SOCIALIST APPEAL TUESDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1939 SOCIALIST APPEAL Vol. III, No. 75 October 3, 1939 Published Twice Weekly by the SOCIALIST APPEAL PUBLISHING ASSN.
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the post office at New York. under the Act of March Reentered as second class matter February 16, 1959. At 1, 1150 Hditor: MAX SHACHTMAN Associate Editor MANUEL GARRETT FELIX MORROW General Manager: Assistant Manager: MARTIN ABERN SHERMAN STANLEY ir FIGHT WITH THE SOCIALIST WORKERS PARTY FOR: job and a decent living for every worker. Open the idle factories operate them under workers control. Twenty Billion dollar Federal public works and housing program. Thirty thirty! 30 weekly minimum wage30 bour weekly maximum for all workers on all jobs. Thirty dollar weekly old age and disability pension. Expropriate the Sixty Familles. All war funds to the unemployed. people referendum on any and all wars. No seoret diplomaoy.
10. An independent Labor Party 11. Workers Defense Guards against vigilante and Fascist attacks.
12. Full soolal, political and economic equality for the Negro people. Step Forward and parties.
but the interests of preserving American capitalism something suspiciously approaching mayhem and revolution.
of 99 the Economic Royalists and their pretended enemy? The war!
er to participation in the mad world slaughter out of which he hopes American imperialism will emerge the master of the wealth and power By BRITANNICUS tertainment, book. publishing, the Admiralty is the Right Honand the newspaper business crable Alexander. Conof the globe, Roosevelt will most certainly find more and more now friends of the Carter Glass! The bitterness of war already contribute to the growth of the tact with the Air Ministry for Labor is Mr. Hugh Dalton, son type. At bottom, they never had divided loyalties. kes penetrated into the con: FIGHTING HITLER BY of a Chaplain to Queen VicBy EVELYN SHERWOOD toria: educated at Eton and They differed only in having two varying con people in Great Britain. No And what of our doughty war Oxford; and one of the greatest Blowing their tin whistles and wearing their ceptions of how best to preserve the sick and amount of censorship can prebright new uniforms the American Legion swarmrotting body of American capitalism, of how went isolated items getting into Flors for democracy, the em misleaders of the British worked into Chicago 250, 000 strong for a five day sesbest to prevent the working class from removing tion after less than a month of have told us that some em Smtih one of whose important the press which show the situa ployers? How have they been ing class. Contact with the warsion on peace, love of country, and the American Way.
from the scene the decaying mess that is poison war. Thus Hannen Swaffer, in ployers who are doing well are contributions to the struggles They were loudly greeted by every bar and the Daily Herald of September utilizing the opportunity to work of the workers was to teach the ing all social life.
liquor store in town. State Street merchants preImperialist war is the great solvent of their for slum clearance in London, er by lengthening their hours wives how to curtsy and deport up the store windows. Loop hotels prepared for a the employees they retain hard Labor Party and their sented them with a key to the city and boarded differences. On that score, all sections of the which were being carried out ten million dollar volume of business, but removed capitalist class are united. Into the war! Mak by Herbert Morrison, labor and the number of work days a themselves, when they went to week. Naturally all this is to court. Contact with the Ministry all the rugs and furniture from their lobbys. They knew what to expect when the defenders of Amering the world safe for democracy is even better structions of the Cabinet. And win the victory over Hitlerism of Information is Mr. Noel business now than it was in 1917. Profit, and if any town in the world needs gret that this places fat profits The Times of Sept. 26 tells ican morality poured into the city for a middlewest bacchanal.
more profit, and still more profit that the slum clearance, it is London.
us that Major Clement Atlee.
Elliot, Minister of into his pockets.
