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VOL. IX — No. 6 NEW YORK, N. Y„ SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1945 267 PRICE: FIVE CENTS
SLAVE LABOR BILL ADOPTED -& BY HOUSE 12 Released Trotskyists Honored At Meeting Roosevelt And Brass Hats r Spur Union-Smashing Drive “Big iThree” Conference Fighters For Labor’s Rights Cleveland Auto Administration Steamroller Forces Through Militants Fight Bill Conscripting Labor For Private Profit Given Ovation A t Mass Rally The forces of capitalist reaction mobilized in No-Strike Pledge their union-smashing drive under the leadership of By Art Preis CLEVELAND, 0. — The Roosevelt and his General Staff last week jammed NEW YORK CITY, Feb. 2 — Over 800 unionists and other struggle to win a m ajority vote the May-Bailey slave labor bill through the House of progressive fighters for civil liberties this evening jammed the Grand to revoke the no-strike pledge Ballroom of the Hotel Diplomat here to honor the 12 Minneapolis in the CIO United Automobile Representatives. This measure would strip the labor Labor Case defendants released last week after their 13 months Workers’ current referendum movement of the most important social gains made behind Roosevelt’s prison bars. has been gaining momentum in decades of struggle. Inspired by the imprisoned Trotskyist leaders’ courageous stand in this leading Ohio industrial for labor's rights, this Welcome Home Mass Meeting, sponsored center. Widely ballyhooed by the brass hats as a “win- by the Civil Rights Defense Committee, enthusiastically pledged to A Cuyahoga County committee the-war” measure, the bill is actually an open declara continue the struggle for repeal of the infamous Smith “Gag” Act of the UAW Rank and File Cau under which the Socialist Workers Party leaders were the first labor cus, which is conducting the na tion of war against the American working class. This victims. The demand was issued for an unconditional presidential tional fight against the no-strike most vicious piece of class legislation aims to place pardon and restoration of their full citizenship rights, now denied surrender policy, has been estab lished. At the first meeting sev the defendants because of their “ felony” convictions. the working class com eral weeks ago, leading officers pletely at the mercy of Prolonged O.vation and militants from six UAW Stalinist Union plants joined the Rank and File. the exploiters. It destroys A prolonged ovation was accorded to the three released prisoners Since then, - new adherents have who addressed the meeting, Albert Goldman, Farrell Dobbs and been joining in increasing num Traitors Urge the most precious rights Felix Morrow, and to James P. Cannon, who was unable to attend bers weekly. of labor and enhances the because of illness but sent a stirring statement to the gatheidng. Thousands of leaflets explain privileges of capital. It tightens The released Socialist Workers Party and Minneapolis Truck- ing the necessity for voting the grip of the reactionary m ili against reaffirmation of the no Forced Labor drivers Local 544-CIO leaders spoke with the fervor of the revolu tary caste on the economic and strike pledge have been distrib tionary socialist convictions for which they were railroaded to prison By Joseph Keller political life of the country. It is uted throughout the auto plants and which capitalist government persecution has only deepened. They a long step toward the intrench- here. These leaflets, similar to Stalinist traitors in the CIO issued a m ilitant call to all labor to unite in unceasing struggle ment of a totalitarian military those distributed by the Rank secretly button-holed Congress dictatorship which aims to crush against capitalist reaction and in defense of the workers’ rights. and File in Detroit, have received men in Washington and urged the organizations and institutions Outstanding labor and civil liberties leaders joined in greeting a wide sympathetic response. them to vote for the Roosevelt- of labor under an iron heel. the returned Trotskyist fighters. The welcoming speakers included An unprecedent slander cam sponsored May-Bailey slave la Osmund K. Fraenkel, counsel for the American Civil Liberties paign has been unleashed against bor bill. This gave some House SPONSOR ROOSEVELT Union; James T. Farrell, noted novelist and Chairman of the Civil the auto militants here by the members a pretext for “ shift The May-Bailey slave labor law Stalinists. For years the Stalin Rights Defense Committee; Benjamin S. McLaurin, International ing” to support of the forced was sponsored by Roosevelt, Gen ists have dominated the local CIO Field Organizer of the AFL Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters eral Marshall, Admiral King and council and many of the impor labor measure on the grounds and National Secretary of the Negro March on Washington Move their satellites. It provides that tant UAW locals. The reactionary that “ labor” was “ split” on the ment; and B. A. Gebiner, Assistant Geneval Secretary of the Work men between the ages of 18 and Stalinists howls are rising in pro issue, it was disclosed by the men’s Circle. George Novack, CRDC National Secretary, was the 45 who leave their jobs “without portion to the inroads being made New York daily PM, Jan. 31. cM riR an...... > by the Rank and File among The “ Big Three” Conference:STALINIST TREACHERY A t this mais meeting, all the 18 Trotskyists origirtaiUY- im workers in the Stalinist strong See Editorial prisoned, 6 of whom" were released last October, demonstrated the holds. The Stalinist treachery, accord front of solidarity they have maintained throughout their trial and The porkchoppers and payrol- ing to PM, “ was revealed by the ‘T im e fo r A ction’ shift, of several New York City imprisonment. Oscar Shoenfeld, Karl Kuchn and A1 Russel, released lees of the UAW International Secret Diplomacy In Action Page 6 last October from Danbury, Conn., prison, sat on the platform with Board, together with the Stalin Representatives who said they S i - had been visited over the week their newly-released comrades from the Sandstone, Minn., peniten ists, are spending huge sums of By Harry Martell money and engaging in every dir end by delegations representing tiary. A message of solidarity came from the other Minneapolis freedom from Want' permission” of their draft boards The three conspirators are meeting again. As before, secrecy Left-wing CIO locals and the ty trick. Typical of their meth shall be subject to a fine of $10,- prisoners, Grace Carlson, Jake Cooper, Oscar Coover, Harry DeBoer, —complete and impenetrable— shrouds the conference of Stalin, French children, women and Greater New York Industrial ods is one leaflet full of the vilest 000 or 5 years imprisonment or Vincent Dunne, Max Geldman, Clarence Hamel, Emil Hansen, Carlos Churchill and Roosevelt. Not a single word has been officially, men are so hungry that as the Union Council who urged them to lies against the hundreds of both. The same penalties are ap Hudson, Ed Palmquist and Carl Skoglund. N. Y. Times, Feb. 1, reports: approve the May-Bailey Bill now thousands of UAW militants who issued concerning the agenda’ of the conference or the plans of plied to workers who refuse to “A riot broke out recently in under debate.” “Left-wing” is oppose the no-strike policy. the participants. Even the correspondents of the prostituted accept jobs when they are com Cannon’s Statement a movie” in Nice, “when a PM’s customary misleading des An example of their slanders world press, whose reports are censored and re-censored by civil manded to do so by their draft In his statement read at the opening of the meeting, Comrade huge plate of caviar and cold ignation for the extreme right- is that the Rank and File wants and m ilitary authorities, are barred. The doors are securely boards. Under this law, workers salmon was shown on the wing Stalinist reactionaries. Cannon, founder of the American Trotskyist movement and SWP “to create a strike wave so that bolted. Against whom? Certain-^ can be shifted from one industry National Secretary, paid special tribute to Grace Carlson, sole woman fascism will not be defeated . . . thought. those orders wise and screen. Police had to be called PM reports further: “ ‘I was ly not against enemy intelli to restore order.” The author to another to work at lower among the defendants, who was separated from the rest of her subversive individuals . . . do not sensible.” nearly knocked off my feet,’ one gence — for everyone knows ities then banned another wages. They can be sent from comrades all alone at the women’s prison in Alderson, W. Ya. She want our boys to come back,” etc. On Ita ly : Congressman said. ‘I thought la Hollywood film “which shows their homes to other cities with This is said of the best union that the principal topics before “We have a joint arrangement bor was solidly' opposed to the is affectionately called “The Senator” since the time in 1910 when the conference w ill be political great roasts of beef, fowl and no provision made for moving fighters striving to maintain de with America about Italy.” bill and I had intended to vote their families or possessions. Bhe ran on the Minnesota SWP ticket for the U. S. Senate. not military, exactly as they were other food.” cent conditions for their brothers, The British Minister of Labor against it. With this division of They can be ordered to act as “ Our hearts ached for our Senator there all alone with such at Teheran, at Cairo, at Moscow, The French masses had been sons, husbands in the armed Bevin corroborated his boss at opinion, however, I intend to go strikebreakers under penalty of (Continued on page 3) at Quebec. The doors are locked led to expect help from the forces to come back to. the Labor P arty conference on along with the Commander-in- fines and imprisonment. In flag against the peoples. The arch Allies. They now realize with December 13: Chief, unless the bill is amended rant violation of (the fourteenth plotters of the counter-revolution bitterness just what sort of “ Russia undertook to stabilize to discriminate further againsb amendment to the Constitution are planning the division of Eur relief they can look forward Rumania, and we undertook the la bo r.’ ” prohibiting “involuntary servi ope, the despoliation of its re to from these "liberators.” main problem in Greece in ac Exposed by PM’s fcvelations, tude,” the Roosevelt-sponsored sources, the suppression and ex Los Angeles SW P Runs cordance with the agreement with Earl Browder’s Communist (Sta! May - Bailey “work-or-go-to-jail” ploitation of its stricken peoples. Russia . . . Proposals regarding denial. Their silence was added inist) Political Association and bill is a slave labor law. Greece were submitted to Presi confirmation. its union stooges arc frantically SINISTER DEALINGS dent Roosevelt at Quebec and Thus at Teheran the conspira attempting to cover up their HEAVY PRESSURE What have they to hide? The Candidate For Mayor were initialed by him. . . The tors had plotted to substitute the naked betrayal. The notorious The slave labor law was rail unfoldment of the sinister deal British Empire, whether we like Quisling government of the Nazis ■Stalinist hatehet-men, Michael roaded through the House under ings at Teheran illustrate how (By Wire to THE MILITANT) Comrade Myra Weiss pledged it or not, cannot abandon its posi by the British Quisling Pierlot in Quill and Saijl Mills, acting presi- heavy pressure from the Admin- an unceasing fight against racial imperative it is for the “Big tion in the Mediterranean.” By J. Simons discrimination, stressing that the Three” to curtain their meetings Roosevelt and Stalin made no (Continued on page 4) (Continued on page 2) (Continued on page 5) LOS ANGELES, Feb. 3 — The demand fo r fu ll social .and poli with secrecy. Here, too, rumors California Socialist Workers Par tical equality of all peoples is of an impending meeting filled ty today launched its campaign inextricably bound up with the the air. Finally a vaporous state for Myra Tanner Weiss as candi struggle for workers’ rights. In ment full of meaningless, ideal W riter Exposes Deliberate Provocation date for Mayor in the forthcom California, Negroes. Mexicans and istic phrases was issued to the ing primaries. An enthusiastic Orientals have been viciously per public. But for the revolutionary audience of 150 Negro, white, F il secuted under cover of the war. developments in Greece, Belgium In Brutal Massacre Of Greek Workers Japanese families have been driv and Italy, the truth might still ipino and Mexican workers at Three” — who pull the strings well-armed police “had orders to government preparing to fire en from tbeir farms for the profit have been buried. The lid clamped By Larissa Reed tending the first election rally of in all these small country deals break up a scheduled demonstra upon? The Nazis had been driv of agricultural barons; nineteen over the agreements made at the California SWP, heard Com In the armed ‘truce’ imposed by — are meeting in secret. First tion of inembeYs and sympathiz Mexican youths were framed-up Teheran was pried open only by en out by the Greek workers and rade Myra Weiss present a pro Churchill on the Greek people, in on the agenda of the “ Big Three” ers of the EAM,” despite the fact in the Sleepy Lagoon case as part the storm of indignation that peasants — the “war against fas gram for the defense of labor’s tense negotiations and sellout l is the question of how best to that “ permission for the demon cism” was presumably over. of tho terror campaign against swept over England and the U. S. interests against the savage offen deals are going on between the j crush the insurgent masses, not stration had been granted by the both Mexicans and Negroes. at the attempt to impose puppet Gervasi reveals the monstrous sive of Big Business. Greek Quisling government and only in Greece.- but throu gh ou t authorities.” The way this del truth: the Quisling Greek gov Exposing the crimes of the Al governments in Belgium a n d In a fighting speech which drew the Stalinist - controlled EAM- Europe. iberate slaughter was organized ernment was preparing to kill ovations, the Trotskyist candidate lies against workers in Greece, Greece with lend-lcase tommy ELAS, so-calied National Libera The “ Big Three” are gambling is depicted as follows: these same Greek workers who outlined an election platform in Italy and Belgium, tbc Trotsky guns, tanks, and planes manned tion Front. The recent talks for colossal stakes. While they “ In the cold dawn of December had fought against the Nazis and ist. candidate raised the slogan by British troops. opposition to the anti-labor poli opened near Athens on Feb.. 2, are in complete agreement that 3, gray-uniformed Greek gend- driven them out! And for this “ Hands Off the European Revolu Churchill told the House of cies of tho Roosevelt administra “ in a fashionable seaside villa... the masses must be enslaved, armes who for nearly four years purpose they were using the tion.” Around tbc ball were Commons on December 8; tion and local open-shop employ in an atmosphere of the greatest they are not at all agreed on the had enforced ‘law and order’ for same police force that had killed ers and politicians. Comrade streamers reading “ Make Los An “At the Quebec conference it amicability,” reports the N. Y. division of the spoils. In their their German masters, marched Greek workers and peasants un geles A One Hundred Percent Un was proposed by the combined Myra Weiss .called for the speed Times of Feb. 4. By the follow gigantic poker game, each of the out of their headquarters” — der orders from the Nazi rulers. ion Town!” “Down With Jim chiefs of staff that the British iest possible formation of the la MYRA TANNER WEISS ing day, both the amicability and “ Big Three” has begun stacking to enforce the same kind of “law The Nazis’ had been driven out, Crow!” and “Build The Labor should prepare forces to occupy bor party and election of labor's negotiations again blew up. the cards against the other. and order” for Churchill. “They but the police terror against the own representatives as the most P a rty !” the Athens area and pave the Speaking for the EAM at this Thus, the first bits of informa carried rifles, machine , guns and masses remained — transferred effective answer to the wage and the rising cost of living. In her way . . . for the installment of Demonstrating their agreement “peace conference,” Stalinist tion are beginning to seep grenades but looked more like into British hands. job freeze and forced labor legis speech, in dealing with post the Greek Government which we with the Trotskyist platform, Georg© Siantos agjain repeated through the censorship-on Greece. armed bus conductors than sol Gervasi corroborates that per war problems, Comrade Myra and tile great bulk of the United la tio n . the assembled workers contribut their previous offer — that the Fart of the real story of how the diers. They took up positions mission for this peaceful demon Weiss went on to explain why Nations have formally recog ed $410 to aid the cam paign. A t EAM was quite willing to “dis British imperialists provoked the blocking the approaches to the stration had been granted by the WORKERS’ CONTROL the slogan of “jobs for all” is a nized.” the close of the meeting, the solve its army” provided the hotel and to the Royal Palace and authorities. Yet these same To the reactionary schemes of sham unless it is implemented by armed battles in Greece has ap chairman announced that 600 government would do likewise peared in the Feb. 10 issue of Col around the broad, long Constitu authorities issued orders to the the capitalist government she a working class program for full JOINT ARRANGEMENTS signatures of the 1,000 necessary with its own brigades and form tion Square that slopes down from counterposed the working class utilization of America’s gigantic This completed his statement lier’s. In an article entitled “ Rus police to “bi-eak it up.” Thus, to place Comrade Myra Weiss on a newC'national army” excluding the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier when the first marchers met the program of the right to strike, productive capacity, based on that Roosevelt and Stalin had sia vs. Britain in the Mediterra the ballot have already been ob fascist sympathizers. This per nean,” the U.S. State Department in a formal pattern of trees and police, they called out: “ Why do scrapping of the Little Steel workers’ control of all govern turned over Greece. Italy and tained. Four workers joined the fidious proposal was made to the shrubbery and empty concrete formula, abolition of sales taxes ment-owned plants. This in turn Belgium as “spheres of influ permits Frank Gervasi to reveal you have guns against your own Socialist W’orkers Party, at this Greek puppet government which how unarmed demonstrating men, pavement for two city blocks in people?” Gervasi describes what on necessities of life, and repeal must be a first step toward work ence.” inspiring public rally. itself is ridden with fascist col women and children in Athens the capital’s heart.” fo llo w e d : of all taxes on workers’ wages. ers’ control of production, if And again on Belgium: laborators! were led into a bloody trap and What was the purpose of these “The rifles crackled and tom- Another key plank in the plat Am erican labor is to escape a de The candidacy of Comrade “I have no hesitation in saying While all these machinations massacred by British soldiers. armed preparations inside the form is the trade union .demand pression more devastating than Myra Weiss is endorsed by The that not only did we obey Gen are going on ip Greece, the “ Big On December 3, Gervasi writes, Greek capital ? Whom was the (Continued on page 2) pf a rising scale of wages to meet the last- ililita n t. eral Eisenhower’s orders, but we r bcwo ~ i THE MILITANT SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1045 More Branches Top Their Quotas In SWP $18,000 Fund Campaign Telephone Workers They are trying to put on a “militant” front and save face $18,000 Party Expansion Fund Last month, inspired by the among the auto workers who are November strike of the Ohio, becoming thoroughly aroused A Fitting Welcome to Our 18 Class-War Prisoners Stalinist Traitors Michigan and WaShingtoh, D. C., against the cowardly policies of operators, 17,000 local and long the officialdom. By Rose Karsner, Campaign Director distance telephone workers In The auto militants are demon New York overwhelmingly voted Campaigns for fund raising, like all other organizational cam Urge Forced Labor strating through their campaign to strike for a gehelal $5 weekly paigns and day-to-day work, Seem on the surface like mete routine. to revoke the no-strike pledge (Continued from page 1) real charges by a hysterical coun raise. T h e ir demands had been But they are more than that, as we explained last week. They are that they oppose the whole pol ter-attack against “the usual at stalled by the companies and connected “ indissolubly with the actual tasks of the revolution.” dent and secretary respectively of icy of dependence on capitalist tempt of certain elements. . . to WLB for over two years. Before In that sense they are political actions. Using this yardstick as our the Greater New York CIO, Coun “friends of labor” and govern find ‘splits’ in the CIO.” the 30-day “cooling off” period measuring device, we can confidently say that the manner in which cil, issued a “denial” which de ment boards. They are learning Not only does the Daily Worker imposed under the Smith-Connal- nied absolutely .nothing. They to have faith only in their own the comrades responded to the raising of the $18,000 Fund proves slide around the specific charges, ly Act was concluded, a WLB simply pointed to a “for the rec organized strength in action. the political virility and vitality of the Socialist Workers Party. but it tries to justify the treach telephone wage panel hastily rec ord” resolution passed several That’s the only policy that can Although we still have two and a half weeks in which to com erous act of its union stooges. It ommended granting the $5 in weeks ago in the Council as win an iota for the workers in plete the Party Expansion Fund Campaign, everybody is eager to claims there is a “considerable’! crease, and the company repres “proof.” But they carefully re this period. entatives conceded to a $1 raise. terminate it ahead of time; to clear the decks for the next big frained from denying that Stal difference of opinion on the May- Bailey bill in the labor movement. Continuing their demand for task on the road to becoming a mass party—the new M ilitant sub inist CIO officials had acted “ un “The Daily Worker has often in the full $5, the local Traffic Em scription campaign. officially,” as PM reported. the past differed with many labor ployes Association of the New Westinghouse Space on the Scoreboard did not permit us to carry from week A virtual confession of the leaders, and labor leaders have York Telephone Co. and the Fed to week the detailed list of contributions from the members-at- truth of PM’s specific charges is The National Westinghouse even more often disagreed with eration of Long Lines Telephone large, groups and friends, though we reported these on several oc contained, however, in the Daily Conference Board, of the CIO Elec the Daily Worker. There is noth Workers of the American Tele Worker, February 1, which de trical, Radio and Machine Work casions. Today we give the full list that makes up the $375 total: ing so strange about that.” Etc. graph and Telephone Co., agreed votes an entire page