Socialist Appeal FOR ORGANIZATION OF AN INDEPENDENT LABOR PARTY FOR MILITARY TRAINING UNDER TRADE UNION CONTROL Official Weekly Organ of the Socialist Workers Party, Section of the Fourth International VOL. IV No. 48 NEW YORK, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 30. 1940 267 FIVE (5) CENTS CIO OPENS ROAD TO MILITANT STRUGGLE MINNESOTA Vultee Strikers Point to Boss Profits VOTE TOPS MINORITIES VER DEFENSE VUITEE Profas LYNG WAGE Strike Wins Convention Upholds Pay Raise Industrial Unionism At Vultee THE CANT DIATUS!
ccordingly war contracts.
Demand Freedom For Negro Sailors By FELIX MORROW ATLANTIC CITY, Nov, 23 The CIO has successfully rallied its major forces to continue the light for industrial Final Returns Show unionism. That is the great achievement of the five day convenBULLETIN tion which closed last night.
DOWNEY, Calif. Nov. 27Carlson Above CP The Vultee strike was settled damental question that this convention came fully alive. That It was in the three and a half hours of debate over this funAnd SP Combined today with unanimous ratifica was Tuesday afternoon. Almost everything that took place after tion of a 16 months agreement that was not in the nature of an anti climax. Not that vital issues By DUNNE tration and wage increases from were lacking in the ensuing three days. Indeed, life and death MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. The 12. cents an hour. The good questions facing the trade union movement and the workers state canvassing board which met faith of the employers is ques came up. But those other ques: henceforth fixed on government November 19 in the state capitol has released the following official tionable in view their state tions were evaded or falsely posts figures for the minority parties: ment that there will be no mass answered.
re employment and It will be a Senator slow process; the men will be Hillman and his master, RooseThe answer given to Sidney HILLMAN ARRIVES AFTERWARD Grace Carlson (Trotskyist) 761 subjected to almost as closevelt, in that Tuesday afternoon Hillman himself was not preCarl Winter (C. sticker scrutiny as when they candidate. 256 originally employed.
were session was not only a true ane sent during the duate on this Lut felt to be true by almost all basic question. He arrived the President the delegates, and they burnert next day and explained his abAiken Orange (8. 2, 553 Thomas Krueger (S. 5, 454 with a zeal that, rence: he had been consulting Browder Ford (C. 2, 711 DOWNEY, Calif. Nov. 22 fortunately, did not again appear with Bethlehem Steel officials 24 hour mass picket lines tonight in the convention after that it was plain he had been hoping Governor continued to serve notice on the afternoon. But, for that after to bring back a bone from them John Castle (S. 3, 175 Vultee Aircraft Company profit con the convention delegates be to justify himself, but he didn Martin Mackie (C. sticker eers here that the aircraft work came as a single mighty voice get a hone.
candidate. 360 ers are through with the slave declaring the will of the CIO to In his absence three of his Lieutenant Governor wage of 50 cents an hour. live on and fulfill its historic dependents defended his position William Herron (C. stickOutside the plant gates numer mission of organizing the indus. Frank Rosenblum and Franz er candidate. 306 Mass picket lines at the Vultee airplane plant in Downey, California, had the factory closed down tight. Shouts of the bosses cu camp fires before the im. trial proletariat of this country Daniel of the clothing workers, Secretary of State and government agents about reds were answered by placards publicizing the huge profits the company is obtaining through its provised shelters of the strikers into the only kind of unions that and George Baldanzi of the texClara Jorgenson (C. sticker throw their defiant glow over the can organize them industrial tile workers. have just concandidate. 278 silent Vultee buildings.
unions.
sulted the stenographie record to Because the candidate of the So.
While the Dies Committee verify my first impression and cialist Workers Party appeared on representatives and the De HILLMAN GAME it confirms that feeling Hillthe ballot as the Trotskyist Antipartment of Justice through Sidney Hillman spokesmen man boys did a very poor sob.
Attorney General Jackson are war Party candidate, it is certain could say what they pleased, the Net the least reason for that.
that the 8, 761 votes for Comrade vicing for the honor of Carlson represent conscious supBy ALBERT PARKER delegates clearly understood the perhaps, is that none of them bethe Advancement of Colored has a membership of 2, 000 who breaking the strike, the strik real meaning of Hillman pro They, unlike Hillman, may plan lieved what they were saying. port of a proletarian revolutionary Letters of protest, demanding the freedom of the Negro People in a letter to Secretary reside and work in Harlem, 90 ers are sticking to their union poral: to push the CIO into imanti Stalinist program.
to continue living in the trade demands against the phoney mediate unity negotiations with sailors on the Philadelphia and an end to the Jim Crow Knox stated that the colored percent of whom are Negroes.
