SOCIALIST APPEAL TUESDAY, APRIL 25, 1939 The Coming War Will Surely See Britain Colonial Empire Wrecked IN THIS CORNER of give up.
Like Tombstone SOCIALIST APPEAL Saito Ashes Vol. III, No. 27 April 25, 1939 When Hirosi Saito, former Ambassador to Published twice a week by the Washington, died in this country a short time SOCIALIST APPEAL PUBLISHING ASS ago, President Roosevelt as a diplomatic gesat 116 University Place, New York, Telephone: Algonquin 8547 ture ordered a United States cruiser, the AsThe Rising Nationalist Movements for Freedom In Every toria, to carry back the ashes to Saito home Subscriptions: 00 per year 00 for six months in Japan.
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the ashes. Observers report that the reception By Max Shachtman By SHERMAN STANLEY ants of this vast country of aranged for British troops to Bronx and Manhattan subscriptions are: 50 for given by the Japanese people to Roosevelt The financial wizards of four hundred millions are in remain in the country. The It was to be expected that once the Popular six months; 00 for one year.
sending a cruiser across the Pacific with the re Street are nervously fingering the forefront of the struggle thing was a fake from the word Front regime in Spain came to its natural, that is, Reentered as second class matter February 16, 1939. at the post office at New York, under mains of Saito was singularly moving.
their money bags these days. against British imperialism. In go. Today, the masses led by its ignominious, death, we would begin to get the The City. London Wall the past year this country has radical students, continue the the Act of March 3, 1879.
All was silent as the Astoria entered the harcomplete inside story of what happened behind the Without exception the people had a wave of strikes general struggle for independence, real scenes during lifetime. It was inevitable that bor. Traffic had come to a standstill hours be of all of England world col strikes in Bombay and Calcut independence. Chalk up anoth all the sordid details of this democratic fraud MA Editor: MAN fore. Thousands of Japanese, gathered in deep onies hate and detest the Bri ta, the working class centers er thorn in the side of the Brl would be revealed eventually in the form either of Associate Editors: Lish rule. These colonial people militant demonstrations and tish right at the entrance to penitent confessions by its several participants or HAROLD ROBERTS dito FÈLIX MORROW solemnity, watched the cruiser break out the mutual accusations, each of which would aim at Staff Members: colors of the Rising Sun and fire a salute of 21 opportunity the war to ousted in the Indian Nationalist Kenya, Union of South Afri.
Congress alone are 5, 000, 000 EMANUEL GARRETT throwing the responsibility for the debacle on JOSEPH HANSEN guns. Tears showed on many faces. local the British somebody else and all of which, properly assemBusiness Manager shopkeeper was reported to have gathered in a Many times before the Bri workers and peasants who are ca, etc. All sections of Britain bled, would provide a fairly complete picture of STANLEY tish have faced opposition in pledged to gain complete inde African colonies have been stirring restlessly. Headquarters of the intrigue, the secret diplomacy, the horse tradvery short time 5, 000 signatures to a book ex the colonies. They have always pendence for their country.
the African nationalist and rev ing. the treachery that made up the life of this succeeded in staving off the in. The Indian nationalist move: olutionary movement, which pressing gratitude to President Roosevelt.
FIGHT WITH THE SOCIALIST instrument of the masses for the united defense of democracy.
There were local demonstrations of grateful principal methods has been to headaches for the bankers of operates directly from London WORKERS PARTY FOR: ness far in excess of that called for by official buy off and bribe the leaders of The City. That movements to the work of the organizers it Belated Witness national mourning over a dead diplomat. Japan maneuver things so that the and his conservative following sends out. Organization of Among the first of the partners to speak up is job and a decent wage for every worker.
ese officialdom had difficulty in preventing these colonial masses are led by once this is accomplished, then Union of South Africa is proLuis Araquistain, one of the left wing leaders of the Spanish Socialist Party well known as Open the idle factories operate them under demonstrations from swelling into national prothe principal advisers in the realm of theory and workers control.
portions and taking on an aspect which would class whose basic interests are good bye to the finest jewel in gressing as never before. These men will show that they too une Crown of Empire.
