TUESDAY, JULY 25, 1939 SOCIALIST APPEAL SPARKS IN THE NEWS Self Accused Strikebreakers New York WPA Strike Going On Full Blast DISORGANIZE THE DKORGANIZED dismiss By Dwight Macdonald Stalinist Stooge Spoke Too Soon Len de Caux, the Stalinist stooge who somehow got to be editor of the News. has a bad habit of guessing wrong. In the lat Clothing 16. 00 52 Taxes and the New Deal Fuel, Light 11. 00 07 est issue of the Taxation is a notoriously dull subject. Stuffy Automobile News. dated July 17, Mr.
14. 75 00 20. Republican journals print lengthy articles Recreation 00. 31 10. de Caux gives the front page banner head to the valiant about it, but the left wing press rarely gives Life Insur. 00. 18 any attention to the subject. This would seem Sundries, Misc 26. 75 92 10. (Continued from Page 1) wants. Right back to the blind fight that the left wing Continued from Page 1)
New Dealers are supposed to invited to make a tour of the to be a great mistake, for of all the tricks in the ranks of the alley of orderly. peaceful. the bag of that master shell game politician, ron union men enter the gates. paralyzed projects in the comMonthly Total: 150. 00 20. 22 13. strikers.
be putting up in the Halls of passive postcard writing, Most of these men, Brennan re pany of newspapermen, you deFranklin Roosevelt, of all his ingenious de Annual Total: Congress for the prevailing 1800. 00 34. 64 13. We quote word for word from which has proven such a dewage. Senator Murray, New vices for fooling the masses, taxation is in ported, merely stand around on stred to be excused. Now we this disgraceful document: To pressing failure in the past.
Corporations: 1, 300, 000, 000 Dealer from Montana, gets avoid further shooting innocent some ways the most effective.
The New York Times, sharpa great big boost from Len.
get their pink dismissal slips. invitation to you. We shall be Consumers: 3, 400, 000, 000 recent Gallup poll found that one out of people by power drunk reac sighted organ of the boss class, But before de Caux paIn a vitriolic statement de glad to schedule the tour for every four persons asked actually thought he of the 11. 200, 000, 000 taxes collected by lo tionaries, and to give Congress was not slow in spotting the per arrived in the mails, nouncing capitalist press re any hour of any day that suits paid no taxes all. No less than 71 of these cal, state and national governments last year, opportunity to deliberate relief new recruits to the strike Monday papers announced ports, President Murray stated: your convenience, and this, in persons who thought they paid no taxes sald no less than 8, 000, 000, 000 was in the form of law changes in atmosphere of breaker ranks. Taking the that Murray. along with the Persons addicted to the vice our optimism, is a fair propostthey were for Rooseveltas against 54 of these hidden, indirect taxes. The National calm and reason, we are poll. Alliance stooges at their true rest of the two faced of wishful thinking are making tion. Once and for all, let the those who knew they were paying taxes. In Cor:sumers Tax Commission, as reported in ing national board Workers Alworth, the Times in its report friends of labor have dethe utterly false claim that the American people find out other words, the less a citizen knows about the Times of June 19, last. It is true liance on question temporarily of Lasser strike breaking serted the fight.
effectiveness of the work stop whether by this time they have taxation, the better he likes the New Deal.
that local and state governments have made ending all job stop moves in the July 19 issue, Under de Caux editorpage program of the in their midst a modest superThere is a general impression, especially even greater use of these hidden taxes than pages in which we are concern scornfully and with great glee ship, the News has utions in this city is diminish Houdini who, wielding an invisamong the lower income groups, that the New has the New Deal, but DR. is learning ed, including suspension one headlines the story. Workers consistently played down all ing. The reverse is true. The ible wand, can transform men Deal soaks the rich. that it has been redisfast.
day national protest Alliance Bolts.
items unfavorable to the authorities, in actual who never worked in the contributing national purchasing power by collectIn Workers Age of June 24 last, Cecil Owen, demonstration planned for July Yes, precisely the word for Roosevelt administration, ev.
