Speeches, Biographies O f SWF Leaders — SEE PAGES 3 AND 4 — the MILITANT PUBLISHED IN THE INTERESTS OF THE WORKING PEOPLE

VOL. V ili—No. 1 NEW YORK, N. Y„ SATURDAY, JANUARY 1, 1944 PRICE: FIVE CENTS

ROOSEVELT FACES NEW LABOR(•) CRISIS N. Y. Farewell Banquet Convicted fiM ilita n t9 Editor Speaks Steel And Railway Workers Honors Convicted 18 Seek To Smash Wage Freeze Roosevelt Orders Army to Seize Railroads; 300 Workers Hear Railroaded SWP Leaders Affirm International Commands Steel Workers to Return to Work Socialist Anti-War Stand Just Before Leaving for Penitentiary By C. Thomas By Art Preis The strike threat of the raihvaymen, the outbreak of the steel workers strike and the previous four strikes of the coal NEW YORK, Dec. 26. — Six of the 18 Trotskyist incorruptibles being miners have given Roosevelt’s labor prestige a severe pounding. railroaded to federal prison New Year's Eve because of their uncompromising Roosevelt had expressed a desire to present a Christmas present revolutionary socialist opposition to capitalism and its war, tonight bade a tem­ to the nation in the form of a “ peaceful” settlement of the rail­ way wage dispute, offering to personally arbitrate all the ques­ porary farewell to their co-thinkers and comrades at an historic Farewell Dinner tions involved. Under heavy pressure from the rail workers, given by the New York Local of the Socialist Workers Party. three of the Railway Brotherhood unions proved recalcitrant and refused Roosevelt’s arbitration offer. James P. Cannon, National Secretary of the SWP, Farrell Dobbs, editor Two of the Brotherhood officials, Alvanley Johnston of the o f The Militant, Felix Morrow, editor of the , Oscar Sclxo. Engineers and A. F. Whitney,® ' enfeld, AI Russell and Karl Kuelm, worker militants, defended their interna­ President of the Trainmen, ac­ of all the present managements cepted Roosevelt’s offer and of the railroads will be enlisted tional socialist ideas in their last public messages before beginning prison sen­ called o ff their strike. This act in the operation of their lines un­ tences ranging from one r1 of treachery was duplicated by der regional headquarters which . i £■ * 11? __ ist, Eugene V. Debs, railroaded are to be established by the gov­ year to 1 6 months. Fro m to pris(fn in the last war for his spokesmen for the 15 non-oper­ Profit-Mad Bosses ating railway unions whose ernm ent.” the Other defendants, ad- militant antiwar stand, the con- membership had voted over­ APPOINTS BOSSES dressing meetings in M m - gojnff t0 -ail because thcy have whelmingly to strike after get­ Endanger Soldiers As head of these regional head­ Farrell Dobbs, editor of THE MILITANT and one of the 18 Trotskyist leaders ting the run-around for fifteen neapolis and Chicago, refused to lie, to betray their quarters, Stimson appointed seven convicted under the Smith “Gag” Act, addresses the SWP farewell banquet in New months. Already frightened by came messages of com- principles, to keep silent in the railroad presidents, each of whom Lives, Trials Show Y o rk, Dec. 26. their own “bold talk” about how 0 face of persecution. They' told the received a colonel’s commission “it pays to get tough” the white- plete solidarity. 1 truth about this war before it How two great profit-mad in the U. S. Army. In comparing livered bureaucrats ran for cover Just as two years ago in the began, after it began, and ever corporations deliberately endan­ The next number of THE the present seizure with that gered the lives of American when Roosevelt began brandish­ Minneapolis courtroom they: since. But they have gone beyond MILITANT will be another which occurred during the first troops by passing off on the gov­ ing the big stick. As the Dec. 30 defended their principles in the j Debs. Negro Ship Workers special 6-page issue, with im­ World War, Frederick Ely_ W il­ ernment millions of dollars worth strike deadline approaches their liamson, president of the New face of the government’s lying \ They have committed the “crime portant feature items on the of defective and improperly in­ colleagues are preparing to fol­ York Central railroad, now des­ barrage and refused to recant of crimes” in the eyes of the Minneapolis case. The historic when the judge passed sentence j ruthless capitalist masters. They spected war materials was reveal­ lo w su it. cribed as “a colonel without a Fight For Equality speeches of James P. Cannon ed last week in the federal trial upon them, so tonight their words have ‘ helped..... to build a Bolshevik- uniform” in charge of the East­ of the Anaconda Wire and Cable and Farrell Dobbs w ill also be were a ringing affirmation of party, the Socialist Workers CHRISTMAS PRESENT ern regional headquarters stated: Corp., subsidiary of the giant By R . B ell printed . their Bolshevik convictions and Party, modeled on the program “This is an entirely different Anaconda Copper trust, and by Instead of a Christmas present their devotion to the principles and methods of Lenin and One of the most illusory conceptions in the labor move­ situation. The whole spirit of this the Federal Grand Jury indict­ to the nation of a "peaceful” set­ of . Trotsky. And that party, unlike ment, particularly prevalent among an important section of the ment of ten supervisory em­ tlement, Roosevelt issued an order order is to disturb as little as pos­ the Socialist Party, is a Bolshevik UNYIELDING STAND ployees of the St. Louis Ordnance old-line AFL craft-union leaders, is that after this war there State Department to tho army to take over the sible the corporate and operating Party, a combat party, united and Plant, government-financed am­ will be a return to business unionism-as-usual. Inherent in this railroads on behalf of the Wall forces of the railroads.” Theirs were not words of indestructible, whose 18 convicted munition plant run by the U. S. Street oligarchy which owns and bravado or false heroics. But leaders are only an epitome of conception is the idea that there w ill be a return to the tight In the last war, the Federal gov­ Cartridge Company, subsidiary of Issues Lies About controls them. According to Sec­ simply and firmly, each in his the entire ranks. little job trusts in which a relatively small number of skilled ernment itself operated the rail­ the giant Western Cartridge Com retary of War, Stimson, plans for roads, appointed its own officials, own way, they Reaffirmed their The fight to free the eighteen workers enjoyed a privileged position. Within this milieu, the pany. such a seizure had been worked collected the earnings and paid unyielding stand against the im­ thus goes far beyond a mere Its Refugee Policy A parade of witnesses, including die-hard craft union officialdom occupied a comfortable posi­ out by the W a r D epartm ent on rent to the owners. This seizure, perialist war. They called once defense of the eighteen in­ many self-implicated officials of tion, enjoyed a good salary and® By DAN SHELTON orders from Commander-in-Chief as the “colonel without uniform” more upon the workers of the dividuals from a frameup con­ Anaconda Wire, testified in Roosevelt while negotiations were says, will be entirely different. world to unite in revolutionary viction in violation of their con­ ruled over a relatively satisfied I an Oregon. District Court at Providence, R. I., ed to the infamous record of his arbitration “carrot” Roosevelt magnates will not be disturbed. of mankind. jor importance, of course. But about the elaborate tricks devised itself too much with such “ sub­ Congress rushed into the breach, the administration’s treatment did not neglect the club. Only the workers will be forced more important, it is a fight for They knew why they are going in the company’s Pawtucket, versive” doctrines as rank and however, and passed a rider of the refugees when Assistant Only the two operating brother­ to work, at bayonet point if ne­ the democratic rights of the work­ to jail. Their message will cut R. I., plant to evade government file control. preventing the NLRB from in­ hoods who had called off the cessary, under a constantly dec­ ing class as a whole, who must Secretary of State Breckinridge through the lies of the govern­ inspection standards and palm off terfering with any contract which strike were covered by the arbi­ lining standard of living. The correctly regard this frameup of Many of the craft unions ex­ Long appeared before the House ment, the conspiracy