Workers of the World, Unite! SWP Plenum Resolution Oh Wallace Movement See Page 2 — the MILITANTPUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE INTERESTS OF THE WORKING PEOPLE VOL. X ll.—I\o. 9 NF.W YORK. N. Y.. MONDAY. MARCH l. 1948 PRICE: FIVE JflENTb Green, Reuther Hand Out Same DOBBS AND CARLSON TO HEAD Political Bunkum ’48 NATIONAL TICKET OF SWP Offer No Positive Labor Program in Speeches At Convention of Truman Doctrine Liberals "Strikers Put Heat on Scabs Murray Policies By Art Preis W ill Fight for Socialism A F L Presiden't W illiam Green and C IO LTnited Auto Bring Danger of Workers President W alter Reuther were the chief union spokesmen at the Americans*their speeches for any direct inti- S plit in CIO In Presidential Campaign for Democratic Action con-; mation of who these big 1*b°r statesmen" are for. j^nd that’s By Joseph Hansen vcntion on Pe’o. 22 in Philadelphia. what shows them to be such sad Los Angeles Stalinists The ADA is the organization or i bankrupts They've literally noth- Try to Evade Issues ,For the first time since the days of Eugene V. Debs and the pioneer Truman Docuine liberals. ling to offer. Communist movement, Wall Street’s candidates will be opposed in a presi Green, an ancient mossback, rep- ! BLIND ALLEY Philip Murray’s drive to line d e n tia l election by a as secretary’ Treasurer of Local 544 , ly century. It has given us faseferi) resents the horse-and-buggy era of | Wallace is a phony who doesn't up all CIO affiliates for the working class slate of the AFL Teamsters and ns Secre craft unionism. Reuther is a star | represent labor. Good. Taft is the Truinan-Marshall Plan and against in Europe and a number of world standing squarely on the pro tary of the Teamsters Eleven State graduate of the newer school o f. co-author of the Taft-Hartley Slave any break with the two-party sys depressions. It fosters race pre&jg gram of revolutionary social-, Area Committee, Dobbs went to New streamlined labor bureaucrats who Labor Law. Nuff said. Truman? tem has brought the grave danger York to serve as National Labor dice and hatred. Well, lie’s the author of the Truman pose as up-to-date and ‘progres ism. Secretary of tlie Socialist Workers "If Big Business is permitted to Doctrine and they’re all for that. of a split in the CIO. sive’’ in their thinking. For the first time since the in- j Party. continue running the country, But they spoke the same language But still they didn't dare let Ills Last week The Militant reported ception of the American Trotsky- i In 1941 lie was among the 18 before the ADA convention. The? name pass their lips. Not yet any how right-wing delegates, a minor ist movement 20 years ago, the So- ' way. defendants framed-up in the Min expressed identical views on po ity in the Newark. N. J„ CIO Coun cialiot Workers Party is’entering its neapolis Labor Case. Sentenced un- litical action and the Marshall Pian That is the blind alley that the cil, walked out and are attempting own candidates in a national elec i der the infamous Smith "Gag’’ Act —and all their views were reac whole ¡last policy of the top trade to set up a dual council. tion. for the "crime" of opposing im- tionary. union leaders has led to. At this A similar split was engineered on As candidate of the Socialist ; perialist war and advocating social late hour and at this critical stage Workers Party for President of the IGNORED LABOR’S PROBLEMS Feb. 20 in the Los ■ Angeles CIO . . , „ , __ . .. . i ism, he served 13 months in Sand- in American and world develop Council. Right-wing delegates Ur.ited States in the 1948 e le c tro n s .!^ . Pederal PenUentiary. The problems of American labor Members of the American Communications Association (CTO) and ments. the Greens and the Reuthers the Independent All America Cable Employes Association have been walked out of the Council meeting lire National Committee of the SWP j before advancing Big Business re Grace Carlson has a similar active' have no political answer for the on strike against the cable companies since January 2. Here they are after the majority refused to re at its Feb. 21-23 session nominated action found place in their speeches American workers. Farrell Dobbs. Editor of The M ili record in tlie labor movement. A demanding that scabs hired by the boss accept messages. When the scind a previously-adopted resolu graduate with a Ph.D. degree from only hi a few brief complaints. They Shall they ■continue to play the scabs refused, the strikers threatened to notify the Federal Communi tion to "take no action pro or con" tant ar.d well-known former trade had another program to peddle-- union leader. For Vice-President, the University of Minnesota, she politics of the “lesser evil” and go cations Commission about the lack of sendee. on tlie controversial questions of decided years ago to devote her life ■the Truman Doctrine, currently dis- . down to defeat with strikebreaker Federated Pictures the Marshall Plan, the third party tlie National Committee chose, Grace Carlson of Minneapolis, Minn.i to the revolutionary socialist move- j guised as the European ■ Recovery Truman or some other Democratic and Wallace's candidacy. incut. Both candidates accepted the nomi- , Program. t stumblcbum? Shall they stall This split was clearly inspired by When it came to a political pro- around until after the Democratic nation. For four years she served as dele Murray. His lieutenant, John gate of the Minnesota State Em gram for labor and progressives in and Republican conventions in the Bropliy, national director of CIO Farrell Dobbs came to the fore as a capable, fighting labor leader ployees Union. Local No. 10, to the ; J048 they came forth with a hollow ; hopes that from one or the other Judge Upholds Taft Act Councils, sent a , letter to the Los during tlie historic Minneapolis St. Paul Trades and Labor Assem negative—“ Get Henry Wallace!” ' they’ll get a name to which they Angeles CIO Council demanding FARRELL DOBBS can attach .a “liberal" label? Or Teamsters strike of 1934. This strug bly. Green ranted about. Wallace’s that the local body make a positive shall they just forget all about na gle made open-shop Minneapolis a The only woman among the 18 depression worse than that of tllti third-party venture as "ill-conceived declaration in support of the Mar union town and inspired organiza-1 defendants in the Minneapolis La- i Thirties is inevitable. And so is tional politics in this year of de shall Plan and against any third and ill-timed", not to speak of tion of the whole Northwest. bor Case, • Grace Carlson served 13 another world war; Waged with cision and put the stress on "local In ITU Injunction Case party in 1948. He claimed that “red-starred.” Reuther proclaimed, politics," as some are counselling? j After serving a number of years! months at the Aldcrson Federal atomic weapons, that war can inegrf "We’ve got the job of taking on Government strikebreaking by injunction has .become a even a “compromise position" on i Penitentiary for Women. Like Dnhbs, the end of human culture, This Gordian knot of pplitical 'in these questions violated the rules Wallace and his Joe StalTH" asso greater threat than ever as the result of a Federal Circuit Court her “crime" was opposing im perial-1 -The Republican Party hasW ciates." eptness and indecision can be cut governing local councils. ist war and advocating socialism. . through at one stroke. Let the 