SOCIALIST APPEAL TUESDAY, JULY 4, 1939 Discussing the National Convention Issues In the Dissenting Opinion on Labor On Making the Appeal Unions Ludlow Referendum Paper for the Masses APPEAL ARMY 19 10 area.
ment REVOLT PUSHED BY GULF SEAMEN that war can be prevented or fought by means other INVITATION TO CONVEN. send bundle orders to these peo GLE, that imperialist war can TION DELEGATES: ple at their camps. Already be averted otherwise than by All those Convention dele. two comrades, Miriam Gerson the revolutionary overthrow of gates attending sessions in New and Lou Zinov Becker have the capitalist system.
York City who are either arranged for this.
NOTE: The points adduced in branch literature agents, or We will send all bundles at this part were once specifically connected in any way with the usual bundle order rate.
accepted by the Political Com STATEMENT ON THE SO our agitational appeal. That is Appeal circulation, are urged Send in your requests to the By ARTHUR BURKE Firstly. reactionary immittee. The has never CIALIST APPEAL BY THE the lack of humor. Humor is a and invited to consult with the Appeal office.
Gerialist opposition to this bill once seriously reanalyzed the AKRON BRANCH powerful weapon. Anyone who manager during their stay, FBy WIDICK does not necessarily signify arguments to show the basis The death agony of our deContinued from last issue) has been in a strike situation We would like to receive first For years the bosses in the caying, rotting system has that revolutionists should sup for their rejection. challenge port it, any more than fascist the to do so.
Some of our propaganda can knows satirical songs that hand reports on current Appeal Subscriptions continue to hold are made up the jokes that are activities, as well as take up up nicely and well above an milk industry have used two ob placed the most catastrophic of opposition to Roosevelt should vious tricks when dealing with all imperialist explosions im determine our support of him.
In general we have a better passed around, the verbal various problems relating to average of 50 per week. This is III chance of getting the ear of the rough housing that the cops and future appeal circulation so primarily organized labor. One is to play mediately before us. Failing off the farmers against the the intervention of the prole The war which the workMinneapolis branch.
workers, and the second is to tariat, the coming bath of blood ing class must conduct against der the usual skirts of critical eunda from the material con biting sarcasm in the strike University Place while you re New York City on the other The takes refuge un worker if we develop our propa. the scabs are given, and the just step into the office at 116 or the due to the fine work Comrades will re here!
play off either the farmers or will positively throw all human imperialist war is hindered, not support. The bourgeoisie is fronting the worker in the bour member with what effectivehand. has completely fallen down in its sub work in the past workers against the consumity backward for decades to promoted by pacifist. middle Eurely shaken to its roots by geois press. For instance, there ness humor was used in drama SAN FRANCISCO class ittusions. Writes Lenin: the imposing nature of this was no better way to develop tizing the Minneapolis strike. BRANCH AT WORK: month. What wrong. New ers.
come.
York? How about visiting some The Borden and Sheffield companies are using trick two question thus facing those who their proper names: WE MUST pear) it takes the form of a ne of the submarine squalus ne seen reproductions of hu cently had to re organize its en we gave you? Here the list for The most vital life and death squarely and call things by pear and how often does it ap by taking the issue of the sink. Many comrades will recall hav. The Frisco branch, which re o those expired subscriptions milkthe week: ting 20. 000 workers, in current from the class yoke, is the war TRUTH. In one breath wel that the bill is being emascul theme of What Really Sank in Russia during the period of tard at work on new fields. MINNEAPOLIS say that the American govern. Iated. that the referendum ne Squalus from this point the seizure of power. There is Under the capable direction of Chicago negotiations in the New York problem. All of us in the 4th Foreign International unhesitatingly ac mente transform itself into should apply even when our of view the stories on the bene ment fires in New York were such material. Few things are making a drive to get long Massachusetts Before any contract has even cept this.
war, and in another we foster In its recent program of ac excellent, first, in making a for bourgeois institutions and the Appeal. They intend taking Indiana been settled, these big milk The War Pressure the illusion that the ruling class tion the City Committee of lo general attack on capitalism.
Newark companies announced raise personalities than good heal The pressure of the bour can conduct a legitimate, dem cal places the Ludlow Bill and second, in developing they wisecrack. Nowhere in the which will be utilized for propa total of 150 copies per week St. Louis in the price of milk of one cent un ccratic referendum at such a in the forefront of the care need for a real housing could world has humor in the form of aganda work among these men.
