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Vol. III No. 1, 7 January 1939

Socialist Appeal
Official Weekly Organ of the Socialist Workers Party, Section of the Fourth International

EDITOR:
Max Shachtman
ASSOCIATE EDITORS:
Harold Roberts
Felix Morrow
BUSINESS MANAGER:
S. Stanley

Branch Competition Gets Hotter In Twice-Weekly Drive, by Rose Karsner

• Score Board

Fight Cuts in W.P.A.

11,000 Taxi Drivers Strike in New York

New Year’s Resolution No. 1, by Carlo (cartoon)

Moscow Frameups Exposed by Trial of Ukraine GPU

C.P. Misrule Is Exposed in Teachers Union

Blackwell Freed, Washington Hears

Brenda’s Party: Champagne for the Idle Rich; No Refuge for Oppressed

Yankee Imperialism at Lima, Statement of the Socialist Workers Party, U.S.A.

Hague Emboldened by C.I.O. Weakness

Appeal Army

American Student Union Takes Rabid Jingo Line

McKinney Hails Twice-Weekly, by E.R. McKinney

Hospital Union Cuts Loose from C.P. Domination

United States – Padlocked Pantry for Unemployed, by Bill Morgan

Negotiations with G.M. Are Stalled

Drivers’ Leader Jailed in Akron, by R. Ferguson

[Editorials]

• Musica and Business Secrets, from the Northwest Organizer of 22 December 1938
• How the Arms Program Works
• Hitler Apes Stalin

Socialist Party Comes to an End

• Patch Up a Little Misunderstanding (photos)

Question Box, conducted by the National Educational Department

Their Wage Is One Cent an Hour!

C.L.R. James Opens National Tour in Phila.

• C.L.R. James (photo)

Correction

Vol. III No. 2, 14 January 1939

Socialist Appeal
Official Weekly Organ of the Socialist Workers Party, Section of the Fourth International

EDITOR:
Max Shachtman
ASSOCIATE EDITORS:
Harold Roberts
Felix Morrow
BUSINESS MANAGER:
S. Stanley

Time Is Growing Short! Speed Up the Appeal Drive!

F.D.R. Cuts WPA, Booms War

• Slashes Outlay to Provide for Big Arms Budget
   
• Billion More for War; Billion Less for WPA
   
• Indicates He Is Ready to Hurl Nation into War
   
• Forgotten Words for the Forgotten Man

Tom Mooney Freed after Twenty-Two Year Battle

• S.W.P. Greets Tom Mooney, signed by James P. Cannon
   
• [Photo of Tom Mooney]
   
• Class War Prisoner Is Fully Vindicated

$30 For 30-Hour Week Is Toledo Jobless Demand

Roosevelt Condemns Jews to Be Permanent Pariahs, by Felix Morrow

Leon Trotsky Hits Back At N.Y. Daily News Slanders, by Leon Trotsky

Omaha Truckmen In Key Battle Against Bosses, by James P. Cannon

More Die in Firetraps as Boss Politicians Make Promises, by Grace Saunders

Big Phila. Meeting Opens James Tour

Union Men Defy Martial Law in Okla. Oil Strike

Appeal Army

1,600 WPA Women Fired on Coast

Progressive Victimized by Painters Union in N.Y.

Rubber Workers Threaten Strike, by R. Ferguson

Minn. Workers Fight WPA Cuts

Protest in St. Paul

Question Box, conducted by the National Educational Department

On Fair Play and Plain Fraud

“Democracy” – Salvador Style

Fischer Shocks Faithful by Swing from Stalin Line

On the Way to the Trenches

Letters to the Editor

• [Letter], from R.L.

[Editorials]

• Welcome Back, Tom Mooney
• A Clear Warning
• The C.P. and Roosevelt
• The Social Democrats

F.D.R.’s Budget Message! (cartoon)

Drive Slows Up; Branches Must Speed Fund Action, by Rose Karsner

• Score Board

Relief for Horses but Not for Men – That’s the Law!

Evicted Sharecroppers Start Mass Trek to U.S. Highway

Intellectuals in Retreat Is Feature of New International

Vol. III No. 3, 21 January 1939

Socialist Appeal
Official Weekly Organ of the Socialist Workers Party, Section of the Fourth International

EDITOR:
Max Shachtman
ASSOCIATE EDITORS:
Harold Roberts
Felix Morrow
BUSINESS MANAGER:
S. Stanley

Appeal Fund Nearly $2,500! Two More Weeks to Go! by Rose Karsner

• Score Board

1,000,000 Cut from WPA

Cropper Misery Dramatized on Missouri Road

• Owen H. Whitfield (photo)

An Editorial

• Fight Roosevelt’s War Program

Let ’Em Eat Bullets, by Carlo (cartoon)

Muniz Faces His GPU Inquisitors As Trial Nears

Barcelona Workers Face Supreme Test, by Felix Morrow

Workers in Ohio Fight WPA Cuts

Faction Fight Flares Again in U.A.W Executive Board

St. Louis Mothers Hit by Relief Cut, by David T. Burbank

Jamaica Unemployed League Meetings Illustrate New York Relief Situation, by Bill Morgan

Michigan Labor Attacked in New Governor’s Plan

Appeal Army

Boss Plumbers Hit Labor Rates in N.Y. Lockout

Theatre Party for Dewey Fund

C.L.R. James on Successful Tour

A Visit to Germany, by Paul Fielding

Hitler Strikes Blow at 4th International

Spanish Bolsheviks Call for Aid to Comrade Muniz

Two Labor Prisoners – Two Labor Leaders, by Max Shachtman

Jewish Leader Condemns Roosevelt’s Refugee Plan

Hope for Beal Release Mounts

[Editorials]

• Militarizing the W.P.A.
• Who Are the Murderers?
• Socialist Pontius Pilate
• Traitors at the Helm
• A Free Press

In Missouri — America’s Own Refugees, from St. Louis Post-Dispatch (cartoon)

The Cat Sneaks Out of the Bag

Who Is the G.P.U. Sending into Mexico and Why?

Vol. III No. 4, 28 January 1939

Socialist Appeal
Official Weekly Organ of the Socialist Workers Party, Section of the Fourth International

EDITOR:
Max Shachtman
ASSOCIATE EDITORS:
Harold Roberts
Felix Morrow
BUSINESS MANAGER:
S. Stanley

Twice-Weekly Fund Only $200 Short of the Goal! by Rose Karsner

• Score Board

Save the Auto Union!

• Auto Workers! Stop the Union-Wreckers
   
• Stalinist Move to Smash Organization

Barcelona Can Be a Second Madrid

Mich. Teamsters Battling Courts, Cops and Scabs

Jobless Parley in Fight Against Relief Slashes, by Bill Morgan

Don’t Be Fooled by F.D.R.’s Sham “Battle” for Relief!

Senate Temporizes on Relief Slashes While Roosevelt Evades Responsibility

Omaha Strikers Stand Firm As Bosses Weaken

James Tour Continues with Striking success

Painters Reject Weinstock Plan on Maintenance

Appeal Army

Textile Workers Win Concessions

Let’s Have “Appeal Minute Men” Says Chicago Agent, by Karl Schier

15 Convicted in “Lubin Case”

LaGuardia Chisels on Housing Funds, by Grace Saunders

New Leader Promises Nice War If We Are All Good Patriots, by Max Shachtman

Stalinist Kowtow to Greek Dictator

Times Leads Pack Attacking Mexico

Rochester Union Fights Boss War

Questions

Ohio Activists Discuss Work

Progressives Win in Firemen Vote

“Help! Police!”

Chicago Party, Y.P.S.L. Picket Dinner for Fascist, by Al Liebeck

Blackwell Will Speak at Meeting

[Editorials]

• Spain’s Friends
• Recruiting Sergeants
• The Irish Bombings
• “Improving” Guam

Let Us Arm Ourselves, Too! (cartoon), by Carlo

Question Box, conducted by the National Educational Committee

Socialist Party-Old Guard Fusion Nears Ratification

Best Labor Paper Our Goal, by B.J. Widick

What Does S.P. Say on Rourke?

Varied Content in Feb. New International

Letters to the Editor

• [Letter], from Dwight Macdonald

Vol. III No. 5, 4 February 1939

Socialist Appeal
Official Weekly Organ of the Socialist Workers Party, Section of the Fourth International

EDITOR:
Max Shachtman
ASSOCIATE EDITORS:
Harold Roberts
Felix Morrow
BUSINESS MANAGER:
S. Stanley

Over the Top! The Twice-Weekly Begins Feb. 8!

Over with a Bang! by Rose Karsner

F.D.R. Admits War Aim

• Hitler (cartoon)
   
• U.S. Border “in France” F.D.R. Tells Senators
   
• Guam Base Plan Shows Offensive U.S. Intentions

Auto Workers Union Faces Deeper Split

Senate Carries House Slash of Relief Budget

New Crisis Brews in Europe; Negrin Abandons Barcelona

• City Given Up Without Fight; Quit in Panic

Suicide or Struggle – These Choices Face the Unemployed, by Bill Morgan

Omaha Drivers Solid in 22nd Week of Strike

St. Louis Workers Demand Funds for Sharecroppers

Green’s Tone Changing as Workers Press for Peace

Appeal Army

Minnesota Farmer-Labor Party Drops Independent Action in Move to Right

Chicago and Flint Hear C.L.R James

Detroit’s Beer Drivers Spurn Wage Cut Plan

New Dealer Gets Job; A.L.P.er Is Rewarded

Chicago Primary Candidates Avoid Main Issues, by Albert Gates

Score Board

Sam Bauman (obituary)

Why the Defeats in Spain? by Felix Morrow

Workmen Circle Pushes S.P.-Old Guard Fusion

New York Y.P.S.L. Honors Three Revolutionary Chiefs

American Fund Group Formed in New Haven

Pouliopoulos, in Metaxas Jail, Greets Fourth International

Marxist School Will Open February 27th

Like Children

Ryan, Lincoln Brigader, to Speak at S.W.P. Meet

[Editorials]

• The Hague Decision
• Call Their Bluff!
• Spain in the Pacifists

“Your Interests in South America Are Menaced!” (cartoon), by Carlo

An Editorial

• Spain: A Lesson for France

New Soviet Decrees Reflect Acute Crisis in Production, by John G. Wright

Harry Wicks Turns Up Under Lovestone’s Wing Again

Old Law Houses Peril Workers

Vol. III No. 6, 10 February 1939

Socialist Appeal
Official Organ of the Socialist Workers Party, Section of the Fourth International

EDITOR:
Max Shachtman
ASSOCIATE EDITORS:
Harold Roberts
Felix Morrow
STAFF MEMBERS:
Emanuel Garrett
Joseph Hansen
BUSINESS MANAGER:
S. Stanley

Roosevelt Plots for War

Negrin Government Seeks Deal to Surrender to the Fascists

An Editorial

• They Fear the Decision of the People

The Tragedy of Spain, by Leon Trotsky

Cleveland Auto Local Attacks Faction Fight

Line Utility Co. Pockets By T.V.A. Purchase Plan

Refugee Numbers Increase as Democracies Stall Aid

Stalinist Control of Teachers Union Is A.F.L. Excuse to Hit Real Progressives

Montana Union Opposes Roosevelt War Program

In the Trade Unions, by B.J. Widick

Appeal Army

• 1,000 New Subscribers by April 1st!
• Scoreboard

Ind. SWOC Pushes Organization as Governor Mediates Demands

Stalinists Stage Patriotic Assembly in Los Angeles Relief Cut “Protest”, by N.J. Shilzony

Bambrick-LaGuardia Force Shabby Compromise on Elevator Operators

CIO-AFL Responsible for Oregon Anti-Labor Measure

Meager Child Aid Bars Jobs for Mothers

Register Now

In the World of Labor, by Paul G. Stevens

• The Revolt Against the “National Register” in Great Britain
• Belgian 4th Internationalists Take Office in Municipality as Revolutionists

“Death to Jews and Trotsky!” Cry Rioting Mexican Fascists

Hollywood Merry-Go-Round

On the Way to the Trenches

On the Line ..., with Bill Morgan

Deputies Are Unanimous for Colonial Slavery

Labor Opposes Proposed Rochester Sales Tax

“Neighborliness”

[Editorials]

• Now for the Next Job
• The Post Takes a Step
• It’s No Longer News
• It Was Premature
• On Mexican Anti-Semitism
• A Nice Clean War

The Dis-semble Line! (cartoon), by Carlo

Their Government, by James Burnham

Huge Swindle Seen in Gov’t Security Fund Bond Scheme, by Grace Saunders

Labor Looks Through the Press, by Arthur Hopkins

India Congress Defeats Gandhi

Vol. III No. 7, 14 February 1939

Socialist Appeal
Official Organ of the Socialist Workers Party, Section of the Fourth International

EDITOR:
Max Shachtman
ASSOCIATE EDITORS:
Harold Roberts
Felix Morrow
STAFF MEMBERS:
Emanuel Garrett
Joseph Hansen
BUSINESS MANAGER:
S. Stanley

Launch Fight to Save U.A.W.

• Three Automobile Locals Reject Martin, Stalinists, Favor C.I.O.
   
• Anti-Picket Law Fought by Flint U.A.W. Members
   
• Policy of the S.W.P. in the U.A.W. Situation, statement of the Political Committee, S.W.P.

People’s Front Deserts Spanish Anti-Fascist Struggle

“The Bulwark Against War and Fascism!” (cartoon), by Carlo

Roosevelt Again Covers Up Cut in Relief Funds

Left Wing Wins in Mine Workers Union Elections

Brewery Union Success Points to Martel Ouster

In the Trade Unions, by B.J. Widick

V.R. Dunne Asks Unity Convention for Auto Workers

One Convention – One Union – One Fight Against the Bosses!

Appeal Army

Armour Yields at Fargo

Frisco Unemployed Form Strong Union, by Bill Gannon

Off the Record, by Dwight Macdonald

• [Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht]
• From the New York Times, Jan. 18, 1919
• From the New York Times, Jan. 19, 1919
• From the N.Y. World, Jan. 18, 1919
• From the New York Times, Jan. 25, 1919
• From the London Times, May 22, 1919
• From a Statement, Signed “Hussar Otto Runge,” Printed in Freiheit, Jan. 9, 1921
• Editorial from the New York Times, Jan. 18, 1919 – Lynch Law in Berlin

Rank and File Fur Unionists Condemn Jt. Council Regime

Judge Issues Injunction Against Chi. News Guild

Wilson-Jones Co. Tied Up by Office Goods Union Strike

Puerto Rican Bosses Spike Wage-Hour Act

Stalinists Woo Boss Dominated Oil Fillers Ass’n

Men and Women of Labor – Out of the Past, by Emanuel Garrett

• Bill Haywood (Feb 4, 1869–May 18, 1928)

The February New International

[Editorials]

• Fight With the Socialist Workers Party For —
• The Auto Union Crisis
• Let Us Rejoice!
• Twelve Dictators
• Can Spain Still Fight?
• Dr. Benes Comes to Town

For Grynszpan: – Against the Fascist Pogrom Gangs and Stalinist Scoundrels, by Leon Trotsky

In This Corner, by Max Shachtman

Labor Looks Through the Press, by Arthur Hopkins

Vol. III No. 8, 17 February 1939

Socialist Appeal
Official Organ of the Socialist Workers Party, Section of the Fourth International

EDITOR:
Max Shachtman
ASSOCIATE EDITORS:
Harold Roberts
Felix Morrow
STAFF MEMBERS:
Emanuel Garrett
Joseph Hansen
BUSINESS MANAGER:
S. Stanley

Demonstrate Against Fascist Garden Rally on Feb. 20!

Auto Locals Vote for C.I.O.

Negrin Begs “Safe” Peace from Franco

Hainan Seizure Gives Japanese Strategic Base

Applying Their Trade Union Line! (cartoon), by Carlo

Does Hillman’s Letter Presage Purge in C.I.O.

Irish Republicans Open New Drive Against English Rule, by Thomas O’Reilly

Rubber Strike in Third Week

In the Trade Unions, by B.J. Widick

Who Claims Relief Not Needed?

Appeal Army

Oakland Cops Beat, Arrest Anti-Franco Picketers

Akron Moralizers Slander Laborers on Public Works

Mutual Exposure Features Fight

Jersey Alliance Members Fight Wrecking Crew

Register Now

Start “Help a Refugee” Campaign

In the World of Labor, by Paul G. Stevens

• How Daladier Was Really Welcomed in North Africa
• Sir Stafford Cripps Out on a Limb with his Popular Front
• Glad Tidings: New Party of Fourth International Formed in Denmark

Britain, Playing Arabs Off against Jews, Opens London Parley on Palestine Issue

• Chaim Weitzman, Malcolm MacDonald, David Ben Gurion (photos)

Left Jabs, by Bill

On the Line ..., with Bill Morgan

[Editorials]

• Fight With the Socialist Workers Party for —
• Rebel India Marches Again
• “Dangerous Nonsense”
• Is the Money There?
• The Same Old Gang

Intellectual Ex-Radicals and World Reaction, by Leon Trotsky

Their Government, by James Burnham

The Politics of Pope Pius

Labor Looks Through the Press, by Arthur Hopkins

Fact of the Week

Vol. III No. 9, 21 February 1939

Socialist Appeal
Official Organ of the Socialist Workers Party, Section of the Fourth International

EDITOR:
Max Shachtman
ASSOCIATE EDITORS:
Harold Roberts
Felix Morrow
STAFF MEMBERS:
Emanuel Garrett
Joseph Hansen
BUSINESS MANAGER:
S. Stanley

The Unemployed Are Not Guinea Pigs!

Labor! Picket the Fascist Garden Rally on February 20!

Japan Menaces USSR

Azana, Negrin Seek Joint Peace Action

History of Social Patriotism (cartoon)

California Labor Protests Oakland Police Brutality

Muniz Safe but Carlini Missing

British Head Jobless for Compulsory Labor Camps

Liberties Report Proves Need for Workers Guards

Omaha Truckers Win Union Shop, Wage Increase

Shachtman Will Debate Bohn on F.D.R. Support

Stalinist Knife-Men Break Up Meeting

Sailors See Lesson for All Workers in Auto Situation

Wilson-Jones Strike Victory

Wreckers Raid Sea Radio Union Local, Oust Sec’y

Hungry Mother Tries “Hold Up”

Appeal Army

Unemployed Union Victorious in Long Fought Marcus Case

Stalinist Attempt on James Meeting Defeated

University Official Stooges for Big Rubber Companies

Akron Council Voids Fake Ballots for Stalinist Bloc, by R. Ferguson

Register Now

Off the Record, by Dwight Macdonald

• [The Trouble with Lying ...]
• Down with Tractors!
• Those Men Are Here Again
• Uncomfortable Posts

Refugee Committee Decides to Abandon All Its Efforts

Old Guard-S.P. Unity Pushed by Reading Scheme

Seeing the Plays

British Officials Prepare to Dash Zionist Hopes, by Felix Morrow

Men and Women of Labor – Out of the Past, by Emanuel Garrett

• August Bebel (Feb. 22, 1840–Aug. 13, 1913)

Cardenas Gov’t Condemns Land of U.S. Owners

On the Way to the Trenches

Pity the Companies!

[Editorials]

• Fight With the Socialist Workers Party for —
• Two Votes in The House
• Exhuming Mr. Hoover
• Dividends and Profits Week
• [World Peace conference]
• Fables for the Russians

Is Stalinist Foreign Policy Moving to Conciliation with the Fascists?

In This Corner, by Max Shachtman

Colonel Batista Visits Mexico, by Miguel Sanchez

Labor Looks Through the Press, by Arthur Hopkins

Vol. III No. 10, 24 February 1939

Socialist Appeal
Official Organ of the Socialist Workers Party, Section of the Fourth International

EDITOR:
Max Shachtman
ASSOCIATE EDITORS:
Harold Roberts
Felix Morrow
STAFF MEMBERS:
Emanuel Garrett
Joseph Hansen
BUSINESS MANAGER:
S. Stanley

‘Save Union’ Move Gains More Locals

50,000 Anti-Nazis Answer S.W.P. Call

• At the Garden Picket Line (photos)
   
• 1,780 LaGuardia Cops Protect Nazis from Workers’ Wrath in Brutal Attack on Demonstrators
   
• Nazis Cheer New York Cops for Clubbing of Picket Lines
   
• All Races, Creeds Join Picket Line, by Felix Morrow
   
• Arrest, Beat 5 For Picketing
   
• Local New York Rallies Workers
   
• S.W.P. Protests Police Brutality

Oakland CIO Hits Stalinist for Fink Action in Arrests

Loyalists Ready to Make Peace If No Reprisals

In the Trade Unions, by B.J. Widick

Inside the Garden, by Argus

[Editors’ Note]

Appeal Army

Demonstration Sidelights, by B.J. Widick

Register Now

In the World of Labor, by Paul G. Stevens

• How Leon Blum Saved the Present Fascist Mayor of Barcelona
• Rumanian Fourth Internationalists Under the Blows of Reaction
• French 4th Internationalists join the P.S.O.P.
• Mr. Arthur Horner in Footsteps of Ramsay MacDonald

On the Line ..., with Bill Morgan

[Editorials]

• Fight with the Socialist Workers Party For —
• The Craven Jewish Press
• Behind the Fireside Chat
• In Central Spain
• Balance Sheet

Save The Union! (cartoon), by Carlo

Their Government, by James Burnham

Judiciary Crawls with Corruption

Labor Looks Through the Press, by Arthur Hopkins

Vol. III No. 11, 28 February 1939

Socialist Appeal
Official Organ of the Socialist Workers Party, Section of the Fourth International

EDITOR:
Max Shachtman
ASSOCIATE EDITORS:
Harold Roberts
Felix Morrow
STAFF MEMBERS:
Emanuel Garrett
Joseph Hansen
BUSINESS MANAGER:
S. Stanley

Fight Nazis in Los Angeles

• 5,000 Workers Answer S.W.P. Call to Picket
   
• [Photos of New York Rally]
   
• Fight Fascism with Workers’ Guards!
   
• Bulletin
   
• Mayor Stalls Delegation Protesting Cop Brutality
   
• Associated Press Account

Flint Backs C.I.O. Auto Convention

8 Locals Quit WAA, Form Fighting Union

Alliance Meeting Waves War Flag, by Bill Morgan

Trial Set For 5 Arrested at Anti-Nazi Rally

An Open Letter – To Members of the Communist Party

In the Trade Unions, by B.J. Widick

Showdown Near in Detroit Auto Union Struggle

Bosses Use Auto Union Split to Push Anti-Labor Law as UAW Fails to Act

Minneapolis Cab Drivers Strike to Win Contract

Appeal Army

Begins This Monday

Off the Record, by Dwight Macdonald

• On the Other Side of the Railroad Tracks
• Fig out of Thistle
• Afterthoughts on Monday Night

Left Jabs

More Sidelights on the Anti-Nazi Demonstration

“I Am Joining the S.W.P.”, by Ruth Raffner

LaGuardia Cops Beat Up Negro in Police Station

Men and Women of Labor – Out of the Past, by Emanuel Garrett

• Johann Most (Feb. 5, 1846–March 17, 1906)

Farrell Demands Mayor Explain Protecting Nazis

• [Text of Letter], from James T. Farrell

[Editorials]

• Fight With The Socialist Workers Party for —
• Join Us on the Firing Line!
• Yellow Journalism
• Where There Are No Cuts
• When Fascism Reared Its Head

“No Pasaran”, by Carlo (cartoon)

In This Corner, by Max Shactman

Dark Cloak of Secrecy Lifted from FDR War Entanglement

James, Russell Debate Capitalist System Before Large Audience

Vol. III No. 12, 3 March 1939

Socialist Appeal
Official Organ of the Socialist Workers Party, Section of the Fourth International

EDITOR:
Max Shachtman
ASSOCIATE EDITORS:
Harold Roberts
Felix Morrow
STAFF MEMBERS:
Emanuel Garrett
Joseph Hansen
BUSINESS MANAGER:
S. Stanley

Spanish Militants Describe Escape from Barcelona: Bolshevik Leninists Tell of the City’s Fall, by Terence Phelan

Traitors Knife Spain

Roosevelt Asks Labor to Form National Front

The Support of the Democracies, by Carlo (cartoon)

F.D.R. Spokesman Goes Down Line For Big Finance

Los Angeles SWP Pickets Nazi Meet

Hearst’s Hired Gangsters Slug Strikers Again, by Al Liebeck

2 Arrested at S.W.P. Leaflet Distribution

Stalinists Endanger Jobs of 20,000 at Auto Plant

In the Trade Unions, by B.J. Widick

Akron Bosses Initiate Drive Against W.P.A.

