SOCIALIST APPEAL TUESDAY, MAY 23, 1939 ATTENTION! ALL In the Political Resolution for Anti War Convention of the Socialist AGENTS OF NEW Labor Workers Party DELEGATES BY THE POLITICAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST WORKERS PARTY INTERNATIONAL Unions DRAFT SUBMITTED FOR DISCUSSION TO PARTY MEMBERSHIP AND CONVENTION Notice to Members tend into 1938 thus signalizing the definitive The Prospects for the Party The Perspective of United States the fight for jobs and food. The cad term of The total of all other opponent organizations workers now ready to participate, initiating the present series of attacks, from the point Social Democratic Federation, Socialist Party, uclei of the anti fascist defense guard, funcWhether the New International will appear regularly in the Imperialism of view of the bougeoisie, is the total wiping Lovestoneltes, etc. does not add up to a small tioning as independent, organized, disciplined future is for the and In common with every other great power, out of labor rights through a war time mlli.
end active institutions.
fraction of the importance of the Communist units to decide now.
the course of United States imperialism is set tary dictatorship or through outright fascism Party. Insufficient attention to the CommunMany locals have fallen in ar By WIDICK directly toward the second world war. The we must understand and explain the present ist Party, almost equal attention to other op The Labor Party rears, thus Jeopardizing the entire life of the nation is being grooved into attacks in this sense.
AKRON, Ohio The current ponent groups, have been one of the most 32. During the past year, the sentiment serious weaknesses in the work of the party very issuance of the magnalne issue of the Summit County La the war channel. Every political, economic, 11. The party must consequently. bring to among the workers for a Labor Party has reItsell, Agents must make efthe forefront during the coming period the during the past year. The Communist Party and social issue is being more and more subbor News gives a succinct plcmained inert, held back by Roosevelt, the is far and away the greatest obstacle in this forts to pay up their bundle question of the defense of the democratic war preparations ture of the latest developments ordinated to labor bureaucrats and the Stalinists. Any ex bills forthwith. After six years, the New Deal, as a prirights of labor. The struggle against war and in the labor movement here country to the building of the revolutionary tended general campaign on our part around The June number of the New movement.
which reveal the great changes marily internal program of huge governmen.
reaction is intimately and acutely bound up the labor party slopen would have been on International will be out early.
that have taken place since the tal expenditures and subsidies, beral dema16. It is necessary to dispel certain illuwith this question. In the defense of demogogy and social concessions to the farmers cratic rights. broad united fronts of action are slons, shared the whole academic, and our agitation on this in an effort to catch up on the to one or another extent by our hey day of the issue has been largely, and correctly. con regular dateline for publica.
both possible and desirable. In localities where own membership, with respect to the Com Two incidents bappened last and workers, has ended in definitive collapse.
fined to specific and local situstions where it tion of the magazine. Della The intolerable economic crisis continues. The it is feasible, the party should take the initia munist Party. It is false that the Communist was relevant. Nevertheless, the organized in Quent accounts will not receive weck which brought a jolt to business cycle refuses to turn upward for tive in forming committees for the defense of Party consists only of bureaucrats and hope.
Akron residents. One was the tervention of labor in politics has continued their bundles of the magazine.
more than fitul and unsatisfying periods. The the democratic rights of labor. As the tactic less petty bourgeois. In its ranks and especial announcement of the Goodrich and in some respects increased during this At this time notice is given esImpossibility of a solution on the New Deal ly in its sympathizing circles It includes many for defending democratic rights, the party Company that it would build a same year. The collapse of the New Deal and pecially to the following Locals should advocate the wide use of militant meth basis, and the fetuousness of any proposed genuine and militant workers, as its influence plant for making rubber solcs its transformation into the War Deal, the wave to pay on their bill, or the June solution on the basis of old fashioned, Chamods of mass action strikes, demonstrations. in the trade unions proves. It is deceptive to of social reaction, the more openly reactionary and heels, In Clarksville, Tenn.
