Desegregate Now! Says Myra Weiss t h e MILITANT In TV Broadcast PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE INTERESTS OF THE WORKING PEOPLE (Text of speech given by Myra Tanner Weiss, So­ Vol. XX - No. 38 NEW YORK, N. Y., MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1956 Price 10 Cents cialist Workers Party Candidate for Vice-President over a nation-wide CBS-TV and CBS-Radio hookup, Sept. 15.) In accepting the nomination ofi7> the Socialist Workers Party for son and Kefauver to the rafters, the Vice-Presidency, I want to They promised them a “ solid start right off by taking a South” on election day. Then forthright position on an issue they took them on a motorcade which the Republican and Demo­ to Oak Ridge — which went cratic candidates are dodging through Clinton. It went within Vincent Hallinan Supporting and ducking. That is the issue of one block of the ' high school school desegregation. where the Negro children were The Socialist Workers Party being insulted and terrorized. doesn’t duck or dodge on this or Yet, neither Democratic candi­ any other issue. We are against date had the decency or courage school segregation and every to say a single word in favor of the embattled Negro students. At no time during their visit Farrell Dobbs for President to Clinton or anywhere else below the Mason-Dixon line, did $ they speak out against the racist mob. SWP Candidates EISENHOWER ‘NEUTRAL’ ‘Help Banner Bearers President Eisenhower also On TV and Radio shies away from public state­ DOBBS SCHEDULE ments on school desegregation. Of Left’ Declares 1952 A t his September 5th press con­ NBC-TV: Saturday, Sept. 15 ference, however, he was bom­ 5 to 5:15 P.M. barded w ith questions on the Progressive Candidate subject by reporters. His answers ♦ gave small comfort to the Negro In a political development of major importance for people struggling for their WEISS SCHEDULE the working class movement, Vincent Hallinan, the Presi­ rights. A fte r Eisenhower had CBS-TV: Saturday, Sept. 15 dential candidate of the Progressive Party in 1952, has asserted that there was no need 6:30 to 6:45 P.M. announced that in this year’s fo r federal action, he was asked: (In Chicago; Sun., Sept. 23) Have you any message on the presidential race he is sup­ 3:30 to 3:45 P.M. subject for the youth of Amer­ porting the Socialist Work­ ica? NBC-TV: Saturday, Sept. 22 ers Party ticket. His answer was indeed per­ 2:30 to 2:45 P.M. The announcement was made MYRA TANNER WEISS functory and uninspiring. It NBC-Radio: Thursday, Oct. 4 in a letter to the Daily People’s wound up blaming what he 10:15 to 10:30 P.M. World of Sept. 7. The West Coast called extremists on both sides. newspaper, which espouses the other part of the reactionary, W ith equal fervor and fine im­ ♦ views of the Communist Party, unjust and cruel Jim - Crow partiality, he denounced the had solicited the views of Hal­ system. We opposed segregated DOBBS and WEISS professional racists who whipped linan and other Californians schooling before the Supreme SCHEDULE up the mobs and those who ask prominent in the labor and Court decision and we fig h t now that the desegregation decision progressive movements. fo r putting that decision into CBS-Radio: Saturday, Sept. 15 of the United States Supreme After a hard-hitting refuta­ effect — not at some time in 10:30 to' 11 P.M. Court be enforced — right now! tion of the arguments currently the dim distant future, but NOW ABC-TV: Thursday, Sept. 20 Are the Negro children seeking used to persuade workers and and everywhere in the U.S. 10 to 10:30 P.M. equal educational opportunities Negroes to vote Democratic, the I said that the candidates of and those who support their All Eastern Daylight Time former Progressive Party leader the two Big Business parties struggle to be classified with called fo r aid to “ those who dodge and duck on this issue. those who threaten them with ♦ sacrifice their effort and time There are countless proofs of guns and beatings? to carry the banners of the this, but let me give two ex­ Call station for time in Is this the kind of “modera­ NEWS ITEM : 'Stevenson and Kefauver were in Clinton, Tenn., on the third day of the school Left.” He closed his letter by amples: one for each, from the your locality tion” that both capitalist candi­ rioting. Their motorcade passed within one bl >ck of the \ highschool. Neither there, nor any “urging that as high a vote as recent outburst of white-su­ dates profess? One can draw no where else in the South, did either Democratic candidates say anything about the riots. can be mustered be given to Mr. premacist rioting in Tennessee, other conclusion from either Farrell Dobbs.” (See text of the Texas and Kentucky. their words or deeds. letter on this page.) Adlai Stevenson and Estes I think the Negro youngsters Hallinan is the second im­ VINCENT HALLINAN Kefauver were in Clinton Ten­ of the South have given Amer­ portant leader of the now nessee on the third day of the ica a magnificent demonstration Survey Shows: Fewer Southern As Progressive Party candi­ defunct Progressive Party to rioting against the admission of of unexampled courage — and declare fo r the SWP in the date for President in 1952, Hal­ twelve Negro children to the that goes for their parents, too. coming elections. Earlier this linan polled over 130,000 votes. high school. They were in Ten­ Can you imagine the anguish year, Clifford T. McAvoy, leader Following the election he was nessee fo r a conference with the and fears of these fathers and Schools Integrating This Year™ of the American Labor Party part of that wing of the party ieaders of the Democratic Party mothers as they saw their chil­ (the New York section of the which unsuccessfully opposed the of the South — a conference dren off to school each morning? By George Lavan students were involved. to one extent or another. This only community south of W ilm ­ Progressive Party) and its candi­ Communist Party and others There are 12,500 Negro school does not mean that all of these ington to begin integration this from which Negro Democrats Yet from their own lives they SEPT. 11 — As the white-su­ date fo r mayor in 1954, an­ who wished to liquidate the had been excluded. feel it would be intolerable for children in Louisville, and an­ 300,000 are actually in integrated year is the suburb of Christiana' nounced that he was backing movement and lead the mem­ premacist violence against the other 1,0010 in the remainder of classrooms or even sehoolhouses. where one elementary school is The Southern leaders — all of their children to grow up under opening lot" desegregated schools Dobbs and Weiss. bership back into the Demo­ them avowed opponents of school the warping and heart-breaking Jefferson County. Thus integra­ Much of the desegregation has involved. Thus, with the excep­ Though neither Hallinan nor cratic Party. In addition to his appears to have died down, two tion there is an important gain. been partial or even token so that tion of Dover and Christiana, desegregation — cheered Steven- (Continued on page 4) facts stand out. (1) The racist McAvoy fully agree with the political activity, Hallinan has However, all these students will a child in a city whose school sys­ only the northern fifteen miles program of the Socialist Work­ long been prominent on the West mobs succeeded in Mansfield and not be integrated. There will re­ tem is officially desegregated of Delaware ha® desegregated. Texarkana, Texas and in Sturgis, ers Party, they base their sup­ Coast as a labor and civil liber­ Lynch Symbol main under present school-board may nonetheless be attending a Itn Texas, according to a New port on the conviction that so­ ties attorney. He has himself Kentucky, in preventing integra­ plans four all-Negro elementa­ Jim Crow school. tion. (2) The amount of deseg­ York Times survey (.Sept. 9), 24 cialist-minded workers should been a victim of the witch hunt. ry schools, three all-Negro The first school opening after school districts planned this year regation undertaken by the au­ not return to the Democratic A fte r the 1952 race he was junior high schools and one all- the high court decision saw the to begin desegregation, or extend Party but vote socialist. They prosecuted and jailed by the thorities ion this, the third, school Negro high school. opening since the Supreme Court greatest amount of desegrega­ desegregation begun earlier. regard the SWP as the best federal government ostensibly on tion. This was accounted fo r by “ However, the process is advanc­ decision, is less, (not more than HOW MUCH INTEGRATION? vehicle for expressing working tax charges but actually as a the two cities of Baltimore and ing much more slowly than a in the previous years. The overall picture of the class political independence in form of persecution fo r his Washington. The lack of teeth year ago.” Undoubtedly the suc­ Only one large community— amount of desegration to date is the coming elections. leftist politicial activity. and time limit in the court’s fol­ cess of the mobs and1 Texas Louisville, Kentucky—is inte­ as follows: Of about 2,400,(K)0 Farrell Dobbs, the SWP Pre­ The other two contributors to low-up implementation decision Rangers in Mansfield and Tex­ grating its schools this year. AM Negro school children in the South sidential candidate, is now on a the Daily People’s World election a year later plus the political and arkana in preventing integration the other integration attempts and in border states who were in national speaking tour. On Sept. policy discussion were W illiam propaganda counter-offensive of w ill slow the process down even involved mere handfuls of Negro Jim Crow schools systems before 28 he will be in San Francisco to Schneiderman, chairman of the By A rt Sharon the 'Southern politicians has re­ more. school children. This may be seen the Supreme Court decision some participate with Hallinan and California Communist Party, and SWP Campaign Manager sulted in the complete prevention from the fact that in the five 2,100,000 are stiil in them. Ap­ No further integration was at­ others yet to be named in a George Collins, a former Demo­ of desegregation |in the Deep communities where violence fla r­ proximately 300,000 in the border tempted this year in Arkansas symposium on the coming elec­ cratic assemblyman. Both urged Myra Tanner Weiss, the cru­ South and a slowdown in the sading Vice-iPresidential candi­ ed (Clinton, Tenn.; Sturgis, states and D istrict of Columbia where last year three communi­ tions. The affair will be under support of the Democratic Party. border states. date of the Socialist Workers Kentucky; Mansfield, Texarkana, are now in school systems o ffi­ ties — Hoxie, Fayetteville and the auspices of the California (See Editorial on Hallinan' Party, made her first post-con­ Texas) a total of only 37 Negro cially described as desegregated For example, in Delaware, the (Continued on page 4) Labor School. Action, Page two.) vention speech in Minnesota. The newspapers of Minneapolis and Sit. Paul, well acquainted with the SWP because of the its his­ HALLINAN CALLS FOR SOCIALIST VOTE toric role in the union movement there, all sent reporters to Mrs. By Vincent Hallinan The present situation exem­ litico-ecclesiastic machines in the the second place, the Democrats American people toward a so­ Weiss’ news conference on Sept. plifies as well as any previous Northern cities. are rightly regarded as the “ war cialist solution of the dilemmas 5. Also present was the TV Progressive Party Candidate for President in 1952 period has done the observation party.” At least Eisenhower is a which confront us. Once this is EVEN LESS HOPE NOW cameraman of station WCCO. A (Reprinted with author’s, permission from the Sept. 7, 1956 made by a French observer some soldier and he knows that the giained. the other problems, prac­ 60 or 70 years ago, that these vigorous statement of the candi­ Daily People’s World. Subheads added.) Back in 1948 newcomers to the United States cannot lick half tically all of which have an eco­ date on the SWP position on two parties are exactly alike, re­ liberal movement were persuad­ the world. Moreover, he’s an. old nomic base, w ill resolve them­ civil rights was seen by the local The National Convention of the Republican and Demo­ sembling each other as two bot­ ed that the Progressive Party and sick soldier without ambi­ selves. T-V viewers that evening. cratic Parties ended in results which could! have been tles from the same mold—both was being formed principally for tions for further military ad­ Every opportunity, then, should empty! Among the newspaper stories pretty closely predicted a long time ago. Of course, it the reason that there was no venture. The Democrats have not be taken advantage of to give was one in the Minneapolis As regards the activities of hope that liberal elements could yet found out that the American support and encouragement to Man attempts to take down was always possible that o th e r^ Morning Tribune which featured policy, they now agree that Ei­ le ft wing and liberal elements in control the policies of the Demo­ people want no more war. They such forces, regardless of their Negro effigy hung from a persons m ight have been selected have provided the Republicans the smallness of the SWP cam­ senhower is the lesser of the two the country, at least the most cratic Party. At that time, al­ divisive differences. I t is a mis­ flagpole in Mansfield, Texas, to carry out the policies of these paign fund as compared to the evils. In the domestic field they vocal among them appear to be though Franklin Roosevelt was with an irresistible slogan: “Ev­ take not to vote, and it is worse by white supremacists as a parties but the differences be­ erything is Booming but the $20 million to be spent by the can cast Stevenson in that role tying themselves to the Demo­ dead, the Democratic Party was than a mistake to vote fo r either warning to Negroes. Racist tween such prospective candi­ Republicans and Democrats. For only by summoning up the ghost cratic Party chariot. By a proc­ still trailing filaments of his Guns.” the Republican or the Demo­ mob aided by Texas rangers, dates would have been unimpor­ ess of energetic self-hypnosis, glory and many of the liberals Liberals and Progressives who cratic Party candidates. A posi­ this reason the w riter described tant. Some months back, I be­ of FDR. As a matter of fact, the Myra Weiss as “ a feminine David prevented court-ordered inte­ domestic policies of tire two par­ they conceive this to be the party who had accompanied him into have drifted back into the Demo, tive advantage can be gained by lieved that the Democrats would cratic Party have as much chance Come to Minnesota to wage her gration from taking place. An ties are practically indistinguish­ of possible progress. The argu­ the Government were still in aiding those who sacrifice their ominous development is the nominate Harriman and that the ment is that the greater part of power. I t was further revealed of directing its policies as one effort and time to carry the battle against Goliath.” The Republicans m ight drop Nixon. able. hanging of Negroes ini effigy. the working people are “ in” the that the American Labor Party who is swallowed by a whale has banners of the Left. It is high article didn’t follow the metaphor Apparently, the Democratic to its end, but everyone knows SHOPWORN PROMISES Democratic Party. By this they of New York had been created of altering its course. The con­ time that political organizations Party machine did favor the New mean that the Democratic Party at the behest of Franklin Roose­ flict between socialism and cap­ on that side of the fence stopped who won that battle. “ The American People Must Their platforms repeat the York Governor and some Repub­ velt because he himself despaired italism will ultimately sharpen canping at each other and sought The article gave the views of Build A Labor Party.” At a promises of other years without is able to induce more workers lican politicos felt that Nixon to vote for its candidates than of holding the Democratic Party to the point where it is recogniz­ common bases within the field the SWP Vice-Presidential candi­ Sunday afternoon election rally apology for prior betrayals. might cost them votes. The in­ the Republican Party can coax to a liberal program. ed that there is no middle wrhich all are defending. Their date on the events in the Soviet in St. Paul her subject was “ The Neither attempts to mask its nocent w ill believe that Steven­ into voting for its. ground. It ’s about time that the mutual recriminations, based Union since Stalin’s death. 1956 Elections and the Fight cynicism with regard to the is­ If such things were true at son’s selection indicates a "re­ le ft wing people in the United principally upon names and Singled out by the reporter as Against Segregation.” Both sue of civil rights. Both, how­ I t is thought, that by some in­ that time, how much more true volt” of liberal forces against States came to the realization slogans which have lost their “ significant” was the fact that meetings were very successful. ever, have reversed their historic filtrative process, the liberal are they today! the machine and a reproach to that the contest is between pub­ meaning, should be relegated to Clifford T. McAvoy, a former Truman’s obvious contempt for role with regard to ta riffs—the forces can "push” the Democratic A t least the le ft wing people TV RESPONSE lic ownership and private owner­ the Museum of Political Faction­ American Labor Party leader in the processes of the primary Democrats becoming the party of Party in the rig h t direction. who w ill waste their time and They, therefore, allow them­ ship of those things which are alism. New York, had come out this Already letters are beginning election system. Such persons are protectionism, and the Repub­ energies on behalf of the Demo­ necessary to the well-being and licans of comparative free trade. selves to be exploited, selling I aim personally urging that as year fo r the Dobbs-Weiss ticket. to come in to SWP Campaign seeking consolations where none cratic Party candidates w ill not comfort of all. While it is nec­ “ There’ll be more to come,” was headquarters as a result of the exist. There are no oases in The Democrats promise to re­ cookies, collecting rags and ring­ have to eat crow after next No­ high a vote as can be mustered essary to strike blows for other be given to Mr. Farrell Dobbs, the quoted prediction' of Mrs. TV and radio broadcasts of the the howling desert which these peal the Taft-Hartley Act, which ing doorbells for the organiza­ vember. Truman’s political fore­ tion which initiated and brought causes, it is folly to lose sight the candidate of the Socialist Weiss. SWP candidates. Typical of these worthies are now traversing. could’nt have been passed w ith­ sight will be best illustrated in of the main issue and to lose it to its fiercest expression the cur­ Worker® Party. On Sept. 7 the SWP candidate are the following excerpts from The liberal and left wing forces out the vigorous aid of Democra­ his prophecy that Stevenson w ill by default. addressed the City and Council two: in the United States have com­ tic congressmen over Truman’s rent witchhunt, which started not carry as many states as he I believe that the groundwork Employes Union. This was fo l­ “ I have watched Mr. Dobbs on pleted the circle commenced in politically motivated veto. Both and maintained the ruinous and did in 1952. In the firs t place, FOR SOCIALIST UNITY should now' be laid for a united lowed up by a meeting later the TV and I was very much im­ 1952 when the “ Lesser of Two pretend that they may endanger dishonorable war in Korea and the country is in a .period of ap­ The great necessity in Am er-' front of this and other left wing same night with a youth group. pressed w ith his speech. I Evils” led them from the rock of the interests of the great oil which rests upon two broad p il­ parent prosperity. The mounting ica is fo r a united fron t of left forces in an attempt to capture A t an SWP election rally in M in­ thought it was plain, simple and principle to the morass otf ex­ companies by supporting Israel lars of reaction — the Southern inflation has not yet brought on wing forces which will unite to some offices in 1958 and to neapolis Mrs. Weiss’ subject was (Continued on page 4) pediency. In the field of foreign against the Arabs. white supremacists and the po- its inevitable consequences. In educate, inform and lead the launch a national ticket in 1960. Page 2 THE M ILITA N T Monday, September 17, 1956 Socialist Campaigner Our Country's Real Allies (Text of speech given by Farrell Dabbs, Socialist Workers Party candidate for ready endangering our lives from the radio­ Egypt’s efforts to build the Aswan dam, sym­ bolizes the aspirations of the underdeveloped President over NBC-Radio on a nation-wiie hook-up, Sept. 13.) active fall-out. The capitalists intend to make the American countries to lay new foundations fo r economic In accepting nomination as the Presidential cal. When Stalin was collaborating w ith Tru­ people finance the war. Fearing the workers and social progress. To realize these aspirations candidate of the Socialist Workers Party, I man to crush workers revolutions in Western w ill learn the truth about the war policy, the they must free themselves from foreign wish to stress the urgent importance of the Europe, Truman warmly called the discredited capitalist government has attacked all anti­ domination. They deserve support in their in­ foreign policy issues in the 1956 elections. The dictator “ Uncle Joe.” During the same period capitalist views as “ subversive.” “ Loyalty” dependence struggles just as the American question is posed: Shall the American people Eisenhower became a pen pal of the Soviet purges have been conducted to compel mass colonies needed help against England in 1776. sanction a foreign policy of world conquest bureaucrat Zhukov. Their present switch to conformity with capitalist policies. Laws have Instead of offering sincere cooperation, the for the benefit of Wail Street? Or shall we anti-Kremlin propaganda arises from a desire been passed curbing democratic rights and the United States government has sought to assist our international neighbors who are to discredit the revolutionary peoples abroad blunting the power of the unions. These acts gain control over Egypt. President Nasser made that clear when he said American offers striving to achieve a better life? by smearing their freedom struggles as totali­ are intended to throttle mass resistance People eveywhere in the world today are tarian conspiracies. I t is a scheme to raise the against ultimate slashes in real wages and of financial aid have been “ tied up w ith eco­ pressing for industrialization. They want to slogans of freedom and democracy fo r a war social benefits. nomic domination as a prelude to political combine their natural resources and manpower that w ill be aimed against national independ­ The French statesman ClemenCeau once said domination.” Having failed with financial trickery, Secretary of State Dulles has turned with modern technical know-how in order to ence and social change. war is too serious a business to be le ft to the meet their economic needs. What they have Actually the Soviet rulers are trying to generals. He was right. The m ilitary brass to diplomatic intrigue to prepare a military lacked is efficient social organization w ithin make a deat to divide up the world with the should be cleaned out of government from invasion of Egypt if it refuses to back down their own countries and a relationship of sin­ imperialists. Toward that end they are help­ top to bottom. W ar is also too serious a busi­ on the Suez Canal issue. ness to be le ft to Congress. cere cooperation on the part of the advanced ing to preserve capitalism where it still exists. Hands Off Egypt industrial nations. Instead the underprivileged In this country their policy is reflected in In 1950 President Truman plunged our coun­ peoples of Asia, Africa, Latin America have the Communist Party line of keeping the work­ try into battle simply by issuing military or­ The American people have no quarrel w ith been dominated and exploited by foreign capi­ ers tied to capitalist politics through the ders for an invasion of