SOCIALIST APPEAL TUESDAY, MAY 30, 1939 Pickets Tie Up In the Briggs Plants Labor Unions Toronto 4th Int Leads Jobless ÁPPEAL ARMY Illinois made o CRIMINAL SYNDICALISM LAW SPEEDED Food Workers Vote Strike Preparations at Huge Rally Forty Million Are Without Any kind of Medical Attention Under the supervision of the Twent United States Public Health Enclosed are five subscript. The following branches have Service, a project surtions. These represent the first been notified that their bundle vey of medical conditions Auto Workers Display 1937 Militancy as found that over forty million End Thirty four Day Struggle against returns in the current cam orders are being discontinued: paign of the branch to build a Philadelphia, San Francisco people in this country are with Presses Its Demands on Company Miserable Relief Conditions in City regular APPEAL circulation in and Portland. Philadelphia has out medical attention of any this district. Paul Fielding. now missed three issues of the kind.
lit agent of Akron, Appeal, but nobody has yet So terrible is this fact, so (Continued from Page 1)
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The movement cul(Continued from Page 1) history.
written us explaining what they The first strikeherding call clearly does it call for a radi their relief labor had made minated in a mass parade on By WIDICK ized the strike and is giving it intend to do about it. Disgracecal solution, that the wealthy possible.
by the company charging Maz: monopolists who April 24 to Queen Park to LITERATURE AGENT spen support.
ful, Philadelphia!
SUGGESTS: That the strength and solid ey with being un American and American Medical Association 63, 000, 000 war rule the All were keenly aware of the meet with the Premier Those unionists who did not The following branches are budget of Refused access to Hepburn. The enclosed sub is the re facing get stirred up about the Apexity of the walkout took the irresponsible received a pow court decision which fined a more than evident. Immediate the union president. Mazey Louis convention last week, appropriations for public works.
dare not admit the fact to be Mackenzie King government the strikers delegates were sult of fe deal is a lo dies unless they take prompt company by surprise is now erful clout over the head from true. And so, at their st. which had also made niggardly shunted off onto the Minister sal barber in ve given action to cut down their debts: union over one million ly they began to back down and counter blast read as follows: they blandly dented the fact. Finally, to add insult to in dollars certainly got a real joltoffered to negotiate a new conNot only were the provincial peal and he said he liked it. Chicago: Detroit: Flint The company statement is this week.
Republic steel suit against rack but only to arbitrate the a compound of half truth and they declared that only fortyurythere was the lavish ex authorities a. damant in retain and would subscribe if hest. Louis: Cleveland: Toledo, thousand people are without penditure of tens of thousands ing the cuts, they drove relentcould afford to but being a Akron: Reading: Seattie.
the for alleged damage long list of grievances. The downright misrepresentation medical care. An obvious. of dollars on bunting and dec lessly to break the strike by family man he is having a Wash. Laxness in payment of 7, 500, 000 woke labor to the union leaders properly refused The only things it ever learnea brazen lie, but one to which orations by all governments on forcing the Municipal Councils tough time getting by. Accord cannot be permitted any longer in the present legal and court men in return for illusory con lective bargaining is what the their private monopoly. Sick Burning with indignation, the percent and finally to cut off tra dollar in my Jeans. of from cutting off these branches.
danger existing to its welfare to trade the jobs of key union about the American way of col they are driven to maintain the Royal tour.
to reduce relief a further 10 ingly, happening to have an ex. and only action will prevent is system, cessions. Briggs can horse union taught it and forced it to ness is their vested interest. relief workers walked off the completely all those who still ferred swap him a subscrip: For a host of reasons we trade the Tigers, reads the accept. The present strike has and none may be healed except job and declared 100 percent refused to go back to work The impudence of the Re tion for barber work as would must keep going public steel company is match ptcket placards. but he can been authorized and was called at their bidding and they win for a strike on a fighting pro The Lake Shore districts. need it. He accepted. Geo. week. It is entirely up to these less. Its notorious strike break horsetrade us. To make a after a contract had expired.
not consent that any be healed gram to restore all cuts, to weakest link in the unemployed Whiteside of Kansas.
branches.
ing record, especially in the stand on protecting its mili The company has not of except for substantial fees. raise all unemployed to the chain, lacking experienced fine idea, George and why Little Steel strike, is well tants and by that fact protect fered to bargain on grievances. Back this coming but has insisted on horse trad Meanwhile trained and able same rate, to keep the single leadership or tradition of strug not try it on the grocer, tailor The following subs came in remember vividly the company vital of issues.
en men. if we abandoned oth pushing pens on pros available, to inaugurate works Scarboro held out a week long tions by barter!