Los Angeles per quart and they threaten angeoisie correspondingly time. Who but fakers can gain war struggle. Indeed, ev.
creases as the war draws clos. Similar capital other increase shortly.
Iowa er. The subjectified expression from this double system ofen speakers outlines will be have been made in explaining the cartoon, the tall story. and TAKE THE APPEAL ON Shawn up for street corner the mechanics of imperialism the joke been developed to such YOUR VACATION: Philadelphia of course, company propa of the class conscious economic bookkeeping. Connecticut ganda says that the increase strata political parties havel Pacifism begins when meetings to propagandize the through the visit of the kingin extensive degree as in this became necessary because of Many comrades and sym.
Ohio Wisconsin all, with the modified exception war ends, and ends when war will. We are in reality, here and queen.
country. We should draw upon pathizers will be taking a few the demands of the union move of the come out for the begins. Histories have shown substituting the Ludlow Bill for (3) Our material should have this reservoir. Humor, natural weeks off during the summer New York City Detroit The companies claim that war in advance. This is a most that where pacifist remedies the policy of revolutionary demore human interest. There is ly. must be judiciously used to spend at some camp or reliable barometer for measurare not outright deceptions, featism.
a dearth of feature material in But it should be used. good other.
Rochester usion demands for wage ining such pressure.
they are the most dangerous of Conclusion our press. Yet it is interesting median was struck in the creases, limitation of producThe Appeal is prepared to Total. 56 tion, a five day week, and other Even the however, druss which only paralyze the We must advocate the class to note that the articles which Notebook of an Agitator standard concessions make a is not immune and this is mani fighting power of the proletarhigher cost of production and Tested in the steadily growing int. Honest pacifists. LaFole strugrle policy of revolutionary have gone over best with per which ran for a few times in our press some time to bold style, and generally speakInilk prices must go up.
Small Features ing the cartoons are extremely There to this propaganda. It is a briertionary defeatism, the espousal sileged Marxists who supposed fist Allusions. We must become on the boloney salesman in jure material. Diversified small American idiom. The Gyp an obvious answer the watering down of revolu y. but what are we to think of fighting the war. We must do were ones like the story on all in our power to expose paci Brenda Frazier, the editorial (4) We need more small fea effective turn toward the known as the only revolutionary congress, the workers corre feature material would help to Joint approaches what we analysis of the profits made by of the Ludlow amendment and know better?
these companies. Borden and a Labor Party, to reveal to all Ludlow resolution like anti war party. These are fun spondence (what there has been brighten up the Appeal. fer. Want. of it. the rats in Minneapolis, ture such as Scissorbin Sam away from rather abstract and a consequent turn Sheffield make millions yearly with eyes to see how Can. wise promotes the motheaten damental.
At the same time that we dis and in general Bill Morgan Public Support hall of repressions that are sure sive and defensive capital: pel the Ludlow illusion, we can stories, though they are a lit. in the Northwest Organizer Ideology. which was difficult Labor has a right to more to come.
than it has been getting in this power makes this distinction capitalize on the present conte long.
Shop Stories would prove very popular if the to understand, would enhance Tailendism vs.
way the Organizer readers re the value of Carlo work. The industry. And labor can get and endeavors to foist the onus fused anti war sentiment supHistorical Materialism majority of the We need more stories on ceive it is any indication. Simi retention of the cartoon on the (Continued from Page 1)
public support if it shows up of aggression upon the other ported by the company huge profits.
In revising one of the most in order to win mass support workers wercan expose the women in the shop, shop con larly, our anti Stalinist work front page is a good idea.
Spurious nature of the imperditions, novel strike techniques could be very effectively carseamen must be the fight We remember very well a basic tenets of Marxism. the for the war.
What to Do against the Maritime CommisThe resolution further, lalist yowls of defense of de When they are used. youth and ried on by the regular use of similar experience in Ohio in necessity for the class indepen.
