SOCIALIST APPEAL FRIDAY, AUGUST 18, 1939 The Union of Social Justice By James Burnham Their Government Bronx Coughlin AFL Record 10 ce at New York, NY. under the Act of Merah FATHE COUGHLIN War Dictatorship On August the Navy and War Dements the file committee nor made any other appoint There Is No Substitute for the August 19 Demonstration!
ist drive for world conquest. More than that SOCIALIST APPEAL To be effective under Roosevelt war dictaVol. III, No. 60 August 18, 1939 torship, the anti war fighters must link their hands with the revolutionary workers who strugPublished solce a socel by the SOCIALIST APPEAL, PUBLISHING ASS gle against Roosevelt and the war system. The at 116 University Place, New York, rallying center for real anti war action is the Telephone. Algonquin 8647 anti war party, the Socialist Workers Party.
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and Manhattan subscriptions are: 50 for six months: 00 for one year Reentered as second class February 16, 1980, at Last Sunday Father Coughlin tried a new stunt, in his attempt to blind workers to his fasEditor: MAX SHACHTMAN cist policy. He broadcast praise of the AFL for FELIX MORROW Associate EHEMANUEL GARRETT its entry into the automobile field against the General Manager Assistant CIO. He tried to make it appear that he is for MARTIN ABERN SHERMAN STANLEY the AFL as a conservative organization.
The answer to Father Coughlin is written in FIGHT WITH THE SOCIALIST the printed proceedings of the AFL conventions WORKERS PARTY FOR: for 1932 1933 1934. Summing up that record, the St. Louis Union Labor Advocate, AFL or1. Job and a decent living for every worker gan, on August stated. Open the idle factories operate them under Fr: Coughlin, the record shows, built his new workers control.
church at Detroit with Scab Labor. He even Twenty Billion dollar Federal public works and housing program.
hired a contractor who at that very moment had GOD BLESS Thirty thirty! 30 weekly minimum wagea building trades strike on his hands at a downCAPITALISM 30 hour weekly maximum for all workers on town theater job.
all Jobs.
When the Union building tradesmen persisted Thirty dollar weekly old age and disability in their effort to have Coughlin unionize his pension, church job, he threatened to go on the air and Expropriate the Sixty Families.
denounce them as racketeers. All war funds to the unemployed.
The 1933 AFL convention appointed a com FREE SOUP people referendum on any and all ware. mittee Frank Duffy and Mathew Woll, exec9. No secret diplomacy, utive council members, and the late Chas.
10. An Independent Labor Party.
Howard, president, International Typographical 11. Workers Defense Guards against vigilante Union to visit Fr. Coughlin and seek to adjust and Fascist attacks.
the dispute. Coughlin made an appointment to see the AFL men. When they arrived, however, he had left town, leaving word with his secretary that he had been called away. To this day, Coughlin has neither apologized for not seeing Resources ment for.
Board. What lies behind this innocent title, who When Coughlin started printing his Sunday are the leaders of the Sixty Families who con broadcasts for public distribution, he sent the stitute this board, are described elsewhere in this job to a Scab printer. Secretary Donnell, of issue.
the Detroit Allied Printing Trades Council, Despite some fig leaf language, the announce wrote Coughlin a courteous suggestion that the AN EDITORIAL ment of the formation of this board means that job be given to a Union shop, enclosed a list of The Communist Party has yet to say a word National Chairman. He is identified to us as a Roosevelt and the government have come out Union Detroit printers and concluded with best in its own name on the Coughlin August 19 Stalinist stooge.
march on Union Square.
Having thoroughly disgraced itself by refusinto the open with their plans for a war time wishes for a merry Christmas for you and The first reference to the Coughlin march in ing to call or support any demonstration dictatorship yours. Coughlin secretary replied that the the Daily Worker finally appeared in a modest against the Nazi Madison Square Garden This apparatus for the operation of a War Union seeks to intimidate us.
story on page on Monday, reporting a call to meeting on February 20, the Stalinists are apa demonstration against the Coughlin march, Donnell, in a letter to both Coughlin and called by the American Jewish Alliance for parently making this move on August Dictatorship has been PLANNED since 1920 merely to make the record and to avoid joinever since we saved the world for democracy Coughlin secretary replied by urging them to City Hall, Thursday noon, August 17. ing in united action with the Socialist Workers the first time.
