27 SOCIALIST APPEAL FRIDAY, APRIL 28, 1939 APPEAL ARMY Minn. Enacts Vicious FIPSELS ARRESTED Party Wants Action, In the Union Busting Laws ANTI. WAR BILLS Olson Junks Stalinists Trade Unions Along with this open activity NEW YORK LOCAL MAY DAY PLANS COMPLETED Thomas Socialists Gain Control of by Unprincipled Tactics (Special to the Recinti Appen)
SAN FRANCISCO, April FLASH. This issue of the bor demands, that is striving Reactionary Legislature Aims at Outlawing 20. Three members of the Ousts Stalinist Job Holders in Drive voice of fighting labor in Amer creation of their own, socialist APPEAL. the to organize the workers for the Strikes and All Union Activity League (4th International. Against Unemployed Gains Momentum ica has been issued in the government. The Appeal is the including Myra Tanner, a largest number of copies we paper that has taken up where (Special to the Socialist Appeal)
member of the Na MINNEAPOLIS, April Minnesota reactionary legislahave ever printed! This splen the former communists quit tional Council, were arrestBy NORMAN MINI the unemployed. Sensational did achievement has been due and became the agents of the ture adjourned at A. April 19 after playfully covering the ed today for selling the Chai. Special to the Socialist Appeal) charges were made that big clock in the chambers so that they could evade the twelve lenge of Youth and distribut.
SACRAMENTO, April 19 the to the work of our branches boss class and the war monCommunist Party and the and literature agents and is gers. In a word, the Socialist Today the liberal administra By WIDICK o clock adjournment time and conclude what Governor Stasser ing anti war leaflets in Workers Alliance were doml based entirely upon extra or Appeal is the voice of revolucalled their fine work in passing legislation of a progressive front of San Francisco Jution of Governor Olson plunged nating the relief set up and a ders they have placed for the tionary socialism in America.
War time brings with it nature.
nior College. Released on headlong into its first major sweeping investigation was de: page May Day APPEAL. We want to take this opporswift and never ending rise in activity a drastic cut in the manded. After a brief resisbail, the three await alOne fine example of this progressive Vance Myre Bill which is going to make for induxon is the relief rolls.
prices that shoots the worker peace raignment on charges of tance Olson yielded and retunity to urge our new readers We want to address a word to become regular subscribers.
cost of living sky high and in the state. This bill is the failing to move on when ox In a curt announcement that moved from office William to those thousands of workers If you think that this paper has makes his good union contract most reactionary piece of labor to interfere with the free and dered.
a new economy policy was Plunkert. Deputy Relief Ad. who are today seeing the Ap. something to say about your of today seem like an anchor to legislation, bar none, which uninterrupted use of public Inside the school building being introduced state Reller ministrator against whom the peal for perhaps the first time problems and those of the a low wage tomorrow. has ever been passed in any roads or conveyance, or students were being in We hope you will enjoy readDuring the world war, for exof obstruct ingress working class, then the only stated that 34, 000 would be cut activity and communism ing this issue and are sure you thing to do is to get it reguample, the worker cost of most important provisions are: or egress from any place of peace and democracy is off relief within a few days. had been directed.
will find much material and larly living rose 70 per cent! Appointment of a labor business.
He further declared that, in through an elaborate armaOlson Surrenders information that will be of inments program. Outside pospite of the increased relief Since this actually meant a conciliator. by Stassen, for a Unsatisfied by this conces terest to you.
The subscription rate is 00 real wage cut of great propor period of four years, at a sal. act is threatened a suit to en12. Whenever any unlawful lice, who had been sumburden caused by lay sion the legislative majority Most of all, we want to im. for six months: 00 per year.
moned prever leaflet offs. more thousands would then dem tions it In the boroughs of Manhateasy to understand ary of 4, 500. With such a sal.
join may be maintained in the ary it is not hard to figure on district court.
why there were 4, 233 strikes in distribution. arrested the soon be forced to look else purse of the reliet apparatus est appear is the right paper or tan and the Bronx of New York 1917 and 181 in 1918, with one which side this so called conYipsels who insisted upon third of them being called to ciliator will be These are the provisions, in their democratic right to rigid enforcement of eligibility aitures. combination of Re Socialist Workers Party. This is 50 for six months; 00 gain higher wages.
requirements.
present their point of view. Every union is required the main, of a bill which Gov.
publicans and conservative is the paper that is leading the per year.
An editorial which ap.
