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Vol. X X IV — No. 6 NEW YORK, N.Y., MONDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1960 Price 10c Steel Co. Cubans On Strike Welcome Gen. De Gaulle Imposes In Detroit Negroes Workers Demand Bid for Tourists Safer Conditions Decree Rule on France Hailed by Editors By Jim Avery By Lillian Kiezel 12 Million in Deputies OK DETROIT, Jan. 31 — An up­ Fascist Show Closes Down surge of rank-and-file militancy “There is no racial discrimi­ 1-Hour Strike Dictatorship nation in Cuba. That is a re­ among 4,200 steel workers at j By Daniel Roberts By George Lavan the three McLouth Steel Corp. sounding and important declar­ ation,” said John H. Sengstacke, plants cut across the pattern of The French workers’, hatred Two days after the surrender publisher-editor of the Chicago steel settlements conceded to j of fascism was dramatically dis­ of the fascist insurrectionists in Defender, on returning from a the companies by Pres. David J. played for one hour last week. Algiers, a subservient French visit to the island together with McDonald of the United Steel­ Twelve million workers — more parliament abdicated what little 75 other prominent American workers Union. When the than one quarter of the total power it had by granting Gen. de Negroes. They went as guests eighty-day Taft-Hartley injunc­ GLADYS BARKER population — staged a general Gaulle the power to rule France of the Cuban government dur­ tion deadline was reached mid­ strike from 11 a.m. to noon on by personal decree for at least ing the New Year’s celebration night Jan. 26. members of Local Feb. 1 at the call of the three the next year. This shifts the 2659 shut down the plants in an of the first anniversary of the major labor federations. The political situation in France action that was branded by local SWP Doubles revolution that ousted the hated strike was at least ninety per even further to the right. U S W o ffic ia ls as “ an u n a u th o r­ Batista dictatorship. cent effective throughout the From a Bonapartist or ized action.” Most of the visitors represent­ na tion . Requirement ed Negro newspapers through­ "strong-man" regime operating Earlier in the day. District “Promptly at 11 in Paris the out the U.S., underscoring the m conjunction with a drastic­ 29 Director Thomas Shane gates clanged shut at subway purpose of the Cuban govern­ ally weakened parliament, De had signed an indefinite ex­ For N.J. Ballot entrances,” wrote W. Granger ment’s invitation. Baudillo Cas­ Gaulle's "Fifth Republic" has tension agreement, with a ten- Blair in the Feb. 2 New York NEWARK, Jan. 3 1 More tellanos, chief of the Cuban now divested itself of the tig day termination notice by Times. “Buses continued to the th a n 1,500 vote rs yeste rd ay Tourist Commission, greeted leaf of representative govern­ either party. The response of end of the line and stopped. Op­ signed independent nominating them with the words: “We want ment and become a personal the men in the mills was to erators walked away from tele­ petitions here to place Socialist colored people to know they dictatorship. close down operations. phone switchboards. Post and Workers candidates for the w ill be well received here.” The daily papers broke the telegraph offices remained open, De Gaulle claimed he needed presidency and for U. S. Senator news the next morning with "Nothing to Hide" but service was suspended . . . these dictatorial powers to deal on the New Jersey ballot. The le­ w ith the fascist “colons” (French headlines about “violence.” But “Coal miners and steelwork­ gal minimum required on each Premier Fidel Castro officially settlers in Algeria) and the dis­ the only incident involved the ers in the northern and north­ p e titio n is 800 signatures. extended the hospitality of the loyal army officers, who for a upsetting of a foreman’s car eastern regions stopped work Party supporters who circu­ c o u n try . He to ld the m “ to see, week had been unwilling to when he attempted to drive for short periods or for a full lated the petitions reported that do and go wherever you wish carry out orders to put down the through the mass of pickets at hour, depending on the enter­ in contrast to the lack of en­ . . . we have nothing to hide . . . Algiers uprising. But, as liberal the Trenton gates. A picket told prise. The same was true in the thusiasm for the two major par­ You are our guests not for politi­ a reporter that “a wind came textile, metallurgical, chemical and labor circles in France point up from the river and blew it ties they found considerable cal or financial reasons. We out, De Gaulle has long pos­ and auto industries . . . o ve r.” readiness to help a minority wanted you to come so that you sessed sufficient powers to deal “The independent National McLouth was once a small party win a place on the ballot. could see for yourselves what with the colons and the army, Federation of Education was as­ producer. With the introduction In addition to a slate of presi­ is being done in our country.” while the newly granted powers sociated with the Communist- of oxygen-processing of steel dential electors, canvassers cir­ The Cuban government asked A bulldozer pushes down paving blocks and other material making up the barricade of extend ominously to all of dominated General Confedera­ three years ago, the company culated petitions for the nomina­ only that the reporters tell the the Algerian colons who surrendered Feb. 1. W hen the fascist show ended the insurrectionists France. tion of Labor and the Socialist expanded rapidly. In the first tion of Gladys Barker for U.S. tru th . marched out, flags flying, as if they had won a major victory. Some temporarily joined the and Roman Catholic labor fed­ h a lf o f 1959 it re p o rte d a record Senator. A militant fighter for Joe Louis had this to say army in a token gesture of Surrender. Others faded into the background. Some important ques­ A Threat to Labor erations in the strike appeal. $10.5 m illion profit. civil rights, she is running on a j about the welcome offered to tions were left unanswered. Was it a dress rehearsal? If so, when will the curtain rise on the The result was that classes were Indeed, De Gaulle’s new With an influx of workers in Negro tourists: "This is really big show? platform of socialist opposition power to pass laws by decree the plant, largely young men good for Cuba to invite Ameri­ interrupted for varying periods. to the big-business forces re­ and to enforce them by any from mining areas and auto can Negroes to the country. “Examples of opposition to sponsible for the perpetuation of methods he chooses is more of a Colored people in the U.S. do the strike were rare.” On Tour (C o n tin u e d on Page 4 ) the Jim Crow system. threat to the French working not have any place to go in According to B. J. Cutler in ‘Un-American’ the winter except Cuba. And the Feb. 2 New York Herald class and its parties and trade Too Many Babies? unions than to the Algerian I Ihink they are going to take Tribune, strike leaders said Probe Seeks to advantage of that fact." that the stoppage "was a Does It Pay to Fight colons and army officers. That The trip proved an eye opener sample of the paralysis they the initial use of decree rule to for Thomas J. Davis, editor of would invoke against any at­ Smear Youth punish the fascist elements who America Faces the Cleveland Call-Post. He tempt at a Rightist coup For War Contracts? organized the Algiers uprising said, “The Cuban people are d’etat." After being run out of Cali­ may be only the prelude to crip­ San Diego, Calif. ficials. but it can be intro­ shaping their democracy.” And, indeed, through the one- fornia and subjected to public pling decrees against the French Editor: duced into the union ranks, at A New Enemy He scored the slander cam­ hour general strike, the picture hostility in Puerto Rico and workers, is indicated by De least among workers who arc paign which the U.S. press has of the great potential power of New York, the House Un-Amer­ I see by the San Diego La­ Gaulle’s refusal to permit any beginning to advance beyond — By Joseph Hansen — been waging against Cuba: the working class flashed on the ican Activities Committee stag­ bor Leader that George Meany safeguards for civil liberties or “Negroes in America are quite French national screen. Had the ed its well-worn routine this has put the AFL-CIO on rec­ the general mass in their labor rights to be written into First of a series of articles. used to the battle cry of the big labor leadership mobilized this week at its home theater in ord for new, “positive” legis­ th in k in g . the bill granting the new powers. press of calling any movement power at the beginning of the Washington, D.C. This time the lation to bolster UiS. war If these more advanced Thus in the New York Herald A number of eminent dignitaries and scientific author­ that demands fairness for all crisis, the working class could pitch was “Communist infiltra­ production. Because of a local thinkers are helped to get a Tribune (Feb. 3), Paris corres­ rounded answer to labor’s ities have been seeking to arouse a lethargic public to a people regardless of race, creed, have smashed the Algiers re­ tion” among youth. Five young job problem the Labor Leader pondent B. J. Cutler reports: problems, they can better push new menace — an enemy of formidable character, perhaps color or financial position, Com­ bellion in short order and re­ people from New York and one expresses agreement w ith him. “The Assembly’s Constitution union policy in the proper di­ munists. To us this is a false bit opened the struggle in France from Chicago were subpoenaed Aside from the general eco­ Committee tried to amend the the most dangerous America has yet faced. re ctio n . of propaganda designed to de­ for a socialist government. to testify about World Youth nomic prop provided by the bill in important ways. Notably, This enemy is insidious. He is not armed w ith H-bombs, They need to understand feat democratic processes.” However, the workers’ action Festivals held in recent years. big naval base here, employ­ it wanted the decree powers to rocket missiles, deadly nerve gases, nuclear submarines, Also subjected to appearance W hy is it that "everybody came after the fascists had al­ ment hinges mainly on the why support in any form to expire in eight months instead of before the committee was Ben­ the capitalist war policy de­ tanks, submachine guns, rifles or even bayonets. He uses is against Castro . . . but the ready retreated. It was of too extensive aircraft industry. a year and to exempt basic lib­ jamin J. Davis, a national secre­ feats their own class interests. none of the weapons to which we have become accustomed people?" asked William G. short duration to constitute a But aircraft output must rely erties and labor affairs from the tary of the Communist party. and which Congress can handle by passing appropriations. Nunn, Sr., of the Pittsburgh challenge to De Gaulle’s regime heavily upon m ilitary orders, They require a clearly stated sweep of the emergency pow­ Courier. alternative to war production This enemy’s major means of attack is nothing but a mouth from the left. And the strike A ll of these witnesses defied as sho w n by th e s trik in g fa c t ers.” As his answer he pointed to was not waged around a work­ the committee on First and Fifth as a means to safeguard th e ir that 70% of San Diego’s econ­ But De Gaulle’s spokesman and, at a certain stage, a set of teeth. measures such as the Agrarian ing-class program for ending Amendment gr ounds. One jobs and their livelihood. omy is directly dependent was adamant on all points. The This seeming paucity of instruments of destruction Reform Law and the law re­ the war in Algeria by granting “friendly” witness, Albert Gail- In short, they must be upon federal contracts. rubber-stamp parliament, with should not lead one to underestimate the new foe. He ducing rents by 50%, plus the the nine million Algerian Arabs lard, 20, of New York, described helped to turn toward a grow­ Due in part to the shift a little token grumbling, passed policy of integration. their national independence. himself as a disillusioned ex­ ing understanding of the need employs ultra modern methods of warfare. Without a for­ toward ballistic missiles in th e b ill 449 to 79 in th e N a tio n a l The Cuban people, he ob- The aim of the strike was to member of the Communist for a basic social change, start­ mal declaration of hostilities, he simply moves in, often by military technology, aircraft A ssem b ly and 225 to 39 in th e served, have responded by con­ back De Gaulle’s fraudulent party. His appearance was ar­ ing from a switch by labor to production is sagging in this Senate. Voting “No” were the surprise. He takes over sometimes with amazing rapidity. tributing an “all out