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VOL. V II—No. 43 NEW YORK, N. Y„ SATURDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1943 PRICE: FIVE CENTS ROOSEVELT ‘FREEZES’ BADOGLIO RULE AFL Convention Paves Postal to Appear Allies Intend To Dominate Way For Miners Return Before Minnesota Europe Through Quislings Pardons Board Stalin Joins With Roosevelt-Churchill in Ultra-Conservative Policy Revealed by Slavish Adherence to Support of Counter-Revolutionary Regime Roosevelt and Sidetracking of Fight On Jim Crow Practices Letters, Resolutions By John Adamson Virtual reinstatement of the United Mine Workers and a debate on Jim Crow union locals Demand His Freedom were the highlights of an otherwise perfunctory and spiritless annual convention of the American Repeating all the harsh phrases about Nazi Ger­ On October 13 the Minnesota Federation of Labor, Oct. 4-14 in Boston. State Pardons Board took under many that only yesterday it spoke against its pres­ Continuing their slavish adherence to the Roosevelt administration, the A F L leaders did advisement pleas for a pardon for ent allies, the government of King Victor Emmanuel not even give the delegates a realistic picture of the price-rises, wage-freezing and growth of Kelly Postal, secretary-treasurer and Marshal Badoglio declared war on Germany Oc­ reaction during the last year. of Minneapolis Motor Transport A message from Roosevelt, promising “success” in the “roll-back of prices,” was read and tober 13. Thus the Italian capitalists once again ex­ Workers Union Local 544-CIO. accepted at face value. Wage-freezing was hardly even mentioned, except for a few whining pose the real aims and purposes of the Second World Postal is now' in Stillwater state complaints about the War Labor Board and a tearful warning by George W. Harrison, presi- penitentiary serving a five year War. Like their fellow capitalists all over the world, dent of the Brotherhood of Rail-'?» sentence on trumped up charges the Italian rulers are not interested in the fatherland, way Clerks, that Economic Sta- [ of “ embezzlement” of union funds. bilization Director Vinson’s ve­ love of country or democracy. They are fighting only The Pardons Board said it Kearny Ship Workers Strike for their profits, their privileges, their rule. to of a wage raise was “turning would question Postal personally the railroad workers against on October 20, but its decision on Acting on obviously their leaders.” righthand man during twenty To Protest Stalling Of WLB a pardon would not be announced prearranged plans, the The growth of reaction was in­ years of fascist rule, took the oc­ until a later date. casion of Allied recognition of dicated in the report of Judge By Miriam Carter Roosevelt and Churchill Joseph A. Padway, A F L counsel, Elwood Fitchette, attorney re­ Italy as a co-belligerent to try Who listed twelve state legisla­ 16,000 Strike tained by the Civil Rights Defense governments p ro m p t - to strengthen the position of his Tired of the runaround they feeble regime. He assured the tures which during this year have have been getting from the War Committee, stated to the board ly recognized Italy as a enacted legislation “ imperiling Italian masses that “free elec­ Labor Board and the company, At Cramp that Postal had acted under legal the life and activity” of trade co-belligerent stale. tions” would be held four month« the swing and night shifts of the unions. Padway also stigmatized advice of the national CIO when What is the meaning and pur­ after “ peace is restored.” As a Federal Shipbuilding and Dry Shipyard the Smith-Connally Act but was he turned over funds of General pose of this new turn in the diplo­ sign of his good faith, (he knows Dock Co., Kearny, New Jersey, the Italian people do not have careful not to mention Roosevelt’s PHILA., Oct. 17. — Follow­ Drivers Union 544-AFL to the matic chess-game? Is this new complicity in its passage. members of Local 16, Industrial ing an almost complete walk­ Above is the title page and part of preface of the book a nickel’s worth of confidence in Union of Marine and Shipbuilding CIO union after the membership event to be understood as a sim­ out yesterday of the 16,000 Badoglio wrote in 1937. boasting of his slaughters of the Abys­ him) Badoglio cited the fact that GOVERNMENT PARADE Workers, CIO, struck Thursday, had voted to transfer to the ple m ilitary maneuver on the part workers employed at the sinian masses. The “ Leader” to whom he dedicated the book he issued the decree dissolving The sole significant indication October 14. Cramp Shipbuilding yard, the CIO. He declared that Postal had of Anglo-American capitalism, the Chamber of Fascists when was of course Mussolini, who made Badoglio a Marshal and Duke. that the AFL leadership was The spark that set o ff the strike general membership of Local never been accused of misusing designed solely to increase its Mussolini was ousted. Badoglio aware of the growth of resent­ m ilitary strength? Only com­ forgot to relate, of course, that was the firing of five committee­ 42 (IUMSWA) at an enthu­ the funds on his own behalf. ment against Roosevelt among the men by the company fo r organiz­ siastic, overflow meeting vo­ pletely ignorant people w ill ac­ this decree was issued only after workers came when the conven­ ing a demonstration against the ted for a showdown with the UNION CONTRIBUTION cept this hypocritical explanation the Italian workers took to the tion side-stepped discussion of a appointment of John Dempsey as company. CRDC Renews Fund Drive On handed out by the spokesmen of streets and began the physical resolution praising Roosevelt’s Harold Falk, former president grievance committee chairman. The men w ill return to work the British and U. S. govern­ destruction of the fascist leaders “ domestic and foreign policies.” for one week, and if the scores of the Minneapolis Council of while the troops refused to shoot Dempsey was appointed by Gavin ments. I t was referred to the Executive Macpherson, the Green-appointed of unsettled grievances are not Civic Clubs also appeared to argue down the demonstrators. Anniversary Of Trial Of 18 Italy’s declaration of war Council — that is, buried. receiver-dictator of Local 16. settled and provocations by the in Postal’s favor, declaring that against Germany, has at best only ITALIAN ARMY Characteristic of the subservi­ This incident, however, was management do not cease, they October 27 marks the second poll-tax Representative Howard Postal’s personal record was good tenth rate importance for the The N. Y. Times correspondent ence of the A F L leadership to only the straw that broke the will come out again. anniversary of the beginning of Smith who leads the anti-labor and his integrity had never been Anglo-American war camp, from gives the unofficial point of view the government was the parade, camel’s back. The contract which The meeting, over 2500 at­ the Minneapolis labor trial of 28 bloc in Congress and who backed the purely military point of view*. of the allied governments and the day in and day out, of government Local 16 had with Federal Ship­ tending, was ready for action. questioned. The only thing that leaders of the Socialist Workers the Smith-Connally anti-strike Its primary importance is politi­ m ilitary high command as fo l­ officials whose speeches consumed building expired last June 23. The As a flock of speakers from had ever been said against him Party and officers of Motor law. cal. The Badoglio deal is part lows: “ The Italian army as such a major part of the convention new contract has not yet been ap­ government agencies and top proceedings. Transport and Allied Workers In ­ SUPREME COURT APPEAL was that he was an “ ardent ad­ and parcel of the whole reaction­ cannot be regarded in its present proved by the W LB’s shipbuilding union official Philip Van Gel- Typical enough of the contempt dustrial Union Local 544-CIO. vocate for the rights of labor.” ary Roosevelt-Churchill policy of state as an important striking commission. The main demand, a der made promises of action The convictions of the 18 were which these government officials Their prosecution arose out of recently upheld by the Circuit The labor movement continued throttling the working class revo­ force because of its great losses d'/r wage increase, has been re­ and an investigation, they were feel toward a labor leadership so the attempt of the Roosevelt ad­ lution in Europe and installing of men and equipment, but p ri­ jected by the WLB, with wage politely heard. None of the Court of Appeals and are now pouring in support for Kelly lacking in backbone was the ministration and its labor flun­ under their tutelage and bayon­ marily because the all-important reclassification still hanging fire. speakers dared to blame the being appealed to the U. S. Postal through contributions to speech of Joseph D. Keenan, vice- men for the situation. keys, like A FL Teamsters In ­ Supreme Court. ets clerical and monarchical reac­ w ill to fight had been observed the CRDC, which is conducting chairman for labor production of FOURTH STRIKE Finally, the President of the ternational President Daniel J. tionary regimes. as very low for a long time pre­ Tobin, to smash and outlaw all The Minneapolis case has been ceding the armistice.” the War Production Board. The Angered by the delay in re­ Local, William Schaeffer, came a national campaign to secure the FEEBLE REGIME political and union opposition to nationally recognized as the test day before he appeared, the con­ classifying them to mechanics’ forward. case of labor’s rights and civil freedom of Postal. Among this Why then accept Ita ly as a co­ the war program. The U. S.-British recognition belligerent? Because “ there is ob­ vention had adopted a resolution rating the steel handlers went out Encouraged by shouts from liberties in the Second World War. week’s trade-union contributors “ vigorously” opposing “ incentive of Italy’s co-belligerency consti­ viously an enormous amount of on strike at the beginning of last the members to “ get hot This was the main motive be­ If the Smith “ Gag” Act is upheld were: United Steelworkers of pay” — the new name for piece­ tutes the latest link in the allied behind-the-lines work, particular­ week. This was the fourth time Schaeffer,” he made the pro­ hind the Minneapolis trial which and the Socialist Workers Party America lodge 2715, Reading Pa.; work. Nevertheless Keenan bland­ policy in Italy, which has been ly in their own country, where they had gone out in the recent posal for further action in a lasted five weeks. The sole leaders are sent to federal prison, United Steelworkers lodge 1358, ly announced that “ incentive pay” week. “ evidence” against the 28 defen­ consciously and deliberately pur­ the Italians can be of enormous period. other minority groups can and Detroit Mich.; United Steel sued since the ouster of Musso­ would soon be introduced in the dant’, consisted of certain remarks Workers lodge 2075, Clawson, use.” What kind of work? The As soon as the men struck, the w ill be similarly punished for lini. Anglo-American capitalism Allied governments apparently West Coast shipyards — which the government, with no clearcut which they were alleged to have Mich.; United Steel Workers are mainly operating under AFL union bureaucracy, the company, their opinions. I f the officers of now hopes to “ freeze” the Bado­ are thinking first of all of “the and the government apparatus demands formulated and without made before witnesses who were Local 544-CIO can be jailed for lodge 1876, Bay City, Mich. glio regime in power and to thor­ contracts. mostly Tobin’s employees or UAW-CIO local 80, Detroit, great laboring populations of Mi­ joined to break the strike and organized leadership the workers, their union activities, this sets a oughly stamp out the fires of the lan, Turin