McCarthy Curb Build a Labor Party Now ! Decided by GOP t h e High Command PUBLISHED MILITANT WEEKLY IN THE INTERESTS OF THE WORKING PEOPLE By Daniel Roberts 267 NOV. 22 — A sizeable majority of the Senate favors Vol. X V III — No. 48 NEW YORK, N. Y., MONDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1954 PRICE: 10 Cents censuring McCarthy. This fact emerges clearly after ten days’ debate in the Senate. The leading censure proponents nre conservative Senators, South- ®- ern Democrats and Eisenhower filibuster and thereby prevent the Republicans. In addition, Such censure motion from coming to authoritative voices of Big Busi- a vote before the 83rd Congress nes as the N. Y. Times and the ends its term of office. However, N. Y. Herald Tribune are firm ly the relationship of forces has al­ opposed to any compromise of ready emerged so clearly, that Ruling Big Business Circles the censure resolution. It is evi­ the Senate’s failure to vote would dent that the most decisive sec­ not appreciably improve McCar­ tions of the American capitalist thy’s position. clàss speaking through these conservative politicians and edi­ VICTIMS LEAVE THEM COLD tors have decided to curb Mc­ O f course, McCarthy’s perse­ Carthy. cution of countless innocent vic­ Make Cold War Policy Shift In the Senate, with the excep­ tims is not what motivates the tion of Sen. Case (R-S.D.), the decision to ho longer give him members of the censure commit­ free rein. Thomas L. Stokes, lib ­ tee did not collapse when Mc­ eral columnist, w riting on Nov. Can T h e y “ Co-Exist99 ? Carthy accused them of being 16, is rig ht when he declares ASR Strikers “ unwitting h a n d m a i d e n s” of “ Sen. McCarthy "is not being DETROIT AUTO WORKERS See 'Armed Communism. On the contrary, ‘tried’ fo r what has come to be they demanded that even more called McCarthyism—that is, in- stringent measures be taken dignit;es heaped upon witnesses Issue Call AID URW PICKETLINE against him. . . . slandering of innocent per­ Truce’ in Sen. Watkins (R-Utah) asked sons.” DETROIT, Nov. 18 — CIO United Automobile Work­ that his committee’s recommen­ McCarthy’s opponents in the For Boycott ers members, including several prominent local leaders, dation to censure McCarthy be Senate are firm supporter of the this week mobilized’ picketline aid for a sister union, CIO broadened to include a new count witch-hunt, as Sen. Johnson (D- By Tom Denver United Rubber Workers Local ®------New Turn Colo.) demonstrated when on Nov. —namely that of smearing the BROOKLYN, Nov. 23.—Last 452, at the Midwest Rubber Co. Two pickets have been arrested committee in the debate. And 18 he proposed that the cen­ Wednesday the American Safety By Joseph Keller plant in Warren Township of and arraigned on charges grow­ Sen. Ervin (D-M'iss.) advocated sure motion include a denuncia­ Razor strikers launched a cam­ ing out of the picketline “ Co - existence” — Moscow’s that the fascist Senator be ex­ tion of the “ Communist conspir­ paign to boycott the products of nearby Macomb County. skirmishes on Monday. Robert propaganda term for enduring pelled from jhe Senate. A num­ acy” and a pledge of continued the union-busting run-away cor­ A company official, announced Young pleaded innocent today to peaceful relations between the ber of other conservative Sena­ vigorous Senate probes of alleged poration. Hundreds of strikers, yesterday the plant would be assault and battery charges Soviet bloc and the capitalist tors, highly indignant over Mc­ “ subversives.” McCarthy’s per­ aided by relatives and sympa­ closed “ until further notice” after brought by Edward Kurt, a com­ powers — was treated like a dirty Carthy’s charge that “ the Com­ secution of those whom Stakes thetic workers, marched in front several company executives got pany director and brother of W. word in the American press until munist Party . . . has now ex­ calls “ the smaller fry who can’t of Borough Hall to publicize their into clashes Tueday w ith the re­ A. Kurt, company president. a few weeks ago. Now it is tended its tentacles to . . . the fight back fo r themselve,” does case in downtown Brooklyn. At inforced picketline. Union spokes­ Young was released on personal practically a household phrase, fit United States Senate,’’ spoke in a not stir them to anger at all. the same time a motorcade of men charged Midwest’s president bond fo r ju ry trial on Jan. 6. even for use before the children. similar vein. But McCarthy’s conservative strikers’ cars toured the centers tried to run down pickets with Alexander Barbour, secretary- This change is more than literary. That doesn't mean that the opponents do resent deeply his his car and attacked them with a of the city. 1 treasurer of the Wayne County It marks a major decision of the pro-McCarthy Senators can’t (Continued on page 4) 14-inch wrench. The demonstrators carried pla­ CIO Council, also was arrested ruling capitalist circles to lessen cards calling for the boycott of FOLLOWS SQUARE D on an assault and battery charge the tensions engendered by the the following ASR products: “ cold war” against the Soviet The demonstration of union arising from the same picketline Gem, Pal, Personna, Treet, Blue Union and to come to some sort Fanatic McCarthyite solidarity is the second within incident on Monday. He volun­ Star and Silver Star razors and NAACP Pushes Fight of formal agreement with the recent months to reveal the ta rily surrendered himself at tile blades, Eveready brushes and Soviet bloc for what Eisenhower determination of militant, auto plant Tuesday. The charge was Ascot cigarette lighters. calls a ‘‘modus vivendi” — a way workers here not to allow strike­ brought by the company presi­ dent. of “ living together” despite sharp SHOW TENACITY To Save Walter Irvin breaking and scab-herding in this antagonisms and differences. The wide participation of the area. In September, UAW and On Tuesday, W. A. Kurt, Z. A. The degree of the turn was ASR workers in these actions, in In its last-ditch battle to save Walter Lee Irvin, victim other CIO union members came Crider, plant manager, and demonstratively indicated by Eis­ addition to their continued day- of a Jim-Crow frame-up, lawyers of the National Associa­ to the aid of the independent Eugene Wieczorek, maintenance enhower on Nov. 10 at his press to day slugging on the picket tion for the Advancement of Colored People on Nov. 20 United Electrical Workers strike engineer, got. the worst of an conference following the shoot­ at the Square D plant here after line, shows -what tenacity and filed a petition with the U.S. -j^ affray that resulted when Kurt ing down of an American m ili­ police used force and violence to “ tried to run us down” with his determination they have in their Supreme Court. The petition ask­ of evidence charged by the tary plane over Russian-claimed struggle to win the contract NAACP. herd scabs through the picketline. car, jumped from his car and islands north of Japan. Instead of agreed on by the company last ing for a hearing on its request The UE is not affiliated with the started swinging a 14-inch the • fire-breathing declarations August. fo r a new tria l charged that REIGN OF TERROR CIO and is under attack as wrench at pickets, according to we had come to expect under allegedly “ Communist - in filtra t­ Ray Lisiecki, Local 212 member A t that time the company Florida officials had used per­ Following the alleged rape, such circumstances, Eisenhower white supremacists staged an ed.” and picketline captain. Kurt ad­ maintained a “moderating view” agreed to guarantee jobs until jured and fabricated evidence to The same UAW locals and March 1955 and provide $1,000,- , , , ...... anti-Negro reign of terror in mitted he and the other two com­ x *. Y. lim e s) and a “ calmei, obtain the conviction of Irvin who ^ rf)Vclandj Florida. Negro homes leaders who took the lead in the pany officials, had armed them­ 000 in pensions and Severance quieter attitude”...