SOCIALIST APPEAL JANUARY 28, 1939 Intervention of Workers Needed To Save Auto Union PAINTERS REJECT APPEAL ARMY TEXTILE WORKERS BATTLING COURTS, COPS AND SCABS mit einer eine Nogotiating. com WIN CONCESSIONS JAMES TOUR CONTINUES Stalinists Move To Smash United Auto OMAHA STRIKERS WITH STRIKING SUCCESS STAND FIRM AS James rares and tour moting in Workers; Martin Made It Possible WEINSTOCK PLAN FLINT LEADS BRANCHES The Appeal Poster Shop is alAT WORK: Ways at your service for mass Now that we have started a production of posters, emblems, BOSSES WEAKEN lectures at Roxbury. Lynn and ON MAINTENANCE branch here with some active streamers, etc. Write to the (Continued from Page 1) about wasting the union money and reaction.
Harvard University, evoked the people besides ourselves, we can manager of the Appeal for full start selling the Appeal each information. Be sure to describe comment: Now we understand is the word drive. Martin charges by interminable Board meetings, Watch the Phoneys!
Above all, the workers must Strike Going Strong warisi befand the role of the See Blow to Union the Stalinist dominated Executive exorbitant expense accounts, and week. Will you please increase in detail what you want proBoard with squandering tens of Inefficient, useless organizers our bundle order from 10 Appeals duced.
not be misled by false messiahs.
After Nineteen British Empire.
thousands of dollars in a drive somebody friend. are actually already Walter Reuther is ruin Union Chief to 50 per week or as often as Speaking for the Barbados Unagainst the leadership as mored to be talking about some that produced little or no results. Chacale.
it wir be published? Also send ON BUNDLE ORDER Weeks ion in Boston, James reviewed Proposition us 100 more coples of this week PAYMENTS: The charge is true. The drive was kind of third group. But this the high points in the Negro How save the Union Appeal to sell at the James meetcharacterized mainly by the inBecause of the fact that some third group can only be His competence, ineptness and total The main question now is: Majesty Loyal Opposition, cresistible union meets an immov past 100 years. From beginning ed another smashing defeat for Flint, Michigan branch.
OMAHA, Nebr. When an irre struggle for liberation during the NEW YORK Last week mark ing. Genora. Johnson of the branches have permitted the camThis paign for the a Week Fund to lack of program.
what shall be done to save the But the Director of the Ford unlon which is being pushed both groups and gain new pros: boss group moves, or goes broke of the audience. Editors of the of District Council No. of the weeks, from this newly formed ments to the Appeal we ve run ated to divert resentment against able boss group, then either the to end, he held the rapt attention the Stalinist machine in control makes the second increase in two interfere with their regular pay drive was Martin chief henchThe plain sentiment of the ma edition of the peace group that That the way the cards lay on Boston Chronicle and the Bos Painters Brotherhood. By vote branch!
man, then Assistant President of into some difficulty these past the Richard Franken jority of the members is a Reuther founded in the last epithe table in the eple twentytwoek ton Guardian, who helped pro. of 2102 against 1489, the memberfew weeks. We are covering all meetings Ench branch now has its ateen.
growing disgust with the present sode of the faction Aght, and battle between the Omaha Gen mote the meeting, were in the ship voted down the proposal of the administration for the estab and forums now, though our to monthly financial statement in its Frankensteen, though appointed fight. Everywhere you hear the which soon disappeared into the eral Drivers Union 554 (irrests audience.
lishment of a maintenance de al sale in this method so far hands. We must have prompt to this post by Martin, after the expression a pingue on both their stalinist caucus.
ible. and the Omaha Business Men Association.
Reports of James meetings partment at lower scales of pay has only increased alightly. We response to this! Don permit August, 1937 Milwaukee conven houses. It would be fatal if this There is little time left, but tion, and romaining director for sentiment crystallized, as it well there is time enough to save expect to sell more tonight. As yourself to fall behind on those Union Stands Solid have also come to the Socialist and with no limit to hours.
Appeal from Youngstown, Ohio, Following the the is is our first attempt in this regular payments. On the con over six months, fell out with may, into simple anti unioniam.