Boss Regime Aims Blows at French Revolutionists

Appeal Army

Goodrich Workers Fight to Keep 30-Hour Week

Calif. Devises New Anti-Labor Trick to Hit Chrysler Union

Anti-Nazi Pickets Trial Set Thursday

2 Join Party at New York Morrow Meeting

Now in Session

In the World of Labor, by Paul G. Stevens

• Ukrainian Social Democrats Leave 2nd International for ... Nationalist Intrigues
• French Party of Fourth International Forges Ahead
• Behind the “Appeasement Policy” of the Chamberlain Government

On the Line ..., with Bill Morgan

March New International

[Editorials]

• Fight with the Socialist Workers Party for —
• Krupskaya
• The Nazis Applauded
• Horatio Alger, 1939
• Ex-Convict 95
• Scurvy Moves North
• Understatement of the Week

Should Fascists Be Allowed the Right of Free Speech?

Their Government, by James Burnham

Labor Looks Through the Press, by Arthur Hopkins

Society Note

Vol. III No. 13, 7 March 1939

Socialist Appeal
Official Organ of the Socialist Workers Party, Section of the Fourth International

EDITOR:
Max Shachtman
ASSOCIATE EDITORS:
Harold Roberts
Felix Morrow
STAFF MEMBERS:
Emanuel Garrett
Joseph Hansen
BUSINESS MANAGER:
S. Stanley

Court Outlaws Sit-Downs

New Fight Begins for War Referendum

Auto Union WPA Division Periled by Stalin Gang

“Our Interests” Must Be Defended! by Carlo (cartoon)

Barrio Named President, But He Plays It Safe

• U.S. and Russia Refuse to Accept Spanish Refugees

Caribbean Naval Maneuvers Aim at Intervention

An Editorial

• Court Decision or Not – The Right to a Decent Living Comes First!

British Overlords Sole Gainers in Palestine Conference Plan, by Felix Morrow

In the Trade Unions, by B.J. Widick

Tanner, Bates Charges Dropped

Billings Again Denied Pardon by Calif. Board, by Norman Mini

Appeal Army

Liberation Seen Near for Framed Harlan Miners, by Martin Harvey

S.W.O.C. Forces End of Indiana Company Union

Akron Lodge Wants SWOC to Demand 30 Hour Week

Minneapolis Party Holds Successful Series of Forums

The Dunce Hat for You, Ruth

Lehman Seeks to Impose Sales Tax on N.Y. Workers

Now in sessio0n

Many Negroes Attend James Fresno Meeting

Off the Record, by Dwight Macdonald

• [Marching Song]
• Gas Masks and the Class War
• “Suffer the Little Children ...”

Hollywood Merry-Go-Round

Labor Skates Back Mayor Kelly in Chicago Primary, by Albert Gates

On the Way to the Trenches

Men and Women of Labor – Out of the Past, by Emanuel Garrett

• Ira Steward (March 10, 1831–March 13, 1883)

S.W.P. Leaflet to All Jewish Labor

[Editorials]

• Fight with the Socialist Workers Party for —
• They Fear A Referendum
• Rip the Veil Away!
• Stalin’s Closed Doors
• And End to Zionist Illusions!
• Any Dirty Boots Around?

Thomas Jefferson’s Strange Return to Life, by Chris Andrews

In This Corner, by Max Shachtman

Vol. III No. 14, 10 March 1939

Socialist Appeal
Official Organ of the Socialist Workers Party, Section of the Fourth International

EDITOR:
Max Shachtman
ASSOCIATE EDITORS:
Harold Roberts
Felix Morrow
STAFF MEMBERS:
Emanuel Garrett
Joseph Hansen
BUSINESS MANAGER:
S. Stanley

Mass against WPA Cuts on April 1!

Madrid Seeks Truce

Martin Tries to Skip Affiliation Question

“A Job for Every Worker”, by Carlo (cartoon)

Bosses Act Fast Following Court Sitdown Ruling

Army Bill Voted by House Is One More Step on War Road

Thousands Fired from W.P.A.in First Slashes

Carl Hichin Quits C.P. in Canada; Joins 4th Int’l

C.L.R. James Ends Tour In California

Gandhi Fast Is Forerunner of Major Indian Struggles, by Sherman Stanley

In the Trade Unions, by B.J. Widick

Appeal Army

Stalinist Get a Vote Licking

Dunne Reports on Anti-Fascist Turnout in N.Y.

• Foster Meeting

400 Workers Hear Shachtman Explain Situation in France

In the World of Labor, by Paul G. Stevens

• The Case of Peter Forster: G.P.U. and Refugees
• New Repressions Against the 4th Internationalists in Indo-China
• Universal Suffrage as Practiced in Eastern Europe

‘The Way to Fight against Fascism Is to Lie Down and Make Believe You Are Dead’, by Felix Morrow

• C.P. Recipe for Fighting Fascism (cartoon)

On the Line ..., with Bill Morgan

Farmer Labor Council Makes Gains in Minn.

Society Notes

Respectable “Anti-Fascists” Stage a Very Miserable Show

[Editorials]

• Fight with the Socialist Workers Party for —
• Workers’ Menus
• Two Attacks
• But Will They Ever Get Here?
• Bigger and Better Takes

Japanese Economy Strained to Meet Growing Burdens

Their Government, by James Burnham

Thomas Jefferson’s Strange Return to Life, [by Chris Andrews]

Labor Looks Through the Press, by Arthur Hopkins

Vol. III No. 15, 14 March 1939

Socialist Appeal
Official Organ of the Socialist Workers Party, Section of the Fourth International

EDITOR:
Max Shachtman
ASSOCIATE EDITORS:
Harold Roberts
Felix Morrow
STAFF MEMBERS:
Emanuel Garrett
Joseph Hansen
BUSINESS MANAGER:
S. Stanley

Fight Repressions in Spain, by Felix Morrow

CIO Heads Meet AFL over Unity

The Gravedigger of the Revolution, by Carlo (cartoon)

An Editorial

• Hail the Fighters of Madrid!

Roosevelt Attacks Referendum on War

Would Restore Voucher System for Unemployed

SWP Picket Line Fights Fascists in Los Angeles

Police Give Nazi Personal Guard

Left Jabs, by Bill

Appeal Army

Grave Crisis Threatens California Unemployed; Olson Favors Bosses, by Norman Mini

Flint S.W.P.’ers Picket Meeting of Labor Hater

New Insurance Boss to Slash Ohio Payments

La Voz Breaks with Stalinites over Spain War

C.C.N.Y. Students Hear Morgan Attack Fascists

Andrews and Birch Trial Set Saturday

Off the Record, by Dwight Macdonald

• Calling in an Expert
• Footnote on the Late Dr. Coster
• The Customer is Never Right
• Non-Sectarian Stalinism
• The Penalties of Wealth

The Only Way to Fight Against Fascism Is to Organize Workers’ Defense Guards, by Felix Morrow

Men and Women of Labor – Out of the Past, by Emanuel Garrett

• The Communards (March 18, 1871–May 28, 1871)

[Editorials]

• Fight with the Socialist Workers Party for —
• For Labor Unity
• “Let Them Eat Cake”
• We Mean Action Too
• 300,000 Men

Why I Decided to Quit the Communist Party, by Carl Hichin

In This Corner, by Max Shachtman

SP’s Rev. Sec’y Burt Joins Anti-Labor Pastorate to Bring “Heaven on Earth”

American Fund Asks Names on Indian Petition

Labor Looks Through the Press, by Arthur Hopkins

Vol. III No. 16, 17 March 1939

Socialist Appeal
Official Organ of the Socialist Workers Party, Section of the Fourth International

EDITOR:
Max Shachtman
ASSOCIATE EDITORS:
Harold Roberts
Felix Morrow
STAFF MEMBERS:
Emanuel Garrett
Joseph Hansen
BUSINESS MANAGER:
S. Stanley

An Editorial

• We Must Fight the W.P.A. Cuts!

Hitler in New Grab

Miaja Paves Way for Capitulation

Stalin Offers Olive Branch to Hitler in Apologizing for the “Fascist War-Mongers”, by Max Shachtman

A.F.L. Balks at C.I.O. Proposals for Union Unity

Attack Launched in Senate against Trotsky and SWP

Coughlin’s Rally Gathers Labor-Hating Riffraff, by Thomas O’Reilly

Muniz Describes Role of Loyalist Army Command, by F. Grandizo-Muniz

India Congress Meets as British Begin New Terror, by Sherman Stanley

L.A. Police Gas Pickets Protesting Fascist Meet

In the Trade Unions, by B.J. Widick

SWP Aids Guild Picket Hearst

Shoe Workers Organize Fight Against Stalinists

Appeal Army

Minnesota Bill Would Outlaw Union Activities

N.Y. Housing Plan Is Faced with Oblivion, by Grace Saunders

Burnham Speaks on Fight against Fascism in U.S.

Building Strike Ended in Minn.

In the World of Labor, by Paul G. Stevens

• A Wave of Persecutions Hits the Polish Trotzkyists [sic]
• Revolutionary Socialists of Ceylon Show Way to Fight Fascism
• Daladier Hits at French Revolutionists While Chamber Talks of “Amnesty”
• Winston Churchill as Guest of Soviet Ambassador Maisky

Spain, Yesterday and Today – In the Daily Worker’s Columns

On the Line ..., with Bill Morgan

[Editorial]

• Fight with the Socialist Workers Party for —
• Join the Pledge Fund
• Stalin and Non-Intervention
• Let the People Decide!
• Monahan’s Campaign
• The President

A Short History of Liberalism, by Carlo (cartoon)

Their Government, by James Burnham

Labor Looks Through the Press, by Arthur Hopkins

Newark Jobless Set for Action

Vol. III No. 17, 21 March 1939

Socialist Appeal
Official Organ of the Socialist Workers Party, Section of the Fourth International

EDITOR:
Max Shachtman
ASSOCIATE EDITORS:
Harold Roberts
Felix Morrow
STAFF MEMBERS:
Emanuel Garrett
Joseph Hansen
BUSINESS MANAGER:
S. Stanley

Hitler Marches Eastward

• Hitler (cartoon)

Auto Progressives Confer on Program

The Champions of Democracy at Work! by Carlo (cartoon)

Plan Submitted to Cut 400,000 from WPA Lists

Latin America Will Get Guns in Congress Bill

Who Is General Miaja?

Martin Meeting Ends in Fiasco

Spanish C.P. Leaders Seek Peace with Madrid Junta, by Felix Morrow

It’s Your Money or Their Lives!

Left Jabs

Appeal Army

State Moves to Curtail Aid to N.Y. Job-Seekers

1,800 Workers Strike Servel Electrolux Co.

Election Victory to Progressives and Akron in Council, by R. Ferguson

Strike For Six-Hour Day Voted by N.Y. Plumbers

AFL-CIO Negotiations Adjourn Without Progress

Shachtman Will Debate Shaplen

Don’t Be a Fool

Rosenberg Resigns

Off the Record, by Dwight Macdonald

• [Daniel Guerin’s Fascism and Big Business]
• It Has Happened Here
• Patching Up the Barrel

Nazi Thugs Have Doomed Czechoslovakia’s Jews to This (photo)

Manuilsky Expands on Stalin; Wins Defeats Through Silence

Hollywood Merry-Go-Round

• Crisis
• Crossroads, reviewed by Nat Levine

Men and Women of Labor – Out of the Past, by Emanuel Garrett

• Louis Auguste Blanqui (Feb. 1, 1805–Jan. 1, 1881)

[Editorials]

• Fight with the Socialist Workers Party for —
• Hitler Answers Stalin
• They Must Eat!
• Supreme Court Aftermath
• ‘Economy’ in the Senate

On the Causes for the Defeat of the Spanish Revolution, [by Leon Trotsky] (unsigned)

In This Corner, by Max Shachtman

Sub-human Relief Standards Is Aim of Newark Head

Vol. III No. 18, 24 March 1939

Socialist Appeal
Official Organ of the Socialist Workers Party, Section of the Fourth International

EDITOR:
Max Shachtman
ASSOCIATE EDITORS:
Harold Roberts
Felix Morrow
STAFF MEMBERS:
Emanuel Garrett
Joseph Hansen
BUSINESS MANAGER:
S. Stanley

How Can We Fight Hitler?

• War Plans Pushed by Roosevelt
   
• A Lesson for the Workers, Too, by Carlo (cartoon)
   
• Boss War Will Mean Spread of Hitlerism
   
• New World War Again Threatens

Stalinists Silent on Shooting of Madrid Leader

Stalin Waits for Nazi Reply to Bid

Auto Union Groups Shape Up for Coming Convention

In the Trade Unions, by B.J. Widick

Anti-Nazi Call by Philly SWP

Twelve W.A.A. Locals Denounce C.P. Control

Appeal Army

Plumber Strike for 6-Hour Day Spreads Rapidly

AFL Red-Baiting Attack on CIO Hurts Unification

The Reverend Burt in a Most Embarrassing Spot

In the World of Labor, by Paul G. Stevens

• New Recruits for Social Patriotism in France
• Paul Faure and His New Newspaper
• Another Blow at Our French Comrades
• Heavy Prison Sentences for Algerian Fighters

Left Jabs

On the Line ..., with Bill Morgan

Spain CP’ers Told “Not to Move Against Casado” Admits Fischer

CP “Americanism Week” Hits “Isms”

[Editorials]

• Fight with the Socialist Workers Party for —
• Defend the Soviet Union!
• “Defense” Means Slavery
• “We Don’t Have Spies”
• His Anti-Fascism Is Suspect

Japan Tries to Conceal Unrest in Korea and Formosa Colonies

Their Government, by James Burnham

Saga of a Liberal Publisher ... How He Got There, by Sol Brodwin

Labor Looks Through the Press, by Arthur Hopkins

Vol. III No. 19, 28 March 1939

Socialist Appeal
Official Organ of the Socialist Workers Party, Section of the Fourth International

EDITOR:
Max Shachtman
ASSOCIATE EDITORS:
Harold Roberts
Felix Morrow
STAFF MEMBERS:
Emanuel Garrett
Joseph Hansen
BUSINESS MANAGER:
S. Stanley

Workers Can Defeat Hitler

• They Can End the Threat of Fascism by Crushing the Capitalist System
   
• Nazis Established on Soviet Border
   
• The Principle of the Thing, by Carlo (cartoon)

France Speeds Trend Towards a Dictatorship

U.S. “Democracy” Bared in Report

Madrid Surrender Near; Negrin Works with Miaja

Pittman Bill Frees U.S. Hands for War

Office Workers Quit CIO; Protest Union Bureaucracy

SWP Picket Threat Stops Philadelphia Fascist Meet

Left Jabs, by Bill

Reactionary Swing at Martin Auto Convention Swamps Lovestoneites

Stalinists Be Appeal Salesman; “Last Time”, Says Minneapolis

Appeal Army

Fighting Jobless Union Prepares April 1st Action

April New Int’l Carries Trotsky Pivert Letters

Servel Strike Ties up Plants

Tenant Farmers Quit CIO Union

[Notice], by The Manager

Off the Record, by Dwight Macdonald

• The Wallace Plan
• A Luxemburgite Objects

Liberty à la Roosevelt (photo)

Men and Women of Labor – Out of the Past, by Emanuel Garrett

• James Connolly (June 5, 1870–executed May 12, 1916)

The ‘War for Democracy’ on the Home Front (photo)

Cops Admit Frame-Up Was Ordered Against Pickets

[Editorials]

• Fight with the Socialist Workers Party for —
• Billions For Gunpowder
• The Plumber Strike
• The Uses of Terrorism
• Stalinists Hurt C.I.O.
• Curbing the Press

What Lies Behind Stalin Bid for Agreement With Hitler? by L.T.

In This Corner, by Max Shachtman

Canada 4th Internationalists Begin Publication of Socialist Action

Vol. III No. 20, 31 March 1939

Socialist Appeal
Official Organ of the Socialist Workers Party, Section of the Fourth International

EDITOR:
Max Shachtman
ASSOCIATE EDITORS:
Harold Roberts
Felix Morrow
STAFF MEMBERS:
Emanuel Garrett
Joseph Hansen
BUSINESS MANAGER:
S. Stanley

Demonstrate against W.P.A. Cuts on April 1!

• You Will Be Next If You Do Not Act Now
   
• Fight W.P.A. Slashes
   
• “My Friends ...”, by Carlo (cartoon)

Madrid Crushed under Iron Heel of Franco

• Their Friend Miaja, by Leon Trotsky

Newark Jobless Balk Proposals to Slice Relief

Lewis Prepares Showdown with CP at Auto Convention

Uneasy Interlude Opens in Europe

“Independence” Is Cry at Meeting of Puerto Ricans

Teachers’ Union Adopts War Monger’s Program

In the Trade Unions, by B.J. Widick

Regional Pact May Result from New England Trucking Strike, by B. Harde

American Fund Asks Clothing for Refugees

Militants in Calif. Unemployed Council Lick Stalinist Sabotage

Appeal Army

Workers Strike Hetrick Plants in Two Cities

Knitgoods Union Elections Give C.P. Stinging Rebuff

Pacifists Gather to Bemoan Hectic World We Live In

Are You Going Underground?

Chicago SWP and YPSL Picket German Consulate

In the World of Labor, by Paul G. Stevens

• The Electoral Campaign in Belgium
• Cooperatives Join British Unions in Revolt Against “Register”
• A Correction on the New Danish Party

Hollywood Merry-Go-Round

Pro-War Advocates Stage Exercise in Flag-Waving

On the Line ..., with Bill Morgan

Gandhi Gives “Advice” to British Imperialists, by Sherman Stanley

Not a Peep out of C.P. on Miaja

Film Department

Jobless, He Kills Himself

[Editorials]

• Fight with the Socialist Workers Party for —
• Roosevelt and the War Crisis
• Ta-Tu Thau Is Free!
• By Any Other Name
• Inspiring Example for Labor

Shocking Conditions Revealed in Mines by Medical Report

Their Government, by James Burnham

Perkin’s Report Depicts Plight of Older Workers Under Capitalism

Labor Looks Through the Press, by Arthur Hopkins

Vol. III No. 21, 4 April 1939

Socialist Appeal
Official Organ of the Socialist Workers Party, Section of the Fourth International

EDITOR:
Max Shachtman
ASSOCIATE EDITORS:
Harold Roberts
Felix Morrow
STAFF MEMBERS:
Emanuel Garrett
Joseph Hansen
BUSINESS MANAGER:
S. Stanley

Shall We Be Fooled Now As in 1917?

Not A Cent, Not A Man for Boss War!

No Men Wanted/Your Country Needs You!! by Carlo (cartoon)

Unemployed and Youth to Be Cannon Fodder, by Bill Morgan

Secret Plans Already Formed for Iron Dictator in America, by Hal Draper

Trotsky Interviewed by the London Daily Herald – Only Labor Can Stop War, by Leon Trotsky

Where Wall St. “Defends Democracy” (photos)

Wars Since the “War to End War”

Green and Lewis Unite in War Mobilization Plans, by Stan Lauren

Appeal Army

Gen. Johnson Cooks Up New Scheme to Avoid Popular Referendum on War, by Albert Goldman

Off the Record, by Dwight Macdonald

• The Things They Don’t Talk About
• Tom Girdler, Dove of Peace
• Business Is Business

“Turn Imperialist War into Civil War”, by V.I. Lenin

“The Main Enemy Is in Your Own Country!” by Karl Liebknecht

Men and Women of Labor – Out of the Past, by Emanuel Garrett

• Eugene V. Debs (Nov. 5, 1885–Oct. 20, 1926)

Leon Trotsky Addressing the Red Army (photo)

[Editorials]

• Fight with the Socialist Workers Party for —
• We Are Not Pacifists
• Wars We Are For
• The Lessons of Spain
• The Struggle in China
• The Fight for World Emancipation

[Photos from Last War]

In This Corner, by Max Shachtman

In What War Shall I Take Up Arms and Fight? by Eugene V. Debs

Vol. III No. 22, 7 April 1939

Socialist Appeal
Official Organ of the Socialist Workers Party, Section of the Fourth International

EDITOR:
Max Shachtman
ASSOCIATE EDITORS:
Harold Roberts
Felix Morrow
STAFF MEMBERS:
Emanuel Garrett
Joseph Hansen
BUSINESS MANAGER:
S. Stanley

Britain Trying to Mend Fences with New Bloc

Our Turn to Do Some Slashing! by Carlo (cartoon)

New W.P.A. Cuts Decreed; Jobless Protest Slashes

• Spirited Picket Line Put Around N.Y. Offices
   
• Fighting Union Leads New York Demonstration (photo)
   
• Investigation of WPA Planned by “Economy Group”
   
• Toledo C.I.O. Members Plan W.P.A. Showdown

Franco Forces Victims into Slave Gangs

Auto Convention Drops Posts of Vice-Presidents

Strike Victory Gains Demands For Plumbers

Sit-Down Part of Newark Protest

Stalin’s Capitulation, by Leon Trotsky

Left Jabs, by Bill

Handicapped March in N.Y. Protest (photo)

Appeal Army

New York Legislators Begin to Slash Wages

SWOC In Mass. Drive For Union Contracts

Funds Raised for Refugees

Newark School Opens April 25

New Courses in Yipsel School

Truck Bosses Threaten Suit Against Strikers

In the World of Labor, by Paul G. Stevens

• I.F.T.U. Postpones Meeting in the Midst of Crisis
• How They Worked to “Save Spain”
• Labour Party Branches Flock to “Anti-Register” Opposition

Investigation Uncovers Shocking Medical Conditions in Mine Areas

Mass Pressure Stalls Canada Conscript Plan

On the Line ..., with Bill Morgan

Hollywood Merry-Go-Round, by Nat Levine

Debate Shows Shaplen Condones 1919 Murders

Society Notes

A Salute to David Rey, by Douglas Conley & Mary Wills

Tsar to Lenin Shown at Forum

Refugees Need Clothing Says American Fund

Dunne Speaks at Anti-War Strike

[Editorials]

• Fight with the Socialist Workers Party for —
• On Labor Unity
• Battleships Before Relief
• What Do They Fear?
• Casado’s Last Chore
• They Rewarded Him
• “Poor Little Poland”?

Their Government, by James Burnham

Workers’ Forum

• Gandhi Is Worse Than We Said, from K.A. Khan
• On Attacking Pres. Roosevelt, from T.S.

