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Vol. X X III — No. 30 222 NEW YORK. N.Y., MONDAY, JULY 27. 1959 Price 10c Nationwide Rally Steel Pickets Spearhead Answers Attack On Castro Gov't Fight for Labor's Future Cuba’s workers and peasants are rallying in reply to the heavy attack mounted against the Castro regime NAACP Rally at Polo Grounds in New York by U.S. capitalists, their press, and governmental servants Corporations Plan New as the sixth anniversary of<- Castro’s initial uprising against ing power in Cuba, with Cas­ the Batista dictatorship ap­ tro’s help. proached. At his July 15 press con­ Moves to Break Down On July 13, scarcely two ference Eisenhower chimed in, weeks before the July 26 an­ though more ambiguously, say­ niversary, Admiral Burke, U.S. ing that the U.S. was watching Hard-Won Union Gains Chief of Naval Operations, the whole Caribbean area. told the National War College On July 13 Cuban President By Tom Kerry in Washington that “the revo­ Urrutia joined the chorus in The men of steel are in an angry mood. lution is being used by the Havana, saying Communists "are doing horrible damage to The brazen demand of the steel corporations that the Communists and the danger is unionisurrender working conditions won over decades of still great in Cuba that the Cuba . . . trying to create a Communists will take over.” second front against the U.S. struggle has solidified the ranks of the Steelworkers as and in favor of Russia." Wall never before. * The next day the former Street had pinned its hopes of To the men in the plants, union conditions mean commander of Castro’s Air turning back the tide of the Force, Major Pedro Diaz, who Cuban revolution upon Urrutia. the difference between human dignity and crawling ser­ fled to the U.S., appealed be­ Castro energetically repulsed vility. There can be no compromise on this score. There fore the Senate’s Internal Se­ this reactionary offensive by can be no return to the preunion slave conditions in steel curity Subcommittee to charge formally resigning as Premier, that “Communists” were seiz- without a bloody struggle and, as an inevitable conse­ denouncing Urrutia as a near­ quence, a major social crisis. traitor, and calling upon the people to demonstrate for the The steel corporations are spearheading a general Cuban Unions revolution. Over one-half mil­ employer offensive against labor. The Steelworkers, noW lion responded in Havana, forc­ bearing the brunt of the attack, are labor’s front-line ing the president’s resignation. fighters. Castro designated a new presi­ Call National dent in his stead. As one union paper so aptly puts it, the “steel shut­ All week his supporters have down appears to be the start” of the big business offen­ Token Strike been preparing a vast mobili­ sive against labor. “The preliminary barrages have been zation of the peasants. They The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People wound up its Golden Anniversary Convention July 19 with going on for a long time,” says the July 16 National The powerful Cuban Workers have been marching from both a mass rally at the Polo Grounds. Some 18,000 turned out in a demonstration of determination to wipe out racial discrimination. Maritime Union Pilot in a front page editorial. “This is Confederation has called a one- ends of the island for days to Heaviest applause went to Congressman Adam Clayton Powell when he denounced hypocritical Northern liberal Congressmen what the billion-dollar smear campaigns against labor hour nationwide work stoppage celebrate the sixth anniversary who speak for civil rights but refuse to do anything effective to help win them. for July 24 to back up Castro of the July 26 movement. have been aiming at.” The editorial concludes by em­ and demand his return as pre­ The anti-revolutionary ele­ phasizing that “the battle the steelworkers are in today mier. The labor confederation's ments are trying to halt the is the fight for the future” of labor. chief, David Salvador, urged application of the agrarian re­ The official convention call of the AFL-CIO, asserting workers to hold meetings dur­ forms and the expropriation of Humphrey Joins Network Drive that “the labor movement is under its heaviest attack in ing that work stoppage to hear American companies. The their leaders stress the impor­ agrarian laws provide that no more than a generation,” declares: “The very right of the tance of Castro's resumption of person shall own more than unions to survive is at stake.” office. 600-odd acres. The government To Destroy Freedom of the Air In this battle for survival, the boss-controlled political will soon take over 400 cattle The former premier was also machines are lined up solidly with the employers. Eisen­ ranches totalling millions of JULY 23 — Senator Hubert didate falls under this sweeping news since the stations could there was a feeling in Washing­ informed that the thousands acres, many of them owned by Humphrey of Minnesota has lent “news” category. not grant time to a legion of ton that politics had not been hower sparked the employers “anti-inflation” campaign upon thousands of peasants now American or mixed Cuban- himself as principal front-man According to Senator H um ­ “crackpot” candidates, claimed totally absent from the de­ at the very beginning of contract negotiations. Since then streaming into Havana by train, American companies. ' Castro in the fraudulent drive of the phrey, Democratic majority lead­ the broadcasters. cision.'’ bus, truck and foot would stay the employers and their kept press have played variations has given the big sugar plant­ big broadcasting companies to er Lyndon Johnson has prom­ This hoax was used to justify The dispatch added: "One there until he withdrew his res­ on this theme in every key. ers a year’s grace before ex­ destory the federal "equal-time" ised him the bill w ill be acted the restrictive legislation intro­ thing is certain. None of the an­ ignation. The attempt to foist upon the Steelworkers responsi­ propriation. law. on by the Senate this week. duced into Congress. The H um ­ nounced or unannounced Presi­ This demonstration of unity bility for inflation, induced in large measure by mo­ The landowners have run into Fully aware of the repercus­ The desire of the broadcasters phrey episode was staged to ram dential aspirants w ill vote between the workers and peas­ headlong conflict wtih the pea­ sions its act would have on Con­ to restrict free time to big busi­ the legislation through. against the revision of the com­ nopoly price-gouging, is a cruel hoax. ants is designed to set the stage ness candidates was given re ­ sants and workers who are gress, CBS denied a ir tim e to In denying Humphrey the munications law that is sought As for labor’s “friends” in public office, they play for an overwhelming demonstra­ newed vigor by their thorough­ by the broadcasters." pressing Castro to proceed Humphrey on July 16 on the time, CBS deceitfully sought to their usual perfidious role. Following the ill-considered tion of loyalty to Castro and his ly dishonest exploitation of the without delay to implement ground that he is a candidate imply it would have the Vege­ This damming admission from, program on the July 26 celebra­ Federal Communication Com­ its own sources didn’t prevent proposal of David McDonald, they clamor for Eisenhower the radical measures of im­ for the Democratic presidential tarians and Prohibitionists at its tion. mission’s now celebrated Lar to invoke his powers under Taft-Hartley to set up a provement he has promised. nomination. This carefully door. But if the network had the Times from declaring in a Daly decision. The FCC had staged announcement came 24 granted Humphrey the time, the July 21 editorial that Humphrey “fact-finding” board to adjudicate the dispute. Eisenhower ruled that Daly, an America hours after the Senate Com­ most that would have happened was one of “the victims of this plays coy. Now is not the time, he says, there is no First candidate for mayor of merce Committee had unani­ is that other contenders for the absurdity” of the equal-time national emergency — yet! “ Self-Defense” Debated Chicago in 1958, was entitled to law. mously endorsed a bill to rip Democratic presidential nomi­ time after the incumbent en­ In this he follows the lead of the steel barons. They the guts out of Section 315 of nation could have put in their Nor did the fraudulent CBS joyed several appearances on are in no hurry. For months prior to the strike they piled the Federal Communications bid for equal time. And that stunt deter Humphrey from cyn­ TV newscasts that clearly ad­ up huge reserves of steel. Even if the plants reopened By NAACP Delegates Act. doesn’t mean any individual ically declaring: “If CBS wanted vanced his candidacy. to lobby for this bill, they didn’t tomorrow there would be little demand for steel. Wait This provision requires that who arbitrarily decides he is a By George Lavan The commission ruled in es­ have to lobby with me. I’m going when a candidate is granted ra­ candidate for the nomination. until accumulated inventories are depleted, then — then The official record of the NAACP’s Fiftieth Annual sence that news programs were to vote for it.” dio or TV time, equal time must In fact, Section 315 is already the time w ill be ripe for the “fact-finders.” Convention states that the delegates voted “unanimously” not exempt from the equal-time TV and radio time is almost be given to other candidates for statute. This decision was long so rigged that the stations don’t Historically the role of government fact-finding to uphold the suspension of Robert F. Williams, the North totally monopolized by paid and the same office. overdue since the stations have have to offer equal time to unpaid spokesmen for Big Busi­ boards, especially since Taft-Hartley, is to supplement Carolina exponent of self-de-*- The Commerce Committee frequently favored particular anyone. It must be claimed by ness. E lim in a tio n of the equal­ the employer offensive against labor. So long as the fensc by Negroes against racist phlet, “There is no issue of amendment would exempt from candidates with use of their fa­ other candidates, who, if their time clause wTould stop up the attacks. self-defense. There is no issue advantage appears to be on the side of the employers, the equal-time statute the ap­ cilities under the guise of bid is rejected, must appeal to m in im a l access to the na tio n ’s This is technically correct, of free speech.” It claimed the there is, you see — no national emergency. When the pearance of a candidate on “ a “ news.” the FCC. In any such appeal the “single issue” to be a call by principal communications media for under the unit rule where­ newscast, news interview, news burden of proof for establishing scale is tipped in favor of labor the fact finders are Williams for mob action and With the connivance of the still open to minority political by area votes are cast as a documentary, on-the-spot cov­ that his candidacy is legal rests brought in to whittle down labor’s demands, to throw lynching. press and a host of congressmen, views. whole, all seven geographical erage of news events or panel with the claimant. * To arrive at this, the nation­ the broadcasters set out to de­ Such a curb can easily be ex­ the weight of “public opinion” onto the scale in order to regions of the NAACP voted discussions.” to uphold the national office’s al office singled out from the ceive the public. The ruling The exploitation of the Hum­ tended to all voices speaking on redress the balance in favor of the corporations. suspension of Williams. But the numerous statements and in­ A similar bill is being pro­ meant, they said, that any time phrey case was so raw th a t New behalf of labor or the racial mi­ Labor can emerge victorious only if it sheds any one candidate’s name was men­ York Times correspondent W. H. vote doesn’t tell the whole terviews a single UPI-reported cessed in the House. I f enacted norities. A ll supporters of demo­ illusions about the impartiality of the boss-class govern­ the equal-time law would be­ tioned. all other candidates Lawrence was compelled to re­ cratic rights ought to speak up story nor indicate that the vic­ news story. A few hours after ment and its agencies and relies on its organized strength to r was hollow. that dispatch originally ap­ come a dead letter since the net­ would have to be granted equal port on July 17: “Although .CBS now against this conspiracy to and the fighting qualities demonstrated in action by the Williams came into the con­ peared, Williams pu b licly works could obviously claim lime. This would necessarily said it had acted regretfully with destroy freedom of expression vention with two proposals: stated that he was not calling that any appearance by a can­ mean a blackout on political relation to Senator Humphrey, on the air waves. men of steel on their picket lines! (1) th a t the delegates go on for initiation of violence or re­ record in support of Negroes taliation. Nonetheless the lead­ defending themselves against ership's strategy was to ignore racist attack in those areas Williams' statements and end­ A t the NAACP's Golden Anniversary Convention where, the law fails to give lessly to accuse him of urging equal protection; and (2) that the lynching of whiles. By Lillian Kiezel citizens, sick and disgusted over call upon our branches to double nothing!’ ” liams, President of the NAACP to-Work” laws. “These laws not As a result, news stories the convention rescind the re­ The National Association for the Dixiecrat chairrpen in the the number of registered voters Powell claimed that he has branch in .M o n ro e , N. C. W il­ only endanger the organized la­ from' the convention, such as maining three - and - a - half the Advancement of Colored House and the Senate, may have in each city or county where lost .confidence in liberal con­ liams was suspended for six bor movement but have a bad that sent out by the N.Y. months of his suspension by People wound up its Fiftieth to decide to try to vote the party there is no interference with the gressmen and senators “. . . lib­ months for advocating that Ne­ effect on the rights of colored Times Service on J u ly 17, ap­ the national board for having (Golden Anniversary) conven­ out of office which permits these right to vote." And "That we in­ eralism is a sham and hypocrisy groes defend themselves against wage earners and the economic peared under headlines des­ made his “meet violence with tion with a mass rally at New men from another age to choke crease our financial expenditures in the North today. There are no racist violence. Powell referred well-being of the entire Negro violence” statement. cribing Williams as a “Lynch York's Polo Grounds Sunday. us to death.” to promote registration-and-vote true liberals left.” to the suspension as a one-sided community.” In an attempt to “outflank” Advocate.” Supplementing this Some 18.000 people gathered to Who w ill replace them? “We campaigns in the South and that He cited as an example an action: The Labor and Employment the widespread support for public attack were rumors all the facilities of our organi­ "Just as the National Office among delegates that Williams hear, among others, Roy W il­ know that the Republican party amendment he introduced to the Resolution warned the Negro Williams’ self-defense position, zation be used to make registra­ of the NAACP purged the Presi­ “was helping the White Citi­ kins, NAACP Executive Secre­ is not perfect,” Wilkins con­ labor rackets bill now being people that “The ‘Right to Work’ the resolutions committee pre­ tion and voting a top priority dent of the NAACP chapter in zens Councils,” had been “sent tary, Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe, Pre­ tinued, “and that it has its shifty written by the House Committee laws are not fair employment sented, and the convention ac­ project." Monroe County, N.C. I believe to the convention by the White mier of Eastern Nigeria, Mayor operators also . . . But if a on Education and Labor of practice laws and are supported cepted ,a preamble which con­ they should purge these phony Citizens Councils,” etc. Wagner, Jackie Robinson, and change should be made, at least The Rev. Adam Clayton which he is a member. The by the opponents of genuine tained the following statement: northern white liberals who are "In rejecting violence, we do In answer to the national of­ Congressman Adam Clayton we have the men of the Repub­ Powell won the most applause am endm ent should prevent FEP Law s.” completely insincere and utter not deny, but reaffirm the fice's propaganda, delegates Powell (D-N.Y.). lican Party in states where we at the wind-up rally on the unions from barring from mem­ Advising the membership to hypocrites and who use the right of individual and collec­ who favored Williams put out The growing importance of can vote for or against them, ac­ theme, “This is an hour . . . to bership anyone because of race, join the union in their industry NAACP to mask their true feel­ tive self-defense against un­ a mimeographed statement: the Negro vote was amply dem­ cording to their records. A t pres­ let the chips fly where they creed, color or national origin. the NAACP at the same time ings. The NAACP must stop law ful assaults." "The Real Issue in the Robert onstrated at the convention. ent, we cannot vote for or may.” “I knew,” he said, “that the declares: coddling phony northern white While thus conceding Wil­ W illiam s Case.” Governor Rockefeller and Sen­ against Eastland.” “ Let. this also be know n,” he Southerners on the committee "The AFL-CIO Civil Rights liberals." The last sentence drew liams a victory on the principie On Thursday, the conven­ ator Hubert Humphrey, presi­ Thus he voiced the dissatisfac­ said, “ to the whole world, even would vote against it but to my Committee has failed effectively stormy applause. involved, the NAACP leader­ tion's fourth day, Williams was dential aspirants in the Republi­ tion of the delegates while behind the Iron Curtain, that complete surprise . . . self-pro- to enforce AFL-CIO policy res­ ship by unprecedented mea­ permitted to appear before the can and Democratic parties, sticking with the NAACP policy lynching is legal in the United claimed liberal Democrats voted The convention passed a num­ olutions against discrimination sures pressured all but a hand­ rseolutions committee. lie and treated -the delegates to dema­ of supporting the twin-party States. The Attorney General of against it also . . .” Like Wilkins, ber of resolutions on pressing as these racist practices continue ful of his hardiest sympathizers his attorney, Conrad Lynn, an gogic speeches on how they are evil. The leadership is not even the U.S. Department of Justice however, Powell offered no pos­ problems which confront the in many crafts and industries from registering their votes for alternate delegate from the allegedly championing the Ne­ considering the possibility of a has refused to testify in favor itive suggestions on how to run Negro community, including the throughout America." Trade his reinstatement. Spring' Valley, N.Y., branch, gro people’s struggle for equal­ break w ith the tw o boss parties. of an anti-lynching bill; has re­ these “hypocrites” out of Con­ fight for school desegregation; unionists are urged to "raise Firing the first shot, the na­ were allotted ten minutes ity. The refusal to turn to indepen­ fused to call for an anti-lynching gress. ■the struggle to end discrimina­ these questions sharply within tional office gave all delegates each. At the Polo Grounds Roy W il­ dent political action makes a bill . . . yet at the same time he In a vote of confidence Sat­ tion in public and private hous­ organized labor and to press for upon registration a printed The impact of Williams’ po­ kins indicatod his awareness of mockery of the Political Action piously wrings his hands after urday, the convention had ing; the defense of academic more effective and vigorous en­ pamphlet entitled “The Single sition even on this well-screen­ the Negro political potential b;' Resolution passed by the con­ the lynching of Mack Charles agreed to uphold Roy Wilkins freedom and civil rights. forcement procedures by the na­ Issue in the Robert Williams ed committee is shown by the reminding the Democrats: “The vention which declares: Parker in Poplarville, Missis­ and the NAACP leadership’s The NAACP reaffirmed its op­ tional leadership of the AFL- Case.” According to the pam- (Continued on Page 3) time may come . . . when Negro "As our objective for 1960 we sippi, and says — ‘We can do suspension of Robert F. Wil- position to the so-called “Right- CIO." Page Two T H E MILITANT Monday, July 27, 1959 TOWARD THE 1960 ELECTIONS (The following resolution on the current economic and Mass aspirations for changes in governmental policy were Interest in radicalism is stirring among students who are political situation and the tasks facing the American socialist reflected in 1958 in the election of big Democratic majorities usually the first to reflect such trends. In time radical moods w ill movement in I960 was passed at the Eighteenth National Con­ to Congress. These aspirations are already being frustrated. increase among worker youth as well. The regroupment policy vention of the Socialist Workers Party. — Editor.) Six Main Points in Close attention to the Democratic record will provide valuable has helped channel the first contingent of youth toward revo­ materials for labor party propaganda. Study of labor’s cam­ lutionary socialism. In the Theses on the American Revolution adopted at its paigns against “Right-to-Work” laws in the recent elections will These accomplishments in regroupment. work have set the 1946 convention soon,after World War II, the Socialist Workers further help to enrich socialist propaganda, as will careful stage for stepping up counterposition of authentic Marxist Party anticipated the cold war with the warning: “In their SWP Resolution analysis of the political characteristics inherent in the develop­ views to those of the Stalinists and Social-Democrats, advanced mad drive to conquer and enslave the entire world the American (1) Despite the present sharp rise in production, a ing unemployed movement. Although the SWP does not at in interrelation with the propaganda approach to the mass monopolists are today preparing war against the Soviet Union.” severe crisis of overproduction accompanied by deep- present expect a labor party development in 1960, propaganda movement. But the bid for world supremacy comes too late, the Theses for such a political alternative can help win adherents for sup­ Among the central issues involved are: The burning need added. “U.S. capitalism can no more escape from the revolu­ going unemployment is in the making. port to a socialist ticket. for independent socialist and working-class political action. tionary consequences of world capitalist decay than the older (2) Behind the smokescreen of a probe into bureau­ Revolutionary 1 opposition to imperialist foreign policy. The European capitalist powers.” cratic corruption in the unions, the capitalists and their socialist answer to capitalist economic insecurity. Workers de­ Whatever the exact course of history may be, the im­ government are conducting a bipartisan conspiracy to Regroupment Balance Sheet mocracy — within the revolutionary party, the highest and perialist drive toward war “will not cancel out the socialist weaken organized labor and reduce its living standards. most conscious form of class organization through which the alternative to capitalism but only pose it more sharply.” Sub­ The shattering impact of the Khrushchev revelations at the class leadership must be forged; within the mass organizations, sequent events on the world arena have confirmed this analysis. (3) Because of their energetic intervention into the Twentieth Congress of the Communist Party of the USSR in particularly the unions as a basic instrument of organized class By means of the cold war American imperialism sought to three-year ferment of American