The boys whose average age is 47 lost no time outlook for American capitalism in the war.
why this disorder, this dislo leader of His Majesty Opposi in getting to work. Within twenty four hours the Health, informed local housing cation of the life the worktion. at 10, 000 a year paid Old friends of Wall Street and reaction as authorities England and loop was a bedlam. Traffic was hopelessly disruptwell as new friends on to the fight under Wales, of the suspension of all ers? Wasn Britain prepared the British Government) and ed as Legionnaires staged swing jamborees in the slum clearance and redevelop of Of course Britain was thorough Arthur Greenwood, his lieuten middle of Michigan Boulevard, set off false fire Generalissimo Roosevelt!
ment schemes after living conly prepared for the war. The ant, visited the Prime Minister alarms, and exploded one pound cannon at regu9. on September 25. These Labor lar intervals. They threw water in paper bags Scotsman of September ditions, wages. The Ministry of tion 19 of the Road Traffic Act austry, that production is now complained that Mr. Bursin fragments of telephone directories. They esmackea pretty girls soundly across the rump with their New Dilemma canes, and squirted passers by with water, paint, truck drivers. The Edinburgh increase output to the maxi ganizing his Ministry had failed and ink. They had a barrel of fun.
Scotsman of September stated mum. At the outbreak of war, to avail himself of offers of help Life is certainly no bowl of cherries for the that the west of Scotland mining mill and production unit had instead a bureaucracy of ad.
leaders of the Stalinist party, and the sickly ers are in danger of wage cuts. already been listed with its ex mirals, generals, and civil Serious Business green look on their faces as they slink down the MILLIONS ADDED act capabilities. Stocks of raw servants. The Labor leaders Frank Samuel, national adjutant, forecasted and finished material were grievance is that there is no di side streets to reach the headquarters of the TO UNEMPLOYED rect contact with the Supply that this year convention would be more serious In the Post of Septem known to the last pound.
Daily Worker should prove it to anybody.
than the sprees of the past. The Legion had imber 25, Oswald Garrison Vil. The transport of the British Ministry, This implies in portant work to consider like maintaining lew Just a few days ago, they were given the dirty lard, one of the great defenders Expeditionary force was car minds of Labor leaders, a feeljob of whitewashing the Hitler Stalin pact. of democracy, paints a dismal ried out without a hitch. Why ling on the government part, and order. The wild conventions of the past, he said. are gone forever.
They finally got around to a limping explanation pleture of England after three then this apparent neglect of that the only interest the unions But his buddies didn seem to know it. Returning from a religious patriotic ceremony in Grant of it and if it wasn any good, at least they did bers of men drawn off for the ery among the workers? At the justment of hours, wages, and Park, they stopped to pitch horse shoes in the the best they could with the instructions from army, navy, and air force and beginning of the last war the smilar matters. We can take center of the boulevard. They dragged an ash can Moscow. The world war for which they were clerical services in Government couraged dismissals to drive workers are very much con into the street to use as a table for a friendly game of poker. Surrounding cars stalled in the in sermed with bours, aces, cand turned out to be, in their new analysis, an im the war here has been to ada time there is conscription. The matters. We can take traffic jam, they deflated the tires and reached under the hood for a handful of spark plugs. Boys, perialist war. For saying no more than this, we millions who do not yet knowlernment, like the American, is begging for the opportunity to you know, will be boys.
They brought their women that is, one third of were savagely denounced as agents of Hitler what is going to happen to them determined that this time there tie the working class movement only a few days earlier.
and where they will find some shall be no high wages in the up with the government Supply them did, One Legionnaire had his wife anchored to him by a four foot chain. Another tenderly kissed munition factories as were paid Ministry which consists of in No sooner had they got this off their chests, thing else to do.
his wife goodnight on Sunday and said, So long. When to this is added the during the last war. If any prot dustrialists, financiers toots. See you Thursday. The women with them than the new Ribbentrop Molotov statement was wholesale migration that is tak its are going to be made, the business men.
reeled down streets with lamp shades perched made public. It doesn say anything about an ing place from the cities in fear capitalists alone will make In the minds of capitalists, coyly on their heads. Open, co educational drinkimperialist war that goes without saying. It of air raids, it is possible to get them. bill has been passed what else has labor to do with ing took place on every corner.
