Workers-Of The World, Unite! The Only Road In Palestine See Page 3 the MILITANPUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE INTERESTS OF THE WORKING PEOPLE T VOL. X — No. 36 NEW YORK, N. Y., SATURDAY. SEPTEMBER 7, 1946 401 PRICE: FIVE CENTS LYNCHERS NAMED BY NEGRO VICTIM Known Murderers A t Large Allied Powers Restore Greek King But Officials Do Not Act Giving A Fascist The Boot When a gang of white lynchers at Minden, Price Ceilings Louisiana, murdered John C. Jones, 28-year-old Hated Tyrant Gets Back Throne Ne%ro veteran, they also le ft fo r dead another victim, Albert Harris Jr., 17-year-old Negro youth. Through Hitler-Style Plebiscite On Meat To That was on August 8. Allied military force reinstated the despotic Glucks- Last week, Albert Harris “returned from the berg dynasty in last week-end. The farce was mask­ Hit New High dead” to name at least five of the killers who tor- ed by a plebiscite to give the illusion the Greek people tured Jones to death want this wretched puppet of Anglo-American imperial­ The Truman administra­ and Albert Jr. were released from ism. But long in advance of the “ voting,” the return of tion last week gave another with whip, blow-torch jail. Outside the ja il they were George II had been set for September 14. terrific boost to price ceilings and meat cleaver. seized by the waiting lynch mob and driven into the swamps. Har­ Ousted once before and exiled®' of meat and other foods. In New York City under the for 11 years, this hated despot protection of the National Asso­ ris was beaten with whips for was put back on the throne in Secretary of Agriculture An­ ciation for the Advancement of hours. Finally, a terrible blow 1935 through a similar rigged U. S. Imperialists derson, who has unrestricted Colored People, the youth who from a gun knocked him uncon­ election. In plebiscites the re­ power to fix meat price ceilings, survived the lynch attempt told scious. He was left for dead. gime rounds up the population Intensify Drive granted new livestock prices that reporters the details of the tor- He came to in the morning and forces them into the voting will raise beef 15 per cent and ture*-murder of Jones and of his and found Jones still alive, his booth. Whoever votes against pork more than 8 per cent above own almost miraculous escape. face charred by a blow-torch, his hands chopped off. He died the regime is a marked man. Toward New War the June 30 ceiling prices. The Names of 13 white men, in ­ Just after Albert gave him wafar, Dictators consider plebiscites one workers’ food budget is evapor­ cluding three deputy sheriffs, Albert made his way to rela­ of the most cunning means of By Joseph Hansen ating while Washington throws who participated in the race- tives, who quickly and secretly “ proving” they represent the ever fatter profts to the big meat hate killing have been turned The index of Wall Street’s sent him north. For a time his people. Hitler, for instance, pe­ packers and ranchers. over to the FBI-by NAACP in ­ preparations to plunge the whereabouts were' unknown. riodically staged plebiscites. All fresh fruits and vegetables vestigators. United States into a Third Some of the lynchers were re­ After the 1935 plebiscite, except oranges and bananas, Young Harris and Jones had World War reached a new were freed from price control ported trailing him to Texas. _ George II put the bloody Metax- been arrested on July 31 for al­ Now, the question is: What is as dictatorship in power. Terror high last week. The dispatch of by Anderson. Many canned and legedly going into the yard of a the government going to do about ruled Greece until the outbreak a battleship to Turkey a short frozen fruits and vegetables also white woman to try to rape her. the known Minden lynchers? For of the war. When the Nazis en­ while ago was considered an om­ were decontrolled, together with I t was a cooked-up charge and weeks, the government has failed tered, George n fled. inous indication of the mounting many other items, including war fever. But on August 27, a the woman involved refused to to act in the case of the two Ne­ wool, hay, gum resin, peanuts file a complaint. KILLED HUNDREDS 45,000-ton aircraft carrier and and peanut oil products. These gro couples lynched in Georgia The Greek people ended Nazi six other warships were ordered are heaped on top of thousands Harris was released and then last July. On July 29, the NAACP rule at the close of the war. But to visit Greek ports in the first of items already decontrolled. re-arrested two days later, after turned over names of several of Stalin made a secret deal with week of September in a bristling Deputy Sheriff Charles Edwards the Georgia killers to the FBI and Churchill; and the Stalinist- display of m ilitary power. BLUNT STATEMENT first beat up the boy’s father, Georgia authorities. The killers dominated EAM invited British . The new war crisis pivoted A blunt statement that price Alben Harris Sr. are still walking the streets. troops into Greece. Civil war this time on Greece. Anglo- control over dairy products will Nine days later, both Jones (See Editorial on page 4) raged until the British were American imperialism is consol­ not be restored was made by Roy firm ly entrenched. As a conces­ idating its grip on this unhappy L. Thompson, chairman of the sion to popular hatred of George land in preparation for eventual Price Decontrol Board. He con­ Escaped From Lynch Mob II, the British set up a regency. war on the Soviet Union. _ temptuously dismissed mislead­ The Greek Royalists, backed Greece is a strategic area, con­ ing contrary statements by OPA by London and Washington, have trolling the entrance to- the Black officials with the remark .that been mopping up for almost two Sea and to the countries of East­ all such decisions were within years, paving the way for the ern Europe flanking the Danube the Board’s province. “ Any king’s return. They are reported river. Military control of Greece White Attackers statements from any other source to have killed hundreds of vic­ likewise constitutes an “ anchor" MINNEAPOLIS LABOR whatsoever are merely supposi­ tims in the last weeks in pre­ for British sea lanes running Of Negro Girls tions or speculation and should paration for the plebiscite. through the Mediterranean. Con­ be treated as such,” he pro­ trol of Greece, moreover, rein­ POINTS THE WAY nounced. Washington intervened in » Greek politics on the side of the forces the imperialist strangle­ Get $10 Fine Equally fraudulent OPA claims dirty, hated king. A fleet of sev­ hold on the oil-rich Middle East. that meat prices would be “ rolled Three white hoodlums in Col­ en American warships moved in­ In World War m , Greece can Last week The Militant published an account of the back” to "near” June 30 levels to Greek waters just before the constitute a jumping-off place effective Minneapolis labor demonstration against Amer­ lins, Mississippi were let off with were dismissed by Anderson, who plebiscite and a flight .of Amer­ for armies that will knife up ica’s No. 1 fascist leader, G. L. K. Smith. a $10 fine last week after they said: “ Reports published from ican war planes over Athens was into Eastern Europe. It can be­ This successful anti-fascist action, in which the Minn­ pleaded guilty to attempt to as­ Washington to the effect there come an invaluable base for war­ announced to follow up the rig­ eapolis pickets repulsed Smith’s gang and drove it to sault *two Negro girls at the .would be a rollback of prices to ged voting. ships that will steam into the June 30 levels were premature. cover, provides an important lesson for labor and minority point of a gun. Thus the Greek quislings who Black Sea; and for planes load­ groups on how to fight the rising fascist movement. Price Administrator Paul Port­ collaborated with the Nazis dur­ ed with atomic bombs. The girls were sav.ed by their er did not make such a state­ ing the war and who are now That is why Washington and G. L. K. Smith and his America Firsters, the Ku Klux father, a Baptist minister, who Klan and similar groups are beginning to rear their heads ment, but publication of the re­ collaborating with London and London disregarded public con­ returned from a preaching en­ port made it appear that there Washington have been placed demnation for packing up the more boldly. They are spewing their anti-labor, race-hating gagement just in time to hear his was a basis for disagreement be­ back in the saddle. foul, reactionary Glucksberg dyn­ poison everywhere. They are organizing and inciting acts tween OPA and myself.” The world has been given an­ asty in a plebiscite modelled on of violence against the Negro people and other minority daughters scream. He fired his other demonstration of the real the Nazi pattern. Where cap­ groups. These are preparations for assaults tomorrow on shotgun at the assailants. They meaning of the Atlantic Char­ italism is at stake, these shouters the labor movement. returned the fire, then fled. ter and its "Pour Freedoms.” about “ democracy” do not hesi- The girls were intimidated into More on Greece on page 3. i Continued on Page 3) The fascists are organizing with the tacit or open sup­ IN THE NEWS port of public officials. They are getting finances from withdrawing the original com­ capitalists who seek to build the fascist movement in order plaints so that charges of “cre­ to destroy organized labor. ating a family disturbance” could Uncanny, Isn’t It? MacArthur Forbids Strikes The fascist movement will not bow to the “ silent treat­ be substituted. Then the white “ The Franklin D. Roosevelt, ment’ advocated by some union leaders, Stalinists and lib­ justice of the peace let the white largest and most powerful plane erals. It must be fought by the united action of labor, the hoodlums off with a light fine. carrier in the world, now accom­ Albert Harris, left for dead by a Louisiana lynch mob that In Japan; Threatens Force Negro people and all other minority groups. Two weeks ago in the same panied by a sizable task force, murdered a Negro veteran, is examined by Dr. Robert Wilker- is heading for Greece as a ges­ The American Imperialists, who are supposed to be That is what happened in Minneapolis. There a broad state, Mississippi state police led son. Harris and his father reached headquarters of NAACP a pack of 300 race-hating whites ture of friendship on a routine in New York, and have identified 13 of the killers. “ uprooting feudalism” and “ bringing democracy” to Japan, movement of AFL, CIO, Railroad Brotherhood unions, Ne­ cruise. Officially it Is gro, Jewish and veterans’ groups, and working-class poli­ in a savage armed man - hunt revealed their true reactionary face when on August 29 against 17 Negro men, women pure coincidence that the Roose­ an order was issued by Gen. MacArthur in Tokyo prohibit­ tical parties like the Socialist Workers Party, united in a and children who fled for their velt will cast anchor at what hap. ing “strikes, walkouts or other work stoppages which are powerful protest demonstration when Smith tried to hold lives into the swamps near Ma­ pens to be the height of Yugo­ Socialist Workers Party Files inimical to the objectives of »>— a fascist rally. gee. slav and Bulgarian pressure on the military occupation.” Zaibatsu family trusts. One They formed a m ilitant picket line. When the fascist Several Negroes have recently Greece. But our ships do manage sequence showed the Emperor to get around to European In accordance with this dic­ hoodlums attacked them, the pickets defended themselves been lynched in Mississippi. This fading from his traditional mi­ trouble-spots.” (N. Y. Times, N. Y. State Election Petitions tatorial decree, MacArthur di­ so successfully that Smith’s gang was put to rout. Previous­ is one of the Southern states litary uniform into civilian where Negroes have repeatedly Aug. 26.) , By Karolyn Kerry rected the puppet Japanese ly, in Chicago, Detroit, Los Angeles, San Francisco and * * * dress. been lynched on faked charges authorities to a three-day Even more revealing of Wall elsewhere, m ilitant and united anti-fascist action dealt New York SWP Campaign Manager strike of seamen at Sasebo. This of “ rape.” They don’t even get “ Peace" In Pieces Street’s policy in Japan is the Smith discouraging blows. a "tria l.” Mere accusation by a ALBANY, N. Y., Sept. 2. — The independent nomina­ was coupled with a threat to use banning of the film short, “A “ PARIS, Aug. 26 (AP). — American occupation troops if The time to nip the fascist movement in the bud is white person is a death sen­ Eighteen more words of the pre­ ting petitions of the Socialist Workers Party (Trotskyist) Year of Occupation.” now. Labor in Minneapolis is the latest to show the method tence. Japanese authorities found “ po­ SCENES CUT amble of the proposed Italian were filed here at 10 a.m. today as soon as the doors w'ere lice force” necessary to man the Among the scenes MacArth- peace treaty were accepted today opened in the State Capitol Building. This marks the first five ships that were tied up. by the Italian political and terri­ time in the history of the®- The order and the threat suf­ ur’s censors ordered kept off the screen were the following: torial commission of the Paris Trotskyist movement that a of the word “ independent.” Mead ficed to smash the strike. The Zaibatsu offices, with N. Y. Truck Drivers Strike peace conference, thus bringing ticket has been entered in and Lehman, the Democratic GETTING TOUGH comment that they are still rid­ the total number of words ap­ candidates, had top place on the (Special To The M ilita nt) the New York State elections. On August 28, MacArthur had ing the wave of de­ NEW YORK, Sept. 3. — Big Truck Association, the two main proved to 153 in four weeks of de­ Liberal Party petitions. The Lib­ The ticket is headed by Far­ issued another decree banning spite orders to dissolve. trucking fleet operators, arro­ grocery concerns, capitulated to employer groups, refused to at­ liberation. More than 55,000 eral Party’s haste to get its peti­ rell Dobbs for Governor, and in­ “ noisy, disorderly demonstra­ The imperial forests, with gantly rejecting a comprom­ the union’s final offer. They ac­ words in five treaties remain to tions in on the opening day was tend a meeting with city and cludes Joseph Hansen for U. S. tions” and threatened to put comment that the Emperor is cepted the compromise settle­ be considered.” intended to deceive New York ise settlement sponsored by union officials tb make such ar­ Senator, M ilton Richardson for them down with American Japan’s richest man. ment providing for an lS'A-cent * * ' voters by implying that it nom­ Mayor O’Dwyer and accepted by rangements. They ordered their Lieutenant - Governor, William troops if this were deemed “ ne­ Politicians conferring on sel­ the AFL Teamsters union, have an hour increase, the 40-hour inated candidates before, and trucks kept in a garage even if How About Moscow K itt for Comptroller and Sylvia cessary.” ection of a new premier. forced a paralyzing strike of week instead of the previous 44, independent of, the Democratic Blecker for Attorney General. Party. The Japanese Government Yufcio Ozaki addressing the some 11,000 truck drivers here and improved vacation sched­ the union authorizes drivers to Trials *Confessionsi? The SWP filed with 23.727 Immediately got tough with un­ parliament, with accompanying in America’s greatest commer­ ules. transport emergency supplies. “ MOSCOW, Aug. 29 (UP). — From a slightly different angle signatures. This total was sec­ ionized employes, threatening comment: “ The new Diet^ls so cial center. Possibility that the strike may ODwyer, who won a reputa­ Pravda today criticized two the Stalinists were playing the railway workers with “ serious conservative that 88-year-old spread, unless quickly settled, was tion for ruthless strikebreaking children’s magazines for ‘feeding ond only to the number present­ same game. A week ago Robert results” if they tried to dem­ Ozaki is said to be its most pro­ The full effects of the strike, seen In the appeal for support in the tugboat, Western Union children nonsensical fairy tales, ed by the Liberal Party, but ex­ Thompson, CP candidate for onstrate “the union’s strength.” gressive member.” which began officially at mid­ from Local 807 to two other large and other strikes last winter and which take the youthful reader ceeded the claimed total of the Governor, declared his party united States censors are A line of jobless seeking work. night Saturday, are just begin­ New York teamsters locals, 816 spring, is evidently trying to rep­ out of the realm of reality.’ ” Socialist Party by almost 9,000 would probably withdraw in fav­ studiously bolstering the pres­ ning to be felt today, after the and the total of the Communist Labor demonstrations with and 282. resent himself as a “ friend of • * * or of the Democratic ALP slate tige of the Mikado and of the statistics of union growth. Labor Day week-end. Local 807, Although the union has agreed labor”—the November elections (Stalinist) Party by almost 4,000. to “forge a Democratic-labor- Japanese trusts that plunged A sequence that tried to prove AFL International Brotherhood to move what are termed vital are coming on. Also? These figures give a good indi­ progressive coalition” against the country into war. A film Japanese peasants were freely of Teamsters, whose members supplies, such as milk and med­ The Mayor called a special “Brewery officials ^plained cation of the vitality of the var­ Dewey. The presentation of their, short, “The Tragedy of Japan,” granted land, whereas the Rus­ are on strike, is patrolling docks ical goods, the operators have re­ conference for eleven this morn­ the rise in bottled beer output ious parties. Only the Liberals, petitions changes nothing but was banned on August 23. A sian peasants in 1917 had to and other trucking areas to see fused to cooperate in any such ing to try to get a settlement . . . resulted from a variety of who are backed by the huge appearances. The CP slate will few shots mildly criticized the overthrow Czarism for similar that no struck trucks are moved. emergency arrangements. before the strike breaks in full causes . . . They also admitted treasury of the ILGWU, were either be withdrawn directly or Japanese militarists, leading results. Just before the strike deadline, Representatives of the Motor force and spreads. The recalci­ that profits are greater in the able to surpass our total. it will remain on the ballot to political figures of the war- See editorial 'Export Dem- operators of 1,500 trucks, in­ Carrier Association of New Yor.k trant operators have threatened sale of the bottled product.) The petitions presented by the avoid embarrassing the Demo­ time dictatorship, and the giant o c ra c y ; i p age 4. cluding several of the big chain and the New York State Motor to boycott the conference. N. Y. Times, Aug. 28.) Liberal Party made a mockery crats w ith direct support. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, .1946 PAGE TW O THE MILITANT Big Akron Locals To Advocate Sliding Scale Red-Baiters Ban Program At CIO United Rubber Workers Convention Communists In By Milton Alvin Phila. CIO Body (Special to The M ilitant) Police Attack NMU Pickets Negro-Haters By H. Newell AKRON, O., Aug. 29—The eleventh annual convention (Special to The M ilitant) of the CIO United Rubber Workers of America w ill convene PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 28 — Top CIO officials in this in San Francisco on September 16. This w ill be the first Seek To Evict area climaxed a series of reactionary red-baiting actions convention of a large CIO union since the end of the great by adopting a resolution barring “Communists” from hold­ Detroit SWP ing office In the local CIO Council. They side-stepped, strike wave, the breaking of the railroad strike by Truman (Special to The Militant) however, another resolution® and the recent quickening pace of runaway prices. It w ill DETROIT, Aug. 26 — The of the most unrestrained politely told “Yes.” Meekly, he- be the first opportunity for a CIO union convention to Detroit City Plan Commis­ red-baiters to "ferret out all resumed his seat. Delegates who came to the sion held a hearing today on Communists and sympathizers come to grips w ith the pro-® the Council with the intention posal will undoubtedly meet from the local unions affiliated the petition submitted by of backing a fight against the found social problems that with a great deal of support in with the Council.” The resolu­ property owners asking that red-baiters, but who were look­ now face the American the convention. The rubber in ­ tion of the CIO Council Execu­ the Socialist Workers Party be ing to the Stalinists to lead the dustry employs a large num­ tive Board was made public yes­ workers. ousted from its headquarters at struggle, were left disorganized ber of Negro workers. They are terday. 6108 Linwood Avenue, on. the by the cowardly surrender of the The major issue that will face good unionists and in many While directed immediately grounds that Negroes attend Stalinist union leaders. They were the delegates w ill undoubtedly be cases leaders of their locals. against members of the Com­ party meetings. unable to rally opposition to the and prices. The three munist (Stalinist) Party, the The Stalinist hatchet - man. Eugene Kidd, spokesman for witch-hunting union-splitters. resolution is also designed to vic­ powerful Akron locals and sev­ Organizational Director H. N. property owners likewise com­ Later It was learned that a timize genuine union militants eral of the other larger URWA Eagle, has continued his cam­ plained that at a public meet­ deal had been made for the and all workers holding radical paign of slander against

with unrestricted .Jewish immigration into Palestine, but place, and regardless of Arab or Jewish participation if it ialist oppression of both the Arab and Jewish masses. By By The Editors try to achieve it by flouting the wishes o i the Arab masses does, one thing is abundantly clear: There can be no this action, too, they exacerbate Arab hatred of the Jews What is the real solution for the Arab-Jewish problem and by agreement with the imperialists. They continue solution to the Palestine problem so long as the country and render all the more difficult a solution in the interests In Palestine? the bankrupt policy of allying themselves with the imper­ is ruled by the British overlords.. of both. • The problem is essentially one of freeing that unhappy ialists against the Arab masses, in the illusory hope that All sorts of politicians, from President Truman down, The imperative need is to rally both Arabs and Jews land from the cruel grip of British imperialism. British they will be able by this means to establish Jewish sover­ have shed crocodile tears over the bitter plight of the Eu­ around the slogans of “Self-determination for Palestine!” colonial rule is maintained in Palestine, as throughout eignty in Palestine. ropean Jews, just as the members of the present British “Withdraw the British .Troops!” “ Let the Arab and Jewish the rest of the Empire, by the methods of force and violence. Reporting directly from Palestine, the Trotskyist “ Labor” Government did before they took over the running Masses Decide Their Own Destiny!" writer, T. Cliff, makes the following pointed observation of the British Empire. The plight of the Jewish people is During centuries of colonial conquest and domination, United, the Arab and Jewish masses can expel the im­ on the role of Zionism: indeed tragic. They suffered indescribably during the war. perialist violators. In this struggle an unbreakable unity the British imperialists have acquired a diabolical skill in “In the incitement of national hatred imperialism is It is estimated that a total of six to eight million Jews inciting bloody fratricidal war among their colonial slaves, would be forged, racial and national passions would be fully assisted by the Zionist movement, despite the friction were exterminated in Europe. The fascist scum who spread dissolved. Jewish immigration into a FREE PALESTINE thus dividing them and insuring their continued subjection. between them. Thus, for instance, in these very days, a the propaganda that World War II was fought by the They set Moslems against Hindus, Arabs against Jews, would benefit both Jews and Arabs and could be peace­ picket of some scores of Zionists is posted at the entrance “democratic” imperialist powers in behalf of the Jews, now fully arranged by mutual agreement. and then point hypocritically to-the terrible consequences to the Arab market beside Tel Aviv to prevent Jews from have the satisfaction of seeing the pitiful remnants of the that ensue as justification for continued British rule. These buying Arab products. The beating of Arabs, throwing of Jewish people held in camps for “ displaced persons” in That Arab-Jewish unity is possible has been demon­ colonial peoples, you see, are not fit for se'.f-rule. They petrol on the products of fellaheen (peasants) who daje Europe or dumped into British concentration camps on the strated in the united strike struggles of Arab and Jewish need the protection of British arms. They need the wisdom to offer their wares to Jewish customers and similar acts island of Cyprus. 1 workers and by the emergence in the Near East of a social­ and the “ guiding hand” of the benevolent British “ arbiter” are everyday occurrences. The demand of the Zionists for Anyone who offers Palestine as the solution for the ist, anti-imperialist workers’ movement. Just as in this who impartially oppresses and exploits all the nationalities a Jewish state is but fuel on the fire of imperialist provoca­ plight of the Jews without recognizing that the first task country the Negro people and the national minorities must and religious groupings of the vast Empire. tion.” (Fourth International, September 1946.) in Palestine, and throughout the Near East, is to break look to the working class, and to the unity between them The London conference called for September 9 to The anti-Jewish chauvinism of the Arab League thus the despotic grip of British imperialism, is offering no solu­ that is forged in the fire of the class struggle, as the solu­ deal with the Palestine problem is the latest move of the has its counterpart in the anti-Arab chauvinism of the tion at all. What is needed — and nothing short of it will tion to Jim Crow and racial discrimination, so in Palestine British overlords to perpetuate their rule in Palestine. Those Zionists. The British imperialists lord it over both and suffice — is an implacable struggle to oust the imperialist the solution lies in the unity of the Jewish and Arab worker* invited to the conference—the Arab League and the direct their violence alternately against the Arabs and the slavedrivers, a joint struggle of both the Arab and Jewish and peasants — DIRECTED AGAINST BRITISH IMPER­ IALISM. Jewish Agency for Palestine (Zionists)—are playing out Jews. In 1936-39, for example, the British waged a major masses against a common enemy in a common cause. their role like well-rehearsed actors in a-somber tragedy. war against the Arabs. They killed thousands, imprisoned The Jewish people and the Arabs have a common inter­ Since both the Zionist movement and the Arab League The Arab League, $hich is the federal body of the tens of thousands. “ Every fifth or sixth adult spent some est in expelling a common oppressor and this furnishes a are the native bourgeois tools of British imperialism, the British puppet governments in all the Arab states,’ de­ time behind bars in those days. Whole villages were wiped basis for unity of their forces. The cry of the Zionists for masses must break from these treacherous organization* clared that it will not sit in conference with the Zionists. out entirely in bombardments,” Cliff reports. free Jewish immigration into Palestine must be viewed and forge a new fighting instrument, a new revolutionary I t is prepared to meet with the imperialist oppressors of Today the British are waging war against the Jews. in the light of this pressing need. Jewish immigration into Marxist party that will unite them politically for a fight the Arab people, but not with the Zionists. The Arab Today they are “protecting” the Arabs against Jewish in­ Palestine by sanction of the British imperialists, and under to the finish against all their class enemies. leaders thus make it appear that the Zionists are the main filtration into Palestine. Just as in India, they are foment­ their control, will only strengthen the hand of these vio­ To save the many thousands of Jews now forced to enemy of the Arab people. ing communal conflicts as a cold-blooded tactic to preserve lators and plunderers. migrate, we repeat what we have said many times before in The Jewish Agency for Palestine has intimated that it their own domination over both the Jewish and Arab peo­ By addressing to the British Government the demand our editorial columns: OPEN THE DOORS OF AMERICA will reject the British invitation to the London conference ples. Everything and everybody is fair game for the profit- that Palestine be thrown open to Jewish immigration, the TO THE HOMELESS JEWS! This demand must be taken because of “ British insistence on making a discussion of hungry coupon clippers in London. Heedless of the number Zionists continue to recognize and endorse British imperial­ up and pressed by organized labor in America. Workers In the Morrison plan for ^ federated Palestine the first item of victims, they hold to their bloody imperialist course. ist rule over the country and demonstrate once more that other lands must likewise demand that these homeless on the agenda.” The Zionists are concerned above all else Whether or not the London conference actually takes they are willing to serve the British as tools in the imper­ people be admitted to their countries. Eyewitness Account From Greece Two Faces Of Stalinism On Arab-Jewish Problem “Let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth.” This Biblical admonition is being applied Tells Crisis Leading To Plebiscite with great zeal by the Kremlin. Thus the American Communist (Stalinist) Party and the Arab Commun­ By Jean Paul Martin - w - etc. have flocked to the banker of ist (Stalinist) Party have diametrically opposite posi­ i Special to The M ilitant) Starving Family In Greece Colonel Grivas. tions on a question of great importance to the Jews ATHENS, Greece, Aug. 23—A totalitarian dictatorship Various bands are operating and Arabs. is strangling Greece with the blessing of the British Labor in the countryside. Composed of ?In an article praising “The Grand Mufti,” the Government. The-defeat suffered in December 1944 by the former soldiers in the reaction­ Arab Stalinist weekly Al-Ittihad, declared in the June ary Greek army and white par­ popular masses in their struggle against Greek reaction 23, 1946 issue: “Our struggling nation honors those and British imperialism has®— tisans, they plunder the peas­ who sacrifice themselves. The Arab nation in Pales­ been followed by a counter­ to sell clothing, furniture, every­ ants, terrorizing whole regions. revolutionary offensive. thing. They swoop down from the tine has shown vitality and faithfulness to its in­ Tuberculosis rages among the mountains, round the village terests and those who work for them. Arab Palestine December 1944 gave the Greek starving masses. The tubercular population into the public square, from end to end celebrated the good news (of the capitalists a foretaste of the pro­ rate is 14 times greater than that torture selected victims, and letarian revolution. The popular M ufti’s arrival in Egypt) . . . Arab Palestine express­ of England. In April 1946, often execute them before the ed its feelings in its celebrations and demonstrations masse, held out for more than eyes of their families. UNRRA estimated 75 pei cent of for every man who it is sure served his country faith­ six months against the British- the children between 6 and 14 In July, the Athens papers backed forces of reaction. are stricken with this dread dis- j- daily printed stories about the fully. In these expressions the nation provides us The walls and houses of Athens ease. The lack of hospital facili- ] different chiefs of such bands, with a great lesson that it does not pay attention to and Piraeus still bear the bullet tier places a virtual sentence of among them the notorious "Cap­ words but honors deeds and glorifies and honors their marks of that struggle. death on these unfortunate vic­ tain Vourlakis,” rabid supporter doers. Our nation has proved that it has not for­ The Greek capitalists fully un­ tims. Greece has only one nurse of King George II. gotten nor will forget those who struggled, passed derstand the meaning of those fc - every 5,000 people. MANHUNT through trials and made sacrifices for their home­ heroic combats in the streets. These facts disclose the extent The government itself is hon­ land.” When the Stalinist leaders of of the economic crisis that has Liberation 1 hit Greek capitalism. They re- eycombed with men once on the The August 28, 1946, Daily Worker printed a car­ the EAM (National payroll of the quisling Rallis, of Movement) and the ELAS (arm- veal the forces that impel the toon of this same Grand M ufti signing the swastika the Gestapo and the Ovra. Ho’d- ed forces of the EAM > capitulated j toiling masses to struggle to save as his signature accepting an “Invitation to London.” ing down important positions in unconditionally in January 1945 j themselves from total destruc- An accompanying editorial demands: “Who is this the police force, the army, and in. accordance with the notorious tion. Mufti? He’s a notorious war criminal, who openly justice they participate in the Varkiza agreement and began But the Greek capitalists can­ relentless manhunt for combat­ collaborated with Hitler. He was one of those Arab giving up their arms, the reac­ not hope to restore their economic ants in the Greek “ Resistance,” leaders who thought Hitler would win the war. The power without imposing still tion did not hesitate. Solidly members of the EAM and ETAS. M ufti’s aids served as liaison officers with the Nazi backed by British imperialism, it 'worse conditions upon the work­ This manhunt extends to all ers. The rulers of Greece con­ KING GEORGE Army in Yugoslavia and the Soviet Caucasus. The aimed to disorganize the labor "democratic” and “anti-mon­ sider a “ strong” regime an ab­ M ufti’s record was one of irreconcilable hostility to movement completely, force it archist” elements. At the head solute necessity. They cannot af­ the Jewish people and the United Nations. Instead underground, and establish a dic­ of the police and the army are the “ liberation,” they are faced tatorship. The facade of this ford the “ luxury” of concessions of clapping him into jail, the British rulers are now such hated names as the infam­ with a plebiscite aimed to “ leg­ or reforms. They cannot permit dictatorship has been the several ous Bourantas, chief of the “ Se­ alize” the return of a despotic about to shake hands with him around the con­ strikes or demonstrations for governments of Plastiras, Boul- curity Battalions.” monarch surrounded by all the ference table! That tells volumes about the British better conditions. garis, Sophoulis and Tsaldaris. I f is easy to understand the axis-backed scoundrels and all leaders and their policies.” INDUSTRY PARALYZED BRITISH FEARFUL indignation and .anger of the the sadistic butchers who bled These two quotations also tell volumes about Greek capitalism emerged from British imperialism claims Greek people. Two years after the Greek people during the war. Stalinist leaders and their policies. the war weakened and mangled. great strategic interests in WAr damage to the Greek econ­ Greece. The growth of Russian omy is estimated at five billion influence in Albania and Bul­ dollars—about 36 times all the garia is considered by the B rit­ 1938 income from exports, mer­ ish as endangering their control Wall Street Steps Up War Drive chant marine services, tourists, of the Mediterranean, partic­ interest on foreign investments, ularly the eastern' basin of the (Continued from Page 1) tries, including Germany, into a which Is a demand to build up the Soviet Union. Iran is bloc against he Soviet Union in etc. Two thirds of the merchant Middle East, Egypt and the tate a moment to copy fascist militarism in America. of the most valuable oil areas marine was sunk. Some 1.721,000 route to India. methods. the projected war. Meanwhile