Workers of the World, Unite! KENYATTA - LEADER OF AFRICA IN REVOLT (See Page 3) THE PUBLISHED WEEKLYMILITANT IN THE INTERESTS OF THE WORKING PEOPLE Vol. XVI - No. 49 267 NEW YORK, N. Y., MONDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1952 PRICE: 10 CENTS CIO Convention State Dept. Blocks UN Truce Is Dominated by leadership Battle Move; “Hotter” War Feared Dec. 4 — The CIO national convention, convened since Dec. 1 in Atlantic City, has thus far been dominated by the struggle for the top post left vacant by the death of Philip Murray, to the virtual ex- ® Dictator Voids U.S. Troops to Remain elusion of consideration of vital issues facing labor. Election Result United Auto Workers President In Korean War Despite W alter Reuther and CIO Ex­ ecutive Vice President Allan S. Haywood head opposing factions In Venezuela in a struggle for the CIO An election, designed to provide Eisenhower Promises presidency. A t this w riting, al­ though no decision has yet been a democratic facade for the dic­ By A rt Preis reached, Reuther appears to have tatorship in Venezuela, has back­ Washington has whipped its reluctant allies into line the edge. Attempts of the officials fired. The URD (National Demo­ on the Korean truce negotiations. India was forced to to avoid an open contest by an cratic Union) won by a landslide. revise its original “ compromise” plan — already in accord agreement have thus fa r proved This forced dictator Perez Jimidez fruitless. The issue w ill come to with U jS. demands that have held®- a roll-call vote tomorrow unless to black out all news to the out­ up a truce for a year — and to the U.S. diplomats gave further Haywood, as rumored, withdraws side world while the election accept further “ amendments” evidence that the prisoners-of- .at the last moment. results were falsified and Ignacio dictated by the U.S. State Dept. war issue is not the only; or even The sharpness of the contest Arcaya, the head of the winning These are calculated to make UN the most important, issue block­ fo r leadership contrasts with the truce terms fu lly unacceptable to ing a truce. Their objections to party, jailed. The election outcome the Chinese and North Koreans. the original India plan were based almost total lack of discussion of is an unexpected blow not only to issues. While there is a difference In their latest UN maneuvers, on that section referring to a the military dictator Perez political conference to be held be­ of age, temperament and back­ Jiminez but to his backers — the ground between the contestants, tween the belligerents after an U.S. State Department and the armistice is reached. The U.S. they express no fundamental d if­ U.S. oil and steel corporations. Washington Faces ferences on the crucial issues af­ delegates demanded elimination By December 1 it was clear that fecting labor. Both boast they are of this reference. They indicated the URD had won the election faithful disciples of Murray. that Washington has no intention held the previous day. I t led in 18 Dilemma in Bolivia of dealing w ith the real issues Thus, it would appear that the of the country’s 20 states and an­ behind the Far East conflict — conflict over leadership is noth­ other opposition party led in one recognition of New China, return ing but a power fight between Tin Mines Seizure of the remaining states. Even the of Formosa, withdrawal of all two cliques, lacking any demon­ “Will the Eisenhower adminis­ government tabulating agency foreign troops from Korea to strated principled basis. Neither NEW S IT E M : Letters pour into Gen. Eisenhower’s headquarters demanding, “Bring the boys tration buy Bolivian tin. . . ?” is reported that the URD was lead­ permit the Koreans to settle their side has presented the convention W ALTER REUTHER. auto home from Korea.” the question posed by a featured ing with 54% of the vote. Then own fate. Wall Street’s govern­ an effective program dealing with union head, shown with the late dispatch from Bolivia’s capital, censorship was clamped on the ment is determined on the the big and grave problems of CIO President P H IL IP M U R ­ La Paz, in the Nov. 24 issue of country, no telephone communica­ ultimate destruction of the pres­ the OI'O; nor has there been even RAY (seated), whose death set the Wall Street Journal. The tion with the outside world was ent revolutionary governments in an attempt at honest and critical off a leadership struggle in the Journal says this is a big question CIO. allowed until the night of Decem­ FI DEMANDS REVIEW OF CZECH TRIAL China and North Korea. analysis of the recent great elec­ ber 2 when the Ariny pronounced especially in the event that the toral defeat of the 20-year-old the dictator president and declar­ Bolivian government fails to pay FORMIDABLE PROBLEMS Democratic-labor coalition. they weigh inducements and ed that his party was leading in BEFORE IMPARTIAL LABOR TRIBUNAL what it calls “ fair compensation” Despite Eisenhower’s implied Both sides have been busy promises. 'But in the entire pro­ the election tabulation. to the nationalized mines’ stock­ promise to the American people cess of choosing a top leader the holders, many of whom are Amer­ scrambling fo r votes in event an PARIS, France, Nov. 28 — The CP by a rival clique which won Without doubt the police ap­ that he is going to Korea to end CIO ranks are being little con­ icans. open show-down comes. The lead­ FOR NATIONALIZATION International Secretariat of the the definitive backing of -»the paratus of Stalin prepared this the war, all press comment and sulted. Whoever wins, the problem ers of the different affiliated The URD not only opposed the Fourth International yesterday Kremlin. This is the way in which tria l in the classic manner of the According to the Wall Street speculation seem to turn on of leadership w ill not have been unions are lining up on the basis totalitarianism of the present condemned the Czech frame - up under analogous circumstances other trials of the same kind, Journal, the Bolivian question alternatives for continuing the really solved. of the bureaucratic advantages of­ regime with its concentration trial as a new monstrous crime trials will be prepared tomorrow slipping genuine agents provoca­ poses the following dilemma: war. This is what Eisenhower, A fu ll report from the conven­ fered by each side. There is some camps for union members but of Stalinism and appealed to fo r the French Slanskys and teurs and doubtful elements “ I f the U.S. doesn’t buy they say, is really going to Korea shifting 'back and forth among tion w ill be published in the next also called for nationalization of members of the Communist Par­ Geminders, the Martys, the Til- among the authentic Communist Bolivia’s tin, the mining industry to try to decide. the leaders of smaller unions as issue of The M ilitant. here may well collapse, and Uncle Venezuela’s rich oil fields and iron ties and progressives everywhere Ions and even the Thorezes. leaders who up to yesterday were Formidable problems confront ore deposits. to protest against the trial and loyal servants of the Kremlin. Sam would lose the only major WHY THEY “CONFESSED” * the U jS. diplomatic and military The present dictatorship rose demand it be reviewed before an source of tin in this hemisphere planners, both the U.S. News and STALIN’S TRADEMARK — a big blow if war should come. to power in 1948. The overthrown impartial, international working- The grotesque and odious char­ World Report and Life magazines A U.S.' boycott of Bolivia would president, Gallegos, accused U.S. class tribunal. The International acter of the accusation in this The method of amalgams is a emphasize in leading articles in also bring hunger, hardships and CIVIL WAR STILL RAGES oil companies of financing the Secretariat is t'he leading body of new monstrous “ tria l” did not trademark of the GPU and Stalin. their current issues. I f the Amer­ now political upheavals to this revolt of the m ilitary junta. He the Fourth International, world escape any observer, even the least It can fool no one save those who ican ruling class hasn’t attempt­ country, and would fan the also declared that the m ilitary party of the socialist revolution critical. Accused in the same having lost all critical perception ed to push through to a definitive already strong anti - American attache of “a large power” had founded by Leon Trotsky before breath o f’ being agents of im ­ and courage are already prepared military settlement in Korea, FIERCELY IN SO. KOREA feeling throughout South Amer­ participated in the military coup. he was murdered by an agent of perialism, Titoists, Zionists, Trot­ to quiet their conscience by paint­ it is because the obstacles in all ica. By Joseph Keller The “ large power’’ was understood Stalin. The full text of the ap­ skyists, bourgeois nationalists, the ing up the bureaucratic police directions are fearful and there ‘^On the other hand, if the U.S. to be the U.S. peal follows: Prague victims naturally “ con­ regime of Stalin in the colors of are no guarantees for successfully Anti-Rhee guerrillas by the thousands are still oper­ does buy Bolivia’s tin — without ... fessed” all up and down the line. the struggle for the revolution overcoming any or all of them. WANTED FIG LEAF satisfactory compensation having ating behind the battle-lines in South Korea despite two- Eleven of the defendants in the Imprisoned fo r long months, and for socialism. But neither is there any assurance been paid the mine owners — it and-a-half years of “ extermination” campaigns by dictator The recent election was held be­ Prague trial have been condemned broken morally and physically, This is the worst manner to that the arrogant, brutal and would amount to condoning ex­ Syngman Rhee’s army and police® - cause the U.S. State Department to death. Among them are vet­ tried in a completely hostile serve either one or the other. wilful minority who nun America propriation of private investment aided by U.S. forces. A revealing the ferocity of the Rhee forces wanted a democratic fig leaf to eran Communist leaders some of atmosphere in which their own Without critical reflection and won’t attempt to buck through abroad. Chile (with its U.S.- picture story of this “ savage, against guerrilla fighters, of cover the naked brutality of the whom, like Slanksy, dementis and wives and children under the most without courage to protest the these obstacles in spite of the owned copper mines), Venezuela secret war” that “ Eisenhower will whom 13,000 have been killed and Venezuelan regime which is Geminder, occupied the highest infamous pressure called fo r their abuses, the abominations and the hazards to the American people (with its U.S.-owned oil wells), not see when he is in Korea” ap­ thousands of others captured in scheduled to play host to the posts in the hierarchy of the •execution, these old bureaucratiz­ crimes of the bureaucratic figures and the people of the world. and other Latin nations m ight be pears in the Dec. 1 Life magazine, the past 13 months, according to Tenth Inter-American Conference Czechoslovak Communist Party ed functionaries of Stalin’s in­ which history temporarily lifted encouraged to believe they could which contains 11 pages of vivid the claims of the Rhee govern­ in 195.3. The Ninth Conference, and international apparatus of ternational apparatus (not one of to the head of'the USSR and bf CURTAIN RAISER photographs by Margaret Bourke- ment. Trussed-up corpses of guer­ held in Bogota, Colombia, five the Kremlin. Their “crime” was whom was really a Trotskyist) the workers’ movement, it is im­ get awav with the same sort of TO WORLD WAR III thing.” White, who visited a guerrilla- rillas are brought in fo r “ iden­ years ago, was interrupted by a probably the loss, for one reason could not find the strength to possible to prepare a better A decision in Korea must be future for humanity, to serve contested area. tification” and when this is too popular uprising. Diplomats have or another, of the absolute con­ resist. Genuine revolutionaries, The Wall Street Journal points made in light of the entire world either the workers’ movement Life discloses the surprising difficult, “only the grisly heads no desire to repeat their harrow­ fidence of the Kremlin as faithful infinitely superior to these figures, out that “ the country’s 60,000 strategy of U.S. imperialism, says extent of the guerrilla warfare are retrieved.” Those prisoners ing experience so it is assumed instruments of its policies, or their were not able to summon power or socialism, or to maintain even tin miners are still toting the the Dec. 5 LT.S. News and