We propose that the regular 1940 session of the Congress of the United States shall enact emergency legislation to put into immediate effect the following: Appropriation of 10, 000, 000, 000 to provide, at once, jobs on housing and other public works projects for unemployed workers. Amendment of the Wages and Hours Act to provide throughout private industry and public works a maximum work week of 30 hours and a minimum weekly pay of 30 dollars. 30 dollar weekly old age and disability pensions. Appropriation of 3, 000, 000, 000 to guarantee either maintenance at school or jobs for all youth.
Socialist Appeal Official Weekly Organ of the Socialist Workers Party, Section of the Fourth International 187 NEW YORK, APRIL 20, 1940 Vol. IV, No. 16 FIVE (5) CENTS WORKERS! BEWARE THE CLAMOR FORWAR!
Extension of Conflict Sharpens Help Akron Danger; War Mongers Grow Bolder West Coast TWO WEEK APPEAL ON WAY! Teamsters Sailors Ask Increases Strikers Behind the Lines Power Workers Win All Union Shop On April the Socialist Workers Party convention instructed the National Committee to resume publication of the TWO AWEEK APPEAL within sixty days. That means the deadline for changing the APPEAL back to a twice weekly is June The convention delegates did more than decree. They also Government, Press, Movies, Radio, Demands New pledged a healthy slice of the necessary money. Pledges taken Rubber Strike Focus at the convention amounted to 4, 130 with many delegates Adjustment to War Are Attempting to Work Up War Hysteria; For CIO AFL Unity promising that the tentative quotas they set would be raised to a Conditions New Armaments Ordered higher figure when they return to their branches. Some branches Campaign ISSUE OF DUTCH EAST INDIES WILL have not yet set any quota. In a word, prospect is that we SOON BECOME SOURCE OF WAR DANGER will get the amount needed over the 4, 130 already pledged.
By GEORGE STERN One by one helpless small states caught between rival colosSAN FRANCISCO, April 12 AKRON Ohio, April 14 Two Little money could be expected this week, for most of the sal powers are being sucked into the slaughter of the Second The Sailors Union of the Pacific million pounds of crude rubber Imperialist World War.
delegates are still on the way home. Even so, however, we have served a firm demand for wage The German occupation of was hotly denied at the time are jammed up in the warehouses Denmark brought the question One by one the remaining powerful non belligerents are being increases on the Pacific American received on the pledges a total of 448. That a fine beginning!
but the time is drawing near here as General Drivers Union, drawn closer to the point of direct armed intervention on one of Greenland forward as a fact when hands are going to be Let hear from every branch this coming week! And from Shipowners Association this week.
side or the other.
Local 348, AFL, refuse to go or of no small importance called.
of interest to all unions in our readers and sympathizers you re expected to join in the through the picket line of 400 making for the involvement of This goes especially for the United States, where the spread Neither Britain nor United the country are the reasons of the war to Scandinavia has given a tremendous impulse to launching of the new Two a Week APPEAL too!
CIO rubber workers on strike at the in the European war. States imperialism can easily alcited by this militant union for the General Tire and Rubber.
the campaign of propaganda favoring American intervention Now the threatened extension low the Japanese to gain posses All the danger signals are up! Movies, press, radio are hampressing its demands: the highThis is the first important strike of the war to Holland is raising sion of these islands. In the one er living costs resulting from mering away day after day at the resistance of the American the war and the war time proin Akron rubber factories since. even before the event, the case, it would place British India people to any involvement in the bloody holocaust.
fits of the shipowners.
the militant strike struggles of issue of the fabulously wealthy directly under Japanese guns. In The New York Herald Tribune on April 14 made no bones In its letter to the shipowners, two years ago. It was called by Dutch East Indies, the great oil the other case it would provide about it: published in the union weekly, Local 9, United Rubber Workers and rubber producing archipelago Japan with vast resources in oil, The United States obviously must face the possibility West Coast Sailors, out today, of America, CIO, April 10, in which abuts the southeastern end rubber, etc. which would trementhat it may find itself forced to join in the fray as the only the says: answer to the employers con of the Asiatic continent, lying dously enhance Japan military way in which it can protect its own interests.