The support for the Trotskyist practices in the Navy, began to pour into the offices of Pre people of this country are bitter We feel as you (The Courier) red issue. As one worker at the AFL under conditions favor a picket fire stated, thought inx the craft union moguls; to than earlier figures had indiented. sident Rosevelt and Secretary of the Navy Knox last week, art about the treatment of their men. Continued on Page 3)
the unions were run by a gang AFL CONVENTION STORY surround the negotiations with The candidate not only topped the the same time that the government announced its intention of in the armed forces of the naof reds and was against it.
tion. We wish to enter a most an overwhelming hue and cry in NEXT WEEK But a guy has to be, a red to full report on the AFL the boss press, radio, movies, and a vote larger than the combined ating colored sailors to the mess quarters of the Navy, and that vigorous protest against this ac Women Want get convention, which is still in decent wage around ait other methods of communicavote for Thomas and Browder.
here.
session in New Orleans, will tion and pressure, pushing for Each of the 87 counties in the The policy of the Navy Depart country, but the Negro sailors as retary of the Navy, to intervené. To Join The Army appear in next week issue The upheld the acThe solidarity and militancy of unity on the AFL terms; and to With only 99 positions now state furnished votes for our can ment was reiterated in a state well.
didate. This would indicate that ment issued by the Bureau of The letters from various ortion of the mess attendants in open for hostesses in the Ar the strikers, who are mostly unite over the broken ones of the ideas of Trotsky have penet Navigation as follows: ganizations and individuals print bravely signing their names to my, the War Department has been young men without previous the new industrial unions which rated the American consciousness ROOSEVELT POLICY ed in the Pittsburgh Courier the published letter of complaint, swamped with 7, 000 applications union or strike experience and have been built since 1935 the union movement after the coneven deeper than our most optilast week showed that an in. saying they had done so in berrom hopeful aspirants, most of who have come into this rapidly Steel Workers Organizing Com sequences of Hillman proposal mistic supporters have hitherto es. After many years of expertimated. Fittingly the largestience, the policy of not enlisting creasing number of people are lief that they had a just com whom had apparently not even expanding industry from every inittee, the United Electrical and would become fully apparent!
section of the nation, sroused over the case of the implaint which ought not to be read the requirements.
truly in Radio Workers, the United Auto POOR CASE FOR UNITY tumber of Trotskyist votes came men of the colored race for any prisoned Philadelphia sailors, and weakened by an anonymous let The applicants were under the spiring. They are totally unim mobile Workers, the Rubber Their argument for unity nebranch of the naval service, ex are cager to express their rosent tense illusion that the Army was going pressed say the charge of sabot. Workers, etc.
age of national defense being gotiations came down to. 1) The. Hennepin (Minneapolis. 1, 756 cep tele melement the one hinter ment over conditions in the Navy: the pointed letter to Roosevelt teens, etc. as in the Inst Worla husled back toge or 5, 800. 000 in man in the service of Roosevelt licity in the previous negotiations Hillman career as a states CIO had received very bad pu)(St. adopted to meet best interThe National Association for and Knox by the Workers Relief War.
Louis (Daluth. 525.
ests of general ship efficiency.
Following this general pattern The selection of men to man WPA Union of Newark, However, the women must wait Creat Britain, and is expected to himself in the eyes of the bosses they hastened to add and was other counties showing a heavy the navy is left to the discretion signed by George Breitman, see until the men are sent abroad to clean up a net profit of not less any stigma of responsibility for therefore held responsible by the registration of votes were those of the executive branch of the Aircraft Profits outlying counties in which there government.
mediate end to the arrest, con they can expect a wide donana than 12, 000. 000 in the next year. the continued division of the public for labor disunity. 30 In the exercise of this disere. Soar Skyward are industrial workers such finement to the ship for further for women workers even in the and have a splendid chance of the employers want a united The strikers are learning fast. labor movement. Roosevelt, and now it should show it wasn to packinghouso workers, miners, tion, the bureau endeavors to The aviation industry con investigation, molestation and factories at home.