World “ about 150 miles to the rear of not murdered on the spot are tried that the 1953 conference w ill be displacement in the bureaucratic fo r that in the Moscow Trials of the moral base fo r protest against rifles, machine guns and grenades Report. “ Its solution, to be suc­ 1933-38. the Korean battle-line .. . in before kangaroo courts - martial postponed. leadership of the Czechoslovak (Continued on page 2) (Continued on page S) cessful, must not compromise the territory officially held by U.N. which frequently impose death by West’s future chances in Indo­ forces.” It conservatively esti­ firing squad. china, Malaya, Europe, in the mates that “ perhaps 10,000” Several photographs of young U.N., in any war that may lie guerrilla fighters are pinning guerrilla prisoners awaiting trial ahead,” meaning World War ILL down several times that number — including a moving study of Life also emphasizes: “ The of South Korean police and captured g irl guerrillas — are in­ Labor Can Build Mighty Party of Its Own Korean War— Eisenhower knows armed guards "aided by U.S. cluded in Life. They are in strik­ well — is but a momentary stage agreed with the political recom­ chance of achieving as great These people did not go over arms and advisers.” ing contrast with fat, cruel-look- By A rt Preis They do not neglect however, to in the struggle fo r Asia — which mendations of their leadership is power and influence here as the to traditional Republicanism, it is f Virtually the entire region of ing provincial police chief Han Shortly after the election arrange whatever modus vivendi in turn is a stage in the world 70 to 75 per cent.” He observed British Labor Party in England. true. But they did repudiate what south-west South Korea, com­ Kyon Lok, shown celebrating the they can with the Republican struggle.” But to this “ momentary returns were in,. The Militant in this connection that “ Herbert That being the case, it would they have come to think of as prising North and South Cholla “victory” \of 900 of his police administration. Both AFL and stage” in the struggle against the pointed out that .union workers Morrison, Deputy Prime Minister hardly hold that “ now is not the the program of the Democrats — provinces, an area of about 8,000 against a hundred guerrillas at a CIO leaders have expressed their Asian revolution the U.S. has al­ in the British Labor Government, time” to form a labor party in war, inflation, high taxes. They' square miles or roughly a fifth of party where he is “regaling his continued by and large to follow eagerness to cooperate with the ready committed “ upward of 30% estimates the British Lahor Party this country. voted fo r Eisenhower because he of the whole country below the men and 'Kisaeng girls’ (Korean the political policies advocated by new President and are trying to of the ‘ready’ strength of the 38th Parallel, is disputed ter­ geishas) with popular Japanese their organizations. Contrary to receives a maximum of 75 per Furthermore, if labor’s sup­ gave them the hope that he might wedge a foot into the White cent of the British labor vote.” port is the most important source end the Korean war, first of all, Army, at least one fifth of the ritory. In North Cholla alone, song, China Night.” the claims of the Big Business House door once more. Thus, ten combat strength of the Air Force says Life, “ 5,000 regular police press, there was no significant of continuing strength for the and then bring down prices and top CIO leaders last week demon­ “FINAL” CAMPAIGN SOLID RANKS Democrats and if the Democratic taxes. But many of them might and a substantial segment of the and 11,000 young volunteers are shift of union -labor to the stratively paid their respects to Navy.” engaged in fighting them (the A year ago, in Dec. 1951, the Republicans. Both A FL and CIO Prom these same sources we Party machine is incapable on its have voted even more readily for Eisenhower at his Commodore The U.S. - controlled ground guerrillas).” Rhee government announced a leaders also stress this fact. gather that the labor organiza­ own of rallying any significant the candidate of a labor party Hotel headquarters in Washing­ That Life actually under­ “ final mopping-up, extermination” “ Contrary to the sneering con­ tions dragged along a lethargic forces, then what advantage is which would have offered an, ton. forces in Korea now number 900,- 000 men, including 400,000 Amer­ estimates the scope of the guer­ campaign against a claimed 10,000 clusions of the daily press,” says Democratic Party. “ Actually, the there for labor to remain a poli­ effective program to establish rilla forces is indicated by the surviving guerrillas. Now we are a survey of the election results lahor vote held truer and more tical adjunct to the Democratic enduring peace and economic POWER BRINGS RESPECT icans, 450,000 South Koreans and Nov. 29 report of Lindesay Par­ informed that after “the hunters in the Nov. 14 AFL News Re­ solidly fo r Stevenson than the machine? The Democratic Party security. Instead of frying to curry 50,000 from UN countries. The rott, Far East correspondent of have killed 13,000 in 13 months, porter, “ union members through­ Democratic organization vote,” is a drag on the American labor What the American people want favor with the Wall Street Gen­ Chinese and North Koreans num­ ber nearly 1,200,000, “ deployed in the N. Y. Times. He says, “ There captured thousands more, con­ out- the country voted over­ concludes the AFL News-Reporter movement, holding it back from is some political perspective that, eral, the union leaders would exists, despite all suppressive verted many to the Republic’s whelmingly for Adlai E. Steven­ survey. Field reports from key political progress. looks toward better days. The assure labor of a lot more respect­ strong positions, rich with new Soviet equipment” Just “waiting measures, an active guerrilla side,” the guerrillas are as numer­ son fo r President, analysis of the industrial areas to The M ilitant labor leaders fa il to offer such a ful treatment from the govern­ WOULD WIN SUPPORT for the cruelly elusive truce, the movement . . . possibly number­ ous as ever and “ still a formidable final returns proves. Stevenson indicate wide-spread disgruntle- perspective because they are still ment if they helped to arm labor ing more' than 20,000 armed in­ foe.” Evidently their forces are deceived almost 27 million popular ment among PAC and LL/PE In fact, there is every reason to looking backward to the “ good old with a big club of genuine inde­ U.S. Army Has suffered in surgents.” Associated Press dis­ being constantly replenished and votes, most of his strength coming workers against the local Demo­ believe that a labor party based days” when they got a few minor pendent political action in the casualties some 9,000 killed, 39,- ■ patches of Nov. 1, 10 and 22 tell augmented by the people. from the industrial centers and cratic machines because they on the trade unions would win concessions and crumbs from the form of labor’s own party. Labor 000 wounded, 750 missing.” of guerrillas striking on the op­ The persistence and extent of big cities, where the labor vote claim the real work of getting support not only from virtually Democratic administration. And allied to the reactionary Demo­ The alternatives on Korea posite side of Korea from the this guerrilla warfare serves to predominates. His vote exceeded votes for the Democrats was 100% of the wage-earners — who while they still profess fears of crats is no threat to the Repub­ facing the American Big Business Cholla provinces, near Taegu and remind us that the Korean strug­ the winning total of President done by unidn people. constitute an outright majority the consequences of Republican licans today. Labor allied in its ruling class and its war leaders, the port city of Pusan. In one gle began as a civil and class Truman in 1948. . I f American union leaders carry of the population — but from victory, they advance no program own party with the other dis­ as the U.S. News outlines them, instance, “ the Reds battled for war, with workers and peasants Similarly, CIO’s Political Action as much political weight among low-income farmers, hard-pressed to fight Republican reaction ex­ satisfied sections of society and are a “ bigger war,” or a “ hotter several hours” with South Korean arrayed against the landlords and Committee Director Jack Kroll American workers as the British small business-men, professionals cept to wait until the next big driving for political power in war,” or a “diversion effort” with forces. capitalists of the Rhee regime, stated on Nov. 29 that “ CIO mem­ union leaders among British work­ and many of the non-organized election. They hold out only the Washington would strike fear in use of Chiang Kai-shek’s troops, which the U.S. militarists are bers to a very large extent follow­ ers, then it is reasonable to con­ poorer layers of society who have prospect of a possible Democratic the hearts of all the reactionaries or more South Koreans and RHEE BUTCHERY backing. Such guerrilla resistance ed the recommendations of the clude that formation of a labor turned to the Republicans in sheer revival in the Congressional elec­ and force them to shrink back troops from Japan, or “ finally” a ■Margaret Bourke - White’s can be maintained only amidst a CIO leadership. A reasonable party in the United States backed desperation and fo r lack of any­ tions two years from now and from carrying out some of their “ withdrawal from Korea.” These where else to go politically. photographs graphically present friendly, supporting populace. estimate of CIO members who by the trade unions has every *the. presidential race in 1956, more nefarious schemes. (Continued on page 4 ) Page Two T H E M U T A N T Monday, December 8, 1952

OLE PROVES THAT A WORKER Slansky Frame-Up Trial Signals The American CAN GET RICH IN AMERICA By F. Powers Blood Purge in Czechoslovakia Way of Life For years now, I ’ve been busy trying to disprove the By John G. Wright of power and the supply of coal. Czech “ local party organizations” cipline the party, especially the old school-book lie about hard work, th rift, economy and The Slansky frame-up trial in It will take a long time ito end tolerating “non-fulfillment of “ lower bodies,” in order to stifle the results of this mismanage­ Party decisions on vital issues.” every voice of criticism. so forth enabling a man to accumulate a fortune in this Czechoslovakia is monstrous not A Lesson in Gratitude ment.’’ The workers refuse to carry out As Leon Trotsky correctly great capitalist democracy. Armed with Lundberg’s book only in its charges but also in its dimensions. From all indications, The list of these “ mismanage­ “ vital” decisions, the party ap­ pointed out, the Moscow Trials of Mrs. Helen Bosler, employed for 24 years at the the Thirties expressed the grow­ “America’s 60 Families,” I try to show that it just ain’t the 14 convicted defendants, most ments,” of which the real foup- paratus in th,e localities “toler­ Curtis-Stephens-Embry shoe plant in Reading, broke an tainhead is the Kremlin, is a long­ ates” this. Also cited were other ing incompatibility between so, and follow up with ammunition from Marx’s “ Value, of them former top Kremlin one. For each of them the Czech “ instances” of “ direct distortion Stalin’s regime and the needs of axle while driving back from her Yellowstone Park vaca­ Price and Profit” to explain just why it ain’t so. agents in Czechoslovakia, are only workers pay through successive Soviet economy and the Soviet tion last Summer. She was two days late before she man­ a tinv fraction of the total number of the Party line on the part of In fact, I was doing pretty well until I heard that Ole blows at their living standards, individual Communists and even people. Soviet society was then of Stalin’s victims. aged to get back to work. Faced with this perfectly reason­ was worth some $40,000! Now, $40,000 is only about a at their working conditions. on the • part of lower Party moving, as it still is, to rid itself The 14 scapegoats figured as able excuse, the company decided to play tough and fired Moods of discontent and opposi­ organs.” Here is proof that ar.ti- of the Stalinist incubus. Stalin month’s salary for my boss, Eugene Grace, but when one the alleged leaders of the m ythi­ drowned these Soviet oppositional her from her job. of his steel workers manages to accumulate that much cal, underground “ anti-state con­ tion are generated. Stalinist opposition reaches di­ There have been rumors of dem­ moods and trends by his m ulti- That’s not the whole