NEW YORK CITY.
thugs rolling out of the plant in Ohio Strike Well Timed ers and signed a company writ ects or in enforced idleness on projects at trade union rates of er until failure to raise finances For the past three weeks a huge armored truck, blasting The fact that these union ten contract. Judging from the home relief, or driving cabs or pay. Members of the Socialist in time and organize soup Los Angeles Massachusetts away at the picket line with men fired from their jobs had company past supine record, peddling from door to door, or Workers League led the strug: kitchens for the strikers tam. ve been giving some Appeal shot guns and tear gas, and been previously dismissed in it is now being used as a cats anything else except practicing Ele for a positive militant pola lies, forced the men back to copies away at the gates of local plant. use rubber then the clubbing that ensued. 1936 during the organization paw for a general onslaught on medicine. And tens of thou icy, expressing the rank and work.
Evansville, Ind.
sands of heart broken boys and file majority sentiments against Not Crushed stamp with my name and ad California This scab company finds a drive showed how deliberately the union. We accept the chal girls having brilliantly con the defeatism of Communist legal pretext to sue the o. the company had planned the lenge.
The strike is by no means dress, but think that a slip of Foreign The company knows well cluded their pre medical stud. Party leaders who urged ac crushed, however.
Certain paper the size of a subscripObviously the purpose of this provocation.
Indiana move is to harrass and worry It is not yet clear whether that its 15. 000 employees went ies, are unable to get into aceptance of the cut.
slight concessions have indeedtion blank and having one edge Kansas Defeat Line been won the Chrysler exploiters have on strike voluntarily and that medical school, because the the The number of cummed could be attached to New Jersey planned this as a major show not a single person has at rulers of the American Medical When the position was hours, and the kinds of Jobs by each paper distributed free Florida Goodyear Gall down with the While tempted to return to work in Association declare the protes resoundingly defeated by the which the unemployed must The slip should state that by sion over crowded, cut down local unemployed unions and work out their retiet have been filling out the blanks other free Total Even more arrogant is the production was beginning to four days.
the number of medical students by the convention of delegates somewhat reduced. Organizacoples would be sent. These action this week of Goodyear taper off as it usually does at and forbid the opening of new from all the suburbs, the Staltion is going on actively and slips would add to the contact Leo Hassul of Los Angeles Tire Rubber company law this end of the season, there medical schools, in the face of inists were forced to support membership in the York Un list and lead to new subscrib has increased his bundle order yers at the National Labor Re. were still several weeks of a growing population.
the strike program.
employed Union has actually ers. Henry Schnautz, Evans by 20, making a total of 170 lations Board hearings on steady production ahead. The charges the by Local first new models for They are murdering millions Endorsed by the trade unions increased since the termination ville, Ind.
each issue. Leo is apparently of people every year by depriv and the public, the strikers of the strike. The men are United Rubber Workers World Fair this July were bea worthy successor of John America.
ing prepared and a large tool ing them of medical care. They conducted militant picketing, demonstrating on the jobs. APPEAL FINANCIAL Murphy, the best lit agent are murdering whole genera issued leaflets, sent delegations placarding the works depots CRISIS: Goodyear has figured out and die program remained on ever had. Incidentally. Los clever technique for using the the schedule. The strike is cuttions of doctors who would give to the local authorities. Flying with protest signs and demands We are anxiously awaiting Angeles has reduced a back hearings against the ling deeply into substantial this medical care.
squads of speakers visited the for public works projects.
the first returns on our Dan debt of over 110. 00 to below union.
profits. General Motors and Such is the mad world we more backward Lake Shore The union has decided to call ger Signal warning of the last 50. 00. And they promise to live in the world of private suburbs which walted over a a one hour sit down twice week issue. These results will ab keep going until it down to The company stunt is based Ford are certain to benefit profit.
week before they joined the ly on the Jobs to demonstrate solutely determine whether the zero!
on the fact that the Supreme from this withdrawal of Chrys. Continued from Page 1)
Court ruled sit downs illegal. ler from the competitive fields. versive and intimidating mathe workers continued mill. Appeal can continue its twice Carl Hichin of Goodyear is therefore claim. But whether Chrysler is pre terial to our armed forces.
tancy. The fighting spirit of a week publication.
Winnipeg.