(Ghristian -Sci­ fo r five years now has been in Square D action were in the selves with wrenches. ■pay when the company completed were burned and pillaged, Negroes ence- Monitor). In Moscow, Am­ the Florida death house. were beaten and driven into the forefront of the present battle, bassador Charles E. Bohlen at­ its plans to move to Staunton, which, however, involves a sister REFUSED CONTRACT These charges were the woods and swamps. One young tended a Soviet social reception Fascist Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy (R-Wis.) enters Capitol Va. CIO union. Ford Local 600, De­ NAAGP’s follow-up on the legal Negro was murdered by a depu­ The labor struggle began when only one hour after the plane building in Washington to be greeted by a joyful shriek from a troit Steel Products Local 351. DELIBERATE RUN-AWAY move which saved Irvin's life tized mob and later declared a Midwest Rubber refused to renew incident occurred. woman admirer (le ft), who ran up and kissed him. She was one Plymouth Local 51, Chrysler the union contract last A pril at The ASR management broke on Nov. 7, the day before he was rapist. A 16-year old Negro was of several thousand frenzied McCarthyites who went to Wash­ Body Local 212 and Local 490 its old plant at 17277 Conant. It WHAT IS NEW off contract negotiations at the scheduled to be executed. sentenced to "life imprisonment ington to put pressure on the Senate against the censure of were among the more than a had operated non-union fo r seven last moment when the union re­ after a mock trial by a pre­ It is nothing new for the Ad- McCarthy now being debated. dozen auto locals represented in years and its first contract ex­ fused to sign a “ silence pledge,” FAKED EVIDENCE judiced, all-white jury. Samuel minitration to express pious the picketline Tuesday. Local 600 pired in July. The strike began over what turned out to be a The NAACP told the Supreme Shepherd and Walter Lee Irvin hopes and wishes for peace. What President Carl Stcllato, 361 Pres­ with opening of negotiations on deliberate run-away. Court that Florida authorities did were sentenced to death. When a is new is that the White House not deny faking and suppressing new trial was ordered by the ident Paul Silver, 51 President April 23. The Warren Township ■is publicly adopting a policy which Despite the heroic efforts of U.S. Supreme Court in 1951 William Manley and 212 Presi­ picketline was set up at a new is bitterly opposed by the ex­ the rank and file, the. danger is evidence in the “ Little Scottsboro Sheriff Willis McCall brutally dent Kenneth Morris led their plant the company tried to open treme right-wing of the Republi­ Laborite Right-Wingers growing that the company w ill Case” earlier this month when shot his two handcuffed prison­ members on the line. up without a contract last week. can Party, including elements conic out on top in its effo rt to the Florida Supreme Court was asked to grant a new trial. The ers. Shepherd died but Irvin like Senator Knowland of Cali­ smash Local 475 of the United miraculously recovered. fornia and Senator McCarthy of Electrical Workers (independent). Florida court refused to stop Meet Stiff Resistance Irvin’s execution nonetheless. The Supreme Court has not yet Wisconsin. The administration, The main weakness of the strike ordered a new trial. I t w ill decide at least in its public pronounce­ NOV. 22 — The right-wing of the British Labor Party is that the ASR workers are One of the faking-of-evidence whether to consider such a step S CONTEMPT CITATIONS ments and formal attitude toward faces strong resistance in its drive to silence the insurgent forced to rely solely on their own charges was that Florida officials after tihe Florida Attorney Gen­ the Soviet peace proposals, had Bevan wing of the party. The Attlee leadership, spokesman limited resources. took a shoe from Irv in ’s home eral has answered the NAACP previously appeased the right- fo r the union bureaucracy and 5- CAN STOP ATTACK after his arrest and made a charges. HIT CIVIl RIGHTS Of A ll wing and expressed a “ tough” other conservative labor forces, tlee leaders have demanded that attitude toward Moscow and Pei- New York’s labor leaders could footprint with it at the scene of want« to establish “ unity” in the The Tribune editors account for PROTESTS MOUNT NOV. 23 — A federal grand jury in Washington, D. C., ping. stop this union-busting attack the crime. Indeed, it is not known party for the forthcoming elec­ their denunciation or face dis­ In the meantime, it is reported yesterday returned eight contempt indictments that When Knowland, on Nov. 15, if they would come to the aid tions by disciplining the left- ciplinary action. if the crime, an alleged rape, that Governor Johns’ office in sharply attacked the Administra­ of the ASR workers. This action seriously injure civil liberties. The indictments were wing. Trade-union leaders are not a ever took place. The woman who Tallahassee has been flooded brought against witnesses who ® tion’s foreign policy and called special breed of humanity, always would strengthen the entire la­ with telegrams protesting his The Bevanites showed their cried rape was examined by a refused to answer questions of allegedly answered questions the “ peaceful co-existence” pro­ to be shielded from the rough bor movemont in the area. New attempt to rush Irvin to the posals of Moscow a “ Trojan strength in the debate and vote in York unionists should demand white doctor a few hours later. the witdh-hunting House Un- about his past membership in the House of Commons over the breezes of democracy . . the chair. Such telegrams were American Activities Committee, the Communist Party, but refused horse,” Eisenhower the very next Tribune editors replied, “ We that their officials break their This doctor was never called to requested by the NAACP. In­ Paris accords to rearm Germany. headed by Rep. Velde, about to answer about associates, day replied by again publicly silence and help the ASR strik­ the witness stand by the Florida dividual protests