Workers of the World, Unite ! CIO Convention Pledges Fight T H E On Wage Freeze PUBLISHED WEEKLYMILITANT IN THE INTERESTS OF THE WORKING PEOPLE NEW YORK, Nov. 8 — A fter listening politely to V ol. X V - No. 46 207 NEW YORK, N. Y., MONDAY, NOVEMBER, 12, 1951 PRICE: FIVE CENTS speeches by the top mobilization officials the Thirteenth Constitutional Convention of the CIO bitterly assailed the mobilization set-up and resolved 71------;------that “we shall neveT submit to discriminatory wage freezes or CIO Convention unfair policies of any other kind which will threaten the standard Hits Smith Act of living and the hard-won col­ The 13th CIO Convention lective bargaining advances of unanimously condemned the People Oppose free American labor. . Smith and McCarran Acts in The outspoken attacks of all a resolution on Civil Liberties the CIO leaders on the policies and Internal Security. The of the Wage Stabilization Board Resolution stated: “ The Su­ were the opening barrage in the preme Court’s decision uphold­ campaign of the CIO Steelwork­ ing the conviction of the Com­ ers union for “substantial wage munist leaders was a grave increases” in the coming negotia­ blow to America’s precious War in Korea, tions with the steel magnates. heritage of freedom of speech.” The resolution asked that Con­ WSB RUN-AROUND Speaker after speaker gave gress review and tevise all glimpses of the run-around and “security” legislation with the •general trimming the labor move­ objective of giving “full pro­ ment is getting on wages, prices tection to the civil rights of all persons, recognizing that and taxes. Emil Rieve, President freedom of speech is the Poll Shows of the Textile Workers Union and a labor member of the Wage foundation stone of democracy. Stabilization Board, described the Rovisions of existing law which reconstituted 18 member WSB as permit prosecution on the functioning “in a sort of way basis of speech or advocacy alone should be stricken out.” OLD FORTIES SLIPPING, 5 6 % Agree now." He told how he and the other labor members “ often times must vote — when we don’t want interfere with the collective to — to cut down wage increases bargaining process. Since the HOLLEY VICTORY PROVES War 1Usele won by unions in negotiations, role of the WSB is to chop down like in the case of the NMU. But gains' won by unions in strikes or NEW YORK, Nov. 7 — The notion that a third party we voted for it because they negotiations this “ guarantee” was “ doesn’t have a chance’’ was given a stunning blow in Gallup Finds Would have got less otherwise. . .” meaningless. yesterday’s election when Rudolph Halley, running on the In an attempt to ju stify participa­ Every protest by CIO leaders Liberal, Independent and- Fusion®' Ever since Truman launch­ tion in the Big Business dominat­ against the mobilization set - up ed his unauthorized war in was prefaced by breast - beating tickets, was elected President of ed mobilization set-up, Rieve con­ the New York City Council with Korea sixteen months ago, tinued, “ A lot of people say declarations of support to the government’s program for war. a margin of more than 160,000 1,922 More The M ilitant has insisted the maybe we ought to take another decisive m ajority of the American walk out of the WSB. I don’t The speeches of the many govern­ votes. ment officials addressing the con­ Despite repeated reports of people are opposed to this war know if that is such a good idea. Halley is a Democrat himself, “ slowed - down” fighting in vention started from the same and, if afforded a national Even if we go out of the WSB and shares the outlook of other Korea, U.S. casualties went referendum, would vote over­ the law doesn’t go out of premise and drew the logical con­ clusion, namely, if you support capitalist politicians. But because up 1,922 last week, bringing whelmingly against it. Every existence.” His alternative was the overall total to 97,514, public poll since Korea has con­ staying in since “ there is noth­ the war program you must he could not get the Republican sacrifice wage demands, you must the Defense Department has firmed how unpopular this war ing we can do except protest.” or Democratic nominations, he announced. has been. New confirmation comes Joseph Beirnc, President of the use “self-restraint and self-con­ trol.” The tone of the whole con­ made the most out of masquerad­ This total includes almost from the Gallup Poll survey re­ CIO Telephone Workers referred ing as an “ independent.” This leased on Nov. 4 which discloses to graveyard of grievances that vention was as flag-waving as an Strike Breakers Gang Up 15,000 killed, more than 12,000 American Legion conclave. (See pretense, together with the missing, and 70,000 wounded. that a decisive m ajority regards the WSB and its regional offices the war in Korea as an “ utterly are becoming. Said he, “ We have editorial on page 3.) “ gang - buster” reputation he It does not include about 75,- 000 serious “ non-battle” cas­ useless war.”* today over 10,000 cases tied up, ASKS DEEDS NOT WORDS acquired as Kefauver Committee ualties, such as frostbite am­ The question asked was: “ A 10,000 cases where we know and A strong C ivil Rights Resolu­ O n N .y. Dock Workers counsel, was enough fo r him to putations, etc. U.S. Senator says that the we feel . . . the keen desires of tion was passed. I t called fo r a State Industrial Commissioner beat the candidates of the major Korean war is an ‘utterly useless the workers whose wages are Federal FEPC, an anti-lynch law, By Frank Faber Each day has seen another Stop the slaughter! Bring has appointed a fact-finding board war.’ Do you agree or disagree held up, and wanting those wages, an end of poll taxes and federal NEW YORK, Nov. 7 — The demonstration of the strikers’ in­ parties. the troops home now! to investigate and settle the w ith this?” (The unnamed wanting some relief . . . we have and state C ivil Rights Laws. In name of Anastasia has loomed genuity in devising and utilizing Michael Bartell, Socialist Work­ dispute. In testimony before the Senator was Taft, Ohio Repub­ found a c^esire on the part of discussing the resolution Willard large in the longshore strike new means of struggle. Yester­ ers Party candidate, summed up lican. See article on Page 2.) others connected w ith the wage Townsend, head of the Transport which has kept the port of New day, fo r example, the strikers panel, Ryan was forced to admit the results in a short statement that no signed agreement existed are the far-sighted voters, for stabilization program who haVe Service Workers, said- the labor York tied up for almost one chartered the motor launch over Station WNYC last night, Of those questioned, 56% between the union and employers. you repre&tmt fhe socialist future. a keen delight in dragging their movement had frequently “ given month. The name has become a Helen, equipped it with a loud shortly after Halley’s victory agreed as against 33% who The rebels are demanding that a “ I urge you not to lim it your­ feet so that months and months a nod to a resolution that says symbol of the forces involved in speaker and used It as a picket was announced. Bartell said: disagreed, a m ajority of almost new agreement be negotiated, self to, voting for socialism. go by and no re|ief is given to that the black brother should be this struggle. Anthony and Gerry boat to cover the waterside sec­ two to one,, and 11% expressed charging that the vote to accept A PROTEST VOTE Follow through! The - fight for those workers whose cases are treated on an equal basis.” But Anastasia, brothers of Albert, tions of struck piers. The N. Y. no opinion. The meaning of these the Ryan agreement was fraud­ socialism does not end on election before us.” how were these courageous words trigger-man for Murder Incor­ World Telegram reports: “A “ Rudolph Halley’s victory answers is beyond dispute. Most ulent. Dr. Martin C. Catherwood, day, it goes on 365 days a year. Indicating the heat that angry translated into actions when con­ porated, typify yie waterfront police launch, the Lt. Ronaghan, demonstrates that the voters of Americans see no purpose what­ chairman of the fact - finding Those who want to join with us union members have been putting crete discrimination situations hooligans pushed forward by followed in the Helen’s wake to New York are fed up with the ever in this war; they are against see that the public address sys­ panel, echoed Ryan and his two old parties and want a in the fight for socialism or learn it and they want i t ended. on the labor representatives of arose, Townsend asked. He said King Joe Ryan to spearhead his more about our program are back-to-work strikebreaking ac­ tems were not used.” Depend on gangsters by “stressing that the change. They voted for Halley, Gallup himself notes that his the WSB, Beirne continued: “ But that his investigation of the cordially invited to come to our the cops to come to the support element of first importance in the just as they did for Impellitteri “ surveys have for many months don’t stop your pressure at. our Cicero rio t showed that union tivities. headquarters at 116 University The name of Anastasia, and of the Anastasias! board’s function was getting the a year ago, as a protest against found the Korean wrar unpopular office. We are with you before members were among the rioters Place. I should be very happy to Meanwhile, Edward Corsi', N. Y. men back to work.” the triple alliance of the poli­ with the American people.” Un­ you even begin to pressure us. and that local CIO leaders did others of like kidney whd com­ speak with you about our ideas ticians, the underworld and the questionably, this is the most But level .your pressure against not speak out against the Jim prise the core of the Ryan ma­ and activities.” the public members on the Crow mob. The Negro trade chine, once had an intimidating monied interests. That is the unpopular war in U.S. history. regional boards and the National union leader concluded: “ And so effect upon the dock workers. But significance of the outcome of BREAKDOWN OF VOTE The propaganda barrage design­ this election. Board. Don’t hesitate to send today, my friends, let’s not sup­ no more. The rebel longshoremen Supreme Court Rules Bail in Halley got 657,000 votes. He ed to fool the people into them telegrams, don’t hesitate to port this resolution because wc have taken the offensive against “ Unfortunately, experience w ill was supported by the Social believing that it is somehow send them the rather direct let­ think it is a charitable thing to Ryan’s hoodlums and carried the soon demonstrate that Halley’s Democratic leaders of the In ­ necessary and advantageous has ters you send to us. . do. Let’s support this resolution fight into their strongholds. Smith A rt Case Is Excessive victory w ill result in no change ternational Ladies Garment failed. Nathan Feinsinger, Wage Sta­ because to *us it means the Neither the hoodlums, nor the whatever, for Halley is a Workers Union and elements like Truman knows this, so does the bilization Chairman, closed his salvation of America and the yellow press, nor Truman and his The U.S. Supreme Court tipped its hat last week Democrat, essentially no d if­ Democratic wardheeler Robert Pentagon, so do all the other Big speech, (which delegates describ­ salvation of a democratic world.” shotgun mediators, have been ferent from any other Democrat. in recognition of the growing popular dissatisfaction with Blaikie and Republican Newbold Business politicians. They all ed privately as an attempt to do A separate resolution Was able to intimidate the strikers I predict that crime and edrrup- Morris. He was endorsed by the know that the continuation of a "snow job” on the convention), passed condemning racial dis­ into returning to work without the witch hunt and the Court’s own endorsement of the tion will remain; the anti - labor N. Y. Times and Daily News. this war is directly contrary to with the hollow promise that his crimination in the Panama Cana] a settlement of their grievances. policies, of the city administration Smith Act. Tammany candidate Josep}i T. the wishes of the people. pal, “ Phil” (Murray) could go Zone which is based on the On the contrary, the rebels FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover — as demonstrated in the sanita­ In a unanimous decision written Sharkey got 494,000 votes. He This war which is opposed by into negotiations with the steel federal government’s pay dif­ have solidified their ranks and both appealed to the Supreme tion workers’ fight and the long­ by Chief Justice Vinson, the had the formal support of most the m ajority of the people can corporations with the knowledge ferentials fo r white and colored perfected their organization in Court to reverse the Circuit shore strike — will continue; the Court ruled on Nov. 5 that the of the A F L and CIO leaders, and be stopped. It must be stopped. that the W'SB would in no way workers doing the same jobs. the very heat of the struggle. federal district court in Southern Court. Otherwise, they claimed, 3% sales tax w ill continue, and The way to do it is by demanding the whole “loyalty” purge might the subway fare