WORKERS OF THE WORLD UNITE!
Socialist Appeal BUILD WORKERS DEFENSE GUARDS Official Organ of the Socialist Workers Party, Section of the Fourth International Issued Twice Weekly VOL. III, NO. 52 FRIDAY, JULY 21, 1939 3c a Copy TAKE SLAVE WAGES OR STARVE!
DECLARES PINK SLIP ROOSEVELT Project No. Minnesota Labor Let the People Honors Its Martyr Vote on War!
Somervell Orders Dismissal Of 75, 000 RESTORE CUTS Chicago LEADS UNEMPLOYED 701 ODD Carlo News From WPA Strike Fronts Shows Picket Lines Hold Solid By JAMES BURNHAM Resolution Places Responsibility III for Violence Against Strikers on The Opposition to the War Referendum Federal and Local Administrations SEVERAL years ago, Representative Ludlow of Indiana put the war referendum plan into a resolution which he introduced in the House of Representatives, and last year his (Special to the Socialist Appeal)
Statement Makes It resolution came up for a test vote in the House. From MINNEAPOLIS, July 16 Organized labor will honor association with his name, the plan is often referred to as with a mass funeral this week its martyr, Emil Bergstrom, Clear that Layoffs the Ludlow amendment. It should be noticed that Lid the unemployed worker killed by a police bullet in the Friday low original bill did not embody the plan in its simple evening attack on the picket lines.
Are Permanent and direct form. He attached a proviso: the popular referThe Joint Action Committee, constituted by all the labor endum was not to be held if the mainland of the United organizations of the city, sent a committee to Governor By TONY CHAPMAN States were invaded.
Stassen Saturday which clemanded that all projects Having spent last week in Ludlow has re introduced his resolution, with several stay closed, and that there be no more violence and provocaChicago conferring with Col.
more provisos, at the present session of Congress, and a tion against the workers by the police. The committee agreed Harrington, national administrator, Col.
Brehon similar resolution has been sponsored in the Senate by a to meet with state administrator Glotzbach Monday Somervell, local chief, group of Senators headed by LaFollette of Wisconsin. In only if all Minneapolis projects stay closed. Later in the day, came home Saturday to anboth of the current resolutions, the referendum would not after telephoning his chief, nounce that 75, 000 operate if either the mainland of the United States or any Harrington workers in New York would be of its territories and possessions or any part of Latin Glotzbach announced the dismissed by September unAmerica were invaded or immediately threatened by in projects would stay closed.
der the 18 month rotation vasion. In other words, the present Ludlow and LaFollette The Joint Action Committee ANTI COUGHLIN provision of the Rooseveltresolutions provide for a referendum only in the case of a had won its point!
Woodrum Starvation Relief war conducted by the United States in Europe, Asia or Act.
Responsibility for the murAfrica. Congress would otherwise retain the present Conder of Bergstrom and the PICKET LINE Somervell declared that the removal of workers under the stitutional right to declare war.
shooting and injury of 24 18 month clause is a straight What Is Behind the Opposition?
others was laid at the door of layoff and not a furlough. This It might be supposed that these sweeping provisos the Roosevelt administration Anti Fascist Arrested about which shall have something to say in the next in a sharply worded resolusection would remove all the objections to the plan. tion adopted Saturday afterFor Protesting Police LABOR SPEAKS Does not everyone from Roosevelt down assure us that the noon by a meeting of all union Interference United States will never go war for aggressive pur business agents and officials. The President is defposes, that the young men of this country will never again including both and initely aligned against Labe sent to fight abroad, that the arınament of the United Special to the Socialist Appeal bor. It was his wish and PHILA. Pa. July 15 DeStates is being built up for purely defensive purposes?
his will that prompted The resolution is undoubt spite a detail of more than 200 What possible objection can they have when the people edly a lanılmark in the mili police and plainclothesmen, Congress to completely reask to vote, not on all wars, but just on those obviously tant development of the Amer who forbade any picketing verse the Administration and blatantly aggressive wars which they say the United ican labor movement. It de holding of street corner meetlabor policy. From now States will never fight?
serves quotation in its entirety: ings, the Socialist Workers on Labor can look for few Nevertheless, the fight against the war referendum plan, united front of Minneapolis 1a Socialist League went through crumbs under the table of their bor holds that the murderous with demonstration in any and all of its forms, has from the beginning been An Education in Politics CHICAGO the New Deal. Minneas powerful and bitter as the strength of its opponents can sota Union Advocate.
assault of the Minneapolis po against a Coughlinite meeting (Special to the Socialist Appeal. See Page 3)
bring to bear. Through every channel of public opinion. Lice crew directly from the ac held last night at the Metropol tions of persons and agencies itan Opera House.
