1938 SOCIALIST APPEAL, VOLUME 2, COMPLETE CONTENTS BY ISSUE 1 Jan. 1, 1938 Sit-Down Strikes Sweeping France -Paris Utilities Paralyzed By New Strikes Red Flag Flies Over New French Stay-Ins Government Intervenes Two Alternatives Before Bourgeoisie Possible Truce Only Temporary War Budget Voted Unanimously Stalinist Maneuvers in the Labor Movement Role of C.P. in Strike Wave "Robinson-Rubens" Frameup Prepared for U.S. Spy Scare -"Robinson-Rubens" Frameup Part of GPU Spy-Scare Plots in U.S. "No Peace at Any Price" The "Robinson" Case Hearst "Correction" Authoritative Denial Algic Trial Hits Labor -Ship Strikers Condemned Mutineers For Solidarity Move Foreshadows War Regime Only Crime: Refused to Scab Cooperation- With Whom? - Why? -An Editorial Latin American Notes by Bernard Ross Chile Mexico Cuba Local 544 Victory Over Wholesale Grocers Hailed by Minneapolis Labor "Labor Review's" Estimate of "C.I.O." Stalinists An Act of Despair The Firotte-Bellini Amalgam Queer Allies "Explaining" Thugs WAA Workers Fight Ousting of N. Harrison -Three Hundred Workers Storm Alliance Office And Demand Open Hearing; Force Lasser To Adjourn Session Lasser's Offers Accusers as Judges! "No Moscow Trials Here!" Disregards Needs of Jobless Kuomintang Decrees Death For Strikers by Lo Sen Policies of Defeat A "Left Turn" Death For Strikers Road to Victory For Democratic Rights Chicago Workers Aid China Fight; Urge Independent Labor Action C.P. Repudiates Revolutionary Aims -Prefers to Strengthen Existing Social Order by Harold Draper "Strengthen Present Economic Democracy" For "Peaceful" Changes Skeletons from C.P. Closet Only Allegiance to American Flag A Party Fit for Red-Baiters Toward The New Party! by Carlo (Political Cartoon) G.P.U. Plans Framing French Trotskyists in Secret Fascist Plots by Pierre Naville Government Complicity Role of G.P.U. Attempt to Smear 4th International La Rocque Agrees A New Stalinist Crime: The Murder of Januola International Notes -French Press on Soviet "Election"--"Fathers" of Stalinist Constitution Now "Traitors"--World's Mounting Armaments by John G. Wright Echoes of Stalin's Fake Elections 100 Per Cent for Stalin Stalinist Constitution Work of "Spies" Etc. Fate of Austrian Revolutionists in U.S.S.R. "Cannon Balls, Cannon Balls, Jingle All Around!" In The California Labor World -San Francisco Labor Council Condemns Stalinist Frauds Commend Teamsters' Council Warn Against Repetition On West Coast For Exposing Union Busters West Coast Labor Notes S.U.P. Hits Bridges Call for Gov't Interference in Unions Left Jabs [by Bill Sherman?] "The Land of Cotton" "My Home in Dixie" "Say Man, How be you?" "Sweet Lad of Liberty" "The Gay Southland" Trotsky Urges Backing For Pioneer Publishers, letter from Leon Trotsky Economic Crisis and Ideologies What to Expect from Other Publishers Serious Task Faces Pioneer Publishers Union Lawyers Plead Memorial Day Massacre Defendants Guilty Akron Court Decision Outlaws Closed Shop by Blake Lear [C.K. Stewart] Essentials of Decision Background of Decision Higher Form of Deception 2 Jan. 8, 1938 New Party Formed; To Fight War Plans -Left Wing Delegates Found Socialist Workers Party at Convention in Chicago War Crisis Looms Defeatism Reaffirmed Stalinist "Democracy" To Fight Stalinism Dunne Reports Convention Resolutions Stress Fight on War, Mass Work, Defense of Soviet Union by New Party Political Resolution Points to War Danger The Trade Union Resolution The Russian Resolution The Solution of the Present Crisis of the Soviet Union The Defense of the Revolution Appeal View Confirmed in "Robinson"-GPU Mystery by Junius Ravitch Linked to Foster Another "Visit to Trotsky" Approached Dr. Kallen What is State Department Aiming At? Dr. Bernstein's Connections Well Known Completing the Frame-Up Formula What About the California Rumors? All Trails Lead to Stalinist Camp in the "Robinson"–"Rubens" Case by Junius Washington Hesitant Phony Passport Links Links to Stalinists Activities in St. Louis "Fundamentals of Socialism" Boston Y.P.S.L. Meeting Convention Sidelights California Minnesota Ohio: Toledo Akron New Jersey Michigan Montana North Dakota Missouri Minneapolis Unionists Bring Suit for Libel Against Daily Worker Further Exposure of West Coast Frame-Up How the Bell Affidavit Was Cooked Up Wanted "Right Kind" of Information Cole's Warning Leaders Accept Speed-Up; Akron Workers Aroused The Lessons of Spain--the Last Warning by Leon Trotsky Menshevism and Bolshevism in Spain The "Theory" of the People's Front The Union With a Shadow of the Bourgeoisie The Stalinists in the People's Front The Counter-Revolutionary Advantages of Stalinism Stalin in His Own Way Confirms the Correctness of the Theory of Permanent Revolution The Role of the Anarchists In the Teacher's Union -Independent Group Combats People's Front Policies of Stalinist Administration Period of Growth Role of "Rank and File" Group Defend American Legion United Progressives Organize Emergence of the Independent Group Measure Deceives Independents Show Strength Popular Front Breaks French Sit-Downs; Gov't Calls Troops by Terence Phelan [Sherry Mangan] Savage Threats Stalinist "Explanations" The Lesson Leadership Needed Army for Fascist Coup, French Hearings Reveal by Pierre Naville Army Chiefs Involved Helped Found Party Party Activities Fellow Travelers by Carlo (Political Cartoon) 3 Jan. 15, 1938 SOCIALIST APPEAL PUBLISHED WEEKLY AS THE OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE SOCIALIST WORKERS PARTY Hail the Socialist Workers Party! -Join the Struggle for Socialism! The Anti-Labor Drive Preparing the "War for Democracy" For the Class Struggle! Unite for Revolutionary Socialism! House Defeats Ludlow Amendment 209 to 188 -New "Front" Organized; G.O.P.-Roosevelt-C.P. Prepare Labor for War by Albert Goldman Pacifist Cure-All Marxist Conception of Cause of War Objections of Capitalists Attitude of Lovestoneite Leadership Attitude of Communist Party The Budget The Drive Is On Diary of Ignace Reiss Reveals Criminal Methods of G.P.U. -- Young Communists Die Shouting Defiantly: "Long Live Trotsky!" Shows Stalin Methods The Diary of Ignace Reiss Slutsky's Trip Abroad "Long Live Trotsky!" German C.P. Heads Shot Trotsky and.... Bauer "Not Taking Orders" New Format (Changing from tabloid to full-size newspaper format) The Lessons of Spain--the Last Warning by Leon Trotsky (Continued from last issue) The Role of the POUM The Problem of Arming The Conditions for Victory Stalin Guaranteed the Conditions of Defeat "Civil War in the Rear" The Denouement Young Communists for Fourth International; Join YPSL in New York International Notes -Purging the Polish C.P.--"Big Bank Depositors" Grow in the U.S.S.R.--French C.P. and Organic Unity by John G. Wright Polish C.P. Purges Stalin Caste of Bank Book Owners Flourishes in the U.S.S.R. French C.P. Drives for Organic Unity Independent Group Built on Firm Base in Teachers Union Unity With "Progressives" Membership Must Be Reached Austrian Militants Bitter at Stalin's "Asylum" Modesty (Excerpt from a Stalin Speech) Left Jabs [by Bill Sherman] National Unity "Yellow or Red?" The "Robinson-Rubens"-Mystery Believe It or Not 4 Jan. 22, 1938 SOCIALIST APPEAL PUBLISHED WEEKLY AS THE OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE SOCIALIST WORKERS PARTY Editor: Max Shachtman Associate Editors: Harold Roberts, Frank Graves Business Manager: Bob Browne Roosevelt Confers With Big Business To Save Capitalism -Prepares Drive on Labor as Sham Fight Against Bosses Nears End Stages Sham Fight To Shift Blame Move Against Labor W. Coast Unions Score Victories Over Stalinists -Sailors, Firemen Deal Heavy Blows to Bridges-C.P. Fakers Endorse Amalgamation Storm Created Boston Greets New Party at Week-End Meet Leninism Can't Be Embalmed by Carlo (Political Cartoon) 2 CIO Leaders Urge Lewis to Talk With AFL -New Peace Move Will Give Impetus to Unity Drive Will Not Withdraw Max Zaritsky (Photo) Sentiment for Unity New French Crisis Stirred by Break in the Popular Front -Sharper Clashes Loom in Class War as Workers' Burdens Increase Workers Headed Off Gains Wiped Out Chautemps Fails C.P. for Sacred Union Flirtation With Hitler Future Clashes Moscow Admits "Robinsons" Held for "Espionage" -Stalin's Latest Frame-Up Gets Underway After Long Preparation by Junius Not a Doubt Inspired Rumors Begin Commission Gives Spur How G.P.U. Works Case Bungled The Known Facts Links Established Ravitch Got Passports Guilty Knowledge S.W.P. Mail Pilfered Grand Jury Probe Hull On The Lid The "Appeal" Pries the Lid Off Powerful Forces at Work All Out at Lenin Memorial Meeting Sunday -Cannon to Speak on Great Leader's Teaching Party Convention Analyzes Political Situation -Text of Resolution Adopted at Chicago by Founding Convention of the S.W.P. - New Party Given Lead by the Convention Conflict Delay Outbreak of World War Imperialists Seek Defeat of S.U. Foreign Trade Vital for U.S. Capitalism Likely to Enter War Early Crisis Drives Ruling Class Toward War S.W.P. Must Find Roots in Unions Parleys Not Sought With Sects Reaction Caused by Big Defeats Stalinist Democracy a Fraud Party Composition to be Improved Feudal-Military Reaction Planning Mexican Coup to End Reform Program by Bernard Ross Cedillo Heads Reaction Lessons of History Bound to Imperialism The Hangman's Year by Victor Serge Victim of Purge - Bela Kun (Photograph) Shoots Boyhood Friend Victim of Purge - Jan Gamarnik (Photograph) Purge Goes On Stalin's Tool -Andrei Vyshinsky (Photograph) Letter From China Reveals Harsh Facts on Far Eastern War by L.J.C. No Mass Enthusiasm Peasants Flee Traitors Everywhere Tribute to Soldiers Masses Held Down Stalinists Betray Reform is Hopeless The Revolutionary Program Left Jabs [by Bill Sherman?] The Trail of Empire A "Peace Loving Nation", 1938 "The End of Civilization" A Wage Differential for Southern Senators "Quite Unintentionally" Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen "The Sun, the Moon and the Stars" "Lot's Wife and Daughters" Correspondents Write In From the Trade Unions East Chicago Stalinists as Stooges Akron, Ohio Marion, Ind. Canton, Ohio Marxist School Starts Winter Term Feb. 16 5 Jan. 29, 1938 Boss Court Holds Beal On Old Score -Gastonia Strike Leader Menaced -Fight On Against Extradition to N. Carolina -Extradition of Beal Up To Massachusetts Became Union Leader Frame-Up Is Frame-Up In Days Gone By Fred Beal (Photograph) California SWOC Members Revolt Against Leaders -Register Protest in Rump Meeting -Say Lewis Appointees Are Bureaucrats Union Boss Roars Soviet Council Adjourns After Giving Stalin OK -Order to End the Party Purge Presages New Terror Five "Securely" Seated A Year Ago Roosevelt in Huddle With Businessmen -Acts to Put Brake on Alarming Slump -Prevailing Wage Cut From Amendment Of Housing Act -Big Business Called to Washington Confab Aids Housing Bosses New Anti-Labor Move Not Accidental New Jersey Steel Workers Win Strike In Heart of the Notorious Anti-Labor Hudson County -Militant Tactics Bring Crucible Steel to Accept Workers Terms in 36 Hours -Bosses Fail to Befog Issues by Attack on E.H. Kaempf Great Solidarity Shown 600 Give Support UAWA Leaders Bow Down to GM -Give Up Ground Won By Workers -Proffer to Automakers Non-Strike Contract What It Means Membership Flouted Power Vested in Martin Rivera Resigns From Modern Monthly (Letter to the Editor of the Modern Monthly from Diego Rivera) Judge Wham Fines Illinois Miners for Alleged Conspiracy -Says 3-Year Strike Damaged Business -Precedent a Menace to Labor if Upheld by Albert Gates Words of Camouflage To Cripple Strikes Bosses Provoke Violence Dangerous Precedent Profound Depths of Economic Crisis Revealed in Statistics on New Unemployment Wave -But CP Accepts Roosevelt Smokescreen and Charges Wall Street Sabotage -Falling Off In Employment In U.S. Clearly Shows There Has Never Been Any Real Recovery in Country by Dave Cowles Capitalist Alibis Stalinist Fairy Tales Capitalism Means Crisis Depressed Recovery Moscow In Difficulty With Robinson Case -State Department Refused Right to See Arrested Woman -Moscow Denies Hull Request by Junius Stalinist Jitters Mount New Developments Photographer Questioned Stalinists Frantically Try to Offset the Findings of The Dewey Commission -Strain to Divert World Attention from Historic Verdict Exonerating Trotsky -Turn to Reactionary Sat. Eve. Post With Soviet Spy Story -Smoke Screen Laid to Hide Frame-Up by James Casey Raise Spy Scare Starts With Kirov Verbal Gymnastics Lies Complacently Non-Existent Program! They Hid It Accomplish Impossible Again--Why? Present War in Far East and the Tasks of Our Party -Text of Resolution Adopted By SWP Convention A Revolutionary Party Needed U.S. Seeks World Domination Boycott Alone is Insufficient How Our Party Must Aid China Moscow Killings Split French Civil Rights Group -Several Most Influential Leaders Leave, Including Karl Marx's Grand Daughter -Rebel Over Stalinist Control of Central Committee Trials Cause Crisis Condemns Frame-Ups Liberty At Issue League As Censor Special Offer (A cloth bound copy of "Behind the Moscow Trial" by Max Shachtman with each yearly subscription for a limited time) Britishers Refuse to Load Japanese Ship Green Joins With Legion and DAR In Patriotic Anti-Japanese Display -Aid Boycott Proposed by Chamber of Commerce To Protect Profits of U.S. Industry Green Heads Show Akron Branch Plans to Widen Mass Work Soviet Union Notes -Drive Against Foreigners Proceeds--Another G.P.U. Mystery--Troyanovsky Engages N.Y. Times On "Illiteracy" by John G. Wright Drive Against Foreigners Intensified Another Mystery? The Membership "Drive" of the C.P.S.U. Bungle-Troyanovsky vs. The N.Y. Times and Stalin's Pravda--On Illiteracy Labor Defense Organization Must Be Built Roosevelt's Navy Budget No, It Wasn't Hearst! Life In the Soviet Union Today by Carlo (Political Cartoon) Left Jabs [by Bill Sherman?] Native Taxation in S.A. The "Gentle Stimulus" Equality Slavery Called Liberty Slander and Apology The Sequel Another Gold Boner The Sequel Minneapolis The Sequel WAA Group Dance 6 Feb. 5, 1938 Stalinists Try Frame-Up in Canada -Furriers' Union Aroused to Fight Charges Made Against Federman Gold Tactics Repudiated Maneuver Defeated Stolberg CIO Articles Faulty in Analysis -His Attack On Stalinist Disruption In Unions Weakened by Whitewash of Leaders and Support of Class Collaboration by B.J. Widick (Labor Secretary of the Socialist Workers Party) Correct Premise False Characterization Unprincipled Opposition Weaknesses Ignored Union Democracy Second Steel Plant Struck in New Jersey Have No Illusions Labor Secretary Widick Blasts Hague Before Jersey Unionists Seamen Stop Stalinists In Union Fight -Rank-and-File Rescind Plan Hitting at West Coast Brothers An Old Trick National Action Needed Finks Not Tolerated "Hates War" (Photograph of President Roosevelt) Dockmen Tie Up Ships, Cargoes In Puerto Rico -Strikers Demand Wage Hike to 75 cents; Ortiz Arrested Asks Strike Support Bosses Threaten A "Socialist" Acts Browder Backs F.D.R.; Hearst Backs F.D.R. Arms for War Abroad Communist Party Okays Big Navy Hearst Also Satisfied Lynn Food Workers' Unity Move Aids Fight Against Sharaf Poulos Makes Denial Roosevelt Speeds Drive Toward War With Navy Budget -Will Spend Billions In Arms Program -Huge Outlay Bares War Aims of American Imperialism by Maurice Spector Stages of Policy Pushed by Depression Realize Mass Opposition Browder's Fair Fields UMW Gives Blank Check to Roosevelt -District Autonomy Is Blocked By Lewis Union Machine For Roosevelt High, Wide and Handsome Unity Approved Progressive Slates Win In Lundeberg Victory -West Coast Seamen Show Their Determination to Follow Militant Leadership By Casting Huge Vote by Glen Trimble Reactionary Squabble Election Results So. California A.C.L.U. Fights for Anarchist Police Terror in St. Louis Strike -Ford Workers Fight Provocations; Union Men Arrested Provocateurs At Work Publicity Backing Lundeberg Hits Back at Charges -Denounces Slanderous Accusations Made Against Seamen Cites Federal Laws Grounds of Opposition Defends Union Power Party Resolutions -Trade Union Movement and the S.W.P. Industrial Union an Essential Form A.F. of L. Also Using Industrial Form Pressure from All Sides for Unity Unity Must Be On Proper Basis Revolt Crystallizes In Newsstand Union Real Plan Behind Reubens Case Now Becoming Clearer by Junius Browder's Japanese Scare California Setting Is Stalin Rebuffing U.S.? Nature of C.P. Patriotism What Does Washington Know? Frame-up Artist Andrey Vishinsky (Photograph) Why the Lag? (In new subscriptions) School Holds Class in Party Principles Spanish Hold Franco Back Above Teruel -But Deadlock Threatens For Want of Bold Social Program Bold Program Needed Reaction Advances Stalemate Prevails Soviet Union Notes -Litvinov's Removal Certain -- Case of A.N. Tupolev -- Shadows Over Stakhanovism by John G. Wright Litvinov's Removal Certain The Case of A.N. Tupolev Shadows Over Stakhanovism "Fugitive From Justice" Another Frame-Up The Ludlow Amendment People's Front Balance The "New International" The Peace-Loving President by Carlo (Political Cartoon) Browder Defends Imperialism by James Burnham War Question is Decisive Browder Speaks for Roosevelt Policy Would Suppress Labor's Struggle Against Capital Filled With Frank Jingoism Roosevelt Will Save Humanity 7 Feb. 12, 1938 Green Backs War Program -An Editorial Why Is Information Kept Secret? No Confidence In Ruling Class Forward to The Class War "Little Men" Fume and Bluster As F.D.R. Provides Steam Valve Seek A Joshua Want Labor Curbed WPA Workers Used for War Purposes Auto Workers Leader Slams War Mongers -Homer Martin Exposes C.P. As Reactionary Force in Union The Proof Aid Freely Given Hitler Seeks to Appease Reichswehr -Army-Nazi Feud Breaks Out; Shifts Viewed As Compromise -Hitler Stalls in Army-Nazi Feud Rests On Bayonets Army Conservatism Murdered Victim of G.P.U. Reveals Inner Life of Stalin's Secret Police by Ignace Reiss They Just Disappear A "Spy" Arrested Dog Gives Clue To Avoid Fuss Woman Accused Scoff At Confessions Demoralization Reigns FDR "Talks" For Peace; Fleet Prepares For War -Navy Maneuvers, Alaska Issue, Indicate Trend Toward Clash Pearl Harbor Reinforced Capital Ship Race "Incidents" Will Follow Threatens Japan -Cordell Hull (Photograph) Links Poyntz to "Robinson" Frame-Up -Carlo Tresca Says She Was Abducted by G.P.U. Agent by Junius Linked to Rubens "Forward" Names Him Asks Defense Action Leahy Testimony Bares War Plans of U.S. Imperialism; Admits Conflict Is Near -Hint Joint Action With Britain -Note to Japan on Battleship Program Heralds Naval Race; Admiral Says Fleet Will Be Used to Implement Monroe Doctrine Mysterious Trip What Leahy Revealed Just a Police Patrol Ready For Anything Denies English Alliance Conceals Secret Talks Crucible Strikers Win Despite Hague Threats -Majority of Points Won After Week's Strike; Kaempf Cheered Leader Gets Cheers Police Cautious Program Mapped At N.Y.C. Convention -Two-Day Session Opens New Phase of Work For Party Better Union Work Education Stressed "Victory" Faked By Office Union -Leaders Try to Conceal Defeat To Protect Prestige Strike Voted Try To Discourage Strike Is Over Curran Gets N.M.U. To Vote S.U.P. War Militant Policy Need In St. Louis -Progressives In Ford Strike Urge New Fighting Tactics Ford Police Take Over Strikers Firm UMW Convention Bans Communists From Membership -Vote Aids Bureaucrats To Act Against Real Militants Resolution All-Inclusive No Political Motive Weak-Kneed Defense Party Resolutions -Trade Union Movement and the S.W.P. (Continued from last issue) C.I.O. Leadership Also Reactionary Bureaucrats Appointed By Themselves Stalinists Are Servile Flunkeys Small Likelihood of Blocs With C.P. I.W.W. Now Only A Reactionary Sect Complete Reorientation Is Demanded Negrin Promises Stern Defense of Private Property -Frank Interview Shows Who Is Destroying Revolution Defends Property -Juan Negrin (Photograph) Deeds Versus Words Expulsions from A.F.L. Setback For Unity Drive -Reactionary Move By Executive Council Widens Chasm in Labor Movement; Campaign For Unity Must Be Intensified by B.J. Widick Leadership Divided Hope in Dubinsky Raid Plan Seen Green Hits League Reformists Win In Jersey W.A.A. -Progressive Forces Go Down to Defeat At Trenton Meet War Resolution Spiked Fur Workers Back Verdict On Federman -Stalinists Try to Break Up Meeting Held to Hail Findings Stalinists Slink Away Run to Court Attack C.P. Wreckers Soviet Union Notes -Purge Reflects Economic Crisis -- Coal Piles Up At Mines --Tractor Failures Slow Down Harvest by John G. Wright New Crisis in Soviet Economy Coal Stocks Pile Up at Pits The Crisis in Spring Sowing Havoc Caused By Purge Purge in the Commissariat of Heavy Industry A.F. of L. Expulsions The War In The Far East Keep Gerson, Mr. Isaacs! Party and Press A More Than Apt Pupil by Burck (Political Cartoon from the "Daily Worker" about F.D.R., Woodrow Wilson, War and Profits) What Is Collective Security by James Burnham (Second in a series of four) Origin of Collective Security To Solidify Versailles Settlement "Peace" To Protect Imperialist Gangsters It Cements Military Alliances The Fifth Wheel by Leon Trotsky Manage Bourgeois State No Criticism Heard Boycott Postponed A New Betrayal Fourth International 8 Feb. 19, 1938 Stalin Waves Pink Flag to Bluff Allies -Admits "Final Victory" Is Not So Final As Believed Undeserved Headlines No "Victory" After All "Democracies" Cool Down With War Mongers! -Socialist Workers Party Manifesto Heading Directly Toward War War Sentiment Being Whipped Up Imperialists Are All Alike Masses Have Nothing To Gain Stalinists, Social Democrats Shout War Build A World For Peace No Aid To The War-Makers Unionists Will March in Relief Demonstration Relief Problems Acute W.A. Militants Call Jobless To Struggle _Progressive Group Takes Lead In Setting Forth Demands Relief Sharply Cut Another Tragedy Twin City Progressives Score Smashing Victory -Splitters Swept From Top Bodies -Elections Drive Them From Central Labor Organs in Midwest Miles Dunne Elected Split Drive Defeated Demands To Be Made Joe Lubich (Obituary) Evelyn Gordon (Obituary) Minneapolis Teamsters Sue "Daily Worker" for Libel -Complaint Lists Repeated Stalinist Slanders Against Union Malicious Slanders G.P.U. Methods Martyred Unionist -Patrick Corcoran (Photograph) One In Six In N.Y. Depend Upon Relief Rorty Gives Stinging Reply to "Writers" -Tells Few Home Truths to Communist Stooge Organization What He Wanted Against Fascist Methods Party Resolutions -Trade Union Movement and the S.W.P. (Continued from last issue, Part 3 of 3.) Serious, Responsible Approach Needed Sit-Down Has Significant Future For Democratic Union Control The Immediate Tasks of the Party Platform of the Left Wing The Union Must Defend Unemployed 20,000 Storm Philadelphia City Hall Jury to Get New Facts in Rubens Case -Carlo Tresca will Bare Significant Links In Moscow Frame-Up by Junius Duranty on the Job Tresca Issues Statement Held by Stalin -Mrs. Marie Rubens (Photograph) Epstein Keeps Silent Conspiracy Under Way Beard Slandered Communist League of China Needs Our Financial Aid On Firing Line Workers Must Rally Around Beal to Fight Sabotage of His Defense C.P. Sabotaging Defense Only One Change What Must Be Done Faces Old Charge -Fred Beal (Photograph) Littlepage "Evidence" Boomerang Against Communists, Lamont Finds Whitewash "Witness" Littlepage's Testimony Trager's Reply Reason For Sabotage British Dockmen Stop Japan Cargo Dock Strike Ends With Gains in P.R. No Solution Provided in Housing Bill -Act Filled Jokers Offers No Aid to Millions by John Fredericks Shortage of Homes Another Catch Soviet Union Notes -Duranty "Explains" USSR Economic Crisis Like Purges --By Concealing Facts and Belittling Seriousness by John G. Wright Walter (Dostoievsky) Duranty Reports for Duty (More common spelling is Dostoyevsky) Duranty Tries to Minimize the Crisis Duranty Falsifies Statistics Crisis Sharper Than Officials Admit Other Soviet Dispatches Equally "Colored" Cordell Hull Says "No!" Footnote to Carleton Beals Falsifiers of Marx Help Fight War Relief A La Roosevelt (Political Cartoon) The Dream of Isolation by James Burnham Majority Favor Neutrality Policy Base for Isolation No Longer Exists Beard Sees Where Policies Are Leading Understands Value of Democracy Fails to Make Positive Proposals Does He Think U.S. Will Abdicate? Anti-Lynch Bill – I Speech I Did