w ill go up; the endorsement of Sen. Lehman California should, reconsider mo­ and Rep. F. D. Roosevelt Jr., that the w ill of the people shall be disrupted and other federal police brutality against the Negro tions for a reduction in bail of both of whom were elected with prevail. This means to demand law enforcement activities might and Puerto Rican people w ill 12 persons arrested under the Liberal Party support. a nationwide referendum which be “ seriously hampered.” Hoover continue. Smith Act and held in the ex­ Henry Latham of the GOP got would permit the people to decide. even said “ the public” would be “ I want to congratulate the orbitant bail of $50,000 each. 436,000 votes. What. better way is there of SAM ADAMS AND THE “ frightened” and stop bringing thousands of voters who saw showing what the American -peo­ COURT SKIRTS ISSUE “ information” to the F B I fo r fear through the demagogy of Halley’s C lifford T. McAvoy of the ple really want done about Vinson’s decision skirted around of prosecution. ‘Fearless Fosdick’ routine, and American Labor Party got 104,- Korea? Those who oppose this the issue of whether the bail in But while Hoover may have to voted against A LL employer- 000 votes. (Last year, when the demand fo r a referendum flo ut AMERICAN REVOLUTION this case was exorbitant. All it move a little more cautiously, the dominated politicians for a real total vote was higher, the ALP the w ill and wishes of the ma­ ruled was that the government Court has refused so fa r to in­ change, a fundamental social candidate fo r mayor got 149,000.) jo rity who want THE U.S. had not proved the need fo r 6uch terfere with the “loyalty” purge change, for a labor administra­ Bartell’s vote w ill not be TROOPS BROUGHT HOME By Harry Frankel high bail. Under this ruling the itself. tion and a socialist society. You tabulated until next .week. FROM KOREA! government can either agree to desertions, etc., still presents a remarkable pic­ have the bail reduced, or it can 1. The Army of the People ture. Today, when the m ilitarists have to drag s till try to concoct “ proof” of On the night of April 18, 1776, a small detach­ the reluctant draftees practically one by one to the need for high bail. ment of British troops moved out of Boston up the slaughter, it is well to recall that at one time The Court’s ruling in this case towards Lexington, where they hoped to capture in our past, a large percentage of the population only touches the fringes of the UMT Plan Would Regiment Youth the radical leader Samuel Adams. He was re­ mobilized itself for war, not because the law said issues in the witch hunt. It does ported to be nearby, preparing, together with so, but in spite of the law and in defiance of not seriously affect the main By Thomas Raymond fathers, who had a chance to cut standing may be called up to as usual, to enrich arms mag­ John Hancock, another prominent rebel, to set the law. trend toward thought control The latest step in the campaign all ties with the armed forces fight, not just once, but several nates, clothing and building con­ out for the second meeting of the Continental which was reinforced by the to turn this country into an when discharged from active times, during- the 7% years after tractors, food monopolies, and an Congress, in Philadelphia. The Revolutionary Process Court’s own decision last spring armed camp along Prussian m ili­ duty, the UMT graduates of the training. array of sundry grafters. Within hours, the giant blaze of a revolution­ When people defy the law in order to fight, when it declared the Smith Act tarist lines is the plan for future will always remain part College students may defer Meanwhile, as the war-like ary mobilization swept through the cities and society is being turned inside out. I t is a sure constitutional. This act enables Universal Military Training sub­ of the country’s m ilitary reserve, their Reserve obligation until ardor of the Pentagon and Con­ countryside of New England. Adams and Han­ sign that a revolutionary process is capsizing the the government to hound and mitted to Congress by the Na­ :f Congress passes the plan now after completing their college gress increases, that of the youth cock went on to the Congress. The detachment of ship of state, overturning all the old social and terrorize everyone, who “ ad­ tional Security Training Commis­ presented.” courses only if they are in some decreases. Time magazine, in a British troops was driven back into Boston, and political relations, and bringing a new order of vocates” minority political views. sion. This Commission was In other words, young men in field Which w ill be useful to the recent survey of the “Younger the British army encamped there found itself things into being. In another decision on Nov. 6, created by Congress last June the coming period w ill lose con­ war machine, such as pre-medical Generation,” found this response besieged by a people's m ilitia of 20,000 armed The Revolutionary War of 1775-1781 was the the Court refused to override a when it approved UMT in prin­ trol of their personal lives and or some science courses. But a to questions about the army: workingmen and farmers. result of just such a revolutionary process. I t is' lower court ruling that informers ciple and turned the job of be unable to plan for the future college student who does this “ Hardly anyone wants to go into This powerful body of troops was something the purpose of these articles to describe the revo­ who “maliciously” give false in­ working out details to a commit­ without the constant fear of has his m ilitary servic€ hanging the Army; there is little enthu­ new under the sun. I t was neither hired nor con­ lution in America of a century and three quarters formation to the FBI may be tee composed mainly of brass having their plans interrupted by over his head from the age of 18 siasm fo r m ilitary life, no enthu­ scripted, but entirely volunteer. It was not rais­ ago, and to attempt to draw lessons which w ill sued for libel. hats. The report w ill be acted on a call back to the Army. This until he is at least 30. siasm fo r war. Youngsters do not ed by law; it was organized ip defiance of all be helpful in the present period of social change. Cecil E. Foltz Jr. had Sued the in the next session of Congress. typical feature of Prussian-type talk like heroes; they admit existing laws. It was staffed and officered, not That which‘historians generally call the “ Amer­ Moore - McCormack Lines for The plan provides for the militarism is to become part of W ILL COST BILLIONS freely that they will try to stay by royalty, nor by professional militarists, but ican Revolution” (or sometimes “ The War of $3-50,000 damages because he had registration of all youths at the the daily life of Americans. UMT w ill cost $4 billions for out of the draft as long, as they by farmers, printers, blacksmiths, doctors, tailors, Independence” ) was really the last stage of the been fired from the Economic age of 18, and for their induction the first year and $2 billions for can.” revolution: a revolutionary war against reaction­ barbers and others elected to their commissions Cooperation Administration in into the armed forces fo r train­ SUBJECT TO CALL every year after that, calculated Time reports the words of a ary ruling classes and foreign oppression. The de­ by the ranks. 1949 after the steamship com­ ing at the age of 18%. Following The Ready Reserve, into which on the basis of 800,000 trainees Korea battle veteran: “For 15 cisive stages of the revolution came before this This New England army of the people was soon pany gave the FB I a “ false, training, youths become members all youths must go after train­ a year, according to Pentagon months, the guys have been war. Why historians make this confusion is a joined by other plebeian armies throughout the misleading and defamatory” re­ of the Ready Reserve fo r 7% ing, is subject to call at all figures. This means that a sum running up and down these very interesting matter. nation. The common people of America organized port about his activities during years, after which they go into times, not only in event of war. ranging from $5,000 .to $2,500 w ill mountains getting their fannies A revolution is the process whereby the mass themselves into m ilitary units, armed themselves, the time he had worked fo r it. the Retired Reserve. They remain This means that even if there is be spent on each youth. The fu ll of lead. And what have we of the people transfer their allegiance to a new and challenged the m ilitary might of Imperial The Circuit Court of Appeals subject to call fo r battle service ■no declared war, but only a young men, however, w ill see proved? I got news for you, social and political order, which they have built - Britain. ruled that he might sue if he at all times. series of Korea - style “ police- very little of this money: $180 Mister; the next time this boy The revolutionary army of 1776-1781, with all within the shell of the old. This is very often could prove “ malice.” Thus, as U.S. News and World action,” young men who are try­ in pay fo r the six months, to be fights to defend anybody’s coun­ of its imperfections, discontent in the ranks. (Continued on Page 3) The Department of Justice and Report summarizes, “ Unlike their ing to establish families or job­ exact. The bulk of it w ill go, try, i t ’ll damn well be his own,” Page Two THE MILITANT Monday, November 12,1951 Notebook of an Agitator 4 Report From London on British Flection FROM HOLLYWOOD TO ROME By T. Burns were truly magnificent — back­ course, new to the history of in­ left policy would have won the Labor. When the workers through LONDON, Nov. 1 — The elec­ ward workers mustered in their ternational social democracy. In election. their unions are forced fo defend Taking advantage of what is left of my rights, istic, and yet compassionate play. I wondered thousands, some who could 1945 Labor was given a huge themselves against Tory attack, tion is over and “ the rats are WHAT NEXT FOR TORIES? I hereby serve notice of intention to join in the what Hollywood would do with it, and made back.” That just about sums up neither read nor write, explain­ Parliamentary majority because we can expect Big Business to do public discussions stirred up by President Tru­ arrangements of my time in advance to go and the attitude of rank and file ing to Labor supporters at the the middle class joined with the Big Business is not yet in a everything possible to inflame the position to begin a frontal attack, man’s decision to send a United States ambassador see for myself. Labor people to the Tory victory. polling booth that they wanted workers and voted the Tory down. middle class against the workers, on the working class. Its most to the Vatican. And if you expect me to be calm I am happy to x-eport that Hollywood didn’t It is fu ll of bitterness, but not to vote for “ the Labor.” But the reformist program of the by blaming organized labor for and politely restrained in my utterances, you’re foul up this job. The picture fa ithfully follows pessimism. This great labor Nevertheless, in spite of this Labor Party was totally inade­ important job at the moment is their plight. That is where the to find ways and means to disrupt in fo r a disappointment. I was burned up about the stage play and brings all its characters to life movement with almost fourteen wonderful demonstration, the un­ quate to hold them, and by the fascists come in, and it was n» the encroachments of authoritarian clericalism as the author conceived them. For this we owe million supporters is in a fighting pleasant fact remains that the early part of 1949 large numbers the labor movement and demor­ accident that election activity in alize the fourteen millions who long before the President’s decision was an­ our thanks to Elia Kazan, who produced the mood. It rallied to the election “ old meh of Tory!and” are back, of small business and professional some London districts resulted in support it. Churchill has already nounced. His latest stroke o f statesmanship just original play on Broadway, and then went along fight not on the basis of the and war is nearer. The election people in the suburban areas had clashes each night between Labor made overtures for a coalition added a little fuel to the flames which have been to Hollywood to direct the picture. Warner articles and speeches of the xesult has placed Big Business in moved back to the Tories. W ith a supporters and the fascists. Big dix-ectly to the Liberals and in­ searing my tender flesh. Brothers had sense enough to provide him with “ Labor statesmen” but out of e. better strategic position than bold socialist policy this could Business w ill readily push sorne directly to Labor. Speaking im­ This is not a debate, properly speaking. From the best possible cast, headed by the incomparable instinctive class hatred of the it occupied previously, and since have been avoided, but in line resources towards the fascists mediately after the election he the looks of things, it is turning into a free-for- Vivien Leigh, and let him alone. Tories. Right to the last minute this moans greater servility