effort.” “self-determination” scheme. ranged by the committee. Davis independent class political ac­ locality. The unemployed to­ Communist party deputies, some He uses infiltration and subversion, boring into the Ameri­ Tractors are “working 22 hours Thus the workers’ action was refused to answer questions on tion and leading to labor’s tal is expected to reach 20,000 Radical Socialists (a liberal, out of 24.” too little, too late and on De the basis of the Fifth Amend­ taking over the management can home from within, counting as his allies in these treach­ in February and still further The “tensions” reported daily Gaulle’s political terms. It did m ent. of the country. middle-class party), and the ex­ erous techniques the most respectable people, our doctors, mass layoffs seem imminent. treme right-wingers who are in the U.S. press were “not ob­ not keep De Gaulle from grab­ The committee used its im­ In the coming election cam­ nurses, mothers and fathers. Alarmed by the job decline, sympathetic to the Algerian served” by Nunn. “I’ve ex­ bing the credit for getting the munity from libel action to paign socialists face both a the unions are demanding that colons. This enemy has already occupied the cribs, nurseries perienced the thing which Negro fascists to back down, although sm ear L e ro y W o llin s , 30, of challenge and an opportunity Congress introduce legislation and playgrounds of America. Americans have dreamed about he had allowed the plot of the Chicago, w ith the assertion that to get this message across. The The course of the Algiers in­ providing aid to distressed Lest this sound like war hysteria, let me quote from happening in their own coun­ colons and their sympathizers in it had information from “an un­ challenge is to know how to surrection, reported to the mid­ areas such as San D iego; and tr y .” the army brass to mature un­ impeachable intelligence source” start from the big concerns in point in last week’s M ilitant, can an article that appeared under the headline, “ ‘BUMPER for want of another answer He said that Cuban hospitality checked since September and that he had passed documents workers’ minds today and help now be completed. BABY CROP’ HELD THREAT TO U.S.” Here is the they back Meany’s call for is warm, stemming from the deserved a big share of the to a Soviet Embassy represen­ them develop a class insight The unwillingness of the army stepped-up m ilitary output. warning about this advancing horde which Prof. William “hearts of a people who practice blame for the fascists’ rebellion ta tiv e in 1958. into a true course for labor. brass to move against the in­ What a cruel irony. Workers A. Paton of the University of Michigan uttered before the the democracy Americans give in the first place. Meanwhile, the Senate In­ If this is done well there w ill surrection made it apparent that have no stake in the war aims House Ways and Means Committee Nov. 30, 1959: lip service to.” During the crisis no promin­ te rn a l Security Committee be improved chances for so­ what hung in the balance was of U.S. capitalism. As for the Castro regime, ent working-class leader pro­ sought to compete with the cialists to get a favorable no longer merely De Gaulle’s so- Yet, to avoid joblessness un­ "Our continuing bumper baby crop, coupled with present Nunn believes that “American jected an independent role for House witch-hunters for the hearing in labor’s ranks. called self-determination plan der capitalism, misled unions tendencies both to prolong the period of childhood and provide C ontin ued on Page 4 ) (C o ntin ued on Page 2) scant news space devoted to Fraternally, to end the Algerian Arabs’ war for earlier retirement, have added greatly to the difficulty of help advance the capitalist both. It tried to quiz Commun­ Farrell Dobbs (Continued on Page 2) maintaining our present per capita living standard, to say ist party general secretary Gus war policy by advocating an nothing of an increase. The essential factor at this stage Judge Upholds Seeger Hall about his inclusion in a ever-greater m ilitary build-up is capital formation." list of Communists said to be as a means to safeguard e m ­ active in the CIO. The list was p lo ym e n t. Year's First Steel Strike Dead right! What America needs is a lot more dollars, In Subpoena on Walter co m p ile d in 1938 b y th e la te And the workers’ entrap­ not babies. We must never forget what’s precious. John P. Frey of the old AFL ment in this false policy be­ Closes Plant in Chicago And if you tend to think that the difficulty in main- Peter Seeger, under indict­ ance of witnesses. Who these Metal Trades department. Hall comes cinched up politically taining our standard of living might be due to inflation, ment for contempt of Congress, witnesses shall be is a matter s im p ly invoked the Fifth with Meany’s fatuous advice The first authorized steel by the company’s demand for has won the right to subpoena for the defendant and his coun­ that “. . . if we pinpoint the w a lk o u t o f 1960 to o k place in to the cost of wars we’ve fought and are going to fight, A m en dm e nt. revision of contract clause 2-B, Rep. Francis Walter, head of the sel to decide. It does not rest issues and the voting words C hicago at 12:01 a.m., Jan. 27, the work rules agreement that to the insistence on an ever higher level of profits, or to witch-hunting House Un-Amer­ with the prosecution or the per­ [in Congress] effectively, we one minute after a Taft-Hartley was a central issue in the na­ some old-fashioned strikebreaking and union-smashing — ican Activities Committee. The son under subpoena.” can get a government that injunction expired. Participating tional strike. congressman is now scheduled to places human needs above the better get your head examined. The real trouble is our Seeger and his attorney Paul Chandler Davis in the s trik e are m o re th a n 2,000 Perish said that Acme has in­ appear as a witness March 21 demands of big business” — workers at the Riverdale plant “continuing bumper baby crop.” Ross want to question Walter cluded the 2-B clause in agree­ when the folk singer goes on through labor support to cap­ of the Acme steel company. about the pertinency of his ques­ ments at its two plants at New­ Another weighty authority goes even further. Accord­ trial for invoking the First Goes to Prison italist politicians. tions. They also want to know They are members of Local 1053 port, Ky. It is trying to win a ing to Raymond B. Cowles, Professor of Zoology at the Amendment when he was hauled If the light of class truth on what authority and to what Dr. Chandler Davis, a well- of the United Steel Workers. free hand for revision of work University of California, Los Angeles, the danger concerns be fore the c o m m itte e in 1955. is to be thrown upon the di­ legislative purpose the commit­ known mathematician, surrend­ The local went through the rules at the Riverdale plant be­ Walter’s three-month attempt lemma labor faces, it will not only America but the entire human race. And he is tee conducted the inquiry. ered at the U.S. marshall’s of­ 116-day shutdown during the na­ cause it has recently switched afraid that it is already too late. to quash the subpoena failed fice in Grand Rapids Feb. 2 to never be generated by capital­ tional steel strike, but Acme has operations there from fabricat­ when Federal Judge Edward Seeger had refused to answer Prof. Cowles’ startling message was sent over the UPI begin a six-month prison term ist-minded union bureaucrats refused to settle with the union ing to actual steel production. Weinfeld denied a government ten of the committee’s questions of the Meany stripe. Labor’s on the basis of the national Meanwhile, the American Iron teletypes to every major newspaper in the country Jan. 2. for challenging the House Un- m o tio n Jan. 28. R u lin g o u t th e on the ground that it had no American Activities Committee policy must stem from the agreem ent. and Steel Institute has disclosed 1960. It appeared in the press in the following succinct a rg u m e n t th a t as a m em b er o f power to inquire into his beliefs in 1954. realization that the workers The company’s “final offer,” that despite the national 116-day statement: “that men multiply at a geometric rate while Congress, Walter should not be and associations. Together with Davis reaffirmed his views in and the bosses have no com­ voted on by the union member­ shutdown some 8,000,000 more food production can only be increased at an arithmetic compelled to serve as a witness, ten others, Seeger faces a possi­ a statement to the press. “It was mon interests in industry or in ship under the terms of the Taft- tons of steel were produced in rate.” Weinfeld said: ble prison term following a Su­ an extreme measure for me to politics, in domestic or in for­ Hartley Act, was rejected by a 1959 th a n in 1958. “Under the Sixth Amendment preme Court decision last fall risk jail. I won’t enjoy it. But it eign policy. vo te o f 1,971 to 266. UPI did not report what experiments with runaway- That m eans that all the steel to the Constitution a defendant upholding contempt convictions will be a satisfaction to affirm Knowledge of these truths Samuel E. Perish, director of the American capitalist system human fertility the learned zoologist had performed to accused of a crime is guaranteed of Lloyd Barenblalt and Dr. W il­ by this act that I value free can’t be expected to seep in subdistrict 5 of the union said can handle in a year can now be (Continued on Page 2) the right to compel the attend- lard Uphaus. speech this highly.” much among the top union of­ that a settlement is being barred produced in about eight months. Page Two THE MILITANT Monday, February 8, 1960 Military Brass Are the Same And After De Gaulle Who W ill Rule France? Workers Need revolution that smashes all the The social fury of this mid­ workers’ organizations. In the Bonapartist "Saviour" dle class, disoriented and de­ A Leninist Party thirties Europe witnessed more moralized, can be readily mo­ In Algiers, Berlin and U.S.A. than one situation of this kind. bilized not only for the bloody By M urry Weiss war against the Algerian peo­ By M. L. Stafford Pattern of the Thirties ple but against the French T he ne ar toppling o f D e The tendency of the officer $8,580 from the government and The social crisis of capitalism w orking class — once the Gaulle’s Fifth Republic by the caste to support the most reac­ draws $25,000 a year in spend­ opened major revolutionary op­ situation is ready for it. same colonialist-fascist clique tionary political tendencies, in­ ing money from Martin. The portunities for the workers’ par­ Obviously the French big- that installed it only twenty cluding fascism, is not confined lowest combined pension-salary ties; the false policies of the business men and their Ameri­ months ago can best be under­ to the French officer caste of drawn by any of. the former top Stalinist and Social Democratic can backers prefer to rule w ith­ 1960 whose sympathies, have stood only in the context of the brass now employed by Martin leadership blocked this progres­ out unleashing the Algerian been so o b v io u s ly w ith the u p ­ acute historical crisis of French is $16,000. sive outcome; the middle class, “desperadoes” and “gangsters.” rising of the “colons” in Al­ As for wining and dining, capitalism since the close of seeking a way out, became ripe Obviously they threw the weight giers. It was observable in Ger­ Martin keeps a plush Bahamas World War II. for fascist demagogues and a of their great influence in the many during the rise of Hitler, hangout. A House investigating But how can one speak of a mass fascist movement; when top command of the army behind and long before. It was seen in committee made public the crisis of such scale when France the two extreme camps — the De Gaulle. But the German cap­ Italy in Mussolini’s time and names o f 27 h ig h m ilita ry is enjoying an economic boom? fascists ahd the proletariat — italists, too, preferred to rule again in Spain when Franco officers who had been flown to The question should be turned stood in irreconcilable opposition without Hitler and held him came to power. this vacation resort at M artin’s around. How can we explain the to each other but were still un­ back for some years. expense. Heading the guest list In any capitalist country, in paradox that despite an eco­ able to strike a decisive blow fact, the officer caste is to be was General Nathan F. Twining, Workers Need to Act nomic boom a major govern­ bringing the other down, a found in its great majority on chairman of the Joint Chiefs of mental crisis erupted involving period of extremely unstable the side of reaction, inclined S taff. The point deserving special at­ nothing less than who controls equilibrium opened up — the in times of crisis to facilitate T h e House investigators