SOCIALIST APPEAL TUESDAY, JULY 11, 1939 Men and Scenes at the National Anti War Convention of the 2Manual Com Ph us to the se u Zadh Fardil De nse Guards!
Ford Treeft Conn suild Anti Fasi 7034 Anti War Convention Ends Jobless Go Without Relief, COUGHLINITES Officials Get New Cars GROW, ARE Rebelling Against Scabby Tactics of WELL FINANCED Oakland Jobless Form Fighting Union In the Labor Unions With Spirited Action Program APPEAL ARMYA 11 In Organization Discussion and Election of Na PRESS REPORT AT PARTY which a special speaker will CONVENTION: take up a collection for the tional Committee Brings Sessions to Close One of the most constructive paper. Continued from Page 1)
aspects of our Convention was The branch now sells the the Press Report given by com Appeal at union meetings and By BILL MORGAN Iconstant slashing of write in the 16. 000 contest (Special to the Socialist Appeal) rolls and sharp reductions in which has just ended reveal (Continued from Page tion discussed the situation of rade Abern and the discussion does house to house canvassing.
It will be only a matter of time Practically every OAKLAND. Cal. July relief funds plus the ever deep very clearly the demagogic under discussion with the war the unemployed, the party that followed.
By WIDICK delegate before we will be in a position Twelve thousand workers, ening reaction in California has character of Father Coughlin tempo of work must be in printed on page 1) and the who was in any way connected to double our present bundle.
many of them aged and blind, been accepted by the Stalinists propaganda.
Spontaneous anda led strikes are being forced to go ten days worked in the emisopportunity speeches and things usan failure to grow as fast as it several items were unfortuna pe care literature spoke on the improvement and we now seal of craftsmen on which they depend for food be to cram their phoney line down be given to show that he favors should have grown, the convenately not taken up by the con various problems he faces. all our papers. When the aconstruction destruction of the union scales cording to Mr. George Janssen, working class. Using the once tallst navy and army in the party into a campaign party of time given to the other points hints as to the best methods of you can count on Oakland do this week in protest against the cause there are no funds. ac the throat of an unsuspecting the building of a mighty capition, decided to convert the vention because of the amount Many valuable experiences and week Appeal comes through under the new reller appropri Chairman of the Alameda powerful Workers Alliance as a United States, the subjects for which pushing boldly and vis on the agenda, notably the pro selling the Appeal and New ing its share and then some. Bill Morgan, Oakland organation measure passed by con: County Board of supervisors. political football the Stalinists the contest were as follows: orously ahead on the various gram of action. These were reIn the next few months it is iver.
The state Rellet Administra. have wrecked all semblance of How to Keep Americas out of ment will build the party into Committee for the elaboration the intention of our National gress Lion has announced a surplus militant and section) Foreign In the New York area the The subscription list slowed strikes were so widespread that 450, 000 for the current year maintain the Alliance as a post Entanglements Lead to Wara movement of truly mass pro of specific programs on each certain centralization and re up slightly this past week bewhich will be spent for new au card writing agency. Twelfth Grade) The cost of portions.
point.
Thomas Murray. president of Face Workers Wrath organization steps to devote a cause of Convention activity.
War (Eleventh Grade. ofItems Discussed Organization Work the Building and Construction tomobiles for the use of relief Now these stalinists are fac fensive Wars Settle Nothing of the Appeal, the first items As reported in the last issue ajor portion of its time to the But New York emerged out of In the discussion of the pro problem of organizing a broad its temporary slump and heads Council of Greater New York. 100 workers received in the wrath of an aroused and Tenth Grade, Offensive War taken up and decided by the gram of action the desire of the er distribution on a more dy the list. Here the new subs dismissal notices.
ganization and says that offi careless obtained this past week: Claiming that the county has posed of Negro and white work. Grade) Don Want War convention were the main po members to make of the party ramic basis. Old, cial strike sanction is likely.
NEW YORK CITY Eighth Grade. Mothers litical resolution on the Per a campaign party which will methods must give way to the Murray estimated that 90 per no money for relief, Mr. Jans ers of Mexican and Italian stream lined methods of our Chicago cent of the 32, 283 skilled work. sen urged that credit be ex workers, of men, women and Don Want War (Seventh spectives of United States Im draw the masses into the orbit Campaign Party!
perialism and the prospects of Massachusetts ers on in New York tended to relief clients until youth of all sections of the Grade. Daddies Shouldn the party, the preparation of or its work was especially man We also want to thank those Minneapolis Have to Go to War (Fifth and such time as funds are forth county.
