Is Lippman Right On "Coexistence"? THE See Page 2 MILITANT PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE INTERESTS OF THE WORKING PEOPLE

Vol. X X III — No. 13 222 NEW YORK, N.Y.. MONDAY, MARCH 30, 1959 Price 10c Detroit Unions Ready Plans on Congress Tapers Off Aid Trip of Jobless DETROIT, March 22—Organizing a delegation to the April 8 unemployment conference in Washington is the main point on the agenda of the union movement here On Eve of* Jobless M eet now. ♦------Last Tuesday a “ b rie fin g ses­ size partly up to the locals. sion” of 1500 UAW local of­ Employed members are being African Leader ficials and representatives was asked to contribute for this purpose—in some locals with Promises addressed by president Walter good results, it is reported. "Our Missile Program Is Swan Reuther and secretary-treasurer Emil Mazey. In addition, some groups more Two days' later the union or­ keenly alert to the unemployed crisis are making donations out To Unions ganized a demonstration and passed out leaflets publicizing of their treasuries, like the trim the conference in front of an unit of Dodge Local 3, which Song," Two Scientists Charge unemployment compensation of­ voted $500. Torn Up fice. These acts of solidarity be­ MARCH 23 — Two leading space scientists and a Later this week mass rallies tween the employed and un­ prominent banker-economist last week charged that the MARCH 28—April Fool's Day will be held on the west and employed auto workers testify Deadlier Than They Admitted U.S. missile and space program is designed to keep the came early for the jobless this east sides of town. to their common desire for an year. Yesterday the Democratic The number of people willing unstable American profit eco- effective fight for jobs and a catastrophe to the American Party "friends of labor" in the to go to Washington greatly ex­ shorter work week. nomy going. capitalist profit system. U.S. Senate followed the ex­ ceeds the number that w ill ac­ “Our missile program is the How effective the Washington ample of the Democratic Party tually board the train leaving swan song of a dying civiliza­ He said, in the words of the conference w ill be is another "friends of labor" in the House here: on April 7. tion”, cried Dr. A. R. J. Grosch Associated Press dispatch, "that story. of Representatives by breaking Mazey told the local repre­ from the floor of a conference if a disarmament agreement Unemployed delegations from their promises to union officials. sentatives that “500 or more” of scientists at California Insti­ were reached next Monday, the unions in 15 cities in the east­ They jammed through a bill to will be sent from Detroit. The tute of Technology «on March nation's economy would go into ern half of the country—“proper­ "taper off" federal aid to the exact num ber w ill depend on 20. “We don’t need better mis­ a tailspin on Tuesday." ly credentialed,” George Meany KWAMI NKRUMAH, Presi­ jobless. This was their alterna­ how much money the locals siles to destroy each other—the “Our economy is not healthy warned in a letter to AFL-CIO dent of the Republic of tive to letting such aid die raise for the purpose, at $22 ones we have now will do the because it is based upon con­ affiliates—will arrive in Wash­ Ghana, was a leading figure abruptly. round-trip fare per person. The job adequately,” said Dr. stant overstimulation of the ac­ ington on the morning of April at the A ll-African People's This pinch of crumbs for the international UAW will pay Grosch, who is manager of quisitive glands,” said Warburg, 8 . Conference at Accra, Ghana, jobless further underscores ■ the only for meals en route, and space programs for the Inter­ “upon a wasteful cult of pre­ There will then be a meeting last December. British imper­ need for a militant mass AFL- the AFL-CIO will pay for box national Business Machines mature obsolescence, and above at the National Guard Armory. ialists allege Nyasaland na­ CIO unemployment demonstra­ luncheons in Washington. Corp., manufacturer of missile all, upon a tacitly assumed con­ It will be addressed by union tionalists hatched "plot" to tion in Washington April 8. Ac­ This puts the delegation’s and space vehicle computers. tinuation of the cold war.” officials and politicians; Reu­ foment force and violence at cording to some top union of­ "And there isn't any point in ther has urged Eisenhower to the conference. "PEACE AN EMERGENCY" ficials, all that’s really neces­ zooming off into outer space. speak. sary is to “wake up” their We could spend the money bet­ So far as can be learned now, This “constant overstimula­ “friends” in Congress to the Flint Jobless there is no plan for a single ter solving problems here at tion of the acquisitive glands,” needs of America’s five million unemployed worker to be heard home— taking care of our over­ w hich W arburg speaks of, is jobless. The present Congres­ "Massacre" crowded, underfed millions. If Sell Apples to at this meeting on unemploy­ nothing less than the private sional action makes clear they ment. we did that, we wouldn't need profit motive. aren’t asleep — they just don’t They will be expected to lis­ to find new worlds to colonize." "We are not prepared and give a damn. ten, applaud at the right places, Plot Alleged Get to Capital "INTERESTED IN PROFIT" are not preparing for peace," The leaders of the Democratic eat their box lunches, get on Warburg said. The country United Auto Worker mem­ Party, who ■ control Congress, the train that afternoon and get Dr. Grosch’s startling expos­ would be paralyzed by a major had pledged that they would bers in Flint, Mich., are selling out of Washington before dark. ure of the meaning of the atom­ depression if actual peace came introduce a bill to extend for apples on the streets to finance In Nyasaland The next day, after they are ic missile war program—an ex­ "before we could even complete one year the March 31 deadline a delegation to the April 8 AFL- gone, a legislative conference of MARCH 24 — Within weeks posure in which he also assail­ plans for dealing with this em­ on the federal emergency pro­ CIO unemployment demonstra­ The U.S. Defense Department now admits that poisonous AFL-CIO officials and represen­ of the exposure of its frame-up ed the corporations for being ergency." gram of supplementing state tion in Washington. tatives will meet to discuss of Jomo Kenyatta, leader of debris from atomic tests is falling to earth far more rapidly “interested primarily not in Peace would confront the unemployment c o m p e psation The first day’s sale, M arch 23,. the, Kenya, independence- move­ what, to ash of the. gov:on;upent. new scientific knowledge but in capitalists with a terrible “em­ then it had- previously "estimated." Sen. Anderson (D-N.M.) benefits. Instead they threw ift netted $450. The union appiè If their approach is like the ment, the British government' their 7 per cent profit”—follow­ ergency,” this astute . financier accused the brass hats of "gagging" the Joint Congressional the present bill which merely vendors ignored a city ordin­ one Reuther took last Tuesday, is attempting a similar frame- ed similar remarks by Dr. Louis warns. And yet, he makes plain, Committee on Atomic Energy in an effort to keep this in­ provides that those drawing ance requiring a license for any they will complain about “Re­ up against the Nyasaland inde­ J. Ridenour Jr., assistant gen­ circumstances may force the federal benefits as of March -31 kind of street sales but were publican inaction” and try to pendence movement. Yesterday formation from the public. eral manager of research and American, ruling class to thaw" will be permitted to finish col­ not interfered with. cover up the refusal of the the Colonial Office in London development in the missiles di­ out the cold war a bit. lecting the maximum of 13 ex­ Thirteen per cent of the FÌint Democratic majority in Con­ published a “White Paper" out­ vision of Lockheed Aircraft tra checks the program pro­ labor force of 140,000 are job­ gress to pass m eaningful legis­ lining an alleged plot by Nyas­ Corporation. Dr. Grosch, in his spontane­ vides. Those whose state bene­ ous outcry before the confer­ less and General Motors has lation for the jobless. aland nationalists to commit Dr. Ridenour, in a speech fits run out on April 1 will be just laid off an additional 5,500 “We must shatter the com­ ence of scientists in Pasadena, Socialists Urge Big wholesale massacre of white from the platform, linked the entitled to nothing. Calif., addressed himself to at its Buick and Fisher Body placency of that man in the settlers — including, of course; missile program to America’s When this “taper-off” mea­ these two horrible alternatives divisions. White House,” Reuther said. women and children. “traditional economy of waste.” sure sailed through the House of the American economic sys­ With relief rolls swollen and Of course Eisenhower can’t Earlier this year, in a sworn He said: last week it was blasted by the the county claiming lack of prevent the Democrats in con­ tem—war or depression. Washington Turnout March 19 Michigan AFL-CIO affidavit, the principal witness, funds, food orders were cut trol of Congress from passing whose testimony sent Kenyatta "ECONOMY OF WASTE" “We are planning to spend News as an “almost meaning­ 10% last week. (Continued on Page 3) to prison for seven years, re­ millions of dollars a year on' DETROIT, March 22 — Candidates of the Socialist less bill.” This union paper' “Wc turn in our cars before Workers Party are urging workers here to send the biggest vealed that he had lied when they are worn out and our na­ new missiles and space probes. easily demonstrated . that the measure is nothing but “stop­ he said that the nationalist tion would go broke if we did­ And I ask why? possible delegation to Washington April 8 to put the heat leader had attended a secret on Congress and the White*------gap unemployment assistance Castro, Kassim Deal Blows n't. Our missile program fits WANT THEIR 7% linked the problem of the un­ “Mau Mau” meeting and ad­ into the system very well. We House for full federal unem­ for a relative handful of the employed in the state to the ministered terrorist oaths. send up missiles that never “Why must we continue to ployment benefits and a shorter nation’s jobless, leaving still un­ school integration fight in the protected the bulk of two mil­ The present White Paper lays come back and so we have to shovel these millions into com­ w ork week. South. She discussed how the lion unemployed currently re­ To Pentagon M ilitary Pacts the ground for similar charges make more missiles. This is panies that are interested pri­ At Dodge Local 3 of the division of Southern white and ceiving no compensation bene­ against Dr. Hastings Banda and fine. It creates jobs and keeps marily not in new scientific United Auto Workers, Rita The U.S. government’s m ilitary pact system received Negro workers is used to main­ fits.” other leaders of the Nyasaland money in circulation. knowledge but in their 7 per Shaw, socialist nominee for the tain an open-shop- haven for two stiff blows last week from Cuba and Iraq. Both African Congress which is de­ cent profit? That 7 per cent Board of Governors of Wayne But perhaps the jobless should "In the not too distant fu ­ runaway plants from the North not be too harsh on the Con­ countries are in the' throes of national independence rev­ manding separation from the alone would go a long way State University, scored the do- ture) man w ill be boarding the and how this intensifies the un­ gressmen who rushed through olutions: ♦ ’ — ;---- Federation of Rhodesia and toward solving the social prob­ nothing policy of Democrats and pound bombs to be used against other fellow's satellites and des­ employment problem. In Cuba, Premier Fidel Cas­ Nyasaland and self - rule for lems that create warfare