Nebraska labor bating the union. Bold aggressive acboss Martin and was gobbled up by the rank and file has its own tradition received tlon, based on a fighting proWe and Rochester, New York. The Stalinist sponsored tax several direction, we feel we are doing trary, every branch should aim hammer blow the Stalinist caucus. Opportuni. fight to fight. And that fight is gram and an independent ten on January 19th when Omnha correspondents in both cases ro months ago, this action indicates well. Gandelman, literature at starting off the o Week paper tles for the organization of the against the corporations.
port successes previously unex thut the Weinstock machine ts director of New Haven.
was treated to the spectacle of perienced in their cities. Invari definitely dency is the only hope for the on a clean footing, with nothing the downgrade an entire unlon, meeting in sesably, they, add the hope that owing Ford workers were simply squan The tens of thousands of iem: salvation of the United Autoto the Appeal Organization of the unorgan We are having a neighborhood dered.
mobile Workers.
sion with the Area Negotiating James will again lecture for them. ixed is an objective that every sale this week which is the Conspiracy with Ford permanent layoff are not interestCommittee after nineteen weeks Now the Board turns around ed in fighting to preserve the job of every kind of strike breaking progressive naturally favors. But son for the large bundle. corde: SUBSCRIPTION DRIVE FOR the Stalinist plan called for ns Hope to be able to send you the Next week we shall publish and hurls at Martin the accusa of this or that Board member.
tactica Nebraska, known to much as a 48 hour week and as results in a few days (cash) Quota lists, prizes, etoon the tion of conspiracy with the Ford They want to fight to return to Metor Co, through its agents, their jobs with General Motors, its original demands without a against the 35 hour week at 52. to pay off some of the back liter that opens up on February 1st.
1, 000 new subscirbers campaign Harry Bennett and John Gilles Chrysler, Ford, or other parts dissenting vote 50 called for by the present con ature bills. Carl Hartman, litple. The entire course of the plants tract. Undoubtedly, in order or erature agent of Philadelphia Has your branch prepared for negotiations between Martin and The 20, 000 workers in mitted for rent HouF and ten min. Hits Fake cessions et de ganize unorganized painters, conthis campaign by following the Bennett is still obscure, for they Detroit facing dismissal and starinstructions Iald out in Appeal make organization TIME TO SEND IN EXTRA have been conducted behind a vation are interested in a differutes with the militant strikers to Army Bulletin No. 2? It a cinch possible and a special organiza ORDERS: brick wall of secrecy.
ent kind of fight than the one beUnion at Peabody get acceptance of a concession on (Continued from Page 1)
tion structure would have to be Then Ford company union, tween the Board and Martin. peddling time to Kansas, which The 8 Week Fund Drive will that in 60 days we can get 1, 000 established. But the Stalinists close officially in another week.
new readers to the Bleachery the Liberty Legion, is dissolved at They want action against the that time, In jockeying to make will aid in the organization of Appeal: plan would have brought results Then the time will be at hand came in last week. From all the Here the list of subs that the hottest point of the faction companies, not fratricidal war their position look plausible, the drivers unions in the South west.
Right, giving the unavoidable im ware between union men.
disastrous for the already organ for actually launching the sem, dications, this coming week is skates have dissolved Local 51, Majority of Bosses Sign Up (Special to Socialist Appeal) ized painters. What attraction weekly Appeal with its host of pression Asalduously fostered by Revolt Against and presented Local 38 as the At the present time, the non PEABODY, Mass. Local 74, af would untonization then have for new and fascinating features. Incidently. Sol Thomas of Philsgoing to be a good one too. Inthe Stalinista that Henry Ford The revolt nginst the Stalinist contestant in court.
union boss operators must face filiated with the Textile Workers the was consciously throwing his clique is already appearing and unorganized maintenance other words, it high time for delphia has been doing Ane work Militant Struggle the fact that they no longer rep Organizing Committee, last men?
the branches to send in their in Op his own hook by going out weight behind Martin forces gathering strength and scope. The In this battle Detroit is witness resent a majority of their own weck scored a decisive victory at Ignored Unlon Needs creased bundle orders! Many have and getting a few batches of in the union struggle. Bennett uprising against Stalinist leader. Ing a demonstration of labor mill industry. The truth is that with the Danvers Bleachery, employ Weinstock and his cliquo, op done so already.
position leaders contended, were the Liberty Legion attorney Cul ship in the Plymouth local, for: tancy reminiscent of the great in the Omaha region, trucking ing 1, 000 workers.
After a three day strike, which interested mainly in getting a should have made full preparaBy now each and every branch subs during the past fow week NEW YORK CITY. 11 ver: It was not he (Culver) who leadership, significant straw of the breweries, which include cent of the over the rond motor began as a protest against the new base for thelr rule or ruin tions for distribution. We are Massachusetts.
suggested dissolving the Legion in the wind. Unfortunately, much Stroh, Pfeiffer, Tivoll, Schmidt, freight Industry have signed up discriminatory discharge of 35 polley by an influx of new mem printing Karl Shler excellent St. Paul.
hut Martin Stalinists For Ford Deal of this opposition has been misdi. Detrolt and Ekhardt Becker, and are now operating in Omaha! militants in violation of bers into the union. To obtain and valuable article this week Maplewood, Mo.