to with its counterparts elsewhere, when the situation gets worse. urged his followers to “ see the all fight. I am glad to see that, and I want a hand when the polls closed, campaign the American masters, it is in the right wing of the British W ith the empire crumbling and Good Picture Mutilated best sides of our opponents” and in it. My intellectual convictions on this issue, workers fought in a desperate consequence a defeat fo r the Labor Party sought to serve two the terrible impoverishment which hat “ after all we had a common which are quite firm and definite, are reinforced But then, after the picture was finished to the attempt to get every single Labor working class. But this must be masters, the capitalists and the is ‘increasing in Britain, a polar­ outlook on world affairs.” Sir by personal grievances which cry fo r redress., satisfaction of all concerned, some xnutilating supporter to vote, and the results judged in its proper context. The workers. It succeeded in neither’, ization to the extreme right as Hartley Shawcross and Morrison Grover Cleveland once remarked: “ It is a condi­ cuts were made without the director’s knowledge in some marginal constituencies defeat is by no means definitive. and through its indecision paved well as to the left is on the order tion which confronts us — not a theory.” In this or consent. Elia Kazan told about it w ith cold Labor is a great force based on the way for defeat at the polls. have both emphasized that Labor of the day. case there is a theory too, and a very simple fu ry in the New York Times a couple of Wjeeks powerful organizations; a factor The responsibility for the set­ w ill support “ law and order” and THE NEXT STEP one. But the thing that hurts right now is a ago. Between the time the picture was finished which calms even the wildest back therefore rests squarely on accept Tory rule. condition which is already infringing on my rig ht and its i-elease in New York, the Legion of capitalist newspaper. The Tories the shoulders of Attlee and Mor­ The coalition weapon is, Labor’s ra^iik and file were to live as a free man in a fx-ee society. Decency went to work. This is a special organiza­ came back on a m inority vote rison, who rejected all sug­ therefore, the most serious threat prevented from discussing policy tion set up by the Catholic hierarchy to police at the moment. It can easily have at Scax’borough, by the declara­ Clerical Thought Control while Labor remains the biggest gestions from the ranks about and censor works of art, and to decide what can’t single party in the country. the need for a bold socialist us its background the worsening tion of a general election. During The Roman Catholic hierarchy in thi? country be sjiown under threat of boycott. policy. The Bevanite results prove situation in the Middle East. the private meeting of delegates is gettixTg pretty bold and taking in a lot of They preach Christian charity, but they x’ely on RIGHT WING TO BLAME this to the h ilt. Driberg, Mikardo Both sides have identical foreign Bevan declared that he favored territory. They not only want to regulate the brute force. They let Warners know that they Labor lost the election because and Harold Davis had the policies and a threat of war and an early emergency conference. morals of their communicants; they also want to were going to give the pictux-e a “C” or “Con­ the middle class swung to the shakiest seats in the country, but “ save the empire movement” could This is now absolutely necessary regulate mine and yours according to their own demned” rating. “ This,” says the angry director, Tories. While the Liberals by succeeded in holding them and provide a plausible excuse. The and w ill receive ovei'whelming perverted conceptions of mox-ality. That’s where “ would mean that people of the Roman Catholic withdrawing candidates, in many increasing their vote because they Bevanites who supported the support. To defeat any move to my grievance begins. It may seem like a long faith would be instructed not to see it.” cases gave the Tory candidates openly associated themselves with Labor Government on Egypt coalition and re-arm itself with a way from a couple of movies to the highest You might think that this doesn’t concern you, the narrow majority which ensur­ the need for cuts in the arms pro would be placed in an embar­ socialist progi’am, Labor must affairs of state. But there is a direct connection since you pay no attention to such “ instruc­ ed victory, it was the middle- gram. In the case of Driberg and rassing position, and the result­ have a conference as soon as as I see it; and they merge together, along with tions.” But you ax'e mistaken. Warner Brothers class swing which did most Mikardo, the Liberals ganged up ing confusion could be serious. possible. That is the first task. a lot of other related questions, into a menacing didn’t doubt for a minute that it concerned them damage. with the Tories. Both Driberg and Consequently the main fight of Labor’s Left did splendid work shadow of clerical thought-control over America. in the center of their most vital and sensitive ’ ANEURIN BEVAN This experience is not, of Davis contested rural seats. A the Socialist left today is against in the elections. Even right wing Experience has made me leex-y of Hollywood interest — the box office. coalition, which in turn must be organizers from Transport House and taught me to be choosey about what movies Says Elia Kazan: “ The studio’s reaction was linked to the fight against war grudgingly stated this. The Left I see. This caution and discriminatioix pays off. one of panic. They had a sizable investment in and for the freedom of the fought hard because it had a When something good comes along on the screen, the picture, and they at once assumed that no colonial and semi-colonial peoples policy. Far from being frustrated some ai’tistic creation which holds the m irror up Catholic would buy a ticket. They feared further of Asia and the Middle East. In or complacent, it must now to humpn nature, I appreciate it all the more. Taft Uses Anti-War Talk this situation confusion on prin­ that theatres showing the picture would be prepare to take over the Labor And I treasure my rig h t to see and admire and picketed, nxight be threatened with boycotts of ciples w ill quickly reveal itself Party. pay fo r the privilege, like any other fx’ee-born as long as a year’s duration if they dared to and Bevan must either travel citizen. I saw “ Open City” and “ The Bicycle show’ it, that priests wrnuld be stationed in the further to the le ft or expose LABOR ANTI-WAR Thief,” and bowed in reverence before the un- To Gain GOP Nomination During the campaign, candidate lobbies to take down the names of parishioners himself in the period ahead. contaixynated a rt of the Italians. When I x'ead after candidate was forced to who attended. I was told that all these things had By John F. Petrone But he is shrewd enough to Korean war is a Truman war.” He The course of the Toi’y Party the reviews and heard the comments of f i’iends happened in Philadelphia when a picture with a know that this is not enough to says that “ if there is one unfor­ therefore is almost certain to be declare against a war at any Senator T aft’s strength in the about Rossellini’s picture called, “ The Miracle,” “ C” rating w’as shown there, and, further, that win the GOP nomination in a givable result of any foreign an all-out attempt to break up price. Labor’s vote was in essence race for the Republican presi­ I decided to see that, too, at the first opportimity. the rating was an. invitation fo r every local contest with the Eisenhower wing policy, it is an unnecessary war. Labor’s huge support. The longer an anti - war vote, just as the dential nomination has given rise removal of Shinwell from the But before I got around to it, the right to see censor board in the country to snipe at a picture, of the party. And so he has Such a war we are fighting today this force remains intact, the this picture was brutally taken away from me * to require cuts or to ban it altogether.” to the speculation that in 1952 begun to sound the theme of op­ in Korea.” A t times, he almost greater the danger for the Tories. National Executive Committee of the Laboi- Party at Scarborough and others who wanted to see it. Cardinal Spell­ So, without consulting or even infoi’ming the foreign policy may be a major position to the Korean war, which sounds like a pacifist: “ Thex-e was issue between" the capitalist THE FASCISTS was an anti-war gestui’e. Because man, the ecclesiastical hoodlum who broke the distinguished director of the picture, they made sharply differentiates him from a time perhaps when war might It is absolutely true that Chur­ strike of the cemetery workers and splattered twelve cuts in the finished film to satisfy the parties for the first time since both Eisenhower and Tniman and- be justified as a matter of na­ of this the Bevan movement must chill has the fu ll support of the clarify itself on the war question. Mrs. Roosevelt with mud in a gutter brawl, demand of the clerical censors, and delayed the 1920. has an appeal to broad sections tional policy. Today war is only denounced “ The Mii-acle” as immoral. And fo rth ­ planned showing of the picture until the mutilated Taft is now touring the country of the population, including the an engine of complete destruc­ big bourgeoisie at the present The way toward retaining the and lining up important sections moment, but the Tory Party powerful support amopg the with the subsei’vient public officials in New York version finally secured their “ B” rating. working class. tion. It kills five civilians for one banned the picture^md took it o ff the screen. of the Republican machine. As in soldier.” should not be confused with the masses which Labor at present Threat to Freedom the past, he is appealing to the ruling class. I t is not the class. enjoys, as well as regaining The Question of Rights “A TRUMAN WAR” But of course T aft is not a It is just the good luck of ^ the moviegoing middle classes by denouncing the Taft is attacking Truman for pacifist. He criticizes the United Millions of middle - class clerks, middle class support, is through I won’t stop here to argue the worth or worth­ Truman administration for lead­ housewives, small business and public that the cuts were minor and do not Nations not because it attempted the adoption of a socialist anti­ lessness of Spellman’s moral standards. I am having started the Korean war seriously affect the flow and tx-emendous drive ing the country into a “ slide to crush Korea but because it is professoinal people gave the war policy. That is the main concerned with more important questions. What “ on his own initiative.” He gets of the picture. That may be because Tennessee down the path of socialism and “an utter failure as a means of Tories a vote of over thirteen lesson and task fo r the future. about the rig ht of Rossellini and his company to the biggest applause in his Williams’ play, directed by Elia Kazan, is too military government and the preventing aggression” — that millions. These misguided peo­ Labor lost the election, but in­ produce their work of art according to their speeches when he says “ this powerful and subtle a thing for the ignorant totalitarian state.” is, it did not succeed in its ple, who are not big bourgeois, creased its support among the own lights and insights? And what about my Legion of Decency really to understand. We can’t attempt because it failed to "go believe that Churchill w ill reduce workers. It will decisively defeat rig h t and the rig ht of other citizens to see the hope for such good luck evei’y time. I f this gang into China to punish the Chinese the cost of living, and when the the Tories when the L eft Wing production and judge it fo r ourselves ? gets a little more power in this country, it will Reds fo r their aggression.” He grim truth once again confronts takes over and applies a fu ll When I read the announcement that the movie them they will react in the most socialist policy. Now more than tell the people what they can see, and hear, and MYRA WEISS SPEAKS AT criticizes a Korean truce on the version of “ A Streetcar Named Desire” would x’ead, and what their children shall be taught in ground that this would mean “ we violent fashion. ever before this is the only road be shown in New Yoi-k, I said rig ht away, w ith­ schools, and back up their regulations with force, have lost the war in Korea. . A t the moment they are anti- for British Labor. out waiting fo r reviews or recommendations fi’om as they do everywhere they can get away with it. We are back where we were three anybody: This is a picture I must see. The 2 BAY AREA MEETINGS I, fo r my part, can get along without the years ago except that we have reason fo r my recklessness in this case was that hearing the SWP px-ogram and movies, if necessary, but I can’t get along -with­ By Bill Morgan lost 90,000 men' in combat.” I had seen the oi-iginal play on the stage, as answers to questions fx-om the out freedom! One of the greatest threats to our BERKELEY, Calif., Nov. 2 — In this way, he plays both sides