SOCIALIST APPEAL FRIDAY, JUNE 2, 1939 CURRAN POLICY ON HOT OIL ENDANGERS TANKER STRIKE In the Militant Traditions of Membership ST. PAUL UNIONS In the Nation LEHMAN SIGNS Local 544 Exposes BossLabor Leadership as Strike Enters Seventh Week DISCUSS PLIGHT REACTIONARY Inspired Court Action Unions OF UNEMPLOYED DEVANY BILL al crtions are.
Smothered by Class Collaboration of Curran Of Homeowners (Special to the Socialist Appeal)
AKRON, May 24. For (Continued from Page 1) ger ships take a large quantity the information of the Federal ment of the hot oil and break of oil both for running the ships Housing Authority. the Home the resistance of the tanker and as cargo. These are manOwners Loan Corporation and Show Boss Hand in Charges Against Union; companies.
ned by crews. Curran the Akron Chamber of ComBy WIDICK The Curran leadership con had only to give the order and (Special to the Socialist Appeal)
merce, this item is reprinted Backs Union Busting Suit (By Start Writer)
ducted some demonstrations The Ohio Federation the men would have tied up the from the Akron Beacon Journal ST24 of these forced the Department ships and stopped the move 95 delegates representing 47 lost and found column ALBANY, May 28. Lehman of New By CARL SHEA union man, every union, will of recently held its careful in the aid they were giv, Far from doing this, the Cur unions discussed the problems Broadway, High sts. Cuyahoga York, darling of the liberals, MINNEAPOLIS, Minn Way hail Local 544 for defending se leadership has made it social democrats other localities, the Ohio Fed state convention. In contrast to ing the oil companies in issuing to force the membershin a special conference spor sored Falls. Property of certificates of efficiency to and Stalin back in February, 1938, five al. well the principle that a union ists, today approved the notor. Drivers Union Local 544 filed dirty fingers on a union books leged members of the General never lets the bosses get their organizational progress eration reported considerable their finks; it has even fined on vessels to move the by the unemployment commit worker, used as home.
They might use it in some of tee of the Trades and Labor Ecke, Secretary Treas. 000. But they did not stop the crew refused to take on the the companies a total of 67. hot oil. When one MU.
ious Devany bill, which bars a complaint against the union, and records, from which they urer of the whio Federation, shipment of the hot oil by the hot oil the Curran leader.
important section of the labor being a nation of home from civil service and teaching calling upon the district court could complle blacklists, etc Assembly on May 19. Every their speeches about the It is unthinkable that any reported that the rast yeur was links who already had the cer ship ordered them to obey and Trades, the drivers unions, sermovement such as the Building owners.
positions in the public schools to turn over all the union the most successful year od the tificates of efficiency. persons advocating the over books and records to the com union would do anything but The throw of the government by plainants Federation since its organiza reactionary vote resolution of support to tion in 1934 Then there was picketing of move the hot oil and help break Vice trades, professional unforce. The bill had been boss inspired character of this Local 544 in this fight.
move against Local 544 was shoved through a reactionary immediately exposed on two ganization would act any difNo honest working class or Gains were made in mem the docks. This was good pub the strike of their engine come sent delegates, a Akron Union Men bership. affiliation of new lo licity, but it was difficult to brothers.
est in unemployment as a union Testify on Rule state legislature.
Point to Agreement counts: the nature of problem.
cals with the Federation and stop the finks from getting The bill was signed by Len charges against the theferently By Police Club Currans justify ac BUT THE the organization of new locals aboard the tankers and this Although the first speaker, man, self styled democrat, COMMUNIST in the state of Ohio. Then new policy, by itself. could not stop tion by pointing to the the character of the five truck PARTY WOULD AND DOES.
the shipment of hot oll. agreement which promises the the local relief administration, in face of the fact that similar Frank Rarig. representative of (Special to the Socialist Appeal)
owners who signed the comAKRON, May 24. The bills on the statute books of plaint.
