SOCIALIST APPEAL TUESDAY, AUGUST 8, 1939 Pros and Cons Not Far Apart in Congress Neutrality Act Dispute by the IN THIS CORNER second General Manager Assistant and NLEY SHERMAN Soviet No Secret Diplomacy tell: pretty high up in Trotskyite circles and we don SOCIALIST APPEAL like anything done without our knowing about Vol. III, No. 57 August 8, 1939 it. But after we cooled off, we found that we didn put him there and he wasn a victim of SOCIALIST APPEAL SUING ASS Published twice the class war. In fact, we got to wondering at 116 University Pince, New York, NY why Hathaway didn have the good sense to Telephone. Algonquin 8547 keep his mouth shut until Browder got him out The Much Touted Conflict over the Neutrality Act Is in Subscriptions: 00 per year 00 for six months. For For the true story is not so nice for Hathaway, Sie per Baby Yea the United States en cents per copy in Browder and the board of directors of the ComThe Last Analysis a Disagreement over the Most Effective forelen countries. Single copies: centa Bronx and Manhattan subscriptions are: 50 for six munist Party: Means of Dragging the People of the Country into War By Max Shachtmanmonths: 00 00 Reentered as class matter February 16, 1939, at The Daily Worker, as libelous a yellow rag By JAMES BURNHAM craft, both for the warring na there are always a few Con It has taken the Stalinists three whole months the post office at New York, NY. under the Act of Marek as ever was seen in this country of yellow jour between Roosevelt and the anti exporting nation.
In almost all of the conflicts tion and for the economy of the cressmen who are apt to ask embarrassing questions, who get the necessary instructions on how to deal with the problem of the Ukraine as raised so boldly, nalism, was finally nailed recently by one of its Roosevelt opposition in conRditor: Consequently, whether an like to investigate, who honestly and simply by Leon Trotsky in his article MAX SHACHTMAN gress, conflicts which during embargo on war munitions might argue when the time for victims. Walter Liggett was murdered in Minne the present session of Congress alone applies to one side or to action comes. For these reaAssociate Editor SANUEL GARRETT printed in the Appeal of May 9, 1939.
Analyzing the position of the Soviet Ukraine unFELIX MORROW sota in December, 1935; the killer was never have generally led to Roose. both sides or to neither (as in sons, Roosevelt wants Neuder the yoke of the Kremlin autocracy, and the MARTIN ABERN apprehended. Liggett had been editing an anti velt defeat, the bulk of the the compromise cash and car trality Act which leaves every position of those millions of Ukrainian workers and vice paper and had no connections with the boss press has to one or an ry plan which is favored by a thing up to himselt.
peasants suffering as national minorities under other degree supported the op number of Congressmen) is not Big business has exactly the Polish, Rumanian and Hungarian domination, labor movement. Local reactionaries sought to position. To this general rule going to decide either who wins same fundamental perspective Trotsky raised the slogan of united, free and FIGHT WITH THE SOCIALIST utilize his murder in their campaign against the there is one outstanding excep the war or how it entangles the in foreign policy as has Rooseindependent workers and peasants WORKERS PARTY FOR: Farmer Labor movement, but got nowhere. But tion: namely, the conflicts over United States. Moreover, the velt. And consequently. big Ukraine free and independent not only of the foreign policy. Wherever Roose government and the bosses can business supports Roosevelt in German, Polish, Hungarian and Rumantan imper1. Job and a decent living for every worker. the Stalinist machine, having up to the day be velt and some section of Con always get around any embar foreign policy, whether it is a ialists but also of the oppressive Stalinist clique.
fore, in its third period, poured its filthy Bress have differed on foreign xo statutes, if they really wish question of armaments or se2. Open the idle factories operate them under workers control.
slanders on the Farmer Labor movement, polics, the boss press has over to by credit devices, trans cret diplomacy or discretionary Trotsky Anticipated Arguments embargoes. Twenty Billion dollar Federal public works turned around and poured its slanders on LigIn his article, submitted for discussion of the velt.
GANGED UP ON revolutionary movement. Trotsky anticipated the It should not be imagined and housing program.
The sharp struggle over the WAR REFERENDUM gett, in its belated attempt to curry favor with that Congressmen are any less objections of the Moscow apologists to so thorough Thirty thirty! 30 weekly minimum wage the Farmer Laborites. Mrs. Liggett sued to de Neutrality Act has been a no It is furthermore interesting patriotic than the President, an extent that the reply they have finally made in torious example.
