Tammany Boss Rules t h e MILITANT PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE INTERESTS OF THE WORKING PEOPLE Ballot Ban Vol. XX - No. 42 267 NEW YORK, N. Y., MONDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1956 Price 10 Cents By Daniel Roberts On Oct. 5, the boss o f Tammany H all, Carmine De- Sapio, who is also the New York Secretary of State, ruled the Socialist Workers Party off the ballot. DeSapio acted through Barnett J. Nova, his E x -^ ecutive Deputy. Nova had pre­ SWP Candidate for Governor of sided over an administrative Michigan, in this issue.) Earlier Dobbs Appeals for AFL-CIO hearing (reported in last week’s this year, the liberal Democratic Militant) of challenges to the Administration arbitrarily ruled BWiP nominating petitions and the SWP off the Michigan ballot to similar petitions of the Social­ c(n a technicality. ist Labor Party. Nova upheld the •Once before, in 1946, the Dem­ challenges, although attorneys ocratic Party illegally knocked fo r both parties proved them to the SWP o ff the ballot in New be permeated with fraud. , York. The SWP fought its way Aid to Negro Bus-Boycotters The Socialist Workers Party back in 1948, 1950, 1952 and i$ now investigating possibilities 1964. of legal action against the high­ Once before, in 1952, the etate Women Farrñers Protest Gov’t Farm Policy handed decision of the New York Administration in Michigan, party chief. In fighting for the high-handedly ruled tie SWP off Tallahassee Officials democratic right of a minority the ballot. The iSWP fought back party to be represented on the there and then, too. I t won its ballot, the SWP is struggling for rights again during the very the American people’s rig h t to same year. It had taken the ban Harass Leaders of free elections. to court and challenged the no­ “ The presence on the ballot of torious witch-hunting Trucks law minor partV candidates would under whose provisions the ban afford voters the chance to cast had been imposed. Anti-Jim Crow Fight a protest vote,” said Arp Sharon, The iSWP will keep on fighting SVi(P campaign manager in a with all the resources at its com­ By Art Sharon OCT. 8 — F a rre ll Dobbs, Socialist Workers P arty statement to the press following mand fo r its right, and that of SWP Campaign Manager candidate for President today released the text of a letter the ruling. “ DeSapio’s method of every other political party, to a < dealing with this is simply to place on the ballot. Continuing response to the TV urging the National Union Civil Rights Committee to give deprive voters of such a chance. and radio appearances of Far­ immediate financial aid to the^“" In his secret dreams, the Demo­ rell Dobbs and Myra Tanner leaders of the Tallahassee bus Weiss, our candidates for Presi­ cratic Secretary of (State possi­ boycott movement arrested by dent and Vice-President, under­ bly envisions the perfect election racist authorities Oct. 5. The Ne­ in which the Republicans, too, scores the fact that there is a have been thrown o ff the ballot.” real audience in this country for gro community in Tallahassee “ This, of course, is not possi­ a m ilitant socialist program. As through its organization, the In­ ble now; but the unconstitutional, of this w riting, we have receiv­ ter-Civic Council, has been con­ ed 1,210 responses to these broad­ dishonest manner in which he ducting a boycott of the Jim has thrown the SWP and SLP casts. They come from every sec­ Crow bus system since May 26. o ff the ballot is a step along the tion of the country. (See page path because of its damaging two.) The National Union Civil Rights precedents for the right of a A ll of those w riting in for in­ Committee was established 'by a free ballot and free elections. For formation are being mailed plat­ number of major unions last forms and sample copies of the this reason, all those who believe May to support the struggle for in defending the right to vote Militant elaborating the SWP Negro equality. Do'bb’s letter is should aid the minority parties stand. Already 34 subscriptions Fed up with promises, and hard pressed by a lowering of potato prices, 200 women farmers in the fight to regain their hard- have been received from those arc placing their demands before the Agricultu-o Department in Washington. addressed to AFL-CIO President earned place on the N.Y. ballot.” receiving such copies. The 1956 Socialist Workers Party platform calls for "a federal farm program to guarantee George Meany, chairman of the Meanwhile, we have a report the cost of production on all farm commodities to working farmers. . . No lim itation on crops In Michigan, too, the SWP is committee arrd Garment Workers from our Twin Cities campaign so long as a single person remains hungry. . .Low cost, long term government credits to small waging a fight over the right to Union President David Dubinsky, vote freely. It will test in the committee describing t'he excel­ farmers for modernization. . . ” For a free co y of the platform write to: SWP, 116 Univer­ courts the legality of a recent lent response to the campaigning sity Place, New York 3, N. Y. the committee’s treasurer. The ruling by the Michigan Secretary of Dabbs in that area, Oct. 2-6. full text of the Dobbs letter fo l­ of State banning write-in votes Well-attended public meetings lows. fo r President and Vice-President. were arranged for .him in Min­ (See statement of Rita Shaw, JOYCE COWLEY neapolis, St. Paul and1 Wilmar, HIGH COURT OPENS HEARINGS Dear Sirs and Brothers, At a meeting on the University I am writing tojirge that your of Minnesota campus ■ FARRELL DOBBS group of students remained ON CIVIL LIBERTIES CASES committee extend immediate aid throughout an extended question to the Inter-Civic Council of Tal­ laws have been used as a lethal and discussion pcrio-d where many OCT. 8 — The Supreme Court House committee. He had testi­ his successful use of the witch- lahassee, Fla. Twenty-one lead­ club agains organized labor. today began hearings on a num­ fied to cooperating for a period hunting Smith Act against the Ballot Rights Attack friendly questions were directed ers of that organization, includ­ I sat in- the courtroom in Mont­ to the SWP candidate. ber of cases whose outcome can with the Communist party but Communist Party. He disclosed gomery, Ala. last spring when ing all of the members of its Throughout, the press, radio have an important, effect on the refused to reveal names of party that 108 leaders of the party the leaders of the bus protest executive council were arrested. | and TV gave good coverage to state of civil liberties. A key members. had been convicted under the movement there were also con­ ■j-ct. 5, on charges oi operating his campaign activities, both in issue again before the high court Act with 22 more currently victed under an anti-boycott SWEEZY CASE an illegal transportation system. Scored by Cowley announcing meetings and in re­ is the constitutionality of the awaiting trial. statute—one that had been orig­ •The council itself has also been porting them afterward. In re­ Smith Act under which the ad­ The court w ill also consider ( Meanwhile the American Civil inally designed to break a 1921 charged by city authorities on the (Text of a statement presented Oct. 10, over Radio porting his arrival in Minneap­ vocacy of ideas has been made the New Hampshire contempt Liberties Union urged the court 6trike of coal miners. Coming same count. 1 Station WNEW, New York, on belhalf of Joyce Cowley, olis, the locally prominent TV a crime. conviction of Paul Sweezy, co- ] to rule the membership clause on the heels of that action, the The court w ill hear an appeal editor of Monthly Review. ] of the Smith Act unconstitution­ candidate fo r U.S. Senator.) news commentator, Paul Sev- WANT LEGAL WEAPON present moves of the Tallahassee ereid, showed a picture of the op. the Pennsylvania Smith Act Sweezy had refused 'to answer al on the ground that it violates racists assumes added signifi­ Previous to the present arrests, SWIP leader and said, “ Some of conviction of Communist Party questions about his political be­ freedom of speech and associa­ cance. You may have read in the papers that, upon invita­ liefs and associations directed to participants in the boycott move­ you may remember Dobbs; .he leader -Steve Nelson and three tion. I t was also announced Oct. Shortly after the formation of tion of the State Department, observers from foreign him by the ‘New Hampshire A t­ ment’s car pool were jailed on was one of the leaders of the co-defendants. The Court refused 4 by Rev. A. J. Muste of the your committee, the press on torney General on the basis of a trumped-up charges of violating countries, including the Soviet Union, w ill soon be arriv­ Mineappolis truck drivers strike to act on a government motion! Fellowship of Reconciliation that May 15 quoted Mr. Dribin-sky's state “ subversive control” sta­ a state “ vehicle fo r hire” licens­ ing in the U.S. to see how free elections are held. The in 1934.” to remand the case to a lower] some 200 prominent figures statement that the committee’s tute. The Supreme Court has al­ ing statute. These charges were question arises — how much will they be shown? For On Sat., Oct. 6, the same day court for hearings on the credi-| throughout the country had add­ over-all purpose was to “ further ready ruled such state laws Con­ dropped and the present ones contrary to what many Americans mistakenly believe, that they were holding a fare­ h ility of the testimony of Joseph j ed their names to a petition ad­ civil rights everywhere in the well banquet fo r Dobbs, his sup­ Mazzei, a professional FBI stool flic t with the Smith Act and are dressed to the president last De­ substituted. It is clear from these freedom of elections is largely a myth in many parts moves that the city administra­ country with the -Negro strug­ porters announced that they had pigeon whose testimony against invalid. cember urging amnesty for those tion is determined to build the gle receiving primary attention.” of the United States. filed petitions with the Secretary Nelson contradicted his stories In a case involving the “ non- convicted under the Smith Act. The present attack on the Tal­ strongest possible legal case for Will the foreign observers be taken to the South? of State to qualify the Socialist in other government proceedings. Communist” oath provision of the tria l which has been set fo r lahassee Inter-Civic Council, Workers ticket fo r a place on the (On Oct. 10 the Supreme Court the Taft-Hartley law, the court which will involve a costly de­ W ill they be taken to see the polls in Belzoni, Mississippi? Oct. 17. That’s where in May 1955 a man was lynched for reg­ Minnesota ballot. ordered a new trial fo r Nelson. will review the conviction of Ben From the SWP Platform fense, certainly comes under that — Ed.] Gold, former president of the Fur T-heir effort to fashion an anti­ Repeal the Smith Act and statement of objectives. Aid by istering to vote. The man was Reverend G. W. Lee — Campaign four schedule of Legality of the , witch-hunting and