Build a Labor Party Noiv! WALL ST. WAR SCHEDULE AND THE H-BOMB (See Page 3) t h e PUBLISHED WEEKLYMILITANT IN THE INTERESTS OF THE WORKING PEOPLE V ol. X V II - No. 35 NEW YORK, N. Y., MONDAY, AUGUST 31, 1953 PRICE: 10 CENTS French General Teachers Defend Civil Rights Strike Compels Laniel to Retreat For Victims of the Witch-hunt By William F. Warde - ® • The mighty wave of strikes which rolled over France for three weeks brought production, transport and the Success in the H-Bomb Race state administration to a standstill, and shook the capitalist You Can’t regime to its foundations, has $>■ Attack School Firings temporarily subsided. embraced nearly 4 million strik Last Friday, Aug. 21, after an ers. Hide from agreement with the Laniel gov Premier Laniel recognized, if For Exercising Rights ernment, the Socialist and Catho the labor leaders did not, that the lic-led unions called their mem issue of power was sharply posed The H-Bomb bers back to work. This disrupted by this massive collision of social . the unity of action which had been forces. A t firs t he was complete Washington continues to con Under Fifth Amendment achieved from below by the ranks ly adamant against the strikers. ceal the fact that there is no in the various unions, localities He counted upon the movement conceivable civilian defense from The American Federation of Teachers (AFL), repre and work-places. The Stalinist- disintegrating and petering out, the latest atomic horror weapon, leaving the authorities in a posi the H-Bomb. sentative of the country’s organized school teachers, raised controlled General Confederation a vigorous protest last week against the McCarthyite cam of Labor tried to keep the strike tion to wield the whip upon beat According to ■the Aug. 22 going. However, its call did not en and demoralized workers. weekly size-up by the Washing paign to strip citizens hounded by the witch hunters of meet with general response and This strategy was upset by the ton staff of the Scripps-Howard their constitutional rights. newspapers, “ Civil Defense au it had to issue a back-to-work workers themselves who, after A t their 36th annual convention starting the strikes, forged unity thorities are groping fo r a new order. in Peoria the delegates of the Thus the most potent and pro in the heat of combat and kept policy, now that Russia has the New York SWP teachers union condemned the mising strike movement of the deepening and extending their H-Bomb.” These authorities have been advising us “to stay put, French working class since 1936 movement. They dragged th.eir practice of dismissing teachers seek shelter in case of enemy was brought to an inconclusive leaderships along with them, put Completes Drive for no other reason than their attack. They’ve stressed danger end. This potentially revolutionary such heat upon them, and exhibit use of the F ifth Amendment to of congestion on roads and streets struggle was an open test of ed such staunch powers o f resist the Constitution to protect their if everyone tried to leave at To Get on Ballot strength between the capitalist ance that the government had to rights. College and school boards modify its attitude. once.” NEW YORK, Aug. 22 — The throughout the country have been rulers and the forces of labor on But “soon — though officials both the • economic and political New York Local of the Socialist doing this in deference to demands GRANT CONCESSIONS won’t say it yet — the advice arenas. Workers Party announced today of the witch hunters. Laniel promised not to revise is likely to be ’leave, if. you can,’ the completion of its petition The government provoked the Civil Defense is thinking along The F ifth Amendment provides the railwayinen's pension sys drive to put the party on the strikes by issuing decrees design city-evacuation lines.” that no one “ shall be compelled ed to ease the problems of its tems; to review wage scales of ballot for the forthcoming munici to be a witness against himself.” budget at the expense of the ■the lowest paid workers in indus A LITTLE HITCH pal election. This article was added to the try; to pay year-end bonuses to poorest-paid workers. The postal There’s one little hitch in the Designated “ Operation Signa Constitution as part of the orig postal workers; to pay Workers’ workers, who are directly affect “ evacuation” idea, even apart ture,” the campaign was begun inal Bill of Rights after many wages in’ many cases for most of ed by the cuts, spontaneously re from the fact that a city like and completed in 'the record time bitter experiences of the English- the strikes’ duration; and to lim it belled and touched off the pro New York, say, would suffer a of* five days. This was made pos speaking people w ith frameups test actions. These continued to punishment to strikers who had total traffic jam five minutes sible by both, the enthusiastic in star-chamber court proceedings, spread from one category of work engaged in sabotage or other, seri- after an evacuation order is campaign spirit of the New York it has long been an elementary ers to another until at times they (Contihucd on page 2) given. The “ big unsolved problem” Local and the generally sympa safeguard of individual legal is “ how to get advance warning, thetic response of the workers rights. approached. in time to get folk» away.” Congressional inquisitors have The war-makers had been try Party members and friends A Sign of the General Strike who circulated the petitions on been working overtime to break ing to reassure uS that atomic down this protection. By hurling war is “not so bad.” They put out the streets of New York agree that the witch-hunt fear that was loaded questions at witnesses they propaganda blurbs about A-Bomb seek to entrap them into damag shelters and hiding under tables noticeable