SOCIALIST APPEAL FRIDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1939 COMPANY SPIES SEEK TO RULE In the SWP NOMINEES Labor OFF BALLOT Unions Our Candidates AUTO WORKERS DYNAMITED OKLA. WORKERS FORUM BOSS ATTACK hil Gadi 1 CON GIRD AGAINST halloto se Saild Ant Fast ANTIWAR PARTYS CANDIDATE Workers! Buy the Appeal At the Following Newsstands HEIST SIDE WASHINGOIL PROPERTIES The followng squib appeared tarian alright. He gives jobs to (Special to the Socialist Appeal)
in the Minneapolis Star Jour cripples. While other bosses exTULSA, Okla. The ten nal: WAR NEWS: The Minne ploit able bodied workers, Ray month struggle of the Oil Workers Union against the apolis Artificial Limb Co. has Trautman lives off the backs of already received instructions to cripples! Be assured that no Mid. Continent Petroleum have 3, 000 artificial limbs per boss supports his workers. Au Party Publishes 4Lockout Is UnionCorp. received fresh impetus year ready for government pur supporting is done the other this week when it was dis chase if and when the United way around, in case you aren Page Election Issue Smashing Foretaste covered that company officials had hired agents proStates enters the war. After familiar with this elementary By WIDICK reading this, Harold Swanson economic fact.
Of Socialist Appeal Of War Time Rule vocateurs to dynamite com wrote the following letter. Ray Trautman, it is clear, pany property and blame copy of which he sent to the thrives on the misfortunes John Lewis waited until strikers.
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his fellow human beings. He bethe last days of the CIO conven(Continued from Page In Department 107, Dodge, Elmer Davis, NLRB attorMr. Raymond Trautman longs in the same category with tion and the meeting of the exso fast is the rate of production ney, announced at the hear Mpls. Artificial Limb Co. those other peerless philanthro ecutive council afterwards to ing. Dwight Macdonald statdemanded by the company that ing on charges against the Minneapolis, Minn.
pists, Morgan, DuPont, Rockemake cautious move against ed. The workers of New York new automatic machines are company that he would pre Dear Sir: feller, and Carnegie. few the Stalinist machine within must fight that ruling, he went on, or they will lose the only burned up, and the workers sent evidence proving this few weeks ago visited you crumbs for charity with front the organization, with them.
damaging point.
cpportunity they may have for First dispute between the years to express their socialist In the Plymouth plant the Previously, the company, port for a drive against the war. for sordid profits at the posternCIO leaders and their stalinist sympathies at the polls.
speed decreed in turning out through control of the local It was your privilege to refuse gate! What a typical picture of allies threatened to arise over Meanwhile, the six day deadbearing blocks is so high that city officials had arrested aid for this worthy cause, but the average business man the the election of a vice president. line for the remittance of spec7035 men cannot keep pace. One and sought to frame over 100 the discourteous reception world over! Luxuries for the man lost four fingers as restrikers on charges of viowhich received was not only few at the expense of destituHillman was put up to oppose ifications outlining the chalsult.
lence. The victims were becoming a great. American tion and misery for the many!
Joe Curran, Stalinist candidate. lenge to Max Shachtman In the McGee wire depart freed by jury decision.
businessman, but it raised You won give a nickel for Rieve is from the textile work the campaign Committees dits: In the Bronx MAX SHACHTMAN ment at Plymouth production demands have been stepped doubts in my mind about your propaganda. It won be necup women, the speed 20 per cent.
of the National Maritime Union. closed. was so un anti war sentiment. The above essary. The anti war sentiments Comenting on the efforts to Shop stewards who attempt bearable that 50 women work clipping confirms these doubts of the working class will find Ray Trautman is not against expression one way or another, Clipping the remove Shachtman name ed to discuss these affairs have manager office, protesting the war. Peace is inimical to the it not at the polls, then by At the last minute the Stalin from the ballot, Secretary Macbeen fired.
