MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1939 SOCIALIST APPEAL War Deal Issues Decrees Striking THE NEGRO QUESTION At Liberties of American People LABOR WITH WHITE SKIN CAN.
NOT EMANCIPATE ITSELF WHERE LABOR WITH BLACK SKIN 18 BRANDED KABL MARX.
Stop Fascism In America!
ST. LOUIS SWP BLASTS LEGION PLAN TO BREAK UP (P MEETING By JOHNSON, Restriction on Civil Liberty Through the War Is Heaven. For Some People The Negro and the War Emergency Decrees Goes Hand in Hand Will Father Coughlin Become III With Increases in the Army and Navy The current issue of the Importer Guide, an authoriDictator of the United States?
tative trade magazine published by Sitterley Sons in New York City, prints an article under the streaming Let us take, one by one, the arguments put forward by headline: By JOSEPH HANSEN.
the war mongers. Republican like Landon, a Democrat (Continued from Page 1) British Labor Party present SHARP UPWARD TREND IN AMERICAN EX (ELEVENTH INSTALLMENT)
like Roosevelt, or a member of the Communist Party like only to get a definite commit opposition to the Chamberlain PORT TRADE CAN BE EXPECTED AS RESULT OF THE PRESENT EUROPEAN SITUATION BECAUSE OF Norman Thomas, an American adherent of the Second Earl Browder and James Ford, tells everybody, including ment in advance from opposi government. Senator McNary tion leaders that the Neutral coyly refused to reveal his THE FOLLOWING FACTS: International, even went so far as to send an appealing the Negro of course, that the war now being fought in ity Act will be killed, but also to stand on repeal of the Neutral few of the following facts are well worth quoting. letter directly to the Radio Priest Norman rested elbows war a Germany and Poland are the only markets entirely eliminated. The entire Far East, Africa, Australia, devoutly on a pulpit himself asking if the Radio Priest racy, for the preservation of human liberties, and the whole deal will be pulled off be that he was doing all he South and Central America, neutral European nations as like. They say this because, although they are talking about hind the scenes, in backstairs to bring the matter to an early wouldn please remind his followers to desist immediately well as England and France must now look to the United from further violence and disturbance.
peace, they are really preparing the minds of the workers dent and a handful of Congres saying he was for repeal. States as their main source of supply.
sional leaders. The actual ses Kenneth Simpson, New York for war.
The entire strategy of these self anointed representa The Neutrality Act will, undoubtedly, be changed sion of Congress, 1f Franklin Republican leader and head of to provide the sale of war materials all belligerents on a tives of the working class can be summarized: Help demThe average Negro lives the life of an outcast in the Roosevelt has his way, will be the liberal group in the Par basis of cash purchase here and transport in the consignocratic capitalism stop Fascism!
North. He has little enough democracy there. But let as much a coordinated sham ty, came out strongly for repeal ee own bottoms. There is no embargo on the shipment of The situation which existed in Germany and Italy is bematerials not of a military nature and none will be imBrowder and Ford go to Memphis, Houston, Dallas, New as Hitler Reichstag. The is: in a speech to the New York sue of war or peace is too vital Young Republican clubs. He posed.
ing repeated and is reaching a dangerous stage in the Mobile, all the South, Orleans, Jacksonville, Birmingha to the interests of American ca was backed by Congressman Insurance and freight rates will be adjusted on United States and that leads sharply to the question: where some nine or ten million Negroes live, and tell those pitalism to be settled by the James Wadsworth and Bruce stable basis as soon as convoy methods have been definiteHow stop Fascism in America?
ly established, and shipments to all parts of the world will Negroes to fight for democracy. Such is the democracy irresponsible representatives of Barton, both from New York be possible in view of Britain sea power.
