UAW Convention U.S. Supreme Court Upholds Fated with Many Critkal Problems Drastic Strikebreaking Law By Charles Albert DETROIT, March 18 — The 14th Convention of the CIO United Auto Workers will convene a t Atlantic City at a time when Big Business is riding higher than ever Trucks Law "Right to Work” Ruling in government. The employers are1 ir. a better position, by virtue of past two years since the 13th the election of the Eisenhower- Constitutional Convention, to Case Sent to T aft administration, to push their elaborate a program capable of Paves W ay for Drive program of crippling labor where defending the unions from the unions exist and safeguarding the blows of the corporation-dominat­ State Court open shop where i t prevails. ed administration, anover­ SWP case is now on the calendar greedy and rapacious employers. “Picketing is a form of free come is the five-year contract, in the Wayne County circuit By a 7 • to • 2 decision, the speech — the working man’s originally proposed by Eisen­ court before Judge Lila Neuen- highest court in the land deprived method of giving publicity to the hower’s right hand man, General felt. This case w ill now become the unions in the State of facts of industrial life. As such it Motors’ C. E. Wilson. This long­ the focal point of the fight Virginia of their constitutional is entitled to Constitutional pro­ term agreement prevents the against the notorious Trucks right to conduct peaceful picket­ tection.” Justice Douglas char­ union from gaining needed im­ Law. ing in a labor dispute. The rabid acterized the court’s 7-to-2 deci­ provements. The situation was Labor’s largest unit., Ford •inicn-haters are gleefully hail­ sion as “ a broadside against all made much worse by the outbreak Local 600 of the CIO United ing this decision as a precedent picketing." of the Korean war a month after Automobile Workers, has recently to be used in other states and are But there are no “ rights” fo r the contract, was signed. Since the contributed $500 to aid in con­ caliing for a national law based slaves, constitutional or other­ union’s hands were tied, the ducting the fight. The Citizens on the Virginia >“Right to Work” wise. Slaves have only those subsequent inflation and war- Committee Against the Trucks statute. rights that they fight for and caused economic dislocations have Law ir conducting a vigorous The case reached the Supreme win; and having fought and won, given the corporations a decided campaign to rally support and Court on appeal after a Richmond must continue fighting to pre­ advantage. Even the pension raise funds to defray the expense court had issued an injunction serve, maintain and extend. Ac­ agreement, won after, a three- of pushing the SWP case through against the AFL building trades cording to the majority of,-.tile moiith strike against the Chrysler the Michigan state courts. unions fo r picketing a school con­ U.S. Supreme Cojrrt, American Corporation, is now recognized to. ' Their address is: Citizens Com­ struction project which was em­ working men and women have be completely inadequate. The mittee Against the Trucks Law, NEWARK COURT HEARS KUTCHER’S ploying non-union workers. only one right: the right to work. war economy makes stabilization 1709 Ford Bldg., Detroit 26. And that only under the terms impossible. The union contract “RIGHT TO WORK” and conditions laid down by the “ The peaceful nature of the policy must fit. the times. We are CLEVELAND, March 14 — CHALLENGE OF PUBLIC HOUSING OATH blood-sucking employers. Such picketing was undisputed,” re­ living in a period of rapid change, Two developments were reported measures as the Virginia “ Right NEWARK, March 16 — The of the oath has any “ bearing on guarantees of free speech and ports the March 17 N. Y. Times. of struggle and of inflalion- last week in the current drive to Work” statute are nothing but Kutcher-Lawrence suit challeng­ the issue here." assembly and establishes guilt by “ There never were more than two Short-term agreements will of Ohio’s witch hunters to pass slave-labor laws. WALTER REUTHER The court should not interfere association. pickets and at times only one. partially take away the com­ legislation similar to the notorious ing the constitutionality of the with the evictions, Kelly said, be­ The picket placard read: ‘This is FOUGHT FOR RIGHTS panies’ advantage, and w ill put Michigan Trucks Law now being federal housing ‘lo ya lty” oath They also denounced the method cause the housing leases give the not a union job.’ ” There was no Nobody “gave” the American the union in a better bargaining contested in the. Courts: was argued in the State Superior used in putting organizations on NHA the power to terminate question of the use of coercion. workers the right to join unions position when changes require it. One was the introduction Marcn Court here last Friday by lawyers the "subversive” list without Manager Reports them “ at the end of any month notice or hearings and without There was no mass picket line. of their own choosing. They Tn addition the union w ill then be 11 of House Bill 415 by. Rep. for the American Civil Liberties without any special cause or Union and the Newark Housing suitable standards fo r judging No one tried to prevent anyone fought for, won and established In a position to correct, the long­ Lynch (D., Mahoning County) reason.” He asked the court to rtom working. There was one, or that right after years of bloody First Results standing defects of the GM and "To impose a fine of $10,000 and Authority. Judge Walter C. them. In asking the court to rule uphold th e . NBA's “legal rights” at the most two union men, with (Continued on page 2) Ford agreements, which are very up and 20 years imprisonment for Freund then reserved decision oh the law unconstitutional, they to make any evictions “ regard­ said: bad and weigh down the entire persons convicted of teaching or the ACLU’s request fo r an in­ less o f its motives.” In Sub Campaign organization. Walter Reuther’s advocating violent overthrow of junction to restrain tire NHA “This court has an opportunity By Dorothy Johnson willingness to rely on the good our government.” from evicting tenants who had DECISION POSTPONED to be the first to so declare and Campaign Manager will of the corporations to A t the same time Rep. Devine, failed to sign the oath required Judge Freund was apparently to proclaim once more that free­ MYRA WEISS TALKS TO re-cognize five - year agreements by the Gwinn amendment pend­ dom, liberty and due process of The M ilitant sales and sub­ slated as chairman of the witch- reluctant to accept this trick to as “ living documents” w ill not hunting committee, issued a pub­ ing a ruling on the constitu­ law, for even those whose views scription campaign got off to a get around the constitutionality satisfy the needs of the mem­ lic statement promising that the tionality of that, witch-hunt law. we hate, s till exist in the United good start Sunday with a coast- issue. He was also reluctant to LABOR, CIVIC GROUPS bership. The only kind of a really commission w ill turn its attention James Kutcher, legless vet­ States, that the judiciary w ill to-coast mobilization of all M ili­ restrain the NHA without its con­ living agreement is a short-term “ to what appears to be a fertile eran; his father; Harry L. protect those rights and redress tant salesmen. Flint, the Twin sent- In the end he asked Kelly By Louis« Manning agreement. Lawrence, a teacher and disabled (he grievances o f American Cities, Los Angeles, New York field” in industrial northeastern to get the N H A’s consent to a Ohio. veteran; and nine other families citizen« against arbitrary and un­ Myra Tanner Weiss, Socialist Workers Party candi­ and Newark sold a total of 37 restraint on evictions until the ESCALATOR CLAUSE The commission is scheduled to in Newark housing projects were constitutional action of a legia- date foi‘ Mayor of Los Angeles for the third time, and subs on the first day. Best result« validity of the oath' wa* settled O f great importance also is organize itself this week to pro­ ordered to move because they did latore seized by the emotions of were obtained by the Twin CitLee by the courts. Kelly agreed to ask previously candidate for the 'Board of Education and Con­ the consideration that short-term ceed with its investigations, but not sign statements swearing our times.” comrades who begin the campaign fo r 'such consent, and meanwhile gress is conducting a lively elec-j agreements w ill enable the it may have to find itself a new that they do not belong tp any with 676 point«. the judge postponed decision. tion campaign, having spoken be-1 appeared before the Republican escalator principle to come into counsel since the witch-hunting of the groups arbitrarily included Los Angeles’ campaign direc­ Argument fo r the AGLU was MARCH 16 — The U.S. Su­ lore six meetings totaling ap­ Women’s Organization, where she its own, i f the union holds out business pays better in Washing­ on the Attorney General’s so- made by Emil Oxfeld, state encountered all her opponents, tor, S. Stern, reports plans by preme Court today refused to per­ proximately 700 people. fo r an index which accurately ton than in Columbus. Former called “ subversive” list. including Mayor Bowron. Militant salesmen there to tie in counsel, in collaboration with mit a federal court hearing on the The election campaign has reflect-s'price and tax increases. FBI agent Sidney Isaacs, who This fact was well known to Herbert M. Levy, national their work with the anti - war constitutionality of the Gwinn enabled our candidates to appear Poulson, the Republican candi­ The escalator cannot be used as served as counsel last year, was the public. Yet when the lawyer, counsel. They called the oath “ the date, directed his attack against campaign of Myra T. Weiss for amendment. I t ordered a case in­ before a number of conservative a substitute for substantial annual reported by the Cleveland Press Augustine Kelly, appeared in most obviously unconstitutional mayor and Robert Morgan for troduced by the International political groups and present the the mayor fo r his so-called “ so­ wage increases. This convention to be “ angling for a better paying court last Friday, he brazenly cialist housing program,” indicat­ member of the Board of Educa­ statute within recent memory” Workers Order to be taken back socialist answer to the pressing federal job.” denied that the constitutionality because it violates constitutional ing that the victorious Republi­ tion. Eastside and Westside com­ (Continued on page 4) to the New York state courts. problems of the day. Mrs. Weiss cans w ill not even tolerate a rades are in competition fo r the housing; reform which is long best score. Newark reports that overdue and cognpletely in­ bad weather handicapped their adequate. first sale but that more work Mrs. Weiss presented the so­ w ilt be done during the week. cialist program as the only Fred Perry writes that although American Labor Needs Its Own Political Party alternative to a Third World War, the comrades in F lint are work­ An Editorial explaining that the capitalist ing long hours in t.he shops and system requires war to maintain are pressed fo r time, they expect The key problem facing the CiO United Automobile Work­ No one — including President Walter. Reuther himself, ism. The labor movement can be united only through some its profits. After the meeting a good result« since many workers number of women congratulated who had been laid o ff are now ers; together with the entire labor movement, is political action who took the floor at the last minute to plead against passage great, transcending program which does not involve the issue Every issue confronting the workers ultimately resolves itself of the labor party resolution — stated that he was against the her with the comment that she back at work and can afford to of union structures and on which all unions can get together was the only one who had any­ subscribe. into this over-riding issue: What kind of political action shall labor party in principle. Indeed, Reuther’s arguments had with the enthusiastic backing of the whole working class. Every thing to say. Minneapolis Literature Agent labor take? That is the question the UAW convention delegate: nothing to do with the need