SOCIALIST APPEAL TUESDAY, APRIL 25, 1939 APPEAL ARMY Auto Union Faces Difficult Future In the Caucus LEADERSHIP Liberal. Labor Endorses Trade WORLD WAITING Unions IS MENACE TO Eide as Mpls. Mayoralty Candidate FOR SLAUGHTER UNION POSITION FEST TO BEGIN (Continued Flint Jobless Ask 30, 30 Hours tions.
trado May Day pake APPEAL has taken on more of a news will be off the press on Wednes paper character, Sam Richday, April 26. It will be in the ter of Chicago.
hands of every branch by May We are particularly pleased Socialist Workers Party Branch Withdraws Candidate with Those few branches that improved typography, which have failed to send in their was recently effected. We hope By WIDICK To Support Progressive Trade Union Slate May Day greetings yet, or have to fulfill our subscription quota Special to the Socialist Appeal)
20 placed their special May and double it if possible, even ever, that our friends, familiar with our polit(Continued from Page 1)
Page With the odds at 50 50 that MINNEAPOLIS. About 800 delegates time. ask om worker 01 ical views, will not be confused by such Day orders can still do so. BUT ihough we will be late in doing war will break out this spring co the Stalinist machine was from trade unions and. Farmer Labor ward France already under the iron THEY MUST DO THIS IMME. 30. Paul Fielding of the and 80 20 that it will begin by provided in Cleveland by a hascharges but will give their support to all canclubs endorsed Eide as candidate for AIR MAIL hand of Dictator Daladier. ask DIATELY, didates of the labor caucus despite the fact SPE. Akron branch.
next fall, there isn much time sily improvised caucus under mayor, together with a partial slate of canthe workers of America with DIAL DELIVERY. Otherwise left to prepare the union move. he leadership of the big four that none of them is a revolutionary socialist.
didates for aldermen and other city offices, the Day industrial mobiliza hey will be too late. This rep.
Eide is not the candidate of the Socialist Even though the sub drive is ment for the trials and tribula Detroit locals: West Side at a caucus held here April Workers Party.
ion plans hanging over their resents absolutely the last op over we still are able to report tions ahead under wartime Briggs, Hudson and Chrysler heads about democracy. portunity. Everything indi good results on subscriptions.
Elde has been secretary of the Franklin conditions These locals and their leading Indicates Differences Cooperative creamery since 1925. steer.
War for Profits ates not only a splendid May Let try to keep up a pace of study of the events in officers had been aligned all ing committee met two days later at the The Socialist Workers Party makes this No, this war they are prepar Day issue, but a record press 50 per week as a minimum.
America in the last world war hrough the Martin tactional Central Labor Union and completed the move without in the least concealing its basic ing is for the profits of the un for the SOCIALIST AP. Here is this week results: give a clear picture of what might with the Unity Group.
slate.
differences with both the political program bosses, not the rights of the PEAL.
MINNEAPOLIS.
can be expected tomorrow, and After the formal split, when Following this development, the Minnenand the organizational set up of the labor masses in any of the riva New York City incidentally, shows how phoney Martin formed his organizacaucus.
polis branch of the Socialist Workers Party camps. As far as governmen CHE BRANCHES AT WORK: Boston the last war for democracy tlon, a furious battle broke out.
issued the following statement on the with The platform adopted April contains de al system is concerned, there The literature agent is or Chicago.
was.
on the executive board bemands which are in the main progressive indrawal of its mayoralty candidate: won be much to choose be il bundle or lering an additional Pennsylvania ween Reuther and his support: sofar as they go, but in almost every instance cween Germany, Italy, France ler of the May Day edition. California Spearhead ars, and the Stalinist machine The Socialist Workers Party welcomes the they could and should have been carried much Britain, or the United States Ne plan to have a tag day on Michigan Against The issues they were fighting, once the war begins.
resurgence of the Minneapolis trade union further.