There is only one real answer. Socialism. planned of the South that in many towns the Negroes wouldn be In view of the above, and in light of our export exable to sit in the same room with the whites to hear why Governmental circles can be men for Wawe street socialist economy. The working people must take the naThere is still an Old Guard periences in 1914, it is obvious that increased demands will tional industries and resources away from the Morgans, they should die for democracy. There are hundreds of WANTED: ONE be placed on the export departments of American industry the Rockefellers, the Fords, DuPonts, Mellons, Girdlers and that we are entering a period where export volume in places in the South where if James Ford dared to stand on FIRST CLASS ATROCITY. Hoover and Vandenberg. whicx The real question which will is formally opposed to repeal. practically all lines of trade will rise sharply.
a platform to talk about anything, he be torn limb from go before the special session of But it is by now fairly certain the Sixty Families who now operate the mines and facAnd how will the world, and particularly the Allies, tories and railroads only if and when it pays them a profit limb, Vice Presidential candidate though he is. There are a pay for all these goods? The answer is given in a current thousand hotels in the South where if he showed his nose wately settled beforehand, is the only real opposition will Government survey of French and British resources The working people must end PRIVATE PROPERTY at the frout entrance, three janitors would fall on him and war which the American peo end isolationists in the Party, over here. The potential war credits of these two nations in the means of production and operate America huge in the United States come to some 4, 000, 000, 000. This sum industries for the benefit of the toiling masses. This would throw him out into the gutter, after which the police would ple will tolerate, to quote the led by Senators Nye, Borah is made up of French and British private holdings of Amerfrank formulation of the Hiram Johnson, La Follette, and beat him up and take him to jail. In many cities, if he went mean, contrary to the lies of the Radio Priest, an unpreceican securities, deposits in American banks, short and longTimes. The Administration is Norris. And even this group near the polling booth he would risk being beaten up and biding its time until public opin may well keep silent at the cruterm credits, and direct investments in American indusdented flow of consumers goods for the private enjoyment trial plants. Add 5, 000, 000, 000 gold reserves now owned of every individual in the nation.
perhaps shot. He must come out of the rear entrance of a ion crystallizes a little more cial moment, judging from past by the French and British central banks, and you have a bus in many Southern cities, or any white cop nearby would in favor of sevelt has tola aid to the performances.
war chest of 9, 000, 000, 000 to finance Allied purchases of America capacity to produce is unlimited.
Allies. Roosev American goods. This is over ten per cent of our national riddle him with bullets. If Ford got a job as a butler in the friends that he considers the PREPAREDNESSEven today, without increasing efficiency one iota or income in 1938. No wonder the Importers Guide is bullish South, and a friend of his rang up the house and asked for whole business of repealing the FOR NEUTRALITY even bringing the present factories up to full producing about war trade.
Mr. Ford, his friend would be fined and imprisoned for dis Neutrality Act an extremely Meanwhile, Neutrality Act or capacity, it is possible to guarantee every man a job at not less than 2, 500 a year.
orderly conduct, as happened in this year of democracy skillful political surgeon he is, grinds on. Recruiting camWhat could be done with all the unemployed holding 1939. In the South, Ford is plain Ford, no Mr. for Neg he wants to wait until the pa paigns have been speeded up in down jobs and all the workers exercizing their ingenuity roes. In Memphis you can go to the zoo only once a week, tent is well prepared for the the Army and Navy. to keep shock before proceeding to ope pace with demands for neutraland enthusiasm to produce the greatest possible quantity of when whites are not there.
rate. few good atrocity eptity enforcement. Coast sodes will help enormously. The Guard and naval patrols now the good things of life for themselves not even the boldRoosevelt Party Rules Us in the South Athenia was a good beginning. extend several hundred miles est minds have foreshadowed the coming possibilities!
And it is the Democratic Party, Franklin Roosevelt HIS MAJESTY STION Tout to sea. new batch of Socialism is feasible right today in the United States!
party which controls the state government in the South. LOYAL dollar a year business men (Special to the Socialist Appeal)
The Republicans are oppos have been taken into the Treas.
reservedly for the right of evBut Big Business in America is not different from Big Argue with these Democrats about the fourteenth and ing the Administration War ury and the War Resources Louis Local Executive Commit cluding the Communist Party.