Meanwhile the rates for carry stant chiseling on pay rates, re close to British Malaya, French and naval strength, fusal to adjust grievances in Indo China, and the pos Britain, certainly, is not goAs Raymond Clapper pointed out in the New York World ing freight by American ships some cases for as long as eleven session, the Philippines.
ing to be able to enforce any Telegram two days later, it is only a step from this to saying: have soared sky high. We know. The United States must join in the fray in order to protect ita months, and attempt to introduce On April 15 Japanese Foreign protectorate over the Indies by daily reports in the nation in case Holland is swallowed by own Interests.
press, and by following the MerTwin Cities Electrical Locals Victors the 10 hour week (8 hour day Minister Hachro Arita anGermany unless the Navy Clapper predicts that the fresh start made by the American week) in place of the prevailing nounced in effect that Japan chants Exchange, that the shipwar makers following the Scandinavian developments will grow 36 hour week (6 hour. day right now maneuvering over In Northern States Power Co. Poll would tolerate no change in the owners are at the present time bold and come out full force in a cry for going to war in Europe.
week. at a time when almost status of the Dutch East Indies thousands of miles of the Pacicoining money hand over fist, due half of Akron rubber workers except their conversion into the fic is ready to play a major of course, Clapper, the isolationist, deplores this, but only beto the increased freight rates.
are unemployed.
cause he favors the going to war, not in Europe, but in Japanese East Indies. In veiled rolo in making it effective. The the Far East. We have also signed agree MINNEAPOLIS, April 12 The St. Paul. All the union needed, but unmistakable language he degree of this readiness of the ments with other American shipAFL, CIO United however, according to the stipuwarned Japan rivals to keep will determine the Japaowners in the trans Pacific and all union shop, covering all ensWar In Year, Says Roosevelt Spokesman Immediately after the strike hands off these islands, and nese strategy. Japan used the Australian run, paying 12. 50 more poyes of the Northern Statuslation, was a majority.
vote was taken on late Wedneslast war of the powers to make the whole Japanese press took In union circles, before the vote day, although no scabs were inJay Franklin, columnist for the New York Post, who often per month and 15 cents more per Power Company, was won by the up the chorus.
a grab for sections of China. functions as an unofficial Journalistic spokesman for the Roosehour overtime, than your ASSO Twin Cities locals of the Interna was taken, it was a sure thing side, the strikers began to picket It will do likewise this time, velt administration, wrote on April 15: ciation pays our sailors.
tional Brotherhood of Electrical that the union would win. The in front of the factory main When Germany took Denmark, except that now Wall Street Irrespective of which party wins the election, it is the view of American military experts that this country will en We have also several agree. Workers, in a ballot here Thurs ballot was merely a face saving gate in demonstration of their creat Britain simply seized the imperialista stands far readier to resist the further expansion ter the war within a year. They) are more convinced whose ships are engaged in an day.
device for the company to back Only supervisory and mainte protectorate over Iceland. The of its Nipponese rival.
than ever that participation is inevitable.
inter coastal run, paying In this situation, involving Employes covered by the juris down in face of the strike threat. nance forces, by permission of knottier question of Greenland seamen 85 per month and 10 diction of Minneapolis Local 160 President Roosevelt came out on April 13 with a statement has been left in abeyance because the fates of millions of people Union Strengthened the union, are inside the plant.
denouncing the invasion of Norway and Denmark in a manner an hour overtime as against your of the ticklish question of on the other side of the world, which left the whole press free to point out that of course he ships paying seamen 72. 50 voted 865 for the union shop, and The balloting victory puts the Many progressive AFL locals intervention in the matter. Pres the threat of American imperi meant only Germany. He followed up a few days later with a per month and 70 cents per hour 174 against. Those covered by St. union in a strong position in the in the area have already come to ident Roosevelt wasted no time alist intervention into the war speech before the governing board of the Pan American Union overtime.
Paul Local 110 voted 628 in favor negotiations now to take place CIO rubber workers. They are the food supplies of Greenland the assistance of the striking in suddenly getting worried about comes dangerously close. in which he bluntly declared that this hemisphere must be made These agreements are signed and 168 opposed.
for a blanket wage increase of aiding with the technical facili inhabitants!
ready to meet force with foree. Order in the Western hemisphere, Roosevelt said, was not by the shipowners voluntarily IMPORTANT NOTICE over the negotiating table, withwon by hysterical outeries or violent movement of troops. We But the case of the Dutch East The union had prepared to cents an hour and other issues. ties of their unions, the setting out any strike action by our or strike for the union shop. The Under the stipulation the compe up of a strike commissary, and Indies is a little different. There All mail and payments for did not stamp out nations, capture governments or uproot inganization. We feel that what is strike was averted when they must now sign a single con Providing pickets.
is no naval force at present in subscriptions, bundle orders nocent people.
good for one American ship operHerbert Dawson, URWA in Far Eastern waters which can, or other accounts for the ator should good for another power company signed a stipula tract covering the entire jurisdicHow American Bosses Got Order New International or Social operating in the same trade. tion providing that the union shop tion area of both locals, putting ternational representative, stated at the present moment, prevent that the International Executive Japanese seizure of the archipeThe order Roosevelt is speaking about is the order of In other words, we call upon would become part of the contract an end to any attempts to play Board will approve the strike at lago. Last year the British and ist Appeal must be sent to imperialist domination of the two continents. It has been once French Far Eastern fleets held the following address only: built, such as it is, through more than quarter century of you to raise the wages equal tou a majority of the employes one local against the other.