15 changed since the days of Herbert decision handed down in In- * ’strengthens the Taft-Hartley Act The pro-Wallacc Stalinists who Grace Carlson is a member of Hoover. This political machine of From their concentration on Wal- million organized American work- dominate the Los Angeles CIO lace. you d think that all evils j el.s through their elected repre- dianapolis on Feb. 25. The ru l and its chief agency, the NLRB. the National Executive Board of Wall Street now hopes to stage 'a. Specifically, Judge Swygert ruled Council had thought they could the Workers Defense League and comeback. But a vote for the Re|; s'temmed from him rather than the sentatives. hold a national united ing was made in a hearing on the avoid a fight and a split simply by Democratic and Republican free- labor conference, form their own National Labor Relations Board pe that the NLRB, through Us General a member of the National Associa publicans in 1948 is a vote for bread Counsel Denham, has the legal ducking the issues. They had tion for the Advancement of Colored lines just as it was in 1928. Don’t booters who have mutually held a Labor Party and run their own tition for a sweeping injunction to pushed through a resolution “ that political mononoly for eight decades, presidential and local candidates in restrain the AFL International right to seek an, injunction against People. vote yourself out of a job by vot a union on disputed charges still this Council and its political action Upon accepting their nomination ing Republican! But you will search in vain in November. Typographical Union from com committee take no action pro or mitting 23 alleged "unfair labor being heard "impartially” by the to head the SWP national ticket, “Tlie Democratic Party is not .V NLRB itself. Thus, the NLRB can con upon the questions which re Dobbs an’d Carlson issued Hie fol- whit belter. Like Lite Republicans, practices." main at Issue among international Federal Judge Luther M. Swygert. invoke court action to break a strike j lowing statement: the Democrats stand for unbridled or otherwise shackle any union even unions of CIO with respect to tlie "We arc 100’.; opposed to the militarism. A vole for Truman is" setting aside an ITU motion for dis presidential campaign, Truman or SWP Plenum Adopts missal of the NLRB petition, ruled before evidence has been heard or j capitalist system. It is this worn- a vote for atomic war! employers' complaints have been Wallace, or the issue of a third ma 1 out system which is responsible for "Wallace considers Truman doom that the Taft-Hartley Act provision jor political party, or the Marshall upheld. all tlie economic, social and politi- ed to defeat.. The Democratic Party: under which the injunction is Plan.” Election Year Policy sought is constitutional. This not. In the ITU case, the injunction ! cal ills that harrass the workers j is a sinking ship. But. does Wallacecs’ only clears the way for an injunc proceedings Were instituted by Den NOT “ IN HARMONY” and poor fanners today. i sudden departure from the Demo- N E W YO R K . Feb. 23 — A of the unions. It arises out of the “Capitalism has inflicted two ; era tic Party make his program any failure of the union bureaucrats to tion in the ITU case, but juridically ham as part of a conspiracy be Brophy promptly wrote Secretary- GRACE CARLSON , world wars on us in a quarter oí j (Continued oit l’Ugo 4) full meeting of the National open up a new political path foi tween the NLRB and the big news Treasurer Philip Connelly of the Committee of the Socialist the workers. It cannot he regarded paper publishers to impose an open Los Angeles CIO Council demand shop contract on the ITU and there ing that it “clarify its position." He Workers Party, with members as as an aid to independent political labor organization but as a spuri by undermine the largest, union in said that its “ Policy Statement" is sembled from all parts of the coun ous ’progressive’ substitute for a the printing trade. The ITU lias 1 not “in harmony with national CIO StalinistsTake Over Government try, today concluded a three-day Labor Party.” bee!) waging a determined light for policy.” session devoted to discussion and months, spearheaded by the strike Brophy said that the CIO "is op Owing to the explicit repudiation action on the party’s tasks in the ] of ITU Local 16 against the Chicago posed to formation of a third party In Czechoslovak Political Crisis of unity by the Nov. 1947 plenary light of the latest political develop- ■ Big Business dailies to win justifi in 1948 and favors the Marshall decision of the Workers Party, the ments at home and internationally. able wage increases anti sustain its Plan.” He added: “Any statement By Paul G. Stevens After a thorough-going review and i plenum in a spècial resolution traditional contractual conditions of by any industrial union council Czechoslovakia’s political fate hung in the balance last week as Stalinist Premier Klemv. recognized that the question of analysis of the crucial problems of j employment. j which takes a compromise position ent Gottwald moved to install a new government completely dominated by the CommHnist the labor movement and the de- . SWP-WP unity was terminated “as If Judge Swygert now grants the ■ on these points is in conflict with a realistic possibility." The vote Party. The old Gottwald gov-*; T_, " • , ”VT----- ...... V ' veloping political trends, the Na petition of the NLRB, the ITU will CIO policy and in violation of Rule J b * lated. Faced with tins stalemate !y diplomatically mul economically tional Committee plenum voted to was unanimous, with two absten face one of the most vicious and all- 8, governing Councils.” j ernm ent fell when its capitalist the Stalinists decided to form a co- 1 with its East European bloc where, tions. ( run SWP candidates on a national; embracing injunctions in the whole Brophy’s letter was a signal to ministers, headed by members alition government, with the Sociali as in Hungary. Rumania, Bulgaria, ticket in the 1948 elections. The plenum reviewed the world notorious history of government the right-wing delegates. They I of President Belies' National So- Democrats, who did not resign'. To etc., all oppositional elements have The plenum nominated I’arrell situation, including the latest de strikebreaking. It would literally went- into the last, meeting of tlie j cialist Party, resigned in prates: gether these two parties constitute been purged. Dobbs as the party’s presidential I velopments in Russia. There was prevent the ITU from even “ advo Los Angeles council and. demanded | against alleged moves by Nosek, a majority of 151 out of 300 in the On the other hand, continued ex banner-bearer, and Grace Carlson • general agreement with the position cating or counseling” strikes or that the "neutrality" resolution be Stalinist Minister of Interior, to Czech parliament and are thus in a ploitation of the workers by Czech for the vice presidential candidate. of the world Trotskyist movement “other disruptions” both before and reconsidered. When the majority j place the country’s police under ex position to meet tlie formal consti capitalism. left, intact ,by the fake These nominations will be presented as expressed in its latest resolutions after the NLRB decisions. Legally, refused, the right-wing minority clusive CP control. tutional requirements. “ nationalizations," lias produced to the SWP national convention to and theses (published in Fourth In it would place the ITU completely leaders led their followers demon Benes at first refused to accept Should this coalition materialize, i growing iiuiest and discontent. The. be held around next June. (Text ternational. Nov.