Workers of the World, Unite ! Third of Nation Still Ill-Housed, t h e MILITANT Ill-Clad, Ill-Fed PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE INTERESTS OF THE WORKING PEOPLE Vol. X III - No. 47 217 NEW YORK, N. Y., MONDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1949 PRICE: FIVE CENTS Bv Joseph Keller One-third of the nation is still “ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished” — 12 years after Roosevelt coined this famous description. This re­ mains the>outstanding fact of American life under capitalism, despite CIO GAINS New Deals, War Deals and Fair Deals. Last year, when production and employment were the highest in U. S. peacetime history, some sixteen million fam ily units re­ BIG LOCALS ceived a cash income of under $2,000, less than $40 a week. Eight Miners Face Gang-Up million of these fam ily units were forced to subsist on less than $1,000, below $20 a week. IN UE WAR Another nine million families scraped by on less than $3,000 a year, while some 13 M: million others received from $3,000 to $5,000. The civil war between the Stal- These latter incomes, however, have a purchasing power of between inist-!-ontrolled United Electrical $1,500 and $2,500 in 1939 dollars. Workers, expelled from the CIO These are the sober, conservative findings issued on Nov. 12 at its recent convention, and the in Washington by the Subcommittee on Low-Income Families of newly-chartered CIO Internatonal By Government, Owners the Joint Congressional Committee on the Economic Report, headed Union of Electrical, Radio and by Senator Sparkman of Alabama. Machine Workers, led by CIO We can better appreciate what these income -levels mean when Secretary - Treasurer James B. we compare them to the minimum living standards budgets estab­ Carey and the ACTU faction, is A ll Labor Must Now Declare: lished by the government. The U. S. Bureau of Labor Statistics says raging in full fury. the minimum decency and health income for the average family Both factions are resorting to today is between $3,200 and $3,500 a year. Back in March 1946 be­ strong-arm methods in attempt­ 'Hands Off the Coal Miners!’ fore the biggest leap in post-war prices, the Senate Education and ing to silence their opponents, Labor Committee reported: “ Even the inadequate maintenance grabbing local treasuries and By Art Preis budget developed for families on work relief would cost $1,700 at properties where they can and current prices.” running to the courts fo r in­ The coal miners are fighting w ith their backs to the Today in this richest country on earth, one out of every three junctions and restraining orders wall against a gang-up by the government and coal oper­ people lives in conditions ranging from bare subsistence to out­ against each other. ators. The Big Business press is howling louder than ever right starvation. Another third struggles to stay within the bor­ CIO officials claimed that locals for the head of John L. Lewis.®------——- derland of minimum maintenance. And even those who manage to representing some 130,000 mem­ For 52 days the soft coal to stall o ff the steel strike fo r get between $4,000 and $5,000 a year — at double the 1939 cost of bers including the huge Westing- miners stayed out of the pits in 21/., months and to whittle the living — live under a cloud of insecurity. house Local 601 in Pittsburgh, a demonstration of magnificent steel workers’ demands down to GM Frigidaire local in Dayton THE RICHEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD solidarity and militancy that is a mere splinter. and two large Philco locals in their trade-mark. No one can Remember, this is not in an undeveloped, backward country, or Philadelphia, had voted to remain doubt they w ill resume the fight TRUMANS’ TACTICS one blasted and ruined by war. This is in the country that boasts in CIO during the first week of with the same unity and deter­ As this is written, it is reported of doubling production of goods in a single decade since 1939 and the split. The UE leaders claimed that has trebled the national income in a brief span of 15 years. mination should the United Mine that Truman has already secretly 600.000 members before the split, Workers leaders be forced to call hand-picked a “ fact - finding” But this is also a country where bankers, industrialists and land­ but UE representation at the CIO lords rule; where the capitalist government siphons off a quarter of them out again at the end of the board and is going to demand convention was based on only three-week truce on Dec. 1. that the miners submit fo its the national income to feed the war machine; where competitive about 350,000 members. greed and the profits of a few rob the substance of the many. This strike-truce, announced on “ inquiry” and “ findings.” Should While the old UE holds the Nov. 9 by the UMW Policy Com­ they refuse to place their in­ The tiny, parasitic minority who thrive under the profit system, powerful weapon of contracts mittee, gives the miners a breath­ terests in the hands of this keep yelping, “ Look at Russia, look at China, look at England! with Westinghouse, General Elec­ look everywhere but at the misery and poverty at home. No, we ing spell — but no more. They agency of the capitalist govern­ tric and other large manu­ w ill get a few weeks’ pay to ment and mine owners, Truman say, look at America, look at a land where we have all the means facturers, the new CIO union un- at hand for universal plenty and security, but where the more we bolster them a bit for the next will use this as a pretext to dountedly w ill have the greatest klage of the struggle. But we crack down with the Taft-Hartley produce, the greater grows the gulf between rich and poor. attraction for the workers in the We can achieve the plenty and security for all that this country must face the fact that the Act or his “ inherent power” to long run, because the CIO remains rig h t now is able to produce — but only under one condition: This minors, their resources badly break “national emergency” the mainstream of industrial country must belong to the people, really belong to them. The depleted, are in a precarious Strikes. , unionism. factories, mines, railroads, natural resources — all the basic means position. We must sound the All organized labor owes a Last week, it was reported that of producing and distributing the necessities of life — must belong alarm for all-out labor support great debt of gratitude to the the 17,000-member Local 201 in to the non-profit society of the workers and producers. to- the embattled coal-diggers. miners, who have been in the Those who live by their labor — the 80% of the population who Lynn, Mass., voted to stay in CIO, vanguard of labor’s struggle, now live in the shadow of insecurity — must control the economy. as well as the 8,000 - member “HATE-LEWIS” MOB pioneering every great gain, such They must plan and operate production and distribution cooperative­ Local 1581 in Buffalo, N. Y. The W ith the steel strike out of the as pension and welfare funds, in ly; under their own democratic rule through a Workers and Farmers Stalinists are putting out a flood way, the Truman administration the past years. The steel workers of counter-claims and have in­ Government. , , and coal operators have openly were tremendously bolstered by In short, socialism — and socialism alone — w ill end forever stituted a string of court actions combined to concentrate a fu ll- th^ mine strike. to block the s’eizufe of funds and this brutal profit system that condemns one-third of the nation to scale fero«i«U8 assault against Don’t let the miners dowh! Now properties by seceding locals. In hovels, rags and hunger. ______(he mine workers. The “ Hate is the time for CIO President Schenectady, N. Y., however, the Workers Block Bis Steel Lewis” mob — a coalition of all Philip Murray to speak out CIO group secured a temporary the anti-labor scum in the coun­ against Truman’s strikebreaking injunction to prevent “transfers try — have scented blood and are plans! Let all labor leaders and or concealment of union funds” closing in for what they hope labor organizations declare in no V. R. DUNNE IN NATIONAL by the old UE group. Union-Crippling Drive w ill be the kill. They are out to uncertain terms to Washington: The IUE-CIO officials last week destroy Lewis and the UMW as The solidarity, union loyalty being misrepresented by Murray SETTLEMENT ARE UPON A “ Hands o ff the coal miners!” filed a petition with the NLRB the symbol of an aggressive union­ and self-sacrifice of the steel and the capitalist press as “ non­ CONTRIBUTORY BASIS.” (Our TOUR ON CIVIL RIGHTS in Washington requesting elec­ ism (bat has won for the miners workers has blocked the third contributory,” are paid for in part emphasis.) tions in all plants of General the highest industrial wages in post - war drive of the steel by the workers through their Vincent R. Dunne’s national-* *1 Electric, Westinghouse, General (he country and (he largest pen­ monopolists to weaken or cripple taxes on social security. The plan MURRAY IN JULY Clark Refuses to lecture tour on Labor and Civil Motors and five other large com­ sions and welfare benefits. Rights w ill begin in Seattle on the CIO United Steel Workers. calls for a minimum pension, at Moreover, the health insurance panies to determine the collective No longer are the coal opera­ Nov. 29 and w ill cover all of the U. S. Steel Corporation agreed age 65 after 25 years service, of program is openly on a con­ bargaining agency. tors — the front for the steel Disqualify Himself main Socialist Workers Party In a court action in Phila­ to a settlement on Nov. 11, the $100 a month — including federal tributory basis, with the worker corporations which control the centers in the following two delphia last week, a federal judge 42nd day of the general basic social security. It is not a $100 a and company each paying 21/, steel strike, which began Oct. 1 month pension paid for by the cents an hour into the fund. This major mines — making a pretense In Dennis Case months. ruled that the IUE-CIO could use of seeking a negotiated settle­ Comrade Dunne’s lectures will its full name or the initials IUE, and at its peak involved close company. will mean a reduction in take- home pay of about $1 a week. ment. They are deliberately ignor­ The U. S. Supreme Court last deal with the cold war and the but not “UE.” to 600,000 workers. A “COMPROMISE” ing the offers of the. UMW lead­ week ripped o ff its mask of judi­ witch-hunt; the Smith Act and The Stalinist UE .leaders, in U. S- Steel, which employs a Here is what Murray himself This fact was emphasized, after ers for further meetings. They cial “ im partiality” when Justice the conviction of the 11 leaders addition to trying to keep their third of the workers in the basic said about such a contributory the conclusion of the settlement, confidently expect the govern­ Tom Clark, former Attorney Gen­ of - the Communist Party; the forces in line with the contracts steel industry, accepted terms insurance program on July 12, by U. S. Steel President Benjamin ment to spearhead the attack on eral, refused to disqualify himself Minneapolis trial of 1941, pre­ they hold, have been assailing similar to the pension settlements 1949, in his report to the steel Fairless. He issued a statement the. miners and crush them in in the court’s hearing of an ap­ cedent for the New York trial of the CIO leaders for the miserable previously concluded with Beth­ union’s wage policy committee: saying in part: “ It [the new con­ defeat. peal by Communist Party leader 1949; the witch - hunt in the settlements made in steel and lehem Steel and other Little Steel “ The proposal made by the corporations. These terms follow tract ] represents a compromise United States Steel Corpora­ Truman is giving the parasitic Eugene Dennis against a con- unions; what happened to pro­ auto. Carey and other CIO viction for contempt of the House mises for civil rights for Negroes; spokesmen have been making the pattern of the recommenda­ of (he principal issue imdispute, tion . . . contemplates that the operators every assurance that tions of Truman’s “ Fact-Finding” namely, whether or not the em­ Corporation will contribute an their profits and privileges will Un-American Activities Commit­ the enemies and defenders of effective use of the Stalinists’ tee. democracy and civil rights. notorious record of wartime stri­ Board. The steel barons had ployer shall pay the entire cost additional picayune sum of 2c. be safeguarded with the fu ll