Not Deliver in the United States Senate by Albert Goldman Hypocrisy of Northern Democrats Weakness of Bill Motives of Southern Senators How Lynching Will End Against Capitalism 9 Feb. 26, 1938 F.D.R War Plans Exposed –Key Leaders Hear Details of Campaign –Parleys With Army and Navy Chiefs, Financial, Industrial, and Newspaper Barons Prepare Way for War Propaganda Drive –Plan Laid at Secret Meeting Deliberate War Preparation To Silence Opposition "At the Drop of a Hat" Action Against Japan Britain seeks 4–Power Pact Against USSR –Chamberlain Offers Concessions to Rome and Berlin to Form Anti-Soviet Bloc; Would Free Britain to Face Japan –"Peace Lovers" Desert Stalin -Deal With Mussolini and Hitler Aims to Isolate Soviet Union "Guarantors" Absent Britain Seeks "Peace" U.S.S.R. Not Included France Will Follow Beal Receives Solid Backing for His Fight -Defense Group Joined by Prominent Educators, Liberals, Authors Says Return Inevitable Hundred Join Committee Leon Sedoff Dies in Paris After Sudden Operation * Thousands March Behind Bier; Await Results of Autopsy Foul Play Suspected Red Funeral Assembled Material Edited Bulletin His Daughters * Trotsky Sees Possibility of Foul Play in Death of His Son by Leon Trotsky Sicknesses a Surprise Possibility Exists Swiss Court Finds G.P.U Killed Reiss -Facts Uncover Moscow Guilt in Murder at Lausanne Four Agents Involved Plot Trotsky's Death Geller Files for St. Paul Election -S.W.P. Enters Mayoralty Primary in First Campaign Critical Support Vote Urged for Geller Thousands Parade in Rain for Relief Demonstration Widick Leaves on Midwestern Lecture Tour -To Organize Party Union Activities During Two Months on Road Union Work Stressed Tour Schedule Denver Teachers Face Union Split -Political Issues Injected by Stalinists Cause Threat of Bolt Abuses and Violations Progressives Lead Car Strike in Minneapolis -Unsatisfactory Terms Forced Through by Union Officers Fakers on the Job No Meeting Called Two Other Strikes Hook Answers Broun Attack on John Dewey -Asks Pointed Questions in Reply to Columnist's Slanderous Article by Sidney Hook Attacked by Broun -John Dewey (Photograph) Dewey's Warning Stalinists' Real Aim Explained All This Rubber Unions Confronted by Fight for Life -Layoffs and Attacks on Organizations Open Critical Period By Blake Lear [C.K. Stewart] Unions Fall Back Party Resolutions -On the Nature of the Party Principles of Democratic Centralism Responsibilities of Leadership Responsibilities of Membership Inner Party Discussion San Pedro Longshoremen Fight to Keep Hiring Hall Protest Meeting Held S.U.P. Backs Dockers Solidarity Stressed Fresh Light Is Cast On Poyntz Case -Tresca Links Mystery of Missing Woman To Rubens Affair by Junius Daily Finds It Too Hot Where Is She? -Juliet Poyntz (Photograph) War Mobilization Plans Provide Virtual Fascist Regime for Labor by Dave Cowles To Conscript Labor Strikes to Be Smashed Women and Children Too Wages Attacked May Be Extended Detroit Scene of Jingo Orgy by Stalinists -Panay Bombing Pictures Shown at Convention "Discussion" Audience Yawns Feature Mickey Mouse Sauce for the Goose Soviet Union Notes-French Newspaper Investigates Activities of G.P.U. Murder Agents--Tells of Schemes to Encompass Death of Ignace Reiss by John G Wright Murder Operative Summoned Makes Complaint of Double-Cross Appeal Drive On Acheron Spurts Forward The APPEAL Drive Figures to Be Given Six Pages Needed Lynn Workers Protest Hill-Sheppard Bill Leon Sedoff Stalin's Letter Fireside Chat (Political Cartoon) Marxism and Collective Security by James Burnham Two Positions Fundamentally Related Are Part of Preparation for War Analysis of Capitalism Only Truthful Answer Struggle Against War Is Fight for Socialism Fear of Workers Checks War Makers Answer to War Is Socialist Revolution Green-Lewis War -Verbal Battle Seen As Jockeying for Position in United Body by John Adamson Drive Stopped A.F.L. Also Hit Ranks Want Unity No New Feud 10 Mar. 5, 1938 Stalin Stages New Frame-Up -Last Surviving Old Bolsheviks Facing Death -Bukharin, Rykov, Rakovsky and Eighteen Others Tried on New Frame-Up Charges of Treason and Murder -Bukharin Was Ally of Stalin Charges Go Back to 1921! Stalin In Desperation Ex-Ally Of Stalin Bukharin Friend of Gorky Assumption Absurd Protest the Crime! War Moves Speeded Up by Roosevelt -Prepare to Knit Latin American States in War Alliance Military Dictatorship "Wings of Democracy" 723 in Teachers Union Take Anti-War Stand WPA Rolls Used for Recruiting Into U.S. Army -Military, Relief Agencies Cooperate to Put Men in Uniform Beans Spilled Last of Lenin's Colleagues Face Doom -Soviet Union Notes -Trial Defendants Include Last of Lenin's Colleagues -- They Now Face Their Turn Before Firing Squad by John G. Wright [Joseph Vanzler] N.I. Bukharin A.I. Rykov C.G. Rakovsky H.G. Yagoda C.F. Grinko N.N. Krestinsky A.P. Rosengoltz F. Khodzhaev Akmal Ikramov V.I. Ivanov Next? -Maxim Litvinov I.A. Zelensky Purger Purged -Henry Yagoda (Photograph) M. Chernov FDR Offers Meager Sop to Jobless -Hundreds of Thousands Will Starve As War Budget Mounts -Money for War None for Relief -Deficiency Appropriation Fails to Meet Most Pressing Needs "Revolutionary" Criticism Militant Action Needed Trotsky Nails Fresh Attack on His Asylum -Answers Toledano's Move to Gag Him As New Trial Opens by Leon Trotsky Real Views Available Inspired by Moscow Crawl to Stalin Odious Slanders Compelled to Answer Known GPU Agent Goes to Mexico GPU Tries to Frame Chinese Bolsheviks -Chinese Comrades Spike Stalinists Charges Against Them Another Frame-Up The Old Technique Who Are They? Exposed Moscow Trials Truth Proclaimed Letters from Our Readers In the Painters' Union by S. Pleve, Local 848 S.W.P. Replies to Slander of "New Republic" -Ex-Liberal Organ Caught Lying in Issue of Bridges Ouster by James P. Cannon, National Secretary Socialist Workers Party Slander Retracted Beal Unmentioned Jersey Jobless Win Concessions Akron Teachers Fight Layoffs With Union Aid -Board Drops 38 in Face of Militant Union Resistance by Blake Lear [C.K. Stewart] Spy Scare, Somewhat Too Neatly Timed, Rouses Jingo Newspapers Spurred by Washington Some Peculiar Features A Little Too Neat Ohio-Michigan District Meets -SWP Organizations Meet at Cleveland to Plan Building Drive by R. Ferguson [Robert Treash] Work In Unions Clarke Field Organizer "Pro–Labor" Congressman Abandon Beal's Defense Only One Charge Who Are They? Appeal Army Stool Pigeons Put a Finger on Writers -Informers Cause Many to Lose Jobs on WPA Project Stalinists Supervisors YPSLs Fight Rule on Alien Students -Picket Board of Higher Education to Force New Decision N.J. Chemical Plant Strike in Ninth Week New Trial Is Climax of Two-Year Purge Tries Again -Andrey Vishinsky (Photograph) Charges Grow As Trials Progress Fantastic "Evidence" Public Skepticism Increases [Misspelled as "scepticism" in text] Presides Again -V.V. Ulrich "Son, Friend, Fighter" (Photograph of Trotsky and his son Leon Sedoff) Leon Sedoff Honored by 700 at New York Memorial Meeting -Shachtman, Erber Pay Final Tribute to Late Warrior Life Reviewed Wire to Trotsky Natalia Trotsky Safeguard Trotsky's Asylum That Letter Labor's "Friends" How Not to Fight War -An Editorial Statement Sponsors of Meeting Suddenly Discover A "Program" Find Themselves Farther Right Than American League Infer That Roosevelt Might Forsake Drive toward War Movement Is Blow at Revolutionary Struggle Against War 11 Mar. 12, 1938 Pacifist Rally to Dear Old Flag at New York Talkfest -Patriotic Fervor Arises at Hippodrome "Anti-War" Meeting Patriotic Tone Retired General Favors Japan La Follette's "Differences" The Pink Wolfe Whose Blood? Will Crumble to Bits SWP Anti-War Meet March 18 Safeguard the Asylum of Leon Trotsky! New York Soviet Consulate Picketed to Protest Trial -Trial of 21 Denounced; Fourth International Slogan Resounds, (signed by Ernest Rice McKinney, Sec'y, Socialist Workers Party, Local New York Petition Handed to Consul Demand Postponement Shachtman Talks on Trials to 800 Yezhov "Favored" for Nobel Peace Prize! Trial Protest Sent by Mpls. Trade Unions -Midwest Organizations Wire Troyanovsky on Moscow Frame-up The Signers Ask Postponement They Stand Alone No Real Evidence Alexei Rykov (Photograph) Stalin Regime Desperate -New Moscow Trial Shows Usual Flaws -Universal Ridicule Greets Flood of Fantastic "Confessions" Extracted from the Former Leaders of Russian Bolshevism -Real Evidence Is Non-Existent -Oslo Official Refutes Testimony -Stalin's Regime Going Through Crisis Trial Shows Cautious on Hotels "Confesses" -Nicholas Krestinsky (Photograph) Expelled From Norway Victim of Stalin -A.P. Rosengoltz (Photograph) Covering Blunders Funniest of All Why, Oh Why? Socialist Party Ready to Liquidate Itself Into American Labor Party Entry Being Planned Laidler Tells All Clarity Pushed Aside Christian Rakovsky (Photograph) House Group Adopts Huge Navy Budget -Original Figure Raised to New Record Peace-Time High Prepares World War Defense of What? Widick Begins Labor Tour at Boston, Lynn -Finds Comrades Active in New England Key Unions N.Y. Painters Get Taste of Stalinism -Weinstock Imports C.P. Gangsterism to Gag Militants Vigorous Protests Riot Prevented Goshen Rubber Workers Kill Fake Union Move Fighting Platform Unfolded by Geller -Anti-War Stance Stressed by S.W.P. Candidate in St. Paul Critical Support Anti-War Fight Stalinist Moves Against Defense of Beal Crumble -Socialist Party Bares Falsity of Lawrence Effort Liars Exposed Handicapped Form New Trade Union -Old Organization Found Utterly Incapable of Struggle League Degeneration Plight of Handicapped Roosevelt Price Policy Shows Economic Drop by David Cowles Not All to Rise Sharp Depression Part of Permanent Crisis Effect of Falling Wages Raising Basic Prices Recovery In Profits Would Have Lowered Prices Actions Louder Than Words Akron Rubber Workers Ask Parley to Settle Friction Due to Lay-offs Plant Conditions Local Craft Uncovered Old Socialist Views Convention of S.W.P. -Found Source of Inspiration in New Year Gathering of Militants at Chicago by George M Whiteside Know What They Want No Rubber Stamp Vigilant Rank–and–File The Trials, Democracy and Communism Find a Defense for "Democracy" These Are NOT the Methods of Communism! The Trials and the Defense of the U.S.S.R. War Would Be Crusade Results of "Realism" Basis for Advance "Deliverance" To Slavery Moscow Trial Special Supplement * Stalin Directs Blows At Revolution Itself; Trial Testimony Crumbles at First Touch -Is Forced to New Extremes by Crisis -Krestinsky "Repudiation" Throws Glaring Light on Methods of G.P.U.; Documentary Evidence Entirely Absent by Max Shachtman Finding Scapegoats Grinko and the Ruble Stalin's National Policy Bankruptcy Abroad Why England Comes In Why America Does Not No One Will Remain Documentary Evidence Lacking Thousands Involved Little to Show The "Repudiation" by Krestinsky "Deliberately Perverted" Would Never Have Appeared A Night in Jail Soviet Relations With Reich Relations with Germany After Rapallo Scheidemann's Confirmation Zetkin's Speech The "Plot" Against Lenin in 1918 No Need to Tell Leadership New Radek, Piatakov, Speak No Plot at All "If the Charges Were True---" What Charges Mean Cannot Be Believed *Trials Arouse Protests from Labor Abroad -European Socialist Press Rejects Charges As Totally False Leaders Sign "Medieval Sorcery" * Attempt to Break Trotsky Defense Committee Fails * Organizers of October by Diego Rivera (Photograph of a mural?) * Trotsky Reviews Elements of New Trial; Cites Efforts to Gag Him by Leon Trotsky Sedoff's Death Second Step More Important Than Last One Stalin Alone Unaccused The Case of Pletnyev Eight Ministers Kirov Once More March New International Appears Hail the Heroic Paris Communards! -A Commemorative Statement Suppressed in Blood Social Democrats Betray New Courage and Hope Soviet Union Notes -French Socialists Break Silence on Trials; What the Records Say About Deaths of Gorky and Others by John G Wright Sidelights on the Latest Moscow Frame-up The "Murder" of Gorky Appeal Army Advance Information! Mr. Kerensky Comes to Town Nailed Again The Real Moscow Defendant (Political Cartoon) Letters to the Editor * Letter by John Wheelwright (Pertaining to coverage of the "Partisan Review") Charges Negligence Stalinist Depths? * Our Reply Present Program * To All Socialists (Letter from Norman Gilbert to members of the Socialist Party in Pennsylvania) Hippodrome Meeting -An Editorial Shachtman Heard at ILGWU Group Marxist School 12 Mar. 19, 1938 Lenin's Aides Shot -Anti-War Struggle Only Reply to Hitler -GPU Court Decrees Death for Eighteen After Farcical Trial -Last of Lenin's Staff Victims of Stalin's Executioners; Rakovsky Spared for Future Frame-up Charges -Trial Was Flimsiest of All The Victims White Guard Prosecutor Exposes Falsehoods Daily Covers Up A New Failure No Real Evidence Soviet Consulate Picketed In Fisco An Open Letter -To Members of the Communist Party Do You Believe In The October Revolution Is This Socialism? Truth Alone Serves Our Causes Stalinism, Not Socialism, Is Bankrupt Fascism Lashes Austrian Labor -Drive Toward General War Conflagration Given Impetus by Latest Triumph of Swastika; Move Looses Wave of Chauvinism -Vicious Reaction is Deepening Nazism Triumphs War Drive Speeded Social-Patriots in Line Stalinists To Fore Stalinism Aids Fascism The Revolutionary Road Loyalist Spain in Peril of Collapse Navy Departs for Pacific War "Games" -Record Maneuvers Will Cover Vast Triangle in Western Ocean Scope of Maneuvers Diplomatic Moves Mask Is Off Frame-ups? -So What? Says Anna Strong 2,000 Meet to Denounce Trial -2,000 Meet to Protest Frame-up Winding Up Affairs Trotsky's Message Lenin's General Staff of 1917 -Stalin, The Executioner, Alone Remains (Shot, in prison, disappeared, missing, suicide, in exile or dead with one survivor, and 2 or 3 unaccounted for) Mooney Wages New Battle to Gain Liberty -State Assembly Passes Resolution for a Full Pardon Merriam Has Pardon Power Mistrusts Courts Goff Defers Alone Fights On -Tom Mooney (Photograph) Labor Leader Offer Backing for Fred Beal -AFL Head Aids Defense; Dubinsky, Othes Join Up Dubinsky Speaks Up More Join St. Louis Unionists Spike Fake "Unemployment" Plan Clear Rasmussen of Fake Charges 1,000 Painters Fight Machine Rule in union -Hold Mass Meeting to Denounce Weinstock Leadership Weinstock Pilloried Fight Called For S.W.P. Candidate Polls Healthy Vote in St. Paul -Stalinists Are Slapped by Farmer-Labor Politicians by Carl O'Shea C.P. Gets Slapped Nothing New Candidate -Jules Geller Goodrich Locals Prepare to Oppose Wage Slashes Threaten to Decentralize Pecan Shellers on Strike Six Weeks Police Terror Rages New SWP Maritime Paper is Issued Lift Charters From Four WAA Locals in PA. -Stalinists Force Split in Allentown; League Takes Lead Aimed at Militants Unemployed Benefit Appeal Army Subs Bundle Orders -Local, Literature Agent, Increase "New Republic" Evades Challenge by Cannon -Fails to Name Alleged Provocateurs In S.W.P. Ranks Stove Workers Win Sit-Down Victory -Fight New Cut in Wage of $2.50 Weekly; 700 in Jail Fund Mounts for Chinese Comrades Blum Cabinet New Attempt to Stem Crisis -Franc Dives as Regime Tries Desperately to Save Itself Stopgap -Leon Blum (Photograph) Prepares for War Treachery and Betrayal Soviet Pact Doomed Anti-War Campaign On in Minneapolis -Issue Cuts Through All State Politics 544 Leads Drive Stalinists Losing out Bosses' Offensive Gene Frey (Obituary) Minnesota Farmer-Labor Group Takes Militant Anti-War Stand Mark Commune Date by Anti-War Mass Meeting Spector Speaks On Trials in Toronto Soviet Union Notes -Stalin on His Onetime Allies--He Sheds Blood He Said Opposition Wanted--The Mystery of Postyshev by John G. Wright [Joseph Vanzler] Stalin and Molotov on Bukharin -- in 1926 Stalin and "Bukharin's Blood" Stalin on the "Policy of Lopping Off" The Postyshev Mystery 13 Mar. 26, 1938 LaGuardia Cuts Relief Ten Percent -"Labor Mayor" Acts in "Gesture" Against Gov. Lehman All Out! (Demonstration against LaGuardia's Relief Cuts at City Hall) Wants Cut Now Unemployed Suffer Demonstration Proposed Relief Militants Arrested in N.Y. Expropriation of Oil Lands Opens New Era for Mexican Workers -Cardenas Move Is Step Forward; Workers in This Country Must Give Full Support to Mexican Working Class "Democratic" Pressure Our Position A Progressive Step Workers' Initiative SWP Militants Keep Fascists from East Side -Picket Line and Rally Block Meeting on Second Avenue Picket Line Formed Street Rally Held Second Rally Broken Up United Front Offer Next Week! -An 8-Page Anti-War Issue! Rappoport Breaks with French C.P. Trial Causes New Fissures in C.P. Ranks -Stalin's Terror Repels Honest Proletarian Militants Open Disbelief Foreign Groups Revolting Afraid to Argue Walls Cracking Imperialist War Impends in Europe; Hull Reiterates Aim to Dominate World -Hitler Speeds His War Plans -U.S.S.R.'s Isolation Is Deepened; Poland's Appetite Whetted New War Moves France Paralyzed U.S.S.R. In Peril No Real Difference Navy Funds to Be Hiked Again -War Scare Used to Spur American Armaments Program New Increases In View Rejects Isolation The Real Reason The Only Road To Peace Last War Led to Fascism The Enemy Is Here People's Front Leads Spanish Working Class Toward Fascist Abyss -Only the Repression of the Revolutionary Mass Movement of the Workers Has Made Franco's Sweeping Victories Possible Bombardments Continue Fascists Get Help Only Defeats Power Sacrificed Lie Revealed 10,000 Ohio Gum Minders Mass to Protest Wage Slashes -Boss Offensive Arouses Akron -Washington Acts behind Scenes to Spike Union Vote Rubber Barons Active Stalinists Prepare Ground Minneapolis Electrical Workers Vote to Strike -Power Company Attacks in General Offensive Directed Against Labor in Mid-West Strike Won Agreement Relations Severed Dangerous Concession Crucible Steel Workers Out on Strike in New Jersey -Picket Squads Evidence Fighting Spirit of Strike Committee Strikers' Demands Militant Leadership Roosevelt War Aims Denounced at New York Ant-War Meeting Bankruptcy of Roosevelt's Reform Program Laid Bare by Gov't Acts by Dave Cowles Never Reached It Consider Their Actions Need Admitted Nature of Boss Justice Family Affair Appeal Army Voroshilov is Next by Leon Sedoff The Best of Friends May Part -Stalin and Voroshilov (Photograph) Conflict Really with Stalin "German Orientation" Got Out in Time The Military Councils Decision Not New Appointment of Mekhlis Fund for Chinese Comrades Goes Up Soviet Union Notes -Monstrousness Of Trials Matched by Acuteness of Soviet Economic Crisis; Pravda Gives Picture Showing Scope of Breakdown by John G Wright [Joseph Vanzler] Stalin Frame-ups Mask Bankruptcy of Regime Statistics Carefully Doctored Stalin Regime Wrecks Soviet Economy Pravda Paints a Revealing Picture Everyone Can Now See him The McNaboe Bill The Travels of Kautsky Lamont to Dewey to Lamont Unity Against Fascism ILGWU Members Protest Trial to Soviet Envoy April New International Hitler's Austria Coup Aided by Moscow Trial by Leon Trotsky Vyshinsky--White Guard Gangster System Remains Disbelief Universal Pravda's Accusation Given Conditional Sentence The Metamorphosis Trotsky Explains to Kirchwey Aftermath of the Trials by James Burnham Even the Stalinists Makes Revolution Absurd Confessions to Order Disbelief Not Enough They Come to Life Smoke-Fire Theory For Straying Faithful Socialism Attacked New York Jobless Protest La Guardia Relief Slash Stalinists in Usual Role Speakers Stall Money Enough Fresh Wave of Strikes Hits France -Workers Open Offensive Despite Treachery of Popular Front by Argus Prop of Capital -Leon Blum (Photograph) Lesson Forgotten Gift to Bourgeoisie Reaction Fears Workers Anti-Labor Law Sought Stalinists for Sale Minneapolis Takes the Lead! -Unions Declare Anti-War Stand (Adopted by the Central Labor Union of Minneapolis, representing 50,000 unionists) "The Church Militant" Stalinists Try to Oust Martin from UAW Post -Groom Frankensteen for Presidency With View to Pushing "Collective Security" Fakery The Latest Maneuver Groom Frankensteen Deceit and Lies Irresponsible Action Blackens Martin The Ford Drive A Warning Stalin Purge Extended to Polar Heroes -Nineteen More Are Shot After an Alleged Secret Trial On His Way Out Charges Will Mount Fantastic--So What? Labor Alone Can Prevent Spain's Doom -Popular Front Crumbles Before Franco's Big Catalan Drive Preceded by Political Defeats Central Issue Jails Filled There is Still Time A Principled Fight Navy Maneuvers Proceed Under Close Secrecy -Internment Camps Being Prepared in Hawaii For Japanese They Understand SWP Leaders in Mexico City Support Workers Struggle Stalinists Back Governor Murphy for Re-Election -Mazey, Head of Briggs Auto Local, Alone in Opposition Short Memories Curran Aids Navy Recruiting Action Martin, Kenyon, Hays Join Beal Defense Group -Many Join in Nationwide Movement for His Liberation More Prominent Joiners Loones Ouster Uncovers Strife in Seamen's Union Attacks Editor, Stalinists Lenient to Opportunists Allentown Project Reopens as Result of Militant Action Appeal Army New Subs--Week ending March 25th Britain Not Yet Ready to Fight Hitler -Chamberlain Declines Role of Savior of "Democracy" No Advance Commitment Stalin Proposal Dismised Democracy and Fascism Loves Peace Too -Neville Chamberlain (Photograph) Preventive War Possible Labor Traitors Busy No Opposition Yet Consider Arbitration Board to Settle Rubber Disputes Arrested Photographer a Stalinist Sympathizer -Ossip Garber, Held in Rubens Passport Fraud, Is Well-Known in C.P. Periphery by Junius A Known Stalinist Arrest Confirms "Appeal" Family's Mouth Shut Passport photos for Mr. and Mrs. "Donald L. Robinson" (Perhaps made by Ossip Garber) Fund for China Mounts to $143 French Technicians Denounce the Trials Soviet Union Notes -Purge Goes On--New Trial of Red Army Generals is in Prospect--Soviet Deputies Begin to Get the Axe by John G. Wright [Joseph Vanzler] Stalin Intensifies Purge Sidelights on the Last Frame-Up Vyshinsky on Zinoviev In 1925 Bravo Minneapolis! The Gainesville Speech Stalinist Gangsterism Lynn Gets Taste of "Democracy" at Meeting on Moscow Frame-ups Stalinist "Democracy" Woman Pushed Around The Only War to End War! by Carlo (Political Cartoon) A Letter from China Chiang and the U.S.S.R. Time Not Ripe "Left" Trickery All Favored Surrender 14 Apr. 2, 1938 (Special Anti-War Supplement) Workers! The Enemy Is In Your Own Country! (Headline Above Masthead) Millions Died for the Fraud of "Democracy" In Human Lives One Out of Five Dies 28,000,000 Civilians Perished The Workers Gained Nothing The Capitalists Alone Profited by War The Workers Were Left With the Bills A Rooseveltian Ship of State -Aircraft Carrier "Lexington" (Photograph) Do Not Allow the Lessons of 1917 to be Easily Forgotten -Boss War is for Boss Profits and Not for "Democracy" The Real Facts Behind the Scenes Why Wars Are Fought Why Troops Went Ready in 1916 Treatment of Labor War "Democracy" Wars Since the "War to End War" S.W.P. Policy on War -Fight the War-Makers! (From "The Declaration of the Principles of the Socialist Workers Party.") Role of Pacifism Oppose Social Patriotism Roosevelt-Hull Are Heading Toward New World Conflict -War is Pivot of American Plans -Preparations Are Going Ahead in Every Domain Pacific Maneuvers Kennedy's Slip Pacifist Smokescreen Capitalism Stifled In Whose War Shall I Fight? by Eugene V. Debs (Article written in 1915) Sino-Japanese War is Prelude to Greater Pacific Conflict -Our Solidarity is With Masses of China, Japan -National Revolutionary War Will Transform the Whole East Japan's Invasion The Fight for Liberation Real Road to Victory Workers of the World Must Absorb Lessons of Spanish Civil War Masses Checked Avoided Radical Steps Sapped Initiative Imperialist Cynicism "Democracy" Smokescreen They Wanted a Better Life -Victims of Franco's Bombers (Photograph) Imperialist Interests in China Are at Root of Coming Clashes Percentage of Foreign Capital Investments U.S. Interests Comintern Prepared to Support Imperialist War Facilitate Support of War To Serve as Loyal Aides Role of Comintern "Class Harmony" Browder and Roosevelt Dove of Peace, Roosevelt Style -One of the U.S. Army's new "flying fortresses" which recently made a "goodwill" flight to South America (Photograph) The Idea of "National Defense" Defense of the Soviet Union Rests on Working Class -The