-Dee., 1947). EDUARD BENES at the mercy of the publishers. stratively from the hall. I the resignations. He later capitu- President _Bene.s and his capitalist! Stalinist party, dominant in both of adopted resolution appears on : supporters would be faced with the the government and the trade; Page 4). Pre-convention discussion : alternative of accepting it or at unions. lias found it more and mdy) was immediately opened in the tempting a revolt that would open difficult to suppress this discontent Party. wide the gates to civil war. ; without incurring the danger of”' MALRAUX, WITH AID OF TIMES', SLANDERS TROTSKYISM Gottwald has charged the Na ; losing its mass base. DISCUSSION ON WALLACE tional Socialist Party with prepar ALIGN WITH MOSCOW Discussion in the plenum centered. By G. F. Eckstein crats and ex-revolutionists to this Ihc perfidious Stalinist policy in stifling this movement, to uninask [ and his "corporate state,” are now j ing a coup. The Stalinist-domin 1 The Stalinists, in accorciancei.with on the Wallace candidacy and third- new reactionary movement in ! China, supported by Malraux. its crimes. Trotsky also pointed out ! no secret. Malraux therefore is in All over Europe, particularly ated iiolice not only raided its head ’ the new Cominform line, aitayigwj: party movement as tire newest and France, and to facilt.ate acceptance Later Malraux visited Trotsky in despeAte need of using his past to i that Malraux had worked hand in quarters, but. placed other party parent I,v trying to use mass action' most significant political develop France, many former Social ol it in tlie United States. ; France, publishing an account of hand with the Stalinists in China, deceive the workers about his pres headquarters, including the Social in order to align Czechoslovakia ment. The first two days of the ists and ex-radicals are eager his visit in tlie Modern Quarterly LIES AND SLANDER just as lie was doing in Spain. ent politics. According to Sulz- Democrat s. under "protective with Moscow as Completely as the: plenum were devoted to this ques to serve as agents of American im ■ (March, 1935). Here he expressed guard." Simultaneously Gottwald rest of Eastern Europe. tion and the party’s attitude toward perialism and its native allies. They The N. Y. Times correspondent C. some Platonic sympathies for Trot These accusations appeared in * | berger. Malraux "always says that issued an appeal for the formation While the Stalinist Idtfdcrs aWf the Wallace movement. plump, for the Marshall Plan, col L. Sulzberger helps out Malraux by sky. UP dispatch from Mexico. March 8. had Leon ' Trotsky won his party of "Action Committees” in all “ fac basing themselves on mass action, Tlie overwhelming majority of the laborate with all the reactionary ills Feb. 14 Times article. Suiz- \ 1937. They, together with Malraux's ! tattle with Joseph Stalin, he him But even this literary enthusiasm tory towns, villages and districts" they arc proceeding with a caution plenum held the position that. Wal sections of the ruling class. But to berger’s article is full of inaccuracies reply were published in the Nation, self would today be a Trotskyite was short-lived. The Moscow in support of his new government. that reveals their fear of its revoluk lace is a capitalist politician and be really effective they have to and downright slanders both about March 27. 1937. Communist." Not only Malraux but Frameup Trials and the Spanish After some vacillation, the Social tinnary impetus. Thus, according « ^ that his movement can in no way be maintain the confidence of the the current policies and the past Civil War proved a turning point Malraux claimed that Trotsky’s many others would have gladly at history of tlie Trotskyist movement. tached themselves to a victorious , Democrats are reported to have or dispatches, the Stalinists havfe!« j|| considered a labor party develop workers. for Malraux. as fo r. so many other attack was due solely to Malraux's dered their members to join these ment. A contrary view was also To lull suspicion, they seek to It seeks to link up Malraux with i state-power. stricted conventions of factory d e l.# intellectuals. He went to Spain and political differences with Trotsky on “Action Committees.’’ gates to "establishments with morg,; presented which held that the Wal cover up their present crimes by Trotsky himself. And the name of | USES SERGE in the beginning of 1937 came to Spain and accused Trotsky of be The trade unions, under Stalinist than 350 employes, nearly all lace movement »’light represent a their previous connections with the the deceased Victor Serge is dragged the U. S.. soliciting aid for the ing ready “to hurl any accusation Malraux uses another device. , in for the same purpose. On top of control, conducted on Feb. 24 a one- which were already nationaii^dJf.’-v step in the direction of a labor par labor movement. And Wall Street , Spanish Republic. to dramatize his personal conflicts." I Sulzberger quotes extensively from hour general strike to back Gott- ty and that labor should give him this, it is stated that “ there is a This shows how much the Stal is not at all adverse to lending them This was the sum-total of Malraux's a letter shown to him by Malraux, wald in his stand against Benes, inists fear the much more sweeping1; 'critical support. a helping hand now and then. segment of French Trotskyism who HELP THE KREMLIN "Trotskyism.” allegedly written by Victor Serge. with a threat in “case of need" to demands that would come front: After all points of view had been would be inclined"—to follow and One of the most notorious of At that time the Dewey Commis Malraux took part in the resist Tlie quotations, though lengthy, arc call a general strike of indefinite delegates of smaller and still un-j; fully discussed, the committee support deGaulle-Mairaux. these renegades among the intellec sion of Inquiry—which later com ance movement during Hitler's oc not precise. Bui there is no mis- • duration. nationalized factories. adopted the majority resolution, re- i tuals is Andre Malraux. well-known What connection did Malraux pletely vindicated Leon Trotsky and cupation of France, and. after tlie ' taking what they indicate and still Although the reported police Should a civil war actually'eii^m jecting any ’form of support to Wal French novelist. After many years have with Trotskyism? His political his son, Lev Sedov, and condemned expulsion of tlie Germans, appeared less what use Malraux is mailing of measures serve as the immediate tlie likelihood is that the situation lace, by a vote of 22 to 1. with 4 ab of sendee to the Kremlin, Malraux connections were with the Kremlin. the Moscow Trials as a gigantic ju in the cabinet, of deGaulle as M in them. Serge reportedly hails cause of this crisis, its underlying will grow out. of hand, no matter1 stentions. This resolution, printed has joined dc Gaulle’s fascist- He look part in the Chinese Revolu dicial frameup—was starting its ister of Information. In that post de Gaulle’s electoral successes, states causes go much deeper. They arc in full on page 2, says in part: what the bureaucratic