A Young Anti-Fascist Contributes to the Fund for Political Refugees, from Richard

Vol. III No. 23, 11 April 1939

Socialist Appeal
Official Organ of the Socialist Workers Party, Section of the Fourth International

EDITOR:
Max Shachtman
ASSOCIATE EDITORS:
Harold Roberts
Felix Morrow
STAFF MEMBERS:
Emanuel Garrett
Joseph Hansen
BUSINESS MANAGER:
S. Stanley

New Mass Murder Impending

Apex Ruling Hits Unions

Pre-View of the War against Fascism, by Carlo (cartoon)

Hudson to Run for Mayor in Mpls. Election

Union Leaders Help Kelly Get Close Victory, by Albert Gates

YPSL in Akron Under Probe; Five Are Jailed – Youths Manhandled for Distributing Leaflets

Pacific Coast Seamen Face Critical Fight, by Thomas

Action, Not Lobbying, Needed to Fight W.P.A. Cuts

In the Trade Unions, by B.J. Widick

Program Adopted at World Congress Is Published by S.W.P.

CP Perils Union of Insurance Agents

Appeal Army

Y.P.S.L. National Council Meeting Discusses Growth of Organization

Society Notes

Minn. Jobless Protest Relief and WPA Cuts

Saunders Found Guilty by Judge

Trotsky Letter to Modern Quarterly

Sparks in the News, by Dwight Macdonald

• [Gunther Reimann]
• France and the Refugees
• R.S.V.P.

Wall Street Cracks Whip at “Democracy” Meet

Hunger, Fear, Misery – That Is All Capitalism Has to Offer Us

Where Will the C.L.U. Draw a Line on “Freedom to Speak”?

New Courses Open in Y.P.S.L. School

Men and Women of Labor – Out of the Past, by Emanuel Garrett

• Uriah S. Stevens (Aug. 3. 1821–Feb. 13, 1882)

[Editorials]

• Fight with the Socialist Workers Party for —
• Behind Closed Doors
• Answer with Pickets
• End Capitalist Control!
• Youth Has a Future

Courts Invent Means to Break Strikes When Employers Cannot, by Felix Morrow

In This Corner, by Max Shachtman

To Honor Tresca on His Fortieth Year as Militant

Workers’ Forum

• Making It Tough for Finks, from H.V.R.
• Thomas Is Confused Again, from Diego Montanez

Vol. III No. 24, 14 April 1939

Socialist Appeal
Official Organ of the Socialist Workers Party, Section of the Fourth International

EDITOR:
Max Shachtman
ASSOCIATE EDITORS:
Harold Roberts
Felix Morrow
STAFF MEMBERS:
Emanuel Garrett
Joseph Hansen
BUSINESS MANAGER:
S. Stanley

War Threat Issued by England

Senators Quibble While Poor Starve

Baruch and H. Stimson Push FDR War Plans

Three Down, One to Go! by Carlo (cartoon)

Sailors Hurl Strike Threat at Fink Halls

Calif. Judges Seek to Ban Closed Shop

An Editorial

• Court Attacks Menace Labor’s Right to Live and Fight

Akron YPSL Campaign Goes on Despite Arrests

Mobilization Day Draft Plans Are All Prepared, by Hal Draper

In the Trade Unions, by B.J. Widick

Appeal Army

Who is Bernard Baruch, New Neutrality Expert? by Nat Levine

• Bernard Baruch (photo)

Give Cold Reception to Martin

On the Way to the Trenches

Stalinists Face Libel Charge in Suit by S.T.F.U.

Y.P.S.L. School Changes Schedule

In the World of Labor, by Paul G. Stevens

• Fruits of the Popular Front in France
• An Admission of Bankruptcy From the Anarchists Themselves

Why Doesn’t the C.P. Expel Gen. Miaja?

Social Democrats Insist on Capitualtion by S.P.

Mental Blizzard Befogs N.Y. Pacifist Meeting

Mergott Strike Strong Despite AFL Aid to Co.

On the Line ..., with Bill Morgan

Jobless Stage a New Kind of Easter Parade

A Mid-Western Story – The American Way, by Carl O’Shea

Society Notes

[Editorials]

• Fight with the Socialist Workers Party for —
• Kinks in the Cotton
• Curb Them at Home
• German Gold
• Behind Barbed Wire

Ireland Recalls Anniversary of Easter Week Insurrection, by Bill Morgan

Their Government, by James Burnham

Unions Discuss Action Against Anti-Labor Bill

Labor Looks Through the Press, by Arthur Hopkins

Workers’ Forum

• S.W.P. Is Only Challenging Force, from Mildred Sh.

Vol. III No. 25, 18 April 1939

Socialist Appeal
Official Organ of the Socialist Workers Party, Section of the Fourth International

EDITOR:
Max Shachtman
ASSOCIATE EDITORS:
Harold Roberts
Felix Morrow
STAFF MEMBERS:
Emanuel Garrett
Joseph Hansen
BUSINESS MANAGER:
S. Stanley

Kill Off the Unemployed!

Ready to Plunge U.S. into War

• War by Fall Is Roosevelt Policy Basis

Stalin’s Bloody Record in Spanish Civil War Exposed by Ex-Secret Service Head

• Krivitsky’s Story

Roosevelt’s Appeasement Policy, by Carlo (cartoon)

An Editorial

• There Is Another Choice!

Passport Trial of Three Opens in Rubens Case, by Nat Levine

Big Battles Loom Ahead for Automobile Workers

Student Strike Against War Set for April 20

Crack Control of C.P. in Food Union Election

Appeal Army

Articles on War Crisis Featured in New Int’l

Akron Yipsels Rejecting Deal Ask Jury Trial

Rumor ...

Sparks in the News, by Dwight Macdonald

• Where Is Walter Duranty?
• Social Justice, à la Scab
• Spontaneity Again
• Mr. Mumford Sees the Light
• Add: Defense of Reimann

Mass Drive for Jobs Blocked by C.P.ers

Fourth Int’l Bureau Issues Statement on Diego Rivera

Men and Women of Labor – Out of the Past, by Emanuel Garrett

• Gracchus Babeuf (Nov. 23, 1760–Guillotined April 27, 1797)

Society Notes

[Editorials]

• Fight with the Socialist Workers Party for —
• Miaja’s Sponsor
• Roosevelt’s Democracy
• Bankrupt
• A Place for Youth

British Imperialism Prepares for War to Save Its Spoils of Piracy, by Sherman Stanley

In This Corner, by Max Shachtman

Workers’ Forum

• On Mayor Kelly’s Reelection, from G.N.

Vol. III No. 26, 21 April 1939

Socialist Appeal
Official Organ of the Socialist Workers Party, Section of the Fourth International

EDITOR:
Max Shachtman
ASSOCIATE EDITORS:
Harold Roberts
Felix Morrow
STAFF MEMBERS:
Emanuel Garrett
Joseph Hansen
BUSINESS MANAGER:
S. Stanley

“Peace” Plea Cloaks War Aims

• Pres. Roosevelt Is Dragging Us into War!
   
• Order to Fleet Is Designed to Head off Japan
   
• What the Last War for “Democracy” Was About! by Carlo (cartoon)
   
• How Much “Democracy” Is There to Defend?
   
• Labor Will Be Regimented Under Mobilization Plan, by Hal Draper

Ranks of Mine Workers Solid As Parleys Lag

Three Witnesses Are Heard at N.Y. Passport Fraud Trial, by Nat Levine

In the Trade Unions, by B.J. Widick

Trotsky Greets Tresca on 40th Year as Fighter

Appeal Army

Inventor of Cotton Picker Says Planned Economy Only Way Out, by J. Pytlak

Convention of Project Union Opposes War

Columbus Circle Rally Is SWP May Day Plan

Yezhov’s Victims in Spain Must Cry Out

C.P.’s Mr. Ford Squirms Out of Debating James

Refugee Needs a Typewriter

In the World of Labor, by Paul G. Stevens

• “Poor Little Poland” Carries on for Democracy
• Sixty Hours for the Workers – Jail Terms for IV Internationalists
• Why the Chamberlain Crowd Sees No Barrier in Stalin’s Ideology

How Britain Rules Its Vast Colonial Empire, by Sherman Stanley

Chicago Hearst Papers Losing Heavily in Ads

Campaign of Electrical Workers For 6-Hour Day Is Model for All Unions, by Stanley Lauren

Labor Leaders Decree No May Day in France

On the Line..., with Bill Morgan

Society Notes

[Editorials]

• Fight with the Socialist Workers Party for —
• Roosevelt’s Note
• Diego Rivera
• Draft the Profiteers!

What the Wall Street Moguls Got in “Wages”

Their Government, by James Burnham

On the Way to the Trenches

Vol. III No. 27, 25 April 1939

Socialist Appeal
Official Organ of the Socialist Workers Party, Section of the Fourth International

EDITOR:
Max Shachtman
ASSOCIATE EDITORS:
Harold Roberts
Felix Morrow
STAFF MEMBERS:
Emanuel Garrett
Joseph Hansen
BUSINESS MANAGER:
S. Stanley

World Awaits Marching Order

• The Difference in “Principle!” by Carlo (cartoon)
   
• People of All Nations Face Ghastly Slaughter

Thrust at Relief Is Congress Plan

Krivitsky Reveals Stalin Attempts to Woo Hitler

National Coal Strike Threat Made by Lewis

Avoid Pressing G.P.U. Links at Passport Trial, by Nat Levine

Sailors Victorious in Government Pledge to Discontinue Hiring Halls

C.I.O. Auto Union Faces Attack from Many Sides

Y.P.S.L. Leads Militant Student Anti-War Strike

Benjamin Says “United States Not Capitalist”

In the Trade Unions, by B.J. Widick

Appeal Army

Liberal-Labor Caucus Endorses Eide as Mpls. Mayoralty Candidate

Flint U.A.W. Jobless Ask $30, 30 Hours

Sparks in the News, by Dwight Macdonald

• That’s Where the Money Goes
• Add: Walter Duranty
• Footnote to Fortune
• Right Out of the Horse’s Mouth

On the Way to the Trenches

Men and Women of Labor – Out of the Past, by Emanuel Garrett

• Albert Parsons (June 24, 1848–Hanged, No. 11, 1887)

Hitchin Attacked by C.P. Hooligans

Society Notes

[Editorials]

• Fight with the Socialist Workers Party for —
• Like a Tombstone
• Dictatorship in France
• Saito’s Ashes
• A Princely Visitor

The Coming War Will Surely See Britain’s Colonial Empire Wrecked, by Sherman Stanley

In This Corner, by Max Shachtman

Federal Criminal Syndicalism Law Would Foist Military Rule on Labor, by Felix Morrow

Vol. III No. 28, 28 April 1939

Socialist Appeal
Official Organ of the Socialist Workers Party, Section of the Fourth International

EDITOR:
Max Shachtman
ASSOCIATE EDITORS:
Harold Roberts
Felix Morrow
STAFF MEMBERS:
Emanuel Garrett
Joseph Hansen
BUSINESS MANAGER:
S. Stanley

Down Tools May 1st (photo)

Jobs Not Guns: All Out to Columbus Circle, May Day, 2 P.M.

• Demonstrate on May Day to Protest Against Boss War, May Day Manifesto of S.W.P.
   
• Socialist Workers Party Stands for —

Conscript Britain’s Workers

Sailors Vote Strike to Bar Hiring Halls

140 Tulsa Oil Strikers Framed by Company

In the Trade Unions, by B.J. Widick

Minn. Enacts Vicious Union Busting Laws

Yipsels Arrested for Distributing Antiwar ’Bills

Party Wants Action, Olson Junks Stalinists, by Norman Mini

Appeal Army

New York Local May Day Plans Completed

Thomas “Socialists” Gain Control of U.P.W.U. by Unprincipled Tactics

Hooligan Attacks on S.W.P. Speaker

Intervention by F.D.R. Near In Coal Dispute

An Editorial

• The Republicans Would Do the Same!

In the Sacrifices of Eight Men May Day’s Traditions Was Born, by Chris Andrews

May Day, 1919 – A Lesson In Workings Of Boss Democracy, by Stanley Lauren

Every Worker Must Master the Teachings of Marx and Engels

• Frederick Engels (photo)
• Karl Marx (photo)

A Workers’ Defense Guard Is the Only Answer to the Fascists

• It Alone Will Fight the Fascists Threat to Workers’ Rights
   
• Coughlin Dupes Followers When He Says He’s Pro-Labor
   
• Minneapolis Guard Has Kept That City Clear of Nazi Thugs
   
• These Are Our Enemies! (photos)

Fight for Workers’ Liberation, Not for Boss Profits

We Summon American Youth to Struggle for a New Life Not to Find Foul Death in Fighting the Bosses’ Battles

• [Line in Front of Recruiting Center] (photo)
• [War Graves] (photo)

Join the Socialist Workers Party In the Fight for Freedom! by Bill Morgan

Death Agony of Capitalism — A Transition Program Leading to Socialist Victory

In the World of Labor, by Paul G. Stevens

• Brazilian Communists Move Towards 4th Internationalist Position
• Ta-Tu-Thau Barred from Elections to Colonial Council
• Belgian Elections Mark Swing to “Moderate” Right

Labor Unity Is Possible Only on a Program of Class Struggle Action

Hollywood Merry-Go-Round, by Nat Levine

Evidence at Passport Trial Points to G.P.U., by Nat Levine

Society Notes

On the Line ..., with Bill Morgan

Tsar to Lenin Feature of Cleveland May Day Celebration

May New Int’l Features Pivert-Trotsky Letters

[Editorials]

• Fight with the Socialist Workers Party for —
• Roosevelt’s Trap
• None of Your Business
• Twelve Dictators

The Champions of Democracy (cartoon)

Their Government, by James Burnham

Alibis Don’t Help Liars, by Felix Morrow

Vol. III No. 29, 2 May 1939

Socialist Appeal
Official Organ of the Socialist Workers Party, Section of the Fourth International

EDITOR:
Max Shachtman
ASSOCIATE EDITORS:
Harold Roberts
Felix Morrow
STAFF MEMBERS:
Emanuel Garrett
Joseph Hansen
BUSINESS MANAGER:
S. Stanley

Hitler Demands Share Of Swag

An Editorial

• Britain Drafts Masses for War

The Kind of Democracy “We” Uphold, by Carlo (cartoon)

One Third of W.P.A. to Be Fired by July 1

Flint Workers Protest cuts in WPA, Relief

Mine Owners Forcing National Coal Tie-up

Sailors Set to Strike on All Pacific Ports

S.W.P. Calls Anti-War Convention, by National Committee, Socialist Workers Party

In the Trade Unions, by B.J. Widick

Appeal Army

L.A. Mexicans Defeat Local Jim Crow Move

N.L.R.B. Accuses Goodyear Tire Co.

Layoff Drive Continues on N.Y. Projects

YPSL Leads School Budget Cut Protest

Statement by S.W.P. Branch on C.P. Role in California

Anti-War Speeches Win Crowd from A.S.U. Rally

New York Bill Denies Teachers Free Speech; All Laborer Is Menaced

Sen. Reynolds on Speaking Tour For His Fascist Outfit

Congressional Investigators Launch W.P.A Red-Hunt

Stalinist Press at Work, by Carlo (cartoon)

Sparks in the News, by Dwight Macdonald

• World’s Fair Tale
• Footnote on the Romanovs
• More Afterthoughts

FDR Signs Huge Planes Bill, Asks for More

Defense Avoids Witness Stand in Rubens Case, by Nat Levine

• Marie Rubens (photo)

L.N.P.L. Convention Surprised by Stand for Workers Politics

Men and Women of Labor – Out of the Past, by Emanuel Garrett

• August Spies (Dec. 10, 1855–Hanged, Nov. 11, 1887)

Society Notes

Bendix Co. Coupon Clippers Get along

[Editorials]

• Fight with the Socialist Workers Party for —
• Not Fit to Print
• Dictatorship in Bolivia
• Roosevelt Provides

In Its Conquest of a World Empire We See French Democracy at Work, by Sherman Stanley

In This Corner, by Max Shachtman

C.P. Paint Brush Will Not Hide The Truth on Spain’s Betrayal, by Felix Morrow

Vol. III No. 30, 5 May 1939

Socialist Appeal
Official Organ of the Socialist Workers Party, Section of the Fourth International

EDITOR:
Max Shachtman
ASSOCIATE EDITORS:
Harold Roberts
Felix Morrow
STAFF MEMBERS:
Emanuel Garrett
Joseph Hansen
BUSINESS MANAGER:
S. Stanley

F.D.R. Pushes Drive On Jobless

Danzig New Focal Point of War Crisis

The New Deal, by Carlo (cartoon)

An Editorial

• Jobless Want Jobs, Not Battleships!

British Democracy at Work in India!

Lewis Charges Green Acts on Bosses’ Advice

1,500 New York Workers at Anti-War May Day Demonstration

“Three Cheers for Red, White, Blue”

C.P. Stages a Star-Spangled Jingo Parade

Passport Case Goes to Jury, by Nat Levine

“We Break with the Socialist Party!”

In the Next Issue

In the Trade Unions, by B.J. Widick

Teachers Propose Opposition Slate

Rents Rise as Housing Plans Are Forgotten

World’s Fair Bars Jobs for Negroes

Appeal Army

On the Way to the Trenches

De Valera Cancels U.S. Trip as Masses Balk at War Plans

More People Bitten by Rats in Minneapolis

National Coal Tie-up Delayed

In the World of Labor, by Paul G. Stevens

• French Teachers Uphold Militant Anti-War Tradition
• Two New Revolutionary Organs: In France and in Argentina

Y.P.S.L. Gains Recruits at May Day Meeting

On the Line ..., with Bill Morgan

Whooping It Up For War With Waldman

Society Notes

British Lion and the Draft

The Role of the Church

[Editorials]

• Fight with the Socialist Workers Party for —
• Gyp Artist
• Independent Action
• Open the Gates!

Father Coughlin Favors Fascists Dictatorships in His Magazine, by Grace Saunders

Their Government, by James Burnham

French Empire Faces the Wrath of Its Oppressed Colonial Masses, by Sherman Stanley

Memorial Needed in Puerto Rico

Vol. III No. 31, 9 May 1939

Socialist Appeal
Official Organ of the Socialist Workers Party, Section of the Fourth International

EDITOR:
Max Shachtman
ASSOCIATE EDITORS:
Harold Roberts
Felix Morrow
STAFF MEMBERS:
Emanuel Garrett
Joseph Hansen
BUSINESS MANAGER:
S. Stanley

Litvinov Ouster Bid to Hitler, by Harold Roberts

Legislators of ‘Left’ and Right Unite to Slash Relief Funds

“National Defense”, by Scott Johnson from the New Masses (cartoon,)

F.D.R.’s War Against the Unemployed

Ford Launches Phony Plan of Insurance

An Editorial

• Is Congress to Stay in Session?

The Problem of the Ukraine, by Leon Trotsky

“War On Japan For Capitalist Markets!”

In the Trade Unions, by B.J. Widick

Appeal Army

Yipsel “Jobs for Youth” Campaign Wins Support, by W.R. Manuel

So You Have No Money – Then to Jail with You

Four Die In New York Tenement House Fire

Sparks in the News, by Dwight Macdonald

• Stagecoach
• Revivals
• Ten Months of Evianism

The New Leader, May Day and War, by Felix Morrow

• Maxim Litvinov (photo)
• Vyascheslav Molotov (photo)

British Draft Plan Meets Irish Protest

Men and Women of Labor – Out of the Past, by Emanuel Garrett

• John Brown (May 9, 1800–Hanged, Dec. 2, 1859)

War Notes

Society Notes

[Editorials]

• Fight with the Socialist Workers Party for —
• Presto Change!
• Couldn’t Be Worse?
• Flint’s Nine Hundred
• The Fear of Youth

How to Break Strikes — Courtesy Of the War Department’s Experts, by Hal Draper

In This Corner, by Max Shachtman

Passport Trial Finds Defendants Guilty; Had GPU Connections, by Nat Levine

Vol. III No. 32, 12 May 1939

Socialist Appeal
Official Organ of the Socialist Workers Party, Section of the Fourth International

EDITOR:
Max Shachtman
ASSOCIATE EDITORS:
Harold Roberts
Felix Morrow
STAFF MEMBERS:
Emanuel Garrett
Joseph Hansen
BUSINESS MANAGER:
S. Stanley

Soundings For Stalin-Hitler Pact Continue, by Harold Roberts

Progress Under the New Deal, by Carlo (cartoon)

Britain’s Ruling Class Is Maneuvering for a War Alliance with U.S.

An Editorial

• Expropriate the War Profiteers!

Civil Rights Are a Crime in Hoboken

Krivitsky Reveals Rubens Identity, by Nat Levine

Coal Shortage Shows Might of Mine Workers

A Conspiracy of Silence

In the Trade Unions, by B.J. Widick

What Do the Amendments to the Wagner Act Mean for the American Working Class? by Albert Goldman

Appeal Army

Trial of 5 Akron Yipsels Postponed

Government Contracts Show Extent of War Preparations

Challenge of Youth Will Increase Frequency of Issue

An Alien – His Family Has No Right to Live

Facts to Be Remembered

In the World of Labor, by Paul G. Stevens

• Two Examples Portend Coming Divisions in the Stalinist Camp
• Resignation of Dr. Bourguignon from the Belgian Stalinist Party
• C.P.G.B. Members in Islington Split and Join the Fourth Int’l

A Letter from China – One Amalgam That Won’t Work, from J.H. Chang

Negrin Arrives, Makes Bow to Miaja’s “Honesty”

On the Line ..., with Bill Morgan

Society Notes

On the Way to the Trenches

[Editorials]

• Fight with the Socialist Workers Party for —
• K.K.K. Answered
• Krivitsky and Dies
• Kettle and the Pot
• Resignation by Request

Senator Bilbo Presents: A Preview of the Road to American Fascism, by Ruth Jeffrey

Their Government, by James Burnham

The “World of Tomorrow” – A Glorified Swindle and Peepshow, by Nat Levine

Cropper Asks and Gets History of the Russian Revolution

Labor Looks Through the Press, by Arthur Hopkins

Vol. III No. 33, 16 May 1939

Socialist Appeal
Official Organ of the Socialist Workers Party, Section of the Fourth International

EDITOR:
Max Shachtman
ASSOCIATE EDITORS:
Harold Roberts
Felix Morrow
STAFF MEMBERS:
Emanuel Garrett
Joseph Hansen
BUSINESS MANAGER:
S. Stanley

The Old Deal/The New Deal, by Carlo (cartoon)

Fight the Relief Cuts!

US Mayors Admit Relief Cuts Disastrous

Roosevelt’s Stand In Coal Crisis Draws Lewis Blast

The New Deal’s Casualty List

Workers Alliance Suppresses Action Demands of Members

“Death Watch” Casts Shadow over Flint W.P.A. Offices

Powers Continue Maneuvers for War Alliances

In the Labor Unions, by B.J. Widick

New Hearings on Ludlow Referendum, by Felix Morrow

Situation on Coast Hiring Halls Is Acute

Appeal Army

Passport Forgers Are Sentenced to Two-Year Terms, by Nat Levine

Emboldened Coughlinites Provoke N.Y. Workers, by Ben Feiner

W.P.A. Abandons Widely Heralded Adult Education

May New International Out

Action Brought Action for This Jobless Worker

Sparks in the News, by Dwight Macdonald

• Hard Times at the Library
• Herr Professor LaGuardia
• Our Four-Billion-Dollar Baby

State Solons Battle for Slum Landlord, by Grace Saunders

Protests Mount on School Budget Cuts, by W.K. Manuel

Jingo Note Loudest at Y.C.L. Meeting, by Irving Howe

Survey Shows the Value of W.P.A. to Entire Nation

Men and Women of Labor – Out of the Past, by Emanuel Garrett

• Thomas Muenzer (1497–Decapitated, May 27, 1525)

Daily Highlights of the N.Y. World’s Fair, by Ruth Jeffries

Yipsels Jailed for Aiding Calif. Agricultural Strikers

[Editorials]

• Fight with the Socialist Workers Party for —
• Welcome The King!
• Old Superstitions
• 910 Per Cent
• High Time!
• Lewis and F.D.R.