Criminal Policies of Stalin Have Isolated the U.S.S.R.; Workers Will Aid It Only by Resisting Imperialistic War Plans Malignant Growth An Old Trick Struggle Will Decide Who Will Conquer Pacifism is An Aid, Not a Deterrent, To the War-Makers * The Meaning of Pacifism by Rosa Luxemburg * Pacifism Separates Anti-War Fight From Struggle Against Capitalism The Pacifist Argument In the Labor Movement The Roots of War Eliminate the Cause Really Aids War-Makers * Sowing Illusions, Pacifism Leaves Masses Helpless In Face of War Turn Into Support The Social Patriots * Democracy, Pacifism and Imperialism by Leon Trotsky (Published in 1917) The Roots of Pacifism The Idea of "Eternal Peace" "If War Should Come..." The Enemy is in Your Own Country! by Karl Liebknecht Socialism and War by Lenin and Zinoviev (Pamphlet published in 1915) National Awakening What is Social-Chauvinism?" Mass Suffering Increased Woodrow Wilson, In Four Installments -Howe Led Us to War Minneapolis Vets Take Militant Anti-War Stand "Keep America Out of War," Asks New Committee; But How? Attitude Toward Government The Dividing Line Eugene V. Debs -Jailed for his revolutionary activity during W.W.I Debs declared he would fight only in a Class War for the liberation of the workers from capitalism (Photograph) The Anti-War Fight William Green Ready to Sub for Gompers -He Already Announced Support of Roosevelt War Program "If War Comes..." Like Gompers Assured Labor Docility William Green (Photograph) They Kept Pledge Fought Anti-War Movement Green Follows Suit 14 Apr. 2, 1938 World's Workers Can Still Defeat Franco's Drive (Headline over Masthead) U.S. Strikes at Mexican Labor -Silver Move Made to Aid Oil Robbers -Action Seen as First Step in Sharp Struggle Which May End in Imperialist Intervention Through Mexican Fascist Bands -Jingo Campaign is Unleashed -U.S. Silver Move Against Mexico is Direct Attack on Working Class Jingo Campaign On Defend Fantastic Profits Roosevelt Collaborates Revolution is Need Solidarity With Mexico Twenty One Years After Lesson of History Follows Path of Woodrow Wilson Roosevelt's Idealistic Camouflage The Real Enemy--Imperialism New York Jobless Protest La Guardia Relief Slash Stalinists in Usual Role Speakers Stall Money Enough Fresh Wave of Strikes Hits France -Workers Open Offensive Despite Treachery of Popular Front by Argus Prop of Capital -Leon Blum (Photograph) Lesson Forgotten Gift to Bourgeoisie Reaction Fears Workers Anti-Labor Law Sought Stalinists for Sale Minneapolis Takes the Lead! -Unions Declare Anti-War Stand (Adopted by the Central Labor Union of Minneapolis, representing 50,000 unionists) "The Church Militant" Stalinists Try to Oust Martin from UAW Post -Groom Frankensteen for Presidency With View to Pushing "Collective Security" Fakery The Latest Maneuver Groom Frankensteen Deceit and Lies Irresponsible Action Blackens Martin The Ford Drive A Warning Stalin Purge Extended to Polar Heroes -Nineteen More Are Shot After an Alleged Secret Trial On His Way Out Charges Will Mount Fantastic--So What? Labor Alone Can Prevent Spain's Doom -Popular Front Crumbles Before Franco's Big Catalan Drive Preceded by Political Defeats Central Issue Jails Filled There is Still Time A Principled Fight Navy Maneuvers Proceed Under Close Secrecy -Internment Camps Being Prepared in Hawaii For Japanese They Understand SWP Leaders in Mexico City Support Workers Struggle Stalinists Back Governor Murphy for Re-Election -Mazey, Head of Briggs Auto Local, Alone in Opposition Short Memories Curran Aids Navy Recruiting Action Martin, Kenyon, Hays Join Beal Defense Group -Many Join in Nationwide Movement for His Liberation More Prominent Joiners Loones Ouster Uncovers Strife in Seamen's Union Attacks Editor, Stalinists Lenient to Opportunists Allentown Project Reopens as Result of Militant Action Appeal Army New Subs--Week ending March 25th Britain Not Yet Ready to Fight Hitler -Chamberlain Declines Role of Savior of "Democracy" No Advance Commitment Stalin Proposal Dismised Democracy and Fascism Loves Peace Too -Neville Chamberlain (Photograph) Preventive War Possible Labor Traitors Busy No Opposition Yet Consider Arbitration Board to Settle Rubber Disputes Arrested Photographer a Stalinist Sympathizer -Ossip Garber, Held in Rubens Passport Fraud, Is Well-Known in C.P. Periphery by Junius A Known Stalinist Arrest Confirms "Appeal" Family's Mouth Shut Passport photos for Mr. and Mrs. "Donald L. Robinson" (Perhaps made by Ossip Garber) Fund for China Mounts to $143 French Technicians Denounce the Trials Soviet Union Notes -Purge Goes On--New Trial of Red Army Generals is in Prospect--Soviet Deputies Begin to Get the Axe by John G. Wright Stalin Intensifies Purge Sidelights on the Last Frame-Up Vyshinsky on Zinoviev In 1925 Bravo Minneapolis! The Gainesville Speech Stalinist Gangsterism Lynn Gets Taste of "Democracy" at Meeting on Moscow Frame-ups Stalinist "Democracy" Woman Pushed Around The Only War to End War! by Carlo (Political Cartoon) A Letter from China Chiang and the U.S.S.R. Time Not Ripe "Left" Trickery All Favored Surrender 15 Apr. 9, 1938 Roosevelt Speeds War Plans -Vast Army Games to Help Make Country War-Minded -Many Sided Preparations, Military, Naval, and Diplomatic, Are Pointing U.S Toward New World Conflagration -Will Build Super-Warships Hull Reveals Purpose Another War Move Revolutionary Course in Spain Can Check Franco -Politicians Scurry for Safe Cover -Scapegoats Sought For Series of Heavy Defeats ` Prieto Dumped Pozas Led Terror "Anarchist Sabotage!" International Solidarity Palestine C.P. Joins Fourth International W.A.A. Gathers in Convention -Progressive To Urge Militant Program as Reply to Policies of People's Fronters "The Successes" Fruits of Victory Political Jockeying Progressives Rally For a New Course Workers Hold Power Plants in Michigan -Murphy Steps in Again to Head off New Sitdown Strike Mexican Workers Greet Delegates of the Socialist Workers Party Against Imperialism Challenges Toledano Union Leaders Speak Roosevelt Trims Sails in Oil Fight -Tries Tacking to Meet Threat of Storm in Mexico Silent on Threats Cárdenas' Note Cárdenas Was Willing British Are Losers Rickett's Role Effect on Workers For Mexico Liberation! Parade Today, Die Tomorrow! Conscious Preparation for War Meaning of "Preparedness" F.L.P. Becomes Cog in Roosevelt Machine -Stalinist–Benson Clique Presents Hand-Picked Convention with Class Peace Program Praise Roosevelt Stand on War Bernard at Work Stand on Relief Support Supreme Court A Packed Convention Senator Clarke Confirm N.Y. War Meeting At War Conclave? -Norman H. Davis (Photograph) Workers Resists Scab–Herding Police in Detroit Battle -Force Closing of Screw Plant -Thousands Join Strikers to Prevent Movement of Scabs Fight Wage Cut Scabs Escorted Electrical Workers Score Fine Victory Food Workers to Take Poll on April 12 Soviet Union Notes -Stalin's Bloody Purge Surpasses All Previous Bonapartist Excesses; Red Army Decimated; Soviet Transportation Disorganized by John G Wright The Purge and Progress The Purge and the Red Army The Crisis in Transportation Hook Blasts Moscow Frame-Ups in New York Radio Broadcast Testimony Proved False Stalin Does Not Believe Jersey Law Void, High Court Rules -Leaflet Distributors Need No Permits Chicago Office Workers Reject C.P. Attempt to Oust Organizer Why Stalinists Won Committees Disintegrate Proposal Voted down Members––On Guard! Chinese Garment Workers Strike in San Francisco 20,000 Furriers Tie Up N.Y. Shops -Industry Paralyzed by Strike Action National Committee Plenum Meeting in N.Y. Next Week Pastor Holmes Confirms "Appeal" Story on Strong She Got Indignant Go Ahead––File ! A.P.L. Sec'y Gives Backing to Beal Group -Rose Sends Letter of Support to Defense Committee Newsmen on Coast Vote Strike Action Marine Unions Hit by New Fink Hall -Crews Shipped Out by Maritime Body Widick Speaks to Farmers in Olivia April New International Contains Timely Articles Appeal Army Subs Bundle Order Increase New Crisis Looms as Blum Totters Again -Right Prepares Coup in France -National Union Government Will Pave Way for Repression of Workers to Help Capital Meet Deepening Crisis By Argus Clashes Loom A Danger Signal C.P. on Armaments Program of National Union Back at Starting Point Fund for Chinese Comrades Mounts Ta-tu, Indo-Chinese Militant, Held in Prison of People's Front People's Front Repression Arrested and Expelled Moutet Orders Suppression Is Paralyzed Grand Jury Indicts Two in Rubens Mystery Case -Garber, Sharfin, Known As C.P. Supporters Or Members by Junius Garber Indicted New Names Enter Sharfin Evades Questions Fall Guy -Ossip Garber (Photograph) Stalinists Keep Mum Gerson, Meet Gerson! Reorganization Bill A Letter from China by Fu Ling A Lesson from History Chiang's Danger Masses Feared Stalinist Slanders Protested Regroupment Begins Kuomintang Criticized 16 Apr. 10, 1938 Unemployment Gets No Lead at WAA Meet -N.Y. Convention Skirts All Issues Vital for Jobless LaGuardia's Advice "Democratic" Processes Lasser on Roosevelt Stalinists Run Riot Charge Retracted S.P. Delegates Switch C.P. Slate Elected 150,000 French Workers out on Strike To Defy Daladier -Red Flag Flies Again Over Paris Factories As Workers Resist Reactionary Offensive; Communists Vote for Daladier Floodgates Open Accord with Rome Looms Daladier's Aims Dangerous Weaknesses Threatens Workers -Premier Deladier (Photograph) Labor Playing Pennsylvania Boss Politics -Lewis Sets Out to Take over Democratic Party Machine Roosevelt Steers Clear Stalinists Back Democrats Plenum of S.W.P. Postponed One Week Nippon Drive Bog Down in Central China -Chiang Kai-Shek Given Absolute Powers by Congress Against Great Odds Congress Seals Dictatorship The Priests of Half-Truth By Leon Trotsky Reed and..... Duranty Logic of Class Struggle Opposites Identified Panorama of Narrowness Obliged to Veer Again Their World U.S. Puts Off Freedom for Philippines -War Strategy in Orient Causes Revision of Plans Concession to Bourgeoisie Promise of Independence Bourgeoisie Crawls Warning to Japan Against All Imperialism Mink, Well-Known G.P.U. Assassin, Is En Route to Mexico -Notorious Stalinist Agent Proceeds South Via Galveston; Served As Terror Chief for G.P.U. In Spain -Trotsky's Life Is Menaced! -Stalinist Hirelings Aim for Trotsky by Max Shachtman Leon Trotsky (Photograph) Worried in Moscow He Killed Berneri Preceded by Other Agents Why Is Mink Going to Mexico? 12 SWPers Injured by Hoodlum Attack in Chicago Will Improve Panama Canal for War Use -$200,000,000 Voted for Widening; Nicaragua Plan Dropped For War Vessels Offensive Aims Revealed A.B.B. of War Strategy All for Wall Street Teachers Union Ousted by Joint Committee -Company Union Type of Organization Moves With Reactionary Wave; Conciliatory Methods of Local 5 Prove Bankrupt Line-up With reaction Demand Reorganization Oppose False Policy Militant Slate Rochester Unions Begin Organizing Jobless Workers -AFL Affiliates Support Drive to Unite Unemployed First Charter Granted Fur Strike Ends Its Second Week Stalinists Turn Out for St. Louis Rally NMU Opposition Shows Lack of Clarity in Poll -Various Elements Mixed in "Rank and File Pilot" Group Fly Progressive Colors Militant Group Weakened C.P. Seeks to Prevent United May Day Parades -Strait-jacketed Committees Exclude Militants from Meetings in Boston, Lynn, Newark to Prevent Unity * Boston Revolutionists Barred * Same Tactics in Lynn Crash Conference Stalinists Isolated * Barred in Newark Regimented Vote Contact Unions American League Fails to Get Response in Yorkville The Representation Newark Union Adopts Anti-War Resolution Appeal Army Sharfin, Garber Released on Bail Where is Juliet Poyntz, Missing Now for a Year?--Tresca Links Disappearance to Agents of G.P.U.; Stalinists Maintain Tight-lipped Silence Had Reason to Fear Stalinists Keep Silent All for Wall Street Where Is She? -Juliet Stuart Poyntz (Photograph) History of Polish C.P. Undergoes Refurbishing by Ernest Erber History Rewritten Factionalism a Crime How They Lied Workers Begin to Drift, Disgusted, from Communist Party Ranks Everywhere Kick Over Traces Defy C.P. "Discipline" Attacks C.P. Policies Soviet Union Notes -Red Army and Navy Feel Effects of Purge--New Party Elections to be Held to Fill Vacant Posts by John G. Wright Crisis in the Armed Forces Admirals Given Liquidation Order Recent Developments in the Soviet Union The Eleventh Hour Blessed Are the Peace-Makers French Workers Demonstrate Their Might (Photograph shows workers occupying the Renault motor works) Back Numbers of N.I. on Sale 17 Apr. 23, 1938 Britain and Italy Sign Robber Pact -Open Road for Bloc of "Democratic" and Fascist States Both Sides Keen Stalinist "Theory" Upset British Interests Threatened Await Franco Victory Soviet Union Isolated Took the Pot –Mussolini (Photograph) French Sit-In Strikers Told to End Fight -Difficult Choice Now Faces Centrists in That S.F.I.O. S.F.I.O. Split Workers Challenge Midwest Boss Drive Against Labor False Rumors Dunne's Fighting Speech CIO Decision to Form National Body Brings Unity Issue Forward -Six-Month Interval Provided to Give Hillman Chance to Make New Peace Overtures; Leaders Fed up with C.P. by James P Cannon Unity Still on Agenda Hillman and Conciliation Unions Want Democracy Deal with Browder Situation in New York Takes a Long Step -John L Lewis (Photograph) Illinois C.P. Backs Kelly's Man for Senate -Apes Labor Non-Partisan League in Democratic Primary Fight -Back Igoe and Other Machine Primary Candidates by Albert Gates Democrats Split Scene of Struggle Mud-slinging Match Only One Dilemma C.P. Opposes Lucas "The Chief Task" Divided Victory Roosevelt Seeking Fresh Panaceas to Check Depression * But His Spending Cure-All Is Just Another Quack Remedy -Workers Will Pay Against the Tide Will Benefit Capitalists New Burdens Loom * Proclaims U.S. Primacy in Western Hemisphere -Roosevelt Warns off All Foreign Interests from Latin America: LaGuardia Gives Forthright Expression to Imperialist Aims Warning to All Have-Nots at Work Playing Two Sides Full Settlement Sought America for the Exploiters LaGuardia Program Toward Real War Fruit Growers Open Parley After Workers Vote Strike Score First Gain Determined to Strike Militants in Phila. Fight Red-Baiting -Leaders of ILGWU Local Try to Cover Their Own Bankruptcy Conditions Grow Worse Members Wake Up Another Falsehood Hoodlums attack Cleveland SWPers Steel Workers Net Gains in Jersey Strike -Crucible Strikers Win Concessions After Militant Fight No Strike Concession Improved Situation Jersey WAA Rejects May Day Stooge Role SWP Alone Boycotted Boss Party Primaries in Chicago -Long-standing Tradition in Labor Movement Borne Forward by Revolutionists in Party Call St. Paul Unionists Oppose War Plans -Stalinists Unite with Racketeers in Election Lynn Foodworkers in Second Strike Correction Appeal Army Dunne Raps Bernard for Quitting Beal Defense -Minneapolis Union Leader Rips Congressman's Arguments to Pieces on Issue of Defending Class-War Prisoner For or Against? Where Truth Lies Demands Investigation Appeal for Funds (The Non-Partisan Committee for the Defense of Fred Beal issued an appeal for funds to help organize the legal aspects of the Beal Defense) Famous German Actress is Shot in Moscow Without Public Trial Attempted Suicide Played Character Roles Mass Meeting in N.Y. Backs Mexico Labor -S.W.P. Delegates Given Greeting on Return from South Trip International Support Needed New Panaceas Have Failed Resolution Adopted Enough of Mud! Enough of Blood! By Alfred Rosmer Commission Exposes Lies The Real Facts Stalin's Reasons New Falsehoods Needed Protest Widening Unit Quits Communist Party -Denounces Moscow Frame Ups Capitalists Ask for Doles to Bolster Sagging Output Levels To Hide Decline Production Index China Fund Nears Its Goal of $200 The Right of Asylum Whose Morals? Street-walkers of the G.P.U. -An Editorial The Good Neighbor Policy by Carlo (Political Cartoon) Stalin's Trial as a Terrorist Demanded of League by Trotsky, letter from Leon Trotsky Right to Be Heard G.P.U. Terrorism Attempts in Mexico Stalin at the Head Y.C.L. Supports U.S. Imperialism A Personal Note -The Pot Without Gold by Max Shachtman 18 Apr. 30, 1938 May Day - A Day of Struggle! -SWP Summons Workers for May Day Rally -Revolutionists Will Not Attend Patriotic Show of the Stalinists Will Parade Fraudulent United Front Offers Made Objections Raised Ultimatum Issued Make May Day Labor's Day! Reaction Hits Labor U.S. Capitalism Crippled Where Are We Marching? Labor is Invincible Down Tools! by Carlo (Political Cartoon) Nazi Shadow Deepens Over Czechoslovakia -Hitler Makes New Threats as Britain Pushes Its Plans to Strike Bargain With Nazis Embraces Nazi Leadership Directed Against U.S.S.R. S.W.P. Plenum Maps Out Future Party Activity Harry Bridges Orders Union-Smashing Drive Against Coast Sailors -Whole Future of Maritime Unions at Stake On Clear ut Issue of Collaboration or Class Struggle Policy Bridges' Order Bogus Ruling Opposition in I.L.W.U. Fakers' Aims The Opposition Fink-herder -Harry Bridges (Photograph) Our Greetings and our Tribute -To Prisoers of the Class War Greet Tom Mooney! To the Fighters in Spain To Comrade Ta Tu-Thau Support the National Struggles! Progressive Painters Fight Bureaucrats -Groups in Ten Locals Meet to Map Campaign -Thugs Beat Up Militant in Local 51; Members Are Outraged Riot at Local 51 Throttled Discussion Luttenberg Slugged Typo Workers Reject Fight Against C.I.O. -Reject Assessment Order and Demand Poll On Issue Referendum Demanded Blow to Green Machine Trend Reversed Auto Workers Fight Against Wage Cutting -Strikes Meet Bosses' Plan to Break Unions Bosses Determined Explosion Due Goodrich Union Defeats Plans for Wage Cuts -Akron Bosses Overplay Hand in Rubber Parleys Want Books Examined Shepard Line Ships West Coast Sailors Japan Starts New Drive in Central China -Seeks to Wipe Out the Defeat in Southern Shantung Dissensions and Difficulties Striking Power Comrades in China Acknowledge Aid Left Wing Forces Issue at Canadian Convention -Commonwealth Federation Displays Bureaucratic Methods at Do-Nothing Sessions by E. Robertson Group's Action Reduced 50 Per Cent Wife of Ex-C.P. Head Held by the G.P.U. 150 Gather at S.W.P. Dinner -Gala Event to Greet N.C. Members Police Seize Arms from Mexican C.P. Soviet Union Notes -Council of People's Commissars Feels New Blows--Denny Discovers Destruction of Party Apparatus in Soviet Union by John G. Wright Purge in the Council of People's Commissars The Destruction of the C.P.S.U. Sidelights on Party "Elections" Meet the Nazi Thugs! Kerensky and Stalin Lynn SWP Supports Sharaf Strikers T.U. Unity Needed In Coming Class Battles by Arne Swabeck Conflict Overshadowed Independence a Fact Those "Too Old" Bosses on Offensive LaFollette Prepares Third Party Attempt for 1940 by Frances Merill Third Party Aspirations What They Want Not a Labor Party Could Not Represent Labor Tram Workers Strike in Columbus New International May Issue Appears 19 May 7, 1938 SOCIALIST APPEAL OFFICIAL WEEKLY ORGAN OF THE SOCIALIST WORKERS PARTY EDITOR: MAX SHACHTMAN ASSOCIATE EDITORS; HAROLD ROBERTS, FRANK GRAVES BUSINESS MANAGER: S. STANLEY Hitler Seeks to Mend Axis by Rome Visit -Britain Anticipates His Move by Concluding French Alliance To Pool Resources Hasten Franco's Victory Czechoslovakia Deserted France Loses Indians Given New Taste of Democracy Seek to Oust Sailors from Maritime Body -Bridges Moves to Expel S.U.P. from Coast Federation Attacks on Lundeberg Palestine Communist Party Members Denounce Frame-up Stalin Befouls Movement "Back to Leninism" LaFollette Third Party Movement Would Check Workers' Independence -National Progressive Party, Launched by Scion of Wisconsin Dynasty, Seeks to Head Off Labor's Own Political Action Cool Reception Windy Words Reactionary Policy Boss Hague's Police Kidnap Norman Thomas -Workers' Own Action is Needed to Combat Jersey Fuehrer Vicious Assaults Workers' Initiative Needed Government Tax Program Hits Labor -Roosevelt Measure Gives Relief Only to the Exploiters -Threats to Load Major Crisis Burdens on Bosses Evaporate in Congress Bill Slashing by David Cowles Relieve Capitalisms Role of the State Wage-cuts Speed-up Taxes and Spending Stalinists Start Fight to Capture or Smash United Auto Workers -Frankensteen, Browder's Candidate to Replace Homer Martin, Issues Open Challenge; Board Meets This Week -Would Crush Union Democracy Faces Fight -Homer Martin (Photograph) Would Crush Groups Frankensteen Switches Seeks Dictatorship Code of Servility Muzzle for Union Sugar Coated Pill Backing for Murphy Warning Given AFL Uses Dual Union Tactics to Fight CIO -Charters Reactionary Miners' Union in Illinois Dual Union Moves I.L.G.W.U. Position Rank and File Committee Brings In NMU Agreement U.A.W. Launches Dramatic Section Rochester Unemployed Win Payments in Cash WAA Frustrates Plot to Expel Rasmussen SWP Holds Enthusiastic May Day Meeting in N.Y. -More Than 500 Cheer Demands for Class Struggle Policy; YPSLs Hold Outdoor Rally Workers Will Struggle What Happened Before C.P. Celebrates May Day With Patriotic Parades -Militant Traditions of Labor's Day Continue Under Banner of Fourth International Patriotic Parade In Philadelphia Chicago Holds Rally Banquet in Cleveland Mob Attacks Y.P.S.L. Speakers in Jamaica Coast Office Workers Fight Bridges' Blackmail -He Threatens to Withdraw C.I.O. Support from Union Unless It Knuckles Under by Kathleen Walker Bridges Threatens Three Charges Listed Bridges Packs Meeting Snatch Majority Appeal Army Workers of All Races Must Unite Against Fascism in Czechoslovakia An Ironic Outcome Communist Party Failure Class Struggle Abandoned Germany's Stake is Vast Military Resistance Idle Threat Militant Students Hold Large Anti-War Rallies -Resistance to Patriotic Degeneration of Annual Anti-War Strikes is Widespread Ready Response City College Strike Y.P.S.L. Meetings Mass Meeting on Spain Soviet Union Notes -Election Call for R.S.F.S.R. Seen as a Move for Extension of Purge; Shortage of Primary Goods Still Prevails by John G. Wright Stalin's "Elections"--A Cover for Wilder Purges The Party Purge Shortage of Necessities LaFollette's New Party China's Victories Rubber Union Considers New NRLB Project Labor Has Strong Arms, Too by Carlo (Political Cartoon) Inside the N.Y. Painters Union -The Painting Industry Today (First in a series on conditiopns among painters in New York and the problems of militants in the Painters Union) Difficulties of Organization Effect on Wages Speed-Up Aggravated Job Competition Favoritism Practiced YPSL Committees Will Slug It Out (Y.P.S.L. National Committee versus the District Committee in a baseball game) S.W.P. Labor Secretary Gives Account of Tour by B.J. Widick, Labor Secretary, S.W.P. Attitude To Trials Fight for Existence Workers' Control Needed Characteristics of Detroit Stalinists Applaud In Minneapolis 20 May 14, 1938 Hague's Rule Still Awaits Real Challenge -Farmer's–Labor Congressman, Acting on Advice of Stalinist I.L.D., Fail to Make Good on Threat to Defy New Jersey Dictator -Free Speech Fight Imperative "I Am the Law" -Mayor Hague (Photograph) Police Fill Square Congressman Stay Away Motivates Back-Down Cops Were Pleased A.F. of L. Bosses Back Hague Terror League Serves to Consecrate Ethiopian Rape -Italian Conquest Will Be Legitimized at Geneva China Pleads in Vain Mussolini Wants Time Workers Are Ready Stalinist "Audacity" Y.P.S.L. Members Arrested at Street Meeting in N.Y. Workers! Unite All Forces Against the Union Wreckers! by James P. Cannon The Workers Must Be Prepared Crisis Aggravates Union Problems The Auto Union Situation Support Martin In Other Unions The Sheriff Knocks Lifeguards of Capital Devaluation of Franc to Raise Cost of Living -Daladier Move Strikes Blow at Workers' Standards Big Business Asks Curb On Trade Union Rights -Knudsen and Others Sound Off At Chamber of Commerce Session in Washington "Unfair" to Bosses Union Smashing Was Issue Knudsen and Irresponsibility Wants Strikes Outlawed Appeal Salesmen Are Threatened Toledo White Collar Workers Put Progressives in Office Martin Balks Frankensteen Plot in U.A.W. -Browder's Candidate for Union Presidency Gets Rebuff at Executive Board Meeting; Stalinists Begin to Squirm -Union-Busters Strike Snag Weather-Vane Frankensteen Martin Group Carries Strike Problem Up Union to Fight Against Wage-Cuts Bridges Thugs Attack Pickets on West Coast -Revolt Movement Grows Among Rank and File Longshoremen Bosses Fare Badly Daily Worker Retreats from Anti-Martin Fight to Escape UAW Wrath -Stalinists Change Their Tune Overnight as News From Detroit Presages Failure for Their Plot to Capture Auto Union, by B.J. Widick, Labor Secreary S.W.P. C.P. Squirms Terms of Deal Reuther's Role C.P. Covering Tracks New Deals Ahead Rank an File Revolted Worker Paints Revealing Picture of Conditions in Ford Factories Lay-offs and Pay Cuts More Speed-Up Police Regime Installed Lesson Learned Hillman Hints at New Attempt to Effect A.F.L.