Hanson W. Bald­ in the world. Iran is likewise a A group of Congressmen in buildings are estimated to have To counter balance Russian in­ That is why “Bull” Halsey, in win, well-known spokesman of gateway to the sea for'landlocked been damaged or destroyed. A fluence in the Balkans and the command of the U. S. fleet sent Tokyo, members of the Powerful the m ilitary caste, has been Russia. A great crisis flared over House Military Affairs Commit­ crippled transportation system Mediterranean. British imperial­ into Grecian waters, snarled like writing a series of articles out­ this country and it became the tee, attacked the Soviet Union and lack of capital and raw ma­ ism clings tenaciously to Greek A mother and her children, starving, barefoot and rag­ a heel-clicking fascist admiral lining the military policy of occasion for diplomatic Wows and declared there was “ immin­ terials paralyze the industrial soil. It strongly supports all ged, are typical of the suffering masses in Greece. They want in response to criticism about American imperialism. This pol­ and pounding on the war drums. bread and freedom. Imperialism gives them . . . silk-hatted such imperialist power politics: ent danger of another Pearl Har­ revival. measures of the Greek capitalists icy aims at the biggest air Iforce The iron noose passes' through King George. " I t ’s nobody’s damn business bor.” Twenty-one months after the aimed at crushing the labor in the world, at a navy larger Trieste and around Soviet-dom­ “liberation,” industrial activity movement. The Soviet bureau­ where we go; we will go any­ John Sheridan, a Democrat of than the navies of the rest of the hold meetings that could be the state covers up the reaction­ inated Yugoslavia. When WaB. cracy and the British imperial­ where we please.” Pennsylvania, said, “ After what world combined, and a land force is not above 50 per cent of the characterized by the government ary bands that commit brutal Street tightened the line, Trieste low 1938 level. ists are competing in Greece, es­ The ominous tension over I ’ve heard I wouldn’t give the that can be expanded overnight as “iilegal.” Strikes in industries acts every day against the labor Russians an index to the atomic soared into the headlines. The is universal. pecially in the north. It is no ex­ Greece is heightened by the rab­ into armies exceeding in size roll of the war drums grew loud­ classified as of “ vital interest for movement and peasants consid­ id war propaganda fostered by bomb.” The Trade Union Confederation aggeration to call Greece the anything ever dreamed by the er. The bureaucratic Tito re­ public prosperity and the recon­ ered hostile to the terror. Wall Street at home. Sikes, another Democrat, de­ recently estimated that two- Iran of the Balkans. Axis. The purpose is war on the gime permitted itself to be pro­ struction” face the same threat. Active in the towns is a pro­ Herbert Hoover, speaking at clared, “ Russia is maintaining thirds of its 450,000 members In this small, terribly ravaged Soviet Union. voked into shooting down two The, inviolability of the home monarchist m ilitary organiza­ Palo Alto, Calif., August 30 to about five times the number of are unemployed. The total pro­ country, the Greek capitalists Both the “ United Nations” and American planes that somehow has been abolished. tion known under the enigmatic naval officers, declared “ there is occupation troops, mostly in Kor­ letariat is about 600.000. and the British imperialists coll­ the Paris “ Peace” Conference were flying on the other side of The M ilitary Court rules im­ name of “ X ” and led by a Col­ more danger now than ever be­ ea, that we have.” Sikes con­ Agriculture, on which 60 per aborate with cold determination have been utilized as sounding the Adriatic. And the war prop­ mediately on all cases of “ acts onel Grivas. fore in the history of the United cluded: “ We must strengthen the cent of the population depends, to consolidate their “order.” The boards for Wall Street’s war aganda in the capitalist press against public security.” Death Armed members of this organ­ States.” forces we have in the Far East. is likewise ruined. Villages are series of measures they have preparations. All the tough talk, looked like the days of 1939 and sentences are carried out within ization murder militant work­ Hoover demanded, “ We must They are inadequate now to de­ heaps of rubble. Slaughtered undertaken make the terror of ers, attack headquarters and the shouting and fireworks are 1940. cattle have not been replaced. the despotic Metaxas regime look 24 hours. There is no appeal. hold onto the Islands (in the fend themselves if the need meetings of labor organizations. designed td poison the public COLD POLICY pale. They can be paralleled per­ As under the Metaxas regime, Pacific) because we must extend arose.” I t was no secret that Tools have deteriorated. There The membership of “X ” was mind in preparation for war. As haps only by the measures of “ Security Committees” are in our perimeter of defense.” MacArthur issued the propagan­ Wall Street’s policy is cold and is no fertilizer. largely recruited from the profes­ N. Y. Times correspondent James Tobacco-growing, principal in­ Franco in fascist Spain. permanent session- in each de­ On August 31, a Congress- da repeated by these Congress­ calculated. No sooner is one sional killers who collaborated Reston observed from Washing­ partment. These committees are approved treatise of 140 pages men. crisis passed, than another is dustry of the north, dropped to TERROR LEGALIZED with H itler’s Gestapo and Musso­ ton September 2, “ A war psy­ one-fourth of its pre-war level made up of the attorney, the pre­ was released, comparing the The influential U. S. News op­ deliberately set off. The talk of lin i’s Ovra in the struggle against chology is developing before the The Tsaldaris government, fect and tile chief of police. They prospective m ilitary power of the enly called for attack on the springing a surprise attack on in '1945. the Greek partisans during the peace treaties have been signed which came to power last March deport all “ dangerous” persons United States and the Soviet Un­ Soviet Union in its issue of Aug­ »» the Soviet Union grows omin­ WILD INFLATION Axis occupation. Members of the through rigged elections that to penal islands in the Aegean ion in 1970. The pamphlet, ust 30. “ We know when we are ously louder, corresponding to infamous “Security Battalions,” Attempts at “stabilization” of were boycotted by all left-wing Sea and South of Crete. There Communism In Action, declared, threatened. We know what is The present crisis over Greece the mounting size of the stock the followers of Colonel Zervas, is only the latest and biggest of the have proved fru it­ parties, on June 6 decreed a is no appeal. “The present m ilitary strength needed now to assure our own of atomic bombs. less. The gap between wages and series of exceptional laws. These of the Soviet Union is not equal defense. We must take those a long series. Wall Street is At bottom the conflict is be­ MONARCHISTS BUSY tkt cost of living is still very laws in effect legalized the white 16-Inch Guns Sure to that of U. 8. . . . The poten­ steps now . . . Let us prepare to tightening an iron noose around tween two irreconcilable eco­ great. Although wages have risen terror waged up until then in Since June, dozens of victims tial m ilitary might of the Soviet finish the if need be . the Soviet Union. This noose nomic systems—the nationalized 50 times, the cost of living has an extra-legal way by the police, have been ordered shot by the Help Negotiations Union Is, however, very impres­ There can be no nobler cause follows a vast perimeter, from econmy of the Soviet Union and skyrocketed from 150 to 200 army and fascist-like organiza­ military courts. A typical in ­ “The visit to Portugal (of U.S. sive.” for which to die than in defense China and Korea, up north the rapacious imperialism of times the 1938 level. tions. stance is the case of the school fleet) was credited by Portu­ The document calculates that of the ideal of world peace. Let around the Arctic, down and world capitalism in its death ag­ The middle classes, especially These decrees call for the death teacher Irene Guini, who belong­ guese officials and United States “ The Soviet Union’s 32 million us not shirk the task.” around Europe to Trieste and ony. Capitalism needs the Sov­ the small functionaries in the sentence for any anti-imperial­ ed to the Greek Communist diplomats in Lisbon with helping men in 1970 will almost equal Add to these developments Greece, through Turkey and iet Union as a market and field towns, are even worse off than ist propaganda or any act Party. Another is the case of along the negotiations between the combined military-age man­ another significant item: The Iran. for investment. the workers. The fantastic infla­ "against the security of the state several .soldiers of Kilkis who the United States and Portugal power of the U. S., Britain, Ger- Mead Committee that has been As Wall Street tightens this To this end it must conquer tion during the occupation eva­ or its citizens.” were found “ guilty” of refusing for United States m ilitary bases selection of countries Indicates ballyhooed as "exposing” war­ iron noose, trouble flares. In the Soviet Union and restore porated the savings of these A Severe prison sentence is the to fire on peasants. in the Azores.” (N. Y. Times, that Wall Street’s aim is to unite time graft, on August 31 made Iran, for instance, Wall Street capitalism in the former Cz&r- classes. They have been forced punishment for any attempt to Besides the organized terror, Aug. 28.) sill the leading capitalist coun­ an annual report, the gist of stiffened the resistance against ist Empire. PAGE FOUR THE MILITANT SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1949

only realistic and effective answers to the ag­ gravated problems that face all labor today.. War-born inflation is daily slashing the real Wallace’s Advice t h e MILITANT incomes of the workers. The capitalist govern­ Published In the Interests of th t ment, controlled by Wall Street’s Democratic Working People and Republican parties, is spearheading the On The Elections Vol. X—No. 36 Saturday, September 7, 1946 tremendous anti-labor drive of Big Business. ------By Ruth Benson ——— ——I Published Weekly by Against the bounding rise in the cost of THE MILITANT PUBLISHING ASS’N ; living, the top union leaders offer only a pol­ Henry A. Wallace, wailing over the defeat of some at 11# University Place. New York 3, N. Y icy of begging the profiteers’ agents in govern­ favorite “ progressives” in the recent primaries, tells Tclepohne: ALgonquln 4-9330 in the V>a?es of The Nation, August 31, “ How to PARREtJ. DOBBS. Managing Editor ment to “ roll back” prices. The union militants, Elect a Progressive Congress.” His advice, boiled like the Akron rubber workers, propose an ef­ THE MILITANT follows the policy 01 permitting iti down, is: get the Republican Party "progressives” contributors to present their own views In signed articles fective struggle on the wage front for a sliding into the Democratic Party, and keep a Democratio These views therefore do not necessarily represent the , policies of THE MILITANT which are expressed In ttr scale of wages that will really protect living Party majority in power. editorials. standards against price rises. “ I have always contended,” he says blandly, “ and Subscriptions: <100 per year; 50c for o months The top union leaders still propose to play the votes in Congress prove, that on most issues Foreign: *2.00 per year. * 1.00 lor « months. ball with the capitalist parties and politicians. involving the general welfare the majority of Dem­ Bundle orders: 3 cents per cop for 5 copies or more ocrats vote right and the m ajority of Republicans In the United States. But the union militants want to build their vote wrong.” 4 cents per copy for 5 copies or more own party and fight for labor’s interests on In all foreign countries. Of course there’s the question of what Wallace “ Entered as second class matter March 7. 1944 at the post the political arena in' a truly independent considers “ voting right.” Supporting Wall Street’s office at New York. N. Y_ under the act of March 1. 1879." fashion. profits and power naturally comes first — he considers a- vote for universal compulsory m ilitary training a vote for “ progress.” On other issues he’s "The present crisis Labor Day n6t rigid. in human culture is For instance, among his Democratic Party "pro­ the crisis in the pro­ For 304 days in the year, the employers and gressives " are Voorhis of California, who spoke foor letarian leadership. their political agents attack labor, pass anti-- Truman’s draft-labor bill, and Sparkman of Ala- The advanced work­ union laws, break strikes, try to slash wages bama'who backed the Case and Hobbs Bills. Among and boost prices. the Republican “ progressives” he wants to win ers, united in the over, are Bennett of New York who also voted for Fourth International, Then the capitalists and their government both the Case and Hobbs B ill—and Baldwin of New show their class the set aside one day in the year—called Labor York, who proved his “ liberalism” by repudiating way out of the crisis. Day—to mouth a few hypocritical phrases the American Labor Party nomination in New York. They offer a program about the “ nobility of honest toil,” to tell how Although most worked would call this confus­ based on internatio­ they “ love” labor and to show why the work­ ing, Wallace avers that “ we are nearing the happy nal experience in the ers should “ get together” with those “ swell time when we can have some assurance that if we struggle of the proletariat and of all the op­ fellows,” the bosses. In 1894, the capitalist elect a candidate of one party we will have a vote pressed of the world for liberation. They offer a government made this day a legal holiday. In Congress for conservatism, and if we elect * candidate of the other we will just as surely have spotless banner.” On Labor Day 1946 the pious phrases of the “I’m sorry, but we really couldn’t contribute to inflation by making un­ a vote in Congress for progressivism.” That "happy — Leon Trotsky capitalist politicians were particularly nause­ necessary purchases — and we don’t need any pencils!” time.” we were formerly assured, had already ar­ ating. Their “ praise” of labor came after a rived In ’32, ’34, ’36, ’38, ’40, '42 and ’44. The truth year of the most vicious labor-baiting, strike­ Is that in either case we would be sure to have breaking, and profiteering price-boosting; af­ men who vote for Big Business. Export Democracy ter passage of the Hobbs bill, near-passage of Wallace wistfully asks the Republican Party “pro­ When MacArthur landed in Japan, Wall the Case bill, Truman’s smashing of the rail­ gressives” to come into his fold because “ the Repub­ road strike and his demand for a draft-strik­ lican Party will only break the hearts of those who Street’s spokesmen proclaimed his main job' conscientiously seek to use it as a medium of prog­ would be to “ democratize” this imperialist ers law. They followed a Congressional session ress.” Perhaps, though, like Wallace — who. gets power. that all labor leaders agree was the most re­ kicked around considerably in his own party—the MacArthur was pictured as a knight in shin­ actionary in decades. Republican “ progressives” 'are not overly consci­ ing armor who would begin by unseating the The bosses didn’t establish Labor Day out THADDEUS STEVENS, by turning to governmental power, unqualified emancipation of the entious ,and are gifted with shatterproof hearts. A t Mikado as a relic of medieval times. of the bigness of their hearts. They had an ul­ Thomas Frederick Woodley, after Stevens' death, they stack­ slaves. any any rate, they show no signs of grabbing Wal­ The Telegraph Press, Harrls- ed the history books against him. It was mainly due to his labors lace’s outstretched hand. Next he was scheduled to destroy the econ­ terior motive. They wanted to substitute La- burgh, Pa. 1934. He is either passed over in si­ that the 13th, 14th, and 15th omic and political power of the giant family bof Day, a day to glorify collaboration between ^ew periods’* in American his­ lence or railed against as a b it­ amendments were incorporated More Than Side-Show trusts that spread through Japanese society exploited and exploiters, for the workers’ real tory have been written about so ter, fanatical, frustrated die-hard into the Federal Constitution. All of this might appear to be just an amusing like an enormous octopus. holiday, a d^iy of class struggle and mobiliza­ voluminously as the Civil War abolitionist who blocked the As HouSe chairman of the pow^ peaceful cementing of the rela­ erful Joint Congressional Com­ side-show. But Wallace is serious. He’s worried On top of this, MacArthur was to renovate tion for battle against the exploiters—May and the period following, com­ monly known as the . “ Recon­ tions between the "chivalrous mittee of Fifteen for Reconstruc­ about how to corral labor’s vote for the capitalist Day. politicians in the November elections. “ Our most the feudal structure of Japan, removing the struction.” The volumes that boys in grey” and the ‘kioble tion, he welded together the Rad­ foul remnants of an outlived system that May Day, born in 1886 out of the bloody have already appeared, whether boys in blue." ical-Republican bloc (not to be immediate danger,” he warns, “ is a light vote”— doomed the peasants to unbearable toil and struggles of American labor for the eight-hour written by liberal or conservative Civil war is the highest form confused with present day Re­ which would show that workers want no part of poverty in the service of hereditary land­ day, was adopted in 1890 by the International historians, have one thing in of class struggle. It breaks out publicans) in opposition to An­ either the Democratic or Republican parties, no matter how many fake "progressives” enter the race. holders. socialist and labor movement as an interna­ common: perpetuation of capi­ because antagonistic social forces drew Johnson’s conciliation pol­ tional workers’ hftllday dedicated to the class talist myths and falsification