LEON TROTSKY MEMORIAL ISSUE THE PUBLISHEDMILITANT IN THE INTERESTS OF THE WORKING PEOPLE ---- ' - ...... i .V! ...... - ■■ J. ______' - ...l=g VOL. IX — No. 33 NEW YORK, N. Y„ SATURDAY, AUGUST 18, 1945 PRICE: FIVE CENTS THERE IS NO PEACE! Only World Socialism Can Save Mankind From Atomic Destruction In Another Imperialist War Workers O f America! You Must Take Power Into Your Own Hands! THE ONLY VICTOR the antagonisms has shifted. War is the end result of the cease­ MANIFESTO less capitalist hunt for profits, markets, colonies, spheres of in­ fluence. It is a lie that war can be prevented by treaties and of the agreements among the imperialist bandits. The League of. Nations could not prevent war. It was dead and buried before World War 11 broke out. The United Nations organization National Committee will not be able to prevent a third world war. Its very formula of the of “ peace by force” implies war and not peace. In unguarded moments the imperialists admit that they know of no way to prevent war. The admission is im plicit in the maintenance of Socialist Workers Party gigantic armaments. First Washington dispatches on the atomic WORKERS, FARMERS — TOILERS OF AMERICA! bomb quoted official quarters as saying this new weapon would “ revolutionize all future warfare.” Couid anything oe plainer?/ The seeond imperialist world war has ended. Six years of wholesale slaughter and devastation have America Will Not Escape been brought to an awful climax with the discovery Nor should any man deceive himself that America w ill »f the atomic bomb and its use, with frightful effect, escape the annihilating blasts of the atomic bomb in a future war. A ir power and sea power w ill afford no sure protection. ¿(gainst the people of Japan. Scientists already tell us that an air force w ill not be necessary The din of battle has ceased. Mankind now must contem­ to carry this new missile on its deadly mission. It w ill be fired plate the destruction and the ruin, the pain and the heartbreak, immense distances in the form of a jet-propelled rocket that which the war has caused. People in every land are celebrating will speed to its taiget at a lightning rate and with unerring the end of the carnage, not so much with joy as with a sense accuracy. New York or Detroit or Los Angeles w ill be as of relief that it has come to an end. They do not and cannot vulnerable as Hiroshima and Nagasaki. lpel {secure, Over th.eir celebrations, like.a lowering.cloud, hangs, It is at this point that the liberal apologists and defender^ a grim foreboding of things yet to come. Mere in America, of the bloody capitalist system come forward to explain that where the civilian population has been spared the monstrous the new weapon makes future wars "unthinkable,” because its agony endured for long, unbroken years by the peoples of extensive use would mean the utter annihilation of the humad Europe and Asia, joy that the war has ended is also tinged race. Thus another dangerous illusion is sown. with dread for the future. After W orld W'ar I these same liberals declared that an­ other war was “ unthinkable.” Now that mankind has suffered Revulsion and Anxiety another terrible blood-bath, do they seek to inquire why the The atomic bombing of the Japanese cities of Hiroshima "unthinkable” came to pass? They do not. For honest inquiry and Nagasaki, with a combined population of 600,000 men, leads straight to the conclusion that under capitalism wars are women and children, has sent a wave of revulsion and anxiety inevitable and inescapable, and that once war begins all the throughout the world, especially among the toiling populations diabolical instruments of killing and destruction are brought into who are the principal victims of war. It is universally realized play. The liberal fakers are employed, and generously paid, to that mankind has been saved from total annihilation in World cover up for capitalism, to mislead the masses by sowing illu ­ War II only because the atomic bomb was invented so late. sions, and thus divert them f(om the struggle for socialism There is also the conviction, amounting to certainty, that another which alone can end the horrors of war for all time. That is world war w ill mean the doom of the human race. why, while quaking in their shoes at the realization of what Hatred of imperialist war, and fear of what the future the atomic bomb means, they can only mutter the senseless in­ holds, is driving the workers to revolutionary political con­ cantation that a new war is “ unthinkable.” clusions. The imperialist rulers, who alone have profited front THEY know of no way! the w'ar, seek to prevent? this at all costs. They want to side­ But there IS a way — T H E W AY OF T H E SOCIALISE track the workers from the struggle to end the capitalist system very beginning up to the time of discovery. It is known also secret” and that “ any nation could learn the secret in about live REVOLUTION! and establish socialism, which is the only sure guarantee that to the capitalist ruling class of Canada, which likewise took years of experimentation, assuming it had access to the neces­ another war w ill be impossible. part in the project. sary raw materials.” No Time to Losel 'IVuman declared that Britain and the United States “ do Consider, too, the ominous import of the following extract A ll the organs of ruling class propaganda are mobilized to Capitalism in its death agony, writhing in the toils of not intend to reveal the secret until means have been found to from a Washington dispatch to the New York Sun on August 8: deceive the masses into thinking that the end of the war means mortal crisis, has perfected an instrument of all-embracing control the bomb so as to protect ourselves and the rest of the "Twenty-four hours ago, members of Congress were earnestly the dawn of true and lasting peace and that peace can be pre­ annihilation. This deadly destructive force, held in the grip world from the danger of total destruction. . . We must con­ debating among themselves whether or not the new discovery served without revolutionary social change. As a second line of the criminal capitalist rulers, w ill be used to decimate man­ stitute ourselves trustees of this new force — to prevent its should be given to the United Nations Security Council and of deception, they arc trying to persuade the masses that even kind unless it is snatched in time from their murderous grasp. misuse, and to turn it into channels of service to mankind.” to other Allied governments. Today their thinking is growing if another war should come, the American people need not fear The workers must awake, and awake quickly, to the realization But with the defeat of German and Japanese imperialism, up, and they are beginning to comprehend the fact that even annihilation because means will be found to “control” the use that war with all its horrors is the product of the capitalist the rivalry between British and American imperialism becomes of the atomic bomb and insure that it w ill not be used against if the blueprints and formulae for this new invention were to system. one of the greatest potential sources of another world war. The be destroyed, the scientists of other nations would discover the this country. To conceal the true source of war, capitalist propagandists interests of these two powers meet and clash in every corner of secret anew in their laboratories.” divide the nations into "aggressors” and “ peace-lovers.” This the globe. Unless the whole world system of capitalism and Illusions Being Spread The dispatch then continues: “ More awesome still is the is a lie. The people of every nation hate war, for they are its imperialism is destroyed, war between them is more than Among the illusions now being sown is the idea that the realization that the political development of the world has not victims. They are plunged into war by the capitalist rulers, probable. Can anyone in his sane senses doubt that in the unlocked secret of atomic energy possesses such ghastly destruc­ kept pace with its scientific knowledge — T H A T W E KNOW who alone profit from it. It contributes exactly nothing to an event of such a war the antagonists w ill use the atomic bomb tive power that the capitalist rulers w ill refrain from using it OF NO WAY TO PREVENT THE MISUSE OF THIS NEW understanding of the profound social causes of war to say that in the effort to destroy each other? in future wars. But the entire history of imperialist warfare DISCOVERY. The thought of negotiating an international Germany or Japan started it. Germany and Japan have been refutes this contention. Between two world wars the most fright­ series of treaties renouncing the use of atomic explosives in war defeated. Yet the germs of war are S T IL L lodged in the heart fu l instruments of death were invented and perfected. A LL Cold-Blooded Extermination inspires no confidence in any one.” of capitalist society. No trust whatsoever can be placed in the HAVE BEEN USED! During World War II other death­ And what does Truman mean by “ misuse” of the atomic Two terrible world wars have proven — and the foregoing “ peace-loving” declarations of the statesmen of capitalism in dealing weapons were invented and perfected. A L L HAVE bomb? Was the deliberate and cold-blooded extermination of quotation underlines the fact — that capitalism is incapable of this or any other country. Only the utter wiping out of capital­ BEEN USED! Demolition bombs of enormous weight were 600,000 Japanese a high act of humanitarianism? In the shyster utilizing the great advances in science and technique for the ist rule throughout the world can insure that atomic explosives dropped on helpless civilian populations. Incendiary fire-bombs language of the imperialist criminals, a weapon is “ misused” enrichment ot human life. In “ peace,” capitalism condemns w ill never again be used for mass murder. were used to wipe out whole cities and burn their inhabitants only when it is employed by their opponents. The Nazis "mis­ the masses to poverty and insecurity amidst potential plenty. to death. The unspeakable flame-thrower was employed by used” the weapon of aerial bombardment when they blasted In war. it conscripts industry and science for the mutual destruc­ We Always Told the Truth tion of the peoples. all the belligerents to burn masses of men to a crisp. The only Warsaw, Rotterdam and Coventry. The Japanese imperialists Toilers of America! Years before the war and right up to reason poison gas was not used was its unreliability as a weapon, "misused” it when they blasted Canton. Hankow and Chung­ Admission of Bankruptcy the moment of its outbreak, the Socialist Workers Party, the the danger that it might destroy its users. king. Then the Anglo-American imperialists improved on the Trotskyists, warned that war was inevitable if capitalism was To annihilate their opponents, the imperialist criminals will performance of their rivals and wiped out dozens of German T H E Y KNOW OF NO W'AY! This admission of bank­ allowed to live. We told the workers the truth! employ every deadly weapon in their arsenals. Let no one de­ and Japanese cities and hundreds of thousands of civilian in­ ruptcy and helplessness comes from the most powerful ruling When war' began, we exposed the lie that it was a war for ceive himself that the atomic bomb w ill not be used! habitants. They just “forgot.” and hoped their own peoples class on earth. Out of their own mouths they are condemned "democracy.” We laid bare the truth that it was an imperialist Another illusion being sedulously fostered is that the would forget, their previous pretended indignation. as the murderers of the human race. W ith an insane calmness war. We have never ceased to proclaim this truth. We pro­ atomic bomb is “ our secret,” that it will be kept “ our secret” The atomic bomb, no matter what may be decided in Wash­ they tell the people to await their doom. claimed it alone against all the liars and deceivers of the peo­ under tight government control and monopoly, and that there­ ington and London, will not remain even an - Anglc-American- Let no man deceive himself with the thought that because ple! fore America will be safe. But the fact is that it is NOT EVEN Canadian secret. Sir James Chadwick, chief British scientist Germany and Japan have been defeated, a new war, at least This truth was proclaimed by our comrades in other lands, NOW an exclusively American secret, it is known to the British in the atomic bomb project, stated in Washington on August 12 during the lifetime of this generation, is unlikely. Capitalist in Europe and in Asia. Under the proud and stainless banner imperialists, who collaborated in the scientific vt'ork from the that this deadly Weapon was “ not a strictly British-American appetites and imperialist rivalries remain. Only the focus of (Continued on pace 2) Rally For Socialism! Nation-Wide Trotsky Memorial Meetings --See Page 4 PAGE TWa [TRE MILITANT SATURDAY, AUGUST 18, 1945 W all Street Imperialists Cynically Describe World-Wide Commentaries On The Use Of Atomic Bomb

United Sfretes perceived that Anglo-Saxon di­ morality of war cannot overlook Atomic Bombings As " Humanitarian" Acts plomacy is based not on Christian the existence of helpless non-com­ “ The first reaction... was relief principles but on a canny imper­ batants. Voiceless peoples cannot American imperialist propagandists are seeking to counter­ that this engine of immeasurable ialistic expediency. Now it has be ruthlessly victimized for the act the widespread revulsion and horror aroused when hundreds destruction was not in the hands been shown that our methods of sins of their leaders.” —The Pilot, of thousands of Japanese victims were exterminated by two ''Freedom From Want” -- France, 1945 of the enemy... But in this relief W’ar are cosmieally and cold­ official organ of the Catholic was no elation; it was mixed with bloodedly barbarous beyond pre­ Archdiocese of Boston. atomic bombs unleashed on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Adding wonder, fear, and great misgiv­ hypocrisy to brutality, government officials and the capitalist vious experience or possibility. 0 ing... Make peace, (the bomb) We annihilated 100,000 persons press are trying to depict these •> “ A telegram deploring atomic says, or perish... It is impossible at one shot, most of them civil­ most frig h tfu l single acts of in­ tween the Nazi bombing atroci­ bombing of the enemy as ‘ruth­ to imagine any government ians, and then in spite of ‘univer­ discriminate slaughter ever per­ ties and Wall Street’s. The In­ less murder’ was sent to the spending $2,000,000,000 on a lab­ sal horror,’ repeated the perform­ petrated, as veritable acts of ter-American Juridical Commis­ president yesterday... signed by oratory or any other experiment ance at Nagasaki. American reli­ “ humanitarianism." sion meeting in Rio De Janiero, 176 of 250 members of the Evan­ that would bring peace to the gion and democracy stand discred­ reports an August 10 dispatch gelical and Reformed Church DEALERS IN “MERCY” /•world.” — Anne O’Hare McCor­ ited in all Asia and elsewhere, to the N. Y. Times, has decided Famiiy Camp.” — Associated President Truman, in his radio that “ the flying bomb is an un­ mick, N. Y. Times. too.”—Rev. Dr. Bernard Iddings Press. address last week, represented lawful weapon (the Nazis per­ 0 Bell, Providence, R. I. the obliteration of Hiroshima, a fected the rocket bomb), but the ...“ Canada (which has one of the 0 England densely populated city of 344,000, atomic bomb is lawful.” largest known deposits of pitch- “ The free peoples of the world as a virtual act of mercy. “ The The American delegate, Pro­ blend) should make itself our ex­ have now in their possession a “ Sir James Chadwick, British world will note that the first fessor Charles Fenwick, “ stressed clusive ally. If it won’t do so — weapon so terrible that fo r the scientist, said today that some of atomic bomb was dropped on that the flying bomb’s blast could well, we now have the jump on present, at least, nothing can his colleagues refused to help Hiroshima, p military base. That not be' directed to any given the rest of the world... and enough stand against it. The saving vork on an atomic bomb fo r fear was because we wished in this point, but the atomic bomb could patriotic Americans to see to it grace in this situation, the out­ they might be creating a planet- first attack to avoid, insofar as be guided so as not to h it unde­ that Canada does the right thing ward and visible sign of God’s destroying monster.” —Associated possible, the killing of civilians.” fended areas.” by us.” N. Y. Daily News edi­ merciful providence, is that this Press. Reports of officers who con­ I f American imperialism had torial. weapon is in the hands of Ameri­ 0 ducted the atomic attacks give perfected the rocket bomb before • can, British and Canadian peo­ “The Archbishop of Canter­ the lie to Truman’s sanctimonious the Nazis, and the Nazis had “ It gives the world hut two ples, and not in the hands of a bury... today expressed his fear claim. Both Hiroshima and Naga­ first secured the atomic bomb, un­ alternatives; the end of war or H itler or a Japanese war lord.” that the real danger of the atomic saki were selected accidently, af­ doubtedly the Inter - American the end of humanity. We are bomb lay not in endless destruc­ te r the attacking planes were — Major George Fielding Eiiot. Juridical Commission would have compelled, at one step, to bridge tion but in the increased leisure over Japan, with no thought of reversed its judgment on the re­ 0 the gap between the scientific it offered mankind.” — Reuters “avoiding the killing of civilians” lative “ lawfulness” of these weap­ “ It constitutes... an appalling genius which produced this mar­ m ilitary, social and political prob­ dispatch. dr whether the targets were ons. vel and the social sluggishness strictly “ military bases.” lem. One need not exaggerate 0 FRAUDULENT ARGUMENT which has made lesser marvels implications which are grave “ We selected Hiroshima as the “ The indiscriminate massacre Hungry French children hunt through the garbage pails for food, as misery mounts in Europe. a too-great tax upon our powers enough on the simplest plane.” target when we made the land­ The argument that if “ we hadn’t of civilians by whatever means This photograph, released by the French govern ment in a plea for relief, shows graphically the of adjustment. There is no es­ —N. Y. Herald-Tribune editorial. fa ll,” reported Lieut. Col. Paul W. used it first, it might have been creates appalling precedents for used on us,” is sheer fabrication. conditions which de Gaulle fears will drive the French people to revolution, as the worst winter cape.” —PM. the future.” —H. Stanley Jevons, Tibbets, Jr., pilot of the first • 0 atomic bombing plane. As for American experts were well in their history draws near. “ For the moment, those res­ in wire to Truman and Attlee. “ Frankly, I am scared. I ’m the bombing of Nagasaki, “ the aware that neither Germany nor ponsible for world security are 0 scared because 1 fear people crew disclosed that, had it not Japan was in a position to utilize thanking their stars that the se­ Its “unparalleled terrorism dis­ won't fully realize that from been fo r bad weather, thousands atomic bombing for a long time cret of the awesome engine is still graces the United Nations.” — this day on, war is impractical. of Japanese in Nagasaki, a city to come. in the hands of people who be­ Rev. A. D. Belden and Rev. Jo­ (This bomb) is the power to of 252,630, might still he alive On August 11, the U. S. War lieve in international law and or­ seph Jones, in wires to Truman reach the stars and the power to today,” reported the United Press Department itself revealed a Atomic Energy: der.”—W illiam Philip Simm, and Attlee. kill the human race.” — John W. on August 11. The plane was statement by Prof. N. D. Smyth, N. Y. World-Telegram. 0 Campbell, PM. prevented by bad weather from included in his voluminous study 0 “ Many British people who know attacking another city, so one of on atomic bombing made fo r the 9 “ The atomic bomb that has “ The Navy expects the prin­ more than most about the des­ the officers “ suggested trying head of the government’s project, shaken the world fa r beyond the tructive effects of modern bomb­ Its Nature and Properties ciple of the atomic bomb to be Nagasaki.” in which Smyth declared that shattered Japanese cities... w ill ing, remarked during the day extended in time to naval shells “fortunately . . the magnitude of affect our social organization and that they were horrified by the CAPITALIST GHOULS By V. Grey and rockets.” — Associated Press the necessary industrial effort dium atoms are nevertheless too its purposes, our forms of gov­ potentialities of the new weapon.” Washington dispatch. Subsequently, the Guam cor­ has been demonstrated, so that What is an atom? And why does it have so much energy in­ “stingy” to part voluntarily with ernment. Man’s ability to use —Clifton Daniels, to the N. Y. respondent for the liberal N. Y. the fear of German success weak­ side it? These are the questions many people are asking since the more than a fraction of their ener­ • science to improve his modes of Times. Post gloated: “ Conditions for ened even before the end (Ger­ atomic bomb crashed the horizon. gy. Their slowly-released energy “ A revolution in science and a living is about 300 years ahead destruction at Nagasaki were many’s surrender) came. By the An »atom is the smallest particle into which an element can be is the famous radium ray. i evolution in warfare have oc­ of his ability to organize society even more favorable than at same token, most of us are cer­ The Vatican Thousands of experiments were curred on the same day... Civiliza­ so that everybody can enjoy what Hiroshima. . the congestion divided. It is extremely complex, containing electrons, neutrons, “ The Vatican deplores the usf tain that the Japanese cannot carried on for years to “smash tion and humanity can now sur­ (he scientific mind evolves. What­ among the city’s population of develop and use this weapon ef­ protons, positrons, etc. There are more than 90 known elements of the atomic bomb” —August 7. the atom.” A tremendous mach­ vive only if there is a revolution ever the gap is, it ’s got to be 253,000 had caused the eave-to- fectively.” ranging from hydrogen to oxy- 5- “ Pope Pius was quoted today ine called the cyclotron was de­ in mankind’s political thinking.” shortened now.” — Thomas L. eave building pattern to be des­ gen, to gold, to lead, etc., thence stance, has a nucleus something by an American newspaperman Victor H. Bernstein, PM cor­ veloped to do this. A t great ex­ —N. Y. Times editorial. Stokes, N. Y. World-Telegram. cribed as ‘a sea of roofs.’ ” to uranium, the last of the known like our sun, with nine electrons as denying that anyone had been respondent wrote from Munich on pense and enormous use of elec­ • 0 On the day after the bombing August 13 that “ perfection of the list. All matter is composed of whirling around the nucleus, ’as authorized to express the Vatican one or more of these many ele­ trical power, it was proved that “ The president was smiling and “ We have nothing but applause bf Hiroshima, the Associated German atomic bomb was any­ the earth, Mars and other planets atoms could be made to release view on the use of the atomic ments. buoyantly happy as he made the for the pure intelligence that went Press reported a “ m ilitary au­ where from one year to 10 years whirl around the sun. Tiny as the some of their energy by parting bomb.” —August 8. announcement.” — United Press into the perfecting of the atomic thority” in Washington as claim­ away when a U.S. plane laid the Why cannot the “ smallest” par­ atom is, smaller than the eye company with a few of their elec­ dispatch. bomb. But the news of its suc­ ing that the atomic bombing of world’s first atomic egg over ticle of matter—the atom—be cut can .see with a powerful micro­ trons. But for a long time this USSR Hiroshima “ rather than densely in half and again in half, just as scope,, still the distance separ­ • cess is appalling... Our savage Hiroshima last week.” This was remained only an interesting lab­ “ The government newspaper populated Tokyo .. may have half a pie can be cut into two ating the’ electron '“ planets^ fiT ni (‘Yesterday we clinched victory generation cannot be trusted with based on admissions not only of oratory experiment. in the Pacific, but we sowed the Izvestia printed the story on its been made to save as many lives German scientists whom Bern­ fourths, and so on? But th a t’is their nucleus “ sun” is relatively it at all. It is a triumph of re­ whirlwind of hate.” — Hanson foreign news page without com­ as possible.” stein interviewed, but “the Amer­ the whole point. the same as that which separates U-235 search but unfortunately i t is the planets from the real sun.' Baldwin, N. Y. Times. also a superb symbol for the Age ment.” What a monstrous hoax! For ican engineers to whom I have COMPOSITION OF MATTER Then U-235 was discovered. * * * last May 31 the American press spoken.” . This symbol stands fo r a- special of Efficient Chaos.”—Rev. Robert There are said to be the same “ I sincerely believe that in a carried an official military sum­ Throughout the war, the Allied Matter isn’t at all what we kind of uranium, of atomic weight Gannon, president, Fordham think it is from looking at it or number of protons in the nucleus, few' years human beings will know' mary on the effects of the fire­ propagandists have contrasted 235. I t is 235 times as heavy as University. touching it. It’s made of billions as there are free electrons fa r out how' to destroy the human race.” bombing of Tokyo itself, “one of the “ barbaric” methods of the hydrogen, which is the lightest 0 Atomic Energy in the infinitesimal space of the — Commander Agar, aide to am­ the highest concentrations of Axis powers to the more “ hu­ upon billions upon billions of element. When the cyclotron “ At New York University, stu­ these atoms—atoms which aren’t atom. The protons are positively bassador Winant. population in the world.” This mane methods of warfare of the charged; the electrons negative­ “ bombarded” this atom w ith tiny dents in a graduate seminar in made, of smaller atoms in turn, 9 official report stated: “The at­ “ democratic” imperialists. The neutral particles, the atom was sociology could ta lk yesterday Won’t Serve Man but of something entirely differ­ ly. The atom itself is neutral, be­ tacks this week (following five liberal apologists for Allied im­ literally split. This splitting (or “There’s no jubilation in Wash­ only of the dire psychological and ent. Each atom is an “ in fin ity ” cause the positive and negative others) burned with a similar perialism have croaked incessant­ are perfectly balanced. I f we fission) meant a great release of ington over the atomic bomb. social changes in human outlooks, Under Capitalism speed and destructive results and ly on this theme. and an “ emptiness” with charges energy. Scientists realized at once There’s a sense of horror and re­ with the Damoclean threat... One of energy waves and particles could give the atom a personal­ it is possible that 1,000,000, or ity, we would say that it was that if this U-235 could be iso­ luctance to destroy Japan.” — student had predicted youth’s The pen-prostitutes of capitalist maybe even TWICE THAT I.ERNER’S “ HORRORS” racing sw iftly around and around lated in large enough quantity, David Lawrence, N. Y. Sun. motto would be ‘eat, drink and journalism are having a field day, inside. determined to remain neutral. NUMBER of the Emperor’s sub­ Max Lemer, an editor of the The negative clings fo r dear life and pure enough, a slight bom­ e be merry, for tomorrow we die’.” painting the beauties of the atom- jects perished.” liberal PM wrote with “horror” “ I f a good-sized railway sta­ to the positive, keeping the ener­ bardment of neutrons would ex­ “ America... has to decide how —N. Y.' Herald Tribune. ic bomb. Rushing to the pamph­ People who could gloat over the on June 26 against the proposal tion were emptied of everything gy of the atom well chained. plode a few uranium atoms, each that energy is to be harnessed so 0 lets of the scientists, who have burning to death of several m il­ of the N. Y. Daily News to use but six specks of dust, the station of which in turn would release that it will not destroy mankind. “ Another evidence of. the cour­ sold their souls for a bloody mess lion men, women and children poison gas on the Japanese. “ Do would be more crowded with dust INSIDE THE ATOM neutrons to explode other atoms. That decision w ill shape the poli­ age and foresight of Franklin of pottage, they find the words to didn’t bomb Hiroshima and Nag­ we want to set the precedent for than space is with stars.” Sir Now if this mutual affinity is W ith trillions and trillions of tical, economic and social struc­ Roosevelt.” — Bernard Baruch. mock an already betrayed human­ asaki in order to “ avoid, insofar future wars by letting down the James Jeans said this about the split, with the positive and nega­ atoms doing this, the result is— ture of the world fo r centuries to 0 ity with lying promises. as possible the killing of civil­ few bars that still stand between heavenly bodies, the largest tive hurtling o ff their separate the “ atomic bomb.” come.” — Sylvia Porter, N. Y. “ The public should not become Atomic energy will do this. And ians.” man and complete irresponsibili­ known things in the universe. The ways, a tremendous amount of This tremendous explosive Post. unduly alarmed — this develop­ atomic energy will do that. The ty in the infliction of death ?... same thing could be said, with Recalling the howls of the energy is released (especially energy—a pound of U-235 is es­ 0 ment has been placed in unusual­ refrain is getting as tiresome as very little alteration, about the American press about the Nazis’ gas operates over a whole area. . when you consider that there are timated to equal 20,000 tons of “ The answ'er is prayer. I sug­ ly competent hands, those of men yesterday’s popular song, and smallest things in the universe indiscriminate bombing of Brit­ there is no escaping, fo r civilians billions and billions of atoms to TNT—is the result of splitting gest... that we pray fo r a speedy who are unselfish and non-poli just as hollow. It is a companion or fighters, combatants or non- —the component parts of an ish and European cities, many an inch). the uranium atom and releasing cessation of hostilities in this tical.” —Dr. Serge K o rff, physics to {he lie of 60 mil'ion jobs. The combatants. . . I f Am erica... atom. people are asking what could bo only some of its energy. Future war, thereby eliminating further research director, New York U ni­ capitalist class did not have the flings to the winds every consi­ An atom of fluorine, for in- The idea of splitting the atom more indiscriminate than drop­ research w ill doubtless result in resort to the use of this new ter­ versity. intention and does not have the deration of the laws of warfare, in order to release and harness its ping a bomb so destructive that finding ways to release more and rible weapon.” — Dr. Earl F. 0 intention now, of making these it will be hard for her to take the energy occurred to scientists al­ it will destroy all life in an en­ atomic bomb on Japanese civil­ most as soon as the structure of more of it as well as to harness Adams, Protestant Council, New “ The crew said ‘My God!’ and or any other good things available tire city. lead in holding high the standard ians. PM screamed in headlines York City. couldn’t believe what had happen­ to mankind. of law in the future. That may the atom became known. The it for socially beneficial purposes. the day after the extermination 0 ed.” —Associated Press. NEAT DISTINCTION mean another war ‘You Can atoms of radium, they found, tend The tapping of atomic energy has PROFITS COME FIRST of Hiroshima: “Thank God, It’s to disintegrate spontaneously, but Victory gained by the atomic 0 But with juridical finesse, the Cook ’Em Quicker W ith Gas’ says only begun. The whole question is They are not going to make OUR Atomic Bomb!” slowly. Even though infinitely bomb W'ould be “ at the price of “ A more hideous weapon of spokesmen of American imperial­ the Daily News. What depths of life abundant and beautiful for What is an “unlawful,” “in­ more generous by nature than who will do the tapping and for world-wide m o ra l revulsion destruction than ever haunted ism draw a neat distinction be- sadism. .. what a terrifying vista humanity. This would interfere humane” method of warfare for atoms of other elements, the ra­ what, purposes? against us. The orient has long the dreams of a madman... The it opens of evil in the human the capitalist imperialists? It is with their profits. It would de­ VOTE FOR mind... (it is) to view the world the use of a more destructive stroy the basis of their whole sys­ with a fascist contempt .. to weapon by the rival imperialists. tem. Can one imagine what the DOBBS & SIMPSON turn yourself into something What is “ legal” and “ humane” capitalists would do to an inven­ bestial.” warfare? It is the use of any tion that made it possible fo r a TROTSKYIST CANDIDATES THERE IS NO PEACE! But these revolting hypocrites weapon, no matter how frightful, worker to get his food and cloth­ IN THE COMING aren’t yelling “ sadism” and against* which the rivdl imperial­ (Continued from page 1) Socialism — or perish! These are the alternatives. 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9,000 East Chicago Inland Steel Workers 'D ia r y o f Strike Against Firing Of Union Militants aTEELS WORKER BULLETIN S*------.By Theodore Kovalesky. In the summer time the sky looks clean and cool and beautiful IN D IAN A HARBOR, Ind., Aug. 14 — A mass meeting of Inland Steel strikers here tonight voted Trotskyist Candidates in N. Y. Elections to return to work on assurances from CIO Steel Workers’ President Philip Murray, the War Labor where the smoke doesn’t seep into it and spoil it. The lake stretches Board and the company that all grievances w ill be negotiated immediately. The strikers gave thun­ out into the sky past the last point of the hazy fa r shore, and it derous approval to warnings by rank and file leaders that a new strike w ill be called if the griev­ looks clean and cool and beautiful, except where the smoke settles ances are not settled satisfactorily. down on it and dirties it, and except where the red-brown flue dust from the furnaces and the filth of the factories color and clog it. SPECIAL TO THE MILITANT In the summer time the woods are cool, and it ’s swell to lie EAST CHICAGO, Ind., August 12 — Nine thousand steel workers walked off their on the sand at the beach and soak up the sun in your naked back jobs at the Inland Steel Company plant here Friday. The strike was provoked by the company’s and plunge into the cool, clear water and go down and down and see arbitrary suspension of two grievance committeemen and disciplining of the local union’s vice- the golden bubbles where the sun follows you rig ht down under the president. surface. I t ’s swell, if you get the chance. A departmental work stoppage began Friday morning when it w'as learned that W illiam But in the summer time you Maihofer, vice-president of Local 1010, United steelworkers of America, had been denied en­ go Vo work and put on your stink­ trance to the plant and suspended for one week. ing clothes that are stale and wet The suspension was given to® from yesterday. 0,r you go into a Maihofer because he had taken commendation was carried unan­ shop to tend a lathe or mill. And his two-week vacation to which imously. the cutting oil flies onto your face he was entitled by the union’s One speaker after another then Youngstown CIO and into your hair so you feel contract. arose to encourage the members greasy from head to foot, and the As the stoppage spread through to stick by their decision. The Mobilizes Support fishy stink of the oil mixes into the Bar M ill, E. C. Johnson, the leaders who on the day before your sweat and you feel like a grievance committeeman, left his were confused and appeared not damn pig. post in the motor room in order to know' what course to take, For Steel Strike You sleep with the windows to negotiate with the manage­ now took a clear-cut position in YOUNGSTOWN, 0., Aug. 14— ment. Although it was shortly favor of staying away from the open wide. You leave them open The War Labor Board has agreed after midnight, he was met by job. Each spech was greeted all day long hoping that the breeze the Superintendent of Industrial with more response from the to hold a hearing here this F ri­ that must come sometime w ill bring Relations who promptly fired membership. day on the demands of the 2,000 a little coolness into the house; Johnson and' ordered two com­ One of the last speakers de­ members of CIO Steel W'orkers but all day it never seems to come, pany guards to escort him to the scribed at length the anti-labor Local 1462 who have been on and the windows gape there, w ait­ street. record of the War Labor Board, strike since July 30 at the Brier ing and waiting for something that doesn’t come, like baby birds pointing out its strikebreaking STRIKE SPREADS holding open their mouths waiting for the mother bird to feed them. role in the mine strikes and its H ill plant of the Youngstown But if the mother bird never conies, the little ones just starve to Word rapidly spread through refusal to grant wage increases ijl.eet and Tube Company. Previ­ death and rot in the nest; and when the coolness doesn’t come the the plant that a union grievance to the steelworkers. He recom­ ously, the WLB had refused to committeeman had been fired. One windows keep on gaping and waiting, and nothing happens, except mended a mass parade through consider (he workers’ grievances by one the departments in this the town and the plant gates that you get irritable and touchy and sweaty and think, “ God, I wish huge steel plant began to shut to establish picket lines, a sug­ before they called o ff their the damn summer would hurry up and get over with.” down in protest against this un­ gestion which the workers cheer­ strike. ion-smashing on the part of the ed loudly. A t a huge mass meeting called Louise Simpson, Trotskyist candidate for City Council, and Farrell Dobbs, Trotskyist candidate Summer Time in a Steel Town company. When the walkout had Just as the meeting was about by the Mahoning County CIO for Mayor in the forthcoming New York elcctio ns. Petitions were filed for both candidates. Still, there’s always something that comes into the windows, spread to No. 2 Open Hearth, the to adjourn, Joe Jeneske, interna­ Council here last Sunday, all largest in the world, Harry tional union representative, ask­ industrial union labor in this steel even if there doesn’t seem to be any breeze to carry it. The d irt Powell, another grievance com­ ed fo r the floor. He started to valley pledged its support to the sifts in and powders down on the window sill so that when you mitteeman, was charged with re­ toll the workers to return to work Brier Hill strikers. The meeting lean your forearms on it, the sweat soaks up the dust and dirt, and sponsibility for the stoppage and in compliance wdth the no-strike was organized by the CIO N . Y . Trotskyists Reach you carry it away with you. was likewise fired. Within a few pledge, but he could not be heard Council after it had voted 80 to And the 'heavy vapors from the coke oven go rolling into your hours after Powell’s discharge over the boos and cat-calls. 4 to give full moral support to house along with the smells of the other plantf. The garbage out the whole plant was shut down. “ How much are you getting Local 1462. in the back yard sends up an invisible cloud that crawls into the The following afternoon the from Inland?” was the question workers jammed the Auditorium ISSUES IN DISPUTE Election Petition Goal windows and glues itself into the hot air of the kitchen. thrown at him from several The sun beats down on you in the summer time, stabs through Hall to hear what their leaders parts of the hall. The workers The issues in the dispute are Over the top! St the roof, drops down through the rooms, and piles up heavily from had to say. Maihofer reported refused even t<£ listen to Jeneske, the same as those which provoked The petition campaign to put candidates of the Socialist Work­ VOTE FOR that a committee had met with and when he did stop talking, a 10-day strike last May, which ers Party on the ballot in the municipal elections in New York City the floors to the ceilings; and when you go to bed' at night, the the District Director of the Inter­ there was prolonged booing. The was terminated on the assurances came to a glorious finish with all banners flying! A grand total DOBBS & SIMPSON smoky pilings of the sun are still there in the darkness, weighing national Union. The Internation­ you down on the heated mattress. workers then filed into the street, of the War Labor Board and of 19,595 signatures were signed by New York workers on the Trot­ TROTSKYIST CANDIDATES al Union advised the com­ James C. Quinn, the district steel and without the customary par­ skyist petitipns—nearly double the amount required by the election IN THE COMING The concrete sidewalks burn into your shoes like the blast fu r­ mittee to send the men back to ade permit from the city hall, union director, that a directive laws. The petitions were filed with the Board of Elections on Tues­ NEW YORK ELECTIONS nace runners, and you long fo r the beach or the woods. You wish work and promised to “use all marched to the plant*gates in an settling the grievances would be you had the money to live in one of the tree-shadowed country homes its power” in an effort to rein­ day, "August 14th. impressive demonstration of un­ issued “ immediately.” A fte r w ait­ 4,681 to the Louise Simpson peti­ The successful conclusion of the on the lake shore, where they have private beaches and tennis courts. state the discharged men. This ion solidarity. ing 52 days fo r the promised tion district maps were only made tions. The actual number of sig­ petition campaign was accom­ available less than a week before Or you wish you could even have a home in some part of the city proposition was very coldly re­ The strike has clearly demon­ directive, the workers again natures required for Farrell plished by the hard-working com­ the final filin g date. Groups of where there are green hedges and ta ll old trees and soft, wide ceived by the membership. strated thus far the willingness struck, closing the plant down Dobbs, candidate for Mayor, was rades who not only went out to comrades worked fa r into the lawns that smell of earth and grass and clover at night when the After the committee’s report, of the workers to fight in defense tight. 7,500 and fo r Louise Simpson, collect signatures but who per.- night, to complete the work. dew soaks into them. a telegram from the War Labor of their union., The position of Officials of the striking local candidate fo r City Council 2,000. formed the tedious task of sort­ Board was read. The telegram the top officials of the United met with Philip Murray in an “ The comrades have done a mag­ But what’s the use of dreaming about things like that as long ing and arranging the petitions FINAL COUNT bluntly demanded a return to Steelworkers of America in de­ effort to persuade him to sanction nificent job,” said campaign-man­ as you’re a worker under capitalism ? You don’t need a crystal ball according to Election and Assem­ work. It was greeted with a manding a return to work shows a strike of all the steel locals in The final count was announced ager Caroline Kerry, “ and our to see that all you can look forward to is a lifetime of summers of bly Districts in accordance with by Caroline Kerry, campaign volley of boos. dearly that Murray and his lieu­ this area. Murray, who is op­ sympathizers were especially cement and sweat and smells, and factory yards and corrugated the provisions of the election manager, who reported that 14,- Most of the local leaders had tenants are too cowardly to fight posed to the slightest militancy, helpful. In the heat and rain our iron walls, and quarrelling with your wife in the hot weather and no recommendation to make. refused to give any aid, despite laws. This work was made doubly 911 signatures were signed to the even when it is a matter of pres­ people went out day and night, almost hating the kids for running around and yelling, summers of However, Donald Lutes, chair­ the testimony of his own personal difficult because complete elec- Farrell Dobbs petitions a n d erving the very existence of their gave up their week-ends and work and monotony and discomfort, maybe ending up with a stroke man of the grievance committee own organization. This is an­ representative, John Gent, that stayed on the job until the last pe­ when you get old and can’t take it any more. and chief supporter of the Dis­ other demonstration of the cry­ the Local 1462 walkout resulted tition was filled. Many people tric t Office, took the floor and ing need for a militant, organized from intolerable company provo­ Frankensteen Is V ictor who signed our petitions took Still, if you do want to dream about having a chance to enjoy suggested a return to work. left wing in the trade union cations. subscriptions to The M ilitant. It (he summer time and about living like a human being in a home A t the CIO Council’s mass was a bang-up campaign and a fit for human beings, remember this: even if you can’t get these REFUSE TO RETURN movement to combat the surrend­ er program of the officialdom. meeting today, representatives real demonstration of Trotskyist things as long as you’re a worker under capitalism, you COULD He was quickly followed by a of the strikers explained the im­ In Detroit City Primaries ability to plan and carry out an have them and WOULD have them under socialism. Yes, you could militant Negro worker, William mediate issue, the company’s important task.” really live and enjoy living. . . all year round. Young, a grievance committee­ arbitrary shifting of pipefitters, D ETR O IT — For the first time in Detroit history a gen­ man, who took a stern position electricians and m illwrights to uine labor candidate topped the field in the mayoralty primary run-off. The. corporation press against any return to work and IN THE NEWS unfamiliar work, the elimination race, when Richard T. Frankensteen, a vice-president of the will seek to rally all anti-labor urged the men to stay out in de­ of one maintenance shift and use CIO United Automobile Workers, led the other six candidates and Negro-hating scum to the French Imperialists Fear fense of their fellow workers. of skeleton, instead of fu ll crews. with a vote of 82,936 in the municipal primaries on August 7. capitalist political banner. Others, including the fired com­ We’ll Take Socialism The workers are aware that this Frankensteen outdistanced his nearest rival, Mayor Edward J. mitteemen, followed Young’s lead, “ Use of the atomic bomb has In a post-election editorial, the is part of a move to reduce the Jeffries, Jr., by 14, 182 votes. Third in line was James D. Friel, Detroit Free Press indicated the For Indo-China Colony and the membership cheered created one of the gravest prob­ working force and institute lay­ County Auditor, who polled only 35,720 of the 201,000 vote total. tone of the coming campaign, de­ loudly for the position of stay­ lems in all human history and the Japan’s surrender, coming (Indo-China) capitulate, that offs. Frankensteen’s record-breaking 9 claring: “ Regardless of t h e ing out. only answer to it is prayer, Dr. some