ST. LOUIS, Sept. The St. ery workers organization, in Business in Italy or Germany.
fifteenth amendments, which guarantee the political Deal with all the fervor of the Board. The Dally tee of the Socialist Workers to hold meetings unmolested It too will fight like a blinded python.
rights of the Negroes. If you insist you will get fourteen or came had an isolationist policy, ing statement, copies of which clonal rights. The rising tide of the entire country.
Already the fascist gangsters are forming nuclei over fifteen bullets. That is the only kind of amendment the Southern Democrats have allowed the Negroes for many ATTENTION! NEW has restored to its masthead were sent to the daily press. war hysteria will, in the near Stephen Decatur MY COUN the St. Louis Civil Libertles future, produce many examples YORK READERS It is necessary to take energetic steps and to take them years. So that the vast majority of Negroes in the South TRY RIGHT OR WRONG. Committee, and the Communist of gangster attacks on element immediately. It is not only a question of establishing socialwill tell Roosevelt and James Ford, What is this democQuite possibly not without some Party: The APPEAL now appears hint from the White House, the ary democratic rights by fas ism. It is an immediate question of life or death.
racy am to fight for? Where is it? Since when are Cotton on New York City news newsreel companies have pick The Socialist Workers Party cist forces masquerading under There is only one way to meet the menace of fascism in Ed Smith and Senator Bilbo and the Democratic Party of stands on Tuesday, Thurs ed out for reproduction on the has received information from the gulse of patriotism. Every day and Saturday. If you Franklin Roosevelt my good friends? Why must die for America, and that is by organizing TRADE UNION screen the most pro war and reliable source that the Amer sincere supporter of these demwant the APPEAL placed on them? am not afraid to fight. Negroes have been some of anti Isolationist passages of the icon Legion, at post meetings ocratic rights must resist to the DEFENSE GUARDS right now.
any newsstand notify the President neutrality radio last week, lald plans to mobil last ditch these attacks whether Every trade union local in the country must begin organthe greatest fighters in history. But the democracy that Business Manager of the APPEAL by mall.
want to fight for, Hitler is not depriving me of. know the change continued its wild war pose of breaking up the com gion or any other source. We izing its Defense Guard right now.
boom.
munist Party meeting schedul: believe that such resistance can No more time can be wasted.
ed for next Thursday night at best be organized in the form of people who have kept me away from it for seventy five the Municipal Auditorium, at Workers Defense Guards, built Study the program of Mussolini and the program of years by rifles and revolvers, by state law and lynch law!
which wm. Foster will up by the trade unions. But Hitler and then study the program of their American disYou, Franklin Roosevelt, James Ford and Earl Browder, ler and Poland are quarrelling over Danzig and East Prus speak. The Legion spokesmen pressure must be brought to ciple.
tell us why we must go and shed our blood for something sia? When Czechoslovakia was cut up into pieces, it was the San Antonio affair look like opinion to force them to speak Remember the terror and violence that desolated Italy that we have never had.
fascist Germany, Hungary, and this same Poland that dia Sunday School picnic. out against such fascist gang and Germany. We Americans must fight against aggression, says vided it. Now Germany and Poland begin fighting over one The Socialist Workers Party sterism; and every trade union And then take action FIRST.
James Ford and Franklin Roosevelt, seeking to drive bone, Britain and France know that this is only the begin has no connection with the Com ist and every liberal, every beDon wait for the concentration camps.
