1937 SOCIALIST APPEAL COMPLETE CONTENTS BY VOLUME, VOLUME 1 1937 1 Aug. 14, 1937 SOCIALIST APPEAL Published Weekly as the Organ of the Socialist Party of New York, Left Wing Branches. Socialist Party is Split in New York Expulsions -"La Guardia Socialists" Oust Left Wingers At Rump Meeting of Central Committee Farcical Hearing No Charges Proved Denounce Meeting as Illegal Why We Are Publishing the Socialist Appeal from the Manifesto to the Party Membership LaGuardia Sell-out in S.P. Class Lines Sharpening La Guardia Record Altman-Thomas Sell-out Issue is National and Basic Who Is Financing the Right Wing Split Drive? GPU Lynches Andres Nin Committee Finds Frame-Up "Evidence" Laughed At Stalin the Butcher A Manifesto to the Members of the Socialist Party The Background of the Crisis The Fight Against Old Guard The Chicago Convention The Right Wing's Hands Forced The Political Basis of the Crisis Spain The May Events in Barcelona Spain and the Party Crisis The Soviet Persecutions Stalinism is not an Ally The Fourth International Two Bankrupt Internationals Right Wing and Fourth International Farmer-Laborism Labor Party--Real and Ideal Right Wing for La Guardia The Silence on Wisconsin Stalinism and the Party Crisis The Stalinists Aim Political Source of Right Wing Spurious Flare-Ups Against Stalinism Altman-Wisconsin-Lewis Wisconsin's "States' Rights" N.E.C. Capitulates to Wisconsin Altman's Wrecking of N.Y. The Role of Norman Thomas Thomas with Right Wing The Thomas Line The Clarity Group Thomas for La Guardia Evolution of Clarity group Impotence of N.E.C. The Right-Center Bloc The Gag-Law Against the Left Clarity Final Stage Perspective of the Left Wing Capitulate or Fight! Perspective of Fight Forward with Left Wing Where Is Kupinsky? 2 Aug. 2, 1937 Tory Press Declares for LaGuardia As Mayor Enters G.O.P. Primaries -"Triune" and "Times" for Browder-Thomas-ALP People's Front Candidate Thomas View Rejected People's Front Line Fatal The Capitalist Press for LaGuardia The New York Times, Aug. 15, 1937 The New York Herald-Tribune, Aug. 15, 1937 Stalinists Applaud Ousting of Left Wing from S.P. Urge Deeper Split in S.P. NEC Suspends California Charter -Clarity Group in Punitive Expedition by Glen Trimble California's Real Crime What the Left Wing Is Hindering Violent Crisis Drives Japanese Imperialism to Invade China C.P.-Supported Party for Invasion Chinese Bourgeoisie Sabotage Fight Chang Propped by Anglo-French C.P. Calls for Imperialist Intervention Clarity in California and Clarity in Wisconsin Clarity Capitulates to Wisconsin Attack Trade Union Line Trager O.K.'s Raskin Demand Wisconsin Gets Carte Blanche What is the N.E.C. Doing About LaGuardia The Questions of Wendelin Thomas by Leon Trotsky "End Justifies Means" Lenin's Position Stalin and the Bolsheviks Once More: The Altman-Thomas Finances The Menaker Letter Clarity Heads Oppose Independent SP Slate The Situation in Spain Today by X. Stalin Police System Installed Issue Reactionary Decrees Prisoners on Hunger Strike Socialists Tacitly Aid G.P.U. Discontent with Anarchist Leaders The Stalinist Degeneration POUM Disoriented Truth About Barcelona's May Days -A Sensational Document on the Stalinist-Separatist Plot to Crush Labor by the Nat. Committee of the CNT Plot Preceded May Events Intelligence Agent Murdered Guards Under G.P. Orders CP-Catala Continue Repressions Dwyer Slated for Expulsion in Massachusetts Socialist Call Comes Out For Sanctions Centrists Adopting Right Wing Line Thomas Demands U.S. Sanctions Call Joins Thomas Demand A Reply to a Stalinist Calumniator by James Casey Stalinists and Apologists Gold in Exile Who is the Newcomer? Gold and Browder at Odds Eloquent Silence Roll of Honor (Lists those "expelled" or scheduled for expulsion) Erber Hits Plan to Steal YPSL Convention -Calls on Circles To Guarantee Honest Meet by Ernest Erber, National Chairman, Young People's Socialist League Brazen Fraud Harry Milton Freed in Spain; Returning Here Washington Protests Mass Expulsions (The Washington D.C. branch of the Socialist Party sends a telegram to Norman Thomas protesting against the idea of mass expulsion of the Left Wing) An Appeal to Revolutionary Socialists by Glen Trimble The "Red Herring" Clarity's Capitulation Left Wing has Majority Unite Against Gag Law! 3 Aug. 2, 1937 YPSL Split in N.Y. -11 Left Wing DEC Leaders Are Expelled -"Clarity" Splits New York Yipsels -Join with Right Wing to Expel 11 Revolutionists Expelled on False Pretenses Whole Left Wing Involved 70 More Ousted by Altman -Right Drops 7 Branches Clarity Calls the Cops -Ward Rodgers Hales California Left Wingers to Court Spain's Unions Join Pact Against Stalinist Reaction by Felix Morrow Blow at Stalinists Stalinists Assail Pact Unity Machinery Weak Consistent Party Lacking CNT Press Protests Frame-Up Negrin Cabinet Shows Incompetence Araquistain "Disillusioned" Removed Satir As Labor Secy. In Cook County by Albert Glotzer Arm Chinese Mass, Only War Hope by Lo Sen Japan Refuses Partial Surrender Tokyo's Calculations Mobilize the Masses Notice to Yipsel Delegates New York Emergency Conference Called The "Appeal" Is Your Paper-Support It! What Was Done In Scottsboro? Who Is Back of F.H. LaGuardia -The Capitalist Forces Behind the Candidate of the New York People's Front by James Burnham New York's Big Business The Budget Question Banks Apply Pressure Unify At Last! Ask Aid of Yipsels in New York Fight, signed by Donald Bergner, Hal Draper, Mary Ford, Manny Garrett, Anne Kracik, Irving Panken, Alex Retzkin and Oscar Shoenfeld To Disregard Rump DEC Split Created by Right-Center Bloc Clarity Imitates Old Guard The Trial of the Danzig Trotskyists -How the Fascist Prosecutor Follow in the Footsteps of Stalin and Vishinsky by Leon Trotsky The Fascist Press Story Vishinsky's Language Fascist Indignation Trotskyists Hit Fascism Call for 4th International Stalinist Hypocrisy Moscow and Danzig "Instructions" Non Existent Nanking Bans Truth of Moscow Trial at Bid of Stalin Ambassador The Politics of Gus Tyler--A Genuine Case of Rotten Liberalism in the Party -How the Centrist Leadership of the Clarity group Reacts to the Crisis Confronting the Socialist party at the Decisive Stages of the Struggle by Max Shachtman The Liberal and the "Sectarians" The Left Wing and the Right are Irreconcilable How Does Tyler Answer the Decisive Question? Who Picked the NEC and How Does It Act? Criminal Silence About Criminal Errors The Party Liberal Asleep...and Aroused It Seems That We Have Not Been Expelled At All! The Party Liberal Five Months Ago and Today Party Branches Protest Mass Expulsions -Rochester and Twin Cities Hit Ouster Rochester Protests (Statement approved by B.C. Benham, Local Secretary) Twin Cities Protest (Adopted unanimously at a membership meeting and signed by C.R. Hedlund, Chairman of meeting and Karl S. Kuhen Secretary