FOR SOCIALISM WILL BE Socialist Appeal TRADE UNION CONTROL TROTSKY MONUMENT OF MILITARY TRAINING Official Weekly Organ of the Socialist Workers Party, Section of the Fourth International VOL. IV No. 47 NEW YORK, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1940 267 FIVE (5) CENTS INDUSTRIAL UNIONISM UPHELD BY CIO Assassin of Trotsky AIRPLANE Unity. But Unity WORKERS GO To Benefit Labor ON STRIKE Convention Hits AFL Conditions GREEN FOR NOVI Sidney Hilmaa UNITY ON HIS TERMS Siqueiros Held MURDER, INC. In Penitentiary AN EDITORIAL The big push is on for unification of the trade union movement: loud are the voices raised for unity in Atlantic ATLANTIC CITY, City and New Orleans this week at the CIO and AFL conMass Picket Lines ventions, but loudest and most insistent of all is the voice of persists in moving toward the Call For Cut Roosevelt from Washington. And every labor hating emAFL, he is unlikely to take ployer in the country and the capitalist press everywhere is any other union along with him In Boss Profits seconding Roosevelt demand for labor unity.
out of the CIO.
That was made clear this DOWNEY, Calif. Nov. 17. The big push is on. Why all this pressure? Can all these 3200 production workers of Vultee people including the Wall Street Journal, the New York afternoon, when the Third Afreraft, Inc. have struck the Times, union busting Thurman Arnold and, in a word, all Convention of the CIO voted first major blow at the sub human unanimously in favor of a the anti union forces in the country be demanding labor conditions in the aircraft indusAt the opening session of the motion which meant, in effect, tries.
unity for the benefit of the workers? To ask this question is American Federation of Labor that the CIO would enter a unitMass picket lines have had the to answer it.
convention in New Orleans, Wuled labor movement only when huge Vultee plant shut tight since That means that there is one kind of labor unity. Ham Green told delegates that that movement represented the A. Thursday, when the com the kind the enemies of the workers want that is worse than President Roosevelt wants com victory of industrial unionism.
pany declined further consideramittees from the two labor camps More important than the formal tion of wage increases from the no unity at all!
to meet with him and resume ne victory of the motion was the present 50 cent hourly minimum gotiations for unity.
clear headed and militant spirit The union committee of amalgaA FUNDAMENTAL QUESTION Green did not explain that Roos displayed by the convention del mated aviation local 683, United Every serious trade unionist must ask himself this funevelt wishes this unity at the exegates on this fundamental quesAuto Workers CIO, had conduct. damental question: What kind of unity will be of most benefit pense of the labor movement, that tion. The table at which sat the ed futile negotiations for nine Roosevelt wishes to straitjacket Hillman to the labor movement, and what kind will hurt the labor supporters. from the weeks.
the labor movement preventing it Amalgamated Clothing Workers movement?
not only from jurisdictional con and the Textile Workers Union This is the first strike in any major aircraft plant working on Will the labor movement be benefitted by the idea of Ilicts which might interrupt the was like a piece of driftwood, flow of profits, but more especial buffeted about by a stormy sea government war orders. Vultee labor unity presented, for example, by Mr. John Frey, ly from genuine strikes against of aroused delegates.
has a back log of 84, 000, 000 in head of the AFL Metal Trades Department? Very cockily, orders for planes for both the the bosses for higher wages, short.
Mr. Frey, at the convention of his department last week, dis Frank Jacson alias Jacques Mornard, the agent of Stalin who murdered Leon Trotsky on Every delegate in the room had and Great Britain.
er lours, etc.
been bombarded for months, and missed the very possibility of the cio and AFL joining as August 20. His real name has not yet been uncovered by the police. Anyone possessing clues Bill Green declared that the especially since election day, with In an effort to settle the disequals, and instead declared that labor peace will come to his identity should communicate immediately with the SOCIALIST APPEAL. Continued on Page 3)
pute without strike, the union (Continued on Page 3)
committee had reduced its origin.
through the withdrawal of organizations from the CIO and al demand for a 75 cents hourly their affiliation with the AFL.
wage minimum to 65 cents. The In other words, Mr. Frey and he talks for Green and company refused to budge from its present minimum of 50 cents the other AFL tops want no other form of unity than one The company had added the in which the present AFL leadership will emerge as undisBy DON DORE phes. Editorial comment was re boss class and its government pregenerous offer of a be. raise puted masters. And that means that their kind of unionism Within one hour on November duced to a whisper, in which saboter to loayo burled Burther and another se wil rule the routCRAFT UNIONISM.
