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Vol. X X IV — No. 11 NEW YORK, N. Y., MONDAY. MARCH 14, 1960 Price 10c Socialists Pick “Socialism Makes Life Worth Living" Racist Violence National Ticket Farrell Dobbs and Myra Tanner Weiss Fails to Stem Nominated by SWP National Committee MARCH 7 — The national committee of the Socialist Workers party yesterday named Farrell Dobbs and Myra Tanner Weiss as the party’s presidential and vice-presiden New Sitdowns tial candidates in the 1960 elec- tions. than the Democrats or Republi Authorities Whip Up Mobs The nomination was made cans oil' the ballot. Students Hit subject to ratification by a spe "We will launch our cam Against Negro Youth in South cial nominating convention paign early and keep it going By George Lavan later this year. The decision to vigorously untU Election Woolworth's contcst the I960 elections was Day,” said Farrell Dobbs, who After six weeks, the Southern students’ campaign of voted by the SWP’s Eighteenth delivered the main report to National Convention last July. the NC meeting. Dobbs is In New York direct action against Jim Crow is still spreading. At the The Socialist Workers party national chairman of the NEW YORK, March 5 — Five same time, the conflict with Southern white-supremacist has already been certified for a SWP. hundred and fifty college and officials and the mobs they have incited has become more place on the ballot in Michigan, “We can expect a more favor high school students protested bitte r. where SWP supporters obtained able response to socialist ideas Jim Crow lunch counters in the Sit-down demonstrations at discriminatory lunch more than 32.000 signatures last among unionists, the Negro peo South with a picket line out counters have erupted in Texas and Kentucky, bringing to year. Signature gathering has ple and the youth than at any side the F. W. Woolworth store nine the total of affected states*- been completed in New Jersey other time during the last four on Thirty-fourth Street today. and is in process in Pennsyl teen years,” Dobbs continued. below the Mason-Dixon line. vania. “The steel strike symbolized Their demonstration marked And on March 9, students from the growing solidarity of North Negro Labor The party w ill seek to get on changing class relations within six Negro colleges in Atlanta ern students with their Negro the ballot in as many states as the United Stales. The em announced in a full-page news fellow-students. possible, national officers of the ployers have taken the offen paper advertisement their in- Council Calls SWP said. The principal ob sive against the labor move Rose Karsner speaking at birthday banquet Feb. 27, affirms her belief in socialism as the Organized by the Student tion of making Georgia the stacles aie unfair election laws ment, but the union ranks are greatest and most worthwhile cause of our limss. She and her husband James P. Cannon (cen Council of City College, the te n th . designed, in a number of key determined to fight back. ter), who have been socialists for half a century, a good part of it as internationally known picket line began at noon. By In a few instances Negroes Parley in May states, to keep parties other “In addition, the ups and leaders, celebrated their seventieth anniversaries together while in New York on a visit from one o’clock 400 students were have won victories and are now downs in the economic cycle Los Angeles where they now live. The New Yor k local of the Socialist Workers party staged the on the line, despite police being served at formerly lily- By Tom Kerry and the persistent rise in banquet in their honor. Harry Ring (right) was master of ceremonies. harassment. The pickets’ white lunch counters and soda The Negro American Labor chronic unemployment have placards carried slogans such as fo u n ta in s. Council, projected last summer Senate Racists sharpened the feelings of eco “Woolworth Segregates” and But in several key cities the at the contention of the Na nomic insecurity.” ‘‘Don’t Buy Jim Crow.” battle has settled down to a Dobbs scored the policies of tional Association of Colored Laud Trujillo Socialism Gave Life SWP Honors grim contest of strength, the Peoples by A. Philip Randolph, the top labor officials as "bank "Pass 'Em By" outcome of which cannot yet president of the A FL-CIO In the course of the Senate ru p t.” Shouts of “Pass ’em by” be foreseen. Brotherhood of Sleeping Car filibuster designed to help pre “They count on so-called Two Founders An Aim and Meaning greeted people entering the This is particularly true of Porters, w ill be established as serve racist tyranny in the ‘friends’ in the Democratic store. Anyone ignoring this Montgomery, Alabama, cradle a national organization at a south, Senators Smathers (D- party to ward off attacks on the (Rose Karsner recently grant cial questions really began early plea was jeered at and booed. of the Confederacy and of the founding conference scheduled Fla.) and Russell (D-Ga.) en unions and look to these ed an interview in Los Angeles in my childhood. At Celebration Most of the potential customers 1956 bus b o ycott. T here, the to convene in May. gaged in a colloquy on Latin ‘friends’ also to promote a to Evelyn Reed, a member of Q: Early in your childhood? By M. L. Stafford left without argument. m ilitant protests of the students bigger arms program to take Formal announcement of the America which indicated solid the National Committee of the How? of Alabama State College and agreement with current bipar up the slack in unemployment. At 1:15 the picket line dis gathering appeared in tne Feb Socialist Workers party. The fol A: W e ll, as you p ro b a b ly The best way to live is to de the city’s colored population tisan foreign policy. At the same time the labor bu banded, and 300 of the students ruary issue of The Black lowing is a transcript of the know, the U.S. immigration vote yourself wholeheartedly to have called forth all' the re reaucrats seek to suppress by marched from Thirty-fourth W o rk e r,. official organ of the Discussing the Dominican Re questions and answers.—Editor.) gates were still wide open in a great cause; and the greatest pressive force of the' govern dictatorial means all expres Street to Washington Square to B SC P and reads as fo llo w s : public, Russell philosophized the 1890’s, luring Europeans to cause of all is socialism. ment and the racist organiza sions of discontent against their Q: You've been an outstand attend a rally of the National “More than two thousand that “if we must have a dicta these shores with promises of That was the outlook, con tions. ruinous policies. ing person to me. Rose, since I Student Association. After this, Negro trade unionists w ill meet tor, Trujillo has been about as golden opportunities. The real firmed by their own experience, A sit-down demonstration by “Our class-struggle program, first met you about twenty years some students marched to a in Detroit, Michigan, over the lib e ra l a d ic ta to r as a c o u n try reason was to supply the U.S. which Rose Karsner and James 35 ASC students at the snack ego. I. know that other women nearby W oolworth’s store, pick Memorial Day weekend, to could have.” on the other hand, articulates economy with cheap labor. My P. Cannon sought to convey to bar in the county- courthouse the needs of the working peo comrades feel the same way eted for an hour, and then de fouJici the Negro American “I agree,” replied Smathers, mother and her brood of six those who had the rare oppor brought a demand by Governor- ple.” You were one of the founding cided to return to the Thirty- Labor Council. The holiday who went on to say that the came here from Rumania in that tunity of participating in their Patterson for their immediate Turning to the sit-down mem bers of our party. I would fourth Street store. weekend, May 28-29, was se U. S. must “adopt a hard and European exodus. They were seventieth birthday celebration exclusion from the state-sup struggles against segregation in like to ask you some questions lected by the Steering Commit tough line with Castro. We will full of hopes, but were soon dis Feb. 27. To their surprise 150 students, p o rte d college. In re p ly , 300 the South, Dobbs saw it as about your life and also about tee to enable as m a n y N egro make it absolutely clear that appointed. Rose joined the Socialist party who arrived late, had formed students marched to the Capi we will stand for no more ar “coinciding with a general rise your opinions on some points of workers as possible to partici Q: Would you say, then, that in 1908. J im in 1909. B etw e en another picket line in their ab tol steps and held a brief pro rogant nonsense or condescend in social ferment among young special interest to women. Let pate in the convention.” immigrants or children of immi them, the two have rolled up a sence. The combined forces test meeting. ing notes.” (Continued on Page 4) me begin by ^ asking at what century of continuous service in The aims and purpose of the grants like yourself were more picketed the store until it closed That Saturday, White Citi age you first became interested the cause of socialism, much of organization as set forth in the susceptible to the ideas of social at 5 P.M. zens Council thugs, armed with in broad social questions. it under difficult circumstances. announcement are: Too Many Babies? ism than native-born Ameri The picket-line protest will small baseball bats, patrolled A: I joined the New York Harry Ring, master of cere cans? be resumed next Saturday, Montgomery’s main street and "The Negro American Labor local of the Socialist party at monies, expressed the feelings of stood outside the five-and-ten- Council is being organized as A: Yes. We came to this coun March 12 at noon, outside Wool the age of eighteen back in 1908. the audience when he paid spe cent stores. Sincc no sit a result of the continued try to flee oppression at home worth’s at Thirty-fourth Street It was an election year and, as cial tribute to Rose for her role downs were attempted, the general exclusion of the more A Brand New Foe and to better our conditions of and Broadway. was the practice of the day, I in the years of grinding poverty WCC thugs had to content than 1,500,000 Negro trade life. We had also heard a great street-corner political meetings , isolation, witch-hunts, themselves with beating up a unionists from the program deal about freedom in this coun were being held throughout the slander and persecution, which number of Negro women shop and policy-making bodies of 1 try. However, what we found in Appropriate Tune Finishes Malthus city. I stopped to listen at one included a prison sentence pers and a Negro boy. the trade unions in which this “land of the free” was free where John M. Ball, the social served ,b y J im as one o f To protest against nuclear Police, standing nearby, did they are involved. dom to work in fire-trap sweat ist “soap box” orator, was hold America’s first Smith Act vic I weapons, 1,000 people h ik e d not interfere with the base- “It is the purpose of the Negro By Joseph Hansen shops at substandard wages and ing forth. I ended by signing an tim s. three miles from Wethersfield, ball-bat brigade. The city's to live in crowded bug-infested American Labor Council to Sixth in a series of articles. application for membership in Rose’s response to this when England, to a U.S. air base March main newspaper, the Montgomery ghetto tenements. If we com advance the cause of the Negro the party. But my interest in so- she took the floor was: “The in i 5. A kilted Scotsman led the pa Advertiser, printed a trade unionist on the local, state plained. we were told: “If you The human proclivity to reproduce will inevitably troduction by the distinguished rade skirling the bagpipes. The front-page picture of one man and federal level; to involve don’t like it here, why don’t you bring us to famine and perhaps standing room only on our master of ceremonies and your I tune he chose was the “Death striking a Negro woman