WORKERS ALLIANCE these agents of Roosevelt who fact, are confronted with abso struction field before into seaing taxes from corporations and millionaires publicity director for Labor Non Partisan 20.
en going so far as to keep lutely undentable bottlenecks soned electricians, bricklayers, and spreading these billions out over the farmLeague, pointed out that in 1929 corporations HAS NEVER AND WOULD have left the strikers out of the paper or give lit on each and every construction carpenters and steam shovel ers, workers, unemployed. Actually, the New tle space to John Lewis job in the city on which skilled operators in the blinking of an Deal has financed its spending programs not sumers paid 1, 000, 000. In 1938, after six years GOVERNMENT. St. Paul The Alliance, through office occasional blasts against the mechanics are required. eye. Frankly, in view of the by heavy taxes on the rich es, for example, of New Deal reform. corporations paid oneer Press, July 16. boy Lasser, made it very clear administration. Lewis deAnswers Somervell damaging admissions which the British Government has been doing ever 1, 300, 000, 000 and consumers 3, 400, 000, 000.
Lasser added to this an ex. that they turn their backs tonunciation of the Democratsince the war. but by selling Government True, corporations pay less today because they plicit statement as head of the all forms of militant struggle With reference to Administra your own supervisor on North bonds and notes to the banks. This amounts ic majority of Congress in are taxed on profits and profits are less than Alliance: We are asking our above all, the strike. They are tor Somervell claim that all Beach made last week, am will Chicago last Saturday does to postponing the whole question as to what board for a vote to call off all proving to Roosevelt that they in 1929.
Murray declared. notice inclined to believe that not appear in the class shall pay for the New Deal social re But the point is that the New Deal has raised inembers engaged in stoppag are completely sincere in work is returning to normal, duck this invitation as you did News although it is sup.
forms, since the bonds will not have to be paid the rates of taxation on business very little. es that the Colonel, whose lucid the previous one. On the tour posed to be the official organ made last week, the press was off for many years.
moments are becoming in able to note that all work on For all the outcry about the undistributed prof have not been in favor of long ants of the bosses among the But this of the its tax, it produced a mere 75, 000, 000 a year strikes. We favor one or two organized unemployed.
creasingly rare, does not take the North Beach Airport was just the beginning of the story occasion to dwell on the subMost of those who told the Gallup investiand the effect of its recent repeal by Congress day stoppages as a protest.
thoroughly paralyzed.
Rators they paid no taxes were earning 20 a has been practically nil either on business or Daily Worker Forgets ject of electrical workers, to cite but one example. notice Union Holds Key week or less. Calculations show that a person The Daily Worker in its July on Federal revenues. On the other hand, the getting 20 a week pays taxes today of no less also. Murray went on, that Reminding Somervell that New Deal has plled on the hidden taxes to a 18 issue reported that Lasser than 100 a year or five weeks pay. The rea towering total. Tobacco and liquor alone last Minneapolis statement had the Colonel is still attempting his recourse to the New York son, of course, these people thought they were year yielded almost as much revenue as the been well received. but conto stifle the free press by re State Employment Service for not being taxed was that they paid no income entire corporation tax.
veniently forget to report what fusing to permit newspaper re workers to man the struck protaxes or other direct taxes. The Joker in the But the real discovery of Franklin is the e had said.
porters and photographers on jects will be futile, President deck, the elusive pes under the shell that the projects. If Somervell is Murray today telegraphed the In the July 16 issue of the St.
payroll tax now being collected under the preFranklin manipulates so cleverly, is hiddoing as well as he claims, de administrator: tense of setting up a reserve fund for the Paul Pioneer Press, Lasser is den taxation levied on consumption: sales spite the lack of essential meold age and unemployment insurance provi quoted as expressing the opin Do you not know, Mr. Adchanics. should think he ministrator, that the law gov.
taxes, tobacco, liquor, gasoline, and a thousions of the Social Security Act. As oJhn ion that the board will give sand and one other taxes.
would be glad to give access erning the State Employment Flynn demonstrated in The Social Security its approval to both proposals.
