SOCIALIST APPEAL JUNE 1, 1940 TWORKERS SWOC Convention Stifled by Surrender Appeal Drive Gains. of Murray Leadership to War Drive But Not Enough FORUM SCOREBOARD work 100 Akron.
80 70 67 66 50 48 43 40 00 22 20 13 5 AKRON STRIKERS KEEP GENERAL 00 00 Lorain en un moment he serious mis. TIRE TIED UP CLARKE SEES WARTIME OPEN SHOP TACTICS AT WORK IN SYRACUSE The collection this week for the two a week Appeal was an by MILLS pay were substantially increased, ganizer to the convention as a improvement over the previous week collection 209. 25 was collected, an increase of approximately 70. 00 over the money colSpecial to the Socialist Appeal)
lected during the week before.
were greatly improved. As a re numerous cases, and as result, Chicago Lodge of Write to us tell us what going on in your part of the The second convention of the sult, the workers in those plants scores of Field Organizers came Republic Steel Sti. But, sorry to say, we cannot be satisfied labor movement. wat are the workers thinking about? tell The attack of the GPU assassins on Comrade Trotsky shows us what the bosses are up to and the men and the local cops can best be understood by out of the Swoc with great admira of them carrying several proxy Think Kelly a Killer us how much more effective we could be if the Appeal were puband the Stalinists send us that story the capitalist press didn lining the background of the tion and respect.
votes. Since these men were aplished twice week. Had we been pureets with the news and the Appeal twice 8steel situation.
print and that story they buried or distorted our pages are open At the time the Steel Workers ty to these workers. They had they dared not vote against the However, unions were a novel pointed by the swOC tops, week we would have been out on the Delegates from Republic to you. Letters minst carry name and address, but indicate if you Chicago Lodge walked out at the interpretation of the attempted assassination by Stalin GPU Organizing Committee entered never seen them or participated leaders for fear of losing their do not want your name printed.
much earlier.
the swOC convention when the steel unionization drive, con in their formation; hence, the jobs. Thus, from the very begin. Mayor Kelly rose to speak.
Comrades, let nothing interfere with the collection of funds ditions in the Industry were ripe question of inner union democ ning of the convention any oppo They, who know him best, still for the two a week Appeal. Our financial condition is such that for organization. This was esperacy was to small shop workers sition group was defeated by vir remember him as the mayor the two a week Appeal drive must continue regardless of any Stalinists Fail to other drive creases in living costs, a little in cially true of the small plants an abstract matter which they tue of the fact that the organizEverybody on his toes to fulfill the quota!
Draw Detroit Workers five cents is going to put these working conditions were deploreverd met understand. As far as ers held practically enough votes Day Massacre of 1934 enuering the Little Steel strike.
workers at a loss, tied up with able.
the leadership did was for the Convention committees were Chairman Murray had inWages were extremely low, and best interest of the organization appointed by Philip Murray, vited Kelly made a long Editor: wages that low, when prices will Mother Day, May 12, was the rise 25 to 200 and in some the boss was the supreme, undis. To them, the leaders were almost Chairman of the SWOC. In every speech on his behalf, and Kelly puted ruler in the shop. More infallible.
case, an organizer headed the occasion for a Peace Parade cases even higher.
spent his time explaining that Withdrawal of Leland Hanford over, the work in small shops was committee, and most of the comhere. The march was supported he wasn around when the mittee members were organizers. cops shot the steel workers.
Branch by several foreign groups of Com Lamb of Flint, Michigan from a of a character which required BIG STEEL PLANTS Pald Pledged without DIFFERENT STORY Known dissenters were systematmunist Party origin, a few stu field of nine men for a new constant. He didn say anything about Upstate New York. 50. 00 st. rest periods. The piece work sys 50. 00. the way he arranged to white10. 00 10. 00 100 Briggs local and Dodge Local Louls came when both the AFL tem prevalled as the method of large, integrated steel plants, the Every precaution was taken te wash the killers. St. Paul 200. 00 160. 00 That there were only two locals and CIO protested against Lamb determining wages, and above all, situation was entirely different. see that the convention remained But Murray whitewash of Chicago 100. 00 the swoc in safe hands.
