SOCIALIST APPEAL 1940 JAN.-DEC. COMPLETE CONTENTS BY VOLUME 1 Jan. 6, 1940 Labor's Program: A Job for Every Worker! The Real Issue Facing Congress "Guns, Not Jobs"---F.D.R. Message -American Ships Permitted to Sale War Zones * Arms Increases, Cuts in Relief, Is Program * FDR Scuttles "Cash–Carry"; Ships "Sold" -Threadbare Trick Used to Sail Ships in War Zone The Roosevelt Budget (Political Cartoon) Behind the Lines by George Stern "No One Suffered in Cleveland"-But Social Workers Tell Truth Anti-Lynching Bill Comes up for Debate -Congress Scheduled To Consider Bill Jan. 8 FBI Snooper Is Hired by CIO! In the Labor Unions by B.J. Widick "The Call" And Some of Its Friends on Finland by Felix Morrow Workers' Forum Flash! Professor Tells Truth about Bosses' Crimes! Fight In ILGWU Over Bayonne Pact Shows Need of Reforms Negro Attorney Speaks Friday at Harlem Center Appeal Army The Negro Question by J.R. Johnson [C.L.R. James] -"Labor with a White Skin Cannot Emancipate Itself Where Labor with a Black Skin Is Branded"-Karl Marx "Annalist" Says Stock Market Hit by Soviet War Toledo Schools Reopen after Six Weeks; Teachers Still Unpaid In This Corner by Max Shachtman -Finland-- And a Word About Poland "We Won't Fight the Bolsheviks" -Mutiny! -The Black Sea Mutinies by "Spartacus" (Part 4.) Defend the U.S.S.R. "Briey Basin" "Relief Floater" Union Solidarity! Sparks in the News by Dwight MacDonald In the World of Labor by Paul G. Stevens Their Government -Roosevelt's War Moves Since the Last Congress by James Burnham 2 Jan 13, 1940 Turn to War Funds Over to the Unemployed! (Headline above Masthead) The Forgotten Man by Carlo (Political Cartoon about the impoverished unemployed and the billions spent for armaments by FDR) N.Y. Relief Rolls Cut to Shreds by La Guardia -While "Little Flower" Waxes Noble over Cleveland! Behind the Lines by George Stern Czarist Bonds Rise in Paris C.I.O. Predicts "Bitter Echo" To FDR Budget -CIO News Voices First Open Attack on Administration F.D.R. War Deal Budget Slashes Relief Funds -Millions to Lose Jobs to Feed War Machine Rumbles of Revolt in French Army CIO and AFL Officials Protest Mpls. Frameup -Carey of CIO, Padway of AFL, and 22 Others Sign Message to Roosevelt on WPA Trial Relief Crisis Grows Acute in Detroit -Public Welfare Head Predicts "Crisis That Is a Crisis" This Month Queens Jobless Backed by Labor Groups -Form Permanent Body to Push New York Unemployed Demands Dan Tobin Renews Demand for Labor Unity -Teamster Head Blames Leaders for Division -Warns of Reactionary Attacks on Labor's Hard–Earned Rights Lewis Plays With Dynamite In Building Trades Drive by E.R. Frank [Bert Cochran] Local 544 Leaders Re–elected By 3–1 Workers' Forum Appeal Army The Negro Question by J.R. Johnson [C.L.R. James] -"Labor with a White Skin Cannot Emancipate Itself Where Labor with a Black Skin Is Branded"--Karl Marx Some Pertinent History-Past and Present -"Poor Little Finland" by Chris Andrews Hoover Whoops It Up For "Holy War" In Finn Drive -Anti-Labor Forces Turn Out En Masse Backing Appeal for "Poor Little Finland" by Harold Swanson Lovestone Shows Norman Thomas How to Do It by Felix Morrow Oakland Leader Gets Death Threat Two of a Kind Stalin's Friends De Valera-Turncoat In the World of Labor by Paul G. Stevens Labor Looks through the Press by Arthur Hopkins Sparks in the News by Dwight MacDonald Their Government by James Burnham -Roosevelt's War Budget for Whose Defense? 3 Jan. 20, 1940 With Lenin! Against Capitalist War -Fourth International Flies Lenin's Banner FDR Misery Budget Swells Army of Starving Millions -Report Provides Stark Facts -Millions Already Living Below Most Meager Subsistence Level In Most Leading Cities in Nation Tobin's Unity Demand Gets Wide Support -Defeat of CIO, AFL At Endicott–Johnson Shows Need for Unity FDR's Washington Is Jim Crow Town -Negro Paper Advises Roosevelt His "Fight for Democracy" Can Begin Close to Home; Racism Reigns in Government Itself by Martin Harvey Daladier Names Fascist Prince To Head Legion Lenin Memorial Mass Meeting in N.Y., January 31 Behind the Lines by George Stern Locals Support CIO Attacks On War Budget -But Letter–Writing of Lewis to Congressmen Won't Do the Job Pass This in Your Union! A.L.P. Jingoes Challenged on Finland -State Executive Hears Anti-War Speech Against Both Stalinists And Jingoes Society Notes Appeal Army Standing, Quotas of Branches In Anti-War Fund Campaign Workers' Forum Little Brenda Is Growing Up--Needs a Little More $$$ Washington Drivers Drop Negro Ban The Negro Question by J.R. Johnson [C.L.R. James] -"Labor With a White Skin Cannot Emancipate Itself Where Labor With a Black Skin Is Branded"-- Karl Marx Some Pertinent History-Past and Present -"Poor Little Finland" by Chris Andrews (Part II) "Jobs Not Battleships" Pamphlets for Workers "Neither King Nor Fuehrer" Stalin Claims "A Year of Bolshevik Victories" by Joseph Hansen A "Marxist" Alibi For the Jingoes On Finland by Felix Morrow Roosevelt's Latest A Bit Tardy How Fight Fascism In the World of Labor by Paul G. Stevens Sparks in the News -the Stalinists Discover Who Roosevelt Is by Dwight MacDonald The "Christian Front" Arrests by George Stern 4 Jan. 27, 1940 Where Are Those Jobs, Mr. Roosevelt? -FDR Alibi for Cuts Blows up U.S.-London Notes Echoes of 1914–16 -Disputes Last Time Brought War Threats But Did Not Prevent U.S. Entry; This Time the "Silent Partnership" Is Already a Fact U.S. Army Purchase Anticipates 40,000 Casualties at Once W.P.A. Funds/War Machine by Carlo (Political Cartoon) Behind the Lines by George Stern New NMU Pact Up to Members -Gaping Loopholes for Bosses Seen in New Contract Okayed by Union Leaders Terror on West Coast Exposed in Testimony -LaFollette Group Gets Evidence of Class Brutality Tobin Unity Appeal Gets Big Response -Thousands of Letters Reported Pouring Into AFL and CIO Offices Demanding Resumption of Peace Parleys United Minors Convene at Key Moment -Lewis Expected To State CIO Stand On Anti-War Fight Browder Convicted on Flimsy Charges Every Sunday a Red Sunday! Clerks Picket LaGuardia Scab Market -Local 338 Charges Hit New Essex Street Establishment Ready for Ten Million of Us--Draft Notices! Wander of ILGWU Pleads He is "Guilty As Charged" -Admits He Flouted Decision of 1,000 Union Members in Bayonne Negotiations by E.R. Frank [Bert Cochran] Workers' Forum The Negro Question by J.R. Johnson [C.L.R. James] -"Labor with a White Skin Cannot Emancipate Itself Where Labor with a Black Skin Is Branded"--Karl Marx Some Pertinent History-Past and Present -"Poor Little Finland" by Chris Andrews (Part III) Illinois Socialists Condemn Jingo Attacks on USSR by Felix Morrow It's Beginning Again! Twenty Two years... G-men: Union Busters Coughlin Confesses In the World of Labor by Paul G. Stevens Sparks In the News by Dwight MacDonald Their Government -Roosevelt's Third Term--Who Supports It? By James Burnham 5 Feb 3, 1940 Now's the Time for Labor Party! Lewis-FDR Split Reflects Mass Feeling -Discontented Workers Are Looking Toward Independent Labor Action * Otherwise Break Will Help Only Boss Politicians bite E.R. Frank [Bert Cochran] * UMW Convention Denounces FDR for Slashing Relief Lay Offs Stopped In Flint -Militant Action Checks Attack on WPA Workers But Of Course! Minneapolis Teamsters Latest Victim of Court Drive -New Ruling Opens Union Books to Agents of Finks WPA Union Workers Open New Drive -Campaign Launched at Spirited Mass Meeting in Mpls. Anti-Lynch Bill Passage at Stake -Mass Pressure Needed Back of Measure Behind the Lines by George Stern Sell Twice As Many Appeals! "First Lady" Barges Through Picket Line Against Jim Crow No More Deals with Boss Politicians -An Editorial Con-Edison Moves to Split IBEW Locals -"Independent" Union Is A Company Tool -IBEW Militants Will Build Union Anew On Progressive Basis Crucible Steel Signs A Pact -But What It Says, Union Members Don't Know--Resent SWOC's Dictatorship Transport Union Brief Poses Security Demand -Hasty Demolitions Imperiling Jobs Of 3,000 Men in New York Pressure Needed to Force Workers' Forum Appeal Army February "New Int'l" Is Out The Negro Question by J.R. Johnson [C.L.R. James] -"Labor with a White Skin Cannot Emancipate Itself Where Labor with a Black Skin Is Branded"--Karl Marx A Gleam Through the Censorship -What Is Happening in Stalin's Poland? Auto Workers Want Action -They Want Security On The Job And a Decent Living -- And Nothing Less Will Serve by Jules Geller Two Views: Front and Back -Stalinists and the New Deal by Chris Andrews Defend Joe Ryan For Free Poland Sailors Beware In the World of Labor by Paul G. Stevens Sparks in the News by Dwight MacDonald Russian Bulletin Out Seven Years Ago They Let Hitler Take Over Power by George Stern 6 Feb. 10, 1940 Minneapolis WPA Indictments Squashed -"Conspiracy" Charge Against 130 Dropped -Five Plead on Minor Charge; 17 of 32 Already Convicted Get Sentences From 30 Days to Eight Months by Carl O'Shea Fight Opens On Anti-Lynch Bill -Unions Must Act to Put Heat On in Washington Behind the Lines by George Stern NYA Seeks to Drive Youth into Army -Officials Turn Over NYA List to Army; Youth Asking Relief Told to Join The Army Proposed Deal Fails British Spurn Gandhi; -Viceroy Refuses Even To Promise New Status For India After the War; Gandhi Find "Solution Impossible" by Sherman Stanley [Stanley Plastrick] For Red Sundays! One of the Minneapolis Strike Meetings (Photograph of 5,000 workers at a WPA strike meeting in Minneapolis) Miners' Confab Occupied With Unemployment -30-Hour Week Is Raised For Miners As Jobless Aid WPA Workers Ask Large Scale Aid -Jobless in Flint, Michigan, and Montana Adopt Militant Resolutions; Ask War Funds for Unemployed A New Chapter Begins in American Labor History: Some Lessons of the Recent UMW Convention by E.R. Frank [Bert Cochran] N.Y. Laundry Workers When the Five-Day Week -New Agreement, Taking Effect March 15, Represents Another Step Forward Oakland Dole Puts Thirteen in One Room Strike Begins at Toledo Gas Plant As Talks Fail by Doyle Clark British Decree Forced Labor for Negroes in Colonies The Negro Question by J.R. Johnson [C.L.R. James] -"Labor with a White Skin Cannot Emancipate Itself Where Labor with a Black Skin Is Branded"--Karl Marx On the War in Finland -Why We Should Defend the Soviet Union by Albert Goldman The Lynching of Claude Neal -How Democracy Works in the Sunny South In This Corner by Max Shachtman -An Appeal From Our Polish Comrades Dutch Queen Ready for a Rainy Day The New "Recession" A Lesson Learned Sailors Speak Out Kept Press Wants More Funds for Arnold's Union-Busting Drive by Ruth Jeffries Sparks in the News by Dwight MacDonald Their Government -John L. Lewis and The Labor Party by James Burnham 7 Feb 17, 1940 Why Is Sumner Welles Going -Envoy to Probe for Anti-Soviet Front -FDR Sending Welles Abroad To Make Soundings Among Belligerents For New War Alignments Big Business Backs Newark Manager Plan -S.W.P. Backs Campaign of Organized Labor In Opposing Proposed City Changes Workers Jailed at Jamaica Relief Bureau -Refused to Leave Until Children Were Given Food Behind the Lines by George Stern Lewis Blasts Roosevelt -C.I.O. Leader Again Lashes Out at F.D.R. -Challenges Him on Jobs and the Chance for Youth Lewis Is Right-But What Is He Going to Do About It? -An Editorial Anti-Lynching Bill Hearings Adjourned -Anti-Labor Loophole Slipped Into House Version of Bill Women