diplomacy to Largo Caballero. The Indepen3. Twenty Billion dollar Federal public works they have done for example, in Ceylon: In this important and Ush rule have nothing in com derstand that freedom and Bri dent News of Paris has just made public a letter and housing program.
have been grave to the Japanese government.
addressed on April 4, 1939 by Araquistain to the India (Gandhi) and in Ireland strategically located island, the Thirty thirty! 30 weekly minimum wateObservers report that the Japanese people be(De Valera. left wing Socialist Party of mon.
last President of the Spanish Republican Cortes, 30 hour weekly maximum for all workers on Even those sections of the dieved naively in face of Roosevelt real deDiego Martinez Barrio. In it he announces a rather They have not hesitated for Ceylon is leading an aggressive all Jobs.
belated resignation from what he calls our fantassigns that the United States cruiser accorded one moment to use the armed and direct struggle against the Empire that are actually inde.
magorical Republican Cortes, and dissociates Thirty dollar weekly old age and disability by Roosevelt to carry the ashes home meant a himself, also somewhat belatedly, from the most forces of the police and the Bri British. Little news reaches the pendent, capitalist nations are pension.
inept, the most despotic, the most unscrupulous friendly gesture from the people of the United unleash a Hitlerite reign or ter. Ceylon a pearl of democrat. has been the pressure of the Expropriate the Sixty Families.
States, token that the cruel oppression which ror when necessary to preserve sexled from withoutme Mean and the Union of South Africa most disastrous periods of the Austrian dynasty or government ever suffered by Spain, even in the All war funds to the unemployed.
they are now suffering under their own capitalist their rule. They have done this while, from within the British against supporting England in that of the Bourbons. This is his politest refer8. people referendum on any and all wars.
ence to the great government of the Democratic bosses will not be deepened By war with the African colonies and especially cary on their violent attempts any war that the leaders of People Front headed by his own party comrade, No secret diplomacy.
United States.
in India.
to crush a people who never these governments have been forced to declare publicly that Juan Negrin!
10. An independent Labor Party.
The size and the intensity of this wave of WORLD WIDE FIGHT West Indies: These islands. they will not send any soldiers During the two years approximately that he AGAINST BRITISH RULE held the power, we lost all of the North of Spain, 11. Workers Defense Guards against vigilante gratitude and relief expressed by the Japanese famed for their hurricanes, have overseas to atd the British Never before, however, has brewed a storm too severe for We doubt if these capitalist we lost a part of the Mediterranean littoral, and and Fascist attacks people is of the greatest significance. That it colonial opposition been so sol the British to handle. Labor politicians mean it. But we finally we lost all of Catalonia. At another time could seize upon such a minor incident, that the id in its determination to put militantly led under the banner don doubt that the people of and elsewhere. shall set forth the totality of the meaning attached to the incident is mistaken, is causes for this disaster which has no precedent an early end to British rule of the has organized the these lands mean it! And their Militantly conducting the strug. dock workers, sailors, sugar word will be the final word. in the Spanish wars. It is enough for me here and 1100 of great moment. What is of importance is gles of today, the colonial mill workers, etc. Wave upon All of this now to record the fact and to indicate the profound masses grimly await the opporwave of strikes have served no. British spells death for the Empire!
the indication it gives to the misery, the unrest, source and the ultimate reason for this immense There are few things more silent than a tombtunities that tomorrow holds tice on the British that here too defeat: it is the stupid and brutal communist dicthe need felt by the Japanese people to find some The most significant event in out for them. Let us cite a few they are not wanted.
the rise of capitalism was the tatorship which guided our hapless war and lead us stone.
outlet for their longing for peace.
examples of today opposition: CAN FOOL THEM to this tragic denouement of this dictatorship.
erection of this Empire. The Juan Negrin and his coadjutor, the former Minister During the past two works, however, onc It is a demonstration that the strain of the war Ireland: newly revived na. ALL THE TIME most significant event in capiEgypt: The British granted talism fall will be the destrucof Stale. Azana. were the docile and uncondibeing conducted by the Japanese capitalists tered the sweet dreams of the rictitious independence to tion of that Empire. And we political tendency in this country has come peritional agents. Dictators under the dictatorship of against China is becoming so intolerable that a British money baggers. The some fake nationalist politi who live now will have the glo the communist party.