70. 00 represented shows that the affair because of Lamb record in Flint. the speed up constantly oppress. Here the success Kelly didn go with the Chl Minneapolis 300. 00 200. 00 did not have the support of the As school superintendent there he ed the workers. Such conditions leadership fell far short of its cago delegates of the local to Boston 170. 00 112. 50 International, and secondly that fired three teachers for aiding the left an open field for any union claims and expectations. GANG UP ON which the slain men had be Lynn 50. 00 29. 00 58 influence in the auto union sitdown strike in 37. The work which could challenge the author Steel recognized the union, it is REAL DELEGATES Flint longed. They left the hall true, but mainly because it wish Several of the lodges from while Kelly was there.
105. 00 55. 00 ers in Flint should welcome this ity and power of the boss, movement is at its very lowest.
Detroit 75. 00 For an organization with the ed to put itself in a better eco larger plants had taken the lead36. 35 Briggs has been an anti war news. The AFL and the CIO are New York City 950. 00 412. 00 getting in touch with central bo backing of the United Mine nomic position as against its ership in the pre convention agilocal for some time now Dodge dies of labor wherever the nomi Workers of America, the task of competitors. The Little Steel tation for establishing genuing delegation that the best thing East Chicago 25. 00 lars. He advised the American 10. 00 No. has and Influence Newark 100. 00 nees come from and finding out organizing these small plants was strike was a smashing defeat for International union in steel with 30. 00 Los Angeles 100. 00 They save the march whatever what kind of record they have in not a particularly difficult one. the swoc, and in the few re elected leaders and representa that they could do about the war 22. 25 Buffalo 00 00 had. The greater weght of the regards to labor and then work The Swo had such backing and maining large plants under contives. The swoc leaders had situation was to stay out of it.
New Haven 55. 00 National Office this task. In a short while, hun by the union. The lodges covering wind of the trend, they came received a thunderous ovation.
550. 00 41. 00 it distinctly a petty bourgeois out. St. Louis, Mo.
Maritime Workers dreds of these small plants were ing these plants find it extremely to the convention with a propos The leadership desire to soothe 780. 00 40. 00 ing. The march was a lagging.
successfully organized, rates of difficult to maintain even a sem al that a Constitutional Conven the fears of American capital was San Francisco 100. 00 00 straggling, poorly organized flop.
Toledo.
blance of a solid organization. tion be called. in 1942. From discernible in every move that 40. 00 00 The paper estimated crowd Praises Appeal, But Philadelphia Dues fluctuate continually, and the floor came a demand that they made. This desire was most 25. 00 00 Omaha 25. 00 there is a strong anti war senti Defends Pacifists many times reach a dangerously such a convention be called by nakedly exposed when the ques0. 00 low point.
1941. Murray defended the pro tion of unemployment came up.
Baltimore 15. 00 00 ment among the workers, this Seattle 15. 00 march did not draw them in.
Editor: maintain an aggressive attitude. one after another, the organizers a conference of leaders of Indianapolis 10. 00 00 Detroit Darnell am glad you are determined They continue to discriminate and job seeking stooges began to ernment, Business, Labor and the Oakland 10. 00 00 in your anti war stand and your against union men they continue hurl slanders and insults at those Farmers. Such a conference, they Portland 10. 00 efforts for the unemployed and to reduce the workers earnings who opposed the idea of waiting say, would discuss the problem 00 00 for underpaid workers.
St. Louis Spring Co.
by manipulating the piece work until 1942. Murray pictured the of unemployment and come forth and tonnage bonus rates and rank and Ale demand as a person with some fruitful solution TOTAL. 8880. 00 1286. 10 33.