Such mocracy by pointing to their the labor movement. incidents the cut, Stalinist Press at cialist Appeal. In presenting ment program of regimentaour which the milk drivers union cence of the proletariat from equates the entire on the 8sion fink balls and the govern Western around the Akron area fought wie bourgeoisie as expressed in Hemisphere with the territoriopposition to this bill. This not culled from other labor press. Work, with a nice. Juicy them there is no question in tion for the seamen. The raisonly bares the lies of democ working class disasters. work quote beneath.
and obtained better conditions the necessity for the political of the proper, thus cracy but likewise proves that in class humor, ete. All of this There should be regulating down our program, curtail tants of the Gulf would win and wage increases, etc. de Sud organizational anatomy of knowledging Latin America as the imperialists themselves do should be treated in feature snappy column on branch acing the foreign news, get and support of the West Cast our mind, obviously, of watering of this question by the mill.
spite the usual hue and cry on the Marxian vanguard at all them the immediate sympathy leadership perialism.
protectorate of Yankee im rot and can not accept or ac style, and should inferentially tivity. Likewise there should be the companies on increased times the knowledge peaceful legal or directly draw our revolution column on youth activity, is simply a question of present seamen who are now facing costs.
has likewise jettisoned the his6. la the disarmament fake. means of fighting war. Like Dry conclusions. This approach There should be a good column Ing our program in the most showdown with the Maritime But after the union won the torical materialist mode of ap the referendum illusion diverts wise we point out that even has two advantages: first, it for women: we are woefully companies refused to deal with proach. The opportunists now attention from the necessity of the miracle of a referendum catches the workers eye be weak in our appeal to work in palatable and effective man. Commission on the West Coast. Sows Confusion. demands for an increase in the The propagandists are family almanac out of the So.
price of milk sold to the com Ludlow nostrum is a perfectlcy against war every day in the forceful lines of Hitler and concerns persons like him incidentally, it has been sugthe year, because it cultivates plebescites past masters at the art of sowThis policy would fruitfully about other persons in a situa on relief be run. column in a tion in the Appeal we believe dictatorship. goon. squad self (any everyone likes to read gested that recipes for persons pantes. We ve had to give it example. Instead of beginning the notion that when the real clalist Appeal.
To achieve this new orienta charges and counter charges of ing confusion. welter all to labor, the bosses cried from the objective economicwar danger faces us in the re capitalize on the present anti tion similar to one own. and modified Winchell style, simi that the following three things Ism, etc. serve to confuse the dynamite. It plays off the farm. ists do, the Pundits begin with note future, the masses will be war groping of the masses, ex secondly, it proceeds from the lar. say. to the one formerly are necessary. 1) The Appeal fundamental issue of the fight That kind of propaganda is factors as historical material.
ers against the workers, and the subjective prejudices of the able to avert by the mere cast pose the anti democratic na concrete, isolated incident to run by Bill Reich, would prove staff (which has been doing against the fink hall, sea slaying of a ballot on some specific ture of the imperialists, dispel the general political conclusion a popular feature.
too often in the past succeeded masses date.
pacifist illusions and consis one of the best propaganda War Column good job under difficult condi: ery program of the Maritime in accomplishing this reactionIn his Capital. Marx posits To support the Ludlow restently point to the class strug approaches.
ary aim.
the inevitable contraction be In view of the impending war put into practice this new ori Commission and plays into the In particular, the Ohio farm tween manual and intellectual olution is to inculcate in the gle means of the socialist rev minds of the workers the idea olution as the only way out.
ed on one other deficiency in ty five Years Ago this Workers have also comment crisis, column called lership and the branches as well and lie machine.
entation. 2) the national lead hands of the Stalinist slander ers were at first enraged at this labor in a class society. The ex giving one or two line summar must take up seriously the The membership of the argument and tended to blame ploitation at the point of proies of the events of 1914 would question of sending in must be made to unthe union for the company reduction, poverty. insecurity, fusal to 00 per hundred family cares, etc. drain the afford an instructive parallel. regularly to the Appeal, and derstand that there is much news behind the news column. 3) equally serious efforts must than just a change of officials.
the masses. The moneyed memory serves us correctly.
dealing with the administration be made to secure worker cor They must be given something activities. would go over wen respondents for our press.
Here, the movement classes are able to impose their during this preelection period.
intervened to straighten out the morais, dogmas, illusions, and The question box was a good ment as a composite of sugges. AGAINST! That something is While we regard this state to fight FOR as well as mess, in cooperation with the lies upon the rest of society by virtue of control of social propaidea and should have been re tions which must be flexibly solution to the many problems milk drivers union.
a militant program, offering a tained. joint committee of organ canda instruments and through (Continued from Page 1) Walton Avenue home in the around for an angle to this lat Short book reviews could well nize that there will always be which confront the seamen.
applied, and while we recog.
ized labor and the farmers its monopoly of leisure time.
milk association took up, the! If the masses were not hide Ing passports were all Stalin Bronx lived John Blank, allas est frame up. resorting, final be run in the Appeal. They exceptions to the points made pose the reactionary character Such a program would exbound with backward preju ists, the statement of Mrs. Ru John Apsit, fugitive defendant! y, to the expedient of using should not be in the New Inter nevertheless we regard the of the clique and force battle of the farmers.