for or desirability of a labor party. trend of political events, every new crisis «onfronting the people At the Carpenters Union, an Helen Sherman writes, "The must answer correctly to reach a realistic and basic solution to incident which took place be­ high spirit of the Twin Cities He conceded that the difference was "not a matter of political of America cries out what that program must be: Build the their problems. . principles” and that "all agree on the sentiments of both resolu­ Labor Party. tween the business agent and a comrades fo r the campaign is young man seeking admission to herewith proudly expressed with The auto workers know and have known for a long time tions. Both critfcize both political parties and that criticism is One thing above all the last election proved is that the the union set the stage fo r her the ‘Opening I)a.y’ results: 676 what the correct answer must be. Numerous UAW. locals-over justified.” Democratic-labor coalition could not halt reaction and actually talk. This worker objected when points. Three livc-wirff teams the years have gone on record for a labor party. There are feu His whole argument was one of temporary expediency. The paved the way for the triumph o f’ rampant Republicanism. he was told that he had to sign are running neck and neck for a non-communist oath i f he want­ top place with the following UAW leaders, national and local, who have not in the past at "tim ing” of,the m inority resolution, he said, was “ bad.” The CIO Whoever counsels a return in any form to that coalition is least paid lip service to the idea of an independeni party led urging labor on the road to ruin. ed to join the union. Our candi­ scores: Our first place team has was then engaged with the A FL in the United Labor Policy date, who got the floor through 266 points; the St. Paul team has by labor. Committee and for the UAW to go on record for a labor party, It is time to call a halt to the policy of subordinating the a vote of the membership, dis­ 21'6 points; and our third place In A pril 1951 ^ the UAW convention gave an instructive Reu-ther claimed, might antagonize the more conservative mighty American labor movement to coalitions with corrupt cussed the witch hunt and showed team has 10-1 points. Kay is lead­ demonstration of the real sentiments of the auto workers. For elements of the UL.PC and upset "labor unity." This counter- capitalist political machines from which labor gets only crumbs how the defense of civil liberties ing the. Twin Cities pace setters was essential to tile very the first time in UAW history, the labor party question war posing of labor unity to labor party was strictly phony, of course, — and blamed few of those. It is time for labor to take its with a score of 210. Paul is second existence of the unions. with 110 points, and Charlie has discussed on the basis of a formal resolution brought forward as events swiftly proved. The ULPC folded up within a few •place at the head of the American people, inspiring and leading 78. The competitive situation here by a section of an official convention committee, when the weeks of the LA W convention; the question of political action them in genuine independent political action against the political FLAYS JIM CROW w ill make for some interesting Resolutions Committee m inority presented a resolution to pul had nothing to do with its collapse. agencies of the corporate interests. The Warehouse local gave Mrs. and productive news from Min­ Weiss the opportunity to address the UAW on record for a labor party>. W ill the argument of "labor unity” 'be raised at the current nesota, you can be sure. Two new T he UAW could render no greater or more enduring service a membership composed mainly LAW convention to again side-track labor party action? That one-year subs brought in by That convention was memorable for its discussion over Lo the American workers, the oppressed racial minorities, the of Mexican-Aimer ¡can and Negro Charlie and Dave from felloiw- this resolution. The delegates who participated will recall that would not make sense at all. Everyone who knows the score on workers. Their friendly receptiofi dirt farmers than to sound the call that w ill summon organized workers underline for us the ob­ the views expressed on the floor and the response of the great the labor movement understands that the issue dividing the two indicated support for our program jective and possibility of getting major union bodies, the CIO and AFL, remains the one that labor to its historic task of building its own party and chal­ against discrimination and ap­ many new M ilitant readers in m ajority of the convention revealed unmistakably that the created the division to begin with, industrial versus craft union­ lenging the political monopoly of Big Business. preciation for the uncompromising this campaign.” sentiment in favor of a labor party was overwhelming. (Continued on Page 4) Page Two TBÊ MILITANT Monday, March 23, 1953 America's Future Under the Workers' Rule Bv James P. Cannon inside out, but it sometimes ap-9' a colossal scale. They w ill be afford to hand out a few million, (The following lecture, the fifth pears to be its opposite; and maintained and operated just as even a few billion, in order to in a series on “ America’s Road to impatient workers, recoiling vio­ The First Attempts at Workers States they are, w ith one small d if­ prevent the development of a Socialism." was given at the Los lently against a pusillanimous ference Instead of a clique of civil war. The government could Angeles Friday Night Forum, and compromising leadership, are non-producers directing them for do that, and m ight do it. I t January 16, 1953.) often attracted to the high- private profit, as at present, they depends on the capitalists. sounding verbal radicalism of will be nationalized and made the If they get nasty and continue Last week we discussed the anarchists and anarcho-syndical­ property of the workers govern­ fighting against the sovereign coming struggle for power, which ists and mistake it for the real ment, to he operated fo r public will of the majority, then they will decide the question, who shall tiling. I t is possible, therefore, use and need, and not for any­ won’t get anything. I take it for be master in the American house, that in the course , of coming- body’s person»! profit. granted that, once the workers Ouy analysis showed that, the developments in America, anarch­ W ill these industries he acquir­ have been victorious in a revolu­ advantages in this coming strug­ ism could experience a certain ed by' compensation to the present tion and have set up their own gle lie on the side of the workers, revival. That could cause a great owners, or by confiscation? This government, they aren’t going to and that their victory can be ex­ deal of confusion just when question used to be debated very he fooling any more. Evei-ything pected. This victory of the work­ clarity of program will be heatedly in the socialist move­ is going to be serious and deci­ ers in the showdown struggle supremely important. ment in the old days, but it is not sions trill have to be carried out. with the capitalists and their The differences between Marx­ really a /piestion of principle; The next day after the na- fascist gangs will culminate, at a ists and anarchists are very not in this country, at any rate. tionaliation, of industry, or maybe certain point, in the establish­ serious and caused many pole­ We say today: It all depends. It on the same day, the new workers ment of a workers government mical disputes and splits in the is not necessarily more radical to government trill lay official hands to rule the country. past, ever since the days of Marx say: “ We . won’t give them a on all the gold buried in the Right at this point our dif­ and Bakunin in the F irst In­ cent, we’ll just confiscate.’' It is ground at Fort Knox, and use. ferences with the anarchists are ternational. There were many not necessarily wiser to say, “ It this gold as the basis fo r Amer­ brought out '.most sharply. We points at issue in this great his­ would be better to compensate.” ican money. This w ill bo the don’t hear so much about anarch­ toric controversy, but the central | I take a position in the middle ironic paradox of history: that it ism now as we did in my early point, was the question of the' and say, that whether the capital­ took the workers government to days in the movement. Anarchism state. The anarchist theory was ists receive any compensation for establish' a sound dollar in the was then taken more seriously as that capitalism *and the state the industries they claim to own United States, based on gold a revolutionary tendency, but it would be abolished at the same — but which in reality they stole reserves, of which, thank God, we made a miserable showing under time, in one operation. For them from the people — whether they have plenty in Fort Knox and the actual tests of war and rev­ the revolutionary victory was get compensation or on order of other depositories. We can also olution. Anarchism, in essence, is synonymous with the abolition of expropriation without compensa­ thank the present rulers fo r ac­ nothing but opportunism turned the state. tion — will depend on how they cumulating them fo r us. Even­ behave themselves. tually, money w ill be dispensed I f they want to submit to the with altogether. The fully de­ Character of Workers State m ajority and be reasonable, I veloped socialist society w ill have think the government could easily no use fo r it. But in the mean­ The Marxists said no, you are the theory was applied in prac­ agree to give them a certain time, the workers government running ahead of yourselves. tice in the Russian Revolution of compensation to avoid furiher w ill have a sound dollar regulat­ Marxism also envisages a society 1917 by Lenin and Trotsky. We trouble. America.is rich enough. ing the national economy, and no in which there w ill he no classes have both Marxist theory and The workers government could inflation. and no state, but does not agree serious experience to go by in With the contention that the state stating cofidently what the gen­ can be abolished in one step at eral characteristics of the new the moment of the workers’ vic­ state will be and what Its tasks Building the Planned Economy tory. A transition period will will be. At left, a drawing of Karl Marx writing his pamphlet on Trotaky awaits turn to speak. The Paris Commune and the Industry will be nationalized farmers. What about, the factory follow when the workers will In drawing up their conclusions the Paris Commune of 1871. and, at right, V. 1. Lenin addresses Soviet Union were the first attempts by workers to set up states and operated according to a plan. farms such as those we have need a state for their own his­ from the experience of the Paris a meeting of Soviet people while his closest co-worker Leon of their own and have taught many valuable lessons. Will that apply to all kinds of here in California — the great toric, class purposes. Marxism Commune of 1871, the first private property, to small farms, mass-production ranches, where regard” the state as the instru- attempt of the workers to set up to small businesses, little stores? hundreds and even thousands of government of their own in this Revolution, the most backward ism played in developing the work here, sq that when the ent of class rule. It is not the a stale of their own, Marx and We don’t think so. We don’t think agricultural workers are exploited country, can hardly be dismissed land of great capitalism has be­ forces of production, as illus­ workers come to power they will general, impartial representative E/igel:; stated their theoretical the new government would have in virtual slavery ? They won’t be of all the people, as it is repre­ as a utopian speculation — not come the second industrial power trated to the highest degree in fa ll heir not to a ruined, back­ any interest whatever in expro­ le ft in the hands of parasitical conclusions on the nature of the after the demonstration of the in the world. That is attributed, this eouhtry. ward, hungry country, hut to the sented to be and as, unfor­ state in the transition period with priating all the little corners of bankers atld absentee owners. Russian Revolution. Our confident