played by a good company of actors on the audience many students remained TH€ MILITANT AHMY freedom in America comes pi’ecisely from the More than three hundred Univer­ of the street like a true dema­ summer theater circuit. I don’t care much for around the platform to ask more totalitarian enemy of enlightenment and freedom sity of California students listen­ gogue — appealing in one breath decay and degeneration as themes of art. But questions and shake hands with known as the Roman Catholic hierarchy, which ed attentively today at Sather to the MacArthur “all-out” wing Literature Agent George Rock about the devil. I told them the that, it seems, is all you can get ixx a serious Mrs. Weiss and Frank Barbaria. President Truman has greatly strengthened and Gate — nationally known free- of the party and in the next to reports good sales of The Mili­ story of the devil and Daniel novel or play about people in the land lost in This was one of the finest out­ encouraged by his monstrous decision to send an speech forum — to hear Myra those who are against the war tant in the last few weeks of Webster and tied it up w ith the darkness south of the Mason-Dixon line. The door meetings ever held at Sather official ambassador to the Vatican. Tanner Weiss and other Socialist in any'form and would like to see New York’s election atrocities of today. I sold 25 artists paint what they see, and will not lie. It’s Gate and indicates a new turn in I am lopking for allies in this fight, and it Workers Party speakers present U.S. troops withdrawn from campaign for Militants at that gathering of terrible, but it’s tnxe and therefore beautiful. the campaign fo r socialism in this begins to look now as though we’re going to have a m ilitant program for socialism Korea altogether. Michael Bartell. In only 30 people.” That is the .profound impression I took away area. Some hostile heckling from plenty of them. Some of them are good allies, and and peace, denounce the role of The significant thing about addition to sales at Newark reports plans to go from the theater when the final curtain fell on a group of Shachtmanites who fighting mad, which is just exactly the mood this U.S. imperialism in Asia and call Taft’s criticisms on Korea is that street meetings a out fo r renewals this Sunday. Tennessee Williams’ powerful, mercilessly real- indulged in a bit of red-baiting gi’eat discussion needs. — J. P. C. for the withdrawal of all fdr- they are very popular, as the Nov. number of papers Margaret and Bob went out last was well answered by the SWP were sold by Youth Sunday and secured a year’s eign troops from Korea. speakers and received a cool 4 Gallup Poll indicated. This is Graphically describing the reac­ evidently one reason why Taft Branch campaigners renewal from a subscriber on attitude from the serious crowd who went doorbell their October list. He was very tionary aims of American im­ of students. I t was a good meet­ professes such confidence that he w ill win the Republican nomina­ ringing last Sunday enthusiastic about the paper and Weiss Debates Seattle Professor on Korea perialism, Mrs. Weiss, veteran ing. campaigner fo r socialism and well tion even i f Eisenhower contests to distribute copies told them that a large group of By Clara Kaye political assault by the American bring real peace and freedom to known to thousands of West it. of the election plat­ his friends come to his house to SEATTLE, Oct. 29 — A cour­ capitalists against the Asian Korea and Asia and the world. Coast workers and students, also By Ed Harris form and invite peo­ read The Militant. involution brands U;S. imperial­ The debate was moderated by MORE OF ‘GREAT DEBATE’ ple to the election rally. Katherine Cooper, Akron L ite r­ ageous, dynamic fighter for social­ denounced the betrayals of the SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 5 — ism as the aggressor, not the Frank Wright, Executive Sec Stalinists who offer to abandon An overflow audience of workers The “ great debate” over fo r­ “ Leo and Steve met an old ature Agent, reports 100% ism — that is the overwhelming Asian workers and peasants retary of the University YMCA, the class struggle fo r a deal and students crowded the Social­ eign policy that began after Mac­ I.W.W. organizer who promised renewal of their October Militant opinion expressed by scores of fighting fo r freedom, bread and and held at the Church of the with Truman to maintain the ist Workers Party hall last Sat­ Arthur failed in his drive to to vote fo r Mike Bartell,” George expirations. She and Lou also workers and students about Myra land. People, rig h t o ff the campus. status quo. Pointing out that it urday night to hear Myra Tanner reach the Chinese border of Korea' says, “ and to ask his fam ily and went out one day last week and Tanner Weiss, on tour for the “ Capitalism must expand or die “ Students fo r Socialism” spon­ [was the status quo which produced Weiss speak on the Korean War. is by no means closed. In a new friends to vote fo r him also. sold three new six-weekers for Socialist Workers Party, who has — that is its essential nature,” sored the meeting. the very conditions which led to Many had to stand. But nobody form it is certain to be continued Donald sold a subscription to The local delivery and two single just concluded a highly success­ Mrs. Weiss said. “ That explains Afterwards, dozen of students World War II and are leading complained. As one said, “ I would in the coming period, at least M ilitant and a ticket to the elec­ copies. Akron finds that the six ful, action-packed, five day visit Wall Street’s economic drive for flocked around Mx-s. Weiss to to still another World War, Mrs. stand uncomplainingly in the rain until the nominating conventions tion rally while doorbell ringing." weeks delivery of The M ilitant in Seattle. Her local activities world conquest and its frenzied continue the discussion. Dinner at Weiss said: “ Neither the Wall to hear such a fine speech.” next summer. And that w ill be a New York’s plans for future is still one of the best ways to were dramatically climaxed this intervention into the Korean the Church of the People followed Street profiteers who hope to The audience was the most good thing because it w ill offer M ilitant sales include selling in introduce new readers to the afternoon by a debate on Korea civil war. If the American gov­ with some of the students and conquer the world nor the Stal­ serious and at the same time the the genuine anti-war forces an­ neighborhoods where election paper. with a University of Washington ernment x’eally believed in self- friends who were tremendously inist betrayers can halt the liveliest that has attended a San other opportunity to intervene literature was distributed, as well Helen S., acting Literature professor before an audience of determination fo r nations, in land impressed by Mrs. Weiss’ social­ revolutionary upsurge of the Francisco SWP meeting for many with their independent program as subscription work fo r cam­ Agent fo r Minneapolis, writes to almost 100 students. reform, or in helping backward ist program and wanted to speak masses of Asia and Europe.” months. Questions flew thick and and obtain .the ear of the Amer­ paign sub I’enewals. increase their M ilitant bundle. Dr. V. Ehi’lich, Assistant Pro­ countries, Korea would not be further with her. fast during the discussion period. ican people. Literature Agent Ken Saunders She reports very good sales of fessor of Slavic Languages and laid waste today by napalm On Friday evening, at a public FREE SPEECH FORUM “ What is the difference between The 1952 campaign promises to writes that everything is in order the paper to students. “ Doris and Literature, Far Eastern Depai’t- bombs.” meeting sponsored by the Seattle Frank Bax-baria, SWP candidate the SWP and the Stalinists? be exciting and fruitful for fo r Boston’s local renewal cam­ Larry sold 43 copies on the ment of the University, attempt­ Mrs. Weiss ended the debate branch of the SWP, Mrs. Weiss fo r Mayor of San Francisco, took Don’t you think Fascism w ill revolutionary socialists. W ith a paign. He reports, “The next two campus. Judging from the ques­ ed to justify U.S. intervention in with a stirring denunciation of spoke before a widely repre­ the platform to answer questions come in the U.S.?” Several mem­ new discussion coming up on Sundays w ill be spent in visiting tions asked and the enthusiastic Korea on the grounds that North Roosevelt and Stalin fo r dividing sentative, jam-packed audience at and explain further the program bers of the audience took the foreign policy, and with things subscribers and we expect a very reception of the paper, we think Korean forces had attacked first, the country of Korea and thereby Washington Hall on “ Lessons of of the Socialist Workers Party. floor to express their points of heading toward an explosion productive campaign.” we w ill be able to do well on but Mrs. Weiss forcefully proved laying the basis fo r inevitable the Korean War,” and here again He dealt with the problem of the view. against the wage-freeze, there Ken asks us to send a bundle of the campus this year,” she writes. that the U.S. State Department conflict. She showed how only her penetrating examination of coming war and the inevitable will be a great opportunity for 50 M ilitants weekly to Comrade P.B., a friend in Ontario, has been provoking the Asian socialism could stop Wall Street’s the Korean War and the signifi­ upsurge of the American workers. ELECTION WIND-UP (he opponents of Big Business Bebe Patch so that she w ill be Canada, has been reading The masses fo r years, and that this crusade for world empire and cance of the coming American Barbaria hailed the great The meeting was combined with and its war preparations to par­ sure to get1 them in time fo r M ilitant for several months and revolution enthused and interest­ awakening of thousands of Amer­ the wind-up of the San Fran­ ticipate in this discussion. delivery to her regular customers. wi-ites to say that he enjoys it ed her audience to such a degree ican students and workers to the cisco election campaign. Frank The following is part of a letter very much. “ I t certainly is a Just Published that the discussion period lasted police-state aims of the capital­ Barbaria and Harry Press, candi­ from Comrade Patch telling of a worthy publication, and I look an hour and had to be cut short ist government in America. He dates in the city elections, both recent experience she had while forward to seeing it every for lack of time. Scores of new congratulated the students of the spoke. selling The Militant: “Hex’e is a week.” party friends were made and old University of California for their A fte r the meeting a social was little adventure I had while J.J., of New York, also likes friends brought closer. m ilitant and successful struggle scheduled. However, there was selling papers last week. I found The M ilitant. “ I have found the A t a reception held fo r Mrs. fo maintain Sather Gate as a little dancing. Everyone wanted myself at a religious meeting; news .in The M ilitant of great THE R O A D they px-ayed, sang hymns, then interest in its revelations of the Weiss on Saturday evening, she free-speech forum and explained to discuss further the ideas met and spoke to still more work­ that every fight for free speach presented in Myra Weiss’ talk, to asked me to make a speech. They corruptness of our society,” he ers who had not been able to is vitally important in the look over the literature rack and asked me to tell them something writes. attend her public meeting, and struggle to maintain civil liber­ to make arrangements to be in ­ T O PEA C E many who had heard her the ties in this country. formed^ of .future meetings. MOVIE AND BAZAAR previous evening came to meet H arry Press, SWP candidate Friday morning Comrade Weiss b y James P. Cannon her personally. Throughout her fo r Supeiwisor in San Francisco, was interviewed by Katherine Jean Renoir’s stay here, Mrs. Weiss spent as also spoke. He descidbed the ef­ Kerry over Station KYA. A t noon “ The Southerner” Single Copy 25c 5 Copies $1.00. much time as possible in infonnal forts of the waterfront workers she spoke to 300 students at the with Zachary Scott and Betty Field discussions with workers and of San Francisco to halt the Sather Gate of the University of (Postage Included) students and housewives who screening of militant union men California in Berkeley. On Sun­ Followed by BAZAAR Order from were earnestly seeking clarity on from 'the docks and ships. He day night a house social in her Refreshments :: Dancing Donation $1.00 the major political issues con­ showed that only by a continuous honor was held in Oakland. To­ Saturday, November 17, 8 PM PIONEER PUBLISHERS fronting them, and the Seattle struggle of both students and day, just prior to her departure, 116 University Place New York 3, N. Y. branch w ill benefit enormously workers can free speech and civil she was interviewed fo r 45 116 University Place from her activities along this line liberties be maintained. minutes by Bob Shutz, over Sta­ Proceeds fo r Packages to Europe in the very near future. After more than two hours of tion KPFA in Berkeley. ROBERT A. TAFT P ag e T h re e the MILITANT Fubliahed Weekly in the Interests of the Working People THE MILITANT PUBLISHING ASSOCIATION 116 U n iv e rs ity P L , N . Y . 