SOCIALIST APPEAL TUESDAY, MAY 9, 1939 How to Break Strikes. Courtesy ce tres diabolicat plans to forget the people of the War Department Experts Couldn Be Worse?
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or what have you, should ponder well the reBergoff is a piker compared and hour standards, etc. Since ure, even though it is not exthe official Stalinist answer to Walter Krivit Reentered as second class matter February 16, with the United States Govern such debates take time, the plicitly stated.
sky series of articles in the Saturday Evening marks of a British broker of The City.
ment. The War Department Administrator has a perfect 1939, at the post office at New York, under Publicly, the men are Post.
the Act of March 3, 1879.
Said the broker, as quoted by Frank Hani Industrial Mobilization Plan, right to act meanwhile as he coy on the subject. An interThe reply is a crushing refutation of the sensaEditor: ghen in the New York Post of May 2: War approved by Roosevelt, in sees fit. Then if and when the viewer asked Assistant Secre cludes among other things a Advisory Council comes to any tary of War, Johnson: How tional charges made by Krivitsky against the Stalinist regime and the and under the MAX SHACHTMAN would be terrible. But, after all, m coming to blueprint for strike breaking in decision, he can still act as he about conscripting labor? He sees fit.
time of war.
impact of the blow we are almost ready to apolofeel that it couldn be worse than what we re replied: No! But if the war Associate Ed FELIX MORROW going through. Clients) simply won put ured out and incorporated a the is the selective ser doubt that some form of guidgize for having been taken in by Krivitsky to the HAROLD ROBERTS The War Department has fish. The strike breaking ace of became a big war there is no extent of reproducing excerpts from his articles Staff Members: in our columns. To do the New Masses justiceEMANUEL GARRETT JOSEPH HANSEN money into new projects, with such an uncertain half dozen and more ways in vice draft. Summed up, it re: ance would be put in effect. By and God knows it deserves 1t we reprint its Business Manager: future. But if war came Well, there would which strikes in wartime may quires that: men 18 45 register: that simply mean that essenpoint by point exposure of Krivitsky in full: STANLEY have to be investments in plants which supply and above the ordinary meth citizens appointed by the gov mitted to languish because men General Krivitsky, you are Shmelka Ginsberg ods which the bosses govern ernor sifts them and allocates preferred to loaf rather than munitions. Lots of investments. As said beFIGHT WITH THE SOCIALIST You were never ment employs during peace some to the front, others are work. That all.
fore, things couldn be worse in case of war.
general. You cannot even time use a rifle.
given a deferred status if Side by side with this goes WORKERS PARTY FOR. You never set eyes on Stalin or Voroshilov.
Things couldnt be worse, says the London As Ramsay MacDonald classified as needed to work at You are an Austrian, hailing from old Franzbroker. Millions of men will be killed. Millions wrote in his book National home. The latter are called military supervision within the Josef Podvoletchiska. Your middle initial walls of the factory. The Job and a decent wage for every worker.
Defense, the World War ho the unorganized militia. The more will be maimed for life. Millions of chilbills provide for the induction stands for Ginsberg.
established that an efficient War Department has stated Open the idle factories operate them under You first turned up in Paris where you are a dren will be orphaned, wives bereit of their hus military camp must have an that a deferment once made into government service of all workers control.
notorious bon vivant, denizen of the night clubs, bands, mothers bereft of their sons. Not to obedient workshop behind it. is not final. and any man Individuals in management or The planning experts in the can be reclassified and called ization. What this means is Twenty Billion dollar Federal public works and always in the dough. You invented your title speak and housing program the devastation of a continent. Butand name for Paris journalism when you promised War Department do not rely on when circumstances require.
shown by the fact that the War to tell all. Thirty thirty! 30 weekly minimum wageand this should certainly be cause for rejoicing the advance promises of civil NO FREE AGENTS Department has already quiet30 hour weekly maximum for all workers on Those who know you well will snicker at the to the soldier whose flesh and entrails will be peace and servility which are DURING WAR ly distributed more than 14, 000 all Jobs.