and resolutions The right-wing leaders favored shall continue to print the truth alleged Communist activities and claiming protection of the Fifth advancing a plea fo r a “ modus as we see it.” The right-wing ers. from unions and other organiza­ the pact, and the parliamentary prosecutor, although the defense associations. Amendment. vivendi.” That same day Secre­ bureaucracy has already succeed­ New York workers should join tions are still important. Should t fraction of the Labor Party voted repeatedly asked that he be tary of State Dulles also favor­ ed in silencing Socialist Outlook, the ASR picket line, 315 Jay the Supreme Court refuse a new Each indictment features a MORAL SCRUPLES by a narrow margin to support called. The prosecution’s refusal ably employed the same term and independent left-wing publica­ St. and send money for strike trial Irvin ’s life w ill be solely key aspect of the witch hunt. the accords. But, despite speech­ Similarly, Bernard Deutch, Secretary of Defense Charles E. tion, over the protests of all the relief to Local 475, UE. 160 to allow testimony from this in the hands of the Florida of­ es in Parliament by Clement A t­ Marcus Singer, Professor of student at the University of Wilson said that the U. S. and Montague St., Brooklyn, N. Y. doctor is part of the suppression Zoology at Cornell University, tlee and Hugh Gaitskill, the frac­ left-wing forces. ficials. Pennsylvania, allegedly admitted USSR had to live in “ peaceful tion decided to abstain on the membership in the OP but co-existence” or “ look forward to vote. refused to finger associates or war.” He said, "We are all on the same planet” and “it must be The N. Y. Times, Nov. 19 re­ meeting places because of moral scruples. done.” Sen. Wiley, Republican ports, “ It may be that Mr. Bevan chairman of the Senate Foreign emerging from the shadows with Reuther's Strategy Banks on W ar Boom John T. Watkins, a CK) United Auto Workers official, refused to Relations Committee, on Nov. 19 a long, bitter speech in the House little vision” who “talk of the is true that the AFL reaffirmed week would not reduce total week to the.40-hour norm. This attacked the “ loose talk” of the of Commons against the accords By A rt Preis name Communist Party members inevitability of recession or de­ its support for the shorter work production, either for war or didn’t hamper production. On critics of Eisenhower’s “ modus and the government and demand­ There is one question raised or former members, though deny* pression.” week with no loss of weekly peace. To begin with, automa­ the contrary, as everyone knows, ing past membership himself. He vivendi” policy. ing negotiations- w ith the Soviet in the past few months that the pay as the immediate answer tion and improved technology production leaped a hundred Union turned minor reservations What gave Reuther his as­ contended the committee had no labor leaders have persistently to unemployment. But it was generally are increasing man­ per cent and more within a few right to expose individuals DEMOCRATS AGREE into major ones and contributed surance that rising unemploy­ evaded: Can American capital­ evident from Meany’s remarks hour output a t a tremendous years during the world war. If publicly. The Democrats—under whose to this decision.” ment was not a sign of an eco­ ism maintain fu ll employment nomic plunge or that a depres­ that what the AFL officialdom rate. There are hundreds of the employers insisted on more The government proposes to administration the “cold war,” What the conservative leaders and an expanding economy w ith­ sion could be averted ? His si­ are banking on to keep employ­ thousands of auto workers laid output, and didn’t want to hire punish these witnesses and MIT “ containment” policy and Korean of the British Labor Party mean out war preparations and war? lence on the question of fu ll ment at a high level is an ex­ o ff and increasing hundreds of more workers, they paid over­ Professor Lawrence Baker A r- war were instituted—have also by “ unity” is revealed in a story At first glance it seems amaz­ employment as a by-product of panded war preparations pro­ thousands of school graduates time to their regular employees. guimbeau as well for refusing to come around to the “ co-existence” in the N. Y. Times, Nov. 30 ing that the union officials twist gram. No fighting campaign was and women workers who would inform on their fellow-men. point of view. Sen. Estes Kefau- titanic war preparations and HIS REAL REASON which sets forth the thinking of and squirm and duck on this war gives a certain tip-off on mapped to win the 30-hour week be available to raise total pro­ Barrows Dunham, Lloyd Beren- ver, of Tennessee, said in an the Attlee group. “ It will be dif­ question. They have expressed the trend of his thinking. He, at 40 hours’ pay. duction by increasing the work­ The real reason Reuther is blatf and Millie .Vlarkison refused article in the Nov. 21 Newark ficu lt to unite the party, which even more confidence in the cap­ ing force under a shorter work­ obstructing the struggle {or the to answer Velde’s questions, Sunday Star-Ledger: “ In this like A F L President George PHONY ARGUMENT means disarming Mr. Bevan un­ italist system than the capital­ Mcany and most of the other week. shorter work-week does not have claiming their constitutional new Congress things w ill be d if­ til the Attlee group disciplines ... ists themselves. Why should top union bureaucrats, antici­ Reuther has been even more Besides, Reuther well knows to do with output and “flexi­ right under the F ifth Amend­ ferent. The new majority leader ten unrepe.ntent rebels.” These they hesitate to answer this pate bigger war spending, more openly dedicated to war spend­ that the 30-hour week does not bility” in war production. It has ment against possible self - in­ won’t be harassing the admini­ rebels include four M.P.’s who question in the affirmative? furious war preparations and a ing and war as the keystone of refer to the number of hours to do with the program of action crimination. But the government stration into an ‘Asia First,’ voted against German rearma­ On Labor Day, 1953, CIO and steady rise in giant militarism labor’s policy on unemployment workers would be permitted to required to win the demand. This decided to violate their rights ‘preventive war,’ ‘massive retali­ ment and the three editors of United Automobile W orkers to hold up the sagging capitalist and the real guarantee of steady stay on the job. I t simply means demand cannot be won without and indicted them anyway. ation' and ‘agonizing re-apprais­ The Tribune, the Bevanite week­ President Walter Reuther, amidst economy. Indeed, they not only jobs. He has motivated his op­ that 30 hours becomes the maxi­ a major fight and it is the al’ approach . . .” ly. In a fake show of impartiality growing mass -unemployment in expect it, they demand it. position to the 30-hour week as mum hours the workers can be fight that Reuther opposes. AGAINST