of silence of on the government defective wire had been in existence for over tration award. Roosevelt’s deci­ answer of tho railroad workers to perienced a mushroom growth the capitalist press, and the weak- proletarian leaders as part of the and cable intended for signaling three months. Foreign Affairs Committee to sion granted them an increase of the government seizure must be with the outbreak of war. kneed apologetics of the liberal general capitalist drive to hand­ in actual combat. The company The division of the shipyard oppose two pending bills for a “live cents per hour in lieu of the demand to nationalize tho cuff the American labor move­ Hundred of thousands of new’ spokesmen for the “war for had previously been convicted of workers into twenty crafts con- c’aims for time-and-a-half pay for railroads under workers control. ment and crush it under the full workers joined the unions. The Commission to Rescue the Jew­ democracy.” similar murderous practices in its \ stitutes a tremendous obstacle to time over forty hours and for ex­ Let those who do the work ex­ burden of the war. Above all, officials eyed these newcomers ish people of Europe. From be- They are going to jail because Marion, Ind. plant, but had unified action of the workers in penses w h ile away from home.” ercize control over the railroads it is part of the battle for the with suspicion. With millions of of their intransigent opposition to escaped real punishment by pay­ defense of their basic interests. gining to end Long’s testimony This amount, in addition to the for the benefit of the people and socialist emancipation of humanity men drafted into the armed the real purposes behind the ing the insignificant fine of This was graphically illustrated was a monstrous piece of hypo­ four cents an hour increase prev­ not the “co’onels without uni­ forces, the government was com­ Cairo and Teheran conferences, from the butchery of capitalist $31,000. when John Frey, head of the AFL crisy and falsehood. iously allowed by economic stab­ form” who arc merely agents of war and fascism. pelled to reach out for a sup­ w here Roosevelt an'd C h urch ill Metal Trades Department, led Masquerading as a generous ilizer, Vinson, grants them a total the Wall street bankers. ST. LOUIS CASE plementary labor, supply. Women secretly perfected their plans for members of his organization increase of nine cents an hour. and negroes were accepted" in the humanitarian, Long boasted that Allied imperialist control of the FREE THE 18 In the St. Louis Ordnance Plant through a Machinists picket line The non-operating unions, in turn STEEL WALKOUT growing industrial establishment. “the U. S. has admitted about world and the brutal suppression Everyone present at the fare­ case, the defendants are charged at the Moore Shipyard in Oak­ accepted the previous proposal This created an acute problem for 580,000 victims of persecution by The walkout of the steel work­ of the European and colonial with conspiracy to defraud the land, California. made by Vinson of a sliding scale well dinner was imbued with the the craft officialdom. the Hitler regime since it began ers began on Christmas eve after social revolutions. The jailing of government in connection with the This policy of keeping the work­ of 4 to 10 cents an hour but plead­ realization of the historic signi­ On the one hand, they feared 10 years ago.” These figures are Phillip Murray, CIO president and these 18 men and women for the packing and shipment of im­ ers divided in craft formations ed with the President for the that the influx of young workers deliberately deceptive. Before H it­ head of the Steel Workers Union, “crime” of expressing their op­ ficance of this struggle, properly inspected small arms was extended to the point of same consideration as was given would endanger their machine ler came to power in the decade was scornfully rebuffed by the position to capitalist exploitation embodied in the slogan: “Free ammunition, used primarily in creating artificial divisions within the other renegades. The three control of the union. On the other from 1923 to 1933 more than two War Labor Board. The WLB, and war refutes Roosevelt’s the Eighteen!”, as they listened close quarter combat. The indict­ one union. Thousands of workers unions which held out are. so far, hand, they feared the CIO, whose million immigrants entered this which had been compelled to ac­ grandiloquent protestations of to the powerful and inspiring ment states the defendants con­ were excluded from all union life country. This is 75 percent more not included in the award. attractive power was greater than cede to the coal m in e rs’ demand devotion to the “four freedoms.” spired to “ cause certain ammuni­ by means of the permit system. theirs for the new mass of work­ than the number Mr. Long him­ Secretary Stimson dispelled for a retroactive provision guar­ Like the great American social- (Continued on page 5) tions to be received by agents of Other thousands were herded into ers. They frantically cast about self gives for the Hitler decade. whatever apprehension Wall anteeing that any increase be the War Department and paid auxiliary locals where they were for solutions. They received aid But even these statistics for the Street might have had about the dated from the expiration of the for by the Government, which reduced to the status of second- past ten years are fraudulent. Of from both the employers and the government's “taking possession” agreement, unceremoniously dis- government in the attempt to of the railroads by ’ reassuringly CRDC MEETING IN CHICAGO (Continued on page 5) (Continued on page 2) preserve their position. The Paci­ (Continued on page 6) stating that: “The cooperation (Continued on page 6) fic Coast shipbuilding industry CONDEMNS FRAME-UP OF 18 well illustrates this process. CHICAGO, Dec. 26. — Prominent spokesmen for civil lib­ HENRY KAISER Military Clique Quickly Overthrows erties and working class political organizations sharply condemn­ ed the refusal of the U. S. Supreme Court to review the convic­ Henry Kaiser emerged as the outstanding cost-plus tycoon of Oppressive Peñaranda Regime In Bolivia tions of the 18 Minneapolis prisoners and pledged support in the the shipbuilding industry on the The Peñaranda government 1942, Penaranda’s troops shot Secretary of State Hull denied fight for their liberation at the protest meeting sponsored by the Pacific Coast. Prior to the war, Nationalist Revolutionary Party. them down in cold blood and these accusations, I. F. Stone Chicago branch of the C ivil Rights Defense Committee held here he was head of a group of com­ of Bolivia was quickly over­ The NRP is an instrument of broke their strike at the cost of published in the Jan. 9 Nation panies engaged in large scale thrown on Dec. 21 in a typical reactionary-minded officers and tonight in the main ballroom of® scores of miner’s lives. copies of cables from the State landowners. The strong-arm rule of the Workers Defense League, construction. In this capacity, he South American coup d’etat by the Midland Hotel. Since then no labor unions have Department to the 11. S. Am­ of-one of its chief leaders, Major known to thousands of Chicago had made the acquaintance of the a military clique of young o f­ been permitted to operate in the bassador. proving that Hull and Alberto Taborga, director of the The audience of over three workers for his services as labor officials of the Building Trades ficers organized under the Na­ important mining centers. Boals were deliberately putting La Paz traffic police, has been attorney to their unions, pointed unions and found them to be hundred workers vigorously ap­ tionalist Revolutionary Party. pressure upon Penaranda’s gov­ fought by the powerful Bolivian out the importance of the Minnea­ “ reasonable” business men, jealous plauded the speakers as they de­ MASS OPPOSITION ernment to keep the miners in taxi-drivers union. polis prosecutions to the labor of their jurisdiction and not The revolt was facilitated by conditions of starvation and nounced the Smith “ Gag” Act movement and stressed the need averse to making deals at the ex­ This mass opposition has been These reactionary leaders are the bitter hatred of the Bolivian servitude. as the most dangerous legal of uniting all sections of the la­ pense of other crafts. With the reenforced and sharpened by now making a bid for the favor threat