Workers Strike Again take in condemning the religious finally, they continue to boldly al attack upon himself, and then the six hour day, which at pacifists who also work for these speed up production and increase proceeded to attack its support present is the only demand which Editor same things. It is true that re AKRON, Ohio, May 26 Four. the efficiency of their plants at ers. Needless to say, in all this can really unite all steel workers that the St. Louis Spring Co. had opiate of the working people. employees of the General Tire Technological unemployment hov While the convention was in was hardly mentioned by the of Two weeks ago wrote you wigion has often been used as the toen hundred rubber workers tice the expense of the workers. confusion, Murray had his way. employed and unemployed a stoppage.
But the religious pacifists are not and Rubber Co. have been on ers over the head of every work session, the imperialist war guns fcials. However, this issue came Well, the boss agreed to give a guilty of that abutic group of days on the picket line they are steel worker sums up all of these Roosevelt was making his war delegates put forth the six hour They are the strike since April 10. After 39 er in a steel plant. And when a were booming over Europe, and up from the floor. Rank and Sle raise and a week vacation with most practical, pay. But the boss welched, so 124 people in the world today. They more determined to win than conditions, he begins to ask him budget appeal to Congress. In day demand as their immediate By GEORGE CLARKE production workers went on a do not condone the exploitation ever.
strike on Thursday, May 16. This of workers in the guise of religion, These workers, members of Lost What is the Union doing spite of this dangerous atmos answer to technological unemSYRACUSE. This wide open crusade against Bolshevism.
is Local 282, United Auto Work or under any other circumstances. Cal of the United Rubber Work. The leaders talked a great deal posed to the convention the most ipated in the discussion, and while shop industrial center is all The Bolshevism consisted of a jers.
Picketing is being conducted Baltimore, Md. John Paisleyers of America (CO) voted four abput organization drives, but reactionary war resolution yet many of them. spoke for a six primed for big on a 24 hour schedule. Wages to one to strike for. 1) The pre these drives were seldom seen: presented to any leading CIO un hour day, not a single one of them tionGeneral Maname produc low cost housing project that sucCrucible ceeded in providing the tremenpaid under the previous contract (We like Spotter Paisley to sailing hour tony, 20 hehe week and when they were begun, it was son. The entire resolution was said anything about the confer. Steel Solvay chemicals long ago dous number of 800 apartments.
ranged fom 30 to 55 cents an tell us what is practical and rethe There are almost 10, 000 slum hour. Which of course is very low alistic about religious paclfism. pany to introduce an hour day, the rank and file leaders who did the government was promised All of them talked about the strain of war.
families in Syracuse. But even pay. The union is asking for a How does it help organize the War means open shop wages. this wild eyed Bolsheviki projtwo and a half cents an hour MASS struggle against WAR meant further layoffs in a town based upon such issues as the Our country, right or wrong mills, about the speed up, about Syracuse anticipated this general ect was not entirely unprofitable an hour next year. But with the to overthrow capitalism? Edi ers walk the streets unemployed. Ionization, and not upon the is pointed out that the purpose of of work and spreading the jobs. ed tool and die maker in Brown, munity. It appears that the slums coming war, which will mean in tor. 2) Awolition of the vicious speed sues which dany tormente the the resolution was to show the only the paid apostles for class Lipe Shapin (GM afiliate man were cleared for the project man up and for a return to the rates worker at the machine. At the American people that we are collaboration had anything to say ufacturing stearing gears, head NOT the poorest section of the contract. 3) Adjustment of thy again set in, and accordingly, ment. What he meant was that conterence on unemployment sized plants of GM the same work cal banks, who were not entirely of pay as set down in the union conclusion of the campaigns, apa ready to support our govern in favor of their proposal for a lights, etc. makes less than a city. These homes of course!
grievances within a reasonable dues payments began to decline. he wanted to show American caplength of time.
When the workers from these italism that the lead sire to confer with the slave calls for 25 to 40 an hour. unhappy to relieve themselves of Backed By All Labor plants came to the convention of ership could line up the steel drivers and war mongers of Am Naturally, proportionately worse this property, at nice fat interest The International executive the Swoc in Chicago, they were workers behind the imperialist erican industry to learn how to conditions obtain for the unskill charges.
Board of the URWA is support not quite so willing to support the war machinery.
meet the problem of unemployed.