New Low for locals were organized in the Gas Stations Picketed In a breath taking article, the past year, bringing the total to of Picketing the gas Stalinist Midwest stations no strikes. sit downs, quickies. tried to confuse the issues by sordid story of attempted gov numerous states, usually under Boss Charges Labor Which eighteen are affiliated that were selling the hot oil or other stoppages of work. lar bond issues and by playing folded here this week before ism or criminal anarchy Among other demands, the Wrecker for May 22 refers the to the five finks as rank and Despite undisguised pressure consumers that there was a pating in such stoppage of work lier, the problems were clearly public welfare and social ser tionaries and labor haters as a court to break the provisions file members of the union. The of Ohio State Federation of La strike on against the oll com shall be subject to discharge stated in discussion from the vices, as and rep. vicious weapon against all nonCommunist Party of floor by delegates who from resentatives testified to police conformists and critics of cap of union members; to end 11 Minnesota in a wire to the Recwent on record against any cover only a very small section shall furnish the replacement their own experience or that of brutality, intimidation and co italism legal picketing. attacked em ord declared that the defendchanges in the Wagner Act.
The Devany bill is a direct ployment by the union of called themselves ants were Trotskyites, who Committee One state official openly told struck oil. In all the rest the of this provision shall render their members know what the ercion. Commuhearings were blow at the freedom of thought sanizers to intimidate and delegates, If you don go oil would be sold and the buy this agreement null and void really miserable relief condicalled following vehement pro and social or political activity coerce non union drivers and nista to hide their fascist in along with us (amend the Wag ing public would not even know at the option of this company.
The general attitude was tests against the clubbing of of civil servants and public owners. and charged that the clinations. The Communist ner Act) we ll withdraw sup of the existence of the strike. According to this agreement.
port from your organization. And in all cases, the oil had al if the men stopped work on the well summed up in the words pickets at the Lowenthal Rub school teachers. It is designed trion las intimidated and co Party agreed with the com of a delegate from the Carpen ber Co. limitation of pickets in to intimidate anyone in the erced the officers and agents of plainants that the Trotskyites After a motion to table the res ready been shipped and deliv. shipping of the hot Oil the olution defending the Wagner ered so that all who wanted to company was given permission ters Union, who said. Let the Akron Dry Goods Co. de schools or civil service, threat said city having control of the were guilty of anti labor activiAct was defeated 19 to 61, the buy, and aid in breaking the to dischar the men, he to push the poor further down general reactionary campaign jobs if they express any kindir. to paying out large sums orl For the first time the Stalinthem. Curran stop trying to make provisions partment store strike, and the ening them with loss of their disbursement of relief funds, ties.
would replace convention voted 68 to 13 to op strike, could do so.
pose any amendments to the Declaring the struck oil com did not do so fast enough, the in the gutter. No matter how of city officials to black jack a of vigorous, to say nothing of money for relief to persons who ist leaders are out in the open Wagner Act.
pantes unfair would help company could void the agree much money is appropriated, strike into insignificance be revolutionary, social opinions were not equitably or legally defending the finks who are the poor keep getting poorer fore it can become a city wide or engage in activity that cor entitled thereto, or larger acting for the employers in at the drivers For Labor Unity move warn the union men and union ment if it so wished. Curran issue.
amounts than the recipients tacking responds to their beliefs.
ment.
sympathizers against buying ordered the men to save this and the rich richer.
The inadequacies of the Akron Dry pickets related Hypocrisy is added to this at were entitled to all to the preThe union movement, to a call to the national of their products if the notice agreement even if it meant man, recognizes that the ONLY to submit a national refer was brought to their attention drowning the tanker strike in clothing allowances were sharp how a police sergeant started tack on the labor and radical udice of the taxpayers of said endum on the question of unity and if they then remembered hot oil between the and the the products. But the oil and Ths agreement, which sets egate from the Restaurant which was blocked by the alert tion that it is also aimed at one of the five complainants thing Local 544 leaders are reactionaries and fascists. had become an employer and guilty of is acting militantly of was also made by the the by products would have union man against unton man Employes Union who cited ness of the rank and file c. representative a claim which is loudly belied was no longer truck driver and successfully in defending The referendum would be on those who had not learned of in the to the level of children, 2, 3, and years old warned that the police could by the fact that almost without one had been disciplined by the the interests of its members and the unemployed. All the two questions: the strike or having learned did Pinkswas shoved down the with blisters on their feet from not continue their dictatorial exception every red baiter and union for undercutting the stip fink charges boil down to this.
