SOCIALISM WILL BE Socialist Appeal TROTSKY MONUMENT Official Weekly Organ of the Socialist Workers Party, Section of the Fourth International VOL. IV No. 35.
NEW YORK, SATURDAY, AUGUST 31, 1940 FIVE (5) CENTS JACKSON CONFESSION SHOWS GPU HAND IN TROTSKY MURDER In Honor Of Leon Trotskyi Follows Familiar Pattern Of The Moscow Trials Letter Found On Assassin Sounds Like Page Out Of The Moscow Trial Record 10348 SEILLE Trotsky, the warrior of the workers revolution, as commander of the Red Army in 1918 1922.
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Stalin GPU has written its own signature under the crime of the assassination of Leon Trotsky.
From the person of Frank Jackson. the assassin, Mexican police took a document purporting to be a confession prepared in advance of the fatal assault on Trotsky.
As always, the crude agents of Stalin terror gang had over reached themselves.
They designed Jackson confession to cover up their tracks.
Instead it becomes documentary evidence which convicts Stalin of the crime beyond any possibility of doubt.
Similar blunders glared again and again out of the record of the universally discredited Moscow trials of 1936, 1937, and 1938.
The planting of the Jackson confession tops them all. With the confessions in the Moscow trials, Stalin convicted himself of the murders of the men OISAS who with kenia and Trotsky, led the Bole sheviks to victory in the October revolution.
Refused Entry With the confession of Jackson, Stalin brands himself the murderer of Trotsky.
100, 000 Workers This colossal blunder, like those that pockmarked the Moscow trials, was inevitable.
and Peasants The GPU was compelled by Stalin needs to embody in any Honor Body statement by the murderer additional verification of the chargMEXICO CITY, August 27 jection of the confessions and other Moscow Trial docues made against Trotsky in the Moscow trials. The universal reLeon Trotsky body became ments. by which Stalin sought to justify his murder of the men ashes this afternoon in the crewho made the revolution with Lenin, was the beginning of the matory of the government owned end of Stalin. Hence at every point since then, Stalin has sought Panteon cemetery, in the pres to bolster the verdicts of the Moscow trials with additional conence of Natalia, Albert Goldman fessions and evidence.
and Trotsky secretaries.
Cremation took place after all Hence the contents, the style, the very phrasing of Jackhope was given up today that The full text of the assassin confession is published on Secretary of State Cordell Hull page of this issue.
would change his previous decision and permit the body to be son confession follows a certain pattern, easily recognized brought to New York for a mass by those who possess even a slight acquaintance with the GPU funeral.
methods in the Moscow trials. After the State Department refusal was published, Albert POLICE MIND WROTE IT Goldman on Sunday sent the fol police mentality dictated this confession. Possessed of lowing telegram to Secretary consummate skill in the preparation of its numerous attempts to If press report your refusal murder Trotsky, in the planning of the most minute details of a murder, this police mentality is hopelessly limited when it Great throngs did honor to to permit bringing Trotsky the remains of Leon Trotsky body to United States is true comes to ideological questions.
in Mexico City last week. ReI consider action without auHence the GPU agents who wrote the confession could think presentatives of the Mexican thority in law and highly arof nothing except to follow slavishly the pattern already laid Government joined with those bitrary. If you fear burial in United States state that pur down by the GPU in Moscow in the Moscow trials. Where they of Mexican workers organizations in the final tributes. Top pose of bringing body is to added to that pattern (as we shall see below) they added only photo shows Albert Goldman, hold memorial meeting in New items already elabcrated previously by the Stalinist press.
