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Official Organ of the Socialist Workers Party, Section of the Fourth International Issued Twice Weekly VOL. III, No. 36 FRIDAY, MAY 26, 1939 167 3c a Copy SILENCE SHROUDS RELIEF SLASHES The Gyp Joint Father Coughlin Lies Do Not Cloak His Rabid Anti Semitism 709 DEU Security Bd. Figures Show Extent of Cuts COOSEVELT Appeal Salesmen Challenge Coughlin COMMUNIST PARTY WORKERS ALLIANCE RELIEF CUTS BRITAIN SEEN YIELDING ON RUSSIAN PACT Carlo MILITARY RULE Huge Protest Meeting TIGHTENS IN Against British Plan HARLAN COUNTY Despite Demagogic Denials There Stands Out the fact that America Number One Fails to Back up Lewis Request Fascist Is a Vicious Anti Semite With any Action Campaign Relief Funds By GRACE SAUNDERS Drop Despite Cutting of Rolls In the growing wave of anti Semitism sweeping this country, Father Coughlin is in the forefront of those who pander to the WASHINGTON The Administration war against the vicious race hating propaganda of fascism. Despite this fact, Father Coughlin who rants constantly about Jewish bankers, unemployed has spread from the to direct relief, it Jewish radio owners, Jewish communists, the Jewish controlled is revealed by figures released last week by the Social Security press, etc. etc. has the impudence to claim that he is not Board.
really anti Semitic.
Listen to the pious Father: In addition to the hundreds of thousands dropped from If and when anti Semitism shows its ugly head here, shall the rolls the administration has already be the first, without hope of receiving reward, to condemn it both by voice and deed. Father Coughlin, September 19, 1938, reduced the rolls from the Oc(By State Writer)
reprinted in Social Justice, May 1, 1939. NEW YORK. Refusing to tober figure of 3, 350, 000 to a We disavow all participation with those who hate Jews permit the Coughlinites who figure of 2, 600, 000 and plans because they are Jews. Social Justice, May have been selling their anti Semitic, labor hating to reduce this to 2, 000, 000 by newsThe Real Coughlin paper openly in Times Square July those on direct relief Against these disclaimers, the real Coughlin, thoroughly anti to ko unchallenged, squads of are also being dropped.
Semitic, can seen in the following quotations picked at ran. Socialist Workers Party memdom. Hundreds like them could be cited: bers went to 42nd Street on Eight per cent less was Eventually the Jew, Lenin, died. Social Justice, Saturday afternoon and eve.
HE spent on direct relief in April May The minor matter that Lenin was not Jewish, of course, ning, stood directly next to as compared with March, aldoesn prevent Coughlin from making this statement. The priest Coughlin fascist flith peddlers, and sold hundreds of doesn wince at telling a lie.
Full Alliance Near; though simultaneously sever Jews Boycott Hearst. streamer headline on front cover coples of the Socialist Appeal al hundred thousand were of Social Justice, May 22. in which Father Coughlin was British Seek to Bar dropped from rolls Out of this Jewish censorship. sponsored by the General exposed as the would be Hitler Jewish Council. In addition to scurrilous editorials in the of America German Soviet Pact and applied for direct relief, Thousands of leaflets warnJewish press. The same front page editorial. while employment figures Lesile Hore Belish, the only Jewish member of the British ing the workers of New York By HAROLD ROBERTS showed less than the usual cabinet. Page of the same issue of Social Justice. City against the fascist dema The Franco Soviet Pact. drawn up by the French Jew, uted throughout the Times gogy of Coughlin were distribAfter weeks of fruitless seasonal increase.
Leon Blum, and the Russian Jew, Maxim Litvinoff Finkel square area.
maneuvering, the Chamberlain What the cuts in the stein. Same issue, same page. government was coming re rolls mean in stark hunger and Four Arrested luctantly around this week to suffering is indicated by the Methods Are Simple Four comrades who were acceptance of the Soviet pro fact that figures released by selling the Socialist Appeal posal for a full military alli the Social Security Board disAnd so on and so forth, Coughlin method in putting across were arrested when they reance between Britain and the close that in January, 1939his anti Semitic propaganda is simple. Those he attacks, he fused to abide by the arbitrary Soviet Union.
before the big slashes of labels Jews, if he can possibly get away with it, whether they order of the police forbidding In a Commons speech last Jobs came the happen to be Jewish or not. Likewise in picking his adversaries, any mention of Coughlin pillory. For instance, in his name as they hawked the Friday Chamberlain made an accounted for over 49 of the he always tries to find Jew other pathetic appeal to Hitler total income of persons receivphoney attack on bankers, by which he seeks to exploit the anti paper. The Appeal salesmen to show some sign of goodwill ing public aid. With a 40 cut Wall Street sentiment of the Middle and Far West, he concen were even denied the right to New York Jewry held a huge countries, with ominous signs that would make it unneces of from October by trates his fire against the firm of Kuhn, Loeb and Co. rather call out the headline of the protest meeting against the of the onrush of fascism in the than Morgan and Co. and the others. He says a dis paper: Father Coughlin the British White Paper at the great democracies and, now. sary for Britain to enter into a July 1, the major item in relief The military rule of Presi Hippodrome last Sunday after Britain death blow to Zionist Hitler did not delgn to reply. llons of workers and their fam.
is being cut to pleces, and miltinguished partner of this firm the means Henry Morgenthau. Agent of Fascism in America.