plans. But minded party, "The Rally of the tion of 1925-27 and embodied his work. : he refused to issue a publication li- that lie endorses Malraux’s political twofold in character. before this point is reached, thei “The Wallace party docs not French People." Malraux now wants experiences in a novel, Man’s Fate. Trotsky at the time accused Mal cense to the French Trotskyist paper position and indicates that were he Oil (he one hand, the Kremlin is Stalinists will make every effdrt’ emerge as a political expression,: to refurbish himself in order to fa Trotsky warmly reviewed it. but at raux of coming to tile US for the La Vcritc. ill France he would do what Mai- confronted with the need of in to arriye at another compromise however inadequate and perverted, j cilitate the passage of Social Demo the same lime ruthlessly exposed purpose of aiding the Kremlin in The fascistic aims of de Gaulle (Continued on Page 4) i tegrating Czechoslovakia more close- with Benes and Czech capitalists. PAGE TWO THE MILITANT MONDAY, M A « £ f^ W 4 0 SWP Resolution on Wallace Third-Party Movement solution Adopted £>v the February Wa!laGe ^ by 110 means a sufficient reason I the Democrats and Republicans and the de- should be utilized to expose the scivility of v ' * . . • “y . “ 't™' . t o for class-conscious" workers to participate sire for a new political road. the labor bureaucrats to the Democratic ma- Plenum of the .National Qomnuttee I jn bjs party or to give it critical endorsement, Some workers may reel that since the i chine, to advance the need for the Labor r of th e Socialist Workers Party j Nor can such sympathies, and illusions alter j success of any third party' depends upon ; Party—and lay bare the VVallace-Staliiiisl Rise and Fall of Populist ¥ The Wallace third party movement!the capitalist character of the movement-or \ labor support, the Wallace movetnent must 1 adventure as a spurious substitute for a Labor | t r - , , [ impart to it a Labor Party character. Roose- ! inevitably gravitate in that direction; and ! Party and a false answer to labor’s political nerges as a consummation of the vejj. and 0yler bourgeois demagogues had far 1 that if they plunge vigorously into this move ! problems. jStW ar fight, primarily over foreign ; greater allegiance from organized labor with- ment. it might be possible to switch it from But these objective consequences flowing Party in the United States blicy,' waged within the Democratic out meriting or receiving the slightest en- 1 its present wrong course over to the Labor | from the emergence of the Wallace movement since Roosevelt’s death. This has dorsement from the revolutionary vanguard. Party track. I cannot provide justification for its support. By George Lavan House and three in the Senate. This and a true Populist, it is now known _ ' . ; _ -■ ■„, ■ • __ < ■ _ The premise of this reasoning is false. In was an encouraging record for a that...substantial financial interest Cn and- remains a purely tactical fight A Marxist analysis of the Wallace third The Populist movement :idly restricted within the framework of Who Controls Wallace? determining a correct attitude toward a po- | party movement at its present 'stage of de- young third party. supported his (undidacy.... Amort)» apitalist class politics. The class character , litical formation like the Wallace movement, velopment dictates tlie following attitude gained great power in the 1893 was the . year in which a these .campaign, contributions was ithelie Wallace W iUiavt; movement, Vtuicnu, u,o as a»a vayiottiioucapitalist ■ What is the relationship- of forces within, |j ¡t ¡s tow pproceed i v w v v u from purely or mainly | toward it: West and South before it great financial panic started. Hun 8250,80« from the notoriously e«*? itert party, is not altered either by its | Wallace camp? The liberal bourgeois: tacticai considerations, or guesses on the created a national third party. Fi dreds of banks closed. Unemploy nipt Montana mine owners. In etty bourgeois composition or by the pene- politician, Wallace, personally dominates and possibilities of using it to good advantage. Expose the Demagogue! nally in 1891 the People’s Party was ment mounted and crop prices fell. Thomas Fortune Ryan, one of thjp ation of its apparatus by the Stalinists and I directs it. setting its tone and formulating That is the wrong end from which to begin. j founded at a national convention of The Populists redoubled their agita richest men in the country, secretly Heir feikiw-travelers. its policy. He is subject to control by no one. This new political current must first of all be j 1. Principled opposition to this political 1,400 delegates from 33 stales and tion for the free coinage of silver contributed $500,000 to - B r-yr:a.K, The Stalinists, concerned solely with their The’ Wallace movement objectively ex- | approached from the standpoint of class adventure undertaken by an ambitious capi territories in Cincinnati,,. and devoted- more attention to the In, his . third campaign JBrys^L .. - . . ^ . , ., , , | pressure campaign for a compromise agree- resses the interests and ou look of those : Washin ton ancl the K j.em. principle. talist politician and backed by the Stalinists. A labor resolution adopted by plight of the working class. shewed that Ins usefulness to ' the This adventure aims at channeling anti-war .ements among the U. S. ru mg class who | obedientlv follow in his footsteps while The chief function of the Wallace party this overwhelmingly farm conven COXEY’S ARMY Democratic machine was largely is to deceive the workers with demagogy sentiment, exploiting the discontent with the tion called for the eight-hour,-day finished. The Rockefellers picked T eve it expedient to concfliate the labor organized labor movement’is conspicu- capitalist regime, and making a deal .with In 1894 the Federal- Government movement at home and the Kremlin abroad. Actually, bourgeois and against Big Business rule and to take com for industrial workers. But the main an obscure, reactionary judge, AJtert mand of the . anti-war and anti-imperialist Wallace's former Democratic associates at intervened on the side of ;the rail Cheir stamp is placed upon the movement by petty-bourgeois liberals are in command, the planks were for unlimited coinage, B. Parker, for the Democratic presi allace, the millionaire publisher and self struggle of the masses in order to sell them home and a deal with the Kremlin on the road monopolists to break the Amer Stalinists serve as their lieutenants, a;..l the of silver, abolition of privately owned : dential nomination. Parker obedi ioclaimed defender of capitalism and out sooner or later. field of foreign affairs. ican Railway Union, then conduct ranks trail along. national banks, government crop ently declared in favor of the gold Americanism." This ex-Secretary of Agri 2. Sharp exposure of the fake “ peace" loans, tax reform, direct elect ion •cf ing the great Pullman strike. Dobs standard, thus ending forever the The unions have no way of exercising con program of Wallace and his associates, their culture and Vice-President under Roosevelt Senators