rate of production and signify. artificial limb interests. Auto other means. And all the blurbs ists retreated and Curran with donald stated. Like the manDozens of workers have been ing their determination to hold mobiles plus liquor keep the of patrioite propaganda dished drew his name. So the Stalin ner in which George Lyman fired in the Chrysler plants for down to a reasonable speed. business going in the dull years out by the capitalistic pigs will ists found themselves without a Paine candidacy was thrown refusing to accede to the speed Things were smoothed over: between wars, but when the not prevail against an outraged man among the six vice prest out by the Board of Elections, up demands.
but the speed up drive contin surviving cannon fodder. the working class, determined to dents elected by the convention. the machinations of the Board ues.
flower of youth. comes back crush the war lords and secure However, the real defeat for in withholding its brief chalShachtman candidacy GENERAL MOTORS ALSO In Buick, huge Flint division from the inhuman carnage mi its freedom from boss tyranny!
THE them came when the clo exec. is an obvious maneuver to TRIES SPEED UP of General Motors, with plants nus arms, minus legs. Ah! Oh yes! Your true sentiments ative council announced that keep another genuine anti war FLINT, Mich. General Mo covering an area of over 15 that something to warm the are crystal clear, Mr. Traut Harry Bridges was only call candidate off the ballot. But tors, following up Chrysler blocks, the company is import cockles of the heart of even a man.
fornia director of the cio, in the Board had better watch its Yours for a popular stead of West Coast director. Step. Macdonald warned.
footsteps, has begun a terrificing southern youths to aid in great. humanitarian like referendum on war!
speed up campaign in all the forcing double time production. Ray Trautman!
couple of Lewis men were given The number of signed nominRay Trautman is a humaniHAROLD SWANSON the northwest territory.
plants which has precated a Foremen and superintendents wave of protest the are lashing the men to the John Brophy. plous fellow man name on the ballot is ating petitions placing Shachtworkers that may culminate in point of exhaustion in many ditraveler of the who was three times the number legally a strike.
visions.
national director of the cio. required. It will be interesting The Chevrolet local of the Great Test was also clipped. He was re to observe what the Board will UAW CIO is taking a strike vote Labor in the auto industry placed by Allan Haywood, New dig up this time. In any case, this week end, after wholesale now faces a great test. All inYork clo director.
the hearings before the Board Ante frent discrimination, speed up and dications are that a great batWhite Haywood has played of Elections on Shachtman provocation in the plants.
tle will develop unless the comball with the Stalinists in New challenge are to begin Monday, Shift Workers pany retreats. Should the UAWLOWER EAS Slip: Kand Stationery OOR WEST York, he is a one hundred per October 23, at 10 a. he conShop stewards in. Broadway: cent Lewis man. Since we cluded.
along with many known union speed up and labor smashing cat Downstairs Tracku. Seba: 86th Bway. Asia Bordo worked together for a year in militants, have been transfer attempts now current, it would you been allouston and on a Bway. thora way. com the United Rubber Workers Shachtman Meetings red from Jobs at which they be only the first step in defense NW Tenth st. and Ave. 40 set 245th St. Nicholas Ave Union, could not accept the The Campaign Committee of the rights labor has won at Penth Stand Ave NE: 349Bway. 187th Bway.
have worked for years, into ter years of struggle. As soon and aus su 180 stand BAST BRONX arguments of some progres announced today that thous other plants, and put to work at as the United States gets into na Ave and saw tha Avenial. West Sandystore: Claremont sives who insisted Haywood ands of letters are being mailed the most gruelling tasks, in an the war, labor again will have an University NE and store men at sa from was a Stalinist. individuals and organizatior Incidentally. Haywood is a in the Bronx sympathetic to the Union men have been fired. to fight.
