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Vol. XV - No. 5 NEW YORK, N. Y., MONDAY, JANUARY 29, 1951 PRICE: FIVE CENTS

Destination Moon Let the People of U.S. Vote on War and Peace Asians lead Big Majority In U.S. Demand: Revolt in UN Bring Troops Back Home N ow ! Against U.S. By the Editor It is the President, the Senators and the Congressmen the GI’s are talking about. Why don’t-they listen to the voice of the GI? A full-fledged world-wide re­ The President of the United States, members of the Congress and the State Department are violating the will Rather than heed the people, America’s rulers are bickering volt against Washington’s de­ among themselves over the constitutional rights of the President as mands to close the door on peace of the American people by refusing to stop the Korean against Congress to send more American youth abroad. No doubt negotiations with China has war now. the skilled corporation lawyers and constitutional hair-splitters among them w ill probe all the legal angles of this issue. flared up in the United Nations. In a letter to the President and Members of the Congress But the American people — the mothers and fathers — are not Led by the bloc of Asian nations, printed in The M ilitant July 3'1, 1950, shortly after the beginning of U.S. intervention in the Korean civil war, James P. Cannon, Na­ interested in the dead letter of the law; they are interested in the headed by India, a majority of tional Secretary of the Socialist Workers Party stated that the lives of their sons. They want an end to the Korean atrocity; but the UN delegations last week American people would remember the War of Independence that the President and Congress scorn their pleas. They haggle over gave a stinging rebuff to Amer­ brought this nation its freedom, and would react in our revolu­ sending more troops to court new disasters. ican imperialism’s attempt to tionary and democratic traditions against the assault upon the gain UN backing for intensifica­ Korean people. That is exactly how the American people have Enemies of the People tion and extension of the war on reacted. China. There is not one member of Congress who will listen to the On Dec. 4, 1950 James P. Cannon again addressed the responsible people. There is not one elected representative who w ill act on the Following Peiping’s rejection of government officials stating that the heartfelt sentiment of the basis of the wishes of the majority. A government by such men the UN scheme for a “ cease-fire” American people demanded that the President and the Congress stands branded as the usurper of power, as the dictatorial er»ony truce in Korea, which the Chinese stop the criminal aggression against the Asian people. GIs in Korea Hate of the people. GOV’T. SET TO IMPOSE said was intended only to give the U.S. armed forces a “breath­ Get O ut o f K o re a Now Representative Edwin Arthur Hall of New York has introduced The Brave-Talking ing space,” the U.S. State De­ a bill to permit members of the armed forces, regardless of age, to WAGE-PRICE CONTROLS partment tried to brush aside Today it is clear that he was speaking for the overwhelming vote for federal officials. “ If a man is old enough to fight, he is old China’s counter - proposals and majority of Americans. The Gallup poll of Jan. 23 reports that two- enough to vote,” H all told the House. This is a commendable proposal The resignation of Alan Valentine as Wage-Price U.S. Politicians ram through the UN a resolution thirds of the American people want to “ pull our troops out of Korea and we support it. But it is not enough. Stabilizer and the appointment of Eric Johnston in his The American GI’s in Korea are branding China as an “aggressor.” as fast as possible.” Almost one half are sure it was a mistake to LET EVERY MAN AND WOMAN 18 YEARS AND OVER This was intended as a first step place signifies that the administration is about to order bitter against the “politicians” send troops to Korea in the first place. VOTE ON WAR AND PEACE. The people have the right not only whom they blame for the war. toward economic and military If the Korean war is for democracy, as Truman - Achcson to vote for officials, but to vote on the issues of life and death. wage controls and a price This is revealed in a Jan. 18 “sanctions” by the UN. pretend, why do they refuse to listen to the democratic w ill of the A truly democratic solution to the debate in the 82nd Congress “ freeze.” separate ceilings to be worked dispatch by William Chapman, Despite the tremendous pressure people? would be to make it mandatory for Congress to submit the question Valentine, a “ free enterprise” out at a later date. The loopholes United Press Staff W riter. the U,S. government brought to On Jan. 18, United Press Staff W riter W illiam Chapman reported of sending troops abroad to a popular referendum. fanatic who didn’t believe in con­ in an overall price fix are big bear, the Asian and Middle East the wishes of the G I’s on the battle lines. He quotes the GI’s as CONSULT THE PEOPLE! CONSULT THOSE WHO HAVE trols was against any price enough to drive a ten-ton truck “The politicians are respon­ countries, dragging along the follows, “W ait until we get home,” they threaten. “ Those politicians TO DO THE FIGHTING. THEY ARE THE ONE'S WHO SUFFER. “freeze” at this time. His one through. According to the press a sible for prolonging the war,” British, Canadians and several sit around and say ‘we w ill not leave Korea.’ Why don’t they come THEY ARE FORCED TO KILL AND BE KILLED. LET THE action was to impose a voluntary “ ro llb a c k ” to Jan. 1, 1051 is Chapman says the GI’s are say­ Latin-American delegations, over here and then say ‘We’?” PEOPLE DECIDE! price “control.” This made the “under 6tudy.” in g. blocked the U.S. resolution. In­ profiteers happy as they simply Such a rollback would leave “Wait until we get home,” stead, they over-rode the U.S. kept jacking prices up. Con­ the consumers holding the bag. they threaten. “ Those politicians delegation to pass a motion to sumers, however, hav-.> begun to Wholesale prices have burst fit around and say, ‘We will not adjourn for 48 hours to further Chicago SWP protest as food and other com­ through all previous records for leave Korea.’ Why don’t they the tenth consecutive week now. consider China’s proposals for Poll Shows Two-thirds modities spiraled upward. come over here and then say stopping the war in Korea and The proposed rollback would ‘W e’ ?” Files Petitions for BIG BUSINESS APPOINTEE merely put prices where they withdrawing all troops of foreign “These men,” says Chapman, countries. Eric Johnston, four times pres­ were after a long steady rise, “have now lost the burning urge Favor Korea Evacuation ident of the anti-labor U.S. the last seven weeks of which to fight. They honestly doubt that CHINA REPLY Alderman Election Chamber of Commerce, on leave were record breaking. they will gain anything if they It was disclosed by the Indian The American people are over­ fairs. We should enforce the fully disregard the wishes of the CHICAGO, Jan. 22 — The So­ from his job as movie industry cialist Workers Party today filed DEFERRED PAYMENT took all of Korea.” delegation that Peiping had sent whelmingly opposed to the Kor­ Monroe Doctrine.” people, and look for a new leader­ czar, was unanimously approved It is such sentiments as these a clarification of its proposals ean war. That is the finding of a From these and other polls, ship. more than twice the minimum by the Senate. Thus Truman keeps No indication has as yet been which have made it necessary for which, in the former’s opinion, Jan. 23 G allup poll. irom the flood of mail pouring signatures required to place unbroken his policy of appointing given as to the policy on wages MacArthur to clamp down a rigid offered possibilities for conclud­ This popular opinion, which into Washington, it is clearer aldermanic candidate Irv in g Big Business spokesmen to all and the escalator clause in par­ Tax-Free Swag for censorship on all Korean cor­ ing an agreement which would runs counter to the plans of every day that the Korean war Beinin on the ballot in the Fifth key posts in the “emergency” ticular. Some of the rumors from W ard. respondents. Only occasionally end the war in Korea and the im- Washington and the Pentagon, is is the most unpopular war in 'High Tax' Truman setup. Washington hint that a “deferred does the truth leak out. reflected in the poll despite the U.S. history. The Gallup poll A ll reports from those circulat­ The ineffectiveness of any wages” device may be introduced. (Continued on p a g e 3 ) Representative Kearney of Recently an English newspaper fact that Gallup represents Amer­ stated, “If American military ing petitions indicated that there Under such a plan wage increases N. Y. has suggested that Tru­ price “ freeze” is indicated by the correspondent in Korea was held ican Big Business and makes and diplomatic leaders are con­ is a great deal of sentiment for already guaranteed in union con­ man, in line with his proposal report of the Bureau of Labor incommunicado for several hours every attempt to slant his ques­ vinced we should stay in Korea, an “Anti-W ar Socialist” candi­ tracts would be paid in non-con­ for heavier taxes, set the ex­ Statistics that under the emer­ by the U.S. m ilitary because of tions in favor of the capitalist they may face a difficult cam­ date- Enthusiastic campaign work­ vertible government bonds. Thus Skoglund Defense ample by permitting taxation gency legislation 50 percent of a dispatch he tried to send tell­ point of view. paign to ‘sell’ the American public ers reported that the response of the workers would get the in­ of his $50,000 annual expense the basic cost of living items ing of some of the grievances of on this plan.” many people was, “ We’re so glad creases won by past negotiations allowance. Truman receives can’t be controlled. Included the enlisted men. Asks Support for WANT TO PULL OUT This is an understatement. The you’re running. It’s time some­ but only after ten or more years. this expense money, for which among these items are such im­ The American troops in Korea, The poll reports that 66 percent truth is that only by imposing a body did something.” Among the factors impelling he does n o t have to render an portant things as rent and 7,000 miles from home, are at of the people questioned want to police state, and suppressing the the administration to its sudden Deportation Fight accounting, in addition to his Of particular interest was the credit. the mercy of the West Point “ p u ll o u t” o f Korea. O nly 25 free expression of the American action on prices is the tide of Brass who, like the politicians, NEW YORK, Jan. 22 — The annual salary of $100,000. response of members and sym­ Furthermore the expected percent want to “stay there.” people, will the capitalist gov­ Civil Rights Defense Committee Congressmen also receive a pathizers of the Progressive “freeze” will be overall, with (Continued on page 3) consider the G I’s expendable. And nine percent did not reply. ernment be able to carry out its this week issued an appeal for a tax-free expense allowance. Party and the Stalinist Commu­ In reply as to whether they all-out war plans. $1,000 fund to help fight the The last Congress voted each nist Party; many who were ap­ believed the intervention in Korea Not only the GI’s but the work­ deportation of Carl Skoglund. The senator and representative proached signed the petitions, and had been a mistake in the first ing women and men of America Minnesota union leader was found $2,500 for expenses in addition indicated support for the cam­ place, 49 percent said “yes, we w ill become enraged at the Wash­ liable for deportation at a U.S. to the annual salary of $12,500. paign. One Stalinist on signing made a mistake.” ington “politicians” who scorn­ Atrocity in Korea Immigration hearing in New York said, “ This is against all my back­ These views, says the Gallup ground and upbringing but I think on Dec. 15. poll, mark a “sharp reversal of The testimony which The Militant has com­ ist butchers. Neither the Japanese General Staff this campaign is necessary.” The Committee pointed out that opinion.” piled from the daily press containing factual nor the Nazi race-exterminators exceeded the Skoglund was the second person The Jan. 19 St. Louis Post Dis­ Two days before the final day reports by scores of eye witnesses (see page 2 sanguinary record already imprinted on the his­ to