Canada is a new Appeal agent ing that the many sit downs in paring a showdown or merely Supported by his Army colthe relief workers may be We have mailed out to each with a bundle of per issue.
its Akron plants not only were pulling a grand bluff, the union leagues, Nunn reveals to what judged from the threat of one worker to bring down a hackbranch an exact statement of our agency in Palestine has illegal but also hurt company men will do well to keep their extent the Roosevelt adminisits debt up to date. Prompt ac. added coples to its order and saw to reduce all shovels by business (which would legally picket lines powerful and re tration is trying to hermetically tion is the only thing that can now takes 16 per issue.
call for damages. main vigilant and militant!
one tenth to conform with the seal the armed forces in a vachelp us. If we collect what is Goodyear reply to the Boss Misjudged Situation uum of unthinking subservten per cent reduction in re due on bundle order debts the REMINDER: It is sure as death and taxes lence.
charges was so bitter and (Continued from Page 1) union smash the association by Hef!
financial crisis can be safely threatening that it created a however, that Briggs was Testifying that there is no negotiating, with a counter proWhat are you doing on the signing with the cafeteria ownweathered.
renewal campaign?
furor at the opening of the counting on Martin following machinery to cope with civil posal offering a 50 cent per ers individually.
hearings.
to resist the strike or walk ians who distribute subverTrial Examiner Dudley through the picket lines. But sive printed matter to the workers and a 00 per week drive to organize the Automats.
week increase for unskilled Progress was reported in the postponed the hearings for a he found to his dismay, that armed forces, Lt. Nunn stated, increase for skilled; they also employing 4, 000 week while he thought over the Martin didn even have a cor. We feel that the American demand a two year contract, to Quinn, Secretary of the Central workers.
company attorneys request to poral guard. Martin, himself, people are maintaining an introduce evidence going back was not long in finding other Army and Navy at considerable Fair. These terms were unan Feinstone, of the United Hebcover the period of the World Trades and Labor to the famous 1935 sit down means of strikebreaking. Over expense, and that as part of To the Editor: you work here unless you re imously rejected by the mem rew Trades, and Flore. Interstrike.
the radio he hurled a filthy red the national defense power of bership of Local 302, and prep national President, addressed Ruth Jeffries column on Ou fingerprinted. So you let him Interlocking Directors making certain to charge the that we be given the machin cided upon.
baiting tirade at Emil Mazey the Congress it is desirable arations for a strike were de the cafeteria workers pledging Fair in the May 16 Socialis do it.
Appeal refers to cashiers to The World of Tomorrow is?
the support of the labor movetired to do anything but sleer reactionary world. The semiCriticize Union ment in the drive. It will be reRepublic Steel Co. board of There is about as much solidar and protect the people invest Farrell Taunts Maul by Sunday. But the cashier: military organization, the treatRank and file workers who called that the Cafeteria Workwork on Sunday everyone em ment of employees, demondirectors also are on Good. ity between this labor skate ment.
spoke on the question criticized ers Union conducted a five ers with Talents of ployed by the Fair works Sunstrates it. Perhaps carnivals year Board. Tom Girdler is and striking workers as there The protection of the peo the leadership of the union for month strike against the Autoan influential member of Good is between a vulture and his ple investment. according to showing favoritism to the boss mats day and Saturday too, excep have always been the places 1937 38 which ended in Masked Marvel the high salaried gang in Pery where greed has less disguise year Board. When the prey.
the Roosevelt administration, les association by confining failure, only 10 of the work Mediator on Deck called the hearings on lon Hall whose work consist: than elsewhere. Of course, at is to imprison every person themselves to negotiating onlyers answering the strike call.
Republic steel it caught the James Dewey. ace who induces soldiers and sail with the Affiliated RestauraBy BILL CLAM principally in escorting, flat depends on what you are look company unprepared. In the Federal mediator (or medita ors to think. Roosevelt prepThe strike was premature, Goodyear case ample time tor as the Minneapolis drivers aration for plunging the United dent cafeterias, although the ated Restaurateurs, it hurt the letic Club and the Marxist and fools who alone are worths Forward March of America teurs and ignoring the indepen While the Studs Lonigan Ath tering and entertaining the as ing for. If you only want to see was spent in preparing the case call this breed) dashed into states into another war for Affiliated represents only 80 union. The organized cafeteria Maulers were in feverish train of such honor. The hired me and above all, a smart set of town from Washington when democracy is accompanied stores out of over 500 with (Browder should like this. the lawyers were hired by Good the strike broke. Only he found by a wholesale effort to carve workers want the Automats oring for their crudge baseball and women are allowed to very latest in this or that, you ll which the year to handle the hearings. hat he couldn throw any on the brains out of every soldCafeteria Workers ganized, and want a majority match to be held Saturday eve: snatch one day off during th see it. But if you want to look Union has contracts. The sug Republic Steel saw to this of the Automat workers in the nine, June 10. At Heckscher week if they are lucky. Thes further, you can see a preview us on the union this time.