of have reached a point where they icies toward the old southern Wallace is not alone in his efforts. The CIO Po­ To make the job complete, MacArthur was ruling class. He beaded the fight litical Action Committee, and the top leadership to bring, democratic rights to the labor move­ war against the capitalists. the real key personalities of the can no longer be contained with­ period. in the same social framework. to impeach Johnson for his con­ of the labor movement, are desperately trying to ment, giving the workers the right to organize The capitalists in the 1890’s and the con­ The importance of Woodley’s The antagonistic forces resort to spiracies with the former slavers. keep labor chained to the two capitalist parties. and bargain collectively. servative craft union leaders conspired to of­ biography of Thaddeus, or as he war, with all that war implies: UNCOMPROMISING One of their methods is to build up Wallace, the A lot of people were taken in by this rose- fer the workers another holiday, a day off for was popularly called “ Thad” armies, dead and wounded sol­ Sick in body, with the shadow “ friend of the common man,” and ballyhoo just colored propaganda. It seemed to bear out picnicking and boss politicians’ speeches. They Stevens, is that it rescues from diers, devastated cities and of death over him, he carried on such proposals as this one. They hope in this way historical oblivion the most un­ towns, and rising passions and his unfaltering struggle to de­ to'coax labor to stay off the path of real Inde­ the glowing promises of the Allied propaganda called it Labor Day—but it isn’t Labor’s Day. stroy the old southern plantation pendent political action, the road to a genuine In­ departments about the Second World War compromising enemy of the hatred. Naturally, the workers don’t mind having southern slavocracy. In com­ masters and prevent their ever dependent labor party. / bringing the “Four Freedoms” to the oppressed Yet so bloody and basic a con­ rising again as a menace to the an extra day off to spend with their families. parison with Thad Stevens, Abe flict as the American Civil War But Wallace is no friend of ‘‘the common man.” Union. To this end he proposed He is Wall Street’s Secretary of Commerce. In of the entire earth. And on occasions, the workers have utilized Lincoln, “ the Great Emancipa­ is presented by most historians Wall Street’s real aims in Japan are now Labor Day for parades and demonstrations tor” becomes the “ Great Com­ the break-up of the plantations private circles he frankly describes himself as “ the as merely an unfortunate inci­ and distribution of the land to becoming apparent. They have the ugly look in support of their demands. But, in its es­ promiser.” Virtually all the oth­ dent in American history. As representative of business In government.” His the freed slaves. Each family was "liberalism” , is a mask to put on when he speaks of reality—not promises. sence and its tradition, Labor Day remains er figures around Lincoln, his they present the facts, the hot­ Cabinet, his generals, his advis­ ,to receive 40 acres and a mule. to the “ common man.” MacArthur made concessions to the toiling what it was designed to be — a day when heads on both sides stampeded Had Stevens’ plan gone through, ors, shrink in proportion as Stev­ the nation into war. They blame "Representatives of business in government” are masses of Japan only to delude them and side­ the bosses and their labor lieutenants preach the historical development of ens is restored to his rightful the hot-heads of the north for no more help to labor in politics than are company track them from carrying out a social revolu­ the south would have followed the gospel of class collaboration. place in the history of the pe­ the bitterness of the “ Recon­ stooges in trade unions. Labor needs its own men, tion on the pattern of the November 1917 re­ riod. • in entirely different pattern. to carry out its own program in the halls of Con­ The only real Labor Day the workers can struction.” They picture Thad Thad Stevens died as he had volution in Russia. Now he is coldly, carefully, Stevens as the worst of the “ hot­ gress—and needs them now! Build the labor party! have is a day they take for themselves, a day FOE OF SLAVERS lived: an uncompromising fight­ and calculatingly strengthening the capitalist heads.” Upon his head no ca­ of dedication for struggle, a day for the Stevens was a man cast in er against , a champion structure that plunged Japan into the Second strengthening of international working class the mould of John Brown—an lumny small or great is spared. of equal rights, a foe of preju­ World War. solidarity. That day has been and will remain Implacable foe of slavery and A great work awaits Marxist dice and racial discrimination. The Mikado remains. Films that undermine —May Day. the slavers. The southern Bour­ historians who will one day pre­ Before his death he penned his How Washington the authority of the monarch are ruthlessly bons of his time recognized in sent a true history of the Civil own inscription for the modest banned by United States censors. him a foe with whom no com­ War and a true picture of great stone that was to Indicate his Coddles The Fascists promise was possible. He was individuals like Stevens. Wood­ remains. On it was Inscribed for The family trusts remain. The order for their ley’s biography is important be­ dissolution proved to be so much hogwash. Anti-Lynching Law their ‘‘public enemy number one," passers-by to read: “ the destroyer of southern civi­ cause it presents the “ Great “ I repose in this qul£t and The feudal vestiges remain. Wall Street did Commoner,” Congressman from Twenty-six American fascists, indicted in 1944 Dozens of known bestial murderers are to­ lization,” “ the leader of the car­ secluded spot, in a mass “ sedition” trial which petered out after not have the least intention of removing them day strutting the streets of American towns. petbaggers,” the “ Yankee Devil” Lancaster, Pa., in his true light Not for any natural preference —an unwavering foe of slavery, eight months, are now about to go scot free, ac­ by surgical measures. They include white deputy sheriffs, rich plan­ who personified the grim deter­ But finding other cemeteries cording to the August 27 PM. A mistrial was called And the labor movement is now being hog- mination that defeated them in a revolutionist in the tradition Limited by charter rules as to tation owners and other race-hating scum who of the French Jacobins. following the death of Judge Edward G. Eicher tied by an order threatening the use of Amer­ are conducting a lynch war against the Negro the war and pushed for their race. during their trial. These 26 notorious native fas­ complete extermination after Thad Stevens stood for freeing I have chosen this that I might ican troops if workers strike. A military decree people in the South. cists include the loud-mouthed, race-hating, anti­ Lee’s surrender. the slaves from the very begin­ illustrate in death labor Joe McWilliams, Elizabeth (Liz) Dilling and like this is patterned after the decrees of Hitler These sadistic butchers, who try to hide They took revenge in the spite­ ning of the revolt of the south­ The principles which I advocated and Mussolini! Edward J. Smythe. behind the anonymity of a mob, have com­ ful manner that defeated reac­ ern states. He sponsored and through a long life, The 26 were not prosecuted because of their long Wall Street’s aims in Japan are thus shown finally won Lincoln over to the mitted crimes of murder and torture as re­ tionaries unvariably take upon Equality of Man before his and infamous labor-baiting and race-hating record, to be the same as those of the British in revolutionary foes, namely: by proposition of arming the slaves. Creator.” volting as anything perpetrated by the Nazis. in which they tried to ape Hitler. They were pre­ Greece. They are: bolster reaction, stamp out posthumously slandering and He was the leading spirit in the Reviewed by And every week their crimes are mounting in villifying his memory. Upon re­ House of Representatives for the ' Max Geldman mature in their aspirations to provide Wall Street any tendencies leading to a major social number. with armed gangsters against the labor movement. change, cripple the labor movement, line up all They were indicted because the Wall Street Imper­ the forces of reaction as an auxiliary force in But these cowardly killers of helpless Negro ialists were at the time conducting a war against the the projected Third World War against the victims do not fear the “ law.” They themselves "Educating” Japan's Crown Prince Nazi imperialists. The 26 embarrassed the Wall are the “law.” Who will bear witness against Street government In its efforts to deceive the Soviet Union. ------By Art Preis------This is the reality! them in their own communities? What local American workers that they were fighting and dy­ officials will arrest them? What court try Suppose a foreign army does perspectives — “ American de­ Japanese sources. ing in a war “ against fascism” and “for democracy." The promises to “ democratize” Japan were But while this fake “trial” was petering nut, a them, what jury convict them? None! rule Japtfn? Suppose MacArthur mocracy” dispensed by a “ demo­ Educating the young Crown lies! very real trial, with all the fury that Wall Areet did issue an edict last week for­ cratic” Emperor benevolently Prince in American "democratic For they are the “ law enforcement” agents, can muster, was going on against 18 ieadeis and bidding Japanese workers to aided by American bayonets? ideals” has certain advantages the officialdom, the courts, the juries. They militant fighters for the working class. The 18 strike. Suppose U.S. occupation not precisely related to demo­ are the white ruling class that dominates the The honor of inculcating “de­ were members of the Socialist Workers Party Labor’s Program forces do keep Emperor Hirohito cracy. These w ill be most greatly poor whites as well as Negroes in the South. mocratic ideals” into the young (Trotskyist) and leaders in the CIO movement. — a newly-renovated Emperor, Crown Prince has been bestowed appreciated should the Japan­ In their Labor Day statements, both CIO Their murderous violence has flared into of course — on his throne? That The charges leveled against the native fascists and by Washington on Mrs. Eliza­ ese masses “ abuse” democracy to the Trotskyist leaders were the same: “ Conspir­ President Philip Murray and AFL President greater savagery than ever in the postwar still doesn’t mean the Japanese the point of trying to kick out beth Gray Vining, a Philadel­ ing to undermine morale and cause insubordination William Green were impelled to make bitter people are to be deprived of the the present discredited Emperor. months because of the new spirit of independ­ phia writer of children’s books. in the armed forces.” These charges were only a complaints against Congress for its aid to the ence of the Negro people. “ blessings of democracy.” She is reported “ filled with In that event, the U.S. State U. S. imperialism naturally legal pretext and deliberately designed to fool the price-gouging profiteers and its blows against Southern Negroes are demanding the right zeal” for her assignment. She Department will have a nice new workers about what was really Involved. organized labor. doesn’t want to feed "Coo much says she is going to teach Aki­ Emperor all ready for them — to vote. They are joining unions. And the re­ democracy” to the Japanese peo­ What the Trotskyists were really imprisoned for But neither of these self-styled “ labor states­ hito all about “ Washington and a Crown Prince just chock-full was their revolutionary program. They were hated turned Negro veterans aren’t stepping off ple all at once. They’re not used Jefferson and Longfellow” — of American "democratic ideals.” men” turned to the workers with a positive sidewalks for any drunken white who comes to such a rich diet, you see. So by Wall Street and its government for charging program of organized union action to defend all about “ American thoughts It goes without saying that he and proving that World War II was nothing but along. Wall Street’s State Department and ideals.” the workers’ standard of living and defeat cap­ will also be a puppet of U.S. im ­ an imperialist war from which Wall Street would has found a way to nurture Jap­ perialism who will do its bidding italist political reaction. The lynch war of the white ruling class an with a bit of “ democratic” She didn’t say anything about profit: from which the workers had nothing to gain. republicanism — after all, scarce­ in urging submission on the Jap- While these top union leaders offer only minority is incited by Democratic politicians, broth without taxlngthe people’s They were hated because of their long years of m il­ like the Talmadges, Bilbos , and Rankins, who ly a suitable subject for one who ese people. At any rate, he’ll do itant struggle in behalf of the working class.. Many plaintive appeals to the capitalist government, digestive systems. it “ democratically.” spew their poisonous race-hate doctrines from is being groomed for Emperor, of them came from Minneapolis, scene of heroic the union ranks are beginning to push forward HOW IT ’S DONE even a “ democratic” one. struggles against the bosses in which the Trotsky­ high public, office. It will all be done through their own program. NOT INCLUDED ists led the workers to great victories. It is the program that will be introduced by Even where the lynchers are known—as in that ideally “democratic” insti­ NOW ON SALE Wall Street’s government, which is quietly ending leading Akron rubber union militants at the Georgia and Louisiana—the federal adminis­ tution, the monarchy. First, the There are some phases of Am­ Bound Volumes the case of the 26 fascists after a fake trial, sent the forthcoming CIO United Rubber Workers con­ tration fall* to act. It makes a pretense of 12-year-old Crown Prince of erican "democracy” which we 18 Trotskyists to prison. They hoped to silence the “ lack of authority.” But that pretense must Japan, Akihito, Is to learn all presume will not be covered in THE MILITANT voice of working class truth. But in this they failed. vention. If their program is adopted, it will about “ American democracy” the future Emperor’s studies: be stripped from the federal government. fo r Labor and progressive organizations representing be an historic step forward for American labor. from an American tutor, hand­ Subjugation of racial minorities, almost six million workers came to the defense of Tne two chief planks of the Akron rubber The American labor movement must picked by the U.S. Department like the Jim-Crowing and lynch­ 1945 the eighteen. They protested the imprisonments and militants’ program are: demand that the federal government take of State. ing of Negroes: government demanded the release of the 18. For a sliding-scale escalator wage clause in full responsibility for putting a stop to the Then the gracious Son of the strikebreaking and anti-labor Cost $4.50 Today, two of the 18 who were imprisoned are all union contracts to provide automatic wage atrocities against the Negroes. Labor must Son of the Sun w ill one day. as laws; discriminatory tax laws Order from running for public office in the fall elections; Far­ Emperor, spread the “ democra­ favoring the rich; etc. But, then, rell Dobbs as SWP candidate for Governor of New increases to meet every increase in the cost launch, in cooperatiqn with the Negro and civ­ THE MILITANT of living; il . liberties organizations, a vigorous, full- tic” sunshine over the miserable, the Crown Prince represents the York and Grace Carlson, only woman among the hungry, exploited people of Jap­ Japanese ruling class and he 116 University Place 18, for Senator from Minnesota. Despite persecu­ For the building of an independent labor scale campaign for a federal anti-lynching an. undoubtedly wil secure sufficient tions and imprisonments, the Trotskyists are still party based on the trade unions. law. Make the federal government responsible Did any conquered people ever schooling in this type of “ demo­ New York 3, N. Y. in the forefront of the struggle for the working These are the two slogan* which embody the for halting the vile lynchers! look forward to such delightful cratic” practioe from traditional class. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1946 THE MILITANT PAGE FIVE