3, X . Y . Phone: A L ft-7460 Editor: GEORGE BREITMAN Business Manager: JOSEPH HANSEN Thirty-fourth Anniversary of the Russian Revolution Subscription: $2 per year; $1 for 6 months. Foreign: $3.50 per year; $2 foV ft months. Bundle Orders' 05 .or more copies): 3c each in U.S., 4c each in foreign By George Clarke their political representatives I t was this situation of poverty, masses feared to go the limit, system of planned economy have the Russian Revolution and which countries. November 7 marks the 34th realized that the Russian Revolu­ of shortages, of general want, feared that in the showdown now spread over one-third of survived war and blockade even Signed articles by contributors do not necessarily represent The M ili­ tion was (he signal of doom for for which the “democratic” struggle which would ensue, tant's policies. These are expressed in its editorials. anniversary of the great Russian Europe and are reaching into the in its infancy. Imperialism may “ Entered a means of ments turned from direct force preparing the liquidation of the interests of the latter; or, to themselves sow among the rank even a paper like Le Monde which putting forward labor’s own party and candidates. ■production within the nation for to economic pressure — to an anti-capitalist conquests achieved consider this power as an end in and file in order to present all by no stretch of the imagination There is a difference only in labels but not in sub­ the common good, to put an end attempt to starve the Russian by the revolutionary struggle of itself and try to safeguard it by these liquidationist operations as can be considered as “ socialist.” to the exploitation of man by people to their knees. They the Yugoslav masses. resorting to a policy of extreme comprising a greater “ demo­ Tito found it necessary to bury stance between labor’s voting a “split ticket” for its al­ man for the profits of a parasitic erected a trade blockade around This is an example of the opportunism. cratization” of the regime and a the myth of “ neutrality” and of leged “ friends” among Democrats or Republicans and la­ minority. In short, their aim was the country, refused it loans, debacle to which the opportunism But in the second case, what is speeded-up “ withering away” of a possible “ third bloc” and openly bor’s voting a straight Democratic or Republican ticket. In to build the foundations for a so­ capital and machinery except on of the leadership of a revolu­ safeguarded is no longer exactly the state into “ socialism.” took a position in favor of each case the workers are duped into voting for capitalist cialist society. terms which would have spelled tionary movement fatally leads the power of the proletariat, but In reality the bureaucratic" America in the event of a war In the 34 years that have the end fo r the new system. under the present conditions of more and more the power of the regime has never been as virulent w ith the USSR. In addition, the politicians. 1 Here again their plans hurtled leadership hardened into a bur­ The AFL Building Trades “ statesmen” pull another elapsed since then, the Russian sharpening of the world class in Yugoslavia as it is today; and Marshal made a declaration in Revolution has more than justified against the indomitable deter­ struggle. It is an example of how eaucratic caste which undermines never — at least not since the favor of rearming Germany and fraud in pretending that the formation of an independent its reason fo r existence. mination of a people to build a a leadership abandons a policy and exhausts the social content break with Moscow — have the for “normalizing and improving” labor party lies on the same level as the policy of “ elect socialist world. But if the Soviet based on revolutionary Marxism of the proletarian power and in police been more active than they relations with the Vatican, as well our friends and defeat our enemies.” They dismiss both GREAT ACHIEVEMENT Union survived it was not with­ and reliance upon the revolu­ reality prepares the way for its are now against critics, dissidents, as w ith Greece and Turkey to as “ impractical.” Its outstanding achievement is out the most terrible suffering. tionary masses arid becomes ad­ total collapse. and opponents of the new treach­ whose aid Yugoslavia would im­ the fact that it has proved the Everything that was built, every dicted to the worst eclecticism A fte r a brief left - centrist erous course of the Yugoslav mediately go in case of “ag­ What is there “ impractical” about a labor party? In superiority of the system of tractor, every power plant, every and empiricism fo r the sake of period which followed their break leaders. 1 gression.” every major country where labor has organized its own planned economy over the anarchy steel m ill literally came out of the safeguarding its own rule at any with the Kremlin, the Yugoslav Things are no better on the A few days earlier, a ranking political movement it has rallied millions of supporters. and waste of capitalism. W ithin sweat and agony of the people. cost. leadership in their attempt to diplomatic plane and in foreign member of the Yugoslav General One need take only the example of Britain where the La­ this brief span of time, Russia Few of the fruits of all this Because the basis of proletarian safeguard the regime 'w ith the policy. A t the conclusion of the S taff created a, sensation by an­ bor Party is the biggest single party in the country. But has been transformed from a heroic effort could be used to power in Yugoslavia was, from money, the m ilitary and diplo­ Zagreb peace conference, for other no less shameful and backward farming nation into improve the standard of living. the beginning, infinitely narrower matic guarantees of Western which the Yugoslav agencies provocative declaration in which the AFL officials, along with the rest of the official labor one of the leading industrial than that in Russia after the ‘democratic imperialism,’ has been abroad succeeded in recruiting he begged Washington for some leadership, have long bitterly resisted making the test in powers of the world. I t has October revolution; and because liquidating the proletarian power less than 100 “ delegates,” who of its atom bombs. Because of its practice of the power of labor’s independent action on the eliminated the crises of over­ the class struggle has never be­ in Yugoslavia bit by bit and fo r the most part represented geographical position, he said, political field. production and the scourge of un­ fore known such acuteness as now preparing its total demise. nobody but themselves, Tito held Yugoslavia would provide the They now admit that voting a capitalist split ticket, employment. It has eliminated with the approach of the Third Let us grant, as the Yugoslav one of his “ sensational” press “ right place” for them. mass illiteracy, the curse of World War, this power in Yugo­ leaders are now hoping, that at conferences at the White Palace the traditional AFL policy since the days of Gompers, is Czarism, and trained an entire slavia is now degenerating and least part of this proletarian attended by 150 foreign and THE LOGICAL OUTCOME “ impractical.” But what do they propose instead? generation of yftung scientists, disintegrating on all fronts: power remains, up to the time of Yugoslav journalists. (The A ll this is the logical conclusion The bulletin does not say it openly, but does find a engineers and technicians. economic, political and ideolog­ the imperialist war against the Zagreb correspondent of the of a policy which has abandoned “very meritorious” argument in favor of labor’s bolting A ll of this has been done w ith­ ical. USSR, and let us even grant that N. Y. Herald Tribune compared its revolutionary M arxist basis the Democrats to vote for the Republicans in 1952. This out any outside help, an un­ We have here a new confirma­ this war is won by America. It the “ peace conference” from and which then fapidly degenerat­ precedented accomplishment in tion of the absurdity of “ social­ really requires the most extra­ which the real revolutionary ed under pressure of an interna­ “ argument” reads as follows: “ It would force the Demo­ (he building of a modern in ­ ism in one country” and of the ordinary naivete to believe that representatives were excluded, to tional situation developing toward crats to respect us and after four years we would then dustrial society. On the contrary, enormous role which the leader­ in such an eventuality Washing­ an incoherent hodgepodge of all war. be in a very advantageous position to obtain our demands.” (he capitalists of the world and TROTSKY LENIN ship of a revolutionary movement ton would content itself with possible opinions and described , Everywhere the social forces In other words, these “ practical” people are propos­ punishing the evil Stalin and it as a defeat to the ambition of are being polarized and are taking ing to blackmail the Democrats into “ respecting” labor would leave Tito at the head of the Yugoslav leaders to constitute their battle positions. Everywhere his “humanist socialist” republic. a “ third ideological tendency.” ) the protagonists of the “ third and granting “ us our demands” by putting the avowed In reality, the Yugoslav leaders This time, under the pressure bloc” are either unmasking them­ enemies of labor, the Republicans, into the seats of power! Filipino Huk Movement: cannot be credited with such selves as agents of the imperial­ The CIO leaders’ “ alternative” is to hang on to the naivete and thus somehow entitled ist bloc or because of the logic of Truman administration at all costs. Their AFL opposite to the benefit of “ extenuating their policy and the necessities of circumstances.” Either their op­ the struggle are being led to numbers have nothing to offer but a sell-out to the Re­ Its Origins and Growth make a definitive choice in favor portunist and adventurist policy publicans. Such “ practical” politics has led labor up a By John Black “ Immediate severance of all The chief difference between the lacks any perspective whatever, of this bloc. dead-end street. So far as the millions of workers are relations with the U.S. would Huks and the group operating or they are consciously proceed­ The attitude of the Yugoslav Throughout the history of the ing to an adaptation of the leaders confirms this in a manner concerned, they will find no way out of this blind-alley Philippines the fight for social mean cutting ourselves loose from under USAFFE (United States present regime in Yugoslavia to most painful to all revolutionists until they break completely from both the Democrats and liberation has been closely linked one of the most democratic Armed Forces, F ar East) was that powers in the Pacific, and would the Huks combined their fight the capitalist system. friendly to proletarian Yugoslavia the Republicans and build their own independent labor with the struggle for independ­ No other explanation is possible and to its revolutionary masses. ence. The great Filipino uprising be a fatal blow to our independ­ against the Japanese with at strug­ party. on the basis of the facts which It is now more necessary than at the turn of the century against ence, peace and security.” gle for agrarian reforms. Whole have been rapidly m ultiplying fo r ever that the revolutionary M arx­ Spanish rule culminated in the On the eve of World War II areas of countryside came under some time. ists of the Yugoslav Communist setting up of an independent, the labor movement was much their control. They proceeded to CIO Foreign Policy Under cover of a struggle Party organize into a Leninist democratic republic at Malalos stronger than before. Unions were 'establish locally elected, demo­ Delegates to the 13th annual CIO convention last against the danger of bureaucrat­ tendency and align themselves and also brought about a re­ divided into registered and un- cratic governments. They expro­ ism and against centralization, against the treacherous policies week were given a lesson in political economy which point­ division of large estates. But with egistered groups. By fa r stronger priated • the land of absentee ed up the intimate connection between domestic and for­ were those not registered, that is, owners known to be Japanese the Yugoslav leaders have re­ of their leaders. the U.S. conquest of the islands cently adopted a series of meas­ Proletarian Yugoslavia is on eign policy. War and preparations for war, explained the movement for independence not officially recognized by the collaborators, and divided it government The General Workers among the farmers and tenants. ures which tend in the general the verge of being struck down Economic Stabilization Administrator, Eric Johnston, are and agrarian reforms suffered a. direction of a gradual abolition by a leadership which has shame­ severe setback. Union under Socialist influence 'They withheld crops and supplies the main causes of inflationary pressures