political group or other may Sam Evans, grievance Chair­ victory sent a thrill of elation speeches of the candidates the sooner than they expected, has The meeting adjourned when Earl F . Adams, executive director year than had been previously seize control.” They hope they man of Local 1462, and B ill down the spine of every worker undercover battle w ill be a fight caused considerable uneasiness Maihofer informed the member­ of the Protestant Council of the forecast. may be able to return there quick­ Welsh, Maintenance Grievance in this area, even those who ne­ Although Frankensteen, as well between the CIO on the one side ship that a special executive board City of New York, said yester­ among the colonial bandits oi ly, but they lack shipping, and man, told the mass meeting that glected to cast their ballots last as the other candidates, skirted and all those opposed to the CIO meeting would be held that even­ day.” (N. Y. World-Telegram, the distance from France is great. the strikers would not go back Tuesday. This triumph, following leadership on the other. . . Now French imperialism who have ing. They were assured of a the real issues, there was a grow­ The masses of Indo-China have August 8). under the same conditions that the issue is to be whether the CIO been dreaming of recovering decision and recommendation by * * * closely on the smashing British ing awareness on the part of the fought the Japanese imperialists provoked their walkout. Labor Party victory, has served electorate of the stakes involved. shall take over the City Hall.” their colony of Indo-China, Sunday afternoon. as previously they battled for Singing Another Tune to convince the Detroit workers This brought about a last-minute This anti-labor blast will have snatched from them by the Jap­ The executive board met for LOUD BOOS their liberation from the French As ex-Prime Minister Church­ of the correctness of independent rush to the polls. the opposite effect desired by this anese imperialists in 1941-42. colonial despots. They certainly over three hours that night. One District Director Quinn was ill w'alked into the opening session class political action as the only capitalist rag. It will indicate They fear that Indo-China will w ill not be content to exchange after another, the rank-and-lile greeted with loud and prolonged THE REAL ISSUES of the new British Parliament on means to drive back the tide of strongly to the A F L and other fall either into the hands of the the new gang of slavedrivers for leaders attacked the policy of the boos when he tried to argue that August 1, the 200 Conservatives reaction that has swept over The Detroit Citizens League, union leaders in this area that Anglo-American imperialist “ lib­ the old. They w ill fig h t fo r their War Labor Board and the inter­ the War Labor Board w-ould issue and others in the minority sang them in the war years. leading boss-controlled organiza­ they must get o ff the fence and erators,” or, worse still, the In­ independence. The French bandits national union leaders. The meet­ a directive just as soon as the “ For lie’s A Jolly Good Fellow.” Encouraged by the election re­ tion, declared the major issue of come out openly in support of do-Chinese people. know this. That is why they are ing finally adjourned with a de­ men went back on the job. He But “ the nearly 400 Labor mem­ sults, the entire working class or­ the campaign to be “ Labor Rule.” Frankensteen and the three other The latter fear is uppermost. disturbed. That is why, as the cision to recommend to the mem­ lauded the WLB and the interna­ bers countered with ‘The Red ganized in the CIO, A F L and This tool of the employers thund­ PAC-endorsed candidates. In any According to a Paris dispatch to Paris dispatch asserts, they are bership that the shutdown be ex­ tional union officials. ered: “ The issue is whether the case, the rank and file of their tended to every corner of the Flag,’ the revolutionary song,” Railroad Brotherhoods, as well as the N. Y. Herald-Tribane on Aug. anxious to move in their troops When he cried, “ Don’t strike those still unorganized, are more City government should be turn­ unions understand that the CIO- 10, “ French officials feel there is and administrators as quickly as plant, and that there be no re­ reports the N. Y. Times. or Congress w ill even keep you determined than ever to wage an ed over to organized unions.” backed candidates represent all a danger, if the Japanese there possible. turn to work until the fired men * * * from meeting like this,” someone energetic campaign fo r the elec­ But government in which the labor and not just one section of are reinstated. Not Shaving Boss Lawns brought the house down by tion of Frankensteen as Mayor “ organized unions” have the dom­ it, as the Free Press insinuates. mies of labor head on. He must shouting from the floor, “They inant role was precisely what the CHEER DECISION In Stamford, Conn., 500 work­ in next November’s run-off not w ilt under the lies and slan­ didn’t do it to the coal miners!” people wanted and voted for. NEED BOLD POLICY ers at the Schick electric razor against Jeffries. der of the capitalist press and On Sunday afternoon the mem­ When Quinn pleaded, “ LeaVe it They know that, this would stand Above all, this vicious press bership meeting was attended by plant went on strike in protest radio commentators. Not only will up to the international, the in­ STILL BIGGER SUCCESS as an obstacle against the fascist campaign w ill help convince the all labor rally to Frankensteen twice as many members as the against the use of plant workers entire working class, especially ternational is strong enough to In the contest fo r Common menace in the coming days of i f he openly and boldly defends one on ¡Saturday. Vice-President to mow lawns and trim hedges unemployment and union-busting. the more advanced automobile settle your problem,” another Council, labor achieved an even the interests of the workers, but Maihofer reported the executive at the homes of company ex­ workers in this city, of the neces­ worker replied: “Why didn’t they more outstanding success. A ll They realize that a CIO Police as the British events have shown board’s decision to extend and ecutives. Commissioner, appointed by a la­ sity of building a permanent in­ * * * do it before we went out?” three CIO Political Action Com­ the middle class w ill likewise continue the shutdown. The hall bor mayor, would lessen the dan­ dependent labor party to unite mittee-endorsed candidates qual­ come over to labor’s banner. rocked from the volley of cheers RESOLUTION PASSED all workers against the tiny group Love for Love’s Sake ified for the run-off in Novem­ ger of police brutality against This primary has also demon­ and a motion to support the re­ of profiteers and their political When the Alien Property Custo­ A resolution was introduced ber when nine candidates w ill be the working class and Negro peo­ strated what, happens to an inde­ ple. They further understand agents who have been running dian was asked to reconsider an from the floor to establish a elected from among the 'highest pendent party which forsakes the that a labor administration would the city, state and national gov­ order cancelling a public auction broad CIO Council committee to 18 in the primaries. labor movement and seeks to make it virtually impossible for ernments. of German and Austrian films, aid the Local 1462 representatives base itself largely on an appeal Lieutenant George Edwards, of a well-known fascist like Gerald L. For the first time in this key Rep. Hugh DeLacy (D-Wash.) in handling the case. This was to the middle class. The three UAW-CIO Local 174, outstripped K. Smith to obtain free use of industrial center, labor has tasted opposed release of the film be­ opposed by Quinn and Griffin, one Common Council candidates en­ the field of 66 candidates with public school auditoriums to fos­ the fruits of political victory. It cause “ a love scene in any Amer­ of M urray’s staff representatives, dorsed by the Michigan Common­ 78,136 votes, leading John C. ter race hatred, as was permitted has done so despite the handicap ican film is just a love scene. But who complained that such action wealth Federation ran forty-third, Lodge, Council President for the under the Jeffries regime. of having no party of its own. a love scene in even the most in­ violated the Steelworkers’ con­ last decade, by more than 6,000 Thus, the class lines were The difficulties of conducting a eixty-first and sixty-third. Meyer consequential German film is stitution, [that it was the ex­ votes. Rov. Charles A. H ill, only sharply drawn despite Franken­ bold and successful campaign un­ Schneider obtained the highest propaganda because it tends to clusive business of the interna­ Negro candidate and also PAC- steen’s pussyfooting in his cam­ der such circumstances w ill give total of the three, with only 6,- create sympathy towards the tional union, etc. endorsed, finished ninth with 192 votes, and Louis Steigenvald A local uhion m ilitant, Shifka, paign pronouncements. This was further impetus to the demand for Germans.” 47,588 votes. Tracy M. Doll, of borne out by the decisive margins an independent labor party, on received only 2,756 votes. In * + * answered: “ We’ll havgj to do UAW-CIO Local 154, attained turning its back on the mass la­ something to get the International which Frankensteen obtained in which the workers' attention has eleventh place with 44,427 votes. bor movement ar.d looking pre­ 48 pages, paper .15 Watch Lour Pockets! to live up to its principles, and all working-class districts. already been focused by the B rit­ Despite the seeming apathy ish Labor Party’s victory and dominantly to the middle class, OP A. recently introduced the this resolution is the thing. If which pervaded this mid-summer VICIOUS ATTACK Frankensteen’s success in the the MCF alienated not only the we have to do the wrong thing Pioneer Publishers “ Honor System" to permit manu­ primary, as many voters cast bal­ Now that the Detroit workers Detroit primary. workers but also the middle class, facturers to calculate their own to get the right results, we’ll lots this time as in the primary have shown their class conscious­ However, only an audacious, who will eagerly follow the labor 116 UNIVERSITY PLACE price ceilings on the basis of just have to do it, that’s a ll.” movement if the latter embarks two yeare ago when Fitzgerald ness, it is expected that t.he capi­ all-out, pro-labor campaign will NEW YORK 3, N. Y. their own statements of costs and The resolution was passed almost topped Jeffries by 35,000 votes. talist press w ill cast o ff all re­ ensure a Detroit labor victory. on a bold and independent strug­ profits. unanimously. A t least 75,000 more voted this straint in the coming election Frankensteen must meet the ene- gle. PAGE FOUR (THE M IETTANTI SATURDAY, AUGUST 18, 1945 Wright Aircraft Workers iiHiiiiiiDiiiiiiiiiiiiqiiiiiiiiiHiaiiiiiiHiiHüiiiiiiiriiiiDDiüimjHQümmimaiiiiiiitt Fifth Anniversary 9 rni m fl II f | "Labor with a white skin S = I l 111 111 li l lf I I cannot emancipate itsell 5 Laid Off On V-J Day Eve Of Trotsky’s Death T h e N E G R O S —K arl M arx 9 By Dinah Sanders PATERSON, N. J. — The big- cerning production contracts and Five years ago, Leon Trotsky, founder and leader of the Fourth shots at the W right Aeronautical w ill be announced at the earliest ! STRUGGLE by CHARLES JACKSON | International, was murdered by an assassin in the employ of Stalin. plants in this area worked over­ possible moment.” — 70)jC3gDr» ZZ time last week, getting ready for The bulletins said it a little Through the slaying of Trotsky, Stalin not only destroyed the out­ âiiiiiiiiiaiiliiiiiiitiniiiiiiiiiiiiaiMiimiiiiamilHiiiiiamiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiimiaiiHiiïï “ V-J Day.” They almost beat differently: “ ... employees not re­ standing Bolshevik opponent of his counter-revolutionary regime, Hirohito to the draw. Throughout the war the Negro people have had to endure quired to work during the inven­ but world imperialism secured the removal from its path of the When Friday’s newspapers tory period will receive notice racial discrimination in almost every phase of their daily lives, headlined Japan’s offer of peace, by mail, telegram, radio or news­ greatest revolutionary fighter against its Second World War. in travel, in employment, in the m ilitary and in a thousand other workers carried copies of the pa­ paper announcements as to the On the evening of August 20, 1940, in Coyoacan, Mexico, an ways. What was still worse they had to stand by and swallow pers into the Wright plants, excit­ date when they w ill return to the the crap of the capitalist war propagandists. This was a war of edly spreading the news. The agent of Stalin’s GPU fatally struck down Leon Trotsky, with a plant to which they are assigned.” “ the democracies against the fascist oppressors,” we were told. excitement sw iftly died down, It’s as simple as that — for pick-axe blow to the brain. As he lay dying, the great Bolshevik B ut what capped the climax inSt- however, when word got around the corporations. Just tell the leader branded for all time the perpetrator of this monstrous crime this hypocritical farce of acting about the bulletins the company workers to go home and wait made to build up the illusion that one way and talking another was had already posted in the cor­ until they’re called. But it isn’t against the world working class: “ I will not survive this attack. Negroes were making gains from when H arry Truman, president ridors. that simple for the workers, who this war, this is “ corrected” and Stalin has finally accomplished the task he attempted unsuccessful­ of capitalist America where Jim have to worry about rent, gas, the Negroes who had been allow­ Entitled “Subject: V-J Day ly before.” Crow is not only accepted but is grocery bills. Foreboding for the ed to volunteer for combat are Procedure,” the bulletins gave enforced, signed the Potsdam dec­ future was the mood in the cor­ again reduced to the status of the workers a graphic if brutal laration which states that dis­ ridors and at the benches of the Proof of Stalin’s Complicity “service” units. I refer to the picture of what “victory” would crimination in Germany shall “ not mean to them. They would be huge Plant 7 at Wood-Ridge, The hireling who committed the murder went under the various Seventh U. S. Arm y Provisional be tolerated.” Company No. 2. which served in out of jobs! N. J., Friday night. names of Jacques Monard and Frank Jacson. B[e had struck Up an I f the Big Business government the European campaign with the The wording of the bulletins ANGRY VOICES acquaintance in France with a young woman follower of the Trot­ of America is so concerned about Twelfth Armored Division with seemed deliberately designed to Groups of bewildered men and bringing “ democracy” and “ jus­ much courage and honor but confuse, but the gist of the com­ skyist movement. Through her he had been introduced to Trotsky, women were clustered around the tice” to the rest of the world which has now been again con­ pany’s orders was simple: “ Im ­ and on one pretext or another, sought access to him in Mexico. bulletin board?. There was prac­ why doesn’t it clean up its own demned to unskilled labor duty mediately upon receipt of the tically no conversation, no discus­ Pretending to seek advice on an article he had written, Monard back yard by correcting some of by Mr. Truman’s war department. announcement from the President the injustices which it fosters sion in the halls. Just a grim While Mr. Truman affixes his that hostilities w ith Japan have or Jacson succeeded in obtaining an audience alone with Trotsky in against Negroes here at home ? silence as they tried to figure out signature to a document which ended,” — close the plants! Don’t what they were supposed to do his study. While the Bolshevik leader’s back was turned, the as­ stop to clock out — get out of While Truman was in Potsdam demands “ equality under the next. But back in the depart­ sassin took a pick-axe which he had under his raincoat and plunged preaching American democracy Jaw... without distinction as to the plants in a hurry! ments, at the benches, there were it into his victim’s brain. Despite a terrible wound, Trotsky man­ 200 Negro citizens in Tuskegee, lace...” a federal judge repre­ The company’s fear showed taut, angry sentences. 6tarkly through the warning: aged to grapple with his assailant and cry for help. Alabama were refused the vote senting all the authority of the “ So now we got peace — and by the legal authorities. In Macon ruling class government decrees “ Plant Protection will arrange to no jobs!” provide the proper number of Two guards rushed in and overpowered Jacson, who in his fear County with a population of that a Federal Housing project “ Yeah, that’s right! Why can’t around 30,000 of which number guards to handle the evacuation cried out: “ They made me do it. Otherwise they would have killed in Hamtramck, Michigan which we have peace and jobs? Why 80 percent are Negroes only was built with the funds of black in an orderly manner.” Precau­ is it we can’t work except when my mother.” “Theg” were the GPU, Stalin’s police-murder appar­ tions would be taken by the com­ “ about ten” colored citizens have and white alike shall only be oc­ there’s a war on?” atus. This was further confirmed by a prepared “ confession” found been certified to vote. cupied by members of the white pany against “ uncontrolled dem­ “ Well, there’re welfare agen­ LEON TROTSKY onstrations" within the plants, on the assassin’s person. It clearly was fabricated by the Kremlin’s While Truman stirs the stew race. cies, and I ’m not too proud to etc. November 7, 1879 — August 21, 1940 of “justice” in Potsdam three Ne­ We could go on endlessly to put my kids there to keep them police agents. The assassin was also armed with a revolver and gro WAC’s sit down in the “ white Wright is planning it’s layoffs expose the lies of the American from being hungry...” dagger. only” section of a waiting room well — no dramatics, but a “quiet, capitalist spokesmen when they “ But you know what’s goin’ to ir. Louisville, Kentucky. They orderly evacuation.” Take a “va­ claim to be fo r equality and jus­ happen, dont you? People are The complicity of Stalin was shown by previous assassination are called abusive nances, beaten cation,” all of you, all the 150,000 Trotsky Memorial Meetings tice but the important point is to goin’ to be killing each other for attempts. On May 24 of the same year, a gang of Stalinist gunmen over the head and dragged across of you, in 16 plants except super­ understand why they do this. As food — they’re going to have to.” This week is the fifth anniversary of the assassination of the floor by the civilian repre­ visory and office personnel need­ broke into Trotsky’s home at night, machine-gunned his bedroom Mr. Truman, himself admitted in General Office employees and Leon Trotsky. Socialist Workers Party branches throughout sentatives of “ law and order” and ed fo r a week’s inventory. Sure, and kidnapped his young American secretary-guard, Sheldon Harte, his radio address of August 9, salaried supervision were discuss­ then court-martialed by the mili­ take a nice, long “ vacation” — the country are holding meetings in honor of this great pro­ whose slain body was found a few days later. Subsequently, most the conditions of economic chaos ing matters, too. tary for violation of the ninety- and human misery in Allied con­ without pay, of jourse. We’ll letarian revolutionist. of the murder gang were rounded up, and a number of them made “ I ’ve been going over to the third article of war. trolled Germany are terrific. The call you back when we need you. Park Avenue offices for a week In New York City a mass meeting w ill be held Wednes­ fu ll confessions. While Truman talks of educat­ imperialists, in order to cover up Perhaps, by the next war—World now, checking seniorities and get­ day, August 22, at 8 P. M. in Webster Hall, 119 East 11th St., ing the Germans in democratic their real aims to enslave the War I I I to make the world safe ting pay-offs ready. The atmos­ New York City. James P. Cannon, National Secretary of the Kremlin Protects Its Agents ideals the schools, the church, the German workers and to exploit for... phere is so tense around here Socialist Workers Party, will deliver the memorial address. The powerful arm of the Kremlin reached out to protect its movies, the radio and the news­ that country, have donned the Meanwhile, W right is waiting you can feel it crackle.” Comrade Cannon was the founder of the Trotskyist movement papers, in America all unite to robes of guardian angels who are fo^r “advice” from the U. S. Gov­ “Everybody’s got the jitters. agents. For five years, the leaders of the May 24 attack and Trotsky’s in this country, and has been its chief standard bearer for brand the Negro as a lazy, ignor­ there to see that democracy, jus­ ernment. Oh, yes, they forgot Got ’em myself.” assassin have escaped retribution. Jacson had the aid of the best ant, criminal half-man, and in tice and equality are carried out to put that in the bulletin, didn’t That’s the way it goes. The seventeen years. legal talent Stalin could buy, and inexhaustible funds to fig h t his this way to perpetuate the myth in that unhappy land. they? But it was in a newspa­ only way the capitalists can pre­ Brief speeches w ill be made by the Trotskyist candidates conviction. L ittle more than a year ago, he was finally sentenced of white supremacy. Their actions, however, expose per story some of the workers pare fo r peace is — to send in the New York City Elections. Farrell Dobbs, candidate for to 20 years imprisonment — maximum penalty under Mexican law' While Tiuman spouts that dis­ them as both national and inter­ took into Plant 7 Friday mid­ workers home, give them a “ holi­ mayor, and Louise Simpson, candidate for city council, w ill for premeditated murder. night, and compared with the bul­ day,” a good long endless “ holi­ crimination in any form will “not national liars. They worship greed speak on the issues confronting the voters in this campaign. letins. W right was closing all day” — Without pay. The W right On August 21, 1940, Trotsky died. His last words were an ex­ be tolerated” in Germany, the not justice, profits not democracy, its 16 plants immediately upon Corporation has planned its “V-J They w ill present the program of the Socialist Workers Party. pression of supreme confidence that the workers would reach their very army Brass Hats that got hatred not equality. The capi­ receipt of an official “V-J Day” Day” well. No dramatics about A ll readers of the M ilitant, friends and sympathizers of historic socialist goal, and an exhortation to his followers to continue him there continue their rigid talist government not only “tol­ practice of separating the Negro erates” but i t enforces discrim­ announcement — closing them its layoffs. A quiet, “orderly the Trotskyist movement are invited to attend the New Yoi$' the great work for which he lived and died. He said: “ I am close to soldiers into Jim-Crow units ination here while granting a for “48 hours” — and then? evacuation.” And now fo r the meeting and the meetings in the other cities. The meeting death from the blow' of a political assassin — Please say to our “ Plans for operating at the end long'grind again — job hunting, where they can be given the low­ fake “ political freedom” to starv­ places are listed on this page. friends, I am sure of the victory of the Fourth International. Go of this period w ill depend upon rent due, no-more-groceries-until- est and dirtiest duties. In the ing Europe over whose carcass advice from the government con- ycu-pay, relief, breadlines... forward!” case of an exception that was it is snarling like a hungry wolf.

