Branch Competition Gets Hotter In Twice Weekly Drive Socialist Appeal FUND AT 1, 330 AS PARTY BEGINS TO REACH QUOTAS Open the Doors To Europe Refugees!
ANI War Funds To the Unemployed!
But More Speed Is Needed to Reach Our Goal Oficial Weekly Organ of the Socialist Workers Party, Section of the Fourth International Saturday, January 7, 1939 VOL. III No. 375 per copy FIGHT CUTS IN New Year Resolution No. 11, 000 Taxi Drivers Strike in New York Slashes Plotted As Foil to Arms Plans ployed.
JOBS FOR EVERY UNEMPLOYED WORKER AT UNION WAGES MASS PRESSURE Moscow Frameups Exposed by Trial Of Ukraine GPU memC. MISRULE IS EXPOSED IN TEACHERS UNION pe conclu.
On By ROSE KARSNER Appeal Campaign Director Total to date is 1, 330. 70 with reports from the St. Paul Minneapolis New Year Eve Jamboree not in us we go to press Of the branches competing for the Fourth International banner, San Francisco and Detroit have gone over the top. Both these branches are not satisfied to rest on their laurels. They promise to keep on collecting for the cam709 TEU paign.
Returns from the branches are picking up, but still too slowly.
In the remaining four weeks, the barometer must take bigger and faster leaps if we are to realize the slogan of The Twice a week LaGuardia Mobilizes Full Police Force as Roosevelt Presents Congress With Huge Appeal on the Road to a Dally.
Let us prove in action the suReply to Union Demands for Armament Budget as Garner Co.
periority of our Ideas PRIZES Decent Conditions Prepare Blow at Jobless In addition to the three banners for the branches making the best NEW YORK CITY battle between 11, 000 taxi drivers specter haunts Congress, the specter of 15, 000, 000 unem.
showing in the campaign, con and the big fleet companies began this week when the Transsidering size and ability of mem port Workers Union called a strike Tuesday afternoon President Roosevelt is asking for a gigantic war budget, for bership. we have three autographed copies of R. James and 1, 000 maintenance men re.
Within two hours, 8, 500 drivers battleships, for thousands of new warplanes.
books.
Two coples of Worla sponded to the call, leaving 7, 000 The unemployed are asking for food, for homes, for jobs.
Reovtution and one of Black cabe idle in the garages. The adJacobins. These are to be given aition of the night men will bring To finance the arms program he needs to fulfill the war plans of Yankee imperialism, Roosevelt is prepared to slash away at to sympathizers sending in the the total of cabs laid up to 8, 500.
the meager funds now allowed for the jobless and the 3, 000, 000 biggest collection on the Appeal folder now in the mails, or Over 5, 000 owner driver cabs workers on bers plugging hardest in the classed as Independents are not Homes or battleships, jobs or war that is the reality behind the fanfare in Washington.
branches. Let us know who they affected by the strike call.
are and what they have done.
Nearly 100 full time and volunUnquestionably with Roosevelt tacit okay, the other Demo From Our Branches teer organizers carried the strike Admit Confessions cratic big wigs, led by Vice President Garner, are launching a Local New York The Astoria message to the drivers at shiftcampaign whose avowed aim 19 Branch is the first in the Local changing time. The men quickly Extracted from to cut appropriations by to fulfil its quota 100 percent. responded, They had voted strike at least a third for the coming The next branches making the authority by a big majority last Victims year.
best showing so far, are Down. week.
This is the plan that lies betown, Bronx and Lower East Cops Mobilize That Russia secret police sys.
hind all the palaver about tak(Continued on page 2)
La Guardia 19, 000 cops were tematically extorted false confes.
fully mobilized in a show of sions which constituted the basis ing the out of politics and reorganizing the strength to curb the militancy of for judicia. ast year by the frame ups and returning control to state the strikers. It was under Layor aion established and local agencies. The 1, 425, LaGuardia in 1934 that police Commission of Inquiry headed by broke a big cab strike.
John Dewey in its exhaustive inProgressives Fight 000, 000 appropriated for 2700 for the current Anal year has Weeks of stalling and months vestigation of the trials against for Inner Union been exhausted in six months.
of chiseling by the big companies Trotsky received welghty con Now it being proposed that Turn 2402 culminated when the contracts ex firmation from reports arriving Democracy only 500, 000, 000 be provided for pired on December 31.
this week of a trial of five the next six months, in other Demands officials which culminated in an 2100 sensational exposure of the words, one third of what was The immediate union demands order for their execution on Jan.
rule on ruin course which the spent in the last six month pecontained in the contract propo uary Stalinists in control of the riod! Meanwhile the revamped the 1800 sals include: the closed shop. job Tho trial took place at Kiev, Teachers Union in New York administration under Col.
security. hiring through onion in the Ukraine. Despite its obvi are pursuing inside that organlFrancis Harrington would prohalls on a rotation basis, elimina ous importance, the trial was rezation, came to light suddenly ceed to wholesale shaving of Heal! 1500 tion of the shape up system un ported only in the Sovietskaya when announcement was made of the rolls and make it pos der which drivers are picked each Ukrainie of Kiev, no word on the the resignation from College sibe to put over st smaller Make day by the shop foremen; an end trial appearing in the Moscow Teachers Union, Local 587, Amer appropriation for the fiscal period to racial discrimination; nine press, according to Harold Denny, ican Federation of Teachers, of after next July.
