SOCIALIST PEAL FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1939 TROTSKY TELLS BRITISH PAPER HE WILL NOT WRITE FOR IT New Anti War Pamphlet Labor and the Second World War IN SHARPLY WORDED STATEMENT By Johnson In the Labor Unions MEXICO CITY, Oct. 23 Leon Trotsky today rejected a request from the London Daily Herald, wide y circulated official organ of the British Labor Party, for an article which, in effect, would III This Lima conference was the most potent of all the also to discipline the working class movement in order to have meant bo stering the British war aims in conformity with the policy of the Daily Herald.
Franklin Roosevelt, War Monger threadbare swindles Roosevelt has been perpetrating on the carry on his war.
The exchange of calles between the editor of the Daily Herald On April 14, addressing the Governing Board of the people. The largest of the Latin American countries, Brazil. In November of 1938 the stood at an all time and Leon Trotsky was as follows: Pan American Union in New York, Franklin Roosevelt. is a fascist state. So is Bolivia. So is Paraguay. In fact, high. Why? Through Roosevelt concern for workers in Cable Prepaid war monger. warned all foreign powers to keep their hands there are not more than half a dozen democracies in all the cold days of winter? Nonsense, Election Day is the first Leon Trotsky Mexico off continental America. In other words, Latin America Latin America. But with the coming war in mind, Cordell Tuesday after the first Monday in November and Roose Six hundred word article by return cable giving your reasons was the exclusive property of American imperialism.
Hull, under Roosevelt orders, spent wecks intriguing for velt wanted the workers votes. As soon as the elections for opposing negotiations allies with Russia STOP Bernard Shaw ar On April 16, Franklin Roosevelt, war monger, asked a declaration of solidarity in the name of American dem were over, Roosevelt began a nationwide assault on labor. ticle supporting Stalin wiil appear same page STOP Prepared order Congress for 200, 000, 000 to widen the Panama Canal for ocracies. The end of 1938 saw Hull bringing back to his attacking the democratic rights of the workers, and striking Irteen pounds if published. Editor, Dally Herald war. On July 2, the National Guard staged a big war dem master the lying Declaration of Lima. Hull did not state at and relief. London, Oct. 20.
onstration in Chicago, with tramping men, bombing planes that his hardest job at the Conference had been to stifle a Roosevelt Supreme Court, by its decision in the Fan Cable Prepaid flying, martial music playing.
resolution by the Latin American countries against, not steel case, outlawed the sit down strike. Philadelphia Leon Trotsky On August 18, Queen University, at Kingston, OntarHitler and Mussolini, but against American intervention in court gave the Apex Hosiery Company damages of nearly Mexico io, conferred an honorary degree on the President. In his Latin America on behalf of American investors. The best three quarters of a million dollars against the Hosiery quested last Friday or not STOP If agreeable please cable article Would welcome immediate reply if prepared cable article respeech of acceptance, Franklin Roosevelt, war monger, that Hull could do was postpone it for five years.
Workers Union. Girdler Republic Steel followed this today at latest.
Roosevelt celebrated the end of the year by announcing pledged the armed forces of the Americas for the defense pointer by suing the for seven and a half million Editor, Dally Herald of Canada.
on December 28 that he would build ten thousand war dollars of damages during the 1937 strike, including loss of London, Oct. 23.
On September 25, when the German Czechoslovakian planes. Thus ends a short summary of Roosevelt work trade. No more deadly weapon was ever discovered by a Cable Collect Editor, Dally Herald crisis became acute, Franklin Roosevelt, never missing a for democracy and peace in 1938, capitalist government than this decision to penalize striking London chance, addressed appeals for peace to Hitler and Benes. In workers for capitalist loss of trade. In effect it bars all You did not publish my letter protesting imperialist London Look at the Record reality those letters were addressed to the American people, strikes. In Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Oregon the legisla policy against Mexico STOP You did not publish my statement on Naturally 1939 saw him step up the furious pace of tures passed laws forbidding mass picketing coming war granted to your own correspondent Vincent STOP preparing them for war. What else did Roosevelt mean by Now you want to adapt me to your anti socialist polley STOP That will this: The supreme desire of the American people is to live 1938. We can only point to the highlights. war budget of Congress cut the wages of building workers on the not succeed. 1, 319, 558, 000. On January 31, he said that America W. and Roosevelt came out with the declaration, in peace. But in the event of a general war they face the Leon Trotsky frontier was in France. He attacked his old enemy, the fact that no nation can escape the consequences of such a You can strike against the government. At the same Coyoacan, Oct. 23.