Sr. father of the Secretary of the Treasury) played a major The police even commanded dent Roosevelt National noon.
hopes for a Jewish Homeland Instead the signing of the illes are thus being condemned role in bringing about the Russian Revolution in 1917. As a that nothing except name Guard was tightened in Har Nearly seven thousand filled in Palestine.
Italo German military alliance to and all this is done amid result of this and similar false statements, Coughlin broad of the paper and the sale price lan County over the week end the great auditorium. while they were seeking way was staged amid much pomp.
casts were banned from radio station WMCA of New York. might be mentioned. As the as General Ellerbę Carter, three thousand others stood out. But they were told of no military display, and assorted conspiracy of silence! Not a Kuhn, Loeb and Co. have also been singled out for attack by Appeal salesmen were arrest commander of the militia, pre outside, unable to enter. way out by the speakers who threats to all enemies or poten word has been said in either Major Gen. George Van Horn Moseley, retired. anti ed their places were taken im pared to carry out his orders It was a meeting in which monopolized the platform all tial enemies of the Rome Ber Congress or the Senate about Semite who is reportedly up a ascist witi media others who con from Governor Chandler to young people predominated afternoon. For all these speak lin axis.
Atlanta as the capital.
President Roosev tinued with the sale despite the shoot to kill.
Young people with undimin ers merely repeated the old Reasons for Pact message to Congress, April 27, In furthering his anti Semitism, Coughlin also resorts to the interference of the cops. Machine guns set up on the ished hope burning in their tunnet socialisten Appeal. In its pressure from within the Brit and limiting the number of This, together with strong proposing the one third slash indirect method of printing lurid Jew baiting in his Letters to Police allowed the Coughlin national and state highways eyes, seeking a the Editor. We quote from one such letter (Social Justice, ites who were selling their pol sporadically sprayed the hill terrible blind alley in which last issue, outlined the consis. ish Conservative party, was jobs for the coming May 15. son sheet Social Justice, to sides with bursts of fire, and Jewry finds itself undergoing tent British policy in Palestine: leading the British umbrella year to 2, 000. 000 Your issue of April 10th explained the foul use that Holly shout Jew baiting, labor hating militiamen took possession of physical destruction in the to in all the years since 1917 it man rather sorrowfully to the Not a word has been said wood masqueraders make of honest Anglo Saxon names to hide slogans as loud and as often as additional roads.
talitarian countries, not permit has been a policy hostile to the altar for the unholy marriage about these proposed slashes their identities. You listed Chaplin (for Tonstein) Muni (for (Continued on Page Continued on Page 2) ted to enter the democratic (Continued on Page 4)
with Stalin.
by the bosses of the Weisenfreund. Burns (for Birnbaum. Eddy Cantor (for The British will enter this Not a word has been sald Izzy Iskowitz. Edward Robinson (for Emmanuel Goldpact for two reasons. 1) it about these War Deal assaults enburg. will cramp, at least temporari against the unemployed by the If the Hollywood worthles want to change their names, The Lesson of the Memorial Day Massacre ly, an attempt at German pro Roosevelt Workers A111the law should make them adopt names which are representa Soviet understanding. 2) itance and its master, the Comtive of their own nationalities, such as Brandeis, Frankfurter, will enable them to create the munist Party.
Goldberg, etc. our emphasis)
vitally necessary eastern front In response to the widewhen war does break out. 3) spread demands for action Draws a Distinction It will provide them with an from the ranks of the Note the last paragraph and compare it with Hitler recent decree compelling all Jews to take the name Isaac, all Jew. Day ten strikers fell dead un who didn fall under police fire jury of Chicago questioned the termination.
Two years ago this Memorial wounded by gun shot. Those Court and an official coroner ing the means to fulfill this cc additional diplomatic weapon John Lewis has sent a letter to the House Appropriations esses the name Sarah.
tract some kind of appease Committee, calling for 3, 000, How is it possible to harmonize Coughlin disclaimers of Steel South Chicago plant. blood thirsty police ran rlot mountain of evidence proving sive against us only to the ex. The British signature on der police bullets at Republic were viciously slugged as the police. Confronted with Bosses yield in their offen ment settlement out of Hitler. 000 Jobs for the coming anti Semitism and his flagrant anti Semitic propaganda?
