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. 27 NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JULY 6, 1940 FIVE (5) CENTS WILLKIE IS AN OPEN CHALLENGE TO LABOR Harte Was Murdered During or Shortly Midwestern Workers After the GPU Attack on Trotsky SHELDON HARTE May 25th Set as Day Youth Was Killed FLINT MILITANTS FIGHT BACK AT JINGOCAMPAIGN BIG BUSINESS Know All About Willkie OPENLY BACKS GOP CANDIDATE His Vicious Anti Labor Record Is His FOUR DRIVERS Recommendation to the Bosses Foreign Policy Same (Special to the Socialist Appeal) not a new one to the great body As Roosevelt s; CONFESS ROLES ELWOOD, Indiana This is a of workers in the heavily indusvery appropriate place for Wen trialized Saginaw Valley of Michdell Wilikle to come to make his igan. This CIO area has seen four Offers Big Stick IN SHOOTING formal speech of acceptance. bitter strikes in two years, thanks Since the Carnegie mills moved to Wendell willkle.
out, practically every steel work For Mr. Willkie CommonBy ALBERT GOLDMAN GPU Slander Against Trotsky Secretary Had er in town is either on work re wealth Southern utility holding hating utilities czar, Big Business With Wendell Willkie, laborHet or on home relief. Yes, this company owns as its major oper and the Republican party offer an Discouraged Search for His Body; Found in Total Number of GPU is a real American town!
Search for Arms and Uniforms of Attackers Confessions Brought DETROIT, Michigan Wendell the Saginaw valley.
Power Co. which sprawls over open challenge to American LaRoosevelt has been used for Willkie may have been dark Now to Eight horse elsewhere, but his name is May, 1937. When the company boozle, to deceive, to outflank and The first strike occurred in eight years to wheedle, to bam. Special to the Socialist Appeal)
would not sign, the power work cut off the marching legions of MEXICO CITY, June 28 Robert Sheldon Hartc was ers staged a sit down strike and American workers.
killed during the attack on Trotsky house, May 24th, or (Special to the socialist apper our for more than eight hours there Now, unless American entry inwas no power in the Saginaw to war makes retention of the shortly after, it may be concluded from the police medical more participants in the attemptValley.
Roosevelt method advisable for a examination of the body, the results of which were made eri assassination of Leon Trotsky this week made confessions to the Governor Blamed Willkie time, the reform weary bosses public today.
and their middle class satellites police, making total of eight of Responsibility for that strike was are going to try to put in a man Two bullets fired into his head from a. 38 calibre revolver, the GPU band who have admitted placed directly on the company by who won coddle labor and one of which had penetrated from behind the right ear thelr complicity.
Governor Murphy of Michigan, whose sole interest as president through the opposite side of the head, had ended the 25 year The new four are Leonardo Ta They agreed a week ago in my will be to assure the profits of pia Guerrero, head of a chauffeur office to do certain things, which the bosses.
old boy life. The attempt of his murderers to make imposservice and a Stalinist, who was agreement has not been kept. For the working class, the nomsible his identification, by burying the body covered with hired by David Alfaro Siqueiros, Blast It As Companysaid Murphy.
ination of Willkie is not somequicklime, was frustrated because the lime was of such poor one of the leaders of the armed Willkie himself signed the thing that can possibly be regard band, to arrange for transport of quality that it failed of its purpose.
Inspired Drive To agreement settling that strike. In ed as something to support as the band in four automobiles; and Washington on June 8, 1937. But against Roosevelt. It has to be The medical report set tentatively May 25th as the day three other chauffeurs plcked by Smash Unions he had no intention of abiding by looked upon as the maneuver of on which young Harte was Guerrero, who are Ramon Gomez the agreement. He signed it be an enemy. Don forget that Castaneda, Ernesto Buclo Gomez probably murdered that is, which fits in with the known cause those were the days of the Roosevelt and Willkie both are and Jose Vazquez Martinez. FLINT, Mich. June 29. great forward movement of the part and parcel of the boss systhe day after the attack on the facts is that he was killed durToday the four chauffers rati company inspired jingo campaign CIO. Shortly afterward, however, tem Trotsky household. But coming the attack on the house, or fied in toto the previous declara swept the Fiint plants this week, came the defeats in little steel For reasons that can best be petent medical authority makes the four cars used by the assailtons they had made to the police as the campaign to isolate and and labor upsurge ceased. Imexplained by so that compreity with one expet ni intitants from the wüto madiately Willkie company do Lewis appeared befort to clear that a body examined aft imti kiled long the war y a psychiatrist, John significant correction. Guerrero rastorles went ahead with full ceeded to violace the agreement. platform committee of the Reer a month of decomposition then buried where he was found.
had in his first declaration stated force.