30 hour weekly maximum for all workers on fend her husband name, and got a judgment to note that in the heat gener cr that they will have any diffithe New Masses of August 8, over the signature all Jobs.
PRO AND CON for libel against the Daily Worker and its editor.
of the not unknown hack Magil, may be thorated by Roosevelt, Hull and the culty supporting the war when CLOSE TOGETHER Thirty dollar weekly old age and disability oughly disposed of merely by re reading what members of Congress over the the day arrives. Indeed, many The other day Mrs. Liggett had Hathaway pension.
The issue here, when all the Neutrality Act, all parties to who were against Roosevelt in Trotsky wrote.
jailed, in an attempt to collect his share of the smoke is cleared away, boiled the dispute managed to forget the Neutrality conflict exMagil is one of a numerous tribe trained at Expropriate the Sixty Families.
the breast of the Stalinist treasury. When the arjudgment. Mr. Hathaway, under examination, down to very small potatoes, about the proposal for a war plained that they took their po7. All war funds to the unemployed.
chives of the old regime were seized and made Roosevelt wanted the power to referendum, embodied in sev sition only because they didn stated that he earned 100 per week a editor declare, by executive decree, eral bills submitted to con think war was near: in other public by the Bolsheviks in 1917, they disclosed people referendum on any and all wars. sounds like a lot for an editor of a workers unilateral embargoes on war gress, and favored by the huge words, if they thought the crisis what had long been suspected. The Czarist regime No secret diplomacy.
paper, but then think what a dirty job it is)
munitions: that is, to embargo majority of the people. Can it serious bought up journalists and whole editorial staffs all enough they would over the world, whose job it was to defend and 10. An Independent Labor Party.
but that after paying out lots of alimony, he the shipment of war munitions be that part of the reason for change at once.
from this country to another the big argument over Neutral CONGRESSMEN MUST justify, with the only type of argument at their dis11. Workers Defense Guards against vigilante can pay his share of the judgment. At this country which Roosevelt would ity was precisely to turn public ACE CONSTITUENCIES posal, every misdemeanor and crime committed and Fascist attacks.
under Nicholas the Bloody. Some of these literary point Hathaway let out the bray about a Trot declare was at war and was attention away from the war an aggressor in the war.
referendum?
But two special factors oper lackeys were paid exceedingly well; none of them skyite drive. Neither he nor the Daily Worker large bloc in Congress did Nevertheless, making went hungry. The Czar didn do so well by his own ate on many of the Congressthe told the story about the Liggett case in any de not want to grant this power to proper discounts, a genuine dif men. The Republicans use the people, but he was not stingy when it came to retail; they were too refined for that. But they the President. It wished to reference between the two sides dispute here, as on other points, taining journalistic advocates abroad. Stalin foltain a section of the old Neu remains.
for factional advantage. to lows the same practice with the boys on his forOn July 24 the State Department issued the linked it with three Trotskyite suits for libel trality Act which provides for Roosevelt entire domestic bring about another defeat in eign payroll, and from the services they render following order: and then let out a yell about a Trotskyite drive. an embargo on the shipment of program and policy have col Roosevelt growing list, and and the arguments they use, he gets at least as In view of the contemporary international They didn give any details, either, about these raunitions to either side, when lapsed in an utter and complete to get an anti war issue for much out of his investment as did the Czar.
a state of war is defined to breakdown. All that he can sal. next year campaign. And all Let us pass over the tiresome calumnies resituation it will not be possible to make the con three suits. One is by Max Eastman, no Trotexist by the President.
vage from the dismal wreck of home and face their constituCongressmen have got to go peated by Magil (they all boil down to the charge fidential or unpublished files and records of the skyite thank you, another by one Charles White, This Congressional bloc, for his once shining armor is his ents at closer hand than the that Trotsky is Hitler ally) and comment only on department, of a date later than December 31, whom we don even know. But the third we one point he makes. Declaring that the right of nathe time being, came out on foreign policy. He knows clear. President. The legislature is, tions freely to secede must not, as Lenin said in 1918, available to persons who are not officials don mind in the least having pinned on us for forced to withdraw his demand. the fundamental perspective of 1917 and many other occasions, be confused with of the United States Government.