Issue cannot be sent them: ber of Commerce Republicanism. have be.
marches, etc. in place of the hopeless con consider that the CP is characterized The other was the brutal attack San Francisco: Bundlo al.
character of the Roosevelt administration, the through and through and in every respect by finement of tactics to parliamentary and lecome apparent. Internal measures having upon a picket line at the Loew ready discontinued with May an iron monolithis. The framework of the failed and offering no hope, the United States galistic maneuvers approach of the 1940 elections, are all raising or beginning to reise once more in the minds enthal Rubber Co. by Akron issue for non payment of bills.
bourgeoisie turns to external measures, to party is wholly monolithic. But in the heart of police.
of the workers questions about political action.
that mopoltthie fremework there have srown Oakland, Cal. Non payment the war.
The Fight for Jobs It plans solve its problems The background of the So untenable is worn out New Deallem becom of bills for several months in the present period profound conflicts and through acquiring greater share in the strike of the Loewenthal work 12. The contipuance of the unparalleled eco.
ing that even Lewis and the Stalinists have in Downtown Branch, New world market, in particular by gaining monoparadoxes, springing from the conflicting and ers is one which is only too nomic crisis. the persistence of the army of York: Slow in paying bills, alrecent weeks been compelled to make cer.
paradoxical social and political situation of poly control over Laun America and a major common. Back in January.
unemployed at a level of twelve or more mil.
tain criticisms of Roosevelt. It is hardly con though among largest branches conposition in the Far East.
international Stalinism. These interna indeed, it aims at lions, and the drive of reaction against the 1938 the company pleaded with ceivable that the disillusionment of the work in country flicts are the compelling sources of splits and nothing short of world hegemony. In the pres.
its workers that it needed a unemployed, place the fight for Jous squarely ers with Roosevelt can in the main take the Louisville. Ky. Slowness in ent stage of the war preparations, Roosevelt and enduringly in the front rank of the probdefections from the Stalinist movement. It 18 wage reduction in order to stay form of a swing back to Republicanism; and payments.
even false to believe that splits have not tak.
has taken aggressive leadership. His New in business, it said that as soon Jerns of the working class and of the party Seattle, Wash: Non payment en place in the Stalinise movement. Especially in any case it would be disastrous If this wer Deal has ended, and will not be revived except as a 90 day emergency was Short of the actual outbreak of war itsell permitted to happen. The slogan for a labor o bills: already discontinued occasionally in his holiday words or in those in recent times, after the Third Moscow Tria. which would temporarily absorb (under a dic.
over the wage cut would be reparty. properly developed in connection with with May issue: unemployment after Munich, after the fall of Barcelona, whal of his agents. The New Deal has been trans.
stored. It said that if the wage tatorial regime) considerable percentage of the other aspects of our program, can play a e factor formed into a War Deal might be described as slow and passive but the unemployed in cither the war industries or significant role in directing the disillusionment cut were accepted, all workers South Bend, Ind. Office not very extensive. Splits have occurred. But Because of the needs both of the war would be kept on the payroll the army, there is not the slightest prospect these splits have led the dissident Stalinists with Roosevelt and the dead New Deal into the able longer to subsidize.
and of tottering Industry. the War Deal The workers believed the sole progressive direction toward indepen Portland, Ore. Non payment of a major coonomic upturn. Even the vast with few exceptions, only to complete re.
is also a deal of social reaction. The months armament outleys of the pre war Roosevelt deut political activity by the working class.
company. They trusted to its of bills; already discontinued since Munich and the November elections tirement from political activity or to bour program have a comparatively minor effect We must be ready utilize every concrete with May issue.
sense of honesty and fairness.
geois politics.
have witnessed a growing reactionary wave. on economy as a whole. Chronic and They accepted a wage reduc17. The basis for influencing the Commun situation as it arises for propaganda and ac San Diego, Cal. Non pay.