Clark flouted the avowed tradi- In addition to his lecture under kebreaking and their “ tagalong” forced the strike when they re­ of insurance and pensions for per hour for social insurance power of the government. The t ons of judicial procedure when SWP auspices, Dunne w :ll be V. R. DUNNE policy in post-war wage fights. fused to accept these recom­ employees. . . benefits, but only upon the condi­ White House has issued a virtual he insisted on sitting as a judge prepared to address other organ­ mendations. “ The pension to be paid by tion that the employees con­ ultimatum to the miners to remain in a case where his bias against izations concerned with the civil But the union did not gain the United States Steel shall be tribute a like amount. This is a on their jobs after Dec. 1 or face the appellant has been publicly rights struggle and. to appear on immediate objective which Philip reduced by the amount of any shocking proposal. . . The net the kind of government strike­ proclaimed. Dennis was one of the radio programs in the larger Murray had proclaimed at the pension or annuity which such effect of the Corporation’s pro­ breaking that Truman has twice NEW YORK CITY M UTING I I Stalinists convicted of “ con­ cities where his schedule w.U s ta ll of the strike — pensions retired employee is entitled to posal is a wage cut to the em­ before used against them. spiracy to advocate” the over­ permit it. He w ill also be avail­ and social insurance paid fo r en­ receive under the Federal Social ployees of 2c. per hour, since this This time Truman has a method amount would be deducted from throw of the government in the able fo r conferences with party tirely by the companies. Before Security Act or other similar of intervention that he hopes will TO GREET LEGLESS VET and during the strike he had said legislation. The Federal Social the pay of the employees.” The enable him to get the effect of Foley Square trial — a prosecu­ members and sympathizers on deduction Murray has agreed to is tion initiated by Tom Clark when their local problems. NEW YORK, Nov. 17 — James Kutcher, the legless there would be “no retreat” on Security Act requires equal con­ (he Taft - Hartley Act without he headed the Department of Vincent R. Dunne first became veteran who was purged from his VA job because of mem­ the principle of non-contributory tributions by employers and em­ 21/., cents. formally invoking the act itself. pensions and welfare. ployees. TO THAT EXTENT The union leaders agreed to He has the weapon of the “ fact- Justice. nationally famous in 1934 fo r his bership in the Socialist Workers Party, will be welcomed leadership of the teamsters’ The steel pensions, which are P E NSIONS UNDER THIS fContinued on page 2) finding” procedure which he usee' The Department of Justice, in home from his coast - to - coaSt^ strikes that launched the drive a statement last June 30 listing speaking tour at a public meet­ which made Minneapolis a union Clark’s “ achievements” as A t­ ing Dec. 15, 8 P.M., at the Capitol town, lie won the admiration of torney General, boasted of his Hotel, 51st. St. and Eighth Ave. union militants throughout the contributions to “internal secu­ The meeting, sponsored by the country for his prominent role rity,” among them the contempt Kutcher Civil Rights Committee, SIU Red-Baiting Masks 'Cannibal’ Unionism conviction of Dennis. in the great struggle for union w ill also mark the 158th an­ democracy in the Teamsters, and Not only did Clark as Attorney niversary of the Bill of Rights. the support of all defenders of By R. Bell cause (he Trotskyists have con­ announced it had signed an agree­ courts have ruled that the union going into detail, the authors of General boast of his part in secur­ Kutcher will tell the story of his civil liberties as the central figure Leading officials of the AFL demned the cannibal unionism of ment with the BME on terms hiring hall for seamen is illegal the article fla y “ Mahoney and hi: ing (be conviction on which he fight to retain his government job, in the first tria l under the Smith Seafarers International Union and the SIU - SUP officialdom the previously rejected by the MEBA. under the Taft-Hartley Law. In Trotskyite disrupters” for going now is sitting as an appeal judge, which has become the key case Sailors Union of the Pacific have Socialist Workers Party has also The only ship to “ run (he block­ a test case, this decision of the or. record” in a Seattle mem­ but he instituted the “ subversive” Act. arising from the “loyalty” purge. The Minneapolis trial, which is laid down a heavy barrage against been dubbed “ dual and hostile!” ade" in the recent Hawaiian lower courts has been appealed bership meeting “ to non-eoncui list and the “loyalty” purge in­ Other prominent speakers w ill known in the law records as “ the “Trotskyist disrupters” to screen One form of cannibal unionism Longshoremen’s strike was the to the United States Supreme with the membership’s decisior vestigations (hat helped create include: Dunne case,” was repeatedly cited their own disruptive activities on has boen practiced under the Isthmian Company ship, Steel Court by the National Maritime to man the vessels of the Unior the witch-hunt atmosphere sur­ I. F. Stone, noted author and as a precedent by the prosecutor the waterfront. These activities “ CSU formula.” In our article in Flyer, under contract to the Union. The Supreme Court deci­ Oil Company.” rounding' (he contempt prosecu­ columnist. in the New York trial of the 11 are a matter of record. They The M ilitant last week we told SIU. Men who refused to scab sion is expected some time around tion and conviction. Roger Baldwin, director, Amer­ have made the top officials of the how the S IU -S U P broke the were expelled from the union. the first of the year. LUNDEBERG’S REWARD Stalinist leaders. It was pointed out by Dennis’ ican Civil Liberties Union . SIV-SUP hated in other maritime Canadian Seamens Union strike The policy of cannibal unionism For a seafaring union to in­ The reluctance of the author: The interest that will un­ attorney that the jury which Carl Holderman, president, New unions and have led to a creeping by- signing a sweetheart agree­ provides many variations. On the voke this union-busting clause to of the anti-Trotskyist tirade tr doubtedly be shown in Comrade brought in the conviction was Jersey State CIO Council. destruction of the democratic ment after the CSU had struck Pacific Coast, for example, the raid another union can only give supply details is understandable Dunne’s appearances should make composed in part ofr government Professor Thomas I. Emerson, rights of their members. the ships. Lundeberg - sponsored Pacific aid and encouragement, to the in view of what they have tr it one of the most successful tours employees, who were under dean of Yale University Law The CIO National Maritime Marine Stewards Union, organized shipowner-government assault on conceal. However, we are unde: in SWP history. pressure of the “ loyalty” probe School and authority on the Union (NMU), International SCAB AGREEMENTS to raid the jurisdiction of the the hiring hall. Thus, cannibal no such restraint. To win their The schedule fo r his tour is and would fear to bring in a “loyalty” program. Longshoremen • and Warehouse­ .More recently, the CSU formula Marine Cooks and Stewards, has unionism in the maritime industry strike the oil workers had to stoj- printed on Page 3 of this issue. verdict that might arouse the Benjamin F. McLaurin, interna­ men’s Union (ILW U ), Marine was employed against the Marine recently challenged the “ legality” serves to weaken and undermine the movement of oil by railroad resentment of Clark and the tional organizer, Brotherhood of Engineers Beneficial Association Engineers. When the MEBA of the MS&S union hiring hall. the basic foundation of all seafar­ ship and truck. The vessels of the other “ loyalty” purgers,. Louis Adamic Sleeping Car Porters, AFL, and (MEBA), Marine Cooks & Stew­ struck the S.S. Sir John Franklin The Seattle Post - Intelligencer, ing unions! Union Oil company were under national committee member of ards (MCS) and the independent of the Isbrandtsen Steamship Oct. 23, reports that the PMS has One of the major “ crimes” of contract to the National Maritime Clark is establishing a precedent On Yugoslavia Americans for Democratic Action. Pacific Coast Marine Firemen’s Company last month for an im ­ filed charges “ based on the ‘right which the Trotskyists are accused Union. whereby he w ill be able to judge Norman Thomas, Socialist Union (MFOW) are all classified proved agreement, Paul Hall, Sec­ to work’ clause of the Taft- in a six page diatribe in the When NMU crew members his own violations of civil rights A fter a six months’ stay in Party leader. by the SIU-SUP leadership as retary-Treasurer of the SIU, sent Harvley Act." Nov. 4 Seafarers Log, is opposi­ walked off ship in support of the in numerous cases when he was Yugoslavia, the American George Novack, national sec­ “dual and hostile.” Under this replacements aboard from his tion to SIU-SUP strikebreaking strike, Harry Lundeberg, Presi­ Attorney General. He may well w riter gives his views on the retary of the Kutcher Civil Rights classification all these unions newly formed Brotherhood of THEY USE T-H ACT in the long di'awn and bitterly dent of the SIU and Secretary- have the decisive vote in putting Tito-Stalin conflict. See pg. 3. Committee, w ill chair the meet­ have been subjected to SIU-SUP .Marine Engineers. A few days It is under the so-called “ right- fought Oil Workers strike on the Treasurer of the SUP, ran finks the supreme judicial seal on ing. raiding and strikebreaking. Be­ later the Isbrandtsen Company to-v/ork” clause that the lower Pacific Coast last year. Without (Continued on page 4) abrogations of the Bill of Rights, Page T w o TME MILITANT Monday, November 21, 1949 4 0 0/o of Fund Collected Steel Strike Settled

At the Half-Way Mark The Workers Who the International Committee, even I proposed that a resolution by if there were more than one or­ the Congress on the obligations By Reba Aubrey Produce Meat Can't ganization from the same country. of the European workers be drawn Fund Campaign Manager Afford to Buy It There >vas therefore no question up which could be subject to The Socialist Workers Party of Levan OR some other Viet­ amendment, and which finally cnmpaign to raise a SI 2,000 Party SCOREBOARD FOR SWP FUND Editor: namese being on the committee. could be really voted on for and Building Fund reached the half­ It is interesting to note in the The membership of one on the Branch Quot a Paid Percent against, by the Congress. . . way mark this week. Party mem­ statistics of the U. S. Depart­ committee would in no sense pre­ F lint S 200 $ 163 82 Saul Berg bers and friends have sent in a ment of Agriculture that per judice the right of the other to New Britain SO 21 70 Paris, France total of $4,769 through Nov. 15 capita consumption of meat has membership. St. Paul-Minneapolis 900 527 59 — 40% of the national quota — fallen from prewar in all the It was therefore only a ques­ riD. NOTE: We can’t make out New York 2,000 1,723 57 still 10% behind schedule. leading meat-producing countries tion of deciding whether to add what Berg is complaining about Toledo 75 43 57 In line with the campaign except the United States and Levan on the committee by in his long, abusive letter, the Sun Francisco-Oak land 800 428 54 Slogan — IN FULL AND ON Canada. U. S. meat production is defining the delegation of Viet­ pertinent parts of which are Buffalo 500 258 52 TIM E — the branches are striving up 17% and Canada 14% from namese Workers in France as a printed above. Ali reported that New Haven 25 13 52 to be on schedule every week. prewar to 1948. At the same time national movement. Furthermore, the Shachtmanites had joined in Ailentown 50 25 50 Branches that started collecting meat consumption in these two if that had been passed, we would a Stalinist - instigated move to Seattle 200 100 50 funds with the opening gun and countries went down from 1947 have immediately been confronted deny representation on the In ­ Worcester 40 19 48 regularized their weekly pledge to 1948. This is the result of with a demand for representation ternational Committee of the Newark 350 140 42 payments are either on schedule lower incomes for workers caused for the organizations of African Congress to the representative of Boston 200 82 41 or ahead. by unemployment and shorter students in Britain, some of whom Viet Namese Workers of France Morgantown 25 10 40 F lin t Branch, for instance, has hours. Even the workers who are influenced by Stalinism. Their — an authentic movement with Philadelphia 600 230 38 held first place in the campaign produce the. meat of the country status, that of a small community 15,000 members that plays a lead­ Cleveland 250 89 30 since the beginning. They have cannot afford to buy it. This is temporarily located in another ing part in the struggle against St. Louis 75 27 36 now reached 82% of their $200 another one of the great con­ country, is exactly the same as the French war of conquest on 1,100 382 35 quota. “ Whoopee!” shouts Com­ Detroit tradictions of capitalism. that of Levan’s organization. It Indo • China — because their 150 50 33 rade Genora for all the F lint Pittsburgh United Steelworkers members hail the end of their six-week Packinghouse Workers’ Wife, can be seen, therefore, that the democratically elected represen­ 1,500 275 18 comrades, “ Our goal is nearly Los Angeles strike at Republic Steel plant in Chicago. The settlement repre­ St. Paul, Minn. delegates were wise in voting that tative is a Trotskyist. Op the face 400 50 14 reached!” Youngstown sents a “ compromise” of union’s demand for non-contributory Levan’s organization is a local of Berg’s own letter, it is clear 75 New Britain holds second place Lynn 10 13 welfare concessions. one and ineligible for the In­ that he did join in this move, 400 45 Complaint from with 70% of its quota. Chicago 11 ternational Committee. . . despite his efforts to obscure its 100 10 St. Paul-Minneapolis still holds Akron 10 A Shachtmanite (2) My abstention on a declara­ significance. 