PRYING the Attlee group also proposes t,o the auto industry, actually de­ a contract demand within the employed without PAYMENT Reuther and the union bureau­ Mrs. Goldie Watson, teacher SENTIMENT ABROAD discipline one right-winger w’ho cried “ dangerous and reckless THEIR PROGRAM: WAR next three years on the pretext OF OVERTIME. Instead of pay­ cracy generally look not to the in an elementary school in Phila­ This attitude of American im­ voted with the Conservatives. talk of depression” and called At the AFL convention last that there should be no decrease ing overtime after 40 hours a struggle of the labor movement delphia refused to cooperate with perialism’s chief political agents Last month the editors of The such talk “false communist September, Meany attacked Eis­ in war contracts and no diminu­ week, as is the case generally but to the program of war in­ the Velde committee, claiming of both parties is but a faint Tribune, Michael Foot, Jennie Lee propaganda . . . being bolstered enhower, among other things, tion in war production. A short­ at present, overtime would be flation to solve the problems of. that under the F irst Amendment echo of the fervent advocacy of and J.P.W. Mallalieu denounced by the prophets of doom in the for slightly reducing the war er work-week, according to him, required after 30 hours. the workers under capitalism— it was forbidden to pry into her “ peaceful co-existence” abroad. the strike-breaking policy carried American business community.” budget. Meany actually called might interfere with greater It wasn’t so long ago that particularly the problem of un­ political beliefs. But the federal Churchill on Nov. 9 reiterated his ion -by A rthur Deakin, head of It was the capitalists, you see, fo r a bigger “ defense” program. war output. we had a 48-hour week generally employment. That is the real government and the grand jury belief “ that the powers of the the Transport and General who were “ prophets of doom.” The monstrous $42-billion a Of course, even from the and it was the fig h t of the CIO significance of Reuther’s argu­ disregarded the free - speech West and East should try to live Workers Union, during the re­ The following “New Year’s Day, year direct war spending by Eis­ standpoint of Reuther’s jingo in the Thirties which played a ment about war production in amendment and indicted Mrs. in a friendly and peaceful way cent dockworkers strike. The At- Reuther still chided the ‘‘men of enhower was “ not enough.” I t argument, the shorter work great role in reducing the work- (Continued on page 4) Watson. (Continued on page 3) Page Two THE MILITANT Monday, November 29,1935

American Way of Life Fugitive from Chain Gang #lRags-to-Riches" Rise of Texas Oilman By John G. Wright ticular Texas, play a key role. ness, moving from Oklahoma to as 1949; getting Stassen “ to get Presidential nomination. Dirk­ HUGH ROY CULLEN, A Behind McCarthy and the incip­ Houston, Texas. in the Presidential race to stop sen agreed . . .” In Philadelphia Edward Brown, a native of I lis job was to dig ditches which were waist- ient fascist movement he heads A fte r seven years he found T a ft;'' engineering “ the revolt of Story of American Opportunity, the “ land of the free,” sits in ja il waiting. The high in water and in swamps, infested with are many of these Texas million­ the real estate business “ not so the Texas Republicans which “KING-MAKER" courts of Pennsylvania have said he must be .poisonous snakes, without any protection. by Ed Hitman and Theon Wright. aires. The extent to which Cul­ thriving” and decided “ to re­ paved the way” for Eisenhower’s In 'March 1951, Cullen wrote Prerifice-Hall Iric., 1954. 376. viii len himself has backed McCarthy turn to the cotton business.” nomination in July 1952; and, a letter to Eisenhower then in extradited to Georgia. Sympathizers of Brown Brown escaped on December 19, 1937, but pp. $4.00. is a moot question. But it is But he found himself again more recently, all-out support Europe: “ 1 feel certain that you have petitioned the Governor to refuse extradi­ was captured June 21. 1940. Me did not contest unquestionable that Cullen’s po­ stymied and accepted an offer for the Brieker amendment. w ill be offered the Republican tion. What follows will be more readily under­ the extradition then because he was assured by This book is about II. R. Cul­ litical views and the role he has to enter the oil ' lease business A Republican since 1928, Cul­ nomination for President in 1952 standable if it is stated here that Brown is a the authorities that the entire Georgia penal len, a Texas oil tycoon, one of sought to play are characteristic because “ he (Cullen) was not len has been an avowed oppon­ When T aft came to Hous­ ton in March 1952, he asked Cul­ Negro. Mere are excerpts of his story as related system had been modernized. But the moment the richest men in this country, of this new crop of Southern doing too well in real estate ent of “creeping socialism” in multi-millionaries. Of Cullen, and cotton.” , Washington. He abominated len to visit him, cleared the ho­ in a Nov. 12 Memoranda by thq National he was taken back to Georgia he Was merci­ and by this token in the world. his biographers say that “ he There followed, in the words Roosevelt; and after initial il­ tel room when the “ oil man” Association for the Advancement of Colored lessly beaten, shackled again and placed in a As the subtitle indicates it is a had assumed a kind of benevo­ of his biographers, “ three years lusions about Truman, he abom­ entered, and asked “ How does it People’s Legal Defense and Educational Purid. sweat box with'picks, ball and chain. rags-to-riches story, a modern lent protectorate over the pe- of hard and unrewarding effort.” inated “ Truman and his bunch look to you, Roy?” “ I admire * * * This time, when Brown was riot in a sweat biographical version of the once litical affairs of his state and In brief, Cullen was still flound­ of socialists in Washington.” you, and I believe in you Sen­ country.” We shall presently see ering when others of his gen­ Rugged individualist” Cullen, ator — but 1 don’t think you . . . On April 24. 