tention is that the ruling class the French army? nation teetered on the edge of a the triumph of fascism. sought to imply that the pur­ is not in complete control of Abdicates Twice kn ife . these matters. The fascists strike What gives the officer caste pose of these lavish vacations was to exert improper influence Bonapartist figures then rose repeatedly at the rotting struc­ this reactionary outlook? First The De Gaulle regime has re­ Gen. de Gaulle in typical oratorical pose a year ago tells MacArlhur of Remington in the granting of defense con­ in succession, each concentrating ture of parliamentary bourgeois of all, their function which is to placed itself and in the process audience at Perpignan that people will have to sacrifice living Rand, a $100.000-a-year man. tracts. This was vigorously de­ more personal power (on paper) democracy. At a certain point, protect private property and the standards to restore "grandeur" of France. In tradition of nied by George M. Bunker, accentuated all its Bonapartist than his predecessor. The work­ the ruling circles become inde­ special privileges that go with French Bonapartes, De Gaulle seeks to balance between con­ some publicity in the press the chairman of the board. The M ar­ features. For the second time in ers’ leaders lost their heads com­ cisive and begin to vacillate. If it; they, along with the police, past few weeks, offers some ex­ tending classes. His illusions of grandeur are thought by some tin spokesman said that he its twenty-month history, the pletely, supporting each Bona­ the working class fails to take are the armed guards of the cellent examples of the opera­ to be symptoms of megalomania; by others a theatrical pose: couldn’t believe that anyone parliament of the Fifth Republic partist pretender; the situation hold and settle accounts w ith the ruling class. Second, their in­ tion of these ties. but may be a combination of both. could suspect that men of the has abdicated to the “strong deteriorated until the fascists, fascists in time, big capital may timate ties with the ruling class. Take the Martin Co., for ex­ caliber of his guests could be man” — this time granting him growing in strength and aggres­ swing to backing the fascists and These go all the way from en­ ample. This is the company on the other hand the chain of m ili­ cadres are closely linked with “improperly influenced” b y unlimited dictatorial decree siveness, struck their fatal blow. close out the opportunity for a tertainment by company offic­ the receiving end of an esti­ tary defeats at the hands of free­ the most reactionary layers of playing golf with him. powers. This pattern is discernible in workers’ revolution for an ex­ ials to high-paid executive posts mated $1 billion which the Pen­ dom-seeking colonial movements the civilian population. The purpose of the Bahamas But the whip hand is held by the logic of the current situa­ tended period. on retirement. They include so­ tagon is ploughing into the has provoked crisis after crisis Outstanding among these are get-togethers, Bunker explained, the colonialist-military group tion. It is necessary, however, cial hobnobbing and marriage company’s Titan intercontinent­ in capitalist political rule. Each the Algerian colons: one m illion The factors slowing down the w as to get b e tte r acquainted which strikingly resembles the to take into account the eco­ into some of the wealthiest al ballistic missile. The company of these reveals how precarious French settlers who have a di­ swing to fascism in France are and to help negotiations by pro­ Franco-type fascists. De Gaulle nomic boom, the colonial revo­ families. The officer caste thus employs about 28,000 workers. the stability of that rule really rect economic stake in the ex­ relative. Should a considerable viding a friendly atmosphere. has been called upon to save the lution and Wall Street's in­ assiduously cultivates a ruling But the key men on the payroll is. ploitation of the Moslem popula­ downturn in the economic cycle This, of course, was strictly in nation twice from the very terest in what happens in class outlook that is even more number not more than 62. These All commentators agree that tion of some nine million. This occur, all the elements of crisis the interests of national defense. fascist clique which raised him France to see how these key rigid than that of some of the are all former officers on re­ the army is the pivot of today's is the dark pool from which the such as we saw in the thirties Bunker was no doubt telling to pow er. elements modify the pattern, rulers themselves. tirement pay. Nine of them are crisis. But the army is a com­ fascist ultras draw their cadres can come together with a ven­ the truth. The fact that the slowing down the process in The United States is no ex­ former generals or admirals. Thus we note three out­ pact expression of the society and link them in turn with the geance. The Bonapartism of Treasury Department refused to some respects and accelerat­ ception to this. In fact in recent Former A ir Force Major Gen­ standing features in the cur­ that produces it. The high com­ nuclei of fascist groups in Charles de Gaulle is a warning let the company write off the ing it in others. years the reactionary weight of eral K . E. T ib b e ts d ra w s $10,830 rent crisis: (1) the clear threat mand and the professional France itself. of the gravest character. trips as business expenses would For the past twenty-six years, the officer caste in American yearly retirement pay. Martin of a military-fascist coup, offer confirmation that the France has been gripped by re­ politics has increased enormous- supplements this w ith pin reaching from Algiers into the sprees were purely social. peated crises. The workers could money amounting to $25,000 a highest echelons of the French ly : The main point is that such easily have come to power in The manipulation of war year. A ir Force Major General army; (2) the incapacity of hobnobbing with the military 1934-36, in 1944-45, in 1947, and contracts, which has received Frederick R. Dent, Jr., draws French capitalism to continue ...12 Million in One-Hour Strike brass on a social basis is prac­ its rule through traditional in 1953. Each o f the o p p o rtu n itie s ticed by the entire capitalist bourgeois parliamentary meth­ was muffed because the French (Continued from Page 1) wrote W. Granger Blair from back down. The fascists retreat­ class. The riv a lry of different working class had no mass party Paris in the Jan. 31 N.Y. Times, ed in 1958 and in the rece nt A l­ ods; (3) the granting of dicta­ the workers in the struggle companies fo r government of sufficient Leninist quality to “found kind words for the giers rebellion because big busi­ ... Too Many Babies? torial powers to a would-be against the recurring fascist contracts is not nearly so im­ resolutely lead the struggle to President’s reaffirmation of the ness and the army brass finally national saviour who thunders, threat. Despite the gravity of (C o ntin ued fro m Page 1) portant as the knitting of so­ v ic to ry . self-determination policy and lined up behind De Gaulle. But "I am the state," but who at the situation, marked by the cial ties. Capitalism was given the op­ his desire to ‘liquidate the Fas­ considerations of timing rather reach this frightening scientific conclusion. Perhaps the the same lime reveals repeat­ army brass nearly going over to cist riot in Algiers.’ ” than abandonment of the aim government slapped down tight security regulations. But Moreover, the exercise of in­ edly that he can settle nothing portunity to recuperate, to re­ the rebellion, no labor leader of crushing the working class UPI did report the professor’s gloomy prediction: fluence is not so crude as the fundamental. build its political parties, and to demanded that De Gaulle arm Thus the workers’ leaders be­ political enemies of the Martin achieve a measure of internal haved much as they had in May determined their decision. These appear to be the classic the workers. “As a naturalist I can come to only one conclusion which Company would imply. It is the economic stability. It should be 1958 w h e n the CP and SP features of a capitalist country The next time the fascists is that no rational solution can be achieved in time to avert hope of ultimate reward, not an noted well that the French cap­ While the crisis raged, there deputies in parliament voted for in the throes of a major social attempt a coup the army brass disaster to both wildlife and man himself." immediate payoff, that attracts italists could never have suc­ were reports about the scurrying the capitalist politician Pflim lin crisis which can be solved in might well decide lo join the highest type in the armed ceeded in this without massive of pro-rebel Marshal Juin, about in the hope that he would stop It is not clear whether Prof. Cowles meant that geo­ only one of two ways: a socialist them in launching a civil war services. aid from Wall Street. cabinet members packing suit­ De Gaulle and the insurgent metric man would end up eating everything arithmetic, revolution bringing the workers designed to settle accounts What they look forward to At the same lime Washington cases for flights to Algeria to generals in Algiers. including wildlife, and then perish from famine; or whether lo power, or a fascist counter- with the workers. are featherbeds stuffed with join the colons, about obscure sank billions of dollars in at­ Pflimlin handed the power Meanwhile, the reactionaries it would be a disastrous race between geometric man and greenbacks on which they can tempts of the French imperial­ fascist deputies organizing stu­ to De Gaulle. The latter's ac- have witnessed that on all cru­ an equally geometric wildlife for a common supply of take it easy in their old age. ists to save their crumbling dent strikes. Every penny-ante Knew Their Politics capitalist politician sought to cial occasions, the working-class arithmetic food. The final picture as the curtain descends They visualize a position like colonial empire. These attempts cession to power m arked a On.Jan. 28 the fascists set up make a bit of hay for his back­ leaders have failed to mobilize the one given Gen. Douglas failed due to factors relating to profound shift to the right in seems, nevertheless, depressingly clear — man and cock­ loudspeakers at the edge of the ers. But not the bureaucratic the class for a showdown MacArthur — $100,000 a year at the overall world crisis of cap­ French politics with the roach in countless billions on a barren earth fighting cheek Casbah, the old Moslem part of leaders of the working class. struggle, but relied on capitalist Remington Rand; and the post italism as a whole in face of the to jowl for the last crumb. Algiers. They harangued the They stood in stiff salute to De workers thrown on the defen- politicians instead — including handed Gen. Lucius D. Clay — colonial revolution and rising populace for three hours to whip Gaulle as if they had undergone sive. The outcome of the cur­ De Gaulle whom the fascists This geometric business may seem too complicated $108,000 a year at Continental Soviet power. This gives us the up a parade of Arabs to the the instant Birdseye process in helped place in power. and abstruse to bother about. A fatal error! It happens to Can. key to the paradoxical events in rent crisis has been a further barricades. 1958 and w e re s till in deep Even more damaging, the be the foe’s secret weapon. Robert C. Cook, president of The House Armed Services France today. shift to the right. Only 27 responded. They were freeze. passivity of the labor movement the Population Reference Bureau, for instance, sought to subcommittee headed by Rep. F. Edward Herbert (D-La.) has preceded, according to the New Precarious Base Guy Mollet, leader of the So­ The CP and SP policies are leads the wavering middle class­ strongly reminiscent of the pol­ es to lose confidence in the arouse America to the peril with the declaration that pre­ revealed th a t 762 fo rm e r m ili­ York Times, “by a small crowd In France itself a relatively cialist party, declared that “with icy followed by the German So- workers’ capacities to act and sent rates of population growth are “as ominous a threat tary officers are employed by of urchins who began to yell, stable class equilibrium seems to all the democratic parties we cial Democrats on the eve of pushes them over to the side of to mankind as the H-bomb.” We had best approach the the country’s 100 top defense ‘Algeria for the Arabs, down prevail. The boom has trickled are at the side of General De H itle r's ta k in g pow er in 1933. the fascist demagogues. contractors who monopolize with Massu!’ Gaulle in action.” By “action” deadly geometric ratio with respect and seek some m ilitary down to the working class and The Social Democratic leaders some 80% of all weapons con­ Mollet meant approving De If the boom checked this ten­ intelligence about it. “A chagrined European vet­ the farmers and softened some backed Marshal Hindenburg, re­ tracts. All of them held ranks Gaulle’s policies. dency in M a y 1958 and again eran said: ‘You cannot hit chil­ of the worst effects of their pre­ lying on him to stop the Nazis. One person who has acted as a true public servant no lower than that of colonel in during the recent rebellion by d re n .’ ” viously unbearable situation. On The Communist party, too, A few months later Hinden­ should, in a question of such grave consequences, is Richard the Army or A ir Force or cap­ lessening the discontent of the burg handed the power to H it­ C. Bradley, Assistant Professor of Physics, Cornell Univer­ tain in the Navy. petty-bourgeoisie with existing ler, who then subjected the conditions, a downswing of the Here are some typical cases: sity. He wrote a letter to the editor of the New York Times. working class to a blood bath. economy can render the ten­ M a jo r General Edmond H. Here are some extensive quotations from this admirably . . . Deputies OK Dictatorship But the situation in France is dency fully operative. Leavy, now employed by Inter­ different, it will be argued. lucid missive: national Telephone and Tele­ The French working class (Continued from Page 1) eral in Algeria, and Gen. es fro m loudspeakers on the Didn’t De Gaulle stand firm "Take the world population at mid-century (about graph at an annual salary of must prepare without delay to Maurice Challe, commander of barricades about dying rather against the fascists? And wasn’t 2,000,000,000), take the present doubling rate (once every $84,000; General Benjamin W. for independence but the De counter the deepening reaction­ the French army there, to leave than surrendering, arrangements the policy of supporting him fifty years), and project the population indefinitely into the Chidlaw, now drawing $67,000 Gaulle regime itself. Sections of ary trend. The workers need a the city of Algiers where they for surrender were made that successful to that extent? future. We see that by the year 2000 there will be 4,000,000,000 a year from the Thompson, his cabinet and parliament made new leadership armed with a were too susceptible to the in­ night. The high command was people, by the year 2050 there will be 8,000,000,000, and so Ramo-Woolridge Co.; General preparations for jumping onto Though the fascists have revolutionary-socialist program. fluence of the insurrectionists. most generous — officially it was on. Before ten centuries w ill have passed, our descendants can James Doolittle, a $50,000-a- the insurrectionists’ bandwagon. backed down they are by no They need leaders who seek to They moved to a secret head­ not to be a surrender at all but count on having 200,000,000,000 neighbors — which is slightly year man with the same' com­ There could be no mistaking means crushed. Despite the dic­ mobilize the power and m ilit­ quarters twenty-five miles a voluntary transfer to active more than the number of square feet of land surface on earth, pany; Lt. General Kenneth B. the anger of the overwhelming tatorial powers De Gaulle has ancy of the class not just for an southwest of the city. duty with the friendly para­ including the South Pole, the Sahara Desert and Mount Wolfe, Garrett Corp., $50,000; m ajority of the people in France now seized he is unable as a hour but for as long as it takes An appeal by Delouvrier to troopers. Everest." Major General Alfred Boyd, at the uprising. So manifest was capitalist politician to destroy to really dispose of the fascist the Moslems, who constitute Since these paratroopers are the formations of extreme bour­ threa t. Don’t smile. That reveals nothing but'a refusal on your Westinghouse, $50,000; and Lt. this feeling that the fascists in General Clarence S. Irvine, France dared not agitate or dem­ 88% of Algeria's population, to mercenaries whose enlistment geois reaction. Alexander Werth, part to face reality. If you won’t heed now, just “sit tight demonstrate on De Gaulle's term is five years a special for instance, notes in the Feb. 6 A vco Corp., $46,000. onstrate on the scale of 1958 Advertisement for yet another thousand years” and see what happens. As when a similar insurrection behalf fell on deaf ears. A provision was made by which Nation that De Gaulle is said Mills' Observation similar attempt by the colons the insurgents would become to have s h ifte d some 1,400 o f­ Prof. Bradley notes, having wisely anticipated the probable brought De Gaulle to power. It I f Negro History Week re ­ lo organize a Moslem demon­ special attached units with a ficers with fascist leanings out reaction of the ignorant and the light-minded; “there w ill In his book, “The Power was clear that the Algiers plot­ stration failed miserably. six-month enlistment period. of Algeria after May 1959. And minds you to fill in some of Elite,” C. W right M ills made the ters could win in France only by then be 2,000,000 people per square foot.” still the army wavered between those gaps in your knowledge, following instructive observa­ fighting a civil war — a terrible On Jan. 29 De G a u lle m ade a During the night all insurrec­ That ought to bring you up short. What do you pro­ the colons and Paris at the here’s a good list of books to tion on the sociological meaning risk, because if they lost, the televised speech announcing that tionists who wished to escape pose to do with that problem in your lap? Try to jam height of the recent crisis. New start studying. of the intimate ties between the victor on the field would be an he would not back down on his were permitted to do so — this shifts w ill not remove the threat 2,000,000 people into one square foot? Obviously, you’ll corporations and the m ilitary: armed working class. “self-determination” plan for included two of the three prin­ of a new coup. A working-class Start with These agree, it would be physically difficult, not to speak of the “It is difficult to avoid the In 1958 the F re n ch ca p ita lists, Algeria. He denounced the in­ cipal fascist leaders. On Feb. 1, offensive, leading to the creation inference that the warlords, in sections of the government bur­ surgent leaders and said the Negroes on the March — A objections you’d get from the 2,000,000. Therefore, you’ve the insurgents came marching of a socialist government, alone their trade of fame for fortune, eaucracy and Roman Catholic army must put them down. He Frenchman's Report on the got to make more room. How? Prof. Bradley says that a out of their redoubt like con­ can break up and disarm the are found useful for the cor­ hierarchy had taken advantage reiterated that he would not ne­ American Negro, b y D a n ie l quering heroes. As crowds fascist concentrations. member of Congress, described as a “student of space,” poration executives more be­ of the Algiers coup to bring to gotiate with the FLN leaders of G u e rin . C lo th $1.50, pa pe r $1. cheered they saluted and Nor is there the slightest as­ suggested that the extra people could be shipped off to cause of whom they know in the power a figure whose record and the Moslems before there had Black Reconstruction in marched to the trucks waiting to surance that the next time the other planets. “Let’s look at that,” the physics professor military and what they know policy they well knew. If the been a cease-fire and that the America — 1860-1880, b y W. take them off to their paratroop­ fascists bid for power, De Gaulle of its rules and ways than be­ 1960 A lg ie rs coup w e re to o v e r­ army would supervise the “self- E. B. D uB ois. $3.95. coolly suggests: er pals. will be able to force them to cause of what they know of throw the genera), who would determination” vote in Algeria Caste, Class & Race — A "Just to maintain the present status quo we would have- Those who did not wish to finance and industry proper ... succeed him? The discredited (four years after the French w ill Study in Social Dynamics, b y to export 100,000 persons each day (present daily net increase). go were allowed to put down “ The increased personnel right-wing politician, Bidault? have decided peace has been re­ Oliver Cromwell Cox. $3.75. Assuming each person weighs 150 pounds and is permitted to their guris and simply walk traffic that goes on between the Gen. Massu or some other gen­ stored). Thaddeus Stevens, b y R a lp h carry an additional fifty pounds of food, clothes and knick- away. military and corporate realms, eral? Were such m ilitary figures Korngold. A biography of one knacks, we find that the daily cargo comes to about 10,000 Following this speech, army Subscribe! ho w e ver, is m ore im p o rta n t as politically capable and trust­ About 420 got into the trucks, of the toughest political fight­ tons — approximately the weight of a Liberty ship." headquarters in Algeria appear­ To keep up with the real one clue to a structural fact but their term of enlistment was ers in the history of the strug­ worthy or incompetents and ad­ ed to have decided to wind up meaning of big events at Why this expert on population explosion thinks we about the United States than as quickly whittled down. Three gle for Negro equality. $1.69. venturers unable to control the the insurrection. National home and abroad, you need an expeditious means of hand­ hundred of them were back in The Strange Career of Jim should send valuable food, clothes and knickknacks into situ a tio n ? guardsmen, who constituted a the Militant. Try it for six ling war contracts. Back of this Algiers the next night. C row , by C. Vann Woodward. outer space along with the excess humans is not clear. A The risks were loo great, the large part of the insurgents, months. Send your name and shift at the top, and behind the Two days later reports had it A brief account of segrega­ desirability of concluding the were ordered to report to their address and $1. Freudian might ascribe it to an unconscious streak of increased m ilitary budget upon expensive and hopeless Al­ units, civilian crowds were for­ that less than 50 were still with tio n . $1.19. humanism that broke through to the surface. Fortunately which it rests, lies the great gerian w ar w ith concessions bidden to congregate at the bar­ the paratroopers and their term The Militant Tender Warriors, b y D o ro ­ it was not strong enough to block the stream of scientific structural shift of modern short of independence loo ricades, etc. But the next day of active duty, “fighting the 116 University PL thy Sterling. Story and pic­ American capitalism to a per­ thought: great, for the French capitalist the military’s intention was fellaghas,” was being reduced to N ew Y o rk 3, N .Y . tures of the Little Rock strug­ manent war economy.” "The Congressman would do well to get his bill approved class to take the gamble pro­ again in doubt because the or­ two months. gle fo r school in te g ra tio n . $.59. Dr. Mills adds, “. . . as the Enclosed is $1 for a six- soon, for if it is delayed fifty years (while people ponder posed by the fascists and army ders had not been enforced. Only one person, Pierre Lag- The Class Struggle Road to economy has become concen­ months trial subscription. where lo get enough fuel for this program or where to find brass. Paratroopers again permitted aillarde, leader of the fascist Negro Equality. A resolution trated and incorporated into a habitable planet) the daily cargo will have increased to Jeune Nation group, was ex­ o f th e Socialist W o rke rs great hierarchies, the military De Gaulle ordered police raids crowds to ignore the curfew and 20,000 ions." empted from the honors accord­ N a m e ...... p a rty . 25 cents. has become enlarged and de­ on offices and homes of fascist to pass through their ranks. ed the insurgents by the army The Struggle for Negro Clearly we face an enemy of baffling nature. He seems cisive to the shape of the entire leaders in France. To show his On Jan. 31, howe ver, the units brass. Apparently on De Gaulle’s S tre e t ...... E quality, by John Saunders economic structure; and, more­ “im partiality” he had police con­ of the notorious Tenth Para- to have breached our defenses in such subtle fashion that insistence, he was arrested and and Albert Parker. 10 cents. over, the economy and the m ili­ fiscate several issues of the Com­ troop Division were replaced by we are scarcely a.ware of the sw iftly mounting danger. High sent to France. tary have become structurally munist party newspaper L’Hu- units composed mainly of draft­ C i t y ...... Z o n e ...... Pioneer Publishers time that our best minds began grappling with the im­ and deeply interrelated, as the manite and other antifascist ees. T he ord ers w e re enforced 116 University Place W hy not pass this copy of the mensely difficult problem of what to do! economy has become a seeming­ journals. He ordered Paul De- and though the fascist leaders S tate ...... New York 3. N.Y. (Next week: Closing in on the enemy.) ly permanent war economy.” louvrier, France’s Delegate Gen- still made melodramatic speech- Militant on to a friend? Monday, February 8, 1960 T H E MILITANT Page T h ree