of meeting) A Black Book of YPSL Leaders Fix Arbitrary Ratios Coast Delegation Cut The End of Henry Yagoda -Stalin Imprisoned the Head of the G.P.U. Because He Knew the Inside Story by Victor Serge Yipsels Remain True to Revolutionary Tradition By Hal Draper Majority with Appeal Shady Clarity Devices Expulsions Begin in New York A New Wave of Terror Against German Trotskyism What Norman Thomas Saw in Barcelona Distinguished Visitors Half-Rate on Trial Book ("Case of Leon Trotsky" special edition for workers) Left Wing Will Not Allow Itself to Be Gagged by the Party Bureaucracy! -Declaration by Albert Goldman for the Left Wing at the Chicago Membership Meeting in a Reply to Maynard Krueger's Threats by Albert Goldman Convention Did not Settle Problems New NEC Unable to Weather Storm Our Forecasts Justified Spanish Events Intrude Norman Thomas' Attitude The Hypocrisy of Krueger Bankruptcy of National Office The Heart of the Gag-Law Krueger Creates Straw Men The Left Wing Has Been Disciplined The Question of Mass Work In Activity We Yield to No One Toward an Index Prohibitorum Appeal's Proposals For the Crisis Ohio Youth Solidly with Left Wing by Robert Stiler California...New York 4 Sep. 4, 1937 Popular Front Surrenders Santander -Basque Chiefs Fear Workers by Felix Morrow Play Fascist Game Double Treachery Nothing Learned War Sabotaged China Defense Sags, Fear Masses -Nanking Prepares New Defense by Li-Fu-Jen Record of Surrender "Resistance" Nanking Not Serious Britain, U.S. Tied Erber Greets Youth Convention by Ernest Erber, National Chairman of the Young People's Socialist League Growth of Left Wing Robbing the Left Wing Bankrupt Centrists New Flash! (Moulin, leader of the Spanish Bolshevik-Leninists has been arrested by the Spanish GPU, also arrested was Irwin Wolf, former secretary of Leon Trotsky) N.Y. Meeting Lays Basis For Activity A. F. of L. Endorses La Guardia -Mayor Rejects Endorsement of Stalinists Bootlicker Lovestone Too Appeal for Spanish Political Prisoners G.P.U. in Spain Bungles Plot in Framing Socialist CIO Gets Setback in Steel; Government Aids Bosses Government Aids the Bosses Leaders Go to Politicians Class Collaboration Policy Picket Lines Neglected Party Locals Rally to the Left Wing Indiana Unanimous Indianapolis Local Local Lynn Acts Conn. Secretary French People's Front (Raises prices on wheat and bread) Scottsboro Defense in Phony Deal McGrady Lands Job as Radio Company Boss Expulsion Drive is Underway in Mass. Lewis Pays for Votes The Last Supper T.U. "Discipline" Admiral's Vote California Party Displays Record Growth, Activity by Glen Trimble Registration High Clarity's Case Farmer-Labor Party Leaders Plan the Dissolution of Their Party Appeal Greetings Letter from Albert Goldman City Central Committee, Local Boston voted to send greetings and donate 5 dollars Letter of praise from Fresno Branch Letter from Hildegarde Smith of Hutchinson, Kansas, praise, 5$ and pledge of 2$ a month or more donation Letter from Chas. L.H., Marston Mills, Cape Cod, Mass.. 5$ renewal and 4 new subs Letters from Organizers, Enrico Panicali, Louisville, Kentucky, Richard E. Posner, Rochester Y.P.S.L., Paul A. Rasmussen, St. Paul, Minnesota, B.C. Bennen, Local Rochester Chairman, Monroe County Feuchtwanger Defends Stalin Against Attack of Andre Gide by Blake Lear A Bourgeois Defense A Story-teller's Story Swears by Stalin California YPSL Summer School Sacco-Vanzetti Rally Disrupted by Chicago Clarity Leaders by Melos Most Outsiders Protest Attack on Left Letters from Barcelona Picture Bourgeois-Stalinist Repressions by Z. Maine Shoe Strike and CIO Leadership -Old Line Chiefs, Methods Fail to Bring Victory by Russell Scott Leaders Hang On Another AFL Type Relief Doled Out Government "Help" Chicago Backs Appeal Appeal Works to Save Party Clarity and Language Branches 5 Sep. 11, 1937 National Executive Committee Sells Out Socialist Party to La Guardia -Orders Expulsion of all Revolutionists -Forward to a Rank and File Convention to Throw Out the Betrayers and Rebuild the Party on A Revolutionary Basis Left Wing Carries YPSL Convention -Huge Majority Prevails as Gerrymander Flops -Y.P.S.L. Convention Organizes for Work by Hal Draper, National Secretary Young Peopls Socialist League Frantic Centrists The Key Questions Only Convention Can Decide Splitters Exposed Convention Decisions Workingclass Delegates From Coast to Coast Morale High Erber Re-Elected Program Mass Work Great Future Erber Surveys YPSL Progress In Five Years of Development by Ernest Erber, National Chairman Young People's Socialist League Leaders Elected by Y.P.S.L. Young in Years, Old in Work "Supporting La Guardia Betrays Socialism" by Max Shachtman-So Said Clarity, But Accepts NEC Betrayal and Leads Expulsions Two Questions Are One Clarity's "Line" Altman's Line Carries What This Means "Betrayal", Said Clarity Clarity Capitulates Never Serious Clarity Leads Expulsions Confusion Confounded Clarity Hypocrisy Cowardly Toward Rightists Expulsions Are Political The Fight Begins! La Guardia's Record: A Lackey of Capitalism -Fiorello is Wall Street's Cleverest Candidate but His Record is Damning by James Casey "New Dealer" Mahoney Big Capital Backs La Guardia Fiorello and Tammany Ham Fish's Man Fiorello Defends Tammany Labor Record Against Postal Workers Jingoism Aids Fascists Harry Lundberg is Defended by N.M.U. Sailors Against Slander by Joe Lookout Moscow Frameup More Party Bodies Fight Right Wing Spanish Anti-Fascist Movement Slandered by Church Hierarchy by Felix Morrow Must Tell Catholic Worker Church Still Hypocritical Even Kings Fought Clergy Economic Power of the Church The Church Army Popular Front Leaves Church Untouched Damning Evidence Progressive Leaders Build N.W. Labor Movement Strike Weapon Used Ness-Belor Honored Whole Movement Advances La Guardia Attacks Militant Unionism Colorado Party Leader Charges Tyler Factional by Paul S. McCormick Why Tyler Suppressed It How G.P.U. Hounds Revolutionists -Old Bolshevik, Tarov, Escapes, Testifies to Inquiry Commission -Tarov Indicts G.P.U. Before Commission Arrest, Deportation Deportation and Escape The Soviet Worker is Not Free Why the Opposition Functioned Underground How the G.P.U. Extorts Capitulations Suicides His Own Experience A Fatal Error Terrible Plight Clarity Calls the Cops (A Copy of the summons procured by Ward Rodgers against Glen Trimble) Teachers Convention Adopts CIO Referendum, Organizing Plan Move Toward CIO Convention Pro CIO Three Rival Groups People's Fronters Main Fight Organizational Socialist Role Left Socialists Act Stalinists-Conservatives Knife Krueger Composition of Executive Organizing Campaign Planned 6 Sep. 18, 1937 Nyon Meet Aids British War Plans -Trade Unions Leaders Repeat 1914 Betrayal -John Bull, Arming, Pledged Support by Reformist Chiefs by James Burnham Juridical Solutions Inadequate