WPA Strikers Are Sentenced -Suspended Sentences For 13 in Mpls.; 1 Gets 45 Days Jail Action Needed to Win 30–Hr, Week at General Motors -Company Is Trying to Wear Men Down With A War of Nerves and Words A New Chapter Begins in American Labor History: What Is at Stake In the Fight on Labor Unity? By E.R. Frank [Bert Cochran] (Part II) AFL Council Pettifogs While Major Issues for Workers Are Ignored by George Clarke Appeal Army The Negro Question by J.R. Johnson [C.L.R. James] -"Labor with a White Skin Cannot Emancipate Itself Where Labor with a Black Skin Is Branded"--Karl Marx On the War in Finland -Why We Should Defend the Soviet Union by Albert Goldman (Part II) The American Youth Congress--A Masquerade -It Was Packed With Dubious "Organizations" To Make Up An Imposing Body of "Delegates" by Ernest Erber Russian Bulletin Out Leon Sedoff The Irish Martyrs Still Going Down Fascist Cops The Anti-Lynch Bill (Statement of the National Committee, Socialist Workers Party) In the World of Labor by Paul G. Stevens Sparks in the News by Dwight MacDonald Their Government -FDR Is Thinking of Next November by James Burnham 8 Feb. 24, 1940 Who Has All the Milk and Honey? -An Editorial N.Y. Judge Issues Jim Crow Ruling Behind the Lines by George Stern U.S. Ships to Sail War Zones under Fake Foreign Registries -FDR Connives In Loopholing Neutrality Act -United States Lines Sells to Belgian "Dummy" Buyer Chrysler Workers! Just Figure Out What These Figures Mean Unions Warned Of Frameup in Minneapolis -Judge Turns Books of Local 544 Over to Employers' Agents Powers Gird For Spring Crisis * Altmark Affair Ushers In New Phase by George Stern * Extension of War Fronts Nears Paris Trotskyists Reported Seized by French Police Business Still Going down the Toboggan SWP Candidate On Ballot for St. Paul Mayor -Rutchick Files When No Labor Candidate Is Nominated Protest Jim Crow Books in Mississippi -"Edited" Book Set Aside for Negro School Children Jamaica Jobless Aid Relief Sitdowners -American Labor Aid Providing Defense For 13 Arrested Workers; Trial Postponed; Allowances Are Assured General Motors Had A Bonanza Year, But Its Workers Got Nothing Out of It by George Clark "The Spirit of '37" (Photograph of workers battling in front of the Fisher body No. 1 Plant in Flint. Battles like these made General Motors recognize the Auto Workers Union.) Workers' Forum Appeal Army An Agitator Stalks In Omaha -Masses Heed His Hoarse, Compelling Voice by Carl O'Shea Negro Youth Back Jamaica Picket Line The Negro Question by J.R. Johnson [C.L.R. James] -"Labor with a White Skin Cannot Emancipate Itself Where Labor with a Black Skin Is Branded"--Karl Marx Men Wanted--in the Army On the War in Finland -Why We Should Defend the Soviet Union by Albert Goldman (Part III) Hands off the Soviet Union! -A Negro Leader Speaks Out Against the Social Patriots by George Padmore An Exchange With Lovestone on Finland by Felix Morrow Unity for the Miners Law's Majestic Equality Hitler's Secret Weapon One Way Racket Can't Hide Cold! In the World of Labor by Paul G. Stevens Their Government -Just What Happens on Election Day? By James Burnham 9 Mar. 2, 1940 Sailors Fight Attempts to Bar Strikes -Seamen Resist Drive Aimed at Unions SWP Anti-War Fight in St. Paul Election -Henry Rutzick Poses Real Issues Of War and Unemployment To Voters in Mayoralty Contest Henry Rutzick (Photograph) Green Order Ousting Typos Is Rejected -Central Bodies Are Denouncing AFL Fiat For Expulsion New Deal Becomes War Deal -Arms vs Men (Chart showing rising annual expenses for our armaments and shrinking annual expenses for WPA and PWA from 1936 to 1941) 250,000 Dropped From New York WPA Rolls During 1939 U.S. Fleet Readies Pacific War "Games" -Will Range Fateful "Triangle" During Critical Spring Months; Big Army, Aerial Maneuvers Also Due Behind the Lines by George Stern War in Year, Big Business Head States -Head of National Industrial Board Predicts It Special Appeals Aid Your Local Drives! Labor Leaders Demand Roosevelt Pardon Minneapolis Strikers Frisco Body Finally Yields; Jamestown Flatly Refuses Fight for Action in 30-Hour Week Drive Is Main Issue For U.A.W. -This Must Be Keynote of Forthcoming Auto Workers Convention Seek to Take Vote From Jersey Jobless Negro Leader in Challenge on Democracy by Harold Swanson Jamaica Reliefers Acquitted But are Urged to be Good -Judge Solomon Doesn't Dare Assume Risk Of Convictions In Case of Sitdowners Workers' Forum Appeal Army The Negro Question by J.R. Johnson [C.L.R. James] -"Labor with a White Skin Cannot Emancipate Itself Where Labor with a Black Skin Is Branded"--Karl Marx On the War in Finland -Why We Should Defend the Soviet Union by Albert Goldman (Part IV) How Stalin Serves Hitler -A Letter to a Communist Worker, Discussing the Effect of Stalinist Propaganda in Nazi Germany West Indies Feel British Wartime Rule by Robert L. Birchman Gene Debs' Words We're Dogmatic "International Law" Sparks In the News by Dwight MacDonald Fritz Thyssen-Why He Fled From Germany by Oscar Fischer 10 Mar. 9, 1940 14-State Teamsters Fight Boss Frameup -Interstate Group, Tobin Map Defense -Union Leaders Are Arrested in Sioux City Transit Men Denounce LaGuardia Union-Busting -Warn They'll Fight Ban on Strike Right -"Friend of Labor" Announces His Fink Plan Bombay Workers Strike; Fight Against War Gains in India -Textile Operatives Again Take Lead in Struggle; Masses Pressing Congress Leaders to Take Early Action by Sherman Stanley [Stanley Plastrick] Omaha Jobless Win Ouster of Administrator -Picket Six Weeks against Vicious Policies Unemployed Increase 10 p.c. California Legislators Slash Relief Funds -Cut Weekly Allowances to $2.60 For Next Twelve Weeks; 350,000 Affected Behind the Line by George Stern Anti-Lynch Bill Backed in St. Paul Help Our Polish Comrades Stalinists In The C.I.O.-A History of Union-Wrecking And Corruption by E.R.Frank [Bert Cochran] Workers' Forum March Issue of "New International" Appeal Army The Negro Question by J.R. Johnson [C.L.R. James] -"Labor with a White Skin Cannot Emancipate Itself Where Labor with a Black Skin Is Branded"--Karl Marx On the War in Finland -Why We Should Defend the Soviet Union by Albert Goldman (Part V) How Stalin Serves Hitler -How Lenin Negotiated a Treaty -Another Letter to a Communist Worker (Part II) Nazi Comment on Moscow's New Attitude by Oscar Fischer The Stalinists Are Losing out in Harlem Czarist Stocks Rise Vote CIO in Auto Defend AFL Unions Sparks in the News by Dwight MacDonald In the World of Labor by Paul G. Stevens The A.L.P Fight--Stalinists Won A Hollow Victory by Felix Morrow 11 Mar. 16, 1940 SOCIALIST APPEAL PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY THE SOCIALIST APPEAL PUBLISHING ASSOCIATION Editors: Felix Morrow, Max Shachtman General Manager: George Clarke Soviet–Finn Peace Balks Allied Attack -Soviet Union's Military Defenses Strengthened by Treaty -But Stalin's Methods Alienate Sympathy Of World's Workers -An Editorial Transport Workers Prepare General Strike in New York -Union Declares It Will Strike All City-Owned Lines If LaGuardia Pushes Through Union-Busting Plans Fink No. 1 -Mayor LaGuardia (Photograph) Judge Puts Ban on Picketing Gov't Bureau Drivers' Union Fights Sioux City Frameup -Tobin Pledges Full Aid; Padway Is Retained As Counsel Congress Swings Axe At the Wagner Act -Bosses' Association Stooges Aided by AFL Skates Prepare to Emasculate Labor's Limited Legal Rights by Albert Goldman Curran "Unity" Spells Split for Seamen -Move Aimed at Disrupting Fighting West Coast Sailors by John Patrick Curran's Pal (Photograph of Harry Bridges, West Coast Stalinist longshore boss) Twelve Million Unemployed--Number Going Up, CIO Proves Trust Busters Wink at Trusts; Attack Unions Workers' Forum Stalinists in the C.I.O.--After the Hitler-Stalin Pact by E.R. Frank [Bert Cochran] Appeal Army The Negro Question by J.R. Johnson [C.L.R. James] -"Labor with a White Skin Cannot Emancipate Itself Where Labor with a Black Skin Is Branded"--Karl Marx On the War in Finland -Why We Should Defend the Soviet Union by Albert Goldman (Part VI) Patriotism in Canada OK for Thomas S.P. A Marxist Prediction A Crucial Fight Cattle Boats Anti-Labor G–Men In the World of Labor by Paul G. Stevens Lovestone Weeps With Pity for The Bankers by Joseph Hansen 12 Mar. 23, 1940 Stop Firing of 800,000 WPA Workers! -War Deal to Drop One Man In Three From Work Rolls Stalin in Finland -Why He Invaded It and Why He Made Peace by Albert Goldman SWP Polls 624 Votes in St. Paul Election Bose Warns of Coming Civil War in India -Left Wingers Meet, Map Struggle at Congress Session Organized Unemployed Force Gains in Flint -UAW-CIO Auxiliary Compels Granting of Union Demands Behind the Lines by George Stern Five WPA Strike Defendants Put on Probation -Last Five Cases Are Disposed of; Other Charges Dropped Abuse of Labors' Rights in Sioux City to Be Probed -Padway Announces Intervention of Lafollette Committee; Four Unionists Are Indicted CIO Tops Meet LaGuardia, But Fight Is On -Transport Workers Must Organize for Militant Strike Workers' Forum Steel Worker Reports Problem of Uniting Black and White Appeal Army Labor Union Notes The Negro Question by J.R. Johnson [C.L.R. James] -"Labor with a White Skin Cannot Emancipate Itself Where Labor with a Black Skin Is Branded"--Karl Marx O'Dwyer, The Butcher of Amiritsar, Meets His Fate in London by Sherman Stanley [Stanley Plastrick] Pigs and Bosses -A Sailor's Story Centrism Did Its Bit During the Soviet-Finn War by Paul G. Stevens The CIO on the FBI The Paris Commune A Soberly-Compiled History of Kuusinen's "Peoples Gov't" By Ruth Jeffrey Lovestone Weeps with Pity for The Bankers by Joseph Hansen (Continued from last issue) 13 Mar. 30, 1940 Anti-War Movement Gathers in Europe -British Unions Vote Against Imperialist War for Colonies -Dissatisfaction of French Workers Powerful Factor and Cabinet Shake-up; "Socialist" Leaders Betray Workers Interests Progressives Gird For Convention of Needle Workers * Stalinists Badly Defeated in Local, Delegate Elections * Militant Cutters Publish Union–Building Program An Open Letter to John L Lewis From a Flint Auto Worker: "We Want to Battle for 30-Hour Week, Lewis! Have You the Guts for a Fight?" How About It, Lewis? (Photograph of John L. Lewis) Behind the Lines by George Stern Jail Anti-War "Trotskyists" in France -Worker–Militants Arrested by the Banker Gov't LaGuardia Retreats On TWU Contracts -Agrees to Recommend City Honor Union's Contracts Pending Court Decisions Lynch Drive Against Trotsky Reviewed by C.P. in Mexico Omaha Jobless Unite Black and White -Wipe Out Distrust Between Two Races Workers' Forum A Letter to Housewives -What Socialism Will Mean to The Women Who Toil at Home Trade Union Notes George Richardson (Obituary) Negro Labor Body Formed in Mpls. The Negro Question by J.R. Johnson [C.L.R. James] -"Labor with a White Skin Cannot Emancipate Itself Where Labor with a Black Skin Is Branded"--Karl Marx India's Left Wing Is on the March by Sherman Stanley [Stanley Plastrick] Stalinists In the C.I.O.---the Growing Break Between Them and John L. Lewis by E.R. Frank [Bert Cochran] News of Soviet Poland -Facts Found by Reading Between the Lines "Sparks in the News" -In Italy Only Fascists May Commit Crimes by Dwight MacDonald Why Lovestoneites Won't Debate Judge-Made Law Southern Filibuster For War Referendum (Editorial from the "Oregon Labor Press" organ of the Central Labor Council of Portland, Oregon In the World of Labor by Paul G. Stevens Bridge the Gap: From This Point to Socialism by Joseph Hansen We'll Take the Cigar! 