to civil liberties in the Uni­ bor movement in common strug­ breaking of ground for new ship­ masses toward the Peñaranda bitter hostility against predatory Shortly after the American of the workers by broadcasting ted States and warned that the gle against the menace to working yard construction, the Building regime which has shown itself American imperialism. Almost Ambassador smeared the striking demagogic promises. Although it Minneapolis case was the opening class rights arising out of the vir­ HAS VOTE IN HIS POCKET Trades unions were first in the to be a savagely oppressive all of Bolivia’s tin production is Bolivian miners as “Nazi sabo­ has been reported that the work­ wedge in the reactionary drive of contracted to an RFC subsidiary, teurs,” butcher Peñaranda visited ing class Revolutionary Party of tual upholding of the Senator George, Chairman of field because of their control of agency of the tin-mining m ulti­ the administration to revoke la­ the United States, was feasted the Left will support the new by the highest court. the Senate Finance Committee, the construction industry. the Metals Reserves Corporation. bor’s democratic rights. millionaires and of U. S. im­ The principal mines involved in by Roosevelt at the White House, militarist regime, the Bolivian The audience was deeply moved opened the floodgates of profit On the basis of employing perialism. and hailed by the capitalist press workers cannot place the slightest Charles Liebman, chief counsel when comrade Albert Goldman for the war contractors by his AFL construction workers, Kaiser the labor strikes and slaughter as a champion of democracy and confidence in its benevolent in­ o f the Chicago Civil Liberties stepped forward on the platform. proposal to kill the Renegotia­ would sign close shop agreements Seventy percent of Bolivia’s are owned by the Patino in­ a firm ally of the United Na­ tentions. They can win a restora­ Union, emphasized the irony of The calm courage and dignity evi­ tions A ct. with the AFL Metal Trades de­ income depends upon its tin terests, a subsidiary of the Na­ tion of their rights only by relying th e fact that while in Britain a dent. in his bearing drew a m o­ Washington columnist Drew partment covering all future revenues. Peñaranda has worked tional Lead Company, an Ameri­ tions. fascist like Mosley was let out ment of silent tribute—and then Pearson reported that Mr. Alvord, shipbuilding workers to be em­ hand in glove with the tin can corporation. upon the independent action of HATED REGIME o f jail, in the United States lead­ an outburst of applause— for this Chairman of the Federal Finance ployed after the completion of the profiteers who keep the mine Last December, Ernesto Glar- their own economic and political ing anti-fascists were imprisoned. socialist leader who had fought Committee of the U. S. Chamber yard. This device of signing closed workers In a state of peonage za, labor representative of the This reward for his services to organizations. H e called upon all sincere believ­ so many times in the Chicago of Commerce, boasted that he had shop agreements before the ship­ and starvation. Under the Tin Pan American Union, accused Big Business did not increase In (heir fight against the op­ ers in the principles of free speech courts for other labor victims of Senator George’s vote “in his building personnel wras even hired, Trust’s “Little Tin Formula” U. S. Ambassador to Bolivia, Penaranda’s popularity among pressive intervention of U. S. im­ to back the national campaign to capitalist persecution and was pocket.” eliminated the potential rivalry wages range from 12M¡ to 75 Pierce Boals, with intervening the Bolivian masses. They cer­ perialism, the Bolivian workers fre e the 18 and secure repeal of now himself about to be impris- Senator George’s activities of the CIO. This practice was so cents a day. When the workers against the striking miners and tainly wasted no tears on the must seek to strengthen their th e Smith “ Gag” Act. show that Drew Pearson knew flagrant that under pressure of at the Catavi tin mines struck preventing enactment of the overturn of the hated Peñaranda links with American labor, al­ grands Heisler, general counsel (Continued on page 2) what he was talking about. the CIO, the NLRB stepped in against these conditions in Dec. long-sought labor code. A fter regime by the conspirators of the ready forged through the CIO. TW O — THE MILITANT SATURDAY, JANUARY 1, 1944 Secret Diplomacy And The Yugoslav Partisans By William I<\ Warde terranean theatre, accused the priest Djuitch, a The Partisan movement originated in the inde­ when they saw their Red Star caps and badges. Has Stalin consented to halt the expropriations follower of Mikhailovich, of open collaboration pendent resistance of the Yugoslav workers and There were scenes where cousins and even of private property by the workers and peasants It is now clear that one of the conspiratorial with the Axis. According to the N. Y. Times peasants against the Axis invaders. This struggle brothers embraced in effusive Slav fashion.” and renounced Sovietization in exchange for mi­ understandings secretly sealed at the Moscow (Dec. 24), the British Ambassador to the Yugo­ of the masses for national liberation was from litary aid to Tito’s army and political support and Teheran conferences involved an agreement slav Government-in-Exile in Cairo told Prime M in­ the outset fused with the class struggle against General Recruitment to his newly-announced government? Earl Brow­ by Roosevelt and Churchill to switch support ister Pourich that the British m ilitary intelligence the native landlords and capitalists who for gen­ der, in his speech delivered Sunday, Dec. 19 at from Gen. Drazha Mikhailovich to Marshal Tito’s held proofs of the cooperation between “influen­ erations have savagely oppressed and exploited In the Partisan forces are recruits from all Cooper Union, castigated “those who refuse to Yugoslav Partisan forces. This has been semi­ tial lieutenants of Gen. Drazha Mikhailovich and them. Sulzberger relates that, shortly after Tito the Balkan peoples, escaped prisoners of the recognize the bourgeois democratic character of officially confirmed by the N. Y. Times corre­ German commanders in the Balkans.” and Mikhailovich signed a treaty for joint action Axis and deserting troops. Italian fascist units, , the Yugoslavian Government of Liberation and Germans and Bulgarians who have come over to spondent, C. L. Sulzberger, who was permitted For the first time the relative strength of the on O ct.' 21, 1941, “ General M ikh a ilo vich attacked who are denouncing it as a ‘communist dictator­ the Partisans are accepted, it is reported, as to cable from Cairo on Dec. 24: “ It is evident that opposing forces has been disclosed. “ The Partisans Tito’s Uzice stronghold.” This state of civil war ship. . ” (, Dec. 26.) equals. According to the N. Y. Times (Dec. 20), the three great powers, among other things, for­ now assert, and these figures are confirmed by has continued up to the present. Although Tito has demanded sole recognition 16,000 Bulgars have deserted from the army, mulated some sort of agreement on the Balkans the heads of both the British and American mis­ The Partisan movement dates its birth from for his government and warned King Peter not to taking their rifles and large quantities of am­ and the out-and-out pro-partisan policy of the sions, that General Mikhailovich has only an es­ Hitler’s invasion of the . “ In June return to Yugoslavia, the Anglo-American part­ munition. “ They have become guerrillas, created Russians is now beginning to be shared by the timated 15,000 followers fighting for him against when the Nazis attacked Russia,” writes Sulz­ ners appear to be holding Peter in reserve in havoc for the Germans, as well as for their own British. . . The American policy. . . rather hesi­ Marshal Tito’s 250,000.” (N. Y. Times, Dec. 25). berger, “the Partisans began their active fight.” case they fail to get what they want from Stalin. puppet government, which they hope to overthrow. From Cairo on Dec. 24 the N. Y. Times reports tantly follows British policy.” These figures show that King Peter’s Govern­ Although the principal organizers and official Recently 5,000 of them joined the Yugoslav for­ that: “Britain maintained its position that Lon­ This new turn in Anglo-American tactics has ment-in-Exile and his m ilitary