world catastrophe. Day by day he drummed war into the Ludlow referendum. Let the people vote on war? No, said time he sought to break the spirit of the workers by slash One of the taunts which the ears and dangled it before the eyes of the American people.
Roosevelt. Eleanor Roosevelt wrote a special article after slash at the Roosevelt proposed an appropriStaliasts are now receiving from Liberty denouncing the bil.
ation of 875, 000, 000, and Congress, in opposition proWar requires national unity. On October 15, Roosevelt progressives is, So you re going He fought to remove the embargo on the sale of arms.
issued an appeal to business to cooperate with the governposed one of 725, 000, 000. There was a great battle, Trotskyite, eh? Taking their poment. Above all, war requires a docile labor movement, and Today he mouths phrases about neutrality. But months besition. However, the differences Roosevelt supposedly for the workers and Congress against between the with its long one of the war monger main preoccupations is to get the fore the war had begun in Europe, he announced that them. But few workers (except those who received their standing fight against imperialist and the of united so that he can discipline America would go in. Speaking at Warm Springs in Georg pink slips) noticed that Roosevelt own figure meant drivwar and the sudden phoney turn them. To the of convention, in the fall, he wrote a ia in the spring of 1939, he said he would go back in the of the are pretty well defined ing thousands of workers into starvation. Later even these in these areas and there isn fall if we don have a war. The Washington Post inter sham fights were abandoned. Roosevelt proposed approletter asking for a settlement of their quarrel with the much likelihood of serious contuC. IO.
preted this to mean that a new war was rapidly approach. priation for the in his April 27 budget message sion.
On the part of Staliniat ranks, ing and that it was hopeless to believe that America could was so low that no one in Congress, neither Republican nor The Lima Swindle if their attitude in union meetkeep out. In one of his press conferences, Roosevelt warm Tory Democrat, found it too high. The and the ings is any criterion, the new On October 14, the War Office announced that it had ly approved this editorial Federal court seized the opportunity of the Minneapolis. By WIDICK them from complete demoralizat turn came just in time to save completed a survey of ten thousand factories for the purThink back for a moment, workers and farmers, and see strike to launch a bitter attack at the workers of pose of working out a skeleton organization to coordinate the pit that American imperialism has been digging for you that militant town.
In a brief trip through the ened after the Stalin Hitler pact production in war. From the factory owners, said the War through its agent and grave cigger, Franklin Roosevelt.
With the beginning of the war in Europe, Roosevelt middle west touching two indus was announced. breath of life Office, it had met with a spirit of complete cooperation. No This incomparable liar, while carrying on sham battles strained like a hound on the leash. Before two weeks of Srst hand reactions to the effect dying corpse of stalinism.
doubt. The war is for their benefit. These gentlemen do not with the monied interests, has in reality been doing their war he declared a state of partial national emergency. Hc of the new line of the Stalinists go to war themselves, and they pile up enormous profits job better than they could do it themselves, for he still has On October 26, Franklin Roosevelt, war monger, said in appointed special members of the to investigate sub in thie labor movement a little popularity with the masses. Only space prevents us versive activities, e. all those who mean resolutely to Stalinists have been confronted ELECTION RALLY a radio speech that war plans must be completely overfrom amplifying this terrible catalogue, but we have said oppose the war. Attorney General Murphy made a tour of by progressive opposition, they Max Shachtman hauled and accelerated. On November 15, he raised a new enough to show that he is the most dangerous demagogue slogan, continental defense. The land, sea, and air forces the whole country looking for spies. It is the same old are having a very embarrasing SPEAKS ON who ever sat in the White House and the greatest living would be brought to the level needed for action anywhere trick. All who expose the war mongers and their plans will me trying to shirt to the new line of Keep America Out of Im The Issues in this menace to the peace and security of the American people. be called spies and German agents, and the unthinking perialist War.