and Genoa” and they JIM CROW agents and publicly-sold publica­ Mich.; Rochester Railroad Council, punish the strikers. fo r the most part, returned to precedent which can and w ill be Italian revolution. Roosevelt and hope that the Italian workers tions of the Socialist Workers Rochester, N. Y.; Packinghouse Another example of using the The Selective Service Board of their jobs. By Sunday only 600 used against other union mili­ Churchill hope to ensure the rule “will see in the advancing forces Party, together with the works Workers Organizing Committee, platform of a convention of labor Union County, reported that all men, mostly machinists and tants. of the Italian capitalists under the not only foreign armies consider­ to spit upon the workers was the Federal Shipbuilding employes welders, were still out. by Marx, Engels, Lenin and The Civil Rights Defense Com­ Albert Lea, Minn.; United Rubber monarchy, so that if later on they Trotsky. ably less odious than those they speech of W. H. Atherton, head registered with them had been The problems of the Federal mittee, which has directed the Workers local 49, Grand Rapids, are forced to call elections, these are driving out but Italian forces of the American Legion, who put in 1-A. Those who did not Shipbuilding workers, however, Eighteen defendants were found case from the beginning, is con­ Mich.; United Electrical Radio & w ill have about as much democra­ themselves.” branded every striker as guilty strike, the draft board announced, remain unsolved. The Interna­ guilty of violating the Smith ducting a national campaign for Machine Workers local 1140, tic content as a H itler plebiscite. In plain English, Anglo-Amer­ of “treason.” AFL President Wil­ would be put back into deferred tional Union, headed by President “ Cag” Act which makes it a funds to finance the U. S. Minneapolis, Minn.; United The N. Y. Times, authoritative ican capitalism thinks it can liam Green “ answered” him by classifications. John Green, makes no attempt federal crime to exercise freedom Supreme Court appeal. Contribu­ Cement & Quarry Workers local organ of the American money­ strangle the Italian revolution adducing Roosevelt’s praise be­ The WLB sent a telegram to solve them. The top bureau­ of speech as guaranteed by the tions should be sent to the na­ 1229, Petoskey, Mich.; United bags, virtually admits as much and impose its reactionary pro- cause of the small number of threatening to punish the union. crats spend their time stifling Bill of Rights. This Act, passed tional office of the CRDC, 160 Paper Novelty & Toy Workers in its own guarded language. strikes. The union printed the WLB union democracy and holding the in 1940,was sponsored by the same F ifth Ave., New York 10, N. Y. local 1003, Monroe, Mich. Marshal Badoglio, Mussolini’s (Continued on page 3) Indicative of the ultra-conser­ telegram and distributed it among workers back from taking any vative character of the convention the men. The union joined with action. Local 16 has been in was the fact that of over 600 dele­ the company and the WLB in receivership for months. gates — representatives of inter­ demanding strict adherence to the Experiences such as this national unions, local central bod­ Kearny strike will open the eyes Spellman Defends Franco Dictatorship no-strike pledge. The workers’ ies and federal locals directly af­ grievances were scarcely men­ of hundreds of shipyard workers filiated to the AFL — only eight By Felix Morrow 1 tioned. to the true role of the WLB and were Negroes and 15 women. the government agencies in indeed, extend to the entire con­ be protected against the suffering ington program is the re-estab­ The convention adopted a reso­ TRAITOROUS OFFICIALS general as well as the traitorous Archbishop Francis J. Spellman recently concluded a six- tinent. masses of Spain and Portugal. lishment of the Spanish monarchy lution condemning discrimination Faced with the solid pressure conduct of their own top union months' trip abroad. Ostensibly he went as Vicar-General, to The Vatican’s plan for prevent­ SPELLMAN’S LETTER as a “ new” facade fo r the hated and pledging A F L support to of the union, the company and officials. inspect the work of the chaplains and visit with the soldiers. ing revolution in Ita ly was re­ Franco regime. For Spellman to opening the doors of all unions to Now Spellman has embarked on attempt to present persuasive But, if one examines the press clippings, and even by his own ported in the May 11 N. Y. Times a campaign to prepare U. S. Negroes. The resolution was in as having been “elaborated in a arguments for it would be a dif­ account, it is clear how little time Spellman gave to the official public opinion for the Vatican- some ways an improvement over- special message from the Pope to ficult task, indeed. Much easier Washington plan for Spain. The previous ones, but had no teeth Cannon, Goldman, Dunne to Speak at pretext for his journeying. Archbishop Spellman.” It centered is to pretend to “ report” to his campaign takes the form of a se­ in it. He spent his time primarily shuttling between Rome, Lis­ around collaboration between the father: rial publication weekly in Collier’s A resolution condemning Jim I Badoglio elements and the Allies “ There are many Spaniards who Crow auxiliary locals — locals in SWP Fifteenth Anniversary Banquet bon, Madrid, North Africa, spending much time with the Pope, of- Spellman’s “ letters from the Franco, Salazar, Churchill, Ei-*>------—and it is the plan now being fighting fronts to his father.” desire a return of the monarchy which Negroes are segregated Local New York of the Socialist plans for the expansion of our carried out. and are in agreement more now and which have no voting power Actually the fighting fronts hardly Workers Party has arranged for work in the great days ahead.” senhower and the American am­ ed closely with Pacelli when he than formerly, for the pretender in the international unions to came here in November 1936, met Now indications are accumulat­ appear, for the real business is an Anniversary Banquet to be Albert Goldman, whose record bassadors. to the throne has married a which they belong — was intro­ and was successful in persuading ing of a similar Vatican-Allied to sell the Vatican-Washington of service in the labor movement Spellman met w ith Roosevelt Carlist, which unités in one duced by the Sleeping- Car Por­ held on October 30th, 6:30 P. M. agreement on a plan for saving brand of reaction. In addition to goes back many years, w ill of­ Roosevelt to aid Franco by family both groups desirous of ters but was buried by being re­ at Werdcrmann’s Hall, 160 Third on the eve of his departure. preventing arms shipments to Franco’s regime from the ven­ the millions of readers of ficiate. James P. Cannon, founder monarchial rule.” (Colliers, Oct. ferred by the resolutions commit­ Avenue, to celebrate the fifteenth Two items must be recalled to geance of the Spanish masses, Collier's, many other millions of the Trotskyist Left Opposition, the Loyalists. 16.) tee to a “ post-war problems com­ anniversary of the Trotskyist together with Vincent R. Dunne understand the significance of and here too Spellman is playing are receiving the gist of Spell­ The field of “ parallel action” How many are the “ many mittee” for “further study.” movement of the United States. and others, w ill speak about the this fact: (1) Roosevelt’s letter between Washington and the a central role. man’s “letters” through nation­ Spaniards?” This all-embarassing Spokesmen fo r the Boilermak­ “ We have travelled a long and early days. Other speakers, rep­ of Dec. 24, 1939 to the Pope, Vatican was indicated by the well- Even the time Spellman spent wide summaries of them in the ers and the Blacksmiths brazen­ question Spellman does not have tortuous road since the first issue resenting later phases of the extending an official invitation informed French journalist, Per- with the U. S. soldiers was used daily press. ly defended their use of Jim Crow to answer, thanks to the use of of The Militant made its ap­ development of the movement, to the Vatican for “ parallel ac­ tinax- who stated in the May 12 for this purpose. For example, The device of letters to his auxiliary locals, in answer to the the device of “ informal” letters pearance on the streets of New w ill give short addresses. tion” on post-war problems; N. Y. Times that Archbishop in a speech to the troops in North father serves Spellman’s aim very attack on them by A. Philip Ran­ to his papa. York,” said Rose Karsner, chair­ The banquet will adjourn early (2) Spellman’s role as link be­ Spellman had reported from well. It enables him to pass off dolph of the Sleeping Car Por­ Africa, Spellman reassured Sala­ man of the arrangements com­ and the audience w ill be invited to tween the Vatican and Washing­ Italy that the Vatican was as.honest and informal eyewitness MORE LIES ters. zar and Franco by declaring that mittee. “ There are many hurdles continue the festivities at 116 ton—he was for seven years in “ deeply concerned with the social “ we” —the U. S. government— reports a program fo r Spain One lie demands another still COAL MINERS ahead fo r us. But none of us University Place, where the ad­ the Vatican Secretariat of State, upheavals in the peninsula that “ have engaged to respect the which in reality is least of all greater one to fortify it. Having Randolph, replying to a formal doubts that victory must be ours mission w ill be free. worked closely there with the are likely to be the outcome of territorial integrity of Spain and to be supported by eyewitness pretended that “ many Spaniards” disclaimer of discrimination by in the end. It is therefore fitting Banquet tickets, at $1.75 per present Pope (Cardinal Pacelli) m ilitary defeat.” Nor is the Portugal.” Obviously he really evidence. want the monarchy back, Spell- this October that we celebrate plate, can be obtained at 116 who was then head of that Vatican’s fear of revolution meant that the “integrity” of Thus, for example, the founda­ (Continued on page 2) our accomplishments and discuss University Place, N. Y. Secretariat. Spellman also work­ limited to the peninsula; its fears, those dictatorial regimes would tion-stone of the Vatican-Wash- (Continued on page 3) rw o - THE MILITANT SATURDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1943 The American Legion - Tool Of Big Business 1920’s: “ . . .the Fascists are to Ita ly what By Larissa Reed set in motion the combined forces of Big A quarter of a million dollars was needed and economic arrangements.” The average of education. Its viciously reactionary ideas Business, their government servants and to finance the Legion up to the time of its commander is a college graduate, a prosper­ are wrapped in star-spangled bunting and the American Legion is to the U. S.” At its silver anniversary convention on ous lawyer, banker or businessman. All labeled “ Americanism.” Teachers who op­ Legionnaires participated in attacking the m ilitary staff. On Feb. 15, 1919 at a first convention. A letter on Swift & Co. Sept. 21 in Omaha, the American Legion private dinner given by Colonel Theodore of them have been m ilitary officers. pose Legion interference and ideas are workers who attempted to picket theatres stationery, dated Dee. 26, 1919, exposes the laid plans to make itself the dominant or­ Roosevelt for a group of 20 “ silk-stocking” Following an established pattern, typical condemned as “ radicals” and accused of showing Hearst’s anti-labor and pro-war ganization among the fighting men of the officers, the organizational setup and method by which the money was raised examples of these commanders are: Hanford “ poisoning the minds of children.” Pressure films. In California a Legion committee Second World War. And Big Business has program of the American Legion was from Big