14th Union leaders should realize the Ave, with at Brond: RE: Blvd. Tremont, sw.
capable organizer and negotiat candidacy of Shachtman. The Production has been speeded up that the current campaign to way strih st. th Ave. SW. WEST BRONX or, whose abilities will mean letters will contain the facts on all along the line. Superintend: smash the UAW CIO is an images VASERV Ave, Salon considerable improvement in the efforts of the Board of En.
the activities of the CIO from ections to rule Shachtman off attitude toward the union men portant phase of the war plans th Ave and stand. Seith St Avderom er med 3rd Ave NW 17th st. 3rd Ave. aino Aves Pretont Davidos Washington.
the ballot and will call upon all Veteran workers claim that dictatorship to be initiated with and Ave NW 13th Send Burnside Jerome Ave, sw. 183rd Adolph Germer is being workers opposed to the war to never before has the company the first day of war, will func AVA SE Reidarane Secow, Jerome Ave. Ses 1881 transferred from the Michigan rally behind the candidate of applied the whip so vigorously. tion more smoothly, if the un BAY, LUR Kingabere plans senden CIO directorship to a post in the Socialist Workers Party.
Washington Shachtmani will address At the Fisher Body plants the ions are first smashed.
Only the most militant organister and send oth AveSentione et sayton Mots same situation prevails but not ization and action will save the sand susth public iprinor election rally this Sth Ave. SW: 42nd Stopp 1889 Sedgewlek Ave: 204th St Tightening Hold Wednesday evening.
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yet in such sharp manner. Uaw cio in the struggle which we WILLIAMSBURG and BROWNSIn essence, the meaning of 18, at Hollywood Gardens. 896 Certain departments are affect has just begun. All the forces of NESSE BENES: these moves is that Lewis is Prospect Avenue.
tightening his hold organizationally on the CIO by putting re tober 23, Shachtman will speak On Wednesday evening. Oc. In Manhattan LYMAN PAINE South Fisher plant, employing Capital and Government are Ave Bear Filth Sets Hustveneme Hades UIN Sux lined up against labor. Pussy Bear Bank St. Ave.
Christo en Pkway, sw, Sutter 0805 liable Mine Workers Union of at Bronx Terrace, 3861 Third ooting policy, too prevalent in westh st. 6th Ave. St, Sesituse Pitkin, NE Rock 14th St. 6th Ave. NE Rand Book Away Pitkin, NW: Rockaway the recent past in the UAWS NES Stay. Setter Avellet vender Singida ficials in all key CIO posts.
Avenue, near Claremont Park Besides, Lewis gave an inter way.
CIO, will result in certain de ari st. th Ave, sw: 23rd st. kobowelle pitkin. SW; Junius struction.
view to the West Coast press in Labor must nip this attempt 29th St Istard. gl. Shurecks19075 both St Lexington RORO PARK road.
recht which he made his first public Special Appeal Issued to destroy collective bargaining HARLEM pronouncement on the question The special election camin the bud. It must defeat the son. 110. hst Lenox Ave. masa: MeDonald Ave. 1918 New King Highwyth Ave 1616 Pkway: 66th su By Pkway: Bry of communists in the CIO. paign issue of the Socialist Apattempts of industry to break NW ste the set anex Age: Utrecht Ave. 4008 Ninth Ave. If there are any budding peal in tabloid form will appear the back of labor in preparation Green. 17 broth St, nenr Lenox CONEY ISLAND young communists who think this week. The tabloid will confor war.
Ave. Brown, 137th St Lenox Brighton Beach they can make a life work of tain the election platform of the becial to the Socialist Appeal) sion of the role of the trade untaking over the CIC The latter part of the conferAve SE: Thompson, 185th st. Candystore: 28th Mermaid Ave, for the Socialist Workers Party and TOLEDO, Ohio highly sucions in the war which the Amer ence was taken up with a reCommunist Party they had bet statements by the Manhattan cessful Active Workers Conferican capitalist class is making port of the recent national plen8th Aves Bell. 140th Sith Candystore: Sheepshead Bay station Bound Volume of Nicholas Ave. 145th st. st. newstands)Brenton Station ter forget it. Lewis is quoted and Bronx candidates. The ence, with full representation ready to enter. Delegate after um of the party, with a discusOcean Pkwy. NE.
SOCIALIST APPEAL as saying.