story. Mrs. Bosler’s job record spiratorial center.” Their “con­ rectly into party ranks! money and at the same time provide a tidy profit for Beth­ onstrations, slowdowns, strikes in millioned blood bath of the fessions” involved not merely shows that she has missed work on only three past occar lehem Steel, it’s news of the “ man bites dog” variety. Czechoslovakia. There is no way OPPOSE STALINISM Thirties. Czechoslovakia but the rest of sions' during her entire period of nearly' a quarter of a of verifying these rumors. But it I f we had nothing else to go We have a postwar repetition A t first, of course, I was skeptical. Then I began to the “ people’s democracies” as can be shown from the columns of by except these tell - tale ad­ and extension of this develop­ century of employment with this grateful concern. On one look into the matter. Ole came to work in the steel mill well; .The main arena fo r their the Cominform press itself that missions, it would be correct to ment in Eastern Europe. Czech occasion, she broke a leg, but was back to work while “counter - revolutionary conspir­ in the late twenties when he was already 35. Just over there is resistance among the conclude that there is a shaypen- society, .together with that of the acy’’ was “ inside the Communist her leg was still in a cast. Another time, she was kept from the old country, he had little education, no mechanic­ Czech workers and that resistance ing opposition to Stalin’s rule in rest of Eastern. Eh rope, is today Party,” the defendants affirmed. from reporting for work by some broken ribs. The third has proved strong enough to Czechoslovakia. But there is other moving toward riddling itself of al experience, was thumb-fingered and superstitious. He This means that nothing less than affect, s’ectioas of the Czech irrefutable evidence. And the most the Stalinist incubus. Under new time she had pneumonia, and had to be sent home from dreamed of having a little money in his old age, of being the Czech Communist Party itself bureaucracy, especially those striking of all is afforded by the conditions, ,-Stalin is trying to her job. able to go back to Norway and visit his relatives after is involved. closest to the workers. Slansky frame-up! repeat in Eastern Europe his Time and again the defendants Mrs. Bosler is quite plainly that type of worker who making good in the new world. So Ole went^down to the For example, the leading edi­ The Kremlin needs the most Soviet “ success” of the Thirties “ confessed” that they and their doesn’t lose a day’s work if she can help it. Since we know torial in Nov. 21 issue of Comin­ brutal methods in its arsenal in by another blood bath for which steel m ill to sell his labor power and get rich. agents had penetrated “ vital sec­ form weekly For a Lasting Peace, order to restore its Czech repres­ the Slansky tria l comes * as the nothing more about her than the above facts as reported, Now a hand mill is no place for a thin man of 35 even tors of Party and State ap­ etc., complains about instances of sive apparatus, in order to dis­ signal. by a press association, we don’t know why she is that if he is raised on a farm like Ole. I t ’s tough enough for paratus.’’ They pleaded guilty to way. Maybe her fellow-workers call her* “ hungry.” Maybe a guy in his twenties hitting a well-built 200. A strander a charge of having organized a whole network of agents “ in she just can’t afford to lose any pay. Maybe she has had on a 12-inch mill will repeat bars which finish at as large vital industrial regions.” I t was Wins Full Pay Boost the kind of experience with the Curtis-Stephens-Embry as one and a quarter inches in diameter, catching and reiterated that “Zionist and ad­ company that taught her to keep her nose to the grind­ bending around him about 50 bars in 15 minutes. He works venturer elements of the same stone. Certainly last summer’s action by her boss shows in a ring of red-hot steel and has to be relieved every 15 type became leading secretaries and functionaries of the regional that if she feared being shown the gate because she was minutes for a 15-minute rest spell. committees of the Party ap­ prevented from coming to work by somfe unavoidable mis­ A fter a guy has been there a few years, he begins paratus” all over the country. hap, her fears were very well justified. to give ground both ways — he gets older and lighter. We don’t know any more about the motives of the But by the time his age and strength are against him, he’s INVOLVES THOUSANDS In a highly industrialized coun­ company executive who ordered the firing than we do learned a few tricks, has his timing set and can keep go­ try like Czechoslovakia, such about those of Mrs. Bosler. But we do know the meaning ing a few more years. Once in a while, a big bruiser with sweeping “ confessions” cannot of the action. It is a certification of the infinite hostility no sense of timing can make the grade by just bulling fail to involve thousands, i f not and ingratitude which U.S. capitalists feel towards those his way through until he gets the hang of the job, and tens of thousands. Many old-time local Czech Communist leaders who do the work of this land. occasionally a light man with exceptional mechanical apti­ are of Jewish origin. The Slansky In effect, Curtis-Stephens-Embry was saying to its tude (a born mill man!) can manage the job. frame-up renders suspect all employees: “ Don’t presume on our gratitude, because we But anybody with half a brain could tell that Ole, all those Jewish leaders who have not don’t have any. We don’t care how ‘faithful’ you’ve been. thumbs, slight 35, could never make the grade. Ole, how­ already been purged. Suspect is every Communist m ilitant of We don’t owe you a plugged nickel.” ever, knew different. The hand mills paid good wages; Jewish origin or ties. So is every Now, surprising as this may often be to capitalists, and there are a few things a man will overcome to make party member and every non- workers are also thinking and reasoning beings who can the jump from the 35 cents an hour of the laborers to the party element in any way con­ draw the obvious.conclusion. I f the company doesn’t owe $2 and $3 an hour of the stranders. nected with the party and gov­ ernment apparatus, for years us a thing, most workers have decided, we don’t owe them So Ole went on the mill. He worked his 15 minutes, dominated by Slansky and his a bit more. Bosses who have pleaded in vain with workers then thoroughly exhausted, walked out to the yard and group. to return to work during a strike out of “ consideration” lay down on the cool billets to recuperate during his off I t is the Czech working class, for them know the truth of this very well. spell. The men laid bets he wouldn’t live long enough to above all its politically-minded Fortunately, the story of Mrs. Bosler has a happy come in for his next spell. Ole made it. He always made it. layer, that is indicated as Stalin’s main target. Stalin has ordered a ending. Local 496 of the AFL Boot and Shoe Workers Somewhere inside that thin, beaten body he always found line of blood drawn inside the fought the case through every step of the grievance pro­ the strength to work 15 minutes more. Czech party, inside the country as United Mine Workers President John L. Lewis (1.) at a recent special hearing in Washington cedure and finally won an arbitration ruling putting Mrs. where he argued for government, approval of the full $1.90-a-day wage boost (he miners won from Directly across the street from the mill, there was a a whole and by the same token Bosler back to work and paying her for four months lost tavern where the steel workers went during their off- throughout the East European the operators but were denied by the WSB. Knowing the miners would strike once more if they countries. The Slansky frame-up did not get the raise granted them in negotiations, Truman on Dec. 4 was forced to reverse the time. spells or mill breakdowns. Whenever they had a chance, is in the first instance intended to ruling of his own hand-picked Wage Stabilization Board and approve the miners’ full wage increase. As we said before, we don’t know' why Mrs. Bosler the stranders would take off for a cool beer to take out provide the political and legalistic has been so conscientious about being on the job in the some of the heat they had accumulated. Ole never indulged cover fo r Stalin’s latest blood purge. past. She may have had very good reasons about which in such vices. I f his income increased to $20 a day, his liv­ FI Urges Review we couldn’t say a word of criticism. But if she has acted ing habits remained at $3.50. He ate only the cheapest MASS DISCONTENT Letters from Readers that way out of mistaken notions of loyalty to the firm, food, .bought a small house to save on rent and brought Why has the Kremlin found or in the hope of inspiring a spark of gratitude in her this bestial course necessary? Be­ Of Czeeh Trial his lunch to work in bread-wrappings which he faithfully employer’s breast, then she know's better now. folded for re-use. The men stopped going fishing with him cause of the growing mass dis­ 'Go Out of Business/ charged that the Socialist Work­ (Continued from Page 1) content with the complete sub- — Thomas Raymond when he offered to sell them some of the fish he had caught ers Party was an enemy of the the crimes of imperialism and of missiveness of the Czech party Huberman Advises Soviet Union. Challenged on this capitalism. when they had caught none. Ole knew the meaning of a and government to the Kremlin. Prog ressive Party by a member of the audience, he Neither the proletarian revolu­ dollar. Because the Kremlin’s domination refused to retract, maintaining tion nor the USSR as a workers’ Work was scarce during the depression years, but the cuts across the needs of the Czech Editor: that “the Trotskyists say they state is identical to the bureau­ economic life and progress. The readers of The M ilitant T HMMlllTA A KM Y hand m ill managed to keep up part-time operation. Ole are against Stalin but fo r the cratic police regime of the Stalins A ll the defendants, beginning may be interested in the crisis in Soviet Union, but I say that is no and Gottwalds.. I t is in rallying held on, and when the war came he had become a rougher, with Slansky, kept repeating that the “ Progressive Party” since the difference.” powerfully against them, in not New York Literature Agent sold' four Militants at the Jef­ making about $3.50 an hour. Men were scarce but work they “ tried, first of all, to weaken elections of Nov. 1902. Leo Huber­ The second slander charged capitulating before their savage Ethel Swanson reports a step-up ferson School Sunday forum. A t wasn’t, and though Ole was now in his fifties, he worked and destroy the fraternal rela­ man, one of the editors of the that the Russians never knew poli­ pressure and their monstrous in Militant sales in the past two the Monthly Review Club meet­ tions” between Czechoslovakia and Monthly Review and one of the all the double shifts he could — 16 hours a day — and tical freedom as we know it, that trials which offend the dignity of weeks. The comrades ing Connie 'and Caroline sold the Kremlin. Virtually each time, authors of the 1948 Progressive there was always dictatorship and was able to make with his overtime pay $60 to $100 a every revolutionary and of every report a good eight papers and six F I’s. The they added “ in the same way as Party Program and its na­ repression of political opponents. honest person that one effectively response also to the Brooklyn Branch turned in five day. He never missed a day, and with Saturdays, Sundays in Yugoslavia.” Henceforward, tionalization of industry' plank This long time friend of the Stal­ serves the workers’ movement September - October more M ilitant -subs sold by Julie, and holidays thrown in, he was doing right well. the slightest opposition, the least (dropped for the 1952 elections), inist-bureaucracy tries to ignore and the inevitable socialist future issue of Fourth In ­ Cathy and Calvin. The Youth criticism of the Kremlin’s domi­ discussed the prospects of the the fact that the Russian Revolu­ of humanity. ternational contain­ turned in two subs. At one of So, adding it all up, I think the story of his $40,000 nation and oppression of Czecho­ Progressive Party at a recent is true. Without children to support, working incessantly, tion brought millions of workers -Communist workers, progres­ ing the stenographic the projects Joyce and Murry sold slovakia is placed under the sign forum of the West Side Compass and peasants into activity on the sive