SOCIALIST APPEAL JUNE 8, 1940 TWORKERS Workers Are Not Falling Readily For Speed Appeal Drive!
Propaganda Blitzkrieg, Clarke Reports FORUM honest priest worden te doen place was the elde on the evenimentele che content RADIO WORKERS OUT ON STRIKE AT AIR KING SCOREBOARD 100 100 100 100 80 74 67 66 50 ion.
40 40 31 30 20 13 12 6 0 0 0 00 00 00 00 00 20 SELLING THE APPEAL terrifle drop in the amount collected for the twice a week fund in the last week endangers the whole drive. Only 74. 95 was collected, the smallest amount collected in any week since the drive began.
We know that there may be some reasons for this drop but that does not help matters any. The two a week Appeal cannot By GEORGE CLARKE himself in Holland after the had their eyes on some kind of come out even though the reasons for the failure of the comrades ROCHESTER, should war. Yes, and see that one special fob that would keep them may be good and sufficient ones.
Less than four weeks are left for the completion of the drive.
add a few words of correction to place neither side shoots up in out of the army. They weren Write to tell us what going on in your part of the From now until the close of the drive every branch and every labor movement what are the workers thinking about! tell anti war sentiment among the get our Jobs back. Then after away with it but they were hopcomrade must place the two week fund as point No. on the us what the bosses are up to and the mes and the local copsworkers. The war hysteria is being we did finally land something, ing. After they listened to agenda of every meeting. In the time that is left we must collect and the Stalinists send us that story the capitalist press didn pounded into the consciousness of the depression came along and me explain how rigidly the Day the balance of the fund.
print and that story they buried or distorted our pages are open the people by every streamlined blew it all away. And now plans were set up, they weren o confident of their little schemes to you. Letters must carry name and address, but indicate if you device of capitalist and with a fury of ropaganda they re starting the same thing do not want your name printed.
all over again!
any more.
He stopped for minute to What was trying to tell them This blitzkrieg has in a few weeks been able to decimate vocal take care of his coffee urn. Then. and think the point got over. was this: If you can get a Auto Worker Says Colored Worker peace and isolationist sentiment he came back.
Local 430 of the CIO United Boy. he said looking straight job now, or if they won give Branch Pledged Paid Comments on Preferable to Negro dive bombers and tanks destroy at me, this is one time when you one when production is be Electrical Radio and Machine what chance do you think you ll tory last week, when it compelled Upstate New York. 50. 00 50. 00 Articles Editor: The first reaction among workhave after the war is over when the Transformer Corporation of Akron.
10. 00 10. 00 Rockville Workers Regaln Party am in very close contact with ers whom you engage in a dis5. 00 there will be no reason to pro America to sign a contract in or5. 00 the colored workers. With them cussion on the war consists al.
The public forum arranged that ducing tens of thousands of air der to settle a month strike.
Texas 00 00 Editor: St. Paul 200. 00 work side by side on the job. On most universally of the emotional 160. 00 As a worker in one of the Gen the street talk with them and outburst: Hitler is going too far. evening consisted with one or two planes and other war equipment? The company had refused to Chicago 100. 00 80. 00 eral Motors plants not even also have access to some of their something must be done to stop exceptions of ano nudience entirely You don have anything to gain recognize the unton, claiming that Lynn 50. 00 37. 00 Minneapolis 300. 00 the NLRB poll, read union meetings and also some of him. The uniformity of this momente dos morpers After the cut of this system except a beliy. It was still bound by a previous 200. 00 Boston your article, GM Bolder Under their gatherings of other kinds. statement uttered by so many discuss further. It de like the set up the Big Shots will ternational Representative of the 177. 00 119. 50 Flint 105. 00 55. 00 War Drive Inuyat you over ger and also Negro with them. reaction has been compounded veloped that this group trade go after you in a way that will AFL electrical workers. Like the (Appeal, have discussed the words nig people makes it clear that this mained May 25. and find Detroit.
75. 00 36. 35 emphasize certain aspects. and find a burning hatred for out of passionate and justified union militants and Aghters for make Butcher Hitler look like a previous contract the newe the provides for a union shop, the New York City 950. 00 417. 00 East Chicago 25. 00 Primarily you overlook the fact the word nigger because they hatred of the fascist dictator the unemployed had been liter. 100 democrat.
company hiring through the un10. 00 The Workers War Baltimore.