Tactic to Delay Compromise in Spain Opposes Rome-Berlin Axis Britain wins "Strong Hand" War Postponed Labor "Leaders" Help Pledge Sell-Out Beforehand Japan Admits Long Fight Ahead to Conquer China -But Rivals are Preoccupied In West, Soviet Stands Off by Li Fu-Jen Opportune Moment Moscow Compromises Pact Meaningless Japan Unopposed Convention Call Initiated By Ohio State and Chicago U.S. Marines Smash Strike Demonstration of Chinese Workers CIO Tested in Akron's Gum Mines -Akron Unions Built by Progressives But CIO Chieftains Push Them Out by Jack Wilson Sit-Down Began Here Role of A.F. of L. Progressives Learn Struggle and Victory Success Inspiration CIO Tops Intervene Bureaucrats Develop CLU Liquidated Causes Militancy Declines F.L.P. Scheme Democrat Victorious No Program Stalinists Right-Wing Uncompromising Struggle Chautemps' Rule Shaky, Prices Rise -French Workers Are Restive as Gains of Strikes are Wiped Out by Frank L. Demby Capitalists Profit Prices Soar News Flash! (Harry Milton Arrived from Spain) Lewis Found Guilty by Own Partisans for Buying Votes by John F. Dwyer Roles Reversed Found Guilty Left Wing Carries On Austrian Trotskyists Jailed, Sentenced By Fascist Courts Tribunes of the Masses Martin Attacks Communists (Homer Martin, president of the United Automobile Workers) Akron and St. Louis Branches Rally to Support of Left Wing N.W. Union Progressives Condemn Union Splitting Moves of Stalinists by Carlos Hudson Win Strikes All Inclusive Stalinist Tricksters Ill-Advised Sympathy Strike Fought by Progressives Agreements Endangered Move Lacks Basis What's Behind the Move Leaders Recognize Seriousness Call for Reconsiderations Reading Old Guard Joins In Fight Against "Trotskyism" Old Guard "Democracy" Old Guard vs. Trotskyism Primary Fight Crushing Left Wing Majority At YPSL Convention Make Impossible Alibi Attempt of Socialist Call -Socialist Call Alibi on Y.P.S.L. Answered by Cold Facts "Figures Compared" The Figures Broken Down Clarityite "Answers" Wishful Thinking A Sorry Confession A "Convention" And a Convention How G.P.U. Hounds Revolutionists -Old Bolshevik, Tarov, Escapes, Testifies to Inquiry Commission (Continued from last week) Rakovsky's End How the G.P.U. Tortures Prisoners Slaughterhouse Began in 1928 Hunger-Strike Why They Confess Spanish Govt. Outlaws Criticism, Chains Press Decree Helps Fascists CNT Organ Suspended London Buro Aids Stalin Frame-Ups by Refusal to Join Probe Commission -Hypocrisy in the Guise of "Impartiality" Shown in Reply By Brockway by Leon Trotsky Tyler-Altman Bloc Built on Hostility to Leninism Something New Dutch Courage Riding the Rods by Carlo (Political Cartoon about La Guardia and his allies) Forgotten Zam-Tyler Words Indict Their Own Practices in Party Minority Rights Appeal Friends Send in Subs Harry Milton, Wounded Saved From GPU Jail 7 Sep. 25, 1937 La Guardia Endorses George U. Harvey -"People's Front" Candidate for New York's Red-Baiter No. 1. -Thomas is "Shocked" But Will Not Run Red-Baiter Endorsed Thomas to Withdraw Erwin Wolf in Spanish Prison -Trotsky Secretary Held By G.P.U. in Barcelona Betrayed by G.P.U. Victor Harris Ousted as Conn. Secretary Forward to the Convention To Speak Friday (Photo of Harry Milton When Will the New World war Begin -Imperialists Now Launch Conflicts Without Formal Declaration by James Burnham Same in Politics Central Task The New Aspect No Formalities End of Versailles Prelude to the War What Next? What This Means Build the Appeal Erber and Gould on Tour (With schedules) Who Does the Constitution Belong To? -Should the Working Class Celebrate Its Birthday or Prepare Its Funeral Undemocratic Some Features Why Two Houses Indirect Elections Amendments Balked Bill if Rights? Class Instrument How to Fight Our Constitution Stalinism and Bolshevism -An Article Concerning the Roots and Traditions of the Movement for the Fourth International by Leon Trotsky The Reaction Against Marxism and Bolshevism "Back to Marxism"? Is Bolshevism Responsible for Stalinism? The Fundamental Prognosis of Bolshevism Stalinism and "State Socialism" The Wave of Trials in the U.S.S.R. -Mass Executions, Disrupting Economy, Reveal Reactionary Role of Stalin by Jack Weber Stalin's Alibi Some Recent Trials Far Eastern Trials The National Problem Some Revealing Trials Economy & Bureaucracy Hidden Trials Youth Endangers Stalin Stalin Teaches Hitler The Case of Leon Trotsky -A Review of the Dewey Sub-Commission's Hearing in Mexico City Verbatim Report Documentation Physically Impossible The Role of Confessions Provides Political Understanding The Capitulators On Sabotage On Terrorism A Great Speech Dullea to Run in Spite of Clarityites Save U.S. Business in China, Is C.P. Appeal -"New Masses" Ask Roosevelt to Intervene for American Capital by Li Fu-jen "Collective Security" Jingoes at Work Recruiting Officer Draper Poisoned Pill Flunkeys in Line Plan to Deceive Real Intervention All in Together Yes, Yes, But What About His Friends? (Reprint of the cover of the "New Masses" from August 24, 1937, featuring an article about Hugo Black "A Man with the Right Kind of Enemies" by Wallace Moore) Register for the School 8 Oct. 2, 1937 Left Wing Issues Convention Call -N.Y. and Chicago Join Four State Committees In National Appeal The N.E.C. Has Betrayed Socialism The N.E.C. Is Splitting the Party The La Guardia-N.E.C. Stands Condemned On to the Chicago Convention! Thomas Quits Mayoralty Campaign -Left Wing to Act on Campaign This Week "First Time in History" Left Wing to Act G.P.U. Murders Rebelling Agent -Reiss Broke With Stalin, Thugs Take Him for Ride -Bullet Riddled Body Found by Police in Switzerland Broke With Assassins G.P.U. Sets Murder Trap Revolutionary Record Painters' Strike Settlement Arouses Dissatisfaction with Stalinist Leadership Real Demands Ignored W. Green Splits Up Akron Labor by Blake Lear Majority Fights Bradley Green Breaks Unity The Wall Streeters Behind LaGuardia -Mayor is "Liberal" Front for Prominent Reactionary Backers by James Casey Wall Streeters Give Aid Fusion's Chairman G.O.P.'ers in Lead for Mayor "Call" Has Alibi on LaGuardia Means Endorsement Delson-Zam Estimate C.P. Pushes LaGuardia-F.D.R. in East Coast Marine Union Socialism and Bolshevism -An Article Concerning Roots and Traditions -The Movement for the Fourth International by Leon Trotsky (Continued from last issue and concluded) The Political "Sins" of Bolshevism as the Source of Stalinism Questions of Theory Question of Morals The Traditions of Bolshevism and the Fourth International Spain and the Coming World War -Civil War May Be Completely Transformed Into Imperialist Conflict by James Burnham England's Position Fascism and Democracy Two Kinds of Support The Call for Government Action Dangers of Spain Auto Convention Shows Growth -Victory of Bureaucracy Shows Left Wing Need Background of the Convention