Bunday, April 30 in one of the Youngstown remained, however, complete on the political field, as shown by The most glaring deficiency in the platform The present period of desper working class districts in town It was inevitable that the ly obscure and the fight itself the actions of the union delegates at the April 1s its failure to mention the very real threat of St. Paul o sell Appeals, to distribute ate diplomatic jockeying. sup spear head of the bosses drive New Jersey against unionism should be was conducted behind closed plemented by mutually menac he May Day manifestoes and labor liberal caucus to salvage what remains a new horrible imperialist war to save deOhio doors, without the knowledge.
concentrated on the ing movea of armies and nav o publicize the joint Twin City of the wreckage of the once progressive mocracy and to speak out unmistakably Lynn, Mass.
approval or otherwise of the against that war and the Roosevelts and Lanwith its militant traditions and ies, offers only an interlude ally on May Dorothy Missouri auto membership Stalinists Pusbed Aside dons who are combining to lead us into war.
unrelenting struggle for the op perhaps the final interlude, be Schultz, St. Paul local.
Maryland In the week preceeding the pressed. We have sold the last six fore it actually does begin.
For the first time in three years, the communist Party did not control a local labor by the delegates to the April caucus unlike Chief union strength of the convention. Reuther, and his The United States fleet is or Total ssues out completely. The friends deceived themselves in was in the Lumber political convention. The trade unions, react all Farmer Labor platforms in recent years. its way to the Pacific to deal street sales are o. three Workers of the Northwest. 30. to believing they would control days a week. John Taber.
with the Japanese end of the ing to the bureaucratic practices and anti carefully avoids the attempt to tie the trade We want to point out that 000: the Metal Mine Workers, an easy majority at Cleveland, working class policies of the Stalinists, on the unions to either of the two old boss parties.
Rome Berlin Tokyo axis. It is Boston literature director. In Sol Thomas of Philadelphia, 40, 000, primarily in the Rocky through the cooperation of the one hand, and to the ferocious attacks of the it fails to make clear the next logical political openly said in Washington that ridentally, this Boston local un and Bob Ontell of Los Angeles, der John direction is going are the two star subscription mountain and Minnesota and o. officials. But when an undercover agreement ex Stassen (Republican) machine on the other. step for the union movement: the creation simMichigan iron ore regions: the. hey came to Cleveland they blaces! Not only did they win getters of the Party. Each of ists between Washington and sent representatives in such numbers as to locally of a Labor Political League and he second prize in the subLondon whereby the Americar them have been Agricultural Workers. 24, 000 found the majority on the other control the April convention and dictate the mediate hook up nationally with the forces ahead of side. Instead of planning and others choice of candidates and the platform upon party independent of and opposed to the boss orn assignment and leave the fleet will handle the Far East icription contest, but they are anybody else during the past completely paid up on their bill month.
In the spring of 1917 a num struggle on major issues that ber of small lumber strikes de would have split the Stalinist Though dozens of Minneapolis trade unions parties.
British fleet free for operations and have been steadily increas. There were two bundle order veloped under the inhumane forces, they staked their cards have recently withdrawn from the Farmer Political Apparatus Needed in the Mediterranean and the ng their order. We under increases during the past conditions and low wages that on the intervention and influLabor Association, it was shown on April Though all candidates indorsed April are Atlantic.
stand, too, that they have a fine week: John Murphy of Los AnThey ence of Hillman and Murray With much fanfare Lind street sales squad.
made work unbearable. They geles increased his by 25 and that the unions are by no means apathetic to pledged to abide by the platform adopted, yet spread in Idaho. Washington, But as the convention showed the severe political blows received recently by the trade union movement will lack the bergh is paraded out to help Congratulations on the new now takes 125 copies of each Oregon and Montana. they reckoned without their organized labor.
whip up the hysteria which will appearance of the Appeal. issue: while John Taber of BosIn view of the long stride taken towards their pledges, once they are elected. great The government reply to the host.