radicalism precipitated 1956 tore many people loose from their former allegiance-to the power; within the workers states as the indispensable prere­ clamp an economic boycott on the Soviet Union and to surround American CP and made it imperative to offer these dissidents by the Khrushchev revelations, the forces of rev­ quisite for the advance to a socialist society. All this is re­ it with an iron ring of military bases while preparing a full- a revolutionary alternative to Stalinism. The SWP’s proposal olutionary socialism have registered tangible gains. quired to build a revolutionary party capable of leading th'e scale attack. However, in the post war period the imperialist was to regroup the socialist forces in a bigger and broader (4) The crisis produced in the American Communist American workers to socialism. encirclement was breached by immense social upheavals: the revolutionary organization. i Party by the Twentieth Congress has about run its From the outset our capacity to link this . propaganda The SWP cannot bank on any immediate basic change in Yugoslav revolution, the Chinese revolution, the colonial revolu­ the mass movement, nor can 1959 be expected to provide scope course. political campaign w ith, concrete issues of the class struggle tion and the expansion of Soviet property forms into Eastern for united political campaigns even to the extent possible in Europe. In addition the Soviet Union was so strengthened by (5) The hopes raised byv the huge Democratic ma­ was severely limited by the objective situation in the country. With the union movement still dominated by conservatism and 1958. Limited avenues for concrete actions are available through advances in scientific, technological and industrial potential that jorities in the 1958 Congressional elections are already civil-liberties cases and through work in the Negro struggle. it now challenges the military superiority of imperialism. passivity and mass action at a low ebb, regroupment activity being dissipated among the populace, affording greater The party should neglect no realistic openings for activities in At present neither the imperialist powers nor the Soviet centered primarily around the discussion of programmatic receptivity to independent political action. questions and proposals for united electoral campaigns on a the unemployed movement. Its primary task in the unions at bloc countries hold a decisive advantage; the worltl power the present time is to lay propaganda foundations for future struggle remains stalemated. The Kremlin bureaucracy has re­ (6) The SWP favors a broad united socialist presi­ minimum socialist program. Some of the dissidents who had already been critical of work in accord with the real pace of national and local de­ sponded to this situation by launching a new campaign for a dential ticket next year if sufficient cooperating forces velopments. Concentration upon the expansion of press cir­ status-quo deal with imperialsim. American imperialism, faced the CP’s electoral policies here and there agreed to collaborate make it feasible. Meanwhile the SWP w ill go ahead with the SWP to promote independent socialist political activity. culation w ill help prepare the political ground for future left- with increasing pressures to slow down its war timetable, can­ with pi’eparations for the 1960 campaign so that the wing activities in the mass movement. not easily reject the Kremlin’s peace overtures outright. Some This in itself represented a step forward in American radicalism message of socialism can be brought to the American because in the United States a break with capitalist polities At present the 1960 presidential elections loom as the next form of temporary, uneasy truce must therefore exist, be it with major political action. A complex of factors outside the SWP’s people. remains central to the solution of the basic historical problems. or without formal diplomatic confirmation. control make a united socialist presidential ticket an uncertain Whatever diplomatic accommodations may be made in the In the course of the continuing crisis of Stalinism and the energetic intervention of the SWP, the relation of forces within prospect. If sufficient cooperating forces can be brought to­ stalemate, a prolonged maintenance of the international status gether in agreement to make the effort feasible and worthwhile, quo is excluded. It is precisely against the status quo that the class in general has come to fell less and less secure. Sharpening the radical movement shifted to the advantage of revolutionary socialism. The Communist Party of the USA has been reduced the SWP favors putting a broad socialist ticket (on acceptable masses of the world are rebelling. Among the world masses, class antagonisms leading to more intense class struggle are lines) in the race in order to advance and popularize the idea groping intuitively toward socialism, there w ill be repeated out­ im plicit in the changing objective situation. to a hollow shell of its former self, though it will remain a dangerous obstruction to the ‘development of a class-conscious of independent socialist political action. However, in view of breaks of struggle against existing conditions. These mass inter­ During the radicalization of the thirties the mobiliaztion of socialist movement so long as the bureaucratic fountainhead the difficulties and uncertainties of realizing this under present ventions will upset the 'diplomatic equilibrium. Furthermore, the workers as an independent class force stopped short at the of Stalinism holds power in the Kremlin. conditions, the SWP w ill make all the necessary preparations American imperialism is driven toward war by economic con­ level of union organization. Independent political forms like In opposition to the trend tflward revolutionary regroup­ to run its own candidates so that in any event the message of tradictions, even though every successful revolutionary struggle the CIO’s Political Action Committee and the American Labor ment headed by the SWP, the crisis of Stalinism promoted a socialism can be brought to the American people in the 1960 makes the launching of war more difficult. Party in New York were misused to support capitalist politicians. counter-trend for amalgamation of Social-Democratic elements elections. Until capitalism is abolished everywhere, above all in the Organized labor remained under capitalist political domination on an essentially pro-imperialist basis. The Shachtmanites were ' United States, mankind will face the danger of nuclear war. within a multi-class coalition. liquidated and absorbed into the SP-SDF in this retrogressive American imperialism will continue its arms build-up, the Buttressed by the long period of relative economic stability maintenance of extensive military alliances and far-flung m il­ process. Crisis in the Communist Party that followed, this political entraprrfent served to permeate the The SWP’s regroupment initiative led to fraternal dis­ itary bases. The American people . will face heavy taxes, a labor movement with class collaborationism. The labor bureau­ mounting public debt and the consequent inflationary pressures. cussions and united actions on specific issues with dissident ele­ After 30 years of steadfast struggle for revolutionary-so­ cracy grew in strength. During the long witch hunt it consoli­ ments where we found common agreement. Cooperation was cialist positions, objective events have come powerfully to the The people’s needs will remain subordinated to diversion of dated its dictatorial rule over the rank and filé. Radicals were public funds for war purposes. strengthened in a number of defense cases. But the main aid of the Marxists in exposing the bankruptcy of Stalinist purged from the unions, oppositions knocked down, and union trend in the first phase was toward symposium discussions, theory and its political treachery. Khrushchev’s repudiation of democracy severely restricted. Strike authority was taken from symbolized by the launching of the American Forum for Stalin shattered the ideological structure of the Communist the workers. Collective bargaining was weakened through con­ Socialist Education. Party, further discrediting it politically and morally. Trotskyism W itch-Hunt Subsides cessions to the bosses fa r outw eighing concessions won by labor. The most responsive radicals soon became dissatisfied with thereby won fresh vindication in its long, principled opposition The bureaucracy joined with the capitalists to discipline rebel mere discussion and new possibilities emerged for socialist to Stalinism and gained immeasurably in ideological, political The capitalist government can be expected to keep the workers fighting to defend their class interests. activity. This culminated in the 1958 united socialist election and moral capital. The SWP is no longer at the tremendous witch-hunt laws and dccrees on the books and to enforce them. Class-collaborationist norms must give way to class-struggle campaigns in some states and in greater support to SWP disadvantage before Stalinism that operated during the radicali­ But the recent setbacks to imperialist foreign policj' have some­ moods as the capitalist contradictions deepen and employer tickets in others. zation of the thirties. what eased the pressures of national political reaction. Critics concessions become more difficult to obtain. Relations between In the united campaigns the SWP could put forward only Until the Kremlin bureaucracy is overthrown by a worker’s of the war policy and of the government’s neglect of social the workers and bureaucrats are changing as pressures for union part of its program. But this did not cancel out their value as political revolution establishing socialist democracy in the Soviet needs may anticipate a more ready response within the mass democracy mount in the ranks. An upward curve in labor a means of drawing broader socialist forces into positive action bloc, the American CP will remain a rival against which the movement. militancy is reflected in recent strike struggles. Solidarity of on the key issue facing American labor — independent class SWP must wage unremitting combat. The temporary restabili- Class tensions may be expected to increase, reducing the employed and unemployed as manifested in Detroit foreshadows political action as against support to capitalist parties. Former zation of bureaucratic rule reflected in the Twenty-First Con­ effectiveness of the witch hunt against radicals, particularly as a trend toward demands for reduced working hours in industry Stalinist supporters were mobilized in direct opposition to CP gress of the CPSU gives Stalinism both there and here a further the world contradictions gf capitalism further sap the economic and toward increased social demands upon the capitalist gov­ policy in an electoral coalition with SWP members and sup­ lease on life. But the position of the Soviet bureaucracy re­ foundations of American imperialism. ernment. A further rise in militancy can be expected as the porters, among others. mains unstable and insecure. Thus the life expectancy of the Since the depression of the thirties the American economy latent capitalist crisis unfolds. Those who have moved toward limited political collabor­ American CP as a Kremlin agency grows shorter. The SWP’s has depended increasingly on the basic prop of government ation with the SWP did so in a contradictory way. While they prompt and aggressive intervention has helped to forestall a spending for war and preparations for war. Within this frame­ have shown a partial capacity to take class-struggle positions, CP resurgance and to speed its further decline. work relative economic stability has been maintained through The Capitalist Offensive they also retain class-collaborationist illusions long inculcated The crisis provoked by the 20th Congress disclosures has a series of boom-recession cycles. The first postwar boom receiv­ into them by Stalinism and American empiricism. Some believe about run its course in the United States. The remnants of the ed