Cannon Fodder Does Not Need An Education — So the Bosses Rule

In This Corner, by Max Shachtman

In “World of Tomorrow” Setting Writers Urge a World War Today, by Dorothy Williams

Vol. III No. 34, 19 May 1939

Socialist Appeal
Official Organ of the Socialist Workers Party, Section of the Fourth International

EDITOR:
Max Shachtman
ASSOCIATE EDITORS:
Harold Roberts
Felix Morrow
STAFF MEMBERS:
Emanuel Garrett
Joseph Hansen
BUSINESS MANAGER:
S. Stanley

Lewis Calls for More WPA Jobs

Britain Is Again Rebuffed by Russia

Roosevelt’s Pal – Anastasio Somoza, Bloody Dictator of Nicaragua, by Adolfo Zamora

The Workers “Alliance”, by Carlo (cartoon)

N.Y. Jobless In Three-Day Picket Line

Coal Strike Settled With Victory for Miners in Two-Year Contract

National Guard in Harlan

Hague Machine Beaten

As One Good Anti-Fascist to Another

Boss Press Boycotts Hearings on Ludlow Referendum

SWP Convention Endorses Twice-a-Month Challenge

In the Labor Unions, by B.J. Widick

N.J. Steel Workers For “30-Hours, $30”

“Our Country Is in Danger”

Appeal Army

Ameringer Offers Pink Pill for Capitalist Ills, by Arthur Hopkins

Unions Will Discuss Problem of Jobless

Negro Group Asks Action on Florida Klan

May New Int’l Features Trotsky-Pivert Letters

Senator Feels For Turkeys — But Not for Negroes

Workers’ Forum

• On Behavior at Party Meetings, from Jacob Fox

In the World of Labor, by Paul G. Stevens

• British Conscription Stirs Resentment Throughout Empire
• No Conscription for Any Part of Ireland
• Oppressed Jamaican Labor Raises Its Voice Against War
• Rank and File Revolt in Canadian Labor Too

Chamberlain Offers Guiana to the Jews, by Dorothy Williams

Hollywood Merry-Go-Round

No Jobs for Youth Under Capitalism, by Martin Eden

On the Line ..., with Bill Morgan

Roosevelt Has No Answer to This Question

Chinese Patriots Handed to Japanese Warlords

“Enlist with the S.W.P. in the Fight for Socialism” — Cannon

Society Notes

• Society’s Glamor Girl Finds Glamor in Going to Work
• Will Not Shoot Himself but Can Be Had for Ten Bucks a Week

[Editorials]

• Fight with the Socialist Workers Party for —
• Another Proof
• God Help F.D.R.
• War Casualties
• Arming against Labor

Their Government, by James Burnham

The New Masses Returns to Its Exposure of Walter Krivitsky

Vol. III No. 35, 23 May 1939

Socialist Appeal
Official Organ of the Socialist Workers Party, Section of the Fourth International

EDITOR:
Max Shachtman
ASSOCIATE EDITORS:
Harold Roberts
Felix Morrow
STAFF MEMBERS:
Emanuel Garrett
Joseph Hansen
BUSINESS MANAGER:
S. Stanley

Father Coughlin—The Agent of Fascism in America

“Shoot to Kill” – Harlan

It’s Happening Here! by Carlo (cartoon)

Stalinist Sabotage Flint Jobless Action

Pickets Ask Action on Relief Needs

Powers Plan War-Time Dictatorships, by Harold Roberts

Akron S.W.P. Rally Defies Labor-Haters, by Paul Fielding

Election of Ta-Thu-Thau Is Blow at French Imperialism

Zionist Policy Played into Hands of Great Britain, by Felix Morrow

Notice

In the Labor Unions, by B.J. Widick

Political Resolution for Anti-War Convention of the Socialist Workers Party, Draft Submitted by the Political Committee of the Socialist Workers Party

Attention! All Agents of New International

Notice to Members

Sparks in the News, by Dwight Macdonald

• Time Marches On!
• C.I.O. and W.P.A.
• Mountain Labors, Bears Mouse (Dead)

Roosevelt Moves Do Not Deceive Puerto Ricans, by Diego Montanez

U.S. Acts for Wall Street’s China Profits

Men and Women of Labor – Out of the Past, by Emanuel Garrett

• Mother Jones (May 1, 1830–Nov. 30, 1930)

“A Decent Job at a Living Wage” — New York SWP Call

[Editorials]

• Firght with the Socialist Workers Party for —
• Shoot to Kill!
• Reduce the Hours
• God Save the King!

Whipping up the War Spirit, by Hal Draper

In This Corner, by Max Shachtman

Browder and Miaja

June New International

Vol. III No. 36, 26 May 1939

Socialist Appeal
Official Organ of the Socialist Workers Party, Section of the Fourth International

EDITOR:
Max Shachtman
ASSOCIATE EDITORS:
Harold Roberts
Felix Morrow
STAFF MEMBERS:
Emanuel Garrett
Joseph Hansen
BUSINESS MANAGER:
S. Stanley

Danger Signal! – The Twice-a-Week Appeal Is Threatened with Suspension

Silence Shrouds Relief Slashes

Father Coughlin’s Lies Do Not Cloak His Rabid Anti-Semitism, by Grace Saunders

• Appeal Salesman Challenge Coughlin

The Gyp Joint, by Carlo (cartoon)

Britain Seen Yielding on Russian Pact, by Harold Roberts

Military Rule Tightens in Harlan County

Huge Protest Meeting Against British Plan

The Lesson of the Memorial Day Massacre – Meet Boss Attacks with Workers Defense!

In the Labor Unions, by B.J. Widick

The New Leader Tops Its Own Jingo Record

Police in Action – the Memorial Day Massacre (photo)

Appeal Army

New York Housing Bill Doesn’t Answer Need

Marxist Maulers, Stud Lonigan A.C. in Grudge Game, by Bill Clam

Araquistain Confirms Krivitsky Testimony

In the World of Labor, by Paul G. Stevens

• Around the War Preparations: A Curious Spectacle of High Jinks
• Chamberlain Quotes Leon Blum Against the Labour Party
• “Internationalism” in Action: Reformist and Stalinist Variety
• No Gratitude for Blum From the French Bosses

Dewey “Cracks Down” on Fritz Kuhn – For Failing to Pay Taxes

• Kuhn Addressing His Fellow “Bundits” (photo)

Hollywood Merry-Go-Round, by Nat Levine

Newark SWP, YPSL Defy Coughlinites At “Four Corners”

On the Line ..., with Bill Morgan

Anti-Fascist Labor Guard Defends S.W.P. Meeting

Statement of S.W.P. Rochester Branch

Society Notes

• Millionaire Heiress Finds Publicity a Bitter Boomerang
• If You Wait 10 Years Charity Will Provide a Cemetery Lot

Quit S.P.; Join 4th International

[Editorials]

• Fight with the Socialist Workers Party for —
• The Peace Front
• Bankers of the World, Unite!
• Strip Act
• Robinson-Rubens Case

Bow Down! Their Majesties Are Coming – to Weld War Relations, by Sherman Stanley

Their Government, by James Burnham

Notice

Vol. III No. 37, 30 May 1939

Socialist Appeal
Official Organ of the Socialist Workers Party, Section of the Fourth International

EDITOR:
Max Shachtman
ASSOCIATE EDITORS:
Harold Roberts
Felix Morrow
STAFF MEMBERS:
Emanuel Garrett
Joseph Hansen
BUSINESS MANAGER:
S. Stanley

Picket Lines Form in Detroit

• The Spirit of 1937 (photo)

Cops Attack S.W.P. Anti-Coughlin Rally

• Coughlin – Agent of the Sixty Families, by Grace Saunders
   
• An Open Letter to LaGuardia on Hounding of Anti-Coughlinites, from Edward Frank, SWP Organizer

Canada Fourth Int’l Leads Jobless Fight, by S.S. Jordan

Food Workers Prepare for Strike Action

Convict Ten for Fighting N.Y. Eviction

War Camps Await Anglo-Soviet Pact Developments

Criminal Syndicalism Law Pushed by Administration

In the Labor Unions, by B.J. Widick

Forty Million Are Without Any Kind of Medical Attention

Appeal Army

American Fund to Benefit By Baseball Game, by Bill Clam

Workers’ Forum

• [Letter], from B.M.

June Challenge Features Jobs-for-Youth Campaign

Sparks in the News, by Dwight Macdonald

• Ungilded Lily
• The Protean Father Sheen
• The Manton Case
• Book Note

Y.C.L.ers Whoop It Up For Country ... and War, by Irving Howe

Gandhi Admits “Milk-and-Honey” Brought No Gains

Fruits of Fascism

Men and Women of Labor – Out of the Past, by Emanuel Garrett

• Louise Michel (May 29, 1830–Jan. 10, 1905)

National Committee Asks Aid for Chinese Comrades

Fascists Meet Freely In N.Y.

Daily Highlights in “The World of Tomorrow”

[Editorials]

• Fight with the Socialist Workers Party for —
• Submarine Disaster
• Republic’s Memorial
• Behind the Scenes
• Bayonets and Votes

Y.P.S.L. Fights Education Budget Cuts in Jobs-for-Youth Campaign, by Martin Eden

In This Corner, by Max Shachtman

Britain Offers the Jews a Haven Unfit for Agriculture or Industry, by Dorothy Williams

Vol. III No. 38, 2 June 1939

Socialist Appeal
Official Organ of the Socialist Workers Party, Section of the Fourth International

EDITOR:
Max Shachtman
ASSOCIATE EDITORS:
Harold Roberts
Felix Morrow
STAFF MEMBERS:
Emanuel Garrett
Joseph Hansen
BUSINESS MANAGER:
S. Stanley

Dies Committee Adjourns Fake Investigation of Fascist Activities in U.S.

• Coughlin — an Enemy Of Trade Unionism
   
• Nazis Join Coughlinites

Seafarers Union Ties Up 14 East Coast Ships; Tanker Strike Continues

• But NMU Leadership Endangers Strike by Policy on “Hot Oil”, by David Cowles

Twin City Unions Call for Huge WPA Protest Parade

Plan Demonstration on WPA Cuts for June 26

Slow Response of Branches Is Peril to Twice-a-Week Appeal

Leading Militant of French Fourth Int’l Faces Death for Anti-Militarist Work

In the Labor Unions, by B.J. Widick

St. Paul Unions Discuss Plight of Unemployed

In the “Nation of Homeowners”

Lehman Signs Reactionary Devany Bill

Local 544 Exposes Boss Inspired Court Action, by Carl O’Shea

Akron Union Men Testify on Rule by Police Club

C.P. Machine Forces Arbitration on Brass Rail Strikers

Rubber Workers Pace New Activity in Akron Unions

Farrell Forces Getting Shaky, Ask Correction, by the Political Sports Editor

June New Int’l Features Trotsky on Bonapartism

Workers’ Forum

• Fighting Coughlin, from George Breitman

In the World of Labor, by Paul G. Stevens

• Fourth Internationalists Organize Anti-Nazi Fight in Denmark
• Ranks of French “Labor” Leaders Split by Munich Crisis
• Paul Faure Lines Up the S.P. against Blum

Empty Seats Greet Del Vayo’s “Explanation” of Spanish Defeat, by Felix Morrow

400 Hear Shachtman Speak at Harvard

On the Line ..., with Bill Morgan

New International to Suspend Publication, Unless ...

Society Notes

• Refugee Family Dying from Gas Poisoning, Charged with Homicide
• Spends $1,000 a Day on Raching Stable after Leaving Poetry

[Editorials]

• Fight with the Socialist Workers Party for —
• Yankee Imperialism
• A Period Ends
• World’s Fair Note
• Suppressed Chapter
• Jobs for Youth

M-Day for M.D.’s: Mobilizing the Medical Profession for War, by Sam Portnoy

Their Government, by James Burnham

If King George Held Court for His Exploited Subjects at World’s Fair, by Sherman Stanley

Vol. III No. 39, 6 June 1939

Socialist Appeal
Official Organ of the Socialist Workers Party, Section of the Fourth International

EDITOR:
Max Shachtman
ASSOCIATE EDITORS:
Harold Roberts
Felix Morrow
STAFF MEMBERS:
Emanuel Garrett
Joseph Hansen
BUSINESS MANAGER:
S. Stanley

Millions Starving on Relief!

Why Coughlin’s Superiors Are Silent on His Activities

The Real Ideology (cartoon)

“Socialists” Back Boss War Plans

Stalin Throws Monkey-Wrench into Anglo-Soviet Negotiation, by Harold Roberts

Judge Frees Anti-Fascist Militants

Gen. Moseley Testifies at Dies Hearing

Left Wing Writers Form League, Issue Manifesto

Briggs Strikers Picket Boss-Owned Ball Park

In the Labor Unions, by B.J. Widick

Appeal Army

• Selling the Twice-a-Week Appeal (photo)

Supreme Court Outlaws Okla. Jim-Crow Law

Rorty Charges Baseball Purge in Bitter Note

N.Y. Membership Adopts City Program of Action

Martin Negotiates with Briggs Company

Sparks in the News, by Dwight Macdonald

• Stalinist Literary Front Cracks
• The Committee for Cultural Freedom, Again

[Unemployed Workers in Cleveland] (photo)

Men and Women of Labor – Out of the Past, by Emanuel Garrett

• Thomas Paine (Jan. 27, 1737–June 8, 1809)

[Editorials]

• Fight with the Socialist Workers Party for —
• Stop Reaction’s March
• The “Front” Collapses
• And How!
• Stalin Aids China

Visits Palestine, Finds Communist Party Pursuing Anti-Jewish Line

In This Corner, by Max Shachtman

Vol. III No. 40, 9 June 1939

Socialist Appeal
Official Organ of the Socialist Workers Party, Section of the Fourth International

EDITOR:
Max Shachtman
ASSOCIATE EDITORS:
Harold Roberts
Felix Morrow
STAFF MEMBERS:
Emanuel Garrett
Joseph Hansen
BUSINESS MANAGER:
S. Stanley

5,000 Protest Against W.P.A. Cuts

W.P.A. To Cut Rolls Another 100,000 in June

Down to the Bone, by Carlo (cartoon)

Persecution of French Labor Militants Continues

Lynch Negro Worker in Mississippi – Tortured with Hot Irons, Shot, for Refusing Pay Cut

WAA Congress Shuns Needs of U.S. Jobless, by Stan Lauren

Coughlin Hides a Boss Solution Behind Plea for Living Wages, by Grace Saunders

Salem C.I.O. Votes Relief Investigation

Parole Board to Hear Beal Pardon Plea – Unionists Ask Freedom for Leader of Gastonia Strike

Cuba Incident Dramatizes Plight of Jewish Refugees

Stalin Decree on Agriculture Indicates Soviet Conditions

In the Labor Unions, by B.J. Widick

Why Has Curran Started NMU Spy Scare?

Appeal Army

Seafarers’ Strike Ends with Some Concessions to Men

Labor Mobilizes Behind Eide in Mpls. Election

You Know, It Ain’t Cricket To Picket

Special Discussions on Program of Liebknecht School

A Dublin Letter – On the Growth of Irish Nationalism, by Roderick O’Connor

In the World of Labor, by Paul G. Stevens

• Southport Conference of B.L.P. Reverses Stand on Conscription
• In France: New Blows against the Opponents of Imperialist War

East Side Branch Organizes Anti-Fascist Campaign

On the Line ..., with Bill Morgan

A Round of Applause for the Yipsel Drama Group

Provocateur Exposed

[Editorials]

• Fight with the Socialist Workers Party for —
• Minnesota Acts
• Refugees in Cuba
• Mooney and Beal
• “Good Neighbors”

Their Government, by James Burnham

Letter Show How Spain’s Cause Was Sacrificed and for What

Workers’ Forum

• The Irishman Who Stood His Ground, from J.T.

Vol. III No. 41, 13 June 1939

Socialist Appeal
Official Organ of the Socialist Workers Party, Section of the Fourth International

EDITOR:
Max Shachtman
ASSOCIATE EDITORS:
Harold Roberts
Felix Morrow
STAFF MEMBERS:
Emanuel Garrett
Joseph Hansen
BUSINESS MANAGER:
S. Stanley

Father Coughlin: Fascist Demagogue – Who Is the Man, What Is His Program, How Did He Rise? by Joseph Hansen

Briggs Strikers Go over the Top with a Resounding Union Victory

WAA Leaders Fawn Before Mrs. Roosevelt, by Nat Levine

Picket Line Greets Fink Manned Ship

The Carpenter, by Carlo (cartoon)

Hail the King and Queen ... If You Believe in Cruelty and Oppression

Mass Meeting to Greet Nat’l Convention

Notice

Why Did the New York Times Suppress Araquistain’s Story on Spain’s Gold

In the Labor Unions, by B.J. Widick

W.A.A. Stages Roosevelt Campaign Rally

Appeal Army

Teh Kind of Action That Brings Results (photo)

Appeal Will Benefit from Boston Party

Sparks in the News, by Dwight Macdonald

• Inventory of an Armory
• Indiana Harbor Episode
• The Axe Falls

Anti-Labor Laws Enacted by Penn., by S. Foster

Before the Nat’l Party Convention, by James P. Cannon

Vicious Syndicalism Bill Is Passed by House of Congress

Men and Women of Labor – Out of the Past, by Emanuel Garrett

• Giacomo Matteotti (1885–Murdered, June 10, 1924)

Board Gets Petition for Beal Pardon

Social Patriotism, Ernst Toller, Discussed in Coming New Int’l

[Editorials]

• Fight with the Socialist Workers Party for —
• Two Items
• A Democratic Pope
• First Lady
• Soviets and Democracy

Araquistain’s Story of How Stalin Brought Spain’s Treasure to Russia

In This Corner, by Max Shachtman

With Italy as His Model Coughlin Agitates for a Totalitarian State, by Grace Saunders

Vol. III No. 42, 16 June 1939

Socialist Appeal
Official Organ of the Socialist Workers Party, Section of the Fourth International

EDITOR:
Max Shachtman
ASSOCIATE EDITORS:
Harold Roberts
Felix Morrow
STAFF MEMBERS:
Emanuel Garrett
Joseph Hansen
BUSINESS MANAGER:
S. Stanley

Who Is Coughlin, What Is His Program, How Did He Rise? – Installment II, by Joseph Hansen

Fascists Wreck N.Y. Labor Hall

Breaking Through, by Carlo (cartoon)

Thugs Stab Worker; SWP Branches Hold Anti-Coughlin Rallies

• Knife Teacher Who Speaks Up against Anti-Semitic Filth
   
• Huge Meeting Protected by Anti-Fascist Labor Guard

W.A.A. Ends Busy Week of Lobbying

An Editorial

• Twin City Workers Showed the Way to Fight W.P.A. Cuts

Irish Revolutionists Break With Stalinism, Form Club

“Freeing” of Mrs. Rubens Opens New Chapter in Case, by Nat Levine

A Tribute From An Enemy

Brooklyn Businessman Gives S.W.P. Lesson in “Americanism”

Party Members Discuss Problems of National Anti-War Convention

• On Leadership-What a Rank and Filer Thinks, by Ben Lieberman
   
• Party Must Overcome Organizational Defects, Resolution Submitted by the California State Executive Committee, S.W.P.

In the Labor Unions, by B.J. Widick

Appeal Army

Progressive Action (photo)

N.Y. Party at Work

In the World of Labor, by Paul G. Stevens

• Are Our French Comrades Facing an “Espionage” Trial?
• Revolutionary Socialists of Ceylon Mark Important Advances
• Unspeakable Stalinist Attacks Against Revolutionary
• [Account of the Civil War in Spain]

Admits Brutal Puerto Rican Rule, by Diego Montanez

Before the Party Convention: Blast a Way Forward With a Program of Party Expansion, by James P. Cannon

On the Line ..., with Bill Morgan

[Editorials]

• Fight with the Socialist Workers Party for —
• Alarm Signal
• Briggs Strike Victory
• Republicans

A Quaker’s Testimony on Life in the Land of Franco Fascism, by Dorothy Williams

Their Government, by James Burnham

“Christian Ideal”

Vol. III No. 43, 20 June 1939

Socialist Appeal
Official Organ of the Socialist Workers Party, Section of the Fourth International

EDITOR:
Max Shachtman
ASSOCIATE EDITORS:
Harold Roberts
Felix Morrow
STAFF MEMBERS:
Emanuel Garrett
Joseph Hansen
BUSINESS MANAGER:
S. Stanley

Who Is Coughlin, What Is His Program, How Did He Rise? – Installment III, by Joseph Hansen

Organized Labor Stages Great Comeback in Minneapolis Elections

Roosevelt Offers Jobless 22¢ a Day

My Friends ..., by Carlo (cartoon)

Martin Strike Is Desperate Factional Act

New World War Crisis Breaking on European and Asiatic Fronts

French Dictatorship Jails Another Young Militant

Browder Announces Purge of C.P. Ranks and Leadership

S.U.P. Bucks Government Hiring Halls

More Discussion from Members of Party on Convention Problems

• Party Must Overcome Organizational Defects, Resolution Submitted by the California State Executive Committee, S.W.P.
• Submits Two Amendments to Resolution, by Susan Green
• On Translating Party Program into Practice, by Steve Roberts & 4 others

In the Labor Unions, by B.J. Widick

Appeal Army

First Twice-A-Month Challenge Ready July 1st

Sparks in the News, by Dwight Macdonald

• How George Dobbin Lost His Job

Toward the Party Convention: New Directions Require New Methods of Party Work, by James P. Cannon

Men and Women of Labor – Out of the Past, by Emanuel Garrett

• Vincent St. John (1873–June 21, 1929), by James P. Cannon

[Editorials]

• Fight with the Socialist Workers Party for —
• Minneapolis Elections
• Hague and the C.I.O.
• Martin Dies’ Ideal

In This Corner, by Max Shachtman

Texas Bosses Resort to Courts in Offensive Against Unionists

Vol. III No. 44, 23 June 1939

Socialist Appeal
Official Organ of the Socialist Workers Party, Section of the Fourth International

EDITOR:
Max Shachtman
ASSOCIATE EDITORS:
Harold Roberts
Felix Morrow
STAFF MEMBERS:
Emanuel Garrett
Joseph Hansen
BUSINESS MANAGER:
S. Stanley

Who Is Coughlin, What Is His Program, How Did He Rise? – Installment IV, by Joseph Hansen

Administration Bill Wrecking W.P.A. Jammed Through House

Fascists Attack Labor Meeting

Our Own Kind of Defense, by Carlo (cartoon)

An Editorial

• A Lesson to the Fascists – and Labor

Martin’s “Strike” Folds Up

Pre-War Crisis Shifts to Far Eastern Scene

N.M.U. Crisis at Strike End

Who Is Responsible for the W.P.A. Cuts?