250 0 third place with 59%. But third Milwaukee 0 tion of the European Commission A li also reported that Berg place is now challenged by New General 705 37 5 Editor: ACEWR TO RUN BAZAAR In The M ilitant for Oct. 24 ap­ pledging support for the colonial “abstained from voting on a de­ York and Toledo, both branches peoples in the fight against im­ claration from the European Com­ 812,000 pealed an article by A li on the having reached 57% of their TOTAL through Nov. 15 $4,769 40% perialism: Ali complains that this mission pledging active support quotas during the week. Congress of the Peoples Against DEC. 9-10 IN NEW YORK Imperialism. Since the article resulted because the statement fo r the colonial peoples in the Comrade Cathy, Fund Director did not mention Eastern Europe... fight against imperialism. The we w ill be able to send in sub- anonymous contributed $20. criticized myself and the Inde­ fo r New York Local, reports that Here are the facts. Chairman reasons he gave were that the stanlial amounts in the next two A circular appeal has gone out The New York Chapter of the American Committee pendent Socialist League in terms “ of the $1,72.3 paid, quite a few Brockway announced that the statement should have included ir three weeks. At any rate, our to all the subscribers of The for European Workers Relief announces that its Fourth that 1 have hitherto encountered dollars have been contributed by European declaration was NOT a condemnation of Russian op­ "ull quota w ill be in by the Dec. M ilitant and Fourth International, Annual Xmas Bazaar will be held on Dec. 9 and 10. only in the Stalinist press, I ask friends of the SWP.” resolution that was before the pression in Eastern Europe.” 11 deadline.” and we expect the “ General” for the opportunity to reply. . . San Francisco-Oakland jumped As those who have attended ® Congress fo r adoption. It was the Here too Berg’s letter confirms Morgantown Branch leaped quota to begin a climb next week, war was at an end. I am now 68 (1) The question of Levan’s from fifteenth to sixth place, previous bazaars of the ACEWR Europeans’ declaration only: it A li’s report, his real objection from zero to 40% of its quota; Next week’s scoreboard should yeaks old, sick, and have only a exclusion from the International with 54% of its quota. “ Consider­ know, the Xmas Bazaar is the was not subject to amendment being that A li does not accept \kron Branch squeezed from zero show every quota fulfilled by 40 German Mark monthly in­ Committee . . . it was in no sense ing that we have reached the ideal place for workers to do their by the congress; and it was only Berg’s legalistic justification for to 10%, leaving only one branch 62%. It ’ll be a cinch for some come. . . I ask you to lighten a question of voting for Stalinism half-way mark in our payments Xmas shopping. Not only w ill up for acceptance — that is, to an abstentionist attitude to a. n the zero category. branches; other branches will my need by sending me a food versus Trotskyism. The congress in one-third the time set,” writes there be an abundance of mer­ be read into the minutes, as we declaration of support for the W. E. B. of Portland, Oregon, have to speed up their pledge package. . .” had already agreed that every Anne Chester, “ the San Francisco- chandise at bargain prices, but would put it in American parlia­ colonial fight against imperial­ contributed $5 toward the fund, payments. Being on schedule now To continue its necessary work, national affiliate from Asia and Oakland area is doing much better ihe closing attraction will be a mentary procedure. Given this in­ ism. Thanks a lot. w ill forestall that wild scramble the ACEWR depends on such af­ Africa would be represented on than anticipated. If we continue grand auction of all unsold terpretation by the chairman, I The facts show, in this instance A friend who wishes to remain at the deadline. fairs as its annual Xmas Bazaar. in this manner, we should go way articles. Here is the chance to dismissed the whole vote as mean­ as in all others, that the Shacht­ save money on your shopping and over the top. We are planning a HOW TO HELP ingless. I specifically asked that manites are guided prim arily by banquet find dance in a combined at the same time help needy Workers Block my position — for unqualified im­ Stalinophobia and by unprincipled celebration of October 1917 and working class families abroacf A ll those who believe in in­ ternational solidarity have two mediate independence for all combinations with all the petty- The Militant anniversary. This Nov. FI Features Analysis Many people, the ACEWR colonial peoples and fo r total bourgeois opponents of Trot­ should net a fa ir amount which states., have the mistaken belief duties. First, to help the Big Steel Drive ACEWR collect merchandise, and opposition to both imperialist skyism. I f they don’t like their w ill go toward our Party Build­ that the need for relief to Europe (Continued from Page 1) blocs — be entered into the shabby behavior to be publicized, ing Fund quota.” no longer exists. This is especially second, to come to the bazaar, Of Yugoslav Developments make no new demands on pen­ minutes, so that slanderers like then they ought to stop behaving Buffalo Branch grabbed seventh untrue in the cases of those aided bringing friends and relatives if sions and insurance for five years, A li could not misconstrue it, and in a shabby manner. place by sending in $41 special by the ACEWR. Many of these possible. In what direction is the Yugoslav Communist Party but the company can terminate delivery. are ex-concentration camp prison­ Those who have friends or headed — toward Wall Street’s reactionary camp or to­ the pension plan after two years To complete the on - schedule ers whose health was so ruined by relatives who have businesses are if it so desires. roster: New Haven, Allentown, ward revolutionary socialism? imprisonment and torture that urged to ask them for donations In accepting the meager pen­ and Seattle have reached 50% at This timely and important ques-®- they need special foods and me­ of merchandise. A ll are asked to give some personal possessions to sion and insurance programs, the the half-way mark. tion is considered from the Marx- The second installment of V. dicines. Others are aged parents, the bazaar. Anyone wishing to aid steel union leaders sacrificed the Philadelphia Branch doubled its :st point of view by Michel Pablo Grey’s study of the steel in­ widows and orphans of men who Milwaukee, also doing better in the solicitation of merchandise union’s “ fourth round” wage Cleveland, Seattle, percentage to 38% with a pay­ :n the November issue of Fourth dustry, “ Steel: Achilles of U. S. were killed by the Nazis. These than schedule, hopes “ to increase should visit or telephone the demands. The overwhelming ma­ ment of $115 during the week. International, monthly magazine .Industry,” is as colorful apd people cannot be forgotten now. New Haven, Boston this tempo once we got the M ili­ ACEWR office at 130 West 23rd jo rity of steel workers w ill not M. Baker writes for Detroit of American Trotskyism. World educational as the first part They need the helping hand of tant Task Force into high gear,” St., New York City, CHelsea 2- get one penny more in their pay Branch:' “ We couldn’t make the Stalinism, he declares, faces the which appeared in the October international solidarity. Complete Sub Quotas according to Militant Manager 5884. envelopes as a result of this halfway mark on schedule, but most acute crisis in its evolution issue. Grey shows how tech­ Cleveland forged ahead last Fred Martin. The ACEWR sends relief pack­ strike. In addition, the new con­ since the monstrous purges of nological improvements sharpen The coming bazaar promises week in the national subscription ages ,to Holland, Belgium, France tract runs until Dec. 31, 1951, Reporting for Detroit, Litera­ 1930-38. The dissidence of the the struggle of the monopolistic to be the same bargain-hunter’s campaign for The Militant to tie (including Spanish exiles there), with one 30-day wage reopener ture Agent Shirley Mason writes Yugoslavs has encouraged re­ giants and undermine their gen­ paradise that it has been in the New Haven for first Italy, Austria, Greece and all previous years. In addition to starting Dec. 31, 1950. In effect, that the comrades have not yet sistance to the terrorist regime eral agreement to lim it capacity. place. W ith the cam­ four zones of Germany. art objects and curios from all the contract represents a 11/, to had a real opportunity to get of the Kremlin throughout the In “ Some Comments on the paign at the half An example of the type of over the world, there w ill be fine 21!,-year wage freeze from the going. “ In the next few weeks satellite countries and far beyond. Falling Rate of Profit,” the well- way mark it looks people assisted by the ACEWR time of the last contract termina­ we intend to correct this and we “ It is not an exaggeration to known Marxist writer Arne color prints, jewelry, phonograph like even money on anticipate,” declares Pablo, “ if is the W. fam ily in Germany. records, men’s, women’s and tion. expect to have our quota of subs Swaheck discusses a point raised which branch in by the deadline.” Like Seattle, (be Yugoslav affair evolves The son has recently been released children’s clothing, toys, books, Thus, what Murray gave away, by V. Grey in his first article. doubles its goal first. the Detroit branch recently com­ favorably, if the Tito regime does from a convalescent home, for household articles and a hundred in terms of no immediate wage Students of Marxism w ill find Each has scored pleted a successful local sub cam­ •tot compromise with imperialism f o r m e r concentration camp other items. gains and a prolonged wage Swabeck’s comments most illu ­ 173%. paign. WHY but on the contrary develops a prisoners. The mother writes: The bazaar w ill be held at the freeze, far outweighs the limited minating. The New Haven more consistent revolutionary “ As a functionary of the Social ACEWR headquarters, 130 West The Buffalo comrades are1 hav­ “Slalinism and Negro History” pension and welfare gains. Worst comrades have suc­ YOU NEED line, that we may yet witness the Democratic Party 1 was arrested 23rd St. It begins at 6 P.M., F ri­ ing unusual difficulties. Work­ is an informative analysis of of all, this wage - freeze has ceeded in combining debacle of Stalinism in the years when the Nazis marched into da), Dec. 9. On Saturday the doors ers have not yet had a chance to some recent productions of Stal­ established the pattern in all intensive sub-getting to come on a vast scale.” Czechoslovakia. My husband who w ill onen at noon. The auction w ill make up fo r what was lost in inist writers. J. Meyer, a Marxist basic industries. with excellent sales of single Citing recent developments in was