Only the People Have the Right to Decide on War!
Socialist Appeal BUILD WORKERS DEFENSE GUARDS The War That Is Coming Will Not Be People War! Official Organ of the Socialist Workers Party, Section of the Fourth International. Issued Twice Weekly 167 Roosevelt Promotes Instigator OF Bloody Friday In Minneapolis The Joker in the Deck!
National Stockyard Struggle Brewing Glotzbach Ran Finks Against Pickets; AntiLabor Jury in Session ROOSEVELT NEW DEAL CAMPAIGN PINK SLIP FISHER BODY MEN READY TO FIGHT ON UN.
EMPLOYED AN EDITORIAL VOL. III, No. 57 TUESDAY, AUGUST 8, 1939 3c a Copy The war which everyone sees coming will not be a people war.
It is being prepared right now BEHIND THE BACKS OF THE PEOPLE, and the war makers will not ask any by your leave.
If this is not so why, then, the vicious and bitter opposition to the idea of a war referendum on the part of the Roosevelt administration and all of Wall Street men in Washington?
There is no better way of showing up the hypocritical cant about democracy which daily drools from the capitalist press and from Washington than to pose the simple question: LET THE PEOPLE VOTE ON WAR! WHY NOT?
We know what the big boys are afraid of: They fear that the anti war sentiment of the masses can be squelched only AFTER the guns begin to boom, AFTER the war propaganda experts get to work, AFTER a war dictatorship is clamped down.
They Remember 1917 They think back with terror at the thought of what would have happened, for example, if a free and untrammeled vote on the war had been taken in April of 1917. As a Kansas Congressman complained recently: IT TOOK US ABOUT SIX MONTHS TO GET THE BOY WHO WAS GOING Investigation Ordered by Attorney General TO BE SHOT AT AROUSED TO THE POINT WHERE HE WOULD THROW HIS HAT IN THE Murphy as part of Administration Drive AIR AND HOLLER FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO Enemy Sides Gather Against the Labor Unions BE SHOT.
And as a matter of fact, the boy didn holler to be shot In Chicago Nationeven after six months: the volunteer drive in 1917 was a (Special to the Socialist Appeal)
al Strike Possible fat failure. the DRAFT had to be imposed.
MINNEAPOLIS, Aug. Amid strict secrecy, the FedPROMISES day of investigation into the WPA strike in Minneapolis.
For anyone who is concerned about democracy, there is a eral grand jury sitting in St. Paul ended today its seventh By PORFERIO fact plain to see right now: THE LARGE MAJORITY (Bpocial to the Socialist Appeal)
OF THE PEOPLE WANT THE RIGHT TO VOTE CHICAGO Various contendBut President Roosevelt made no secret of his partisanship ON WAR.
ing forces have converged on in this struggle. Tonight it poll taken about a year ago by the Institute of Public the Chicago stockyards, the hub was announced that Linus Opinion showed that 72 per cent of the people favored the of the country meat packing Glotzbach, Minneapolis WPA war referendum resolution then before Congress almost CIO organizers has arrived in administrator, had been nomTHREE QUARTERS of the population. Just as indicative anticipation of a nation wide inated by Roosevelt for proof the popular ground swell in favor of a people vote on strike, John Connor, commotion to Regional Director war is the attitude taken by the Congressmen who have their Department of Labor, of the WPA for the Seventh came fresh from his success in ears to the ground.
District, comprising several There is to take one example, Representative Gillie of conciliating the dispute at Harstates.
Indiana. Here is what he told the Senate sub committee on liberal Alderman, in his ca Glotzbach was the Federal Leaders Set Danger official most directly responpacity as chairman of a chi the war referendum: cago City Council subcommit This question was an important issue in my campaign tee on labor, has been trying ous Precedent; Ranks sible for the killing of Emil last year, and as a consequence became intimately acunsuccessfully to bring the conBergstrom, unemployed workquainted with what thousands of Indiana mothers and tending parties together. And Want to Finish Job er, and the shooting of a score finally, the head of Armour and of others, when the police fired fathers, and farmers and workers, think of the war refCo. President Robert Cabon the WPA picket line on erendum proposal.