Business and banking interests MacNider, Harvard graduate, member of is applied to terrorize them into submission horsewhipped an editor because it did not publicly offered millions of dollars to cooked up. A month later the scheme was who “ had reason to feel that the Legion several fancy country and racquet clubs, or expel them from the schools. like his views. In Cincinnati Legionnaires finance the Legion’s effort. The sinister “ rescued” two American flags from the set in motion through a public caucus in would be the safeguard against the spread banker and businessman, Assistant Secretary motive behind the announced campaign be­ Paris. of War under Coolidge, minister to Canada Anti-Soviet headquarters of the Communist Labor comes clear once the history of this or­ of undesirable ideas” among the home­ under Hoover and former head of the Iowa Party. They broke up a Lenin Memorial ganization is recalled. coming troops. The letter stated that at a In the sphere of economics, the Legion Chartered By Congress chapter of “America First,” an ultra­ meeting in Wilkes Barre, Pa., prodding the Born out of the F irst World War, the meeting of stock yard interests, a quota of attributed the great depression to “ human audience w ith guns to make them salute the Colonel Roosevelt, with the tacit approval $10,000 was voted by these business men reactionary group; Alvin M. Owsley, nature.” Glorifying its “ spiritual” benefits, American Legion is a counter-revolutionary notorious red-baiter; and Paul V. McNutt, flag. tool of monopoly capitalism. First used to of the War Department undertook the task toward the $100,000 requested from the the Legion declared that the depression the “ Hoosier-Hitler,” one-time governor of Organized violence against workers and combat the growth of revolutionary senti­ of forming the new veterans’ society among state of Illinois by the American Legion. gave the wage workers—millions of whom Indiana and present head of the Wa* Man­ their trade unions began on the first an­ ment among the American workers and the American troops. “ He created a nation­ The legion has never revealed the names were standing in the bread lines—“ a power Commission. niversary of the Armistice when legion­ soldiers after the October, 1917, revolution of the “ '400 friends” who subsidized it, nor chance to rest and get in good physical wide skeleton organization,” writes Duf­ naires attacked the IW W at Centralia, Wash. in Russia, it has remained throughout the has it denied the accusation that the powder shape for the next pull.” field. “ Placards were posted everywhere Political Influence It has continued from that time and has years a viciously anti-labor organization. trust, the rubber trust, the oil trust and This year the Legion is preparing to in the country and shiploads of publicity Although its constitution declares it is afflicted cities from coast to coast. In others were among these “ 400.” The raise additional millions of dollars to sent abroad fo r soldiers to read on the non-political, the Legion goes into politics Oakland, Calif., a Legion post armed 200 Revolution in the Air Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce made “ keep America sold on Americanism.” This, on a vast scale. From the very beginning of its members as auxiliary police against “ When the Armistice was signed [in return voyage. When the men reached the the Legion a present of a magnificent head­ writes Gellerman, “ has come to mean 100% a powerful Washington lobby was built up, striking workers; in Detroit 1,000 were 1918],” wrote Marcus Duffield in “King piers, they were met by the Legion repre­ quarters in that city. agreement with the American Legion.” All the envy of other lobbyists in the capital. pledged fo r the same purpose; in a Denver Legion,” “the American troops in France sentatives with more pamphlets. The mayors dissenters, all opposers of their reactionary Reactionary Leadership This “ legislative committee” costs over street car strike 500 armed and uniformed suffered an emotional let-down. They program are called “ subversive elements” of every city and town in the country were $25,000 a year. By 1935 the American Legionnaires patrolled the streets. wanted to go home straightway and the The Legion is tig htly organized through against whom the Legion has declared total longer they stayed abroad the more discon­ asked to hdlp get the Legion in the local a bureaucratic hierarchy. Under the national Legion had 16 members in the U. S. Senate, A Legion Commander explained why and 130 in the House of Representatives. war. “ Subversive elements” are either tented they became. As Allied troops newspapers.” commander, who holds office for one year, “ foreigners” who should be shot or deported, eight men had been given exceptionally “ Naturally,” said the 1942 report of the fraternized w ith Germans, both sides began It was more difficult to round up the is the national executive board which helps or “ idealists” who should be shot or im­ heavy sentences fo r trying to organize a Legion lobby, “ we fought for the continua­ asking why the war was fought. Talk of men in this country. Franklin D’Olier, a formulate policies. Then come 49 depart­ prisoned. strike of melon pickers in the Imperial Bolshevism and revolution was in the air; wealthy business man who was the first ment commanders, one for each state and tion of the Dies Committee.” Valley: “ The Judge who tried them was of German soldiers’ risings against their commander of the American Legion, com­ the D istrict of Columbia. Then the post The Legion has virtually taken over one The Soviet Union has been the prime ob­ a Legionnaire; 50% of the jurors were war generals, of French mutinies. plained of the “ skepticism” of the veterans commanders, who in 1936 numbered arm of the government, the Veterans ject of the Legion’s hatred, and it early veterans. What chance did they have?” condemned those who advocated the recogni­ “ The American General Staff was seri­ here and of difficulties with the labor move­ 11,248. Bureau, which is packed with selected Just as it did in the service of Big Busi­ tion of the “ Lenin-Trotsky Soviet Govern­ ously concerned about how to keep up ment which felt that the Legion was out “ American Legion commanders have not Legionnaires who carry out the w ill of the ness 25 years ago, the American Legion is ment” by the U. S. morale. American bankers and business men to become a strike-breaking organization. been average Americans, average ex-service Legion. Above all, it serves as a huge trying again to drive a wedge between the who visited Europe returned filled with The campaign was given a big boost men, or average Legionnaires,” writes W il­ propaganda arm of the officers’ caste in Toward Fascism soldiers and the workers in the Second anxiety. What would-be the attitude of the when Congress on Sept. 16, 1919, granted a liam Gellerman of Columbia University in the War Department. WTorld War. The labor movement must meet returning troops. . . Would the ex-soldiers charter to the American Legion, the first “ The American Legion as Educator.” They Like a giant octopus, the American Commander Owsley made clear the direc­ this threat with its own campaign to unite, upset things?” veterans organization in this country to be are members of the “ privileged class” Legion extends its tentacles into every tion in which the Legion wishes to travel the workers and soldiers in defense of their The gravity of the threat to capitalism so distinguished. which has “ profited from existing social walk of life, and particularly into the field when he declared to an interviewer in the common interests. Republic Steel Foremen Strike AFL CONVENTION PAVES WAY CLEVELAND, Oct. 17—When Just a month ago, Donovan had® FOR MINERS REINSTATEMENT 13 foremen belonging to the un­ publicly stated that the steel com­ (Continued from page 1) instated earlier at this convention affiliated Foremen’s Association panies were refusing to settle after having left the AFL May of America went on strike at any grievances and that “ I have Frankel Discusses UAW Bugniazet of the Brotherhood of 27 because of jurisdictional dis­ taken my gloves off, thrown them the Republic Steel Corporation’s Electrical Workers — who said putes — and other groups had at­ in the corner and am ready for strip m ill here, CTO steelworkers “ competent” Negro .electricians tempted to prevent it. By Marvel Scholl a showdown.” Donovan proceeded Convention At Forum went out in support despite pres­ were accepted — said that he had The motion on the miners took sure from Phillip Murray and however, to get tough, not with “ Leon Trotsky explained that against the whole present ad­ When the third mine strike was come to admit that Roosevelt’s looked for such IBEW members the form of empowering the Exe­ order from the WLB to stay on the companies, but with the local the trade union movement would ministration, the delegates were eallèd off last June under a truce handling of the wage demands of in every part of the country and cutive Council to admit the mi­ the job. unions. He instituted charges either become tied to the bour­ not ready to actually take the extending to Oct. 31, the UMW almost one and one-half million “ can’t find them anywhere.” ners. Opponents had attempted against m ilitant union presidents geoisie and grow closer and closer lead in that struggle fo r Ameri­ policy committee instructed the railroad workers is a farce. The Owen Dixon, international rep­ Although the leadership felt it to amend the resolution so that Adams of local 1298 and Jablonski to the capitalist class, or strike can labor.” miners to go back into the pits N. Y. Times of Oct. 17, in com­ resentative, stated that he had necessary to record itself against the next convention would pass of local 1519. T rial committees out fo r itself in an independent Comrade Frankel ended his and dig coal only so long as the menting on Vinson’s approval of tried to get the men, organized discrimination, resentment on the on the conditions of reinstatement. in their own locals, exonerated revolutionary role. Trotsky said lecture with a note of hope and mines remained under formal gov­ a four cent increase fo r the 350,- in local 2265, back to work, but issue in its top circle was indi­ But apparently an understanding both of these union officials. this must be true of all unions, optimism for the future in say­ ernment control. Last week Fuel 000 operating employes, and admitted that, “ The men just don’t cated when John P. Frey, head of had been reached between the m i­ no matter what type they are,” ing, “ A Marxist who saw that Coordinator Harold L. lekes turn­ Roosevelt’s appointment of still feel like going through a picket Robert H. Keys, national presi­ the Metal Trades, and C. J. Mac- ners officials and the A F L “ big stated Harry Frankel in his convention and analyzed the un­ ed the last of the mines back into another board to reconsider the line. They are union men, and a dent of the foremen’s union, Gowan of the Boilermakers, both shots” and John L. Lewis, on the Marxian analysis of the UAW dercurrents . . . does not doubt condemned A. Philip Randolph as the hands of the private owners, demands of the 1,100,000 non- picket line means a picket line condemned the WLB for refusing eve of the convention, sent a let­ convention before approximately that he is in the presence of the having done the Negro people a and 22,000 Alabama coal miners,| operating employes, said: “ To­ regardless of what union is in­ to recognize their dispute and for ter giving satisfactory assurances 60 workers who attended the future working class government “disservice” by demanding abro­ immediately quit work. 5,000 day’s actions further confuses a volved.” not considering foremen as “ em­ that jurisdictional differences October 17 Sunday forum spon­ of the United States.” gation of auxiliary locals. Ran­ Indiana shaft miners followed situation which students of labor Murray and W illiam Donovan, ployees.” with the miners’ District 50 would district director of the steel Industry has gone to great sored by the New York School of A t next Sunday’s forum, Oct. dolph made the unanswerable be adjusted. suit. arbitration say is putting the reply that to call attention to an workers here, were concerned, lengths in the past, with fair Social Science. 