tools around which heads of the movement are either Stalinists or ces o f M arshal T ito .” don and all other allies still recognized King resulted in the sending of some material aid, the most reactionary forces and cliques have clus­ under Stalinist influence, it is by no means an The acknowledged predominance of the Stalin­ Peter as head of Yugoslavia. There was nothing m ilitary supplies and missions to the Partisans tered, command no support among the Yugoslav artificial or bureaucratic creation of the Krem­ ists within the Partisan movement presents, of to indicate that any outright demand by Mar­ who have hitherto had to rely on the arms and peoples. lin. It is rather an authentic movement of the course, the greatest internal danger to its success. shal Tito for exclusive recognition would be munitions which they themselves produced or The firm refusal of these insurgent workers workers and peasants emerging out of their armed The Yugoslav workers and peasants are fighting granted him.” captured. and peasants to follow anyone associated with the uprising, although dominated at the present time to drive the imperialists from their lands, for the by the Stalinists. While the imperialists and Stalinists engage in • monarchy and the reactionary ruling classes has right to choose their own government, for social their intrigues, the struggle of the workers and Diplomatic Shift frustrated for the time being the Anglo-Amer­ liberation and economic security. The land-hungry ican conspiracy to resaddle the old discredited Inspired by Red Army * peasants continues. Their tasks are to build their The diplomatic shift of the Allies has been peasants want to take the land from the land­ monarchy upon the backs of the Yugoslav peo­ own revolutionary party, their trade unions, lords. The workers want control over industry reflected in the brusque transformation of the The attraction of the Balkan workers and peas­ workers, peasants and soldiers councils, to expel ples. and a republic based upon the power of the peo­ official attitude toward the Mikhailovich forces ants to the traditions and ideas of the October all imperialist forces from their soil, and to es­ ple. in Yugoslavia. Until recently Allied propagand­ Revolution undoubtedly inspire their struggles. tablish their own Workers and Peasants Republic. Epic Tale The allegiance of the Stalinist leaders, how ists have portrayed Mikhailovich, “chief of the They have also from the outset been inspired by To achieve these tasks, the Partisans w ill have ever, is not to the insurgent workers and peas­ Chetniks”, as the warrior-hero of the Yugoslav The first extended description of the Partisan the heroic fight of the Red Aymies. The first to fight against the inevitable attempts of Stalin ants but to the Stalin bureaucracy. For Stalin peoples. Tito’s Partisans were condemned as struggles was cabled from Cairo by C. L. Sulz­ government set up at Bihac in November 1942 to betray their struggle. the Partisan movement is only a pawn in his “ communist bands” and “ tools of Russia” or else berger and published in the N. Y. Times of Dec. took the name of Vece (Soviet.) Many features The idea of a free Federation of the Balkan maneuvers with the imperialists. To promote his dismissed as insignificant. 23. This report was released following a con­ of the Red Army have been imitated by the Par­ peoples and unity with the Soviet Union which reactionary nationalist policy Stalin is capable ■ Now the controlled press is busily tearing down ference between Tito’s representatives and the tisans: the use of the Re4 Star insignia, the use permeates the Partisan ranks is profoundly pro­ of selling out this revolutionary mass movement the false front they have built up around M ikhail­ Allied military command at Alexandria. It rec­ of the word “comrade” in greetings, the use of gressive. These aims can be realized only if the and attempting to restrict it within limits im­ ovich. High officials substantiate Partisan charges ords, as the Times grudgingly acknowledges, “an the closed-fist salute until Tito ordered it banned Yugoslav workers and peasants consummate their posed by the Anglo-American capitalists. that this tool of monarchist reaction and his aides epic tale of heroism and daring, !« * er, issued a forceful appeal to all tic Federation, sent messages of a recent radio speech by Prime A kro n 200.00 0 0 Comrades all over the country have been trade unions and working class solidarity to the 18. Factual evidence about the con­ Minister Mackenzie King, it is East Chicago 100.00 0 0 political organizations to join In response to the appeal made spiracy of the big food manu­ reported in the Dec. 20 CTO News. doing their part, often with considerable hard­ F lin t 100.00 0 0 hands in working for the repeal by Chairman Lydia Beidel, the facturing monopolists and the The report states that “ the speech, ship, but always with the Bolshevik spirit we M ilw aukee 25.00 0 0 of the Smith “ Gag” Act and par­ audience gave an impressive millionaire growers who run the regarded as a reply to the expect of them. Here are excerpts from some Philadelphia 150.00 0 0 don fo r the 18. “ The people on token of its solidarity by con­ farm bloc to “lift the lid on food demands put forward by labor at of the mail that has been arriving during the Q uakertow n 25.00 0 0 the outside have to get the peo­ tributing $206 to the Minneapolis prices and promote ‘controlled in­ special hearings before the War past week. You w ill notice that a brand new ple on the inside out,” he declared. Prisoners Relief Fund. flation’,” was presented recently Labor Board last spring, gave no Rochester 50.00 0 0 pledge of $50 is among them. before the Senate Finance sub­ indication that the government is committee by Walter Reuther, prepared to change its basic anti­ Minneapolis: — “I see they don’t want just T O T A L S $7,751.29 52% Vice President of the United la b o r policies. . .” ‘drops’ to fight for the eighteen; but I w ill send Automobile Workers, CIO. The Trades and Labor Congress one dollar of my poverty, hoping others w ill do Reuther charged that the “ manu­ (AFL), the Canadian Congress of Read the Trial Testimony the same, so it can be •— a storm which will facturers . . . of the best known Labor (CTO) and Railway NEGRO SHIPYARD WORKERS IN brands in packaged and processed Brotherhoods had joined in rock the foundation of capitalism.” foods,” including General Foods demands, for federal legislation Detroit: — “Each week we watch the M ilitant STRUGGLE FOR UNION RIGHTS Corporation, “ a giant combine of to make it compulsory for all IN DEFENSE OF SOCIALISM eagerly to see how the Special Fund is going, (Continued from page 1) were fired because “they were not many food manufacturers” which employers to bargain collec­ and the reports are always very encouraging. . . members in good standing.” The in 1942 grabbed “a return of 17 tively with their workers; for a by ALBERT GOLDMAN Enclosed is $310 to be applied on our quota, and company, part of the Kaiser cost- per cent on its net worth,” are minimum wage of $25 weekly, or class citizens. Separate auxiliaries we shall try to send in more before the week is plus combine, piously pointed to engaged in a campaign to pave 50 cents an hour; unfreezing of were established for women and their “closed shop” agreement, the way for uncontrolled food substandard wages throughout the over. What we really hope to do, if at all possi­ what was even more vicious—Jim when issuing discharge slips. As The official court record of the final speech of price inflation. country; full cost of living bonus ble, is to raise our fu ll amount before our eight­ Crow local auxiliaries for Negro quick as a flash, the news spread “To camouflage its inflation for all workers; public acknow­ een comrades have to leave. We are anxious to w orkers. the defense attorney, who is also one of the con­ through the yard that Negroes purpose,” Reuther stated, “the ledgment that decent wages are do all we can.” To the Negro workers belongs were being discharged for refus­ food manufacturers attack the not the cause of inflation; equal the credit of putting up the most victed defendants 1— truly a “defense of social- d Seattle: — “ Enclosed are money orders and ing to join the Jim Crow Boiler­ demand of industrial workers for pay for equal work for women; vigorous resistance against this check for $200 on our pledge. This brings Seat­ makers auxiliary. The San Fran­ increased wages as the chief in­ etc. policy of atomizing, weakening cisco News of Nov. 27 reported: flation threat. They falsify the The Prime Minister’s speech, it tle’s total to date to $300.” and corrupting the essential unity “More than 500 Negroes, includ­ facts about workers incomes, to is charged, indicated that the new of the working class. 