For Scores of their fellow strikers over the unarmed strikers beyond any doubt the unpro tent that we are organized and projected pact would be worth avoided reference to Rooseyear. But his letter studiously Father Coughlin, known neither for his honesty nor his consis. were wounded.
tency, the task is simple. He draws a distinction between religlines. Wounded workers were voked assault of a police mob prepared to fight. The bosses just about as much as the velt slash proposals, the letThey had come, several hun dragged by the feet as though on a group of unarmed strik own the courts: the police do British promises and assur ter received perfunctory attendamned. According to Coughlin, 95 per cent of Jews are irre ade to demonstrate their de of cops fell on isolated individ. their legal right to strike and from every side. We have only written and oral, to the Aus has not been followed up by ious Jews, who are good people, and irreligious Jews, who are dred of them, in peaceful par they were dead dogs. Squads ers who were demonstrating their bidding. They hem us in ances, formal and informal, tion in the press, and ligious, 85 per cent of the time, Coughlin can spew forth his mand for union recognition. uals and pounded them ti to picket, the court and the our own strength to rely on trians, the Czechs, the Jews, any campaign. far, Lewis Says Social Justice (May The information was deduced Come on Out Help Win the Photographs show the full lice.
They carried banners such as blood flowed.
coroner jury upheld the po but ours is an invincible the Arabs, and to all the other move is nothing but a gesture (from Father Coughlin) that of the world Jews about per strike. Two thousand of their horror of the attack. news strength.
peoples and governments for the record.
cent qualify as orthodox religious Jews, while 95 per cent had sympathizers We Have Not Forgotten Against the armed might of British have used so ruthlessly The Stalinist editor of the left the strict faith of their fathers to take up various degrees of march towards the factory.
watched them film recorded virtually every That was two years ago. But bossdom, against the armed in their fight to preserve o. News, Len De Caux, has moment of the slaughter. This the martyrs who lost their lives forces of fascist hatred, let us loot of the British empire. If the effrontery to run a minor Communism.
Liberalismo Tanging from democracy to outright atheistic They were met near the plant film was banned at first. Later, then in the workers cause are pit the organized ranks of the Russians actually have any editorial in the May 22 issue, by a solid line of cops provided after it had shocked a senator as fresh in our minds and working class militants, band illusions on this score, they are blaming the slashes on We wonder what would happen if pogroms should be insti Tom Girdler, president of Reial investigating committee hearts as though Memorial ed together in Workers Defense due for some rude shocks in the tories and thus absolving tuted in this country. Presumably, if such a time ever comes, a public Steel, by Chicago city with its horrible and undeni Day, 1937 were today. And lest Guards, ready to defend work the coming months, assuming Coughlinite thug with one hand tightly clutching the hair of an administration Roosevelt, the leader of the able record, it was shown to we forget, every day of boss ers lines from murderous as the pact becomes a fact.
unfortunate Jew would pause long enough to ask his victim: slashing campaign.
Leaders of the parade ap the public. The last shot in the rule piles added horrors before sault. Peace Front One must tell the unemployed Are you religious? If the victim answered Yes, the Cough proached the police line. They film showed a cop dusting him us.
That is the way, brothers and As the war line up takes the frank truth. Unless those linite would naturally know he was lying and give him an es asked to speak to the cop in self clean, a big smile spread. We remember all those who comrades, to avoid Memorial shape, it is becoming increason the or relief rolls or pecially brutal clubbing to teach him to tell the truth. charge. They were shunted ing over his face. satisfied fell in battle. We commem Day massacres. That is the ingly difficult for the war prop seeking to get on, make clear Why does Coughlin feel called upon to deny charges of anti from one cop to another. Of a with a day work well done orate their sacrifices not, how way to commemorate the agandists to continue handing in unmistakable ways to the Semitism? Is he, by chance, feeling the draught? Anti Semitism sudden and without warning for his employer.
ever, by idle sentiment, but by working class martyrs of out the old line of boloney about Administration that the unemin the mind of the average American is closely associated with the cops lifted their guns and Enraged public sentiment de determination to carry on in Memorial Day, 1937. That is the conflict being one between played will not starve without Hitler despised Nazism. Perhaps Coughlin own followers are fired into the paraders ranks. manded action against the the fight for workers rights, the pledge we must make on democracy and dictatorship. a real fight, then starvation is (Continued from Page 1)
Many dropped immediately. murderers. An Indiana State workers freedom and by seek Memorial Day, 1939. Continued on Page 2) certain to be their lot.
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