then we can tell the story which Hathaway didn The boss press, led by the New a war of imperialist aggression, ular pressure than the execu the question of whether it would be expedient for York Times, condemned the in which United States capital of course, opposed to war; and any given nation to secede at any given moment Hitherto access to the files has been exceed(but) must be settled by the party of the proleingly restricted. Only a limited number of perIn November, 1937, some enemy of the trade of the national interests for the would try to save itself by the many of them, especially in the tariat in each particular case independently, from sons such as professors, students and internaunion movement murdered Pat Corcoran, pres United States.
quiring unchallenged domin! good idea of the direction in the point of view of the interests of social developtional lawyers were permitted to use them under ident of the Minneapolis Teamsters Joint Coun In this whole fight, there was ance for exploitation of vast which Roosevelt foreign polment as a whole and the class struggle of the pro.
letariat for socialism. Magil concludes that various limitations. But now all state papers cil. Pat had won the undying enmity of the farce. So far as the question of Far East and even Europe.
icy is leading. Under such cir when Trotsky, therefore, calls for separation of for a period of twenty years become a closed bosses when he took a leading part in re unifythe Ukraine, what he is advocating is the subjecwar or peace goes, the outcome. From this premise comes the cumstances, a vote against the tion of the Ukraine to imperialist bondage and nabook to everybody outside the government. ing the teamsters movement after the General doesn make a great deal of Lima Conference, the parade of unilateral discretionary embargo is highly desirable 11 the tional oppression.
And even for records prior to 1918, permis Drivers Union of the city had been expelled difference. Whichever law is on Latin American dictators to congressmen want to see a Denies RIGHT of Separation the books, the Sixty Familles Washington, the notes to Japan, friendly crowd when they get sion is limited to persons like lawyers, publicists, earlier by the International in the unified move can still swing their power and the intervention in Europe, the to the home town station after Magil is simply making mendacious use of a historians, instructors and professors in accredment Pat worked closely with the so called resources in the direction where huge armament increases.
quotation from Lenin. While Lenin emphasized the ited colleges and universities who have an im Trotskyite leaders of the General Drivers tion, that is, where the biggest Live, Roosevelt wants and needs of serving their country.
But to carry out his perspectheir strenuous seven months need of considering the expediency of advocating portant and definite use separation of one nation or people from another, information Union in bringing about 100 unionization of profits lie. Nowadays war an absolutely free hand. He The conflict over the Neutraldesired. Since the State Department is the the teaming crafts, making Minneapolis the best munitions are only a tiny part wants and takes a free hand in ity Act, like other similar dis precisely what Magil denies to the Soviet Ukraine.
he never denied the right of separation. That is judge of what is important, under these reguunionized city in the country, and building of what goes into a war: coal spending the armament bil. putes in all imperialist govern And not only to it, but also to the Ukrainian minorlations no radical could consult original sources the North Central Drivers Council out of which cotton and rubber and food and partment files: he negotiates disagreement over the most efities in Poland, Rumania and Hungary. Lenin used to point out that the right of divorce does not necesin writing a history of the United States!
came the magnificent 11 state uniform contract iron are in the end more impor secretly. He does not want any fective means of dragging the sarily mean that at every single moment you adMost significant in the State Department for over road drivers. Not only the enmity of tant than guns and military air interference from Congress: country into war.
vocate a divorce between a given couple. Magil is order is the period for which complete secrecy the bosses; Pat had also incurred the enmity of not only outraged (Outraged? Not in reality; he is merely putting on an act) at the idea of the Soviet is decreed: the last twenty years. Why should the Stalinists for his crime of collaborating Ukraine separating from the Soviet Union, but he Roosevelt and Hull trouble to cover up the acts with the Trotskyites. So when he was killed, is no less indignant at the thought of the Ukrainian of Wilson last years, or the Republican the Stalinists proceeded to smear him and his minorities in adjacent countries breaking from administrations of Harding, Coolidge and colleagues as labor racketeers and to call for their oppressors and joining with their co nationals in a powerful, united Soviet Ukraine.
