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DOWN TOOLS MAY 1: Jobs Not Guns: Socialist Appeal Demonstrate on May Day To Protest Against Boss War Official Organ of the Socialist Workers Party, Section of the Fourth International Issued Twice Weekly VOL. III, No. 28 FRIDAY, APRIL 28, 1928 Set up and Printext by Union Labor.
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Socialist Workers SAILORS VOTE STRIKE TO BAR compelled to march through the streets on May Day to Party Stands for HIRING HALLS leaders of the official labor movement have this year can: TO THE WORKERS OF THE UNITED STATES: To be victorious in the great forthcoming struggles we must know what and how to fight, May Day, 1939, finds the American workers in a position where it is necessary for them seriously and resolutely AGAINST THE WAR to prepare for the mighty struggles that are to come. Roosevelt, Hitler, Chamberlain, Daladier, Mussolini, Appeasement Deal Everywhere in the world, the people tremble under the have completed their gigantic plot. They are now prepared dark shadow of the new world war. The war lords of to begin again the struggle for the re division of the world, Again Rumored every great power including the United States pour tens the battle to decide which of the powers shall have first In Europe of billions of dollars into their military machines, and choice in exploiting and oppressing the great masses of make ready to drive tens of millions of their subjects into mankind.
horrible death on the battlefields.
THIS WAR IS NOT LABOR WAR. Labor war, THIS WEEK CRITICAL In the United States, reaction has grown bolder month in EVERY country, is AGAINST the war makers, by month. The courts, backed by the police, are smashing against Roosevelt as well as Hitler, Chamberlain as well at the rights of labor. Unemployment increases once again as Mussolini.
Conscription of the British to staggering proportions. An onslaught is directed against Within every great power, THE MAIN ENEMY OF working class for war was the relief system, and hundreds of thousands of families THE WORKERS IS IN THEIR OWN COUNTRY. decided upon in London this are tossed aside into starvation and misery, Against that enemy must labor blows be first directed, not against the brother workers and farmers of other Simultaneously the British THE PERVERSION OF MAY DAY lands.
began cautiously sounding out.
Through a tradition of two generations, May Day has NO SUPPORT, NOT PENNY, NOT MAN, the possibility of some kind been dedicated to the international solidarity of labor and TO THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT IN of modified repetition of the the struggle of the labor movement for a better world. ITS WAR!
Munich deal which will postIn the present black reaction, the tradition of May Day FOR POPULAR REFERENDUM BEFORE pone the outbreak of war sufis itself perverted and destroyed. In Germany, the unspeak DECLARATION OF OR ENTRY INTO ANY WAR! ficlently to enable them to complete their chain of Euable Nazi tyrant, having broken all of labor own organ Why do Roosevelt and his fellow war makers fear the ropean alliances.
izations, cynically uses May Day to drive the workers, voice of the people? Give the right to vote to all those over Not Much Choice between, ranks of armed stan troopers, into a parade in 18! Old enough to fight old enough to yote!
In this and in this lone was his honor. In the Soviet Union, the workers who in NO SECRET DIPLOMACY! The people have a right there some chance of a postponement this week of the November 1917 gloriously marched to victory are now to know what is being prepared for them. Why are the armed showdown that has been lashed within the straight jacket of the and are diplomatic negotiations conducted behind locked doors?
so agonizingly imminent for months What military commitments are being made behind the This did not offer the yeoples shout made to order slogans of praise and deification to backs of the people? Let the truth be known!
of the world much of a choice, the butcher of the Kremlin. In France, the treacherous ALL WAR FUNDS TO THE UNEMPLOYED! for if the war is postponed, it cannot be for long.
