SOCIALISTAPPEAL. DECEMBER 1, 1939 Lost Colony. The End of the Croppers Trail WORKERS FORUM By the 19 Defense Riddles FBI Frame up PREPARE STRIKE Guns Instead of Against Mpls. WPA Workers IN NEW JERSEY Vitamins For CRUCIBLE STEEL RACE RIOT AGAINST AUTO UNION FIZZLES project, score TROTSKY DIVES TIMES sobniy, the exact Russian words Not One Good Stove of the remnants of the 1500 vagWRITER FEW POINTERS used by Lenin, can be translated 99 Families Live in Starvation and Squalor There is not one good stove in sals of King Cotton and the cot Cotton Kings Howl for Government To Cut Editor into English as most able but in no case as most clever.
On Squatters Land In Missouri After New York Times the open and such meals as there January from their miserable Off Miserable Relief; Want To Force LT New York City, Government Had Hounded Them Off Highways Many families, those with sev cept a change in status to that of Croppers To Become Day Laborers Sir: eral children, run out of beans be day laborers. The plantation ownYour Moscow correspondent in fore the end of the month. Mothers were making this change in By ROBERT BIROHMAN refuge on 93 acres of uncleared ers feed their children at the order that they would not have ed an investigation. Owen more than ninety Negro children a letter on the foreign policy of CAPITALIM HAS NO the Kremlin (New York Times, NEW FRONTIERS face starvation and death in a After having been hounded along there is nothing else to feed ity payments with the croppers. croppers vice president of manage the best they can. Sevcolony near Poplar Bluff, Mis the highways by the police and a number of the families have In 1938 the cropper received Southern Tenant Farmers Union eral of the high school students policy is dictated by Marxist doc Editor: Bourl. The colony is reminiscent local authorities for months they adopted children and aged depen. parity payments of approximate was threatened by the planters. In the camp are making attempts trine Mr. Gedye reiterates insist. Speaking in Boston, before the of the worst Hoovervities and located at the Lost Colony. The dents.
Some of the aged women 100, about one third of their in. Since then he has worked in St. after their school hours to teach ently: They are Marxists first, League of Women Voters, Eliot came. The laborer received from Louis to secure aid for the crop the children. The Federal govern last, and always. Thus Mr. Ged: Janeway, Business Editor of Rooseveltburgs, but it is home to land, hard scrabble hill land, with had applied for old age the men who were evicted last a thin layer of soil over its gravel but received January when the planters decid and rock bed, was purchased for worded replies that they dropped 120 days and no advanced credit the Union, was escorted to the teachers if the croppers will pro evaluation which the heads of the tastrophe, similar to the Chicago ed to hire day laborers, so that an acre by money donated by the matter then and there. from the planter, which the crop state border by the state police vide a school building. These peo Kremlin are giving themselves fire or the Tokio earthquake, they would not have to share fed sympathizers in St. Louis. The Medical attention is impossible per receives. The increase in day when he sought to advise the ple without resources are bulld and which is necessary for them here in the United States would ing a combined meeting hall and in order to sustain the reputation to an economic blessing, provideral subsidies with the croppers, land at the best could not furnish to secure. Mildred Freed re laborers would bring the day rate croppers.
There ninety nine families live sustenance for more than five fa ports in the New York Post that down to as low as 10 cents for a Menace to Public Health in rag tents and barrel atave milies.
she saw a young Negro woman 10 to 14 hour day.
Had Lived on Highways The State Health Commission lack of nails, rooting and win Comintern. It is impossible of hand and forcing us to go ahead shacks.