Subscription: $3 a year; Ca­ Second class postage paid nadian. $3.50; foreign, $4.50. t h e MILITANT at New York, N. Y. The American Editor: JOSEPH HANSEN Managing Editor: DANIEL ROBERTS Business Manager: KAROLYN KERRY Published weekly by the M ilitant Publishing Assn., 116 University Pl., N.Y. 3, N.Y. Phone: CH 3-2140. Signed articles by contributors do not necessarily represent the M ilitant’s policies. These are expressed in editorials. Way of Life Vol. X X IV — No. 6 Monday, February 8, 1960 Security Begins in the Cradle And "Peaceful Coexistence"? So the rich don’t have problems! A ll you show when you say that is your ignorance. You never had to cut your What happened to “peaceful coexist­ The status quo thus steadily altered teeth on a silver spoon. To get a better appreciation of the ence” during those tense eight days the from the possibility of an easy socialist headaches of the rich, I’d like* fascist-minded colons ruled Algiers from victory toward a fascist “solution” of the to recommend an important and retreat with a Wedgwood blue their barricades? It seemed to vanish com­ class struggle. France was at the brink of informative article by Martha and white color scheme, gold- pletely from the press as the world waited this in 1958. The installation of De Gaulle’s Weinman in the Jan. 31 mag­ plated fixtures and, of course, azine of the New York Times. mirrored walls.” for the French generals to make up their regime constituted recognition of this fact. Emilia Bellini takes another minds whether now was the time to topple It registered the new status quo of a “3-Year-Olds in $200 Dresses” is th e title . approach to the same difficult De Gaulle. France teetering at the edge of civil war. “The Fifth Avenue depart­ problem. This shop does not Izvestia, newspaper of the Soviet gov­ De Gaulle’s job was to maintain “peaceful ment store executive who de­ have a Talcum Pow der Room> ernment, even permitted itself an irritated coexistence” by keeping the new relation clared recently that fashion "but it does have christening dresses at $1,100, the theory remark Jan. 28: “It is no wonder that the begins in the bassinet was, re­ of class forces in balance. being, perhaps, that the soon­ outbreak continues spreading like an epi­ grettably, serious,” says Miss The balance, however, did not remain Weinman. “It takes no more er one learns the feel of a demic when no steps are taken against it.” fixed despite the appearance of frozen im ­ than a short stroll through any good fabric the harder it will That observation, made at the height of the be to forget." mobility since 1958. Working-class politi­ one of the ’city’s poshier baby crisis, offers an ironic commentary on how boutiques, w h e re tra d e is no w What you can run up against cal strength declined still further as the is indicated by the experience utopian Khrushchev’s slogan of “peaceful brisk in resort wear for 2-year- labor leaders supported De Gaulle. Proof of a Fifth Avenue furrier who coexistence” is in the real world of the olds, to realize that fashion of this was the explosion in Algeria. plates nowadays are, if not born, does a “thriving business in class struggle. little girls’ m ink coats, at $1,800 The lesson about the suicidal folly of at least being made while they The insurrection in Algiers also offers are weaned. apiece, but. doesn’t particularly fresh evidence of the treacherous character workers seeking to maintain a reactionary enjoy, it. Making mink for a 3- On Cool Side year-old, it seems, is a hazard­ of the slogan. At the close of World War status quo applies in the world arena, too. The working class faces further weakening ous race against time, since she ll, the only significant power in France “In Central Park, little girls may have outgrown it before was that of the armed working class. For and ultimate catastrophe if it permits itself with imported tweeds . . . eye her monogram has been sewn each other in frigid appraisal. several years the workers sought repeated­ to believe Khrushchev’s propaganda that into the lining.” At those East Side birthday par­ ly to establish a government of their own. the enmity of American big business for Even worse are the abrupt "Such expression! He's just the artist to do your portrait, dear." ties attended by junior editions shifts in style. This year’s fash­ However, the bureaucratic leadership at the Soviet Union can be transformed into of the Social Register, 4-year- willingness to coexist peacefully. ionable look for the 3-year-0ld, the head of the major working-class politi­ olds wear pinafores custom- for example, was described by cal parties and the trade unions chose to American capitalism is as determined m ade b y top designers w ith as one designer as “a little bit of much nonchalance as a society follow a policy of maintaining the status to settle accounts eventually with the Victorian coupled with a touch Collusion of FBI with Racists matron sporting a little black of exotic French, with some quo; that is, “peaceful coexistence” with Soviet bloc as the French capitalists are to nothing of a $300 dress.” crush the working-class movement in casual California thrown in.” the capitalists. New York's better shops. Who knows what the combina­ The result was the weakening of work­ France. Miss Weinman found, are do­ tion w ill be next season? ing-class political strength and the bolster­ Without the most determined struggle Detailed at D.C. Rights Hearing ing commendable work in Back of it all, naturally, is to ing of the capitalist parties, with extreme for socialism by the workers of all coun­ aiding the mother who real­ be found intense concern that WASHINGTON, D. C. — Fif­ “For those who passed the that voting issue, you w ill come izes that "it is never too soon today’s young rich people should reaction the ultimate beneficiary. Today, tries — a struggle which Khrushchev op­ teen hundred persons who jam­ first test in this trial, there is up with a necktie around your to start teaching a child that enjoy a normal, healthy devel­ as the events in Algeria eloquently testify, poses w ith his slogan of “ peaceful coexist­ med the A s b u r y Methodist another test that must be passed neck.’ the best things in life are opment. A manufacturer of a fascist victory has become a real possi­ ence” — American imperialism w ill again Church here yesterday for the . . . That test is taking dictation ". . . because of this voting wearable." baby clothes told Miss Wein­ bility in France. take us to the brink of war. first hearing of the Volunteer from the registrar as she reads issue, my mother was run Bergdoff Goodman, for ex­ man: “I sometimes think that Civil Rights Commission heard the Constitution. In this test, you down with a two-and-a-half ample, offers “a designer label what’s wrong with kids psychol­ the moving story of ten Negroes fail if you do not dot an ‘I ’ o r ton truck . . . m y m other was dress for $150 (this, of course, is ogically is the parents putting deprived of their right to vote cross a ‘T.’ When trying to keep in the yard and this guy, this for the copy; the original costs them into any old thing. If a Not Unexpected in five Southern states and the up with the reading by the man, with the two-and-a-half $225). Admittedly, such prices little girl doesn’t look smart she District of Columbia. registrant, the fact that she reads ton truck, was riding eight or are only for the important-oc­ doesn’t feel smart. She never The uprising of the colons in Algeria are presented with a true alternative — A panel headed by Methodist too fast or that you need time nine miles an hour. He hit casion clothes . . . For the every­ gets to develop what you might may have come as an unexpected shock an independent counteroffensive against Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam heard to think of any spelling of words me and w ent across to m y day dress worn by a 3-to-6-year- call a sense of emotional secur­ to many people. Readers of the Militant, De Gaulle . . . the French working class a detailed description of the is not taken into considera­ mother's yard and ran over old — that is, the dress in which ity. Then she grows up, and tion . . .” she w ill go to nursery school or what have you got? A neurotic, however, were not caught unawares. We w ill be limited to grudging support of the harassment and economic re­ her." prisals suffered by Negroes who Curry F. Boyd is a Tennessee cavort about the house — the that’s what.” began warning about the dangerous ten­ Mrs. Jewell Mazique of the ‘lesser evil’ — today the Bonapartist De have fought for their right to high school teacher. He lives in average price in this store is Concern for the parents and Washington Elks Civil Liberties dency toward fascism in France some Gaulle instead of the semifascist Soustelle register and vote in the South. Haywood County which has a $35.” their problems is evident, too. League delivered a damning in­ tim e ago. and the paratroop General Massu.” Sponsored by sixteen southern population of 26,000 of which Considerable effort is made A designer, speaking “unofficial­ dictment of the political and eco­ For example, Murry Weiss wrote Nov. In the same way, an editorial in the integration organizations, the a p p ro x im a te ly 18,000 are N e ­ to compensate for the emotional ly but from the heart,” put it nomic exploitation of Negroes hearing was originally slated to groes. “We have not had a single insecurity such prices can (his way: “A well-dressed little 23, 1953, “We have already commented in summer 1958 issue of the International So­ and poor whites in the nation's be held at the Vermont Avo. Negro registered in Haywood arouse. “Bergdoff’s sm allest girl enhances her mother’s ap­ previous articles on the ominous signs of a cialist Review declared: “If De Gaulle’s capital and vigorously blasted Baptist Church. Permission to county since the Reconstruction customers shop in style; any pearance. She complements the “those ‘phony northern liberals’ counter-revolutionary mobilization around accession to power is the ‘moderate’ be­ use the church was withdrawn Days,” he said. “When we reg­ toddler who wants to freshen parent as effectively as a dia­ a military-colonialist clique in France, ginning of totalitarian rule in France it after the ultra-reactionary radio istered our charter in the court­ who masquerade as civil rights, up a bit may retire to the Tal­ mond clip or a poodle.” exponents.” — Alex Harte highly reminiscent of the Franco gang in does not take much perspicacity to fore­ and newspaper commentator, house, a white man took his cum Powder Room, an elegant Spain. It would be folly to ignore these cast what extremes the next stages can Fulton Lewis, Jr., launched a stick and beat one of our mem­ signs. They are a warning to the working b rin g ...” red-baiting attack against spon­ bers, who went to pick up the sors of the hearing. Singled out charter, to the extent he had to In Other Lands class — in the struggle against capitalism De Gaulle’s rule was analyzed as for special attention was Carl receive stitches on his face. Oth­ it is victory or death.” Bonapartistic and the broad history of this Braden, one of the principal or­ er members of our organization When De Gaulle took power, the form of rule was outlined. “The Bonapar­ ganizers of the project. were made to move — those who Thousands Purged by Trujillo American press hailed it as “proof of the tist of today,” said the editorial, “ . . . tries A field organizer for the were tenant farmers were made The Jordan forms part of Is­ profoundly democratic basis and structure to keep the polarizing class forces in some Southern Conference Educa­ to move. Others were fired out­ Catholic Bishops them in planes proceeding from tional Fund, Braden has been rig h t . . . rael’s frontier. American bases. of France.” (New York Times, June 8, kind of balance, no matter how precarious, Arab News and Views quotes victimized by racist authori­ Score Dictator This is one of the items be­ 1958.) while the fascist drilling and recruiting “We have had all kinds of a recent article in the Cario ties in Louisville and by the hind the justifiable suspicion in threats . . . W e have been de­ Over 3,000 Dominican citizens newspaper A l Gomhouria which The Militant took a different view. goes on.” House Un-American Activities Cuba that Eisenhower’s pro­ nied loans from banks and have been jailed recently and asks “What are the dangers John Thayer, for instance, wrote June 9, De Gaulle’s coming to power, the Committee for his militant in- nouncements of friendship are most of the business places are suffering from lack of food which face the Arabs if Israel tegrationist activities. not sincere. 