City have stopped work.
the party for the coming war. ifested. Eight hours of solid dis delegates who, as branch liter Los Angeles coming but since debts of re Within the Alliance there is Sixth Grades. Newark Resent Policy lief clients are not recognized turmoil at every meeting. At Through these slogans Cough the growth of fascism, the fight cussion were devoted to the or ature agents, came up to the Washington, Resentment against the re by the State Relief Administra. every local meeting there are lin hopes to capitalize on the against it, and the Workers De Sanization resolution the first Appeal business office for a reDetroit Rochester cd not only against the Roose stores have refused and con workers are voting with their tified anti war sentiment of the question (see page for the res devoted so much time to what lems. All in all, it was highly St. Louis is essentially the key to the worth while feet and the Alliance grows American people. But previous Olution on Negro work)
velt administration but alsotinue to refuse the credit asked smaller week by week. And on statements by Coughlin in the above points, the conven of the discussion, the party DOWN TO WORK!
Following the disposition of party success. In the course OAKLAND BRANCH GETS Pennsylvania and this is very important for by Mr. Janssen against the top leaderPlan Action top of everything, the Youth vor of the war machine, the weaknesses came in for con Enclosed find a payment of Total Alameda County has 7, 834 local of the Alliance recently fact that he was one of the key ship in Washington for having 51 on our account. We expect up and unanimously men in putting Roosevelt War cott succeeds, he siderable criticism.
Washington, has inclaims.
allowed Congress to delete the aged, 479 blind and 2, 500 needy drew the credentials to be completely paid up by creased its bundle order by report prevailing wage clause in the children on its relief rolls. Oth adopted a militant anti war Deal into power shows that he Germans will be forced to go relief appropriation measure. er classifications raise the total program which demands jobs will be among the first when to war to prevent their eco which will be printed in the July 15 and on July 21 we are per issue and has an additional Under the present schedule. o 12. 000 according to official or youth at trade union wages war breaks to pound the drums nomic annihilation. mean coming issue in tabulated form, having a mass meeting at literature agent in Comrade it was pointed out that the thousands of workers have been reports. If there are no funds and that all war funds be used of patriotism which will dra while the boycott continues its notified that they will have to forthcoming within the next for the unemployed. The burgoon millions of Americans into disastrous effect in the United party is a young party. The SHOE WORKERS LOCAL work 130 hours a month to get ten days the physical conditioni esucrats are now investigat the coming slaughter.
DISCUSSES FORMING Milks the Poor the same pay they have been of the workers will be a danger ing the Youth.
of cotton rot in Southern ware was 28 years. Yet the greater OUT ON STRIKE getting, on a monthly basis.
Name Calling Futile to the entire community.
While the main sources of houses. American farmers have part of the delegates had years WORCESTER, Mass. Eight DEFENSE GUARDS Under the old rates paid on There are indications, how amhe customer intimidation and Coughlin huge income have to plow under or destroy their and years of experience in the a union scale, craftsmen ob ever, that the workers of Ala name calling is the Stalinists never been revealed Ameri food surpluses (page With trade union and political move cutters and one hundred stitch(Continued from Page 1)
tained from to an hour, meda County are not going to only defense The youth who ca colossally rich Sixty Fami this argument Coughlin blames ment behind them. And mosters working for the National and worked much less than 130 starve peacefully. Recent want to fight against boss war les stand like a sinister shad the terrible want which exists significant, the greater part of Shoe Manufacturing Co, which tempt to deprive any worker or the delegates were experienced employs about 300 workers, workers organization of its hours events in the comparison of the pay re West Oakland Slmhurst and are called agents of Trotsky ow in the background Father in the midst of plenty in Amer trade unionists.
have been out on strike for a constitutional rights, Milton sections have and, as one member of the Coughlin overlooks no possibil ica not on the capitalist system, These delegates who lent the week, demanding the return of explained. The Coughlin gang.