several years ago has receded. Workers who were some ing admissions against themselves and what not. or force them to become inform All they can offer for riro'ec- what reluctant to sign in the last campaign did not hesitaite this ers against others. When a w it tion from the H-Bomb, which can ness avails himself of the Fifth disintegrate everything in an] time. How Rebels LOVELL URGES FULL AID This was true even on the few Amendment, th e McCarthyite area the size of the state of pack howls that he must have Rhode Island, is: “ Run fo r your occasions when signers were something to conceal and is vir-, lives!” — if you have enough harassed by professional red FOR GM FIRE VICTIMS baiters who urged them not to tually incriminated. advance warning, if you have a Took Over in put their names down. car to make a getaway, if the McCARRAN BILL DETROIT — Frank Lovell, Socialist Workers Party The New York Local of the streets and roads are not hope A t the recently concluded ses lessly jammed, if you don’t run Brandenburg candidate for mayor here, has called for community sup Socialist Workers Party is now port to the CIO United Automobile Workers demand for turning its attention to prepara sion of the Senate, McCarran into another H-Bomb or A-Bomb sneaked through a “talk-or-go- en route. In This Week Magazine for fu ll compensation to the thou-a>- tions for a spirited socialist elec to-jail” bill designed to tighten The belligerency of White House Aug. 23, Gaston Coblenz, whose sands of auto workers made job state and elsewhere have been tion campaign. the screws upon witnesses hauled occupants, the war provocations foreign correspondence on recent less by the $50,000,000 fire which shut down or drastically curtail before Congressional committees of generals and admirals, the German events has been reliable destroyed General Motors’ new ed fo r lack of transmissions. and nullify the protection offered bellicose threats of Wall Street and accurate, gives a detailed ultra-modern dual-purpose Detroit UAW President Walter Reuth- account of the East German by the F ifth Amendment. McCar- agents in Congress are no longer Transmission plant in Livonia. er has urged Governor Williams Half Way Mark workers’ uprising in Branden ran’s measure apparently prom to be tolerated. Their conduct is The catastrophe on Aug. 12 to call a special session of the burg. This is a medium-sized ises immunity, but this is a fraud. inviting a mass “ evacuation” to resulted from failure of the state legislature to provide sub factory town of 70,000 people 30 In reality it guts the Fifth eternity for tens of millions of profit-hungry corporation to pro stantial increases in the size Is Reached in Americans and the destruction miles from Berlin, which had a and duration of unemployment Amendment by confronting w it reputation as a left-wing strong vide adequate fire safeguards. The of modern civilization. benefits. lie pointed out that nesses wi(ji Ihe alternative of hold. It belongs to the district unemployed workers face fo r an turning stool-pigeon or going to The only defense against the estimates of 60,000 unemployed SWP Fund Drive which once sent Karl Liebknecht extended time the inadequate ja il for contempt or perjury. H-iBomb is to prevent war. Take as a result of the fire may be By Reba Aubrey to the Reichstag. benefits under Michigan's com thé war-making powers away pensation laws, which were w rit too low because of those affected Campaign Manager The resolution adopted by the The June 16 explosion was American Federation of Teach from the Wall Street politicians. ten largely by lobbyists for the in suppliers’ plants. This week the Socialist Work preceded by a mass demonstration ers pointed out that the F ifth Let the people themselves decide auto corporations. Reuther reminded W illiams.that ers Party branches scored the by referendum vote the questions in Brandenburg five days earlier Amendment was designed fo r the against the local Stalinist police A spark from a welding torch, present unemployment benefits biggest weekly contribution since of war and peace. “are about one-third of the earn the launching of the Party- innocent as well as the guilty and officials. This had been touch it is reported, ignited oil drip and that those who used it fo r ed o ff by the May 28 increase in ping on a conveyor belt. Flames ings of auto industry workers.” Building and Publication Fund A t $31 a week fo r a fam ily of ten weeks ago. However, we are protection had an inalienable right Nothing moves unless labor says so. St. Lazare railroad The Alabama Senate voted workers’ production quotas, the spread to an oil tank that ex still 23% behind schedule. The to do so. In another resolution station in the center of Paris is shown here virtually deserted Aug. 21 ’ to ban both closed and abrupt turn about of the Stalinist ploded and the fire shot through four, many laid-off workers will during the general strike that tied up virtually all transporta have to go on “ short rations,” weekly receipts of $1,416 raised the convention asked for the es union shops. Gov. Gordon Person Regime on June 11 in making the entire plant with incredible tablishment of practises in inves tion and communication in France. The strike of four million economic concessions which the Reuther said, and face “ repos- the total through Aug. 24 to has not indicated whether he w ill rapidity. 