1958: “Far from ringing down the final editorial said, “marks a qualitative turning will not deal with our mem­ and from mistreatment, accord­ succeeds in implementing the bers any more. Back in 1940. curtain, De Gaulle’s capture of the pre­ point — the end of capitalist democracy in Typical Story ing to Nicolas Silfa, president scheme? miership has only opened the turbulent France, the beginning of totalitarianism. one of the citizens was lynched of the Dominican Revolutionary “Firstly, Jordan would be de­ China and Burma drama . . . De Gaulle is starting off as the This holds true no matter what delays may A typical story of the methods because he wanted to vote. party, who is in exile in New prived of her main water re­ used to prevent Negroes from The FBI investigated this and Reach Agreement classical type of Bonapartist rule . . . But occur in liquidating the more important Y o rk . sources on which she depends registering was told by Miss Fi­ they investigated the investi­ From Port-au-Prince, Haiti, for irrigating vast areas in the such a regime today can only be transition­ conquests of democracy and no matter how delia Jo Anne Adams, a student gation . . . We have had visits fu tu re . On Border Dispute reports have filtered through al. De Gaulle has long legs but they cannot moderate may be the opening period of at the Tuskegee Institute in A la­ from the [Civil Rights] Com­ that 1,500 persons were arrested “Secondly, Israel would be The People’s Republic of bama. Miss Adams described her mission but so far, we still forever span the growing gap between the decree rule. Unless the workers call a halt in recent weeks, many of them able to realize her dream of re­ China and Burma have made a experience A ug . 4, 1958, in the don’t have any Negroes reg­ classes in France.” to the Bonapartist development by vigor­ young people. claiming and populating the partial settlement of the border istered." office of the Macon County Negev Desert. dispute that has flared periodic­ A week later, June 16, Thayer wrote: ously pressing for the alternative of so­ Opposition to Trujillo’s mur­ Board of Registrars: “Upon en­ The most tense moment of the “Thirdly, the project would ally between the countries since “The possibility exists that the forces in cialism, fascism w ill sweep France.” derous rule has apparently be­ tering the office, I was request­ hearing came with the testi­ help Israel stand on her own 1957. Each side yie ld e d te r r ito r y come so extensive that the six Algeria might yet attempt to establish The uprising in Algeria was another ed to be seated, given two pen­ mony of John McFerren of Fay­ feet economically, which in to the other involving several Catholic bishops in the Domini­ their own direct m ilitary rule over France indication of the pertinency of that cils, paper . . . and told to copy, ette County, Tenn. As he told turn would increase her m ilitary hundred square miles and a can Republic issued a pastoral in the near future . . . Unless the workers analysis. in its entirety, Article II of the the story of the harrowing ex­ strength and whet her appeti- number of villages. The two letter read in all the Roman United States Constitution. periences suffered by himself, tite for a new invasion of Arab countries also signed a ten-year Catholic churches pleading for “After I had completed this his fam ily and friends as a re­ territory.” non-aggression pact. Negotia­ those in jail. task I had approximately eight sult of their organized fight for tions took place in Peking be­ China Serves Notice pages of longhand. I gave these voting rights, he became so The bishops declared their Planes Continue tween Premier Chou En-Iai of W ith disarmament talks scheduled to is decided by the United States and Soviet pages to one of the two Board choked w ith emotion that he had solidarity with “many families” China and General Ne Win, Pre­ of Registrars . . . In January to temporarily leave the witness bereaved. They declared them­ To Set Fires in mier of Burma. begin this month, Foreign Minister Chen governments. 1959, a fte r not h e a rin g fro m the selves in favor of such personal stand. The boundary settlement im ­ Y i of the Chinese People’s Republic served It is against this kind of double-dealing Board of Registrars, I wrote a rights as freedom of speech and Cuba's Cane Fields plies China’s recognition of the notice Jan. 21 that . . any international formal letter of complaint to the FBI "Investigation" assembly and in effect scored that Chen Yi’s warning is directed. And Counter - revolutionaries, ap­ McMahon Line as Burma’s Attorney General of the State of Trujillo for suppressing them. disarmament agreement which is arrived quite properly, we believe. He described how, after count­ parently based in Florida, have northern frontier. At the same A la ba m a. O n J a n u a ry 23, I re ­ News of the pastoral letter was at without formal participation of the First, Peking’s stand is in accordance less runarounds, the people of been flying in small planes over time in the swap of territories, ceived a reply from this letter barred from the Dominican Chinese People’s Republic or signature of with the democratic right of the Chinese his county had filed a federal Cuba’s sugar-cane fields drop­ Burma acquires land previously in which it was stated that this press. ping incendiary materials. its delegates cannot . . . have any binding people to be represented by their own suit. “During the federal suit, leased from China, through matter would be given the prop­ the FBI came out in the field and T he b ish o p s’ declaration Due to the alertness of the. which Burma has built an im­ force on China.” government in international relations and er consideration of this office. investigated me. When they in­ “served to confirm reports re­ field workers, most of the result­ portant road. As of this date, I have had no ing fires have been contained On the same day, Secretary of State not by the government of some other coun­ vestigated me, he brought back ceived by Dominican revolution­ China w ill probably use the other communications from fairly quickly. Herter, testifying before the Senate For­ try . the report and gave the report ary organizations in New York pact with Burma as a model for either the Board of Registrars The losses, however, have eign Relations Committee, stated that the Second, China’s defense needs are not to the sheriff. That put me on of a serious uprising in the re­ negotiations of the frontier dis­ nor the office of the Attorney been mounting. For the past the hot dog stand. public recently,” says W ill Liss- pute with India. The Chinese participation of the Chinese People’s Re­ identical with those of the USSR. A U.S. G eneral ...” several weeks, scarcely a day ner in. the Feb. 3 New York have indicated a willingness to public was “inevitable” if a disarmament agreement to dismantle all or some of the "Johnson was the FBI man. passes without news in the Cu­ Times. “As a result of the rising, recognize the M cM a h o n L in e as Shook His Finger He gave the report to the ban press of fires that have con­ agreement were to be concluded between m ilita ry bases threatening the Soviet thousands of Dominicans in India’s northeast border in ex­ sheriff and immediately after sumed areas that would have East and West. Union might not affect bases specifically A vivid description of the business and the professions...' change for India granting China then, my life was threatened." yielded hundreds of tons of Does this mean that Herter recognized rigged voting tests for Negroes have been reported arrested.” territory in the northwest where aimed at the Chinese People’s Republic. (At this point Mr. McFerren sugar. the justice of Chen Y i’s stand? No. Accord­ Third, the Chinese government has was offered by Mrs. Louise Las­ was unable to continue.) China has built a road. siter of Seaboard, North Caro­ Jordan River Plan The Feb. 3 issue of Revolución ing to Neal Sanford of the Christian Sci­ indicated important differences with the When he resumed testifying, lina. Despite fierce intimidation. carries photographs of two in­ McFerren said: “From that day Communist Party ence Monitor, the State Department’s po­ Soviet evaluation of current American Mrs. Lassiter has been waging a Seen as Cause of cendiary bombs found by two to this, my wife and fam ily and sition is that until “one knows whether foreign policy. The Soviet leaders say that court fight since 1956 for her workers. One of them had not myself were threatened. And Loses Kerala Vote the Soviets (that is, the Communist world) American big-business policy makers now r ig h t to vote. In 1958, h e r a t­ Israel-Syria Strife yet exploded; the other was this FBI man who came to in­ torney, James R. Walker, Jr., partially burned. In the Kerala elections, Feb. are ready to discuss disarmament seriously genuinely seek peace, whereas the Chinese vestigate the rights to vote, he The incidents leading to the was convicted of “assaulting” a present conflict between Israel Made of wood, they carried a 2, the anti-Communist-party al­ it is not necessary to admit Communist leaders say that despite the Eisenhower was a native of Fayette County white woman at the board of and Syria (with United Arab detonating device and a m ixture lia n ce w o n 89 o f th e 126 seats China to the talks.” administration’s peace talk, U.S. ruling . . . I was on the hot dog stand. registration because he shook Republic troops mobilizing also of explosives and phosphorus. in the state assembly. The CP That is where I was. . . . Sanford quotes State Department press circles are still preparing for war. Ob­ his finger at her during an argu­ on the Egyptian border) stem The printing on the exterior was w o n 28 and others had 3. S ix officer Lincoln T. White: “ . . . if substantial viously, a difference of this kind precludes ment about her refusal to reg­ “When we go to register, the from farming-right disputes in in English, clearly visible in the constituencies are as yet unre­ progress is made toward a workable . . . the Soviet leaders from adequately negoti­ ister Negroes. landlord would walk up and the no-man’s land between the photographs. po rte d. Mrs. Lassiter told the com­ down to see if any of his tenants Syrian and Israeli armies. The continued forays have Though it lost control of the disarmament program, that is the time to ating for the Chinese. were in line. When they go to mission that Negroes are sub­ However, the underlying is­ been a source of much irritation state assembly which it had consider participation by other countries, We believe it is high time the State register, the sheriff calls the mitted to “a trial,” not a test. sue appears to be tenseness over to Cuba. gained in 1957, the CP kept including Red China.” Department stopped acting as if the gov­ names and calls the landlords, “The first step,” she said, “in the Jordan River. The Feb. 1 It appears strange to a public about the same proportion of the Under this formula, Washington in­ ernment of 650 million people, created by this trial for registration, she and the landlord would make Arab News and Views published quite aware of the efficiency of popular vote — about 35%. The tends to treat the Soviet delegates as a great social revolution, either didn’t gives you a copy of the Consti­ him move that night. . . . by the Arab Information Center the American government in fact that the Congress, Praja spokesmen for the Chinese. The further exist, was doomed to disappear shortly, or tution to read from and you be­ “They call my wife over the in New York states that “Cairo’s hounding “subversives” that .it Socialist and Moslem parties formed an electoral bloc against implication is that Washington w ill not constituted a branch office of the Kremlin. gin reading until she says stop, telephone. They groan over the newspapers are giving banner should prove so inefficient in and you ask her, did you pass; telephone like someone died. . . headline play to Israel’s an­ preventing counter-revolution­ the CP gave them the victory. agree to seat the Peking representatives Let’s recognize the People’s Republic of and she says, no. You mispro­ A n d I, myself, was threatened nounced intention of. diverting aries from manufacturing incen­ The Revolutionary Socialist unless they accept in advance whatever China and end the economic blockade. nounced a w o rd . . .” . . . ‘I f y o u keep moving with waters of the Jordan River.” diary bombs and delivering party, obtained one seat. Letters from Our Readers t h e MILITANT VOLUME XXIV MONDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1960 N U M B E R 6 Robert Williams the side of state officials