-C.I.O. Unity Toledo Militant is Vindicated by Union C.I.O. to Organize Lynn WPA Workers Radio Union Votes Against Boss War Goodrich Workers Vote Ten-One Against Wage Cut Plan Appeal Army Cafeteria Union Bosses Sell Out Hard-Won Gain -Job Security Sacrificed by Agreement to Refer Discharge Cases to "Impartial" Board Stalinist Arguments Militant Workers Meet Progressives Charged German Centrists Give Bleak Conference Report -London Bureau, Uniting Miscellaneous European Groups, Fails to Make Headway Masses Absent To Follow N.L.P. New Allies New International for May on Stands Max Eastman Sues the Daily Worker Cowley Labored -And He Brought Forth some Mice "Enemies of Man" Will Cavort at Pioneer Shindig 200 French Communists Hear Trials Denounced -Rappaport, Ex-Party Leader, Denounces Stalin's Totalitarianism at Paris Gathering Marxism Vs. Stalinism Totalitarian Cruelty Fastens Responsibility Unite Against Hague! -Form Workers Defense Committees! -An Editorial Hague Gets Away With It Surrender Without Battle Inside the N.Y. Painters Union -In the Grip of Racketeers (Part 2 of 4) Graft Flourished Kick-backs Paid Dual Tactics of C.P. Stalinists Change Leon Trotsky Challenges British Labor Party on Oil Land Expropriation (Letter from Leon Trotsky to the London Daily Herald on the subject of the British government's demand for return of the oil property of the Mexican Eagle Oil Co., recently expropriated by the Cardenas Administration) Imperialist Cynicism A Robber Clique Picture of Oilfields Spain and Mexico 21 May 21, 1938 Stalinists Put to Flight by UAW Board -Frankensteen-Browder Combination Collapses Completely; Union Errs, However, In Supporting Governor Murphy -Program Gets Unanimous Vote On Factionalism Real Democracy Economic Crisis Opposes War Reasons for Retreat Both Misfired No Support for Murphy! Progressives Show Gains in Painters' Poll -Get Majority in Three Locals in Union Referendum Close in Local 51 Where Stalinists Scored Paper Appears "No Riders!" by Carlo (Political Cartoon) U.S. Imperialism Shows Aerial Might Over N.Y. -Japan Envisioned in Maneuvers as Actual Enemy in Coming War; Air-fleet Defects to Be Used As Lever for More War Appropriations Farmingdale Blacked Out Headed for War In the June "New International" -Trotsky on "Their Morals and Ours" Methods, Aims Discussed Not an Abstraction Importance of Aim Our Next Week Coast Sailors Voting on AFL Entry Proposal -Stalinists Wrecking Drive in CIO Forces Seamen to Seek Support Chamberlain Seeking New Status Quo -Wants Understanding with Germany at the Cheapest Price "Democrats" vs. Aggressors Hold Secret Talks Empire Cracking Up Election Shows Trend Mexico Ends Its Relations with Britain -Action Follows Insolent Demands by Britain; American Unions Must Give Strong Support to Mexican Workers -Fascist Rebellion Fomented Broader Considerations Concentrating Against Cedillo Revolutionary Position Cease the Blockade Integralistas Ape Hitlerites in Brazil Coup -Putsch Against Vargas Recalls Attack on Dollfuss in 1934 Familiar Methods The Integralistas UAW Head Supports Mexican Strikers UAW Adopts 20 Point Program of Activity Vigilantes Attack WPA Picket Lines Stalinist Thugs Busy in Akron N.Y. Teachers' Union Fights Counsel Edict -Unionists Have Duty to Back Move for Reinstatement Reinstatement Sought Ford "Union" Refuses to Leave Scene -Workers Vote Affiliation to U.A.W. But Company Union Lives On McDowell Contradicted Slugged and Beaten Wages and Markets Cleveland Relief Clients Sit Down Amalgamated Urges Unity of C.I.O., A.F.L. -Clothing Workers Hear Pleas for Peace Among Unions Philadelphia SWP Activists Confer Appeal Army Toledo Unions Moved to Aid Struggle of Jobless -Growing Crisis Puts Organization of Unemployed on Agenda of Industrial Council Crisis Deepening Militancy Curbed Organize the Unemployed! Inside the N.Y. Painters' Union -Stalinist Wreckers Move in (Part 3 of 4) Machine Control In Cahoots With Bosses Unemployed Problem Union Democracy Vote Stealing Union Divided Shachtman Talks at Boston Meet World Bank Hits Myths of New Deal -Report Shows Futility of Planning under Capitalism Upswing Fails Stalinist Deny It On Mothers' Day C.P. Corral Sons for War The Marchers AFL Takes Unions Out of Labor Party 600,000 Affected Is Bluecher the Next on Stalin's Death List -Purge Hits Closest Aides and New Batch of High Officers; Judicial System Found Filled With Criminals New Army Changes Soviet "Justice" Anti-War Motion Gets New Support Lewis Conceals Anti-Labor Acts Behind Left Talk -Speech at A.C.W. Meet Designed to Keep His Influence Reflects Workers' Mood Pseudo-radical Oratory Gas Workers Gain in New Contract Hague Rule is "Local Police Matter"-F.D.R. -Roosevelt Skirts Pleas for Action Against Jersey Fuehrer He Criticized Hague Roosevelt Declines to Act Call to Labor The Wages and Hours Bill Untouchables On the Ludlow Amendment –Statement of the National Committee, SWP "Preparing the Shot!" by Burck (Political cartoon reprinted from the "Daily Worker") One in Six Depends on Relief, Says Hopkins by David Cowles Drop in the Bucket Problem Intensified Will Cut Relief Menace of Fascism On Housing -An Editorial 6,000,000 Homes Are Needed New York's Needs For a Real Housing Program 22 May 28, 1931 Smash Fascism in Mexico! -Workers Must Mobilize to Fight Cedillo -Fascist General Aspiring to Role of Mexican Franco, Has Backing of British and American Oil Companies -Break Washington's Blockade Fights Revolt -President Cardenas (Photograph) G.P.U. Stages Frame-Up Trial in Barcelona -Charges Seven Militants With Assassination -Stalin-Yezhof Methods Applied in Spain Against Revolutionists Who Have Been in Front Ranks Against Franco -Bolshevik-Leninists Accused Accused Militants One Escaped In Barcelona Prison If the Martyrs Could Speak -For Workers Defense! The Memorial Day Massacre (When 10 workers died at police hands during a strike at Republic Steel in South Chicago, Photograph) 9,000 Rubber Workers Quit Akron Plants -Goodrich Plants Struck in Fight Against Wage Cuts by B.J. Widick, Labor Secretary S.W.P. All Grievances Up Firestone Contract Renewed Union Positions Better An Open Letter -To Members of the Communist Party Relief Crisis in Cleveland Still Unsolved -City, State Authorities Pass the Buck While Jobless Starve -Workers Alliance Fails to Give Jobless a Lead One in Three on Relief Twelve Cents a Day Demonstration Opposed Unity in Censorship War Menace Looming in Czech Crisis -Britain, France Act to Forestall Forceful Hitler Coup Anglo-French Action Relief Ceases as "Recession" Hits Chicago -34,000 Jobless Families Face Starvation as Funds Fail Chicago Case Workers' Union Falls Down Miserably in New Relief crisis by L. Malgrecki Second Crisis in Two Years Board Reverses Stand Climax of Years' Impotence Causes of Bankruptcy Forbidden to Strike Union Becomes an Office Lack of Union Democracy A Program of Action Bridges Group Backs Bosses' Mass Meeting -Open Shop Employers Offered Forum by Frisco C.I.O. Boss Plan Rejected Desires Coincide Next Issue to Report Congress Appeal Army USSR Entry Into IFTU is Barred -Woll and Citrine Lead in Blocking Union Affiliation Soviet Isolation Increased A Pertinent Question Inside the N.Y. Painters' Union -Who Are the Wreckers? (4th installment of the series, which concludes next issue) Conditions in Industry Deals With Bosses Union Rights in Danger Not Red, Yellow Seeking Alliances Fissure Opens in Chinese C.P. Ranks Slanders Against Chen Tu-Hsui Repudiated by Noted Chinese Scholars -Stalinist Calumnies That He is Japanese Agent Indignantly Denounced in Hankow Public Statement Hit Stalinist Lying End This Slander Howling for Blood Chinese Comrades Acknowledge Fund Gov't Starts Harlan Mine Owners Trial -Long Record of Terror Brings Federal Prosecution Charge Conspiracy Trial Follows Exposure Long Fight Seen U.S. to Increase Military Forces Revvv-olution? No Thank You, Gerson Pleads Gerson and Socialism Who Owns Jefferson? Use Tear Gas on Duluth Pickets Orr Tells of Spain at Louisville Meet Roosevelt is Forced to Take Notice of Hague -Investigators Hunt for "Conspiracy" Against Democratic Rights in Realm of the Jersey City Fuehrer Roosevelt's Hand Forced More Anti-Hague Moves End in Sight The Pennsylvania Primaries The Relief Crisis A "Peace" Banquet The Spanish "United Front" by Carlo (Political Cartoon) Felix Morrow Writes a Marxist Study of the Events in Spain -Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Spain by Felix Morrow, Pioneer Publishers, reviewed by Ernest Erber New Facts Presented The Summary Once More -On Housing -An Editorial One for Every 100 Needed There is Money Enough! How the Plutocrats Live Rich Must Be Made to Pay 23 Jun. 4, 1938 Organizer Kills Brown in Insane Fit -President of Minneapolis Drivers" Union Shot by Demented Union Employee; Great Crowd Honors Him at Funeral -Midwest Labor Mourns Loss Statement by Union Sinister Possibility Firemen Back Progressives; Vote Merger With Sailors Minneapolis Labor Pays Final Tribute to Brown -Thousands Gather at Headquarters of Drivers' Local 544 for Last Rites Honoring Murdered Union Leader by Carlos Hudson Dunnes Speak Bosses Hated Him Vincent Dunne's Tribute Farewell to Bill Bill Brown (Photograph) Harlan Miners Accuse Bosses of Thug Rule -Court Hears Stories of Terror From Union Witnesses Sheriff Heads Thugs Blacklist at Work No Householders' Rights Vicious Brutality Quick Action Checkmates Gen. Cedillo -But Fascist Danger in Mexico Continues to Be Acute Imperialist Pressure Continues Smash Economic Blockade Internal Meeting Striking Goodyear Workers Fight Police Terror, Score Gains * Akron Militant Tells of Big Picket Line Battle = Police Brutally Attack Goodyear Pickets with Gas Bombs; Workers Make Heroic Defense Against "Law and Order" Thugs -Strike Ended by Compromise Arrangement by R. Ferguson [Robert Treash] Battle is On Workers Unprepared Police Fire Wildly Form Defense Squad * Compromise Settlement Accepted; Showdown is Postponed -100 Are Hurt Events of Strike Police Attack Suddenly Unity in Defense The Tide Turns Roosevelt Not Mentioned Recalls 1936 Strike Arrests Announced Detroit Cops Gas and Club C.I.O. Pickets -Workers Buil Barricade to Halt Movement of Scabs Coast SWPers and Stalinists in Anti-Nazi Demonstration The Lessons of Akron -Organize Workers Defense! by B.J. Widick, Labor Secretary S.W.P. Unity Achieved The Second Lesson Defense is Necessary Furriers Score in Strike Settlement Higher Pay Won by P.R. Dock Workers Use of Army, Navy Urged to Ban Sitdowns -Senator Rants Against Sitdown Tactic as Bosses Applaud Would Bar Sit-downs C.I.O. Hits Measure Relief A La Roosevelt! -Single Men Are Barred From N.Y. Relief Rolls -Jobless Client Told to Look for Maintenance to Fellow Roomer on W.P.A.; $55.78 Enough Per Month for Two, Says Official (Photograph of a letter from the Case Supervisor above article) Morrell Denied Relief Against Discrimination Ohio Teachers Balk at Attempted Steamroller -Convention Quickly Adjourned After Uproar Over Stalinist Move to Ram Through Changes in the Union Constitution by Blake Lear [C.K. Stewart] Meeting Adjourned The Stalinist Plot Appeal Army Japanese Imperialism Hurtles Toward Ruin in in China -Collapse Brought Closer by Every Fresh "Victory" -Creation of New "War Cabinet" Reflects Growing Crisis by Lo Sen New Battle in Lanfeng Shift in Tokyo Rising Cost of Living Taxes Skyrocketing Premier Konoye (Photograph) British Gloating An Important Beginning -All-American-Pacific Pre-Conference of the Fourth International by Max Shachtman Comintern an Obstacle Movement's Growth Mandated Delegates Our Obligations Organizational Steps South Africans Donate $62.50 to China Fund Jamaica Strikers Are Terrorized by British -Army and Police Go Into Action as Exploited Slaves of "Democratic" Imperialists Tie Up Colony in Militant Strikes Three Killed Starvation Wages For National Liberation Hague Again Frustrates Meeting Plan -C.I.O. Must Take Lead in Struggle Against Jersey Fuehrer Lynch Spirit Kindled May Block Struggle C.I.O. Action Needed Trotsky Article Features Lively June Issue of "New International" The C.P. Convention Stalinists in Convention by Carlo (Political Cartoon) Hague's Gangster Rule Nourished by Roosevelt New Deal Patronage by James Raleigh Know Who Will Pass Democracy in Jersey Not Big Enough New Deal Gravy Recalcitrants Removed Roosevelt Needs Hague Jury Packed In the N.Y. Painters' Union -Fight the Wreckers! (The fifth and concluding article in this series) Advance War Aims Against the Wreckers Committee in Action Election Versus Appointment The Fight Is On 24 Jun. 11, 1938 Akron-Detroit-Newark -The Workers Can Make Only One Answer! Assault in Akron What "Free Speech" Means Labor Must Defend Itself German Trotskyists Get Long Prison Sentences Weinstock Defeated by Own Local Labor Guard Must Answer Hague Menace -Thomas Meeting Broken Up by Mobsters in Newark Police Aid Mobsters Workers' Meeting Banned Longo Sentenced Petitions Won't Do The Fight for Relief (Photograph showing police brutality at a demonstration) City-Wide Relief Sit-In Called for N.Y. * Alliance Progressive Group Demands Militant Program -Local Relief Appropriation Slash Forces Plan to Bring Pressure on Authorities by George Milton Sit-In Planned Council Meeting Last Year's Sell-Out Militancy Alone Can Win Fire-Trap Deaths Militant Slogans Unwelcome * SWP Rallies Held to Protest Slum Firetrap Menace -Meeting Held at Scene of Fatal Blaze on Houston Street More Than a Score Hurt Wave of Indignation 500 Signed Petition Stalinist Action "Keeping America Out of War" by Max Shachtman What the Congress Failed to Do Imply Approval for "Defensive" Wars Adopt Classic Position of U.S. Imperialism Cover for Roosevelt War Preparations And Still They Become Patriotic U.S. Congress Reveals New Deal Futility -Capitalist Legislators Strip Wages and Hours Bill of Progressive Features, Display Impotence In Face of Deepening Crisis -Unity Shown on War Plans Wages and Hours Bill New Deal Bubble Burst Roosevelt Still on Top Unity for War New Evidence in Fight for Jailed Miners -Kentucky Governor Gets Proof That Photos Were Faked The Accusation Akron Defense Organ Created -Recent Battle on Picket Line Was Stimulant for Action Local 544 Leads in Battling for Unemployed in Minneapolis by Carl O'Shea Origin of the F.W.S. Attempts to Unite With W.A.A. Budget to Be Used for Computing Supplements to W.P.A. Earnings Direct Relief Close Check Kept Present Demands Relief in Minneapolis F.W.S. Effectiveness A Lesson for Labor Delegates Walk Out on L.N.P.L. Sessions in Ohio -Refuse to Accept Rule Barring 15 Steel Lodge Men Ruling Challenged Appeal Army National Appeal Campaign Workers Boo Employers' Plea for "Cooperation" -Bridges Praised for Smashing Picket Lines at San Francisco Meeting; Audience Shows Distinct Class "Bias" Cash Box Ideology Bridges Talks Left Call for Unity S.F. Warehouse Workers Vote to Quit C.I.O. Railroad Union Leaders Move in Wage Cut Crisis Without Ranks -Unionist Points Need for Planning United Action to Combat Employers' Offensive and Forestall Sell-out Maneuvers What is to Be Done? Action Must Be Planned For United Action Verbal Intransigence An Immediate Program 900,000 Rail Workers Face Big Pay Slash -Railway Labor Act Will Be Used to Bog Down Militant Action Back to 1932 Firm Stand Needed N.Y. Auto Builders Strike in 35 Shops Akron Teachers Demand Release for Fred Beal -Anti-War Resolution is Also Passed; Active Year Comes to End Teachers in Lead Office Union Session Sterile Under Gag Rule -Stalinist Leadership Concentrates on Keeping Opposition Silenced at Washington Office Workers' Session Opposition Baited New Constitution Concrete Proposals Kranis Opposed West Coast C.P. Has Hard Time Obeying New Dictum Help Refused to Dying Baby, Miner Tells Jury -Union Card Costs Miner Life of Infant Son as Company Doctor Neglects Child at Order of Harlan Mine Boss Bosses Suborn Perjury Damning Testimony Tells of Discrimination More Workers Killed as Jamaica Strike Spreads British Soldiers Patrol Jobs or Relief! "Aiding" the Loyalists Socialist Party and the A.L.P. Hague Will Be Ousted by Workers Offensive by James Raleigh Hopeless Courses No Real Conflict Receivership Weapon Runaway Shops Hollywood Bows to Orders on War Film 25 Jun. 18, 1938 Answer Hague and Harvey -With Workers' Defense An Admirer of Mussolini Thomas Courts Reactionaries SWP Intensifies Campaign Against Firetraps in N.Y. Profits in Death Death Lurks in Slums Landlords Are Safe Role of Stalinists Fight to Live Political Strike Staged in Newark WPA Workers to Have New Deal Pay Cut -Will Affect More Than 25,000 on Jobs in New York Leaders Back President To Picket "Reactionaries" When Roosevelt Comes C.P. Stooges Suspended by Martin to Forestall Bid for U.A.W. Control -Frankensteen and Four Others Are Affected by Order; Stalinists Violate Agreement to Observe 20-Point Program Martin Absent Stalinist Double-Cross Suspends Five -Homer Martin (Photograph) Membership Ignored Leaders Over-Confident Explanation Needed N.Y. Committee Launches Fund to Assist Persecuted Revolutionists Novack as Secretary Plight of Revolutionists Rush Ad Now! Japanese Air Raids Ravage China's Cities -Air Attacks on Canton Take Immense Toll of Human Life -China Bombings Show Japanese Imperialists Desperate to End War -Kuomintang Inaugurates Repressive Campaign to Silence Leftists as Invading Armies Press On for the Capture of Hankow Canton Unaided Repression Under Way Decisive Developments No Automatic Collapse Mass Movement Needed Capitulatory Moods Lesson of History 25,000 Slaughtered Danger of Repetition N.Y. Painters Deal Blow at C.P. Wreckers -Ousting of Weinstock from Top Post in District Council Marks High Point in Rank-and-File Revolt Against the Stalinists -Victory for Progressives -Weinstock Ouster Breaches Stalinist Union Domination Resentment Against Stalinists Rally to Stooge The Secret Ballot Resort to Usual Tactics A Brazen Frame-Up Accusers' Record The "Trotskyist" Charge Youthful Revolutionist is Arrested by GPU in Spain Purge Looms in NMU as Officials Lose Prestige -Curran Asks Outlawing of All Groups as Rank and File Seamen Reject Policies of Stalinist District Committee Pilot Echoes Curran Seamen Rebel Stalinists "Reply" Progressives in Culinary Union Establish Group -Ranks in Revolt Against Stalinists in Frisco Dishwashers Local Stalinist Record Appeal Army N.J. Bosses Glad CIO Fired Kaempf Unionist Jailed on Handbill ban -L.A. Police Arrest ILGWU Organizer, Set Bail at $600 N.Y. Jobless Prepare Action in New Crisis Figures Are Eloquent Sit-Ins Postponed 80,000 March in China on May Day Hull Reveals Real Aims of U.S. Diplomacy -Note to Japan Discloses Nature of "Friendship" for China Times Have Changed South American Problem To Combat Rivals Hypocritical Talk Social Crisis Grows as Business Indices Drop to levels of 1932 by Davis Cowles Economic Dictatorship Grows Administration's Role The Monopoly Inquiry Social Crisis Grows Harlan Witness Killed as Gov't Presses Case -Coal Operators Brazenly Use Old Terror Methods to Frame Alibis, But Witnesses Identify Night-Riding Murder Men Shot in Fight Efforts to Bribe Tells Gruesome Tale Narrow Escapes Terror Rages Against Spain's Revolutionists -Vicious Suppression Paves Way for "Compromise" With Franco; P.O.U.M. Organ Describes Horrors in Barcelona Prison In The "Model Prison" Inferno Breaks Loose A Prisoner Killed Last Gate Demolished Reprisals Begin Union Briefs Ford Plant Speed-Up South Organizes "Baneful Influence" Noah London Reported Executed in Moscow Helped Found The Freheit Stalinist Press Keeps Silent July New International to Have Article by Trotsky Progress in Akron Thomas in Queer Company Deport 'Em! Bloody Reign of Terror in Jamaica Still Continuing Stalinists Oust Selves from Anti-Nazi Drive Picketing Announced An Inspiration Exclusion Voted Stalinists Oust Themselves Mpls. Unions Show Method of Ending CIO-AFL Disputes -Jurisdiction Quarrel in Garages Settled by Firm Action by Carl O'Shea Background of Dispute None Better Organized Bosses Seize Chance Policy Committee Plan Stalinist Renege Chilean Stalinists Ally With Fascists Labor Action Needed 26 Jun. 25, 1938 An Urgent Appeal -Aid the Revolutionists! by James P. Cannon Puerto Rican Slavedrivers Balk at Wage-Hours Bill Sweated Industry Commissions Not Mentioned Refugee Fund is Welcomed Far and Wide -Enthusiastic Response Greets Formation of N.Y. Committee Willi Muenzenberg is Entered on Growing Blacklist of the G.P.U. On G.P.U. Blacklist Prospective Victim Silent Progressives Chalking Up New Scores in N.Y. Painters' Union Fight -Make Clean Sweep of offices in Local 892; Stalinist Campaign of Slander Fails to Halt Advance of Militant Candidates Clean Sweep Made Racial Prejudice Stirred Daily Worker Lies Stage a Burglary Labor Gains Smashed by Spain Gov't -Enterprises Are Handed Back to Exploiters as Fascists Advance Daladier Accedes Fascist Victory Desired Pictures Negrin Government Additional Troops Sent to Crush Jamaica Strike Commission Appointed Warn Against Agent of the GPU on The Coast -Suspicious Movements of Hanoff Are Noted in San Francisco CP Wreckers Force Splits in Maritime -Founding Organizations Withdraw From Pacific Federation After Bridges Packs Convention and Unseats Tacoma I.L.U. Delegation -Stalinist "Unity" is Exposed Constitution Violated A Hollow Shell Drive Against Militants The Issue Posed Glorifies Scab Action Curran Moves to Eliminate Rival Unions -Militant Organizations Are Threatened by Ray Proposal Owners Taken to Task Refusal Significant Stalinist Wreckers Act Concertedly to Smash Auto Workers' Union -Plunge Locals Into Pandemonium, Seek to Place International in Receivership in Order to Advance Rule or Ruin Policy Stalinist Program Victimization Pretense Democracy--Where? Stalinist Sabotage Receivership Sought The Real Struggle Unions Refuse Endorsement to Gov. Davey -Ohio Labor Federation Delegates Declare "Nothing Doing" Appeal Army A Veteran Passes -Rodney Salisbury Dead by Max Shachtman Passing Mourned -Rodney Salisbury (Photograph) Prominent as Leader Run for Governor S.W.P. Program Bonapartism Rules In France As Parliament is Sent on Vacation Working Class Stifled Tolerating Daladier Taste of National Union In a Blind Alley S.P Enters Third Period Left Wing Perspectives Anti-Hague Drive Launched by SWP Attack on Unions Alliance in Action How Fascism Begins Bosses on Offensive Labor Must Fight On to Struggle Mayor Hague Holds Stage in N. Jersey -Uses Forum of Court to Expound His Fascist Views on Labor Hague on Offensive Jersey Boss Sees Red Admires Roosevelt For a Real Struggle Attempt Made to Bar Appeal Sales Labor Book Shop Suggests Books for Militants Kuomintang in Crisis as Japanese Advance Up Yangtse to Hankow -U.S. Courts "Incidents" by Ordering Gunboats to Remain in Zone of Hostilities; Floods by Lo Sen U.S. Seeks "Incidents" Offer Britain Concession Value to Moscow Road to Victory Leaflet License Law to get Test Carter Mack Dies, Loss to N. Jersey Expropriate the Railroads! We Are Not Excited Where Anything Goes Spain Featured in N.I. for July Mexico and British Imperialism by Leon Trotsky Britain and Cedillo Ignorance and Deceit Britain and Slavery Two Aims Pursued Prompting from Moscow Workers, Support Mexico U.S. Will Fight in New War, Says N.Y. Times Voice of Authority U.S. Will Go to War Imperialist Frankness U.S. Rivals Warned The "Democratic Garb" 27 Jul. 2, 1938 Progressives Force Close Painters' Poll -Two Years of Weinstock Domination Finds Stalinists Hard Pressed to Win District Council Posts; Opposition Gains Impressive -Weinstock Gets 615 Majority Stalinist Majority Down Machine Vote Only Board's Opportunist Expulsion Aided Stalinists The Fight Goes On National Guard Stages Big Chicago War Demonstration Akron Labor Defense Hit by Stalinists -C.P. Press Calls United C.I.O.