1937, at Macon, Ga.. box. he had to carry 14-fotit long stringers popular Horatio Alger fables. As Brown, having a severely cut finger, hailed a what is the essence of this eration, with his background and like his colleagues, discovered so­ can win, even if you are nomi­ weighing 175 to 200 pounds and was beaten a success story, despite the "benevolent protectorate.” connections (he comes from a cialism even in individuals such nated,” Cullen answered. taxicab to take him to the hospital. A woman, constantly by guards when he did not walk somewhat breathless w riting of family of Southern aristocrats) as Stassen. “ Mentally,” Cullen These heart-to-heart talks with under the influence of liquor, hailed the same fast enough. While carrying a stringer, he the two biographers, the book SUCCESS STORY had long since made their fo r­ told Stassen, “ you are a con­ presidential candidate s>, the cab and insisted that she wanted it. Her hus­ broke his leg and Was denied medical treat­ limps a little. It is, however, of A few- words about Cullen’s tunes in the course of World servative, but at heart you are snatches, quite revealing, from success story. He married a rich War I and the fabulous boom of the “Dear Ike” — “Dear Roy” band, Julius Kemp, drew a switch-blade knife ment for two days. As a reprisal for telling considerable importance as a a socialist.” Stassen had once and attempted to cut Brown. Brown pushed merchant’s daughter, and enter­ the Twenties. For 12 years Cul­ flirted with the idea of ‘‘World correspondence, the details about the doctor how his leg was broken, he was political document of our times. ed the cotton brokerage business len continued to flounder in the Cullen’s maneuvers in Texas and Kemp away, but as he did so, Kemp was cut Union,” and this branded him ordered back to work immediately. The guards, In the course of the last war through his brother - in - law in oil fields. The break came in forever as a “socialist emotion­ on the national scene disclose a in the neck while still holding the knife. as further reprisal, rubbed the soles of his feet and the postwar boom years, a the cotton-pressing business and 1927 when he entered into a ally” in Cullen’s eyes. And not king-maker In action. Perhaps The cab driver then drove both men to.the with corn cobs and then dipped them into a new segment has been added to spent more than 12 years in it, partnership with multi-million­ in Cullen’s eyes alone. the biographers exaggerate Cul­ America’s ruling families, which but he ended up as a compara­ hospital, but they were ignored by the strong liniment solution. aire Jim West, who had made The power wielded by the new len’s role, perhaps not. Here attendants for two hours. While waiting, Kemp numbered three score in the tive failure. “ I work like hell millions in cattle and lumber Southern tycoons is illustrated, again, we are not dealing w ith ©n September 22, 1940, Brown again escaped prewar years. Among these . . . but the banks get all the bled profusely and evidently died from the loss and wanted to make some more graphically by the pilgrimages an individual aberration. Cullen and .remained at liberty until 1947, when he newcomers the fabulously weal­ money.” He therefore decided to millions in oil, “ to make a suc­ made to Texas by every likely is one of the new draft of the of blood. was recaptured. Although the Georgia prison thy men of the South, in par­ switch to the real-estate busi- cess of that, too.” candidate fo r the 1952 Republi­ men of wealth and power in the The authorities airrested Brown and charged authorities swore that such treatments did not This partnership was the es­ can presidential nomination. Eis South who really rule this coun­ him with murder despite his plea of innocence sential ingredient in Cullen’s rise enhower went to Houston (Dec. try, make important decisions exist anymore as the chain gang had been and self-defense in the accident. to fame and fortune. By 1929 7, 1949) so did Taft, MacAr- and seek to impose them. Like abolished and a new system installed, Brown 15 Sealed in M ine A lawyer was obtained and received from there were “ huge oil reserves thur, Stassen, even the “ dark Cullen, they are reactionary to received the same treatment as before. One for Cullen & West,” a combine horse” Dirksen. “ He (Cullen) the core. If Cullen is any indi­ Brown’s fam ily between $150 to $200. Me com­ time he was hungvup to a tree by the wrists that “ had become an establish talked it over with the Senator, cation, they really intend, as plained that this sum was not enough and ad­ and beaten until blood dripped from his body. ea oil operator.” Many a wild suggesting that he (Dirksen) they already have done, to throw vised Brown to change his plea o f not guilty Cattcr made far richer strikes their weight around. Another time he Wats' staked to the ground and Should keep in line fo r the Vice- to guilty with the assurance that he would get than Cullen ever did in his own molasses poured over him to attract insects off with a light sentence. Brown followed his wildcatting days but died a and animals. On this occasion the warden’s son pauper for lack of “ opportun­ lawyer’s advice and was convicted and sen­ urinated in his face. Still again he was stretched ity,”—that is, for lack of a mil­ tenced to life imprisonment on the chain gang. in a device resembling the medieval "rack.” lionaire partner. € Shortly after his imprisonment. Brown From a millionaire in 1929 TH M iliti Mis back was injured and he spat blood for a Cullen went on to become a testified that double shackles were 'placed on Literature Agent Janet Mac­ ASR picket line. 30c in donations week thereafter. multi-millionaire in the depres­ his feet; his legs were chained together with a Gregor reports good sales of re­ was given to comrades distrib­ sion years. He has since “ given twenty foot chain and a fifteen pound ball at Brown escaped again in 1950. This time he cent issues of the M ilitant in uting the paper. away” hundreds of millions, that made his way to Philadelphia. He was arrested Detroit. She writes, Seattle Literature Agent Helen the end of it. Also, picks were placed on his Is, instead of waiting till he on March 31, 1952, upon the request of the “ Boh and Dot sold Baker writes, “ Jack, Ann and legs which impeded his walking and which died, he formed the Cullen Clara broke new ground again in authorities of Georgia. On A pril 23, upon Foundation, while still alive, a nine copies of the would hit him on the buttocks whenever he Militant sales. In one apartment requisition of Gov. Talmadge, a warrant for ‘ charitable foundation . . . ex­ Now 1 Militant at walked. Me was beaten constantly with black­ House they sold six copies to old ceeded only by the Rockefeller the Wayne County jacks and Rubber hose; liniment was Twirel Brawn’s arrest and extradition to Georgia war age pensioners and received an issued by Gov. John S. Fine of Pennsyvania. . . and Ford Foundations.” Council meeting. into his rectum, and he was placed in a sweat Then Sherry, Rita eight cent donation. They sold box, a small structure too small for anyone to At the extradition hearings it was revealed BEHIND THE SCENES and Dot went to at four homes in the block and then stood on a street corner that during the periods when he was free. Cullen’s biographers openly the NAACP meet­ stand or lie down in and which was exposed there and sold eight more copies. boast that their hero is a “be­ ing here and sold to the heat of the sun with no ventilation, Brown obtained legitimate and gainful em­ They received a donation of one ployment and conducted himself as a law hind-the-scenes power in national 13 Trumbull Park except a two-inch opening leading to the tin politics” and that over the years dollar from a young soldier who abiding citizen. . . pamphlets and one stopped and discussed our