2 SOCIALIST APPEAL FEBRUARY 24, 1940 General Motors Had Bonanza Year, UNIONS WARNED WORKERS FORUM OF FRAMEUP But Its Workers Got Nothing Out of It IN MINNEAPOLIS NEGRO YOUTH BACK JAMAICA PICKET LINE the bor sought APPEAL ARMY An Agitator Stalks In Omaha Masses Heed His Hoarse, Compelling Voice TYPO UNION DROPPED BY the AFL nationally. And then, ST. LOUIS CENTRAL BODY having kicked 80. 000 members of Editor: the federation out, he will send By GEORGE CLARKE THE SPIRIT OF 37 The AFL Central Trades and out organizers to organize 1939 was a big bonanza year (Continued from Page 1) Labor Union on Feb. 11 suspendfor General Motors.
Minneapolis to aid in the forma ed Typographical Union Local buen anized. Green can tell this it must suspend the printAccording to the corporation tion of these independent un No. from membership, on or ers, but when he was here rereport on February 7, the coupon clippers cleaned up a cool 183, Associated Industries of William Brandt, Central Trades adjust a dispute between the fire000. 000. The DuPont crowd took Minneapolis launched a drive to secretary, was instructed by the men and oilers union and the en 35, 000, 000 of the swag raise a war fund of 315, 000 to body to include in the motion a gineers union. Funny thing is Let break down these big finance an ambitious anti union declaration that the body disap that Gibbons was in accord with program.
proves suspension of the printers. kicking out the CIO unions four numbers and see just how the profit was made: In a statement published in the Brandt himself declared: years ago.
August 4, 1938 Issue the Four Arths of the delegates For every one of an estimated Williams, one time na225, 000 employees the corporaWhen Mary Smith, a Negro sters Joint Council organ, deNorthwest Organizer, the Teamhere do not want to suspend tional president of the AFL Local know Bill Green has Building Trades Department, and tión took approximately 814.
The corporation received a profit the Pharmacists Union, their nouncing the order then issued no use for me and have less now a delegate of the Musicians of over 50 cents for every dollar boss, owner of Leach Pharmacy by Judge Reed permitting the use for him. But here is his Union, said: letter, telling us to dissociate predict that we will soon paid out in wages. profit of in Jamaica, Long Island, fired Anks access to the union recourselves from Local 8, and it see different set up in the roughly 119 car was made and them. The two workers promptly ords, the union said: we do not comply, our charter shareholders received 04 per AFL The skids are greased for set up a picket line.
Records Open to Labor from the AFL will be lifted. Bill Green, he is on his way share of common stock outstandLast week the Youth Council of We have no hesitation whatthe National Association for the soever in throwing open our recIt is a cold blooded proposition ing. This compares with 17 reout. But we will have to vote Advancement of Colored People ords to the tribunals of organized it. But we must cast aside all which confronts us. don like ceived by shareholders in 1938.
to comply with his order. He and the higher ups in the fedPar value of GM stock is 10 per investigated the dispute, and sev labor. So far as our financial rec sentiment and look to fu eration have us by the throat share.
eral of its members joined the ords are concerned, these have ture of this body. If our char think we should express our These big numbers smell like picket fine. The ensuing boycott been regularly audited, both by ter is lifted, another central resentment.
prosperity. Yes, indeed. Plenty of forced the owner to close his accountants for the Internation body will be set up here.
gravy for the fat parasites whose store until the local Pharmacists al Brotherhood of Teamsters, and Gibbons, president of Lo graphical Union have indicated National leaders of the Typofunction in production is sunning Association came to his aid.
their hides on swanky yachts in They appealed to the local pres countants. What we object to is opposed to the late International dently in the hope that the disFlorida or rebuilding the ruined fortunes of some broken down John Singleton who ordered the cess to our records. That is the plight of the printers union on is settled. Their refusal to pay European count to make him a youth members of the issue involved in Judge Reed international Officers who had the assessment to the war chest good match with one of their to cease supporting the strike.
order.
lead the printers into to fight the CIO is good pressure dissipated daughters Our stand is backed by the the CIO. This action by Green, on the AFI, for a decent peace.
But the youth refused. Now the 709 40EU It smelled like prosperity to be bors is dangling before the Negro Teamsters Joint Council and by he declared, will do no good; it sure but all the wage slaves on community an offer of an all the Minneapolis Central Labor suspends 80, 000 members from St. Louis, Mo. Romer the assembly lines, in the press Negro shop. He vows that, if Union. In the ensuing fight we rooms, the die shop and the It was battles like these that made General Motors recognize the Auto Workers Negroes will scab, he ll never em have the aid and counsel of our foundries the men whose sweat Union. This picture was taken before the huge Fisher Body No. plant in Flint. When ploy whites again. So far his tac superior body, the International and skill and muscle made the the General Motors Workers hit the ball again, they will be on the march for a living tics have been entirely unsuccess Brotherhood of Teamsters. We 119 profit on the Chevrolets. ful.
Buicks, Cadillacs, Lasalles, Ponannual wage for the men who produce America automobiles.
merely continue the glorious tradition of the trade union move.
tiacs and Oldsmobiles. all they ment, that labor and labor alone got was the smell.
ed bathtubs, twenty five dollar a shall have access to the records What the Workers Got plate dinners for monkeys rigged of the labor movement.
Most of the 225, 000 workers up in swallow tailed coats, 40, Gives Secrets to Enemy employed by General Motors in 000 for a coming out party for What Judge Reed has done is Detroit, Pontiac, Flint, Saginaw, some bourgeois brat, thousands to order us to surrender our inThe column of Red Sunday ites rad a special election over the Lansing and in the plants of Genfor sleek nags and sleeker stanermost secrets men who do is growing but very slowly. 1oo last weekend and our comradea eral Motors from Tarrytown, blos money to burn for pleasnot deny their membership in the slowly to record this week an ap there put on a special drive of to Los Angeles, who aver ure mad plutocrats.
Associated Cound of Indepen preciable difference in Appeal street sales to bring the party age on the conveyor belt almost What Could Be Done ient Unions. an open enemy of circulation.
program forward. From all re a car a minute, tidn make much Just suppose this 183, 000, 000 all unionism, an employer Boston and Detroit are still the ports the special Appeal met more in wages for an entire year were turned into wages and jobs By CARL SHEA If had not been to Omaha better be, or the better element financed organization whose open only two branches definitely act with considerable success in New than the 814 that the corpora for the auto workers: OMAHA, Nebr. The greatest and talked with the unemployed in Omaha will drive them out of tie with fascist gangster bands ively carrying on Red Sundays ark tion made in profit out of each olours could be reduced to 30 agitator that the American work myself, would not have believed office, was clearly revealed on Friday at least so far as we have inforunan.
We recommend this method to ing class has ever seen is at work it. But literally hundreds of unnights, July 29, at the silver ination in this office.
RELIEF OFFICIAL BACKED 75, 000 new workers (one here.
The corporation makes big other cities. particularly those employed men and women, in Shirts meeting in Ark Hall We have promises, however, on the West Coast which have propaganda out of the alleged third more) could be added to At this meeting, closed to the from branches that they intend distinct problems and distinct is This agitator has been at work talks with me have indicated BY FASCIST SHEET high wages paid to its em payroll at 1500 a year in Omaha for several years now. that the agitator has done his ployees. But the workers of Michowners associations indeed sup. Bugunization, noppenarrangement them so the branches will feel mimeographed headles and hollow.
225, 000 present employees He has been working quietly job well, igan, Ohio, Indiana and else would work thirty hours per Hmong the enemproyed. Thanks Life is struggle, they tell me port him. Magaret best friend with the Silver Shirt leaders, ap they must make good on their Newark noted species relate hollow where know differently, week for the same wages they The Lucky Workers now receive for forty hours organizational talents, there is one side is ourselves, the work. Ba Hudson os editor of Amer provided him with literature in Flint: Now we re re organizar treatment. It a poproposer work.
ers, the poor, we who have pro ica in Danger, a weekly mimeo Viting him to join the indepen nig Red Sunday sales and hope well worth considering for relief Lucky is the worker who puls in nine or even eight months of Every General Motors worker Section, which already has over nothing. On the other side are anti Semite, former compengent union. while the Silver to be able to increase our bundle crises, election Is this reform necessary? in Omaha, the Federal Workers duced everything and who have graphed sheet, avowed fascist, campaigns, Tshirt speakers called upon their soon. Frank Dart.
the year working. Lucky 18 the will agree it is more than nec four hundred members and is the rich, the owners, those who union organizer, defender of listeners to organize armed bands Lynn, Mass. We are institut strikes, union conventions, etc. etc.
worker who can get through the essary, it is imperative.
produce nothing and have every Charles Coughlin and the Chris. to raid the headquarters of Loing Red Sundays here in Lynn year without having his car, his growing daily.
radio and ofen his clothinx reBut is it possible? Here there which promise to be very fruitining. They own the courts, the tian Front, friend of Rev. Gerald cal 544.