14 Apr. 6, 1940 John L. Lewis: An Independent Labor Party Is What the Workers Want CIO Landslide Expected in Auto Vote * Main Fight Still Ahead at G.M. -Main Problems To Be Faced After Election * The 30–Hour Week Is Way Out For Auto! Union Shop Maintained on Subways -Transport Workers Force LaGuardia to Honor Union's Pact Spirit of' 37 (Photograph of pickets holding their ground against the cops at the Cadillac plant of General Motors in Detroit, January 27, 1937) SWP Convention Opens In N.Y. -To Settle Dispute on Russian Question And Map Campaign of Trade Union Work G.M. Auto Workers Are Tough In India Too; Win Militant Strike Bridges Gives Bosses Notorious "Peace" Plan * Everything to Be Arbitrated; Bosses Are All For It * ILWU Convention Opens; Militants For Marine Unity Workers' Forum The Flint WPA Union-History Of Growth Through Struggle Teamsters' Pact Guards Union Gains Under War Conditions Appeal Army S.P. Delegate Supports Pro-War "Silence" at Session of 2nd Int'l -Dan and Abramovich In Involved Dispute Over the Degree to Which They Want To See the Soviet Union Defeated by Joseph Hansen Molotov Speech Shows Kremlin Seeks to Regain Middle Ground -Softer Tone Adopted Toward Allies and a Cooler One Toward Hitler by Felix Morrow Russian Mensheviks in Split Over Attitude Toward Soviet Union -Allen Attends First Session of Executives Since Outbreak of War; Socialist Call Maintains Eloquent Silence Too by John G. Wright [Joseph Vanzler] Behind the Lines by George Stern Roosevelt's War Plan The GM Elections The Phony Masked Marvel by Banton (Political Cartoon) In the World of Labor by Paul G. Stevens Japan's Puppet Wang Reflects Master's Plight by George Stern Horror Item State of the Nation "A Dude Ranch for Dogs" 15 Apr. 13, 1940 SOCIALIST APPEAL PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY THE SOCIALIST APPEAL PUBLISHING ASS'N Editorial Board: Felix Morrow, Max Shachtman, Albert Goldman General Manager: George Clarke Norway Crushed Between Warring Powers -Attacked by Both Allies and Germany -Becomes First Testing Ground of Powers' Military Strength as War Enters New Phase of Extension by George Stern Return to Two-A-Week Appeal Voted by S.W.P. Convention -Trade Union Reports Open Way to Growth Of Mass Work SWP Reaffirms Policy Of Defense of USSR -Insists Upon Basic Distinction Between Soviet Union and Imperialist; Upholds Lenin's Idea of Building the Party Fink "Case" Against Mpls. Drivers Opens -Lawyer Confines Self Strictly To Slander and Red-Baiting West Coast Crew Is Jailed in Port Said By Hull's Orders C.P. Policy Blocks Rally Against War -Toledo Unionists Fear Stalinist "Anti-War" Fakery Lewis Skirts Main Issues in Michigan Talks -Workers Cheer Every Mention of 30–Hour Week Slogan S.W.P. Answers Rivera Slander (Statement by James P. Cannon, National Secretary of the Socialist Workers Party of the United States) Behind the Lines by George Stern Workers' Forum Minority Resolutions On Organization, Rejected by Party Convention -Minority Resolution on the Organization and Tasks of the Party (Rejected by the Convention) Minority Resolution on Party Unity (Rejected by the Convention) Resolutions on Organization Adopted by the Convention (Adopted by the Convention) Resolution on Discipline (Adopted by the Convention) Supplementary Resolution on the Organization Question (Adopted by the Convention) Cannon Reports on Organization (Photograph Of Cannon, National Secretary of the Socialist Workers Party, Reporting on Problems of Party Organization) This Is Not Our War Lewis' Auto Speeches German "Socialists" Take Position in Anglo-French Camp by H. David 16 Apr. 20, 1940 SOCIALIST APPEAL PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY THE SOCIALIST APPEAL PUBLISHING ASS'N Editorial Board: Felix Morrow, Albert Goldman General Manager: George Clarke Workers! Beware the Clamor for War! -Extension of Conflict Sharpens Danger; War Mongers Grow Bolder -Government, Press, Movies, Radio, Are Attempting to Work Up War Hysteria; New Armaments Ordered West Coast Sailors Ask Increases -S.U.P. Demands New Adjustment to War Conditions Two-A-Week Appeal on Way! Power Workers Win All-Union Shop -Twin Cities Electrical Locals Victors In Northern States Power Co. Poll Teamsters Help Akron Strikers -Rubber Strike Focus For CIO-AFL Unity Campaign Behind the Lines -Issue of Dutch East Indies Will Soon Become Source of War Danger by George Stern "Anti-Trust" Campaign Designed to Break Back of Unionism by H.H. Broach, Educational Director Local Number 3, I.B.E.W. Resolution Adopted by Socialist Workers Party Convention -Convention Held April 5-9 Reaffirms Policy of Unconditional Defense of the Soviet Union The Struggle for a Proletarian Party by James P. Cannon, National Secretary, S.W.P. Rejected by the Convention -Minority Resolution on the U.S.S.R. Statement of the National Committee "Treachery" In Norway F.B.I. and C.I.O. In the World of Labor by Paul G. Stevens Australian 4th Internationalists Fight Against War by Paul Schwalbe 17 Apr. 27, 1940 Special May Day Edition Eight-Pages The Only War Worth Fighting For Is the War of the Workers Against the Bosses! -May Day Manifesto of the S.W.P. Push the Campaign for the New Twice-Weekly Socialist Appeal! -Get Started On the Two-A-Week "Appeal" Drive by George Clarke, General Press Manager All Major Units of G.M. Go for C.I.O. -AFL Loses Out Three to One as Auto Men Clear the Decks for New Drive; Ford Is Stronghold Now to be Stormed Phila. ILGWU Progressives Clean House -Vote out Stalinist Administration Which Nearly Ruined Union S.W.P. Calls on Phila. Workers to Fight Tax on Wages -May Day Meeting to Launch Campaign Against Wage Tax SWP Spokesmen to Make Tours of Country in Appeal Drive James P. Cannon, National Secretary of the Socialist Workers Party (Photograph) Progressives Defeat Stalinists in Food Workers Local 16 "Fourth International" Is Out; Replaces "New International" St. Paul S.W.P. Supports Only Labor Candidates Ku Kluxers Marched, But They Won't Next Time, Negroes Say The Negro Question -"Labor with a White Skin Cannot Emancipate Itself Where Labor with the Black Skin Is Branded"--Karl Marx by R.L. Birchman The Fight for a National Union of Seamen, United Around a Program of Class Struggle (From the report of the Maritime Faction to the April 5-9 Convention of the Socialist Workers Party) Harry Lundeberg (Photograph) Way Is Now Open For Renewing Drive in Steel Colonial Workers Are Refusing to Bear the Burdens of War * Together with Workers at Home They Will Smash the Rule of Slaveholders * British Soldiers Shoot down Blacks -Negroes of Africa, in Plight As Tragic As that of Jews under Hitler, Fight Back in Militant Strikes * Workers of Shanghai in Militant Strikes -Face Guns and Bayonets of Invaders and Other Powers in Broad Revival of Union Struggles for Living Wage * Indian Masses Answer British Masters With Wave of Militant Strikes by Robert L. Birchman * West Indian Negro Dock and Plantation Workers Striking * Burma Protests Forced Role As Supporting Britain's War Behind the Lines -The Struggle Between Japan and U.S. Over Which Is to Plunder the Indies by George Stern Workers' Forum Fink's In Law Suit Proves Only That Minneapolis Truck Drivers Union Is Loyal to Labor by Carl O'Shea A Letter from Milwaukee -About the Defeat of Dan Hoan Norway's Officers Preferred Hitler To Labor Government In the World of Labor by Paul G. Stevens Christian Front Trial Portends the Wide Government Use of Agents Provocateurs by Joseph Hansen The Struggle for a Proletarian Party by James P. Cannon, National Secretary, S.W.P. Order Out of Chaos -- by Leon Trotsky How May Day Began by Marvel Scholl War in the Pacific It Wasn't Nailed Down! Why We Publish "Fourth International" -A Statement by the National Committee of the Socialist Workers Party (Reprinted from "Fourth International") Greetings Arrive from the French Section of Fourth Int'l The Unions Must Lead the Youth or Fascists Will by Lou Cooper Morality Plus 18 May 4, 1940 Quotas Set for Two-A-Week Week Appeal Drive--Let's Get Going By James P. Cannon -Scoreboard Petty Bourgeois Moralists and the Proletarian Party... By Leon Trotsky Sailors Win Great Victory; Owners Yield $10 Increases -Firm Strike Vote Forces Concessions -Stop–Work Meetings Held on the West Coast; Owners Cough Up Small Slice of Wartime Shipping Profits Pace Toward U.S. War Entry Speeded Up As the Allies Falter Akron Strike Women Pickets Play Big Part -Rubber Strike Called To Prevent Imposing of Longer Hours G.M. Parleys Open; Hours Issue Pressing -Men Are Determined To Realize 30-Hour Work Week Workers' Forum Supreme Court Dons New Face But Its Purpose is Still to Serve Capitalist Role by Albert Goldman George Clarke Opens Cross-Country Tour of S.W.P. Centers Sub Roll In to Finance "Fourth International" Twin Cities R.R. Engineers Demand One Union On Engines The Negro Question -"Labor with a White Skin Cannot Emancipate Itself Where Labor with a Black Skin Is Branded"--Karl Marx British Arrest Indians Strike Leaders In Opening Drive to Crush Anti-War Movement of Workers by Robert Birchman The Struggle for a Proletarian Party by James P. Cannon, National Secretary, S.W.P. Trotsky Presents the Case for Revolution -The Living Thoughts of Karl Marx, presented by Leon Trotsky, Longmans, Green and Co. 1939, 90c The SUP and NMU Slip of the Tongue Birds of a Feather Behind the Lines -War Is Not a Whodunnit Mystery; We Know Who's Guilty by George Stern In the World of Labor by Paul G. Stevens Refugees Forced to Join Army in France 19-DAM May 11, 1940 (Page 1, Col 1, is cut off on the left edge for the entire column, same for the right edge of Col 8 on pages 2 and 4) Two-A-Week Is a Necessity -- Must Have It! By Farrell Dobbs (National Labor Secretary) [What remains of Headline, see note above) Scoreboard Eyes of All Labor on S.W.O.C. -Convention Opening at Chicago, May 15 -Fight Against Unemployment Is Main Issue; To Plan Organizing Drive; Many Lodges Ask for Constitutional Convention Open Letter to the Workers of the U.S.S.R. by Leon Trotsky Steel Workers! The Fight for the Six–Hour Day at 8-Hour Pay Is Main Fight Now! Chicago Milk Drivers' Strike Smashes Bosses' Attempt to Cut Pay 25 Per Cent Behind the Lines -New Tricks of Rooseveltian Secret War Diplomacy by George Stern Workers' Forum Appeal Army Bethlehem Steel Is the Main Fight Front For New SWOC Unionization Drive -A Threat to Wage Structure of Union Until it is Organized Minneapolis Central Body Adopts Anti-War Resolution Indiana Harbor Lodge Sets Militant Pace -Spontaneous Strike Last March Put Company on Defensive Golf Seamen Follow S.U.P.in Wage Raise -West Coast Marine Firemen Get It Too; CP–Led Unions Don't Trade Union Notes by Farrell Dobbs The Negro Question -"Labor with A White Skin Cannot Emancipate Itself Where Labor with a Black Skin Is Branded"--Karl Marx by Robert L. Birchman The Struggle for a Proletarian Party by James P. Cannon, National Secretary, S.W.P. (Part 4 in a series") Canadian Seamen in First Major Wartime Strike -Strike Began April 15, Lasted Six Days Despite Wartime Government Pressure; Compromise Gives Men $7.50 Raise George Clarke Opens National Tour; In Boston–Lynn Now Subs Are Pouring