Leather Workers Union. Gold boycott legal weapon is not only grant amnesty to all victims of your committee will strength­ he was a Negro. His death left but one other Negro still Farrell Dobbs: activities of the House Un- was sentenced to a three-year a matter of grave concern for this thought-control law. Abol­ en a valiant band of civil rights registered in Belzoni — Gus Courts. He, too, was shot. Oct. 18 Youngstown American Activities Committee term on the charge of falsely the Tallahassee freedom fig h t­ ish the “ loyalty” oaths and fighters in their resistance to Oct. 19-21 Cleveland will be before the court with swearing to the affidavit despite ers and th e civil rights Fortunately he survived his wounds, but he has been “loyalty” purges. Halt all politi­ reactionary attack. It will, at the forced to leave the South. Oct. 23-27 Buffalo its decision to hear the appeal the fact that he had resigned movement generally. I t is of same time constitute an act of of United Auto Workers organ­ from the Communist Party prior cal prosecutions fo r contempt equal concern to the trade union ICampaign tour schedule self-defense fo r the un-ion move­ Some of you will say, “Such things are true about of izer John T. Watkins of Rock to signing the oath. and perjury based on the testi­ movement. I need only to cite Myra Tanner Weiss: ment you represent. the South, but here in New York we certainly have free Island, 111. Watkins was Convict­ On the eve of the court ses­ mony of stoolpigeons. how the anti-boycott provisions elections. Here are some facts about what is happening Oct. 17-20 Philadelphia ed of contempt after refusing sion Attorney General Brownell Liberalize the election laws. of the Taft-Hartley law as well Fraternally yours, to the free ballot in New York. A few days ago the can­ Oct. 23-27 Seattle to act as a stool-pigeon fo r the issued a statement boasting of as those of the various state Farrell Dobbs. didates of the Socialist Workers Party and the Socialst Labor Party were ordered off the ballot by Secretary of State, Carmine DeSapio. DeSapio is head of Tammany Hall and of the Demo­ Michigan SWP Opens Suit on Write-In Vote cratic Party in this state. He will go down in history By Rita Shaw as the short-ballot artist — the one who gave New York SWP Candidate for Governor of Michigan best of our ability. Tens of thou­ ing of voting for us. I But they are’ challenging our We also are filin g a complaint its worst mutilated presidential ballot in history. Except DETROIT — All the capitalist politicians — Eisen- ^ sands in this state have listened And that’s just what the lib ­ right to vote for the two high­ with the Federal Communications hower, Stevenson, Williams, Cobo and all the others — to our candidates on TV, radio, eral Democratic administration est offices in the land if we Commission, asking that the fo r the C ivil W ar decade wlhen the, m inor parties volun­ at union meetings and open-air headed by Gov. Williams wants don’t want to vote for the capi­ Michigan TV and radio stations tarily merged with the big parties there have been minor are lecturing the people morning, noon and night on their rallies, and additional thousands to prevent at all costs. talist parties. be compelled to abide by the “ sacred duty” to vote on elec-5------— ------party candidates on every presidential ballot in New York have read our campaign litera­ Fearing that the election in Simultaneously, the TV and federal law, to give Farrell tion day. more. So did the Socialist La­ since 1840. Since 1888 there have been socialist parties ture. Michigan is going to be close, radio stations in Michigan, who Dobbs and Myra Tanner Weiss At the same time their poli­ bor Party. Our petitions were Few of these people consider they are now trying to top their have been working hand-in-glove the same free time they are giv­ on every presidential ballot in this state. But in 1956 tical machines are engaging in as numerous and as correct as themselves socialists today, but earlier crime of knocking us off with the Williams administra­ ing their capitalist opponents, they have been dishonestly barred. Surely this is a blow the worst kind of skullduggery to in previous years when we w'on most of them listen to us with the ballot by depriving the voters tion, have taken the stand that and to broadcast the SWP prevent the people from hearing a place on the ballot. to the right of free elections and a free ballot. interest and even respect, and of their right to write-in the since write-in candidates for speeches which they are trying and voting fo r Candidates of their But the Secretary of State — Here is why the Socialist Workers Party was thrown some of them certainly are think- names of our candidates. President and Vice-President to keep the people of Michigan own choice, especially socialist a liberal Democrat, elected with off the New York ballot. Not only the presidential but It so happens that the laws can’t be counted here, then they from hearing. candidates. the help of the labor movement of Michigan clearly provide that are relieved of their obligation We ask the support of every­ the senatorial election in New York is expected to be very They claim they want the peo­ — didn’t want socialists on the voters can cast write-in ballots. under federal law to give equal one who believes in the right close. The Democratic machine fears that a protest vote ple to vote. But they stop at ballot this year. So he arbitra­ But the laws don’t seem to bother time on their facilities to our of a free ballot, and especially going to minority parties could lose the election. Parti- nothing to discourage and pre­ rily ruled that both the SWP the Williams administration or presidential and vicer-presiden- the labor movement. We ask vent the people from being ahle and the SLP were ineligible fo r , cularly it fears a protest vote in Harlem and other Negro its Democratic Secretary of tial candidates. And they have them to protest the discrimina­ to vote for anybody but the two the ballot. communities because of the Democratic platform ’s sell­ State. discontinued in Michigan aU capitalist parties. tory and illegal actions of the We tried to institute Court ac­ broadcasts by Farrell Dobbs and Williams administration, and to out on civil rights. It is also aware that the Socialist In fact, they have now gone Ignoring the law, they have tion to stop this discriminatory Myra Tanner Weiss that are help us fight our court case to Workers Party with its plank for full civil rights and to the point here in Michigan ruled that it is impermissible and vindicative blow against presented by their own national a victorious conclusion. immediate federal enforcement of school desegregation where they are trying- to pre­ to vote for President and Vice- free elections, but couldn’t g e t1 President on a write-in basis networks in other states. is getting a greater response than ever before. vent the people from voting for it. Determined that the voice of Already handicapped in the in Michigan. If you do it, they Well, we think it's time to socialist candidates EVEN ON socialism should not be stifled election campaign by lack of The second reason is that the American Labor Party say, your votes won’t be counted. call! a halt to this outrageous at­ A WRITE-IN BASIS! and that the voters of Michigan ’ funds, we are sorely in need of has just gone out of existence. How will the former And if you write-in the names A ll last winter members and should have an opportunity to tack on democratic rights. financial help to conduct oirr A LP ’ers vote? In a close election DeSapio knows they friends of the Socialist Workers of candidates fo r President and Therefore we are going to file court case. You can show that vote for candidates of their own 1 Vice-President, your whole bal­ could be the margin of victory. The Communist Party Party worked hard collecting choice, we announced that we a suit in the courts for an in­ you believe in free elections by lot will be invalidated. contributing money now ('Social­ (Continued on page 4) petitions to meet the s tiff re­ would conduct an active write- junction to compel the Secretary quirements of the state law for in campaign fo r the SWP ticket.! Williams & Co. are not chal­ of State to abide by the state ist Wox-kers Party, 3737 Wood­ ward, Detroit 1, Mich.). The Tito-Khrushchev meetings and the Poznan trials — See obtaining a place on the Michi­ A write-in campaign is not. lenging- — not yet — our rig h t laws and to count all write-in editorial -a'nd article page 3. gan ballot this year. an easy thing to conduct, but we to vote fo r county drain com­ ballots, including those fo r Presi­ Don’t let them rob you of We met the requirements, and have been doing it here to the RITA SHAW missioner on a write-in basis. dent and Vice-President, your right to vote! Page 2 THE MILITAN T Monday, October 15, 195$ 1,240 TV, Radio Replies Hail Dobbs, Weiss Acceptance speeches of Farrell Dobbs and Myra Tanner We enjoyed your broadcast —and I do want to vote— so, 1 1 policy in the Middle East and cost of mailing me 10 copies of(*> Weiss are still being broadcast in a few cities, where stations very much, but would like to need to know what your party your backing to the Egyptian the [acceptance] heard here on did not release them at the time they were scheduled nation­ know where we write to, to get stands fo r complete so I can government for nationalizing the the Coast. Florida Racists Back Stevenson ally. The SWP Campaign Committee continues, therefore, to your 'Socialist Workers paper. I form my own choice. I know a Suez Canal which is an Egyptian E. B. .receive responses. All told 1,240 people from all over the would-,like to subscribe fo r it. lot of other women in just the ; property, no doubt. Also your Compton, Calif. country replied to the invitation to write for the ,SWP platform Mrs. R. P. same frame of mind as myself bucking to the Algerians in ask­ this year who need your in­ I heard your radiocast and am and other free literature. Many of them included inspiring Independence, Mo. ing for their independence from most interested in your true dem­ comments. We continue to publish these letters. formation just as badly and “ by the imperialist France. word of mouth” is the best in ocratic aims and platform. I am I ’m glad I heard you out be­ I hope to hear more and more I am a Negro and an independ­ my ballot. I was very much im­ advertising something if it is a three-war combat vet and en­ cause your few words are the of your attacks on the American dorse your party. ent voter. While listening to your pressed by this most m agnifi­ good. I t is just as much needed only ones coming from the pres­ foreign policy and I db urge you speech of September 23, over cent woman whom I think should and heeded as the Radio or TV A. M. R. idential candidates that has made to continue your backing to na­ T. V. it made me feel very good. be the next vice president of or paper. tions such as Egypt, Algeria, Coral Gables, Fla. I am very interested in the So­ these United States. (That’s if