-A.F.L. Committee "Trotskyist Plot" by B.J. Widick Labor secretary, S.W.P. Launch Sniping Attack Seek to Wreck Defense Record of Militants We Ask Once More: Is Noah London Alive or Dead? More Comes to Light Family Refused Visa Union Busters Prepare Marine Federation for Strike-Breaking Course -Bridges' Machine Forces Through Anti-Union Program as Seafaring Crafts Quit Convention; Unions Protest Splitting tactics Dictatorial Powers Good Dose of Bridges Split Action Deliberate Cannot Endure Long 21 Union Men Get Year in Kentucky Jail -Teamster Organizer Sent to Penitentiary Under Old Statute Eight More Indicted First Case Recorded SP Advances Phony UAW Peace Plan -End of Factional War Proposed on Basis of the Former 20-Point Program Whose Violation Caused Frankensteen Suspension -Martin Not Battling Wreckers New Stalinist Move? Malignant Work Martin's Responsibility Split Menaces Union Libel Suit Against Daily Worker Shifts to M'pls Concerted Union Drive Needed to Oust Hague -A.F. of L.-C.I.O. Feud Must End so That Labor May Act Unitedly to Smash Dictatorial Rule of Would-be Hitler in New Jersey by James Raleigh Unions Are the Place Publicity Stunts A Dangerous Deal How to Organize Bill Brown -A Proletarian Fighter by James p. Cannon They Live On! College of Hard Knocks An Assiduous Student Had Indispensable Qualities Virtues Outweighed Failings Herald of the Future Omaha Court Arrests, Vags Union Official -Police Seize Organizer in Office, Search His Quarters Goldman Excluded Blow at Unionism Appeal Army Guild Convention Shows Newsmen's Big Gains -But Broun, Re-elected President, Moves t tie Membership to Imperialist War Chariot by Resolution on Collective Security Political Back-Sliding A Disastrous Idea Bob Minor and The Times -A Revealing Commentary That "Frank Commercial Interest" Stalinists Favor Imperialist War July New International is Finest Issue Yet Published Cleveland Workless in Desperate Plight On Guard Against Spy Scares! -An Editorial Virginia Workers Vote Strike to Force Pact Drive for Fund to Aid Revolutionists Gathers Momentum in Country Russian Speaking Comrades Form Club Soviet Economy Lags as Purge Intensified -Denny Succeeds Duranty as Cover-Up Man for Stalin; But Facts Show Bureaucracy is Digging Grave of Workers' Power by John G. Wright [Joseph Vanzler] Sukhomlin Out Everlasting Purge Duranty Style What We Learn Unfounded Optimism Trotsky on Lovestone -No Its Not the Same The Difference Explained Trial of Mensheviks Lovestone Knew the Truth Good-For-Nothing Mistakes and Mistakes Lovestone's Travels "We Communists Disdain to Conceal Our Aims" by Carlo (Political Cartoon) Unity Against the Union Wreckers! Opposition is Growing Movement on Coast Clarity is Needed Among the Painters A Lesson to Learn For Unity of Effort 28 Jul. 9, 1938 Jersey City -Lesson and Warning by Jmaes P. Cannon The Real Meaning of Hagueism C.I.O. Bureaucrats Debase Struggle Business Interests Behind Hague Publicity Stunts Helped Hague A Fight of National Significance Fight Cannot Be Delegated Death Claims Otto Bauer in French Exile -Austro-Marxist Leader Dies Aftert Spendig Life in Betrayal "Socialist" Dies -Otto Bauer (Photograph) Bitter Anti-Bolshevik Policy of Defeat Refugee Fund Sends Sum to Aid Persecuted in Europe Stalin's Third Degree Methods Are Revealed by Former GPU Agent -Story of 90-hour Grilling of Mratchkovsky Gives Insight Into Moscow "Confession" Trials; Torture Ends With Capitulation by Walter Krivitsky The Inquisition Slutsky's Task A Warrior's Wounds Slutsky's Biography Men Without Hope N.Y. Unions Hit Court Picket Ban -Anti-Labor Injunction Fought: 14 Are Held for Contempt Mobile Picketing Judge on Picketing Ohio Teachers Support Fight for Fred Beal Alleged Plot to Kill Labor Leaders is Exposed in Minneapolis Arms Discovered Pierce Arrested Relief Probe is Slated for New York -Boss Politicians Seeking to Chisel Payments as Crisis Deepens Ruling Class Hypocrisy Seeking Out "Waste" Aimed at Alliance Spotlight is Played on Job Security Plan -Survey Bares Hopeless Inadequacy of Pet New Deal Insurance Measure; Beneficiaries Number Only Fraction of Workless -Doles Drop as Needs Increase Miserly Payments Only 900,000 Benefit Living Standards Ignored Stalinists Try to Frame Oak in Workers Alliance Charges by Majority Oak's Evidence Refused Govt. Lines Up Against Truckers Rodney Salisbury -A Model Revolutionist by Charles E. Taylor A Son of the Soil Linked Up With the I.W.W. Promoted a Socialist Paper Fights for the Persecuted Was Charter Member of the C.P. Class Conscious to the Core The Fight for the Auto Union -An Editorial Coast Union Split Widens After Parley -Remnants of Federation Now Isolated from Sea-Going Unions Delinquents Remain Afraid of Teamsters S.U.P. Crew on Shepard Ship Dunne Debates Parson on Gangsterism Charge Parson on Racketeering Appeal Army The Socialist Appeal Can Be Obtained at the Following Newsstands An Open Letter -To Moissaye Olgin -Concerning the Fate of Your Two Friends, Juliet Poyntz and Noah London by Max Shachtman Leader in Anti-LaFollette Faction What Have You Done, Olgin? Alive or Dead? -Juliet Poyntz (Photograph)_ Self-Avowed Assassins -An Editorial Y.P.S.L. Summer Classes Get Under Way Union Briefs A Turn-Coat on the Witness-Stand -Earl Browder Testifies Before the McNaboe Committee by Max Shachtman Disavows Principles Under Moscow Orders An American Precedent What the C.I. Said Qualified Support Hillquit Never Knew Browder and Roosevelt Defender of Capitalism Wants to Be a Cop Browder: Defender of the Soviet Union France Under Daladier Moves Toward National "Sacred Union" Gov't -Political Course of Bourgeoisie is Influenced by Growing Isolation of the Soviet Union; Socialist Party "Left" Expelled by Terrance Phelan [Sherry Mangan] Fascist Orbit Extends Workers Mark Time Seine Federation Revolts New Party Formed Another Fine Issue of New International Due Smash the Cotillo Injunction! Helping Mexico Next Step for the Painters Page the Communist Party (Editorial comment on the C.P.'s passing a rule at its last convention that no alien can be a member of the party) Not Two--Three! The New Deal on Parade by Carlo (Political Cartoon) The Conference at Evian -An Editorial Hoodlums Assail Astoria Meeting Books for Workers * A Historic Document -Not Guilty. (Report of the of Inquiry into the Charges Made Against Leon Trotsky in the Moscow Trials) reviewed by F.G. A Historic Verdict Overwhelming Evidence * Lyons versus Sinclair -Terror in Russia? Two Views -- Upton Sinclair and Eugene Lyons reviewed by L.F.J. Belief Versus Evidence Lost on Sinclair * A Timely Pamphlet -What is Socialism? By Albert Goldman reviewed by H.D. A Concrete Approach Applying Principles 29 Jul. 16, 1938 Czechoslovakia – Another -"Poor Little Belgium" Issue Is Not Self-Determination French Imperialism Decisive Factor Minnesota Socialists Reject Party of Norman Thomas, Join the S.W.P. Stalin Murders Foreign Communists Who Sought Refuge in the U.S.S.R. -Writer Gives Grim List of Victims Shot or Imprisoned by G.P.U. Without Semblance of a Trial -Poland The Rights Accused Shot for "Espionage" Lensky Group Purged -Germany German Emigres Shot Executed As Spies Victims Pile Up Watch for Spain Article Next Week First Year of China War Shows Japanese Imperialism Doomed -Army Victories Not Effective Beyond Soldiers' Bayonet Points; Japan Plunges toward Bankruptcy -China's Struggle Shows Weakness -Chang Kai-Shek Gov't Weakens China's Fight by Suppressing Masses by Lo Sen Already Crumbling Growing Stringency The Chinese Bourgeoisie A Revolutionary War Stalinist Capitulation Death to Strikers Catching up and Outstripping... By Carlo (Political Cartoon about Hitler and Stalin's respective body counts) Stalin Found Guilty of Frame-Ups -Dewey Commission Issues Exhaustive Report of Its Investigation Into the Moscow Trials, Finds Criminals in the Kremlin NOT GUILTY! The Composition of the Commission They Only Shrieked Insults Murderous Indictment of Stalinism Truth Is on the March! Sit-In Stage by Strikers in N.Y. Plant -Workers Hailed to Court After Cops Evict Them Police Force Doors Omaha Drivers Reply to Police Attack on Union; Appeal Sentence Appeal Vagrancy Sentence LaGuardia Police Crack Down on New York Jobless -Arrest 22 members of W.A.A. For Demanding Bigger Relief Checks Local Four Takes Lead Those Arrested Interminable Waiting Mass Action Needed H.O.L.C. Busy Evicting N.Y. Workers -New Deal Concern Posts Eviction Successes Bondholders Protected The Poor Evicted C.I.O. Summons Strike in C.P. Summer Camp -Stalinist Slave Girls 12 Hours for $7 a Week Union Briefs New Deal Crop Program Based on Starvation -Bumper Harvests Promise No Relief for Hungry as Government Maps Plans Of Destruction by J. Pytlak A Great Harvest Big Farmers' Advantage Crop Insurance Plan Prices--Not Needs Labor Must Act C.I.O., A.F. of L. Get Together in Akron Ohio Teachers Showed Gains by Progressives -Stalinists Defeated in Plan to Capture Federation Call for Unity Ex-Deputy Sheriff Is Killed As Mine Trial Proceeds in Harlan Violence Marks Trial Board Gives Decision August New International to Have Article by Dewey Appeal Army The Socialist Appeal Can Be Obtained at the Following Newsstands How Stalin Gov't Aids China War Radio Is Used to Generate War Hysteria To Protect "Democracy" The Intended Victims Divide and Rule Policy Explains Palestine Riots The Issues Stated Britain Is Responsible Empire Doors Closed Danger of Disunity Some More Questions -To Moissaye Olgin by Max Shachtman Prieto Letter Reveals How Revolutionists in Spain Were Wiped Out Knifes Workers -Indalecio Prieto (Photograph) Saw Easy Task Pleasing Their "Friends" Planned Mass Murder Disastrous Policy Hypocrisy at Evian The W.A.A. and Politics New Workers Party Springs from SFIO Split A Critical Letter A Legalistic Battle New Party's Future Mr. Cahan versus Mr. Hillman -An Editorial A Letter from England -Armaments Alone Boom As Brief Spell of "Prosperity" Passes; C.P. Courts Liberals; Union Bosses Back or Plans by A.B. Elsbury Armaments Boom Tender toward Fascism Chauvinist Bureaucrats To Left of the C.P. Liberal Come-Back Workers Are Hoodwinked Iowa Farmers Oppose Rail Cut 30 Jul. 23, 1938 G.P.U. Kidnaps Sec'y of IV Internat'l -Trotskyist Leader Seized in Paris; Taken to Spain -A Young German Revolutionist in Hands of Stalin's Assassins; Clues Lead to Spanish Border -Forged Letter Points to Frameup (Cable to the Socialist Appeal) Strange Letter No Previous Sign G.P.U. Earmarks Long Kidnap Trail Portfolio Missing Was Long Active Public Warned Bosses Hurl Armed Mobs Against C.I.O. Unions in 2 Strikes -California Lumber Workers Driven from Homes by Hoodlums; -Cops Battle New Orleans Taxi Drivers * California -Mob Drives Mill Workers from Homes Strike against Wage-Cut Mob Attacks Pickets Use Sound Truck * New Orleans -New Orleans Police Fight C.I.O Unions Terror Reigns Threaten Strikers Fight Legal Battles Eastside Labor to Hold Housing Parade Court Cracks down on N.Y. Strikers -Labor's Right Mere "Privileges," Says Jersey Judge Socialist Appeal Needs Your Aid! -Emergency Call for Funds by the Business Manager Auto Union Threatened by Split As Wreckers Force Fight for Power -Unscrupulous Tactics of Stalinists Paralyzes Militant Union: Lewis Intervention Danger Bulletin Locals Taken Over Ask Lewis' Aid Independence Threatened Stalinists Prepare Split Martin Begins Campaign Trip across Country Has Political Aim -President Adds to Party Prestige by Tour Consolidates Position Intervenes in Primaries Third Term Talk Evian Conference is Dismal Flop; Powers Offer No Aid to Refugees Gang Disrupts Astoria SWP Rally; Cops Look on -Harvey's Police, Like Hague's, Condones Fascist Tactics Against Labor Meetings; Workers Need Own Defense Guard by Frank Graves Police "Protection" Object Lesson in Democracy Defense Guard Needed Material for Fascism Stalinists Also Attacked The Contagion Spreads Skoglund Elected President of 544 Philadelphia -Example and Symptom -An Editorial Symptom and Example Joint Committees Union Hours, Wages Ohio Unions to Demand Better Relief Scales -Example of Minneapolis Unions' Fight for Adequate Unemployment Relief Inspires Akron Workers by B.J. Widick, Labor Secretary, S.W.P. Praise Local 544 Text of Resolution Ask Supplementary Relief Yipsels Announce Membership Meet The Socialist Appeal Can Be Obtained at the Following Newsstands French Labor Passive on Bastille Day Workers Dormant Separate Labor Parades Two Years of Civil War in Spain -Summing Up the Balance-Sheet of the People's Front Government in Its "Struggle for Democracy" and the Results of the Policies Followed by the Social-Democrats, Stalinists, Anarchists and the P.O.U.M. Men, Munitions at Franco's Command People's Front Defends Capitalism Fruits of the People's Front Government Destroyed Militias Loyalists Suppress Democracy British and French Interests Rule Leaders Continue a Fatal Policy Second International Impotent Stalinist Bloodhounds Active Anarchist Display Bankruptcy Events Teach Anarchists Nothing Class Action Only Road 50 Pickets Injured in North Chicago Police Attack Ludlow Retreats T.V.A. and War Watch Their Hands! Paul Revere... 1938! -by Carlo (Political Cartoon) Democracy and Communism -How Browder Has Abandoned the Traditional Revolutionary Teachings of Marxism on Decisive and Basic Questions by M.J. Olgin State Exploiters' Weapon Revolution Only Answer The Case of Joseph Zack -An Editorial Broke with Communist Party in 1935 Able to Prove American Citizenship The Browder's Act in Silence Stock Market Rises; Basic Crisis Continues by Dave Cowles Economic Activity Falls Indexes Rise 31 Jul. 30, 1938 Seamen Fight "Fink" Halls -Pickets Open Drive on N.Y. Gov't Hiring Hall -Picket Line Answers Government Threat to Take over Hiring; Seamen Act Despite N.M.U. Opposition -Hiring on Dollar Line Held by SUP Fink Hall Old Stuff Gov't Still Determined Stalinists Riot As Trial of Suspended Chiefs Begins in UAW -Stage Shameful Brawl to Discredit Proceedings; Switch Line After Lewis Fails to Intervene; Drop Rump Moves -But Danger to Union Is Mounting A Major Defeat C.P. Greater Danger A Warning Repeated Duty of Progressives G.O.P. Campaigns for Democrats -Two Boss Parties Unite to Back Reactionary Party Lines Blurred Trotsky Fears Fate of Klement, G.P.U. Victim, Letter from Leon Trotsky Labor under Attack -The Only Answer East Side Workers March for Housing Call Guardsmen in Iowa Strike Machine Guns Mounted State Steps In Nationalist Feeling Flares As Attempt Is Made on Puerto Rican Governor -Attempted Assassination Discloses Repressive Rule of U.S. Imperialism Against Independence Movement Police Murder Two Terrorists Seek Revenge Mexican Miners Strike C.P. Splits Phila. Navy Yard Union -Shipyard Loc'l Gives Up C.I.O. Charter in Split Move Naval Yard Council Set up "Pressure" Campaign Begins Local Union Dwindles Teamsters War on Finks Middletown Gives Labor Big Lesson -Militant Action by Muncie Auto Workers Smashes Attacks on Union Trusted Labor Board Machine Guns Threat Victories for Strikers Japan Retreats in Border Clash -Soviets' Firm Stand Forces Japan to Retreat Military Importance Only Tokyo Forced to Retreat Japan Faces Crisis Soviets and Fortunate Position C.P. Gang Attacks Appeal Salesmen Press Ballyhoo Hides True Story of Housing Program; Slum Problem Acute Headlines Hide True Story Poor Tenants Excluded Youth Sits Down in Relief Bureau Relief Red Tape Leaves Tenants Helpless Before Marshals; Brutality Features Evictions Woman of 65 Evicted Bureau Action Delayed Eviction Relief Inadequate Stalinists Order W.P.A. "Purge" -C.P. Members Told to Dismiss All Dissenters Alliance Purge First Step Cops Forced to Return Papers of Union Officer -Union Wins in Fight against Illegal Seizure Authorities Harass Russell C.P. Slander Fails in Alliance Local Eight Arrests in Indiana Strike -Indianapolis Police Attack Striking Box Workers Appeal Army The Socialist Appeal Can Be Obtained at the Following Newsstands Hauled Note Masks New Imperialist Threat by Roosevelt -U.S. Starts Fight Against Mexican Oil Expropriation -Agrarian Claims Serve As Pretext for Establishing Precedent Against Right of Expropriation Demand Arbitration American Seizures Unmentioned Aim for Public Sympathy Bankers' Hatchet Man -Cordell Hall (Photograph) Leading French Scientists Protest Law on Asylum -Committee Denounces Decree As "Inhuman and Illegal"; Trade Union Officials Join in Protest Vicious Decree Law Declare Decree Illegal Denouncing As "Inhuman" Noted Figures Sign Branches Active in Fund Drive for Refugees -Money Rolls to Committee from All Sections of the Country Tag Days Effective Southern Unionists Give Eight Given Five Refugees Need Funds for Fred Beal Fight Committee Asks for Funds Labor Militancy Rises Anew in France; Progressives Gain Strength in Unions -Reject People's Frontism at Left Socialist Convention; New Awakening Seen in Political Trends by Terence Phelan [Sherry Mangan] France Welcomes Doriot Strikes Increasing Statement Causes Flurry "Left Socialist" Convention War-Monger -Edouard Daladier (Photograph) Party Direction Undecided Telegraphists Present Demands Daily Worker Exposed by Gustav Mulfinger Horse-Trading Politics Taxing the Poor Lasser's Resignation America's Permanent Depression -Experts Baffled for Explanation -- But New Millions Face Unemployment and Disemployment -A Future of Hunger and Insecurity By Art Preis (First in a series of articles on unemployment) Third of Nation Distressed Unemployed Census Revealing Figures Give Vital Lesson Two Factors Revealed Depths Workers Pay Price of Crisis Class Strength Sapped Scene from Cleveland -The Plight of the Unemployed (Photograph) On My Conspiracy by Leon Trotsky The "Conspiratorial" Trip "Plot" In an Orphan Asylum No Silence on Slanderers George Sokolsky -One More Chapter in a Venal History Bosses Finance Campaign Sokolsky Revelations Sells to Japan Employed by Kuomintang 32 Aug. 6, 1938 Remember August 4th by Renewing the Fight Against Imperialist War! (Headline above masthead) After 24 Years -Above: Sacrificed on the Altar of Imperialist Greed in the Last War. -- Right: War Machine Primed for New Slaughter (Photographs) New Wage Cuts Hit WPA Workers -Directors Get Big Raise as Ranks Face Hunger Plight of W.P.A. Workers C.P. Scuttles Protest Stage Set in Barcelona for Frame-Up of POUM -Long-Awaited "Moscow Trial" Of Spanish Revolutionists Believed to Begin; Defense Action Urged "Agents of Fascism" Stiler to Answer Stalinist Slander Auto Union Trial to Be Resumed -Chief Task of U.A.W. To Carry Out 20-Point Program Expulsion Likely Revive 20-Point Program UAW Organizes WPA Drive on Competitive Plants Teamsters Defy Court Order to Reveal Records -Minneapolis Labor Backs Stand of Local 544 by Carlos Hudson (Special to Socialist Appeal) Background of Plaintiffs Part of Nation-Wide Attack Peril to All Unions Japan's Border Provocations Met With Firm Resistance by Soviet; Danger of General War Growing -Internal Crisis May Force Japan to Extend War -Hitler Holds Key Planned "Incidents" Fight Against Fink Hall Forces Showdown in NMU -Rank-And-File Seamen Revolt Against Scuttling of Union by Officials; Raid Drives out Stalinists Militants Lead Fight Stalinists for Fink Hall Anger Justified Mariners' Club Leaflet Jury in Harlan Trial Dismissed -Deputies and Mine Owners Jubilant at Mistrial Jurors Against Union Defendants Confident Officers Armed by Steel Barons -Police Supplied With Guns and Bombs; Used in Strike Gift to the Sheriff East Side Parade Demands Housing Members Denied Vote in Teachers Union Election -Stalinists Pull Fake Election to Pack Convention Seating of Delegates Contested Packing Attempted New York Local Leads Fund Drive Building Trades Lose Control of Cleveland Labor -Teamsters Group In, After Bitter Fight Blow to Building Trades New Leaders to "Cooperate" Railroads Demand Wage Cuts -Fat From Years of Plunder, Rail Moguls Turn Guns on Workers by Dave Cowles Plundering Public Lands Bribery and Corruption Watering the Stocks Smashing Strikes Together Again? -Abe Cahan, Norman Thomas Minneapolis Unions Back Fight for Jobless Youth Hits War Plans Sweeping Program Adopted Philadelphia Warehouse Closed Appeal Army The Socialist Appeal Can Be Obtained at the Following Newsstands Socialist Bares Barcelona Frame-Up Against POUM -Tells How Militants Are Persecuted by the Stalinist GPU -Import Moscow Trials into Spain; Crush Revolutionary Movement in Name of "Democracy" Trial Legal Assassination Three Arguments Demands Counter–Trial Many Murdered Vancouver Jobless Fight for Right to Live by E. Robertson Public Supported Strikers Mayor Mobilized Forces Street Warfare Triumphal March Struggle Continues New Internat'l Features Debate on Labor Party Article by John Dewey Stalinists' Record on Roosevelt Refugees Flee Nazis; Spurned by "Democracy" -Cite Cases of Exiles Sent Back to Concentration Camps Unable to Find Work French Party Brands Klement Kidnapping As Work of GPU Agents -Plan Joint Action to Combat Stalin's Terror System A Russian Hand New Provocation of G.P.U. The Popular Front and the POUM Third Term for Roosevelt Rounding the Circle British Repressions Continue in Burma America's Permanent Depression-II -New Deal Takes Care of Bankers First; Juggles Relief As Riot Insurance and for Political Machine by Art Preis "Subsidizing" Homeowners and Destroying Crops Bargaining Rights Won on Picket Line How F.D.R. "Solved" Unemployment Riot Insurance and Political Expediency C.W.A. Stifles Mass Jobless Revolt FERA Wage down to Relief Level New Deal Housing (Political Cartoon) Old Party Lines Break Down In Round of Primary Voting Clash of Social Forces Maverick's Defeat Fascist in Kansas Party Labels Inadequate 33 Aug. 13,1938 SOCIALIST APPEAL Published Every Week by the SOCIALIST APPEAL PUBLISHING ASS'N Editor: Max Shachtman Associate Editors: Harold Roberts, George Clark Business Manager: S. Stanley Stalinist Union Wreckers Hit Hard by NMU Elections; -Rank & File Win Control in First N.M.U. Election -Get 5 to 4 Majority on New Executive Committee Curran Elected Program Incomplete Assure Support Fight Fink Halls 20,000 L.A. Workers Quit Bridges' C.I.O. Council -Five Big Unions Denounce C.P. Wrecking Policy -Form New Central Body to Build Labor Unity Six–Point Program Opposition Howled Down C.I.O. Isolated Labor in Northwest Rallies to Local 544 in Court Defy -Militants Stand of Drivers Union Wins Thirty-Day Stay of Court Order to Open Books for Bosses by Felix Morrow Wave of Reaction Boss at Fascist Meeting Drive on 544 Union Defies Judge Labor Movement Rallies Japan Searches for Retreat in Soviet Impasse -Provocations Earn Reprisals from Soviet Army Germany Key "Peace" Parade Expels Pacifist National Guard –-Strike Breaker (Photograph of the Guard in action at a Maytag plant) Political Refugees Face Hunger in All Europe -Regulations Deny Worker-Refugees Right to Work by James Burnham Guild Wins Strike A Welcome Sign! -An Editorial Appeal Refused in Russell Case Poster Shop Opens Auto Union Strikes As Boss Moves Machinery -Will Force Company to Keep Work in Detroit Hostility Year Old Wages Slashed Halt Removal Crucial Test Call Strike of L.A. Steel Plant to Win Demands -Chiseling Company Find Union Ready to Fight List Demands Record of Discrimination Progressives Win at CUCOM Meet Union Officials Aid Boss Drive on Foodworkers -Union Fails to Back Up Fight Against Speed-up Relief Pickets Break Injunction Charge of "Trotskyist Spies" In Steel Lodges Exposed As Lies -Organizer Answers Daily Worker Calumny by Bob Stiler C.P. "Scoop" Ordinary Procedure Who Appointed Alberts? Present the Facts! Alliance Member Frame-up Victim Appeal Army -First Anniversary of the Socialist Appeal The Socialist Appeal Can Be Obtained at the Following Newsstands Peace & Plenty Was Leon Sedoff Murdered * Trotsky Presses Question In Letter to French Court; Finds Inquiry Avoids Essential Facts -Medical Men Find Death Mysterious, But Authorities Fail to Investigate Work of G.P.U. Assassins, letter from Leon Trotsky No Ordinary Case Left Unattended Turn Unexpected X Is Known Next Issue of N.I. Previewed Trotsky Tells of "Letter" from Victim of G.P.U. by Leon Trotsky Past History Forgotten Where Is Klement? World at a Glance Sugar Companies Grab Lands in Puerto Rico by Frances Merrill One of "Big Four" Sugar Pays Dividends Land Pressing Problem A Judge Orders--But... Mexican People Speaks Stalinist Thievery Made by Union Labor by Carlo (Political Cartoon) America's Permanent