'Many automobile, truck tigating committees that would demonstrated labor’s immense power in action. veto the union-busting measure. (Continued on page 4) and coach assembly lines in this (Continued on page 4) $9,751 or 54%. St. Louis h it 100% and now protect the rights of citizens and shares top honors w ith Akron. pledged a fig h t against ‘‘the un Hilda Smith of Chicago writes: dermining of these liberties by “ Enclosed is $179. We are now the rule of bigotry, suspicion and fear.” ‘pushing our luck’ to get it all Puerto Rican Workers in the /City of Opportunity' cleaned up. and over the top next STAND WEAKENED week.” J. E., a friend, gave them While upholding the vital Fifth ploding the lying propaganda By Harry Ring worker, expressed a somewhat in hotels and restaurants. The Outside the metropolitan area, come here with a.stirring record a $10 boost. Amendment, the teachers conven that the Puerto Rican people “ They are quickly adaptable different viewpoint to a Post rest are employed in the manu a spokesman for a powerful of militant struggle against the Philadelphia and Newark kept tion weakened its stand in defense to our manufacturing procedures. came to live on relief, Welfare reporter. W ith his wife and three facture of toys, novelties, group of farm bosses who im Yankee imperialists who have ahead of schedule. Buffalo re of civil liberties by expressing They learn the many tasks which Commissioner McCarthy told the children, Ruise lives in a small plastics, costume jewelry; and ported 22,000 Puerto Rican agri plundered their native land for mained w ithin 2%. opposition to “ the employment Post, “The vast majority of are assigned to them. They are furnished room. They share a services, cultural workers during the past so long. They are strongly union “ We arc delighted to enclose of Communists in our schools.” dignified and not too proud lo Puerto Ricans on relief have been toilet with 14 other people and Meunch says flatly, “ The two years spelled out the basic conscious. A few figures reveal this $330.45,” w rite Jeanne M., This is a concession to the witch short term cases. We get jobs work.” This is the verdict of the pay $14 a week rent. Puerto Ricans are the most un fact. He says, “ We would be in a that they are making their way Dave C., and Dick B. for Los hunters who motivate all their at for them fast.” president of a Bronx manu Ruise says, “ I came here, four derpaid workers in the city to serious mess if we hadn't been into the. city’s organized labor Angeles. “ Part of this comes from tacks on civil liberties and on dis facturer of filing cabinets about This is confirmed by State years ago. I 'thought I could do day .’•’ Many, he said, particularly able to get their help. There was movement. our collection at the Trotsky senters from their views by the his Puerto Rican employees. Labor Commissioner Corsi, whose better, make more money and those who do not speak English, a shortage of farm labor be The A F L Cooks and Assistants Memorial Meeting, an all-around necessity to “ fig h t communism.” •When a boss generously figures show that nine out of fen make a better life fo r the kids. are unaware of the right to a 75- cause Southern Negroes, who Union reports that 30% of 8,000 successful affair.” Any criterion other than com praises his workers, that’s news. Puerto Ricans are employed al People tell me here everything is cent-an-hour minimum wage. were the main source of migrant members are Puerto Ricans. Of Oakland leaped from the bottom petence for holding a teaching I t ’s even bigger news when the most immediately on their arrival. better. I found out it is no better. Iln Puerto Rico the average labor, found better jobs in in the 26,000 members ol' the Hotel of the scoreboard to 55% with a position gives the enemies of the workers happen 'to be members He explains, “ The truth is 'that “ I am unhappy and disgusted. minimum wage fixed by Federal dustry.” & Restaurant Employees union, $97 contribution. Boston boosted teachers and also labor a basis of a brutally oppressed and ex in some lines of work we needed Nothing has turned out right. law. is 40 cents an hour. “ It is as But don’t, get the idea that the 4.000 are Puerto Ricans. Another its percentage to '54 with $65; for setting up qualifications for ploited minority. the Puerto Ricans as much as Here I lose my health. My family loiw as 16 cents, an hour in some farm bosses are really grateful 2.000 hold membership in the In Milwaukee’s $74 upped its score discriminating against union According to the New York they needed -the jobs and security is always sick. There is too much trades there,” he said. “ Trans for the help. He proudly con ternational Ladies G a r m e n t tp 51%; New York made a $345 teachers. Political discrimination Post,, which recently devoted a they sought in coming here.” to fight.” planted to New York, the un tinues, “ There they received 28 Workers Union*. 1Tier to Rican gain; Seattle $40. against so-called “ communists” in series of articles to the status of The personnel director of the Is Ruise just a single unfor informed islander sometian e a cents an hour in the cane fields. workers now comprise three- A $65 check from the group education is a loop-hole the witch Puerto Ricans in what City Hall Waldorf Astoria Hotel, which em tunate or disgruntled individual? eargely accepts an offer of 50 Here they are guaranteed 65 quarters of the membership of of staunch Socialist Workers hunters eagerly seize. The de describes as “ the city of op ploys some 300 Puerto Rican Not according to Frank Meuifch, cents an hour or less until he cents an hoar minimum.” the largest local of the CIO Party.supporters near the Mason- fense of civil liberties in educa portunity,” this view is shared workers, mostly: as kitchen help Regional Director of the Federal becomes aware of mainland wage AH the facts show (lie un Watch & Jewelry Workers Union. Dixon Line fulfilled their $105 tion, as in all other spheres, must by practically all employers of ers, house men and bus boys, Wage & Hour Division of the standards.” varnished reality that confronts An additional 7,500 hold mem- pledge. be unconditional* We must defend Puerto Rican labor