24, John G. W right, noted John L. Lewis wired the local railway labor arbitration machi­ authority on Soviet affairs, will abuse could only aid the Negro however, only with the fact that success, to get foremen to con­ The speaker explained that upon unions involved, requesting them nery . . . into disrepute.” speak on “ Soviet Life in War­ people. the “ no strike pledge” had been sider themselves as “ a part • of “ examining the UAW convention, to meet and call o ff the strike. The non-operating unions have time” as reflected in the pages The motion which paves the violated. After receiving tele­ management” opposed to the or­ it must be said that the union Threatening to invoke the Smith- been negotiating fo r a 20% wage of the Moscow press. way for the' reinstatement of the grams from M urray and the ganized workers. The labor move­ still stands at the crossroads,” Connally law and Roosevelt’s increase since Sept. 1942. The miners came ‘with almost no op­ WLB, Donovan said “ There is no ment will unquestionably become although the convention showed sanctions order against the operating unions have been position on the floor, although it strike as fa r as we are concerned that the bourgeoisie and the union miners, the WLB ordered them negotiating fo r a 30% wage in­ strengthened if these “ non-coms” is known that the International and we are not recognizing that leadership failed to realize their A Letter from to go back into the pits forthwith. crease since Feb. 1943. Both of capital, who number several Association of Machinists — re­ picket line. We are going to make perspective of “ wiping out the The Indiana miners are re­ groups have been getting a royal million throughout the country, Natalia Trotsky ported to be reluctantly returning every effort to get the mill back trade union democracy which i runaround. into operation at the earliest come to identify their interests to the job. However, the Alabama i stands as strong as ever in the Dear Comrades, coal diggers voted almost u n-j After a breakdown of negotia- possible time.” with those of other workers. UAW . . . that the workers I thank you warmly for the animously to disregard the WLB ' tions between the non-operating defended themselves against any1 telegrams sent me by the order and stay out of the pits unions and the carriers, Roosevelt attempt to wipe out standing meetings you organized in until they get a union contract. appointed an emergency board to union gains.” memory of the th ird ' an­ “ According to reports from the hear the case. This board on May The mood of the convention was niversary of the death of our 24 recommended a miserly eight striking areas,” says the Oct. 19 vividly portrayed as one of in­ leader-teacher. His immor­ cent increase for the workers. On N. Y. Times, “ the miners were tense seriousness. The delegates tality is attested by your June 30, Fred M. Vinson, Econ­ refusing to attend meetings lest were described as “ obviously the revolutionary and untiring omic Stabilization Director ar­ they incur the penalties of the cream of the American working work, exceptionally difficult bitrarily vetoed the raise. Connally-Smith act and they had class—seasoned workers from the during these times of war. somehow set up some form of a The officials of the non-operat- heart of the mass industries.” - I was very profoundly ‘silent understanding’ with each ' ing unions then went back to see Keen insight was shown in the moved by your desires to com­ other whereby they did not even Roosevelt. He advised them to go We hear from our agent in resolution committee — R. J. thoroughgoing analysis of the municate with me on that day need to speak, but would act as back into direct negotiations with Buffalo that “the reception of the Thomas got up to recommend a action taken by the convention on commemorative of August 20, individuals as long as their wage the carriers. These meetings two issues of The M ilitant, dis­ night session. ‘I know there are the four main issues before the 1940. greivances were not redressed.” resulted in an agreement between tributed at the UAW convention people who seem to think that body — incentive pay, the Little NATALIA TROTSKY Since the last general mine the union officials and the carriers, in Buffalo, October 4-10, was very there has been some stalling on Steel formula, the no-strike strike was called off, every agree­ embodying the eight cent in­ gratifying. Most of the delegates certain things. . .’ he said.” pledge and the fourth term for Roosevelt. Comrade Frankel ex­ ment the UMW has forced out of crease. The contract was sent to took the paper and it was read * * * Vinson who simply sat on it, carefully by delegates and of­ plained that “ the issues could be the mine owners has been turned A subscriber in Detroit wrote refusing to rule. ficers. Showing their appreciation better understood when divided down by the power-drunk “ im­ us airmail special delivery: “ W ill of the paper, delegates gave our into issues of offensive and partial arbitrators” of the WLB. The union officials now treked distributors $2.65. you please have The M ilitant with defensive measures.” Lewis an

San Francisco Union Skates Proposed Plans For Peace Block Road To Labor Party That Will Bring No Peace ------By M. Morrison —— — — — — By C. Thomas By Albert Parker the official Stalinist “Election in the unions ti-anslated the o ffi­ cial CIO Council characterization The discussion now raging The passing of the “ isolation­ SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 17. — The current municipal elec­ News” published by the campaign Father Haas, chairman of the there is not a Negro serving as committee of the Communist Par­ of Reilly — “all things to all around post-war foreign policy ists” is indicated by the adoption F air Employment Practices Com­ a commissioned officer in the tion provides an object lesson in company unionism in politics. ty expressed the following senti­ men” — into the language of the is a clear indication that Ameri­ of a resolution at the Republican mittee, has resigned to take a job entire Navy, and only one in the San Francisco is one of the most strongly organized union ment: street, referring to him as a can imperialism is confronted by Party conference held recently at as bishop in Michigan, and Presi­ Coast Guard. Trained seamen are cities in 1 he entire country and the labor movement, with its “ We hope, together with every “ pimp.” Now they are confronted tasks that demand a sharp turn Mackinac providing for the par­ dent Roosevelt has promoted Mal­ strictly segregated. Some of them, friends and allies, constitutes the overwhelming majority of the other union and progressive with the not too pleasant task on the part of those who ticipation of the United States colm Ross, former deputy chair­ force, that the way can be cleared of explaining to the workers why formulate and control its poli­ in some form of international handling explosives in a New city's population. Yet the A F L and C IO leadership refrained man, to Haas’ post. Opponents of England ammunition depot, “ sup­ quickly for labor to get together it is necessary to cast their vote cies. The necessity of bringing machinery to be set up after the from presenting a labor canch-®------:— behind ONE candidate.” for a “ pimp.” policy into correspondence with war for the purpose of “ preserv­ Jim Crow w ill be pardoned if they plant civilian stevedores who were life, on the basis of open and sin- date. the actual relationship of forces voice the suspicion that Haas took formerly paid up to $80 a week cere response to our program, on STALINIST FLIP-FLOP The boss press, which has di­ ing peace.” The Fulbright resolu­ vided its endorsement between on the world arena is the factor tion, sim ilar in character, was a runout powder. for this work. These men complain The C IO Council, complete­ the basis of his ability to unite And lo and behold! It wasn’t Lapham and Rossi, published in­ that has evoked the m ultiplicity adopted by an overwhelming For a month has passed since that they are not permitted to ly dominated by the Stalinists, the broadest sections of the city but a few days after that the dignant editorials stigmatizing of books, articles and debates m ajority in the House of Repre­ the FEPC hearings on railroad work at their trade, are denied in support of the President at. prayers of the Communist Party met Sept. 19 to discuss which the CIO “ betrayal” of MacPhee dealing with the problem of the Jim Crowism, and the FEPC is promotion. . .” He quotes a letter home and abroad, and for an ener­ were answered: the local CIO sentatives and one of the same of the four principal contenders as “contemptible” and “unprinci­ role of the United States in the still deliberating over what it shall from a seaman in training at getic attack on the problems of Council met, rescinded the en­ type w ill probably be adopted in pled.” In reply, the CIO Political post-war world. do or attempt to do about the Great Lakes, 111.: for mayor was to he designated our city, the best candidate avail­ dorsement of MacPhee and en­ the Senate. The resolutions are Action Committee explains that railroad situation. Haas knows “ Not a single colored chief as the "workers’ choice.” The able. for mayor of San Francisco dorsed Reilly. The same Reilly The First World War ended vague and can be effectively it was done in the name of “ unity that it cannot do anything really petty officer leads a colored com­ four are Angelo Rossi, present in the coming elections is Chester who was characterized in the CIO with American capitalism winning limited in scope. Nevertheless of labor” and fo r the purpose of effective, because the FEPC has pany, yet third class petty officers MacPhee.” Council’s original statement in the a dominant position in the capital­ they constitute a victory for the mayor; Roger Lapham, chairman “ unifying all the people in sup­ no power to enforce its recom­ are doing the work but are denied Two weeks later the A F L group following manner: ist world. Its productive capacity “ interventionists.” of the board of the American Ha­ port of the commander-in-chief.” mendations, and he knows that the rank because of their color... met and endorsed their own “ While seeking labor support, brought victory to the Allies; # £ waiian Steamship Company; Geo. MacPhee, acting the injured in­ he cannot make good on his Up here in Illinois, the Navy has “ workers’ choice,” George Reilly. Reilly remains on the friendliest from a debtor nation it became Reilly, member of the State Board nocent, issued a statement which I f the economic factor is basic promises about abolishing in­ introduced segregation, refusal to This caused a bit of consternation terms with the labor-baiting the outstanding creditor nation of Equalization, which controls said: in determining the trend of dustrial Jim Crow. serve colored seamen in certain the liquor traffic in California; in the Stalinist camp which had Heai'st press. This benevolent as­ and its influence became para­ American capitalism, it does not “ The CIO endorsed me because W illard S. Townsend, president centers, segregation of white and and Chester MacPhee, City Su­ hoped to force an all-labor en­ sociation dates from the time mount in every corner of the mean that the sentiments and they said they believed I was the o f the CIO Transport Service