intellectuals, protest against report of the debate 17 copies of The M ilitant and living without relaxation or enjoyment, Ole made it. A t of “ counter - revolutionary con­ Club. He recommended that thé political arena, whereas before the the new crime of Stalin! H alt the between George three subs.” 59, he was set for what was left of his life. spiracy.” Progressive Party go out otf busi­ revolution they were barred by new crimes be is preparing Clarke and three Literature Agent Nick Bennett And then one day he did not show up at work. The Every crime of which Stalin ness since thege is no room for Czanist repression. against Gomulka in Poland, Anna New York Univer­ reports continued good sales in has been guilty in Czechoslovakia a party of capitalist reform. news got around that he had cancer of the stomach and When Len-in and Trotsky head­ Pauker in Rumania, and other sity professors. San Francisco and the expectation is imputed, as is Stalin’s custom, Huberman is active in circles ed the Communist Party of victims elsewhere. Demand a W ithin the first week of raising their bundle. He writes, the doctors had given him only six months to live. They to his victims, in order then to largely under the influence of Russia, the worker controlled the review of the Prague tria l before 27 copies were sold and plans are “ Last week Marie Hahn sold 25 thought it best that he not know. When he recovered from be used against anyone bold Stalinist ideas, and to them he factories, the peasant soviet ex­ an impartial, international work­ being made for wider sales. Militants at one of the univer­ his firs t operation and began to feel better for a while, enough to question or even doubt proposes that the supporters of propriated the property exf the ing-class tribunal. Ethel reports the following sities. Dick is still covering the Stalin’s regime. reform capitalism should join the everybody tried to convince him to take a vacation, to landlords and divided the land -It is necessary to overcome the sales: “ A t the New School Berta route each Sunday and Marie is Democratic Party and try to push among the peasants, the workers fear, the cowardice and the s tif­ and Pauline sold five Militants helping him. She is doing a good TRADE AGREEMENTS rest a while, to take the trip to Norway and see his family. it to the le ft from within. He and peasants unions and soviets ling of conscience over the .crimes two weeks ago and Berta and job in promoting the selling of But the habits of a lifetime are not easily overcome, Upon Czechoslovakia the Krem­ neglected to elaborate on their published their own periodicals, and propaganda of the Kremlin Harold D. upped the score to nine our paper. G. Bailey is à regular lin has imposed unfavorable trade prospects fo r success. As fo r the the Anarchists, Mensheviks and in order to speed the victory of papers and six F I’s last Tuesday. weekly seller as well.” and Ole could not be convinced. He came back to work in agreements, just as it has upon bulk of the Progressive Party the mill at a lighter job until — he hoped — he would feel SRs published papers, ran poli­ the proletariat and socialism. Ait his regular beat at the Com­ In spite of cold weather and the other East European coun­ supporters, Huberman asserted tical candidates and elected rep­ munity Church John T. sold 10 fewer people on the streets the better again. And there he labored until the week before tries. The Slansky scapegoats that they arc confirmed “ social­ resentatives to the Soviets, the Militants at the William Shirer Chicago comrades have conducted he died. provide Stalin with a cover by ists,” and he proposed that they last of their publications being Newark Fri. Night meeting. On the. N.Y.U. campus some encouraging sales, in the pleading guilty to having nego­ should carry on socialist educa­ repressed- by the Stalinist bureau- Larry sold five papers and five past few weeks, writes Literature Well, that’s the story, for whatever comfort the be­ tiated “unfavorable trade agree­ tional work among their friends lievers in capitalism can get from it. A worker can ac­ cacy in 1925. There was free dis­ Socialist Forum F I’s and Ray sold 10 F I’s. Lenny Agent Jacki Booth. “ Our sales ments with capitalist countries.” and acquaintances. He stated that cussion of political questions by this month have been concentrat­ cumulate during the course of a lifetime the equivalent of The Kremlin overcharges fo r he thought this course could only varied wings of the Bolshevik presents a talk on ed on street corners in the sanie a month’s salary of his employer, if he’s willing to slave its deliveries. The defendants lead to the concentration camps, Party until the final victory of area in which we had our election plead guilty to pursuing this very now being prepared by the gov­ Crisis in the LOS ANGELES and die for it. . the Stalinist bureaucracy over the Middle East campaign. Tops for this month so course toward the Soviet Union ernment reaction, but he assured Left Opposition in 1927, when the Friday Night* Forum far, Irv has sold 45 Militants. and the countries of “ people’s the Compass Club audience that monolithic bureaucracy completed Other scores are Frank, 39; they too would probably suffer the Speaker: democracy.” Some of the Krem­ the liquidation of political free­ “ America’s Road Elaine R., 19; Bert, 12; Manny, lin’s shipments are shoddy, others same fate. For his part, Huber­ dom. A ll this, Huberman waves Lewis Scott to Socialism” 24; Jacki, 17; Muriel and Don, fa il to arrive. These are likewise man announced in advance his in­ aside. Fri., Dec. 12, 8:30 P.M. nine; Ed Sc., 10; and Snow, 4. turned into crimes for which tention to stick to principle come A Series of 6 Lectures Mr. Huberman may follow his at 52 Market St. We’ve also sold eight subs to Bound Volumes Stalin’s scapegoats are made to what may. Speaker: “ socialist” convictions and from The M ilitant and three to Fourth The Fourth assume responsibility. I t was his opinion that the elec­ now on refuse to support capital­ James P. Cannon International.” Czech factories suffer from tion results showed that the ist candidates. It should not be Many thanks to J.R.B. of Chi­ National Secretary of the SWP Militant International lack of raw materials. L. Frejka, “ socialists” would gain more by forgotten, however, that his cago, III., for his contribution of former head of Czech State Plan campaigning fo r th e ir own “ so­ t i 1951 $4.50 □ 1950-51 $5.50 “socialist” views seem to have NEW YORK (3) “ The Prospects of Capital­ $3 sent in with his subscriptions ning, confesses to having made cialist” views than for reform been consistently directed toward ism and Socialism in America” to The M ilita nt and Fourth In ­ □ 1950 $4,50 □ 1948-49 $5.50 Czech heavy industry “ dependent capitalism. He stated that even □ 1949 $5.00 □ 1947 $5.00 supporting capitalist candidates Friday Night — The contradictions of Amer­ ternational. upon Western raw materials im­ Roosevelt failed to.solve the con­ — probably since Browder return­ ican domination of a declining □ 1948 $5.50 □ 1946 $5.50 ports.” tradictions of capitalism or Socialist' Forum □ 1947 $5.50 □ 1945 $5.50 ed from Moscow in 1934 with the capitalist World. What the abolish unemployment, a fact that “ People’s Front” line. CIO Convention United States won and lost □ 1946 $6.00 □ 1944 $7.50 ECONOMIC DISPROPORTIONS Eisenhower, a reactionary, made CHICAGO H. Robins in World War II and its after- □ 1945 $7.00 □ 1943 $8.50 The Kremlin imposes on the ufce of in his campaign. Report and Analysis □ 1944 $7.00 □ 1942 $8.50 New York math. The crisis latent in the Socialist Forum Czechs, as it does on all the East Huberman proposed that should Speaker: arms economy and war pro­ □ 1948 $7.00 □ 1940-41 $15.50 European economies, a dispropor­ a labor party based on tho trade Harry Frankel “ World in Crisis 1953” □ 1942 $9.00 □ 1939 $15.50 gram. Can American capital­ tionate development of heavy in­ unions be launched because of the U. S. Women Hold ism remain stable in a world A Series of 6 Lectures □ 1939 (1st half $13.00 □ 1938 $15.50 dustry, without regard to civilian Staff Writer of The Militant personal ambitions of a Walter Fri., Dec. 12, 8 P.M. of social revolution and colonial (2) “Bevanism — Is England THE M ILIT A N T 116 University Place, New York 3, N. Y. needs. Again the blame is trans­ Routher and other rig ht wingers, 19,000,000 Jobs revolt? 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Subasin&he British throne went with her^ VoL X V I - No. 49 Monday, December 8, 1952 (As reported in previous issues of The Militant, the consort on a safari in this white man’s paradise. How our Lake vast surge of colonial rebellion against imperialist rule has House scribes dished out details brought into the headlines a country little known in Amer­ of Her Highness’ royal pleasures KENYANS DEFY BRITISH ica — Kenya. British terror ini^ fo r consumption at the breakfast The people of Kenya arc hurling defiance at their British The Durkin Appointment this -African colony is aimed at Jomo Kenyatta, imprisoned table every morning! Few people oppressors. Here is a typical statement, publication of which some 5,000,000 Africans forced leader j of the Kenya African I f ever there was a game so thin you making speeches that nobody pays any at­ expected this country, sanctified was forbidden in the colony: o ff their land by 29,000 European Union, asked that question in an by the tread of royal feet, to come “ You must feel very happy at the outward success of your could see right through it, it is Eisenhow­ tention to and issuing statistics that no­ settlers. A - number of African interview with the Sunday Pic­ into the news again on a different cruel operation. Thousands of Africans, leading a normal er’s game in appointing Martin P. Durkin body reads. This is all it takes to buy the leaders have b^een seized by the torial just before the present plane. life, have been stopped, searched, beaten, humiliated and Kenya authorities. Among them “ emergency” began in Kenya. He of the AFL plumbers to the post of Secre­ labor movement, in Eisenhower’s mind. Did not the news dispatches arrested. Creating the emergency, you have brutally treated is Jomo Kenyatta. As admitted by went on: “ We do not wish to tary of Labor in his cabinet. Of course, where some labor leaders are describe how loyal crowds of us and now you cannot claim democracy and freedom. Fascism the British Colonial Secretary drive out the white man. We want Kenya Africans thronged the has come to Kenya. Eisenhower is anxious to take the curse concerned, such a cheap price is enough. Lyttelton, Jomo Kenyatta has him to remain — but as a streets to obtain a glance at the “ Y ou' destroyed our press by arresting our editors and o ff the Republcan Party. The anti-labor Durkin himself, within hours after his ap­ been jailed only “ on suspicion.’’ partner. We do not grant him Lady who a few days later was suppressing our newspaper. But you cannot suppress the voice The following article about this the right to live in luxury while reputation of that party is a handicap to pointment was announced, indicated: (1.) to be their ruler? These same of the people. The brutality and suppression, the show of force native leader is reprinted from the our people starve, to have fine the incoming administration. Eisenhower That he thought the Taft-Hartley law people are today in revolt against and the rule of the gun, w ill not stop us from our goal. . . Nov. 20 Samasamajist, English clothes while our people are in Her Brittanic Majesty. It did not “ We have been forced to go underground. If we are known, hopes to continue the same policy that the could be amended to labor’s satisfaction rags. Above all, we do not grant weekly of the Lanka Samasamaja pay the newspapers of the capital­ you w ill murder us. We are not afraid. We ask how many of Democrats have used — at least for a (a week ago he was for repeal), and (2.) Party, Ceylon section of the him the right to insult us, to ban ist world to show their readers us you w ill imprison, how many of us you w ill kill? We are Fourth International. Ed.) us from his hotels, and to push us while. He doesn’t want an open break with That perhaps he would become a Republi­ the seething ferment that was six millions and power is in our numbers. We shall retaliate “ Why should your people steal into the gutter as he walks by.” Kenya even at the time of the labor now. He wants a continuation of the can (a month ago he was campaigning for * * * •iri the method you have employed. We shall not forget the bad Stevenson). our lands? Why should / your Royal visit. treatment we are suffering. When our time comes, we shall present relations so that war preparations settlers live in great mansions on The^British East African Colony As usual, the capitalist press is can go on undisturbed. He wants to jolly So that, if it is Eisenhower’s intention not show mercy, because you do not know what mercy is. We vast estates whilst our people of Kenya has been in the news minimizing the significance of the w ill k ill you like you are murdering us today. This is no labor along as Truman and Roosevelt did. to soften up the labor opposition? he al­ must exist in leaking insanitary twice during this year. F irst was recent happenings in Kenya. It threat .It is how we are feeling today. Africans unite!” '’ Jollying labor along is a game that takes ready has the former president of the sheds and prim itive'm ud huts?” in February when the heir to the tells us only what the British government wants it to say. Ac­ two to play. The administration does its Clumber’s union all softened up. Durkin cording to the British, the Mau part, and the union leaders do the rest. may have been a “ solid Irishman,” as British Cage Africans Mau boys are some bloodthirsty England and on the continent. mind the social and political back­ Eisenhower’s appointment of Durkin is his President Meany of the AFL described African cannibals on whom the Affable, vivacious and cheerful, ground of the African colonies. civilizing influence of British im­ Kenyatta had a knack of winning African life is predominantly first gambit in the game. Whether the Re­ him, but he melted down to a bowl of jelly the friendship of all who came tribal yet. There is no powerful the minute he got that telephone call from perialism has not had the desired publicans and the labor leaders will be effect. into touch with him. He was indigenous bourgeoisie as is to be able to play out this miserable farce at the Republican headquarters. A Reuter dispatch recently polite and sociable..His politeness found in .the Asiatic countries expense of the American working man just Durkin is certainly taken care of, but reported the arrest of a so-called however did not permit him to l?e thrft were under colonial domina=- there are still millions of workers who will terrorist leader — Jomo Kenyatta. in the least compromising in his tion. The British make use of the as the Democrats and the labor leaders deep-seated hatred of colonial op­ reactionary, ignorant tribal chief­ have for so many years still remains to be get no benefit from his being in the cabi­ We knew Jomo Kenyatta during our student days in London. We pression. Books on history and tains to hold the masses in sub­ seen. But the start has been made, and it net. Their suspicions of Republicanism were closely associated with him geography written by apologists jection. is obvious that Eisenhower is going to probably remain in full force. They are in conducting anti - imperialist of imperialism attempt to make There is, however, a rising make some kind of a stab at it. likely to move out in an independent polit­ propaganda in the imperial out that the Negro is uncultured small middle class which is highly and uncivilized. Kenyatta belied politically conscious. The educat­ The appointment itself is typical of the ical conflict with Washington. That is the metropolis. Having known Ken­ yatta, we can appreciate the that widely held notion. He is ed elements of this class are'lead- kind of “concessions” labor is getting in course labor should steer for right now developments in Kenya more cultured in the best sensé of the ing the fight against imperialism. Washington. The secretaryship of labor without wasting time to see who will come fully. word. Their political philosophy may be has been reduced to a ceremonial position off best in Eisenhower’s game, the sucker Kenyatta is no uncivilized brute About five feet, four inches in best described as nationalist in height, broad shouldered, a finely form with a vaguely socialist whose holder has the power to go around or the con man. as the imperialists would have us believe. He is no terrorist. He trimmed French beard adding content. has been a fighter for African color tp his face with character, Kenyatta is part and parcel of freedom from his early youth. His clad in heavy flannel trousers and this form of nationalism. There Demand Clemency for the Rosenbergs anti-imperialist activities forced sport jacket, a long scarf wrapped was a spirit of militancy in the him to leave his homeland and around his neck, a heavy walking man. As such he came into con­ Furthei’more, the prosecution never seek asylum in Britain. I t sounds stick with a silver knob in hand, flict with those English friends Unless clemency is granted, Julius and Kenyatta could be met at any showed that the information they alleged­ paradoxical. But it is true that whose attitude was, “Well, the Ethel Rosenberg will be electrocuted the imperialism shows greater toler­ meeting place of politically con­ colonies must be free, but you see ly transmitted was of vital importance. scious colonial youth. week of January 12. ance to its slaves in the metro­ freedom must be won gradually.” And to cap it all, the trial had the atmo­ politan country than in the He, like most of us, was a Shortly before the outbreak of While new voices are raised for reduc­ sphere of the arena in ancient Rome with colonies. frequent visitor to the fla t of the second imperialist war, the George Padmore in the working- tion of the sentence to life imprisonment the judge going all-out to demonstrate his In London, Kenyatta attended Independent Labor Party of Great. or a new tral, more powerful voices are British authorities in Kenya are corralling Africans in the London School of Economics class district of Mornington Britain and the Workers’ and patriotism ahd hatred for the defendants. Crescent. Padmore’s was the being raised to smear all who ask clemen­ barbed-wire cages, like the one shown above, throughout the for a time. Active politics in­ Peasants’ Party of France under Through the Hiss and Rosenberg trials, Kikuyu reserve. Mass arrests and Nazi-style “collective re­ terested him more than academic i-allying point for many colonial the leadership of Fenner Brock­ cy for the Rosenbergs. Not only is the yel­ the witch hunters hope to establish that tributions” against whole towns are being used by the im­ studies. He became a central youth, students and seamen. Pad- way and Daniel Guerin respec­ more, who is a Negro from the low press clamoring for the Rosenberg’s the Communist Party is a conspiracy and perialists in their attempts to smash the colonial independence figure in various anti-imperialist tively, summoned an anti - im­ execution but the New York Post, which movement. groups of colonial youth both in West Indies, was one of the Negro perialist war conference in Paris. that membership in it automatically equals students selected by the Third Kenyatta and the two authors of is rapidly becoming a “ liberal” version of espionage or treason. International in its early days for this article travelled together as the gutter tabloid Daily News, has opened Labor and other defenders of civil lib­ training in anti-imperialist agita­ delegates to' the conference. A t­ a campaign to make sure the Rosenbergs erties must Realize that the Stalinists are THE PEKING CONFERENCE Washington Faces tional and organizational work. tending the conference were some are electrocuted. He broke with the Third Interna­ veteran socialists from a number being persecuted because they are the most tional because of its compromising of European countries. Kenyatta The Rosenberg case cannot be divorced vulnerable. The main target is the whole Dilemma in Bolivia attitude towards British and presided at one of the sessions. from the witch hunt. Had there been no trade union movement. - A DELEGATE REPORTS French imperialism in the pre­ Some delegates attempted to witch hunt, they never would have receiv­ The witch-hunt atmosphere acts as pres­ By Edmund Samarakkody and to south - east Asia and war period. Padmore is today one characterize the impending second Australasia was made crystal Tin Mines Seizure of the leading Negro intellectuals world war as a democratic war. ed death sentences. Such sentences in time (The following article is re­ sure against m ilitant unionism today and clear. (Continued from page 1) and a leader of the Negro world. Kenyatta would not have it. He printed from the Samasamajist, of peace are unprecedented in U.S. his­ violations of the Stalinists’ rights set evil Delegates w h o represented they used to kick the army out Kenyatta came very much under forgot the fact that he was chair­ English weekly of the Lanka tory. In recent espionage trials in Canada countries where an armed strug­ the influence of this m ilitant man. And he let the social im­ precedents for more extensive violations Samasamaja Party, Ceylon sec­ of power in the April 9 revolu­ gle is going on gave a harrow­ socialist. perialists have it with all the and Britain, the sentences were terms of of the rights of others in the future. tion of the Fourth International. tion” which led to the nationaliza­ ing tile of French, British and To understand Kenyatta’s poli­ venom he could command. imprisonment. Why is it different in the Edmund Samarakkody was one of tion of the mines. “ Some of these As the execution date approaches, many American imperialist destruction gun-packing miners can be seen tical outlook, one must bear in (To be continued.) this party’s delegates to the U.S. ? The answer is the carefully-promoted people, opposed in general to the barbarity and atrocities. The wanton patrolling the streets of La Paz Peking Conference. Ed.) witch hunt and the resulting hysteria. destruction of all grain in itself, stopping and examining of capital punishment, feel the particular The Peace Conference of the Malaya and Viet-Nam and the cars and trucks entering the city. The Rosenbergs were not even accused savagery of this sentence. Humanitai’ian Asian and Pacific Regions held in havoc played on crops with The Bolivians,” adds the Journal, Peking at the beginning of Oct. of aiding an enemy nation. Their alleged instincts, as well as opposition to the chemicals was a terrible tale. “ think the United States may be was attended by over 400 dele­ World Events espionage took place at the height of the witch-burners, call for full support to the The herding offlfi.OOO people of able to make or break their tin gates and observers from 37 three villages of Viet - Nam by nationalization experiment and By Charles Hanley alliance between the U.S. and the Soviet movement for clemency for Ethel and countries. As a broad-based or­ French and U.S. imperialists into thus affect prospects for a ‘180th Union. Julius Rosenberg. ganization the conference, as was a concentration camp and ex­ revolution’ by these armed MARTIAL LAW IN IRAQ is cannot force the return of the expected, had the task of reconcil­ posure to slow death by starva­ miners.” (The April 9 revolt is the answer of the corrupt ruling lands to the Meru since the U.S., ing various shades of opinion tion was a grim story. said to be the 179th revolution class and its Anglo-American im­ Britain and other colonial powers regarding the questions of war Memo to the "Daily Worker" Staff In both Malaya and Viet-Nam in Bolivian history.) perialist backers to the demon­ have veto power in the UN and peace. the imperialists have been guilty The situation on compensation strations a few weeks ago against Trusteeship Council. We note that during the Prague frame- the Daily Worker staff. You insist — a Owing to the larger representa­ of crimes against humanity. is as follows: The Patino, Hochs- the rigged election laws and im­ * * * tion that the middle class had More than 80% of the women of child and Aramayo companies, perialism. TKe new premier, Gen­ IN CEYLON the Lanka Sam­ up trial of “Trotskyite-Titoite, Zionist, little hysterically it’s true — that there received at this conference the eral Mahmoud, dissolved all poli­ bourgeois-nationalist traitors and enemies was no anti-Semitism at the trial. You villages under the occupation of 72% foreign owned, say then- asamaja Party, a section of the humanitarian approach- to these imperialist forces in Viet-Nam companies arc worth $f>0 million, tical parties and jailed the lead­ 4th International, has invited all of the Czechoslovak people” you played faithfully repeat the GPU tripe about the questions was worked. Never­ have ben raped. Incidentally all but the Bolivian government has ers of those that demanded elec­ other parties based on the work­ down the “ confessions.” Some days you did “ nest of paid spies,” the “ miserable plot theless from the fact that a con­ the nuns of Cao Mai Church were made its own estimate: $21.7 m il­ toral reforms. Professors and ing class to join it in a United siderable number of delegates said to have been raped. lion. However, the government students are being screened to Front to meet the growing un­ not even print the news. to re-enslave the Czech people” that was were from countries where the get rid of “ troublemakers.” Bag­ revealed. Your conscience must now be at The delegates from the coun­ points out that tax evasions, for­ employment and drive for wage Your embarrassment over this new fight for peace is integrated with tries of Latin America revealed eign exchange manipulations and dad primary schools were ordered cuts that the bosses are expect­ frame-up trial staged by Stalin is under­ rest. You did your duty. You helped crucify the fight for national liberation the existence of a determined sabotage carried on by the com­ reopened after the teaching staffs ed to launch soon with govern­ standable. You have been trying to save your fellow Stalinists. Once again you ap­ and against imperialism, a new struggle against imperialist in­ panies put them in the position of have been purged. The propa­ ment backing. Among the parties proved the forced “ confessions,” the stupid note was evident. filtration and interference in the owing the Bolivians some $520 ganda line of the m ilitary regime invited to cooperate are the Com­ the Rosenbergs, sentenced to death under seems to be to blame the demon­ the witch-hunting Truman administration. frame-up script, the phony petitions for The 'Conference had on its internal affairs of these coun­ million, for which they are being m unist'Party of Ceylon and the agenda the following questions: tries. Mass demonstrations in billed. The rank-and-file of the strations on the educated youth Ceylon Indian Congress. But unless you expose the frame-up, and the death sentence. (1) Japanese question, (2) Ko­ these countries have in fact miners and rest of the Bolivian and on Communists from Iran. * * * protest-the anti-Semitism, in the Prague We doubt that anything we might say rean question, (3) Cultural, (4) prevented the dispatch of troops working class is strongly opposed * * * CHILE has cancelled a con­ trial and the inhuman death sentences Development of Economic Rela­ to Korea. In the countries of to the payment of any money to AN AFRICAN TRIBE from cession for the exclusive exploita­ could touch the hearts- and minds of peo­ Tanganyika, British-run territory passed on the victims there, your appeals tions, (5) the problem of National Central America — El Salvador, the companies. tion of Easter Island by a British ple as deeply hypnotized as you. Just the Independence, (6) Defense of Guatemala, Costa Rica — the Recent examination of income adjacent to seething Kenya, company. Since the government for the Rosenbergs lose their moral same here’s a tip. Don’t take a trip to Women and Child Welfare, (7) masses are actively resisting the tax returns, reported in the Dec. pleaded fo r return of its lands has set up a state body to carry weight. Eastern Europe in the coming days — in the question of concluding a Five- feverish attempts to militarize 1 Christian Science Monitor, shows before a UN committee. Spokes­ on the extensive sheep herding We can appreciate another reason for Power Pact. these regimes for U.S. war pur­ that four members of the Patino men for the Mery tribesmen told of the island the step is hailed case it ’s offered. More frame-up trials are how British authorities a yehr your finding the Prague trial distasteful. Except for National Inde­ poses. family, immensely wealthy from by Chileans as nationalization. being cooked up, and the GPU needs Amer­ pendence, all, other questions The war preparations of im­ their control of the largest of ago evicted 3,000 Meru men, Santiago newspapers point out How many frame-ups does this make that ican spies to make them look more were of a non - controversial perialism in the Middle Eastern the Bolivian tin mining concerns, women and children from their that while the company paid less you’ve had to explain away ? The firs t big plausible. I f there’s a shortage of real ones, nature. The Korean and Japanese countries of Turkey, Syria, Iran paid an average income tax last lands to make room fo r thirteen than $500 a year rent fo r the ones back in the Thirties so startled the the GPU, may we remind you, knows how questions brought to light for­ was revealed. The Middle East year of $32.02 each. Of the four white settlers. British authorities island its yearly profits were cibly and emphatically that the governments were exposed as (aLl living in France), one paid came to the village of Ngare- $80,000. world that you could get away for a while * * * to get “ confessions” out of facsimiles. You threat of a third world war is puppets where imperialism is $85.90, and the other three $15.66 Nanyuki last year, ordered the' . with defending these judicial murders. are just as logical candidates for this role real. The delaying and sabotag­ permitted economic penetration each. Naturally, the Bolivian peo­ Africans out and set fire to their EDUCATOR Stephen Penrose, A fter the show trials were exposed by the as the Prague victims, who helped build ing tactics of the imperialists in and infiltration leading to poli­ ple feel that the tin magnates houses. One woman in childbirth president of the American Uni­ John Dewey Commission in 1937 as the their own gallows by defending and the truce negotiations was clearly tical influence. have already taken their “ com­ was driven out into the fields to versity in Beirut, Lebanon, told a biggest frame-ups in history this was no proved and the intention of the This focusing of attention on pensation.” many times m ultipli­ give birth. Her husband was New York audience that in the justifying the previous trials the way you imperialists to extend the war the mass struggles in the coun­ ed, out of Bolivia. arrested and after four days in minds of the people of the near longer possible. Today, even you must are defending and justifying the current was also revealed. tries of south-east Asia and the the open the child died. British East the U.S. comes close to being flinch a little when word comes that an­ frame-up. The Japanese question focused Pacific against imperialism in all spokesmen before the UN com­ Public Enemy No. 1. other one is in the works. To tell “ the truth,” as you blandly put attention on a menacing situa­ its forms made the discussion on Still 'Casualties' mittee replied: “ The extent of * * * tion. The militarization of Japan the question of National Inde­ damage and loss suffered in the BRITISH TEACHER, Peter However, if you faltered, it was only it in your editorial, are you at bottom and conversion of Japan into a pendence and Peace interesting. in announcing that American case of the Meru is, , considering W right, was dismissed from his momentarily. Your Dec. 1 editorial should really so loyal to Stalin? Confess, isn’t it single m ilitary and strategic base I t was clear beyond any doubt to casualties in Korea up to Nov. 30 the measure of non-cooperation job as senior assistant master at prove that no sympathy for these latest more likely, after all, that you are really of imperialism was shown very the delegates of most of these were 127,383, the Defense De­ by the people themselves, very the school fo r Indians in Nairobi, victims of Moloch-Stalin can be found in just a nest of police agents, old Gestapo clearly from the reports of the countries that the struggle for partment said it was no longer small indeed.” Eight colonial and Kenya, and then expelled from the Japanese delegates. peace is not separated and isolat» using the word “ casualty.” It was Semi-colonial countries of the UN British colony. His crime was men and anti-Soviet spies in the pay of The expansion of the Police ed from the struggle for National good enough for World W'ar I and submitted a resolution denouncing showing sympathy for the native John Foster Dulles? In fact, from the very Reserve Corps of Japan and the Liberation and better living con World War II but today the public the British action and asking Africans and the Indian popula­ beginning of your careers, nothing but transformation of the govern­ ditions. It was in this context seems to have become too sen­ return of the land. This unheard- tion, both of whom suffer from Their Morals and Ours “ Trotskyite-Titoite, Zionist, bourgeois- ment apparatus into a police state that the delegate from our party- sitive to the word. From now on of boldness by small countries was racist imperial rule. By LEON TROTSKY was also exposed. The imperialist got the opportunity of effectively the Defense Department (fo r­ attacked by the imperialist pow * C # nationalist traitors and enemies” of )the war-mongers have even now con­ pointing out that in whatever merly the War Department) will ers as “ light headed,” “blind,’ 1,146,121 CANADIAN WORK­ 64 pages 25 cents working people ? Tell the facts! Didn’t you verted Japan into a -base to form it may express itself the list the killed, wounded and “ erroneous,” etc. The delegate of ERS belong to unions, according PIONEER PUBLISHERS worm your way into the Daily Worker prosecute their savage War struggle for peace in all the missing in action' but they won’t one major Western power re­ to government figures. This is an against Korea. The intention of countries of the Pacific and south­ be “casualties,they’ll - just be marked: “ There is a strange increases of 117,600 in a year and 116 University Place New York 3, N. Y. staff as part of a plot to “ shorten the imperialism to extend this war east Asia is the struggle against killed, wounded' and missing in atmosphere here today.” Un­ comprises one-third of the entire life” of the great Stalin? to the Peoples Republic of China imperialism. action. fortunately the small, countries labor force. Don’t Blame the Women ■------By Joyce Cowley ------the MILITANT There’s an old device that’s handy when became more and more infuriated.” “ Ste- y VOLUM E X V I MONDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1952 N U M B E R 49 things don’t go your way. I f you lose out venson,” they conclude, “ committed a car- ■ because of your own stupidity or double dinal political sin when he attempted to dealing, find a fall guy. Or, like the edi- talk rationally and in honest appraisal of Victim of Heartbreak Ridge tors of the United Mine Workers Journal, the nation’s affairs.” a fall gal. Eisenhower apparently won the election Jim Crow Puts Economic In spite of the efforts of the union bu- because women are emotional, unreason- reaucrats, their friends the Democrats able and can’t appreciate honesty. Not be- made a poor showing in this election. So cause the union big shots supported the there must be a reason. Not of course, the status quo, failed to give political leader- obvious reason — that the working people, ship and show that the only possible way Blight on Negro People sick of the Democrats, sick of high prices workers can get somewhere is through in- By George Breitman employed, compared to 3.7% for war. The men made it up and and taxes and above all the Korean war, dependent political action. Not because wo- The Jim Crow system costs whites.) even passed the wartime peak as turned in desperation to what seemed an men hate the foreign policy of the Demo- the average Negro more than The same unfavorable situation a result of the post-Korean arms alternative. crats, hate the war which takes their hus- seven years of his life and keeps applies to seniority. A survey in boom, but the women are still ’way behind the percentage reach­ I t ’s the union leaders who are chiefly bands and sons to a foreign battlefield to his income down to around half January 1951 showed “ Negro of that received by the average workers had been on their cur­ ed during the war. (This explains responsible for the fact that there was no die without honor or purpose, hate all the white American. rent jobs an average of 2.4 years, why hiring discrimination against real alternative, no labor candidate the things at home that go with a policy of These bare statistics, which ex­ compared w ith an average of 3.5 Negro women is such a hot issue workers could vote for, so they don’t care world domination — the draft, thought plain why “the Negro question" years among white workers.” in many factories today.) to discuss this point. In the Nov. 15 issue