does, however, give an analysis of the war which of the dislocation of British Ife, over the dismissal, employ slaves in factories and to proThe defenders of the sanctity of American womanhood blocked corner with construction horses is identical, thought for thought and even word even in families that have no ment, or transfer of workers. It vide cannon fodder for German and made the girls step over them in order to for word, with that given by Hitler, Goebbels, sons or husbands going to the is quite useless. The penalty is bullets? More sensitive to the front.
a fine of 100 pounds. 500) and real feelings of the workers pass. They rigged up a device that shot sprays of Goering Co. since the war broke out.
The white collar workers five pounds. 25) for each day water up women skirts as they walked by. Swaying mellowly on replicas of 40 and railroad Poland? bag of shells. Not worth fighting have suffered most. Thousands on which someone illegally em than the capitalists, and aware cars, they serenaded the crowd with the choicer over, and anyway, it all finished Now that Hit of clerks have been dismissed ployed, works. With the thou of the danger to ther own posiverses of Mademoiselle from Armentieres.
ler has his belly full of conquered Poland, he ist offices etc. The transport made in profits every day such tering the British Government from advertising agencies, tour. sands of pounds that are being tlon, these labor fakers are peslike to rest a bit until he has it fully digested, and workers have suffered through lines are trifles and well worth to bring labor, by which they Good, Clean Fun he naturally doesn want his repose disturbed by thousands of busses, taxl cabs the risk mean themselves, more closely a war on the western front. Virtually since the for war work, and this has not al doing the major share of despicable role for so called laand passenger trains being used the labor leaders are as usu, into the ar machine. more an old fashionedrestood at a street crossing with chamber pot and offered Curb war began, the Hitler mob has therefore been been compensated for by the this work, which the Service; Paper Free. Scott tissue was in fact at premium, with buddies rushing in and out of resproposing an imperialist peace to England and transport of troops and military could never do by themselves. bor leaders can hardly be imtaurants, hawking rolls of it as the latest war exFrance and, when rejected to throw the onus of freight. The collapse of the en Liaison Officer for Labor with agined.
tra or the morning paper. Some enterprising the continuation of the war exclusively on the mountaineers led portable privy through the shoulders of the democratic pirates.
streets. Other delegates had a pet skunk on a leash. All in the spirit of good clean fun.
Now Stalin Molotov join in the Hitler chorus.
Impromptu parades of the drum and bugle corps Accept Hitler peace, or we denounce you as the 99 floated down the treets. One of them was led by 66 war mongers, the aggressors, and take necestwo clowns and a Nazi caricature of a Jew, his enormous putty nose moulded into a grotesque sary measures to support Hitler the peace lover.
curve. Another squad carried a coffin marked for Do not imagine for a moment that the bellythe spreaders of alien isms. truck carrying grinders of the Stalinist leadership will hesitate By SHERMAN STANLEY eled on the same general rule: he says the democracies can an anti aircraft gun caused a traffic jam on La Salle Street. This, presumably, to demonstrate to swallow the new line. As stooges of the Krem (Concluded from last Issue) the suppression of democratic build factories in Canada and their policy of Arm America First.
lin, they are the faithful spokesmen in this By Monday morning police siren had ceased that they find it difficult to fincountry for the Hitler Stalin alliance. If Hitler peal of the Arms Embargo Act of preserving the rule of a are in such financial straits is scarcely a week old and al small capitalist minority.
to mean anything but a bunch of Legionnaires and ance their immediate war has to be pictured as an aggrieved angel of ready and his fellow (2) But, adds Lippmann, evvisiting state troopers having themselves a hell of needs.
peace in order to continue in Stalin graces, opposition from the masses of the democracies can still get SUGGESTS WAY war mongers have met a bitter en if we retain the Embargo, a time. traffic accident was narrowly averted when members of the Austin post went shrieking Browder and Co. will picture him just that way. American people.