Ruben own wife against him. national style. however. Too course indicated as being the them out into the open. It Labor put picket lines around dices and illusions if they bens alleging her husband to at the New York trial.
the milk companies. Farmers thoroughly understood their be a fascist has all the ear. That Mrs. Rubens should Show Trial Ahead As indicated by the Socialist reviews are used merely to coming period. We recognize Nigher level and, as experience came into town for miles role in society, there would ob marks of falsehood. For at have pitched in to describe her Rubens husband as a fascist is the appeal in previous articles on showed the erudition of the res that this new orientation will be has proven in other sections of around to help. Milk supplies viously be no need for a Marx would follow that ian Party. From the dominance were a fascist, the same would price which she is apparently the Rubens case, particularly viewer. The reader gains no in no open sesame to the masses: the labor movement, would be were cut off. organ of illusions among the exploited hold true for his intimate paying the for her re at the time of the New York sight into the book whatever. Other problems, which will be paign and explained the whole need for a Vanguard but have Rubens and his American co frame ups arranged by the the failure to establish the po should cover at least these are involved here. But we do Failure to advance positive matter to the workers and the swim against the stream and viously supplied by the Social. her husband fascist leaningslitical identities of the members is about. 2) what is wrong with embodied herein will go a long program, or too long delay vouchsafed the necessity to horts Stalinists was pre. Mrs. Rubens story of three points: 1) What the book believe that the suggestions farmers and the consumers.
this particularly in time of war ist Appeal.
as of the passport ring will ulAnalyzing Profits the only proof of her husband timately see the rush ir elain berbande 30 what we can way toward making the social in doing so, can easily lead to when illusions are more prevaStalinist Connections ist Appeal a much better organAnalysis of the Borden Com lent than at any other period.
Typography izer for the party than it is at pany profits proved that they The World War at first had Edward Blatt, lawyer mouth fact that Rubens was fond of bels. Mrs. Rubens description could pay the farmers and the the support of the masses. The piece for Rubens, now serving playing a phonograph record of of her husband as a fascist, reworkers more. This was em Tailendists, basing themselves a two year prison rap for his the Italian Fascist Anthem. an cronies and in flagrant vi aids should be used. The ears his convicted Amer of view the typographical point present.
typographical JOINT ican LABOR DAY PARADE phasized over and over again.
not on the solid economic activities in the passport ring. Glovanezza. There is nothST. LOUIS Attesting to the brief history of how the truths but on the sentiments is a stalinist whose range of ing else in Mrs. Rubens interation of their proven Staliniat could be used to better advan DELEGATES POUR growing desire of unity in the tents of the paper. There should ranks of labor, the and the farmer and vice versa was re ported the war. Logically con clude David Manokott, former fascist leanings, leave alone his that direction.
the actual fascist connections or Once having achieved the be as much art as the budget CONVENTION OPENS the Of Granite City, Madlated. All this was done on ra sidered, this is the inevitable Biooklyn organizer of any overt act in connection smear of fascism against Rub will allow. There should be and Venice announced dio programs which were well outcome of such an approach. Young Communist League.
fascist power. On the ens and his American Stalinist more boxed material. The solid that they will unite their forces publicized and thus received American Prejudices Ossip Garber, at whose Fifth with (Continued from Page 1)
for a joint parade on Labor wide hearings.
The result has been that both prejudices of the masses are was described by his brother. Clusively to the Itself.
In the in particular, the Avenue photographers salon other hand, all of Rubens pals, the will proceed inside pages should be broken these methods by motion, res Day. At the head of the column Rubens occupied desk space, known connections point con with its plan for a public show up as much as possible.
trial of Rubens. That it may (5) Some of the present de olution and criticism is easy to a banner showing the clasped the milk drivers and the farm. reflected in faith in capitalist In law as being communistic.
take place in the near future partments can be improved in see.
hands of both labor organizaers have benefited. more har legality: e. elections, the Suspicious Vagueness is indicated by the fact that certain respects. The column Imre Klein, whose last tions will be carried. The two Agenda monious relationship between constitution, courts, etc. The known activity was in connecMOSCOW correspondent, present ness in the case, has been was a good one, but certain Harold Denny, Times Mrs. Rubens, now a star wit idea in the twice a week Appeal labor bodies They ll meet in convuntion bers in the Tri Cities.