BSW»Resolution of the SWP page Pour NEW YORK, N. Y. MONDAY, MARCH 1, 1948 Resolution Adopted by the February Plenum of the National Committee of the Socialist Workers Party National Committee reaffirms the de The party presidential campaign will act as an antidote to Attorney-General Clark’s designation of cision of its August 1947 Plenum to enter a the SWP as a "subversive” organization. It will dem Socialist Workers Party presidential ticket in onstrate to party members and to its sympathizing CIO Shipyard Union's Structure ¿tie 1947 elections. periphery that bold, aggressive struggle is the best way !§?&» addition to the considerations for a party presi of fighting the reaction and that the party intends dential campaign which were enumerated in August, to stand its ground. 'Such as the political and propaganda value of appear Perhaps the most pressing reason that 'has arisen ing on the national arena as a political force con tend- since the August, 1947 Plenum for a party presidential Radically Altered at Convention [¡jpg'i'pr the most important office, several important Campaign has been the emergence of the third party ‘developments since the August Plenum make partici Wallace ticket. Precisely because the Wallace can f By Bob Lowell pation in the campaign a more urgent task for the didacy will have great attractiveness for radicalized Defies Ku Klux Klan When the thirteenth annual convention of the CÏO Indus ($ jy < • workers, the party must have a positive alternative in Malraux Slanders trial Union of Marine and Shipbuilding Workers came to a S*%The party must find the most dramatic and effec the form of its own ticket. The SWP campaign w ill close in Cleveland on Feb. 13,> — Green. John Grogan and Ross tive means of counteracting the reactionary offensive provide the means for clarifying our conceptions of the union emerged strength $ f .finance capital on the domestic scene and its war the Labor Party and for opposing Wallace from ■ the Trotskyism; Gets Blood were returned to office with cned in numbers, but with the or- .¿rive. The temporary recession of mass struggle on left. little opposition. But the change in | ganizational structure so changed Che economic plane has not eliminated the sources of the organizational structure of tlie NATIONAL CAMPAIGN FEASIBLE Aid from "Times" ■ that it now resembles a catch-all popular discontent.' On the contrary these grievances union promises to turn the atten The August plenum made its decision to launch a | for widely-different industries. traye1 become sharper as a result of rising prices, anti- (Continued from Page 1) tion of the leadership away from party presidential campaign with full knowledge of This radical change came through legislation and the danger of war. The presi tlie crucial problems o f. the ship the technical difficulties involved, and with the be raux is doing, i. e., "collaborate” the admission of some 25,000 dues dential election campaign will provide the party with yard workers. lief that the party could get on the ballot in a suffi with de Gaulle. The use of this payers from the CIO United Rail ithfr best arena in the next period for presenting its Held in a city where tlie CIO In cient number of states to justify the campaign. There letter shows that Malraux is aim road Workers and approximately ¿evolutionary answer to the reactionary offensive. dustrial Union Council is torn with has been no fundamental change in the problem in ing not only at- the French workers 15,000 members of a split-off from AIM OF THE RED-BAITERS the interim period to justify a reconsideration of the but at his American public which is the Stalinist-dominated CIO Inter the fight between the Stalinists and ^K -The strategy of the ruling clique of the bourgeoisie decision. * fittingly aghast at his new political national Mine, M ill and Smelter the Murray-Reuther machine, the Cn- its red-baiting drive has been to identify all revo a) There lias been no decline in party forces avail role. But Malraux will not be able Workers. convention was used by the CIO top lutionary opposition with Stalinism and thereby to able for such a campaign—on the contrary these have to cover himself with the name of Tlie entrance of the mine-mill leaders as a launching platform for ‘sinear the authentic representatives of revolutionary grown to some extent. Serge whose friendship with Trot workers, who had split from .the a major attack on the Wallace ad ■sbeTalism with the crimes and discreditment. that is b) While the party faces greater financial d iffi sky is heavily emphasized in Sulz parent organization and formed an venture, a demonstration for tlie imperialist Marshall Plan and an [attached to Stalinism. Because of our small forces it culties which may lim it the extensiveness of the cam berger’s article. independent group, the Progressive ds difficult to counteract this strategy in a routine day paign, it can be confidently expected that new sources SERGE AND TROTSKYISM Metal Council, raises problems of a attempt to stimulate support for their CIO Political Action Program ¿J<> day propaganda manner and in the trade unions. of funds will be found for a presidential 'campaign. Victor Serge was a distinguished far-reaching nature. The presidential campaign, however, will provide us c) Although the red-baiting atmosphere may en of continued backing for the two- revolutionary and writer of many The change in the structure of ■‘’With a broader vehicle to differentiate genuine com gender a certain rise /in attacks and intimidation When Walter Bowland. Lakcvicw, Ga. basketball coach, was ordered party political monopoly of Wall years standing. After taking part in by the Ku Klux Klan to stay out of Rossvillc, Ga., he decided to put the IUMSVVA developed out of a j Street. munism from Stalinism. Regardless of the scope of against the party’s campaign, these attacks, if prop revolutionary struggles in Europe our campaign, which must be limited by funds and erly combatted, can be turned to political advantage up an argument. The gun in his belt showed that he was prepared to series' of problems that face the he went to Russia, worked with the shipbuilding and repair industry in 1 A small Stalinist opposition to forces, our appearance as an independent political by, the party. The alternative to incurring such at back up his stand with the kind of language the Klan understands. Bolsheviks, and joined the Trotsky this country. the signing of the Taft-Hartley af »factor will go far in accomplishing the above aim. tacks is retreat from the public political arena. No one bothered him. fidavits. the Marshall Plan resolu ist Left Opposition. He bore him Federated Pictures Though apparently uneasy at the r self heroically against the Stalinist tion and tlie CIO-PAC program persecution of ail supporters of prospect of having the shipyard i was red-baited, shouted down and workers become an unimportant1swamped in the voting. This Stal Trotskyism. Through his reputa section of a larger union in which Add A Dasli of Poison! tion abroad and the pressure of his inist group, which practically con railroad, metal, and possibly other trolled tlie union as recently us friends, he was able to get out of Dobbs-Carlson Ticket groups will play an increasingly im Russia and to expose the crimes of 1944, is now thoroughly discredited By Grace Carlson (Continued from Page 1) plenty. It replaces the profit system portant role, the 426 delegates meet and was represented by only eight Stalinism. ing in Cleveland's Hollenden Hotel .All of the big commercial bakers tell the suffering lorlde—a substance added to flour during the milling better than that of the other capi and thereby eliminates