Bosses Advice? Martin's Lovestonites The Toledo Meeting Browder Steps In C.P. Has to Fight Lewis Man Booed Lewis Arrives Militancy Diverted Browder and LaGuardia Calif. Aviation Strike Firm Company Fights Union Profits from Government Contracts Strike in Danger Compare The "Appeal" Bulletin (Announces a protest against the Nazi rally in Madison Square Garden Oct. 3) The United Front from Below by Carlo (Political Cartoon about Browder and the American Legion) Times Change in the S.P. by John Hall 9 Oct. 9, 1937 Nominate James P. Cannon for Mayor In New York Municipal Campaign -Open Write-In Drive for Only Labor Candidate Only Labor Candidate Class Issues Dominate Write-In Campaign Our Candidate (Photo of James P. Cannon) Trotsky Sees Jap Blow-up by Leon Trotsky (Answers to questions of J.P. McKnight of AP) Blow-up Threatens Japan Stalin Regime Doomed Rodgers Expelled Harry Milton on National Tour New Crisis Hits People's Front Gov't in France -Labor Systematically Robbed of Gains Made in Struggles by Frank L. Demby Socialists Continue Old Line Radicals Divided Sharp Struggles Ahead "New International" On Way Rubber Workers Convene in Akron -Conservatives in Control, But Democratic Constitution Voted by Jack Wilson Conservatives Dominant Confusion on War-Fascism Constitution Democratic Some Progressives Win Milton Tour Dates School Offers Five Courses -Marxist School Notes from Spain Collectivization Attacked Stalinists Insults Worker-Martyrs Anarchist Youth Refuse to Slander Trotskyists Courts Re-Organized Clashes in Far East and Mediterranean Make New World War Danger Imminent -Stalinist Bureaucracy is Tied To Imperialist Apron-Strings by Herman Stern Capitalist War Inevitable The Two Camps Japan vs. England The "War on Piracy" The Pro-Fascist Pretense Opposition Fights Fur Union Bureaucracy Elementary Demands ignored Heavy Price Paid Democracy Flouted Heavy Tax Voted Down Opposition Group Continues New Headquarters in Chicago Browder: "One of my best friends...." (Political Cartoon) Dullea Gets 1511 Votes for Mayor Akron A.F. of L. Charter Lifted by Blake Lear Trotskyists Hounded and Imprisoned by Fascist Terror in Austria, Germany -While the Stalinists Slander Them as "Agents of the Gestapo", the Real Gestapo Makes the Fourth Internationalists Its Chief Victims Trotskyist Trial in Hamburg Four Trotskyist Trials in One Year Take Militant Stand "For World Revolution" Trial Gets Publicity Stalinist Union Wrecking Is Discrediting CIO Movement Among Minnesota Unionists by Carlos Hudson Stalinists Discredit CIO Machinists Resist Raids ` Unionists Aroused Who Is Girolamo Valenti? -The Financial Wizard of the Socialist Right Wing Valenti the Fixer Valenti's Partners Money Tight Again Stalinists Become Partners Takes Up La Guardia Our Duty in Spain Is Aid To 4th Internationalists LaGuardia Favored by Wall Street to Preserve Its Financial Interests by James Casey Tammany's Decay Racketeers Cut Profits 44 Million to Underworld Roosevelt Imposes LaGuardia Stalinist Press at Work Here We Are! Fear for Life of Widow of Reiss, Murdered by G.P.U, 400 Yipsels Demonstrate Against N.Y. Nazis 10 Oct. 16, 1937 Roosevelt Heading Toward New War -Speech in Chicago Heralds U.S. Offensive Against Japan in Far-Eastern Crisis Mobilizing Public Opinion for War Reaching Out for the World The Masses Are Duped By Lies Behind the "Peace" Cry Roosevelt Leads to War Pacifism Aids War Traitors in Labor's Ranks Asks for Lyncher's Job War and Revolution Anglo-French Aid to Spanish Loyalists is a Fraud and Delusion by Felix Morow Democratic Myths Little Aid in Sight Break-up of Status Quo Struggle Inevitable Britain in Bilbao Ratification Meet Starts N.Y. Mayoralty Drive of Left Socialists for Cannon The Beginning of the End -"Stalin Will Depart from the Scene Laden with All the Crimes Which He Has Committed--Not Only as the Grave-Digger of the Revolution but as the Most Sinister Figure in the History of Mankind", by Leon Trotsky Dictatorship of Ignorance and Lies Poisons Spiritual Life of People The Communist International Supports the Counter-Revolution in Spain Stalinism the Scourge of the Soviet Union and Leprosy of Labor Movement Terroristic Acts of Despair Alter Nothing in the Stalinist System Itself Stronger or Weaker Bureaucracy Hated The A.F. of L. Convention Aragon Front Veteran Tells of Sabotage of Anti-Fascist Fight By People's Front Government by Harry Milton Deprived of Rifles Minor Lies Pacifism and China -Answer to Journalist Devlin by Leon Trotsky No Confidence in Chinese Bourgeoisie New Stalinist Frame-up Hits China "Trotskyists" -Chinese Bolshevik-Leninist Exposes Lies in "Daily Worker" Dispatch by Li Fu-jen Frame-Up Apparent "The Leading Newspaper" Lasser Helps C.P. Drive to Undermine Militancy Of Unemployed Alliance Lasser Goes The Whole Hog Sabotage Struggle Revolt in the Ranks Lasser's Stalinist Phrases Sexton's Testimony Reveal U.S. Interests in China -High Stakes in East Drive Toward War With Japan by Lucifer A Chauvinist Flood Stimson Spills Beans U.S. Trade in Far East U.S. Interests Commercial Japanese Depend on Rivals War Impends New Headquarters Widick Runs for Mayor in Akron by Ed Thorn Hall Ryan (Obituary) Stalin's Terror Continues With Envoy's Recall by Victor Serge Rudzutak in Prison Capitulation No Aid Assets and Liabilities The Crooner by Carlo (Political Cartoon ridiculing Earl Browder) Anti-War Press 11 Oct. 23, 1937 Union Unity Move -AFL-CIO To Confer in Washington Next Week -CIO-AFL Unity 8,000,000 Involved Industrial Unions Vital More S.P. Locals Endorse Chicago Left Wing Meet Local Bucks Join Austin Hits Traitors Veterans of Future Wars by Carlo (Political Cartoon) Browder's Complete Turn About-Face On La Guardia's Election by James Casey Decay of Stalinism On LaGuardia in 1934 Why Front Changed Lenin's Warnings Capitalist Agents What's Going on in N.Y. Election Campaign Pacific Sailors Fight to Preserve Militancy Against C.P. Assaults by Glen Trimble Spearhead of Militancy Green Repulsed CIO Leadership at Fault Bridges Line Fatal New Headquarters (For Socialist Appeal) Cleveland Socialists Launch New Activity After Ohio Conference of Left Wingers Generals Are Made By Headlines The Stock Market Crash U.S. Imperialism Attempting to Railroad 11 Puerto Rican Nationalist Leaders to Prison by Bernard Ross Trial Background Roosevelt Hypocrisy The Liquidation of the Comintern -Browder Proclaims C.P. to be Staunch Bulwark of American Capitalism by Liston M. Oak Black's Defender Stalinists and War Browder the Democrat Marx Out-dated Browder is Patient A Mercenary for Sale Stalinist Hoodlum Beats Up Socialist at New York Election Campaign Meeting Spain in Grip of Stalinist G.P.U. -Socialist Kidnapped and Smuggled Off to Russia The Case of Mark Rein Is Son of Abramovich Investigators Vanish Dr. Fiorello H. Jekyll and Mr. Fiorello H. Hyde on New York's