in for the "Fourth International" James Connolly, Symbol of Irish Freedom Fight Flint Auto Union Launches Drive for 30-Hour Week at 40 Hour Pay -Only Way to Save Men's Jobs and Keep the Unions Strong; Proposal Sent to International and Locals; Fisher Body Local Will Publish Material to Educate the Membership Mother's Day May 12 — What [About?] Other 364 [Days?] by Antoinette F. Konikow [Bracketed words are on damaged edge and deduced from context] "Technological Unemployment" Presses Down on Steelworkers 20 May 18, 1940 Roosevelt Is Straining Every Effort to Stampede America into the War -Dragging in Whole Hemisphere; Orders Fleet Kept Off Hawaii to Openly Threaten Japan FDR's War Drive Makes Twice–Weekly Even More Urgent Scoreboard Behind the Lines -The Slave–Masters Scramble for Control of Dutch East Indies by George Stern Amalgamated Clothing Workers Union Opens 13th Biennial Convention CIO Launches "Red" Purge In Toledo Council -Osthimer, Stalinist, Is Expelled After Bitter Fight by Doyle Clark Flint Auto Unions Back 30–Hour Drive Workers' Forum 14 Jailed in N.Y. Following Relief Demand -Demonstrate before LaGuardia Relief Bureau Sailors' Victory Exposes Phony Bridges "Peace" Plan * He Continues Seeking Boss Collaboration and Maritime Unions * Jim Crow Issue in Marine Cooks Is Evaded Breitman is S.W.P. Standard-Bearer in New Jersey Elections Radio Workers Local Joins CIO In Body IBEW Fighting Anti-Trust Persecution -Union Conducts Broad Educational Drive Against Arnold "Fourth International" Subs Reach Record High The Negro Question -"Labor with a White Skin Cannot Emancipate Itself When Labor with a Black Skin Is Branded"--Karl Marx by Robert L. Birchman The Struggle for a Proletarian Party by James P. Cannon, National Secretary, S.W.P. (Fifth in a Series) The Russell Fight -- A Study on Liberals by Walter O'Rourke Drivers Union's Story of Fight Now in Pamphlet In the World of Labor by Paul G. Stevens Stalin Finally Has His Innings With Voroshilov Russian Bulletin Out 21 May 25, 1940 Industrial Mobilization---For What? -Capitalism Can Offer Only Destruction GM Bolder Under War Drive Impetus -Begins Cracking Down with Direct Aid of FBI to Weaken Union's Hand in Negotiations Chi. Milkmen on Picket Line Again ILGWU Meeting Under Shadow of War Drive -Dubinsky War Stand Threatens Fate of Union Itself Black Troops Bearing Brunt of First Rush of Nazi War Machine IBEW Pickets Con-Edison Power Plant CIO Leaders Take Pro-War Stand * Lewis Wants "Share" In Roosevelt's War Drive * Murray Gives Jingo Tone to SWOC Convention Behind the Lines -Roosevelt Seeks to Make Intervention Now Seem More Palatable to Workers by George Stern New York Taxi Strikers Take Poll as Strike Enters 5th Week Workers' Forum Workers Asking: Who Are We Going to Fight and --- What For? By George Clarke Clarke Speaks in Chicago, May 26–28 The Appeal Drive Must Not Lag Now! Scoreboard CIO Building Union Strikes Queens Jobs Issues Facing Out-Of-Town Dep't of ILGWU Della M. Dunne (Obituary) The Negro Question -" Labor with a White Skin Cannot Emancipate Itself Where Labor with a Black Skin Is Branded"--Karl Marx by Robert L. Birchman The Struggle for a Proletarian Party by James P. Cannon, National Secretary, S.W.P. (Last of the series) Roosevelt Ready To Spike Walsh–Healy Act by Farrell Dobbs Roosevelt on Strikes GM and the UAW Memorial Day Fascist "Christian Mobilizers" Open Drive in New York City by Sam Marcy In the World of Labor by Paul G. Stevens Argentine 4th Internationalists Support SWP Majority Position Union-Busting Drive Underway in Chicago by William Simmons Today's Puzzle Roosevelt's First Convert 22 Jun. 2, 1940 Stalin's GPU Tries to Murder Trotsky -Mink, GPU Assassin, Is Sought -Mexican Police Look For Notorious Kremlin Gunman George Mink (Photograph and a photo of clippings from Socialist Appeal and the New York Times) War Drive Against Labor's Rights on Full Blast -War Deal Attack on "Aliens" Cloaks Anti-Labor Campaign Michigan CIO for Anti-War Struggle -But Haywood Blocks Convention's Sentiment Behind the Lines -Major "Neutrals" Must Revise Strategy In Face of Hitler's Victories by George Stern Why Does Stalin Want to Kill Trotsky? Flint CIO Hearings Hit Roosevelt War Plans Flint CIO Anti-War Resolution Workers' Forum Akron Strikers Keep General Tire Tied up SWOC Convention Stifled by Surrender of Murray Leadership to War Drive by Mills Chicago Lodge of Republic Steel Still Think Kelly a Killer Second Chicago Milk Strike within Month Ends in Truce Stamp Plan Assailed by SWP Jersey Candidate for Senate Appeal Drive Gains but Not Enough Scoreboard Clarke Sees Wartime Open Shop Tactics at Work in Syracuse by George Clarke George Clarke In Twin Cities on Coast-To-Coast Tour The Negro Question -"Labor with a White Skin Cannot Emancipate Itself Where Labor with a Black Skin Is Branded"--Karl Marx by Robert L. Birchman Who Is George Mink? Fourth International for June Has Two Articles by Trotsky Fifth Column Bunk CIO In Building Trades CIO Finds a Base in Small Homes Minneapolis Teamsters Fight Roosevelt Armament Program -Not Once Sent to the Bosses' War Machine In the World of Labor by Paul G. Stevens Dictatorship Governs in Great Britain -An Editorial 23 Jun. 9, 1940 War Pressure Hits Shipyard Strikers; Next Step Is Crackdown in Auto Plants * War Scare Used to End Strike at Kearney Yards * UAW Leaders Make Futile Plea to FDR -But Knudsen Speaks for Roosevelt in Industry Now * Walsh–Healy Act Spiked by Congress Unions Resist Boss Drive Toward War -Workers in St. Paul and Ohio Vote Anti-War Resolutions Ohio State AFL Meat Cutters in Anti-War Stand Anti-Alien Drive Is Strike–Breaking Move Government Attacks Drivers Admiral Wiley Admits Gov't Fink Scheme Sailors Fight Drive Against Aliens on Ships St. Paul Labor Warns against Government Acts "Aliens" Bill Aimed at This Picket Line (Photograph of a picket line Of the Sailors Union of the Pacific, whose members are one third foreign-born) Workers' Forum Workers Are Not Falling Readily for Propaganda Blitzkrieg, Clarke Reports by George Clarke Akron Labor Council Denounces Pegler Radio Workers Out on Strike at Air King Speed Appeal Drive! Scoreboard Selling the Appeal U.S. Bosses Seek Law to Blacklist Filipino Labor Leaders The Negro Question -"Labor with a White Skin Cannot Emancipate Itself Where Labor with a Black Skin Is Branded"--Karl Marx by Robert L. Birchman Behind the Lines -"Daily News" Heralds Coming Shift in U.S. Policy Toward Japan by George Stern GPU Assassin Still at Large in Mexico "Youth Are Not Interested in Politics,"... By Harry Frankel The Machine Means Different Things --- Depends Who Owns It! By Antoinette Konikow Two Good War Stories Enslaving Latin America Jehovah's Witnesses Stalinist Duplicity The Apex Case N.Y. Cops and the Christian Front by Sam Marcy In the World of Labor by Paul G. Stevens Black Colonials Call On British Masses to Revolt Burnham Quits: Joins "Intellectuals in Retreat" 24 Jun 15, 1940 Roosevelt Sheds All Pretense of Keeping Country Out of War Relief Officials Try to Force Jobless Into Army Behind the Lines -Move to Appease Japan Gains Ground as U.S. Prepares for War in Atlantic by George Stern Auto Parleys Are Nearing Breakdown -General Motors Uses War Issue to Balk Union Demands Arrest Stalinist in Connection With Attack on Trotsky Anti-Union Drive Reaches Omaha Drivers EWA Seamen Convicted on "Mutiny" Count -Sets Precedent For War Drive on Seamen Italian Entry Marks Spread Of World War -Mussolini Grabs for Jackal' s Share Of Hitler's Spoils Strike by Furnace Men Hits Crucible Steel; On War Order Workers' Forum Lundeberg Fights Anti-Alien Drive Need Two-A-Week Appeal to Fight War Scoreboard Selling the Appeal Miners Accuse FBI of Helping Break Strike IBEW Local Appeals to Unions To Back Electrical Workers The Negro Question -"Labor with a White Skin Cannot Emancipate Itself Where Labor with a Black Skin Is Branded"--Karl Marx by Robert L. Birchman ILGWU Convention Ruled by a War-Mongers -Dubinsky Machine Commits Union to Back FDR, Aid Allies, Rejoin AFL Citing Documents Is a Dangerous Business, Mr. Earl Browder! Clarke Speaks in Los Angeles Militant Worker Gets 25 Years by Frame-up Roosevelt Refuses to Commute Sentences of WPA Strikers Technique of Drive Against Alien Workers by Sam Marcy Knudsen-Stettinius Stalinist Fakery Trotsky Letter Exposes Stalin Role in Recent Assassination Attempt Workers Must Intervene in War--But How? by Albert Goldman Dialectics Catches up with Burnham and Shachtman 25 Jun. 22, 1940 France's Fate Warns U.S. Workers: Take Power If You Want to Defeat Fascism! -Trotsky Indicts the Kremlin's Role in Europe's Catastrophe by Leon Trotsky Hope For Jobs From Arms Drive Is Illusion, CIO Shows Behind the Lines -Hitler Victory Heads World Toward Greater Wars Between Totalitarian Blocs by George Stern Settlement Favors General Motors Stalin Moves into Baltic Countries by Felix Morrow Stalinist Band Arrested for Trotsky Attack -Mexican Police Say Case Is Solved As One Confesses Workers' Forum Air King Strikers Appeal to Membership of Local Three Stalinist Mum on Jingo Resolutions In Auto Unions Cafeteria Local By–Elections Due to Be Held Tuesday Against Whom Is the Anti-Alien Drive Really Being Directed? Only Two Weeks To Go In Appeal Drive! Scoreboard Selling the Appeal The Negro Question -"Labor with a White Skin Cannot Emancipate Itself Where Labor with a Black Skin Is Branded"--Karl Marx by Robert L. Birchman Harrington Warns Arms Drive Won't Help Cut Unemployment Story of Norway's Last Days His Opportunism Leads Lovestone to Pro–Ally Camp Two "Peace" Parties Patrioteers Democracy Defined Price of Patriotism Stab in the Back by Barton (Political Cartoon) Anti-Alien Prejudice Only Plays the Bosses' Game by Sam Marcy How Are Workers to Fight Against Hitlerism? By Albert Goldman 26 Jun. 29, 1940 Fourth International Meets; Issues Anti-War Manifesto---See Page 3 -Emergency Conferences Is Held Boss Parties Agree on Conscription -Stalinists Confess Attempt to Kill Trotsky * Enlistment Lag Forces Compulsion * Mexican Police Announce Confessions From Band of GPU Assassins -Body of Sheldon Harte, Trotsky Secretary, Is Found, Spiking Stalinist Attempt To Implicate Him As Accomplice Behind the Lines -Withdrawal of U.S. Fleet From Pacific Heralds Abandonment of Asia by George Stern The S.W.P. Salutes Sheldon Harte -A Statement by the National Committee, Socialist Workers Party FDR Picked Right Man for the Job The Negro Question "Labor with a White Skin Cannot Emancipate Itself Where Labor with a Black Skin Is Branded"--Karl Marx by Robert L. Birchman War! It's Wonderful (Chart showing the increases in corporate profits) Mpls. Labor Movement Fights War Drive Seniority Rights In New Union Contracts Protected In War Workers' Forum Toledo Bakery Union Stands Against War New York Cops Club Pickets at Air King Cops Club Air King Pickets (Photograph of cops clubbing pickets outside the Air King Radio Corporation plant) Militant Cafeteria Workers Defeat Stalinist Candidate Anti-Alien Drive Revival of Palmer Raids by Matthew Roan Imperialist War and the Proletarian World Revolution (Manifesto of the Fourth International, adopted at the Emergency Conference) Only the Worker Can Restore Peace to a Warring World We Must Help Workers of U.S.S.R. to Overthrow Stalin Second and Third Internationals Lead Workers Only to Disaster The Fourth International Sounds the Call