arms and munitions. They will OF FINANCING at high speed through a red light. Chicago fire The new dilemma created by Ribbentrop Mol With instinctive understand build factories in Canada and (3) But Lippmann has a way engine, returning from answering false alarm, was stuck in the loop for a half hour because peootov will be resolved by the Communist Party ing, the American workers elsewhere and will utilize Am of financing to suggest. If the ple refused to heed the siren. They been hearing leadership by wrapping their tongues just a repeal of the Embargo Act and products. Even with the em America and find it necessary them all day.
little more firmly around Stalin boots. Cash and Carry are new ma bargo on arms, this country to build factories in Canada The municipal judges authorized a special court jor steps on the road to war. will develop a great war trade. they can get the finances from to take care of cases involving visiting LegionThe flooding of Washington. Such products as wheat their Empires! Here is an adnaires, trivial cases to be weeded out before with protests is the outspoken and flour; semi fabricated mission what England and they reach court. Maybe these included the bright voice of working class men and steel; sugar: horses: dressed France really are and what the boys who derailed a Madison street car full of women.
meats: metals; ores; tools: war is really all about. If monpassengers, or the buddes who switched a Clark street car, so that it went back on the wrong With the dissolution of the Communist Party road and it he has this way, afected by the same tortedly unley is needed. turn to the hun dreds of millions of colonial track. Or the ones who tied up traffic for six blocks behind by sitting on the roof of a bus and In France by the Daladier regime, the Stalinists Instead, while pursuing the the Embargo struggle is simp they will supply cust Increase To Lippman, the question of slaves in Africa and Asiablocking the doors so that the passengers couldn are having jammed down their throats the last same aims, he will advance ly shall American capitalism our exploitation of the Negroes, leave.
and the bitterest fruit of the treacherous policy new arguments, attempt new join forces now, or wait a little Indians and yellow races so Two thousand extra police were detailed to the downtown force, and all leaves of absence were of popular frontism they followed in years persuasions a Batmas. will have longer. The Embargo merely that we can build munition fac aims!
cancelled. But they stood by good naturedly while lengthens the period in which tories. Here is an admission of past.
the upholders law and order littered the streets, the war industry would operate the completely imperialist (disorderly conduct. sabotaged transportation The popular front initiated by the Stalinists LIPPMAN RAISES FEW BUGABOOS by the time needed to organize character of the present war.
guaranteed, peace, prosperity and democracy. It spokesenandpomericant hentes semi finisheala soodush through would have the Embarpo meteaed the hilarious crowds toʻriot. system, and Inettretain it would brought about war, misery, and arbitrary, dicta cial and banking interests ture. In other words, whether mean the end of Western dem Colossal Nonsense torial rule by Daladier decree cabinet.
whose views on the Embargo At every intersection self appointed traffic reguThe Daladier government, it is interesting to last issue of the Appest, has the makes small difference mere racies can get needed supplies lators blew their whistles and sounded their sirens.
recall, was voted into office as a popular front ready given us an advance look ly a matter of inconvenience. anyway (then what the exOne pajama clad Legionnaire directed traffic for But in the first place, there cause it means larger war orgovernment. It came into power with the solid into the new arguments certain seven hours, then staggered into a police station is quite a good deal of exciteand asked for a whistle, because he was hoarse 72 votes of the Communist Party deputies in it the Allies cannot pur ment about such a small thing ders, prodits and boom good beginning has been from shouting. They cornered a cop at a busy the Chamber of Commerce. Daladier now repays chase arms, Hitlerism will tri So much excitement that the downtown crossing, stripped him, and sent him them for their activity in the brutal and annihil umph and Western Democratic American press, and Mr. Lipp. mongering statements by the home in a taxi. Then thoughtfully sent his uniform after him in another cab. Five pie eyed Legion ating manner that was inevitable. The Blum civilization is lost. This is the mann, are set to call those who flood of protests deluging con first bugaboo raised by Lipp oppose removal of the Embar gress. Defeat of Cash naires pulled a mounted policeman off his horse Faure social democracy, it goes without saying, mann.