Hoover? Why should the New Deal seek to a Deweyized investigation of the Minneapolis Such a united country, he says, formed with the shroud these Old Dealers?
labor movement to clear out the labor rackeblessing of Hitler and as a result of the dismem Because New Deal or Old Deal, Republican teers. That was when Dewey was a hero of berment not only of the but of Poland. Continued from Page 1) and Co. it has made somelers proclaimed that Rumania and Hungary as well, would deal a death or Democrat, whatever the label, the foreign the Stalinists. attended the packing house headway of late workersconvention. Some of tion in stockyards in Chicago on this point. Moreover, he in organiza choice. Lewis remained silent blow to the independence of those three countries.
policy of the American government has run in The class conscious trade unionists wanted no His (Trotsky s) program is, them were regularly elected, and elsewhere.
made caustic criticism, saying one direction: to safeguard and extend the for Deweys poking into the unions. And they knew many of them were merely ap This particular fact, when that: The WPA bill recently diction with their national indwererore, in contra In other words, the Polish landowners, the Rueign interests of America Sixty Families. Pat and his co workers. The local Stalinists pointed as so often is the case viewed in the light of the often passed by Congress is a direct manian Boyars and the Hungarian feudal lords Harding the Republican took up where the New dared not utter their slanders in the trade unions.
of unions in their formative acrimonious struggle between repudiation of the pledges stage. Reports made at the con the AFL and who rule over millions of Ukrainian peasants and Freedom of Wilson left off, and New Deal Hailed before the coroner jury, not one StalinCIO, is one of made by the Democratic party workers, have found in Magil a stout warrior provention claimed that on a nathe elements serio!
in its 1936 platform. He tecting their national interests. In other words, Roosevelt took up where Old Deal Hoover left ist had the courage to say on his own behalf tion wide scale a total of 78, 000ness in the present situation that the majority party must off. And now, as the war draws near, Roose what the Daily Worker had said. The Stalinist workers have been enrolled un Perhaps it furnishes also one share responsibility with the dependence of Hungary if the peasants of the furthermore, it would be a death blow to the invelt covers up his predecessors and himself. frameup scheme collapsed. Then the drivers House Workers Organization der the banner of the Packing of the reasons for the con tory Republicans for a measCarpatho Ukraine, whose territory was given to Hungary after Munich with the blessing of Hitler The State Department does little more than union leaders, seven of them, filed a libcl suit Committee, out of the approxy tempt and haughtiness shown ure which will deprive a milby the meat packers.
lion unemployed of WPA Jobs.
mately 129, 000 employed in the BUT CIO IS IN (as Magil might say, and this time correctly. formalize the already existing situation in which against the Daily Worker; the suit is still WEAKNESS IN were to fight for freedom from Hungarian rule and industry. Out of the 29 Armour the American people are kept in virtual ignor pending.
STRIKE PLANS for incorporation into a more powerful, united plants in various parts of the STRONG POSITION Soviet Ukraine.
ance of the government diplomatic moves. We country the PWOC claims a Yet the CIO union is in a But to return to the question, Present day Soviet Ukraine must not, cannot are thus kept in ignorance in order to blind us horrid thought has just struck us. Can it be majority support in seventeen. strong position, almost a com will there be a packing house separate from Moscow, cries Magil. Why not?
workers strike? Preparations to the speedy approach of war.
that Browder didn want to bail out Hathaway?
It must be remembered, how manding position. John LewDoes not the most democratic Constitution in the ever, that insofar as both en is made that a proud boast are being intensified on all world provide, in Article 17, that Each Union Every workers and farmers organization What other explanation could there be for Hath rollments and support are con when he hurled his challenge fronts.
That much is certain. Republic reserves the right freely to secede from should demand, in the interests of its members away elbowing the lid off this smelly brew? cerned this is still to be re at the Chicago Coliseum meet. The meat packers have shown the It does; only the right is a hor.
Anyway we ve enjoyed the farce of Hathaway but there can be no doubt as to well what have we here? cisely. Much confidence could garded as a rather loose thing: ing: their attitude clearly and pre rible joke. Anyone who tries to exercize that right is immediately labelled fascist spy and executed on the spot unless he is driven to suicide before to of the store unionism and the workersand their ranks then as has been the case of more than ono people! Let the people decide! Let the people how the Stalinists tried to destroy the progres exemple belat sa che abbiamo credenan Monited staterne Steel indus: Pwoc had been at least cas tions in the industry. Thus, for big. Well, they re no bigger could have been enormously Ukrainian Communist. What value has a right which MAY NOT BE EXERCIZED? The same vote on war!
value as all the other rights the Father of the mour plants last October, on a try. These big industries ciear and precise. It is difficult Peoples grants his subjects. Yes and No vote for col changed their minds about to regard a leadership as gen The Stalinist policy towards the Ukrainian queslective bargaining agency, the wage contracts, and we helped uinely serious that fails, in an tion plays right into the hands of reactionary na CIO came out ahead with a them. Now we re going to give ticipation of a major struggle tionalists and of Hitler. truly imperialistic re.