made by Bill Green and John idea that your mind can absorb an iota of poliOr as Bernard Baruch, reserve army commissions to torn by bullets there will be new investments. Lewis, knowing that these the chief theoretician of the top rank manufacturers, exectics the nights in Paris are said to be too long. Thirty dollar weekly old age and disability Lots of them. And lots of profits, too, for the labor fakers may not be able has put it: No matter You are just the kind of adventurer that the inutives, bankers, etc.
pension.
brokers, the bankers and the financiers.
to deliver. While the War what the grounds for your de famous Yagoda would pick for his anti Soviet This same provision can be Department proudly announces ferment may be, unless you interpreted also to apply to Expropriate the Sixty Families.
dirty work.
Who said this won be a war for the defense that it looks to the patriotism are faithfully, continuously, and union leaders, who may be con You cannot even write. Isaac Don Levine, a All war funds to the unemployed.
lily in his own right, ghosted the articles. They of democracy, and for religion, and for a whole of industry to insure its cooper: usefully employed in a capacity sidered to be in control of an made a fine product Krivitsky, out of Levine, people referendum on any and all wars. bunch of noble ideals?
any faith in the patriotism of mined by the Government to over draft age, therefore, for the Saturday Evening Post. It is an open No secret diplomacy.
the workers.
be essential to the prosecution they may be forced to enter the secret that Suzanne LaFollette, Trotskyist stalControl over labor will be in of the war, your deferment will wart, is lending Levine a hand in preparing the 10. An Independent Labor Party.
the hands of a War Labor Ad be cancelled and you will im government service, in order to material for a book. Curtis Brown, Inc. are the integrate the trade union move11. Workers Defense Guards against vigilante ministrator appointed by the mediately be called for service ment into the war machine.
agents of Isaac Don Levine, Suzanne LaFollette and Fascist attacks The other day 900 families in Flint, Mich. President. The specifies with the colors.
and or General Krivitsky. If anybody still wants The President can also by the book he can get it for 500 that he shall be an outstandwho had been struggling for months to exist on ing industrial leader who is does not say, however, that over all industrial organiza Baruch has added. this decree extend military control New Masses has the facts.
the two and a half cent meals allowed them by thoroughly familiar with the men not under military disci tions and individuals involved That about all.
relief authorities were wiped off the rolls. No passableme or employer and em Phee Government cannot say. This is a provision which would And it a good thing for the New Masses that it is about all, for the paper it uses would surely As predicted in the columns of the Socialist clothing, no food, no homes, no work! ployee and who is capable of Work have torn at the folds if an additional ounce of Appeal, the capitalist government of the United These 900 families came originally from the dispassionate judgment in their work ere, work there. or especially effect the railroad this putrid garbage has been added. for Mr. But it can unions.
States has decided that it has no reason for hills of Kentucky and Georgia, the farms of the sensition. This was eatieved tervisan saya it did say, in 1918 In one little known case in Few Questions changing its policy toward Bolivia, despite the middle west, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Wiscon outstanding citizen a The was barely invoked, but it was strike on the Northwest.
sol Krivitsky articles in the Post, and in the European press last year, contained a mountain fact that its dictator came out openly and de sin, ten to fifteen years ago to sell their labor to Administrator will dispassion and is capable of immense ex. diers in uniform were used as of annihilating evidence against the Kremlin asclared Bolivia to be a totalitarian state subject the big Flint auto moguls.
There will be a Labor Division for industrial employment is ers. There is nothing to prevent of the Soviet Communist Party since the Civil sassins and their unspeakable misdeeds. Member only to his personal whims.