any sense so far. That goes for I really w'ant to know’ just Cyprus and others, who are fig h t­ Heard your speaker on radio cialist Workers Party and I you can oall them united.) both parties, too! what the Socialist Workers Par­ ing for their independence from speak of ^good points that others . would like to know more about it. W. M. In the last election I was so disgiusted with both parties I ty stands for. the imperialist countries such as should read and 'become more in­ Jacksonville, Fla. R. B. just wouldn’t vote. I ’m actually San Leandro, Calif, England and France. terested in. Cleveland, Ohio not ashamed either because I I would love to, receive a copy C. H. B„ The present electoral situation I congratulate you from the of your party platform and your Malott, Wash. provides many people w ith little just couldn’t “buy what either Please send me your platform party had to sell.” bottom of my heart and w’ish newspaper if possible. and other pertinent information alternative but to vote SWP, even Enjoyed the talk very much. I f Mrs. Weiss, I ’m a white wom­ there W’ere more who shared the An American though there be grave differences everyone fe lt the same about con­ concerning your party. Throw an. Traditionally I ’m supposed to same views. from the Middle East, with your whole program or as ditions in the U.S. it would cer­ the rascals out! be ajS.outherner since I was born Mrs. E. R. B. Detroit, Mich. with myself with your “ dialectical tainly be a better place to live. B. M. in South Carolina, but I was fo r­ Washington, D. C. Pleasant H ill, Calif. materialism” and atheism. How­ I whs very interested in your Mrs. K. S. ever you do represent an honest, tunate1 enough to have a lovely I am a Viennese socialist m ili­ program; I am very active in our Allston, Mass. forthright protest,‘Which in these and wonderful mother who in­ >1 heard a wonderful speech on tant—since 1905. Now I live in union. I "am on the legislative times cannot be sneered at. sisted on teaching us God made I saw and heard you speak on television by Mrs. Weiss, whom I all men equal. I know’ almost the -UJ3.A. and I am very inter­ committee and I wrould like to TV .Sunday evening. And what a shall vote for in November if she F. H. T. nothing about the Socialist Par­ ested to become a member of learn much more about your So­ Brooklyn, N. Y. wonderful speech it was. W ill you or any of her party is listed on ty, and, I have heard it is a sis­ your party. cialist Workers Party. please send me fu ll information ter of communism. R. R. P. W. on how I can vote or be a part 1 was thrilled to know that o u t I ask your forgiveness for such Calif. Ontario, Canada of such a wonderful party ? thinking could have a voice SWP Candidates a frank statement, but I want to M. T. across the nation — of course know! I am not and never w ill I heard your party platform Enclosed is a check fo r a sub­ Chicago, 111. On TV and Radio there Isn’t a chance of any kind be a communist. However, I do tonight on the television and I scription to the International So­ here in California to vote any pot want to vote fo r either of the was very very pleased with your cialist Review. The balance is a J listened to your speech on FARRELL DOBBS sort of .liberal ticket, hut I’d like presidential candidates this year attack on the American foreign small contribution toward the television and I concur with what WNEW — New York City to know more about your pro­ you said about Mr. Dulles and his People’s Choice Program gram. policies; however, you have cre­ Oct, 18, 19, 24, 26, Sierra Madre, Calif. It Happens Under Democrats or Republicans ated a great void ini pointing out 31, Nov. 2 the errors of Mr. Dulles with­ To say the least, I was much out proposing a program of your 10:35 to 11 PJW. impressed by their presentation own to replace that of Mr. of the principles and aims of the Dulles’. I t is an easy thing to ♦ Socialist Workers Party. My tear down another man’s house, MYRA TANNER WEISS friends and I, students at North­ but to replace it with something WPEN — Philadelphia western University, would like that is sturdier is very difficult. to attend a meeting of your par­ Steve Allison Program E. C. S. ty w ith an eye toward possible St. Louis, Mo. Oct. 18 application fo r membership. 11 P31. to 2 A.M. W. C. I ’d be much interested in vot­ 950 on the dial Chicago, 111. ing for you. I can see no future in the Republicans or Democrats ♦ A week ago I heard a pro­ for the better. gram on the Armed Forces Radio Mrs. A. J. M„ HERBERT LEWIN Service which had to do with the Minneapolis, Minn. (Candidate for U.S. Senator, Socialist Workers Party. Would Pennsylvania) you please send me any informa­ I t was v’onderful. I sure be­ WPEN — Philadelphia lieve in her .party. She has sure tion you m ight have available. This ad from the Jacksonville Times-Union shows that Steve Allison Program Also a campaign poster and a put a great many of us thinking about what she said1. Thanks, I Southern racists understand the real meaning of Stevenson’s Oct. 24 pin. This literature w ill be read pious appeals for “moderation" on civil rights. For a current by some fifty people and the sure w ill .heed to her views. 11 P.M. to 2 A_M. example oF racist “moderation” in action see story on page I poster , posted in a good place. Mrs. W. B„ of arrest of Tallahassee boycott leaders. ♦ Thank you very much and keep Lincoln, Neb. up the good work. I heard your talk on radio. JOYCE COWLEY M oji, Japan I enjoyed it so much I would WABC-TV: Sun., Oct. 14 lake to have a copy of same. I Channel 7 I am 14 years old and I have have a speech to make at my club THE MILITANT ARMY been interested in the Socialist 1:30 to 2 P.M. and w ou ld like to use some of Party fo r the last couple of WNEW—New Y'ork City your talk in it. I. am heartily in This column is usually devoted subscription for the next year. years. I think it is terrible the accord w ith your party and its to reporting the work of the I believe our ideas and proposals People’s Choice Program way they keep your party off the principles. Enclosed is $5.00 for members of the M ilitant Arm y for actions are beginning to take Oct. 12, 16, i7 voting machines in many states. the party. throughout th e hold in a way and to an extent 10:35-11:00 P.M. D. L. Kingston, country. This not previously experienced and Ridgefield, Conn. North Carolina week we devote its wonderful and most helpful it to some of the to our class.” I wish it w’as so that all the •results obtained A young Detroit worker sends people in the United States could by our two cur­ in a sub w ith the following: have heard your speech on seg­ rent star sales­ “ Thank you fo r sending me the regation. Dulles’ Hard-Cash “Spiritual” Values men — Farrell booklet explaining your 1956 G. C. S., Dobbs and Myra campaign. I am subscribing to Cd Steelton, Pa. (M ajor excerpts from a speech by M yra Tanner Tanner Weiss, the M ilitant fo r three months weapons, the cost of medical care monopolized Iby one country, are Weiss, Socialist Workers Party candidate for Vice-Presi­ whose hard-hit­ and then w ill renew my offer, to preserve and prolong life has supposed to be used as a threat, I generally agree w ith the ting socialist I am enclosing a dollar to help dent over NBC-TV hookup, Sept. 22 and NBC-Radio hpok increased almost beyond the but how. long until threats toe- SWP program except on the Rus­ campaign is win­ Mr. Dobbs and Mrs. Weiss get reach of the average American. dome real and the bombs start sian question. What specifically up, Oct. 4.) lions of dollars in profit. And ning new circles elected in 1956. I hope they win. One waiter I talked1 with just falling? encouraged this letter was the nowadays, they don’t even have of readers fo r our paper. Here What interested me most was Since World War II, you can’t the other day, told me his wife They tell us the war economy Militant a friend sent to me. At to risk their capital. The govern­ are the reactions of some of the program regarding employ­ pick up a newspaper without had to be hospitalized fo r di­ is needed to fig h t fo r democracy least it is heartening to see the ment guarantees big profits with those who have subscribed to ment and education. Its the best reading ah attack on socialism. abetes. $33 a day fo r the room in the world. That’s an old and only revolutionary socialist pro­ lush war contracts. the Militant as a result of the platform yet to come out in a Everyday editorial writers and and nurses, he told me. Doesn’t very stale story. Meanwhile, they gram offered in this election Expounding further on how D.obbs-Weiss campaign. .party. . . I am glad that I columnists, high government of­ your insurance cover the cost, I throw at us the Taft-Hartley printed up in such fine fashion. wonderful capitalism is, Dulles listened to Mrs. Weiss speak on ficials and candidates for office, asked? He laughed. “ Are you law, correctly referred to in the I enclose $1.00 to cover a trial H. B. of Springfield, Mo., reported, “ Women have been re­ TV. Keep up the good work for announce they finally have con­ kidding? Some o f it is covered labor movement as the Slave La­ subscription. writes: “ Enclosed is three dol­ lieved of the many disabilities the working class of people. clusive proof that Karl Marx was but I’ll have to raise most of the bor Act. With a mass of legisla­ I liked your farm plank espe­ lars, $2.50 to help in the Cam­ that w’ere for centuries their lot, wrong and that capitalism is the money.” Now how can a working tion and administrative decrees, cially. iMy family is a farm fam­ paign and fifty cents fo r a sub­ and have now gained a political, best of all possible systems. And man pay out money like that? the Democrats and' Republicans ily. If your plank ever gx>t into scription to the Militant. I would Negroes on the March the very next day they must at­ economic and social status total­ How many workers even make have already destroyed a great the farmers’ hands in a wide­ enjoy seeing Mr. Dobbs and Mrs. tempt to prove it all over again. ly different from that of forty S33 a day? A little sickness deal of the traditional civil lib­ spread fashion it would at least Weiss as President and Vice A Frenchman’s Report We socialists welcome the op­ years ago.” comes along in a worker’s fam­ erties of this country. People are give the major parties something President of the United States.” ! on the American Negro portunity to present our side of Dulles left it with that—a dif­ ily and it means going into debt jailed and intimidated, not for to demagogically start marching J. C., from a Louisiana farm-! Struggle this great debate on capitalism ferent status, ho said. Well just fo r many years. . . . anything they have done, but fo r le ft about. ing area, sends in a dollar w ith , or socialism. . . . As a matter of how different? In 1920 women “ Working men and women,” the things they have thought or E. S., a request fo r sample copies of By Daniel Guerin fact you read and hear so much won the vote. But at wasn’t given Dulles saiys, “ are leading a good said or w ritten, or