in town. informed the Post: “ Many tell us State Employment Service. He Last year Puerto Ricans ac the Puerto Rican worker. He has j'bership in Local 223 of the AFL H. C.. a friend in Cincinnati, the rights of all. •One promise has been kept to they were1 never so well off. A l reports that Puerto Rican work counted for more than half of been brought, here by a gang of ¡Toy & Novelty Workers ' Union. sent in $21, of which $3.95 is for The stand of the teachers on the 425,000 first and second- though they are forced to live in ers are confined almost ex 8,fit'? einployees who collected profit-hungry employers and their It. is along this road of in- the.fund, lie explained: “ I have the Fifth Amendment, however, been having a rather rough time generation Puerto Ricans who overcrowded and poor housing, clusively to the service and light- $493,816 in back pay and over political agents fo meet their • tegration into the union move- is an encouraging sign that the filed to Now York from the they don’t complain. They tell us manufacturing industries of the time wages from chiseling bosses. ever-unsatisfied demand for a • ment that the Puerto RicAn of it. Had to catch a 7-day week heaviest assault upon the B ill of misery and poverty of their that life was often like that back city. Some 20,000, mainly women, And these employers, of course, large pool of cheap labor. workers are taking their first big to do this.” Rights in this country’s history homeland. They have been given in Puerto Rjco.” are employed in the garment in are just the ones who happened There is one big catch fo r the ' step in the fight to climb up from is running up against a widening the opportunity to work. Ex Isidoro IRuise, a Puerto Rican dustry. About 16,000, mostly men, to get caught. bosses. The (Puerto Rican people 1 the but tom of ithe economic ladder. (See scoreboard: Page 3) resistance. Pace Two THE ffUEITXNT Monday, August 31,1953 Strike Opens Negro’s Key Role in the Civil War KINSCY’S ATOM-BOMB
By George Breitman they have simply neglected to Thanks above all to Negro active the Negroes were — as "New Stage" of approach the period w ith the historians and scholars, whose abolitionists, soldiers, sailors, ON SIX U fi Of WOMEN THE NEGRO IN THE CIVjL WAR by Benjamin Quarles. Negro in mind. It is my hope to interests were different from spies, laborers, politicians, con Bv Myra Tanner Weiss Little. Brown and Co., 1953 set the records straight, to those of their white counterparts ductors in the Underground 379 pp., $5. restore the Negro to his rightful, and who didn’t have their pre Railroad (this time for the The American press couldn’t pass up the opportunity Ceylon Struggle active place in the War thail set judices to overcome, the truth benefit of Northern white prison to make a fortune selling* papers with accounts of the In special issues published during the events, the In the second American revolu him free.” was dug up and recorded and is ers and stragglers as well as forthcoming book by Dr. Alfred C. Kinsey on Sexual Be tion, which is also known as the becoming more widely known. fugitive Negroes). Heavy stress Samasamajisl, weekly newspaper of the Ceylonese section Civil War, the Negroes were the MORE THAN NEGLECT One reason why Quarles’ book is is correctly placed on the role havior in the Human Female. But few failed to express of the Fourth International, hailed the general strike most revolutionary class in the This is an overly charitable valuable is that he borrows from of the “ contrabands,” the aboli their dismay and even alarm at the view of reality in hu which swept Ceylon two weeks ® coalition that abolished the slave estimate of most of his fellow and builds on their work, as he tionists and the members of the man relation provided by Dr. Kinsey. One N.Y. paper, the ago as a tremendous victory won The government met the mass system. Yet, out of the vast historians. Their failure to tell acknowledges. armed forces. Long Island Star Journal, in a front page editorial scream by the people through their unity protest by declaring a state of volume of books written about (he truth about the Negro was “ The Civil War,” he writes, The “ contrabands” were the in action. “August 12 marks the emergency with the harshest pen the Civil War, only a few have due to more than “ neglect” ; the “was a revolution in many ways; slaves who ran away from the ed that Dr. Kinsey “ has dropped an atomic bomb designed beginning of a new stage, in the alties for the demonstrators. been devoted to the role of the “ neglect” itself was due to race hence it is open to a hundred and .slaveowners by the hundx-eds of to destroy what is left of sex morality in the United history of the mass movement of There were many casualties re Negro, and practically all of these pi-ejudice, conscious or unconsci one. interpretations. . . But on otie thousands, thus striking a heavy States.” this country,” it declared. “ Sup sulting from clashes between the have been written by Negroes. ous, which led them to overlook, point, there is common agree blow at the economic position of Kinsey’s preliminary study of the sex history of 5,950 port came from all sections of the m ilitary and police and the dem Benjamin Quarles1, author of minimize or deny the decisive ment: without slavery there the South and providing the North women, although unfortunately weighted with cases of population, from shopkeepers who onstrators. the latest book on the subject role of the Negro in the revolu would have been no resort to with important added labor and voluntarily closed their shops, as well as a previous Study of tion. Outside of the Southern his arms. Hence the slave was the m ilitary power. The quarter-mil those who have gone to college, records a growing libera REVEALING EXCHANGE