Depression-III -Roosevelt Smiles on the Unemployed When Elections Roll Around; But WPA Scales Are Lower Than Ever by Art Preis Starvation in F.D.R. Program Slashing Relief Appropriations Wages Gradually Reduced Roosevelt's "Noble" Sentiments Pinning 'em Down by James Casey Mid-Summer Marriage Browder's Severest Critic The Darling of Big Business 34 Aug. 20, 1938 Union Busters Peril U.A.W. -Plan Rump Convention to Split Auto Union -Frankensteen Claims Support of Lewis as Locals Are Advised to Throttle Int'l by Sending Funds to National C.I.O. -Lewis Maintains Silence Where Does He Stand? -John L Lewis (Photograph) Line Changed Again Dual Set-Up Tried Trump yet to Come Lewis May Back Split Enemies in Martin Camp FDR Aligns Forces in Primary Battles; Labor Acts As Pawn -Democrats Are Prepared for Major Schism -LNPL Tail-Ends Democrats, Depends on "Labor's Friends" Cracks the Whip -F.D. Roosevelt (Photograph) Prestige at Stake Labor's Political Strategy Case of O'Connor Steelworkers Win L.A. Strike -Strikers Backed by New Trade Union Conference New Group Aids Music Guild Wins Gov't Hiring Halls or Seamen's Unions? -Plans of Maritime Commission to Regiment Seamen in Preparation for War Spells Death to Unions -West Coast Unions Prepared to Defend Right to Control Hiring, But New N.M.U God Leaders Remain Silent Stalinists Prevent Fight Old Policy Prevails Who Built the N.M.U.? Land Gives Line All Hiring Endangered English Groups Unite to Build 4th Internat'l -New Party Combines Forces for Revolutionary Policy Local New York Schedules Meet It Might Have Happened! Tenuous Truce Reached in Siberian Conflict -Japanese Back Down but Threaten to Resume War Japan in Weak Position Only Breathing Spell Akron C.I.O. To Build Union for WPA Workers -W.A.A. Fights Move; Stalinists Want Open Field by B.J. Widick, Labor Secretary S.W.P. C.I.O. Calls Meet America's Permanent Depression-IV -Roosevelt, Man of Many Faces, Has But Single Purpose, To Save Capitalism –Defense Guards Only Answer! By Art Preis Portraits Are Modified Roosevelt Ablest Capitalist Politician War Demand Support by All Now to the Left, Now to the Right Child Slavery Brings Strike Ohio YPSL Holds Successful Camp Protest Long Hours, Low Pay Blackwell, Anti-Fascist Jailed by Loyalists, Free -Defense Needs Funds to Complete Works Appeal Army Socialist Appeal and New International Can Be Obtained at the Following Newsstands Peace & Plenty Victims of Nazis Write Pitiful Letters to U.S. New Book on Fascism to Be Published by Pioneer America Offers Comparison Trotsky Brands "Klement Letter" As GPU Forgery -Analysis of Alleged Letter Reveals Glaring Inconsistencies; Kidnappers Exposed by Leon Trotsky A Skillful Forgery Revive Old Pseudonym Crude Work of G.P.U. Follows Vyshinsky Pattern Aims at POUM Friendship Brandler Dragged In "Frederic" Defends Beals Klement Initiates Conference Klement Murdered? Capitulation Unlikely French Police Responsible Conclusions Confirmed Portfolio Stolen Russian Style Polish C.P. Dissolved; Call Stalinist Chiefs "Spies" Reaction in the Northwest Trotsky and Cardenas Sabotaging the Anti-Fascist Struggle From the Labor Press Delegates Slurred Unions Part Ignored Still Spieling by Carlo (Political Cartoon) Who Owns the Courts? -Spotlight on Capitalist Justice in Harlan by Albert Goldman Don't Convict Bosses Swindlers Sometimes Sacrificed Easy to Convict Workers Penalties Compared Pinning 'em Down by James Casey How to Be an Honest Liberal Hizzonor Is Busy... On the "Innocents" List Federal Chattels and Fireside Chats 35 Aug 27, 1938 We Want No Moscow Trials in Spain, Mister Pena! (Headline above Masthead) Vital Questions to Spain's Minister of Justice Pena F.D.R. Includes Canada In US War Zone; Hull Shakes Warning Fist at Europe -Pledge of Armed Support to Canada Shows Imperialist Plans for World Dominion War Machine Marches Isolationists Slapped Claim War Resources Will Be Debated Blackwell, Freed by Spanish Gov't, Snatched from Ship Promised Freedom St. Paul Unions Demand Idle Factories Be Opened, Operated under Workers' Control -Approve Plan for No–Profit Industry -Propose Law Would Have State Take Over Closed Plants to Be Run by Jobless Workers -At Union Hours, Wages State-Owned Plants Before Local Unions Challenge to Capitalists Paper Unions Rule at Bridges Conclave -Calif. State Meeting Admits Impotence to Aid Unions Mooney Protest Killed Bulletin Distributed On the Slide -Harry Bridges (Photograph) Slate Is Named by S.W.P. in New Jersey Election -Candidates Oppose Hague's Political Machine Hague Runs Candidates Both Reactionaries Hands Off, Mr. Dies! -Labor Will Clean Its Own House! –An Editorial Union Builders Lay Plans; Wreckers Map UAW Split -Stalinists Claim Sanction from Lewis; Urge Him to Set Up Czar Rule Over Auto Workers Union Chicago Slate in an A.F.T. Meet -Fred Beal Defense Defeated by Stalinists Resolutions on War Membership Doubled Strange Medley at Youth Meet -Patriots From Many Lands Bicker, Pass War Resolution Political Melting Pot Pickets Protest Frame-Up Trials America's Permanent Depression-V -Panaceas Fail; Only Destruction of Capitalism Can Rid Society of Mass Unemployment by Art Preis (Conclusion of Series) Workers Need Radical Cure No Cure under Capitalism What to Do Now? National Public Works Program Six Hour Day, Five Day Week Nationalize Subsidized Industries L.A. Summer School Ends Fifth Session Classes Held Slogan "Sales Mean Jobs" Displays Boss Futility Sidestep Crisis Jobs Come First Plants Shut Down New Body Wins Support in L.A. -Locals Back Stand of Leaders; Hail Six-Point Program, By a Special Correspondent I.L.G.W. Locals Solid Rubber Union Rallies Auto Union Lines Up Bridges Sleight-Of-Hand Cut-and–Dried Convention Appeal Available in Bound Volume St. Paul Unions Hit Silver Shirts Socialist Appeal and New International Can Be Obtained at the Following Newsstands Peace & Plenty Await Nazi Move In Czechoslovakia -Hitler Threat Arouses Extreme Nationalistic Fervor; Workers View British Efforts With Skepticism, By Frank Demby (Special to the Socialist Appeal) Speak No German Class Lines Forgotten Czech President -Eduard Benes (Photograph) Economic Crisis Believe War Inevitable Franco's Refusal to Withdraw Foreign Troops End Non-Intervention Farce -Note Reveals Italian and German Plan for More Aid by Albert Goldman Quick Victory Impossible British Busy Elsewhere Workers' Aid Needed Guild Signs Pact Wire Visiting Spanish Minister, Protesting Pending POUM Trials Soviet-Japanese War Inevitable -Trotsky Sees Japanese Militarists Headed for Blow-Up; Internal Difficulties Force Stalin's Hand by Leon Trotsky Fears War, Not Japan Tokyo Holds Key French Workers Face Major Loss Troops Break Strike Open Offensive Basky, Veteran Militant, Dead Opposed Stalin Lewis' Eloquent Silence Sacco and Vanzetti Horse Trader's Alibi -"Explaining" The Republican ALP Coalition by James Burnham Three Main Points Argument Worthless Only G.O.P. Wins S.P. Spurns United Front for GPU Victims in Spain Five Proposals S.P. Replies S.W.P. Writes Again Nazi Chieftain -Fritz Kuhn (Photograph) Jail Two in Anti-Nazi Protest Pinning 'em Down by James Casey Campaign Thunder The Messiah Is Come! Programs and Memories Look at the Record Congress without Congressman 36 Sep. 3, 1938 UAW Fights Lewis Invasion -Locals Condemn Plan to Set Up Dictatorship -Lewis Acts as Foil for Union-Wreckers; Would End Auto Union Autonomy and Hand Control to Stalinists -Lewis in Splitters Role Plan Not New Year of Turmoil Lewis Arbitrator C.P. Demagogy Union First Issue Driver Sign Pact Covering 11 States, 250,000 Workers -Tentative Agreement Will Affect 2,000 Operators, Make Teamsters Largest U.S. Union Militantly Executed Unity Against Picket Ban Appeal Available in Bound Volume More Ships to Be Run by Gov't -Commission Extends Hiring Control Over More Seamen Move to West Coast Land Reiterates Hiring Paramount Issue War Nears in Europe -Czechoslovakia Vital to German Plans for Expansion German Plans at Stake Drive in Southeast Vital War Factor Powers Back Czechs "Der Fuhrer" Gives Europe the "Jitters" -Adolph Hitler (Photograph) Seattle Council Hits Fink Halls Klement Reported Killed, Body Found -Headless and Legless Body Tentatively Identified As Fourth Victim of G.P.U. In Europe Fourth to Die Killings without Precedent Chinese Trotskyists Lead Strike Against Japan Ship Force Removal of Ship The Manifesto New York Faces Crisis in Relief Union-Smashing Drive Opens in San Francisco -Warehouse Lockout Begins Campaign Against Unions Committee of 43 Hews to Class Line Unions Retreat Strikers Force Parley on Plan to Move Plant -Quick Act Prevents Entry of Scabs; Leader Praised Quick Action Wins Resume Negotiations Workers Expect Action Cops Surround N.Y. Relief Sit-In -Protesting Jobless Denied Food As Bureau Closes Doors Locked Early Open the Factories! -An Editorial Hook Alliance to Roosevelt Machine -Strange List of Politicians Named As "Progressives" by Alliance; to Collect Huge Slush Fund by George Milton Announce Plans "Friends of Labor" Celler's Record Seize Leaflets Opposition Grows in Furriers Union -Dissatisfaction With New Agreement Brews Discord in Union Long Under C.P. Control Wage Raise Slight No Closed Shop Try to Dodge Not Prepared to Fight Finances Drained Tobacco Workers Strike Appeal Army Peace & Plenty Death Trust: American Medical Ass'n Mulcts Profits; But Diseases Is Rampant by David Cowles Advantages of Cooperative Halo Ripped Away Laws No Safeguards Cooperation Limited Hospitals Needed POUM Trials Postponed; Prisoners Still in Jail Puerto Rican Nationalists Face Trial; Lawyer Quits Picture Changed Strange Defense French Workers Grow Restive Under Deepening Crisis; Strikes Break Out -Military Checked by "Loyal" CGT Bureaucrats by Terence Phelan [Sherry Mangan] French Workers in Action During an Auto Strike (Photograph) Dock Workers Strike Teachers Show Militancy Johaux Booed Cordell Hull's Philosophy "Peace" Means War Wages and Attacks on NLRB Reflects Blows Suffered by Labor -William Green Joins With Employers Against Board -Militancy Alone Will Save Gains Under Wagner Act by James Burnham Wants Courts Supreme Attacks N.L.R.B. -Bill Green (Photograph) Aims of Wagner Act Act Is Strength Shifts to A.F. Of L. Fate of Political Refugees Rests with Labor by V.R. Dunne Crumbs From Evian Table "Democracy" Mocks Refugees No Safety in Stalinland G.P.U. Allied with Police Pending 'em Down by James Casey Surplus But No Bread The President's Morals Timely Articles On War Features September N.I. Saviors of Capitalism Political Survey 37 Sep. 10, 1938 War Crisis in 11th Hour -Armies on Frontiers As Europe Mobilizes -Diplomats Jockey for Position But Only United Workers' Might Can Beat Down War Danger -Against the War Makers! Armies Move to Frontiers Fleets in Battle Array Imperialists Promise Aid Press Aid War-Makers "One Third of the Nation" -An Editorial (Concerns Poverty in America) Plea for Liberalism Is Roosevelt Hoax -Drop "Principles" in California Primaries; Pension Hit By James Burnham Purpose of "Purge" Left Defeats F.D.R. Cracks Down on Masses A Thirty Dollar Minimum King, Ramsay and Connor in Appeal W.P.A. Local in Split from W.A. -New York Union Hits Communist Party Misleadership by George Milton Last of W.P.A. Strength Revolt against Stalinism C.P. Record in Alliance Help Jail Unemployed Cleaners Gain in Syracuse; Jail 2 Pact Covering 250,000 Drivers Nets Big Gains -Drivers Win Union Conditions for Huge Area Basic Hourly Rate Represents Wage Gains Area Committee Set Up More Unions Join N.Y. Police Club Relief Seekers; 16 Youth Jailed -Face Jail Terms on Framed Charges; Bail High LaGuardia "Befriends" Jobless Youth (Photograph of unemployed workers being led to jail after being beaten by police) Police Seize Luben Join in Frame-Up Police Cause Violence Relief Long Refused Story Documented Stevedores on West Coast Hit by Bosses' Drive – Only Agreement Not Renewed by Water-Front Employers Splitting Tactics Felt Believe Compromised Due Militants Win Renewal Rivera Says Trade Union Congress Staged by C.P. -Handpicked Delegates Will Extends Sway of Stalinists, Boom Toledano for Mexican Presidency World Youth Congress Beats the Drums of War -Inspired by Stalinist, Sponsored by Reaction, It Issues Open Appeal for Robber War Alliances by Hal Draper Youth Congress Would Build More of These (Photograph Of Aircraft Carrier "Lexington") No Soviet Delegation The "Distinguished" Sponsors Eyewash for "Innocents" Program Protects Plunder Unite the Generals! The "Program of Action" Appeal to Fascists Second International in Line Labor Unity Spurs Southern Unionism -Houston A.F. Of L. and C.I.O. Cooperate in Organization and Strike Activity; Texas Workers Better Conditions By Special Correspondent Unity in Union Picnic Steel Workers Backbone Oil Workers Cooperate Progressive Sweep Elections Appeal Army –Special 8-Page issue on world Congress Socialist Appeal and New International Can Be Obtained at the Following Newsstands Peace & Plenty Damning Evidence in Sedoff Murder -Trotsky Bares Further Proof of G.P.U. Guilt -Investigation Discloses Direct Tie-Up Between G.P.U. and Hospital Staff; Laxity of Police Assailed Hides Behind "Professional" Secrecy A "Bolshevik Sympathizer"! Leon Sedoff (Photograph) Blames "Trotskyites" for Sons' Death Yagoda's Repertoire The Death List Police Wink at G.P.U. Crimes Late Flash! -Mexican G.P.U. Plot Trotsky's Death -Laborde, Mexican G.P.U. Head, Spent Months in U.S. Preparing Final Blow Against Trotsky and Friends "Direct Action" Ordered Toledano Follow Suit Leaders Immune in U.S. A Broad Hint Expropriate the Railroads Mexico's Real Allies What the Army Is For "In Stalin's Realm" -"The Russian Workers' Own Story" (Review Of Book by Boris Silver) Reviewed by Joe Hansen A True Witness Speaks A First Encounter L.D. Trotsky -He Symbolizes Revolution to Soviet Workers (Photograph) V.I. Lenin -Years of Stalin Rule Have Not Crushed His Ideas in Soviet Union (Photograph) "Stalin Came a Little Late" "Down With the Georgian Swine!" (Continued in the next issue) Pinning 'em Down by James Casey Hunger Shatters New Deal Illusions Recount Story of Lynching Vote for County Politicians 38 Sep. 17, 1938 Powers Prepare War -Czechs Pawns in Conflict as Crisis of System Drives to Disaster -Workers Sold to War Machine by Pay-triot Leaders -Fight the War-Plans! Hitler Mocks Self-Determination World Clash Inevitable "Frances Is the Key" What Good Work, Mr. President? -An Editorial Unions Back Clerks! -Boss Offensive Met by United Labor Movement -Strikers Picket 27 Dep't Stores; In Militant Mood Employers Admit Aims Unions in Solidarity Leadership Conciliatory Major Anti-Union Offensive Spikes Bridges' Slander L.A. Unions Pledge Aid The Crisis in the Auto Workers Union -Martin, Waging Fight Against Wreckers, Is Hampered by Bureaucratic Tactics, Reactionary Allies -Internal Struggle Exposes Stalinism as Major Threat to Labor Movement; Socialist Party Only C.P. Shadow by Geo. Clarke Crimes of Stalinism Martin Fights the C.P. A Record of Blunders Weak w is ith G.M. Stays among Friends The Compromise Proposals Sailors Back Longshoremen; Blast C.P. Slanders (Reprinted from the WEST COAST SAILORS) by Harry Lundeberg, Sec'y-Treas. Union Defense Guards Formed by Local 544 -Group Prepares to Defend Union Hall From Thugs Lessons From '34 Seaman Picket Fink Hall, Gov't Training School -Pickets Meet Gov't Ship, NMU Officials Aid Commission N.M.U. "Cooperates" Look Who's Here! S.U.P. Charter Delayed Latin Americans Hit "Democratic" U.S. Imperialism -Congress in Uproar; Dissident Voices Suppressed (Special to the Socialist Appeal) Against U.S. Imperialism Whitewashed "Democracies" Shipyard Union Convenes; Maps Drive on Bethlehem -Shipyard Workers to Launch Huge Organizing Drive -Aim at "Little Steel" Yards -IUMSWA Meet Hits Fink Halls; Defends Fred Beal by Bill Morgan Urge Independent Candidates Hit Maritime Commission Organizers Fight Reaction Progressives Gain In N.Y. Painters' Union -Referendum on Tax Goes Against C.P. Administration Machine Majority Accidental Tax Washed Out N.Y. Fund Raises $150 Collection Police Protect Fascist Meeting -Arrest Four S.W.P. Members; Leaflets Banned Weekly Backs Fascists 2 More Locals Leave Alliance -Eight Delegates, 35 Observers Attend Conference by George Milton Cite Stalinist Wreckers To Meet Again Records Stolen McCord Strike Ranks Hold Firm -Other Locals Must Act in Solidarity With Strikers 11–State Pact Is Now in Effect -Unions Ratify Plan; Establish Area Committee Appeal Army -Appeal Needs Immediate Financial Aid Kulak Danger in Soviet Reappears -New Tax Decree, Aimed at Wealthy Peasants, Reveals Grave Situation; Collectives Being Undermined by J.G. Wright [Joseph Vanzler] Decree of Sweeping Nature Differences in Collectives Return to Village Labor Shows Strength in South A People's Parade Negro Dockers March "In Stalin's Realm" -"The Russian Workers Own Story" Reviewed by Joe Hansen (Continued from last issue) The Youth Know Tells Who Supports Stalin "They're A New Aristocracy!" How Oppression Will End Company Unionism in New York Primaries -A.L.P. Is Tail To Kite of Boss Parties by James Burnham Fay Machine Politician A.L.P. Trails Along Face Predicament Bosses Pick Candidate Hathaway "Forgets" London But Doesn't Deny Murder History Repeats! -An Editorial Guard the Security of Trotsky! Minneapolis Leads the Way Again! The New Deal Speaks on Hague Pinning 'em Down by James Casey A Prophecy Come True Prosecution Goes A-Begging 39 Sep. 24, 1938 Plain Speaking On Czechoslovakia - An Editorial A Weapon For Exploitation What Can Our Perspective Be? Results of People's Frontism What This War Would Be Who Will Stop Hitlerism? Plan War on Soviets –Post-War European Lineup Shattered -Collective Security Is Interred at Berchtesgaden: Anti-Soviet Four-Power Pact Is Next Aim -Win Temporary Respite Diplomats Talk Today; Guns Tomorrow (Photograph of heavy artillery) Democracy at Work Re-Making the Map Truck Drivers Tie up New York City –Rank And File Leaders Backed by Membership -Huge Meeting Balks Strikebreaking Attempts Strike Voted Last Week Strike May Be Extended Omaha Drivers Halt Trucking -New Set-up Ties up Trucks Over Vast Area Present Agreement Pena Challenged on Trial of Spanish Revolutionists -Socialist Workers Party Letter Demands Clear Statement From Minister of "Justice" "Denies" G.P.U. Trials Minister Not "Responsible" Text of Letter Held Incommunicado Bridges Accepts Changes In Pact -Modifications May Mean Compulsory Arbitration Mass Picketing Curbed Bridges Willing Compulsory Arbitration Looms Auto Strike Is Menaced by Ruse of Union Jobholder -Police Attack Pickets After McCord Workers Repel Attempt to Force Return to Work Houser Condemned Police Assault Strikers "Treason Trial" Delayed Again by Government -Sentence of Death Asked for Three Militants Postponed "Indefinitely" Legal Murder Attempt Referendum in Painters D.C. 9 Defeats $5 Tax -Administration Plan Rejected by Ranks Fear Own Locals Unions Fight Picket Ban * Los Angeles Bosses Pass Anti-Picket Ordinance Bosses Spent Half a Million Workers Deprived of Vote * Drive on Picketing Jails Seven L.A. Strikers Arrest All Pickets Grand Jury Clears Mpls. Unions; Slanderers Hit Probe Death of Brown Boss Lie Machine Appeal Available In Bound Volume Set Hearing for Jobless Youth Alliance Heads Ready to Expel Militant Locals -Stalinist Committee Able to Revoke Charters by George Milton Aimed at Convention Four-Point Program New York C.I.O. Supports F.D.R. -Head of State Body Pledges Workers to War-Makers Parade of Politicians Pro-War Resolution "Stand by France" Books Asked for Schools Appeal Army Socialist Appeal and New International Can Be Obtained at the Following Newsstands Akron Unionist Blast Lying Liberty Article by R. Ferguson [Robert Treash] Workers Know Sparks Who Ruined Akron? October N.I. Has Varied Content G.P.U. Assassins and Their Victim (Photomontage of Ignace Reiss murdered by the GPU and Vladimir Kondratieff, Dmitry Smizensky, Renata Steiner, Gertrude Schildbach, GPU agents involved) Murderers of Reiss Seek Life of Trotsky The Defense of Czechoslovakia War Crisis Curbs Strikes in France -French Bosses Use National Defense Plans to Break Strikes and Chain Workers to War Machine by F.L. Demby The Hand of the C.P. Economic Battles Inevitable A Bona Fide Strike! Patriot's Progress None so Blind Imperialist Smokescreen at Latin American Congress by Garcia Cestero Pious Hopes Unity for What? Reduced to Absurdity Silence on Imperialism Avoid All Problems Rubber Union Hits Hull Notes On Mexican Oil New Deal Candidates Lose, But F.D.R. Dolds Prestige by James Burnham Defeats Expected Personal Prestige High Farm-Labor Union Pinning 'em Down by James Casey Gold Rush On Wall Street Bull Market Coming Profits, Prices Up--Wages Down 40 Oct. 1, 1938 The Appeal Will Be Issued Three Times Weekly Beginning Saturday! Fight Imperialist War! –Millions in Arms Await Zero Hour on All Borders -Pacifist Leap On Bandwagon to Support War Chamberlain's Dream Why Hitler Roars Democracy in Discard The Real Fear No Way Out The Only Answer Novelist Turns War Monger U.S. Soon Involved Drivers Accept Terms While Strike Goes On –Boss Front Cracking After Ass'n Rejects Compromise; Strikers Keep Unsigned Firms Tied Up –New Pact Reduces Hours City Trucks Roll Strike Now Sanctioned Primary Deals Reveal Danger in ALP Policy -Independent Action Alone Will Rally Workers The Election Yield Lovestone Treachery S.W.P. Position Strikelights on the Truck Front by Bill Morgan New War Flows from Versailles Banditry -Trotsky Urges Firm Revolutionary Defeatist Policy As Only Way to Fight Hitlerism by Leon Trotsky Versailles Brought Fascism Mockery of "Racial" Unity Moscow Not Mentioned The "Fight" Against War Tools of Imperialism Fight Hitlerism by Revolution –An Editorial The Real Interests of the Czech Government The Objective for Workers and Peasants The Lie of "Democracy" The Answer of Revolutionists The Real Allies of the Workers and Peasants Teachers Fight G.P.U. Slander Against Trotsky Rivera Challenges Laborde A Mysterious Return Teachers' Statement Resolution Against Trotsky Omaha Trucks Tied Up throughout North Central Area –Move Only with Union Permits –New Area Contract Is Issue; 35 Companies Sign Rubber Workers Urge Labor Unity Ask C.I.O.