SOCIALIST APPEAL FRIDAY, APRIL 28, 1939 JOIN THE SOCIALIST WORKERS PARTY IN THE FIGHT FOR FREEDOM!
Death Agony of Capitalism Transition Program Leading to Socialist Victory Greetings to Socialist Appeal By BILL MORGAN Ind on May Day the diterences America cannot be isolated from history of the city.
as and the Roosevelts who today The Socialist Workers Party on mediate demands which must bilan a labor party be made a weapThe most important task fac will stand out clearly and do the entire world when world war The Communist Party. carrying are the outstanding representa. this May Day proclaims to the fought for now and which can buon for the workers interests isively in the slogans and ban is on the order of the day. It was out its line of patriotism and be lives of everything rotten in cap. world that it alone calls for the won if the workers prepare to ing the workers of America today Powerful ideas ners of the two demonstrations. only the Socialist Workers Party trayal, urged the workers to re talism. The Roosevelts and the revolutionary overthrow of capi. wage a fearless tight. The six is the task ol solving the life and The Socialist Workers Party death questions of footi, rent Our party is small in numbers which, alive to events and quick main at home and not piket the LaGuardias give a liberal col. talism and the establishing of a hour day is a burning demand and clothing, fuel and medical care marely a year old, has al. eady es act. took the responsibility of fascists. The Communist Party of oring to the national and city Socialist America. The an. would provide work for thousand but our ideas are powerful and ablished a reputation as a mill. coming forward and exposing the Stalin and Browder called the governments which cut relief, es nounces openly that only by the of workers in every industry. Th. will spread. The party of Lenin And on tp of these vit :1 ant and bold fighter in the in wickery of the capitalet lems is the coming Wer in whicl workers who picketed the fascist tablish sales taxes, spend billions revolutionary struggle of the five day week with a minimum o was small but its ideas were corterests of the working class. To Anti nd Roll inillions of men, women and hold meeting the blood brothers of for war and who throw millions workers can jobs for all at trade 30 per werk will furnish a goou rect and its members ere tough, Ten will be died in death an very important event the When the German American Hitler. The Norman Thomases off relief and The Roose union wages, and decent home start to the problem of raising the hardened Bolsheviks. The Social.
was reacted in a serious andre und in collaboration with other also remained at home, weeping. velts and the LaGuardias, no and complete medical care be pro standard of living in America ist Workers Party holds high the disease for the pronts of the bi ponsible fashion. No nther part ascist organizations in New It was the Socialist Workers matter how sorry they claim to be vided for the workers of America. he taking over of the idle ta bosses and the bankers, who have banner of Lenin and Trotsky. It huge investments to protect.
will grow in numbers and influook the lead in the fight against York, dared to insult the workers Party which called the workers for the poor unemployed and the The says clearly and sharp tories by the unemployed. operat var at a time when the fascist by holding a large meeting in to fight for their labor unions and persecuted minorities, are the reply that no united front with the ed by workers control. woul ence.
These are the questions which ggressors and the peace loving We Madison Square Garden on Feb. for their lives against the fas resentatives of political machines bosses or their stooges will ever make it clear that work must be can not be solved by any dictato ask workers to examine emocrati nutions were prepar 20 of this year, the was cists now, before the fascists grow controlled or self appointed group of well industrialists and win anything for the workers. provided or else the workers then our program and our action and wishers who are willing to give ng at Munich to plunge all gain on the job in the interests in numbers and strength. Only bankers. They do the dirty work Our party alone accepts the re selves are ready to take over in Judge for themselves. Shall it be nenity into an international of the labor movement and all the Trotskyists were there to die of holding down the workers in lentless class struggle which dustry as a whole. The human in the party of war mongering and the workers lives to protect their lood bath of destruction for a re minority groups in New York. rect the picket line and lead in the name of liberalism for the makes no compromises with capi terests of workers in their job bootlicking, like the Communist investments and their private division of the world resourcerrons of thousands of workers ral the tight, property. These are questions ind markets.
owners of all the private property talist governments, including comes before the property Inter. Party, or shall it be the party of which aan te decided in the Inlied under the Trotskyist banner For Herolstionary struggle and the banks. They are the left Roosevelt.
ests of the bosses, class struggle and revolutionary remained for the Socials ind picketed the Garden against terests of the workers only by the workers Party to issue threr the will of the largest assembly of time and efforts in extolling the they must be exposed for what The other parties spend their covering of the capitalists. And Immediate Demands The Socialist Workers Marty socialism the Socialist Workers workers themselves.
Our party knows and recognizes knows full well that only by a Party? There is little time to de.