are alleged to Earlville, N. Y. the paper to distribute among 192 pages $1.50 propaganda from the enemies of to them iby the liberality of have thought. A new category of his .neighbors. life.” Well, I don’t know how We watched your program last socialism that you must ask— Dulles’ so-called “free society.” An old friend, G. H. of Chicago Order from MYRA TANNER WEISS things are on Duck Island where crime has been invented, the so- night and were very impressed. wthat do the socialists themselves The women fought for this meas­ is inspired anew by the success Dulles takes frequent holidays, called crime of “ subversion.” My wife and I have long hoped PIONEER PUBLISHERS have to say about their views? ure of equality. They demon­ Every gain here was fought for of the Dobbs-Weiss campaign. but would Dulles say life is so These repressive laws have the for the day that a third party 116 University Place The Big Business rulers of the strated in Washington and else­ and the struggle is s till going on. He writes: “ Enclosed you w ill good if he were working in Gen­ foul odor of a police dictator­ w’ould come about. New York 3, N. Y. United iStates claim that capital­ where. Many of them were beat­ More than two years have find what it takes to renew my eral Motors or the Ford Motor ship. They are not an expression Sedro Woolley, Wash ism and capitalists operate fo r en up and many were jailed. The passed since the Supreme Court Company, a steel mill, a coal mine of a society where people are the loftiest interests of all the women can ¿tank their own ruled' that segregation against or a packinghouse? A fter a day’s free to think and speak and w rite I heard your talks .on tele­ people. courageous struggle fo r this Negro children in the school sys­ work he would probably be too as they pleiase. vision and was very impressed. Take the recent remarks of measure of equality. tem was a violation of the Con­ tired to make.speeches about how Socialism means progress, I didn’t know that there was John Poster Dulles, Secretary of Or perhaps Dulles was refer­ stitution of the United States, good life is for working men and peace and greater freedom fo r any socialist movement afoot S u p p o rt State fo r the Republicans and ring to the more recent opportun­ and the Constitution is still not women. . . . man. To be a socialist now means with such a vigorous program. enforced. a former foreign policy consult­ ities fo r women to get jobs ? But For 25 years, a quarter of a to defend the working class and1 G. H „ You can be quite sure that if ant under the Democrats. In a again i t is not the benevolence century, capitalism In America its interests w ith as much ardor Chadds Ford, Pa. speech delivered in San Fran­ of Dulles’ “free society” but war anyone violated the property has brought us only depression, as the American revolutionists A Working Class Party! cisco on June 21, Dulles made and a war economy. In the 1930’s, rights of the capitalists, it war or preparation for war. That fought for freedom in 1776. I would appreciate all avail­ the following defense of US. women had a hard tame finding wouldn’t .even take two days to is the real history that Dulles is able information pertaining to WHY WE CAMPAIGN The Socialist Workers Party has po slush fund Buch as the capitalism: Jobs. Even the men, their hus­ enforce the law. But two years is defending as progress. And what the Socialist Workers Pary. May capitalist parties get from the Morgan, Rockefeller and Du­ bands and the fathers of fam­ too soon for them to enforce hu­ about the future? War or de­ ¡Socialism means to fig h t fo r I also have a subscription to the LOFTY IDEALISM? pont billions. Our support comes solely from the nickels, dimes ilies, couldn’t get jcibs. man rights. Indeed, the “moder­ pression are still the only al­ a workers democracy—a higher M ilitant. and dollars of the workers in our party and those Who sup­ ates” .are speaking of two gen­ “ Our free society,” he said, Women are still paid less than ternatives that capitalism can form of freedom than capitalism. K. McC, port our aims/ erations. "derives its principal momentum men for the same work except pose. Neither Democrats nor Re­ It means to fig h t fo r production East Orange, N.J. from its religious character.” Par from diminishing, as publicans hold out the prospects for use instead of profit. It We ask you to help in this campaign — for Dobbs and Weiss where the union movement has Please send me a copy of the Then he spoke of “our belief” dn forced employers to pay equal Dulles said, race discrimination of anything different in the for- means a planned economy to ele­ — for peace — for equality for all races — for a Workers ip now being brazenly organized speech on Civil Rights and the the spiritual nature of man and wages. Years of effo rt have fa il­ seeable future. . vate the living standards of the and Farmers Government — fo r a socialist world! human dignity. by a minority, the White Citi­ whole people instead o f a war Negro people and laborers. ed to get legislation passed in E. H. I~1 I enclose $...... to help in the DoHbs-Weiss Campaign. What a falsehood! Was i t re­ zens Councils, using terror and THERE IS NO PEACE economy to elevate the profits of Congress protecting women from Mt. Vernon ligious ‘belief that took us into bosses who want extra cheap la­ threats of death to enforce their Of course they claim it is all billionaires. It means to fight for 0 I would like to participate in campaign activities. ugly practices of segregation. two world wars and then Korea? bor. the fa u lt o f the Russians or the a labor party, independent of the I saw’ two of your television Was It religious motivation that -Next Dulles said, “ Science is Chinese. No ruling class in his­ capitalist parties, which will programs today and found the □ I would like. . . . copies of the SWP’s 1956 Election ’ Platform. condemned millions to unemploy­ TWO YEARS COURT RULED performing miracles.” Ah, Mr. tory considered itself to blame. speak out fo r the m ajority of speech on segregation very in-’ ment and.hunger in the 1930’s? N ext Dulles says, “ Race dis­ Secretary. I t would be better if World W ar I was the fa ult of the Americans who work for a liv­ teresting. you were silent on this score. In Germans, they claimed. The U.S. ing. I t means to fig h t uncom­ □ I would like more information about the Socialist Work­ Was it the concept of the broth­ crimination, while not wholly I fu lly believe that if you in­ ers Party. erhood of man that made Truman eliminated is rapidly diminish­ 1954, the government spent defeated Germany. W orld War promisingly for the full eco­ tend to live up to your promises nomic, social and political equal­ decide to drop the firs t atom ing.” There is an element of about $2 billion on.research—20 II was the fault of the Germans that you should ¡be elected and 1 I I would like to join the Socialist Workers Party. bombs in history on heavily pop­ truth here. ‘But the first gains times the pre-war rate. But 85% and Japanese, they said. These ity of the Negro people and all not one of the other parties. other minorities. ulated cities? Is it because of made against race discrimina­ of this amount went to militar­ nations were defeated. But still B. G., Name ...... our spiritual nature that success tion were in the great strike ism, the science of how best to there is no peace. Only another Socialism is something worth Carthage i in American life is measured in struggles of the 1930’s when Ne­ destroy humanity. In the mean­ armament race with the world fighting for. That is why’ Far­ Street ...... terms of gold, mink and Cadil­ gro and white workers fought time, while we drill in mock air rushing from crisis to crisis: Ko­ rell Dobbs and I are campaigning Please send me tonight’s ad-' lacs? Obviously not. The real mo­ together to build the CJ.O. The raids that would bring radio­ rea, Indo-China, Algeria, Cyprus in this election. That is what we' dress and the othei-9 please. I en­ C ity ...... state ...... tive force of capitalism is profit. Negroes and the labor movement active death to millions of peo and now Egypt. Our war machine fight for every day of our lives. joyed so much the little part that The means of production arc fought again in the period of the pie, while the government stock- is ' loaded w ith atom bombs and That is what the Socialist Work-' I heard of your address. (Tear off and send to SWP National Headquarters, 116 owned and monopolized by indi­ Second World War to break ; piles atom bombs and the brass hydrogen bombs. These terrible ers Party-stands 48 as a “ Titoist” and who Poznan Poland shows the Stal­ In handing down the guilty ed them hooligans and criminal intimating that a story has been spent four years in prison, is ex­ inist. rulers in further retreat verdict, the judge repeated the elements. But since the revolu­ censored. pected to be restored soon to from the crude repression and official fantasy that the trial tion was won, they are national The Polish regime began to leadership in the CP, 1. Tito-Khrushchev Meetings frame-ups with which th y first “had nothing to do with politics.” heroes, and their picture has be­ deal with the Poznan uprising met that movement. Three young with the announced intention of HUNGARIAN EVENTS institutions of workers’ democracy: the This, of course completely con­ come a symbol of revolution.” Khrushchev’s visit to Tito’s Adriatic man. two 18 and one 20 years tradicts the Polish government’s The considerable concessions metii\g out ruthless and heavy Gomulka is reported to have headquarters on the Island of Brioni, fol­ Bolshevik1 party, the Soviets and the trade old, were convicted October 4 firs t version, which has never which the Stalinists made to free punishment. I t appears that a joined the faction advocating in­ lowed by Tito’s return visit to Khrush­ unions. Now the Russian revolution is of attacking a security police­ been officially retracted but on­ speech in the courtroom are not section of the ruling group be­ creased liberalization, reports chev’s Yalta resort on the Black Sea, for experiencing a rebirth. The Soviet fnasses man who was killed in 'the June ly shelved, that the actions of extended to the press in the East­ came convinced that they could Sydney Gruson from Poznan, not go through with .that plan. a total of 16 days of conferences, has are preparing to overthrow the bureau­ demonstrations. They were sen­ the demonstrators had been in­ ern European countries. Oct. 8. There is “ a growing cri­ tenced to prison terms of up to spired iby capitalist agents. “ The ( It is still possible that the sis within the leadership of the aroused a sensation in the world capitalist cratic usurpers. Even in Poznan there is cen­ iour-and-one-half years. only politics of the accused.” the sorship. Thus, the Poznan news­ regime may try to impose heavy party. Gomulka’s presence [a t a press. - Speculation and rumor are rife The firs t major sign that a gigantic These sentences are “ lenient” judge continued, “ was to enjoy paper, Qlos