ell, has returned to the city. Special to the Socialist Appeal)
Bloody Friday, July 14. Brush Almost without exception they told me: We re cutting short his European va cation CLEVELAND, August 2ing aside all union attempts to for it. All is quiet on the Fisher arrange that struck projects re With typical Hoosier logic, they inquired: We vote NATIONAL STRIKE Body strike front here as CIO main closed until the strike WAS AUTHORIZED leaders and lawyers bowed terminated, Glotzbach had inon the choice for dog catcher. We vote on bond issues will there be a nation wide their heads to the edict of sisted on running finks through for new schools. Why not vote on war and on the enorthe picket lines and had destrike in the meat packing inMayor Burton establishing mous bond issues required to finance modern war?
dustry? This remains as yet to 500 yard rlot zone about the manded and secured an army NEWS ITEM: be seen. Gentlemen, there is only one answer to that quesembattled plant which permit of police to do his bidding.
ted only pickets to a gate and sought an incident so that he This man, who deliberately Authorization for such a tion. Why not?
SENATOR entry into the zone of other in could crack down still harder walk out against the Big These Congressmen are on the spot. No matter how many rour. Armour, Cudahy, Swift dividuals only by police perGETS IDEA mission.
on strike, who was indicted speeches Roosevelt makes explaining his attack on the war and Wilson, was placed in the by the entire labor movement CIO officials at a And this after Monday here in a resolution adopted July referendum, they cannot, facing the workers and farmers hands packing house workers congreat struggle when eight 15 as the man who demanded back home, answer that simple query Why not?
vention held in Chicago, July It happened at the hear thousand workers cleaned the police action against a major Argument 16 17. Grievances are piling up, ings of the Senate subcomclocks of the entire city police ity of WPA workers on strike in mittee on the war referenforce, driving them and the full knowledge of what conseRoosevelt only argument in the last Congress was. organization of the workers has dum proposal, on May 18.
strike breakers to cover! The quence might follow is now to swing the big stick of patronage and club the Congress fairly rapid pace, Labor Board The much publicized LendSenator Wiley. who is op By NEIL WHITE battle lines are now limited to publicly promoted by Rooseposed to letting the people men into line with the threat of taking away their place at elections were won, a huge ral ing Spending Bill, passed by the The Murray amendment to the the courts, where the company velt.
have the power to de Feliet Act, passed in the Senate is attempting to get an the Presidential pork barrel. The politicians like Gillie werely jammed 16, 000 workers into Senate last week, was killed clare war, breaks into the Roosevelt Action Significant the Chicago Coliseum, July 17, August by a House vote of against all picketing on August 1, and which is now tion caught between the cross fire of the grass roots pressure in with a good many left outside.
195 to 166 against considering testimony all agog: before the House, reveals, after Meanwhile the scabs and Roosevelt action, coming in their districts on the one hand, and on the other the threat All in all, there are sufficient the Bill. want to develop the idea a brief analysis, that it passed, strike breakers, under protec the midst of the grand fury inelements in these developments Headlined as a Four Billion had yesterday. It came of excommunication by Jim Farley.
it will leave the WPA strikers tion of police clubs and guns, vestigation, can only be interfor a struggle of titanic propor Spending Program, the presi out of a clear sky. had in no better position than when are insolently passing by the preted as a public demonstraThey yielded to the latter, and the war referendum was tons. And while as yet no date cent original proposal merely been reading the resolution. they first went out on strike small band of pickets permitted tion of the President solidarThe thought occurred to me, ity with his underling and as a not even allowed to come up for discussion by these repre has been set for a nation wide authorized expenditure of against the vicious Woodrum by the Burton ruling.
strike, there need be little 860, 000, 000, with only about which is not so clear in the broad hint to the grand jury.
Bill dictated by Roosevelt Meanwhile, small roving sentatives of the people.
IS THERE ANY REASON TO BELIEVE THAT doubt that, whether or not it 870, 000, 000 to be spent during mind of the average layman, Islash in the relief appropria bands of pickets are attempting To date the grand jury has eventuates, the CIO is once the next fiscal year. With the that we are a republic and tion.
to picket the homes of scabs, questioned about 140 witnesses EVEN THE PROGRESSIVE CONGRESSMEN WILL again facing a major test. anticipated national income at not a democracy.
The text of the amendment of but are being driven off by the and has subpoened forty others.
the year.