The Socialist Worker Party. Serinlist peal with a clear and imes a week. its newspaper, the police and plainclothesmen in the doubtful virtues of the LaGuardi. they are, the fact that there are many in long and hard fight will the work cide. The war is not far away.
whose aim is to establish social sharp analysis of the situation ers of America win economic and Every day thousands of workers ism political Independence. Our party are thrown oft and relief.
arges workers to form a Labor Every day the reaction against laVitex workers on this historic and with clear and militant op THY party to support real labor polt bor grows stronger. The Socialist May Cay to examine the program position to all boss war.
Communist Party was howling for and activity of the Trotskyists in ies and real labor candidates. Workers Party invites all honest wer for support of bigger batile the workers must drive out the and militant workers to join in a the light of these questions, ships and more poison gas and it Lakers and professional politicians struggle for real security, for real Worker Mart Judge was demanding that America rom the existing labor parties. peace, for Socialiem!
The workers themselves must werkers he dragged into a slaugh They must fight for real demands An War Funds to the Unenjudge which party, which pro ter for democracy and real representation. The Comployed!
Fram, can best carry on the light The poor old party of Norman (THE FOUNDING CONGRESS of the FOURTH INTER trol of the workers, can this situation be solved. The ability nunist Party and the Social Dem. For th: Six Hour Tythe Five for jobs, for prace and for a de Thomas was asleep at the switch NATIONAL WORLD PARTY OF THE SOCIALIST REVO of the toilers to do this is beyond question. small group xerats make deals with the Repub Day Week 30 Weekly Minimum cent life for all. The workers with all the nice liberals and LUTION PROGRAM AND RESOLUTIONS. Published by of stockholders, physically shot from riotous living and men can politicians and they urge Pay!
must examine the parties and pro fakers in the Keep America Our the SOCIALIST WORKERS PARTY of the United States. tally incompetent, cannot stand up against the united power workers to support boss candi. Against Imperialist War!
grams of the Communist Party of War Committee when every Section of the Fourth International, 116 University Place, of the millions of workers and poor farmers. The stock dates. We say that only through Open the Idle Factories!
and the Socialist Workers Party, intelligent worker knows that New York City. 250)
holders continue in power only because the toilers are divided genuine Independent labor action and caught in the web of a traditional misleadership.
Build Workerk Defense Guards!
The kidnapping and murder of Rudolf Klement in Paris The resolution of the Fourth International explains t1 by agents of Stalin undercover hatchet organization, the reasons for this carefully. pointing out that the toilers have warned the delegates then assembling for the con. not taken over industry long ago to run it for the benefit of ference which was to found the Fourth International that the people as a whole because their leaders, the Stalinists, their enemies would stop at nothing to prevent the conference the Social Democrats, the trade union bureaucrats are more from being held. The utmost precautions were therefore Forward to Workers Power with the concerned about the interests of the stockholders than the taken and the conference convened secretly somewhere in interests of the workers. As a result, these leaders. more Switzerland on September 1938.
The resolutions of that conference together with the Fourth International!
properly called fakirs. either through ignorance themstatutes of the Fourth International which was formed there.
selves or deliberate design keep the workers blinded to their true interests.
are now available in a booklet of 127 pages which has just CLEVELAND SOCIALIST WORKERS PARTY come off the press.
The Pathway to Plenty BROWNSVILLE BRANCH of Local NEW YORK The Death Agony of Capitalism But this situation grows every day more and more inBesides resolutions which explain and clarify problems tolerable and the workers and poor farmers are continually turning and twisting, hunting for the pathway that will cut and YOUNG PEOPLES SOCIALIST LEAGUE concerning different national sections adhering to the Fourth International, it contains resolutions on the rapidly approachfrom their destitution to the plenty that surrounds them. It is this pathway which the resolution of the Fourth Interna For a Powerful Fourth International ing Imperialist War, on the conflict Japan is waging on tional points out.
China, on what is happening in the Soviet Union, a resolution Under the descriptive title, program of transitional de on the World Role of American Imperialism, and a resolution mands, that is, demands which stem from the present In Michigan Auto Centers!
on the Death Agony of Capitalism and the Tasks of the Fourth 5716 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland International with particular application to the United States.
beliefs of the workers and their present economic condition These resolutions are of utmost importance to every but which in lead inevitably to their seeing the need for a revolutiolution, the resolution proposes trade unionist and progressive interested in the labor movement. They are written and printed with an eye to ease in series of slogans that will have tremendous appeal to millions DETROIT and FLINT BRANCHES, reading and the explanations utilize concrete examples and of the poverty stricken.
references to actual happenings and men in the political and Chief among these proposals is the demand for a Workers trade union fields in order to make every point crystal clear.
and Farmers government to replace the present capitalist government. For more than a century and a half the capitalTo anyone who has wondered how to organize a workers revolution inside the United States which would overthrow ists have been tricking the workers and farmers into choosRevolutionary May Day Greetings from the the present system of profit gouging and replace it with a ing between two capitalist parties which have never had any system where the productive forces would be organized for essential difference from each other so far as the poor are the benefit of the people as a whole, the section on the Death concerned. No matter which party was placed in power it Revolutionary Greetings Agony of Capitalism is particularly illuminating.
unfallingly has upheld the interests of the capitalists and legislated and governed against the interests of the workers DOWNTOWN BRANCH of Local NEW YORK How to Smash the System and farmers. It is high time that the workers and farmers LYNN, MASSACHUSETTS, BRANCH put their own representatives into power.
