Page SOCIALIST APPEAL APRIL 27, 1940 Push the Campaign for the New Twice Weekly Socialist Appeal!
All Major Units of PHILA. ILGWU Calls on Phila. Workers Get Started On the Go For PROGRESSIVES To Fight Tax on Wages Two a Week Appeal Drive CLEAN HOUSE hauled SWP SPOKESMEN TO MAKE TOURS OF COUNTRY IN APPEAL DRIVE By GEORGE CLARKE May Day Meeting General Press Manager The drive to restore the Two Week Socialist Appeal, begun AFL Loses Out Three to One as Auto Men To Launch Campaign spontaneously at the convention amid great enthusiasm, has been Vote Out Stalinist formally launched by the National Committee of the Socialist Clear the Decks for New Drive; Ford Against Wage Tax Workers Party.
Administration which The drive is scheduled to begin on May 1st and continue for Is Stronghold Now to be Stormed PHILADELPHIA. On May Nearly Ruined Union 60 days endipg on July 1st at which time the Two Week Day the Philadelphia local of the Socialist Appeal will commence publication.
Socialist Workers Party is Branches of the party and comrades throughout the country launching a campaign to enlist have been primed for the campaign and have been awaiting only PHILADELPHIA. smashthe support of the labor move the opening gun to get under way. As previously reported in FLINT, Mich. April 21 Homer Martin, ex labor leader ing defeat of the Stalinists was ment and the working people of the Socialist Appeal pledges were made, at the very first suthis city in a movement to abol gestion at the convention banquet, totalling more than 4, 000.
and ex skypilot, was washed up in the auto industry when administered by the Philadelphia Ish the infamous 14 Wage Since then other pledges have been coming through. complete General Motors workers joined Chrysler and Briggs in piling members of the International Laax.
list of these pledges will be given in an early issue of the Appeal.
The wage tax has produced un Already 500 of these pledges have been redeemed and word up a three to one majority for the UAW CIO in the NLRB dies Garment Workers Union, in one of the most exciting and told suffering and hardship for is reaching us every day that more is on the way. Quotas are elections held last week.
spectacular union elections that the workers of this city. Inaugu being assigned to all branches of the party and, as in the first rated in December 1989 It has al twice weekly Appeal campaign, there is every indication that we All that left now unorganized in the automotive industry ever took place in the city.
ready produced a mountain of will go over the top in record time. Prizes will be awarded those is FORD!
The progressive ticket in Local havoc, only a partial picture of branches which top the list in speed and amounts.
15, where the Stalinists had conwhich is told in the following Preparations are being made to contact all sympathizers of All major plants in the GM system went CIO. Only about trolled the administration for the figures issued by the Federal Re the party to enable them to cooperate with us in this campaign.
serve Board: five small plants went to Homer. Two of these, in Norwood, last four years, won the election From reports of those who have visited party friends, it appears The wage tax killed 18, 000 Jobs. that results from this work will be highly gratifying. The revoluOhio, had voted previously to that it would be raided, and the by a huge majority.
The wage tax killed 18, 000, 000 tionary and class conscious workers have been hard pressed in few days after the election, in wages.
affiliate with the CIO if it won Fisher AFL headquarters was this permanent depression, but there is still money among them on Saturday Mary Beckman, the Stalinist bus The wage tax has killed 80, a majority of the General Mo. ominously dark to back the work that is speeding the Socialist Revolution in the 000, 000 in retail business which United States.
iness agent who ran for re elecnight, while next door the clotion and was defeated, issued a tors vote. That will leave Ho was celebrating with a victory statement to the capitalist press.
means it has lessened workers purchasing power by approxiAll that need be done is to go and get it!
mer with his home town, Kan dance. Once when a group of declaring that communism was mately that amount.
Do you need arguments for those who are not already conBut these figures don even be vinced of the necessity of the Two Week Socialist Appeal?
sas City, for a stamping Cro men walked over to an AFL not the issue in the campaign.
gin to tell the story. They don Then tell them this: ground.
hall, to look in the window, the She was right, the real issue was the Stalinist rule and ruin policy speak of the workers earning The flames of the European war are already licking at the Martin supporters called the in the union, ever since she and 13. 00 per week and less, who front door of the United States. Roosevelt is breaking his neck Every plant in Flint, key cops. They will continue to have her party clique took office four have to shell out 10. 80 of their to get us into the slaughter in double quick time. There is little auto center, rolled up decisive the jitters until they join the years ago.
wages every year to grafting pol time left for openly spreading the message of Revolutionary iticians and their industrialist Socialism to the American workers. But there is time enough majorities for the CIO. The most CIO.