the Negro trade unionist more go back where you came from?” (C o ntin ued on Page 2) ; M a rch .” (Continued on Page 4) planet, according to the Rev. Malthus and his followers. New York Bosses Therefore, the notions of fair (Continued on Page 4) Before getting morbid about having to pay for our lack of Mistreated Them ness, justice, freedom, which I “moral restraint” in this cruel way, let’s get a report from frequently heard as a child were the food experts on how long we can continue without “I worked in a dress factory. not empty words or theories. thought of the future like the improvident grasshopper in T h e y paid me $25 a w eek to They were aspirations born out Cheers Eisenhower Didn't Like sew. But I only stayed two of experiences of their oppos Montevideo, Uruguay was in if the feeling should develop of “subversion” from outside. Aesop’s fable. months. I didn't like it be ites. That’s why that socialist Latin Americans terrupted by two student demon that Mr. Eisenhower’s words (2) Greater economic assist Brace yourself for a pleasant surprise. No famine is in cause the owners would scream speaker I heard years later made strations that were suppressed were empty.” ance. at us and treat us badly. I didn’t sense to me. sight, at least in the United States. In an article “Chemical Jog Kim on Cuba by police wielding tear gas and In answer to appeals from understand, but they seemed to Q: Did you become well ac (3) Support for reduction of Revolution on the Farm,” published in the New York Times fire hoses. Latin American government of hate us.” quainted with the leaders of the By Lillian Kiezel the aims burden borne by Latin Magazine Oct. 4, 1959, William Barry Furlong reports: The wind blew tear gas ficials to offer something sub old Socialist party? American countries. That was how Rosa Elena Ro Cries of “We Like Castro!” i nto Eisenhower's eyes and stantial, Eisenhower made the “That revolution has all but wiped out the Malthusian fear A: Yes, I came to know some White House aides admitted, sado, 34, e xp la in e d to a N ew “Yankee Go Home!” disturbed spray from the hoses on his following pledges: that a nation would never be able to feed an ever-expand such leaders as George R. K irk however, that commitments do York World-Telegram reporter the harmony of the “We Like suit. patrick, author of “War, What (1) Nonintervention in the in not yet touch the prevailing ing population.”
...... ■ - .. . i ...... (C o n tin u e d fro m Page 1) ist, w ith me as business m a n agreement, I lo o k ove r the a d m in available for women workers. The prevalent notion among delinquency. Both measures those cases, a judge must de School of Social Science, and, to ager. istration. By 1939-40 the party In addition, the differential in capitalist politicians is that are being fought by the Na termine if the accused is to be a lesser degree, W. H. Ghent Q: When did you join the organized its own printshop foi wages and working conditions juvenile delinquency must be tional Lawyers’ Guild. tried in an adult or juvenile and Algernon Lee, instructors at Communist movement? the second time. Two linotypes was much worse. As for a mar met with “get tough” measures. The first bill calls for making co u rt. the school. A: I became part of the Com a press and all the appurten ried woman, the whole weight Their favorite, proposals if put fifteen-year-olds subject to In opposing Wagner’s bill to ' Later, I came to know Eugene munist movement of the USA ances necessary for printing our of public opinion was against into effect would do serious in criminal prosecution if they are treat young people as hardened V. Debs. I attended all his mass toward the end of 1920. own periodicals and literature her holding a job. Her place was jury to young people as well charged w ith such crim e s as criminals, the Lawyers’ Guild meetings in the New York-New Q: How and when did you When this venture foundered or. still in the home and kitchen. as strengthen trends toward a assault, burglary, rape or man says the measure reflects “un meet James P. Cannon? financial difficulties, I was sent Q: Do you think modern la police state. sla ug hter. Jersey area where it was my reasoned hysteria.” It repre task to go through the audience A : I met Jim at the 1921 in to supervise its administra bor-saving machines in the Consider, for instance, the Under present laws, fifteen- sents the traditional “big stick” Unity Convention of the two tion, and later its liquidation. home have helped to emancipate two bills that New York’s Mayor year-olds are handled in ju selling the Masses. After my policy rather than concern for communist groups — the Com A n d m y la st o ffic ia l post, at women? Wagner, a liberal Democrat, re venile courts, except when ac marriage to Dave Karsner, a rehabilitating the youthful of munist party and the United :he end of World War II, was A: These machines have un cently sent to the state legis cused of crimes punishable by newspaper man and author, who fender. Communist party. Jim was there that of secretary of the Ameri doubtedly given them more time lature on the subject of juvenile death or life imprisonment. In was a friend of Debs and his as part of the central leadership can Committee for European than before. I The Guild also points out that first biographer, I came to know o f the U C P. I w e n t as p a rt of Workers Relief, again because Q: Do you think they utilize | Wagner’s proposal runs counter Debs more intimately because the National Office staff to take we could find no one else who this tim e to good advantage? | to a national trend to include of Dave’s connection with him. notes of the Convention pro would undertake the work at A: I really don’t know. And ... A Brand New Foe offenders up to the age of Q: What accounts for the mag ceedings. Formally, I had not yet the tim e. tha t isn ’t as im p o rta n t to me as (C o ntin ued fro m Page 1) eighteen under the category of netism that Debs exercised over been transferred from the pro George and Connie Weissman ;ust being released from some food for ten persons. Today one farmer can produce food and juvenile delinquents. the radicals of his day? bation discussion group into the took over the work when it be 'f the home “slave labor.” U til fiber for twenty-four persons." A: It wasn’t simply the radi Wagner’s other bill has three cals. Debs was loved by the party, but L. E. Katterfeld, na came necessary to expand. izing time to good advantage is Malthus had everybody scrounging for food, except the sections. The first provides that great mass of workers, some of tional secretary of the UCP Q: When and how did you first i relative matter, depending on “the presence on a public whom were even opposed to his vouched fo r me, k n o w in g me as find out about the Trotskyist the cultural background and rich, yet he saw famine as inevitable. Today, 161 years later, street of .certain weapons . . . ideas of socialism. But Debs he did from Chicago where I Left Opposition? nany other things. one farmer can produce enough for twenty-four. How did in such close proximity to an exuded love for humanity and had worked with him in the A: When Jim returned froir Q: What are your opinions assemblage of three or more the worthy Reverend happen to land so far off the target? conveyed a sincerity and pas Speakers Bureau of the SP. You M oscow in 1928 fro m the S ix th about birth control? persons under such circum First of all, Malthus left out the effect of the industrial sion about his convictions for a see, th e C o m m unists w e re u n JAMES P. CANNON, at World Congress of the Commun A: I think people should have stances as demonstrate that any better world for everyone, re derground at the time, as a re New York banquet, tells about ist International, he brought he bright to decide for them- revolution. We needn’t blame him for that since it really of such persons have discarded gardless of race, color or creed. sult of the infamous Palmer hard early years of pioneer with him the copy of Trotsky’s ;elves whether they should have got rolling after his time. On top of that he left out what those weapons is presumptive He was among the first to take Raids. Persecution and witch Trotskyist movement when Criticism of the Draft Program children and how many they evidence of the illegal posses he couldn’t possibly have foreseen, the chemical revolu a vigorous public stand against hunt of “the reds” ran wild and Rose Karsner played one of —which he had smuggled out. should have. Birth-control mea sion by all members of the as tion — the use of manufactured plant nutrients,* pesticides discrimination of any type. rampant. That is why all con the key roles in keeping the This had been distributed to the sures should be legalized. sem blage.” and additives such as vitamins, hormones, enzymes, anti Q: What induced you to side fidential workers in the party organization alive. delegates of one of the commis Q: Did women play a bigger had to be vouched for. sions he was on. or smaller part in the socialist biotics and so on. How could the prim young Bible student All Ten Are 'Guilty' with the Left Wing in the so raised funds for the starving Q: What do you recall as the I was the first person to whom movement after the first world of 1798, whose real him was to prove that the ideals of the cialist movement? German workers. Say th a t as a cop approaches A : A large majority of the outstanding assignments you he showed it, and after I finish war than they do today? My next big assignment was French Revolution were utopian, have anticipated a state a group of ten young people to had during the twenties? ed reading it, although I did not A: Politically, women played youth, and I was part of it, sided to assist Jim in launching the ment like this 161 years later by Furlong: search them, he finds two A : One was my work with the grasp its full implications, I did a much smaller role then. There with the Left Wing because they International Labor Defense. He knives lying on the street. He were the ones we saw in action Friends of Soviet Russia and get the essence of It. My reac were quite a few exceptions "Thus the chemical revolution has increased farm capac was national secretary, I was can arrest — and a judge can wherever the class struggle the other with the International tion was: Now at last light has who, because of that, stood out ity more in twenty years than the mechanical revolution did his assistant. We participated convict — all ten for illegal broke out. We were followers of Labor Defense. been thrown on the troubles we, more prominently than today,. in almost 100 years." in so m a n y cases, in c lu d in g possession of weapons. what were then called the I had been working in the na the American section, had been Women today are more politic Sacco-Vanzetti, that it’s not easy “Reds,” headed by such leaders tional office of the Friends of having with the Comintern. ally minded and advanced, du6 Had he foreseen this, Malthus would have been forced The second section provides to enumerate them, but anyone Soviet Russia in New York in The mystery of how the Com to many factors, chief of which that “the actual possession of as B ill Haywood, while the more interested can read about them to admit from his own premises that liberty, fraternity 1922 w h en th e C o m m u n ist con intern could dare to take away is that the world wars propelled weapons by two or more per conservative were followers of in the Labor Defender, the of and equality are perfectly practical goals despite that vention at Bridgman, Michigan the leadership from the national them into industry in large sons, participating in an as Morris Hillquit. ficial monthly organ of the ILD. Q: Over the years what kind ! was raided, a few of the leaders committee majority elected by num bers. tricky mathematical ratio on food and population which semblage of three or more per One thing I can tell you for of work did you do of special : were arrested and a new anti- the convention and give it to Q: Do you