Socialist Appeal See Your Friends for the Twice a Week Appeal See Your Friends for the Twice a Week Appeal Official Weekly Organ of the Socialist Workers Party, Section of the fourth International VOL. IV, No. 23 NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JUNE 8, 1940 167 FIVE (5) CENTS WAR PRESSURE HITS SHIPYARD STRIKERS. NEXT STEP IS CRACKDOWN IN AUTO PLANTS Unions Resist Anti Alien Drive Is Boss Drive Strike Breaking Move Toward War UAW Leaders War Scare Used to End Walsh Healey Make Futile Strike at Kearny Yards Act Spiked Plea to FDR By Congress tele49, 26.
SAILORS FIGHT These are well organized industries. We all know from DRIVE AGAINST in many cases the backbone of the union. If the anti alien ALIENS ON SHIPS Admiral Wiley Admits Gov Fink Scheme Admiral Wiley, head of the Why the War Deal wants the aliens to be put under the training ship program of the Maritime Commission, More than 5, 000 workers of the Federal Shipbuilding control of the FBI, why Congress is adopting anti alien speaking at the ceremonies or Workers in St. Paul legislation, is revealed by the government own statistics.
Company met on Thursday, May 30, and by overwhelming But Knudsen, Speaks majority voted to strike.
National Maritime Day, admitThe latest figures available (Statistical Abstract of the WASHINGTON, June and Ohio Vote Anti 1930 Census) show that the foreign born are predominantted the anti labor function of for Roosevelt in They had grievances aplenty, the bosses were stalling, the. The Roosevelt administrathe training program when he old contract had expired the day before and a new one was tion came out openly for the War Resolutions ly INDUSTRIAL WORKERS. Although they constitute said: Industry Now but 10 of the general population, they make up 23 of. it was doubtful that nowhere in sight, and these good union men were tired of suspension of the Walshbeing kicked around.
Healey Act on Monday, when all industrial workers! Nearly one out of every four indusmen given pay and subsistence while they are in training, will ST. PAUL, Minn The Ware trial workers is foreign born.
DETROIT, Mich. The General When they voted to strike, thay were well aware of the an authorized spokesman of want to follow the guidance of house Employees Union, Local Motors Council of the UAW rethe government appeared beunion leaders. JOURNAL of defense program ballyhoo. If they hadn been, their own 503, adopted an anti war resoluAnd since about 25 of the foreign botn are not citiCOMMERCE, May 23)
Jected this Sunday the proposed leaders had made them listen to it all over again, arguing Committee to make that refore the Senate Naval Affairs tion, warning the workers against zens, the government anti alien bills would place a conThat just what the Sailors agreement of GM and further ro vainly for a further delay to continue the negotiations.
the Day dictatorship plans of siderable section of the working class at the complete mercy Union of the Pacific charged commended its rejection to the the government, at the last mem135, 000 GM workers in the union.
of the men and other anti labor agencies.
the government was trying to But the men were tired of the endless stalling of the quest.
bership meeting of the union.
The Council recommended instead He was Captain few figures will show what a blow against organized do, and that why the union company. The union was asking for 10 cents an hour inFollowing is the text of the that the local unions give it au opposed the training program, labor is hidden under the smokescreen of alien legislaFisher of the Navy legal resolution: crease in pay the men were getting from 62 cents to thority together with the officers Ostensibly started to give sea Whereas, The war now ragand Executive Board of the Intertion: men additional training, Wiing in Europe is a commercial an hour, about the lowest scales in any shipyard in the staff, and he told the Senate national Union, to take whatever country and a week vacation with pay after a year em construction program could be ley department recruited outand economic one, and of action they may deem necessary Whereas, War brings with it Total No.
Foreign siders, preparing them for futo bring about an immediate and ployment.
the establishment of dietaIndustry of Workers Foreign Born Born ture strikebreaking moves.
satisfactory agreement.
The company was offering nothing except an increase assisted greatly by suspension Coal Mining 621, 661 175, 898 28. torship as is outlined in the This velled strike threat was, of to cents an hour.
of the Walsh Healey Act.
Copper Mining Day plans of government 30, 989 9, 550 80. however, accompanied by That was plain enough, and leaders, and Iron Mining 24, 248 11, 982 And it was offering this increase only to the skilled men, gram to President Roosevelt re Whereas, These plans are Machinista 761, 095 195, 178 questing his intercession in the deliberately trying to divide the skilled and unskilled later in the day the Senate, by devised to tie the hands of the Molders, Founders. 105, 158 88, 565 87.
negotiations. The Council went against each other. This was also an attempt to divide the a voice vote with no dissent, Labor movement and would reAutomobile 161, 957 48, 099 26.
post of its way in this telegram white workers from the black workers, for the several hun passed in three minutes the bill sult in an attempt to smash all Blast Furnaces. 106, 664 83, 471 31.