American workers, white and black, into war. No wonder munist Party: we are political liever in free speech and free ning of a struggle for world wide power. So they come in opponents of the Communist assembly, must make it his duBUILD TRADE UNION DEFENSE GUARDS.
all of these politicians are so scared of raising the question at once. But tell me, Franklin Roosvelt, and James Ford, Party, and consider that the ty to combat the tendency to The fact that Father Coughlin spent his entire discourse of war directly to the Negroes. Every word they say turns why must I, a Negro, follow you into that?
to ashes in their mouths. Let us agree that Negroes must The Biggest Lie of All predicted last year, is final wherever and whenever the on July 2, 1939, attacking the very idea of organizing proof of the stalinist betrayal tendency shows itsell, and un Trade Union Defense Guards sounds a most grim and fight against aggression. But who are the aggressors Then will come the last argument. It is not a question working class. The stalinist It is to be hoped that st.
of the cause of the international der whatever name.
ominous warning as to his program and his intentions and against the Negroes? Hitler? Nonsense. The Southerners of Germany and Poland and Danzig. But freedom, civiliza have for years carried on a con. Louis will not be disgraced by his knowledge of the only force which can stop him.
of the Democratic Party are the greatest aggressors against tion and liberty are in danger against fascist aggression, tinuous campaign of slander a repetition of the display of On Sunday, July 30, 1939, in a discourse entitled The the Negroes in American history, and the North is not far and the people of Britain, France, America, Belgium and and abuse directed at us, the mob insanity which recently Cail to Action, the Radio Priest hurled down the gauntlet behind them. Oh! but we mean aggression in foreign the Soviet Union must unite to fight against aggression. Trotskyists and have to many put San Antonio on the front to the labor movement in the United States: countries, aggression by Mussolini, Hitler and Japan, say But of all the big lies that are being told to push the people our meetings with hooligan tac make public the information we It is a death struggle. You are either with me or Roosevelt and Ford. The Negro will immediately reply.
against me. You will see such a defense mechanism into war, this one about the war for civilization is the big tics have received with this Nevertheless, we stand un mind.
as the world has never seen. defense mechanism like And why if you so hate aggression, didn you help gest.
that in Italy and Germany. Do you know that units of Ethiopia?
There are today over 150 million Negroes in the world.
the Christian Front are forming in New York and elsewhere in the country. The Christian Front is not a What these Democrats Did to Ethiopia There are fifteen million in America. They are the lowest debating society, it is an ACTION society. We will Ethiopia was the last little bit of Africa left free. Mus paid, most humiliated, most despised people in country, fight you in Franco way!
solini decided that he wanted it. The League of Nations and in the South where four fifths of them live they are The Socialist Workers Party, affiliated with the Fourth had sworn to defend it. Every Negro with a spark of pride knows what happened, and remembers it with justified bit democracy terrorizes Negroes in the South and how it disterness. Not only did they not protect Ethiopia as they had criminates against them in the North.
But let there be no illusions the fascist beast cannot be sworn to do, but instead they prevented arm from going When Roosevelt and other so called lovers of democracy stopped with postcards. Continued from Page 1)
protested to Hitler against his treatment of the Jews, HitNational Secretary of the Parto her while they bargained with Mussolini. They stabbed IT IS DEATH STRUGGLE.
in are: Toledo, Hartford, Cal ty. reported on some of the Ethiopia in the back Britain, France, America, these great ler laughed scornfully and replied, Look at how you treat ais, Me. and Rochester. In ad problems raised in the present It is a death struggle that will require the whole heart democracies. And Stalin, who is Ford paymaster and the Negroes. learned how to persecute Jews by studying aition, San Francisco, Youngs war crisis and on the tasks of and mind of labor, all its devotion, all its self sacrifice, boss, sold oil to Italy all through the Italian campaign. Now the manner in which you Americans persecute Negroes. town, Washington, DC. and the Party every last ounce of its fighting strength.