enable the government to con hink it looks more like a news ton added 20 to his and now strikes was quick in coming. Force labor political unification, and in order that weakness of the Farmer Labor Association vince the workers of the need paper and is easier to read. takes a total of 105 copies per Infantry troops from Oregon The in the persons of no obstacles, real or imaginary, be placed in and one of the factors contributing to the for its gigantic airplane build Generally speaking, the Appeal issue.
were sent to leading strike cen Hillman and Murray, was posing program. Millions more are ters and a round up of all pick sibly the most important forca sociated Industries from the courthouse, the it did not permit the trade unions to control appropriated for naval bases ets began. concentratior at the Cleveland convention, Socialist Workers Party has decided to with the persons elected by the We saw and educational orders to camp was erected at Ellens Behind the scenes they wielded draw its candidate for mayor, Carlos Hudson. this in the case of Latimer, of Benson, etc. industry while a drive is begun burgh, Washington, where against organizations of the un tremendous influence and Our party urges all workers to vote for the etc. The caucus form of organization which many strikers were held for authority on all important de candidates of the April labor liberal caucus. will conduct the campaign for the union can employed under the guise of an months without any charge be sisions Withdrawal No Precedent What did the guaran didates is much too loose to give any investigation of the and the ing placed against them!
against attempt to accomplish? Pri By, this withdrawal, the Socialist Workers tee that the candidates will carry out the will workers Resentment over this brutal marily they wanted a respon Party does not set a precedent whereby we of the unions, once in office. We ask all work through court decisions aimed treatment spread to other lum sible leadership at the helm will withdraw our candidates when confronteders to raise in their unions immediately the at the more liberal provisions ber centers, and combined with of the That was why with candidates of other labor groups. In fu question of forming a Labor Political League of existing laws and at the rights won by workers agitation for an eight hour day they plcked Thomas as ture as in past campaigns, according to cir based on the trade union movement, to furand sanitary camp conditions, their candidate for unlon presiFLINT. Mich. April 15 The organization demands. cumstances, the Socialist Workers Party will ther the political struggle of labor.
decades of bitter struggle. Al a strike of 50. 000 lumberwork. dent. and Unemployed sec mass meeting was set for Frimake its estimate either to flle its own candi Clean the Stassen Associated Industries this is part of the war prepara ion of the United Automobile day, April 21, following which a ers in the rich timber belt of conservative unionist, they dates or to give a measure of critical support Leach crowd out of the courthouse!
Workers (C. last week un mass demonstration will be orPuget Sound resulted.
orfer Stalin Aliance to candidates of other labor groups.
knew he would be completely Vote for the candidates of the labor caucus!
animously demanded a ganized at the welfare office For a Labor Political League of the It is quite possible that unscrupulous poliimenable to advice.
Miners Strike Among its many other purposes, the Roosevelt message Jobs for all in need at appropriation of 5, 000, 000, 000, and at the city hall.
atllman and Murray rapped ticians will now attempt to dub Eide, the unions locally, for a labor party nationally!
At this time the country was the Dozens of former Workers to Hitler and Mussolini was alcandidate of the union caucus, a Trotskyite.
30 hour week, and the Or Join the Socialist Workers Party, the only crowd over the scandalized to read about a dis Knuckles, as they had done in PANliance. members, who had and to distort our position. We are sure, how. anti war party of the working class!
so designed to aid Franco Briate doubling of the merably astrous fire at the Speculator the Pittsburgh convenbeen desperately clinging to swing the Soviet Union into the low relief allowances in Flint.
took the lives of 260 miners.
anti Hitler bloc.
Launched only three weeks the Stalinist dominated outfit in ago, the and Unemploy the hope that it might some 14, 000 miners went out on and to avoid the impression Crom getting too much power trophies of the battle.