timber workers, and where union furnish naval vessels with crew withstanding the boss propagan labor movement. e. united un unity negotiations didn mean tinued in the nine months inquisition suffered by the boys da and pressure, if the leadership der hidebound, conservative, that they were for surrender to organization has penetrated. consisting of men best qualified whose only offense is that (January September, 1940) to Although it was impossible be to meet the requirements of the itself continues to hold firm. impotent leadership like that of craft unionism. 3) this time of establish new records for they complained with much End of Rainbow Lypical striker statement, heard Messrs. Green, Woll. Frey, with national and world crisis makus cause of meager finances to carry special rating and branch te cause against a brutal system of profits. states the New our campaign outside the Twin which they are assigned. York TIMES, November 21, discrimination and segregation.
Although James Roosevelt is on around one of the camp fires, re the workers in war industries unity imperative so that labor Cities to any extent, the record This policy not only serves as it has done each year for The unemployed union also de active service as a captain with flects the true spirit. votod divided up, if they are organized can make its rightful contribus of the Trotskyists in the union the best interests of the navy manded that Roosevelt And Knox the United States Marine Corps against the union when we had at all, into scores of craft unions tion to the cause of national de the last few years.
and unemployed movement has ob and the country, but serves as The combined net profits of use their powers to put an end at San Diego, California, he will the clection in the plant. Bu, which the bosses can play one fecse.
viously made a deep impression well the best interests of the men the seven leading companies to these conditions.
be permitted to continue his mo that was a mistake. Now m in cainst the other. Obediently No other Hillman supporter to asked for the floor and, as a retion pleture producing activities this fight until we get what we therefore. Hillman sought upon the workers in the state. themselves.
for the first nine months of IARLEM UNION and without a reduction in pay. Want!
achieve this objective.
sult, the pro CIO forces had the Among the iron miners on the In plain English, this means this year are 33. 034, 590, or ar OFFERS SUPPORT Range, there are a large number that the President of the United As his first major production. Ja As a result of the strike, a tre That if he were successfulit ficor during most of the after81 PERCENT GAIN over the of former Communist Party mem States (executive branch) thinks Another letter, for Local 32 of mes las elected to make an cla 1939 comparable period, which mendous organizational impetus might in the end mean disastei noon and they made the most the Building Service Employees borate musical comedy. Pot has been given to the workers in not only for all industrial unions of it.
iers who have for years supported that colored sailors are best yielded net profits of 18.
International Union, signed by Gold. He the only recruit the other aircraft plants, and the but the weakening of his own delegate from Wisconsin the Russian revolution. There 259, 877.
were many who voted for our can. qualified to be Jim Crowed off Cyril Fullerton, executive man. we ve heard of who found army workers are flocking into the clothing worker troubles Hillread into the record a letter from clidate, a Trotskyist, and not for into the kitchen and servants ager, explained that the union life to be the end of the rainbow. union by the hundreds man not at all. His eyes are the AFL central body in Mil.
waukee which revealed that it The Stalinist candidates.
was attempting to smash the Counties where the militant United Auto Workers local at Parm Holiday movement once had the Allis Chalmers plant and regreat prestige and power also fur.
place it with a score of craft nished a substantial vote to the units. The letter explicitly reTrotskyist Anti war candidate.
pudiated the idea of uniting all Those counties in which state the workers in the plant in one.
institutions are located and whose local and boasted that its organ.
employees belong to the State, County and Municipal Employees By DON DORE campaign to invoke a sabotage 1940 which have received little speed up: cheap non union lathe war industries will be branded izing campaign had the direct Union (in which our candidate, Federal Bureau of Investigation agents assigned to uncover scare against militant union work publicity. And for good reasons. lor: lack of safety devices: danas sabotage.
help of the AFL national office.
Grace Carlson, was active for a evidence of sabotage in connection with recent explosions in ors. He warns, continued hue There have been three each in erous t! me saving methods and The New York Post declared AFL JIM CROW POLICY number of years and is a well munitions and chemical plants, have uncovered instead proof and cry about sabotage every time the plants of the du Pont munt processes. In word, greed for editorially: The chance exists there is a serious industrial acci. Negro delegate. Neil Weavknown figure) also recorded an ol murclerous speed up, negligence and unsafe working condi Ident is bound to have damaging one trust and the American Cy. Profits brought injury to all those that arcidents and rotteidence de Smpressive total tions which in the past ten months have slaughtered 97 workers effects on the national morate. These open shop corporations have enimid and Chemical Corporation workers.
mnt for the explosions yesterday er, passionately brought to the With complete precinct votes av and burned, blinded and dismen ders were being fabricated. was (November 12. Be for xolefore the AFL Crafts lily white ailable from St. Paul and Minne bered 400 more.