Billions of dollars are being poured into the war machine, While superficially events celled the May Day general strike through which the to be used to murder workers for the sake of profits, while seemed to hinge on Hitler A POLICY OF MILITANT WORKERS STRUGFrench workers have for decades shown their determinaunemployed are thrown on to the streets. BREAD, NOT speech this Friday, actually GLE AGAINST THE BOSSES Hopkins Pledge to tion to be free the key to the next act in the BATTLESHIPS!
tragedy lay in the extremely In the United States, the largest May Day demonstracomplicated diplomatic moves not cringing in the anterooms of Roosevelt, Leader Broken tions, under the control of the Stalinists and the labor LaGuardia, and all the lackeys of the bosses DEMOCRATIC RIGHTS OF LABOR made by the opposing camps in By Government the mad scramble for allies.
bureaucrats, are this year being used not to advance the who say they are pro labor but knife labor One of these moves was the rights and hopes of labor but to prostrate labor before the During the past year, a rapidly growing attack, led by sudden return of the British in the back every time the bosses need it. Special to the Socialist Appeal)
government which is smashing relief and to line up labo the courts and joined by all the agencies of government, ambassador to Berlin, an acSAN FRANCISCO gener under the chauvinist slogans of the coming war.
has been launched against the rights of labor. The Supreme tion which set the European Court, the courts on the West Coast, in Pennsylvania and POLICY OF ACTIVE, AGGRESSIVE AC Sailors Union of the Pacific al membership meeting of the rumor factories buzzing with reports of a fresh deal a la TION AGAINST THE AMERICAN FASCISTS here today, April 20. voted for LABOR MUST FIGHT Illinois and New York, Congress and the administration Munich.
Let the workers determine to fight and they can easily are combining with the police and Hague and the Associ Practical Reasons THROUGH WORKERS DEFENSE GUARDS a coast wide tie up if that is halt the tide of reaction. The masters, fascist or demo ated Farmers to curtail the right of assembly, obstruct Any British move in such a not empty pleas to the direction would be motivated, ke breaking needed to put an end to the cratic. their lackeys, the Stalinists, the social democrats, union organization, eliminate the closed shop, illegalize the however, by some very real police and government authorities or futile tempts to hire sailors outside the labor bureaucrats, can all be swept away by a mighty sit down, limit or forbid the right to strike.
and the union hiring halls.
practical considerations.
The attempt to form a bloc for The war mobilization plans of the government include literary campaigns.
surge of the working class.
immediate war through reWhen Harry Hopkins, SecreSquarely upon the labor movement rests all hope for regulations which will prevent labor from exercising any tary of finally answererce. last week the future. Within labor potential army are gathered the civil rights whatever except the right to die and to work vamping alliances throughout Europe has hit a number of the demands POLICY OF FIGHTING THE WAR put to him by the and tens and hundreds of millions who do the work of the inhuman hours under slave conditions.
very sizeable snags.
gave his written pledge that MONGERS AGAINST THE ATTACK BY THE COURTS ON plied to the British proposal of The Russians have reworld. Labor hands run the machines whereby mankind the shipping commissioners of lives, drive the trains and trucks and airplanes, till the soil, THE DEMOCRATIC RIGHTS OF LABOR. not betraying the interests of the American the Bureau of Inspection under a mutual guarantee with a plan working youth by supporting the bosses and halls, it looked like a success draw the minerals from the rich earth.
FOR THE FREE AND UNHAMPERED RIGHTS for a rigid and sweeping millThe decision and the responsibility is labor If labor TO ASSEMBLY, FREE SPEECH, UNION ORGANtary pact that would be directed not only at Germany but Roosevelt in their preparations to hurl this ful end to the long fight of the gathers together its own strength, heals its own internal IZATION, PICKETING, CLOSED SHOP, SIT at Japan as well. It was also country into a new slaughter fest for markets mental hiring halls.
DOWN!
divisions, casts off its treacherous misleaders, becomes clear that the hussians, fear ing a fresh Chamberlain Dalaand profits.
