SOCIALIST APPEAL FRIDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1939 camp in the war he favors. The new neutrality Danish Fourth International Issues Warning to Revolutionary Call for a United The People of Scandinavian Socialist Federation The Colonies SHERMAN Monety pension.
Danger Signal Injunction Fails to Halt Calif. Sports Wear Strike Auence in the labor movement and we have not Thomas vs. Browder the three people.
SOCIALIST APPEAL Vol. III, No. 76 Friday, October 6, 1939 the country two or three steps closer to the democratie empires in the war than did the present Published avice. Weekly by the neutrality legislation he sponsored in its time.
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of hope. Several weeks ago we parties and groups of the in Denmark and all of Scandi For additional material on this manifesto see Green, however, true labor lieutenant of cap published the manifesto of our Fourth International, and only navia. Even today the united the column on the Negro Question on page Editur MAX SLACHTM italism, uses the occasion of the AFL convention British comrades of the Mili these parties, fight against the working classes of Scandinavia To the oppressed and exploited masses of the to endorse Roosevelt, to cover up his hypocriti sue we are reprinting a leaflet tion, for socialism. Do not per seizure of power to the workers Associate EdEMANUEL GARRETT British Empire, and all peoples under the heel of PELIX MORROW Imperialism throughout the world: eneral Manager cal peace assurances, to get behind his war issued by the Danish Fourth mit the catastrophes of the Sec of the world, if there were rev You, the most oppressed and exploited, will MARTIN ABERN Internationalists. In subsequent ond and Third Internationals to Olutionary parties in these program, the program of armaments expansion soon be called upon to take part in a war which issues we shall make public cast you into despair and ap countries.
threatens the slaughter of millions of men, women included. All he asks is that he be fully repre the anti war declarations of our athy. Take the revolutionary Distrust and children. Ruin, misery and devastation unparFIGHT WITH THE SOCIALIST sented on any and all government boards en French and Canadian com road. Do not lose courage! Be Do you believe that Stauning alleled in history endanger humanity. Yet at the rades, copies of which have on lieve in the future of the revo and Larsen will take this road gaged in preparing plans for industrial mobilizaconclusion of the war the mass of the people will WORKERS PARTY FOR: ly just reached our office. lutionary movement!
Stauning and the social democ still remain in their present condition of abject tion. His only beef is, you see, that he hasn The Danish manifesto is sign1. job and a decent living for every worker.
Support the Fourth Interna racy upholding their tradition, poverty. War is no solution for their problems.
been given enough recognition as part of the ed by the International Com tional ideologically and materi will fight on the side of the Even if agreement is reached between the rival Open the idle factories operate them under war machine.
munists. This group has since ally!
bourgeoisie in the future also Imperialisms, it will only delay for a short period workers control.
merged with the Leninist group And the Danish Communist How illusory, in the light oi this, is the hope Support the Fourth!
the threatening conflict. The next issue will be the and formed a united section of Twenty Billion dollar Federal public works Colonial Question.
expressed by many workers that the Greens and the Fourth War and blockade will place Party will always adopt any and housing program.
International to Danish capitalism and its social counter revolutionary position The Truth About the War the Lewises are going to stand up against the Denmark under the name Rev. democratic government before ordered by Stalin at any given Thirty thirty! 80 weekly minimum wage. We are told that the war will be fought to save 30 hour weekly maximum for all workers on capitalist war mongers an illusion expressed to die feeSocialists. In a note heavy tasks, which they can to us the comrades explain that solve only at the Poland from Hitler. This is a lie! If a battle is all jobs.
only recently at the Duluth convention of the the change in name was made working class. Tense of the War is sharpening all class Danish contradictions. All the questions waged it will be to prevent Hitler from overrun5. Thirty dollar weekly old age and disability Minnesota State Federation of Labor which, in ning Europe and stealing their colonies.
necessary by the discreditment bourgeoisie is attempting to re of the daily class struggle are This is the truth that they dare not tell!
its anti war resolution, mistakenly hailed Wilhether word communist main out of the war. But it is being placed on a high plane If these democratic nations are so concerned Expropriate the Sixty Families.
liam Green as an opponent the war.
pact reached such a point that is the General Staffs in Berlin and immediately before your with defending smaller nations against aggression, All war funds to the unemployed.