–A.F. of L. Peace; Refuse C.P. Whitewash of Bridges Wrecking Tactics On West Coast by B.J. Widick, Labor Secretary, S.W.P. Support Railroad Unions Refuse Endorsement to Bridges Still Follow F.D.R. Blast Mayor Hague Praise Western Organizer Officers Re-Elected YPSL Conference Plans Activity Slug Militants in Food Union – Appeal Is Made Against Gangsters C.P. Clique Lieben Frames Militant Program Outlined Sailors Tie up Shepard Again -Breaking of Pact Gets Quick Strike Action Use Election Ruse Bridges Backs Down S.U.P. Gives Position Unemployed Militant Faces C.P. Expulsion Call the Cops! Jobless Issue Convention Call A Militant Organization Appeal Army -We Must Redouble Our Efforts Defense Formed for Unemployed Defense for Jobless 16 Involved in Case Trotskyists Defend Heroic Past of Polish Communists –Dissolution of Party and Murder of Leaders Is Reward for Loyalty to Stalin and Comintern Tools of Stalin Thrown into Discard R.R. Workers to Strike 800,000 Votes Cast Half the Battle Won Open Letter to the Members of the C.P. from the Socialist Workers Party On the Labor Party -A Resolution of the S.W.P. Bureaucrats Restrict Movement Radical Change in Tactics Principles Not Involved Bureaucracy Will Resist Will Support Labor Party Party Independence Preserved Pinning 'em Down by James Casey Vast Field Awaits S.W.P. How the C.P. Juggles Figures How Our Recruiters Should Speak 41 Oct. 3, 1938 Only the Workers of the World Can Defend the USSR! (Headline above Masthead) Pact Menaces Russia On the Eve of War –What Became of Democracy In Czechoslovakia... In France... Socialist Solution Is Only One for Czech National Minorities (From "Banner," Organ of the Sudeten Bolshevik-Leninists) How They Explain Allies with Bourgeoisies (From "Proletarske Noviny," Organ of the Bolshevik-Leninists in the Czech Speaking Area.) Source of Henlein's Strength Civil Peace and Fascism Confused by Patriotism Appeal Army Fourth Internationalist Firm in Czechoslovakia We Stand with Debs (Photograph) US Laws Ready to Shatter All Civil Liberties –In Case of War We Would Be Placed Under Iron Rule No Free Speech Concentration Camp Gov't Roosevelt Moves Open Path to War -Washington's Intervention Makes the Record, Helps Speed Up New Armament Outlays A Veiled Threat Behind the Scenes Military Preparations Speeded Helps Four-Power Pact Masses Want Peace Roosevelt Rehearses Stalinist Run Alliance Conclave; Bar Dissidents –New York Progressives Denied Seats; Cheering Delegates Clamber on Roosevelt Bandwagon Hitler Rule Condemn Treachery American Legion to Mobilize for Reactionaries – Convention Adopts 10-Point Anti-Labor Program Truck Strike Routes Bosses; Unions Gain –Substantial Increases Won by Drivers as Strike Comes to End; LaGuardia's True Role Now Revealed by S.V. O'Flaherty Bosses Ass'n Collapses Why They Capitulated Strike Points the Way Advice to Chiselers Force Wage Cut on Philco Union –Stalinist Leadership Ends Strike with Heavy Defeat Union Workers Scab 42 Oct 5, 1938 After Munich –– What Next? Cannon Reports on Strong Peace Spirit of Masses -S.W.P. National Secretary, Just Back from Europe, Tells of Anti-War Activity in Paris Masses Want Peace Reserves Go to Front To Speak Oct. 9 -James P Cannon (Photograph) Rulers Fear Revolution C.P. Alone for War Fourth International Founded A Smash Sell-Out! -Penny Appeal Makes Hit A Good Start; Let's Keep It Up! Czechs Bound for Economic Collapse After Munich Pact –Partitioned Country Will Become Vassal of Reich -Army Will Be Converted into Anti-Soviet Force by W.Keller Crippled Economy Now an Agrarian Country Ruins Sudetens Vassal of Reich Army against Russia A Popular Referendum New Internat'l Off the Press On Canadian Fascism Mahoney Bill Analyzed Book Reviews C.P. Stages Red–Baiting Frame–Up Import Hatchet–Man Peoples of Europe Clamor for Peace -Even in Fascist Countries Spontaneous Demonstration Show Deep–Going Opposition to War Answer to Labor Misleaders Where the Masses Stand Unsolicited Joy 43 Oct. 8, 1938 People's Front Bankrupt! –Are Leading Toward New Dictatorships -France in Czechoslovakia Turning Authoritarian; Loyalists Prepare for Deal with Fascists Collapse of People's Front A Two-Year Record The Czech Turn Time Is Short! Prepares Sell-Out -Premier Negrin (Photograph) For a People's Vote on War –An Editorial The Fourth International Fights Boss War! (Montage of newspapers affiliated with the Fourth International with headlines opposing the war over Czechoslovakia) Laborites Trail Boss Parties -A.L.P. Convention Again Endorses Gov. Lehman Not a Word on War Roosevelt and Reaction Force Independent Nominees The Road Forward Break with Roosevelt Trotsky Predicts Stalin Will Now Seek an Understanding with Hitler by Leon Trotsky Drivers Power in A.F.L. Meet -Counsel Straddles an Issue of AFL–CIO Unity Teamsters a Power Fight on Printers' Delegates Fate of UAW Lies with Rank And File Workers by John Adamson Red–Baiting Program Martin's Reactionary Allies Militants Built the U.A.W. The Union Under Fire Up to the Membership New Unemployed Union Organized in New York -Militants Locals Demand More Relief; Want Idle Factories Opened; Plan Fight on Sales Tax by George Milton Denounce LaGuardia Tax New Groups Join Militant Keynote Speech New Officers Elected Harrison Contested Denounces Discrimination Grants Rights to Locals Mass Sale of N.J. Campaign Paper Anti-Union Plan Is Defeated by Houston Labor -Plan for Managerial Dictatorship Is Spiked by a Special Correspondent Bosses Spend Thousands A Vigilante Plan Teamsters in the Forefront IRT Threatens to Cut Wages -Transport Workers Prepare to Fight Transit Bosses What Will Quill Do? Repulsive Hoodlum Attack on Meeting U.A.W. Wins Two Indiana strikes -Demands Granted in Plymouth and Briggs Plant 100 Per Cent walkout Champ' Salesman! By Ted Bekos Make Them Buy!! Posters Useful Appeal Army –Second Anti-War Issue of Appeal Has Great Success! C.I.O. To Set up Jersey Council Progressive Action Labor Party Sentiment S.W.P. Opens Big Offices in MPLS Library, Bookshop, Kitchen "Fight Imperialism to Fight Fascism," Trotsky Tells Cuban Press by Leon Trotsky Fascism and Imperialism Stalin--World Gendarme ASU Conducts Jingo Drive While YPSL Fights War Save "Our" Trade! Openly for War Beating the Drums Y.P.S.L. Drive Planned SWP Hits at War Meet in St. Louis LaGuardia Beats the Legion's War Drums –Swallows 10–Point Anti-Labor Program The "Little Flower" (Photograph of LaGuardia) Legion Beats the Drums Back War Program Time for Accounting International Come to Aid of Striking Omaha Drivers International Backs Strike Solidarity with Farmers Army Rule for Labor in War -Make Plans to Hog–Tie Unions When U.S. Fights Army in Complete Control Labor Movement Hog-Tied Army Will Break Strikes The Judas Kiss for Spain Greetings to "Workers Voice" Czech Bourgeoisie Prepares For Turn to Fascist Regime by W. Keller Gets the Skids -Eduard Benes (Photograph) Czech "Democracy" A Slave Regime Post–War Revolutions Workers' Struggle Applied Democracy Dictatorship Established Greet the Y.P.S.L. Convention Refugees Turned Back to Hitler Pinning 'em Down by James Casey The Blight of Hitlerism Traders in Human Flesh Cachin Exposes Cachin Slander Cannot Hide the Truth 44 Oct. 10, 1938 War On U.S. War–Makers! –U.S. Deeply Involved in World War Crisis New Attempt Made to Frame Leon Trotsky –Goldman Challenges Dies Agent on Slanderous Charge Alleging Trotsky–Fascist Link Smeared with G.P.U. Goldman's Telegram Tool of G.P.U. The Only Fight Against War by Carlo (Political Cartoon) Stalinist Issue Paramount at CIO Convention by B.J. Widick, Labor Secretary, S.W.P. I.T.U. Admitted Roosevelt's Role An Imposed Peace The Main Issue Appeal Concludes Extra Editions -- Now Forward! Hitler Speeds Eastward Drive Against U.S.S.R. -All Central Europe Passing Under Nazi Heel A Hangover New Crises Coming Real Motives Czech Parties Long Prepared for Authoritarian Regime by W. Keller A Logical Development No Mass Movement Disguised Fascists Opposed Western Orientation An Imperative Necessity Anti-Semitism Will Spread Fast Action By Sailors Wins New Shepard Pact -Militant Display Quickly Brings Line to Heel After Attempt to Utilize N.M.U. Back-Stabbing Notice of Non-Renewal Fast Action Wilkes-Barre Guild Closes Four Papers 45 Oct. 15, 1938 Will Stalin Bow to Hitler? -Duranty Article Lays Down New Line of Kremlin -Sees "No Obstacle" in Path of Such a Move Trotsky's Position New Mass Murders Stalin Stakes After Munich Parties Mark Time Roosevelt Seeks National Unity in Joint Appeals –Wants to Put House in Order Before War Comes Smile on Both Houses Industrial Survey Made Unity For War Supreme Court Denies Review of Mooney Case -Fight for Freedom Goes On After New Setback Labor Must Free Him -Tom Mooney (Photograph) New Jersey C.I.O. Calls for Unity – Convention Draws Plans for Anti-Hague Fight by B.J. Widick Labor Secretary S.W.P. Plan Fight on Hague Force Apology Discuss War Question Tobin Move Aid To Union Unity -Proposal Puts AFL Bureaucrats on Hot Spots Lewis Offers to Resign Tobin Gets Big Backing Strong Peace Sentiment in C.I.O. Fight for Prestige, Not for Unity -John L. Lewis, William Green (Photograph) of Sailors Slated to Get National AFL Charter Background of Conflict The Fink Book Issue Training Ships The Hiring Hall Deal with Admiral In the Coming Elections -For Independent Labor Politics! Begin Full Press "Spy Scare" to Aid War Plans -Roosevelt Prepares for Anti-Labor Legislation The Real Menace All the Trimmings New Arms Program Witch Hunts Tomorrow Militants Face "Treason" Trial; In Spain Court -Frame-up Hearings Finally Open in Barcelona Varied Charges Protests Multiplied G.P.U. Stage–Managers Lindbergh's The Culprit! Wrecking Crew Regime Tottering in Painters Union -Clique Admits Bankruptcy; Asks for Opposition's Aid -At End of Their Rope, Weinstock & Co. Try to Trick Opponents Into Okay of New Tax Administration Bankrupt Want Payment For Deal How Deal Was "Planned" Exposes C.P. Hand Begin Double–Cross Rail at Membership Jamaica Militant Hits C.P. Lies Subway Union Hits Wage Cut -Demand Increasing In Counter Proposal Appeal Army -World Congress Issue Appears Next Week! Results of Special Anti–War Issues New York City Shows the Way! Gaston Medina Dies For a Socialist United States of Europe (Partial text of a speech delivered by James P Cannon on "The war crisis in Europe and the meaning of the Munich pact.") A Lesson in Realism Masses Are against War The Real Face of Democracy Not Enough Yet! Stalin's Next Step Stalin Will Fall Whose The Responsibility? Only Internationalist Voice How Our Party Reacted Soviet Economy In Fresh Crisis; New, Sweeping Purges Threatened by J.G. Wright [Joseph Vanzler] The New Emergency Recurrences of Grain Strikes Campaign Against "Kulaks" 1,000 Protest (Protesting the persecution of revolutionary militants by the Loyalist Government in Spain) Pinning 'em Down by James Casey Love Feast with Economic Royalists The "Betterment" Diet A Healthy Program Free Tom Mooney! Tobin's Bombshell Sliding Scale of Hours New International Offers November Highlights Alliance "Friend" Denounces Strikes Czech Labor Movement Now Faces Fight Against Fascism by W. Keller A Grave Moment Traditions of Struggle An Important Distinction A Choice to Be Made Stalinists Will Be First A Quick Showdown 46 Oct. 22, 1938 Section 1 World Congress Founds Fourth International -Thirty Delegates From Eleven Countries Raise New Banner -New International Created Midst of European War Crisis Gives Voice to Revolutionary Opposition to Imperialist War -Youth International Formed Organizational Report Integration of Movement Stalinist Impotence On the Soviet Union On the International Other Problems Considered Congress Climaxes 15 Years' Struggle -Fourth International Emerges From Fight Against Degeneration in the Third International by Max Shachtman Against the Bureaucratism Rallied to the Opposition Subsequent Struggles Other Breaks Process of Selection Trotsky's Role History's Lessons A Sharp Turn Centrist Decline 4th International by Carlo (Political Cartoon) Ten Years of the Fight to Build a Revolutionary Party in the US by James P Cannon Ten Years Strong Revolutionary Realities The Pioneer Contingent -Martin Abern, James P Cannon, and Max Shachtman, pioneers in the Communist movement in the United States 10 years ago (Photograph) A Tough Start The Power of Program The First Persecution James P Cannon -National Sec'y, S.W.P. Firm Line of Principle The German Events Into the Mass Movement Turns and Sectarians Our "Rivals" The Party Re-Arms Nine Countries Represented at Youth Congress -Delegates Gather Despite Many Obstacles by Nathan Gould 19 Delegates Attend Tribute to Heroes Pledged to Anti-War Struggle Elect Delegates The Rights of Youth On National Sections Grow While Reformist Decay From Left Socialism to Bolshevism by Ernest Erber, National Chairman, Y.P.S.L. Merger With A.W.P. Move Left with Depression Conflict Takes Form Entry of Workers Party Revolutionists Unite The Revolutionary Marxist Press -Ten Year Record of Struggle and Progress by Martin Abern Only a Handful Martin Abern -Business Mgr., New International (Photograph) Circulation of 3,000 In the Early Issues Campaign For the Weekly Selling the Socialist Appeal (Photograph) Pioneer Publishers The New International The Socialist Appeal Events of a Decade Building the Press Appeal Army Best Issue of Appeal Yet! Affiliated Sections of the Fourth International Revolutionary Tasks and Work in the Trade Union Movement by V.R. Dunne Our Task The Reactionary Stalinists Vincent Dunne -Minnesota Organizer, S.W.P. The Mistakes of the C.I.O. The Strengths of the A.F.L. The Road Ahead The Unemployed Political Action Historical Role of S.W.P. The Early Days by Max Shachtman The "Document" Max Shachtman -Editor, Socialist Appeal How It Came to America The First Reaction The Trial The Real Accusers The Great Heresy "Burglary Bolshevism" The Sequel The First Trotskyist Group in New England by Antoinette F. Konikow The First Comrades Trip to Russia Prepares for Break Expelled from C.P. Progressives Merge with Fourth International by James Burnham Co-Editor, New International Not a Party Choice of the A.W.P. Obstacles Met A Foreshadowing The Struggle for Marxism In the Socialist Party by Glenn Trimble Member, Nat'l Comm., S.W.P. New Elements The "Militant" Group Left Wing Development "Clarity" Delivers A Life-or-Death Appeal! -Here's Your Chance to Act Internationalism Our Banner by Maurice Spector Co-Editor New International Lenin's Teachings The Final Straw Renunciation of Revolution There Is No Substitute Undermine the Only Force In Their Footsteps -by Atkins (Political Cartoon honoring Lenin, Liebknecht and Luxembourg) First Youth Conference Was Held In Chicago In November, 1929 by Albert Gates Nation-wide Expulsions The Youth Meet Pages from the History of the Youth Movement by Nathan Gould National Organizer, Y.P.S.L. Publish "Young Spartacus" New Clubs Organize First Convention Organization Grows Merge with Revolutionary Y.P.S.L. 46 Oct. 22, 1938 Section 2 The Death Agony of Capitalism and the Tasks of the Fourth International -Transitional Demands Will Mobilize The Masses The Objective Prerequisites for Socialist Revolution The Proletariat and Its Leadership The Minimum Program and a Transitional Program Sliding Scale of Wages and Sliding Scale of Hours Trade Unions in the Transitional Epoch Program Will Lay Basis for Regime of Dual Power Factory Committees "Business Secrets" and Workers Control of Industry Expropriation of Separate Groups of Capitalists The Picket Line -- Defense Groups -- Workers' Militia -- The Arming of the Proletariat Provides for Active Defense of Working Class Rights The Alliance of the Workers and Farmers The Main Enemy Is Still Our Own Capitalist Class The Struggle Against Imperialism and War Concretizing A Few Abstractions A Referendum on War Aiding Non-Imperialist Countries Workers and Farmers Government The Russian Experience Perspectives of the Slogan Soviets Backward Countries and the Program of Transitional Demands The Program of Transitional Demands in Fascist Country Fresh Forces Are Needed Tasks of the Fourth International The U.S.S.R. and Problems of the Transitional Epoch "Trotskyism" In the U.S.S.R. The Chief Task Against Opportunism and Unprincipled Revisionism Against Sectarianism The Road to the Woman–worker The Road to the Youth The Roots of the Fourth International World Congress Greetings to Leon Trotsky Manifesto of the Congress -Against Imperialist War! At Bandit War Betrayers of the Toilers Impotent against Fascism We Are Loyal to U.S.S.R. Break the Chains! The Fourth International Greetings to the Fighters in Spain from The Executive Committee of the Fourth International Salute to Our Living Martyrs in Our Heroic Dead Statement of the I.S. -On the Moliniere Group On Organizing Defense and Relief for Persecuted Revolutionists On Unification of the British Section On the Greek Question On the Mexican Question 47 Oct. 29, 1938 U.S. Builds War Machine -10,000 Plants Geared To Army, Navy Needs -Administration Prepares to Put Over Record Appropriation for Armed Forces and Fighting Planes Exceeds All But War Record Most Deadly Weapon Survey For M-Day Spy Scare Smoke Armaments for Conquest Kuomintang Gives Up Vital War Positions -Canton and Hankow Are Surrendered to Invaders; Turn to Guerilla Warfare Must Be Made by Lo Sen Enters New Phase Defeatist Tactics Canton Sell-out British Connivance Tasks That Remain Masses Victimized Thirteen Greek Comrades Jailed by Dictatorship -Tortures Used to Extract Names From Victims Quarters Raided 3,000 Imprisoned Life or Death Appeal! GPU Odor Begins to Spread from Nazi Spy Trial -Rumrich Drops Some Curious Hints on the Stand Washington's Choice Stalinists Indicted What Trial Reveals Creating Spy Scare An Important Aspect Enter the G.P.U. Some Curious Facts Who is Rumrich? And Matthews? He Read the Papers POUM Trial Foreshadows Munich Plan for Spain -Barcelona Frame-Up Is Smokescreen to Conceal Impending Betrayal of Anti-Fascist Spain by Felix Morrow G.P.U. Procedure Rovira's Fate Revealed Fresh "Revelations" Stalin's Role Pravda's Admission Trade Unions and the Social Crisis -A Conversation on the Problems and Program of the American Labor Movement by Crux [Leon Trotsky] (Fourth International Press Release) Capitalism in Decline Threat to Unions Psychology of Leaders Meetings Poorly Attended Masses and Leaders The Program Sliding Scale of Hours Capitulation or Struggle Danger of Fascism The Labor Party Roosevelt's "Popularity" Railroad Unions Resists Threat of Wage Slash -Road Bosses Reveal Attempt to Quash Board Inquiry by Bill Morgan "Fact Finding" Some Eyewash $95 Per Month Diverted Revenues Efforts to Balk Inquiry Other Plans N.M.U. Officers Are Accused As Bosses Agents -Rank-and-File Pilot Makes Sensational Accusation Gives Names and Dates King Involved Why Paper Was Published Tool of Opportunists King Denies The Stalinist Game Sailors Union Granted Charter by AFL Conclave Membership of New Union Program of Organization Appeal Army A Few Still Left Increased Sales and Subs New Advertising Manager Bound-Volumes New York City subscription Campaign Defense Group Organized for G.P.U. Victim -Blackwell Committee is Representative Twice Arrested Sirovy, "Friend" of Moscow, Outlaws C.P. -Social Democrats and Union Leaders Join in Craven Capitulation to Pro-Hitler Regime by W. Keller C.P. Dissolved Perfidious Betrayal "Social Fascism" Reincarnate Gold Finds a Farmer Conclusion Avoided The Real Conflict New Expulsion Wave in Stalinist Youth Ranks Refused to be Patriots Joined Y.P.S.L. A Fresh Start Appeal to YCLers Open the Doors! Vote Labor! -For Independent Political and a Fighting Program For Independent Labor Politics For a Bold, Fighting Labor Program Harlem Locals Quit Alliance Twenty Expelled Calls Cops Millions Hit As Stalin Purge Continues in Soviet Union by John G. Wright [Joseph Vanzler] Replacement and Purges "Tens of Thousands" Yardstick for Data One-Year Olds "Worthless Directors" Commissariats Cleansed The Notebook of An Agitator "Man's Best Friend is His Dog" 48 Nov. 5, 1938 C.I.O. Faces Crucial Issues of Democracy In the Unions -Convention Next Week Must Take Decisive Steps -Unity and Fight on Stalinism on the Agenda by B.J. Widick Labor Secretary S.W.P. Stalinist Issue Decisive New Unity Bid Bureaucratic Preparations Disruptors Want Recognition The Main Issue Twenty-One Years (21st anniversary of the Russian Revolution) Spanish Veterans Form New Group Progressive Painters Spurn C.P.'s Bribes -Lash Administration for Pork-Barrel Regime Would Bribe Progressives Not for Sale! Budget or Pork-Barrel Pouliopoulos Escapes From Hands of Metaxas' Police How to Vote on Tuesday How to Vote for Congress For State Senate For the Assembly POUM Leaders Sentenced in Spanish Frame-Up Trial -Workers Everywhere Must Protest Savage Prison Terms Meted out to Spanish Revolutionary Militants NMU Seamen Bullied into Signing Rotten Contract -Vicious Campaign Against Lindeberg and Militant Seafarers International Precedes Voting Agreement Bands "Quickies" The Hiring Clause West Coast Comments Plan to Shackle Seamen 1,500 Hear Trotsky Speak at New York Mass Meeting -Antoinette Konikow Honored by Tributes at Tenth Anniversary Celebration; Cannon Points the Road Ahead -Mass Meeting Hails Founding of Fourth International Konikow's Speech Highlight Colorful Meeting Other Speeches Resolution on Greece C.P. Discovers New Democratic Hero in Batista -Cuban Dictator Due for War Parley in Washington by J. Lopez Ambassador Rules Washington Intervenes "Three Year Plan" Continental Hegemony Stalinism at work Imperialism? Where? Open Strike–Breaking Trotsky Reiterates Mission of the Fourth International by Leon Trotsky Work Began in 1928 Our Historic Task The Demands Upon Us We Know No Fear Cannon Reviews the Past and Points to the Future (Excerpts from a speech delivered by James P. Cannon) The Program Decides! Face the Future National Committee Greets Konikow on 50th Anniversary by James P. Cannon, National Secretary, Socialist Workers Party Antoinette Konikow Views 50 Years of Her Activity (Text of the speech delivered by Comrade Antoinette Konikow at the Center Hotel mass meeting in reply to the tribute paid her there on the occasion of her 50th anniversary in the revolutionary movement) Party Honors Veteran (Photograph of Antoinette Konikow) Joined in 1888 At Many Cradlesides A Magic Word An Unsoiled Banner Appeal Army Anti-Imperialist Struggle Is Key to Liberation, Trotsky Tells Matteo Fossa (Fourth International Press Release) Toledano, G.P.U. Flunkey War Is Inevitable People's Front for Imperialism Democracy and Fascism in War The Only Way Out Perspectives for Mexico Latin American and War Stalin's Criminal Work Must Fight All Imperialism Tasks of the Trade Unions Fossa Joins Forces of the Fourth International C.P. Joins Nazis to Elect New Chile President -Stalinists Here Make Ludicrous Attempts to Cover Up by Donald Bergner S.P. Withdraws Growth General Supports Aguire Enter the "Daily Worker" Nov. New International Out The Fear of War Let the Refugees In! The Socialist Party: Act V and Curtain Forgotten Man Will Soon Be Remembered! by Carlo (Political Cartoon) Socialist Party near Collapse Recent NEC Meet Reveals Mr. Valenti Again Membership Sinks The "Call" Goes Down Porter's Program No Proposals on War Collapse in Unemployed Work 49 Nov. 12, 1938 Build Labor's Own Party! -Poll Shows Drift from New Deal -Labor Party Alone Can Stem March of Reaction -Workers Must Take Own Path Workers and Middle Class American Popular Frontism New Deal Explodes The Choice Ahead Let's Remember the Armistice! Belgian Fourth Int'l Candidates Score at Polls -Secure 7,000 Votes And Eight Seats in Communes (Special to the Socialist Appeal) Fought Coalition P.O.B. Losses Preserved "Peace" Dauge Honored Fighting Program Organize the Ford Motor Co.! -Successful Drive Will Put Labor on Offensive -Incompetent Stymied Previous UAW Efforts By John Adamson Defeat in "Little Steel" New Upswing; New Tasks The Great Job at Ford's Workers Want Union Henry Ford (Photograph) Why the Drive Failed High Point Missed Put Ford on CIO Agenda A Plan of Organization The Job Must Be Done Out with Batista -Roosevelt Bids Welcome to Butcher of Workers -Cuban Dictator, Who Rules by Terror, Hailed as "Democrat" by Local Stalinist Party Col. Fulgencio Battista (Photograph) Record of Terror "Democracy" In Cuba Shocking Tortures Workers Shut Down Unions Smashed Lima Conference Will Seal Latin American Pacts -U.S. Is Seeking to Consolidate Its Hegemony For American Domination Foreign Trade Convention Interests Involved Defending "Democracy" Indochinese Authorities Close Trotskyist Journal Organization of South Is Major CIO Problem -Pittsburgh Convention Must Launch Drive Southern Miners Organized Major Drive Not Attempted Johnson Freed in Bill Brown Murder Trial -Union Enemies Slander 544 As Organizer Is Absolved (Reprinted from Northwest Organizer) Killers at Large Readers Commemorate Bulletin Anniversary (10th anniversary of the Russian Bulletin of the Opposition) Marxist School Opens; Lists Important Classes Unions Condemn WPA Labor Camps Davey Breaks Ohio Tobacco Plant Strike -Threatens Workers with National Guard Terror New York Workers Vote Anti–War Stand Shachtman To Review Stolberg Book Next Week Rousing Meetings on Gould Tour Appeal Army U.S. Japanese Clash Due Over Nine–Power Treaty -Tokyo Hopes for Far Eastern Munich Pact -But Big-Navy Man Roosevelt Prepares Steadily for War As Diplomatic Conflicts Grow Acute What the Pact Is Japanese Pressure New Phase Opens Where We Stand Free the P.O.U.M. Leaders! -Fourth International Lashes G.P.U. Trial in Barcelona Statement of I.S. Veterans Picket for Blackwell C.N.T. Delegate Supports Aid for Blackwell Fresh Charges "Agent 29" Olay's Cable Stalinist Slanders Washington Delegation Telegram to Hull Lovestone Comes Out For Boss Candidates in Poll Support Imperialist Party Belly-Scraping Opportunity Y.P.S.L. Mass Convention Rally The "Kingmaker's" Friends Duranty Scents the Trail Reporting from More Duty, Sir! (Political Cartoon about Roosevelt, Batista and Cuba) Recovery: Industry Re-Geared Not for Plenty But for War Arms and Recovery Utilities Expansion Other Lines Affected Wall Street Pleased Order of Upturn Artificial Stimulation Statement on Diego Rivera 50 Nov. 19, 1938 Demonstrate Saturday at the German Consulate Against Nazi Terror (Headline above Masthead) Let the Refugees into U.S.! -Open the Doors to Victims of Hitler's Nazi Terror! (From the National Committee of the Socialist