Over 80 per cent of the Join the growing ranks of the This cynical and brutal blow Democrats cooperated in these struggle against the war plans to give ten days notice, writernor Stassen proudly prostrikes were caused by purely ten, before negotiations with claims as a measure to in peared in the school paper to the unemployed did not come maneuvers, completely tying of the Roosevelt government, Appeal Army by subscribing economic causes. e. wages. an employer, and before radio address delivered on set forth its war position in unexpectedly. As previously up the passage of the State that is fighting hardest for la now!
hours and working conditions) strikes. This gives the employ: April 20 he said that he was these words: Bigger and reported in the Appeal, a crisis Budget until Olson surrenbetter jails should be built has been impending in the re dered to their demands.
recognition, etc. were a very to break the strike and under Minnesota would not only comto accommodate the consci lief administration since Ol minor proportion mine the union.
son entrance into office. For in the Legislature the conserentious objectors who don The largest number of these ply with the latter but also the want war. Hence the action several months conservative vative forces were carrying on In industries of public spirit of the law and that now war time strikes occurred in interest and this is a sweeptaken against the Yipsel members of the State Legisla an equally important battle for anti war militants.
ture have been carrying on a complete control of the Demo the leading industrial areas, ing clause in which a dispute we will have industrial har.
New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio occurs, Stassen can appoint a.
relentless campaign against cratic Party itself. Their bitand Illinois.
The New York organization ment have already drawn up ter obstinacy in this fight is commission of three to invesPossibilities Neglected take thirty days to file its te due mainly to the fact that they of the Socialist Workers Party the blue print for establishing have been largely unsuccessful has announced that all prepa a dictatorship right here in the Here, indeed, was a perfect port, during which time the in obtaining political patronage rations have been completed United States as soon as the setting for a nation wide union union marks time.
under the Olson Administration for the May first celebration war is declared.
organization campaign that Fighting Slogans which was elected It is an unfair labor prac.
mainly next Monday at Columbus Cir could have built the into tice for any union to institute The Party May Day slogans through a loose coalition of cle. Thousands of leaflets have a really powerful body.
Labor Non Partisan League, been distributed as well as a call for: people of the Referendum on Even without a carefully strike is in violation of a union a strike if the calling of such followers of the Thirty Thurs general Party May Day Mani War: Let planned national CARN er is complying in good faith Unemployed and Project Work operate and were prepared to the agreement, and if the employ. The city convention of the delegates, were anxious to co Idie Factories! and we will day Pension Plan and the grew from Communist Party and the best the distribuzione or thousands or usited States arote Breach odt come back to it in another par 1916 to 2, 726. 478 in 1918 and the organized and cleverest ma copies of the special May Day Bullets: All War Funds to the to make. the seething unrest that swept the ably the conciliator will decide held on April 15 and 16 and the a real, deter gram many of whom were neuvering force in this. com Edition of the Socialist Appeal. Unemployed. Smash Hitlerworking class of the world in The main theine of the demism and Fascism in the United post war days reflected itself, plying in good faith with the whether the employer is com there are some very important mined, and effective weapon in Trotskyists but when it came among other ways, by the contract.
lights on this important este defight for jobs and higher to electing an executive board Hroncapturing the suiciest par anstration will be the ser usernia States oranize Workers. net growth of the to 3, 260, It would be well for workers Administration.
Stimson, New Deal and Old ployment in the United States: 068 in 1919.
The Progressives came into democratic Socialists in5. It is unlawful for at unionin unemployed organizations the convention with a real pro sisted on having only their own Turn on Stalinists Deal, the corrupt Stalinist For the Six Hour Day, the But the oil and steel indus to strike in volation of the everywhere to see just how the gram. Motions and resolutions members or stooges on the tries were neglected to a great Thus the Communist party party, all have joined hands to Thirty Hour Week with no Reconvention progressed because on all the main questions were board, has become the target for ex dope up America working duction in Pay.
extent. Only 4, 000 oil workers The sit down strike is un increasing numbers of workers drawn up and presented by the were enrolled in the lawful.
will be called upon to rebuild Progressives. All War Funds They who had often and loud tremely violent undercover at men and women in order to The Socialist Workers Party tacks within into a new world believes that there are thou Democratic while the Iron, Steel and Tin Trotskyists of ceuse the unemployed movement to the Unemployed! was the Picketing Limited beca of war, a new wholesale massa. sands of militant workers in Workers union had an official cre of the masses of American New York City, who finally unbeing out to control the union. Font, Mormouthed shouting labor, says a Party state derstanding the wholesale mantheir loud membership of It is unlawful for a work many concessions for the work watch connessions for the worked heading a sido expiced the opinion demonstrated that they them about her humanonline meblegen he 19, 700. or ment.
ner in which the workers have in some what the same nea the majority of the persons ens ers only to be wrecked by the that the side factories shouna selves are the rule or ruin ing the election campaign the The statement continues. been betrayed by the stalinists grew from 100, 000 to 254, 600 in based in a packlaces are employ to carve a career for them proyed and run by the workers this or over they accepted colson when his task changed America to families are or tant, class struggle celebration Not until the development of course doesn place any such rank and file.