point out even one word in his (O Donnell s) We are informed by spokesmen for the YidParty in Union Square on Saturday, August 19 dish press that the American Jewish Allithe day when the fascists are marching on Now that machinery for a military dictator letter which could be even remotely construed as ance came into existence about two weeks Union Square.
ship under the control of America Sixty Fam intimidation. Neither Coughlin nor his secretary ago, and is not to be confused with the bona We don have to explain to any intelligent fide Jewish National Workers Alliance, an old as much as acknowledged the challenge.
anti fascist demonstration in City Hall ilies EXISTS.
fraternal organization.
Coughlin has further shown his very odd on August 17 is no substitute for the necessary The drool about American democracy gives The only name connected with the Americounter demonstration against the fascists in way to actual steps toward dictatorship. The brand of friendship for organized Labor by havUnion Square on August 19.
Everybody out to the North Plaza of Union hypocritical eyewash about defending democing his national magazine, Social Justice, of Jersey city, who designates himsel tres Square, Saturday, August 19, 4:30 racy against the fascists should no longer blind printed in a non Union shop and has ignored the eye of a single intelligent worker to the the Unions efforts to transfer the job to an orFACT: ganized shop In a radio broadcast last May (the. The Editor of the Jewish Day The next war for democracy means the Iron Heel in this country.
president of the Detroit Central body.
If democracy is to be defended, it can be done charged that Coughlin had fostered company And the Coughlin Demonstration ONLY by the struggle against the democratic unions, adding that it has been clearly shown If the Coughlinites should carry banners that insult Jews, or that incite against Jews, we are duty bound not to stand and look on quietly.
mocracy dictatorship, and REPLACING IT That may be expected of Jews in Hitler country, but Unemployed Negroes in no other country in the world.
WORKERS GOVERNMENT. WORK Are Hardest Hit by reply to such insults In such a case, the Jews may justifiably express their ERS DEMOCRACY.
Isadore Begun, Bronx County Communist New Jersey Scheme Naturally within the framework of law and order.
The democratic jingoes of the press and Candidate for New York City Council, after de But the police must not allow a situation in which Coughlinites will insult Jews in a manner in which the Jews will not politics are falling into line. The organs of the scribing the plague of anti Semitic hooliganism now going on in the Bronx, presents in the Augbe able to contain themselves within this framework of the (Special to the Socialist Appeal!
Sixty Families, like the New York Times, which List 13 Daily Worker his solution: NEWARK Plans were last law which protects Coughlinites and does not protect Jews.
only yesterday raised their hands in pious horror city ordinance forbidding the spread of åt the War Department blueprint for dictator anti Semitic propaganda and outlawing anti sanized arive the deportation do not believe that could possibly restrain myself and not in this city to combat by anota York in which meine to myself: it should see a march in New ship, now accept it with as good grace as they Semitic organizations is possible and necessary.
of relief clients who have not throw something at the placards which insult Jews. can muster on such short notice from the Boss It will be of equal benefit to Christian and Jew.
been residents of the state for Goldberg, editor, the Jewish Day, August 12, 1939.
five years.
in the White House.
Our borough must remain the Borough of the The conference, which had The jingo Communist Party, which as late as Good Neighbor.
been called at the initiative of 1937 from force of habit, still came out against That Begun election platform in a county the Workers Relief and WPA the Mobilization Plan, conceals the very news of a million and a half souls where the fight one chiefly affecting the Negro Union, tackled the problem as of Roosevelt latest step from its members. The against fascism has become the most pressing of the state for a long enough Daily Worker relegates it to an oblique reference daily problem.
period to vote, are consistently in part of a sentence in the middle of an article What good are city ordinances against fas denied relier. the on airplane purchases which appears on an inside cist hooligans and clubs, knives and blackjacks?
dostal Louis, fet Ver largest meatpacking center in Prepare State Bill There are dozens of city ordinances applicable to campaign to last until Jan non Ford, Packinghouse Work the country. In the Armour uary 1, 1940 was outlined. The ers Organizing Committee plant here, second in size to We predict that nothing much more will be the fascists if the cops and judges wanted to campaign concentrate (CIO) organizer, was arrested Swift, the CIO union maintains heard of the workings of the War Dictatorship apply them. But cops and judges side with around a Bill drawn up by the here last week for passing out an overwhelming majority Board which has just been created. These things the fascists AGAINST the anti fascists, as is Workers Relief and WPA Un leaflets. Held for three days, 1, 500 dues paying members out ion. The Bill will be introduced his case was dismissed and he of 600 eligible workers.
are not told to the people.
revealed by the whole record of arrests and court in the State Legislature when was released.