Be victimized under the re­ patch reports a poll in Rolla, SPEECH BY V.R. DUNNE for filing, the only opposition to of this issue) stands as an indictment of Amer­ torical record by Wall Street’s warlords. cently - enacted McCarran Law Missouri, on the question, “ Do Alderman Merriam, the protege ican imperialism’s Korean atrocity. The last of the powerful imperialists, fighting which has been widely condemned you think we should withdraw of Senator Paul Douglas and “ K ill everything that moves! Destroy all cover! to prolong their outworn social and economic by labor and civil liberties bodies from Korea as quickly as pos­ leader of the ADA wing of the Depopulate all cities, towns and villages! Scorch FLAYS ASIA WAR POLICY system, show the least concern for human life as unconstitutional and undemo­ sib le ? ” The replies were 157 yes, Democratic Party, is Irving the earth!” These , arc the orders of the high or the accomplishments of civilization. cratic. The sole ground of the and 117 no. On the question of Beinin, Trotskyist candidate. command in Korea. On the basis of the evidence MINNEAPOLIS, Jan. 21 — About 50 workers gath­ government’s action was his From all indications Merriam we print, we accuse the responsible Washington The American imperialists have not bothered d ra ftin g 18 year olds, 165 were ered at the headquarters of the Socialist Workers Party- with death-ovens; they destroyed Hiroshima and former membership in the Com­ against and 126 were in favo r. will also receive the support of and Pentagon officials of these crimes: Republicans. Nagasaki with single atomic blasts, burning hun­ munist Party during the Twenties, One housewife, questioned in in this city to hear V. R. Dunne, SWP trade union secre­ 1. The premeditated wholesale slaughter of dreds of thousands of innocent human beings in although Skoglund was expelled this poll, said, “ Let’s not prepare tary, give a Marxist analysis oi Thus, while it is too early to be millions of defenseless Korean civilians, includ­ ton, D. C., is the worst jim crow one flaming instant. from the CP in 1928 and has long hastily for all-out war.” A vet­ the crisis in the Far East. sure, it may very well be that ing women, old men and children. This consti­ been opposed to all it stands for. town in the country. The Amer­ the Democrats, Republicans and tutes the most cold-blooded carnage in modern WHY THE ATROCITY eran of World War II said, “Get Korea, while a victim of brutal cut of Korea? Hell, yes! Let’s ican trade unions were organized Stalinists w ill all line up against tim es. The unbridled ferocity of U.S. imperialism in SUPREME COURT TEST U.S. imperialism, nevertheless in spite of the intransigence of 2. The ravagement of hundreds of Korean stop sticking our nose where it Irving Beinin, the Anti-W ar Korea can be explained only by a correct under­ “ These new developments in hia “has confounded the American the bosses. And these people have Socialist. cities, towns and villages, systematically laying doesn’t belong.” standing of the nature of the Korean war. case raise questions of great con­ ruling class with the power of not changed.” Waste the homes of a whole people. A local politician in this small It is not a war of inter-imperialist rivalry. It the awakening colonial revolu­ Dunne then went on to paint WOMEN SIGN PETITIONS 3. Callous, inhuman disregard for the lives of stitutional importance,” says the town said, “We should quit is not a war between fellow thieves for booty. tion,” Dunne stated. the whole black record of Amer­ During the door-to-door cam­ millions of civilians ’driven from their homes and Committee, “and give added ur­ meddling in other nations’ af- It is a class war of exploiters against an aroused ican imperialism in the Far East, left to starve and freeze to death along roads gency to our fight to save Skog­ “But what is the situation?” paign for signatures the cam­ oppressed people who want freedom, independ­ from Perry’s visit to Tokyo in and highways, with no provisions made for their lund from deportation.” The Dunne asked. “ A well- equipped paign workers ran into a meeting ence and national unification. The financial and CRDC intends to test the validity U.S. army of some 200,000 troops 1853 up to the present. “ ¡Battle­ of the Women’s International shelter, adequate clothing or food. social privileges of imperialism are threatened 4. Ruthless despoliation of the countryside, and application of the McCarran invaded Korea 9,000 miles from ships in the harbors of Oriental League for Peace and Freedom. by the insurgent colonial peoples. The butchery burning of farmlands, destruction of the sources Act 3nd will take Skoglund’s our own shores and attempted to ports have been the regular When one worker explained his and unrestrained violence of the American ruling of food, condemning the Korean people to starva­ appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court, prevent the Korean workers and calling card of U.S. imperialism. purpose the chairman invited the class against the Korean revolution is the vicious if necessary. peasants from uniting the country Brutality toward the colonial peo­ campaign committee to send a tio n ...... , reaction of a decadent system cornered by the These are the facts about the ‘liberation of under a government of their own ples by U.S. occupying forces has speaker to the meeting. forces of progress. Stanley H. Lowell, former Korea; these are the crimes committted by those choosing.” always been an integral part of The campaign manager, Frank What American imperialists cannot control, Assistant U.S. District Attorney who claim to be fighting for the “freedom loving in New York and member of the U. S. policy. And the U.S. army of Roberts, spoke and all the women they will destroy. As the capitalist system dies, ASIAN PEOPLE occupation in Korea was no dif­ nations.” Alien Civil Rights Committee of present signed the petition ex­ it threatens to reduce civilization to barbarism. UNCONVINCED fe re n t.” the American Civil Liberties cept one. The next day this G I’S E Q U A L V IC T IM S What is happening in Korea can happen to the “ It is evident that the peoples A lively question period follow­ whole world. Union, has been retained to woman stopped a petition cir­ Not only world opinion, but the American GI s of Asia are not convinced by Tru­ ed Dunne’s talk and the audience represent Skoglund in the ad­ culator on the street and said, who are forced by the Big Brass to carry out The im p e ria lis t crim in a ls m ust be bro ug ht be man’s claim that he wants to contributed a generous collection. “I was at the meeting last night the massacre, are sick at heart, as many 3 fore the bar of justice; they must be indicted ministrative and legal hearings. liberate them,” said Dunne. Afterwards there was a social and was the only one who didn’t from the battle fronts have shown, lens of thou­ tried and condemned. In self-defense, the work Contributions for Skoglund’s “Where have the brass hats, the hour over sandwiches, coffee and sign. I have thought it over and sands of American youth lie with the Korean ers at the head of all oppressed humanity mus defense should be sent to the capitalist politicians and the cake. Another forum is planned think that it is important that dead, victims of the same criminals. banish the capitalist system which stands in th Civil Rights Defense Committee, corporation heads ever exhibited for Sunday, Feb. 4, at which time a candidate of this kind be on the With this crime the American ruling class way of progress and civilization and replace i 19 W est 10th St., N ew Y o rk 11, any democratic tendencies in this V. R. Dunne will analyze the ballot.” She signed and got her takes its place at the head of the list of imperial­ with socialism. N. Y. VINCENT B. DUNNE or any other country? Washing­ situation in Europe, neighbor to do likewise. Page Two THE MILITANT Monday, January 29, 1951 The Great Atrocity-How They ‘Liberate’ Korea ------® ------— — — ------

. . . constantly growing report of mass murders and other atrocities by the North Korean Communists . . . parallel between this sort of thinking and that of the Nazi malefactors is close . . . “... Crudest of All Wars” Documentary Record of Crimes idea of mass reprisal .must be as repugnant to us as the crimes that have made it a danger. . . N. Y. Times editorial, Oct. 9. The war in Korea is the crudest of all wars. NEVER BE­ s}: # * FORE HAS AN ENTIRE NATION BEEN BOMBARDED, With the U.S. Second Division in North Korea, Nov. 9 STRAFED AND BURNED SO THOROUGHLY IN SUCH A Against Humanity by Imperialists SHORT SPACE OF TIME. Practically everything is a military — In reprisal for the deaths of five GIs whose advance objective. Lonely farmhouses are being destroyed, lest they (This entire page contains documentar.v evidence of what T ru-*1 patrol had been ambushed, U.S. tanks, planes and artillery give the enemy comfort and concealment. Millions of Koreans man’s “ police action” has perpetrated in Korea against the Korean today obliterated the village of Tuom-ni. The command was — men, women and children — are refugees, harassed, cold populace and against those in uniform, Korean and American, who and hungry. Many die, others are killed as they flee. . . Family were forced to do the fighting. to level the village and leave no trace. . . — N. Harry Smith, N. Y. Daily Compass. life — in fact, the entire social order — is being shattered. Every word is a verbatim quotation from capitalist press sources — The Voice of Korea, Jan. 19, 1951. which support U.S. intervention, including leading newspapers like the N. Y. Times, N. Y. Herald-Tribune and Christian Science Monitor, and magazines like Time, Life, U.S. News and World Report, and tiny red baby cap — with something in it — in the mud. . . This 'The People Died or Fled” stretch of road was strafed several days ago on a report . . . that Look. Most of these accounts are by eyewitnesses— war correspondents North Korea, Nov. 9 (AP) . . . Ever see a city die? . . . That, Chinese Communist soldiers were shedding their upiforms and of newsgathering agencies like the Associated Press (AP), United was the way it was at Sinuiju. Yesterday it was a city of 100,000. . . mingling with columns of refugees. I didn’t see any dead soldiers Press (UP) and newspaper chains like gcripps-Howard. We could It was noon when the growling rumble of the approaching U.S. yesterday. . . This is just one spot on one road in Korea. — Gene have filled all four pages of this paper with similar evidence. Superforts gave the first warning of doom. By 12:30 p.m. 90 per Symonds, UP Correspondent. * * * We do not need to write or add a line of,our own. The evidence cent . . . lay in ruins. . . Flight by flight the bombers let go. Step by that follows is beyond dispute and overwhelming. Let the record step the city below was destroyed. The clay walls fell apart in the The U.N. convention against genocide — “acts committed with speak!) heat. The straw roofs burned, the wood flamed. And the people died intent to destroy in whole or in part a national, ethnical, racial or or fled. — Hal Boyle, AP correspondent. religious group” — became international law yesterday. Former * * * Assistant Secretary of State Adoph Berle and Dr. Raphael Lemkin, Tokyo, Aug. 8 . . . United Nations bombings of Seoul have who played the foremost role in drafting the convention . . . held The Korean Baiarne Sheet killed 3,000 persons. . . — Richard J. H. Johnston, N. Y. Times. genocide would not apply to such military orders as that of the Seoul, Dec. 29 — The entire nation — 30 million people — has * * * U.N. Command in Korea directing its planes to shoot all Korean been uprooted. — Jim Lucas, Scripps-IIoward. Rome, Sept. 5 (AP) — Fides, a Roman Catholic news agency, males, in or out of uniform, who are north of U.N. lines . . . the * * * This tiny Korean girl, one of millions fleeing U.S. “scorched- reported today that U.S. planes had destroyed the Cathedral of “ intent” would not be to exterminate a national group. . . — N. Y. Washington, Sept. 8 (AP) — Korean Ambassador John M. carth” policy, lends her meager strength to help move a wagon Seo.uJ. • •_ Fides said it was feared that some nuns were killed. . . Daily Compass, Jan. 14. Chang estimated today that at least 10,000,000 refugees in his loaded with household goods. Fides said the cathedral was one of many Roman Catholic churches country would need help to live through the forthcoming winter. that have been destroyed during the war. * * * * s}: * Liberation - -by Firing Squad The Korean defense minister said Dec. 2 he believed nearly Tokyo, Sept.. 26 (AP) — Gen. MacArthur announced here at 1,000,000 South Korean soldiers, police and civilians had died. “... Savagery in Detail” 2:10 P.M. today that United Nations forces had . . . liberated it Since the liberation of Seoul last September, South Korean Previously, President Syngman Rhee had given a rough estimate of . . . Asia cannot be won — not really won — by military (Seoul) “in such a manner as to cause the least possible damage to firing squads have been busy liquidating “ enemies of the state” . . . 100,000 m ilitary and 200,000 civilian deaths. — N. Y. Post, Dec. 3. means alone. To attempt to win it so, as we are now doing in civil installations.” W ith savage indifference, the m ilitary executioners shot men, women * * * * * * Korea, is not QjnJy to fourt final failure but also, to force upon and children . . . while U.S. and British troops voiced their loathing Tokyo, Jan. 6 (UP) — Literally millions of Koreans are stumbl­ our men in the field acts and attitudes of the utmost savagery. Seoul, Sept. 26 (AP) — This is a flaming, smoke-filled city of of the wholesale slaughter, three American clergymen . . . made ing south with the troops — uprooted, homeless and hungry. This means not the usual, inevitable savagery of combat in horror today. . . Seoul is not being spared. . . Not in two wars have a formal protest . . . they charged that many of the victims had no * * * the field but savagery in detail — the blotting out of villages I seen anything to equal the battle for Seoul. . . Seoul is being trials. . . Civilians sentenced to death are supposed to be hanged, An estimated 4,000,000 people have lost their homes throughout where the enemy MAY be hiding; the shooting and shelling scarred and battered terribly. . . — Don Whitehead, AP cor­ 'added Ho (Major General Lee Ho, Vice Chief of South Korea’s South Korea. — The Voice of Korea, published by Korean Affairs of refugees who M AY include North Koreans in the,anonymous respondent. Martial Law Headquarters), “ but we have found shooting by firing * * * Institute, Washington, D. C., friendly to South Korea. Issue of Nov. white clothing of the Korean countryside, or who MAY be squad more convenient.” — Time magazine, Dec. 25. 21, 1950. screening an enemy march upon our positions, or who MAY W ith the 1st Marine Division at Seoul, Sept. 27. . . American * * * * * * be carrying broken-down rifles or ammunition clips or walkie- artillery and flame-throwing tanks . . . burn down many acres of Seoul, Dec. 16 (UP) — The women and the children were Maj. Gen. Emmett (Rosie) O’Donnell . . . sounded not unlike a talkies parts in their packs and und“r their trousers or skirts. the city ... the greatest damage was to flimsy Korean homes . . . we screaming. The men were wailing. But the South Korean guards West Point B squad coach. . . “We broke all records,” he said, — John Osborne, Senior Far East. Correspondent, Life Maga­ saw from close up a smoking hillside where thousands of buildings shot them all. One of the guards went around with a machine-gun adding: “There is very little standing in North Korea worthy of zine, A u g . 21, 1950. were gutted and charred ruins. — Marguerite Higgins, N. Y. afterward, firing bursts into those who didn’t die immediately. . . I mention.” — Christian Science Monitor, Jan. 19. Herald-Tribune. saw two women and two youngsters, aged about 8 and 13, among a*e sic sfe * * * them. . . — British Fusilier Wm. Ililder to United Press. front. Ten thousand men, women and children, the black soil of their Washington, Dec. 9 — The number of our casualties and the W ith the U.S. Marines in Downtown Seoul, Sept. 26. . . Korean * * * rice fields still clinging to them, milled around a railroad evacuation suffering of our troops is agonizing . . . the toll is appalling. Follow­ civilians, especially children, would not take cover properly and British Brigade Hdqtrs., Korea, Dec. 18 (UP) — A heavily- point in silent bewilderment. Lieut. Col. Harold G. Doty had moved ing are some of the unreported facts: U.S. casualties exceed 50,000 — thousands have been carried by all sorts of improvised litters to the armed British infantry company took up positions around bloody 26,000 by yesterday. Another 10,01)0 crammed into the old railway a figure at least 15,000 more than officially announced by the aid stations. — Marguerite Higgins, N. Y. Herald-Tribune. Execution H ill today to prevent South Koreans from shooting any cars today. Tonight, still Another 10,000 sit waiting silently. . . * * * Pentagon. — Robert S. Allen, N. Y. Post, Dec. 9. more of their prisoners. Men and women . . . have been executed on North Koreans were infiltrating the lines in peasant dress. Seoul, Sept. 30 (UP) — Army and hlarine Commanders . . con­ the hill on the outskirts of Seoul in such a cold-blooded fashion that tended today it could have been taken without the heavy loss in lives it was revolting to British and American troops. . . A South Korean Taegu, Jan. 9 (AP) — All Korean refugees except families of and property. Destruction . . . was attributed by the officers to apologized. The prisons were so crowded with Communists sentenced Wandering to--Death demands that Seoul be taken “ as soon as possible.” . . . “ . . . We had soldiers, police and government officials today were ordered to move to death that Execution Hill was the only solution. “There are so Tokyo, Jan. 12 (AP) . . . Some 2,000,000 of these homeless out of southeast Korea. . . 500,000 or more eventually w ill be taken many to execute,” he said. civilians are on the move. AP correspondent John Randolph, travel­ off to an island. ling with the 8th Army, said he saw distraught Korean mothers hurling their children into rivers to drown, rather than let them “... Savagery By Proxy” And there is savagery by proxy, the savagery of the South Next of Kin ” freeze or starve to death. 5*C })C Liberation--by Arson Korean police and (in some sectors) South Korean marines upon Washington, Jan. 18 (UP) — The Defense Department today By the roadside a mile from Seoul, lay the frozen body of a W ith United States Troops In Korea, July 31 (UP) — American whom we rely for contact with the population and for ferret­ reported 45,137 American casualties in Korea through last Friday barefooted little boy, face down in a tangled knot of telephone wire. security patrols started burning deserted villages behind the First ing out hidden enemies. . . The Sou*h Korean police and the (Jan. 12) midnight . . . today’s figure docs not actually represent Past his stiff, straight body moved a torrent of refugees. . . Few Cavalry Division lines today in a SCORCHED EARTH policy. . . South Korean marines whom I observed in front line areas are all casualties. . . The time lapse is usually one to three weeks. glanced at the dead child: the sight was too common. . . Retreating Native houses were put to the torch . . . from Hwangan to Kum- brutal. They murder to save themselves the trouble of escort­ * * * ing prisoners to the rear; THEY MURDER CIVILIANS simply U.N. troops stoppe.d frequently to rescue crying babies strapped to chon. Homes . . . were ordered evacuated. . . General MacArthur’s headquarters reported that 11,964 U.S. to get them out of the way or to avoid the trouble of searching the backs of mothers who had fallen dead. . . — Time Magazine, * * * troops were killed, wounded or missing in 19 days of fighting and cross-examining them. And they extort information — Jan. 15. With U.S. Forces Approaching Pyongyang, Oct. 18 — North immediately before or after the Chinese Communists launched their * * * information our forces need and require of the South Korean crushing attack on Nov. 27. The total did not include 22,000 more Korean civilians . . . are trying to curry favor with our GIs by interrogators—by means so brutal that they cannot be describ­ Yongdongpo, Korea, Jan. 2 (AP) . . . Suddenly the old lady men listed as non-battle casualties, most of them the victims, of giving them fruit, chickens and flowers. The soldiers are leery . . . ed. Too often THEY MURDER PRISONERS OF WAR and began to cackle in a senile way. She halted a passing young boy and and are burning all the towns. . . — Frank Holeman, N. Y. Daily frostbite or frozen feet. — Time, Jan. 1. civilians before they have had a chance to give any. informa­ handed down to him the infant — her grandson. Then she climbed News, Oct. 20. * * * tion they may have. . . The American record need not to the ground and started walking along the side of the train. The * * * Battle Creek, Mich., Jan. 12 (AP). . . Pvt. Hubert Reeves boy put the baby down beside the tracks and ran after the old lady... have been blotted by OUR RELIANCE ON, OR PASSIVE Im jin River Front, Jan. 1 (UP). . . The 8th Army SCORCHED underwent a “very successful” amputation of both feet today. The baby, his red little face splotched with dirt and tears, sat alone ACQUIESCENCE IN, THE MURDEROUS HABITS AND THE EARTH behind it. . . The schoolhouses, barns and huts with Doctors at Percy Jones Hospital said the condition of the FROST­ on the damp black cinder path near the track. He cried in loneliness. METHODS of our South Korean helpers. — John Osborne, thatched roofs that the soldiers had occupied since early December BITTEN Korean veteran was “excellent” . . . they will remove all Grown refugees; their.backs burdened with bundles, stepped out of Senior Far East Correspondent, Life Magazine, Aug. 21, 1950. went up in smoke. the blackened fingers on his left hand and up to the second or middle the path to avoid clushing the baby. But none came over to pick * * * knuckle of his right hand. . , him up. — Hal Boyle, AP correspondent. to take it at ‘all costs,’ ” a lieutenant colonel said. “A triumphal * * * t- * * Tokyo, Jan. 2 . . . Front line reports said United Nations troops entry into the city was needed. . Harrisburg, Pa., Dec. 26 (AP) . . . It fell to me as a reporter had put a SCORCHED EARTH policy in effect as they full back. * * * Said Eighth Army Commander Matthew B. Ridgway, of the All buildings in which the enemy might attempt to hide from Allied to tell Mrs. Clara Smith, of Middleburg, how badly disabled was Tokyo, Jan. 4 (AP) . . . At sunset Thursday, one weary refugees’ plight: “Perhaps the greatest tragedy to which Asia has air attacks were ordered burned. . . new columns of refugees . . . her son, Robert, 20. . . When I finally reached Mrs. Smith I hedged, retreating GI looked back at the burning city and said: “Now I ever been subjected in the course of its long history. . . Everything were plodding down all roads southward. — Lindesay Parrot, N. Y. hesitated, felt a bit ill. I kept hoping she might say she already know how Nero felt.” else is dwarfed by the pathos of this tragedy, and our American Times. knew of her son’s condition, that Robert was the first quadruple people haven’t the faintest concept of it. . .” — Time magazine, * * * amputee of the Korean war. But no. . . Then I . . . told her. She Jan. 15. fainted. I nearly did. . . I remember the mother crying: “ It can’t be, * * * On the East Central Front, Korea, Jan. 19 (UP.) — South Korean civilians raised a tempest of protest today against the Amer­ "We Can Wreck a Country” it can’t be — he’s too young!”