1 0 0 pages Pittsburgh: — “Enclosed is $12 for the first ing women and children, gathered 1 0 cents shift the .blame to the workers, Labor Code w ill not make the em­ This resistance has recently payment on the $15,000 Fund. W ill pledge a outside the Marinship gate at and to cover up their own cam­ ployers recognize collective bar­ centered in the dispute with the to ta l o f $50 on th a t, and with luck w ill go over Sausalito today and held an in­ paign to knock out subsidies and gaining rights except in “ war in­ Boilermakers Union at the Marin- fit . ” dignation meeting” in protest — ii destroy price control.” dustry” only. It contemplates a ship yards at Sausalito, Cali­ against the discharges. A Food Industry War Commit­ stricter enforcement of the fornia. For over a year, the of­ tee has been set up by the manu­ maximum wage ceilings and a ficials of the Boilermakers Union For over a year, President facturers whose purpose is “to cost-of-living bonus so devised have attempted to force the Roosevelt’s FEPC had been SOCIALISM ON TRIAL get hard ceilings imposed on the that it will “make it impossible Negro workers at the Marinship piddling around with the issue. prices and wages which food for wages to keep pace with the yard into a Jim Crow auxiliary. Protests, appeals, resolutions had manufacturers pay, and soft ceil­ rise in living costs.” It is added The Negro workers have refused been literally showered on the by JAMES P. CANNON ings on the prices at which they that “ the false theory that wage to submit to this indignity, FEPC with no result other than and their distributors sell.” increases cause inflation is again proclaiming all the while their the promise of a hearing. The For all the facts so forcefully stressed.” solidarity with the union move­ demonstration of the Negro work­ The .official court record of his testimony —— a presented by Reuther before the Not even during this “war for ment and demanding admittance ers brought more results in a Senate committee, his own servile democracy” has the Canadian gov­ to the union on equal terms with few days than a whole years of simple and masterful introduction to the ideas Distributions of The M ilitant in and any such other publications policies have been a major ob­ ernment recognized labor’s right all other members. appeals. San Diego are bringing excellent that back up the common man and of socialism. stacle in preventing the workers to collective bargaining. results, as is witnessed by the uncover the greedy capitalist NEGROES FIRED The Negro ■workers realize full from fighting for increased wages The Canadian workers are well the implications of the Jim following letter: minority who, through their con­ to offset the price steals of the putting up a stronger and stronger Recently the Boilermakers of­ trol of the press, radio and Crow auxiliary local. Their strug­ corporations. He has helped to battle for their rights, as Mon­ “Your paper, ‘The Militant,’ ficials pressed for a showdown The first printing of this vital pamphlet has been wealth, try to keep us in gle for equal rights is the strug­ cram the no-strike policy down treal’s empty City Hall testified fell into my hands quite by on the issue and a number of ignorance. gle of all those hundreds of exhausted. The second edition is on the press and the throats of the CIO members, last week. Over 2,000 municipal accident near one of the defense Negro workers in the shipyard “ A m enclosing $2 fo r subscrip­ thousands of white workers, who will be ready for distribution by February 1st. and his present support of the white collar workers were out on plants here in San Diego, and let tion to this paper and what other have been placed in the auxiliary fight for subsidies is designed as strike demanding annual wage me say that after reading it, here literature you can send or furnish “isolation wards” created by the a substitute for an effective union increases o f $395 to $500. A verage is more solid truth in that paper terest in the social question, and me. labor skates. They understand the struggle for higher wages. weekly salary for single persons than in any I have ever read, in­ such a tendency toward radical “Yours for getting this paper too-clever scheme of the labor 1 3 0 pages 1 0 cents * * * is about $20, and for married cluding the union papers which thought. So far as the classes into the hands of more workers bureaucrats to rid themselves of Growing dislocations in the or­ persons about 524. This strike supposedly represent the work­ themselves are concerned, the and the real Americans—the the embarrassment of a large ganization of war production, to­ followed the action of the Mon­ ers. lid is on such thought more than common people.” membership when jobs become gether with rapid technological treal police and firemen, who “ I showed this paper to several ever, but the students are deeply scarce by the simple expedient of * * * advances, have begun to reveal stru ck fo r 14 hours and won a of my fellow workers, some interested. The petty-bourgeois in- dissolving the auxiliaries. Their themselves in curtailment of pro­ demand for union recognition. agreeing that it presented the From a student reader of The tellegenzia are half-conscious of struggle is a struggle for the PIONEER PUBLISHERS duction and lay-offs of thousands Among the striking unions was true facts and conditions while Militant comes the following ob­ the insecurity of their situation unity of the working class. If of workers in various sections of the National Syndicate of Muni­ one man said it was a radical servation : and sense in advance the coming only in the interests of self- the country. Accompanying lay­ cipal Employes and the Brother­ sheet. I don’t know what it is, “ The atmosphere on the campus storm. This is proof of the cor­ preservation, every class con- 116 University Place New York 3, N. Y. offs is the widespread down­ hood of Civic Employes, affiliated but radical or not, I like the views is astounding to me. Never be­ rectness of all your analyses of grading of workers to jobs paying with the Canadian Congress of and facts reported, and would like fore in my student experience the period. It is deeply encourag­ cious worker must support the lower wages. Labor. tq be a regular subscriber to it have I found such a general in- ing for the future.”

days for the steel kings, the automobile barons, the chemical lords, the oil princes. Almost 23,000 new millionaires were created out Roosevelt Confronts A Profiteers Use MacArthur T HE MILITANT of the blood and muck of the first world war. To Published in the interests of the appease the people’s indignation and wrath, the Ads As Smoke Screen Working People hypocrites in Congress introduced in the last 25 Growing Labor Crisis years more than 170 bills which promised to take V O L. V I I I — No. 1 Jan ua ry 1, 1944 (Continued from page 1) ers, and other important CIO un­ the profits out of war. The promises were not worth In an apparently irrepressible burst of patriotism, missed a similar request from ions. Published Weekly by the paper they were written on. The profits already the Timken Roller Bearing Co. of Canton, O., pub­ Murray. The steel workers, how­ Prices Raised by As the struggle of the workers squeezed by the corporations out of the second THE MILITANT PUBLISHING ASS’N ever, had learned a lesson from Shoddy Goods to break the fetters of the wage lished full page advertisements in last Wednesday’s world war make many of the first world war con­ freezing Little Steel formu’a in­ New York Times and Herald-Tribune and this week’s at 116 University Place, New York 8, N. Y. t the miners. They began to walk How manufacturers evade creases in scope, Roosevelt’s Saturday Evening Post, featuring a huge portrait of Telephone: ALgonquin 4-8547 tracts look like a WPA payroll. America’s Sixty off the job when their agreement price controls by foisting ’'prize strikebreaking agents with- General Douglas MacArthur with a single-line cap­ Families are making a killing. expired on