ceived before the reduction on given rise to the formation of Youth Local remarked when ity to milk the poor. On page 19 the system of turning over the an hourly basis with union and how Jetishtinkerunemployed meetina reer was they can at he sustine bial por issue sur social wealth of the nation to a miser the convention problémicans a year cut which they received sters have already broken into project workers union de meeting. If Trotsky and the Justice he lurid pic able handful of stockholders now on their way back to call. There is no union at the a workers headquarters. the International agree ture of America in 1945.
to be earned under the new spite the frantic efforts of the Fourth schedule shows that most scabby Workers Alliance and with us why should we remain Six bishops, three Catho Jews. Despite the fact that he fornia, Detroit, Minneapolis, plant. An independent union Debs Labor School. and have skilled craftsmen will get 60 its company union, Stalinist here with these pie card art lic and three Protestant, were alleges he is not anti Semitic ctc. to put their vitality, spirit with the reputation of being succeeded in breaking up nuists!
cents an hour Jess! And work leadership.
Increasing many hours more!
The workers who want to unemployment.
in the basement of Tombs religious Jews. Coughlin does execution of the convention de and the United shoe Workers merous meetings of labor orconduct struggle for their not make even this distinction have all ganizations in the city. Last Facts and Figures ministers and nuns are in right to live, to eat, to have dein his Jew baiting.
They carry the message of tried to contact the workers. week they tried to break up an Cement maison 1, 786 Here is what the New York Ornament iron cent homes and to get Jobs at concentration camps. or On the same page which car revolutionary socialism. In the The union has made American Labor Party meeting craftsmen got before: 85. 75 decent wages and who dare to about where Michael Quill, president ries his Jew baiting. Coughlin mankind they wield the might twenty workers signing up. The othe ders have been issued at Paver (black Transport Workers Kranite)
86. 37 expose the reactionary line of Comintern headquarters that the Stalinists in the Alliance persons displaying pictures bor movement, attacking the of Marxism. In the day to day workers would have nothing to Union, was the speaker: forrolls, Bacin weeks granite cutter 85. 80 tunately the transport workers struggles of the masses they do with the other unions.
of George Washington or and its right to strike.
Max Prode. 68 Blacksmith 84. 50 are called agents of the Cham81, 02 Waterproofer ber of Commerce and the As were prepared.
otherwise paying homage to In Coughlin plan to estab carry with them the intelli Stone setter. 113 Marble polisher 145 99sociated Farmers by the finks this bourgeois individual will lish fascism in America by An invincible army of prole Organized labor in New 56 Important Notice 84. 09 Painter. 592 York has a membership of Plumber 989 84. 00 in the Alliance who hope to con be shot without trial.
84. 00 Burner. AMERICA 60 FAMILIES more than a million. Together steam terker 00 Welder. 84. 00 fuse and confound the workers This, says Father Coughlin, tice the Jews will be only the tarian revolution they march by Ferdinand Lundberg with other workers organiza19:21 Timberman 284 68 of Oakland. But the name call 18 a picture of America under first to dangle from his noose.
19:21 Nehne auto) 198 Long live the Socialist Worknow available at 49 trons and the anti fascists in 80. 00 ing campaign is not producing Communism, and if his readers The next on the list will be book that reveals who the general population 84. 701 It can hardly be wondered the desired results because would save America from whoever belongs to a trade ers Party! Long live the Fourth really controls America and Sheet meta International Forward to Sothat the members are now the workers are asking this Red peril they must im union.
would be a cinch to organize how they keep their power.
cialist Victory!
50. 000 anti fascist labor guards. 99 up in arms over this. William themselves. Just who are the mediately send in their contri Coughlin movement is grow 23:20 Green, president of the agents of the Chamber of Com butions of 1, 5, or any ing. and growing dangerously.
No revolutionary agitator it the labor unions get behind 81. 02) and other top leaders have a merce should be without a copy the idea.
and, the Associated thing higher If it is to be stopped it must be LABOR BOOKSHOP verter 890 09 real explanation to make for Farmers. those who want to Anti Jewish Campaign stopped NOW. And the only At Your Service 116 University Place Dock builder 611 81. 00 their bad mistake in allowing fight for jobs and homes or Father Coughlin campaign way to stop it is by organizing THE APPEAL New York City the reduction to go into effect those who are trying to keep us against the Jews continues un labor defense guards in every Subscribe to The tor (ptable)
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