Britain and Prance are now ed section has shown the kind day drop its company union strike to obtain union control from getting abroad that the ings, the progressives levelled In their private caucus meet GRAND BAL MUSETTE Sat reported to be offering Moscow of militancy necessary to fight policies of koy towing to urday, April 22, 916 9th Ave.
of safety appliances under. was dominated by a ferocious attacks against the a full fledged military alliance.
the New Deal W. slashes Roosevelt, have joined the new ground and the abolition of the bunch of communists. But communist Party on the sen: BRING YOUR FRIENDS but all inspired and wishful reblacklist.
and to alleviate local relief con Unemployed secyour sisters, and your Couthey would not and they could eral order of Lewis attacks ports to the contrary notwithditions sins and your Aunts to the standing. Moscow seems to be tion. They voted for the vigorThe whole Northwest and not fight the Stalinists in an against any political group con.
West was seething with unrest Astoria Branch Party. SatThe section passed a resolu. ous anti New Deal resolution continuing to hold Daladier and open political struggle.
It was then that the unionists man and Murray did most of the long factional battle with condemning the New with new born enthusiasm.
urday, April 22. Workmen tion Hill. trolling the union. But after Chamberlain off at arms length Deal spending billions of dolCircle, 28 40 31st St.
got a real taste of the demoo their work in the hotel room Martin, such attacks have lost or to Grand Ave. waiting still to see if they will lars for arms while starving mass meeting and demonstraIt is planned to publicize the racy for which American Astoria. Fun For All workers were losing their lives lot of their sting caucuses.
the Continued from Page 1) pledges to warrant the plunge the unemployed and pointed tion through advertisements in in Europe.
The temporary split among What were the delegates PHILADELPHIA, Pa. dustries, the threat of the na into their camp or if Hitler will give the desert wurde vecais one the press and through leaflet vigilante Loyalty League he top leadership of the union, he defensive position of the Suhared to do, what were they WORKERS EDUCATIONAL tion wide strike is expected to yet grasp the outstretched hand einal request would mean the distribution. Workers in the in Jerome. Ariz. kidnapped to say and vote for machine when. under 100 strikers and drove them out LoreFascism in the one hasten governmental interven of Stalin and make the one deal firing of hundreds of thousands shops who are now facing a bie on the convention floor? Be of workers.
that would enable him to go to ed States. Friday, April 28tion to break the deadlock.
lay off scheduled for the near attack, the sure knowlof the area. Police aided them cause of their own inexperi at 8:30 810 Locust St.
Demonstration Planned with Britain and France dge of the that they had future, are expected to turn out war Fear Blow to War Plans ence, their lack of genuine pro by arresting the strikers after with a good chance of defeat The resolution provided for in majority of the votes any.
they were freed by the vigt zram (as distinguished from a DETROIT, Mich.
Already John Steelman, ing them.
immediate action to enforce the brother of their unemployed lantes.
now and their lack of great in: erest in the constitutional prodirector of the United States program on paper. their lack MAY DAY ÇELEBRATION of clarity on why they were op In Bisbee, Ariz. 2, 000 com risions, the presence of large, posed to the Communist Party Genora Johnson. Special Bureau of Conciliation (who, in pany officials, etc. armed with mportant delegations in oppo machine, the progressive bloc showing of Tsar to Lenin. cidentally. walked through the rifles, dragged 1, 200 strikers ition to the Stalinist machine.
from their beds early on July was maneuvered into a posiall worked to produce what apA C Hall 1949 Mack near picket lines in the recent hotel 12, 1917 and marched them to beared as a highly democratic against the proposition of havtion of waging its whole fight Van Dyke. 350.