lously close to clepriving the tombstone of its spark can start the powder train which will fire pre eminence in this field. We refer to the soa workers revolution and blow up the present left off. Their struggle is for a indefinitely fool the laborers by independent, free nations of where the trattor De Valera thought that these men could its break up and replacement Silent Accomplices It is not out of place to add at this point that called isolationist school of faith which de social structure in Japan just as it did a similar united. independent Ireland and peasant fellaheen. The workers and peasants. associ Araquistain, Caballero their associates were, voutly prays that it world cataclysm can occur structure in Russia in 1917.
free forever of British domina British, who wrote the treaty. ated with and aiding one an at the least, silent accomplices of this dictatortion.
kept control of Egypt foreign other in a world socialist sociThe deep embers of rebellion in Japan will ship in the name of democracy. They tolerated without involving the United States or affecting India: The workers and peas affairs, financial matters and lety.
it, they cooperated with it, they kept quiet about flare up at the first indication anywhere in the its outrages and crimes at a time when forthright the class relationships inside the United States.
President Roosevelt very neatly and without world that it is really possible for workers to and truthful appeal to the masses could have altered the situation, they did not take a single serithe use of either firing squad or dungeon sealed for human needs instead of capitalist profits.
ous step towards organizing popular opposition to a ruinous and despotic regime all in the name of the mouths of these Keep America Out of the unity of the People Front.
Araquistain reminds Martinez Barrio of the story War for the Time Being patriots. He merely revolution in France would inmediately topple told the latter by President Azana who, in 1938.
outlined the realities of capitalist policy in the Hitler and Mussolini. The Mikado would not was thinking of a change in government policy.
United States and his deliberate long thoughtlong keep his imperial peacocks after they fell.
Negrin, the democratic socialist, thereupon deBy FELIX MORROW inal syndicalism law, as used, tions are, in large part, not clared to Azana: You shall not remove me, and Likewise a workers victory in the United States out plan to plunge the United States into the Representatives of the War simply proves that the victim laws passed by Congress but if you try to do it, shall resist; shall place mywould immediately rebound with workers revo and Navy Departments appear is against capitalist exploits rules handed down by the mill sell at the head of a popular and military move.
coming world war at the first possible moment. lutions everywhere.
ed before the Judiciary Com tion!
tary authorities. The Smith ment, for the army and the people are with me.
The cloquent reply of the isolationists, mittee of the House of Repre The principle distinction be Bill would therefore make it a The Japanese people receiving Saito ashes (Which, presumably, is why both the army and the sentatives on April 12 to lend tween overt acts and free dislaw, in advance, that to vio people drove him and his cohorts out of Loyalist which they so successfully emulate the volubility an event such as this might well become the their weighty support to what cussion has been recognized late any regulation heretofore Spain.
of a tombstone, discloses most precisely that at pivot where far reaching changes in the moods has become known as the in principle by the United or hereafter decreed by the The Negrin regime was characterized not only by despotism and intrigue, but also by plain and Smith Omnibus Bill even the states Supreme Court, but nev generals or admirals is a bottom they are for the capitalist class, for and emotions of the international working class New York Times calls it aertheless criminal syndicalism crime. This ends all distinction fancy graft. Not a few professional democrats President Roosevelt, and for the coming imperbegin, changes that will start a new series of composite of the anti alien and laws still function in many between civil authority and the filled their purses with good Spanish gold. Araquiswhich is tain proposal to the government for an audit of ialist war.
socialist revolutions and end by reducing capital anti radical legislation offered states, and the principle in military authority in the last twenty years.
ism to ashes.
volved troubles not at all the traditionally presumed to be its finances was cynically rejected, as was a simiLast month Charles Edison. Congressional and Administra subordinate to the civil authori lar proposal by the Ambassador to Washington, And it discloses at the same time that there assistant secretary of the tion proponents of the Smith ty. It means rule by the mill Fernando de los Rios.