stimulus from the pent-up consumer demands and recon­ The capitalists are preparing an offensive intended to weak­ that the single fact of running on a capitalist ticket should' not die-hard Stalinists have been reorganized on a cons’iderably re­ struction tasks arising from World War II. Saturation of this en organized labor and force a reduction in mass living stand­ disqualify a candidate from socialist support. Illusions remain duced basis. The great bulk of functionaries and members who general market and a temporary decline in military spending ards. To preserve high-level profits under conditions of declin­ about the recreation of a Wallace-type capitalist third party. have left the party in the past three years have failed to set led to the 1949 recession. ing production the employers and their government are mount­ Lack of class-struggle pressure tends to retard further immediate up any semblance of organization, except for the ultra-Stalinist The economy got a fresh boost from the Korean war, only ing an attack on the alleged “wage-price” inflationary spiral. advances in clear-cut class politics. Many who have turned away Vanguard group. They have either retired from active radical to fall back into the 1953-54 slump after the Korean truce. Since Employers manifest growing unity in strikes and lockouts. from the CP cling to fundamentally Stalinist attitudes on such politics altogether or are playing Democratic Party politics then boom tendencies have depended largely upon a qualitative Union demands are met by employer counter-demands calcul­ basic issues as support to the struggles of the, Soviet workers learned in the Stalinist school. increase in arms production and upon new capital investment ated to impair labor conditions. Blows arc dealt organized labor against the bureaucratic caste and the form the conflict must Although a large number of pro-Soviet sympathizers are for plant and equipment. The capital involved in plant expan­ through decentralization of industry. ultimately assume, namely, the political revolution for Soviet no longer under direct domination by the CPUSA, they are sion has been derived mainly from record corporation profits, Behind the smokescreen of a probe into bureaucratic cor­ democracy. displaying a more and more uncritical attitude toward the rebates in corporation taxes and government-financed enlarge­ ruption in the unions, the government is preparing a bipartisan In united actions with such radicals the SWP sought to bureaucratic regimes in the Soviet bloc. Moreover, many of ment of private facilities. campaign to-enact harsher anti-labor laws. Although the union emphasize points of agreement rather than reject collaboration them, in the absence of any extensive mass pressure for inde­ By 1957 a trend toward leveling off in new capital invest­ officials can not be trusted to stand resolutely against the attack, because of remaining differences. While maintaining and exer­ pendent political action, exhibit a stronger disposition to support ment developed. Capitalist production is nearing a point where they w ill not find it easy to capitulate as cravenly as they did cising full freedom to present and defend its entire program in “progressive” candidates on capitalist party tickets in order to excess capacity imposes serious limitations on further invest­ to the Taft-Hartley law in 1947. The union campaign against the press and" public, the SWP joined in action with them on beat some “reactionary at all costs.” ment for expanding production, thereby losing in ability to stim­ “Right-to-Work” laws in the recent elections indicates that con­ agreed political issues and hoped to influence them further The regroupment policy w ill probably retain its validity ulate boom conditions. Further loss in boom potential results siderable political friction w ill arise in 1960 over attempts to toward full revolutionary views. We saw in the crisis of Stalin­ as a method of approach to new break-away currents reacting from the contraction of the world market. International ten­ further impair labor’s rights. ism a chance to strengthen revolutionary socialism and better to another big shakeup in the Soviet orbit or, more importarttly, dencies toward capitalist economic crisis, inter-imperialist riv­ Confusion among the workers as to the real aims of the prepare the vanguard leadership for the next wave of mass as an approach to new transitional formations which may arise alries and Soviet penetration of the world market operate to government’s labor probe w ill begin to disappear as the anti­ radicalization. out of the mass movement in the early stages of coming dis­ reduce U.S. trade abroad. This is reflected in a drop of about labor drive hits home in the unions. Recognition w ill grow that, turbances within U.S. capitalism. Meanwhile, all the fraternal one-sixth in 1958 export trade compared with 1957. to win their democratic rights and safeguard their class inter­ relations and common enterprises which have been established At a time when arms production assumes ever greater ests, the w orkers m ust defend themselves more Vigorously Encouraging Gains with so many people of different tendencies in the past three importance as an economic prop, advances in m ilitary technol­ against both the union bureaucracy and the capitalist govern­ The revolutionary socialist movement has registered a years should be maintained and extended, wherever possible. ogy narrow the economic effects of government spending for ment. Bureaucrati'c corruption w ill be seen to stem from the number of tangible gains as the result of the SWP’s intervention But it would be unrealistic to persist in our campaign for or­ war purposes. Relatively few guided missiles armed with nuclear greater leadership crime of class collaboration, for which the in the ferment of American radicalism precipitated by the 20th ganizational regroupment along previous lines. The significant warheads begin to supersede manned aircraft, tanks, artillery workers pay in speedup, economic insecurity and the danger of Congress: changes in external circumstances noted above curtail the pros­ and other weapons previously required in vast quantities. Arms nuclear war. , (1) Free discussion among socialists of varying views, which pects for organizational fusion with forces now visible on the production tends to center in a smaller segment of manufacture, Union bureaucrats of the Hoffa-Beck type who have been had for thirty years been prevented by Stalinism, was revived scene. thrusting some industries toward greater reliance on the normal the initial targets of the McClellan probe are notorious for their and carried on vigorously for many months, extending into Everything that has happened since the outbreak of the consumer market. The armed forces are evolving toward basic thievery, gangsterism and other corrupt practices in union office. Stalinist circles from which the ideas of genuine Marxism had crisis of Stalinism has served to confirm the position of Trotsky­ components of skilled technicians. Consequent reductions in total But their removal is the internal business of the unions, not a been completely debarred. ism as the only genuine revolutionary tendency in our own military personnel add to the civilian labor force seeking jobs matter to be left to capitalist politicians whose aim is to under­ (2) The CP proscription of “Trotskyism” was broken and country and on a world scale. There has been and there is and accelerate the long-term growth of chronic unemployment mine the unions themselves on the pretext of fighting bureau­ the SWP’s right to participate in activities and discussions no reason whatever to abandon or modify the basic program­ in industry. cratic corruption. When other bureaucrats, foolishly hoping to within American radical circles was recognized and established matic positions worked out by our movement and consistently Although the fundamental course of the economy remains purchase immunity, support the McClellan attack, they commit in practice. defended in struggle since 1928. Over the past three years the screened by cyclical ups and downs, a severe crisis of over­ a crime against labor. (3) The precedent-breaking common campaigns in the elec­ SWP has again shown in practice its willingness to cooperate production accompanied by deep-going unemployment is in the However, in the very act of capitulation they create a new toral field and other spheres contributed to the revival of in­ with socialistrminded individuals and groups of differing po­ making. Each periodic recession tends to go deeper as the booms factor inside the unions. A differentiation begins within the dependent socialist political action and solidarity in struggle litical views in specific issues involving civil rights, the labor decline in momentum, leaving more pronounced residual effects bureaucracy, serving to split its monolithic front against the against capitalist reaction. movement, the Negro struggle and the cause of socialism. The from each downturn. rank and file. On the negative side, the resultant expulsion of (4) A significant number of former members and sympa­ party has exchanged ideas on programmatic questions without The basic trend toward severe economic crisis affects ever some unions from the AFL-CIO weakens labor’s united power. thizers of the CP were recruited and integrated into the ranks raising ultimatistic conditions which would have shut off dis­ larger sections of the working class. As the last recession began, On the positive side,- the rupture of the bureaucratic monolith | of the SWP. cussion before it could start. Our party intends to continue unemployment stood over a million higher than at the start of facilitates thought for union democracy. (5) The SWP acquired more power as an initiating center along this line. • the previous slump. Subsequent layoffs were greater than usual Although the bureaucratic grip over the unions is less firm, within the radical movement and more attractiveness as the But this method of approach, which we first applied in the in volume. Joblessness continues to run high despite a sharp internal rebellion has not mounted to the point where militants decisive organized force pressing for socialist objectives. revolutionary socialist regroupment activities of the 1930’s, does new rise in production. Conservative government figures indicate can push forward without serious danger of reprisal. Protest (6) The impact of the shakeup in American radicalism plus not imply and has never .implied any intention on our part the country entered 1959 with over four million workers, at m