These are not the only war preparations going rulings of the last year. Another ordinance it meets on January state Ford was arrested by the on BEHIND THE SCENES. The others will would be a dead letter, ignored by the judges and wide committee of 100 will be company owned National City ARMOUR REHIRES 15 be revealed only when the workers take over the cops as they ignore all the other ordinances ap for the Bill. The legal cam ship carved out of East St. DISMISSED WORKERS Capitol and disclose them.
plicable to the fascists.
psign will be complemented by Louis by the big packing comThese secret war preparations go on BE There is only one way to fight the fascists.
a campaign of mass action, in panies in order to avoid taxes HIND THE BACKS OF THE PEOPLE. The That to ORGANIZE the anti fascists into cluding picket lines and dem. It has a population of 200 and a police force of 15. The pack (Special to the Socialist Appeal)
CHICAGO. Aug. 13 Fifteen The situation in which the ing companies own every buildpeople are not consulted. They who will have to WORKERS DEFENSE GUARDS, ready and fight and die are treated only as pawns in an in trained to defend union halls and unionists, Jew Negro workers find themselves ing, outhouse and blade of grass members of the Packinghouse ternational chess game.
fish and Gentile anti fascists, against the fascist four Negro women who re the souls of a group of com tee, fired when they were at The people must assert their rights and gangsters counted their own experiences pony sucks living there, who tempting to take up a griev That is the program of our party. In the city FIGHT for them. One of these is to take warmanagement, how they were denied relief, form the nucleus of the Swift ance with the and how their families have company union.
were re hired after a mass making power away from the politicians in council elections, that program will be repre suffered as a result Appeal to Farmers raeeting of 3, 000 workers deWashington. They must demand that before the sented by Max Shachtman, as Bronx County sponsoring committee of 18 Ford was distributing the Inanded action.
was elected and told to go Five hundred farmers and stockcandidate, against the program of candidate Beshop stewards government enters into another war ahead with contacting individuaisers, whose support the un. and officers of Local 347 had gun. Comrade Shachtman candidacy will serve LET THE PEOPLE VOTE!
als, organizations and newspa ion is seeking to enlist in its instructed the strike strategy fight against the Packers.
committee to prepare for a ONLY THE PEOPLE HAVE THE to focus the eyes of the working people on this pers for support.
walkout. delegation of PWOC RIGHT TO DECIDE ON WAR!
program. That is why every serious anti fascist Socialist Appeal leaders met with two Armour 116 University Place The popular mass sentiment for a referendum should support his candidacy.
vice presidents and the reinNew York City.
statements followed.
on war is a healthy beginning for real anti war resolution granting 25, 000 to the senate bank would like to get better acquainted with your paper, Armour continues to refuse action which means action against the Ameri ing and currency committee to study the banking the Socialist Appeal. Please send me sample copies for to negotiate a contract with the situation met opposition before it was passed by can war makers in the first place. But to be efthe next few weeks.
PWOC, and everything points the senate. Senator Bailey. argued that Name.
toward showdown on a nafective, it must be based on a realization of any investigation of the banking system at this Address tional scale between the glant Rooseveld cole as leader of America imperial time would disturb business City corporation and the CTO man, they used to say, is known by the com Franklin Roosevelt by this test if we apply it in pany he keeps. It becomes an easy matter to know connection with the six buddies whom he has just appointed to his new War Resources Board.
Who are these six? First comes the chairman, Edward Stettinius, Jr. Stettinlus is chairman of the board of that well known charitable organization, the United States Steel Corporation. And a little note further: His father, Edward, Sr. was one of the three leading partners of Morgan Co.
during the period which included the last world war. When Morgan Co. became fiscal and purchasing agents the allied powers (two years prior to the entry of this country into the war. Stettinius, Sr. had charge of purchases, and dis pensed more than three billion dollars to the corporations favored by Morgan. The part which these operations played in getting the United States into the war belongs to well established history.