from housewives who boycotted Frederick Douglass, is a Negro torians, no formal conspiracy or key factor in the war. But the lion Northern Negroes, “ schooled tion of women from obsolete “ moral” codes and concep the markets, from rickshaw-men The Samasamajist published himself, and professor, of history* plot was needed; race prejudice Negro’s tale was not merely a over the years in public affairs tions based on the double standai’d. The conflict between and bullock carters, and all lay the following exchange between at Dillard University in New was so widespread in the period passive one; he did not ta rry in by the colored convention move the way people really live and the official mores estab ers of the oppressed.” a Trotskyist member and a gov Orleans. On the jacket of his of reaction following Reconstruc the wings, hands folded. He was ment and the abolitionist crusade, book he. is' quoted as saying: tion that silence and distortion an . active member of the cast, lished by church and .state, or the conflict between in A ll forms of transport were ernment supporter in Parliament .acted as a whip and spur to the “To a few careful historians about the. Negro became the rule prominent, in the dramatic per stincts and the repression of instincts is truly diminishing. halted by striking workers or the the day before the general strike, Lincoln administration” in forcing the Negro was the key figure in among white historians, with sonae. To . him freedom was a Kinsey’s “ atom bomb” is not responsible for the de demonstrators. Flash news reports an exchange that disclosed the it to accept Negroes as soldiers the Civil War. The others have effects just as harmful as if they two-way street; indeed he gave in the paper from different parts government’s intention to sup and to issue the Emancipation struction of bourgeois moral codes. Two world wars and press the movement by force: not entei’cd into a conspiracy of had actually agreed to suppress prior to receiving.” Proclamation that broke the back preparation for a third with very real atom bombs have of the island show the type^ of silence or a plot of distortion: the truth. And the book fu lly shows how action taken to make the tieup “ Mr. E. Samarakoddy said he of the South’s resistance. In showing'how the Negroes brought women as well as men to think critically of “of complete: “ A t Lunawa the spare understood orders had been given ficial” opinions that they are told to accept. railway sleepers and fine material to shoot to kill. were active in these respects, and in several important,, battles, Another great revolutionizing influence in the lives that lay near the line were stack “Mr. Keerthiratne replied: ‘Do Political Prisoners in Earthquake Quarles writes very w ell., One ed across and the line effectively you shoot for fun?’ ” of women is the increased economic independence that criticism that might be made of blocked. A t Kalatura men, women has resulted from their mass induction into industry in “ I am glad there is a confes his treatment, however, is that he and children lay on the Galle Road sion,” Mr. Samarakoddy answer confines himself too much to the last 13 years. When Kinsey, as he promises, later in in a traffic-blocking Hartal (stop ed. reporting and describing, and not cludes in his study Negro women and a larger grouping page).” At the height pf the strike enough to analyzing. He tells of of the doubly exploited factory workers, who have even The nation-wide stoppage was movement the Lanka Samasama- the Negro’s activities, but he is more reason for revolting against official thought, the called by the workers’ organiza ja Party issued a statement de hesitant to venture an evaluation registration of changes in moral codes will probably prove tions headed by the Lanka Sama- manding that the government of their significance and weight samaja Party in protest against withdraw the Emergency Regula in the total picture of the war. even more startling. government economic policy. In tions, resign immediately, hold Abraham Lincoln, on the other The basic revolution in the scientific view of the defiance of its electoral promises fresh general elections and give hand, who had to be pushed and human mind and morals was made long ago by Freud. Kin the capitalist government had re the peoplp an opportunity to elect prodded into accepting Negroes sey’s work provides only statistical verification of much duced rice rations and tripled the a government of their own choice. as soldiers and who almost of what Freud’s studies revealed. The principal importance price of this principal food of the It also called for the immediate wrecked the war by his hesita people. This came on top of in appointment of a Public Commis tions over proclaiming the revo of Kinsey's work is that it not only records the changes creased prices fo r other necessi sion to inquire into the shootings lutionary emancipation measure, in mass consciousness about sexual questions but with ties. by the police and m ilitary. was much less hesitant than indisputable facts exposes the hypocrisy and duplicity Quarles and most modern scholars forced onto human beings. It therefore plays a progressive in assessing the vital importance role in stimulating an honest and critical attitude toward of the Negroes. He said in the last stages of the war: the “facts of life.” With a revolution taking place in people’s thinking French General Strike LINCOLN’S ESTIMATE about their Number 2 problem of sex, we can expect that “ There are now in the service it won’t be long before they begin to cast off illusions of the United States near two hundred thousand able - bodied about the way in which they meet their Number 1 prob Forces Laniel Retreat colored men, most of them under lem of securing a livelihood. The Long Island