tossing feverishly in bed from a Kremlin When spokesmen for the capitLive in Rag Tents miscarriage her third within a Living under a tyranny often er declared the croppers a seri dows. And unless a heating sys course to enter here into a dis and rebuild. Marxism. However, there are alist system openly admit that Relief for Croppers They live one can call it 16v. tents. number of shacks have had been called the reply was the croppers revolted by the higher Twenty three Families were pied The Southern Tenant Farmers who are on tieter fimetions can met hetesa le destruction of the pro Many of the familles live in rag year. When she asked if a doctor worse than under chattel Slavery, ous menace to public health and tem is provided, no school can be cussion ing on rellet. And what relier: been built, using small dogs for Private doctor he won com dreds last wenuary and advertised on the Mississippi levee thirty. Union has asked for Federal aid. Credye senletter which cannot ductive machinery is the only blood Kremlin Falsifications stinking corpse of the capitalist of corn grit, four pounds of meal, staves from a nearby barrel mill county doctor he said he ain the nation by camping in tents of two room abandoned building and Washington themselves but are two pounds of beans for a month for the roofs and sometimes the never gonna Help us. The leaders have not adopt system then it is time to scrap that system.
No salt, baking power or grease. sides. Lack of nails has held up The local, state and federal au ed into an unused church. Soon authorities who do absolutely ed, writes Mr. Gedye, the theMany families number as many as completion of many of these hall Forbidden to Fish We can see other frontiers thorities found one pretext after the owners of the buildings insti nothing ten. There is only spring water finished shacks. Holes have been While the river is at the edge another for not supplying the tuted proceedings against the says Pres. Butler of the ST Socialism in one country is im. Jing every family enough to eat, the There are no jobs for them, nent revolt and the view that such as eliminating disease, givfor drinking and cooking. Coffee chinked with mud, which the first of the camp and woods all around croppers with relief or homes. trespassers. Friends of 18 made from reboiled grounds, heavy rain will wash out. Onlya it, the colonists are forbidden by After some days they gave meag Croppers and the CIO in St. Louts Fu, and they can hold out un possible. Far from that, they are clothes to wear and a decent sheland drunk without sugar. There few have obtained lumber for the sheriff to hunt or fish. One re hand outs to the croppers, The then hought them the strip op til Spring unless they get relier au convinced as ever that Lenin ter over their heads. These fronis no meat and all the milk is doors. All have open windows, old man, who was deaf and had St. Louis Cro Council sent truck land where they now live. from some placed by the cotton tences contain, mildly speaking.
was right. These two sen not tackle.
No longer supplied by three poorly fed cows. screened by paper, sacks, or not heard the sheriff read the loads of food on the third day of Education Among Croppers Most of the 160 children are clothes. The bare ground is the law went fishing and was arrest the demonstration.
nobility now seeking new ways two misunderstandings. Lenin However much capitalism raisThe few white children in the to garner profits from cotton, the never propagated the theory of to offer the workers anything.
under ten years of age, including only floor. When it storms the ed. boy was shot and wounded The planters protested against 16 babies, three born at the camp. rain sweeps down in gusts that when he was found hunting in giving relief to the croppers and camp must walk two miles to a croppers are thrown on the scrap socialism in one Most of the adults are over 40. often soaks the tents and they the woods.
Samede agitators to for the junction to meet a school bus. No he app to starve and freeze 40 contrary ne confirmation tranhos At the present time production These homeless croppers took are overturned.
The Lost Colony is composed damnable scheme and demand provision has been made for the death.
cial order of the USSR depends minished. The reason for this is that the ultimate fate of the so has reached the 1929 level but continues undicompletely upon the fate of in that new Industrial techniques to refer to my History of the have been introduced so that the Russian Revolution (Vol. II, pp. productive capacity of the Individual worker is greatly increas378 418) where, dare believe. ed. Hence they need fewer work.
British Workers in stood on the conception direct ers today than they needed yes ly opposed to that which is now tity of goods.
ecoterday to produce a given quanascribed to him by the Kremlin.
Even after the death of Lenin in but we do have a frontier. It is But our masters say. Aha. Continued from Page 1) Workers Section of General Drivored cars were running into the Vitamins are important.
the Spring of 1924, Stalin still on the Rhine. We answer, We They prevent riekets in childcharges violation of Section ers Union Local 544, did not have crowd, coming from all directions, continued to explain in his com also have a frontier.