Buildimg Trades Council speech and newspaper and magazine and pulpit, the attack named below, and The picket line, with banners ST. PAUL, Minn. Heard on the strike has been conducted. Whereas this tragic attack high and singing loudly. front from a worker: Calls Men Out on Strike by police upon workers, inno marched down Broad Street un. 8:00 Those are lies of the Boss is the first official statement What lies behind this fierce opposition to this plan, ap cent bystanders and children til they were besieged by a papers! Roosevelt is not against the (Special to the Socialist Appeal)
indicating that the Roosevelt proved of by more than two thirds of the people? The present, came as a direct re cordon of cops a half block workers.
CHICAGO In the second week of the na Administration interpretation sult of the actions of the per away from the Met.
9:00 That strange, thought people have the right to know.
tion wide strike a special meeting of of the law would mean sons and agencies named be Denied permission to proRoosevelt was with us.
Among the sharp opponents of the war referendum, we ceed further by the police who 10:00 By. Roosevelt didn say the Chicago Building Trades Council unani permanent layoffs.
discover the heads of the Democratic Party, including outnumbered the pickets, the anything against the cuts, did he?
mously adopted an order for all building Twenty five hundred pink All the News That Roosevelt and his Secretary of State, Cordell Hull; the demonstrators turned their 11:00 Jiminy, he been fooling us trades workers representing 212 locals to cease slips daily that the ration banners toward Broad Street all the while.
work on 65 projects.
that the New Deal is handing heads of the Republican Party, including Herbert Hoover, Fit to Print. where the masses could see 12:00 Noon He nothing but No. strike Ths official action brought out many addl workers for the next six weeks.
out to New York W.
Alfred Landon, and the influential Henry Stimson, them, and then continued voic breaker.
1:00 What? The Stalinist leaders tional workers to swell the strikers ranks in the first victims received Hoover Secretary of State; the Liberty League, and the That Federal Bureau of ling their anti fascist slogans.
Investigation agents, sent by when Lou Roberts, a non parof the Workers Alliance endorsed Roosevelt the city to over five thousand. At the same theirs Tuesday, American Legion officials; all of the most powerful newsAttorney General Murphy to ty picket attempted to address for a third term? Holy cats!
time the Sewer and Tunnel Miners Union has Although 75, 000 workers will papers, particularly the most reactionary newspapers such. the crowd on Broad street and is strike, Joined poas the New York Herald Tribune and the New York called out its skilled workers and have thus be dropped from Somexplain that the demonstrators lice in last Friday attack compelled the closing of this project which ervell declared that no attempt ROCHESTER were being denied their ele.
Times, and the Chicago Tribune; all of the most widely will be made to replace them on the pleket lines, was reemploys in the neighborhool of 10, 000.
mentary civil rights, and that read of the big shot columnists, especially Walter Lippman, with a similar number from vealed by the following paraThe official strike figures handed out by the the Home Relief Rolls. Only the were General Hugh Johnson, and Dorothy Thompson; and graph in a special dispatch given permission and protec Strike Compells Shutting administration in the person of Charles 42, 000 workers will be permit to the New York Times, July the Communist Party Miner, State administrator, estimates ted to replace the number of 15: For the most part, the attacks on the war referendum that did not carry the coughlin Of All Operations 12, 250 strikers in Illinols, exclusive of Chicago. men fired by September The police said Federal. plan are in a tone of hysterical frenzy; all supporters of agents, cruising the scene in immediately seized and brutal(Special to the Socialet Appeal)
25. 000 workers will be severed from That those dismissed face the a car to determine whether the plan are denounced as unpatriotic and it is suggested ly thrown into a patrol wagon. ROCHESTER, July 17 Faced with there had been unlawful intheir projects unless they report to work at prospect of long drawn out atonce.