Subscription: $3 a year; Ca­ Second class postage paid nadian, $3.50; foreign, $4.50. t h e MILITANT at New York. N. Y. The American Editor: JOSEPH HANSEN Associate Editor: DANIEL ROBERTS Business Manager: KAROLYN KERRY Published weekly by the Militant Publishing Assn., 116 University Pl.t N.Y. 3, N.Y. Phone: CH 3-2140. Signed articles by contributors do not necessarily represent the Militant's policies. These are expressed in editorials. Way of Life Vol. X X III — No. 30 Monday, July 27, 1959 New Challenge to the Russians Steel Profits and Inflation Leading spokesmen for American capitalism are willing to concede nowadays that the Soviet Union rep­ In their propaganda campaign against “cost-push” occurred when wage rates resents a most serious challenge in the advance of the the steel workers, the Steel Companies rose faster than worker productivity. This physical sciences and technol-*- Coordinating Committee, the general staff supposedly obliged the big companies to ogy. But, they proudly point for a few buttons of the com­ of the steel magnates, has placed full-page raise prices to maintain their profits. out, the Russians are still far mon agaricus campester.) scare-ads in the press from coast to coast, “This argument,” he says, “has been the behind in the production of “In keeping with the restaur­ consumers goods. ant’s name,” continues the screaming: “Steel Union On Strike For basis of the systematic nationwide cam­ A striking example of the Times, “ waiters’ uniforms, More Inflation.” paign to blame price inflation upon wage latest achievements in Amer­ menus, landscape plantings and Bidding for public sympathy, the cor­ increases.” ica on the consumer front was even the ash trays w ill change poration heads claim that this is “the real In fact, says Keyserling, “this cam­ reported in the July 19 New with the passing seasons.” issue at stake in the steel strike.” Another paign has no merit. The price incerase York Times. The worjd’s most In contrast to some restaur­ which took place in key industries (in expensive restaurant will soon ants, which happen to be lag­ wage increase, they say, would set off open its doors to the public. ging on the consumer front, the 1956-57) were not necessary to sustain an similar increases in other industries and Located in the new Seagram service will be top drawer. add to “the deadly inflation spiral.” adequate level of profits, but instead re­ building on exclusive Park “Weekly instructions on the sulted in an excessive expansion of prof­ This high-level effort to blame wage- Avenue, equipment and furn­ service of wine has been insti­ its. This profit expansion far outran wage ishings alone for "The Four tuted for the captains. There increases for inflation has just been thor­ rate increases.” Seasons" w ill amount to $4,- will also be daily indoctrina­ oughly exposed in a report on “Inflation- ' Between 1956 and 1957, he notes, 500,000. tion for the waiters . . . Per­ Cause and Cure,” issued by the Confer­ sonnel are instructed in the when the chief price hikes occurred,” It will be “one of the most ence on Economic Progress and written opulently decorated d in in g es­ h is tory, characteristics and •p ro fit increases were more than 14.5% in by Leon H. Keyserling, chairman of the tablishments in the United character of wine, as well as iron and steel, more than 24% in motor the etiquette of pouring it.” President’s Council of Economic Advisers States,” according to the Times. vehicles and equipment, and more than under Truman. The decor w ill synthesize the All this for the consumer— 22.5% in electrical m achinery. In petro­ " If those steel strikers think they can make us look like horses' best features of town and and at a price quite in keeping The big concentrated industries who leum products, the profit increases were country. The annual budget for with the American Way of seasonal planting inside the control prices in their fields have been more than twice - as great as the wage necks, they've got another think coming!" Life. The average luncheon restaurant w ill be $50,000. check w ill run around a mod­ chiefly responsible for the rise in whole­ increases.” sale prices in recent years, Keyserling “This includes the care of est $6, not counting the wine The anti-inflation crusade of the steel or cocktails. says. These have been headed by the steel four 17-foot ficus trees, mem­ barons is a fraud designed to cover up bers of the fig family; two monopolists. New Turbulence in Iraq The average I dinner check their own profit-gouging and their at­ giant podocarpus; a cheese w ill be only $10 or $12, so that Since 1956 and 1957, Keyserling points tempts to drive down the living and plant . . . which took two years a family of five should be abl« to produce, a fiddle-leaf plant, out, the prices of food and clothing pro­ working standards of the workers. “In to eat out for $50 or $60, drinks ducts, unmonopolized sectors of the econ­ Faces Kassem Regime and five philodendrons with extra naturally. the name of protecting the country self-supporting, trunks that omy, went down slightly at wholesale. against price increases,” Keyserling con­ The revolution in Iraq, which though the party itself has not troyed the most outspoken anti­ measure two to three inches in True enough, New York’s But the prices charged by the big “ad­ cludes, “ [this campaign] has spawned began on July 14 a year ago received any official represen­ com m unist newspaper and diam eter.” newest and most exciting res­ with the overthrow of the manhandled an army officer taurant w ill hold only 525 peo­ ministered price” industries like steel policies which have inflated the prices tation. This move has been di­ Culturally minded diners will ple, but it opens a new vista soared. royal family's dictatorship, con­ versely interpreted, as a mere they considered responsible for appreciate a stage curtain paint­ and incomes of those who need help least on what America can do for tinues to erupt. The turbulent sop to the CP, and as evidence disarming the people’s militia. ed by Picasso, tapestries by Why did this happen? The “official” and deflated the incomes and well-being the consumer. Let the Soviet political situation confronts Pre­ of the increasing penetration of In a speech condemning the Joan Miro and murals of the Union try to match it! explanation, Keyserling notes, is that a of those who need it most.” mier Kassem and the Iraqi the regime by the CP. Kirkuk uprising, Kassem took abstract-expressionist school. A Communist Party with serious In a speech on the first an­ the occasion to warn the militia sparkling touch is a 24-foot — A lex Harte problems of decision, both in niversary of the revolution and its supporters that the gov­ pool lined with white marble. their relations with each other Kassem pledged an end to ernment army alone had the and with insurgent workers army rule, free parliamentary responsibility for dealing with As for food, this is where the No Class Struggle in America? consumer really comes into his "Your Country and peasants who are intent elections and a new constitu­ opponents of the revolution. Steelworkers now on strike should It is undeniable that Big Business is upon safeguarding and carry­ tion to Iraq within a year. He “There are those who say,” own. The restaurant w ill have its own herb garden. Needs You" have time to do some thinking about the waging its own class struggle against ing forward the revolution. also promised to permit the he declared, “there must be no In an effort to hold down resumption of party activities liberty or freedom for the en­ Dishes w ill include "farm ­ A former army sergeant told merits of the past conduct and current labor. The pity is that the leaders of the revolutionary forces, Kas­ by Jan. 6, Army Day. emies of the people. I tell them house duckling with fresh sage, a congressional committee last policies of the union leaders. labor are not conducting their end of sem recently ordered the Peo­ In the same speech he called that the enemies of the people shashlik with wild thyme and week of his experience as a per­ Not so long ago USA Pres. McDonald the struggle as effectively or intelligently ples Resistance Militias, formed upon Iraqi laborers to work be­ are known only to the lawful fish flamed with dried fennel. sonal servant to a major gen­ had his arm around the shoulders of the as the enemies of the workers. during the uprising, to turn in yond the standard eight-hour authorities. They cannot be Other rare items on the menu eral. He gave this run down of include suckling pig in pastry, his army duties: “. , . washing steel corporation presidents and was Fresh evidence of the futility of their their arms and submit to army day for the future of Iraq. He known to individuals scattered control. also asked Iraqi farmers to in­ here and there.” coq au vin made with genuine dishes, cooking, answering visiting plants from coast to coast with political policies is provided by their pre­ He dismissed 11 alleged Com­ crease agricultural production cockrels, and wild mushrooms, phones, baby sitting (for the the head of the U.S. Steel trust. This dicament in regard to the labor “reform” munist officers from the army. while the republic’s new land- RISE IN JEWISH SCHOOLS such as chanterelles and general’s grandchildren), clean­ supposedly signaled the dawn of a new measure now before the House Education He denounced proposals put reform law went into opera­ Enrollment in Jewish schools morels." ing up after and feeding the dog era of harmony between the union and and Labor Com m ittee. A fte r having seen forward by the CP to set up a tion. increased 131 per cent in the (Mycophagists who may . . . washing ladies’ lingerie and the bosses. O nly die-hard socialists, the mangling of the original Kennedy- national-front coalition of poli­ Wealthy landowners of the past decade, according to a re­ worry about the restaurant’s other details most men just don’t tical parties upholding the new Shiite Moslem sect, unhappy cent survey. Over a half mil­ mushroom hunters getting the do.” His average day ran from not safe-and-sound American union lead­ Ervin bill which they endorsed and their regime, and told the nation the over the agrarian reforms, have lion students are now attending poisonous clitocybe i 11 u d e n s 6 a.m. to 8 p.m. and as late as ers, still talked the language of class own recommendations ignored, the labor 'time was not ripe for unre­ reportedly been involved in the 3,367 Jewish religious schools mixed up with chanterelles, or 10 p.m. “if the general’s wife w arfare. leaders have drafted a measure of their stricted political life. fighting which broke out in in the country. The survey the doubtful gyromita esculenta happened to have some social Even McDonald should now admit own at the last hour. The Communist Party; which Kirkuk, an oil center in north­ noted that the “holding power” w ith morels, w ill probably be function.” The ex-GI felt he that the steel strike is a manifestation of has powerful support among eastern Iraq. of the schools — three to four able to get the chef to send “contributed very little to the According to’ the N.Y. Times, “they the masses, has been demand­ Censorship has prevented re­ years — was “poor.” out to the nearest chain store war effort.” class conflict. And this is only one part are reported to be seeking a sponsor to ing direct representation in the ceiving a clear picture of what of the big business war upon labor. The offer it as a substitute for the committee government. Its growing fric­ took place in K irkuk where anti-labor bill now before Congress is bill on Thursday when a final vote is set.” tion with Kassem, who in this units of the Iraqi army went situation is leaning upon the over to the side of Kurdish another. Look at this picture! The official rep­ “We are today witnessing in America w e ll - to - do and m iddle - class tribesmen. One thing is plain. resentatives of 16 m illion organized work­ elements in Iraq, was reflected The Popular Resistance Forces Headlines in Other Lands the greatest barrage of anti-union propa­ in its press which dropped the went into action, apparently on ers have worked themselves into a spot The three statesmen also de­ stepped up in an effort to put ganda that any nation has ever wit­ title of “unique leader” with their own initiative, indicating Franco Puts Bite where they are humbly “seeking a spon­ clared they would consider rec­ nessed,” Elmer Holland (D-Pa.) declared which the CP has described the their disregard for Kassem's pressure on Nehru and the cen­ sor” in Congress for a bill to counter a ognition of the Algerian pro­ tral government to intervene General since he took power. order to disarm. On U.S. Treasury in the House last week during the de­ visional government at a meet­ and force new elections in measure which strikes at the foundations Shortly thereafter, in a sur­ At the same time, in Bagh­ The Spanish government is bates on this bill. ing of foreign ministers of in­ Kerala. of American unionism. This is the payoff prise reshuffle of his cabinet, dad, goyernment troops were being saved from insolvency dependent African states in L i­ “The present situation is tragic,” he Kassem gave three of the les­ called on to suppress Commun­ by the grant of at least $375,- for decades of supporting capitalist poli­ beria next month. Iraq University said. “Are we not making the class-war- ticians “friendly to labor.” ser posts to CP followers, al­ ist-led forces which had des- 000,000 