What the Party Members Say on National Convention Problems

• On Translating Party Programs into Practice, Submitted by Steve Roberts & 4 others
   
• A Point of View on the Labor Question, by F.X. Ferry & 3 others

In the Labor Unions, by B.J. Widick

Revolutionary French Youth Unite Forces

Appeal Army

Protests Headline on League for Cultural Freedom, from Dwight Macdonald (letter)

In the World of Labor, by Paul G. Stevens

• Congress of French Workers and Peasants’ Socialist Party (P.S.O.P.)
• Willie Gallacher, M.P., and British Imperialism

Toward the Party Convention: On Mass Work and Its Relation to The Struggle Against Stalinism, by James P. Cannon

On the Line ..., with Bill Morgan

[Editorials]

• Fight with the Socialist Workers Party for —
• Attention, Briggs!
• The Silent Mayor
• Friends of the Refugee
• Browderite Lies

Trying to Bring Idle Money, Idle Men Together by Mumbo-Jumbo

Their Government, by James Burnham

Equipped with Diplomas, School Graduates Join Lines of Jobless, by Tony Chapman

Vol. III No. 45, 27 June 1939

Socialist Appeal
Official Organ of the Socialist Workers Party, Section of the Fourth International

EDITOR:
Max Shachtman
ASSOCIATE EDITORS:
Harold Roberts
Felix Morrow
STAFF MEMBERS:
Emanuel Garrett
Joseph Hansen
BUSINESS MANAGER:
S. Stanley

F.D.R. Gives War Defy to Japan

Who Is Coughlin, What Is His Program, How Did He Rise? – Installment V, by Joseph Hansen

Officials Put W.P.A. Slash into Effect

Peace and Democracy! by Carlo (cartoon)

Painters Rout Stalinists in Primary Polls

Practical Struggle against War to Feature Party Convention

Genora Johnson Hails C.I.O. Drive at Labor Gathering

Militant Urges I.L.G.W. to Form Labor Defense Guards

• [Resolution], by Harry Milton

In the Labor Unions, by B.J. Widick

They Showed the Way to Fight W.P.A. Cuts (photo)

Appeal Army

Long Island Progressive Painters Prepare to Oust Stalinists

Book Proceeds to Chinese 4th Internationalists

Convention Problems of the Socialist Workers Party under Discussion

• For a New Orientation in the Party’s Methods — A Program of Action, Statement by Ohio-Michigan District Committee
   
• On Translating the Party Program into Practice, Submitted by Steve Roberts & 4 others
   
• A Point of View on the Labor Party Question, by F.X. Ferry & 3 others
   
• On the Name of the Party

Points of View on Issues Confronting the S.W.P. National Convention

• On the Tasks of the Convention and the Political Resolution, by Hal Draper
   
• Resolution of Houston Branch on Moving Nat’ l Headquarters of Party, Adopted by the Houston Branch of the Socialist Workers Party
   
• Some Suggestions for Building the Party on a Mass Base, by Walter Shipman
   
• Disgusted with S.P. Militant Joins Socialist Workers Party
   
• Crack Appeal Salesman at Work

Sentence 3 For Pleading Case of Jobless Workers

Bronx A.L.P. Calls Outdoor Anti-Coughlin Rally

Convention Note

Challenge Out

Sparks in the News, by Dwight Macdonald

• Kremlin Kultur

Before the Party Convention: For a Three-a-Week Appeal – On the Road to a Daily Paper, by James P. Cannon

Publication of Luxemburg Work Begins in New Int’l

Society Notes

• Aged Man Ejected from Burrow in California
   
• Angier Biddle Dukes Entertain at Tuxedo Park

[Editorials]

• Fight with the Socialist Workers Party for —
• Party Convention
• Chinese Loot
• Stalin as Scientist
• Another Blow

Stopping the Cancer of Fascism – by C.P.’s Methods or by Ours? by Hal Draper

In This Corner, by Max Shachtman

Vol. III No. 46, 30 June 1939

Socialist Appeal
Official Organ of the Socialist Workers Party, Section of the Fourth International

EDITOR:
Max Shachtman
ASSOCIATE EDITORS:
Harold Roberts
Felix Morrow
STAFF MEMBERS:
Emanuel Garrett
Joseph Hansen
BUSINESS MANAGER:
Sherman Stanley

Powers Move to Brink of War

Painters Oust C.P. Machine

75 Months of the New Deal, by Carlo (cartoon)

SWP Convention Opens Friday

Revolt Against Leadership in N.M.U. Grows

Councilmen in Attack on Otto Popovich, by Martin Davey

F.D.R. Trying to Save War Deal By Four Billion Dollar Program

Coughlin Followers Disrupt Meeting of 18,000 in New York

National Campaign Launched for Framed Du Quoin Miners

Anti-War Convention Problems under Discussion

• On Making the Appeal a Paper for the Masses, Statement by the Akron Branch
   
• A Proposed Revision of Section Eight, by Donald Bergner

Appeal Army

In the Labor Unions, by B.J. Widick

Who Is Coughlin, What Is His Program, How Did He Rise? – Installment VI, by Joseph Hansen

C.P. Leadership of Bedding Local 140 Persecutes Critic

Illinois Jobless Back Yipsel Job Campaign

In the World of Labor, by Paul G. Stevens

• Aftermath of Belgian Elections: An Attack Against the Miners
• Another Sample of French Democracy in the Colonies
• A Voice in the Wilderness: Anti-War Speaker at Southport
• Strike Waves Gaining Momentum in India, by Sherman Stanley

Quits C.P., “Joins Growing Parade of Revolutionists”

Toward the Party Convention: On the Relation Between Mass Agitation and Trade Union Work, by James P. Cannon

On the Line ..., with Bill Morgan

[Editorials]

• Fight with the Socialist Workers Party for —
• Painters’ Victory
• Against Boss War!
• On Provoking Riots

The New Deal Skirts U.S. Housing Needs to Build Its War Machine, by Ruth Jeffrey

Their Government, by James Burnham

Towards the Drawing of a Balance Sheet on the Kremlin’s Purges, by M.N.

Vol. III No. 47, 4 July 1939

Socialist Appeal
Official Organ of the Socialist Workers Party, Section of the Fourth International

EDITOR:
Max Shachtman
ASSOCIATE EDITORS:
Harold Roberts
Felix Morrow
STAFF MEMBERS:
Emanuel Garrett
Joseph Hansen
BUSINESS MANAGER:
Sherman Stanley

Upon Whom Shall We Rely to Fight Coughlin? – Installment VII, by Joseph Hansen

F.D.R. Relief-Wrecking Bill Dooms Millions of Jobless to Starvation

The Platform of “Social Justice” (cartoon)

Delegates Pour into N.Y. For Convention Opening

Coughlinites Attack Nat’l Office Guard

Fourth International Greets Party’s Nat’l Anti-War Convention

British Give Way in Far East as Hitler Prepares Danzig Grab

Coughlinites Annoy Appeal Salesman, Cops Arrest Latter

Gulf Seaman Push Revolt Against NMU Leadership

Mrs. Rubens “Freed”, Spins New Plot on Kremlin Order, by Tony Chapman

In the Labor Unions, by B.J. Widick

Discussing the National Convention Issues

• Dissenting Opinion on Ludlow Referendum, by Arthur Burke
   
• On Making the Appeal a Paper for the Masses, Statement by the Akron Branch

Appeal Army

Joint A.F.L., C.I.O. Labor Day Parade

Sparks in the News, by Dwight Macdonald

• Information, Please
• Add: Kremlin Kultur
• “Egyptian Socialism”

Slum Dwellers Protest Boston Clearance Plan

Men and Women of Labor – Out of the Past, by Emanuel Garrett

• Wendell Phillips (Nov. 29, 1811–Feb. 2, 1884)

Minn. Farmer-Labor Confab Skirts Basic Problems

Definition

[Editorials]

• Fight with the Socialist Workers Party for —
• What They Say
• Stalin’s Russia
• Danger Signal
• Education Be Damned

Striking a Balance of Labor’s Recent Minneapolis Campaign

New Testimony Damning Stalin Policy of Rule or Ruin in Spain, by Ray Robbins

In This Corner, by Max Shachtman

Striking a Balance of Labor’s Recent Minneapolis Campaign

Vol. III No. 48, 7 July 1939

Socialist Appeal
Official Organ of the Socialist Workers Party, Section of the Fourth International

EDITOR:
Max Shachtman
ASSOCIATE EDITORS:
Harold Roberts
Felix Morrow
STAFF MEMBERS:
Emanuel Garrett
Joseph Hansen
BUSINESS MANAGER:
Sherman Stanley

We Can Rely Only on Labor to Fight Coughlin’s Gangs – Final Installment, by Joseph Hansen

Socialist Workers Party Convention Calls for Fight against Boss War

• Overflow Meeting Hails Opening of National Convention, by Ruth Jeffrey and Tony Chapman
   
• Brazilian 4th Internationalists Greet U.S. Anti-War Convention
   
• Delegates Discuss Anti-War Activity

Action, Not Talk, Will Stop the Enemy! by Carlo (cartoon)

British Labor Skates Raise War Clamor

Roosevelt Signs Bill Wrecking the W.P.A., by Ray Robbins

Sidelights on the Convention

Anti-Coughlin Witnesses Get Run-Around

Militants Fight Scheme to Put Jobless in Work Camps

S.P. Jobless Organization Raises Political Barrier

A Fraternal Hand from the British 4th International, from C.P. Stanton

In the Labor Unions, by B.J. Widick

Convention Resolution on Workers Defense Guard

Appeal Army

Coughlinites Are Seen for What They Are

In the World of Labor, by Paul G. Stevens

• New Anti-Conscription Slogan: “Cigarettes for Our Boys!”
• “Democratic” Government Terror Rages in Syria
• Carrying the “White Man’s Burden” in South Africa: 1939 Style

Oakland Alliance Expels Two for Militant Action

Jobless Seek Action, Get Talk Fest

On the Line ..., with Bill Morgan

Life and Liberty under New Deal – When a Jobless Family Asks for Some Coal

Canadian C.P. Suspends Publication of Daily Paper

[Editorials]

• Fight with the Socialist Workers Party for —
• The Negro Question
• Loyal Subjects
• A Tax on Teachers

Weakness of the Labor Campaign in Minneapolis — A Balance Sheet, by Karl O’Shea

Their Government, by James Burnham

Labor Looks Through the Press, by Arthur Hopkins

Vol. III No. 49, 11 July 1939

Socialist Appeal
Official Organ of the Socialist Workers Party, Section of the Fourth International

EDITOR:
Max Shachtman
ASSOCIATE EDITORS:
Harold Roberts
Felix Morrow
STAFF MEMBERS:
Emanuel Garrett
Joseph Hansen
BUSINESS MANAGER:
Sherman Stanley

Let the People Vote on War!

W.P.A. Construction Strike Will Force Congress to Change Law! by Tony Chapman

• A.F.L. Raps New Deal Strike Stand

It’s a “Trick”! by Carlo (cartoon)

Labor-Haters Pour Money into Growing Coughlin Movement, by Joseph Hansen

Mpls. Drivers Win Gains in New Contracts

I.L.G.W.U. Local Discusses Defense Guards

The State of the Nation

Anti-War Convention Ends Spirited Session

Convention Adopts Program of Expansion In Organization Drive to Build the S.W.P.

Sailor Spike F.D.R. Order on Fink-Halls, by C. Thomas

Circulate Petitions Against Reactionary Mass. Election Law

Men and Scenes at the National Anti-War Convention of the S.W.P. (photos)

In the Labor Unions, by B.J. Widick

Jobless Go without Relief, Officials Get New Cars, by Bill Morgan

Appeal Army

Shoe Workers Out on Strike

Sparks in the News, by Dwight Macdonald

• [SWP Convention]
• Two Dangers

“SWP and Negro Work”, Resolution Adopted by the National Convention

Workers’ Forum

• New Officers Don’t Go Over with Local 117, from Member of I.L.G.W.U.
• The Case of a Jobless Worker, from Howard Stump

Men and Women of Labor – Out of the Past, by Emanuel Garrett

• William Morris (March 24, 1834–October 3, 1896), by Hal Draper

[Editorials]

• Fight with the Socialist Workers Party for —
• A Political Strike
• Not a Private Employer
• Loads of Publicity
• Unskilled Workers
• Aping Their Brothers

In the Disease Ridden Slums We See an Indictment of Boss Rule, by Ruth Jeffrey

In This Corner, by Max Shachtman

Labor Looks Through the Press, by Arthur Hopkins

Vol. III No. 50, 14 July 1939

Socialist Appeal
Official Organ of the Socialist Workers Party, Section of the Fourth International

EDITOR:
Max Shachtman
ASSOCIATE EDITORS:
Harold Roberts
Felix Morrow
STAFF MEMBERS:
Emanuel Garrett
Joseph Hansen
BUSINESS MANAGER:
Sherman Stanley

Let the People Vote on War! by James Burnham

Workers! One Hundred Percent Support to the WPA Strikers!

• President Roosevelt — Strikebreaker
   
• New York – Launch Drive to Get Backing of Unskilled Workers for Strike
   
• Akron – Unskilled Workers Plan Joint Action with Construction Strikers
   
• Minneapolis – Local 544 WPA Section Joins Strike as Labor Movement Backs Action
   
• St. Louis – Thousands in Strike Protest Against Gov’t Starvation Bill
   
• Rochester – Strike Action Spreads Fast as Men Down Tools Spontaneously

Build Workers Defense Guards against Fascism, by Carlo (cartoon)

Coughlin Delivers Fascist Blast Agaisnt Workers Defense Guards, by Joseph Hansen

• He’s Got the Idea! – Harry Milton (photo)

New Deal Officials’ Threats Fail to Slow Up National W.P.A Strike

• “We Are Not Intimidated in the Least” Say Union Leaders
   
• American Fund Answers Somervell Threat By Offering Aid to Arrested W.P.A. Strikers
   
• Monday Morning Test Finds New York Strike Line Solid, by Tony Chapman
   
• Worker Security Federation Leaders Scab on WPA Strike, by E.R. McKinney
   
• Popovich Raps Strike-Breaking of Federation
   
• Strike Sidelights ..., by Stan Lauren

In the Labor Unions, by B.J. Widick

Rochester Gears into Nat’l Anti-Coughlin Campaign

Y.P.S.L. Will Picket French Consulate

Fascists Threaten Negro Actor

The Convention Photos

In the World of Labor, by Paul G. Stevens

• Marceau Pivert Joins List of Persecuted Anti-Militarists
• Strikes Against Lower Living Standard Spreading in Indo-China
• Canadian Comrades Organize Farmers Branches in West

WAA Head Snipes at WPA Strike, by Ray Robbins

Chicago Relief Slashed, by S.B. Grant

On the Line ..., with Bill Morgan

[Editorials]

• Fight with the Socialist Workers Party for —
• The Strike Can and Must Be Won
• The Government – Strikebreaker
• “We Fight On!”
• How Win in the Strike?
• Roosevelt’s Silence

Twin City W.P.A. Workers Stage Strike Again Starvation Bill, by Carl O’Shea

Their Government, by James Burnham

California W.A.A. Exceeds Itself in Gross Stupidity

Defy Coughlin Fascists at Bronx Outdoor Meeting

Watch Out for Stalinists Scabbing

Vol. III No. 51, 18 July 1939

Socialist Appeal
Official Organ of the Socialist Workers Party, Section of the Fourth International

EDITOR:
Max Shachtman
ASSOCIATE EDITORS:
Harold Roberts
Felix Morrow
STAFF MEMBERS:
Emanuel Garrett
Joseph Hansen
BUSINESS MANAGER:
Sherman Stanley

Let the People Vote on War! – Part II, by James Burnham

New Deal Strikebreaking Moves Fail to Smash W.P.A. Strike Lines

• Million on WPA to Be Fired by Sept. 1st
   
• Minneapolis – Skilled and Unskilled WPA Workers, 50,000 Strong, Keep Projects Shut Tight
   
• Not All Who Work on WPA Are Underpaid
   
• New York – “Strike to the Finish” For Union Rate Goes on Says Murray, Union Head
   
• Toledo – Ohio Building Trades Council Orders Members on W.P.A. to Strike
   
• Philadelphia – Construction Workers Vote to Strike Against W.P.A. Paycuts Despite Firing Threat
   
• Flint – Strike Called by Auto Union Auxiliary Climaxed by Militant Demonstration

Not so Fast, Mr. Dubinsky!

North Beach Airport Is Center of W.P.A. New York Strike Struggle

• Press Tour of Project Give Somervell the Lie, by Tony Chapman
   
• Boston Subway Workers Join in W.P.A. Strike
   
• Drive to Organize the Unskilled Gains Speed, by Ray Robbins
   
• Subway Laborers Debate Strike
   
• Militant W.P.A. Union Rouses Labor Spirit
   
• Strike Sidelights ..., by Stan Lauren

In the Labor Unions, by B.J. Widick

Appeal Army

Newark Fires Opening Gun in Fund Drive

Two Letters – On Their Morals and Ours, from Mitchell Raffer

Sparks in the News, by Dwight Macdonald

• Bank Report
• Bond Addicts
• Money Goes on Relief

Threaten to Spread Strike in Auto Plant

Not Our Kind of Job! by Carlo (cartoon)

Protests Hounding of S.W.P. Literature Salesmen by Police, by Edward R. Frank

S.P. Tries to Squirm Out of Disgraceful Strike Stand, by E.R. McKinney

New Castle Police Beat Negro Worker

Men and Women of Labor – Out of the Past, by Emanuel Garrett

• Jean Paul Marat (May 24, 1743–July 13, 1793)

Flying Squadron Pull St. Louis W.P.A. Projects

Speakers at Puerto Rican Rally Flay Yankee Imperialism

Workers Swelter, “Society” Opens Swimming Pool

[Editorials]

• Fight withn the Socialist Workers Party for —
• Atty. Gen. Murphy Invents Some Law
• “Utterly Contemptible”
• Unskilled Workers’ Strike

Tightening the Belt! by Carlo (cartoon)

In This Corner, by Max Shachtman

New Deal Strikebreaking Moves Fail to Crack W.P.A. Strike Lines

• Akron, by Paul Fielding
• Detroit

Vol. III No. 52, 21 July 1939

Socialist Appeal
Official Organ of the Socialist Workers Party, Section of the Fourth International

EDITOR:
Max Shachtman
ASSOCIATE EDITORS:
Harold Roberts
Felix Morrow
STAFF MEMBERS:
Emanuel Garrett
Joseph Hansen
BUSINESS MANAGER:
Sherman Stanley

Take Slave Wages or Starve! Declares “Pink Slip” Roosevelt, by Tony Chapman

Let the People Vote on War! – Part III, by James Burnham

• Labor Speaks

Minnesota Labor Honors Its Martyr

Project No. 1, by Carlo (cartoon)

S.W.P. Leads Anti-Coughlin Picket Line

News from WPA Strike Front Shows Picket Lines Hold Solid

• An Education in Politics
   
• Chicago – Building Trades Council Calls Men out on Strike
   
• Rochester – Strike Compels Shutting of All W.P.A. Operations
   
• Philadelphia – Strike Called on All Gov’t Financed Projects
   
• St. Paul – Federal and Local Cops Fail to Scare Strikers

Finks Find Going Tough

All the News That’s Fit to Print???

In the Labor Unions, by B.J. Widick

W.A.A. Publicly Joins Strikebreakers

The Way to Victory! (photo)

On the W.P.A. Picket Line in Minnesota, by Carl O’Shea

Appeal Army

Workers’ Forum

• The Good Life on a W.P.A. Wage, from Jimmie L.
• “Charity” Begins with Hounding of of Sick, from J.L.
• Another Example of Stalinist Sabotage, from Project Worker

Stalinist Outfit Wrecks Alameda W.P.A. Strike

Boston Appeal Salesman Hold Ground Against Coughlinites

Militants Quit S.P. Jobless Organization

Congress “Liberals” Back Down

Watch the Anti-Coughlin Campaign in New York! by Abe Miller

Russian Bulletin Out

In the World of Labor, by Paul G. Stevens

• Bevin’s Too Radical for Mr. Harry Pollitt
• Ambassador Maisky Explains Current Kremlin Policy

Labor Speaks – Exposing Another Political Doublecross

On the Line ..., with Bill Morgan

Who Is the Murderer?

Cleveland W.P.A. Strike Growing, by Art Preis

[Editorials]

• Fight with the Socialist Workers Party for —
• Labor’s Road after Roosevelt’s Statement
• The War Deal
• Labor Party
• The Bridges Case
• Stalinist Worries

News from WPA Strike Front Shows Picket Lines Hold Solid

• Streator, by Ben Martin
   
• East St Louis

Their Government, by James Burnham

Role of Stalinism in the Recent Minneapolis Labor Campaign, by Carl O’Shea

Vol. III No. 53, 25 July 1939

Socialist Appeal
Official Organ of the Socialist Workers Party, Section of the Fourth International

EDITOR:
Max Shachtman
ASSOCIATE EDITORS:
Harold Roberts
Felix Morrow
STAFF MEMBERS:
Emanuel Garrett
Joseph Hansen
BUSINESS MANAGER:
Sherman Stanley

New Deal Hounds WPA Strikers

• Attorney General Seeks Indictment of Union Leaders
   
• Every Union Must Act to Defend the Minneapolis Trade Unions!
   
• F.D.R. To Prosecute Unions for “Crime” of Being Progressive

Thousands of Minnesota Workers Turnout for Bergstrom Funeral, by Arthur Hopkins

W.A.A. Strikebreakers Stand Self-Accused

• Few Workers Answer Call to Attend Patriotic Assembly
   
• Lasser Publicly Proclaims Scab Role of Stalinist Outfit, by Ray Robbins

New York Strike to Continue Full Blast Says Union Leader, by Tony Chapman

Communist Party Hatchetmen at Work

Murray Statement on WPA Strike

Monkeys Well Fed While Jobless Starve

Chicago Strike of Skilled WPA Labor Grows

New Haven Cops Arrest Two at Anti-Coughlin Meeting

In the Labor Unions, by B.J. Widick

Lundeberg Raps Stalinist Trick

Another Vicious Swipe at Chicago’s Jobless, by S.B. Grant

Appeal Army

Let the People Vote on War! – Part IV, by James Burnham

Workers’ Forum

• The Unions and the Unskilled Worker on W.P.A., from A W.P.A. Worker
• F.D.R.’s Policy Would Wreck Union Basis, from John Fishort

A Letter from Poland

Scissorbill Sam Acts His Part, But Fails to Spike Militancy

Sparks in the News, by Dwight Macdonald

• Taxes and the New Deal
• Corporations: $1,300,000,000 – Consumers: $3,400,000,000

Stalinist Stooge Spoke Too Soon

Disorganize the Organized, by Carlo (cartoon)

Men and Women of Labor – Out of the Past, by Emanuel Garrett

• William H. Sylvis (Nov. 26, 1828–July 27, 1869)

Trotsky Answers “Renegades from Marxism” in August New Int’l

Stalinist Seek to Disrupt Y.P.S.L. Activity

New York Locals’ Activities Reviewed in Party Action

[Editorials]

• Fight with the Socialist Workers Party for —
• “Inaccurate” Roosevelt
• Johnson Knows
• Talk to Stalinists!

One Project That Will Be Well Financed! by Carlo (cartoon)

In This Corner, by Max Shachtman

Roosevelt Prepares Frame-Up to Destroy Building Trades Union, by Ruth Jeffrey

Guilty of Bribery? Appointed a Cop

Vol. III No. 54, 28 July 1939

Socialist Appeal
Official Organ of the Socialist Workers Party, Section of the Fourth International

EDITOR:
Max Shachtman
ASSOCIATE EDITORS:
Harold Roberts
Felix Morrow
STAFF MEMBERS:
Emanuel Garrett
Joseph Hansen
BUSINESS MANAGER:
Sherman Stanley

Do Not Fall Again for the Vile Lies of 25 Years Ago!

Skilled W.P.A. Workers Still Out; Minneapolis Rescinds Pink Slips

• Skilled Men Continue Strike for Union Wage; Union Raps Murphy
  
  Endorse Agreement Returning WPA Jobs to Unskilled Workers, by Carl O’Shea
  
  Labor Must Guard Against F.B.I. Frame-Ups, Says Union
   
• May Strike All Gov’t Financed Projects, by Tony Chapman

The American Way? by Carlo (cartoon)

Coughlinites Threaten March through Jewish Quarter of New York

Flint C.I.O. Auxiliary Brands F.D.R. Strikebreaker Number 1

• Full Text of Flint Resolution

This Man Didn’t Strike Against the Government, by Blake Lear

Man Bites Dog — Paper Tells Truth

Packard Local Quits Martin, Rejoins U.A.W.