Tobacco Workers Strike Reader Tells Why He Joined SWP THE MILITANT A R M Y Editor: It was about two years ago I came into the Socialist Workers Flint SWP Tops List Party. I had to travel the long way around on avenues of social­ ism and communism that seem­ For Week’s Sub Getting The Workers' Forum columns are open to the opinions of the readers of "The M ilitant". Letters ed not to have anything but chaos for a background. There are welcome on any subject of interest to the workers. Keep them short and include your name and This week the honors' go to people were present. The" col­ address. Indicate if you do not want your name printed. is no sense in making bad con­ Flint Branch of the Socialist lection was $45.07. It was a ditions worse by exchanging Workers Party. These comrades worker audience and they gave capitalism for something worse sold more subscriptions to The like ‘troopers.’ ” Single 'Militant' than capitalism or chaos. Trot­ Militant during the week than * a * Article Wins New Trinidad Worker Describes skyists have a better plan for any other branch. R. Gardner, Leon Forth of Chicago Branch One-Year Sub world security than capitalism literature agent', sent in 33 subs. ever dreamed of. Good work, comrades! sent in 18 subs last week and Editor: The Socialist Workers Party seven so far this week. The com­ Conditions In Colonies * * * Enclosed Is $1 for a one-year teaches how to change national rades in Chicago are doing a Editor:. and asphalt, but the owners of The comrades of Philadel­ subscription. While I was visit­ and world conditions of eco­ good job. We, the Negro Welfare Cul­ all these industries «re absen­ nomic, social and political divi­ phia Branch likewise made an • • * ing M ilitant readers to Invite tural and Social Association qf tee Englishmen, some of whom sions. And how to have a bal­ excellent record on subs during Subscriptions have come in them to the Detroit meeting pro­ Port of Spain, Trinidad, are never see these islands. .The ma­ anced plan for production and the week. Pauline Ryder mailed without comment from San Ped­ testing the burning o f. the So­ composed of horny-handed work­ jor part of our foodstuff comes distribution of the comforts of us 24 subs obtained by the com­ ro. Allentown, Rochester, St. ers. We have no intellectuals or from outside, as do our clothes, cialist Workers Party headquar­ life: so that in time we can do rades. Louis and New York. There are privileged workers. We are from boots, hats and machinery, so • * • ters, I met the brother of one away with poverty, war and ra­ undoubtedly many incidents and the docks, workshops, fields and we import more than we export. cial hatreds. St. Paul Branch is utilizing ad­ experiences that go with these of our subscribers. sugar cane factories. In fact, we Yet we, whose dollar is valued The world will be a better place ditional copies of The Militant subs. How about letting us in on The young man, whose home are the proletarians of the at 80 cents In America, are not whefl the workers of the world carrying the story of their anti- them, comrades? proletariat. allowed to purchase from Amer­ Is in Philadelphia, was reading produce for use instead of for Smith demonstration. “ We want • * • If there ever was a time the ica. to order 100 extra copies of the an old issue of The M ilitant profit: and parasites become Three more subscribers who workers needed organization, it The scale of wages for a la­ issue which will have the story when I came in. I asked him how producers on the very short like the paper and want their is now—and along no other lines borer ranges from 96 cents to of our demonstration against work-week. (From the material friends to read it have joined he liked it. but the Marxist lines. We, of $1.20 per day for eight hours Gerald L. K. Smith,” .writes comforts many of the intellec­ the ranks of The Militant Army. “ I have only read this one ar­ the Negro Welfare Cultural and1 work; and for a , tual comforts come.) Workers Paul Chelstrom, literature agent. * • • ticle on the lynching of four Social Association have decided $1.44 to $2 for eight hours work. have different feelings when they “ We are going to mail them to to organize a women’s trade Domestic servants (women work­ Negroes in Georgia. I t ’s a fine have plenty and security than some of our contacts.” In- this Herman Courts of Cincinnati union because lack of food, ers) receive fr*m $4 PER For over a month, the workers of Piedmont Leaf Tobacco they do in poverty and uncer­ same letter, he enclosed 10 sub­ sent in subs for three of his paper and I like it very much," shortage of homes and the ris­ MONTH to $12.50 peT month. and Winston Leaf Tobaccp plants in North Carolina have been tainty. scriptions. friends with this comment: “I Store clerks receive from $5 per striking to increase their miserable wage of $15 a week. They he replied. ing cost of living are awakening The two things that made the • • • - must congratulate you comrades week to $12 per week. are members of Local 22, CIO Food, Tobacco, Agricultural and He immediately took out a them to action. most confusion for me were (1) Fred Martin, Militant Manager for the splendid copy you get Conditions out here.in the col­ This will give you a bird’s eye Allied Workers. Pickets, determined to win, sing union songs year’s subscription. Trying to find the difference be­ for Milwaukee, writes: "The M il­ out.” onies are very bad and growing view of the plight of the Trinidad as they march. * • • E. Brent tween the Lenin and Trotsky re­ waukee Branch held a street cor­ workers under the whip of B rit­ Federated Pictures Detroit, Mich. worse: the “ safeguarding of B rit­ gime and Stalinism. (2) Learn­ ner sales mobilization for the Mrs. E. L. Batcheller of Mo- ish trade” and reduction of our ish Imperialism. Nothing will ing the differences in the many NAACP (question and answer) bridge, S. D., sent in a one-year currency value are creating ex­ stop us. We will fight until so­ kinds of “ socialism” and “ com­ Issue of The Militant in the Ne­ subscription for herself and one treme hardship. Wartime con­ cialism is victorious. Urges Votes For SWP munism” that appear to have gro district. We sold about 60- for a friend. She requests: “ If trol is still maintained. Rupert Hannibal, Secy. Working Mother Writes come from Marxism. 70 papers and some pamphlets you have two copies of the Au­ To understanding our plight Negro Welfare Culture In Anti-fascist Fight It appears to me that the SWP right near the CP branch office. gust 18 issue, start from there. you must understand how these and Social Assn. Editor: Of Day In N. Y. Court should get some circulars, tracts We are planning more sales like I saw that paper while in St. colonies are run. We export su­ Port-of-Spain, Fascism and its influence are or small booklets, easy to under­ this in busy shopping districts. Paul at my brother’s home. Sure gar, cocoa, oil. rum, grapefruit Trinidad, B. W. I. rapidly spreading over the coun­ By Mille Fredreci stand, in small common words “ Enclosed are 13 subs. I be­ glad that you are right out with the truth. I could interest many try. As always, fascism strikes Several dozen colored work­ (leaving out proletarian, bour­ lieve this brings our quota up | Old "Success Story" people here and will do so.” at the weakest minority, and if ing men and an equal number geoisie, etc.: and use owners to 25 for August so far. We will let alone spreads out against the of whites were brought up before Still Going Around a and workers)i After explaining try our best to make our quota * * * labor movement. Today Negroes A Letter And A Reply On the above, then add "OUR PRO­ of 36.” the presiding Magistrate in sep­ Editor: Mrs. Helen Cameron of Santa are feeling its effects. Tomor­ GRAM.” • • • Monica, Calif., writes: "Enclosed arate groups charged with lying The following letter was writ­ row the Jews, Catholics, and the on newspapers In Central Park I believe1 large volumes on Los Angeles Local has ordered please find $1.50 for The M ili­ poor white workers will also suf­ Production Under Capitalism and falling asleep on benches. ten by an anti-Socialist father Marx-Lenin-Trotsky are nearly an increase of 15 copies a week tant. I wish to renew my sub­ fer, unless we unite and fight. to his 24-year-old son in the So­ useless for organizing: they are Editor: we see tax rebates supplying Evidently they had abandoned on their M ilitant Jmndle. May scription for one year and the The time to fig ht fascism is their over-heated, vermin-ridden cialist Workers Party. too long for the average per­ Manning says, “ I am sorry I am other six-month subscription 1* when it first raises its head— In Warren Creel’s article of “profits” even without produc­ son Jo read, they are hard to tion, but that is monopoly con­ rooms” for the company of The father’s advice is charac­ not able to send a payment to for my friend. don’t wait until it has grown August 17, in his series on Wages, crickets and a bed of green grass understand, they are too expen­ The Militant this week but will " I enjoy your- paper more and trol through the government. teristic of the widespread—and powerful. Prices and Profits, an error has with the stare for a roof. sive. do so in a few days! We are pre­ more.” Under capitalism, production false — petty-bourgeois notion Jarvis Dusenbery We cannot expect the govern­ crept in, of the sort that too of­ is. only for profits. Let us not None of them was represented paring for an ‘all out’ mobiliza­ that any young man, by train­ Perry, N. Y. tion to sell our literature on La­ ment, its Wall Street bosses, or ten spoils attempts to popularize Imply capitalism produces for by counsel, but when asked if it* police forces, to crush this ing, diligent application and per­ bor Day, and thus expect not Marxist economics. Although the prices. they had anything to say in enemy of the workers. We must Jeff Thorne, their own defense, several spoke severance, can climb to wealth only to reach many new workers previous article quite well de­ German Workers organize ourselves to crush this New York up Indignantly against their de­ and security. but to be, able to make a sub­ scribed capitalist anarchy of outgrowth of capitalist decay. tention. The Magistrate listened “ Dear Son: Enslaved In Britain stantial payment on our litera­ The unions have seen Truman production, this one sums it up REPLY in bored silence. ture bills.” clumsily and then crystallizes “ In the early 1900's there was By Labor Government • • • break their strikes in the inter­ The column in question de­ the error in the third paragraph. “Have they been, finger-print­ still the importance of the await­ Editor: est of the boss class. We have scribed how the labor-values of ed?” Minneapolis Branch is going seen his indifference toward the It states: * ing place for youth in all world I wish to remind you of how after renewals, according to A. commodities control their prices, “ Yes, your honor.” Branches of the Socialist murders in the south. He has “ So the amount of produc­ and illustrated the process w'ith Meticulously keeping a Jim affairs. This importance was the farmers of Britain qualify Field, and for a starter sends in Workers Party are disclosing proved with whom he stands. tion of any type of goods is con­ an example from the stage of Crow pattern, his Honor lectur­ stressed repeatedly to us in ev­ as allies of the workers in a 15 subs. She writes: “ We are trolled by the price. When the “ Workers and Farmers Govern­ their methods for building up li­ Bilbo admits being a member simple commodity production. ed each group separately and ery school. The stressing was planning on doing more work on of the KK K, yet he is allowed to price goes low, production in There are two ways to look suspended sentence. ment,” and incidentally, under call-backs next week and we braries and selling quantities of that line goes down, when the backed by the urgency for schol­ that new British government hope to have more subs by next sit in the halls of Congress and at profit as a factor in econ­ I watched my landlord take a literature at meetings. price goes up, the result Is an ars to prepare themselves, choose which you so recently hailed as week.” spread his race hatred and ha­ omics. seat up front as he impatiently Increase in the amount of pro­ a line of service, select a trade a “Great Workers’ Victory!” » • * Frances Kirby, Philadelphia tred of the entire working class. On the one hand, profit is the dabbed his forehead with a duction;'” Then follows a correct or enterprise and train for it Branch librarian, reports some Do the Democratic or Republi­ one basic motive of the capital­ handkerchief. He is medium "British moralists and lead­ Connecticut State Branch explanation of prices. thoroughly. The results—young can Parties impeach him? Of ists. So profit-seeking underlies height with heavy jowls, a dou­ ers,” says Sydney Gruson, in a cleaned up their M ilitant bundle feature is conducted at every But this paragraph is false, as people scarcely out of their teens course not, because he repre­ all their actions: when they in­ ble chin and two stomachs. This special to the N. Y. Times, Aug. account and sent in five subs. branch meeting to raise a library I will show, both in fact and in entered various businesses and 18, “ are becoming alarmed over sents their innermost thoughts. crease production, or lim it 'pro­ is not due to a glandular con­ “ The reason we are able to pay fund. Also, those comrades who Not only have the fascists its dangerous emphasis on price, services and became proficient, Britain’s retention of 388,000 up our debt as soon as this,” duction, or stop production, or dition but to greediness. expert and of great asset or value are able to pay are charged a raised their heads in the south, to the exclusion of the profit do anything else. This Is in line German prisoners of war more reports Pearl Morris, “ is because The court attendant called my to the business and professional 10-cent weekly rental on books but right here in New York. Re­ motive, which is the basic con­ with Jeff Thorne’s contention. case, a complaint against the than a year after war’s end.” we had a highly successful Trot­ member the Freeport Case and trolling factor in capitalism. world. and 5 cents on pamphlets they On the other hand, they do landlord for refusing to repair What! Proletarians enslaved sky Memorial Meeting. Thirty the present wave of police terror Classic refutation of this para­ my roof. I- walked promptly up “NO INITIATIVE” to farmers under a “workers’ borrow from the library. In this against the Negro people. graph is the case of the automo­ their profit-seeking in a sys­ to the bar \ in the hope of get­ “ The majority of youths today government,” and in one of the way hew books are added regu­ bile industry, which only began tem which has certain economic The unions, clubs, minority ting some of the justice and de­ have the mistaken idea that boasted “ Western democracies” ? larly. There is steady demand to reach mass production when laws, such as the law of value. and church organizations should' mocracy and four freedoms we there is plenty of time in which “But the government,” says to borrow books, especially the prices had reached bottom with Their profit motive doesn’t put Youth Group all get active in fighting against heard about. To my great anger, to train for' successful places in Gruson (the workers’ govern­ newer ones or those classics the Model T and the Chevrolet. profit into all the laws. For in­ all forces that oppress any sec­ it was all over in a few seconds. life. They hold to this idea until ment, mind you!) “ mindful that which either cannot be bought The lowering of prices resulted stance, the prices (or exchange- tion or group of the labor move­ The landlord and his attorney after their first few attempts at without these prisoners Britain’s Activities at all or are too expensive for from improved production tech­ values) of commodities were con­ ment. Black and white, Jew and trolled basically by the amounts had the case fixed up in ad­ jobs, Inefficiencies and job- sorely needed crops cannot be everyone to own his own copies. niques (rising labor productiv­ harvested, shows no signs of re­ Catholic, must stand tpgether, of labor in the commodities even vance. Like the fox with his hunting; then they awaken to CHICAGO, — Youth Group • * • united to fight the common en­ ity). And the lower prices ac­ jackal they assured the Magis­ the fact that an earlier train­ patriating them, despite spread­ in the stage of simple commod­ meets Wednesdays, 8 p.m. at A good literature display with emy — the Wall Street bosses tually boosted profits, so the in­ trate that although the roof had ing is the only thing. They seem ing criticism of its policy.” There ity production, before profit or 777 W. Adams St. plenty of space around it, is one and their agents, the Democratic dustry expanded rapidly. been in disrepair, they hadn’t to not have the initiative and is, of course, no word about the capitalism existed. Engels, the NEW YORK. — For informa­ secret of Detroit Branch’s con­ and Republican Parties. We must Since Creel’s articles have -not had time to fix it; but at that perseverance to endure what it nasty fact that these British editor of Marx’s Capital, wrote tion on the Trotskyist Youth sistently large sales of literature. stop supporting these parties yet dealt with monopoly, it may very moment the roofers were takes to prepare thoroughly for farmers are reaping fa t returns an interesting historical account At two recent meetings, 30 which are out to divide and rule be a little out of place here to working on the leak. Further­ successful and very responsible out of the sweating hides of the Group send name and address of how labor-value controlled ex- pamphlets were sold, reports E. the workers. We must show the add that no appreciable price re­ more, the complaint was im­ places'. . . German slaves held under guard to 116 University Place, N. Y. 3, duction occurred in the automo­ change-value even when: “ Pro­ Brent, literature agent. H alf of bosses we are 100 per cent properly drawn up because sec­ “ When the training and ef­ for them by the British Work­ duction was . . . in the hands of N. Y. these were Veterans and Labor, against their agents. bile industry during the depres­ tion so and so, of the penal code fort is neglected by young peo­ ers’ Government! workers owning their own means Open Forum: Every Friday, 8 by Charles Carsten (10c). This year in November every sion. The monopolists merely cut did not apply to this case at all, ple . . . they find themselves What reaction can the British of production, whose work there­ The way it works, discussions New York worker will have an production to fit demand. And etc., etc., etc. classed with older people who ORGANIZED workers expect p.m., at 116 University Place. General Motors even raised fore yielded no surplus value to with visitors at meetings are opportunity to vote for people any capital.” (Engels on Capi­ I opened my mouth to tell my also have wasted opportunities. from the German brothers, when Dancing, refreshments follow. from their own class. I heartily prices $3 a car at the bottom they cry across the channel—as generally concentrated around tal, page 110.) story. They, too, find themselves just Queens — Open forums every urge all workers to support the of the depression, as a token they surely will cry—for help the literature display. Questions It is certainly true that after “ The complaint is dismissed,” , and with no definite Wednesday at Odd Fellows Tem­ Trotskyist candidates. As Trot­ gesture to give the Impression said the landlord judge banging in their future struggle against are often best answered by ref­ the capitalists have taken over desire to endure the efforts to ple, 160th St. and 90th Ave., erence to some book or pamph­ skyists, we are against the race- a boom was just around the cor­ his gavel for emphasis. The court go Into business, or become pro­ their masters, by way of interna­ ownership of the means of pro­ 8 p.m. let to be