and can only be attributed, to But in making this acknowl­ richest country with the most American industry and produc­ They will be taken over by the tunately, many people think it is. absolute clarity. Between the assertion ha»s the verification of the elimination of capitalist edgement, we add a postscript: highly developed productive plant tion. It would be wiser to let the state and developed as models of The stale, in its essential capitalist society of the present practical experience as well as private ownership, the national­ Capitalism has exhausted its in the whole world. That’s what small farmer keep his farm and the new type of agriculture — features, is the instrument of one and the communist society of the the scientific theory of Marxism ization of industry and construc­ progressive role; now i t must the new government of the work­ continue to work on his own hook, the factory in the field. class for the suppression of an­ future — they said — there lies behind it. tion of planned economy. leave the stage to a higher ers in America w ill have to start and to let the little shops con­ The future belongs to this type other. a transition period of the revolu­ system. Capitalism has done its with. tinue to operate. of agriculture. In time, the his­ That’s the character of the tionary transformation of the The second fact on the positive In these two achievements of The government w ill he busy torical anachronism of isolated, present state in this country. one into the other. During this side of the Russian experience is the Russian Revolution we have with the great problem of na­ privately operated small farms Marxism gives the same basic period the. corresponding political the colossal achievement in the the practical demonstration,, first, tionalizing coal and steel and will be preserved only here and definition to the state that will state can only be the rule of the field of production. Czarist Russia that the workers can rule;, and Probable Course of Development auto and rubber and all the rest there as relics of a backward age. be set up following the workers’ workers, the dictatorship of the was the most backward of the big second, that nationalized industry What, w ill be the form of the sentation of occupatidnal units. of the big industries and the ra il­ Agriculture w ill be developed victory. The workers state — in workers, as every state is, in capitalist countries. Capitalist and planned economy can in­ new workers government? I The delegates in the Congress roads. Tlie small farms and busi­ just as all other industry has essence, the dictatorship of one large-scale industry was only crease the productivity of the wouldn’t undertake to say posi­ w ill directly represent the work­ the transition period between nesses can fit into the new scheme developed, on the factory system capitalism and socialism — will class oVer another. feebly developed there; it was fa r people. That is the touchstone of tively, any more than I would ers in the shops, the factories, and supplement it; fill in the with modern labor - saving ma­ behind that of America, England, all social systems. The# social undertake to say positively just the farms and so on; not to omit have the same characteristics, in That is ¡precisely the way Lenin crevices of the national economy. chinery, with all scientific methods France and Germany. But even system which can raise the how the transfer of the govern­ the m ilitary units, which w ill also some, respects, as the one that and Trotsky, who were orthbdox of soil culture, fertilizing and so with .iamb a..p„os>i: ioupdaUfliL.tp. productivity, of labor, so that mental—power from the eapitaW have a hand in the new regime The pew government wouhl have exists today. I t w ill be a class disciples of' Mhrx and Engels, un­ every interest, not only in per­ on. The aim w ill be to produce build on. it was demonstrated more th(ngs are produced with ists to the workers will take as long as they continue to exist. instrument, its chief purpose will derstood the question and pro­ mitting it, but in encouraging it that production can not only be less expenditure of labor power, place. The two questions are con­ The soviet or council form of the greatest amount of food with be to suppress one class in the ceeded resolutely to applv it in and helping out w ith credits, etc., kept going without capitalists and is the more progressive system. nected, to a certain extent. Many government will be preferred be­ the minimum of labor. The peo­ interests of another. So far, it’s practice in the Russian Revolu­ until the small farmers and small ple, including the present farmers landlords, but can be increased It is bound to prevail and to variants are possible, depending cause it is more representative the same thing as the Eisenhower tion of November 1917, The businessmen decide of their own and agricultural workers, will get and multiplied. In the brief space displace any less productive social on the strength of each side at and more democratic than the state, with this slight difference»- theory of Marx and Engels on account that they can do better the benefit of it in the form of a of 35 vears since the, Russian system. the time of the showdown, and present- form of American gov­ The state we envisage after the the question of the state and and live belter by participating higher standard of living, less the disposition off the capitalists ernment. The new government victory of the workers w ill be a revolution has been powerfully in the uniform national scheme ; hours of labor and more leisure in particular.' w ill be prim arily concerned with governmental instrument of coer­ reinforced by the experience of and sharing in its benefits. It for living, fo r culture and just to I f somebody says: “ I would the problems of, economy. The cion in the hands of the working- the great Russian Revolution. Stalinists Deformed Soviet State won’t take them long. fool around and have a little fun. preferì to see the change effected workers w ill have a means of class m aiority to suppress any So we can sum up this point The negative sides of the essentials of life. Daily life be­ But there are farmers and (Continued Next Week) attempt of the capitalist minority by saying with absolute certainty evolution of the Soviet Union came a scramble fo r an extra by the workers getting the major­ exerting direct pressure and in­ to reestablish their system of ex­ that the working class, victorious since 1317 have been the product piece of bread. Out of this ity in à fa ir election and taking fluence through their own dele­ ploitation. Tlie workers state will in th i showdown struggle with >f specific Russian conditions. We economic circumstance, a bur­ power peacefully” — well, I gates in the soviets or councils be like the present state only the capitalists and their fascist have no reason whatever to eaucracy arose, took shape and wouldn’t say I’m opposed to that. all the way up from the local, H I HIGH COURT UPHOLDS turned upside down and put to gangs, w ill not disband all gov­ minimize or ignore the deforma­ crystallized into a privileged I would say, if it can be done, to the regional, to the federal the service of a different class. ernment forms. On the contrary, tions of the Soviet state under caste — as is always the case if the democratic forms are main­ assemblies. The main features and role of it w ill take hold of society and Stalinisrii, tru ly monstrous and when there is scarcity. This tained and it can be done ¡oeace- The council form is more repre­ HARSH STRIKEBREAKING LAW this new state in the transition set up its own government, its revolting as they are. But we bureaucracy after a long internal fully, that would probably be the sentative than the present form (Continued from page 1) make them see that the money of government. For example, I period are not fQr us a subiect own state, and use all the con­ should try to understand the struggle, eventually gained the most economical way of trans­ changers arc systematically pro­ don’t think there are many sitting struggle. The right to organize of imaginative speculation. The centrated power of this state to causes of these excrescences be­ domination of the country. forming the government. ceeding to use their, control over in this room who ever saw the into unions is meaningless w ith­ nature of society in the transition suppress any attempt at counter­ fore jumping to the conclusion That, is the negative side of the Of course, even in such a case, all branches of government to congressman fo r their district, out the right to strike. The right period between capitalism and revolution by the capitalists. At that a workers state in America Russian experience, based on the you would have to do a very paralyze the capacity of the serious job of fixing up the con­ or even know his name. But there to strike is a hoax without the socialism. and" the kind of the same time it w ill use the would necessarily suffer the same economic backwardness of the unions to defend and preserve the stitution to make i t ‘ fit the new are very few of you who don’t rig ht to picket. To deprive the state, of government, it would power of the new state to re­ degeneration. country and its isolation in a workers’ standard of living? needs. But that could all be done, know the name of your shop unions of the right to picket is to reouire. were clearly foreseen and organize the economy and direct hostile capitalist world. The at­ There are but two alternatives. There are great differences provided the capitalists, contrary steward in the factory where you sound the death knell for free elaborated theoretically by Marx it into new channels and new tempt to march foiward progres­ Either the unions will build their between the Russia of li>17 and to the disposition of all ruling- work, and 'the delegates in the and independent unionism in this and Engels a long time ago: and forms. sively and harmoniously, from the own Independent Labor Party to the America of the present day, classes in the past, v ili agree central bodies of your unions. country. and these differences w ill all proletarian^ revolution to a so­ meet the bosses in battle on the peacefully to submit to the will They have something to do with work in favor of the American cialist* society, in a backward “ The 7-to-2 decision,” remarks political arena, or the bosses w ill of the majority. your daily work and welfare and country surrounded and isolated the N. Y. Times reporter, “ was use their political power to smash Lessons of Russian Revolution workers when they come to But if history tells us any­ you have to see them almost in a hostile capitalist (vorld, '■•l line w ith a series of decisions the unions! wouldn’t be strong enough to power. In Russia the greatest d if­ thing, it is doubtful, to say the everyday. They are not some­ Certain things have been dem­ proved to be a rather difficult on picketing rights handed down supersede the capitalists in power ficulties began after the revolu­ least, that they would .agree to thing remote, like the governanent onstrated in the Russian Revolu­ tion. The overthrown minority of undertaking. It culminated, for in recent years.” The Supreme and not up a government of their that. As the workers approach a in Washington, but directly con­ tion which prior to that time an historical period, in the Court, like Congress and the Ad­ own; they wouldn’t know how to capitalists and landlords didn’t position of political strength, | nected with the workers whom deformation of the workers state ministration, functions as an were maintained, and could be run a government; they have submit. They organized a counter­ where their majority in a fairj they represent. You can visualize into a bureaucratic police slate. agency of Big Business. In this maintained, only theoretically. never been to school in states­ revolutionary struggle which election becomes a threatening, the soviet form of government developed into a Civil War, be­ But even under these adverse game the corporations hold all On the positive side of that manship; they didn’t study civics prospect, it is possible, and even as just that sort of thing on an circumstances — and this is the the trump cards. Their repre­ great historical experience, we in college” — i f anyone says that, fore the new state had a chance probable, that the capitalists will expanded scale. point to remember — the new sentatives in Congress and the can put down first, the demonstra­ the answer is: Only four or five to consolidate. While Lenin was disregard democratic processes, I The workers in factories elect system of nationalized industry State Legislatures enact the tion that it is possible — as million workers — that’s fill the reading those great history­ organize fascist gangs and try to ’..heir delegates to a -local council, making decrees in the first and planned economy could not slave-labor laws. Their judicial previously asserted by Marxism, industrial proletariat amounted settle the question with armed the. local units combine in a l>e destroyed. Over a period of 35 arm. the courts, up to and in­ but unproved — for the working Soviet Assembly after the Bol­ force. The workers then will be regional body; the regional coun­ to in Czarist Russia — four or years the new system of economy cluding the Supreme Court, give class not only to remove the five million workers were suf­ sheviks had taken power, the obliged to set up their own cils elect their delegates to the — the greatest achievement of these laws their legal sanction. capitalists from power, but to set ficient, at the time of social crisis, counter - revolutionists were al­ defense battalions. In such cir­ federal body. Control comes tlfe revolution — has proved its And their executive arm in Wash­ up a governmental machine to ready mobilizing their armies, cumstances it is quite possible, directly back, not to an election to overthrow the whole edifice viability and its capacity to ington and the various States, serve their own purposes and to of'Czarism and capitalism and set with the money and m ilita ry sup­ due to the stupidity, arrogance, that takes place every two or develop and expand the productive enforce and police these laws. maintain their power. Today, if port of the outside capitalist unfairness and historic blindness four years, but to a shop council up a government of their own. forces at a rate and on a scale And the workers? They, you see, anyone says, “it can’t be done,” Moreover, they were able to world. For five years — from of the capitalists, that there will whose members can meet every never equalled by capitalism even have the “right to work.” the answer is: “It has already maintain their power, not only 1917 until 1922 — the main ef­ be some scuffling before the gov­ day if they want to, right on the in its heyday. That is the touch­ been done, and done successfully forts of the new workers govern­ ground, and let their represen­ TWO ALTERNATIVES against all the capitalists and stone. ernment is changed. even under the most unfavorable landlords of Russia, but -against ment in this backward country, But i t w ill be changed just the tative know what they want. How much longer will the Things will go differently in conditions.” the entire capitalist world which further impoverished and ruined same, and however it «nay i be The soviet or council form of gov­ labor leaders continue to sow the this country, and there w ill be blockaded them and tried to over­ by the World War, had to be changed, the new’ government ernment is more representative, Illusion that the political coil I f anyone says: “ This idea of a both difficulties and advantages throw them by m ilitary force. devoted to a m ilitary struggle to will probably approximate the more flexible and more demo­ game that goes under the name workers government sounds good maintain the new regime. • in the difference. The difficulties seviet or workea-s - council form ; cratic than the present form of of the American two-party system but it wouldn’t Work. The 62 m il­ Our programmatic statement will come first. The capitalist The immediate result was not or w ill eventually be remodelled government could ever be imagin­ does, or can, serve the interests lion workers in this country that the workers w ill set up a class in this country is stronger a development of the productive along that line. The present form ed to be. That’s why I think it is of the working people? Wihat do than it was in Russia; i t has forces but a further disorganiza­ of representation in the‘govern­ reasonable to assume that the these blind leaders require to more resources; and it w ill fight tion and disruption. Everything ment by territorial units will workers government in this coun­ with the desperate fu ry of an had to be subordinated to the probably be replaced by repre- try will take this form. demands of the war for survival outlived class in its last strong­ against a world of enemies. There hold. But once the power has been was a scarcity of the barest taken by the workers in this country everything will be First Tasks to he Solved changed in their favor. And for What w ill be the first tasks of be to abolish private property in the same reason. this new workers government? the means of production. This . Where Russia was poor and will be done by one law, or by Again, this is not speculative; it industrially backward, Almerlca one decree, declaring that the is rich and highly developed. ic not a mystery. The Marxists banking system and all the key Capitalism has done its historic face this problem with an answer industries — all the big factories, work in this country, and for that which was first theoretically out­ mines and factory farms: all the we should be duly appreciative lined by our great masters; which means of communication and You see, we’re not anti-capitalist lids been demonstrated already in transportation, public utilities, 100 percent: We’re pre-capitalist practice; and is now incorporated etc. — are henceforth public ns against feudalism, and chattel into the program of every’ revolu­ property. slavery, and industrial back­ tionary party in the world. I don't mean every little shop, wardness in general. We are pre­ The first task of the new gov­ corner store and small farm. I capitalist in recognizing the ernment, once it has established mean the great industries which progressive historic role capital- its authority and its power, will have already been organized on Page TKreS Monthly Review Whitewashes GPU Trials By Art Preis process was thrown into complete• Huberman’s and Sweezy’s “ pat- •It is necessary, say the editors, if he fails, his intentions will not Leo Huberman and Paul M. disrepute. Thus, the recent-purges: tern of explanation” comes most to interpret the trials not as save him. Objectively, he is Sweezy, co-editors of the Monthly and trials in /theSoviet Union opportunely for the • Kremlin “ ordinary criminal” proceedings putting 'himself in the ranks of Review and self - styled “ inde­ and Eastern European “ peoples’1 murder - machine. What better but “ in -political terms.” Here those who are working to over­ pendent socialists,” this month democracies’’ have been almost; “ confirnfiation” does the GPU they lightly brush aside the throw the regime. Objectively, he U. S. Threat to Ceylon published an editorial, “ On Trials universally regarded in the same need for its contrived “ confes- “theory” which “in one or an­ becomes a part of a conspiracy, and Purges,” which will delight light as the earlier Moscow' sions” that the “ admissions” of other of its many ’’possible and he can hardly expect to A blockade of China poses the threat of demand of Washington and London not to the GPU. It whitewashes and frame-up trials. To gain credence ’“ independent socialists,” no less, varients is held by the vast ma­ escape responsibility for all its U.S. armed interference w ith the trade of all ship rubber to China. It has used every trick excuses the infamous Kremlin fo r "its latest fram e-ups, ’ the who even have ventured mild jo rity of people in this coun­ acts and purposes. . .” try.” That is the theory of a countries in Asia. American imperialism would it could1 think of to force the Chinese to void blood purges and fram e-up GPU must first of all refurbish criticism of, the Kreimlin? By “ regime” in the above system. the Mo sc ote trials. First, the Monthly Review' struggle for power among the top statement, Huberman and Sweezy dictate the terms under which countries like the trade agreement. But the Ceylon capitalists The editors have “ sketched a editors seek to show there is leaders of Stalinist parties and make clear they mean the Stal­ “CONFIRMS” GPU India, Japan and Ceylon can exchange goods don't dare go too far. They have the Ceylon pattern of explanation” which nothing unusual about these governments in which one group inist dictatorship, which they and with whom. What such a blockade policy workers and peasants to keep in mind. seeks to bolster the GPU - con­ During the original Moscow staged trials with their mass con­ throws out its rivals, “then in equate w ith the Soviet Union. must .lead to is indicated by N. Y. Ilerald Samasamajist, weekly paper of the influen­ cocted “ confessions” in the Mos­ trials, Stalin and his GPU ap­ victions based solely on unsub­ order to ju stify what it has done Hence, in their terminology, an paratus enjoyed the services of it invents all sorts of charges, Tribune columnist David Lawrence in connec­ tial Lanka Samasamaja Party, Ceylonese sec­ cow Frame - up Trials of the stantiated “ confessions.” They “ enemy of the regime" is an Thirties, when many of the lead­ a number of prominent “friends claim that “according to the puts its victims through what enemy of the Soviet Union. What tion with the shipment of Ceylonese rubber to tion of the Fourth International, has pointed ers of the October Revolution of of the Soviet Union” who spoke traditional methods of Continental «mounts to a lpoek tria l and the defendants were actually China in exchange for rice. out that “ only the tremendous pressure of public 1917 “ confessed” they had con­ as "independent” voices to extoll European jurisprudence, an ex­ finishes by shooting or hanging charged with and “ confessed” was Lawrence calls for a blockade of Ceylon as opinion stands as an insurance against a sordic spired with enemies of the Soviet or extenuate the Kremlin’s haustive pre-trial investigation them.” This explanation, claim conspiring with the Nazis, Italian system of “ justice.” The more Huberman and ¡Sweezy, has an well as China. And he says ominously that if sell-out of a nation’s right to purchase its most Union to overthrow it. This takes place in which the accused fascists and Japanese imperialists “pattern of explanation,” the distant these elements seemed to is confronted with all the in­ “ obvious and fatal defect: it com­ against the Soviet Union. the Ceylonese refuse to bow to the demand of essential commodity,” rice. “ The public, its re­ editors stress, applies “ also to be from the Stalinist apparatus criminating evidence. I f the in­ pletely fails to explain why they A PRETTY “PATTERN” the U.S. to abrogate their trade agreement with sentment mounting in waves against the ma­ the postwar trials in the Peo­ tjie more “ impartial” their de- vestigation shows the suspect- to confess.” China, then it “ .leaves only one course open — chinations of foreign powers in the politics of ples’ Democracies.” fehsd of the GPU-staged trials be innocent, the case is dropped. They go on with an air of “B ut why do they confess?” could bo made-to appear. * great profundity: “ Why should a to seize the ships and confiscate their cargoes this country, is closely watching the reactions In 1937, the Commission of Hence, practically speaking, the again the editors ask. Precisely Today, however, the GPU finds person who has been framed because “both parties to the and, if they resist, to sink the vessels.” of its Prime Minister w ith concern.” Inquiry in the Moscow Trials, fact that a case is brought to headed by the late noted Prof. few “friends of ^ the Soviet trial shows that proof of guilt stand up in open court and con­ political struggle are trained Involved in Ceylon’s trade agreement with This same paper, in an editorial demand for John Dewey, thoroughly exposed Union,” let alone reputable has already been established. . .” fess a lot of monstrous crimes of Marxists” and “ the losers,, look­ China is the life and death of the Ceylonese a restoration of the rice ration and fulfillment the first three big Moscow show liberals, to