and Republicans and explained the this bill. A Washington dis­ his revolution." troying them. This means more “God helps those who help tro told a gathering of thous­ make space exploration and socialist program to combat un­ patch explains: “ The brisk se­ their country. Dr. Banda was satellites must be built and the themselves,” says a new Social­ ands 'of workers that Cuba Under Batista’s dictatorship, colonization a necessity. employment. ries of actions was dictated by' arrested March 3 and along economy is kept functioning at ist Workers campaign leaflet should be neutral in the m ilit­ Cuba was enrolled in the Or­ Congressional plans for a ten- with some 750 other Africans top speed." "We are in a bad way. I'm The regular membership meet­ now being widely distributed ary line-ups. His declaration ganization of American States day Easter recess starting to­ thrown into a concentration In Boston the next day, Wall afraid, when we fry to solve ing was swelled by a large here. came about it> the following — the U.S. - inspired m ilita ry morrow. Many members had camp in Southern Rhodesia. Street financier and economist our problem by mass killing— turnout of unemployed. Some Addressed to the 129,000 in manner according to R. Hart agreement that embraces all 21 reserved space on trains and Now the British government James P. W arburg adm itted be­ or by padding Off to a bigger 400 were present. Phillips’ account in the March American countries, Canada ex­ the Detroit area now out of planes leaving tonight.” charges that 140 Nyasaland A f­ fore the Northeast conference island in space." Spbaking at a meeting of 23 New York Times: cluded. The Castro regime has work, the leaflet outlines a And you can be sure that if rican Congress delegates plot­ of the Society for the Advance­ The IBM Corporation hasten­ Ford UAW Local 600 Assembly Former President Jose Fig- not made any formal moves as militant program for mobilizing any of the congressmen happen ted the alleged massacre at a ed to inform the press that Dr. Plant, Evelyn Sell, Socialist ueres of Costa Rica was speak­ yet to withdraw from the Or­ ment of Management that peace the union movement for ef­ to pass the local welfare office Jan. 25 meeting at “which those and disarmament would bring Grosch was not speaking for Workers candidate for Regent ing to workers who had march­ ganization. fective action in behalf of the when they get home, they'll (Continued on Page 2) almost instantaneous economic the company. of the University of Michigan, unemployed. ed to the presidential palace. In Iraq, Premier Abdul Karim wish everyone a Happy Easter. His address was carried over a Kassim, announced his govern­ radio and TV hook-up to all ment's formal withdrawal from Cuba. When he said that Cuba the Baghdad Pact on March 24. and all Latin America should The pact was sponsored by the Down on the Farm Where the Greenbacks Grow be on the side of the United U.S. State Department add was expertly than a handful of m il­ another one. the price support plan “is little $125,000 that went to Westlake The National Sharecroppers States and the other “democra­ directed both against the So­ By Alex Harte lionaire farmers who are get­ It costs $1,000,000,000 a year more than a Government guar­ Farms only $80,000 in soil bank Fund estimates in a 1958 report cies,” David Salvador, secretary viet Union, whose southern bor­ Wouldn't it be a fine thing if ting handsome sums from the just to store the surpluses that antee on the operation of cor­ payments went to all of the on the condition of farm work­ general of the Confederation of der four of the signatory coun­ labor had a bloc of represen­ government for what they grow are piled mountain high. porate type farming . . . to farmers in Nevada, New Hamp­ ers that the total cash wages of Cuban W orkers, w ho was on tries flank, and against the tatives in Congress to put plus dazzling payments for the detriment of the small shire and Vermont. America's 2,000,000 farm w ork­ the speakers’ platform, ran to Ara b national independence through a wage "support" and Last month • Senator John what they don’t grow. In 1957, farm ers.” In fact the setup works in re­ the mike and shouted: "We struggle. Although the State De­ worker "bank" program? Williams (R-Del.) listed in the ers this fiscal year w ill be less for example, the government verse for the family farmer. He cannot be with the Americans partment hoped to enlist g num­ Under the wage “support” Congressional Record 54 farms than half the cost of price sup­ paid out more than $3,400,000 SOIL BANK PAYMENTS faces stiff fines if he grows a ports. who today are oppressing us!" ber of Arab countries, the law, the government would which received, price support in price supports to just three mounting revolution kept the agree to a fair rate of pay and payments of $100,000 or more. The amounts paid off on the larger crop than federal con­ Average farm wages remain­ WHY BACK EITHER SIDE? corporate farms. number of Arab signatories make up the difference when­ Prize winner for the year was soil bank program are not quite trols permit. The government ed frozen at $5.90 a day in the Delta & Pine Land Co. of as impressive in terms of dol­ seized an Indiana farmer’s trac­ 1956 and 1957. Average income When Figuere^“visibly dis­ down to one— Ira q , whose cap­ ever wages fell below that HOW IT WORKS Scott, Miss. This outfit drew lars and cents, but this deal tor because he planted 16 more for a hired farm worker for the turbed by the interruption,” ital, Baghdad, became the alli­ amount. Under the worker is a profiteer’s dream. “ Soil acres of wheat than the gov­ entire' year was $892. Last year, says Phillips — finished his ance’s headquarters. “bank” program, if many work­ If the price support plan $1,167,602 in cotton price sup­ bank payments,” the Senator ernment said he could. A simi­ 227,000 children between the speech, Castro took the micro­ The other members are Eng­ ers were looking for jobs so didn’t' mean such lush profits ports. lar criminal in Pennsylvania ages of 10 and 13 were forced phone. “He voiced his opposi­ land, Iran, Turkey and Paki­ that they might drive down for them, the huge farm outfits Runner up was Producer’s explains, “are direct subsidy was fined $404 fo r grow ing 24 to hire out as farm hands. tion to the idea expressed by stan. The U.S. government held the price of labor power the would surely condemn it as Rice Mill, Inc., of Stuttgart, government checks paid to a acres of wheat to feed his cat­ The report cites a 21-state Colonel Figueres and, by im­ off jo in in g after, mass demon­ government would retire a per­ “creeping socialism,” state regi­ A rk., w hich received $1,460,902 farmer for acreage he agrees tle. study of housing conditions of plication, attacked the United strations in Jordan at the end centage of them temporarily to mentation and the subversion in price supports on rice. to leave idle or for crops he Stanley Yankus, owner of a States. He was sorry, Dr. Cas­ of 1955 testified to the bitter a “bank” and pay them pre­ of private initiative and free But don’t get the idea that agrees not to produce.” migrant Workers by the Na­ 100-acre poultry farm in Dow- tro said, that his old friend, hatred in the Arab world for vailing wages to stay unem­ competition. this money is being pitched that Nine farms drew more than tional Council of Churches. It agiac, Mich., decided to emi­ Colonel Figueres had been in­ the pact. However, the State ployed. - Under the plan, the govern­ generously- to all farmers. It half a million dollars in 1957 found: “Bad housing, flies, mos­ grate to Australia after the fluenced by campaigns in the Department has participated in Sounds pretty radical, doesn’t m ent sets a price fo r wheat, takes a lot of land apd huge for not growing cotton, wheat quitoes, lack of screening, dirty international press attacking all Baghdad Pact deliberations. it? But it really isn’t. Farmers rice, cotton and other crops. If crops to put that kind of bite and rice. Westlake Farms, Inc., governm ent attached $1,700 of beds and mattresses, unsanitary his bank account to cover fines the Cuban revolution. After the Iraqi revolution have that kind of arrangement the actual market price falls on the U.S. Treasury. Accord­ of Stratford, Calif., which re­ tcilets and a lack of hot water “ ‘Why should Latin America last summer, the Iraq govern­ w ith the governm ent. T hat is, below this figure, the farmer ing to Senator Williams, the ceived $854,450 in price sup­ imposed because he refused to and bathing facilities . . . One be with either side?’ Premier ment ceased to participate in some farm ers do. delivers his crop to a govern­ subsidy paid to the two corpor­ ports for cotton it grew was stop growing wheat to feed his report tojd of a camp without Castro asked . . . the alliance. Last year's meet­ The federal farm price sup­ ment warehouse and is “loaned’,’ ations of Arkansas and Missis­ handed an additional $125,942 poultry. “My crime is using my water or toilets.” "Declaring that Cuba is de­ ing of the pact signatories (plus port and soil bank programs the federally established price sippi is greater than the price for cotton it didn’t grow. land to produce crops,” he said. It should be added that fenseless, Dr. Castro said the the U.S.) had to be held in Lon­ take a lot of sting out of such for it. If the market happens to supports received “on all crops The soil bank melon is But even with the kicking Democrats and Republicans island had joined the democra­ don rather than Baghdad. Iraq invidious . terms as “country rise, the farmer repays the produced in 1957 by all the whacked up by the big capi­ around he gets from the gov­ passed the price support and cies in World War II and out of did not attend. The alliance be­ hick” and “hayseed.” No city “loan” and sells the crop. Oth­ farmers in Delaware, Maryland, talist operators with little of ernment, the small farmer own­ soil bank programs on the that collaboration the Batista came known as the "Baghdad slicker ever lined his pocket at erwise he lets the government Pennsylvania and New Jersey.” the pink going to dirt farmers. ing a piece of land isn’t as bad claim that they would aid the Government had received 500- pact without Baghdad." the taxpayers’ expense more keep the crop and he grows In fact, the Senator contends, For instance', in contrast to the off as the landless fa rm hand. “little man” on the farm. Page Two THE MILITANT Monday, March 30, 1959 "Raisin in the Sun" 'Monthly Review' on Proposals By Harry Ring native, the creation of workers’ The relationship between art and politics the Negro people for a decent life are power­ By Daniel Roberts Summing up the arguments pro and peasants’ governments, and and con, Schmidt cited the has long been debated in the radical move­ fully stated. Mother Younger, matriarch of the The last -live months have Can They Guarantee Peace? the institution of socialist prop­ “pro” arguments as follows: ment. To gain full validity, must a novel or family, buys a* home in a white neighborhood, seen an easing of the cold-war erty relations. The nationalist . . sooner or later the Arab a play with a social theme articulate a “mes­ not out of any crusading intent, but simply tensions. This raises the ques­ struggle even undbr capitalist nationalists are bound to win sage?” If you are still undecided on that ques­ because houses in the Negro district are twice tion anew whether permanent leadership can win certain im­ all the way through the Middle tion and are anywhere within traveling dis­ as expensive and not half as good. The tor­ peace might not be achieved portant improvements for the East and to throw out the feud- tance of the New York theater district then mented, frustrated son wants to accept an through a "peaceful coexist­ masses. B u t native capitalist