Not less than 856 delegates around 68 billions Any more ideas, Senator Senator Murray is as follows: police. District Attorney Victor BE ANY MORE CONCERNED ABOUT THE INTER(Continued on Page Continued on Page 2)
Wiley. Continued on Page Continued on Page 3) Anderson announced that ESTS OF THE MASSES, WHEN THE PRESIDENT the inquiry will continue for at CALLS UPON THEM TO PLUNGE THE WORK least two more weeks. He testily denied the persistent rumor ERS AND FARMERS INTO NEW WORLD that the grand Jury had already SLAUGHTER?
issued a partial report without indictments.
The people themselves must force this issue upon Congress. In addition to the Minneapolis strike, the grand jury is now PEOPLE VOTE!
probing the St. Paul and Columbia Heights strikes.
Workers Will Meet Christian Front Chal Strikers at Green Mountain 10, 000 Negro and White Workers Demon Twin Cities keep the probe The four daily papers in the The Boss Courts at Work Dum, Col. cheered National lenge by Preparing Counter Demonstration Guardsmen who marched in strate in Chicago Housing Injunction Lifted ing reams of space to it in an On August Max Ornstein, in the Socialist Appeal and elsewhere, a lawyer, on trial before charges that cbvious endeavor to continue and halted a rifle battle be Judge Mahoney in the 2nd Mayor LaGuardia refuses to tween the strikers and depuintimidation of the WPA workDistrict Magistrate Court consider, of Coughlinite sym The Coughlin Christian Front and hire Jews or other com tized vigilantes.
By PAUL PICQUET Istration was a parade of over ers.
was found guilty of disorder pathy in the police and the held a meeting Wednesday munist aliens. Special to the Socialist Appeal) 000 workers, led by the WashMurphy Ordered Probe courts. Facts speak for night at Fordham Road and ly conduct, and sentenced to They cheered when Attacks Labor Unions the CHICAGO mass demon ington Park Forum, through The grand jury investigation two days in jail, or fine. themselves.
Valentine Avenue, the Bronx, The trade union movement troops disarmed the vigilantes. stration of over 10, 000 Negro the poverty stricken streets of was ordered by Attorney GenWhat had Ornstein done? He There have been innumerheart of the shopping and and its leadership was viciously The vigilantes had operated un workers, called to protest an Bronzeville, Hundreds of work eral Murphy on July 19, when had bought a copy o of Social able provocations by Coughamusement center of the bor attacked. President Dubinsky der the old phoney formula that injunction preventing construc. ers joined in the march which he announced to the press that Justice from woman, torn linites and their supporters ough of the International Ladies Gar any man who wants to should con Federal ousing unit proceeded to the site of the pro he had ordered it convened to the rag up and thrown it call to good Christians ment Workers Union was par in the New York Police Eide unit, where a go Into harges that WPA away. cop thereupon arinto a victory celebration, Sun mass meeting was held.
to boycott all Jewish owned ticularly abused, called a thug. be allowed to work.
strikers had interfered with against anti fascists. Social.
rested him and booked him businesses was issued by one, thief, etc.
An hour later, Adjutant Gen day, July 80. Speakers at the Prominent real estate interpersons wishing to work in ist Appeal salesmen have for disorderly conduct. The been consistently hounded: Hartley, chief speaker. Part of Hartley bragged that min eral Harold Richardson, demonstration were able to ests are violently opposed to the Minneapolis and St. Paul. His police evidently know when meetings have been disrupt. the international Jewish con te men units of the Christian commander of the guardsmen, stand of the corkers in the will force them to lower rents ous threat July 13 against the militant housing project which they fear order followed from his previto act.
ed. So far no action has been spiracy to control and subju Front were being The case gives pointed at taken by the police against Rate the clean Christian throughout the city, waiting Negro neighborhucd had forced and make repairs on their hold strikers that: There must be world. he said, was to dis for the hour to strike. He Any man who wants to can the lifting of the injunction.
tention to the charges made the Coughlinites responsible.
ings. The injunction, issued by no strike against the govern charge their Christian workers (Continued on Page 3) go back to work.
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Lending Bill Hokum Is Ended New Relief Proposal No Help Bronx Coughlin Group Brags THEY CHEERED Mass Action by Negro Only the people have the right to decide on war! LET THE About Fascist Preparations THE MILITIA Workers Brings Victory pos formed announced: