Court Upsets 'Loyalty'

Vote the Sodalist Workers Party Ticket--Vote for Workers of the World, Unite! SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL SWP CANDIDATES (See Page 4) TH £ MflfTAN T PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE INTERESTS OF THE WORKING PEOPLE _______________ Vol. X V I - No. 43 NEW YORK, N. Y., MONDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1952 PRICE: FIVE CENTS Dems, GOP Plot to Keep The Korean War Going Court Upsets ‘Loyalty’ By Farrell Dobbs, SWP Presidential Candidate A majority of the* American criticism of thd Democratic ad He asserts that come what may people are opposed to the Korean ministration’s Korean policy. This he will not end the war. - ' war and want it ended immediate criticism, to be sure is 99% dem That is Stevenson’fe position. ly. Most political commentators agogy and contains no suggestion You can take it or leave it. But Firing of Legless Vet agree that any major party can for ending the war now. you don’t have to take his com didate who offered to end the Nevertheless, the criticism pletely unfounded statement that war at once and bring the troops .obliged Adlai Stevenson to defend Truman’s ‘‘prompt decision” to home could win the election hands the administration’s policy in Ko invade Korea was ‘‘saluted by all The Only Ballot That Won’t Be Wasted down. rea. In a you’re-guilty'-too ‘‘fire Americans, whatever their party Gain for Civil Liberties Through most of his campaign, side” address on Oct. 1C, die de and whatever their station in life, General Eisenhower tried to live nies the Republican claims that and by free men everywhere.” up to > the bi-partisan agreement they could have done differently This is not only a falsehood. to evade the war issue. But the and better. He brazenly defends It’s a slander of the majority of In First Judicial Defeat sentiment of . the people has Truman’s whole course. He repu the people here and abroad. They proved too strong. The general diates the very suggestion that never ‘saluted’ Tnuman’s one-man has been forced to venture into the troops be pulled out of Korea. decision to intervene in Korea. They never hailed the monstrous Of the Purge Program atrocities committed by the U.S. m ilita ry — the high explosives By George Breitman and napalm dumped on millions The government witch hunters got a setback on Oct. of helpless Koreans. 16 when the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of MOST UNPOPULAR WAR Columbia Circuit handed down its unanimous decision in We were dragged into the Ko the case of James Kutcher, New-55 ------------------------------------- 1— rean war without our concent. No ark legless veteran who was dis- doubt, the bankers and war con charged from the Veterans Ad tractors, the generals and ad ministration in 1948 because -of mirals saluted Truman’s action. his membership in the Socialist But the majority of workers, and Workers Party. As I. F. Stone farmers have revealed their hos noted in his Daily Compass col- tility to the war in poll after lumn, it was the “first judicial poll. Can anyone honestly deny defeat” that Truman’s “loyalty” this is the most unpopular war program has suffered. in our entire history? This rebuke to the administra It is true that the representa tion was good news to the defend tives of both capitalist parties ers of civil liberties everywhei'e. in Washington saluted Truman’s It was more than a legal victoi-y ‘‘police action.” Even such a foe — it was also a moral victory of the administration as Senator for the millions of Americans who T aft greeted Truman’s unconsti have pi'otested through their or tutional moves with a declaration ganizations against Kutcher’s dis of support. And it was hailed by charge, and i t w ill undoubtedly General MacArthur. But our par FARRELL DOBBS and MYRA.TANNER -WEISS, candidates have the effect of encouraging ty, the Socialist Workers Party, of the Socialist Workers Party for President and Vice President further resistance to the witch of the United States. denounced and opposed this war hunt, inside the courts and out from the first. side. Abroad, hostility to the war in Korea is so great that only 16 of “NEW DOUBTS” SWP flection New» 60 countries in the United Na The decision casts “ new doubts How to Fight tions have given even token aid .... on the validity of the A t in this so-called ‘‘United Nations” COAL MINERS FORCED OUT ON STRIKE torney General’s list as a pi-oper war. The UN has scraped up a means of determining the loyalty W ÊKm Inflation and bare-50,000 troops for Korea and of individual Americans,” the ■ P H jH lM m mKSBmit these only after the greatest BY NEW