The legal defense a 100 per cent shutdown of projects that they are influenced by paid propaganda agents tempts to establish themselves terference with persons destaff had him released in less by the strikers, the authorities on orsiring to work, also loosed The strikes are now in operation in Chicago, on the Home Relief Rolls was of foreign nations: the lack of real arguments is covered than an hour from the station ders from State Administrator Herzog yesterkas upon the crowd.
Southern Illinois, East St. Louis, Carlinville, indicated by Welfare Commisby heavy flag waving and big adjectives.
sioner William Hodson. Hodson This paragraph was part house where he was charged day suspended all operations in MonBelleville and LaSalle County.
with unlawful assembly. At the roe County stated that it will take at least Arguments Hold No Water of the story appearing in the magistrate hearing Roberts. The amazing factor in the strike situation PHILADELPHIA one month for these workers When we examine the arguments which some of the midnight edition of the was held in 500 bail for a fur here is that the workers have held out to get on the municipal relief Times. The later editions apopponents try sometimes to put forward, they boil down rolls, and that only one third to peared WITHOUT IT.
ther hearing. The fur in this strike without organization and leadernished the bail to release him ship. They have simply been driven to the Strike Called On All one half of those fired from to three. 1) the referendum would be contrary to our from the County prison where point of desperation by the Roosevelt relief would ultimately get on (Continued on Page 4)
the rolls.
representative theory of government established by the low; and is not understandable he was committed.
Gov Financed Projects Constitution. 2) holding a referendum would show other without the policies and actions Coughlin addressed the audiST. PAUL TINKS FIND nations that the country is divided. 3) the requirement taken by these persons and ence by a direct telephone wire (Special to the Socialist Appeal)
from Royal Oak, Mich. He GOING TOUGH PHILADELPHIA, July 17 The Philadelphia ST. PAUL Things sure are of a referendum before entering a war would hamper these agencies. went through his usual diaBuilding Trades Council called a strike today pretty tough for a poor scab the government in its foreign policy.
That the combined united tribes against the Commun. Federal and Local Cops on all government financed projects effective these days. Everybody is Each of these arguments is a complete absurdity from labor front of 1sts in the trade unions. p. Wednesday, The and on Fail to Scare Srikers Workers Alliance and the Fedagainst him; strikers beat him All building construction projects financed up, decent people boo him, and the point of view of genuine democracy.
eral Workers Section of Local ly learned of the meeting three in part or whole by the Federal Government the boss coppers, who protect Granted that the United States has a representative form 544 places direct responsibility days before it was held. In this (Special to the Socialist Appeal)
will be stopped by removal of all our members him, hate him. But to top it all of government. But what is the government supposed to snd blame for the Minneapolis short time 5500 leaflets were ST. PAUL, Minn, July 16 The labor movedistributed; scores of street ment of this city is not lagging behind its situation upon: in support of our action with regard to the off, even his boss, the represent? The will of the people, presumably. No queslockout now in existence on an administration doesn apprect The present contemptu corner meetings were held: Twin City brother, Minneapolis. The nounced Norman Blumberg, secretary treas ate his belly crawling. In White tion could be more important than that of war. If those ous and unyielding policy of the and a number of trade unions projects are struck effectively.
urer of the council.
Bear, Minn. the scabs who who claim to be representatives of the people believed that Works Progress Administra contacted.
It was not long before forty or fifty cops of of 25, 000 Pennsylvanis building trades work have been working have threatAttorney General Murphy Federal Bureau of ers, 17, 000 are affiliated to the Philadelphia ened to strike if they cannot the nation should enter a war, then a popular vote on the ton, national, state and local.
as witnessed by the actions of Join the Socialist Investigation descended on the scene to spy locals.
issue could only help to prove whether they were in truth make up their time. It sure Colonel Harrington toward the on the activities of the strikers. They snooped The Pittsburgh building trades unions struck don pay to fink on the work(Continued on Page Continued on Page 3)
Workers Party (Continued on Page the last week.
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