Nor did a second sit down strike, publican Party, creating the imcannot be placed with accuracy How They Got In that Siqueiros had had a meeting The boss inspired campaign to in April, 1938, end the company pression that disgusted with with a day of its death, and Harte fell into the hands of his in a cafe with Robert Sheldon split the auto union by separating union busting tactics.
Roosevelt he was turning to the the more probable hypothesis Those union smashing tactics Republican party as a possible (Continued on Page 3)
Harte. Trotsky secretary. That the average worker from the outfirst declaration had been made standing militants, got under way were summarized in a decision champion of labor.
before and was in line with the last week when a list of signers of handed down by the National La. It is safe to say that not even Stalinist story that Harte had a Communist Party petition to bor Relations Board on Novem Lewis will resurrect his old Rebeen an accomplice of the attack get on the ballot was published in ber 8, 1938, which indicted the publicanism and support the Reers. story launched to discour the local press. Upon the publica company for using spies in union publican party. If he should be age search for Harte. Now Guer tion of this list, which included meetings, using foremen to issue insane enough to do so his folrero stated he wasn certain that the names of many committee anti union statements, demoting lowers in the world of labor will it was Harte who had met Sique men, stewards, and even execu the union chairman and transfer be few indeed. For if there is one Japan Takes First Steps Toward iros.
tive board members of local un ring active union men to inferior thing recognized by the great Carving Out Its New Sphere When first arrested, Guerrero ions, company stools began to positions, and creating a company mass of organized workers it is had attempted to deny that he wage a campaign in the plants union and sending out literature that the Republican party repreby GEORGE STERN had participated in the armed at to throw out everyone whose from the company offices on be sents the most reactionary sec.
tack, but the police had him iden name was on the petition.
half of the company union be tion of the capitalist class.
Japan has now formally an Hull, the Secretary of State.
tified as a participant. Yesterday nounced its intention to convert But it was painfully apparent Literally dozens of union mili ginning three days after the first he lamely explained that he had tants, in all union policies op contract with the CIO was Convention Issues all of East Asia and the South that Hull dared make no specidenied his complicity at Arst be posed to the Stalinists, had sign signed The two problems concerning Seas into a single sphere un fic reply to the Arita speech.
cause he did not want to dised the petition as a demon Last September the CIO called which there was a serious differder Japanese authority.
He did not care to say anyTo this end Japan army and credit the chauffeurs organiza stration of their belief in the dem its fourth strike against Willkie ence of opinion in the Republican thing on the subject, accord By LEON TROTSKY not a simple band of gangsters tion of which he is the head.
navy are already in motion. ing to the July New York ocratic right of any minority par company, after negotiations for a convention were the question of The body of Bob Sheldon It is an international seleccontract renewal broke down.
ty to get on the ballot.
the policy of the party to the Hongkong. Britain South TIMES. The new two ocean, Harte in a tragle manner tion of trained agents with a Extremely Well Paid China fortress, is to all intents four billion dollar fleet voted group of CIO auto workers, European war and of the person proves the falsity of all the long background of crimes, Another of the chauffeurs, Cas Stalinists Cowardly and purposes a besieged city. for by Congress will take years calumnies and denunciations armed with unlimited technical taneda, yesterday added that he helping their brothers in the util to carry its banner as presidential Communist Party members are ity strike, were terribly beaten by candidate.
During the last week, Japanese to build. Until then, Japan levelled against him. The poand economic resources. Ac had been paid 350 pesos for driv bowever demonstrating the most company thugs. Some of them Reactionary intellectual figures troops have formed an iron cir hands are all but free. And long lice authorities, who were obli cording the calcula ing one of the murder cars. From craven cowardice in the face of spent weeks in the hospital as a like Walter Lippmann were sericle around the city for the before then, much will have gated not to refuse to take this tions, the technical preparation photograph he identified the the reactionary persecution of result.
ously disturbed at the attitude of openly announced purpose of happened.
suspicion seriously, have realone for the assault in Mexico, This does not mean that Japan vealed exceptional energy in cutting it off from the South Don Jose who led the band as those who signed the petition. Yes, Mr. Willkie is certainly an the majority of the delegates toleaving aside bribes and the none other than Siqueiros. The One Stalinist, a member of the appropriate candidate for a boss ward the problem of foreign afChina hinterland. In panic, the has a push over. The welding of this matter also. The GPU is (Continued on Page Continued on Page Continued on Page 2) party. Continued on Page 3)
British have begun evacuating all East Asia into a single Japanwomen and children from the ese empire requires not only the Island metropolis. Farther elimination of rival imperialists.