25. 00 that the Auto Workers Union realize the contempt which lies and fear whipped up by the cap ally driven out of the party about italist press.
a year ago by the petty bourgeois 10. 00 still has to consolidate Its gains been associated with the word.
element that then dominated the It time to start thinkingLos Angeles 100. 00 Yet one need only scratch a 31. 00 To strengthen a similar strike in the 59 divisions in which it has Newark.
100. 00 30. 00 Although some few white peottle deeper to discover that party in Rochester When ex. and doing about the workers at Air King Radio, the union is Buffalo.
plained to them the significance real war, the war against Wall 00 00 bargaining rights. Then it still ple have used the word Negro has to win the remaining 30 di with the correct pronunciation. beneath this hysteria there is of the split with Burnham Co. Street and its fuehrer in the White picketing the Sears Roebuck New Haven 55. 00 00 visions. This is a task which re stin in the majority of cases it Philadelphia 25. 00 00 quires a constant fight, in the also has had a sound of contenupt, and its causes which is based they could hardly restrain their House, the war for jobs, hope and stores, which insists on selling the National Office 550. 00 41. 00 divisions already won, for better such as may be noticed in the on far more substantial mater expressions of delight. We had opportunity for the young people Silvertone Radios manufacturMaritime Workers 780. 00 50. 00 lal. No other term can better working conditions, higher pay tone of a well to do Southern San Francisco promised to return to the party. telligence enough to rebuild this conference held Monday between 100. 00 00 rates in many cases, etc.
describe this understanding These additions to the are country ten times over. And that the union and the Sears Roebuck farmer when he speaks of his Toledo 40. 00 00 than ANTI CAPITALIST.
Omaha 25. 00 Rochester or war will be your war you won executives, the latter promised 00 Perhaps you do not know that white workers as tenants or The ten years of depression and certain to give our and help it have to be thinking about the union to withdraw from sale Seattle 15. 00 00 all Air King products until the there are many duplications of hired hands.
plants in the GM organization.
Indianapolis believe that Colored worker misery have by no means been canization new drive a 10. 00 These duplications are not for ge or Colored Race would sound eradicated from the minds of the for the first time to sink its roots then. There will be a reason strike is over.
in the workers movement. to fight.
Oakland 10. 00 175 workers of the Air King Portland ographic purposes primarily, but much better to the colored. masses by the poison gas of Roosevelt war barrage. The sus10. 00 Radio Co. on 63rd St. Brooklyn, Hundreds of coples of the spe refused to go to work on As to The Negro Question, Lorain mainly for purposes of strategy. 00 Pittsburgh BUFFALO The war hysteria cial steel workers edition of the Friday morning, May 17, after One plant is played against an agree with that the Colored picion that the millionaire Hitother to create an impression that workers are no more of a ques: dustry will use the war to rake is making swift headway. But as Socialist Appeal were distributed four workers in the plant had Kansas the plant whose workers are most tion than the white workers. If docile will receive the nod on or there is question, it is the in billions of dollars in profits is frenzied as it may seem on the to the workers at the huge Lack been locked out by the manage TOTAL.
overywhere. it Works. 8897. 00 1961. 05 84. ders when things slack of. How question of Black and White Sol wounded idea that ene ruling you can do. It can get people to Bethlehem steel, and in the comment for union activity.
The workers are members of far this actually is done has to darity and that question is in the tocracy will utilize this slaughter enthusiastic about putting on a pany town of Lackawanna be checked.
hands of the white worker! The to blitzkrieg ut social regista uniform and getting their heads Everywhere the slogan of the Local 430, United Electrical, RaHas the group system with its majority of colored workers that tion, will up hours and bomb shot off to fatten up Morgan six hour day at eight hours Pay (CIO. The workers joined the base pay and bonuses and group have contacted realize that sol hell out of wages and crush the and John Rockefeller.
leaders been abolished in the or idarity is a thing that must be trade unions this idea has peneYouth Seek Escape swoc ever intends to organize CIO by a vote of 800 to last ganized plants? This method has before any great advancement trated into millions of minds Bethlehem steel, they had better week when William Beedle, Intergroup working against group and can be expected. The privileged princes of the spoke to a group of young wake up and start fighting for national Representative in charge ductive members are constantly convince the majority of the Roosevelt once called them will and they all were devising special pay. That the only way to force suspended the local elected leadagainst Hitler to schemes to go when money bags Eugene Grace to signership lenced or capable members: This combine their strength with that establish a Hitlerite dictatorship Day came along. Most of them up.