the was the mass pro limitation on the bosses. If one unity between the and cally in full although it is sober duty of balancing the sanizing is a fraud and a sham. on May first. These workers war Just will not be willing to march in There hest industries alveorke chance bosses can bitch in and here in this convention the Norman erhoods was important for the is not at all in fergement with economy regime to the Call sike the ones to worries your pratical with its patriotic fiele: to join a union him, as is the custom Olson sudden move agerits and deputies in con waging and kow towing to progressives composed of inde The Norman Thomas 50 War Funds to the Unem Properly utilized, the econo to hen the sunlawfubit pret more pendent workers who rallied cialists could find little to ob ployed The twists this purge the apparatus and throwing thousands Join with the Socialist Workmic conditions during and after than one person to picket each around the militant program ject to in this program. They powerful slogan to meaning and to cut rellet, then, is more of unemployed into the streets. ers Party at Columbus Circle lever to lift up the American where no strike is in progress. are members her the socialist in der er obed horabo en una veonet et which, of course, is quite upon the unemployed. It is an Harassing and destroying the Max shachtman, Me union and working class move It is unlawful to interfere Workers Party.
Kinney, Bill Morgan and Na.
ments to new heights of power with a vehicle or a driver when strength and progress.
Thomasite Majority in Philadelphia where a new who vote billions for war and the demands of the reaction. Your agents in the war depart than Gould.
neither is party to a strike.
SAME PROBLEMS It happened that the Norman national organization was dis The bill says the bosses can Thomas socialists had a ma cussed by delegates from many Further, it has never begin the complete elimination Likewise, the facts of the bring in a thousand fink trucks jority at the convention. It was independent unemployed or come forward as a champion strike struggles in war time to break a strike and it un up to this majority to set the ganizations in the East. It influence within the show that tomorrow imion mili lawful for the union to inter pace, so to speak to take the a program which would build to the refugees.
Demo.
tants will have to face these Pere in any way.
cratic party.
problems, despite all efforts of lead in building firm, mili the into a fighting Double Cross Militants 10. It is unlawful for any Desert tant union which would go organization, the government war boards to (Special to the Socialist Appeal)
In other words, in order to NEW YORK At the regular And although the People settle grievances, etc. through union organizer to attempt to ahead and do the job abanRule or Ruin compel anyone to join or re dened by the Stalinists whose prevent the convention from World is making frenzied at Friday meeting of the Brownsarbitration or rulings. The frain from joining any la policy of rule or ruin had tive However, and this is indien knowing that the Socialist Par. tempts to cover up the fact. viile branch of the Socialist class struggle cannot be legis lated out of existence.
bor organization against his wrecked the Workers Alliance was practically no difference program which was voted al from Harry Bridges down to the appeared and atwill.
The job of building and main 11. It shall be unlawful. ling more than one third of the on the question of Open the Bates, they remained quiet and Hollywood or Carmel fully and interruption to prevent the The Progressives represent of opinion on program except most completely by the dele. the most confused liberal in tempted by constant heckling taining a good progressive WASHINGTON, DC. Interunion does not stop with declaeven voted for this program in realizes that Governor Olson speakers from reaching an au vention of President Roosevelt ration of war. It becomes more order to clect their own slate has deliberately kicked the dience of 250 workers with the in the four week coal strike indifficult, in some respects, but and dominate the Union. And progressive forces squarely anti war message of the 4th volving 320. 000 miners became in others, such as in the mood the trick worked because the in the face. This act will un International. In an effort to closer with the official appointof the workers after the first delegates were under the im doubtedly be the signal for eliminate these professional ment of John Steelman, flush of patriotism is over, conpression that all sections and many of the nondescript army disrupters comrade Harry Mil Department of Conciliation, as ditions are not so difficult.
opinions would be giver of middle class social climbers ton, recently returned from his mediator between the United study of the record of AN EDITORIAL representation. and top leader (then. labor bureaucrats, petty pol. long service to the workers of Mine Workers of America and But the Socialist Party, in its iticians, small time reformers Spain, approached the Stalin the Appalachian mine operain the during the first Senator Taft of Ohio considers himself in Democrats.
mad haste to make a bargain and second rate movie actors ists and asked them to wait tors.
world war shows that nothing the running as the Presidential candidate on The reason why some Republicans, at this with the Social Democratic. who have clustered around for the question period if there conference between the can be expected from them in the Republican ticket. Whatever he says. particular time, are capable of telling the Federation, had to double cross the and the Harry was anything they wished to operators and miners early this behalf of militant struggle for therefore, is with an eye to being nominated truth at least in partis because they are even its own active militants. Bridges machine to begin a say. As a reward for this plea week was expected to result in unionism in war time. They all by the Republicans as their standard bearer on the outside trying to get in. They defend supported Rhoda Pearson, long known for mass desertion to the corridors a group of Stalinists surround a further deadlock. Federal the imperialist in the coming Presidential election.