This has been marked above all by the sharption. Two weeks later 30 men staggering crises for the masses of the people Lion in this direction, ment of b6 small unit.
ist Party, for recruiting its members and symcst and most brutal attack since 1929 on the have become the normal condition of cap.
were laid off, and when the 90 23. The slogan for the labor party, as we Other cities are in danger of pathizers and for hastening its dissolution as unemployed ad by the sustained drive similar action unless payments day energency period was up.
italism conceive it, is in no way Incompatible with an obstacle to the growth of the revolutionary against the democratic rights of labor. In the direct entry of the party, under its own as me, are speeded up. Mention or the company forgot to restore 13. The older program of immediale de movement, is present. What is required for period ancad this attack and this drive will the wage cut. The workers went mands and restrained and legalistic meth success is a conscious deliberate and susin elections. On the contrary. experience has names is herein omitted with continue, and it is planned to climax them by along arguing and discussing expectation that those cities ods of fighting for them are 10 longer adeamply proved the great value of the parts tained policy on our part. We must root out the imposition of totalitarian military dicta will respond before June issue the matter with company rep quate to rouse the masses to struggle or to name and party candidates appearing on the all traces of a defeatist or passive attitude torship on the day that war begins.
resentatives and always they ballot, with the wide opportunities for revolu goes to press.
make any headway ngainst the onslaught of toward Stalinism, and orent boldly on the tionary education which this opens up. In all The management wishes to were put off.
social and economic reaction. We must be perspective of major and fruitful work in that say that the above measures localities where this is practically feasible, Pinally, last week end they The Struggle Against the War bold. open and resolute in advancing the broad arena.
and where it will not conflict with the devel are taken only as a last measdecided they had taken the cut The character of the present period dic.
opment of genuine independent working class ure to ensure the issuance of long enough. They felt that lates the main task of the party: gram. a sob and a decent living for every The Struggle Against Fascism the New International. How their confidence and trust had The strainst the war. Just as the political action on a broader scale, the party 13. In the months since Munich and espec.
must in the next period try to enter elections ever, this is a two edged sword.
been betrayed. They went on bourgeoisie subordinates every other question Sally since the fall of Barcelona, and with the directly.
strike to preparation for the war, so must the party since a needless loss of circufailure of the 1938 upturn in business to ex lation is thereby incurred, with subordinate every question to the struggle a consequent lessening of rev. Law and Order Against the war. What is required is not a of New ence. The proper and only soTO MEMBERS AND BRANCHES OF The company wanted to temporary or episodic campaign, but a sus and semi fascist movements in this country 21. The defeats of the working class on an bution is for the agents to promove out some finished orders.
tained, deliberate and enduring policy. The THE SOCIALIST WORKERS PARTY: have been growing rapidly in numbers and international scale. the lack of organised re ceed to pay up their bills.
The pickets picketed the railS. must aim to be and to become known Dear Comrades: boldoess. The nationwide notoriety achieved to the masses as: the anti war party.
road tracks. The train crews sistance to the approach of the war, and the by Hague through his 18e of fascist and semiThe Political Committee herewith sub6. In accordance with our analysis of the refused to run the pickets mits for the consideration and discus.
fascist methods symbolizes this development.
apparent passivity of the working class in this PICKETS dow. The Akron police ap nature of capitalist war as an integral phase as in other countries, above all since the fall The nationwide series of meetings and mobil sion of all party members its draft of of capitalism, the struggle against the war izations by the Nazi Bund provided a kind of of Barcelona, have not been without adverse ASK ACTION ON peared on the scene. They sur the main political resolution of our forth cannot be conceived as a special campaign, effect in some quarters of the radical labor rounded the pickets.
