BUILD WORKERS DEFENSE GUARDS Upon Whom Shall We Rely to Fight Coughlin?
Official Organ of the Socialist Workers Party, Section of the Fourth International Issued Twice Weekly Relief Wrecking Bill Dooms Millions of Jobless to Starvation Best of periods.
The Platform of Social Justice Delegates Pour into Woodrum ForConventionOpening Bill Will Militants. Coming from All Sections of the Be Signed Wait for Sessions to Begin on Saturday Into Law FATTER COUGHIN it.
COUGHLINITES struggle.
ATTACK NAT nothing to stand in their way OFFICE GUARD sibilities. They had important as he di through the cornoge berada Ga Fourth International Greets Party Nat Anti War Convention By JOSEPH HANSEN VOL. III, NO. 47 TUESDAY, JULY 4, 1939 3c a Copy INSTALLMENT VII Can Roosevelt Stop Fascism?
Father Coughlin is not alone among the representatives of Big Business who hears death knuckles rapping at the door of democratic capitalism.
President Roosevelt, nearing the end of his second term in the White House sees his New Deal collapsing like a house of cards built from an old and very dirty deck.
Only WAR can save Roosevelt and then only for the.
briefest of But for this brief period he will pay the price of millions of lives of the workers, the farmers, the youth. That is why he is buying battleships with the relief funds of the unemployed That is why he has poured money without precedent into a war machine that outstaggers anything in the history of the country. He hopes to divert the attention of the desperate masses from their plight to a foreign enemy.
But even war is a temporary and unpopular expedient.
The unemployed don want bayonets. They want food and jobs. Roosevelt war can only whip their fury to new heights. Father Coughlin knows all this very well. He Country, Exchange. Viewpoints as they has read a lot of fan mail since 1926.
He knows too that Big Business in its way is as desperate as the unemployed. Big Business fears the revoluFrom every section of the country, from every field of tionary might of the unemployed. It wants to preserve the class struggle, delegates have poured into New York as its ciutches on national wealth. It wants to preserve the Stalinists and Labor the National Anti War Convention of the Socialist Workers profit system.
Party is set to open.
Skates Staged Sham Roosevelt usefulness as a stop gap for Big Business Some came by riding the rods, some by thumbing rides. Battle Against Cuts is almost at an end.
some by piling into old cars. By a dozen conveyances, they ve Roosevelt is capitalism smiles and promises of last come to discuss the momentous problems facing the party, he Roosevelt. Woodrum year.
to plan a program of activity to criticize its shortcomings starvation BiH has passed the Now the Sixty Families need a new demagogue with to present and analyze their Senate, and now it returns to less smile and more promises.
own experiences in the class President Roosevelt desk, General Smedley Butler has revealed that the Morganneeding only his signature to become a law. And he sure DuPont interests were ready to spend 3, 000. 000 with a These delegates allowed to sign it because he proposed promise of 300, 000, 000 more if necessary to finance a fascist army that would march on Washington behind the. not jobs, not physical ob Democrats and Republicans, General stacles, not personal respon at high speed, this Friday working in close harmony and General Butler turned the offer down. Perhaps someone else did not turn that offer down.
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was all there was to it. One of Hoovers breadlines.
Following closely on the heels pinched on the road for hitch priation means should now be delegate for example, was What the Roosevelt approof the fascist raid on the Debs haking and sentenced to ten completely clear to everyone, Labor School, two Coughlin fas days but he talked his way out even to the labor fakers and cists, attempting to enter the of that, and talked fast because the Stalinists nailed to Roosenational headquarters of the the convention was nearing velt relief wrecking adminisSocialist Workers Party Wed. opening time.
tration. First and foremost, Hesday evening June 28Exchange Viewpoints this bill means a cut of one knifed and wounded Sol Ben Seamen have come in ready million del, member of the all night to discuss the maritime situa hundred thousand have alworkers. Five headquarters guard, who nev. tion and the party policy with ready been fired throughout ertheless succeeded in frustrat respect to it. Ditto rubber the country as a result of ing the attack.
workers, auto workers, teach Roosevelts appropriation. AnBendel, who had gone to fas ers, etc. etc. All together, other 500, 000 will get the axe ten the street door of the na however, they ve got their inmediately after the bill is tional headquarters, was ac. mind set on working out the signed by the President. And Dear Comrades: costed by two men at eight ways and means of building 300, 000 more will face the The Executive Committee of the Fourth International o clock in the evening.
the party not any one section streets in the months ahead.
sends you its warmest greetings on the occasion of the What do you want? Bendel of it, but the party as a whole under the 18 month rotation asked them. spreading its message, and plan, which has been preConvention of the American section of the Fourth InterOne of the men, a heavy set, organizing the vast reservoir served by the Senate vote national. Your party is today the most important section tall, blond haired hooligan, a militant, revolutionary ac Role of Labor Leaders of the Fourth International, not only by virtue of its thick scar running the length of tivity the working class.