Em­ colored sailors at camp movies by pervisor. The CIO leaders issued dorsement of MacPhee by con­ when Mayor Rossi appointed Reil­ globe. The situation called for a ideas of both the masses and the best qualified candidate fo r ployes was 100% correct when he compulsion.” the following statement: fronting the A F L with an accom­ ly to the Board of Supervisors. more energetic, open and decisive ruling group can be disregarded. asserted immediately after the Government officials express plished fact. In fact, the record shows that mayor. I f this was true two participation in world affairs. ENDORSE MACPHEE weeks ago, it is true today. The Anxious to prevent another fright­ railroad hearings that the FEPC concern over the effects of These events coincided with the Reilly has been, and still is today, In proposing the creation of a fu l holocaust, the masses are un­ “ We have considered all the rank and file of organized labor is dead. One could go even further Japanese propaganda on the appearance in the city of Sidney all things to all men.” (My em­ League of Nations with fu ll mem­ doubtedly in favor of some form candidates. It is our fu ll and con­ Hillman, who as chairman of the w ill speak for labor on election and say with good grounds that American Negro people. Yet a phasis—C. T.) bership fo r the United States, of international organization. The sidered judgment that on the ba­ CIO Political Action Committee, day — they need no one to pick the FEPC was still-.born. It never thousand Japanese agents work­ A number of CIO unions in flu ­ President Wilson gave expression ruling group is doing its best to sis of personal integrity and abil­ was making a tour of the West their candidate for them.” accomplished much because Wash­ ing night and day for five years enced by the Stalinists had al­ to the needs of American capital­ assure the masses that such an ity, on the basis of a record of Coast. A few days after the en­ ington never intended that it couldn’t do as much to arouse ready gone on record fo r Mac­ ABSTENTIONISM ism. Naturally the proposal was organization w ill be able to actual accomplishments in public dorsement of Reilly by the AFL, should. Some Negroes still enter­ discontent among the Negro Phee. The rank and file Stalinists Unfortunately, it is not true made with all the necessary prevent future wars. We can con­ tain hopes to the contrary, but we masses as the U. S. brass hats that the rank and file of labor idealistic references to peace and fidently attribute the huge vote predict with confidence that they do every day in the week. w ill speak for labor on election justice, and it need not be given to the Fulbright resolution w ill be dashed to the ground when * $ day. A F L and CIO Teaders have categorically denied that Presi­ to the fact that Congressmen are the FEPC finally takes a position again blocked the road to inde­ dent Wilsorr would have liked to George Padmore, well known Spellman Defends Rule convinced that their constituents on the railroad industry. pendent working class political see peace and justice reign on w riter and London correspondent largely favor the creation of action. None of the candidates earth. Only it was the kind of * * * for two of America’s leading “ peace” machinery after the war. represent the interests of organ­ peace and justice that would be Negroes at home have no desire Fearing that the capitalist Negro papers, has supplied the ized labor. of invaluable aid to American to see Negro troops slaughtered system can not survive another following information about O f Franco Dictatorship capitalism. The democrat and on the war fronts. Nevertheless The workers of San Francisco war, the ruling clique is also colonial aspects of the U. S.- idealist Wilson represented the they are getting angrier and British deal with Badoglio: (Continued from page 1) materiel from H itler and Mus­ for democracy?” Spellman can are not fooled. This is indicated anxious to establish an organiza­ by the report of the registrar of interests of American imperialism angrier about the Arm y’s policy “ Reports from Brindisi, reach­ solini on which Franco was en­ reconcile the two only by tin-owing tion which will prevent not only man is compelled to explain why voters that San Francisco w ill go far better than the hard-boiled of not using Negro soldiers for ing London over the weekend, tirely dependent. Axis aid to democracy out the window. He war but also revolution. Pressed Spain was a republic from A pril into the election with the fewest isolationists. combat duty. This may seem like speak of important discussions be­ Franco outweighed a hundred writes: by the masses who want peace fo r 1931 until crushed by Franco in voters since 1935. This, in spite But the time was not ripe. The a contradiction, but it’s not. tween top-ranking British and times the p itifu lly small amounts “ Some might think it could all its own sake, and themselves the civil war of 1936-1939. Taking of the fact that the population isolationist forces developed by Because while not used as American representatives and of materiel received from abroad be solved by saying: ‘Let every anxious to have peace to avoid a leaf out of H itler’s book, which of the city has enjoyed a tremen­ combat troops except on very rare Marshal Badoglio. These reports by the Loyalists. one be free, just as every one in the preceding economic era, in revolution, the capitalists and taught that if a lie is big enough dous increase, and despite the occasions, the Negro soldiers are suggest that Badoglio, who or­ 5. Spellman raises the Com­ the United States is free, and then which the home market was their representatives are almost some of it w ill be believed, Spell­ frantic efforts of the union offi­ almost, i f not altogether, ade­ facing danger and death just the dered Abyssinians to be sprayed munist spectre). In reality, the everything w ill be just fine.’ The unanimously in favor of some man writes: cialdom to get out the vote — same. Employed fo r the most part with mustard gas during the republic was thoroughly bourgeois, formula fo r freedom is not so quate, were too powerful to permit form of international machinery “A word equivocally used in amounting in some Stalinist-led as “ engineers,” which is a fancy Italian invasion of Ethiopia, is and the Loyalists lost the civil simple in every place in the world: American imperialism to make to prevent have not nations from Spain and America is ‘Loyal­ unions to making membership name for labor battalions, they trying to get the Allied govern­ war not only because of Franco’s Freedom is an anomalous term.” the necessary adjustments. W il­ interfering w ith the possessions ist.’. . . However, other Spaniards contingent on registering to vote. are active on the fighting fronts ments to return certain territories m ilitary superiority but also be­ (Colliers, Oct. 16.) son’s proposal to join the League and wealth of the powerful im ­ do not call them ‘Loyalists.’ They There w ill come a time, and in building roads, clearing demoli­ in Africa to King Victor Em­ cause of the conservative policy Certainly freedom is an an­ of Nations was defeated. perialist nations. call them ‘Communists.’ I t was of staking everything on the vain soon, when voting with their feet tions and handling supplies. manuel as a reward fo r deserting omalous term when those who are * * * * * * this group of Loyalists or Com­ is converted by the workers into Dispatches from North Africa and H itler and going with the Anglo- attempt to win the support of the being asked to fight for it are But even at present, while the munists that assumed power in “ democracies” instead of arousing active determination to pick their Wilson’s failure did not bring Italy confirm that the proportion American bloc. serving to keep the Francos. war is still raging and the capi­ Spain at the time (A pril 1931) the European masses. own candidates, to write their own to a halt America’s irresistible of casualties is at least as great “ A t the same time, Badoglio Salazars and Victor Emmanuels talists are trying their best to when King Alfonso X III fled. program, to build their own inde­ penetration throughout the world, for this kind of work as for any has established relations with BESTIAL REPRESSIONS on their shaking thrones. Every create an impression that this is “ General Franco’s supporters pendent labor party. The miser­ with the exception of the Soviet other in the armed forces. certain so-called Italian liberals thinking worker should read really the last war, the rivalries maintain that the general would Nowhere in Spellman’s account able fiasco of the San Francisco Union. Every major economic The point is that while Negroes, in America, headed by Count Spellman’s letters for, despite all between the two most powerful have assumed control over Spain does the fact appear that Franco municipal elections is pqrt of tha problem had to be discussed with do not object to doing their fair Carlo Sforza, a former foreign their pious hypocrisy, they make capitalist nations are coming to if international legionaires had led an armed invasion against a inevitable process of political edu­ American financiers who made the share of this kind of dirty and minister of Ita ly before the Mus­ clear the starkly reactionary game cation leading to labor’s own par­ the surface and clearly indicate not come to the aid of the legal government. Nor is there a ultimate decision. Every im ­ dangerous work, they do feel solini regime. The marshal has of the Washington-Vatican Axis. ty. that the forces operating under Loyalists.” (Colliers, Oct. 16.) word about the fact that the first portant matter arising within the strongly about being restricted to invited these Italian anti-fascists the capitalist system will not In these few sentences Spellman forces of this “Christian” enter­ League of Nations was discussed it. But that is one of the purposes to come back to that part of Italy permit peace to endure for long, has perpetrated a series of prise consisted chiefly of Moorish with an eye on the attitude of of the military segregation of now under AMGOT. mercenaries. Nor a hint of the fact the U. S. government and it is no matter what kind of machinery Negroes, which the White House “ In a declaration made public deliberate falsehoods. Let us single out a few: that, even after exhausting all U.S.