 12. Full social, political and economio equality for by indicting 162 participants in last summer tion. The assembling and adjust carrying charge from to per go on record protesting the union units, etc. and was marked for Lewis himself by the Negro people. PA strike, a MASS DEFENSE was orga ing has been done inte en. ty per cent. The papers never pub Thurman Arnold and the Depart.
his easy personal entry to the White House. He was made to feel very much at home around the Presinized. The Central Labor Union, together with the Teamsters Joint Council, the Building Trades coolle labor. The plumbers unions lished at all the testimony of ment of Justice, with the aid and dential fireside.
insist that assembling and adjust Robert Davison, Pierce Founda approval of the Roosevelt admin It would hardly be correct to say that the penduCouncil, and the Printing Trades Council, set up ing shall be done on the job by tion housing director, who esti istration, and as opposed to the tum has swung today all the distance to the AFL an authoritative WPA Defense Committee. It union plumbers at union wages, mated that a 20 per cent cut in appropriation of further montes Here is a clear example of a con interest and amortization charges by Congress for this purpose, and Spring the private Washington letters had already has certainly been the trend. Last was joined soon by a similarly constituted comflict between bosses and unions would cut monthly fixed charges be it further begun to note that Congress and the White House mittee of the St. Paul trade unions. It was backed over wages and working condi 16. 69 per cent; that 20 per cent RESOLVED: That we request were paying more serious attention to the AFL leadYou will recall that barrage of statements by by the Minnesota Federation of Labor and the tions. Yet, under the crooked for off material cost would knock our International Office and the ers than to the CIO.
government and business spokesmen which AFL executive council. Equally important, at naturally all coolie worked goods charges but that alike cut in la great educational campaign exThe Labor Board, with Leiserson replacing Smith, flooded the press the first week of January, her meetings and demonstrations and tag days, it will be cheaper Arnold seeks to bor costs would subtract only posing the alms and purposes of has been handing down frequent decisions with an alding a year of unprecedented prosperity. It is mobilized the masses on behalf of the indicted rule for the bosses against the 67 per cent!
this anti union campaign, and be AFL slant. It is rumored that, in the talks dealing interesting to note how deliberate the capitalists WPA strikers. Throughout the country labor unionin The papers with war plans in their relation to labor, Lewis is ver bothered to it further Hiring of unnecessary labor reveal that the banks, which RESOLVED: That copies of not being given much consideration. At the same are in their duplicity. While holding carrots in unions came to their defense. great wave of time, Lewis has more difficulty arranging conversabecomes a crime under Arnold Arnold declared as not within this resolution front of our noses to keep us plodding along, sent to John protest rolled up to the White House.
ruling. But the whole fight of the scope of his investigation, Lewis (or Wm. Green. our Intions with the smiling chief of the White House.
they don deceive themselves. While, for examHere, then, was a second group of reasons calling Roosevelt retreated. But he tried to make a unions against speed up, stretch control every important factor, ternational office and the labor out, etc. is always countered by except labor, in the construction press.
for public action by Lewis.
ple, the New York Times read by many work virtue out of necessity. In quashing the indicters was printing the abovementioned optimistic ments against the remaining 125 indicted WPA What Is Lewis After?
forecasts, its own business weekly, the Annalist workers, Assistant Attorney General Rogge Lewis seemed to be burning a good many bridges read primarily by substantial businessmen was quoted Roosevelt as saying the indicted men and by his remarks. But a careful study of what he said, and left unsaid, shows that there were not so many telling an entirely different story. The January women had learned their lesson the lesson teeth behind the barks.
Annalist described the economic tendencies as being they have no right to conduct a strike. almost as pronounced as those which preceded For a labor bureaucrat to express the resentment The President felt the duty of the WPA workby Dwight Macdonald of the workers does not at all mean that he will act the 1937 38 depression. two weeks later it was ers had been made clear.