south, the Japanese have estab It requires also the subjugation lished themselves on the China of the colonial peoples of IndoIndochina border as a prelimin china, the East Indies, the Philipary to the eventual occupation pines, Malaya, and of India. The of the French colony. Finally, Japanese army has already more the Japanese await the crush than half choked itself trying to ing of Britain to press through swallow China. Unable to conquer The hopes of many workers that the National Defense workers will be working side by side, on the same jobs, make if that amount were paid to him for working the the demands they have already by direct assault, it is now at program will provide them with real jobs at union wages with men on the regular payrolls. They will be doing exact number of hours that 60 amounted to at union wage made to cut the route from tempting to force a victory by received another blow last Sunday, when Colonel ly the same work, but on two entirely different wage scales. rates, or the 130 hours per month that the administration Burma to the unoccupied por successively cutting off all tions of China.
sources of arms supply for the Harrington, WPA Administrator, announced that by Fall You think you ought to be paid more? a swivel chair was insisting he work? Most people couldn see much difThat these steps are all pre Chinese armies. That attempt has he would have at least one third of the WPA workers admiral will say to a union business agent representing ference, because they thought of WPA as made work.
liminary to assumption of power been greatly facilitated by the working on projects for the rearmament program.
skilled workers who are being pushed to the limit of their Now they will see the difference! The government will throughout East Asia, the West Allied defeats in Europe, but will ern Pacific and the South Scas still require considerable JapanDo you realize what this means? It means that there will endurance in the name of patriotism. Why you people get 130 hours of work on armories, military roads army was made plain by Foreign Minis ese effort to succeed.
be two classes of workers employed on armament work. ought to be ashamed of yourselves. Look at those fellows and navy camps and barracks, etc. for an average of 52 ter Hachiro Arita in a speech on Then first they face the task One will be workers hired under civil service and under out there, working right next to you and getting only half per month per man. roughly about half what the governJune 29 in which he pictured the of stabilizing the peoples who government legislation providing wages approximating organization of a group of satel for decades have been fighting ment would have to pay for that work at decent wage rates.
the salary you people are drawing down.
lite states revolving around Jap British, French, Dutch, and prevailing union wages. The second will be workers doing That the situation the government is trying to create. 1f the AFL and CIO top leadership, now wallowing in an. Toward British and re rule and who are not at the same work but getting the coolie wages dictated for Nor is this scheme one that has just been hatched in patriotic trances, permit the government to get away with sistance to this plan the Japanese all likely to surrender supinely WPA by the Roosevelt Woodrum Act last year, and now Washington. It has been long planned. It was already en this, they ought to be tossed out on their ears by an outnow adopt a contemptuous tone. to the new would be master of The British they expect shortly Asia. And even assuming the repeated in the new relief act signed last week by Roosevelt. visaged last year when the Roosevelt Woodrum Act was raged union membership to go down before the German big guns of the Japanese flect The government now has an incentive for continuing the drawn up and passed, wiping out the previous provisions Equal pay for equal work! That a good, fundamental war machine. The Americans, and the bombs of the air force WPA! Continuing it as a device for getting its war ma in relief law which required that WPA pay the prevailing slogan of any decent union and should apply to the defense they know, will thereupon be in establish an early armed supercapable of making a single move iority, the problem of economic chine built on starvation wages. Continuing it as a weapon (union) wage on its projects. It was the reason why the program as well as to any job.
in the Pacific to checkmate Jap organization and consolidation to drive down the wages paid to non WPA workers eme Roosevelt administration went to such lengths in crushing All work on the defense program shall be done under anese aims. The Fleet is back only then begins. The Japanese ployed on the war program.
the WPA strike last summer and made an example of the the usual regulations governing employment of civilian in Hawaii but it can stay there have held the Yangtze Valley To realize how outrageous this government move is one Minneapolis WPA strikers whom it railroaded to prison.
for long. Its return to the Atlan and North China now for nearemployees by government departments. By all means hire tic is a foregone conclusion. ly three years and have still must visualize what these WPA workers will be doing. In Some people wondered last year why the government the men now on WPA to participate in this work but hire This is all but admitted in been unable to make it work many cases they will be working on projects which are was so adamant against the prevailing wage clause for them as real workers, not as WPA slaves.
Washington. Officially, Ameri profitably for them.
handled directly by the War and Navy Departments, where WPA. After all, it didn cost the government any more Union wage rates and union conditions on all governcan policy of resistance to Jap Japanese dreams of empire are an in the diplomatic domain is certain to be broken by more they will be suervised by the same personnel that handles money per worker in most cases. If a man was going to ment jobs and all government orders!
still reaffirmed by Cordell than one harsh awakening. the regular employees of these departments. The WPA get only 60 a month on WPA, what difference did it And that takes in a lot of territory these days!
Behind the Lines GPU Tried to Cover Murder With Slander Coolie Wages For Workers on Defense Jobs