FOR SOCIALISM WILL BE Socialist Appeal TRADE UNION CONTROL TROTSKY MONUMENT OF MILITARY TRAINING Official Weekly Organ of the Socialist Workețs Party, Section of the Fourth International VOL. IV No. 42 NEW YORK, N, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1940 co 267 FIVE (5) CENTS DRAFT WILL TAKE ONE OUT OF THREE Demand That Military Training Be Under Trade Union Control!
Negroes Repudiate Jim Crow WEST COAST Fort Dix Guardsmen Unions Must Oppose Open Shop Army Policy of Roosevelt SCHOONERS In The Army, As In Industry TIED UP AUTO UNION IS AROUSED BY GM ATTACKS UNIONS DISCUSS your approval oral Departet NEED OF UNION RIGHTS IN ARMY On General Motors strike, and the cooks now are cepted. Declaration by Mpow ec. FAMILIES ARE grows the idea that adoption of ning the union into ten wercuma: materiale now ance in San Pedro IN DIRE WANT is certain.
statement ther action.
Bitter About Pay And High Prices FORT DIX, Oct. 10 Members of the Forty fourth Division of the New Jersey Charge White House Statement Quoted Them as Agreeing and New York National Guard First Experiences of National Guardsmen, Just Inducted, expressed loud resentment toTo Segregation, When They Had Really Denounced It day after receiving their first pay.
Shows Necessity for Union Protection of Conscripts Firemen Strike Is Many complained bitterly Negro committee this week declared it repudiated and dethat they had been misinnounced a statement from the White House which implied that the Followed By Cooks; formed as to what their pay Over 16, 000, 000 men between the ages of 21 exerted severe pressure on the National Defense committee had approved Roosevelt policy of segregation of Negro would be; they found 21 in and 36 were registered for the draft Wednesday. Commission and other government agencies to units in the armed forces.
Sailors Locked Out heir pay envelopes instead of The federal government has announced that ignore labor law restrictions in the granting of The committee of three Phillip Randolph, president of the nexpected 30. They also lover 5, 000, 000 are scheduled to be called for army war contracts to private industries.
Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, Arnold Hill, and Walter poke of the cost of laundry. Service in successive batches.
Union ranks are beginning to discuss the quesWhite, president of the National Association for the Advancement SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 13 While at camp.
igarette and other expenses The vast majority of the recruits must natur tion of the right of union men in the army to of Colored People characterized continue their attendance at union meetings and As the strike of the Marine Fireally come from the ranks of the workers.
the White House statement as a men. Oilers. Watertenders and Men from the Seventy first Evidence is already beginning to pile up on to hold union meetings while in military service. trick.
Wipers against Pacific Infantry, from New York City, the conditions the new army recruits will face Coast conducted what amounted to There is a growing awareness of the need for The telegram also declared: Militants Continue steam schooner operators went in the boss military machine.
collective bargainiog rights in the military ser We most vigorously protest into its second week, members of an open demonstration after vice and for organized channels through which To Demand Action the Marine Cooks and Stewardshine. Recognizing several news National Guardsmen, recently inducted into getting their pay at the pay the rank and file soldier may protest against anment poliey regarding Negroes Association joined the MFOW on paper reporters, the men ang the regular army and in training at Fort Dix ticipated miserable living standards and prevent in armed forces which prehave learned that their families back home aro discrimination and persecution cludes Negro officers except rily and loudly informed them the hands of the being cut off relief.
picketing with the firemen.
chaplains and doctors in reg.
of the rooking they were get.
Loss minded officer clique.
An emergency situation has arisen within the The first week of the strike ting.
ular army units other than two past weck at the training camps when payment In a broader sense, the debacle of the French national guard regiments FLINT, Mich. That union men FLINT, Mich. Oct. 14 Inter was marked by the following Officers attempted to make of monthly wages of army privates was held up army in the face of Hitler has pointed sharply staffed by Negro officers. We are thinking seriously about the national Board members of the events: the privates return into the for many days.
to the unreliability in general of the capitalist deny statement that at arsen problem of preserving their dem VAW CIO, led by Sidney Hill. Arbitration proposal offered line away from the reporters. democratie military officer caste to defeat the ocratie rights when conscripted man boy Friday, Walter Reu by the Government Concilals and army posts Negro civilbut the men persisted until profitable business is being made off the Nazi and Fascist attacks.