When the auto moguls had wrung the maxi of the War Industries Adminis tration, with no labor represen ly unnecessary. The work or a large scale if necessary.
not only impossible. It is whol this from happening again, on War, head of the War Industries Institute in later No less an authority than Secretary Hull has mum possible profit from the sweat of these tative on it, consisting solely tight method is a better way. Finally the President is years, decorated by Stalin with a high order, and confirmed the Appeal prediction. In his press American workers, they dumped them into the of representatives of governlatterly the head of the Western European Secret ment departments and war tutions and far more effective and regulations he sees fit to It is compatible with our insti empowered to issue any rules interview on May 1, Hull stated that he thought streets to fight for the pitiful dole dribbled out Service of the Kremlin, Krivitsky was in an exboards.
ceptional position to know the facts and to tell the form of government in Bolivia has remained by the government.
than any chain gang or im implement the general aims HANDPICKED LABOR Now the relief authorities have dumped them them. What he did write in such voluminous pressment that could be inlaid down in the bills. Violation detail, if it remained unchallenged by the Stalinintact in every sense and he noted that the same REPRESENTATION invented. Baruch empha of any such rule and regulation officials as before are still in power.
again into ists, would constitute a shattering indictment of streets. Henceforth they must eat The labor representation sis. carries the same punishment Stalin, the and their international frame2. The second method is the as violation of the law itself: He added that there was no state of new and the cake generously provided by Roosevelt from comes in the Advisory Council ups.
The Stalinist answer, quoted above just as it changed conditions that would call for action Flints: garbage pails, if the relief authorities Here de bar we have the priv. directedralt ber saberine. enas. 100. 000 fine and or one year in was furnished the New Masses by the office of by the State Department.
and Flint auto moguls have their way. tives to balance an equal num ganized militia to work where this rule by decree.
the does not challenge a single one of his The Socialist Appeal not only knew this beThis is the American way as the capital ber of the bosses men, with they are told under military or Trade unionists and workers the Labor Administrator pre ders, and making them liable who have heard the talk about chamberpot into a wind blowing in its own direcaccusations! It confines itself to hurling a loaded fore Hull admitted it last Monday but has been ists interpret it. But it is not the way of the tion.
consistently publicizing the fact for some time working class to lie down peaceably and die from siding in his officially dispas. to court martial if they do not. the next crusade hem de boue Just to make This is publicly rejected by world safe for democracy Now, since the New Masses, or rather the gensure, the labor representa Baruch in his statement above, should remember the remark darmes who supervise its columns, has shown What is new is Hull admission that the Roose hunger without putting up a fight.
velt government knew all the time that Bolivia Already Flint 900 families are joining hands tives are to be handpicked by but there is no doubt that it is of Senator Lee, member of the itself so clever in the question of names, we will the government. The Council part of the War Department Senate Military Affairs comprobably be permitted to put a few questions: was an absolute dictatorship even though Roose with the insecure and exploited auto workers in What is the name of the adventurer in the velt listed it as a republic; and that Busch rejoint struggle for the right of everyone to a job the Administrator, from time to necessary though avoided if Colonel Taylor (American Kremlin who once picked the infamous Yagoda time. And when it meets, its possible. Seereta rxciscreeWar Lection agent The Danis correct for his anti Soviet dirty work?
cent coup etat did nothing but openly acknowlat wages high enough to provide a decent stanYou have triumphantly exposed Krivitsky edge the totalitarian realities even though he dard of living.
assigned to it, such as collec one occasion as to confide to tion goes to war our form of real name as Shmelka Ginsberg. We are glad decided to change his name back to a republic Together they are echoing the slogans. tive entrega sevance med employ that he war Department wou dictatorship, with the President this composter, posing wisha weboh kus shah, was only again.
All war funds to the unemployed. ers or employees, whether ac favor a labor draft. And the the Commander in Chief.
Thirty thirty 30 hours maximum a week at a dirty Jew after all, an Austrian Jew at that (not country can be oppressed by the most vio: Galician, perhaps. and on top of everything.
hailing from ridiculous Podvoletchlska. That lent and bloody dictatorship, openly acknowl: 30 minimum wage!
