SOCIALIST APPEAL FRIDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1939 CIO Meet Vacillates on Program TEACHERS UNION DISAFFILIATES Lesson from the Last War FROM PEACE ORGANIZATION The Rich Got Richer LEWIS TALKS OF WAR PROBLEM, WORKERS FORUM The Poor Were Killed BUT OFFERS NOTHING CONCRETE Stalin Hitler Pact Final Straw, Another er Joins the obtaining Stalinist Clique Reverses Itself to Leave Hands Free for Prosecution of New Line ANTI TROTSKYIST COMES mittee and could develop no enHOME TO ROOST thusiasm for its expulsion drive By EVELYN DANE emasculated, and profits drivDear Editor: against the Left Wing.
ing skyward. Continued from Page Special to the Socialist Appeal)
question they ask Lewis is. Geo. Duemler, prominent America out of war. This, as. WASHINGTON, DC. War Fortunately for the plans of for unity with the AFL on any. Will the end organize the Party for several years past with the Left Wing, and formed not originate last night on the absolutely indispensable if the ing to the 150 returns obtain has been enacted in the twenty spring, and Roosevelt demand what are you going to do about figure in the Missouri Socialist rank and file of the sp went retrenchment in education dia the Independents pointed out, is time boom profits, correspond these bureaucrats no legislation Party contrary, the teaching profes Union is to recruit the thoued by American industry dur years since the last imperialist hasise torced he was to preserve Pehend Frelies workers to fight and hard candida tehera sovered the Southles them hers dential elections. Instead of a Lewis by his mild attack on months allied himself with Os been completely inactive. It has sharp crisis for a year. What, for organization and if the Un. bath, and a quick emergence its of the duponts and Morgans third term endorsement for the National Labor Relations car Ameringer American held only one public meeting the background of the new fight against the budget cutters. are now an immediate and hap. spired by the post war revela Roosevelt, Lewis favors an in Board and his concentration of Foundation for Abundance, here in two years, and that was definite stand for a progres fire on Vice President Garner, and is now an active propagan more than a year and a half line. apart from the fact that To achieve this, however, it is py prospect for American captions of 100 150 profits on war sive candidate.
materials was killed in commit Yet the CIO state convention as responsible for WPA cuts, cates political action mainly made to sell or distribute SP culated by the Independent Union be broken. The Union ning financial reports, already instead of naming Roosevelt dist for the which advo ago and no effort has been hundreds of Union members absolutely imperative that the Parliams Government officials, scan tee by the profiteering lobbies of California which just conclu etc. reveals that he still in through the Democratic and literature. Duemler apparently Group calling for disaffiliation membership through the et note a ten year high in indus steel holds out promise to Tom The last two weeks boom in ded its sessions went on record tends to drift along, hoping for Republican parties for the third term despite top the best.
Remembers of the have nothing policy, and turned to from the American League, forts of the Independent Group. trial activity with the future of Girdler and his colleagues for Only to the extent that rank talked about Duemier seeking the AFA, which has recently naturally lies in the profound is beginning to become aware more than a score of basic in equalling the first four months likely to evoke a sharp dispute and file pressure for a militant, the Republican candidacy for succeeded in stimulating a League and within the ranks of meeting represents a big mile at any time since 1927. when steel prices sky rocketed The Stalinists have apparent gram is manifested at this con whether Duemler stan main and staunch supporters of the sult of the Hitler Stalin Pact Union a healthy, progressive flooded with orders from Buro Other industrialists recalling factories from ly obtained the assurance of vention will the cIo be able to tains his membership in the SP to an extraordinary degree and the new position of the leadership Lewis that he will seek to sup advance in the coming period of activity pean belligerents and with ev. the 139 profits made by Otis press any discussion of their in addition to holding on to its In October, 1937. it was subscribe to the American Communist Party Discard Old Line en greater profitable produc Steel even before we entered role by means of an appeal for present forces. Otherwise, a Duemler who did the job of ex Guardian.