Columbus Day Man Bites Dog Subscribe, Give Drive to Aid C.N.T. is Endorsed by Trotsky by Leon Trotsky Widow Reveals How G.P.U. Slew Ignace Reiss in Swiss Village -Stalin Aimed to Silence Former Soviet Agent by E. How Ludwig Was Killed Assassins Known What Ludwig's Wife Knows About the GPU Refused to Confess--Shot! Marxist School a Success As First Sessions Begin Y.C.L. Leaders Split New Jersey A.Y.C. Bill's Column -Trial of a Renegade [By Bill Sherman] The Star Spangled Banner Judas Offers Himself "Peace Loving" Scabbing on the Police "Red Squads" A Warning Clarity Goes Under-ground A Timely Book: -Trotsky Exposes the Lie Machine -The Stalin School of Falsification by Leon Trotsky, Pioneer Publishers, New York, New York -Reviewed by Hal Draper Suppressed Documents Stalin's Biography Fellow Prisoner Testifies An Open Letter to Alfred Baker Lewis on the Mass Expulsion of the Left Wing by John Hall Hypocritical Charges Referendums Sabotaged No Crawling to Bureaucrats 12 Oct. 30, 1937 High Court Rejects Scottsboro Appeal -"Liberal" Black Ducks Opinion; Youth Faces 75 Year Sentence Faces 75 Year Term "Liberal" Black Ducks Secret Paris Meeting Decides for Early Liquidation of Comintern -Trotskyists To Be Annihilated Is Main Slogan by Liston M. Oak To Dissolve Comintern Drive Toward War The Logic of a Policy "Collective Security" by Carlo (Political Cartoon about Britain, the U.S., and France and their relationship with China) Convention Postponed for Wider Discussions Swiss Police Arrest Assassins of Murdered G.P.U. Man, Reiss -Documents Reveal Tortures Used To Get Confessions from Innocent Victims of Moscow Purges and Framed-Up Trials by Leon Trotsky Assassins Arrested Stalinist Press Silent Denounced to Police Challenges Fischer An Emergency (Appeal for funds and subscriptions to enable continued publication) Group Denounces The Kidnapping of Wolf, Rein Hit Rein Abduction Demand Investigation Words Out of the Past Which the Stalinists Want to Forget Roy Burt "Lifts" Minnesota's Charters; Left Has Membership by Arthur Hopkins Ask "Loyalty Oath" Members Solid Tell Me Who Your Friends Are Bela Kun in Prison The Government of Defeat (Comments on the "People's Front" in Spain) Roosevelt Regime Is Main Prop of Brazil Oligarchy by Bernard Ross The Imperialist Hand Labor Conditions 20th Anniversary (Of the Russian Revolution meeting in N.Y. with The Socialist Party of N.Y. and the YPSL) N.Y. Members (Announcement of general membership meetings to discuss convention problems) "Challenge" Out Stalin on His Own Frame-Ups -The Real Prosecuting Attorney Finally Presents Another Explanation of the Moscow Trials with Arguments That Do Not Discredit Those Fighting Against the Despotism of the Bureaucracy, but Which Are a Merciless Indictment of the Political Regime of the Bureaucracy Itself by Leon Trotsky Stalin Finally Comes Forward to Explain Away The Moscow Trials Accusations That Discredit the Regime and Not Those Who Fight It Why the Prosecution Completely Changed the Charges in the Indictment Stalin Sets the Pace and the Comintern Follows All His Zig-Zags Radek Fails to Foresee A Sinister Reality West Coast Seamen to Continue Struggle for Militancy, Autonomy by Glen Trimble, (Concluded from last issue) Stalinists Seek Control Sailors Reply Decision is Sound N.Y. Election Drive Notes Bill's Column [By Bill Sherman] N.Y. Election Campaign "Counter-revolutionists" Antidotes for Reformism Questions Contrast "France for the French!" Is Now Stalinist Call by Charles Orr Showing True Colors Living Costs High Bucks County Local With Left Wing After Hearing Canon Debate Felix and Sandwick by John F. Dwyer International Notes * The Coming Elections in Russia * The Purges Continue * The Cost of Living in France Arrest of 3 Loyalist Generals Shows Treason in People's Front Regimes -Stalinist Pogrom Against POUM Intensified to Cover Betrayal of Northern Front by Basque Bourgeoisie in the Valencia Government by Felix Morrow Reason For Trial Prieto and Navy POUM Trial Fiasco Laugh at Charges Bureaucracy Adopts Barbaric Penal Code to Punish Smallest Offenses in Russia by Victor Serge Karakhan 13 Nov. 6, 1937 U.S.S.R. Faces Crisis on Twentieth Anniversary of October Revolution -World Revolution Alone Can Save the Workers State Fighting Against Odds The Isolation of the Revolution Revolutionary Wave Recedes The Degeneration of the Revolution The Corrupt Rule of the G.P.U. Differences in Social Rank Stalinism and the Revolution The Defense of the Revolution The Attack on the Revolution The Extension of the Revolution Revolt Flares In Morocco; Arrest Heads Stalinists Support Repressions Most Gained by Bosses in A.L.P. Deal A Tragic Lesson -Ignace Reiss, Assassinated by the G.P.U., Was Only the First of the Militants in the Stalinist Camp Who Will Come Over to the Banner of the Fourth International by Leon Trotsky Why Reiss Broke The Effects of Thermidor Underground Work A Difficult Problem The Error of Reiss A Reply to A. McDowell by Paul S. McCormick Get Subs! Auto Unionists Face Vital Battle Against Big Motor Companies Leaders an Obstacle "Unity" Group Collapses Strike Only Answer Stalinists Betray China Struggle by "New Line" -Shanghai Students Forget The Lessons Of 1925-27, Hail Imperialist Troops As "Our British Friends" by Lucifer Kuomintang Gets Red Army Agents for Britain How Bolsheviks Defend China Notice (The NY District of YPSL will conduct a torchlight parade through the East Side on Nov. 12, the day after Armistice Day) International Notes (Discussion of British Labor Party Conference) The Result of the Cantonal Election in France Left Wing Socialist Calls for Militancy at Ohio W.A.A. Confab Why They Were Afraid Real Voting Strength Analyzed Plan Administration Deal Preis Well Received Fur Militants Unite Against C.P. Leaders Bill's Column [By Bill Sherman] The Last Straw How to Win Friends and Influence People The Butcher and the Cattle A Rival for the C.P. "Search for Peace" Religion on the Wane "Anti-Fascist" Capitalists Gave Whole Northern Front to Franco -Basque Government, Tool of Anglo-French Imperialists, Gave Up Cities Intact, Then Tried to Blame Their Treachery On Others by Felix Morrow Loss of San Sebastian Seek Armistice Suppress Workers Role of Central Government Bilbao Betrayed Santander Falls Basque Alibi Others Implicated Stalinist Alibi Blames Workers Asturians Fight On But Are Betrayed The Government of Defeat Stalin on His Own Frame-Ups -The Real Prosecuting Attorney Finally Presents Another Explanation of the Moscow Trials with Arguments That Do Not Discredit Those Fighting Against the Despotism of the Bureaucracy, but Which Are a Merciless Indictment of the Political Regime of the Bureaucracy Itself by Leon Trotsky (Concluded from last issue) The Entire Old Guard Is Given the Name of Wreckers by Stalin The Secret Platform of the Trotskyists Which