The shop manager discharged creates an ideal situation for the of the Black worker for a com in the Untled States. Workers the workers on what he called orders from Beedle. The workdon say this in exactly so many company of worker against work mon cause?
As am a native Southerner, words today, but it is not difficult ers demand that a labor board er, speed up. decrease in term of election be held in the shop and employment, places power in the can easily see that progress has to see that it will not be long beWe have been soft pedalling we look forward confidently hands of the group leader and been made to bring Southern fore they find their way to a that the four workers diqcharged the need for Appealajesand to weekly totals as good or bet be reinstated pending the out subs. This was because of the ter than the ones attained foremen and, in general weakens workers of all races closer to clear formulation of this idea and the come of the election, the workers morale.
gether. In the last two years, then translate it in terms of current National Office drive for have seen white and black work action.
Workers Are Militant a Twice Weekly Fund, and also as a starter, every working Many of us unorganized know ers meet together in Union halls.
because of our intense desire to comrade should consider it a duwhy we are better paid than the have seen white workers sit and Veteran Talks On Tuesday morning, May 21. see the Fourth International sub ty to subscribe himself; and evaverage industrial worker. GM, listen with respect to a Colored Too many victims of World 200 workers of the Royal Wood drive go over with a bang, as itery comrade, employed or unemlike Ford and others, would rath Speaker for as long as an hour, war are still in circulation for We, the undersigned members committee report is puolic record sidiary company of Alr King RaManufacturing Co. Inc. a sub is doing.
er pay us just union wages with applauding during that time when the good of the multi millionaire et organized ha bor have before red qudge than even beter male read: dio, walked out in a sympathy al. The Appeal is badiy in need of side subscription. Il branches conployed, should take it upon himBut we can no longer soft ped self to bring in at least one outthan the now prevailing union Those white workers have asked into World War II. talked to the yellow journalism of West Why has he not given it public strike. These workers belong to funds, and bundle payments and duct this drive on a competitive if we were all organized. In an officer of my union, to invite one of them here, a counterman brook Pegler for some time and ity? Because he is at the very the United Leather Workers Un sub orders have reached an basis, the Appeal will be glad to other words we unorganized men more colored speakers. Some of in a small lunchroom. The con we believe that it is necessary to service of those who try to instino (AFL) and the Furniture alarming low. partial list of offer a bound volume of the Apand women receive bonefits from the more progressive members versation began along the lines make few definite statements corruption in unions to give them Workers union (CIO. In refusing delinquents is appended at the peal as an award to comrades who the union although we are not would meet the colored speaker, described above. But soon he be concerning his allegations of cor a bad name and then attempt to to walk through the cto picket end of the column, that all who lead their branches by obtaining members.
either before or after the meeting gan to break through the first ruption in the labor movement. discredit them.
line they showed a real example read may hasten to redeem them six or more subs. To the outI am heartily in favor of the and shake hands with him. men emotional reaction. He handed me of labor unity.
Is Pegler opposed to graft in Are we accusing Pegler of beselves.
standing branch or branches 30 hour week at 40 hours pay, but tion all of this because it is un my coffee and began to talk: principle? We do not recall his ing in the pay of the employers. Beedie called a meeting last totalling at least 25 subs, the Apcan these conditions be won in usual in the South. served four years in the engaging in any extended and we know that he is paid hand week to explain to the munton We give you first, however, the peal will award the complete 3 of the divisions or will a The colored race has many Canadian army on the western bitter campaigns against gratt in somely for his column and other membership his action in the complete list of all subs sent in 1938, and both 1939 bound volsteater majority of organized di leaders who can be brought to front. Most of this time we were business, about which the facts writings by newspapers that are case. There were about 100 Work during May. They total only so umes. This offer terminates July visions be necessary before de the front to replace the many up in the front lines. ll never are well known to anyone who in the main notorious for their ers present. Twenty to thirty for the entire month, a record 6th (a minimum of one sub mands be made for its initiation. misleaders they now have. We forget the battle of Vimy Ridge takes the trouble to read govern labor hating, that never miss an were imported from New Jersey, which the Fourth International week, comrades. so get buay If the condition is to be pushed, must give our support to their as he was talking this battle mental reports and court decisions. opportunity to smear labor, that ten were shop supervisors sent bettered weekly during its sub now!