Korea. Neither the Egypt or with any other country fighting for Farrell Dobbs speaking over WCAR in Pontiac, Mich, in national independence and social change. We talist powers. Democratic Papty. By this device, which vio­ Republicans nor the Democrats tried to stop 1948, when he ran for President for the first time. The SWP lates the interests of the workers and colonial his brazen violation of the Constitution. Far should support the rig ht of all peoples to candidate attacked Truman’s war preparations and the witch Revolutions against this imperialist domina­ peoples, the Kremlin bureaucrats hope to from objecting to such usurpation of its pow­ manage their own affairs. We should support tion have erupted in country after country. As . maintain their own rule. ers, the bi-partisan Congress later gave Presi­ their right to abolish capitalism, if they so hunt the Democrats had launched. In 1952, .Dobbs campaigned the revolutionary peoples take charge of their The recent workers’ uprising in Poland once dent Eisenhower standing authority to use the choose, and replace it with a system of planned for an end to the Korean War. own national affairs, they begin, to learn that again showed that people everywhere in the Formosa issue as a pretext for war against economy. the capitalist system cannot meet their needs. Soviet sphere are chafing, under the dictator­ revolutionary China anytime he chooses. The capitalist government in Washington They tend toward change to the socialist forms ship o f the Kremlin overlords. They have Today the United States maintains heavily should be told: Hands o ff Egypt. Recognize of nationalized property and planned economy. made clear, however, that they are not fig h t­ manned m ilitary bases throughout the world. the government of revolutionary China. End French Troiskyisls Face Jail That is what happened in revolutionary China ing for a return to capitalism, because ex­ Alliances have been made with hated dictators all trade' restrictions against the anti-imperial­ and the Chinese example w ill lead other coun­ perience has taught them the superiority of and colonial despots. These m ilitary pacts risk ist countries. Hold out the hand of friendship For Opposing Algeria War tries in the same direction. This 'trend has the socialist property forms. What they do our involvement in whatever war adventure to the underprivileged peoples of the world. PARIS, Sept. 7 — Three Algerian independence move­ abojished capitalism on one-third of the globe. want is the establishment o f workers’ demo­ may be set afoot anywhere. Under the prece­ Help them improve their standard of living leaders of the French Trot­ ment and has reprinted nu­ The peoples who have already abolished capi­ cracy. They want to take the controls into dents now established a simple order by the and raise their cultural leveL merous articles and manifes­ talism, or 'who are now in revolt against im­ their own hands and speed the construction President can automatically plunge our Coun­ Only through such a policy can the Amer­ skyist movement have been perialism, constitute a majority of mankind. of a socialist society. try into military conflict. ican people achieve peace and advance their indicted by a military court toes of the Algerian National­ These are the titanic forces against whom The Kremlin dictators have tried to save For their own protection the American peo­ own standard of living. These aspirations cap because of their opposition to ist Movement and of its im­ the capitalist government of our country is themselves by putting sole blame fo r their ple should take the war-making powers away be realized only by replacing the capitalist prisoned leader Messali Hadj. preparing to make war. The war aims are to the war in Algeria. The three bureaucratic misrule on ¡Stalin who is con­ from Congress and the President. The people government with a workers and farmers gov­ maintain imperialist domination over these Daniel Renard, Pierre Lam­ During the last year the pa­ veniently dead. But the workers will settle for should decide the question of war or peace ernment. To do that the working people need peoples and hold them subject to exploitation per has been repeatedly seiz-. nothing less than democracy and in the end through a nation-wide referendum vote. to break w ith both the Democratic and Re­ bert -and Gerard Bloch, lead­ by the monopoly capitalists of the Uhited they will pull down the bureaucratic dictator­ To make certain they won’t be tricked into publican parties. They need to form an inde­ ers of the Parti Communiste ed by the French police. States. These aims result in a savage irony. ship to get it. jWhen that day comes imperial­ war, the people should take even further pre­ pendent labor party, a party based on the Although no state of war Money needed in this country for homes, Internationaliste, were accus­ ism will be strongly challenged everywhere. cautions. A ll troops should be withdrawn from unions and embracing the Negro people and schools and hospitals is spent' instead on a ed of “ attempting to demoral­ exists in France the indict­ The struggle for socialism will sweep the world foreign soil. The peacetime dra ft should be working farmers. war machine. The m ilitary purpose is to make ize the army.” The accusation ment is by a military court. like a tidal wave. stopped. The United States should withdraw A vote for the Socialist Workers Party can­ war on peoples abroad who are fighting for If- unchecked by French and These are the basic reasons why Adlai from all m ilitary alliances and there should was based on articles in the independence simply to provide themselves didates will represent a declaration an support Stevenson calls upon the capitalist govern­ be no more secret diplomacy. The people are PCI newspaper La Verite. international working class the very things the American, people desire of peace and social progress. It w ill serve no­ ment: to moye with speed to reverse the spread entitled to a fu ll report, open and aboveboard, protest, the militarists can — homes, schools, hospitals and other neces­ tice on the leaders of the unions 'and other La Verite has opposed of the struggle against imperialism. For the on all international affairs. sities of life. mass organizations to get out of capitalist French imperialism’s war of imprison the three Trotsky­ same reasons the Eisenhower administration The government should be called to order politics and build a labor party. If you work subjugation in Algeria from ist leaders for as long as ten The government conceals the true state of has been testing hydrogen bombs — a war­ for its scheme to help overturn nationalization for a living, there is no other way you can affairs behind propaganda against the dicta­ like act ’ that should be stopped at once. Sci­ of the Suez Canal. The canal properly belongs vote for your own ‘interests in the coming the beginning. It supports the years. tors in the Kremlin. But that too is hypocriti- entists say such nuclear explosions are al- to Egypt. Its nationalization, along with elections. S WP Spokesman in Seattle Was CP's Course Left Sectarian? Addresses Pension Union By Morris Stein and Harry Ring1 w ith the CP in every other coun­ the Trade Union 'Unity League for equal ¡rights as citizens and this article Weiss again attacked By Nell Jones try) proclaimed the seizure of which broke with the existing workers. the coal miners’ strike and de­ A dominant theme of the present discussion in the SEATTLE — Clara Kaye, local organizer of the So­ power as being on the order of unions ¡and set out to build dual The Communist Party was the fended the no-strike pledge. Communist Party is that “left sectarian” policies are the cialist Workers Party received a warm response as the the day—right now. “revolutionary” unions. Thereby only force in the labor move­ The CP has repeatedly vio­ source of the party’s isolation and of the crisis which now “Preparation” for this “task” they left the unions completely ment that dared speak out lated the time-honored socialist featured speaker at a Washington State Pension Union grips it. Many of the pontrtb- 3'- consisted in u ltra-left phrase­ under the dominance of the A F L against the March on Washing­ principle against crossing class meeting. Her topic was “ Why® utors to the discussion Hn the hintself instead to vague refer­ mongering, The CP advanced the fakers. ton movement which sought to lines in politics. It defiled the paralyze the arm of the bomb- America W ill Go Socialist.” Daily Worker and in Party Voice ences to the Objective situation in concept that the trade union bu­ bring pressure on the Roosevelt cherished concept of class soli­ throwers and reshape the entire The policies pursued during the Mrs. Kaye praised the 20-year date this “ left sectarianism” back the country as the cause of the reaucracy and the social demo­ period had long been repudiated Administration fo r the Creation darity with workers on strike world.” fig h t waged by the Pension over the last ten-year period. party’s present plight. cracy were “ social fascists” — by the CP in its healthy, authen­ of an FEPC. The CP supported for improvement of living stand­ Union on behalf of the aged and A quotation from Eugene Debs Some carry it back even further. It is not surprising therefore that they and the fascists were tically revolutionary days. The the prosecution of the Trotsky­ ards. I t acted as strike break­ needy and solidarized herself with ended her speech and underlined And there are those who now see that Foster js not introducing twins. They rejected as “oppor­ “Third Period” ultra-leftism ists in the first use of the Smith er! It trampled underfoot the the Union’s fight to prevent the them'e of her ta lk: “ The the “ leftist errors” as going back clarity in the discussion. But tunist” the tactic of the united stemmed from the Stalinist dis­ Act in the 1941 Minneapolis precept, solidarity of working being witch-hunted out of ex­ American workers will CON­ to the very inception of the neither are his Oipponents in the front as a means of struggle ease and no other source. Had labor trial. class organizations regardless istence. (H arry P. Cain, former QUER capitalism in VIC­ party. party. Their blanket indictment against fascism or any other the struggle for power genuine­ In 1914, even while the cold of political differences, in the U.S. Senator from Washington, TORIOUS STRUGGLE and For example, one speaker at a of the CP line over the years as capitalist evil. ly been on the order of the day war was being unleashed, Poli­ face of capitalist persecution. I t ended his term on the Subversive usher in the Day of the People.” meeting of the New York District “left sectarian” js not supported During this period of rampant as an immediate task in America, tical Affairs, the CP’s “theo­ urged on the prosecution of the Dr. Chai-les Fisher, Pension Activities Control Board, Aug. Committee expressed his senti­ by an attempt to analyze con­ adventurism, the CP transform­ the tactics pursued by the OP retical” magazine published an Trotskyists! 