Open the gates of the idle factories!
edged by the dictator in power himself. But if alone is enough to destroy his credit and credi bility forever. It should teach him to be born.
he lines up with Roosevelt for the coming warnext time, in Georgia, like Stalin, or Kansas, like Browder.
Will you please tell us, in your next issue, the strike him thrice across the haunches, and presto real names (middle initials included) of some of At the 158th annual communication of the the men listed as your editors? Who really change! he will be a noble republic with By NAT LEVINE ceipt of the phoney passports That the three defendants now! is Magil? And Joseph North? And Western democratic institutions to help defend. Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons of NEW YORK Aaron Sharfin, with a number of Stalinists at have connections with the Theodore Draper? And Robert Forsythe (or shall we ask Colliers. It should be a great comfort to the common the State of New York, Grand Master Dana Joseph reeman (also, people of the United States to know, as they lie Hellings made a strong appeal to the 1, 500 deles were found guilty wywar suryain places of work, among them: refusal to take the witness why is his name to be removed soon from the list. And Michael Gold and William Gropper?
dying on foreign battlefields in defense of capi gates that they recruit new members to Masonry Miss Helen Ravitch, of the stand in their own behalf. They from the youth of America.
conspiracy to forge and fraud Drama Travel League at 12 thus deprived the prosecution Bow to the Masses Ascetics talist profits, that it is so easy to change a dictator into a democracy.
There is a growing tendency, he deplored, par ulently obtain American pass. West 46 Street. Miss Ravitch of the opportunity to cross exAlso, give us the low down on the name of the Gentleman from Abroad who directs the policies ticularly among the young people to look upon women, among them the Mosternational Workers Order and this was worth certain convicof Browder; it would make Mr. Winchell turn Masonry with indifference. He exhorted the del cow imprisoned Robinson Rubl is the wife of Dr. Solon Berntion as a result of prejudicing really green with envy.
ens couple.
egates to electrify the Masonic movement by stein, for many years the per the jury by falling to defend When War Comes We don know much about Krivitsky writing Despite the fact that through sonal physician to William themselves. To have pursued a recruiting young men.
style or who, if anyone, ghosted his articles. But out the trial the tie up of the Foster, chairman of the Com real battle for acquittal, the since you re so keen on the subject, your readers If this country ever goes to war, asserted The reason for the indifference of American defendants of the Rus munist Party.
Colonel Burns, executive officer to the youth toward Masonry is given by the officers pletely suppressed by the pros. Blatt brother in law. of 308 the very beginning. That the sian Secret Service was com Mr. Isidor Schlanger, take the stand, a prospect might be interested in the name of the bright young former Baltimore pupil of Calverton Assistant Secretary of War, it must be prewho writes those stirring speeches and articles of Earl Browder? And by the way, who writes pared to do so with the most efficient killing and Hellings, rests fundamentally on faith in God clared after a convictipare that from the witness stand that he own conviction was illustrated apparently was very friendly with Miss by their tight lipped. unemo Stalin speeches now that comrade Stetsky has devastating machines mankind has ever devised and active good will toward men.
have foreign connections. and Ravitch.
been liquidated?
and in quantities corresponding to the mass pro But American youth has lost faith in a God raised bail to 5, 000 pending tional acceptance of it when the As for night clubs and long nights, here or in Edward Peterson, of 568 jury brought it in.
Paris, we don make any claims to the special duction capacity of the present age. who always seems to be backing the political sentence on Tuesday, adding 10. Not only, was the failure knowledge your editors seem to possess. But the With this perspective, he goes on to state in programs of capitalism; and active good will that under the circumstances Walton Avenue, Bronx at sum whose home the fugitive defen of the defendants to take the reference you make to them is one point on which a his report to the Chamber of Commerce of the toward men is not easy to summon when the you really hit home against Krivitsky. It is bardant John Blank boarded. Pet witness stand inspired Prosecution Had Facts erson and Blank were members fear of incriminating disclos room gossip that the upper New Masses circle United States on May 2, the War Department future offers no prospect save unemployment, Judge Goddard reference to of the Latvian Unity Society ofures, but the wished to retires to its soitary straw mattressed cots no has planned to place 1, 000, 000 American farm starvation, war.