The wartime taxes on amusements, playing Reserve Swindle. an excellent article that the proposals referred to are to the projects to the press. It Service clearly specifies that takes a lot more than a trowel no unemployed worker shall be cards, etc. first awakened legislators to this rich mine of revenue. Consumption taxes have recently appeared in Harpers, these payroll the one he offered, namely, to shoved into his hand to make sent to fill a vacant job if the taxes are actually being used to pay the curcancel all strikes in rent two great advantages: they bear most heavily of the Federal government, and which members of the Work2 skilled bricklayer and it acceptance of said job would on the masses, and hence are popular with the the reserve idea is a gigantic hoax and or Alliance are currently intakes a lot more than a saw result in the loss of his union ruling class: and yet, extorted in driblets of fraud. The swindle is so barefaced, indeed, volved, and also to vote down to make a carpenter. Somer. membership? Inasmuch as you pennies and usually without the consumer bevell isn displaying the real have pinned such high hopes on that the New Deal has been forced to back the scheduled one day stoppage ing aware of them, they awaken no great popism one expects of an Army the State Employment Service, down a bit: Congress recently was forced, by on Thursday.
ular protest.
mounting public protests, to lower the rate of Why the sudden poll? Lasser man when he pretends that he know this blow is a crushing Pennies become dollars very fast, however, these to e taxes. The daring and scope of this par said in answer: The firing can turn an ornithologist, a one.
in this game. The Northwestern National Life ticular bit of shell game New Deal politics front will shift to Washington, poet or a sideshow pitchman Asked by reporters how the Insurance Co. has published a table of can be grasped it one remembers that last because the next stage of the into a skilled, efficient building five day rule was affecting the indirect taxes paid by an average family liv.
year these payroll taxes yielded no less than fight is legislative. The Daily trades craftsman in the space morale of the strike, Murray ing on 150 a month. 1800 a year. of twenty four hours. 1, 500, 000, 000. practically all of which was at Worker reported none of these Stop stated. The five day rule inMonthly Taxes Taxes squirming, Colonel, we have voked by the to ROLE COIN once spent for current governmental expenses. statements by Lasser.
Item Budget you pinned to the board like a striking workers will be a dead. And the rates, even after the recent lowering. On July 18, three days after RUINH POLICY.
Food 43. 50 39 helpless butterfly.
are adjusted so that this sum will increase the newspapers of the nation letter since no construction on Shelte: 30. 00 83 26. greatly in the next few decades.
had splurged Lasser treach Repeats Challenge any project can be reery all over the front pages.
Repeating his challenge of sumed without the re employ che Daily Worker still tried to last week that Colonel Somer ment of skilled mechanics.
MEN AND WOMEN OF LABOR cover up the Workers Alliance vell accompany the press on On Friday, July 21, represenscab role by carrying headanother tour of projects tatives of the 125 craft unions lines: Alliance Spurs Plans for in order to determine the effec affiliated with the Building July 20 Stoppage. However, tiveness of the strike, Murray Trades Council met to discuss on page 6, burled deep in he today stated: new means for implementing columns, is the pay off: The Last week when you were the strike.
Workers Alliance heads emphasized that their demonstraBy EMANUEL GARRETT Lion motion was not a strike.
STALINISTS SEEK and that it was not necessary in niany localities to have all day TO DISRUPT WILLIAM SYLVIS program favored the formation of stoppages.
Nov. 26, 1828 July 27, 1869)
labor reform party, the hour day, support Stoppages Forced ACTIVITY The Civil War nearly wrecked the union of the sewing women and daughters of toll movement, decimating its membership. sus in this land.
Actually, in many localities, the Workers Alliance under the BROOKLYN Successful pending its activities. Everywhere, bosses un In the last days of the war and after, the pressure of militant workers, street meetings and other actidertook an organized offensive against labor iron industry made gigantic strides, the Iron have been forced to call the The standards Moulders union came to active life, winning stoppage days in advance of the Internet ust issue of the New issue include an anniversaryvities of the John Brown unit of now on the press. piece of ten years of the ex the Young Peoples Socialist Yet, out of this period of depression in the wage increases for its men, enforcing trade July 20 date. In St. Paul and features an article by Leon istence of the Bulletin of the League, a new unit in the union movement grew the first great advance rules, especially with reference to appren Minneapolis. the Alliance is Trotsky which is certain to Russian Opposition, and an ex Coney Island area, galvanized (Continued from Page 1)
towards a national organization of labor. The tices. To head off union action, the bosses dragged along in the wake of arouse as much interest and tremely interesting tabulation the Communist Party into off the jobs before their busiman who accomplished this was William Sylvis, the first great leader of American latried to organize, but weren very successful. the tremendous strike move controversy as the article on of the fate of the members action.
ness agents had arrived to call The following letter was sent them out.
bor. He, for example, saw the bosses game: ertheless led some of the great battles of the and are compelled to remain printed several months ago of tees of the Bolshevik Party by the Communist Party. To effectually smother in its infancy any dis American working class. In 1867 he led a nine out on strike.
which the August article is the since the Revolution of 1917. Branch No. 32 (John Landy unskilled workers on Quite a few thousand of these position the men might have to fraternize. month strike which was ended in defeat, the But what does Lasser offer sequel.