shoes which were too small, tactics forever without the reactionary in the state stood ulated union scale: one scabbed How About This. Shall a department for in not remember the by products, throats of the membership by workers retaliating. repre solidly behind the bill. Just as during a strike. All were allen This shameful behavior of dustrial unionism be set up would unwillingly aid in break the Curran machine. The bur but who were nevertheless de is the fact to trade unionism, all were nied shoes. She further chal sentative of the county well established within the of ing the strike. Shall all bona fide labor Only Effective Way chine is shown not only by this lenged Mr. Rarie statement central body condemned the that in any case, as all experi: tools of reactionary politicians the leaders of the Communist unions, now affiliated, be The only effective way to company union agreement invited to affiliate with the stop the sale of hot oil was also by the tactics in the cur st. Paul relief by pointing out tudes of the city law depart their fairest, are applied 99 financed their move. At least Midwest Record, in joining the percent to workers and radi one of them has since been ment, ought to bring down upon of on exactly the same to stop all and any movement rent tanker strike, the red tape and inefficiency ment.
Main Centers of distribution which forced Sympathy from a pious law cals and only percent a very caught recruiting members for terms, and to enjoy the same of the struck oil. To a considrights, benefits and cooperation erable extent this was in the The tanker strike, which has clients to wait months for director doesn heal a cracked lenient percent, at that to the fink Associated Indepen the heads of the the confascists.
head, he declared dent Union.
demnation of every honest in the Federation as the unions power of the Curran leaderits main centers in Boston, New items of apparel.
Local 544, true to its militant worker, no matter what his poThe Housing Question now members of the same. ship. The freighter and passen York, Marcus Hook, Houston and Port Arthur, was calles o tradition, mobilized its mem htical beliefs may be.
Housing in St. Paul is one of bers and the entire Minneapo.
How about this. Certainly blast at all the anti allen bills pending before Congress April 17 when the tanker com the major problems of the un Rubber Workers Pace New vanies refused to give into the employed and received much lis labor movement against the no honorable union man or wowas made in a special resolu Machine Forces fink suit. When the case was man can do less than denounce basic demand of the attention from the delegates.
tion which condemned the vic Arbitration on tried before court, Judge Reed this foul act of betrayal, and The newspaper of the city cenious persecution of minorities Brass Rail Strikers preferential hiring. The comordered 544 to turn over its pledge further support to 544 in embodied in those bills.
panies refused to sign an agree tral body, the Union Advocate, books and records to the five this fight.
All Stalinist supported candiment of any sort. For weeks in publishing a survey made on finks. Local 544 refused and NEW YORK, May 23. After before the strike call, the Cur housing conditions by the un(Special to the Socialist Appeal) dates lost in the elections. charges of unfair challenged the court decision.
Glenn Baxter of Elyria was AKRON, May 24. Indica labor practices by charges that twenty weeks of striking the ran leadership preached faith employment committee quoted All Labor Backs 544 in the government Maritime from an article in Fortune of tions of a dynamic resurgence certain activities dur.
mersmith of Toledo, vice pres. sle with the Restaurant Guild. Labor Board. Finally, the pres. these years ago which stated of the Akron labor movement ing and after the 1936 strike has steadfastly reduse a pete ident, Eugenia Couden of the members of Waiters Union sure from the men in the tank The of the mit the five agents of the em and Paul Parker of Spring security through the accept Surren bleadership, called the comm. Baterst umember of the the United Rubber Workers of hearing declared Goodyear Books and records that unders.
also illegal stage in this remarkable fight. strike at Goodrich, now, and admonished: It (the the General Drivers Union has was re elected to his post of the Stalinist leadership promitting a coastwise vote of the representative in the Minnesosecretary treasurer.
ta legislature, pointed out that the largest rubber factory in Goodyear strike) is something had the complete support and membership posal for terminating the conTrainmen Meet troversy. To date, the memberThe shipowners proceeded this conservative session of the the city, was narrowly averted the company should be glad to endorsement of the Teamsters ship has held out against the immediately to break the strike legislature had refused even to after workers in the processing bury and the will be Joint Council and the Minne By the Political Sports Editor Another convention in Ohio deman of the bosses for com with their own forces, the ala pass an Enabling Act to allow division attempted to set their happy to bury. suggest the apolis Central Labor Union Great significance was athas a different character the pulsory arbitration despite the of the government and the wea cities in Minnesota to do some own schedules. you draw the curtain upon it. Every worker realized the fink tached to an announcement, inquadrennial convention of the phenagling of the Communist pons furnished them by the thing about their miserable When the company changed the dignantly made by James Brotherhood commentway Traine Party sell out machine at the curran leadership. The tanker housing conditions. Building shifts onto night work, the the hearings recessed until a tire labor movement and that Farrell, Captain of the studs men. While thousands of rail union last meeting on May contract which Curran had giv. trades delegates particularly workers entered the factory at later date.