Star Journal arms, defending and acquiring really has reason to worry. The working class is cultivating? (Continued from page 1) None of the party or union lead Union territory. . . As earthquakes jocked Greece, one of the first concerns of the Greek monarchy was to keep a thirst for the truth. That is why there is mass interest “ Abandon all the posts now ous offenses. These concessions ers, Stalinist, Socialist or Catho control over thfe political prisoners. Here Greek soldiers are shown standing guard over prisoners in Kinsey’s statistical work. And when illusions are lost lic, prepared the strike action; garrisoned by black men; take were offered in order to break up who had been held in Argotolion prison, which was wrecked by quakes that devastated Ionian isls. in one realm of life it’s not too difficult to lose them in the unity of the strike movement, they were all dragged into it. two hundred thousand men from curb its momentum, and cut o ff They had no plan of battle which our side and put. them in the other realms. the Socialist and Catholic unions could have guided the ranks to battlefield or cornfield against As people stop blaming themselves for breaking moral from the Stalinist-led workers. victory over the government and us, and we would be compelled codes that are'wrong in the first place, they will begin capitalists. They tried to limit to abandon the war in three But the government had still weeks. . . to understand that the economic insecurity we suffer^ is more pressing political reasons and restrain the movement and Stalinist Policy in Elections get it over with as quickly as pos “ My enemies pretend I am now likewise not an individual fault but an absolute necessity fo r making such promises. I t was By Art Preis carrying on this war for the sole for the existence of capitalism. a matter of self-preservation for sible. Only Laniel’s intransigence and the formidable pressure from purpose of abolition. So long as The revolution in consciousness that is taking place itself and the capitalist regime. American Stalinism is again openly demon-, behind a progressive, pro-labor Democratic I am President, it shall be carried The offensive, of the workers the ranks prevented them fiom in America will end by shaking the hypocritically pious capitulating sooner. strating its'unlimited capacity for treachery candidate.” on for the sole purpose of restore threatened to topple it from of On May 10, the Worker criticized a "ten ing the Union. But no human rich out of their ruling position and emancipating mankind The nature and scope of the to the working class. After the debacle of its fice and set the stage for a far power can subdue this rebellion entirely from their present inferiority and guilt com struggle called fo r bold revolu attempt to build an “independent” third dency for some progressives to see the AL.P more radical government under without the use of the emancipa tionary perspectives and a suit as the only vehicle for third party expression” plexes. heavy pressure from the aroused capitalist party behind Wallace, the Com tion policy, and every other policy able program of action and or Kinsey’s work, a modest service to science, is a great masses. munist Party is now trying to line up Amer and attacked “ the increasingly virulent . . . calculated to weaken the moral ganization to realize them. The contribution to society in stimulating this revolution in The Socialist Party, the Com ican workers in a “ people’s coalition” within go-it-alone tendency in the progressive move and physical forces of the rebel slogan put forward by the French munist Party and the unions de ment.” This tendency is “ by no means con lion. Freedom has given us two consciousness. Trotskyists for a Communist-So the Democratic Party. manded the recall of Parliament In New York City, the Stalinist party is fined to the Left” but affects even “ the Libera] hundred thousand men raised on to effect a change in government cialist government backed by the Southern soil. It w ill give us policy and possibly in the govern unions would have provided a po engaged in an abominable betrayal of the Party leadership, dizzy with the success of the more yet. Just so much has it ment itself. Laniel succeeded in litical solution to the social crisis'. New York working class by backing the Rudolph Halley victory in the 1951 Council subtracted from the enemy.” blocking this through a shabby Committees of action to coordi candidate of one section of Tammany Mall presidency race. . .” Thuj, the Stalinists found Quarles’ book does not reach nate the strike struggles on a lo technical trick. On August 24 the against the candidate of another section in even conservative AFL union officials like the literary power, passion and National Assembly’s steering cal, regional and national level depth of insight of W. E. B. “ b it the Democratic Party primaries on Sept. 15. David Dubinsky and A ltx Rose, the principal Recent issues of The M ilitant Kean reports a of talk in committee refused a special ses and popularize the demand fo r a DuBois in his great Black Re ton's shot) about Cannon’s article Workers’ and Peasants’ Govern labor figures in the Liberal Party, too left. have met with a very good sion of the Assembly over pro To emphasize its abandonment of even the construction, whose first 125 response in the Chicago area, ac in the .Tid" 27 M ilitant about ihe ment should have been called for tests from Socialist and Commun pretense of independent class politics, the On Aug. 11 ■ the Daily Worker editorially pages deal with the same period cording to Literature future under socinl!,*’u. One follow and set up wherever possible. ist members on the pretext that Stalinist leaders' have kicked the CP’s own proclaimed "the main job in the election” to This