to Struggle! Speed Appeal Funds Scoreboard An Anti-Labor Bill WPA Purge Christian Front.... Stalinist G.P.U./Sheldon Harte (Political Cartoon) Would Revolution Let the Enemy Invade U.S.? by Albert Goldman 27 Jul. 6, 1940 Willkie Is an Open Challenge to Labor * Midwestern Workers Know All about Willkie -His Vicious Anti-Labor Record Is His Recommendation to the Bosses * Big Business Openly Backs GOP Candidate -Foreign Policy Same As Roosevelt's; Offers Big Stick by Albert Goldman Harte Was Murdered During or After the GPU Attack on Trotsky -May 25 Set As Day Youth Was Killed -GPU Slander Against Trotsky's Secretary Discouraged Search for His Body; Found in Search for Arms and Uniforms of Attackers Sheldon Harte (Photograph) GPU Tried to Cover Murder with Slander by Leon Trotsky Four Drivers Confess Roles in Shooting -Total Number of GPU Confessions Brought Now to Eight Behind the Lines -Japan Takes First Steps Toward Carving Out Its New Sphere by George Stern Coolie Wages for Workers on Defense Jobs Flint Militants Fight Back at Jingo Campaign -Blasted As Company-Inspired Drive to Smash Unions Strike Weapon Surrendered in G.M. Contract -Union Leaders Ram Pact Down Throats of Auto Workers -Use "National Emergency" To Put Over Settlement Which Binds Them to Give Up Strikes Conservatives Dominate Farmer-Labor Convention, Dictating Its Platform by Carl O'Shea Selling the Appeal Wall Street Drops Plenty in Europe If Hitler Wins Smith Bill Is Passed: Hits at All Labor -Anti-Alien Act Cloaks Vicious Weapons Against Unions Lewis' Politics Bolder But Same "Run-a-Round" as Green's by Farrell Dobbs The Negro Question -"Labor with a White Skin Cannot Emancipate Itself Where Labor with a Black Skin Is Branded"--Karl Marx by Robert L. Birchman Fourth International Conference -Resolution on S.W.P. Internal Struggle Haikys Identified as GPU Chieftain in Mexico Capital Drives Women Out of Home to Industry by Antoinette F. Konikow, M.D. Patriotism at a Price Lewis and Wheeler The Voorhis Bill State of the Nation Patriotism "Nation" Backs GPU, Articles by Leon Trotsky and Joseph Hansen After Hitler's Conquest of France--What Next? by L. Lund Rumania Move May Herald Stalin's Policy Switch by Albert Goldman 28 Jul. 13, 1940 French "Democrats" Turn Fascist -Only Workers Can Protect Freedom -"Liberty, Equality, Fraternity" Thrown Overboard Without a Splash, Teaching Us Not to Trust Boss Politicians Communist Int'l Preparing to Abandon "Anti"-War Policy; We Must Fight in Support of Wall Street's Imperialism by Felix Morrow Behind the Lines -Hints of Appeasement Begin to Come From Roosevelt's Horse's Mouth by George Stern Gov't Taking Applications in Job-Training "Locked-Out" Generation Flood Employment Stations Demand Decent Pay for "Defense" Jobs! Stalinists in Alibi Hunt for Trotsky Attack -C.P. Members Acted "Personally," Says C.P. Statement Lynch Mob Leaders Named, Terror Reigns Workers' Forum Trade Unions Urged To Start Military Training Under Its Control "National Emergency" A Good Excuse for Anti-Labor Laws What Sailors Are Thinking About the War by G. Lord Party statement On Press-Org. Fund Scoreboard Need of Labor Party Seen in Ohio The Negro Question -"Labor with a White Skin Cannot Emancipate Itself Where Labor with A Black Skin Is Branded"--Karl Marx by Robert L. Birchman What Really Happened in France? -The "New Leader" Invents Some Facts to Fit Its Theory of Democracy by Felix Morrow "We Feared You More Than We Feared Hitler" by Fitzpatrick in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch (Political Cartoon) Will Stalin Try to Seize the Dardanelles? By Albert Goldman A Bitter Lesson For Labor Learn From Workers' Plattsburgs! The New New Deal (Political Cartoon) Christian Fronters Boast How They Fixed Treason Trial by Sam Marcy CIO Organizers Seized As "Fifth Column" Willkie Belongs to Inner Circle of Wall Street by Albert Goldman Klan Praises Roosevelt 29 Jul. 20, 1940 Funds Are Needed to Safeguard Trotsky from Further Attack -Defense of House Being Organized -Cannon and Dobbs Issue Appeal to Party and Sympathizers to Help Finance New Arrangement in Coyoacan Democrats Offer Us Four More Years of Crisis, Unemployment -Roosevelt Named For 3rd Term Try -Democratic Convention Suddenly Soft-Pedals Administration's War Policies As Obedient Delegates Obey Orders by Felix Morrow Canadian Seamen's Union Head Still Jailed Incommunicado Havana Meet Asked to Aid Refugees Auto Union Convention Spotlights Weaknesses -UAW Failed to Carry out Key Organizing Campaign in Ford and Elsewhere (Two different articles under the same headlines) Chicago Makes Room for Democrats CIO Die Casters in 3rd Week Of Strike at Cleveland Plant Sailors Gain Increases in New Contract -Secure Raises Despite Sell-out by National Maritime Union Workers' Forum Labor In Minneapolis Observes The First Anniversary of WPA Strike What the Last War Taught Some American Workers by Marvel Scholl Selling the Appeal Bakery Drivers Win Six-Weeks Strike in Ohio Fifth Column Hysteria Running Riot in Ohio The Negro Question -"Labor with a White Skin Cannot Emancipate Itself Where Labor with a Black Skin is Branded"--Karl Marx by Robert L. Birchman Behind the Lines -British Maneuver to Stave Off Japanese Action Before German Assault by George Stern Youth Congress Shows Stalinists Preparing to Drop "Anti-War" Line Will Workers Vote For Roosevelt? Social Democrats Try Hard to Blur Lessons of France by Felix Morrow What FDR Really Said About Sending Men Japan Hires O'Ryan Stalinist Fakery In the World of Labor by Paul G. Stevens USSR Closed to Refugees---As Stalinist "Weep" For Them by Ruth Jeffrey Workers Cannot Be Isolationist With Regard to War by Albert Goldman 30 Jul. 27, 1940 U.S. Seeks Hemispheric Control * Nazi and U.S. Groups Near Civil War in Argentina -British Lackeys Turn to U.S. Master, While Native and German Fascists Seek Rapprochement with Germany by Quebracho * Havana Is First Move In Plan -Economic Proposals Will Be Followed By Armed Forces by Sam Marcy Auto Union Convention Opening in St. Louis -An Honest Account of Leadership's Record During the Last Year Would Be a Tale of Do-Nothing Policies Behind the Lines -Stalin Flip-Flop Awaits Battle of Britain by George Stern Militant Strike Of Die Casters Lost by Leaders -Workers Wanted to Fight On, But Not Stalinist Leaders What Will John L. Lewis Do About His Proven Charges Against FDR? Workers' Forum Phil Murray, Steel Bosses, All Democrats--Whose Voice Does Their Party Listen To? By Farrell Dobbs "Worst Repression in 20 Yrs" Says Civil Liberties Union Soviet Ship Watched For Assailants Of Trotsky The Negro Question -"Labor with a White Skin Cannot Emancipate Itself Where Labor with a Black Skin Is Branded"--Karl Marx by Robert L. Birchman Pacifist Fakery on Conscription -Bourgeois Pacifists Argue They Are Better Defenders Of Capitalism, Workers Object to Bourgeois Conscription But Should Learn Military Arts Sidney Hook: Recruiting Sergeant -The Professor Is a New, But Typical Convert To War by Felix Morrow Sovietization Of the Baltic Step Forward By Albert Goldman The "Anti-War" Plank Profitable Patriotism Third Term Tripe Stand on War and USSR Taken By Chinese Section -Resolution Blasts Those Who Will Not Defend the USSR (From Communist league of China, Section of the IV International, signed by S.S.P.) Yes, The French Popular Front Was Responsible by Albert Goldman 31 Aug. 3, 1940 Labor Has Answered to Conscription! -Workers Cannot Agree to Control by Dictatorial Army Officer Caste Auto Union Convention Opens; Dull Beginning Is Symbolic -Union Leadership Very Much Satisfied With Itself; But Stagnation Of the Union Doesn't Please Delegates Aircraft Plant Workers Vote for Auto Union Court Upholds FBI's Frameup of Teamsters -7 Midwest Drivers Union Leaders Must Serve 2-Year Terms For Union Activity U.S. Gets Latin-America's OK On Seizing British Colonies -Seizure of Latin-American Investments Of British "Ally" Is Main Discussion Point Of Secret Sessions At Havana by Sam Marcy New Jersey in the 1940 Elections -The Hague Ticket by Thomas Mayes Analysis of Conscription Bill Shows Anti-Labor Aims -Bill Gives No Guarantees For Return of Jobs; Rewards Finks With Exemptions; Sets Up Strikebreaking "Home Guards" Lehman Plans New Police System to Replace Guard as Anti-Labor Body Where You Can Buy The "Appeal" At New York City News-Stands Food Workers' Paper Warns That Cry Of "Fifth Column" Is Prelude to Union-Busting Selling the Appeal The Negro Struggle -"Labor with a White Skin Cannot Emancipate Itself where Labor with a Black Skin Is Branded"--Karl Marx by Robert L. Birchman (A discussion of the 30th annual report of the N.A.A.C.P. by H. Williams) We'll Never Forget August 4, 1914 -That Was the Day When the Second International First Delivered the Workers to the War-Makers, Lenin Taught Us the Lessons of That Day Behind the Lines -U.S. Embargo Move Against Japan A Bargaining Move For Indies Tin by George Stern "Fourth International" Out For Aug., Feature Story of Attempt on Trotsky Private Armies Are Growing Too Fast, Says Jersey Gov. Attacker of Trotsky, Hiding Sends "Statement" To Press More Evidence On the French Capitulation Arming the Workers J.P. Morgan's Refugees Which Is the Crime? Conscientious Objector War Deal Easy on the Rich; Doesn't Try to Draft Wealth by W.F.W. Difference Between Imperialisms? Yes, But Not Decisive by Albert Goldman 32 Aug. 10, 1940 Stalin Still Hitler's Vassal, Writes Trotsky by Leon Trotsky SUP Head Fights Conscription Bill Behind the Lines -A Change in Hitler's Time Table of Blitzkrieg by George Stern Conscription Debate Opens Labor' s Voice Still Unheard -CIO and AFL Merely Echo Demagogues Like Wheeler -Proposed Alternative of "Voluntary Enlistment" Is No Better Than Conscription; Workers Want Neither Our Own Kind of Military Training! by Barton (Political Cartoon) Military Training---Under Union Control Stalinists Cry "Alien" at Cafeteria Local 302 Man Workers' Forum Jersey Okie Says Conditions Here Are As Bad As in the South 6-Hour Day Would Boost Steel Employment One-Third by Farrell Dobbs New Jersey in the 1940 Elections (Part II, "The Grand Old Party") Form Union Defense Guards To Military Training by Carl O'Shea David Lasser Didn't Know It Was Loaded Batista, Aided By His Stalinist Lackeys Gets Himself "Elected" Cuba's President Appeasement Likely Until U.S. War Machine Is Ready Profit Demand Holds up Arms Program Who Is Responsible? Poor Aren't Paytriots GPU-Made News Trotsky Nails Talk Of Almazan "Plot" by Leon Trotsky Ortiz Retreats; Denies He Was Quoted Correctly Havana Parley Failed to Meet Hemisphere Economic Problem by Sam Marcy Against Capitalist Military Training Conscription Bills by Albert Goldman 33 Aug. 17, 1940 SOCIALIST APPEAL PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY THE SOCIALIST APPEAL PUBLISHING ASS'N Editorial Board: Felix Morrow, Albert Goldman General Manager: Ruth Jeffrey Labor's Answer to Conscription --- A New Pamphlet by Felix Morrow Draft Debate Is a Sham! -Senatorial "Opponents" Are Yelling For Millions of Enlistments As "Alternative" -Capitalist Army No Place For Workers' Military Training -We Are for Military Training-- But Only Under the Control of the Trade Unions Ohio Unions Clash Over Auto Plant -Fight Between CIO and AFL Pleases Toledo Bosses New UAW Executive Reflects Lewis-Hillman Split in CIO US Imperialism Made Gains at Havana