go Nazi agents. Actually, and Carry proposal and of his and rode the animal into a hotel lobby.
continues to support the same Daladier regime. Unfortunately for him, there Lippmann fully realizes the efforts to repeal the Embargo At night fall the revelry reached an unbelievable level of hilarity. Forty and eight floats and dilif American tige of democracy remaining are opposing change.
inist feats in a single one of the Allied speaks out apidated Fords clanged down the sidewalks, pushne as the Great Organizer of And if the democracies do loudly and boldly would be a ing the pedestrian crowds into the streets. Motor That is all it ever accomplished since usurped countries. Chamberlain and not really need American help, blow at the war maker camp. traffic was impossble. Bands of Legionnaires prepower in the Soviet Union. The smashing of the Daladier are the first to admit then how explain their hesita True, by itself, this would far vented any movement by perching on the bumpers of stalled cars. Fortified with an electric suitcase, French Stalinist organization, in which so many that one must do is to compare, swer is plain. British imperial ica being plunged into the war. they blockaded the entrance to one loop hotel for an militants were duped into placing their hopes, point by point, the laws govern ism will not really begin hour. They staged unrequested concerts in hotel is only another inevitable result of the criminal ing the Allied powers with the fight until it has America would be clearer than ever: dining rooms. They stopped busses on the streets and polished the windshields with their handkercourse imposed upon the Comintern by the many. They differ not in the manpower. lined up solidly be of the hands of and the chiefs before allowing them to proceed. It was Kremlin autocracy.
slightest because they are mod hind her. Lippmann lies when Congress.
colossal. It was pandemonium.
The candidates of the American Labor Party for the coming election have been announced by the State Secretary of the American Labor Party. and although this announcement came before the meeting the Executive Committee which was supposed to select them at its meeting next Saturday, the fact that so far as is known they have made no deals with either Republicans or Democrats makes it possible to support them as working class candidates.
The support of the Socialist Workers Party for these candidates is based on their independence as working class candidates and the urgent need of the working class for political action on its own program independent of the capitalist But while the Socialist Workers Party can support these candidates because of the independent stand they have taken, the silence of the State Executive Committee of the American Labor Party in regard to war policy, unless rectified immediately, can negate this independence and in fact chain the American Labor Party to the war machine.
The war issue now constitutes the dividing line between capitalist parties and working class parties. It is a dividing line that cannot be straddled. political party is of value to the working class only in so far as it espouses the cause of the working class; and the next step in the direction of independence from the capitalist parties is the formulation of a fighting program.
War and fascism these are the burning issues upon which the political parties of the workers must take a stand in this period. The fight against war and fascism together with the fight for the most elementary reforms such as lower prices of food, lower rents, must be espoused by the American Labor Party. Only the most temporary successes can accrue to it if it takes any other course.
When the people have learned the meaning of the present imperialist war through the intense suffering that the military dictatorship will entail, they will turn to those parties which fought their battles from the beginning of the war. progressive step has been taken by the American Labor Party in refraining from the kind of deals with the capitalist parties it made in the past. Now it is necessary to take another step forward by formulating a clear program against war and fascism.
The Wall Street Boys Know What The French Making New Friends Washington dispatch by the Associated Press tells the following touching story of the reconciliation between President Roosevelt and Senator Carter Glass of Virginia. When the 81 year old legislator went to see the chief executive a few hours after that address was delivered, it was said that Mr. Roosevelt slapped him on the back and exclaimed: Well, it took a war to get us together again. hope it will take an earthquake to separate us.
An interesting and symbolical story. Glass has always represented arch reaction in the Senate. Southern Bourbon to the marrow of his bones, he violently attacked Roosevelt on more than one occasion, seeing in the President mild and queazy reforms never made in anything