hours daily for day men; ten New York Times correspondent, one of its prominent members, Smelly Deal 900 hours work for night men, with who underlines the significance of Professor John Childs.
provision that on Saturdays and this silence. Nor has a word on The announcement was folThis is the proposal of RepreRise!
allowed the trial been published in the Militant Acquitted holidays the day men lowed with the Information a few isentative Woodrum, Democratic 1600 an extra working hour, and night Dally Worker here during the No Refuge for Oppressed days later that three other mem chairman of the sub committee After Trial at mon two extra hours; seniority course of the trial nor prior to bers, instructors, like Childs, at which will pass on the ap rights providing for selection of our going to press. Our sole in What will we do with all the European refugees once they get Columbia University, had fol. propriations.
300 days off and vacation periods; formation so far is based on two Valencia here! Who is going to keep them alive in the United States? Isn lowed him in withdrawing from In other words, it begins to drivers with one to five years ser dispatches by Denny, January there unemployment enough as It Is, without adding to the army the organization on substantially smell very much like a deal in vice, one week vacation with 25 and In the New York Times.
Russell Negrete Blackwell is of the jobless. the same grounds. The three in which Roosevelt will get his arms pay, and drivers with five or more Swear to Any Crime free, acquitted by Spanish These are some of the questions heard wherever the problem of cluded Professors Ernest John budget, will be permitted to de(Continued on page 4) In the trial, it was brought out court, and is now at the Amer Jewish and other refugees from fascism is being discussed. son, Bruce Raup and later Dr. plore the plight of the jobless that five officials, under Scan consular offices in Valencia, It is not merely the average or Louis Hacker.
and make his usual promises, the direction of superior offi according to a telegram received conservatively minded worker but we ve rend good deal about Hacker, Childs Resign while the Garners and the Woodcial who died before trial, hnd Tuesday by his wife, Edna Black. who puts these questions. Even her in the papers. No doubt Ho In making puble their with rums cut away at the trafl struc methodically organized frame ups, well, from Acting Secretary of many class conscious workers, have many others, including the drawals from the union, the re ture of unemployment relle and giving them substance by extort. State Sumner Welles.
ing confessions from who are imbued with the spirit of unemployed, the homeless, the signing members, especially Childs the projects.
innocent Welles said that Moffat, consul international solidarity, are ask foodless, and Hacker, declared that they One of the first barrages in this Quota persons. Among the frame ups at Valencia, will report Backing them too.
Miss Frazier just had a lovely could no longer remain members campaign is going to be the rePald Percent KANS organized were the extortion of well departure from Spain, 10. 00 There Is An Answer coming out party in New York, as of a union in which democratie port of the Senate Campaign Ex 17, 00 confessions in which victims which will be by safest means We do not want to pretend that one paper described it, in a prac control of the organization was penditure Committee which will 10. 00 12. 00 120 Durham, 00 swore they belonged to Fascist available. 00 120 youth organizations and testified Blackwell, American militant, the questions do not deserve an tically solid gold setting at the mythical, having been replaced by be devoted mainly to airing answer. We think, on the con Ritz Carlton Hotel. Being the the reality of Stalinist factional charges that. funds have 10. 00 10. 00 100 that others belonged with them. arrested on charges brought by 25. 00 25. 00 100 Marston Mills although the organizations were stalinists, was released last sum trary, that they do. We think, year most gorgeous debutante, domination. The union, they as been used to all the Democratic 00 she just had to have a little party. serted, had been converted into political machines, especially in also, that there is an answer. 00 100 San Francisco non existent and innocent victims mer and placed on board boat by an instrument for the further some of the contents laat Fall, Quite Shindig 50. 00 50. 00 Let us see if we cannot find at 100 were forced to accuse others the American vice consul, but was 20. 00 ance of the political line of the The Bearings on conormation of And from all reports, it was a Communist party.
20. 00 100 Chicago whom they did not even know. then seized by Stalinist agents least a hint at a solution from the 10. 00 50 E, Oakland The reports in the Sovietskaya and returned to fill. The Black care of Mos Brenda bilang puli bish class shindi upper cand. Though those informed abous Secretary of Commerce went of 20. 00 13. 50 Punta Gorda 00 New York ful to give no inkling of just tuted by a broad circle of anti sibly have to do with the question Now man can eat without the real situation in the labor course be used for the same pur1050. 00 movement have known for some pope.
593. 20 washing it down, can he? So time of the destructive bureauNewark what methods were used to ex Fascists, has been vigorously of the refugees? This: 100. 00 Every effort will be made to 55. 75 56 We don know the young lady, campaigning for his release. Continued on Page Continued on Page Continued on Page 4)
200. 00 use misuse of funds as a 108. 25 West Oakland pretext for justifying cuts in 20. 00 10. 00 50 Fresno. 00 those funds by the present con2. 50 STATEMENT OF THE SOCIALIST WORKERS PARTY, gress.