the basic or ten delegates. But for Serge, too. the Spanish voted for tlie admission of these "bile that their product is ’’unique”—that it is baked process. With the agene treatment, the flour is not talist politicians? cause of wars, poverty and political Revolution was a decisive turning workers as an expression of then- The opening day of the conven only bleached, but is made inedible for weevils. Thus, reaction. ording -to a special "home recipe"; that it “stays point in his relations with Trot "Wallace claims that Ire stands lack of faith in the government’s tion brought a political debate on fresh longer” ; that it contains it keeps for a much longer time in the bakeries ana skyism. Victor Serge publicly be for peace. In the same breath he “ End Uic rule of the piratical intention to “Save the Industry.” the CIO-PAC program when a some "priceless ingredient.” The warehouses. came a member of the POUM, a ! emphasizes his loyalty to the capi cliques of capitalists who run in resolution embodying these ideas facts are, of course, that the ordin On the subject Of agene and its possible dangerous dustry for greedy personal ends! Though complicated in its origin, was read out by Resolutions 'Com party which joined the Popular talist system. Peace and capitalism (his airiilgamalion is developing a ary loaf of packaged white bread effects on human beings, the Food and Nutrition Hoard Front and carried out a vacillating don’t mix. Woodrow Wilson prom- Put order and planning in our mag mittee Chairman, Thomas-Flynn. A is uniformly soggy and tasteless. of the National Research Council has made the fol nificent industrial system! Prevent union that will, in all probability, pro-Wallace spokesman quickly policy. The break between Serge j ised to keep America out of war. become a “home” for splinter And recent medical studies indi lowing recommendations: and Trotsky soon assumed an ex , In office, however, he plunged the gained the floor and spoke” 'about a Third World War! Join tlie strug groups from Stalinist-dominated cate that it may be uniformly 1. Investigation of the effects of agene-ized flour tremely sharp and well-publicized United States into World War I. “smoking out tlie reactionaries iii gle for peace and security by build unions. dangerous to its users. on human subjects. form. ! Franklin D. Roosevelt likewise pro- both parties.” His speech was' met ing socialism.” The conservative leadership of In the December 14, 1946 issue 2. Exploration Of alternative processes of flour Trotsky took every opportunity to ! claimed that he hated war and with boos and cries of “sit. down!” of the British Medical Journal, the treatment to make sure that flour is free from toxic denounce publicly Serge’s political j promised "again and again and A delegate ' from Brooklyn then nutritional expert, Sir Edward Mellanbv re- effects. theories and policies especially in again” ire would rrot send American took tile microphone and attacked that bleached flour gives dogs fits. Since that 3. Reduction of the use of agene by commercial relation to Spain. Thus he wrote I boys to fight overseas. But Roose- Wallace as a “millionaire publisher B,'two groups of American scientists have verified, bakers. in 1938: "Serge plays with the con | veil had Wallace’s help in plunging Southside L. A. Labor who had no responsibility to the jjlanby’s findings. Their reports, published in the Agene gives fits to dogs. What it does to human cept of revolution, writes poems the United States into World War labor movement." Tills delegate pvember 22, 1947 issue of the Journal of the Ameri- beings is still a matter of speculation. Experiments about it. but is incapable of under II. then criticized CIO-PAC policy as (:>Medical Association gave the experimental evi now under way indicate that agene may change some standing it as it is.” The sharp "Wallace now insists that he rep RunsOwnCandidates "company unionism in politics” and nce to prove that bleached flour poisoned dogs, cats, of the wheat protein into a nerve poison, which, in ness of the polemic and its compre resents the tradition of Wilson and By A1 Lynn were given evasive or anti-labor an- charged that iipplicit in the PAC yets and monkeys. In each case, the symptoms turn, may cause alcoholism or some other personality leadership program is support of hensive character show how neces Roosevelt. Isn't tlrat the tradition i p Q A N f iF l I ’ d T7PK on swels 011 a11 issues Tllis sh«wed ’led with the species. disorder. sary Trotsky thought it to break all of promising peace and giving us DUi> A N lja L L a , h eb. 20— Ulat labor needed its own repre. “strikebreakfci;.,.Truman, the gradu ^e-tenths of the bread eaten by the American But the mere discussion of the “agene" question political ties with Serge. All this war? Five candidates for public of-1 sentatives in local government. ate of the corrupt Pendergast ma tiple is made out of bleached flour. For the past 30 is giving ail of the flour trusts and tlie profit-hungry appeared in the Pioneer Press edi ...... Ace in Southeast Los Angeles were a ,, imposing and steadily grow- chine of Kansas City and his cor "The Stalinists are now doing rupt and reactionary party." y/èats, most, of cur bleached flour has been "agene- bakeries fits. Because all of their bread recipes call tion of Their Morals and Ours. thc dirtv work for Wallace: T his' a?cePted f° r endorsement this week jllg- ijst of union locals are coming for the addition of “a dash of poison.” Pointing out the class natkirc of l.” ; Agcne is the trade name for nitrogen trich- by a special sub-committee on can- out in support of the Committee as Sulzberger, however, writes of is tlie American Stalinist version of (he union organization, tlie speaker didates of the Southeast Commit well as several key labor figures, in Serge that in 'Mexico "he was a the deadly line handed down by tlie called for the formation of a parly !he Negro Struggle- tee for Labor candidates meeting cluding International Representa great friend of Trotsky until the Moscow oligarchy. To build up a of labor. "Only by independent here last Sunday. tives of some of the CIO unions, latter was assassinated." After capitalist party is nothing new for labor action will wc be able to mo The candidates include two CIO such as Steel and Textile. More 1938 Serge could not possibly have tlie Stalinists. Under Earl Browder bilize the workers of America Position of Negroes in Industry Today United Auto Workers members, one than 20 locals arc involved up to been “a great friend" of Trotsky they became experts at it. against Wallace, Truman and Taft, from the Brotherhood of Railway the present time. In addition to the STALINIST BETRAYERS all representatives of the capitalist By George Lavan in any place. It also happens that Trainmen, a member of the AFL CIO there are AFL Locals, the "True, the Stalinists beat their class, the manufacturers, the same Serge arrived in Mexico after Trot International Typographical Union, Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen, resses, etc. By 1947 10.5% of all employed »Negro breasts in repentance over all their people whom wc fought on ihc The Negro people engaged in a great migration and a tool-and-die maker formerly Brotherhood of Railway Firemen women were factory workers. sky was murdered. wartime political crimes and of- picket lines for five months last 'during. the years of wartime