Wielkopski, inserted sentences in some cases, however. coming Central Committee meet­ regarding the meaning of these unpre­ mass force was coming to life within i f one remembers the original themselves, to rob, and to wreck.” a note over a story it ran on the In a second tria l of nine youths, ing], it is hoped, w ill do some­ cedented talks which have been official­ the Soviet orbit was the East German charge that the demonstrations This had 'been the line of the trials. The note said that the re­ the prosecutor demanded the thing to restore the situation.” were the work of “imperialist prosecution. I t was answered by port was from the Polish news death penalty, according to an ‘‘Support fo r the leadership, even ly described as “ vacations.” general-strike uprising on June 17, 1953. Oct. 8 Associated Press report, among the mass of Communists,” In the welter of reports, guesses and agents-provocateurs” and if one Stanislaw Hejmowski, one of the agency rather than from the On the heels of the East German uprising remembers that the three were defense lawyers in his summary paper’s own reporter “for rea­ although the indictment in this continues Gruson, “ has been counter-guesses one salient fact emerges: a deep crisis developed within the cama­ indicted for “murder.” The court, quoted in the October 5 New sons, (beyond the control of our case was not as severe as in the draining away steadily.” the main clue to what the Kremlin tops rilla of Stalin’s heirs in the Kremlin; the it is clear, was afraid to incite York Times. Hejmowski referred reporter and of our editorial case of the three. “ Spectators The seething discontent of the are talking about with Tito and other mass indignation by imposing to a famous painting of the board.” This reveals, on one appeared shocked by the de­ masses which the Poznan events head of the secret police, Beria, and all mand,” says the report. I t re­ East European government heads is not who were closely associated with him were heavier punishment. French Revolution by Delacroix hand, the fear that the bureauc­ brought to the surface in Po­ mains to be seen how fa r the land is widespread throughout to be found at the vacation resorts of On the other hand, the regime showing a young woman on the racy has of allowing the fu ll purged. is still Ibent on making it clear barricades and ;by- her side youths story of the uprising and its government w ill dare to go.) Eastern Europe, and i9 at the either the Black Sea or the Adriatic but Unquestionably the general-strike and that resistance to their bureau- with pistol and rifle. implications to get broad circula- REGIME’S DILEMMA bottom of the present crisis of in the courtroom of Poznan, an industrial post-Stalinist bureaucratic rule. uprising of the Poznan workers last June Another indication of the bu­ town in Poland, where participants in the has again shaken the Soviet bureaucracy Tanks Could Not Halt Mass Discontent reaucracy’s uncertainty and fear The most recent sign of this June 28 general-strike uprising are now to its foundations. Poznan has produced of the mass reaction to their was in Budapest, Oct. C, when on trial. another spasm of internal struggle with­ system of “ justice” is the post­ the coffins of Laszlo Rajk and ponement of four new trials that three other ex-CP leaders, who We have no way of judging the accu­ in the ruling group over the question of were executed as “ Titoists” in racy of current reports on the exact line­ were scheduled to .begin thisweek. how to cope with the revolutionary threat. So fa r only 22 of the 154 persons 1949, were removed from un­ up within the Kremlin and the precise Have Bulganin and Khrushchev gone too being held as a result of the up­ marked graves and given hon­ role Tito is playing in these internal strug­ far in permitting “ democratization?” Has rising have been brought to trial. orary re-burial. An unexpected gles. Nor is this necessary for understand­ rendering Tito legitimate loosened the A report that the “Government crowd estimated by the Asso­ had decided to end the Poznan ciated Press at 290,000 persons ing the major factors underlying the grip of the Kremlin upon the East Euro­ showed up in silent demonstra­ crisis of the Soviet bureaucracy. An abun­ rio t trials because they had be­ pean regimes? \Vhich will do more to come embarrassing” is quoted in tion. dant and verified body of evidence al­ save the regime: concessions or repres­ the October 8 New York Times The concessions which the Stal­ ready exists to enable us to arrive at sions? These are the questions before the as being unconfirmed, but very inists are making in the Poznan such an understanding. Soviet bureaucratic chiefs. popular. trials and elsewhere are a re­ The first fundamental factor in the ' What is most alarming to the Kremlin The vacillation and contradic­ flection of their fear of the pow­ tory actions of the CP rulers in er of mass opposition (and the crisis is the revolutionary ferment among about Poznan is the inability of the Pol­ these trials reflect the very real consequent lessening of their the industrial workers of the Soviet or­ ish government to follow through after dilemma which faces them. That own power), not of their desire bit. In the long run this ferment spells its first moves to engage in ruthless is, how to ■maintain their power to reform themselves. the doom of the bureaucratic, caste in the frame-ups and repressions. Instead, the and privileges in the face of ris­ In an interview' printed in the Soviet Union and the restoration of So­ carefully prepared trials are turning into ing mass opposition. September 27 France Observa- viet democracy through the revolutionary a political forum in which the crimes of ¡The method was once simple: teur, the Hungarian writer, Jud­ brutal repression, slander and ith Mariassy, a prominent CP action of the Soviet masses. the bureaucratic caste are being exposed. frame-up of all who resisted. But member, gave her opinion of Eor over three decades the rule o f the And sections of the Polish bureaucracy those methods only work when Erno Gero, present Hungarian privileged bureaucracy was maintained itself manifest a susceptibility to mass the mass movement is crushed, party boss, as compared w ith through the violent destruction of the pressure. and when each individual who Matyas Rakosi, recently deposed wants to resist feels done and for “Stalinism.” “Rakosi,” she helpless. That is not now the case. said, “ that was absolute evil Police bullets are met with a wedded to absolute power. Gero, 2. Bureaucrats in Crisis near insurrection; an attempt at his henchman, hy the force of censorship is met with evasion; circumstances, is only the tenth The Poznan uprising, then, is the im­ The Chinese CP regime, although suffer­ each repressive act arouses an­ part of the power represented mediate cause of the current feverish ac­ ing bureaucratic deformations at birth, gry protest. by Rakosi.” tiv ity and inner struggles among the now became a rival pole of attraction to Kremlin and East European rulers. the Kremlin for the revolutionary masses of- Asia. J The .crisis within the Soviet bureaucracy A similar process took place in Eastern Pictured above is a "S'hviet "tank used against East Berlin workers in the June 1953 East Ger­ Is deep and irreversible. The broadest man general strike. Tanks were also used against workers in the Poznan demonstration this W orld Events Europe. Yugoslavia — where the Com­ June. The Polish government now admits it was an authentic workers demonstration over ______^______basis for it was laid by the expansion munist Party earned through a mass revo­ legitimate grievances. of the Soviet orbit following World War lution and not a bureaucratic-military, A NEW SUEZ PLAN offered to be taken over by the Central II. Even before Stalin died the main out­ by U.S. oil and shipping' concerns Obrera (central council of work­ Kremlin-manipulated overturn, as in the to dredge and improve the Canal lines of this crisis were clearly visible. ers organizations). The new con­ rest of Eastern Europe — came into ir ­ under contract with the Egyptian stitution is expected to make the The victory of the Chinese revolution reconcilable conflict with the dictatorial Hungarian Writers Hit Government was declared unac­ armed workers and peasant’s in 1949 introduced a profound cleavage rule of the Kremlin. This conflict took ceptable, Oct. 4, by Helmi Badawi militia part of the official armed within the world Stalinist monolith. The open form because Stalin imagined he director general of the Egyptian forces. Very taking of power by the Chinese Com­ could crush the Yugoslavs with “ one Suez Canal A uthority because it * ❖ * munist Party was accomplished in con­ called for control over toll col­ ANEURIN BEVAN, British blow.” Bureaucrats’ Privileges lections by the private corpora­ flict with the Kremlin and against the Labor Party left-wing leader was The restoration last year of “ normal By Henry Gitano calls” encouraging her and de­ er of the party and the state.” tions “to guarantee a return on elected party Treasurer, a top express wishes of Stalin himself. Stalin relations” between Tito and Khrushchev- nouncing Szabad Nep’s effort to He expresses the belief that “ the their investments.” post, last week at the fifty -fifth wanted the Chinese Communists to form Bulganin did not signify a genuine easing Reflecting ithe growing mass “ discredit *and silence” her. complete unfolding of democracy, * * * annual party conference in Black­ a coalition government with the foreign of the conflict. It showed, rather, the in­ opposition to the bureaucratic In a demand fo r fu ll intellec­ instead of sapping the dictator­ ISRAELI-JORDAN CLASHES pool. In March 1955, right-wing regime in Poland and Hungary, tual freedom, George Lukács ship of the proletariat, will only in which the Israelis have started leaders nearly succeeded in ex­ imperialist underling, Chiang Kai-shek. capacity of the Kremlin to keep the Yugo­ the intellectuals in these two But the laws of the permanent revolution writes in the July issue of the act to reinforce it.” to exploit their military strength pelling Bevan because of his op­ slavs outlawed. It “ legalized” the Kremlin countries are stepping up their CP theoretical organ, Tarsadalmi The noted literary figure, “presumably with the support of position to their support of im­ were more powerful than Stalin’s class- Belgrade rivalry. A t the same time it tied attacks on the luxurious way of Szemle, that; Stalinist dogma­ T3bor Dcry, who was recently Britain and France,” says the perialist foreign policy. In- re­ oollaboration blueprints. A coalition with this rivalry to sharpening conflicts among life of government and Commu­ tism, with its propensity to "set­ expelled from the party fo r his •Sept. 29 Business Week, m ight porting last week’s Bevan vic­ the Chinese bourgeoisie couldn’t solve the the Moscow bureaucratic rulers them­ nist Party officials and on the tle all intellectual problems by attacks on bureaucratism, also force Nasser into large-scale war tory, the