to an “ an ers, representing 80,000 W esting- From the following groups we received $155. More to come. Not a line about whether or not to postpone strike action pending swer.” The “ answrer” does not at bouso Electric workers, recently Stalinist officials in the CIO act a final decision of the W LB’s Na $15 A lle n to w n $20 Plentywood tempt to deny PM’s facts. It issued a demand to Roosevelt for ed as strikebreakers against the tional Telephone Panel in Wash a general wage increase of 17 25 F lin t 25 Q uakertow n seeks to divert attention from the ington. entire labor movement by mis cents an hour. 25 Kentucky 25 Texas ----- *------*------g W L B panels have -also recom using their unioh titles to lobby $20 Nk Y. Trotskyist Youth Group mended increases for telephone They appealed to Roosevelt “to for Congressional votes for the workers in other leading cities counteract the failures and blund most dangerous piece of union- ers of his subordinates by grant From members-at-large and friends $220. Some contributed Writer Exposes who had either participated in busting legislation ever cooked ing an immediate national cost- through their local branches and therefore do not appear in this the Thanksgiving week strike or up by the American capitalists. of-living wage adjustment of 17 lis t: threatened to follow this example. Most of the article is devoted to cents an hour retroactive to Jan. Brutal Massacre The organized telephone opera $25 M arcia $10 R ockville, Ct. “our stand on the manpower is 1, 1944.” ' sue.” The Daily Worker brazenly tors have thus demonstrated that 35 D ayton, Ohio 10 Flint friend, through Genora Of course, Roosevelt’s subor touts the May-Bailey bill and the strike weapon is the only 25 Lillian, N. Y. 15 N. Y. friends. Of Greek Workers dinates committed no “failures wants labor to embrace the bill effective means of getting speedy $ld0 Massachusetts (Continued from page 1) action from the government and and blunders.” They very capably as “its own.” Labor is advised my guns spurted. A platoon of not “to allow initiative on the corporations and securing the fulfilled their function of frustrat Fifteen of the branches have already achieved 100 percent and SCOREBOARD police was firing into the crowd. May bill to its enemies.” Don’t possibility for workers to w in ing the demands of the workers more. Each of these is entitled to one of the original Gray cartoons in accordance with the policies Branch Quota Percent This was old stuff to the police. wait for others to put the noose their wage demands. which have appeared in The Militant. Six of these branches and laid doWn by Roosevelt himself They bad killed EAM and ELAS on your neck, put it on yourself! one member-at-large have made their choice. The others say they M ilw aukee $100 men before. It was old stuff, too, Nevertheless, this wage raise UAW and WLB w ill inform us of their selection soon. Boston 400 to the Greek crowds. They had DEADLY ENEMIES demand from an important sec The M ilitant last week reported received similar treatment from The Daily Worker tries to tio n of A union notoriously dom B u ffa lo 400 the action of the CIO United the Nazis.” With the dead and claim"’ that “national service” is inated by the reactionary Stalin FROM THE BRANCHES Automobile Workers internation Pittsburgh 80 wounded lying on th,e ground, just the thing for labor. Didn’t ists is a significant sign. It in San Francisco, A. Alexander: “The enclosed check fulfills our Toledo 300 “the police sniped at the wound the demand for it come “from al executive board in calling on dicates growing pressure from the CIO to withdraw its members $1000 q'uota. Now that that has been accomplished, we will utilize ed.” Scobie, says Gervasi, was President Roosevelt, certainly not the UE ranks. For the Stalinist Youngstown 300 from the War Labor Board. The the month still left for the campaign to try to go av’ay over 100 “using troops, tanks, guns and an enemy of labor” ? Moreover, UE leaders certainly would like Maritime Club 3000 text of the resolution has been percent. The achievement nationally on the campaign is a wonderful energy which might have been the Daily Worker gives its own to suppress the embarrassing made public in the current issue A k ro n 300 employed against the Nazis.” word for it that “all the talk clamor for cost-of-living wage in demonstration of solidarity with our returned comrades. We can On December 3, the demonstra about national service being of the UAW’s official publication, creases. look forward to much greater achievements in the coming period.” Bayonne 300 the United Automobile Worker. tors and the people of Athens ‘slavery’ and violation of the Bayonne, B. Winters: “ Due to illness and loss of work days, be Cleveland 250 freedom of contract is just plain While enumerating a long cause of bad weather the Bayonne branch was a little financially as a whole did not know that series of complaints against the D e tro it 1250 Churchill had issued orders to poppycock.” Rising to a frenzied Secretary Addes embarrassed; however, we dug down, real deep, and we’re happy WLB, whose procedure is termed N ew ark 450 General Scobie to augment his crescendo, the Worker howls: to inform you that you can credit us with 100 percent. Now we’re a “time-wasting, meaningless rig UAW-CIO Secretary-Treasurer British troops with the Monarch “How will Hitler and Hirohito working on going over our quota.” Reading 75 marole,” the UAW board still up George Addes m ust have been ist-Fascist brigades. Gervasi take it if such a measure is de holds the principle of compulsory born with two tongues in his Chicago, B. Radlow: “ Enclosed you w ill find check. We’re try San Diego 150 states that the reactionary ED- feated ? ” Thus according to the arbitration. Their grievance is mouth. One tongue could not ing to speed up the payments so that by next week we can send in San Francisco 1000 ES army grew “after the British Daily Worker, Hitler and Hiro possibly stand the strain of the not that the WLB was specifically a substantial portion of the balance of our pledge.” N ew Y o rk 3000 arrived in October, from 6,000 to hito are rooting to beat hell for organized to curb labor, but that double-talk he pours forth. Pittsburgh, M. Johnson: “ Enclosed is money order, which gives nearly 15,000 gold-paid men.” the Americah workers to remais T w in C ities 1000 it “has no authority to act.” Addes, as is known to all among us our first hop over the top. We have expectations of some mofie* Churchill had ordered Scobie “ not free from forced labor. The UAW bureaucrats, who are the auto workers, represents the jumps. We are striving to outdo ourselves somewhat in this b ^ Philadelphia 200 to disarm . . . at any cost,” these Once more the Stalinists expose themselves as the deadliest in united in fearful opposition to extreme right wing in the UAW cause we feel in this way we can show our joy at the return of ou? Chicago 2000 reactionary formations; leadership and has for several The Greek masses knew that if ternal enepties of the American rescinding the no-strike pledge in comrades. Please give them our warmest greetings and all our Seattle 1500 * years maintained a bloc with the their own army ELAS was dis labor movement. They are ready the current UAW referendum, friends here are happy to hear the news that they are with us again. are clamoring for a “new” board. Stalinists. He is among the tnost Los Angeles 2500 armed they would have “little to commit any crime against the Our choice of Gray cartoons—‘It Takes Guts to Run This Country’ This will differ from the WLB unrestrained flag-wavers and ab Members-at-large, chance of obtaining a fair elec working class in the interests of ject labor lieutenants of RooBe- from the January 13 Militant.” the Kremlin’s diplomatic alliance only in that' its “prerogatives' groups and friends 300 tion,” writes Gervasi. Nor could would be more “comprehensive, Velt trying to maintain the no New York: “The New York Trotskyist Youth Group, consisting they achieve their principal aims, with Wall Street. In every war clearly defined.” That is, more strike pledge. in the main of young m ilitant students, has assessed itself a quota “to vote out the monarchy and time defensive struggle of the TOTAL binding upon the workers. So it might come as a surprise of $50 and has paid $20 toward it. They w ill make this up by con to purge the country, by legal workers, the Stalinists have The resolution makes so bold to those unacquainted with the tributions from their small allowances and by taking on after means, of the leftover Fascists of yelped with the reactionary 'pack as to declare that Roosevelt remarkable quality of double-talk school odd jobs as well as by collecting nickels and dimes from their the late Metaxas dictatorship and trying to drag labor down. They “cannot escape full responsibility put out by Addes, to read his re friends,” says George Grant the Local Organizer. of collaborationists.” advocate a permanent no-strike pledge. They conduct the most for the present inaction and in marks on the Forced Labor Bill This reminds us of a letter we once received in a previous fund When the heroic Greek fight vicious and unremitting slander decision of the WLB.” When did in his column, “Secretary Addes campaign from a Minnesota friend: “ Enclosed find $1 of rtiy poverty.” ers fully understood the murder Says,” in the United Automobile ous role of their British “liber campaigns against union mili these pro - Roosevelt lackeys dis We never forgot that letter because it so truly typified the spirit cover that? They denied that be W orker, February 1. ators,” they issued an appeal sev tants. They hail every act of gov of the “disinherited” who are seeking a way out of this world of ernment strikebreaking. They fore the elections. They them Addes, a henchman of the eral days after the massacre, to chaos and war and poverty. The New York youth, are “collecting boast of open finkery, as in the selves for three years bolstered Stalinists who support the “ Na their brothers in the British hickels and dimes” in the same spirit. Montgomery Ward strikes. Now and gave a labor cover to the tional Service” scheme of Roose army. Smuggled through the they sneak behind the back of the WLB. velt, complains: "When we wrote censorship, the N. Y. Post of labor movement to help the capi We repeat what T.he M ilita n t our column a month ago protest Feb. 1 reprints a leaflet issued Pertinent’ Questions I A letter from H. Smith, our night mobilization, and making talist government aim its forced wrote last week. The UAW bur ing against those who were by ELAS soldiers to British sol Chicago agent,* confirms previ- allowances for our short stay out labor knife. eaucrats don’t mean business. openly advocating a national A congressional opponent of diers on Dec. 8, 1944. The leaf ! ous reports that The M ilitant is due to extreme cold, we’re sending For its own safety, American service law, we had no idea that the May-Bailey slave labor bill let reads in part:: Pioneer 1 warmly welcomed by the auto under separate cover 18 new 25c. labor must ruthlessly call to ac President Roosevelt would once recently addressed two ques plant workers: “Enclosed are subs which were sold in a very “ British Brothers: count the sinister Stalinist trai again join their ranks. . . Whether tions to Roosevelt which yet some 6-month subs. They’ are short time. “ Do not accept to be sertt to do tors. Stalinism w ill poison and ul DETROIT President Roosevelt actively cam remain unanswered. They are: coming in straight from the “ In fact We’re so confident of such a crime. Do not accept, to timately destroy the unions if it paigns tor passage of a national First. “ If free labor is better plants now. Almost all the subs our sales in the future, we intend be the executioners o f a peo is permitted to