ians are accorded equal oppor was seen here when, at the CIO ther, spent the last week touring iation Service, refused by the their complaints had been ful recruits who must pay steep prices for laundry, The overwhelming fear of the workers of cigarettes and other essentials. For instance, Central Council meeting last the locals of the union trying to MFOW.
tunity for employment.
ly outlined.
fascist domination, whether arising from within We ask proof that even one week, a motion was introduced, sell to the militant rank and file, Almost half the division army privates must pay eight cents more for a Strike against the storm or without the country, has a sound basis. But Negro is now being given avia demanding the right for union the idea of accepting every comhere has not received its first pack of ciga navy getting tion training as pilot in army men to receive and distribute pany provocation without fight schooner operators declared by pay, which is considerably another alternative must be offered them than three times army pay. Navy men are exempted air corps. As recently as Octothe choice between fighting under unreliable, union papers and literature in But so widespread was the the fundamental demand being overdue.
from payment of the federal tax. Army recruits ber first, the Adjutant General the army and to hold union meet rank and file demand for wetion that of manning scalo; making a boss ridden officers, already three quarters comtre paying five cents for four penny stamps from of the War Department wrote ings while in the armed forces.
mitted to a fascist control of the workers, or the in settling grievances, and which four man job of the present private purveyors while government officials that applications from colored.
puling pacifism of a few preachers, the Norman persons for flying cadet ap the motion, with no one actually against the Executive Board men on ships that now are two OULDINHEIKetting more day than a chi siguran sammy Thomas Socialists and the Stalinists, who prges lively. discussion was held on as the cloudolematian tee murals, und das privates have free franking privileges.
pointment or for enlistment in opposing the content of the mo pussyfoot policy risen, that the handed.
pose that the working class remain unarmed in tion.
the Air Corps are not being acA major scandal about Jim Crow conditions International officers were forced the face of universal war and militarism.
It was not put into the record to issue a press statement ansin the armed forces has just broken out. re That the workers must have military train We further vigorously ques however, at the urging of wering charges by the Socialist retary Malone that two shipe cent White House statement indicating that a ing and arms to check the advance of fascism tion your statement that morale or two of the delegates, who putl Appeal that their poliey was run carrying real national defense policy of Negro segregation would be enforced is splendid in existing Negro in the armed forces has evoked stormy protest That the workers must secure this training units of the regular army. the motion might call the probfrom leading Negro spokesmen.
At the meeting of the board and that, if needed, the union in Many enlisted men in these lem too openly to the attention which issued this under a leadership that will safeguard their inspecific cases would consider furIt is already quite clear that the worker reof Congress, which might pass a which attempted to justify Reusegregated units have made reterests and really fight to the death against the Officials Violate cruits are facing the same open shop regime in specific law to prevent exercise of ther GM policy without touchpeated protests at being forced whole black reaction of fascism and capitalism the army as they have battled against so bitterly to serve as hostlers and serv.
Phoney Peace offer the rights demanded.
is also indisputable.
ing on any concrete issue inThe general agreement of all volved, the board was forced to sal offered by the steam schoonants to white army officers. We New phoney peace propo.
in the factories.
Promises To Help There is but one answer to this problem. The further question that jim crow delegates was that union men call a meeting of all GM local er operators to the unions on The professional officer caste now dominating military training of the workers must be in the policy of army has been proven should fight for collective barTheir Dependents the war machine is notoriously anti labor. It has hands of their own organizations the Trade satisfactory. It has never been gaining rights in the army, in orSaginaw, Flint, Pontiac and Lan. Friday basically a been especially built up over many years from Unions! The destiny of Labor in the face of the satisfactory nor is it now to der to preserve the living standthe ranks of the upper class.
fascist onslaught will be dark indeed unless the Negro Americans. Such segre ards of the soldiers and prevent sing, to take up the question of work under terms of the old athe breakdown in GM bargaining. greement proposal, all portions The close tie up between the army and navy workers themselves control their own arms and gation has been destructive of discrimination and persecution by BUFFALO. Oct. heads and Wall Street was glaringly revealed This GM Council meeting held wages and overtime to be re. Welfare aid to families of Na when the War and Navy Departments openly determine the course of the coming armed morale and has permitted pre the officer clique.