Green and Lewis and their similars in the workers drove the Stalinists and London which will decide historic tasks: Overthrow of why did they stand aside and allow Mussolini to attack the defenseless Abyssinian people after hav8. people referendum on any and all wars. trade union bureaucracy can no more be relied off the streets wherever they in the last instance whether the rule of capitalism proleing promised them assistance? It is to mislead you Denmark is to participate act tarian dictatorship! No secret diplomacy.
upon to fight war than can Roosevelt. They are Seven thousand copies of the ively or passively in the war.
Only a Marxist Leninist parthat our Imperialist masters are asking you to the agents or servants of the war mongers, 10. An independent Labor Party.
stirring appeal of our Danish join up and fight for Democracy against Fascism.
Will you, can you, leave the ty, which must grow out of DEMOCRACY! What do you know of democrafriends were distributed in Costruggle against war to Staun your ranks, can enable the 11. Workers Defense Guards against vigilante penhagen. Two comrades were ing and Aksel Larsen? Never! Danish working class of fulfill.
cy in the Empire? In 1914 they called on the massand Fascist attacks.
arrested in the process. The At the end of this war, victor ing these tasks.
es in the Mother Country and in the Empire to 12. Full social, political and economic equality Revolutionary Socialists an fight for Democracy and self determination. Milin Washington, the wage hour administra for the Negro people.
and vanquished will stand at swered the arrests with an in the precipice faced by social International Communists lions died on Flanders Field, in Palestine, in East, tion granted the lumber industry in Michigan, Wis(Affiliated to the 4th Intl. West and South Africa. For what? More slavery.
consin and Minnesota partial exemption from the tensfied campaign of anti war fair labor standards. act for the spring freshet work more oppression, more exploitation driving. This will permit employment of workers TO THE DANISH WORKING No Rights Under Imperialism for as much as 56 hours a week for 14 weeks withCLASS!
You in the Empire! What rights, what liberties, The war has come!
what democracy have you in the glorious EmThe Dies Committee, operating with the aid out paying overtime. Ordinarily. overtime is paid week. The administration also Millions of people are about pires of Britain, France, Belgium, Holland, Por of Federal agents, has raided the offices of the granted exemption to the sugar beet industry. af to fight and die not for any tugal, etc. They have robbed the masses of their ideas or views, not for democCommunist Party in Chicago, and of several fecting thousands of sugar beet workers. It land and broken up their civilisation. They segstrange, but it looks like the workers who most racy or fascism, but for the other organizations which are not named in the regate you in your own country. pen you in reneed this act, with its minimum wage of two bits maintenance and expansion of (Special to the Socialist Appeal blocking pedestrian traffic, and serves and locations like cattle, make you carry LOS ANGELES. Sept. 29. battery. Alice Ingram, business newspaper accounts.
an hour, are the very ones who are always being the imperialist terrain, for the passes like common criminals, and then pay The attitude of every revolutionary worker, exempted.
exploitation and redivision of Entering the eighth week of its agent of the local, and Paula you starvation wages. In the West Indies you are colonies, for interest paid on strike against the Billy Biller among the arrested. All of the of every honest progressive worker, for that still denied the most elementary rights of human capital exports.
Sports Wear Mfg. in Los Angel union members were found es, local 266 of the ILGWU con guilty and fined twenty five doiThat is what this war is be. Linues to hold firm despite the lars each. The day of the ar beings. You asked for bread, and they gave you matter, towards the Stalinists, is pretty weli hot lead!
ining conducted for. None of the The colonial masses in war, as in peace, can belligerent parties have any arrest of several of its militants rests, the employer found fur concern over moral or historic and a court injunction restrict ther assistance from the courts have only one aim, one goal INDEPENDENCE.