Workers' Forum Auto Convention Failed to Solve Any Of the Union's Pressing Problems Trade Union Notes by Farrell Dobbs Selling the Appeal British Give Way to Japan On Asia Front by George Stern The National Defense Lie -The Morgan-DuPont Defense Council Is No Partner To the American Workers by Sam Marcy An Anti-Labor Clown Tries Red-Baiting by Mark Knight Somebody's Lying The Army's Politics Lundeen's Party GPU's Own Agents Will "Confess" Link with Trotsky, He Predicts After Burnham--Macdonald by Leon Trotsky (From a letter to a friend) What Will Happen to the Union Drive in Steel? By Farrell Dobbs Answering A Query On Our Draft Stand by Albert Goldman 34 Aug. 24, 1940 Trotsky's Final Message: Go Forward! (Headline above Masthead) WE BRAND STALIN AS THE MURDERER OF TROTSKY -Trotsky's Fight Goes On Under The Banner Of The Fourth International -Death Follows Brutal Attack Leon Trotsky 1879-1940 (Obituary) Fight Now As Never Before, Comrades! -Statement of the National Committee There's Only One Way To Stop The Arms Profiteers -An Editorial May Bill Pretends to Protect Homes of Conscripts---But Does Not -Conscript's Family As Unprotected As Without This Bill Jack Maloney and Lou Miller Begin Federal Prison Terms -Lou Miller Writes Inspiring Letter To Farrell Dobbs Sidney Hillman Working With Green For "Unity" -AFL's About-Face on Smith Amendments May Be Part of Deal With Roosevelt Labor Needs Own "Home Defense" Guards! Trade Union Notes by Farrell Dobbs Farewell, Leon Trotsky The Biography of Trotsky Is Part of World History Trotsky with Lenin and Kamenev in the Days of the Civil War and Trotsky addressing the Third Congress of the Comintern (Photographs) Leon Trotsky and his lifelong comrade and companion, Natalia Sedov Trotsky (Photograph) Stalin's Murders Form Long Roll Now Leon Sedov (Photograph) Drafted Men Keep Seniority Under New Contract Goodbye, Old Man Natalia The Written Heritage Why The GPU Used This Method To Kill Trotsky Police Hold GPU Agents For Previous Attack Do Men Enlist in the Army Voluntarily? By Albert Goldman 35 Aug 31, 1940 Jackson "Confession" Shows GPU Hand in Trotsky Murder -Follows Familiar Pattern Of The Moscow Trials -Letter Found On Assassin Sounds Like A Page Out Of The Moscow Trial Record Trotsky Memorial Meetings This Week Trotsky, the warrior of the workers' revolution, as commander of the Red Army in 1918-1922 (Photograph) In Honor of Leon Trotsky (3 photographs of throngs in Mexico honoring Trotsky and a memorial speech by Albert Goldman, Trotsky's attorney) Chilean Workers Denounce Stalin As the Murderer Trotsky's Body Cremated, U.S. Refused Entry -100,000 Workers and Peasants Honor Body Workers' Forum Mpls. Unions Demand Military Training Controlled by Workers Selling the Appeal What Methods Shall The Unions Follow In Steel? by Farrell Dobbs General Motors Speed-Up Is "Patriotism" Trotsky's Last March Trotsky and his son Lyova - Leon Sedov (Photograph) Text of Jackson "Confession" Klement "Letter" Also Pointed to the GPU's Guilt in Murder Rudolph Klement (Photograph) Trotsky Foresaw His Assassins Would Use "Trotskyist" Label Salutes to Trotsky From the Socialist Labor Party From the International Workers' Front From the Independent Labor League From the Socialist Union Party Goldman's Funeral Address Trotsky's Last Word to Workers of USSR From All Corners (Messages received from offices of the Socialist Workers Party around the world) 36 Sep. 6, 1940 GPU Trying to "Liquidate" Killer of Trotsky to Keep Him from Talking Goldman Warns GPU Is Now After Its Own Agent To Prevent "Break" At Trial Clenched Fists Bid Farewell To Trotsky -More Than 1,500 At Memorial Meeting New York Workers Honor Trotsky (Photograph) Assassin's Story Falters Under Examination Cardenas Points At Stalinists As Killers Trotsky Honored His Pledge of Asylum, Cardenas Affirmed To the Memory of the Old Man -Speech Delivered at Trotsky Memorial Meeting, New York, Aug. 28, 1940 by James P. Cannon Capitalist Press Muddies Trotsky In Death, As It Fought Him in Life by George Stern The Lesser Known Trotsky (Photograph of Trotsky at a picnic with his grandson Seva) Workers' Forum Our Australian Comrades Fight Despite Government Ban Assassin Was In May 24 Attempt Says Mexican Government Paper Flint Auto Workers Fight Bosses' Speed-Up -Angry Protests Meet Program Of Intimidation Workers Want Union Control of Military Training by Carl O'Shea Grace Carlson Is Full-Time Party Worker Now Grace Carlson (Photograph) Behind the Lines -Partitioning of Rumania Done Without Stalin's Consent by George Stern Max Geldman Is Chicago Speaker Cannon Speaks At Boston Meeting Trotsky Memorial In Los Angeles Attended by 300 Newark Meeting Minneapolis And St. Paul Meeting Red-Baiting Drive Dominates New York AFL Convention 37 Sep. 14, 1940 Flint Auto Workers Ready to Strike -One Week Deadline Set for Grievance Natalia Testifies Jackson Saw Trotsky Only Twice In His Private Office -Believes He Led Attackers On May 24 "Frank Jackson" (Two Photographs of Trotsky's Assassin) Belgian Legation Stamps Jackson's Claims To Be a Belgian as Falsehoods Deal With Britain Heralds U.S. Drive -Acquisition of Bases Marks Entry of U.S. Imperialism Into Expansionist Race Sailors Get Chance To Express Opinion of Allies Committee Behind the Lines -Anglo-American Deal Gives Japan Pause in Far Eastern Grabs by George Stern Fascist Judge Heads Inquiry Into "Fifth Column" at Flint Workers' Forum Convention of CIO Electrical Workers Shows Decrease of Stalinist Influence by Al Martin Trotsky Memorial Meetings In Detroit, Cleveland, Etc. -Stevens Speaks in Cleveland Preis Speaks In Flint And Toledo Detroit Meeting Success Despite Move To Block It Selling the Appeal Argentina Land Scandal Exploited by Fascists by Quebracho Charles Cooke (Obituary) The Negro Struggle -"Labor with a White Skin Cannot Emancipate Itself Where Labor with a Black Skin Is Branded"--Karl Marx by Robert L. Birchman C.P. Lies on Trotsky Murder Exposed; Daily Worker Manufactures "Statement" * Goldman Shows How Lie Machine of G.P.U. Is Operated * Stalinist Organ Attributes Quotation To Mexican Labor Confederation Which Is Proved To Be a Fabrication by Walter Rourke Trotsky's Guards Would Give Lives To Keep Assassin Alive -- To Talk by E. Anderson Housing Crisis To Be Part of War Boom Race Riot Danger In Toledo Government Report Shows Profits On Arms Dealing Are Soaring Sky-High by Sam Marcy Crisis in Auto Plants Hershel Grynzspan Browder's Alibi Stalin's New Labor Laws -Longer Work-Week, Direct Wage Cuts, Chaining the Workers To the Factories Like Industrial Serfs; But the Younger Generation Leads A Bitter Resistance to the New Laws by John G. Wright [Joseph Vanzler] More Messages On the Death Of Leon Trotsky 38 Sep. 21, 1940 Stalin's New Purge--The First Account Published Anywhere -Purges the Majority of Trade Unions' Officials -Kremlin's Henchmen, Living Like An Upper Class, Have Been Devouring Workers' Funds For Their Own Purposes by John G. Wright [Joseph Vanzler] Flint Auto Workers Taking Strike Vote -Fisher Body Fight Is For Showdown -But Company Maneuvers to Push AFL–CIO Fight Into Foreground and to Shove the Really Basic Issues Out of the Picture Trotsky Assassin Is Questioned -Covers GPU Trail By Refusing to Answer Questions Natalia's Letter To Cardenas S.W.P. Plenum--Conference Opens Friday in Chicago U.S. Senatorial Candidate in Minnesota Is Grace Carlson Dr. Grace Carlson (Photograph) Minor Strikes in Auto Towns Show the Pot Is Simmering Workers' Forum Here Are Some of the Anti-Labor Clauses in Roosevelt's Conscription Law Labor Control of Military Training Debated by Union Air King Strike Is Over, Judge Smothered It Worker Insists We Must Predict That U.S.-Soviet Pact Is Coming John Brooks Wheelwright (Obituary) Jobless Negro Lad Tries To Get into the U.S. Army... Selling the Appeal The Negro Struggle -"Labor with a White Skin Cannot Emancipate Itself Where Labor with a Black Skin Is Branded"--Karl Marx by Robert L. Birchman Siqueiros, Leader of May 24 Attempt On Trotsky, Defends His Foul Deed Sidney Hillman -Today He Is the Chief Lieutenant Of the Bosses in Labor's Ranks The Chinese Get a Lesson In Democracy by George Stern On Conscription Moscow's Blackout "Draft Wealth" Item in Draft Law Is a Fraud by Sam Marcy 39 Sep 28, 1940 N.J. Survey Shows Workers Want Union Control of Military Training -Approve Enactment of Conscription, But Also Favor Union Control of It -Newark S.W.P. Polls Representative Body of Workers To Get Views on Training by George Breitman Cal. Bosses Want to Stop "Labor Rows" -Drive Against Unions On Pretext of "National Defense" Once Again -Who "Destroyed" France? Auto Locals in Flint Prepare to Fight G.M. Capitalist Greed Was Cause Of Hercules Powder Tragedy S.W.P. Plenum Opening This Week in Chicago Coffins Are Just Part of the Army's "Many Gadgets" Workers' Forum St. Paul Union Paper Blasts Union Chiefs in Government Minn. Federation Fights For Anti-Labor Law Repeal C.P. Helped Elect Olson, He's Outlawing Them Now Steel Workers Use "Quickies" To Win Demands -Victory at Republic Steel in Youngstown Is Latest Example 100% Profit Union Conditions in the Army Is Only Part of Labor's Need The Marxist School -Fall Term 1940 The Negro Struggle -"Labor with a White Skin Cannot Emancipate Itself Where Labor with a Black Skin Is Branded"--Karl Marx by Albert Parker Mexico after the Elections -- by Grandizo Munis -Danger of Reactionary Coup Grows, Aided By Corrupt Stalinist-Toledana Methods Negro Sharecropper Facing Trial For Murder of Boss Communist League of China Honors Memory of Trotsky (From Executive Committee, Communist League of China, Section of the IV International, Li Fu-Jen) Has Mike Gold Made His Last Blunder? The Workers Will Not Tolerate a CIO Split Equality in Wartime? The Crisis in Soviet Agriculture -Reveal Once More Character of Regime -Stalin's Latest Decrees Against Peasants Japanese Move to Checkmate Anglo-US Deal 40 Oct 5, 1940 Pact Means U.S. War In Two Oceans -Nazi–Japan Alliance Has USSR in Its Pincers -Soviet Union Now Faces Threat on Two Frontiers Which Stalin Thought He Had Eliminated Parley Over Flint Firings Dragging On -General Motors Stalls To Avert Walk-Out In Flint Plants Two Jailed Drivers Union Leaders Now Cleared by Court Program to Break Labor's Back Is Drafted By Leading Economists Of The Country Proletarian Military Policy Is Adopted At Socialist Workers Party Chicago Conference -Trotsky Memorial Fund Launched by Delegates -Express Determination of the Party To Carry Out Trotsky's Final Injunction to Go Forward SWP Protests Effort to Ban CP From Ballot -Party in California Fights Issue of Civil Rights New State Guard Units Are Organized To Break Strikes I.B.E.W. Local 3 Leaders Jailed in Strikebreaking Move S.W.P. Resolution On Proletarian Military Policy -Adopted Plenum-Conference Held in Chicago, September 27 to 29 Plenum-Conference Resolution -On the 1940 Elections Plenum-Conference Resolution -On the Shachtman-Abern Group "Fourth International" Trotsky Memorial Issue Out Next Week Toledano out As Mexican Labor Chief The Negro Struggle -"Labor with a White Skin Cannot Emancipate Itself Where Labor with a Black Skin Is Branded"--Karl Marx by Albert Parker (Continued from last week) Organize Ford: This Is Still the Biggest Job in Auto by John Adamson Negro Condemned to Death for Murdering His White Boss What Officer Rule Means In the Army, Letter