NOTICE tion possible the moment the the war, the 112 profits made unity. However, at least one further disintegration of this in pelling the Trotskyists from the The SWP, during this period. what the next step in the forarms embargo is lifted, the by Allegheny, and the 90 profstate convention of the CIO has dustrial union movement, chiefly because the other has held dozens of public meet eign policy of the Soviet Union An important meeting of New Deal bureaucrats finally its made by Lukens Steel, have gone on record denouncing the which remains on a historical leading ers, although they ings, and within the past two will be finds it necessary to all party and YPSL memsee a concrete solution to the started putting pressure on Stalin Hitler pact. etc. and plane as progressive in rela did not like bers will be held Sunday, plagueing problem of unem. Washington.
dodging the issue will be very lion to the AFL, is the menace were suspicious of their clart thousand pieces of SWP liter old baggage and leave its hands October 15, P. at Beeth: ployment.
The golden record set up by dimcult.
of the coming period tyite National Executive Com. ature. free to maneuver and to preoven Hall, 210 East 5th St.
one airplane engine firm, Compromises Seen Scrap Labor Laws pare for any new eventuality.
Admission by red card only.
which, starting with a 1, 000 in The Lewis report avoided a The necessity of attempting vestment, reaped an 11, 437, 250 The American League, it is ru.
serious discussion of the probmored, is to be dissolved, beto appear as a liberal govern income at the end of the war lem of labor unity, although he cause the genuine People OUR CANDIDATE nient by making reluctant pro is still a beckoning remem gressive concessions to labor brance for many American took his usual cracks at the Fronters, feeling themselves AFL leadership. This reflects and at the same time propitiat. capitalists.
betrayed by Stalin, are fightthe less favorable position of ing to keep the organization ing the ruling class will no long Profits of 100 in shoes, the CIO on this question since er exist, government officials clothes, fuel, food, minerals, and sever its ties with the the last convention, state openly, as soon as the chemicals and fabrics were the Kremlin. The Stalinist leaderThe AFL convention indicat country is regimented for war. rule, not the exception. And the ship of the Union, above all, ed that its membership was All important labor legisla reason why these staggering One after another they are cuss the correctness of the class, and given a transfer to a wants to prevent that fight well over 4, 000, 000 while the quitting the Communist Party Party line on penalty of being Bronx Section where was al, from being introduced into the tion will be scrapped and la profits were possible, New Deal CIO has discreetly kept silent and joining the Socialist Work charged with heresy. short most unknown.
bor voice in democratic de economists point out, is because Union ranks.
on its present enrollment. The ers Party the party of mass time later the Party began in Realizing that the was Aside from the thoroughly recision will be annulled for the wages were not increased to blundering leadership of Lewis. proletarian action against war. a backhanded manner to sup betraying the sake of the nation, while the keep pace with the rising cost working class actionary motivation for the industrialists and financiers. of living.
antecebove the standards the latest among those who have port Roosevelt for re election, wotrests new class collaboration proposal. ouas tbl Independente cleprived of exorbitant profits War time profits on muni during the last eight years, will tions were exceedingly high but ruin clique within the CIO has Stark whose statement is here deeper at this support of a ca many like bureaucracy, drop concerns the teachers, cannot played havoc with the member published in full: pitalist candidate ped out of the Party. My dan. be removed from the Union and be appeased by the same profit. the peace time armament profship of the industrial unions.
making spree that they had its since 1920 have been even About a year later a few of gerous ideas led me to do is not removed by the simple although some gains in packfrom 1915 1918.
higher in many instances, gov ing houses and elsewhere can joined the Communist Parthe most militant and devoted some independent reading and act of disaffiliation. To make New Deal officials are real ernment figures show. Three be noted. in 1933, a period during leading comrades in the Section to my great surprise found sure that the Union will not anti war activity, ists and cynies. They know and years ago. Carnegle Steel calSeeking to put up a good front which the economic crisis im criticized our section organizer that people was taught to look suspend admit frankly that lifting the lously admitted that its bid on for the cio. Lewis and the top posed untold misery, and pov for sabotagine the Anton Bok upon as counter revolutionar especially at such a critical arms embargo must mean the armor plate for the Navy, gave leadership of the organization erty upon the working class. Strike and naively brought ities, the Trotskyists, have a pro time, and because the Indepenextension of war credits to the it a profit of 58. In the same have been working day and Unemployement and massevic to the attention of the District gram which is clearly and gen dents do not think that the belligerents who buy American bidding Midvale asked price revolutionary and is war question is too hot to han night to effect compromises on tions of workers from their committee. Because they dared uinely the based on the to Marxian prindle, the Independents intromunitions. This means, they ac that would have given it 91.