the foreign connections of the the Stalinist International Lab. reserve to itself at a later date later than 9:30 for there is nothing else ers and workers under arms within three months Freemasonry like any other religion has noth defendants is corroborated by Or Defense.
the business of supplying the young men can do of an evening when they do not smoke, drink nothing stouter than Fermillac, after the Roosevelt government orders mobili ing to offer youth except oppressive rituals, gilt prosecution and other sources for the agent, Adolp, foreshadowed when Mrs. have an ascetic horror for fleshly delights and, zation for war.
buttons, and a bundle of hollow phrases tied Ossip Garber is described Arnold Rubens, to secure a Rubens refused the proffered in general, lead the stainless life of an Allas Mountain monk.
Already, he continued, nearly 10, 000 fac with the red, white and blue ribbons of patriot as a rabid Stalinist in affi business reference as a front aid of Loy Henderson, at davits by people who frequent for his secret activities, he that time Secretary to the Yet, unlike those others who also retire purpose.
tories (at present controlled by capitalist stock ism. No organization that attempts to embrace ed the Garber home, and as commandeered the Magazine American Embassy in Moscow.
fully at an early hour, the young men of the New holders) have accepted production schedules pre both bosses and workers can offer anything else. of Masses perform their singular rites and services in broad daylight, as is evidenced by the current pared by the War Department showing what is Youth must build its own organizations mony of his brother in law, Mr. by Imre Kline, alias Kenneth can aid indicated that she was Huston, a Stalinist whom cercooperating with the issue of their paper. Stern moralists would unexpected of their workers when the conflict fighting revolutionary organizations that will Aaron Sharfin was or is a tain trade union leaders believe which at that time was prepar doubtedly pronounce harsh judgment upon them.
starts.
struggle to smash the capitalist system of scar member e Communist Par to be a agent. Prior to the Radek Bukharin Show Ours is tempered by the reflection that in a healthier and saner social order, the political as Roosevelt administration has prepared city and replace it with the socialist system of ty. New York District, section his appearance in court, Kline Trial. The Rubens couple were 15, unit 12 and was active in Huston was last seen in Min to be used, and may still be well as the economic bases of their profession, everything for war down to the last murderous plenty the now dissolved Stalinist Unneapolis bettveen March and used as Volunteer Confes despite the standing which ages have given it, detail. Only one thing is lacking the consent The day when youth will take the road to employed Councils in the July 1938, his appearance in sors to a plot against Stal will be eliminated.
Bronx.
socialist revolution in the United States is close of the people. But Roosevelt intends to overthat city coinciding with the in, parading themselves But until that better day has dawned, we think Edward Blatt moved in an Stalinist attempt to engineer a Trotskyists. The Trotsky. it is not unfair to ask that their practices be concome this obstacle too. War cannot be waged at hand. The fat bosses who dominate the Free exclusive circle of well known frame u) against the Generalist angle was foreshadowed at fined to the duskier nooks to which conventionaltty without cannon fodder.
has tacitly assigned them, instead of flaunting them in the columns of an allegedly revolutionary Roosevelt will not allow the people the chance can youth rising invincibly with the working Mankoff and Dorothy Terris, peared from Minneapolis after in Moscow when the Soviet Em and made a trip to the Soviet the Drivers Union launched a bassy Washington declared periodical and in full sight of decent souls to say NO in popular referendum on war. He class to sweep away forever the oppressive sys Union in 1936 500, 000 libel suit against the to the press that the Rubens whose stomachs are not as strong as they realizes very well that no one in his senses would tem whith Masonry defends. Blatt arranged for the re Daily Worker. might well be Trotskyists. might be.
Passport Trial Finds Defendants Guilty; Had GPU Connections Grand Vizier Hull will lift a crisp dollar bill. The Fear of Youth