feel that the Rus the French revolutionaries failed to consider. sons on a public throughfare, is sure — the ILD was a genuinely importance in the socialist move Russian wave flared up. Because the minority by merely sending sian- revolution had a special Later we w ill consider the Malthusian theory more presumptive evidence that such nonpartisan organization which ment? our national secretary, Alfred a cable to the convention, was meaning and impact on women assemblage is with intent to aided all victims of the class closely from the Marxist point of view but let us first con A: A year after I joined the ! Wagenknecht, had attended the cleared up. in this country? commit an unlawful act by struggle regardless of race, color, tinue our inventory, again citing Furlong: Socialist party I became Secre convention, the committee in Q: One of the toughest things A : V e ry m uch so. W h a t was force.” creed or political beliefs. And tary of the Masses, a new semi charge of FSR work instructed in serious political conflicts, it happening in Russia made the "Last year the total acreage of farmland under cultiva That’s quite a parlay. But while our aid was given to official party magazine. This him to stay away from the of seems to me, is breaking w ith women here feel that they might tion was the smallest since 1918, yet farm production was the third clause is even more American class-war prisoners in publication underwent several fice and I was put in charge. old friends. How did you feel at last look forward to emanci 11 per cent higher than any previous record. The wheat and sweeping. It provides that the the main, we also extended help changes in its career. In the be Subsequently, I was elected na about this? pation; that it was not simply a possession of a weapon by any to fighters in other lands by or corn crops were so huge that they threatened the entire con ginning, while I was with it, the tional secretary due to objective A : Yes, it is very tough to word but fast becoming a fact. one person in an “unlawful as ganizing effective protests. cept of price supports. The Federal Government has about factors which made it impos break with old and intimate Among ourselves, I often heard sem blage can be used as “ e v i Masses sought to popularize the One such case stands out in $2,500,000,000 tied up in stored wheat. It has about $1,800,- sible for Wagenknecht to. return comrade - friends. However, it the complaint from women that dence” of unlawful possession ideas of the co-operative move my memory: the case of the one 000,000 invested in surplus corn arid is paying $370,000 a day to his post. was not our choice. We were “men live a life of self-expres of weapons by every person ment. Thomas Seltzer, later a hundred Hungarians cruelly per just to store more than a billion bushels of it." We collected food, clothing eager to discuss with them, but sion while women live a life of rounded up by the cops as part well-known publisher, was its secuted and imprisoned by the and medicine for the famine- all fraternization with us was self-suppression.” of the “assemblage.” t editor. He brought together the Horthy regime. Rakosi was the If you think that’s impressive, Furlong reports that stricken Soviet Union. We also forbidden by edict from Mos Q: If you had it to do over, celebrated group of artists and most prominent of that group. some experts hold “that farm production can be stepped The Lawyers’ Guild attacks writers such as Art Young, raised funds to purchase the cow. Our attempts to argue with would you adopt any other The cables of protest signed by all three sections of Wagner’s first American tractors for the CP members were met by phy course than that of a revolu up as much as 85 per cent over its present record-breaking Boardman Robinson, Floyd Dell internationally known American “assemblage” bill as uncon Soviet Union under the slogan sical assaults and our papers tionist? levels simply by using the knowledge now available.” and others. They joined with figures which we sent to the stitutional. The bill, they say. of: “Tractors, Not Cannons.” A ll torn and thrown in our faces. A: Of course not. With all of Because statistics are always rather dry, people tend Max Eastman later to convert Hungarian government helped is a “dragnet device which in all, the FSR raised and ship They had the temporary advan its hardships, the movement it into a radical, literary period considerably in saving the lives to hurry through them. Did you notice something about makes possible the indiscrimi ped to Russia during its exist tage ove r us. ; gives purpose and meaning to ical. of these men. those last two paragraphs that jarred just a little? Some nate rounding up of all youth ence a total of half a million Q: What were the greatest dif life. Simply to exist or even to I accompanied my husband to Q: We all know how much ful persons” including innocent dollars worth of aid. Soviet Rus ficulties you met in the first fen acquire things is not sufficient. thing about wheat and corn crops being so huge that they Chicago in 1911 where he went you pitched in on various as bystanders. sia Pictorial, the magazine we years of American Trotskyism? Happiness and contentment ‘‘threatened” us in some way or other? And something to work for the UP News signments in the early years of Agency while I worked in the published, did a lot to dispel A: Isolation from the masses. can only come with a life that about the threat getting 85 per cent worse? Having discov The bill thus violates free the Trotskyist movement. What ignorance about the USSR and This was the greatest hardship. .is bigger and broader than our dom of assembly. It also estab bookkeeping department and in particular stands out in your ered that the Malthusians were wrong about an exploding propagandized for its recogni As a result, there was a ten own petty little selves. A revolu lishes guilt by association. It the Speakers Bureau of the N a- memory? population soon eating us out of house and home, is it pos tional Office of the SP under' tio n . dency among many of our own tionary movement gives much calls on judges and juries to A: Frankly, nothing in par John M. Work, the national sec B y 1923, Russia no lo n g e r people to “stew in their own more to the individual than the sible that we are faced with a different disaster; namely, a convict a person even in the ticular stands out. The first five retary. The following year I needed our aid. The FSR was juice” and become subjective individual can ever give to the food" explosion? What if the present rate of expansion of absence of any evidence of in years, 1928-33, were real rough, dividual guilt. The burden of went to Minnesota where Dave transformed into the Workers about the objective situation. movement. At least that’s the the food supply were to keep up for two thousand years! though gratifying. But our num proof is placed on the defend took over editorship of the left- International Relief, moved its Q: What were the most grati way I feel about it. bers w ere ve ry fe w and as a Before getting trapped with that one, let’s try another ant and not on the prosecutor. wing weekly, Minnesota Social national office to Chicago, and fying experiences? faction of the CP our chief work authority. Here’s a Washington dispatch by William M. A: Despite the obstacles, we Advertisement was one of clarifying the Issues built a party and recruited Blair that appeared in the Jan. 11, 1960, New York Times: involved in our expulsion — young people — many of whom internationalism versus Stalin’s A Pioneer "Best Buy" "As American agriculture enters the Nineteen Sixties, the comprise our present cadre theory of socialism in one coun revolution shaking the foundation of its traditional patterns ...SWP Honors Two Founders and leadership. try. That took hours upon hours shows no signs of slackening . . . Q: Did you ever visit the So The Wall Between of discussion, and recruitment "The output of the country's agricultural plant continues ( C ontinued fro m Page 1) Nora Roberts, associate editor to separate herself from the viet Union? was almost exclusively from the to outpace the 'population explosion.' During the Nineteen warm applause remind me of of the Young Socialist, spoke I rank and file. In her remarks, A: Yes, fro m D ecem ber 1924 By Anne Braden CP one by one. Fifties farm output increased 2.25 per cent a year. Population the story of the erudite profes for the youth. She explained which were the highlight of the to A p r il 1925. that it’s still difficult for her evening, she said, “I speak as To begin with there were just growth speeded up, but only at the rate of 1.8 per cent a year. sor. -He rose to address his Q: What was your impression? They bought a house for a to visualize how it feels to be a representative of the rank six of us — three National Com In short, as of now, the total output of farms is beating a audience by saying, ‘Ladies and A: B rie fly , I felt that when I Negro friend in a lily-white seventy but she expects with and file of our party. Without mittee members and their wives. rapid rate of population growth by something like one-half gentlemen — after the effusive walked down the streets of neighborhood. ’ White su time to remedy this. Her deep any false modesty, I say, com We each had to do what we of 1 per cent a year." introduction of me, I feel timid M oscow I belonged. This, in con premacists and city authori est feeling, however, is how rades of the rank-and-file cadre cou ld best do. A fte r 1933, w h en about speaking in the presence trast to my feeling here, Where ties retaliated with violence serious it is to |oe a socialist of Local New York, and those we declared ourselves an inde Our sudden suspicion was not a symptom of an incipi of so august a person as my I felt like a stranger, in that the and a McCarthyite witch and what vision it gives in ap of every branch of our party pendent organization it was a se lf.’ ” government and I were so far hu n t. ent persecution complex but a sensitive response to a real proaching the deepest problems from the Atlantic to the Pacific little easier. We opened head And this was the tone of the apart. Today, however, I am danger. Babies may not be our enemy after all. W ith their o f h u m a n ity as th e y are firs t —I represent you well. quarters on East Tenth Street, In a moving account. Anne banquet as a whole. The eve sure I would not have that same Braden tells how her family millions of voracious mouths they may turn out to be allies. seen by the youth. She thanked “I represent you well,” she New York, with a little print- ning sparkled with socialist w it feeling. As a Trotskyist, I would stood up to persecution and Perhaps we should consider following the example of our Rose and Jim for what they continued, “because I believe shop in the rear and began to and banter. feel a stranger there, too. prison for their principles. I have done to bring genuine socialism th a t service to the m o ve m e n t is publish some pamphlets in addi own government, sign a peace treaty with the enemy and Richard Garza, as organizer Q: Women's right to vote did And she offers a sensitive to the youth. the direct measure of the value tion to the Militant. Our mem begin picturing babies as one of us, doughty comrades in of the New York local, wel n't exist when you were 21. Did and enlightening description comed the two prodigals back W illiam F. Warde, a member of each of us. Not position and bership increased and we had a you participate in the suffrag of the effect of segregation arms in a war against corn and wheat. to their true home; namely, of the National Committee of place on committees, local and group of voluntary workers to ette struggles that won that on Southern whites and Ne The true foe is obviously food. The scare over how Manhattan island — that is, the the Socialist Workers party, re n a tio n a l. ca ll on. right? groes, of the social and area round Union Square, and ported a humanist dream. Of But as I look back, my task swollen the population might become two thousand years “Throughout my long years A: Yes, to the extent that it psychological motivations and presented them with a huge gilt all places, he found himself in remained that of taking care of from now diverted us from the real menace-facing us right of service in the movement I was possible in a movement and reactions. heaven. But there was no hap office details and organizing thé today — the torrents of wheat and corn that have broken key to New York which he said have always done what work not an organization. I attended piness there. The old boy him work of volunteers, such as As a “Best Buy” selection, wouM fit the doors to 116 Uni was at hand. But I am not all their meetings and marched through the dams on the farms and are now rushing down versity Place. The key in self was down in the dumps. wrapping and mailing the M ilit Pioneer is able to list this a ‘professional’ rank and filer. in their parades. But while I on us at frightening speed. As alert members of the Civilian cluded a thermometer with Even though he had been ant, etc. At a later date I be important paperback book I believe in leadership. But I felt that the fight for the vote which to stay more comfortable created by human beings, he came business manager of the for only $1.25. Send for your Defense we had better snap to attention and study more also believe in ‘rank and filism.’ v^ps necessary and had revolu in the rather erratic tempera had lost faith in humanity after paper. copy today. carefully those deceptively dry statistics. “Ideally, they should not be tionary implications, it seemed ture winter and summer of the surveying the present state of Then, there were funds to separated. Each member should to me to be too limited in scope. Preliminary figures from the Department of Agricul Socialist Workers party head the capitalist system. raise, convention arrangements be a little of each, with em Q: Did women who worked PIONEER PUBLISHERS ture indicate, W illiam M. Blair reports, that capital invested qu arters. and many other minutiae to be Warde, as a typical socialist, phasis on one or the other ac for a living forty years ago have taken care of — a necessary ad 116 University Place in farming “increased about 8 per cent in the last decade naturally began arguing with cording to one’s ability or more handicaps than now? junct for the smooth running of while output expanded by 25 per cent.” A trend like that him and finally won him over. ta le n t.” A: In the past there were only N ew Y o rk 3, N. Y . any organization. And, in my is something to think about; but hear this: What did it? The proof that To this wise observation, dis a few industries and services Students Scorn book, just as important and hon you can actually find people tilling the whole experience of ora ble a w o rk as speaking and "There have been phenomenal increases in yield per acre. struggling to overcome capi the Marxist movement in this Advertisement Advertisement w ritin g . The rise of 2.25 per cent a year in production during the talism and build a better way field, Rose added: Apology to FBI Later, when the director and Nineteen Fifties compares with the one-half of 1 per cent in of life on earth. Warde cited “The party is an entity, con initiator of Pioneer Publishers the Nineteen Twenties. BERKELEY, March 5 — The the examples of Rose Karsner sisting of a number of seg A Publishing Event "The yield per acre increase for major crops ranged from Regents of the University of and James P. Cannon: Although ments. Broadly speaking, the had to withdraw from its man- 20 per cent to 75 per cent over the last decade. Corn alone, California were sharply criti the two were atheists, that con party. consists of two main and this crop accounts for one-fourth of the total production, ’ cized by a student publication vinced God. He decided to give parts — the cadre of leaders | increased by more than 35 per cent in yield per acre." here for having apologized to humanity another chance and and the cadre of rank and the FBI over a question asked add his name to those seeking filers. Subscribe! My Life Such a food explosion obviously spells ruin. Work on in an entrance examination. The an end to atom-bomb tests. “The two are interrelated, To keep up with the real question referred to the FBI as LEON TROTSKY’S own account of his childhood, farms “dropped from 24,000,000,000 man-hours in 1920 to Close to Ranks each depending on the other meaning of big events at a national police organization 11,000,000,000 in the year ended Dec. 31.” Despite that —each impotent without the home and abroad, you need youth and political career. An incomparable introduc that “operates secretly.” Messages and tokens of ap other. Together they make a the Militant. Try it for six heroic slash in labor, corn and wheat still gushed upon us Yesterday, the Daily Cali tion to the Russia of the Czars, the underground revolu preciation from all over the mighty force that can topple months. Send your name and in an ever-rising flood. fornian, campus newspaper kingdoms and banish tyrants. tionary-socialist movement, and the two revolutions in country were presented. address and $1. What has happened to the unfortunate farmers caught here, declared editorially: “The “This is no longer an ab which Trotsky gained world-wide recognition as a rare in the path of corn and wheat? In 1958 there were 4,700,000 very fact that the Regents felt Comrade Cannon spoke straction. It has been proven The M ilitant it necessary to apologize for movingly of Rose's contrib in fact. 116 University PI. combination of political, m ilitary and socialist genius. farms. W ithin two years the figure had dropped to 4,100,000 utions to the socialist move the question is indicative of the “Because I always believed in N e w Y o rk 3, N .Y . And if you want to learn what the struggle between “ or even as low as 3,900,000” and the ru ra l population is degree to which the American ment during their 34 years of the absolute necessity of these shrinking. The conclusion is inescapable — our farmers are public has accepted the poten married life. In threshing two main streams of our party, Enclosed is $1 for a six- Trotsky and Stalin was really about, how it was started being suffocated by their own crops. tially fatal doctrine that cri out the sometimes peculiarly and their interrelation, I could months trial subscription. by Lenin in 1923, you can’t find a better account. “Thus,” as William Barry Furlong puts it, “the imme ticism of government agencies difficult problems that fall to consciously serve as a rank and leaders, he did not always and social institutions is some filer. Yet equal to any of our N am e . Long out of print, it w ill soon be available again in diate prospects are not for famine but for continued abund how disloyal and culpable.” agree with her. Bui one leaders, recognizing only a divi a paperback edition at all bookstores. The price w ill be ance — and the problems, especially the crop surplus, that The editors said that while thing he learned to appreciate sion of labor — not a division of S tree t go with that abundance.” the FBI had not yet achieved early was Rose's almost in honors. $2.45. Send us your order now and you get it for $2.29 Small wonder that “in the United States Treasury’s the status of a Gestapo they fallib le sense of the mood and “And so I repeat — I stand thinking of the rank and tile. including postage. counting rooms, sweat breaks out on the men who watch were apprehensive for the future here tonight proudly represent C ity .. Zone “if the present trend of unrea Rose explained this quite ing the cadre of the rank and the expanding abundance of the chemical age.” Pioneer Publisher 116 University Place New York 3, N.Y. sonable accusation and investi simply as due to her own de file of our party; and I repre S tate (Next week: Is Abundance Invincible?) gation continues.” cision, taken long ago, never sent you well.” Monday, March 14, 1960 T H E MILITANT Page T h re e A-
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There’s no room in The complaint that the United States while he made a speech on another subject. our government for cheap political hacks who can be Senate doesn’t produce anything is re Moreover, his hanging back so far in the bought up by special interests* at bargain-counter prices. also made a big deal out of the futed by the bumper crop of presidential civil rights “fight” is notable since he is disclosure that Doerfer and his candidates it has produced this year. Sen supposedly the strongest civil-rights sup For example, take John Doer- fer, chairman of the Federal wife had taken a trip to Bim ini ators John F. Kennedy, Stuart Symington, porter among the presidential aspirants. Communications Commission. in the Bahamas, courtesy Of Hubert Humphrey and Lyndon Johnson For example, he (along with Kennedy F’or seven years he has been George B. Storer who owns thirteen radio and TV stations. are all contending for the Democratic and Symington) signed the Douglas-Javits public watchdog over the broad party’s nomination. In the past months, petition for closure of debate only after casting industry. You can be The explanation was simple, it turned out. Mr. and Mrs. each has toured the country delivering the required sixteen signatures were on it. sure the broadcasters haven’t gotten away with anything Doerfer made the trip to check speeches calculated to convince the public Only the first sixteen signers risk incurring phony since he has been around. on how well the signal from Storer’s Miami TV station was that he is perfectly endowed to make a the displeasure of Senate Boss Lyndon Why only last year he cracked received at Bimini. strong and fearless chief executive. Johnson and the Dixiecrat bloc; subsequent down on them on the issue of Well, the Senate has been tied up signers are forgiven for having merely time for minority-party candi Free Ride to Florida since Feb. 15 by the vote-prevention, fili made a harmless political, gesture. dates for public office. This problem had been approaching Now the House committee in buster tactics of the white-supremacist Though Kennedy seems to have out the point of scandal, with the vestigators are badgering Doer wing of the Democratic party. At stake is distanced Humphrey as the Southern broadcasters — in the guise of fer again about his relations something that each of the above-named Democrats’ favorite Northern liberal, the granting equal time, awarding with Storer and making snide candidates has told audiences he is for— Minnesota senator apparently has not com their choicest spots to m inority remarks about his accepting a candidates and practically freez free ride to Florida on Mr. civil rights legislation. What better oppor pletely lost their affection. Undoubtedly, ing the Republicans and Demo Storer’s private plane and tunity could these would-be presidents ask . Humphrey’s reticence in the present civil- "And then we'll have lunch at Woolworth's. The food's abomi crats off the air. spending six days on his luxury for displaying their strength and fearless rights “fight” is explained by his desire nable, but we'll be doing our bit for those gracious Southern customs." Doerfer put a quick stop to yacht, Lazy Girl. ness as leaders of men? not to jeopardize a friendliness that may that. He forced Congress to Doerfer's defense is uniriv But it seems that none of them found prove useful at the convention. pass a law eliminating the peachable. He told the com the situation quite to his liking. Three of Thus the Democratic presidential as equal-time nonsense. mittee he will pay Storer for the plane ride, and the money them — Kennedy, Symington and Humph pirant in the Senate Who comes to the fore Yet Doerfer has been sub Death Penalty Scored as Unjust jected to very malicious critic will go to the TV magnate's rey — instead of rushing to the fore, in the civil-rights maneuvering is Lyndon ism . In 1958 he was ca lle d be favorite charity. shrank to the sidelines. Johnson, the