-Britain Back doubtful whether any important- is created. upheld in 1940 on the ground that in London, Count Sforza, who is 1. The opposition to the Spain for three years by fire and decision was made without con­ American imperialists have al­ changes “ would produce situa­ politically persona grata with the monarchy became so universal sword, Franco can rule only by sultation with a representative of ready warned their British allies tions destructive to morale.” American State Department and among the great masses that not the most bestial repressions— Washington. that after the war the American A lot has changed in the three the British Foreign Office has en­ Regime Of Badoglio a blow had to be struck to topple continued executions, millions still As the strongest section of merchant marine will control its years since this statement was dorsed Badoglio’s colonial claims. the throne. On A p ril 13, 1931, imprisoned, etc. Spellman has the (Continued from page 1) arc too bad and they are without world capitalism, the United share of shipping. The British made, but not the Arm y policy. He advocates the return of the when the results of the first effrontery to say only that hope they turn to other presumed States could not possibly isolate capitalists are terribly worried As Secretary of War Stimson Dodecanese Islands to Greece, but “ thousands” were imprisoned by gram fa r more successfully by cures. The allies must help us, itself. When German imperialism lest air traffic come under com­ told a Pittsburgh Courier reporter wants England and America to relatively-free municipal elec­ Franco in 1939. means of the Italian Quisling Ba­ in the press and in propaganda, made another desperate venture plete control of their American last week, “ the Arm y’s basic allow the Badoglio government— tions became known, proving To cover up these omissions, doglio regime than through its so that communism does not stand to achieve a “ place in the sun,” brothers. One can be certain that policies are unchanged.” broadened to include liberals and beyond dispute that the masses Spellman digs up again the old own m ilitary government. Roose­ a chance.” it was inevitable that this country behind the scenes both American * * * other anti-Mussolini elements— had voted overwhelmingly for lies of Loyalist atrocities: “Thou­ velt and Churchill believe that should participate in the conflict and British capitalists are prepar­ During this same period, the to retain control over Libya in the anti-monarchial parties, Al­ STALIN’S ROLE sands were put to death fo r no the Italian masses can be held against Germany. It had too much ing fo r the inevitable economic Navy policy has changed some­ North Africd, and Eritrea and fonso fled—he could not even greater crime than wearing a in check more easily if Ita ly is Roosevelt and Churchill are al­ at stake to permit German struggle that will follow the what, for it now admits many Italian Somaliland in East depend on the palace guards to ready working to sell the Bado­ necktie,” etc. The truth is that still in a state of war and offi­ capitalism to become the dominant present conflict. Negroes and not only as kitchen Africa.” protect him. glio government to the masses of the workers and peasants, when cially a partner, even though an power in the world. And aside from the economic lackeys, but it too still treats It is not yet certain that the 2. Far from requiring “in­ England and the U. S. W ith this they rose to repel Franco’s in­ insignificant one, of the Anglo- And one of the results of the rivalries between the capitalist Negroes as second-class citizens. Allied leaders w ill recognize the ternational legionaires” to enable aim in mind, they are trying to vasion, were all-too generous, American war camp. They also present conflict is that it is nations the fundamental an­ Washington correspondent John BadoglimSforza colonial claims. them to hold power, the repub­ enlist the support of the treach­ failing to take the necessary hope thereby to gain the support reducing the number of those who tagonism between them and the Jasper estimates in the Oct. 1<5 Whether they do or not, one thing lican parties were able to count erous labor bureaucracies and the stringent measures against the of the Italian population behind want to confine the influence of Soviet Union is a constant threat Afro-American that as many as is sure: the Allied leaders, like on the great majority—the work­ chicken-hearted liberals of both upper class which would have the German lines. American capitalism to some­ to peace. An agreement may be 500,000 Negroes may be drafted the Axis leaders, have no inten­ ers and peasants—against at­ countries. Churchill in his recent tempts to re-establish the put an end to the “ fifth column” SETS PATTERN thing a little less than the whole reached between the capitalist into the Navy next year. Mr. tion of returning these African about which Franco openly report to Parliament urged that world. The essence of the strug­ monarchy. Franco saved himself The Badoglio deal sets the pat­ nations and the Soviet Union but Jasper examines present condi­ colonies to their righful owners, boasted. “ the King and Marshal Badoglio gle between “ isolationists” and in 1931-35 only by swearing tern for the Allied “liberation” should be supported by liberal it will not do away with that tions of Negroes in the Navy and the people who live there. Only “ We understood each other “interventionists,” before as well allegiance to the republic. program in all Europe. Wall and and left wing elements.. Roose­ antagonism. An agreement may finds that the prospect is not Workers’ and Farmers’ Govern­ perfectly,” writes Spellman of as after Pearl Harbor, consists of Lombard Streets think they can be reached between the United particularly “ promising.” ments in this country, Britain and COMMUNIST SPECTRE his meeting with Franco. No velt went even further in solicit­ impose their rule of exploitation, a difference of opinion as to the States and Great Britain but it He reports, for example, that Italy will do that. 3. In 1932 a group of generals doubt, for they were there to do ing the support of the labor bu­ m ilitary occupation and political extent of the territory that will not do away with the attempted to overthrow the a filthy job together. Of that reaucrats for the infamous “Ba­ reaction in this round-about fash­ American capitalism, should con­ economic rivalries between Amer­ republic. Not even the soldiers bloody butcher, his hands still doglio deal.” He sent Adolph A. ion. The AMG w ill serve as be­ Berle, Assistant Secretary of sider necessary fo r the protection ican and British imperialists. TROTSKY SAID: under their command would fo l­ reeking with the blood of Spain’s hind the scenes master under the State to the Pecora-Pope-Antoni- of its interests. Whereas the As against all the false propa­ low them and they were quickly millions, the Archbishop dares facade of the Quisling Badoglio ni Italian-Ameriean Committee “interventionists” correctly esti­ ganda of the capitalists and the to write: “ I cannot doubt that he suppressed. government. This is what the Columbus Day meeting with a mate that American capitalism is Stalinists, the class - conscious EUROPEAN LABOR MUST BUILD 4. The first “international is a man loyal to his God, devoted N. Y. Times correspondent means personal message calling upon la­ interested in the whole world, workers will stress the funda­ to his country’s welfare, and legionaires” that appeared came when he states that “ the new sta­ bor to cooperate with and throw most of the “ isolationists” are mental proposition that this war definitely w illing to sacrifice him­ ITS SOCIALIST FEDERATION in July 1936 in the Franco forces tus of Ita ly means a new and their support behind the Badoglio satisfied with the Western Hemi­ w ill mean the end of wars only —German and Italian aviators self in any capacity and to any minimized role for the AMG.” dictatorship. sphere and China. if the working masses will take The danger of war and a defeat the status quo that the European and artillery specialists, German extent fo r Spain.” The “isolationists” are giving The Italian capitalists are per­ Government spokesmen hope to power and control the economy of of the Soviet Union is a reality, workers and the colonial peoples and Italian battleships and finally But how is this vile support of way, w ith the exception of a few fectly willing to play this jackal silence all opposition and c riti­ the world. Failing that, no but the revolution is also a can rise against imperialism, and whole Italian divisions, the Franco compatible with the “war die-hards who cling to the old role to the allied war machine. cism of this stark reactionary po­ alliances or international organ­ reality. If the revolution does not against that war which must ideology and old phrases. They understand too well that licy by pointing to the fact that ization will prevent wars. prevent war, then war will help break out and overthrow the the only chance of saving their Stalin has approved the deal and the revolution. Second births are status quo almost as inevitably as rule is with the aid of Anglo- a developed infant destroys the that the Soviet Government is a commonly easier than first. In the American arms. Badoglio makes signatory to the agreement rec­ status quo of pregnancy. The new war, it w ill not be necessary no bones about this aspect of the ognizing Italy as a co-belligerent. toilers have not th'e slightest in­ to w ait a whole two years and a matter. In an interview publish­ Stalin’s action on Ita ly demon­ half for the first insurrection. terest in defending existing ed October 14 in the Eighth Army strates that Pravda’s criticisms of boundaries, especially in Europe Once it is begun, moreover, the News, a field newspaper fo r B rit­ AMG policy are not worth the —either under the command of revolution w ill not this time stop ish troops, Badoglio states: paper they are written on. Again half way. The fate of the Soviet their bourgeoisies, or, still less, “After every war there is dan­ Stalin has helped to disorient the Union w ill be decided in the long in a revolutionary insurrection ger of communism. People are working class. Again his policy run not on the maps of the general against them. The decline of excited and overwrought after plays into the hands of the capi­ staffs, but on the map of the Europe is caused by the very fact the distress of war. I f conditions talists and weakens the only re­ class struggle. Only the European that it is economically split up liable ally of the Soviet union, proletariat, implacably opposing among almost forty quasi-national the Italian workers and the work­ its bourgeoisie and in the same states which, with their customs, ing masses in all countries. camp with them the “ friends of passports, money systems, and The exact pattern of the pro­ peace,” can protect the Soviet monstrous armies in defense of gram of Anglo-American capi­ national particularism, have be­ Union from destruction, or from talism is now fu lly clear. Anglo- come a gigantic obstacle on the an “ allied” stab in the back. Even American capitalism intends to a m ilitary defeat of the Soviet road of the economic and cultural follow in the footsteps of Hitler Union would be only a short development of mankind. and attempt to rule Europe thru episode, in case of a victory of The task of the European the agency of native reactionary the proletariat in other countries. proletariat is not the perpetuation Quisling governments. But that And on the other hand, no m ili­ of boundaries but, on the con­ is the exact program w ith which tary victory can save the in­ trary, their revolutionary aboli­ H itler firs t launched his conquest heritance of the October revolu­ tion, not the status quo, but a of Europe. The European masses tion, i f imperialism holds out in socialist United States of Europe! will confront the Anglo-American the rest of the world. . . (From Pages 231-33, “ The Revolu­ occupation armies with the same It is not under the banner of tion Betrayed.”) resistance and revolt. POUR THE MILITANT SATURDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1943