And we summon you in whatever country India, been in the last ranks of the struggle to eliminate Norman Thomas has worked himself up in rights.
Ceylon, Burma, Palestine, Africa all people who that influence. But everyone who is concerned more than one speech and article during the past This war is an imperialist The strike was called August when an injunction was issued fight for this end, to unite against the warmongers, with the interests of the working class, and who war, an inevitable catastrophe 22 when the union protested the restricting the picket line to both Democratic and Fascist, and all those who at iew weeks against the Hitler Stalin pact and in in the epoch of imperialism. employer violation of the state During the strike the employminimum wage law and dereflects seriously on the problem, will share our this hour pledge in your name your lives in defense of the Imperialists. They do not represent the real position on the Dies Committee attack upon the particular against its defense by Carl Browder. From the moral point of view. manded a union shop. At the er was hailed into court and this war is a gigantic crime on In the past, Thomas often condemned Browaspirations of the colonial peoples struggling for Stalinist party the part of the ruling classes refusal of the employer to grant charged with criminal violation liberty. Be vigilant and watch the traitors in your In our fight against Stalin, Browder Co. this country calculated to bring the United States securing, maintaining and ex boyleminen medio city of the shop for the 26th of Sept. he secured Unite in the Common Struggle der and Co. for pursuing a pro war policy in which have no other means of any of their demands an over of the state minimum wage own ranks.
we not only proceed from certain unshakeable into the camp of the democratic imperialist panding the conditions of their ployee walked out of the shop for existence.
and established a picket line. a continuance until Oct. 19.
We denounce the whole gang of European robprinciples, but we are very careful doubly carepirates with whom Stalin was allied or hoping to bers and enslavers of the colonial peoples GerIn the fifth week of the strike However, as a result of the ful nowadays, in the conditions of the war crisis be allied. Now, and not without justice, Thomas Only Way Out Lenin and Trotsky, Lieb five of the union leaders were strike and the work of the union man Nazis, Italian Fascists, French, British, Bel about WHO it is that is fighting the Stalinists condemns the new line of Browder, which is cal knecht and Luxemburg showed, arrested for their activity on the boss has already been com gian and Dutch democrats. all are the same IMPERIALIST BANDITS whose common aim is and what AIMS he pursues in the fight.
culated to alter the position of American capital in the last war, the only way thier Dicket line and charged pelled to raise wages to con In our fight against Hitlerism, we are not the enslavement of humanity throughout the world.
out for the working class with five counts including form to the state law.
ism in such a way as to facilitate the work of Down with the governments of To the workers of Britain we appeal also. You prepared to turn to the imperialist murderers of the fascist imperialist pirates with whom Stalin all the belligerent states! Turn must unite in the struggle of the colonial peoples the democracies for leadership and cooperathis war into a civil war! Seize against the common enemy, who is in your own is at present allied.
power for yourselves! That still country. To white and black the solution is the tion. Similarly, in our fight against Stalinism, Yet the position that Thomas has taken toremains today the only waysame: Organize and be ready to seize the oppor we are not prepared to turn to the labor hating, wards Stalin and the Soviet Union place him es out of war and fascism, out of tunity to overthrow the enemy.
red baiting gang of Bourbons who guide and sentially on the same plane as Browder. As chaos and barbarism! LSING SPIES ed. So must believe that the FOR COMPLETE ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL run the Dies Committee. Reaction, whatever it Chairman of the Socialist Party, Thomas has Second International? Where is Dear Comrade Editor. Where are the parties of the AGAINST LABOR labor spies are yet in the emLIBERATION OF THE COLONIAL PEOPLES!