Navy, secured the introduction BMN.
tary in peacetime.
is only one political tendency really opposing the hold that there were enormous administrative of a bill outlawing subver Joker Against Unions Dared Less in War Time irregularities in the finances of certain agents of sive propaganda in the armed Title II of the bill, requiring The wartime treason and the Government abroad. By refusing to accept my Party, which has devoted the major part of its forces; it appears now, how licensing of civilian military or espionage law of June, 1917 proposal, it is evident that the so called Negrin The Prince of Norway that most democratic ever, that the Army and Navy ganizations, conceals a joker: provides for issuance of search government shares the responsibility for these press to denouncing the war mongers during the country of the middle way is scheduled to prefer the Smith Bill (H. Ramong organizations which warrants to civil or military of derelictions. also affirm that high personalities 5138) which includes not only must be licensed are those relais on presentation of affi of the Republican regime possess, deposited in present war crisis and pointing out the only road visit these shores on April 27. If the workers of provisions referring to the arm which by economie coercion davits that in the official be their name in English banks and in those of the to defeat them establishing a workers political this country are to properly appreciate him, they ed forces, but is practically advocate the denial to any citi hef, search of some given universal in its scope.
justify. But all possibility of a check up being abolshould know certain facts about the royal house party and putting a workers and farmers govAs we analyse this bill, do des. labor union economic conviction for treason or es ished and that is what my proposal sought to which he represents.
ernment in power in Washington.
not forget that Roosevelt is coercion of a boss could be in pionage avert Republican Spain will never know which of In November, 1937, the Norwegian democratIn the midst of the last war, its agents and representatives acted with probity ic government decided to make a friendly overarmed forces which have en to be violation of his constitu the government dared apply and which behaved differently: all of them will be dorsed it!
tional right to his property!
this procedure only to cases in plunged into an atmosphere of suspicion. Nor will ture to Stalin by imprisoning comrade Trotsky Criminal Syndicalism Law The War and Navy Depart. volving treason or espionage. it know. what became of the Spanish treasury.
and his wife, Natalia The immediate pretext for Title of the bill begins: Itments are specifically endors. Now, in peacetime, the govern of the 500 and some tons of gold which were deposited outside the national territory, nor how this the arrests was an article by Trotsky which apshall be unlawful for any pering Section of Title II, which ment military authorities son by word of mouth or in says: It shall be unlawful for dare to propose to apply this gold was spent, nor what remains of it. nor the The Daladier government which was voted peared in the American Weekly, The Nation, writing, or by transmission by any person to advise, counsel, procedure immediately to any name or names under which this deposit was into power by the Socialist and Communist about the situation in France.
radio, to advocate. abet, ad urge, or solicit any member of and all opponents of war! made, a fact of the highest importance and one vise, or teach the duty, neces. the Army or the Navy of the Aliens Made Criminals which perhaps would explain also why certain Party supported People Front, last week es But in making this arrest the democratic minTitle III of the bill is directed people, in an incomprehensible manner, clung ob.
tablished further straight jacket laws for the isters were faced with an embarassing difficulty.
sity. desirability or propriety of United States to disobey the overthrowing or destroying the laws or regulations governing against aliens. It prohibits na stinately to power in spite of the defeats and the No Norwegian law gave them a basis for imhostility of public opinion.
Government of the United the Army or the Navy or to turalization for those aliens labor movement In a decree issued in the same way decrees are prisoning Trotsky.
States, or the covernment of disobey the lawful order of a who advocate any form of any State of the United States, superior, or to publish or dis government for the u. con. The Mystery of the Vanished Gold In their quandary, the ministers they were or the government of any sub tribute any book, pamphlet, trary to that now existing. issued in Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany, Daldivision thereof, social democrats adhering to the Second InterHad Araquistain been given the opportunity to force or paper, print, article, letter or believer in peaceful transition read the article of Walter Krivitsky on Stalin violence.
other writing which advises. to socialism or, for that matter.