Chicago Yet only a few days earlier, on baiters. Pat McCartney, a witness running their trucks, Few If any obstinate boss hold outs now which succeeded in closing down this maintenance scheme without how to organize a professional Texas January 19, with the stink not before the Dles Committee again of the trucks get through the forced to understand the rideu the plant, the company was any regard as to how it would salesmen squad.
California bad, the Stalinised Roard had out at the Reds, seized the helm of picket lines without falling on lousness of any further claims to forced to meet the demands of affect union conditions. As a mat In New York City the building quite so strong, but still pretty Illinois ter of fact, the present agreement of a loonl circulation department, Cleveland ita hoal of approval on Martin this insurgent movement a Ply their backs, dropping door of represent the interests of truck the union their hinges, a window going to ing in Omaha.
Working with field of the union, establishing the 35 under the complete charge of Abe North Dakota negotiations with the Ford Motor The Martin caucus is allowing pieces, or a scab acquiring an ed Inspires Labor Movement organizers, mass pleket line hour week and the 10. 50 day aft Miller who intends to make it Nebraska.
Co. What they are really com red baiting to be used as one of ucation in unionism. Cruising cars plaining about is not the charac its weapons. Its program talks enlighten those who manage to would be difficult to overestimate. Shore Industrial Council, dele clause to the offect that: The significance of this strike was organized by the Norther years of struggle. Includes a full time job shortly, and the Pennsylvania recruiting of people to serve as ter and content of the negotia about American Unionism. It is run the gauntlet of pickets. It opens up another inland em gate body of 14 local un No more favorable condi salesmen is proceeding rapidly.
Total Lions but the person who is doing against communism and all oththe negotiating.
One such truck, protected by pire to the entering wedge of ions. The alertness and solidarity tlong shall be granted to other party mobilization for men sales Then comes the charge that er isms. In yielding to this hys police scout cars, was followed by militant union organization. That of the line smashed a back to employers than are provided for on the streets could, however, be IMPORTANT REMINDERS: Martin worked in collusionely the wrecking activities of ingbeer deliveries. The acab would unions throughout the entire nand (Bosses stooge) Levesque httpris, it is not fighting progres, union cruising cars on its tour of this significance is realized by work movement headed by Ferdi in this trade agreement. lot more successful.
By establishing a maintenance (1) Order your Appeal newsboy représentatives of the emp!
aprons now. We promise that. concealing the negotiation Communist party, but follow enter store or a beer garden to eleven state area is proved by the leader of a company union which department with agreements SECOND NEWSSTAND ing in the footsteps of Bilj Green make a delivery, followed by the cash on the line contributions as had been bucking bone fide union calling for lower conditions of POSTER NOW OUT: you ll like them they re comfortto the great detriment of the and John Frey.
able, keep both hands free, premembership.
The bureaucratic rule or ruin lon men would remonstrate loud besieged strikers which are pour cops and the unton men. The un well as fraternal greetings to theism in the plant for some time. work, the Stalinist Weinstock ad This week we are mailing out vent your clothes from getting Majority Signs Up ministration of the union would to branches the second in our dirty and damn attractive, too Stalinist Democracy policies of the Stalinists are dily with the proprietor not to deal ing In.
Before the strike, Albert have left the door open for im series of posters for newestands (2) Bound volumes 1937 and What hypocrisy it is for the Ex. rectly responsible for this red with the seab. The proprietor ecutive Board to be the accuser! Care and the support it is get would refuse to take the beer. atmosphere of resurgent hope. Tanguay. President and Business medinte reductions in wages and This poster, produced by the Ap 1938. Both now ready for ImmeLocally, a covert but growing Det mot Beard and Sortimer signing up to now the workers have the scab would get back in his now permeates the entire lloguer 200 workers, despite Levesque and charge of a violation of contract. rades Abe Marcus and 10 sions on tales of three (3) volAgent of Local 74, had signed up Painters Association, increases in hours by the Master peal Poster Shop which is under diate shipment. Don forget Didupplementary Agreement with mistakenly identified the yollow truck, the cops in their scout cars, movement of this bosse platen his followers. At the concluston Opposition leaders, organized into read out bete means and knockout: umea or more General Motors the Spring of Contkenlist party with radicalism and the union men following spot of the Middle Westwn. Mer of the strike. Tanguay announced the Inter Local Conference of Knowing how tempted many com 1937 without consulting the and militant unionism. The result closely behind. This happened sev. who have been beaten down for workers. 3) Send in payments on your Did not the entire Executive discredited the name of radical UP AS bad job. No hits, no runs, smashing not exceeded anywhere Blenchery workers had signed against this danger. Instead of their wall at home we hasten to Is that the Communist party has eral times until the link save it years by tradition of strike that a solid majority of the Progressive Groups, warned cades will be to hang it up on Appeal account NOW. 4) The 8 Week paper te al Board, every last man, sign the 1sm in the eyes of thousands. It no errors, in this country, now look with cards.
