Vote for SWP Anti War Candidates!
Socialist Appeal All Over the World, The Fourth Internation)
Fights Against the War WORKERS OF THE WORLD UNITE. page 261 Official Organ of the Socialist Workers Party, Section of the Fourth International VOL. III, NO. 79 NEW YORK, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1939 3c a Copy CHAMBERLAIN REJECTS HITLER TERMS The Smell of Carrion!
Pacific Coast Sailors Committee Chalk Up New Victory Formed to Against Shipowners Aid SWP Campaign But Leaves Loophole For United Imperialist Front Against Russia CAPITALISM SPEED UP IN AUTO BRINGS STRIKE THREAT estantes of their intention Can One Justifiy the MASS DESERTIONS ALP War Position? ANTI WAR FEELING muued.
Behind the Lines Sliding Scale of Wages, Broadening of Stalin Having Imposed Mutual Assistance Basis for Overtime Pay Are Written Into On Latvia, Esthonia and Lithuania Is Now Agreement Despite Stalinist Sabotage See Big Labor Vote In New York City for Making. Demands on Finland By BILL MORGAN Shachtman and Paine SAN FRANCISCO, Cal. Oct. 10 The Sailors Union of the Although generally interpreted in the press as an emPacific scored a smashing victory over both the shipowners and the Stalinists here last night when the membership voted to Declaring that the anti war, phatic negative reply to Hitler proposal to settle the war, accept an agreement reached by the Union committee with the anti fascist candidates of the the Chamberlain address to Parliament this week nevertheshipowners grapting important concessions in working rules and Socialist Workers Party would less laid the basis for bringing into the open the negotiations conditions of employment on deep water ships. The settlement roll up thousands of labor votes will result in pay for overtime not previously recognized as over in the Councilmanie election which are evidently being carried on unofficially and behind time and provides for a sliding this November, Dwight Macclosed doors.
scale of wages to be determined vote should be in progress. The donald, secretary of the CamThe loophole was contained in the concluding section of by profits of shipowners with a Radio Operators, the Marine paign Committee, today pointthe address which said: Eithbasic minimum wage of 72. 50. Cooks and Stewards also wented out that ten thousand signa.
The agreement further pro for this 60 day extension. The tures had been secured over a vides for the re opening of ne Masters, Mates and Pilots sign er the German Government must give convincing proof of gotiations for increased wages ed a 90 day extension and the BULLETIN 703 within ten days after Congress Marine Engineers Beneficial the sincerity of their desire revises the Neutrality Law and Association a five months exWe are Informed, as we go for peace by definite acts and again every six months after tension to press, that the New York Ly the provision of effective that date.
Stalinist Strategy Elections Board has ruled Stronger The shipowners were pro.
This victory. won despite ceeding with their plan with the ballot. In our next issue, we to fulfill their undertakings or carefully planned strategy of open assistance of the Stalinshall present the facts as we must persevere in our duty both the shipowners and the isso They both hoped by this well as a report of the ac(Special to the Socialist Appeal)
to the end.
most militant union in the west, er to strike alone or to tail New York District of the SoDETROIT Resentment and Just what Chamberlain strengthens the position of the along behind the sell out artists cialist Workers Party. com protest over the introduction of would construe as convincS. as the champion of the Bridges and Co.
new speed up operations and ing proof of sincerity and maritime workers. Isolated and The Marte Firemen and the period of three weeks to place the failure of the Chrysler effective gurrantees was not doublecrossed by its enemies, Sailors, however, sot together Max Shachtman, candidate for Corp. to settle old grievances made clear by the British the proved that militant and agreed to stick together, the Bronx, and George Lyman brought the threat of a strike Prime Minister. His vagueness action in the face of danger can their committees had joint ses Paine, candidate for Manhatof 55. 000 UAW CIO unionists on this score, like that of Hitproduce victory for the work sions with the shipowners. tan, on this week.
ballot.
ler speech, only confirmed the Union officials filed a five opinion that the important and ers.
Then, out of a clear sky, the signed The shipowners demanded a Firemen committee The Campaign Committee, it day notice required by law specific questions involved are was made public today, includwith the state labor mediation subjects not for public discus60 day extension on the con the 60 day extension, tract. The longshoremen, under The Sailors committee hela es James Burnham, TreasurIN CANADA SHOW board announcing its intentions son among the imperialist rivunless satisfactory negotiations als but only for the private dipBridges leadership. were quick out. They refused to agree to er, Dwight Macdonald, Secre George Novack, Fe.
to accept this offer and even in anything more than a seven day tary, lomatic feelers that continue to cluded a clause in the extension extension. If negotiations could lix Morrow, James Cannon, Union Demands be put out everywhere and which would add another twen take place in two months, why Albert Goldman, John The nub of the whole situa which may very easily lead to ty one days in the event that not now? The 60 day, extension Wright, Ray Cushing and An.
tion is that the union demands a change in the composition of (Continued on Page 2)
thony Chapman.
lling an agreement a strikel (Special to the Socialist Appeal) the right to take part in the the warring camps.