It is right 28 of the Woodrum relief law.
a single member on the project. shooting. saw Fred Johnson (Continued from Page 1)
ren and scurvy in grown ups. Continued from Page 1)
Almost all the 25 defendants shot full in the face with a tear The government must not only estream fruits are the cheap: Chrysler strike, was organized by how and why Lenin considered here and you are our enemies prove that Section 28 was violat in the present trial are members gas shell. caught him and help workers found themselves in a the scab outfit of Homer Martin Impossible to construct 80 directed. Let them think that ed, but that the defendants CONof the Federal Workers Section. ed guide him to safety, then permanent state of financial important vitaming SPIRED to violate it.
The trial revolves around the saw Pat Roselle of the Federal bankruptcy, for their weekly The testimony will show that sewing But the British workers working hand in hand with the only in the next edition of the ever before they add slaughter of aren going to get the vita strikebreaking radio priest same book in the fall of 1921 thon Walready inflicted.
on the night of June 30 the Wood down by which was closed Workers Section, shot through wage was insufficient to pay their the hospi Though the Walsh Healy Act mins they need.
Coughlin and the fascist hireling did Stalin, MAC INGERSOLL rum law was passed and that im government, after it had beece help and took theme to get some canly living expenses set an hourly minimum of 62 The British Food Ministry of the corporation, Gerald and not theoretical consideramediately afterward, all over the closed by agreement for several tal.
Max Geldman was able to show cents per hour on governemnt has just barred all imports SmithIn each case however, the tions, radically change his post Boston, Mass.
country, strikes broke out. On days attempted to re open it on of fresh fruit.
midweek appeals over the radio tion on this not unimportant 18.
July in Minneapolis the Build July 14, police fired into the plek. the nationwide character of the contracts in the Steel Industry Oficials of the Ministry, for strikebreakers turned out to sue. Following this turn, the ing Trades Council voted to ets, killing one and wounding a strike, fact which by itself the products covered by the Act abows up the absurd conspiracy failed to include ordnance and others.
commenting on the ban, asbe a Azzle on the following Mon Kremlin made an attempt to strike in protest against this law.
serted, according to an Asso Maybe some of you furors Ed Palmquist, Max Geldman charge levelled by the Federal other munitions work. This diday morning where picket lines force. Lenin to change his concep: THAT THEY MAY LIVE.
were larger than ever and few tion too. Mr. Gedye unfortunately REAL ANTI WAR MOVIE ciated Press dispatch: think you can strike against and Eddie Alberts, defendants Government against the Minne rectly affected the Harrison plant primarily a war ordnance supports this attempt.
scabs dared to enter the plants Britain Dear Comrade Editor, the government. The court will and leaders of the Federal Work apolis unemployed.
plant which manufactures shells, hardly squanNot less erroneous is the asser The other night a couple of us tell you that you CAN STRIKE ers Section, were the principal Comte Relief torpedoes and cannon. Flowing der her foreign currencies in Getting Coughlin Numbertion concerning the theory of socialists went to see the French fruit when there are such AGAINST THE GOVERNMENT persons called to the stand 80 On the picket line, the workers permanent revolt allegedly sub movie, That They May Live, AND YOU CAN PICKET.
far by the defense.
One of the lighter moinents from the text of the Act, a genthings as war materials to be are beginning to get the measure scribed to by me. The theory of because we heard it was an anticame when defense attorney Da eral demand for 624, minibought and paid for.
Government a Scab vis called District Attorney An mum with a general 60 per hour of the radio priest. Comments permanent revolution (not re war picture like Grand Illusion.
Armored Cars Used Davis bitterly condemned the such as these are not infrequent: volt. starting from an analysis we were not so hot about going As US District Attorney Anderson to account for his inault increase for all classes of labor relief law is showing a total dis derson toyed nervously with a ing behavior toward the witness is on the order of the day. The the corporation. wonder how ist Russia, reached the conclusion pictures are even scarcer than regard of the entire wage struc photograph, Palmquist told of les. Anderson excused his actions minimum at present is 56c per much they paid him.
that the democratie revolution in real anti war fighters.
overwhelming majority of the ture of the country, and that the the murderous police assault on by saying that people sometimes bour.
act made the government scab the pickets how the cops hd act that way in moments of other demands indude union workers in the ten plants of the viguante bands to attack union the conquest Another step in the creation of Russia must lead inevitably to We got a pleasant surprise, power by the pro though To show the ridiculousness of no sooner opened the doors of the righteous indignation.