Why Stalinists Were Hated and banker bosses.
to reach the workers in the auto plants, the steel mills, on the crushing majority in Flint was Getting on Bandwagon Four years of bureaucratic rule These figures don speak of ships and the docks, the truckdrivers, and the rest of the prorolled in at Buick, where the CIO Hundreds are signing up in the and corruption! Democracy was the unemployed workers who letarians who keep the wheels of industry going. Only these men received over 9, 000 votes to the clo every day. Former AFL men something to talk about, but not are forced to work for their can smash the plans of Wall Street and bring peace and security AFL 2, 000.
practice.
miserable weekly allotto this country. They must be contacted now. They must be conand non union men, are hopping Workers At Buick the AFL early during on the band wagon.
tacted frequently were ment under the violous Pear.
constantly before the executive son Act the work of starve They must be contacted with a Two Week Socialist Appeal.
the voting gave up hope, and In many cases AFL stewards, board for daring to criticize and What class conscious worker will say no to this James Cannon, National Secretary of the Socialist Work bill. The unemployed must pay their observers left the balloting committeemen 19 of this dog diet into How can he. Every word of it is truth, demonstrument?
and executive their rights taken away from ers Party, who begins a tour of the country next week.
and room in disgust.
demonstrable.
board members of local unions them. Job discrimination was a the politician pork barrel.
favorite method used.
The souk the poor tax was in How about it? Let hit the ball and keep going until the In Detroit, the AFL, demon have already signed up in the augurated against the known and TWO Week Sociali Appeal begins to roll off the press!
strating its impotence, held up CIO.
Most Militant Elements express desires of organized la voting for hours trying to find This local, the largest of the bor in this city. Two weeks be PROGRESSIVES DEFEAT STALINISTS Workers Spirits High enough AFL men to serve as objoint board, was from its very servers as required by NLRB regThe spirit of the General Mo inception composed of the most in the City Council, December 14, IN FOOD WORKERS LOCAL 16 ulations tors workers was never higher. militant elements in the indus1939, chairman Jay Cooke All are now anxious to march for try. Unlike the skilled mechanics James Cannon, National Comrade Cannon will leave ordered thet body to put through Climaxing three years of or wrecking crew in this local is of Very few men voted nelthganized struggle, the Progressive major igaportance to the culinary er on the ballots. Almost ev ward. All are watching Walter in the silk dress local, they are secretary of the Socialist Work New York before May 15 and the 11 tax. One week later York food workers on April workers of this city, where the in the main young Americans ers Party, will leave New Yorte will therefore be on tour during city poll of the workers of Philaeryone wanted union. Reuther and the coming negotia who wore ir the large cotton shortly on a tour of the math most of the period of the TwoAdelphia, conducted by the Hotel 16 dealt the Stalinist machine Stalinist rule or ruin Friday, when the results be tions.
shops, where there is a constant cities as far west as Minneapolis Week Appeal campaign. helping and Restaurant Workers Union in control of the AFL Hotel and reigned supreme for many years.
The men who voted the CIO the branches intensify their ef. CIO. registered almost unani Restaurant Workers Union, Local Defeating this crew means the came known, Flint, the city in which the faction fight between over the top in the NLRB VID maintain union con and St. Paul.
and standards. The Staltax of any kind.
elected 25 out of 84 candidates in the arbitration machinery that Homer Martin and the CIO WIS are eager to chalk up another vicinists did nothing to help these Within a few weeks after Can forts to reach old and new con mous opposition against a wage 16, a final blow. The progressives defeat of the bosses guild and workers except to allenate them non tour begins, George Clarke tacts in each locality Comrade Clarke plans to cross the local elections.
the Stalinists stand for in the securing a real contract from the union.
will swing out for a coast toWorkers vs. Bosses hottest, began a celebration that tory Dave Siegel, progressive can culinary unions. The victory of coast tour, Behind him will come the country during the second The issue was plainly joined: didate for president, got 482 votes the progressives in Local 16 is still going strong.
from General Motors Complaints were not taken up: two more coast to coast tours by month of the Two Weck camthe workers versus the Republic more than William Albertson, means that the conditions which shops were not visited for Albert Goldman and Farrell als vailable dates for the speak an boss and the bond holders, Stalinist henchman, out of a total the Stalinists tried to import into What They want Celebrants Leave Plants Workers in the plants couldn They didn vote CIO for noth took place. Yet in their leaflets ty leaders will be toured through ers are being communicated to coupon clippers, industrialists of 3200 votes cast. Joe Rodriguez, the local will no longer be tolerawait until Friday for the quitting ing. They want to get something the stalinists had the brass to the country.
the branches directly.
and department store owners succeeded as secretary treasurer ated.
whom he represents. The City over Harry Lee, a Stalinist stooge, whistle to get out and celebrate. out of it. And the thing they need deny this well known condition The Stalinist scoundrels in their Council made its choice. It by a majority of 557. Leo Stenz desperate effort to win this elecHundreds just threw down their most is the 30 hour week at 40 But the workers are not stooges, stooged for the vested interests, ler succeeded as organizer with tion carried on the most vicious hours pay.
and turned away from them in slapped the workers in the face 200 votes more than Dennis Gits, anti Semitic campaign, catering tools and hit for the beer halls to to drink to the CIO victory.