American ship operators running voted for it.
The victory of the union mayl extensive maneuvers in those waNot a single production worker ters.
GEORGE CLARKE hysterical outeries and violent movement of troops accomships in the same run in combe considered the latest step in remains in the plant, as the comNEW INTERNATIONAL panying the unhysterical but no less deadly penetration of the petition with your ships. We know dollar. Cuba, Mexico, Haiti, Panama, Nicaragua, have sufSmothers Company Talk that you can well afford to pay cashing in on its successful strike! pany with war orders recently At that time the significant SOCIALIST APPEAL fered military intervention at one time or another.
higher wages due to the fact that The company has some time of February, 1937, when in a mill received finds its production at a presence on the scene of an American cruiser was made the 116 University Place There is scarcely a single country in all Latin America which you are making large profits from ago said it would sign a clause tantly conducted offensive it complète standstini.
occasion for widespread reports New York City has not experienced, through backdoor methods, arming of phony increased freight rates and short in the contract only if 75 per cent brought the company to its knees The leadership of the strike that the Navy was actu We cannot guarantee that revolts, financing of oppositions, the capture of governments age of American tonnage.
more friendly to the incursions of dollar imperialism!
of its employes voted for it. The in five days. In the succeeding has expressed its intention to ally expected to play the role of mail or money sent to any Roosevelt again proclaimed American suzerainty over the Our organization demands that other address will be recelved whole hemisphere. He said he prayed that it would not be you meet with us to negotiate the actual vote showed 83 per cent three years the locals have shown stay out until a complete settle policeman in this vital sector question of a raise in pay ana favoring it in the Minneapolis that they have retained the mili annect settled maplished. com Berlev of Inter imperialist strategy when the other Powers became by our publications.
necessary to do more than keep war away from this hemisphere, overtime for sailors.
jurisdiction and 90 per cent in tant spirit of those stirring violations of the contract halted. involved in war in Europe. This but, he added, should it be necessary to do more than that, am convinced we should be successful.
Roosevelt and the War Deal are, indeed, preparing to do more than that. The extension of the war in Europe has been put to use to cram down acceptance of another 650, 000, 000 additional to the already gigantic naval budget. Admirals are paraded before a Senate committee to hold up the spector of an calls Allied defeat. Newspapers are filled with reports of secret these unreasonable re what Clarence Darrow, the great pend their labor upon articles tions in use more average daily Japanese naval building bringing the naval strength of that On March 29 the morning papers reported the indictment, uncriminal attorney, once said: whose very production consti calls and greater profits. Henry der the Sherman Anti Trust Act, of Local No. 3, International traints of trade.
Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, and its officers. In striking at country up to and beyond the naval strength of imperialism.
Mr. Arnold first says what is tutes an attack upon their Epstein, New York State Solicitor The employers) opposition The preparedness campaign which paved the way for the this New York union, the Department of Justice was assaulting legitimate or unreasonable. He is not now so much directed standards of living and the in General, had this to say: entry of the Into the last war has already been far exceeded first decides who should be prosestitution which they are conagainst the union as against In the period of 1929 85, the biggest and most important local in the building trades unions in the present period. Roosevelt says: pray to God, but.
cuted. Then the courts take their everything vinced supports it (the atdoes. Most people of the country, one which is justly famous among workers for about 185, 000 workers were dis That a big but. It a but on which hangs the lives of millions of turn at saying what is unreason are willing that workmen shall tack. Duplex Printing case) missed by that corporation.
having pioneered in establishing the 30 hour week as a practical our youth. It a but which should serve as a loud warning to able. But we know this word unsolution for unemployment.
be organized, provided they do However, states are constantly despite maintenance of the fa the workers of the whole country.
reasonable has many meanings to nothing but pass resolutions excluding competitive products mous dividends, of 52, 000, The following speech, ably defending not only Local but the entire labor movement against the union busting drive, was dedifferent people and pay dues.
from other states. One mid west 000 increased dividend pay.
