Help Us Put the Anti War Candidates on the New York Ballot Socialist Appeal BUILD WORKERS DEFENSE GUARDS.
LET THE PEOPLE VOTE ON WAR Official Organ of the Socialist Workers Party, Section of the Fourth International VOL. III, NO. 75 TUESDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1939 3c a Copy CASH AND CARRY SPEEDS WAR ENTRY Stalin Signs Friendship Agreement with Hitler The Card Sharp Baltic Nations Slated For Axe as Carving Of Poland Is Finished Roosevelt War Deal Resorts to Subterfuges in Face of Growing Mass Opposition to the War NEUTRALITY Victim of The War. Democracy DR.
NEW WAR 703 Carlo BIG COUNCILMANIC VOTE SEEN TWO LEADING SURE FOR SHACHTMAN AND PAINE CP MILITANTS Confidential Bulletin JOIN THE SWP Shows Big Business Primed for War Profits Implications of New Agreement Are More By a vote of 16 to 7, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee adopted last Thursday the Pittman resolution embodying the next steps in Roosevelt plan to involve the United States Far Reaching Than of Non Aggression Pact in the imperialist war raging in Europe.
Another Stalinist Turn Ahead The determination of the Administration to line up this country with Anglo French imperialism has already been shown by many actions taken by the President, most spectacular of which is the pledge The Stalinist regime took a further step in its collaboration that the United States will dewith Nazi imperialism this week when, following a pact which The First fend. one of the belligerent it imposed upon Estonia, it announced the signing of a new powers Canada in case it is frontier and friendship agreement between Germany and attacked.
the Soviet Union which has even more far reaching implicaPittman Exceptions tions than the Hitler Stalin It now seeks to lift the arms non aggression pact signed Peace and plenty embargo and establish a fake in Moscow a month ago AN EDITORIAL cash and carry plan under The new agreement formal American Style the guise of neutrality. While The Roosevelt crowd is whooping it up for another war even an air tight bill providing ly establishes the frontier of that the warring powers can ST. PAUL, Mich. While their respective spheres of into make the world safe for democracy.
purchase goods (including the Federal Government terests in the region of the for continues its relentless perthe healthy, progressive feelings the people, above arms, airplanes, etc. only it mer Polish state on the basis secution of WPA workers in of a map jointly drawn up all their uncompromising hatred of Hitlerism, are being the goods on their own ships the Twin Cities, its program which gives the Nazis, in subof wholesale dismissals uncunningly exploited to promote American participation in would help the Alles Gerstance, the industrial west of many neither has the cash nor der the new eighteen month former Poland and Stalin the a new slaughter.
can its ships break through the agricultural east.
rotation plan has already placed scores of needy famEnglish blockade the Pittman For democracy. No Polish Buffer DEAL bill includes exceptions llies on the brink of staryaThe carving up of the spoils Nonsense! Even that skimpy, limited, distorted democ which further and the Allies and tion and death conquered in the joint camLatest victim of the WPA racy that exists in the United States will be the first victim threaten early American parpaign of Hitler and Stalin, wipticipation in the war.
ed out the hopes maintained to dismissals is Charles Reese, of America entry into the war.
In accordance with the bill, the last minute in some quart41, who, deprived of an opportunity to earn even the Here is another proof of this, if more were needed. It the President may extend nineers that provision would be ty days credit to a warring meager WPA wage, placed made for a separate Polish state over that part of the terhis head on the Milwaukee comes from an authoritative pen the pen of General power if he finds such action railroad tracks as tiin ritory which was generally ac Hugh Johnson. Without agreeing with him in all points, other interests of the United was passing by.
knowledged as indisputably PoThose workers whom the we quote excerpts from his column in the New York States or its citizens.
lish by population and tradition Roosevelt Of no less importance and administration Further the same section of World Telegram of Sept. 26, 1939, in which he deals with cannot silence with its FBI the bill section 7(a) while significance is the view set frame ups it condemns to the question of democracy fate in Canada: forth in the supplementary prohibiting longer credits to suicide by denying to their Canada today is a good pre view of what may happen war or subdivision or agent of the government of any state at statement signed in Moscow on wives and children the nec Sept. 28 by the plenipotentiary essities of life.
to a great American, Anglo Saxon democracy when it goes such a government, does not (Continued on Page 2)
to war. Its democracy is abandoned. It has barely sampled exclude long term credits to war, but Magna Carta is already in the ash can and the or the belligerent powers.
Anti War Candidates Ask ALP to Make Its Bill of Rights is out the window.
In explaining this part of his resolution, Senator Pittman Position on War Clear Drive to Get on Freedom of speech, press and radio is gone. Canadians stated according to the New Ballot Enters Final Lap Leroy and Rice De aren going to bother with elections so representative York Times (Sept. 29) summagovernment is gone. Manufacture and selling are being He said, however, that any nounce Stalinism For put under a license system. Taxes are automatically zoom short term credits could continNEW YORK CITY, Sept. 28 with many times the number of Reactionary Role ing so property rights and liberty of contract are going. He under the act, to buy goods signatures legally required to nominate a candidate for the CounThe government is getting ready to regulate practically all States. He added, also, that the cilmanle elections already secured, according to reports of canBy JOSEPH HANSEN wassers in the Bronx and with Manhattan canvassers going into Two more leading militants economic relations by dictatorial decree. The appalling to language did not cover the matfar behind the Bronx campaigners, the nomination of both candi broken with Stalinism and jointal of all this seems to make Hitler a piker and Mussolini a ARTICLE III dates of the Socialist Workers ed the Socialist Workers Par maundering monk.
