SOCIALIST APPEAL NOVEMBER 16, 1940 Job Training TWORKERS Lichts Denied Bad Army Worried Bad Health Has TRADE UNION NOTES FORUM Megro Youths Doubles Vote of 1936 In New York Police Raid Office Seize Trotskyist Literature Police raided the home and law office of John Royston Wishart in Sidney, according NEW YORK, Nov. Negroes to reports in the Australian will have the honor of doing press, and seized a quantity of Now that they are ready to war it something else again. No Write to us tell us what going on in your part of the the dirtiest and most dangerous anti war leaflets, addressed to start the slaughter, the capitalist stamina, determination or hope tasks. In the army, but they are soldiers, and other documents class and its medical flunkeys are mean no resistance to the Invader.
by Farrell Dobbs labor movement what are the workers thinking about tell being systematically excluded including one purported to be getting very solicitous of our Hence the spiking of the margar us what the bosses are up to and the men and the local copsfrom work On November 18, the CIO convention will open at Atlantic the war industries, an organizational report of the health. Witness: ine.
and the Stalinists send us that story the capitalist press didn They are even being dented acCommunist League of Austra National Committee to the whole business is brought City. The AFL gathering will convene on the same date at New print and that story they buried or distorted our pages are open cess to the vocational training lia, section of the Fourth In Il Conserve Manpower in the Defense right home to our doorstep by a Orleans. The main issue before both bodies is the question of the to you. Letters must carry name and address, but indicate if you being ordered by the National De ternational Industries, made up of 24 volun report of the Department of Agri renewal of unity negotiations with strong pressure for unity.
do not want your name printed.
rense Commission.
The leaflet beginning Reteers operating as special agents culture which views with alarm coming from the White House.
State and local administrators volutionary Greetings was of the Department of La the fact that Amerienn diets are Now that the Third Term election is out of the way, Rooseof the national defense voca distributed to soldiers during a bor, has been set up to devise sys as deficient in 1 as the British.
Urges Appeal Editors Eye Witness Recounts tional training courses in Alabamarch theough the city, actema designed to prevent indus. The unemployed here may expeau velt is moving more swiftly than ever toward war. Therefore, ma, for instance, are refusing out cording to the press report. trial accidents and to watch the an injection of 1 any day now complete regimentation of the To Use Two Syllable Bad Treatment Given right to permit Negroes to take In the raid, declared detecsafety and health of workers in to hold them together for the trade union movement has be them and his opposition to Roossuch training. They argue that tives, they found five copies of war industry.
war. The tip off comes in the come more imperative to him. evelt foreign policy.
Words, Bury Dictionary Canal Zone Soldiers the industrial plants in the local a document headed To the The American Medical Assostatement that this is done to the main instrument for this job communities do not hire colored Soldiers of the Second ciation has set up a National Com. enable eltizens to keep ap despite of regimentation is the patriotic ROOSEVELT PRESSURE workers.
in Wishart office, and nine mittee on Preparedness The CIO unions go to Atlantic watch Tourer rations.
trade union officialdom.
The National Association for more in the room in which he Doctors and public health Editor: the health of workers, especially However, the conflict between city fighting with their backs to Editor: lived: Three copies of one After reading the November I imagine that conditions in the alie Advancement of Colored Peo ple has lodged a protest against headed This Imperialist War women, drawn freshly into war bodies are urged to devote them the AFL the CIO creates cond the wall to preserve their indusThe 198ue of the Socialist Appeal, Canal Zone where visited re.
work. This body will carry on selves with increased energy to tions which are dangerous to trial form of organization.
were found at the office and Roosevelt war program. He must Roosevelt administration is bring.
research in occupational diseases the study of social hygiene.
was struck, as have been struck cently can be taken as a measure this polley with the Office of Education.
four more in his room, they before by its scholastic tone, of conditions in the armed forces and industrial poisons and in With this embarassing inerease have a maximum of harmony ing strong pressure to force unsaid.
crease health and safety educa of attention, those of us who are among the class collaborationist ity. The AFL, still basically a believe that the Appeal should elsewhere. The Canal is such a The raid was made just tion.
left after the war ought to be in trade union leaders. Hence the eraft union organization is very prior to the Australian eleclike to ask if the editor thinks is that one feels they would Negro Appointed The mayor of New York CI pretty good shape for the revolustrong pressure for the unification confident of its strength and will tions.
of the AFL and the CIO.