persecuted during the entire take place Saturday night. Ad­ wages during the strikes. On top ’the Militant’ authority on problems of the copies of The M ilitant. Literature Yugoslavia such as further col­ regime of Nazis, died when the mission free. COST WORKERS DEARLY of this, the Socialist Workers Negro people, contrasts the Stal­ Agent N. S. writes that in one lectivization of agriculture, the Murray’s dependence on favors Party has been the target of a America’s leading socialist inist interpretation with the true hour of neighborhood visiting reform of the law on Peoples’ from Truman and his “ fact- savage red-baiting campaign in weekly gives you: story of the progressive role of three comrades sold six subs and Committees and the emergence finding” machinery cost the steel the capitalist newspapers. Despite the Negro people in American 25 Militants. At a meeting at 0 The straight, unvarnished of deepening ideological d if­ COOK COUNTY BOARD REBUFFS workers dearly. The steel board these obstacles, they write that history. Yale University of about 80 peo­ facts about the trends in poli­ ferences with Stalinism, Pablo reduced the union’s demands to they expect to put Buffalo on the tics, economics and social is- A review by B. Lens of Lincoln ple, 10 M ilitants and one copy of sub campaign map “ before the concludes that the Yugoslav Com­ LANDLORDS ON RENT GOUGE a pittance. In return for this Fourth International were sold. Bues of vital importance to munist Party is developing as Barnett’s book, The Universe and pittance, Murray led the steel month is over.” every thinking worker. Dr. Einstein, hits hard at the CHICAGO, Nov. 10 — For the second time in five At another meeting on the “ a left centrist tendency.” workers to believe that they campus of about 100 people “ we New York too ran into d if­ Its further evolution in a professional mystitiers who claim months the Cook County Rent Advisory Board today voted would not have to strike. ficulties. Engaged in supporting 0 Genuine Marxist analyses they are “ popularizing” science. against a general rent increase. By a vote of 8 to 6, the sold 11 Militants, two FIs and that explain in simple lan­ favorable direction, he holds, is But Murray’s eagerness to five pamphlets. One boy from a major meeting scheduled fo r The issue is rounded out with board in a special meeting reaf-®" guage the big events of our favored by the split with the avoid a fight at almost all costs, Missouri thanked us gratefully James Kutcher and a Christmas a reprint of a rare article by firmed the stand it had taken on tenant representative on the time and reveal their basic Comintern, but also depends “ on plus Truman’s advance assurance for selling him literature.” bazaar to collect funds fo r needy Leon Trotsky, “ Problem of the June 28 when, after extended meaning. the active assistance of the in­ board, pointed out the falseness to the steel companies that they workers in Europe, the New York ternational proletariat.” Ukraine,” which is particularly public bearings, it decided to re­ of this propaganda and showed did not have to acaept the steel The Boston branch managed to comrades fe lt forced to postpone 0 Uncompromising exposes Another timely article in the timely in the light of the events commend against a general rent that the board could adopt specific board’s recommendations, embol­ hold third place but had to top its sub campaign. Michael Bar- of the profiteers and their po­ November issue of Fourth In­ in Yugoslavia. This is the article increase in Cook County. findings of fact to support and dened the steel masters to demand their goal by an extra 20% to toll, Organizer of the New York litical hatchet-men in high of­ ternational is Irvin Mamin’s “ The in which Trotsky raised the slogan Today the board adopted the reaffirm its original action. unconditional surrender on their do it. Local, declared that “ New York fice. UE Faces the. Split,” a discussion against the Kremlin, “ For a free, following findings: (1) that the The landlord representatives, own terms. Seattle, with 100% of its goal pledges, nevertheless, to account ,of the plight of the membership independent Soviet Ukraine!” landlords had failed to prove that with the help of the chairman, The steel workers were thus completed, is pressing the Boston 0 The inside story of many for a substantial number of subs A copy of this issue can be they were entitled to a general tried to refer the whole matter to forced to strike anyway, but un­ comrades. Literature Agent Ma­ of the major happenings in of the United Electrical Workers this month, and promises to fu lfill obtained by sending 25c. to rent increase; (2) that the land­ a special committee which was der unfavorable conditions and for rianne Stanley feels that “ we the labor movement that make caught between the Carey group its quota of 300 at a later date ;and the bureaucratic Stalinist Fourth Internaloinal, 116 Univer­ lords had not proved that a rent loaded 3 to 2 in favor of a rent a mere crumb. They could just as w ill go well beyond our quota and headlines. when it can clear the decks for a leadership. sity PI., New York 3, N. Y. increase was necessary to remove increase, but this maneuver was well have gone on strike to begin perhaps double it. We find it fu ll scale campaign.” 0 A fighting program to hardships or inequities, but that blocked by the tenant represen­ with and won far better terms, fa irly easy to sell the 50c. sub.” The scoreboard below has been combat mass unemployment, on the contrary a general increase tatives, Myer arguing that the including some immediate wage The Seattle branch is really doing adjusted so that subs obtained by persecution of racial and poli­ would perpetuate existing inequi­ recommendations of this commit­ gains. a remarkable job since they just tical minorities, the menace of Special Pamphlet Package for #1 ties; and (3) that individual tee would virtually amount to Not the least consequence of finished a successful local sub New York are not shown. fascism, and the threat of an­ hardship cases could be handled final action by the board and that the steel “ fact-finding” procedure campaign. For only $1, this special offer of nine pamphlets brings Brunch

flubeorlptlons : $2 per y e a r ; Bundle Orders (8 o r a o f e 11 f o r G months. Foreign: coplee): S o each t m t l J . . 4 i $8.50 per y r ; $2 fo r 6 mos. t h e MILITANT each in foreign countries. Entered as second class Published Weekly in the Interests of the Working People Signed articles by contribu­ m a tte r M ar. 7. 1044 at the THE MILITANT PUBLISHING ASSOCIATION tors do not necessarily rep­ Post Office at New York, 116 University Pl„ N. Y. 3. N. Y. (Phone: AL 4-9330) resent The M ilitant’! policies. N. Y.. under the act of Mar. Louis AdamicReports on Yugoslavs These are expreseed In Its Editor: GEORGE BREITMAN i 1.879.” editorials. Business Manager: JOSEPH HANSEN Important revelations on the Kardelj and others. . . This wasn’t about it. He has no faith in the®" origins of the Tito-Stalin conflict, the time, they replied, to give out progressive potentialities of peo­ Vol. X III - No. 47 Monday, November 21, 1949 which tend to confirm the Trot­ the entire story. Evidently some ples other than the Russians . . . skyist analysis of this important of them, perhaps Tito, especially, and therein is one of the chief CHURCHILL, TITO AND STALIN "Do the consequences of a revolution justify in general the were still hoping for a change of struggle, are printed in the Mid- differences between him and In an attempt to “ prove” that Tito is and fo r a long time sacrifices it involves?. . . It would be as well to ask in face A ut mu n issue of Trends and mind in the Kremlin and within Tito.” of the difficulties and griefs of personal existence: Is it worth has been an agent of Churchill, the Stalinists are giving a Tides, the magazine edited and the Cominform. Or they were while to be born ? Melancholy reflections have not so far, how­ Despite evidence to the con­ lot of publicity to a speech Churchill made in the British Par­ published by Louis Adamic, well- afraid that if the people knew it ever, prevented people from bearing or being born. Even in trary, Adamic contends that liament on May 24, 1944. Jessica Smith, in the October Soviet known American writer who re­ all. they’d turn too fiercely anti- the present epoch of intolerable misfortune only a small per­ ‘‘Tito was not trained in the Russia Today and in the Nov. 6 Worker, makes a big point cently returned from a six- Soviet. . centage of the population of our planet resorts to suicide. But Soviet secret-police school or in of the fact that in this speech the British imperialist had months stay in Yugoslavia, where the people are seeking the way out of their unbearable d iffi­ TITO DECIDES TO TALK any other Russian school. lie was “ kindly words” to say about Franco and Tito. She even quotes he had an opportunity to in­ never a Comintern insider.” But these words of Churchill about Tito: culties in revolution. Is it not remarkable that those who talk But Stalin’s hostile pressure terview the leading figures in the Adamic has not yet disclosed the “ Marshall Tito has largely sunk his communistic aspect most indignantly about the victims of social revolutions are mounted rapidly this year, and Tito regime at some length. material on which he bases this in his character as a Yugoslav patriotic leader. He has re­ usually the very ones who, if not directly responsible for the in May the Tito leadership was Adamic, who is a prominent contention. peatedly proclaimed that he has no intention of reversing the victims of the world war, prepared and glorified them, or at ready to talk freely to Adamic as Wallaceite and author of several property and social systems which prevail in Serbia.” least accepted them? It is our turn to ask: Did the war ju stify Well as world public opinion. What He also claims that “ The books - on Yugoslavia, made But she fails to quote another and much more laudatory itself? What has it given us? What has it taught?” Adamic learned will be reported Comintern was never inclined to strenuous efforts before he left section from this very same speech, in which Churchill had —Leon Trotsky, History of the Kussian Revolution, Yol. III-32. in his next book, Tito, to be favor Tito or the CPY, which, for Europe last January to get a the following words of high praise for Stalinism in the Soviet published early next year, and in after Tito become its secretary- visa to the Soviet Union so that Union: the .columns of his magazine, general in 1937, received no he could hear both sides of the “ Profound changes have taken place in Soviet Russia. The Re-Arming of Germany beginning with the current issue. financial support from outside of dispute from authoritative spokes­ Yugoslavia . . . Moscow’s attitude The Trotskyite form of communism has been completely wiped Germany is not yet re-armed. But both staff officers” would not dream of broach men. But as he says: Under a picture of Stalin and toward the Yugoslav Communists out. The victories of the Russian armies have been attended Tito posing coldly side by side Moscow and Washington, each in its own ing such matters without prompting from “ In the second half of ’48, to . . . was something that often by a great rise in strength of the Russian state and a remark­ on the occasion of the signing way, are taking long steps in this direc- Washington. The current denials simply have ever had a good word about baffled them.” able broadening of its views. The religious side of Russian of their treaty of friendship and Tito was as bad to the Russians life has had a wonderful rebirth. The discipline and military tion. If it is left to them, it will not be mean that the warmakers still need time mutual defense in 1946, Adamic COMINFORM ROLE etiquette of the Russian armies are unsurpassed. There is a long before Germany is turned once for a certain amount of political prepara- as it long has been to Westbrook Pegler, the Chicago Tribune, the says: The Yugoslavs “ naively” thought new national anthem. . . These are marked departures from again into an armed camp. tion. Otherwise it will not be easy to make National Catholic Welfare Con­ “. .. the two men look but any­ the creation of the Cominform conceptions which were held some years ago.” The Stalinist-created monstrosity of a the people here and in Europe swallow ference, Louis Budenz, and the thing as they should at the would bring better and more The question that the Stalinists w ill have to answer is “ free and independent” Eastern Germany the revival of militarism in Germany, Un-American Cbmmitte. The d if­ signing of such a treaty. Why? equal relations with the Soviet this: If Churchill’s praise of Tito in 1944 proved Tito was an agent of imperialism, what does his praise about the reaction­ ference is that Pegler and Co. Was it because Stalin, for the Union, he adds. “ But, as it turned has just extended full civil rights to for- This development is indeed an eloquent ary development of Stalinism prove? mer Nazis and ex-officers in Hitler’s commentary on the foreign policies of brand you a Communist or a second time, insisted that Yugo­ out, the Soviet purpose in creat­ fellow traveler, which they be­ slavia remain a monarchy and ing the Cominform was to have Wehrmacht, including their right to em- both Washington and the Kremlin. Stalin fore hand made synonymous with retain King Peter, while Tito, a gimmick with which to dispose ployment in “ public service.” The capital- does not hesitate to make his peace with subversive or un-Am erican; said — for the- second time, and: of ‘the Tito clique’ ” and take i»t .press- has promptly pounced on this the Nazis and the German militarists just while in the Soviet book you are emphatically — that that couldn’t over control of Yugoslavia. Roland, Bulgaria Engulfed asproof that the Kremlin is reassembling as,he did with Hitler himself in 1939. But suddenly a reactionary shark, a be done? And why did Stalin Adamic summarizes his view want to retain the King? Be­ om German'' soil the equivalent of the so far as the dissident Yugoslavs are con- fascist beast, a gangster, or, at of the conflict in the following the very least, an American spy cause he had an agreement with passage: “ Throughout the war By Vast Stalinist Purges Reichswehr of the Twenties, the main cerned, he will not only make no conces- oi' imperialist agent.” Britain on the future of Yugo­ and since, the Kremlin has tried, powerhouse of Hitlerism. sions but is determined to crush them in slavia on which Yugoslavs were through their Russian and native- The predicted purges of Stalinist parties and gov­ VISA DENIER not consulted.” There is a virtually identical situation blood, Yugoslav NKVD agents, to ernments in Eastern Europe are now being officially con­ in the Washington-sponsored monstrosi- A t the same time, Stalin’s foreign A fter being closely questioned Adamic promises to expand on destroy the Tito-Karkelj-Djilas- by the Soviet embassy in Wash­ firmed. Most sweeping and spectacular to date have been ty of a “ free and independent” Western policy has suffered another fiasco. He this matter later on. In the cur­ Rankovich-Piyade-Kidrich quality ington, Adamic was finally denied rent issue he adds: of the Yugoslav Revolution, and the developments in Poland where ®- Germany. In fact, the “ staff officers of promised the Soviet people that his con- a visa. (He reveals that in 1948 to replace it which strictly three ranking party members This process of Russification is Western European armies” are now con- duct of the war would put an end forever George Seldes, editor of In Fact, WHAT STALIN WANTED Russian methods, such as are in have been expelled from the Cen­ not limited to Poland alone but sidering the organization of “ five or so” to the threat of German militarism. Four likewise was denied entry into the “ When the Tito-led Yugoslav effect in Bulgaria, Poland, Hun­ tral Committee. has simply reached a more ad­ vanced stage there. In other sa­ German divisions under the Bonn regime. years have gone by, and this threat once Soviet Union.) Adamic did obtain Revolution got underway in 1941- gary, Rumania, Czechoslovakia The expelled are: Wladyslaw Czechoslovak, Polish and Hun­ 42, Moscow was no less opposed Gomulka, former Deputy Premier, tellite countries the glorification Projected here, too, is the revival of the again looms on the horizon, with Stalin and Albania. That aim is con­ garian visas, but after he went to to it than were London, the nected with ‘the cold war.’ It General Marian Spychglski, fo r­ of all things Russian and the dei­ fication of Stalin are proceeding Reichswehr. lending a hand personally in evoking it. Yugoslavia the Stalinists spread Vatican, and Washington — but issues from various factors in mer Vice Minister of Defense and apace. Russian textbooks have It is, of course, loudly disclaimed that So far as Washington is concerned, the the word that he was poison, he out o f somewhat different motives. the complexity of the Soviet Zenon Kliszko, former Vice Min­ been introduced into elementary the re-arming of Germany was one of latest developments in Germany repre- was cut o ff from all contact with Stalin wanted resistance in oc­ character as it has developed ister of Justice. Gomulka, under fire for some time as a “Titoist,” schools and the study of the Rus­ the items Secretary of State Acheson sent a logical sequel to the “ peace-loving” his friends in those countries, and cupied countries, but a limited under Stalin out of Russia’s back­ the government publishers in resistance — limited to being a denied the charge publicly sian language has been made com­ discussed with his British and French Marshall Plan, the Atlantic Pact and the wardness and her 30-year revo­ pulsory. Warsaw suddenly cancelled the nuisance to the Axis forces, eom- lutionary agony. (See Isaac Deut- several months ago, but this did colleagues at their recent top-secret talks foreign arms bill. German militarism publication of one of his books pellin’g H itler to keep a substan­ not save him. President Beirut, There has been wide speculation schcr’s biography, Stalin.) That in capitalist chancelleries as to in Paris. Only the most gullible people may, in the last analysis, prove the chief in, Polish. tial number of bis divisions away character can now realize itself in a public speech on Nov. 15, an­ nounced that the entire party whether these may not be preli­ When Adamic arrived in Bel­ from the Eastern front. Stalin did only in conquest, in Red imperial­ w ill fail to understand that “ Western European beneficiary. would be subjected to a purge. minary steps toward the integra­ grade lie was greeted warmly by not want resistance combined with ism, in imposing on Eastern Directly connected with the tion of the Eastern European government officials and granted revolution. Tito combined the Europe what passes fo r socialism drastic changes among Polish ru l­ countries within the framework off-the-record interviews. He soon two.” Labor's Need of a Party in the USSR.” ing circles is the appointment of of the Soviet Union. realized that the Yugoslav lead­ Adamic notes that Stettinius, one of the Kremlin’s top military American workers, organized in the to make both ends meet, know they were ers, instead of telling the whole in his recently published book, HIS PAPER TO BE WEAPON DEFECTIONS MOUNT figures, Marshal Rokossovsky, to largest and most powerful trade union actually better off when the war ended, story to the world, were “ still reported that Stalin, at the Yalta Adamic says he knows that his the post of Commander-in-Chief. There is still no official confir­ only replying to the Cominform decision to tell the truth about movement ever seen under the sun, have The reappearance of an army of unem- Conference in. 1944, had made In addition to assuming the post mation of the purge in Bulgaria resolution, which clearly had “ contemptuous remarks” about the Stalin-Tito conflict is going now behind them a rich experience of ployed millions is by itself evidence that of Minister of Defense, Rokossov­ but it appears that heads are fa ll­ next-to-nothing to do with the Yugoslavia. Adamic says, “ Stalin to bring brickbats his way “from ing there on almost the same four postwar years marked hy numerous the position of the workers has not im- the ill-informed and unthinking sky has entered the Central Com­ real causes of the rift. Why? has as little respect for small mittee and the Political Bureau of scale as in Poland. According to important struggles, including the recent proved with the passage of years, Why? nations as Churchill, but, unlike pgrt of the Left” as well as the the Polish party. reports from Belgrade, about a steel strike. Yet the workers have fought and “ I put this question to Tito, Churchill, is utterly unsubtle right. Although it won’t be dozen former prominent govern­ What has been the net result of all fought well; they have done everything easy, “financially or otherwise,” NO ONE TO TRUST ment and party figures in Bul­ these struggles ? The official leadership their leaders called upon them to do, and he says he is going into the fight In the person of Rokossovsky, garia have already been lopped “after careful deliberation” be­ Stalin has in effect installed a off, with the purge extending is eminently satisfied. The settlement of in many instances, much more. What then from top to bottom. the steel strike, like the settlements of accounts for this glaring paradox? It is cause “ I can’t dodge it and live military dictator over Poland. It with myself.” He promises‘that is noteworthy that among all his Meanwhile there have been new most of the previous major struggles, has the refusal of the leaders to extend the native Polish agents Stalin evi­ defections in the ranks of the Trends and Tides “ w ill be a been officially dubbed as a monumental struggle beyond limited immediate de­ dently could not find a single in­ French Stalinists and among their victory. mands, beyond the traditional boundaries LEFT, RIGHT AND CENTER by Sidney Lens, Henry weapon in the fight. . . It w ill dividual reliable enough to entrust sympathizers. A group of French But this is true only in a very limited of the trade union movement, Regnery Co., 1949, 445 pp., $4. challenge lies, distortions, non­ with such a role. intellectuals, including Claude This is one of the best recent®- sense; it will meet attacks.” Under Rokossovsky the Polish Bourdet, of the liberal paper sense. The steel workers, like the major- Their own experiences over the last army will undoubtedly be rigidly Combat, Louis M artin Chauffier books on the labor movement. [Murray] in order that labor can Th.e current issue of his maga­ ity of the labor movement, have emerged four years should teach the workers that move ahead. . . I f Walter Reuther, reorganized along Russian lines and Avenline, two Stalinist sup­ Sidney Lens has a practical zine (address: Milford, N. J.) is victorious primarily in the sense that “ pure and simple” trade unionism is knowledge of trade union affairs, Emil Mazey, George Baldanzi, and the Russification of the coun­ porters over many years, have de­ they have once again succeeded in main- much too narrow a field for the solution as he was a labor official for and other actual left elements in being sent free to all present and try as a whole greatly speeded nounced the Hungarian Treason many years and is at present the lop leadership refuse to cut some prospective subscribers. up. Trial. So has the “ League o f the taining their union in the face of repeat- of their problems. The way out lies in the Rights of Man,” which once ap­ ed provocations and attacks by the bil- political field. director of A F L United Service the umbilical cord to business Employees Local 329 in Chicago. unionism, than the task must fall proved the Moscow Frameups. lionaire corporations. But in other re- And here, half-way measures are worse The author also has a certain to others of lower rank.” RDR HEADS TOWARD OBLIVION A number of expulsions of spects — with regard to their living than none. Continued support of capital- background in the radical move­ Of course, this is a better senti­ “ Titoist” elements have recently standards, working conditions, job secur- ist politicians is not only reactionary and ment and this enables him to ap­ ment than w riting a court bio­ taken place in the Belgian Com­ proach, union problems from a graphy of Reuther. Still, it isn’t AS SARTRE, ROUSSET RESIGN munist Party which is now in the ity, etc. — the best that can be said is futile but tends to discredit the potential- throes of an organizational and more fundamental and rounded quite an accurate way of putting PARIS, Nov. 9 — The French RDR (Democratic and that some sections of labor have just ly overwhelming political role of labor, the matter. It is possible that the political crisis. viewpoint than the average labor Revolutionary Rally), the pretentious grouping which was barely held their own, while others have demoralizing the workers, dissipating