already passed by the House, auworkers organizations, and loyalty and patriotic feelings con dred unskilled are mostly colored workers.
thorizing a further outlay of Whereas, War can be stopcerning Roosevelt defense pro When Roosevelt, last week, appointed his Defense Coun 654, 000, 000 for the navy. The ped only by the overwhelming experience that these aliens are usually good union men, gram.
cil, that was an additional reason for the company to stay the Navy, with the authorization bill includes provisions enabling percentage the population The new proposed which is the laboring classes praetenlly idention with the pat. For the company is a subsidiary of Steel, and of the president, to arrange buildprerrors, It Resolved legislation becólies taw, that means the government will That we, the Warehouse Em join the bosses in terrorizing these aliens, trying to turn old Homer Martin GM contract, Stettinius, resigned head of the steel corporation, was ing of ships without observance no recognition of the shop stew. now in charge of the government defense program, to, ment of the prevalling wage.
ployees Union, Local No. 508, them into scabs and stool pigeons.
reaffirm our stand in opposition The anti alien legislation is a gigantic conspiracy to WASHINGTON, June fore seniority becomes operative, gether with pals of his like Knudsen of General Motors and to war and call upon workers list of exceptional employ. Budd, the railroad magnate.
CIO Protest Ignored the Sailors Union of the Pacifie ees destroying the normal seniordivide the workers against each other, to weaken the soleverywhere to fight against it.
and acting president of the Sea ity procedure, disciplinary meaIf the company negotiators had begun to lose their passage, the Senate Naval alidarity of organized labor, to turn the unions into houseIn recommending the bill for farers International Union, Issures permitted against workers, nerve, and might have begun thinking of giving in to the fairs Committee did not even OHIO STATE AFL broken lap clogs. And then the bosses will do as they please, scheduled to register the emetc. etc. except that the new union, the action of Congress would have made them feel trouble to justify the provisions MEAT CUTTERS IN wiping out every hard won gain of the workers.
phatic opposition of the seafarers contract provides an improved better. For last week the House drove a hole as big sidetracking the Walsh Healey to the latest anti alien bill, at a ANTI WAR STAND grievance procedure. This im battleship right through the Walsh Healey Act and the by the cio. In a letter to the Act, which have been protested hearing this week before the House Committee on Merchant completely offset by the establishGovernment Attacks Drivers Marine and Fishertes Wages and Hours Act, giving the Secretary of the Navy committee, John Lewis bad COLUMBUS, Ohio strong Introduced by the committee for the industry, whose decisions ment of an impartial arbitrator and the president authority to push these labor safeguards particularly objected to proviresolution against American in aside.
sions which exempted contracts volvement in the war, and calling chairman, Congressman Bland, shall be final and binding on both negotiated by the Secretary of for submitting the question of MINNEAPOLIS, June The Almost identical charges were this bill would forbid the employ parties. This impartial arbitrator There was only one way to get the company to yield. the Navy from the Walsh Healey war to a referendum of the peo Bakery Drivers Union, Local 289, recently made by the government ment of any non citizen on Amer scheme is nothing but a stream. That was STRIKE.
Act and which omitted large catple, was adopted by the Third and its seven officers, were noti commission against the Desican ships.
The havoc this bill would wreak pulsory arbitration lined, sugar coated form of comAnnual Convention of the Ohio fied last week that the Federal Moines and Sioux City Bakery Yet by Sunday afternoon, less than three days later, those egories of workers engaged in State Branch of the Amalgam Trade Commission charges them Drivers.
on the seamen unions, it enact.
same men had been beaten down to the point where they tection of the Wage Hour Act.
ated Meat Cutters Butcher with having conspired to pre This latest government move ed into law, is indicated by the Refuses Wage Ralse voted to go back to work with nothing gained except that What worried the committee, Workmen. AFL) representing vent peddlers and so called in against the mid West bakery fact that about 30 of the memThe union request for wage 7, 000 members in this state, meet dependent route men or independ drivers supplements the action bership of the Sailors Union of increase was turned down in spite same company offer that petty increase deliberately de and all the rest of official Washing here May 12.
ent bread men from obtaining taken by the FBI, which framed the Pacific are non citizen, and of 183, 000, 000 profits in 1939. It! signed to divide skilled and unskilled, white and black, the strike of 7, 000 workers at the Another resolution, on civil bread pastries, cakes and other scan City Omaha and Des for the Marine Firemen. To drive ous proposal of a vacation with about the same percentage holds offered instead the highly gener which they had refused three days before.
Federal Shipbuilding Co. yards in rights, condemned Roosevelt for his statement that employes of bakery products, to sell either at Moines, for the alleged destruc these men off the ships is a move pay amounting to percent of Who beat those men down?
Kearney, New Jersey, members of a CIO union, the government have no right to wholesale or retail in said trade tion of a bakery truck during the deliberately designed to break the the annual earnings of the work As soon as the strike began, a hue and cry was raised in When John Lewis and his strike. and denounced Thurman area.
