SOCIALIST APPEAL TUESDAY, AUGUST 1, 1939 APPEAL ARMY STRIKE BEGAN IN THE TWIN CITIES Why and How It Started; What In the All Workers Can Learn From It Labor Unions Labor Government Needed Pickets Tell Reporter of CHARGED TO BIG BANKERS DRIVERS WIN WAGE DISPUTE The Appeal In Action APPEAL QUOTAS SET FOR waterfront is going on regularCAMPAIGN ly. We catch the longshoremen The War Referendum Cam twice a week when they go paign of the Socialist Workers down to the dispatchers at 6:30 Party is now under way.
in morning. Since dozens Included in this campaign is travel a half hour to work we of them pile into busses to the aim of raising the Appeal figure they have time to read (Special to the Socialist Appeal)
ST. PAUL By Order of the able with the American stan vote and quick action.
dard of living.
Roosevelt was behind this bill circulation by 1, 000 per issueNational Administration: In other words, the law was from the very beginning. He 400 new subscriptions and 600 and talk about the paper. This Wages of building trades increase in bundle order circu anti Coughlin pamphlet the day week intend to take down the aimed at all wage standards, remained silent when the strike workers shall be cut 54 cents lation.
not just at broke. He was smoked out ofter peddle the papers. El or more per hour!
How did the Twin City unions when the workers put on the Wages of common laborers WORK Both these quotas are modest Booth, San Francisco Appeal By WIDICK answer this threat to wages pressure and he definitely lined indeed and have been carefully agent.
shall be cut cents an hour!
and conditions?
up against labor, first by supassigned and divided up among Nearly a million workers AKRON, Ohio The 55th an The union men on the job led porting Murphy the various branches of the shall be laid off country.
Here a list of new subs obnual convention of the Ohio This order was the opening he isht. It was the organized in their efforts to break the building trades men who start strike, then by stating that he tained during the past week. Federation of Labor, just con attack on the workers We recommend the appoint good beginning in getting under ed the walkout, in the Twin was in favor of abolishing the cluded, reflected the changing ment of special Appeal quota way for our goal of 400 new On July 5, hundreds of thoucommittees which will have readers by September 15.
trends in the movement sands of workers throughout cities and all over the country. prevailing wage rule, and final ly by lashing out openly against charge of getting in this country.
the country found the new rules STRIKE MOST EFFECTIVE these new the strike in his now famous posted on their bulletin boards. IN MINNEAPOLIS NEW YORK CITY subscriptions of major importance was the They put down their tools and strikebreaking speech, You All comrades must actively Chicago Minneapolis fact that the teamsters union walked oft on strike In Minneapolis the cannot strike against the govparticipate in this work. It can assumed domination of the Ohio In Cleveland. Tol olis and St. Paul, the strike bely supported the strike of its In the Twin Cities, Minneap Building Trades Council not on ernment.
As the Minnesota Union Adonly be accomplished by visit California ing friends, ex subscribers etc. Detroit edo, Cincinnati, Akron, Canton san at the state Fair grounds. own members, but called for vocate, the newspaper of the for the purpose of getting sub Montana and joint action with the unskilled St. Paul unions, said on scriptions. Bundle orders can drivers union already had refused to become scabs by work workers. The Joint Action Com. July 13, 1939: Now Labor only be sold by selling more Nevada placed the building trades inse below their union scale. mittee constituted by unions rnows it has suffered another papers. If you sell in the streets Ohio Wyoming unions as controlling factor in They understood that this order and unemployed organizations political doublecross; that the only once each week now you Tennessee must sell twice each week.
was extended to the Ohio Fed was an attempt to tear down took the lead and gave direc President is definitely aligned Connecticut eration of Labor.
the wage standards their unions tion and support to the strike against Labor; that it was his Newark All this was shown definitely of struggle.
had gained after half a century Every project was closed tight. wish and his will that prompted This power of the labor move Congress to completely reverse THE BRANCHES AT WORK by the elections The slate Total other workers, not in the ment in cooperation with the the administration Labor pol The Appeal has improved. 46 drawn up by the teamsters and building trades, also had their unemployed was so great that icy and that from now on Latremendously The backed by the meat cutters and scales cut. They gladly and en the national administration had tor can look for few crumbs miscellaneous unions won with thusiastically issues were crackerjacks!
joined their to sit up and take notice, and under the table of the New out much effort.
Cleveland has doubled its old Deal.
Karl Shier, Chicago summer bundle order and now takes 100 literature agent.