spread further service law or lets it die a peace Notes Sunday Lectures than slave labor, why should we are sending in are from work to challenge any branch our size ple that does not support any through the body of labor. • ■ful death, as he did last year, we abandon it in favor of slave A merchant seaman, ordering a ers in the large auto plants here. during the campaign.” kind of slavery. might possibly be the answer to * * * February 18 labor battalions?” copy of Maritime by Frederick J. The Militant is so good— con “ Do not dishonour the sacred some of the questions we are to Lang, makes the following com sistently, every issue—that this J. Thorne, our agent in Flint, Band that joins us. day asking.” Second: “Why wasn’t na “THE ANSWER TO PEACE good response is not surprising is aiming at 100 subscriptions by “ Do not assassinate the Greek tional service presented as ah m ent: BOSTON Three lies in two sentences. With conditions as they are to March 1: “Maybe by doing some people which has no differences TIME CONSCRIPTION” issue in the campaign, so the “I ran across your book, Mari 1. Roosevelt* didn’t “join the day. / . Wie are going to have a preliminary spade work I can lay w ith you; people could have had a voice time, and was amazed to find so Friday Forums Speaker: ranks” ,of forced labor advocates; Red Sunday, February 4, and the ground for a successful sub . “If you’ll accept the murder in settling this issue— the most many facts and figures about the he has spearheaded their offen hope to have more subs next campaign here when it opens. ous orders of general Scobie, for E. H enry v ita l decision in 160 yea rs? ” industry, backing up what most February 16 sive. 2. Roosevelt did n o t “ le t i t die of us already know from our own week.” Anyway, while I have some time, the continuation of such distruc- * * * “TOWARDS A LABOR PARTY” 3513 Woodward Avenue last year;” he just shut up about By the way! What labor experience. It has got all the real I ’m going to see i f I can’t nan teous fight for our countries, it prior to the elections — as did Room 21 8 P. M. 'leader said in the 1940 , presi stuff in it. Tell your writer that A report from our San Fran up 100 subs before the cam paign then the History of tomorrow Addes. 3. Addes never asked Workers Center dential election campaign: he has got the goods on ’ those cisco agent, R. Haddon, stresses opens.” will notice this action as the any questions about Roosevelt Auspices: SWP “Draft Roosevelt and he’ll shipowners.” the fact that most of their new greatest crime, and your des But if he lias some, let him speak 158 Broadway - 8:15 P. M. draft you?” subscriptions are from unionized cendants w ill be ashamed to spell out. Auspices: SWP Seaman’s Handbook workers: “ We are still hitting the Colonial Policy your name. more difficult areas, but after . “Hurrah to the Independent This book, written by one with Admission Free two Sundays at this, we are very Greek people. first hand knowledge of the many This Coupon and 25 Cents Entitles You to a much impressed with our results. Is Forum Topic “Curse to the Traitors.” problems aboard ship as well as Four of us went out for two 6-Month Subscription to of the industry as a whole, gives hours and we returned with 18 NEW YORK, Feb. 4 — “The a fine picture of the maritime in trial subs and a 1-year sub. We Real Meaning of the Wallace- dustry. believe that this shows the very Jones Dispute” was the topic One entire section of the book definite change in attitude and discussed at the New York School is given over to material dealing manner of thinking of the work of Social Science tonight, with t h e MILITANT with the relationship of the gov George Collins as speaker. NEW YORK A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER ing people in the last year or so. t ernment and the shipping com Practically everyone who pur A large audience attended to 11« UNIVERSITY PLACE, NEW YORK 3, N. Y. panies: an illuminating story of chased a trial sub was a member hear the facts and the analysis subsidies, graft and profits. of a trade union. presented by Comrade Collins. Published in the interests of the Working People Another section deals with the “Another item of interest: A The numerous questions that fol Sunday Night Forum The only newspaper in this country that tells the truth facts relating to the government’s high school girl, who works after lowed the presentation, made it “UNITED STATES POLICY IN THE PHILIPPINES” about labor’s struggles for a better world handling of maritime labor and school as a telephone operator, a very interesting evening* for its unions, in sharp contrast to purchased a trial sub last Sun everyone. A good number of Wall Street’s Colonial Policy You may start my subscription to THE M ILITANT with your its benevolent attitude toward day; she was attracted by the pamphlets and copies of the How W ill the Philippine People Gain Their Independence? IN T R O D U C T O R Y O F F E R o f 26 issues fo r 25c. the shipowners. article on the New York tele January issue of Fourth Interna I enclose 25c (coin or stamps). Maritime tells the stirring his phone operators.” tional were sold. . Speaker: tory of the maritime unions be * * * The next Sunday Night Forum, ginning with the organization of Nam e Youngstown’s regular Monday on F e b ru a ry 11, w ill bo “ The Chris Andrews, contributor to THE MILITANT the first maritime union organized (Please Print) night mobilizations are resulting United States Policy in the Phil Sunday. February 11, at 8 P. M. on the w est coast in 1885. •in excellent weekly sales, accord ippines.” Chris Andrews will be S tree t .A p t. * * * ing to the latest report from I. the speaker. We invite all read Questions Refreshments “MARITIME, A Historical Cope, our agent: “Despite bad ers of The M ilitant to come and NEW YORK SCHOOL OF SOCIAL SCIENCE C ity .Zone Sketch, A Workers’ Program” weather and a few cold feet, it’s bring their friends and shop- by Frederick J. Lang. $1.00. w ith w arm hearts th a t We con mates to participate in the dis 116 U n iv e rs ity Place Order from Pioneer Publishers, tinue our ‘sub-getting’ and for cussion. The forum will begin S tate (cor. 13th Street, between 5th and Broadway) 116 University Place, New Yorik ward them to you. As a result of a t 8 p. m., a t 116 U n iv e rs ity 3> N . Y. our regularly scheduled Monday Place. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1945 THE MILITANT THREE 12 Released Trotskyist Fighters For Workers’ Rights Honored A tWelcome Home Mass Meeting In New York City (Continued from page 1) ^realize what the Minneapolis case means, perhaps more than any other group on the American scene. Let us give support to the a ‘hard way to go,’ as the convicts say. But she stood up and played CRDC which has fought so heroically that the world might know the her part and set us an example. We, are proud of our Senator. A ll truth in this case.” the rest of us did the best we could and \ve hope you approve of the B. A. Gebiner greeted the meeting and “all the defendants in way we conducted ourselves,” Cannon declared. the case in the name of (he Workmen’s Circle, the largest Jewish “ If I were to be present at the meeting, the thing I would like labor fraternal order in the United States.” Despite differences
m 1 "LASofe *rrs a iw n r t b k in can - I n o NOT EMANCIPATE! ITSELF WHHRB a LABOR WITH A BLACK SKIN IS Union-Smashing Slave Labor Bill Is Adopted BRANDED" — KARL MARX. Negro Struggle By House Under Roosevelt, Brass-Hat Pressure By Charles Jackson^ , (Continued from page 1) fa'
The Chicago Defender's 'New Course' istration and behind-the-scenes Scene at CRDC Mass Meeting What is happening to the edi unit are somewhat unclear” he m an ip ula tion of the' would-be torial policy of the Chicago De proceeds to charge that the ACLU Prussians of the General Staff. Diary Of A Steel Worker fender? This formerly militant is opposed to too much emphasis Secret meetings were held at which the top ranking Generals Negro weekly along with several on "battling for Negro rights.’’ By Theodore Kovalesky other Negro publications has been lie charges that “the virus of ra and Admirals addressed urgent pleas to congressmen for the im undergoing some strange evolu cial prejudice evidently lias not “ Tom,” I said, “ you disappoint ms.” tionary process in the past three been cleansed from its (the mediate adoption of forced labor years, or, rather, We should say ACLU’s) ranks.” legislation. In the debate in Con We had been having a long discussion on the causes and effects devolutionary process — because This strange accusation by an gress the forced labor advocates of racial prejudice, on how to fight it for the good of white and harped on one theme: The Com so far as fighting for Negro organ that is, itself, degenerat colored workers alike; and how finally to eliminate it once and for rights is concerned, it has been ing from its once m ilitant stand mander in Chief and his Chiefs on a downhill roll. is no new phenomenon. of Staff want slave labor, there all. Tom, the handsome, rugged Negro from Mississippi, had at first fore we have to give it to them. It has, like most capitalist en In charging the ACLU with been amazed that I had no prejudices against any races or na All pretense of the much bally- terprises, whether white or Ne giving up the Negro struggle, the tionalities; then, listening with interest to all my arguments, he had hooed “ manpower” and “munir gro, supported the imperialist Chicago “ Defender,” caught on tion” shortage was dropped. come to agree emphatically with me, illustrating our discussion with war, that is, the war of “democ thin ice, is merely reemphasizing racy” (the Jim Crow variety) the fact that supporters of the The bill was steamrollered examples of his own. But then he spoiled everything: “ Yeah, I guess against fascism (partly financed old order, when faced with the through under a fog of nauseat those Jewish bankers sure would by American capitalists). This inevitable contradictions to which ing hypocrisy about building the hate for us all to get together!” War has been placed on the their policy leads_ them, w ill in “morale” of “our boys in the fox He looked surprised when I agenda by the “ Defender” editors variably accuse others of the very holes.” One glorified ward heeler said he disappointed me. I went on: after another arose and waved the ahead of our justified struggle sins of which they, themselves, “Of course the Jewish bankers ate most guilty. bloody shirt. Crocodile tears against segregation and discrim would hate that. But why single in ation. A review of the record shows were shed over the men in the armed forces whose spirits were out the Jews? There are more, The Democratic Party, though that the American Civil Liberties drooping because the political many more, Gentile bankers than largely controlled by Southern Union is one of the few organiza agents of Wall Street hadn’t com Jewish. And, Tom, didn’t we just race-baiters, was supported by tions that still fight for the rights pletely enslaved their brothers, agree that a man’s race has noth this sheet in the past election re of Negroes regardless^ of the tre fathers and sisters. “We pledged ing to do with how honest or gardless of its (like the Republi mendous opposition of American all of our resources,” orated Dem can Party’s) anti-Negro’ policy, capitalism in this competitive crooked he is, how intelligent or ocrats and Republicans in • a Every little crumb of a con War. stupid, or how lazy or ambitious ? frenzy of pious patriotism. cession Roosevelt was forced to The ACLU supported the FEPC Didn’t we agree that he learns and is assisting the National That is, “all” except the sacred toss to the Negro was blazoned these traits as a result of the kind profits and privileges of the cost- in bold-faced type while the' rank