It Tells Only to the G.P.U. An Appeal to the General Staffs for "Information" Against the Trotskyists The Leaders of Economic Life Did Not Even Know That It Was Being "Wrecked" Rataichak's Sabotage 14 Nov 13, 1937 Anti-Moscow Pact Shows War Peril -Coming Conflict Will Take Place Not to Defend "Democracy" But to Protect the Imperialist Plunder of Big World Powers Pact is Imperialist Smoke-Screen Italy Signs the Pact Germany's Lost Colonies England in Spain Two Currents England and Japan Labor's Role Armistice Day Pause, 1937 (Political Cartoon) Labor's Great Political Power Must Be Used for Independent Action, Election Vote Shows by B.J. Widick Aid Old Party Men Surrender Labor Program National F.L.P.? "Balance of Power" A Fatal Faith Sam Baron Arrested in Spain Internal Bulletin No.2 Ready Appeals Court "Exonerates" Sacramento Defendants CIO-AFL Meet Shows Prospects of Unity in Labor Movement Feel Business Recession Roosevelt's Position Formula Found Unity Needed Push The Appeal Pleading With Fur Bosses Is Fatal to Labor Mass Action Ended The Four Points A Hero of the People's Front (A letter from Portela Valladares, former Prime Minister of Spain) A Study in Contrasts -How the Chinese "Soviets" Were Liquidated Yesterday Today Roosevelt Makes Little Gift to New York by Sam Marcy A Symbolic Occasion The "New Chapter" Committee Urges All Branches To Help In Sales Campaign of "Case of Leon Trotsky" How Shall We Support China -It Is the Duty of Every Worker to Support the Struggle of the Chinese People Against Japanese Imperialism, But the War for Liberation Can Be Won Only by Placing No Confidence at All in the Chinese Bourgeoisie and Placing All Emphasis on the Independent Class Action of the Masses by V.R. Smash Japan Britain and the U.S. Low Living Standards Why Chiang Fights Coming Compromises For Independent Action Britain Takes Steps to "Solve" Spanish Crisis By Recognizing Franco by Felix Morrow Britain's Policy Joined Union of Bandits Meaning of Plebiscite A New Alibi New Struggles on Horizon As French Standards Fall by Herman Stern International Notes by J.G.W. [John G. Wright?] Japanese Economy crumbling Under War Strain Russian White Guards on the Class Nature of the Soviet Union Are You Ready for War? -A Discussion on Imperialist War, Past and Present, on the Presidential "Peace-Lovers" and How They Prepare the Minds of the Masses in Support of a New World-Wide War for Plunder and Exploitation There Were Peace-Lovers Then Too Presidential Peace-Lovers Today Mobilizing the Consciences Wars to End War": Stopping the "Aggressor" As The War Approaches! by Harry Roskolenko (Political Poem) "New Int'l" To Appear in 2 Weeks Genesis of A.L.P. Bill's Column [by Bill Sherman] Freedom and Rome "The Blood of the Lamb" The White Man's Burden A Bargain "Success" Free Labor 15 Nov. 20, 1937 Plan Relief Cuts -Morgenthau Speech Forecasts Congress Attacks on Workers by B.J. Widick Cries: Reduce Relief "Aid Business," Keynote Real Program: Save Capitalism Business "Opposition" Disappears What "Prosperity" Means Workers Must Prepare N.Y. Police Ban Mass Pickets, Guard Scabs, Arrest Strikers Newark Students Fight For School Protest Grows Against Spanish GPU Covering Up F.D.R.'s "Planned" Economy by H. Stern British Labor Party Prepares for War The Battle of Words Shachtman Gives Marxist War Line at CCNY Despite C.P. Disruption Move by Donald R. Bergner More Subs! Chiang Kai Shek Will Not Release Peasant Masses for War Against Japan by Li Fu-jen A Non-Sectarian Zamite Milton and Beatty Speak at Successful Meets in Chicago India's Striking Masses Are Colliding With "Own Bosses" The Stalinist International by Carlo (Political Cartoon) To the Aid of the Brazilian People Vargas Coup Entrenches Hold of U.S. Imperialism by Bernard Ross Vargas' Past Record It Is High Time To Launch a World Offensive Against Stalinism -An Open Letter to All Workers' Organizations by Leon Trotsky An ECCI Plenum Served to Prepare the World Murder Campaign The G.P.U. Works on a World Scale With Anyone Who Will Serve The Amazing Testimony of a Canadian Communist Who Revolted The Leaders of the Second International and Their Relation to Stalin The Truth Will Out: We Must Organize to Make It Known International Notes -Stalin Tightens the Screws on His Plebiscite by J.G.W. [John G. Wright?] West Coast Labor Notes Labor Editor Resigns Endorse Independent Industrial Union Unionists Frames Worker Wants Relief; Sent to Lunatic Asylum by Neil Harrison Roffman's "Crimes" Progressives Rally Aid Paula Aragon, Young Socialist Leader and Labor Organizer, Sentenced to Jail Are You Ready for War? -A Discussion on Imperialist War, Past and Present, on the Presidential "Peace-Lovers" and How They Prepare the Minds of the Masses in Support of a New World-Wide War for Plunder and Exploitation (Continued from last issue) Capitalism Must Expand Who is the "Aggressor?" The Real Line-Up "Democracy" In War Time Glimpses at Latin America by Bernard Ross Chicago Celebrates November 7th Bill's Column [By Bill Sherman?] Stalinized Cosmetics A "Lunatic" Looking Backward An Announcement A Governor's Cure for Depression 16 Nov. 27, 1937 Labor Leader Slain In Minneapolis -Stalinists Seek Frame-up of Leaders of Local 544 (Photo of murdered Patrick J. Corcoran) Teamster Council Statement Stalinists Exploit Tragedy Coming Trials To Reveal Secret Plans of G.P.U. by Leon Trotsky Planned Assassination of Sedoff Demands Duclos Be Investigated Trotsky's Cable to Premier Chautemps by Leon Trotsky Industrial Lay-Offs A Challenge to Labor Lay-offs are Planned Mobilizing Against Militants Behind the People's Front Mask Goodyear Accord Imperils Union -Layoff of 1600 More Men Ends rubber Sit-Down by B.J. Widick Present N.R.L.B. "Offer" Dalrymple Swings Axe Stalinists Equivocate Need Militant Leaders Something to Br Thankful For by Carlo (Political Cartoon about the Armaments Industry) General Motors Throws Down Gauntlet; Workers Answer With Sit-Downs Company Agreement Unacceptable Leaders Try to Shift Responsibility Move to Dismiss Committee Conference Results in Sit-Down Wage Martin and Reuther "Make Up" Rank and File Movement Necessary Koci, West Coast Militant, Menaced by Deportation Minneapolis: Watch the Fingers of the Frame-Up Artist The Meaning of the Stalinist Attack Local 544--A Thorn in the C.P.'s Side The Plan for a Frame-Up Sam Baron Released Three Cheers for Red (White & Blue) Lessons of the Goodyear Sit-Down by Blake Lear Why Offensive Was Launched House Knifes Sit-Downers More Lay-Offs Coming Shanghai's Fall Shows Urgent Need of Mass Action To Stop Japan by Li Fu-jen Shanghai Falls, Too Heads For Defeat Treachery and Corruption Truth Must Be Told Letters from Our Readers -An Open Letter to Norman Thomas by B.C. Bennem "Reorganizer" Finds Branch Solid Imitating Old Guard Methods Who Wants the Split? LaRoque Calls for