Christmas eve using I shoddy goods on the consumers FARRELL DOBBS, Editor 1 in the labor movement,'the fluky the miners’ slogan: "No contract, was revealed last week by tion beneath, “Don’t Let General MacArthur Down — But there is still no satisfying them. These W all Stalinists, become more and more no work.” By Christmas day ap­ J. Raymond Walsh, CIO re­ Buy War Bonds!” THE MILITANT follows the policy of permit- Street vipers are simply insatiable. The War Pro­ hysterical. The Sta'inist Daily p ro xim ate ly 200,000 steelworkers search director, in making pub­ Lest some innocent soul concludes that this adver­ duction Board even submitted a study to the Big W orker screeches in front page ing its : ontribucors to present their own views were out. lic two studies by the Stand­ tisement represents unalloyed love of country, it must editorials: “Strikes must end im­ ii signed articles. These views therefore do not Business stooges on the Senate Finance Committee Again Roosevelt was forced to ards Division of the Office of be pointed out at the start that good w ill is valued mediately.” Not only strikes but lecessarily represent the policies of THE MIL1 which showed that if the present proposal is passed, personally intervene. He sent a Price Administration. ! even “threats of strikes” the Daily as a considerable cash asset by all corporations, not i ANT which are expressed in its editorials. telegram to Murray which prop­ Quality deterioration, the 1942 profits of 100 major war contractors would Worker insist “must end.” These to speak of the deduction Timken will allow itself osed th a t the old agreement be studies show, have increased increase 800% over the average of 1936-39. The warnings are directed, not at the from its excess profits taxes based on this costly Subscriptions: $2.00 per year; $1.00 for 6 months. extended and that “if the new the consumer costs as much “appeaser” John L. Lewis, but at advertising expenditure. F oreign: $3.00 per year, $1.50 fo r 6 m onths. B un­ senators remained unmoved. agreements include any wage ad­ as 42% on a p a ir of shoes and the ardent “win the war elements" It seems, however, that W illard F. Rockwell, chair­ dle orders: 3 cents per copy in the United States; In the face of these fantastic, exorbitant and justments, such adjustments shall 25 to 30% on women’s coats Murray and the railway brother­ 4 cents per copy in all foreign countries. Single criminal war profits, the U. S. Senate Finance Com­ be computed and applied retroac­ and suits. man of the Timken board, who has been strongly ob­ hood officials, whom the Stalin­ copies: 5 cents. tively to the date when the parti­ The Bureau of Labor Statis­ jecting to the war contracts renegotiations provisions, mittee, instead of slapping confiscatory taxa­ ists caution, “to steer away from cular contract in question would tics, in arriving at its index is head of the Standard Steel Spring Company«>ta Application for entry as second-class tion on all war profits, has the nerve to vote the any acts that Hurt the war ef­ have expired by virtue of the not- , of family living costs showing which the Army is planning to farm out contracts matter is pending. virtual elimination of the renegotiations law. Even fort and to close ranks all the ice of termination of such con­ only a 6% rise over the past for Arm y truck axles, produced under the supervision more closely around the Presi­ many of the dollar-a-year men in Washington are tract.” After which Roosevelt ad­ sixteen months, completely dent.” of the Timken-Detroit Axle Company. To this end, To defend the USSR as somewhat alarmed at the possible consequences of ded the joker: "If any wage ad­ fails to take into account the the government has in fact provided from tax-payers’ justments are made they must of hidden price rises represented NEW LEADERS the main fortress of the a policy of such recklessness, arrogance and adven­ money $15,000,000 for new plants and equipment. course be made in accordance with by the sale of inferior goods As the temper of the workers turism. That was what Wilson, former head of Gen­ the act of Congress of Oct. 2, 1942 Timken-Detroit Axle Company had been asked by - orld proletariat, against at prices formerly maintained rises, the labor bureaucrats are eral Electric and Vice-Chairman of the War Pro­ (the Stabilization Act).” the Arm y to return $12,500,000 in excess 1942 profits. I for better products. These are stricken with terror at the pros­ ill assaults of world im- The company made $39,839,000 last year in compari­ duction Board had in mind when he told the re­ In other words, any wage 'in­ l the phoney cost of living fig­ pect of becoming involved in a •erjalism and of internal son with a peace-time average of $2,116,000, so that, cent National Association of Manufacturers con­ crease granted the steel workers ures upon which the wage conflict with the Roosevelt admin­ what with all its war taxes, etc., the company was ounter-revolution, is the vention that he was “alarmed” by the "right-wing must conform to the Little Steel freeze program in part has istration. They have no stomach been based. for a fight and w ill perpetrate the left with a net profit of $5,070,000,. or 32.4 per cent ■nist important duty of reaction.” formu'a. But as the formula was based upon the last wage adjust­ most monstrous betrayals to of its net worth, or 250 per cent above its very healthy > e r y class-conscious The hypocritical labor fakers, the muddleheaded ment of the steel workers any up­ false impressions not justified un­ avoid it. “normal” profits. liberals, the Stalinist finks all pretend that this ward adjustment would he a viol­ Out of the ranks of the working So Timken-Detroit, which undoubtedly shares in nrker. der existing stabilization policies. insatiable greed for profits, this trafficking in the ation of the executive orders. class there will emerge a new the sentiments of its parent company about “ Don’t — LE O N TR O TS K V There is no wage increase due blood of men, is only the responsibility of a small leadership w ith intelligence Let General MacArthur Down,” held out against the W L B A G R E E S under existing wage stabilization m inority of Republican industrialists and bankers. enough to recognize their enemies terms of the proposed Army contract for axles, de­ What humbug! The NAM is not a small or unrep­ The “public” and labor mem­ po'icies. To vote retroactively and with guts enough to lead manding $155 to $200 profit per axle (keep in mind *OlN .... ii-4 rlG HTIN G FOR: now would have led the steel resentative minority. It is the authentic and author­ bers of the WLB quickly ratified the fight against them. They are Timken-Detroit was just doing the supervising, not the formula advanced by Roos­ workers and the public to believe receiving important lessons in producing) in comparison with its previous profits Military training of workers, financed itative voice of America’s Plutocrats, who make up, evelt. The "industry” members that some wage award is to be leadership in the shops and fac­ of $125 to $179. In addition, the subcontractor, Stand­ by the government, but under control what Woodrow Wikon once called "the invisible were opposed in ‘ principle to any made.” The bosses consider it tories as stewards and commit­ ard Steel Spring Co., also would make $210 to $300 >f the trade unions. Special officers’ government” —- that is, the real government — mention of retroactive pay be­ dangerous to give the workers teemen. It is upon these forces profit on each axle. The total contract is for of the U. S. cause, "w c cannot approve a pol­ any "ideas.” Particularly in view raining camps, financed by the gov- icy which would inculcate or cre­ of the pending wage demands of that the future of the American First, the Army turned the Timken offer down. “ After me the deluge,” cried the French Bourbon rnrneni but controlled by the trade ate in the public mind possible the auto, textile, electrical work­ trade union movement depends. The company then refused to continue negotiations. mion» ><> train workers to become King, Louis XV. After his rule of tyranny and de­ A t last reports, however, Undersecretary of W ar Pat­ bauchery came the deluge. The French people rose (lirern terson and Maj. Gen. Clay, director of materiel, testi­ up in their might and in the great French Revolu­ fied to a Senate committee that the Army needed 1 radt union wages loi all workers tion, drove the Bourbons o ff the throne. State Department Lies About the axles so desperately, it would have to accept the irafted into the army. Even our easy-going millionaire Secretary of the contract on Timken’s terms. Treasury, Morgenthau, is growing apprehensive When the coal miners refused to work without a Full equality for Negroes in the armed about the orgy of profiteering. He warned the Sen­ contract granting minimum decency wages — that forces and the war industries— Down Its Own Police On Refugees ate Finance Committee that its proposal will “open was called “sabotage”. When the war profiteers re­ Long reached the heights of out of the country, while the fuse to manufacture unless rewarded with super­ with Jim Crowism everywhere. the way to truly extortionate profits. 