ideas roof. “ he had built up an indefinable paper. Six M ilitants were sold with them. He had never seen but nonetheless effective group at the Ford meeting. the paper before. Also they met of political leaders, chiefly in “ We covered the UAW oppo­ Congress, who were loyal to a former subscriber on the cor­ sition caucus with the Nov. 8 ner and he gave them a six Wliat Is Economics? him and his ideals.” Senator M ilitant and J. T., Dotty and Dirksen of Illinois is mentioned months renewal. By John Thayer ------Bob sold 31 copies that night. “ A ll together they sold 18 as one of this group. Three people came up to Dot WHAT IS ECONOMICS? by Rosa Luxem­ the definitions given by the outstanding Pres. John L. Lewis of the United Mine Workers (wearing Cullen was one of the chief papers, received a dollar and and gave her a quarter for this eight cents in donations and sold burg. Pioneer Publishers, New' York, capitalist professors of the subject. These she hat and raincoat) stands grimly with a group of mine and union promoters of the Tidelands Bill. very good paper. The next day Among other political feats ac­ one six mpnths renewal. A very 1954. Price $1.00 (mimeographed, stiff examines closely revealing their shallowness officials at Farmington, ,W. Va., as they watch the sealing of a jvhen the UAW Conference open­ successful afternoon. They feel credited to him by his biograph­ ed we sold 33 copies of the M ili­ cover). arid contradictions. After demolishing the blast-wrecked pit of the Jamison Coal & Coke Co. Fifteen miners, ers are: helping the Dixiecrats that we can open that area up bourgeois definitions she gives a historical were trapped in the pit. The action was agreed upon as flames tant. And this was in competi­ with a new route. We have so Now for the first time the English reader has in 1948; selecting Eisenhower tion with the Daily Worker be­ sketch and Marxist definition of economics. turned the mine into a powder keg. as Republican candidate as early many route possibilities that we available Luxemburg’s stimulating lectures on ing given away free, the union are going to have to get our Economics. These lectures were given at a In the course of her exposition, Luxemburg leaflets, a Civil Rights leaflet customers in to help us sell to school conducted by the German Social Demo­ calls up for testimony such diverse figures as being passed out and three peo­ other customers. ple from the American Socialist cratic Party every winter from 1903 to 1913. the I loly Roman Emperor, Charlemagne, and “Charlie B. took his usual six selling. This was done by Dot, copies. He tells _ me that any While in prison during World War I she the founder of evolution, Charles Darwin. 11er Faye, Sherry and Bob. On Sat­ whole treatment of the subject is remarkable Our Readers Take the Floor time he doesn’t show up at work prepared these lectures for publication. Un­ urday we sold again and this with the paper there is a gen­ for its unhackneyed style and original illustra­ fortunately some of the chapters were lost at How Workers View voted for Democrats. Opinion ex­ For the first time they feel their time most of the delegates told eral complaint from his custom­ the time of her murder when police ransacked tions. pressed that there w ill be no force as an independent power. us they had bought, but we sold ers. Frank and I combined three 11 more making a total of 75 her rooms. No matter how well versed in the subject Election Outcome difference as fa r as jobs go Among workers in a restau­ of the old routes into one Sun­ unless there is a war.” rant: “ I ’m glad I’m a Democrat.,” copies all together. Sunday A1 day’s work. We sold nine papers Nonetheless this first installment of those the reader may be he will learn much from [In response to a request from one g irl said. “ What about the and Sara covered the Ford Coun­ and two copies of Fourth Inter­ lectures is a treat in itself and it is hoped that this book. N ot only about economics but about us a number of readers are send­ From Chicago, 111. issues? I ’m a Democrat, that’s cil meeting and here we had a national.” ing in reports of the reactions of very good- response to the pa­ the remainder of the extant lectures, that were Rosa Luxemburg, herself. The personality of An AFL bus driver: “ Thought all.” Many thanks to C. S. of Cleve­ to have composed a book entitled “ Introduc­ this remarkable revolutionist shines forth friends, fellow worker*;, neigh­ workers should be better o ff as per although many told us they land, Ohio for his donation of $2 bors, etc. to the election results. Another g irl said: “ Well I ’m had already bought the paper tion to Economics” w ill soon be translated for clearly from these pages. Here Is the gaiety, result of Democratic victory. to help print the M ilitant. We shall publish more excerpts waiting for all this prosperity to at the conference. English-speaking students. insight, originality and love of truth that so When asked if it wouldn’t be come to me. I f it doesn’t I don’t of these as they come in. — “ Two of the enclosed subs are better if workers had a labor know what I ’ll do.” What we have here are some 50 pages of endeared "Red Rosa” to the German workers Editor.) party, replied, ‘possibly but we a direct result of our offer to Luxemburg’s opening lectures. In an inim itably and to all the internationalists who came to From Philadelphia, Pa. should give the Democrats a mail four free issues of the NEW YORK w itty and erudite fashion she takes up the know her. Every class conscious worker should chance now.’ Queried i f unions Looking for a Job paper. Sherry obtained one from A neighborhood tailor: “ The should form Labor Party for a young worker and John and CHRISTMAS question of determining exactly what the acquire What Is Economies? for his or her question of war is not as im­ In New York City science of economics is. To do this she takes library. the 1956 elections, replied, ‘No, Rudy obtained one from a stu­ portant as jobs, inflation and in­ but labor should be organized Editor: dent.” BAZAAR come. The Democrats are a little politically into a bloc.’ ” Here is how it looks at the bit better than the Republicans.” San Francisco Literature Agent Hand - made leather belts — A bartender: “ He is definitely Industrial Section of the N. Y. Gordon Bailey reports a good Enamel over copper jewelry In a garment factory (Inter­ a Democrat and thought the elec­ State Employment Service at 87 sale of the October 25 issue of — Guatemalan hand-strung & national Ladies Garment Work­ Notes from the News tion results good and that work­ Madison Ave. in Manhattan. You the M ilitant with the back page knotted beads — Childrens ers Union): “ The workers ex­ ers would be better o ff now. Had are forced to get in a long line feature of the fight against Jim toys and books — Women’s & pressed a hopeful but not too not thought about the possibility before the reception’ counter Crow in the Los Angeles Fire childrens clothes — Hand­ optimistic feeling, a sort of ‘let’s EINSTEIN IN PLUMBERS LOCAL 130. Fol­ established by the company during the war of a Labor Party in U.S. Be­ where you a^e questioned and Department. Three comrades sold made aprons, hats & purses — watch and w ait’ attitude.” lowing his remark that for a life of intellectual when it first started hiring Negro women. Local lieves that Democrats w ill try your employment or claimant 30 copies of this issue in less Appliances — and many other independence he would choose, if he were young 392 of the CIO Packinghouse Workers Union has In another TLGWU shop: to make progress on school book is examined. The waiting than an hour. articles. today, to become a plumber rather than a agitated for years fo r the destruction of the Jim “ Everybody enthusiastic over the segregation, housing, discrimina­ consumes a half hour or more. Boston Literature Agent Ken scientist, Local 130 of the AFL Plumbers in Chi­ Crow barrier and the lower wages it symbolizes. election results. The Business tion in hiring, etc. but that they After the preliminary question­ Saunders writes, “ On our four Sat. Dec, 11, from Noon on cago made him an honorary member. Einstein The union won its fight this month and the wall Agent said, ‘Now we can give w ill not succeed.” ing at the reception counter, you week anti-fascist literature cam­ tihanked the local and wrote that its act “ Shows has been torn down. the Democrats another chance. A student at Chicago branch are told to go to a specific unit. paign^—total sales of the Stop Militant Hall * * * me that you did not mind my sharp remark and If they fail, then there will be of the University of Illinois: “ He Then after a wait of an hour McCarthyism pamphlet reached 116 University Place it might even be that you are in agreement with BRYANT BOWLES, head of the racist National a Labor Party.’ Unemployment thinks the election results a you are “ interviewed.” This in­ 339 copies,. Of the 339, 267 were (near Union Square) my motive for it.” Association fo r the Advancement of White Peo­ is blamed on Eisenhower.” defeat fo r McCarthy and that terview is really a detailed ques­ sold door to door and 72 at * * * REFRESHMENTS ple, has turned to anti-semitism in his fight for In still another ILGWU shop: they show a tendency toward tioning. Then if you are lucky three forum meetings. 29 com­ RUMORS PERSIST of a coming merger of the segregated schooling. Bowles told a crowd at “ Workers are cynical, say it ’s liberalism. Thinks workers can and there are some jobs le ft you rades participated in the sales. International Fur and Leather Workers Union Jacksonville, Florida: “ I’m not fighting the Jews; the same either way. The worker •get representation through tlye are given an introduction card We plan to dq it again within (Independent) into the A F L Meat Cutters and they are fighting me. They jumped on me first is le ft holding the bag. They all established parties. Does not see and are told to go to the em­ the next few months and ai’e For only $1.25 you can get a Butcher Workmen. Last month Ben Gold, former and I am retaliating. They are the people wiho any probability or value of a ployer. voted fo r the Democrats, how­ certain that we can improve up­ one-year subscription to the National Committee member of the Stalinist are telling you (and the Negroes) to mix. The ever.” Labor Party. Does not know Thinking that at long last, on the above score.” Party, who fo r 17 years was president of the Fur National Association for Colored People is not a Marxist quarterly, Fourth In­ A railroad worker: “ He feels Whether the Democrats can solve after all this waiting and ques­ New York Literature Agent Uni6n, resigned. Patrick Gorman, president of tihe Negro organization. The bosses are Jews. . . I ’m ternational, 116 University PL, insecure about his job. He feels the unemployment problem. He tioning, you have got a job, you John Tabor reports a friendly A F L meat workers said that a struggle over New York 3, N. Y. w illing to help the Negro see that all his that the Democrats w ill make a thinks they probably will not do thank the interviewer like he hall response to the M ilitant on the organization of leather workers in Peabody, descendants w ill be Negroes.” Bowleé, who has change With a public works pro­ much to end segregation and dis­ saved you from drowning and Mass, recently lead to conferences between the been convicted of passing bad checks, and is in gram, etc. Says these are half­ crimination.” rush down to the employer whose two, unions over a no-raiding pact on tannery trouble over $1,200 in unpaid taxes, faces a hear­ way measures but helpful.” A beauty parlor worker: name is on the introduction card. workers. The reports indicate that the proposed ing January 5th fo r slugging a Negro postman “ Didn’t vote because all poli­ On the way you think, “ Boy, am Among Negro workers: “ The merger plan would stipulate acceptance of fu ll in tlhe Capital. ticians are crooks and phonies!” I gonna make money! Now I can First English Translation membership of Fur Workers into the A F L union * * * feelings seem mixed. One elevator buy clothes and maybe take the without the elimination of any of the present TIM E IS TAXES. The Kentucky Tax Research operator appears to have great From Detroit, Mich. girl friend to a show. Yeah, it’s a officers and representation on the executive board Association has figured that it takes the average illusions as to what the Demo­ A retired Ford worker: He real job this time. Maybe it’s of the combined union. man two hours and 35 minutes of each day to pay crats will do. Generally there is boasted quite proudly that he low wages but it’s still money.” * * ★ both his direct and indirect taxes. a lot of skepticism but hopeful­ personally rounded up voters, Then you reach the employer, WHAT IS ECONOMICS? IF YOU ARE A NEGRO your chances of losing « * » ness." arranged rides and did all he your prospective boss: “ Sorry, your life from fire is three times greater than if AGRICULTURAL WORKERS recruited from Among A FL painters: “ The could to get people to the polls, but we've hired some one else.” yon are white, government figures on accidental Mexico are about to be subjected to new persecu­ day before elections there was “ I was responsible fo r 63 people The letdown is like a blow in By Rosa Luxemburg deaths show. Other studies show that this figure tions in the Chicago area according to persistent a great deal of argument — going to vote and I ’m sure they the gut. You’ve been double- is not accidental. The ratio Of Negro residents in rumors. Many of these workers are technically Republicans stopped the war, all voted Democratic.” It was his crossed and there’s nothing yon overcrowded, rickety, firetrap slums is very high illegal immigrants. Their “illegal” entry was Democrats stopped the depres­ feeling that other workers had can do about it. You go back to 54 pages (mimeographed, stiff cover) as a result of the system of segregation in often accomplished with the