the interests of the capitalist class but they her devotion and sacrifice in of the conservative Demoed comrade Milton, one of Mediation Board would then be In a speech before the Republican National also have factional interests. They want their slaughter.
the unemployed movement. cratic faction which will now them hitting him from behind, set up to prepare the actual The cowardice of these lead Congressional Committee delivered at Wash party to win as against the Democrats and ington last week the Senator made a state these factional interests at times permit them was rudely thrown overboard offer grea er possibilities of ad broke his glasses and inflicted entry of Roosevelt in the situers was recently revealed and forced to resign from the vancement. serious injury to his eye ation.
again in the debate of the miliment which has created quite a stir. It has to tell the truth.
made a lot of Bearing on Unity Norman Thomas party which tary appropriations bill where quite excited because The workers at the meeting It is the old story of two thieves falling out had decided to string along revolutionary situation. Con it is almost notable that a responsible and telling the truth about each other.
learned a profound lesson in Since the major point of the amendments to assure union with Henry Rourke, a right. Fusion worse confounded!
rates of pay on government politician, even though from the Republican Opposed to the Roosevelt administration are the practices of the democ present strike dispute is John winger who is known as a redcontracts were thrown into the party, should make such a true statement.
The Senator simply stated that Roosevelt lulionary. All of these groups point to the many groups, reactionary, liberal and revo baiter and a bureaucrat in the gressives to carry on the proracy that the stalinists ped Lewis demand for a closed basket ile in the labor movement. The shop to exclude the dual Sister Pearson, who to insert this slogan Into the is ballyhooing the foreign situation in order mistakes of Roosevelt and at times they atJohn Lewis and the Brownsville comrades have ap. Progressive Miners Union, the to divert the attention of the masses from the tack him on the same ground but for different did not get a place on Rourke program of the and pealed for leaders and William Green and Slate at the convention was too to make every effort to really newly organized Workers De have considerable bearing on assistance of the Intervention of Roosevelt will his clique were very siNew Deal failure. Can anything be more true and opposite reasons.
militant for this right wing build and strengthen the union rense Guards for protection of the question of unity between lent after the manufacturers than that?
The Republicans, the Coughlinites and the gang out to rule or ruin. before the Social self seeking tend that the American Stalin lobby, aided by the Army and Facts that cannot be Denied slate of future meetings. We do not in the and the mettent reactionary Democrats incompetent and Should Roosevelt intervenNavy lobbles, killed the section Unprincipled Tacties may attack Roosevelt as a war monger and point out certain things Has anyone the possibility of denying that that he does as evidence of that fact in the of the bill that might have givAnd there are other inci. into the ground.
Rourke stooges run the union ists shall institute the system tion bring the exclusion of million unemployed cry out to high heaven But that coincialutionary socialists do.
en labor a few rights, the New Deal is a failure? Approximately 12 same way that dents which show up the un of terror and intimidation for union in one form or anResponsibility with Board principled tactics of the new Time magazine put the whole which they are so notorious in other, it would indicate what Now it is clear to all that the the Soviet Union and Spain.
is purely accidental.
can be expected from the White question nicely in speaking of that it is a miserable failure.
leadership of the question of proportional repre.
The Republicans, the Coughlinites, the conHouse in connection with the labor during war time: Lead Can anyone deny that the war mongering servative Democrats and the New Dealers Neil Harrison, the well known sentation in a progressive un ANNOUNCEMENTS unity problem.
anti Trotskyist was used as the employed organization is someof the Roosevelt administration is taking the belong to the same camp. all defending the ers of the and know much but wisely say little attention of the masses away from their capitalist order. They may quarrel among stooge to lead the fight thing for the Socialists to GIRL WISHES ROOM in mod of the lot of labor in war. troubles? That seems obvious. The only valld themselves and because of group rivalries tell against the Progressives. And get excited about only when ern, quiet home or share The misery of the unemHarry Sheppard, who but re they cannot jam through their apartment, Brooklyn preraising of the war scare is at least fifty per the truth about one another.
cently resigned from the Union own slate of party members ferred Write o Socialist that is conceivable, than it is cent due to his failure to solve domestor prom Using the Truth. For What?
on the grounds that if he were and stooges. The delegates, now, and all that has been said to remain he would have to who were amazed at the bu VACG MENAR tha Thai Vorca BY NEAR IN COAL DISPUTE THE REPUBLICANS WOULD DO THE SAME!
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