Where shop, bona fide senfority clause, con este Steel Co. voted workers was taken in the organ letariat and thus open the era of ture was made after the authorWe found that the picthe charge of conspiracy.
Davis sewing projects, than they di upon Davis pressed Anderson and an equalization of wage rates pointed out that in St. Paul at rected hail of bullets and tearsof him to admit he was not one week vacation with pay after of strike, the company notified Order Committee. This new lieve that the latest events have the outbreak of the new war was to strike. Faced with the threat ization of a Citizens Law and socialist revolution. don be director became convinced that the fair grounds, practically ev Bas at the pickets across the righteously Indignant. In other one year of accumulated service, Clinton Golden northeastern gang movement goes hand in refuted this theory promulgated certain. What more, the climax words, he was just putting on an check off, ete.
ery worker walked out on strike, street.
act.
Delegates from ten lodges of director of the swoc that the hand with a new appeal of Rep. at the beginning of 1905. In any of the story is the fight against yet the chief WPA workers or saw a man fall. It was Emil But the same act has already the Crucible Steel headed by Company was ready to reopen resentative Clare Hoffman urging case it has nothing in common War after it has started.
ganization here, the Federal Bergstrom. He was killed. Arm a is a WPA workers in the firat two the swoC, net in New York conference, negotia. What the corporation and its revolt which seems to me sim French soldier who sees all his trials, with the aid of the judge with 8. Harling labor relations bossed down once more. Munkeys in the state capital will ply nonsense. The totalitarian buddies die on the last day of Marxism In Our Times meet with in this city if they ever press of Moscow more than once the World War. He sees that they exceedingly broad definition of tons director for the Company deadlock exists at present.
attempt strikebreaking on a large cf course has represented my didn die for anything worthconspiracy and Juries convened and negotiations continued for Up to Leadership scale against the Chrysler work views in a caricatural form. Mr. while and swears he will stop any from out state rural areas. several days.
But they were rudely broken part of the Swoc will weaken Motots worker on the Chrysler this caricatural presentation temporizing attitude of the ers was well put by a General Gedye obviously has assimilated new war. During the following off at the end of the fourth day the rank and file before an in picket line: when Harding presented a com tense Company batrage of fake years of peace he lives in Verdun where there are 100, 000 graves pany dictated contract to the del rumors. An immediate strike call If the corporation tries to Correspondents Worked On Phillip Randolph alwhere the crosses stan AN INTRODUCTION TO: egates for acceptance. The Na will bring forth a militant dis the entire and have a break the strike, we ll call out must say in general that no most as close together as cornSpeaks in where are the foreign corres. stalks. There he invents bulletpondents so persistently and suc proof arnsor for anti war fighters.
diately ordered the lodges to tion. victory for the Crucible general strike in the city. cessfully worked upon as in Mosher armor is stolen by the fac. Steel Workers will pave the way cow. In the past years we have tory owner, the old vet boss, LOS ANGELES, Nov. 19 Lead Steel Struggles cor a victory in the fight to oe. 200 page abridgement of the first volume of Karl observed how some American and is sold to the government for Philip Randolph. International Subscribe to the President of the Brotherhood of Steel Workers has been one of tional Office of the SWOC.
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The old soldier loses his mind genuine contract. The mistakes profound sympathy for the deHe clearly pointed out the of the swoc in the Crucible mocracies, upon the Kremlin not clared he goes back to Verdun New Deal. Also examines the perspectives of the and goes blind. After war is decause of unemployment and ecoless profound hatred for Hitler American and International labor and revolutionary nomic insecurity as being the obte Steel strikes of 1937 were tremendous set back in the orgaand so on. As a result of such and calls all the dead soldiers movement.
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