from Eugene Varlin A Military Policy Stalin's "Victories" SWOC "Leadership" The New Purge In The Soviet Union -Extends Once More Into Industry As a New Caste of Generals Is Created By Stalin by John G. Wright [Joseph Vanzler] Pivert Swaps Courtesies With Gen. DeGaulle By J. Gerland 41 Oct 12, 1940 False Passport of the Assassin of Leon Trotsky Traced To GPU -It Belonged To A Loyalist Soldier In Spanish War Another Stalinist Jailed For Attack on Leon Trotsky On the War Fronts by George Stern For Military Training---Under Control Of Unions! Local 544 Defeats Anti-Union Suit -Judge Concedes Baselessness Of Case Against Drivers Union in Minneapolis All-India Congress Reports Vicious Repressions Olson Bars Stalinists from California Ballot -Socialist Workers Party Offers United Front to Fight Ban Success Story Auto Workers Strike Midland Steel Plant -Key Auto Parts Factory in Cleveland Is Closed Down by Militant Picket Line Hillman Moving Into Flint Auto Workers' Fight With G.M. Military Policy of the Proletariat -Speech by James P. Cannon At Chicago Conference of SWP James P. Cannon (Photograph) The Negro Struggle -"Labor with a White Skin Cannot Emancipate Itself Where Labor with a Black Skin Is Branded"--Karl Marx by Albert Parker S.W.P. Candidate For U.S. Senate, Grace Carlson, Goes On Minnesota Ballot Grace Carlson, S.W.P. Candidate In Minnesota Senatorial Race (Photograph) Child Labor Is Revived by Stalin French Socialist Support the Petain Government No Minimum Wage For Puerto Rico Architectural Note Nazi Pressure Outlaws Our Swiss Comrades West Coast Firemen Go Out On Strike -Steam Schooners Tied Up By Walkout It's Up to the CIO Congratulations to 544 The Sky's the Limit Butler's Edict 42 Oct. 19, 1940 Draft Will Take One Out of Three -Demand That Military Training Be Under Trade Union Control! -Unions Must Oppose Open Shop In The Army, As in Industry -First Experiences of National Guardsmen, Just Inducted, Shows Necessity for Union Protection of Conscripts Negroes Repudiate Jim Crow Army Policy of Roosevelt -Charge White House Statement Quoted Them as Agreeing To Segregation, When They Had Really Denounced It Unions Discuss Need of Union Rights In Army Undertakers Work Auto Union Is Aroused by GM Attacks -Militants Continue To Demand Action On General Motors West Coast Schooners Tied Up -Firemen's Strike Is Followed By Cooks; Sailors Locked Out Fort Dix Guardsmen Bitter About Pay And High Prices Sailors Hear Families Are in Dire Want -Officials Violate Promises To Help Their Dependents Midland Steel Strikers Are Victorious Siqueiros, Who Led Gang That Attacked Trotsky, Indicted On the War Fronts by George Stern Bethlehem Strikers Return To Work The Day "New" Policy Is Announced! Crucible Cranemen Win Strike For Wage Rise Breitman Hits Barbour On Negro Issues On the Ballot! (Photograph of Dr. Grace Carlson, Socialist Workers Party Candidate for U.S. Senator in Minnesota and C. Johnson, campaign manager) Breitman's Newark Election Campaign Stirs Negro Worker Why the SWP Runs Only One Candidate Why We Are Supporting No Candidate for President The Stalinists and the United Front -Speech of James P. Cannon At Chicago SWP Conference The Negro Struggle -"Labor with a White Skin Cannot Emancipate Itself Where Labor with a Black Skin Is Branded"--Karl Marx by Albert Parker Workers' Power Alone Cannot Defeat Fascism -France's Fate Shows That "Democrats" Cannot Lead Fight Against Fascism by J. Gerland Attorney for Trotsky's Widow Blasts Story of GPU Assassin by Albert Goldman John Brown's Ideas Go Marching On by J. Ingram Our Military Policy Covering Up Hillman No Home Guards! The Ford Decision Who Owns This Country? How the Negroes in the South View the Army Draft (From the Baltimore Afro-American, Negro weekly, Aug. 31) Trotsky Memorial Fund -Branch Pledges 43 Oct. 26, 1940 Draft Boards Are Packed With Wall Street Stooges -Trade Unions Protest Against the Appointment Of Anti-Labor Men on All Local Boards Park Avenue Socialites Appointed in New York Labor's Policy toward the Draft Boards -An Editorial Cromwell Is Anti-Labor, Says L.N.P.L. -Which Is One More Good Reason To Vote for Breitman Mein Kampf--U.S. Style Hillman Buries CIO Plea on War Orders Navy Did Not Let Any Union Shop Contracts! Boat Firm Nets Large War Orders While Using Yellow Dog Contract Many Homeless Turn Up For Draft Register Workers' Forum Larry Murphy (Obituary) Penn. Joads Victorious In "Blitz-Strike" SWP Candidate On Minneapolis Radio -Funds for 3 Radio Programs Provided By Friends Food Store Men Strike Chains In Four States -20,000 Butchers and Clerks Have Closed Down Their Shops United Front to Defend C.P. in Calif. Is Asked -Socialist Workers Party Offers Aid in Fighting Ban Trotsky Memorial Fund Fire Prevention Teachers Made Quite A Bonfire! James P. Cannon's Summary Speech on Military Policy The Negro Struggle -"Labor with a White Skin Cannot Emancipate Itself Where Labor with a Black Skin Is Branded" --Karl Marx by Albert Parker Natalia Trotsky Answers a Foul Slander (Letter to J.R. Johnson) Leader of May 24 Attack on Trotsky Admits Close C.P. Connections Negro Labor Head Jailed by Britain Some More Southern Chivalry Understatement of the Week Our Military Policy London's Not so Bad Pacifist Clap-Trap Our Election Policy You Said It! Remember These "Daily Worker" Stories? (Photographs "Of Headlines from the Daily Worker" justifying the Hitler-Stalin Pact) Soviet Youth in Forefront of Increasing Mass Unrest by John G Wright [Joseph Vanzler] (Fifth in a series of articles about the present crisis in the Soviet Union) Hillman Plays Judas In Arms Contract Fight by Art Preis 44 Nov. 2, 1940 The Way of Lenin and Trotsky Is Still the Only Way Out! -23 Years of the Russian Revolution Lewis Does It Again; This Time for the Republicans -Deals Blow to Labor's Freedom War Scene Shifts To Mediterranean Logic of the "Statesman" of Labor Negroes Good Enough to Draft But Not to Vote, says Governor "Neither To Laugh Nor To Weep" As You Go to the Polls -An Editorial Workers' Forum Fort Dix Soldiers Win Demand For Better Chow SWP Broadcast to Minnesota Workers -Grace Carlson, Candidate for Senator, Puts Our Military Program on the Air Sugaring The Draft Stalinists Support Pro-Willkie Stand of John L. Lewis Hillman Merely Helped to Break Boeing Strike Coast C.P. Members Learn Of United Front Refusal Trotsky Memorial Fund The Negro Struggle -"Labor with a White Skin Cannot Emancipate Itself Where Labor with a Black Skin Is Branded"--Karl Marx by Albert Parker Ten Days That Shook The World by Lidia Beidel Leon Trotsky, 1879-1940 (Photograph) V.I. Lenin, 1870-1924 (Drawing) A Union Paper On Military Training (Reprinted by The Northwest Organizer, Weekly Organ of the Minneapolis Teamsters Joint Council) Lewis Shifts Parties--But Not Basic Line -Support of Willkie, Like Support of Roosevelt, Is Betrayal of Interests of the American Working Class by Joseph Hansen The Main Question Significant Words Hands Off the C.P. Leon Trotsky and the Anniversary of October by Albert Goldman An Army Major Tell Some Truths by Art Preis 45 Nov. 9, 1940 Wall Street Wins Another Election * No Labor Party on National Ballot -Third Term Heralds Beginning of Basic Changes in Politics * Carlson Campaign in Minnesota Points the Way -Labor's Only Road Is Organization of Independent Party West Coast Ship Tie-Up Still Firm Greek Resistance Slows Down Italians -Japanese Withdraw Forces in South Part of China by George Stern Training Camp News Blocked By Censorship Trotsky on the GPU (Nov. issue of "Fourth International") Electric Union Wins Leviton NLRB Election Union Leaflets Bring Arrests At Ford Plant Bethlehem Steel Blasts Lewis' Hope For "Deal" Anti-Picketing Statute Void in Oregon Wall Street Profits Soar Negro Sailors Put In Brig Workers' Forum Trotsky Memorial Fund Stalinist Henchmen Follow Lewis In Giving Support to Willkie by Lidia Bydell [Spelled "Beidel" in issue #44, 1940] Negro Resolution on War (Adopted by The Political Committee of the Socialist Workers Party) Selling The Appeal "National Defense" Costs The Negro Struggle -"Labor with a White Skin Cannot Emancipate Itself Where Labor with a Black Skin Is Branded"--Karl Marx by Albert Parker Nat Turner Rebellion Anniversary -Negro Slave Led Revolt by William Dixon Boss War Brutally Exploits Women Workers in Factories by Mary Dante Draft Health Bad, Medical Report Shows by Lidia Bydell Dr. Ruby Dies (Obituary of Dr. Jonas Ruby) Third Term Negro Doctors Barred Bosses' Man Worried End Secret Diplomacy Bourbons Shelve Bill Roosevelt and Wall St. -The Background and Future of a Third-Term President; Bosses Use F.D.R. to Lure Workers to War and Reaction by Art Preis Go Forward -Paralyzing Poison From the Ivory Tower Of Pacifism by Joseph Hansen Rubber Strike Victorious J.P. Morgan's Errand Boy 46 Nov 16, 1940 "National Unity" Hides Blow At Labor -War Drive Pushed "Full Speed" Ahead * Wall Street Urges "National Unity" At Labor Expense * War Crisis Brings FDR Intervention In Latin America Minnesota Vote 5,743 for Carlson -Anti-War Stand Gains Lead Among Minorities by Carl O'Shea Flint, 1937 --- It's Still the Only Answer (Photograph of labor action) Flint G.M. Conflict Halted -UAW Official Sanction Reprisals Upon Union Militants Ford Gets Big War Order Day After FDR's Re-Election Australian Munitions Workers Call Quickie Strike Getting Big-Hearted Stalinist Change Hammer and Sickle For Spade and Hoe Molotov Pays Courtesy Call On Hitlerites Negro Sailors Are Still in the Brig Workers' Forum Steel Workers Use "Quickie" Tactic to Win Job Training Rights Denied Negro Youths Negro Appointed to Higher Rank in Armed Forces Police Raid Office Seize Trotskyist Literature A.L.P. Doubles Vote of 1936 In New York Rapid Expansion of Army Follows Draft Lottery Masses Favor Conscription Poll Shows We Love Our Boss Bad Health Has America Worried Natalia Trotsky Greeted on Nov. 7 Draftee Jobs Guaranteed Draft Head Alleges Soldiers at Fort Dix Gain Rise in Their Wages Latin American Notes Trade Union Notes by Farrell Dobbs Steel Profits Soar The Negro Struggle -"Labor with a White Skin Cannot Emancipate Itself Where Labor with a Black Skin Is Branded"--Karl Marx by Albert Parker War Orders Policy Hit 721 AFL Officials Protest Contracts To NLRA Violators Avoiding Class I-A "Why?" Query Draftees As They Filed Past Oehlerite Paper Arbitrarily Banned by Authorities Society Notes Fourth International Features Trotsky Article Long Time No See! Trotsky Memorial Fund Join the Army to Learn a Trade Recruiters Wax Poetic in Film Blurb Horror Item Encouraging Vote Professor Spills Beans Short Short Story Moscow Celebrates With Bombs Roosevelt and Wall St. -Roosevelt Planned War Program From First Term On; Economic Crisis Forces Move to Aid Big Business by Art Preis (Part II) Go Forward -Prediction of Trotsky A Triumph Of Marxist Analysis by Joseph Hansen 47 Nov. 23, 1940 Industrial Unionism Upheld by CIO -Convention Hits AFL Conditions Airplane Workers Going Strike -Mass Picket Lines Call For Cut In Boss Profits Unity---But Unity to Benefit Labor -An Editorial G.P.U. Assassin of Trotsky -"Frank Jacson" alias "Jacques Mornard" (Photographs) Siqueiros Held in Penitentiary Green for Unity on His Terms Murder, Inc. --- by Don Dore First Results of Our Military Policy by James P. Cannon LaGuardia Hits Right to Strike Workers' Forum Soldiers Must Buy New Uniforms Out of $21 Pay