which have with a membership of about 50,- from the occupying armies and of the system of statified and fully capitulated even before the On May 1, 1913, the first labor MARSHALL TITO boosted prices and increased the cost-of-living. “ Is there 000, the Philippine Peasants Con­ operated largely on a self-suf­ planned economy and of the real actual outbreak of World War III. congress met in Manila. Since federation w ith some 60,000 mem­ ficient basis. anyone in this room,” he asked, listing the foreign policy that day, the F irst of May has bers and the Sons of Sweat The Huks say that they at­ measures of the Truman administration, who would not been a national holiday in the numbering 80,000 were better tempted to establish ties with the support these measures? Philippine islands. organized and wielded greater in­ U.S. army, but were rebuffed. Johnston, knowing full well that the CIO leaders are Socialist ideas began to per­ fluence than the small govern­ Supplies parachuted fo r guerrilla SAM ADAMS AND THE m ilitant supporters of the American State Department’s meate working class and student ment-backed outfits. purposes were mostly withheld foreign policy, needed no reply to his rhetorical question. circles following the First World Such was the general situation from the Huks. Estimates of the Then, he insisted, the price you have to pay is the exercise War and this period saw the in the islands when World War Huks’ strength vary all the way AMERICAN REVOLDTION organization of the Socialist II saw them occupied by the from 20,000 to 100,000. of “ self-discipline and self-restraint” in your wage de­ party under Pedro Abad Santos. Japanese Imperial Army. Resist­ When the war ended the Huk (Continued from Page 1) In the firs t place. Boston contained a large work­ mands. ance to this new foreign rule THE CP ZIG-ZAGS leadership offered to come out of followed by a revolutionary war. The dispossessed ing class, mechanic, and independent artisan- Every Truman stabilizer who addressed the conven­ flared almost immediately. the hills and disarm, as well as The Communist Party, which is reactionary classes, sometimes w ith foreign help, shopkeeeper population. I t was the center of the tion, and it seemed they all were there, played variations The Japanese were harrassed by to liquidate the dual government being credited as the main throw the weight of their remaining strength shipbuilding region, as well as the most impor­ on the same theme — “ self-discipline and self-restraint.” two main types of guerrilla fight­ structure that had sprung up in tant port. As we shall see, this type of popula­ inspirer and organizer of the cur­ ing. One group of guerrillas, the its areas. However, this betrayal against the new regime. For labor to exercise “ self-discipline” it must refrain from rent struggles, was not founded In the American Revolution, the masses and tion was the spearhead of the revolution every­ smaller of the two, operated with of the struggle was never con­ officially until 1930 and made their radical leaders started on the road to revo­ where. fighting for pay increases higher than the wage-freezing the guidance and aid of the U.S. summated. Small groups of Huks lution some years before Concord and Lexington. The Boston sailors, shipyard and ropewalk formula of the WSB allows. I f so, “ self-restraint” can only little progress at the time not so army command in the Pacific and disarmed and were then murdered By the time the war began, the framework of a workers, brewery workers, fishermen, sawmill much because of the harsh appears to have limited itself to by government troops. It is mean — tighten your belts and get along on less. The new regime had already been elaborated. workers, together w ith the small merchants, shop­ repressions as because of its minor m ilitary actions. hardly surprising that most British have a word for it — austerity! Since the historians would like'to hide, or dis­ keepers and artisans, were the shock troops of sectarian line, which included, Totally different was the other guerrillas after this experience, The preachers of austerity — for the workers — regard as much as possible, the revolutionary the revolution. Boston was the chief base of op­ among other things, an attempt movement which reached major kept their arms in spite of the past, they prefer to ignore the actual overthrow erations of a certain section of the merchant buttressed their sermons with facts and figures. War prep­ to set up dual “ red” unions. proportions. In March 1942 Luis desires of their leaders to end the of the outlived regimes. They prefer to treat the class: the so-called free-trade merchants, who arations meant inflationary pressures on the economy; to On the eve of World War II, Taruc organized the Huks. Who struggle. revolution as a war between two sovereign states. imported goods without paying duty on them, or, the CP, like its counterparts in so was Luis Taruc? Born on June Taruc himself helped to or­ ward off inflation requires sacrifices; if CIO supports In contrast to these historians, we w ill not be in a word, smugglers. many other countries in Asia, had 21, 1912 in the province of ganize the Democratic Alliance, a Washington’s foreign policy, austerity is the price that prim arily concerned with the m ilita ry stage of The whole economy of the New England region become legal, dropped its original Pampanga, he had worked his vaguely left - wing reformist must be paid. the revolution. We w ill be concerned w ith the did not f it well into the mercantile system, by demand fo r independence and way through two years of law party with a program of mild process by which the new regime arose w ithin which the British merchants exploited the colon­ But what about profits and dividends, what of the hastened to demonstrate its use­ courses at the National Univer­ reforms in the tenant system the shell of the old. We w ill be concerned with ies. This led to serious frictions. And so Boston rent hogs and price-gougers, what of the rich who are fulness to the native ruling class sity of the Philippines. There he while backing the Osmena faction the way in which the people sifted programs and early became a center of resistance to British getting richer, the corporations who are coining fabulous and to the “ democratic” imperial­ became interested in the discus­ of the ruling class. This Alliance colonial rule. ists. The period of the “ People’s parties, and found their way to the radical party, wealth out of war production, the stock-jobbers and cou­ sions led by the “ League fo r the elected a few representatives, Boston developed the best of the radical lead­ Fronts” saw the Filipino Stalin­ which they then built into the foremost political pon-clippers? That, the CIO leaders were told, was some­ Defense of Democracy.” among them Taruc. However, they ers. A t the head of the Boston mass movement ists toeing the line. Meeting in He returned to his home were refused their seats in the force. We have already seen that the open warfare was Sam Adams, the most capable, intransigent, thing the stabilizers could do little about. fu ll legality on October 1938, the province in 1937 where he joined Philippine House of Representa­ between the old regime and the new was touched and far-sighted leader of the American Revolu­ “ Price stabilization,” explained Michael DiSalle, Di­ CP held its third national conven­ the Socialist Party and helped tives. The Osmena group was off by a British military foray, one of the ob­ tion. He was the greatest revolutionary leader tion, the so-called U nity Con­ organize the General Workers defeated and Manuel Roxas be­ rector of the Office of Price Stabilization, “ is not a means jects of which was the capture of Sam Adams. ever developed on this continent, and one of the vention, at which the CP tried to Union, becoming its General Sec­ came the new President of the of reforming the American economy.” It is not, he said, We shall see that this was no accident. The B rit­ greatest the world has ever known. swallow up the Socialist Party. retary. He led the first strike of Philippines. Taruc returned to the “ a method of correcting social and economic maladjust­ ish and the American Tories had good reasons Samuel Adams was not a Johnny-come-lately. Among the resolutions adopted by government workers in the quar­ dissident districts. for hating Sam Adams, and for attempting to lay He was one of the first, perhaps even the first, ments rooted in our society through the years.” No, it is this gathering was one which ries. When the war came he went Once more in 1948 Taruc tried their hands on him. of the real radicals in the Revolution. He had not that at a ll! On the contrary, the war preparations and stated: . into the country and organized to end the fighting when he urged Sam Adams was the leader of the seething been a fu lly conscious revolutionist fo r at least “ The right to separate from the the Huks. Without military ex­ his followers to accept the highly the war program are designed to prevent such reforms revolutionary masses of New England. He was eight years before Concord and Lexington, and U.S. does not place upon us the perience himself, he became the conditional amnesty offered when here and destroy them wherever they exist in other parts able, by skillful use of this powerful force, to a revolutionist in deeds, if not yet fully in his obligation to separate. . The Commander in Chief, taking Quirino took over the administra­ of the world. i determine the fundamental course of the revolu­ consciousness, fo r a dozen years prior to that. resolution then went on to plead charge of organizing large scale tion. But evidently, Taruc was tion throughout th e , colonies, despite the wide­ Thus, when we write about Sam Adams and The American labor leaders find themselves in an that “ separation does not assure guerilla warfare. His Vice Com­ ever-ruled by his associates, be­ spread suspicion of the New England radicals the American Revolution, we are w riting about insoluble contradiction. So long as they support the re­ the best means towards the mander, Casto Alejandrino, took cause only a negligible group of that existed among the opposition elements else­ a great historic event, and about the man who actionary war aims of American capitalism they cannot attainment of fuller democracy charge of the m ilitary operations. Huks or alleged Huks came in. where. gave that event its most conscious expression effectively defend the living standards of the workers at for the people and complete Also active in the Huk organiza­ STmce that time the civil war in and guidance. » independence,” and added the tion were two Chinese Stalinists, the Philippines has been spread­ There were very important reasons why Boston home. was the center of the revolutionary movement. (Next Week: The Young Sam Adams) following fraudulent warning: Ong K iet and Lee Ying-hao. ing over ever wider areas. Jim Crow in Stork Club tme ------By George Lavan ------— MILITANT Josephine Baker le ft St. Louis at an early age crimination at the Stork Club, White gullibly VOLUME XV MONDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1951 NUMBER 46 and went to France where she became one of wrote such a statement. “ That great champion of minorities,” Winchell, the most famous entertainers in Europe. She now pulled a double-cross. He failed to denounce Longshore Strike Scenes became a French citizen, and recently returned Jim Crow at the Stork Club but attacked those fo r a tour of the U.S., winning acclaim for her who were trying “ to involve” him. Then he read Florida Sheriff great talents. She is admired by the Negro pub­ W alter W hite’s statement giving him a clean bill lic for her uncompromising refusal to submit to of health as a fighter against discrimination. the Jim Crow pattern of race discrimination so Since then Winchell has tried to take the heat o ff prevalent in this country. the Stork Club by carrying on a cowardly cam­ Kills Negro On On Oct. 16 in the late evening she was taken paign against Josephine Baker and others pro­ by the French singer, Roger Rico, male lead of testing the Jim Crow policy of his bosom buddy South Pacific, and his wife to the Stork Club. Billingsley. lie has discovered that one of the protesters Eve of Retrial The Stork Club is New York’s most famous was involved in the Paul Robeson-Peekskill rio t night club. I t is run by Sherman Billingsley, a — where anti-Negro and anti-Semitic vigilantes One Negro youth is dead and another near death after prohibition-time speakeasy operator. It thrives broke up a rally — and is therefore a “ commun­ being shot by a'Florida sheriff who was transporting them on the fact that it is frequented by “celebrities” ist.” He has charged that Josephine Baker delib­ and uses this snob appeal to attract people who to the site of a retrial ordered by the Supreme Court. erately provoked the incident, thereby implying Samuel Shepherd, 24, and •>" want to go where the “ celebrities” go. I t receives that the victim is not Miss Baker but the poor reams of free advertising from columnists, like Walter Lee Irvin, 24, railroaded and three others were