Only by the grace of the brothers, knowing that only by close the projects.
united action could they protect Because of this united power He (Roosevelt. undoubtedly copies of each issue of the The distribution teamsters were John Breid what little they had on the the strike was more ef feels that Labor is sewed in at the Appeal.
bor boss, and Albert Dalton. ect was closed tight.
enbach. Dayton Republican la The Fair Grounds pro fective in Minneapolis than in political sack and safely in cold any other city in the country. storage for 1940. Now he must Cleveland Republican man Cars of men eruised from job In St. Paul also the make overtures to those who An Appeal Salesman in the midst of the demonstration within the labor movement re to job and were greeted with a workers closed down the pros exploit Labor and the securat Akron.
elected to the state executive welcome everywhere. ects. They expected leadership ity wage is the bait that will board. Both were very unpopuiar, but their connections with workers in the Twin building trades usually fear ican industry, and Roosevelt DUILDING LUMPIMINNEAPOL Ву evening most the from the trade union move best serve his purpose.
ment and asked for it. The Exactly. The bosses of Amerthe Governor Bricker Repub. Cities were out on strike.
Ucan machine, the cause of Not until then did they dis that the unemployed will take their unpopularity. Saved them. cover that they were not alone. their jobs at less than union and the rest of the New Deal By NEIL WHITE ital and Labor, they always The teamsters felt they wanted They learned that workers all wages, and thus heln die boss politicians, believe that they have nothing to fear from an inside to the present state over the country had done the down wage standards. In this the workers. Their organizaOn the pleket line, North Miller, union workers would be choose Capital. agree with administration.
same as they, and were strikcase the unskilled workers tions and leaders have been Green Role ing a stunning blow in answer wanted to help building trades sewed up in old party politics, ers union won work for no better off with their own parbody under the to the attack of the national ad mechanics protect their wage so if the workers want to proprevailing ty.
scales.
wage, not even the Gov. Any man Resolutions demanding unity ministration.
who considers test against the New Deal they with the which went so The St. Paul Building Trades have no way of doing it. They ernment. replied Harry Muhimself a mechanic will not far as to openly criticize the STRIKE NOT PLANNED Council endorsed the walkout of can only vote for the Repub. Continued from Page Continued from Page 1)
ler, who is a member of Brickwork for seventy one cents an the union men and placed ban licans, who are just as hostile that the building workers ac the Stassen commission rec who lives at 3255 Steinway st. layers Union, Local 41, and hour said Charles Ferrari.
APL top leadership were in OR CALLED mechanic, in response troduced to the resolutions comThe nationwide ners on projects. The to Labor as the Democrats. cept lower wages and a speedommended and what the union Astoria, in response to this reto my question as to what he section of the delegates, includ Vance, or called by any organ protested the wage cut, called vote for.
niittee and backed by a large strike was not planned in ad Trades and Labor Assembly They had no Labor Party to up: a greater annual income. won through its independent Porter question as to what he thought about the strike.
based on having more work to How much were you making Fearing that the convention thunderstorm, an over the established over the past fifty Stassenin machine is attacking need to stretch the hours of amounts to 55 a week per strike against the government before the strike?
Republican do during the year, the Two dollars an hour. he, would get out of line on this country without any call.
of the wage scale on labor with every weapon in its work and the rate of pay on man, or 265. 20 for the two year It not so much replied.
problem. Mike Lyden, presi What drove these men from he continued, we re striking to dent of the Ohio Federation of their jobs, all at one time? Gov The State Federation of Labor power. Governor Stassen has each particular job. were Arn period. Do you think that Roosevelt The Stassen commission had keep prevailing wages up all Labor, sent for William Green, ernor Stassen blames it on L: president. lew leaders. this is a lie be leaders of the trade union apolis labor movement and is Dr. Kreps, of the Temporary recommended that the union over. We re afraid of trouble is justified when he says that movement in St. Paul did not acting as Attorney General National Economic Commit forget about the wage cut with the private bosses if we you can strike against the government?
demagogic speeches with em ers, the strike began with the organize cooperation with the Millerphy stoel pleeon. He In Lee consulting staff, laid down some of its members had re lose this strike. The boss in pri No, don think he justivate industry will cut wages 11 section of the workers on the unemployed to resist this as fice, supposedly to discuss set ly carrying charge is the really phasis on the no compromise attitude towards the And jobs alone. Only vicious at. sault on all workers. As a re tlement of the strike, and then important item, in testimony pay for its members from fied. Ferrari replied.
Instead, the union won back the does.
he brought alons renegade tack on their jobs and condi trades men stayed out. more turned over his notes of these subsequent to that of Arnold.
By this time some. fifteen sult. although the building For Labor Government from the Homer Martin. tions, only life and death He was followed by Robert June What do you think of the this writer.
pickets had gathered around to help him. Martin followed up question could have driven and more of the unskilled work discussions to the Men to be brought into the Grand Jury! Davison, the Pierce FoundaPald Vacations idea of a labor government.