journalist. Reut.hers and Baldanzis may In Italy, Nenni’s “Left Wing actually suffered setbacks. their energies. When labor goes all-out There are excellent chapters assume the leadership of a new formed early last year, is now in a state of collapse. A t a Socialists” are sharply split over The “ Fair Deal” demagogues are shout- into politics, as it can and will, it must tracing the growth and consolida­ movement of insurgency in the meeting of its leading body last® the issue of Yugoslavia. A dissU ing that the workers are on the whole do ,so openly, under its own banner, with tion of AFL business unionism, future just as Lewis, Murray and month., the writers Jean-Paul The internal crisis of the RDR dent group has accepted an invir its victory over the radicals, the Hillman assumed leadership of Sartre and David Rousset — lead­ began to develop from that time, tation to visit Yugoslavia and has better off than ever before. But most its own party and program, its own can­ material basis and reasons for the CIO uprising. ers of the organization’s le ft and nth political disagreements grow­ sent a delegation of ten. The Nen- working families, struggling nowadays didates. racketeering and bureaucratism. Nevertheless they are not left right wings respectively—resign­ ing and culminating in the nj leadership has publicly attack­ Lens understands very well — wingers but well-developed social ed from the RDR. Before quitting-, ipiesent resignations. A meeting ed this delegation and issued an appeal to the Yugoslavs to oppose and this is his superiority over reformists, and that is the role Sartre, who was dissatisfied with of the Paris membership, at­ The Two Smith Act Trials most authors in this field — that they are consciously playing in the line being followed by the tended by 30, met recently but the Tito regime. From all indications, the inter­ there are “ two worlds of labor,” the labor movement. The job of RDR, undertook to pay its came to no conclusion on what As Vincent R. Dunne leaves for the no reason for the government counsel to national crisis of Stalinism preci­ the well-paid union leaders who the true le ft wingers is not to debts. to do. The newspaper Le Monde West Coast in his national speaking tour retract on that point, pitated by the Tito-Stalin break, form a bureaucracy and the rank call upon the Reuthers and Bal­ Disregarding questions of pro­ correctly notes that to all intents on civil rights, the connection between A week later another attorney, Wil- anil purposes the organization is fa r from abating, haa yet to reach and file membership. He knows danzis to lead them, but to or­ gram, the RDR proposed, at its its most acute phases. the Minneapolis Trial of 1941 in which liam F. Smith, backed up Wormser’s con- something of the complexities of ganize a le ft wing in opposition inception, to mobilize broad mass­ defunct. he was central figure and the recent con- tention applauded the Supreme Court’s the problem which work to exude to them as well as the Murrays es hostile both to Moscow and viction of the 11 Communist Party lead- refusal to review the convictions of the a labor bureaucracy at a given and Buckmasters. Washington. Demonstrating the ers under the same Smith “ Gag” Act is Trotskyists. He suggested similar treat- stage in a union’s evolution, and B. C. petty-bourgeois character of the Visit your local headquarters of the to separate i t from the needs and movement, its leaders concocted a again being brought forward in the press. ment for the Stalinists. “ Just as it was aspirations of the ranks. “ new” slogan: “ Proletarians and The Minneapolis trial of the Trotsky- fair *> ar^ e that there was no constitu- It is an unfortunate commentary Free Men of the World, U nite!” SOCIALIST WORKERS PARTY on the book, however, that its The Shachtmanites, who never AKRON— For Information, w rit* P.O. N E W Y O R K C IT Y (H ij.)— 116 U nlve r- ists dogs the Stalinists at every stage. tlonal Question in the Dunne case which V.D. Dunne’s Tour Box 1342. s lty Place. Phone OR 8-8149. best discussions and understand­ tire of burying the Trotskyists The Department of Justice cited it in the warranted consideration by our highest Seattle — Nov. 29-Dec. 1. BOSTON—W orker,. Educational Center. HARLEM—103 W. 110 St., Hm. *L ing of this problem relate to the periodically, hailed it as “ the most 10 Stuart St., open Wed. 8:30-»:00 D.m., Phone MO 2-1866. Open dtsouaalon. San Francisco-Oakland — Dec. social last Sat. of month. T h u rs., 8 p.m . original indictment. The federal prosecu- cPUft’, m manner_1t may be argued past decades, covering ground hopeful and potentially significant BRONX—Hunts Point Palace, M l which has been written about by 4-7. organization in France.” B U F F A L O —M ilita n t F o ru m . 82# M a in S outhern B lv d ; R oom 28. E v e ry P r l, tor repeatedlv referred to it in his argu- ^ at there, 13 "°. Question of constitution- S t.. 2nd fl. Phone M Adlson 3960. E ve ry night at 8:30 p.m. ments. Judge Medina pointed to it as a aht^ involved «» the conviction of the other authors. The closer Lens Los Angeles — Dec. 10-13. A ll the RDR ever succeeded in afternoon except Sun. BROOKLYN — Mendel’s Manor, approaches the present-day labor St. Louis — Dec. 17. rallying were such writers as 343 Pennsylvania Ave., off Softer, prime precedent in the charge to the jury Communists and that the United States CHICAGO—166 W. Washington Blvd. meetings every Thurs. evening at 8. movement, the more blurred and Chicago — Dec. 18-21, 24-25. Sari re and Rousset, some renegade Rm . 312-314. D a lly except Sun.. 11:30 to C H E L S E A — 130 W . 23rd S t, Phone: 3:30: or phone for an appointment. which found the CP leaders guilty. Supreme Court may refuse to entertain unsure his vision becomes. He sees Milwaukee — Dec. 23. leaders of the French Trotskyist A L 8-2488. an appeal to that tribunal. C L E V E L A N D — Pecks H aU , 1446 E . OAKLAND (Cal.) — For Information, the conservatism and inadequacy Toledo — Dec. 27. party who claimed that they were 82nd St. (off Wade Pk. Ave.) Monthly phone TJEmplebar 2-8183 or TEmplebar Now, as the convicted Stalinists are a third writer to the Times exposes Detroit — Dec. 28, 31-Jan. 1-2. going to build a “mass” revolu­ Public Forum. 1st Sun.. 8 p.m. 2-3735, or write P. Montauk, 806-B O r - of the CIO officialdom and under­ wess St., O akland 7. preparing their appeal to the higher Wormser’s argument by pointing out stands that labor must have its F lint — Dec. 29-30. tionary movement through the D E T R O IT —6108 Linw ood Ave. Phone T V 7-6267, M on. through Sat., 12-8 p.m . P H IL A D E L P H IA — 1303-08 W . G ira rd courts, the case of “ Dunne vs U. S.” , as it “ that the Circuit Court of Appeals is an own party and practice its own Cleveland — Jan. 3-4. RDR, plus a handful of Socialist Ave., 2nd f l. Phone Stevenson 4-8890. FO NT—Socialist Workers Party Hall, Open d ally. F orum , F r l., 8 p.«n. independent brand of politics. Akron — Jan. 5. Party members (who quickly 218 E a st N in th S treet. Phone: 2-2496. is known in the law records, is being fur- intermediate appellate court, and not the Open House Saturday evenings. PITTSBURGH—1418 Fifth Ave.. *nd fl. But like others, he hasn’t fully- Youngstown — Jan. 6-7. withdrew on the orders of their Forums 2nd Frl. each month. Mandat ther utilized against the CP. court of last resort, and that its decisions Pittsburgh — Jan. 8. leaders). A t its peak the RDR DOS ANGELES—M ilitant Publ. Assn., class 4 p.m. every Sat. Meetings every grasped that a new bureaucratic Room 328, 124 W . 6th St. Phone V A ndyke Thurs.. 7:30 p.m. On Nov. 8, Prof. Maurice I. Wormser are subject to review and reversal by the crust has formed itself on the Morgantown — Jan. 9. recruited a few hundred mem­ 8081. S A N FR A N C IS C O —1789 FiH roore A ve.. sent a letter to the N. Y. Times criticiz- U. S. Supreme Court.” Buffalo — Jan. 12-14. bers, unengaged in any form of LYNN. (Mass.)—M ilitant Publ. Assn.. 4t» fl. Phone FT 6-0410. D a lly except modern unions, that the new 44 Central Ave., office open Tues., Wed. Sun., 12-4:30 p.m. Rochester — Jan. 13. activity. 7:30-9:30 p.m. ing the Department of Justice for con- Whatever the Supreme Court does, one bureaucrats operate in a d if­ ST. LOUIS — "For information, ferent way and with different Boston — Jan. 15-16. Last spring the RDR, under M IL W A U K E E —#17 N. 3rd S t., 3rd fl. phone PR 8308." ceding, in the hearing on granting bail thing is already clear. The attempt of Sun. through Frl., 7:30-9:30 p.m. Phone methods but that their influence Lynn — Jan. 17. the leadership of Rousset, tried to H opkins 2-8337. SEATTLE—Maynard Bldg., 1st Ave., to the Stalinists, that there was some the Stalinists to deny any direct connec- R . 201. So. A W ashington. T el. M a in *278. in the labor movement is all the Worcester — Jan. 18. stage a big “ oeace” rally in MINNEAPOLIS—10 So. 4th St. Phone Mon. through Sat,. 12-8 p.m. Branch M ain 7781. D a lly except Sun., 10 a.m .- meeting Tues.. 7:30 p.m. Library, book­ ground for questioning the Smith Act’s tion between the two cases under the more deadly in its effects. New Britain — Jan. 19. Paris in competilion with one of 6 p.m. Library, bookstore. the Stalinist shindigs. Sartre store. constitutionality. This was an “act of Smith Act has been refuted by develop- Because he has not fu lly com­ New Haven — Jan. 20. NEW BRITAIN, (Conn.) — For Infor­ TOLEDO — Address Inquiries to So­ prehended these recent develop­ New York — Jan. 21, 26. publicly dissociated himself from m ation w rite P. D. Box No. 659 or cialist Workers Party. P.O. Box 1802, folly,” said Wormser, because the deci- ments all along the line. And the Stal- phone 3-3287. Toledo 3. ments, Lens can propose as his Philadelphia — Jan. 22-23. this affair, which was used as a sion of the Circuit Court of Appeals in inists $re now reaping thfe fruits of their NEW HAVEN—For Information WORCESTER. (Mata.) — For Informa­ solution that “ The true lefts Allentown — Jan. 24. soundboard fo r Wall Street and w rite. P.O. B ox No. 1019. tio n w rite .P.O. Box 864, W orcester. the Dunne case validated the constitu- own approval of the prosecution against Reading —- Jan. 25. the Atlantic Pact and, incidentally, NEWARK—423 Springfield Ave. Phone YOUNGSTOWN — *84 B. Federal St, [Reuther, Mazey, Baldanzi] must Bigelow 8-2874. Reading room. Open Phone 8-1365. W ed,, E r l., Sat., 1:8* «e tionality of the. Smith Act, and there was the Trotskyists. divorce themselves from the rig ht Newark — Jan. 27. proved a fiasco. dally. 12-4 and 7-10 p.m. 4 van. Rioting in Chicago the MILITANT By Ruth Johnson On the South Side in Chicago, close to the Ne­ But Democratic Mayor Kennelly, now “ discuss­ VOLUME X III MONDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1949 N U M B E R 47 gro ghetto district, a CIO organizer last week ing” the situation with his Council on Human held a meeting of union stewards in his home. Relations, will do nothing to ease the housing Some of the men were Negroes. A passerby or shortage. The vast profits made by the landlords Miners Take Strike Recess neighbor who saw them enter the house, started would be in danger if Chicago and other cities a rumor that Negroes were moving in, and there­ initiated the building program that the people need. The biggest profits of all are made out of 1AM Wins NLRB Vote by began a series of vicious racist demonstrations that still rock the area as I write this five days the tenement hovels to which the Negroes are later. condemned by discrimination. Here the rents are According to the United Press, crowds began highest, congestion worst. The real estate inter­ In Seattle Boeing Plant to gather outside the organizer’s home on Tues­ ests, protected by both capitalist parties, are in day, Nov. 8, the night of the meeting. Gangs of the forefront of the reactionary struggle to main­ SEATTLE, Nov. 9 — Lodge No. 751 of the International Association of Machin­ young hoodlums roamed through streets and al­ tain “ restrictive covenants.” Their system of ists came through with flying color,s in the NLRB elections conducted at the Boeing A ir­ leys “ chasing persons they believed to be Ne­ “ black belt” and "white gentile” housing operates groes or Negro sympathizers.” Reporters saw the with the consent of the law and adds fuel to the craft plant last Wednesday, rolling up a 2 to 1 majority over the “ Aeronautical Team­ inflamed mob beat, kick and pummel its victims. fire of the race-haters. sters,” the union that Dave Beck 5“ sented and feared in the more not out at Boeing’s yet. Beck is A day later the chief of police estimated that Neither Kennelly nor any capitalist politician formed in collusion with the com­ progressive A F L circles and the challenging the elections on the 10,000 rioters were swarming the vicinity, many w ill attack the precious profits of the landlords, pany to break the Boeing strike of them armed with rocks, bottles, and clubs of or defend the right of the people to live where last year. Boeing strike brought the long plea of a minor irregularity in two-by-fours. On Nov. 12, a dispatch from Chi­ they choose. Nor will they use any effective The vote was 8,107 for the standing opposition into the open. the voting procedure. cago to the N. Y. Post reported two persons hos­ means to combat discrimination and brutality, for IA M ; 4,127 for the Teamsters; Thus the 1948 Washington State He is acting on his pre-election pitalized, many others less seriously injured, and these are essential to their own rule. and only 401 fo r no union. 