31, with a decision declaring the Union President, seconded the ment in the following words: cretely the party’s course, the ed the Trade Union Educational would have guaranteed smashing article under the heading, “ Oust The line, in every one of its Pension Union to be a “ Com­ audience’s enthusiastic reception “ I feel like many here that the Objective situation and the inter­ League, founded in the mid- the Trotskyites from the Labor tortuous twists and turns, was munist Front.” Decision was of Mrs. Kaye’s speech by calling analysis ;of the left sectarian er­ relationship ¡between them. 1920’s for '!he building of a left- defeat. Indeed, in Germany, they and Progressive Movement.” determined by the tyrant in the pending at the time Mrs. Kaye it, “ important ideas, beautifully rors lin ¡the work of our party The truth is that an examina­ wing ¡in. the existing unions, into led to the victory of Hitler. The government’s witch hunt Kremlin. Its aim was to serve spoke.) The speaker also cited expressed.” does not go back ¡far enough and tion of the CP line would reveal drive against the CP had begun the needs of a self-seeking bu­ the SWP’s support fo r pension Discussion period questions that it is not 'enough to confine that since the party became Sta- The 'Popular Front’ Days and so had red-baiting in the reaucracy trying to perpetuate legislation promoted over the went from one on Marx’s theory this to 'the last ten-year period. linized in (the late 1920’s its CIO, culminating in expulsion In 1935 the line was turned in­ pletely uncritical servant of the itself in power. The methods years by the organization. of value to one by Dr. Fisher: We have to dig deeper than that. course land its policies did not of CP influenced unions. But Hillmans and Dubinskys. employed were not calculated to “Only in a reorganized so­ “ What does the SWP foresee in It is my opinion that these errors follow ¡any consistent program­ side out. Stalin at that time made this did not stop the CP lead­ The traditional principled so­ win the support of the interna­ ciety,” she said, “ based on pro­ the way of a regroupment of go back to the very formation lof matic line—neither ¡a “correct” a "mutual security” pact with ers. The author, Max Weiss, cialist struggle fo r independent tional working class in defense duction for use of all, instead of the American left in a unified our party.” (Ralph, Party Voice, one 'as Foster maintains, or a devoted 19 pages to a rehash of Laval, the then prime minister of working class political action was of the Soviet Union but of using production for profit of the few, socialist party?” June 1956.) “ le ft sectarian” one as his op­ France and angled for a similar abandoned in .favor of support for Stalin’s Moscow Trials frame- the CP’s and their influence in w ill older people be able to have Only W illiam Z. Foster and ponents 'would have it. The all pact with U.S. imperialism. As a up slanders against the Ameri­ REALIGNMENT capitalist candidates. The party’s the working class fo r pressure not only the basic necessities of some of his followers maintain too 'well .known zigzags : and consequence, the American Com­ can Trotskyists who had main­ Mrs. Kaye expressed her apparatus, resources and mem­ life, but equality, real leisure, that the party’s general line has somersaults which followed in munist party, like the Stalinist tained a consistent revolutionary on the capitalists for a diploma­ belief in the emergence of a so­ bership were mobilized for the stimulating activity, and the been correct. Bui Foster has not rapid succession, |one after the parties the world over suddenly policy throughout the war. In tic deal. cialist party based on a revo- election of Roosevelt, La Guar- respect they deserve fo r their as yet made any attempt to prove other, itook the place o f ¡the gen­ discovered new virtues in demo­ luitonary, class - struggle pro­ dia, O’Dwyer a n d countless experience as citizens.” his contention by a concrete eral class struggle line which cratic imperialism. The Leninist gram. She showed how the 20th examination of the party line guided the ¡party in the early others. The Last Ten Years “ The socialist revolution w ill line of uncompromising opposi­ But just as the Stalin-Laval Congress of the Communist through the years. He confines years. Instead of being the archi­ his critics contend the Catastro­ come to America” she stated, tion to imperialist war, even pact reverse the CP line in 1935, Party of the Soviet Union had tects of a line that could be des­ phic turning point to "left sec­ “ because capitalist crisis and when waged by “ democratic” the Stalin-Hitler pact once again set in motion new currents ignated as “left sectarian” the tarianism” was reached — the war moves w ill force the work­ The Early Years of the GP against totalitarian imperialist reversed i t in 1939. Democratic within the American CP. states, gave way to the slogan CP leaders only executed a line policies of the CP remained con­ ers and their allies to a rapid imperialism became again an en­ “A historic realignment of Despite many errors and blun­ acter of the party. The ranks of of “collective security.” This handed down to them by the sistent only with the foreign political awakening and then to emy. Indeed, it became the main radical forces is currently in' the ders, the GP in the early years the CP continued to give self- .Kremlin. policy demands of the Kremlin political realignment in a revo­ meant as events later proved, the enemy. (Molotov even declared making,” she said, “ and the SWP basically pursued the goal of sacrificing service to what they unconditional support of those The last ten years from the bureaucracy. The opportunist lutionary mass party capable of for the benefit of the Nazi ally is doing everything in its power winning the American working sincerely believed' to be the needs powers which happened to find view-point of line, and its deriv­ course, which had attained its leading them to victory. Amer­ that “ Fascism is a matter of to intensify the process of work­ class fo r the program of social­ of the class struggle. They foughc themselves in temporary alliance ation, were in no way differ­ most revolting form during the ican class consciousness w ill taste.” ) The central activity of ers rejecting reformist and is t revolution. I t made no com­ militantly on picket lines with the Soviet Union. ent from the previous periods. course of World W ar II, chang­ the Amcricam party was turned class-collaborationist policies and promise with capitalist politics. in unemployed demonstrations, W ith the collapse of the war­ The united front with the So­ to a campaign against UJS. entry ed only ^ in tactical expression adopting a principled Marxist The party also began to learn fo r the freedom of Tom Mooney, time alliance between the Krem­ but mot in essence. cial Democracy, yesterday reject­ into World War II under the On Nov. 6 program of class struggle. how to combine an intransigent Sacco and Vanzetti and the lin bureaucracy and the “ demo­ ed as a matter of “principle,” slogan “The Yanks Are Not Com­ To attempt to discuss the “ er­ A party welded together by class-struggle programimatic line Scottiboro boys. They have con­ rors of the past period,” and Vote the Socialist was replaced 'by the people’s ing.” And during this period, the cratic” imperialists the moment such a dynamic outlook can w ith the necessary tactics to fa­ tinued to give such service to of “ glory” the CP enjoyed when front line which called for a co­ CP took another w hirl at inde­ fact of the past/ three decades, Workers Party Ticket! attract thousands of radicals, cilitate winning the working class this day. it marched at the head of the alition not w ith the social de­ pendent political action by run­ without taking the real nature apd the American le ft w ill thus to that program. Thus the CP But the Stalinist course in­ mocracy alone, but above all with jingoist parade and when it was of Stalinism and the party’s Farrell Dobbs fo r President set itself the task of organizing ning Browder for President in regroup itself in a powerful creasingly pursued by the leader­ the “progressive” bourgeoisie. accepted in “ respectable” socie­ subservience to it as the start­ Myra T. Weiss fo r Vice-Pres. party capable of leading the a left wing inside the existing ship used for sordid ends 1940. The “revolutionary” unions However, the line never fea­ ty, was at an end. The labor ing point promotes a “ discus­ struggle to socialism.” union movement in opposition to all the ranks’ hard work, de­ »^ere liquidated. But there was no fakers and the liberal capitalist sion” which is a sham in char­ the capitalist-minded AFL bu­ votion jand readiness to act in dis­ tured return to an authentic retuBn ''to the correct policy of politicians no longer needed its acter and designed only to fu r- reaucracy. I t championed the idea ciplined fashion. It was with the class-struggle policy. The oppo­ building a le ft wing .challenging services in helping to stifle the ther deceive the membership. of a ialbor party. One of its most triumph i of IStalinism in the sition to Roosevelt’s war drive the class-collaborationist course strugglje 'of the ‘workers and The membership senses this. effective activities was the In­ American iCP that cynical flip- was a pacifist concoction. Capi­ of the 'bureaucracy in the exist­ the struggle of the Negro peo­ This is why the CP crisis is be­ ternational Labor Defense, which flops replaced the principled rev­ talist candidates were supported ing uniolns. 'Subserviency to this ple. coming aggravated. mobilized widespread1 working olutionary line on which the par­ in individual instances. The CP bureaucracy ¡became the guiding dubbed them as “peace candi­ But the main ISme of the CP class and civil libertarian sup­ ty had been founded. policy. The CP /became the com- dates.” in this last decade of cold war, port for class-war prisoners. For example, there was the pe­ has not been different. It contin­ A t no tiipe did the CP in its riod of the early 1930’s when the ued to pressure U.S. imperial­ SEATTLE <■ early years commit the abomina­ party's line could justifiably be Stalin-Hitler Pact; World War II ism to re-establish the broken tion of endorsing capitalist poli­ characterized as left-sectarian. Tliis line lasted for a little over breach in the CIO’s traditional alliance. Public Meeting ticians or of setting up “peace That was when it was based on a year and a half. W ith H itler’s opposition to piece work, speed­ AH that has taken place in Hear fronts” in which the working the ultra-left theoretical concep­ these ten years has been part invasion of the Soviet Union, the up and incentive plans which the class would be subordinated to tion, promulgated by Stalin, that giant corporations had sought to of a pressure campaign on FARRELL DOBBS bourgeois liberals. The early OP world capitalism and U.S. cap- CP entered a period of disgrace­ impose on the workers. The CP Washington fo r a deal with the SWP Candidate for was an honest organization. And tialism was in the final and im­ fu l jingoism and social patriotism became the most vociferous Kremlin. This includes the W al­ if it erred at times either in the mediate stage of collapse. The (rationalized on the grounds of champions of the no-strike lace debacle. Considerations of President direction of left-sectarianism or Leninist conception that world “ defense of the Soviet Union” ), pledge and the wage freeze. space do not permit us to deal ‘Labor in the 1956 Ejections’ opportunism, the inner mecha­ capitalism had entered into the the like of which has never been I t disgraced itself in the labor with this period in detail in this nism of party democracy plus the epoch of its death agony and that seen in the American labor move­ movement by vigorously support­ article. We w ill return to a more Sat., Sept. 22 - 8:30 P.M. advice (not commands) of the this was an epoch of revolutions ment. That endured throughout ing Roosevelt’s unsuccessful ef­ extensive examination of the Comintern leaders — especially was distorted into a (bureaucratic World W kr I I and rig ht up to fo rt to smash the mine workers last ten years at a later time. Washington Hall the Russians — helped to over­ caricature according to which ev­ 1946 when the Western imperial­ who were on strike for ¡a living Such an analysis w ill demon­ 14th and F ir Streets come the mistakes. ery single capitalist country in ists unleashed the cold war wage. I t played a treacherous strate that during this period — Stalinization (a process that the given, immediate period of against the Soviet Union. role in breaking the Montgom­ in which Foster contends that Donation 50c began in 1924 and was completed months would founder. During this period, the CP was ery Ward strike. It betrayed the the general line has been “cor- Unemployed Free in 1929) transformed the char- Thus the American CP (along instrumental ' in creating the Negro (people in their struggle .rect in the Inain” and in which THE MILITANT Page S