c-aplitalist press stress­ oppressive measures used to de­ basic problems of the Chinese revolution: selves. administrative means” was nour­ renews his attack. In the Sept. “ or see bis prestige tumble in the ed reports that he has not been fend the bureaucratically-acquir­ ished by the conviction that 8 Literary Gazette, 'he writes Arab world.” as “aggressive” recently as he the liberation of the peasant from the Still another aspect of the crisis can be * * * ed privileges. An account of this “ Communist ideologists could not w ith contempt of the past where used to be. exploitation of the landlord-capitalist com­ seen in the repercussions to the destruc­ growing wave of criticisms is re win against their ideological ad­ "all thought with the slighest TRINIDAD ELECTIONS for * * * bination and the liberation of China from tion of the Stalin cult within the Com­ ported in the Sept. 20 issue of versaries in open- discussion ex originality was condemned as seats in the Legislative Council the leading French liberal week­ A WEST GERMAN CRISIS as foreign imperialist domination. Swept munist parties throughout the world oept by falling back on 'the pow- heresy.” -held ¡Sept. 25 resulted In- a land shaping up over Chancellor Ade­ ly, France Observateur. slide victory for the inter-racial, along by a great social upheaval of the nauer’s attempt to complete Every Communist party was left to its anti-imperialist Peoples National Thus the Polish student news formation of a 500,{KHhnian West Chinese toilers the Communist Party en­ own devices. All were gripped by the most Movement, headed (by Dr. Eric E paper, Po Prostu, a constant German army to complement tered the cities and drove Chiang Kai- profound internal crises, battered from Williams. The PNM, formed on­ critic of the regime during the forces under U.S. command op­ shek o ff the mainland. The expropriation Daily Worker Retreat ly nine months ago and described the left by the revolutionary criticism last t five months, recently hits posing the 'Soviet Union. West by U jS. newsmen as Trinidad’s of the economic and political power of of the militants in the ranks and from out at the existence of restricted Germans “ have run recruiting first disciplined political party, the feeble Chinese capitalist class became the right by the savage pressure of capi­ luxury ¿hops, where generally agents out of many a village. On Poznan Frame-Up won 13 of the 24 elective seats. unavailable items are supplied ex­ They jeer at and sometimes as­ inevitable. talism. The old method of settling differ­ The other seven are filled by ap­ clusively bo high party and gov­ sault army volunteers,” says the With the new power of a Chinese work­ ences or disturbances within a Commu­ An Editorial pointment of the British Crown ernment functionaries. October 7 New York Times. The Governor. The predominately ers’ state on the arena, the world struc­ nist party by a simple decree from the A recent Issue of Budapest’s German Trade Union Federa­ The Daily Worker Oct. 9 reports the sentencing of East Indian Peoples Democratic ture of Stalinism suffered a profound al­ Kremlin has obviously lost all efficacy. Literary Gazette has denounced tion, which had previously stayed three young Polish workers for their participation in the Party got five seats while the the practice of ¡many functiona­ -away from direct political action, teration. There were now two major pow­ The Kremlin has more problems than it predominately Roman- Catholic ries who use “their” official sec­ June 28 general strike and workers’ uprising in Poznan. voted at Its congress last week er centers within the Soviet world orbit. can handle. Party of Peoples Progress. retaries and chauffeurs as pri­ The report stresses the lightness of the sentences, and to block re-armament “with all Groups headed by A lbert Gomez, vate servants, thus establishing the freedom and openness of the court proceedings. Then legal means,” and formed a trade Minister of Labor Commerce and fo r themselves a princely ret­ union committee to work out its it goes on to say : Industry, failed to elect even, its 3. World Line-Up of Forces inue. i j “ Attorneys for the accused conducted a vigorous de­ own plan for German re-unifica­ leader. Gomez, a right-winger, is tion. REPLIES TO BUREAUCRATS expected to be one -of the British Thus we see that the crisis within the But they are searching for pressure fense, and succeeded in bringing in the economic condi­ * * * An indictment of the bureau­ tions and other difficult circumstances which were at appointees, however. Soviet bureaucracy has a twofold char­ points within the bureaucratic caste. They SOVIET DIVORCE LAWS, once remember how, at the 1945 Yalta Confer cratic caste’s privileges by Jud­ bottom of the Poznan riots. The Polish government has the world’s most liberal as a re­ acter: the shattering of its world mono­ ith Mariassy in the Literary THE BOLIVIAN REVOLU­ ence, Stalin pledged that he would insure declared that while hooligan elements utilized the situa­ sult of the 1(917 Revolution but lithic structure on the one hand, and the Gazette ¡hits at the "excessive TION -moved to the le ft this week made arbitrary and restrictive European capitalist “ security” in the security precautions of “certain tion, the causes were to be found in the poor conditions as (¡1) Congress began drawing differentiation of various strata of the under the Stalinist regime, are post-war crisis. And he carried out this high-placed comrades.” These in and insufficient outlet for the workers’ protest.” (Our up a new Constitution to legal­ under sharp criticism from lead­ bureaucracy in the face of rising mass pledge by preventing the French and Ital­ elude a 24-hour m ilitary guard emphasis) ize major changes made since the ing judges, lawyers, and doctors struggles on the other. Both aspects of barbed wire around their man­ This report is in sharp contrast with the Daily Work­ revolution of April 1952 (2) oust­ who are calling for liberalization ian Communist parties from taking power. sions and their .gardens. “ This er’s July 2 editorial on the Poznan uprising which repeat­ ed a right-wing -military dicta­ according to the Russian news­ the crisis stem from the same fundamen­ They have also had experience in pres- hardly resembles '"the Socialist torship and' (3) put the liberal tal process — the extension of the world ed the Polish government’s frame-up slander that the paper Litera turn-ay a G a z e t a. ’ suring the Tito regime into supporting dream,” she observes. capitalist M1NR (National Rev­ There is widespread resentment anti-capitalist revolutionary movement of the imperialist war against the Korean For writing this article, Judith Poznan general strike was instigated and manipulated by olutionary Movement) -in power. and evasion of the present laws the working masses — including the revo­ people. The imperialists are scanning the Massiary has been denounced by imperialist spies. These changes include nationali­ among people without “ pull” lutionary ferment of the workers within ^Soviet crisis to find openings for impe­ Szabad Nep, official Party or Not that the new version of the Poznan events in zation of large tin mines, agra­ w i t h government bureaucrats rian reforms and universal suf­ the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. rialist diplomacy. And imperialist diplo­ gan, as “playing the enemy’s the Oct. 9 Daily Worker is accurate. It is false to call a who grant divorces, and without game” and providing grist for frage. The MNR has failed to money to pay the large fees The U.S. Big Business policy makers macy is only-the prelude to imperialist Western journalists. She boldly general strike and workers’ uprising a “ riot,” and it is false solve the country’s economic cri­ presently required. This is un­ are keenly interested in the crisis of the war. replies to the attack by declar­ to mix up activity of “ hooligans” with the mass action sis and liberate the economy dermining Soviet legality, the Soviet bureaucracy. The same factors The revolutionary workers, on the other ing that the time is past when of the workers during the struggle. Yet, this version rep­ from Wall Street domination, but quoted officials say. that caused the crisis of Stalinism have hand, see in the crisis of Stalinism the a statement 'by Szabad Nep was resents a retreat from the attempt to frame the Poznan so far every attempt by fascists equivalent to a decree. to launch a counter revolutionary prevented them from going through with class action of their soviet fellow work­ “The shame lies not in men militants as “ agents of a foreign imperialist power.” It drive, has 'been crushed by the their plans for a war against the Soviet ers. They hail the struggle against the Honing these luxury shops and is in line with the retreat that was forced on the Polish armed workers. That happened A Three-Month Subscription Union and the conquest of China for im­ Government by the very power of the mass movement once again last month, and the Kremlin rulers as part of thq world so­ mansions surrounded by barbed To THE MILITANT perialism. Despite their demagogic decla­ cialist struggle. And they do everything wire,” she states, “ It lies in the that represented the Poznan uprising. Congress is convened in an at­ rations they see nothing profitable to in their power to oppose imperialist diplo­ very .existence of these shops It is now the elementary duty of the Daily Worker mosphere dominated by the pow­ Only 50 Cents and viilas. Cease the privileges er of the workers’ organizations. capitalism in such revolutionary uprisings matic schemes and war plans by carry­ and they w ill no more be spoken editors to explain why they repeated the frame-up charge Armed miners guarded- a news­ 116 University PL. N. Y. 8, N. Y. as occurred in East Germany in 1953 and ing on the struggle for socialism in every of.” She also reports receiving in the firs t instance. The workers in the OP and the radi­ paper plant form erly owned hy in Poland in 1956. country. “ innumerable letters and phone cal working class as a whole deserve such an explanation. a tin magnate, which is expected The Real Louisville Heroes tut MILITA An Editorial The Superintendent of Public Schools sight for the Louisville defendants, we VOLUME XX MONDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1956 NUMBER 42 in Louisville, Ky., has been made into again salute them for their magnificent something of a public hero because he battle. They struck a pioneering blow obeyed the law by proceeding to inter­ against Jim Crow and then by their de­ grate the public school system in that fense against the “ sedition” charge help­ Louisville Defendants Thank Supporters city. But the real heroes of the desegraga- ed to preserve civil liberties for all. [The M ilitant received the following letter from the Louis- ’J tion battle in Louisville are Andrew and An isolated band of individuals under \ille, Ky., ¡Defendants. The case involves Carl and Anne Braden heavy fire, the Louisville defendants ap­ nia, and Ohio, in addition to would be arrested. There was| carried on without the help of Charlotte Wade, Carl and Anne Braden and others who were indicted for “ sedition” because they aided Kentucky. In the South, these no trouble. many, many people like you. We and their courageous associates in the pealed for aid to every group with a a Negro family, the Wades, in buying a home in a previously all-, laws remain a threat against hope- you will feel that by help­ white area. The letter, dated Sept. 24, was sent to all organiza­ Louisville had come a long fight against racist violence and legal stake in civil rights and civil liberties. those working fo r an end of ra­ way in two years. Much, it is ing in this case you, too, have persecution. But they refused to buy this aid with tions and individuals who protested the ” Louisville frame-up. It cial segregation and discrimina­ made a very real contribution reports on the present status of the case.