RELIEF NEEDS dress rehearsal for native movements. The coming Anti War Convention, which will but inust, rather, Infuse all of our activities: They told the pickets to movement. In some cases this takes the form be held in New York City, July to 5, Silver Shirts have been especially active in trade union work no less than our press: youth of the entirely erroneous opinion that our per small towns and villages. It is reported that Continued from Page 1)
move on. The pickets hoved 1939.
slowly, too slowly suit the and defense and unemployed work no less spective for the next period must be one mere conduct any militant actions As provided by our party constitution, there are now more than 8oo fascist and near.
than our occasional manifestoes.
fascist organizations in the United States. At ly of consolidating a tight and firm cadre and police. Witbout warning. they the period between now and the conven against the Wall Stieel polls6. We must recognize that our opponents attacked the picket linc wield of excluding the posstbility of important pucians who control the City the present time the most successful and ad tion is one of free discussion, Branch within the labor movement the social reformerical growth Council and its leader LaGuarins clubs and revolver butts.
and membership discussion meeting varing of these is the Coughlin movement, mists, stalinists, and the labor bureaucracy which, since Coughlin reappearance on the 25. While the factors that have led to this one armed man who lost should be organized. Discussion feeline cannot be denied. The inference drawn his arm in are separated from us now not by mere ideo Three divisions of the course of his or resolutions setting forth articles scene after two years of quiet, has taken on a logical divergences but by their having bedifferent more and more openly fascist character.
points of view should be submitted for work at Loewenthal was club is by no means necessarily correct, and other were present at the dem.
bed into insensibility. The pres come part of the war machine. They have onstration publication either in the party press or Though it is doubtful that a movement led by equally important national and internationa joined the camp of the class enemy. Our stident of the union, Steve zio.
conditions point to a contrary conclusion. The a Catholic priest can be the authentic fascist The section demand in the party internal bulletin. Other con tack against them must correspondingly inmek, was apparently singled vention documents prepared by the Polit movement in this country. Coughlin followwar is approaching, but the masses, in the ed that Laguardia Immediately crease in sharpness and intransigence. We out for attention, because three United States as in most other nations, are ical Committee will be published ja an ers are being prepared in ideology and methgo to Washington, to de must reveal them to the workers in their full policemen made for him, sur carly issue of the Socialist Appeal.
ods for fusion into the definitive fascist move not in favor of the war, and have not suc mand the re employment of a. and true ligbt.
rounded bim, and pounded his cumbed to a blatant war chauvinism. They ment of the not too distant future. workers recently cut The convention agenda, approved by Our press and platforms must be conhead and shoulders with clubs the National Committee, is as follows.
19. It is absolutely Inadmissable to neglect are on the whole against the war, however from the rolls, and that city stantly used to make clear the character o!
and a revolver butt. When he United States political perspecor minimize the importance of the current incompletely they understand the implications funds be used to restore these the coming war.
tell to the ground be was kicked We must continue to sup of their opposition. As the only party which jobs until Washington makes tives in the light of growth of fascism. Fascism in this counwar crisis port the popular referendum on war declaraand beaten yet more.
and the corresponding tasks of the try is capable of spreading like wildfire, of fights the war, there is every objective foun. the necessary appropriations.
tion, as a means for reinforcing anti war sentOn the question of the decen.
party.
strangling the labor movement before it is cation for the growth, even the rapid growth The local homeless division ment among the masses, for putting forward tralization of Goodrich with its of the party as the organization concretely aware what is happening. The great army of of the demanded au The preparations of the party for threat to the the our own program, and for exposing the antiwar.
disillusioned memployed and the disinberited immediate restoration of three embodying the anti war sentiments of the democratic nature of the war makers. Simi.
Summit County Labor News masses. Again, there is no revolutionary opyouth are particularly and immediately vul.
meals a day to all homeless The war crisis and the work ir quotes Callahan, presi. larly, with the demand for No Secret Diplounemployed. LaGuardia retrade unions and unemployed or nerable, Europe has taught that in order to position to the party. hardly the pretense of macy! and with exposures of the secret dent of the Croodrich Local, ganizations defeat fascism the labor movement must any; and consequently every serious feeling cently cut them down to two maneuvers of the State Department we must which fought and won a battle meals a day. They also de4. The struggle against fascism and or thought directed against the present orde never let fascism get a step in advance, that against a proposed wage cut show the war as a conspiracy against the the Workers Defense Guard.