they feel so cocky. The Congressmen understand only too well the chicken-hearted character of the Hillm an-M urray type of leadership. Freedom of the Press in They know that Hillm an’s campaign did succeed, for the time being, in heading off the important la­ Argentina and the U.S.A. bor party movements in Michigan, New Jersey and elsewhere. The campaign has demonstrated the Last week President Roosevelt sharply assailed the treachery, bankruptcy and servility of Hillman, Argentine government fo r suspending the Jewish M urray and their type. It has confused the work­ press. Freedom of the press is an extremely precious ers and emboldened the capitalists. democratic right and The Militant supports the Jew­ The columns are open to the opinions of the readers of The Militant. Letters ish minority in Argentina in the struggle to protect The first important measure to come up before are welcome on any subject of interest to the workers, but keep them short and include your that right. Congress, the present tax measure, shows that Con­ name and address. Indicate if you do not want your name printed. — Editor. Since Roosevelt has suddenly become such a valiant gress is still the same old servile and brazen tool defender of freedom of the press, he should now in­ worker, does not take long to lead from Badoglio, the King and their of Big Business. struct his own Attorney General and Postmaster Gen­ Shipyard Workers to the questions of a “ rise in gang. They’ve been fighting Congress will continue to load the cost of the And 'The M ilitant' wages to meet the rise in the cost against the workers and their eral to restore the second class mailing rights which of living,” “formation of a labor revolution for over twenty years. were taken away from The M ilitant on March 7, 1943. war on the shoulders of the working masses, until Editor: labor breaks with company-unionism on the poli­ party,” and “ get the union of­ And Churchill and Roosevelt w ill Why did the Roosevelt administration deprive The 1 think that everyone all over ficials off the War Labor Board.” help them just as they helped Militant of its second class mailing rights? Because, tical field and builds its own independent labor the country engaged in M ilitant P. B. Franco and Darlan. as specifically stated at the Postoffice hearings, The distribution will be interested in parly. Only then can labor move to clean out of Jersey City, N. J. But here’s the pay-off. Not only knowing the reaction of the Militant prints the truth about the role of Big Busi­ the seats of government the whole reactionary Roosevelt and Churchill but the workers in the shipyards after ness in the war; because it criticizes the domestic and Stalin government has approved Democratic and Republican crew of politicians that receiving copies of the paper for Stalin and foreign policies of the administration; because it urges serve, not the people, but the billionaire monopol­ the deal with Badoglio. Stalin the workers to defend their living standards and their a period of time. supports Badoglio—and Badoglio ists and bankers. Badoglio rights; because it condemns Darlan deals'; because it The workers, feeling.the pinch calls on his allies to help him Editor: in their pocket books, are begin­ fight Communism. advocates a Workers’ and Farmers’ Government and ning to ask all sorts of questions In Tuesday’s N. Y. Times I the socialist program as the only solution for the That means that Stalin has which show a leftward develop­ read an account of an interview joined forces with Badoglio problems of war, fascism, unemployment and racial ment of their thinking. Inasmuch of U. S. correspondents with against the revolutionary move­ discrimination. To defend the USSR as as the trade union bureaucracy Marshal Badoglio, new ally of ment in Italy. Many labor and liberal papers and even many influ ­ U A W Convention cannot answer their questions be­ the Allies. Badoglio who was the the main fortress of the cause of their alliance with the fascist butcher in Abyssinia and I wonder how the Daily Worker ential capitalist papers have condemned this suppres­ 'fhe United Automobile Workers is not only the world proletariat, against Roosevelt administration and their Mussolini’s sidekick says this: will try to cover up this anti­ sion of The M ilitant’s mailing rights — the first major largest but also the most aggressive and militant blind adherence to the no-strike “ The Allies must help us so that communist and counter-revolu­ blow against the free labor press during this war. all assaults of world im­ tionary deal between Stalin and union in the country. More than in any other pledge, the workers are begin­ Communism does not stand a On July 6 of this year, The Militant’s attorneys re­ perialism and of internal Badoglio ? union, the UAW rank and file participate in the ning to voice sentiments in line chance.” applied for the restoration of its second class mailing W. F. W. counter-revolution, is the life of the organization and exercise a certain meas­ with the views of The Militant. From their past performance rights. The Postmaster General has not yet taken Any discussion with an advanced we don’t expect anything else New York City most important duty of ure of democratic control over their officials. For any action upon the reapplication. every class-conscious these reasons, the annual convention of the auto According to the N. Y. Times, the Argentine govern­ ment lifted its ban against the Jewish press within worker. workers provides the clearest picture of the level of a few days. Like the Argentine dictatorship, the — LEON TROTSKY political consciousness, of the wishes and moods of America’s mass production workers. Roosevelt administration does not hesitate to curtail freedom of the press. But Roosevelt surely takes The Buffalo convention proved, as The Militant longer to restore it. JOIN US IN FIGHTING FOR: explained all along, that the Reuther-Leonard and Addes-Frankensteen factions espouse virtually the 1. M ilitary training of workers, financed identical pro-Roosevelt "sacrifice’’ union program. unskilled and low-paying jobs. population—the colonial peoples i»y the government, but under control BROTHERS UNDER THE SKIN In other words, the faction fight was primarily an by Carey McWilliams. Little, The Negro, ever mindful of the of AD*ca, Asia, and Latin How Monopolists Conspire of the trade unions. Special officers’ unprincipled clique struggle for posts and control. Brown, 1943. 325 pages, $3. past, remembers the old saying, America—belong to the colored “last to be hired first to be training camps, financed by the gov­ The majority oj the convention delegates recognised, The oppression of national and races the oppressive treatment of fired.” to Rob and Cheat People ernment but controlled by the trade this ¡act by shifting their votes back and forth in racial minorities ranks as not the “ colored” minorities in the United States and its possessions provides unions, to train workers to become such a fashion as to deny sole control of the union, least of H itler’s crimes. In this The Negro people, engaged in a struggle fo r their rights are a preview of their status under Testifying before a Senate subcommittee last week, to either faction. respect however, American o ffic e rs . “democratic” capitalism differs troubled, Mr. McWilliams points victorious “democratic” capital­ Assistant U. S. Attorney General Berge revealed how This eighth UAW convention endorsed a fourth not one bit from its fascist out, by the donothing policy of ism. the monopolists literally kick the consuming public 2. Trade union wages for all workers Hawaii illustrates the point. A in the teeth. “ I t may be stated almost as a law of term for Roosevelt and passed again an “uncondi­ brother. In the United States, as the government with regard to drafted into the army. “Brothers Under the Skin” ex­ Jim Crow in the armed forces, mixture of colored peoples, Chin­ their nature that cartels restrict the fullest develop­ tional’’ no-strike pledge. But the delegates ap­ plains, the role of the “ Jew” has industry, and branches of the ese, Japanese, Filipinos, Puerto ment of new products and attempt to place rigid handi­ 3. Full equality for Negroes in the armed proved both steps in a very grudging manner. been thrust upon 17 million color­ government itself. They are Ricans—300,000 in all—make up caps on output,” said Berge. forces and the war industries— Down Roosevelt’s name has lost its magic; in contrast to ed people. Negroes, Chinese, skeptical concerning the four the laboring force of the islands’ sugar plantations. There is no As one of “the shocking extremes to which mono­ with Jim Crowism everywhere. previous years, it evoked no enthusiasm or re­ Filipinos, Mexicans have been freedoms of Churchill and Roose­ velt while total segregation is overt segregation of races on polists will even consider going,” Berge cited the sponse during the entire convention. The no-strike singled out as inferior because of race and color and condemned permitted in any army sup­ grounds of color. Instead racial exchange of correspondence among “ a monopolist 4. Confiscation of all war profits. Expro­ pledge was likewise approved in sullen, embittered to a ghetto. posedly fighting fo r democracy. a n d economic discrimination clique,” including the du Pont Company, Rohn & Haas priation of all war industries and their and grudging fashion. merge into classic colonial form. Numbering over 12 million, the In their eyes, Roosevelt has sur­ of Philadelphia, and the Vernon-Benshoff Company, For all the wealth and privileged operation under workers’ control. Negroes bulk as the largest and rendered to the Southern reac­ which controlled the production of the plastic, methyl In the ranks of the union there exists an im­ positions go to the small clique most important “ colored” minority tionaries on the question of race methacrylate. This plastic, suitable both for indus­ mense dissatisfaction with the “sacrifice’’ program. of whites who own and control 5. A rising scale of wages to meet the in the United States. For Mr. prejudice. It is a state of affairs trial and dental uses, is employed in making dental the five sugar corporations that rising cost of living. There is an increasing realization that the labor McWilliams the treatment of the tliey refuse to accept. plates. movement is in a blind alley. This feeling was But the surrender of Negro dominate the islands’ economy. Negro people provides “ the acid No Hawaiian of the second or The monopolists charged their fellow-industrialists test of democracy.” But neither rights began, Mr. McWilliams 6. Workers Defense Guards against vig­ voiced to a certain extent by the convention left third generation can hope to 85 cents a pound fo r this plastic while soaking den­ the Negro masses nor Mr. Mc­ shows, not in 1943 but in 1876 ilante and fascist attacks. wing, represented by delegates like Emil Mazey, penetrate the barriers of color tists $45 per pound! When dentists discovered what Williams are optimistic about the when a victorious Northern capi­ president of the Detroit Briggs local and De Lo­ that surround the professional future. Discussing the economic talist class yielded the Negro’s was happening, they naturally began to buy from 7. An Independent Labor Party based on and business world. renzo, president of the east coast Brewster local. status of the Negro, Mr. McWil- civil liberties to the Southern industrial consumers. the Trade Unions. landlord class as the price of An old proverb says “ it takes The auto delegates, in their great majority, are liam says: “ Perhaps the most To stop this undermining of their highwayman’s ominous sign on the horizon is peace. This “ deal” laid the basis only a drop of ta r to spoil a price, the Vernon-Benshoff Company wrote on March 8. A Workers’ and Farmers’ Govern­ seasoned unionists. Their experiences have taught barrel of honey.” What mars the the impending collapse of the for future discrimination against 15, 1940 to their monopolist colleagues proposing that m e n t. them that there is no half-way house between the plantation economy of the deep all colored minorities in the factual excellence of “ Brothers under the Skin” is Mr. McWil­ they add some ingredient to the plastic molding pow­ present union policy of slavish reliance and de­ South. During the past ten years United States. Perhaps the most der which would disqualify it for use under the Pure 9. The defense of the Soviet Union Negroes have been virtually interesting chapter in “ Brothers liams’ belief that a government pendence on Roosevelt and an out-and-out break Food and Drug Law. Rohn & Haas replied that “ they forced out of agriculture. Ways Under the Skin” is the one which engaged in a war of conquest can against im perialist attack. with the Roosevelt administration, reassertion of and means must therefore be de­ shows the link between anti- and will carry through a program would turn their research department