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Sidney Hillman, chairman of CScjss Consciousness Government operation of gov­ cerning production contracts.” in the locker room at about six o’clock, just doing ordinary things ernment-owned plants which priv­ Other large aircraft concerns the CIO Political Action Commit­ The supremely class-consci­ “ UNPREDICTABLE HELL” like eating sandwiches or squirting water on somebody from the tee, said of yie British Labor ate corporations refuse to oper­ made similar announcements. ous spokesmen of Big Business ate was demanded last week in What that “ advice” w ill be was From the same source came drinking fountain. Tony was trying to tell a joke. And you could Party victory: “ The results in are greatly disturbed over evi­ the prediction that no less than see it wasn’t going over. It was a very hot day, even hotter as night England parallel the successful Washington by representatives of indicated within 24 hours, when dence of the growing class- leading CIO international unions, it was announced “ unofficially” 5,000,000 workers w ill be tossed began to come. Nobody gave a damn about anything. efforts of labor, liberal and prog­ consciousness of American la­ out of the war plants within 60 ressive forces in this country in who called on federal agencies from Washington that aircraft Then everything changed, just like it does when you tap a bor. Thus, Business Week, for drastic action to stem the dis­ cutbacks would amount “ perhaps days. And the War Department lazy looking furnace at the open hearth, and all hell breaks loose. 1944.” Let’s see! August 11, informs its corpor­ astrous tide of mass unemploy­ to 90 percent of current produc­ revealed that some 5,000,000 war Shorty came running in with his eyes bulging. “ They just blew a The American workers, led by ation clientele: veterans might be released w ith­ PAC, in November 1944 helped ment accompanying the imminent tion, and an even higher percent­ whole city o ff the map — with one bomb!” “ The change which has led in the next 12 months to swell reelect the chief political leader surrender of Japan. age for many types of ammuni­ from mass picketing . . . the the arm J- of jobless.' That can’t be true, everybody thought. It doesn’t make sense. of American imperialism, Roos­ Their proposal was given tre­ tion, ordnance, chemical supplies skeleton picketing, that may CIO officials predicted not less But just to look at Shorty’s face, you could see it was true. “ What evelt. The labor leaders main­ mendous urgency last Friday by and signal corps supplies.” (N. Y. be symbolized by the Detroit than 10,000,000 unemployed w ith­ city” , Breezy asked, trying to be smart but sounding awfully dumb. tained their coalition with the Japan’s formal surrender offer, Times, Aug. 12). rubber strike (U. S. Rubber in 30 days of Japanese capitula­ Democratic Party of capitalist which immediately precipitated a Washington estimates place an­ Company), is of considerable HUGE CUTBACKS tion — not counting the return­ Just Some Place in Japan big city bosses and Southern natioiial avalanche of plant shut­ ticipated loss in overtime pay at significance. I t suggests that The Associated Press report­ ing veterans. “ I don’t know. Some place in Japan,” Shorty said still in a Bourbons. Not a single genuine downs, wholesale layoffs and ? 14-billion. Shifts to low-pay the authority of a picket line ed that war material cutbacks Detroit, fo r instance, “ is pre­ daze. representative of labor today sits widespread slashes in take-home industries will take another 85- has found a large measure of amounting to $12-biliion were paring for a war-end impact ex­ in Congress. pay through reductions in the billion from the wage-earners an­ “ Good thing i t ’s them and not us,” cracked Breezy. acceptance among American under way. The War and Navy pected to displace 250,000 work­ In England, however, the work­ work-week. s nua! pay checks. Elimination of “ I t ’s an atomic bomb! It blows everything apart fo r miles workers: that strike-solidarity Departments officially announced ers, with industrial production ers kicked out the leading spokes­ Government officials, lacking night-shift differentials alone around. Just think! You could be walking down a country road — an important facet of class- immediate contract terminations pared to 30 per cent w ithin two man of British imperialism, forced any effective program to meet w ill cost American labor $500,- and say a town gets bombed a couple of miles away. You just fold consciousness from which of $4-billion, “ the first of the ex­ vyeeks after war contracts are their leaders to break the politi­ the economic crisis that struck 000,000. up, that’s a ll!” American workers were so pected flood,” as the Times ad­ terminated,” reported the United cal coalition with the capitalist this week like a thunderbolt, mer­ Although the government was long thought to be free — has mitted. Press on August 11. An official “ Jesus Christ,” Slim and Tony said at the same time. A couple Tories, and gave labor a thump­ ely promised to “ weigh” the CIO fu lly aware o f the impending really developed in this coun­ “ The ending of the war w ill of the CIO United Automobile more fellows came in from the parking lot where they’d been listen­ ing majority in Parliament. proposal, drafted by a conference catastrophe, the event itself found try.” deliver a staggering jo lt to the Workers was quoted as forecast­ ing to auto radios. They told the same story. They explained w’hat I f these events are “ parallel,” of the CIO auto, steel, rubber, Congress on a scheduled two- And that isn’t the only industrial economy of the nation,” ing '‘ninety days of unpredictable they had heard about the way the bomb works, and how the radio as Hillman claims, then the only shipbuilding, electrical and ra­ months vacation, after previously facet, as Business Week might the N. Y. Herald-Tribune confess­ hell.” announcer said it would shorten the war. ones who can really see straight dio, mine, m ill and smelter, and scuttling every proposal for have pointed out. The Detroit ed. U. S. Budget Bureau officials are those with cross-eyes. federal workers unions. The imminent end of the Paci­ maintaining full employment or Pop Philiber uncrossed his legs. “ How many people were in primaries have just shown the American labor tasted the b it­ said the war’s end w ill mean an fic war saw not only millions of providing adequate unemployment that town?” the asked. * * * growth of class-consciousness ter fruits of imperialist “victory” immediate $30-billion federal workers headed fo r the scrap- lelief and compensation. “ Three hundred and some thousand,” Shorty said. in the political arena, where No Severance Pay simultaneously with the an­ budget slash in war spending — heaps, but a concerted corpora­ Aside from the various state “ Well supposin—just supposin—that this new bomb shortens Richard Frankensteen, vice nouncement of Japan’s surrender the war spending that has been tion campaign of wage-slashing Before the shutdown of the unemployment insurance provi­ the time of the war, it don’t shorten the trouble none. It don’t president of the United Auto­ offer. Right after the very first the sole temporary prop for through elimination of overtime sions ranging as low as 82 per world’s largest small-arms plant, make it any easier fo r the working people. Three hundred thou­ mobile Workers, scored a radio flash, for instance, 150,000 America’s capitalist economy. the government-owned works in pay and reduction o f the 48 hour week fo r six weeks, and fo r which thumping victory over six workers in 16 Wright Aeronauti­ Government officials could no sand of them get it in five seconds, instead of five years. So what St. Louis run by U. S. Cartridge, week to 40 hours. tegs o f millions of workers are rival candidates for the office cal and Curtiss-Wright plants longer conceal the terrible fate if it does shorten the war?” the CIO Electrical and Radio disqualified by discriminatory of mayor. were informed they faced a lay­ now immediately in store for the WAGE SLASHES Workers had negotiated a sever­ state laws, the only provisions so Scissorbill Sam Speaks Up off, announced as a “ 48-hour holi­ American worker's. “ A high- This, according to the state­ ance pay plan, accepted by the fa r made for the unemployed aye day” without pay. This “holiday” ranking Office of War Mobiliza­ ment of Labor Department of­ “ Aw, they’d all commit suicide anyhow,” said Scissorbill Sam, company and approved by WLB, vice to union leaders in an ar­ Congressional blue-prints for a order was accompanied, however, tion and Reconversion official es­ ficials on August 11, will mean the boss’s man. “ What do they care?” to tide over the 25,000 workers ticle, “ Labor Leaders Must Have $1-billion public works program oy an ominous statement that timated that 8,000,000 persons in­ an annual slice in national wage Courage.” that would give jobs, at relief Nobody laughed at Scissorbill Sam. being tossed out on the street. “plans for operating at the end evitably would be jobless within totals of up to $19-billion from Tobin says he has “ no use for wages, to not more than 250,000, ^Nobody likes to die—ever!” said Pop, as though he wasn’t Ju st, as the plant was being of this period w ill depend upon the next six months,” the United the 1944 peak of 890-billion. closed on August 1, W illiam H. the ‘softie’ business agent or of­ if Congress should make the nec­ thinking of Japanese people in particular. “ Especially kids. H alf Davis, director of economic stab­ ficer.” In bold-faced type, he essary appropriations. of all the people in that town must have been little kids.” Nevertheless, numerous leading ilization, rejected the severance adds “To be an official of a cor­ Native Fascism — II Pop didn’t say anything more. He didn’t figure there was any­ pay plan, although Congress has poration or of a labor union, you Senators and Representatives thing to say. The fellows didn’t say anything else either. That is complained at a proposal to cut made no provisions for reemploy­ must have the courage to dis­ — all they talked about was atoms, bombs, and electrons. WTiat ment or adequate unemployment agree. their vacations short by recon­ vening Congress after Labor Day, more could be said about the thing itself? I f the war is too terrible compensation. “ Not only are you sent out to to feel the murder of it, how can you feel it any deeper when m ulti­ administer the ordinary laws and Sep. 4. Senator Barkley, after The 25,000 workers face hunger plied by a million? and destitution. The plant their lules, but your duly is to settle American Big Business a conference with Truman, stated taxes helped to build lies idle. disputes on the spot very often, that Congress might be called in But the company, which made from your understanding of the session on September 4, if “ emer­ gency legislation” can be made millions in profits without risk, is laws and rules, and to settle those Atomic Bomb Wipes Out Defenseless protected by federal law. It w ill disputes EVEN IF THEY ARE Finances Fascist Scum ready; “ but I am not prepared receive fu ll and immediate com­ AGAINST YOUR OWN MEM­ to state that definitely.” pensation for the war contract BERS.” By Joseph Hansen Meanwhile, the Office of War Civilians in the City of Nagasaki termination. Well, it ’s sound advise fo r the Mobilization and Reconversion The monsters of American Fascism in its initial stages appears as a motley assortment offered as an immediate “pro­ $ * 5}C big boss of a corporation. Or imperialism repeated the un­ maybe, that’s where Tobin got of divided groups and competing leaders. A ll shadings of race gram” the advice that fired work­ speakable crime of Hiroshima Made in U. S. A. Army Strikebreaking the idea in the first place. hatred, bigotry and superstition have their special representa­ ers should register w ith the U. S- It was a “ race,” they say, Employment Service fo r jobs, on August 9 when another Forty-two workers at the as­ * * * tives, so that the movement presents many facets to the discon­ atomic bomb, the latest death­ between German and Allied bestos plant of the Keasby & which the employers should post scientists to get there first End of a Career tented masses‘’Left by themselves, these malignant groups would dealing weapon in the arsenal Mattison Company, Ambler, Pa., eventually fade out of existence. But they are not permitted to with the USES—if they have the with the atomic bomb. Had jobs. For the rest, the OWMR of war. was dropped on the Jap­ were forced on August 6 to re­ Albert Schneider was one of die a natural death. ® Germany won the race and Daniel Tobin’s agents who in 1941 and Truman were prim arily con­ anese city of Nagasaki, a dense­ port for pre-induction physical expensively printed magazine dropped an atomic bomb on, helped to form the “ Committee A great unifying force begins cerned with trying to maintain ly populated area in which lived say, Philadelphia, this would examination because of their throuout the country without ad­ of 100” that fought the militant to influence them. This unifying some order in the mad scramble participation in a strike last vertising or acknowledged subsi­ some 250,000 people. have been an act of the bar­ and progressive leadership which force is Big Business. The ruling of the various corporations for month. The strike was broken dies, and stood behind such native A pall of smoke mushroomed barous “ Huns.” when the men returned to work organized and built the famous class understands very well that such limited materials as the the free development of the labor fascist organizations as the mush­ into the air to blot out the city II i r o s hima is different. after thev were reclassified to Minneapolis Drivers Local 544. government intends to release for movement means the doom of rooming Christian Front and from the sight of the airmen who Aren’t the Japanese just sub- 1 -A . When the members of Local 544 civilian production. capitalism. Consequently, at a Christian Mobilizers. The mysteri­ dropped the missile of mass mur­ huma n monkeys? “ Thank These victims of government voted to disaffiliate from the A ll other measures must wait God,” says Truman, that certain stage, the leaders of Big ous sources of his vast funds lia,ve on a dilatory and reactionary der on a helpless population. Gen. strike-breaking are married, over AFL and join the CIO, Schneider Carl Spaatz, who doubtless con­ American imperialism won the Business foster the fascist groups. not been unveiled to this day. In­ Congress, which by its whole 30 years old, and many have chil­ actively participated in the cam­ vestigation of his friendship with siders himself a civilized being, race. And so the most dia­ dren, according to Peter V.Fletch- paign of physical terrorism un­ past record has given ample proof BIG BUSINESS TIES W illiam Randolph Hearst, the said the results were “ good,” bolical death-dealer w ill bear er, president of Local 2409, Unit­ leashed by Tobin’s “ muscle-men” that the workers can expect no an exclusively American label The fascist movement and Big Ford family, other moguls of the meaning that all the inhabitants ed Textile Workers, AFL. to force the drivers back into the aid from that quarter. had probably been wiped out. —for a time! Business then become closely automobile industry, and his con­ Least of all, can the workers Inasmuch as the government AFL. He and his brother Fred nections with big-time operators were rewarded by Tobin with bound together. The individual expect Congress to keep the huge DEATH OF A CITY broke the strike and forced the on the New York Stock Exchange, men back, Lieut. Col. Hartman, jobs as organizers and business demagogues vying fo r leadership government-built and owned Twelve hours after the atomic headline in one New York news­ seek the patronage of Big Busi­ would undoubtedly prove highly plants in operation. Big Business paper which printed accounts of acting state selective service di­ agents for 544-AFL. revealing. bomb had been dropped, Robert rector, “ generously” announced They did most of their organiz­ ness. The tycoons of industry and its Congressional agents plan Shaplen, war correspondent of the awful catastrophe given out single out the most promising to “ junk” these government by the Tokyo radio. This is what that this fact would be “taken ing around taverns, built up a TRUMAN AND REYNOLDS the National Broadcasting Com­ into consideration” before final police record for assault, disor­ fascist demagogues to receive plants or turn them over as gifts pany, flew w ithin a few miles of the Tokyo radio said: Today ex - Senator Robert R . induction notices are given. derly conduct and drunkenness. tremendous sums of money fo r to the monopolies, which could “what was left of Nagasaki.” He “ Medical relief agencies that Reynolds and Gerald L. K . Smith used to repeat, “Adolf Hitler is A couple of weeks ago, Albert the expansion of their influence. then remove them from competi­ said “ it was like looking over were rushed from the neighbor­ * * * are moving into prominence as the greatest leader in the history Schneider’s career as a “ labor The fascist groups begin bo tion or operate them only if they the rim of a volcano in the pro­ ing districts were unable to dis­ of the w orld. ” The appearance of Tobin’s fCourage* leader” was abruptly terminated. coalesce; a dominating leader fascist demagogues in America. can realize profits. cess of erupting. . . Nagasaki was tinguish, much less identify, the Reynolds, organizing the Na­ McWilliams as a lieutenant |of Daniel J. Tobin, “ Czar” of the He got into a tavern brawl with moves to the foreground; the It is with this key problem, the still a mass of acrid flame and dead from the injured. The im­ tionalist Party, is operating in Reynolds signifies the growing A F L Teamsters, in the August a petty underworld associate, end­ other contending leaders become continued use of the government- smoke. The blazing area extend­ pact of the bomb was so te rrific close contact with the political unification of the forces of Amer­ issue of his organ, The Interna­ ed up a corpse w ith four holes subalterns. A unified fascist ap­ built plants, that last week’s CIO ed at least ten miles. We saw that practically all living things, fountainhead of American capital­ ican fascism. from a .38. paratus spreads throughout the proposal deals. Its answer — four huge towers of flame shoot­ humans and animals, were lite r­ tional Teamster, gives some ad- Propaganda Battlefront reports embittered sections of the popula­ ism. His marriage with the government operation—is a pro­ ing skyward to several thousand ally seared to death by the trem­ tion. A streamlined political ma­ wealthy heiress Evelyn (“ Hope that McWilliams, “using Jack gressive step in the direction of feet, indicating that explosions endous heat and pressure engend­ chine begins carrying the ideas Diamopd” ) McLean greatly Williams as an alia s... called on the program advocated through­ were still going on. The tongues ered by the blast. A ll of the dead SWP BRANCH of fascism into action. bolstered his already prominent Cleveland industrialists from mid- out the war by the Socialist of shooting flame leaped into the and injured were burned beyond political standing in reactionary May until mid-June. W ith V. Ma­ Under the conditions of great Workers Party and The Militant. smoke layer, a weird orange col­ recognition. With houses a n d circles. According to Drew Pear­ lone, Reynolds’ ‘public relations The Trotskyists have consist­ or. Watching this tremendous buildings crushed, including the social crisis, mass unemployment, son, the Washington columnist, director,’ McWilliams helped to ACTIVITIES misery, hunger, the fascist move­ ently warned of the hunger plans fire, the funeral of a whole city, emergency medical facilities, the members of President Truman’s visit or phone prominent men in ment can record spectacular of Wall Street and pointed out it was obvious that nothing could authorities are having their hands MILWAUKEE — Visit the Mil­ cabinet are frequently seen in the nearly 30 Cleveland firms. Before CLEVELAND — Open meetings growth. Its natural field is the that the first major attack on have a chance of survival.” full in giving every available re­ waukee branch of the SWP at fashionable drawing room Mrs. going to Ohio, he worked Boston are held at Pecks Hall, 1446 E. middle class, but it can likewise these plans must be government Airmen 70 to 250 miles from lie f possible. its headquarters, 926 Planking- Reynolds maintains. along with J. A . Forsland, an­ 82nd St. (o ff Wade Park N.) affect the fringes of the work­ operation of all idle and govern­ the scene of this man-contrived “ The effect of the bomb was ton Ave., Room 21, any evening other organizer and solicitor for on Friday evenings, 8:39 p. m. ing class, particularly if the Reynolds’ drive to tap funds ment-built plants under workers disaster reported all through the widespread. Those outdoors burn­ between 7 and 9:30 p. m. Reynolds’ Party. control. following night by radio that they ed to death, while those indoors • • working class lacks a revolu­ fi-om Big Business is well organ­ tionary political party ready to ized. “ George Faist has the New The sales kit of the National­ This capitalist government, could see Nagasaki burning were killed by the indescribable LOS ANGELES—Socialist Youth MINNEAPOLIS — Hear Grace fight fascism to the death. Today York territory,” reports Eugene ist Party solicitors contains however, w ill savagely resist any “fiercely.” Flyers as far as 250 pressure and heat.” Forum, 'Thursday, August 30, Carlson speak on “ Women in the United States is rapidly near­ Segal, staff w riter of the Scripps- photostatic copies of several such infringement on the “free miles away who saw the actual In his radio report to the Amer­ at 8:30 p. m. Topic: “ What Is Prison,” Sunday, September 9, Howard chain in a July 18 syn­ checks, including one fo r $2,500 enterprise” system of monopoly bombing described it as “ too tre­ ican people on August 9, Presi­ the Significance of the British ing the brink of such a social at 7:30 p. m. Socialist Workers crisis — the postwar depression. dicated article; “ and solicitors in alleged to be from the Republic capitalism. The attitude of the mendous to believe.” One said he dent Truman declared, w ith an Ejections?” Speaker: M. Feld­ Party headquarters, 10 So. 4 St. Steel Corp. Republic Steel, how­ The working class has not yet Chicago are one O’Toole and government, is indicated by an saw “ a fie ry yellow orange ball air of icy unconcern, as if he were man. Free admission; ques­ • Harry E. Prettyman, a high- ever, says its books fa il to dis­ OWMR official, who on August shoot into the sky fo r 8,000 feet, talking about the extermination tion and discussion period. organized an independent Labor NEW ARK — Lectures are held P arty. pressure promoter who was in the close the record of any |such 11 informed the United Press followed by a column of smoke of cockroaches: “ The world w ill SWP headquarters, 232 S. H ill every Friday at the Progressive real estate business in Florida check. According to A . F. ¡Weber, that the government would not which rose to at least 20,000 feet.” note that the firs t atomic bomb St., Rooms 200-204. Workers’ School, 423 Spring- SINISTER FIGURES until his license was revoked... one of the Cleveland industrial­ undertake public works or other This was the terrible fate of was dropped on Hiroshima, a m ili­ Obtain The M ilitant and ists, the sales talk of Reynolds’ field Ave., at 8:30 p. m. The readiness of Big Business A t least 20 men are out soliciting measures which “ would place the Nagasaki’s 250,000 people. Four tary base.” Then came the nau­ Fourth International and other solicitors goes ¡like this: “ The • to foster fascism in America was funds fo r Reynolds’ nationalists.” government in a position of com­ days earlier, the 344,000 inhabit­ seous, hypocritical cover-up : M arxist books and pamphlets Nationalists expect to get into “ That was because we wished in PHILADELPHIA — Open for­ demonstrated beyond doubt during peting with industries for mater­ ants of Hiroshima had been ob­ as well as information about Among the organizers of Rey­ office and help industry. They ums every Thursday evening ials.” literated by an atomic bomb. this first attack to avoid, insofar the SWP at the following pla­ the terrible crisis that racked the would do away w ith all business on current topics, at Labor country from 1929 to the outbreak nolds’ fund-raising campaign is Thus, the advocacy of govern­ “ALL LIFE AT AN END IN as possible, the killin g of civil­ ces in the Los Angeles area: regulations, lower taxes, and HIROSHIMA” was the jubilant ians.” Forum, 405 W. Girard, 8:30 of the Second World War in Joseph E . McWilliams, the York- ment operation of government- LOS ANGELES, Socialist ville tough better known as Joe make unions incorporate. The built plants is meaningless, if it Workers Party, Rooms, 200-05, p. m. 1939. Socialist Youth Group meets McNazi. It was McWilliams who Nationalists would put an end is accompanied merely by a plea 232 S. H ill St. SAN PEDRO, As long ago as 1934, Major Friday evenings, 8:30 p. m.; all organized the gangster - like to the Communists and the to the present government agen­ Socialist Workers Party, 1008 Smedley D. Butler revealed that Christian Mobilizers as part of foreigners in this country.” cies controlled completely by cor­ VOTE TROTSKYIST! S. Pacific, Room 214. For ad­ young people are invited. La­ bor Forum, 405 W. Girard. certain sinister figures of Wall Coughlin’s Christian Fron|t. The calculated drive of Reynolds poration “dollar-a-year” men. ditional information phone Street, principally connected with Among the Mobilizers he organ­ for funds from big industrialists Their exclusive concern is to safe­ In the Coming New York Elections VA-7936. the Morgan interests, had ap­ ized shock troop units known as demonstrates that he thoroughly guard capitalist monopoly in­ Among other important issues, the Socialist Workers Party Make your reservation now SAN FRANCISCO — V isit the proached him with the idea of understands the necessary con­ the Mobilizer Guards Aping the terests. Election Platform advocates: for the WEST COAST VACA­ San Francisco School of Social organizing a militant political pattern laid down by Mussolini nection between monopoly capital­ This, or any other progressive TION SCHOOL. Situated at Science, 305 Grant Ave., corner movement of World War vet­ and H itler in their rise to power, ism and fascism. Like Hitler, demand of the labor movement, ORGANIZATION OF THE WAR VETERANS the Workmen’s Circle Camp in of Grant and Sutter, 4th floor; erans. $50 million was available these “ Guards” were among the whom he admired and studied, he can be achieved only through a Carbon Canyon, San Bernar­ open from 12 noon to 3 p.m . as a starter. Butler’s revelations chief culprits in the beatings, knows that to be successful he program of action, of militant, BY THE TRADE UNIONS! Monday through Saturday, and dino County, it is two miles made a tremendous sensation at stabbings and hoodlumism that must cement his ties with Big united mass struggle. It is up The forces of native fascism are lying in wait for the from Lavida Hot Springs and 7 to 9 p.m. Monday through the time. swept the streets of New York Business. to the ranks of labor not only to veterans. They want to turn them against racial minorities, 32 miles from Los Angeles. Friday. in 1939. In September, 1939 Mc­ The Nationalist Party is a compel their leaders to advocate • Shortly thereafter, the fascist poison them against the labor movement, organize them into For reservations and further demagogue Father Coughlin Williams was elected to the Na­ dangerous growth that can be­ government operation of idle fighting detachments and establish fascism in America. The skyrocketed into prominence. He tional Supreme Council of the Ku come a major threat to American plants under workers control, but information write to Janice TOLEDO — Forums held every trade unions must act in time to save the people from this M artin, Director, West • Coast Sunday evening at 905 Jeffer­ built a million dollar shrine. He Klux Klan and in the following labor if it is permitted to thrive to force the initiation of a seri­ fate. Make the struggle for the veterans’ rights a union fight! Vacation School, 232 S. H ill St., son Ave., Room 304. A ll M ili­ broadcast over a wide network of year he organized his own group, without opposition. ous, fighting program of action Room 205, Los Angeles, Calif. tant readers, friends invited. radio stations, distributed an the American Destiny Party. He (To Be Continued) to attain this demand. PAGE SIX THE MILITANT SATURDAY, AUGUST 18, 1945 International Fund Drive Carlson Describes Progress Of Trotskyism On West Coast Passes Half-Way Mark By Grace Carlson ings about the Socialist Workers Party’s answer to unemployment. By FARRELL DOBBS gently needed aid to our Trot us to come back fo r money as SAN FRANCISCO, August This has been especially notice­ E-kyist co-thinkers in the war- they hadn’t received their pay 11 — California is generally re­ able in the California “ war Campaign Director torn countries. checks for the week. As garded as the center of anti- boom” cities which w ill be h it one woman said, ‘I ’m poor and The half-way mark has been AKRON: “Last Friday night Japanese propaganda. Mere, the very quickly by the peacetime cut passed in the Socialist Workers I’ve always been poor but I’ll in production. Our proposal to the Akron Branch had a mobil­ bosses try to set the white Party’s $5,000 International Sol­ share w ith those who have less operate these factories under ization to collect funds for the In ­ workers against the Japanese idarity Fund. W ith $2,774.90 than I have.’ workers’ control ,to produce the ternational Solidarity Drive. workers by instilling race hatred raised at the end of the fourth “After the mobilization we things which workers need is a week, the over-all score is 55 per­ Each pair of comrades was given went to the house of one of the into them just as the southern a list of M ilitant subscribers, a bosses divide the white and Ne­ popular one with the advanced cent. comrades for sandwiches and cold workers of this area. collection can and a copy of the drinks, and to discuss the mobil­ gro workers. The Pittsburgh ancr Allentown- paper with your article on the We are recruiting many such Quakertown Branches have ization. As we paid for the sand­ But I have seen very little fund drive. wiches and pop, we made a few' workers into the Party—but we joined the 100 percent group, evidence of anti-Japanese feeling have only made a start in com­ making a total of five branches “ We went from door to door more .dollars for the Fund. in the California cities which I “ This is the first tag day we’ve parison with what we can hope to which have already sent in their asking people how they liked the have visited during the tour — achieve in the near fu ture. We’ve fu ll quota. Milwaukee, San Fran­ paper, and explaining the Inter­ had here, and even if we didn’t San Pedro, Los Angeles and San raise a lot of money ure had a made a very good start though! cisco, Bayonne, Los Ange.es and national Solidarity Fund. We Francisco. The conversations The San Pedro, Los Angeles and Youngstown have all passed the asked them to participate with us very rich experience. First, we which I overheard on the trains had a chance to visit and talk San Francisco branches are three-quarter post and are now in this drive. Everyone we spoke and in restaurants and street cars active, growing organizations. in the home stretch. to was very enthusiastic about with some of our new Militant expressed relief that V-J day is readers, and second we feel that GRACE CARLSON Each of these branches has the paper and very understand­ near, but I heard many condem­ spacious new (since I was in FROM THE BRANCHES ing about our need for funds to we brought them closer to us by nations of the American and asking them to v»ork with us in propaganda, but I haven’t come California on the last tour) head­ The Socialist Workers Party aid our co-thinkers abroad. We English governments for using across many of them. quarters, but they are all com­ collected almost $7.00 in small this vet.» concrete way of con­ the atomic bomb against helpless is raising the $5,000 Internation­ The workers wljo have come to plaining that they have outgrown al Solidarity Fund to provide ur­ change, and many people asked tributing to our International civilians. Fund. our meetings have|been unanimous their headquarters. “ We were all very pleased, and JUSTIFYING BARBARISM in their outspoken condemnation And from the viewpoint of the International Solidarity Fund although our agenda is quite fu ll Of course, the capitalist news­ of the atomic bomb horrors. They large meetings we had in each of we plan to have another mobil­ papers of California attempted to are beginning to see more clearly these centers, and from the ization before the campaign is whip up anti-Japanese feeling. what Trotskyists mean when they n-limpses I had of the rapid tempo over.” They knew that this was neces­ say that the outlook fo r humanity of party recruiting, I can agree that these branches may feel a SCOREBOARD SAN FRANCISCCi: “ We are sary in order to justify the is either “Forward to Socialism” kittle cramped in their present sending you $45 on our quota. barbarism of the Anglo-American or “ Backward to Barbarism. ” headquarters. But “growing Percent $10 of this is a contribution from annihilation campaign against BRANCH Quota Paid The chart above shows the terrible hunger in “ liberated” POPULAR DEMAND pains” are suffered gladly by a sympathizer. That leaves us Japanese civilians in the last As the war draws to a close Trotskyists and in California with another $100 to send you, Europe, with food-consumption in France, Holland and Belgium days of the war. I suppose that Buffalo $125.00 $145.00 116 there have jbeen an increasing they’ll cure them by moving on and I feel certain that w'e will less than half that in the United States. Germany, however, has some California workers may 25.00 25.00 100 number of questions at the meet­ to bigger and better headquarters. Reading meet it.” been allotted still less by ARIG—only 1150 calories a day. have been taken in by this St. Louis 25.00 25.00 100 Pittsburgh 25.00 25.00 100 The world is told in long re­ the American Military Governor Allentown ports that the German people are who said, “ Whatever happens to Quakertown 60.00 60.00 100 Conquerors Wine and Dine At Potsdam receiving a “ scientific ration” — these jokers, let us not s'hed tears. Milwaukee 30.00 28.00 93 rufficient to maintain the demo­ There will be many times that cratic contention that the Allies Germans won’t be able to get all San Francisco 375.00 307.00 82 do not stoop to concentration the food that is on their ration 100.00 78.00 78 Like Barbaric Despoilers Of Antiquity Bayonne camp tactics — but the fact, says cards — that’s just too bad.” Los Angeles 750.00 575.00 77 scholarly historians say this was recorded fo r the future students outside m ilitary mess-halls today By Bill Morgan MacCowan, is that rations fre ­ “I used to pray every night for Youngstown 85.00 65.00 76 a “pagan” and “inhuman” world of history? Now in the year of for scraps to appease their gnaw­ History books describe the col­ the event all the capitalist news­ ing hunger. One tiny maedchen quently exist only on paper and the Americans to come here to Newark 100.00 71.00 71 — a barbarian civilization. orful victory celebrations of an­ papers tell the story of the starv­ about 8 years old came up to me adequate stocks have not yet save us from the Russians,” one 125.00 89.35 71 Philadelphia cient Rome. Barbarian splendor POTSDAM CELEBRATION ation, the slave laborers being today proffering a battered old reached the retailers... German mother said. “ H itler told Rochester 15.00 10.25 68 combined with savage cruelty as “ Is it the American policy to How w ill the historians of the carted off to work under drill Kiddy Kodac in exchange for us the Russians were terrible peo­ 250.00 162.50 65 starve us to death?” asks one Twin Cities the conquerors were entertained future describe the recent victory sergeants and “ ex-fascists.” To­ which she hoped to obtain a lit­ ple. Now we don’t see any d if­ 70.00 56 at lavish feasts of meat and wine o d woman. “ 1 can’t believe it” Boston 125.00 conference of the “ Big Three” at day all may see the pictures and tle food. A nine y’ear od boy ference. Some people are be­ while the beaten and mutilated she went on, “ but the German Toledo 100.00 52.00 52 Potsdam ? W ill the future stu­ read the story of the hunger, dis­ offered me his harmonica in ex­ ginning to say the Americans are victims were dragged in chains people think so. Several times Chicago 500.00 254.00 51 dent of history read about the ease and humiliation that is the change for a candy bar,” reports worse than the Russians.” 400.00 164.00 41 behind the gaudily bedecked lot of millions of German workers Gault MacGowan of the New York a day the radio talks about the Detroit tons of rare and exquisite foods German concentration camps and A thousand years ago the “ pag­ 37 chariots of the triumphant gen­ and poor farmers, their wives and Sun. New York 1000.00 371.00 brought by airplane from the far the horrors there. Is the food ans,” the “ inhuman” and barbar­ erals. Bouquets and precious gifts children but what history books Anti-Nazis, children of Catholic Akron 75.00 23.50 31 corners of the earth to a blacken­ policy designed to make us walk­ ian despots of Rome established showered the victors as stones ed and ravaged Germany ? And will tell this story? and Jewish families, children of Cleveland 75.00 22.00 29 and whips drove the half-starved ing corpses too ? I f so, why don’t the pattern now followed by the the trees, shrubbery and flowers In recent dispatches from the American, Irish and Scotch moth­ Seattle 350.00 100.00 29 prisoners through ’the streets to you tell us so frankly?” “Big Three.” The difference is hauled hundreds of miles by great conference comes a graphic ers who had married German Members-at-Large the slave markets. ibis, that the “Big Three” and truck to decorate and make beau­ picture of the condition of the workers and who were therefore VICTOR’S VIEWPOINT their little stooges carry out their and Friends 245.00 52.30 21 And in the land of the defeated, tiful the vast grounds surround­ defeated, the victims of the trium ­ on suspect lists of the Nazis, suf­ The attitude of the conquerors policy of death, disease and starv­ 0 0 N. Y. Youth Group 15.00 newly appointed governors col­ ing the palace at Potsdam where phant leaders of the great “ Dem­ fer with the entire population, re­ who wine and dine in the palatial ation in the name of democracy, 0 San Diego 25.00 0 lected heavy taxes, looted and en­ the victors were housed in the ocracies.” ports the same correspondent. mansions of the German indus­ liberation and freedom. The an­ forced their wills with the aid midst of wrecked buildings and “ Half-famished boys and girls Nazi and anti-Nazi alike are left trialists is typical of the one ex­ cient tyrants never made any such TOTAL $5,000.00 2,774.90 55 of armies of occupation. • The ruined roads — w ill ¿11 ,-this be were still searching garbage pails to starve to death. pressed by Col. Frank Howley, cynical pretenses. The History Of American Trotskyism In earlier install incuts of his book, Comrade Cannon de­ tively to the bureaucratic expulsions, the slander and violence scribed the origin of the American Communist Party in the left- HOW THE PIONEER TROTSKYISTS SOLVED and ostracism employed against us. They also wanted to renounce wing of the Socialist Party in 1919. After four years of under­ the Communist Party and start a new' party. This approach had ground work, it became a legal party in 1923. Pactional strug­ a superficial attraction. But we resisted, wc rejected that idea. gles began between the proletarian and petty-bourgeois ten­ KEY QUESTION OF "WHAT TO DO NEXT?" People who over-simplified the question used to say to us: “ How dencies within the party, culminating in the expulsion of the can you be a faction of a party when you are expelled from it? ” proletarian left wing for Trotskyism, October 21, 1928. Slan­ We explained: It is a question of correctly appraising the dered, ostracised, and physically attacked by the Stalinists, the By James P. Cannon membership of the Communist Party, and finding the rig ht tactical handful of Trotskyists persisted, and gradually won new sym­ in energies and abilities, and containing some very talented people, In the course of development it. was proved that all those who, approach to it.. I f the Communist Party and its memoers have de- pathisers. Defense guards were organised to protect -their meet­ was utterly destroyed in the political fight, ignominiously dis­ whether from impatience, ignorance or subjectivity—whatever the generated beyond reclamation, and if a more progressive group of ings. Finally, in the spring of 1929, contact was established with solved. Today, most of its leaders, all of them as fa r as I know, cause might be—prematurely announced the death of the Russian workers exists either actually, or potentially by reason of the direc­ Leon Trotsky, and the platform of the Left Opposition pub­ are on the bandwagon of the imperialist war, serving ends ab­ revolution, were in reality announcing their own demise as revolu­ tion in which such a group is moving and out of which we can lished in The M ilitant. The first national conference of Amer­ solutely opposite to those which they set out to serve at the be­ tionists. Each and every one of these groups and tendencies de­ create a new and better party—then the argument fo r a new party ican Trotskyists, in May, 1929, represented about 100 members. ginning of their political work. The program is decisive. generated, fell apart at the very base, withdrew to the side lines, is correct. But, we said, we don’t see such a group anywhere. We This is the thirteenth installment of Cannon’s book. and in many cases went over into the camp of the bourgeoisie. Our don’t sec any real progressiveness, any militancy, any real political * * * Understanding the Party’s Tasks political health, our revolutionary vitality, were safeguarded, first intelligence in all these diverse oppositions, individuals and ten­ Our last lecture brought us up to the first National Conference dencies. They are nearly all side-line critics apd sectarians. The On the other hand, if the group misunderstands the tasks set of all, by the correct attitude we took toward the Soviet. Union of the Left Opposition in May 1929. We had survived the difficult real vanguard of the proletariat consists of those tens of thousands- for it by the conditions of the day, if it does not know how to despite the crimes that had been committed, including those first six months of our struggle, kept our forces intact and gained of workers who have been awakened by the Russian revolution. • answer the most important of all questions in politics—that is, against us, by the individuals in control of the administration of some new recruits. A t the first conference we consolidated our They are still loyal to the Comintern and to the Communist Party. the question of what to do next—then'the group, no matter what the Soviet Union. forces into a national organization, set up an elected leadership They haven’t attentively followed the process of gradual degenera­ its merits may otherwise be, can wear itself out in misdirected and defined our program more precisely. Our ranks were firm, de­ The Russian Question Always a Test tion. They haven’t unraveled the theoretical questions which are efforts and futile activities and come to g'rief. termined. We were poor in resources and very few in numbers, The trade union question had an extraordinary importance then at the bottom of this degeneration. It is impossible even to get a but we were sure that we had laid hold of the truth and that with So, as I said in mv opening remarks, our fate was determined as always. A t that time^it was particularly acute. The Communist hearing from these people unless you place yourself on the ground the truth we would conquer in the end. We came back to New in those early days by the answer wc gave to the question of the International, and the Communist parties under its direction and of the party, and strive not to destroy but to reform it, demanding York to begin the second stage of the struggle for the regeneration program and by the way we analyzed the tasks of the day. Our merit, control, after a long- experiment with right-wing opportunist politics, readmission to the party with democratic rights. of American Communism. as a newly created political force in the American labor movement had taken a big swing to the left, to ultra-leftism—a characteristic The fate of every political group—whether it is to live and manifestation of the bureaucratic centrism of the faction of Stalin. Fruits of the Correct Tactic —the merit which assured the progress, stability and further de­ grow or degenerate and die—is decided in its first experiences by Having lost the Marxist compass, they were distinguished by a the way in which it answers two decisive questions. velopment of our group— consisted in this, that we gave correct We solved that problem correctly by declaring ourselves a tendency to jump from the extreme right to the left, and vice versa. faction of the party and the Comintern. Wc named our organiza­ answers to both those questions. They had gone through a long 'experience with rightwing politics The Vital Importance of Program tion the Communist League of America (Opposition), in order to The conference didn’t take up every question posed by the in the Soviet Union, conciliating the kulaks and Nepmen, until the The first is the adoption of a correct political program. But indicate that we were not a new party but simply an opposition political conditions of the time. It took up only the most im­ Soviet Union, and the bureaucracy with it, came to the brink of that alone does not guarantee victory. The second is that the faction to the old one. Experience has richly demonstrated the cor­ portant questions, that is, those which had to be answered first. disaster. On the international arena, similar policies brought similar rectness of this derision. By remaining partisans of the Communist group decide correctly what shall be the nature of its activities, And the first of these was the Russian question, the question of results. In reacting to this, and under the relentless criticisms of and what tasks it shall set itself, given the size and capacity of Party and the Communist International, by opposing the bureau­ the revolution in existence. As I remarked in the previous lecture, the Left Opposition, they introduced an ultra-leftist overcorrection cratic leaders at the top, but appraising correctly the rank and the group, the period of the development of the class struggle, the ever since 1917 it has been demonstrated over and over again that in all fields. On the trade union question they swung around to file as they were at that time, and seeking contact with them, we relation of forces in the political movement, and so on. the Russian question is the touchstone fo r every political current the position of leaving the established unions, including the Amer­ If the program of a political group, especially a small political continued to gain new recrui's from the ranks of the Communist in the labor movement. Those who take an incorrect position on ican Federation of Labor, and starting a new made-to-order trade group, is false, nothing can save it in the end. It is just as impos­ workers. The overwhelming majority of our members in the first the Russian question leave the revolutionary path sooner or later. union movement under the control of the Communist Party. The sible to bluff in the political movement as in war. The only d iffer­ five years of our existence came from the CP. Thus we built the insane policy of building “ Red Unions” became the order of the day. foundations of a regenerated Communist movement. As for the ence is (hat in wartime things are brought to such a pitch that The Russian question has been elucidated innumerable times anti-Soviet and anti-party people, they never produced anything every weakness becomes exposed almost immediately, as is shown in articles, pamphlets and books. But at every important ¿urn. of Our first National Conference took a firm stand against that but. confusion. in one stage after another in the current imperialist war. The law events it arises again. As late as 1939 and 194/)' we had; tq fight policy, and declared in favor of operating within the existing labor operates just as ruthlessly in the political struggle. Bluffs do not the Russian question over again with a petty-bojirgeois. current in movement, confining independent unionism to the unorganized field. Out of this decision to form, at that time, a faction and not work. At most they deceive people for a time, but the main victims our own movement. Those who want to study tljp Russian Question We mercilessly attacked the revived sectarianism contained in this a new party, flowed another important and troublesome question of the deception, in the end, are the bluffers themselves. You must in all its profundity, all its acuteness and all it£ urgency ¡tan find theory of a new “ Communist” trade union movement created by which was debated and fought out at great length in our move­ have the goods. That is, you must have a correct program in abundant material in the literature of the Fourth International. artificial means. By that stand, by the correctness of our trade ment for five years—from 1928 until 1933. That question was: order to survive and serve the cause of the workers. Therefore I do not need to elucidate it in detail tonight. I simply union policy, we assured that when the time arrived for us to have What concrete task shall we set for this group of 100 people scat­ An example of the fatal result of a light-minded bluffing atti­ reduce it to its barest essentials and say that the question con­ some access to the mass movement we would know the shortest tered over the broad expanse of this vast country ? I f we constitute tude toward program is the notorious Lovestone group. Some of fronting us at our first convention was whether we should con­ route to it. Later events confirmed the correctness of the trade ourselves as an independent party, then we must appeal directly you who are new' to the revolutionary movement may never have tinue to support the Soviet state, the Soviet Union, despite the union policy adopted at our first conference and consistently main­ to the working class, turn our backs on the degenerated Communist heard of this faction which once played such a prominent role, in­ fact that the direction of it had fallen into the hands of a conserva­ tained thereafter. Party, and embark on a series of efforts and activities in the mass asmuch as it has disappeared completely from the scene. But in tive, bureaucratic caste. There were people in those days, calling The third big important question we had to answer was whether movement. On the other hand, if we are to be not an independent those days the people who constituted the Lovestone group were themselves and considering themselves revolutionary, who had party but a faction, then it follows that W'e must direct our main we should create a new independent party, or still consider our­ the leaders of the American Communist Party. It was they who broken with the Communist Party, or had been expelled from it, efforts, appeals and activities, not-to the mass of 40 m illion Amer­ carried through our expulsion, and when about six months later, and who wanted to turn their backs entirely on the Soviet Union selves a faction of the existing Communist Party and the Comintern. ican workers, but to the vanguard of the class organized in and they themselves were expelled, they began w ith fa r more numerous and what remained of the- Russian revolution and start over, with Here again we were besieged by people who thought they were around the- Communist Par'y. ic u can see how these two ausstions forces and resources than we did. They made a much more im­ a “clean slate” as an anti-Soviet party. We rejected that program radicals; ex-members of the Communist Party who had become dovetailed. In politics—and not only in politics—once you say “ A ” posing appearance in the first days. But they didn’t have a correct and all those who urged it on us. We could have had many mem­ completely soured and wanted to throw out the baby w ith the ycu must jay “ S.” We had to either turn our face towards the program and didn’t try to develop one. They thought they could bers in those days if we had compromised on that issue. We took dirty bath Water; syndicalists and ultra-leftist elements who. in Communist Party, or away from the Communist Party in the direc­ cheat history a little bit; that they could cut corners with principle a firm stand in favor of supporting the Soviet Union; of not over­ their antagonism to the Communist Party, were w illing to combine tion of the undeveloped, unorganized and uneducated masses. You and keep larger forces together by compromises on the program turning it, but of trying to reform if through the instruiaen!ality with anybody ready to create a party in opposition to it. More­ cannot cat your cake and have it too. : of the party and the Comintern. question. And they did for a time. But in the end this group, rich over, in our own ranks there were a few people who reacted subjec­ (To be continued) SATURDAY, AUGUST 18, 1945 THE MILITANT PAGE SEVEN

WIN AN ORIGINAL News Deliverers LAURA GRAY CARTOON! Gain Concessions Have you been following the trials and tribulations of the ‘‘poor rich” fam ily in Laura Gray’s feature cartoons on In WLB Decision Page 8 of The M ilitant? If you have, you most likely have A War Labor Board subcom­ your own pet name for this fam ily. The Militant is con­ mission meeting last week in ducting a contest to find the most appropriate descriptive Chicago awarded favorable deci­ The Workers’ Forum columns are open to the opinions of the readers of "The M ilita n t” name for them. sions on several of the demands Almost daily we receive com­ Letters are welcome on any subject of interest to 'th e workers. Keep them short and include of the New York News Deliverers munications from our literature Lie of German Guilt your name and address. Indicate if you do not want your name printed. Three originals of these feature cartoons, personally in­ Union which last month halted agents and readers all over the scribed to the winners by the cartoonist, will be awarded for distribution of 14 metropolitan country which show how power­ Further proof that Allied or of their skins and the form the three best names submitted. First choice of the originals newspapers in a 17-day strike. ful a force The M ilitant has be­ propaganda lies when it of their heads. But by the Eter­ will go to the first-place winner; second choice to the second- Other important demands are still come. An excellent illustration claims that the German peo­ ple supported Hitler, was pub­ nal, they shall come up to the place winner; third choice to the third-place winner. In case of to be acted upon by the WLB. is the following letter from San Urges Negroes To Cast Pedro: “ I want to affirm from lished in the British Evening rest of the human race as equals, ties, all who submit winning names will receive an original The WLB interim decision in­ not a downtrodden degraded being cluded the award of up to tWo- my own experience that The Standard, April 28. feature cartoon, by Gray. halfway between man and beast. week’s vacation for workers with Militant is a most powerful or­ “American troops clearing Votes For Trotskyists They are created humans, and A ll readers of The M ilita n t are eligible for the contest only one year’s seniority, time- ganizer. It makes us welcome out a pocket near the city of shall be such, in spirit and in and there is no lim it on the number of suggested names a and-a-half pay fo r six scheduled visitors in the homes of our read­ Wewelburg, miles behind the Editor: truth. But to try this building contestant may enter. Just send in your entries, clearly holidays, and retroactive pay ers. One of my contacts, who front,” the report states, “dis­ It is often said we are fighting this war fo r freedom, to up of nationalities and races is written on a sheet of paper, together with your full name from July 17. still held some respect for the covered a m ilitary installation give the world the rights God gave to them but were stolen not socialism. and address. Louis Waldman, attorney for Communist Party, wrote to her no one dreamed existed in by Germany and Japan. I like the term “ socialistic com­ A ll entries must reach The M ilita n t office, 116 Uni­ the union, stated: “ The decision father who is a union organizer Nazi Germany — a camp for conscientious objectors. It no doubt gives free people pleasure to know if their munism.” Sometimes when I am versity Place, New' York 3, N, Y. by August 31. Editors just made by the WLB Newspa­ in Richmond, Virginia, and sent blood must be given it is fo r freedom’s cause. The French, not too downhearted, I dream of per Commission is an important on a copy o f The M ilitant. The “How many people inhabit­ of The Militant w ill judge the contest and decide the win­ ed the camp is still unknown, Italians, Germans and others are now a happier people; Amer­ a time when my whole human step forward in the struggle of father wrote back instructions to ning entries. Their decision w ill be final. the union to improve the condi­ his daughter to attend every for only 41 men survived at ica sent her finest men to liberate them, her sons, black and race shall be free from all of capi­ talism’s eviis. When clean, hap­ tions and standards of the work­ meeting of the Socialist Workers the time it was discovered. It white, gave their lives for their freedom. py and healthy people shall liVte ers. These workers never had Party because the Trotskyists was operated by S. S. troops, man-power — some form of so­ this are forced to live on eggs Now I ask, who is going to free the Negro? I am afraid on this old planet of ours, as the vacations with pay, nor did they were the only element in the la­ and also served as a concen­ cialism. . . . and fish while others are getting the answer is the Negro; he must free himself. human race, not as this or that ever receive time-and-a-half for bor movement who showed prom­ tration camp and cremato­ “ There are those — Mr. not only their share but ours, too. Ask, if you dare, any Negro soldier what he is fighting race or nationality. When we work done on holidays.” ise of leading the American work­ rium.” Churchill is one — who believe I think it ’s a d irty shame the fo r; can he say to preserve the American way of life? Indeed shall not try to destroy each The remaining issues before ers to socialism. The father is socialism and civil liberty are in­ way some of us are forced to live the WLB include the union’s de­ a former Stalinist.” not. What is the American way of life for a Negro? other for financial gains, because compatible. It is foolish to dis­ without meat and butter and go have been taking The M ilitant to we shall all have what we need, mands for shorter hours, a $5 This is the American way of life for a Negro in a white miss that notion as nonsensical. around hungry, while food piles Oustanding Militant Army work with them and who want me world. Slavery in the modern manner in the South; low and we shall be content to let weekly wage increase, sick leave statistics this week place New to talk to a friend of theirs who is There is as yet little proof to up and spoils in storage, and pay and an employer contribu­ wages, poor housing throughout the country; insults from others have what they need. Be­ York among the high scores with enthusiastic about the paper. It the contrary. But if they are food-animals starve to death in tion equalling three per cent of such men as Bilbo, Eastland and Rankin. These are but a cause money in private hands incompatible, then the European the stockyards. eleven six-month, and one one- is almost an unending chain. One shall have lost its power. the payroll for a union welfare year subscription, also a one-year woman told me that when the very few of the ills of the American way of life for the dilemma cannot be solved in any Now we hear that cute little fund. During the strike, the I w ill see if I can scrape up a combination subscription to The first copy of The M ilitant arrived American Negro! synthesis; freedom or socialism Number Five ration books are be­ powerful Publishers Association dollar bill for the European M ilitant and the Fourth Inter­ lifte r she had subscribed fo r her Roosevelt tried to pretend to be a modem Abraham must perish, and I do not think ing made fo r us so that we can and War Labor Board had teamed cause, and Wish the best of luck national. San Francisco is also husband, he took it to work with it w ill be socialism.” live like this for another year! up in an attempt to smash the Lincoln but he fooled only the ignorant. He ignored the issues to the New York candidates. I 1 among the top scores w ith four him to show his buddies in the Alongside of her article appear­ We housewives are just going to union. The workers’ m ilitant so close to every Negro heart and died leaving the same hope that others Will do likewise. six-month and five one-year subs, miil. That night he told his wife ed a letter to the editor which love them; some of us are just stand for 17 days forced the em­ issues to be ignored by Truman. We really cannot even hope Many small dollars make a big in addition to one six-month and he fe lt all let down — all three protests bitterly against Wall going to go crazy over them! ployers and their government for any improvements now. pile. one one-year renewal and two of his friends were also subscrib­ Street’s aid to H itler and the cor­ I think that if we must con­ agency to retreat. The Negro people must realize now there is but one I also hope that Mrs. Carlson porations’ responsibility for war. tinue to live on rationing, our one-year combination subs. Min­ ers to The Militant and two of hope left and that is the Socialist Workers Party. How can can open the eyes of many, and “And today we hear rumors of points should be lowered so we neapolis records a one-year new them had brought their copies gather friends for your party, if we believe in any other when each new term brings worse big corporations just whetting can buy more food. The people subscription, a one-year renewal to work to show around. it is on the level, which I hope people to the highest offices in the government? their teeth for similar opportuni­ must eat. I hope we w ill be Patterson’s Wife and a one-year combination. New­ “ Another woman, in fact, sev­ it is, fo r your sake and the peo­ ark obtained three six-month and I want to urge every Negro worker to learn of this ties (to finance fascist states). vaken o ff rationing as soon as eral of them in this project tell ples.’ two one-year