Texas Johnson. It is an open secret that he wants fore a House subcommittee to As far as the boat ride was overseer of the Senate plantation, is the thereby to divest himself of the label explain why members of the concerned, Doerfer pointed out, only one playing an active role. He is pull “Southerner” — a political curse for a na By Many Authorities on Crime FCC had accepted color TV sets, there was nothing to hide. His original statement to the press ing the strings on the well-choreographed tional candidate — and make himself into free trips and other gratuities B y D ella Rossa Negroes and sixteen were sical or psychiatric — or both. from the broadcasters and why that he had spent only a few civil-rights “fight.” a “Westerner.” white. Most of the executions However, retribution against the one of the commissioners— hours aboard the yacht had been When Governor Brown urged Indeed, during the round-the-clock But Johnson thinks too much can be were in the South. (New York criminal continues as the norm. Richard Mack, who has since a “misunderstanding.” the California legislature on sessions, supposedly being held to end the done with labels. The civil-rights bill for Times, March 3.) As for crime prevention, the resigned — allegedly took a When a committee member March 2 to abolish capital pun The argument for capital pun Friends Committee states: “The cash gift from a TV station. suggested that the free cruise talkathon by physically wearing out the which he is pushing is itself to be mostly ishment because “in actual prac ishment is that the threat of man society executes for a The subcommittee members was like payola, Doerfer snap Southern filibusterers, Kennedy on the a label — as was that toothless, gutless tice . . . it is primarily inflicted death keeps people from com crime is in part society’s own then quizzed Doerfer about ped back with a witticism that upon the weak, the poor, the night of Feb. 29 blithely took the floor to wonder, the Civil Rights Act of 1957. mitting murder. But the death child. He has been reared and some $1,270 in speechmaking ranks with the immortal “Who ignorant and against racial min air his ideas on “national defense” thus Thus from a Senate stacked with penally failed to stop 7,000 nurtured by it, and is condi fees he had received from the was that lady I saw you with orities,” he was restating a well- giving Sen. Holland of Florida a breather presidential timber — three of them strik Americans who killed last year. tioned by what it has done for broadcasters. They were par last night?” With the timing established fact in American In C a lifo rn ia , 64 o f th e 461 w h o him.” The Friends point to “the ticularly interested in one of a professional, he declared: of one hour and nineteen minutes. ing presidential-timber poses on the side life . k ille d in 1957 c o m m itte d suicide war system which denies the speaking junket in which he “That was no payola. It was a Similarly, Symington on March 2 took A 1957 C a lifo rn ia S tate A s lines and one running the Senate like a immediately afterward. dignity and value of human life was said to have collected his social engagement.” the floor to call for bigger arms appropri sembly report on capital punish ward heeler — all the American people Many murders grow out of and nurtures the spirit of vio traveling expenses from three The brilliance of Doerfer’s ment arrived at the same con ations. This gave Sen. Long of Louisiana, w ill most likely get as the Civil Rights Act tensions and frustrations, and lence” a5 a breeder of crime. different sources, including the comeback recalls a statement he clusion. And back in the 1920’s the murder victim is often the Society itself needs to change taxpayers. They also were curi once made to the broadcasters assigned by the Dixiecrat command to the of 1960 is the sort of thing practical jokers during the Sixty-ninth Con person most closely tied emo in order to eliminate the causes ous as to why he had accepted on the quality of their enter afternoon filibuster shift, a respite of over love to present: A big beautifully beribbon- gress, a House Committee, which tionally to the murderer. In a o f crim e. $165.12 from a TV station for tainment. “To you and me,” he an hour and a half. ed and labeled package, whose content, recommended abolition of the five-year period in California, The “war system” and the a plane trip he didn’t take. confided, “some programs may death penalty in the District of On March 8, Humphrey allowed the after much unwrapping, proves to be 27 per cent of the men who were “spirit of violence” are rooted in Doerfer shut them up on be in poor taste, excessively Columbia, stated: filibusterers to rest their weary lungs tinny and tiny. executed had killed their wives a social order based on the en that one. He had discovered commercial, unbearably mono “As it is now applied, the or girl friends. richment of a small minority at the mistake and returned the tonous. But apparently they death penalty is nothing but an The death penalty is meaning the expense of the needs and money. Only the backbiters fulfill the needs of those who arbitrary discrimination against less as a “deterrent” to the men welfare of the great majority. made much of the fact that he listen and view them.” an occasional victim. It cannot tally deranged. Examinations The fight to do away with the had refunded the money four Who can argue with that? Adenauer's Deal with Franco even be said that it is reserved over a fifteen-year period at death penalty is part of the years after the event and two The great majority of the Am as a w eapon o f re trib u tiv e ju s California’s San Quentin prison struggle against all the injus weeks before the inquiry erican people are simply not on C. L. Sulzberger’s revelation in the Western popular opinion, already hostile to tice for the most atrocious crim showed that a majority of those tices and inhumanities bred by opened. Mr. Doerfer’s level. inals. For it is not necessarily Feb. 22 New York Times that the govern the Spanish fascist regime. It is particular executed were psychoneurotie the capitalist system. At that tirpe the committee H erm an ment of West Germany has made m ilitary ly foolish in view of the anti-Semitic out the most guilty who suffer it. or psychopathic. In other words, “Almost any criminal with arrangements w ith fascist Spain is another break in Germany which deeply disturbed they were in need of treatment, wealth or influence can escape In Other Lands indication that war preparations are con world public opinion. The fact remains, and had they received it early it, but the poor and friendless enough, their cure might have tinuing in the midst of the “thaw.” Sulz however, that Adenauer, who has been convict, without means or power deterred their later acts. berger, as European correspondent of the kept in office with the help of U.S. troops to fight his case from court to During the same fifteen-year Times has unusual sources of information. stationed in West Germany, would scarce court or to exert pressure upon period, three of every five mur the pardoning executive, is the He revealed that Adenauer is seeking air ly take such an important step without ders in California were commit NATO Nuclear Brigade Planned one singled out as a sacrifice to force and missile training facilities on understanding that no serious opposition ted during an interrupted armed what is little more than a tradi robbery—with the robber prob Spanish soil and also storage space for to it would be taken by the White House, tio n .” ably unable to give any thought De Gaulle to Get the revolutionary Marxist wing relation to the country’s current missiles. , the Pentagon or Congress. During his twelve years as to possible consequences. of the Labor party, urges that national income of $2.8 billion The U.S., Britain and France were the The British government, Sulzberger warden of Sing Sing, Lewis E. " It is impossible to prove Atomic Weapons the labor movement take “a clos a year. Lawes took 151 people to the that a single potential mur er look” at the stepped up racist The government is relying only NATO members "to be informed of says, is “cool” to Adenauer’s venture in Plans are now under way for electric chair. He later wrote: derer was ever deterred" by activities of the Mosleyites. heavily on foreign loans to fi Adenauer’s m ilitary alliance with Franco. Spain. That may well be. But the British the United States to provide "In ages they ranged from the death penalty, is the con The editorial urges that a la nance the industrialization pro France and and other Western In response to the argument that Spain is have undertaken to wise up the Franco seventeen Jo sixty-three. They clusion of the Friends' Com bor conference make an inquiry gram. So far Egypt has a total allies with nuclear weapons. not a member of the NATO alliance, regime on the development of atomic came from all kinds of homes mittee on Legislation. into racist activity in London to $400 m illion in credits lined Britain already receives such and environments. In one re F o r these reasons as w e ll as and that such a conference “take up, the bulk of it from the So Adenauer simply pointed to the fact that energy. That this is for “ peaceful” purposes weapons from the United spect they were all alike. All the sheer inhumanity of capital steps which would lead to the viet Union. The United States the U.S. provided the precedent for such only will be taken with grain of salt in States. were poor, and most of them punishment, thirty-five coun organization of defense squads to has pledged a b o u t $50 m illio n . bilateral agreements by getting its own air view of the remarkable coincidence with friendless. The defendant of tries have abolished the death O n M a rch 2, Gen. L a u ris N o r- prevent the fascists from beating According to the plans, some wealth and position never and naval bases on the Spanish peninsula. Adenauer’s move. penalties and several other stad, U. S. commander of the up either colored workers or of the new industry will be goes to the electric chair or to Adenauer’s move is another step tow The warmakers in Washington have countries that have the la\^ on NATO forces in Europe an young students as they did last operated by private Egyptian the gallows ..." ard the rearmament of Germany, a course repeatedly postponed their timetable for the books do not invoke it. Most. nounced formation of mobile S a tu rd a y.” capital and some of it by the The Friends’ Committee on NATO g r o u n d-force units deliberately pressed by American imperial World War III. At the same time they have Latin American countries have government. All of it w ill be Legislation in a recent survey done away with it, and in the equipped with nuclear arms. under government direction, ism since it set up the puppet regime now continued to prepare for it with the most commented: “Opposition to the Was Khrushchev world outcry against the execu These are to be made up orig % however. “Our needs are beyond ijuling the occupied country. To train Ger colossal expenditure for armaments in all death penalty is strongest among tion of Caryl Chessman, they inally of American, British and Key Man in War the capacity and ability of-pri man forces in the use of bombers and history. Adenauer’s deal with Franco the lower economic groups. were the most vocal. Nine states French troops. vate capital,” says Aziz Sidky, Fifty-three per cent of the lowest guided missiles is an essential step in W all should serve to remind us once again that have abolished capital punish After formation of the initial Against Germany? minister of industry. economic levels oppose it, while m ent, as have P u e rto R ico and Street’s plans for an eventual attack on another war can be prevented only by three-country brigade, Norstad A key feature of the economic its opponents among the higher the Virgin Islands. Is Soviet history now going said, the plan would be ex development plans is completion the Soviet bloc