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Friday, March 24, 1989 SOCIALIST APPEAL LEFT JABS Masses Into a New World Slaughter Roosevelt Uses European Crisis to re counOn the Line IN THE WORLD OF LABOR By Paul Stevens New Recruits for Social culminates in war preparations under a dictatorial Daladier regime, the anti political syndiBelieve It Or Not Patriotism in France calists, headed by Delmas, Belin and Co. can be The credential below, which we said to have done their shares for the union clipped from Pustio, wis handed Hitler latest surprise, wallowing nearly all that there was left of what was once Czecho sacree equally well with the social democrats (Continued from Page 1) amendment which would have propaganda already dripping in neuvering for position. Events to an International Ladies Garslovakia, appears to have finally shattered the and the Stalinists yond mere economic penetration slimly safeguarded workers union thick blobs from the entire press, are beginning to move far more ment Workers Union organizer tender hopes of an understanding with him in As always in the past, the only consistent and and gobbles up territory under rights and the well known indus from the Tory Herald Tribune to swiftly than the numbing minds when he asked for a permit to French and British ruling circles. In France, reliable opponent of the social patriotic wave the marching feet and trunaring trial mobilization plans which will the stalinist Daily Worker. The or the capitalist diplomat, a The give out leaflets in Waltham, Daladier is pushing through the Chamber of in present day France are the political revoluwheels of his swollen army.
Deputies decrees giving him full dictatorial tionists, those whose policies are based on Marxism. Any hope of resisting the war plans Moreover they understand per jacket in time of war are also bosses, fighting like wolves over slaughter of the nations is almost their minds made up and changed powers for eight months in anticipation of the fectly well that Hitler castward ample proof that democratic the prey, the rich produce of the upon us. United action by the in the same way, 23 Beal, but fow inevitable clash with the Rome Berlin axis. in France rests with the the French march does not release them from America too will convert itself workers and the profits they make workers of world will trans are frank or dumb enough to my so.
While the social democrats under Blum and Fourth Internationalists) and with the leftward fear of incursions upon their own into a Fascist dictatorship during out of them.
form that war of the bosses into To whom it may concern: development of the centrist Socialist the Staliniats under Thorez grumble against empires, Italy is hungrily and the coming war.
The Soviet Position war for the emancipation of Mr. James Gallagher, at Workers and Peasants Party) which contains this step and call for the union scree or naimpatiently awaiting its turn and Democratie Allies Britain and France are also all mankind by overthrowing the 11:10 on Thursday, Februmany excellent Marxist militants.
tional coalition cabinet, there is very little Hitler has never renounced his likelihood that they will go beyond that. They turning now, in the present crisis, system that breeds wars capital ary 23, 1939, has made applicademand for overseas colonies that And if any more proof were to the Soviet Union which they ism. But for the historic treach tion for a permit to pass out have prepared their following for just such Paul Faure and His could only be provided at the ex needed, we remind workers of the were ready only yesterday to cry of the Second and Third In hand bills at what shall call fact that poor little Rumania hand over to Hiller for renewal ternationals during the past two the Mill Gate on Moody Street.
pense of the Western powers.
moves as Daladier is now making The latter, taking a leaf out of Hitler book, New Newspaper That is why under the hammer and poor Hetle Poland the next of the long discarded collective se decades, such action would have knows that if you can get your opponents to Just a step ahead of the anti political paciaccept a partial defeat without serious resist fists in this treacherous game is the pacifist and the new moves in immediate nothing but bloody dictatorships curity pacts. To these overtures long since taken place. Now, in Boston Maid Company. de cline to lasue the permit for ance, you can get them used to accepting great. minority of the French Section of the preparation Britain and France in which workers rights were Stalin, as explained elsewhere in these darkest of hours, that githe best interests of the City of er defents without any resistance at all. Blum, Second International. led by Paul Faure who are attempting to stiffen up sur long ago crushed under the heel these columns, is giving a cyni gantic task falls to the Fourth recently broke with Blum after a life long col. Relently Waltham. have suggested to Thorex and the trade union leader Jouhaux challenge the threat of totalitarian governments. These cally cautious response, waiting International, which will night to laboration.