alistic, oligarchic regimes we make doubly sure to see Lorraine Hansberry’s offer from the sanctimonious head of a white ence" agreement between the leadership cannot secure lasting favor in Jordan, Iran and Saudi play, “Raisin in the Sun.” “community” organization to repurchase the respective leaders of the Soviet victory over imperialism. This Arabia. As long as we are It’s the story of a Negro family in Chica­ house at a higher price. The mother sternly bloc and of the bloc headed by requires the independent mo­ committed to the preservation go’s black ghetto. There aren’t any speeches reminds her son that he is of five generations U.S. imperialism. in it about the sources of Jim Crow and no­ of slaves and' sharecroppers who were never bilization of the workers 'and of Israel, we gannot have the To many socialists the ques­ body outlines a political program. The author, so poor that they took money that meant they peasants. Nowhere in Asia or support of the Arab nationalist tion of a “peaceful coexistence” director and cast combine their substantial tal­ were no better than dirt. Africa do the Communist par- movement. Our only hope is to ents to offer an evening of splendid entertain­ Humor about race prejudice is biting. The agreement between the Soviet t.es give any indication of or­ come to terms with the Soviet ment. But in presenting an artistic truth they daughter-in-law, who works as a domestic, is Union and imperialism is a ganizing the workers for inde­ Union” which does enjoy the deliver as powerful a condemnation of racism Dll. Call up and tell them you won’t be in, but th o rn y one. They w ant peace; pendent struggle. nationalists’ support. Washing­ and as eloquent a plea for human brotherhood don’t just say you’re sick, advises Mother they know the source of war is (Even in the current conflict ton decided against seeking a as any orator ever made. Younger. Tell them you’ve got the flu. White lodged in Wall Street’s anti-So­ between the Arab CP and Nas­ deal at the time, but it might Lorraine Hansberry is the first Negro people have that too. If you just say you’re viet offensive,'and they want to ser, the former did not strike very well reconsider that de­ woman to reach Broadway with a play and sick, they’ll figure you got yourself cut up. see this drive defeated. A deal out on an independent line. cision in the future. seems to offer the prospect of she has earned the distinction. She is clearly The predominately white audience de­ The Arab CP leaders’ break In light of the CP’s policies ending Washington’s war drive. concerned with the struggle of her people for velops a strong identity with the Negro fam­ with Nasser meant a Arinforce- in Asia and Africa, we. must But a deal implies a quid pro full emancipation. But there aren’t any card­ ily as the emotional level rises. The agony of ment of their bloc with Kassirn conclude that what Khrushchev quo. It implies that the Krem­ board heroes in her play, just human beings— mother and son when he betrays her trust cuts in Ira q.) really proposed in his talk with lin must help maintain the human beings with the virtues and failings of like a knife. When the sister berates him, Now, although the U.S. im­ Lippman was the kind of deal status quo. And no genuine so­ a people suffering poverty, oppression and dis­ tears are unrestrained as the mother turns in perialists tend to rely primarily that the State Department cialist wants to endorse the re­ crimination. fierce anger on her daughter: “What does love on the most reactionary ele­ weighed in 1956. His statement tention of imperialist exploita­ Sidney Poitier, Claudia McNeill, Ruby Dee mean to you? Do you only love people when British Prime Minister Macmillan (1) and Soviet Premier ments in Asia and Africa, they that the revolution in Asia and tion in Asia, Africa and Latin and Diana Sands star. Expertly directed by they do good? . . . Do you ever think what Nikita Khrushchev (r) during recent meeting on Berlin are able to maneuver with the Africa “is the status quo” boils America and of capitalist rule Lloyd Richards, they present the Younger' makes people bad?” crisis. Many radicals contend that through negotiations nationalists, particularly if sup­ down to sophistry. The deal in in W estern Europe, the U.S. family. It is a family that loves and hates and The New York press was unanimous in heads of present governments can eliminate the threat of a port to them becomes the only question would really provide and Japan. laughs and cries. And as they do they reach its acclaim of “Raisin in the Sun.” The only new world war even though they represent conflicting means for halting the revolu­ for arresting the development into the hearts of their audience. The final sour reaction I have seen was ip an otherwise tionary advance of the masses. A W A Y OUT? social systems. of the colonial revolution curtain came down to an ovation greater than favorable review by William Patterson in the Washington has also indicated through a tripartite agreement any I have ever heard in the theatre. Worker. Judging the play, apparently in ac­ The editors of Monthly Re­ solving the cold war and of and at lessening its economic readiness to turn to the Krem­ among U.S. imperialists, the The story is about a $10,000 insurance cordance with Stalinist norms of “socialist view believe that there is a combining “peaceful coexist­ dependence on the major cap­ lin, i£ need be, to help stem Soviet bureaucracy and the na­ check received by the widowed Mother Young­ realism,” he made this rather incredible com­ way out of this dilemma along ence” with the need for revo­ italist powers. They don’t pro­ the masses. tive capitalist class on the basis er. The check almost destroys the family, its m ent: the lines advanced by Walter lution. pose tb go beyond this and WASHINGTON of the latter’s program for lim ­ dignity and its long, uphill battle for such “The splendid acting and the brilliant di­ Lippman in his recently pub­ neither do th^ Communist W H A T ABOUT PONDERED DEAL ited reforms. elementary things as a decent home and re­ rection help greatly. But precisely because both lished little book, The Commu­ Party leaderships. THE OTHERS? In my opinion, Lippman's spectability. are so entertaining they also retard the deep­ nist World and Ours. Monthly In a story in the Nov. 17, proposals offer socialists no es­ ening and broadening of your thought prodess THE SOLUTION Center of the conflict is the son portrayed Review comments on it in its But what Lippman proposes 1956 New York Times, Dana cape from the fact that "peace­ by Sidney Poitier. A 35-year-old chauffeur, he unless you are conscious of all that is unfold­ THAT'S REQUIRED M arch issue. L ippm an’s p ro ­ is at best a reshuffle. Asia and Adams Schmidt reported that a ful coexistence," as promulgat­ ing, unless you are conscious of the Negro seethes with hatred at the prospect of spending posals for “peaceful coexist­ Africa would be swapped for But a solution of the prob­ deal with the Soviet Union ed by the Soviet Communist his life as, servant to a rich white man. He question.” ence” in tdrn derive from a Eastern Europe. That would lem of the colonial masses de­ covering the Middle East was Party leaders, means preserva­ becomes obsessed w ith a “ big deal” — a hope­ Far more accurate and perceptive was the tv/o-hour interview with Soviet still leave unresolved the pro­ mands the abolition of capital­ being seriously discussed in of­ tion of the status quo pure and less dream of money and power and escape appraisal made by Brooks Atkinson of the Premier Khrushchev last fall. found need for change to so­ ist rule — whether foreign or ficial circles in Washington. simple. for himself and his family. The conflict 'he New York Times, most serious of the critics in Lippman believes that his own cialism in Western Europe, Ja­ provokes as he abandons dignity and integ­ the capitalist press. He said the play “is hon­ proposals would be acceptable pan, Latin America, Canada, rity is stark. But warmth and love and laugh­ est. That is Miss Hansberry’s personal contri­ to the Soviet leaders and would Australia, New' Zealand and ter light up even the darkest moments of the bution to an explosive situation in which also correspond to the inter­ the United States. play. simple honesty is the most difficult thing in Ceylon Unions Report Record ests of the U.S. ru lin g class. Elementary truths about the struggle of the world. And also the most illuminating.” Lippman’s assumption that Lippman’s point of depar­ communism has no appeal for ture — and Monthly Review’s the peoples of these countries — is an interpretation of is at most only temporarily Response for General Strike Khrushchev’s remarks in the true. The onset of economic . . . "Massacre" Plot interview. The reason for the crisis w ill alter this completely. COLOMBO, Ceylon, March 23 ance of normal train service in provinces. Several other units (Continued from Page 1) up for weeks with scare head­ Accra All-African People’s Con­ cold war, Khrushchev told Lipp­ It will impel the working class — The token general strike Colombo by promoting firemen also went on strike, and the attending were sworn to sec­ lines in the Tory press featur­ ference where, he says, “we man in effect, was that the in all these countries to strug­ planned by the Joint Commit­ to do the work of striking en­ buses on the roads were empty. recy under threat of death.” ing statements by the racist now' have evidence that con­ Western statesmen did not wish gle for the elimination of cap­ tee of Trade Unions against the gineers, sending the trains out The Ceylon Bank Employes Mass assassinations were claim­ rulers in the Rhodesia-Nyasaland tact was made” with a Soviet to accept the status quo but italist rule and the establish­ MEP government's public se­ before the strike to suburban Union brought the entire bank­ ed to be slated for an unspeci­ Federation and by British Co­ delegation that lurked secretly wished to return the entire So­ ment of workers and farmers curity bill took place on March stations, canceling all night ing business in the commercial fied date, known as “R Day," lonial Secretary Lennox-Boyd. in the background. viet bloc to capitalism. governments. Thus a deal al­ 3 when more than 800,000 work­ movements and getting these sector to a dead stop. The gov­ which would take place after Their charges are so patently In language befitting a sena­ Lippman envisages Ihe fol­ lowing for social progress only ers (over 80% of the working trains back to Colombo during the arrest of Dr. Banda. Co­ false that the March 7 issue of tor from Mississippi, Welensky lowing settlement of the cold in Asia and Africa (and for re­ class population of this coun­ the day. ernment - sponsored Central lonial Office spokesmen were the liberal weekly, the New complains of the ingratitude of war: (1) The U.S. would ac­ trogression in Eastern Europe) try) staged a 24-hour strike. Bank was paralyzed too. The As to the bus service, despite Ceylon Mercantile Union in re­ unable to tell newsmen what Statesman, was moved to de­ the Africans. He writes, “edu­ cept Soviet and Chinese com­ would do violence to thY basic This was the greatest number all attempts to intimidate bus viewing its strike performance “R Day” meant or where the clare: cation was something that had petition in Asia and Africa to needs and aspirations of the of workers ever involved in a workers through military occu­ claimed “secret meeting” was “Who were the Africans go­ to be forced upon the Nyasa­ determine whether they or the working people in the rest of single strike in Ceylon. reports that nearly 13.000 mem­ pation of bus depots, and des­ bers shut down 146 work places held. ing to - massacre? For a week land African.” The amount that West will lead the national-in- the w orld. they were in complete control was “forced” is indicated by dependence revolutions there. More than 600,000 plantation pite scab efforts by Stalinist — port enterprises, newspapers, This frame-up has been built As a matter of fact, it would of the northern province of the 1954 figure (the latest avail­ (This implies, as ihe Monthly workers struck. (Some 75% of and MEP unionists, every unit movie houses, hotels, import- do violence to the people of Advertisement Nyasaland and not a life was able) of 311 Nyasaland Africans Rfeyiew editors correctly indi­ Ceylon’s working class are on of the Ceylon Transport Board export agencies, shops and Eastern Europe,-too. Lippman lost. But on Tuesday, When the in secondary schools. cate, that Lippman would ac­ the plantations.)' Th’is was a' was affected by the strike. The stores, paint shops, co-op whole­ is wrong in his contention that emergency was declared, at cept Soviet leadership in Asia 100% response to the strike Ail-Ceylon United Motor Work­ sale establishments, brokers and Welensky further complains they seek a return to capital­ Seattle least 26 Africans were killed and Africa if the U.S. fell be­ call. Ninety per cent of the ers’ Union was able to stop professional firms, estate agen­ that “even today strong re­ ism. In the Hungarian revolu­ Seattle Chapter of the by the security forces.” hind in the "competition.") (2) port workers went out at the work completely at all depots cies, insurance agencies and en­ sistance is encountered when tion the majority of the work­ American Forum For Social­ The U.S. would withdraw its call of the United Port Workers in the Northern and Eastei'n gineering firms. "The conspiracy was organ­ the authorities attempt to ap­ ing people fought for a regime ist Education presents an ex­ troops from Europe and aban­ Union — an affiliate of the ized by the other side," the ply essential soil- conservation of workers’ democracy and spe­ amination of Am erican New Statesman flatly charges. don attempts forcibly to "lib­ Ceylon Federation of Labor. measures.” The nature of this cifically declared against any Advertisement erate" East Europe. (3) The So­ (The Federation is led by the Advertisement trends: What has happened to “R “resistance” is illuminated by a restoration of the old order. "The Future Is Tomorrow viet,U nion would withdraw its Lanka Sama Samaja Party, a Day”? As of March 19, 16 days 1951 British report which found Lippman’s proposal takes care — What Price Free Enter­ armed forces from East Europe. Trotskyist organization.) Among after the arrest of Dr. Banda, that on “the land set aside for of the interests of imperialism prise?" the other CFL unions on strike there were a minimum of 50 African use there is consider­ Lippman believes that even­ in Eastern Europe at the ex­ Speakers: Terry Pettus, were the All-Ceylon Oil Com­ Nyasaland Africans dead and able pressure of population . . . tually East Europe would pense of the needs and desires Socialism and Democracy Noted Social Journalist. panies’ Workers’ Union whose still not a single white settler the ^position has been reached shake off Soviet political and of the working people. R. S. Fraser, Seattle Organ­ killed. The only British casual­ where it w ill be no longer pos­ economic domination and re­ jurisdiction embraces all work­ by James P. Cannon Finally, we come to Khrush­ izer, Socialist Workers Party. ties have been security force sible for every African family turn to capitalism, and that ers in the three companies on chev’s declaration that the pro­ Chairman: Dr. Jay W. Fried­ members wounded by Africans to cultivate land.” * the Kremlin knows this and the island (Shell, Stanvac and In the same easy and highly readable style for which he gress of revolution in Asia and Caltex); the Lanka Estate man, Chairman Seattle AFSE. defending themselves against The British can well afford w ill accept jt. He also believes is well known, Cannon makes clear the basic Marxist view Africa is part of the status quo. Thurs., A p ril 2, 8:00 p.m. guns and tear gas w ith sticks, to let sections of stolen land lie that communism has no appeal Workers’ Union and the Engin­ Lippman interprets this to on socialism and democracy. He says: “What is needed is not at the Polish Hall, 1714 - 18th stones and spears. fellow. But the sight of this eering firms. The Government for the working people of West­ mean that Khrushchev is de­ a propaganda device or trick, but a formulation of the issue Avenue. Admission free. Yet on March 22 the New idle land is not pretty to the ern Europe. Thus his schema Clerical Servants Union reports termined to allow the Socialist as it really stands; and indeed as it has always stood with York Times helped give cred­ dispossessed, hungry Africans. that over 80% of its member­ would envisage a Soviet bloc revolution to achieve victory in real socialists ever since the modem movement was first ence to the frame-up by pub­ The Encyclopedia Britannica’s ship responded to the strike made up of the USSR, China, Asia and Africa. But to ascer­ proclaimed 109 years ago.” Cannon tells how the real view lishing a syndicated article by 1954 year book reported that call. The Government Workers’ and probably the rest of Asia tain - whether this is what has suffered distortion and falsification by Stalinism, Social Every Test Kills Sir Roy Welensky, Prime M ini­ Nyasaland Africans “resented Trade Union reports similar plus Africa, while all other Khrushchev really meant, it is Democracy and the American ruling class. Send 15 cents for ster of the Federation of Rho­ the holdings of large estates by success. By Linus Pauling countries would belong to the necessary to examine the policy this attractive 21-page pamphlet. desia and Nyasaland. This Bri­ Europeans, especially when the “non-communist” world. All of the Communist parties in the GOVT. KEEPS UP The Nobel prize winning tish ruler writes about an “out­ estates included land not cur­ ideas of establishing peace Asian and African countries in APPEARANCES scientist speaks out against break of disorder and violence” rently in use. The title to these Pioneer Publishers through “One World”—wheth­ question. Not one of these par­ the nuclear bomb tests. by the “still primitive” Africans areas was not easily under­ er capitalist or communist — ties aims at a socialist trans­ Faced, by the strike of the and repeats the lie that the vio­ stood by Africans who regard latter union, the government 116 University Place New York 3, N.Y. 10 cents would be abandoned. There formation. All are bound up in lence was oiganized by Dr. the right to a piece of land tried to maintain the appear­ Order from: would be “Two Worlds” as the one form or another in close Banda and his associates. as being derived from the use basis for the status quo and alliance with nationalist lead­ PIONEER PUBLISHERS Welensky adds a McCarthyite o f it.” fo r lasting peace. ers who aim at a reform of the twist when he asserts that the But the African demand for Advertisement Advertisement 116 University Place The Monthly Review editors imperialist structure so as to “plot” unfolded after Nyasaland land and freedom is, of course, New York 3, N. Y. indicate that'they accept this give the native capitalist class delegates returned from the a “ red p lo t.” schema as a realistic way of re- more scope for development.

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Crown Jewels for the White House The following "Washington that is all she had—to high­ Whose Friends? Letter" by Betty Beale was sent light her dress when entertain­ “We must march on Washington and November,” why have we not “received a to us by a reader of the Milit­ ing elegantly jeweled visitors wake up our friends. We have a right to single thing from this victory?” ant who clipped it from the from abroad. March 8 Dallas Times Herald. Someone w ill say, “But this is expect right-to-eat legislation.” This is If, indeed, we have “our friends” in As a public service we are re­ a democracy.” So it is. B u t what Emil Mazey, Secretary-Treasurer of Washington, who are they, and why do printing the exciting report there’s nothing imitation about the United Auto Workers, said at a March we have to march on them to “wake them complete, whole and unexpur­ that gold service on the White 17 meeting in Detroit, according to Ford up?” gated: House table; and the magnifi­ cent chandeliers in the East Facts, official organ of the world’s largest If, indeed, we do have to march and WASHINGTON, D.C. — There’s a movement afoot in Room are crystal, not glass. union local, Ford 600. parade and mobilize, and we certainly do, Washington to start a privately Smithsonian boss, Dr. Leo­ Mazey also said, “We won an election why is the AFL-CIO brass trying to re­ donated national jewel collec­ nard Carmichael said, “Jewelry last November but until now we have not duce the April 8 Conference to a hand- tion to be worn by First and making in its highest form is received a single thing from this victory.” picked, carefully screened, bureaucratic­ Second Ladies of the land on a form of art; so we would cer­ tainly be interested in acquir­ He pointed out that “unemployment is not ally rigged, tame, harmless and toothless dressy state occasions, and to be on display at the Smithson­ ing a great jewelry collection” only the problem of those currently un­ affair at which the only parading that w ill ian Institution the rest of the . . . If the donor of a piece of employed, but also of those who are em­ be done w ill be the parading of capitalist tim e. jeweliy specified that it could ployed, because one out of ev.ery four politicians across the platform? The idea was actually born in be withdrawn for particular use workers in America was either unem­ Brother Mazey! You used to advocate the House of Winston, which by the First and Second Ladies, the Smithsonian would have no ployed or worked short weeks during the labor’s break with the capitalist parties donated the fabulous Hope dia­ mond to the Smithsonian, but objection, he said. year.” and the formation of a labor party. You “I see cocoa and copper in danger.” Chief of Protocol Wiley Buch­ it is catching on among Capital Undoubtedly Mazey’s words reflect abandoned this position in 1954 in defer­ anan, who attends all dressy “Good heavens! Gutworth was right. Those superstitious Africans dfficials and their wives. the heat of angry unionists who demand state functions, called it “a ence to “wiser heads” who thought that are going to nationalize us.” I can just hear you scream, that the labor movement get on the ball* labor could still gain its political ends worthy project” that would af­ “What! Crown jewels? Isn’t fo rd considerable pleasure "to and force some immediate action on un­ through the Democratic Party. Isn’t it this a bit rich for our blood?” the many persons who visit the employment out of Congress and the time to “wake up” yourself and face the But hold your fire! Smithsonian.” White House. It’s the same heat that com­ facts? Wall Street Gets Cash Ready _ The reasons for the plan are “I am certain,” said this pelled Meany and the AFL-CIO Executive We have no friends in Congress. La­ several . . . The establishment wealthy Texan and past Smith­ of a collection of .exquisite jew­ Board meeting in Puerto Rico to take the bor has been voting for its enemies and sonian donor, “that many of els worn by Presidents’ and America’s leading citizens, Fam­ historic step of calling for a Conference has been paid off accordingly. As German Plants Go on Sale Vice Presidents’ wives would at ilies and organizations would of Unions in Washington April 8 and de­ And if yoq go along with restricting once become so famous and his­ feel it a privilege to contribute manding a shorter work-week without the Washington - Conference to a select Denationalization of govern­ nothing new for the Bonn Gov­ less” — has had its crack at toric it