1 predict that (Continued from page 1) hypocrisy in his declaration that United States insists upon ad­ profits, that’s called good business — and “patriot­ t. Confiscation of all war profits. Expro­ if they are enacted into law they w ill come back 453,205 immigrants admitted to the United States for the nine- support of the bill to create a mitting only those with monetary ism” , to boot. priation of all war industries and their to plague not only the Congress but the war goods year period, ’33 to ’42, only 291,- special agency to deal with the means. Jewish problem would be “con­ operation under workers’ control. manufacturers. . .” 112 came from Europe. The rest The endless hypocrisy of the That is correct. They w ill come back to plague were from non-European coun­ strued as a repudiation of the acts of your own government or government and the State De­ 5. A rising scale of wages to meet the them. There w ill be a terrible day of reckoning. tries, with Mexico and Canada Allied Chiefs at Teheran a reflection upon the actions of partment in dealing with the rising cost of living. heading the list. Of the European immigrants, 243,420 came from the Intergovernmental Committee refugees in the past decade, 6. Workers Defense Guards against vig­ countries now dominated by H it­ for the Refugees.” What would topped by Long’s crass lies, are Act Like Oriental Despots ler. Of all the immigrants during be repudiated would not be the awakening more and more Jews ilante and fascist attacks. acts of the government but its to the real nature of their Anglo- this period, 163,423 were Jews. The Teheran Conference was such a brazen ex­ The Internationale lack of action to help the victims American “allies” and to the kind 7. An Independent Labor Party based on Thus official immigration figures ample of secret diplomacy that even many of the Out of 'the first attempt of labor to build a expose Long’s insolent lie that of fascism. of war they are conducting. the Trade Unions. capitalist commentators protested. “580,000 victims of persecution LACK OF ACTION Workers Republic — the Paris Commune of 1871 La Follette’s Progressive wrote: “In concert with 8. A Workers’ and Farmers’ Govern­ by Hitler” were admitted. The Berm uda conference on •— originated the revolutionary labor song, the D E B S ’ C A N T O N Churchill and Stalin, Mr. Roosevelt often seemed to ment. Long’s false testimony is based refugees concluded with “ secret SPEECH “ Internationale." That pioneer government of the upon the incredibly crude and decisions” from which no aid has be behaving more like an Oriental potentate than the 9. The defense of the Soviet Union working class adopted as its battle cry a song, which brazen trick of including among been forthcoming. The refugees Eugene V. Debs, celebrated leader of a great democratic nation. The pomp and “refugees from Hitler” 380,000 have received nothing but croco­ socialist agitator, was sen­ ceremony, the seclusion and secrecy, and the glitter against imperialist attack. in every line, stresses the International solidarity alien residents of the United dile tears from the Roosevelt ad­ tenced during the last war to of dress uniforms and pop of champagne corks at of the workingmen of all countries. 10 years in the federal peniten­ States who visited abroad and ministration—and a tightening of Teheran must have made an hilarious weekend, but it The marching song was composed by two French tiary for his famous Canton then returned; immigrants from the visa regulations since the war was hardly the setting for a solemn conference on workers of Lille. The illustration accompanying the speech, delivered on June 16, Canada, Mexico and South began. The State Department war and peace.” first printed copy depicted a woman worker carry­ America, and almost 100,000 1918. Renegotiations pretends, says The Nation, that Raymond Clapper wrote in his column: “ There must ing a banner labeled “ Internationale,” tramping on students, ministers and other “ Gestapo agents were invading ; Debs referred in his Canton bo a thrill for such powerful Allied leaders as they The American capitalists are the worst gang of non-quota immigrants from all the country behind rabbinical speech to three Ohio socialists privileges and monopoly. go into seclusion behind elite guards and settle the free-booters and pirates that have ever plagued the parts of the globe. beards.” In the face of these who had been jailed for their The “ Internationale” spread throughout Europe affairs of the world. But they are slipping into a people of a nation. The pirates of the old Spanish Long claims that “we did every facts, Long cynically declared socialist activity: “They have and eventually throughout the world. Everywhere, legitimate thing we could do.” that “the historic attitude of the come to realize, as many of us state of oriental ariogance regarding the interest of Main, the Turkish Corsairs, seem, in retrospect, *it became the song of the exploited and the oppress­ The figures on immigration from United States as a haven for the have, that it is extremely the democratic peoples in their activities.” almost as sober minded and respectable tradesmen, ed. It inspired the Russian masses when they over­ Germany alone, since H itler came oppressed has not changed. . . ; dangerous to exercise the con­ compared with the vultures of W all Street. It was to power, refute this lie. The an­ The door has been carefully stitutional right of free speech threw the Czar, the capitalists, and landlords in not for nothing that the late J. P. Morgan painted nual German quota, based on the screened, but it is open.” Indeed in a country fighting to make 1917. It was adopted, after the Russian Revolution, his yacht in anarchistic black and named her the restrictive immigration law of the doors have been so screened democracy safe in the world. as the official anthem of the Soviet Union. In 1919, 1924, was 25,957. From 1933 to that the only refugees who can “ I would rather a thousand The Biggest Oil Scandal Corsair, and it was rumoured, hoisted a flag of it was officially designated as the anthem of the the end of 1942 the U. S. admitted easily pass through them are the times be a free Boul in jail skull and bones when sailing the high seas. Third International. 123,573 im m ig ra n ts fro m Ger­ rich, the well-connected, and the than to be a sycophant and Since Teapot Dome many, less than half the quota members of monarchist govern- j coward on the streets. Look at the new crime the congressional stooges The “ Internationale” is associated in the minds of America's Sixty Families are trying to perpe­ allotments. The combined total of ments-in-exile. Although ships “They may put those boys of the working class with the heroic Russian Revo­ all refugees from all Axis- return from the war zones empty j in jail—and some of the rest trate in connection with the present tax bill. The The stench of oil is becoming more oppressive in lution — the greatest revolution in human history dominated countries in the last or with Axis prisoners, there are of us in jail—but they cannot Washington than at any time since the Teapot Dome Senate Finance Committee tagged on a rider to the — and the world revolutionary conflagration of the decade was but 180,000, or one- “no transportation facilities” for put the socialist movement in Scandal rocked the Harding Administration. Indeed, third less than Germany’s quota ja il.” tax bill which makes a dead letter of the present 1920’s, inspired and aided by the Bolsheviki, under Jews. The Nazis do not permit the principals of the Teapot Dome scandal are going alone! Jews