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Volume XX - No. 38 Monday, September 17, 1956 For Joint Action With SWP in 1956 Flections (Reprinted from The Michigan Socialist Voice, an election® folder published by the Socialist Workers Party in Detroit, Michi­ Democratic victory w ill not lead a feeble sham battle fo r the rec­ gan.) to ending the cold war, the ord. Hallinan’s Principled Action The Michigan State Committee of the Communist witch hunt and the Dixieerat Then on Aug. 25, after the na­ Vincent Hallinan’s announcement that On Jan. 10, 1955 the National Guardian Party has rejected the Socialist Workers Party’s request domination of Congress, or solve tional convention another state for joint action in the 1956 elections. any of the major .problems fac­ convention was held in Grand he will support the Socialist Workers called for a “national independent ticket Rapids. Instead of reaffirm ing In July, the SWP proposed to 5 ing the American people. I t Party ticket in November adds a power­ on the ballot in 1956 elections.” A con­ won’t even mean the repeal of the' position taken in June, W il­ the CP: clear in the report of Mr. Claude liams and the Democrats back­ ful voice to the cause of socialism and ference was projected for 'Labor Day, 1955 (1) That the CP endorse the Lightfoot to the Communist Par­ the Taft-H artley Act, which was tracked, refusing to go 'beyond independent working class politics in the to launch such a ticket. Immediately the candidacy of Rita Shaw, the only ty National Committee meeting promised this year just as in 1948 and 1952 (and the Demo­ the civil rights plank adopted 1956 elections. By taking this step, the CP leaders opened a .sharp attack on this candidate for Governor who is of A pril 28 — May 1, 1956.” by the national convention. A “ against the cold war, for de­ (3) Said nothing about the crats controlled both houses of former candidate for President on the proposal. The result was that the proposal Congress for six of the last delegate who asked that the Progressive Party ticket in 1952 has in­ was hardly mentioned again and the con­ fense of workers states and co­ SWP proposals that the two par­ lonial struggles, support of the ties meet to plan joint activity eight years). state platform include something about enforcement was voted tervened forcefully in the current discus­ ference was never held. Negro struggle for equality, op­ and that the CP consider run­ Instead of drawing these con down almost unanimously. sion within the left wing movement with Once again the tendency that was position to the witch hunt and ning a write-in campaign on an elusions, the Michigan Worker is a challenging example of principled fighting for an independent working class all repressive Jaws, against both anti-capitalist basis. calling on the Democratic can­ RESULT OF CP POLICY didates to talk and act more action. line in the elections faced a problem. The capitalist parties for a labor There are many CP members The CP policy is wrong. Its party, and for a workers and and supporters who sincerely liberally than the platform they Like Clifford T. McAvoy, American National Guardian had come out for ab­ adopted. On the civil rights plank, results w ill necessarily be bad. stention. The CP leaders were beginning farmers government.” want to unify and strengthen Instead of teaching workers that Labor Party candidate for Mayor of New (2) That both parties appoint the socialist forces in this coun­ RITA SHAW it urges that Its implications to drive harder and more openly toward should be “ publicly and syste­ they cannot trust any capitalist York in 1954, who also recently declared committees to meet and “ plan try. They now have the duty to party, it feeds and strengthens his support for the SWP presidential support of the Democratic Party. What joint activity to bring the mes­ ask: Does the action of the CP matically rejected in the course tipue it. It started the witch of the election campaign itself,” the illusion that the Democratic candidates, Hallinan has proposed that the was left to do? This is the question that sage of revolutionary socialism state committee help or hurt this hunt, and will continue it. His­ Party is a “lesser evil.” Instead faced many thousands in the ranks of the to the people of this state.” objective? and that the party’s candidates left wing take its stand in the 1956 elec­ torically, it is the party of white “prove to the voters that in of­ of helping workers to understand Communist and Progressive parties. (3) That the CP “ Consider con­ To find the answer, it is neCes- supremacy, and currently is eag­ that they need a party of their tions on the principle of socialist opposi­ ducting a write-in campaign for cesary to examine the CP policy. fice their conduct will constitute tion to the capitalist two-party system. Hallinan and McAvoy have now answer­ er to keep the support of the a repudiation of the immorality own, it weakens attempts at a state office. . . If you decide Its principal aim, as outlined in White Citizens Councils. In re­ genuinely independent political' Hallinan and McAvoy point to a fact ed this question with the proposal that to run such a campaign on a the Lightfoot report, is “defeat and un-Americanism of that cent years the only .direction plank.” action by tying them closer to that is well known to every class-conscious the radical workers mobilize behind the socialist platform of opposition of the GOP Cadillac Cabinet.” in which it has been moving is capitalist politics or by demoral­ worker in the U.S. — the two major SWP ticket. McAvoy said in his Aug. 6 to capitalist politics, political How is this to be done? A to the right. Stevenson may oblige the izing them and losing them fo r class-collaboration and both ca­ lot of doubletalk is used to ex­ Michigan Worker by mildly de­ letter to the National Guardian. “It is The Democratic national con­ the struggle. Instead of edu­ parties are the tightly controlled political pitalist parties, we w ill be glad plain, hut the essence is: By ploring a few words in the civil time for those who profess devotion to vention demonstrated that the cating workers to act along the instruments of Big Business. As such, to consider endorsing your can­ supporting the Democratic Par­ rights plank, especially when he Democratic Party is firmly in lines of class struggle in polit­ these two parties function in the in­ socialism to vote for1 a socialist.. . Because didate or Candidates. . . ” is speaking in the North. But ty. the hands of the “ moderates,” ics, it encourages and justifies terests of monopoly capitalism in all basic he and his party defend the achievements In August, the CP replied since when are words more im ­ THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY that is, of conservative forces the continuation of class colla­ questions of foreign and domestic policy. of the Soviet Union (although criticizing and: portant than deeds? And isn’t boration in politics. (1) Rejected the request fo r But what is the Democratic that are acceptable-.to the Dixie- it a fact that the civil rights Nobody in the radical movement, or tihe brutalities of the Stalinist bureau­ crats. Members and friends of the support of the SWP Candidate Party? It is a capitalist party, plapk was w ritten by Steven­ CP should ask themselves: “ W ill cracy) and because he has fought valiantly dedicated to preserving the dom The Michigan Worker is en­ even among the union officials, would dare for Governor. son’s aides, that he refused to I serve the Cause of socialism to seriously dispute this fact. The union for civil liberties for all, including the (2) Said, “ Our position on the (nation of big business. I t start­ gaged in hunting for. "positive” lift a finger at the convention achievements at the Democratic by voting fo r a party that stands officials argue that labor can win a Communists, for civil rights and for 1956 election policy was made ed the cold war, and w ill con- to make it a trifle more ac­ fo r the cold war, that is opposed labor’s rights, I shall vote for Farrell convention. But it also has to ceptable to Northern liberals, greater voice in the Democratic Party. admit: to civil rights,i that put the lead­ Dobbs, candidate of the Socialist Workers and that i t was pushed through ers of the CP in prison, and that And the leaders of the Communist Party (1) The Democratic civil the convention by Stevenson men is acceptable to the Dixiecrats? Party, in November.” rights plank “is bad politically argue that by applying sufficient pressure from both South and North? Will I be telling my fellow- In his article which appeared in the and even worse morally. . .This labor can persuade the Democratic Party But there’s a more devasta­ workers the truth if I try to People’s World, Sept. 7 (see page one) World Events is a Johnson-Rayburn plank.” ting fact: instead of becoming candidates to voice policies th at are op­ persuade them that the Demo­ posed to the interests of the class they Hallinan said: “The great necessity in (2) The foreign policy plank more liberal since the conven­ crats are really a ‘lesser evil’? America is for a united front of left wing “bristles with belligerent pro­ tion, the Democrats have been Will I be promoting their class- represent, that are contrary to the policies posals more in keeping with the moving faster than ever toward they followed in the Democratic-controlled forces which w ill educate, inform and lead consciousness and bringing them cold war of the Truman era than “ moderation.” That includes the closer to socialist consciousness 84th Congress and contrary to the policies the American people toward a socialist with the new possibilities and so-called “ good” Democrats, solution of the dilemmas which confront if I tell them that the Demo­ they are now pursuing in the racist-ridden trends toward world peace fol­ such as Governor Williams. crats are worthy of support de­ Democratic South. us. . . Every opportunity, then, should be lowing Geneva.” On June 2, a state convention spite their capitalist, pro-war» taken advantage of to give support and (3) “ One great) gap in the De­ of Michigan Democrats adopted pro-witch hunt, pro-Jim Crow, Thousands Wanted Break encouragement to such forces, regardless mocratic platform is the issue of a declaration on civil rights spe­ anti-Soviet program ? ” civil liberties.” (All quotations cifically demanding enforcement Those who think that the an­ Thus the character of the Democratic of divisive differences. , . I am personally urging that as high a vote as can be from Aug. 19 Michigan Worker.) of the Supreme Court ruling swer to these questions is no, P arty as a party of monopoly capitalism is against segregated schools. W il­ should demand that the CP re­ not even denied by the labor officials and mustered be given to M r. Farrell Dobbs, IF DEMOCRATS WIN liams promised to fight for this consider its rejection of the SWP the CP leaders. They merely assert — in the candidate of the Socialist Workers I f such statements have any line at the national convention. proposals for united action in contradiction to all experience — that the Party.” meaning, they mean that ' a Instead, he confined himself to the 1956 election campaign. working people can realize their own in­ What the SWP Proposed terests through the political organizations of the class that exploits them. Hallinan and McAvoy, for their part, Hallinan and McAvoy are represent­ have made it clear that they do not agree Guidebook to Stalinism ative of many thousands of radical work­ w ith the SWP on many important ques­ STALINISM, WHAT IT MEANS (A Critical Appraisal of the 20th3>- Congress of the C.P.S.U.). By Anand Mishra. Calcutta, India: ers, intellectuals and youth who became tions. Neither they nor the SWP have and the suppressed Testament any reason to hide this fact. But there Basanta Mookherjee. Distributed in the U.S. by Pioneer Pub­ of Lenin. fed up with capitalist politics and turned lishers, 116 University Pl„ New York 3 N. Y. 56 pp, plus Ap­ is solid and principled agreement on the As a brief, popularly written toward an independent political road. That pendix and Bibliography. 