from the Arctic Circle to Cape Horn. He would hang his Election Campaign This is true despite the overamong the masses of the people will be incited against The Attack on the Workers war helmet on any peg, the higher the better. Near the end ON whelming sentiment of the workthose who try to warn them.
of the year he announced his delegation to the Lima con Your imperialist has to prepare his armaments and whip ere against participation in war. FRIDAY, NOV. For the workers just don trust ference.
up people. But whether he is fascist or democratic, he has (Continued in Next Issue) P.
the Stalinists like they used to HERMAN RIDDER For example, in one key CIO stroy the Soviet Union. But the struggle for the destruction of the industrial union council, the Stal JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL cessions to the democratie war mongers. That is the crime of the war, resolution.
Stalinist bureaucracy is not helped, but is rather sabotaged, by con insta introduced a mild Iceop (Bost. Road East 173rd St.
America from being dragked inco ADMISSION FREE Thomas Lovestone groups.
Socialist Workers Party That they are yielding to the wave of democratic chauvinism is. Only a few weeks previously obvious if one analyzes the logic of their present position. By what they had denounced a more clearlogic could they be for the defense of the Soviet Union in the period cut resolution against imperialist MAX SHACHTMAN THE ANTI WAR CANDIHitler Stalin pact? How end posibst it now, in the per. od of the war as Trotskylte fascist. And DATE FOR CITY COUNCIL By FELIX MORROW.
mental distinction between the Stalinist bureaucracy and the Soviet olution tooded in getting the resYou can imagine how the proWILL FIGHT FOR: Union? Only by one kind of logie: the logic of democratic patriotinto war on the side of either imperialist block (already he Having adopted the Roosevelt war program at their respective All War Funds to the Unis aiding Germany. we must give solidarity and support ism: It is all right to defend the Soviet Union when it is allied with gressives and every other deleemployed!
along with its other aspects, the anti Soviet orientation of that war to the Russian people against their own war makers also. the democratic imperialists, but not when it is allied with the fascist gate to the council felt when the Referendum to Let the (Workers Age, Sept. 16)
imperialists. That is the open, avowed logic of the American Labor Stalinist spokesman read their program. The AFL convention adopted a resolution for a boycott People Vote on War!
Party bureaucrats in their Oct. resolution and to this logic the the new line.
against all Soviet goods. The needle trades bureaucrats, heading the Jeers, razzing and a demand 30 hour maximum American Labor Party, in their pro Anglo French resolution of Oct But if Stalin remains in power, shall the Russian workers de Thomas Lovestone groups have succumbed.
week 30 minimum weekly wage.
4, made clear their support of a war against the Soviet Union. That fend the Soviet Union? The Lovestoneltes do not say. And not to. Unlike the ALP bureaucrats, the Thomas Lovestone groups try for an explanation of the new would be a holy war, according to the brazenly war mongering New say, means no defense.
to palm this off as revolutionary. To expose this fraud one need line came fast, Silence was the Get rid of the slums for a Leader, organ of the Social Democratic Federation.
The Thomasites call upon Roosevelt to apply the embargo on only compare their intransigent language about Stalin with their only answer. So a motion to table 20. billion dollar housing No revolutionist can support either the Anglo French American arms against the Soviet Union; and when we sharpy call Thomas dulcet tone about the war mongers in the camp which is opposed to the Stalinist resolution was passprog. am Reduce Rents by 25 camp or the Hitler Stalin camp in the American labor movement to account for this anti Soviet act, the Lovestoneites rush to Thom. Stalin the British Labor Party, the French Socialist party, the CIO, ed.