Greea speech with a red bait these hundreds of thousands ofers went back to the jobs.
He is calling for the framing of tion director of housing reThey re Getting Wise The Stassen commission had this reporter asked, seeing ing talk in which, among other workers to quit work in an un STALINIST SABOTAGE the militant leaders of Minne search, who estimated that a recommended that the union that Hoover gave the workers One of them, who gave his things, he washed a lot of dirty led, spontaneous walkout. IN DULUTH apolis labor. The Republican 20 percent cut in material costs go back without paid Vacations neither Jobs nor relief and the neme as Victor Sedacca, linen of the In Duluth the only unem. Mayors.
Fallon and Leach, would knock off 33 percent oft Instead, the union won a week little Roosevelt gave he tak popped up. still don think Despite this barrage, the con WHY THE WORKERS vention adopted resolution WALKED OUT ployed organization was the urging unity with the al The workers were driven oft Workers Alliance which had police de rellet, and used the percent of interest and amor for every worker with a twe Well don know. Miller Roosevelt is trying his hardanswered, this whole thing est, still think he all right.
though some of the teeth were their jobs because of iken vie complete control of the strike police to slug, shoot and kill tization costs would cut month year seniority ly fixed charges by 16. 69 pertaken out of the original resolu lous attack of the Roosevelt The Alliance did not push the Listen to him. said Miller, after it began spontaneously Warehousemen met 28. 80 came as a surprise to me. The The Workers Alliance, led by cent but that a like cut in la week under the contract. Driv government was pretty good up Roosevelt signed the bill: tions.
are in higher to now, but if this government Roosevelt agrees with the cut If this represents the conven their wages and conditions. right or try to work with the the communist Party New bor costs would subtract only ers wages brackets is lined up against the unions two and two are four but he tion Attitude predominantly The law lengthens hours and the strike only for praising barrass the New Deal. They Arnold Covers up Banks composed of Officials, reduces the hourly rates for all Roosevelt and passing Roose poured cold water on the strike you can quote me in favor of a says it five!
In other words. as between Valuable Lesson labor government. Yes, he signed the bill. where they could equal cuts in labor costs and Commenting editorially on agree with him. chimed said one worker.
sentiments of the rank and file union men most of all. The bil bullding trades mechanics are as in Duluth. Lasser, the head other costs, a cut in financing this victory, the Northwest or in Bailey, 229 Webster You can trust Roosevelt.
cuts down the money for sun off the jobs, but the un Beal Case Rion mand throws nearly skilled workers, having no milapolis, the center of action, and much effect, and a cut in ma ols Teamsters Joint Council, member of Local 41. Roosevelt will never get the bricklayers vote again. said Men in congress who are Miller, you have to choose a Very seldom does an lines. It also promises the tant leadership. soon called publicly announced that the terials would have more than July 20, declares: strike should be called off. This twice the effect. The testimony The valuable lesson to learn supposed to represent us have labor candidate; that In the early days of the strike was done deliberately to throw did not touch on the equally im. from this experlence is that a lost touch with us. Men who that left to us.
mous recommendation of a key another big reduction in wages the national leaders of organ confusion into the ranks of the portant effect to be derived strong progressive union can have never been hungry have committee, such as the resolu in September. For all workers ined Tabor went along with the workers. The Alliance tried to from cutting the artificially ALWAYS get a better deal no sympathy with those who this convention was the rever forces a lay off of at least thur. Green of the said he Deait tried to pass third term were left out by Arnold, who it accepted the recommenda there. In a choice between Cap tlons committee. highlight of with 18 months experience it wishes of the workers. William make the strike a demonstra high cost of building sites.
when it depends only upon its have. The representatives in Subscribe to the could if congress forget who put them sal of the resolutions committee ty days, and probably forever.
SOCIALIST APPEAL on the Fred Beal case. The Roosevelt Woodrum Law Went lowering of wages. John resolutions at strike meetings stated that credit facilities tion of any commission apAfter a brilliant short speech is more than just a scheme to at the very time when Roose and land values are not pointed by a governor or any by Sam Pollock of Akron, state cut down and get rid of Lewis of the IO. expressevelt was publicly denouncing within the scope of this report. other boss minded individual.
ed his support of the walkout. Concert of the Classics of Swing secretary treasurer of the It is an opening attack on the These statements, in turn, gave the strike. By doing this they In plain English: the banks, Such a commission will ALDrinks Dancing Refreshments voted to demand freedom for By cutting down wage scales on fighters on the picket line for strike.
butchers union, the convention labor movement as a whole new drive and courage to the were actually breaking the which control credit facilities. WAYS bat against the workSATURDAY, AUGUST 5, at 9:30 Beat, although the resolutions it paves the way for a committee was against it.
wage cutting drive in private time. But the leaders did not. The strike has shown that the through interlocking directorat 317 EAST 13th STREET, Apt. a 80 effective was the talk of Industry. The Building show the way for organized ac American workers were willing ates) and the building sites INFORMAL HOUSE For the benefit of the Needle Trades Brigade of Anti Fascist Union Guards Bulletin.
the Akron labor leader that Trades Council in New York tion. They were not ready for a nd anxious to fight against through mortgages) control determined fight. They had too this attack; but because they every major factor which par.