Where were the labor leadnumerical forces but also because of the political weight In the national office, as they ers, the leaders of the unemblockade of the British conces. his face to his neck, replied, wait for the convention to open ployed? That is the question of its leadership and the quality of its cadres.
Bog Down of Anglo Soviet Negotiations sion at Tientsin are nothing but Is this the Social Party or they ve been exchanging view every worker with a something or other?
Our comrades all over the world are proud of their fight a means of stalling diplomat points, experiences and sug pink slip in his hand will want Draw Knife gestions.
Encourages Hitler Moves British Expectically. It is the British hope and ing brothers in the United States and they applaud your Not carping dilet answered in the coming weeks.
war should Answered in the affirmative tantes these. They re sober. And the answer is quite clear: successes, particularly the high political level of the New Roosevelt to Police Orient engage them in Europe, their by Bendel, the hooligans stated minded militants, most International, the semi weekly appearance of the Socialist of they were right behind Roosefriend Roosevelt will quickly that they wanted to join. them young, though with years velt. who assume his cherished role of What is your name? Ben of revolutionary activity be against leads the drive Appeal. your serious trade union activity, the public acPoliceman of the Pacific and det asked.
hind them, conscious of the imtions like the anti Nazi demonstration in New York. It Danzig has replaced Tientsin as the local point oi war in nake Japan his own special The trade union bureaucrats In reply, the scarfaced hool. mense job the party has before and Stalinist leaders of the is hardly necessary to dwell upon the preponderant role fection. Hitler is generally expected to make a fresh grab preysur thereby ricrelieving posible izan drew a long, jarred fish and determined to work out Workers Alliance, tied hand that your section has played in guidance of for the former (jerman city. Whether that grab will lead, pressure on Britain exposed ing knife and lunged for Ben the means of doing that job and foot to the war beal.
well.
the Fourth International, or to emphasize the very excep finally, to a general world war, is the question that the comdel face.
more loyal to Roosevelt than In the effort to defend himListening to the delegates, it to the jobless, could only put tional sacrifices that the militants of the have made ing weeks will answer.
self, Bendel sustained a deep becomes clear that on the ma up a sham fight against the toward furthering the solidarity and political work of the Pending that showdown, the British are being forced to Coughlinites Annoy knife wound in his wrist.
jor political questions. war, cuts. They spent their time Fourth International. For that proves that for the sections give way in the lar East. UnAppeal Salesman, Wounded and bleeding. Ben American politics, trade union shadow boxing phantoms.
del gave chase to the two fas policy and so forth there is al Shunt Casey Bil of the Fourth International, internationalism is a living able to meet the Japanese with are bending over as gracefully Cops Arrest Latter cists who turned and hollered, Inost complete unanimity. The Casey Bill, which made reality, and your example is a new and singularly convinc an adequate show of force, as possilile to take a beating.
We ll be back. But before Such differences as exist are provision for keeping ing proof of the existence of the Fourth International as the haughty Britons, having opening in Tokyo over the is. Bendel could nab either of on the methods of party work, at the 3, 000, 000 level. was forLYNN, Mass. The object of them, both hooligans hopped in how to improve them. And mally initiated by the the world vanguard, steeped in the best traditions of Bol had their pants taken down, Isues involved in the Japanese a vicious attack by two Cough to a shiny new Pontiac and fled that the delegates will improve but not really fought for. it shevik internationalism.
Imite women who demonstrably the scene. Continued on Page 3) hardly figured in the debates At the same time, dear comrades, we do not gloss over ripped up copies of the Social.
at all. The labor fakers, comthe fact that much still remains to be done before you Gulf Seamen Push Revolt ist Appeal on Central Square in fortably seated on the Roosethis city and who advised him velt bandwagon, couldn be beconie the great revolutionary party of the working class to go back to Russia, Dave expected to climb down and of the United States. We hope that you will indefatigably Udell, local militant, suffered lead a militant fight. Now the further attack from the police unemployed can see the Casey B! in its true role, an empty shevism, toward a continual strengthening of your tradestitutional right to sell literaparliamentary gesture made union work, toward a tireless agitation among the most by bureaucrats in a tight spot Resist Curran Splitting Move Principal ture on the streets, arrested exploited sections of the population (the youth, unem him for refusing to move at Weakness Is Failure to Advance Program Confirms Krivitsky Revelation that her pure and simple face savthe request of an officer.
ployed, women. toward an increasingly active and vigiing device.