arrested, Stork Club. To undermine the Negro people’s charged with the “ rape.” Of Walter Winchell, who detail who was seen there support of Miss Baker, he has accused her of not in 1949 in the famous “Little with whom, etc. these, one was sentenced to life supporting the struggle of Ethiopia against Mus­ Frank Nawrocki (le ft) business agent of International Longshoremen's Brooklyn Local 808, Scottsboro case,” were being imprisonment, and two to death, The Rico-Baker party was ushered in, seated, solini. stands beside his damaged car, which was the target of a stone barrage in the New York strike. taken to Taveres, Fla., when the after a mock trial in which the and served a round of drinks. They then ordered A ll this shows how superficial and fraudulent Right, an assistant district attorney holds two bricks that were tossed at car as he questions sheriff shot them down. He most elementary standards of food. Suddenly service became unobtainable. is the type of “ tolerance” preached by Winchell waterfront strikebreaker Gerry Anastasia in connection with incident. justice were disregarded. The claimed that the handcuffed pair Though Billingsley and Walter Winchell were in and others like him. I t is merely a cheap device, Supreme Court- declared this had “ attacked him.” I t is report­ the room the Rico-Baker party couldn’t get ser­ similar to flag-waving, by which publicity-seek­ travesty a mistrial and reversed ed, however, by defense attorney vice. A fte r an hour when a waiter finally came ers coax support from m inority peoples. When it the decision of the lower court. over he told them there was no steak, etc. In ­ is put to any kind of a test it proves to be the for the two youths, that they stead of meekly submitting to the humiliation were both confident of acquittal, The two Negroes, whose death same old prejudice under a little make-up. Flint GM Stooges Kill sentence was lifted by Supreme Josephine Baker went to a phone and called her ♦More than that, the Winchells bring te rrific and had no reason to try to manager. Upon returning they found that Win­ escape. Court decision, were shot while pressure to bear on Negro figures in the enter­ being transported for their chell had gone and that food had been brought. tainment world. Sugar Ray Robinson is a case Too upset by the incident to eat, the party asked LYNCH ATMOSPHERE retrial, scheduled to open the in point. He, like Josephine Baker, has been a Union FEPC Proposal next day. They were shot by fo r their check. The reply was that “ celebrities” big money raiser fo r Winchell’s publicity-dodge This latest outrage came as the climax to a frame-up attempt that Sheriff W illis V. McCall, who, it weren’t charged at the Stork Club. Rico refused charity, the Damon Runyon Cancer Fund. Under By Emmett Moore against the proposal, not one had their hypocritical pretence of has become known as the “ L ittle was shown at the first trial, had this “hospitality” and threw $30 on the table to pressure from the Negro people Robinson an­ the courage to voice a single support to FEPC of any kind. FLINT, Nov. 3—After a stormy Scottsboro case.” On July 16, severely beaten the three prison­ cover their b ill as the party left. nounced he would withdraw from the organiza­ argument against the CIO’s meeting, the F lint City Com­ In the final weeks pressure 1949, a 17-year-old farm wife in ers while they wex-e in his Miss Baker immediately went to Walter White tion unless Winchell spoke out against the Stork proposed ordinance in the three mission rejected the Fair Employ­ on the City Commission mounted Groveland, Fla., claimed that she charge. of the NAACP. Attempts to get Billingsley to Club’s Jim Crow policy. Later, under pressure months since it was submitted. ment Practices proposal by a vote steadily. Several union FEPC had been raped by four Negroes. issue a statement were unavailing. But White was from Winchell, he denied the statement though of six to three. The FEPC committees were considering This charge was made in a lynch DEMAND INVESTIGATION immediately contacted by Walter Winchell’s law­ he had made it over the radio and it had been GM STOOGES measure was introduced by the broader appeals to the public to atmosphere that had been develop­ ♦Thurgood Max-shall, special yer who asked Mr. White fo r a statement to be recorded. Leading the six pawns of Flint CIO council and was sup­ break through the lies of the ing for some time in the town, NAACP attorney, has flown to lead by Winchell over the radio to the effect The NAACP has run a small picket line of General Motors and the Flint ported by a host of organizations. F lin t Journal. They were con­ which consists of 400 Negroes the site of the murders to press that since Winchell had not been present fo r the celebrities in fron t of the Stork Club and has Journal, was R. Dean Kirk, a high- The final vote came after three templating a series of radio and 600 whites. The local big for an investigation, as Negro duration of the “ incident” he bore no responsibili­ appealed to the Mayor’s Committee on U nity salaried official of A. C. Spark­ months of deceit and delay by a broadcasts in addition to articles shots were frothing at the mouth and labor anger mounted through­ ty. Given to understand that Winchell would pre­ Incidentally Mayor Impellitteri is a frequenter of plug division of GM. business-minded commission ma­ in the labor press and the because of growing resentment out the country this week. The face this statement by a condemnation of dis­ the Stork Club. Early in the hearings on the jority. In a furious attack on the distribution of hand bills in the among the local paper m ill em­ CIO Convention, meeting in New ordinance Labor Commissioner m ajority members, Bob Carter, plant. ployees, mostly Negroes, at em­ York, heard a report on the Howard Carpenter, Buick Local regional director of the UAW- It is reliably reported that with ployment conditions and pay events, which took place during member, openly accused the Gen­ CIO and Ninth Ward commis­ mounting union pressure the scales. the convention, and passed a Docket No. 1-3-2649 sioner, promised that the fight eral Motors Corporation of block­ corporate interests began to exert strong resolution backing the in­ for an FEPC law would continue. ing FEPC. He charged that GM The rape charge became the ------By George Breilman ------more direct counter-pressure on excuse fo r a bloody anti-Negro vestigation demands of the The maze of hearings in the intended to continue its dis­ the Commission. Economic threats NAACP. In a wix-e to President criminatory hiring policies in the terror, with mobs burning houses, This is a report about one case involving the lord had decreased living space, or failed to pro­ commission and its legislative were made against some of the Truman, Philip Murray called the committee revealed that the real new plant the company is building shooting and beating in the Jim so-called 1951 rent control law, which is known vide any item of service, or “ failed to make commissioners who own small shootings “either murder or opponent of FEPC was the power­ in F lint. Crow sections of the town. So in the government’s records as Docket No. 1-3- ordinary repairs, replacements or maintenance.” business concerns. They were inexcusable bad police work.” ful General Motors Corporation. violent did the situation become, 2649. I can vouch for it because it is my own Not being a lawyer myself, I was not sure what This fact was clearly under­ ordered to line up against FEPC Earliqr, NAACP Executive The open spokesman fo r GM was that National Guardsmen, called case. that meant, but I decided what the heck. So I stood by all participants. In the or be driven out of business. Secretary Walter White had the sole daily newspaper in the after a few days, removed the When I hear about a rent control law, I think appealed on the ground that “ ordinary mainten­ final hearing, Bob Arnold, chair­ demanded a federal investigation city, the Flint Journal. This paper INCITE RACE HATE whole Negro population. of rents being controlled or kept controlled. That ance” includes painting, which the landlord had man of the Veterans Committee of the outrage. In response to the is notorious fo r its crude policy just goes to show how old-fashioned I am. Be­ not done since mid-1947, and which I had to do of the Buick Local, directed a A t the City Commission, DECLARE MISTRIAL widespread pressure, the Justice of fabricating deliberate false­ cause the new rent control law, which went into twice myself. I also asked for the rig ht to be blast at Kirk which pointed up Genora Dollinger, chairman of In the course of this terror, one Department has ordered federal hoods. The Journal campaign cen­ effect on Aug. % does nothing of the kind. Its present at any hearing on my appeal. the issue. “ We know,” he said, the Socialist Workers Party, Negro youth was shot to death, agencies to look into the matter. tered around the slogan “ educa­ main feature is a provision that permits land­ For a whole month I heard nothing. It seems “ what we can expect from A. C. delivered a sharp attack on the tion not legislation.” Of the six lords to get “ relief from increased costs and that during that time the Office of Rent Stabiliz­ management. That is why we had Flint Journal. “The Flint Jour­ city commissioners who voted prices” — up to 20% more than they got on June ation was busy raising the rents on some 170,000 to build a union against such nal,” she charged, “ has not p rin t­ 30, 1947. dwelling units in North Jersey, and had no time people as him.” ed one single thing favorable to an FEPC ordinance and every­ Reuther Policy Demoralizes On Aug. 22 I got a letter from my landlord, for anything else. The papers reported that COMMISSION RENEGES who is three men named Haskin, giving me notice about 10%, or 17,000, cf the tenants had appeal­ thing against it.” Jim Kutcher Case Before the Commission meet­ that he, or they, had applied for a rent increase. ed. Then I got from the ORS a carbon copy of Both Genora Dollinger and Bob ing K irk had let it be publicly On Aug. 29 I am sitting and thinking about this a new form (D-18) addressed to the Messrs. Carter warned that the pressure Workers Dodge Vote Shows known that he favored the M in­ exerted against the FE'PC or­ , when I get another letter from my landlord. It Haskin. Issues Explained neapolis FEPC law rather than dinance by the corporate interests is in two parts; in the first I am curtly informed It informed them that “a preliminary investi­ By Everett Kennedy the F lin t union - sponsored or­ was stirring up reactionaries, that I am “ hereby required to vacate and quit gation by the Rent Director indicates that the DETROIT, Nov. 22 — For the first time in its his­ dinance. In order to put the Com­ fascist-minded race baiters, reli­ the premises” by Oct. 1; in the second part, I am maximum rent (for my apartment) should be In N. J. CIO News mission m ajority to a test, a joint tory, the membership of Dodge Local 3, second largest graciously advised that if I w ill increase my rent decreased on the grounds stated in Section 5(c)3 NEWARK — The New Jersey gious and nationalist bigots who meeting of union representatives, local in the CIO United Automobile Workers, has rejected from $40 to $48 a month then I can “re-let” my of the Rent Regulation. Therefore, the Rent CIO News prints a sympathetic did not yet dare to openly raise leaders of the NAACP and the their filthy heads and appear apartment — otherwise “ please arrange to move Director proposes to decrease the maximum rent account in its November issue of a strike authorization. More than Socialist Workers Party decided publicly before the Commission. by the date set in the notice previously served from $48 to $43.20 per month.” My landlord was the latest developments in the j 11,000 members turned out last tinued unabated, penalties mount­ to accept the Minneapolis law in In a stirring speech Carter | week in pouring rain to ballot. upon you.” In the same mail I get a copy of an given five days to file a reply to this proposed case of James Kutcher, legless ed and ixo strike vote was taken. spite of some of its inadequate asserted: “ The Klan did not get order from the Office of Rent Stabilization, action, together with “ written evidence.” A foot­ veteran who was purged from the Although a majority favored So scandalous was the top leader­ provisions. out of F lint 20 years ago. They strike, they fell short of the two- Northeastern New Jersey Rent Office, authoriz­ note told me that “ the LANDLORD only” should Newark Veterans Administration ship’s failure to defend the dis­ The Commission rejection of the merely took their sheets o ff and thirds majority required under ing an increase of 20%. I wonder how my land­ answer. because of his membership in the charged committee chairman, that iatter proposal, after they had today are still around patting the UAW constitution. lord got word so quickly that he could write me That is the way things stand now, three weeks Socialist Workers Party. it became an issue in UAW con­ openly declared themselves in commissioners on the back and the same day the ORS director approved the in­ later. I don’t know if my landlord filed, or what The CIO paper, after reporting The failure to muster sufficient ferences. A t the recent Chrysler favor of it during the legislative telling them not to pass this crease. that Kutcher’s appeal has been votes fo r strike authorization is conference, the Chrysler dele­ to expect from the “ rent stabilization” director. Committee hearings, exposed legislation!” I could only marvel at the speed w ith which A ll I can say is that that man is liable to do any­ taken to the U.S. Court of Ap­ unprecedented in this local union gates demanded that Reuther everyone acted. What a fast-moving landlord! thing. What kind of “preliminary investigation” peals in Washington, quotes the with a long record of militancy, discuss the speedup and the He had never shown such rapidity in acting was it that needed the consultation of neither viotim of the government’s “loy­ especially in view of the serious Solomon discharge and refused to permit him to proceed with a when oil ran out in the furnace, or when the me nor the Haskins ? Where did he get the figure alty” purge as saying: issues involved: First, the grow­ water pipes went out of order. And what a mar­ of $43.20? I was able to figure out that $43.20 “ I have persevered in my case UAW BOARD UNDERMINES ing speedup effort by the com­ factional tirade against Ford velous “ rent stabilization” director! He didn’t represents an 8% increase over $40. But where because I believe it is a test case pany; then, the discharge ?