found there. haters, the strikebreakers: we ner. attendant called the next case. fessional in the normal ways. tional solidarity? duction they will not allow pro­ A t the Detroit rally to protest stand for equality and the dignity So, in fact, -if a lower price I returned home that evening Therefore they too, like the So long, said Abraham L in­ PHILADELPHIA. — Youth duction in their factories except against the fascist attempt to of the toiling masses. does not cut profits, but even from work and learned that the older self-neglecters, become coln, as a single black man re­ Forums held every Saturday, 8 increases profits, the profits for a profit, regardless of man­ bum down the branch head­ Cast your vote for the only roofer had not been there. soured on life and society; great­ mains in chains, no white man p.rh. 1303-05 W. Girard, 2nd kind's need for goods. And when quarters, a Stalinist attended, revolutionary candidates, the (and not the price) stimulate I phoned the Tenement House er mistaken ideas arise, such as is free. floor. you have said that you have out of curiosity. He bought a Trotskyists. production. When profit falls, Department to inquire why they the contrary methods of at­ Let me add that so long as the LOS ANGELES. — Socialist Victor Howell production falls, when profit said enough to condemn capi­ workers of Britain or America, Youth Club meets every Thurs­ subscription to The Militant and talism utterly. hadn’t come to investigate, as tempting a positive goal. New York, N. Y. rises, production rises. Right now they promised. They were wait­ or their leaders of Bolshevik ten­ day, 8 p.m., at SWP headquart­ some recent pamphlets. E. Brent As Jeff Thorne points out, the ing for it to rain so they could CANNON-FODDER dencies, are willing to stand by ers, 316% W. Pico Blvd. Educa­ reports one comrade alone has columns have not yet reached actually see the rain pouring in. "When a war breaks out, It in smug complacency while tio n a l by Youth and SWP bought, and sold, 36 copies of such modifying forces as those “ I t has rained three or four finds these young people inef­ their own bourgeoisies sweat the speakers. Veterans and Labor. W est Coast Camp Set covering the auto prices in his times since I made my com­ ficient, inexperienced and cer­ life out of the German or Ital­ a * - * * * * description. I suggest that read­ plaint,” I said. tainly not indispensable in any ian enslaved, so long, in short, Watch this column for further Send for latest price list: Pio­ For Week-End Session ers clip it out and keep it to re­ “We’H be there when it rains field. Thus they become just as they refuse to FIGHT for' announcements of youth activi­ neer Publishers, 116 University fer to when the series reaches the next time.” cannon-fodder and are asked to the freedom of such enslaved, ties. Place, New ^o rk 3, N. Y. Dear M ilitant Reader: to forget our feature attraction, that foint. Maybe they’re waiting for the offer their flesh to be torn on just so long will they find them­ This year’s West Coast Vaca­ the big swimming pool. While production Is linked with flood. battlefields to protect the inter­ selves confronted with the im­ tion Camp promises to be our But although we want and ex­ profit, we will not find such an ests erf the very businesses or passable wall of nationalism in M ail This Blank for Your Reservation A t biggest event of the year. pect you to have a good time, the unvarying law as: "When profit which they failed to the heads of their international For several weeks our food biggest event of the camp and falls, production falls; when make themselves indispensable brothers. For they are, by their WEST COAST ENCAMPMENT profit rises, production rises.” committee has been out buying the one which you will remem­ in. refusal to see this shameful Three day week end September 13, 14, 15 An outstanding exception is the "However, there is now a law slavery, exemplifying the rotten- the best cuts of meat, choice ber the longest will be the pro­ Workmen’s Circle Camp, Carbon Canyon, San Bernar­ typical pattern of monopoly. A which permits any soldier to est possible expression of na­ vegetables, fru it and ail the oth­ gram planned by the political dino County; 2 miles from Lavida Springs, 32 miles east of er foods which go to make up a activities committee. monopoly limits production to work for, apply for and train tionalism. increase profit; it holds down for a specialized foreign service As for the farmer, he is a capi­ Los Angeles. Take Route 101, turn left to Brea, then to real camp menu. In case your Four discussions in prepara­ Carbon Canyon. mouth hasn’t started watering tion are designed to give the production to create enough work as representative of this talist, (or a bankrupt) by any Rates: $10 for fu ll week end: $5 for one day and $5 yet, I can tell you we will also campers a real Idea of the so­ searelty to raise price* to the nation in various capacities; to Marxist criterion they may wish for children under 12 years of age. have wieners and punch for a cialist future for the United most profitable point. promote a better international to cite who call for a “Workers Warren Creel big wiener roast. States. Speaker* will trace the understanding and good neigh­ and Farmers government." W ett Coast Vacation Camp, The social committee has ar­ economic history and decline of bor policy. The purpose is to We see him in this ease en­ c/o The Militant, ranged for chess, checkers, ping- American capitalism. From this eliminate wealthy men from riching himself by a means 316 W. Pico Blvd. pong, and other indoor games as we will discuss the ways of abol­ Flint these jobs. Whereas they create which swings civilization back Los Angeles 15, Calif. ishing unemployment, wars, ra­ wars, the trained men can and to the social level of the arro­ well as big social events. It is Clast In Reserve accommodations as follows: now organizing a three or four cial discrimination, and the oth­ will promote peaceful and co­ gant Romans, or worse; we see piece band to replace the old er evils of capitalism. Public Specking end operative relations. him, but only with one eye. We Family □ Couple □ Single □ (check one) " I t would be a pleasure tq un­ are stone blind when it comes "canned” music. And we want you, the M ilitant Parliamentary Procedure Check days: ...... (13) ...... (14) ...... (15 The sports and recreation readers to Join in this discus­ Instructor: seat a Rockefeller or some other to seeing the British “Workers’ committee announces that a sion. For we know that you will war-monger and take his job. It government” protecting him in Enclosed: $...... (as deposit...... ) (full payment...... ) big field which last year was have much to offer, and will Genora DolKnger pays an extremely high this horrible profit sweating bus­ Beginning Name of Applicant ...... Just a mass of weeds has been enjoy thinking out in your own and allows all expenses of travel. iness. And we understand that (Please sign) cleared away and turned into a mind Just what part you are Sat., Sept. 11 Sincerely, on election day, they sang THE PUBLISHERS Dad.” INTERNATIONALE. Address ...... baseball field. Other games going to play in this struggle. Seetaliet Workers Party 116 University Place available are badminton, tennis, A. L. 215 K. 9th St. R. S. Amanas A. C. Booth City & Zone ...... !...... State...... ' basketball, and volleyball—not For the e u H . New *, M. X. Portland, Ore. Branscontb, Calif. PAGE SIX THE MILITANT SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1946 RICH PLANTER HOLDS FIVE INSLAVERY Wages, Prices And Profits By Evelyn Atwood Production And Income Roswell Pierce Biggers, wealthy Georgia planter and SWP Candidate Speaks A t Memorial Meeting In Buffalo horse and mule trader, was arrested on August 27-, by the Memorial Held By Warren Creel FBI charged with holding five Negroes in peonage. This We continue with the flow chart of commodities and arrest has thrown light on how the cheap, swindling “ white money in a capitalist system. Last week’s installment ex­ supremacy” scum carry on a racket for getting Negroes to For Trotsky plained the various parts of the flow chart, Figure 3, which slave on their farms with-*-1 is repeated here;- out pay. Conyers were not permitted to In Los Angeles The charted commodity, the coat, is finally sold for $8, Biggers, who was released on examine Rockdale County rec­ LOS ANGELES, Aug. 26— The eight lines trace the money from it, back through $4,000 bail, was specifically ords to see w’hat legal actions The North Hall of Embassy the procefcs, until it all ends up as income in the hands of charged with "unlawfully caus­ Biggers took against the Ne­ Auditorium here was filled workers or owners^ groes which made them . ing Booker T. Johnson to be ar­ last n ig h t. The audience had The total income in the hands of workers and own­ rested and returned to a condi­ Lust for gain is at the root of the savage treatment of the Ne­ come, in the words of Rose Kars- ers is $8. That’s the same as the final sales price of the tion of peonage” about May 30. ner, “ not to weep over the coat. It has to be, because it came from the sale of the The Justice Department in gro by the white ruling class in the South. This is shown clearly death of ^con Trotsky deep coat. It also is exactly enough to buy the coat. Washington admitted that four though our sorrow may be, but other Negroes were involved in by the peonage racket. Several . Considering the coat as the total output of all com­ of the recent lynchings, for in­ rather to honor the memory of this one case. this great man.” modities, this means that all the buyers, owners and work­ First, this wealthy white stance, involved attempts of ers taken together, have exactly enough income to take white plantation owners to get Comrade Karsner. a member chiseler had his victims arrested of the National Committee of to the market and buy all the goods there. There is no on trumped-up charges of “ ob­ out of paying debts they owred Negro farm-hands and share­ the American Committee for surplus or shortage of money; there is no surplus or short­ taining money under false pre­ European Workers Relief, gave age of goods. “Production equals income,” because income tense.” They were thrown into croppers by murdering them. an inspiring account of Trot­ comes from production. No matter how complex we made the Rockdale County Jail at sky’s life. So strongly did Trot­ Conyers, Georgia. Then they sky regard his ideas that his the diagram, that would always hold true. were turned over to Biggers to WDL Intensifies last conscious thought must We can picture certain economic events with this "work out their fines” by slav­ have been. Comrade Karsner chart. We’ll begin with the employers’ claim that high ing without pay on his 1.000- said. “ They have murdered me wages are the cause of high prices and shortages of goods. acre corn and cotton farm, 20 Pardon Campaign but they cannot kill me.” They say high w^ges have given the workers too much miles from Atlanta. Comrade Rita Victor, or­ money, so they have bought up all the goods, leading to PAST RECORD For Tee Davis ganizer of the Socialist Youth shortages and high prices. Even some labor leaders have Biggers’ record in this infa­ Club, youth section of the So­ An intensified nation-wide cialist Workers Party, voiced been willing to echo this, and thus to discourage a fight mous slave traffic goes back to for higher wages. 1$ there any truth in it? 1916, when he was indicted on campaign is being conducted to youth’s opposition to the Third similar charges. At that time, his secure a pardon for Tee Davis, World War now being prepared In Figure S,; suppose the workers in the Factory got hearing resulted in a “ m istrial” Negro tenant farmer of Ed­ by the capitalists. She discuss­ a raise, so their wages went up to $1.50, leaving only 50 and he was freed. mondson, Arkansas, who was ed the meaning of Trotskyism cents instead of a dollar for the owners. The total buying In recent years he has stepped framed up and railroaded to to the youth. up this profitable racket. Jus­ prison for ten years, it was an-: The main speaker, Murry tice of Peace J. H. Pirkle, who nounced last week by the Work­ Weiss, spoke on “Trotsky and ers Defense League. Davis, an William K itt, Socialist W’orkers Party can didate for comptroller in the New York state' the American Socialist Revolu­ could not remember how many elections, shown as he delivered the main addr ess at the Trotsky Memorial Meeting ir Buffalo. of Biggers’ “ hands” were involv­ active member of the Southern tion.” He pointed to the swift ed, recalled several cases from Tenant Farmers Union, wras and dynamic development of time to time over a year’s period framed on a charge of assault the American working class in He said Biggers had “ several” with intent to kill. The real the great sit-down strikes of Negro families on his farm. He facts are as follows: | the last decade, and the rapid Leon Trotsky's Heroic Life Told \ growth of the CIO into one of said Biggers seldom left his vic­ In March 1943, three white tims in jail longer than a day. marauders attempted one night .the most powerful labor or­ ganizations in the world. The Then they were returned to his to break into Davis’s house. labor movement’s present drive farm in peonage. Finding the door locked, one of A t BuffaloSW P Mem orialMeeting into the citadel of reaction, the This same Justice bf Peace de­ them began kicking it, shout­ BUFFALO, N. Y.—Over 80 persons were present at the^’ South, he said, is a continua­ clared that this racket is not at ing: “ Open up. you God-damn­ Trotsky Memorial Meeting held by the Buffalo-Lackawan- tion of* the first American Re­ all unusual “in this part of the ed black son-of-a-bitch!” volution and the Ciyil War. The country.” Many wealthy farm Davis, in , an attempt to na branch of the Socialist Workers Party on Tuesday frighten off the unknown as­ August 27 at the M ilita nt^ organization of the South is a owners do the same thing.” basic prerequisite for the Amer­ The trumped-up charges used sailants and protect his family, Forum, 629 Main St. -j of World War II, stronger than I power in the system would not be changed; it would still fired a shot through the lower ever in program, numbers and in ican Socialist Revolution. This by Biggers, that the Negroes ob­ An inspiring address on “Leon action brings ' the labor move­ be $8, The factory could not take advantage of a scarcity tained money under, false pre­ part of his door. Arkansas law leadership. W itli supreme con-j Trotsky—his contribution to the fidence it faces the great tasks | ment a step closer to the Trot­ to raise prices, and thus pass the wage raise on to the tenses, derives from a 1903 upholds the right of a citizen to fight for socialism” was given by defend his home. The White of this revolutionary epoch, the skyist goal of socialism. consumer, for there would be no scarcity of goods, and Georgia "cheat and swindle” William K itt, Western New York man fired back. No one was in ­ speaker declared. He urged the audience to join no surplus bf money. statute. This law holds that organizer for the Socialist Work­ jured. The w'hite man turned The program, incltfding work­ the Socialist Workers Party and Karl Marx summed up in Value, Price and Profit the “ any person who shall contract ers Party and candidate for to support its work. Two people to perform services of any kind out to be a sheriff, and al­ ers’ songs, and a showing of the result of an increase in Wages of workers. He pointed but though he had no w'arrant, ar­ N. Y. state comptroller on the film “ Thunder Over Mexico,” Signed applications for mem­ with intent to procure money SWP ticket. bership, and more than a dozen "... that ah increase of their; purchasing power must and not to perform the services rested Tee Davis. The wealthy concluded with a stirring rendi­ exactly correspond to the decrease, of the purchasing plantation ow'ners saw to it that Comrade K itt told of the life tion of The Internationale. turned in interest cards. $130 contracted for, shall be deem­ power of the capitalists. The aggregate demand for com­ Davis got a ten-year sentence. of Leon Trotsky, of his brilliant An outstanding feature of the was donated to help the party ed a common cheat and swin­ in its work, and a large amount All opponents of Jim-Crow leadership in the Russian revo­ meeting was a huge painting by modities, would therefore,not increase, but the constituent dler and punished as for a mis­ of literature sold. “ justice” and defenders of civil lutionary movement, and his un- a talented woman comrade parts of that demand would change. The increasing de­ demeanor.” The U. S. Supreme swerving devotion to the social- | whjch covered the m tire wan be Court over four years ago de­ rights are urged to write or wire mand on the one side would be counterbalanced by the Governor .Ben Laney, Little 1st emancipation of mankind.1 clared this law- a volation of the hind the speakers' platform. It Trotsky Memorial decreasing demand on the other.” Rock, Arkansas, and demand Kitt pointed out that the great­ depicted the toilers and oppres­ anti-slavery clause of the Con­ est achievement of Trotsky was Marx described how sales and production would fol­ stitution and declared it uncon­ that Tee Davis be immediately sed of the world following the pardoned. the establishment of the Fourth Held In New Haven low the shift in demand. Increased demand from the work­ stitutional. banner of the Fourth Interna­ M ilitant readers are also urg­ International, founded despite By Pearl Spangler ers’ side would cause more production of things the work­ VILE RACKETS tional, smashing the barrier of ed to sign and circulate the pe­ the opposition of world capital­ capitalism as the giants of the NEW HAVEN. Conn. — The ers buy, more food, more low-priced clothing, more low- But the real cheats and titions of the Workers Defense ism and murderous persecution revolutionary movement, Marx, growing interest of workers in priced housing, etc. At the same time the decreasing de­ swindlers, the wealthy white League to be sent to Governor by the Stalinist bureaucracy. Engels, Lenin and Trotsky, point finding the correct answers to mand from the profit: side would cause less production of their problems,, was