uphold the latest Thus, they imply, there can- be which he is innocent? The ing backwards, are likely to see masses themselves. The rice which China w ill of the China trade pact, cites official surveys trials as frame'-ups from start purges and trials, especially with no question of frame-up, because proferred answers — mysterious the whole a ffa ir in much the to finish. The Stalihist juridical their anti-Semitic taint. Thus nobody is ¡brought to tria l unless drugs, the Slavic soul, and all same light aS the winners. They give for Ceylon’s rubber— at a rate of ex­ which indicate that “ roughly 75 per cent of the rest — serve only to under­ “ proof of guilt has already can see that instead o f using the change forty per cent higher than the price of our papulation suffer from various diseases line the t°ta l inadequacy of this been established.” A “ confession” enemies of the regime they were frame-up theory.” rubber on the Singapore market — is des­ arising from malnutrition.” merely means th a t “ the accused used by the enemies of the Cleared of Smear regime. And since subjectively perately needed in Ceylon, where millions of In carrying through their war of domina­ does not deny it,” WHY THEY CONFESS people are close to starvation. tion in the Far Fast and fo r W all Street con­ they remain revolutionaries the DISCARDED THEORIES But the one thing we under­ only logical course fo r them is The capitalist-controlled government of trol of Asia, the rulers of America are telling But most -people have no use stand above all is why they con­ (o confess and repent in the hope Ceylon, ever servile, to the big imperialist the Asian people, “ Support our war and starve, even for such “traditional fessed. I t lies precisely in that ef undoing some of the harm powers, is only too ready to accede to the or suffer warfare against yourselves.” methods of Continental European deliberately ambiguous phrase they have done. . . ” jurisprudence.” So Huberman and “ all the rest.” They “ confessed’’ In order to construct their fo r the same reasons that in­ Sweezy, in the spirit of all-out pretty ‘‘pattern of explanation,” nocent men and women have critical investigation, examine Hubertnan and Sweezy have to Liberal Clergy and the W itch-Hunt “ confessed” to “ heresy,” “ witch­ the question of cases "in which attach a base canard to Marxists Witch hunters received a sharp repudiation The proposal to investigate the clergy, al­ leading Communists, holding top craft” and all manner of fan­ and Marxism, to the revolutionary tastic crimes throughout the his­ positions an the party and the socialist movement. "Trained and setback on March 11 when the general though made inform ally and soo,n withdrawn, tory of reactionary regimes. ’government, are -arrested and Marxists” and “ sincere revolu­ board of the National Council of Churches of shows the direction of the witch hunt. It is to As Joseph Hansen wrote in his tried on a whole series of charges tionaries,” in this case the lead­ introduction to Leon Trotsky’s Christ in the U.S.A. voted, 69 to 2, a statement exterminate any and all opposition. which normally include espion­ ers of the Bolshevik Revolution, Stalin’s Frame - up System and saying that “ certain methods of Congressional The liberal Protestant clergy has been, for age and sabotage, attempting to we are supposed to believe, would The Moscow Trials: restore capitalism and plotting be stupid enough to turn to the committees investigating Communist activities many years, a part of the movement against “Today there is little mystery to turn the country over to a worst enemies of socialism and in educational institutions endanger the very attempts to stifle freedom of inquiry and free­ about the ‘confessions’ after the foreign power.” mortal enemies of the Soviet many revelations from those who freedom which we seek to preserve.” dom of opinion in this country. Many leading Not for a moment do Huberman Union, the Nazis and Fascists, in have managed to escape from the The council is the most authoritative body clergymen have been on the lists of those that and Sweezy concede the possibility order to carry out their revolu* 'GPU (now the MVD) and in the U.S. religious world, consisting of 30 sought to prevent the courtroom murder of of frame-up and extorted "con­ tionary socialist aims. Accordihg describe the psychological and fessions.” But they are ready to to this slander, anyone who is a Protestant and Eastern Orthodox communions Sacco and Vanzetti, that denounced the im­ physical tortures used to bring concede the incredibility of cruder genuine and sincere M arxist and representing some 35 m illion members. prisonment of Tom Mooney and were active a prisoner into court with his will explanations advanced by “ some opponent of capitalism is ready, to resist utterly crushed- In the The general board also set up a “ watch­ in other cases. people” (the Kremlin prosecutors if he loses out in an internal inquisitions of the Middle Ages dog committee” to exercise vigilance against In recent years, liberal Protestant leaders and official Stalinist press) that political struggle, to turn traitor similar means wrung similar those who “ confessed” were “objectively” even if he “remains both "Communist infiltration” and also against have very actively denounced the growth of avowals from unhappy wretches “ enemies of the regime” who subjectively tree to his prin­ "Wrong methods o f meeting that infiltration.” McCarthyism, opposed the witdh hunt in the whose main profit from pacts “ instead of fighting it from the ciples.” with his Satanic Majesty usually It was generally recognized that the two-sided many forms it has taken and helped to uncover outside . . . have wormed their turned out to be the star role at There are only a few small definition of the aims of the committee was a lies and slanders by Congressional and other way into it to overthrow it from a public bonfire.” things wrong with this whole witch hunters. Clergymen joined in commit­ within . . .” or that after these concession to the prevailing mood, and that To this obvious reason why theory of the “ confessions.” Dr. Joseph Weinberg and his wife, siiown after a jury had Communist leaders “ had won the chief purpose of the committee is to expose tees to stop the Smith Act opinion trials, both they “ confessed” in the Moscow Those who “ confessed” were found him not guilty of perjury. Government case against; Wein­ positions of honor and respon­ against Trotskyists in 1941 and against- Stal­ trials, Leon Trotsky — the chief supporters of the Stalinist regime the methods of the witch hunters. berg, who was billed as “ Scientist.X” during the Un-American sibility they changed their minds defendant who was “ convicted” themselves and were not engaged The action by the council came two days inist leaders in the more recent years. In addi­ Committee’s cloak-and-dagger show, collapsed during the trial. and sold out to the enemy.” in opposition to it. There was not after Rep. Velde (Rep., 111.), chairman of the tion. clergymen have joined both the Kutcher in absentia and sentenced to death without a tria l — added the slightest, b it of real evidence Mouse committee, declared in a radio interview' Civil Rights Committee and the Committee Trotsky's Fight Against Stalinism another weighty reason in his to attach them to any “ enemies that it was "entirely possible" that his com­ against the Michigan Trucks law, a notorious testimony before the Dewey of the regime,” least of all the Nazis and similar elements. t hought-control, measure. Commission of Inquiry. mittee would investigate “Communist infiltra­ Nobody ever “ confessed” volun­ tion” of churches next year. Velde was forced The witch hunters may have' been par­ Without exception, Trotsky ta rily because he was a “ sincere” to back down, together with his committee, ticularly enraged by the action of more than Growth of Soviet Bureaucracy pointed out, “ the accused are not and “ repentant” revolutionist; Trotskyites, nor Oppositionists, they all “ confessed” under duress. w ithin a few days. Me brought such a storm 2300 clergymen o f all denominations in op­ By John G. W right nor fighters, but docile capitula­ of protest by his remark that lie was compelled posing the death penalty for the Rosenbergs. tors. The GPU had educated them One vital question Huberman (Second of a Series) picked recruits, raising the total specialists” in the Soviet Union. for these trials fo r years. That and Sweezy do not even breath to disavow any intention of "investigating Further, the long standing and persistent op­ to almost one million. In the The growth registered here in the The Soviet bureaucracy is larg­ about: Could i t be that the the clergy." In addition, his committee itself position by the Protestant churches to a pet Thirties the party membership, last 20 years is sixfold. is why I think it extremely im­ er numerically, more complex in portant, for the understanding of Stalinist regime is based on an project of the W all Street militarists, universal including “ probationer members,” For agriculture it is also possi­ curbed him by stipulating that the announce­ structure and mightier than any the mechanics of the confessions, anti-socialist and counter-revolu­ rose to three million, dropping to ble to make a rough approxima­ ment of new investigations was not to be made m ilitary training, may have further angered bureaucratic formation previously to bring out the pyschology of tionary bureaucracy which usurp­ below two millions after the blood tion. Apart from an unspecified known to mankind. It pervades ed power by wiping out the real before they had been approved by the entire the enemies of free opinion. For all these purges of 1936-38. In 1952 the number of state farms there were the capitulators as a political every sphere of Soviet activity, group. . .” Bolshevik party and destroying committee. reasons, their guns were turned on the clergy. party membership was officially in 1952, some 97,000 “ amalgamat­ political, economic and cultural. the whole revolutionary genera­ placed in the neighborhood of sev­ ed collective farms,” together Only those who had abased It not only controls the central tion? Could it bo that an anti- en million. “ On October 1, 1952 with close to 9,000 Machine and themselves repeatedly before the state apparatus and the central M arxist faction led by Stalin the figure was 6,882,145, of whom Tractor Stations. Counting only Kreimlin, who were thoroughly Whipping Up War Hysteria governing bodies of the consti­ sought by means of terror, 6,013,259 are members and 868,- one “ president” and one “ special­ broken were used in the show tuent Soviet republics but also' frame-up and murder to wipe In the old days, pre-war periods were treatment of this incident. Close reading of 886 probationer members,” re­ ist” for each collective farm, plus trials. For each of these there handpicks provincial, district and out working - class political op­ ported Malenkov to the 19th Con­ one “ administrator” and one “ spe­ were tens of thousands murdered marked by “ border incidents.” These afforded the news shows that the skirmish took place local authorities. I t selects the position and to offer up scape­ gress of the Russian Party. cialist” for each MTS, the top with scarcely a pretense of off the coast of Siberia — according to U.S. commanding personnel of the So­ goats fo r the crime and failures the Jingo press the inflammatory material Compared with the Lenin era administrative staff in Soviet judicial proceedings and under A ir Force claims, 25 miles o ff the Siberian viet armed forces and has kept ct the regime? there has been a tenfold growth; agriculture alone, is well over the conditions of secrecy. needed to shout “ we have been attacked” and an even tighter grip on the in­ coast. Furthermore it was in the vicinity of the compared with the pre-war period, 200,000 mark. Trotsky and the Dewey Com­ THE REAL TRUTH ternal police and the secret police. “our national dignity has been affronted.” In USSR’s big naval base at Petropavlovsk. Far immediately following the purges, To all this must be added an mission furthermore demonstrat­ These facts, which are the this air age the border incidents take place from being o ff the Alaskan coast it was 600 Each industrial enterprise