The popular referendum on ment. The workers know the road! And while wages trail far be Workers Are Militant ing the strike, along with the CIO leadership in every move. They central body. The strikers also had begun to develop serious war, which was endorsed by the THE SIX HOUR DAY WITH hind unionized plants, and hours The second Chiengo milk strike turned its recommendation that have the moru and material sup doubts about the highly praised 1937 convention, was not even EIGHT HOURS PAY! It will not are long and working conditions tant truck drivers and a few of in a month ended in a truce on the strike be settled pending ar port of the AFL of Akron, the preachers of industrial peace. mentioned in the 1940 resolution, come if everything is left up to bad, Syracuse workers already the minor trades, Syracuse is unMay 26, with the bosses with bitration of the issues on Satur rubber center of the world. The leaders were well aware of From the floor came a request the leadership: it will come only have the bad smell in their nos organized. There are a few weak drawing the wage cut of day last. It took several ballots constant picket line of strik this development; they came to that the 1937 stand be reaffirmed, when the steel workers them trils the smell of the pre war SwOC lodges in the Crucible selves prepare to fight for it. 10 depression that will be the post mills, a few of the smaller plants Negotiations for the settlement before the chairman of the meet ers, their families and sympathi the convention prepared to meet but it was promptly shelved.
AFL and CIO brothers, it.
Meanwhile, a Canadian dele this end, the militants who at war panic.
and mills under contract. And are now in progress. Arbitration ing declared a majority for the zers, Taking advantage of the finan gate described the conditions of tended the convention in Chicago The Democracy They Enjoy tion. But don get the impresthat about the size of organizanegotiations committee propos harass the few acabs and office will begin on June 10.
The strike began as a lock out, al. The first ballot showed the workers who enter the plant. The cial weakness of the small lodges, the Canadian workers under the pledged themselves. Let the leadOver 9, 000 families are on re sion that Syracuse workers lack when the bosses posted a new membership evenly divided. scabs are protected by at least the SWOC officials recommended war regime. He told of how civil ers have their conferences with wage scale. The Milk Wagon The strike was fought over the 100 Akron policemen. These cops that several small lodges unite rights were destroyed, while pro the bosses: the steel workers lief, according to Leon Abbott, in militancy. For months on end county welfare commissioner. At the Remington. Rand workers Drivers Union immediately turn bosses arbitrary decision to vio have become increasingly brutal and send a local SWOC Field Or Aits mounted into millions of dol themselves prefer fighting!
least one out of every seven per battled as vicious a company tered it into a strike. After three late the agreement of the first especially with the women, since sons receive relief which is a ror as workers have seen anydays the bosses were howling for strike, which terminated in an the back to work movement atsure sign that at least one out of where. They didn win the lanegotiations. Milk deliveries were agreement that the weekly basic tempted by their chief Rae Wilevery six are unemployed. bor movement was to weak and completely tied up for eight days. wage remain at 48 until an liams failed so miserably.
It is interesting to note that These families, fortunate enough the company too powerful. But The negotiations committee re agreement was arrived at the majority of these cope are to be on the relief rolls, received the real story is told the fact 32 on the weekly average. Es that the only way Remingtonthe recruits added to the force in timating the families at an aver Rand could defeat the workers the last two years. At that time age of persons, the relief can was by closing down the plant.
the whole labor movement opnon fodder of Syracuse enjoy the Hell will pop in this town one posed the expansion of the police COMING OFF THE PRESS. force, pointing out the many adprincely sum of 90 cents a day of these days, a worker told me, for food, clothing, shelter, fuel and when it does we ll be fightditional men would only be used NEWARK, George Breit ly receive cut in his total food themselves against the next and the other necessities of life. Ing our own war where it should as scab herders.
man, Socialist Workers Party budget.
stages in the development of the They will probably be branded be fought.