Letter from Canada But now it the million who are bent, was to implement this resentment. Indeed, history shows saying bluntly: The art of business forecasting But that courtroom full of defendants and the rejoinder that most often the expression serves to quiet down friend sends in a letter he received from a One thing might be added to this account: it and divert the resentment: If it were allowed to rehas become very simple and business activity is their union brothers gave the lie to Roosevelt friend in Winnipeg, Manitoba: is estimated that 75 per cent of Canada volun main bottled up, it might explode in ways most awk.
declining. Its perspective was, indeed, as black hypocritical statement. They didn t, they would My Dear As for your request for news teers were unemployed.
ward for the bureaucrat. There is no good reason to as one could paint it: The longer get away t, learn the lesson that Roosevelt tried to of how people here are taking the war, as yet that is beyond me. can only tell of one section, How Much Longer imagine that Lewis intended to do much more than carry out this time worn function of the labor bureaufrom the year 1937, it confessed, the more teach them by indicting them and jailing them. of a stroli took late yesterday on Main Street, cracy.
that year for some industries looks like a halcyon Those 125 men and women who were walking along those few blocks north from the city haji Will They Be Patient?
period of prosperity never again to be duplicated, out free KNEW that if Roosevelt had been able to the tracks.
Last July and August, 775, 000 rpen and wo In order to keep his hold on the workers, he has That was quite an unsavory district late Satjust as the year 1929 looked for many years.
got to show more than he has been able to during to go through with it, they would, instead, be men were dropped from the WPA rolls. On Janurday nights even when you lived here, as uary 25, Col. Harrington announced that of these the past year. Unquestionably his speeches were Compare these utterances with what the Times marching handcuffed to long jail terms.
guess you will recall. Last night it really 776, 000. just 100, 750 (or 18 per cent) had found meant as bargaining threats directed to the leaders Those 125 men and women are free today hummed. The worst yet.
was saying for mass consumption. jobs in private industry by the end of last Noof both the Republican and Democratic parties. He is It is clear we are sliding into a new recession vember. And half of these lucky 13 per cent thanks only to the magnificent MASS DE Hundreds of troops packed the sidewalks. Obtrying to remind them that if they want to get labor viously they had just drawn their first army pay. were earning less in their private jobs than they votes, they will at the very least have to give more. or to be more accurate, into a further dip in the FENSE organized by the labor movement of Indeed, for many of them it must have been the had received on WPA. Remember this figure, Hip service to labor.
permanent economic crisis. For five weeks the Minneapolis.
first pay day in their hungry, thwarted, distorted the next time you hear Roosevelt getting off his do not, however, think that he himself took even authoritative New York Times business index That the lesson they learned in Minneapolis! Ilves, and with pennies to jingle, patriotism. cer line about private Industry absorbing those his predictions of Inglorious defeat for Roosevelt, tainly reached new mad, drunken heights. Boys dropped from WPA. That is a lie, and Roosevelt has been moving downward from 107, dropping if Roosevelt tries a third term, as literally as the became base, girls cheap. For you know, dear knows it.
words would seem to say. If Roosevelt runs againabout a point a week. Time magazine index, you can take thwarted kids straight What became of the 87 per cent who did not and it seems to me the most probable variant which attempts, with some success, to report not from prolonged chronic starvation, make them find Jobs According to Col. Harrington, 28 per think Lewis will still want to go along. Roosevelt is on business volume but on changes in underlying murderers above the eyes, stuff their pockets cent of them got onto local rolle rolls (where clever enough to give him a formula which will help with unfamiliar dollars, and expect them to be him in re writing his convention predictions.
conditions likely to affect the volume of busiangels from the navel down. Along the month. 27 per cent were taken back onto WPA, street, bulging saloons slopped out Polish speak and 32 per cent were without support of any There has been much gossip in Washington of Lewing Scots in kilts, Waiting prostitutes patriotic kind except what they could procure through meaning of which is plain from Time comis dickering with members of the Republican Naally set bargain prices for the ejected soaks. Federal surplus commodities, by the sale of their tional Committee. Many of the younger men in the inent: Since this approximates the weekly aver In last week issue, we discussed a pro Fin little mimeographed socialist anti war sheet effects, by doubling up with relatives, or by beg administration are convinced that Lewis wants to age for last summer, the Index thus fails to nish, pro preparedness resolution adopted at two was selling like hot cakes. got a great kick ging.
swing the CIO into the Republican column next Noshow any net improvement in basic conditions The Colonel also pointed out that before the vember the Republican Party, until a few years branch membership meetings of the Sailors Un when spotted Lucille buying one you since the outbreak of war. Do you remember ion of the Pacifis. We ventured the opinion that have to go. It was an inspiriting sight harmless end of June he must drop 700, 000 more men and ago, has been Lewis traditional allegiance women from the WPA rolls. Does your report Madame Perkins predictions New Year that the resolution did not speak the mind of the un little Lucille red facedly buying an illegal revolu point to a reduced WPA appropriation for next In the face of the attitude of most of the other construction would jump 25. First figures union heads, this would seem to be a move almost ion membership. The Feb. issue of the West tionary sheet.
year? he was asked. Hardly, answered the crossed the street to the politer side to buy available are for the first three weeks of the Colonel. But his boss in the White House has too dangerous even for Lewis. It is noteworthy that Coast Sailor, the union weekly, indicates that some matches. The storekeeper, usually a jolly already indicated he means to slash WPA next his remarks at the convention were almost all in the year: a drop of 39 from the same period last we were right.
fellow, appeared very downcast. He been watch year, just as he did this year, mode of a critical, left supporter of the Democrats.
year, the drop being mostly due to curtailment An editorial, discussing a Stalinist booklet, ing the doings across the way.