ty. Both have been active in CASH AND CARRY The executive position scheduled for Big Business in the Party was virtually assured tothe Yorkville (N. for And yet Canada has laid the horror in Europe on our Means: Cash in on military dictatorship that will straitjacket the American Max Shachtman of the Bronx CHRYSLER VOTE many years. Comrade Sidney very doorstep. She is going across the Atlantic Ocean to people when Roosevelt plunges the United States into the will begin a street by street tour War Orders; Carry LeRoy was the Yorkville sec fight Hitler. Canada is a sovereign nation. She isn threatwar now raging in Europe, serves not only to give Big row night, presenting the anti TO MARTIN of the Bronx beginning tomor SIGNS FINISH taught for a few years in the ened any more than we are which is not all. If she The American People Business a more direct control over the military govern war program of the Socialist Workers School and was a Na isn an aggressor, what is she?
Into the Boss War ment but also assures greater freedom for each capitalist Workers Party before the vottional Organizer and member DETROIT. smashing ers of his borough. The sympaof the National Committee of in the mad scramble for war profits.
thetic manner in which workvictory for the CIO Auto And where do we stand? If the enemy she has chosen Workers union against the the American Friends of the The whole conception of Big Business concerning the ers have welcomed the canvasSoviet Union. He had also been to attack in Europe counter attacks her here, hasn our Homer Martin AFL outfit ter of credit arrangements beparticipation of the United States in the bloodbath en sers presages a big vote for the tween private firms or persons was recorded this week in cal offices in 1933 and 1934.
a candidate of the party for lo President said that we would not stand idly by. That in the United States and privisages a blitzkreig or lightning wara war that will candidate of the Socialist Work. the National Labor RelaComrade Sarah Rice, memmay not spell an offensive defensive alliance, but, from vate concerns in the warring tions Board elections of the permit the successful shaking down of maximum profits War Post for Mayor?
Chrysler Corp. employes.
from the battlefields with minimum danger of revolution Meanwhile there were indiber of the party since 1928, was the ground of our interests, isn it something much worse? countries, but only dealing be.
The CIO union was chosen organization secretary of its tween American nationals and cations from Washington, Yorkville section, organizer and agencies of foreign governby 40, 564 out of 50, 504 workWe haven any engagement from Canada to defend us, at home against their dictatorship.
that Mayor LaGuardia, a mém.
ments. It the Industrial Mobilization Plan is based upon one ber of the American Labor ers who voted to represent member of the Joint Board of but this sounds like our engagement to defend her, no matthem through exclusive bar organizer and member of the the Workers Alliance, national Cash Aspect Phoney primary assumption. that if the United States enters a Party, is being groomed for the ter what her fault may be. The Monroe Doctrine requires The discretionary powers of gaining rights.
war, this war must be terminated as quickly and as sucpost of Secretary of War. In the President to extend credit no such absurdity.
the eyes of Big Business La This practically finishes American Friends of the Soviet and the ability of private Union. In the city and state cessfully as possible.
off the dual union of the AFL Guardia makes an ideal candi Did Canada consult us on a course of war that might corporations in the belligerent in this field under the direc elections of 1933 to 1936 incluWhat Big Business Hopes for date for the post loyal to the marrow to Wall Street, an eftion of Homer Martin. sive she was a party candidate thus bring us in, regardless of our wish or interest? Our credit in this country makes a That is one of the main reasons why Big Business, deficient administrator, and blessfor various offices.
spite its explanation to the capitalist class that Roosevelt ed with a liberal record that We welcome these comrades people haven heard about it if she did. But is it conceiv farce of the cash aspect of the bill.
into our ranks and join with able that she would go to war in these circumstances withNew Deal has now been converted into a War Deal for should make him more acceptSo also, though the Pittman NOTICE their benefit, still desires more direct control of the govern an out and out Morgan hire The Night in Harlem unthem in the appeal to all mill out consulting our government? If she did, what was the resolution prohibits American vessels from carrying passentants of the Communist Party answer?
ment apparatus. short, snappy war, with the slaughter of ling.
der the auspices of the Na to repudiate Stalinism and join gers, articles or materials to American workers not great enough to have repercussions The American Labor Party tional Negro Department the warring countries, it makes has been postponed from the ranks of the genuine fight Who makes the decisions that raise our obligation to an exception of transportation at home beyond the scope of the police, the National Guard, is still silent on any declaraSaturday, October 7th until ers against imperialist war and fight? Is it Canada or the British Empire, or some impul on lakes, rivers, and inland waand the and a huge shakedown of war orders and world war and opposition to October 14th. Tickets are capitalism, the Socialist Work sive promise of our President or anything at all, short of ters bordering on the United available at the National or States, and as to transportation war profits at the expense of the people that is the best Roosevelt and variant Big Business can see and the one it is dealing its states into this war. candiplunge the United fice, and through the party ers Party.
the Congress of the United States representing the will of a on or over lands bordering on branches. Tickets already (The statement of Comrades the United States. In othcards to secure.
dates Max Shachtman and purchased will be honored Rice and LeRoy appears on majority of 130, 000, 000 people? If we do not remain neuer words, American vehicles (Continued on Page Continued on Page 2) on the 14th.
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and LaGuardia