The boss press shouted that candidate for United States Seplan.
they were needed to crush a ris nator, denounced the reactionary Used Against Cash Relief ing crime wave they claimed was features of the food stamp plan this maneuver is inteneded to ist controlled shell of an organ: DuPont Roosevelt war for dem ahead in Syracuse. With several In Newark, we know that On the other hand, the Stalin Fifth Column if they don get The SWP is ready to move menacing the city. Now when as attempts to regiment the un weaken the fight for cash reliel. ization.
the Workersafeli anne ocracy. civilization and the workers joining the party during traffic accidents are reaching employed in preparation for Am something Newark unemployed pletely slurring over the danger Not very long ago the local of time before an active, promismy stay here, it is only a matter by adequae patrol, all the cops are Despite the publicity with lighting for. They are afraid that ous features of the plan, saying newspapers and the Chamber of ing party organization is conatibusy protecting scabe.
which it was introduced by the this increase will be used by to the unemployed: This is your com FARRELL DOBBS talk to the representatives of the month, the food stamp pian has cut in their relief, as was done in Thus they demonstrate that alt General meanwhile refuses to local and federal politicians this the local politicians to prepare a plan! Learn how it benefits your Commerce were engaged in a bigl tuted. comprehensive study of problems facing the striking workers until they give been greeted with resentment Minneapolis after the introduc sounding language than a year American Workers work. Why? In 1938 General Tire ever increasing numbers of un They resent new restrictions which betrays and confuses the ago, they still follow a policy Price: 10 dollars. They are preparing to ganizations, declared Breitman, identification card every time they fight for jobs and adequate cash make even greater profits, along with their competitor allies that it was no 50 increase in inspectors to stop them when They found out quickly enough go to a store, the right of federal relief. NEW ANTI WAR PAMPHLET Goodrich, Goodyear, and Fire their food allowances. Up till now they leave a store and searching out how ridiculous a role the Breitman concluded by point.
stone, out of the war orders the unemployed had been receiv. their bags, the restrictions on George Clarke, member of the National Committee of the by which are today trickling in, and ing surplus commodities given out their right to purchase household Socialist Party was playing in Socialist Workers Party, now on a coast to coast speaking tour, Joe Hansen tomorrow will be rushing in to by the Federal Surplus Commo materials such as soap, or to ployed workers in New York at the food stamp question. Unem is in Minneapolis and St. Paul this week end. Time and place of Akron.
his speaking engagements can be ascertained at the Minneapolis This refusal to negotiate on dity Corporation in addition to bacco.
First of a series of 2c agitational pamphlets the recent convention of the Un headquarters of the Socialist Workers Party, 919 Marquette.
the part of General Tire, a relat their food checks at the local stations.
Stand of Various Groups employed Project Workers Un His next speaking dates are: ively small company, can only This opposition to many fea ion saw members of the Socialist In effect they will not receive tures of the plan Omaha. Sunday, June be explained as part of the drive already pro Party voting in a bloc against Denver. Tuesday, Wednesday, June 5 Published for the by big business everywhere. more than a 25 30 increase, duced a strongly worded resolu the food stamp plan introducSalt Lake City. June by gainst union conditions, as a pre instead of the promised 50. As tion from the Workers Relief tion in New York City, at the San Francisco.
June 10 16 liminary to the Day plans for the voluntary aspect of the WPA Union, militant Newark un same time that Harry Laidler, Fresno. June 17 PUBLISHERS PIONEER the war plans of American busi thing: Since the old FSCC sta employed organization, attacking member of the City Council Los Angeles. June 18 25 116 UNIVERSITY PLACE NEW YORK, ness which if unopposed mean tions will be closed, everyone who the reactionary features of the had been the most active propo Comrade Clarke comments from each city on the way in the destruction of the workers does not voluntarily accept the plan, and calling upon the unem nent in that body to bring the which American workers are reacting to the war drive will appear movement.
food stamp plan will automatical ployed to organize to protect plan New York City.
each week in the Appeal.
SECOND CHICAGO MILK STRIKE WITHIN MONTH ENDS IN TRUCE Stamp Plan Assailed by SWP Jersey Candidate for Senate TRADE UNION PROBLEMS GEORGE CLARKE IN TWIN CITIES ON COAST TO COAST TOUR