35 cents. and comprehensive survey, necessity to oppose the parties and pro­ is the reason they tried to build the Pro­ The junking of the Stalin Cult5>^ Mishra’s pamphlet is ) a good gressive Party. Despite our differences grams of Big Business with a socialist at the 20th Congress of the “ Where were you when this was introduction to the Marxist with the Progressive Party, its lack of a program and ticket in 1956. Premier Nasser of Egypt (rig h t) welcomes the Indian Communist Party of the Soviet going on?” Mishra’s pamphlet analysis of the history and per­ spectives of Stalinism. Together working class, socialist program and its During all of 1955 the Militant and the Ambassador who brought him the minority report from the Union revealed nothing that had was printed in A p ril before SWP proposed action for an independent London Suez Conference. India, like all the other former not already been exposed, analyz­ Khrushchev’s secret- with the bibliography, it is a subordination to the liberal capitalist session speech at the 20th Con­ valuable aid to the further study socialist ticket in this election. We said colonial countries, supports Egypt on Suez. ed, and fought against by politician Henry Wallace, we have always genuine Marxists. But the ad­ gress became public, and before of the events which have shaped recognized that the movement reflected that the SWP was going ahead, as it OPEN PROVOCATION OF cause there might he Congres­ missions opened the eyes of many the Poznan general strike and the authentic Marxism in this generation. the aspiration of an important section of had in 1948 and 1952, with its own ticket. EGYPT is the latest move of sional opposition to an interna­ CP members who had refused uprising. These later events con­ However, we made it clear that we were British, French and U.S. im ­ tional treaty involving the inter­ to see before, and shocked the firm his conclusions. — William Bundy the American people to break out of the In dealing with the role of capitalist two-party prison. ready to consider any other proposal or perialists in the Suez Canal dis­ nal affairs of other nations.” best of them into making a ticket that would be proposed. No such pute. The project which Prime Actually, U jS. refusal to sign critical study of Stalin’s role and Stalinism internationally, Mishra Instead of basing themselves on this anti-slavery treaties is to avoid of the political movement which summarizes the Trotskyist an­ proposal was made. In these circumstances, Minister Eden announced to Detroit Fri. Night progressive aspiration and deepening the Parliament, w ith assurances that offending such junior partners he personified and dominated for alysis of each of the major revo­ independent and socialist dharacter of the we believe that it is the duty of every it had U.S. backing, is no less of U jS. oil interests as Arabia’s over th irty years. lutionary events from the defeat of the German revolution; in 1923 Socialist Forum movement, the CP leaders have in the class-conscious worker and of the entire than setting up a Suez Canal ruler, Ilbn Saud. However, fears To aid these CP workers in left wing movement to support the SWP authority independent of Egypt of "Congressional opposition” their quest fo r the truth about through the post World War II Hear last year done everything in their power revolutionary upsurge. The Stal­ ticket. and operating the canal. F irst did not deter Dulles’ from try ­ the Stalin Cult is the purpose of to stampede the radical workers back into ing to meddle in Egypt’s internal inist policy is traced throughout. As for the other two socialist tickets, step was the ordering of French the pamphlet, Stalinism, What it MYRA T. WEISS the blind alley of capitalist politics. and British pilots to quit Egypt. affairs in the plan he presented Means, by Anan Mishra, an He gives a brief presentation the Socialist Labor Party and the So­ Socialist Workers Party Hallinan and McAvoy, refused to go Second step is to assemble them at the London Conference fo r in­ Indian Marxist. of the Trotskyist analysis of cialist Party, they do not offer any op­ at British-controlled Cyprus or at ternationalizing the Suez Canal. the birth of the deformed work­ Candidate for Vice-President along with this course. Instead they have The waterway lies completely in Mishra’s pamphlet gives a ers, states in Eastern Europe raised the banner of socialist, working- portunity fo r the expression o f a socialist either end of the Canal and to summary of the history of Speak on: have them pilot convoys into the Egyptian territory. and of the Third Chinese Revo­ opposition to American capitalism on the Stalinism both w ithin the Soviet lution. He explains the signi- class political action in opposition to this canal. Running of the canal, » * * THE AMERICAN PEOPLE decisive issues. The key question of so­ Union and internationally and figance of the East German general rout. tolls etc., would be in the hands THE FIRST KNOWN SOVIET MUST BUILD A LABOR cialist policy is opposition to American an outline of the basic Trot­ uprising of June 17, 1953. Less of the imperialist created canal' M INIMUM WAGE DECREE PARTY skyist analysis of it. fam iliar to American readers, What to Do in 1956? Big Business foreign policy, support of authority. Obviously such an in­ w ill take effect Jan. 1, 1957. The but of keen interest is his final Friday, Sept. 21 — 8. P.M. the anti-capitalist movement of the vasion of Egyptian land could base rate is reported to be a EVENTS CONFIRM AUTHOR The policy of the OP leaders prevented section on the zigzags of the colonial people and defense of the achieve­ succeed only if Egypt capitulated minimum $67.50 a month, at the He begins with the eye-opening the launching of an independent ticket by Communist Party of India. Ap­ 3737 Woodward, 2nd FI. ments of the Russian Revolution. entirely or if the imperialists current official rate of exchange, clues revealed at the 20th Con­ either the Progressive Party or the Com­ employ battleships and troops to pended is a selected bibliography The SLP refuses to support the world and w ill constitute as much as a gress and outlines the opposition munist Party. This confronted those who force passage through the canal 33% wage increase fo r some of of Marxists to the “Stalin cult” took a principled position for working revolutionary movement against capital­ In Parliament Eden’s unveiling the lowest-paid Soviet workers, beginning with Lenin in 1923. He class political independence w ith a serious ism and the Socialist Party has disgraced of the plan was greeted by Labor I t has been estimated that 8,000,- proceeds to a criticism of problem: W hat should they do in the the name of socialism by supporting (w ith Party members w ith cries of 000 Soviet workers are currently- Khrushchev and other Stalinist “ deliberate provocation” and paid below this new minimum. bureaucrats, showing that they Support ,1956 elections? mild criticism) the U.S. State Depart­ ment. It did so notably in the Korean “ what a peacemaker.” The New * •> * continue the essence of Stalin’s i> — York Times London correspon­ ANOTHER SMALL CHIP was policies even though they have W ar. There is no socialism without op­ dent reports (Sept. 13) “ Ob­ taken out of the Stalin idol as attacked his personal rule. position to capitalist war and without servers of several interested A Working doss Party! Attention! the Kremlin' moved to discontinue A choice b it of Khrushchev’s solidarity with the revolutionary people countries and various political the Stalin Prizes and establish previous idolatrous praise of views at first regarded the pro­ The Socialist Workers Party has po slush fund such as the rising against capitalist and imperialist Lenin Prizes in their place. Stalin is quoted and he is nailed San Francisco -- ject as either completely un­ on his answer to the question: capitalist parties get from the Morgan, Rockefeller and Du­ rule. Among the awards so affected is pont billions. Our support comes solely from the nickels, dimes * * * realistic or a plant to provoke Bay Area Readers the Stalin Peace Prize, which will and dollars of the worker's in our party and those Who sup­ Egypt into giving provocation be renamed, “ The International ■While the Communist Party leaders for military intervention.” crammed them unto the boat for port our aims. ♦ Lenin Prize for Strengthening more distant Vera Cruz in order have thus far dragged their party into the * * * Symposium on Peace Among Peoples.” to discourage their re-entry until We ask you to help in this campaign — for Dobbs and Weiss m ire of capitalist Ipolitics, there is a The 1956 Elections CYPRIOTE NATIONALISTS * * * next harvest season. — for peace — for equality for all races — for a Workers profound resistance to this course in the fired on a vehicle carrying and Farmers Government — for p socialist world! , Speakers: THE M EXICAN PRESS is * * * ranks. It is not yet too late to change the French troops this past week, aroused over the manner in FARRELL DOBBS according to a dispatch in the ON THE EVE OF THE POZ­ Q I enclose to help in the Dobibs-Weiss Campaign. course. The CP is holding its legislative which U.S. Immigration officials NAN TRIALS the Polish Min­ SWP Candidate fo r President Sept. 10 N. Y. Times. The troops returned allegedly illegal im­ □ I would like to participate in campaign activities. conference on Sept. 29-30 to determine attacked are among those sent istry of Internal Trade has pub­ migrants (the so-called “ wet­ lished a list of “many attractive VINCENT HALLINAN formally its election policy. We urge once to Cyprus to join in a threaten Q I would like. . . . copies of the SWP’s 1956 Election backs” ) to Mexico. One paper industrial products from abroad” 1952 Progressive Party again that the Communist Party join ed invasion of Egypt. The ma­ voices its protest in terms of Platform. jority of Cypriotes want inde­ which it promises to make avail­ Candidate for President with us in a practical agreement to give “indignation over infamies.” U.S. able to the Polish people during pendence from England so as to Q I would like more information about the Socialist Work­ And others to be announced the most effective and powerful ex­ Immigration authorities encour­ the next few months. Notable on be able to unite w ith Greece, ers Party. age the entry of Mexican na­ the list are such items as shoes, pression to the socialist program in the British oppression has made them tionals during harvest time so textiles and household appliances. □ 1 would like to join the Socialist Workers Party. Friday Night elections. sympathetic to Egypt’s cause. We urge that the viewpoint of Vincent that employers may hire them While most of the items on the September 28 * * * at pitiably low wages. A t the list would be obtained from the Name ...... Hallinan and Clifford McAvoy be given THE UNITED STATES HAS end of the season they are Soviet Union and other Eastern Auspices: the closest attention and study by the ABSTAINED from signing a deported. Some 500 Mexican na­ European countries, it was re Street ...... California Labor School conference. And we are certain that many United Nations anti-slavery tionals were recently crowded ported that the Polish govern­ treaty which makes human bond into a labor contractor’s steam­ ment would use some of its scarce C it y ...... State ...... (Call the School for infor- members of the CP w ill take the course age a crime, according to the boat, where they were subjected reserves fo r purchases in West­ .mation as to place and other proposed 'by Hallinan and McAvoy and (Tear o ff and send to SWP National Headquarters, 116 Sept. 8 N.Y. Herald-Tri'bune. UP to insufferable conditions. Rather ern European countries in an ef­ speakers.) . . . support Farrell Dobbs and M yra Tanner reporters said it was .believed than merely deporting .them fort to placate some of .the de­ University Place, New York 3, N. Y.) Weiss in November. that the U.S. did not sign “ be' across the border, U.S, officials mands of the Polish workers. The Negro Struggle By Jean Simon ------tut MILITANT Lessons of the Southern Riots VOLUME XX MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1956 NUMBER 38 The events of the past two weeks in cause, but it is conscious, organized, and the battle over segregation in the South soundly based on a self-confidence and |iave destroyed once for all some of the self-reliance of the Negro