-— Ed.] true, remains to be done: the Two and a half years ago, the Bradens red-baiting statements such as a number tion. problem of segregated housing toward progress in the South. Dear Friends: ------A ll of those involved in the remains much as it was two I f you do not hear from us again, bought a house in a lily-white suburb of of figures in the labor and Negro move­ We are w riting to thank you versal would mean automatic case are trying to put their lives you can assume that the charges ments wanted as proof of their innocence years ago; more complete school Louisville for resale to Andrew Wade IV, for your support in our 2%-year dismissal Af charges against the back together and to look to the integration must be achieved, against us were dismissed in a young Negro veteran seeking a decent of “subversion.” Sticking stubbornly to struggle against state sedition six other defendants, since the future. We who were charged and job discrimination is still' November and that no new home for his family. the issues, they broke through to win the laws and segregation in Kentucky.! indictments were identical. How­ with sedition have had trouble a major problem. But progress charges were brought. When the Wades moved in, Klan-type support of important sectors of the labor, We want at the same time to' ever, Judge L. R. Curtis of Crim­ finding jobs op holding jobs once has been made. I f we have con­ Gratefully yours, bring you up to date on our inal Court has refused to dismiss we get them. For this reason, tributed to that progress — even Carl Braden violence erupted and culminated in the liberal, Negro and radical movements. situation. | the other indictments because of some of us have had to leave Of special importance to them in this if merely by serving as light­ Anne Braden dynamiting of their home. Local and state We wish we could w rite each opposition from the prosecutor,! Louisville to get employment, ning rods fo r some of the an­ > Vernon Bown but others are hoping to stay authorities sprang into action — not was the work of the Emergency Civil individual and organization ,a Commonwealth’s Attorney A. cient prejudice and fu ry — we I. O. Ford here. They want to remain in against the racists who committed the Liberties Committee, the non-partisan de personal letter. We know many Scott Hamilton. feel that our efforts were not Louise Gilbert the South, where there is still of you personally and we feel The prosecutor claimed he in vain. Lewis Lubka crime — but against the Bradens and fense group which was the fir s t to come much to be done. other decent whites who had come for­ to their aid and publicize their case. that we know even those we have might want to try the others for We could not, of Course, have La Roe Spiker not met because we have worked sedition against Kentucky alone, WADE’S FIGHT FOR HOME ward to defend the Wade home. The While labor as a whole failed to extend together fo r a common goal. But, although the charge of alleged M r. and Mrs. Andrew Wade state charged them with exploding the support, help did come from the United since this letter w ill go to'm any sedition against- Kentucky had IV, the (Negro couple whose ef­ individuals and organizations, a been a part of the indictment dynamite and never apprehended the real Packing House Workers, The United' Elec­ forts to obtain decent housing! personal letter to each is not against Carl Braden. Hamilton criminals. Knowing that they could not trical Workers, the Michigan CIO Coun­ led to such bitter reprisals said he also wants to keep the cil and many local union bodies. Signifi­ possible. against them and the white peo­ make the dynamite accusation stick, but books and private papers ille ­ ple who supported them, are s till determined to victimize these champions cantly, the principled course pursued by CHARGES STILL PENDING gally seized at the homes of the I in a court battle over possession of Negro rights, the state also indicted the Louisville defendants won backing You probably know that the defendants. He told Judge Cur­ Kentucky Court of Appeals set tis he would have to return these of the house in the suburbs. them under an ancient “sedition” statute. from most of the radical tendencies, in­ Foreclosure suits by the bank Carl Braden was convicted in Dec. 1954, cluding the Socialist, Communist and So. aside the 15-year sentence and if the charges were dropped. $5,000 fine imposed on Carl E ra Our next appearance in court and the builder are still pending but his conviction was reversed recently cialist Workers Party. Such solidarity in den. His conyiction was reversed' is still set fo r Nov. 12. We hope in Circuit Court. The house has following a U.S. Supreme Court decision action—which in recent years was achiev­ June 22, 1956, in compliance with the charges w ill be dismissed at not been repaired since it was nullifying the frame-up conviction of Com­ ed only in the Kutcher case — adds much the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that time. However, there >ap- dynamited by neighborhood ra­ of A p ril 2 that state sedition pears to be an understanding cists on June 27, 1954. Because munist Party leader Steve Nelson under to the fight to preserve the Bill of Rights of the dispute over ownership, a Pennsylvania “sedition” statute. (The The Louisville freedom fighters declare laws are inoperative. The lower among the states to keep “ sedi­ court in Louisville waited until tion” prosecutions alive in the the court is still holding $5,500 high court ruled that all sugh state laws their intention to remain in the South Aug. 14 to release the $40,000 hope that Congress w ill validate paid by the insurance company. are unconstitutional.) Now, according to “ where there is still mulch to be done” in bond posted fo r Carl, and this state sedition laws. Prosecutions It will interest you to know their letter, which we publish on this page, the battle against Jim Crow. We are con. money has now been returned to arising under the outlawed sedi­ that Andrew Wade — undaunt­ the Louisville defendants seek to win dis* fident they will do all they promise, and those who provided it. tion statutes are still pending ed by all that happened to him I t was assumed that the re­ in New Hampshire, Pennsylva- as a result of his search fo r a missal of charges against the others. we pledge our continued support in these house — was among Negroes With the prospect of final victory in endeavors. who took the lead this year in breaking, down segregation in Louisville parks, once legal ob­ stacles were removed by the courts. Rubber Workers Convention Another heartening develop­ ment must be mentioned. On Sept 10. 1956, both Louisville and Jefferson County desegregated ANNE AND CARL BRADEN at his trial for “sedition” their schools without incident. Upholds 30-Hour Work Week in Louisville, Dec. 7, 1954. Carl Braden’s conviction was re­ The actual amount of integration versed last July'. But before it was he spent seven months was disappointing to some, for By Della Rossa nationally. Most rubber workers son. For how a. shorter work in jail while his friends were raising $40,000 bail for his re- the school board had encourag­ in Akron and Los Angeles, the week is to be promoted by lease pending appeal. A proposal from top officials two big centers fo r the industry, lengthening' it in the industry’s ed white parents to transfer of the United Rubber Workers! work a six-hour day, six-day main plants is something the children out of previously all- to abandon the six-hour day for week. (The sixth day is over­ top officials do not explain. Negro schools and Negro parents the industry was rejected after time.) The real motivation for the to transfer children out of pre­ Expose Ballot Rights two hours of stormy debate by One of the arguments advanc­ proposal would seem to be thai viously all-white schools. But, delegates at the URW conven­ ed by the top officials for their the URW officials are banking despite this, there are numerous tion at Long Beach, Calif. proposal is that it would lay the on continued comparative full mixed classes in both elementary Labor’s Daily reports, Oct. 2, groundwork for a shorter work j employment — based on a wai and high schools. I t was a real Attack In N.Y. Paper that this was a “ surprise ac­ week throughout the industry. economy. Therefore they aw step forward fo r this city on the [We reprint herewith the story on the challenge to tion” to tlie officials, who pro­ But this argument sounds | ready to yield the six-hour day edge of Mason and Dixon’s Line the SWP’s ballot rights that appeared in the Sept. 28 posed a straight eight-hour day more like an excuse than a rea- to the employers as a concessior Many people believe that the to obtain higher wages. smoothness with which this was Catskill Daily Mail, an upstate N. Y. newspaper.—Ed.] Rubber workers who fought to ANDREW WADE IV and his wife, CHARLOTTE, heroic accomplished was at least partly His firm faith in the two- crat, is expected to be a very CHICAGO SWIFT WORKERS GET retain the six-hour day believe fighters against segregation in Kentucky, are shown with due to the lessons learned in party system of politics and that unemployment is already a their two daughters, Andrea and Rosemary. Dynamite exploded Louisville as a result of the government impelled him to close one, and the presidential threat in the industry. Jobless­ by racists on June ¡27, 1954, wrecked their home. Little Rose­ violence against the Wades. You challenge the rig ht of the So­ vote may be equally Close. Un­ ness would worsen if plants now mary (rig h t) happened to be away that night or she would w ill recall that the original Su­ cial ist Workers Party to ap­ der no circumstances could the LESSON ON ‘LABOR’S FRIENDS’ on a short work day should eli­ Socialist Worker slate draw a not be alive today. preme Court decision on school pear on the ballot in the Novem­ By Howard Mayhew minate one entire shift as they large vote, but even a few thou­ segregation was handed down in ber election, Frank Tarallo, 60 changed over to an eight-hour sand votes, taken from the Demo­ Candidate for Congress, 2nd Dist., 111. May, 1954, just as the Wades New St., Coxsackie, has told the day. crats, could throw the state into took possession of their house — Daily Mail. CHICAGO — The real nature of the Democratic party Technical advances such as au­ and it was dynamited shortly the Republican column. was clearly exposed by its strike-breaking efforts in the tomation would further increase ...Cowley Hits Ban thereafter. “ I just believe in the two- It is taken for granted that recently concluded strike of the United Packinghouse the number of unemployed. In party system — that’s it,” said the Socialist Workers Party Workers of America against?