should not organization of the un new and revolutionary leaders. was happening all over again for He never criticized Richard Whit: have fought unions in the newsthere by the boss and the others scription drive: organized divisions and strength. We must remember that the col the second time It was ney for his thievery in the stock paper industry, that are owned apparently were either bosses Minneapolis Balance due June 1, 1910: ening of the other divisions go cred worker must have colored a horrible sight. was up in the market with the viciousness that or controlled by vested interests, stooges or curious onlookers. Bee New York Los Angeles. 11. 81 along with the demands? leadership! No matter how sin front with a machine gun crew. he attacks union Officials, al and that are found on the reactie tried to make an explanation Los Angeles San Francisco 59. 24 also feel that although Marcere a white man may be, he can As the Germans came on we though Whitney crime was far tionary side of every major qués of his outrageous actions and Chicago San Diego 88 tin has been ousted, his technique seldom understand the problems mowed them down like blades of greater than anything any union tion.
then demanded that the union St. Paul Streator 30 of organizing seems to remain in of the Black Race like an ad grass. It was not that you wanted ist has been accused of. Nor has membership accept the fake conThe affairs and problems of the tract he proposed. About threeDetroit Chicago 21. 25 do it you had to, it was your Pegler accused Morgan and labor movement are its own. fourths of those present voted for Cleveland the union, e. secret conferences vanced and sincere black worker.
Boston 30. 75 With Ford executives and other when the time comes for the life of theirs, and besides you wis partners ofererruption in Years before Pegler ever came the proposal and the others abLynn 55 high handed methods. These workers to overthrow the ruling were half full of rum.
though they were end, as has been eliminating from its even counting the votes Beedle California. And one each, for in: on the scene the labor movement stained from voting. Without North Dakota, Iowa, Ohio and Two each for the states of Flint.
54. 15 methods are now being used by class, am sure that the colored have never been the same volved in the Whitney Minneapolis 12. 00 those who formerly fought workers of the South will do even since the war. And that goes for Robert Hutchins, president of the ranks the racketeers, usually declared that the contract had Omaha, Connecticut, Oakland, St. Paul 18. 00 against them.
more than their share.
Omaha most of us that were lucky to University of Chicago, declared 90 If the union officials think that If we can agree, then, that come back in one piece. People when he resigned from the New planted with the aid of the em been accepted.
Fresno, Illinois, State, Tex Patterson Newark The spirit of the workers is as, San Francisco, Montana, Milthe membership is going to stand there is no question of the would laugh when a veteran York Stock Exchange board of ployer. Neither Pegler nor any16. 70 by and watch them wreck the Negro any more than there is of would jump six feet out of his governors in protest.
as their basic premise an anti strong and militant. They plan waukee, Tampa, New Castle, Rochester 84 street car when he heard We do not recall the Pegler pil union bias has any right to in to resist any attempt to break Maryland, union while they squabble for the white worker why not call seat in a succeech of the brakes. lar of virtue ever criticizing busi terfere. We will solve our prob. the picket line such as has been Arizona, Kansas and Quaker38. 05 Newark, Memphis Akron.
Cleveland 84. 05 leadership, they will be suddenly the column Black and White the sudden Toledo disillusioned. Martin lasted Solidarity. And also suggest But it wasn so funny. Some39. 40 while, but not too long. Certainly that the quotation of Karl Marx thing inside of us was all twisted heas ciferitsmisleading corrupt lems in our own way. We do not trted in the Transformer Corpo foiz, Youngstown 80. 83 that experience has taught us be enlarged, so that it can be up.
keting practices which chent mil and dishonest, the efforts or em where the workers struck for the Portland We have mailed to every 10 And what did we get out of more easily noticed, something.
lions of consumers annually. He ployers to pry into our affairs, same reasons as at Air King. branch a complete list of expired Philadelphia 37. 40 Reading Bil Green it? Wo went over there deter. has not given publicity to the because such snooping, back bit Beedle sent 20 scabs from New subscriptions in its vicinity. Now, 03 There is a job to be done and Houston, Texas mined to get Kalser Bil. But Allentown the GM workers want some perfindings of the Temporary Na ting, and shiping is done only for Jersey through the picket line with all the experience comrades Kaiser Bill got a swell shack for formance, not distractions nor tional Economic Committee in the purpose of destroying our there on Monday, in taxis with having recently gained in the Houston chest beating.
vestigating the shady practices orgnaizations.
technique of securing subs for the Let get going!