After first describing the decay of capitalism as a worldwide system, its present headlong plunge into world war and Workers Program and Forward to a Daily Appec!
fascism, the most barbarous form of capitalism, the resolu.
tion blocks out in general the steps which must be taken in The first step proposed in this direction is the building order to smash forever this system of hunger, misery, and of a mass political party that will represent the interests of the workers.
ANTOINETTE KONIKOW UNIT, L: death.
The most difficult problem to overcome, states the resoSuch a party should have as its program the following lution, is the gap between the maturity of the revolutionary major points and struggle militantly to put them into actual MAY DAY GREETINGS conditions and the immaturity of the workers and their most practice: progressive sections the colossal capacity of the productive demand for a wage scale for all labor that would rise system to produce as contrasted with the failure of the work with every rise in the cost of living.
from crs to grasp the idea that a small handful of stockholders demand for a work week that would take care of inshould be ousted from their blockade of this productive creasing unemployment by shortening the number of work system)
hours per week (without a weekly reduction in pay) in order May Day Greetings to give jobs to all the unemployed.
Main Pillars of Capitalism demand for a guaranteed minimum wage that would provide everyone with a decent standard of living LOWER EAST SIDE BRANCH For generations the capitalists and their agents have drilled misleading conceptions into the heads of the workers, Oppose Capitalist War such as the belief that a worker can rise out of the class of Uncompromising struggle against the coming capitalist New York Local workers into the class of capitalists, the belief that it is to the workers own good to let the capitalists take all the profit war and the demand that all war funds should be turned over Immediately for the relief of the unemployed through a giant out of the goods produced by the workers, the belief that it is justáce to let a capitalist own the factories. mines, program of useful public works.
Forward to International machines, railroads, etc. All these ideas, of course, are The organization of workers guards to defend workers May Day Greetings completely wrong and of benefit to no one but a handful of fascists, and other anti labor elements.
organizations against scabs, thugs, armed company guards.
Socialism!
of these false beliefs to stockholders, who take advancilely for them.
For a Workers and Farmers Government Quakertown Branch keep the worker slaving away SOLTI BEND BRANCH Workers control of industry and the opening of all idle At the same time capitalism has developed the produc.
factories to be run for the benefit of the workers without tive system to such high degree that it can produce un having to pay a profit to stockholders.
In the United States limited, almost incredible amounts of goods of every kind Every one of these slogans is completely sensible and and description.
easily realizable if the workers begin demanding them and But this same giant capacity to produce for the benefit organizing in militant fashion to obtain them. But the capiST. PAUL BRANCH Forward to a Daily Appealt for a Workers and Farners of mankind, so long as it is talist class cannot grant these demands without signing their own death warrant. That is why they open up the road to increasing misery, increasing unemGovernment. WASHINGTON, DC ployment, lack of opportunity for the individual, more vicious socialist revolution.
BRANCH regimentation, and the most horrible wars and fascism. This Louisville, Ky. Branch seems paradoxical but anyone who has ever hunted for a Read the Complete Program Forward to a Daily Appeal!
job since 1929 knows that it is a truth not very difficult to The complete program can by no means be presented in NEEDLE TRADES BRANCH grasp a short review, nor all the steps that will lead to the launching of the socialist revolution in the United States. For the of Local New York May Day Greetings May Day Greetings Starvation in the Midst of Plenty more complete details given in the resolutions passed at the neces.
State, County and Municipal The paradox of starvation in the midst of plenty is the founding conference of the Fourth International it Needle Trades Branch meets Thursdays at 6:30 from sary to read the pamphlet itself. It can be obtained from all Workers of America most violent and glaring feature of capitalism in its period branches of the Socialist Workers Party or by sending 250 125 West 33rd Street, Workers Cultural Center of old age, decline, and death agony, READING BRANCH Only by cleaning out the stockholders who are blocking in coin or stamps to the headquarters of the Socialist Workers Group of Members Open Educational Meetings Every Other Week production and organizing industry under the exclusive conParty at 116 University Place, New York City.
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