masses com­ most popular myths propagated by white parable to no other movement since the . . . Less Integration in 1 9 5 6 supremacists as proof of the inferiority sweeping rise of the CIO in the Thirties. Since the inspiring) birth of Negro mass ^ (Continued from page 1) deeply influenced thinking in the tage that supporters of deseg­ of Negroes. border states and even in the regation had in the period im­ solidarity in the Montgomery bus boy­ Charleston — began desegrega­ By sending their children to the pub­ Racist Mob in Mansfield\ Texas tion. A total of 47 Negro school North. mediately following this high lic schools in Clinton, Tennessee and else- cott it has pushed forward in one com­ children are affected by the in­ Added to this is the effect of court decision has been almost ivhere despite threats, insults, mob vio­ munity after another. Every time a tegration in those communities. the steady propaganda barrage completely lost in the South, is of Dixiecrat defiance and dire greatly weakened in the border lence, and actual attempts to do them Southern state tries to halt the advance, A t present a legal and political a new detachment breaks through. When battle is being waged to end de­ threats and the passage of state states and is diminishing in the bodily harm, Southern Negroes have de­ segregation in Hoxie. laws openly designed to thw art North. the National Association for the Advance­ desegregation. Finally, there has stroyed the lie that colored people are Though the Negro population RACISTS FEEL CONFIDENT satisfied with Jim Crow conditions, and ment of Colored People is banned, the of east Tennessee averages only been the formation of the White In the South today the Su­ that it is only outside agitators and radi­ movement has new organizations to carry 5% and though the area is very Citizens Councils throughout the on in its place: The United Citizens As­ “ un-Southern” (for example it is South. These not only wage eco­ preme Court decision cuts little cals that are responsible for opposition ice with public opinion. The ra­ sociation of Mobile, the Georgia Voters traditionally Republican), Clin­ nomic war against militant Ne­ to segregation. groes, but like the rejuvenated cists feel they have the govern­ League, The Elks, the churches, women’s ton is the only community to By arming themselves, and preparing attempt desegregation. Plans to Ku Klux Klan, carry the im­ ment behind them—the govern­ organizations, imiprovefment associations ment that counts in the situa­ to defend their homes, as they did in Clin­ begin desegregation in other plication of physical violence. — all are united in a common cause and Though they have been unable to tion—the local police, the state ton, they destroyed the myth that they parts of Tennessee, including any can take the initiative as the organ­ Chattanooga, were abondoned silence the Negroes they have courts, the legislature, the gov­ lack the courage to fight back, that a ernors and the U jS. Senate. They izing center, as local conditions may re­ last summer. succeeded almost 100% in silenc­ show of force is sufficient to make them ing those Southern whites who have no fear that Eisenhower quire. Desegregation continued in run, hide, or abase themselves. other states such as Oklahoma, are not firm ly opposed to deseg­ w ill take lany steps to enforce The Southern Negro movement is not regation. thte decision. As fo r Stevenson, The events in Tennessee also destroyed West Virginia and Maryland. a mystical unconscious movement. Typical But everywhere the tempo was they feel with justification that LIBERALS’ SELLOUT he is safely in the pocket of the some widespread misconceptions about Of its thinking was the expression of Rev. slower and there was no feeling The counter-offensive of the Southern politicians. the nature of the Negro rebellion against A. J. Stokes of the United Citizens Asso­ of urgency about it. segregation. The movement is not a It is ¡apparent that the Su­ Southern white-supremacists has The effect of the Southern ciation of Mobile at a recent meeting of met no effective opposition. The Ghandi-type pacifist movement. While it preme Court decision commands campaign on middle class opinion that organization. most cowardly surrender to them and opinion miolders in the is not adventuristic in exposing its mem­ less |respect ,than a year ago. His topic was “The Need of a United This is beyond question a result came from the Northern liberals North may be gauged by the bers to unnecessary victimzation by ad­ Force to Meet the Challenge of thet Day.” of the two-and-a-half-year cam­ of the Democratic Party, who following examples. The conven­ vocating the use of force by a minority, paign carried on by Southern long had posed as champions of tion of the National Student “Shall we be satisfied to remain in the civil rights. The liberal Demo­ state i officials and Southern Congress (890 delegates repre­ it has no unrealistic philosophy of leav­ White supremacists manhandle official. Mob, aided by cratic Senators and Congress­ second class bracket of society which we members o f Congress. The fact senting some 740,000 college stu­ ing its members defenseless against fas­ Texas Rangers who ordered Negro children back to Jim Crow men did not even dare make a have helped to build or shall we be like that the Deep South has with dents) on Aug. 31 watered down cist-type attacks. school, prevented court-ordered integration in Mansfield. In joint reply last winter to the Caleb — ask and fight for our rights?” impunity successfully prevented “ as possibly too radical” a res­ Texarkana, the Rangers stood idly by as racists forcibly braZen Interposition Manifesto At the same time, the upsurge in the he asked rhetorically. “W ell, we must be prevented two 'Negroes from entering Junior College. any integratidn whatsoever has olution it had previously passed of the 101 Southern members of calling fo r immediate desegrega. South today is not an impulsive, emotion­ united to meet the challenge.” Congress. Their sell-out eul tion in college-level education. al, desperate thing. I t is spontaneous, in Southern Negroes are uniting as never minated in the weasel-worded The annual convention of the the sense that it is based1 on general agree­ before. civil rights plank adopted at the U jS. Bar Association, to which ment and conviction of the justice of its (To be continued) ...Myra Weiss on TV Democratic Convention. almost every lawyer in the U.S. Nor did the labor and Negro ¡belongs, recently rejected a res­ (Continued from page 1) laws, the open shop, low wages equality and solidarity. The same leaders devise a strategy to meet olution calling fo r compliance influence of second-class citizen­ and sub-standard working con­ can be accomplished by unioniza­ the Southern offensive. Tied up w ith the Supreme Court school ship. ditions. The very same sheriffs tion of the South. Even more with the liberals o f the Demo­ desegregation decision. and police who brutally maltreat important, the uniting of white cratic Party who in turn were al­ ¡Influential columnist Walter How Teach Truth Under the NEGROES DIDN’T FORGET Negroes are ready to do the same and Negro in the South would lied with the Dixiecrats, they Lippmaivn (¡Sept. 4) called for In its original decision, made to union organizers and picket strike a mortal blow to racism confined themselves to deploring abandonment of attempts to de­ the excesses and inflammatory over two years ago, the Supreme lines. The White Citizens Coun­ at the very source of the infec­ segregate Southern schools statements of the Southern ra­ Court said of the segregation of cils are not only anti-Negro, tion. through the courts. Instead, he Witch Hunt M r. President? Negro school children, and I they are anti-labor. The two greatest obstacles to cists and to passively waiting for calls fo r generations-long deseg­ the Supreme Court decision to By Joyce Cowley called a “ startling contrast to quote: “ To separate them from Wages and working conditions organizing the South are the regation beginning "in the uni­ others of similar age and quali­ in the rest of the U.S. are division of the workers by Jim enforce itself. SWP Candidate fo r U.S. Senate our own” because it gives a versities, in the graduate schools fications solely because of their directly affected by the lower Crow and the complete political The result is that the original from New York thorough foundation in mathe­ of law, medicine, education, en­ matics, science, languages and race, generates a feeling of in­ standard prevailing in the unor­ control of Southern states by a legal and psychological advan­ gineering, theology-—and where As more than 41 million psychology. feriority as to their status in ganized South. Indeed, the in­ ruling class which fosters racism it can be done without causing students returned to school this the community that may affect crease of the runaway shop to as its most powerful weapon of social convulsions, in the bigger v^eek, President Eisenhower SOVIET SCIENCE their hearts and minds in a way the south has already become a rule. These rulers are all Demo­ ... Campaign colleges. Lewis Strauss, Chairman of the major problem fo r unions in the crats and they receive tremend­ declared that teachers are pre­ unlikely ever to be undone.” “The object of this would be to ous support from Washington (Continued from page 1) sented with a “ matchless op­ Atomic Energy Commission, said This may never have meant rest of the country. Repeal of train a new generation of white through federal patronage, con­ portunity to teach the truth he could learn of no public much to the Republican and Taft-Hartley, passage of new straightforward. I think the and colored men and women who trol of the Senate, and their freely.” “Competition for men’s school in our country where a Democratic candidates — or, social legislation — all the things fundamentals of socialism should w ill be the leaders in their com­ minds begins when they are student obtained so thorough a they may have long ago forgotten that the union movement and stranglehold on the Democratic be brought to the American munities.” Only when such a new students,” he said. “ This is when preparation in science and it: but it is engraved on the the common people of the coun­ Party nationally. worker and the potential of so­ and enlightened generation of they must be taught to dis­ mathematics. (They screen the hearts of the Negro parents of try need, run aground in Con­ School desegregation and civil cialism. I do wish more working leaders in the South exists, says criminate between tru th and A EC carefully, so he’s probably America and explains why they gress where the Southern Sen­ rights, just like the unionization class people could have heard to­ Lippmann, will there be a “pros­ falsehood. Specifically, they must not a Communist sympathizer). w ill never give up the struggle ators and Representatives form of the South and the advance­ night’s talk. I am sure i t would pect” of desegregating primary be taught to discriminate be­ Enrollments in institutions above fo r fu ll political, social and a bulwark of reaction. ment of labor nationally, is pi’ove very enlightening. Would and secondary schools. tween the American form of gov­ the secondary level are 70% economic equality. And, to The working people of the essentially a political problem; you please send me your plat­ These retreats by molders of ernment and the Soviet form.” higher than in the United States. achieve this aim, the Socialist South want union organization it must have a political solution. form, program or any pamphlets Northern public opinion are not Tlie obvious reason for this is — they demonstrated their ¿. That’s very specific and con­ Workers Party is unalterably Yet the labor leaders prevent a you send to the general public.” only a measure of the success of that Soviet education, from militancy in the railroad and siderably narrows the goals of committed by word and deed. political solution by keeping the P. J. H. the ¡Southern racists but ‘a meas­ grade school to the training of telephone strikes of a year-and- ¡education. Dr. W illiam E llio tt of labor movement tied to the