have played right into the hands of this hat Mr. Gallagher that he might of German imperialist expansion. are the lies to whom the de, his publle bid for a bloc against the war makers and on the smok confer with the Secretary of the chetman French imperialism from the very Mr. Paul Faure enthusiasm for appeaseVestern powers.
ing ruins of capitalism ect the Chamber of Commerce and first days of the Popular Front. They will ment la Daladier has led him to launch the In France the first move was for encirclement of Fascist Ger the In any case, we are witnessing new world order, the only order thereby possibly have me change support him with or without the official union publication of a newspaper called Le Revell the conversion of the Daladter many.
one of the final it not the final of world peace, the order of world my mind sacree.
du Peuple (The Awakening of the People) co government only six months ago Let no one be fooled by the period of desperate pre war ma socialism, Social reformism, Stalinism and the trade un jointly with. one Rene Brunet, an associate the fountain head of the People Very truly yours. signed) Henry Beal ion bureaucracy have long been lined up for of the eign Miccionary George Bonnet, present For Front into an open dictatorship.
national defense, and their support of French Daladier demanded and received, City Engineer and Director.
imperialism has been virtually guaranteed. Now Where is the money for the enterprise comby overwhelming votes of the new recruits have come over to the side of so ing from? The cry is raised in the French revo Chamber of Deputies and the SenThe LaGuardias of Prague cial patriotism from unexpected quarters. They lutionary press. The answer is obvious.
ate, full powers, unlimited and The government officials, the are the leaders of the purely syndicalist tendundefined, to govern by decree uneney in the French trade union movement who Another Blow at til next November, bold Morrises of Prague, called on go under the name of Amis de Syndicats or Daladier made it plain that he (Continued from Page 1) ported the Times correnament program already voted the people to submit quietly to Friends of the Unions. Their chief stock in Our French Comrades intended to rule with an iron was seeking achieve by its lat spondent in Berlin. Neither had or about to be voted by Congress. Hitler, to make no demonstration trade throughout their existence has been: Lay In addition to the persecutions directed by Present Arms Costa hand, to slash down the living est moves.
any doubt that the new duties against him and to lay down their off politics! Under this banner, they had atDaladier against our comradea Suzanne Charpy standards of the workers, to in. No obstacles were placed in were prohibitive and virtually Not even the administration arms.
tacked the social democrats and the Stalinists, and Loret, reported here last week, a new court crease hours, to speed up armaRoosevelt way by the Repub shut Germany out of her normal pretends to be able to estimate as well as Jouhaux, from the left. During the sentence has hit one of the leaders the Revo ments, to make France an armed lican and anti New Deal Demoly biggest overseas market. the exact cost of the measures The Cops crisis last September, they were naturally That, far from putting a halt which are receiving Congressionlutionary Socialist Youth (Fourth Internation camp under a dictatorship that erats.
against the war mongering of the Stalinists.
The Prague La Guardias sent will permit no breath of freedom Republican Spokesman Approvesures taken by Roosevelt would in amount to at least four billion down their facea) to help Hitler to Germany, the punitive meas al authorization, but it will their cops (with tears streaming al. comrade Steve. Steve has been sentenced to Since then, their fight against working class six months imprisonment for a placard which that interferes with the grave Ohio, generally regarded as an crease the mad desperation of dollars during the next two fiscal Storm Troopers arrest anti fascists Senator Robert Taft of participation in polities has taken them on appeared on the walls of Paris entitled This eventualities the war. of strange paths and into the camp of ChamberWar Is Not Our War.
which Daladier openly spoke important possibility for the Re the Nazi government, and Jews.
Inin Daladler appeasement.