them has resulted.
have 10, 000 memgap between the economically tion with the stalinist Of course, in many localities ripe conditions for socialism Slander ized labor has a shrewd leader faiths of the American workers Teamsters Local 544 and who bens, described her as vague remain in the Soviet Union for lan general the columns are too Tuesday. Among the points on like Minneapolis where organ and the backward Spolitica campaign against Minneapolis at the interview with Mrs. Ru granted a temporary permit to improvement could be made. session from Saturday through slip with a progressive outlook, will only be bridged when these with Galleon Press, fact con. If after travelling all over the permitted to remain in the up by the use of bold face type, the situation in the United WANTED: Comrade to share granted Rubens an editorship about her husband business. the next six months. Ostensibly long. They could also be broken he agenda are the following: ANNOUNCEMENTS the main political resolution on the old stunts don work so faiths ARE SHATTERED firmed by Mrs. Rubens in her face of Europe with one hus. Soviet Union for a six months etc. Paul Steven column unfurnished apartment. Lowan Associated Farmers or any way preach confidence in er East Side. Shower, friglThe new sag is to organize class struggler Those who the interview, is a notorious Stalin band, making some 45 entries period in order to determine is good in that it concretizes States and the prospects of the ist trouble shooter.
and departures from Central the whereabouts of her missing the meaning of international party printed in the socialist European countries, woman husband, Mrs. Rubens will ism. Dwight Macdonald col. Appeal. the fight against war daire, steam. Rent: 15 per ganization, a fake business in the capitalist legality only fos Used Lettish Group still remains vague about her wake up one morning to find umn, which unfortunately at and fascism: trade union pol month. See Ben Hall in the spired, boss paid strike break. ter the lies and deception of the and the activity of the com office.
Also significant of the fact fit material for a nursery dock, playing the role of volaing air, could probably do the rades in the various industries tensibly speaks for the farm ism. say the Stalinists, is ecoAmerican ruling class. Socialthat Mrs. Rubens is spinning a INFORMAL HOUSE ers and always goes after nomically necessary. but GP. inspired lie about the Unable to pin the charge of against Stalin. As Mrs. Rubens ward the winning of intellectution, the question of publicizing the union movement.
the masses aren ready rascist tendencies of her husals. In many respects comrade the Appeal three times a week, Box 245 Its final and complete expo Herein is the formula of cap band is the fact that the Latvi. Trotskyism on Rubens. an significantly told the foreign Macdonald is best qualified for and plans to extend the organKerhonkson, Near Ellenville)
sure came recently before the itulation.
an born Rubens used the Let attempt made at the time of correspondents preparing Mae doba izational apparatus of the parwages and hours hearings on tish wing of the Stalinist move his arrest in November 1937 by them for a confession from The editorials should bety will come before the con 120 acres of greenland in minimum standards in WashII ment as a recruiting ground for the Soviet Embassy in Wash her husband, asked the ex. snapped up. The thumbnail vention.
Catskills. 40 acres of pine for Russians con sunbathing: handball, ping pong.
Archery: swimming and horseington. This outfit spends all its Marxists and the Ludlow BILL his ring of passport forgers. Ington and echoed in the Soviet aminer why the back riding nearby: dancing, time explaining why the poor The Ludlow bill provides for The Latvian Unity Society of press, the has come for fessed. He said it was because editorials are a good idea. They UNUSUALLY LOW RATES er farmers, the agricultural a national referendum before the Stalinist International Laward with a new theory, this they were ashamed. Accord should not be printed in smaller will be closed to all except para ty and Yipsel members who 18 Weekly workers and sharecroppers Congress can declare war upon bor Defense provided Ernest time painting Rubens as a fasting to Mrs. Rubens, her hus type, however. Weekend tacitly admitted his Carlo cartoons are an ex may enter on presentation of Buses met at station should be exempt from mini another country unless the Weichen, who sold his natural cist. And in order to execute band Tel. Kerhonkson 118 mum rates, that is, should con hemisphere of the Americas is ization papers to the ring, and the job well, the took shame when he told her, am tremely important part of our a membership card showing tinue to work for slave wages. actually invaded.
Edward Peterson, at whose more than two years to hunt a criminal in the Soviet Union. paper. He has an excellent, they are in good standing.
Mrs. Rubens Released. Spins New Plot on Kremlin Order disaster.
flecting on easy rhyme.
the