wide margin the same help to the meat to propose at least the elemenfusal of Stalin and his Magils to acknowledge and We ve seen the Stalinists do lots of absurd The Press CIO DEMANDS packers. Incidentally, while tary basis, or the rudimentary fight for the right of self determination of peoples, NATIONAL CONTRACT and ridiculous things in their time, along with several of the CIO union lead forms, for a national union that nations and national minorities, has left this field By Arthur Hopkins the innumerable vicious things they do, but ClarNow the CIO demands an ex ers (Stalinists or their stooges may begin to give the body free for reactionary and demagogic exploitation by ciusive national wage contract. at the meeting carried banner This was not done at the recent able to win the Sudeten Germans so easily to his Hitler. That explains in large part why Hitler was ence Hathaway has just given us the best belly Joe Alex Morris of the United Press cites the This the packers has contempt streamers, For Roosevelt in laugh we ve had since the time Ike Amter swal danger of war in Europe should a bluff be called, uously refused. Officials of Ar 1940, and while other speak convention, which left the packstandard. Stalin policy towards the Ukrainian or a mistake made in high places. What a hell of mour and Co. accepted an inin house organization still in Jowed his false teeth.
millions is facilitating a similar fate for them.
a game that is they make a mistake, and we pay vitation to confer with the City committee form Hathaway is editor of the Daily Worker. the penalty!
Council labor committee the INFORMAL HOUSE It should be necessary, more.
other day, only to reiterate The other day he declared himself a class war cver, to formulate at least a Box 245 Kerhonkson, Their rain dance brought to a close, members of Peoria, Ill. police arrested a man on protest from their flat refusal even to meet simple set of clear and precise the Zuni Indian tribe of New Mexico awoke the prisoner, issued from jail an appeal to the pub. his neighbors that he was driving a car. They with the union. Near Ellenville)
demands and not, as is now the next day to a cloudless sky that augured no let up lic for a bail fund, and heroically prepared found him on a little used road, travelling at a On this same occasion officials 120 acres of greenland in the Catskills. 40 acres of pine for case, to reduce everything to in the worst drought they could remember. Wise to remain in prison knowing full well that labor moderate rate of speed. He had been warned prev of the AFL Butcher Workmens sunbathing: handball, ping pong. the altogether too innocuous old headmen opined that the return of the blazing Union put in their appearance Archery; swimming and horse iously not to operate a bicycle. Cause of all the and its supporters will not permit our common neighbors alarm is the fact that the driver was formula that the packers meet back riding nearby: dancing.
sun indicated the failure of the gods could mean with claims to be considered in with the union. Regardless of but one thing for some reason of which they were enemies to injure the Daily Worker or the Com blind. But we let the bosses drive our economic negotiations. And, although it 18 Weekly UNUSUALLY LOW RATES Weekend whether or not the packers will not aware their ancestors were visiting vengeance machine!
munist Party. We were just rushing out of was the treasonable conduct of Busses met at station at this stage listen to the de. upon them. INS dispatch. All Christians, Moofficials of this union which mands, the workers must know the office to get poor Clarence out of the can hammedans, Buddhists, etc. will laugh heartily Tel. Kerhonkson 118 David Griffin, 28, of Minneapolis, is soon to take was responsible for the disasfor what they may be called at the naivete of the poor backward Indian, when the Daily Worker arrived and the heada two year tour into Africa and Asia. Griffin has trous collapse of the packing upon to strike. They must know line knocked us over: Hathaway Calls Jailing been carrying on missionary work in addition to house workers last general good time in advance. They Dr. Benes, exiled president of Czecho Slovakia, his job as salesman for a mail order house, and strike in January 1922, and de Subscribe to The must be given a solid point Part of Trotskyite Drive.
who helped draft the Versailles treaty 20 years uses his business, he says, merely as a front for spite the fact that this union is around which to rally for the ago, admits that the Versailles treaty was not www. kowd at first because we are missionary efforts. still a stockholder in Armour New International supreme effort.
perfect. We all know what an imperfect egg is.
Stockyards May Be Setting for Next National Strike Struggle same lives. No secret diplomaey! the treaties and apprehen playing class war prisoner and the opportunity the dentrends then rikes to meet he said. The meat packers, be eben kesti. ed ante mands Trotskyite Drive Labor Looks Through