SOCIALIST APPEAL MARCH 30, 1940 Page SPARKS IN THE NEWS LABOR WITH WHITE SKIN CANNOT MANCIPATE ITSELF The WALERE LABOR WITH BKARL 1S India Left Wing Is on the March MARX NEWS OF SOVIET POLAND In Italy Only Fascists May Commit Crimes FACTS FOUND BY READING BETWEEN THE LINES Negro Question Stalinists In the the Growing Break Between Them and John Lewis The Stalinists poisoned the Throughout this period, Lewis public opinion that neither and hesitatingly. Lewis has disa mestaripeptintea mene at a shamra The task of piecing together of the 55 deputies which these law. However, Sovietization is By SHERMAN STANLEY hinted that no action by Gandhi what is going on in the territory districts will send to the Sup proceeding steadily, with every By JOHNSON At the end of last week ses and the Congress could be ex of former Poland occupied by reme Soviet of the thing that it implies, liquidation the Among them are 18 members of capitalistic elements, that is (This week column is written by Robert sion of the 5, 000, 000 strong In pected for difficult. One can read tens of of the Communist Party and to say, the merchants, landownL Birchman. dian Nationalist Congress one months.
clear fact had emerged from the The meaning of this is that no thousands of words of informa 87 non party people. They are ers, and the Kulaks. the systemBy DWIGHT MACDONALD On March the National Association for the men and women of labor and atic removal of former officials Advancement of Colored People issued the foldeliberately confused reports ap action can ever be expected from tion in the Stalinist press withGandhi because it another three out finding an important fact science two industrial work and municipal councils, the subpearing in the American press.
This column has often dealt with that signiftlowing press release: months drones by without any about the new social structureers, 16 peasants and 17 govern stitution of a workers and peascant problem of our times: the increasing interIf not formally, then in reality, thing occurring, the Congress will there. On the other hand, most ment employees. Women playsants militia for the Polish police. NEW YORK Mayor La Guardia was vention of the state power into social and ecothe Indian Nationalist movement fall into an even more demoral of the non Stalinist reports are an important part in the public nomic life. Recently received a letter from a asked this week by the National Association Is split. It is split sharply between ized state than today and will suspect, coming from bourgeois life of the liberated peoples. Komsomolskaya Pravda has reader, Egidio Mattina, which interestingly docufor the Advancement of Colored People to its conservative, Gandhi led right lose all its support among the British, French and Polish Twelve women were nomina stated that changes in adminis ments this process as it has been going on in open the way for the employment of qualified wing and its left wing headed masses.
sources. In general, one is re ted for election to the highest Italy under Il Duce. It takes as its text this senNegroes on the and subway ex President of the Congress, duced to taking from each source governing body of the Soviet the Polish authorities themselves. tence from a news report: The Director General lines, after the city takes over these lines Subhas Bose.
Emergence of Bose those items which are involun Union.
Blacklists were found contain of Police in Rome recently presented to Musunder the proposed plan for a unified cityObviously, the most significant tary testimony for an estimate Hundreds of thousands of Ining the names of individuals susowned rapid transit system.
solini statistics tending to prove the progressive dian workers, peasants and Confact about the Ramgarh sessions which that source is not friendly Today the people.
Since the same article begins, pected of harboring sympathies diminishment year by year of crime in Italy. go to the toward the Soviet regime. Thanks The letter was sent to the Mayor on gress organizers had travelled to was the dramatic emergence of to.
polls to elect their representa to these files, it was possible to Il Duce Socializes Crime Tuesday, March 5, at the height of the con Ramgarh from all parts of the the left wing nationalist, Subhas Negative as this approach may tives to the Supreme Soviet. we organize quickly new cadres of troversy between La Guardia and officials of Indian sub continent to attend Bose.
seem, it nevertheless provides im immediately gather what the activists who are charged with The cause of this diminishment of crime unthe Transport Workers Union over the May these historic sessions. They Rump Session Acts portant material. For example, election amounts to when, be maintaining the new regime.
der Fascism, writes Mr. Mattina, is to be or labor policy, after unification is com found that the sessions constiSpeaking at the rump Congress the numerous items in such Bri fore the votes are cast, our in These new authorities, who had found in the peculiarities of that system of state pleted.
tuted one of the briefest Congress session he organized in an ad tish papers as the Manchester formant can tell us who is been saved from prison and permanagement, whereby the Government tends to meetings ever held, lasting appar joining field, Bose declared the Guardian reporting executions of elected! Out of 5, two are insecution by the Red Army are at absorb all criminal tendencies to itself, making The Mayor has already stated that neianti soclal crime not only hazardous but unprofitther the right to strike nor the closed shop the work of the Congress was aim of his Anti Compromise Con Polish and Ukrainian inhabitants ustrial will be allowed after the city takes over the remnants of the Polish able as compared to the rich rewards in soc ized crime. Fascism dares not tolerate independone prior to the full sessions by gress, Before parting we must and large scale may be partially of the Stalinist bureaucracy, down lines. To this policy the Transport Workers the Gandhi dominated Subjects establish permanent machinery discounted as coming from a which thus piously carries out aristocrats and proprietors of the dent criminal activity any more than it can tolUnion has strenuously objected.
Committee and Executive Com war. The hope of this conference papers report many acts of kind industrial proletariat must lead been surprised by the invasion.
erate a free press. Hence all criminal activity The letter, which expressed mittee.
is that it will prelude a nation ness by Red Army soldiers, nor the countryside. Stalin fears the However the Soviet authorities must conform strictly to the party line or suffer agreement with the Mayor position in the The resolution of the Subjects wide struggle along an all India tably permitting Jews from Nazi proletariat above all. The 18 gov are keeping a firm rein on these outlawry.
union controversy, asked the Mayor to give Committee, adopted by the Confront.
Poland to escape into Soviet ernmental employees as repre activities. This development is especially interesting bespecial attention to the employment of qual gress delegates in great haste, As a first step in his program held territory, it testifies to a sentatives of the toiling masses ified Negroes who do not have such status, called attention to Gandhi un of action Bose organized a dre significant spirit existing among hat also tells us much.
The last sentence has especial cause of the fact that in Italy (except for the because they have been denied opportunity to importance. Even these faithful most advanced sections of the North) criminal or to begin an anti war matic demonstration of 5, 000 men the Red Army soldiers.
edence campaign at, and women work at all, may be given opportunity for One of the very few reports we activists may become dangerous activity has always traditionally been carried on which marched DISSECTING AN ITEM employment, as they are on the Independent have been able to find which bears to the Kremlin bureaucracy. We not by criminals but rather by outlaws. In enuthis time. It therefore follows through the Gandhi Congress Subway.
that the Congress can do nothing shouting, Down with Compro IN THE STALINIST PRESS merating the achievements of Mussolini, his adevidence of objective description can also believe Komsomolskaya until Gandhi chooses to be wil mise. The impotent supporters mirers triumphantly list the wiping out of the Negroes are at present employed on the An example of gleaning infor of the actual situation is that by Pravda about the lucky find of ling.
horrible Maffia to which we might add the Caof Gandhi could only retort with mation from the Stalinist press Eugene Schreider, published in Hin had of Polish Communists are these lists, Such lists as the KremIndependent Subway, which is city owned, in morra, brigandage, and all the other ragged tat Long live Gandhi.
the capacity of guards, conductors, motorAction Voted Down is provided by an article in the Lumiere, French radical weekly of little value to it Several years ters of feudalism surviving in the South. MusThe split in the Congress men and station agents.
All amendments demanding ranks at Ramgarh and the March 25 Daily Worker. It re and reprinted here in the Living ago when Stalin was courting solini, the bitter enemy of feudalism, like the Polish great Napoleon, has stamped them all out.
complete break with England, emergence of an anti compro ports: Age. Some salient paragraphs are Poland he dissolved Shall Negroes Be Strikebreakers?
urging revolutionary, mass ac mise wing is a decisive event, Communist Party as Polish The main achievement is worth quoting: Fascist agents and if he seeks tia and It was not so heroic an achievement. The Maf.
What is the NAACP saying? It is saying, in so tion program and the launching to be welcomed and supported the development of increasing Camorra were no match for the capiof the independence campaign as a major step forward in the SOCIALISM WITH THE these old Bolsheviks now, it will talistic police forces of Rome and Lombardy and many words, that the Negro people should support Mayor La Guardia against the Transport now were voted down by the struggle against British imper numbers of new lenders. This HELP OF MARTIAL LAW! only be for the purpose of execut Piedmont. To do the banditti justice, they were Workers Union. But, as everybody knows who is Gandhi followers. It was politely lalism.
can be seen in the composition Most places are under martial ing them as Trotskyists. Meanshrewd enough to realize this, and so, where they while, from new elements, the following this fight, it may result in a great could, they donned the black shirt and became bureaucracy hopes to create a transport strike in which the Transport Workers subordinate ardent Fascisti, rightly surmising it the next Union will have the backing of the New York staff in its own image best thing to being a Maffista or Camorrista, trade union movement. Having said A, the NAA Existing peasant organizations Thus the Maffia disappeared by the process of CP must say It must, by the logic of its aupare being used for establishing assimilation. The same is true of crime in genport of the mayor, propose that the Negroes a sort of collective responsibility. eral. For them both, it was merely a case of reshould support the mayor against the strike. Il They are being held responsible instatement in a more modern form: the police the mayor calls for Negroes to work on the line for agricultural work and have force of Sicily is now a regular Society of Old during the strike, the NAACP should, logically, been given a hand in distributing Maffistas. This is what they call Progress.
tell Negroes to go to work. That means STRIKEPolish property, City administraBREAKING tion is being run by a provisional Italianization with a Small. By FRANK them.
all organization composed Where will such a policy get the Negro workSocialized crime, my correspondent continues, ers? Will the Negro workers thereby find jobs? whole labor movement, in the constantly received indignant Lewis nor Hillman nor Murray covered that it is not easy to three members appointed by him.
Army and is only one sample of the process of italianizaBut having served as strikebreakers in a great People Front. period, with protests of the union membership could ignore or tolerate. That drive the Stalinists out of the Usually one of the four is a memtion to which all activity, great or small, must New York strike, the Negro workers will find that their fantastic, Jying propaganda against the union wrecking acti called for action! Lewis decided to. The Stalinists have been ber of the NKVD (usually known submit Iself under Mussolini. The complete list is the same unionized workers who today and that the population of the country vities of the Stalinist crew. The then and there that the bloc with working in the new cio unions as the OGPU) and it is he who staggering. Fascism has made everything in Italy there are many of them have no race prejudice, was divided between progre West Coast sailors and firemen the Stalinists must be broken from the ground up and have in apparently is charged with the italian (with a small The countersignature of consider the black man their brothers, and supssives and reactionaries and protested against the wrecking of port him in his demands for a better life these that it was the sole duty of the the Maritime Federation of the they are, these labor leaders dia strategic positions of influence his colleagues are occupied with Mussolini must be on everything, Including crime.
Of course, great democrats that trenched themselves in numerous actual task of Sovietization, while same workers will look upon the Negro worker labor movement to support the Pacific. petition signed by four not bother to inform anybody of and power. In many of these un everyday routine problems. He has italianized Art and artists. While the professors and the critica quietly wait for 28 Willing strikebreaker. Such a policy would and oppose the powerful unions of Los Angeles, their decision. The San Francisco ions, as in the National Maritime put the Negro workers back fifty years!
the New Italian Renaissance, which like Prosperity in America is always just around the corThe NAACP is not doing a service to the paganda, however, did not change the Rubber Workers and the sw. months after the signing of the shoreman, the Agricultural Work ARMY CONTACTS WITH ner in Italy, to make its appearance, they gratethe reality.
Negro with such advice. This is one of the worst oc, submitted a detailed account pact, proceeded about its busi ers, the United Electrical Radio MASSES fully acknowledge the one mighty contribution to crimes ever perpetrated by the NAACP. The capitalists still run the of the autocratic rule and union ness, without Lewis giving the workers, the white collar unions. Before casting the life of the art in modern Italy Mussolini National AcaA Negro Answer to the NAACP industrialists still own the coun his crew, and demanded the re a drastic revisich in policy was entire union apparatus from top occupied regions into the Soviet demy.
try economic resources and moval of Bridges as CIO West forthcoming. The only inkling to bottom the key locals as well mold, authorities are studying re He has italianized the banditti of the South, Fortunately, within the Negro community, the wealth, gobble up the hog share Coast director. Beginning with that something was brewing as the International offices. actions, attempting to gain the and it would surprise romantic tourist ladies to policy proposed by the NAACP has not gone un of its national income and consti 1938, the factional maneuvers of came at the end of the conven It is obviously impossible for confidence of the suspect workknow how easily these desperate orphans suffered challenged. Here is the comment made by the tute what Woodrow Wilson once the stalinists in the Auto Work tion, when neither Bridges or Lewis to just walk in and purge ing elements and intellectuals. It themselves to be regimented.
Boston Chronicle column, Left Face, written by called the invisible government ers Union became a national Curran were elected as Vice Press the stalinists in these unions is interesting to note that meaMartin Richardson. the real government of the scandal, etc. etc. Lewis heard all idents, positions they deserved, without at the same time, wreck sures have been taken to prevent He has italianized Catholicism which, especialUnited States.
ly in the South, has always been the bitter enemy It is very true that the transport workers The Roosevelt administration is these requests and petitions, but prominence and importance of ford to adopt such an adventur and the masses of workers and of the state.
unions have strayed a long way from playing identical with all previous admin. did not budge an inch.
their unions.
ball with their darker hued brethren in overalls. istrations in this fundamental In addition Lewis was well He has italianized the Catholics. He did not Like the printing trades unions, the railroad quality: that it is the political aware of the rotten union agree out warning, exploded the bomb, as the employers anti union of In typical fashion, Lewis, with of the fight with the AFL as well International.
have to italianize the Jews, who are still the best trainmen, the building trades unions and a num agent of America ruling class ments that the Stalinists signed at the Executive Board meeting rensive In sending the Red Army be. most chauvinist) Italians in Italy and who owe ber of others largely craft unions, invariablyyond the frontiers of the Soviet whatever unpopularity they have enjoyed in modLewis has definitely Union, Stalin has set in motion ern Italy to the country. It is only on this cold Union, etc. etc. agreements vention. In scathing terms, for broken with the Stalinists, the forces that the bureaucracy will the transport workers certainly have not leaned precisely that reason. Now, of over backward welcoming colored members into practical class basis that it is pos. which were a disgrace to the la the first time since the formation Stalinists are still trying to patch not be able to stifle. Not the least course, even the anti italianism of the people has their ranks. But, he goes on, Is the same sible to understand why Roosevelt bor movement. Lewis knew of the of the cio, he denounced the up their alliance with Lewis of these will be the questions that become italian, e. anti semitic. thing true of the coal miners, the sheet metal and tolerated the Stalinists during the hounding and expulsion of union Communist Party. and warned They have not as yet changed occur to many Red Army soldiers He has italianized the clericals. He has italianiron trades workers, the hotel and restaurant People Front period and why militants, in the West Coast of that he would not tolerate a dou their People Front policy of ized the anti clericals. He has italianized paganworkers, or with the garment industry? Hasn he bitterly opposes them today. fice workers, in the east coast ble allegiance on the part of any sycophaney and grovelling before they are called to repress the ism (the patriotic paganism of the disciples of the general trend toward industrial unionization Roosevelt understood the StalinNMU, in the Gulf NMU, where CIO officials. He assured the Lewis. To this day, every low they came to liberate. The Red very workers and peasants whom Annunzio. cynicism (the patriotic Peglers of in the past five years brought Negroes into a ist party. He knew that it was Curran practically wrecked the board members that a great car Stalinist official prefaces every Army soldiers, not a collection Italy) and papism if not the Pope himself. He closer harmony with white labor than it has ever but merely the venal tool of the self of a rank and file opposition. side the labor movement, but only great leader who can do no have us believe, cannot escape has italianized the unhappy shades of Machiavelenjoyed in this country or any other part of the li, Dante and Caesar and all the other ghosts un rotten Stalinist bureaucracy.
world where numbers of us live. wary enough to roam the Italian earth. He has Unofficially allied with England facts, but he forgave and forgot. on condition that they have no pronto Tids belly crawling policy being stirred and shuken by their italianized Italy share of Heaven and Italy and France, the United States He was so liberal, as to even con warning, to indicate that this was while pushing through in the un workers and peasants from the While white labor and very frankly, colored share of Hell.
labor, too is just beginning to learn the hard world outside.
That is why, the minute the Hit curred last year, when Bridges been a fellow traveller of the OP, The Stalinists are temporarily lesson of unity, the lesson that has been so driven ler Stalin Pact was announced, led a crew of workers through the was kicked out as Organization aided in these attempts, because THEY LL NEVER RETURN out of their minds for generations by employers Roosevelt and the capitalists picket lines of the Sailors Union Director and replaced by an old of the episodic disagreement be TO CAPITALISM!
who have most to gain by inter labor strife, why launched a campaign to mobilize of the Pacific. Why not? Judging Miner Union wheelhorse, Allan tween Lewis and Hillman on the WHY LOVESTONEITES WON the full force of public opinion by Lewis own labor record and Haywood; and Harry Bridges, the end the war erists. The differences peasants of Soviet Poland is a The lot of the workers and now throw the whole process back to the levels of for a furious assault upon the methods, he probably considered DEBATE a few years ago when we were seldom regarded Stalinist party. The end of the all these practices as wholly legi CIO, was removed as West Coast between Lewis and Hillman, how clear cut one. They now resume Our readers will recall that we issued a chalas anything other than tools with which the People Front thus saw the timate and certainly permissible. Director and instructed to confine ever, are temporary and unim the struggle for liberty and bread lenge to the Social Democratic Federation, the bosses could keep their preferred workers line? end of the popularity of the Stalhis activities to California.
Socialist party, the Lovestoneites and other supportant. They resolve themselves This is exactly what the NAACP will be let inist party with official public LEWIS BREAK WITH porters of Finland against the Soviet Union. The WHY THE PURGE merely into a question of tactics. upon a higher plane. With capiting itself do to the race if it persists in the opinion. From a bandwagon THE STALINISTS BEGINS But when the Stalin Hitler pact PROCEEDS SLOWLY BUT THE PURGE talist property relations destroyed only one to respond was the Lovestone group; and movement, the Stalinists were by the Red Army, the Ukrainians, it quickly developed that they responded merely unfortunate backing of Mayor La Guardia in his converted into pariahs and social was signed and the American Since the Executive Board WILL GO ON But the differences between Poles, and White Russians will to make the record, and not to actually go no strike no closed shop plan. La Guardia does Communist Party found itself un meeting, the purge of the StalinLewis and the Stalinists are pro night now for Socialist autonomy through with a debate.
not want a policeman control of the workers on That meant a change in relafound and fundamental. Lewis and freedom from the Kremlintions between the Stalinists and We proposed that a debate be held between the subways for the purpose of creating any is a labor lieutenant of the Amer. but never to go back to the old Lewis. The Official leadership of authoritative representatives the two organizmiraculous new benefits for the workers who do. ican capitalist class. His labor ations. In accordance with that proposal we pronot belong to the transport workers union. He AFL, is tied to the capitalist class Greet the Delegates bureaucracy rests upon American Poland of feudal landlords, millposed as our speaker James Cannon, our Nacapitalism. The Stalinist party is tarists, and bankers.
tional Secretary. We informed the Lovestoneites wants the Gestapo powers the easier to hamTO THE the American agency of the and connections. The whole top string one of the strongest and most solid unions that we were ready to accept as their speaker The exiled and defeated Polish NATIONAL CONVENTION Kremlin bureaucracy. Between in New York. That way he can win most laurels leadership of the CIO, to a man, either Jay Lovestone or Bertram Wolfe, their the two lles an unbridgeable gult. capitalists well understand this believes in the eternal existence in the least time for his operation of the sub of the capitalist system in the two most representative spokesmen. But instead of the Lewis, and this is true of his That is why on December 1, 1939, ways.
same way as a small town bankwhole machine, has so little class. even after two months of Nazi they offered only Will Herberg, one of the lesser Socialist Workers Party The NAACP and all other organizations of the er in Iowa. These labor leaders have been correctly described as now, cooperating with the FBL atrocities in Nazi Poland, well lights in their organization and a person unknown to the wide strata of the advanced New York Negrocs must cease immediately bargaining with the labor lieutenants of the capiat the DINNER the detested anti labor men, in publicized throughout the world, order to gain a temporary fac the Manchester Guardian corresworkers. For the purpose of attracting a repLa Guardia and bargain with the Transport talist class.
tional advantage over the rival pondent reported, Leading Poles resentative crowd of radical workers, their proworkers Union. Let them tell the Transport LEWIS STALINIST ALLIANCE Sunday, April 7, 1940 AFL unions. Lewis will hesitate fear Russian rule even more than posal was absurd. We insisted on Lovestone or All reservations must Workers Union that capable Negroes eligible for FROM 1986 1989 DINNER SERVED P.
union membership be given both jobs and union At the time of the Stalin Hitler be in not later than sharpens and the army moves to German. These leading Poles Wolfe. They refused.
Beethoven Hall cards. But at the same time let the organizations pact, Lewis had been in an alliSaturday, April jam the unions into the strait realize that the workers and pea We do not care to go through with a debate ance with the Stalinists for more of the Negroes tell the Transport Workers and 210 East 5th St.
jacket of the war machine, to sants who now know the benefits with somebody whom Lovestone can repudiate than three years. He had thereby Call ALgonquin 8547 cooperate with these same men of collectivized property, even un tomorrow. We want the Finnish patriotism of Labor as a whole that, as one of the most insecured the aid of their well oiled PRICE 00 or mail reservations to to purge every Stalinist, big and der the Stalinist stranglehold, tegral parts of the American labor movement, the the Lovestoneites to be defended by an authornational machine in his early orsmall, out of the CIO.
116 University Place. The fourth article of this will never go back to capitalistitative spokesman. We are ready to have the deNegro is solidly behind the workers, not the ganizing activities. He thought he series will appear next week. exploitation.
could use them and outsmart bate on that basis at any time.
mayors and the bosses Pensionaries. STALIN FEARS RED outcasts.