is not said to detract from Agent Jacki Booth. who rood the article woofiovefi But neither the Stalinist nor the signatures of four Communist protege of the past years, the American Labor be the “ formation of a coalition” to "defeat Quarles’ book, which is also well She writes, “We ex about the ‘Commun'tv Cleaning deputies were invalid. Socialist leaders dared mobilize written, although in a different pect to raise the Party, in the teeth. It has brought a bitter the Dewey-Impellitteri gangupT It stated •Sendee’ and whether women the workers for this kind of revo style. In fact, Quarles’ book, be bundle order in the reallv f “ “ ! onuressed todnv. An “NOTHING SETTLED” lutionary action. Once again, as public denunciation from Vito Marcantonio categorically, although not naming Wagner by cause it goes into greater detail ■next week or so if other follow rdned no coving that By these means the Laniel gov in 1936 and in 1944-45, their cow himself. The State Chairman accuses the CP name, that "we support labor’s participation at some points and has the ad our excellent sales his wife definite1v believes that ernment has saved itself, but only ardly and treacherpus policies and its mouthpiece the Dlaily Worker of in the iiemocratic Primary.” "Labor’s par vantage of being written 18 continue. On |the women are discriminate'' age;nst fo r a short time. As the N. Y. have been directly responsible for years later, is a good supplement attempting to sabotage the A LP ’s 'campaign ticipation in the Democratic primary” means project in the slum hv men and sociptv. T1'«; f r St Herald - Tribune correspondent derailing the march of the work to the first part of DuBois’ book, areas we have un fellow laughed and said, ‘She for its own slate of candidates, including C lif only one thing — voting for Wagner. noted: “ nothing has been settled,” ing class toward power. The con and should be read together with derway here, results verifies Cannon.’ ” either on the industrial or the duct of the workers during the ford McAvoy for mayor. On Aug. 16, the Stalinist organ assailed the it. ¡have been very One final point: In recent years Helen She»-»'’ '>n “ Snm- political fields. It is still possible events indicates that they are not Making the first open break in nearly two "indifferent attitude of some anti-Impellitteri good. In the past Tile cotues of The M ilitant ...ova fo r a special session of the Assem a -strong tendency has developed unaware of the inadequacies of decades of close relations between the CP and Democrats, as in the ADA. . . toward the three weeks we have sold 83 distributed to the ho-'"1 wo>kem bly to be convened. And, above all their official leaders. They start among historians, Northern as papers, in many cases we have the workers returning to their Marcantonio, the former Congressman on outcome of the Democratic prim ary” and well as Southern, liberal as well last week, who closed down all ed the strikes on their account established routes, selling con the maior hotels hero jn Miu- jobs after measuring strengtl and in many places returned when Aug. 10 charged the party and Daily Worker called for "a united front of all who oppose as conservative, to begin by deny sistently to the same people. w ith the big business government ing that the Civil War was ueanolis in a strike fo r th» 40- they saw fit. They were careful to with an "attempt to disrupt, with insidious reaction in the Pemocratic Party.” This means Alice has been tops so far, selling hour week with aeeomno-oving have heads high and the feeling preserve their solidarity in strug appeals, the campaign o.f the ALP in behalf of a "united front” for Wagner. “ inevitable” and to end by ques 24 papers. they did not come out the losers. tioning whether it was necessary. wage increases and other de gle. its candidates.” He called the Worker’s articles By Aug. 23, the Worker was beating its “ Last Sunday Wilson, Dotty, mands. Attached to each copy Why did this magnificent offen At no time were the union bu (Consciously or not, this new ap Barney, Carol and Elhvorth sold sive of the working class yield on election policy “ an impertinence and a drums so loudly for Wagner that it even proach to the second American of the naner was a brief state reaucrats able to maintain com 18 papers. The response was ment explaining who,1 The M ili such inconclusive results? The brazen attempt to negate the decision demo attacked the liberal capitalist daily N. Y. Post revolution is a reflection of their good and we have three potential plete control over their member tant staeds for and listing the general circumstances were ex ships. The N.Y. Herald-TribuHe cratically arrived at by the American Labor f»r being "neutral” in the primary and for not attitude to the third, which is subscribers to the paper and now being prepared by the con suhserint'on rates. ceptionally favorable for scoring correspondent observed that “ la Party, i.e., to run a fu ll slate of candidates "supporting the efforts of various CIO unions possibilities of more. Others par tremendous gains which could tradictions and crises of the ticipating in the project are “ We have been getting some bor leaders in some areas and and to campaign unreservedly for them.” and of sections of the A F L to lick Impellit- have decisively reversed the bal some industries can no more send capitalist system.) Elaine. Howard, Sam, Ines, Don, excellent ronort« from recent teri in the primaries.” It went on to attack A refreshing feature of the new renders’ of the rt-riov, who ance of class forces in France and their members back than they can Marcantonio complained that the Stalinists Muriel.