struggle!
judiced superiors to exercise October 12, however, accomplish newed, wages and overtime to be tional Guardsmen from here, now bigotry on defenseless Negro ed very little. Walter Reuther discussed for 15 days, then if no mobilized and in training at Fort Undertakers Work went into the meeting with the agreement is reached to be sub. Dix. Jo has been drastically regiments. It is a tragic coincidence BUFFALO, Oct. 15 avowed intention of isolating the mitted to arbitration.
that you issued your statement Eighteen undertakers are serving Fisher Body Local No. 581 of The Sailors Union of the Paci gether. reports from the camp on the same day the coup de on the newly appointed draft Flint, now faced with a critical grace was given by Senate board here. The mortuary pro situation in which 17 union mili fic remains locked out by the indicate.
Conditions of starvation face Majority leader Barkley to the ſession here is well known for tants have been suspended by the steam schooner operators.
the wives and children of relief Anti Lynching bill.
its business acumen.
corporation SUP United Front Offer recipients now in the army, it is Militants Fight Back Meanwhile it was revealed that revealed in letters from home reMEXICO CITY, Oct. 12 David Alfaro Siqueiros, leader of the Contrary to his hopes however, a proposal for joint action by the ceived by the soldiers.
machine gun band which attacked Trotsky home on May 24th, the meeting turned out far dif sailors, firomen and cooks had glimpse of the true stato of was indicted by Judge Raul Carranca Trujillo yesterday.
CLEVELAND, Oct. 10 After in today Buffalo Evening News, Siqueiros was indicted on nine counts: murder of Robert Sheldon isolating Fisher Body ceeded only in arousing the anger The proposal, made by the which reported interviews with three days of militant strike ac Harte. Trotsky secretary guard: attempt to murder Leon Trotsky: by GEORGE STERN and resentment of militant rep SUP negotiating committee to of some of the men whose families tion. 1200 workers of the Mid criminal association and use of On Thursday Siqueiros was On the Far Eastern front the Soviet Union in the straitjacket resentatives from practically ficers representing the firemen have been affected by the action members of Local 486, United functions (his use or a military confronted by his accomplices. of CIOAxis squeeze play against and squirming now doesn help after the other and condemned by the three unions in the steam Board.
imperialism failed to register.
Reuther policy of retreat schooner beef; strike referendum turned to the job today with a attack. unlawful use of uniforme June, and they confirmed their Japan signed the Axis alliance past week reported the arrival Privates Tell Their Story to be conducted simultaneously in signed contract including virtual (for having bought other uni carlier testimony identifying him and for a few days its spokesThe opposition to Reuther how of sizeable German forces in One of the privates inter ly a closed shop agreement, a 3e forms for the use of his accom as the leader of the machine gun men from Prince Konoye down. Finland ostensibly en route to unorganized and with all three unions; negotiations voiced open threats of war. Norway. But Pertinax, well in out a concrete program of action. With steam schooner operators to viewed declared that he had re. to 10 hourly pay increase, and plices. robbery (for taking the band. Other stories on the investiga.
Roosevelt moved with character formed French journalist, re Altho many militants recognize be conducted jointly by the three ceived a letter informing him additional hours of annual paid two automobiles from the Trote sky house. breaking into the tion of the GPU murder of istie boldness. All Americans in ported in the Times on the faults of the International unions; no arbitration of any is that his wife had been hailed into vacations.
court this morning to face an The strike threatened to shut Trotsky home, and damaging Trotsky appear on pages and the Far East were asked to leave Oct. 11 that the Germans are leadership, they have not organ sues involved. of this issue. for home. Lord Lothian, the Brit remaining in Finland within ized themselves into a firm bloc The answer to the joint action eviction charge for non payment down the Studebaker. Hudson another property.
ish ambassador, was asked to rereach of Leningrad. On the and have thus far failed to elab proposal was that the cooks and of rent. He asserted, m only and Buick assembly plants.
main in Washington instead of same day Foreign Minister orate a serious and sober policy firemen representatives had no setting 80 a month from the Cleveland daily papers reported going home on a scheduled leave.
Halvdan Koht of Norway stat.