Bronx, N. Y. ure ¡of the failure of the policy specialists, is now free. LABOR’S STAKE a-half ago. * * * Harvard backed up Eisenhower Democratic Party where it is a of the labor movement ¡and the Another difference is that The Negro people need help. What the unity of Negro and by proposing a nation-wide pro­ prisoner of the Dixiecrats — the “ Please send me a copy of Negro organizations. Soviet students seem eager to It is the duty and responsibility white, in common struggle for gram of classroom education on mortal enemies of unionism and your platform. Also, i f possible, The rank and file of these or­ study science. But a survey made of the organized labor movement unions, can do to end race pre­ the ‘‘communist menace,” calling JOYCE COWLEY civil rights. This same Demo­ a Copy of your acceptance ganizations are ready for mili­ in the U.S. indicated that the to come to their assistance. I t is: judice may well be seen from this “one of our greatest and cratic Party policy is followed by speech. . . I desire these articles tant struggle. The great mass m ajority of students put atomic not only justice to the Negro the history of the CIO in most urgent needs.” I can’t help the Negro leaders with the ex­ to use in our local union. Perhaps protest meetings that followed teachers estimated at over 120,- scientists at the bottom of a people that demands an end of Michigan and other places. wondering how anyone can teach 000. It will be met, according ception of those who are calling it w ill help in some way to the Till lynching, the historic list of jobs they would prefer, Jim Crow; it is a necessity for There, large numbers of white for the no less disastrous policy awaken our members to just the truth freely when the sub­ to Benjamin Fine’s report in the and instead chose occupations the progress of the white work­ bus boycotts in Montgomery and workers who had come from the of supporting the Republicans what is happening.” Tallahassee, show the temper of ject under discussion has already New York Times, by “ sub­ like sales clerk and mechanic. ers too. Today the labor move­ South had strong anti - Negro been characterized as a “ menace.” this year. J. R. J. the Negro people. The best weap­ standard or emergency teachers, Some of the reasons they gave ment — if it is to advance and prejudice before the building of Negro parents and children overcrowding and weaker cur­ Chicago, III. on against racism in the South were that scientists “ don’t enjoy not move backwards — must the CIO. VOTE SWP! fighting racist mobs in the South is union organization and the riculums.” life,” they “sacrifice the welfare smash Jim Crow. The solution fo r the working To date (Sept, 12), we have probably don’t agree that classes strike wave there a year and a \ The White House Conference of others to their own interests,” The very same rulers of the DEFEAT DIXIECRATS class lies in political independence received 46 inquiries from per­ on the communist menace are h a lf ago shows the Southern on Education which was held they are\ “ odd,” “ evil” and South who perpetuate the Jim Today, Negro and white are and in building a new party. sons in 13 states. their most urgent need. To them, workers — white and Negro — last November did come out in “ cannot be honest.” Crow system, maintain the firm ly allied in the unions and Republican and Democratic The speaking tour schedule of the white-robed Klansmen who want unions. Yet the leaders of favor of federal aid to schools, union - busting, rig ht - to - work prejudice is being replaced by parties despite their minor dif­ the SWP candidate^ for the next burned a giant cross in Mont­ Under conditions of the Stalin­ the Negro and labor movements but Congress failed to appro­ ferences, are both controlled by few weeks is as follows: Farrell gomery, Ala., may look more ist dictatorship — preserved cannot undertake the political priate any money. Congress is Big Business. Neither w ill give Dobbs, SWP Presidential candi­ threatening. Recent press con­ with certain reforms by Stalin’s and organizational offensives composed of Republicans who the workers, or the Negro peo­ date. ferences indicate that Eisen­ heirs — Soviet students also do needed to smash the power of say they want to build more Democrats in Harlem Veto ple, or the small farmers, the hower is not too well informed not enjoy intellectual freedom. Sept. 21-22 San Francisco the Dixiecrats in Washington schools, and Democrats, who are things they so desperately need. on what’s happening in the But the planned character of the Sept. 23-27 Seattle and in the South because they attacking the Republicans for Soviet economy does attract Peace, labors’ rights, Negro •Sept. 28 San Francisco are themselves tied up with the south, and has very little to not building more schools. So it youth to the field of science. For Stevenson Meeting There equality, universal well-being — (speaks at sympo­ Democratic Party. say about it. seems curious that some d if­ science is related to the realiza­ these can be achieved only sium with Vincent This paralysis of the tremen­ ficulty arose and a very modest The Democratic Party’s civil rights plank is so un­ SILENT ON SCHOOL NEEDS tion of socialism, lodged as a through the establishment of a Hallinan and others) dous potential power of labor and appropriation fo r schools was popular with the Negro people that Democratic leaders Characteristically, he meets goal in the planned economy. Workers and Farmers govern­ Oct. 2-6 Minneapolis and St. the Negro people w ill continue, mob violence and intimidation voted down. This never hap­ And socialism means achieving decided not to attempt a meeting for Adlai Stevenson ment. Paul and consequently the white su­ by pretending it isn’t there, pened when they voted on funds the welfare of humanity. Thus, in Harlem during his current^ That is the program Farrell premacists w ill continue to hold fo r H-bombs. •Dobbs and I are campaigning for Myra Tanner Weiss, SWP Vice- which is just the way he handles despite the anti-socialist nature campaign visit to New York ed down because Mr. Stevenson the initiative in the school fight, would not have time for it. It in this election. I f you are for Presidential candidate. hll other aspects of our educa­ ‘SILENT GENERATION’ of the bureaucracy’s rule, the City. That is the gist of a news until Labor and the Negro peo­ tional crisis. He says nothing Soviet youth has faith in the should be noted that since 1936 this program, vote for the candi­ Sept. 21-23 Detroit ple build an independent party. Even, more serious than the liberating mission of science. story given front-page pro­ Harlem has been one of the dates of the Socialist Workers Sept. 25-26 Cleveland AH great problems today — about the need for new schools shortage of teachers and build­ although more than a million minence by the Sept. 7 New York heaviest Democratic districts in Party! In those states where the Sept. 27-28 Youngstown school ¡desegregation, civil rights, ings is the deterioration of Sept. 29 Cleveland students w ill be on double WHO IS TO BLAME? Times. the country, usually casting a Socialist Workers Party has been organization o f the South—are education itself. In an atmos­ vote of 80% fo r the Democrats. unable to get on the ballot, write Sept. 30 Akron session and thousands of others The acute shortage of facili­ A strategy meeting of Mayor political problems and require a phere of witch hunting and Two facts stand out: No meet­ in the names of Farrell Dobbs Oct. 3-4 Buffalo w ill attend classes in churches, ties, the inadequate salaries paid Wagner, Tammany leader Car­ political ¡solution. A labor party repression, no teacher would dare ing for Stevenson has been at­ for President and Myra Tanner The TV and Radio schedule is clinics, auditoriums and recrea­ to our teachers, the inferior cur­ mine DeSapio and some 25 Ne­ would pave the way for such a to teach the truth freely, as tempted in , Harlem; Negro Weiss for Vice-President. posted on page one. solution. tion halls — many of them Eisenhower suggests. More and riculum, are proof of the low gro Democratic leaders con­ dilapidated old buildings that are disgust with the Democratic more teachers enforce con­ value placed on education by sidered the possibility of a a constant threat to the safety civil-rights plank is apparent to form ity of thought and any in­ capitalist society and by machine Harlem meeting and turned of the children. He says nothing all observers. dividuality is stifled at the politicians who have no real in­ thumbs down on it. They reason­ about a shortage of qualified terest in the future of our source, so that our children grow ed as follows, according to the STILL PITCHES SOUTH children. This is the responsi­ up like robots and even conser­ N.Y. Times: “ The time was inop­ In an attempt to repair his bility of the Democrats as well vative writers have called to-' portune. Negro antipathy to the damaged position with the im- as the Republicans. By Leon Trotsky day’s youth a “silent" or “beat” Democratic civil rights plank is portant|Neg|ro community; of New generation. Some of them are The shortage of schools was a so great, they said, that Mr. York, Stevenson, in his ap­ silent — the development of critical problem under the Tru­ Stevenson would run the risk of pearance before the convention Lessons o f others is more spectacular and man administration, and Eisen­ provoking an unfavorable po­ of New York’s Liberal Party, destructive. You can read the hower has continued the Demo­ litical reaction. ‘He might get which endorsed his candidacy, O ctober details of gang wars and teen­ cratic policy of conferences, booed,’ one leader said.” devoted a few more words than age vandalism in the headlines of promises and inaction. The So­ The next day Carmine DeSapio usual in his speeches to the called a press conference and Trotsky’s concise story of the any metropolitan newspaper any cialist Workers Party, in its school desegregation issue. told reporters that the Harlem struggle among the Bolshevik day in the week. election platform, calls fo r a He declared that everyone meeting proposal had been re­ leaders in 1917 over the or­ Educational authorities have school building program financed knew he supported the Supreme ganization of the insurrec­ become alarmed because the by funds now allocated to arms jected not because of the danger Court decision and then, pitching that it would be a fiasco or tion and the seizure of pow­ Soviet Union is turning out expenditures. We demand a his voice so it could be heard worse but primarily because er. . . The historic essay technicians and scientists a lot government guaranteed college in Mississippi and South Caro­ which precipitated the bitter faster than thé United States. education fo r all youth. We there was not sufficient time to lina, he hastily repeated the fight between Trotsky and They have a secondary educa­ demand an end to the witch prepare a rally there. platform pledge: “We reject all the Stalin bureaucracy. tional system which William hunt in the schools: all teachers That the original reports were proposals fo r the use of force 125 pages $4.00 postpaid Benton in the New York Times fired in loyalty investigations in all probability true, would seem to interfere with the orderly should be restored to their jobs. to be borne out by the number determination of these matters Rare - One to a Customer Above all, we demand the right of Democratic bigwigs called by the courts.” Translated into A Three-Month Subscription to teach freely, to have open in­ upon to deny them. Backing up plain language this means that Order from: To THE MILITANT quiry and discussion. I agree DeSapio before the reporters was as President he would oppose PIONEER PUBLISHERS with Eisenhower on one point Mrs. Anna Rosenberg, head of any federal intervention to 116 University Place Only 50 Cents — I’m confident that when the N.Y. Committee fo r Steven- enforce desegregation where, as New York 3, N.Y. students have all the facts, they son-Kefauver. She said that the in the Deep South, the courts 116 University PI.. N. Y. 3, N. Y. w ill make the rig ht choice. proposed meeting had been turn- are unable to.