would attract gifts from to such a collection” . . . Win­ reduction in pay. group, dominated by union officials, the ment-owned industry in West ernment. Business Week (March buying. private donors in the same way ston’s thinks other leading jew­ a great art” gallery attracts fa­ But what Mazey said raises some capitalist politicians w ill continue to sleep Germany is being camouflaged 21) reports that since 1949 “U.S. and foreign investors,” elers would also gladly contrib­ Bonn has sold 36 companies mous paintings . . . It would with fancy phrases about "peo­ reveals Business Week, “though ute. (P.S. Such contributions questions that demand answers: and play deaf when the unemployed cry not only help check the exodus are tax-deductible, you know.) ple's capitalism" and "free en­ worth $20 million. They ranged ineligible now — later will If, indeed, “we won an election last out for help. from America of beautiful and terprise." The Adenauer regime from Junkers, the airplane pro­ have a chance to buy Preussag The Smithsonian’s First La­ important jewels now being dies Hall where the inaugural has embarked upon what it ducer to UFA Theater. Herman shares on stock exchanges in bought up abroad—mainly by ball gown of every President’s says is a campaign to sell Ger­ L in d ra th , Federal P roperty such cities as Duesseldorf and rich Greeks — but would add wife is on display is already a man "workers" 300,000 shares Minister is continuing these H am burg.” We Greet "The Militant" of India ($10 million) of Preussag, a sales “through direct negotia­ wealth to the government. huge drawing card . . . What Prussian mining, oil-drilling tions with interested buyers.” This is w hat W all Street Secondly, it seems contradic­ do you personally think of a We note with pleasure the appearance In a letter to us, the sponsors of the bankers and financiers have tory for a country as rich as collection of beautiful and wear­ and steel company. I f denationalization is so ap­ of a new Marxist newspaper in India. It new paper said among other things: “We been waiting for. They're ours to provide a lovely and able jewels to be displayed in The government set the price proved by the German people, is a bi-weekly bearing the name, The M il­ owe an apology to you for using your ready to put the money on the historic residence for the Chief the room that now houses the of the shares at $35 each and why is it necessary for the gov­ line for their cut in the “peo­ Executive and his wife and an Hope diamond and to be worn itant, and is printed by the Revolutionary name without prior permission. But as sale is limited — five to a cus­ ernment to go through the Workers Party of India. part of the world Trotskyist movement tomer. However, after these ple's share" of industries re­ elaborate gold service for state by Mrs. Eisenhower and Mrs. farce of selling shares to work­ conditioned and modernized dinners, then expect the First Nixon and their successors- at we are sure you will not mind this ‘in­ shares have been sold the Bonn ers? W hy the cover up? The RWPI is a new party resulting government w ill retain control since the war by the West Lady to depend on her own in­ official functions? . , . Write me discretion’ if it can be considered as such German government. expensive, imitation jewelry—if and tell me. from the merger of three Marxist groups of 72% of Preussag’s outstand­ The Adenauer government . . . We only hope that we shall be able wants to end nationalization —the Socialist Party (Marxists), the Com­ ing shares. Edmund K. Falter- to live up to the proud tradition of the once and for all. But this is munist League and the Madzoor Com­ mayer reports in the Wall Militant of the Socialist Workers Party. Street Journal that this highly contrary to the interests of the munist party at Calcutta. This regroup­ workers. Their indignation over May we hope that we shall have your profitable company “last year ment is considered but a first step. The re-consolidation of trusts and cooperation in maintaining a certain had sales of approximately Headlines in Other Lands RWPI is discussing with the Revolution­ $192 m illio n .” cartels has been high since the standard for our journal.” detested Alfried Krupp coolly ary Socialist Party of India and the Rev­ Sales of nationalized prop­ too hard it w ill collapse. If it O ur cooperation goes w ith o u t .saying. announced in January that not "Echo W ave" Hits Latin-American olutionary Communist Party of India the erty to private investors is shows too much friendliness or And far from minding the adoption of our only did he intend to retain gratitude to the U.S. and too possibility of forming a united party of Italian W orkers Exiles Granted name by the new Marxist paper in India, his huge family empire but to little national pride, the leaders Marxists on a class-struggle program. expand it as w ell. we feel greatly honored by the evaluation Unemployment and the ter­ will be labeled as ‘Yankee Asylum in Cuba ... Detroit Krupp, convicted as' a war ribly depressed areas in South­ stooges.’ ” We hope that these efforts are crown­ of the American M ilitant thus expressed The new regime in Cuba is criminal in 1947, signed an ern Italy and Sicily, though As the astute N.Y. Times ed w ith success,, fo r the M a rx is t move­ by the vanguard of the exploited and (Continued from Page 1) welcoming revolutionary exiles agreement with the Allied High never cured, had receded some­ editors realize, the art of U.S. ment in India as in a number of other struggling but gloriously destined work­ from all Latin American coun­ bills to shorten the workweek Commission in 1953 to sell what from the foreground of imperialist policy should con­ tries ruled by dictators. Many countries is badly splintered. ing class of India. and provide adequate jobless large sections of his property Italy’s political problems dur­ sist in not making its Latin organizations of these exiles compensation—if they want to. within five years. Today Allied ing the past few years of “mild American stooges obviously ap­ have been formed in Cuba. And fhe union leaders will officials have encouraged him boom.” Now they are again in pear as stooges. never get such bills passed by to tear up the commitment like the forefront. Out of a labor There are at least three groups Repeal the Smith Act acting as if Eisenhower is the a scrap of paper. In their cold- force of 20,000,000, Ita ly has opposing the Duvalier regime only one in Washington indif­ war offensive against the So­ an adm itted 1,600,000 jobless Work Brigades in Haiti. Others oppose the dic­ Evidence accumulates that before munist Party members in Cleveland and ferent to the plight of the un­ viet Union the Allies need a and the figure is steadily rising. tatorship in the Dominican Re­ the movement for civil liberties in the Denver were also indicted under the Taft- employed. man like Krupp whose very A government spokesman on Appear Again public, Nicaragua and Para­ U.S. can claim to have won a decisive Hartley “anti-communist conspiracy” law. name spells “war.” March 21 told the N.Y. Times guay. While Cuba’s Castro re­ TO GET WORSE correspondent in Rome that gime announces that it w ill ob­ victory in the cold-war witch-hunt, it w ill Meanwhile, the case of Junius Irving The “people’s capitalism” In Eastern Europe Italy was experiencing an “echo serve the diplomatic amenities Scales is now before the Supreme Court The unemployed crisis is formula is reported to repre­ have to fight some additional battles. The wave” of the U.S. recession. of not permitting the actual or­ scheduled to get worse before sent a compromise in govern­ The East European countries crucial one is repeal of the most active in the first test of the membership clause of the Soviet bloc have an­ ganization of armed expedi­ it gets better, at least in auto. ment circles. The Social Demo­ and frequently used thought-control mea­ of the Smith Act. The American Civil Mazey pointed out the industry nounced restoration of the youth tions against dictator-govern- crats are against denationaliza­ Cut Miners' Food ments to take place on its soil, sure on the books—the Smith “Gag” Act. Liberties Union, in a friend of the court now has 750,000 unsold cars and tion. The Christian Democrats, work brigades which were a feature of the post-war years it is protecting the exile groups This law was first directed against brief, has argued that conviction of a per­ more layoffs can be expected who áre in power, are divided Subsidy in Bolivia but which were mostly aban­ and giving them moral support. the leaders of the Socialist Workers Party son for mere membership in an organiza­ next month. over how decontrol should take doned after 1950 and the eco­ and the Minneapolis Teamsters Union tion advocating overthrow of the govern­ Over 5,000 G M w orkers are place. Right-wing Christian The two-week strike in the slated to be laid off in Flint nationalized tin mines ended nomic recovery from wartime during World War II. After the cold war ment by force cannot stand without viola­ Democrats favor outright sale Mao Regime Hits this week. GM plants in Balti­ March 16 with the union offic­ devastation. tion of the First Amendment to the U.S. of industries “to the highest began it was used in a broadside attack more and Van Nuys, Calif., are bidder.” Left-wing Christian ials assuring the men that there Reinstitution of the work bri­ Tito Statement on the leaders of the Communist Party. Constitution. down to 24 hours a week. Democrats opposed this be­ would be no immediate cut in gades in Poland, Czechoslo­ On March 18 the People’s Re­ In 1957 the witch-hunt suffered a major By equating speech crimes with or­ It’s time for the unions to cause “of the possible effect on the subsidy which permitted vakia, Rumania, Bulgaria and public of China lodged a “seri­ start fighting unemployment in the labor vote.” them to buy food, fuel and Albania aims at mobilizing la­ reverse when the U.S. Supreme Court dinary criminal conspiracies, in effect, the ous protest” with the Yugoslav a more serious and militant clothing from the mine com­ bor power to help increase overruled the California courts in what is lower court violated “fundamental con­ The compromise: “A program embassy over a remark made way than Meany and Reuther missaries at reduced rates. production. Other objectives in­ stitutional principles,” the ACLU asserted. of ‘people’s shares,’ aimed ex­ in Yugoslavia by Marshal Tito legally known as the “Yates decision,” are willing to do now, judging clude curbing drinking and de­ after the name of the first defendant in “The basic activity of a group engaged in by the plans for the Washing­ clusively at the ‘little man.’ ” Because of the inflation in after his return from his Afri- Bolivia the commissary subsidy linquency or “hooliganism” advocacy — political speech — has a high ton conference. Such spokesmen for Ameri­ can-Asian tour. Tito had the case, Oleta Yates. is regarded by the miners as among the youth, and facilitat­ If fhe unemployed don't get can big business as the Wall charged that Chinese Premier The Yates decision seemed to strike social value, receives special protection one of their most important ing official indoctrination cour­ a chance to say this in Wash­ Street Journal and Business Chou En-lai had “appealed to down the conspiracy provisions in the under fundamental law . . . Moreover, a economic gains. ses. ington, they should find ways Week take this tongue in the Indonesian people not to revolutionary political group invariably At the same time, the East Smith Act. The high court ruled that the to say it loud and plain in their cheek. They both greet glee­ U.S. imperialism, threatening give us welcome.” The Chinese European governments are charge of reorganizing the Communist has a complex program of social, economic union meetings back home. fully the total denationaliza­ through the International Mon­ declared this was an “unfound­ adopting the Soviet Union’s Party in California in 1945 was invalidated and philosophical objectives, many of The Washington conference, tion program proposed at Bonn. etary Fund to slash economic ed fa b rica tio n .” plan of having children work for whatever it will be worth, “These would be the biggest aid, demands that the food sub­ On the same day that the by the statute of limitations and that in­ which are likely to bear no necessary re­ part time in factories and on is a result of the pressure of plums,” Business Week tells its sidy be taken away from the Chinese government lodged the sufficient evidence against the 14 Cali­ lation to the prohibited advocacy,” the the unemployed on the union farms. The youth work bri­ readers as it describes the miners. The attempt of the protest, it signed a trade pact fornia defendants had been presented. brief stated. leaders. gades, however, will cover openings for lucrative invest­ Siles Zuazo regime to obey for 1959 with Yugoslavia. It Moi'e and sharper pressure is youths 18 to 26, most of whom Following this decision the California “To apply the harsh conspiracy rule ment. Washington’s order precipitated cuts the amount of trade be­ case was dropped by the governm ent. Im ­ of imputed guilt to members of a radical indicated to get results that w ill the. bitter, strike. are out of school. They w ill be tween the two countries to measure up to the needs of the Preussag is small potatoes enrolled in the work groups for political group is contrary to basic prin­ Two days after the strike was about half of what it was last mediately thereafter, other Smith Act compared to what is coming from one to three months and jobless. called off, however, the gov­ year. The reduction is general­ “ conspiracy” cases w ere either dismissed ciples and fairness and political liberty,” up. When the West German ernment announced that one subjected to semi-military dis­ ly regarded as a form of eco­ it declared, adding: “The validation of Republic was established in by Circuit Courts of Appeal where they half of the subsidy would be cipline. nomic pressure on the Tito re­ 1949 the Government became were under review, or dropped by the convictions under the first federal statute ended April 1 and the other Scienteia, the Communist gime. “ Kick Them Off owner of 278 industrial com­ government. which has sought to punish mere member­ half on July 15. In recompense Party newspaper of Rumania, panies. Business Week reports recently announced: “In all It became clear, however,- that the ship in groups advocating revolutionary that they are valued at "be­ the miners would receive two Yugoslav Industrial parts of the country the youth government had reorganized its witch­ doctrine, w ill have a damaging effect on Relief Rolls” tween $1.5 billion and $2 b il­ wage increases o f‘71/2 % each to coincide with the stages of end­ will take part in this unpaid hunt strategy in this field and was mount­ the characteristically American habit of lion, they constitute over 72% O utput Rises; Crops A New York grand jury is ing the subsidy. patriotic work.” ing new attacks. First of all, in addition expressing political and social views by worried about balancing the of aluminum production, 44% Whether the miners w ill con­ ludget in the world’s wealthiest of zinc, 42% of automobiles, Ever since the Polish and Hurt by Drought to the “conspiracy” cases, the government joining the countless groups of all types sider these increases in money, :ity. Last year $41,000,000 was 40% of lead, 34% of iron ore, Hungarian uprisings of 1956, in Statistics of the state of Yu­ had scored several convictions under the that dot our national scene.” whose value can be greatly ixpended to help 54,000 ille g iti­ 26% of hard coal mining, 17% which youth played a promi­ goslavia’s economy in 1958, As Marxists we don’t agree with diminished by inflation, as an “membership” clause of the Smith Act. mate children. By putting these of crude oil, 16% of shipbuild­ nent role, Communist Party issued last week by the Yugo­ adequate substitute for the These remain to be fought out. everything the ACLU says about the con­ unfortunates in institutions, the ing, 15% of electricity, 5% of leaders in the Soviet bloc coun­ slav government showed a rise hard reality of food, fuel and Secondly, the government renewed cept and character of such legislation as ’rand jury suggested, their ingot steel and 5% of pig iron." tries have displayed uneasiness over 1957 in all fields save agri­ clothing rem ains to be seen. over what they might do next. its offensive under the conspiracy clause the Smith Act, but we think its views mother's could be kicked off re- Minister Lindrath is most culture. Industrial production On M arch 23 the New. Y o rk The work brigades appear to should be given the widest circulation. ief, thereby saving the city a anxious to get Volkswagon rose 11% according to the re­ in two instances—Cleveland and Denver. Times, disturbed by Washing­ be part of their answer to the lice piece of change. shares on the market. “It will port, while the number of pro­ (The conspiracy clause requires evidence The fight for the defense of the Bill of ton’s “get tough” attitude, mood of rebelliousness. 'The N.Y. Post pointed out be the bonbon of the century,” letarians grew by more than of continuing organizing activity in an Rights is now actively and intimately sounded an editorial warning: :wo flaws in the scheme: “(a) says Lindrath. Last tyear the 200,000. The drought cut a g ri­ “Any Bolivian government to­ organization alleged to advocate the over­ bound up with the case of Junius Scales ;ome 14,000 such mothers would “bonbon” turned out a record cultural production by about day faces desperately difficult Finland Faces throw of the government by force; under and all other Smith Act cases. hereupon face the alternative of 550,000 cars, trucks and m in ­ 20% from the bumper crops of if starvation or prostitution and problems. To supplant the the membership clause mere affiliation We think the situation calls for con­ iature buses w o rth $644 m illio n . 1957. Since Yugoslavia is still [b) we would need about 100 present moderate government Jobless Crisis with such an organization is sufficient.) certed and united action that w ill coor­ a predominantly peasant coun­ lew iristitutions to take care of It is easy to see why Business with either a Tightest or a left­ Unemployment in Finland try this calamity kept the na­ In Cleveland and Denver the Circuit dinate the scattered efforts of all defend­ :he displaced kids.” Week is more than willing to ist regime would solve nothing has reached an all-time high. tional income at almost the Court of Appeals, after' reversing the de­ ers of civil liberties in one powerful drive Neither the jury nor the Post let Preussag workers have the and doubtless make things Out of a population of four same figure as in 1957. O n a cision on the organizing charge, sent the to provide the fullest aid to all victims of >aid anything about the 69 cents “first crack” at the $35 shares. much worse. The Siles Zuazo million, the number of register­ two-year basis, however, the jut of every tax dollar which They are even willing to wait cases back to court fo r re tria l. A n addi­ the Smith Act and to bring to the broad MNR government must be en­ ed unem ployed is 100,000. U n ­ government claims that the na­ ;he federal government is sink- until the next eligible category couraged to take as strong employment relief, totalling $94 tional factor, in these cases was the “alter­ public the facts about this odious witch­ tional income has risen above ng into war preparations or — any German with a 1957 measures as possible to bring million, is the biggest item in 1956 by an average o f 11.6% nate” strategy of the government. Com­ h u n t law . nterest on the national debt. taxable income of “ $3,810 or economic health. If it is pushed the government budget. each year. Letters from Our Readers t h e MILITANT Is New Struggle union and industry. It came steward is suspended, the man VOLUME XXIII MONDAY, MARCH 30, 1959 N U M B ER 13 about because of the general is punished similarly and then Breaking O ut in political situation in the coun­ the snowball begins growing. try. It was an outgrowth of the After years of negotiations, N.Y. Fur Workers? dark days of McCarthyism, the company and union have when the Furriers Union had a agreed on description of duties Editor: Newark and Belzoni left wing leadership. So it’s na­ for almost every job. Now, According to an article by J. tural for those individuals who without any change in technic­ New York City Fogel in the Jewish Daily For­ were formerly in the leadership al machinery or methods, the ward of Feb. 26, and a state­ and remained in the industry foremen decide a material hand­ ment by the “Executive of the Aren’t So Different and the union to band together ler must drive a motor truck, a Right Wing Trade Union Fur­ for the attainment of leading chipper must run a crane, etc. By Herman Chauka riers” in the same paper March posts in the union. These may seem like trivial Employes Vote 16, a struggle is taking place in So there’s quite a b it of ta lk incidents to someone outside William Simons, a 30-year-old Negro was beaten, the Furriers Joint Council in in the fur market, but not the mass industries, but it is clubbed and kicked by two white cops in front of his New Y ork. much hope. You see there basic and fundamental to in­ home in Newark, N.J., Jan. 4. His wife Maybelle, also 30, The fur industry in New are still a lot of old timers who dustrial trade unionism. The and some four months pregnant,* York is plagued with almost remember well that it was no union doesn’t fight the introduc­ knife although his wife insisted chronic unemployment. Many was clubbed across the abdo­ One-Day Strike milk and honey, as we say in tion of new machines or new men by one of the cops. Re­ it was only a small penknife. small shops have given up the Yiddish, when the union had a methods, but the irrational porting these facts in our Jan. ghost. Since World War II the left wing administration. There com bining of jobs cannot be NAACP PROTESTS By Lillian Kiezel 19 issue we noted that the fre­ number of workers has been was neither more democracy excused or permitted, even if NEW YORK, March 24 — ‘‘We’re tired of being used quency of . incidents of this The NAACP lodged a strong reduced to about 7,000— h a lf the for the opposing point of view, it were for the safety factor kind in “enlightened” northern protest and Newark Police Di­ for political patsies!” This sentiment rang through Man­ pre-War number. Only the nor more justice for the indi­ alone. communities provided a grim rector Weldon, who used to be hattan Center here last night at a meeting of 2,500 mem­ “aristocrats,” that is those who vidual worker, nor more con­ H.L. commentary on what life is like a top New York cop in Harlem, bers o’f District Council 37, ^ _ work in the mink line, earn a cern about conditions and un­ Philadelphia promised a thorough investiga­ American Federation of State, decent living. employment and no greater ef­ for Negroes in the South if they look to the N orth fo r escape. tion. County and Municipal Em­ The struggle for leadership in fort to improve the lot of the William Curran, Socialist Socialist Again ployes, AFL-CIO. Called to take San Diego Socialist the Joint Council has nothing workers. That’s why the merger •According to the testimony " On March 17, the first results Workers Party candidate for action on Mayor Wagner’s de­ to do unfortunately with better and the installation of a new Editor: of the two victims and seven were In Chief Magistrate Cas­ Mayor in the Minneapolis cision to reduce promised pay