A Fink Gets His Reward

Boss-Court Railroads Two Iowa Union Men to Jail

LaGuardia Gives Whitewash to Fascists in Police Force

Mpls. Rescinds Dismissal Slips for W.P.A. Unskilled

• Pledging 100 Percent Support to the Strike! (photo)
   
• At a Minneapolis Strike Meeting (photo)

Appeal Army

Ohio A.F.L. for Unity with C.I.O., by Paul Fielding

Jail Workers Under High Bail for Protesting Franco Celebration

The Well-Bred Englishman

Court Fines Philadelphia Anti-Fascist

Russian Bulletin Out

In the World of Labor, by Paul G. Stevens

• Anti-War Actions in British India
• Workers in the Lead of Independence Movement
• Behind the Breakdown of Anglo-Russian Negotiations

Workers’ Forum

• Radio Union Rank & File Rejects Labor Skate, from J.H.
• Answer to Dubinsky Hailed in Lynn, from Ralph Stoneham
• Coughlinites Open Brookly Campaign, from I.W.

A Letter to the Editor – James T. Farrell Answers Broun, from James T. Farrell

• “And the Angels Sing!” by Carlo (cartoon)

On the Line ..., with Bill Morgan

[Editorials]

• Fight with the Socialist Workers Party for —
• One Out of Five
• The War Crisis

The Cloven-Hoof of Democracy Shows Itself in the M-Day Plan, by Hal Draper

Their Government, by James Burnham

The Daily Worker and the WPA Strike – A Typical Stalinist Record, by Ray Robbins

Labor Looks Through the Press, by Arthur Hopkins

Tobacco Workers’ Local Demands Union Convention

Return of the Prodigal

Vol. III No. 55, 1 August 1939

Socialist Appeal
Official Organ of the Socialist Workers Party, Section of the Fourth International

EDITOR:
Max Shachtman
ASSOCIATE EDITORS:
Harold Roberts
Felix Morrow
STAFF MEMBERS:
Emanuel Garrett
Joseph Hansen
BUSINESS MANAGER:
Sherman Stanley

Let the People Vote on War! by Hal Draper

• You’re Right, Colonel, The People Would Vote Against War!

An Editorial

• Don’t Let Congress Bury the Issue!

W.P.A. Strike In N.Y. Continues; Building Trades Unions Consider Tie-Up on All Gov. Financed Jobs, by Tony Chapman

Building Slump Charge to Big Bankers, by Ruth Jeffrey

Minneapolis Drivers When Wage Dispute

Branch Quotas Set for $10,000 Fund

Allentown Workers Fight W.P.A. Layoff

Father Coughlin Attacks American Labor Movement, by Joseph Hansen

Baby Buggy Picket Irks Relief Official — Father Wins Bed

Federal Agents Try Blow Against New York Teamsters

A.F.L. Wanted Strike Extended

W.P.A. Strike Began in the Twin Cities

• Why and How It Started; What All Workers Can Learn From It
   
• The Appeal in Action (photo)

Appeal Army

In the Labor Unions, by B.J. Widick

“Labor Government Needed” W.P.A. Pickets Tell Reporter, by Neil White

Sparks in the News, by Dwight Macdonald

• Gold Is Where You Find It
• Boss Bites Business Manager
• Judge Manton Again
• The I.A.M.S.S.P.R.S.T.M.S.H.T.H.
• The Cream of the Jest

My Day – The Unauthorized Diary of Mr. Roosevelt

Workers’ Forum

• Organize Unskilled Warns Mpls. Worker, from T.M.A.
• Arrested Anti-Fascist Tells Her Story, from Ruth Wilner

Trotsky Answers Moralist Critics of Marxism in New International

Men and Women of Labor – Out of the Past, by Emanuel Garrett

• Joe Hill (executed, Nov. 19, 1915), by John Dos Passos

The New War

• “National Defense”
• The Defense of Democracy

S.U.P. Demands March to Show Labor Power

[Editorials]

• Fight with the Socialist Workers Party for —
• Better Than Silence
• President and Congress

McNutt, Hoosier Hitler, Pushed Forward by F.D.R. in 1940 Drive, by Paul Fielding

In This Corner, by Max Shachtman

Quotas Set for Branches of S.W.P. – War Referendum Pamphlet

National Youth Group Forms Defense Guard

Model Petition

Vol. III No. 56, 4 August 1939

Socialist Appeal
Official Organ of the Socialist Workers Party, Section of the Fourth International

EDITOR:
Max Shachtman
ASSOCIATE EDITORS:
Harold Roberts
Felix Morrow
STAFF MEMBERS:
Emanuel Garrett
Joseph Hansen
BUSINESS MANAGER:
Sherman Stanley

Appeal Readers Can Help Us Build the Party, by Felix Morrow

Disguised Federal Agents Were “Rioters” in Mpls. W.P.A. Strike

Ohio Auto Strikers Beat Back Police Tear Gas and Bullet Barrage

Strikers Await Decision on Wages

Hit at Unions in Grand Jury Investigation

Coughlin Issues Call for Civil War Against American Labor Unions

Anti-Labor Bill Passed by House

An Editorial

• ‘Franco’s Way’ Need Not Become America’s Way

Construction Projects Shut Tight in Chi.

President of Minneapolis Central Labor Union Answers Attack on WPA Strike

Political Resolution of the S.W.P. Convention, Adopted by the National Anti-War Convention of the Socialist Workers Party

Appeal Army

S.W.P. Meeting Attacked by C.P. Hooligans

F.D.R. Responsible For Ku Klux Klan Appointment

In the World of Labor, by Paul G. Stevens

• Leon Blum Reveals His Role in Installing Daladier
• Daladier Plans Frame-Ups Against French Anti-Militarists
• Belgian Militants Appeal for Help in Miners’ Struggle
• Stalinists Attack Thomas Mann: End of Another People’s Front?

A Letter to the Lovestone Group – Proposing Effective Labor Action Against the Coughlinite Menace, from E.R. Frank

Leaflets Scores Movie War Propaganda

Chicago Relief Cut Far below Living Needs, by S.B. Grant

Workers Alliance and the WPA Strike — A Company Union Record, by Neil White

He Won’t Need a Pink Slip

[Editorials]

• Fight with the Socialist Workers Party for —
• The Japanese Treaty
• Unwilling Witness
• The Farmers and the WPA Workers’ Strike
• John Boscoe’s Speech

Somebody’s Got a Kick Coming, by Carlo (cartoon)

Their Government, by James Burnham

Vol. III No. 57, 8 August 1939

Socialist Appeal
Official Organ of the Socialist Workers Party, Section of the Fourth International

EDITOR:
Max Shachtman
ASSOCIATE EDITORS:
Felix Morrow
Emanuel Garrett
GENERAL MANAGER:
Martin Abern
ASSISTANT MANAGER:
Sherman Stanley

An Editorial

• Only the People Have the Right to Decide on War! – The War That Is Coming Will Not Be a People’s War

Roosevelt Promotes Instigator of “Bloody Friday” in Minneapolis

National Stockyard Struggle Brewing, by Porferio

The Joker in the Deck! by Carlo (cartoon)

Fisher Body Men Ready to Fight On

Lending Bill Hokum Is Ended

News Item: Senator Gets Idea

New Relief Proposal No Help, by Neil White

Bronx Coughlin Group Brags about Fascist Preparations

They Cheered the Militia

Mass Action by Negro Workers Brings Victory, by Paul Picquet

The Boss Courts at Work

In the Labor Unions, by B.J. Widick

Not a Preview of the Coming World War! (photo)

War Referendum Campaign Notes

• War Referendum Campaign Off to Flying Start in New York, by Hal Draper
   
• Newark Takes Lead in Drive to Build Appeal

Streator WPA Strikers Get Jobs Back in Settlement

Workers’ Forum

• Puzzled Reader Seeks Clarification, from J.P. Cannon
• Silver Shirts Start Drive in New York, from Edward Smallwood

Sparks in the News, by Dwight Macdonald

• The Old Misleader
• F.D.R. Removes the Fig Leaf
• Those Terrible Trotskyites!

An Appeal for International Solidarity Against the Repressions in France, by Marie Guerin

New York Public School System Crippled by Cuts, by Bruno Johnson

Men and Women of Labor – Out of the Past, by Emanuel Garrett

• Thorstein Veblen (July 30, 1857–August 3, 1929), by Bruno Johnson

Who’s Against the War Referendum? – Roosevelt Gives the Whole Show Away, by Hal Draper

[Editorials]

• Fight with the Socialist Workers Party for —
• No Secret Diplomacy
• “Trotskyite Drive”

Pros and Cons Not Far Apart in Congress Neutrality Act Dispute, by James Burnham

In This Corner, by Max Shachtman

Labor Looks Through the Press, by Arthur Hopkins

Vol. III No. 58, 11 August 1939

Socialist Appeal
Official Organ of the Socialist Workers Party, Section of the Fourth International

EDITOR:
Max Shachtman
ASSOCIATE EDITORS:
Felix Morrow
Emanuel Garrett
GENERAL MANAGER:
Martin Abern
ASSISTANT MANAGER:
Sherman Stanley

Take the War-Making Power Away from the Boss Politicians!

Let the Profiteers Do the Dying! – The People Do Not Want to Suffer and Die in War

Stop Fascism in America! (First Installment), by Joseph Hansen

“Happy Days Are Here Again” by Carlo (cartoon)

New Mass Layoffs on WPA Speeded

Local New York Launches Drive to Place Names on Ballot

• George Lyman Paine (photo)
• Max Shachtman (photo)

Millions of Men Await Call to War

Judge Rules Anti-Coughlin Salesman Can Shout Slogans

In the Labor Unions, by B.J. Widick

Statements by S.W.P. Candidates for Council

• The Labor Movement Must Stop Fascism from Gaining Power, by George Lyman Paine
   
• SWP Gives Workers an Opportunity to Vote against War, by Max Shachtman

Launch Drive to Unionize WPA Workers

Bureaucrats Win Elections in Fur Union

Appeal Army

Newark Calls Anti-War Meet

Workers’ Forum

• Catholic Objects to Appeal News Report, from Harry Cyril Read
• [Reply], by Ed.
• From a comrade in Canada, from Charles L.

Arrest Guild Pickets for Annoying ‘Persons Unknown’

Y.P.S.L. Will Open Summer Camp and School August 11

Thousands at Anti-War Rallies Called by New York S.W.P.

Who’s Against the War Referendum? – American Legion Distrusts the People, by Hal Draper

In the World of Labor, by Paul G. Stevens

• South American Situation Fraught with Revolutionary Possibilities, by Diego Montanez

Who Won the World War? (diagram)

New Masses and Father Coughlin, by Joseph Hansen

On the Line ..., with Bill Morgan

Negro Workers at Phila. Rally Hear SWP Position on WPA, Relief

Let’s All Stick Together, by A WPA Striker (poem )

Democracy versus Fascism?

[Editorials]

• Fight with the Socialist Workers Party for —
• Roosevelt’s Whip
• Reaction Advances
• Defending “Democracy”

The Bankers Block Construction — Blame the Unions, Says New Deal, by Ruth Jeffrey

Their Government, by James Burnham

CIO Unionmen Back AFL In Colorado PWA Strike, by J.T. Malley

A Victory for Fourth International in Indochina, from Phan-van-Hum et al.

Vol. III No. 59, 15 August 1939

Socialist Appeal
Official Organ of the Socialist Workers Party, Section of the Fourth International

EDITOR:
Max Shachtman
ASSOCIATE EDITORS:
Felix Morrow
Emanuel Garrett
GENERAL MANAGER:
Martin Abern
ASSISTANT MANAGER:
Sherman Stanley

Fascists March on Union Sq.

• Workers! Rally Aug. 19 Against Fascist Invasion of Labor Center!
   
• Stop Fascism in America! (Second Installment), by Joseph Hansen
   
• An Appeal to the Communist Party for United Front Action, from Local New York, Socialist Workers Party
   
• Favors for Coughlinites, Stiff Fines for Anti-Coughlinites
   
• Anti-Fascists Meet Coughlin Challenge

The End of the Rainbow, by Carlo (cartoon)

Autoworkers Win Union Recognition

Enthusiasm Greets Party War Referendum Campaign, by Hal Draper

Anti-Labor Practices Laid at Door of Armour Meat Co.

Appeal Army

Anti-War Fund Scoreboard

Negro Dep’t Plans Work

It’s Our Lives against Their “Responsibility”

Sparks in the News, by Dwight Macdonald

• A Short History of American Liberalism
• “Unpardonable! ... Amazing!”
• How’s-That-Again Department
• Sweet-Land-of-Liberty Department

This Is What the War Meant to the Bosses – 1917 (diagram)

The Negro Question, by J.R. Johnson

• The SWP Tackles Negro Work

Union Leader Addresses Open Letter to F.D.R. on WPA Cuts, from Emil Mazey, Local 212, UAW-CIO

Map National Drive to Aid Guild Strikers

Men and Women of Labor – Out of the Past, by Emanuel Garrett

• Frank Little (lynched, August 1, 1917)

Crowd Balks Coughlinite Move to Break S.W.P. Meeting, by John Travis

7,392 Copies of Anti-War Pamphlets Are Ordered in One Week

[Editorials]

• Fight with the Socialist Workers Party for —
• Cops Will Not Stop Fascists
• Rudolph Klement
• Spanish Epilogue
• CIO “News”

Colorado Strike Battle Indicates Need of Union Defense Guards

In This Corner, by Max Shachtman

Sending in Your Dollars, Help Fight Coughlin

Labor Looks Through the Press, by Arthur Hopkins

Vol. III No. 60, 18 August 1939

Socialist Appeal
Official Organ of the Socialist Workers Party, Section of the Fourth International

EDITOR:
Max Shachtman
ASSOCIATE EDITORS:
Felix Morrow
Emanuel Garrett
GENERAL MANAGER:
Martin Abern
ASSISTANT MANAGER:
Sherman Stanley

Workers! Mass at Union Square Saturday, Aug. 19, 4:30 P.M.

S.W.P. Calls for United Labor Action Against the Fascist Invasion, by E.R. Frank

New York Workers Gird for Anti-Coughlin Demonstration

Rally at Union Square Against the Fascist Provocation! (map)

Stop Fascism in America! (Third Installment), by Joseph Hansen

Board of War Dictators Set Up by Washington, by Hal Draper

Four Jewish Boys Murderously Beaten by Christian Fronters

Coughlinite Shock Troops Riot in Bronx

New Wage Slashes for WPA, by Neil White

Mighty Parade of New York Labor Opens AFL Convention

War Referendum Campaign Notes

• Street Meetings, Tag Days Planned – Members Recruited, by Hal Draper
   
• Start Made on Increasing Bundle Orders, Subscriptions

Appeal Army

Paul Luttinger (obituary)

Workers’ Forum

• He’s Passing the Word round for Aug. 19, from A.B.
• Party Secretary’s Questions Answered, from J.W.

Workers Defense Guards and the Struggle Against Fascism – An Exchange of Correspondence Between David Dubinsky And a Rank and File Militant of Local 10, I.L.G.W.U.

“Blow for Blow” Against Coughlin

In the World of Labor, by Paul G. Stevens

• A Sharp Split in the Communist Party of India
• Rumblings in the C.P. of the Mother Country Also

Roosevelt Embarrasses the Communist Party

On the Line ..., with Bill Morgan

Mussolini Chops Down His Own Ranks, speech of Benito Mussolini (April 2, 1931)

[Editorials]

• Fight with the Socialist Workers Party for —
• War Dictatorship
• Coughlin’s AFL Record
• How Fight Fascism?

The Union of “Social Justice” by Carlo (cartoon)

Their Government, by James Burnham

An Editorial

• There Is No Substitute for the August 19 Demonstration

Lay Plans to Fight Jobless “Deportation”

The Editor of the Jewish Day and the Coughlin Demonstration

CIO Packinghouse Organizer Arrested by Boss Flunkies

Armour Rehires 15 Dismissed Workers

The American Way – 1939

Vol. III No. 61, 22 August 1939

Socialist Appeal
Official Organ of the Socialist Workers Party, Section of the Fourth International

EDITOR:
Max Shachtman
ASSOCIATE EDITORS:
Felix Morrow
Emanuel Garrett
GENERAL MANAGER:
Martin Abern
ASSISTANT MANAGER:
Sherman Stanley

Take the War-Making Power Away from Congress!

Victory Demonstration in Union Square!

• SWP Completes Plans for Giant Anti-Fascist Rally in Union Square
   
• Clinch the Victory over Fascist Bands!
   
• German-American Fraternal Group Backs S.W.P. Call
   
• Bundits Ordered To Parade by Nazi Fuehrer
   
• New York AFL Convention Adopts Resolution Blasting Coughlinism

Party Swings into Action on National Anti-War Campaign, by Hal Draper

• Anti-War Fund Scoreboard

WPA Wage Cuts Take Effect in September, by Neil White

New York AFL Meet Raps Roosevelt Anti-Labor Stand, by Stanley Lauren

CIO Affiliate Backs People’s Vote on War

An Editorial

• The Way to Fight Coughlin Is the Way of Labor Action

In the Labor Unions, by B.J. Widick

Coughlinites Meet under Police Guard

Stop Fascism in America! (Fourth Installment), by Joseph Hansen

Appeal Army

Repulse Fascist Attempt to Rout Phila. Meeting

Sparks in the News, by Dwight Macdonald

• Automotive Progress – in Reverse
• Weather Report
• Spain: Work in Progress

Who Won the World War? – This Is What the War Meant for the Workers! (diagram)

The Negro Question, by J.R. Johnson

• The American Negro and the Proletarian Revolution

Workers’ Forum

• Appreciates Morgan Column on YPSL Camp, from Irving Howe
• A Bit of True Company Unionism, from Y.P.
• [Lettter], from Herbert C. Legg
• Defending Democracy in an “Honorable” Way, from A.S.

Men and Women of Labor – Out of the Past, by Emanuel Garrett

• Sacco and Vanzetti (executed August 23, 1927)

September New International Features Situation in WPA

[Editorials]

• Fight with the Socialist Workers Party for —
• Meany vs. Rubin
• Morgan’s War
• Birds of a Feather
• Not an Accident

The M-Day Plan Seen for What It Is — A Blueprint for Dictatorship, by Hal Draper

In This Corner, by Max Shachtman

These Stalwarts, Having Done Their Bit, ‘Won’t Be There’, by Neil White

Vol. III No. 62, 25 August 1939

Socialist Appeal
Official Organ of the Socialist Workers Party, Section of the Fourth International

EDITOR:
Max Shachtman
ASSOCIATE EDITORS:
Felix Morrow
Emanuel Garrett
GENERAL MANAGER:
Martin Abern
ASSISTANT MANAGER:
Sherman Stanley

Give to the Anti-War Party – $10,000 Fund Drive

Stalin Gives Hitler Go-Ahead Signal!

Enlist in the SWP to Fight Against Imperialist War, by Hal Draper

• Anti-War Fund Scoreboard

Democracy Begins at Home, Mr. Roosevelt! by Carlo (cartoon)

The Silence of the Tomb

An Urgent Call — And a Warning

N.Y. Anti-Fascist Protest Sends Coughlinites Scurrying for Cover, by Joseph Hansen

WPA Measured in Human Lives

World Powers Mobilize as War Threatens

In the Labor Unions, by B.J. Widick

Stop Fascism in America! (Fifth Installment), by Joseph Hansen

Anti-War Campaign

• Subs Coming In but Big Cities Not Up to Par

Appeal Army

What the N.Y. Party Did to Spike the Coughlin Parade

In the World of Labor, by Paul G. Stevens

• West Indians Will Fight – At Home, Against Own Oppressors
• Hathaway Is Not the Only Stalinist Convicted as a Slanderer

The Negro Question, by J.R. Johnson

• Chauvinism Must Be Driven Out

A Review of the Developments Leading to the Actors’ Dispute, by B.J. Widick

Flint CIO Council Opens Labor Party Discussion

[Editorials]

• Fight with the Socialist Workers Party for —
• 12. Full Social, Political and Economic Equality for the Negro People
• Seventy Indicted
• Cultural Note
• Confidentially

Their Government, by James Burnham

These Gentlemen Are against the War Referendum

Workers’ Forum

• Yes, Some People Are a Funny Lot, from B.L.

Vol. III No. 63, 29 August 1939

Socialist Appeal
Official Organ of the Socialist Workers Party, Section of the Fourth International

EDITOR:
Max Shachtman
ASSOCIATE EDITORS:
Felix Morrow
Emanuel Garrett
GENERAL MANAGER:
Martin Abern
ASSISTANT MANAGER:
Sherman Stanley

Only the Revolutionary Struggle against Work and Save Humanity!

The Truth about the Stalin Hitler Pact!

• Real Meaning of Moscow Trials Is Clear
   
• They Meet on Common Ground! by Carlo (cartoon)
   
• Stalin’s Capitulation to Hitler Increases Were Danger; Threatens Existence of Soviet Workers
   
• Workers Jeer, Hit Stalinists Talk As Fake – Defenders of Stalin Line Scarce as Workers Asked Questions, by Tony Chapman
   
• National Committee Issues Call to Party on Stalin-Hitler Pact! signed by Max Shachtman

An Editorial

• Whom Can the People Trust?

In the Labor Unions, by B.J. Widick

Minneapolis Labor Raises Bail Fund for Indicted WPA Strikers

Stalin’s Democratic Front, by Dolan (cartoon)

Stop Fascism in America! (Sixth Installment), by Joseph Hansen

The Berlin-Moscow Treaty

Tenth Anniversary of Russian Bulletin

Sparks in the News, by Dwight Macdonald

• “Business Is Business”, from New York Times
• Note

The Negro Question, by J.R. Johnson

• The Race Riots in Chicago

Liberal Weeklies, Disillusioned, Break with Stalinists Over Pact

Warning of Stalin’s Perfidy, the Appeal Forecast the Pact

Browder Won’t Talk; Not Even When Radio Time Is Offered Him

Pact Too Much for H. Broun

[Editorials]

• Fight with the Socialist Workers Party for —
• Browder “Explains”
• The Raw Deal, from the Northwest Organizer

Change Your Partners! by Dolan (cartoon)

In This Corner, by Max Shachtman

They Denied the Pact

French Communist Party Cracking

N.Y. District Dance Will Raise Funds for Anti-War Campaign

Vol. III No. 64, 1 September 1939

Socialist Appeal
Official Organ of the Socialist Workers Party, Section of the Fourth International

EDITOR:
Max Shachtman
ASSOCIATE EDITORS:
Felix Morrow
Emanuel Garrett
GENERAL MANAGER:
Martin Abern
ASSISTANT MANAGER:
Sherman Stanley

Enlist in the Fight Against War – Join the S.W.P.!

• Party Reacts to War Crisis With Intensified Anti-War Campaign, by Hal Draper
   
• Workers! Guard Against F.D.R. Plot to Drag U.S. into War
   
• “Pact Splits Axis Powers” – Daily Worker Headline, by Hawkes (cartoon)
   
• Anti-War Fund Scoreboard

A Lesson in the Meaning of Democracy

Communist Party Members: Break With Stalinist Bondage!