it must anticipate and prepare for the fascist of war and tyranny and starvation can find manded that they be taken out people. Our unqualified opposition to ali imlast spring.
genuine outlet only in the ranks and actions of developments before they take place.
of the flop houses and be The war and the Fourth Interne The BF Goodrich com. periglist armaments, to all varieties of natransferred to full relief tional 20. It is the immediate duty of the party to our party. Again, the masses want to fight pany has developed from tional defense, must be modified in no way The unemployed section. The organizational report.
prepare educational and propaganda material fascism and its growth at home: and only ou small shop, valued at a few whatever in the face of prejudices seeking whose members are threatened Youth report.
in its press and in cheap pamphlets dealing party has proposed or attempted to carry out with voucher relief through the thousand. to great corpora serious fight against fascism. Pinally, the some patriotic loophole. With our slogan of Anti War Manifesto.
with the native fascist and near fascist move. All War Funds to the Unemployed! we sum tion with assets now totaling end of the New Deal once again poses sharply ments. This material should be put in the most Committee reports. a) Resolunow being test new prester, to give starnps before the workers the problems of politica ed in some 147 million dollars. Allo up both our analysis of bourgeois armaments tions committee. b) Constitution popular and simple form, directed especially action, and here also our party alone gives a instead of money to the un has been brought about in and their relation to the reactionary drive committee. c) Other committees toward the youth and the unemployed. and span of some sixty odd years against the masses employed, voiced their protest.
20. Blection of the National Com must aim at mass circulation to combat the answer.
The brawn and muscle of the The first aim of Imperialism in the They also clemanded that sum.
mittee.
Inscist ideas directly on the ground whore 26. It is entirely possible that the coming people of the Akron area ar war is monopoly control over Latin America.
mer ice be given to all home Fraternally.
they ohlefiy germinate.
period will be one of rapid growth for the primarily responsible for this and the US. plans also to use Latin America relief clients immediatciy.
21. The struggle against fascism at home, James Cannon, party. It is certain that if we do not have this company phenomenal sue as a strategic base and a source of raw ma Guardia practice has been to National Secretary however, cannot even now be confined to pro as our perspective, if we decide in advane: terials and personnel in the conduct of the paganda and agitation. It is necessary to fight that growth is impossible, then stegnation 1: give ice only to families who the fascist movements in action from the very war. Our strugcle against the war cannot be Assured. But our problem and aim is not to have small children. Other deProtits vs. Wages divorced from the firmest and widest support worker; the opening of Idle factories under beginning. Our slogan For Workers Defense retreat, but to advance and to gain. The party mands consisted of decent bur of the Latin American masses in their own workers control; the 30 hour week and 30 pls in family lots, more clothGuards against Fascism cannot any longer has never taken recruiting seriously: It ha The company cleared more struggle against imperialism. During minimum weekly wage: 20. 000. 000. 000 public be confined to agitation, but must be put into always allowed new members to drop like rip ing. Increases in the food althan 2, 000, 000 profit last year the past year, the Fourth International, which works program; expropriation of the Sixty.
fruit into the ranks of the party, after suitable lowence, and the issuance of despite the fact that man Families: etc.
is the sole organization supporting on a world few localities. But the party must now at and lengthy fertilizing by our ideas and theo emergency relief within 24 other companies lost their hold scale the anti imperialist movements of the 14. We must take care not to permit the hours instead of the present tempt in every section of the country where it ries. To assure the success of the party in the ings in the same period. Cey transitional program to become a mere litercolonial and semi colonial peoples, has made has branches to begin the actual organization next months we must radically alter this atti practice of stalling for weeks, tainly labor did not benefit The City Council meeting on notable progress in a number of Latin Amer!