a fundamental union principle Lonigan Athletic Club, who is road workers are walking the 18. the waiters crowded into en the companies left in their cited the need for condemning the regular time during the Other developments this was involved. This fight is of to lead his team in a crudge streets, 975 delegates are leis Hotel Center and indicated hands the power register as the thousands of homes found day urely going through a conven their fighting mood by voting many men as they wanted. unfit for human habitation by the resultant confusion so tracts between the movement or the United States. Marxist Maulers captained by tion that is expected to last at a strike tax was insufficient. previous surveys and for Jay. crippled production that an al and Firestone Tire and Rubber and the resistance of Local 544 Snorky Jim Cannon. at the least two months!
From the first, the Albert they got cooperation from the ing out a program of publicity most complete shutdown oc Co. and the Lowenthal Rubber and the local labor movement Heckscher Foundation 104th curred.
What a convention! All ses son Lee administration of the government Bureau of Mato press for decent housing.
The questions of unemploymeeting. it was voted by a slim to the fink suit has certainly St. and 5th Avenue, on June 10, sions are closed. Anyone talk local has tried to cook up a rine Inspection and Navigation dissuaded employers from the under the auspices of the Amer ing to a newspaperman is sub settlement based on the Guild to break their own laws by isment compensation were re: margin to return to work Sale departmental strike Sale idea that it is an easy matter ican Fund for Political Prison ject to expulsion. But despite main demand. Meeting after suing the necessary certifi ported by Frank Starkey of the of to gain access to the books anders and Refugees, beneficiary truck tire builders at the Gen20 orr these steps to keep absolute meeting has repudiated such cates of efficiency to people Industrial Commission records of unions of the game.
silence over his moves, Presi line; and as recently as who had not the slightest qual delegates questioned the inter eral Tire and Rubber Co. was Two Weeks Only Courts Back Down Farrell violently denounced dent Whitney is having a month ago, President Lee was ifications under the law. The pretations of the new 1939 leg temporarily ended when the The case went to the state the Socialist Appeal for having Hundreds of Labor Titles little trouble.
voted out of office in an eleccompanies even went so far as islative rulings. Further ac union acceded to a wage cut Visit The supreme court which, reacting given the name of his darkThere seems to have been a tion in which the progressives, to shanghai men at sea, refus tions on these questions were for the time being Union of to the pressure of the city and horse scrub as Schmelka falling out between Whitney organized in a group. made ing to take them back to the referred to the unemployment ficers, however, have been em LABOR BOOKSHOP and George Anderson, secre substantial headway in weak state labor movement, left a Gainsborough, declaring that states, and forcing them them committee of the Assembly powered to call a strike if wage loop hole for the district judge the misprint was a deliberate tary treasurer. Anderson pub. ening Stalinist control.
to sign articles to go to other which will lay out a program negotiations are not satisfacMshed to retreat. The district judge attempt to create the impres116 University Place a small pamphlet. Significant of the role played places than those called for by to help the union movement to torily concluded.
face the problem.
then amended his order, deny. sion that his team would percharging the Whitney admin by the inter local Stalinist ma their former articles.
To the embarrassment of the 3rd Floor ing the plaintiffs access to the mit the collaboration of an istration with exorbitant ex chine in their attempt to offset union officialdom, the ghost of New York City union books and ordering the Englishman. His scrub real penditure of union funds. He progressive influence in Local the 1936 Goodyear sit down Open 12 to P. case to be heard strike was raised during the name, he contends, is SchmelSend for Catalogue Since then the attorney for ka Gilligan, formerly Fitzgillicreased 990, 000 during the Reich, leader in Cooks hearings against the the finks has made one atgan.
past ten years, compared to a and Kitchen Workers Local 89.
company, which began May 22.
The Marxist Maulers are previous period. He also said which is also involved in the scored against the o. when COMRADE SEEKS ROOM. name of the union.
Flushed with the victory ANNOUNCEMENTS tempt after another to get the union books and to smear the claiming to be gleeful at this that a close friend of Whit controversy with the Restauannouncement. seeing in it a ney who handles the union rant Guild. Reich has official.
the Supreme Court declared Manhattan preferred. Com Last week the finks attor confirmation of their boast sit down insurance business, got nearly ly proposed acceptance of the The June number of the New The Editor Comments strikes illegal, the municate details to Socialist ney. Arthur Anderson, filed that they would rattle their adhalf a million dollars in com Guild terms. Because no ef International is just off the Coughlin and Fascism.
company has responded to Appeal.
new charges against Local 544. versaries even before the game missions fective opposition existed in press. The Bonapartist PhilosoThe union officers are accused began.