and state commerce, a federal in­ other racists because of his vestigation should be demanded Target of New anti - segregation activity. He to determine if these companies was the organizer of the suc­ have joined in a conspiracy for Isn’t It High Time? Harassment cessful fight, which assumed in­ economic harassment of inte- Minor Parties ternational proportions, for the grationists. Editor: release of the two Negro boys, Laborers Union Or, in the case of Williams, Your readers should know Maintain Ballot eight and nine years old, who does the cancellation of his pol­ that Robert Williams, the, m ilit­ had been sent to a reformatory icy indicate that the company ant civil-rights leader in Mon­ because one of them had kissed has marked him as a “poor risk” Rights in Minn. roe, N.C., is being subjected to a seven-year-old white girl. because it is privy to informa­ a new harassment. His weekly Williams became the center MINNEAPOLIS — An appar­ tion of white-supremacist plans In Detroit Elects newsletter, the Crusader, re­ of wide controversy last year ent move to bar minor party of violence? ports that his auto insurance when the national officers of presidential nominees from the policy has been cancelled des­ the N A A C P suspended h im as I would also like to suggest, Minnesota state ballot has been pite the fact that he has had no president of the Union County for those who may be interested, dropped. Despite omission of accidents or driving violations. branch because of his call for that the Crusader, published by provisions in the current elec­ Negro President His insurance was similarly Southern Negroes to organize Mr. Williams, is an excellent tion law for the nomination of cancelled about a year and a to defend themselves against source of information on cur­ independent candidates by pe­ DETROIT — Negro members of Laborers Union Local half ago after he had organized racist attack. He has since been rent developments on the South­ tition, Attorney General Miles 334, AFL-CIO, scored a major victory in their fight for equal the Monroe Negro community re-elected. ern integration front. Published Lord has ruled that minority for self-defense against KKK The cancellation of his insur­ weekly, a six-month subscrip­ parties may continue to secure a union rights when they elected Adam White, a Negro, raiders. Protests at that time ance is particularly important tion is $2.50 and one year is ballot place through that means. president of the local. $4.75. The address is: The Cru­ White had led a five-year bat- including one from a northern since the same thing has been On Dec. 30, state election offi­ labor union, persuaded the sader, 410 North Boyte Street, tle in the 4,000-member local of done to other m ilitant southern cer Tom Kelly had advised the Ask President company to reinstate his policy. civil-rights fighters. It seems to Monroe, N.C. construction workers against the press that “A thorough study of Since then Williams has be­ me that since these insurance J. T. discriminatory job placement the revised election laws indi­ come increasingly a thorn in companies are engaged in inter­ N ew Y o rk practices attributed to Andrew cates that only the two major To Free Sobell McFarlane, for twenty-one years parties to have presi­ president of the local. Fifteen prominent Israeli citi­ dential electors on the ballot in McFarlane was forced to an­ zens have joined the lengthy list Minnesota.’’ nounce his resignation after of clergymen, lawyers and edu­ This statement was based on White led a well-organized mass cators in an appeal to President Was the Sentence Death? the action of the state legislature picket line of Negro members, Eisenhower for the immediate which, in revising the election release of Morton Sobell. By Flora Carpenter who are a m ajority of the local, law, simply dropped the provis­ in front of the union hall last Dr. E. J. Jarus, of Tel Aviv ion whereby minority parties August. McFarlane and other who is Chairman of the Israeli Henry Winston, a Communist party leader Norman Thomas, and Rev. A. J. Muste spoke may win a place on the ballot officers were barred from enter­ League for the Rights of Man, imprisoned as a witch-hunt victim under the in support of the parole plea. by submitting the signatures of ing the hall. informed Eisenhower that the Smith Act, is in critical condition after a brain Meanwhile, Winston’s family and friends, 2,000 voters. The demonstrators charged Jewish leaders subscribed to a tumor operation Feb. 2 at Montefiore hospital fearful that any further delay in getting him In a statement the same day, that while there was unemploy­ recent appeal for presidential in the Bronx, N. Y. If he survives, thanks go to expert professional attention might prove fatal, Vincent R. Dunne, state chair­ ment among Negro members, clemency signed by Lord Bert­ John J. Abt, his attorney, his family and asked Roger N. Baldwin, former head of the man of the Socialist Workers off-duty cops and teachers were rand Russell of England and friends. Together, they battled federal prison American Civil Liberties Union, to intercede party announced that the party handed job assignments by Martin Buber of Israel “in the authorities whose negligence and indifference with Bennett. As a result, but not without would make a full-scale fight business agents of the local. interest of Morton Sobell, now prevented the sick man from receiving proper further red tape, Abt managed to get Winston against the attempted ban. The pickets announced they imprisoned for more than eight medical attention at a time when every minute moved to New York for surgery on a “transfer In New York on Jan. 4, Roland . . . Detroit Steel Strike would keep the hall shut down years and condemned to a thirty counted. in custody.” Watts, legal director of the until McFarlane agreed to ne­ years sentence. . .” For several months Winston had suffered That was still not the end. After arriving American Civil Liberties Union, (Continued from Page 1) J a n u a ry 1959 safe ty agreem ent; gotiate to end the discriminatory from “bad headaches, dizzy spells, inability to at Montefiore Jan. 30, from the Springfield hos­ said that the ACLU would sup­ holiday-pay protection and guar­ practices of the union officers. plants, a rank-and-file move­ walk and an eye hemorrhage,” Abt reports. pital, prison guards insisted on remaining in port a legal challenge of such a antees for union representation Faced with this powerful pres­ ment began. This led to a sweep­ Prison officials gave him “some pills which the desperately sick man’s room. They withdrew ballot proscription. on the job. sure McFarlane gave in, an ing victory of a “Rank-and- Calendar turned out to be dramamine” (a drug generally to the corridors, early Sunday morning, after Verbal agreement was reach­ agreement was reached and a Then, in a legal opinion ad­ File” ticket headed by Adolph used to help victims of dizziness). Abt bitterly protested. ed on some of these questions watchdog committee established dressed to the Secretary of State S ch w a rtz in 1958. When Abt insisted, a month ago, that his One of 11 Communist party leaders, con­ dated Jan. 15, Attorney General by Jan. 26. By a vote of six to to enforce it. client “appeared gravely ill,” prison authorities victed under the infamous Smith “Gag” Act The ticket ran on a program of Of Events Lord ruled that the lack of men­ three the negotiating committee When McFarlane was appoint­ democratic reforms and de­ finally hospitalized Winston and had him ex­ in the 1949 witch-hunt trial before Judge Harold tion of procedure for indepen­ turned the log jam in negoti­ ed international representative, amined by a doctor. Abt then wrote to the Medina, Winston received a five-year prison manded that the contract be ations over to Tom Shane. Under elections were held to fill the dent nominations did not bar the LOS ANGELES Warden at Terre Haute federal penitentiary, term. He jumped bail. For this, an unusual brought up to date on working pressure of the national settle­ vacancy he left. White took a filing and acceptance of the usual Celebrate Negro History Week. where Winston is serving the fourth year of an three-year sentence was added to the five-year conditions. ment, Shane agreed to an ex­ two-week leave of absence from pe titio n s. Hear Geoffrey W. White, social­ eight-year sentence, and James V. Bennett, di­ te rm a fte r his s u rre n d e r in 1956. Schwartz, the local’s president, tension of the old contract. his job to campaign for the office. Lord pointed out that m inority ist writer and educator. “THE rector of the Federal Bureau of Prisons, de­ No decision has yet been reached by the conducted an aggressive cam­ A hastily called meeting for Running against McFarlane’s parties have placed candidates CHANGING NEGRO STRUG­ manding that Winston receive competent medi­ U.S. Parole Board on Winston’s appeal for a paign a year ago to improve the W ednesday m orning, Jan. 27, son-in-law, Robert Ryan, and for the presidency on the state GLE.” Also, first-hand report on cal care. medical parole. The Worker, Communist party clauses on working conditions brought a turnout of almost Sidney Vermett, both local busi­ ballot in every election since racial segregation at Dorsey On Jan. 21 a consultant examined the sick weekly, asks everyone who is against the witch­ in the contract. A standing nego­ 3,000 members. Shane de­ ness agents, he outpolled Ryan 1876 and that there is no legal High School. Questions, discus­ man and had him transferred to Springfield, hunt to write at once to James V. Bennett, di­ tiating committee was elected manded the men return to by two to one and Vermett by basis for now denying them a sion, refreshments. Saturday, Mo., prison hospital for diagnostic tests. Alarmed rector, Federal Bureau of Prisons, Department and rank-and-file recommenda­ work. He was met with a pro­ three to one. He is the first Ne­ ballot place. Feb. 13, 8:15 p.m.. Forum Hall, at the results of these tests, Abt applied for of Justice, Washington. D. C., demanding an tions were included in the pro­ longed roar of indignation. gro to hold a major office in the 1702 East F o u rth St. A uspices: an immediate medical parole. end to this shocking persecution and gross mis­ He said that "in the absence posed changes presented to the After ten minutes of booing union, the largest laborers’ local Socialist Workers party. ANge- At the U.S. Parole Board hearing Jan. 26, carriage of justice by granting an immediate of a clear legislative intent company during negotiations. the demonstration changed to in the city. to deprive minority parties of An especially sharp issue was a chanting demand for A. E. lus 9-4953. Contribution 75 cents. Attorney Conrad Lynn, Rev. Edler D. Hawkins, medical parole to Winston. In a statement after the elec­ • the means of proposing candi­ safety practices. Schwartz to take the floor. tion, White said: “The fight to School of International So­ dates for presidential electors, O n Jan. 8, th e com pany issued Schwartz took the mike and get equal rights in the Union ac­ cialism presents its winter lec­ that the means available to an ultimatum that it would announced that the company tually began five years ago. The ture series. them in the past should be agree, to the “economic package” had withdrawn all its tentative fight isn’t over yet. .There is still Milton Alvin on “THE RUS­ found to be still available." of the Big Eleven, but where a offers, and that only a return to a lo t to be done.” Notes in the News work would bring resumption SIAN REVOLUTION TODAY”: Despite the absence of specific deadlock was reached on con­ "The Soviet Union as a World mention of such provision in the tract changes, the company in­ of negotiations. Another roar of Power — Its Present Position currently revised statutes, he sisted that the wording of the in d ig n a tio n w e n t up. A fte r 2 ½ Strontium Content and Future — 1946 - 1960." S u n ­ LET THE DEBTOR BEWARE — T he F e d ­ as evidence in a Canadian court case. An inter­ ruled that the legislature clearly 1956 co n tra ct should stand. The hours of exhortation and threats day, Feb. 14, 11 a.m. eral Trade Commission has warned against a company memorandum from one brewery to intended that such provisions be issues involve air-conditioning from the rostrum — met with In Milk Increases F o ru m H a ll, 1702 East F o u rth widespread crooked practice used by collection another, the letter described price-cutting as included. “The deletion,” he said, in cranes working in smoky cries of “Are you trying to scare St., Los Angeles 33. Telephone, agencies to learn the place of employment of “the most vicious form of competition that we “was based upon an under­ areas; protective walks around us?” and “We want a settlement FEB. 3 — The U.S. Public in writing!” — Schwartz ad­ Health Service disclosed today