evident in scum of Georgia, still use this Laney. Petition blanks can be ob­ Trotsky's Fourth Internation­ the road to socialism. things the owners buy. The shrinking market for high the size and enthusiasm of the statute to enslave the Negro tained from the Workers De­ al, built upon the tested program priced items and luxuries would tend to discourage produc­ farm hands. Of course they try fense League, 112 East 19th St., Trotsky Memorial meeting held of Marx, Engels and Lenin, tion in those lines. . to cover it up. Reporters at New York City. emerged from the terrible ordeal by the Connecticut branch of the LEON' TROTSKY Socialist Workers Party on Sun­ Today we see evidence in every retail store that the Meeting Held day. August 25. real situation is just the opposite. Producers and sellers pressor; and they must, fight the The main speaker, L. Morris, are making every effort to offer only high priced items In Bay Area boss class unrelentingly to . ach­ described Trotsky as “ world de­ and luxuries, and are shifting away from the working class 5 White Jurors Picked ieve a common socialist future," fender of labor and the oppress­ SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 26— ed.” A recording of Trotsky's 10th market. This shift is proof that the high demand comes Many friends of the Socialist Gordon Bailey paid tribute-to Anniversary Address to the from the profit.side of the market, and not from the wage Workers Party attended the im ­ our fallen martsds throughout American party was played. side. In Tennessee Negro Trial pressive Bay Area Trotsky Me­ the world. Tribute was paid also Workers and youth, men and Thus the evidence shows the opposite of the employ­ morial Meeting. A large banner to Antoinette Konikow by Bev­ women. Negro and white, joined ers’ charge that high wages have caused high prices. After three weeks, only five jurors—all-white—have s' proclaimed the essence of Leon erly Wise, a friend and co­ in paying tribute to loon Trot­ Fabulous profits are boosting prices, not high wages. too far afield.” worker. been selected for the trial at Lawrenceburg, Tennessee Trotsky’s lifetime struggle in the sky and dug deep into their This does not cover the present demand situation in In his efforts to pack the jury The meeting closed with the pockets to give $4$.07 to extend of 25 Negroes from Columbia arrested on a frame-up interest of working class free­ full, because there is another feature we must lay over charge of “ attempted mur-S------with race-hating whites, on Aug­ dom. Upon it were his last recording of Trotsky’s- 1938 ad­ the work of the branch. Several business section and clubbed and ust 29 the judge handed down words, “ I Am Sure of the Vic­ dress on the founding of. the indicated their eagerness to learn until we take up the topic of inflation. der.” 246. prospective jurors Next week: Productive and Unproductive Labor. were examined. shot the Negro residents. Two of an unprecedented ruling that he tory of the Fourth International Fourth International. more about the SWP. 69 Negroes dragged off to jail himself would question the pros­ —Go Forward.” . Defense attorneys are despe- were murdered in cold blood by pective jurors, and that all such ratMy fighting the state’s deter­ Ed Davis, SWP organizer in prison guards. questions should be submitted to the East Bay area recalled the mination to pick a “hanging him well in advance in writing sorrow of Mexican workers and American Imperialists Push Scheme Jury” in this mass frame-up FACE 20-YEAR TERM by defense counsel. The judge peons at the time of Trotsky’s tria l. They have already used up The 25 Negro victims on “ trial” was forced to suspend this rul­ assassination. He told how thou­ St «C ihetr 200 peremptory chal­ face 20 years in prison if con­ ing the following day. sands from all over Mexico made lenge* in blocking the choice of victed on the cooked-up charge The kind of jurors soufrtjt by For Military Grip On Latin America race-hating veniremen. of “attempted murder.” their way to the bier of Leon the white court, and who are Trotsky. The trial grew out of the Trial Judge Joe M. Ingram eager to sit in the jury box. was By Charles Carsten wholesale atrocity perpetrated has upheld the “ legality” of an Davis then vividly sketched the ^Special to. The M ilitant) ments need such support in or­ dous propaganda campaign in revealed again on August 30. A der to maintain their unstable the Latin American countries. last February by Tennessee’s all-white jury. No Negro has struggle carried on by Trotsky white man, G. L. Pace, was ac­ MEXICO, D. F., Aug. 21—With many sanctimonious position within the country: they white ruling class against the served on a Lawrenceburg jury and his co-workers to hammer In the schools and universities, cepted by the District Attorney phrases about “democracy’’ and “non-intervention,” Wash­ are only too glad tc have arms while potential reserve officers segregated Negro section of Co­ in more than 50 years. out the program of the Fourth as a qualified juror. ■ ington is pressing for the creation of a Hemispheric Army for use in quelling unrest among are being taught American meth­ lumbia. Some 500 state troops Judge Ingram continues to International. “That program,” Under alert defense question­ —an Army obedient to the U. S. High command. the workers and farmers. Econ­ ods of modern warfare, they will and hundreds of armed white scold and harrass defense at­ said Davis, “ was a recognition ing, Pace testified he had rush­ This ambitious imperialist®— ------—r------omic pressure will be exerted to receive heavy doses of pro-U. S. hoodlums invaded the Negro torneys. He claims they are using that the Russian Revolution was ed 33 miles to Columbia on Fe­ only the first conquest of power scheme, advanced under the mis­ the Soviet Union. Concrete steps line up the more independent imperialist indoctrination. community, poured machine-gun more time than necessary in se­ bruary 26, where he expected to toward its realization were taken Latin American countries. by the world working class: that leading title of “ Hemispheric Through the sale of military fire into houses, wrecked the lecting a jury and are “ going be supplied with firearms to take by General Dwight D. Elsenhow­ Once the army of a Latin it must be defended as such. It Defense,” provides for stand­ supplies and equipment the part in the anti-Negro pogrom. er during his recent trip south American country has been in­ declares that workers' every­ ardization throughout the West­ U. S. will drain from the Latin He further boasted that he to line up Mexico and Brazil be­ corporated into the Hemispheric where are brothers; that the ern Hemisphere of m ilitary eq­ American countries whatever f i­ started trouble with Negroes hind the plan. Army, refusal by the govern­ bosses are their common op- uipment, doctrine and training nancial reserves they accumu­ Just Out! Order Your Copy! while he was in the Army and all according to specifications This last move was timed to ment of that nation to make lated during the war. And it w ill' said he was put out of a USO concessions, or any other indi­ used by. the U. S. armed forces. coincide with the present bitter drive them, more deeply than center in a northern city when Northwest Branches In this way American m ili­ diplomatic duel between Byrnes cations of independence from The Death Agony Of Capitalism And American imperialism will be ever before, into debt to North he protested against a Negro GI tarists expect to create a gigan­ and Molotov in Paris. These American finance capitalists. dancing with a white girl. Hold Camp Week-End tic and Well integrated m ilitary moves and other hostile state­ punished by the withholding of unit extending from the northern ments made by Washington m ilitary supplies, replacements While making Latin American The Tasks Of The Fourth International FINED FOR TRUTH The northwest branches 6f the reaches of Canada to the south­ spokesmen leave no room for a n d maintenance. Countries countries mere cogs in the war Socialist Workers Party are Last week Judge Ingram also ern tip of Argentina, a m ilitary doubt: the Hemispheric Army is within the bloc will be com­ machine of American imperial­ The famous "Transitional Program" of fined one man $50 for contempt all participating in a week-end being organized in preparation pletely at the mercy of the Yan­ ism, Washington’s projected encampment of members and unit whose magnitude and strik­ of court, because he truthfully ing power would be by far the for war against the U.S.S.R. kee imperialists. hemispheric army, at the same friends at Benbow Lakes Lodges the world Trotskyist movement. replied he would not be able to most formidable in the world. Moreover, the plan dovetails in Truman’s super-military plan time gears in perfectly with serve on the jury because of his and Resort. Reservations are in every respect with Washington’s will enable the State Department Wall Street’s economic perspec­ Adopted by the Founding Conference ir prejudice against Negroes. from San Francisco, Portland, WALL STREET OUTPOSTS imperialistic aims in Latin to amplify its already tremen­ tives in Latin America. If it all Judge Ingram also forced one Tacoma. Vancouver and Seattle. In return for the privilege of America Itself. unfolds according to the hopes 1938 and now officially reaffirmed by the very sick defendant, Clarence An educational program In­ buying war machinery made in If realized, what will be its and expectations of the Yan­ Brown, to sit in ja il until $10,000 cludes the introduction of the the U. S. and for training under effect on the workers and farm ­ kee imperialists, the last vesti­ April, 1946 W orld Conference of the Fourth for a new bond was raised for branch organizers, a Saturday the auspices of American o ffi­ ers, and on the countries of Lat­ ges of political, economic and him. On August 22 Brown failed night lecture on the develop­ cers, the Latin American coun­ in America? m ilitary independence enjoyed International. to appear in Court because he ment of the American socialist tries are to give the U. S. new by the Latin American countries had been ordered to bed by a revolution, and informal dis­ air .naval and m ilitary bases. THE CONSEQUENCES will be destroyed. A TIMELY REPRINTING OF THIS BASIC doctor. Judge Ingram ruled that cussions. From these bases the U. S. im ­ Countries that collaborate with Organized workers In Uruguay his $5,000 bond was forfeited Recreational facilities include perialists will be able to police Washington politically, and with have already initiated a mass DOCUMENT, LONG OUT OF PRINT and that he must raise a new boating, fishing, swimming, ten­ the entire hemisphere, and most Wall Street economically, will of campaign directed against T ru­ bond of $10,000. nis, etc. important of all, launch an at­ course receive preference in the man’s plan. Workers and farm- 64 pages 25 cents Since the judge refused to per­ The cest will be $6.00 per per­ tack on any country or combin­ sale and transfer of m ilitary countries ruled by governments m it U. S. war bonds as security, son, for bed, bedding, and ation of countries that stands equipment. There a rt more than ers in other Latin American in the way of their drive toward PIONEER PUBLISHERS or accept bond from two other meals. Special arrangements a few m ilitary and semi-dicta­ servile to the interests of Ameri­ defendants, the $10,000 in cash can be made for children. In ­ world domination. torial regimes in Latin America can imperialism will fight with 116 University Place was raised with difficulty. Half formation and reservations can The plan, sponsored by Tru­ that will make .every m ilitary the fine militancy traditional was provided locally, and the be obtained from Socialist man, was divulged last May dur- and economic concession request­ among them to prevent their New York 3, N. Y. other half by the National Asso­ Workers Party, 1919 '/2 Second

Diary Of A Steel Worker Sunset Over The Steel Town Prominent Toledo Labor Figures Denounce ...... By Theodore Kovalesky------In the winter time the dusk comes early, and is part of everything else; where there are trees the haze that always lurks over the steel plant and fields and streams, and all are related, all darkens as the muddy sky fills up with night. It parts of life. Sunsets in such places are very is bleak in the steel town, Election Board Ruling On SWP Candidates beautiful. In such places, the sunsets blend into with the dirty, rutted snow the picture and become a part of it. Where there and the dim glow of the are broad green lawns and children at play, By Harold Josephs saloon windows. strong-built, clean-fashioned houses, and old (.special to The M ilitant) In the summer time it people at ease — there, too, the sunsets are part TOLEDO, August 30. — Several scores of labor, Negro takes a little longer. The of the one single picture. Only Solution and civic leaders this week signed a petition protesting dis- afternoon shift is well on But here it is different. Instead of mellowing MEET THE SWP CANDIDATES j crimination by the Toledo Board of Elections against the the way toward quitting and softening the harsh outlines of the streets i independent labor candidates of the Socialist Workers hour. Sweaty meni look up and clustered houses, the tw ilight makes them Is Labor’s Own through the slits and grotesque and a little ominous. j Party. Among the signers of the petition were two oity cracks in the casthouse I guess this is nothing new. You’ve seen all of Dorothy Schultz councilmen, two CIO regionalv roofs at the deepening blue of the sky and know it thousands of times. You’ve seen the bar­ Men In Office Candidate for U.* S. Congress directors, the president of asked and received from the that soon they will be on their way home. room windows begin to show up in the murk, 4th District, Mirinesota the local NAACP and prom­ County Prosecutor a new inter­ But the steel town is bleak in the summer and the lights go on in the shaky houses, and inent local leaders of the pretation of this law to be ap­ as well as in the winter. Stretching along the the puddles in the cracked sidewalks turn slowly Words Alone Won't The wife of a railroad brake- dusty road„huddled along the shore of the lake, from brown to black. You’ve seen the twilight man and daughter of a railroad CIO, AFL, Railroad Brother­ plied in the case of these labor are the vast, rusted sheds of the mills and grow into dusk and then deepen into night, Holt Anti-Labor Drive shopman, Dorothy Holmes hoods and MESA. candidates in order to rule them open hearths, looming into shadowed monsters when the lights in the houses begin to flick (Socialist Workers Party Candi­ Schultz has had a life-long ac­ The petition protests the ac­ off the ballot, therefore ^gainst the light of the sunset; the tangle of off, early though it is, because the steelworkers date for Governor of New York.) quaintance with the problems of- tion of the Lucas County elec­ “We, the undersigned citizeni wires and pipes, the veins that run through the have to get up before dawn to go to work. of Lucas County, although we entire length and breadth of the plant, carry­ Well, it ’s nothing new. I t ’s the same old story, In their Labor Day mess­ the working class. Bom in St. tion board which ruled off the ing Its life juices of gas, electricity, steam and that long gray, weary and depressed story of ages, William Green and Paul, Minnesota, on December ballot two Socialist Workers Par­ do riot necessarily endorse this air; the stoves and blast furnaces, silhouetted the life of the people who make the steel and Philip Murray denounced the 5, 1909, she is the younger sister ty candidates: Malcolm Walker particular party or its beliefs, into thick turrets. Over it all hangs a heavy pall the other products of society . . . and the profits anti-labor record of the of Grace Carlson, the Socialist for Congress and Paul Wylie for vigorously protest this obvious of smoke and dust, glowing here and there from of the few who own the factories. I t ’s just one 79th Congress. State Assembly. The Election discrimination against candi­ the flashes of the coke-oven fires and the beams more picture of the. life of the producers, and Workers Party senatorial candi­ “ Congress fa il­ Board, controlled by the two of hot metal, as though a battle were bein^ just one more contrast between that life and date. dates of a minority party.” major capitalist parties, demon­ fought beneath it. the life of the owners. ed us,” said Educated at St. Catherine’s MANY SIGNERS’ strated their fear of any genuine Across the ’pike, that stretches like a long thin A sunset, you know, is a sort of universal Green, speaking College and the University of working - class representatives Among the signers of the peti­ line on a map dividing the steel plant from the symbol of beauty, and the tw ilight hours of about la b o r’s Minnesota, Dorothy Schultz appearing on the ballot. They en­ tion are City Councilman James land and homes of those people who labor in it, the early evening, a synonym for peace and hope for broad­ earned her BA and MA degrees are linked together in a dreary chain the gentle contentment. But even such widely ac­ ening the Social in Economics and Political has been the organizer of the forced an obscure regulation for B. Simmons, elected as a Negro the first time since its passage in saloons with their windows glowing dimly In cepted symbols as these will nat fit one class Security system. Science. From 1935-37, she was St. Paul Branch of the SWP. independent with SWP support; the half light. It might seem that this row of where they fit another. Because EVERYTHING 1929 in order to declare Malcolm “ Congress* fell a teacher of Economics and His­ In 1941, she was one of the 29 City Councilman Thomas Burke, taverns between the steel plant and the houses is different between them and us. There is no tory in the Labor College run by Walker and Paul Wylie ineligible. down on the job.” vice-president of CTO United formed a sort of barrier, a buffer between the middle ground of approach. And while they the St. Paul Trades and Labor leaders of the' SWP and Minne­ CUSTOMARY PROCEDURE r nnRRS he rePeated, on Auto Workers Local 12: Rev, one and the other, that the two might exist side