DOWN WITH THE IMPERIALIST BANDITS!
ployment of the corporations may seem to be doing at a given moment, cannot called upon President Roosevelt that the arms the social democracy? Ever The newspapers recently said of course this is not modern.
WORKERS OF ALL LANDS UNITE!
and does not serve the interests of progress.
British Centre Against Imperialism embargo against belligerent powers in Europe since 1914 the history of the so tbat detective organizations In the last war labor detective cial democracy has been the set up, by industrial concerns to agencies worked with the federInternational African Service Bureau.
Only shortsighted people, fools and scoun be extended to include Stalin government.
history of its betrayal of the prevent sabotage would work al government against unions London August 29, 1939 dreis can take any comfort in the thought that Thomas and Browder are on the same political revolutionary tasks of the labor closely with the FBI. My organizing. can just picture regardless of his real aims, Dies is striking a plane because both of then take an essentially movement and the working memory recalls that the sen how labor sy will get even blow at Stalinism. Only turncoats without prinpro war position and because both of them call the Staunings of all the parties ir. 1937 reviewed how the de made life so miserable for them ciples of scruples people like Ben Gitlow and upon capitalist governments to fulfill their of the Second International rectives organizations function the last few years. The fallacy Causes of Imperialist War Joseph Zack can cooperate with outfits run by missions.
bear the responsibility for mak led against union organizing. of misleaders of the labor Dies. For our part, we condemn the Chicago ing possible that another impe My memory also recalls that movement will fall on their The first lecture itt a series of four was delivBrowder, up to yesterday, wanted the Roose rialist war can flare up in Eur never read or heard of any la thick heads like a ton of cred by James Cannon, National Secretary of raids with all our strength, just as we condemo velt government to save Stalin from Hitler by ope at this late date. Hitler and bor spies being discharged af. bricks.
the whole conception and course and aims of the plunging the United States the Socialist Workers Party last Friday at Ir.
Dies Committee.
war on the side of the democracies. Browder berlain, capitalister democraem: ter the Senate Commitee end for years they have been telling the workers what aving Plaza.
The raids, like the rest of the Dies Commitgreat friend of labor Frank An alert and intensely interested audience of now wants the Roosevelt government to help out, that is the handiwork, creMurphy Soon Break tee activities, are part and parcel of a national Stalin by keeping hands off Hitler and refrain ated by the Second Internaover two hundred and fifty workers heard CanStrikes Murphy will be workanti labor and pro war movement. Today it is the ing from taking sides with England and France tional ing hand and glove with the non outline the causes that gave rise to the first Stalinists who are the victims of the govern because Browder has discovered this now that Tool of the stool. pigeons, company spies, World War, the collapse of the anti war pacifist Where is the Third Interna ment at whose heels they trotted for many years the Hitler Stalin pact is in force the war is im(Continued from Page 1)
strikebreakers, and finks. They movement, the betrayal of the labor leaders tional? Out of the banner bearIt was are in the same spot that the and which they have not yet really abandoned. perialistic. At bottom, Browder, in the interests er of the world revolution, out place the issue Stalinites are in now, so clear and the struggle to reconstitute a revolutionary Tomorrow, bn much the same pretext, Dies and of his paymaster, wants to sub contract the job the whole world, Stalin has de squarely before his wavering that even dyed in the wool axis partner that Hitler sum. Stalinites can understand. Mar the Second International.
international organization after the collapse of Murpny and the whole governmental machinery of the working class to the imperialist govern based the Third International moned Ciano to Berlin. It is tin Dies made a press statewill be swung into action against all labor and not difficult to guess that Hit ment on the 26 of September The audience, largely composed of the postments, or to one of them.
into a propaganda agency for militant elements who refuse to come to heel ler was offering his pompous, that CIO soon would announce Thomas too has no faith in the working class eign policy. into a tool of the his counterrevolutionary for.