Couhcil for a Permanent FEPC. At the New York City mass meeting held by (he CRDC on Feb. 2 to demand pardon for the 18 plus patriots who are amassing of society he lives in?” acts of oppression to Negro civil Following anti-Negro attacks of and repeal of the Smith “Gag” Act, are shown, left to right: Oscar Shocnfeld, Karl Kuehn, CRDC fabulous wealth out of the agony “Well,” Tom said rather sheep ians and soldiers were frequently 1943 i t published and w id e ly dis Secretary George Novack, Albert Goldman (speaking), Felix Morrow and James T. Farrell, Na- of mankind. ishly, “ I didn’t really mean Jews, buried in some insignificant spot tributed a pamphlet entitled “ How tionol Chairman of the CRDC. I guess. I meant bankers, capitalists. And then, I always had an in the paper. to Prevent a Race Riot.” In the When the question was raised courts during the past year it of "drafting” capital the cham idea most capitalists were Jews. Don’t they oontrol the country?” Take the case of the fifty participated in an unprecedented pions of slave labor were horror- sailors who are serving 8 to 15 “A book came out several years ago,” I said. “It’s name is num ber of cases in vo lv in g the stricken. Such an action, they years for “mutiny” as martyrs America’s Sixty Families, and it showed that just about sixty rights of Negroes. These included shrieked was in gross violation in the fight against the reac Party Greetings To 12 families in the United States control the entire country. These are the outlawing of the white prim of the fifth amendment to the tionary, openly anti-Negro policy the Fords, the Morgans, the Rockefellers, and so on. And there are ary in Texas, the Lynn case in constitution upholding the sanc plot to destroy our movement by of the U. S. Navy. What is this The following are brief quota Our warmest greetings. Youi; im some Jews, tod, But there are just a few of them. The Jews are a volving discrimination in calling tity of private property. To the imprisoning its leaders. prisonment for remaining true to Negro weekly which was founded tions from messages qf solidarity minority in the population, and they are roughly the same minority Negroes to military service by minions of capital the fifth our revolutionary principles . and by fighting Robert S. Abbot sent to the 12 released Trotsky Los Angeles Local, SWP segregated draft quotas and seg amendment is sacred, the four in the capitalist class. That is, if there are, say, two Jews in every doing? Is it agitating for mass your fearlessness in speaking out regation of Negroes by the Boil teenth is hot. ist leaders from branches of the hundred people in the entire population, there’d be about two percent action to demand the release of on behalf of labor w iil endear you ermakers Union. Socialist Workers Party. to the American working class. of Jews in the capitalist class. these innocent boys? Notso’s you REAL REASON Welcome back, comrades. You It has assisted in: the parole have served the party well. Your “Still, the most important capitalists aren’t Jewish at all. can notice it. I t is Well nigh impossible to Detroit Branch, SWP of the remaining fecottshoro boys example of self-sacrifice and devo Morgan, duPont, Ford, and Rockefeller aren’t Jewish. You Instead it prints in its Feb. 3 get at the real reason behind the We extend our band in warm * * * in Alabama; a successful case In tio n has been a great in sp ira tio n see, Tom, it’s not the race ;or nationality that counts, as we’ve issue a vicious tirade against Detroit involving discrimination demand for the immediate enact est welcome. We have worked to our movement. The capitalist class which lias already agreed. It’s the CLASS that counts. these men in the form Of a letter by the military authorities ment of a slave labor law, by determined that your jailors from a prejudiced sailor Who reading the statements and listen would not succeed in their vicious Chicago Branch, SWP persecuted you through the Roos “It’s just like Jim Crow. It’s all race hatred, and it doesn’t against a Negro doctor drafted by evelt -administration has failed in says that “their shame will be the Army after the Navy had re ing to the speeches of the forced matter what the race is: the results are the same. The working its attempt to intimidate our remembered for a long time.” fused to accept him; the success labor advocates. Different reas class is split up, and there is a scapegoat on whom to unload blame party. Your firm defense of the This new version of the Chicago ful fight of the NAACP against ons have been advanced at differ socialist movement has been re for the bad conditions that the capitalists are responsible, for. That’s “ Defender” not . only prints such segregation of Negro children in ent times. Roosevelt and his Labor Greetings warded by an increase in our how it worked in Germany.” white supremacy Venom but — the schools at Hillburn, N, Y.; brass hats insist on having a ranks. “That’s something I wanted to ask: how about Germany? Didn’t and liel-e is the real sin — it lets the litigatipp against the exclu forced labor law — now! this lying attack go unanswered sion of Negroes from the Stuyv- It is openly admitted that such Seattle, Wash., Branch, SWP the Jews control Germany?” without editorial comment, as if esant Town housing project; the a law would' have little chance of To Released 12 to give silent consent to those abolition of public school dlscrim- adoption after the military, col Anti- Semitism and the Nazis sentiments. IPdtioft' ih Trenton, N. J. and lapse of Germany. Therefore, The following are brief ex-, Mexican Section of the Fourth 'During your absence, our party “No, Tom, that was just propaganda that Hitler put out for the The name "Chicago Defender” m any oth er cases. Roosevelt and his High Command tracts from a few' of the. many International lias gone forward. We have given the best answer to the persecu same reasons I’ve just given you. Capitalism in Germany was worn remains at the top of the page The “Defender” editor com have thrown all their weight be labor organizations in the United We greet our brother party tion of the capitalist class. Even out. It was rotten to the core. It couldn’t supply jobs for the people; but the question now arises: plains that the ACLU is against hind the May-Bailey bill. States and Maxico sent greetings and comrades who have gained the imprisonment of our leaders Whom does th is paper defend? the “Communists” (former fight to the 12 released T ro ts k y is ts on their liberty after being in it couldn’t give them the. necessities of life. In blaming the Jews for “NOW OR NEVER” cannot impede our progress. We The downtrodden Negro masses ers for Negro rights ih the days the occasion of the Welcome Home prison. The example of these the troubles of Germany Hitler did two things: he split up the But why are Rooosevelt and will continue to growl and their brave martyrs? — or before the CP became completely Mass Meeting in New York City: magnificent revolutionary so population of Germany (the way Jim Crow does here), preventing his Chiefs of Staff so hell-bent on the American ruling class and its Stalinized.) cialist fighters is an inspiration Toledo, O., Branch, SWP the people from standing together in one unified army; and he put getting a slave labor bill enacted most vicious anti-Negro agents? Although this degenerated Irving Abramson, Pres. for all the Trotskyists in other the blame for all the economic troubles of the country on the Jews. “now'.” ? The war in Europe is Just as a barrel ro llin g down group is now opposed to any New Jersey CIO Council countries. We feel complete entering its final stages. The Krupp and Thyssen and the rest of the big capitalists of Germany hill, w ill crash head on into one civil rights which ihterfere with I just learned of the release solidarity with you in your You have stood the test of per military collapse of Germany is were financing Hitler to do this. Why? Well, you can imagine what being rolled up the same path, the the “War effort,” nevertheless the fig h t. secution without wavering. Your imminent. There is no manpow of the Minneapolis prisoners. would have happened if ALL the people there had realized that it "Defender” in its Jan. 27 issue AC LU made representations on While I share with you your sacrifices w ill be remembered in er shortage now and there will the records of workingclass his was the capitalist class as a whole that was responsible for all the takes a snarling lunge in its lead behalf of Mrs. Earl Browder in regret that the fight for a Union of Construction most certainly be none after the troubles of the country. ‘Divide and rule,’ Tom. That’s H itler’s motto editorial at — of all organizations her deportation case because poli Industry Workers, CTM tory and w ill serve as an example end of the war in Europe. The pardon uras unsuccessful, I join ■— the American Civil Liberties tical prejudice seemed to be play of unflinching spirit and absolute and practice . . . and it’s the motto of all the other capitalists and key to this frenzied drive to jam . with you in welcoming their We are in full solidarity with U nion! ing a factor in the decision as ' devotion to the program and fu capitalist politicians.” through a forced labor law freedom. . . With the dawn of you and knowing that the The point of departure for this rendered by the Department of ture of our party. “This is all kind of new to me,” Tom admitted. “But if the now,” lies in the fact that such their new' freedom should come prisoners have gained their paradoxical editorial is the fact Justice. legislation is primarily intended a recognition of their contribu liberty, we request that you Boston Branch, SWP Jews are like everybody else in the working class, why d9n ’t they that the National ACLU Board These are the facts. We see for Use in the period AFTER the tion to the fight against in transmit to them and to the work in factories like the rest of us ? They’ve got little businesses has voted to look into charges of what the Chicago “Defender” un defeat of Germany. For what justice. members of the Socialist W ork and they rob you blind.” political intrigue within the Chi der thiB new editorial policy lias * * * 0 ers Party our warmest revolu We are confident th a t as M a rx purpose? “ That’s business, Tom. The little business man of any race has cago branch — an intrigue calcu failed to' do; we see what the Thomas DeLorenzo, Pres. tionary greetings. For a society ists you used your period of im The administration has an got to rob you blind if he can, because the big ones are robbing him, lated to emasculate that branch ACLU against great odds has con Local 365, U A W -C IO without classes! prisonment to further prepare nounced its Intention of enforc of the well-known militant posi tinued to do. The Negfo masses yourselves for the battles ahead. and he wants to make a living. And I think I’d rather be in a ing the wage freeze “for the dura It is wfith genuine joy and a * * * tion of the National body. Al will not be fooled by these ridi Together again, we Trotskyists factory than working and struggling all kinds of long hours trying tion” of the war with Japan. The keen appreciation of what this Union of Construction Workers though the editor admits that the culous, hysterical, diversional w ill go forward With ever greater to keep a little shop going. A little shopkeeper has one hell of a might m e a n to minority of the Federal District “accusations against the Chicago shrieks. end of the W'ar In Europe w ill be strength toward our goal -— the groups the country over that I time under this system. followed immediately by large- Greetings of revolutionary liberation of all the exploited scale cutbacks and plant shut greet the release of the 18 solidarity. The 18 who were put throughout the world, “ But about the Jews in