to work” on this the right to strike, launching of an independent vised by which Negroes may be Chinese and anti-Negro agitation. of legislation and action to task of adulteration right away. labor party, etc. absorbed into non - agricultural A series of Chinese exclusion laws guarantee the democratic rights This is only one small example of the million ways types of employment.” fostered by Pacific coast poli­ of minorities at home. The facts in which Big Business robs and cheats the people. The auto unionists sense that such a policy in­ about the government’s “ do- But the whole point of “ Brothers ticians and supported by the The Sales Tax nothing” policy in “Brothers The only permanent protection against these prac­ volves far more than just passing a convention Under the Skin” is that the gains Southern congressional bloc Under the Skin” prove otherwise. tices is to expropriate these profit-greedy monopolies resolution. It means breaking with Roosevelt and made by Negroes in industry dur­ flowered into national exclusion To the already heavy load of taxes, forced bond The emancipation of America’s and operate them under worker’s control. ing the war are of a temporary laws against all Asiatic peoples. deductions and increases in the cost of living, the the whole war machine. It means also breaking with oppressed minorities w ill come nature unless they are accom­ In this fashion the myth of racial the present treacherous leadership of the unions and from another source. U ntil the Roosevelt administration proposes to add an addi­ panied by a destruction of Jim “inferiority” of non-white peo­ workers took power, Czarist Rus­ tional tax load of ten and one-half billion dollars. launching an independent fight all along the line Crow practices and an extension ples was written into the law of sia was known as the prison to win the allegiance of the rank and file of the of civil rights to Negroes. And the land. Not just the Negro but Company Keeps Profits On The present “%-time” Ruml tax law places the house of nationalities. History whole union movement for a new militant labor this hasn’t occurred. Though the the Chinese, the Japanese, the dictates the same solution for bulk of the existing 20 billion dollar tax collection extreme shortage of labor has Filipino and other colored groups program. that prison of colored minorities, on the shoulders of the working masses. The Roose­ forced employers to hire Negroes, have been impounded in the Sale of Defective Parts the United States. velt government, true to its whole policy of fat­ The auto workers know only too well that their discrimination is practiced by ghetto. tening industry and starving labor, proposes that present leaders, Thomas-Reuther-Addes-Franken- chaining the Negro worker to Since a majority of the world’s —Reviewed by David Ransom. Add the name of the National Bronze and Aluminum nine billion dollars additional be raised by heavier steen, will not and cannot lead such a fight. The Co. of Cleveland to the long list of plants which have been selling defective war material to the govern­ income taxes and excise taxes with the lion’s share auto workers have not yet created such a new lead­ ment. For over two years this company has been again borne by the people with incomes of less ership. They are not yet ready to burn all .the making super-chargers and other parts for airplane bridges that tie them to the present official union International Notes than §15,000 per year. The Treasury proposals call engines. leadership and launch such an independent strug­ for only one and one-half billion to be raised by Finding that the cost of scrapping defective cast­ leaders were said to be planning poor at the moment—poorer higher corporation, estate and gift taxes. The gle. Herbert L. Matthews, N. Y. ings rejected by the government cut too deeply into Times correspondent, reports the to evacuate the capital because perhaps than they have ever Roosevelt administration has the nerve to make their overstuffed purses, these “ patriots” conspired Those delegates who hoped that the leaders of story of the surrender of Naples. of fear of public reprisals.” been.” The Economist aptly sums these proposals in face of corporation super-profits the Reuthcr caucus would wage a fight for a mili­ “ When Badoglio’s government an­ The dispatch further reports up the trend of U. S. Capitalism to weld cracks and seams, rub off the identification in the last three years of 25 billion dollars after tant program even if in a restricted form, were nounced its armistice 6 P. M. on that armed Italian guerrilla bands as an “ explosion of economic na­ numbers and pass off the defective parts as new. tionalism.” They even built a secret welding room with an alarm the payment of all taxes, and the accumulation much disappointed. On every decisive question — September 8, the people rose continue to roam the mountain joyously. All that night and all country around Turin and that Apparently much vaunted system to warn the welders when government inspec­ of billions of dollars more in corporation reserves. the Roosevelt fourth term, the no-strike policy, the following day they had the disturbances continue in Turin American “ isolationism” is tors arrived. The die-hard, reactionary Congressional time­ etc. — the Reuther leaders joined with Addes and Germans on the run. The Ger­ and Milan. nothing but a new name for old The company and seven top officials were indicted servers of the billion dollar corporations are, like Frankensteen. In united fashion they supported mans were surrendering their * * * fashioned imperialism. The British by the government on nine counts, including fraud capitalists are by no means op­ their Wall Street masters, power-drunk. Maybe, and fought for the policies which in their totality arms to Italians. . . Had Naples The Yugoslav Partisan army and sabotage. The company tried to pass the buck posed to imperialism. They just make up the present official union program of sur­ been properly organized . . . it announced on October 13 that the by firin g the top officials involved, and the president, they think, they can fleece the people even more don’t like the kind where the would have made all the d if­ entire Venezia Division of the thoroughly, even more ruthlessly? Under the lead­ render, capitulation and retreat. who was among those fired, tried to blame his sub­ ference. However, there was no Italian army has joined its ranks. Yankee capitalists are in the drivers seat. ordinates. The company and four officials were found ership of the Chamber of Commerce, the reptile The experiences in Buffalo establish conclusive­ anti-fascist organization. . . So Gaetano Salveniini, noted autho­ * • * * not guilty while three officials were convicted by jury press and the prostitute columnists, they have ly that the Reuthcr faction is nothing but a power the Germans quickly regained rity on Italy, divulged in a recent trial. Three men go to jail, the company is absolved, launched a drive to raise the new taxes by a flat caucus. Its occasional radical declarations are only control, but they did it with the interview that the Bergamo Divi­ Cairo is fast becoming the help of Fascist hierarchs and and the profits on 50 to 60 million dollars worth of 10 per cent sales tax. Even Roosevelt’s labor police­ sucker bait designed to confuse and ensnare the sion has revolted and joined the central embarkation point for all above all many Fascist Black­ Yugoslav Partisans. The division decrepit monarchs of Eastern castings sold in 1942 stay with the stockholders. men — such as Vinson, Director of Economic Sta­ militants. shirts. Those Blackshirts became changed its name to the Garibaldi Europe, who hated and despised The employees of this company have not even re­ bilization — are afraid that a sales tax is too raw, The auto militants must take these lessons to marked men. . . W’hcn those days division. by their own people are never­ ceived the raises duo them under the L ittle Steel of reckoning came, everyone of that it will arouse the wrath of the masses and heart. They must break decisively with the Rcuth- ♦ •> * theless befriended and supported formula. In its efforts to pile up profits, the com­ those Blackshirts . . . met death provoke revolt. But the crew of poll-taxers, labor- by Roosevelt and Churchill. There pany doles out piddling raises to a few men and es­ cr caucus as well as with the rival Addes clique. at the hands of the citizens. They The British capitalists arc is the arch reactionary King tablishes new time rates and speedups for the rest. baiters and other servants of Big Business in Con­ Only then can the militants begin the work of were w illing to take the Germans worried sick that their dear ally, Peter of Yugoslavia. The masses For example, the pay of metal pourers, who do gress are ready to go through with the sales tax, if building a genuine progressNe group, relying on alive . . . because after all they the U. S. capitalists are getting don’t want any part of him, but all set to grab up every b it of back-breaking work in terrific heat, is only 78 cents they are reasonably sure that they can get away their own resources, their own strength, their own were doing only what they had Roosevelt and Churchill are been ordered to do. But when the wealth in the world that isn’t per hour. Speedup, cutting the size of crews, elim i­ with it. independent program of militant labor action. grooming him as the head of the Italians caught a Blackshirt, he nailed down or to hot to carry. future Quisling government in nation of wash-up time, fake bonus schemes, etc., have W hy arc they so bold, why are they so unafraid There is no other road to success. There is no magic died.” This deathly foar of declining that country. already led to several walkouts of the men. of the people? Don’t they know that that master short cut. The Italian workers are wiping British capitalism was brought to In Cairo, resides also King The “ patriotism” of the bosses boils down to their a fever pitch by the arrogant and “statesman of labor’’ Sidney Hillman, with the aid There does exist the assurance, however, that the fascists o ff the surface of the George of Greece who sanctioned insatiable greed for profits, whether obtained by the earth. AMG is leaving the fascist aggressive behavior of America’s the bloody Metaxas dictatorship. speedup and low pay, or by defrauding the govern­ of the Stalinist finks, has just concluded a heroic work along this line will be well received by con­ officials in office. “ five travelling Senators.” There isn’t a single group in ment with defective parts. campaign of speechmaking in order to convert the siderable numbers of the auto rank and file. Only The Economist, organ of the Greece representing the masses * * * present anti-labor Congress into a pro-labor Con­ such independent work will assure solid, sure and British Big-Business writes “ there that supports the monarchy. But gress? Don’t they know up in Congress that the steady progress in the forging of a new, honest, The October 11 UP dispatch are signs of a return to the big | British bayonets put George on reported that “ twenty members stick and the ideology of Mc­ It Is Time to Build An Independent C IO Political Action Committee has just finished militant and class conscious leadership which will the Greek throne once before and of the new Fascist Republican Kinley. . . The prospects of any Churchill is ready to use British its coast-to-coast drive to demonstrate labor’s poli­ point the way, help educate the rank and file and militia were found dead of knife dramatic and immediate reversal bayonets to put King George on Labor Party tical might? Yes, they know! That is exactly why at a later stage give leadership in struggle. wounds in Rome. . . Fascist of American economic policy are the Greek throne again.