. . . — Bill Loftus, AP correspondent. Tokyo, Dec. 26 (ONA) . . . Two American officers and I stood * * * ican SCORCHED-EARTH policy. . . The homeless civilians told on the highway outside Pyongyang. . . Hundreds of refugees walked If . . . the Air Force demolishes the roads, bridges, public civil affairs officers attached to each American division that . . . Travis A ir Base, Calif., Dec. 26 (AP) — “ Smith’s morale and slowly southward. . . “Look at them run from the Commies,” the utilities and factories of all Korea, the ‘victory’ when it comes w ill they are amazed that the Americans are burning their homes. The condition are excellent,” said Col. A. H. Corliss, commanding officer younger officer said. “ We showed them what freedom was, and now indeed be Pyrrhic. . . We shall not have proved that we can contain of this base hospital today. . . Smith lost both hands above the Army is sympathetic • but field commanders . . . have given UN they are going south because they don’t want to live under the aggression but only that we can wreck a country. — Walter Lipp- troops orders to destroy anything that could be used as cover by the wrists and both legs below the knees. FROSTBITES necessitated Reds.” That was a narrow interpretation of this mass migration. The mann, N. Y. Herald-Tribune, Aug. 17. the amputations. infiltrators. . . GIs sincerely regret the ruthless but necessary other officer and I had spent several days together in Pyongyang . . . * * * * * * destruction. They watch in pity as long columns of refugees trudge the :South Koreans had regarded North Korea as a conquered land, A U.S. A ir Force Base in Japan, Sept. 23 . . . “ Our mission here One flight after another was full of frostbite patients. It’s not ever southward . . . not even allowed to stop in UN defense areas, tp be looted. South Korean officers had confiscated rice in Pyong­ (Korea) is to flatten industry, and we’ve made a good inroad on it,” funny. Their hands and feet are all black. And it’s such close fight­ another brutal . . . measure. yang . . . sent it back to Seoul . . . the black market netted them * * * says Maj. Gen. Emmett O’Donnell. . . — Richard C. Ferguson, NEA. ing they get a lot of steel and lead in their stomachs. . . They all fabulous profits. .. The looting, killing and arson in Pyongyang was * * * hate Korea. They’re glad to get out even with lead tearing inside on such a scale that many Americans were convinced the South Kor­ For days, the United States Eighth Army (at Pyong­ Strategic bombing. . . is a two-edged sword. Inevitably, we them. I never heard any of them say they’d like to get back. . . — eans had embarked on a deliberate campaign to discredit both the yang) destroyed anything which would have helped the kill and maim civilians, including women and children, for civilians Lt. Charlotte Cooley, as told to Sidney Field, N. Y. Daily Mirror, U.N. and the Eighth Army’s Civil Affairs teams. — CBS cor­ enemy. .. In the fight against the soldiers of world revolu­ live near freight yards and industrial areas. We are indignant . . . Jan. 23, 1951. respondent Robert P. Martin. tion, all usual conceptions must be abandoned. .. The West about North Korean atrocities against our prisoners. Yet as North Koreans, would we not be equally indignant against Americans if put German Army leaders on trial after the last war be­ our women and children were slain by American bombs? . . . Bombs cause they had had to conduct the war in the East accord­ are a bad way to win friends and influence people. — Hanson W. Driven from Their Homes ing to “ scorched earth” methods. They were held respon­ Baldwin, N. Y. Times, Aug. 21. W ith American Forces in Korea, July 9. . . Today, as a precau­ sible and convicted, for destruction similar to that now * * * tion, all Korean civilians in the front-line area were ordered removed being carried out by UN troops. — Editorial in Frank­ Lake Success, Sept. 12 (UP) . . . UN observers be­ to southern provinces in Korea. They were allowed until 6 o’clock lieved the North Koreans hoped to make local propaganda this evening to leave . . . w ill mean removal of about 50,000 civilians furter Allgemeine Zeitung, a leading West German news­ . . . many of the peasants who wave their hands to the Americans paper. capital of it (U.S. strategic bombings), since factories and along the road change at night into guerrillas. — Marguerite Hig­ industrial establishments are revered by the poverty- gins, N. Y. Herald Tribune. stricken Korean peasants as something to ease their ♦ * * burdensome economic load. On the Korean Front, Aug. 18 (AP) — The U.S. Army today "Aerial Scorched-Earth’' was moving the entire civilian population back from the southwest . . . The air force has been mounting a steady series of heavy strikes . .. an AERIAL SCORCHED-EARTH operation. And it has left the Korean countryside a mass of rubble and ruins. . . — Gordon "Kill Everything that Moves” “ How Much More ‘Liberation’...?” Walker, Christian Science Monitor, Jan. 20. Maj. Gen. Robert B. McClure of the 2nd Division ordered his * * * men in the Wonju area to “kill everything that moves.” — The TOKYO, Jan. 8 — How much more “liberation” can the In Korea, Sept. 19 (UP) . . . Behind the enemy lines, I saw at Voice o f Korea, Jan. 19. people of Korea stand? . . . The Korean equivalent of John * * * least 15 burning villages. . . Scores of villages from the air resemble Q. Public is taking a terrific healing because of the war. His honeycombs, completely burned out. The city of Pohang is just one Tokyo, Jan. 10 (AP) . . . A command from the 5th Air Force home has been destroyed. His job has disappeared because big such honeycomb. — Hugh Baillie, President of the United Press. to blast all “ male persons” behind enemy lines . . . henceforth only factories were destroyed. He and his family have become women and children w ill be spared by pilots from strafing attacks. ragged, cold, hungry, wanderers. It is a hard fact but true * * * * * * fact that MOST OF THE DESTRUCTION WAS DONE BY Over North Korea With The A ir Force, Dec. 30 (UP) . . . One On the Western Front, Korea, Jan. 16 — She was feeding her THE AMERICANS. . . The Communists can assert that they thing we can swear to — most of North Korea is in flames. . . baby when death struck from the sky. The handsome young Korean have not wrecked Korea. Retreating or advancing, UN forces Village after village and city after city arc burning. . . The entire woman lay sprawled beside the road leading into Osan. One breast have found it necessary to bomb and shell and burn many of area of what was once the city of Wonsan — with 250,000 people — was bared to the winter wind and her arms were frozen in the North Korea’s towns and practically all of her industry. THE seemed to be on fire. . . All in all, a very successful evening. — Jim position she last held her baby. Next to her in a snow bank was the CHINESE HAVE AVOIDED DESTRUCTIVE ASSAULTS on Lucas, Scripps-IIoward Staff W riter. baby, swaddled in rags, its frozen face peering out. The mother and cities and towns. ,... If UN forces drive north again they w ill * * * child were only two of the many refugees killed along the road not find it easy to convince the Koreans, especially the North Finally, in blind desperation, we tried to burn with Napalm leading into battered Osan which American forces captured Mon­ Even with pretty U.S. Army nurses to cheer him up, it’s Koreans, that they come aw friends. . . — Charles Moore, UP every town and village . . . along the mockingly empty roads coming day. . . still not much fun for triple-amputee Cpl. Angel Gomez, of the Staff W riter. down from Manchuria. — Homer Bigart, Pulitzer Prize-Winning Blankets and children’s clothes, bits cf clothing and small tots’ U.S. colony of Puerto Rico. Loss of legs above the knee may ■Reporter of N. Y. Herald Tribune, in Look magazine, Jan. 30. articles were strewn along the road in confusion. A t one place was a prevent him from using artificial limbs. He was wounded hi Korea. Page Three

Asians Lead Resistance GERMAN MARXISTS In UN to U.S. Demands ISSUE ACTION PROGRAM (Continued from Page 1) “aggressor.” This, he charged, Chiang Kai-shek and its.actions Labor’s Need: Think Socially mediate threat of full-scale war “can only lead to the intensifica­ on Formosa, which “have never Platform of the German Marxists “What the American worker misses is a spirit of general­ tion of conflicts” and “close the teen submitted to, much less ap­ with China. On July 23, I960, a Provisional Committee for the launching of ization, or analysis, of his class position in society as a whole. door” to negotiation of a peace. proved by, the United Nations.” Warren R. Austin, bellicose the Independent Workers Party of Germany was elected at a This lack of social, thinking has its origin in the country’s He further scored the action of As an echo to Nehru, Prime head of the U.S. delegation in the whole history — the Far West with the perspective of un­ the U.S. in opposing the seating conference of militant socialist workers, independent of the Stalin­ UN, could scarcely conceal his Minister Attlee of Britain has limited possibilities for everyone to become rich, etc. Now all of the Peiping government in the ists and the Social Democrats. This marked the first sign of a new rage at the “effrontery” of the issued a statement likewise re­ that is gone, but the mind remains in the past. Idealists think UN and the "crossing, of the 38th jecting the adamant opposition of upsurge of the German working class revolutionary movement. This representatives of the semi- the human mentality is progressive, 'but in reality it is the Parallel in Korea” by MacArthur the U.S. to dealing with the Provisional Committee has published the following excellent program colonial Asian nations in boldly in the Dec. 30 issue of its weekly paper, Freie Tribune: most conservative element of society. Your technique is pro­ as directly responsible for the revolutionary government of gressive but the mentality of the worker lags far behind. challenging mighty and rich aggravation of the war situation. China. The feeling in Asia, he ad­ 1. — The most important issue in Germany at present, is that Their backwardness consists of inability to generalize their American imperialism. In the In this connection, as Walter mitted, is to give the “new of remilitarization. We reject in principle the proposed remilitariza­ problems; they consider everything on a personal basis. Now, debate on the 48-hour adjourn­ Lippman of the N. Y. Herald- emerging China” the “ opportunity tion and place no confidence whatever in the harmless “ defensive” the war will teach American workers social thinking.” ment, Austin fumed “we would Tribune points out, the U.S. has to play her part in a community character of a new Wehrmacht. Rearmament spells a progressive TROTSKYLENINLeon Trotsky, Some Questions on American Problems. 1940 like to get the floor and would stood alone in its support of pf nations on equal terms.” lowering of the standard of living, a restriction of the democratic not like to be forced off the floor rights of the German people. Its inevitable consequence can only by a gentleman who seems to be w ar. think he has the right to assume Ip order, to defend the working people against the plans of the' Debater They All Fear the floor and talk many, many militarists and the munitions magnates we call for a referendum times.” This was a reference to JAIL LEAFLET-PASSERS against rearmament. To the war cries we oppose a constructive When thieves fall out, the saying goes, the workers of this country are beginning Mahmoud Fauwzi Bey of Egypt honest men get a chance. program of social demands. to look at things. Because people are be­ who led the floor fight in the 2. — The unions are the mass organizations of the working The imperialist thieves who rule this ginning not only to think, they are also Political and Security Committee IN RAID ON NEWARK CP class. The unity of the unions is vital for their striking power; country are fighting among themselves talking — that is, doing their thinking of the UN General Assembly for therefore we are against splitting the unions on political or religious on how, when and where to rob the work­ out loud. Past experience shows that once the adjournment motion, which The headquarters of the Communist Party of Newark grounds. We stand for the principle of industrial unionism,, and ing people of the world. I t ’s a good thing pbople really start thinking politically, it was adopted 27 to 23, w ith six was raided on Jan. 18. Pamphlets and leaflets were seized fight for turning the unions into genuine working class organizations. abstentions. and three people were arrested. They are being held on Consequently, we are against any collaboration with organ? of the to know why these thieves have fallen is only a step to their talking, and next These bourgeois representatives corporations. out so that honest women and men can — to acting! $1,000 bail each for Grand Jury of the Asian and other semi­ action, charged with printing and Constitution, as charged in the We. combat the dictatorial practices of the union bureaucrats take full advantage of their chance. All imperialist participants in this colonial countries may wish to distributing subversive literature. state anti - subversive statute. and ask for control of the unions’ machine and policy by the mem­ The capitalists are in trouble. The “ Great Debate” are worried about the ap­ keep in the good graces of the The Magistrate of the Precinct These ten were also arrested on bers, themselves. Union officers should not