How much longer are the unemployed going He was calling on the Democratic Party to be sen Cold tonight, isn it. Fellow just been to take it in silence and submission? few realsible about labor.
of PWA. Steel production, the most important The Yanks Are Not Coming, exposes the in, said there been 20, 000 recruits in Manitoba ly militant mass demonstrations, the sort of item in any index, dropped to 71. from its fakery of the Stalinist peace line, and then already. There ll be millions killed again. thing that scared the bosses and their political What of a Labor Party?
pre Christmas high of 94. of capacity and concludes. agreed, and, the War Acts being what they stooges in 1931 and 1932, that what is needed are, merely added that in ancient Egypt the fig.
to show Franklin he can get away with it.
this is only the beginning, for steel orders are reThere is not the slightest indication in Lewis acure 1, 000, 000 was represented by a picture of a tions that he is moving toward a labor party for If we are sincere about staying out of ported as coming in at 45 of capacity.
The White House lawn can be used for other this year. Here also, his words were, if man bent in bewilderment at the enormity. things besides Easter egg rolling!
labor In a word, there are no jobs for the ten milthe war we must accept the fact that it will signed to head off, not to further, incipient departy sentiment. Lewis remains convinced that a lalion unemployed and their families, and more only be done through prolonged and militant bor party is unrealistic politics in this country, men and women and their children are being struggle on the part of the workers.
with its two party parliamentary structure.
added to the unemployed army every week. We have only one road to follow if we Nevertheless, Lewis was compelled to say more Roosevelt proposes, in his budget, to dump some are going to keep the politicians and the than he doubtless wanted to. The only possible logical Wall Street exploiters from sacrificing the conclusion from his attack was, in actuality, a clean 800, 000 of these unemployed, now subsisting on lives of thousands of American workers.
break with both of the boss parties and the building WPA, into the streets; for it is clear he will not That is the road of Gene Debs and Bill Hayof a labor party. Though he refused to state the conclusion, Lewis really proved that labor cannot make be throwing them off the WPA into private jobs. wood. It is not the road that the Stalinists)
use of the boss parties and must have a party of its In addition, about 250, 000 who worked on PWA Mike Quin and his cronies have in mind for Speakers: own. There must have been many delegates at the convention, and many workers throughout the coun jobs during the last year are to have their jobs us, because theirs is lined with misinformatry, who drew this conclusion for themselves in spite wiped out under the budget; in fact their jobs tion and illusions and can only prepare the of their not hearing it from the platform.
lamb for the slaughter.
Nat Secretary, Socialist Workers Party Former Yorkville leader are already being wiped out, more than half of first step to put this conclusion into practise those working on PWA in September having This West Coast Sailor editorial expresses the will have to be the realization that a fight for an FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 16, p.
independent labor party now is a fight against Lewis.
already been fired as the PWA tapers off to its proletarian stand against the imperialist war and We must not allow Lewis bold words to deceive us complete extinction on June 30. Ten million unis at the opposite pole from the pro Finnish resinto thinking that he intends to follow them with olution. If the sailors consistently take this posiYORKVILLE CASINO, 210 EAST 86th STREET, bold actions next summer and autumn. If Lewis goes employed, no private jobs to be had, and Rooseinto a labor party, it will be because he sees as the tion, they will repudiate the Finnish resolution.
Auspices: Local New York, Admission: TWENTY FIVE CENTS alternative getting out of the labor movement altovelt wipes out more than a million jobs there The road of Gene Debs and Bill Haywood is not gether. It would be a fine thing if that choice could the picture.
the road of Mannerheim army.
be put before him.
SPARKS IN THE NEWS nes, skidded this week from 100. to 97. 6, the Sailors Speak Out ANTI WAR MEETING HOW CLOSE ARE WE TO WAR?
JAMES CANNON SARAH RICE