Ban on National Congress of 4th International by Terence Phelan Tardieu's Revelations The New Upsurge Bolsheviks Provide Leadership International Notes -Stalin's Purge Extends into the Youth and Even Penetrates the "Politburo" by John G. Wright Stalin's Purge of Blood, "At Home" Baku "Kalinin" Liquidated "Suicides" Also Increase Stalinist Uses Sleight-of-Hand Tricks to Prove That Lenin Opposed Soviets by James Casey Latest "Crime": Belief in Soviets How a Quotation is Distorted Why the Sudden Outburst? Reason for Latest Attack What "Democracy" are they Fighting For? Party Activities -Ohio Party Plans Active Workers Conference In Cleveland on December 5th by Blake Lear 200 Hear Harry Milton Speak on Spain in San Francisco Are You Ready for War? -A Discussion on Imperialist War, Past and Present, on the Presidential "Peace-Lovers" and How They Prepare the Minds of the Masses in Support of a New World-Wide War for Plunder and Exploitation Hypocrisy, 1937 Model "Wars to End War": Collective Security The Workers' Answer to War Left Jabs by Bill [Bill Sherman?] "Sweet Land of Liberty" Martin's Stand on the Sitdown Troyanovsky Beware! "Duke's Mixture" "The Road to Life" That Man Browder 17 Dec. 4, 1937 Labor Aroused by Midwest Murder -Rejects G.P.U. Plan to Smear Union Leaders -Answers Slanders of Boss Press and C.P. With Counter Attack Boss Press Leads Attack Stalinists Follow Suit Bosses Utilize C.P. Slander Labor Indignant at Tactics Executing G.P.U. Orders Reactionary "Tribune" Gloats Has International Source Economic Crisis Grows With More Lay-Offs and Rising Cost of Living by James Casey Jobs Drop Repetition of 1929 Cost of Living Rises Higher Prices Coming Big Business Reassured Who Killed Patrick Corcoran -- Why? by James P. Cannon Advance of the Unions Pat Corcoran Attitude of the Labor Movement The Bosses and Their Press Enter the G.P.U. Thousands Pay Last Tribute To P.J. Corcoran Union Militants Meet to Map Campaign For Investigation Offer $10,000 Reward Spur Coroner to Act Press For Special Investigation Benson Asks U.S. Help Pontiac Workers Forced to Quit by Martin Machine by Clark Committeemen Fired Aid From Detroit Calls for G.E.B. Support Act Under Government Threat Those Responsible Akron General Strike Planned Against Nat'l Guard Tactics by B.J. Widick Role of Stalinists C.P. Faking of Signatures Hit by Mpls. Unionists Meeting of Business Agents Denounces Daily Worker Lies The Soviet Elections by Carlo (Political Cartoon) Bertram Wolfe On The Moscow Trials -His Sincere Acknowledgement of Mistaken Judgment Makes Necessary, On His Part, A Reevaluation of the Problem of the Soviet Revolution by Leon Trotsky Source of the Frame-Ups International Notes -Soviet Election to Be "Uncontested" -- List of Candidates Reveals New Social Composition of Ruling Stratum by John G. Wright Breakdown of Candidates List Fear Boycott of Elections Diplomats in Grip of Purge "Partisan Review:" A Revolt Against Stalinism Among The Intellectuals Significant Step Two Wrong Views Cannot Be Indifferent Fills a Need With The Party Kansas City Local Endorses Chicago Rank and File Convention (Resolution signed by C. O'Hara, Secretary) Attempt to Split Rochester Party Fails Greetings From India by Paul Schwalbe New Challenge Out Are You Ready for War? -A Discussion on Imperialist War, Past and Present, on the Presidential "Peace-Lovers" and How They Prepare the Minds of the Masses in Support of a New World-Wide War for Plunder and Exploitation The Second Principle of the War-Makers Jumping on the Bandwagon for War The "Communists" Pledge Allegiance Growing Pains Progressives Win in Akron CIO Council -Wilmer Tate, ex-CLU Chairman, Is Chosen As New President Frisco WPA Workers Face Mass Dismissals Left Jabs [by Bill Sherman?] Stalin Stages an Election Back to '76 "Seeing Things" The Murder of Andres Nin! Unity in the Opium Trade! Ludendorff and Hitler! "The Great Democrat" 18 Dec. 11, 1937 2 Soviet Diplomats Expose Frame-Ups -In Moving Appeal For Threatened Bolsheviks -"Save Those Yet Alive" Is Plea to World Labor Denounce Frame-Ups Victims Were Innocent Stalin Crisis Seen Is Old Revolutionist Illusions Ended Face Death Obeys Conscience Twice Decorated Aware of Danger Corcoran Slain by Labor's Foes -Says Cannon Sailing Under False Colors Call Police Developments of the Week in The Corcoran Case But Minneapolis is Not Moscow! by Carlo (Political cartoon on the Corcoran Murder) Meeting to Hear Verdict of Dewey Commission: Chairman in Broadcast Dewey on Air! Bureaus Restrict Rights of Jobless Locals; WAA "Purged" by Neal Harrison Relief Officials Take Advantage Stalinist "Line" Progressives Organize Moscow-Amsterdam "Unity:" A Diplomatic Maneuver -Comments on the Agreement between the I.F.T.U. and the Soviet "Trade Unions" in an Interview Granted to "El Universal" by Leon Trotsky Unification? No--Diplomatic Accord! Militant Executive of Hosiery Union Slugged in Minneapolis Fought Splitters Threatened by Stalin Men Jobless Must Be Roused Into Action Bad Week for Frame-Up Artists New York Dance to Aid Convention Pittsburgh Congress or "Peace and Democracy" Prepares War Adopts F.D.R. War Program Beware of Repetition of 1917 Fraud Nanking's Fall Ends First Phase of War by Li Fu-jen New Phase Opening Japanese Victories Episodic The New International Raids on "Hooded Ones" Stir France; P.O.I. Calls For Workers Militias by Terence Phelan Sudden Raids The Fascist Danger P.O.I. Calls for Struggle Congress Prepares for Action Renewals Letters from Our Readers * Olivia, Minnesota, Local Backs Left Wing, signed by John Enestvedt, Secretary Olivia Local * A Letter to the Editor of the "Modern Monthly" by Leon Trotsky Lovestoneites Change "Line" Under Impact Of Recent Events In U.S.S.R. by Joseph Carter A Belated Echo The Sources of Stalinism Yesterday's Position The Stalinist Constitution Moscow Trials International Notes -The Franco-Soviet Pact and the Maneuvers of the Imperialists. Soviet Union Election Featured by Continued Purge by John G. Wright Bankers Order Congress to Place Crisis Burden on Workers and Farmers by James Casey View of Press Attitude of Capitol Hill Proposed Legislation Wages to Be Lowered Compromise with Power Trusts Futile Debates in Capitol reveal Coming Party Rifts by James Burnham Purpose of Special Session Battle Behind the Scenes Are You Ready for War? -A Discussion on Imperialist War, Past and Present, on the Presidential "Peace-Lovers" and How They Prepare the Minds of the Masses in Support of a New World-Wide War for Plunder and Exploitation Not "Red" But Yellow The Answer of Revolutionary Marxism Opposition to War Requires Fighting Organization Try To Bolster Midwest Frame-Ups With "Confession" In Frisco; Plot Fizzles Left Jabs [by Bill Sherman?] Life Under Hitler Life Under Mussolini "Patriotism: Last Refuge of a Scoundrel" Mickey Mouse in Concentration