control, the high cost of living, taxes to is such dynamite, were not drawn Furthermore, “ 20% of urban Lack of space prevents us from up by radicals, who m ight be white men and only 13% of urban discussing the many occupational of the United Mine Workers Journal they support the war machine, accused of exaggerating the pic­ Negroes had worked on their cur­ shifts. The report summarizes the discover the real culprits — American wo- “ Time for a change” — with this slo- ture. They were drawn up in a rent jobs since before January total picture this way: men. gan, according to the United Mine Work­ report on “ Employment and Eco­ 1940.” , , “The data show that the high­ w om en,” they explain, “ turned a poli- ers Journal, Eisenhower charmed the wo- nomic Status of Negroes in the This means not only that Ne­ est proportions of Negro work­ tical debate into a resentment contest.” men’s vote. Yet it’s a good slogan. Time United States” fo r the Senate groes suffer more from unemploy­ ers continue to be found in the Subcommittee on Labor and ment today, but that they will be lower-paying and less-skilled oc­ While women generally don’t even know to scrap the sell-out policies of the union Labor-Management Relations, and among the first fired when un­ cupations, such as service work­ the name of the Secretary of State, they leadership. Time for labor to go into poli- are based entirely on official gov­ employment rises, ers and laborers. Comparatively “ seemed to be well informed about Ache- tics with a program that answers the real ernment studies. Every class­ low proportions of Negroes are OCCUPATIONAL TRENDS son. . . What they didn’t know, they in- needs of the people of this country, conscious worker, white or Ne­ found in the professional, tech­ gro, ought to learn what this An important factor, affecting nical, managerial, clerical, sales, vented and they used it with an invective So if you’re a mine worker or an auto report contains. . all the other statistics, was the and craftsmen occupations.” Ill which made the barroom orators of old worker or a steel worker and you feel de­ You can get a free copy by continued shift of Negroes from some of these better-paying oc­ look like a bunch <5f Epworth Leaguers.” pressed about the election, don’t raise hell w riting to the above-named sub­ farm to city or town. Between cupations the proportions of Ne­ Grief-stricken Mrs. Joseph Maniscalco, in her Brooklyn, committee, Washington, D. C., or 1940 and 1950 the urban popula­ “Not alone the women of the white col- with your wife. Raise hell with the cow- N. Y., home, holds picture of her 18-year-old son Mario and groes employed has risen since to one of the U.S. Senators from tion of the Negroes rose from 1944, but in others it has fallen. lar segment but also the wives of the ardly, compromising, do-nothing tactics of telegram informing her he was killed on Korea’s Heartbreak your state. To show why this is 48% to 61% (almost the same What do these figures mean? horny-handed sons of toil saw red when the union leaders and demand that they Ridge, one of 40,000 U.S. casualties since truce negotiations worthwhile, we are going in this as the 64% fo r whites). The Have the gains made by the Ne­ began. Sharing her sorrow are her daughter and two other sons. article to summarize the most they read or heard the name of Acheson.” learn the basic lesson of this election, that percentage of Negro men engaged groes in last 10-12 years been important facts in the report. When Truman defended Acheson “ women it really is time for a change. in agriculture fell from 42% to big ones or small? ATe they per­ 25% (among white men it fell manent or temporary? What LIFE EXPECTANCY from 21% to 15%). ------The Negro Struggle------MORE READERS REPORT Scientific and medical progress produced these changes? W ill Meanwhile this is what was future progress against Jim Crow has lengthened life for all Amer­ happening to the proportion of icans. But how long we live be automatic? Can the fight for Negroes who were employed in equality be won by using the No "Loyal” Opposition depends oh other things besides manufacturing industries: Men — ON CUCf/ON REACTIONS medical care — it also depends on methods followed in the last ------By Jean Blake ------16% in 1940, 24% in 1944, decade, or are new methods need­ (We arc continuing publication of comments by our readers the food we eat, our housing con­ '21%% in 1950, 26% in 1952. Wo- ditions, .the kind of work we do. ed? These are some of the ques­ One of the most disgusting aftermaths Jim Crow — has a simpler and less pretty and correspondents on reactions of workers to the results of the men — 3% in 1940, 13% in 1944, the amount of rest we get, etc. tions arising from the Senate of the election campaign is the undignified name in some circles: Uncle Tomism. recent elections. We welcome reports from communities not yet 8% in 1950, 7% in 1952. That is why life expectancy report that will be discussed in Negro men and women both spectacle of labor and Negro “ leaders” th a t’s all right for people who are satis- heard from.) '1'“ “ ~ ~ . figures give a fa irly accurate the next issue of the magazine scrambling to get over on the other side fied to accept a lower class position in ‘bosses’ — the gist was that the lost ground in this field after the Fourth International. SEATTLE bosses would now have a free guide to the effects of discrimina­ of the political fence. society, not for those determined to win hand in dealing with employes tion. The election had hardly been conceded full equality, “ Those workers who voted and would try to get the union In the last 30 years the follow­ before telegrams were being sent by all Before he dashed into print with his Democrat are stunned or be­ out or weaken it. In other words, ing gains in life expectancy were wildered or worried or angry and Eisenhower’s election gave these made: male Negroes 11%%, male STATE DEPT. BLOCKS MOVE the major and minor labor bureaucrats post-election column, Mr. Hancock should those who supported Eisenhower fellows added confidence. whites 10%; female Negroes pledging support to the man they had been have studied the lessons of the campaign are almost cynically watching “ The members, further, thought 16%, female whites 13%. The damning as the Prince of Darkness a few a little. Particularly, he should have learn- developments. An attitude of the Army chief got in because so improvement fo r Negroes was IN UN FOR KOREA WAR TRUCE hours earlier. (Talk about Stalinists ed a few things from the “ practical poli- wait-andrsec prevails, underlined many mothers voted fo r him, higher than for whites, but only with varying degrees of fear of misled by his false promise that a little b it higher, and the d if­ (Continued from page 1) optimism that a Chinese capitula­ switching their line!) tics” of the chief enemies of Negro rights an anti-labor offensive soon. ‘ he would send their boys home ferences between them were still are also' the alternatives summed tion could be easily forced.” A similar course is being followed by — the Dixiecrats. “ Eisenhower did split the vote from Korea.” startling: ,up by Life. Despite the terrible risks of some spokesmen and writers in the Negro They demonstrated that the way to win of younger worker - veterans, B F In 1919 the life expectancy at these alternatives, both Life and GRIM ALTERNATIVES press. One of the worst of these is Dean is by standing firm on your principles, many of whom voted fo r Eisen­ birth for the average Negro boy U.S. News dismiss out-of-hand the hower in the belief that even a NEW YORK The latter finds nothing hope­ Gordon B. Hancock, whose syndicated col- whatever they may be, and remaining was almost. 59 years and that of one alternative that could quickly depression was preferable to an­ “ The attitude which I have white boys 66 years, a difference ful or reassuring in any of the and definitely end the Korean umn for the Associated Negro Press is used loyal only to them. The Southern Demo- other war. Some worker-veterans, heard in discussions with union of about 7 years, For Negro girls ‘alternatives leading to continua­ war without further bloodshed as editorial page filler by many weeklies. crats refused to remain loyal to the Demo- however, supported the Democrats members and have read in union at birth it was 63 and white girls tion, intensification and extension and suffering: Withdrawal of all “ As citzens in a democracy,” he wrote cratic Party if that meant making any thinking they were “realistically” papers is that they don’t expect 71 Zi, a difference of 8'/i years. of the^ war. “ Turning the war U.S. armed forces from the choosing the limited Korean war much from the Republicans and in his Nov. 15 column, “ we are entitled concessions to civil rights, even in the form Jim Crow is literally a killer. over to the South Koreans can Korean peninsula. Life calls this to an all-out war w ith the Soviet fear that the Republicans w ill try only be a slow and painstaking alternative “unthinkable,” “ igno­ to the great privilege of bitter opposition of election oratory. Union which they were convinced to take away some of their gains. WAGES AND SALARIES process” for instance and Chiang’s minious” and a “betrayal of our to men and measures until the vote is As a result, both the Democrats and the Republicans would unleash. They say, ‘Let’s w ait and see. I f In 1939 the Negro wage and forces on Formosa would scarcely South Korean allies, of American taken; and then we are morally bound to Republicans bent over backwards trying Some good union militants voted the Republicans try' to take any­ salary worker earned an average alter the balance as they number and allied dead.” U.S. News Republican as part of a conscious thing from us, we w ill fight them. cease our opposition and turn our attention to win the Dixiecrat vote. The Democrats of $7 a week, while the white “barely three divisions.” claims it “ would be unacceptable repudiation of the dictates of the We are .prepared to fight and w% worker earned $18. That was dur­ An attempt at “aggressively to most Americans,” and energies to cooperation. Such will be chose a symbol of the South as their vice- labor bureaucrats and in line with feqj that the Republicans won’t ing the depression, when as a seeking a local decision on the their opposition to PAC policy. attempt to take any of our union It is “ unthinkable,” of course, the course of this column.” presidential candidate, and the Republi- result of discrimination unemploy­ Korean peninsula itself” — a to dictator Syngman Rhee of Such will not be the course of THIS cans refused to make even the campaign “ Eisenhower’s TV appearances conditions away.’ Most workers ment was higher among Negroes limited offensive merely to gain and his demagogic promises of I ’ve talked with don’t completely South Korea who threatens to column. promises of the Democrats to attract the than among whites. Between 1939 a better and narrower line across continue the war on his own even peace and peace-time prosperity, connect Eisenhower and the Re­ and 1950 the average wage of both Korea as Gen. Van Fleet has We have a very different concept of dem- Negro vote, more homes, hospitals, roads, publican Party with reaction — if the U.S. agrees to a truce. I t groups went up. For the Negro proposed — “ would be a for­ would indeed be ignominious for ocracy and of our rights and moral obliga- By” taking a stand independent of both social gains, etc., led workers’ that is, not consciously. They say it went up to an average of $25 midable job” which “ might cost wives with TV sets to hope that let us w ait and see — maybe the the arrogant UH. m ilitarists and tions. We believe we are obliged to tell the Democrats and Republicans, the Dixie- a week, for the white to an aver­ the Eight Army as much as 25,- the big-money boys who are try ­ life would somehow be easier Republican Party has changed.” age of $48. our readers the truth as we see it, and to crats put themselves in a position to make 000 to 40,000 casualties” and ing to muscle in on the territory under his regime. P. N. The report says that in those “ unless the Chinese forces were continue to struggle for democratic rights demands, not promises. And they’re not “ The campaign and its after- of the whole planet. But there U years “ the average fo r Negro decisively crushed in a single is no solution to thè war more for all before, during and after the vote pledging to be a “ loyal opposition,” either, math raised political discussion workers has increased relatively grinding action . . . would mean in the plants and offices