attempt to drive a hard bargain.
ty and the governor of New York tion.
that the American workers can exert their greatest efforts to To Higher Rank The CIO is weakened by internal have appealed to the American COCKY ATTITUDE OF AFL conflict. There is grave danger of Webster (and they probably do satisfied there. Yet conditions for In Armed Forces Medical Association for lists of The AFL approaches the nego of physicians with a broad common. Natalia Trotsky a capitulation on some of the not own one) the Ph. theses the ordinary soldier in the Cana!
on Lewis reversal. It is not the Zone are bad. From what saw ul vier to serve with draft tiations with a cocky attitude. The basic premises of industrial uneditor job to give the workers a can well understand the insis.
boards as members of the board Greeted on Nov. Executive Council feels that the lonism. There is almost the cerALBANY, Nov. In u rather than as physicians.
craft unionists are in a very talnty of a split in the CIO 18 rather to speak in their language, unions be supplied with means by sesture intended to cover up the The Army is watching strong position. George Meany re the AFL terms are found inacwith interest British experiments MINNEAPOLIS, Minn porta a current AFL membership ceptable and refused by a major diot the language of the univer the government to train officer Jim Crow policies in the armed in fortifying margarine with Vita. Twin City membership meet. of four and one quarter millions. ity of the cio.
sity. If the editor does not know personnel from their own ranks forces, Governor Lehman today min 1. Why not give the Brit ing gathered on November 7th This is an increase of 50 percent LEADERSHIP how the workers talk, let him go to lead the workers who will be promoted Lieut. Chauncey Hoo ish workers butter for a change. to honor the twenty third an over the membership figure after PREVENTED UNITY out and live among them for a drafted into the armed forces. rer, New York Cits, to command of the 369th Coast Artillery, Negro while.
Since 1936, the American Labor Our British cousins have found niversary of the Russian re the CLO was suspended. While The evil fruits of machine domvolution. By unanimous vote the Executive Council, through ination in the trade unions have Fourth International only comes officer corps just doesn give a Guard.
It has been said that since the when you state that the present regiment of the New York Nation Party has nearly doubled its that the diet they have been allow strength in the state of New York ing their workers induces moodi the membership sent the fol Green, officially proclaimed neu fallen upon both the AFL and the once a month, we therefore need hang about the lives, conditions.
trality in the presidential elec CIO workers throughout the enHooper, an attorney who was election returns indicate.
ness, sluggishiners, indifference, lowing message to Natalia theoretical and semi theoretical ar or welfare of the enlisted men.
delegate to the 1939 State Con With 33 districts still to report, mental and physical fatigue and Trotsky: tlon, a big majority of the AFL tire period of the split. Cowardly ticles in the Appeal for the more stitutional Convention, is the first the party received 422, 656 votes Tear. Which seems to be all With great pride, love and officials supported Roosevelt. This leadership. uncontrolled by the (military police) are ob Negro to gain command over a as compared with 274, 924 four recht in peace times when the advanced workers. How about gratitude we greet you today they feel, gives them an edge over workers, has frequently capitulatletting the more advanced work tained by posting notices in the major unit in the state military. years ago.
worst an individual worker might on the anniversary of Octo the ero at the White House be od before the pressure of the ers hunger for a few weeks wht. barracks that such posts are Cause of Lewis support of Will Bosses, thus depriving the work.
This isolated move corresponds The vote is significant despite do is commit suicide. But in a ber.
kie. They add to these factors ers of the gains that they could we feed those workers that we open. The men told me that only to the pre election gesture of Roos the fact that all the ballots cast the Internal conflict now raging have made through their unions.
within the CIO which cannot desseria for the pouren and give are required to make at least other Negro, Colonel Benjamin since the same fact held true in Draftee Jobs Guaranteed With the mass of the workers, help but weaken it in the unity both AFL and Cio, prepared to us the staples once a week in the these are dismissed from the ceneral. Davis had been fxnored The vote for the Socialist Party Draft Head Alleges negotiations.
establish unity on a fair and proAppeal remember the series of articles police. In order to fill their quota at the time when scores of white in the state of New York declined CIO IN TURMOIL per basis, this uncontrolled lead the Appeal carried on the auto they stop at nothing. The rules colonels had been promoted. But to less than one fourth of what ership has arbitrarily stood in the 1936, Norman Tho.