the factories: The companies have used downs. W orkers w ill be th ro w n Minneapolis victims of “gag in prison for the crime of discrimination against the Jews just like the Negroes. Why do you on the streets by tens of thou rule.” Both I and the union that defending the working class San Francisco Branch, SWP think the application blanks all ask your religion? Then, too, a lot sands. It will no longer be pos I have the honor to represent and the cause of Socialism have depends on the section of the country. Did you know that a high sible to keep a no-strike checkrein pledge ourselves to do all in demonstrated to the workers of We are exceedingly glad that now percentage of the workers in New York City are Jewish? And these on the unions through the use of our power to see to it that such the other countries that also in WHAT A LABOR PARTY MEANS you can take your rightful places are among the wjorst paid workers in America, the garment work deception. frameups w ill become no more the United States, the metro in our party. Your release from ers. Also, they live in what you’d call a Jim Crow section, in Brook Roosevelt and his brass hats than a recollection of the polis of imperialism, there prison fills us with renewed de lyn. Like the wards where the Negroes live, there is a great deal TO THE OPPRESSED NEGROES cannot count too much on their nightmarish past. exist revolutionists and a party * * * termination to continue our fight of poverty in Brooklyn, and some sections are populated mainly by Our guide has so far considered of thoBe polled voted for a more labor lackeys to keep the workers that fight against their ex Peter Capitano, Representative for a better society. one group, and some people make jokes about it, like they do about the organization of an indepen solid tie-Up with organized labor “in line.” They want a forced ploiters and for the cause of Local 160, IL G W U -A F L Youngstown, O., Branch, SWP H arlem . dent labor party from the view The colored people themselves labor law to prevent the unions the workers of the whole world. point of the trade1 unions and can play a great role in organiz from regaining their independ May we take the opportunity, * * * “And, my god, Tom, look at the terrible condition of the la b o r generally. B u t oth er sec-, ing an independent labor party, ence of action in the struggle at this time, to congratulate Workers and Peasants European Jews forced to live in ghettoes, starving, thousands of We are proud of your courage, tions of the populace are vitally Those who are already members against the wage and job freeze the CRDC on the fine work done Confederation them, killed off in what you might call ‘mass-lynchings.’ Is that the dignity and devotion. We look affected by the role labor takes of trade unions should champion which lower their standard of in the release of the 18 prison We send a greeting of revolu forward to the tasks ahead with way a powerful race would be treated ? in politics. Two most important the cause. A ll the pent up energy liv in g . ers and wish them all luck. You tionary solidarity and our con- enthusiasm, confidence and re- “ One more thing: look around, and you’ll find that anti-Semitic, groups are the 13 million Negroes of the colored people should be The May-Bailey bill is a job- may call on us at any time to gratulations to the 18 comrades newed inspiration from your ex- anti-Negro, and anti-labor propaganda usually go together. Isn’t and the middle classes, includ consciously directed to building freezing, strikebreaking, slave la help such worthy causes. * * * and the other fighters’ of the ample. th a t so?” ing the white-collar workers, the labor" party. The colored peo bor measure, designed to keep world revolutionary movement. small proprietors, share-croppers, ple will be the first to feel the the unions subservient to the im Harry Silverman, * * * Philadelphia Branch, SWP Tom admitted it was. All in all, I think I convinced him. I tenants and dirt-farmers. terrible depression rfbw on the perialist aims of the Wall Street International Representative hope so. United Automobile Workers, CIO Union of Tanning Industry The colored people have every horizon. They must act now to plunderbund. That is why the and Allied Trades of the Warmest fraternal greetings thing to gain from a labor party. build the only means of fighting political and military agents of The imprisonment of the Federal District. upon your return to liberty and It is the two old capitalist parties the mounting reaction. Start now Big Business want to place such Minneapolis labor leaders was Fraternal greetings and con party activity. We pledge oursel CHICAGO which uphold the Jim Crow and on the road to political action! legislation on the statutes “ now.” a black spot on American civil gratulations. The example of ves to carry out our shave of the poll tax system and foster dis Explain to your white shop Having been adopted in the liberties. The use of govern the Socialist Workers Party in task of bringing the program of crimination in the armed forces mates how Jim Crow and poll tax House by a vote of 246 to 165, the ment pow'er by one labor its fight for a socialist world our party, so feared by the capi Charles Jackson and industry. American fascism system keeps in power the ultra May-Bailey bill lias at this w rit faction against another to settle serves to create among the talists, to the ranks of American W riter of THE MILITANT column would undoubtedly select the reactionary Congressional bloc of ing gone to the Senate where ac labor problems is a dangerous Mexican workers a sentiment labor. colored people as the principal Southern bourbons who are out in tion has already been taken to precedent. * * * of solidarity with the workers w ill speak on scapegoat in its bloody bid for front attacking labor. Explain speed the passage of forced labor Cleveland Branch, SWP how this bloc of Congressmen legislation. The labor bureau Bernard Rifkin, Editor of the United States. power. This has already been * * * "The Struggle For Negro Equality" revealed in the attacks upon the constitutes the backbone of the crats have confined their “opposi American Labor News Libertarian Federation We join in celebrating the re Negroes in Los Angeles, Detroit, Democratic Party. Explain how tion” to writing futile letters to The void in our ranks is now Hear Jackson discuss a fighting forking class program of Workers and Peasants, turn to active duty of the undis New York and elsewhere. Native destruction of the poll tax and “their” congressmen. It is up to filled. On with labor’s fight. that w ill protect the interests of the Negro workers. Federal District. puted leaders of the American would-be fascists were among the Jim Crowr system will not only the union militants to take the * * * socialist working class. Our party leaders of the mobs which hunted strengthen the proposed labor lead in the fight against labor The Minneapolis defendants Aron S. Gilmartin, Chairman will go forward to build a move down and killed colored people party but fatally weaken the conscription. can count on all the help and Sunday afternoon, February 18 8 P. M. Workers Defense League ment which the prisons cannot How well the Negro people un Democratic Party and its control The Greater Flint Industrial sympathy we can express hold. DWIGHT BLDG., 306 E. 43rd St. (near 43rd St. “L” Station derstand the need of collaboration over Congress. Union Council CIO, has shown Greetings to the released fraternally for their conduct. victims of the infamous Min These revolutionists should with organized labor is revealed (From “American Workers the way by condemning “any Milwaukee Branch, SWP Auspices: Socialist Workers Party Need A Labor Party>” by Joseph form of labor conscription,” and neapolis gag law prosecutions. know that their rebellious ac by the recent poll cohducted by A dm ission 25 Cents Hansen, pp. 38-39. Pioneer Pub urging “United labor action” in A ll of us have a great deal to tion vindicates the revolu the leading Negro newspaper, Revolutionary Workers Party of Discussion lishers, 1944, 48 pp, 15 tents the form of A “national demons do to Win real civil rights and tionary movement of the world Questions the Pittsburgh Courier. 98 percent Cuba (Fourth International) Order from Pioneer Publishers, tration if necessary,” to manifest the lessons w'e have learned in which is in danger of being 116 U n iv e rs ity Place, N. Y . 3, , labor’s uncompromising opposi the Minneapolis case w ill stand dashed on the waves of a new Fraternal greetings to valiant Subscribe to The Militant N. Y.) tion to slave labor. us in good stead. social crisis. socialist fighters. Go forward. SIX THE MILITANT SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1945
labor lieutenants of the capitalist class to defend their interests. It is up to the union militants to take the lead War! It’s Wonderful -- THE MILITANT in the fight for labor’s rights and labor’s freedom. E R S’ The time, money and energy of the unions must Published in the interests of the be diverted to the defense of the unions. Mass For American Bankers Working People meetings, radio time, newspaper articles, resolutions America’s bankers have achieved the peak of their Vol. IX — No. S S aturday, F ebru ary 10, 1945 and m ilitant demonstrations must voice labor’s un fpORUM looting career. In Washington, Roosevelt has handed Published Weekly hv compromising opposition to slave labor. Independ over all key government departments to the bankers THE MILITANT PUBLISHING ASST* ent labor action is on the order of the day. It and their agents—Stettinius, Rockefeller, Clayton, at 116 University Place, New York 3, N. Y. has been too long delayed. The columns are open to the opinions of the readers of The Militant. Letters Forrestal, Morgenth.au, Biddle, etc. Meanwhile, their pals back home on Wall Street are raking in blood- Telephone: ALgonquin 4-8647 are welcome on any subject of interest to the workers, but keep them short and include your soaked billions faster than adding machines can count FARRELL DOBBS, Editor name and address. Indicate if you do not want your name printed. — Editor. them . THE MILITANT follows the policy of permit Welcome For The 12 rather let wounded men go unat consistently against the workers. “Banks’ Resources Highest in History” crows a Stalinism tended than have black skinned The Stalinists can be relied upon ting its contributors to present their own views The New York Welcome Home Mass Meeting headline in the Jan. 3 N. Y. Times. Drooling with E d ito r: women aid them, just as they let every time to do everything pos in signed articles. These views therefore do not delight for four columns, the story records unpre held last week to greet the released Trotskyist lead I am a new reader of The M ilitant thousands of men suffer needless sible to deceive the workers. This necessarily represent the policies of THE M ILI cedented achievements. Rockefeller’s Chase National ers was a workingdass demonstration against a and am impressed to discover ly by refusing to let Negro doc latest move for a national lobby TANT which are expressed in its editorials. Bank has emerged as the first 5-billion dollar bank glaring manifestation of contemporary capitalist your great dislike for Stalin. I tors serve overseas. The N. Y. is simply another attempt to allay the militancy of the workers in America. It greeted the New Year with total Subscriptions: $1.00 per year; 50c for 6 months. society’s hypocrisy, degradation and brutality. It have always considered him a Times adm itted as much when it referred, on Jan. 21, to ‘‘.thou through deception. But it is doom resources of $5,160,004,000 compared to “ only” $4,- F oreign ;• $2.00 per year, $1.00 fo r 6 m onths. great man and friend of the was a demonstration against that violation of work ■worker, and now you come along sands of trained Negro nurses ed to failure beforehand. The 675,384,000 three months previously. The National Bundle orders: 3 cents per copy in the United ers’ rights and civil liberties which is a hallmark and say just' the opposite. Would and doctors waiting to be called.” workers are beginning to under City Bank is pressing to be the second across the 5- States; 4 cents per copy in all foreign countries. of the decline and decay of “ democratic” capital you mind giving a few good reas Of course that’s nothing new! stand that begging gets them billion marker. Its year-end resources totaled $4,469,- Single copies: 5 cents.. ism. ons for your dislike in the next Negro nurses and doctors have nothing but delays and defeats. 