When part of this pamphlet Local 89, the proposal was Leon Trotsky is featured.
phy of the State by Leon of being communists: of call More impartial observers.
was reprinted by a Cleveland passed without a ripple. with an article on the Bonapar Trotsky.
ing strikes without authority however, find the teams fairly newspaper, Whitney, instead of Progressives Must Act tist philosophy of the state. Class Politics in Palestine from the membership: of hold evenly matched, with the edge replying to the accusations. That a straw in the wind This article examines Stalin by Rock ing the union election contrary going, if anything to either threatened to take the conven which should arouse the pro present day conception of State Program of Action for FIGHTING COUGHLIN to the union laws; of deliber side. However that may be.
tion to another city where the gressives in Local 16 and the power and his revision of the press would be more favorably militant membership ing is used by him to answer ately concealing the records sport fans have been clamoring behind traditional Marxist doctrine of Palestine by Haor, Editor: that to end these things one from the plaintiffs of being in increasing numbers for the inclined to him, them to the greatest vigilance. the state. The National Question in number of the comrades must kill the Jews. On each guilty of contempt of court be tickets available at the AmeriLater on Whitney declared grave responsibility rests The Jewish question and Pal. Central Europe by Jan here in Newark, in an informal major social problem, one cause Miles Dunne, at a mass can Fund, 100 Fifth Ave. Room that the increase in the union upon the shoulders of the Pro estine are treated in several Buchar.
discussion of the Appeal ar should show that Coughlin has meeting of the union movement 1609, where they are still sellrevenue by 10, 000, 000 in the gressive Group of this local. If articles by writers from Pales Popular Education in Cri ticles on Coughlin, came to the no real program. Then, in con held in the municipal auditori. ing at 85 cents a crack past ten years justified the in the arbitration provisions are tine and this country. This sis by Dwight Macdonald. following suggestion: trast. our own transitional pro um, said: Court order or no creased expenditures because jammed through its ranks will question is of spoglial impor The War in China and Ja We don think it enough to gram should be set forth, show. court order, we ll never show the union had grown from 57. dwindle and become demoral. tance in view of the recent de pan Letter from Shang merely characterize Coughlin ing the difference between our books. for causing to be Special Offer!
000 to 123, 000.
ized. Their following will bevelopments in Palestine.
hai.
as an anti Semite and a fas Coughlin and a working class collected large sums from vari TWO BOUND VOUMES Whitney can scarcely blame unable to retid their families The Editor Comments con Australia Cognita by cist. What is much more im party program The way to ous employers allegedly for of the the rank and file of his union and buck the Stalinist class cern themselves this time Origlasso.
portant is a series of articles arouse the most effective asl back pay for employes who SOCIALIST APPEAL for being very suspicious of collaborating administration largely with an examination Old Garbage in New Palls analyzing his program, ex tation, we believe, is by con were members of Local 544.
any explanations in view of the unless they are protected with largely with an examination. by Max Shachtman. plaining that Coughlin exploits trasting his program with ours, The Pay oir 1937 and 1938 dictatorial control he holds Job security. Their struggle is and analysis of Father Cough 10. Correspondence: the sentiments of the masses and calling upon the workers Every union man and wo Both for only 3, 00 Includ.
over the convertion and its one whose outcome will affect lin fascist movement. 11. Ireland and Ulster by against their own interests. to choose between them. man in the country wil recoging postage proceedings. Anderson, for ex the fate of the food workers The complete table of con how their discontent with unFraternally.
nize that the new charges are This 25 reduction holds ample. got the axe because of fighting betrayal in all tents of the June number fol 12. Zionism and the Arabs by employment, war, fascism and GEORGE BREITMAN cut from the same cloth as the his opposition to Whitney. the locals.
lows: Naomi Handleman.
good for only a few weeks!
an inadequate standard of liv. Newark, original charges. And every Activity in Akron Unions FARRELL FORCES GETTING SHAKY, ASK CORRECTION and ceaims renal expenditures the mos the action taken by Harry June New Int Features Trotsky on Bonapartism WORKERS FORUM