war generation of workers were particularly infrightened ally in the Palazzo dismissal of all known Commuunder the orders of the war dictatorship, terested in the vivid picture Cannon gave of and in its ability to act as an independent and Venezia his last chance to get nists from its ranks. in the struggle against Boy.
in on the Balkan ground flood Unless the labor movement promptly takes decisive force in society. He is opposed to Stalin. Trotskyism and revolution.
what set up for the labor America entry into the war in 1917. The inmeasures to put a stop to the activities of the But he calls upon the American imperialist gov entrusted the fate of the combefore Stalin occupies it all. spies in the CIO. They will find structive lesson of the complete betrayal of all It is now the favorite pastims Dies Committee, it will find tomorrow that the ernment to do the job of crushing or stopping interos tendo hicletes hands. Goor of Anglo French statesmen and corn stalks in towa, every un those who opposed the war but refused to take Dies Committee will have taken the measures a revolutionary anti imperialist position was Stalinism. At bottom, he also wants to turn over needed to put a stop to the labor movement.
driven home.
the task of the working class to a suly contractor. by the enormities of Stalinism, camble on the early break up subversive elementate the Comradely yours Cutting through the fog of official history Imperialism and imperialist war are a plague. still remains is naturally at Even Winston Churchill did his Romer Cannon showed how the peace of 1918 was the Stalinism is a poison. But neither one of them tempting to falsify the Ger part in his radio speech to St. Louis Morgan has turned over his Scottish estate direct outcome of the great revolutionary upP. You are doing a good to the British government as a war hospital. Well, be combatted by subjugating the working Sion pact as a victory for so rondly hopes is burning under job with the paper, more news heaval starting in Russia in February, 1917 he should: he helps get em shot.
class, intellectually, physically and politically, to cialism. But only the conclusion the camp of his adversaries in action. The headline some sweeping across Europe and changing the entire a capitalist government.
With all their differences and disputes, that is aid of the Soviet Union initiated ler so much as helping itself this is not your war went over course of modern history.
by the trade agreement allows and in process is barring big here. heard good remarks The lecture was followed by a lively question precisely what Browder and Thomas, each in his Hitler to launch his war with the Nazi drive from southeast about it. It draws their atten period.
ern Europe, according to this tion sharp.
confidence!
own way, are trying to do.
The next lecture will deal with the Aftermath Danish Workers! What shall to a certain point. But those For Hitler who realizes he The opening address of President William you do?
of the First World War. The Versailles who calculate that for this rea must subdue Britain or go Green at the Cincinnati convention of the Amerson Stalin and Hitler will oblige down before it Stalin neuTreaty. The division of the world among the Workers Educational ican Federation of Labor puts him as squarely COMMENT SUPERFLUOUS Forum Britain and France by flying trality, however malevolent, victorious powers will be subjected to an analysis behind the War Deal government in Washington From an item on the International Youth Day presents prematurely at each other is worth any price he can showing how it prepared the conditions for the as Roosevelt would desire.
parade in Moscow, in the Manchester Guardian ALBERT GOLDMAN throats are doomed to sorry pay. For both, their self presWeekly of September second World War.
disappointment.
ervation is wrapped up in The leadership in the movement to drag the. Two German newspaper correspondents EUROPE IN FLAMES For Stalin right now it is of The New York Local of the SWP is sponsorcontinuing for the present alUnited States into the Second World War is in sprang to attention and clicked their heels when Friday, Oct. 8:30 that Hitler re ong the paths they have chosthe table of draining the ing these lectures and invites all workers to atan Secret Police) band began to play main the hands of Roosevelt. He has made no bones at 810 Locust st. en. What awaits them around the Internationale. Thaelmann picture was strength of the Western powtend this coming Fri. p. in Irving Plaza, Philadelphia, Pa.
the next bend, however, neiabout the fact that he has already decided which not to be seen.
ers in an exhausting war. ther of them really knows.
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