Starting in December, the possessed by the finance corpora seems a stupendous undertaking. line day and night around the will be hesitation and doubt. It.
FWS has maintained a picket cops, the relief department, the Winrod, aide of General Mosely Union Busting Device government. They will never give with whom Hudson appeared Akron, Either the coming TRY YOUR HAND:tion for failure to make payus the life we need and want. We when the general testified before ments. More often, the auto city courthouse. In the coldest If Judge Reed order is per: Sunday or the Sunday after we BIG POSSIBILITIES It Can Be Done!
worker feels himself extremely Yes, but the unionization of weather, unemployed men and must take it. Alone we are noth the Dies committee a few months mitted to stand unchallenged, it are going to try the Red Sunday Two weeks ago we received ing. United we can achieve ev. ago.
means that any group of reac system to see what the possibil one dollar from a sympathizer in fortunate if he can get through General Motors seemed as big a women march grim faced be Hudson is doing a lot of tionary bosses has only to plantities are. TC.
St. Louis with an order for 33 the year without spending sever job in its time until. Until the fore the courthouse, bearing erything.
It appears the agitator came good, says Magaret. And he is a few stool pigeons in a union; Thanks for the promises! Now copies of the Appeal. Last week al months on the relief rolls. It workers of Fint sat down in the signs: Single Mon Must Eat we received two dollars doubling a rich auto worker that can plants, barricaded them against our Children Are Hungry to Omaha in 1936, at about the setting more support from busi when they are exposed, have now about a little action them institute suit against the If you want to know how the order to 66. Here the letter keep shoes on his kiddies so they cops, vigilantes and tin horn sol. American Workers WII Not ness man, became County Relief With broad layers of the com union for an accounting of funds: fruitful Red Sundays are and that came with the money: can attend school the year out. diers and swore to remain in the Starve Peacefully. All War munity aroused against Magaret and then the court will give the what the possibilities are read In the first place don try Administrator.
The Other Workers plants until the last stretcher Funds to the Unemployed.
and his fascist friend, feeling is stool pigeons attorneys access, this letter from Detroit: Even so, these are the favor. carrying the body of the last man The FWS has obtained the use MURDER FOR MONEY today at white heat in Omaha. not only to the financial accounts, to sell coples. If can, well and The enclosed remittance of good, however, my main objectcarried out. Then even of the Drivers Hall at 1222 Har IS HIS RELIEF POLICY Each day more jobless come to but to every written record of ten bucks was raised in three ive is to see that they re read.
ed employees. They don in Frank Murphy became a ney, where they meet where hot Magaret has been getting away join the picket line.
mornings house to house watch my chance at the clude more than one fourth of friend. He didn send the Na lunches are served daily from with murder and this is no idle. The police department has of Every union man everywhere Appeal distribution. An aver. Library and place two coples on Public the industry workers who have tional Guard in after the strik where 350 gunnysacks of food, phrase in Omaha for four years fered to interfere, states Mass will immediately understand age of three comrades partici the been pushed out of employment ers only because Sloane, DuPont collected from sympathetic mer row. Backed by the employers aret, but ve told them to wait what a deadly blow to unionism pated each time for about an therewspaper rack. Of course by labor saving devices, new Knudsen and Co. feared leat chants, have been distributed to of Omaha, Magaret soon put in awhile.
machinery and speeded up pro their precious machinery be needy families in the last ten to effect a pay as you go polhour and a half. Lamonti. down, but not before eight soon discovered and ripped The great agitator is having a. By the very nature of their And now we re in a position to or ten people have looked thru duction. The only smell they get scratched indignant workers. days. The Central Labor Union is icy.
field day, and is driving Magaret function, unions are engaged in tell the inside truth of how Red them. The downtown gets of the prosperity is the curt General Motors went down on its giving sympathetic support and Magaret has a simple three crazy. His sples can discover the conflict. now quiescent, now Sundays took hold in Boston. It three copies. Ten coples are con no of the personnel manager knees. The plants were union aid to the FWs.
point program. If there is an em agitator and yesterday Magaret sharp. with the employers from comes from an actor comrade veniently left in shops. My anal.
day in, day out, at the employ ized.
ment office.
whom they are seeking better whose show is now on the road: ysis is that when they re found All efforts of public officials, ployable member of the family. denied the fellow even existed.