The statistics provide a reveal. Sea Gate) to all Communist vari.
they commenced to work on their prejudices, bosses at that particular time being able to the workers as a Trotsky, in an article on sy ing and shocking picture of the Party members privately: ous projects have gone on arraigning the representatives of one religion cophants and renegades from devastation wrought Dear Comrade, organize their own forces, and the workers weapon to replace the poke? Marxism. deals with the Stalinist machine among the strike with the skilled trades.
or one nation against those another. drained to exhaustion by the many financial Offensive machine the The Communist Party is An exact estimate is not possiSylvis had been born in Pennsylvania into a assessments If you please, a campaign of critics of his famous article, in old revolutionists under whose taking steps to stop the dissen ble. Other thousands of unpoor wagon makers family. The Depression of union rallied and turned latters and telegrams to Presi. Particular with Boris Souvarine leadership the Bolshevik rev tion (sic. of the Trotskyte skilled have been made idle by However, the 1837 had scattered his family and he had be towards cooperation in a big way. At last dent Roosevelt and members of and Victor Serge, both of whom volution triumphed and was poison in Coney Island.
come an iron moulder, wandering for a time after years of earnest effort and patient wait Congress. That is what the wave made a series of criti maintained in its early years Your presence at a street the strike. Additional numbers as a journeyman, then settling down in Phila ing, and constant preaching, cooperation is stalinists offer as a substitute cisms in the press since Trot Oscar Fischer writes on the meeting called by the Party for of workers are now being called delphia. Local strikes were frequent in the in taking hold upon the minds of our members, for labor most formidable sky article first appeared. suicide of Ernest Toller, whose Friday Eve. July 21st at p. out every day.
dustry. In the course of a strike in 1857, Sylvis and in many places very little else is talked method of getting what it Other articles in the August death several weeks ago caused sharp. To be held at Mer Dismissal notices, up to this was elected shop secretary. After the strike, about. Cooperative foundries which Sylvis a sensation in radical and in maid Avenue and West 27th date, have been sent to 6, 864 in he was elected recording secretary of the hailed as the beginning of a new era were Lellectual circles. Other im Street the State of Ilinois. In Chicago Iron Moulders union which had been organportant articles and letters, on It is imperative that you be 22, 000 are to be laid off beized in 1855 and which was destined to mirror indicated in the union name which was a variety of subjects are also to there. tween now and Sept. under the trend of the labor movement from pure changed to read, Iron Moulders International be found in the August issue. Comradeiy yours, the 18 month provision.
and simple trade union action, to political ac Cooperative and Protective Association.
The Manager of the New In Herb Lerner, Organizer. John Lewis, addressing a tion, to economic action again, etc. Sylvis, alternational urges that advance For International Action most on the heels of his election, introduced The street corner mentioned mass meeting of 16, 000 in the orders be sent immediately to is that where the Coliseum yesterday in conneca resolution for a national convention of iron Where he was particularly distinguished ine office at 116 University regularly holds its meetings. tion with the national stock moulders. When the call for the founding con from the ordinary labor leaders of his day. The July issue of Party Actorous and despicable sell out Place, New York, vention of the Iron Moulders International The unit is preparing to defend yard workers strike now auwas his interest in international organization. tion, an internal bulletin pub role of the Stalinist controlled its meeting against Stalinist thorized, said, in speaking on Union. Philadelphia, 1859) was issued, he was Very much interested in Marx First Inter lished by Local New York on Workers Alliance.