At a recent banquet one of the syndicalist Nothing could more plainly publican presidential nomination cated also by the Times corre These sums are primarily alHeavy Prison Sentences than this show how false ind in 1940. Speaking on Saturday at spondent, who reported that po located to expansion of the na The Czech Civil Liberties Union leaders, the general secretary of the Teachers inad and for Algerian Fighters Union, Delmas went so far as to say: The of Prague. there that tries to befuddle the workers directly answering the question dict that Germany would imme. Volve types of equipment If, for once, capitalism serves to stop a war, Among the preparations of the French im into thinking that the coming whether he approved the admin diately retallate by stopping her quired to be on hand before war must be one no doubt demanded it will make up in part for the evila it has war is war of democracy istration denunciation of Ger purchases from the United States breaks out, while the equipping free speech for Hitler and the perialists for their fight against the Fascist caused. Then he added: Huge armaments may powers be a savage attack against the political against the Fascist dictatorships many, declared that he certain and possibly by even more drastic of a gigantic army requires safeguarding of all his democratic measures in line with her post merely the existing economic Fights, well be the price of peace.
organizations of the oppressed in the colonies.
ly, approved.
The Democracles The speech caused a sensation in France.
capacity of the nation factories The latest to come under their blows are the France, even before the actual The requisite atmosphere for tion as a world power.
militants of the Algerian Popular Party. Twen outbreak of war, is already swiftly of neutrality legislation jamming through the abrogation Welles Opens Fire Shortly after a manifesto issued by the group plus the ro tooling and re training General Syrovy ty three leaders of the party recently faced a was The opening gun in the series of personnel which will be proincorporating the same line appeared in the The one eyed democratie peoPeut Provencal, an organ of the reactionary mass trial and were given sentences averaging rán Yato where the worker who sought by the dramatic step of American moves was the vided by army educational or ples leader of Czechia showed that Fernand Boulason who is allied with the pro one year imprisonment cach. Prominent among tries to oppose this own interests taken Saturday, March 18, of statement issued March 17 by diers and manufacture of muni he was true to type and welcomed Fascist group of former Premier Flandin. The them was Ben Dahmane Amar, who was ar Hitler with a hearty handshake.
to those of the capitalists will be applying new tarkir duties Acting Secretary of State Sumtions for England and France.
paper commented enthusiastically on the mani rested in Paris last September and deported to as ruthlessly crushed as he is in garded as prohibitive against, mer Welles, with the approval Eventual Arms Costs Algiers.
German goods.
festo. Now, when the appeasement polley of President Roosevelt, declaring Hitlerlte Germany.
Tens of blllions will be spent Haven!
In England it has already been sanctions against the German re and of arbitrary force are threat begin on the immediate eve of what they announce the Jewish This application of economie that acts of wanton lawlesaness on the army, but these costs wm Universal News Reel shows publicly announced that gime far exceeded in scope and ening world peace and refusing war. Every million dollara now people driven from Europe find with Bill Morgan try win be broken up in time of absolute rule of local dictators and expressed once more, as did Moravia as anything but tem companies for preparing for masa them landing in Shanghal!
War into twelve regions under the and England during this crisis, into the Reich of Bohemia and mainly used by the contracting haven of refuge.
and then shows appointed by the government. the Lima Conference, the fact porary extinguishment.
John was an Italian worker who came to came to an Italian neighborhood. There they Compulsory military service is that America has taken the leadAnderlca looking for a job. He was a stone cutter found a man who bought their wedding ring for Welles statement was, howevery million thus expended now. Did Browder Send Greetings?
likewise on the immediate order and a good one. He could not speak English half the original price. John almost cried but of the day in News Item: Leut. Jose Miaga, offensive ever merely a stop gap for pubblilion will have to be expended against the Berlin Rome Tokyo le consumption until receipt af. leter on the actual war materials. son of the Council head, who was and had little time to learn because there were did not because his wife would see him and the Britain.
children would see him and then everybody bloc.
fodr small children and a wife to feed. And terward of a German note offici. The Administration is thus pavo released March 10, by the Nation In this country the blotting out would cry, too. He just left them in a doorway. of the Barkley amendment from Nazis React Sharply when the employment agent sent him to a Ver ally informing this government ing the way for the most gigantic aliats, arrived in Madrid in time mont quarry to work, he borrowed some money while he looked for a room where they could the air corps expansion bd. the new duties came as a stunning the way for a formal protest di has ever seen.