As far as General Motors is spirit of 37 must return! The au great agitator have been in vain. family cannot get on relief rolls HIS NATATOR SPELLS That was three years ago! The local and national, to stop the whether he has work or not, that THE wages and working conditions. In The latest Appeal had a one of two things happens. it this struggle, both sides have to Red Sunday article telling how falls immediately concerned these men are through OUT on fertile bigger stakes to He is described as a tall gaunt There are no allowances for rent solve various problems of strate Boston has followed Detroit ground and is read, or the person We they can getdi. Otherwise its fight for in 1940. Timid officials figure hollow eyed, with prom us water eredetileg relier We agitator phoned from the airport. could be long successful whose great deal to do with this. But late in the afternoon the band tactics, and no union example. am sure had a immediately thinks propaganda.
none of the corporation busi will wall: It is impossible. No lor. It is his voice and his per aim to restore Individual Initi According to a Federal Workers strategical and tactical decisions travelled from Detroit to Bos something know to be propaAt least, he thinks, ve found ness!
Everything is possible! The rank suasiveness, however, that seem ative by forcing men to go out Section member who was with were known to the opposing em ton on Xmas stayed in Boston ganda. so he reads it to make The Union Responsibility and file must organize for action to have impressed most of his and get work, instead of expect him, he told Magaret he was go ployers.
two weeks. Told them every sure. Then he lost; for if he But it is the business of the with determination, audacity listeners.
ing the government to take care ing to make a tour of the entire Invaluable to Bosses day that Detroit was way can read he can partially underauto workers. Underpaid auto and courage the gains of 1940 UNEMPLOYED LEARN of their families, explains Mag country. He said he was going ahead of them in EVERY stand. The next time he won The minutes of the Executive aret.
to organize the unemployed evWAY. Ridiculed their unwill consider tearing it, he ll read it workers mean suffering, semistarvation, insecurity, malnutriwill make the triumph of 1937 THEY MUST FIGHT Magaret boasts that relief erywhere. He said he would be Board of a strong union are back in Omaha to find out if worth tens of thousands of dol ingness to participate in door from page one to page four.
tion for the children, unsanitary pale into insignificance.
As he talks in his deep tim costs in Omaha are cents per bered, slow, impressive voice, the capita Your experience may lead you housing conditions. Unemployed a fou have heard of what hap his job and the unemployed wo en such an apparently duplicate succession went out with iter.
auto workers mean constant scales drop from his listeners to smile at my theorizing. Perature for an hour or more in haps am wrong, but when they threat to the wage scale of the Subscribe to the enployed a steady reserve army SOCIALIST APPEAL them before.
lite as it has never appeared to Ohio ana disewhere, but you plane out of town. Before he fet, list, possession of which can have the black and white shettono start asking for copies, buying the Four different them, we. of potential scabs and fascists. It haven heard anything like what he said, he would fly over the such manifold uses, would ordingoes on in Omaha. If it weren courthouse and spell his name in arily be an enormous task even comrades participated two not for different reasons either.
is the business of the auto workfor WPA, things would have the sky in letters fifteen hundred for the most powerful employs going out twice twice was No matter. did have a bit alone. guess was not very ers. It is not a hopeless problem by ers agency: where. something can and must be been still worse. And WPA has feet across more than a modicum of success done about it!
been cut from 11, 000 last year It was a wonderful publicity courts order these stool pigeons popular there for several reawith my first bundle, placing The United Automobile Workto 5, 800 today. To boot, many stunt. The Omaha radio station can photograph this as well as sons. Perhaps scolded them workers have been laid off PWA. immediately picked it up. Every every other kind of record kept without understanding all their about ten copies directly in the er, from which most of the hands of workers. Workers that problems, cte.