is, as the party membership has more entirely new branch of the bureau­ ed by factual and material political truth and the real high in the clouds where borders are even a rule, headed by a “ general staff” than trebled. In (fie Twenties the cratic apparatus. It is the legion evidence that in almost every reasons fo r the Moscow frame-up miles from nearest of the far-flung Aleutian of four: the director and deputy bulk.of the membership had pass­ instance where the Kremlin harder to locate. But this is immaterial; the of Soviet “dignitaries,” “ad­ trials, are skipped over com­ Islands belonging to th'e U.S. director, the chief engineer and ed through the 1917 Revolution visors,” “ specialists” and the like prosecutors cited a name, a date, pletely by Huberman and Sweezy. main purpose of border incidents has always This whole affair smacks so much of his assistant, not to mention the and the c fv il ^Zar. In 1952 the which has been attached in the a place, the evidence was false The obvious discrepancies and been to serve diplomatic ends and to psy­ provocation that even some extremely conser­ generally swollen staffs of ad­ overwhelming m ajority consisted postwar period to the government­ and perjured. So great was the perjuries of the trials are dis­ ministrative and technical person­ irrefutable proof of frame - up chologize the population for war. vative Senators have felt constrained to re­ of “ dignitaries,” “ titled persons,” al and administrative machines missed by them as the product of nel. Administrators and special­ “ responsible persons,” function­ of the East European countries» they uncovered that i t has been mere zeal on the part of the Three such incidents have just taken place. mark on it. Senator Flanders of Vermont ists, appointed from above, run aries of one type or another, From all of the foregoing, it impossible fo r anyone to contend Stalinist prosecution. And if An American army jet plane was shot down by wants to know if there was "an element of chip transport, trade, communications, raised and trained under Stalin. would be quite conservative to that all the charges in the these trials “ give evidence of a a Czech plane; it crashed in West Germany on the shoulder” in the U.S. plane’s flying the press, the schools, the movies, In 1936 Trotsky estimated “ the number the commanding upper Moscow trials were true. systematic practice of deceit and etc. There is still another bureau­ 25 miles from the Czech border. A British so close to the USSR, and if the “ weather” commanding upper circles of the circles in the Soviet Union today Huberman and Sweezy do not violence, not only by the op­ cratic swarm in charge of the Soviet Union and the individual 2 attempt the impossible by uphold­ bombing plane was shot down and crashed in couldn’t be observed at a safer distance. at 1 to IV million. Such a fig ­ ponents of the regimes but also trade unions, the state farms,' the republics” at between 400,000 and ure would approximate the cate­ ing »he contention that the by the regimes themselves . . . the Soviet Zone of Germany. Though the Senator Magnuson voiced similar sentiments. collective farms, Machine and 500,000. Since then there, has been gory of bureaucrats with “ orders accused were enemy agents froftn does this give us, does i t give British plane carried cannon and machine It must be understood that these plane in­ Tractor Stations, the cooperatives, an extraordinary growth of the and medals” cited by Malenkov. the beginning .or “ ordinary turn­ anyone, the rig ht to condcimn guns, the British maintain it had no am­ cidents are part and parcel of the cold war. etc. A detailed listing of the com­ central state apparatus. The num­ He stated that since the end of coats.”. But, they say, “ it is them?” ' ponent parts of this colossal bu­ munition aboard. After the newspapers had As long as this cold war continues more and ber of Ministries alone has in­ the war such awards had been equally impossible to believe that Thus, Sweezy and Huberman reaucratic structure would itself creased in this interval more than granted to “1,346,000 workers, the accused are simple victims of shouted themselves hoarse over this incident more incidents w ill take place. American poli­ require an entire volume. conclude that “ all regimes” are fourfold, well over the 50-Ministry collective-farmers, scientists, en­ a frame-up. . “based on and currently practice as wanton murder, Prime Minister Churchill ticians who push the policy of cold war are as Running parallel with all of the •mark in 1952, prior to the recent gineers and technicians, office em­ What, then, was true about the deception and violence” and pulled the rug partly from under them by much responsible for loss of American pilots' foregoing commanding staffs and “reorganization.” ployees, doctors, teachers and accusations and confessions? The therefore if we don’t accept the telling Parliament that through a navigational lives as are the Soviet or Czech bullets that closely meshed with them is the There has been a hot-house other workers.” These are among Monthly Review editors have frame-up trials as having some greatly expanded sta ff of the growth of the officer corps, with the Soviet elite. error the British bomber may have flown over shoot down U.S. planes. worked out a neat “pattern of justification, we must keep our Russian Communist Party. Marshals and Generals number­ explanation” to show that those mouths shut anyway. the Soviet Zone. The air over Germany wo.uld become safe ing well over a thousand, and THEIR SOCIAL BASE BUREAUCRATIC GROWTH who confessed were “ sincere A fte r all, they contend, Stalin­ The third and latest incident involved a if the occupying powers, who have no Tight to with the ranking commissioned What about the social base of revolutionists” ; but they lost out ism is essentially progressive Each successive phase of Soviet be there anyhow, withdrew. Americans who officers running into the tens of this upper crust? Let us assume, in a "deadly serious political because even i f it does “ commit U.S. B-50 (a bomber specially fitted out for development has been accom­ thousands. Even more spectacular again to be conservative, that the struggle” inside the Soviet gov­ stupidities, mistakes, excesses,” weather reconaissance flying) which exchanged are against W orld War III and the loss of panied by a spectacular growth of has been the expansion of the in­ social base of the Kremlin bu­ ernment and Stalinist party “for the first time in history we lives in air border incidents should demand the bureaucracy in numbers, in gunfire with a Soviet plane. The headline of ternal police and of the secret reaucracy remains at 15% of the "over the issue of world revolu­ can say that violence is being power, in privileges. Both the rate the New York World-Telegram, “ U.S. protests that U.S. troops and planes be brought home police, the latter alone reportedly population, or approximately the tion versus socialism in one coun­ used to protect regimes which of growth and the actual size of from Germany. swelling to over two million. same in 1952 as it was in 1936 try, and . . . over the rate of are doing their utmost to create A ir Attack off Alaska,” is typical of the press the bureaucracy are among the Compared wit/h pre-war levels when Trotsky made his estimate. industrialization and collectiviza­ a society which w ill be able to jealously guarded “ state secrets” Soviet industry as a whol^ has This would give us a figure of tion” and thereafter were “ driven dispense with violence.” of the Kremlin. Nevertheless more than doubled. The bureau­ more than 30 million (out of a to more and more desperate ex­ I t remains only fo r them to there are a few official figures cratic administrative apparatus population of more than 200 mil­ pedients in an effort to prevent explain how frame - ups of old available that are quite illumin­ has followed suit. There are good lion). what they can only regard as the Bolsheviks, the destruction of ating. The most important of reasons fo r concluding that it has A t the apex of this bureaucratic threat of disaster.” every revolutionary voice, the these relate to the party’s' growth. experienced an even greater pyramid there now reposes a par­ They argue further: “A per­ befouling of every socialist tradi­ growth. Malenkov stated that When Trotsky and his co-think­ ty Praesidium of ten, headed by fectly sincere revolutionary may tion, the prostitution of Marxism there were “ approximately 5 1 /2 ers launched the struggle inside Malenkov. This is the smallest feel that he is not only allowed and Leninism, the dirtiest methods the Soviet Union in 1922-23, the million specialists” in the whole “ Supreme General S taff” on the but actually duty-bound to make taken from the arsenal of the Pussian Communist, Party num­ Soviet economy in 1952. Accord­ Kremlin’s peacetime record. alliances with enemies of the capitalists and historical reaction bered less than 700,000. A fter ing to the last available official regime. His intention, of course, are evidences of “ regimes which Lenin’s death, Stalin diluted the figures there were in 1933 less (Next Week: Trotsky’s Strug­ is to use them fo r his own ends, are doing their utmost to create party ranks with 300,000 liand- than 900,000 “ administrators and gle for Workers Democracy. just as theirs is to use him. But a society” of socialism. The Negro Struggle Housing Reform me MILITANT By Jean Blake VOLUME XVII MONDAY, MARCH 23, 1953 Housing reform, like other attempts to sentative of the National Association for NUMBER IS alleviate the effects of the running sores the Advancement of Colored People. of capitalism without eliminating their Mr. Mitchell pointed out that Cole had D estroyed in A to m ic Test said he, personally, was not in favor of se­ cause, may result in temporary and tran­ gregation, but had not committed himself sient impi'ovements in some conditions against the Federal Government’s segre­ Victim of Police Brutality and worsening in others. The disease re­ gation policy in the various housing pro- mains and bi’eaks out in different parts of grams. the social body. This is something socialists In Charleston, South Carolina, Mr. Mitr chell charged, there was very little residen­ Tells o f Sadistic Torture have repeated for over a hundred years. tial segregation until the Fedex-al Govern­ ' American l’eformists, who deny this fact * By George Lavan “ Some big shot came in then, arrest his pelvis was broken is ment moved in and “ followed what it and keep on urging the woi'king people to More revelations of police smoking a big cigar in cigar four places, his le ft anm broken thought was the custom and the law in that holder,” Cusson relateis. “ He in two places, his rig h t arm attempt to improve their lot within the brutality are reaching the light community.” of day following exposure of the questioned me, too. When he left, crippled, his thigh broken, his framework of capitalism, have pointed they opened a window in the “ gentleman’s agreement” between face battered beyond recognition. In the Waverly area in Baltimore, he shower and that’s when one of with pride to the federal housing admin- N. Y. authorities and the De­ The police claimed he had jumped said, Negroes were ousted by an ui'ban re­ the cops said, ‘Go ahead. Jump from a second-story window. Has isti’ation and its program as one of the partment of Justice to deprive development program -which built better out. We’re gonna shoot.’ They New' Yorkers of the little civil side of the story wasn’t told. achievements of their policies. But two wanted me to see they meant A fte r surgery to remove his houses and then did not permit colored rights protection that federal important facts about this agency emerg- business. I didn’t try.” During persons to live in them. legislation affords. spleen, he was committed to as this last episode the police had insane asylum. ed in the news last week: The New York Post on March “ In every major city, including Los An­ drawn their pistols. 