Reactionary Challenge SASKATOON, Sask. Oct.
Although the petitions bear. The Lovestoneites Provide a Left Wing 10. Mass desertions have setting of production schedBritish Dilemma ing the signatures assuring the already started in the miliules and asks higher wages, adjustment of working hours What some of the imperialist candidates a place on the bal Apology for the ALP Leaders Support of the tary forces encamped here, lot have been filed with the of Chamberlain deand changes in working condi critics according to reports emanat tions. The company has arro prosecuting the war is only a nounce as his indecision in Board of Elections, it was War Camp of Anglo French Imperialism ing from the encampment.
gantly refused all union By GEORGE STERN learned today that an undisDesertions, as high as 30 a reflection of the dilemma of the closed source had submitted a day, are said to be excepInstead it introduced new hand, it would like to prevent British ruling class. On the one Trial peace balloons are pop ish and French may hope stiu brief challenging the candidacy By FELIX MORROW tionally high among those speed up schedules which were the continued rise of its Ger ping more loudly right now to find the lever with which of Max Shachtman, Commentthan the guns on the western they can swing the guns ar ing on the challence mesec the October by the state executive committee of the American The resolution on the present European conflict. adopted workers who were driven in French. Canadian transient fulfill. When Dodge workers man rival as a world power of front.
to the army by hunger and Behind the empty rhetoric of That is why it is no accident Socialist Appeal that according Labor Party has become a touchstone for determining where protested against this action first and perhaps decisivo magChamberlain and Daladier, at all that Washington is re to the election law the challeng every group and individual in the labor movement stands on the cold when they failed to ob the company locked out 10, 000 nitude. On the other hand, it hind the veritable flood of in ceiving with every evidence of er must specify the reasons for war question.
From three independent union in the Chrysler plants would not only increasingly exemployees. However, the entire lears that the prolongation of the war on the present basis spired peace rumors in the serious consideration the contesting Shachtman candi There are three positions on the ALP resolution: and usually reliable sources. usesias The pro Anglo French camp: The resolution was theirs, Continued on Page 3)
it was learned that on one the corporation wide strike has ing it into an imperialist offento bat on the question and clude the prospect of convert cern the dim outlines of back drive. That is why the entire and openly expressed their pro recent day alone 17 uniforms door diplomatic schemes. propaganda of the Allies is conwar views.
been threatened.
were found thrown aside conciliators purthe Federal have sive against Russia for years The Hitler Stalin camp: Constituted by the Stalinists, down in the jungles by the stepped into the situation to the fond hope of England imriver. now their stooges and supporters, seek a compromise agreement likelihood lead to such social on Germany terms would be proved disastrous for the Reich as war mongering as the proand avert the strike convulsions as would threaten a victory for Hitler of the first because it leaves Germany Pressure of War Dealers Ally camp. but in the opposite the rotten existing order in Eurmagnitude. That is why there fate in the war up to Stalin.
trenches.
ope with working class revoluwill be no armistice on Ger. It is the hope seriously enter3. The Third Camp: The ition.
many terms.
tained in London and Paris that This general fear is shared to But what form would Anglo the fragile Berlin Moscow axis Though Majority of Delegates Oppose War, struggle against war. It is opa large extent by Hitler. At the French counter proposals take? can be smashed if the right forposed both to the pro Ally and least, the Nazis are not un Nobody takes seriously the mula is found that accounts for Bureaucrats Put Over a War Line aware of the revolutionary dan.
pompous bunk in the Chamber the slow tempo of military opist Workers Party unequivocalger from their own working lain Daladier speeches about erations. With winter almost ly places itself in this third class 1f the war continues to national honor, condoning of upon us, the probability of an The CIO convention rushed blast by prominent cio camp.
Wide Working Class Support Pledged to impose intolerable burdens up aggression, and non recourse offensive along the western on the masses. As the New to force in international rela front fades, and leaves a per through a maximum of bust leaders at the National Labor YOU MUST CHOOSE tions. Least of all does anybody lod of four or five months ness this week with very little Relations Board coupled with a ONE OF THESE CAMPS Canadian Arrested for Anti War Speech York Times sums it up in its editorial comment upon Cham.