The task of the revolutionist is to build and recruit into the third as defense, with the broad implication that the Trotskyists have AFL, ALP, etc. Abolish sales and cigarette Nobody Taken In camp: the camp of revolutionary struggle against war. become Stalinists. Workers Age, Oct. 21)
taxes.
For Defense of the Soviet Union Efforts to obtain an explanaOn all questions connected with the war, the third camp stands For city owned subwaya This article need not repeat at length that which has been made tion from Stalinist delegates afton a different program than that of the two war campo. This Is New Theory on the and city owned public utill.
The Thomas Lovestone groups justify this anti Soviet position so clear in our numerous documents: our draft theses on war (1934. ar the session were equally fruit ties.
equally true of our attitude to the Soviet Union. We neither Join SOCIALIST WORKERS the democratic war mongers in their war agalnst the Soviet Union, by characterising the Soviet Union in new terms: as an imperialist the programs the Fourth International. Trotsky latest docu less. Only embarrased silence and ment, The USSR in War (November New International. etc. Our a desire to be left alone!
nor do we join the Hitler Stalin camp in their justification of Hitler regime or program. Thomas paper says editorially: defense of the Soviet Union has nothing in common whatsoever with PARTY The rule or ruin policy of the and Stalin Russian Bolshevism, which was never socialistic, not the defense provided by the Stalinist bureaucracy. We have been stalinists has left too many deep Trying to Straddle Unbridgeable Gaps any more than 18 Hitler brand of national socialism, has and remain the irreconcileable enemies of the stalinist bureaucracy. scars for the advanced workers Join the Socialist But, beside unequivocal spokesmen for the three camps, there We said, already in 1934. War and the Fourth International. to forget and be taken in by the embarked on an imperialist program. The Call, Sept. 30)
are also those in the labor movement who are trying to straddk drawing the political conclusions from our analysis of the Bonapart pseudo left line.
Workers Party belween two camps and who, to justify this impossible acrobati And Lovestone paper approvingly reprints a declaration of the 1st bureaucracy and the property relations established by the Octob er Revolution: stunt, deliberately blur and confuse the issues. Up to the Stalin British Independent Labor Party, which says: Hitler pact, the Stalinists used to have many allies who performed this task of confusion; but these are falling away beneath the blows And after denouncing us because we said that the Bolshevik Russia present move marks the final stage in the a) Only the proletarian revolution in the West can party and the trade unions no longer existed, and for saying that of the democratic war mongers. But there are other purveyors of departure by the Stalin regime from the principles of save the USSR as the workers state in case of a long the Russian state is proletarian only in its property relations; and confusion, who are useful to the democratic war mongers. We refer international socialism and its adoption of purely imperprotracted war.
to the Socialist party of Norman Thomas and the Lovestoneites after getting particularly incensed because we sala that the bureauc ialistic power politics. Workers Age, Oct. 28. b) The preparation for a proletarian revolution in racy was an instrument of counter revolutionary forces, the Loveis (Independent Labor League. friendly, allied, as well as enemy countries conceivable stoneltes concluded: Lest they no longer receive crumba from the tables of the CIO The pseudo radical application of the term, imperialism, to only with the complete independence of the world proleand AFL bureaucracies, the Thomas Lovestone groups try to keep the Soviet Union actually enables the Thomas Lovestone groups to tarian vanguard from the Soviet bureaucracy. Error has its logic as well as truth. One wrong step c) The unconditional support of the USSR against one foot in the camp of the democratic war mongers. We have writ smuggle into the labor movement a reformist theory of imperialism.
leads to another, so that today the Trotskyites are propose ten several articles describing this gymnastic feat, particularly on Lenin taught us that imperialism is the last stage of monopoly the imperialist armles must go hand in hand with revolu. ing to imperil the unity of the Russian proletarian rule by the Thomas Lovestone support of the American Labor Party pro capitalism. He developed the scientific definition of imperialism, and tionary Marxist criticism of the war and the diplomatic, trying to form a rival, and of course, conspirative, party in war resolution of Oct. 4, and their servile whitewash of the CIO he waged war against all other definitions of imperialism, and with policy of the Soviet government, and with the formation AFL declarations for Roosevelt war program.