Group Starts New working conditions. There are administration was accepted by I registered socialist again witnesses, the savage police at­ tellano heard the police charge primary election, is the only raises fo r 80,000 c ity employes, plenty of complaints among the the furriers at the time with: after some 25 years; Mr. Weiss’s tack was unprovoked. Simons of assault against Simons. He independent candidate in the the meeting unanimously passed fur workers; there is lots of out any protest. article last week very con­ was parking his car in front of found that the evidence showed race. A member of the Sheet- Branch of the SWP a resolution to stage a one-day room for improvement even on The fact that the center group vincing on that. his home when the two cops "one uncontradicted fact — that metal Workers Union and SAN DIEGO. Calif. — A strike on March 31 to picket the basis of the signed agree­ and the left wing 'groups on J. K. came out of a nearby saloon, the officers beat Simons." delegate to the Minneapolis branch of the Socialist Work­ c ity hall. ment, but that’s not what the the Joint Council united now Pennsylvania demanded to see his license, After giving due considera­ Central Labor Union, he w ill ers Party has been organized conflict is about. to elect a manager, is also nat­ dragged him out of the car and tion to the'sworn testimony of be heard at a rally at cam­ The proposed action is sup­ here by worker-militants who Since the Furriers Interna­ ural—it has been done before. Says M any Jobless beat him senseless. the seven witnesses that the paign headquarters, 322 Hen­ ported by the protesting city have been active for some tional merged with the Amalga­ Even the Forward would admit As the cops kicked her hus­ cops had beaten Simons and nepin Ave., Saturday, April employes’ International Union time in the labor, civil liber­ mated Meat Cutters and But­ that. The resignation of. the old Ready to Vote for band, who had fallen under the that the victim hadn’t fought 4 at 8 p.m. »and the New York State AFL- ties and civil rights strug­ cher Workmen some three years manager created an opening for blows, Mrs. Simons tried to get back, the judge reflected. After He w ill speak on "Labor's CIO Executive Council. It is gles, The group, during the ago, there was supposedly a the left wing and they took ad­ Socialist Candidates to him to try somehow to shield all the two. cops had testified Next Step—From Union Hall also endorsed by Paul Hall, last year, has been carrying President of the Seafarers In­ united administration. Three vantage of it. This too is nat­ Editor: him from further injury. But that Simons “fought them like to City Hall." Running on a on discussions and studies of ternational Union, AFL-CIO. groups, right wing, center, and ural. B u t w hether this is “ an Readers Of the Militant, I be­ she couldn’t make it. The blow a w ild man.” program for peace, jobs and the various socialist organi­ left wing managed to exist to­ overturn” and “Left Wing Gets lieve, w ill be interested in the across her abdomen had .made The chief magistrate then socialism, Curran is making Mayor Wagner provoked fhe zations and programs. gether. Now it seems that some Control” as the Forward head­ following letter which appeared her deathly sick and she began stated his judgment: “I believe the need for developing in prolest action when he an After a period of common of the people who were in the lin e states, is yet to be seen. in the March 14 issue of Ford retching. One of the cops, she that the officers were justified dependent labor political ac­ nounced he would cut the $32 activity and discussion it was New York leadership before the As an old-timer I would Facts, official organ of Local said, yelled at her, "You black in using the means they did to tion a central point of his million he had promised to al decided unanimously that the merger, are ready to challenge campaign. think that Gorman or the 600 of the United Auto Workers bitch! You ought to drop dead subdue him and make the ar­ locate for pay rises to only $20 most effective way socialists the present administration; and AMCBW will step in and patch union. on top of him." rest and that they used no more million in his city budget. This could advance their cause in have already done so by elect­ she and her husband were ar­ things up. This will be a “sum­ Evelyn Sell Simons lay bleeding for more force than was legally necessary means, for example, that teach­ an organized and systematic ing their tnan to the vacated rested. mit” business. The workers will Detroit than an hour and a half before to make the arrest.” . ers would receive raises of $270 way was to join the Social­ post of manager. They did this Emil Oxfeld, the prominent stand around and talk about • « * an ambulance took him away. instead of $400 annually. H ow ­ ist Workers Parly. Thus a at the Joint Council meeting He sentenced Simons to 90 Newark civil liberties lawyer unemployment and how it As far back as January 1958 At the hospital they put 37 days in prison and referred the ever, a whole section of munici­ branch was chartered and a Feb. 24. The vote was 28 to 17. drags down Ihe conditions of who defended Mr. and Mrs. unemployed were desperate stitches in his face and scalp charges against h im 'Of assault Simons, told the judge, " I am pal workers who are designated program of party-building ac­ The victorious group has been the employed. They haVe no enough to eagerly sign petitions and set fractures of the nose, with a deadly weapon to a flabbergasted at your findings." Career and Salary workers will tivity mapped out. Anyone charged with unethical behav­ real spokesmen who would to place on the ballot some­ jaw and wrist. grand jury. The cops and judges of New­ not even receive these meager interested in contacting the ior;, appeals have been sent to bring forth a program reflect­ thing called “Socialist Workers” .The cbps said he had attacked He also found Mrs. Simons ark, N.J., may not be as bad as raises. branch to learn more about Gorman, Secretary Treasurer of ing the needs of the workers. Party. In normal times men them and he was booked for guilty of interfering with the those of Belzoni, Miss., where its work may w rite to the the Amalgamated Meat Cutters. Retired Furrier NO RAISE IN 5 YEARS would hear the word “socialist” assault. His wife was charged officers but he decided in her Emmett Till was lynched for National Office of the SWP, According to the same source New York or “workers” and hear no more with interference with an ar­ case to tem per justice w ith allegedly whistling at a white Some 22,000 of D is tric t Coun­ 116 University Place, New (J. Fogel in the Feb. 26 For­ providing they were employed. rest. They also charged Simons mercy. He sentenced her to the girl, but they sure belong to the cil 37’s 30,000 members fa ll into York 3, N.Y. ward) the 28 on the Joint Coun­ Few o( them would pull their with carrying a switch-blade time she had spent in jail when same breed. this category. The union has cil also forced through the elec­ Westinghouse Steps noses out o f th e ir beer mugs been trying to negotiate with tion of an assistant manager, a meeting Wednesday to decide Up Drive for Profits long enough to listen and learn Wagner to persuade him to. re­ on strike action. even though the hour was late even now. vise the Career and Salary plan —12 midnight; and even though Editor: Now they eagerly sign for it in order to provide two addi­ WORKERS INDIGNANT it was not on the agenda; and In an intensified drive to and many will vote for it be­ Berkeley Croup Backs Socialist tional pay increments for em­ there is no constitutional pro­ speed up work and combine Indignation and humiliation ployes. Jerry Wurf, regional di­ vision for such a post. Finding jobs, the Westinghouse Corp. cause it is something different due to the glaring inequalities rector of the union, declared themselves in a minority the has caused two stoppages in and to mutely express their in­ and callous disregard of their de­ that these workers have not 17 members of the Joint Coun­ the last two months. The latest dignation at the unemployment mands were expressed by the we should not need to endure. Candidates; Defends Anti-Bias B ill received a raise for five years. cil walked out. one is a result of Westing- city’s workers last night. One The locals comprising the house’s determination to “house- They all know that fear of The United Socialist Action stated that it endorses Martin­ 14, the West' Coast Regional He accused Mayor Wagner of worker remarked: .“We’ve been Joint Council will now hold break” the steward body and electing radicals is senseless be­ group is conducting vigorous son because “The SP-SDF chal­ Office of the NAACP issued a refusing to bargain in good treated so badly for so long that meetings and seek to move up the union. cause as all political students election activities in Berkeley, lenged the capitalist politicans strong condemnation of the faith. In fact, the union hgp re ­ whatever they [the union lead­ the date for the general elec­ The vast majority of the te ll us, a u th o rity and respon­ Calif. The organization, formed in the mayoralty contest” and proposed ordinance, alleging ceived a runaround since last ers] propose to do I will sup­ tion from June to April. membership has adopted a pol­ sibility of office will modify last winter, is running one of despite “substantial disagree­ that the initiative was legally October. “It is not collective port.” As I said before the conflict icy of “no steward—no work” their philosophy and cause its members — Marion Syrek ments with some features of deficient. •bargaining,” said Wurf, “It is Another worker, speaking to has nothing to do with better to combat the company’s at­ them to pull their heads out of Jr., an unemployed union the program and outlook of the Replying to the association's collective baloney.” a small group of unionists as the cloud and feel for firm conditions for the workers. tack on the steward body by is­ pressman — for the City Coun­ SP-SDF.” The USA cites as criticisms, Mrs. Dorothy N. Wurf blasted Wagner, a they were leaving, was saying: earth to stand bn. _Elect a radi­ "We've got to have nine thou­ Only, as you well know, work­ suing furloughs and indefinite cil. further reason for its support Mullen, an initiator of Meas­ Democrat, for "escaping" • to ers . always look forward to a suspensions. cal of any hue and all the dam­ the fact that "Mr. Martinson ure “C,” stated that the word­ sand people down at C ity H all In his platform, Syrek states Bermuda after taping a TV an­ change in the administration in A typical incident starts with age his colleagues, the elector­ . . . is backing the crucial ing of the Berkeley Fair Hous­ next Tuesday so they'll know that “The most important ques­ nouncement of the budget cuts hope that the new broom will some supervisor ordering a man ate and the courts w ill let him issue of the campaign, measure ing Initiative Ordinance was we mean business." tion in Berkeley today is whe­ without even notifying the un­ sweep cleaner. to perform some duties which get away with is to cause the ,c - ■■ “taken almost word for word ther or not we are going to do ion. He also blasted Governor The disappointm ent and his job never called for pre­ unemployed, the welfare clients, The USA-sponsored Fair BILLION A MONTH anything about racial discrimi­ from the Isaacs-Sharkey-Brown Nelson Rockefeller, a Republi­ amazement of the present ad­ viously and which was usually pensioners and mental patients Housing Initiative Ordinance bill which is now in effect in The U.S. governm ent now has n a tion.” He advocates passage can, as being equally to blame. ministration isn’t warranted. To performed by another man in to be treated like human beings has indeed become a major New York City. The New