all questions so that the con homes swept the city of New attack a machine man knowledge, junking of the John In 1933 Carnegie Steel made vention will appear democrat: York. The at that time was bureaucracy own choosing, ciples of class struggle.
son Act which prevents Euro 42 profit on a Navy contract ic, united and progressive. active in mobilizing the workers the District Committee cooked Here, Indeed, is a Party that lution was passed stating that pean debtors to the from for turret armor corporation but unsatis Since the essence of Lewis con in the struggle for jobs or re up charges against the three a revolutionist can turn to and this resolution to disaffiliate in further American fied with this, loans.
upped its prices 40 and 50 a the unity slogan is becoming It was natural that as a work from all responsible posts on throw of capitalism and all its from carrying on its anti war GEORGE LYMAN PAINE there to ex cover not the media er endorsed this program and the ensur des used fact de plaster certenches Thema for me les Bain Limousity passen. tion was unanOnce American investments ton during the next two years.
and loans in France and Eng Sperry Gyroscope which supious Stalinist machinations.
became an active member of ment in the Party in Yorkville and participate actively in the land again approach, as they plied the air forces with flight did in 1917, the point where indicators made an average In the process, CIO progress that party.
When the Yorkville Section and two branches, the 14th work of the American Section More than ever, it is neces YOUNG MEN ivism is fading as it fails to their default would cause do profit of 54 of cost. Profits meet new issues squarely and 01 the was organized in and the 16th went so of the revolutionary 4th Inter sary for the Union to educate mestic panic, American armed went as high as 51 on a single militantly. Compromises will 1934 was elected to the Sec far as to pass resolutions con national the Socialist Workers the teachers on what war wiu WANT JOBS forces must again step in to order for the Army air corps.
tion Committee, the Section demning the decision and de Party, ISIDOR STARK mean for them and how to keep NOT GUNS protect those interests, State In aviation, Wright Aeronau sion.
Department officials admit pri tical Company showed profits Faces Dilemma tion Educationa) Director. The Needless to say, the cynical buvately. And America at war of 29 in 1927 and 44 in 1928 would be the complete solution on sales to the Navy. And 93 the CIO be met merely as in were serious and devoted revo. knowledge it.
Norcan the dilemma facing comrades with whom worked reaucracy refused even to acIndependence Punished When President Roosevelt industries operating at top profits on sales to the Army in the old days, namely by evadlutionists.
In my branch a resolution Cour weeks ago issued an or production; labor stifled and 1926.
ing a clear cut stand. Will the The 7th World Congress of der calling for an additional 150. 000 recruits for the armCIO seriously launch a fight the Communist International was proposed to uphold this Because ed forces of the United SOCIALIST APPEAL NEW INTERNATIONA In the second world war? This the Peoples Front, collective dared to get up and speak States, recruiting stations involves sharp break with security, the Democratic Front, against it and rallied enough stayed open night and day Can be obtained at the following Newsstands Roosevelt administration and the wooing of individuals support to my position to de (Special to the Socialist Appeal) for all men of draftable age call for a labor party? This who, our enemies yesterday ished by being fired from the Ligue of Drattable Men is without telling how to do ized artillery regiments.
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cently received a boxful of waving, brass band methods vice with the Army. Navy Cor. 12th the Party. In an earnest at YOUNGSTOWN, OHIO and Marines is compared as The stage was decorated with are best when it comes to re Nick s, Wick st. and Commerce rare books and pamphlets a large and peculiar symbol. cruiting for Uncle Sam!
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