Udell, who had been selling Husband Was Latvian Agent The Senate made a last min.
iant internationalism.
Socialist Appeals on Central ute effort to camouflage the Today we point, as an example for the other sections of Square, was approached by open brutality of the RooseThe revolt against the stal mous resistance of the mem two Coughlinite women who revelt Woodrum Starvation Bill the Fourth International, to your methods of work, which inist misleadership the bership in the Gulf sented his slogans of Down By TONY CHAPMAN by tacking on all sorts of have shown that you know how to combine unwavering led by the Gulf Dis persistent report is circu with Coughlinism and FasPaced like Keystone serial, the staged Robinson amendments encompassing firmness and the greatest flexibility, in the spirit of Bolshe triet, reached a decisive stage lating the New York water cism, Read all about Cough. Rubens uca se me veel bene installmente nearen etore climax when legislation that has already of Co. Rubens, wife of the missing secret been passed vism. Our International has succeeded in enunciating correct principles and in hammering out the only Marxist tion of the Pilot. The Gulf Dis fund for 25, 000, the money to ence of the single policeman correspondents, told them that she believed her husband to be the labor leaders and the stal. an Only program corresponding to the character of our epoch; now trict is demanding complete be used for organization pur who was standing nearby, the pro fascist and anti communist.
inists will be fooled by this sort autonomy from the dom poses in the Gulf. The wreck two women upbraided Udell, In addition to stating that Rubens is a fascist, Mrs. Rubens of shabby move. But for the it must learn how to work. It must definitively rid itself of inated National Council. Joe ing crew is not hesitating at interfering with his sale of the related to the foreign corre, der him in Moscow. unemployed the key to the sitall remnants of a and circle exist Curran, No. sto for the und minii entire organ paper. Paying no attention spondents that her missing uation is the original approprience, and in all countries acquire the methods of Bolshevik made his appearance in ization in their splitting effort the two women, the policeman husband was born in Latvia. Organized Passport Ring Btion, which is being passed Krivitsky knowledge of Ru without any real increase. Towork. Then, through their own development and inspired New Orleans for the announced to eliminate the Gulf militants turned his attention to the large Mrs. Rubens revelation of her crowd attracted by the episode. husband Latvian birth con bens birth, confirmed for the norrow when the bill goes inbý your example, the comrades of the other sections will purpose of enlightening the who resist their domination.
After dispersing the crowd, the forms for the first time Fail to Push Program be able to help you in their turn and to collaborate in your the issues, accompanied by a Foliceman returned to order statement made in the Balti significant authority atte significare le autori kubermis edades talle betere one things of gang of Stalinist hatchetmen. One of the weaknesses re. Udell to stop selling the Social more Sun of May by Walter ther charge, that Rubens was development Tossing a Bone In typical faker fashion, Cur vealed by the opposition move ist Appeal. When Udell insisted Krivitsky, former chief of especially dispatched by the Youth now comprises LONG LIVE THE SOCIALIST WORKERS ran clarification of the issues ment in the Gulf is the failure. his democratic right to sell the Soviet Military Intelligence to the United States to least one third of all the unemPARTY OF THE took the form of opening a dual thus far, to push the funda the paper peacefully, he was in Western Europe, that Ru organize a ring of passport ployed employables, says LONG LIVE THE FOURTH INTERNATIONAL! headquarters in New Orleans mental question of program to arrested Owen Lovejoy, associate direcExecutive Committee of the In light of the fact that histor of the American Youth in an attempt to split the un the fore. The main point in any Bailed out the same night, vitsky also identified Rubens as ion. This splitting move has progressive program for the Udell case comes up in courtja agent named Ewald American accomplices in forg Committee. Roosevelt anFourth International met with the almost unani(Continued on Page 2) Thursday, June 29.
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Bystat 28 British Give Way in Far East as Hitler Prepares Danzig Grab continue and intensify your activity along the road of Born Against NMU Leadership Mrs. Rubens Freed. Spins to retaseky fingeringen som New Plot on Kremlin Order in the at