Maritime Union Sign Agreement -Stalinist Influence Disrupts United Labor Front "National Unity" (Photograph of a lynching victim) Clerks and Butchers Win By United Strike Action Judges Arrest Judges In Election Fraud Cases Captain Laughs at Idea Men Freeze In Tents Defend Jailed Negro Sailors! Hunting Season in Michigan Brings Crisis in Auto by Jules Geller Trade Union Notes by Farrell Dobbs The Negro Struggle -"Labor with a White Skin Cannot Emancipate Itself Where Labor with a Black Skin Is Branded"--Karl Marx by Albert Parker Defense for Waller Asks Aid -Negro Sharecropper in Virginia Faces Execution What's in a Name? Labor Should Work 10 to 12 Hour Day Declares Millis School for Capitalist Generals by Eugene Varlin On the War Fronts by George Stern Sam Gompers' Ghost Haunts Craft Chiefs Mr. Dies And "Sabotage" "You Can't Strike" Unknown Nationality By Inches Birmingham Buzzard Roosevelt and Wall St. -FDR Plans Same "50-50" Break for Labor and Coming War As Workers Received in the Last Imperialist Conflict by Art Preis (Part III) Wall Street Stooge (Photograph of FDR) Go Forward -Eight Professional Pacifists Seek Jail Term by Joseph Hansen 48 Nov 30, 1940 CIO Opens Road to Militant Struggle -Convention Upholds Industrial Unionism by Felix Morrow Minnesota Vote Tops Minorities -Final Returns Show Carlson Above CP And SP Combined by V.R. Dunne Vultee Strikers Point to Boss Profits (Photograph of mass picket lines at the Vultee airplane plant publicizing huge company profits through war contracts) Demand Freedom for Negro Sailors by Albert Parker Women Want to Join the Army Strike Wins Pay Raise At Vultee Murder for Profit -The Story behind the Explosions in the Chemical Plants by Don Dore Aircraft Profits Soar Skyward End of Rainbow Workers' Forum Stalinist Manager Fired for Excusing Absentees Minneapolis Sunday Forum Analyzes Workers' Vote Marxist School Finishes Successful Term in N.Y. Hitler Offers People Socialism and Dog Meat Militarism and Workers Rights by James P. Cannon (Part II) Trade Union Notes by Farrell Dobbs The Negro Struggle ""Labor with a White Skin Cannot Emancipate Itself Where Labor with a Black Skin Is Branded"--Karl Marx by Albert Parker Highlights of the C.I.O. Convention What Do They Expect? Trotsky Memorial Fund Society Notes Notebook of an Agitator by James P. Cannon Vultee Strike Tampico Incident Ominous Warning Cynical Propaganda Child Labor in USSR -Stalin Issues Decree Driving Soviet Children From School In Order to Create Larger Labor Reserve; Decree Retroactive by John G. Wright [Joseph Vanzler] Go Forward -Latin American Workers Face U.S. Imperialism by Joseph Hansen Crazy as a Fox 49 Dec. 7, 1940 Negroes Fight Phila. Police Terror -Cops Seized 600 In Street Raids -Boss Political Machine Took This Revenge For Refusal of Negroes To Support It in The Recent Elections Farmers Union Meets In St. Paul -4,000 to Attend Five-State Convention; Is Most Progressive Farm Organization AFL Convention Blocks Labor Unity By Hostility To Industrial Unions -Dubinsky Is a Sorry-Looking Figure As Craft Moguls Push Him Around by Art Preis Anti-Labor Police Chief Is Michigan Home Guard Head Sailors Firm In West Coast Ship Strike -Steamschooner Tie-up Deadlocked; Stalinist Aid Bosses On the War Fronts by George Stern Union Men Jailed in Strikes, Kept Out Of Drafted Army Negro Soldier Hits Jim Crow In Army Camp -Colored Troops Are Segregated In Many Phases of Camp Life Vultee Victory Bolsters Union Aircraft Drive -Boss Press Lies About Union's Gains; No Compulsory Arbitration In Contract "Voluntary" Wage Raises Follow Vultee Strike Happy Days in the Army "Silly and Unscientific" Workers' Forum Portrait of Trotsky At Whitney Museum Note For Wall Street Lenin, Trotsky and the First World War by James P. Cannon (Part III) Progressive Stand of the CIO Convention -It's Defense of Industrial Unionism Must Be Backed Wholeheartedly by Felix Morrow (Second in a series) Negro Delegates Jim Crowed by AFL Central Labor Body The Negro Struggle by Albert Parker Women Workers in the Last War -Now, Again, As the Men Face Death, The Women Face Factory Horrors by Mary Dante Natalia's Thanks to All Who Shared Her Grief by Natalia Sedov Trotsky New Union Problems, As Tool Industry Expands Capitalism Rules German Economy Trotsky Memorial Fund Military Arts for Workers in New Book -Review of "New Ways of War", by Tom Wintringham, Penguin Books by Carl O'Shea Watch Out for Rats! The Draftees' Health Not Red, But Yellow Why The Farmers Voted Against Roosevelt -They Repudiated The "New Deal" For the Same Reason That They Voted Against Hoover In 1932 by Peter Graves Many "Trotskyists" Reported Seized By Nazis in France Notebook of an Agitator -Union Boy Gets Raise by James P. Cannon 50 Dec. 14, 1940 Negro Sailors Ousted for Protest -13 Discharge; 2 Face Navy Trial -Seamen Who Exposed Vicious Jim Crow in Navy Get "Undesirable" Discharges "For the Good of the Service" by Albert Parker J.F. Finerty Joins Aid For Waller -Famous Attorney To Fight Execution Of Negro Sharecropper Court Ordered Denounced by Minneapolis Unions -Drivers Union Rejects Judge's Order To Remove Loyal Unionists From Office Houston Dairy Drivers Strike After Lockout -All Deliveries Stop As Milk Trust Tries To Stall Contract On the War Fronts by George Stern Nazis Arrest 90 Trotskyists in the Paris Region Phila. Bosses Try to Quiet Protest Storm -19 Cops, 2 Judges Transferred For Mass Negro Arrests Here's A New Angle On "National Defense" AFL-CIO Unite in Big Lumber Strike -45,000 Rival Union Men Join Hands to Wrest Wage Gains From Timber Lords Grace Carlson on National Tour Workers' Forum Our parties followed in Minnesota (Illustration of all votes by county in Minnesota for Grace Carlson for U.S. Senator) The "Socialist" Critics of the CIO -They Provide a Pseudo-Radical Alibi for Hillman and the AFL AFL Gave Undue Prominence To The Racketeering Issue -But Neither Dubinsky Nor the AFL Chieftains Took a Correct Working-Class Attitude Toward It by Art Preis Trotsky Memorial Fund Latest "Fourth International" Off the Press CP Asked to Debate by Minn. SWP Wasn't Meant to Kill Trotsky Says Leader of May Attack! By Walter Rourke The Negro Struggle by Albert Parker They Have Their Plattsburgs -It's Time the Workers Got Wise, And Demanded Workers Plattsburgs by Eugene Varlin Stalin Purges His Playwrights -Writing Plays in Stalin's Domain Is Dangerous Occupation by John G. Wright [Joseph Vanzler] An Indictment Of Jim Crow in Army and Navy Unions Back Campaign For Refugee Relief British "Equality" A Correction Industrial Explosions Juicy War Contracts Just Ooze Fat Profits -Reporter Gets a Peek at Some of the Contracts-- They Give Away Everything Except the White House Linen Camacho Takes Office--And Turns to the Right by Walter Rourke Notebook of an Agitator -Finland and Greece by James P. Cannon 51 Dec. 21, 1940 Ford Union Drive at Crucial Stage -Many Thousands Boldly Join Up -But Ford Will Fight to the Death, and It Will Take More Than NLRB Elections to Beat Him; UAW Must Prepare to Fight Cafeteria Local Elects Militants -United Front Ticket In Local 302 Is Victorious In Fight to Drive Back Reactionary Red-Baiting Right Wing Grace Carlson Starts National Tour Jan. 2 -Opens in Milwaukee; Will Speak In At Least 35 Cities; Schedule Listed Enforcement of Union Contract--Flint Style Hillman Wins in Jersey CIO Body -Chance to Defeat Hillman Is Tossed Away by Lewis Bloc by George Breitman On the War Fronts by George Stern Stalin's Latest Ukase! Workers Favor Collective Bargaining Rights In Army -Detroit-Toledo Poll Also Shows Considerable Sentiment Favoring Trade Union Control of Military Training Workers' Forum Trotsky Memorial Fund N.Y. Cafeteria Workers' Program December F.I. Just out AFL-CIO Lumber Workers Win Gains Despite Stalinist Sabotage -Raise and Vacations Won in Joint Strike Which Stalinist Tried To Break Up Results of Detroit-Toledo Poll on Military Training Flint Auto Locals Demand G.M. Action -Bud Reuther Gets Executive Board to Refuse Request From Flint Unions Trade Union Notes by Farrell Dobbs The Negro Struggle by Albert Parker Stalin Extends His Compulsory Labor Laws -Technicians, Stakhanovists No Longer Free To Choose Their Place Of Employment by John G. Wright [Joseph Vanzler] Camacho vs. Almazan: Tempest in Teacup -Stalinist Deliberately Deceived the Masses in Supporting Camacho by G. Munis British Workers Carry War Load Why the Silence? Roosevelt's Latest Sydney Hillman's Gnat Our Party's Election Campaign in Minnesota -The Trotskyist Candidate for U.S. Senator Tells Why She Polled More Votes Than Browder and Thomas Together by Grace Carlson The Real Mystery Behind the Hitler-Molotov Interview MacDonald Cries out against Shachtman's Internal Regime by Joseph Hansen 52 Dec. 28, 1940 CIO Warns against Home Guard Bill -"Sabotage" Bill Also Denounced -Only Military Law Could Touch Guards, Murray Points out; But He Fails To Indict Their Purely Anti-Labor Role Cafeteria Workers' United Front Makes Clean Sweep In Elections -Red-Baiters Fail To Win A Single Post In Local 302; Winners Are Pledged To Carry Out A Militant Union Program Larry Phillips (Photograph of successful candidate) On the War Fronts by George Stern Flint Auto Workers Hear Grace Carlson Tuesday, Jan. 7 Negro Sailors Defended by Boston Meeting Attention Chicago! Grace Carlson Speaks On Friday Bad Housing Spreads Illness In Army Camps Waller Gets a Stay of Execution -Labor And Negro Protests Win Delay Of Sharecropper's Death Sentence Special National Convention Of SWP Acts On International Relations Imprisoned by British Police "Equality" Before the Draft Boards--Oh Yeah -The First Businessman Is Called Up In Flint-- And The Board Asks New Ruling Workers' Forum Trotsky Memorial Fund Appeal Army Trade Union Notes by Farrell Dobbs "T.B.", Scourge of the Poor, Kills 9 Workers for 1 Businessman -You Can Kill A Man With A Tenement As Well As You Can With An Axe by Grace Carlson The Negro Struggle by Albert Parker Stalin Calls "Party" Conference -Will, Like All Previous Ones, Be Preceded by Mass Purge by John G. Wright [Joseph Vanzler] Martinique: Two Negro Newspapers' Views -They Differ Only In Their Choice Of Slavemasters For This Negro Colony by Albert Parker A Crude Lie About France In The Saturday Evening Post A Midwesterner Is Flabbergasted By The New New York by Art Preis War Against Fascism Fight With The Socialist Workers Party On the Waterfront (A list of the Party's goals/demands) At Home (Domestic goals/demands) Murray's Program AFL Bourbons Anaconda Copper Trust Hits The Jackpot Again -It's Just Like It was In 1917--The Sky's The Limit--It's Nice To Have Friends In Washington Latin-American Masses Fear Uncle Sam's "Aid" by Quebracho Shachtman Takes Chair Vacated By Professor Burnham ================================================================================================================================================================================================================================================================================= SOCIALIST APPEAL, COMPLETE CONTENTS BY ISSUE, VOLUME 4, 1940 - END OF CONTENTS =================================================================================================================================================================================================================================================================================