letter to General Motors giving has conducted its own red scares Police have been usually vt. hopeful eye maithe amazing upon The bosses were forced to sign explaining to the membership advise them that it intended for most here. Increase your branch how they would get around this newsstands only!
the corporation power to discip. and is still carrying them on cious, swinging their nightsticks pact of the militant drivers upon the following memorandum clause, the Stalinists merely rebundle order also NOW.
branding every worker who dis: freely and making dozens of ar this Impregnable seab center of Immediate re employment plled with slanders.
And didn they unanimously agrees with them a Trotskyist rests. Police Superintendent Nebraska.
of 35 men who had been fired.
Concealed from Members send it to a second time aftor Cascist or both. Restoration of all seniority Evidence is accumulating to Frahm, who put the cops on 12er it had been unanimously reTo make matters worse, Weinrights; The solutions offered by the hour emergency duty for the show that even the big banks of stock concealed from the momjected by conference of contending factions will lead only duration of the strike, made the financial losses which are eatOmaha are getting fittery about Recognition of bership the fact that the Painters workers?
Local 74 sole bargaining Association had warned the unR. Thomas first statement calling of two conventions must telling the police not to take side ng into the credit of their inagent until labor board olecIon by letter that they would tions.
By KARL SHIER reserve the right to employ Chicago organization in adjusting dy was not that they were going not put the touch of finality on but merely to assist the brewer vestors, Strike Paper Hits Hard Crucial Period Ahead members of the Brotherhood on Chicago Literature Agent themselves to efficiently distribto fight the corporations for bot the presentspilt. It would carry tes in moving their material.
Executive Despite the disheartening expe the same basis as provided in One of the hard hitting InstruThe Chiengo section of the Soute the semi weekly are: ter conditions, but that their pol Board into the locals and then Mayor, Governor Bluster ments in the loss of good will to Fiences of the Bleachery workers the maintenance plan, and cialist Workers Party, and the First, the organization must icy will be that of responsible into the plants. Then the corpo Despite the viciousness of the the hostile banks as well as the when Gorman headed an when District Council ap Young People Socialist League tablish a group of activists who union organization. Martin makes rations will clean up on both coppers, the militancy and effe bosses, is the strike paper.
The union in this area, the unity of proves this plan.
halls with revolutionary enthusi will be known as the Appeal thos statements every and sides tiveness of the tie up has this weekly strike extra has gone action in this strike provides a Three meetings of the Council asm the twice weekly Socialist Minute Men. Their tasks will be twice on Sunday, Martin accuses the Board of In antoiene union is to be saved wits end. Even Mayor Reading three che da 50, 000 distribution: a new fighting textile unton.
The rank and file must act at open shop city officialdom at its through five weekly issues to the fertile ground for reconstructing were held after receipt of this Appeal to come to the center when the letter on January 10. Not once The practical tasks of distrib Appeal arrives cover the ting dictatorship. The from the wreckers and the who blusters his dislike of unlons sells itself at a nickle a copy in Board answers with the charge wreckage. While preparing its and strikes, was forced to back the immediate locality.
Local 74 faces a crucial period atd Weinstock or the other Stal uting the semi weekly Appeal in newsstands in the loop, West, of activity. It must deliver a Intat stooges breathe word Chicago will be taken up at South and North sides of the that Martin deprivea locul unions forces for the Detroit convention down in the publle pross, from At the annual election of the crushing defeat to Levesque out about this impending threat to special foint mem city to cover the Garment Center of thele autonomy.
The eritire Bourd with probably gathering in Cleveland, it must few days ago and rejecting the Stalinist stooge some wild eyed threats he made a Omaha Central Labor Union held at in the labor board elections. unton conditions. They went bership meeting in January Some of the tanks before the be ready on day notice for one exception voted for Martin act independently, and not as a The threat of a general strike of the Drivers Local 564 execu ing the restoration of a 10 wage ing for the maintenance plan covering big meetings, forums, local union newspapers about Af constitute itself as an indepen ing down from Lansing. His in Executive Committee unproposal to ban pable autonomous mere servant of Martin. it must sent Governor Fitzgerald scurry tive board was elected to the cut. sentority, and other demands with a cold blooded disregard of ANNOUNCEMENTS trade union mass meetings, etc.