Sioux city bakery strike in 1938. backbone of the seamen unions. ers. The vacation with pay thus Congress against the strikers. Treason, the strike was lieutenants drove the strikers Arnold anti trust assault on adds up to about 30 per called and of the New Dealers got up to de back to work on Sunday, that the trade unions.
ployee, or equal to wage inaction of the CIO leaders was fend the strikers. The heat was on.
The anti war resolution follows crease of about 60c per week!
taken as the real index to their in full. Aliens Bill Aimed at this Picket Line This contract, almost identical The FBI poured men into Kearney by the scores present temper. In other words WHEREAS, there is now in with the sell out agreement of Secretary of the Navy Edison warned the strikers that we it they wouldn fight for what progress a war in Europe which Homer Martin in 1938, so insultthey wanted, the committee need cannot afford to have trouble of this kind.
threatens to engulf the whole ing the whole membership of the not take the CIO letter of protest world, and UAW, is the first fruit of the None of this, however, had any effect at all on the seriously. And that the way it WHEREAS the present war phony statesmanship and the strikers UNTIL their own CIO leaders joined in the pres worked out being fought is an imperialist cowardly strategy of Sidney Hillman and Phil Murray. It is the sure against the strike.
one, and Anti Alien Law Passed!
WHEREAS as workers we can logical outcome of the policy of The union officials got in touch with John Lewis. He The other outstanding Congreshave no common Interests with cooperation and national unity helped by sending Allan Haywood, national organization sional blow against organized iathe aims of those countries inwith all of the open shop manu director of the CIO.
bor during the week was concur.
volved in the slaughter of the facturers and anti union employrence by the Senate last Friday workers fighting their wars for ers and servile boss politicians in With the prestige and power of the national leadership of with the resolution already pasthe profits of the few, the name of national defense. the CIO in his fist, Haywood managed to do what the sed by the House, to put inte THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Ohio State Hillman Joins Knudsen union own leadership hadn been able to. With threats, effect in a few days the transfer Branch 50 on record as being But a short month ago, Sidney scaring talk and cajolery all skillfully mixed together, he from the Labor Department tu unalterably opposed to the UnHillman walked into the GM off pounded them into voting to go back empty handed. the Departmnet of Justice. ited States being involved in ces and told Knudsen, President Even so, a thousand men voted against going back.
Farmer Labor Senators Lunany such war, and that shall of GM, that the corporation was deen and Shipstead of Minnesota, oppose any attempts to stamnegotiating not only with the There the BACKBONE OF THE UNION!
and Senators Norris, Wheeler and pede or involve us in this catastrophe, and and that he, Hillman, wanted much as swear that if forthcoming negotiations don get of Roosevelt to put the four milEven so, Haywood and the other speakers had to as Murray, were the only ones who FURTHER BE IT RESOLVED Knudsen to give the auto workers the men their demands, a strike will follow. And the men lion non citizens in this country that we support the Ludlow a square deal. Today Hillman is Amendment for a referendum sitting side by side on the same are DETERMINED to get their demands.
into the keeping of Edgar vote on war, board of National Defense with Defense program or no defense program, the workers Hoover and his men.
the agent of the DuPonts and the have a right to a decent living. If the bosses won grant it, ST. PAUL LABOR Wall Street bankers, Knudsen. No Supreme Court Joins In wonder GM feels free to insult THE WORKERS MUST SECURE IT BY STRIKE Not to be outdone by the other WARNS AGAINST the auto workers!
ACTION. That interferes with the defense program? the war drive, the Supreme Court branches of the government in GOVERNMENT ACTS The union International Exec Then let the government force the bosses to grant the un contributed a decision, by an 1 day in Washington, C, with ion demands, after which the workers will end the strike. vote, which the sole dissenter, ST. PAUL, Minn The St. Paul John Lewis and other high Never mind what the government and the bosses are Justice Stone, characterized as Trades Labor Assembly, AFL CIO officials to map out strategy saying! Fight in peacetime or wartime, regardless of its tional protection of the liberty the surrender of the constitucentral body, at its meeting last for the next steps in the GM sitFriday night called upon the la One out of every three men on this picket line of the Sailors Union of the Pacific would be uation effect on the defense of the country as the bosses see it of small minorities.
bor movement to organize in opThe court held that school ordered off the docks and the ships, if a new anti alien bill proposed this week in the House. the unions MUST fight for the workers rights.
Leadership Bankrupt position to the war hysteria boards can compel a salute by Committee on the Merchant Marine were adopted. Thirty percent of seafarers are non citiThat the lesson of the shipyard strike, the first major children to the American flag.
sweeping the nation, which has zens, but very good union men. The ship they re picketing is a Maritime Commission boat The whole policy pursued by (Continued on Page 3) strike since Roosevelt armament drive began in earnest. Continued on Page Continued on Page which may have something to do with the bill!