1. The agency has been transformed 16 printed an interview with 22- Public indignation over New geles, Cleveland, New York and Chicago,” York police brutality is reflected into one for destroying its original purpose. Mitchell added, “ if a builder tries to build year-old Leo Cusson, whose case ANOTHER VICTIM provided the incident that led to in the fact that Police Com* “ U. S. Housing Foe Becomes Its Boss by a in a white area for colored people, he just This last part of Cusson’s story missioner Monaghan and Mayor the revelations of the New York- may shed some light? on the case Vote of 64 to 18,” one news headline hon­ doesn’t get any encoui’agement from the Washington deal against civil Impellitteri, addressing a grad­ of 17-year-old Sheldrick Doyle of uating class of the Police estly reported. Albert M. Cole, Eisenhow­ FHA.” rights. Unlike most victims of a few years ago. Doyle was er’s choice for head of the Housing and The development of housing is not open­ police brutality, who are Negroes suspected by police of breaking academy, warned the probationary Home Finance Administration and an open or Puerto Ricans, Cusson belong­ into a grocery store. He le ft home cops against brutal treatment ©| ed to colored people, Mr. Mitchell charged, ed to no m inority group and opponent of public housing, was confirmed because “ the real estate intei'ests, the Fed­ in good health. A day after his prisoners. by the Senate to head the agency. furthermore he was arrested in a eral Government, lender’s, builders and One of the houses that was wrecked by the recent test at criminal case. This was the “ baby He made it clear that one of his firs t evei'ybody else have combined' in a frig h t­ the Atomic Energy Commission proving grounds in Nevada. sitters case.” Three young baby tasks will be to make a survey of the ful "conspiracy.” Those in charge said the test was to provide information on sitters in Massachusetts discover­ ed $18,000 in cash hidden in a UNIONS, CIVIC GROUPS housing laws with a view to changing The NAACP spokesman came close to atomic effects “ on the general public.” The public could draw little encouragement from the results. home where one was working. them. Other Senators noted that he could the truth thei'e. Our whole capitalist socie­ They took the money and came “ choke o ff” the housing program simply ty is responsible for both Jim Crow and to New York to have a gay time. HEAR SWP CANDIDATE by failing to request adequate funds to degrading, demoralizing slum housing con­ By the time the police caught (Continued from page 1) and sacrificed a great deal to geit caiTy it out. ditions. And that is why it will be neces- them the money, was gone. MORGAN GIVES SOCIALIST Cusson had picked up one of the way in which we fought i t in away from the d irt and smog of 2. By its Jim Crow policies, this “ re­ sary to replace our present form of social girls and was arrested with them. all its manifestations, especially the city, only to have the factories form” agency has been a source of retro- organization with a more x’ational one When he was brought into since they expect to be a target follow them. Mrs. Weiss ended gression rather than progi’ess so far as the based on social ownei-ship and direction of PROGRAM FOR EDUCATION court for arraignment, he peeled of the Un - American Activities her talk w ith an appeal in favor of clemency fo r the Rosenbergs. Negro struggle against discrimination in the means of production, and planning for off his shirt displaying terrible Committee which is scheduled to By Louise Manning bruises and discoloration. A invade Los Angeles again. Wlhen our candidate appeared housing is concerned. This point was human needs x'ather than profit, in order before the Business and Women’s The Socialist Workers Party candidate for Board of medical examination could not be Mrs. Weiss arrived at a meet­ brought out during the Senate hearings to solve the housing crisis and end segre­ avoided because of the presence ing of the Homeowners’ Associa­ Clubs Association, she explained by Clarence Mitchell, Washington repre- gation in all forms. Education office No. 6, Robert E. Morgan, is the only can of reporters. It revealed welts tion late, but in time to hear that although she had fundamental didate for this office in Los Angeles who has been from two to six inches long on someone in the audience make a differences on how to solve the able to offer a solution to the® Cussor.’s back and chest. motion that any further discus­ problems facing the people, she welcomed the participation seemingly insoluble and urgent by a member of the Sheet Metal Cusson told the Post reporter sion on Socialism be barred. Un­ of Workers Union that we should what had happened to him. A t the fortunately, there had been no women in politics, since the fight problems of child delinquency, "Little Men and Women" be glad to sign the loyalty oath, police station he was taken up­ discussion of socialism, but one fo r the equality- of women waa By Joyce Cowley dope addiction and truancy. jVTr. Morgan pointed out that stairs to a room by four or five on the housing program of Mayor an important part of the pro­ Year after year the problem signing the loyalty oath was not cops. One h it him in the face, Bowron. Mrs. Weiss stated that gram of all socialists. Assemblyman Wadlin, a Republican rep­ sters under 14 years of age when he felt gets worle in spite of all the fine signing loyalty to the country but if they wanted to pass such a knocking him down. Another beat ANSWER QUESTION resenting the upstate farm bloc, has a satisfactory conditions existed. plans of the educators and social to the McCarthy’s who want to him with a rubber hose. Then two motion, they had better do it In answer to the question as tq unique solution to the problem of juvenile An offensive by labor, welfare and civic workers who base themselves on eradicate all independent thought or three started beating and kick­ quickly because socialism was the very social system which, per­ in thmr attempt to push the peo­ ing him. pi’ccisely what she was going i^hat Mrs. Weiss would do i f ah« delinquency. groups has temporarily stalled the debate petuates these, monstrosities ple into a Third World War. The to discuss. were elected and had to work “ Our boys and girls should be thought on this bill. Republican leaders, confident against our children. Mr. Morgan loyalty oath in the schools, he SAVAGE BEATING She explained that the housing with a capitalist city govern­ of as little men and women,” he says, “ and that they could pass this bill, were not presents a socialist answer, show­ continued, was a blow at academic Then he was taken downstairs prograim was no more socialist ment, she stated that such, a not continually treated as incompetents un­ prepared for such vigorous opposition. The ing how the problems concerning freedom, and proved that the to another room fo r “ interroga than was the post office, and that choice by the people would in­ CIO, AFL, Ass’n of Catholic Trade Union­ the schools, which seem remote whole loyalty program was aimed lion” by Detective Williaim Ryan the opposition to the program dicate mass support fo r socialist able to do anything for themselves or any­ from the questions of war, are. in not at what people did, but at who was la te r. praised on tele stemmed from the big real-estate ideas. This mass support is what one else.” He points out that children if ists, N. Y. Women „ *rade Union League, reality directly connected with what they said and thought. vision by Police Commissioner interests who wanted to squeeze the Socialist Workers Party is left at home “ may get into serious mis­ the NAACv, the Natrona. ohiid Labor the world-wide crisis. “ Can we teach in the schools Monaghan fo r his work in Cus as much as they could out of the building, and if its candidates ar« chief” and proposes instead “ light, health­ Committee, the Citizens Committee on In his address to such organiza­ that it is possible for nations to son’s case. Ryan had him stand desperate housing situation in not elected now, they surely w ill be in the near future. ful, outdoor character-building work on Children and the Consumer’s League are tions as the Citizefis, for Better exist peacefully?” This question up against the wall and then Los Angeles-. She received ap­ was advanced at the meeting of kicked him jin the groin. Then plause when, in answer to a ques­ However, even if she were fch« the farm.” in'affiance against-Wadlin’s bills. But Sol mittee of' Facuity Representa­ the Warehouse Union. 'M r. Mor­ Cusson was taken to an 8x5 tion regarding the industrializa­ only socialist elected, she stated Republicans are trying to rush through Marcoff warned: “The powerful farm tives, and the Affiliated Teachers gan denied that it was possible shower room where, stripped tion of the San Fernando Valley, she would advocate the cessation Wadlin’s “ little men and women” bill which lobby has been stopped only temporarily Committee, Mr. Morgan showed to have peace with Big Business naked, he was made to sit on a she stated that before proceeding of the Korean war, the with­ would permit children of any age to har­ by the mounting protests of citizens how the Korean war, the draft, controlling the government, and chair while Ryan on one side to industrialize the valley as drawal of the American troops, throughout the state who have been en­ and the general insecurity were called for a Labpr Party which beat him with a blackjack and many businessmen want to do, the formation of a Labor Party, vest fru it and vegetables during school the decisive factors causing could express the desires of the another policeman on his other she woyld consult the people liv ­ and the inclusion of m inority and vacations. raged by the Wadlin bills.” delinquency. workers who needed and wanted ride beat him with a piece of ing in the area. She sympathized working-class groups as part of Sol Marcoff of the National Child Labor The New York Post finds it “ slightly In answer to a statement made peace. metal. with many families who worked the administration of the city. Committee declares that not a single safe­ incredible” that the Wadlin bills are being guard would be retained. “ Children old seriously promoted by any adult in 1953. enough to walk could be hired to work. I ’m not surprised. This is the kind of pro­ No certificate of physical fitness would be posal we can expect from the reactionary UAW Delegates Face Critical Problems required. There would be no lim it on the politicians who control the New York State hours of labor. A child could be gainfully Legislature — and Congress, too. They’re (Continued from page 1) to this convention that the 1 against discrimination in hiring rank and filers who try to resist knows anything. Nobody else can union adopt a policy of building is reported to have already done employed without the consent or super­ ready to destroy all the progressive labor should endorse the demand of the the corporations’ speedup and propose anything. All ideas com« national CIO to include tax in­ a new political party of labor and considerable good. It shows how ‘get tough’ programs. from the top down. Everyone vision of his parents.” legislation for which workers fought for its allies. A Labor party alone much can be done in this field waits on the leader to make Uj> creases as a factor in determining CONTRACT VIOLATIONS “ Times have changed to such an extent,” the last 100 years — if they can get away the rising cost of living. can attract and hold the middle when the union takes a bold his mind what to do. replied Wadlin, “ that no one would -txploit with it. The significant thing in this case The (¿AW will gain strength classes and the new voters who stand, especially if the Locals Tlie most outstanding instance This leadership smears all in» anyone.” (Wadlin is an attorney whose is that it looks like they might not get by practising more union demo­ fell victim to Eisenhower’s together with the International of this is the discharge of Jimmy dependent and critical thought in away with it. The immediate, united pro­ cracy, and not by restricting the demagogy. Such a course alone follow through consistently and Soldmon, chairman of the shop the union as “ red,” and tries to clients include the owners and operators can accomplish this because it seriously. It is important to committee of the Dodge Main stamp out every free expression test of labor brought a partial retreat. Too rights of the members. There of fruit farms — “naturally” — he ad­ have been alarming reports that can do something about the remember that