continue to own the factories and mines where F. DOBBS “ enaCtment of a Assembly. apolis Truckdrivers’ local 544- The law states that all peti­ by side in some kind of peace. we work, not even the beauty of the sunset can long-range housing program During the Thirties, Dorothy CIO, indicted in the Minneap­ tions must be filed as a unit. But Clyde Adams, president of the There are places, you know, where everything belong to us. which would permit the construc­ Schultz was active in organizing olis Labor Case. After her ac­ for seventeen years capitalist Toledo branch of the National tion of badly' needed new homes the unemployed. At one time, quittal, she made a speaking politicians have been filing their Association for the Advancement « she served as the Secretary of tour under the auspices of the nominating petitions in several of Colored People: and Welton Green pointed out how Con­ the Citizens Protective Union, an groups, thus insuring a sufficient People Can Change Civil Rights Defense Committee Barnett, publisher of the Toledo gress had made a series of hostile organization of the unemployed, count of valid signers. Script, only Negro paper in "■ By Grace Carlson ------moves “ which would have under­ which was sponsored by the in behalf of the remaining de­ The Socialist Workers Party Trades and Labor Assembly. fendants. Toledo. “ But you can’t change human nature!” Every dangerous situation. A bill was Introduced into mined the freedom of American was advised that this was cus­ one who has argued for Socialism has heard the Utah legislature in 1921 providing fines and workers and handcuffed the trade Active in workers’ defense and The mother of four children— tomary procedure. If petitions CIO leaders who signed the union movement.” civil liberties organizations, Dor­ this chestnut, which is supposed to be an anni­ imprisonment for those who wore on the streets an eight-year-old daughter, four- did not contain enough signa­ petition include: UAW Regional othy Schultz was the Secretary tures, other petitions could be hilating answer to “ imprac­ “ skirts higher than three Inches above the SHARP WORDS year-old son, and four-month- Director Richard Gosser: Clyde of the Twin Cities branch of the filed to meet the auota. This in­ tical” radicals. ankle.” A t the same time, a bill was pending Murray spoke even more sharp­ Shamblen, vice-president of the Workers Defense League for sev­ old twin boys—Dorothy Schultz formation was given by Lehr But people do change. The in Ohio which aimed to prevent the sale of any ly. He scored the "derelictions of eral years. She is now serving her has an intimate understanding Toledo CIO Council; Lawrence human being is a much more “ garment whicli unduly displays or accen­ Congress.” He hammered on the Fess. chief clerk of the Board of third term as an Executive Board Elections and a Republican ex­ Steinberg. Ohio Director of the flexible creature than our tuates the lines of the female figure” and to fact Congress had helped the of the working class housewife’s member of the St. Paul Branch judge and attorney. CIO Retail, Wholesale and De­ capitalist - minded friends prohibit any “ female over fourteen years of age” "profiteers” by granting “unjusti­ problem. She knows what it from wearing “ a skirt which does not reach to of the National Association for partment Store Employes; M arl- would have us think. It would fied price increases to swell al­ means to struggle to feed and The Socialist Workers Party be possible to list thousands that part of the foot known as the instep.” the Advancement of Colored vene Kerchman, Woman’s Direc­ ready spectacular earnings.” People. appealed to the Board of Elec­ of facts from history, anthro­ President Murphree of the University of clothe a family in this period of tor. UAW Local 12; Hugh Sharpe, These bitter denunciations tions for a hearing at which their pology, sociology and psycho­ Florida was tremendously agitated about the Since 1940, Dorothy Schultz skyrocketing prices. candidates or attorney could be Textile Workers local secretary; logy to prove that human whole situation. “ The low-cut gowns, the rolled from the heads of the American Oliver Pecord, editor of Toledo trade union movement show how present. This appeal was ignored beings have changed their hose and short skirts are born of the Devil by the Election Board. UrJon Journal; Clayton Rusch, thoroughly they understand that habits of thinking and acting over the years. and his angels and are carrying the present William Kitt Lucas County PAC chairman; Congress is the tool of Big Busi­ The protest petition signed by Let's examine only one more or less entertain­ and future generations to chaos and destruc­ Ted Stephens: vice president of ness — a handpicked body of Candidate for Comptroller union and civic officials stated: ing set of facts — the revolution in fashions. tion,” he boomed. the Veterans Labor Committee; New York State “IN VIEW OF THE FOLLOW­ Frederick Allen has collected some inter­ Part of President Murphree’s predictions were professional labor-haters. Emmet Wheaton Jr., Negro un­ esting facts about the changes in women’s clothes correct. The generation bom in the Nineteen- What are the conclusions William K itt, Socialist Work­ ING FACTS: ionist now leading a rent strike in his Only Yesterday which he calls “ An In ­ Twenties did grow up “ to chaos and destruc­ drawn by Green and Murray? ers Party candidate for comp­ “That Socialist Workers Party in federal housing projects, formal History of the Nineteen-Twenties.” Only tion,” but hardly anybody thinks that short They propose to “ educate the troller in the New York state candidates, Malcolm Walker and v AFL signers include Ray P. skirts had anything to do with it. Most people public on vital issues” and pub­ Paul Wylie, running as independ­ 26 years ago a fashion writer reported in the elections, Is a veteran of World Myers, business ageht of the N. Y. Times that “ the American woman has believe that the atomic bomb and the other licize the "voting records” of the ents for Representative to Con­ War I I who has been active in Meatcutters union: Harry Haus­ lifted her skirts far beyond any modest lim ita­ imperialist war weapons were more effective. Congressmen. This is good, so gress and General Assembly re­ er, Sheet Metal Workers busi­ tion.” This meant that skirts were then nine And the generation that saw the revolution far as it goes. But what then? the working class movement for spectively, filed a sufficient ness agent; H. Schneider, Mach­ inches above the ground! in fashions and the revolution in warfare may The correct conclusion demands twenty-two years. number of signatures to qualify inists business agent; C. C. see the Socialist Revolution. Because people do Dress reform committees sprung up all over labor’s own political representa­ Now 41 years old, Comrade as candidates before the deadline Brooks, business agent of the change! on Wednesday, August 7, and the country in an attempt to deal with this tives be put in office. To carry K itt was born In London in 1905. Laborers union; S. Green, Steam- out that job successfully requires “ That these independent labor He has been a participant and fitters and Plumbers business organizing independent political candidates have stated in the agent; and W. A. Morgan, Street­ Lords And Rhinoceros-Hide Whips action. leader in workers’ struggles in press that Lehr Fess. Chief Clerk car and Bus Drivers business Green and Murray, however, the United States ever since he of the Board of Elections, had in­ agent. ....By Joseph Hansen reject this solution! Instead of first Joined the Industrial. formed them it was proper to Among railroad union leaders file supplementary petitions, and He said that the statistics on flogging were fighting to put labor’s own re­ Wdrkers of the World OWW) in who signed are: Timothy J. Mc­ Are you worried about the atomic bomb? presentatives in office, they pro­ Mr. Fess, attorney and ex-Judge Afraid you might be one of those fated to sizzle higher for the Sudan Defense Force than in 1924. army, he was a member of the Cormick, president of the Toledo pose to back the Big Business New York City Committee of the has not denied this statement, Area Council of Railroad Work­ away like a drop of water on a hot stove when the rest of the Empire. Apparently the Sudan W illiam K itt was a delegate and Defense Force proved more reluctant that some candidates of the Republican and Socialist Workers Party, in ers, and Harry Richardson, se­ Wall Street’s surprise packages from an Alteration Painters Un­ of the others in fighting for the' “ Four Freedoms” Democratic parties! What is this charge of trade union work. “ That the election laws have cretary; Roy Griffith, Railroad start dropping on your city in ion in 1932, to the Hunger and they had to be braced up a bit. but strikebreaking on the politi­ After receiving his discharge been interpreted by the Election Conductors local chairman; and World War in ? cal front? March on Washington which de­ Board for the last 17 years to Just to relieve your mind for “ If any of your lordships were found punishing from the army, he became SWP Tom Griffith, Railroad Train­ a dog with such a whip,” said the Lord indig­ W ith a political policy like manded government aid to the organizer in Buffalo, New York. allow Republican and Democra­ men local chairman. Mechanics a while, consider a real worry. A suffering unemployed. He was a nantly, “ he would justly be prosecuted by the that, what will prevent the 80th tic candidates to file supplement­ Educational Society (MESA) of­ worry that is facing the House member of organizations of un­ RSPCA.” I t was not reported what kind of whip Congress from being just as anti­ Next weeks Sylvia Blecker ary petitions, and ficials who signed are W illiam of Lords in Great Britain. They employed workers in Minnesota the Lord advocated or whether he thought flog­ labor as the 79 th? and Alan Kohlman. "That the Election Board had Weisenbom and W illiam McCoy. can’t decide whether or not to and Ohio. In Minneapolis, in ging should be done away with entirely. do away with the rhinoceros- CORRECT CONCLUSION 1934, he was a member of the hide whips they’ve been using for Viscount Addison, Dominions Secretary, was I Starting from facts such as able to report progress on the question. He said Executive Committee of the Un­ generations to put the fear of the British lion those outlined by Murray and employed Organization, and took fm tile hearts of the colonial people. that “ approaches” had been made to the despots stationed in the colonies and they had been Green in their condemnation of part in the historic strikes of the It seems these rhinoceros-hide whips inflict Minneapolis teamsters which Our Program: “ urged” to consider “ alternative” punishments. Congress, labor must draw the euch cruel lacerations that even professional changed that city from an open \ nurses turn sick at the stomach when they look However, there may be considerable resis­ correct political conclusion. That tance on the part of conservative members of the shop to a union town. at the moaning victims. conclusion is, oppose the Demo­ 1. Defend labor's standard of living! British ruling class to doing away with flogging In Toledo, in 1935, he put to The story is told in the July 1946 New African, cratic and Republican political good use the lessons of the Minn­ published monthly in London. “ The House of with rhinoceros-hide whips. After all, isn’t it #A sliding scale of wages— an escalator wage clause in all union contracts to • one of the burdens of capitalism to bring “ civi­ machines. Break from these eapolis strike, when he parti­ j . provide automatic wage increases to meet the rising cost of living! Lords,” says the New African, “ was told yester­ cipated in the GM Chevrolet day of nurses in the colonies who had asked lization” with all its benefits to the backward anti-labor outfits and put labor’s Organize mass consumers committees for independent action against profiteer­ colonial peoples? How else can super-profits be strike. That strike remains a ing and price-gouging! to be moved to other wards because they could own independent candidates in milestone in the tradition of the not bear to nurse victims flogged with rhino- wrung from the colonies? And what instrument in the whole arsenal of office! m ilitant auto workers. He was Expropriate the food trusts! Operate them under workers’ control! eeros-hide whips.” In New York this means vote also a member of the Ohio Un­ It was Lord Faringdon who brought up the imperialism is better or cheaper in carrying out this lofty aim than a good, tough, searing for the Socialist Workers Party! employment League which was 2. and job security for all workers and veterans! question. He thought there had been an “ exces­ outstanding in its defense of sive use” of flogging, especially In the Sudan. rhinoceros-hide whip? For the 6-hour day, 30-hour week! A sliding scale of hours— reduce the hours of the workers’ interests. work with no reduction in pay to prevent layoffs and unemployment! Veterans' Problems A tten tio n For many years Comrade K itt Government operation of all idle plants under workers’ control! was an active member of the AFL Toledo Readers painters in New York City, lead­ Unemployment insurance equal to trade union wages for workers and veterans "Ar my Justice" The Toledo Branch of the ing the progressive forces of that during the entire period of unemployment! ----- By Alvin Royce — Socialist Workers Party has union. He has also been a mem­ been evicted from its head­ ber of the CIO United Electrical, 3. Against all anti-labor laws and government strikebreaking! After scanning the glowing descriptions of tradlctlon. For instance, when we landed in quarters at 213 Michigan St. Radio and Machine Workers No restrictions on the right to strike and picket! the army In the recruiting ads, many veterans France we had to do all our fighting in “hedge- Temporary headquarters will Union. No injunctions! No compulsory arbitration! may scratch their heads and say the army country.” Thousands of lives were lost in those be located at 370 West Ban­ Since joining the Trotskyist isn’t so bad after all. The battles because not one soldier participating croft, Tel. ADams 2304. movement in 1931. William K itt 4. Build an independent labor party! Watch THE MILITANT for has been organizer of several latest decision of the had ever received any training or instruction in court-martial in the Lich­ announcement of permanent branches of the Socialist Work­ 5. Tax the rich, not the poor! field case is a sharp re­ that type of fighting. Yet, you can be quite headquarters. ers Party. For some time prior minder, however, that the sure they had received enough training in to his 1942-43 service in the Repeal the payroll tax! No sales taxes! Army Brass have no in­ respecting privileges of the Brass. No taxes on incomes under $5,000 a year! tention of relinquishing Combat veterans w ill also remember how , their caste privileges. quickly those privileges were forgotten under 6. An 18 billion dollar appropriation for government low-rent housing! Col. James A. Kilian, enemy fire. There were no special foxholes, K - $*i*t tfa SocleUi&t TO vitou Pstxttf / rations or billets for officers, because efficient 7. Full equality for Negroes and national minorities! after being found guilty of permitting “ harsh, fighting would be impossible under such con­ cruel and unusual” punishment of G I prisoners, Socialist Workers Part\ End Jim-Crow! End Anti-Semitism! ditions. The caste system is maintained not to, 116 University Place was fined $500, not even a full month’s pay win wars but to keep control of the army in for a Colonel overseas, The other day Maj. Lu- New York 3, New York 8. For a veterans'organization sponsored by the trade unions! the hands of Wall Street. Buono, former Provost Marshal at Lichfield, Maj. Gen. Manton S. Eddy, commanding gen­ 1 would like: 9. A working class answer to capitalist militarism and war. was found guilty of “ permitting guards to. . . eral of the 2nd Army let the cat out of the strike prisoners with hands and fists, forcing bag when he spoke at the Pennsylvania state 0 To join the Socialist Workers Party Take the war-making powers away from Congress! Let the people vote on the them to double-time for protracted periods convention of the American Legion. Comparing question of war or peace! and . . . stand with nose and toes against a the army and the capitalist society as a whole Q To obtain further information about your or­ Against capitalist ! wan tor extended periods.” He was fined $200! he pointed out that "presidents and officers ganization. Abolish the officer caste system! These criminals who formulated and ordered of large corporation do not necessarily have to Full democratic rights in the armed forces! 0 To attend meejjngs and forums of the Socialist the policy of torture “ to make the prisoners sit down with the office boys or other employes Trade union wages for the armed forces! want to go up front” were let off with light fines. or share their washrooms.” Workers Party in my city. But the enlisted men who were forced to carry M ilitary training of workers, financed by the government, but under control The General then demanded: “ Is it any of the trade unions! out these orders were not let off quite so easy. more of a crime for the officers of the army N a m e Sgt. Judson Smith, for instance, was sentenced to have their own messes, their own clubs, paid {Piute Print\ ♦ 10. Solidarity with the revolutionary struggles of the workers in all lands! to three years at hard labor and dishonorable for by their own money, any more than it is St r e e t ...... for a civilian tp have his own luncheon club?” - For the complete independence of the colonial peoples! discharge. S/Sgt. James M. Jones was sentenc­ C it y _____ In short, the Army is a capitalist army. It Withdraw all American troops from foreign soil! ed to six months at hard labor. ° maintains the Same system of privileges, the Po s t a l Z o n e St a t e .. If any combat veteran thinks back over his same class distinctions, same injustices that 11. For a Workers' and Farmers' Government! army experiences he w ill notice a glaring con- are to be found generally under capitalism.