-Mary, Mary Lou, Pat and improved the outlook for the en keep them out.” seek to influence voters to support 1 lalley, City the National Guardian paper of the Prog writings of Negro historians is Emmett. sxihscrihod during the last cam tire labor movement of Western that they are altogether free of paign. Several have shown i” ’ cr This obvious m istrust of their Council President and mayoralty candidate ressive Party to which the ALP is affiliated, “ Belle sold 13 M ilitants at a Europe. Eves as it is, the Laniel 'this reactionary tendency. None est in eomino- around >o hoar present' leaders was combined on the Liberal Party ticket. The Aug. 11 Daily because it "seems to consider -its main job is neighborhood ball game, four to government quickly shot its bolt of them wastes time wringing his more about our ideas; one came with increased confidence in their to direct its fire against Wagner and Halley.” members of the team; and Irving and has emerged from the contest Worker vociferously denied it had endorsed hands wondering if somehow the no to the bookstore for a discus own capacities fo r self-action. sold 11 papers on a south side weakened and discredited. Halley or any other candidate and said it had The Daily Worker has deviously refrained Civil War could have been avoid street corner. Jacki sold 15 papers sion: and another is circulating This should spur the vanguard of The outcome was not the fault from explicitly endorsing Wagner, while ed; none of them has any doubts Thursday at a Packinghouse local T ile M ilitant anoiirwl to his friends the French workers to put for “ made clear that it stood for uniting voters of of the workers. They gave every that it was necessary and a good meeting, met with a good response on the ioh. The M ilitant is '■»r- ward from their midst a more all parties against the maneuvers of Gov. furthering his candidacy. It has adopted the thing to the struggle. Socialist thing. Quarles quotes the follow and spoke to two workers who rvin°* first-cla«s reno"'s on events m ilitant leadership grouped Thomas F. Dewey. Mayor Vincent Im peliit- tactic used when the CP supported Roosevelt Catholic, Stalinist, non-party un ing discussion between General already subscribed to the paper in Gernianv and on the Korpan around tested revolutionists who in 1936 with its slogan, “ Defeat Landon." Now 1> IS only ionists banded together in action, teri and James Farley to put over their pro W illiam Tecumseh Sherman and and spoke highly of it. We have flor-elooments. the can he]v> them blaze the tra il to an old Negro slave: breaking through their organiza gram and candidates in the Republican, Demo the slogan is "Defeat Im pellitteri” through also raised our weekly bundle at reliab le news you can get, w ith workers’ power in the next stage Sherman: “ Well, now, old man, tional divisions. They held out for cratic and Liberal Parties.” But right now participation in the Democratic primary, that a newsstand to 25 a week.” out. capitalist or Stalinist distor of their anti-capitalist struggles. what do you think about the Akron Literature Agent Kav tions.” three weeks. The workers in p ri the Stalinists are concentrating on supporting is, backing the Democrat Wagner. Even the war?” vate and heavy industry moved one wing of Tammany against another by N. Y. Post columnist, Murray Kempton, could Uncle Stephen: “ Well, Sir, in to back up their comrades in Sen. Hubert H. TTmnhrey, (D campaigning for Manhattan Borough Presi not refrain from complaining about the “ new what I think about it, is this — public employment. Minn.l urn-pa | he F ’Senhower ad Bolsheviki and World dent Robert Wagner who is seeking the Communist line in full flower” of "penetrating it’s mighty distressin’, this war, RARE PAMPHLET These millions of workers dem minisf'-afion to start training but it ’pears to me like the right, onstrated through their stubborn the Democratic party and playing a role in Peace by “""cialie’ s how to tell “ a bona Democratic Party primary nomination for thing couldn’t be done without strike protests that they wanted fide militant unionist from a mayor. its struggles.” it.” by Leon Trotsky Leon Trotsky to replace the governments dom Communist agent.” The Even though the Stalinists, at the moment, That was the attitude of the inated by big business and war- Back last May 1, the Daily Worker indicat 238 pp. $2.50 subcommittee reported difficulty ed opposition to labor political action outside are the chief target of reaction, they are con sl'aves- th.cn and of the Negro THE K IR O V makers with a new one responsive in distino'iishing the difference people now toward the second Very, Rare of the Democratic Part)' channels. It attacked sciously knifing the genuine political strug to their own interests. Everything '■elding it was a question of American revolution, and it ex Limited number available now ASSASSINATION was ready for a radical change— “i'ist a hairline of iudement.” the Liberal Party which had intimated it gle against reaction — the movement for build plains their active and m ilitant order from everything except the proper The committee listed “stripes” would run its own municipal slate. The ing an independent party of labor.'They are role in promoting it then and $1.50 inch postage 32 pages leadership. That vital element wa Pioneer Publishers as a means of telling, if the defending it now. That w ill be the Worker claimed that the LP ’s "go-it-alone reinforcing the union leaders’ policy of keeping 116 University Place PIONEER PUBLISHERS missing, and thereby the move strikes “ were designed to imole attitude of the working class and ment fell fa r short of its objec declarations have disturbed rank-and-filers in the workers tied to the capitalist political New York 3, N. Y. 116 University PL, N. Y. C. ■tent the interests of Soviet fo r machines. | its Negro allies toward the tives. eign policy.” that Party who are dnxious to effect a coalition J