Reuther was com­ plant, in Detroit. The failure of of opinion. I t views the free play mits). bad it’s a temporary alliance of these vari­ the International w ill recommend grievances of these people. Sup pelled to issue this directive by the union to reinstate him after of the democratic process as a A “ companion” bill drawn up by Wadlin ous labor groups. There are a lot of other the abandonlment of annual elec­ port of the Republicans or Demo­ a growing wave of independent a lapse of two years, was a threat to its regime. This process would empower the State Industrial Com­ matters they could take care of — like low- tions of local union officers in crats must fail to satisfy the actions on the part of Negroes in signal to the company that they is reinforced by the growth in bhq needs of the people, who there­ the slate of Michigan, as well could get away with a program Locals as well as the Interna* missioner to grant work permits to young- cost public housing. favor of elections every two years. This would be a step backward, fore switch in protest from one as by such rank-and-file actions of speedup and contract viola­ tional of large treasuries ' and a step which wras defeated'at the major party to the other. as .the Briggs-Conner strike in tions. These same conditions positions in and out of the shops 13th Convention, and would The big question of a labor- protest against the company’s existed before in tlie industry carrying good incomes and special further weaken the union. The unity program which can safe­ refusal to live up to its con­ when the union was first fighting privileges. These are used widely Notes from the News delegates would do well to reject guard industrial unionism w ill tractual obligations and rehiTe to consolidate itself. Their return to entice, bribe and corrupt such a proposal in ’53 as they confront the delegates. Ten years Negro women formerly employed is a serious danger signal. The critical members of tihe union. ago the CIO had an avowed goal at Briggs. first step for the elimination of did in '51. They W'ould do well HOPE FOR FUTURE CENSORSHIP OF BOOKS by forcing dealers DAILY LABOR NEWSPAPERS are being to support Local 600’s demand of ten million members. Today it In the w a r t i m e ’40’s the this danger is fo r the convention to take thorn o ff their stands is increasing. The issued in two strike areas in the Mid-West. This for the election of all department has less than five million. Today Brotherhood of ’ Sleeping Car to work out a program of action Thanks to the great tradition campaign started in Brooklyn when self-appoint­ is made possible by the co-operation of Labor’s heads. The delegates would do the AFL is approximately twice Porters, an AFL organization to win reinstatements for all of struggle and democracy in ed censors visited 16 stores in the area of the Daily, the only regular daily of the labor move­ well to reject all constitutional as large as the CIO. Today under the leadership of A. Phillip victimized fired workers and the UAW, oppositional currents Roman Catholic Church, Our Lady of Help of ment, which is published in Charleston, W. Va. proposals to restrict the auto­ Eisenhower plays the AFL Randolph, with about 20,000 union representatives. The com­ •still exist in defiance of Reuther’s Christians, and threatened boycotts unless certain One strike daily appears in Waukegan, Wisconsin, nomous rights of the locals op of against the CIO, which is the members, led a national drive panies must be taught that an efforts to establish a compléta pocket books were removed. Stores co-operating where the typographical workers have struck the individual members, under the target for the employers’ main called tlie “ March on Washington injury to one is an injury to all. one-man rule. The largest, of these are being awarded “ decency” seals of approval Waukegan News-Sun. The other is for the Quad guise of fighting “ communists.” attack. Movement” to protest company Under Reuther’s administration is Local 600, which has succeeded by the Holy Name Society. Now police in C ity area (Rock Island and Mpline, Illinois, and Reuther has indicated that he W>hat the convention does w ill discrimination an hiring. This a policy of so-called ‘labor states­ in winning greater support for Cleveland, Youngstown and other cities are en­ Davenport, Iowa) where each city’s paper has has designs on Local 600. Since affect not only the auto workers movement forced Roosevelt to manship’ lias replaced the policy its platform than it held at the last convention. This is a tribute forcing similar censorship. Thus fa r 414 books been struck by the typographical workers. The he was not able to win over the but the CIO as a whole. To stop yield as a concession the original of independent mass. struggle. and publications, ranging from pulp to Pulitzer- Waukegan and Quad City labor papers each have niembership in a democratic con­ the slippingiback trend in the FBPC executive Order. Too often the officials say that to its determined efforts to work out a program of struggle and prize winners, are on the blacklists. The writings 12 tabloid pages. Four are printed locally and test he now' threatens to provide CIO and to put itself in a better The UAW with its 1,336,000 the UAW has now come of age; of Sigmund Freud appear to be a special target. the remaining eight, containing national news, himself with more dictatorial bargaining position for unity members is in a position to ac­ that the old tried and true democracy on the union and poli» Also under the ban are certain ancient Greek arc prepared by Labor’s Daily in West Virginia means of accomplishing the same negotiations with the AFL, the complish Much more if it follows methods that brought, the cor­ tical fields, in answer to Reuther’s classics, novels by John Steinbeck and Somerset and the mats flown to the strike areas. end. The tactic of red-baiting must union must win better conditions, that militant tradition. Negro porations to their senses are no aim of getting along with in« Maugham and Lucy Freeman’s “ Fight Against be recognized as a tool used to wages and pensions than any workers still haw great 'dif­ longer in order. They tell the riust.ry and of domination by red« baiting. It is the existence of this Fears,” the story of her psychoanalysis. divide the ranks of the union, and other existing union. The best ficulty getting hired. They still members that the union has progressive opposition tendency * * * CIO AUTO WORKERS UNION has signed up smear all m inority opinion. This way to do this is to step up an are barred from the skilled divi­ ‘grown up,’ and must conduct the Kohler Corporation of Kohler, Wisconsin. The energetic organizational drive: sions. Together with other minor­ in varying degrees of strength TRUTH CAME OUT when a 16-year-old Kansas method was-first developed by the itself in a ‘respectable’ manner. company gave in on the eve of a strike. This capped by a determined drive to ities they are pressing their throughout the UAW that offers City school girl, troubled by her conscience, told companies when the union was In practice this means ‘getting company was famous, or rather infamous, fo r its organize the south', which w ill re­ demands for FGPC and civil- the greatest hope for the future. authorities that she lied back in 1948 when she first organized. Its continued use along’ with the corporations and ■anti-labor record. The workers lived in what was invigorate tlie entire movement. rights legislation, nationally and accused a Negro man of raping her. On the basis in the union will serve to weaken their officials. It means complete advertised as a model town named after the com­ Such a program w ill restore locally. To support these demands of her testimony an innocent 50-year-old man the entire UAW. reliance on bargaining-table pro­ pany'. In actuality they lived under the feudal the crusading spirit of the UAW. is the elementary duty of every cedures which are largely inef­ was found guilty by a ju ry that i-ecommended a LOS ANGELES rule of a family industrial empire. In 1934 an POLITICAL ACTION Even in the Detroit area there labor organization. But this is 99-year sentence. The court fixed the sentence at fective because there is little attempt to organize Kohler resulted in the killinp The UA-W requires a declara­ are a large number of open shops, not enough. To begin with, there Friday Night Forum 20 years. The victimized Negro has been in if any mass pressure applied to of two workers. The drive to organize Kohler this tion of political independence low wage scales, as well as should be Negro representation make them effective. I t means prison now fo r five years. The Road to a Labor time was complicated by the fact that Wisconsin’s frotm the Democratic and Repub­ ■inequities in UAW wage scales, at all levels of the union, from i educing the Locals to rubber * * * Party in America governor is no other than — Walter Kohler. lican parties. The disastrous particularly among the skilled local stewards to its very highest stamps, instead of fighting col­ Speaker: FAKE DATING OF MILK bottle caps by results of the 1952 election cam­ classifications. The job recently policy-making elected top leader­ laborators of an aggressive In­ dairies was struck a blow by A F L Dairy Em­ paign reveal again the complete accomplished of organizing the ship. This would demonstrate to ternational coordinating machine. Myra Tanner Weiss ployes Union Local 754 in Chicago. In violation U N IO N -BU STIN G B ILL BEATEN. The inadequacy of PAC. This in spite Kohler industry in Wisconsin is a the world that the UAW means Candidate fo r Mayor of the city health ordinance the dairy bosses Wyoming legislature has overwhelmingly turned of the fact that, labor in genei’al good job. I t should be used as the business. TWO TRENDS of Los Angeles were having their bottlers put dates on the caps down a so-called “ right to work” bill that would and the UAW in particular spent opening gun in a widespread The above program can stop There are two opposing trendsi Why does American labor need to make the m ilk appear fresher than it was. outlaw' the union shop and otherwise restrict more time, energ.v and. money, in organizing campaign and not as the backsliding of the union. in the UAW today. One is under an independent Labor P a rty ! Finally the union adopted a resolution denounc­ unions. The bill climaxed a razzle-dazzle campaign support of the Democratic party an excuse for self-satisfaction Action on such a course w ill make the leadership of Reuther’s right- What do the labor bureaucrats ing the fraudulent practice and forbidding union headed by Cecil B. DeMille, movie tycoon, respon­ ticket than ever before. An un­ and resting on laurels. possible the return of the crusad­ wing faction. The outstanding think about this? members to be parties to it even when ordered by sible fo r a larger than average member of precedented degree of labor unity ing spirit of ’36 and ’37. The feature of .this group is that it Fri., March 27, 8 P.M. employers. Copies of the resolution were sent to stinkeroo films. “ DeMille Political Freedom prevailed, - yet the Labor-Demo­ CIVIL RIGHTS present loss of effectiveness has developed a full-blown, one- the companies and the city health department. Foundation” showered legislators with propa­ cratic parly' coalition was de­ An effective weapon in the under Walter Reuther has also man rule, in the person of W alter FORUM HALL The practice ceased immediately and now a ganda for the bill — some of it sent out in tjie cisively defeated by the Repub­ campaign .to organize the south resulted in a loss of respect by Reuther, who has at his beck and 1702 E. 4th St. Tel. AN 9-4953 member of the city council is demanding to know name of “ Labor’s Legislative Committee” to give lican party. is the struggle for civil rights. the corporations. We see again call a large, well-paid machine. Questions — Discussion why the health department had not stopped the the impression that not all labor w'as against the Local 600 has done the Union Reuther’s belated directive to all in the industry widespread fir­ Tin's machine has developed a Refreshments illegal practical bill. a signal service in recommending UAW locals to launch a fight ings of both representatives and leadership cult. Nobody else