Hunger Strike Against British in Second Month

Stalinist in Teachers Union Feel Pact Effect

Shachtman, Widick Begins Speaking Tours on the Stalin-Hitler Pact

Bulletin

Cop Incites Pogrom Attack on Boston SWP

Stop Fascism in America! (Seventh Installment), by Joseph Hansen

Overflow Meeting Hears Party Leaders Explain the Stalin-Hitler Pact

Appeal Army

Resign from Stalinist-Run Organization

Prominent Entertainers to Appear at N.Y. Anti-War Fighters Dance

Browderette

“Peace” Parade Fizzles under Pact Shadow

The Negro Question, by J.R. Johnson

• The Effects of Capitalist Propaganda

Events Clarify a Question: Why The C.P. Wouldn’t Fight the Fascists, Feb. 20 and Aug. 19

Roosevelt Prosecution of WPA Strikers Hit by Sailors Union

Did the Pact Surprise You? Then Get These Books and Pamphlets at the Special Labor Bookshop Prices

Who’s Against the War Referendum? – Fascists Agree with Roosevelt, by Hal Draper

Browderette

[Editorials]

• Fight with the Socialist Workers Party for —
• The People Want No War
• They Are Afraid of the People
• Why They Want War
• The “New Democracy” in 1917

Champions of Peace and Democracy! by Carlo (cartoon)

Their Government, by James Burnham

Social Democrats In War Rally Under Guise of Pact Meeting

Definition

Democracy?

Vol. III No. 65, 5 September 1939

Socialist Appeal
Official Organ of the Socialist Workers Party, Section of the Fourth International

EDITOR:
Max Shachtman
ASSOCIATE EDITORS:
Felix Morrow
Emanuel Garrett
GENERAL MANAGER:
Martin Abern
ASSISTANT MANAGER:
Sherman Stanley

S.W.P. Meets War Crisis with Tri-Weekly Appeal

Workingmen, This Is Not Our War! It Is a War of the Bosses! Down with the War!

• Roosevelt Administration Working Overtime to Drag U.S. into the War
   
• “Government by the People”, by Carlo (cartoon)
   
• Only the Workers Can Stop the World Slaughter!
   
• Shachtman and Widick Tours, 3-a-Week Appeal Highlight Party Drive, by Hal Draper
   
• An End to Boss War — Says Local New York Councilmanic Program
   
• Text of SWP Election Program
   
• Party Mobilization Call, from the National Committee, Socialist Workers Party

Stop Fascism in America! (Eighth Installment), by Joseph Hansen

Appeal Army

Notice

Sparks in the News, by Dwight Macdonald

• A Short History of Liberalism, Vol. II. The Liberals Dismount
• The Ghost Goes West
• Johnson vs. Johnson
• The Basutos Are Saved

Chicago Police Harass, Arrest Appeal Salesmen

Behind the Stalin-Hitler Pact – What It Is and What It Isn’t, by Max Shachtman

The Negro Question, by J.R. Johnson

• Negroes and the Hitler-Stalin Pact

Window Dressers Ply Their Trade

[Editorials]

• Fight with the Socialist Workers Party for —
• “Unanimous”
• His Majesty’s Flunkies
• The Daily Worker

“Browder Speech Available on Records” – Daily Worker Headline, by Hawkes (cartoon)

I Am No Longer a Member of the Stalinist Party, by Henry H. Thomas

Nutcracker

Why the Polish C.P. Hasn’t Commented on the Pact

Confusion Worse Confounded – Starring I. Begun

Vol. III No. 66, 6 September 1939

Socialist Appeal
Official Organ of the Socialist Workers Party, Section of the Fourth International

EDITOR:
Max Shachtman
ASSOCIATE EDITORS:
Felix Morrow
Emanuel Garrett
GENERAL MANAGER:
Martin Abern
ASSISTANT MANAGER:
Sherman Stanley

This is Not Our War! Down with the War!

Appeal Begins to Publish 3-a-Week

Roosevelt “War Deal” Acts to Provide Britain and France with War Credits

War Briefs

“That’s What Wilson Said”, by Carlo (cartoon)

N.Y. Party Swings Into Anti-War Action

Repeating an Old Performance

Funds Do Not Keep Pace with Agitation in S.W.P. Anti-War Drive, by Hal Draper

Party Asks Friends to Help Put Shachtman, Paine on N.Y. Ballot

“Coincidence”

Behind the Stalin-Hitler Pact – What It Is and What It Isn’t, by Max Shachtman

Appeal Army

Workers’ Forum

• Who Wins the Judas Crown? from Harold Clendenan
• Force Lynn Party to Meet on “Dead” Corner, from John Travis

Stop Fascism in America! (Ninth Installment), by Joseph Hansen

Britain Takes Another Step in Democracy

The Negro Question, by J.R. Johnson

• The Negro and the War – I

Pact Shakes YCL Members

Notice

Millstone in the Path of Progress

[Editorials]

• Fight with the Socialist Workers Party for —
• “I Hate War”
• Cannon Fodder — at Union Rates
• Social-Patriotism

The Last Turn, by Carlo (cartoon)

Had There Been a Liebknecht in Parliament

Some Timely Words – In the Struggle Against War

Highly Interesting Issue of New International Appears

Vol. III No. 67, 9 September 1939

Socialist Appeal
Official Organ of the Socialist Workers Party, Section of the Fourth International

EDITOR:
Max Shachtman
ASSOCIATE EDITORS:
Felix Morrow
Emanuel Garrett
GENERAL MANAGER:
Martin Abern
ASSISTANT MANAGER:
Sherman Stanley

Three Times a Week Against War

Bucking the War Censors

For the Socialist United States of Europe! An End to Boss War!

“We’ll Repeat Our Performance” – Morgan (cartoon)

Wall Street Speeds American War Entry

Behind the Lines, by George Stern

Minneapolis Unions Rally to Defense of Indicted Strikers

N.Y. Election Is Rostrum for Anti-War Fight

Trotsky Statement to Press on Soviet-German Alliance, by Leon Trotsky

Behind the Stalin-Hitler Pact – What It Is and What It Isn’t, by Max Shachtman

Workers’ Forum

• Spanish Civil War Veteran Appeals to C.P. Members, from Peter Sturgeon
• By Their Own Words Shall You Know Them, from J.H.N.

Stop Fascism in America! (Tenth Installment), by Joseph Hansen

Overheard at the Hearings of the Dies Committee

The Negro Question, by J.R. Johnson

• The Negro and the War – II

YPSL Notice

Who is Winston Churchill? by Sherman Stanley

[Editorials]

• Fight with the Socialist Workers Party for —
• Iron Rations
• John L. Lewis
• Judas Goats
• Not Enough

It Won’t Take Three Years to Drive the U.S. into the War This Time, by Dwight Macdonald

Their Government, by James Burnham

Irish Show Hostility to British Rulers

Vol. III No. 68, 11 September 1939

Socialist Appeal
Official Organ of the Socialist Workers Party, Section of the Fourth International

EDITOR:
Max Shachtman
ASSOCIATE EDITORS:
Felix Morrow
Emanuel Garrett
GENERAL MANAGER:
Martin Abern
ASSISTANT MANAGER:
Sherman Stanley

Trotsky Writes on War and the Nazi-Soviet Pact

• Above All Else Stalin Fears Internal Revolt, statement by Leon Trotsky

Roosevelt Decrees Strike at Liberties of American People

Who Is Guilty of Starting the Second World War? by Leon Trotsky

Bucking the War Censors

Behind the Lines, by George Stern

SWP in Big Push on All Anti-War Drive Fronts, by Hal Draper

Seaman Want War Bonuses; Tie-Up Ships

In the Labor Unions, by B.J. Widick

Workers’ Forum

• The Effect of the Pact on Scotland, from H.

The Answer Is up to You – Shall the New International Cease Publication or Continue?

War Casts Shadow over Los Angeles Labor Day Parade

The Negro Question, by J.R. Johnson

• The Negro and the War – III

Stop Fascism in America! (Eleventh Installment), by Joseph Hansen

War Is Heaven – For Some People

St. Louis SWP Blasts Legion Plan to Break up CP Meeting

[Editorials]

• Fighting with the Socialist Workers Party for —
• Food Profiteering
• In the Streets
• Internal Passports
• He Ought to Know
• Then and Now

What Life in U.S. Will Be Like When It Enters War – A Preview, by Hal Draper

From England – A Revolutionary Manifesto Against Imperialist War

There Is a Division of Labor Among the Many War Mongers

Labor Looks Through the Press, by Arthur Hopkins

Vol. III No. 69, 13 September 1939

Socialist Appeal
Official Organ of the Socialist Workers Party, Section of the Fourth International

EDITOR:
Max Shachtman
ASSOCIATE EDITORS:
Felix Morrow
Emanuel Garrett
GENERAL MANAGER:
Martin Abern
ASSISTANT MANAGER:
Sherman Stanley

The Fight against War Is the Fight for Socialism!

F.D.R. Plots Rubber-Stamp War Congress

Indicted Strikers Win First Victory

Inseparable, by Carlo (cartoon)

Progressive Labor Raps Roosevelt War-Making Plans

Canada Under War-Time Dictatorship, by Carl Hichin

Behind the Lines, by George Stern

Tammany Seeks to Block N.Y. S.W.P. Councilmanic Campaign

Gallup Poll Spreads War Propaganda, by H.D. Herrick

Bucking the War Censors

African Soldiers and the Armies of “Democracy”, by J.R. Johnson

Maine Comrade Leads Week’s List in Subscription Drive

Study the Moscow Trials In the Light of the Pact

Anti-War Frolic to Feature Many Prominent Performers

The Negro Question, by J.R. Johnson

• The Negro and the War – IV

During the Last World War a Few Individuals Bucked the Stream and Blazed the Trail to Revolution, by Joseph Carter

Irish Masses Oppose Entry Into the War

The War Deal, by Dwight Macdonald

[Editorials]

• Fight with the Socialist Workers Party for —
• The Special Session
• Conspiracy of Silence
• The French C.P.

All Is Not Milk and Honey for the “Highly Paid” Building Workers, by Ruth Jeffrey

Their Government, by James Burnham

Vol. III No. 70, 15 September 1939

Socialist Appeal
Official Organ of the Socialist Workers Party, Section of the Fourth International

EDITOR:
Max Shachtman
ASSOCIATE EDITORS:
Felix Morrow
Emanuel Garrett
GENERAL MANAGER:
Martin Abern
ASSISTANT MANAGER:
Sherman Stanley

Why Is Russia Mobilizing? ... Not Even the Kremlin Knows! by Leon Trotsky

F.D.R. Call Special Session to Force Vote on War Moves

SWP Drive to Get on N.Y. Ballot Progresses

Prices/Deaths, by Hawkes (cartoon)

CIO Jobless Union Formed at Conference

Behind the Lines, by George Stern

A Manifesto – To the Oppressed Peoples of Latin America, Asia, Africa!

Packinghouse Workers Want Action Policy, by William Simmons

All Set for Big Dance Maneuvers

For a Genuine Labor Stand against the War-Makers

In Defense of Persecuted Minneapolis WPA strikers

Independence of the Ukraine and Sectarian Muddleheads, by Leon Trotsky

Last Call for New York Dance and Entertainment

Life Through the Eyes of a Social-Democrat

Out of the Horse’s Mouth

Republican “Isolationism”

Judas Goat

Last Call for New York Dance and Entertainment

The Negro Question, by J.R. Johnson

• The Negro and the War – V

Patriotism Puts Blight on Finnish Movement, by Tauno Vuori

You Can Aid the Fight Against War by Signing Nominating Petitions for SWP Candidates

F.D.R. Sheds Hypocritical Mask In Persecuting Minneapolis WPA Strikers, Says Plentywood Union

SWP Meetings Prove Masses Against War, by B.J. Widick

Judas Goat (Second entry under this title)

[Editorials]

• Fight with the Socialist Workers Party for —
• Why FDR Wants War
• Smash the Frameup
• Such Coincidences!

The Stalinist War Line Adds A New Wrinkle

Manuscripts Asked for John Dewey Research Fellowship

Vol. III No. 71, 18 September 1939

Socialist Appeal
Official Organ of the Socialist Workers Party, Section of the Fourth International

EDITOR:
Max Shachtman
ASSOCIATE EDITORS:
Felix Morrow
Emanuel Garrett
GENERAL MANAGER:
Martin Abern
ASSISTANT MANAGER:
Sherman Stanley

Take the War-Making Power Away from Congress – Let the People Decide!, Says Minnesota Labor

Roosevelt Moves for War Under Cover of Neutrality

“War Babies”, by Carlo (cartoon)

An Editorial

• Is the Partitioning of Poland Part of Hitler-Stalin Pact?

Behind the Lines, by George Stern

Twenty-Five Minneapolis WPA Prisoners Are Released on Bail

See Swindle in New York Subway Sale

Bucking the War Censors

WPA Building Strike in Third Month, by Tony Chapman

Food Profiteering Is Hint of Days to Come, by B.J. Widick

Ranks Defend Union from Thug Assault

Workers’ Forum

• Is There a Doctor in the House? from Worried Worker
• Minneapolis WPA Prisoners Ask Fuller Reports in appeal, from Two WPA Strikers
• [Reply], by Ed.

Independence of the Ukraine and Sectarian Muddleheads, by Leon Trotsky

Judas Goat

The Negro Question, by J.R. Johnson

• The Negro and the War – V

Legionnaires Break Up SWP Anti-War Meet

October New International to Be Exceptionally Good

[Editorials]

• Fight with the Socialist Workers Party for —
• The Third Camp
• A Lynching Bee (An Invitation to C.Y. Harrison)
• Jail Is Better

Machinery for Dragooning U.S. People into the War Is All Ready, by H.D. Herrick

Their Government, by James Burnham

Canadian War Role Is Limited by Widespread Sentiment Against War, by Carl Hichin

Vol. III No. 72, 20 September 1939

Socialist Appeal
Official Organ of the Socialist Workers Party, Section of the Fourth International

EDITOR:
Max Shachtman
ASSOCIATE EDITORS:
Felix Morrow
Emanuel Garrett
GENERAL MANAGER:
Martin Abern
ASSISTANT MANAGER:
Sherman Stanley

Trotsky Sees Closer Hitler-Stalin Ties, by Leon Trotsky

Republicans, Democrats Unite Behind F.D.R. for War Session – Russia Marches into Poland

• Balkans Now at Hitler Mercy — Japanese in New China Offensive
   
• Roosevelt’s “Cash and Carry Policy”, by Carlo (cartoon)
   
• War Deal Cracks Down on All Critics – F.D.R. Has Already Committed Nation to War Camp of Allies

Wall Street Engineers Price Rise

Behind the Lines, by George Stern

British Seamen Help U.S. Brothers Strike Ships in War Bonus Fight

• Irish Sailors Tie Up Ships

You Can Aid the Fight Against War by Signing Nominating Petitions for SWP Candidates

‘Leaders’ Fail to Line Up Indian Masses for the War

Judas Goat

In the Labor Unions, by B.J. Widick

Farmer Labor Party Silent on War Threat

Just Doing Their Bit

Chinese Fourth Internationalists Mourn Loss of Comrade Lo Han Loyal Soldier of the Revolution, by M.Y. Wang

Appeal Army

Trotsky on the Negro Question, by Leon Trotsky

The Negro Question, by J.R. Johnson

• The Negro and the War – VI

Turning PWA into War Instrument

The War Deal – II, by Dwight Macdonald

Workers’ Forum

• Orient Not Sufficiently Discussed in Appeal, from Walter O’Rourke
• A Few Suggestions for Open air Meetings, from Chris Andrews
• Stranger Than Fiction, from El Booth

G-Men Go after War Opponents

[Editorials]

• Fight with the Socialist Workers Party for —
• We’re for War, Too!
• Arch Hypocrites
• Unions and the War

Pity the Poor Stalinist Flunky old — His Confusion Is Indeed Great, His Task by No Means a Simple One, by J.R.O.’J.

Their Government, by James Burnham

Sweet Land of Liberty, by Martin Harvey

Judas Goat (Second entry with this title)

Vol. III No. 73, 26 September 1939

Socialist Appeal
Official Organ of the Socialist Workers Party, Section of the Fourth International

EDITOR:
Max Shachtman
ASSOCIATE EDITORS:
Felix Morrow
Emanuel Garrett
GENERAL MANAGER:
Martin Abern
ASSISTANT MANAGER:
Sherman Stanley

For an Anti-War Vote Put the S.W.P. on the New York Ballot!

Roosevelt Message Speeds War Entry

• Secret Bulletin Proves Sixty Families Await F.D.R. War Declaration, by Joseph Hansen
   
• The American Way (cartoon)
   
• Road to War Decided Behind Locked Doors
   
• Boss Parties Skirt War in N.Y. Election – SWP Candidates Run on Clear-Cut Stand Against War

Fifty New Minneapolis Indictments

An Editorial

• Stalin’s Invasion of Polish Ukraine (A Warning to Revolutionary Workers Against Deceptive Propaganda)

Behind the Lines, by George Stern

Belgian Militarists Arrest Walt. Dauge

Back to the Twice-Weekly

In the Labor Unions, by B.J Widick

Progressives Make Important Gains in State Convention of Minnesota A.F.L.

• Anti-War Resolution

Form Picket Line Around Pennsylvania Cigar Plant

Newark SWP Presses Anti-War Activity

Don’t Miss “A Night in Harlem”

You Can Aid the Fight Against War by Signing Nominating Petitions for SWP Candidates

The Negro Question, by J.R. Johnson

• The Negro and the War – VII

The Economic Consequences of the Stalin-Hitler Pact in the U.S.S.R., by John G. Wright

Tom Gaddis Arrested for Strike Role

Denouncing Stalin-Nazi Pact Group Quits Communist Party

Jobless in Toledo Faced Starvation

Judas Goat

Seamen Tie-Up Ships in Parts [sic!] All Over World

Canada Arrests War Opponent

Fight with the Socialist Workers Party for —

C.P. Ordered to Work for Victory Of Stalin-Hitler War Alliance, by Joseph Carter

In This Corner, by Max Shachtman

Vol. III No. 74, 29 September 1939

Socialist Appeal
Official Organ of the Socialist Workers Party, Section of the Fourth International

EDITOR:
Max Shachtman
ASSOCIATE EDITORS:
Felix Morrow
Emanuel Garrett
GENERAL MANAGER:
Martin Abern
ASSISTANT MANAGER:
Sherman Stanley

The New Policy Of Stalinism in America, by James P. Cannon

Roosevelt War Deal Hits Snag in Mass Resistance to War

• Refuse to Shoulder Burden of Boss War, by B.J. Widick
   
• Smoke-Screen by Carlo (cartoon)
   
• Boss Politicians Seek to Trick People into War by Lies and Scares

SWP Drive Select to Get on Ballot Nears Success

Hold WPA Strikers on Conspiracy Charge; Labor Defense Widened

Behind the Lines, by George Stern

Canada Convicts Watson, Anti-War Militants

Hotel Union Progressives Fight C.P. Rule

Confidential Bulletin Exposes Bosses’ War Schemes (Article II), by Joseph Hansen

In the Labor Unions, by B.J. Widick

Appeal Army

You Can Aid the Fight Against War by Signing Nominating Petitions for SWP Candidates

Preview of War-Time Suppression

More Bronx Newsstands Carry Appeal

Students Spike Military Plan at University Of Wisconsin

The Negro Question, by J.R. Johnson

• The Negro and the War – VIII

California Masses Show Opposition to War Entry

History of Socialist Youth to Appear in YPSL Paper

Negro Department Affair Will Feature Voodoo Dances

[Editorials]

• Fight with the Socialist Workers Party for —
• Spy Scares
• The First Battle
• Pilate Socialist
• Suggestions Wanted

Their Government, by James Burnham

Walter Lippman, Voice of Wall Street, Reveals Boss War Aims, by Sherman Stanley

Vol. III No. 75, 3 October 1939

Socialist Appeal
Official Organ of the Socialist Workers Party, Section of the Fourth International

EDITOR:
Max Shachtman
ASSOCIATE EDITORS:
Felix Morrow
Emanuel Garrett
GENERAL MANAGER:
Martin Abern
ASSISTANT MANAGER:
Sherman Stanley

Help Us Put the Anti-War Candidates on the New York Ballot

“Cash and Carry” Speech War Entry

• Roosevelt War Deal Resorts to Subterfuges in Face of Growing Mass Opposition to the War
   
• ‘Cash and Carry’

Stalin Signs “Friendship Agreement” with Hitler

• Baltic Nations Slated for Axe as Carving of Poland Is Finished

The Card Sharp, by Carlo (cartoon)

An Editorial

• The First Victim of the War – Democracy

Peace and Plenty – American Style

Big Councilmanic Vote Seen Sure for Shachtman and Paine

Two Leading CP Militants Join the SWP

Confidential Bulletin Shows Big Business Primed for War Profit (Article III), by Joseph Hansen

Chrysler Vote Signs Finish to Martin

Notice

In the Labor Unions, by B.J. Widick

Appeal Army

Johnson Articles on the Negro and the War in Pamphlet Form

October New International Discusses Second World War

The Negro Question, by J.R. Johnson

• The Negro and the War – IX

Begins Bronx Open-Air Speaking Tour – Max Shachtman (photo)

The Balance Sheet of Stalinist Bonapartism, by J.G. Wright

Leading Militants of Communist Party Resign to Join the S.W.P., from Sydney Leroy & Sarah Rice

Workers’ Forum

• In Praise of the Appeal, from F.L.

[Editorials]

• Fight with the Socialist Workers Party for —
• A Step Forward
• Making New Friends
• A New Dilemma
• The French C.P.

Unemployment, Deeper Misery – A Picture of British “Democracy” as It Operates Under War-Rule, by Britannicus

The American Legionnaires Go to Town, by Evelyn Sherwood

The Wall Street Boys Know What Is Behind the “Cash and Carry” Plan, by Sherman Stanley

Vol. III No. 76, 6 October 1939

Socialist Appeal
Official Organ of the Socialist Workers Party, Section of the Fourth International

EDITOR:
Max Shachtman
ASSOCIATE EDITORS:
Felix Morrow
Emanuel Garrett
GENERAL MANAGER:
Martin Abern
ASSISTANT MANAGER:
Sherman Stanley

Sign the Nominating Petitions for Shachtman and Paine!

• Cast Your Vote for the Anti-War Candidates!

War Entry Moves Step Nearer As “Neutrality” Debate Opens

An Anti-War Candidate Speaks (photo)

AFL and CIO Unions Join Forces Against Cudahy

Albert Goldman Begins Speaking Tour on War

War Problems Raised at A.L.P. Meeting, by Tony Chapman

Election Drive Gets off to a Flying Start

Behind the Lines, by George Stern

“Let the People Vote on War!” – Rochester Labor

In the Labor Unions, by B.J. Widick

Well, Woll for One Has Faith in Roosevelt

Figures Reveal Scandal in St. Louis Relief

The War Deal, by Dwight Macdonald

Join the SWP, Party of Revolution, Says Spain Veteran Quitting the CP

• To the Members of the Communist Party, by John Kendzierski

The Negro Question, by J.R. Johnson

Our Line’s Been Changed Again! by Carlo (cartoon)

Bosses Get Inside Tip on Labor Control (Article IV), by Joseph Hansen

[Editorials]

• Fight with the Socialist Workers Party for —
• Danger Signal
• Green’s Speech
• Thomas vs. Browder

Danish Fourth International Issues Revolutionary Call for United Scandinavian Social Federation

A Warning To the People of the Colonies

Injunction Fails to Halt Calif. Sports Wear Strike

Workers’ Forum

• Using Spies Against Labor, from H.V. Romer

Hear Cannon on the Causes of Imperialist War

Comment Superfluous

Vol. III No. 77, 10 October 1939

Socialist Appeal
Official Organ of the Socialist Workers Party, Section of the Fourth International

EDITOR:
Max Shachtman
ASSOCIATE EDITORS:
Felix Morrow
Emanuel Garrett
GENERAL MANAGER:
Martin Abern
ASSISTANT MANAGER:
Sherman Stanley

A Vote for Shachtman and Paine Is a Vote Against War!