receive salaries higher imperialist-thievery business has not pearance of another debater — one whom American capitalist government, Court which remanded the case three charges of violating this than the highest wage in the category of workers they represent; prospered since around last June. This but they fear its “liberating” to the Jury stated that the World War I “gag” act and a and it, is inadmissible for one officer to hold several paid jobs. These they all fear. This debater usually stays mission in the Far East and what grieves those in this line of business: the defendants “probably” violated fourth charge of littering the principles hold for the construction of our own Independent Work­ in the background and permits specialists war will mean to them. And they dhe 1918 S tatute b a rrin g p rin tin g streets. Following this arrest the ers Party, too. group of about Sixty Billionaire Families in the thieving business, self-styled fear above all the tremendous and distribution of subversive $30,000 bail on the Secretary was and several hundred other families statesmen, handpicked ambassadors, opposition of the masses to any literature. He further stated that reduced to $1500. WORKERS CONTROL OF INDUSTRY move that will give the Western around them. Their lack of success not the Communist Party had “ prob­ There is no doubt that this is 3. — The unions’ demand for an equal voice in the management learned jurists and corporation execu­ imperialists a chance to get a only grieves them, it gets them into a ably” violated this statute too. an attempt to outlaw the Com­ is recognized as the central slogan by the immense m ajority of- our tives, to make the speeches. This de­ bigger foothold in Asia. big fight among themselves. This raid was the culmination munist Party of Newark. The working class. Therefore we struggle for this demand unconditionally. bater who now begins to take the stage motion of the defense attorney NEHRU BLASTS WAR of a series of arrests, beginning The struggle for sharing in management is bound to enrich the Should they pull out of Korea? Should is the people. for those arrested in the raid of MAKERS with that of the Secretary of the German working class with those experiences which enable it to they send troops into Europe in greater N. J. Communist Patty for Jan. 18, fo r dism issal of case on When the capitalist thieves, make life With the set-back given to the win its democratic rights in the plants and in the economic field. numbers? Should they try to make a distributing a leaflet at the Singer grounds of violation of constitu­ unbearable, when they show their con­ arrogant and war-like demands This necessitates an extension of the factory committees’ rights as Manufacturing Plaht in Elizabeth, tional provisions of freedom of deal with Mao Tse-tung? Or with Stalin? fusion and l,ack of program, then the of Washington in the UN, Prime democratically elected organs of the working class. N. J. on Dec. 7. The leaflet called speech and press, was denied. Or should they continue feeding the Minister Nehru of India has taken 4. — The capitalists seek to divert the workers from the strug­ people push forward and take over the for the withrawal of outside on a bolder tone. At his capital in That these civil rights do not gle for higher wages by claiming that higher wages inevitably young men of this country into the revo­ discussion of the life-and-death issues. troops from Korea. His bail was New D elhi on Jan. 24, Nehru concern the court at all was bring higher prices. But we know that higher wages are possible lutionary buzz-saw of Asia? set at $30,000. This debater — the honest men and wo­ leveled sharp criticism at the evident from the remarks of their by cutting down the huge capitalist profits. The employers can and These are critical questions for the The Civil Rights Congress pro­ men looking for a way out — is mortally U.S. scheme to name China an counsel who commented that the must be prevented from indemnifying themselves for wage raises imperialist thieves. And anyone can see feared by the imperialists. tested the huge bail. In a leaflet, pamphlets seized in the raid “ were by higher prices. We demand contracts which tie up wages with which 10 of their members skillfully drawn in an attempt to living costs. (“ Escalator wages,” “ sliding scale of wages.” ) that it will take more than a “ Great De­ The collective voice of this new de­ bate” to settle such problems and still distributed at the Singer Plant, keep within the latV. It is up to bater will drown out the shams and lies Gov’t Prepares they rep rinte d the le a fle t on the jury to decide what was in­ THE PROGRAM FOR UNEMPLOYED stay in the thievery business. Korea and stated they could find tended by the people who dis­ Another reason for this noisy quarrel of the spokesmen for the economic royal­ Unemployment not only spells terrible misery for the victims, Wage Controls, nothing in it which violated the tributed the pamphlets.” but also increases the pressure on workers in the factories. Thus is that they’re getting worried about how ists. Theirs is the voice of the millions. the introduction of a 6-day week with no reduction in pay cor­ responds to the interests of employed and unemployed workers Price “ Freeze” alike. The slogan “ Equal wages for equal work” is our slogan for Eisenhower’s Bill of Goods (Continued from Page 1) ??Epfe of K orea” the struggle against low pay for women and the youth. letters and complaints reaching There is hardly another country where taxation is so loaded on On his European junket, which stai’ted This General of the Army has shown The Epic of Korea, by A. W i£fall Japanese,” admitted Assistant the White House from housewives the working people as Germany. Our demand for lowering of the how able he is to play the hypocrite Secretary of State John II. with public fanfares and ended in secret and consumers. These cite the Green; Public Affairs Press, wage-tax and for increasing the exemption to 250DM (German when he came, forth in 1948 as a Knight H ild rin g on M arch 10, 1947. whisperings with German militarists, runaway inflation in terms of W ashington, D. C. 1950. 136 marks) is more than justified. We particularly ask for abolition of in Shining Armor. In his book Crusade And Judge Advocate Green camouflaged mass exploitation through indirect taxes on consumer Dwight D. Eisenhower visited nine A t­ prices in grocery stores and meat pp. $2.50. in Europe, he accused the whole German markets. The Associated Press bears this out to the hilt. He li^ts goods. lantic Pact countries and Germany. When people as the guilty — guilty of “a com­ reports that Price Stabilization “ No A m erican was glad to be eight main causes for the “fail­ 5. — We demand the 36-hour week for miners and others engaged the Prince of Wales used to undertake Director DiSalle believes that in Korea.-. . These then were the ure” in Korea (pages 94-105). in risky occupations. pletely evil conspiracy with which no great liberators. . . Some were These are an involuntary indict­ trips as chief salesman for the British unless food prices are controlled 6. — For the working youth we demand a weekly maximum of compromise could be tolerated.” He, Ei­ stupid and lazy; others were ment of the abominations perpe­ they will shoot up eight or ten 40 hours including vocational training. In order to guarantee to the Empire, he at least covered more terri­ senhower, could not possibly bring him­ nervous and eager to do a good trated in Korea in the name of 1 ercent by the end of February. young adequate relaxation after a year of hard work, we favor a tory and with bigger success. job. Some were boys, heartsick "democracy” many years before self even to shake hands with a German, This would mean a three to four paid vacation equivalent to 24 working days. Not the employer nor for home; others were high- the civil war erupted there. Eisenhower, who has assumed the du­ he said. Listen: percent increase in the cost of the management, but the young worker must be allowed to choose ranking officers glad to continue living which is already at its Green’s “causes” range from the month-for his or her vacation. Where an apprentice does the ties of traveling salesman for American “ . . .the war became for me a crusade to hold their higher grades. (So imperialism, went to Europe, as the in the traditional sense of that often highest point in U.S. history. the “temperament of the Amer­ work of a journeyman, he should get a journeyman’s wage. many silver-star uniforms swarm­ ican” which renders him an MINERS WIN BIG We ask for control of the apprentices' vocational training by United Press puts it, “ in search of men misused word. . . . I was interested only ed that Korea became popularly “inefficient military occupant,” W A G E H IK E the shop committee in order to prevent apprentices from being forced and arms.” So far as this side of his in those (Germans) who were not yet known as “generals’ graveyard.” ) through the application of “un­ to do any work that is not related to their vocational training. tour is concerned, Eisenhower comes captured. None would be allowed to call While the rest of the labor All America was represented: democratic methods” and inability back with promises, that is, empty-hand­ leaders stood idly by, John L. the gangster in uniform; the to “administer justice,” right up For the youth in grammar and high schools and universities we on me. I pursued the’ same practice to Lewis and the United Mine W ork­ ranting Herod; the Saul, who had demand complete freedom from all costs or fees connected with ed. But this was anticipated by himself the end of the war. Not until Field Mar­ to “poorly providing (the Korean ers, by pursuing a militant, been a cowboy and a general and people) with clothing, fuel and their studies, as well as the centralization and extension of scholar­ ships and control over these by parents’ associations and self- and the organizers of the whole sordid shal Jodi signed the surrender terms at, independent policy, drove through now would be king. . food.” to a resounding victory in negotia­ governing student bodies. We are in favor of full rights at the age affair. Reims in 1945 did I ever speak to a Ger­ This is how A. W. Green, an “ But the greatest cause of fail­ tions with the soft coal industry. of 18, including the right to vote. We flatly reject any “voluntary” It is sordid. Because the real job of man general, and even then my only eyewitness, characterizes the per­ ure of the American occupation of compulsory labor service. this militarist, who poses in addition as words were that he would be held person­ The miners won a 20-cent an sonnel of American occupation of Korea may be attributed to the ally and completely responsible for the hour general wage increase — a Korea d u rin g 1945 - 49. Green inaction of the American au­ 7. — The bankruptcy of health insurances and health services “ educator,” is to sell the program of greater pay hike than was served as Judge Advocate, Presi­ and the degradation of the health standards are obvious. We there­ “ men and arms” not to the European carrying out of the surrender terms.” thorities in distributing land and achieved by any other union in dent of the Board of Review for homes and other real property to fore demand the nationalization of medical insurance and services. peoples but right here at home. Not that And overnight this same Eisenhower the last round. the trial of Koreans, and Direc­ the Koreans,” says Green. he, together with the rest of the Penta­ has made a complete about-face. Ger­ This new agreement came after tor of the Officer Candidate Small wonder that demonstra­ AGAINST THE FOREIGN OCCUPATION gon set, has dropped the plan to m ilitar­ mans, especially German generals? Why Lewis had publicly announced he School of the Korean Army. He tions and uprisings flared in the 8. — The presence of foreign occupiers in Germany not only for them, he now has a ready smile, a would not stand for a wage- knows whereof he speaks. very course of American occupa­ imposes enormous material burdens upon the mass of the people, it ize Europe. On the contrary. But just His summation of the whole now that is secondary. It is subordinate hand of welcome extended, and from his freeze, and would not even con­ tion. Green does not deal with' obstructs the free development of the German labor movement and sider a no-strike pledge in ex­ occupation record is no less Rhee’s “free Korea” in his