>f Local 600 and John L. Lewis. even have to consult me — all he needed was vital fo r democracy, which cannot sevex-al workers, including Jimmie did he get the 8% figure from ? On what basis MOOD OF WORKERS an application from the landlord and he knew did he decide that if my landlord may not merit survive long after citizens are BORG-WARNER BATTLE Solomon, Chairman of the Tx-im exactly how to rule. Who says the bureaucrats a 20% increase, lie certainly does m erit at least deprived of their jobs merely be­ Shop Committee. Finally, when it became clear appointed in Washington are bumbling, snarled an 8% increase. What w ill happen if the director cause of their ideas and associa­ By Bob Kingsley This vote reflects the demor­ that the Reutherite International in red tape, etc? finally decides that my rent really should be tions. I believe I w ill be vin­ alizing effect of the policies and board did not intepd to fu lfill its In small type, the rent increase order (D-140) $43.20 and I proceed to appeal that too? For all dicated in the end. CLEVELAND, Nov. 4 — Top officials of the CIO actions of President Walter promise, the Dodge Local 3 mem­ said I could appeal within 15 days if the land­ United Automobile Workers today ordered a “ recess” in Reuther and his International bership meeting voted unani­ I know, he might “ stabilize” it back to $48 again. COURT RULING the 25-day strike of 10 Borg Warner locals fighting for Executive Board in curbing the mously to take a strike vote on “ Only last month the U.S. Court an industry - wide contract. The j)------fighting actions of the workers in the speedup and discharge ques­ of Appeals ruled unanimously on Reuther leadership made it clear bership expressed the sentiment their attempts to combat the tions. Before the vote, it was Crisis in French Morocco the Remington case that the sub­ that if any local refused to return that the immediate struggle for speedup over the past several announced by Local 3 President versive list is a ‘purely hearsay to work the international union an industry - wide contract with months in Chrysler Corporation. A rt Grudson, a Reutherite, that declaration by the Attorney Gen­ the vote would involve only the ------By John G. Wright ------would stop all strike benefits and Borg-Warner, has been badly When Chrysler launched its eral . . . and has no competency issue of speedup and not the withdraw authorization. This was impaired. speedup drive, there were spon­ Outside of Korea, the most critical area in the to prove the subversive character firing of Solomon, because of unmasked themselves by their complete support a choice, as one unionist ex­ taneous walkouts in Chrysler of the British aggression against Egypt. The of the listed organization.’ THE TRAINED SEALS failure to file a grievance in world today is the Near East. First Iran, then pressed it here, of “ either jump­ plants throughout the city. In “ This strengthens my convic­ Solomon’s case in 48 hours “ in Egypt, followed by Iraq and Lebanon and now French arc openly demanding the same type of ing off the High Level Bridge As one member said, “ The every instance, the International tion that the present witch hunt accordance with procedure.” Wide­ Morocco. The entire Arab world is seething support for their rule in Morocco and Tunis. or the Terminal Tower.” threat of injunctions* and govern­ Union officials refused to back up hysteria w ill yet be overcome and spread layoffs, with more just with revolt against the imperialist powers of the A recent dispatch from Paris cites French For­ The International Executive ment interference in -the legiti­ the rank and file. The Interna­ fche B ill of Rights preserved fo r ax'ound the coi'ner, also had an west. The day of reckoning has indeed arrived eign Office spokesmen as demanding that the Board’s decision, ordering a “ re­ mate and justified demands of tional Board even placed an ad­ all.” important effect on the mood of throughout the Middle East. A settling of ac­ U.S. cease “ lending encouragement” to the inde­ cess” in the strike “pending a workers out on strike is nothing ministrator-dictator over De Soto The CIO News also quoted the worker's. counts, not only with the British but also with pendence aspirations of “ the colonial and semi­ .ruling by the Wage Stabilization new. I t has been used fo r many Local 227 because of the frequent Kutcher’s expression of gratitude the French colonial masters and the entire colon­ colonial nations of the Middle East and North Board,” came as a shock to the years. I f Reuther and Gosser did stx'ikes of Local 227 members. Africa.” to the many organizations and REJECT STRIKE ial system, is now on the order of the day. union membership, as the inter­ not know this there is something The Dodge Main plant was the labor leaders who have rallied to The French colonial possessions in North A fri­ The American imperialists have paid lip-service national had promised 100 per wrong with these master minds... chief target of the speedup be-, News of rejection of strike his defense, which is being con­ ca, in the firs t instance, Morocco and Tunis, are to these aspirations as the best cover for moving cent support to this strike of We have been asked over and cause of its .relatively superior authorization has been taken as a ducted by the Kutcher Civil so many powder kegs ready to explode. Only into these areas, elbowing the old colonial mas­ 7,000 workers until industry­ over again not to question the working conditions established Rights Committee, 19 West 10th signal for a new crack-down by the other day the French used Senegalese troops ters aside, and grabbing up the rich markets wide bargaining was won. The judgment of our great leaders. from the early days of the union. St., New York. the company. The foremen are to quell a mass demonstration in Casablanca, and sources of raw materials fo r themselves. union had twice defied WSB That record is wearing pretty The Trim Shop workers, who felt “ This committee,” Kutcher ex­ vying with each other to tighten where six Moroccan civilians were killed and American Big Business has moved into the demands to return to work. thin. Meanwhile we continue "to the first blow, walked off the job. scores injured. French colonial possessions on a large scale. plained, “ is non-partisan; it does lose strikes and our real wages the screws on the workers. The not agree with my political ideas When the International failed to Behind the angry millions in Egypt and Sudan, French Morocco is already the site of several RULED AN EXCEPTION are scraping the bottom of the support them, they had to return. auto workers, and the Dodge in Morocco and Tunis, are scores of millions of naval bases and six “ superbases” for the U.S. but thinks I have a rig ht to hold On Oct. 16, the international barrel. In this case the Borg- Resistance continued, and penal­ workers first of all, are getting other Arabs, likewise age-long victims of the airforce. More than half a billion dollars has al­ them and my government job at board voted to end the strikes at Warner Corp. cracked the whip ties were heaped on by the another lesson in > what the colonial system, among whom tensions are m ulti­ ready been expended on these bases whose con­ the same time. Members include Douglas Aircraft in California and Truman and the WSB jump­ Dr. John Dewey, Carl Holderman, company, until finally Jimmie plying and who are being drawn by the Iranian, struction is being rushed years ahead of the orig­ and Wright Aeronautical plant in ed to its command like trained Solomon, Shop Committee Chair­ policies of the Reuther leader­ Egyptian and Moroccan events into this vast inal schedule. Arthur Garfield Hays and other Paterson, N. J.* because of the seals.” ship arc costing them and of the leaders, including many in the man, was fired fo r calling a mass liberationist struggle. In addition to these m ilitary establishments, alleged effect of these walkouts meeting of Trim Shop worker's need to get a new fighting leader­ The days when Washington was able to pose American capital, with ECA backing, has poured labor, civic, educational and vet­ NO MORE CONFIDENCE on the Korean war. The Borg- to discuss speedup. ship and return to m ilitant, as the “ friend” of the Middle Eastern and North into diverse fields. Among the biggest invest­ erans’ fields.” Wamer strike, however, was Another worker, a charter African peoples are being abruptly brought to a member of the union and . a PROMISE STRIKE VOTE> ' democratic unionism in the ments are those in a mixed Franco-American FIRST TO JOIN ruled an exception, because, ac­ close. The American imperialists have already corporation formed last year to exploit the lead cording to the United Automobile steward, said that "three years UAW hCIO. The New Jersey CIO was one So great was the membership’s and zinc mines at Zellid.ia in Morocco. These Worker, “ total -production in the s:go I was asked to have con­ of the first labor .organizations to resentment that the local’s Ex­ mines are scheduled to become the third largest aircraft plants is defense produc­ fidence in the Reuther leadership ecutive Board issued a leaflet lead producers in the world. join in the defense of the legless on its decision to re-elect Tru­ veteran. Its president, Carl Hold­ tion while . only a ‘negligible calling for a plant shutdown. Newark Fri. Night “ The Bending Cross” American oil investments in the Middle East portion’ of Borg-Warner produc­ man because he promised to Representatives of the Interna­ have been huge and so have been the profits. erman, helped to initiate the repeal the Taft-H artley law. I Ray Ginger’s popular biography Kutcher Civil Rights Committee, tion consists- of defense items.” tional swarmed down on the mass Socialist Forum In 1950 alone the bulk of the increase of $338 Confronted by the WSB’s was stupid enough at that time meeting held that day and with of Eugene Victor Debs million in profits from foreign investments has and recently praised “ its ex­ to collect dollars for the PAG. I presents a lecture on cellent work.” threat of an injunction the in­ threats and pressure, as well as come from “petroleum investments in Latin ternational board on Nov. 1 com­ need more than confidence to feed lies about the strike being Frederick Douglass, Wos $5 America and the Middle East,” reported the De­ pletely reversed its previous my wife and kids.” fostered by “scheming .poli­ The Man and His Work partment of Commerce in October. resolution and capitulated. Faced w ith the ultimatum that ticians,” pushed through a retui-n- Deadline fer Militant Speaker: Rather than give up these profits and the pros­ In spite of all assurances and they either return to work or get to-work motion. Nevertheless, the Now Only #1.50 pect of even bigger hauls ahead, the American The deadline fo r articles and appeals fo r “ confidence in our no international support and have International spokesmen claimed George Lavan imperialists are rushing into a head-on collision ads fo r The' M ilitant is the international leadership” by the Taft - Hartley injunction that speedup would not be Fri., Nov. 16, 8:30 PM PIONEER PUBLISHERS with the insurgent peoples of the Near East just Tuesday before the date of the international representatives thrown at them the membership tolerated, etc., and that a strike at 423 Springfield Avenue 116 University Place New York 3, N. Y. as they have already collided with the hundreds publication. present at the meeting of the voted reluctantly to end the vote would soon be taken. of millions in the Far East, Pesco plant local here, the mem- strike. Weeks went by as speedup con-'