Workers Party, Section of the Fourth International) SWP Polls 6700 Votes in Jersey -Outruns S.P. and Comes Close to Stalinists -Crew Leads Party Ticket Negro Candidate High Polls More Than Stalinist Puppet UAW Board Hits Union Rights, Democracy -Bans Auto Workers Paper, Slams Big Tax on Members, Hands Slush Fund to Officers, Hits W.P.A. Auxiliary by John Adamson "Democracy" In Action Salaries Voted Paper Abolished WPA Set–up Revised Amounts to Liquidation Score Zero Expect No Miracles Pres. Cardenas Raps Attack on Trotsky Asylum -Sharply Repudiate Toledano Charges Against Exile (Special to the Socialist Appeal) Toledano's Slanders Union Revolt An Expensive Campaign Rubber Unions Appeal to NLRB -But Action, Organization Can Stop Wage Cut by R. Ferguson [Robert Treash] Union Unprepared Smash Election Alibi! Labor Unity, Union Democracy Issues Stir CIO Convention -Lewis' Miners Machine in Full Control; Attempt Steamrolling of Bureaucratic Constitution -Stalinists Lewis' Cheering Squad by B.J. Widick Labor Secretary, S.W.P. (Special to the Socialist Appeal) Copies Not Available Jeopardizes Political Rights Right to Overthrow Leaders Labor Unity C.I.O. Committed Industrial Workers Convention Miners' Machine Dominant Stalinists Cheering Squad Major Issues Evaded "Honeymoon" Days Over Skate around Politics Anti-Nazi Demonstration To Take Place Saturday Street Meeting Scheduled Petition Campaign GPU Brews New Rubens Trial -Moscow Links Local Spy Trial to Couple A New Trial? Rubens' "Prepared" Lewis "Pledges" C.I.O. Workers to Boss War -War-Mongers Offer Labor's Blood to War–Makers (Special to Socialist Appeal) A Job Through Slaughter Protection for Capitalism Left on the Galley+ Genora and Kermit Johnson, Leading Auto Workers, Quit S.P., Join S.W.P by George Clarke Significant Act To Those Still in the S.P. Organized Emergency Brigade Photograph -(Genora Johnson, enrolling recruits into the Women's Emergency Brigade, which was an important factor in winning the General Motors strike in Flint) Text of the Statement Issued by Genora and Kermit Johnson Dealing With Old Guard Joining the S.W.P. New Int'l Has Lively Features The Truth at Last! All Set for the Ball Game! Appeal Army How to Sell the Appeal Newsstand Poster Out Weber to Lecture on Moscow Foreign Policy Elections Prove Need for Independent Labor Action * Benson Defeat Shows Disgust For New Deal -Farmer–Labor Party Goes into Slump as Victim of Attempt to Become Prop of Roosevelt Regime by Jules Geller Lost 500,000 Votes Republican Promises Ineffectual Program Future Course Desertion to G.O.P. * Connecticut Workers Vote Independently -Heavy Vote for Jasper McLevy Shows Readiness of Workers to Support Independent Labor Ticket by B. Harde Election Figures Revealing Percentages Industrial Vote From Both Parties Honor Among Thieves Lessons of Vote Some "Explanations" The Full Truth Why Leftword Then? Make Good Showing -Ruben Plaskett, Frank Shapiro and Willis Crews, S.W.P. candidates in the Essex County, N.J. elections (Photograph) A Pointed Lesson in the Polls Why Did It Happen? What Will Be Proposed? What Must the Workers Do? ALP Pays Price for Sleazy Deals in N.Y. -Vote Falls Off by 100,000 as Workers See No Differences Between Labor Party and Democratic Machine Failure to Lead The Morning After Dangers Ahead Open the Doors! (Admit refugees from the Nazis) Elections over...WPA Slash! C.L.R. James, Noted Negro Militant to Speak on Decline of British Empire C.L.R. James (Photograph) Labor Party Aids Chamberlain One Road toward Progress! -By Carlo (Political Cartoon) Trotsky Defends Asylum in Slashing Reply to Toledano (Special to the Socialist Appeal) Cracked Brains 51 Nov. 20, 1938 National Plenum Votes to Issue Appeal Twice-Weekly -Launch Campaign for $3, 000 Fund (Resolution of the Plenum of the National Committee) Enough Pious Tears: Admit the Refugees! -Empty Talk Fills Air As Progrom Goes On -Hypocritical Plans For Havens In Remote Colonies Offer No Real Possibility Of Relief For Victims Of Hitler Real Roosevelt Persecutes Negroes Chamberlain's Crocodile Tears Vile Offerings of Stalinism Face the Issue-- Here! Plenary Session of N.C. Adopts Program of Action -Party to Be Geared to New Tempo to Apply Transitional Program In Trade Union Activity Watchword Is Forward! Discussion on Semi-Weekly Re-shapes Party Work Report on C.I.O. Endorses Change "Treason" Counts Collapse During Trial of P.O.U.M. -Militants Sentenced Only For Part In May Days Myths Exploded Charges Collapse One Charge Left Belgian Militant Tried for Slugging Fascist Chieftain (Special to Socialist Appeal) CIO Convention Rubber Stamps Lewis Machine -Mine Leader Rides Roughshod to Full Control by B.J. Widick (Special to Socialist Appeal) Stalinists Roughly Handled Weapon against Autonomy Stalinists Get Posts But Lewis Controls "Love–Feast" with Martin No Politics at Convention YPSL convention Opens in Chicago UAW Autonomy Endangered by Detroit Move -G.M. Loses No Time in Seizing Its Opportunity General Motors Attacks Fire Shop Steward Minn. Labor Demands Open Door for Refugees Roosevelt Proclaims Hemisphere His Domain -New Arms Program Designed to Assure Rule of U.S. Imperialism from Arctic to Cape Horn "Continental Defense" Trade Pacts LaGuardia Holds a Coat Daladier Lashes French Workers; Fight Strikers -Concentration Camp to Be Created for "Undesirables" Strikes Begin Membership Meet on Plenum Report Appeal Army Six-Page Issue This Week! Local Editions of the Appeal!& Twice-A-Week Appeal Must Be Prepared For! Acknowledgments from England Review of the Mid-Term Elections * Corrupt New Dealer Beaten at Mass. Polls -Labor Refuses Curley Backing Despite Fanfare by William Sherman Backed Wrong Horse Curley's Campaign Frankfeld on Curley * McLevy Has No Labor To Program But Workers Vote Slams All Parties by B. Harde (Second of two articles on the recent elections in Connecticut and its meaning to the workers) "Socialist" Label Doesn't Scare Voted Against Old Parties No Labor Program Unsavory Record L.N.P.L. Defeats McLevy Lessons of Election * Illinois Poll Shows Need for Labor Party -Workers Corralled in Voting for Crooked Gang by Albert Goldman Majority Whittled Down Supported by Underworld L.N.P.L. Backs Unholy Front California Labor Movement Smashes Anti-Labor Measures Larger Vote Than Olsen's Release the Others! S.W.P. Active CIO Council Pickets for Jobless Dole -Lynn Workers Rap Administration for Run-Around (Special to Socialist Appeal) Want No Stalling Aid to Strikers Anti-Semitic Pogroms Are By-Products of Capitalism -Stem from Same Roots As Lynchings of Negroes Here by James Burnham Masked Hypocrisy Capitalist-Bred Get at Roots! An African "Homeland" for the Jewish Refugees? -New "Panacea" Put Forward by World Imperialist Full of Pitfalls-- Only Solution Is "Open Doors" Right Here by C.L.R. James Natives Need Land Racism in Africa Join Fight for Jews C.L.R. James (Photograph) New York Party Arouses Masses on Asylum Issue -Workers Respond to Vigorous Drive By Locals The Case of Grynszpan by Art Preis What is Grynszpan's Fate? No Individual Terror! Fascism Is Capitalism Grynszpan Is Victim Must Not Be Victimized Bosses Exploit Jobless Needs to Bar Nazi Victims Majority in U.S.-- "Refugees!" Crocodile Tears I Ought to Know by Mike Gold Workers Picket Nazi Consulate -United Front Demonstrates Labor Strengths Counsel Joins American Fund Calls for Aid Newark Jobless Demand Asylum for Nazi Victims -Call Upon Roosevelt to Open Doors of America Wise to Boss Agitation Green and Woll Dodge Issue of Asylum for Jews Prayers but No Refuge Union Leader Demands Open Door for Refugees Zionism Proves to Be a Blind Alley for the Jews by Ben Herman Learn from Experience! Britain's Game CIO Skirts Issue of National Guard Des Moines Drivers Win New Contract C.P. Hogties Connecticut CIO -Capture Convention in Absence of Major Unions (Special to Socialist Appeal) Auto Workers Resist Must Organize Fight Bridges Dictatorship Drubbed by CIO Leaders -Rubber and Shoe Worker Delegates to CIO Convention Defy Machine; Back Fight for Democracy (Special to Socialist Appeal) Bridges "Defends" Dalrymple Attacks Blistering Attack New Revolutionary Organ Published by Peru Group Nicos Panayiotidis (Obituary) Truce Declared in Chile When Workers Arm -Popular Front and Fascists For U.S. Imperialism By Donald Bergner "Left" Goes Right C.P. Weasels Its Stand "Show Me Your Friends..." Resolutions Adopted by National Committee Plenum * Trade Union Resolution Points Road to Unity, Progressive Work (Resolution of the Plenum of the National Committee) Labor Unity Pro-C.I.O. Direction Transitional Program "Lesser Evil" In Unions Greater Concentration National Labor Secretary * Plenum Endorses World Congress Decision * Organization to Be Reshaped On Fighting Campaign Lines (Resolution of the Plenum of the National Committee) Tasks for the Next Period Professional Work The Party Press * Political Committee Rapped on Election (Resolution of the Plenum) Sidelights on C.I.O. Convention by B.J.W. [B J. Widick] Two Times Every Week! What's the Difference? Spike Slanders The People Want No War Let Me in -by Aesop (Political Cartoon) Daladier Regime Is Leading France Swiftly to Fascism by Terence Phelan [Sherry Mangan], (Special to Socialist Appeal) Daladier Declares War Stalinists Kicked Downstairs Comrades Imprisoned To Resist Is "Treason" Creeping Technique Our Tasks Book Review -Story of CIO by Max Shachtman -The Story of the CIO, by Benjamin Stolberg, Viking Press, New York The Book-Burners Fail A Defense of the C.I.O. The Virus That Threatens Labor Formula for Progress 52 Dec. 2, 1938 Drive is Launched for Twice-Weekly Appeal (Headline Over Masthead) Fascism Menaces France -Strike of Two Million Shows Workers Ready to Fight; Leaders Fear Showdown -Refusal to Meet Challenge of Power Enables Daladier to Score Bloodless Victory for Cause of Advancing Fascist Reaction -Workers' Power is Only Road Daladier Aggressive Blum's Gesture Response Uneven Daladier Jubilant Strikes Begin Wastes No Time Rumors of Dissolution Blum Goes Begging Duclos Follows Suit Blum Bleats On Demand That U.S. Congress Open the Doors to Refugees * Cannon Urges Party to Speed Appeal Campaign -Success of Drive Will Assure Appearance of Twice-Weekly by February 1 -- Or Sooner by James P. Cannon. National Secretary, S.W.P. * Petition Drive On; Party Calls for Signatures -To Be Distributed to All Union Locals Petitions Available Writers, Professors Sign Petition to the Congress of the United States: Open All Doors to the Refugees! * Who Opposes the Open Door? Big Shots Silent on Open Door What the Problems Are How About Jobs? Score Board -Local Quotas Let's Get Going! Issues Drawn in France Since Fascist Riot In '34 -People's Front Weakens Workers in Anti-Fascist Fight and Prepares Road For Daladier by Harold Roberts Discarding "Luxuries" Workers' Reaction United Front Created Program Proposed Declined, With Thanks Ultra-Patriots In June, 1938 Mass Sitdown Strikebreaker-In-Chief Union Guards Storm Silver Shirt Meetings -Fascists Thrashes in Youngstown and Chicago Union Guards Arrive Cancel Newcastle Meeting Chicago Fascists Drubbed A Necessary Warning Members Meet on YPSL Convention Sloan Would Tie G.M. Workers to Company Loans -Plan Designed to Smash Union's Militancy Scheme to Dampen Struggle Root of the Problem Boston Readers Attention! Slants on the News in the Unions by B.J. Widick, Labor Secretary, S,W,P, Pins and Needles C.P.-Olson for Militant Tobin's Prompter Won't Pay for Pie Leg-Work Information Back to Normal Bread or Bullets? Large Audience Hears the Johnsons at Mpls. Forum by Arthur Hopkins Tells of Emergency Brigade The Only Revolutionary Party Small Farmers Rebel Against Gov't Policy -Want Legislation to Protect Poor Farmers Ignores Debt Cancellation Model Resolution on Refugees Protest Deporting of Vincent Ferrero Teachers Demand Raising of Quotas I.L.G.W. Local for Refugees Youth Branch for Open Doors Appeal Army Twice-A-Week Drive On Literature Agents to Have Their Say On Subscriptions On Finances Roosevelt Speeds Drive to Mobilize Hemisphere Aims at Lima Batista Enlisted Emphasis on Industry Wall Street Dictator Rulesa Peru, Seat of Conference by Donald Bergner Puppets for Wall Street U.S. Investments Washington Runs President Nationalists Illegal Elected Without Running Stalin and Nazi Persecutions Mr. Backer's Backers Ludlow's Victory A Damning Confession Sweet Land of Liberty -by Carlo (Political Cartoon) Negroes Underline Hypocrisy of U.S. Indignation Over Jews And Black America? Roosevelt Challenged Our you know and there's no frozen peas is no frozen court all does there bad than good ones of the organic points their tasteless anyway this is all becoming a like part of my Pogroms Isolationist Reaction The Other "Democracies" What's to Be Done? Asylum in the U.S.S.R.? -Daily Worker Writhes Over a Knotty Problem Jerome's Solution Is War! The "Line" Alliance with Hitler 53 Dec. 10, 1938 Twice Weekly Appeal Drive Gets Off to Flying Start -Paper Will Wield Double Strength, Says Shachtman by Max Shachtman Toledo Goes Over the Top In First Week of Campaign Score Board French Strikes Go On -French Workers Strike Against Mass Reprisals -Daladier Uses Navy To Break Havre Walkout New Strikes Start Blum on the Rump American Fund Asks Christmas Aid to Refugees -Committee Issues Special Appeal For Workers Text of Appeal Aids Worker-Victims N.Y. Workers Demand Asylum Yankee Imperialism Plays for Big Stakes at Lima by Albert Goldman Agreed on Hemisphere Control Obstacles to Overcome Path Is Not Smooth Militant Action Can Halt Daladier Menace in France General Motors Launches New Attack on UAW -Uses "Responsibility" Letter to Penalize Militants "Sweat Blood" For Boss Discrimination at Fleetwood Fire 30 at Chevrolet Monopoly Inquiry Shows Capitalism at Standstill -Income of over Half Nation's Families below $1200 a Year; Industry Stagnates; Few Control Wealth Wall St. Cooperates Economy in Decay Incomes Under $1250 The Big Employers Anti-Semite No. 1 The Pot Boils Over Letters to the Editor Letter from Dwight McDonald Our Reply The Smoke Screen by Carlo (Political Cartoon Dictators Welcome "Democrats" at Lima by Donald Bergner Franco's Aides And Why Not? Same in 1933 Y.P.S.L. Convention Hails Twice Weekly Flash! Flash! Literary Tea's Agog Over New Blessed Event Hooking the Lyons It's a New League Everybody's Doing It A Slight Detail A Bit of a Dilemma New People in a Front 2 Anti-Daladier Pickets Jailed on West Coast -Boss Press Wants "Stiff Jail Terms" YPSL Convention Adopts Fighting Policy -Decision Will Make League Mass Youth Organization -68 Delegates Represent Young Fourth Internationalists; Gould Elected National Secretary (Special to Socialist Appeal) Spirited Mass Meeting Youth Transition Demands New Organization Course Commemorate Martyrs Walgreen Man in Houston Strike -Unions Come to Aid of Sixteen Workers (By a Special Correspondent) Finks Stand "Guard" Advice to the Needy -" Why Don't You Get Some 'Boy Friends'?" -LaGuardia Relief Investigator Advises Girl Applying for Welfare by Paul Kujak Family Evicted Quick Action Seeing Is Believing Y.P.S.L. Convention Greets Trotsky Food Workers Fight Racketeers -Progressives Enter Fall Slate Against C.P. Clique Slam Slander Campaign Racketeers' Friends Program of Progressives "Hunger Fighter" Lashes N.Y.C. Relief Set–Up -Jamaica, L.I., Jobless Expose Do-Nothing Agency Appeal Army Fund Raising Campaign in Regular Appeal Finances Has Your Branch Started a Subscription Campaign Reminders Houston C.I.O. Asks Asylum for German Refugee -Also Solidarizes With French Workers (Special to Socialist Appeal) Resolution on Nazi Persecutions of Minorities Resolution of Support to the French Workers Lehigh Unemployed Speak Out How Shall We Fight Anti-Semitism? By Felix Morrow Defeatism Paralyzes Jewry The Road of Assimilationism The Decay of Assimilationism Socialist Party Prepares to Liquidate Into A.L.P. Party Disintegrating Terms of the Deal Youth Oppose Deal Picketing the Nazis -Socialist Workers Party members and sympathizers picketing at the New York Nazi Consulate (Photograph) C.L.R. James Addresses Big Meeting in New York 54 Dec. 17, 1938 "Let Us In Or We Perish" -300,000 Refuges Demand Entry Here; Storm Consulates -Victims of Nazi Persecution Plead in Berlin, Vienna, and Naples for Asylum in U.S. Dewey, LaFollette Join Mass Meetings Scheduled Hitler Demands Ransom Reactionary Legion Stand The Main Enemy In Latin America -An Editorial (Yankee Imperialism) The "Democratic Front" In Latin America (Includes map showing dictatorships and democracies) Jobless Occupy Relief Bureaus; Demand Food for Children WPA Slashed -- FDR Xmas Gift by Bill Morgan The Buck is Passed No Time to Criticize! Fingerprinting New Scheme France is Main Axis of Coming Events Abroad -Uneasy Interlude Precedes Open Struggle Uneasy Interlude Bankers Turn Omaha Into a Harlan County -Drivers' Strike Continues Despite Boss Terror Anything Goes in Omaha Deny Strikers Relief Burnham Sees Long Step Forward in Twice-Weekly by James Burnham Toledo CIO Asks Open Door for Jewish Refugees -Drivers' Cooperation Stops Work; Bosses Sign Up (Special to Socialist Appeal) Speed Up the Twice-Weekly Appeal Drive Score Board N.Y. Checkers Win Strike 500 Protest WPA Cuts in St. Paul To All Readers of Socialist Appeal! Idlers Wine and Dine Eden As Profiteers Hold Parley O'Mahoney's Pledge Zina Nesson (Obituary) Interest in Mahoney Bill Spreads Cannon Will Lecture on Transition Program Progressives Gain in Cafeteria Union Appeal Army Handling the Semi-Weekly Appeal Concentrate on Subscriptions Monthly Statements Mailed This Week Ruth Querio Gives Points On Pushing Appeal Sales by Ruth Querio -Allentown's Ace Literature Agent Regularity Imperative Refugee Campaign--Tasks for All How Shall We Fight Anti-Semitism -- By Felix Morrow -Blind Alleys for the Jewish People (Part 2 of a series) The End of the Assimilationist Road The Road of Zionism The Price We Pay for Zionism Yezhov Following Yagoda to G.P.U. Resting Place Just a Simple Fact In Yagoda's Footsteps Why He Must Go To Years of "Glory" Beria's Apprenticeship Cannon, James Speak on France Solidarity for France Why Does Stalin Keep Jews Out of Soviet Union? "Stalin on Anti-Semitism" Gannes' Version And What Then? Alibi Ike The Jews Too A Hinted Truth Blackwell Coming to Trial, State Dep't Is Informed Make the List Grow On the Make Refuge and Social Democracy Trotsky Writes On Europe in Dec. N.I. Outlines Available Stalinists Try To "Smear" Grynszpan Collective Security- for the Capitalists by Carlo (Political Cartoon) Remember These Facts! (About the Daladier Government in France) U.S. Establishes Control Over Chile After Long Battle With Great Britain by Donald Bergner (3rd in a series on Latin America) U.S. Investments Dominant Seven Cents a Day Strikes Overthrow Dictator Wall Street Man The Stalinist Brass Check "Communists" Become Open Backers of Arms Program Repeats France Sacrificing Workers' Needs Browder Joins General Staff A Mess of Pottage Promise and Reality Question Box 55 Dec. 24, 1938 Bread! Not Battleships! -A Program for the Unemployed Is for These (Photograph of the Battleship) ---That We Must Start? (Photograph of a line of unemployed and hungry workers) Labor Can Force Congressional Action to Admit Refugees Here -Decision on Asylum Really Rests With Unions -Action Imperative Ickes' Hypocrisy Score Board Speed up Refugee Campaign! U.S. Fights for Wall St. Rights at Lima Parley -Quashes Proposals Aimed at U.S. Investors Fight Collapses Loan Plan Helps Argentina's Role Unions Organize Jobless For Showdown with New Deal -Cleveland UAW Is Setting Up Union WPA Auxiliary -To Fight WPA Cuts Organization Under Way "Bread not Bullets" Charter W.P.A. Workers Major Task Before C.I.O. -Industry Pick-Up Does Not Relieve Unemployment; Labor Action Alone Will Open Factories by Art Preis Mass Unemployment Permanent Production Up--- More WPA! The Decisive Hour in France by Leon Trotsky (Fourth International Press Release) Johaux Guarantees Betrayal What Means This Strike? Bureaucrats Prepare Defeat Has the Revolution Begun? Popular Front Stems Revolutionary Tide Has the Revolutionary "Danger" Passed? The Workers Wanted to Fight Find Road to Workers! Our Press, Organizer and Educator; Twice Weekly! by Martin Abern Branch Competition Keen for Twice-Weekly Prizes From Our Branches Local 544 to Fight WPA Cuts (Special to Socialist Appeal) There Are No Jobs! -Factory Wheels Turn But Unemployed Do Not Return to their Former Jobs by David Cowles Population Grows, Jobs Decline Can Industry Provide Jobs? Less Jobs Since 1929 Capitalism Impotent Stage Six-Day Sit-in In New York Relief Bureaus "Cash for Clothing" New Interest in Kids Hunger Strike Strike Threat Wins Gains on Detroit WPA Wins Concessions Appeal Army On the Conveyer Peak Production Flint Fights for Jobs Martin As "Statesman" Clique Wrangles On But Workers Fed Up The Real Score Board Boss Court Convicts Three Who Fought Hunger Only Business Men Pay-triot Judge Christmas on WPA...and Off Come Across, Or Else... Gorman and Hillman Are You Going to Pioneer's Party? How Shall We Fight Anti-Semitism -- By Felix Morrow Jew-Baiters Are the Spawn of Capitalism Two Immediate Tasks The Roots of Anti-Semitism Capitalism Lives By Race-Hatred The Roosevelt Technique by Carlo (Political Cartoon) Unions Demand Control of Minn. Farmer-Labor Party (Special to Socialist Appeal) Labor Demands Control Stalinists Oppose Unions Unions Crowded Out No Bottles, No Machines And No Sales---But Forty Million in Profits! No Bottles, No Machines Jan. New International Contents 56 Dec. 31, 1938 Appeal Fund Celebrates New Year by Topping $1,000 -Twice-Weekly Drive Total $1,001.70; Branches Promise Action on Balance by Rose Karsner, Appeal Campaign Director A Happy New Year for the Working Class! (Political Cartoon) Total to Date $1,007.70! On to the Daily! -From Our Branches Turn On the Heat! Make It Rise! Score Board Tasks in Refugee Campaign! FDR: "Warplanes Instead of WPA" -10,000 Planes for Army While Relief is Cut -Ten Million Need Money That Goes for War Aims Grim Fate for 3,000,000 "Simply Shocking" Cannon Fodder for Hunger Slums and Destroyers Homes! Not Battleships! Make Congress Heed Labor Arms Program Displaces Open Door for Refugees No Help for "Labor Leaders" Lundeen's Statement Saber-Rattler -Sumner Welles (Photograph) Progressives Sweep Mpls. Drivers Poll Lima Parley Is Cold Comfort to U.S. Diplomats -British Succeed in Checking Wall St. Program Britain Main Opposition Dressing It Up Priest Spills the Beans Detroit Drivers Win Area Pact, Wage Increases -Bosses Crack Before Strike Ultimatum Expires N.Y. Organizes Appeal Sales by Abe Miller (Head of New York's Literature Distribution) Challenge of Youth Appears Montana Farmers Destitute on $44 Monthly W.P.A. Ration Soulounias, Fur Militant, Vindicated In Libel Action Capacity Crowd Hears Cannon in Minneapolis New Outlines James Tour Opens at Philadelphia; Will Go to Coast Progressives Fight Food Union Bosses Gussie Krakowsky (Obituary) Appeal Army Make 1939 a Year for the Appeal! Directive on New Appeal to Appear in January! Brazil Communists Repudiate Moscow -Sao Paulo Regional Committee Issues Call For United Front Congress to Form New Party (Special to Socialist Appeal) Policies of the C.I. Condemned Organic Break Calls Conference Muniz, Carlini Awaiting Trial on Phony Charge -Counsel Asks for Mental Test of Witness SH -- SH! United States Also Uses Spies! Drumming Up War Scare How Shall We Fight Anti-Semitism--By Felix Morrow (Part 4) The Mechanics of Anti-Semitism How Not to Fight Anti-Semitism Coughlin, Stalin and the Jews The Spirit of the Russian Revolution Stalin, Enemy of Socialism Reformists Opened Door to Fascism Choose Your Fate; Socialism or Fascism In the Farmer Labor Party -An Editorial Finding Scapegoats Real Attack on Militants People's Front Liberates Nazis Soviet Press Gives Scant Coverage to Nazi Pogroms After Roosevelt-Pious Words "Intelligentsia" Protests Question Box (Conducted by the National Education Department A Healthy Young Baby More Pious Tears Why We Need an Army W.A.-Company Union Counsel of Treachery Politics and the Unions -Concerning the Sailors Union of the Pacific The S.U.P. Amendment Where the Issue Lies Political Rights Where It Would Lead Democracy a Myth in the Argentine by Donald Bergner Peace on a Bomber Suppresses Strikes Britain Dominant Argentine Imperialism