But scarcely was Hopkins conscious of its own mighty destiny, no power of reaction written pledge in the hands of JOBS AND LIVING WAGE dier double cross, wanted to the make sure that they would not sailors when Admiral can stand against it. POLICY OF INDEPENDENT WORKERS PO Land, be left holding the bag in any Roosevelt. appointed After six years of the New Deal, the economic depres Showdown.
sion and crisis are in no way improved. At least 13, 000. This was a way of putting LITICAL ACTION THROUGH LABOR PARTY bend it the u. Maritime 000 unemployed and their families are outside of private the British on the spot and at not trailing helplessly in the tow of the boss dent of the Department of the same time enabling MosCommerce announced that cow to keep its skirts clear for parties and tying the workers to the capitalist the Maritime Commission vation wages. The great bulk of the youth are turned out the continuing possibility of a band wagons.
would continue attempting to of school with no chances of ever getting jobs. At 40 or minimum agreement with Hitman its ships with men sup ler which would pit Germany plied from outside the hiring less a man is judged too old to work.
and Italy against Britain and POLICY OF FIGHTING MILITANTLY FOR halls.
THIRTY DOLLARS. THIRTY HOURS! The France with Russia sitting EXPANDED RELIEF AND PUBLIC WORKS FOR said that Hopkins subordiWhat is more, Admiral Land (Special to the Socialist Appeal) down the plant after notifying great tradition of May Day, which started in this country, pretty on the sidelines in the first stages of the war. The TULSA, Okla. In desper the company. If the men had THE UNEMPLOYED nates, the shipping commis ate effort to break the four walked out without taking care was built up in the victorious battle for the eight hour day.
British were obviously unensioners, would continue to sup month strike of the Mid Conti of the boilers and other equipThe time has come for the labor movement to protect itself. not supinely lying down in the face of the ply the Maritime Commissionnent Petroleum workers, com ment, serious damage would thusiastic and the parleys were by carrying through on a nation wide scale the struggle for lagging.
New Deal offensive against the meager bene As soon as Admirai Land brought a county grand jury sabotage hurled at them.
the six hour day, thirty hour week. FOR THE THIRTY Balkan Barrier The axis diplomats raised fits given like charity to the 15, 000, 000 unem position became known, a sen against 140 members of the oil HOUR MAXIMUM WEEK THROUGHOUT a new barrier in the path of eral membership meet. Workers Union (C. Fear Unionization Wave ployed.
PRIVATE INDUSTRY AND PUBLIC WORKS!
by the Anglo French bloo ing was called, with all ships The grand jury which This strike has been bitterly According to the government own figures, the present orbit. with the prospect of a swinging Yugoslavia into their crews and stand by men order brought indictments of con fought by the oil companies bewage level is only about half that needed for adequate southeastern and Balkan bloc POLICY OF UNITING THE WORKERS The nine hundrede wandeltetened spiracy. incitement to rlot, cause they fear a wave of health.
voted unanimously to accept etc. consisted mainly of offi Use of tear gas, hiring of FOR THIRTY DOLLAR MINIMUM composed of Hungary, YugoWEEKLY WAGE FOR EVERY WORKER, EMslavia and Bulgaria, the RomeOF THIS COUNTRY AND OF THE WHOLE the resolution introduced and chals of oil companies here. strike breakers, and use of the Berlin axis placed Rumania passed by the meeting The witnesses before the jury National Guard has featured PLOYED OR UNEMPLOYED!
and Greece in a cruel dilemma WORLD TO BRING ABOUT THE END OF THE held simultaneoulsy in Seattle were confined to company the anti union drive.
with Harry Lundeberg, union stooges. Not a single striker Unable to win by those methOPEN ALL IDLE FACTORIES AND OPERATE and could boast by and large BOSS SYSTEM AND THE ESTABLISHMENT OF secretary treasurer, speaking. or union official was called to ods, the company is trying a THEM UNDER WORKERS CONTROL! While mil British guaranties to those two Picket lines will be thrown testify!
judicial frame up. Since the lions are out of work, and tens of millions need clothes countries. Turkey, on its part, WORLD SOCIALIST COMMONWEALTH OF Ston docks when the ships come ists were indicted was the first cal machine body and soul the The basis on which the union company owns the city politi and food and goods of all kinds, thousands of factories was waiting to see what the Russians could do and meanin. If that doesn stop them. day of the strike when they indictments were hardly a sur are closed or operating only a small fraction of the time. while sat tight. The RumaniPEACE AND PLENTY FOR ALL.
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