thuggery the WPA strike: Democrats one of the two signers national, he for a long time carried on a de problems facing the local or The Fund Raising campaign Few Workers Answer must share responsibility with With the Civil War fast approaching, Sylvis tailed correspondence with the leaders of the Sanization, is now available to which was undertaken to fl Star Spangled Banner, fol the Tory Republicans for a was active in the anti war movement which International. For example, war between Eng. members of the Socialist Work nance the special campaigns of all to Attend Patrilowed immediately by the re measure which will deprive a was then very widespread. In February land and the United States was threatening in ers Party. It reviews the Local New York is coming otic Assembly citing of the oath of allegiance million unemployed of WPA 1861 he presided at a national convention of 1860. The secretary of the International wrote tivities of Local New York through in good shape in the to the constitution.
jobs, besides reducing the alworkers who were opposed to the war. HowThe program of action for the ever, when the war had actually begun, Sylvis, In answer, Sylvis wrote: Our cause is a com and outlines the program of ac next period centers largely (Continued from Page 1)
All the action proposed was ready meagre WPA wage.
the usual flood of postcards and as did most of the labor leaders, supported mon one. It is war between poverty and tion for the coming period. about the election campaign stration called in Columbus telegrams to Congress.
the war.
wealth. This monied power is fa fast eating up Greatest success during the for the City Council. Prelimi Circle.
DANCE The scabbing of the Workers The union had virtually gone to pot with the the substance of the people. We have made last period, according to Party nary work for this campaign is Passing Picket Lines Ailiance leadership has been and outbreak of war. In 1863 it was reconvened, war upon it, and we mean to win it. If we can, Action, was reaped from the now being done by the city This ends the Workers Alliharsh blow to the unemployed and Sylvis was elected president. Viewing we will win through the ballot box; if not, then campaign against Coughlin and committee. It is expected that ance action against the of New York. Today it is necENTERTAINMENT trade union action as only a half way mea we shall resort to sterner means. little blood. his incipient fascist movement. the fight against Coughlinism starvation Law. Tomorrow essary for the worksure, useful so long as the wage system lasted letting is sometimes necessary in desperate Local New York mobilized and against War will receive back to work even where they ers and the unemployed to 1666 Madison Ave, nr. 111 st.
Young India Social Club but incapable of solving the basic problems of cases. At his recommendation, Camer every member for this cam tremendous impetus if the par have to pass the picket lines of build the Unemployed and Prothe wage earners, he introduced into the union on was sent by the to the 1869 confer. paign, organizing street meet tv is successful in organizing the striking building trades sect Workers Union, if they Saturday, July 22, 9:30 proposals which looked to the abolition of the want to fight for the right to profit system. In his 1864 report he, among lived, it is quite possible the organization intensifying sales of the Social Especial emphasis is laid by The leaflet issued by the live.
Benefit: Campaign for other things, recommended cooperative foun would have been affiliated to the International. ist Appeal. The entire first edi Party Action on the successes Workers Alliance said: PreCitizenship Rights dries and a national trades assembly with an As it happened, Sylvis died in the middle of tion of the anti Coughlin pam of the branches in recruiting sident Roosevelt said: You Limited Offer!
75c Ladies Free all embracing program.
his career. He had led the first major attempt phlet was sold out in a few during the past period and the can strike against the GovernSuch a body came into being in 1866 as the at the national organization of labor, and even weeks and it was necessary to ced during the coming period ment, but who said the workFor Two Weeks Only result of the Labor Congress which met in aimed at international organization. Not very print a second edition. to involve every branch mem ers were striking against the 1938 Bound Volumes of the At Your Service Baltimore as the first meeting of the National effective in actual practice (the first truly In the trade union and unem ber in an enthusiastic recruit government? Only the news SOCIALIST APPEAL Labor Union. Sylvis two years later was effective national organization was soon to be ployed fields Party Action re ing drive.
papers who also call Presiand the THE APPEAL elected president, and thus became the spokes created in the Knights of Labor. it neverthe ports real progress, especially Party Action is available to dent Roosevelt a red.
NEW INTERNATIONAL man of 600, 000 workers, the largest organized less prodded the awakening labor movement in the strike which has all party members at 5c a The Columbus Circle meeting 00 including postage labor force in the country up to that time. The to a great goal.
done much to expose the trai copy.
opened with the singing of the POSTER SHOP OUT OF THE PAST Trotsky Answers Renegades from Marxism in August New Int CHICAGO STRIKE OF SKILLED WPA LABOR GROWS nounced The chaos collected was foundet mye New York Locals Activities Reviewed in Party Action