Campaign Committee today from branches of the Socialist delegate described how the war sion of the preparations of our The Communist Party sent called upon all sympathizers of Workers Party in Ohio and is already affecting the unions. party to carry on the fight NOW AVAILABLE in witnesses to the Dies Com the Socialist candidates to con Michigan, was held here Sun The bosses are beginning to against the war.
First months of 1939 mittee to brag about their dom troute to the election fund. One day afternoon, October 58 crack down on the job commit(52 issues)
ination of the cio and build up dollar submitted to the cam delegates attended, including Tees in the auto plants, using spiring as a demonstration of The conference was truly in 00, including postage the Party, he added.
paign will enable the Commi leading trade unionists from au the pretext of government war the vigorous working class comOrder now from. There will be no witch hunts tee to distribute 200 copies of to. steel, rubber and other orders to curb any opposition to position of the party in the OhioSOCIALIST APPEAL or red hunts and any union has the tablold. Cash and money mass industries in Flint, Det speed ups, wage cuts and the Michigan district and the firm 116 University Pl.
the right to elect or select any orders should be mailed to roit, Toledo, Cleveland, Akron, firing of union militants. Price and unflinching determination New York City one it chooses to lead 16. how. Dwight Macdonald, Shachtma Youngstown and New Castle. rises have already taken a of the party here to carry Mahatma Gandhi, loyal sup on before the Congress Execuever will insist that CIO lend and Paine Campaign Commiters give their entire allegiance tee, 116 University Place, New port of the activities of the pay. Extension of hours and the fight against the war and The conference included a re heavy slash in every worker through to the end its share of porter of the Allied powers in tive Committee Join the Socialist the war, has made a most sig. One fourth of the Executive to the organization. Lewis de York City branches in the district during technological improvements are the war system.
Workers Party nificant admission in a speech Committee. representing the clared.
This is the first direct attack the recent War Referendum already proving sufficient to delivered by him in Wardha, left wing of the Congress votIndia.
campaign and a discussion of guarantee against any great on the Stalinists in the CIO that ed against this resolution be The aged Mahatma stands al cause they refused to support Lewis has made. It takes con Minimum Guaranteed ways to conduct a continuation reduction of unemployment.
most all by himself in his will the British under any and all siderable significance, there. Earnings. of the anti war campaign with It was agreed by the deleeven greater success. Every cates that, despite all the reingness to give unconditional circumstances.
fore.
On the conWANTED Men, Women branch spoke with great favor pressions in the war, the worksupport to the British in their trary, they demanded active war.
and Students Purge in Offing of the campaign method, anders of this country would face opposition to the war on the to sell the Socialist Appeal as the many new faces and the such misery and so many blows The entire working Commit part of the Congress. They deNaturally the quescon arises: tee the leading body of the manded the launching of a real Will there be purge of the a part time job. Socialist Ap enthusiasm of the conferees in at their union rights and living peal now selling very fast on dicated the activization which standards that the objective Indian Nationalist Congress is struggle for the freedom of InStalinists in the CIO, and on the streets. One dollar a day the campaign gave all the conditions will exist for the revprepared to give support with dia from its slave holders.
what basis?
Following the arrest of Frank of war hysteria, of which these conditions that is, they are India has not been lined up!
guaranteed. Possible to make branches preliminary examination of olutionary socialists to lead the Watson on September 15 as a four Italian workers are vic holding out for a higher price That is the clear admission of much more. Apply all day Discuss Unions the moves indicates that a from 12 o clock on at 116 considerable portion of the against the bosses and their result in bis denunciation of tims, workers everywhere must than the more cheaply paid off Gandhi speech purge in one form or another is in the offing. However, LewUniversity Pi. Abe Miller. conference dealt with a discus war.
imperialist war, the Royal Can fense.
Spectre of Revolution In his speech, however, The actual figures point to is reveals his caution by the adian Mounted Police, aided by Funds for the release of the Gandhi admitted that the re this. The Congress membership the Toronto police, raided the four imprisoned workers should cent resolution adopted by the is 5, 000, 000 the largest in its statement that there will be no While stating that all the belligerent powers homes of four workers on Octo be sent to the Vanguard Provi Congress Working Committee history. The left wing controlwitch hunt. The Stalinists, after are equally guilty for the present war the ber and arrested them on a stonal Committee for the De which demanded that the Brit ling 25 per cent of the votes on all, are strongly entrenched in resolution states that one of the main aims of charge of possessing subver fense of Bartollotti, Benvenuti, ish state their war aims with the Executive Committee acsome CIO unions, and besides, Anglo French Imperialism in their war ag sive literature.