Box 245 Kerhonkson, Admission 25 cents olutions committee was over out on strike, saw this clearly of the national administration leadership throughout the counsolved by Arnold, who centers prominent member of the res city, which called its workers many ties with the politicians did not have organization and alyzes the industry and are ab(Near Ellenville)
120 acres of greenland in the Leard later congratulating Pol when they pointed out that one lock on the victory.
Crtakills. 40 acres of pine for of the most atrocious features The same politicians are the try they could not keep up the his fire on union wages.
What has happened is that sunbathing: handball. ping pong.
The Army Has a New Rapid Fire Rifle.
Incidentally. Mike Lyden, the of the bill lay in tempting priones responsible for the Roose fight. Had the trade union velt Woodrum law movement throughout the coun the wage cutting drive against back ruing nearby: dancing The anti war agitator has new weapon too state president, tried assist vate industry to follow the extry been prepared, as it was in the building trades unions prev.
UNUSUALLY LOW RATES the resolutions committee by ample of the Works Progress WHO WAS RESPONSIBLE Minneapolis, the strike could iously launched by the banks. 18 Weekly Weekend refusing to call the vote against Administration in preventing FOR THIS LAW?
have been won. As it was, has now been taken up by the Just outthe resolutions committee rec building trades workers from ommendation. This flagrant receiving a wage rate compar. of the sub committee in charge had to call off its strike of unWoodrum was the chairman Minneapolis was isolated and Roosevelt government.
Tel. Kerhonkson 118 trick was quickly called to order by the delegates, and on a being voiced to the resolution. Official spokesman or Roose building trades men are still re Allentown Workers Limited Offer!
was demanded.
He picked up the key clauses velt New Deal organization in fusing to work at less than the in the resolution and pointed Congress union scale.
Fight Layoff Is it necessary to add that a out that it called for a revolu Roosevelt himself on April 27 The Minneapolis labor move.
FOR TWO WEEKS ONLY handful of Stalinist delegates tion and workers control of publicly proposed the cut in the ment was able to force the gov yoted against the Beal freedom production. It pure commun appropriation that ernmental officials into negoti (Continued from Page 1)
1938 BOUND ism, he exclaimed. This cha throws a million men out of ations, and won the concession in a ringing speech Heckman Workers Control grined the convention and the work.
that workers fired under the appealed to the workers assem VOLUMES By JAMES BURNHAM delegates who signed the reso Colonel Harrington, re day rule be given preference in bled to join with him in buildThe convention almost passed Iution.
cently appointed administrator re hiring.
of the cents per copy. Bundle rates: 60 cents for 25: 00 for labor to prepare itse it for com litical implications of the resby Roosevelt, was the man who The attack of the New Deal is ect Workers Union to ward off implications of the res proposed the wage cutting pro just beginning. Big business the starvation and misery Socialist Appeal 60; 75 for 100: 16. 00 for 1, 000 trol of all production. It was in olutio. The delegate wbo had requiring 130 hour iment are which the so called New Deal troduced by a Cleveland dele written up the resolution votes work per month a drive against all organized is planning for the workers Printed by rate who said he been think Democrat, and is one. He was New Dealers and reaction labor. Labor must prepare it with its recent aetion of relief ing things over and felt that a puzzled by the situation and re aries united to push the bill self for the fight; must and New International PIONEER PUBLISHERS real crisis was coming and la sented being called revolu. through Congress in a hurry. It strengthen its unions and bulla Scores of workers signed ap.
for the bor would have to take power. tionary. What we thought was passed by a vote of 372 to 21. its own political party: It must plication cards right then and Thomas Donelly, state feder important was this trend of this large vote could be pos stop trusting its enemies. Only there. Discussions continued 00 SOCIALIST WORKERS PARTY and 4th Int stion secretary. treasurer. thought unconsciously creeping sible only in one way. the the independent power of the far into the night long after including postage 116 University Place New York City rushed to the microphone when into the labor movement. even Roosevelt Administration laed workers can carry op labor the meeting had been adhe saw that no opposition was the section of it. up the congressmen to get a big battle.
journed.
all Bussen met at station Let The People Vote On War and and the