York some 2,361,000 employes and a of Proposition “C,” the Fair W urf said that Rockefeller add­ give them the credit due, they a different job description. The instead of impounded animals; issue in the April 7 local elec­ bill was supported by the payroll of more than a billion Housing Initiative Ordinance, ed "insult to injury" w ith his have helped stabilize and im­ man asks for his steward and and perhaps add a few nickels tion. On March 19, the Berkeley NAACP in New York . _. . and dollars a month. which United Socialist Action "tax the poor" program. prove conditions somewhat. But then things happen quickly. to the cost of rendering com­ D a ily Gazette p rinted an ad, it is difficult to understand the had placed on the city ballot. This “battle” between Albany, they forget that the merger The steward is told to instruct mon justice to them. ta kin g up nearly h a lf a page, opposition of the regional office Syrek also favors “City Coun­ the state capital, and New York Vzith the Meat Cutters was not the. man to do this unusual George P. Kingston attacking Measure “C.” Signed here to a virtually identical cil action urging Congress to City is staged yearly. “Every because .of the needs of the work, and if he balks, the Ferndale, Mich. by Berkeley Citizens Committee measure.” establish a 30-hour work week year,” declared W urf, “ I go Calendar Against “C,” the ad declares Slate, a prominent libclral with no reduction in weekly through this same farce whether that “The measure would students' organization on the pay;” an end to nuclear tests; there is a Democratic or Re­ change Berkeley’s pattern of University of California's Berk­ and formation of a labor party. publican governor.” Notes in the News voluntary association to one of eley campus, is campaigning Of Euents BACKS SP-SDF compulsion . . . Berkeleyans for Proposition "C." The group BOTH ROOK WORKERS would have no choice as to.who acts as a political party in NOMINEE FOR MAYOR The “battle” this year re­ NEW YORK PAPAL 'PHILOSOPHY — When 3,000 WANT MADISON AVE. TO . SELL JIM would be living under the same campus elections. Its interven­ volves around the question: Special showing of two ex­ CROW — Southern racists are considering an In the mayoralty race, USA roof, or next door.” These are tion in the city-wide election street cleaners showed up at Vatican City How to get $250 million out of cellent films, Maxim Gorky’s $11,000,000 fund to hire a to p -flight advertising has announced its support for the usual racist “arguments” issue, however, has been tor- with brooms and pushcarts March 19 to re­ New York workers? Confronted “The Lower Depths,” winner of outfit to buy space in Northern newspapers Robert Martinson, Socialist against legislation barring hous­ bidden by the University Ad­ ceive communion, Pope John X X I II con­ by Rockefeller’s state payroll the French Grand Prix. And and TV and radio stations to “sell” segregation Party-Social Democratic Feder­ ing discrimination. ministration, and Slate is pro­ gratulated them on their poverty: “You must tax program, Wagner found it Marcel Marceau in his three in the North. The proposition is slated to be ation candidate. ' The USA A few days earlier, on March I testing the ban. be happy, free as you are of the preoccupation impossible to institute a still greatest pantomines. Fri., April brought before the Southern 'Conference of of handling large sums of money. It is the higher city sales tax due to 3 and Sat., April 4 at 8:30 p.m. Governors by Mississippi Gov. Coleman, ac­ rich who have those worries after they have heavy pressure from the voters. Coffee and refreshments to fol­ cording to a March 11 dispatch. “If Madison set aside fortunes. They spend their time trying So the p o litica l football has low. Two matinee showings, Avenue publicity experts can make a house­ to make more:” Dr. Annette Rubinstein Heard been tossed back and forth. Sat., April 4 and Sun., April 5 * « * hold word of an unknown Hollywood starlet, Wagner’s solution is to penalize at 3:00 p.m. Contribution $1. they can sell the public an issue that is LABOR'S PAL — Senator Kennedy (D- the municipal workers. Militant Labor Forum, 116 Uni­ Mass.), a Presidential aspirant who is viewed morally right,” said Florida State Rep. Reedy, versity Place. kindly by many union officials, told a March a spokesman for the racist plan. Pointing up. this fact, Charles • * * * On Twin Cities TV and Radio 22 New York conference of United Auto Work­ Cogen, President of the New TWIN CITIES ers local union presidents that he is opposed R ATTLES 1,000 BOMBS — Gen. Curtis MINNEAPOLIS, March 17 — for United Socialist Political York Teachers Guild Local 2, William M. Curran, Socialist to the growing union demand for a shorter Lemay of the American Air Force said March The need for independent so­ Action.” Dr. Rubinstein describ­ American Federation of Teach­ Workers Party candidate for work week. He said such a reduction would 24 that the Air Force is ready with a fleet of cialist political action was given ed current activities and plans ers, sent a le tte r to W agner mayor, will give the opening put America at a disadvantage in “the pro­ 1,000 nuclear bomb-carrying jet bombers, “aim­ a strong public boost with the of the United Independent-So­ criticizing him for failing to speech of the campaign, “La­ duction war with the Soviet Union.” ed at the heart of the Communist empire from visit here of Dr. Annette T. cialist Committee in New York object to legislation at Albany bor’s Next Step — From Union » * * all directions.” He said his remarks were in­ Rubinstein, author, lecturer and and discussed the recent Cleve­ which intends to “grant dis­ Hall to City Hall.” •• PEEPING BULLS — New York cops raid­ tended to allay “prophets of doom and gloom.” 1958 Independent-Socialist can­ land united socialist conference proportionate pay rises to cer­ Sat.,. A p ril 4, 8:00 p.m., 322 ed a stag party March 19, charging an indecent * » * didate for Lt. Governor of New as a further development in the tain more highly paid school Hennepin Ave., 2nd FI. Minne­ performance was staged. The cops told news­ UE SETS BACK WITCH-HUNTERS — York. process of socialist regroupment. administrators.” apolis. A social evening will men they watched two nude dancers through After three years of trying, the Justice De- Dr. Rubinstein was queried Hitting at the futile, self-de­ The Teachers Guild w ill hold fo llow . a back alley peep hole for a full hour before vpartment announced March 24 it was dropping by a radio audience for three feating' idea of radicals trying they busted up the party. efforts to have the United Electrical, Radio hours last night on the popular to work within the capitalist * * » and Machine Workers (independent) branded Nightbeat program. She appear­ parties, Dr. Rubinstein demon­ NEGRO MAJORITY IN D.C. — W ashing­ a “Communist-dominated” union by the Sub­ ed on two TV news programs, strated that immediate conces­ ton, D.C., is now the first large city in the versive Activities Control Board. Such brand­ addressed a meeting jointly sions are won by opposing both Local Directory country where a majority of the population ing would have been the signal for a govern- sponsored by the Twin Cities major parties and stressed that is Negro. W ith a current population of 825,- ment-employer offensive to strip the union of Labor Forum and the National the paramount task for social­ BOSTON NÉWARK 000 there are 438,000 “ non-w hites.” O nly a bargaining rights. Guardian Associates and gave a ists is to utilize election cam­ Boston Labor Forum, 295 Hunting­ Newark Labor Forum, Box 361, * * * few thousand of the city’s residents are lecture on literature at the Uni­ paigns for the promotion of so­ ton Ave., Room 200.. Newark, N. J. neither white or Negro. The white population EARNING FROM THE GRAVE — A d ­ versity of Minnesota Socialist cialist education: Every Sunday night, round table dis­ cussion. 8 P.M. NEW YORK CITY has decreased by 131,000 in the past nine years ministrators of the estate of the late Vincent Explaining her socialist op­ Militant Labor Forum, 116 Univer«. Club. CHICAGO with a heavy exodus to the suburbs. Seventy Astor. have asked court permission to begin position to the government sity Place, AL 5-7852.' On the Nightbeat program, Socialist Workers Party, 777 W. per cent of the public school pupils are now investing current earnings from .his estate. The arms program, she said that la- the station switchboard was Adams, DE 2-9736. OAKLAND - BERKELEY Negroes. While Negro migration to the North money he le ft behind is “ earnifig” over $200,- , bor’s support could be won for flooded with telephoned ques­ CLEVELAND P.O. Box 341, Berkeley 1,' Calif. has slackened off in recent years, it was so 000 a month and the administrators just don’t this by presenting a positive Socialist Workers Party 10609 Su­ tions froifl the audience through­ ANNETTE T. RUBINSTEIN PHILADELPHIA extensive during the war and immediately know where to put it. alternative of government perior Ave., Room 301, SW 1-1818. Militant Labor Forum and Sociaiist * * * out the entire three hours. Dur­ Open Friday nights 7 to 9. afterward that less than two-thirds of the spending to combat the effects Workers Party, 1303 W. Girard Ave. ing tonight’s program, people want to see children separated DETROIT country’s Negro population now lives in the WILDERNESS VS. PEOPLE — Dr. Ray­ of unemployment. Socialists, Lectures and discussions every Satur­ were still calling in to discuss from their parents?” Eugene V. Debs Hall, 3737 Wood­ mond B. Cowles, a Los Angeles zoologist, says she said, should press such de­ day, 8 P.M., followed by open house. deep south. ward. TEmple 1-6135. * * * what Dr. Rubinstein had to say In reply to the first question, Call PO 3-5 820. that overpopulation is wiping out the last mands as jobless compensation LOS ANGELES last night. Dr. Rubinstein explained how ASBURY HOWARD RE-ELECTED — U n­ remnants 'of American wilderness. To save the for the full period of unem­ Forum Hall and Modem Book Shop, SAN FRANCISCO ion ■ leader Asbury Howard, who was beaten wilderness he urges a federal tax on parents. The questions to her ran all the armaments program was ployment, diversion of war 1702 E. 4th St. AN 9-4953 or AN 3- The Militant, 1145 Polk St., Rm. 4. and jailed by Alabama racists for reproducing The zoologist’s plan would take tax deductions the way from, “Why do you necessary to keep , the capitalist funds for public Works and the 1533. Book Shop open Mon. 7-9 P.M.; Sat. II A.M. to 3 P.M. Phone PR 6- a cartoon urging Negroes to vote, was re­ for children away from parents and give it, as think our government doesn’t system going, while the plan­ 30-hour week at 40-hours pay. Wed. 8-10 P.M.; Sat. 12-5 P.M. 7296; if no answer, VA 4-2321. ned Soviet economy had no MILWAUKEE elected without contest as eastern vice presi­ a reward, to childless couples. He also sug­ want disarmament if there’s Dr. Rubinstein’s campus SEATTLE 150 East Juneau Ave. dent of the Mine, .Mill & Smelter Workers gested an increase in a family’s taxes after really no danger of attack by such necessity. speech was entitled, “A Social­ 1412— 18th Avenue, EA 2-5554. Li­ MINNEAPOLIS brary, bookstore. Union by the union’s convention March 19. the birth of each child. He overlooked the. fact Russia?” to “Do you approve At the Suhday night forum, ist Looks at American Litera­ Socialist Workers Party, 322 Hen­ He filed his acceptance in a one-sentence let­ that the sales tax automatically increases as of the murder of 20 million 85 people heard a vividly pre­ ture from John Steinbeck to nepin Ave., 2nd floor. Open noon to ST. LO U IS ter written in jail. the family grows bigger. Chinese just because they didn’t sented speech on “The Outlook Tennessee Williams.” 6 P.M. daily except Sundays. For .information phone MO 4-7194.