BLOW FROM ADMINISTRATION N.Y. Times wrote in an editorial prodding ¡by Washington, flight on Oct. 18. And anything that The Democratic administra ruling and had provoked a drawn- vention endorsed the presiden now Secretary of State Dean casts new doubts on that uncon Price Gouging tion has again kicked the coal out steel strike. tial candidacy of Democratic Ad Acheson and his State Depart stitutional blacklist, already con lai Stevenson. Lewis himself end By Myra Tanner Weiss ment crew are begging and miners in the teeth. Truman’s UMW President Lewis indicat demned as abritrary by the Su- ed 12 years of opposition to the SWP Vice-Presidential threatening in the UN fo r more hand-picked Wage Stabilization ed he will not try 'to halt the px-eme Court, is a healthy develop Board intervened to deny the Democratic administration only By George Clarke Candidate troops from other countries. strike.‘He chai-ged: ‘‘Four agents ment for the cause of civil liber N \ 350,000 workers in the soft coal to be confronted by this new as SWP Campaign Manager of the National Association of ties. JAMES KUTCHER A ll over the country on my na industry the fu ll wage increase sault. PEOPLE REJECTED WAR Manufacturers, aided by a pro The Circuit Court decision must If election campaigns were con tional campaign tour I have heard granted by the mine operators in Stevenson chides ‘‘some Repub fessor from the Harvai-d Law By their fighting spirit and have come as a surprise to gov getting careless, and forgetting ducted on the rules of truth and the same grievance from wives the latest United Mine Workers licans” who “ favor extending the School (WSB Chairman Archi solidarity the miners have beaten ernment attorneys assigned to re that there are certain forixxalities fa ir play and candidates were ob and mothers on whom the burden war to China.” He says that as contract. Four employer and four bald Cox) and his tim id trio of you must observe.” liged to admit the source of their back a whole series of attacks by stricting civil liberties and per of housekeeping falls: “ Prices are a result of the ‘‘Great Debate” so-called public members on the dilettante associates form a ca ideas, the people would see that the government under both secuting political dissidents. They That happened a few weeks so high I can’t make ends meet over MacArthur’s dismissal, “ The WSB joined to out-vote four la bal to steal 40 cents a day from the only party that has given Roosevelt and Truman. W ith the have got used to having every ago in the Smith Act tria l of any more. I don’t know what I ’m Congress and the American peo bor members and cut forty cents each mine, worker. Naturally the real score on the situation same militancy and unity, they thing their own way in recent Coixxixxunist Party, leaders in New going to do.” from the $1.90-a-day raise -which miners -resent such thievery. ” at home and in the world, the only ple overwhelmingly rejected this will successfully resist the latest years and to regarding the coux-ts York, when Judge Dimock The situation is desperate for John L. Lewis had negotiated. party with a consistent program, advice to extend the war.” The irony of the situaion is assault. I t is the duty of the as rubber-stamps for each new quashed the indictments against millions and its getting worse all True to their militant policy is the Socialist Workers Party Stevenson is right. The people that this administration move to whole labor movement to rally assault on the Bill of Rights. It Simon Gerson and Isadore Begun the time. The -cost of the war Examine the following: did reject the extension of the and tradition, the miners have undermine the UMW wage con behind the miners who once again must shock them a little to find because the prosecutors had not preparations and the Korean war war to China. But the people have left the pits in a virtual national Item : Thomas Dewey — “ . tract came within a week after are spearheading labor’s strug a few judges around who are still attempted to prove they were is responsible. The war profiteers also rejected the war in Korea it 6trike. They face a possible gruel the only way the Democratic Par the United Mine Workers con- gle. w illing to tell them: “ You are (Continued on page 2) and price gougers, of course, are self. Does Stevenson or Eisen ling struggle of long duration ty can bring about fu ll employ adding fuel to the flames. should the government prove ad ment is by the dead and mangled hower or anyone else deny this I don’t think Stevenson or E i amant in its decision to slash the bodies of young Americans.

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