by the union.
figures for this article are culled Actually, in the large city of body was out watching as know will read them. for month of February. In Omaha only sixteen hundred small plane shot above the city word: Don worry, comrade. You did union has the suggests that 200 more be paid great job in Boston. m sure Its really amazing the numfamilies on direct relief are per courthouse, leaving a wake of and began zooming over the same objection to permitting the employed auto workers anTHE CASE OF LEON TROTSKY, single copy. 25 the enemy to scrutinize its doc the Boston comrades are grate ber of people who entertain comnally and still leave profits uments, plans, books, etc. as ful for the little push you gave munist ideas, talk of them, and above 150, 000, 000. This is a LIVING THOUGHTS OF MARX, single copy.
spent 9, 198 for relief, not much writing smoke behind it. Magar 85 does the United States Governthem. It resulted in an enthusi yet shout down the name of commore than it spent, in all likeltet was terribly excited, they say, profit figure that only one or two ment have to potential eneFASCISM and BIG BUSINESS, single copy.
and called frantically to the army aetic drive and an increase by munism as something disagreehood, in 1928 and 1929.
corporations in the world, aside. 75 100 copies in their regular bun lable and foreign to democracy.
from GM, have ever been able WORLD REVOLUTION by CLR James, single copy Things got so bad recently post to send in an anti aircraft may scrutinizing its Industrial dle order. can assure you that It the press suppose, but nev1. 50 and military resources to touch that even the Junior League gun and some pursuit planes and plans.
the comrades in the office undertheless the possibility of guidA very modest suggestion. Just THE FOUR IN COMBINATION FOR became interested, investigat get the sky writer.
all over the country are deeply ing those ideas into decisive aced, and found cases of children But the agitator zoomed Labor on Guard contrast the fabulous profit of tion is there.
appreciative of your work.
SPEECH by LEON TROTSKY In English 00 fainting of hunger in school, towards the East. Behind him GM for 1939 with the miserable six fading letters drifted from carried out then. It was fought Judge Reed order was not of sickness unattended, of mass Please don regard me as a wages of its workers, and you be recording on two double faced diacs.
malnutrition, of many cases of the picketline at the courthouse out in the higher courts, then youthful proselyte who toying gin to get an idea of how modest actual starvation.
over the workers section of Oma sent back for modification to the THE SOCIALIST APPEAL with radical ideas. can afford SPECIAL EDITIONS OF to toy with anything to the tune this suggestion is. Then contrast the present annual wage of the IN COMBINATION of 00 a week. That about Yet, with people dead from slowly spelled out the letters. Some got more information on the Last week we published two one sixth of my salary. m worke hunger, Magaret has available in They read HUNGER.
auto worker with the minimum WITH THE FOUR BOOKS LISTED ABOVE. 50 set for security by the Dethe county treasury for relief anti union role of the plaintiffs, editions of the Socialist Appeal. ing at and studying a cause partment of Labor and the modpurposes a total of 891, 092. 93 and this was presented to Judge The second edition, which most which believe to be just and of this only 15, 000 has been earesty of the cio suggestion beLP THE NUMBER ON YOUR Carroll. But in spite of this he comrades didn see, consisted of practical, and hope that may comes appalling marked for a WPA west side WRAPPER IS NUMBER gave the finks attorneys and ac 1, 000 copies with a special New prove valuable member of the 183, 000, 000 profit for General PIONEER PUBLISHERS sewer project. Magaret expects countants access to the unlon ark headline as follows: VOTE movement in time.
Motors coupon clippers for the to end the year 1940 in the black, records. NO ON THE NEWARK CITY Go to it, comrade! You re proyyear 1939! And how the parasites 116 UNIVERSITY PLACE NEW YORK, as he has every year.
YOUR SUBSCRIPTION EX Minneapolis labor is on guard, MANAGER PLAN. In all othering yourself a hundredfold today.
squander the millions made for The county commissioners are PIRES WITH THIS ISSUE. waiting for the next attempt at respects the edition was the same Your experience will be of value them by the workers gold platbehind me, he boasts. They a RENEW YOUR SUB NOW! la frameup.
as the one you received. Newark everywhere.
ful.
the union.
in Sensational Offer. and 50