Sentiment in the various dia appeal to the Jewish workers on and slipped tthe hand of the City a stalinist tool.
to the most backward prejudices Fathers into the pockets of Phil. Three progressive business ag hoping thereby to divide and rule.
In one Buick plant a commit is on the rise. The Wage and they failed, since most of the adelphia proletarians. ents succeeded over three Stalin. But the workers of Local 16 showHour Foundry Council has put candidates of the progressive teeman reports that the men in There was no surprise in the ist stooges. The progressives also ed the way to deal with this City Council action it was act elected a decisive majority on the his division demanded that he call out a button which reads: Six ticket were Jewish, with the exHour Day Hours Pay. ception of the business agent, ST. PAUL, Minn The Social its policies of Indicting unioning true to form according to the executive and all other commit wrecking crew, a way which will a one day celebration strike, and soon be followed by all the work.
all along the lines men were The State government immedi. who is Italian. Theirs was Jew ist Workers Party, barred by remen, slashing WPA, piling up pattern established over the past tees.
actionary election laws from run armaments. From neither of twenty years. During this double The defeat of the Stalinist of this city.
shouting to him to shut her down. ately upon the publication of the ish.
CM vote results, showed how jitthe av decade the finances of this city ning its own candidate in the these boss politicians Enthusiasm Runs High April 30 city elections the party erage worker, faced with the have been regularly plundered by KU KLUXERS MARCHED, BUT Losers Pay On tery the bosses are, by proposing White this spirit of victory pre a change in the labor relations the election, the masses of work recent primaries about otelyn the earne answer to his needs. Instead crooks for the benefit of them. THEY WON NEXT TIME, NEGROES SAY the financial bigshots LOS ANGELES The Ku Klux Klan marched here the first a ten day cooling off period be ere packed the halls of the un highest placing candidates run in the campaign has been a sham selves side AFL suckers were paying off fore a strike instead of five days out in order to help. They took werkers to vote only tor those tract which permitted the pur. have always paid the freight. is calling upon the battle over the validity of a con whom they represent. The poor week in April, but the next time they try it they ll need more than their night shirts to get by.
as the law now stands.
Homer was forced to wheel a complete charge. singing and candidates of the Labor Progres chase of voting machines, over Graft Runs Riot Hooded and robed, a score of Klansmen started a parade from CIO man down the street in a Union Strong Position shouting slogans. They filled ev. sive Association who actually are state issues of open or closed Millions of dollars have been the steps of the City Hall, marched through the heart of the wheel barrow couple of hunWith jurisdiction decided, the eryone with courage and enthudowntown area, distributed vicious leaflets, and returned to the thrown into subways and holes in action Commissioner, Olty Hall, where they disbanded. Along the line of the parade dred Buick men paraded behind CIO now is in a position to get siasm. But they got on the Stat. representing independent labor town. or who shall be Safety this pair, having left the plant the best contract with GM that inist nerves so much that one of The party statement says: The Labor Progressive Assocl the ground that have never been they were joined and supported by other Klansmen, to watch the sight.
has ever been achieved. trail the big shots attempted to call The leaflets called for outlawry of the Communist party. But Confronting the relief cutting. ation adopted as one of the used, benefiting nobody but conthey were obviously directed against all labor groups, aiming to Saturday was witch day in can be blazed for all the mass the police.
labor hating candidates of the replanks of its platform a demand tractors connected with the Refurther split the working class opposition to war.
Flint: The most hated Martin production workers, by demandThe progressives won and now actionary Fallon. Independent for providing employment to all publican machine. This machine The question of stopping the Klan provocations was brought Goons suddenly turned up with ing that the corporation provide a big job is ahead of them, not machine now in contrepade the unemployed at prevailing wages has kept the city in a constant up in the Negro class conducted by the Socialist Workers Party.
all sorts of facial decorations, for the security of the workers only to put the organization back city government. the workers when faced with the direct ques. panu eten financial crisis for the The class decided to organize a protest. The Negros non party members helped write, print and distribute a leaflet defying Martin strong arm man had a 30 hour week at 40 hours pay, a to a stronger and more militant must demonstrate their own po tion whether he supported this past ten years. Each year they the Klan, and calling upon Negroes to prepare for action against new face fixed up for him by sev shop steward system, strict 82 union. Great tasks face the union office that rencandidates the into Dispatch, April 15, gave a weasal or practically eliminating some the Klan.
eral CIO enthusiasts.
niority, abolition of the notorious in the near future and the workProgressive Association who answer, saying the Labor Pro publicet Services First it was the public library, mass meeting in the Negro area and other steps to organThe AFL closed up its head list, and improved conditions ers hope that the newly elected have accepted its program and gressives are one of a number of officers will not disappoint them.
at Chevrolet, tearful all along the line.
ize against the next Klan parade are being prepared.
quarters civic and political groups which whose budget has been reduced organizational discipline.
Next time the Klan dares to show its ugly face here Despite the sorry spectacle or have endorsed me evading an over 40. making it almost Imwin shelves.
get an appropriate reception from the Negro and white workers. The Convention of the Socialist a campaign in which none of the swering how he would meet the possible to keep books on the Then it was the school system, analysis of the background and and frankly with the basic issues Only five of the labor endors Then it was public recreation Workers Party report and candidates have dealt seriously need for jobs.
relief for the unproceedings of the party con confronting the working classed candidates for City Council de vention by James Cannon war, unemployment, the right of serve support. Axel Peterson has employed they can out this PHILADELPHIA labor to organize the Progres no claim on the loyalty of the item much more because it is Industrial Unionism and Labor Sive Labor Association candidates workers. Not only has he voted almost non existent by now.
MAY DAY MEETING Unity recent developments of Wenzel. Findlan, Coolgren, Par against labor on several occa Finally, when there was nothThe first issue of Fourth In theoretical doctrines of Marxism fundamental importance in the ranto, Mauer, Wyant, Palarine, sions, not only has he taken the ing left to cut and something stin ternational, the monthly maga. and current political analysis. It American labor movement are represent the independent politi initiative in cutting the salaries had to be done to plug up the zine of the Socialist Workers Par includes studies of the American reviewed and analysed by Far cal action of the forces of organ of the organized teachers, but he hole made in the city finances Speakers rell Dobbs, Labor Secretary of ized labor. Now is the time to has in advance repudiated the by the political grafters and their ty, is off the press! The title of trade union scene and the latest ROSE CAREY the Socialist Workers Party.
the magazine is brand new, but international developments and demonstrate that labor has its discipline of the labor movement racketeer financial friends, the Fourth International continues the war. It contains a report and Autopsy of the New Deal own strength and its own soli and demanded a blank check of decided to try a new anMember Joint Board, the best traditions of the New analysis of the recent convention study of the transformation of darity and will not be fooled by approval for all his actions, past gle. This was the sales tax. WHITE International. The name New of the Socialist Workers Party. the Roosevelt administration boss politicians.
The measure sailed through the Former Head Italian Buro of the International was stolen from its Fourth International fea by George Novack. The Labor Progressive Asso City Council without stirring Leon No Choice for Mayor DR. NUMAN rightful owners, the Socialist tures the following table of con Progressive Paralysis ciation has adopted a platform ripple among the bigshots.
Workers Party, by a group of tents in its first bow to the pub Trotsky writes on the Second For the militant worker, the calling for jobs for all at trade Well Known Leader of Jewish Workers Movement International and the war.
renegades, but is tradition con lic: campaign for mayor unfortunate union wages, better housing, proLabor Stopped That SIMMONS tinues in Fourth International. An Open Letter to James New Stage in the War an ly offers no choice. On the one tection of labor right to organ But before they knew it, the Philo. Organiser, Socialist Workers Party Readers of Fourth Interna Burnham an attack on the Editorial reviewing develop hand there is the reactionary in ize. The Socialist Workers Party political pirates had struck tional will find that the first revisionism and anti Marxism ments in the Second World cumbent, Fallon, notorious repre supports this program as a step first class squall. The workers number already equals the high of the New York University War since the conclusion of the sentative of the Chamber of Com toward meeting the needs of the wouldn take it any more, they standards established in the best professor, by Leo Trotsky.
days of the old magazine.
at 431 Pine Street This document was previously beginning of war in the Scan prominent Democrat McDonough, workers, and calls for election of little. Trade unions, workers or printed in the discus dinavian peninsula.
tied up with the national admin those candidates who stand on ganizations and even liberals be Fourth International includes Admission Free Auspices: Phila.
in its first issue articles on the sion for party members only. See Nat. Com. Statement 8) Istration, giving full support to the program of labor. Continued on Page 8)
Only Labor Candidates FOURTH INTERNATIONAL IS OUT; REPLACES NEW INTERNATIONAL Repeal the 112p. WageTax Wednesday Eve. May 1st