686,465 Compared with $4,155,785,606 just three been treated the same way by civ They have learned that they can’t “ Entered as second class matter March 7, 1944 This was a demonstration for ideas and slogans issue of The M ilitantt. months before. ilian hospitals. It revolts me to fight to break the Little Steel at the post office at New York, N. Y., under J. Span What a happy, happy New Year for the financial which bear within them a reminder to the capital see what a fuss the liberals make formula while their hands are Philadelphia moguls in the sixth year of the biggest and bloodiest the Act of March 3. 1879.’’ ists that they have not always been the ruling over Sydenham Hospital in New tied by the no-strike policy. That capitalist war in history! class in human society— that they too rose to power (ED. NOTE: The M ilitant is dedi York just because it has a mixed is why they will quickly under National City’s board of directors reported one im To defend the USSR £s cated to the cause of Socialism staff. These hypocrites know per stand that the Stalinist lobby,- through the revolutionary overthrow of an out portant source of these mounting billions. The gov inside and outside the Soviet Un fectly well that for four years which is aimed to further pro the main fortress of the moded ruling class. To rally the popular ion. Among the greatest dangers job discrimination because of col mote stalling, w ill get them noth ernment is unable to squeeze enough to pay for the world proletariat, against masses for the 'overthrow of feudal society, the to the American and world work or has been illegal in New York, ing at all. huge war costs directly from taxes and bond sales to revolutionary bourgeoisie were then compelled to yet they act as if the millenium small-income earners. “The alternative is the creation all assaults of world im ing class is the delusion that Stal J. K. raise the banner of democratic rights. In the Great inism, past or present, ever serv has arrived, because one or two Youngstown, O. of funds by selling securities to the banks.” These perialism and of internal places “obey” the law! French Revolution, the slogan of the 18th century ed the interests of labor, inside or bank-owned government securities now total nearly When we end the whole system counter-revolution, is the outside the USSR, let alone the $100-billion—5 times the amount held in 1939. French philosophers— The Rights of Man— was of Jim Crow, we won’t need a cause of Socialism ; to w'hich The Where Rascals Are It’s all done with special bankers’ mirrors. The most important duty of opposed to the rights of the feudal lords. The bat M ilita n t is dedicated. That is “labor draft” of -any workers, Ne E d ito r: worker pays for his bonds with money he has actually every class - conscious tle cry of the revolutionary plebians, the Jacobins why from its inception the Trot gro or white. earned; but the banks just “ create credit.” They simply skyist movement has engaged in R. N. While yet a Senator Harding w orker. of the Convent, was “Liberty, Equality, Frater said that before he would give jot down on one side of their ledgers a “credit” to n ity.” the exposure of and irreconcilable New Y o rk — LEON TROTSKY political struggle against Stalin-, tlfe American people a vote on the Treasury. The Treasury then hands them neatly- Under the rule of the victorious bourgeoisie these ism, the betrayer of Bolshevism, whether they want a war or not, engraved bonds to the amount of this “credit.” The rights were never realized. But the old slogans re by counterposing the actions and Labor Lobby Fraud he would resign his office. Now, bonds are immediately entered as a “deposit.” To JOIN US IN FIGHTING FOR: main to haunt the class that first raised them. To crimes of Stalinism with its vile Woodrow Wilson told the people pay for the war, the government then draws checks if they voted for him he would pretenses and perfidious policy. E d ito r: upon these “ deposits.” 1. Military training of workers, financed day, the bourgeoisie everywhere tries to bury the keep us out of war. He did not Since 1928 literally every issue of The Stalinist finks arc taking Of course, the government is supposed to pay off banner it bore in the early days of its own rise keep his word. If we get burned jy the government, but under control The Militant has carried not a the lead in organizing a CIO in due time both the interest and the principal on to power. The “ equality” of its revolutionary proc few irrefutable reasons and facts “march on Washington” move it is by the class that declares these securities bought with “credit” fortified by of the trade unions. Special officers’ lamation now appears only in hypocritical refer to prove why no class conscious ment to plead with representa war and lives on it. So it is easy “deposits” of the bonds exchanged for the “credit.” ences tq “ equality” of sacrifice and the conquer worker could permit himself to tives of Big Business for the rev for my friends to see where I training camps, financed by the gov stand. I am like the man who Thus the prospect is that all of us, and our children ors’ justice. "Fraternity," as Frederick Engels plead ignorance of the Stalinist ision of the Little Steel formula. ernment but controlled by the trade record of crimes and betrayals. . In northeastern Ohio this cam said that he was almost as smart and our children’s children w ill be shelling out hidden long ago pointed out, "was realized in the chicanery as the astronomers who, he said, and direct taxes to pay the government to pay the unions, to train workers to beconie For background material we paign is being led by a notorious and envy of the competitive struggle.” . recommend the writings of Leon Stalinist hack, Jqe Kress. A del had got so that they could tell banks for “credit.” After all, you can’t expect bankers officers. T hat sense of human dignity, first raised to Trotsky, James P. Cannon and egation to beg in Washington is some tilings two or three days and other plutocrats to “fight” their war for nothing. ahead; w h ile he had g o t so he revolutionary heights by the early bourgeois slo other pamphlets and books which being organized. It is supposed Can ysu? 2. Trade union wages for all workers may be obtained by writing for to represent the state of Ohio, could tell two or three day after- gans, is beginning to cry out in this sixth year of wards. drafted into the army. the free catalogue of Pioneer Pub and the plan is to follow it up the greatest man-made catastrophe of history. This lishers.) with delegations from other Since I became a Socialist I 3. Full equality for Negroes in the armed cry for an end to world slaughter and a new re states, in a continuous lobby. found out that the biggest rascals What Most People Think gard for the rights and dignity; of man reflects This maneuver, coming at a and thieves are not in the slums forces and the war industries— Down but in the Hilltops, and it does not the deepest conscience of modern humanity. That Negro Nurses time when the workers in the with Jim Crowism everywhere. UAW are fighting to scrap the take an astronomer to sort them About Capitalist Politics conscience finds its highest expression in the ideas E d ito r: no-strike policy, is being deliber out. If a man cannot tell why he 4. Confiscation of all war profits. Expro and methods of Trotskyism, the program of the Thousands of Negro nurses are ately pushed to confuse the work is not a Socialist he ought to go A revealing commentary on the capitalist political priation of all war industries and their victimized Trotskyist leaders. looking for jobs, while the gov ers, and at the same-time to bol to bed till he gets his right mind. system in America is contained in the findings of a These eighteen, who have not yet regained the ernment is demanding “ Draft the ster up the government boards L. B. Courts recent Gallup Poll. A national cross-section of voters operation under workers’ control. nurses!” The brass hats would and agencies that have acted so civil rights wrested from them, were- thrown be H a m ilto n , O. were asked: “ If you had a son would you like to see 5. A rising scale of wages to meet the hind prison bars because the)' went out to build him go into politics as a life’s work when he gets out o f school ?” a better world. They defended the philosophy and rising cost of living. Of those polled, 68 percent answered emphatically the method which has laid bare the laws of capital 6. Workers Defense Guards against vigil “ No.” 11 percent were doubtful. Only 21 percent said, ist economy and class politics. They 'were impris “ Yes.” ante and fascist attacks. oned because they identified themselves with the Reasons of the 68 percent? “-Too much graft. . . historic interests of the workers and oppressed of He’d be hated by everyone. . . Too much mud-sling 7. An Independent Labor Party based on Meanwhile industry and transport the world, those destined to become the liberators Germany Catholicism. The Montauben City ing. . . Too crooked. . Too corrupt.” A few thought are almost completely broken Council, responding to this pres the Trade Unions. that other fields offered more “opportunity.” of mankind. Demonstrations and mass out down, and war workers are re sure, withdrew financial aid from These people knew and spoke only of capitalist 8. A Workers’ and Farmers’ Govern The mass meeting in honor of the 18 represented breaks in Germany are mount ported idle in the plants. church schools in that locality. those forces and that class—the working class— ing, despite the desperate ex The Nazi rulers are not the only The Bishop of Montauben drew politics, where those permitted to serve must act in m ent. hortations and threats of Propa the interests of the rich few. But independent working- which alone can and will achieve the true'epoch ones who fear the eruption of the up a letter, now being circulated ganda Minister Goebbels and the masses in volcanic Germany. The class politics in the interests of the many, the workers 9. The defense of the Soviet Union of The Rights of Man— the epoch of world social nationally by the Popular Demo frenzied appeals of Hitler, whose Allied imperialists are likewise crats, declaring that “tyrants and poor farmers, aims to do away with the capitalist against imperialist attack. ism. They and the 4,500,000 members of over 600 vaunted “ l,000 year rule” is col gravely concerned. A N. Y. Times from without are being replaced system which thrives on graft, corruption and con- labor bodies who came to the defense of the 18 lapsing on the 12th anniversary editorial on Feb. 1 laments: by tyrants from within.” nivery against the masses. Such politics and member of his ascent to power. represent the forefront of that mighty host which “One can safely say that the ex This Catholic church support of ship in such a political movement is the highest voca Radio and press dispatches in its revolutionary rise will destroy all that is plosion from within Germany, de Gaulle is an unmistakable in tion to which a class-conscious worker can aspire. Time