The Fleet. in the Pacific ed in London that German International officers Reuther would have to be submitted to me but not enough for my wife lack of auto frames and housings Bethlehem Strikers Return To Work was augmented by 200 men, troops formerly in southern Thomas Frankensteen etc. have the membership.
on the welfare because couldn these big assembly plants. The Day New Policy is Announced!
While the SUP awaited an get a bringing it to 82 percent of full Norway have been shifted to made it clear publicly, after their job.
It is reported that the griev.
strength.
the Far Northern province of Pittsburgh meeting, that they will answer to its proposal, the leadFinnmark.
Another private had been on a ance of Mack Check, Local 486 absolutely not sanction any strike ership of the MFOW submitted 54 a month WPA job. His wife president, who was fired from the BALTIMORE, Oct. 4. 000 shipyard workers who called off Meanwhile Hitler began march In other words, Hitler is offer action in this period.
ing eastward in Europe heading ing Stalin once more what a They are having trouble how. rote, thus dividing the union and five month old baby were company over two years ago for their strike against Bethlehem Steel and returned to work this. morning, on the appeal of their officers who said that Attorney for the Straits, Turkey, Iraq and Times correspondent called a ever in convincing the rank and front.
ise of the Welfare Department satisfaction of the union. How General Jackson informal opinion made the strike unnecesSaez vin the Balkans and with gratuity in return for agree file of this policy. Last week the Approximately steam the Italians via North Africa ing to the German Near Eastern GM Local No. 76 in Oakland Cali: schooners operating on the Pacific that it would give his family the ever, it is not yet clear whether eary, learned from the afternoon newspapers that they had been cheated and Egypt.
drive. If Stalin accepts, he will fornia took a strike vote and Coast are tied up by the strike and his 21 monthly Army wage. plant or the one from which he Reuther The MFOW is demanding a raise He added. And now ve received was fired.
They had called off the strike on the urging of Philip Van This Axis move has again get a temporary reward. At the roundly condemned brought the Kremlin position same time he is given clearly to policy in GM.
from 85 to 100 and from 00 a letter from my wife saying she Gelder, national secretary of the CIO Industrial Union of Marine The Cleveland capitalist press The GM management at Fish to 10 for overtime, and over. isn getting the money that was viciously attacked the union durinto focus. Establishment of understand what would happen if and Shipbuilding Workers of America, who had declared that German armed force on the he should reject or encourage er Body in Flint where condi time pay for Saturday afternoon promised.
Jackson informal opinion could be used as a weapon for ing the strike, accusing the workBlack Sea and probably in the Turkish resistance, or in any way tions are most critical, tried to work while in port.
Complaints are also pouring in ers of sabotaging national de Bethlehem plants without the necessity of strike action.
enforcing collective bargaining in the Sparrows Point and other Straits is obviously aimed at hinder the Nazi advance. Either enforce a speed up in several de the but that is the way, he knows and must know the partments. When the men refused Danger of Arbitration from Fort Dix because of the fense.
But this afternoon papers reported that Jackson, the War more remote goal. While Ger ultimate fate that Hitler intends to work over the normal stand Danger that the phoney na delay in paying the men their An inspiring feature of the and Navy Departments, the National Defense Commission and many heads for the Levant, for him. But like the faun paral ards, departments were shut tional defense issue would be 21. This 21 represents the total strike, which established an aver Sidney Hillman, had all joined in declaring before the Smith ComStalin will be provided with yzed by the approaching boa con down. But the next day produc used to force the unions into a monthly income for most of the age hourly wage rate in the plant mittee a House committee investigating the that vio compensation. probably at lators of decisions would continue to get government Turkish and Persian expense. wait. That is the net result of speed, since the company found ist press continued to howl that guardsmen, many of whom are of 05. was the solidarity of war orders.
Stalin hasn much freedom of Stalin reactionary policy, at it could not so easily intimidate preparedness efforts were being trying to maintain dependents on Negro and white workers on the choice. He put himself and the home and abroad.
the men.
sabotaged by the strike. this sum.
picket lines.
reduced orari continued to MIDLAND STEEL SIQUEIROS, WHO LED GANG THAT STRIKERS ARE ATTACKED TROTSKY, INDICTED VICTORIOUS ever.