False after months for some 120 series of terrible blasts in otage Wecame more inuendo, For these workers were murthree plants manufacturing ex hedged around by innumerable dered murdered just as sure.
men; 24 cents raises for most.
plosives snuffed out the lives of maybes and perhaps.
ly as if they had been mowed The company places all new em CRAFTS CANNOT LEAD 15 workers, including a number This sudden hush up of the en down by direct artillery fireployees on apprenticeship wages, But craft unionism cannot lead the labor movement.
murdered by the insatiable regardless of skill and experience.
MEXICO CITY, Nov. David Alfaro Siqueiros, well of women. score of others were tre matter, as though by a cal.
That was amply demonstrated during the last fifty years greed of the bosses for more As one worker in Dept. 37 stated, known Stalinist and agent of the GPU, who led the May 24 permanently mangled and mai culated move, strikingly parallels Craft unionism has demonstrated its complete inability to the press treatment of the previ and more profits!
med. Many of our rellows go to work machine gun assault upon the bedroom of Leon and Natalia at Vultee for 50 cents an hour organize the most exploited layers of the industrial proletar. Trotsky, has been transferred to a penitentiary pending court these disasters Papere a cheanlinesco. piant at Kenvil, where UNSAFE PROCESS The first newspaper accounts of ous blast and they are promised five cent iat, the most militant workers the auto workers, the miners, decision as to his guilt.
The first hint of this was given screaming the sinister word sab 51 workers were blown to bits.
raises at the end of three months. the steel workers, the rubber and aluminum and packing Siqueiros lawyer, Federico Sodi, number of veiled and obscure two months ago in the New York When that time comes, these men house workers, the transport workers, etc. etc. Only the inhas petitioned the court for the relations with his GPU superiors. Sharply etched on the public mind refences, buried within the long Herald Tribune account of the are transferred to another depart dustrial unions could organize these workers. The CIO made release of the Stalinist gunman on Sylvia Ageloff, wife of Jacson that the explosions were part of newspaper accounts of the first Hercules Powder disaster. After ment. And start all over again bail. The lawyer alleges that Siwho was utilized by the assassin as apprentices for 50 cents an the first real start in organizing these mass production workqueiros is not guilty of the mur to gain the confidence of the Trot a widespread plan of foreign day, gives a strong clue to the thousands of words devoted to hour!
ers and to do it had to create its own organization independ der of Robert Sheldon Harte sky household, has been declared agents to impede national de reason for this suddenly imposed planting the suspicion of sabotfense production.
silence.
age, one buried paragraph reTHRONG LIKE VULTURES ent of the AFL craft union moguls.
guard on duty who was kidnapped Innocent of the crime by Judge veal that the real cause of the the night of the assault and Carranca Trujillo. However, the PRESS BECOMES SILENT WORKERS MURDERED marderons explosion was the use Government officials and concl Nobody can erase what is indelibly written in the minds claims that Harte was left by si prosecuting attorney has demand. The day following the explo They reveal that the first in of an unsafe process in the manaliators, as well as representatives of the workers in the mass production industries: The new queiros in the hands of the Arenal ed another hearing in order to sions, the press suddenly became vestigations of the FBI and other facture of nitroglycerine, a proc of the National Defense Commis industrial unions were built during the past seven years in brothers.
question her further before her quiet. Scarcely any further news police agencies have uncovered cs8 which the company has been sion, thronged to the Vultee scene release spite of and against the desires of the Greens, Wolls, Freys Harte body was discovered a was printed about the catastro evidence of conditions which the Hke vultures at the first threat (Continued on Page 8)
of strike. member of the ND.
and other craft union chieftains. They did not lift a finger to month after his murder, buried in a a lined at the base of the brain and in built or to destroy them when they were already built. vigorous action if they went on the left temple.