This Is Not Our War!
livered by a representative of that union on March 29 the same It was not unreasonable to a Let us examine Mr. Arnold state even requires outsiders to ments, 185, 000 workers were put a red coloring in milk when discharged. Efficiency, mechan Last time we were told it was to make the world safe for day the indictments were announced to a meeting of the Amer few judges to rule that the five types: democracy. It led after the huge slaughter and sacrifice to the ican Labor Ald at the Cultural Center, 125 West 33 st. New Steel Company, the United Shoo Unreasonable restraints. sending it into the state. Natural scal Improvements, etc. all conYork. The American Labor Aid, in addition to its work of derise of Hitler and Mussolini and the destruction of the few small Company and other huge con to prevent the use of cheap ly people won buy red milk tributed.
democratic rights enjoyed by the peoples of the world, and thence Take. the relative social fending all labor cases brought to it and its aid to anti fascist cerns are reasonable trusts. er material, Improved equip and this kills competition. But refugees, is now campaigning to awaken the labor public to the directly to a new world war among the imperialist gangsters for But it was unreasonable to ment, or more efficient meth this is not an unreasonable re deficit in the destitution of 185, straint of trade. When union 000 families as against the sothe re division of the world spoils. That what this war is. All ods.
dangers inherent in the trust busting campaign directed against some judges for union men to obthe rest, about democracy and civilization, is the same baloney the unions Editor.
ject to installing material proWell, in the electrical field workers say, Buy our labor social value of improved gadgets and the cash dividends to a that was handed out in 1917.
By BROACH Educational Director crusade was not a practical duced in other states by non un there is a National Board of Fire we may eat; we get little work; our wages and living few.
There will be no real democracy for the peoples, no real op. Letter to one.
portunity to build up a rich and fruitful civilization on a world Local No. 8, scale until we put an end to the system that breeds these wars Men like Senator a conspiracy in restraint of risk. It fixes the insurance rates standards, that is an unreason Times, Nov. 26, 1989)
Borah Thurman Arnold Crusade: Is The Appellate Division of the it trust busting or union busting?
the capitalist system itself.
founded political careers on trade. It was unreasonable for it decides what material is safe able restraint. Then they are labor even to try to control the or unsafe. Inspectors pass on the criminally indicted, as were the New York State Supreme Court We re not going to achieve that end by letting ourselves be He is Assistant Attorney the continuance of such cru price of the only commodity it has materials. The union and its of Electrical Workers Union No. recently noted that employers do not use the latest improvements bamboozled again into defending one band of the capitalist General in charge of the Anti sades, which were entirely futo sell labor lives. It often be chals have nothing to say about and its offcials.
gangsters (the Allies) against another (Germany. Continuation Trust Division of the Department tile but enormously picture comes unreasonable restraint of the cheapness or quality of maof the capitalist war will lead to the extinction in all lands of Mr. Arnold prohibition of in when these would destroy their of Justice. Before this he was a esque, and which paid big divi trade when labor interferes with terials.
terfering with improved equip. Investments. This court held that the few remaining liberties enjoyed by the workers and the peolaw professor at Yale. And he dends in terms of personal the profits of those who buy la But unions may be interested ment or more efficient methods unions are not required to submit ple as a whole. It will lead to a nightmare of mutual destruction wrote book The Folklore of prestige.
bor lives. because a product is made by brings up the whole question of to the disadvantages which flow in which great totalitarian camps will pit their strength gainst Capitalism. He wrote about Theodore Roosevelt had five atnon union workers perhaps by labor destroying devices and ma from the introduction of such imeach other and preserve that strength by brutalizing the peoples trusts. His book, it is claimed, torneys to help him. Mr. Arnold FIVE FORMULAS FOR convict labor or child labor and chines. No sensible person wants provements. The court said: of all nations.
landed him his present position.
has 196 and his crusade includes PERSECUTING UNIONS which threatens to displace union to stop progress. Workers simply To prevent unemployment is The way out is not to be dragged into the war of the bons In his book Mr. Arnold said: labor unions and their offcials. Mr. Arnold prosecutes unions workers. And what is wrong with want to live and to share in what a legitimate labor objective.
powers. Trust busting. made He says the Clayton Act ex and their officials under the 50 this? Supreme Court Justices is called progress.
This right should be entitled to The way out is to fight the real war of the workers, the war Theodore Roosevelt a great empts legitimate labor activities year old anti trust law for five Brandeis, Holmes and Clarke Consider this: Today the Bell the same protection as is the for the socialist revolution, the war for the destruction of capiman. Theodore Roosevelt from the anti trust laws. So his types of unreasonable restraint said: Telephone System employs about right of an employer to use ma talism, the only war that will really end all wars by destroying never accomplished anything position is based on what he says which he made public Nov. 20, May not all with a common 20 less employees than in 1930. chinery for the purpose of makthe capitalist system that makes for war. It is in this war that we with his trust busting. The are not legitimate activities. He 1939. These restraints recali interest join in refusing to ex Yet it has more telephone sta. Continued on Page 4) call upon the American workers to enlist. Anti Trusť Campaign Designed to Break Back of Unionism