The Clo, on the other hand, way of labor peace. Now, under workers fight. Do you remember regarding restricted areas are so the possibility of losing Negro it received. there were common workers ex complicated (they even involve votes after the Administration mas obtaining only 20. 114. AC WASHINGTON, Nov. those who are drafted, however, went is taking place in the lead. these same officials is in great turmoil. realign pressure from the War Deal, pressions, simple language lan what floor of a building you may had openly declared its intention cording to the New York election. Draft Director Dykstra today gives enlisted men little encour. ership, a section of which has hard earned gains of the workers place the Kung that Detrolt and every or may not visit) that they can of maintaining its traditional pol law a party must receive a min ruled that men who enlisted avement. According to the actual come out strong for unity with in great jeopardy by putting the other working class elty could un always find something to charge icy of segregation of Negroes in mum of 50. 000 votes to remain on voluntarily for service in the wording of the Selective Service the apparent intention of desert, industrial unions on the block in derstand. Have those people for you with. Penalties are corres ali branches of the armed service, the ballot for the subsequent elee armed forces are entitled to the Act, employers must reinstate a ing the CIO if the Impending una head long rush towards untty.
gotten how to write?
led the president to this last min. tion. The Communist Party was same job protection as those who drafted employee upon his returnity negotiations break down.
Let tie a few keys down on The food is either poor, in ute move. Davis is to be retired barred by an arbitrary ruling of are drafted.
from army duty to his old job. It is clear that Lewis lost much gap between the top leadership the typewriter. It about time adequate, or both. They have been in a few months anyway. the courts.
As a result of the tremendous is application is made within 60 of his influence by supporting and the membership in both the that we left the school and walk able to obtain improvements, but disillusionment of the returning days, unless the employer cir Willkie. This weakened him in AFL and the cio. The AFL ed across the tracks.
since this involves open protesta soldiers of the last world war who cumstances have so changed as the cio, not only among the Roos workers, who do not desire the Houston, Texas by the men, it also provides an Rapid Expansion of Army found their jos gone, and the to make it imposible or unreason evelt supporters. but also among decimation of the unions of eng resultant scandal, Exlitor Reply: have the most out spoken soldiers Follows Draft Lottery ment has found it necessary to And what employer will con with his criticism of Roosevelt have little voice in deciding the In place of taking away the edi fined, jailed, imprisoned, or to make a pretence of safeguarding sider it reasonable to re employ and hoped against hope that he AFL terms.
The CIO workers tor copy of Webster where he have their lives made miserable a soldier during the tremendous would declare for an independent on their part are placed in double searchs poinfully for the five syl by other means.
the civilian jobs of drafted and economic collapse which will fol labor party. Lewis threat to jeopardy by the crisis in the CIO lable words he uses how about Socially, the soldiers are os nation land forces will be ex right away. The Administration WASHINGTON, Nov. The draft registrants will be taken calisted men.
low the present war, as after the resign, however, gave the rabiely leadership. Here then is a situa The same job protection as last?
pro Roosevelt Hillmanites just tion which may provide the im Ing in some workers stories from munity, that is the officer and panded to 1, 000, 000 men within prefers to slip the bad news to what they needed.
managerial section of it. saw the next four months, according the draftees piece meal, especialpetus for a rank and file uprising The Hillman forces have been to reduce this terrible gap be We are sure that all the read two soldiers in uniform try to buy warlpeplum order dacilitate bathrobes or the sale per month Soldiers at Fort Dix.
ers of the Appeal would like to tickets for a movie in Panama the training of such a huge force army pay, or have dependents.
moving rapidly in the direction tween leaders and members and of labor unity in the interests restore the policy making powers with or without the typewriter were no more seats. My wife and been announced prior to the elec shock if they think the draft is Draft registrants are in for a Gain Rise in Their Wages whatever cost to the industrial bership where they rightfully bekeys tied down.
union movement. They now de Inng.
ly sold two tickets. asked why tions, the new recruits will be not going to move along with mand the elimination of Lewis the soldiers were refused. The sandwiched into regular Army lighting speed from now on.
girl in the booth.
The campaign to play down the FORT DIX, Nov. As officers and the daily press were under a threat to bolt the CIO UNITY WITH GUARANTEES The Industrial unions are comanswered, To solding shocked and National Guard units.