The U.S.S.R. in the War, by Leon Trotsky

Big Business Sees Nation Herded into World Slaughter by Spring

• War Stand Key Issue, Says N.Y. Candidate
   
• Denounces Roosevelt War Plans (photo)
   
• Bosses Get “Inside Stuff” on Strategy of F.D.R. War Deal

Behind the Lines, by George Stern

Stalin Orders New Russian Party Purge, by John G. Wright

ALP Takes Pro-War Line Under Cover of Attack on Stalinism, by Felix Morrow

Somervell Announces New Wage Cut for WPA Clerks

Notice

Test Case Taken to Supreme Court

The Declaration of Panama – Roosevelt Drives to War, by James Burnham

In the Labor Unions, by B.J. Widick

A.F.L. Commits Fatal Error in War Stand

Appeal Army

State Workers Convention Produces Little of Value

Alliance Local Balks Stalin Clique, Refuses to Disband

Statement by Mexican Fourth Internationalists on Rivera

The Negro Question, by J.R. Johnson

On the “Inside” – J.P. Morgan (photo)

Chicago CP Hit Hard by Rank and File Protest

Save the Bulletin of the Russian Opposition

[Editorials]

• Fight with the Socialist Workers Party for —
• Hitler’s Peace
• New WPA Cuts
• Democratic Diet

Brutality, Terror and Starvation — The Measure of Life Under Hitler, by Jen

In This Corner, by Max Shachtman

Vol. III No. 78, 13 October 1939

Socialist Appeal
Official Organ of the Socialist Workers Party, Section of the Fourth International

EDITOR:
Max Shachtman
ASSOCIATE EDITORS:
Felix Morrow
Emanuel Garrett
GENERAL MANAGER:
Martin Abern
ASSISTANT MANAGER:
Sherman Stanley

For a Workers’ Vote Against War, Vote for SWP Candidates!

War Cliques Split New York Labor Party, by Felix Morrow

Morale of Minneapolis Prisoners Splendid as Frame-Up Trial Opens

The Same Beast, by Carlo (cartoon)

The Red Army Marches, by B.J. Widick

Goldman Opens Boston Party Forum Season

Shachtman and Paine Charge Boss Candidates Evade the Main Issue

Behind the Lines, by George Stern

Disaffiliate Union From “Peace” Group

CIO Meet Vacillates on Program, by B.J. Widick

A Lesson from the Last War – The Rich Got Richer — The Poor Were Killed, by Evelyn Dane

Workers’ Forum

• Anti-Trotskyist Comes Home to Roost, from D.B.

Notice

Stalin-Hitler Pact Final Straw, Another C.P.er Joins the S.W.P., by Isidor Stark

Young Men Want Jobs – Not Guns

New Stooge Outfit for U.S. Army Organized

Canada A.F.L. Confirms C.I.O. Suspension

Exclusive!

Archie Savage Will Dance at the Negro Department Affair

The Negro Question, by J.R. Johnson

The Minneapolis Way (drawing)

The War Deal, by Dwight Macdonald

Latin American Notes, by D.M.

Trotsky Analysis of U.S.S.R. in War Highlights November New International

[Editorials]

• Fight with the Socialist Workers Party for —
• The Real Facts
• “Left Wing” Cover
• There Is a Third Camp

Their Government, by James Burnham

A.F.L. Convention Balks at Third Term for F.D.R.

Available

B’klyn Anti-War Rally Successful

Vol. III No. 79, 17 October 1939

Socialist Appeal
Official Organ of the Socialist Workers Party, Section of the Fourth International

EDITOR:
Max Shachtman
ASSOCIATE EDITORS:
Felix Morrow
Emanuel Garrett
GENERAL MANAGER:
Martin Abern
ASSISTANT MANAGER:
Sherman Stanley

Vote for SWP Anti-War candidates!

Chamberlain Rejects Hitler’s Terms

Pacific Coast Sailors Chalk Up New Victory Against Shipowners, by Bill Morgan

Committee Formed to Aid SWP Campaign

• Bulletin

The Smell of Carrion! by Carlo (cartoon)

Speed-up in Auto Brings Strike Threat

Can One Justify the ALP War Position? by Felix Morrow

Mass Desertions in Canada Show Anti-War Feeling

Behind the Lines, by George Stern

CIO Convention Yields to Pressure of War Dealers

Watson, Anti-War Fighter, Sentenced to Year in Jail

The Fourth International Leads the Fight Against War

• Australia – Appeal Issued by Comrades Tells Workers: The Enemy Is in Your Own country
   
• The Fourth International in Action
   
• Thousands of These Were Distributed to Protest Frank Watson’s Conviction
   
• England – Despite the Restrictions Imposed by War-Time Rule, Revolutionists Carry On
   
• France – Manifesto of French workers calls for Socialist United States of Europe
   
• Germany – A Letter from Our German Comrades in Copenhagen Sees Liberation Ahead

Appeal Army

In the Labor Unions, by B.J. Widick

A.F.L. Goes on Record for FDR War Policies

Detroit Local Sells Appeal in New Way

The Negro Question, by J.R. Johnson

Economic Consequences of the Stalin-Hitler Pact – Soviet Economy Cracking under War Strain, by John G. Wright

A Summary of the War Steps Taken By the Roosevelt Administration, by Sherman Stanley

Legion Whoops It Up for U.S. War Recruiting

Exclusive

[Editorials]

• Fight with the Socialist Workers Party for —
• A Matter of Taste
• Poor Little Finland
• Nazi on Voroshilov

In This Corner, by Max Shachtman

CIO Convention Yields to Pressure of War Dealers

Vol. III No. 80, 20 October 1939

Socialist Appeal
Official Organ of the Socialist Workers Party, Section of the Fourth International

EDITOR:
Max Shachtman
ASSOCIATE EDITORS:
Felix Morrow
Emanuel Garrett
GENERAL MANAGER:
Martin Abern
ASSISTANT MANAGER:
Sherman Stanley

Pile Up and Anti-War Vote, by Voting for SWP Candidates!

Begin Drive for Canadian Anti-War Militant

Auto Workers Gird for Action Against Inhuman Speed-up and Lockout Attack on Unionization

The Unforgotten Man, by Carlo (cartoon)

Defense Shatters Frame-Up Testimony in Minneapolis Trial of W.P.A. Strikers

• Flash!

Seek to Rule SWP Nominees Off N.Y. Ballot

Stalinists Break With F.D.R. to Aid Stalin-Hitler Alliance, by Joseph Carter

Behind the Lines, by George Stern

In the Labor Unions, by B.J. Widick

Our Candidates

• In the Bronx – Max Shachtman (photo)
• In Manhattan – G. Lyman Paine (photo)

Auto Workers Gird against Boss Attack

Company Spies Dynamited Okla. Oil Properties

Workers’ Forum

• [Letter], from Harold Swanson

N.Y. Workers! Buy the Appeal at the Following Newsstands

Ohio, Michigan SWP Branches Hold Profitable Active Workers Conference

Gandhi Admits Large Indian Opposition to War Policy

Whip of War Persecution Falls on Four in Canada

The Negro Question, by J.R. Johnson

• What Do the Negroes Themselves Think About the War?

For the Goose, Not the Gander, from the Northwest Organizer

Hook Committee Forum Goes In for Some Dignified and Democratic War-Mongering, by Tony Chapman

The War Deal, by Dwight Macdonald

Also Fair and Square In Sports – Except for Negroes

A Letter to the Appeal, from Joseph Zack

Incident

[Editorials]

• Fight with the Socialist Workers Party for —
• For Frank Watson
• Dies Committee
• Billings Free

The Socialist Party Meets the Problem of the ALP’s War-Mongering by – Saying Nothing, by Felix Morrow

Their Government, by James Burnham

Vol. III No. 81, 24 October 1939

Socialist Appeal
Official Organ of the Socialist Workers Party, Section of the Fourth International

EDITOR:
Max Shachtman
ASSOCIATE EDITORS:
Felix Morrow
Emanuel Garrett
GENERAL MANAGER:
Martin Abern
ASSISTANT MANAGER:
Sherman Stanley

Cast Your Anti-War vote for Shachtman and Paine

Stalin — The Temporary Holder of the Ukraine, by Leon Trotsky

J.L. Lewis Opens Drive in CIO to “Clean House” of Stalinists, by George Clarke

Defense to Appeal Mpls. Trial Convictions

In the Fight Against War! (reproduction of front page of special four-page New York Election issue of Socialist Appeal)

Wide Interest Shown in S.W.P. Candidates

Behind the Lines, by George Stern

Union Puts the Lie to Phony Charges Made by Auto Moguls

Notice

Funds Urgently Needed for Watson Defense

“War Is the Issue!” – Says Call to Writers and Professionals

In the Labor Unions, by B.J. Widick

Appeal Army

Life Isn’t Hard for All People in Hitler-Land

The Negro Question, by J.R. Johnson

Shachtman Sees N.Y. Housing Program Fleecing the Poor While Realtors Line Pockets, by Ruth Jeffrey

An Answer to the Latest Hue and Cry Against the Marxist Position on the War, by Felix Morrow

Sweet Land of Liberty – Garbage Is Yours For the Asking

Large Audience Turns Out for Goldman Forum

[Editorials]

• Fight with the Socialist Workers Party for —
• Roosevelt’s Prisoners
• “Liberation”!
• New York Elections

British Social-Patriots Veil Imperialist War Aims with Anti-Hitler Battle Cries, by Britannicus

In This Corner, by Max Shachtman

Question Box, by Joseph Carter

Vol. III No. 82, 27 October 1939

Socialist Appeal
Official Organ of the Socialist Workers Party, Section of the Fourth International

EDITOR:
Max Shachtman
ASSOCIATE EDITORS:
Felix Morrow
Emanuel Garrett
GENERAL MANAGER:
Martin Abern
ASSISTANT MANAGER:
Sherman Stanley

Labor and the Second World War – The First Installment of a New Pamphlet, by J.R. Johnson

Shachtman on New York Ballot, Boss Politicians Drop Challenge

Three More WPA Strikers Convicted in Second Mpls. Frame-Up Trial

Socialism in One Country Goes International, by Carlo (cartoon)

Earl Browder Arrested on Flimsy Charge

Major Struggle Ahead in India, British Reject Freedom Demand, by Sherman Stanley

Behind the Lines, by George Stern

Rank and File Loggers Revolt Against Stalinist Misrule

Correction to Trotsky Article

Notice

In the Labor Unions, by B.J. Widick

The Negro Question, by J.R. Johnson

On the Ballot – Max Shachtman – Candidate in the Bronx (photo)

The Socialist Party and Its Lovestone Allies Continue to Cover Up the ALP’s War Position, by Felix Morrow

What the Nazi Press Says About The Stalin-Hitler War Alliance, by Oscar Fischer

First U.S. Published Russian Opposition Bulletin Now on Sale

Boston Fraternal Organization for Referendum on War

Workers’ Forum

• Trotsky’s Article on the Ukraine, from George Bachur
• A Word of Praise, from K.K.

Anti-War Rally on Harvard Campus

[Editorials]

• Fight with the Socialist Workers Party for —
• Stalin in Estonia
• Election Issues

Sparks in the News, by Dwight Macdonald

• Footnote on International Law
• The Swag
• The Great International Bank Robbery
• The Hitler Mob Takes Over

Their Government, by James Burnham

In the World of Labor, by Paul G. Stevens

• Truth Is Beginning to Clear a Path for Itself
• Tendencies Toward a Breakdown of National Unity in Great Britain

Ignace Reiss – The Second Anniversary of His Death, by Leon Trotsky

Vol. III No. 83, 31 October 1939

Socialist Appeal
Official Organ of the Socialist Workers Party, Section of the Fourth International

EDITOR:
Max Shachtman
ASSOCIATE EDITORS:
Felix Morrow
Emanuel Garrett
GENERAL MANAGER:
Martin Abern
ASSISTANT MANAGER:
Sherman Stanley

Labor and the Second World War, by J.R. Johnson

Roosevelt Uses “Flint” Seizure to Promote U.S. War Plans

Fascist Rag Attacks Fourth International

• [Facsimile of Father Coughlin’s Social Justice]

New York SWP Set for Whirlwind Finish to Election Campaign

Farrell Calls for Aid to Watson

Behind the Lines, by George Stern

Mexican Police Arrest Man Who Tried to Enter Trotsky’s Home

Chrysler Co. Seeks to Balk Agreement

Notice

Appeal Army

India’s Masses Want Action Not Stop-Gap Compromises

The Negro Question, by J.R. Johnson

• Negroes! On Guard Against the New Stalinist Line

Stalinists and Lewis Forces at Loggerheads on Auto Union Policy

Democratic Feudalists in the Independence of the Ukraine, by Leon Trotsky

Thirty Dollars-Thirty Hours Is Slogan of Electrical Workers Manifesto Petition

[Editorials]

• Fight with the Socialist Workers Party for —
• Trotsky In Danger
• American Labor Party
• Courting Stalin
• Why Catalonia Fell

State Planning in the U.S.S.R., by Carlo (cartoon)

Will Stalinist Regime Add to Its Conquests? by Sherman Stanley

What the Nazi Press Says about the Stalin-Hitler War Alliance

Vol. III No. 84, 3 November 1939

Socialist Appeal
Official Organ of the Socialist Workers Party, Section of the Fourth International

EDITOR:
Max Shachtman
ASSOCIATE EDITORS:
Felix Morrow
Emanuel Garrett
GENERAL MANAGER:
Martin Abern
ASSISTANT MANAGER:
Sherman Stanley

Embargo Repeal Is Step Towards War!

• Bill Turns U.S. Into Armory for Allied War Camp

S.W.P. Calls for Anti-War Vote!

• Scenes in the Campaign for Max Shachtman and George Lyman Paine (photo collage)

Minneapolis Puts Another Twenty-Five W.P.A. Strikers on Trial in Federal Court

The Flame of Revolution Still Burns in Germany

Mexican Stalinists Publish Filthy Anti-Semitic Attack on the Trotskyist Movement, by Diego Montanez

Behind the Lines, by George Stern

N.M.U. Bureaucrats Skirt Real Demands of Maritime Workers, by Sidney Moore

What your Dollar Can Do

Labor and the Second World War, by J.R. Johnson

Trotsky Tells British Paper He Will Not Write for It in Sharply Worded Statement

In the Labor Unions, by B.J. Widick

Thomas-Lovestone Groups Yield to the Pressure of “Democratic” Imperialists, by Felix Morrow

The Negro Question, by J.R. Johnson

• The Negroes in Industry

Sparks in the News, by Dwight Macdonald

• Business Looks at the War

Stalinist Anti-Semitism (collage)

[Editorials]

• Fight with the Socialist Workers Party for —
• Belated Indignation
• Let’s Fight Russia!
• Thirty-Thirty
• Czech “Trotskyism”

British Workers, Upon Whom War’s Misery Has Fallen Are Rallying to the Defense of Their Interests, by Britannicus

California SWP Stand on “Ham and Eggs” Plan

Labor Looks Through the Press, by Arthur Hopkins

Vol. III No. 85, 7 November 1939

Socialist Appeal
Official Organ of the Socialist Workers Party, Section of the Fourth International

EDITOR:
Max Shachtman
ASSOCIATE EDITORS:
Felix Morrow
Emanuel Garrett
GENERAL MANAGER:
Martin Abern
ASSISTANT MANAGER:
Sherman Stanley

A Vote for Shachtman and Paine Is a Vote Against War!

G-Men Frame Up Teamsters Union Leaders

Workers of Manhattan and Bronx, Your First-Choice Vote Must Go To Labor’s Anti-War Candidates!

“The Enemy Is at Home!” by Carlo (cartoon)

C.P. Support off Kuomintang Seen at End, by E. Saxe

Behind the Lines, by George Stern

Longshoremen Halt Coastal Shipping

Growing Protest Movement Challenges Watson Arrest

One Dachshund Equals One Hungry Worker

Can Workers Accept Molotoff’s Explanation? by Felix Morrow

In the Labor Unions, by B.J. Widick

Statement of Ohio S.W.P. On the Bigelow Pension Plan

Labor and the Second World War, by J.R. Johnson

Workers’ Forum

• An Excellent Answer to the Fascists, from Karl C.
• A Well-Taken Suggestion, from C.R. Hedlund & Oscar Coover
• In Criticism of the Appeal, from G.L.

Out of Their Own Mouths – No Job Is Too Dirty for the Stalinist Party, by Joseph Carter

War Bulletin

The Negro Question, by J.R. Johnson

• Industry and the Negro

On the Ballot in the Bronx – Max Shachtman

• For Write-In in Manhattan – George L. Paine

[Editorials]

• Fight with the Socialist Workers Party for —
• Vote S.W.P.!
• Mussolini: Democrat
• Stalin’s Prisoners

Charity – Sweet Charity – The WPA-Slashers That Open a Pious Drive to Let the Masses “Give”

In This Corner, by Max Shachtman

Vol. III No. 86, 10 November 1939

Socialist Appeal
Official Organ of the Socialist Workers Party, Section of the Fourth International

EDITOR:
Max Shachtman
ASSOCIATE EDITORS:
Felix Morrow
Emanuel Garrett
GENERAL MANAGER:
Martin Abern
ASSISTANT MANAGER:
Sherman Stanley

An Editorial

• The Future Is Not a Gloomy One For the Bosses!

Stalin’s Fake “Left Turn” Masks Reactionary Foreign Policy, by Felix Morrow

• Speaks for Stalin – Molotoff (photo)

Twenty-Five Minneapolis W.P.A. Strikers Go on Trial before Hand-Picked Jury

Good Showing at Polls Seen for SWP Candidates

Dock Strike Cripples N.Y. Shipping

Behind the Lines, by George Stern

Chrysler Officials Stall on Demands of Autoworkers

British Impose One-Man Rule on Indians

Labor and the Second World War, by J.R. Johnson

Workers’ Forum

• In Answer to a Comrade, from Bill O.
• Wants to See Daily Appeal, from Ed Roberts

Appeal Army

Who Says That We Have To Starve, by Thomas Forsen

American Imperialists Turn Hungry Eyes Toward China, by Walter O’Rourke

The Negro Question, by J.R. Johnson

• Industry and the Negro

An Interview with the Comrade – Ceylonese Masses Want No Part of the Bosses’ War

N.M.U. Bureaucrats Stand in Way of Winning Seamen’s Real Demands, by Sidney Moore

A Gift for Voroshilov

Russian Opposition Bulletin

[Editorials]

• Fight with the Socialist Workers Party for —
• India and the War
• Lee ... and Debs

Sparks in the News, by Dwight Macdonald

• The Color Line in Culture
• Blood Money
• Great Expectations
• The First Swallow

Their Government, by James Burnham

In the World of Labor, by Paul G. Stevens

• Voices Against the War on the Increase in England

Labor Looks Through the Press, by Arthur Hopkins

Vol. III No. 87, 14 November 1939

Socialist Appeal
Official Organ of the Socialist Workers Party, Section of the Fourth International

EDITOR:
Max Shachtman
ASSOCIATE EDITORS:
Felix Morrow
Emanuel Garrett
GENERAL MANAGER:
Martin Abern
ASSISTANT MANAGER:
Sherman Stanley

No Collusion with the War Department!

On Its 22nd Anniversary – Long Live the Russian Revolution!

The War Deal, by Carlo (cartoon)

Labor Offered Nothing, Stays Away from Polls in National Elections

Arrest Group Asking Relief for Needy Man

Government Witness Admits Coaching by G-Men in Trial of Minneapolis WPA Strikers

First Returns Indicate Large Vote for S.W.P.

Behind the Lines, by George Stern

Cigar Strikers Spike Scabby “Back to Work” Movement

The Anniversary of the Russian Revolution – Right of Revolutionary Optimism, by Leon Trotsky

In the Labor Unions, by B.J. Widick

Labor and the Second World War, by J.R. Johnson

Workers’ Forum

• Complains About Appeal Articles, from J.D.

An Unusual Opportunity Offered Workers in Marxist School Courses

Chicago Holds Anniversary Meet on the Revolution

The Negro Question, by J.R. Johnson

• The Greatest Event in History

Having a Good Time! – Walter B. Chrysler Sipping Champagne (photo)

The Needle in the Haystack – Or: The War Aims of the British Capitalist

Goldman Ends Successful Speaking Tour

Minn’sota Labor Getting Too Hot for Government

[Editorials]

• Fight with the Socialist Workers Party for —
• The Munich Bomb
• Is It A Victory?
• FBI In Action

Arrested When They Demanded Food for a Hungry Man (photo)

An Editorial

• The Stalinist Turn and the Lewis Purge

The Workers of England Oppose the Boss War – II, by Britannicus

Revolutionary Greetings to Comrade Trotsky

Vol. III No. 88, 17 November 1939

Socialist Appeal
Official Organ of the Socialist Workers Party, Section of the Fourth International

EDITOR:
Max Shachtman
ASSOCIATE EDITORS:
Felix Morrow
Emanuel Garrett
GENERAL MANAGER:
Martin Abern
ASSISTANT MANAGER:
Sherman Stanley

An Editorial

• The Cards Were Stacked All the Time – For War

Auto Barons Mobilize Fascist Gangs against Chrysler Union

S.W.P. Polls Anti-War Vote

Seven Teamsters’ Union Leaders Framed by F.B.I. in Sioux City

One Man Doesn’t Hate War –DuPont

East Indian to Speak at Defense Meet

Hoodlums Raid C.P. Meeting in Detroit

Behind the Lines, by George Stern

Trotsky Sec’y Escapes Gang

Curran Approves Fink Schools for Seamen

In the Labor Unions, by B.J. Widick

Labor and the Second World War, by J.R. Johnson

The Last Time the Stalinist Peddled That “Radical” Line the Nazis Took Power ..., by George Clarke

Workers’ Forum

• “Long Live Trotsky,” Said German Workers, from Joseph Hansen
• Polish Ex-Stalinists Continue Previous Line, from S. Dziengielewski

Appeal Army

An Unusual Opportunity Offered Workers in Marxist School Courses

The Negro Question, by J.R. Johnson

• The Negro in Steel

An Editorial

• The Differences Between Fritz Kuhn and Earl Browder

How Gandhi ‘Fought’ the Last War, by Sherman Stanley

[Editorials]

• Fight with the Socialist Workers Party for —
• Roosevelt’s Russian Policy
• The War Boom
• The New York Vote

Sparks in the News, by Dwight Macdonald

• The Food Stamp Plan Again
• Too Many Guinea Pigs!
• Footnote on Girdler
• Like Shooting Rabbits ...

Their Government, by James Burnham

In the World of Labor, by Paul G. Stevens

• French Labor Under the Heel of the War Dictatorship —
• In the Middle of the Crossing
• Syndicalism – Its Fruits
• The First Rumblings of Revolt
• For International Solidarity – S.O.S. from China

Vol. III No. 89, 21 November 1939

Socialist Appeal
Official Organ of the Socialist Workers Party, Section of the Fourth International

EDITOR:
Max Shachtman
ASSOCIATE EDITORS:
Felix Morrow
Emanuel Garrett
GENERAL MANAGER:
Martin Abern
ASSISTANT MANAGER:
Sherman Stanley

An Editorial

• Labor’s Big Chances Is Now! – Don’t Muff the Ball!

Roosevelt Neutral – In a Pig’s Eye! – Neutrality Law Full of Loopholes for Intervention

50,000 Auto Workers Blast Chrysler Union-Busting Plans

The War Boom, by Carlo (cartoon)

FBI Attorneys Close Frameup Case in Mpls

The Second Offensive – Push for the $10,000 Organization-Press Fund

Fight Gov’t War Machine in Canada

Behind the Lines, by George Stern

How They Fought Hitlerism in a “Democracy”

New York Membership Meeting Sunday

Labor and the Second World War, by J.R. Johnson

Workers’ Forum

• A Paper Where Workers Will Feel at Home, from C. Curtiss
• The Road to a Real Workers’ Newspaper, by The Appeal Staff

In the Labor Unions, by B.J. Widick