By JAMES CANNON strike against national defense.
The lawyer also claims, as does Intion. The unanimity and on to them. This aim, hope, will Siqueiros who thus admits. The military transitional program, unanimously accepted thusiasm with which our party justify taking space for an anUnioa officials have pointed to THEIR KIND OF UNITY the 84. 000. 000 war contracts and guilt, that the assault was not by our recent Chicago conference after two months of discus adopted the resolution is evidence swer to factional polemics which Nor have these craft union chieftains now changed their asserted that the company will made with intent to kill Trotmake 12, 000, 000 met profit in the minds and become converts to the idea of industrial unionism. sky. He claims that the assault most effective approach and means of agitation among the Lion under the direct instruction less and out of place in our agiwith revolvers, next year. The total amount of On the contrary, they are itching to put over their kind of machine suns, workers. Numerous reports and letters from active comrades in of Comrade Trotsky were not tational paper.
wasted.
the increases asked is only 1, 000, bombs, was carried out to dis all parts of the country testify 000. Over hall the production labor unity precisely in order to deal more powerful blows cover proof of Trotsky al to the value of our program in without any serious opposition We are now only at the begin. TACTICAL SUPPLEMENT leged counter revolutionary activi. this respect. It arouses interest whatever.
ning of our attempt to popularize Our military resolution, it goes workers at Vullee earn between than ever against industrial unionism in general and each in 20 and 22 a week, although the ties. He does not attempt to ex and discussion precisely because In the face of all these stagger. the policy in the general labor without saying, does not repeal work is bighly skilled. This is dustrial union in particular. Like the Bourbons, they never plain why Harte was kidnapped it deals most concretely with the ing facts it is a positive crime movement. There is a long road the basic program of the party far below the average wage in the learn anything.
and murdered.
one big subject which dominates to lull the workers with a pros ahead, but the first results sive and the Fourth International, but auto industry.
As for the worker members of the AFL craft unions, let The lawyers brier maintains the minds of the workers, the pect of peace or to whine against reassuring proof that we are on is designed as a tactical supplethem ask themselves whether they would benefit in any way the assault is natural to think that despite Siqueiros admitting subject of war and militarism. universal military service which the right road. We seek, first of ment to it. It is not in itself is already in operation. American all, an approach to the militant program of proletarian revolu.
La Guardia if the Wolls and Greens could be in a position to hurt in that the shots could have caused WORKERS EXPECT WAR imperialism has already entered workers whose patriotism at Llon, but a bridge toward it. It is dustrial unionism. Every intelligent worker knows that a injuries on the person of Mr. Trot All reports testify that the over with both feet on the path of war least 99 of them are patriotic designed to protect and develop Hits Right large part of the AFL gains since the split with the CIO have sky: however, it is an arbitrary whelming majority of the workers and militarism. This is the new. Is in large measure a confused the class independence of the been achieved thanks to the establishment of the that the results would have been America in the war. This feeling cannot afect the course of events ism. These sentiments are now the imperialist military machine.
To Strike dustrial unions. In Detroit and the other auto cities, in the murder and not a few wounds that of the workers is profoundly cor in any way whatever. It is the exploited by the imperialists. Our it is, in effect, a proposal for a would have healed in less than fit rect, and it is the duty of an hon task of the proletarian vanguard policy is designed to turn these united front with the workers as NEW YORK, Nov. 18. The steel and rubber towns, etc. the AFL has grown considerably teen days.
est revolutionary party to tell to accept the new reality, to meer rentiments in the direction of a they are today, patriotic and antiBoard of Transportation and Ma. because the industrial unions broke down the previous It is doubtful that the lawyer them so Short of a revolution, the imperialists on their own struggle for their own class in fascist, not ready for the socialist revolution, but concerned to pro.