2,132 AFL convention went on record threat to the Boeing workers that votes were challenged and 286 condemning Beck for organizing ho w ill not let go no matter how roving bands still attacking cars and pedestrians. The Mayor’s Council on Human Relations con­ behind the IAM picket lines at they may vote. In a pre-election Sporadic arrests of a few racists have done noth­ tinues to meet in secret session, and instruct the votes were void. The challenged Boeing. bioadcast he also announced that ing to halt their violence. local papers to suppress all news of the assaults. votes are those of aid-off Boeing Lodge 751 was helped in its should they ever go out on an­ To the Council, the attacks are an embarrass­ workers and are almost all for According to the Post, the rioters shouted that campaign by- the vigorous fight other strike, he will repeat his ment and annoyance, undermining widespread il­ the IAM. there is a “ plot” for “ Jews to buy up houses and that the AFL in the San Fran­ scab-herding perfox-mance again lusions about its effectiveness. Kennelly hopes The NLRB election was a major sell them 'later to Negroes.” (The CIO organizer cisco Bay Area is currently and again. that if nothing is said publicly, the rioters will event in the life of the city and happens to be Jewish.) waging against Beck’s strike­ get tired and go home before anyone is murdered. the great majority of un'on men However, the solidarity of the This lie itself gives the real reason for the out­ and women in Seattle are re­ breaking operations against the IAM members, bolstered by the burst, and shows the fu tility of the Mayor’s meth­ But to the workers, the Negro people, the Jew­ joicing over the Teamsters defeat. Retail Clerks. Lodge 751 gave this outcome of the vote and sup­ od of “combatting” the rioters. The bitter strug­ ish people, this outrage is no unpleasant fam ily The victory is a tribute to the fight wide publicity in Seattle to ported by the m ajority of the dispute to be kept from prying eyes. It is a crime gle fo r a place to live has been the cause of case tremendous staying power of a good advantage for itself. workers in the ctiy, w ill prove against the entire American people. It must be after case of anti-Negro violence in Chicago (and hard core of some 10,000 Boeing Despite the clear verdict of the too much for Dave Beck in the exposed and seen for what it is — an inevitable elsewhere) in recent years. I t aggravates to a workers who conducted the 144- NLRB vote, the Teamsters are end. part of the terror of capitalism, that will end fever-pitch all the latent antagonism against the day strike in 1948. Although their only when the parasites are removed from power. Negro and Jewish people. strike went down to defeat, the A timbering crew at New Kathleen Mine, near DuQuion, 111., workers went back with un­ returns to work after their 52-day nationwide strike was tempo­ broken spirit and solid ranks, Socialized Medicine Upheld rarily called o ff until Dec. 1. determined to recapture all posi­ Ten Babies Starve to Death tions. The plant had been partially By Dave Dreiser filled during the strike by scabs By Dobbs in Chicago Debate TOLEDO UNION-BUSTERS organized by Dave Beck under CHICAGO, Nov. 13 — Before an audience of 75 peo­ Ten babies have died of starvation in the San other migrants will come next year with the same the Teamsters Union, including Joaquin Valley in central California in recent problem.” some 2,500 former IAM members ple at the Barry Memorial Methodist Church here, Far­ weeks, according to reports from officials of The murder of innocent babes is taking place COMMITTEE EXPOSED who deserted in the first weeks rell Dobbs, National Chairman of the Socialist Workers Kings and Fresno Counties. in the so-called “ good” season. The worst is yet of the strike. Party, today debated Dr. Schaef-®- A ll of them have been children of migrant to come. H. L. Mitchell, international president TOLEDO, Nov. 13 — Not one of the 125 companies In the battle that was then fer of the church congregation on farm laborers come to harvest the cotton, fru it of the AFL National Farm Laborers Union, says under contract with the UAW-CIO in this vicinity has the issue of socialized medicine. and vegetable crops of one of the richest farm joined inside the plant, the com­ that conditions in this area are worse than those pany sided with the Teamsters belts of the world. The bitter paradox of starva­ he has seen in a lifetime spent in the southern agreed to the anion’s demand for an area-wide pension plan Dobbs showed why medical and gave Beck’s organizers the tion in the midst of plenty faces 150,000 workers states. He predicts that 100,000 of these workers covering all the companies. Mean-®- science under capitalism has failed units of UAW Local 12 and other run of the plant. A t the same and their families now living in labor camps con­ w ill be unemployed this winter, with no agency to while the local dispute over pen- to furnish proper medical care unions. time it launched repeated purges sisting of squalid tents and shacks. provide fo r them. He says he w ill ask a House sions was kept simmei'ing all for millions of families in the Up to now, however, there has against the most aggressive IAM A fte r the foux-th reported death, Kings County Labor and Education Sub-Committee arriving in week as the so-called Committee lower income groups and why been no sign that the union lead­ members. Health Officer Dr. Donald Upp said that “ the California soon to investigate conditions, espe­ to Save Toledo’s Payrolls, an ag­ the present deplorable conditions gregation of bankers, industrial­ ers ai'e organizing for the kind of cannot be corrected so long as the problem of malnutrition is spread over the entire cially on the Di Georgio estate which the NFLU IAM GOT AFL HEL1* valley,” and that the camps are “ shocking in their ists and publishers, kept Up its struggle that w ill be necessary to doctor must be half-healer and has picketed for two years. But all the moves of the com­ lack of proper sanitation, shelter and heating barrage of anti-labor propaganda win their demands. Nor is there half-businessman. The Merced Sun Star, a San Joaquin Valley any indication that concrete steps pany and Beck put together could facilities.” Officials said these conditions were through newspaper ads and He explained how socialized newspaper, rejected the attempts to blame par­ speeches before businessmen’s or­ are planned to combat the forma­ not bust the solid ranks of the reminiscent of those described in the novel, Grapes medicine w ill be able to mobilize ental carelessness fo r the death of the children ganizations. tion of the employers’ union-bust­ former sti'ikei's and could not of Wrath. and declared: “ How can people living in crowd- a mighty army of medical scient­ The latest announcement 'from ing committee. keep them from winning over new But these officials have no intention of taking ed dirty hovels be expected to care properly for ists with the most modern tech­ this outfit claims over 3,000 peo­ W ith the settlements in the workers to their side. action against the powerful landlord interests themselves and their young?” The question that nical equipment to provide the ple have joined its ranks. Its pro­ steel industry the union w ill un­ In the NLRB elections, as in who are responsible for the miserable living con­ very best medical care for all. goes with this is: How can people help living in gram to eliminate a non-existent doubtedly try to bring the situa­ the coui'se of the strike, Lodge ditions of the migrant workers. Kings County such hovels when they are underpaid and ex­ District Attorney William Harp demanded an in­ labor dictatorship here is so man­ tion to a head in the near future. 751 received impox'tant Support AMA DEFENDER ploited so intensely? vestigation of the conditions under which the ifestly a union-busting tactic that The present “ battle of the news­ from broad AFL circles in the paper ads” w ill have to be trans­ Di\ Schaeffer attacked socializ­ children died so that he can file criminal charges Meanwhile, Fresno County officials have an­ its most recent propaganda has Northwest. The Puget Sound ed, medicine as “ the first step against — “ parents found guilty of negligence.” nounced that a total of 16 deaths, in which mal­ begun tb play down this point and ferred to the picket lines if the Council of Lumber and Sawmill union is to win the pension plan it toward totalitarianism ” and County Supervisor Russel Troutner took a sim­ nutrition was a major factor, have occurred in to concentrate its fire against the workers and the Seattle Typo­ called fo r blind fa ith in the area-wide feature of the pension is demanding. A victory can be ila r line. “ What would you have us do? We their county alone. The toll of human life through graphical woi'kers spearheaded policies of the reactionary Amer­ FARRELL DOBBS plan. assured if the right steps are can’t put a nurse in the home of each midwestei'n starvation seems fated to continue in one of the the support on both occasions. ican Medical Association. A t one fam ily located in the county. These people are most fertile food-producing areas in the world Apparently there is some dis­ taken in time: The predominantly middle class 1. The organization of a Union Beck’s strikebreaking is re- point in his opening argument, he working and getting paid — I don’t know what so long as profits are given priority over human agreement among the nxillionairUs audience, which is in a position Defense Committee on a city-wide challenged the audience to name they do with their money. I f we educate them, needs. who are running this committee. to meet ordinary doctor- bills scale, embracing all parts of or­ a single person who to their The Toledo Blade, Paul Block Jr.’s without too great financial strain, ganized labor, to meet any threat knowledge was unable to get pdper which spark-plugged the seemed most intex'ested in the from the vigilante millionaire 22 Groups Join proper medical care. formation of the committee, has fact that private medicine has committee. 