renewals. me there is lots of talk about our organization, read their literature, investigate their teach­ Have these men no conscience? possible; I believe that is the only M. M. Can they look at our young men way to end this food chiseling Expresses Thanks The cumulative totals of sub­ paper at the bus stop where the ings, and you w ill realize it is our last hope. Minneapolis returning minus legs and arms, business. PITTSBURGH, Pa. — Mrs. scriptions sent in during the men congregate on their way to On July 28, I visited The M ilitant at 116 University Place minus faces, and untold numbers Disgusted Housewife month of July by our friends and work. Most of the men pass the here in New York and had the privilege of meeting several William Patterson, wife of the of mental cases without feeling Homestead, Fa. miner who is in prison as the comrades nationally are very im ­ paper on to someone in the mill of the staff members. I was honored to meet these people Coal for Europe and I have a lot of M ilitant par­ the finger of scorn pointed at first victim of the Smith-Connally pressive. One hundred eighty tisans now to look up.” who are fighting such a noble fight for the Negro. Editor: them ? Truly the blood guilt fo r anti-strike law, has sent a letter one 6-month and 69 one-year I want to remind my people of the years 1929 to 1941 In the August 4 issue of The this war is on their heads as on Wartime Tragedy" of thanks to Eloise Black subscriptions were sent in, in ad­ and w ith those years in mind, investigate the Socialist W ork­ M ilitant, page 8, there appears H itler’s and his criminal accom­ Editor: Socialist Workers Party trail- dition to 67 six-month and 78 ers Party. When you have become aware of socialist teach­ an article entitled “ Ickes Plots plices.” It is too true that this is “ just blazer who recently visited her at one-year renewals, plus four one- WANTED year new combinations and 11 ings you will realize no other group offers so much for the Use of Coal to Stem Revolt in The juxtaposition of the ar­ another wartime tragedy,” as the Daisytown, Pa. , The M ilitant needs a set of the one-year combination renewals. Negro. Europe.” The article quotes ticle and the letter show a frame local papers called it, but perhaps “In this mornia^s mail,” the Encyclopedia Britannica for the Ickes as saying, “ the race in Eur­ of mind which is developing in you would publish it in The Mili­ We welcome these scores of new You have a vote here in New York City and I want every letter reads, ‘jB^Bceived your reference library of the editorial ope today is between coal and this country, I believe. tant. readers to the M ilitant Army, Negro man and woman to use it to the best advantage by Camel c ig a re tt^ J ^ - thank you department. W ill anyone willing anarchy,” and correctly indicates George Storen On August 3, the desperate, sick and extend a new welcome to the voting fo r the Socialist Workers Party; all others have very kindly and I am sure Willie to donate such a set please com­ that what Ickes means by an­ San Francisco young wife of a soldier shot her will enjoy them. host of old subscribers who have failed us. municate w ith: archy is working class revolution. 2% -year-old baby and tried to “ Some time next week his case renewed. I f we w ill unite and give our votes to the Socialist Work­ It further points out the real commit suicide because she was w ill be re-opened by his lawyer. The popularity of The M ilitant The Militant ers Party, the day w ill not be fa r away when men like East- “anarchy” is the capitalist “an­ Two Presidents afraid he would be “ kicked “ I thank you fo r every con­ among the workers in the Pitts­ Business Manager 116 University Place land, Bilbo, Rankin and other southern liars w ill be taught archy” which prevents the organ­ Editor: around” by relatives if she should sideration you have given him, burgh area is illustrated by a let­ New York 3, New York through experience the dignity of man regardless of his ization of Europe’s mines. As I look around, see and hear die. and any further help from you ter from Eloise Black: “I am color, race or creed. Unfortunately, m developing so many ideas about our great 'When she was told in the hos­ w ill be highly appreciated. Thank­ continually meeting workers who I want every reader of our Militant to make a friend a what is substantially correct, the “ Siamese tw in” presidents, they pital th^t her little son was dead, ing you again —• Mrs. William Mrs. Lopez said, “ A t least I know reader; give him your copy to read until he sees the light, article also says something that seem like suicide to me. We are Patterson. ” niy baby is safe now. I won’t then he too w ill get it weekly. We who are in the ligh t must is not only incorrect but outright in danger as long as they last. Comrade Black, forwarding reactionary and has absolutely no My neighbor told me the other have to worry about him any the letter to The Militant, adds, FIGHT FOR THIS PROGRAM: lead others from the darkness. As fo r myself, I am going place in a working class, let alone day that Roosevelt was the best more. ” “ I wish we could do m ore.” We to work without ceasing fo r our cause, because I have no revolutionary socialist, publica­ president we have had since our Her husband understood 1 the urge all union locals to come 1. Full employment and job security for all other hope. How can I? tion. Referring to coal that w ill states were organized. I told him wartime separation and strain to the support of Patterson, V. H. be sent and indicating that it that Roosevelt had failed to em­ that had driven his wife to kill victimized by the government for workers and veterans! New York w’ill go only to areas safe from ploy the people and instead of their child. “ Perhaps it’s just as ■his loyalty to the working class. A sliding scale of hours! Reduce the hours of work well Ronny didn’t live to grow up socialist revolution, the article taking industry out of the hands with no reduction in pay! De Leon and the SLR “ it was significant that Sen. Lis­ states: “ This means that the of the capitalists, the real rob­ and become cannon fodder, too,” ter Hill (D., Ala.), long a friend homes of union men in the United bers, he goes to Europe and he remarked bitterly. He had A rising scale of wages! Increase wages to meet the Editor: of organized labor, did not join States w ill be cold, so that the shoots down innocent women and just ¡been promised a medical Race Hate Flares increased cost of living! Daniel De Leon was a founder homes of scabs in Europe w ill children who don’t know what discharge—just too late. his former associates in this pro­ Operate all government-built plants under workers’ of the IWW, a man hated and ject.” This was fo r reasons of be warm.” it is all about. Mary Clark In New Zealand feared by that slimy, toady political expediency, because of This is a statement catering In other words, we draft men Akron, O. control! Gompers — a m ilitant unionist, the CIO-PAC support he had re­ to one of the most reactionary here, they draft men there; two The post-war economic crisis is a trade unionist who saw clearly ceived in his election, and not out and backward attitudes in this innocent armies stand up and k ill already sharpening in New 2. Independence of the trade unions from the historic task of the unions. of friendship for labor. country. The capitalist reaction­ each other fo r the sake of profit Zealand, breeding race-hate. Ac­ the government! But who today fears the Social­ The liberals and labor leaders ary press has been steadily harp­ fo r the few. I told my opponent cording to a recent dispatch from ist Labor Party ? Who has heard would like to have the workers ing that we should not send “ the that if someone had to be shot to Wellington, returning war vet­ Rescind the no-strike pledge! of Arnold Peterson ? Where is believe that one of the capitalist bread out of our mouths to aliens tavor me, I would not call him Pioneer erans have launched a campaign Withdraw union representatives from the W ar Labor the economic organization of the politicians they backed has really abroad.” a very good president; all he had for the expulsion of all enemy Board! present-day SLP ? How long has turned out to be a “friend of la­ I t is of course true as the ex­ done was invite his “ friends” to aliens, including Jewish refugees it been since it has participated bor.” But H ill, a Southern Dem­ perience of the last war and this commit suicide. who arrived there after 1939, and 3. Organization of the Mar veterans by the in the class struggle? ocratic “white supremacist’” who have already shown, that the im­ The Bible says “ fre t not, worry Notes urged that their property be con­ Where are all, Oh, wisest seers, voted against the FEPC, cannot perialist states intend and do use not over evil-doers, fo r in a little fiscated . trade unions! And where the SLP of other be so listed even with respect to food as a weapon of “ conform or time they are cut o ff.” They have Two letters this week from The Jewish refugees have point­ years ? the Ball-Burton-Hatch bill. else.” But it is fantastic and re­ used the church. I f the people the West Coast branches indicate ed out that they cannot return to 4. Full equality for Negroes and national In the Socialist Workers Party, Germany because, that country, As the N. Y. Times, June 21, actionary to identify the workers are not on the road to hell, I will the effects of the British elections minorities! Down with Jim Crow! in the international Trotskyist reported: “ The three Senators who may get a pitiful allotment have to study my catechism over. on the American labor movement. now occupied by Allied victors, is movement. still infested with anti-Jewish (Ball, Burton and Hatch) said of food or coal as “scabs,” to They have chosen the blind to Our Los Angeles agent w rites: Yes, the inverted Stalinists, the hatred. The reactionary policy of that Senator Hill, the fourth in make no attempt to separate lead, and those with itching ears “ The effect of the British elec­ 5. Working class political action! anti-De Leonist leadership of the the B2H2 quartet, was ‘in these workers from their capi­ to turn the truth into fables. And tions on the local labor move­ the veterans’ group is fostered by Build the independent labor party I present-day SLP can’t see the the British Government, which in thorough accord with the bill but talist rulers, or as is implied, to for this same cause, God w ill ment is profound. Reports from Establish the workers’ and farmers’ government! looming shadow of the Fourth a White Paper declared that im ­ did not have time to help blame them for defeat and iden­ send them strong delusions that all sources show that the work­ International, but more and more migrants will not be permitted in draft it’.” tify them with reaction. This they may all believe a lie that ers are more aroused over this 6. Tax the rich, not the poor! rank and file SLP’ers can. I for Canada or New Zealand “ until A rt Preis falls in the same category as they all may be damned who take than most any other topic of the one. Let’s see some of De Leon’s returning servicemen are home No taxes on incomes under $5,000 a year! New York City those who identify Nazism with pleasure in unrighteousness. day... We can report that 15 co­ writings in The M ilitant, and the and settled.” the German working class. L. B. Courts pies of American Workers Need slogan “ Industrial Republic — 7. A working class answer to capitalist mili­ On the contrary we demand Hamilton, 0 a Labor Party were sold at a The Workers’ Government.” Pub­ On Discrimination that not only coal be sent to Eur­ street comer meeting last week. tarism ! lish in The M ilitant the contents Editor: ope and all the devastated The 300 just received w ill sell Read: M ilitary training of workers, financed by the govern­ of the six leaflets withdrawn from I would like to say a few The Rationing System areas, but food, medicine, etc. be like hot cakes we know...” ment, but under control of the trade unions! circulation by the SLP out of fear words, or many, about discrimin­ sent everywhere, and indiscrim­ Editor: From San Francisco; “ Please Trade union wages for all workers in the armed forces! of the capitalist jails, and preced­ ation. There is only one group inately; and so that we can be I am so nervous and upset over ing each one, place De Leon’s send us 100 copies of the Labor The life story of a great of people in this country which sure of this, that the sending of this food-shortage and the ration­ Party pamphlet. We find our 8. Hands off the European and colonial peo­ “ The Party Stand.” Then let is discriminated against, the Ne­ this material aid be under work­ ing system that I don’t care to revolutionist and the them call us reformists! sales increasing and want to have gro people. To mention Jews, ers’ control — that is, trade union live any more. I can’t buy any­ more on hand.” » power of his ideas, in ples! R. S. Catholics, Mexicans and other thing to eat with my points, ex­ control. American Workers Need a La­ Withdraw the Allied Occupation Troops from Europe! Bellaire, O groups in a class with them is sim­ Henry Martin cept lard and oleo and four points bor Party by Joseph Hansen LEON TROTSKY ~ Solidarity with the revolutionary struggles of the ply humbug. And besides, neither New York worth of lunch meat or cheese, analyzes the basic-need of Amer­ the Negroes nor the Catholics are to pack one lunch for my hus­ ican labor for a political voice European and colonial peoples! Editor’s Note — Our corres­ Ball-Burton-Hatch really a minority. They are many. band. I can’t buy any meat for of its own; traces the growth of What about the Irish, Finns, pondent is correct. The passage a meal, not even fo r our Sunday Memorial Address Anti-Labor Bill to which he objects was unfortu­ the “ two-party” system which Syrians, Danes, Norwegians, supper! up to now, has kept a vast ma­ nate. Due to great pressure on "To the Memory Editor: Spaniards, Icelanders, and all the I t would be different if we jo rity of the population from ever the copy desk it got by the cen­ Please convey my thanks to J. others who are real minorities ? didn’t have the food, but we do, exercising its political strength Join the Socialist Workers Party! sorious eye of the editor. We D. of Reading, Pa., fo r calling They don’t ask any special privi­ and plenty of it. But it ’s rationed in its own interests. Hansen also of the Old Man" hereby make amends and promise SOCIALIST WORKERS PARTY iittention to the error in my ar­ leges. When people shook the old on too many points. The OPA answers the argument so often ticle which listed Senator H ill as world, and came to this country, greater vigilance henceforth. keeps promising us more meat, 116 University Place advanced by workers that “ poli­ by New York 3. New York one of the formal sponsors of the they should have le ft more than but then raises the point value tics is d irty business, we want Ball - Burton - Hatch “ Industrial their poverty. I have often and we get less instead. A little no part of it,” when he says: Peace” Bill. H ill has been re­ thought that it was too bad that War Criminals more than a month ago, they told “ Politics is fa r more than a mere James P. Cannon I would like: peatedly associated with the this nation did not formulate a Editor: us housewives that we would find struggle over ‘spoils of office.’ other three senators in the spon­ religion for all those who came I am enclosing an article by more meat on the butchers’ coun­ □ To join the Socialist Workers Party. The truth is, that basically con­ 16 pp 5 cents sorship of legislation. They earn­ here to make the USA their fu ­ Dorothy Thompson which appear­ ters. A t the same time, they sidered, politics is the struggle to Q] To obtain further information about your organization. ed the title of the “ B2H2 Quar­ ture home leaving all the tyran­ ed August 2, in the San Francisco raised the point value on oleo and control the destiny of the nation.” tet.” W riting under great press­ nic beliefs of the past behind Chronicle — an independent paper 17 other red-point foods! This brief, well illustrated | | To attend meetings and forums of the Socialist Work­ ure, I permitted this association them. which is considered “ liberal.” This doesn’t look as if the gov­ pamphlet is one which should be ers Party in my city. to slip into the article. The Negroes were brought here Dorothy Thompson says in ernment’s trying to fight the on every worker’s bookshelf. However, I wish to point out to be slaves, and were denied edu­ part, “ The discerning mind can black market dealers. It looks that Hill was one of the chief cation and opportunity, in a fa r observe in the resistance move­ more like they are trying to help N a m e ...... PIONEER PUBLISHERS behind-the-scenes backers of the different way from other immi­ ments of all countries, where the black market make a big pro­ American Workers Need a La­ (Please Print) bill, although the liberal and la­ grants. They have purposely alone dynamic social forces are at fit on us. As long as we don’t bor Party by Joseph Hansen, 15c. 116 University Place bor press have tried to spread been kept down, in ignorance and work, tw in movements, and tw in have the points to buy food, we Order from Pioneer Publishers, Address...... the misinformation that he was poverty, so as make them a low yearnings — the yearning for must depend on dealers to give New York 3, N. Y. 116 University Place, N. Y. 3 not. The New York daily, PM, caste of untouchables. They are freedom, and fo r an integrated it to us point-free at a high price. C ity ...... Postal Zone .... S ta te ...... June 21, wrote, fo r instance, that discriminated against for the col- and planned use of resources and Many of us who can’t afford N. Y. PAGE EIGHT T H E MILITANT SATURDAY, AUGUST 18, 1945

gress passed “ reconversion” legislation ensuring the war contractors against loss o f profits in war con­ tract terminations. It provided the agencies and THE MILITANT methods for turning government-built plants over PROBLEMS FACING Published in ' he interests of the to the monopolies as virtual gifts. It guaranteed the Working People big corporations “ normal profits” for years after the war through tax rebates and similar treasury WAR VETERANS Vol. IX—No. 33 Saturday. August 18, 1945 handouts. ------By CHARLES CARSTEN------