to take money with them I Renegotiations Act. And to add insult to injury, Lenin and Trotsky. to appear as small time crooks dompared with the they propose to refund to machine tool manufactur­ It is entirely fitting that Stalin no longer finds oil monopolists of the Second World War. ers and manufacturers of construction and manu­ Jerry Voorhis, a pro-Roosevelt Congressman from the “ Internationale” a correct expression for his facturing equipment, funds already collected by the California charged that the government Petroleum Di­ regime of brutality, dictatorship and national chau­ government. rective No. 70, issued by Secretary of the Interior, vinism. Sociologists have long ago discovered that International Notes Ickes, turned over to the giant oil corporations “ the The Warner and Swasey Company, manufac­ human institutions and symbols survive long after greatest charter of power ever given to a group of turer of turret lathes, is a good case in point. This their material bases have been removed. Capitalist The Tories in England are us­ Madrid announced that Franco patch states that "all northern essentially private citizens, directly connected with company has already increased its net worth, dur­ thinkers have even devised a formula for this ing wartime paper control as an had allegedly amnestied all, or Italy was aflame with revolt a- the most powerful natural resource monopoly the ing the war, from S5,100,000 to 115,200,000. It has phenomenon: the “cultural lag.” The Third Inter­ excuse to suppress the publica­ virtually all, political prisoners. gainst the German m ilitary com­ world has ever known over the most vital single re­ tions of British Trotskyists. The already paid out §5,481,000 in dividends derived As a matter of fact, however, this mand and its puppet Italian gov- source there is.” national (Comintern), from the point of view of November 1943 issue of Socialist is no “amnesty” at all, but a piece from its war contracts. Last year, Warner and Swa­ erment, and that the situation be­ Ickes, in turn, divulged that the War Department a revolutionary workers International organization, Appeal, just arrived in this coun­ of deliberate deception. Franco’s hind the German line was ‘more sey netted a real haul; its profit was §20,222,000 was squandering $130,000,000 in its Canol develop­ has been a stinking corpse for ten years. It was of­ try, reports that “on a technical decree contains a five-year clause serious than in any of the Euro­ ment, located in the wilds of northern Canada. The compared with §2,261,000 in 1939. The 1942 ficially buried, however, only last May. It is a good plea, the paper controller has sus­ which means that all those ar­ pean countries that are under' pended the license for both the money for this grandiose oil project comes from the profits were 2'A times greater than the total capital thing that the tyrant who rules over Russia could rested since the destruction of the command of German occupation.’ ” invested in the firm prior to the war. Even after Socialist Appeal and Workers' In­ Republic must remain in prison. GY. Y. Times, Dec. 22.) U. S. Treasury. The only benieficiary of the project, no longer find the patience to listen to the strains ternational Xeics. There is an Another clause makes release however, w ill be the Imperial Oil Company, Canadian paying out all taxes and returning to the govern­ A Moscow JCN dispatch, Dec. ' of the "Internationale.” imp’ied threat to revoke our li­ contingent upon “good behavior,” subsidiary of Rockefeller’s Standard Oil Company of ment $5,500,000 through renegotiations proceed­ 2i, lists a series of strikes in The spirit of independence, of freedom, of work­ cense altogether.” with Franco free to interpret just New Jersey. Milan, Turin, Ferrara and Flor­ ings, the company still continued to earn a pro­ ers’ solidarity, of a new and better Socialist so­ In its account of this latest rep­ what is constituted by good be­ Lieut. Gen. Brehon Somervell, Arm y Chief of Sup­ ressive measure, Socialist Appeal havior. “Blood on hands” will ence, and a wave of k illin g s of fit of 50% on its pre-war investment. Under the pro­ ciety, that is expressed in every note of the song, ply, undaunted by the expoise of this Standard Oil charges that it emanates right likewise keep political prisoners Black Shirts, among them: Col­ posed Senate committee rider, the government steal has announced to the Senate committee that he is certainly not in harmony with Stalinist barbar­ from “the office of Tory Minister behind bars. onel Gobbi, the m ilitary governor would be obliged to return to this bloated war is going right ahead with the project and Roosevelt ism, its GPU and frame-up trials. Stalin and his of Supplies, Sir Andrew Duncan.” Nevertheless, Franco the Butch­ of Florence; Ferrara, secretary of the fascist party; Trangila Casa­ profiteer the §5,500,000. degenerate regime have desecrated the revolution­ Furthermore, the suspension of er has been receiving favorable himself told newspapermen that he is backing Somer­ the license comes at a time when publicity in the capitalist press. nova, Minister of Justice, in Mus­ vell. The U. S. Treasury has already recovered over ary song long enough. Stalin is quite right when solini's new puppet regime; Ad­ “every paper and magazine in the For example, on Dec. 23 the A t the same time, Secretary of the Navy, Knox, is §5 billion by means of renegotiations, since the he says that his new song, which exudes a spirit miral Legnani, Naval Minister; country is getting an increased Ar. Y. Times carried another Mad­ negotiating a new contrast with Standard Oil Com­ Renegotiations Act was first passed in 1942. Amer­ Nieo ini chief of Information of national chauvinism and byzantine sycophancy, allocation.” Socialist Appeal cor­ rid cable by Harold Denny piously pany of California, with the aim of turning over to Bureau, and many others. ican Big Business continues, despite this law, to expresses far more accurately the “ context” of his rectly concludes that this back- proclaiming that a “sincere move the Rockefeller monopoly, the fabulously rich oil re­ pile up profits so huge that they make the fabulous bureaucratic regime. • stair move is a continuation of was being made toward some Suicide squads of Italian anti­ serves of Elk Hills, California. Because of public in­ Princes of India appear by comparison as no more Trotsky’s Fourth International, the true inherit­ the previous political attacks a- degree of liberalization of the fascists attacked a funeral proces­ dignation, Roosevelt was forced to cancel the first gainst the British Trotskyists in Franco regime.” sion held in Milan for Aldo Res- than moderately well to-do storekeepers. contract that Knox had negotiated with Standard Oil. or of the revolutionary traditions of the Comintern, the Parliament and in the capi­ Franco like Badog’io is appar­ ega, Federal Fascist Commissar, This steal of the remaining oil reserves, worth According to the Commerce Department, Big will likewise become now the sole inheritor of the talist press. “We must sound ently making his hid to qualify another Black Shirt who was Business will accumulate over §8 billion in profits . revolutionary workers song. It will continue to ring the a’arm to our readers and as a liberal and a champion of killed recently. The anti-fascist hundreds of millions otf dollars, on the part of the oil monopolists is so brazen that even the completely in 1943, after the payment of all taxes; double the out the call: “ Arise, Ye Prisoners of Starvation! friends,” states Socialist Appeal, “ democracy.” demonstration assumed such prop- “Never have we been faced with He it He pro-administration Voorhis felt compelled to ask the peacetime profits of 1939. The total profits for the Arise, Ye Wretched of the Earth. . . ’Tis the Final portions that the Nazis were such a grave situation.” Reports continue to come of de­ forced to call out their armored question in Congress: “ Are we now witnessing. . . the year will be about §23 billion, approximately four Conflict, Let Each Stand His in His Place, The * * * termined resistance to fascism in cars to disperse the aroused complete cartelization of the oil industry of Amer­ times more than in 1939. Clearly, these are golden International Party Shall Be the Human Race.” On Dec. 20, dispatches from northern Italy. A Naples dis­ workers. ica, under government sanction?.”