The statements of the FBI chief teen turning the workers blood about sabotage, when all the evttax though the three erplosions people under that policy, he said, Why, then the smoke screen ty sake or authorities should policy: the only jobs open to his apolis a gratifyingly close correla This was admitted last week hyrinly the result of negligence. thus give the lie direct to the Dies into a golden stream of super pro cence points to MURDER FOR were the work of sabotage.
tion is shown between the distri. Edgar Hoover, head of the Commenting on the third exCommittee, whose spokesman, tits. Any real investigation into PROFIT?
bution of Socialist Appeals and PBI, in an interview in the New Plosion, which took 11 lives or Rep. Thomas of New Jersey, dee the causes of the recurrent exOue reason why is revealed by uberately covers up the real cri: Crow policy! And what had the For safety sake the post de Where is there any sign that the the vote for the Trotskyist can. York Journal and American, No United Rollway Signal Co, work Pared after the most recent explosions in these plants would re been este sensore the poemde Inesember 19. am interview devoted at Woodridge. Hoover prostorno that they deletely out smist tule or brutal Indir. Thomas labores mettono minals, the protit mad bosses And Arw police one nor what pand the been distributed in these precints mainly to spreading sabotage said. Despite reports to the con progettore distence of a slgantie cesence to the safety of the works after the vast explosions? Much of weather in the futures seca de ser over a period of mentis. Excel propaganda.
sabotage plot lent he was also made of the spo hud neither Government contracts PRESS CRIES SABOTAGE of the blame for what has happen the conditions imposed by the unorganized Weaver was clal Minnesota clection edition of LISTED AS ACCIDENTS GREED FOR PROFITS e should be placed at the door bosses are being told to shut up scareely a polished speech, but Hoover had to report that two disaster is still under imetiga nor sub contracts. Naturally the the Appeal. and the leaflets and While the press ran huge sabindustrial accidents brought in of the NLRB. which has intimid about employer responsibility for that only made it all the more other literature issued in the cam. or the three blasts on November tion. hut there is no evidence ortage scare heads in connection try to 600. 000 workers in 1939 sted employers so that they fear these explosions under threat of genuine a reflection of the bitterness of the Negroes and the with the blasts two weeks ago As compared to 375. 000 injured to crack down on suspects elheing treated as saboteurs. Inpackinghouse workers against The total vote, though indica Co. and the American Cyanimld sabotage.
and the one two months ago at 1938. While employment rose Moyod in their plants. agine workers as saboteurs.
tive of our support, is of course and Chemical Corporation, have WOLF! WOLF!
The Herenles Powder Co. where only percent in 1939 over 1938. COVERS REAL CRIMINALS plotting to blow themselvex to the aristocrats of labor.
of Hoover, in the Interview. re 51 died due to the use of a meth pieces! It is in an ocean of such There had been many rumors campaign. Many people have been or the tragedy at the Trojan Poweals that his concern for the od of manufacturing nitroglycer Verage hours worked rose 13 per.
Thus, behind the loud sabot nonsense that the bosses and their in the corridors arout division for the first time in this campaign Here the explosions occurred in his fear lest the boss press cry War Dept. officials, there have industrial accidents increased 14 age campaign is revealed a deli kepr press seek to drown the truth within the leadership of the brought closer to us by hearing der Co. plant, Hoover stated: truth in this instance flows from the which had been condemned cent and disabling injuries from nerate piot to terrorize tbe work the truth that it is the bosses United Mine Workers; that was the revolutionary Marxist prosection of the plant for removed Wolf Wolf falsely once toonen eleven other blasts and fires, percent (U. Bureau of Laborers. Every labor action against who are MURDERING THE punctured by the participation in gram from where the Government orloftenand discredit his planned of similar character since January Statistics. Longer hours and steadily worsening conditions In WORKERS FOR PROFIT. Continued on Page 8)
MURDER FOR PROFIT The Story Behind the Explosions in the Chemical Plants paign.