Camp Shopping Notes Pins and Needles (Play from the I.L.G.W.U. Players) 19 Dec. 18, 1937 Full Abstract of Commission Report -- Page 5 (Teaser over Masthead) "Trotsky Innocent, Trials Frame-Ups" -Trial Procedure Flimsy and Vicious" (Trotsky and Sedoff found "not guilty" by the International Committee of Inquiry into the Moscow Trials "Fantastically Falsified Trotsky's Role" Signatories of Report Contradicted Precepts of Soviet Law Dr. Dewey's Speech Cannot Be Ignored Checked Dates Closely Withdraw America's Forces from China! -An Editorial Dewey Broadcasts on Trials; Hits Minneapolis Frame-Up Brands Frame-Up in Minneapolis Trotsky's Telegram to the Commission Report Cabinet Absolves Jailed P.O.U. Leaders Truth Convention Date Near; Locals Elect Delegates Model of Discussion Agenda is revealed For 4th International To Defend Marxism Convention Agenda Steel Workers Meet; Progressives Ready to Fight for Democracy and Autonomy New Jersey C.I.O. Meets Challenge of Boss Hague by Jack Wilson Raid on Organizers Tie-Up With Roosevelt Basis of Hague Control Appalling Conditions "Underground" Organizing The Dewey Report Stalin's Victory Browder Announces C.P. Purge Coming In U.S. Threat Made Public A "Uriah Heep" Their Only Way Significant Fact Packinghouse Workers Repudiate Fake C.I.O. Last Minute Minneapolis News Abstract of the Final Report of the Commission of Inquiry into Charges Made Against Leon Trotsky in the Moscow Trials (A condensation of the 80,000 word fully documented report released December 13, 1937.) Summary of Findings History and Procedure of the Commission The Two Moscow Trials General Nature of the Charges Procedure of the Soviet Court The Capitulators The Zinoviev-Kamenev Trial; The "Trotskyite-Zinovievite Terrorist Center." The Definitive Charges Against Leon Trotsky and Leon Sedov Holtzman Olberg Other Defendants The Pyatakov-Radek Trial: The "Parallel" or "Reserve Center." Definitive Charges Against Leon Trotsky and Leon Sedov Romm Pyatakov Conclusions from Old and New Evidence on: The Charge of Terrorism The Charge of Sabotage The Charge of Agreements with Foreign Powers The Historical Connection Final Conclusions Summary of Findings Conduct of Trials The Charges Conclusions The Commissioners -Members of the French Sub-Commission (Commission Regatoire) C.P. Acquits Capitalism; "Bad Monopolists" Held Responsible for Crisis by James Casey And Now..."Honest" and "Dishonest" Bosses Official Position "Honest" Monopolists Too? The Bosses "Strike" "Tired of Clipping Coupons"? How to End Recession... G.P.U. Plot Against Grylewicz Collapses; Old Militant Freed Veteran of 32 Years Hounded by Nazis Fraud Collapses Rivera Bares Mexican Plot Against Trotsky Tried Worn-Out Method An Incredible Charge Record of Villarreal A Ridiculous Charge Object of Maneuver "Just An...Assumption" by John F. Dwyer International Notes -G.P.U. Supervises Soviet Election--Arrests and Shootings Continue--Last Minute Removals From Ballot by John G. Wright Stalin Elects Himself Advised Ballots Be Signed Voting "Safe-Guarded" Last Minute Changes in Ballot The Massachusetts "Red" Investigation; A Further Stage in C.P. Degeneration by Hal Draper Frankfeld Eats His Words The Stalinists Confess Unbiased Red-baiters People's Front -- Mayflower Product No Danger Some Twentieth Century Beliefs N.Y. Membership Meeting Sunday LaGuardia and the Gravediggers Relief Sit-Down Ends in Settlement C.P. Disrupts Alliance; Drives to Expel Harrison Tries to Discredit Progressives Embarrassing Questions The Charges W.A. Official Resigns In Protest (Signed by Charles Mack, Member of City Executive Committee of W.A. Unemployed Division) Truth is On The March! by Carlo (Political Cartoon about Stalinism) Revived "New International" Rich in Content Left Jabs [by Bill Sherman?] Voting Machines and Machine Guns Revolution and Cinema Revolution Zam's "Bright Future" in Reading Robinson Case Union Vigilance Necessary Against Employers' Offensive by Manny Mills 20 Dec. 25, 1937 On to Convention! -Chicago Mass Meeting To Welcome Delegates To Hold Mass Meeting Delegates From Class Struggle Fronts New G.P.U. Frame-Ups Exposed; Purge Continues by Max Shachtman The Assassination of Karakhan G.P.U. Ravages Abroad Stalinists Distort Interview Case of Juliet Stuart Poyntz Steel Workers Meet Votes S.W.O.C. Full Power to Negotiate Contracts Reasons for Calling Convention Panay Incident Unmasks Aims of Imperialism by Li Fu-jen Tragic Rout at Nanking War Sentiment Created Meaning of "Panay" Incident U.S. Plans for Future Position of Revolutionists Midwest Conference Prepares T.U. Work of Party Convention by Blake Lear Prepare for Party Convention Proposed Steps Organized Unemployed Work With The Party Expulsion of W.A.A. Militants Meets With Strong Opposition Layoffs and Wage Cuts Hit Living Standards; Unions Must Act Now by James Casey (Conclusion of a series on the economic situation) Lippman in 1931 Advice Utilized Today Revolutionary Socialists' Tasks What Can Be Expected of C.P. C.P.'s Old Position Hail the New Party! On One Condition: That History Be Falsified Horror at Nanking C.P. Pickets "Tsar to Lenin" In Philadelphia "Champions of Democracy" Stunt a Boomerang Stalin Purge Strikes New Soviet Deputies War! (The Socialist Appeal is an educational organ for peace, it asks for support) Answers to Questions of Journalists On Verdict of Dewey Commission by Leon Trotsky Stalin's Cultural Inquisition by John Glenner Meyerhold's Genius Mediocre Uniformity--The Rule Grocery Drivers Win Strike in Minneapolis -C.I.O. Director Repudiates C.P.; Carpenters Oust Stalinist Stooge Issues of Strike Call Bosses Bluff Labor's Answer C.P. Pulls in Horns C.I.O. Director Repudiates Stalinists Stalinists Kicked Out by Union Membership Another Serious Blow International Notes -Illegal Conference of Austrian Revolutionary Socialists--Esthonia Social Democrats and People's Front--Swiss Leader Exposes Stalin by John G. Wright ["Esthonia is an archaic spelling of "Estonia"] Esthonian Social Democrats Reform Ranks For a People's Front Former Head of Swiss Stalinists "Exposes" Stalin Cannon Exposes Attempt to Use the "Robinson" Case Against U.S. Trotskyists Purpose Clear Feared Outcome of Inquiry Background of Affair Usual Frame-Up Structure Some Questions to Soviet Officials Dr. Dewey's Prediction Firemen Take The Lead As Progressives Win Support In West Coast Maritime Unions by Jack Cope 960 Endorse "Fireman" Gain in Election Bridges Pulls a Boner; "Plot" Fails to Thicken by Jack Cope Who Really "Plotted" Case of Lundeberg Bridges Against the "Griffith" Crew Sailors Win; Stalinists "Beef" Bridges' Real Aim S.U.P. Votes Funds to Sue Slanderers of Lundeberg Demand Retraction Sailors Nail a Lie Aircraft Strikers Convicted of "Conspiracy to Felony" Left Jabs [by Bill Sherman?] "Peace on Earth" 1914-18 A.D. God's Spokesmen Labor's Mayor