Roosevelt comes running, and Ford with him, to tell all Roosevelt has no answer to that. Yet he will call upon out of the 800. 00 class and have which have been held, accordThe Socialist Workers Party appeals to every militant good Americans (Negroes included of course. that they Negroes to go to war against Hitler.
shipped in their first instal ing to our latest reports, are as worker to throw himself into this titanic struggle.
ments on their quotas.
follows.
must fight against aggression.
The Democratic Rule in Africa Every working man who is seriously concerned about The New York series of Other cities And who is going to do the fighting against this aggres War in defense of democracy and civilization? But it is neighborhood mass meetings Los Angeles. mass meet protecting himself, his family and his union from fascism sion? The workers as always. Chamberlain, Daladier, and when we look at Africa that we see how shameless is the held on Thursday and Friday. Stalin Hitler deal and the war TRADE UNION DEFENSE GUARDS.
in the United States must become a CRUSADER for Roosevelt are getting ready to push the workers in America lie that Belgium, France and America will fight any war for September 8. with uniform crisis, August 30. As was true into the war. These are the very men who actively collabo liberty and civilization. For it is in Africa that Negroes success. As scheduled, rallies of the other meetings, numbers Every person who has the courage and the daring to rated with Mussolini in destroying the last independent have for years suffered and still suffer today the vilest were held by the Needle Trades of workers in the hall asked to dedicate his life to the greatest of all ideals the emancipaAfrican state.
fascist tortures. And at the hands of whom? Not Hitler Branch:vine the Bronx, Astoria, be informed of other activities tion of mankind must come forward and take his place in the ranks of the Socialist Workers Party.
Why Should Negroes Trust These Rulers? and German imperialism. Germany hasn an inch of land hattan and the Lower East St. Louis. Indoor meetings (THE END)
On again a Negro will ask, Why should trust you? in Africa. That is one of the things this war is about. Who Side. The audiences included a on August 29, with a larger ralYou who have betrayed the last African state? Am to go is to have Africa? Hitler wants some of Africa, but up to draft age and many Stalinists: St. Paul The Socialist Stalinazi pact, September reason is: on account of the war fighting for Poland to retain Danzig and prevent Hitler now at any rate he has none. Japan has not an inch in the questions and lively discus workers Party branch in this Minneapolis. Several hun crisis!
from getting it? Have nothing else to for? am not Africa and today is much too busy trying to steal half of Sion which followed the main city has introduced the innova dred people heard Max Shacht Youngstown. Another sucall of the cessful stop in the speaking such a fool as not to know that international affairs are China. Mussolini controls a certain number of Africans. dicative of the anti war temper such meetings not having been headquarters on Mar tour of Widick, national important. If Africans in Africa are fighting for freedom Who is it, then, that has taken Africa from the Africans? of the workers, many of whom organized by any party in st. quette Street, on September labor secretary of the Party. We are also informed that was made here on September as Ethiopians fought, and are still fighting, ll do all can Who else but Great Britain with sixty million African had never before come to listen Paul for years.
Philadelphia. Felix Mor radio station KSTP, which had with a capacity audience and slaves, and France with another forty millions, and demo The preceding day, on Wed row on September to help. The Indians are an oppressed people, and when scheduled forum on Let the many contacts made they fight to drive Britain out, am with them. Negroes cratic little Belgium, little in Europe, but with a large nesday, New York Party Rochester. public meeting People vote on War with an All branches are urged to went to fight in Spain against Franco. That was a good piece of Africa and twelve million Negroes under her membership meeting was held on the war with Hal Draper as representative and state send in announcements of all Commander Briggs of the meetings and rallies which are thing to do. As people who for centuries have suffered from control.
capacity attendance of the Worcester. highly success American Legion as opposing scheduled, and reports of all oppression, Negroes must and will assist struggles against (Continued in Next Issue) membership.
Comrade Cannon, ful meeting on the war and the speaker, has called it off. The Dutdoor and indoor meetings.
in SWP in Big Push on All treated like the Jews in Germany. We know how this great Anti War Drive Fronts International. has dedicated itself to stopping fascism from