here to acceptable to the Korean, Chinese is taken. We recognize obligations of loy- They’re not tying their hands, more than fo r whites." That’s still not winning the war.” and Amerioan peoples alike than a very high level. One Dobbs Boulton Scores true. In 1939 the Negro was mak­ As for an extension of the war alty to principles, not to men — even Neither should the advocates of civil supporter reported that thé Demo­ immediate withdrawal of the UH. Presidents. rights. The-only way to make any gains ing 38% of what the white made, into China proper, this “would, armed forces from Korea. crats with whom he works are and by 1950 the figure had risen of course, raise diplomatic and But aside from the moral concepts in- is through an independent, absolutely un- friendlier than ever to him — Move to Victimize to 62%. military problems of the utmost MILLIONS HOMELESS after all, they were both losers volved, Mr. Hancock’s “ practical politics” compromising stand on principles. Never But that fact should not be intricacy” — not the least of The Nov. 29 Voice of Korea, and both are now in opposition isn’t very smart, either. The policy he ad- be satisfied with crumbs, or that’s all you’ll PP in Milwaukee misunderstood. I t does NOT mean which might be to “ split the published by the Korean A ffairs parties! Furthermore, these work­ NATO alliance wide open” and vocates — cooperation with the adminis- get. Scraping and bowing to Eisenhower MILWAUKEE, Nov. 28—James that the Negro’s paycheck got an Institute in Washington, D. C., ers are not such defenders of the “ affect dangerously, perhaps even an organization of Korean-Amer- Korean war any more. Now that E. Boulton, Socialist Workers increase in more dollars than the tration which condones and perpetuates will win contempt, not civil rights. white got. On the contrary, the fatally, the strategic deployment icans who oppose Rhee but sup­ it is no longer Truman’s and the Party candidate fo r U.S. Senator Negro’s pay increased only $18 a now designed fo r . . . Western port U.S. intervention in Korea, unions’ baby but Eisenhower’s, in the recent elections, protested week while the white’s pay in ­ Europe,” the present key strategic points out that now the “ para­ they no longer feel such a strong moves by “socialist” Mayor Frank area for Wall Street’s planned Zeidler of this city to deny third- creased $30 a week. mount concern” is the sheer obligation to defend it. war against the Soviet Union. physical survival of the people Notes from the News “ Many workers realize the party rights on the local election FAMILY INCOME Moreover, says Life regretfully, commissions to the Progressive in Korea, of whom h a lf'in South futility of voting for either of the The report also contains figures “History affords little ground for Party wjiich won them from the Korea, or 10,406,000, are destitute two big bosses’ parties and they on fam ily incomes. In 1945, the and homeless. The Voice assails STUDENTS DEFY LEGION. A forum series claim to go every week. I t should be remembered are more than prepared to sup­ collapsing local machine of the last year of World Whr II, the the dictatorial Rhee regime and at Marshall College in Huntington, West Virginia, that the pressure for conformity m ight induce a port a labor party. This is even Thomasite Socialist Party. average money income of all Ne­ the demand fo r continuation of ■was temporarily stopped when local members of considerable number of those polled to make true of a portion of the highly- Boulton received 1,442 votes for gro families was $29 a week, com­ Instructive Book the war. It asks', “ Would anyone the American Legion passed a resolution calling themselves out more religious than they actually Skilled, well - paid, traditionally Senator from Wisconsin, accord­ pared to $52 fo r white families. believe there is popular support fo r the elimination of alleged “ communist-front” are. conservative workers who voted ing to available election returns. * * * Relatively, Negro families were speakers Margaret Bourke - White, Max Lerner The SWP candidates fo r Presi­ for the war, either in the South Republican. making about 57% of what white On Stalin’s System and Paul Engle. Students called a meeting of all FEDERAL GRAND JURY in New York urged dent and Vice President, Farrell or the North?” It expresses the “ To sum up, the workers are families were making. ticket-holders to the forum series, invited towns­ that certification by the National Labor Relations Dobbs and M yra T. Weiss, got hope that Eisenhower “does not confused and dissatisfied about the fall victim to the power-craving people to .the meeting and asked the Legionnaires Board of four independent unions, which complied election. They express contradic­ 1,350 votes in the state; Hoopes, The incomes of both groups Of Frame-Ups to prove their case. The witch-hunters failed with all the requirements including filing of non­ presidential candidate of the So­ went up during the next five Korean minority” who want the tory opinions daily.” war to go on. miserably and fell back on such arguments as communist oaths, be revoked anyway on grounds C. K. cialist Party, 1,157; Hass, of the years. Negro families got an If you would like to know more students (many of whom are World War II vet­ of, “national security.” The unions, representing Socialist Labor Party, 770. Hal- average of $36 in 1950, while about Stalin’s use of frame-ups As for the American people, erans) are too young to understand the problem. a half million workers, are the United Electrical, CHICAGO linan of the Progressive Party white families got $66. This as a calculated policy, read millions of them voted fo r Eisen­ The meeting voted almost unanimously to con­ Radio and Machine Workers, the American Com­ “ Almost all who voted in my polled 2,174 votes. meant a comparative drop for “ Stalin’s Framc-Up System and hower in the mistaken belief — tinue the forum series. munications Association, Fur and Leather Work­ shop voted Democratic. Olden In an open letter to Mayor Negroes, because now their fam ily The Moscow Trials.” which he deliberately fostered — * * * ers, and the Distributive, Processing and Office workers see the Republicans as Zeidler, Boulton emphatically dis­ income was only 54% of that of This interesting and instructive that he really intends to end the Workers. the party of the depression. There agreed with the mayor’s chal­ white families. book contains Leon Trotsky’s war in Korea and bring the troops HEARD EVERYTHING NOW. CIO textile * » * home. The latest Gallup Poll, workers at the Beaunit Mills in Cohoes, N. Y., was much post - election joking, lenge of the DP’s right to third- In other words, the relative famous speech before the John THAT NASTY WORD — “ surplus” — is being reported in last week’s Militant, were told by the president of the company at a such as ‘no more income taxes, party legal status. “ Our belief in position of Negro fam ily income Dewey Commission during its eradicated from corporation balance sheets as improved during the war but has thorough investigation into the revealed that a m ajority of Amer­ plant meeting that they were not “morally no more income,’ etc. Younger equal rights fo r all m inority the result of an organized campaign. The Wall first two big Moscow frame-up icans think it was wrong fo r this entitled” to the vacation pay he fears an arbitra­ workers and those with sons over parties was never based upon worsened since the end of the Street Journal reports that a survey made by the war. trials. Trotsky tells why Stalin country ever to have intervened tion board may award them and that he was there — or soon to go — are whether or not we approved of Institute of Accountants of the annual reports of needs frame-ups and at the same in Korea in the first place. I f the “ relying on the decency of you people” to mail concerned mainly with ending the their members or supporters, Another thing to remember 600 corporations shows that 31% of the corpora­ Korean War. tim e does such a definitive job of American people were given a back the checks. their policies or aims,” wrote about the differential family in­ * * * tions have abandoned tHe words “ capital surplus” “ Two young women who dis­ Boulton. “It is Sen. McCarthy’s comes is that “a higher propor­ exposing the first two that the real voice irirough a referendum in favor of “ paid in capital.” 44% have replaced cussed extensively with me were method to set up an ‘approved’ Kremlin’s judicial system never vote on the question of continuing WARNING TO SUPREME COURT was issued tion of Negro fam ily members are the words “ earned surplus” with “retained earn­ anti-war and could see no reason list of parties and persons — to recovered from the blow in the the war or withdrawing the by Virginia Attorney General Almong, who in the labor force.” (Proportions ings” or some other disguise. One accountant fo r our being there. They be­ paste the devil-label of ‘Com­ eyes of impartial public opinion. troops, they would show the com­ declared: “ No greater catastrophe could befall of Negro and white men in the explained that it was desirable do away with the lieved that none of the politicians munist’ on all the others — then Besides Trotsky’s speech, the plete falsity of the U.S. News the public school system in Virginia than a court labor force are about the same, word “ surplus” because “ too many people think it of either party were serious about to set the machinery of injustice book contains a foreword by claim that withdrawal from Korea decision outlawing segregation of students. . . . but among women they are 45% means the corporation has a lot of spare cash ending the war. One woman said to work upon them.” Joseph Hansen that exposes the “ would be unacceptable to most The public school system would wither and die.” fo r Negroes to 33% for whites.) lying around.” that the war was kept going to He insisted that “ the Progres­ If not for that fact, Negro family frame-up trials of Rajk and Americans.” South Carolina white supremacists have already * * * keep us out of a depression.” sive Party must be defended in its Kostov in Hungary and Bulgaria laid plans fo r ending public schools i f segregation income would be comparatively Whatever bhe outcome of Eisen­ ROBERT MINOR, famous cartoonist and one R. L. fight for third-party rights in in 1949. Hansen also analyzes is declared unconstitutional. lower than 54% of white family hower’s trip to Korea, it is least of the founders of the Communist Party, died at * * * Milwaukee County.” income. Moscow’s main apology fo r the likely to mean an immediate end * * * the age of 68. A socialist during World War I, he “ Most of them (women union frame-ups in “ The Great Conspir­ of the war. Rather, the threat is A POLL ON CHURCH-GOING made by a com­ spoke out in defense of the Russian Revolution. workers) fe lt that the days of UNEMPLOYMENT, acy,” presenting irrefutable proof of more U.S. casualties added to mercial opinion research firm fo r the Catholic He was prominently identified with the Tom depression and pre-union condi­ Not Enough Hospitals SENIORITY of how the Stalinist authors the 128,000 battle losses already Digest states that 99% of tho$e asked replied Mooney Defense and the Scottsboro case. Hit tions were back again or soon Judged by the minimum ac­ The report show that “ fo r both doctor up “ evidence.” suffered in 2% years of the that they believed in God. Only about one-third early political career showed great courage , and would be. They did not'think that cepted standard of A Vi general Negro men and women the aver­ “ Stalin’s Fram e-U p System Korean invasion — 23,000 more of the population goes regularly to church. 18% militancy. The latter part, however, was just the Eisenhower would stop the war. hospital beds per 1,000 of popula­ age rate of unemployment, from and the Moscow Trials” can be than in the first 2% years of the of Catholics admit never attending, while 62% opposite. He degenerated into a ’Stalinist hack Some of them reported conversa­ tion, only 14 Per cent of the 1947 to 1951, has been more than obtained from Pioneer Publishers, Pacific fighting during World War claim to go every Sunday. Among Protestants, following every tw ist and turn of the party line tions they overheard between counties in the U.S. had adequate 50% above that for whites.” (In 116 University Place, New York II and over 40% of the entire 82% admit never attending church, while 25% and beti’ayal of the workers’ movement. customers they knew to be hospital facilities. 1951 5.4% of Negroes were Un- 3, N. Y. The cost is $1. World War I toll.