Washington imposition of the of the occupation. This opened and expensive war that mankind to celebrate his saints day with from friends and took the family along. new sleep.
This father.
life had begun for John and he was happy. The next day John found a job. Not much of blow to German official and, par rectly to Germany. It was exIt was hard work and no time for play or job for a man who had been a stone cutter, study. Up early to work and home late and to but it would do until he found a better one. He would rival the punitive duties in its sensational character 88 a bect. The boss was always nearby, and it was was a dishwasher in a small, dirty lunch room hurry, hurry, hurry every minute of the long where do dnylight ever came tnto the kitchen.
move against Germany.
day. John did not complain or ask questions. No At night he would wrap scraps of food in a Roosevelt Seeks Al Power matter how weary his arms or sore his back, newspaper and thke them home to his waiting The Roosevelt Administration John heart sang with joy because the job family. On Saturday the bose pala him six dolutilized these moves not only to That the Negrin cabinet had no Negrin and Del Vayo, flew to lars for a week work. Special to the Socialist Appeal)
metint that the bambinoes and the mother had break down any tendency by intention of prolonging the war central Spain after the coupee of a roof over their heads and spaghetti on the On Sunday John met some men who told him (Continued from Page 1)
NEW ORLEANS. Ameri. Congress to seek a voice in deter. lagainst Franco, and that the Com. Catalonia, not to prolong the war.
that elections were near and that the districtedly committed various crimes. stove.
canism Week was celebrated mining foreign policy.
munist Party of Spain ordered its but to organize resistance with here the first week of March And it meant also that his oldest son, Joseph, leader could use a man to distribute circulars said Suner. These crimes, he Even the big Democratic ma members not to oppose the Miaja the sole purpose of extorting the could go to school and grow up to be a smart in mail boxes and under doors. The job paid said, must be taken into consider by the Communist Party, Lou in Congress, and the ap Casado Junta which ousted Ne best possible terms from Franco.
fellow like the boss. Maybe he would be a doc two dollara a day. So John applied and then ation when one speaks of generproval isiana section.
Postcards sent out read ver.
tor or a lawyer who knows, maybe President? spent his time walking endless miles of dark osity.
Republican leaders, docs not re issues of the Appeal are corrob place, the Staliniat prona talde stairways and long streets. It was better than batim: assure Roosevelt, for he knows Crated by Louls Fischer, the well Spain was deluding its readers Franco was preparing for an Why Must People Be Hungry. Washing dishes. After the elections were over, offensive if the junta did not May we remind you that that when the present hysteria known unofficial Stalinist jour with stories that Negein was de Four years went by and John worked harder John was out of a job again.
Shortly surrender unconditionally, this is Americanism Week. wears off, the powerful anti war nalist, in a cable to The Nation, termined to fight to the end, and each year. He had not saved any money, but It went on like this for two years. Little jobs In his radioed appeal to Franco. The Communist Party of sentiment of the masses will March 18.
that Azans was in full agreement who saves money when times are good? Besides and little pay. People said there was a depres. Bestelro had addressed the faseLouisiana declares its steadfast again create pressure on Con On Negrin policy, Fischer says: with him. In the midst of Negrin so many little bills to pay each week, sion. John health began to play tricks on him. Lats as the Nationalist Governloyalty to our Nation demo gress, the body of the govern When Barcelona fell, the Loy appeals to the British and French each month. One must pay rent. One dannot He often was unable to get out of bed because ment. cratio institutions, pledging ment which most directly re alista realized that the war was governments for mediation, the aloep in the fields especially when little Elsie ead felt dizzy and his heart made queer The moment has come when urselves in word and deed to sponds to public opinion.
had the cough that didn go away. And thumpe. Elsle cough became so bad she kept the National Defenso Junta must fight any ism of any clique, What Roosevelt wants Con ruary Negrin enunclated to the its trusting Communist party family must eat. In winter every one must have the whole family awake at night. Joseph quit carry out its mission, and in con groups or minority from with gress to do is summarized by Ar Cortes three conditions for the members that nothing of the sort coal to beat the house. Growing boys wear school and tried to earn some money shining sequence it addresses your govin our country or from abroad thur Krock, Washington corre cessation of hostilities national was taking place!
clothes to shreds overnight. Doctors must get shoes in Tompkins Square Park. The mother ernment to inform it that we are that would destroy or under spondent of the Times, on March independence, a regime with pop Orders Not to Beast paid or they, too, get hungry.
cried to herself. There was a depression.