in credits fro m a group fare predictions of Karl Marx come true?” of U.S. banks, the Organization Kenyans Vote Premier Kassim of Iraq laid If these labor statesmen had put half Walter Reuther hit the same note in for European Economic Coop­ the foundation stone on July as much money and energy into electing eration and the International To Spread Boycott 17 of a new university on the his keynote address to the third Confer­ ...Debate “ Self-Defense” Monetary Fund. outskirts of Baghdad. This $70,- ence of the AFL-CIO Industrial Union their own candidates to office on a labor In addition, the U.S. is let­ Of South Africa 000,000 educational in s titu tio n (Continued fro m Page 1) able young leader as Williams Department in Philadelphia last month. party ticket, they wouldn’t now have to tin g Spain use the equivalent The Kenya Federation of La­ w ill house 12,000 students. fact that they kept him speak­ out of the NAACP, it will be “The National Association of Manufac­ of $123,000,000 of counterpart bor, composed entirely of black hunt for a sponsor to any measures they ing for one and a half hours. guilty not only of a breach of Africans, unanimously voted to Jimenez Police turers are waging a class struggle in democracy but of damaging the funds for 1959, which have wish to introduce. They might even have The committee then deadlocked been created by the sale of our join the boycott of goods pro­ America, precisely as Karl Marx wrote until late that night when Negro struggle for equality. duced in white supremacist Admit Tortures passed a few laws favorable to the work­ After completion of the surplus farm commodities for it would be waged,” he moaned. “They those desiring to make a minor­ local currencies. South Africa. African trade speakers' list, W illiam Scott, a Former agents of Venezuela’s are working overtime to prove that Karl ers instead of the anti-labor bills now in ity report in Williams’ favor Since 1953 Franco has re­ union leaders from Kenya, finally gave in. delegate from Rockland County, Uganda and Tanganyika will National Security Police under Marx was right.” the hopper. N.Y., took the microphone by ceived close to a billion dol­ the deposed Jimenez dictator­ On Friday morning, after pre­ meet Aug. 15 to discuss exten­ previous agreement with the lars in American nonmilitary ship, now on trial for their senting the preamble about aid alone. sion of the campaign among chairman for introduction of a crimes in Caracas, testified self-defense, the committee East Africans. substitute motion. He had His government has devalued there were special torture unanimously recommended up­ the peseta and is preparing The boycott movement was Another Khrushchev Revelation barely begun reading it, how­ chambers for the questioning holding the board’s suspension further steps to implement its launched by trade unionists at ever, when he was ruled out of of political prisoners. Other of the North Carolina leader. economic stabilization program. the All-African Peoples Con­ (As we were about to fill this space proach. You’ll recall we carefully refrain­ order. witnesses charged that jailed Nothing is being done to “lib­ ference in Accra last December. with some opinions of our own on the ed from an official endorsement of Harri­ Allotted two minutes each, Scott later told reporters that leaders and members of oppo­ eralize” the dictatorship. It has already been endorsed eight delegates spoke for W il­ his substitute resolution had sition parties were murdered topic, we received from our usually re­ man. We simply concentrated our fire on The new credits, the revised (by workers in Ghana and Ja­ liams’ reinstatement, and 21, been drafted by a caucus of 50 in them. liable observer a report on the following McManus and Rockefeller. They had to currency rate, and other mea­ maica. ' including resolutions committee delegates as a compromise on When the Jimenez govern­ sures are designed, it is said, conversation between two members of be stopped at all costs.” members, spoke against. the Williams issue. It proposed ment was overthrown on Jan. to bolster up Franco’s weaken­ Kenya Restricts the Communist Party in a New- York “Stanley, this isn’t the Militant. It’s Sympathy for Williams was that since Williams stated he 23, 1958, the National Security ed regime and pave the way apparent in the applause given does not and did not counsel Police Building was the scene cafeteria. Since their viewpoint is not the July 17 New York Times. And here’s for Spain’s admission to NATO. Mboya's Actions his defenders and the ovation initiation of violence, and that of a bloody ten-hour battle, likely to win consideration elsewhere, we another paper with an AP story report­ On the twenty-third anniver­ he himself received. One speak­ since both he and the NAACP K enya authorities have during which the enraged peo­ thought it only democratic to turn the sary of the Fascist counter­ ing the same thing. Khrushchev says he er complained that though he now state their support of self- clamped down on the political ple literally tore many of the revolution, the Spanish press space over to them.) told Harriman that it’s ‘incredib.le’ that was for Williams he would be defense, that the convention activities of Tom Mboya, head hated police torturers to pieces. carried praise of his rule by “Did you see the paper this morning, unable to vote for him because propose to the national board of the People’s Convention There is no capital punish­ anyone thought there was a difference. U.S. congressmen along with his delegation had imposed the his reinstatement. Party and an officer of the ment in Venezuela. Stanley?” He repeated what he said to Harriman reports of how impressed Am­ unit rule. A bitter dispute Despite the unit rule, some African Labor Federation. He “The Worker doesn’t come out until to som& Polish miners.” erican officials and bankers broke out in the Detroit dele­ 14 delegates managed to get has been forbidden to discuss CP Twists were w ith Spain as a credit Friday, M ax.” “I’ve often wondered about him. gation against the same re­ their dissenting votes reported political matters outside the risk. “ I’m\ talking about the bourgeois press. After that speech about Stalin some striction. in the course of the tally. Of capital, Nairobi, and in union In Australia meetings. Khrushchev has endorsed Jack McManus The most, te llin g speech the 1,190 voting delegates reg­ highly responsible comrades indicated he African Nations Mboya was searched for A good example of how the against Williams came from istered, only 778 voted though for Governor of New York.” might .be a Trotzkyite. But anyway this “seditious” literature at the air­ Communist Party’s trade-union Mrs. Daisy Bates of Little Rock, there were over 800 alternates Plan "Community" “Max, the -election was last Novem­ port on his return from a re­ policies veer in accord with the certainly exposes the lie that we’re slav­ known to the delegates as a to replace the absentees. At a four-day meeting, the ber. And, you’ll recall we vigorously op­ cent trip to the U.S. winds from Moscow is given ish followers of Moscow ideology.” fighter who has employed self- Whether this disrepancy in heads of Liberia, Guinea and by the Australian mining in­ posed McManus as an anti-Soviet' ultra­ “That’s right, Stanley. But I hear defeijse measures to protect the vote reflected deliberate Ghana, the three independent dustry, reports the Socialist, a leftist who consorts with Trotzkyites and abstention by some delegates Indian CP Rejects Duclos is working on another airmail her own home. She stated that Negro nations of West Africa, new m o n th ly paper there.* was giving objective aid to Rockefeller. she i could “understand better is not known. agreed to hold a conference “In 1949, when Stalin was special-delivery.” New Kerala Election You’ve been drinking.” than anyone how Mr. Williams After the vote, delegates next year to set up “a com­ proclaiming the now famous felt,” but that her opinion was streamed up to the suspended Not me. It reports Khrushchev’s en­ “Let me read that story for myself. munity of African states.” The national executive of the doctrine of the main blow —Aha, you tore it out of context! Why that his suspension was an North Carolina leader to ex­ The decision to. delay unifi­ Indian CP turned down a pro­ against social democracy, the dorsement right here: ‘To me it’s all in­ NAACP “family matter” and press sympathy or to explain didn’t you read where Khrushchev told cation was a setback to Ghana’s posal that Kerala’s Communist Communist Party union leaders credible. What is the difference to the that he had erred by speaking why they had not voted for Prime Minister Nkrumah who government resign and hold led the general strike of coal workers between a Rockefeller and a Harriman he even drank brandy with about it at “black nationalist” him. Frequent among the lat­ wanted “union now.” The pres­ mid-term elections on its own miners to the most disasttous Harriman?’ ” Rockefeller and it proved ‘there is no meetings in Harlem. ter were: the unit rule had ident of Liberia opposed any initiative. The party leaders defeat in mining history. In An ominous note in the de­ prevented it; the leadership unity until Nigeria, now a held that the Kerala ministry 1959, when Khrushchev is pro­ “You’ve been reading the Militant danger from contact between capitalist and Communist.’ ” bate was an “invitation” to had made it a “vote of confi­ British colony, and the neigh­ should not only stay in office claiming peaceful co-existence again. The Worker carefully noted there Williams to leave the NAACP. dence” issue; the heads of the boring French Cameroons and but should deal more sternly as a principle, the same union was no qualitative difference between the ' “You mean if we keep pitching in This was expressed most crude­ delegations had insisted that Togoland achieved their prom­ with the statewide agitation to leadership meekly accepts the two. The workers do have that illusion. the ‘mainstream’ we might get to drink ly by Alfred Baker Lewis, the the “integrity and unity” of ised independence in 1960. unseat it. brutal displacement of thous­ We merely went through the experience brandy with Harriman and Rockefeller?” millionaire social - democrat, the NAACP were at stake; and Nigeria is bigger and more Parades, mass meetings, pick­ ands of miners from the indus­ who is NAACP treasurer. that they were sure he would economically powerful than eting of schools and govern­ try without making any effort with them. We knew that life itself would “Max, you’re getting more cynical than If the leadership deliberately sweat out the remaining three- Ghana, Guinea and Liberia ment offices, and obstruction of to organize industrial action verify the validity of our Marxist ap­ ever.” drives such a courageous and and-a-half months suspension. combined. public transport have been against the sackings.” t h e MILITANT prison. only language they understand. VOLUME XXIII MONDAY, JULY 27, 1959 NU M B ER 30 W h a t Makes After painting a picture of I can’t understand the post­ dangerous crim inals bent on ponem ent.” Prison Inmates destruction, with hostages in By 11 p.m. 500 pickets mass­ their power, the last paragraph ed in front of the Chicago Re­ "You hit the picket line, Co on Strike? finally gives the unstated rea­ public Steel plant at the site Detroit Steel Editor: son for the prisoner’s griev­ of the Memorial Day massacre. we'll take the Integrated School!' Thje w orkers in m y shop ances: The company police and the Morale Is High have become keener to what’s “In March 1958 prisoners Chicago cops were amazed at Pickets Take in the press since the barrage rioted in a two-day frenzy of the discipline and order that of propaganda on the steel destruction to protest a six-day, was quickly established by the strike began. 