The Appeal Minute Men will Even months ago. Martin former dent force that favors one con troduction to Detroit untonists der the post of Sergeant at arms. extensive educational program and file which elected them.
NEW YORK be an honorary society, only read colleagues, Ploper, Madden, et al. vention one union. It must was backed by the threat of Or The LU. is unequivocably on for the Bleachery workers, Local. Only after opposition leaders of the Board market were per te stene does the interes programe in De Mess, Chairman of the record in support of the militant will become strongly en hund fereted out the contents of FOR SOME. RARE entertain ticipate. The Minutes Here on the State Liquor Commission to re drivers.
trenched unit of the the Flint, Pontiac and other workers, employed and unemTINE PARTY, Sunday, Febru megt every two weeks to discuss voke special licenses required by Win Last Until Won to admit receiving it.
ary 12, Irving Plaza, Irving Pl. Ways and means for Inerendam locals ployed, against the corporations. Inw for beer drivers. De Mass Almost for the first week since Membership Acts There are the main polnts of Only such a movement can bring threatened: Behave or you will the strike began on September 9, and 15th St. An all amateur the circulation in Chicago.
The Indignation of the memberprogram, with FELIX MORcontroversy. The other charges, order and militancy out of chaos never again drive a beer truck in there were no arresta this week.
ship was expressed in the vote on ROW as a Singing Waiter, and The branches and units will the state.
the referendum. Eight out of the other features. If you have any have the following tasks: coverPractically every momber of the This blustering and threatening unlon has been arrested or threateleven locals affiliated with the in touch with your branch 10 ing the neighborhood with street etc. and cial committee representative. sales, trade unions, is being met by cool headed preened with arrest since September.
councit voted down the plan outright.
Subscription 49e. Get your tick chocking the sub list for explred NEW YORK Fifteen young bers leat people hear in open parations on the part of the team. To quote Farrell Dobbs in the 2102 out of 3591 painters voted Bring All Your Friends. Aus. The sub drive in Chicago will unemployed workers were con court that the unemployed were sters union for any eventuality. speech which gave the facts of Laughlin, Chairman of the the strike to the Central Labor against the Stalinist mainten plees: Local New York.
ance plan, nearly two thirds of begin February 10th. The camvicted of disorderly conduct this falled for asking for relief.
Michigan Teamsters Council, fol Union of Omaha, the strikers Old Fashioned Housewarming Several weeks ago Lubin, Ben lowing the painters voting! Such de VISIT THE NEW proletarian with the lectures of week in Brooklyn Magistrates paign will get off to a hend start meeting of teamsters almost met themselves coming Court because they demanded Herman and Enrico Torlone stewards, announced a general back into Jall while they were on Appeal feat must be well deserved. Now, three of those convicted of disor strike if the issue was not set their way out.
it is up to the progressives to East Side Swing music over James in Chicago. Every mass that Willy Lubin, a starving and derly conduct, were convicted oftled rapidly. of engineers This is the status of the Omaha cinch up on the obvious rebellion our sound system! Puppet meeting in Chicago will be given homeless youth, be allowed to ask assault charges resulting from the in breweries are discussing plans strike on the eve of a new sesof the membership with a clear show! Food! Games! Square over to a short speech about the for home relief. Bentence will be same incident. They have been to walk If a general strike is alon of negotiations between the See Mel cut, militant and positive program 1939, at 8:30 PM Admission Appeal and a plea for subscrip set on Feb.
sentenced to three years in pris called. Waiters, waitresses and Omaha bosses and the Area Ne WORKERS PAPER of action, that will turn the paint 20. Lower East Side Branch, tions.
All Afteen were arrested last on, and are now out on parole.
Our comrades will be constantbartenders will refuse to serve gotiating Committee. Whether ers disgust with the Stalinists inPHILADELPHIA to trust in their own future.
the scab beer. The teamsters un the victory comes this week, or September when an unemployed ly reminded that the revolutionary unlon delegation went into the HONOR THEIR lon has also appealed for support after nineteen more, this tradiLENIN, LIEBKNECHT, Luxem preas lives on its bundle order, Williamsburg home relief bureau to members, whom they tion smashing strike of Omaha SPANISH FIESTA burg Memorial Meeting. Fri and on its subscriptions. If the gives with Labin and asked that the at Brith national subscription driv MEMORY! have rendered valuable assistance Drivers Union 554 will go on Spanish Folk Songs bureau officials llaten to Labin in the past.
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