99 strike here. and James Lowell and other nearby cities, Dewey, a federal conciliator, The strikers were corralled fike ponvention.
ing five vice presidents. charter. The manufac conferred with The loosely knitted and im the miners cattle in railroad cars used for Hillman and Murray, deter turers may conspire to play off committee and the operators. Continued from Page 1)
the Roosevelt war policy.
animals amid beatings, etc provised bloc of Reuther and mined to avoid a sharp convenone union against the other in his friends believed at the be Anxiety was expressed in and the murder of one striker tion fight and seeing this as an an attempt to destroy all In every school the Stalinists responded he would no longer hid under a cloak of respecta(Continued from Page 1)
After the train departed, ginning of the convention that opening to decrease the spect unionism in the automobile in White House circles that the Congress of relief appropria subseribe to it. The booklet bility. soldiers took charge of it hey would differentiate them lic influence, publicly dustry.
reactionary Inviting selves from the Stalinists by miners strike was jeopardiz tions, is lead dog and straining stated that relief workers must school administrators to adrecommended as a compro and put the strikers in an enThe Stalinist leadership is ing the national defense pro at the leash in the attack which not hesitate to use their right dress them. Peace Rallies campment at Columbus, heir proposals for a highly mise that no vice presidents be reactionary, incompetent, autogam. and it was expected that the Roosevelt lemocratic union convention elected. The would not oratic and pro war. It is not Administration to strike to avoid starvation was the official term used by where they stayed for over three months! Those who left ind thus swing the member fight the leadership and interested nor concerned with Roosevelt would soon intervene arty stricken recipients of gov views now, stated Benjamin meetings the word strike and returned hip to their side. But the Stal. accepted to the scene of the proposal the actual union problems of to prevent any obstacles to his ernment relief.
categorically. With Lasser he ing avoided like a plague.
the strike were arrested!
nists didn give a rap about speeches of byzantine flattery the automobile workers or any war plans.
now believes in averting any he constitution, as long as they to the superior wisdom of the other set of workers. It is in Roosevelt, as usual, indicat Believes in Capitalism Company gunmen kidnapped Speakers of the and strike action on the part of the for a militant revoluFrank Little of the General Ex were going to do the interpret. Before a ultima terested controlling the ed he would step in after the Lasser on questioning admit unemployed.
tionary line on war, were ecutive Board and hanged him ng and administrating. Far tum the always capitu union, as a pawn in its rotten preliminary stages had been ted that he was a renegade Not Capitalist rom fighting the constitutional lates!
sharply differentiated from on August 1, 1917!
proposals, they became the This was a partial defeat for working class into war.
conciliation.
cialism affected his beliefs any He no longer believes in com those of the Youth Committee Whip Up Lynch Spirit Hypocritical champions of de the machine and the only Perils Union Closed Shop Issue longer. At the present time munism and the overthrow of Against War stooges of the Meanwhile, ine press of the nocracy. They demagogically defeat that they suffered. By If the controlled ExecuChief issue country, as emphasized in the believe in trying to make cap. capitalist democracies, he ex Socialist Party Youth) whose between the italism work, he said.
spurred on the rank and file to eliminating the Stalinist viceplained. He believes in capital speakers presented a drab pacstudy made public recently by Put down the powers of the In presidents, the actual day live board majority is allowed and the conl operat.
to run the union, unchecked by ors is the closed shop which is Asked about Benjamin ism. He is not only trying to ifist line. Significantly enough John Hopkins University, was whipping up additional lynch hem to the Executive Board. ternational officers left more union organizations, it will run disastrous war between the ing the use of the strike by the he believes that capitalism ovations from the students.
ernational President and shift ny administration of the In the membership and the local vital to the miners union if a present attitude to a leaflet make capitalism work, as it it was the revolutionary speakwritten by Benjamin advocat was formulated by Lasser, but ers who received the greatest spirit by seeking to tie the Why not? In this case the under the direct control of the right into the. to the Germanlemocratic desires of the rank Thomas, Union President ground. Control by the The slogans of the and the AP of is to unemployed as a means of ob does not exist in the United All Wobblies were Ger ind file was duck soup for the and therefore under the direct machine constitutes the kiss be avoided in this industry.
taining funds and relief from States It a democratic Not One Man Not One Cent man spies, according to the Stalinist machine. While they influence of the Besides the reactionary of death to any union organiHe for Boss War, etc. resounded newspaper headlines.