Syracuse, Reports Union Meeting Discussion on Negro the term NEGRO. He was very social and detrimental to the com OWN STABLES FIRST!
member as chauvinistic for using right graft, are certainly anti LET THEM CLEAN THEIR resist every effort made by em Bosses Seek Law ment of industrial and agriculviolent about it and stated that mon welfare.
If all these self styled friends ployers to interfere.
tural disputes, that Iaborers would (H. in everything he says, anybody using the term NEGRO seems to us to be in substantial Editor: finally learn to present their deWe come to the very obvious of labor who fill the columns of was discriminating against colPegler has shown Ms color and To Blacklist Filipino mands and grievances in a peaceagreement with the program was very much interested in ored people. Even after many conclusion that Pegler is not op: the press with their pusillanimous proven himself to be what we Labor Leaders ful and orderly manner.
proposed in the May 25 and the letter of in which he apologies and explanations the posed to graft in principle, and ravings are so concerned about have charged, an employers other. APPEAL articles from questions the correctness of your colored brother continued to hold he is especially silent about in graft, corruption, and vioence, let stooge. His attitude was revealed The bill would make it unlawbusiness. He knows on which side them clean out their own camp by his false malicious reasoning ful for any person not registered the anto centers. Of course the column heading THE NEGRO the same viewpoint.
UAW has to consolidate its QUESTION.
Long Island, his broad is buttered. Pegler evi first. Let them drive out the that if the union is not run by Big Business spokesmen as a labor leader by the Departdently is only opposed to graft grafters, shysters, strikebreakers, racketeers it is run by radicals Introduced in the Phillipine Le ment of Labor to function in any gains where it has bargaining It was only one week ago that in unions.
rights. Of course it still has to spies, in their employ. If they are and that therefore company un gislative Assembly on April 18 a way as an officer of a union or in same question was raised at my win the rentaining unorganized local trade union meeting. At of Is Pegler interested in the rea so interested in the welfare of the sons are more desirable. In other bill calling for the registration of any other way represent any divisions. might have addthat time we were discussing the ters above, added to that, pre sons for such alleged graft, and it workingman, let them pay higher words, if the employer controls labor leaders. The bill provides group of workers.
ed the fact that Ford abso necessity of having securve Board overwhelming evidence that the viously offered by are so, why does he not state them? Wages, reduce working hours, im. At, he is for the union. And yet that only those who are qualified Applicants are required to be If any corruption exists in the prove conditions and sign con this is the very basis for most to assume the responsibilities of citizens of either the Phillipines lutely must be organized if the anion is to be saved. But how And in the discussion that folLabor Movement it has been cre tracts with unions. Let the press racketeering in unions. No, Pegler leadership of workers would be or the of good moral characorganize the unorganized. Onlowed a member got up and while Question, is very badly titled. ated by business in its attempts tself clean out its own columns is not interested in removing permitted to register as laborter, not convicted of any criminal ly by inspiring them with a talking referred to the colored The Editors might offer the ex to buy out leaders. For genera by ceasing to falsify news, espe graft. He just wants to make the leaders.
offence involving moral turpitude CUSE that it was originally tions, employers have sought to cially labor news, by demanding unions safe for the employers. The opinion was expressed by and able to read and write either unlon program that will give brothers as NEGROES.
them substantial benefits, and There was no doubt whatsoever chosen by colored comrado bribe, bully, smash and destroy truth in advertising, by printing Fraternally yours, the bill Sponsors that with its English or Spanish or a local by showing them that the un that the brother used this term who, however, was unfamiliar workers organizations. Employ facts instead of slander.
SUMMIT COUNTY TRADES enactment, labor leadership in dialect. The Department of Labor When the people like Pegler do in full sincerity and respect as ton really means business. The with the American situation. ers have spent millions on AND LABOR ASSEMBLY the Phillipines would become an at its discretion, may reject apdemands upon the corporations his progresive speech would in Beginning with next issue, the pany stooges, sples, strikebreak all this, we will consider their instrument for peace, that there plicants for registration a perChalmers Stewart, column will have a now title.
ers, and thugs, as the LaFollette charges. Until then, we will hand go hand in hand with a renew dicate. But immediately a colored would be less occasion for vio fect mechanism for blacklisting od organization drive Editor. brother got up denouncing this Editors senato committee revealed. This le our own affairs. And will Corresponding Secretary lence and sabotage in the settle militant trade unionists.
Akron Labor Council Denounces Pegler wage 14 10 Boston 90 39 98 com