Speeding up of the draft pro imminence and scope of the draft the ranks of the 44th Division, in the men were being outrageously they will bolt unless the CIOposed of the most exploited layers la result of the open protest or unable to suppress the fact that what they really mean is that propaganda All this tends to build up such natural. Up to the present, the campaign the present the monedha training here, when they received over charsed for laundry and makes peace with the AFL regard to the industrial proletariat, the a feeling of resentment that the press has been playing up the hously harsh life in the army in weeks ago and discovered only 21 rendents at home in a number of Lewis is mainly cover for this union movement the auto work.
their. de. most militant men go to all lengths to try to angle that not so many of the a pleasant aspect.
get out of the Zone forces.
instead of 30 as promised, an instances were being cut oft re policy. If Lewis does resign anders, miners, steel workers, rubber In view of all this, one can only official memorandum has just lief.
unity does not follow, Hinman and workers, etc. The mass produe.
marvel at the hypocrisy of the of War. 60 been issued granting them base. The raising of the pay in the Company will more than likely tion workers know what will happay of 30 a month.
government propaganda regard.
instance demonstrates the concern leave the CIO anyway and follow pen to them if they lose their in YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, Nov. ing defense, when from their As reported in the Appeal of of the army heads against the Dubinsky into the AFL.
dustrial unions. The AFL work.
War. 40 Quickle strikes are being used own point of view they are doing ers also realize that if the indus.
Inasmuch as Roosevelt received to an open demonstration by a several issues ago, what amounted stea spreading just prior to the LEWIS LOST PRESTIGE trial unions are weakened this with telling effect, particularly in everything possible to undermine the Republe Steel plant here, their own military forces.
only 54. percent of the vote des group of recruits from the New beginning of the general draft, The prestige which Lewis has will be the signal for an antito enforce settlement of the swellThe defense against fascism of grievances which have most certainly cannot be left in pite the war issue, it is clear that York area was conducted before of the actual conditions prevailiost in his own union, the miners, union drive by their employers as he would never have gained his newspaper correspondents. The ing in the armed forces.
creates a new situa in his per well.
third term if the war had not ensonal machine. His principal The workers want unity, the been harassing the steel workers.
the hands of such an officer On October 18, 100 workers in tered as a factor, obscuring the lieutenants did not follow him complete unification of the labor There is a growing sentiment unrest and dissatisfaction among into the willkie camp.
the shipping department of Repub corps.
Instead, movement AFL, CIO and the lic staged day and a half With best wishes, in favor of compulsory military the workers and farmers over they continued in support of Roos Railroad Brotherhoods. But unity quickie shut down evelt. While some emphasized must come only on the basis of which Two Friends training. according to survey unemployment low wages, long brought the company to terms made public on November 10 by hours, low prices for farm prodthat they were also for Lewis, the full guarantees for the preserva Dr. George Gallup, director of the ucts the general impasse of fact remains that they did not with an assurance of wage in tion and extension of the ind.
creases to be immediately negoAmerican Institute of Public capitalism in its death agony.
follow his political line. It was trial union method of organiza tiated with the Republic local Opinion only second string men who went tion.
of the Steel Workers Organizing By the end of August, he over to Willkie along with Lewis.
Committee.
declares, the institute found We Love Our Boss Despite extraordinary material Lucha Sindical (Trade Union The Stalinist inspired draft Prior to the shipping departseventy one persons in every hunEL PASO. Tex. Seven ouable poverty of the masses in progressive group in one of the little echo among the Lewis, madifficulties due to the indescrib Struggle. official organ of the Lewis movement has found very ment sulled over a hundred dred in favor of a program that at seventeen employees of To Cuba, the Revolutionary Workers largest locals of the Chilean rail china menor for that mattern shippers a three hour halt, would give year military Guynes, owner of a printing com Party, Cuban section of the way unions, lauds Trotsky great Instead, the Lewis men are quietly returning to work when the man training to selected young men pany, who was ordered by the Pourth International, is meeting contributions to the world work making their preparations for the agement promised wage increases. Lectures for the in their twenties and early Department of Labor to pay fith encouraging gains according ing class, condemns his assassinaThey threaten to pull another quickle if the company does not Coming Week The surveys found little dif wages, refused their checks on the to a report just received from tion by Stalin, and warns that the ground to see what Lewis is War It wonderful!
come through.