2. The setting of a changed its bi'aying to a whine: To his consternation a school moved so slowly in the war SID LEADERS MASK OWN ‘CANNIBAL’ deadline after which the union w ill Civil Rights Drive teacher announced that she against killers like cancer which THE BLADE’S ADVICE take strike action if the corpora­ teaches in a Negro community is no respecter of persons re­ tion front cannot be breached by “ The Committee to Save Tole­ and she has positive knowledge gardless of their social position TACTICS WITH TROTSKYIST-BAITING do’s Payrolls has got o ff on the that time. At NAACP Call (hat an alarming number of her or their financial i-esouices. They wrong foot. Although it says that NEW YORK, Nov. 10 — Repre­ students are not able to obtain asked a number of questions about (Continued from Page 1) “concur” in strikebreaking and the jurisdiction of any other AFL it is opposed only to Mr. Gosser’s sentatives of 22 national labor, proper medical service. Dr. the methods socialized medicine through (he picket lines to sail participate in raids are rewarded union." It is this policy, carried untried and unsound gcogi'aphy Akron CIO Council church, civic and trade organ­ Schaeffer then fell back upon the would employ to combat the killer the vessels loaded with hot oil. with special privileges. This is to extreme, which has created so pension plan, a great many peo­ izations formulated plans for a argument that today in Britain diseases. ple have got the impx-ession that Naturally, for services rendered, bureaucracy gone mad! much disx-uption on the water­ drive to secure passage of FEPC “ people are going to the doctor In appreciation of the SWP’s it is opposed to pensions general­ Welcomes Kutcher Lixndeberg was rewarded with a Cannibal unionism is codified in front. No amount of i-ed-baiting and other civil rights legislation to be treated for bee stings” and courtesy in sending a speaker to ly,” it says. "... a gx-eat many AKRON, Nov. 14 — James Union Oil Company contract! the SUP by an established policy the Trotskyists can mask the real at a conference held here today “ the pawn shops are fu ll of eye­ explain socialized medicine, a of “ respecting only bonafide AFL disrupters. people have got the impression Kutcher wound up a three-day on call of the NAACP. glasses.” But he had no program contribution was made to the According to the code of the picket lines.” In the SIU it is (Cannibal unionism relies that it is anti-labor generally.” stay here today with an ap­ to provide proper medical atten­ party from the collection at the SIU-SUP officialdom, the “crime” Agi-eeing to join in the sponsor­ given a more glossy veneer in an ftFavily on the permit system. Of The Blade advises the commit­ pearance before the CIO Council. tion for the students in question. meeting. of “ non - concurring” in their ship of the NAACP’s civil rights Agents Conference decision to 20,000 members in the SIU ap­ tee to call on its industrialists to “ This case has national im­ strikebreaking activities is con­ mobilization, the organization “ broaden the basis of organiza­ proximately half are permit men. declare themselves on the pension portance,” declared Paul M. sidered “ disruption” of the first representatives pledged support tion to include those fields in the Our next article w ill deal with issue and fa ll into step with oth­ Fessenden, secretary of the CIO order. For this “crime” no punish­ of the campaign on local, state maritime industry not claimed in the permit system.) ers around the country who have Council, in introducing Kutcher and national levels, including par­ REPORT ON RETURNS OF MINOR ment is too severe. In a Seattle to the delegates. “ Here in Akron granted pensions of one kind or ticipation in the three-day con­ membership meeting, of the SUP, another to their woi'kers. This we have successfully defended John Mahoney, veteran of the ference of delegates in Washing­ PARTIES IN N. Y. ELECTIONS "change” in the Blade’s position two victims of loyalty dismissals ton next Jan. 15-17. 1934 strike, asks a “ point of in­ reflects the recent settlements in on the basis of refuting charges NEW YORK — A Police Department tally of the New PAUL GATES, LEADING UAW “The Senate passed a new and formation” on the role of SIU- the steel industi'y and is designed Of association with listed organ­ York City mayoralty election returns gave the following SUP officials in the Canadian to tack with the wind. izations.” more difficult closure rule dur­ ing the first session,” Roy W il number of votes to the candidates of the Socialist Workers Seamen’s strike. Answer: Ex­ MILITANT, DIES AT MEETING But it does not mean that Tole­ “Kutcher’s case is unique,” pulsion! DETROIT, Nov. 9 — Thousands of Hudson workers Fessenden continued, “ since K ut­ kins, acting NAACP secretary, Party: Michael Bartell, candidatc®- do industrialists are getting ready said. “ Sponsors of the new rule for Mayor — 1,379; Harry Ring, Labor Party. Their paper runs a to accept the UAW ’s area-wide cher freely avows his member­ BUREAUCRACY GONE MAD here and progressives throughout the CIO United Auto maintained that it would be cand date fo r Comptroller — 1,- leading article boasting that their plan. The danger to the labor ship in the Socialist Workers The Seattle membership elects a Workers are mourning the loss of Paul Gates, outstanding possible to pass civil rights 854; Gladys Barker, candidate for increase in votes (their mayoralty movement from the millionaire- Party. His case will be the first Mahoney Defense Committee to UAW militant aixd recording sec-®—‘------— measures under it. We intend to President of City Council — 2,- candidate got 8,111) was due to sponsored committee which is re­ constitutional test of the loyalty fight the illegal expulsion? The retary of Hudson Local 154, who paign” against the local union test that rule on the FEPC bill the superiority of their program. cruiting potential strikebreakers purge.” 334; Harold Robbins, candidate committee is expelled. Individual died at the union hall during a and its administration, with next January.” for President of the Borough of They do not explain, however, in its ranks remains and must be Fessenden asserted that the members who openly oppose the heated meeting on Oct. 28. Gates as the chief target. Manhattan — 609. why the increase came this year met. CIO Council of Akron was among Organizations represented at to­ expulsions are themselves ex­ The Local 154 Builder, issued day’s conference include the Although the average of the or what special propaganda device UNION PAYS HIM TRIBUTE Fi'onx the side of the union the first local councils to endorse pelled. Men who fought on picket today, is devoted to a tribute to UAW, ACW and UPWA of the SWP vote this year marked a attracted more voters this year A biographical memorial article there has come a campaign to pop- Kutcher last year. A collection lines to build the union are ra il­ Gates, who was widely recognized CIO; the Sleeping Car Porters decline from the 2,249 votes re­ than last. Insofar as any cause in the Builder summed him up as ulai'ize its demands. This has been of $42 was raised from the dele roaded out while newcomers who as a “ model m ilitant” among and Hotel and Restaui'ant Em ceived in this city by Farrell for the increase can be discerned, “ a man of principle” who “ did not conducted through newspaper ads, gates to aid Kutcher. In addition rank-and-file and local leaders in ployees International Union of Dobbs and Grace Carlson in 1948, it is entirely accidental in origin. take principles lightly” and “ did over the x-adio and by the pass­ the Council contributed Kutcher’s the Michigan labor movement. hotel bill. the A F L; National Council for when a considerably larger num­ The size of the votes received Truman's Deeds not barter them for persona] gain age of resolutions of support by “ In an unprecedented tribute to Prior to the Council appearance, Permanent FEPC; National Asso­ ber of voters went to the polls, by the SWP and the two other or advancement. And the prin­ this pioneer union builder,” re­ Kutcher spoke before a class in ciation of Colored Gi'aduate it retains roughly the same minor parties can be explained Belie His Words ciples that were nearest and ports the Builder, “ the entire constitutional law at the Univer­ Nui'ses; ADA; American Council proportion to the total number primarily by the still greater at­ dearest to him were those of true On Civil Rights Hudson plant shut down for two sity of Akron, before the Jewish on Human Rights; National of votes cast. tractiveness of the Stalinist unionism, the organized solidarity Rummage Sale for minutes of silent mourning at 10 Alliance of Postal Employees; The vote for Joseph Glass, American Labor Party and the Shice Congress adjourned, of all workers in m ilitant defense Community Council, and at a a.m. the day of his burial.” Anti-Defamation League; Amer­ mayoralty candidate of the “ Fair Deal” Liberal and Demo­ Truman has been talking up of their interests.” luncheon tendered him by the sivil rights again and saying Twin Cities SWP Akron KCRC. ican Jewish Committee; Delta Socialist Party, dropped sharply cratic Parties for the radical CHARTER MEMBER The paper pays tribute to the that now he’s really going to MINNEAPOLIS — A rummage A t an SWP Branch social in his Sigma Theta Sorority; Federal in comparison with the 26,742 working class voters of this city. continuous determined fight he fight to put over, his civil Gates was a charter member of sale w ill be held here at 810 South honor, Kutcher received a belt Council of Churches; Elks; Jewish votes cast fo r Norman Thomas This was demonstrated on a small put up for the mox-e deprived rights program promised be- Local 154, which he helped to 10th St., Wednesday from 8 P.M. with an initialed silver buckle. Labor Committee; Catholic In­ in New York City last year. This scale by the decline in the total sectors of the workex-s, the Negro form, back before the CIO, as to 10 P.M.; Thursday (Thanks­ terracial Council; Alpha Phi indicates that Thomas received a vote received by the SWP, the fore the November 1948 elec­ and women workers. tions. He made a “ no x-etreat, an A F L federal local. He had giving Day) frpm noon to 5 Pioneer Pocket Library Alpha Fi'aternity; National Bar largely personal vote and that SP and SLP from 1945 when the worked in the auto industry since A t the funei'al service attended P.M.; and Fi'iday from 9 A.M. to the SP, moribund as an organiza­ no compromise” speech to this 1. The Death Agony of Capi­ Association.; National Negro Fun­ ALP supported O’Dwyer fox* 1935, in Hudson since 1923. by hundreds of Paul Gates’ 5 P.M. (Nov. 23, 24 and 25). The tion, has lost most of its erst­ effect just last week. talism and the Tasks of the eral Director's Association; Na­ Mayor instead of running its own fellow - unionists, Hudson Local while independent electoral fo l­ Meanwhile, where he doesn’t A t the time of his death, the sale is sponsored by the St. Paul Fourth International tional Community Relations Ad­ candidate, as it did this year. 54-year-old Gates was a leader of President Claude Bland said: “ It and Minneapolis branches of the visory Council. lowing. need to' w ait fo r Congress and will be many months before the This basic document was draft­ The main gains of the SWP the Committee for a M ilitant and Socialist Workers Party. can act himself, Truman does full extent of the loss of Brother ed by Leon Trotsky and adopt­ Organizations which have in­ (The United Press reported on were recorded prior to the count­ Democratic UAW, a grouping Buttons, dx-esses, coats, shoes Nov. 12 that a National Ex­ nothing. We refer to his con­ Gates w ill be tru ly appreciated ed by the Founding Conference dicated suppoi't of the drive but ing of the votes and have already formed to restore the UAW ’s and notions of all kinds w ill be ecutive Committee meeting of tinued refusal, as Commander- by the union he served so long, of the Fourth Internationa]. were not repi'esented today were been reported in The Militant. progressive fighting traditions in-Chief, to end segregation of so faithfully and so well.” featured at this bai-gain event. 64 pages, 25c. the CIO; A F L; National Medical the SP, held in Milwaukee, had They consisted of its principled Negx-oes in the U. S. armed and union democracy in opposi­ Hundreds of new items — fresh 2. The Suppressed Testa­ Association; International considered the question of drop­ campaign which brought the SWP forces. tion to the conservative and dic­ merchandise — have been con­ ment of Lenin, by Leon Trotsky Brotherhood of Teamsters; United ping out of the next national program to a large number of tatorial rule of Walter Reuther. I t ’s not because he hasn’t the MILWAUKEE tributed already. This document reprints Lenin’s Hatters, Cap and M illinery Woi'k- election and restricting the party New York workers and succeeded The Builder reports that Gates last advice to his party and ers; United Transport Sex-vice to “ educational” activities. The in raising the question of civil power. We saw what authority Penny Carnival M ilitant readex's who have dona­ lie has — if he wants to ex­ collapsed and died of a blood tions fo r the rummage sale ai'e explains why Stalin suppress­ Employees; National Baptist Con­ question is to be submitted to a rights to a prominent place ercise it—when he unceremoni­ clot in the heart a few minutes Sat. at 8 PM Nov. 26 asked to bring them to< 10 South ed it . 48 pages, 25c. vention; Phi Beta Sigma Fra­ convention next spring.) among the election issues. Many ously booted Adm iral Denfeld after he addressed the Hudson D onation 25 Cents 4th St., Minneapolis, the party O rder fro m ternity; Amex'ican Jewish Con­ The largest gainer of the minor friends and suppox-tex's were won out of his Navy command. local meeting “in answer to a D oor Rebate 6 Cents headquarters, by Wednesday, Nov. 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