Hand in Spain before writing his letter to Maradier empowered Labor Minister Charles Ponational remembered their King. And in the Section of this Title says: counsels, urges, or solicits any a believer in non violence who maret to take the following steps: tinez Barrio, at least part of his question about constitution they discovered a paragraph which It shall be unlawful for any member of the Army the wanted the government also to the disappearance of the Spanish gold stores would Centralize information on the needs for gives the King the right to issue emergency de person to organize or help to Navy of the United States to be non violent, would be ineli have been answered. Krivitsky revealed that not cisions in the event of war or similar disasorganize or become a member disobey the laws or regulations Bible to become a citizen, labor in public services and private industry.
of, or affiliate with any society, governing such military or nav.
only did the Father of the Peoples in the Kremlin It provides a whole series of demand spot cash payment for the few rifles, canters. The provision was promptly invoked; the group. or assembly of persons al forces, or to disobey the law. new reasons for deporting non and airplanes he sold to his beloved Spaniards. Recruit labor in military fasliion for the variKing signed a special order giving the ministers who teach, advocate. or en aliens, and for the registration but he also arranged for the transfer of a huge part courage the overthrow or de Section 10 book, of all aliens. Since it is obvious ous categories as deemed necessary.
of the Spanish gold reserve to Moscow. For, when the right (which he himseli did not possess) to struction of the government. etc. may be taken from any that registration cards for Stalin made his one solitary reference to the civil Arbitrarily assign workers to public and pri imprison foreigners without cause. Thus did Punishes Beliefs house or other place in which italiens are wholly ineffectual war in Spain as not a Spanish but a world affair, they save democracy in Norway.
The American Civil Liberties may be found. or from any per unless citizens also have idenvate enterprises.
he apparently interpreted it to mean a good busiUnion accurately describes this son in whose possession it may tification cards, this provision ness affair for the Soviet Commissariat of Finance.
Regulate wages and hours by arbitrary Again, when Trotsky tiled suit against the as a Federal criminal syndt be found. or from any person is really a step toward comAs for all the varieties of leaders of the Spanish Norwegian Stalinist and fascist press, the gov. calism law. In complete viola in whose possession it may be pulsory registration of the People Front. the proletariat has the infuriating decree.
ernment could not find a constitutional way to tion of the fundamental legall by search warrants to be whole population.
consolation that only now that they have completed If these regulations are successfully imposed, concept traditional to demo issued under the war time 1917 Concentration Camps their work of defeat and ruin will they themselves prevent him. Whereupon another special order cratic government that only law governing treason and es. Title IV sets up restrictions begin to truth by fits and starts, and in labor will occupy the same position in demowas issued by the king, giving the government overt acts shall be punishable. pionage cases against immigration from those installments about the crimes in which they acted cratic France as labor in Germany and Italy the right (which he himself did not possess) to the actual history of state crimRule By Military countries which refuse to ac.
either as principals or accomplices.
inal syndicalism laws has dem Just realize what the Army cept for deportation aliens now starvation between the barbed wire of concen deny imprisoned foreigners the right to bring onstrated that they are used to and Navy authorities are advo in this country, while Title President Roosevelt speaks on the campus of punish ideas and beliefs only.
legal suits. Thus did they again save democracy cating: sets up a concentration camp Tuskegee, famous Negro school: Keep the ideals tration camps and the bayonets of the army.
There has never been pros Any anti militarist. anti for aliens who are now in this of your youth all your lives, he tells the assemin Norway.
ecution under a criminal syn war.
The closer war approaches the less there is to bled Negroes. No mention of the lack of the Negro pacifist literature country and who cannot be de We can, therefore, understand why the Sec dicalism law involving actual which may fall into the hands ported.
franchise and other racial discrimination in Aladistinguish the democratic dictatorships from ond Internationalists love the royal house of or attempted violence or incite of a soldier or sailor would be such are the main outlines of bama was made by either Roosevelt or any of the the fascist dictatorships. Workers revolution is listeners. Perhaps this ideal was too close to home Norway. It helps them make democracy funcment to violence: for such a outlawed right now, in peace. this vicious bill warmly en prosecution would have dorsed by Roosevelt military for the man who is so eager to denounce the race in order in both the opposing capitalist camps. tion.
prove facts, whereas the crim. Army and Navy regula subordinates.
pogroms of Hitler.
prove their own person or on the country Federal Criminal Syndicalism Law one of the prima Would Foist Military Rule on Labor coming war; that is, the Socialist Workers Princely Visitor Dictatorship In France Or to time.