prosperity. It was a active in the UAW and the Steel- and Engineers, and the Interna This migration of Negro men and women into As for tlie pretense that there are ^¿jjgration from the farms to the cities. It was also a fered up Earl Browder as a scape- j workers, tional Association of Machinists. In factory jobs, mainly as semi-skilled workers, was more The delegates reacted to tills migration from laborers' jobs and French Trotskyists who would con goat; but they didn’t really mean j The Southeast Committee was the opening stages of a drive for pronounced than among any other sector of the popu militant speech with marked inter ^ domestic work into semi-skilled sider Serge’s letter as a good rea funds, the Consolidated Steel Local factory jobs. lation. Thus they grew from 6% of total factory em it. They asked only two questions \ formed several months ago on the est. Although they voted for the < son to “the left" to join de Gaulle, of Wallace: Does lie favor a deal initiative of tlie PAC Committee of has voted SXOO. i r b l S r " In April, 1940. one-third of all ployes to 10% in 1944. And it is necessary to bear in resolution endorsing the CIO Ex employed Negroes were farm mind how much greater the total number of factory it is a brazen lie in tlie GPU man with the Kremlin? Is he building UAW General Motors Loeal 216 to A very shabby role is being played ecutive Board's policy, tlie interest fight for labor candidates in the by the Stalinists in accordance witli J i n r i ' w *~ workers and farmers. The same workers was by 1944 in order to appreciate the mean ner. The French Trotskyist move a capitalist party? When he an they showed indicated a willingness Bmonth in 1947 saw only half as ing of that 10%. ment knows de Gaulle for what lie communities of Lynwood, Maywood, their traditional line of running to seriously consider the idea of a swered, ’Yes,’ that was enough for Bell, South Gate, and Huntington after the so-called liberals. Al J B jjj&r'''.' many Negro workers left on farms. To a far lesser extent Negro workers were hired as is, the mortal enemy of the French real labor party. foremen and skilled workers, but the gain here was them. Park in the coming April 12 elec though the Committee makes the Though a large majority of the $Many of these had stayed on the land because they proletariat, and is in the vanguard [■•owned their own farms or had. with the help of chil- negligible. That Jim Crow was the main reason for "In opposition to all these capi tions. These cities, with a total point that it will give full hearing to delegates voted for most of. the ma population of 120,000, are located in M teri Working in factories, been able to buy farms. So this, needs no explanation. Moreover, since the end of the struggle against him. talist politicians and their stooges, liberal candidates, the Stalinist- jor proposals of the leadership, the industrial heart of Los Angeles, controlled PAC Committee of the Ntyat while in 1940 only 43% of Negroes working in of the war the number of Negroes holding Jobs as we stand for establishment of a such as the amalgamation, the Mar I’Bgiifcuiture owned or managed farms, by 1947 the skilled workers and foremen lias declined. where the union movement is CIO Council has ignored it in favor shall Plan, etc., a scattered opposi Workers and Farmers Government. strong. of the California Legislative Con ^figure- had risen to 60%. The greatest wartime gains in factory employ tion—apart from tlie Stalinists— ference which is also drawing up a ment for Negroes were in the munitions industries-^ We stand for an end to the anarchy Inspiration was given to the for could be detected. This opposition E p & u t' now more than four-fifths of all employed slate. The Legislative Conference metals, chemicals, rubber, etc. I t was precisely these of capitalism with its wars, depres mation of this committee by the solidified against the Green leader ENegroes were outside agriculture. What, kind of jobs had an attendance of only 12 at Sj|d they get? The overall picture is beyond question munitions industries which suffered the greatest cut sions and anti-labor laws. We stand poor results obtained when several ship on one major question when of the PAC committees of various their meeting compared to 50 to 00 they defeated a proposed amend- Stole of advancement into better paid jobs with better backs when the wofld slaughter ended. for the modern socialist system of locals took to visiting City Coun delegates who showed up at tlie j ment to tlie constitution^..”. that ajiflirking conditions. This progress can be attributed Despite discriminatory layoffs and firings with or running Industry. Socialism alone cils on various issues such as hous last full meeting of the Labor j changed tlie election of officers only to the full employment brought about by without cutbacks the Negro people remain today ah can guarantee enduring peace and ing, anti-labor legislation, etc., and Committee. from once a year to bi-annually. World'Slaughter II. Much credit must go to the mili- integral part of the American working class. Creeping ta n t spirit shown by the Negro people and the pro- unemployment has h it the Negro communities out of f&jslve industrial unions—the CIO. all proportion to other sections of the population» It ■""Before the war over 70% of Negro women, not is a threat to the living standards of the whole Negro jymjloyed on farms, worked as domestics. Fifteen people, and thereby to the whole working class. Easter Sales Trends and the New Steel Price Hike Umths after Pearl Harbor this figure had dropped The job for labor now is to continue the fig h t- By John G. Wright marked shift, which if it persists, isting conditions it is extremely As we pointed out at the time, July. It is intended to produce the pljsra than 50%. Many Negro women escaped from batter down the bars to equal employment rights and will reverse the trend of the entire difficult, if not Impossible, to con this measure could not fail to pro same results. P & fe g g hours of domestic drudgery and went into fight all attempts to squeeze Negro workers out of Feb. 24 — Since the com previous period. Up to now the fine its repercussions to agricul duce a general price increase, since The prospect of still higher prices tee' Jobs—beauticians, restaurant cooks and wait- jobs gained. modity price break, two new stores have been taking in an aver tural products alone. It does, as we the price of these basic cQinmodi- makes it profitable to maintain and developments have taken place age of 10% more in dollars than they have maintained, tend to communi ties—iron and coal—determines the ever, add to existing inventories, no in the country’s economy. They did last year. A shift from 10% cate itself to other markets. price structure as a whole. The matter how large. The fuel that can prove decisive in determining ever last year's sales to 3% under The scope and sharpness of the speculative orgy to which this led this adds to speculation—buying and Notes from the News what lies immediately ahead. On last year”s figures therefore repre initial decline in department stoic in all fields (with the exception of hoarding in expectation of still the one hand, we have the first sig sents a loss in sales of hundreds of sales within two weeks’ time is proof the Stock .Exchange) is now history. higher prices—hardly requires com nificant signs of dislocation in the millions of dollars a month. of how rapidly and profoundly it is Thereby the collision between in ment in the light of the still fresh dustry and the domestic market has pi'IINiON SHOP WINS — A union shop was approved a strike against tlie City Water and Power Depart home market; and, on the otheri Furthermore, tlie most ominous already affecting the vulnerable experience. I been averted for some seven months. 