Lewis hates to admit that he Gava and Joachim, 45 West 17 regard to India did not pass tually has a much greater folainst Hitler is to try to bring to power in Ger. The four workers, Arthur Street, New York City.
was wrong all this time in hav many that section of the bourgeoisie which will Bartollotti, Ruggero Benvenuti, unanimously when it was voted lowing among the Congress ing an alliance with them.
immediately engage in military Intervention Ernest Gava and Marco Joachrank and file. But even if we against the USSR.
take only 25 per cent of the on the Lewis moves has not yet im, are being held without bail.
membership.
JUST OUT. Congress then been made public since the New Theory Being Born (Continued from Page 1)
II found guilty under the new there are 1, 250, 000 Indian workDaily Worker simply refuses to Hitler war alliance with the cloak of inde Yesterday the policy of Peoples Frontism Canadian War Measures Act. Why Negroes Should Oppose the War ers and peasants clamoring for print any news of the situation pendent workers action against war?
was defended on the theory that fascism (par. these militants face heavy prisa fighting resistance to the to date. Naturally, they are bit The opposition of the Communist Party to ticularly. Hitlerism) represented the most re on sentences or worse.
By Johnson British. And since every Conter and strongly opposed but Roosevelt War Deal has as little in common actionary, most chauvinistie, most imperialistAge Old Charge gress member influences at the question is: can they afford with genuine working class opposition as the ic and most anti Soviet section of the bour In reporting the arrests of the message that affects the life of every Negro! least 30 40 Indian people (the to make a public attack on the campaign of the German Bund the agents of geoisie. Therefore, it was concluded, bloc four men, the Toronto Daily ORDER NOW!
Congress usually gets 90 per new Lewis position?
Hitler in the US against American intervencent of the votes in all election The next week or so will givetion in the present war. The immediate aims of the ruling class against fascism. Would it itles refused to disclose the naWcampaigns) we can conserva clearer answer to the ques of Earl Browder and Fritz Kuhn are identical: be surprising if tomorrow the Stalinists con ture of the subversive literaPrice 50 per copy. Bundle rates 10 to 50 30 per copy.
tively estimate that 50, 000, 000 tions posed by the Lewis state the victory of the joint war of their paymas coct a new theory that a bloc is necessary be ture.
50 or more 20 per copy workers and peasants of colo ment and his organizational ters!
tween the working class, and the sections of Since the Dominion governnial India would actively parmaneuvers.
The united front of the Communist Party the German bourgeoisie which are not in favor ment cannot charge these four SPECIAL RATES TO ORGANIZATIONS ticipate in a struggle for their and the Nazi Bund has gone so far that there of an imemdiate war against the Soviet Union workers with any real or overt freedom.
is not a single word of criticism of fascism in the supporters of Hitler, who apparently are crime, it has resorted to the This is the explanation be he resolution of the Political Committee of less reaccionary, etc. against the extreme age old subterfuge of accusing Let the People PIONEER PUBLISHERS hind the trembling fears of the CPI In fact the resolution prepares the German imperialists who are allies of Cham them of possessing subversive 116 Unlversity Place, Chamberlain and Co. that this way for open support of German Fascism by berlain? The new resolution opens the door literature.
war will see the finish of the Vote on War!
the Communist Party wide for this development.
In the battle to stem the rise British Slave Empire.
October Ohio, Michigan SWP Branches Hold Profitable Active Workers Conference Eye. NW: 28th Candystone Gandhi Admits Large Indian Opposition to War Policy Whip of War Persecution Falls on Four in Canada Stalinists Break with to Aid Stalinon the attitude of the stalinists Hitler War Alliance