Second comes John Lee Pratt, a leading director of General Motors corporation, which has just reported a 100, 000, 000 profit for the first six months of 1939, at the same time that its ample resources have been doing their best to smash the UAW.
Pratt himself is a member of the mighty clan, high in the list of the Sixty Families, whose interests are closely interlocked with the Rockefellets.
Just a Bunch of the Boys Then we have Walter Gifford, head of the American Telephone Telegraph, which managed to scrape by during the past six months on a profit of 80, 000, 000, a paltry enough trifle in the light of its more than five billion dollars worth of listed assets.
Amusingly enough, there was issued a few months ago a government report, prepared by two years of research, proving fully that Was gouging the public by every form of hijacking known to high finance. For this happy record, Roosevelt now gives Gifford his fitting reward.
Next comes General Robert Wood, chairman of the board of Sears, Roebuck Co. which has been rolling in profits this year to the tune of around a million dollars a week. Gehile, hayWood has been a Roosevelt favorite for some ing functioned until recently as a special adviser to the Department of Commerce. few weeks ago, in Boston, General Wood made a little speech. He surprised some of his audience at the time by praising several aspects of the Ger man and Italian regimes, confessing that he was particularly partial to the forced labor allotted to young men and women.
Each of these four is a millionaire many times over.
The remaining two are the intellectuat frosting for this very juicy cake: Karl Compton.
president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Harold Moulton, president of the Brookings Institute.
Compton, before his appointment to a school run by the Sixty Families financed chiefly by the Duponts to supply their corporations with technical help. was distinguished physicist.
Since his appointment, he has used his scientific prestige to deliver a series of the most bitterly reactionary speeches on social and economic af fairs, The Brookings Institute, founded to give expert analysis and advice on how make capitalism work, had vague liberal leanings in its early years, but during the past five years has become pillar of orthodox reaction.
Both Compton and Moulton have, by the way.
singled out nearly every even mildly progressive phase of Roosevelt New Dealism for special attack.
The Vulture Smell Carrion When we say that the war is going to be fought for the benefit of the Sixty Families, we mean this literally. It is a question of their moral or spiritual benefit, but quite plainly and bluntly for the benefit of their pocketbooks. ద War, for the Sixty Families, is a chance to make super profits. That what it amount to, and that all. There not much sentiment in the Sixty Fame ilies.
In the last war, their corporations coined billion after billion out of the blood of 45, 000, 000 casual ties.
To make sure the maximum profit and graft, they had to put their agents at the heart of the government in Washington, at that heart where contracts were allotted, purchases made, and flnancing handled. In those days, Bernard Baruch (also one of Roosevelt closest friends and advisers, incidentally) was their key man as head of the War Industries Board.
This time they are taking no chances. They are getting in there well before the war starts, monopolizing the War Resources Board which will be made the chief social and economic agency of the government during war time. Contracts. purchases, money and profits will be under the con trol of this board.
With the exception of Pratt, these six are not actually members of the Sixty Families (though they are extremely wealthy in their own right. The actual members, most of them, are happy to sit back in Long Island, their yachts, the divorce courts and Honolulu, while drawing down their dividends. But these members of the War Resources Board are among the ablest and shrewdest agents of the Sixty Families: front men who, for a stift price, manage their corporations for them and handle public relations.
In this new Board you ve got the whole setup for the coming war concentrated in a nutshell.
And, my friends, it wasn John Garner who selected the names. It the President in these United States, who has charge of appointments.
There no doubt about it: Roosevelt is going to give us a rip roaring democracy, with no holds barred, in that war of his.
LAY PLANS TO FIGHT JOBLESS hypocrites HERE IN AMERICA. It can be that Father Coughlin is an enemy of the Trades DEPORTATION.
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will THE AMERICAN WAY 1939: With four of his horses dead and no money to buy another, Oliver Fairbrass, 51 year old Omaha, Nebr. farmer attached himself to his hay rack and pulled until my eyes stuck out but he got out his hay crop.
He is seen in a picture) in harness side by side with his only horse, with Mrs. Fairbrass driving them both