countries. The arrange displacing capitalism by socialism, an eco economic levels are only 42 per The number of murders is not to be rewritten to credit Pre panded to include five or more of the Aswan Dam which has ment with Franco is an obvious subterfuge nomic system that has built-in guarantees cent, thus rather accurately re appreciatively higher in those cou ntrie s. mier Khrushchev with the flecting the fact that the poor major gains of the USSR as had a ten-year target date for full to get around thef clamor that was antici against war. countries or states where the This probably means that most often pay this penalty. previously been done Stalin? op e ra tio n . pated over such training and storage of So long as big business runs the gov death penalty has been abolish West Germany w ill soon receive “This sense of unequal justice ed. In England, the number of According to a recently pub The Nasser regime aims at missiles on German soil. < ernment the build up for another war w ill may also influence the thinking extensive nuclear arms and doubling the country’s national murders actually decreased dur training from the U. S., though lished book of memoirs by Mar Sulzberger contends that the project continue. That’s what Adenauer’s move of Negroes, 78 per cent of whom ing an eighteen-month period a shal Vasili Chulkov, Khrush income and increasing the stand are opposed to capital punish like France, under the guise of ard of living of the masses by is a “foolish” one that w ill further alienate underscores. few years ago when capital pun participating in NATO units. chev was the key man in map ment. These percentages seem ishment was suspended. ping the m ilitary strategy that one-third in the next decade. to indicate that though the peo In the next eighteen months, British Fascists led to victory over the Nazi Egypt’s per capita ^income is ple may not know all the facts when the penalty was restored forces in the historic battle of $118 a year — half of what it War Still On in Korea? supporting abolition, a majority for a limited number of crimes Incite Violence at Stalingrad in 1942-43. Now a was at the turn of the century. has an intuitive reverence for the murder rate jumped from commander in the Kiev m ili life .” South African Throughout the Korean war, the low tour for the President, reported March 5 246 to 310. Anti-Racist Rally tary region, Chulkov was a That Negroes have particu The homicide rate in Michi commander at Stalingrad. morale of the American troops occasioned that he had found that the troops in Korea lar reason to be aroused by gan, where the penalty was ab Fascist gangs led by Sir Os Former Soviet Defense Min Miners Killed the injustices embodied in widespread discussion. Oqe firm ly estab consider their hitch there as “penitential olishe d in 1847, clo sely rese m wald Mosley provoked a series ister Marshal Georgi Zhukov, capital punishment is reveal By 'Apartheid' lished point was that the G I’s simply didn’t d u ty.” bles that of Indiana and Illinois, of fist fights in London Feb. 28 at generally credited with playing ed by the figures of last year's understand why they were in Korea or which invoke the death penalty. a mass demonstration in Trafal a major role in the defense of Negro and white unionists in “Men come to Korea with a sour at executions. Thirty-three were what they were fighting about. Wisconsin, without the death gar Square called to open a one- Stalingrad, is reportedly ignored South Africa are pressing for titude,” he said, “and remain sour.” penalty for a hundred years, has month' boycott of South African Some people had an explanation for in the Chulkov memoirs. action on the issue of mine Mr. Feldman attributed this lack of a murder rate significantly be goods. The boycott is in protest safety as a result of a recent this. After all, they said, because the war low that of Michigan, indicating against the racist “apartheid” enthusiasm to a lack of understanding Krupp “ Might” Egypt Projects disaster at the coal mine at broke out so fast, the government did not that the homicide rate is not ap policies of the rulers of that Coalbrook where more than 400 among the soldiers on why they have to have tim e to adequately state its case. A nd preciably affected by the pres co u n try. Industrial Growth Negro miners and six whites be in Korea. The average GI, he reports, Help NATO ence or absence of the death While 8,000 people partici were killed in a cave-in early it is true that President Truman did The Egyptian government has “does not understand there’s a war on.” pe n a lty. pated in the demonstration, most th is year. plunge the country into the Korean civil Alfried Krupp, Hitler’s mu projected a ten-year plan of of them from unions and Labor war on the side of dictator Rhee without This gets us back to the question of what nitions maker, is inching his bil Brutal Social Relations industrialization. New plants According to the Feb. 29 party clubs, the Mosleyites cir the war was all about in the first place. lion-dollar industrial em pire already in operation are turn Christian Science Monitor, 35,- ■even consulting Congress, let alone the Executions are part of the cled the square in cars carrying Evidently, the Pentagon never did manage back into arms production. On ing out products ranging from 000 A fric a n m in e rs ha ve been American people. His pretext was that he brutality in the relations of man banners supporting South A f killed in mine accidents during to answer that question satisfactorily. M a rch 5, K ru p p denied a n y in railway cars and industrial to man that the capitalist system rican racism. The fights broke the past fifty years. Last year, wasn’t declaring war but launching a tention of producing armaments chemicals to frozen shrimps and Besides, Feldman ought to concede has perpetuated. out as the demonstrators left 733 Negroes and 56 whites died “police action.” but said he “m ight” produce cer medical supplies. In the past that in view of the armistice signed on In 1748 solem n E n g lis h judges the square. in the mines. But though time for adequate “indoc tain m ilitary equipment for the ruled it proper to hang a boy of two years, 115 new factories June 27, 1953, the G I’s have some basis for During the 1930’s the Mosley trination” might have been lacking when North Atlantic Treaty Organiza ten as an example to other chil have been opened, says the Feb. African mine workers aré group gained international no 25 W a ll S tre e t Jo u rn a l. paid 42 cents a day. White the fighting was at its height, the govern failing to understand that “there’s a war tio n . dren. For a long period the in- on.” He would sell NATO mobile sane were treated as criminals. toriety for its virulent anti-Sem Plans include the building of miners receive an average of ment has had seven years since the shoot itism. It is now forming anti-Ne water-purification units and Some progress has been made new steelmaking facilities, an $8.40 a day. gro sentiment in England and ing stopped to explain fully why American Be all this as it may, we have a simple steel masts for setting up anten since then. Insanity is generally oil refinery, an electronic equip The white miners, employed troops remain stationed in South Korea. solution for the problem. Seven years is a nas, but guns, tanks and ammu treated as an illness. And at has played a key role in organ ment plant, a paper mill, a mainly as supervisors, have a Yet, we are now told, U.S. occupation lot of time in which to persuade the GI’s nition are “out.” Krupp, whose Vacaville, Calif., a new twenty izing white hoodlums in the Not- diesel locomotive factory and a strong union and the right to ting H ill section of London for forces in South Korea are still suffering that the U.S. is occupying South Korea Essen steel works registered a m illion dollar medical facility is fertilizer plant. strike. The Africans also are mob attacks on Negro residents The projected industrial de organized, but their union is from low morale. Louis G. Feldman, na legitimately. If it can’t be done in that record turnover, last year, of being operated on the theory more than $1 billion, spent four that certain types of criminal of the area. velopment w ill cost about ten not recognized by the govern tional commander of the Veterans of For period, why not call the whole thing off years in jail following World offender's present essentially a An editorial in the March 5 billion dollars over the next ment, and it is illegal for them eign Wars, who is on a “people to people” and bring the troops back home? W a r I I. medical problem — either phy- issue of The Newsletter, voice of decade — a huge amount in to s trik e . Letters from Our Readers t h e MILITANT age store licensees in Harlem area where I work, not only are VOLUME XXIV MONDAY, MARCH 14, 1960 N U M B E R 11 Filibuster on TV? whose licenses are threatened salesmen permitted to transfer E d ito r: with de-evaluation. At the very accounts, they are encouraged Some deodorant company best, it’s now a seething situa to do so in cases where it is Broadening Woolworth’s Education should have sponsored the Sen tion inspired by a small group felt another salesman could do ... Sitdowns ate filibuster on TV. It wouldn’t of politically minded baiters a better job. (Continued from Page 1) be as good a show as those r ig sponsored by Powell and blessed M.K. Garment Union ged tag team grappling matches by the local chapter of the NA- W isconsin from behind with a bat. In the background, another white but it would be wonderful for ACP. (The Letter understands, man is seen striking a Negro everyone to see the kind of fat however, that the 'national Sixth Commandment woman with his fist. heads we elect. NAACP is not in harmony with The newspaper caption iden D. B. the local chapter on the matter.) Should Apply to tified the bal-wielder as Sonny Hits Woolworth N e w Jersey At this point, it's a lead pipe cinch it will turn into one of Governments, Too Kyle Livingston, one of those in d ic te d in 1956 fo r th e b o m b the worst problems the New E d ito r: Don't Like the Way York market has encountered in ings of Negro churches and I am neither a defender of homes. Like the other defend Harlemites Shake years. Caryl Chessman nor his prose “Along the same lines, the ants he was acquitted and the With Picket Line cutor. According to prevailing Letter is told that a group in case remains “unsolved.” By Alex Harte The Hiring Cocktail law, Chessman is a criminal Protesting the police-con Pennsylvania is trying to stir up and subject to the death pen E d ito r: doned violence on Montgom a boycott against distillers who alty. However, I am not en MARCH 8 —* The first major New York trade-union I think readers of the Militant do not employ Negro salesmen ery’s streets, 1.000 Negroes held action in support of Southern Negro students, fighting to thusiastic about the goodness of brief prayer demonstration might be interested in an item in that state. They arc said to the law, nor the efficacy of the break the color bar at variety-store lunch counters, took which appeared in the Feb. 15 be circulating printed cards' next day on the Capitol steps. penalty. Lawmakers themselves This was followed by the Board place today w h e n 800 m e m b e rs *- issue of “Frank Kane’s Weekly throughout taverns and clubs are not too pious. of Education’s expulsion of nine of the International Ladies Letter.” This is a small periodic listing the brands to be boy I have been opposed to capi student “ringleaders” and sus Garment Workers Union staged al published for executives of cotte d .” tal punishment long before the Students Face pension of-20 others — all on noon-time picket demonstrations \ the- liquor industry. The article claims that the advent of the Chessman case. the motion of Gov. Patterson, at three midtown Woolworth The item deals with the move “behind-the-scenes power” in My opposition has moral com ip Harlem to persuade compan the boycott is “Congressman On Sunday, March 7 Negroes stores. New Charges mand and political support. The, attempted to march in protest ies to hire more Negro salesmen, Adam Clayton Powell who was Bible says: “Thou shalt not kill.” Charles Zimmerman, vice- frorh Dexter Avenue Baptist an effort which has been direct publicly discredited last week That injunction includes the president of the union and chair ed especially at the; liquor com by AFL-CIO President George Church to the Capitol, one block man of the AFL-CIO Civil In Nashville state. away, to protest the explusions. panies. Meany when he accused the The state commits murder Rights Committee, led the pic Before the scheduled time, New and more serious charges . “The situation is a real pow Congressman of ‘stirring up singly and in mass. It often ket line at the large Thirty- city police, state police, Civilian have been brought against the der keg,” says the publication, racial hatred at the slightest imprisons innocent victims and fourth Street store. Marching Defense Workers, special 146 Nashville, Tenn., students “and one that threatens to give provocation.’ ” some times executes them. with the unionists were two mounted deputies and the fire originally arrested for “dis the whole industry a king ,size This is a good indication of Crime is on the increase. In Southern Negro students, Ed department were outside the orderly conduct” because they headache. Most wholesalers do what force and impact a state carceration and the death pen ward Rodman of Portsmouth, church to prevent the an sat down at lily-white lunch not allow their salesmen to ment by Meany has upon indus alty have not checked it. The Va., and Glen Mitchell of nounced protest. In addition a counters and asked to be served. switch accounts but, if their try — provided they consider cause of evil conduct is social. Raleigh, N. C. w h ite cro w d , e stim a te d a t 10,- The new charge filed by white salesmen are boycotted, it’s the right statement. Society is the criminal. It must 000 b u t c o n ta in in g m a n y c u r i Elsewhere in the New York white-supremacist authorities they w ill have to comply in or As for the statement in the be converted into a belter osity seekers, was waiting. area, the United Auto Workers against each of the arrested der to keep the business. The article that most wholesalers order. As the Negroes emerged, led and the International Union of students' is conspiracy to violate union is also concerned over the don’t permit salesmen to switch Joseph Manlet by their preachers — Rev. R. E. University of Wisconsin students join the national move Electrical Workers, AFL-CIO, the state’s trade and commerce problem as well as white pack accounts, this is not true. In the C levelan d. Dubose and Rev. Ralph Aber ment to teach the Woolworth chain a fundamental lesson in also scheduled solidarity picket laws. Should this frame-up nathy, they were rudely shoved democracy as it relates to their lunch counters in the South. lines. And the Brooklyn Labor succeed, the students could be back by police and deputies. These students carried placards at the five-and-dime store and Industry Committee of the sentenced to an additional yeat- Three fire hoses, at the ready, •in Madison, Feb. 27. A total of 200 participated during the NAACP has slated a demonstra in prison and $1,000 fine. You and the FBI were aimed in their direction. afternoon. Most of them were members of the Wisconsin So tion at a Woolworth store in The charges based on state Police pretended not to see cialist Club, the Student Peace Center and the campus chapter downtown Brooklyn and is urg law piled unexpectedly upon as white racists tried to pro of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored ing unions in the area to lend charges of violating city or dinances came a few days [The Emergency Civil Liberties Committee Unfortunately, at the present time many voke the Negroes by minor acts People. They distributed 5,000 leaflets urging the public to their support to the action. after Nashville's mayor had recently reissued its statement on the rights of FBI inquiries appear to be concerned with po of violence. Finally, the 2,000 support the fight against racism at lunch counters in America. Denver Picket Line set up an interracial concilia individuals in relation to the FBI. We print it litical associations rather than with obtaining Negroes were forced back into the church and police dispersed tion committee, and attorneys again for the 'information of our readers. — facts for constructive purposes of criminal in a protest march by Negro stu groes in the latter city have Meanwhile, student demon their own cohorts — the white for the arrested students had E d ito r.] vestigation. The very nature of political inquiries dents at Allen and Benedict been arrested under the state’s strations of solidarity are con mob. The only person arrested publicly urged that sit-downs The Emergency Civil Liberties Committee means that rnany of the questions w ill be of the Colleges was followed by a new anti-trespass law which tinuing to spread across the was a news photographer. be suspended pending the has received many letters and telephone calls sort which no citizen is, or should be, required night of racist terror. Carloads sets penalties up to a year’s im country. One of the most en Alabama State college stu committee's actions. from people who have been visited by agents to answer. The protections afforded to you by of whites drove through the prisonment and $1,000 fine. Sit- couraging took place at a dents have threatened a general In addition to the rearrest on of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. These the B ill of Rights as interpreted by the Supreme streets throwing rocks and downers in Winston-Salem, N. Woolworth’s in Denver last Sat campus strike or an exodus “conspiracy” charges of the people indicated confusion about their obliga C o u rt in re ce n t as w e ll as e a rlie r decisions are bottles at Negro pedestrians. C., resuming their campaign urday where unionists joined in from the institution in support students who participated in the tions to their government and about their rights as available to you in such an interview as as seven stores reopened their the picket line. of the expelled leaders. Negro Students organized all-night sit-down at McClellan’s lunch as citizens. they would be in open court or before a Con lunch counters, were served in organizations have promised to patrols for the two campuses, It was the first civil-rights counter, four police sergeants Since we believe that the average person gressional body. If you have any doubts as to one — a large hardware-appli- furnish those expelled with and at 4:30 a.m. a patrol sur picketing to take place in that invaded the First Baptist as a rule does not know his duties or his rights the FBI’s questions you may refuse to answer ance store. In Salisbury, N. C., scholarships at other colleges. prised a racist band which had city in a number of years. One of Church and seized Rev. James concerning FBI interrogation, we offer this gen until your attorney has been consulted, or you Livingstone College students Following sit-downs by stu set up two fiery crosses on the the participants a Negro mem Lawson. The young Negro min eral information for those to whom it may be may insist on having your attorney present dur Allen campus and had already were served when they sat ber of the United Packinghouse ister earlier revealed to the dents from Texas Southern down at three downstown drug h e lp fu l. ing the interview. You may also ask to have the ignited one. The Negro stu Workers declared: “We will press that he had advised stu University in Houston, racists store counters. You may feel, as many people do, that you questions put in writing. kidnaped a Negro at random, dents chased their tormentors continue to picket and boycott dents about passive resistance have a moral obligation as a citizen to supply In determining your responsibility to an took him to a wooded area, to a drive-in restaurant a block And in Oklahoma City where these outfits as long as they tactics. This news quickly any governmental agency with all of the facts swer questions, remember that there are no off- hung him from a tree by his aw ay. sit-downs a year ago made profit from their ruthless dual brought about his expulsion which would be helpful in a given situation, the-record conversations with the FBI. The heels and carved two sets of In S um te r, S. C., and P e te rs news, Negro students won their policy toward Northern and from Vanderbilt University provided that neither your rights nor those of agent in question is under a duty to make some KKK's on his chest and burg, Virginia, the sit-downs fifty-fifth victory as the Hotel Southern customers.” s which has token integration. others are being violated. It is even possible that report of his interrogation or interview. He stom ach. have taken place in white-only Roberts restaurants surrendered He also pointed out that the His expulsion brought a pro the inquiry concerns the application for govern may, possibly, be recording the conversation In Columbia, South Carolina, public libraries. Eleven Ne to the Twentieth Century. Woolworth and Kress stores in test picket line by white di ment employment of someone with whom you without your knowledge. Be most careful to be the area just recently began h ir vinity school classmates around the university's administration are acquainted. accurate. For the obvious reasons of civic duty ing Negro sales clerks after the However, you frequently do not know the morality and personal safety, do not answer passage of a fair-employment- building. Sixteen members of the divinity school faculty purpose of the inquiry, and the inquirer w ill questions if you do not have personal knowledge practices law. ... Negro Labor Council quickly chipped in the $500 rarely tell you in advance. Therefore, it is im of the facts. False statements, although made A Negro woman, fifty-four needed for bail when they heard portant for you to know that you are under no orally and not under oath, may be the basis for 4 controversy at the founding cated to the fight for equal years old and in ill health, (Continued from Page 1) of Lawson’s arrest on the con legal obligation to talk to representatives of the a criminal prosecution. rights for all union members. convention. picketed for five hours despite spiracy charge. FBI or of any other governmental agency, un Finally, the use of investigative power by completely into the affairs of his The union bureaucrats are a Considerable dissatisfaction the cold, even refusing to take Two white girls arrested in less you have been subpoenaed. The FBI, un-'. governmental agencies to intim idate or threaten community; to acquaint him transmission mechanism for has already been expressed at a coffee break. “I want to the sit-down were called as w it like courts and grand juries, does not have the is expressly forbidden by law. We suggest that with the political and legisla carrying into the labor move the report that membership w ill fight for Negro youth so they nesses by the prosecution power of subpoena and of compulsory examina you report any attempt at intimidation to the tive issues dealing with labor ment the most poisonous as be confined to Negro trade can live a happier life than I against other arrested students. and civil rights and with the pects of a decomposing capi tion. You may decline an invitation to visit FBI Emergency Civil Liberties Committee. unionists affiliated to the AFL- have,” she said. They refused to testify, repeat agents or to receive them in your home or record of his legislators, local, talist society. The fight to end [The ECLC is located at 421 Seventh Ave., CIO, thus excluding many edly invoking the Fifth and state and federal; and to ad segregation and discrimination Boulder, Colo. offiee. New York 1, N. Y.] thousands now members of in Fourteenth Amendments to the vance the cause of workers in in the unions because of skin dependent unions. On Monday in