aid and connivance sion — after elections they all done the same as he — not as the Employment Service and you housing. of U.S. border officials and big farm interests agreed that both sides are paid ward-heeler, just as workers get in line again. When, after $1.00 * * * greedy fo r cheap, defenseless labor. Some of crooks.” anxious to get the vote out fo r a half hour you reach the recep­ “ $180,000 W ALL” is the name union workers these Mexican workers have made their way A t the Westinghouse plant: the Democrats. tion desk, you are told, “ Sorry, at the American Sugar Company refinery in north but the authorities want to keep them in- “ When Truman won in ’48 there A Ford Local 600 worker: He nothing today. Come back to­ Order from Baltimore gave the partition separating Negro the Southwest as a cheap labor force. The Illinois was jubilation. Eisenhower’s vic­ stated that fo r the first time since morrow morning.” from white in the women’s dressing room. The Division of the American Civil Liberties Union tory in '52 caused a feeling of he had been in the plants, since Karl Marx had something when figure of $180,000 was arrived at because that was has prepared fo r the expected drive against these defeat. Now there was very little 1948, the workers actually feel he said the capitalist society is Pioneer Publishers 116 University Place the sum the company saved every year by paying workers by publishing in Spanish and English a response. No elation over the that they were the power that made up of commodities. Only workers in its segregated Baltimore plant 10 pamphlet explaining their légal rights and listing Statfe of Pennsylvania going put the candidates into office. we’re the commodities. New Yotk 3, N. Y. centfe an hour less than workers in its non- defense agencies to get in touch frith in case of Democratic.” For the first time they really K. F. segregated Philadelphia plant. The wall was arrest. Among Paper workers: “They feel it’s a victory of labor forces. frew York, N. Y. THE MILITANT — Page Three You’ll Be Safe after Mere 5,000 Years Discussion on the deadlines« of ® VISCOUNT HINCHING- added that he did not mean to to ask certain of its citizens to the new H-bombs no longer cen BROOKE (South Dorset, Cons.) treat in a facetious manner what run special risks on behalf of ters on their annihilating power asked whether the Prime Minis­ was perpetually in everybody’s all. This is the principle behind when delivered on centers of ter would be prepared to make mind. compulsory m ilitary service.” population on a war scale. Eisen­ clear, at some suitable time, his * * * He adds sardonically: “Ameri­ A Stalinist Hangman Dies hower, Churchill and Malenkov attitude on the question of a While it is consoling to receive cans who were hurt would doubt­ alike concede that an H-bomb treaty or pact of renunciation by Churchill’s assurance that the less be properly indemnified. All Andrei Y. Vishinsky, who dropped dead placed on them by Stalin’s secret political war might well finish off west­ the leading world powers on the cumulative radioactive effects of the same, the taxpayer would firs t use of the atomic or hydro­ the H-bomb tests won’t last benefit greatly, since the lower­ police, calling them “ mad dogs,” “ cursed ern civilization. What is now from a heart attack Nov. 22, will not be being debated most heatedly is gen bomb. longer than five milleniunis, some ing of costs of the test operation mourned by class-conscious workers who know vipers,” and so on. Although he was an expert the cumulative radioactive ef­ SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL people like the Japanese are dis­ would pay for any probable cas­ his 'real record. 1 le was one of the infamous in Soviet law, he -denied the defendants the fects of the H-bomb and A-bomb said he considered that should be turbed because prevailing winds ualty list many times over.” executioners o f the Bolsheviks who led the most elementary rights, and they with a pistol tests being conducted especially considered along with all other and ocean currents have carried In Washington, civil defense radioactive H-bomb clouds to November 1917 revolution that overthrew at their heads, after having been broken and by the United States. A discus­ proposals to lift the cloud of peril officials instructed the Senators1 from the world. theii; shores within days. demoralized, cooperated with him in this foul sion on this question in the B rit­ before heading fo r shelters in a capitalism in Czarist Russia. ish House of Commons is illu ­ MR. PHrLIP NOEL-BAKER Hence, James R. Arnold, an bombing to turn out all lights, During the revolution, Vishinsky, as a right- performance. minating. From the Parliamen­ (Derby South, Lab.) asked associate professor at the Insti­ close windows and doors, place wing Menshevik, fought on the side of the Vishinsky’s most strenuous vituperations tary Report, House of Commons, whether that suggestion had not tute for Nuclear Studies, U ni­ classified documents in safes, etc. capitalists against the workers and peasants. were reserved for Ico n Trotsky and his son Nov. 2, we publish the following been embodied in the Anglo- versity of Chicago, suggests in “ That’s all very fine,” said Sen. Leon Sedov, the main victims of the Moscow pertinent extract: CHURCHILL French memorandum which the the Bulletin of the Atomic Sci­ Kilgore (D-W.Va.), “ but wihat I le remained on the side o f the counter-revolu­ entists that such tests should be Trials. He accused them of masterminding an MR. ARTHUR HENDERSON United Nations Commission was makes civil defense think any­ tion throughout the bitter civil war period (Rowley Regis and Tipton, Lab.) now considering. conducted, i,f at all, only within thing or anyone w ill be le ft to when the young workers state was assailed alleged plot to “ overthrow” the Soviet state asked the Prime .Minister wheth­ sought at the present time, and SIR WINSTON CHURCH 'ILL: the United States, on the grounds lock up if the Capitol is hit by from all sides. and murder its principal figures, above all er, in view of the further nuclear I am not at present persuaded That is very good. that the nation has “some right a nuclear bomb?” Stalin. that Mr. Henderson’s'suggestion MIR. PAGET ('Northampton, It was mot until definitive victory was won explosions Tn Russian territory, Trotsky succeeded in exposing the trials as he would propose to President would aid the solution.* Lab.) asked how many of those under the guidance o f ljenin and Trotsky, that flimsy frameups even while they were being Eisenhower and Mr. Malenkov M'R. HENDERSON said the explosions it would take to make Vishinsky finally decided that a career under suspension of nuclear and atomic the atmosphere lethal, and Paris Mailmen Strike held. But this did not change anything for that all nuclear and atomic ex‘ the capitalist foes of the revolution no longer plosions should be suspended explosions would greatly lessen whether they were cumulative. Vishinsky or Stalin. Th