Trotsky attorney, delivering York to honor memory of great the funeral oration. With him historic figure and to protest Let us now go over the confession point by point and we his murder by Stalin GPU. shall see how stupid a fabrication it is.
is Adolfo Zamora, editor of the Marxist review Clave. Middle Body will be brought back to It will be remembered that practically all of the defenMexico for burial photo: Mexican workers mount only coun dants and GPU agents in the Moscow trials claimed to have guard at the bler. Lower left: try in the world granting Trot been originally admirers of Trotsky. All of them claimed to have Part of the crowd that demon.
stratively came out for the years thus living up to liberal become disillusioned when they found out that Trotsky was altradition. Ask that you recon legedly motivated only by personál hatred of Stalin. All of them funeral service.
sider refusal and grant per were supposed to have been asked by Trotsky to go to Russia mission immediately to bring and murder Stalin. All of them supposedly found out that TrotChilean Workers But Washington remained ada. sky was in league with some government hostile to the Soviet Denounce Stalin Union.
mant in its refusal to permit As the Murderer Trotsky body even temporary HITLER NO LONGER NAMED The following cable appearpresence in the United States.
Unofficially it was indicated that Jackson repeats the formula. The slight variations he introed in the New York Times.
there would not even be a reply duces are precisely those necessitated by the change in Stalin August 23.
SANTIAGO, Chile, August to Goldman telegram, the State foreign policy since the Moscow Trials. At that time Stalin was 22. Leon Trotsky death Department standing on its pre: for collective security against Hitler; therefore the confes vious statement of refusal, made sions then had the defendants in league with Hitler. Now, how caused a stir here today in a of the masses where American consulate in Mexico ever. Hitler is Stalin partner; hence it is no longer the Hitler he had many supporters. Mem.
city, bers of the Revolutionary government with which Trotsky is supposed to be in league but The great democracy. like instead a great nation and a certain foreign parliamentary com Workers party and the Inter all the other imperialist pow.
national Workers party paradmittee an obvious reference to the United States government ers, had refused Trotsky a ed the streets last night visitand the Dies Committee.
place of asylum in his lifetime.
ing newspaper offices and And it refused him even a Jackson reference to Trotsky alleged proposal that he voicing protests.
day grace in death. The spec go to Russia to organize the murder of Stalin is practically a committee composed of tacle of the streets of New word for word repetition of the statement made by almost every leaders repudiated Joseph York filled with mourners for Stalin methods throughout defendant in the Moscow Trials.
the world, asserting his agents the man who symbolized world revolution was one which the The John Dewey Commission which investigated those trials were responsible for the crime (Continued on Page Continued on page 3)
TROTSKY MEMORIAL MEETINGS THIS WEEK Memorial meetings in honor of Leon Trotsky were held during the last week in New York City, Newark (New Jersey. Boston, San Francisco, and Los Angeles. Reports of these meetings will appear in next week APPEAL.
Below we list the time and place of several memorial meetings which will be held during the coming week. Other announcements of memorial meetings will be published next week.
DETROIT MEMORIAL MEETING Wednesday, Sept. Doty Hall P. 8647 Woodward Ave. Detroit Speaker: JULES GELLER, Secretary Michigan District, Motion picture film of Trotsky in Mexico Hear a recording of a speech by Trotsky CHICAGO MEMORIAL MEETING Friday, August 30 Midland Hotel P. 172 Adams St. Chicago Speaker: MAX GELDMAN, Minneapolis labor leader, just released after serving sentence at Sandstone Federal Prison as a leader of be famous WPA strike.
ALLENTOWN MEMORIAL MEETING Sunday, September Labor Temple Hall 2:30 Allentown, Pa.
CLEVELAND MEMORIAL MEETING Friday, September Hotel Allerton P.
Cleveland, Ohio Speaker: DAVID STEVENS, District Secretary Motion Picture Film of Trotsky Phonograph Record of Trotsky Speech TOLEDO MEMORIAL MEETING Thursday, Sept. Secor Hotel P.
Toledo, Ohio Speaker: ART PREIS YOUNGSTOWN MEMORIAL MEETING Central Auditorium Sunday, September 225 Boardman St.
2:30 Youngstown, Ohio Recording of Trotsky Speech Motion Pictures of Trotsky in Mexico Hull: section