200, 00 101. 50 50 Lynn.
But the workers employed and 50. 00 22. 00 14 Hartford 00 unemployed must act to prevent 00 Quakertown 40 16. 00 Roosevelt, Garner Co. from 50 Plentywood 10. 00 putting over this cheap plece of 50 St. Paul 100. 00 34. 00 34 Worcester (wir 10. 00 Our Answer 00 Hitler Munich triumph has the door of its empire to the wide counter offensive against purely economic forms hemisphere. The good neighbor.
San Diego 10. 00 Wall Street, in reality aims to 00 impelled American imperialism to Yankee rival. Meanwhile Stalin, Germany and Japan. The United against controlled commerce, resWe ve got our answer to Cleveland 61. 00 its neighbors into the questions these Washington launch gigantic counter offen terrified, looks toward Roosevelt States delegation sought to con toration of complete liberty of transform Chicago 250, 00 72. 00 sive for the conquest of the world as a savior.
solidnte Yankee hegemony in commerce, lowering of tariffa, American controlled Manchukuos gentlemen raise about politics Youngstown 50. 00 11. 00 The slogans abandoned by Anglo Toward World Empire in the Latin Americk, to eradicate all loans, etc. In the Western Hemt and Czechoslovakias.
Fargo 25. 00 50 French Imperialism at Munich The United States takes over European influence, to expel Ger sphere, however, that counter of What Defense Means Yes, we say, take, out St. Louis 75. 00 16. 00 democratic anti fascist front, the front line in the battle against many and her allies from Latin fensive assumes definite politica Authoritative military circles do of polities. e, out of the hands Allentown 25. 00 00 common action against the ag Nazi and Japanese imperialism, America markets and, in short forms, ranging from collective not conceal what they understand of the New Deal politicians and Yellow Springs 00 00 gressor, collective security. declares open war against Ger to destroy all positions hitherto declarations against aggressors by defense of our hemisphere: the put it in the hands of the work.
South Bend 10. 00 50 have now become the weapons of man barter trade, places German conquered by rival imperialisms and proposals for defensive all military unification of the Amerers themselves!
Phila 50. 00 50 Wall Street. Under these slogans products on the black tist, incites As the United States comes to the ances to ever more precise plant icas under the direct control of And to this campaign to cut Minneapolis 500. 00 15. 00 Roosevelt called the Latin Amer: world public opinion against Ger front of the stage, the world con. for military strategy.
Washington. funds we must counter Akron, Ohio 75. 00 ican countries to Lima, and man barbarism and ostentatiously fict assumes a new form. Now it The War Department con pose our own program and make American imperialism aims at Austin, Minn.
25. 00 they inspired the Declaration of breaks the neutrality law in favor is not simply the old conflict be more than monopolizing the siders military control of Latin Congress heed 4t: ester, NY 25. 00 Lima of China. The United States bars twee the starved mperialisms, markets and the sources of raw America and the possession of its New Haven.
20. 00 first fruit garnered by the road to further conciliation Impelled to the offensive by their materials of the entire Western sources of raw materials as vital ALL WAR FUNDS TO THE Washington, 20. 00 0 American imperialism following between England and Germany. desperate condition, against the Hemisphere. It also aims at mak to the development of the defen UNEMPLOYED!
Baltimore, Ma.
10. 00 Munich is the capitulation or through the Anglo American ana satiated imperialists who benefiting the Americas, from Cape Horn sive and offensive power of the JOBS FOR ALL UNGardner, Mass.
10. 00 Great Britain to America trade American Canadian accords which ted from Versaille and are conto Patagonia, the physical, eco American war machine. Among Indianapolis, Ind.
10. 00 0 demands, The Munich crash ves cover nearly two thirds of world stantly on the defensive, having nomic and strategic base required materials which the United States EMPLOYED AT TRADE UNION Lexington, Ky.
10. 00 the United States what Hull byld commerce. obliging England to as their only aim the preservation for the coming decisive struggies must secure abroad, the War De WAGES!
Olivia, Minn.
10. 00 not obtain in three years of enn declare economic war against Ger of their booty. Now a new parti for the possession of the world. partment has classified twentyOPEN ALL IDLE FACTO Seattle, Wuh.
10. 00 cious striving: month fter many.
tion of the world is being pressed This is why Roosevelt bellicosely one as strategic and a few oth RIES! OPERATE THEM UNEvansville, Ind. 00 the evan ers as critical, that is, materials DER WORKERS CONTROL!
Munich the Anglo American comFirst Act at Lima most determinedly by the United proclaims, alongside Fitchburg, MASS 00 mercial accord is signed, and it Lame is the stage on which the States, gelical preaching of Hull, that the which are not sufficiently pro5. 00 Flexton, 0 is followed by the American Can American imperialists have play Elsewhere, Wall Street still de United States will defend, tooth duced at home provide for the JOB FOR EVERY WORKER Portland, Ore.
5, 00 adian accord: Great Britain opensed the first act of their world. velops its counter offensive, under and nail, all the countries (rat ed on Page 8) AT LIVING WAGE!
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