72-hour work week in the pickets. Systematically and Strong Stand ; Recently a former prison in­ mines.” methodically they set up their Among Pickets mate in the boiler room de­ The union man’s comment lines, directed traffic and pre­ DETROIT, July 18 — The two fended the right of prisoners to was, “How the hell would you vented any scabs fro m coming major steel producers here. strike. He bolstered his argu­ like to work. 12 hours a day in in. Great Lakes Steel (a division of ment with remarks on their a coal pit for fink wages!” A t 11:30 p.m. Capt. O’S u lli­ George Humphrey's National beefs over food, sanitation, “Correction,” added the guy van and Chicago’s labor-detail Steel) and McLouth Steel, were In Chicago Area quarters and working condi­ who had been in stir, “No police showed up and asked completely shut down by tions. wages at all.” the local president what the Wednesday. Yesterday, a union militant E. S. union’s program was in regard Feeling this year is very strong CHICAGO, July 17—After picket duty today we rode defended that position by ven­ Chicago to picketing. against any concessions to these over to see our brother strikers in the Indiana plants. We turing that at the root of all His answer was that the companies'. A t a M cLouth mass made our first stop at the two huge steel mills facing the riots that you read about On the Picket Line union intended to m aintain an meeting of Local 2659 Tuesday each other in Indiana Harbor—♦------is the material basis for griev­ orderly picket line, but they Pres. Adolph Schwartz asked Youngstown Sheet & Tube and The reactionary right - lo - ances. He drew attention to a A t Republic Steel w ould not tolerate any scabs' for approval of the midnight Inland Steel. • work law looms threateningly Chicago Sun-Times article that trying to get in. strike deadline. “We are fighting Approaching a big steel before the Indiana strikers. dealt with a riot in the Brushy Editor: When questioned by the po­ not so much for gains as we are worker at the coffee urn set on “The company might try to Mountain State Penitentiary in The steel strike began at the lice captain regarding office to hold on to what we have.” he the sidewalk at one gate, we use this law as a legal means Tennessee. Chicago Republic Steel with employees, the local president saieL “The companies have tak­ started to identify ours'elves. to get a back-to-work move­ The paper’s main contention the same calm self-assurance replied that only office work­ en an uncompromising stand. “Just a minute,” he said and ment started,” they warned us. was that the prisoners were that prevailed in the plant ers w ith union passes w ould be We will remain on strike until called over the picket captain. “And we would have to mass permitted to. enter the plant. protesting having to work on a prior' to the strike. economic and local conditions The captain of the line gave us picket to stop them. The com­ Confederate General’s birthday. On July 1 when the strike Foremen would not be issued are resolved.” the once-over rapidly, shook pany will probably use this was originally scheduled, be­ passes because they were act­ Most establishments are closed Every man in the audience of hands, and introduced us all legal gimmick against us if fore it was postponed by Mc­ ing as scabs. in Tennessee on this state holi­ 1,000 stood up and roared ap­ around. All barriers down, the they tire of trying to starve Donald to July 14, the feeling By 12 p.m. the pickets had day. proval. So bitter was their feel­ brothers' welcomed us w arm ly. us out.” amongst the workers was ex­ cleared the parking lot of all The prisoners were, holed up ing that they, along with Local “How are things at Repub­ “That’s a tough one,” we in­ deep in a coal mine "armed pressed thus by one militant cars and ordered the company 1299 (Great Lakes Steel) re­ lic?” they asked. terjected, “but they don’t have only with their mine imple­ w orker: police to close the gates. Thus fused to let any members enter “No trouble. A big gang was room for all of you in jail, do ments—pick axes and shovels.” “What the hell. .We have the first day of the steel strike the plants to do maintenance out the first night and Wednes­ they?" They had for hostages “mine been talking to these arrogant at Republic passed with a total w ork. day morning. Now we’re settl­ “Dammit, we had a spokes­ foremen, civilian employees steel bosses fo r 72 days. We shutdown. The strike deadline was pre­ ing down to routine. Nothing man fo r us in the state con­ who boss convicts in the coal know talk never moves them; S.L. ceded by a walkout at the but nothing is moving in or gress,” they replied. “He was mines operated by the state so let’s give them a dose of the Chicago Trenton plant of M cLouth on out." we replied. supposed to argue against state the midnight shift Tuesday Mesabi Iron Ore Men “We’re all set here, too. No­ money appropriations if the morning, shutting down the di­ body gets into the plant prop­ legislators didn’t first discuss vision. This was another indi­ er. Just the office workers pop repeal of the Indiana Right-to- Billie Holiday cation of the resentment over Join Brothers on Strike in and out of the administra­ W ork law. B u t the s.o.b. double- the refusal of McLouth, thir­ tion building, that is set apart crossed us. Looks lik e these from the mill, for coffee. By Harry Ring teenth largest steel producer in By Tom Leonard friends of labor are not on our the country, to bargain. The “Our Local president was side of the fence.” signed by a white band, that of Artie Shaw. MINNEAPOLIS, July 20 — The Mesabi Iron Range, ■ It was Sept. 25, 1955. Eight thousand peo­ men wanted contract changes asked about office workers,” We agreed. In her book she pays tribute to the way this ple stood outside a Harlem church. Another to give more protection against historic scene of bitterly fought labor struggles, is deeply we reported. “He said that the The feeling of real solidarity band fought any expression of Jim Crow two thousand were jammed inside. They were an accumulation of penalties involved in the current steel strike. The United Steel­ union w on’t toler.ate scabs. The met us everywhere. Our new while they were on tour. She also recalls protesting the Mississippi lynching of Emmett and abuses. workers report that 13,606 of its*- office help can’t cross the pick­ friends said goodbye warmly. with rueful amusement that it got a little Till. A chilling song that wrung the audience Safety conditions are such a members are on strike there. ers. The mine reopened about et line either way and as far It was a truly representative wearing when they insisted on making it an as the foremen are concerned came over the loudspeakers: sore point that the plant was A nother 6,036 iron-ore miners four months ago after being shut group—Negro, white and Span­ Southern trees bear a strange fruit. N AA C P case evei'ytim e she wanted to go to since they’ve bedded down shut down last January by a are out in upper Michigan and down for a year. Several unions, ish-speaking brothers. Blood on the leaves and blood at the root. the toilet. they can stay in there and rot. one-week strike after three northern Wisconsin. including the Steelworkers, have “We’ll drop over to see you Black bottoms- swinging in the southern Billie never conceded an iota to the workers were killed. been trying to organize Zenith. The company as a result laid guys at Republic one of these stereotype of a Negro performer. Her costume In addition, 3,700 unlicensed breeze. Here are some typical opin­ off the office workers.” days,” they chorused. was always the same—a simple white gown seamen members of the steel Last week striking Steelwork­ Strange fruit hanging from the poplar ions expressed by strikers at union are walking off as their ers set up a picket line at the trees. and gardenias in her hair. the Great Lakes Steel plant in ships reach port in Duluth. mine which was1 crossed b^' the Pastoral scene of the gallant south, In the long, hard pull she became a Ecorse: The bulging eyes and the twisted mouth. narcotics victim and therefore, like all such These seamen had been back on unorganized miners under prod­ Seattle Striker Views Paul Daniels, a member of ding of the company and the Scent of magnolias, sweet and fresh. victims, a ready target for the law. For a the strike committee: “We are the job only about a week after Then the sudden smell of burning flesh . . . prominent Negro, who never hesitated to participating in a series of un­ cops. H ow ever it is becoming ap­ out to improve working condi­ parent that these workers arc The voice was that of the famed jazz speak her piece about racist cops, the harrass- tions in the mill and I expect authorized walkouts that crip­ Battle as “ Showdown” not too happy about the role singer, Billie Holiday. “Strange Fruit” was her ment was intolerable. a long strike. Conditions in the pled shipping in Duluth and Su­ they have been forced to play. SEATTLE, July 17 — It’s a rare day when the press theme song .She sang it everywhere—whether Her father died of pneumonia in Texas mill are worse today than they perior and forced several mines she appeared in a cheap gin mill, a swank after being refused admission to a dozen were in 1952 when we were on the Iron Range to shut down. One of them told a reporter: gives a truthful presentation of labor’s side of the story night club or a Carnegie Hall midnight con­ white hospitals. By the time he got into one, out 56 days.” "We could go on a sympathy in a strike. But some of the* Nonunion shipping w ill also to work temporarily to help cert. the pneumonia had become acute. “It wasn’t Jake Haefler: "The company be hit by the strike. The biggest strike, but after you've been out truth about the steel strike did Billie died in New York last week at the stretch the family budget. But pneumonia that killed him,” Billie said. “It is trying to take away contract unorganized outfit on the lakes, of work for nearly a year you break through in a July 16 Post- age of 44. She was a beautiful, courageous he wasn’t downhearted. was Dallas, Texas.” i provisions for sensible working Interlake Steamship Co., which don't have much sympathy." Intelligencer interview with sev­ and gifted woman who won the acclaim and eral of the 1,100 strikers at the " 'If we don't go out on strike, When Billie was stricken with a liver and conditions. If they do we'll be operates 33 ore carriers, has an­ But there seem to be enough love of millions for her songs and for her little belter than slave labor­ Bethlehem plant here. we won't have a right left,' he heart ailijient May 31. she got the kind of nounced it w ill lay off most of Zenith miners whose union sym­ magnificent battle against discrimination. A ers." William McCaffery, a mill ad­ said. 