P ub lish e d W e e k l y '>v But what of the workers who will be tossed out THE MILITANT PUBLISHING ASS’N of the plants by the millions in the next few weeks? Pending Legislation on Veteran at 116 University Place, New York 3, N. Y. Congress brushed aside every proposal, however Employment Telephone: ALgonquin 4-8547 feeble and inadequate, for maintaining fu ll em­ Almost 3,000 bills having as their ostensible goal FARRELL DOBBS, Managing Editor ployment or providing unemployment compensa­ the enlargement or definition of benefits fo r veterans tion and relief. When Rayburn said lie “ saw no THE MILITANT follows the policy of permit­ have been introduced in Congress. One bill introduced need” for quickly reconvening Congress, what he ting its contributors to present their own views hy Harold Knutson, Republican of Minnesota, is in signed articles. These views therefore do not meant was that he saw no need for Congress to emerging importantly. The purpose of the bill, ac­ necessarily represent the policies of THE M IL I­ undertake any immediate measures in the interests cording to Charles Hurd, specialist on veteran af­ TAN T which are expressed in its editorials. of the toilers. To the Rayburns, who dominate and fairs, w riting in the July 22 issue of the N. Y. Times, run Congress, the desperate needs of the workers is to provide “opportunities to millions of young Subscriptions: $1.00 per year; 50c for 6 months. involve no “ pressing tasks.” prospective veterans who did not have jobs before Foreign: $2.00 per year, $1.00 for 6 months. the war.” Bundle orders: 3 cents per copy in the United Under provisions of this bill ar.y veteran Seeking States; 4 cents per copy in all foreign countries. employment where seniority is a controlling factor Single copies: 5 cents. would receive seniority credit fo r the time spent in “ Entered as second class matter March 7, 1944 Detroit Points Way service, plus credit for one and one-half days’ time at the post office at New York, N. Y., under for each sixth day of service and double time for the act of March 3, 1879.” UAW -CIO Vice President Richard Franken- each holiday. steen’s victory in the Detroit mayoralty primary on This additional time credit is offered, by Represent­ August 7 is striking testimony to the growing de­ ative Knutson, as compensation to the veteran for Only the world revo­ sire of the organized workers for genuine independ­ the overtime pay received by civilians during the lution can save the ent labor political action. war. Prior to the election, the capitalist press had USSR for socialism. But The Veterans of Foreign Wars recently endorsed predicted that the primary vote would be very this bill. “ This action,” Hurd asserts, “ automatically the world revolution small. After the election, they commented with “ But don*t you think tee bombed Japan in a truly Christian manner? — gave it sufficient importance to assure serious con­ carries with it the ines­ alarm at the unexpected turnout of CIO workers ive tvere very careful not to hit the really IMPORTANT people! '’ sideration.” He believes it w ill reach the stage of from the plants to give Frankensteen an even high­ debate when the house convenes after its recess. capable blotting out of (See Cartoon Contest, Page 7) er vote than incumbent Mayor Jeffries received. In what way does this bill differ from labor’s pro­ the Krem lin oligarchy. Anyone fam iliar with the views of the Detroit posals? Organized labor has recognized the lim ita­ — Leon Trotsky Auto workers knows they consider Frankensteen tions of the re-employment section of the Selective far from an ideal candidate. They certainly did Service Act which deals only w ith men who had permanent employment before they were drafted. not support him because of his record as a labor In order to provide benefits fo r veterans who wish leader, his policies in the union nor his political to change their jobs or seek new. employment, the program. Indeed, Frankensteen's opposition to m ili­ CIO, A F L and Railroad Brotherhoods established a tant policies, his public attacks on striking work­ “ commissars,” setting an ex­ ed as “ capitalists” and their Japan’s Defeat France ample for the rest of Italy. homes looted of their few posses­ joint policy urging the granting of seniority for time ers, his servility before the corporation and gov­ An example of the manner in Japanese imperialism’s bid for domination of all Since the “liberation,” unem­ sions. Huge quantities of food spent in the armed forces after the veteran has been ernment officials have earned him the contempt which anti-Negro prejudice has ployment in the industrial cities have been requisitioned. Some of employed and after he has completed the probation­ eastern Asia lias ended in m ilitary catastrophe, as been transplanted to Europe by of the bulk of the Detroit auto workers. is increasing as raw materials this food is being sold to the rich ary period in effect in the plant. the Trotskyists always predicted it would. Back in the American brass hats is Nevertheless, with sound class instincts, the De­ diminish. The. workers are Viennese in return fo r objects of Labor’s policy automatically gives veterans, who 1934, in the thesis oil War and the Fourth Interna­ disclosed in the French daily Le demanding higher pay to meet value in the “ open-air black- troit workers cast their votes for Frankensteen, Soir, published in Marseille. secure jobs in plants operating under union contracts tional, the Trotskyists stated that “ behind this fantastic living costs. Moreover, market of considerable propor­ not as an individual, but as a representative of “ Young women of Marseille, be containing such provisions, three or four years sen­ greedy aggressiveness (of the Japanese imperial­ “ day and night on Ita ly’s high­ tions.” the labor movement, as an independent labor can­ careful,” suggests the writer, ways and railroads, tired, untidy Austrian workers were more iority. With union control of this “imputed seniority” ists) there are but few real forces. Japan may be didate in opposition to all the capitalist candidates. Marguerite Polgy, posing a and ill-fed men, women and chil­ shocked hy the waste and destruc­ employers cannot use it to replace union militants “ delicate question.” She repeats the first to give the signal to war; but from semi- They thereby registered their strong sentiment for dren, repatriated soldiers and tion than even by the looting. with veterans, nor can they use it to break union feudal Japan, torn by' all the contradictions that all the vicious Jim-Crow slanders German slave labor stream home­ Much of the machinery taken contracts. class politics as against the old “ company union­ against the Negroes; that they beset Czarist Russia, sooner than from other coun­ ward . ” away was destroyed, either be­ Under provisions of the Knutson bill, on the other ism” in politics. are “ crap shooters, knife wield- The frightened Italian capital­ cause it was not needed or be­ tries, the call to revolution may sound.” hand, the veteran would have the seniority before This sentiment will unquestionably be reinforc­ ers, street-corner loafers” and ists point out that these semi- cause its use was not understood. These words were written by Leon Trotsky, the ed by terrible, economic blows. For the end of the bad fellows generally. starved people niay join the This happened to small plants as even applying for the job he is qualified to hold. great founder of the Fourth International, the an­ The Pittsburgh Courier of Aug. war means layoffs^H ^he hundreds of thousands revolution against them when well as large ones. Machines were Seniority earned through service in the armed forces niversary of whose death we mark in this issue. 4 states bluntly: “ These slander­ would become a matter of law. in Detroit — “nif^^^ftys of unpredictable hell,” winter comes. They “ make no ripped from their bearings and In 1938, at the founding conference of the Fourth ous attacks on the Negroes... hones” about their fears, aroused smashed w ith sledge hammers or I f the employer decided a veteran was qualified, as one UAW officenKrt it. arc expressive of American and by the possibility that AMG may thrown out of the window. he could hire the veteran to replace any non-veteran International, a thesis was adopted on The War Inevitably, the Detroit workers will carry for­ not French opinion. Whether in in the Far Fast and the Revolutionary Perspectives. withdraw from Italy on Sept. 1. with less seniority regardless of provisions in the ward the program of independent labor political England, France, Australia or They know that only the Allied Here on the basis of a Marxian analysis of Japan’s Germany, simple, human contacts Algeria union contract. Needless to say employers would find action, not only in the sense of supporting indi­ forces can preserve their rule. veterans qualified to fill the jobs of union militants. social structure.and international position, the T rot­ become very ‘delicate questions’ In the second ballot of the vidual labor candidates, but in the creation of a Since seniority under the Knutson bill would he skyists predicted that "Japanese imperialism w ill in the eyes of Americans and Algerian municipal election, ac­ genuine labor party with a fighting program. ihey set out to try to stop such Austria cording to the London Radio of reckoned on the basis of an eight and a half day go down to defeat in the coming world war if its The best way for the Detroit workers to lay the fraternization i f possible.” In the name of “ liberation,” Aug. 8, the left-wing resistance week for each of the weeks spent in the armed forces, career is not brought to a speedier end by the basis for a labor party is by mobilizing all forces An American army officer in Stalin apes his imperialist allies organization, Trance Oombattant, veterans would have approximately 130 days a year has won a decisive majority, proletarian revolution.” for the election of Frankensteen and the CIO-PAC France admitted that “ few peo­ in ravishing and destroying con­ 1 more seniority than non-veteran workers. Press dispatches on Japan's internal situation ple in France know that Amer­ quered countries, “ enemy” and winning 28 seats out of a total of The veteran “ qualified” to take a job could demand candidates for the city council next November. 21‘. In the tremendous leftward suggest very clearly that the country is on the ican Negroes live under laws d if­ “ a lly” alike. A delayed dispatch that he be considered on the basis of the time he spent An overwhelming victory for the Detroit labor can­ ferent from those in France, for sweep, “ women and Arabs were verge of a revolutionary crisis. A Tokyo broadcast to the N. Y. Times on Aug. 7 in the armed forces. didates w ill arouse American labor everywhere and here there is no race problem... reveals that when the Russian voting for the first time.” said that "disturbances” occurred in the capital Employers believe that veterans without previoiiift help inspire an irresistable movement for a nation­ Put in America... every white soldiers occupied Vienna and The decisive defeat of the Con­ when Japan’s offer of surrender was first announc­ servative group w ill have a union experience w ill be hostile to the unions. They wide labor party. American sucks it in with his ether Austrian cities they began ed and that the disturbances were “ suppressed." mother’s m ilk.” a wholesale looting and removal profound effect upon the French hope to be able to use the veterans as a battering There were no details. An answer to the slander came of Austrian productive machinery. elections this fall, where the ram against the unions. The Knutson b ill provides middle class Radical - Socialist legal covering, in the guise of “ benefits” for veterans, During the early part of this week, while Japan’s from Corp. Percy de Freitas of In Vienna alone ten large Brooklyn, N. Y. He wrote plants have already been stripped Party has heretofore allied itself for their union-busting plan. surrender was being debated by the ruling class, Madame Polgy on July 2: “ It is of their machinery and 11 others with the Conservative groups in The huge volume of legislation providing benefits the Tokyo radio broadcast frantic appeals to the Still Against Strikes unfortunate that the virus of have lost almost all. Scores of many North African communities. fo r veterans and the support given the Knutson b ill The DeGaulle regime is unable people to remain “ united” and to await the com­ American race prejudice has smaller plants have also been by the Veterans of Foreign Wars make it seem erupted amidst the French people to crush or divert the leftward mands of the Emperor. The Tokyo Shimbun warn­ Upon the news of Japan’s surrender offer, CIO stripped. A il cars and trucks, highly plausible that such legislation will find strong at this tim e ... German defeat with few exceptions, have been swing of the Algerian masses. ed the people against discussing past developments. President Philip M urray and A F L President W il­ support in Congress. was accomplished because of Nazi confiscated and not returned. Unemployment, famine and dis­ “ It should be borne in mind,” the paper said, “ that liam Green ' rushed into print with statements. racism and any country which Poor workers have been denounc- ease, plus the repressive measures such discussions might lead to a fatal dissension American labor confronts desperate problems, dras­ encourages race hatred w ill suffer of the French imperialist rulers, among our people, leading to a fatal internal split.” tic wage slashes, vast unemployment, corporation a similar fate. drove the natives to revolt last The Japanese people, tortured on the rack of war union-busting. But on these matters, M urray and “ All- the sacrifices of this war May. DeGaulle sent French Big War Profiteer Poses for 14 long years, are ready to settle accounts with Green had essentially nothing to say. w ill have been in vain if the race armed forces, flying American planes, to bomb the rebellious the imperialist gangsters who rule their country. If They spoke emphatically of the thing closest to question is permitted to ruin the opportunity fo r liberty and accord masses, inflicting more than 10,- As a “ Philanthropist” they are left alone, there can be no doubt that their hearts — their abject fear that the end of among all the peoples of the 000 casualties. This electoral they w ill sw'eep away the rotted semi-feudal, semi­ the war and the dislocation of American economy world. Almost all Negro Amer­ Q: What is the Hague Con­ victory shows that the Algerian Alfred P. Sloan, head of General Motors Corpora­ capitalist ruling class and set their feet on the revo­ might be the occasion for a m ilitant wave of labor ican soldiers are happier in vention, and did the Allies violate masses are fa r from subdued and tion which has reaped nearly a billion dollars in ad­ lutionary road that leads to socialism. struggle. They hastened to assure the employers France from the standpoint of it in using the atomic bomb? are prepared to struggle to throw mitted profits out of the bloody debauchery of the the imperialist parasites o ff their That is why the Allied imperialists have "agreed” that they could be counted on to continue their freedom than they ever were in A: The Hague Convention is a imperialist war, announced via the fro n t page pub­ their own country. Racial propa­ document signed at the Second backs. licity of leading metropolitan dailies on August 8 a to “ permit” the Emperor to remain at the head [tblicies of capitulation. ganda has had no success in International Peace Conference grant of $4,000,000 for a Sloan-Kettering Institute for of the state under orders of their own Supreme Green pledged that “ V-J Day w ill not mean an Australia, England and even in in 1907, at the Hague. I t states: Germany Cancer Research in New York City. automatic ending of restraint on strikes.” Although Commander. They intend to use the Japanese mon­ Italy. Let us hope that it will “ seeing that, while seeking means Dortmund, second city of Ger- The N. Y. Times, fo r instance devoted two whole also fa il in France. Quo vadis? archy, as they have used the Italian monarchy, to formally the no-strike pledge was supposed to end to preserve peace . . . it is like­ many’s great industrial heart, columns to this philanthropic gesture, replete with Be careful! Perhaps H itler is not wise necessary to bear in mind prevent the Japanese people from taking their with the termination of the war, he would not in­ the Ruhr Valley, typifies the suitable photographs of the donors and other in­ dead!” fate into their own hands. Hirohito. hitherto the terpret the word termination “too rigidly.” the case where the appeal to arms savage destruction heaped upon has been brought about,” it was terested parties. Elsewhere in the Times could be tool of the m ilitarist-im perialist ruling clique in M urray asserted that the CIO leaders w ill not the workers of Germany by their read the details of how the government mobilized the Italy the purpose of the Convention in Allied conquerors. Before the Japan, is now slated to become the puppet of the permit any "rash of strikes” and that “ no change “ the interests of humanity” to finest scientific brains, the greatest industrial organ­ The industrialists and bankers war, Dortmund had great coal counter-revolutionary Allied conquerors. w ill be made in the CIO’s no-strike policy until “ revise the general laws and cus­ mines and steel works and thou­ izations and expended $2-billions to perfect the fiend­ the entire matter has been explored and the mat­ in northern Ita ly are quaking in toms of war . . . confining them ish atomic bomb. fear of an Italian revolution, ac­ sands of manufacturing plants. ter submitted to the executive board." within such limits as would mit­ Repeatedly bombed by the Naturally, the whole $4,000,000 will not be spent cording to an Aug. 9 dispatch igate their severity as far as all at once. Sloan carefully explained, toward the While Green exercizes his notable "restraint” and from Milan. They say that the Allies, then flooded when the possible.” end of the story, that it w ill be expended over a period Voice O f Capitalism Murray is busy “exploring,” what are the.workers Partisans in Ita ly have sur­ Mohne Dam was smashed, the Article 22, Section 2, chapter 1 city of Dortmund is half destroy­ rendered less than 50 percent of of 10 years, thus, in his words, permitting a “ pro­ supposed to do when the employers try to cut their of the Convention states that ed . Twelve hundred bombs hit its Just one day before the first Japanese offer to the weapons and ammunition they gram of maximum intensity.” unions to pieces, break contracts, fire the best m ili­ “the right of belligérants to sewage system alone, paving the surrender precipitated an economic crisis in Amer­ possessed and are prepared, to Nevertheless, the general public has been given tants, impose wage cuts? adopt means of injuring the ica, Representative Rayburn, the Speaker of the “ turn their weapons against way for epidemics of disease. Its another capitalist press picture of the big-hearted enemy IS NOT U N LIM ITED .” industrial wealth is more than During the war, the Greens and Murrays clamp­ factory owners and the rich multi-millionaires who are just pouring out lavish House, informed reporters at his home in Texas Article 25 of the same section half destroyed. According to an ed the no-strike policy on the unions under the generally.” The AMG ordered that he. “ saw no need” for r&jonvening Congress. says that “ the attack or bombard­ Aug. 7 dispatch from Dortmund, wealth in sheer generosity and overflowing humani- not only all arms and ammunition According to the Associated Press report, "he pretext of patriotism and in support of the capital­ ment, by whatever means, of today’s industrial employment tarianism to aid mankind. to be turned in, but even cameras, ist "war effort.” Now they reveal that their op­ towns, villages, dwellings or figures are like these: For big business moguls like Sloan such publicity added that Congress already had disposed of much field-glasses, etc. position to strikes, whether in “ peace” or in war buildings which are undefended “A roofing felt firm, 30 work­ alone is worth a lot more than the outlay of $4,000,000, legislation directed toward reconversion and un­ According to the May 26 Man­ IS PROHIBITED.” ers; a wire rope firm, 8 workers; which Genera] Motors averages weekly in net profits. less something unforeseen arose Congressional work has the same character. It is brCd-in-the-bone cow­ chester Guardian, the liberation Thus the United States did a timber board plant, 26 workers; ardice and servility to the emplbyers. of Northern Italy took place with Actually, these “ gifts” don’t cost the capitalists was abreast of pressing tasks.” violate both the expressed pur­ a grain sack repairing firm, 35 Fortunately, the union ranks in the past months “ lightning speed.” The Nazis pose and the specific prohibitions a thing. As Ferdinand Lundberg demonstrated in Not 24 hours later, on August 10, the first in­ workers; a bridge construction his “America’s 60 Families,” the “control of the have been demonstrating on picket lines from coast fled before the powerful action of the Convention. The excuse firm, 50 workers.” timation that the war would quickly end inspired of the Partisans even before the foundation investment portfolios, consisting of stocks to. coast that M urray and Green w ill have little that Japan was not a signatory, Some 350,000 of Dortmund’s a nation-wide wave of plant shutdowns, produc­ Allied troops took over. The and bonds of corporations dominated by the respective is false. The United States, Great normal 570,000 population are tion cutbacks'and mass layoffs. From Washington success in attempting to reshackle labor for the Allied armies found “ Milan, Britain, and Japan were all sig­ back. They have returned to donors, has been retained by the donors through duration — of the "peace." Turin, Genoa, Spezia and 70 other .officials came the ominous admission that any­ natories. ruined industry, devastated homes, special, complicated charter provisions. northern Italian towns had 1 * * * where from 5,000,000 to 8,000,000 workers would unemployment, hunger and dis­ “By allocating funds to philanthropies, it should liberated themselves.” The Par­ be out of jobs within 90 days to six months. O; How many women mined ease. “ Despite such circum­ also be noticed the persons that retain control over tisans preserved their own work­ trade unions in the United States Yet Rayburn, who accurately reflects the views stances,” says the dispatch, “ Dort­ these philanthropic funds have evaded. payment of Vote Trotskyist! shops from sabotage and public during the war? mund is in relatively good shape and sentiments of most Congressmen, could bland­ u tility services were saved from A Over 2,000,000. The nuns- inheritance and income taxes... the philanthropist among the R i^ r’s desolated com­ has actually increased his financial power by placing ly1 insist that Congress is “ abreast of pressing tasks” for attempts to blow them up. ber of women in unions increased munities.” and has "disposed of much legislation” to keep What terrifies the Italian from 860,000 before the war, to income as well as capital in personality controlled DOBBS & SIMPSON philanthropic funds.” production going and prevent wholesale unem­ capitalists is the fact that in about three million at the peak Turin the factories were taken of wartime production. In a third Ask Your ShopixuMc - Whatever discoveries are made by thes* foundations ployment and destitution. In the Coming over altogether by workers’ com­ of the unions, women constituted lo Subscribe to are turned into monopoly profits, as in Lie ease oiJ The only "pressing task” Congress undertook in N. Y. ELECTIONS mittees. 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