were not sure of the presi Uncertain Future of dual union in the miners sponded: From my knowledge finished with all the the government. Lasser re state. not capital on every campus. The solidariThe hysteria aroused by this leney, they were sure of their The auto union now faces al It is the responsibility of the industry a new threat arose in of Mr. Benjamin don think a Daily Worker editorial, ex ty of those students at the anticampaign created the basis for najority on the new executive tuture overspread with dark four large local unions that Western Pennsylvania where a he subscribes to that now. It is plaining that anyway the war strikes with our program the nation wide raids, arrests, board.
beatings and murder of the ness and uncertainty. It faces have undertaken to lead the ser upcom petroseansing phas been not my philosophy and it is not suited States was a commun ene futurbeakene bedeutender I:w. members. On Septem. it became clear that the loose try, which is already making Convention in an anti would eliminate Alliance. There have been in there being no difference be: youth in America The is now preparcontinue the battle to these rivals.
strikes authorized by us in the ween communism and the of the in the country how to differentiate itself from the union membership, itself. rebuild and preserve the The importance of the Ap.
the ing to rally all sincere anti war last year.
principles upon which government Fighters to march in the demwas raided.
the tricky, unpredictable, un It faces a reactionary on They must now adopt palachian agreement under dis And it is during the last year. American was onstration of the and the The convention of the Con scrupulous machine. They slaught by the state legisla a union building program pute is that it sets the stan. It might be pointed out, that the founded.
In any case. whatever the press student solidarity with on May Day to exstruction workers Industrial were stumped. Their one and tures in the form of viciously along the lines of the program dards for contracts between the offensive against the unem Union, 15. 000 strong, was bust only attempt to fight the issues anti labor bills. It faces a re advocated at the convention by and the ployd has reall head government is, Benjamin labor.
ed up and forty seven delegatos out on the convention floor in actionary onslaught from the a group of independent pro. ors throughout the country, way.
arrested to be held for months connection with the officers courts, of which the Apex de and Lasser are for Roosevelt, gressives from Cleveland and But, in giving up all demands Loyal to Roosevelt and if the interests of the un WANTED: Comrades to share without charges or trial. report was a total flop. real cision is only a harbinger of Detroit locals and thus rally for higher wages and improved Mr. Benjamin, when ques employed and the interests of bungalow on Lake HopatWhile many of the lumber right here could have set the the great anti union campaign the rank and flle into a great conditions which were included tioned, corroborated Lasser Roosevelt clash, the views of cong. New Jersey Good strikes were broken, the use of tone for the whole convention to come. It faces the growing progressive anti Stalinist bloc in early negotiations, and in statements, stating that they these two bureaucrats are swimming. boating, fishing, a modified sit down strike and split the bloc wide antagonism and reaction on which will be able to effec demanding only the closed shop represented his position. When guaranteed to represent every hitchhiking easy. Answer o Socialist Appeal, 116 tactic applied as job action open. But the fight, after the the part of the automobile Lively solve the pressing prob the committee is questioned directly about the thing but the unemployed. University Pl.
back to work secured the eight little more than a personal additional threat of fratrl. workers and eliminate the portunity to improve the poor years ago when the unom. Get Your APPEAL FULL CHARGE BOOKKEEPhour day and improvement in wrangle between Reuther and cidal war with Martin union. Stalinist disease from the economic status of the miners ployed movement made great ER. years experience, good the sanitary conditions! Frankensteen and even there which will shortly receive an union ranks.
on a national scale.
gains through strike action, he At the Newsstand references, desires position.
more dhe Butte. Montemnendele on Suomen so keep them tenor hlattere carried away the ANNOUNCEMENTS NATIONAL COAL STRIKE THREAT MADE BY LEWIS Benjamin Decides YPSL LEADS Is Not Capitalist State STUDENT STRIKE by in zation