For a Workers Vote Against War, Vote for SWP Candidates!
Socialist Appeal BUILD WORKERS DEFENSE GUARDS LET THE PEOPLE VOTE ON WAR Official Organ of the Socialist Workers Party, Section of the Fourth International 167 VOL. III, NO. 78 NEW YORK, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1939 3c a Copy WAR CLIQUES SPLIT NEW YORK LABOR PARTY The Same Beast Morale of Minneapolis Prisoners Splendid as Frame Up Trial Opens Defense Commitee Sponsors Tag Day The Red Army Marches Patriots Divide On Support of Axis or Allies DEMOCRATIC WAR TIME RULE GOLDMAN OPENS The Stalinists, likewise, BOSTON PARTY Rict. In the New York County Shachtman and Paine Charge BosS FORUM SEASON dhe reactionary Candidates Evade the Main Issue suelo los DISAFFILIATE UNION FROM PEACE GROUP Behind the Lines By FELIX MORROW To Raise Funds for Indicted StrikersThe two warring camps in the American Labor Party have More Indictment seen as Coming spent the week hurling charges and countercharges, setting up dual executive committees in New York County, and filing (Special to to the Socialist Appeal)
separate nominating petitions.
MINNEAPOLIS, Oct. The government was still having its innings as the fifth day of the trial of the first batch of WPA Amid the tumult, the several hundred thousand trade unionworkers got under way in Federal Judge Joyce courtroom.
ists who constitute the American Labor Party by virtue of Eight workers are involved in this first trial, growing out of a the affiliation of their unions, are finding it hard to determine olash at a WPA project on the University of Minnesota campus last July 12, when Philip Slaughter, a fascist sympathizer, what is the issue which has caused the split. For the rival used a knife to slash several pickets. It is typical that the belligerents are not particularly interested in telling the truth.
victims, not the knife wielder, are being prosecuted by the By WIDICK Each camp is as anxious as the other to avoid frank statefederal government.
Once before the legions of the The trial opened Monday. Tom Davis, a colorful old fig. Red Army marched behind the ment of the real issue, October 2, and the first day was ure in Minnesota politics, has hammer and sickle into the The ALP bureaucrats speaking for the officialdom of the spent in selecting a jury. On been secured by the AFL WP poverty stricken fields of Po needle trades attempt to exploit the feelings of the prothe jury, picked by the judge, Defense Committee to act as land towards Warsaw, and the are seven farmers, a lumber trial attorney in cooperation whole world trembled under gressive and especially Jewish) trade unionists against the salesman, a former deputy with the three other defense the impact of the event.
Hitler Stalin alliance; they say they are fighting the discredsheriff, a realtor, a restaurant lawyers. brilliant young officer was ited Communist party for its reactionary defense of the Hitowner and a hardware dealer The defense is expected to given command of the troops typically tough dozen to hear berishish the New Deal trame offensive against the Polish Armass of evidence on the western front in the ler Stalin axis. They say as little as possible about the basic labor case.
sections of their resolutionGovernment witnesses toiup against the Minneapolis un my. He was Mikhail Tukha the pro war sections.
date have been Linus Glotz ion movement. The 134 defend chevsky. burning with zeal and bach, former Minnesota WPA ants are showing great re ambition to extend the socialadministrator (since promoted sourcefulness in preparing their ist revolution throughout Eu.
Carlo blur the real basis of the conby Roosevelt. Stolte, act own defense statements and rope.
ing State WPA administrator lining up witnesses tefute Opposite the Red Army stood (also a Roosevelt appointee. the testimony of the govern. Joseph Pilsudski, harsh dictafight they try to hide behind and a number of finks, includ ment and the finks. All defend tor, backed by France and Eng ing one person, Homer Martin, ants meet weekly with the WPA land, who dreamed of carving state laws who described himself as a Defense Committee to survey out a vast empire, Greater Po which create electoral machinmember of the US intelligence the case, and the morale of the land, from the Ukraine, all service during the war. All al indicted strikers is wonderful East Prussia, Lithuania, White ery separate from that of the leged that pickets had threat to see.