the Soviet Union. What Is the Communist Opposigood reason. For he was thereby fighting against Kautsky theory inside of the USSR of a real revolutionary party of Bolshevik Leninista.
tion, by Bertram Wolfe. On the question of the Soviet Union, as on all others connected of imperialism, which hides within it a justification of the warwith the war, the Thomas Lovestone groups adapt themselves to, mongers.
Clay in the Hands of the Potters cater to the prejudices of the camp of democratic war mongers. The important thing. wrote Lenin, is that Kautsky detaches It is ironical to recall today that this position was characterized soviet, the Thomas Lovestone groups were motivated by the same Called Us Anti Soviet. When they called us anti soviet and today when they are antiUntil the signing of the Hitler Stalin pact, the Thomas Love the policy of imperialism from its economics, speaks of annexations stone groups recognized that the Soviet Union still retains the eco as being a policy preferred by finance capital and opposes to it nomic conquests of the October Revolution nationalized property: another bourgeois policy which he alleges to be possible on the same as anti soviet by the Thomas Lovestone groups. How many times considerations: they always take the easiest road. When the entire against imperialism, and the Socialist party stood for something revolution, Lenin pointed out, for the fight is reduced to supporting mansang Murray Baron, in their expulsion campaign against us sis (1934) and during the honeymoon of Stalin with the democlike that it is hard often to find out what the stands for pro one bourgeois policy against the worse one.
their thoughts in orderly form, but the Lovestoneltes dld. Here is stalin. During those momentous years, nothing could blast the grammatically. the Thomas Lovestone groups also recognized that They Sabotage Struggle Against Stalinism what they wrote about our 1934 and present position: Lovestonsites loose from their pro Stalinist position. They even there was a conflict between the Stalinist bureaucracy and the inlared to defend the infamous Moscow trials gainst Zinovievtereste of the Soviet Union. Trotsky is building an international upon the basis of Kamenev and Radek Pyatakov! Only after the execution of the. All this the Thomas Lovestone groups appear to have dropped upon the body of the Soviet Union must be destroyed, or it will dean extreme anti soviet and anti comintern orientation.
overtul. a without notice after the Hitler Stalin pact. Why? They Truth being insufficient to make the point, the Lovestoneites reRed Generals (June, 1937) did they, in the dark, without any exgive no explanation. But they now write of the Soviet Union in sort to invention: they quote me as saying at a public meeting that In this respect socialism in one country) the Central planation, abandon their apologies for the Moscow trials. But toCommittee, and after its disruption, Stalin and his oup.
terms which they never mployed before.
day, when the Soviet Union is allied to the enemy of the friends of anyone who condemned the Russian invasion of Poland was an en in spite of various crudities of formulation and blunders in American Imperialism, the Thomas Lovestone groups repudiate not Lovestoneites Silent on Defense of the emy of the Soviet Union, and that also said that the Red Army detail, have been correct, and Trotsky fiercely eloquent merely Stalin, but the Soviet Union. As they yielded previously to The Lovestoneites, in their convention resolution on the war, and they put it in quotation marks! was bringing liberation and phrases about not socialism in one country but worlu the pressure of the Stalinist regime and its democratic allies, now evade the question whether the Russian workers should defend the soc a ism to the Poles. What actually said was a mere repetition revolution, served only to cloak purely negative and they yled to the pressure of the democratic imperialists. Can one Soviet Union against the capitalist world. All they say is: of the estimate of the Polish invasion which Leon Trotsky made in defeatist pessimism as to the possibility of building social imagine, for a moment, that these people will stand up under the ism. Tomorrow, if Stalln succeeds in driving his own people the Socialist Appeal, Oct. 10.
pressure of the war mongers when the war comes here?
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