------1947. the industry manufactured (Continued from page 1) NEUTRALS LINE UP Mr. Tarallo. could not attract many votes Swift & Company in this city.l sereen out those who m ight be 100 million tires w ith 160,000 leaders are urging that they vote for the Democrats. But People of good w ill in the com­ Mr. Tarallo, a past Grand from the Republican column. The The grim determination of the headed fo r the Sw ift plant. 1947, the industry manufactured many former ALP’ers are reluctant to vote for a Big munity were amazed, as were we, Knight of the Coxsackie Knights party is now carrying on an ac­ Swift workers to bring this Democratic Mayor Daley’s po- workers, supporters of the six- at the fury which efforts at ra­ of Columbus, a former Demo­ tive campaign in the state for giant of the packing industry to 1 *'ce, intervening actively for the hour day pointed out at the con­ Business party — and that’s what the Democratic Party cial integration had aroused in cratic committeemaft, is a skilled Farrell Dobbs, its presidential terms was demonstrated from j packing bosses, arrested 19 vention, while in 1955, 116 m il­ is. Moreover, several important leaders of the ALP — this border city. Many of these machine operator, employed at candidate. M r. Dobbs received the firs t day of the strike by] strikers o ff the picket line. To lion tires were produced by only namely Clifford McAvoy, the ALP candidate for mayor people remained silent during the W atervliet Arsenal. He has 2,212 votes in New York State their militancy and solidarity on| delay booking those arrested and 90,000 workers. This is a produc­ in 1953, and Vincent Hallinan, the ALP-Progressive Par­ the attacks on the Wades and challenged the validity of the when he ran fo r president in nominating petitions filed by the thc picketlines. Thousands of thus delay their return to the tiv ity boost of 22% in eight ty candidate for President in 1952 — are urging their their freinds, but they evident­ 1952. pickets ringed the gates. No picket line, the' strikers were years. ly resolved that this kind of Socialist Workers' Patty from scab went through unchallenged. held in the streets in the patrol former followers to vote for the candidates of the So­ thing would not be allowed to 13 counties of the state, includ­ 30-FOR-40 DEMANDS Cars, buses and trucks were wagons. Their fellow-workers be­ cialist Workers Party. happen again. In the fa ll of ing Greene. [Coxsackie and Cats­ cleared with the union hall to came aware of what was hap­ The rubber workers won the The Socialist Workers Party qualified for a place 1954 they began to prepare the kill are both located in Greene Myra Tanner Weiss pening and lodged a strong' pro­ 30-hour week in the 1935 sit- community fo r peaceful school County. — Ed.] down strike that established on the ballot by collecting 15,100 signatures on its peti­ test against this anti-labor tac­ tions while only 12,000 are legally required. These in ­ integration. Asked who helped him in the Tour Information BOOKS - PAMPHLETS tic to Captain Barnes, the head their union. They fought off a As a result, people who were very considerable task of check­ On Socialism of the strike-breaking division number of attempts since then cluded well over 100 signatures in each of the state’s 61 neutral and silent 2'& years ago ing signatures in 13 counties, to make them yield it up. and the Labor who was representing Mayor Da­ counties. In 1948 and 1952, the Socialist Workers Party are now actively supporting in­ Mr. Tarallo replied: PHILADELPHIA The decision of the recent tegration moves. The rabid se­ ley at the scene of the strike. presidential ticket qualified for the ballot after following “ 1 had a couple of friends help­ “The Next Great Step: Movement URW convention to retain the gregationists are still active, too. The police then stopped the the identical procedure. This year an objection to the ing me.” A Labor Party of the Negro Order Free Catalog from: harassment. six-hour day bolsters the demand The same ones who helped in­ Mr. Tarallo is not enrolled in and White Workers.” PIONEER PUBLISHER As a result of the strike ex­ of an ever increasing section (.signatures was cooked up by the Democratic machine. cite violence against the Wades either party at present. In 1946 116 University Place perience with the cops, many of the labor movement fo r a Ashamed to do it openly in the name of Democratic formed a White Citizens Coun­ Sat., Oct. 20 — 8:30 P.M. and 1947, he operated a tavern New York 3, N. Y. of the workers are now question­ working day of similar duration. candidates, the objection was camouflaged as the act of cil and tried to organize oppo­ 1303 W. Girard Ave. at 8 Reed St., Coxsackie. (Pensylvania Ballot Name: ing the backing union officials Thus Ford Local 600 of the sition to integrated schools. But an independent citizen presumably unaffiliated with the Militant Workers Party.) give to the local Democratic United Auto Workers launched Democrats. this time, encouraged by many Although the identity of Mr. SWP Program Party machine. International un­ a Campaign last July to win 30- influential citizens, the police let Tarallo’s supporters was not re­ for-40 in the next UAW con­ The Socialist Workers Party has ripped off this ion representatives assured the it be known that troublemakers vealed, the net effect of his move, On Taxes strikers that Mayor Daley and tract. The local’s resolution camouflage. First, the independent citizen while registered if successful, would be to keep states that the shorter work o ff the ballot a party that could SEATTLE “ Tax the rich, not the )x>or. his cops are “ your friends.” as non-affiliated at present, is a former Democratic Com­ These assertions had a hollow- week demand is the only mean- mitteeman in his district. Secondly, the work of drawing very well draw enough votes “ Why American Workers Need Repeal all payroll and sales inful answer to increasing un­ Disenfranchised ring as the workers stood up from Democratic candidates to A Labor Party” taxes. Abolish all forms of employment caused by automa­ up objections to eadh of the signatures in Ms, county was against Daley’s cops who were swing a close election over to Sat., Oct. 27 — 8:00 P.M. hidden taxes. No taxes on in­ tion, and other technical ad­ done by the chairman of the Democratic County Commit­ assisting the company and try ­ Voter Complains the Republicans. The senatorial Polish Hall comes under $7,500 a year. A vances. tee and a Democratic committeewoman. S im ilarly, in each race between Jacob K. Javits. 100% tax an all incomes over ing to weaken the strike. The 1711 - 18th Ave. The 30-for-40 demand has been Republican, and New York’s $25,000 a year. A 100% tax Sw ift workers had the oppor­ of the 13 counties where the SWP petitions were chal­ advocated within the UAW for About Law mayor Robert F. Wagner, Demo­ Questions, Discussion, Social on all profits on war goods.” tunity to see on whose side these lenged, it was the Democratic machine that did the dirty some time, but Local 600’s reso­ [The following letter was print­ For a free copy of the SWP “ friends of labor” really stood work that was publicly represented as the doings of an Donation — 50c lution calls for an all-out fight ed in the Sept. 30 New York platform write to 116 Univer­ in a strike. to secure it in the 1958 contract. independents sity Place, New York 3, N.Y. Post. — Ed.] Unemployed Free At (he hearing in Albany — it was in DeSapio’s~of- I phoned the Board of Elec­ NEW YORK fice with his assistant sitting as judge — the Socialist tion's in Manhattan to ■ inquire Workers Party showed that in Dutchess County the Demo­ about my voting status. I was Militant Forum By James P. Gannon . S Special Offer! cratic election commissioner who passed on the objections told I could not vote and am in Farrell Dobbs fact disenfranchised by law com­ Should radical-minded workers support liberal Democrats to the SWP signatures had a few days before drawn up pletely fo r this election. ♦ and Republicans? Are they wasting their ballot by voting so­ The iww the particular objections. Thus he was passing official These are the simple circum­ Tour Information cialist? How do the different working-class parties answer judgment on his own charges. stances: I moved into Manhattan “ Suez and the The Great Anticipation BUFFALO these questions? YVhat is the platform of the Socialist Work­ on the 10th of September after ers Tarty in the 1956 campaign? For clear-cut answers to these It was shown that in the case of another county that World Crisis” Sat., Oct. 27 — 8 P.M. residing and voting fo r 33 years “ The CIO movement. . . is questions take advantage of our special election-period offer the objections were permeated with fraud. Names, re­ only a small downpayment on 831 Main St. from one address in Westchester Speaker: to new readers. Get a three-month introductory subscription jected as those of people not registered, were shown in a County. the demands presented to the ♦ to the M ilitant for only 50 cents. spot chck to be registered in case a fte r case. B u t DeSapio The Board of Elections told me Vincent Copeland future by the pioneers who YOUNGSTOWN rules the roost in Albany and the two minor parties were I have not lived in the city long SWP Organizer, N. Y’. Local assembled at. the 1905 Con­ “How to End All Wars” ruled off the ballot. enough to qualify.at; a voter here / ' vention to start the IWW The Militant1 at election time and cannot vote Fri., Oct. 19 — 8:00 P.M. on its way.” — Cannon. <' Fri., Oct. 19— 8 P.M. The Socialist Workers Party is fighting this out­ 44 pages, 25 cents Youngstown Hotel 116 University Place from my last residence because rageous ruling. It is going to the courts. Regardless of I do not live there any more. 116 University Place Shrine Room New York 3, N. Y. Order from: what party you intend to vote for — if you believe in I am shocked, chagrined and New York 3, N.Y. t ♦ Name ...... free elections and the right of minority parties to a place hurt, that a fundamental right of Pioneer Publishers CLEVELAND citizenship under these circum­ Street ...... Zone on the ballot, then help in this fight! Protest to the ♦ 116 University Place Sun., Oct. 21 — 3 P.M. stances is denied me. Haven’t I City ...... State Secretary of State. Write to the Socialist Workers Party Questions and Discussion New York 3, N.Y. 10609 Superior Avenue any recourse ? for further information on how to help. S. P. F in k