19: mine our democratic institudisposed to undertake negotiations ular support, and the promise of Before they left Spain, says One day there was no work at all. The boss So Nobody Would See His Shame tions of government.
which will assure us an honorable cathe out and told the men to go home until he The administration wants no reprisala; but within a week Fischer, Communist leaders Congress in this perilous time the British and French governOne day neighbor told John to go to the Tune in on Pauperism is peace. We await your decision.
sent for them. John waited for the others to gave orders not to oppose Coto abandon its effort to legisments were informed that the reUnamerican Station WDSU.
Barcelo Was Communist Home Relief Bureau. There they will help you leave and then he went up to the boss. work sado with arms. know defuiteLieutenant Colonel Barcelo was Friday, March 3rd, 8:30 late forelgn policy and put its public was ready to reduce these ly that the Communist pilots very much, do not nak questions. need the if you say the right words and tell everything.
Hear Mr. Jerome Benton, Sec. trust in the Executive. It wants to one clemency.
were told by their chief not to job very much. ll take lese pay if you keep me But John didn want charity, he said, and re done to death less than two days after an Emeret by the fused to ask for something for nothing. He was discretion for him to enforce a retary of the Communist Party on the job. Please? The boss just walked away.
Tribunal move against Casado.
unilateral policy of ald extendA stone cutter and he wanted only a chance to secret courts of Louisiana.
This confirms our contention He didn even answer John.
ing to arms, ammunition and It was a long winter. John thought every day earn his money. But four children and a wife Negrin government. had found implements of war. It proposes that the Stalinist Jeaders stready.
the boss would send for him. Sometimes be must eat. So in the end he went to the re him guilty of complicity in the peace moves.
that the President shall have a in agreement with Negrin for a lief station. There he stood in line all morning.
walked to the great quarry where he used to Worker on Monday, nor did it Press reports on March 15 quotspeedy peace, were ready to subwork and looked at all the stone waiting to be In the afternoon a man called his name and be revolt again member of the com organ in Valencia, as asserting power of decision, supported by ed La Verdad, Communist party all the resources of this nation, ordinate themselves to the Casado cut into big blocks for building, houses and gan to ask many questions. John tried to underwhich will enable him effectiveMlaja Junta stand. He tried to remember where his father munist Party of Spain, bridges and statues. Sometimes he thought, that the Communist party also ly to throw our whole weight only real ally of the Soviets, the ded, the ranks of the Communist (Continued from Page 1) The leaders having thereupon What has happened in America? Why must was born, how old his mother had been, how News of his execution was not wanted an honorable peace, as on any bloody scale according International working clase many little jobs he had in the past three years reported by the Stalinist Dally does the Junta.
people be hungry when there is so much fine to his concept of national Inparty took things in their own land for growing potatoes, wheat, corn and to and many other questions. Then the man gave report the Junta peace appeal. Barcelo, who took his memberFate of the bands and fought back when they him a long plece of paper with many more Loyalist Spain has disappeared ship in the Communist party sematoes? Why do people live in houses like ata Crawling from one capitalist were attacked. Safe outside Spain, Hull Hypocrisy questions printed on it in English. Fu this out bles when lumber and stone and iron are right from the front pages of the Dally riously, believed the word Comcamp to another, alternately whin the leaders refused to accept any This revealing Worker. As reported in the last munistmeant what it once did, president objectivery of the ing and beating his breast in vain responsibility for the beroic rexistin the ground under the very nowe? Why must For three weeks John tried to do everyhing Insue of the Appeal, att references and fought to prevent capitula how hypocritical was Secretary Bank the fate of the Soviet Union indicates braggadochio, Stalin is ready to ance.
people shiver in thin rags and walk in broken shoes while clothing stores to the Popular Front Junta, which tion to Franco, was executed by of State Cordell Hull argument on capitalist promists elther overflowing? necessary to receive food for the family. Always there was Why? What is wrong?