book. of German democracy. We therefore favor the withdrawal of all to the most urgent of tasks, namely: mouth a message: “ Let bygones be by­ change for a fraudulent equality candid. The Big Brass, deputized But he does admit that “ Dr. Rhee the occupation forces and the dissolution of all the armed formations militarizing the U.S. “ We” must arm to gones.” of sacrifice program. by MacArthur, simply carried oh and Kim Koo were even more they have created in West and East Germany. Failing this, a from where the Japanese over- “ help” Europe re-arm. That is the public Only the bitterest foe of the American The rest of the labor leadership conservative than the American reunification of1 Germany is impossible. As socialists, we are for lords had left off. They continued people would advise them to trust such has been meeting secretly with forces. . .” The remarkable thing peace without annexations or indemnities. message Eisenhower brings “ back from the “national government setup top government and corporation is that the civil war was delayed 9. — We condemn the Oder-Neisse frontier established by the Europe.” a hypocrite. created by the Japanese,” retain­ officials, preparing to commit the as long as it actually was in this victors and the practice of mass expulsions as inhuman measures ing intact the Japanese police, unions, without consultation of dismembered, tortured land. which can never be approved by socialists. But we warn the refugees the judiciary and the economic the ranks, to the coming wage- Workers should read this book against the illusion that their problems can be solved through German Labor Speaks Again structure. They also added. control set-up. for the information it contains, conquest by force of their former homeland through World War III. Jim crow was extended even to Thus the coal miners are once A new war would destroy their homeland along with the rest of Socialism speaks with a new voice to­ equal say in management — on road to Korean officer candidates who which throws some new light on again showing the way to the Europe. At present, it is important to absorb these refugees into day in Germany. It is the voice of the workers’ control of industry in the Ruhr. “were not permitted to eat with the preliminaries to the Imperial­ rest of organized labor, by main ist Atrocity in Korea. economic life with equal rights and in accordance with their occupa­ The German capitalists and the U.S. oc­ American officers and men.’ great German working class. A fter long taining complete independence tions. Reactionary elements among the “ displaced persons” attempt “The aiTogance of the police, Reviewed by John G. W right. cupation generals shake in their boots. from government controls. in collaboration with their West German friends to distract the years of regimentation and enslavement, engendered by the Japanese, con­ Side by side with this upsurge of mili­ refugees from defending their real interests by illusory promises after years of terrible suffering and ex­ MORE BIG BUSINESS tinued. Entrapment was declared of a return to their former homes. But we tell them that they can haustion, the German workers are rising tant independent unionism there is the MEN APPOINTED legal, although it is illegal in the Evicted During get a life worth living only by joining in the common struggle formation of the Committee for the United States, and the use of again to an erect posture, resuming once New appointments and shifts in with the socialist labor movement. Launching of the Independent Workers the “emergency” setup include: violence to extort confessions, or C h ild b irth more the fight for socialist emancipation. 10. — We demand the réintroduction of universal and propor­ Party of Germany. Elsewhere on this Richard L. Bowditch, on leave supposed confessions, was not Since 1933 w’hen they were delivered Mrs. Angelie Petus, a young tional suffrage. page we reprint the timely and correct from his job as president of a uncommon.” bound band and foot to Hitler by treach­ Workers’ wages were driven t' Negro mother, was evicted from fighting program of this all-important Boston coal company; he will be AGAINST THE PROFITEERS erous Stalinism and the cowardly Social price director for transportation, starvation levels. Thus, the daily a Brooklyn housing project while political tendency. 11. — Since the currency reform 18 billions of West German Democrats, the German workers have public utilities, fuel, service, im­ wage of “an apprentice laborer” in labor; later in the day she gave It points the way for workers and peo­ was fixed at “from one to two marks, already reinvested as a self-financing of the economy, have been under the iron heel first of the Nazis ports and exports. birth to her third child. City ples in other capitalist countries as well. Joseph N. Kallick, merchandise yen (the yen was worth six and been squeezed out of the working people by the West German and then of the “ Allied” occupiers. housing authorities had Mrs. capitalists alone. The profits from these invested billions plus the It gives the lie-direct to those pessimists manager of a Chicago mail order two-thirds cents).” The oppression But today, the German working class company; he w ill be price director of the peasants became so harsh Petus evicted fro m her $34 a fo u r and one h a lf b illio n s in occupation costs,, along w ith the p ro ­ and faint-hearts who deserted the social­ month flat because she had fallen shows, that despite everything, it re­ of the consumers’ soft goods that crops in this rich agricul­ jected rearmament expenditure, would provide the funds for a ist cause on the pretext that Europe’s division. tural area, declined disastrously. behind in her rent. Mrs. Petus large-scale housing and social program. mains a vital, resolute, unconquerable working class had been “ destroyed.” Edward F. Phelps, Jr., formerly Inflation, fed by speculation and is on relief and separated from We favor a rigorous cut in top salaries in the administration, force. In these workers is the power which The German workers, very much alive, with the war-time OPA, an ex­ corruption, raged. her husband. The relief au­ the economy and the state, a reduction of the parliamentarians’ thorities gave her no money for produced the great galaxy of leaders: rising amid their country’s wreckage, ecutive vice-president and direc­ Starvation resulted. “ Rice disap­ salaries, and the total cancellation of all expenses for so-called tor of a Ft. Worth food manu­ peared from the normal market pre-natal care and she was for­ “representative” purposes. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels along speak in a loud, clear voice, challenging ced to spend the rent money for facturing and wholesaling corpo­ and prices on the black market Raising our social demands, we also say — and by this we with Ferdinand Lassalle, the older Lieb- doctor’s bills as her pregnancy their own capitalists as well as the forces ration; he has been moved up to became so fabulous that even the distinguish ourselves from all demagogues — that their fulfill­ knecht and then August Bebel, Karl Lieb- advanced. of imperialism. It is such workers, armed the post of assistant price middle class could not buy it.” ment is possible only at the expense of capitalist profits and con­ knecht and flaming Rosa Luxembourg. with a genuine socialist party and pro­ stabilizer. Koreans who had form erly looked The city marshal in charge of sequently only in the class struggle against the system of capitalist It is the power which imperialist re­ William H. Harrison, former with favor on the American M ili­ the eviction was deaf to the exploitation. gram, who will lead Europe out of its tearful pleas of Mrs. Petus and president of International Tele­ tary Government became disaf­ For the Committee for the Launching of the Independent W ork­ action believed was crushed, but on which present crisis and degradation. her two children after a city phone and Telegraph Co., a w o rld ­ fected or antagonistic. So wide­ ers Party of Germany, the Political Committee. the revolutionary socialists all over the We hail the “ Program of Action” of wide monopoly, has been moved spread became the discontent and hospital interne stated his opinion world continued to pin so many hopes. the Committee for the Launching of an up in the “emergency” setup; he hatred that Koreans “began to that the child was not due for a Jupp Schappe, Georg Fischer Georg Jungclas, Aschaffenburg The enemies of the German workers Independent Workers Party of Germany. now holds the post of Defense hurl the epithet ‘pro-Japanese’ at month. Mrs. Petus’ brother of­ Hans Alfred Berger, Hamburg Wolfgang Leonhard, Berlin fered to put his wages in hock W illy Boepple, Mannheim Franz Moitzfeld, Oberhausen are now receiving the first installment American workers will learn from such Production Administrator, a new their fellow Koreans who worked top-level post created for him by with the Amerifcans.” “Many with a loan company to avoid the Wolfgang Geese, Viersen (Rhineland) of this great power’s answer. The steel movements and such programs. They are C. E. W ilson, fo rm e r head of Koreans feel that they are worse eviction. This offer, too, fell on (Rhineland) Werner Sicher, München and mine workers are struggling for an our class brothers! Qeneral Electric. off than they were under the deaf ears. Hans Spittmann, Düsseldorf T h e S e c r e t ------By Theodore Kovalesky ------t h e MILITANT

It all began some twenty years ago. Stash was remember, if Harkins comes back, Stash just V O L U M E X V M O N D A Y , J A N U A R Y 29, 1951 N U M B E R 5 running the crane (because that was a white gone to the locker room for a little while and man’s job), and Jeff and Roy were hooking up. he’ll be coming back.” Since there were just the three of them working And that’s the way it was. The secret was kept there together, and since the amount of work between the three men for twenty years. The they did could easily be checked, they had no BRIGGS WORKERS VOTE hard times eased. War flared, and industry N .y .a Politicians foreman of their own. Harkins, the day super­ boomed. War ended, and work slackened a little intendent, who looked in from time to time, was and picked up again. There had been strikes, there the only boss they knew. Very likely that is how was a union now. Some Negroes became crane TO AUTHORIZE STRIKE the whole thing came to be possible. operators. There were vacations with pay. Pushing Another By Paul Gordon the same status and not even be One warm afternoon about twenty summers A t first the vacations seemed a problem, but allowed into the meeting to argue ago as I said, Jeff and Roy, the new man, were DETROIT — “We didn’t stand since Jeff and Roy took theirs at different times his own case, as is provided for working the heavy chains under the steel and there was always one of them on the job, and for it in ’37, and we are not going to stand for it now.” So spoke in a supplementary agreement. then hooking them into loops, while Stash watched they managed to cover up for Stash. Besides, Rent Increase Ferraza also told the workers them from the little cab above, hoisting the load Stash didn’t have fits too often. Jess Ferraza, International UAW Representative, Briggs Director, that while he had many times in By Milton Matthews when Jeff signalled. Young Harkins, the boss, But then, quite suddenly as these things happen, at a special strike action meeting the past disagreed with irrespon­ had passed by eyeing them, and they were a little it was all over. Jeff was on his vacation. Roy, a Inflation, the disease of capitalism that cripples the last week. This observation was sible (his term) action of the bit ahead in their work. Everything was as usual. few minutes late, dashed into the street to catch living standards of millions of workers struck another greeted with a tremendous ova­ m ilitant Briggs workers that this Then, unaccountably, Stash stopped his load his bus. He heard a shriek of brakes and felt a tion by the Briggs workers, who was a just cause. hammer-blow last week when New York State Rent Ad­ halfway up. Jeff raised his eyes to the cab just crushing blow. When he awoke in the ambulance have long been fed up with the ministrator Joseph D. McGoldrick^ in time to meet Stash’s wild glare and hear hi* he learned that both legs were broken. FIVE YEAR CONTRACT The survey proved landlords bureaucrats’ policy of appease­ released his “15 percent rent breathy howl, a sort of “ooooohl”, as though he He failed to discuss why the did not merit increases, but Mc­ Meanwhile Harkins stormed into the labor ment to big business. The work­ raise” plan. This piece of land­ had been kicked in the stomach. Roy whirled to company felt that this was an Goldrick violated the obvious con­ gang’s shanty and got a youngster named Jimmy ers overwhelmingly voted in lord legislation becomes law look, but he saw only .Stash’s clutching fingers opportune time to institute this clusions of his own statistics. Kelly to fill in for Roy. For twenty years they’d favor of strike action. Mar. 15 if not vetoed by Feb. 15. waving for a moment in the cab window and Jeff been lucky, but now it happened, because Jimmy, speedup and attack the very CARL SKOGLUND Point one of his plan will The spirit of the meeting took Chances of a veto are nil with already racing up the ladder, crawling along the you understand, just didn’t know. foundation of the union. He didn’t permit rent raises if the net a fam iliar turn however, once the a Democratic and Republican rails to the crane, then down to the platform and He happened to be looking right at the cab mention who gave the company return is less than four percent bureaucrats were assured that coalition afoot to kill public dis­ inside. window. He saw the craneman’s face twist ana such weapons as five year con­ of the assessed valuation of they had popular support. The Veteran Unionist cussion, keep rank and file Jeff moved the crane back to the ladder, and •the eyes bulge. He saw the desperately clawing tracts and no-strike pledges. property. In computing operating workers were told to return to legislators in line, and place the Roy went up. Stash was lying limp and white on fingers, heard the terrible, gasping “oooooh!’ When some workers tried to expenses, landlords are allowed work on Monday, and under the hot issue under wraps for the the floor of the cab. The seizure was over but Jimmy raced out into the yard yelling, “Mr. get the floor to ask about work­ Is Victimized By to include two pex-cent of valu­ same conditions which had forced next few weeks until, they hope, for a slight twitching. “Man had a fit,” Jeff said. Harkins! Mr. Harkins!” ers who had been fired months ation for depreciation. This fair them to hit the bricks three mass resentment has cooled. They got Stash down to the ground. The ago for fighting these same speed- income formula already has been “ We better call Mr. Harkins,” Roy suggested. times the previous week; while ambulance took him to the dispensary. The secret ups, and who were still out be­ Immigration Dept. declared “arbitrary and unlaw­ “We do that and he gets fired.” their representatives negotiated LABOR PROTESTS was out. cause they opposed Reuther and Suppose you were 67 years ful” by the New York Supreme “Hell with him,” flared Roy. “He ain’t but a with management under man­ Labor responded at once to this Harkins was nice. “We hate to let you go, his administration, they were told old and had worked from early Court and the State Court of damn white man, and they wouldn't give you or agement’s terms. blow. The United Labor Action Stash,” he *old him. “You’re an old employee that all other business had been youth as a lumberjack, rail­ Appeal. me his job. He gonna kill us some day working One of these terms was that a Committee on Jan. 22 urged a and a steady worker. But it just isn’t safe to suspended except the strike vote. road shopman and teamster. down below when he has one of them damn fits!” m ilitant member of the shop com­ million New York State union RENT RAISES have you working here. If you didn’t kill some­ One member asked that a strike Suppose your efforts all these “ He stopped the crane before he had his fit,” mittee who had been discharged members to plan rent strikes after body else, you might kill yourself.” committee immediately be set up, years were devoted to advanc­ The fair value formula permits while fighting speedup, remain in March 15 if the boss parties adopt Jeff said quietly. “He can tell when it’s coming, but he was not recognized. in g la bo r’s cause. the same landlord to raise his Now Jeff runs the crane, and Roy and Jimmy the plan. Thursday, Jan. 25, was so he won’t kill us. And he needs a job just like Suppose you had remained rents “ad infinitum” since he are his hook-up men. But somehow it’s different. designated as “ Rent Control Day” you or me.” true to the principles of union could first raise his rent on the Jimmy’s a nice kid. He’s sorry about what he did. and workers distributed a million “He wouldn’t worry about you. . .” solidarity and your socialist basis of his assessed valuation, Only, it’s sort of lonesome without old Stash, STATE SEDITION LAW TRIAL leaflets condemning the rent ideas, despite blacklisting, per­ then raise the valuation of his “Man, how I know what he’d do? Now get on the white fellow-worker whom the two Negroes raise as a wage cut. property on the basis of the new down that ladder and hook up for me, and protected so well. Twenty years is a long time. secution, prison and an FBI OF 3 OPENS IN PITTSBURGH offer to turn informer. The McGoldrick plan is typical rent increases, thereby qualifying Suppose in your 07th year of the means used by landlords lor a new rent increase because By F. Forest Musmanno as a “ private citizen” the Immigration Department to get rent increases of 43.6 of the higher assessed property swore out a warrant for the arrest PITTSBURGH, Jan. 19 — The ordered your deportation from percent in Chicago, 34.5 percent valuation. This phony formula of the three CP leaders. The basis The Talented Tenth “State Sedition Trial” against the United States where you in Los Angeles and 25.4 percent becomes law if the legislature was the alleged violation of the three leaders of the Communist had lived fo r 40 years. nationally, according to the affirms the plan. ------By J. Blake ------State Sedition A c t o f 1939. This Party of Western Pennsylvania These are the grim realities Bureau of Labor Statistics. notorious act, anticipatory of the Point two permits a “ voluntary” A four-point program in the interest of the presidents, Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune and Dr. has opened here this week. The facing Carl Skoglund today. police - state McCarran Act by HOUSING SURVEY agreement between landlord and Negro uppercrust has been announced by six self- three on trial are Steve Nelson, tenant for a 15 percent boost with Benjamin Mays. more than a decade, had never The plan is based on an in­ styled “ leaders of various fields of endeavor of District Organizer, Andrew Onda, a two-year lease. The voluntary All six have lost their moorings completely if before been used. The act is so tensive survey of state housing Negro life” who ax-e asking Truman for a con­ alleged organizer of steel work­ feature is a subterfuge to “ black­ they think they can sell the Negro people this broad that even lampooning any Broad New Powers conditions. Some of the facts the ference by Feb. 1 to discuss it. ers, and James Dolsen, cor­ jack” tenants into accepting rent insulting substitute for a program to meet the U.S. government policy through survey uncovered are the follow­ respondent for the Daily Worker. Planned for FBI raises under the pressure of a Completely ignoring the needs of more than 14 needs of the times. A few glorified lackey jobs for cartoons can be judged “sedi­ ing: 1. N. Y. State is 250,000 diré need for necessary services million Negro people — soldiers, workers, small the “talented tenth” and a more comfortable The trial comes about as a tious.” W A S H ., D. C. — Plans are dwelling units short of its needs, and facilities. businessmen and youth — the six propose rhe Washington, D. C. for them to live in is a program result of a raid on Communist The trial is being held in the afoot to ask the 82nd Congress 2. Net income of landlords in New Party headquarters staged last following policy for the administration: to make Frederick Douglass turn over in his court of Judge Henry X. O’Brien. for more sweeping powers for Y ork C ity has increased 17.2 Of the seven points in the plan summer by Judge Michael A. “1. Action by the President to abolish Jim grave and to make living Negroes look for new The great interest in the trial on percent over the wartime base that cover rent incitases and in­ Musmanno when the judge was the FBI. The new bill would Crow in the nation’s capital, as an emergency leaders. the p a rt o f the pu blic can be seen period. 3. More than 86 percent of clude the .easing of the eviction running for the office of Attorney enable investigators to arrest war measure. Randolph, particularly, should remember that in the jammed court rooms. At city landlords earned net incomes laws, perhaps the most odious is it is possible to make gains in the Negro struggle General on the Democratic Party this moment it is not possible to an individual whom they last year between 20-49.9 percent the one permitting a rent raise “2. Appointment pf a Negro as a ranking ticket and was storming through by pressing the advantage when the American see the political line that will be suspect of committing a crime, of gross income. This last statistic whei-e the number of sub-tenants administrative assistant or secretary to the Presi­ CP headquarters in the state and ruling class is in difficulties. It was in a similar followed by the Communist Party- before the crime was com­ shows that these landlords could or occupants increase in a single dent at the White House. threatening their legal existence. situation before World War II that the March on in this trial since Steve Nelson, not even qualify for increases ap artm en t. “3. Integration of qualified Negroes into the In this raid he was helped by m itted. Washington Movement seeking an end to jim who is acting as his own attorney, under the last Federal rent This clause hits hardest at the policy-making bodies of government. Matt Cvetic, notorious FBI labor crow in industry mobilized hundreds of thousands and Defense Attorney John T. It is also planned to provide formula which set 20 percent as Negro people in the Harlem spy who posed as a CP member “4. Integration of qualified Negroes into the of Negroes. Roosevelt called Randolph in for a McTernan, who is the chief the G-men with the power of its base. It was, ostensibly, the Ghetto. Rents there were origi­ ever since the war, and two higher echelons of the foreign services in all conference then, and issued the Fair Employment defense lawyer for Onda and arrest without warrant; that hardships endured by tenants nally frozen at high levels and detectives, Joseph Becker and embassies and councils of the United States of Practices Executive order in exchange for Ran­ Dolsen, have been refused the is, an a rre s t • could then be urtder the Federal formula that tenants are forced to take in George Marshall. America, in all countries of the world.” dolph’s promise to call off the march. privilege of making a statement made solely' upon the discretion led —- in an election year natu- boarders in order to pay the rent According to the Pittsburgh Courier of Jan. 20 Randolph apparently thinks it was his con­ On the basis of this “informa­ until after the prosecution has of the individual agent. x ally — to the enactment of the and meet the spiraling cost of in which this program appeared, the “little man” ference with Roosevelt, not the aroused Negro tion” thus illegally seized, Judge finished its case. New York State Emergency living. If this plan becomes law, will be represented when the six leaders meet to masses, that secured the concession from Roose­ Housing Rent Control Law of tenants of Harlem w ill be penaliz­ discuss these policies with Truman. If the “ little velt. Now this leader has shrunk to the size of his 1950, g iv in g the state con tro l over ed for not being able to afford man” expects to receive any of the appointments new base, a puny handful of would-be yes-men rents. living alone in a ghetto home. requested in this program, he is represented, but for Truman. Randolph’s program of action has not otherwise.. Lieut. Gilbert and the other Negro degenerated accordingly from demonstrations of Letters from Readers soldiers suffering from Army jim crow in Korea the independent strength of the Negro people to will have no spokesman at the conference. Nor respectful requests for conferences with Truman, Editor: Knowing your long moreover, that these killers ■— A few weeks later the colonel the mounting number of victims of police brutality the politician who has withdrawn even his empty record of consistency and honesty, who also serve as guards in makes a tour of inspection in a from Lo3 Angeles to New York. Nor the millions election promises of civil rights legislation. I was surprised by some dis­ slave-labor camps — have come m ilitary hospital. He notices the of Negro workers at the bottom of the heap in Randolph and the others concluded their wire crepancies in the article by to be so hated by the Soviet sergeant who is lying in one of Gladys Barker’s open letter to papers was a powerful “con- factories, on farms or in service trades. to Truman by meekly pledging their “cooperation Suzanne Leonhard, A Voice from masses that the popular reference the beds, a badly battered Congressman Adam Clayton vin cer.” The six leaders who misrepresent themselves and support to the government in these dreadful Stalin’s Prison-camp. (Jan. 15 (among trusted company, of casualty. Powell in The Militant urging a Other high scorers wex-e Rlxoda, as speaking for the Negro people are President days of decision and destiny.” M ilitant.) Some details are merely course!) to them is that of “How were you wounded?” the march on City Hall 47, and George Rock, 44. Zeb A. Philip Randolph of the Brotherhood of Sleeping to protest the cold- These are days of decision and destiny and muddy, e.g., if Lola Ginsburg Okhranschiki or the Okhrana (the colonel asks. “ Well,” replies the rolled up 30 in Bedfox-d Stuyvesant Car Porters; Executive Secretary Walter White blooded police those leaders who fail to measure up in vision, married Smirnov, her married name of the secret police under sarge, “ I see this Korean charging and then another 9 in Harlem. of the National Association for the Advancement murder of the Negro program, and courage w ill be swept aside to make name would be Smirnova — yet the crowned Czars in the me. I shout ‘Stalin’s nuts!’ He Lucille sold 35; Milt, 32; Ruth of Colored People; National Urban League Direc­ veteran, John Der­ room for bold mew men and women capable of “Lola did not trust her room­ K re m lin ). shouts ‘Truman’s crazy!’ While Thorne, 30; Mary Leo, 26; Frank tor Lester Granger; Director Channing H. Tobias rick, won new friends leading the struggle for Negro rights to victories. mate Smirnova.” In the final While reader K. M.’s criticism we are shaking hands one of them Z., 25; Ben Stone, 24; and Beezie, of the Phelps-Stokes Foundation; and two college for America’s lead­ column of the article, reference is itself imprecise as to the form, big tanks runs over us.” 23. ing socialist weekly * * * is made to GPU (which existed it is correct in its gist. “Such I heard this joke from a ruooer in New York’s Ne­ 1922-1935), NKVD (successor to inattention to detail has no place worker during a lunch period Last Sunday some of the Min­ gro communities last GPU), and Okhrana (the Czarist in The Militant,” he says. We bull session. Everybody laughed. neapolis members of the M ilitant Sinclair Lewis week. Members of secret police) which seems to subscribe to this with both hands Maybe this is a straw in the wind. Army went neighborhood visiting the Militant Army ------By George Lavan ------offer these three separate, his­ and we thank K. M. in particular Maybe • people are beginning to with socialist literature. It was a who took the paper torically disparate organizations for helping us guard against think that not only the Kremlin brisk morning, in fact “ 18 below into the streets and neighborhoods Sinclair Lewis, famous American novelist and Lewis went down South as a reporter. He gave as identical. Such inattention to such faults in the future. gang but also the Pentagon out at our place,” writes Litera­ sold 697 copies. Nobel Prize winner, died on Jan. 10 in Italy. no “ objective” report. He told the truth and made detail has no place in The M ili­ butchers are unfit to govern. ture Agent P. S. It warmed up no bones about where his sympathies lay — with tant; I shall look forward to a * * * Door-to-door sales wei-c good. gradually, howevex-, to 10 below Some months before he had told reporters he was The joke suggests that workers the impoverished mill workers fighting for a brief note of explanation in next Dear Editor: I heard a war Ethel B. and Dorothy Johnson of and the comx-ades did all right. working on another novel which had as its theme accept the idea that victims of better life. His fine series of articles on the week’s issue, Thank you and good the New York Youth Branch of “We sold 29 copies of The M ili­ “ the middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian story in the rubber shop last night the world’s criminally insane textile strikes were printed as a pamphlet by the luck. the Socialist Workers Party re­ ta n t and along w ith them 86 Twentieth Century.” and believe it is worth repeating: rulers have much in common. AFL Textile Workers Union. K . M. ported they met with only one copies of the panxphlets, Jobs for This was Lewis’ life-long theme. His numerous “ How can I tell a Nox-th Korean One swallow doesn’t make a refusal to buy a Militant. At It was shortly after this that Lewis tried to New York City A ll and Voice of Socialism. One novels dwell entirely on the American middle from a South Korean,” a sergeant summer, but one day thoughts another home, a woman made up write a novel about the labor movement and then of the comrades got a one-year class. And no one can deny his talent in his P. S. E rne st G erm ain is ex­ asks a colonel. like these will be on millions of for this by taking a subscription decided he couldn’t. He was a product of the class subscription.” It seems that not chosen field. cellent. I hope you’ll print more tongues. Then woe to Truman after looking the paper over. he so mercilessly satirized. His revolt was that “ That’s easy,” says the colonel. all the people in the neighbor­ Lewis achieved fame in the early Twenties with articles by him more often. • and Stalin and all they represent. Dorothy Royce of Brooklyn, of a sensitive mind which resented the stifling “ When you see a Korean running hood appreciated the bracing Main Street and Babbitt. These were satirical at you, shout ‘Stalin’s nuts!’ Rubber Worker selling in the Bcdford-Stuyvesant atmosphere and were staying in atmosphere of the middle class. E d ito r’s R e ply: The erro rs so novels about the well-to-do people of typical You’ll find out soon enough.” A kro n , O. area, said that five of her custom­ bed to keep warm. This was When the Great Depression rocked the U.S. helpfully called to our attention Western cities. With a wealth of detail that ers asked about meetings ad­ something of an obstacle as “ it is Lewis with his sensitive ear attuned to the middle by reader K. M. are errors not of carried overwhelming conviction, the sham and vertised in The Militant and in­ hard to talk to people wheix they class wrote a novel warning of the danger of commission but of omission. But futility of the lives of the "respectable” element dicated their interest in learning ax-e still half asleep.” were depicted. fascism in this country. It Can’t Happen Here they remain errors nonetheless. more about socialism. pictured the rise to power of a made-in-the-U.S.A. New York * * * In Gopher Prairie and Zenith, as in all other Soviet women, in the first in­ Minneapolis On the streets, not a few work­ d icta to r. cities of the U.S., the only lasting bond between stance revolutionists, have long ers listening in on convci-sations The St. Paul contingent are also man and man in middle class circles was the cash Of Lewis’ more recent novels Kingsblood Royal been accustomed, unlike the prac­ Lenin Memorial between M ilitant sales people and doing well. They ran short last payment or expectation thereof. This middle class is outstanding. This dealt with race prejudice. tice prevailing among other Sunday Forum prospective customers asked for week and had to older extra M ili­ was hopelessly regimented in its outlook and It sold the staggering number of a million and a Occidentals, to retain their own a copy. A student took two extra tants. “Paul sells 5 a week M eeting regularly in his shop, sometimes opinion. half copies. The hero (part Negro) and his friends, names during and after marriage. copies for friends and asked for “Europe: a Pawn more. And Bill sells from 2 to 10 Lewis’ novels caused a furore precisely be­ white and black, defend his home with the weapons Thus the wife of Lenin is not more information about socialism a week on thè campus as a cause they hit the bull’s eye so squarely. And they can gather against a mob. The critics thought known as “Mrs. Lenin” but as “The Asian Revolution when he finishes his exams in a in American regular thing,” Litei-atui-e Agent in proportion were the attacks on him. Some that the violent ending was “far-fetched” and not Nadezhda Constantinovna Krup­ few weeks. A number of custom­ the moral to their liking for a book on the Negro Winifred Nelson writes. critics hotly denied that Lewis gave a true picture skaya; And, so too in the case of and the Crisis Imperialism’s Game” ers on learning that The Militant of his subject. Shameless distortion and exag­ question. Actually Lewis’ insight into American Lola, who while married to is a socialist paper told the sales * £ * geration was their cry! life was demonstrated precisely by such things Smirnov, retained her name of of World Imperialism” pel-son to “ keep the change.” Jane Sebastian, iepoi-ting for as the violent end to Kingsblood Royal. He saw G insburg. In Arrowsmith. Lewis describes a talented and Speaker Yvonne of the Youth, a beginner San Francisco, sent in five that the jim-crow elements would never grant in selling The M ilitant, scored the idealistic young doctor, who sees in science the The woman “Smirnova” re­ Speaker renewal subscriptions, the result equal rights to the Negro people without a battle. V. R. DUNNE answers to mankind’s problems, goes through the ferred to in the text in question, highest with 61 copies to hex- of a Sunday’s work. “On Satur­ He also saw that Negroes will have white allies rat-race of a medical career. He finds that capital­ was an altogether different per­ DAVID L. WEISS credit. And it wasn’t just begin­ day 20 copies of The M ilitant were in the fight to the death against racism. ism has enslaved science and broken men as' good son, a prison room-mate. Reader Sun., Feb. 4-3:30 PM ner’s luck. She found that a brief sold on a busy sti-eet corner in explanation of the difference be­ as he. Lewis’ death is a sad loss to America. While K. M., along with most of our C hairm an the Negro community.” tween The Militant and other In Elmer Gantry, that holy of holies — organ­ he couldn’t write about the labor movement, he readers, had no way of telling for * * * lack of this explanation, which ROSE KARSNER 10 S. 4 th S treet ized religion — was dissected and labeled. Here was eminently qualified to write about the labor B. P. J. of British Columbia, ought to have been included were seen not the sincere preachers of an earlier leaders. Studying those circles he would instantly CHICAGO Canada, upon x-enewing his sub­ parenthetically in the text. epoch but a cynical and corrupt clergy engaging have recognized the brother types of the Babbitts Wed., Jan. 31 - 8 PM Admission Free Socialist Workers Party Hdqs. scription, gave as his opinion that in religion as a business, and Gantries of his acquaintance. A re-reading of A similar confusion in many 5th Ward — 5558 Ellis “The Militant is the best guide In 1929 a wave of strikes broke out in the his novels today helps one to understand the readers’ minds must have like­ fo r Adelphi Hall Auspices: to fast moving events. James P. Southern textile mills. The organization of South­ patent-medicine “ commentators” of the radio, the wise arisen because of our failure IRVING BEININ Cannon hit the bull’s eye in his ern labor hung in the balance. The industrialists personalities of Congress and last but not least to explain that the GPU and the 74 Fifth Ave. (O ff 14th St) Socialist Workers Party SWP Candidate for Alderman pamphlet The Coming American knew this and the strikers were being shot down Harry S. Truman, whose personality seems a NKVD are simply different names 5th W ard Revolution. Only an aroused peo­ in cold blood. plagiarism from Lewis. for Stalin’s secret police. And Open Weds, fro m 7 to 10 p.m. ple can set things right.”