ier skull. In the coming war gestion was made that the Akron leading anti union The union stood ready to for democratic profits, every union before a new strike is Foundation, 104th Street and don choose their hours either of reaction.
Fifth Avenue, Captains James They work on rotating shifts.
firm, Thomas. Buckingham, negotiate even with called Dewey sailor and soldier, recruited In Executive Order No. 240 Farrell and James Can: Sometimes they stop work o to his assistants, Grover WhalDoolittle and Company, were present. But Briggs refused. from the working masses, shall Sale Sale The tasks of the cafeteria non took time out to urge all one shift at, say eight o clock en sald that the Fair is overhired to defeat the union. They It pretty strong medicine for obey orders, salute misery, and workers can be summed up in friends and sympathizers of in the morning, and start or staffed, that each department 20 off know more about Akron labor the company to take to get die as per the major general three points: Defend the union the American Fund for Politi another shift at four o clock must cut the history than the lawyers of the back in negotiations (not arble command. The prospective Two Weeks Only Improve union conditions, cal Prisoners and Refugees, the afternoon.
ber of its em tration) after the union has so largement of the armed perSmash the Affiliated Restaura: beneficiary of the same to the laborers, attendants no replacements will be made ployees to a minimum, and that The interlocking directorates soundly called their bluff. But sonnel through conscription Hundreds of Labor Titles teurs Association; Organize the turn out en masse for the oc comfort stations, porters and until further notice. Having reof Republic Steel and Goodyear they ll have to take it, unless must be governed by rules and Visit The Automats.
casion.
show another thing. The suit they can break through this regulations which prohibit LABOR BOOKSHOP against the for 7, 500, picket line. And Detroit doesn crumbling. dissatisfaction and The American Fund for Po the hour, in theory. From abou missat or overwork, we assume now at 000, the fight of Goodyear at have enough cops to club down possible revolt.
June Challenge litical Prisoners and Refugees, two weeks before until th that cuts in salary will be the hearings, chey explained, has during the opening day, some of these next; but we don believe that the 116 University Place Features Jobs forthese workers without Detroit preparation for a suit against seeing the biggest battle in its armed forces is merely another The strait jacketing of the last year been besieged by life men worked twelve to sixtee: 3rd Floor Youth Campaign and death pleas for assistance hours a day, but when they go cut.
Mr. Whalen salary will be the all these antiNew York City union moves come directly incident in the larger pattern by European victims of the their checks they learned tha If you publish this, please of clamping down a military Open 12 to P.
from Wall Street interests own Hitler terror.
no one The June issue of the CHAL The money to be raised at ten hours, except those car are still hard to get.
paid for more that sign it with my initials. Jobs dictatorship on the population Send for Catalogue ing rubber and steel plants during the coming war.
LENGE OF YOUTH, organ of the baseball and swimming penters, electricians, plumbers the Young Peoples Socialist party at Heckscher Foundation etc. who belonged to a union New York CORRECTION League (4th International. is will be immediately transmit The Information men, organ We regret the erroneous imoff the press. It is expected to ted for the rescue of German, ized on military lines, were pression created in the Social be the last issue published as Austrian and Czech fighters training for several weeks be ANNOUNCEMENTS ist Appeal of May 23, in an ar drive for a 500 reserve fund George Novack, secretary of only half pay. Since the Fair WELCOME HOME PARTY for ticle by our contributor, Diego will establish the paper as Sol Lankin Saturday. May he American Fund, declared opened, a good many of th Montanez on the situation in wice monthly with the next is27, at the Downtown Labor Puerto Rico. Towards the end. hat the further success of attendants in comfort stations (Continued from Page 1)
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town, opening for the current crop of graduates who 10. The baseball game and the summer Decoration the Puerto Rican Nationalist Fingerprinted Day Bureau Calls Cops are leaving school in search of swimming and dancing schedParty in the United States, the week end. Swimming, tennis, The Bureau officials quickly If you wanted a job at th An Unusual Combination Offer!
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