Russia, and Latvia. Repeated (Special to the Socialist Appeal) trade union base of the ALP, ened them during the WPA George Murk of the Musi ly. Pilsudski had rejected BOSTON, Mass. Boston op which gives the Stalinists the strike. Continued on Page 3) peace terms offered by the So viet government in 1919 and New York Urges Workers to Register Speaking on Europe in Flam October 4th city conference Oct. with Albert Goldman pretext for designating the early 1920. Pilsudski was deterviet republic was weak. His This Week So That They May Vote for the ended hen meetime was welat called by the ALP leadership troops marched towards the Soviet frontier on April 25, 1920.
Only Anti War Candidates on the Ballot was enthusiastically received as having no legal status unWorkers and students attending der the election law. In reBy GEORGE STERN CONTRAST TELLS STORY the meeting showed a very live. fusing to accept the ALP res.
The bolts of Stalin diplomacan mean only continued misOF RUSSIA CHANGE tie blitzkries are still splinter. ery and deathru prolementine defensive war! No sooner did The Red Army was fighting a Addressing the second in a series of election campaign mass its implications. Questions were olution, Michael Quill atmeetings, Max Shachtman, Councilmanic candidate of the So asked by members of the audi tacks Chamberlain, but says ern Europe while the war of dying capitalist world is drag. Pilsudskt open hostilities than cialist workers Party for the Bronx, declared Monday night, ence which indicated the se not a word about the Hitlerthe western front, assing the peoples of all nations.
the Revolutionary Council of NEW YORK, Oct. At a the saying now has it has set Doesn this pompous ex War ordered troops from ev.
tled down to a war of nerves. change of lies, this hypocritical erywhere to the Polish frontier. meeting of the Delegate Assemthat. The most important issue in this election campaign is one ed the problem of war. Literat Stalin alliance, and, in typical In between interviews with fraud, this toying with the lives on May 20, Tukhachevsky at bly of Teachers Union. Local which the capitalist political parties in this city will evade and ure sold well and good contacts Stalinist fashion when confusion is deemed necessary, foreign ministers queued up at of whole peoples. make clear tacked Smolensk to relieve the held last night, the Stalinist snore; it is the question of the second world war and the im were made.
National Tour the Kremlin sates, Stalin ad. for the thousandth time that the south western front where an abrupt about face, caught Not one candidate of either are fundamentally the same as pressure on Soviet forces on leadership of the Union pulled iminence of American participa identifies himself with Roosepointed out. The isolationists Albert Goldman who only re velt policy as against the Anvised his former mom dubie atlies the interests better bem anyag the Polish army was making its own membership unawares the Democratic or the publican those who corral the workers cently returned from Europe is that they can and be served only by.
would do well to talk terms the destruction of both these cavalry smashed through ene Union from the American Parties who is known beyond for the trenches from the mo now on a national speaking tonini Rose policy (needless with his friend Hitler. He at the warring cliques?
same time advised the workers And what now? While Stalin my lines towards Kiev, it was League for Peace and Democ his apartment house has as ment war becomes imminent. tour for the Socialist Workers to say, Antonini and Rose, in of the world that litle details pushes his frontiers into the captured on June 12, and the racy. In stunned silence, a be muchas one word to say The nisolationists cannot and Party. To date he has already their pro Ally position are the llowers laiste. Fassister line, Stanite se lower a Baltic and eyes the Bal mareh wa warta ter atteo mens weidered membership listened statest the war. Shachtman against heard be a real estrueste Nebenk Resedine, Allentown, more legitimate pledged to the maintenance of Rochester. Other cities so far of Roosevelt. At the October situation on the south western the union, we must avoid What Value Isolationism?
making hay, for he knows well ents in the West are waiting for front was by no means assured. controversial questions and The Isolationists, like Willi pledged to support capitalism capitalism and are therefore listed in his schedule are: city conference the Stalinist the sun shall not shine much each other to move. Belgium, Youngstown Oct. 12 The contrast between the 1920 concentrate solely on teach am Jennings Bryan during the wars.