The New York Times reported Dialectical Materialism ference in the views of Demo grounds they considered themselStalin may now try to do away going to do. It is doubtful that in last Sunday financial section, The influence of Stalinism with Trotsky widow, Natalia there is anyone among them who The profits of twenty eight steel These, and a number of other crats and Republicans of men ves paid in full.
similar actions, are resulting in and Natural Science or of women. While President has declined precipitously in Sedoff Trotsky.
large gains for the membership considers himself strong enough. ocmpanies for the first months Monday 7:10 to 8:40 Roosevelt may have lost votes to Cuba. In the period between of the Swoc in Youngstown, as Lecturer: William Warde some extent on this issue, it is the Constitutional Assembly From Argentina a comrade re even under the new conditions, to of 1940 were 169, 919, 408, comthe steel workers, disastrously deThe Revolutionary certain that by far the largest COME ONE!
elections and the recent gen ports: The Trotskyist movement cides to fight to hold the CIO pres period in 1939, despite the fact COME ALL feated in the Little Steel strike part of the public in both polieral elections, the Stalinists is already born. It is here to stay ideney, he will probably retain that far appropriations for the in 1937, begin to take courage Fight Against Fascism tical camps had come to view The Fair has closed, but you lost 25 percent of their voting and will go ahead. For the first the support of most of his per current year were virtually dou.
again and learn that it is possible Monday 8:50 to 10:20 conscription as a national necestime in its history it has recruited sonal followers.
for them to buck the steel bosses Lecturer: Felix Morrow ble those in the comparable period, sity.
can come to the This decline is largely due to trade union elements into its and win.
The report of the Gallup instithe treacherous collaboration of ranks, workers who go out and LEWIS WITHDRAWAL The increase amounts to 211 per The quickie tactic is spread The Death Agony of tute bears out the analysis made Boro Park Social the Stalinists with representa distribute our literature widely LIKELY cent for the nine months. It a ing to other steel plants. An ef Capitalism and the similar rate of rain were possible by the Socialist Workers Party tives of American imperialism and it has finally been released FOR LIVELY EVENING It is most likely, however, that in the final quarter of 1940, earn.
fective stoppage of this type was Rise of Fascism some time ago, that mass senti.
pulled by the entire machine shop OF FUN!
and the native ruling class. They from its shell of isolation he will withdraw. If so, Phillipings for the full year eclipse the ment in the United States favors The Workers Metallurgical Murray is the most probable sue record profits established by the are supporters of President Badepartment of the MacDonala Tuesday 7:10 to 8:40 conscription.
tista, butcher of the Cuban workplant of the Carnegie Illinois Corp.
Union of La Plata, Argentina, cessor. Hillman could find Mur industry in 1929.
Lecturer: Murry Weiss Refreshments, Drinks, Dancers.
of Steel several days after in a strongly worded resolu ray acceptable, provided that he in a morbid after thought the The effect of the war upon the Trade Unions and voting is also indicated by the ing, Games, Entertainment the shipping department walk out tion expressed its sorrow over negotiates unity with the AFL Times adds that it may be a litSome time ago a large group Transitional Demands in Republican latest figures of a poll taken on the assassination of Leon Trot Murray, as CIO president, would the tough holding on to the rate of working class revolutionists The entire striking department the eve of the election: sky and placed the responsibili continue to lean heavily upon Le of gain for the last quarter due Tuesday 8:50 to 10:20 broke from the Masonic re ty for the murder squarely on confronted the management as a Believe Roosevelt would do wis who would, therefore, in a to further tax increases; but ends Lecturer: Farrell Dobbs beat job of strengthening naformist Socialist Party of Chile the doorstep of Stalin. large degree remain the actual up on the understatement of the committee of the whole and in To be held at and joined the ranks of the a few hours returned to work tional defense. 61 The resolution calls on all chief.
IRVING PLAZA week, Nevertheless, the steel reFourth International, giving a workers organizations to cleanse with their demands for revision Believe Willkie would do The Stalinist backing of Lewis sults are not discouraging.
Irving Place and 15th St.
considerable spurt to the their ranks of the Stalinist paid is predicated on their hopes to of working schedule and ample New York City best job. 39 3623 15 Ave. klyn Chins up, lads! Let not let a 25c growth of our movement in agents, counter revolutionary retain the special position in the 211 percent profit gain get us advance work notification granted.
Prefer Roosevelt in Event curs and ambush assassins. CIO which Lewis has accorded down!
STEEL WORKERS USE QUICKIE TACTIC TO WIN MASSES FAVOR Peter Willkie in Event of CONSCRIPTION POLL SHOWS Latin American Notes MARXIST SCHOOL STEEL PROFITS SOAR strength.
Grand Opening!
Chile.