For Action report clashes between Storm- when it comes, will make the dication of the counter-revolu base in capitalist society, salvage all that is worthy troops and the home - fro n t The cowardly labor bureaucrats are giving an [German] revolution of 1918 look tionary character of his regime. from the best achievements of the past, and through Volkssturm, because the latter unparalleled exhibition of their callous disregard like a tea party.” De Gaulle’s efforts to bolster up socialism lift humanity to unprecedented economic “wanted to aid evacuees.” The the church as a powerhouse of for the fundamental interests of the union mem death rate in refugee-packed “Shortage” Is Smokescreen and cultural heights. confusion and reaction indicates bership. For weeks, while the forces of reaction Berlin has slky - rocketed and France that the French capitalists have were openly mobilizing for a concerted effort to “ 1,300 people are d yin g every no hope of ameliorating the un day, many collapsing in the Economic conditions in France For Tire Price-Steal are steadily deteriorating under bearable living conditions of the enact a slave labor law, the labor skates went deaf, streets, and there are no am 12 Years O f Nazism masses, but aim to survive the Last month Roosevelt’s army brass hats and the dumb and blind. They neither saw, heard nor bulances to ’ carry them away.” Allied occupation. In Paris a serious food shortage following revolutionary storm by means of rubber corporations howled about tire shortages and spoke of the danger threatening the labor move When H itler seized state power in 1933 he proud Riots for bread are frequent as a bitter cold spell, sent infla a military dictatorship prepared imposed a special 120-day speedup program on the the refugees ransack the stores ment. It wasn’t until the conspiracy to shackle the ly proclaimed that Nazism would rule 1000 years. tionary prices skyrocketing still to use ruthless force. in search of food. The refugees rubber- workers. But this tire “crisis,” it has been unions was far advanced that they uttered a few ThaJ was twelve years ago. The fascist juggernaut higher. Crippling restrictions in from the east are estimated at revealed, was just the smokescreen fo r a huge price- feeble words of opposition to conscripting labor which rolled over the German working class a 4,500,000. the use of coal and electricity steal. will continue all winter, accord Strike Wave for private profit. Even this faint-hearted gesture short twelve years ago, crushing the organized .A German war reporter des The Office of Price Administration last April ing to government spokesmen. In Strikes—political and economic was made only after the workers became aroused labor movement, is today on the verge of collapse. cribed a scene in Breslau as fol granted “ temporary” price1 increases after corporation the War Department the food —are breaking out on every con lows: “ A convoy of peasant carts pleas 'of “anticipated” higher costs. Subsequently, the over the do-nothing policy of. their official leader In the span of a single decade, Nazism has dissi shortage has become so acute tinent as a result of soaring costs with refugees from the surround ship. pated all its internal resources. The revolutionary famine threatens. of living and devastation created OPA discovered these higher costs did not materialize. ing countryside are on the square. significance of this fact is recognized by the arch Only three blast furnaces in all by the war. The companies were hauling in 1'A times as much net In the meantime, Roosevelt, who has been spear Women and children in the carts France are operating and' steel In Belgium a coal miners’ profits as in the best pre-war years. The OPA prepared heading the drive for a slave labor law, made a conservative N. Y. Times which remarks that the are huddled under .blankets. In production is down to one tenth strike spread on January 26 to .an order for withdrawal on December 15 of the tongue-in-cheek gesture to the “ le ft'’ by naming explosion in Germany “ when it comes, w ill make another corner of the square, a of normal. The situation in steel, the Charleroi pits where 6,000 previous price increases. long row of perambulators, push Henry Wallace as Secretary of Commerce. Having • the revolution of 1918 look like a tea party.” a basic industry, is a good miners walked out. 12,000 more Then in stepped Roosevelt’s right-hand man, Direc ed by mothers and grandmothers jam-packed the administration with bankers, stock The specter of the Germa'n working class revolu measure of the economic collapse were reported to be idle between is heading for the main railroad tor of War Mobilization and Reconversion Byrnes. He tion haunts the councils of Rooseveit, Churchill throughout France. Charleroi and Moils. The strikers jobbers, speculators and coupon clippers, the station. Freight and bundles are blocked the price cut and extended the price increases The desperate impasse finds are demanding a 40 percent pay White House demagogue sought a “ liberal’’ cover and Stalin. “ What to do with Germany” occupies piled up high on the baby another 4 months. The difference meant a tidy sum— its refraction even in the hand increase, the same food rations first point on their agenda. Only, the question as carriages.” nearly $40,000,000 in additional profits for the rubber for his Big Business troupe. Contrary to the cring picked de Gaulle cabinet. Dif as the fighting men, and per barons. ing attitude of the cravens who head the unions, formulated in their minds is: “ How to stave off In Berlin and other reception ferences over policy between mission to form workmen’s com the spokesmen for Wall Street set up a hue and the German revolution.” centers, food supplies, housing, Pierre Mendes-France, Minister mittees to take part in the man Byrnes explained his action by claiming a "dire clothing and medical resources emergency” in tire production. More production was •cry against this “ threat” to their prerogatives. The semi-official American Army and Navy of National Economy, and Rene agement of the mines. are taxed to the breaking point, In Latin America, 50,000 Argen needed in a hurry which might involve “abnormal or They would have no “ idealist” experimenting and Journal reports that "German business moguls are Pleven, Minister of Finance, led as streams of refugees pour in. to the former tendering his tina packinghouse workers went unexpected costs.” And, most important, the corpora tampering with their “ free enterprise” system of puting out peace feelers” to the allies. After the Hunger demonstrators are ruth resignation. De Gaulle managed on strike last week as continent tions might be “deterred” from putting their heart profit and plunder. last war, German capitalism was unable to provide, lessly cut down by Stormtroopers. .-to skate over th is crisis by per wide token strikes against the and soul into the extra effort if the “temporary” Gunfire was directed against This was an issue to warm the cockles of a labor a solution for the needs of the masses. To per suading Mendes-Francc to with Argentina dictatorial regime took price rises were not continued. groups of German women in place in other Latin American faker’s hc;t»rl. And it came at a very convenient petuate’ the capitalist system these same business draw his resignation. In short, the companies threatened to stall produc Leipzig who tried to force their Meanwhile de Gaulle’s policy of countries, Uruguay, Mexico and time. Forgotten was the real danger of slave labor. moguls and Junkers paved the way for Hitler. tion if their prices were cut. This is confirmed by way into barracks in protest continuing Vichy’s subsidies to elsewhere. The Argentina pack News Bulletin No. 52, of the Pharis Tire and Rubber The fight was between "progress” and "reaction,” Fascism was their prescription for staving off the against the dispatch of Volks Catholic schools is being debated inghouse workers are demanding with Roosevelt and Wallace symbolizing “ progress” working class revolution. What brighter prospects sturm men to the front. in the Consultative Assembly. De wage increases and the release of Company, which spilled the beans about the1 govern and th e , Republicans and anti-Roosevelt Demo can they offer the German people today? In a town near Berlin women Gaulle is the first practising their general secretary, Jose ment-corporation deal and how it was effected. Peter, and other political prison Reporting on a meeting in Washington between Lt. crats personifying "reaction.” Mass meetings were In a Germany devastated by war, her industry led demonstrations against the Catholic to head a French gov food authorities, beating up of ernment in about 40 years. De ers. Gen. Somervell and the tire manufacturers, the bulletin organized to mobilize the workers in support of dismantled or destroyed, her economy shattered, ficials who suspended the sale of Gaulle understands that he can- Tire strike in Argentina was reveals: “The price postponement was made only be Wallace. Resolutions were adopted. Radio time was the continued rule of capitalism can bring nothing food on rationing cards. Storm- .not depend indefinitely on Allied carried out despite threats from cause the rubber industry assured the’ Arm y that they purchased/with union funds. Articles on Wallace save hunger and starvation, tyranny and oppres troopers quelled the demon bayonets for support but must Colonel Juan D. Peron, govern would receive more tires as a result of a price post crowded the issue of forced labor off the pages of sion. The capitalist-landlord clique saw in Hitler strators with guns. One hundred create his own political base ment dictator, that he would fire ponement than if the prices the OPA proposed would the national labor press service. The labor zombies a "saviour” who would preserve their profits and civilians were killed in a clash within France. He depends on the upon the workers. Token strikes become e ffe ctive Dec. 15, 1944.” with Stormtroopers in the east Catholic party which calls itself took place in many of Argentina’s The Roosevelt administration agreed to this holdup. made the welkin ring with “ m ilitant” demands privileges if not for 1000 years, then at least for railway station o£_Berlin. the Popular Democrats and con principal industrial plants. The boss press started yelping about a rubber work that Wallace be confirmed forthwith. their own lifetime. No\v that fascism has run its The crisis in Berlin is white- sequently he is desperately striv A railway strike in January ers’ “slowdown,” “shortages” and the “boys in the The fake Roosevelt-Wallace circus was used to course, they look to Roosevelt, Churchill and Stal hot. Even though the much- ing to strengthen their role in the paralyzed a large part of New foxholes.’’ Pay increases to offset cost-of-living rises divert the attention of the workers away from the in to come to their rescue. The plans of the “ Big bombed capital is already jammed p o litic a l scene. Zealand. with millions of refugees, the The workers of France, how were denied, while the squeeze was put on for more real danger which threatened to deprive labor of Three” will be no more enduring thah those of In the Near East, a recent speed of the advancing Red ever, continuing the anti-clerical wave of strikes in Palestine in work. As for the companies, they got their price its freedom. The antics of the labor skates prove Hitler. The revolutionary working class w ill have armies is forcing a “mass tradition, are exerting pressure cluded metal workers, textile and demands. No time for quibbling over prices with a once again that the wokers cannot depend on the the final word. removal of the population.” against state subvention of silk workers and, brick workers. tire “crisis” looming—at least in the capitalist press!