La Guardia are moving swiftis an actual member of the GPU. for which the American workers ground, the ground of militarism, terests and liberation.
tect themselves and their class inly to forestall a possible walk out open shop condition of these cities. In their blind hatred of However, his arguments sound as are not yet ready, it is impossible and counterpose to their program REPORTS DIVERSIFIED terests. We offer them a program of the Transport Workers Union the industrial unions, the AFL chiefs would also wreck the 17 they had been manufactured to prevent or even to halt the the military program of the prole The firet reactions to our resoof joint struggle for practical and CIO, with 50, 000 members in the letion have been widely divers reasonable demands which will by the GPU itself. No one but deliberate movement of American tariat.
AFL unions.
That is the task which our parfed. Our reports from the field protect the interests of the work.
New York area, including 27. 000 the GPU would have the incredible imperialism into the military workers of the municipally owned audacity to maintain that firing struggle for world domination. ty, aided by the genius of Trot show that some workers are symers, preserve their class indepensubway, elevated, street car and DEMAND FULL GUARANTEES several hundred rounds of ma: In the essence of the matter, sky, has aimed 10 accomplish by pathetic, some sceptical. Many dence and prepare the way, by bus systems.
chine gun slugs through We hold no brief for John Lewis and his Stalinist into the victim bed, was intend the Axis powers at least three lution and the development of our policy will work out in practice opment, for the revolutionary Stepping from a plane at La Guardia field, following his Paci allies. On the contrary, we have warned that the Lewis ed only to wound him. Like the fourths of the way. The poney or agitation in accordance with it. They raise acute and penetrating show down. That why we call fic coast military inspection tour, Stalinist combination and its false policies have done more questions of application which our military program a transition murder of Harle, how would selling goods and war materials wounding Trotsky just a little only to those countries who are WIDE SPREAD INTEREST have not yet been adequately anal program of agitation as distinct TWU appeal to Kim to intervene damage to the industrial unions than could have been bit uncover evidence of Trotsky able to curry them away in their It is precisely because this reso swered in our press. In this se from our fundamental program of in its favor against the continued achieved by the open enemies of industrial unionism. But alleged counter revolutionary acown ships is simply a clever devotion go to the very heart of res of articles shall comment socialist revolution which end violation by the Board of Transnobody should be so blind as to think that the turning of the portation of its contract with the Frank Jacson alias Jacques pate in the blockade of the others. Mas aroused such wide spread in and undertake to answer at the distinction is understood and no transport workers, with the control of the trade union movement over to the Greens and Mornard the GPU agent who The political and moral preparerest and discussion from the best amestele criticism of the one who roads our resolution in threat, There will be no interWolls is the way to get rid of Lewis and the Stalinists.
into the winning. realiste various radical and conscientiously ference with or Interruption of Filde union unity must come only on the basis of op Trotsky on August 20 upon Axis powers is completed. The en und profoundly revolutionary, but who, was to be expected, nei. Can misunderstand it the criticfull Betvice at any time.
orders of Stalin is still in the tire Western Hemisphere has a strikes a new note and breaks ther understand nor agree with ims of our political opponents, This statement backed up the guarantees for the preservation and extension of the industrial police hospital. The conditions ho eady been marked af si robe e beplan with cele tradition har en godern, he some aspects of who accuse us of opportunisin, fall strike breaking notices posted by the Board Friday throughout the union method of organization. Unity on any another basis siderable criticism is circulating top things off, on the practical been negative and essentially pa. opponents provide an opportunity city owned transportation systems would be a catastrophe for all the unions.
throughout the city. He has not side, Afteen billion dollars have cifist on the question of war. For for the restatement and elucida OEHLERITES ATTACK térming any strike Illegal and made the slightest indication that been appropriate for armaments that reason we devoted two tion of our policy in a way to RESOLUTION That is what every intelligent worker must keep clear in This is the case with the Oehl.
threatening to dimiss any strikhe intends to reveal his real iden while conscription has become a months to Internal discussion be meet the objections of the work ers.
his mind in the midst of the din about labor unity.
tity or to tell the truth about his law and is being put into effect ore publicly proclaiming our resoers and make our policy clearer (Continued on Page 4)
workers into line by threatening dred occasions in attempts to prevent those unions from being me. There was a bullet wound First Results of Our Military Policy CIO in