'The m ill was built by treatment in New York that had killed her its crews if the sti'ike continues. pathies are a bit stronger. Ft is two-fisted scrapper, she carried herself with Hobert Godbey, who has juster, was reported as saying, money made off us and we have father in Texas. She was shuttled from hospi­ Railroads in the area, already hit reported that Zenith owners a dignity that won her the very apt nickname been laid off or on strike for "This strike is a showdown. The a right to share in the com­ tal to hospital, cursorily diagnosed as a “drug by layoffs resulting from the re­ held a meeting yesterday with of “Lady Day.” 22 months out of the four years Company has taken a very un­ pany's gains.' " addict.” When she was finally admitted, her cession and continuing automa­ representatives of the United The story of her life is told in “Lady he has worked for the com­ just attitude . . . I certainly hope condition was dangerous. tion, are chopping more workers Steelworkers. Sings the Blues,” which she wrote in colla­ pany: “I’m ready for this Then the police descended. They claimed from the payroll. The Duluth, it's not a long strike, but the boration with William Dufty. The book is a strike. I hope the union gets they found “evidence” of possession of nar­ Mesabi Iron Range and the Among other things, the steel company has been trying to take searing indictment of the Jim Crow system. everything possible for its strike may help to organize 250 cotics in the grievously afflicted singer’s bed. Great Northern railroads will away conditions from us that Billie was born in Baltimore’s Negro members. I’d rather work than underground miners in Ely. would put us back 25 years." She was-arrested and a cop was stationed at lay off more than 3,000 men. ghetto, the daughter of a 13-year-old mother strike but certainly not fo r less Another Bethlehem worker, ’and a 15-year-old father. She came to New her door. A court order finally freed Billie from the sight of this representative of “New money.” The effectiveness b f the strike INDUSTRIAL ACCIDENTS Frank Krasnowsky, was inter­ York at 13 and went to work scrubbing floors. Owen R. W ilson: “ Conditions on the Iron Range is testimonial York’s finest” and she was permitted to die With greater speed-up the in­ viewed as he joined fellow mem­ Her first singing engagement was in a Harlem have been getting steadily worse without the hateful eyes of the law upon her. to the traditional militancy of dustrial accident rate is rising. bers of Local 1208 on the picket club at $2 a night. The joy this young girl for the past three years. A the area. The Range has been The legacy of recordings Billie Holiday In the third quarter of 1958 the line at the conclusion of the N E W YO R K put into "pop” tunes, the somberness of her grievance complaint now gets hard hit by layoffs in the past shift. left will warm the hearts of listeners for a rale rose to 11.5 disabling in­ Socialist Sociables “blues,” caught her listeners irresistibly. no consideration from the com­ two years and many miners long time to come. juries pei' million hours worked “Kranowsky pointed at the To Enliven Your Summer She was the first Negro vocalist to be pany and is never settled.” have been jobless for more than from 10.4 the previous quarter, stream of automobiles leaving S A TU R D A Y, AUGUST 1, Sammy Qualls: "They want a year. Yet they didn't hesitate according to a Bureau of Labor the plant last night and de­ Noon to 6 P.M. Repeated by to juggle seniority to suit their to join the strike. Statistics report.. clared: ‘Most of these cars are popular demand— The Guberna­ purposes. I'm glad the union being bought on the installment One exception is the Zenith torial Special Beefsteak Picnic. w ill not allow this. It takes or­ plan. We’ll just have to put off underground mine at Ely, Minn., Why not pass this copy of the Charcoal broiled steaks, corn, ganization to protect the indi­ some of the bills for a while.’ vidual and his seniority rights." w hich employs about 250 w o rk ­ M ilitant on to a friend? salad, beverages. Cuisine by “Krasnowsky, whose wife just McManus. At Annette T. Ru­ "A DIABOLIC ACT" — A d m ira l H a rry E. Stark, Queens Borough Pres. John T. Clancy, had a baby, said his wife may go binstein’s lakefront cottage, off Yarnell, who cammandcd the Asiatic Fleet Sen. C liffo rd P. Case (R-N.J.), Sen. K enneth the Taconic Parkway at Shrub B. K eating (R-N.Y.) and Sen. Thomas H. when the Japanese bombed the gunboat Ohio Oak, N.Y. Swimming, boating. “Panay” in 1937, died July 7 at the age of Kuchel (R-Calif.) all belong to the Elks which Cleveland Steelworkers $3 per person, $5 couple, $7.50 83. The admiral is best remembered for term­ has a clause limiting membership “to white Annual Militant Picnic family. For directions, rides, ing Truman’s use of atomic bombs “a diabolic male citizens of America.” Sen. Hubert call GR. 5-9736, Sun., Aug. 2, Hinckley 2 - 6 P.M. act.” Yarnell said that “the United States lost Humphrey (D-Minn.) belongs to the Eagles (NOTE RAIN DATE SUNDAY, Lake Park. Activities start the moral leadership of the world when it which limits membership to males “of the Tell About Grievances AUG . 2.) at 10 a.m. Picnic lunch dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Caucasion race” who are at least 18. CLEVELAND, July 18 — Al­ thorized walkout hit the plant the average worker to produce * * * » * * served 1 p.m. Nagasaki when Japan was at that time a de­ most 29,000 steel workers are on a few weeks later as a result of more." For tickets apd further STARLIGHT FORUM, SUN­ feated nation and was suing for peace.” PROTEST COP BRUTALITY— More than strike in the Cleveland-Lorain the company’s persistent stalling Unionists expect that it w ill inform ation call SW 1-1818 DAY, JULY 26— Dr. A nnette T. * * • 500 Negro residents of Jersey City held a five- district. They are determined to on grievances. be a long strike. Local union Wednesdays 7-9 p.m. Rubinstein, 1958 Ind. - Socialist "INSIDIOUS" FAIRY TALE— The Shreve­ hour street meeting July 15 to protest police settle a mountain of local griev­ In the very survey which spokesmen estimate that with candidate for Lt. Gov,, on " In ­ port, La., Journal last week attacked a fairy brutality. Many carried strongly worded ances as well as help win a new “proved’ the men were against final paychecks and vacation pay dividualism and Non - Political tale, “Black and White,” as “insidious inter­ placards. The demonstration was touched off national agreement. a strike, the News found itself most of the strikers can hold out Protest Today." Contrib. $l.The when three Negro men were arrested and racial propaganda” and demanded an investi­ The struck plants are Republic reporting this statement from a from four to six weeks without Book-A-Month Terrace, Penthouse 10 A, 59 gation of children’s shelves in the state’s beaten by three Jersey City policemen on Steel, the American Steel and millwright: "I've been burned, severe hardship. But after that Adventures in Freedom — W. 71 St., New York City. libraries. The book, published in 1944, tells July 12. Charges of atrocious assault and bat­ Wire Division of U.S. Steel, and gassed anck hauled out of the it tv ill be tough on everyone. 300 Years of Jewish Life in (Future Starlight Forums on about a “black man, who lived in the black tery on behalf of two of the victims were plant five or six times. It's dan­ District director Paul Schremp America, by Oscar Handlin. the Terrace, Aug. 9 and 16. filed by Raymond A. Brown, president of the Jones and Laughlin in Cleve­ country of Wales” and a snowman who turned gerous work and we deserve reported yesterday that morale This 282-page book was or­ Watch this column for details.) local NAACP chapter, against Patrolmen Ed­ land and the National Tube into “a white lady” so that the two could be more money. Since the recent is high and the men are determ­ ig in a lly priced at $3.75. SAVE THIS DATE ward Sherry, Ralph Sheprow and George W orks of U.S. Steel in Lorain. married and live happily ever after. The in­ recession the union man has ined not to let the companies Book-A-Month price is $1.25. AUG. 22 - 24, Weekend at Langwehr of the Communipaw Avenue Police At all the plants except Re­ dignant racist editor demanded: “How would been kicked around like a dog. Pioneer Publishers Camp Wingdale, Wingdale, N.Y. public, agreements have \been cut down on hard-won condi­ you like for your little bov or girl to hear a Station. The companies are cutting corn­ 116 University Place United Ind.-Socialist Committee ♦ ♦ • made to provide maintenance tions. “We are determined to bedtime story about a ‘black man’ and a ers and having too many layoffs. stick it out on the picket line New York 3, N. Y. 799 Broadway GR. 5-9736 FIGHT FOR HIGH RENTS— According to crews for the furnaces. At Re­ ‘white lady,’ who brought, happiness and gaiety There is too much pressure on until we win,” lie said. New York 3, N.Y. into their lives by marrying each other?” James M. Udall, president of the National public the union is permitting no * * • Association of Real Estate Boards, "The fastest one but supervisors to enter the WATCH YOUR EYES— George Hunt, a step toward socialism is to keep the people on plant. Asked why maintenance 26-year-old Negro filling-station attendant in subsidized public housing.” The champion ol was not being provided there, a Local Directory Richmond, Va., was arrested and convicted America’s landlords made the statement in a Republic worker answered, "If after some white women, who drove into the speech July 18 at Durango, Colo., hailing someone kept kicking you in the Introductory Offer station with their skirts raised above their Eisenhower's veto of the watered-down hous­ face and then asked you a favor, BOSTON nepin Ave., 2nd floor. Open noon to knees because of the hot weather, complained ing measure passed by Congress. “We asked would you do it for him? We got Boston Labor Foram, 295 Hunting­ 6 P .M . daily except Sundays. Are you interested in the real meaning of big events ton Ave., Room 200. the president to veto it,” said Udall, “ . . . and NEWARK that he had stared at their legs. Another Ne­ kicked in the face a lot of times." at home and abroad? Then you can’t afford to overlook gro, Charles Fitzgerald, was dragged off a bus if the veto comes up for an overriding vote, “We have grievances that have CHICAGO Newark Labor Forum, Box 361, in Philadelphia, arrested and charged with the nation's real estate men w ill rise up again the socialist point of view. Make sure you get the Socialist Workers Party, 777 W. Newark, N. J. been hanging fire as much as Adams, DE 2-9736. “assaulting an officer” because he observed to fight it.” Militant every week. NEW YORK CITY two years,” another striker add­ Militant Labor Forum, 116 Univer­ two white girls in shorts doing some dance * * * CLEVELAND ed. Socialist Workers Party 10609 Su­ sity Place, AL 5-7852. steps in front of a phonograph shop. Accord­ BROADENING AMERICANS — A few The Militant The Republic workers have perior Ave., Room 301, SW 1-1818. OAKLAND - BERKELEY ing to three witnesses, the white cop saw months ago Philadelphia transit experts re­ 116 University PI. P.O. Box 341, Berkeley 1, Calif. helped to expose some of the Open Wednesday nights 7 to 9. Fitzgerald looking from a bus window. The ported that, the average rider has broadened New York 3. N. Y. ITie Militant, P.O. Box 1904, Uni­ PHILADELPHIA anti-union propaganda of the cop rushed onto the bus and demanded, “Do so much in recent years that it was necessary versity Center. Station, Cleveland 6. Militant Labor Forum and Socialist you lik e w h a t you see?” When Fitzgerald to order new car seats made nearly two daily press. Last June 22, the Yes. I want to take advantage of your introductory offer. O hio . Workers Party, 1303 W. Girard Ave. Cleveland News ran a banner Lectures and discussions every Satur­ said, “Yes,” the cop dragged him out. inches wider. Last Sunday, This Week Mag­ I am Enclosing $1 for a six-months subscription. DETROIT day, 8 P.M., followed by open house. * * * headline, “News Poll Finds Eugene V. Debs Hall, 3737 Wood­ azine revealed that the seats in New York’s C a ll P O 3 -5 8 2 0 . "DO WHAT I SAY, NOT WHAT I DO”— new opera house, which will replace the Steelworkers Against Strike But ward. TEmple 1-6135. Expect It.” Name SAN FRANCISCO Seven big-time Democratic and Republican Metropolitan built in 1880, will be made LOS ANGELES The Militant, 1145 Polk St., Rm. 4. politicians who hit. the headlines with state­ roomier, in view of the complaints about the The next day the News had to Forum Hall and Modern Book Shop. Sat. 11 A.M. to 3 P.M. Phone PR 6- Street 1702 E. 4lh St. AN 9-4953 or WE 5- ments scoring the racist bias of exclusive tig h t grip of the old seats. The average A m e r­ report that the Republic workers 7296; if no answer, VA 4-2321. ican male of today, said the report, is about had shut down the 'plant in an 9 23 8. SEATTLE clubs when Dr. Ralph J. Bunche was denied MILWAUKEE ten pounds heavier than his great-grandfather. unauthorized protest against *412— 18t4i Avenue, EA 2-5554. L i­ membership in the West Side Tennis Club, 150 East Juneau Ave. brary, bookstore. Most of the weight seems lo be accumulating dangerous and unsanitary work­ C ity Zone State.. all belong to “white only” clubs. Mayor Rob­ MINNEAPOLIS S T. L O U IS ing conditions. A second unau­ ert F. Wagner, N.Y. City Council Pres. Abe in the ballast area. Socialist Workers Party, 322 Hen- For information phone MO 4-7194.