Workers Information Please!
some mistake on the paper. Always had previously been denounced as the Junta and in death is not against the proposed popular from London Paris or BerlinHe could not answer these questions without they said come back next week. Always John capitulators to the fascists, dis even honored by the Stalinist press referendum on war.
Your Questions Answered by getting dangerous ideas which frightened him felt like a beggar in front of the smart fellows appeared from the Dally Worker, by a news item, much less a decOur Board of Experts Hull argued that such a ref Rome, which obviously are not and yet made him feel better right away.
laration of solidarity!
in the Relief Burcau. And more weeks went by beginning March erendum was incompatible with upon. The fate of Czecho Slova.
worth the paper they are written Shachtman Morrow Burnham There are answers to all questions, he would One day after John had filled out the paper Press reports of the reappearrepresentative government, that Master of Ceremonies Garrett say to himself.
for the sixth or seventh time, he brought it QUEENS back to the Bureau and waited five hours for ance of the Communist party the people, having elected their ki, surely, is sufficient proof of press in Loyalist Spain, indicating at the There Was a Depression the man to call his name. John was hungry and representatives to Congress had this and that goes both for Hitthat the Stalinists have made Anti Fascist Rally thereby delegated to them the ler and for Chamberlain Daladier. QUESTION MARK DANCE One day, when spring came, John packed up he did not feel good in the ead. When the man their peace with the Miaja led power to deal with the question But the fate of the Soviet Union FRIDAY, MARCH 24 Saturday Nite, March 28 the family goods in a big tablecloth and took called him he walked up quickly. The man Junta, have not been denied by of war and peace. This subter will not rest with those who have 916 9th Avenue the mother and the children to the road and looked at the paper and said, You spelled Daily orker.
started off toward the city. truck stopped fuge hides the real aim: to take taken the roles of gravediggers of words wrong again and can read your signa Why Stalinists are Suent Oddfellows Hall, Jamaica the decision away, not only from the great October revolution, any Hot Musle! Admission 30c and the driver said, Hop in. They accepted ture. Take it home and fill it out again.
The silence of the Stalinist 150 31 90th Avenue the people directly, but from more than it will be permitted to FLASH!
the invitation without knowing where they were John went home slowly. He tried to think. press here, in the face of the Speakers: Albert Goldman Congress.
rest with the imperiallat bandits Prize for any question you going What was next? What should a man do? The latest Spanish events, can only be McKinney Meanwhile, even before reviof whatever stripe. This question, submit that our Experts fait New York City is very large, and it is easy children were hungry. The mother cried in her interpreted as an attempt to hide (8th Ave. Subway to Parsons sion of the neutrality act, the like all the questions raised in to answer. BUT you must be to get lost there because all the streets look so sleep. John head became diaxy again. He went from the Communist party mem Blvd. to 160th St. government was in a position to the coming war, will be settled present at the Dance to remuch allke. With two children in their arms home and hanged himself in the closet, so no ership the fact that the Spanish ceive your prize. Submit your and two walking alongside, the family walked body would see his shame.
initiate a gigantic process of ex by the workers of the world unAuspices: Jamaica and Astoria Communist Party is going along panding war industries, on the der the banner of the Fourth InBranches, question in advance.
and walked. After a great many blocks, they (To be continued next week)
with the Besteiro. MIRJA. Junta basis of putting through the ar ternational democratie ership in a world STALINISTS MUM. ON SHOOTING OF CP Americanism MADRID LEADER Week Hits Isms SPAIN CP ers TOLD NOT TO MOVE AGAINST CASADO, ADMITS FISCHER there were STALIN AWAITS HITLER REPLY terest 8:00 PM