period tude: we must become crusaders and greatly through this erary exercise. It is not intended as a finished of at least skeleton defense units, which will document valid as a whole and just as it can countries. The must in the next work indefatigably to broaden their base, esberat the Tuesday of the Union even though they were able year vastly increase its concentration upon demostration was opened with stands for a times and occasions. In the first pecially through union support. Ideally these correct program, but resolved that this pro maintain their hourly wages Latin American work, and must link this with the blessings of Catholic place, it must be lifted out of the pages of our should be based on and built through the gram will become the program of masses of Indeed the India Rubber Work what has been almost entirely Incking in the press and thrust Into the midst of the unions priest. His sermon consisted unlons, as in Minneapolis. But where this is workers. Habit and routine dictate caution and says of the Akron factories and other mass organisations. In the second past: political activity among the Latin Amer not possible, the party must nevertheless lead reserve. The future of the party and the needs of an admonition to the city Reduced labor cost per dollar icans resident withio the United States. place. It must be understood as a method for the way and itself take the Inttiative in form of the American revolution demand audacity Council: May the Good Lord value output and recent ir linking the party with the actual struggles of preserve and protect the City ing, together with sympathizers and non party and a bold offensive, crease in tre prices. cor Council from the domination of Democratic Rights the masses. The conception the transition tribute to substantial im program must be used to give depth and ex. AKRON proximately 75 misguided prissure groups. He evidentprovement in earnings During the past eight months there has tension to issues which arise naturally out of com ly referred to the unemployed pared with 1039. The Wal taken place growing attack upon the demowho the living experience of the masses. The pop RALLY DEFIES were demonstrating Street Journal also recenti: cratic rights of labor, an attack required by up the meeting. These youths reported that labor costs the bourgeoisie equally as part of the war ular movement for referendum on war is a were led by Roscoe Albaugh, PITCH YOUR TENT nt Camp against their miserable condtSeven Oaks Red Bank. While the action of the Akron rubber factories declin preparations and in order to ald the suffering Board of Education employee.
extremely important at present, is the drive business cycle. The illegally of sit downs has Swimming Pool ed last year. Continued from Page 1)
for a 30 hour week begun by the electrical Tennis, was directed at the right Police stood idly by while the Callahan blasted away at the been made expllett by the courts. The courts cessity Plumbing 20 and we equip place, the effectiveness of the workers defense workers and the plumbers and, in a somewhat your tent. Complete kichen ertion was greatly diminished youths tried to rush the speak Strte Legislatures, Congress and the police Akron Beacon Journal which guards different form, by the auto workers. This 30.
printed an editorial blaming ere engaged in a nation wide drive to limit facilities. Katz, 68 4th because the original decision of hour week moveraent is a concretization of squad of policemen with erst stand, throw rocks and bor for the decentrelizatio St. New York City.
or smash the rights of picketing, boycotts reserves in cruising police cars drown out the speakers with The unlon action committee to the transition demand for a sliding scale of closed shop, strikes, demonstrations and proposal of Goodrich. Counter organize a sit dowo strike was hours. and should receive the full and active surrounded the Legion meet boos and cat calls.
acting this propaganda is a m: through a varlety of other means strive to ing. Threats from a few Le. Quick action by the party and SPRING PEVER DANCE. EX not carried out. The failure to support of the party.
jor task of the 0, moveme hamstring labor organization. This attack will cion de hards to clean up on Yipsel defense squad prevented hibition Dancing. Impersonal carry out the decision rests on not diminish but on the contrary will increase The Communist Party the reds falled to materialize any serious disturbance tions and singing. Saturday, the shoulders of the steering in intensity during the next period.
Leaflets announcing the emer And the problem of the un when they saw the large et mmiitee May 20. Astor Branch, 28 Rourke and Whitmore. mem controlled by cepsine police torn against 10. These democratic rights are indispers. 15. The Communist Party must occupy tendance at the emergency gency rally were distributed all picket lines becomes mor able to the very existence of organized labor central place in the propaganda and general throughout the factory and 40 31st St. Astoria. IRT orbers of Thomas Social acuto datly.
activities of the party in the coming period.
both in the struggle against the war and in Instead they rounded up ap. downtown sections of the city. BMT to Grand Ave. Party. youths who attempted to break ANNOUNCEMENTS prominent example of such an issue. Ancher LABOR HATERS nere.
rally.