845’ to 16 in a NLRB election last week at. Geometric ment in tlie face of an injunction whicli forbade there is the action of the Steel Trust feature of this initial decline is its sector of retail trade. i The whole question therefore is: Stamping Co. in Cleveland, it was announced by Steve calling a strike, picketing, and declaring the Depart boosting sharply prices of semi widespread character. The only dis A continuation of this trend (only- PRICE RISE IN STEEL Will this fanning of inflationary Sabe, international representative ment’s projects unfair. finished steel. trict reporting any gain was the potential as yet) would mean a colli The current price hike in steel is fires prove successful tlie second of the UAW-CIO. This was the id « * These two trends run counter to New York area with its 1% larger sion between industry and its rec I intended to serve the same purpose. time as it did the first? A partial first CIO election held in Cleve- ONLY SWP FOUGHT HIM — State Senator Jack one another and in the process of sales. The rest of the country ord volume of output, on the one It is not a minor measure of infla- success is by no means excluded. land for a union shop under the Tenney, head of the “ Little Dies” Committee, is again their unfolding are bound to lead showed’ losses ranging from 9% in side, and the limits set by the | tion, even though it appears to be But this in turn depends on several Taft-Hartley Law. pushing the witch hunt at full force in California. At to highly antagonistic consequences, (he Boston reserve district (cover shrinking domestic market itself, ou thus far. restricted to only a single factors, of which the most import the last elections Tenney- was unopposed save for the thus adding still another contradic ing New England) to 2% decline in tlie other. This has long been a po sector of steel products, the semi ant is once again the existing condi MOVIE JIM-CROWED — The SWP write-in candidate. Cynthia Rogalin. She re tion to an already explosive econ the San Francisco district (covering tential danger. In the next stage finished branch, which roughly ac tion of the domestic market. Can ' scheduled film on the baseball ceived many votes from rank and filf Stalinists whose omic situation. the West Coast). it is bound to become the reality. counts for one-fourth of the total the latter today absorb a general ¡jlieer of Jackie Robinson, starring the Brooklyn first party ran no candidate against Tenney. Tlie first week of the commodity EASTER SEASON Such a head-on collision can prove steel output. The actual boost price rise as was the case in the price, break gave no definite signs catastrophic for economy as a Baseman himself, lias been cancelled. Reasons were $ * * % In the second place, this relatively amounts to more than $7 a ton as second part of last year? Or has the of disturbance in the domestic -mar whole. the' Hollywood witch hunt and pressure from South 11 PENNIES — All tlie newspaper hullabaloo about sharp drop comes at the beginning against the reported figure of $4 to inflationary orgy already sapped be ket as reflected in the highly sensi It can be averted and even post all; theater owners. dropping food prices in the past two weeks didn't of the Easter sale season which as $5. It directly aifects other steel yond repair fhc domestic market? tive field of department store sales. poned primarily on one condition- ease the strain on the housewife's budget. A week’s a rule steps up retail trade. It is, products. MORE EXPLOSIVE For the week ending Feb. 7 the Fed provided the dollar volume oi re »DEPORTATIONS STOPPED — The light against food for a family of four bought in New York on of course, too early to say whether For example, Allegheny Ludlum eral Reserve Board weekly reports tail sales can either be maintained The final outcome of this des P^Iiortations has won five victories as courts ruled Feb. 20 cost only lie less than the same food bought or not the long-indicated breaking has added $10 a ton on cold rolled showed signs of "softness” appear at former levels or raised above perate inflationary measure will be ¿gainst the Department of Justice. Among, those Feb. 1. point in retail trade is already here. carbon strip while jacking up the ing here and there. them. only to render more explosive and saved from deportation was Steve Tandaric, who came s> * 3 A single week is not enough to es | price of silicon sheets by $15 to $25 But on a national scale, depart devastating the effects of the on % the* U. S. in 1911 at the age of five. A former AGAINST UMT — The American Council of Edu tablish a trend. But the next period The decline in physical volume of per ton. ment store sales continued to record coming depression. But the imme 'Dper-of a CIO Steelworkers local. Tandaric was ar- cation announced that a national poll of educators up to Easter week itself (ending , retail sales which set in during the the same gains in dollar volume as By the time such whopping ln- diate outcome—whether or not it ceped for deportation after his return from fighting showed 73% against Universal Military Training. March 27) is indeed highly symp middle of last year did not prove de in the last several months. In the ■ creases reach the consumer they will provide a temporary respite in p~the Spanish Republican Army. Also saved were, * * * tomatic and may very well tell tlie cisive at the time because the econ Feb 7 week, there was a 9% in omy was jet-propelled to new price snowball to roughly 20% and more the current situation—still remains ppbefto Silex of El Paso, former regional director LEGAL LYNCHING — A Negro woman, Rosa Lee full story. Mine, M ill and Smelter Workers, and Anton crease as against last year’s sales. levels by the inflationary splurge. ! on the price of durable goods from in doubt. Ingram and her sons, Wallace, 16, and Sammy Lee, In any case, in our opinion, one Jaf, CIO Auto Worker of South Bend, whose citizen- But the reports for the following It was the Steel Trust at that time ) autos and refrigerators to pots and Here again, the answer w ill in 14, have been sentenced to the electric chair for week (ending Feb. 14). show a de controversial aspect of the current that fixed the economic pattern large part depend on what happens Ship. the FBI tried to revoke. | pans. This is, therefore, a major in- the self-defense slaying of a white neighbor. The crease of 3% as against last year. situation is already quite clear. The of the second half of 1947 by hiking ; in the sphere of retail trade, es- This drop is quite small. commodity price break has such I flationary measure. It is similar, if ^SWEEPING INJUNCTION — Tile Los Angeles NAACP is appealing the savage conviction by a iily- iron and steel prices on top of a : pecially during the current Easter I season. Building Trades Council was forced to call off white Georgia jury. Nevertheless, it represents a power behind it that under the ex thumping increase in 'coal prices. not identical, to what was done last