Boulder, about U. S. C o n s titu tio n . other countries, especially the color is part of the larger In his speech to the NAACP forty University of Colorado emerging nations. convention projecting the idea struggle to banish Jim Crow students joined the protest “The Negro American Labor A Good Question of “a National Labor Commit from American society. movement with demonstrations Notes in the News Council seeks a strong, m ilitant The organized labor move Author Harry Golden asks, tee,” Randolph contended that at the local Woolworth and trade union movement dedi “Why do we insist the only way “the members of this commit ment can and must become the Kress stores. The marchers car cated to the democratic welfare tee- sho uld come o n ly fro m the champion of the fight for we can prevent hunger is to TOO SICK TO SUIT BLUE CROSS — A it was take n ove r in 1952 b y R ussell M a g u ire , a ried signs reading: “We will of all members regardless of Negro members of the national equality. It is not only a matter prevent people?” subscriber to the New York Associated Hospi wealthy industrialist. Before the war, Maguire walk until they can sit,” “Jim race, creed or color. and international unions of the of elementary social justice but tal Service (Blue Cross) recently was stricken operated a Wall Street investment firm which Crow must go” and “Equal It will seek to work closely AFL-CIO.” (Text of speech of self-preservation. with a heart attack while traveling. His condi was dissolved after the government charged rights for black and white.” with the trade union movement printed in The Black Worker, tion was so critical that the doctor ordered illegal manipulation of stocks. In the past four Role NALC Can Play and other established organiza A ug u st, 1959.) Philadelphia Calendar that he not be moved to a hospital. Instead his months, three printing concerns have refused So long as the employing class tions similarly interested in a Later, an editorial statement hotel room was furnished with all the equip is able to keep the workers In Philadelphia, the Youth one after another to go on printing the maga consideration of the problems on the Negro American Labor divided along the lines of race, Committee Against Segregation ment of a hospital room, including an oxygen zine after turning out one or two issues. faced by Negro workers, but Council, published in the De • • • color or creed, the vitality of staged three successful picket- Of Events tent. The bills ran to thousands of dollars which independent of the control and cember issue of The Black the union movement is sapped lines last week, winning wide he turned over to Blue Cross for payment. He 'OBSESSED' — The shipment of a dozen domination of any union or Worker, asserted: was told that since he did not go to a hospital segment of the labor move and its very existence placed in support in the Negro com jet fighter planes to Ethiopia, “a country 98 per “The Negro American Labor N E W Y O R K ment or other organization.” je o p a rd y. munity. Two picket captains he could get no money from Blue Cross. cent illiterate,” was scored by Supreme Court Council is pro-AFL-CIO and pro "Puerto Rican Freedom — * • * The establishment of a na Far from being a divisive were arrested during one de Justice William Douglas in a Minneapolis the leaders of the AFL-CIO.” Which Road?" — A symposium force the N A L C can serve as monstration but were released POLLUTED — President Eisenhower re speech. “We matye a $50 million investment in tional council to light all Jim discussion. Participants, Ruth Crow manifestations in the a unifying factor capable of after the American Civil Lib cently vetoed a measure to aid in combatting airplanes,” he said, “and they watch these 1 The "Communist" Issue Reynolds, Fellowship of Recon labor movement is enthusi transforming the union move erties Union entered the case. widespread pollution of water supplies. The St. things from their miserable mud huts.” The ciliation and participant in Whether these statements in ment into an effective instru Paul department of health reported last month Justice feels that “We are obsessed with the astically supported by Negro Picket-line actions by stu Puerto Rican independence dicate a firm policy commitment ment of struggle for the rights that tests of wells in the city’s suburban areas notion we can fight communism with planes, trade union militants who dents were also reported sched m ovem ent. Richard L e v in , by the Randolph group to nar and interests of all workers. had turned up nitrate contamination in 37 to tanks and bombs.” favor the broadest participa uled for last week in Boston, graduate student, University of • * * row the base of the NALC is It can play this role only to 83 p e r cent o f those sam pled. tion without regard to affilia Chicago and the San Francisco Puerto Rico. Richard Garza, * * * not yet clear. The convention the extent that it disavows the LIKE POVERTY, FOR INSTANCE — A tion or political belief. The. area. A demonstration was also New York Organizer, Socialist announcement, although am policy of bureaucratic sub WHO'S PREJUDICED? — A New York craving for milk may mean disappointment in attempt to impose "loyalty held last week by students at Workers party. Friday, March biguous on this score, implies a servience to the ideology and State Senate committee reported March 3 that love or other threats toward theindividual’s tests" as a co n d itio n o f m em Smith College in Northampton, 18, 8:30 p.m. Ausp. Militant shift in position when it af interests of the employing it had found “a vast amount of discrimination” sense of security, reports the Minnesota State bership can provoke heated Mass. Labor Forum, 116 University firm s: class. against Negroes in private housing throughout Medical Association. Place. C o n trib . 50 cents. « » * “NALC will seek to enlist as The founding convention of the state. One of the towns cited as particularly # * * members all Negro trade union the Negro American Labor Not Fit For a Dog bad in this respect was Freeport. The charge AUTOMATED EMBEZZLEMENT — The On March 25 t he Militant ...SWP Ticket ists and wage earners other Council w ill be an historic land of bias was heatedly denied by Village Clerk New York office of Walston and Co., one of A pack of bloodhounds at a Labor Forum w ill sponsor a lec than those who arc members mark in American labor history. Robert Doxse who termed it “ridiculous” and the ten biggest brokerage houses in the coun (Continued from Page I) Georgia county prison dug un ture by the noted economist, Dr. of the communist party. Mem The convention announcement recalled that one of his co-workers had recently try, discovered recently that Frank B. Haderer, der the fence and escaped. The Otto Nathan, on "Karl Marx and people dissatisfied V ith policies bers w ill be accepted as in states: “A. Philip Randolph, sold his home to “a high-class colored fam ily.” manager of the company’s complex IBM elec prisoners were sent out to catch Contemporary American Capi under the two-party system. It dividuals and not as representa president of the Brotherhood of • • m tronic bookkeeping system, had seemingly them . ta lis m ." also expresses the ever-growing tives of their respective unions.” Sleeping Car Porters, AFL-CIO PORTLAND, OREGON OR PORTLAND, diverted company funds his way for the last determination of the Negro peo It ill behooves a persecuted vice president and temporary MAINE? — If your mail is even later than eight years. A ll told he allegedly took $270,000. ple to do away with Jim Crow.” minority engaged in the laud chairman of the Negro Ameri usual it. may be due to a new speed-up system One of Walston’s twenty-four vice-presidents, In his conclusion, Dobbs able project of forming an or can Labor Council, has been being introduced in post offices. Under the sys Haderer, “would punch cards to show a small stated: “We shall appeal to all ganization to fight for equality appointed chairman of the Local Directory withdrawal, perhaps $2,000, from the company’s tem, postal clerks are expected to check 2,340 people who believe in socialism to begin by imposing discrim founding convention.” It then pieces of mail an hour for city or state ad vast interest accounts” and would deposit the —even if they do not agree with inatory restrictions because of adds: BOSTON NEWARK same amount into his two personal accounts, dresses, plus proper postage and cancellation. our program in every respect— affiliation or political belief. “Additional information re Boston Labor For»m, 295 Hunting Newark Labor Forum, Box 361. Spokesmen for the National Federation of Post reported the March 3 New York Times. Assist to join us in publicizing the Some Negro militants, dis garding the convention, regis ton Ave., Room 200. Newark, N.J. Office Clerks say the new work system will ant District Attorney Jerome Kidder said he socialist alternative to war, turbed by the implications of a tration, due, fees, housing, etc. CHICAGO NEW YORK CITY increase the percentage of errors by clerks. had difficulty preparing charges. “When books union-busting, economic inse restrictive policy, explain that will be published in a forth Socialist Workers Party, 777 W. Militant Labor Forum, 116 Unlvar» • * • sity Place, AL 5-7852. and records are manipulated,” he said, “it’s curity and Jim Crow. the Randolph group is impelled coming issue of The Black Adams, DE 2-9736. YOU GOT TO FOOL US BETTER THAN possible to identify handwriting and to locate “We are confident that many to make concessions to the hos CLEVELAND OAKLAND - BERKELEY W o rk e r." Socialist Workers Party 10609 Su P.O. Box 341, Berkeley 1, Calif. THAT — Sherril Taylor, a Chicago advertising inaccurate entries. But when electronic mach of them w ill campaign actively tile pressure of the union tops, Enquiries can be addressed to: perior Ave., Room 301, SW 1-1818. PHILADELPHIA ines are used, it’s sometimes hard to tell who executive says that “too many people in the for the SWP ticket.” to ward off the charge of “red The B la c k W o rk e r, 217 W est Open Thursday nights 8 to 10. Militant Labor Forum and Socialist advertising business think they are advertising pushed the button.” Farrell Dobbs and Myra Tan infiltration” and “dual union 125th St., N e w Y o rk 27, N. Y. DETROIT Workers Party, 1303 W. Girard Ave. • * « to a bunch of fools.” He said they should realize ner Weiss were the SWP ban ism .” Eugene V. Debs Hall, 3737 Wood Lectures and discussions every Satur TV and radio audiences “are intelligent and PENNY SHORTAGE — Although some 24 ne r bearers in the 1956 elections. But this road is strewn with Buy Now, Regret Later ward. TEmple 1-6135. day, 8 P.M., followed by open hou»«. aren’t easily hoodwinked.” billion pennies are in circulation, the federal D obbs is 52. In the 1930’s he the skeletons of lost causes. The LOS ANGELES Call PO 3-5820. » * * mint is working overtime to make up a severe was a leader of teamsters’ NALC can prosper and become Bank credit plans for retail Forum Hall and Modern Book Shop. SAN FRANCISCO TOUGH SLEDDING FOR ANTI-SEMITIC shortage of the coppers. The federal reserve strikes in Minneapolis that effective only to the extent that buying are being widely pro 1702 E. 4th St. AN 9->953 or WE 5- The Militant, 1145 Polk St., Rm. 4« moted around the country. One 9238. Sat. 11 A.M. to 3 P.M. 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Principal cause of the cannery workers on the West that were not so there would be pulse” buying since there is no Socialist Workers Party. 322 H en brary, bookstore. level and liberal stand on social issues, the shortage is the sales tax now in effect m 35 Coast, and later was organizer no reason for the formation of need to' arrange credit lerms fol nepin Ave., 2nd floor. Oper noon to ST. L O U IS magazine became virulently anti-Semitic when states and the District of Columbia. of- the SWP local in Los Angeles. a separate organization- dedi caci! purchase. 6 P.M. daily except 3undeys. For Information phone MO 4-7194*