No group in the labor moveseriously believe that Britain ahead for the diplomatic game discussion on important issues warning to CIO unions to be exas John Lewis and the top tremely careful in trying to use ment can avoid aligning itselt berlain address: or France are going to make to be played out. In view of the swift march any possible deal with Hitler Stalin moves have shown Leadership sought to make a the Board, because of its new with one of these three camps: is scheduled early next month. of Imperial Bolshevism, sweep contingent upon the re creation that he has by no means dis strong impression in the labor the delegates umrle portaley and where each group stands TORONTO, Oct. 10 Arrested In the meantime, Canadian ing down on Europe from the of Austria, Czechoslovakia, or counted this possibility. The The convention did not end was endorsed in a special res group stads specifically on war speech at a Toronto open though prevented by the new mans, in the army and else al East, there must be many GerPoland.
subject of their war aims, the all aimed, without exception, tion of cro political policy in Already, when pressed on the forced on the Baltic States are dorse Roosevelt for a third olution. Continued on Page 4)
general principles have mean workers League, Canadian sec cation or the holding of meet clearly as a choice between a French and British leaders are at the future contingency of ing only as they are concretion of the Fourth International, Ings, have distributed thou: continuation of the war, culmingrowing progressively vaguer. conflict with Germany. But the hands of Labor Non Parttised by specific positions tak Frank Watson, young English sands of leaflets throughout ating in a revolution of the left, They cannot define specific whether they will actually en isan League, which is controllen on significant occasions, Canadian worker, has been sen Toronto and in Western cities or an early peace, to be achiev.
aims of a war the precise form hance his ability to meet suched by Lewis.
such as the ALP resolution.
tenced to a year in jail under exposing the vicious prosecued through an amalgamation of of which has not been deter a conflict, if it comes, is some Get Behind War Deal Both the pro Ally and pro the dictatorial War Measures tion of Watson and demanding the forces that are opposed mined as yet.
thing only the event will show. Yielding to the pressure of Hitler camps, as we explained Act. Despite the vicious re his release and the repeal of both to war and communism.
It is in this domain that the Stalin whole policy is based Sidney Hillman, Lewis reversed in our last issue, are deliberate pressive measures of the Liber the War Measures Act. Even In this comment is contained backdoor diplomats are busily precisely upon avoiding such a his stand on foreign policy and ny spreading confusion on the al Mackenzie King War Gov the Toronto bourgeois press has not so much the opinion now at work. In London, Paris and clash. From this we may safe supported a resolution, which Issue involved in the ALP resernment, Watson bold action been forced to give the Watson held by many Germans, 13 in Washington. ways and ly assume that if the Anglo passed unanimously, that apolution. Eac means are undoubtedly being French maneuvers should show proved Roosevelt pro war polwar monger and attempts to about the war have resulted in time approving highly of his perialists, about whose politics sought to shift the war axis in any signs of succeeding at all icies under the guise of neuconceal its own pro war stand. widespread sympathy and in sentence and urging a general and aspirations the New York way that will turn its sharp and this is still far from the trality measures.
The pro Hitler camp employs terest in his case. Workers and pogrom against all anti war el Times la very well informed, end against Russia. The spectact. Stalin will pull some one paragraph resolution on ultra radical phraseology intellectuals in the Canadian ements.
would like many Germans to tacular Russian grabs in the speedy surprises of his own out labor unity which, in effect, avagainst its opponents, and the Commonwealth Federation (80 First Casualty is Democracy hold.
Baltie and now Into Scandina of the Kremlin bag of tricks. olded any commitment on the Watson arrest, on Septem How the situation will actual via are undoubtedly a source of By next spring perhaps even question of negotiations with its flanks by left wing other organizations have re ber 15. less than a week after ly develop in this conflict profound concern to the leading sooner. the war may present a the AFL, was approved as this which also employs anti war sponded to a call for funds to the King government had de tween the inter imperialist conbe Nazis and the Reichswehr gen quite different aspect than it problem was given scant attenlanguage Every utterance appeal Watson case, and a clared Canada at war with Ger tradictions, which prevent erals. In those circles the Brit now so provisionally assumes. tion by the convention. Continued on Page 4) new trial in the appeal court. Continued on Page Continued on Page 3)
mands.
wen pose of peace maneuvers is germans that the Hitler Rib CIO Convention Yields to en for det some com Watson, Anti War Fighter, to Sentenced to Year in Jail