Akron spokesman, Irying Potash, Oct. 13 longer. And his harvest is al. the Netherlands, and Switzerlast war, seem at first to op Tracing the wild changes in Cleveland made his main point a plea Oct. 15 slons. Just what it will bring on immediate peril, for on both in invasion of Poland this fall The cynical and hypocritical pose the war. Then, when war policy of the Communist Party reaching tidy dimen land are acutely aware of their 1920 march to Warsaw and Sta. ers issues.
Toledo that, since the ALP had nevthe imperialist war market is sides it is realized that the war tells the tragic story of the deeffrontery of the Stalinists was breaks out, they support the during the last decades, Shacht Detroit Oct. 17 er expressed itself before on a question that is as yet unset can be fought across these cline of the Soviet Union under exposed by the Independent war on the ground that, al man stated, The Communist Flint Oct. 18 international affairs, it should tled.
further Hitler peace offer so oblig tempt to storm the Maginot or seneration of the Red Army pointed out that the drive for wish to put a quick end to it. site of what that party was announcements per time, place not do so now! To make con(Continued on Page Continued on Page 3)
ingly seconded by the Master of Siegfried lines. Italy, too, sits and city.
fusion worse confounded, the the Kremlin consisted of a pro on the shaking lid of this boil Stalinists name (without his posal that the French and Briling kettle and may soon be consent) Adolph Held as tish capitulate to him now in blown off.
stead of later and give back to The war in the air also awaits county treasurer Held, presGermany in the process the the next moves of the armies, ident of the war mongering colonies wrested from her in for the experiences in China Forward Association!
the last war. The French and and in Spain have shown the By B, Widick problem of war without offer. previous convention along with Stalinist Role by his powerful henchmen from British imperialists announce extreme costliness and dubious Revealing the heavy pressure ing any concrete program of the usual planning of organiz The seventeen Stalinists on the United Mine Workers of Stalinist supporters in the they will fight on to crush Hit military value of exclusively of the rank and file, John fighting against war. Further, ing campaigns.
the cio board favored the America who occupy key posi fight raise a cry against the lerism or in other words, as aerial actions.
Bernard Shaw was good enough Whatever action is under al convention of the Cro with ing Roosevelt to avoid a sharp sions before the cro convencan Keep America Out of Im ly of what he had said in his to point out, to defend Anglo taken right now, however, will a wordy opposition to war and dispute on the convention floor, ton, Sidney Hillman, president perialist War, by dodging the Labor Day speech. That speech leadership. One of them.
French swag against the Nazi be less important and less de its preparations, and an appeal it possible.
of the Amalgamated Clothing neutrality issue, and by mak created quite a stir because it Ross Kenyon, ALP nominee hijackers.
cisive for the war course than that the Roosevelt administra Workers of America, fought foring reservations on support of was regarded as an answer to for General Sessions judge, For either side in this slaugh the outcome of the diplomatic tion concentrate its major enFor the ecro is in an entirely the reiteration of last year Roosevelt. Fearing a purge be Roosevelt plea for national makes a brilliant contribution: ter fest peace is predicated on came involving Turkey, Ru ergies on burning problems different position than it was program.
markets and profits and not on mania, and the Balkans, for of unemployment, insecurity, at its first convention a year Through a public statement CIO ranks against the StalinThird Term Disputed he approves Roosevelt cashthe bunk and balderdash as this outcome will determine and the growing cost of living a reuse qualitiecomandorsement tione animant greve his quen tule opaci povely, the theater andere break between Roosevelt and carry proposals. But Shaw puts il) of democracy and Germany capacity to fight a in America.
civilization. Such a peace long war, the kind of long war whether dictated by Chamber the Western Allies are counting opinion on the cuo executive racy. and unity with the AFL pro war policies and his domes ing their progrtinus in advanc attempted double cross of the cannot see that the platform miners nation wide strike last of the American Labor Party to. board, Lewis dealt with the were the main themes of theltie program The Lewis program, backed (Continued on Page Continued on Page 4)
By Friday, Oct. 13 Irving Plaza The Causes Underlylng the Triumphs of (Irving Pi. 15th St. 8:30 Hitler and Mussolini ADMISSION 25c Oct 16 CIO MEET VACILLATES ON PROGRAM The Third of a Series of Friday Night Lectures Cannon