AN 9-4953 or WE 5-9238. people who have been hooked on installment- could possibly engage in as eventually nobody standing, however mistaken, that tracks; lunchroom facilities; cor­ • plan buying. The gimmick is to send the debtor benefits but the consumer.” the provision therein regarding rection of foremen’s abuse of journed the meeting. that in the month of October the amount of cancer-breeding N E W Y O R K an official-looking punched card designed to * « * presidential electors . . . was overtime, absence, sickness, etc.; This morning over 3,000 mem­ bers turned out at a Local meet­ s tro n tiu m 90 in m ilk had in ­ Hear CONRAD LYNN, fighter resemble a federal census bureau form. The KILLER ESCAPES DEATH PENALTY — covered under the chapter on a seven-day lim it on temporary ing in River Rouge High School creased in all but one of 12 for civil rights, attorney for the recipient is told: “Return this QUESTION­ Katie Ann Creel, a 17-year-old white girl was presidential electors.” layoff; incorporation of the auditorium. Schwartz presented testing centers. Atlanta, with a Committee to Combat Racial In­ NAIRE form within five (5) days.” Other simi­ sentenced to life imprisonment Jan. 28 by a a motion to return to work and slight decrease, still had the ju stice . "The Impact of Africa on lar forms are headed, “Treasurer’s Office” or Savannah, Ga.. ju ry for the killing of Joel Ross, promised that negotiations highest count in the country. In the Struggle for Negro Equality “Department of Disbursements.” If you get one a Negro teen-ager. The prosecutor described would lead to a quick and satis­ New York and Chicago, the in the U.S." Chairwoman, you may file it you-know-where without pen­ the pistol murder as “a thrill killing . . . the George Goldfarb factory settlement. He accepted strontium count virtually doub­ GLADYS BARKER, New Jersey a lty . most senseless slaying I have ever heard of.” candidate for U.S. senator. F r i­ * * * an amendment for a ten-day ex­ led during the month. * * * tension only, and this was car­ S tro n tiu m 90 is pro du ced b y day, Feb. 12, 8:30 p.m., 116 U n i­ A SLASHING CRACKDOWN — T he N e w THE PRICE OF TRANQUILITY — C IB A Dies in New York ried with a roar of approval. nuclear fallout. The health v e rs ity Place (near Union York Post reports that on Feb. 1 the state Rent Pharmaceutical Products, Inc., demands $39.50 McLouth Steel Corp. then agency says the present increase Square). Contribution 50 cents. Administration “slashed” rents on three rat- On Jan. 31, G eorge G o ld fa rb , a thousand from druggists for one brand of its locked the plant gates, and D i­ is within “safe” limits. Auspices: M ilitant Labor Forum. infested East Harlem tenements because the a revolutionary socialist for tranquilizer tablets. It offered the same tablet rector Shane announced that landlords had ignored orders to cope with the the past twenty-one years, to the U.S. government for 60 cents a thousand the union was on strike with menace. The amount “slashed” from the rent died in New York at the age of in a competitive bid, according to the Senate the full support of the Interna­ was a great big 10%. In a further drastic move, forty-two. He succumbed to Antitrust and Monopoly subcommittee. tio n a l. the agency ordered that the cut be retroactive Hodgkin’s disease — a form of • • * Local Directory to Jan. 28, three days previous. These savings cancer. WIRED FOR SPEED — If you are a belt- in rent should be enough for the tenants to buy George became acquainted line worker don’t be surprised if the foreman BOSTON their own rat traps. with the Socialist Workers . . . Cubans N E W A R K Boston Labor Forum, 295 Hunting­ Newark Labor Forum, Box 361, * » * wants to hook you up to a UNOPAR. That’s a party on the night of Feb. 20, Universal Operator Performance Analyzer and ton Ave., Room 200. Newark, N. J. A FEW GOOD APPLES IN EVERY 1939, w h e n at th e c a ll o f th e ( C o ntin ued fro m Page 1) Recorder. Invented by a couple of professors at. C H IC A G O NEW YORK CITY B A R R E L — Revelations of burglary and other SWP, 50,000 anti-fascists dem­ Socialist Workers Party, 777 W. M ilitant Labor Forum, 116 Unlver- the University of Washington, it’s designed to investors don’t like what he’s crimes committed by members of the Chicago on stra te d outside M adison Adams, DE 2-9736. sity Place, AL 5-7852. help organize assembly lines to “eliminate waste doing . . . but they have huge police force have evoked the usual explanatory Square Garden against the C L E V E L A N D OAKLAND - BERKELEY action.” A small transmitter is attached to the investments which must be statements from authorities. One Chicago citizen Nazi Bund. George was one of Socialist Workers Party 10609 Su­ P.O. Box 341, Berkeley 1, Calif, worker’s wrist and connected by thin wires to protected . . . But, for Negro perior Ave., Room 301, SW 1-1818. PHILADELPHIA insists that an unnamed police official explained the demonstrators. He joined an overhead oscillator that generates sound Americans, Cuba is a real de­ Open Thursday nights 8 to 10. M ilitant Labor Forum and Socialist that you can’t hold the whole force responsible; the party shortly afterwards waves above the audible range, so the noise w ill mocracy, as we conceive the D E T R O IT Workers Party, 1303 W. Girard Ave. not all cops are crooks; among 10,000 there are and plunged into party-build­ w o rd .” Eugene V. Debs Hall, 3737 Wood­ Lectures and discussions every Satur­ not distract the worker. Ultrasonic waves are bound to be a few honest ones. ing activity as a member of the One of the chief criticisms of ward. TEmple 1-6135. day, 8 P.M., followed by open house. » • « transmitted to instruments which record the LOS ANGELES / Brooklyn branch. A year later the Castro regime has been that Call PO 3-5820. motions of the hand, displacement of position, Forum Hall and Modern Book Shop. SAN FRANCISCO COMMUNIST PARTY OFFICIALS IN he became a founding member GEORGE GOLDFARB it has not held elections. E. velocity and acceleration. Reporting this de­ 1702 E. 4th St. AN 9-1953 or WE 5- The M ilitant, 1145 Polk St., Rm. 4, N E W Y O R K — The Jan. 31 issue of the W orker of the Harlem branch. Washington Rhodes, publisher velopment, one union paper noted that all 9238. Sat. 11 A.M. to 3 P.M. Phone PR 6- reported that the New York state committee of George was among the first of the Philadelphia Tribune, re­ that’s missing is an old long-handled broom. branch. Besides his regular M IL W A U K E E 7296; if no answer, VA 4-2321. the Communist party had elected the following to be drafted when Selective ports that perhaps this is impor­ 150 East Juneau Ave. S E A T T L E * • • unstinting contributions to the officers: Clarence Hathaway, chairman; W illiam Service was enacted. He was tant, “but I wondered why all MINNEAPOLIS 1412— 18th Avenue, EA 2-5554. Li­ party, he could always be de­ L . Patterson, vice-chairman; Arnold Johnson, THAT CAMP DAVID SPIRIT — “I wasn’t also among the first American the furor about elections in Socialist Workers Party. 322 Hen­ brary, bookstore. pended on to help comrades in vice-chairman; William Albertson, organiza­ aware of any spirit of Camp David . . . the talks troops invading North Africa. Cuba when there has not been nepin Ave., 2nd floor. Open noon to S T . L O U IS need. 6 P.M. daily except Sundays. For Information phone MO 4-7194. tional secretary; M ilton Rosen, labor secretary; there went on in an atmosphere that was He was wounded on the sec­ an honest election in many of Betty Gannett, educational secretary; Esther personally friendly. That’s all that the spirit ond day of the invasion of He taught classes. Periodic­ the southern states in the U.S.A. of Camp David could be defined.” (Pres. Eisen­ S ic ily in 1943. ally he lectured. His best for almost a hundred years. Cantor, legislative secretary. The Worker also Advertisement Advertisement announced the appointment of James Jackson hower, Feb- 3.) After discharge from the speeches were three talks on “But that is a matter which as editor of the paper. In CP circles the pre­ ... Army, George settled briefly the history of the IWW for America must settle for herself dominance of the names of old-time national DISCOURAGING BOOM — “Bank holdups in San Francisco where he par­ which he spent half a year without any outside interfer­ functionaries was felt to reflect the party’s in­ arc headed for an all-time high. Although 1932 ticipated in the SWP branch gathering material. During the ence. And it would seem to me ability to replenish its local leadership. still holds the record with 554 stick-ups, the and in the Warehouse Local of last year of his stay in Seattle that, the questions of elections * * * statistical count for the year ending August 31, the Longshoremen’s union. In he was elected branch organ­ should be left to the Cuban peo­ Dewey’s Theories SURVIVES OLD-FASHIONED DANGER— 1959, is 346 b a n k rob b e rie s w ith a ta k e o f 1946 he m oved to S ea ttle to izer. ple” Dr. Linus Pauling, the Nobel prize-winning $1,407,000, more than three times the loot of help strengthen the party Illness forced him to drop Most of the visitors expressed chemist who has played an outstanding role in a decade earlier, and the top of the wave is not branch there. out of activity and he return­ a sincere desire to return to warning the world of the dangers of atomic in sight. For eight years, until the ed to New York for treatment. Cuba and enjoy its beauty and fallout, was rescued Feb. 1 after being trapped “What explains this resurgence of a crime onset of his illness, George was During the last year of his warm hospitality again. On Education for 24 hours on a cliff near Monterey, Calif. A that had ceased to pay by the late 1930’s? It is indeed a tower of strength for life, when he was confined to John H. Sengstacke put it: “1 firm believer in safety, he simply wailed for not the old-time professionals who are back socialism in Seattle. He be­ the Veterans Hospital, he liked what I saw.” Dewey’s theories on education have had greater The Chicago Defender has help to arrive after he became lost on a short on the job, but amateurs who wish to short-cut longed to Local 2519 of the spent his time rereading the impact on the thinking of America’s school teachers Lumber and Sawmill Workers’ socialist classics. He kept his chosen Castro to head the "De­ h ike . the banks’ personal-loan department. One ban­ than those of any other modern figure. What were the * * * dit said he robbed to protect his credit rating; Union and functioned at one keen sense of humor to the fe n d e r 1959 H o n o r R o ll” fo r his JUSTIFIABLE INSANITY? — Kenneth A. others say they help the economy by putting tim e as ste w a rd in his p la n t. end, losing it only when the “magnificent and inspiring con­ economic and social forces that gave his ideas such great tribution to the world struggle Johnson, who has an 18-year history as a para­ money into circulation. Three-fourths of the He was a star M ilitant sales­ M ilitant failed to be delivered weight? Why is he still a controversial figure in this field? for freedom and equality by noid schizophrenic, was hospitalized in M in­ lone bandits now robbing banks are not caught. man year after year, selling to him on the day it was due. For a lucid socialist examination of the setting that abolishing segregation and dis­ neapolis Jan. 30 after he stabbed six people. “Worried about the robbery boom, the FBI subscriptions on the job as Then he turned the hospital brought John Dewey into prominence, read W illiam F. well as house to house on crimination throughout Cuba.” Johnson told authorities he stabbed them be­ is urging banks to train their employees in upside down until the missing Warde’s study in the winter issue of the International cause he thought they were Russians and "be­ bandit-resistant techniques. New protective de­ weekends in a dozen working- paper was located. His wish Socialist Review. Send 35 cents for a copy. cause we are at war with Russia.” vices include still and movie cameras that pho­ class neighborhoods. He was a was to live long enough to root Four-Year Persecution * * * tograph the bandit in the act. In Cleveland a good recruiter to the cause of for the SWP candidates The South African “treason” WELL BREWED LOGIC — An editorial in TV showing of a holdup caused a bandit to give socialism . th ro u g h th e 1960 e le ctio n cam ­ trial of opponents of the coun­ International Socialist Review the Montreal Star, reported in the February himself up and discouraged other holdups for Financially, too, George was paign. But the end came too try’s apartheid system entered 116 University Place New York 3. N. Y. Consumers Reports, discusses a letter introduced m o n th s.” — F o rtu n e , J a n u a ry 1960. one of the mainstays of the. q u ic k ly . its fourth year Jan. 18.